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Sheridan Road Publishing Co. rum m Hunky morning at High had 9". "In I!!! Wlnuetka. 111.. by the Nun-um: Enigma. as Comm Av'enue. a bum: Putt. “Buttress“ thePM- Office It Highland Park Mint-uni run all. known on awn-flo- at “(In «35.. The city council of Evanston has had, like our own, filter bed on the brain. A week or two ago it-passed an ordinance, the mnyor casting the decisive vote, as our. mayor did on the printing job, but he did n‘ un~ do! mental protest, as he had doubts of ita’legality; .Our mayor is not one oflthe doubting kind. Evans- tan’a omcialewtook’ the‘ matter in handâ€"mayor, alderman, attorneys rind all, when they discovered that 'anyvmen'sure involving the expendi- ture of money required an alfirma- the vote of a majority of the alder- manwnot the mayor, but the alder- men alone, a majority 0' those elected, that is six in the Park, to ‘ carry it measure This' 18 the ruling of the State Supreme Court. Ton“ intents and purposes theré Was a'eontract made between the bity find the proprietors of the was for the city printing {or the present fiscal year, and that contract has been recognized and acted upon by both parties till about a. month ago, when the council sought to break it. II that the way honest men pro- coed? We don’t behave a majoritv “of our aldermeu will do any such thingwhen they come to look‘ it over‘ in the light of all the facts. A m at North Shore lntellilence Tm No. 92, W Park. We say nothing of the wisdom or SATURDAY. MARCH 10. TERMS “.50 PER YEAR. There and Here. CIVIC”: THE SHERIDAN ROAD NEWS-LETTER. (airme- to the people of publishing the ordinances and other city legal notices, ete., in an outside paper which is taken by probably not o'ver twenty five, perhaps not much over he" that number of tax payers in this city. instead of publishing them in the home paper which goes into several hundred families. We had not thought of it before, but per- haps some of the alderman don’t like to have the people know what ordinances, etc.._they do pass. q The Hotel Slgn. There were twin brothers some years ago in a New Hampshire town. John was a shrewd, careful, success- ful man. William was not so. The latter decided to go into the hotel business. and counseled his brother John as to a sign he was about to order for his new hotel, and received this reply: “Well, 'Bill, you ‘are going to run a hotel, are you, and want a suitable sign. My advice is- that you have a .big old-"fashioned dinner horn painted with a picture of yourself crawling out at the little end.” From all appearances some of “Bills” sons came out west and embarked in Lake county politics. Some people will be wiser when they know more. The State Board of Health.has issued circulars calling attention to the danger} now existing from small- pox, and this danger is enhanced by ’the extensive prevalence of a 60-, called chicken :pox, which many“. is‘ small pm: The one safe and sure remedy is vaccination, and the school boards should see to . it at. once in the schoole. The" board says one year ago there .' Were. thousands of cases in Porto Rico, but by thorough vaccination the deadly disease has been “entirely stamped out” of the island. The friends of Lake Forest Uni- versity, ofwhom We trust there are many in this city, will be glad to know that a new era 'of prosperity meme to be opening ~for it.' D. K. Pearson of Chieago has given $25 - 000 to it on condition that $76,000 more will be raised, and to show his purpose to raise the required'umoum H. C. Durand, the ‘preeident of the br’mrd of trueteea, has given $20,000. And we learn that President lie Clare thinks when the momentum is up that had better go on for: I 00nd 810 £030 or $200,000 in all. Alderman Goooh of Evanstou is of! his base, and _some of our great statesmen should set him right. He wants the water rates reduced to the sum of $201“) a year in that city, and let ewery man provide his own filter if he wants one. Or if he pre- fers to drink microfiee, bacteria, pollywogs, ete., let him drink them, just as he does cheap. poor beer and bad whisky, am, when he wants them. And there are several men in Highland Park who say with Al. derman Gooeh, “reduce the water rates ” There ie a very popular Presbyte- rian minister in Indianapolis who evidently" ought to be sent to the lunatic asylum. He had the hon- orary degree of “Doctor of Divinity” ”conferred upon .him. and refuses, yes, flatly refuses, to accept it. on the ground that he ie not entitled to it. Great Caesar! is not everylman entitled’to it who can get it, by book or crook? That is what these little "one-hose” colleges and universities are for, to confer degrees on “oneâ€" hoss” men. ' City Council. Regular meeting called to order at 8:37 p. m.; an present saveA! derman Brand When the minutes were read to the effect that the mayor .voted “aye” ‘ on tie vote for giving the city panting to the Waukegan Sun at 1.1, cents pei‘ line nonpai'iel, ‘ Mr. Cobb declared em- phatically that he~did not so vote. Perhaps we have not earsmsome people think we have very large meow-hut es'we heard him he did Vote “aye,” just exd’efly as City Clerk Finney had it on his [econ-(ls; his record and ours agree to a dot, and we think the majority of those in the room so understood him. 315 says hedeclured it a vote and the motion carried, and We would like to know how he can make that om if he did not vote “aye," as the aldermen’e vote was n tie, and when Col. Da. vidson asked the mayo} point plank if he (Mr. Cobb). understood the