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Highland Park News (1874), 1 Jul 1898, p. 4

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if 5E W: recowod‘ In Monday lllurniugs mail a copy of the daily “M"nhmmn ‘ of Edinburg of June 17, just 1m days from the date ‘of pnhlimtiun. from our friend tax-Mayor David M. Erskine, who with his eXcellf-m wife is over there frisking 'lik» ‘a boy among his kindred. The Scotsman isa great paper, ten pages. at such 8 columns to the page, 20001111111": of “ads.” one page of finaudul news and discus‘sioné. 6 columns «)fmlitnrr 0x5 of the wealthy taxman-er- at this city calls our attention tn thr [art that grass and weeds are :nllmwct to grow along side the sidewalks. ‘tnmp. iug over the walks, becoming Imutm! with dust in dry Weather and ”mil becoming soft, sticky mud whén Hu- heavy dews or rains fall amt mm every lady who tries to use Hm Walks has her dress skirts all soiled inn-it» of herself. He calls, and We wound the call, on the city authoritim‘ to have the grass cut alongsido- [he walks, and keep it cut. ONE of. our neighbors say.- [hr-see vacant‘lots about town an- rapidly seeding with poison ivy: an}! tlw Cushidg lots on Prospect. curnur of Dale. are getting full of it. that with grass and weeds makes ”w \\'il”\' along there. together with lht- um! and constant thirsty bellowing~ of that cow, almost impassahlv. Kill the ivy. it will poison tbw I-Mluirml. Tm: macadam on Central awmw at the electric road crossing i~ in rather bad shape, the road folks have, never filled it up level, so than tlw rails give sharp. severe julh o-n-ry time you cross them even on :1 thrl. They should be kept in perfw-r mn- dition {01' that is, 01' should I»- unim- street. Mk ~-- ONE of the learned’correalumdrm‘s writes: powerful article about "J. Jan" Gibbon. the historian, of Hm "De. cline and Fall of the Roman Em pire." ‘ That’s news; he used tn he “Edward"in our day, but we mp pose the John R. Tanner legislature- changed his name, along with its Im- torious Allen bill. THE mayor has informed Klw puliw judge he can lock up evrr} drunk and disorderly of his court fur Imâ€" paid fines and his honor will sew that, they get enough regulation prim“ fare bread and water Whilr se-rving their sentences. Build sonar IHUI‘N pens. gentlemen of the council. Tm: people up and down ”w uld Port Clinton thoroughfare wuuld like to have the street and quy mm- mittee see the weeds along tlw mud side am: the uncleaned guttvrs and df-cide as to what good u wrupr-r would do. They want that «rm-1 fixed up sure. THE board of health uf 1h}.- Pity should ask Marshal Gordon of High- wood to show them the biggo-st and fouiest festering spot in this cit}. It is on one comer of theold (‘uL Flaun- pitt lots and is enough to kill u re-gir meut am} it is in Highland Park It»). LEWIS BmeBARn. A. E. EVANS, - E Advertising rut” mad- known on application at this office. Entercd at the post- -office a! “ij' hlaml Park. Ill. , as second class Iu;.lucr Editor’s; Residence, - Business and News Office, Office: in News Building. 235 I‘cntrul Avenue, Highland Park. Illinois. Terms: $1.00 per year, 50 mum fur rh- months, 30 cents for three months. Published in he Interests at Highland Puk. Highwood and Ravinia. rvrr) Friday aflernoon by The Highland Park News. FRIDAY, JULY 1 EVANS 8: FORREST. TELEPHONE z. - â€" hnn‘nx. BUSINESS Mum“. No. 8. No. 92. Thou another thingis this, We wish ’ OI. Fm For The ROI-4 Trip to give the work to our own Purk {To B9lllo. RY, und return. account mgn, and this plan of dividing the-i Plptlst Young-People’s Union men. job will give them emplbylhem two:“.‘8' ‘1‘”, “’1 " Rates 10"" ““3 . . . Via other lines. For full informn- muons, whfle If we ‘notito do it Mufti“ all on or nadran J. Y. Gala. at once, we should be obliged to call “mu, General Agent 111 Adumr St, in outfiders. dugos from Chit-am: nr 5 Chicago. '30 [ We understand “‘9 present P.“ l” to teach should arrange to amend “0 30 i“ for the macadam this ”WW“ during the entire session. from the McDonald corner“ Central M. w. Mans. County Supt. avenue. up to Vino, build the hridgw â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€" over the ravines. clean out thehru-ih. Ju‘ What Yo" Want. etc, and grade the street through 1., An artistic booklet entitled “Sum the Post all this year if [’03-‘3le mar Outings," published by the Nick. Then next year. push the mamdam ' el Plate Road. deucrihing vacation through from Vine to the Post. ltgfrewrta along south shore of Luke friends and promoters they had hat ‘ Erie. also fine list of country bounce ter try a part of it this year with ‘ open to country boarders. senttuany prospect of SHOOGSS, inhmd of in. taddreu on application to J. Y. l‘ul temptingtoo much a: once "mi (an ; shun, General Agent, 1)] Adams Sr. of accomplishing anything. ; Chicago. .32 ( Think of this great University lwith all its buildings. elegant and l ‘superh in build finish and equip- I:ment of its millions of money: witln lits scores. if not hundreds of profes- {sorm instructors. docents, etc: and; lits hundreds. or thousands of Bllld- lents, where a dozen years ago wax u ‘howling wilderness, We are glad we came west sixteen years ago. suified ozone and caught the malaria on the prairies of Iowa. made that little five minutes speech for a "big" ['niversity in Chicago, and uuw Ill this year of grace 1898. see whim our eyes behold in the school "quuln’l ‘ by John D. Rockefeller." Thin i.-. the Lord's doing and it is marvellous ‘ in our eyes. Well, today. as this paper goes to ; twenty years 880 and ‘901'"! only ”NH to press‘ we sit and listen to exolflmtt itOdfl”: put through (ha street Blld’ll master General W. L. Wilson dw 2 WIN“ have enhanced Value and good cline the tWenty~third CODWX'flllOH l PIOSpec! of ready sale. Jaddress of the one million. yes. and six or eight million dollar University of Chicago. with many more millions The executive committee of rim 'to follow. 0! course we did not :W- l Lake County Soldiers and Sailors! cure all these millions, but million. f Re‘mlO“ Association Will meet at} .aires saw the matter exactly as \wEG'. A- R. hall in Waukegnu ’" "3‘" did. only on a grander scale. Bigl p. in. Friday. July 1.5, H398 for the! successful things cost money. Mr. purpose of firing upon a time and; Rockefeller proposes at least $20,000. l place 70" holding the twentieth 3'" l 0000“; of his money for this school; nual reunion. Propositions furl neither be nor his agent has told us grounds '"d enterthinnient “'l“ I he so, but you see. as the years go by. ) received from places that Wish W1 if we don‘t read between the “Hesilnve the reunion. Comrades are,iu l aright. William Carey used to say. i vited ‘3 be present. ' “Attempt great things for. and car-I 3- A- DUNN. PW». pect great things from God." A maul M. W, MARVIN, Sec. who sets out to build n wheelbarrow! will not turn out a modern trap. but; if he sets out to construct an English drag. he will get beyond his wheel- barrow. , Soldlers m 565.; AIoochuOI. The Nickel PM“ “Old Will sell excursion tickets to Chaut-i auqua Lake and return on July 8, at; one fare for the round~trip with re- ‘ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, “Talloaks from little acorns grow" Ten years ago we heard a company of ministers and other great .finan ‘ ciera discussing plans for a new unit versity in Chicago to take the place of the one Stephen A. Douglass. that1 great and gifted son of Verizio:nt.f founded and which "great financiers" ran aground, through nlismanuge. ment. They wanted at leastflulflll endowment to begin with they said! and planned to go to Boston and beg that. Wecreated a storm of imlig-i nation. by timidly venturing the re- mark that fifty thousand was not half enough to start a good academy and they should think of nothing less than salmon “Half a million"! exclaimed Dr. Lorimer, “why don 't you say a million and done with it"? To which we cautiously replied. “Be- cause I did not wish to frighten my good bretnren, but that is the small- est sum you ought to think of." g i i i i , ials, one column on our Spanish war, a capital articl‘e too. one on the status and outlook in China. and one on {British politics. These editorials [are as able as those of the London }Times, and fresher and more spirit- fed and thrive“ written as than» of 1the Spectator or Saturday Reviewi gfuruish. We don’t know what the fScotsman costs. but it is a liberal ,cducatiou to read auch a paper. ST )‘OHNS - NORTH ing, July 14â€"77. 'Ruea lowrr thin via other lines. . For full informa- tion call on or nddraa J. Y. Cale. ban, General Agent. 111 Adumr SI, All teachers and persons preparing to teach should arrange to amend during the emire session. Miss Lelia E. Patridge, Prnf. E C. Page. Supt. Campbell. Prof. Hun sen and Miss Jane Finney an- o-n. gnged as instructors. ANNUAL TEACHERS” INSTITUTE. Teachers and others interested 'nre inlormed that the Annual Tom-hem' Institute will be held in Central School building. Waukegun. during five days. beginning July 5th, ' The Nickel PM“ “Old Will sell excursion tickets to Chaut-1 auqua Lake and return on July 8, at; one fare for the round~trip with re- ‘ turn limit of thirty days from dun-i of sale by depoBitiug tickets with mmtary of Chautauqua Assembly . Tickets good on any of our throughj express trains. Cheap rates to mlny } other points east. Communicate: with this office. in Adams Street. : Chicago, for any further information desired. Van Buren Street Punwn- ‘ ger Station, Chicago. 41 r! or the wisdom or improving the: i . ' street, its entire length. there is alldfl; tican be no doubt. It goes through as? rifine a part of theeity as any. and the; , new High school building will great. ; I ly enhance the natural worth oi thati section. Every lot of land on that 1 street from James McDonald‘s store to the gateway of Fort Sheridan will i be put into the market at an advanc- i ed price. Lots have lain there fivei ‘ and twenty years and had but little} more sale than those out in “Boilviu's: , Addition," in the slough across the} 1 bridge west, and will lie there :'n- 5 K father quarter century in the lame; \ ' way unless the street is opened _and ' improved. It was opened once, but i l i grass and Weeds andtrees have grown J i up in many places. A friend of ours‘ owned part of a lot in block 15. on . isx Johns for which he paid mm 51 over twenty years ago, the assessed valuation of that lot is 8!?50, all it' would sell for or more. The man ‘wants to sell his 100 feet front, but can't, no one wants it at a fair price. and will not till there is some pros- pect of a good street there, then ail H will be right. mu: 3 good paved ‘ street through there, it would sell; more easily for $2.00“ than for 1 $1,000 today. Think of it “.090 twenty years ago and north only that , today: put through the street audit ' would have enhanced value and good prospect of ready sale. elsewhere. We want the work for our own map and than they can earn wages to care for themselves am! their families summer and winter, §;“$314rc responsible for all good: while In our hands. :30“, l TIL-mun u. Furniture and Pianos Moved,” “Packed and Shipped. 'D. A. DRISCOLL. C0,, . ...mcvcl¢ Exchangn. 1:Sunclries‘ and Repairs of All Kinds . JAS. H. DUFFY . , Express, Baggage and Dime Parcel Delivery. ‘1 Fruits and Vega-Nu 9.9.!ch Dolly. Fancy Groceries, Dry Goods and Crockery, BOOTS no SHOES. OFFICE AND YARD: ST. mun; AVENUENI [HUBER BISTRIGL TELEPHONE 67 A. ROBERTSON, / ’ Lumber and Builgling Material of All Kinds. FRITZ BARR. Proprietor Floral Decorations, Cut Flowers “and Flowering Plants. HIGHLAND PARK, ILL. ST. Johns A venue EVANS BROS. Fancy Groceries, Tea, Coffee“ Tin, Copper, Sheet Iron and Furnace Work. Hire! and Soft Coal, Saved and Split Wood, Kindling. Good; the Bat. Prica m Runnable. Highland Park Greenhouses, pm!” attention given afl‘orders. TmnhlSun-cds, 10c. Toorfrom any partof :1; city! FRUITS AND VEGETABLESa Bkydu ”Order From 835 Up. J. H. DUFFY. . Manager. We are prepared to sell it tn yun in any quantity. Chase ‘ Sanbom, Tea and Coffee. flour, nay, Nathan". Dru, - Corn, Heal, It“... Med MW”: and 8m. All grades of 000‘- Ddlvcnd Fun 'I cum. TELEPHONE 46. Coal, l'rnbylermh (V'hu Wondnp Ind prâ€" whuul. I2 m (LN Prlyev Dermot. W4 Clcahlng, Trinity (Ihur-m,‘ Holy cummmnhul, 10.0: a m. M: II I‘ Ill. Stand the month, Even Merch £vangcliu1'la Mr. .NIIumIn pm" l m. Sand-y Dd l‘he Hlphsl_ (ihu l’ruclnng, 10.45 m IIL; “Opt“! \luuq p m.; preaching prayer magma“, j SI. fin)"; (31‘ Madden. pawn must. [0.00; >und Fin! 5. “He-d 1M “Icicle. paSt-n man ptcmhlllk. K p. mg‘finuda} uh 015 p m ; luaylé‘ 7.36 p. m. i-Lvnnxrlw-I 'Auq am». Sundav I ending Room SI German neu‘hm In. 1‘ 0:4. p‘lu ;_ p. m : dm-x-dl prayer mveung-z n‘hctk'nl I but at [A Klvimu M h. Ch Heuhcute pastor m.; Ep‘wmh Ix Sunday ru'mng a! at 7.46 rub Sum! hum 8 (u ‘- my; meeting and arm) month Sn‘edllh M H Ch ~kn.uv\\'¢ulu1¢ as human. Sunday “Mr. 71:) p 1 _ myrr-mwunu 1‘. Pru§rrmwunk Everyone I! hum Moder- Woodc- fin! and hard: I'd uten' lull. Willi ma. cm. Highland I’lrk C Arman-a. Meet ind fourth Monday \\'. A. “'ilubn; 5ch V A. 0.1"” Lady ulnr meeting nigh! cucbunumh. u Mu I Soft store. Chcflmung Tribe. Meet at ank‘ H; F. M. lrnqflhuahgm For thc mm, 050, 5.33. 7.29 p m. 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