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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1932
Page
2
The Churches publish a schedule for May 15 Sunday school at 9 30 morning services in English and German at 2 80 0 45 am May 16 Pentecost Monday English German service at 10 am May 26 8 pm talk by William Leon Brown on Religious oath and secret organizations at the parish hall. Members and attendees invited to hear the truth.
Dolton M E Church at Grant and Sheridan lists Sunday services 9 45 a m Bible school 11 00 a m morning worship and 6 45 p m Hi League and union service with Epworth League discussion Torchbearers Passing on the Flame Hi Leaguers plan a Des plaines Camp Ground institute and improve plans for this year Woman's Foreign Missionary Society meets May 19 2 p m Parsonage All members urged Epworth League hosts kid s party in church basement Friday in costume Admission 10c Erwine Thompson Pastor
Our Saviour's Community Church will observe the Pentecost anniversary with morning worship on Sunday May 15. New members will be received and baptism arrangements offered. The Luther League thanks Mr. Davidson Maywood Nursery donors and league members for landscape work. The Men's chorus rehearses Thursdays at 745 pm through mid June. Young people host social May 13 at the church parlors. Bible pictures by Miss Sybil Chriss shown Wednesdays through June 14 at 8 pm with devotional 750 pm. Pastor Kferman Weiler
Bowen school notes report rain delays in baseball with a May 18 game ahead and a 3-2 season recap. Eighth graders study The Merchant of Venice and Tevye lines while ordering pins and rings for June graduation. Color red and white, ribbons for May 26 festival at Glenwood Forest Preserve. eighth graders perform The Hole in the Wall on June 17.
Washington School hosts Come-to-School Week May 16 to 20 with displays in all rooms and an eight o'clock auditorium program on May 19. Demonstrations cover music domestic science and manual training. The third grade assembly aired May 18 live pets and care. The eighth grade with older students presents Silas Marner while sixth and seventh showcase a fashion show and a kite contest concluded May 13.
Last Friday grades 4 and 5 presented an assembly program with chairman Tlerbert Ber ner. Annetta Grapenthien performed a piano solo. The fourth grade characters included Father Joe Rossi and Son Billy Dieck with roles such as Hard Work and Perseverance. April honor roll lists Enes Calgaro Virginia Diekman Geraldine Heany Jackie Jaceway Elaine Kruger Alice Rudloff Billy Stanley Annie Stepenski Milton Younker.
A mixed school and community notes page recalls Bertha Camplin’s tale of vanity and a witch turning roses thorny. It also reports May school activities from St Mary’s Riverdale, Scout hikes and a Mother’s Day project, plus class health posters and spelling honor roll mentions.
A folk tale explains why sunflowers are named for facing the sun and their yellow color. The text also notes seventh graders in Miss Gould's class wrote Pilgrims poems about early colonial life and migration to America.
Ruth Struven narrates a fairy tale about three sisters by a river. Rose, the youngest, befriends an old lady who grants wishes leading to a final transformation into a red rose loved by all. The tale ends with Rose's magical plant birth.
Fulker and others hosted a talk on home making in Scotland. New officers elected include Mrs Thaldorf as president and Mrs Fulker as vice president. The play The Red Headed Step Child raised 41 dollars for free school lunches, with an additional five dollar donation and a committee formed to can vegetables for next winter lunches.
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