Public Hearing on Dalton sewer supplementary assessment
A Park Avenue district meeting of property owners heard arguments on a $20,995.29 supplementary assessment to cover sewer costs. Speaker lists, readings of bills, and calls for broader reductions dominated the session, ending with a board resolution to draft an ordinance for passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalton
Park Avenue
Claussen
Joseph Pinger
Markman
Pinger
Dickelman
Hahn
Puhrman
President Claussen
Chas. Waterman
Horace Holmes
John Berger
Weidner
Frank Krueger
Mr. Wertman
Ed. Stahnke
Andrew Messerschmidt
Henry Dillner
James McGowan
Carl Neidow
Board of Local Improvements
Thornton Township High School Cruises to 28 0 Victory
Thornton Township High School defeated Lockport 28 to 0 last Saturday with a notable 45 yard run by Van Deursen. The TTHS squad, featuring Fred Hinnechmann George Nairn Raymond Van Deursen Harold Gundaker and Roy Huntley, aims to extend a near perfect season with a home clash against Morgan Park after their 0–0 season opener.
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Lockport
Thornton Township High School
Thornton
van Deursen
Dalton
Riverdale
Fred Hinnechmann
George Nairn
Raymond van Deursen
Harold Gundaker
Roy Huntley
Wanted four furnished rooms for light housekeeping
Mrs. B. Dick seeks four furnished rooms in Dalton with light housekeeping. Address 13751 Illinois street or The Pointer office. Found on Lincoln avenue a man's glove. Finder can claim at The Pointer office. For sale a house and lot in Highlawn Pain for $200 cash with balance on time. Details at The Pointer office.
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Lincoln Avenue
Dalton
Pointer
Highlawn
City officials advance street paving and repairs
Aldermen Reading and Block are praised for laying crushed stone on Indiana and Leyden avenues at no cost to property owners funded by the city wheel tax. A fence on Indiana avenue in front of Grant Bros machine shop owned by the Dalton estate was removed by aldermen Wednesday. Public Works Superintendent McCarthy and Assistant Sollon inspected Riverdale streets and will urge paving soon.
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Reading
Block
Indiana and Leyden Avenues
Indiana Avenue
Grant Bros
Dalton
McCarthy
F. W. Sollon
Riverdale
Tragic Death in C. E. I. Yard Accident
A Ruegsian laborer working in the C. E. I. yards was fatally injured last Friday morning after stepping in front of a fast train No 24. He had just left the work train, was thrown into the air and struck several times before being tossed aside. He died Saturday at Englewood hospital.
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Ruegsian
C. & E. I. Yards
Englewood Hospital
Saloon HoldUp Suspect Sentenced by Judge Dever
Joliet Frank Bondreau of 50 W 119th street was sentenced to one to ten years in the state penitentiary by Judge Dever. Bondreau, arrested the night of August 20, confessed to robbing Mike Fulyczak at his saloon on 118th place and Morgan Street and to another farmer robbery at Riverdale, taking about $15.
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Frank Bondreau
119Th Street
Dever
Bondreau
Mike Fulyczak
118Th Place
Morgan Street
Riverdale
South Holland News Briefs Show Local Happenings and Oddities
South Holland News reports on illness and vacations, a Patoka Ind trip for Mrs Holmes and her son, and a fire masquerade at the Koedyker sisters’ home with forty guests in curious costumes. The Merry Go Round Club discussed women on police duty, a hall mouse caused adjournment, and a neighbor lent a car cry. Onion sets shipped, Globe turnips near market, electric light work to resume, Halloween pranks few. A cow was moved from DeYoung pasture to Shilling premises, who thanks the pranksters. A new baby makes Jacoba wear a smile. VanDer Vleet Sr moves to Forest Park. a cook stove for sale.
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Yennis Vanderaa
W. W. Barnard Seed
Mr DeYoung
Arnold DeYoung
Harry Shilling
Tuesaday
Anthony Jacoba
Jacoba
DeYoung
South Holland
Local and Personal News of Dalton and Riverdale
Mrs. John Berger visits daughter in Lexington IJ and Mrs Albert Klinkhammer’s family visits West Pullman. Read about injuries at C E I yards, Sparr’s cancer surgery, birth of a baby girl in Dolton, Halloween windows cleaning, a 76th birthday, and river town civic updates including the reincorporation of Riverdale Iron & Steel and Dolton water plans.
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John Berger
Dr. Hammers
Lexington
Albert Klinkhammer
Bessie
Herbert Verdine
West Pullman
Lena Walkerly
Chicago Heights
Dalton
Dorothy
Victoria
Heights
Chas, Hammon
Alfred Brightman
Decatur
United States
Wells
Englewood Hospital
Daniel Sparr
Chicago Post-Graduate Hospital
Sparr
Riverdale
Wm. Delgarmo
Dolton
Italian laborers arrested after razor attack on foreman
Chief Malmquist and Lieutenant Wilcke of Blue Island arrested two Italian laborers on the Indiana Harbor railroad last Thursday afternoon two hours after the Italians had almost killed their employer Ignaz Pleege section foreman at Blue Island with a razor. Pleege had seven gashes in his body.
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Malmquist
Wilcke
Blue Island
Indiana Harbor Railroad
Ignaz Pleege
Pleege
Photoplay Listings at Land's Hall Dolton
Friday screening How Mrs Murray Saved the American Army features a war drama with wartime heroism. Saturday presents The California Revolution of 1846 a historical drama. Sunday includes Vitagraph Monthly with Head-on Collision. Monday showcases Gotch and Hackenschmidt wrestling match. Tuesday offers Gold in Colorado a comedy show.
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Land’s Hall
Dolton
Riverdale Bond Issue for Chicago Bridge Vote Next Tuesday
Riverdale voters face a November 7 bond vote to fund a Calumet River bridge on Indiana Avenue. The $150000 project was approved previously but struck down by wording errors, requiring a new election and city bids expected in January.
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Riverdale
Chicago
Calumet River
Indiana Avenue
Polling Place Changed in Dalton to M Rudloff Store Room
The polling place in Dalton next Tuesday moves from Dillner's Pavilion to the M Rudloff store room at the corner of Main and Chicago street.
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Dalton
Dillner’s Pavilion
M. Rudloff
Main and
Chicago Street
Church Services and Meetings Listed for Nov 5 1911
Churches schedule multiple services Sunday November 5 1911 including sermons Sunday School times and meetings at St Pauls Dalton Dutch Reformed St Marys Immanuel and other congregations with pastors Rev H Winp Rev W E Cissna Rev John W Tepaskk Rev W F Verhalen Rev G G Press and note of Reformation festival in English and German services invited attendees.
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St. Paul’s Ev. Luth
138Th Street
Martin Luther
Rev
H. Winp
Dutch Reformed Church
St. Mary’s
W. F. Verhalen
Immanuel Evang
G. G. Press
Our Saviors Church Services and Election Session
The Our Saviors Evangelical Lutheran Church Riverdale holds Sunday School at 2 15 pm and 3 80 pm with Confirmation Class and evening worship at 7 30 pm conducted by Rev John F Seibert and Pastor Kabele. A business session follows for church council election. Rev Geo P Kabele pastor
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Our Saviors
English Evangelical Lutheran Church
Riverdale Village Hall
John F. Seibert
Synodical Missionary
Paator Kabele
Church Council
Geo, P
Kabele
Pato
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Public Hearing
Joliet
South Holland News
V. New
Geo. C. Clayton
Pope Beet Sugar Works
Riverdale Iron & Steel Co
Chicago-Riverdale Iron & Steel Co
Pennsylvania Railroad
Indiana Harbor Crossing
Dalton Tower
Wm. J. Albrecht
Wesley Hospital
Clara Baecker
Miss Baecker
Ruth Schaefer
Dalton M. E. Church
Elizabeth Harms
Stacia Hoefffelman
Daisy Johnson
Naomi Johnson
Margaret Stanley
Dorothy van Deursen
Isabel Wahmhoff
Alice Day
Holly Day
Hank
Schaefer
Wahmhoff
Day
Emma Raecker
Denver
Samuel Ohling
Clara Reich
Chas. Mullally
Muskegan
Mich
Frank Smith
Hazel Goodshaw
C A. Bard
City Water Department
Gano
Irene Berger
A. V. Burger
Butler Street
115Th Street
Griffith
McPhearson
G. A R
Illinoia Central
George Prickett
C.& E.I. Yards
Dalton M E. Church
John van Deursen
Dalton M. E
Ladies Aid
W. E. Cissna
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