School bond plan to expand District 102 facilities
Board of Education of School District No 102 proposes a December vote on a 0 600 bond to fund eight new classrooms and major remodeling at Congress Park Cossitt Good man Forest Road and Ogden Oak schools. Plan includes space for art music rooms a gym and auditorium plus kindergarten use of 304 N Spring Ave and property adjustments. Total estimated cost 40000 with 10000 for grading and landscaping.
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Board of Education Ag
Sto
Board of Education
Congress Park School
Cossitt - Goodman Avenue Hools
Forest Road of
Ogden-Oake
Forest Road
Kedimian Avenue
Forest Area
Oak Ave
Spring Ave
Ogden Avenue
Ogden Site
Goodman Avenue
Spring
Congress Park
National Legion Commander Here Speaks at Sunday Evening Club
Donald R. Wilson national commander of the American Legion will speak at the Sunday Evening Club opening program for the 1951-52 season on November 4 in Clarksburg West Virginia where Henry Livezey presides. The 34 year old attorney was elected to lead the national organization earlier this month and will make his first Illinois appearance since the Miami convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunday Evening Club
Donald R. Wilson
American Legion
Henry Livezey
Clarksburg
W. Va
National Legion Organization
Illinois
Miami
Sunday Evening Club To Begin 25th Year at LaGrange
The LaGrange Legion Sunday Evening club opens its 1951-52 season at 7 30 p m Sunday in the high school auditorium marking 25 years of service. Burton Holmes was slated to present his travelogue on Northern Italy but illness may force his absence. if so Thayer Soule, Holmes associate of five years, will take his place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LaGrange Legion
Burton Holmes
Italy
Henry D. Livezey
Holmes
Livezey
Mr. Holmes
Thayer Soule
Soule
Thomas L. Crosby
First Congregational Church
C. Gordon Wiedertz
LaGrange Legion Post No
Coulter Legion Post
Grant Wolfkill
Holmes Travelogue Opens 25th Sunday Evening Club Season
The Sunday Evening club launches its silver anniversary season with Burton Holmes travelogue as the opener. Notables planned include Maj. Gen. Hurley and Charles Laughton. Doriane and Ellis perform Nov. 18. Igor Gorin, and a Norweigian choir finale. Memberships remain available. proceeds fund ongoing programs.
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Holmes
Doraime
Ellis
Patrick J. Hurley
Igor Gorin
Charles Laughton
Alfred M. Bailey
Denver Museum of Natural History
LaGrange
Australia
Europe
Singing Boys of
Norway
Alma Bergstrom
Spring Ave
Car steams into crossing injures Chicago man
Lester Pryor, 29, of 6916 Wabash Ave Chicago, escaped serious injury when his eastbound car struck a steam engine on the Indiana Harbor Belt line crossing Shawmut Ave. He was rushed to Hines Hospital with a bruised back and shock. Police estimate Pryor’s repair bill at 300 dollars and the engine damage at 30 dollars. The engine, driven by Robert V Bettie 48 of Bensonville, hauled six stock cars. Pryor had stopped to clear a southbound train before crossing. In a second morning crash at Kensington Ave and 50th St two motorists Roy Stoltzner 51 and Jack Zahora 21 suffered minor injuries. Stoltzner’s car had 300 dollars damage and Zahora’s 350 dollars plus a lamppost 100 dollars. Both were cited for driving too fast for conditions.
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Lester Pryor
Wabash St
Chicago
Shawmut Ave
Indiana Harbor Belt Line
LaGrange
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Robert V. Bettie
Rt. 2
Bensenville
Pryor
Kensington Ave
50Th St
Roy Stoltzner
Agatite
Jack F. Zahora
Custer
Brookfield
Zahora
Stoltzner
S50th
Kensington
Large Turnout In Girls' Sports At LTHS Activities
Large turnout among LTHS girls in GAA golf and swimming sees three after school golf teams of 15 each formed under teachers Marilyn Plese Claire Brusenbach and Grace Christopherson. Thirty beginning swimmers are being taught fundamentals.
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LTHS
GAA
Marilyn Plese
Claire Brusenbach
Grace Christopherson
Riviera and Italian Alps tour highlighted in travel note
The article recalls a vivid tour from the Italian Lake District to the Dolomites, Venice, and Stelvio Pass framed as a lively vacation showcase. It traces Soule first appearing with Holmes in 1941 and later joining Marine photographic service during the war, with plans for further appearances deferred. It also outlines extensive Girls' club activities with groups like Mates, Mops, Best Foot Forward, and Me Myself and Others, plus Chicago travel interests, theater studies, and various sponsorships and student leaders.
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Oese Riviera
Lake District
Venice
Dolomites
Stelvio
Soule
Holmes
Canadian Rockies
Photographic Service
Marine Corps
Pacific Theater
Mops
Lee Nickels
Pat Geary
Sue Hadley
Barbara Dixon
N’ Mops
Ruth Wenner
Cheryl McKenna
Wenner
Eugenie Carlson
Chicago
Windy City
Helen Brown
Ray Framburg
Fred Gariepy
Dorothy Banks
Sue Framburg
Barbara Gariepy
Harmony Harvest Quartets Set At LaGrange Auditorium
The Q Suburban chapter of SPEBSQSA presents its fifth Harmony Harvest at 8 p m on Saturday November 3 in LTHS auditorium LaGrange. Sixty chorus members under Richard Swance prepare a two hour program featuring top quartets The Gay Nineties The Villageaires The Vikings Harmonettes and local groups Suburbanaires and Chord Crushers with Bernard Roos as master of ceremonies Warren Puzz Haeger in charge. Tickets available at Vann's pharmacy Pearson's music shop or from chapter members.
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LTHS
LaGrange
Richard F. Swance
America
Montevideo Minn
Illinois
Villageaires
Palos Heights
Ilinois
Vikings
Rock Island
Harmonettes
Pa’ Heights
Midwest
Chordettes
Suburbanaires
Chord Crushers
Bernard Roos
Hinsdale
Warren
Puzz) Haeger
la Grange
Buzz
Vann
Pearson’s Music Shop
Want Ad Phone Line Promoted for Quick Results
A short classified item urges readers to use the want ad phone line Lagrange 4600 for quick results. The terse notice emphasizes speed and ease in placing or finding ads, typical of mid-century newspaper classifieds.
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Lagrange
Trustees Reject Transfers Between Districts in Forest Park
The 95 section to Dist 102 and the 209 portion to Dist 204 were turned down by the trustees of township 39 at a meeting Monday night in Forest Park.
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Trustees of Township 39
Forest Park
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Brookfield Free Public Library
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H. Neil Fiihart
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Russell Leader
Grand Bird
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Homner Eby
Harrison Ave
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Morton Ave
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Bohumil Vinch
Joseph Baloun
Arthur
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Louis Ksander, Jr
Frank Andries
Gus Weber
Sunnyside
G. Weber
William Barbour
A Legion Project
ITHS
Nason
Barbara Soderburg
Publicit
Jerome H. Heppes
Miss Brown
Joanne Heppes
Looney Tooners
H. W. Major
Moss Banks
Frank Morgan
Rachel Major
Audrey Graber
Kard Klub
Joan Fraser
Girls’ Club
Luella Darling
Future Teachers of America
Ruth Corley
Miss Banks
Thomas J. Nesbitt
Thelma Nason
Lloyd Uebele
Marie Meyer
Carol Nesbitt
Nancy Uebele
22Nd Street
Petersen
Corner
Burlington and
Longdona
Icecream Eee
An .A Grange Lumber
LA Grange Lumber CO
LA Grange Road
Rexall
Mylon
Fisher’s Pharmacy, Inc
Fairview
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U. S
Federal Reserve Bank
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