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Sheridan Road News-Letter (1889), 17 Mar 1900, p. 11

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Both 0! our Indiu' aloha hold their meeting- next week; the Women’s Tm, evening, the 20th. Ind the hhtorio 090“ Thursday afternoon. We lately land the pleasure of beer- h‘lduelhiog new, “The Otfioe Boy”, t pretty little dance for the'piauo; af- ter the long, tiresome siege of reg- tirno it is a relief to hour as pique at, pretty thing as this one. Trade sup plied by L10: 5; Hum. Chicago. 7 Some of 'our readers saw 3 eat of the propoeod new Trinity church in Monday’s fribune.‘ We are sorry to inform them that the late Col. Mill’s greet paper was too pro. vionl, u Trinity have ‘not adopted tln: plan. and will not. Wheri they do deoide~on one, it will be given to our readers; so bide your time. The coming Sunday will close the second year of the pastorate of Rev. A. Haeiele of the First United Evan- gelical Church. During the two years forty members have (161311 add- ed to the church by letter and by con- feeaion of faith. Many material im- provements have been made and the future loolre bright and full of hope. The Annual Conference of the Unit- ed'Evan‘gelical Church. will meet at Harrington, 111.. on the coming Thursday. 8. P. Brand has been chosen the delegate to'represent the Highland Park congregation. In the stationing of the pastor many chang- es are anticipated, and whether the present pastor will be returned t o Highlandl’ark' 18 as yet uncertain. By means of one of these acci dents which sometimes occur in as good families as ours, the name of James Duffy for town collector was dropped from our list of candidates for town office last week Mr. Dnfl‘y has held the office of collector, is familiar with the duties of the posi- tion, is ah expert in the business, and having just settled down to life as a husinese‘manjn our midst is fairly and honestly entitled to the support of good men who wish ‘to help a de ‘serving young man. ‘ Olney Moore was home over Sunday from his collegé’wotk‘ in Milton, Wis. 119 not‘ only performs his duties as Highland Park. THE SHERIDAN ROAD NEWSâ€"LETTER. | student, but is foreman of the job printing office, and general tantalum of the Milton Journal, a bustling weekly uplmong the Badgers. Old Sol did his beet to clean 0! the sidewaikn, 90.3., the first half of the week, when Wednesday utter- noon down came a heavy fall of the beenfilul to remind us that winter Mill lingers in the lap of spring. Hot! l! l chap fronflowa who goes theRodsndGun contributorsOne bet- ter and raises theiimit on fish stories. We wet our lines in Shell Rock river,’ a few miles below Cedar Falls,- and caught a catfish weighing 109 pounds. Being without fish, flesh or fowl at the camp we put a pole through.its gills and shouldered it a half mile for dinâ€" ner. 0n opening it we found it had swallowed a smaller eat that weighed about fifteen pounds, so we said we’d eat the latter for dinner instead of the big fellow; as it was perfectly fresh. But when we opened No. 2, there was a still smaller cat in his gullet, one that weighed five pounds, and as the pa rty consisted of_onl y three,‘we made a dinner on that. I have abundant witnesses.â€"-â€"New York Sun. Need No Revenue Stamp. According to a ruling just received from the commissioner of internal revenue, no revneue stamp is requir- oden conveyances of real estate to trustees. without valuable considera- tion. Up to this time revenue collec- tors have taken the ground that stamps were required, and conveyâ€" .ances of this kind were stamped. As this sort of transfers of real estate are quite frequent, the decision is regarded as important.- The words of the deci‘qion are them “The conveyancé of real agitate with- out. valuable considelfation to ‘a trustge, or by a trustee to another trustee, or by‘a truétee to a Vceetuy qua trust, requires no stamps under the internal revénue laws. , Qulck Wit. . The eln‘ctric light company had a suit before J [1de Holmes Tuesday evening in his court mom in the rear of his bank. The room is very small. The judge at or stOod on‘ one corner of the table, the jury hung 'up 6n I ‘l r! clothes books. we guea, while the attorneys stood around there they eould. 8. F. Knox was counsellor Mr. Huxlshle, the High-cod saloon keeper, and Charles H. Warren was- on the jury panel as made up by Constable Fred Rudolph, and bitter- ly_ disappointed at being called, as he wanted to attend the surprise party down at Judge Hibbard’s. When attorney Knox turned to him and said, "Mr. Warren, would the fact that my client, Mr. Huxtable, the defendant in this case, is a saloon keeper, be liable to aflect your verdict in this case?” Mr. War- ren replied: ‘fWell, I have a I yju- dice against saloons.” Mr. Knox said, as quick as a wink, “You may go, Mr. Warren." He went, account. ing that about the slickest slipping his neck out of a noose that had he- {allen him for a long time, and poor Constable Rudolph .went out on the street to eatch another. honest man to outwit the attorney. “Charlie” .Warren was not born yesterday. The Ossoli Club grappled with this, the servant girl question,last week. We are greatly pleased that they now and then take a turn at some of these real. practical prob- lems as being quite as important- as discussing the‘ Rationale of Browning , or the “Ethics of Goethe s Wilheim Meister, ” and similar topics Miss ToWner was the essayist and we very much wanted to’ hear her paper, as we happen to know that her help like her, and like to work for her, and hence she is not off to thee iloy- _ment agency every weelgir’ten day s for a new girl. That is the kind of a woman to treat this do- mestic problem,.j11st as the happy mother of a model family of a bakers’ dozen boys and girls can tell more about training 11p chil- dren in the way they should go than all prim. prudish. pesky oltl maids aunt in town ‘ Miss Towner, from all We can learn, based 'her paper on some broad, enduring Christian prin- ciples. ’ Thus,- she thought servq ants should be paid fair wages for ordinary, regular work. and then. if the mistress wants a big Sumlm dinner or a swell party. with l uts “ The Domestic Problem."

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