South Holland News Brides and Local Happenings in 1916
South Holland reports the marriage of Mr Martin Nootenboom and Miss Anns VanVuren on Thursday February 29 1916 and notes the couple will settle on a large farm in South Dakota. Also covered are illnesses, local work, school social earnings, a death, a warehouse fire and several marriages in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Nootenboom
Anns VanVuren
South Dakota
Henry Rickert
S. DeBoer
Ihaac Shilling
Harvey
Y’ Dick P. DeYoung
Armour Company
Anraaprie
Albert Lluizenga
North Branch
Hoxie
Bloom
Thornton
Schaap
Chas. Yonkman
Globe News: Mrs Ridder Visits Wisconsin Parents
Mrs P Ridder of Globe departed Tuesday to visit her parents Mr and Mrs P Slager in Combia Wisconsin for a few weeks. Mr Ridder jokes about his cooking while staying with the Vanderweg family. The Liberty Social club hosted a successful entertainment and box social drawing a large crowd. Mr and Mrs Klunder and their late son spent several days last week with their sister Mrs Jake Hoa in South Holland. Mrs Robinson and Mrs Palmer plus children of Riverdale visited Cavan's Tuesday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. Ridder
Globe
P Slager
Combia
Wis
Jake Hoa
South Holland
Robinson
Palmer
Riverdale
Cavan’s
Status of Japanese Women In The Modern Economy
The article argues economic independence drives women’s roles in Japan. It suggests wage earning as a major factor behind leaving distasteful marriages and notes training with commercial value, including English, lifts a woman to a higher social plane and acts as a weapon in independence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Homewood News Summaries of Local Events and Accidents
Mrs Ziebel on Pine street suffered a paralytic stroke earlier in the week and Mrs J Koenig also had the condition. both are slowly improving. A photo in the Illinois Staats Zeitung showed eight soldiers in the German army, sons of a former Wagenfeld chum. John Langhut’s onion warehouse burned for a loss of about 15000 dollars, partly insured, with Homewood water lacking and Hazel Crest chemical aid arriving late. Village officials discussed Vincennes road materials, favoring concrete, and planned road work including Western avenue to Slater Crest and Homewood, Halsted street to Riverdale, and Park avenue across Liazel Crest, funded by state and county. A potential golf course development north of Homewood may cover 600 acres at 300 per acre, with 72 holes and yearly upkeep around 15000. Four Chicago-area roads to receive state funds totaling 216000 and discussions with property owners occurred. a P O S a ball was announced for March 38th at Funk’s Hall. John Seator and Frank Riedle formed an insurance partnership to expand local fire coverage. Former Hazel Crest postmaster John Mayo Baker died March 1. he served as postmaster for ten years in Hazel Crest and left four daughters. For sale: a sound family horse and bay horse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ziebel
Pine Street
J. Koenig
Dick Tatgenhorst
Illinois Staats Zeitung
Wagenfeld
Hanover
Germany
John Langhut
Halsted Street
County Ridge
Vincennes Road
F. H. Gold
H. Funk
J. Seator
Ed. Bang
O. Li. Clark
L. School
Western Avenue
Slater Crest
Homewood
Riverdale
Park Avenue
Liazel Crest
Chicago
Llomewood
Juergens Crossing
Llamewood
Butterfield
S. C
Ab Ifunk
John Seator
Frank Riedle
John Mayo Baker
Hazel Crest
M. H. Llaas
Maria St. Homewood
Ridge Notes and Local Social Updates at the Ridge
The Ridge notes a Home Mission Club meeting at Mrs. Johanna Muelke’s home with a lunch. A Friday Parent-Teachers meeting at Berger school targets former scholars and ducal alumni. Miss Mary Bently visits from Montana, teaching at Berger years ago, now Mrs. Howard Alm. Josephine Pratt returns to teaching after a Florida recovery. Local illness includes Seulet fever affecting Pearl Junger Beatrice Meyer and Mrs Jerry Jacobs. Berger Pleasure Club stages two strong performances with post show coffee and dessert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ridge
Johanna Muelke
Berger
Ducals
Howard Alm
Tredgesville
Montana
Mary Bently
Albert Steinke
Bently
Josephine A. Pratt
Florida
Pearl Junger
Beatrice Meyer
Jerry Jacobs
Berger Pleasure Club
For Sale Items Including Stove Organ and Washing Machine
For sale a gold coin cooking stove an Alason organ and a Revonue washing machine. Inquire at Gerben Hoek stra 119 159th street South Holland for details and price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alason Organ
Gerben Hoekstra
159Th Street
South Holland
The Dolton Theater Weekly Showbill
Friday features Stingaree episodes and comedies The Leopard And The Baby Pressing Business plus Heredity. Saturday offers Lim burger s Victory and The Conquest of Constantine, with The Ogre and the Girl and Minnie the Tiger on Sunday. Tuesday presents The Broken Coin and The Rosary in seven reels. doors 7 p m and Sunday matinee at 3 15 p m. adults 10c children 5c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pfriday
Sonny Jim
Minnie the Tiger
Vibe Pictures
Joux G. Hrusy
Mgr
Riverdale Theater Promotes Weekly Film Program
New management at Riverdale Theater outlines a weekly slate with Western dramas, comedies, vaudeville acts, and serials. Features include What The River Foretold and Both Sides of Life with Ella Hall, and A Message For Help with Baby Early, plus Christmas Memories and Graft. Admission five and ten cents. Clark and Johnson, Proprietors. Also sash curtain holder for sale at 159th Street Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King Baggot
Ella Hall
Bob ‘Leonard
Bob Lenard
Fatty
Sidney Ayres
Doris Pawn
Clark and Johnson
St Pauls Evang Lutheran Schedule March 5 1916
Sunday services at St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Church 138th Street and Lincoln Ave include Sunday School at 9 00 am Confessional Services at 10 00 am Sermon and Holy Communion at 10 30 am A congregational meeting is set for 3 00 pm Reverend H H Wind is the pastor
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Paul's
Evang. Lutheran Church
138Th Street
Lincoln Ave
Lent Services At St Marys Church Schedule
St Marys Catholic Church lists masses and services for Lent. 8:00 a m low mass 10:30 a m high mass and benediction 2:30 p m instructions Ash Wednesday begins Lent with 9:00 a m mass distribution of ashes 7:00 p m stations of the cross and benediction Lenten sermon and benediction on Friday March 10 at 7:30 a m preached by Father Theo Bonifas from St Nicolas Roseland with Rev W A Derrmer pastor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theo
Bonifas
St. Nicolaus Church
Roseland
Ev. W. A. Derrmer
Sunday church schedule with Rev. J. Seibert
The notice lists Sunday offerings at 1 a m catechetical class at 3 p m and evening services at 7 30 p m followed by a council meeting Rev J 2 Seibert is named as the preacher and organizer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rev. J
Seibert
Immanuel Evangelical Church Service Schedule
The church hosts English preaching on the first Sunday each month at 10 30 a m German preaching on all other Sundays at 10 30 a m English evening services on the second and fourth Sundays at 7 30 p m Pastor J U Horfmeister leads a Tiv service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J U, Horfmeister
Card of Thanks for Kindness During Illness and Death
We thank neighbors friends and especially the Ladies Foreign Missionary Society and the pastor of the German M E Church for kindness sympathy and flowers during the illness and death of our beloved mother Cumpren of Mrs Mary Meister
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Foreign Missionary Society
M. E. Church
Cumpren
Mary Meister
Composers of Noted Hymns
Silas Jones Vail composed the music for Faber’s hymn Here’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy and set We Shall Meet Beyond the River by Rev John Atkinson of New Jersey. Ithamar Conkey of Shutesbury Massachusetts wrote Rathburn in 1847 and was a tenor soloist in a New York church. George N Allen, of Massachusetts, later in Ohio, wrote Maitland and many sacred tunes to Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silas Jones Vail
New York
Faber
John Atkinson
New Jersey
Ithamar Conkey
Shutesbury
Mass
Massachusetts
Ohio
Maitland
Thomas Scott
Jesus
Cross
Primary Election Dolton Illinois 1916 Notice
Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday March 14 1916 a primary election will be held at the Village Hall Dolton Illinois for Village Clerk full term two years and three Trustees full term two years Polls open six in the morning and close five in the afternoon Dated Dolton March 3 1916 WM G Dolton Village Clerk
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dolton
Illinois
WM. G. Dolton
Gladstone on Mortgages and Hawarden Estates
The late Lieutenant Gladstone urged his uncle to reduce mortgages on the Hawarden estates, upholding a Gladstone tradition. He warned mortgages cause mischief and harmful consequences, citing his father William Ewart Gladstone and a 1885 letter describing mortgages as antisocial and immoral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Gladstone
Lieutenant Gladstone
Hawarden
Gladstone
W. H. Gladstone
Westminster Gazette
Thanking those who offered sympathy and services
A family expresses gratitude to neighbors and friends for sympathy during illness and death of their daughter and grandchild. They thank donors of flowers, the Dalton Volunteer Fire Department, Forester Team Modern Woodmen of America No. 5142, Rev Sietsema of Gano Reformed Church, pallbearers, and Mr. and Mrs. Spoon and Family for burial assistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalton Volunteer Fire Department
Forester Team Modern Woodman of America
Sietsema
Gano Re
Spoon
Also Mentioned on This Page
South Holland News
Katie
Dick VanVuren
Peter D. P. de Young
158Th Street
Gerrit van Zuideam
Harry Koedyker
Harold DeYoung
Theodore Vanderaa
Lane
Globe News
Obel’s
Homewood News
Dolton Theater
Riverdale Theater
Riverdale Store
Swift Pride
van Camp
Dolton Store
ST. Mary’s Catholic Church
Harold MacGrath
Luth. Church
Immanuel Evangelical Church
Ovels
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