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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1944
Page
4
Classified want ads cards of thanks and notices priced 10 cents per line with a 50 cent minimum first insertion, eight insertions for a dollar, payable in advance. Provides guidance on ad types and pricing terms for readers and submitters.
A compact ad listing multiple Riverdale properties including Greenfield Subdivision homes with 2 car garages corner lots and near rail lines. Prices range from 4250 to 17500 detailing 5 room configurations basements porches and heated units. Modern brick veneer bungalow and a modern two flat provide investment options.
Verse about William Jay who died keeping the right of way while driving. It contrasts generosity in giving the shirt off one’s back with the duty to yield on the road. The poem underscores road safety over personal bravado and ends with a cautionary note.
The Dolton Wap Price and Food Rationing board confirms the appointment of Mrs. Lillian Waddell and Mrs. Helen O Connell to the panel. They replace Anne De Ridder and Walter Wolfram who resigned several weeks ago from the board.
In recent special sessions, the congregations of First Methodist church of Blue Island and Central Methodist church voted to merge, in line with Illinois law and the Methodist Discipline. The Rev. Frank T. Palm, pastor of Central since 1938, will continue serving.
Two longtime Blue Island congregations merge to form Grace Methodist church of Blue Island. Services will be held in both churches until disposal and a new edifice is built once materials are available. Rev Palm leads with Dr Magor and Rev Courrier assisting. Henry Page White, chaplain in Navy, left First Methodist after 1941. Central church traces to 1850 and the other church to 1873.
A full color sound film They Live Forever about World War I spirituality screens at 9:30 Sunday night May 7 after the evening service at United Church of Glenwood. Produced by Irwin A. Moon, Moody Bible Institute, it features Lt James Whitaker and Sgt John Bartek life raft experiences and testimonies from Col George Clarke plus training sequences from army and navy camps.
We express our thanks to neighbors and friends for the sympathy and kindness shown during our recent bereavement. Ray E. Martin Family.
St Pauls Mixed Mikhalin Florists won two games from the first place B M Motors. H Bock 570 and Dor othy Schroeder 488 led for the winners while J Testolin 593 and Adeline Stutzriem 321 led the losers. Art the Butchers team beat Freds Place two games. Milhahn Florists and Art the Butcher's team posted the high team game at 769. Milhahn Florists captured the high team series with 2207.
Riverholites Bowling Miller's Wonder Inn extended their league lead by taking two from C. Dieck's on Monday night. H. Miller top scored for Miller's with a 554 series while Baumgartner led Dieck's with a 516 series. In the other league match L. E.
Standings show teams and players including Wearnst Miller's Wonder Inn sp 6M Bachmann Funeral Home 38 1 C Dieck's 2871 L Reich's 21 ac. The fragment notes a 578 series by Simnick and a 506 sorties reference with a 4:4 mark, reflecting a sports score roundup and postwar textile forecast.
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