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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1911
Page
8
A short plea argues painters should source paints, oils, and glass from a specialist who can advise on use and application rather than rely on grocery, butcher, or hardware store staff. It asserts painting requires learned methods not casual instruction.
A trader proclaims his extensive line of paints, oils, glass, wall paper, brushes, varnish, and related items. He also sells a Dead Shot pesticide and offers a guarantee or refunds. A brindle bull pup with a white tail tip is lost and a nine room Riverdale house for sale with modern improvements is advertised, with inquiries at The Pointer office.
Property owners plan 5 feet 4 inch wide cement sidewalks to be finished by June 1 on 159th and Chicago streets. Social notes mention Miss Ixate Siewers and Miss Ida Brown visiting Peter VanErden Sr. and family. Local items include a typhoid fever case improving for Mrs. Dick Tilstra and a false fire alarm last Saturday blamed on bargain seekers with granite pails at Bardwick's new 5 and 10 cent store. The South Holland Choral Club concert drew a full house and Nelson Dalenberg left for Colorado to conduct services. Janny P. Anker moved from Dallas to Galveston en route to other cities. Tanis J. Gouwens reports slight improvement. Postmaster DeYoung gradually recovering from rheumatism.
Friday evening the Boy Scouts of Riverdale and Dalton met in regular session. President Smyth called the meeting to order. Edw Kinney and Stanley Smyth were elected. The Scoutmaster spoke on organization. Saturday they visited Palmer Park Pullman and played song ball basket ball races before returning home.
For sale a residence in Dalton on Lincoln avenue near the post office. Sold on easy terms. Details available at The Pointer office.
Homewood expects several moves with Mr Crowe and family on Cedar street, Mr Daly settling into a new Cedar street home, and Eugene Guttman’s family moving into the Robert White bungalow. The village board meeting was postponed due to President Louis Mueller’s illness and will be held May 9. Reports note new restaurant signage near Gottschalk building, and corrections to a previous issue. Residents move, travel, or visit relatives, including Misses Buell Medows Hughes and Mueller, plus social guests at the Searles May 1 gathering. A painter shares a screen door idea, and local residents relocate to North Dakota and back to country homes. For sale: parlor suite, library table, rockers, and porteers by Louis Metz.
The article notes Champery’s old romance persists with about 800 inhabitants maintaining unique dress. Women wear vivid scarlet head kerchiefs knotted over their hair, even serving in hotels outside the village. In winter they wear men’s clothes to navigate snow and ski duties while tending cattle and stables.
The London Week-end poses what a lady is and contrasts Victorian expectations with modern views. It argues the old ideal cast women as ornamental and selfish while men claimed gentility, but now both sexes must contribute. the woman too will be required to share the world’s work rather than rely on male relatives.
FOR RENT Farm land in this neighborhood by F A Reich Riverdale Ill LAND FOR SALE Have land for sale in any part of the United States and Canada and can guarantee honest treatment through the Real Estate Dealers Association A S Diekman Dolton
May 7 services at 10:00 a m include sermon and Holy Communion. A 2:00 p m meeting of voting members. Rev H Winp pastor. the English Sunday School of St Paul’s offers English and German instruction plus religious training. The church also runs a community English Sunday School starting May 7 from 9 to 10 a m inviting all children to attend.
On Sunday May 7 1911 St Marys Catholic Church presents a full day of services led by Rev A A Riss Pastor. Activities include 8am general Holy Communion 10 30am High Mass and Sermon 230pm Christian Doctrine 3pm sodality devotion lecture benediction 330pm Altar Society meeting and officer election.
Miss Maude J. Robinson deaconess leads Evangelistic services Sunday May 7 with morning and evening worship. Sunday School at 9 45 Junior League at 3 00 pm Ladies Aid meets 2nd and 4th Thursdays Choir rehearsal Friday evening Teachers meeting Wednesday evening Public invited Rev W E Cissna pastor.
Property listings offer farm acreage and riverfront parcels in Riverdale and Dalton priced from $150 per acre or more. Houses available on installment plans through F. A. Reich in Riverdale.
The Immanuel Evangelical Church announces Sunday School at 9 30 am preaching at 10 30 am and Evening Service at 7 30 pm in English. A special meeting of the Sunday Evening League follows the service. Maennerchor meets Monday at 7 30 pm. Rev G G Puss is the pastor. Everyone is welcome.
The new English Evangelical Lutheran Sunday School started last Sunday at Riverdale Village Hall with full attendance. 87 regular members enrolled, 12 teachers including 6 from Roseland, and The People's Lutheran Advocate will be given to attendees next Sunday. Services run Sundays 2:15 to 3:15 PM led by Rev. George P. Kabele.
A New York man recalls returning home to a silent household after promising to dine at 6:30. He found his wife and three daughters unresponsive for three days, with no breakfast conversation and even phone silence. On the fourth morning normalcy returned, though a longer silence warned.
Practically new base burners cook stove and gas range for sale due to moving. Apply at corner of Margaret and Everett streets Dolton or The Pointer Office.
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