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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1914
Page
1
The Riverdale village board met Friday July 3 to approve Inabor bills and discuss macadamizing Wabash avenue and Atlantic street. Minutes note routine payments, tax levy approval, lighting issues, sewer plans, street repairs, and requests for engineer guidance.
Matter referred to the water committee regarding paint on hand for the tank with Chicago Bridge & Iron Works doing the work free of charge. Hall-Local No 20 Truck Gardeners and Farmers Association granted use of Village Hall Saturday evening July 18 at usual charge. Health-Trustee Diehl reports the chicken yard on 137th Place not moved. Trustee Unruh orders 10 days notice to property owner. Village Collector Wilkens says several breweries have not taken out peddiers license. Chief Baumgartner instructed to enforce license collection or arrest. Communications Clerk reads Pullman Land Association request to cut Canada Thistles on company land and bill. New business Trustee Lotz asks Clerk to check with Sanitary District about power for pumping station.
Primary petitions list candidates for Seventh District Senate and Representative seats from Democratic Republican and Progressive parties. County Commissioner races show Republican and Progressive nominees from multiple towns with several Democratic contenders named.
Local No 20 invites members to a July 18 1914 meeting at Riverdale Village Hall. The Sugar Beet Committee will report and the secretary will distribute the association’s annual reports. Simon P Schoon president Frep A Bacumann secretary.
The W R C hosts a bakery sale at Village Hall on Saturday July 18 at 2 PM. Silver Leaf Pleasure Club plans a Dillner’s Grove picnic on Sunday July 26. Labor Day parade and picnic at Dillner’s Grove with Brickmakers Local No 5. Immanuel Church Sunday School picnic at Horn’s Grove July 19. Ed Dillner to host a benefit picnic for Wm Miller at Dillner’s Grove August 2. Woodmen Moose notes mention Billy’s illness and a call to help. Our Saviors Sunday School picnic was a recent success with ideal weather.
Community notes from Riverdale recount visits by Prof Herman Jonas of Concordia College and Mr Henry Jonss’s 50th anniversary, several travels to Wisconsin and Indiana, local gatherings, Elks picnics, a case of domestic violence stirred by a neighbor report, business shifts in real estate, and upcoming clinic by Dr Martin Bird with a church picnic at Gardner Park.
Ridge Notes Mrs Williams and Mr Francis of Hammond visited the A W Meyer family last week. Rev Schuurman of South Holland will preach at the German M E church on Sunday July 19 at 10 30 am. Rev Schuurman will also preach Sunday evening. Miss Alta Meyers stays with the Boyse family in Hammond this week. F C Propper lost a Jersey cow due to poison. Mrs Wm Gentry called home due to her husband’s illness. Lilly Waterman of Chicago visiting relatives here. Charles Rowe of Champion Iowa visiting Fred Engel and family.
Mrs. Augusta Schabloske wife of Ro man Schabloske of Dalton died Tuesday July 14 aged 47 years two months after illness. Funeral services were held at the home and the remains shipped to LaCross Indiana for burial. She leaves husband two daughters Mary and Lena and one son Felix. She was a good neighbor and friend whose death saddened acquaintances.
Do It Now Subscribe for stock in the 6th series of the Dalton Riverdale Building and Loan Association. The stock is a safe investment with a good rate of interest. All loans are secured by first mortgages on real estate. The association has 130 satisfied members. Horace Holmes, Secretary.
Mrs. Klein was struck and killed by a C. and E. U. suburban train while crossing tracks at 133rd street near the Pullman switch in Riverdale. She left behind a seven month old baby and was en route to work on the John Evers farm. The engineer did not stop and the motive of the accident remains under investigation.
New York dispatch reports Chicago aldermen reviewing a proposed law to ban treating in bars. The plan would require patrons to pay for their own drinks and prohibit buying for others, aiming to curb liquor profit by mirroring other cities’ rules.
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