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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1939
Page
3
A historical piece notes that while professors and authors discuss job creation, traveling salesmen quietly sustain work by moving goods and networks. One salesman cited 50 000 miles traveled in two years, enduring travel hardships yet continuing to reach customers and support employment.
Rev. Dr. Harry Fosdick praised the generation as adventurous and hopeful yet warned youths to commit rather than drift. He urged diligence, not abandoning home opportunities, and warned against chasing distant starts without solid effort. The community reflects a mix of enthusiasm and hesitation about the world’s challenges.
The U S Health service reports about ten billion dollars yearly in illness and death costs. Many losses are avoidable if people cooperate with health services and follow safety rules, since careless workers can suffer crippling injuries that harm families and the nation.
A mining town chief of police says he never carried a gun after years on the job. He recalls arresting many violators and tough men yet believes city dangers would reveal harsher, life‑disdaining types he has not seen in his small burg.
The piece recalls how men and boys filled evenings by standing on sidewalks and street corners in former days. When pressed about lack of activities, locals would defend the habit by saying there was nothing else to do.
A columnist argues that idle men and boys on streets reflect limited job opportunities. Modern life offers more recreation but towns should provide active pursuits to keep youth engaged and reduce idle curbside gathering.
School notes show fifth graders spelling Averages high with names including Hess Kemnitz Krell Perguss Reichel Schlinger Steinhauer Wick Wilkensen. Sixth graders listing Bachmann Busch Cowser Gronrose Hameister Jensen Jes sen Ludwig Mohr Rushig Shipe Schroeder Siss Stein hauer Vick Wiegel Wilkinson. Room 4 reports normal attendance after flu scare and TB free results after X rays. Basketball and volleyball games vs Washington scheduled after school this week.
In Room 4 on March 6 two new eighth graders Evelyn Severin and Peter Biesboer joined from Lowell Indiana. A Field Museum trip to Chicago is planned for Friday with Room 8 and others.
Miss Mildred Iverson leaves Franklin School on February 28 and is replaced by Miss Alice Harris. Room 1 shows spring signs with kite crafts and pussy willows. New transfers include Orville Lehnurlein from Roosevelt and Iola Schnurlein from Washington. fourth graders display Holland pictures. tulip bulbs and a spring tulip frieze appear in fifth and sixth grades.
The eighth grade attended a village board meeting on February 28 and hopes to visit other places. The seventh and eighth grade boys held a pingpong tournament on March 3 with winners Edward Fike and Thomas Regnier. Grades five through eight now have a new volleyball and basketball program.
Lincoln school reports illness and attendance efforts as first graders battle scarlet fever and aim for 100 percent attendance. Students share book starts, art projects, and reports in history and English while seniors prepare an operetta Tom Sawyer. An upcoming March 17 program and Friday early dismissal for perfect February attendance are noted.
First graders started new readers this week and second graders work toward red stars on the spelling chart. Students heard a radio program about cold care and doctor etiquette, while upper grades enjoyed a swallow-tail butterfly emerging from a chrysalis.
Washington students note Miss Brown's return after illness and celebrate Health Readers. Third grade sends wishes to Laurel Biiney in hospital while eighth grade completes Transportation topic with a student display. The second grade makes butter from Health Readers and shares it at lunch. Twenty five scouts from Troop 9 attend a rally in Homewood on Tuesday March 7.
Ole Rastus explains he has no magical plan and Mis Toonie says he must provide for ten people. He aims to become a story writer with education, learning algebra and geometry, and a diploma through imagination and study, hoping his teacher approves of a storied path. Calla Lily.
A playful reflection on social life and lessons in school. A parent shows off arithmetic to children while noting the difficulty of texts without answers. A bugler named Sandy McDougal finds frugal methods in music by squeezing in various keys.
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