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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1917
Page
8
A cafetarian social will be held at the Berger school on May 29 at 7 30 p m. Everyone is invited to attend and enjoy themselves. The notice mentions attending relatives at a Laura Waterman Chicago wedding and upcoming church services.
Mrs Eva Fredericka Volbrecht, 80, a Thornton township pioneer, died at her home east of Thornton on Saturday May 17. She leaves five sons, one daughter Minnie Dahlman, 14 grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral was held at the house and German Lutheran Church Oakglen with interment at Oakwoods Cemetery Chicago.
The Thornton Highway Commissioners invite sealed bids by 10 A M May 31 1917 for painting bridges 147th Street State Line Burnham Range Line and 167th Street. Bids must specify each bridge separately and all paint brushes and materials are to be supplied by the town. Bridges to be scraped with steel brush and painted with two coats red iron work and two coats white on approaches.
Observations note birds eat beyond fullness and swallow crops. tests by biological survey assistants show extreme intake. A bank swallow in Texas consumed 68 cotton boll weevils. a night hawk ate 840 grasshoppers along with other insects.
Ice deliveries begin Monday May 21 to Riverdale Dolton and nearby areas at 40 cents per 100 pounds. Cash payment required.
At 148th Street and Lincoln Avenue worship hours are Sunday School at 9:00 a.m. Confessional services at 9:30 a.m. Pentecost Sermon and Holy Communion at 10:00 a.m. Monday May 28 services begin at 10:00 a.m. Rev. H. Wind is the pastor.
St Marys Catholic Church offers low mass at 6 00 am and 8 00 am and high mass at 10 30 am with Rev W A Derrmer as pastor. Dolton Methodist Episcopal Church holds Sunday School at 9 40 am morning worship at 11 00 am and evening service at 7 30 pm led by Rev Auuiwon A McCracken.
Our Saviors Evangelical Lutheran Church announces Whit Sunday services with Sunday School at 9 30 a m and Morning Worship at 10 30 a m at 138th Street and Wabash Avenue Pastor J Walter Bressler urges members and welcomes all others to attend.
English preaching on the first Sunday of each month at 10 30. German preaching on all other Sundays at 10 40. English evening services on the second and fourth Sundays at 7 30. Rev. Joan Dorsaun, Pastor.
The Liberty Loan of 1917 is described as a five billion dollar loan from a liberty-loving people. It aims to fund the liberation of Europe and the seas and to support democracy in the Old World with aid from the New World.
Judge Carpenter in the United States District Court ordered the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad sold. The line serving Chicago Evansville and St. Louis was placed in receivership in 1913. Sale set for July 17 in Danville Illinois with receiver William J Jackson. Receiver's certificates totaling 6 000 000 due July 1 and several liens on the road fall due then. The judge cited favorable current market conditions and war uncertainties as reasons for the sale.
A public notice lists contributors to the Dolton Concert Band project funds for a new band stand. Donations range from 50 cents to 10 dollars, with many individuals and local businesses named alongside amounts. Total collections amount to 111.25 dollars.
The Dolton Theater schedules include Arms and the Woman a six part drama on Friday with realistic European war scenes and a munition factory fire. Saturday features Struits of Desire a five part adaptation of Henry Russell Miller's Ambition of Mark with Robert Warwick. Sunday presents Kennedy Square, a five part romance and chivalry tale with Antonio Moreno and Charles Kent, plus Gutfs and Gunplay a comedy. A Wednesday program Dollars And The Woman a six part Blue Ribbon feature and Mr Jack a Doctor by Proxy follow. Special: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea a Jules Verne photo drama filmed underwater. See Saturday June 2 with matinee Sunday at 3 pm and evening at 7 pm Admission 5 and 10 cents.
Saturday features Liber ty with Marie Walcamp and Eddie Polo in A Wife's Folly in two parts, plus Holua Hunter and Ben Wilson in an all star cast and a comedy. Sunday Metro brings Miss Irene Fenwick in The Child of Destiny a five part drama about a mother and daughter with divorce sermon. Also Arthur Rooney Stock Co presents Elmo in eight nights with a 10 and 5 cent matinee. Wednesday offers The Voice on the Wire with Ben Wilson Neva Gerber plus a two part drama and a sky comedy. Admission 10 and 15 cents. matinee 5 and 10 cents.
Laura Krug of Riverdale and Mr A L Erickson were married Wednesday afternoon May 23 at the groom's parents home in Gary Indiana. The ceremony was attended by Mrs John Krug and others from Riverdale and Dalton. Mr Erickson works for New York Central Lines. The couple will tour the west and begin housekeeping in Chicago on return.
Public notices list bank Saturday closing hours from May 12 to October 6. Real estate ads market a six room frame house at Thornton Junction and six lots at a corner on Chicago and South streets. Classifieds promote a concrete block machine and other equipment, with contact details for P. O. Hox and local representatives.
A triangular brooch with a pearl pendant is reported missing between Dolton and 112th Street. Local notices include cleaning services by Mrs Frank Berndt at 498 Washington Avenue, Dolton, a note that a liberty bond is a mortgage on the United States, and Royal Neighbors meeting dates in Dolton Village Hall. The Division Festival is scheduled at Thornton Township High School on Saturday June 2.
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