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Funk P. Hulkilu and family are I)! back in their Park home for the canon. ‘ Supervilor J ames McDonald is putting blunt of his time this wait in attendance on the meetiugs 9! thmnty board. ‘ We understand the drug trust has doom not to raise the price of drop for 'the present. Glad of it; M enemas cheflp ratés for our pur- W “d inlew- Tho walking is awfulbad and you oan’t‘mako‘mgdy society calls; hung-e just the time to call on Dr. Kaye and have your tooth put in order before We salon opens. Banker Erskine furnishes good ”otters-to his good patrons, and we thnh, other things being equal, a good blotter man stands a fair chance of the kingdom of heaven. The (kaoli club‘ held its regular meeting Thursday afternoon, and heard a very sensible. and practical paper on the “Domestic Problem” by Miss Towner, of which We shall speak more fully next Week. h Quite a little select party, m all some live and thirty, with their wives and sweethearts Went over to Sher- merville Thursday for a royal Cook county supper and a dance, andcame home' in the pale waning light of the “10011.. The so-called “boedlers” of the Athenwum, or Young Men’s club heuse, have not been found, .though We have'vspent‘some time in the search We shall try to see the books and learn what thev reveal, we hope for next week’s paper. 0.11. White. the plumber, came here about a year ago unheralded and unknown. and. by dint of pluck, perseverance and excellent work- manship has ‘buiit up a good busi. nose. He has put in some first claim jobs in fine banana. which give good satisfaction. Such men are entitled to encouragement. {Town Collector Basye closes his tax books today and begins making up his delinquent liet Mgnday. We guess if you a teai good and smile on him, he will he your taxes Mon day and Tugday. and save you a journey to aukegan. Better try him. ‘ THE SHERIDAN now NEWSâ€"LETTER. Our old time friend, John R. Mc- Quilton, and wife. spout Sunday with In.‘ 'Mnc’s " author, Mrs. El- win 8. Green. Their sonn,.Hurvey and Paul, are touching and studying this winter in the Stet-on University; DeLand. Flaridn. Harvey has two classes In German and one in Eng lush, while Paul has Chemistry and Civil Government. ' Our florist, MnBalu, has been studying our soils and climate for several years, an a scientifically trained florist would, and now with his accurate knowledge of grasses, he has made a combination of those adapted to this locality. so we can have a lawn grass mixture that will flourish. We have received a marked copy of the American Sentinel, a very radical paper, of New York! with a cogent, historically strong and some- what peesimietic article, in it from. the pen of our friend, 001. Parm‘enas T. Turnley. His ideas of the signs of “Decay m the Nation,” a decay of true patriotism, love of freedom, etc. ., are surely correct. Mr. Albert Antisdel of Chicago, who has spent portions , of .recent summers in this city, left Thursday with his wife for a season at the Hot Springs in West Virginia.» As is well known he is Western manager of the American ExpressCo. He has had akouch of "the gtippe and hopes to rest and recdperate 'atfim springs. We accidentally ran I onto the host cheap, and a bit shop worn,_books at 177.Wabash avenue ' last week, and among other books by the score, and good ones too, were a pile of the Life of Dewey, a big BWpage octavo book for' ’25 dents, and wbén we wont in for one a couple of days later they were all gone. We have not seen such a‘ bargain counter in good books. for tinny years. ‘Mr.-Martin, a North- Side livery man of Chicago, was out here Satur- deylooking after a place for the. new stables for-“The Moraine,” the new Cnshing hotel. 116 Wanted a good place here near the depot, but a prospective patron who keeps fine teams told us Tuesday in Chicago he did not like that; he wanted the stables lip near the hotel; he did not 8689011 Pastor Babb of the Bap gave a very interesting is lectnre last Sunday evenii G.‘ Pawn, so many years Scotch Presbyterian niie New Hebrides Islands. went there they proposed up, as all cannibals do; are a Christian people. James Dulh, who has boon ill 3 couple of weeks with the gflppo. is about again, albeit he looks I little “pehid’ about the face. want his coacbmeu do“ her. “net the depot, the “blind pig.” do. “ A late dispatch says "Knox‘ in after the Basra.” We thought he wan wandering of? somewhere, a: he seems to have given up going after the “blind pigs ” Fritz Bahr. our gminuut florist, had the misfortune to {all on the ice early in the week and break his shouldgr blade. ur “clavicle”, if that is the right word. That Healer» horse radish is the genuine article; it can star; the tears almost equal to a "peeled onion," and we don’t wonder the New York- ers send to Ravinin for their homo radish. Byron R. Leach. of Burlington, 1a., has spent a couple of‘days here this week putting his former home on Laurel, next to Dr. Bergen’s, in readiness for sale or rent this spring. We are sorry to learn that Mrs. John O. Cummings fell and broke her wrist on the ice Tuesda-y. As she 19 an elderly lady it is doubly serious for her The city paid her 325 once for. injuries received on a defective sidewalk. W. W. Flynn and family, after, alyout two years in the S. R. Bihg- ham homestead, will move in May to the Cat-9e; cottage on Centta” avenuq, and the Bingbam house will probably be sold, as parties- are pe- gotiatingfdr it now. Professor Gray returned to‘,Bo§- ton Wedgesday, aftér‘ a ten days’ visit ‘in‘ the Park. Mrs. Gray re- mains with her daughters andkvil‘i probably rent their home this sqm- mer, as her huéband’s workwill keep him in or near Boston during the season. Pastor Babb of the Baptist church. gave a very interesting Vetereopticon lectore last Sunday evening on John G.‘ Pat”, so many years the famed Scotch Presbyterian m‘ieeionary in New Hebrides Islands. ,When he went there they proposed to ed: him now they