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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1941
Page
2
Dalton will hold a smorensbord supper in the church basement on Tuesday October 14 from 5 to 7 pm Tickets cost 50 cents. The article also notes birthday celebrations and various local visits among residents including Miss Anna Engelhardt and other household guests.
Aurelia Strosinski daughter of Louise Strosinski and Joseph T Phillips son of 3h and Mrs Andrew M Phillips wed on Saturday September 27 at 9 30 am in St Marys church with Rev John Wieler officiating. The bride wore ivory faille taffeta with veil and roses. sister Valeria attended in cedar velvet. groom was assisted by his brother John Phillips. Ushers Geo Tourtelot Oak Park and Maurice Cosman Riverdale attended. reception at Pipe O Peace club followed by home at 138743 Illinois Riverdale.
The groom’s cousin Charles Anderson of Edwardsville Illinois served as best man with ushers George Harrison Robert Anderson and Raymond Propper. Miss Marian Proesel sang at the ceremony and Mrs Annette Anderson performed songs at dinner. The bride’s mother wore brown net with orchids and the groom’s mother plum crepe with orchids. The bride wore forest green for her trip. Out of town guests included William Menardow of Lester's Ford Indiana Mrs Leroy Stork of St Louis Missouri Mrs Ann Krueger Beecher Illinois and Charles Anderson Edwardsville Illinois. The couple will reside at 15232 Wood Street Harvey Illinois after a northern honeymoon.
Miss Velma Janes of Riverdale was honored at a Tuesday evening bridal shower hosted by Mrs. Roger OConner and Mrs. Bert Schmidt at Mrs. Sarah Wirtz’s Dal ton home on Park avenue. Guests included many Wirtz and Kleinz family members. bingo was played and luncheon served as gifts were exchanged. Miss Janes will wed Russell Wirtz on Saturday November 8 at St. Mary’s church in Riverdale.
Miss Mabel E Propper daughter of Mr and Mrs William F Propper married Judge Herbert Berggren last Thursday September 25 in the Roseland Y M C A auditorium. The ceremony was read by Rev Grover Whimsett uncle of the bride with palms and forty eight white candles. The bride wore a white jersey dinner gown trimmed with gold and orange blossom bouquet featuring white rubrum lilies and stephanotis. Maid of honor Miss Martha Whimsett cousin of the bride wore dusty pink taffeta.
The Lincoln Parent Teachers Association holds its first meeting at Lincoln School on October 7 in the afternoon at 8 o'clock in the music room. Attendees will meet new faculty and first grade mothers hostesses for refreshments with a prize for the largest representation. Seventh and eighth grade girls will act as hostesses for preschool children whose mothers attend. The PT A sponsors the local Boy Scout organization and a Teen Age dance.
The first Teen Age dance is set for October 17, the third Friday of the month, with dances on the second Friday of each month thereafter. Attendees are urged to make a special effort to start the new year right.
The Washington P. T. A. will hold its first meeting on Thursday October 2 with a pot luck dinner for teachers at 6 15 in the lunch room. A short business meeting will be followed by parent and teacher conferences in home rooms and an evening of cards in the music room. Bring a dish and get acquainted.
An ordinance of Dolton Illinois amends the 1934 liquor regulation to ban women and minors except licensees from drawing pouring or mixing alcoholic liquor as employees of retail licensees. The amendment narrows employee eligibility and enforces health and safety aims.
The ordinance prohibits liquor handling by women or minors other than licensees or a licensee’s wife. It repeals conflicting ordinances and specifies it becomes effective after passage publication and legal approval. It was passed and approved on September 23, 1941, with official filing and publication in October 1941.
Members of G. W. Spencer Women’s Relief Corps will honor past presidents at their regular meeting Friday October 3 at Riverdale village hall. A potluck luncheon starts at 12 30 with the meeting and program to follow.
A mission rally will be hosted by the Highland and Munster Lansing and two South Holland Christian Reformed churches at the Lansing Reformed church on Wednesday October 8 at 7 45 p m Rev C M Schoolland of Cicero IL will be guest speaker Community churches will provide vocal and instrumental numbers Mildred House a soloist and David Ford an accompanist will be featured along with a colored vocalist and musician G J Ellen evangelist will lead devotionals with Peter Beningenburg as chairman of the services.
We acknowledge with sincere appreciation the kindness and sympathy shown by our neighbors and friends during our recent bereavement. H. F. Wegener and Family.
Rev and Mrs Ph H Bassler with Mr and Mrs Herman Dressen traveled to Chicago Heights on Sunday afternoon to join the observance of Geo Dutt’s 90th birthday. Dutt is a member of Immanuel and a well known figure in the community.
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