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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1913
Page
5
Clyde Buell a Minneapolis student working at Fort Francis narrowly survived a drowning when he grabbed the antlers of a bull moose swimming across the Rainy River near Fort Francis. He rode the animal to shallow water before it reached the shore.
The Blue Island Automobile Club and Milwaukee avenue merchants urge recognition of Western avenue as a future state road. County Highway Commissioners and township road builders joined a Saturday inspection trip from Chicago to Crete, with a chicken dinner at Calumet Grove. If Halsted is dropped from the plan, Blue Island hopes to win Western avenue.
A series of timetable changes effective August 1 updates several lines. C and E 1 train No 2 northbound shifts to 6 00 p m. No 35 southbound departs Chicago 11 25 p m and Dalton 12 07 a m. Western Indiana train No 75 from Chicago 7 40 a m to 7 47 a m. No 77 from Chicago 11 30 a m to 11 37 a m. No 50 northbound Dalton departs 4 07 p m from 4 00 p m.
Dr Anthony A Seidler longtime Dyer physician and Civil War army doctor died Sunday after a nap his eighty eighth birthday would have been next Monday services were held at the home and burial followed at Hanover Center he resided in Dyer for 48 years and left a wife ten children twenty seven grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren
In sad loving memory of Herman Werner who died two years ago Aug 6 1911 Dear father wrapped in slumber sweet laid in earth's cold bed Away from those who loved you dear We miss you since you're dead Gone from earth forever Tear dimmed eyes shall gaze in vain We shall hear your voice never more We loved you deeply and God loved you too From loving wife and children
Mrs Ton longtime honorary president of the Ton family association with 680 Illinois members and a south Chicago settler dies at 316 West 103rd Street at age 78. Migrated from Holland in 1849. Survived by eight children including Cornelius J Ton, a former Illinois legislator. Funeral services set for Saturday at the family home.
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