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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1927
Page
3
Fragment describes how birds were hunted and nearly wiped out, noting forest fires shortened their roosting areas. It mentions Egyptian wall drawings from tombs showing fishing scenes with hook and line used by commoners, while Nile sport was spear or trident.
Delton Dolton Nos. 10 Noties informs all interested that a certificate showing cost and interest, and a statement of substantial conformity to the ordinance, has been filed in Cook County Court. A hearing to determine truth of the certificate will be held July 16, 1927 at 10:00 AM. Objections and defenses may be filed or presented. July 1, 1927. WM S Gentry Secretary Board of Local Improvements Dolton Cook Co Ill. July 1-8
The Board of Local Improvements of the Village of Dolton announces in Cook County Illinois that they have filed in the County Court an assessment and statement claiming substantial conformity to the original ordinance. The notice is dated July 1 1927 and sets a ten o clock A M appearance in court. The secretary signs the notice.
Dolton No 17 sons and the Board of Local Improvements of Dolton village filed in Cook County Court a certificate showing the cost of work reserved for interest and that the improvement was constructed in substantial conformity to the original ordinance. The filing date is July 1 1927 at 10 a.m. by the secretary of the board.
Dolton No 20 Dolton filed in the County Court the cost of work the amount reserved for interest and a statement that the improvement has been constructed in substantial conformity to the original ordinance. The hearing is set for the first day of July A D.
Dolton No 30 trustees ordered paving with a seven inch concrete slab and improvements on Kanawha Avenue from 138th Street to Catalpa Lane Catalpa Lane from Kanawha to Park Avenue 138th Place from Kanawha Avenue to Clark Avenue pavement widths set 31 feet on Kanawha and 138th Place and 25 feet on Catalpa Lane the ordinance on file with the Village Clerk and a Cook County assessment sought for cost according to benefits
The rate of six percent per annum is specified with the final date July 18 1927 at ten o clock a m or as soon after as the court can proceed. All persons may file objections and may appear at the hearing. Joseph L Locher Commissioner dated Dalton Illinois July 1 1927.
Dolton No 31 states an ordinance to pave Forest Avenue from 138th to Lincoln with a 7 inch slab and 31 feet wide. The village has requested Cook County Court to assess costs by benefits, payable in ten annual installments at 6 percent interest. Final hearing is July 18, 1927 at 10 AM.
No 32 authorized the construction and connection of vitrified tile pipe sewers on Adams Jefferson Monroe and Pennsylvania Avenues in Dalton Illinois with six inch diameter lines to a line ten feet from front lot lines. Assessments according to benefits total payable in five annual installments at six percent interest. Final hearing set for July 18 1927 at 10 A M.
Berlin reports German foreign minister Herr Stresemann telling the Reichstag Germany seeks peaceful relations with France as an equal partner. He urged evacuation of the Rhineland per Versailles terms and rejected renewed concessions or military control while denying threats to French security. He questioned Poincare’s aims on Ruhr or Locarno and denied Russian coalitions.
The Dalton Village Board orders vitrified tile pipe sewers six inches in diameter in Forest Avenue and Kanawha Street to public sewers, with connections to served lots. An assessment at 6 percent per year will be reviewed by Cook County Court with final hearing set for July 18 1927 at 10 a.m.
The Alexander City Outlook urges readers to devote their greatest concern to others to find happiness. The piece frames happiness as a spring that begins in ordinary life and in one’s own neighborhood. It emphasizes simple, neighborly acts as sources of joy.
Representative William R. Green arrived in Washington to confer with Secretary Mellon about tax cuts for 1928. He warned any surplus in the national treasury by June 30 would likely be too small for the large reductions seen in the last revenue bill. Green contrasts with Senators Edge and Reed who expect a surplus of over 300 million dollars.
In Medford Oregon Hugh Ray and Roy De Autremont confessed to holding up a Southern Pacific passenger and mail train in 1923 in the Siskiyou mountains and killing four trainmen. All three were sentenced to life in the Salem penitentiary. Ray and Roy pled guilty after Hugh confessed, with Hugh convicted of first degree murder and given life imprisonment recommendations.
An all day hunt by officers and Madison county citizens recaptured seven of thirty five long term convicts who escaped from Ferguson prison farm. The escape was the second large Texas break in ten days with twenty four Mexican convicts from another prison farm still at large.
W B Robinson formerly chief of the Washington division internal revenue special intelligence service was appointed chief investigator for the prohibition bureau. He succeeds Philip Hamlin who will return to Boston as assistant administrator.
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