Riverdale Board Tackles Stray Dogs and Street Repairs
The Riverdale Board met in regular session with all members present. They discussed licensing stray dogs amid reports of dogs tearing up lawns and dumping by motorists, and directed the License Committee and Village Attorney Flick to amend the dog ordinance. They ordered repairs on 137th street and other avenues, arranged for water main work under railroad tracks, and placed slow signs on 188th and 137th streets near the park. Treasurer E J Schulte’s annual financial statement was ordered published. The board authorized street light placements and thanked Walter Deichen for a free fire siren switch installation. Health ordinance was delayed for next meeting, and a water main contract under Halsted tracks was referred for revisions. Bonds for W C Zesch & Son were approved.
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Riverdale Board
Price
Gruhlke
Flick
I. C
188Th Street
137Th Street
Chicago Motor Club
E. J. Schulte
Bishop
Woosnam
Ivanhoe
Public Service Co
Walter Deichen
138Th Street
Halsted Street
W. C. Zesch & Son
Acme April Sales Hit Best Since October 1929
Acme Steel Co reports April sales the strongest since October 1929. For the first four months of 1930 the total nears $4.5 million, compared with $6.25 million in 1929, $4.5 million in 1928, and $3.5 million in 1927. Senator James E. MacMurray says business is normal but profits lag due to tighter margins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acme Steel Co
James E. MacMurray
Calumet
Firemen Elect Officers at Blue Island Meeting
The Community Firemen's Association met in Blue Island on Monday evening May 26. Mayor Frank Kasten welcomed the firemen. Elected officers include President M. S. Phillips Chicago Heights Vice President John Link Blue Island Treasurer L. E. Reich Riverdale and Secretary Wm. E. Hart Thornton.
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Community Firemen’s Association
Blue Island
Frank Kasten
M. S. Phillips
Chicago Heights
John Link
L. E. Reich
Riverdale
Wm. E. Hart
Thornton
Nurses Graduate at Local Commencement Exercise
The third commencement of the Jeanette Hess Ingalls School of Nursing will be held Monday evening June 2 at 8 o'clock in the Harvey High School auditorium. Two local graduates are Evelyn Fike of Dalton and Minnie Shilling of South Holland along with five others from nearby towns. The program includes music, invocations, addresses by Mr. Frederick A. Ingalls and Dr. Harry E. Meek, solo performances, and diploma presentations.
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Jeanette Hess
Wm. F. Vance
Frederick A. Ingalls
Eostra
Pearl Gurran
Arthur Silver
Jos. M. Cooke
Pearl Curran
Wilda Fradgley
Harry E. Meek
F. A. Ingalls
Pius
Katherine B. Stott
Man Detains Freight Train At Bergen Turnpike
Ludwig Lanther waited beside the Erie crossing in East Rutherford New Jersey for a 124 car freight train to move. He uncoupled the cars and the train partially started, but Lanther stalled it and disabled the engine. He was arrested at his West New York home and charged in court.
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New York
Ludwig Lanther
Erie Crossing
East Rutherford
N. J
Bergen Turnpike
Lanther
West New York
Ecourt
Chicago Tribune
Deaths Rudolph Schwarz longtime Riverdale harness maker
Rudolph Schwarz 80 of Riverdale and Dalton died last Tuesday at his daughter’s home in Riverdale after a long illness following a car injury seven years prior. Born February 3, 1850 in Birkhard Switzerland he emigrated to America in 1882 and ran a harness shop in Dalton. He leaves a son, three daughters, five grandchildren and many friends. funeral was May 29 at Berger M E Church with burial at Berger Cemetery. His brother Samuel, 82, died Friday at Forrest Park Home for the Aged and was buried Monday.
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Henry Wilkens
East 137Th Place
Riverdale
Rudolph Schwarz
Birkhard
Switzerland
Suzanna Ashbach
America
Berger M. E. Church
Schneider
Berger Cemetery
Samuel
Forrest Park
Miss Anna Hausman Dies at 52 in May Funeral Planned
Anna Hausman died Sunday morning at age 52 years 9 months and 19 days. The obituary notes funeral arrangements and service details to be announced on page 8.
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Anna Hausman
Heart
Garden eel in gray wind and war's lingering shadow
The poem recalls war's toll with a desolate landscape of shelling and mud. Violent memory lasts beyond years as soldiers lie beneath rain soaked skies and damp gear. The speaker laments time, loss, and the enduring ache of conflict.
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Wilson Clough
Laramie
Republican-Boomer
Miss Dorothy Reich’s Showers Ahead of May Wedding
Miss Dorothy Reich received two friendly showers in May with twenty young friends at Miss Margaret Werner’s home on May 20 and eighteen guests at Ruth Reich’s home on May 27 bringing kitchen utensils and gifts. Dorothy is noted as an efficient office girl and ready to use equipment when the time comes. Also mentions Miss Illinois being a star golfer at Pipe O Peace Golf Grounds and August F Wendt expecting famous players to visit, noting Chicago crowds and strong patronage as the new course thrives.
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Dorothy Reich
Margaret Werner
Ruth Reich
Dorothy
Stafae Bajarnes
Illinois
Pipe O’ Peace Golf Grounds
August F. Wendt
Lindy
Prescient Hoover
Chicago
Gus
Memorial Day Program Observed by American Legion in Dalton
Memorial Day services will be conducted by Paul Gall Post No 308 of the American Legion at Oakland Cemetery in Dalton. A parade will form at Riverdale Village Hall at 1 30 p m with conveyance provided for Women’s Relief Corps American Legion Auxiliary Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts of Riverdale and Dalton to the cemetery. Flags and banners are urged and the march will proceed on foot to the cemetery with bands and veterans from several patriotic organizations present.
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American Legion
Paul Gall
Oakland Cemetery
Dalton
American Legion Post
Riverdale
Girls Scouts
Boy Scouts
Dolton
Riverdale Troop 797 honors Scouts at Court of Honor
At the Court of Honor two weeks ago Herbert Brady completed second class requirements. On May 27 Harry Fredeman earned Life Scout, and John and Tom Kinney earned Star Scout. Troop 797 now has three Life and three Star Scouts. plans for a weekend hike are underway.
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Herbert Brady
Harry Fredeman
John
Tom Kinney
Community notices and church events across June in Riverdale
The weekly listings show PTA trips to Monarch Laundry on June 8 with free transport and a luncheon, a banco party for Our Saviour's church on June 2 at Riverdale village hall, a WCTU meeting at Mrs. Rentner’s home on June 5, a banco and board party for St Mary’s church on June 6, the Lincoln Avenue PTA last meeting of the year on a Tuesday at 3, and a Ladies Aid supper and banco at St Paul’s school hall on June 7 with tickets 60 and 30 cents.
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Chicago Street
Monarch
111Th Street
Wentworth Avenue
A. Kroon
Ladies’ Aid of Our Saviour’s Church
Banco
Riverdale
St. Paul's Church
Crepe Hung in Hickory Flat Grocery Sparks Business Revival
In Hickory Flat Mississippi shoppers saw a crepe hanging at a local grocer and asked who was dead. The grocer answered it was just business, and shoppers responded by reviving business. the crepe was removed soon after.
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Hickory Flat
Miss
Southern Cook County road meeting outlines plans and funding
About fifty attendees from Dalton to Homewood heard County Commissioners Busse and Jaranowski discuss road building procedures, funding, and future projects. They highlighted Indiana avenues, 159th street, and a planned Dixie highway link, plus viaducts and widening to benefit southern Cook County.
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Busse and
Jaranowski
Cook County
Harvey Girls Graduate From Stevens Junior College
Ruth Russell and Esther Holmes, Harvey Girls, will graduate at Stevens Junior College for Women in Columbia Missouri during the seventy third annual commencement on June 3. Holmes is active in Curtain Raisers and Eta Upsilon Gamma, while Russell belongs to Zita Mu Epsilon Book Club and Hi Beta Steppe pep group.
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Stevens Junior College For Women
Columbia
Chicago Daily News
Harvey
Ruth Russell
C. B. Russell
Lexington Avenue
Esther Holmes
Horace Holmes
Eta Upsilon Gamma
Miss Russell
Zita Mu Epsilon
Hi Beta Steppe
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137Th
Acme
Minnie Shilling
South Holland
Evelyn Fike
Margaret Hocking
Bernice Clark
Allegan
Michigan
Esther DeVan
Margaret Wessels
Monticello
Gles
Cal
Boy Scout News
Homewood
Southern
Cook County Booster Club
Calumet City
Hazel Crest
Lansing
Dixmoor
William Busse
Busse
Chuck
John W. Jaranowski
Indiana Avenue
159Th Street
Lockport
Indiana Line
Indiana
Michigan City
178Rd Street
Burnham Avenue
Ridge Road
Park Avenue
147Th Street
Halsted
Western
154Th Street
C. and E. I
County Board
Clarence A. Hercules
Harvey Girls
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