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Miss (irace Goodrich visited friends here this week. Miss Kréger. of Chicago, is spendâ€" ing in few dayS'at Ravinook. William Tillman is happy he does not have to sprinkle the streets now. C. C. Yu‘e‘s family has remrned to Chicago for the winter. at the Vir- giuiu. Bills for water rates are being made out by Clerk Fiuney and his assistant Dr. Anderson. of the Chicago Uni- \'ersity, will preach in the Baptist church Sunday. Robert Rafl‘en and‘ Earl Purdy at tended the Horse Show at Chicago last Saturday evening. Schuyler M. Cue and family are at the Chic-age Beach hotel for the winter. The “Automatic” Willcox. Gibbs is the most popular machine with intelligent cultivated ladies. ()ux' three lumber dealers are do- iug u land-office businessâ€"some thing unusual at {hi5 season of the year. There was a musical at the High- land Park Club rooms last, evening, Miss Wycolf being the vocalist. The nmny friends Hf Miss (‘Juru Bock tendervd her a surprise party last Week Thursday awning. A good time is reported. The Wuman's Catholiv ()rdvr of Foresters will giu- u masquerade hall in the Opera House next Tuesâ€" day evening, the 115th. The Christian Eudeuvur's of the Presbyterian church will hold a sm-iw hle this Friday owning at t‘. E. Slmuth-r‘s on ()nkmnxl :lH‘llllt' Dr. J. (7. Valentine. 0f the Rail road Meu'n Homer. was in town a fe-w days this wee-k. (anuplvting :Irrungv [“0ch for holding lhc- mlvrtaimne-nt fur the hone“! of that wm'thy illh'i tution. H» was n pleasant when" at this Ufficv. High] and Park N ews, VOL II. HIGHLAND PARK, ILL., NOVEMBER 12, 1897 ABOUT TOWN. The rain of Wednesday evening thinnexl the attendance some to most. of the prayer meetings Mr. and Mrs. Adjutant. Bullock of the‘Salvation Army visited with Mayor Evans last week. The firemen will give a masquer~ ade ball in the Opera House Thanks- giving eve. First" class music and everything up-tO-date. A few choice summer residents still remain in the Park. They like the place so well they wont leave till the squirrels go into winter quarters. According to the latest dispatches the wedding of Miss Fribert, lately of our post office, will take place in the near future to a Mr. Jump of Waukegan. The late rains have wet down about u [out on tilled lands... There are still from one to two feet of dry. baked earth lwlow the. presth line of molSture. The King’s Daughters cleared about 330.00011 their eutértainment at the Military Academy last Satur- day. Mrs. C. H. Warren was highly complimented on her vocal solos. The heavy timbers to bé used in the construction of the bridges along the line of the new electric railway are beiugplaced in position this week. Rolwrtson Nolan furnished them. A ge-ntlemen in York state who owns a chuicv lot in Bluck If) just nurlh uf H. L. Bmwn wants to sell. Now is the time for sunwmw with :1 thousand or hvu tn makv a gum! invesmwnt. ”some members of tho coum‘il will examine the poliw- court room, lhey may be able to understand why llu- judgv thinks of rt-moving his courl to some- place which will In- Illtll't' dove-m. if not mon- convenient. lftln- Railroad Mt‘u's Homi- unit-r minim-Ill tomorrow night i4 not H sm- cms. it will not lw for luck of work. hard and plenty of it. The miter minim-ht is good. lllfi'Cilllit‘ for which it is gin-n is good. those- having it in t-lmrgc' urt- good gih- llwm u good holm- We fear we misunderstood Alderâ€" man Cobb, in part, respecting his at» titnde on the water rate question. He asked for information seriously. not sarcastically,and was opposed to any partiality. It was a case of mis- understanding, not intentional miS» representation. We are glad to note the fact that our enterprising florists, Brown Bahr, came home from the Chrysan- themum show in Chicago with some prizes in their pockets, as followa; first prize on pink Chrysanthemums. second, on cycla'mens and probably more to follow, on carnations. All the Park’s evening passengers were detained in Chicago Wednes- du by a yard engine dumping itself into the river. The passengers had to cross the river on foot and board the trains on the west side. A bit. of annoyance, but happily one not at- tended with any serious danger. There has been a great rnsh of p0» tatoes into Chicago this week, one day there were 300 car loads on the tracks. Of course this depressed the price and we are pleased to note the heroic eflorts of our local grocers to jump on the prices and hear them down. even though it is hard work. Several prominent citizens and en» thusiustic cyclists are talking of petitioning the city council for per- mission to ride the sidewalks on the outskirts of the city while the streets are in such condition as to make ri<l~ ing wheels impossible in them. The average citizen can see no harm in their so doing. as long as the privi ilege is not abused, and it is hoped permission will be granted. 'l‘he- changc in the time curd of the Northwvstvrn railroad has been mm fur the lwttm‘. especially in thv morning traim. le train that for Im-rly left her» at €323” arriving in the- (‘ity at 7:50. nmv leaves at 6:57) and arrives in tln- city at, 7:17), thus giving thus» \vlm have to gut totlwir plm-e- of business at H o‘clock: five minutt-s mnrv Hun- at much Hid nftlw lilw.