Water Works and Fire Discussions Dominate Riverdale Board Session
Riverdale board met Tuesday evening with full attendance. Committees reported on Red Cross membership, water main delays on State street, frost damage, and a noted leak. Fire plugs, drainage, and a meter relocation request were discussed as officials approved bills and rescheduled the next meeting to December 36.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverdale
Red Cross Society
Sam
Kaytee Diehl
Hyatt
Wentworth Avenue
Stieman
L. E. Reich
R. Moench
Atlantic Street
Unruh
State Street
Diehl
Water Committee
Earl Rosenthal
Village Main
Indiana Harbor R. R
Indiana Harbor
Halsted Street
The
Grand Army
Kollar
Dickelman
St. Luke's Court
Public Service Co
Riverside
City of Chicago
Eshats Iy
Standard Oil Co
Grant Bros
Eile Eerste
Lds Aye Beaiy
Carl Krause
Strosinski
del Co
Chicago ‘Telephone Co
O. Bergold
Douglas
A.C. Reich
Frank Seestadt
A. Strosinski
Receeelataeks
Otto Paul
Pes Abelileles Xlefe
Mrs
O. V. Huntley
Local man honored as Cook County Press Club president
Carl P. Morgan editor of the Calumet Index was elected president of the Cook County Press Club at the annual election held last Saturday. Morgan is well connected with city and suburban newspaper men and has worked for Hearst papers. He still writes for the Calumet Index and the Chicago Examiner. Gus G. Martin Northwest News became vice president, John Phillips Chicago Telegraph treasurer, Ki. E. Dodge secretary.
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Carl P. Morgan
Calumet Index
Cook County Press Club
Morgan
Calumet
Hearst
Bryan
Taft
Wilson
Chicago Examiner
Gus G. Martin
The
Northwest News
John Phillips
Chicago Telegram
Ki. E. Dodge
Benson Wins Alienation Suit for 10000 Dollars
Christina A. Benson of Thornton township won a $10,000 judgment for alienation of affections against Mary Nelson, the housekeeper to Nils C. Benson. The jury verdict was read in Judge Walker's court, but the defendant Mary Nelson had reportedly left for Sweden.
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N. C. Benson
Thornton Merchant
Sweden
Christina A. Benson
Thornton Township
Mary
Local community notes full of peuple and events
The December 14 sugar campaign ends at Pope Beet Sugar Works after a short season due to light tonnage. Travis Nairn will join Columbus Ohio's ordinance department, recovering from appendicitis last summer. Horace Holmes tours the west and reflects on California living. Henry Mohr Sr. loses fingers at Riverdale Rolling Mill. Andrew Beil dies in Chicago after fifty years, funeral at St Nicholas Roseland. A school entertainment and a birth note mark December activities.
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Pope Beet Sugar Works
Travis Nairn
Columbus
Ohio
Trav
See
Uncle
Sam
Henry Mohr, Sr
Riverdale
Bowen
A. Maladden
Mac
Pope Beet Sugar
Ladies Aid of Our Savior’s Church
Alvin Wilkens
Death of Mrs. Gustav Schmidt Reported From California
Miss Alma Lund telegraphed Tuesday from Ocean Park California with the sad news of the death of Mrs. Gustav Schmidt. The Schmidt family were longtime Riverdale residents. Mr Schmidt ran a drug store at Indiana Avenue and 137th Street for over twenty years. He was brother to the late Dr Schmidt. The family moved to California about eleven years ago.
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Alma Lund
Ocean Park
California
Gustav Schmidt
Gladys
Schmidt
Indiana Avenue
137Th Street
Dr. Schmidt
Riverdale
Red Cross Drive Warms Hearts with Dollar Membership
The Red Cross Society extends a membership drive urging immediate support. A single dollar earns one year of membership, emphasized with a call to join now to aid patriotic work and help those in need.
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The
Red Cross Society
Christmas Seals Drive Urges Public Support
A field nurse may visit homes to examine tuberculosis patients and is funded by Christmas seals sold yearly for one cent each. In Cook County only four nurses serve eighty needed, so readers are urged not to turn them away and to buy seals at all public sale points.
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Cook County
Death of Robert Waddell of Dalton
The obituary notes the sudden death of Robert Waddell in Dalton on December 6 1917 at age 58 years 2 months and 23 days. Born in Belfast Ireland he married Maury Iee Shanks on December 25 1881 and left six children two grandchildren and two sisters. Funeral services were conducted December 10 1917 at the Dalton M E Church with burial at Oakwoods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Waddell
Dalton
Mr. Waddell
Belfast
Ireland
Arnold
A. A. McCracken
Harvey Masonic Lodge
Oak Woods
Dolton Band Concert Tuesday At South Holland Village Hall
The Dolton Concert Band plans a concert at South Holland Village Hall on Tuesday evening. Oscar Bachmann has enlisted in the Aviation Corps in St Louis and will depart for Texas training soon. His brother Adolph serves in the infantry at Camp Grant as part of the Bachmann family, with their parents Mr and Mrs Wm Bachmann noted. Onion set grower ad seeks share of crop and local classifieds list various items for sale including heater, stove, furniture, and household goods at Kramer address 15936 Park Avenue Harvey.
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Dolton
South Holland Village Hall
Oscar Bachmann
Aviation Corp
St. Louis
Texas
Adoph
Camp Grant
Wm. Bachmann
Victor Windsor
Inquirer
Kramer
Park Avenue
Harvey
War Savings Certificate Drive Led by Riverdale Postmaster
Postmaster William C. Carlile appoints Supr udentdent Grange of Riverdale station to oversee War Savings Certificate and Thrift Stamps distribution in Chicago district. Campaign aims to raise 16.40 per person. notes 100,000,000 backer and 4 percent quarterly compound return. explains 25 cent stamps and thrift cards, 16 stamps per certificate, registration optional, Grange available for questions.
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William C. Carlile
Supr Udendent Grange
Riverdale Station
Indiana Avenue
Chicago
United States
Notice of Sale of the Berger School Building
Public notice states that on December 22, 1917 the trustees of Township 36 Range 14 will sell at auction the Berger School building and sheds on the site in section 11 Thornton Township Cook County Illinois. Sale hours 2 to 8 pm. Terms require 10 percent cash and balance within thirty days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. D
Trustees of Schools of
Township No
Berger
Thornton Township
County of
Cook
Illinois
German becomes American citizen after naturalization
A Chicago note explains that upon naturalization an alien takes an oath renouncing prior allegiance and pledging to support the U S Constitution. If kept faithfully, the naturalized person is an American citizen pure and simple, even if born German.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States
H. Muller
Why We Fight Address to National Army
Secretary McAdoo urges soldiers that service defends democracy freedom and national rights won by ancestors valor. He frames the fight as protecting America’s ideals and the torch of Liberty for the world and at home.
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Ito
America
McAdoo
National Army
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RED Cross
Riverdale Board
Pires
Ale Reich
Immanuel Church
Steger
Horace Holmes
West
Holmes
Oregon
Huntington Beach
Los Angeles
Pacific
Mr. Holmes
Andrew Beil
A. O. Garry
Oberlahnstein Am Rhine
Germany
L. O. Gairy
Sophia Beil
Karl Beil
St. Nicholas Church
Roseland
St. Maria’s Cemetery
Dolton Theatre
Mary McAlister
Red Cross Drive
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