Riverdale Village Board Debates Charges and Services
Riverdale board meets in regular session to discuss drainage streets water police and fire matters. Outsiders soliciting funds for charity may require prior permission. Water bills delinquent cases and license delinquencies addressed while Roosevelt school water sewer connection remains unsettled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverdale Board
Claussen
Hall
187Th Street
187Th Place
Water Committee
Flick
Illinois Municipal League
142Nd
Emerald Avenue
Emerald and
Halsted Streets
Marquette Plumbing Co
Illinois State Commerce Commission
Roosevelt
Torpey and
Woosnam
Ivanhoe
Dalton
Riverdale
Will Widen Highway No 1 Across Southern Cook County
The Southern Cook County Chamber of Commerce and the Danville Chamber push to widen highway route No 1 to forty feet south of Danville. Petitions circulate in towns from here to Danville, sent to Governor Emmerson and state highway chief H H Cleaveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook County
Oil stolen from Calumet filling station on Halsted Street
The rear door of the Calumet filling station at 14401 South Halsted Street was forced open and two five gallon cans of motor oil stolen Friday night. Five additional five gallon cans were moved to the rear of the building but were not taken. A sedan was seen parked near the scene by a neighbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calumet
South
Halsted St
Bond Plan Proposed by Southern Cook County Chamber
The special tax committee proposes lifting the 1930 general property tax and funding it with a bond issue not exceeding twenty years. It also calls for delaying the 1929 penalty date to July 1, 1931 and implementing July 1, 1931 installment payments for unpaid 1929 taxes. The committee includes Otto F. Reich as chairman and members from Chicago Heights Blue Island Lemont Palos Park and Orland Park among others. It plans to collaborate with other groups and seek support in the upcoming legislative session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern
Cook County
Otto F. Reich
Homer Abbott
Chicago Heights
Bloom Township
G. A. Stevenson
Bank of Harvey
Thornton Township
Col
C. G. Holden
Olympia Fields Club
Rich Township
Chas. F. Neilson
Tinley Park
Bremen Township
Joseph Lentz
Blue Island
Worth Township
Michael Flynn
Inland Rubber Co
Palos Park
Palos Township
D. W. Jellema
Calumet Township
Claus Scheel
First National Bank of
Lemont
Lemont Township
W. R. Schussler
Orland Park
Orland Township
Cook County Chamber of Commerce
Chicago Real Estate Board
Fire Truck Has First Run
A fire in a plowed field near 154th Street east of Greenwood Road drew Officer Hardly Koehncke to the scene. A nearly new Plymouth sedan was found on fire, soon extinguished by the station’s new truck with a booster pump. The car owned by A. O. Farley of 2409 East 76th Street was reported stolen Monday night.
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154Th Street
Greenwood Road
Hardly Koehncke
Twin City
A. O. Farley
East 76Th Street
Ivanhoe Baseball Club House Burned In Suspected Arson
The Ivanhoe baseball club house and dressing shed at 142nd and LaSalle street burned last Sunday night after being set alight. Riverdale fire department arrived within minutes but the building was doomed. Investigators note gasoline and oil used to start the blaze and damage is estimated at 250 dollars.
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Ivanhoe Baseball Club
LaSalle Street
Riverdale Fire Department
Lange Lotz Tie The Knot In Dalton Home Wedding
Miss Vera Lange and Mr Edward Lotz wed last Saturday Oct 24 at the groom’s parents residence in Dalton. Rev H H Harthun of Lansing officiated with Hazel Lange as maid of honor and Cora Lotz as bridesmaid, Rudolph Schultz best man, John Schultz usher. The couple announced plans to establish a home at 13810 Michigan Avenue Riverdale.
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Vera Lange
Edward Lotz
Jacob Lotz
Dalton
H. H. Harthun
Lansing
Hazel Lange
Cora Lotz
Rudolph Schultz
John Schultz
Charles and
Lena Lange
Conrad Kern
Michigan Avenue
Riverdale
Charity Work In Riverdale Boosts Pledge Drive For Needy Families
Riverdale and Dalton relief committees organize to survey families and solicit funds. Pledge cards will be given to those who can contribute as chairs and members call on households. A Dalton fundraiser features Will Rogers in Young As You Feel on Nov 3 and 4, with tickets on sale. Riverdale 20th Precinct Improvement Association plans a banco party raffle at the village hall on Nov 23 with clock prize. tickets 25c, 10c for raffle tickets through committee members or treasurer Richard Hess.
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Riverdale
Dalton
Village of
General Relief Committee
Frank D. Price
Highlawn
Young
Ida Goeringer
Mamie Hilmer
Jacob Kirsch
Oswald Obeldobel
Greenfield
Wm. Hazen
Preston Smith
Ivanhoe
Gerald Byrnes
Harry Lundgren
F. E. Martin
L. A. Davidson
T. J. Mullender
Wm. B. Graves
M. E. Runyan
H. J. Lundgren
Illinois Central
Banco
Richard Hess
Association
Robbery at A P Reichs Jewelry Store in Dal ton
Four Roseland suspects robbed A P Reichs Jewelry Store last Saturday morning smashing the window with a starting crank. Two white men and two young blacks were rounded up after 17 prior robberies and auto thefts. Reich recovered two wrist watches but rings remain missing.
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A. P. Reich
Dalton
Roseland
Allie
Ehlert
Chicago
Kensington Police
West 118Th Street
West Pullman
Grand Jury
South Chicago
Reich
Kemps-Schroeder Wedding at St Pauls Church
Jacob Schroeder of Riverdale and Rose Kemps of Roseland united in marriage on a Saturday afternoon October 24 at St Pauls church with Rev Kemnitz officiating. A reception followed and dinner was served at the groom’s home 317 Hast 136th street. Groomsman John Schroeder bridesmaid Caroline Barwan. They will set up house in Roseland. A. C. Reich lists a sale of multiple Dalton lots priced at bedrock 200 dollars each on Interocean 9710.
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Jacob Schroeder
Riverdale
Rose
Kemps
Roseland
St. Paul’s Church
Rev
Kemnitz
Hast
John Schroeder
Caroline Barwan
Local police nab cabbage patch thieves and pepper pickers
Officer Harold Koehneke arrested three men in a cabbage patch south of 154th street and later two men stealing peppers at John Jonkina farm on Greenwood road. cabbages fined ten dollars and pepper thieves five dollars plus costs after farmers declined prosecution. Also notes births, anniversaries, cross town changes, and a police arrest of Louis Scott in Milwaukee for thefts, with follow up on a street fight and cross town workers.
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Harold Koehneke
154Th Street
Michigan City Road
John Jonkina
Greenwood Road
154Th
Heidengnich
Cabba Oe
Kate Mortimer
Frank D. Price
Riverdale
Staszak
Herman Wendrick
147Th Street
Herman
Ernst Strassenberg
St. Schwab
East 187Th Street
Oswald Oberdobel
Mr. Sehwah
van Gelder
Gladstone Co
Obeldobel
Katie Dick
Fred Ehlert
Dalton
Scott
Panhandle
Herbert Dickelman
Milwaukee
Schill City
Roll Call Sunday At Our Saviour's Church Wabash
Our Saviour's Lutheran in Wabash at 188th Street plans a rare all member attendance in Sunday services as part of United Spiritual program with Chicago area churches. Most families pledge morning attendance. remaining few will attend 7:80 evening service. Herman Keiter, Pastor.
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Our Saviour
United Lutheran
Wabash
188Th Street
Chicago
United Spiritual
Herman Keiter
Waterway Plan Pushes Chicago Area Toward Inland System
Civic leaders hear Congressman Hull promote a vast Inland Waterways expansion linking the Great Lakes to the Gulf. He envisions rapid completion by 1938 with the Illinois Waterway as a Chicago gateway and asks for immediate steps to secure sites and rights of way amid rising riparian development.
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Calumet Harbor
William E. Hull
Peoria
South End
Europe
Chicago
Great Lakes
Indiana
St. Lawrence Waterway
Inland Waterways System
Chicago Area
Notice to Bidders on Village Insurance 1931
Notice to bidders from the Village of Dalton invites sealed bids by 8:00 p m on Tuesday November 10 1931 for insurance on a 1931 fire truck and a 1930 Ford sedan with specified limits for fire theft property damage and liability. The board may reject all bids. WM G Dolton Village Clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Trustees
Dalton
WM. G. Dolton
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tvankliss
Emmerson
B. B. Club
Lange-Lotz
A. C. Reich
Bedrock
Phone Interocean
Congressman Hull
Calumet Congress
Calumet Region
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