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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1917
Page
4
Clara Hillger, Bowen School graduate, recalls a tornado near Riverdale that damaged the church steeple, barn, chimney, and apple trees, wrecked the barn and carriage, and forced a shelter in the cellar. Daisy the horse survived.
The document lists graduates led by William Pryde Aitken Grace Edna Andrew Fred Holcomb Bartlit Esther Lydia Adela Bosold Nellie Iles Bowen Ellene Susana Cairns and many others. Officers include President George Stas Vice President Dorothy Van Deursen Secretary Fred Geiss Treasurer Fred Bartlit Gass Adviser Miss Mary Howland. An annual appropriation ordinance for Riverdale Village covers May 1 1917 to April 30 1918 detailing salaries, village hall costs, police, drainage, water bonds, and general expenditures totaling 19996.80 to be raised by taxation.
Classified listings show immediate hiring demand for 50 general housework and clerical workers at Ridge Employment Agency in Roseland, plus 20 steady employment seekers for asbestos shingle and other firms. Numerous sale and rent items include 18% acre lot in Dalton, several small parcels, secondhand cars, a bull dog, a panel top wagon, and farm or rental properties near Dolton, Riverdale, and Hazel Crest.
An eyewitness recalls a tornado destroying farm buildings and homes, tearing down tele phones wires and rails, killing one boy and injuring several. The writer notes neighbors rushing to aid survivors, a school and railroad station ruined, and the speaker’s own house spared.
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