Dolton Board approves paving 144th Street and traffic upgrades
Dolton trustees adopt a resolution designating 144th street as an arterial highway from Indiana to Chicago streets using motor fuel tax funds. The board may install a stop sign at Lincoln and Chicago, and grants permission for Volunteers of America to host a grant tag day. Insurance settlement for hydrant damage pending.
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144Th Street
Indiana Avenue
Chicago Street
Dolton Board of Trustees
Arthur E. Dillner
Ira J. Hastings
William Maurer
Frank Diekman
Charles Waterman
Dwight Watson
Lincoln Avenue
Edgar Bachmann
Volunteers of America
Benton Harbor
Mich
Diekman
H. L. Summerfield
Dalton
St Marys Church Carnival Ends Sunday With New Ride
St Marys church carnival runs tonight and tomorrow and closes Sunday with Pete’s Comic German Band Saturday and Sunday evenings. Sunday features a 1 pm Pinta Junior vs Garcia Moreno ball game and a softball match Chicago vs Riverdale Lumber Co. Town Tavern. A chair-o-plane ride debuts. 5 cent ride admission for children Sunday 2 to 5:30 pm. parade Monday evening led by Miss Rose Minigan and her two brothers drew attention.
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St. Mary’s
Pete
Pinta
St. Matthias Parish
John N. Weiler
St. Mary’s Church
Rose Minigan
Committee Plans Amusement Acts for Legion Homecoming Jubilee
Carnival actions unfold at American Legion Police and Fire Homecoming Jubilee with a midway stage nightly acts boxing bouts kittenball and softball games two fast local teams parade booths and a grand prize Frigid air at May s hardware parade on Sunday afternoon August 15 includes thirteen American Legion drum and bugle corps and many business entries expected to require an hour and a half for the parade to pass a given point
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American Legion, Police and Firemen
May
Riverdale
American Legion
Books Added to Dolton Library
New fiction titles join the Dolton WPA public library collection including Anthony Advent by Allen and Murder Goes to Colleges by Steele. Juvenile additions include Circus Boy by Bumi and Molly and Michael by Bourgeois. Library hours are noon to six daily except weekends.
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Dolton Wpa
Lincoln School
Rena Johnson
Anthony Adverse
Allen
Baldwin
Douglas
Yan and
Yin
Hobart
Whiteoak Harvest
de la Roche
Steele
Captain Blood
Sabatina
Grace Livingston Hill
Hill
Thunder Mountain
Grey
Drift
Circus Boy
Bumi
Little Fat Gretchen
Breck
Tommie
Puppie
Bryan
Little Dog Mack
Youmans
Corporal Carey
O’brien
Kipling
Thomas
Molly
Michael
Bourgeois
Plouf
Lida
Snappy Illinois License Plates For 1938
Secretary of State Hughes announced a new color scheme and design for 1938 Illinois plates. Bear white letters on green will replace the black and yellow of 1937 with Illinois 38 below the numerals. A contract for nearly two million plates was awarded to Hemp and Co. of Macomb. The year also saw 1,472,587 passenger cars registered early in the week, a new record, while full year 1986 registrations reached 1,459,195. License fee collections totaled 19,734,517, a new record, surpassing 1936 by 807,623.
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Springfield
Illinois
Hughes
Pasenger
Kind Engineer Garry Wins Publicity for Kindness
Chicago papers highlighted Louis Garry a C E I engineer from Dalton 147th street who once tossed flowers to ailing Mabel Dickson 11 near her home at 7022 Wallace avenue The gesture led to a front page Examiner photo and Tribune coverage as Garry briefly stopped his engine in front of the Dicksons home and the girl waved back a scene captured by reporters and photographers.
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Chicago
Louis Garry
147Th Street
Dalton
Examiner
Tribune
Mabel Dickson
Wallace Avenue
Garry
Dickson
Prepare To Open Schools Sept 7 For District 148
Students return to Lincoln Washington Franklin and Roosevelt on Tuesday September 7 after Labor Day with major upgrades. Exterior and interior painting completed new roofs sealed floors refurbished seats and new concrete entry platforms. A 250 by 150 foot drainage system at the Lincoln playground reclaims marshland with shade trees and gravel top. WPA labor funds the project, and teaching staff is already in place.
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Lincoln
Washinton
Franklin
Roosevelt
Lincoln School
Mrs H D Lentfer Struck By Auto In Blue Island Injury
Mrs H D Lentfer of 138617 Indiana avenue was struck Friday evening while crossing Indiana avenue near her home and is recovering at St Francis hospital Blue Island with a broken right leg in four places a fractured rib and a head cut. She received first aid from Dr Philip G Thomson before hospitalization. The vehicle was driven by Louis Fabric of 12549 Michigan avenue Chicago.
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H. D. Lentfer
Indiana Avenue
St. Francis Hospital
Blue Island
Philip G. Thomson
Len
Center Markers Placed on Lincoln Avenue
Illinois State Highway Department paints a white center stripe on Lincoln Avenue at Park Avenue and the railroad tracks. The double stripe on the double curve prevents traffic from crossing into wrong lanes. Center markers aim to improve safety at the jog.
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Illinois State Highway Department
Dalton Village Board
Lincoln Avenue
Park Avenue
Viaduct May Be Ready By Nov 1
The Independent Paving Company of Hammond advances the Sibley boulevard viaduct over the Chicago and Eastern Illinois tracks. Superintendent P Hintz says completion in three months with work resumed July 14 after a land suit settlement. Seven ton trucks move sand from Chicago Brick Company property. thirty men operate six days a week.
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Independent Paving Company of
Hammond
Sibley Boulevard
Chicago and Eastern Illinois
P. Hintz
Indiana Avenue
James Shilling
South Holland
Chicago Brick Company
Hintz
Chicago Road
Mrs Anna Walters Dies After Illness at 69
Mrs Anna Walters aged 69 died at St Francis hospital Blue Island after a months long illness. She was born in Stepnoja Russia on July 31 1868 and married to George Walters 49 years ago. Survived by husband two sons four daughters and many grandchildren. Funeral from Bachmann Funeral Home Dalton to St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Dalton. Interment Oak Glen cemetery. Riverdale resident for ten years.
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Anna Walters
East 134Th Street
St. Francis Hospital
Blue Island
Walters
Stepnoja
Russia
Conrad
Anna Horch
George Walters
Adam
Herbert
Riverdale
Anna
George Eurich
Fresno
California
Mary
Conrad Heinbach
Buchanan
Mich
Mollie
Leonard Mohr
Lansing
Pauline
Peter Freeling
Galine
Fred Horch
Bachmann Funeral Home
St. Paul’s Evan
Luthchurch
Dalton
Walter Kemnitz
Oak Glen Cemetery
Death of 14 year old Arthur Vorphal Jr at Riverdale
Arthur Vorphal Jr aged 14 of 18776 Leyden Ave Riverdale died at home at 3 a m from rheumatic heart disease. He was a St Mary's parochial school graduate last June. He is survived by his parents Mr and Mrs Arthur Vorphal two brothers Robert and Edward and three sisters Jean Joan and Carol Funeral services will be Monday at St Mary's church with Daniel Bachmann in charge of arrangements.
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Arthur Vorphal, Jr
Arthur Vorphal
Leyden Avenue
Riverdale
Arthur
St. Mary’s
Robert
Edward
Jean
Joan
Carol
St. Mary’s Church
Daniel Bachmann
Calumet River Boat Collision Sparks Swift Rescue
A speedboat driven by Louis Stein of 13227 Ashland Avenue collided head on with another boat under an Illinois Central bridge at 5 15 p m. Stein and his party rescued six people including three youths. The accident drew hundreds to the Wildwood Dexter Park area.
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Calumet River
Louis Stein
Ashland Avenue
Illinois Central Railroad
Stein
Gar Wood
Dexter Park
Wildwood
Chicago
George Stein
Alma May
Mr. Stein
Harvey
Will Hold Tag Day Saturday July 31 in Dolton
Dolton voters fundraise for Volunteers of America tag sale set for Saturday July 31 with local sponsors led by Revs Crocker Bassler Weiler and others. Mrs Jennie Stieman directs youths from village hall Dalton. prizes offered for top sellers and movie passes for workers. The VOA known for women children welfare and prison work led by Maud Booth aims to boost contributions.
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Dolton
Volunteers of America
Donald R. Crocker
Phil. H. Bassler
John N. Weiler
Lyle K. Klitzke
James McLaughlin
Herbert Slaughter
Frank Miller
Emily Ripley
Isabelle Dolton
Jennie Stieman
Dalton
General Ballington
Maud Booth
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Dolton Board
Legion
Mrs
Illinois Central Bridge
Red Heart
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