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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1911
Page
5
The Immanuel Evangelical Church invites members to a special Christmas program and January 7 anniversary celebration marking 25 years. Services listed include German and English Sunday School and New Year’s Day morning service with plans for the full program to be announced next week.
Dolton M. E. Church posts December 24 morning and evening services with revival through January 7. Miss Maud Robinson assists. Sunday School at 9 45. Junior League at 3 00 pm. Aid group meets 2nd and 4th Thursdays. choir practice Friday. teachers meeting Wednesday. young ladies meet Sunday at 3 00 pm. Rev W E Cissna is pastor.
In Dalton and Riverdale communities church schedules list St Marys Catholic first mass at 8 00 am then 10 30 am with Rev W VerHaven. Dutch Reformed Park Ave Dalton has services 9 30 am 2 pm, Sunday school 3 30 pm and Young Peoples meeting 7 30 pm led by Rev Joan W Tepaske. Our Saviors English Evangelical Lutheran Riverdale notes Bible School at 2 15 pm and catechetical class at 3 30 pm, New Years Eve sermon by Pastor Kabele with final charter members reception. four new members joined last Sunday as Rev Geo P Kabele presided.
The tale follows Sandy and his master as they miss a station and a special train. Sandy quips that neither the master’s train nor their intended train fits, remarking that the train they are on has already passed by. The anecdote highlights quirky speech and libertarian impatience with others restricting rights.
A letter to The Pointer urges local residents to buy locally and support hometown merchants. The writer argues shopping abroad harms community businesses, notes local shops stock well and offer fair prices, and calls out out of town bakery deliveries as unfair competition. He asks business men to set a good example and support locally produced goods.
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