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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1913
Page
1
Dolton trustees address top binder on new concrete streets and pass several road and sidewalk measures. They withhold bid awards for village hall shingling and approve multiple bills while planning oiling of streets and weed control.
The Dolton board met Monday evening with Trustees Needles Dillner and President Dekelman absent. Trustee Pinger elected president pro tem. Rudolph Schaefer asked to extend paving Park Avenue 132 feet to street end. referred to Streets and Alleys committee. Drainage concerns for 144th Place to be flushed. street work to start soon. Weeds along streets reduced. Indiana Harbor Bell repairing Lincoln avenue crossing. supervision of concreting work left to Board of Local Improvements. Stanczik reports sidewalker issues.
Leo Commigore a machinist at Western Steel Car and Foundry Co died after a crane accident in Hegewisch. He fell eighty feet into scrap iron when an engineer misread a signal. An open verdict kept time for a possible suit under the Employers Liability Act. Mrs Commigore later died at home, leaving three children.
Peter Ripley Jr Bert Wise and Clarence Reynolds purchase new Indian motorcycles while Nicholas Kiink hammers a Thor in a casual neighborhood showcase of bikes and gear reflecting postwar enthusiasm for powered transport.
Meyer daughter of Mr and Mrs Frei Meyer of 21 KE. 138th Street Riverdale married Rev Alexander R Lembke in Blue Island last Sunday afternoon July 20. Officiants were Rev Lembke and Rev Dorman. Attending were Shimma Hawke Clara Stelter and Laura Dorman. A wedding dinner followed at the bride’s home. Honeymoon trip through the East then to Dickinson North Dakota where the groom is stationed.
Mrs. C. H. Rippe died at St James Hospital Chicago Heights on July 23 after gallstone surgery and myocarditis. She lived 24 years in Riverdale, known for hospitality, leaves husband C. H. Rippe and eight children, three sons and two daughters surviving. Funeral July 27 at St Johns Church Chicago Heights with burial at Oakland Cemetery.
The stork, famed for humor, returned with a pair of deliveries in the neighborhood. A tall bird near Berger and Propper's Corner and Dalton led to a baby girl at John Praise's on Sunday July 19, and a boy at Mr. and Mrs. William Wise's home, with another boy noted nearby on July 20.
The Dolton Theatre replaces Lund's Hall as a modern venue prioritizing comfort and safety. It features seating for over 500 in wide opera chairs with generous spacing, four exits with gas lighting, and a fireproof operating room. Manager J G Uruby announces improvements in projection for the best possible show.
The mounted police for the district began active service last Monday with Officers Hauberstein Gregersen and O Rysen. Three more men will be added later. They will cover Riverdale territory and the district to the north.
Mrs Edwin Ducett and her daughter Mary Alice of Ntarvey are visiting the Stewart family on Lilinois Street for a week making a short hometown social visit.
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