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Sheridan Road News-Letter (1889), 11 Nov 1899, p. 11

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Mia. Ellen Holt spent Wednes~ day in lake Fore-t. It. John Volkman is notion-1y s‘mx at Alice Egon. ’ Thoma Montgomery of Mil- waukee, is visiting hem. Mn. “Gamma! has gone to to town for the winter. Dr._Th0lllll il entertaining a brother ho. Donut. Mr. George Oben went to Wis- consin this week. . .Mr. Matthew Ken and family moved to Chicago Tiuuday. Miss Sabra, Sargent, principal 0f Forty Hall, goes east next week. Mrs. Hewett is entertaining Mrs. Norman Bridge of Pasadena, Cal. Mr. and Mrs. Bakereutertnined tlw “Art Institute” Tneflh even- lllfl. \Irs. JaunsMaswrson of Chi- cagu, is visiting Lake Forest friends; ~ - The C) we H.Mc'Coru‘1acka leave ‘Walden” today, and go to town for the winter. The ’Varsity foot ‘ball team went down to the Beloit team last Saturday by a score of 28 to 0. Mr. Patrick Murphy and Mr. John Hickey have gone to British Columbia, where they intend mak- ing homes. ' The'Swift children are still in quarantine at the hospital. There are thus far no other cuses of scarlet fever 1n town. Many Lake Foresters 'went to Waukegan Wulnesday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Babcock, who was well known here. The College Glee and Mandolin clubs have been re- organized, and will take to the road as soon as the foot ball season is over Last week’s‘ 'Stentor” contains a highly amusing and interesting lettgx, homMiss Louise Chapiu, (Ye’scribing the “Dewey parade" at Vassar. A quartet from the Hampton Normal Institute will sing at the Presbyterian church Wednesday evening. The quartet is'eom- posed of colored people, and the program will consist entirely of negro melodies. THE SHERIDAN ROAD NEWS-LETTER. A physical culture chm has been organized b the ladies of the town. They no engaged an inch-Match“, and will .meet once a week in the gymnasium, ' ' Mrs. Middleton Smith is at present an inmate of the Lake Forest Hos ital. Her friends will be glad to earn that she in doing wellmnd is on the mod to re- emery.- Mr. Charles Gunn and bride were serenaded by the punical young people of the toin Satur- day evening, in n their return from their bri al trip. Music, dancing and refreshments served to make the occasion a memorable one, and the participants re _ to their res . tive homes much de- lighted witme hospitality of the young couple. Regular monthly meeting Tueé- day evening. 7th inst. All- present except Mr. Poole. whose resignation was presented, be having removed from the village to Mayvmod. Mr King otfereda resolution of regrets at Mr. Poole’s retirement. which was‘ adopted. Engineer’s third estimate. showed. $6,320.43 due contractor Cape for wet]: on Green Bay road, this mak- ing total payments $13,747.41, and total of work completed to date 815, 326. 26.. Engineer thinks the deposit of $18, 500 will {all a little short of completing Work according to plans ‘and specifications. The completion, howeyer,‘ is secured by guaranty bond, and on final estimate the cash shortage, if there should be one, will he covered by order f0: balance on the Electric Railway company. Engineer Reports con- tractor ,will complete the job by November 24, if he can get stone. III Iii...“ ““"I'HQH ifififififi “§§UI§§I§"D§”§ i. Engineer Windes submitted an estimate for completing outlet seWer down Hazel avenue and for carrying it down the blufi and into the lake, masonry, driving piles. etc. Cost estimated at $7,250, which covers the following itemaz. "an fiWIt“I‘M“§II§¥IIIIfilnfififlfluifiifinii GLINCOI Glencoe Department Prof. Thomas In (sandman elocution clue for thebe t of university. students donning stmction in that direction. The many friends of Mrs. James Fauntleroy were shocked and grieved to hear of her death at St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago, ' on a Saturday morning. She was about to undergo an operation, and died of heart failure while under the influence of the anaesthetic. The body was conveyed to Lake Forest by special train Monday morning. The .funeral was deferred until Wednesday afternoon, pending the arrival of friends and relatives from the east. The service was conducted at the home of the de- ceased, Bev. Dr. McClure officiat- ing, and the interment was at , Lsxe Forest cemetery. One thousand seven hundred feet of 18- inch sewer pipe at $2. 50 per .fdot;150 feet 12 inch sewer pipe at $1. 50 per foot; 200 feet 12-inch chat-iron pipe at $2.50 per foot; 120 feet piling at $10 per foot; 30 cubic yards masonry at 65‘ per yard; 10 manholes tit-$25, with 10 per cent. added for engineering, court costs, etc. The total cost of this outlet, the report says, when spread” over the district of 87,000 hfroint feet that canbe drained by it, is nine cents per front leot. Mr; Windes accompanied this estimate with slengthy and very interesting report on the subject of a general system of sewers for the vil- lages His conclusion is that drain- age into the lake is far the most economical and otherwise best; that it isl'unwiSe for Glencoe to try to make a much more costly disposition ofitssewage when it will not con- tribute to the ptlrifioation of the lake, which will continue to be polluted by the large cities and towns in Wis- cousins in spite of anything that can be done here; that it is better to filter the water we take from the lake than to attempt to send ,our sewage elsewhere at much greater

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