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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1914
Page
1
Riverdale officials heavy with reports on street lighting drainage and paving projects. The council discussed replacing unreliable street lamps and delaying actions until a special meeting while appointing an expert to inspect power systems.
The board adjourned Thursday with all members present. Committees examined specifications for Wabash and Atlantic avenues improvement and sewer work on Atlantic from 139th to 180th street and recommended it proceed. Ordinances were read for the improvement and bids to be opened August 11. Pennsylvania Railroad filled in 185th Street approach in first class condition. Public Service Co. reports three men overhauling street lamps and significant lighting improvements.
Dolton Iroquois defeated Hammond 16 to 1 as a lively game from start to finish. The scoring by innings is listed with Dolton pushing ahead and Howell, Messersehmidt, and Albrecht starring in the battery. Next Sunday the Iroquois meet Western Star Athletics in Chicago as Association umpire oversees the game. Miss C Wagner of Burlington is visiting Mr and Mrs J O Nairn.
Professor and Mrs Louis A Harms hosted a July 25 anniversary party at the Dalto n home of Mrs Harms parents Mr and Mrs John Van Deursen with lanterns and a lawn lunch. News notes include a Democratic slate for clerks, a church parsonage sale for 3250, a doctor’s injury scares, ministers editing a local paper, a July 28 birth, a weasel vs. chicken tale, a divorce custody ruling, weekend trips, infant death, and other small community items.
Chicago July 25. In the Friend of the People column Thomas O’Connor the Fire Marshal explains the Illinois Central dump fires and water supply. He states only one engine was ever used at a time and July 23 engine 75 fought a large pile of railroad ties, with a private pipeline planned to supply water from the river to avoid depriving city residents of water.
The issue notes the opening chapter of a new serial The Governor's Lady by John Prille of Peoria IL. It covers the South End Business Men's Association annual outing at Flint Lake with about 150 members in a stag event. Participants toured Riverdale and Dalton. meals featured chicken dinners and German noodles. Further items include a county commissioner bid by Al Van Steenberg of Lansing, family travels to Detroit and Winnipeg, and condolences for C D Anderson.
Bids are invited to lay about 50 squares of 3 ply sand coated rubber roofing on the electric light plant building. Bids cover material and labor with 144 inch galvanized roofing nails. Seams to be cemented with asphaltum cement. Bids due August 38 1914 at 8 p m. Board may reject any and all bids. Wm G Dolton.
The piece weighs the Austro Hungary Serbia tension and the risk of a broader war among Germany Austria Italy versus Russia France England. It recalls Civil War casualties and urges leaders to use diplomacy to prevent wholesale bloodshed and a massive European clash.
Henry Miller escaped severe injury on a Tuesday night when a gasoline leak ignited in his boat house on the Calumet River east of the C.& E.L.I Bridge. The explosion destroyed the boat and house, valued at about 400 dollars, with no insurance. Miller suffered only minor burns. Firemen rushed to the scene but could not save the property.
All debtors and creditors to the estate of Ernest Rockrohr are asked to contact administrator A. W. Rockrohr at 6925 South Wabash Avenue Chicago Illinois to notify of their claims or debts and to present their accounts for settlement with the estate administrator.
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