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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1908
Page
8
George Williams found a gold watch and pin lost by Mrs. John O'Brien as advertised in The Pointer last week. There were no identifying marks on the watch or pin, but the paper's want ad led to the recovery.
Friday afternoon the Morgan Park team faces Harvey at the high school gym, seeking revenge after a prior loss. The T. T. N. S. boys hope to add another scalp, promising an exciting game. The Dramatic club’s play A Scrap of Paper drew a full house for the senior class fundraiser. Professor D. A. McQueen resigns to teach at Curtis High School, with a farewell petition signed by nearly every student. Mr. Crossland arrives from Chicago as his successor.
A pocketbook is missing near the corner of 187th Street and Indiana Avenue with a reward offered at The Pointer office. The Riverdale Fife and Drum Corps report club house repairs and say the group is preparing for campaign year engagements.
Suburban delegations from Riverdale Dalton and surrounding Calumet districts crowded the Chicago City Council Transportation Committee meeting to push for extended street car lines. Riverdale spokesmen led by Attorney Reich urged immediate expansion with a target of Riverdale by January 1 1910 and cars within eighteen months if approved.
Brickmaker ad and local entertainments headlines. Brooks Vaudeville Company at Lund's Hall tonight and Saturday with Harvey Brooks. Fred J. Ott contracting paint for Harvey Zimmer's cottage on Park Avenue in Dolton. For sale geese and ducks via G. B. Fry. Mrs. Henry Dillner birthday party. Green carnations ordered for St Patrick's Day by William Wegener & Son. Roofing done at Wisconsin Lime and Cement Company plant by Henry J. Dillner and Fred J. Ott. Lost gold watch between depots. Farewell party for Arthur Erffmeyer moving to Indiana. A O U W dance at Dolton hall praised. A. E. Moomaw named Village Electrician of Dolton. Mrs. O. F. Reich and Paul Frederick home. son eager to become Riverdale citizen. John R. Schmidt buys Matteson land to raise chickens. wood engraver from Pullman shops. Family moving to new home. Schmidt son-in-law of Carl Neiden.
The Modern Woodmen Calumet Camp No 5142 holds a May party at Schwab's Hall Riverdale on Saturday evening May 2 1908.
Charles McRill, longtime Kennedy Biscuit Company salesman, visited Riverdale on business and to reconnect with old friends. He plans to seek the Indiana agency or northern state area, traveling as a general agent, impressed by a Heyenga Barkmeier Turn buggy device feature in The Pointer.
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