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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1932
Page
2
The St Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church on 138th Street and Leyden Avenue announces Divine services in German at 9:30 and English at 9 47 a.m. on Jubilate Sunday April 17. Pastor W J Kemnitz urges all to trust Christ, pray, and rejoice despite tribulation.
Our Saviours Community Church at 138th and Wabash hosts a Sunday 10 30 service with a Junior choir. Luther League plans a Wednesday program with devotional and short humorous plays. Missionary Conference April 19 at Woodlawn Emanuel church requires a ride from Leyden and Indiana. lunch provided. evening meal 50 cents. Penny Social April 21 in church basement. Women’s Missionary Society meets Wednesday at 2 pm. Adult Bible class growing. Visitors welcome.
Dolton Methodist Church schedules services on Sheridan and Grant Streets with Sunday school at 9:15 a.m. and worship at 11 a.m. plus youth meetings in the evening. Miss Alice Slayms named YMCA Camp Hastings counselor. camp runs June 27 to August 29 for two to nine weeks with rates and registration details. Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society meets April 21 at the parsonage. choir practice scheduled Friday night. Rev. Erwine Thompson is minister.
Mrs. Cora Draper, postmistress at Oak Lawn and appointee of Ex-Congressman Elliott W. Sproul, resigns after postal inspectors uncover a money order shortage totaling about $3,000 following the death of her husband whom she succeeded.
School notes recount April as a time of growth and birthdays. Corrine Trimble lists Hans Christian Andersen, Washington Irving, John Burroughs, Frank R Stockton, William Wordsworth, and William Shakespeare as birthday figures with brief mentions of their works and interests.
Bowen students return to classes as baseball season nears. The 7th grade scored an average of 9644 on Hygiene tests, and the 5th grade earned 1004 on Studebaker arithmetic. Bowen to play Flossmoor on Friday the 15th after a tie with Chicago Pullman Branch in a pickup game. girls’ team not formed, they will only practice this year.
The Dolton Girl Scouts urge parents to pay the 50 cent national dues to keep girls active and eligible for privileges. It notes hikes and nature study are planned soon and asks if 10 cents a month local dues are affordable, advising coordination with the troop captain.
The article recalls the Legion’s origins with caucuses in Paris in March 1919 and St. Louis in May 1919, a 1919 Congress charter, and the first national convention in Minneapolis. It notes recruitment drives and local activities including Chicago Heights Day plans and a Legion Band bowling event.
Riverdale adopts an ordinance to construct a five foot four inch cement sidewalk on the west side of State Street from Lot Two to Lot Four in Block Seven, with costs levied as a special tax on adjoining properties. Owners must build or pay. if unpaid, the village may tax and seek legal enforcement. The measure follows 1875 state law and becomes effective upon publication.
Dolton village in Cook County Illinois holds an election on Tuesday April 19 1952 at the village hall for one clerk and three village trustees for a two year term. Polls open 6:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Notice dated March 5 1982.
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