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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1930
Page
7
A help wanted-style notice seeking employment as janitor or repair worker. The ad invites calls to Doltor at 5388J and notes 25-lp as a notation or reference.
Public Service Company of Northern Illinois reports quarter earnings for the period ending September 30 1980 with operating revenues of 8 129 968 and net income 1 245 955 77 after taxes and retirements. For the year ended September 30 1980 operating revenues total 35 284 811 40 and retirements 7 750 449 08. without recent rate reductions, quarterly and yearly figures would have risen by about 367 000 and 417 000 respectively.
Eleanor Jane Catherine Gertrude and Zola Lisbon are the new arrivals at the home of Mr and Mrs Henry Heffner at 171st street East Hazel Crest. The triplets two girls and a boy arrived Monday. The father, formerly with the Pullman company, has been out of work for over two months and meals have been scarce. The family has four other children aged seven to fifteen. Neighbors are helping keep the family together.
The Highlawn Parent-Teacher Association heard Mrs Orville T Bright Sr speak at the October meeting. Students presented a health play and grade assemblies while awards honored best hall order and PTA attendance. Teachers visited Horace Mann and Shoe schools. fifth graders anticipate a Field Museum trip and new Chicago Public Library books.
A column notes social visits and travels from twenty years ago. Mrs. Harry Morgan hosts a large Dalton and Riverdale gathering at Flossmoor. Hilda Wichman enjoys a three week vacation with relatives in Michigan. Felix Stout returns from Keokuk after his brother C C Stout, a Northwestern Telephone lineman, is killed. Ed Wirtz and Dan Spar visit old friends in Chicago. Mrs. Albert Klinkhammer hosts guests from Goodland Indiana. Belle Reed visits Villa Grove, Mrs. Robert Vandenberg and Hattie Harter host Miss Reed.
In Matteson a trio plus Henry Gottschalk shadow a man named Bill catching fish. Bill’s basket contains salt herring instead of pickerel. A celebratory feast follows at Bill’s place. In Homewood a new house site is prepared west of Locard house with Fred Meeker and Targenhorst Bros. handling work. Sam Gurno moves into Gottschalk’s Maria street flat.
Miss Rosa Schrieber of Chicago called on her parents and friends last Sunday. Fred Holtz, a Thorn ton boy working in Chicago, spends most of his spare time in Homewood.
Mr and Mrs N DeBoer of La Verne visited Mr and Mrs A Huizenga this past week. Miss Hanna Harmeling stayed with Dr and Mrs Walvoord. John Fischer of Dalton and Miss Anna Cook married and earned friends best wishes. Fred Rietveld reports a second strawberry harvest. Who says City life.
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