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Newspaper

Riverdale Pointer

Location

Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Feb 17, 1928

Page

8

Local Spokane Area Social Notes Mark Birthdays and Parties

Lansing residents mark Neal Caauwe s 11th birthday with friends from Sherman Street. Laura Lorenz s 20th birthday celebrated with a surprise party at Oak Glen. Other events include birthday anniversaries, Valentine decorations, and church fund banco games across Oak Glen and Lansing communities.

Caauwe Sherman ‘Street Lansing Neal Caauwe William Lorenz Paul Lorenz Charles Cortum Oak Glen Laura Lorenz Bunce Edw. Coester Fred Hensley Russell Hensley Lawrence Triegle Arthur Lorenz Marvin Lorenz Miss Lorenz

Public Horse and Livestock Sale Near Chicago Heights

Public sale Saturday February 25 at 10 00 AM located half a mile north of Chicago Heights one block south of Joe Orr Road on the Dixie Highway featuring 4 head of livestock including 3 mares and 1 horse ages 5 to 9 weighing 1450 to 1500 pounds 4 cows 2 fresh with calf by their side and 2 to freshen soon 2 shoats and 2 dozen chickens Implements include 2 corn binders 1 grain harvester 1 hay baler 1 hay loader 1 side rake 1 grass mower 2 corn binders 1 grain harvester 1 tractor plow 1 gang plow 3 wagons 1 like new 5 ton scale 1 1000 lb scale 1 manure spreader 1 cream separator 1 Reo truck 1 gas engine 1 power washer 1 corn shelter 10 ton timothy hay baled 4 ton clover and timothy baled 14 ton mixed hay baled 1 Edison phonograph like new and many other articles Usual terms lunch served on grounds Fred Heusman prop Ames Gouwen Auct sale based timothy and clover hay Wm Paarlberg 167th St ile east of Chicago Road South nd Il

Chicago Heights Joe Orr Dixie Highway Fred Heusman Ames Gouwens

Joint meeting of farmers associations set for Feb 24

Notice to Farmers announces a joint meeting of the Cook County Farmers and Truckers Association Calumet Local 20 on February 24 at 2 PM in the hall of South Holland Illinois. The meeting aims to discuss interests of southern county growers. FRANK DIEKMAN Secretary. W H Martin advertises pianos tuning and repair at 15307 Avenue Harvey Illinois 22 tf

Cook County Farmers and Truckeners Association Calumet Local 20 E Hall South Holland Frank Diekman Vicinity W. H. Martin Avenue Harvey, Il

Legion Honors Past Leaders At Paul Gall Post Meeting

Thirty five Paul Gall Post members witnessed gold lapel button awards to seven past commanders and five past adjutants. Fourth District Commander Boyle presented the honors at a regular Legion meeting followed by lunch and music by Julius Nelson. A Riverdale Chicago fire station exhibit and a humorous Navy war question sparked lighthearted banter among members.

Paul Gall Post American Legion Boyle Robert Haney Andrew Garry Walter Bachman Edward Wirtz, Jr Arthur Propper Carl Maurer Riverdale-Chicago Stitzer Red” Boettger Lester Brookfelt 20Th Engineers Navy Brookfelt

Flags Presented to Berger School by Riverdale Dalton

Presented with two American flags, the Berger school received them Friday February 10 as a patriotic program led by Principal Logsdon and teachers. Relief Corps ladies attended and Mrs. Bessie Baumgartner presented the flags with Irene Vandenberg accepting for the school. The event featured fine musical numbers and readings on Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address, delivered in a patriotic and inspirational manner.

G. W. Spencer W. R. C Riverdale Dalton Berger School Logsdon Relief Corps Bessie Baumgartner Irene Vandenberg Lincoln

South Holland News Highlights and Local Celebrations

February 1928 notices celebrate a golden wedding open house from 2 30 p m to 9 p m for Mr and Mrs G Van Oostenbruggë. Marriages include Anna Mossell with Paul D DeYoung and Mary Ann Kramer with Sam VanderWal. A talk by Rev Allen Crabtree on secret orders is set at Second Christian Reformed Church. Birth announcements list seven newborns at Ingalls hospital and local families.

Mrs. G. van Oostenbrugg¢e Anna Mossell Paul D. DeYoung Second Christian Reformed Church E. Kooistra Myra Ravesloot Reinert VanderWal Mary Ann Kramer Sam VanderWal Allen Crabtree Chicago Leona Texas South Holland Parents- Teachers Association

Theatres Schedule With Westerns and Romances

The theatre presents Hoot Gibson in Galloping Fury and A Tidy Toreador by Peter B Kyne. Ken Maynard in The Wagon Show follows. John Gilbert stars in Man Woman and Sin, then Marion Davies in The Fair Coed with her Black Bottom flair.

Hoot Gibson Peter B. Kyne Ken Maynard John Gilbert Marion Davies

Riverdale Theatre Weekend Showings Offer Variety

Buck Jones in Whispering Sage and Masked Menace headline Saturday and Sunday matinee. An all star cast stars in A Flame in the Sky with melodrama and chorus. Midweek features D W Griffiths Sorrows of Satan with Adolphe Menjou and Lya De Putti, a modern epic of love and temptation.

Buck Jones D. W. Griffith Adolphe Menjou Richard Cortez Lya DePutti

The Love Mart and Anniversary Vaudeville at State Theatre

Matinee daily February 16 17 18 features The Love Mart with Billie Dove plus 38 big vaudeville acts. Sunday February 19 Mammoth program opens 6th anniversary with W C Fields and Chester Conkling in Two Flaming Youths and five vaudeville acts. February 20 21 22 Reginald Denny in Thats My Daddy as part of the celebration.

Love Mart Billie Dove W.C. Fields Chester Conkling Reginald Denny Daddy

Growers urged to grade onion sets under new Cook County contract

Resolutions adopted at a February 11 1928 joint meeting of locals 5 and 21 of the Cook County Truck Gardeners and Farmers Assn urge growers to grade or mill onion sets before delivery to prevent oversize sets from entering markets. The measure aims to align practice with the 1928 contract and improve market conditions. Wm Van Der Wolf secretary.

Cook County Cook County Truck Gardners and Farmers Assn Wm. van der Wolf Sec’y

In Memoriam for Charles Rose

In memory of my dear husband and our father Charles Rose who died one year ago Feb 14 1927 announced by Mrs Charles Rose and Children marking the family notice with dates and kin.

Charles Rose

In loving memory of our mother Anna Stanczik

In loving memory of our mother Anna Stanczik who left us eleven years ago today February seventeenth 1917. No one knows how much we miss her. Friends may think the wound is healed. But they little know the heartache that lies within our heart concealed. Her Children.

Anna Stanczik

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Chas. Schultz South Torrence Avenue Charles Schultz Fred Frank Henry Lange Lena Schmidt Annette Schmidt Frederick Schultz Walter Schultz Edw. Koehn Indiana Avenue The Epworth League of the Methodist Church Trinity Lutheran Church of Banco M. E. Ladies’ Aid St. Anne’s Catholic Church John Dockweiler Wilbur Raymond Geo. Lorenz Timothy and Clovay Wm. P. Paarlberg 167Th St Ile Chicago Road South Nd Gus Traub William Kuipers Roy Gouwers Henry DeBoer C. P. Paarlberg Ingall’s Hospital Anthony Vander Giessen John Klooster Theatre — An Riverdale Theatre State Theatre Michigan Avenue 110Th Place Daniel C. Bachman Lincoln Ave Dolton, Ill Dolton Memoriam California Pass Brothers Iil Wisconsin Theodore Koch Chicago Street Gladstone Webb’s Coffee Iowa Deyoung Bros South Holland, Ill Harvey
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