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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1931
Page
2
The Missouri Synod church on 188th Street announces Sunday services in German at 9 30 a m and English at 10 45 a m with gospel reading John 6 1 15. An eye graphic Bible lecture is set for March 13 at 8 p m and a German midweek Lenten service is planned for March 18 7 30 p m.
Sheridan Ave and Grant St. Laetare Sunday March 15 lineup includes church school and Bible classes at 9 45 a m Lesson Friendship with Jesus German services 9 00 a m English services 11 00 a m Midweek Lenten service German Wednesday March 18 8 00 p m Attendance said to be up and inviting more worshippers Special music and singing throughout all services Minister Wm Kreis invites all to attend and bring others PMID
Dolton Methodist Episcopal Church announces Sunday services at 9 45 a m church school 11 a m morning worship 6 30 p m Epworth League Blue Island 7 30 p m evening service March 15 joint Epworth League with Blue Island at Blue Island church led by Mr Geo Staunton. Beginning March 22 services every evening through Easter Sunday with special weekday noon services at the Chicago Temple for Lenten period Rev Erwine Thompson pastor.
The 1930 census shows Bloomington leading Illinois cities in retail business per person. Illinois farms contribute over 500000 cords of wood cut annually from woodlots.
Public and parochial schools highlight in Bowen notes with a Declamation Contest where Woodrow misses a word and Evelyn a word in six rounds, a near win for Dolores amid a cold. Domestic Science dinner March 5 features a student led menu and serving by Gladys Gerloff and Lillian Dengler. Room two welcomes Carl Preiss from Dalton. blizzard fun and a playful dialogue endnotes cap the issue.
Lin coln Avenue Jr High eighth graders study vegetables in the diet and proper cooking while seventh graders plan and serve adequate breakfasts. Snow delays reach to school as busses struggle to plow and some cannot walk. Mary Panozzo, recently recovering from a dog bite, will rejoin next week. The Little Clodhopper play March 6 shows featured green vegetable bouquets at curtain call, with interlude specialties enhancing the show.
Mildred Teas 31 was slightly injured in a Riverdale auto crash, prompting a school absence. Dorothy Gunderson and Verna Cacky from the class of 780 visited the school February 23. Winifred Petts ’52 has returned after a month in Georgia for health. Miaie Worth ’82 and Rayburn Uaines ’29 recently announced their wedding last year. Gladys Carr ’38 resumed school after a week illness. Martha Brown, editor in chief of the 1981 yearbook, is hospitalized for appendicitis. Helen Seiburg covers the staff. Agnes Borthwick ’80 enters Gall Memorial hospital for nursing training March 2. John Hodge ’26 was home last week.
Week end report notes John teaching at Fox Lake Wisconsin. Ethel Murphy 27 Catherine Thom son 7380 Ethel Rinkema 80 and Clarence Koedyker 29 returned from DeKalb to attend the Boys and Girls club play. February 21 1931 Iva Louise Petty 34 was absent three weeks for an appendectomy operation.
Park Tipton in Wilson county near Ioliesville used a self feeder to raise hogs at 6 1 3 cents per pound feed cost, producing 205.6 bushels of corn for 1.81 per bushel and gains of 1.9 pounds daily. Thirty pigs at 5 dollars each fed 80 days with tankage cottonseed meal and corn yielded a total gain and cost analysis showing savings. The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station notes the approach reduced labor and time, with total feed cost under five cents per pound of gain.
Seventeen northern Illinois counties excluding Chicago show an 87 percent population gain over the decade since 1920, compared with under two percent for the rest of the state. The figures come from a report by the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois' statistical department.
W. C. Dowdy reports 17 counties served by Public Service Company account for 17 percent of state area but 89 percent of population growth over the last decade. Census figures suggest Metropolitan Chicago could reach 15,000,000 in a lifetime, as Chicago proper has gained 673,624 since 1920.
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