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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1932
Page
3
School notes recount a short classroom piece titled Parade from the South by Robert Hair in grade 6. The poem celebrates migratory birds returning in spring, noting color variety black red white and blue and expressing joy at their arrival after winter. Jim escapes and returns home by reading the book appears as a separate anecdote in the notes.
Eight grade girls finished pyjamas and are making simple school dresses. Graduation dresses will be inexpensive swag ger or plain broadcloth in pastel colors. A May exhibit will feature a fashion show of all items made.
Report mentions a new pair of twins at the Lincoln kindergarten. The mice are kept for a short time and described as white with pink eyes and noses, with one child remarking they could be bunnies if their tails were shorter.
Bowen school students prepare for the pennant with announced games from April 15 to May 18 featuring Hoover Berger Riverdale Flossmoor Matteson and McKinley. New 1932 tournament rules include 45 ft base lines 12 inch ball underhand pitching 10 players seven inning games and specific dead ball and stealing provisions.
The Bowen school girls defeated Flossmoor 23 to 13 in indoor baseball on April 15. Lineup includes Annie Jay pitcher Lotus Ahrens catcher Evelyn Albee first base Nancy Sutton second base Edith Sells third base Hazel Paynter Dorothy Paynter left shortstop Aurelia Jillicek Redina Madison right shortstop Clara Jay left field May Jay center field Anna Lochinger right field Anna Jay captain. The trip home featured a truck axle breakdown delaying arrival from 3:15 to 6:30. Room 2 notes boys planning a baseball team and two fourth graders Roy Cook and Albert Stroh. Attendance was perfect for two days.
State's Attorney John H. Swanson announces creation of a Cook County Bureau of Criminal Information and Detection aimed at aiding Blue Island and suburban towns. A meeting at the Congress Hotel gathered 82 mayors and police chiefs to form a coordinating body with a central record clearinghouse and no metropolitan police aim.
In Chicago Heights, a driver held for ten tons of goods on a truck without state license or road tax paid was released after a $410 payment. The road tax of 1.50 per 160 pounds applied to the ten ton truck, with $110 for the license and $300 road tax. The driver A. B. Roehr remained jailed until funds arrived. owner Norman S. Marsh planned to limit operations to Illinois.
A.J. Perry, foreman on air brakes at C and E I repair track, visits Michigan with friends. Bernard J. Raver fills in. Mrs. Harry Biossat of Chicago visits Riverdale relatives. Mrs. Elizabeth Ward receives a silver spoon gift and plans an Ohio visit. her son Morris breaks his arm. Eleanor Smith of Ogden Utah visits Riverdale. Billy the roan horse is shot after leg injury. Mrs. L. O. Garry’s friend Mrs. Edward Laking dies in Danville Illinois. funeral attended. Giant C and E L engines arrive in Chicago revealing need for new roundhouse.
Miss Frances Mueller learns switchboard operation at Homewood exchange while Mrs. Brutlay battles typhoid fever. August Steiner plants soft maples on Morris Street and Wm Tallhurst Sr becomes Idle Wild Country Club head gardener. Village election results show Clerk James A. Cowing 148 votes and a split ticket showing Republican 45, Democratic 3, Socialist 3.
The Primary election tallies show 141 Republicans and 15 Democrats for the village. Hunters returned home, with some harsh reflections on strangers deemed as game. Wm Blink loses use of his legs but buys a new Indian motorcycle. Arthur Dykstra suffers a broken jaw from a swift throw. Mrs H Holleman in Chicago hospital recovering from gallstone surgery.
John Braasch aged 62 living at Ridgewood farm on 127th Street near Harlem Avenue took his own life with a 22 caliber rifle Tuesday April 5 in a woodshed. An inquest at Wagner's Undertaking Parlors 171 West 21st Street heard that a bank letter about $35 000 in bonds prompted a misinterpretation of their value leading to the tragedy.
Socks with openworked heels and toes will be worn by bachelors as heretofore.
A Chicago judge dismissed Max Weinberg's case against John Eckstein charging vote fraud from last year. Weinberg sought a continuance. witnesses were brought in by police as the judge noted no irregularity in affidavits signed for voters in Lansing. The case, previously moved from Evanston, ended after a long litigation and venue change.
A late 19th or early 20th century claim from an af terlin physician suggests intelligence can be judged by fingernail analysis. The idea allegedly allows a man to endure a half hour hand-holding with a pretty girl and later report an intelligence test result to his wife.
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