Local Social Notes Highlight Summer Getaways and News
Dolton and nearby towns share a bustling social page with visits to Denver and Chicago, trips to Alaska, a Wisconsin fishing stop, a new baby in Roseland, and a linen shower for Florence Schoeder. Listings include teacher vacations and a school painting project under Frank Bergold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lola McPike
London
Ohio
Dolton
Sevcial Meuiiils
A. E. Moomaw
Frieda Greiling
Riverdale
Clara Burch
Denver
Colo
Haney
Bowen School
Frank Bergold
Minnie DeTurk
Edna Wright
Dalton School
Far West
Alaska
A. C. Reich
Sturgeon Bay
Wis
Wisconsin
Gus
Clarold Stanley
Colorado
Lawrence Ding
Needles
Calif
Dolicn
Hattie Albrecht
Dalton
Minnie Thompson
Kenmore Avenue
Chicago
Col
M. H. Kelley
Indianapolis
Ind
Arthur
Kelly
Cement walks ordered for properties west of Chicago street
Property owners west of Chicago street and north of 159th up to Van Kalken's place received notices requiring cement walk construction in front of their property. The village board passed a long gas ordinance on the Way last Tuesday. The viaduct is finished and ready to handle crowds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Holland News
Chicago Street
van Kalken
Homewood Community News Roundup
Misses Francis Mueller and Vera Gourdiner enjoy Rochester visit with Mr and Mrs A Christie and may become golf experts. Henry Almer in Mercy Hospital Chicago after leg fractures. one leg may need reset. A daughter born to Mr and Mrs Reinhert Rhekterg. Chicago Riverdale Lumber plans to move Homewood yards east of I G tracks near the Presbyterian church due to suburban tracks. Mrs J Schultz of Grant Park visited her parents Mr and Mrs H Stolzenbach. Pointer collector will call in Homewood Monday or Tuesday for arrears payments. Advance subscribers get the Directory of Thornton Township free. The Pointer costs 1 per year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis
Francis Mueller
Vera Gourdiner
Rochester
N. Y
A. Christie
Henry Almer
Mercy Hospital
Chicago
Reinhert Rhekterg
Chicago & Riverdale Lumber Company
I. G
Presbyterian Church
J. Schultz
Grant Park
H. Stolzenbach
Homewood
Thornton Township
Lansing News items and community notices
Community notes recount family birthdays including Elaine and Aldine Howmiller's 11th, Mr and Mrs Howmiller hosting Chicago guests for a birthday, and Cedar Lake Shrine card party. Obituary remarks honor Dr. Potts after twenty five years in the Calumet region with funeral at Seil residence and Wildwood cemetery. A July 28th surprise shower for Mary VanHeest precedes her upcoming marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carolyn Andrews
Stewart Ridge
Emerling Chapel
Hammond
Oak Lawn Cemetery
Loraine Frank
Mary Island
Howmillers
Howmiller
Chicago
Gerald Wright
Lake Street
Millard Sell
John Sell
Hessville
Loren Cook
Schererville
Rose
Helen Bennett
Highland
Orak Shrine
Cedargreen
Cedar Lake
Ind
Nina Larson
Camp Nawakwa
Michigan
Potts
Othics
Calumet
Lansing
Sheboygan
Wis
Seil
First Congregational Church
Wildwood Cemetery
Gustav Bock
Wm. Gutowski
Floyd Bothwell
Oak Glen
Otto Schultz
Stokes
Calumet City
Sell Department
Sell
Victor VanSteinberg
Paul Sheehan
OQ. L. Lewis
Walter Kegehine
Mary VanHeest
Mary
Public sale of Thornton Township school buildings
Notice states on August 1 1931 the School Trustees of Thornton Township No 86 North Range 14 East will sell the old school building and out houses on the site at 158th Street and Louis Avenue South Holland at 2 pm. Each building sells for cash with buyer clearing basement and rubbish by September 15 1931. Trustees TIORACE HOLMES and JOHN C GOUWENS oversee the sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dolton
A. C. Reich
Telephone Interocean
158Th Street
Chicago Street
R. Vanderbilt
159Th Street
South Holland
Ill
Edbrooke Avenue
Dearborn Street
Riverdale
138Th Street
1. C
W. 188Th Street
Oak Street
Dalton
John Ravesfoot, Jr
State Street
Harvey
Main Street
Riverdale Tea
Thornton Township
North Range
14 East
Louis Avenue
Tiorace Holmes
John C. Gouwens
Trustees of Schools
Bank Robbery in Green Bay Ends in Shootout
A gang in a black sedan robbed South Side State Bank, taking about 5000 dollars from vaults and tellers. Police Chief Thomas Hawley and detectives Gus De Love and Martin Burke were wounded by gunfire and glass as the bandits fled. a bandit may have been wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green Bay
Wis
South Side State Bank
Thomas Hawley
Gus de Love
Martin Burke
Frank Slupinski
Ccasmer
Slupinski
Matt Cayer
Ciel Mantey
de Save
Hawley
Burke
Indictments Hit Largest Prohibition Investigation
A federal grand jury in Baltimore returned three indictments charging 53 corporations and individuals with conspiracy to violate prohibition laws. The case targets the United States Industrial Alcohol and its subsidiary, spans New York to Ohio, began after seizures of three large stills in 1929, and cost about 500000 to investigate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
James M. Doran
Attorney General's Office
United States Industrial Alcohol Company
United States Industrial Chemical Company
West Virginia
Maryland
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188Th Street
Lincoln Avenue
Voss, Maytag
Michigan Avenue
Iti
Illinois Street
Wabash Avenue
Park Avenue
I. C. Ticket. Co. & Beil
D. S. Meeder
North Park Avenue
Louis Rubinic
Sheridan Avenue
W. van Keppel
Vincennes Avenue
Harvey, Ill
Wm. P. Paamberg
Cut Rate
Indiana Ave
CUT Rate Watch Shop
Fray’s Flower Shop
Phone Dolton
A. W. Hamann
Roseland
St. Michigan Ave
K. L. Sherrill
Leyden Ave
Gladstone
Interocean
Res
Dolton Auto Laundry
Simoniz General
WM. A. Herrick
E. 147Th St
Halsted Harvey, Illinois
Princess Ileana
Ileana of
Rumania
Archduke Anton of Austria
Sinaia
Carel
Green Bay Bank
THE
F. & M. Laundry
LaSalle St. Riverdale
East 137Th Street
A. J. Allen
Prop
TIL
AAMT
159Th St
George Tuch
Peter Farney
Aspen Kruiter
Anthony Basile Plumbing
Lincoln Ave
Tia Ies AR. Harires
Hohman St
Carondolet
Carl Dieck
Telephone
Wm. C. Zesch and Son
Indiana Avenue
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