Dolton Board Rejects Soft Drink License for Tony Paulanski
Dolton board meets to consider a new sewer plan covering Shepard subdivisions and a public hearing is scheduled for March 28. The panel denies Tony Paulanski a soft drink parlor license at Chicago and 144th streets after prior incidents linked to the site. The meeting also discusses lighting poles, sewer territory changes, and an amended license fee ordinance to be printed in The Pointer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dolton Board
Maloney
Panhandle
Chicago Southern
Jacobsoa
Krueger
Michigan City Road
Main Street
Sanderson Avenue
Prenki Rumkus
Railway Staff Notes and Local Health Updates
Fred Wiegert, badly injured by a skidding motorcycle weeks ago, has recovered enough to leave Cook County hospital. Mrs. Lorenz, Haney billing operator, has been off duty several days due to her mother's Chicago death. E. E. Laking, head of the air brake service, visited Yard Center from Danville this week. Mrs. B. S. Odle, wife of Coal Chutes foreman, underwent surgery at Ingalls Memorial Harvey for appendicitis and gall stones and is reported doing well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yard Center
B. S. Odle
Odle
Ingalls Memorial Hospital
Harvey
New Convent to Rise on St. Marys Church Property
Ground will be broken this week for a two story brick convent 40 by 90 feet 18 rooms on St. Marys Church property in Riverdale. Sisters of Christian Charity who run the parochial school will occupy the building once completed with cPRiy Thuilen as contractor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sisters of Christian Charity
St. Mary’s Church
Riverdale
St. Mary's Church
Cpriy Thuilen
Pioneer Matron Helen Buchler Dies After Long Illness
Helen Verhoeven Buchler of Riverdale died at home after a yearlong illness. She lived at 13768 Leyden Avenue for 46 years and spent weeks at St Francis hospital Blue Island. She leaves nine children five surviving relatives and was a founder of St Marys church in the area. Her funeral was held March 15 at St Marys with interment in St Josephs cemetery Hammond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Buchler
Leyden Avenue
Riverdale
St. Francis Hospital
Blue Island
Helen Verhoeven
Verhoeven
147Th Street
Calumet River
Berger
Mathias Buchler
Buchler
John
Philmena
August
Rose
St. Mary’s Church
Rouch
LeBlanc
Roseland
Liebreich
P. Keiffer
Chicago
Wm. H. Lorenz
Oak Glen
Photogravure joys and local notices from Chicago Tribune
Local society notes highlight Mary Vandeursen’s photo in a Michigan Uni production and a March 14 Culver Indiana wedding of Chas Gandher and Anna Heinz. Other items report appendicitis surgeries for Ernest Ehlert and Wallace Monk, a Crete visit by the Lorenzen family, the death of Mrs. Wm Lorenz with funeral details, and Mrs Engle’s return from California comparing climates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Sunday Tribune
University of Michigan
Mary Vandeursen
Mattie Vandeursen
Mary
Chas. Gandher
Culver
Ind
Anna Heinz
Chicago
John Pieplow
Pieplow
Paul Gall Post 308 Holds Regular Social Meeting Next Tuesday
The American Legion Paul Gall Post No 308 will meet next Tuesday evening at the dugout for a social gathering. A monthly donated hat from Kleinhuizen Brothers will be given away. Comrade Jack Finnerty remains on the sick list.
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American Legion
Paul Gall
Kleinhuizen Brothers
Jack Finnerty
Veteran’s Hospital
Dwight
4Th District
Riverdale
U. S
Dolton Boys Arrested in Chrysler Theft Case
Dolton police chief Fred Klaege announced that Russell Baldwin aged 17 and Robert Strassenberg aged 15 were arrested in Danville Illinois on a charge of stealing a Chrysler car in Watseka from in front of a church. The youths, parolees from Juvenile Court, traveled by C E I freight to Watseka and have a history of petty thefts and gym article burglaries. They remain jailed and will be bound over to the Danville grand jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Klaege
Dolton
Russell Baldwin
Robert Strassenberg
Danville
Ill
Watseka
Baldwin
Strassenberg
Dalton church events and school plays announced
The Ladies Aid of Dalton M E church meets in church parlors on Thursday March 24 with lunch served. The Sandridge Epworth League presents the play Fun on the Podunk Limited Friday evening March 25 at Berger school at eight. The Goose Hangs High senior class play airs at Thornton Township High March 31 April 1 and 2.
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Ladies’ Aid
Dalton M. E. Church
Sandridge Epworth League
Podunk Limited
Berger School
Thornton Township High School
St Pauls Lutheran Church Daily Services and Lent Topic
St Pauls Lutheran Church at 138th Street and Leyden Ave announces Divine services in German 9.30 and English 10.45 a m on March 20 with Lenten English service March 28 at 7.45 p m. Rev G Elbert to speak on By the Law He Ought to Die. Pastor W J Kemnitz explains justification by faith and acquittal through Christ’s atonement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
138Th Street
Leyden Ave
Missouri Synod
G. Elbert
Jesus
Jesus Christ
W. J. Kemnitz
Dillner's Pavilion Demolished At Culver Lakefront
After 35 years of dances picnics meetings and parties the Dillner family tears down Dillner's Pavilion once a social hub on Lake Maxinkuckee Culver Indiana. The building erected in 1892 hosted politicians and community events and may be sold with land to be used for two bungalows on the lakefront.
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Dillner
Charles Sag Tase
Tae Bie Auimieer
Gensch
Lake Maxinkucke
Culver
Ind
South Side
Eddie Needles Standout Athlete From Thornton High
A friend voices high praise for Ed Needles of Thornton High and Indiana Harbor Belt basketball. He captained the Heavyweights in 1924 25 and led the Suburban league in scoring, with the I H B team set to compete in Buffalo tournament March 11 12.
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Eddie Needles
Ed. Needles
Dalton
Thornton High
Eddie
Harvey
Chicago
Eddie” Needles
Thornton High School
Buffalo
Letter From Arthur Dykstra Plans New Denver Grocery Venture
Arthur Dykstra, who sold his South Holland store to his brother and moved to Denver for health, writes from Denver on March 9, 1927. He asks friends to change The Pointer address to 1666 So Washington St and notes improving health, plans to start a grocery and meat business with a brother in 3 to 4 weeks, comments on wages and Chicago’s business climate, and says they enjoy reading The Pointer.
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Arthur Dykstra
South Holland
Denver
Colo
Washington Street
T. B
Chicago
Thorn Creek Pollution Sparks Local Action
Izak Walton League chapters and neighborhood civic bodies plan concerted action to stop Thorn Creek pollution. Chemicals from Chicago Heights factories killed nearly all aquatic life. petitions to the state failed, and local efforts now seek viable solutions as N. J. Paarlberg contributes an article with suggestions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Izank Walton League
Thorn Creek
Chicago Heigins
Izaak Walton
N. J. Paarlberg
167Th Street
Pollution Menace and Call for Action in Local Rivers
A 1910s column condemns the Thorn Creek and Calumet river pollution from Chicago Heights and Lansing sewage. It warns of environmental and property damage, urging public support for conservation through the Izaak Walton League and related campaigns while noting progress on other Illinois rivers and future rehab efforts.
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N. J. Paarlberg
Europe
Calumet
Thorn Creek
Chicago Heights
Glenwood
Thornton
South Holland
Lansing
Izaak Walton
Fox
Rock
Illinois River
Bearcats to face Crescents in Buda gym showdown
The South Holland Bearcats meet the Hamlin Crescents of Chicago at the Buda gym Harvey Illinois on March 26 1927 at 8 p m Tickets are 25 cents from any Bearcat member Teddy's or Al's place Fans urged to buy early and witness what’s billed as the best baseball game ever played in Illinois The printed lineup appears on Page 3
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South Holland Bearcats
Hamlin Crescents
Chicago
Buda
Harvey, Ill
Bearcats
Bearcat
Teddy’s
Illinois
Riverdale Board Reviews New Building Ordinance
Riverdale board held a special meeting to study a new building ordinance likely to pass as village law. The panel considered every section and approved scarifying and rolling 138th Street and Blue Island Road with county help to improve the street condition.
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Riverdale
138Th Street
Blue Island Road
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Tony Paulanski
Fock County Sugar Co
B. Scheringa
Lansing, Ill
Chicago Street
Julius Heidenrich
Dick Sterk
128Th
Cottage Grove Avenue
Calumet Lake
Helen (Verhoeven) Buchler
Ernest Ehlert
Fred Ehlert
Blue Island Hospital
Wallace Monk
Twin City
Ingalls Memoria Hospital
N. P. Lorenzen
Crete
Henry Lorenzen
Andrew Engle
Ridge
California
Chrysler
Danville, Til
ST. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Dillner’s
Art
Dykstra
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