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Highland Park News (1874), 25 Nov 1898, p. 6

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Hence, you see that picture has for us a world ofmeaning; and every time we look attit some portions of the fifty years p ss under mental review. Lowell says. and so truly too, that no spot on earth is so prec- ious to us as that where we first made mud pies. ' Buttorick patterns for H1110 at, Miss Emkine'a. There in Berkshire, at Rubler’s Mill. our Congressman was born in 1863, their second son, the elder one being a large, successful and wealthy manufacturer in Jamaica Plain,Mass, a suburb of Boston. Both are col- lege graduates. Like the noble man that he is, Congressman Foss went back up to that little ville of Berk shire, whence his parents moved while he was a small boy. and deliV» ered his first public speech after hav- ing graduated at Harvard, and he visits it every season as he goes back to the green hills. we, Orcelia and Marcia. The latter was Congressman Foss’ mother, and she “left 011' at the head" about four times to our once. A few years later she taught her first school in the “Deacon Hibbard school house;” a very successful school it was, too. Some time after she married, George Foss, who bought the “Rubler_Mill” in Berkshire, where Mr. Rubler,late of the‘Milwaukee Sentinel, originat- ed and who did more to make Wis- cousin a staunch Republican and sound money state than any other man in the commonwealth. We-remember in that class the “Noble girls,” somewhat older than cher called in one morning with a large~size picture of our Congress man, George E. Foss, neatly framed in oak; a symbol of the man's solid~ ity and strength. We hung it up in our sanctum where we can see itevery (lay. not because it is so valuable .as a work of art, but because _it recalls the olden times Back in the '40's, when we went to school over in the Grice school house at Smithville in the old wood school house, and used to go out to spell in the big class, standing on a crack in the school house floor. During the campaign A. W. Flet- REI'IINISCENT. Fred Botker, ‘ 314 Central Avenue. FRED BOTKER, 314 Cntral Ave. thland Park, 11L For Central Avenue East. Job Printing Fruit: and Vegetables Received Dally. A. BOCK, Fancy (imceries, Dry floods and Crockery ‘ BOOTS mo SHOES. TELEPHONE .56. Are responsible for all goods While In our hands THE HIGHLAND PARK NEWS. JAs. H. DUFFY Express, Baggage and Dime Parcel Delivery. Furniture,,and Pianos Moved; ‘ L “Packed and Shipped. chill use yuu ri ht as w price and andthe quality of lis wm’k will more than satisfy you. Address or can Teaming and Excav- ating of All Kinds, Goods the Best. Prices are Reasonable. (it-t figures from Promptly and neatly executed at this office. Prices as low as is consistent with good work Goods handled With greatest care. Prompt attention given all orders. Trunks, 25c.; Parcels, 10c. T0 or from any part of the city. OFFICE: HABTRONF KEMMEBEB ' NEWS STORE. All work executed promptly and in the best manner. W. J. MCKINNEY, Painter, Decorator ., and Paper Hanger. The News. . DUFFY, Manager» Highland _Park Illinois. Telephone 54. Goods Dellvered Free 0! Charge

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