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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1916
Page
5
The Dodterman Colts were rained out in the sixth scheduled game, forcing a postponement. Next Sunday the Clovers host Tremont Club of Englewood, with Tremont's 100 members pledged to travel by auto to Dalton for a likely big crowd and a decisive test at 3 o'clock.
Notice from F. O. Bergold Village Clerk states motorcycles and bicycles are forbidden on sidewalks in Riverdale and trespassers will be prosecuted. It also requires mufflers be closed and speed laws observed by all vehicles by order of the President and Board of Trustees.
The United States produced eighty eight million gallons of whiskey, fifteen billion cigarettes, thirty two million pounds of snuff, two hundred twenty million pounds of smoking tobacco, eight and a half billion cigars, and half a billion packages of chewing gum in the prior year. Twenty thousand movie theaters paid twenty five million dollars for films, drawing eleven million attendees.
The Pennsylvania Railroad sold scrap material it no longer used in 1914, earning 2,107,241.24 dollars, about one million less than the previous year. Waste paper, oil barrels, and old rubber topped modest totals, while locomotives and wooden passenger cars, odds and ends, and old wheels and wrought iron added significant sums.
The Lamaicitia Club hosts its second annual dance at Dilmens Pavilion on Saturday May 27. Tickets for gents are 25 cents, ladies enter free. All welcome.
Describes highly productive dairy and livestock country near town and railroad. Offers improved irrigated farms at $62.30 per acre and prairie land four miles out at $15 to $20 per acre. Terms easy with 10 years at 6 percent. Request name and address for maps and folders.
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