65th Anniversary Observed by St Pauls Lutheran Church
St Pauls Lutheran Church at 183th Street and Leyden Ave Missouri Synod celebrates its 65th congregation anniversary on December 11 with Rev G Elbert from Calumet City speaking and German service at 9 30 a m English at 10 45 a m Advent services December 14 at 7 30 p m led by Rev W Brauer from Hammond Ind. Pastor W J Kemnitz invites all to attend and reflect on 65 years of spiritual blessings.
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W. Brauer
Hammond
Ind
St. Paul’s
Our Saviours Ev Lutheran Church Services and Events
Our Saviour's Evangelical Lutheran Church at 188th Street and Wabash Ave announces Sunday school at 9 30 a m and morning worship at 10 30 a m every Sunday. For Advent the sermon is What is the church followed by a youth sermonette. Teacher Training Friday at 7 p m with choir. Christmas program scheduled for December 24 at 7 30 p m. Pastor Edw A Voorhees extends welcome to all.
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United Luth. Church In America
188Th Street
Wabash Ave
P.m. Our Saviour’s
Edw
A. Voorhees
Christmas plans at First Methodist Church
December 11 schedule includes Sunday school at 9 45 with classes for all ages and a 11 worship service with music and sermon. Epworth League meets 6 45 and 7 30 at evening service with delegates’ report. Bazaar and supper Friday 9 at 6 15. Apollo Duo appears December 14 as opener for Star Concert Series. Public welcome.
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Epworth League Society
Ladies’ Aid Society
Apollo
Dolton Boys Attend Conference in Rockford
Three Dolton boys Henry Franke Lester Dieck and Cornelius Klink hammer were delegates from Dolton churches and Y M C A Boys Clubs to the Illinois State Older Boys Conference held in Rockford over Thanksgiving. 1168 boys and leaders attended. Reports planned for Sunday school and church services on December 11 and at Y M C A Board of Managers meeting.
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Dolton
Henry Franke Lester Dieck
Cornelius Klinkhammer
Rockford
Glezen
Albot Beaven
Rochester
N. Y
Thomas Graham
Oberlin
Henry Franke
Methodist Sunday Schoolas
Lester Dieck
Sunda School
Emanual Lutheran
Unclear OCR Fragment Signals Language Contest Note
Fragmentary text mentions spelling contests and international events with garbled names and references to spelling tests and permits. Readable elements include mentions of contest themes and possible participants, but the piece remains largely indecipherable.
Bowen School Notes and Local Visits
The Domestic Science class receives a new stove from Mrs. Doolevert of Harvey. Mr. Allen of Thornton Township High plans to visit Bowen on Dec 8 to organize a band needing ten pieces. District No. 7 teachers met at Thornton Township High, so Bowen was closed. Manuel training boys welcome a visitor from Homewood on Thursday to observe work. Our motto remains Learn to do by Doing.
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Bowen School
Johner
Doolevert
Harvey,k
Allen
Thornton Township High School
Bowen
Manuel
Adair
Homewood, Ill
Lincoln Avenue School Kindergarten and Grade Christmas Plans
Local program notes at Lincoln Avenue School recounts forty four visitors for the kindergarten and Christmas preparations across grades. Students report on sewing, poetry, note book decorating, and party plans while eighth grade soccer ends 1 1 and mothers attend a meeting with performances by students.
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Lncoln Avenue School
Minnie Pals
Hazel Gardner
Pearl Cohen
Lincoln Avenue
Scotland
Carl Garry
Walter Kroon
Robert Maughn
James Miller
Kentucky
Tear
Egypt
Chicago Street School Second Grade Welcomes Jean Kaye
The second grade celebrates a new pupil Jean Kaye. Mise Praper and Mise Jurgensen accompanied Elbert Axtell to Cook County hospital on Sunday. The fifth grade notes Elbert will be home in about a week.
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Jean Kaye
Mise Praper
Mise Jurgensen
Elbert Axtell
Cook County Hapital
Elbert
Gasoline Two Cent Tax Case Upheld by Illinois Supreme Court
Illinois supreme court set December 16 for oral arguments in the Chicago Motor Club case challenging the two cent gasoline tax for motor vehicles. Attorney General Carlstrom will file a state brief. The Kane county circuit court had upheld the act. revenue is projected near a million dollars monthly for road construction.
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Springfield
Supreme Court
Chicago Motor Club
Illinois
Carlstrom
Circuit Court
Kane County
Department of Finance
Scout Meeting Canceled for December Ninth 1927
The Boy Scout notice states no meeting on Friday December 9 1927 while the scoutmaster is away. The next regular meeting is Friday December 16 1927 with a potential Christmas celebration. Patrol leaders should confer with the scoutmaster about offerings and bringing cats for the gathering.
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Palmer Park
Donald Mullen
Edward Ripley
John Kinney
Melvin Schroll
Vernon Strosinski
Lawrence Kanaga
Conrad Kern
Andrew Baumgartner
Thornton
Town that failed to live up to expectations
The Quindaro settlement founded in 1856 by New England free state supporters aimed to be a port of entry above Kansas City. Civil War desertion and later railroad progress left Quindaro abandoned, its warehouses decaying while memory recalls a misjudged dream of a future metropolis.
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Quindars
Missouri River
Kansas City
New England
Leavenworth
Union Pacific
Kaw Valley
Hannibal
Quindaro
Great Metropolis
Christmas Seals Aid to Tuberculosis Fund Opens
The first Christmas seals for the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute mail sale were bought by Louis B. Hambourger of 15 N Wabash Ave Chicago. Four hundred thirty five thousand letters with 100 seals each at one cent were mailed on Thanksgiving Eve.
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Chicago Tuberculosis Institute
Louis B. Hambourger
N. Wabash Avenue
Chicago
Illinois
London Guarantee Building
Hambourger
Christmas Seal Fund
Help Move Christmas Tuberculosis Seals Drive in District
In their own homes many share the view of the privilege of participating in the public health program funded by the Christmas seals against tuberculosis. Mrs. H. W. Slaughter chairs this district and asks helpers to push the drive over the top.
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H. W. Slaughter
Chalema
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pry. Paul's Lutheran Church
W. J. Kemnitz
OUR Saviour’s Ev, Lutheran Church
First Methodist Church
Chicago Street School
Boy Scout
Town
The
Oaklawn Cemetery Association
Dalton
First National Bank of
Twin City Garage General Auto
Goodyear and
Fish Tires
Philco
National Lead
N. W. Monk
J. L. Locher
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