, 1877-04-29

This place has not been favored with such an ar
ray OF ia lent for some time as sang at the test
monial 10 Mr. Thomas Goodwillie. given Tuesday
evening at the High School Hall. The concert wa:
opened by an overture from s'A{artha,'' rendered
by Messss cseswold and Ledochowsky. The ori
entail Quartettc sang the serenade from Kreutzcr,
which was received with rounds OF applause. Fol
an encore they saug the 'Wanderinc Miller" DR..
Jordan convulscu the audience with laughter BY his
version Of Yankee Doodle, " Initiating the differ
ent instruments upon bis violin. The home talent
s;,n Sas supplied by Mr. Thomas eo9dw,'e, y. y.
Frank Tilden "nd: Edward Hale from tie
qental beaa c}aS no; Mas vel saa supplied BY Mr
plause., He, sang byirequcst, ''Roll on, Deep
Ocean,, and gave for an encore, ''l'm Aaoat- Il
MIss Jessie Bartlett sang Sweet Genesievc, and
added another laurel to her wreath Of honoEs. In
response to an encore she sang ''Nisercrc DOM
ine1n Ms: ". y. Smith sang ..Whcn the Flow
saeatoas e f a, nn nPpy r. @ tdn The
gan, and piano ny Mcssrs. Jordan, Ledochowsky,
faa sna ss4s o s1,y sf Nss h
great effect. a portrait Of air: Goodwillic en-
tW1ned with Ivy occupied a prominent position.
The stage was handsomely decorated with flowers
and plants. These contributions. and tho 1arCe
audience which greeted Mr. Goolwt}ic shoy ju
what esteem he il held by tho residents OF Englc-
wood.
The Univcrsalist Society rayo a socInhle at tho
Old School House Wednesday evening TAe lnl,gl,-
able M farce entitled My Turn Next wah W.T.
cast in tho play: M!na Al'ce cl.amberin M,sa
Mabel Hing, MessrA. W. u. vFeelaud. Geotga i.
Eddy, i. d. amtth. and Hrawn.
Thursday evening Ut this FiTst VI, Z, Church. Tile
ladies' who ha't the atter IN eturge did their bert
70 make m enjoyable evening of II, hut owing to
lhc large number of 0ilier entertainments this week
they did not huErttd IL well III usual,
:, The chcapo. Itock Island 4 Pacific Railway
Company hnva made deduction on their 100-ridc
efAr4W I.,%,
ty-df,h street and islne iE!nnd. The difference in
the 100 tickets II 60 ccnta between Tho old aud
nsw rate to Stnety.6fth street md 81. 50 10 Blue
ss'nK ntniionr. The reduction on the three and
Htx monlilE' tickets commences at the Rock Island
fcrcnce IL IS 10 and SIS. '> 1'''''@ @'A' VII
=, ~. improvements now goiug on upon Parkway
to ,te parks, ind being o much faTtheff thef
from t1 Chicago viii attract manv people who
and Dse1cl bonlcrards. The railroad Companies
Will conhnt their own interests by proyidin. q
depot a. this point in time to attract people this
way. The improvements contemplated will make
thl" parkway similar to Drexel boulevard. The
work IL being pushed forward with great rapjdIty:
The nescndays work already done has made 4 grcat
change In the aspect Of at1airs - '-''N' e-sA@
Ihc grounds surrounding the site OF St. Ann,s
Gah9G a.; 5. Church corner q Wentworth avenue and
u. Leydon. lie has set ont about l51
trees upon the premises. The work
upon Tue basement OF the new church will
he commenced in June. It is the intention
TO complete and inclose the basement with tom
pofary Eoot this year, go that it can be used ay
Place Of Worship, the old church being altogether
too small to accommodate tho present conSrega
tion. ~o"sssE1-
The new Board of Education for District M. .
will hold their first meeting Saturday at The fioi,
School building. ~ AAo Asu
The ladies Of the Presbyterian Church are con-
during the present week, ~ -A~ ~1a1eu