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Saturday last the editor took his wheel and started out to inspect the electric road up to the Fort Sheri dan depot. The road-bed was neur- ly graded to that point, and most of the track down. It looks as though it had very seriously injured St. Johns avenue for a public driveway. Since thetime of our residence in Highwoodthat little burg has grown wonderfully. Now, Hogan and our- selves and the other primitive alder- men of that place would not have to go out and count the passengers in Jim Knight‘s train, ransack the hotel registers. and enumerate the tramps and the drummers. to secure the requisite 300 population for a village charter. That was a day of small population but heroic enterprise, and it won the victory. See that string of new buildings along the old Wau- kegan road, where once was well nigh u howling wilderness. The city hall, in our day, was the old school house. now they are building one with pressed Philadelphia brick front, Milwaukee sides and rear. and a building with all the latest modern improvements. Highland Park Won‘t be nowhere. And then how the Fort has changed things. ()ur first summer there we spent. many a (lay hunting nut thuse old grass grown streets and ghost infested houses. Now. the streets are alive with people and traffic: the houses are full nml scores of new ones built. Then there was Prall's mineral spring, way up there in the woods, with its spiral stairway down to the lwaling waters. and out where the pumping station .now stands we used to see how well we could shoot across the lake with our revolver. Then that elegant, spacious new depot, it reminded us of scores of little white school houses we used to see in northern IUV‘ . that were built and waiting for people to move in. children to grow up and make a school. That depot is very fine but we do more business in our old affair here in the Park in one week than they do in that elegant one in all summer. Then we spent half an hour visit- ing with Mr. Sweeney. He and his family were amoung the first people with whom we became acquainted when we came to this nurth shore. They sold us eggs and poultry, and wood and hay from their farm, dur ing our nearly five years residence up there. and we never had a tan of hay that was not full weight and good feed: the eggs were not addled, 0r taken from a sitting hen: and the wand had [28 cubic feet in every card. The Sweenies treated us FORT SHERIDAN. THE HIGHLAND PARK NEWS. square every time. Well, he is oldâ€" er now than in 1883; so are we. He came there when very young. and the old log house his father built sti 1 stands, while he lives in a brick villa, in the midst of those grand. majestic old oaks. We talked poli-, tics. Lake county reminiscences and so the time passed till we had to hurry home after a most delightful afternoon. Some stenogrupher ought to sit down at Mr. Sweeney‘s elbow for a day or two, and let him tell his reminiscences ofvthe early days, the changes. etc.. for bye and bye he will be gone, and then who will tell us of the days of the father in this community. l Attorney Smoot’s new cement side- ‘ walk to his front door is built on the ‘ “elevated" plan. up to where his ! lawn might, and someday will be. l It is a wise man who plans well for ": the future. ‘ Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Cu Elgin Watch Co,. spout town. {3 Ex-Pastor Neill‘s wife is in town visiting her many old friends and parishioners. J udge I’fibbard preached a very able and strong HPI‘HIOII last Sunday evening in the First [’nited Evan- gelical church. Miss Rebeca S. Meyer left on Wednesday for Des Moines 101111. where she takes the position of head nurse in the Trac} hospital. windmill and 2! river supply uw water. and with thousands 0f across. the stock gruzv and grow. and the ranchman getu rich, Mif hv can. He had mdv in tho saddle over miles and miles of prairie w Is as hmnzvd us an Indian and “ith Urmt (-ipmih for eating. . Cutter, 01'th wut Sunday in 1 Electrical ' Electric Light, 3 Electric Bell, t . Burglar Alarm, ? Fire Alarm, Private Telephones and Speaking Tubes. Highland Park , Electric Light Co. was.” Tin Shut Iron and Copper W911: done to your order {GIESER 31205., Stove and Furnace Work. Henry Ewart, Blacksmith.... Central A venue and second Strgct‘. Fresh and Salt Meats, W. Centra! Ave., We are now preparqd to (10 all kindspf hlrctrical Cunstruvtmu work and repalr- ing. such as ()ur workmen are expert. we use only flu: hes! maternal and our pnces arr as In“ as is consi m wnh mmd wurk. Jobbing promptly" attended tn. Lawn mowers sharpened and repaired. The Leading Market, Horseshoeing a specialty. POULTRY. FISH. BUTTER . Driscoll, Opera Block, HIGHLAND PARK. ILL ESTIMATES FREE : TELEPâ€"HONE 42 AND EGGS. .00... Construction. DEALERS IN Ind florseshoer. HIGHLAND PARK. Highland Park, Ill.