Water supply in Blue Island under state study
State Water Survey engineers examined Blue Island drinking water amid reports of oily scum and odor from two old artesian wells. The newest deep well appears unaffected. investigation aims to identify a gas or oil pocket and assess future usability.
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Blue Island
State Water Survey
University of Ilinois
Hammond
Jones
Chicago
Alderman Bruce
Water Committee
Alderman Ward
University of Illinois
Urbana
Illinois
Edward Barto
R. B. Hammond
State Water Survey Department
Engineer Hammond
State Ter
Weber and Zacharias
Blue Island Commercial Association backs credit rating system plan
Blue Island merchants heard Joliet Business Men's Association secretary A Schager describe the Joliet credit rating method listing every resident who asks credit. Members voted to adopt a similar system, raise dues to at least 15 dollars, hire a secretary, open a permanent office, and support Home Coming Week with Eagles plans.
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Blue Island Commercial Association
A. Schager
Joliet Business Men’s Association
Joliet Association
Schager
Joliet
Dunn’s
Bradstreets
Blue Island
Blue Island Eagles
Dertz
Peter Heintz
Eagles
Commercial Association
Epworth League Plans Summer Break At German M E Church
The Epworth League of the German M E Church met at the Heim home last Friday. It was decided to drop Sunday evening meetings during July and August. Sunday school observes children's day on June 14 with a program of music and speaking. Services start at 7 30 p m Sundays and 10 45 a m Sundays for the next two months.
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Epworth League
M. E. Church
Geo. Heim
John Heckmann Dies at Blue Island Pioneer of German Church
John Heckmann oldest German settler in Blue Island dies at home on the south side after a year of declining health. Born December 9, 1833 in Germany, he leaves a widow by his second marriage and no children. He helped found the First German Evangelical Lutheran church of Blue Island. Funeral from his residence at Western avenue and Desplaines street Saturday at 11 o'clock and 1:30 at the Lutheran church with Rev. Doermann officiating. Interment in Lutheran cemetery.
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John Heckmann
Blue Island
Germany
Heckmann
Western Avenue
Desplaines Street
Doermann
St Donato Church Plans Third Annual Saint Anthony Feast
The congregation of St Donato church announces the third annual procession and feast in honor of St Anthony on Sunday June 14 1914. A dance is set for Saturday night from 8 to midnight and a concert and ball Sunday 5 to midnight at the church hall corner Division and Orange streets. Afternoon games and fireworks at 10 o'clock Sunday night on church grounds. Adv The Committee.
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S. Donato Church
St. Anthony
St. Donato Church Hall
Orange Streets
Adv
Committee
Fire at Grand Trunk gate tower on Broadway
A late Friday fire at the Grand Trunk gate tower on Broadway drew No. 1 and No. 2 fire companies. The tower, said to be bedbug infested, was fumigated by the gate tender who then sheltered the crew. The tower will require rebuilding.
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Grand Trunk Gate Tower
Broadway
Thompson At The Varsity Leads Blue Island Play
High school exercises at Grand theatre on Monday evening June 15 begin at 8 with orchestra piano pieces class history prophecy and a play Thompson At The Varsity. Cast includes Joe Green Paul Thompson and Dean Crowell among Huntingdon Wooster figures. Admission 1 15 cents.
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Blue Island High School
Grand Theatre
Thompson
Paul Thompson
Huntingdon
Robert Rodgers
Joe Green
Viola Eidam
Grace Eidam
Mildred Jaiser
Francis G. Blair
State of
Illinois
Second Warders Use Oil On Streets
Alderman Maltry spearheads a dust reduction plan by oiling 1750 feet of streets in the southwest section. The project, funded by a mix of property owners and town officials, aims for multiple oilings to keep streets dust free through summer. Residents from other areas approve and a canal street oiling movement begins.
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Maltry
Broadway
San Francisco Avenue
135Th Street
Ernst Kott
Highway Commissioners
Town of
Worth
Consumers Mutual Oil Co
Kott
San Francisco Ave
Peter Maltry
TOROS
Blume
Christ Kott
John
Herbert W. Lau
San Francisco
Merkelbachry
John Loehr Si
Chas. Funk
Mozart Street
H. Lohse
Henry Jurries
Fred Albrecht
S. Francisco
Otto Blohm
Canal Street
Kruse
Horse Shoeing Shops Suspend Saturday Afternoons
Notice announces Blue Island horse shoeing shops closing Saturdays after 1 p m from June 20 until September end. Names listed include M. J O Donnell Fritz Fornell Wo Ross Robert Rodgers.
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Blue Island
M. Jo’ Donnell
Fritz Fornell
Wo. Ross
For Sale Chicken Farm and Additional Land Near Blue Island
For sale a 6 acre chicken farm with a good house a modern barn and chicken house priced at 5100. An adjoining 28 acre tract about a half mile west of Blue Island suitable for a truck farm at 200 per acre. Agent J G Diefenbach at 60 York St or 3880 Western Age Blue Island Illinois.
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Blue Island
J. G. Diefenbach
Agt
York St
Ili
Post Office Clerk Appointment Follows Civil Service Exam
Edward C. Maroney of 615 York Street receives clerk appointment at the local post office after an 88.80 percent score on the May 9 Chicago civil service exam. Clarence Darfler, Robert E. Gammel, Arnold T. Evans, John Hoffman, Oscar Hultzgren, Clell C. Pellerin, Wm. A. Schneider, and Margaret M. Burns also passed, with Burns the sole woman. Appointments depend on list ranking. Maroney starts June 16.
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Edward C. Maroney
York Street
Post Office Civil Service
Walter Lochow
Maroney
Clarence Darfler
Elm Street
Robert E. Gammel
Vine Street
Arnold T. Evans
Prairie Street
John Hoffman
Blue Island
Oscar Hultzgren
Burr Oak Avenue
Clell C. Pellerin
Walnut Street
Wm. A. Schneider
Lentz
Chicago
Remodeling of 257 Western avenue by Harry Rohrbach begins
Harry Rohrbach, owner of the 257 Western avenue property formerly Charles Marwitz saloon, starts remodeling to modernize exterior and interior. The front is replaced with plate glass and Luxter prisms, the flat above accessed from Rohrbach store, a steel ceiling and new lighting installed. The Faber Shoe Co. has a five year lease and will occupy by July 1 with new fixtures for a top class Blue Island shoe store.
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Harry Rohrbach
Western Avenue
Charles Marwitz
Rohrbach
Faber Shoe Co
Faber
Blue Island
Methodist Children's Day Service At Local Church
The church holds a children focused morning service with baptism recitations drills and songs. An offering supports education for young people. Two classes move from primary to intermediate. Mark G Holtzman of Philadelphia will speak at 7 30 about Chicago 50 000 Men’s Parade occurring Saturday June 27. Epworth league at 6 30.
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Mark G. Holtzman
Philadelphia
International Sunday School Convention
Chicago
Epworth League
Will Harris presents Dollie's Dolls at Grand Theatre
A special attraction at the Grand Saturday and Sunday features Will Harris in Dollie's Dolls, a gigantic musical comedy with a bevy of beautiful girls in songs and dances. It follows McVicker's run and offers Grand's popular low prices. Also shown Saturday night at the Lyric is the twelfth installment of The Adventures of Kathryn and other pictures.
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Grand Theatre
Will Harris
McVicker’s Theatre
Grand
Kathryn
the Lyric
Home-Coming Week Marked in Blue Island
Blue Island declares August 10 to 15 as home coming week with events noted for residents and visitors. Organizers invite former residents and friends to attend gatherings, parades, and community activities during the period.
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Blue Island
City council moves bids for water meters and troughs
The council authorized bidding for 200 water meters with a cost cap of 1000 dollars and referred a plan to connect with Chicago mains at 119th street and Summit avenue for emergencies to the water committee. It also ordered bids for three water troughs with fountains at Western avenue cross streets and another fountain for the east side.
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Bruce
Maltry
Koenecke
Ward
Kott
Kruse
Wolff
Bronson
Olson
City of
Chicago
Western Avenue
Broadway
East Side
Burr Oak Avenue
Committee On
Blue Island
Harry Jenner
Chas. Nelson
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George Small
Patty
Harry) Merrill
Leslie Hague
Bert Halliday
Howard J. Scheiblich
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Hunt- Ieg Corn
Serees
Paul Roche
Fred Wood
Hutingdon
Vernon Pronger
Addison Hornblower
Wood’s
Ralph Kintz
Algernon Evans Leens
University of Wooster
Wilbert Neukirch
Jerry Adams
Wooster
Leip Eee Eines
George Conant
Crowell
Bouigs
Oscoho Oc
Oscout
Franklin Cool
Eleanor Crowell
Mabel Bechstein
Joseph Green
Joe
Bertha Stein
Hazel Green
Marion Lane
Alicia Taylor
Hazel
Elsie DuBeau
Sarah
Crowell’s
Edna Lussenhop
Huntingdon-Wooster
Dean Crowell
Wood
Eleanor
Greene
P.O
Edward Maroney
Methodist Church
Hans Engelland
Fire
John Link
Blue Island Fire Department
Alderman Maltry
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