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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1943
Page
2
Social visits fill the week from Riverdale to Dalton with birthdays, Mother's Day gatherings, and guests from Camp Haan to Nashville. Community events include a card dance at St Marys hall, prize displays in Leyden avenue store window, and a May Queen crowning at Thornton township high school.
The Van Zanten sisters Della and Lucy express gratitude to relatives friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy during illness and death. They thank Rev Blaauw Rev John Kuite the quartet and organist for comforting words songs and floral pieces.
Open Bible Church at 8 W 138th Street Riverdale hosts a Bible Conference on Monday May 17 from 2:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.. Dr. Harry Bultema of Muskegon Mich speaks at 8:00 p.m. and Rev Cornelius Stam of Patterson N J at 8:45 p.m. Special music and supper at 6:30 p.m.
War Price and Rationing Boards announced sugar for home canning this season. Allocation remains about one pound per four quarts or eight pounds finished, with a 25 pound per person cap and five pounds per person for jams and jellies. Applicants provide War Ration Book 1 copy for each person, total fruit to be canned, and sugar used for jams. Applications unlikely before May 15. no special form needed unless sale is planned.
Motorists must display A B and C gas stickers on rear windows to avoid ration revocation. OPA director Michael F. Mulcahy announced a sticker enforcement drive. Lost or misplaced stickers should be replaced by contacting the local War Price and Rationing Board. Gas station attendants must refuse service to motorists without the proper sticker.
Local inductees include Robert Eugen e Axtell Paul William Schmidt Edward Paul Fike Emil Peter Capriotti and Raymond Peter Rossi of Dalton Robert Theodore Jorsch Arthur Cornwall of Riverdale Inductees from South Holland in April are John Louis Vinke Peter Ravesloot Jr Jacob Veenstra Andrew Harold Vogel and Leonard Van Drunen Jr Lansing list also features Max Eugene Cary Peter Gleim Reinhardt Otto Hecht James Edward Cole William Van Der Pol Edward Carl Haarthun William Chas Miller Walter Arnold Lange Donald Charles Baumann Alvin Wikle Jr Milton Elsberry Gaither and Clarence Harry Fennema
Millicent Dreck was elected president as the Dalton Riverdale Junior Woman's Club set a summer program. A bowling party on June 7, a golf tournament July 18 with Katherine Kurz as chair, a July 24 luncheon at Tracy's on-the-Avenue with golf-winners awards, a August 8 Green Lake picnic, plus an annual spring dinner May 17 at 6:30 at the Redwoods.
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