Riverdale Dal ton Labor Day Plans Advance In Dolton Village Hall
Committees from Riverdale and Dolton report good progress on preliminary plans for a Riverdale Dal ton Community Labor Day celebration. A big parade street dance races and games with prizes are planned with a Aug 15 meeting and Sept 7 event. Organizers include Walter Nowak Charles Murphy Oswald Obeldobel John Connors Wm Maurer R C Peacock Morris Gladstone Judge Charles Heidenreich Ed Brookfelt F R Baker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverdale-Dolton
Dolton
Riverdale
Dalton
Walter Nowak
Charles Murphy
Oswald Obeldobel
John Connors
Wm. Maurer
R. Cc. Peacock
Morris Gladstone
Riverdale-Dalton
Charles Heidenreich
Ed. Brookfelt
F. R. Baker
L. H. B. Limits Switchmen to 26 Day Month
The Indiana Harbor Belt R R begins a 26 day month schedule on August 1 to aid unemployed switchmen. No employee will work more than 26 days per month and overtime is suspended. The plan creates extra days of work for additional men each month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Harbor Belt
R. R
Delay Hits Route 52 Contract Over Bid Ad Wages
The Route 52 project along the Calumet Sag canal faces another delay after the legislature required wage details in bid advertisements. Chicago Heights Coal Co., awarded a $450,000 contract from the Sag bridge to Kedzie Avenue, was notified of cancellation. A re advertisement will push start dates back several months.
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Calumet Sag Canal
Chicago Heights Coal Co
Sag Bridge
Kedzie Avenue
Blue Island Star
Peters and Schultz Tie In August I 1931
Miss Anna H Peters married Clarence E Schultz Saturday evening at St Pal Evan Lutheran church. About two hundred guests attended the ceremony and reception at the parish hall. The couple left for a Niagara Falls honeymoon and will reside at 744 Shepard Drive Dalton. The story notes a later vacation closing for Corner Beauty Shop Aug 17 to 24.
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Niagara Falls
Shepard Drive
Dalton
Henry Frank
Illinois National Guards
Camp Grant
Rockford
Dalton Couple Wed in Chicago Church Ceremony
Miss Arline Dickelman and Dr. Morris Robert Weidner Jr. were married on August 8 1931 at Bethany Union church Beverly Hills Chicago. The couple planned a honeymoon trip through Canada and the New England states and will reside at 14220 Edbrook Avenue Farbridge bungalow after their return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junior Weidner
Arline Dickelman
Dalton
Junior
Arline
Oberlin Colege
Uwn&eit
Haniiond
Morris Robert Weidner, Jr
Bethany Union Church
Beverly Hills
Chicago
Clyde McGee
Canada
New England States
Reading
Farbridge
Edbrooke Avenue
Pointer
New Delicatessen and Grocery Store Opens in Ivanhoe
Howard Ames announces a new delicatessen and grocery store at Branigar Bros building 14516 Clark Street in Ivanhoe, opening Saturday August eight. Ames, an experienced and well-regarded young man, invites residents to visit and get acquainted, promising friendly service and local patronage support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Ames
Clark Street
Branigar Bros
Ames
Ivanhoe
Mary Grace Meeder Dadids obituary details family ties
Mary Grace Meeder Dadids died after years of ill health with burial to be from her son's home in Dalton. Born June 2 1853 in Devonshire England she moved to the United States at six. She married David A Meeder in Koeltztown Mo sixty years ago and had eight children and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Meeder
Portland
Dalton
North Park Avenue
Oaklawn
Mary Grace Redding
Devonshire
England
United States
David A. Meeder
Koeltztown
William R. Now
Harrison, Ark
David S
Frank Holmes
Eugene
Oregon
Harvey Meeder
Chicago
Ray Earnhardt
Van Erden Family Reunion At Calumet Park
Forty-one relatives gathered at Calumet Park for the Van Erden reunion on Thursday July 30 marking a welcome home for Rev and Mrs H P Anker and daughter Nellie Jane on furlough from Africa. Eva Van Erden, former Mrs Eva Van Erden, is noted as P Van Erden Sr’s daughter and P Van Erden Sr is described as the oldest living family member. Plans were made to make the gathering an annual event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Erden
Calumet Park
H. P. Anker
Nellie Jane
Africa
Community Events At Our Saviour's Church Picnic
The Ladies Aid invites all to a picnic supper on Thursday evening August 13 with serving from 5 30. Adults 40c and children under 12 25c. The Degree of Honor Juvenile Club hosts a Doll Festival later in August with prizes for best dressed doll oldest doll and best character doll. Call Dolton 941 for information.
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Ladies’ Aid of Our Saviour’s Church
Dolton
Four Year Old Bungalows for Sale in Dalton Area
Two four year old bungalows in Dalton with five rooms and basement, furnace heat, buy on payments at 4000 dollars each, lot 40 feet, assessments paid to date. Property listed by Wm. Marie at 18785 Leyden Avenue Riverdale Chicago Ill 13-2.
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Dalton
Wm. Maurie
Leyden Avenue
Riverdale
Chicago
Ill
Calumet Sanitary District Buys 224 Acres for Plant
The Sanitary District took title to 224 acres east of the Chicago & Western Indiana line at 126th to 130th streets for a new sewage plant. The project includes a plant, pumping station, aeration and settling tanks with bids for the pumping station at 1,361,000 and expected costs for tanks around 2.5 million. The facility will serve the Calumet district and begin operations in January 1934 with about 100 regular employees and a daily capacity of 450 million gallons.
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Calumet District
126Th Street
Cottage Grove Avenue
United States Supreme Court
130Th Street
Chicago & Western Indiana
Pullman Trust & Savings Bank
Samuel W. Gehr
Pullman Land Association
Eighty-seventh Street
Riverdale
Dalton, Harvey
Blue Island
Calumet City
Band Concert Series In Riverdale To Feature Blue Island High School
Merchants invite residents to a six concert run in the business district on Western avenue with a 72 piece Blue Island Community High School band. If rain, events move to the next evening and stores stay open until 9 80 o'clock. Edward Higgins visits from Chicago with relatives. Proceeds include special band concert sales and district roped off for safety. Missing or late details: local obituaries and light crime notes appear alongside family visits.
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Blue Island
Western Avenue
Blue Island Community High School
Eddie Taylor Star for Beauront In Texas League Shortstop
Local sporting note highlights Eddie Taylor hitting over 3800 and excelling at short for Beauront in the Texas League, praised for playing the game with effort and skill despite prior misfortune. The item also covers community news, health updates, travel, and local notices including a street address lot sale at $200 each and a Dalton social onlook.
Auto thief Jesse Jones tied to multiple burglaries in Dalton
Dalton police captured Jesse Jones a felon with a Chicago wife and a trail of thefts across Illinois Wisconsin Indiana Michigan. He confessed to stealing a Nash from Kel ll gall Motor Joliet license plates from a private garage and a Pontiac and Oakland from Beecher and Mokena. Jones and accomplices Willie Wyatt and Willie Dunbar sparked a wave of car thefts and burglaries yielding radios cash and goods before officers recovered several vehicles and valuables.
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Offcer Herbd Kaehnele
Dalton
Jesse Jones
Illinois
Indiana
Wisconsin
Michigan
Nash
Village Hall
Jones
Calumet City
Ehlert
Fritz
53Rd Street
Kelgall Motor Co
Joliet
Monee
Willie Wyatt
Willie Dunbar
Chevrolet
Beecher
Barrington
Pontiac
Oakland
Ford
Bosch
Mokena
Lemont
Tebens & Sons
Matteson
Gold Watch and Chain
7Th and
State Streets
Chicago
Calumet Avenue
Rogue
Young Lawyer Henry C. Piel Joins Stobbs Yates Wiseman
Henry C. Piel of South Tolland has been admitted to the bar after graduating from Thornton Township High School and the University of Illinois Law School. He joins Stobbs Yates and Wiseman of Starvey, a leading Southern Cook County firm, and is a member of Kappa Delta Rho at Illinois. His friends wish him success.
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Henry C. Piel
South Tolland
Thornton Township
University of Illinois Law School
Tienry
Kappa Delta Rho
Stobbs, Yates and Wiseman
Starvey
Cook County
Henry
Coal Bids Sited by Riverdale Village
Bids will be received by the Village President and Board of Trustees of Riverdale for about 40 tons of Pocahontas Mine Rune Coal to be delivered to the Village Hall and Fire Station bins. Bids due by 7:30 p m Tuesday August 11 1931. The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. George L Koehler village clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverdale
George L. Koehler
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Edward Higgins
George
Richard Hess
Richard, Jr
Upper Stamlin Lake
Tudington
Mich
Carl Jennings
Consumers Store
Adam Meyer
East 136Th Place
Eddie” Taylor
Beauront
Eddie
Menry Horn
Prairie Avenue
Wesley Hospital
Viola Radtke
East 154Th Street
Grays Lake
Uerman Schlieman
East 134Th Street
Fort Sheridan
C. M. T. Marie Bershinski
Eggleston Avenue
Matt Dreger
Indiana Avenue
Julius Elzinga
Muller’s Market
Calumet River
Indiana Avenue Bridge
Chas. Krueger
Lillian
Dorothy
Virginia
Charles
Frederick
John Lotz
Wayland
Lotz
Patrick C. McCrory
Greenwood Avenue
Harold Keehneke
Patty
Herman J. Anders
Mary Elizabeth
Robert
Charleton
Iowa
Ardeth
Annie J. Hawes
Merrian
Kan
Herbert
Alvin
Bert
A.C. Reich
Bedrock
Coal Bids
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