Riverdale Yanks Start Season With Dixmoor Rivalry
The Riverdale Yanks open their first season Sunday May 1 at 3 PM on the Riverdale park diamond against the Dixmoor lads. Under coach Benny Reitz the independent club plans a Spring Dance May 14 at Staines Hall to fund uniforms and gear, with recruitment meetings Wednesdays at 7 PM hosted by co manager Fritz Hammermeister.
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Riverdale Yanks
Dixmoor
Riverdale Park
Benny Reitz
Riverdale
Stainhe’s Hall
Dylun
Fritz Hammermeister
Dolton Flashes to Start Season Sunday May 1
Dolton Flashes open the season at Dolton park on Sunday May 1. The team, ages fifteen to eighteen, includes Wallace Anderson Harold Byers George Chester Jack Hartman and Bob Lembke among others and seeks games with teams their age in Riverdale and Dolton.
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Dolton Flashes
Dolton Park
Riverdale
Dolton
Wallace Anderson
Harold Byers
George Chester
Jack Hartman
Charles
Ray Lovelace
Burwell Stubbs
Emmett Squires
Ray Lembke
William Shaeffer
Alfred Kort
Joe Ehlers
Lawrence
Bernard Perkus
Bob Lembke
Dolton Merchants Reach For Fresh Start In Season
The Dolton Merchants lost their first practice game on Monday April 95 to older Dolton players. The team expects to strengthen its pitching staff soon and join a Rose land league by month’s end. Eddie Brookfelt, the curly headed boy wonder, pledges to become a top short stop and new uniforms are promised soon.
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Dolton Merchants
Dolton
Merchants
Roseland
Edward Brookfelt
Eddie
Police Capture Man Stealing Gas From Service Station
Fred Senger age 34 of 237 Engilewood avenue Chicago was arrested by Assistant Chief Lester Brookfeit and Officer Stieman of Riverdale police at 2 am for stealing gas from Maurer Service Station at 138th and Halsted. He pleaded guilty before Magistrate Louis Haht, fined 100 dollars plus costs, and committed to county jail to work out the fine.
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Fred Senger
Engilewood Avenue
Chicago
Lester Brookfeit
Stieman
Riverdale
Maurer
138Th
Halsted Streets
Senger
Louis Haht
First Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday Services and Meetings
The First Methodist Episcopal Church at Grant and Sheridan lists 9 46 church school 11 00 morning worship with missionary speaker Mrs Margaret Wilkerson from China sharing a first hand view of the crisis. Record attendance hoped. Also University of Life Thursday and choir, board meetings throughout the week.
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Church School
Margaret Wilkerson
China
University of Life
Church
Lvanhoe Community Church Sermon on Building for Tomorrow
Lvanhoe Community Church led by Donald R. Crocker at Roosevelt School Building offers 9:00 morning worship and children’s classes. The service features a vested choir and a sermon titled Building for Tomorrow.
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Ent
Flashes Sweep Hoff Brau In Season Finale Bowling Match
The Stutzhem Flashes defeated Miller Hoff Brau at St Pauls Lanes in the final season meeting. They led by 90 pins after the first game and held a 108 pin lead after the second before Hoff Brau narrowed the gap to 28 in the last game. Skipper Miller started with four strikes.
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Stutzhem Flashes
Miller Hoff Brau
St. Pauls
Flashes
A. Markus
Ross Stutzriem
Skipper Miller
Boss Stutzriem
Fred Bartolomi
Hoff Braus
Fred
Herman
Stiffy
Newly Elected Officers Installed by VFW and Auxiliary
South Suburban Post No 1759 Veterans of Foreign Wars and its Auxiliary held a joint installation in Harvey Illinois on April 23 1938. Officers installed included President Elizabeth Clark and Commander Edmund Boyens with other posts and trustees also named. The Auxiliary was installed by Margaret Hansen and local officers retained their positions.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United
Harvey
Sadie Moeller
Eward
Lena Wilson
Alice Brown
Florence Begnoche
Bernice Engelbrecht
Ethel Murray
Dalton
Mary Walliser
Starvey
Alice Altringer
Riverdale
Therese Groeneveld
Phoenix
Margaret Hansen
Third District
Department of Illinois
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Roy W. Nelson
Chicago
Illinois
Wendell Schaefer
Dolton
Roy Mills
Thomas Cuddigan
T. C. Brown
William Engelbrecht
Robert Dunn
Ed Williams
Henry Straussenberg
Tinley Park
Charles Wernicke
Ernest Wilson
Wilbur Johnson
William Renick
Cook County Council
Stanley Clark
Cecil Jones
Paul Ziekenber
Franklin PTA Postpones May Meeting to May 9
The Franklin Parent Teacher Association meeting moved from May 2 to Monday afternoon May 9 at 3 o'clock. Installation of new officers for 1938 39 will occur at this meeting.
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Franklin Parent Teacher Association
American Legion Pinchle Winners Noted at Lemont Post
Ruth Peterman won a $5 cash drawing by drawing her own name. A list of prize winners followed with names and numbers. Upcoming events include post and Drill Corps meetings, a District meeting at Matteson, a boys state talk by Phil Seiler, and an executive meeting set for Monday May 2 at 7 50 sharp.
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Ruth Peterman
Pinachle
H. Wiebke
L. Reich
Anna Matthiesen
E. Matz
Charles Unruh
Ed Albrecht
Elsie Stehle
McDonald
Otto Wagner
J. McLaughlin
Jennie O’connor
Grace Kotwicke
L. J. Albrecht
Ray Baumgartner
W. Wiebke
Matteson
Phil Seiler
Fost No
Lemont
Boys State of the Eighth District
Fair Grounds
Springfield
Egelau
Post No
Home of Dan Gers Recalled in Quiet Era
The reference recalls a bygone home filled with dan gers and domestic tools. It evokes memories of a time when women used rolling pins and flatirons, signaling daily life and gender roles from earlier days.
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C. R. Page
167Th St
van Dam Road
South Holland
Parker
St. Paul’s Church
W. 138Th St
Halsted
Lincoln Ave
136Th Street
I. Cc
Dolon
Albert H Harms
Cook County
Fred Hart
Cregier Ave
Lansing Welding Works
Roy St
Penn
R. R
Lansing
Call Venoma
Auto Service
Bloom Electric Service
Broadway, Harvey
Singer Sewing Machine Co
South
Michigan Avenue
Pullman
Holland, Mich
Commercial Ave
J. C. Bierma
Mgr
Dyer Supply Co
Dyer, Ind
Fordson and
Oliver
Harms Bros
Phone Dolton
Hamilton Piano Co
Gerit
Torrence Ave
Glenwood-Lansing Road
Sibley Ave
E. Sibley
152Nd
152Rd
Cicero Ave
Oak Forest
Jamesway Chicken House
Republic
Honore Ave
Theo
the First Trust and Savings Bank OF Riverdale
Eral Rese System
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Grant and
Sheridan Sts
Donald R. Crocker
Hoff-Braus
V. F. W. and
Auxiliary
American Legion
Treadway Cleaners
State Street
Radcliffe
Bachmann
Bachmann Funeral Home
East
Nferocean
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