School Notes on Activities at Highlawn and Bowen Schools
A collage of school life from Highlawn and Bowen previews sewing and domestic science clubs, glee groups, class reports, and parent visitation prompts. It highlights Ivan Fisher joining Eighth Grade, YMC A poster prizes, sleigh rides, a hundred mile auto race won by Stanley Steam er, and calls for parental involvement in February conduct contests.
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Glee Club
Ivan Fisher
Ivan
West Pullman
Dwarfs
Bearcats
Tigers
Warriors
M. Snyder
Stanley Steamer
How They Saved the Fort Play Shown by Grades
The sixth and fifth grades presented a twenty character play Friday titled How They Saved the Fort directed by their teacher. Third and fourth grade girls started a sewing club with Miss Yeates. they meet on Thursdays. New books on the reading table include Lambs Tales from Shakespeare Carter Stories from Shakespeare and Lucy Fitch Perkins In the Days of Shakespeare.
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Miss Yeates
Lambs
Carter
Lucy Fitch Perkins
Bowen School Notes from Riverdale District 133
Late Palmer Method awards include Final Certificate Elaine Ohlsen Gold Stars Russell Rogers Edith Selis Anna Leichinger Eleanore Brady Silver Star Vernon Schaefer. Thanks to Miss Elizabeth Robinson for drawing and painting. Arthur Wilkens visited. Scouts participation noted. Eighth graders begin Vocational Arithmetic after completing Illinois State course. Desks added in Room One but enrollment grows. Room Two remains a larger challenge as seventh graders anticipate June 1927.
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Elaine Ohlsen
Russell Rogers
Edith Selis
Anna Leichinger
Eleanore Brady
Vernon Schaefer
Elizabeth Robinson
Arthur Wilkens
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
O. K
Acme Steel Posts Record Net Sales for 1926 Despite Lower Net Income
Acme Steel Company reports year end 1926 net sales of 9.196 million, a company high, while net income fell to 1.179 million or 6.89 per share from 1.493 million or 8.61 per share the prior year. Total current assets stood at 2.874 million with working capital of 2.075 million and cash of 126 thousand.
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Acme Steel Company
Illinois Railways Boost Passenger Traffic in 1926
Illinois electric railways carried 34,084,492 more passengers in 1926 than 1925, a gain exceeding one third of the total by 206 companies in the American Electric Railway Association. Illinois telephone lines added 90,000 new stations, while electric light and power firms gained over 100,000 customers. At year end 1926 Illinois railways operated 283 motor coaches, with 67 purchased that year. Traveler's Rest, Peoria's early hotel, dated to 1825.
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Ilinois
American Electric Railways Association
Illinois Telephone Companies
Traveler’s Rest
Peoria
Illinois
Illinois Electric Light and Power Companies
Illinois Electric Railway Companies
Loeb & Hammel Sell Acreage on Torrence Avenue
Loeb and Hammel sold 18 percent of an east Torrence avenue parcel near Lansing to Z. Mickevice for an undisclosed sum. Broker B. Jasudes and attorney C. K. Schwartz handled the deal. The lot adjoins a 17 acre tract they sold six weeks earlier as part of seven Torrence parcels totaling 236 14 acres. A. J. Jenette leads a Calumet City State Bank syndicate that bought 104 acres at the northwest Torrence and Glenwood Lansing road corner with no development plans announced.
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Loeb & Hammel
Torrence Avenue
Lansing
Mickevice
B. Jasudes
C. K. Schwartz
A. J. Jenette
Calumet City State Bank
Glenwood-Lansing Road
Churches Immanuel Evangel Church Service Schedule
The Church of Immanuel Evangelical announces Fifth Sunday after Epiphany worship times with English Sunday school and Bible classes at 9.30 a m English services at 10.30 a m and German services at 11 15 a m A cordial invitation to attend is extended The English Ladies Aid Sewing Circle meets Thursday Feb 10 at 2 p m in the church parlors
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Immanuel Evang
English Ladies’ Aid
Sewing Circle
St Pauls Lutheran Church Services Focus on Outreach
St Pauls Lutheran Church invites German service with holy communion at 10 a m on Feb 6 and English services with Sunday school. The other church offers morning worship at 10 30 a m with "Mountain Top Visions" and a pageant Feb 18 for foreign missions. Rev. Edward A Voorhees leads both congregations urging outreach and fellowship.
Jesus and Samaritans Meet at the Well Sermon
A Sunday sermon text focuses on John chapter four verses thirty one to forty two. Jesus speaks with a Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well and reveals his mission. The scene emphasizes belief, testimony, and the harvest of faith among locals.
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Jesus
Ralph Connor to Speak at Bethany Church Event
Renowned author Ralph Connor also known as Dr. Charles Gordon will address Bethany church at 111th Place and Perry Avenue on Monday evening February 28 under the Bethany Fellowship Club. The program begins at 8 00 p m with the church choir and J C Bovenkerk directing.
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Bethany Church
Ralph Connor
Chas. Gordon
D. D
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canada
111Th Place
Perry Avenue
Bethany Fellowship Club
Bethany
J. C. Bovenkerk
Dalton M. E. Church announces February services
The Dalton M. E. Church outlines February events with Sunday school at 9 45 a m and worship at 11 a m. Epworth League meets at 6 45 p m on the topic Where Crowded Ways of Life. Evening sermon by the pastor. Anniversary of reopening to be held February 13 with morning afternoon and evening services. Visiting ministers will deliver sermons. Sunday School Board meets Friday at 8 p m at the church parlors. Public welcome to all services.
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Dolton M. E
Epworth League Society
Dalton Methodist Church
Burglary at Whittier and Cary Schools Reported
The Harvey News Bee notes a fourth Whittier school break in four years and a second in three months. Thieves forced a door, disabled the safe, and scattered papers while stealing about nine dollars and 82 cents from pupils. Cary school was also looted that night, yielding twenty cents.
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Lincoln Avenue
Dalton
Bright
Harvey News Bee
Whittier
F. L. Miller
Cary School
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Lincoln Ave. School News
Columbus
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Riverdale, Dist
By Vivian Dickelman
Miss Hedtke
Mr. McKinney
L. B. Reich
Highlawn School News
Riverdale
Acme Steel Co
ST. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Leyden Ave
Missouri Synod
Christ
Sychar
United Luth
Church In America
138Th Street
Wabash Avenue
Heralds of Christ
Edw. A. Voorhees
Willys Knight
Willys- Knight
Knight
Willys-Knight
Willys-Overland, Inc
Toledo
Ohio
Willys-Knight Sixes
Kickert Auto
Harvey South Holland
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