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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1930
Page
2
The church announces German services on Dec 14 at 9 30 a m and 7 80 p m with a sermon on doubts and prayer. English Sunday school at 9 30 a m. Advent midweek German service Dec 17 at 7 80 p m led by Rev G Elbert from Calumet City. Pastor W J Kemnitz invites all to hear and trust the Sure Word of God.
Our Saviours English Lutheran Church invites all to Sunday Bible school at 9 50 a m worship at 10 30 with sermon The Works of Jesus Junior League meets 6 45 p m Young People Luther League topic Religious Arts Mary Wurst leads Children and Young People Christmas program before Dec 24 at 7 50 p m Christmas morning service at 6 a m Intermediate Young People feature led by Mrs Voorhees Annual Congregational meeting after morning service January 4 1931 Election of officers and five councilmen for two year terms Edw A Voorhees pastor.
Sunday school for all ages at 9 45 morning worship titled Atonement Regeneration and Salvation at 11 prayer band visits the sick at 2 30 B P U for young people at 6 30 evening service The Truth About Divine Healing at 7 30 prayer meeting Wednesday 7 30 choir practice Friday 8 Rev E Sampson pastor You are welcome.
The Board of Local Improvements of Dolton Illinois invites sealed bids for a sewer system on Lincoln Avenue in Dolton Cook County Illinois. Bids due December 23 1930 at 8 00 p m at the Village Hall. Bids must be on prescribed blanks with 10 percent bid security and certified by a bank. The board may reject any or all bids. William G Dolton Secretary.
The Junior High School set a Christmas party for Friday December 19 using the auditorium and gym. Boys pay ten cents for ice cream and help buy a large Christmas tree. Girls form a committee with cake candy cookies and sandwiches. Each student will bring two names for presents and Santa will distribute them. The Parent-Teacher Association is invited.
A Junior High geography unit covers Europe Asia southern lands and community civics with unit divisions and end tests. The eighth grade studies southern lands while ninth graders study civics. The P T A reports 111 members with 65 new joiners and plans a January play and Christmas carol practice with multiple grade participation.
Holidays draw near at Chicago Street School with a December 17 Christmas program at 8 o'clock in the Lincoln Avenue auditorium. Primary grades present a Mother Goose play and intermediate grades perform BettyTane s Christmas Dream. The PTA meets December 12 at eight. Father s Night features Dolton Tropp of Boy Scouts and Robert G. Davis from Chicago Heights with refreshments after.
Pupils stay busy with a Christmas play drills and orchestra. Mr Stutzriemn made a baton and Miss Hedtke ordered orchestra bells. Students create presents for parents. Second grade pupils scoring 100 in spelling include Betty Mills Leona McDonald Wayne Prill. Arithmetic 100s include Leona McDonald Jay Morris Robert Gallegos.
Irene Engelhardt reports Room 2 practices the Snowman Drill for Christmas and notes a new girl, Gunda Carlson from Aurora, Illinois, joining third grade.
The 7th and 8th graders earning 100 percent in spelling last week were May Jay Ernest Jay George Madison Irene Engelhardt Dolores Ripley Lilian Dengler Woodrow Carson Gladys Gerloff and Evelyn Nimtz. In cooking class seven girls attended while others went to the aquarium. they prepared cocoa and cookies between graham crackers and then had lunch.
Dolores Ripley reports Riverdale Troop No. 1 Girl Scouts busy making Christmas gifts. Some girls paint oil cloth pillows, others paint pictures on glass as they race to finish before Christmas. Afterward they plan new projects.
The item notes a composer earning twenty thousand dollars for a new jazz song while the spouse vows a claim to fifty years. It reflects light humor on income and marital dispute.
A lighthearted exchange has a bride asking about carpet cleaning, a hostess suggesting her husband is the best cleaner. The bride complains she may need a new fur, noting she bought it not quite two seasons ago. The husband recalls the fox wore it three years.
A brief note states shepherds were the first to visit the Christ Child while the Wise Men arrived three days later according to the edible.
A towering thermometer stands at the German museum in Vertoh, noted as the world’s largest. The feature draws visitors and highlights scientific display on temperature measurement.
A flotilla of walnut logs sunk 49 years ago in the Big Muddy has been recovered near ylurphishboro Alabama. Inspectors found a raft of logs in good condition with over 75000 feet of select walnut lumber. The timber belonged to a Cairo timberman who started the raft down river and vanished in a storm. Logs were valued at ten dollars per thousand feet at the time.
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