Community Notes From Homewood and Nearby
Homewood News items reveal visits from Cham paign Ill residents and family chatter. Ed Wilkensen seeks a summer resort setting. Bert Heuer tours Wisconsin. Regina Heuer visits Bay City and Detroit with relatives. Village President Gold reports fine Wisconsin fishing but lost fish. Local farmers face droughtish crops. oats, corn and potatoes poor. James A Cowing’s stalled car theft attempt ends with missing license. Stork counts six new births. Hazel Crest man John W Buseh dies aged 66. The long motor at the telephone office is funded by locals. a volunteer committee is ready to operate it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Boone
Ohio
Frank Clark
Buck Eye
Billy
F.H. Gold
Wisconsin
Ifred
James
Stork
Dorbandt
John Brei, Jr
John W. Buseh
Hazel Crest
J. F. Wharton
Wm. Doepp
James A. Cowing
W. F. Gleason
Joe White
Dalton Store Closes Sunday Mornings Indefinitely
Notice states our Dalton store will be closed on Sunday mornings hereafter until further notice and is issued by Peter Kipley Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalton
Peter Kipley Co
Social Roundup From Globe as Neighbors Share Evenings
Rain kept farmers in field work while wagons brought visitors to Globe. Miss Ella Wunz and Effie Train of Cicero visited the Meyers for weeks and socialized with local families. Bertha Scheringa and Jacob Scheringa joined the Meyers for a pleasant evening, joined by Pearl and Louisa Carr, Effie Haan, and Ela Kuns. The Carrs hosted a girls gathering with cake and candy. Dorothy Dahlman hosted a Tuesday night gathering with friends. Wm Dahlman looked forward to oats harvest as rain stopped. Mrs Klunder returned to Cicero after visiting her daughter, Mrs J C Haan, who spent Friday with her sister Mrs T Miemema of Morgan Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella Wunz
Effie Train
Cicero
Meyer Home
Bertha Scheringa
Jacob
Meyer
Pearl Carr
Louisa Carr
Effie Haan
Ela Kuns
Onward Town Notes Tighten Up Local Happenings
The new garage on Chicago Street nears opening as onion harvests face weather delays. A record breaker clipped 103 bushels in a half day at seven cents a bushel. A Boy Scout Band meeting in Village Hall progresses well while residents report social visits from Rev and Mrs Veltman of Holland Michigan and Mrs Viverberg and others from Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boy Scout
Veltman
Holland
Mich
Isawr
Pais Wastabou
Wesley Hospital
Chicago
Walvoord
Ump
Jennie Dalenberg
N. Dalenberg
Davenport
Iowa
Cole
T. Gouwens
Rev. C. Densel
Passaic
N. J
D. V
159Th Street Reformed Church
Anker—Mandelkow
Dolton Theatre Week's New Week of Films and Specials
Friday showcases Charlie Chaplin comedy with a busy program. Saturday features Miriam Nesbitt and Marc MacDermott in Loves Way in War, Sally Castleton Southerner, Ham at the Fair and This picture was filmed at the Panama Pacific Exposition. Sunday offers Prejudice with a moral, Spades and Trumps, Chinks and Chickens, and monster rooster. Eastland Disaster film arrives Wednesday, plus 5 reels. Admission 10 cents adults, 6 cents children under 14. Doors 7 pm, Sunday matinee 3 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. Chaplin
Miriam Nesbitt
Marc MacDermott
Sally Castleton
Ham
San Diego
Vitagraph
Eastland
Riverdale Theatre Program Highlights and Features
The Riverdale Theatre lineup lists Priday The Victim a 3 act drama and Charlie Chaplin in 72 acts plus films including The Pride of The Sea The Guiding Light Hearts and Swords and By Whose Hand American two reels. Ed Coxen Winifred Greenwood star in The Show Down and The Home Breaking Hound. Diamond From The Sky Beautiful Love Fay Fincher. Matinee Sunday 3 pm Evening 7 pm Admission 5 and 10 cents. Conrad era Prop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Priday
Charlie Chaplin
iSaturday
Liame
Ed. Coxen
Winifred Greenwood
Iatty
Minnie He
Keystone
Garret
Fay Fincher
Conrad Era
Village Board Notes From August 1915 Meeting
Board discusses license fees from Bergoff Piew ing Co and beer deliveries, street lamp upgrades to incandescent, drainage fixes for leaks and cave-ins, new catch basins, alley cleanliness and waste boxes, Indiana Harbor R R night watchman, sidewalk completion, hydrant painting, and health rules enforcement. Secretary instructed to bill Pullman Co. for weed cutting. bonds for Carl Wulff approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bergoff Piewing Co
Lotz
Diehl
Homewood
South Holland
Stieman
Hight
Dbiandt
Sellin
138Th Street
Atlantic Avenue
New Street
Indiana Harbor
Secretary
State Board OF Health
Springfield
Ill
L. Diehl
Riverdale
Linois
Clair Drake
M.D
Pullman Company
Kent
Carl Wulff
Bill Bock
First National Bank
Dalton
August Grapenthien Sr. Dies at Dalton after 2 Years
August Grapenthien Sr a longtime Dalton resident died in July 1822 age 71 born in Germany March 19 1851 emigrated to America in 1868 worked as a mason married Frida Ebert March 19 1876 in Homewood then Richton Park and St Charles Mich later settled in Dolton family includes widow three sons August Carl Henry, daughters Elizabeth Vegus Freda Kopp, three sisters fifteen grandchildren one great grandchild Funeral held Tuesday August 3 Rev Hoffmeister of Immanuel Church officiated Interment Oakland Cemetery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
August Grapenthien
Dalton
Ld Jenes
Kaseke Bereich Steline Christ
Germany
America
Chicago
Frida Ebert
Homewood
Richton
St. Charles
Mich
Dolton
August
Carl
Henry
Riverdale
Elizabeth Vegus
Wisconsin
Freda Kopp
Roseland
John Finke
Dulus Dylvester
Lena Evert
Hoffmeister
Immanual Church
Oakland Cemetery
On the Ridge Nellie Panard Injured by Wagon Wheel
Nellie Panard a Hegewisch girl assisting with onion harvest had her foot caught in a wagon wheel. Nick Leensvaart was transporting about 40 children when the accident occurred. Nellie’s knee was lacerated and she was taken to St. Margaret's Hospital Hammond where she is recovering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie Panard
Hegewisch
Nick Leensvaart
Nellie
St. Margaret’s Hospital
Hammond
Also Mentioned on This Page
Homewood News
Globe News
Outh
Holland News
Chicago Street
Ieekied
Riverdale Theatre
W. PB
M. J. Strubbe
D.D.S
Lues
Gus. Nordhoff
Indiana Ave
August Grapenthien, Sr
Berger School
al Steinko
Schwab’s
Peter Ripley Company
Riverdale & Dolton
General Merchandise
Eave
Thornton and
Bremen Township
Harvey Rig W
Bate’s
James Bates
Prop
Harvey
Illinois
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