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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1937
Page
1
Riverdale village board discusses center lane markings for B&O and SHB viaduct approaches to reduce confusion and prevent head-on collisions. The police fire and water committee will study center markers, while bids and repairs on 144th Street proceed with WPA forms and funding.
County Clerk Michael J. Flynn announced permanent voter registrations will start in Dalton Riverdale and South Holland for the 1st time on September 27 with two fall registration days Sept 27 and Oct 5. The system splits cards among the clerk offices and enables village or city clerks to hold local elections independently, reducing lengthy ballots and sidestepping misregistration. Women citizens by marriage must provide marriage dates and court details under new rules. More than 80 villages and 28 townships will fall under permanent registration with Cicero Berwyn and Harvey among suburbs not covered.
Riverdale Volunteer Fire Department has trained all week for the first National Fire Fighters tournament at Soldier Field. Competing Sunday will be Riverdale and other volunteer units, with Kipley family ties spotlighted and Rita Ripley showing a trumpet once used by Peter Kipley Sr. The Tribune featured a photo of Rita with the trumpet.
Nearly 1,200 attended the 42nd Ton reunion at Wicker Park on August 26 with another California gathering drawing 2,000. The Ton family traces roots to Jan Ton who immigrated in 1847, forming a spread across Illinois and California.
The 26th National Safety Congress and Exposition will run October 11 to 15 in Kansas City Missouri with about ten thousand attendees. More than 400 speakers will cover accident prevention across home farm street highway and industrial settings in 113 sessions.
The only WPA project in the community reconditioning four schools in School District No. 148 has its force reduced by one seventh. Foreman Garritt Norrgran cites a shortage of plasterers and electricians as the cause. The crew now numbers 23 with many workers from outside town. Painting progress varies with Roosevelt interior and Lincoln exterior largely finished.
The Riverdale and Dolton Community Chorus announces a party at Lincoln gym Dolton on Friday September 17 at 8 PM. The event titled A Gypsy Tea Room will feature nonstop entertainment including music dancing fortune telling and refreshments all in a spirit of community. A free will offering supports the event with no general admission.
Local bowlers may resume activity on Tuesday evening September 7 as the alleys at St Pauls gym are officially opened for the season.
The Chicago board of education postponed the opening of public schools next Tuesday to await the city health board’s safety verdict. Parochial schools will follow pending Saturday action. Supt. Klitzke notes no local infantile paralysis cases yet, districts set rental textbooks, and the nine o clock start remains for September 7 with kindergarten sessions at Lincoln Washington Franklin and Roosevelt.
Bowen School will begin the 1937 38 term next Tuesday September 7. The buildings are ready with newly decorated rooms two and four floors cleaned and treated fresh curtains hung and the auditorium improved. An open house is set for Sunday September 5 from 7 to 9 p m with parents invited to tour the school. Two new drinking fountains will be installed and the teaching staff from last year is retained led by Virgil O Petty principal.
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