Show QUEEREST BACHELORS CLUB IN EXISTENCE its members embers At hold fold an election once a year to select S elect one of their number for the holy estate of matrimony CLUBS CLODS CHOICE MUST MARRY OR OB RESIGN WHEN HE HAS FOUND A BRIDE HE XAY MAY CONTINUE A WITH ALL THE privileges I 1 lauke gau ill abill C G Is in this city Is a thiene nort situated on tho the west a ido of lake thirty live miles north ot of chicago ono oho of oc tho the most mort singular clubs that has como come to the notice ot of tile he reading public for or mome time lime it Is in tile the bachelors bachelor club recently it brought into by the singular experience or of hi first president dr IV W pearce now flow mayor or of the city some years yeara UKO ago dr offered tt it pi zo of 50 to tile tho mc niber of 0 the alio club ho should arnt first become the fattier ot of bivins the prize was won by dr dearco himself and ami this queer instance Jn stanco of u n man winning his ovin olin together with the novel nature of 0 tho competition has haa called general attention to an all lloil that la Is ono one ot of tho the most unique in existence tile tho wauregan waukegan kegan bachelors Bache fors club ma endor tho the lawn of illinois august 18 1831 1891 tho the incorporator a of 0 hie caul acre br 11 W J A carman Car maji A lloyd logan joean and J S shute it if 14 flu felt of 0 inch man banded together fur for social 1 and enjoyment contrary to the intel faience once derl ked d front tho the name all the members of 0 ine ellie club lire are nut not originally they mere however for is in EL a first ret requisite for membership the right to mairy lit in given to tile the members by election one bring beang choson choam every year it may lit bo tile hla own tip drello pire to enter tin till realms uc of matrimonial bliss or not there wele evv nien nten charter mf roben und and none but choko thoko belted to do ho bet has ever broken the so fl lornia anti ow or of single tho the club Is composed of 0 tho the best pro ana busine business sn young men of tt tile hie city tile limitation ot of haerik berthia to fuenty nc being I 1 tho lie only disagreeable feature fea in the iho minds of the young youna men nho longingly desire to b become conle bachelors to have provided by tile the constitution unit that members should never marry AN have been to attempt tile tho impossible so in eider that 0 the 00 o a sit in the cub life llau might not lose iti it savor with each cach suc succeeding reeding year ear it ft wad lias decreed filet one member should be elected to make some woman happy ur or miserable as aa tile the outcome might lv le Cupi cupidean dlan do 1101 destroy the love pt one hah law for or his almo mater and ut at the club ho he la Is an aft much of it a bachelor as his bis unmarried brethren tho the annual injecting of lie che club Is ita red letter ilay day great anxiety over tile the eltion Is lit in the city us aa well as tit in the club for on that day the fate or of some bachelor must bo be settled during tho the supreme meeting the ballot ing Is always it a solemn affair occa filo nally pliant politics are arc brought inci play and ami votes vote are bunched for a 0 tiar par man loan but oftener the vote jj Is battering ard after tile tho ballots are counted some unsuspecting man discovery discovers covery suddenly thrust into inlo at a sphere of necessity with hm him it iq ii ek a case of ut ue up or lose jose the claim to a ri paradoxical situation the end ot of an election la Is always the time tor for an all elaborate celebration tho the N fo tor molly many of them tell lake the mandate inan dato lu ju tilt th spirit of one vl vi Is banqueted and made the iho hero here of tit th hour thus far hit 01 mho have been elected to renounce a lit ire of single have succeeded before their year ran out in convening local loal or distant latant il bellese bellah that they uro a re 9 lit alio handi omett t end and best 0 of men meet dmn members who have buca e feted to intili are J 11 I 1 hull V W H P war warden d ell T r it durst pr dr G it C V 13 shultis dr per fival luice dr AV IV pearce pea fcc V J lyon lynn ibid K B P Bl elinger several nira ago affo dr IV W Y pearce n a aa s tile illy el of f I 1 tho I 1 in 1 I ill anon after day ho he a trill to boiton and brought home tile the intellectual bride who recently presented him with twins twing the occurrence was doubly interesting inasmuch na us aa the mayor van oil his on medal ak which aich ho hisaya says lie he vt ill alwa always 3 br be pro proud d to wear ear the the Il mayor ayele brother dr percival pe a ree 1 nus elected lo iet be married in lilg 1896 G th alio sul summer limer b had n d sa scarcely reely passed when he led to the altar miss jessie cooke daughter daugh tvr of homer cooke one of Chi cagos leading attorneys lie ite met tile the young fady while rusticating at ill the clubs summer letrent at third take lake in his on olin county last las I 1 year 1 P F Dl dInKer dinger a leading shoe dealer of thu ill city and township iship assem assessor sor aa I 1 the chosen chosen ono one tit C tile the club and lie ike al was molded before th ahr tind end uc oc tile the year J an election lit in lecent years aas as ual I 1 lanm idank 1 I lion sho bo fo found aill a lovely arld ln ill N V Y lie he is IN it son of lion hun li it lyon ix a leading member of tho elie Illi illinois L e no lub lie IH moio patriotic than tile the bachelors when whelk liar ur broke hut but with smaill tile the pUtT lOtIC of every member wj wiy 3 abuse a rurico d to tile the highest lotell most u or them work prosperous rouA nen inn with on oil hand that they fould could not hot dekle yet mt all recognized the tc fact that they should bould ill be represented in n the conflict for tuban dom av ac odney tile the billot ax was wai resorted to and it representative kiy okke elected to pet faive ve lu in tho the ranks of the united states slates army W C t parker wan waft the choie chobe lie he joined the illinois cavalry troop if the nt valvera of the S cluty club are cyrus nio agett preside I 1 arthur smith vice president themida The kIda re and tro treasurer usurer dr percival pearce chaplain the headquarters of the hie club are a at t third lake in lake county ill tho re their summer house and ell grounds tire lire situated tilt old maid 1 in their famous sailboat gnoun as a tile champion all over tile the aliane of takes in that no ever contained a more sociable poc juble lot of people ind and nhen ahen baill day at lt the clubhouse conica comes aroun around ev every r y soar scar the of 0 thi the pie pleasure as ure searon lot in reached four degrees a K hia re i onCa on members by the ila h e lors lom its fullow lt junior bachelor beci benlor 0 bachelor buch clor married bachelor and in most rove reverend rend bachelor the list last la Is v roil oil forred only onee once in seven years yeara and on the chaplain alone c it Is ia to be holled that some way aill be found of oc pet p luiting the of gait tion but 1 till ith the the compulsory guarri marriage 9 rule rul lit in operation the dunic will necessarily jiahe to be changed chanced some day I 1 to the one on of marrial both club S j |