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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1928
Page
2
The 18th Street and Leyden Ave church announces Sunday Jubilate on April 29 with German services at 9:30 and English at 10:45 am. Members invite all to study Psalm 100 and join in worship as Bible truths are preached plainly. English graded Sunday school begins at 9:15 am.
On Sunday April 29 the First Methodist Church schedules Sunday School at 9 45 a m with classes for all ages, morning worship with sermon at 11, Epworth League at 6 45 p m, and evening service at 7 30. The Young Peoples choir performs and the pastor preaches at both services. A A Myers is pastor. all welcome.
Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church at 138th Street and Wabash Ave invites all to attend worship at 10 30 a m with Bible school at 9 30 a m and Luther League at 6 45 p m led by Dewey Swan. The Wednesday May 2 meeting of the Ladies Aid Society is at 2 p m with important business. Choir practice Friday at 7 45 p m. Conference of Chicago District by Ev Lutheran church on April 30 and May 1 at Belmont Park. Rev Edw A Voorhees, Pastor.
On Saturday April 21 1928 the southern Cook County Girl Scout section led by Miss Pease held a Circus at Bloom Township High School Chicago Heights. Riverdale troop captain Miss Hedtke won the Hare and Turtle race and Riverdale earned a silver cord for five years of enrollment while no troop reached ten years. Homewood and Riverdale tied for most games won and each troop received a prize. Riverdale also received leather Girl Scout record books.
In 1641 the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared the Great Ponds, freshwater bodies over ten acres, open to the public forever for fishing and fowling, freeing them from private exclusivity and enabling broad access.
A quote by Bernard Shaw defines a gentleman of today as someone with enough money to do what any fool would do if afforded the means namely consume without producing. The remark sharpens on wealth and frivolous consumption as a measure of status.
Sophia Palchinsky will represent the township in a spelling contest on Saturday April 28 in Mr Tobin's office. The eighth grade has chosen their graduation play and roles are assigned. Girls in sewing are progressing, Beginners finish raffia baskets, some start bloomers, and advanced class makes pajamas. Bowen school games yielded Bryant 11 to 13 in our favor and Highlawn 21 to 15 in our favor. New eighth grader Marie DeWitt and two new sixth graders Florence and William DeWitt join. Miss Hedtke's Health Contest awarded posters and color illustrations from After the Rain to high scorers Eddie Miller Edward Klinkhammer Edith Gill Siegel Bock Harold Nimtz Eleanor Wordelmann and Josephine Canterucci. Answers to last week's questions include Columbia Argentina Department of Interior Macedon and an Egyptian king from about 3000 B C.
The Chicago Street School PTA met on April 18. Miss Minnie Whitham of Oak Park spoke on The Modern Trend of Education. Fifth and sixth graders presented a health play and a student quartet sang two songs. The Harvey High School Band performed several numbers with Edwin Stevenson Obe Lois Craig Paul Anderson and William Coale named among performers.
The seventh grade study on instruments is enhanced by Miss Davenport’s toy orchestra performance for seventh and eighth graders. The toy orchestra, made up of kindergarten and first grade, used all the instruments studied and received appreciative praise.
The Lincoln Avenue School second team played Riverdale Pullman Branch Number one. After a tight start L A S scored one, Riverdale answered with ten, ending 10 to 3 in Riverdale’s favor. We hope to meet them again.
Marion Lund notes the seventh grade finished Spain and Portugal and expresses eagerness to begin Italy and its landlocked neighbors. The seventh grade sings two part harmony without piano, misses due to Miss Davenport at a convention, and studies Felix Mendelssohn and Irish music.
The 8th grade girls are making pajamas from a flowered crepe fabric with designs. The two piece set includes a coat and trousers.
By William Street the eighth grade construction class builds drawers for chairs in room one to hold books. They make three sizes large 15x13x6 inches intermediate and small and each student makes one.
Advice on painting farms emphasizes protecting buildings and equipment from weather, extending life, and choosing proper timing. It recommends priming new wood, finishing coats, and applying multiple thin coats outdoors, noting rot and rust deterioate if neglected.
The Naples exhibit shows ancient and early Christian votive practices as gratitude offerings and pleas for cures. Wax models were once deposited in churches for healing, then restricted. today families in southern Italy still gift wax to saints to protect children and seek favors from ailments and misfortune. Notable saints invoked include St Nicholas St Anthony St Paul St Ercolano St Donino St Catherine St Raphael and St Pasquale for protection, healing and marriage.
Excerpt extols polar exploration as voyage into unknown regions. It highlights achievement in whale fisheries, breaking ice under steam or sail, beauty of distant lands, and above all comradeship. It lauds teamwork, loyalty, and memories formed among sailors and explorers.
A quote from the Atchison Globe notes this speed age pressures people to act fast. A doctor comments that many seek operations on themselves before surgeons deem surgery wise, reflecting anxious haste in modern life.
Frank Fiore, a Roseland barber driving the fatal car that injured Elizabeth Domark of Harvey near Glenwood on April 9, will face a manslaughter charge if he recovers from serious injuries. Inquest recommended charging once able to be released. witnesses testified high speed around a dangerous S curve led to the crash.
An admirer sought an autographed photograph of a British cabinet minister. The minister began writing "To my very dear friend" then asked, in his familiar charming tone, "What name did you say?" The Ottawa Journal notes the amiable exchange and its humorous edge.
A Washington Star quip portrays Uncle Eben as a hard-hearted man whose losers friends vanish so fast that no one remains to discuss his harsh nature.
An advertisement promotes Kettler’s Whooping Cough Remedy by Ernest Kettler R. Ph. at 87 East 137th Street Riverdale Illinois. It claims effectiveness for whooping cough winter coughs laryngitis asthma and catarrh of the throat. The Riverdale phone number is given as Riverdale 46.
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