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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1924
Page
8
South Holland announces August 24 services with Rev. Teunis W. Muilenberg and Rev. Teunis E. Gouwens delivering sermons. Also notes a sudden death at the Van Drunen home age 64 with funeral arrangements, family updates, and local notices including sales and shopping.
Bills for The Pointer have been mailed to South Holland subscribers to update accounts. Many families share similar names. Those who have paid and hold receipts need not worry. Receipts showing full credit will be issued soon. The paper is payable in advance and about 90 percent of subscribers pay in advance. we seek only those in arrears.
Notice to sealed proposals for 2600 feet of cement sidewalk along State Street and 155th Street in South Holland Illinois to be let August 30 1924 at 7 30 PM at Village Hall. Plans on file with Trustee John Shilling Jr. Village reserves right to reject bids. Dated August 19 1924. Harry P DeYoung Village Clerk.
Barrington veterinarian Gieseke reports a Sutton place cow on Dundee road died this week from hydrophobia after a skunk bite three weeks earlier. Initial symptoms appeared to warn farmers. later findings substantiated the claim. Cook County Farmer credits warning to this case.
Funeral services for Rev. P. Braak were held at the 1st Reformed Church in Lansing with several pastors assisting. He served over twenty years in Chicago South Dakota Iowa and Michigan and as Domestic Missionary. He died after a serious illness and the body rests in the church cemetery. A bungalow is planned for Mr. Cornelius Vroom of Munster Indiana who will wed one of the local young ladies.
Bernice warns residents to move people animals and vehicles off the public highway or risk being rolled flat. The 167th Street bridge is open, Torrence Avenue work requires closing to traffic while Dahlman’s area is being realigned to align with the new bridge.
Mr. John IntHout and family return from Iowa and will settle permanently in Oakglen. Ralph Boyd moves to Dallas Texas to establish himself. Oakgen locals are urged to value his worth as Dallas residents come to know him. Botma couple vacationed in Holland Michigan. Albert Johnson hosts weekends at Long Lake with a cozy restaurant he runs.
Ridge residents Mr and Mrs I R Morris of Pasadena California visited local families then toured the Dakotas Iowa and nearby areas by auto. The trip included a Waterloo Iowa cloudburst causing crop and stock loss and several drownings. Walter Beckleman recovered from an injury and James Diekman broke a leg but is mending.
On Saturday MoLton films feature Sessue Hayakawa in The Danger Line with The Fast Express final chapter. Sunday offers By Divine Right with Elliott Dexter, plus The Telephone Girl and William Tells. Tuesday and Wednesday August 26 27 present The Rejected Woman with Alma Rubens Conrad Nagel Wyndham Standing, and a Fight and Win picture Society Knockout starring Jack Dempsey.
Saturday features Leo Maloney in Payable on Demand and Our Gang comedy No Noise. Sunday presents Antonio Moreno and Estelle Taylor in Tiger Love and the opera The Wheat. Wednesday and Thursday offer Daring Years with Mary Carr Mildred Harris Charles Emmet Mack Tyrone Powers a tense drama of youth and folly.
In Australia at least twenty species glide using a membrane from front to hind legs. Birds such as emus and cassowaries cannot fly, relying on their legs for movement. The flying squirrel is praised as one of the world’s most beautiful mammals.
Report notes a trend in Mexico where many residents avoid street-address mail delivery, preferring rented post office boxes for receiving letters and parcels. Officials advise adjusting to the growing reliance on mailbox service and centralized mail handling.
The church invites readers to Sunday School at 9 30 a m and worship at 10 30 a m with Pastor P C Wike preaching on The greatest of all crimes is to reject Christ His Gospel and Salvation by Grace. Come reason together from inspired truth and secure saving grace in this life.
The Cook County Board of Assessors reports 1924 assessed valuations differ from 1923 across townships. Calumet rises from 4,825,412 to 5,009,625. Worth falls from 1,094,938 to 1,072,570. Bremen and Thornton show declines. Palos, Orland, and other townships post modest changes, totaling a net decrease of about ten thousand dollars.
A witty remark suggests memory tests in conversation by recalling a man’s pet ailment a year later. It contrasts this with a politician’s familiar opener asking about “the old complaint” to gauge recollection and rapport.
A slate tablet before Old North church in Boston marks John Childs first flying feat in this country. Childs in 1757 glided from a steeple in a crude harness, flying about 700 feet to the satisfaction of many spectators. The tablet, placed in 1923 by the Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames, commemorates both events.
Police seek an assailant who fired a 32 calibre revolver into Lino De Larosa, 38, of the Mexican colony near Rock Island tracks, as he slept last week. De Larosa, hospitalized at St Francis, previously survived a severe stabbing two years ago that severed his vital organs. He is not popular among fellow colony members.
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