January 9, 1903
WAUCONDA.
Messrs. F. L. Carr and J.P. Blanck were Grayslake visitors Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Geary called on relatives at Long Grove Sunday.
Gustav Fiedler of Lake Zurich was a pleasant caller in our village Monday.
A number of our young people attended the New Years dance at Grayslake Wednesday evening, Dec. 31.
August Fischer and Arthur Kirwin went to Chicago Mon. where the former will seek medical treatment.
John Welsh went to Libertyville Monday where he is working in the interests of the Knights and Ladies of the red cross.
Edward Martin of Barrington attended the Mystic Worker installation of officers of Wauconda lodge Wednesday evening.
Misses Nettie Murray and Allie Roney, who hold positions as teachers in the city, spent their vacation with their parents in our village.
A MInstrel show will be given by local talent in Oakland Hall on Friday and Saturday evenings, Jan. 23 and 24. The young people of our town have devoted a great deal of time and practicing for this entertainment and will render a program of first class vocal and instrumental music and will present a very laughable force. Come one and all and spend one or two evenings with the Wauconda Minstrel troupe.
The annual installation of officers of Mizpah lodge, No. 142, M.W.W., took place in the Woodmen hall Wednesday evening. After the business meeting the lodge rooms were thrown open to the invited guests and the officers publicly installed according to the laws prescribed by the ritual of the order. Following this was rendered a fine program consisting of mandolin duets by Mrs. Wallace and Miss Mary Freund; readings by Prof. Fuller and John Brand; vocal solos by Mrs. Milo Price; and a short talk on Fraternity by F.L. Carr, all of which were ably given and roundly applauded. After this all partook of a fine oyster supper and the remainder of the evening was devoted to dancing.
LAKE ZURICH.
Joe Collins was a visitor at Wauconda Monday.
Wm. Bicknase made a trip to Chicago Wednesday.
J.H. Forbes transacted business in Chicago Wednesday.
Wm. Knigge transacted business in Barrington yesterday.
Frank Roney shipped two cars of stock from here Tuesday.
J.F. Roney, of Wauconda, transacted business here Tuesday.
John Collen, of River Bend, visited with friends here Monday and Tuesday.
Mrs. Louise Seip, of Chicago, is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Seip.
George M. Wagner and wife visited with Mrs. Walter Helmuth, who is ill, yesterday.
Conductor Stinson and Engineer Pendleton are doing the switching for the E., J.&E., with engine No. 72.
Frank Garland, of Waukegan, spent a few hours in our village Tuesday on his way to Wauconda, where he is visiting his mother.
Wauconda is well represented at the Consumers’ ice plant in the harvesting of the rop, especially in room 8, where E.A. Golding is room boss.
Tuesday evening, Frank Roney, Burt Dowell, W.J. Bangs and John Ronimus walked to Leithon, a distance of eight miles to catch a freight train on the Wisconsin Central. The train left nearly an hour earlier than scheduled time, and Bangs and Ronimus, who were making the trip more leisurely, were obliged to spend the night in the thriving (?) town of Leighton.
LANGENHEIM.
Don’t forget the mask ball Saturday evening.
James McGraw was a Chicago visitor Monday.
Otto Zimmerman transacted business in Chicago yesterday.
J.E. Tomisky, Will McGraw and F. Weaver, of Cary, were visitors here yesterday.
Charles Hacker has been busily engaged in getting the hall ready for the mask ball. A new stove has been placed in the building.
Louis Pederson, Jr., left Monday for Cadott, Wis., where he will visit for two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Frick.
Ebe Seymour, who lives near Cary Station, started for home Christmas Eve from Cary with a trusted team of horses. When he reached the sidetrack going into the gravel pit east of Cary, the horses were turned on to the side track and followed the same across the railroad bridge over the Fox River, a distance of nearly half a mile, without a mishap. It is said that Mr. Seymour was asleep and did not wake up until the bridge was safely crossed, when he was shocked to find that he was on one of the main tracks of the North-Western. The story seems incredible, but is given by reliable authority, and the footprints of the horses were plainly seen on the ties crossing the Fox river.
CARPENTERSVILLE.
Raymond Harrison and wife spent Xmas at Slocum’s Lake with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Baldwin and Mrs. J. Lumin.
Miss Gertrude Harrison and Mr. Earl Bryant, both of Crystal Lake, were married at the home of the bride on New Year’s day, and will reside here.
Wm. McWhorter, of Silver Lake, was a visitor Friday.
Miss Emma and Rose Mitchell returned from Millard, Wis., Saturday, to resume teaching.
Dr. DeBlois, of Elgin, will preach at the Baptist church at Dundee, Sunday, exchanging pulpits with Rev. Fuller.
Rev. W.H. Fuller was ill last Sunday, and Rev. Hench supplied his pulpit.
Mrs. A.J. Hendrickson and son Willis, were Elgin visitors Sunday.
An announcement come out last week in the Chicago Daily News of the engagement of Miss Mamie Cleveland, of Dundee, to Howard McNeill, of Chicago.
There will be public installation of officers of the W.R.C. at Dundee Friday afternoon, Jan. 9, at 2:30.
Clark Miller has a steady run on Douglas avenue, Elgin, as conductor on the street cars for a month.
Raymond Arvedson is being treated for rheumatism in Elgin, going down every morning.
The week of prayer is being observed in all the churches here and at Dundee.