Riverdale Board Briefs Address Bridge Delay and Alarm Plans
Riverdale board reports Halsted street bridge won’t open for traffic for about a month. Fire alarm system discussed with Gamewell favored at about 500 dollars and five boxes. Sunday ball playing debated with allowance contingent on conduct. adjournment set for August 29.
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Halsted Street
John Willig
Calumet Township
Bowse
Chicago Board of Improvement
Indiana Avenue
Reich
Blue Island
Hammond
Chicago Heights
Logan
Fire and Water Committee
Hall Trameister
Itall
Tealth
Ludwig
Illinois Central
O. K.d
Finance Committee
Neimeyer
St Marys Catholic Church Opens Mission by Franciscan Fathers
St Marys Roman Catholic Church begins a mission by Franciscan Fathers Rev Daniel and Rev Damian O F M with a First Mass at 10 30 High Mass sermon for Mission at 10 30 and 3 Vespers and benediction at 7 30 pm daily schedule to be published by the missionaries John Verhoeven Dalton village attorney visited relatives in Iowa last week
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St. Mary’s Roman Catholic
Daniel
Damian O. F. M
A. Riss
John Verhoeven
Dalton
Iowa
Local notes from Dalton area report visits and events
Locals Oswald Oberdobel and Miss Kate Bergold visit Grand Haven and Freeport while Wm Rampke returns as clerk for L. E. Reich. Emily Claussen returns from Michigan as Highlawn Hose Co hosts a second dance. A parade is urged for organized labor supporters next Monday. A ladder climb contest at the Firemen’s Picnic is won by Andy Messerschmidt and hose coupling by Henry Koehncke.
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Oswald Oberdobel
Grand Haven
Mich
Kate Bergold
Highlawn
Freeport
Wm Rampke
L. E. Reich
Andy Messerschmidt
Dalton
Henry Koehncke
Tony Strosinski
W. Schwantke
N. Franke
Policeman Shot While Pursuing Car Thieves
Officer Ed Brink on night beat at Riverdale was shot in the lower body by one of three thieves stealing a car near the Illinois Central yards at Wildwood. He identified the suspects, arrested them, and staggered to the station before dying of his injuries.
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Ed. Brink
Riverdale
Illinois Central
Wildwood
Kensington
Dalton
South Side
Brink
Ten chicken thieves and Dan Samson in a Mississippi sermon
An old Mississippi anecdote recalls a preacher bold in calling out theft. Representative John Sharp Williams recounts the minister’s quip about “ten chicken thieves” and Dan Samson, which provoked Samson’s threat of violence. The dispute was settled when the preacher offered a public retraction correcting the count.
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Mississippi
John Sharp Williams
Dan Samson
Samson
Ifarpor’s Weekly
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Chicago
Mrs
Hannah Simnick
John Stamborsky
the Highlawn
West
138Th Street
Louis Krueger
Albert Krueger
Krueger Brothers
Wm. Dillner
Lincoln Avenue
Indiana R. R
Dolton
Illinois
American Wall Paper Company
A. J. Brookfelt
H. Noble
Riverdale Board
Goos
Bune
Pope
138Th
Tilmois Central
137Th
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Emily Claussen
Michigan
Highlawn Hose Co
John Boyens
Edmund and
Albert
Beecher
Ill
Geo. Tuck
Nicholas Simon
Dalton State Bank
The
Dolton State Bank
Theresa Hauck
Doctor Hauck
Henry Fordtran
Frank Fones
Moline
Davenport
Organized Labor
Florence Marks
Mabel McCarthy
John Baumgartner
Burgold
Cedar Lake
Ind
Alban P. Reich
Jeweler
Paul Schafer
Edelweiss Buffet
Kalamazoo
New Orleans
Salt Lake City
St. Paul’s Ev. Lutheran Church
Wm. McBride
Orange County
Indiana
Mr. McBride
EF. O.bergold
Edward H. Brink
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