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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1933
Page
6
Local notices recount piano lessons by Mrs. Alice Kik kert at 18266 South School, visits from neighbors in Lansing and Randolf streets, weddings, births, and a large church social. Several trips to Kokomo, Chicago, and Hammond are noted alongside a serious field accident injuring a worker and a broken collarbone.
Public school adds a new room with Ray W. Gouwens at 5 Wistructer. A 4 Woman onion picker on the Van Schouwen farm at Lansing was injured when a truck with a power screen rolled. A boy set the truck in motion and could not stop it. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Bowma visit relatives in town. First Christian Reformed church plans Rev. M. Arnoys to preach next Sunday and in both English and Holland services. Richard Price considers moving to Lewis St. from his current home near his business. Tuns Marlbere and family of Harvey would occupy the vacated home. For rent a 5 room flat at 168 W 158th St. South Holland priced $11.19-2p.
Thousands of teachers and friends petition State Superintendent Blair to appoint Dr Penny president of the Illinois State Normal University at Normal Illinois. The Riverdale fire department fought a large pile of dead trees and refuse burning in a vacant lot Tuesday at 12:45 p.m. The Dalton department responded last Saturday at 1 p.m. to a prairie fire near Michigan Avenue.
The Hall of Religion at the Chicago World’s Fair hosts priceless exhibits viewed daily by thousands. The exposition attracts global visitors as the fair closes on October 61.
Local residents recount visits and gatherings across Pipestone Minnesota Riverdale Illinois and surrounding areas. Names include John Pickgras and son John Jr Mrs Richard Coleno Alfred Miller James Harris of New York City and Bert Proper among others with travels birthdays silver anniversary and a scalding incident at Haney yards.
Frugal bargain nights list 10c and 35c admissions for ongoing stage and film bills including Sailor Be Good So This is Harris The Iceberg Bondage Nothing Ever Happens and more. Local residents Eva and Amos TePaske are noted visiting Dalton while their father’s former Dutch Reformed church home is described as relocated.
A large Riverdale audience attended a Monday night band concert, thanked nearby Merchants for courtesies from Kettler's Drug Store Cogswell's Delicatessen and Joseph Madala. Indoor fall and winter programs planned due to cooler weather.
We express our appreciation and thanks to all our neighbors and friends for the sympathy shown at the death of our son Alfred Short. James Short and Family.
In Dalton the fathers of the bride and groom, H. J. Schiffer and Emil Dieek, followed the wedding party by hitching tin cans and old shoes to the couple’s car. The newlyweds slipped from the church and left in a separate vehicle, their fate unclear.
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