Riverdale Board Meeting Discusses Water Meter Issue at Plant
Riverdale trustees met in regular session September 11 with six members present. Finance reports show August collections of 3,527.69 for Corporate Fund and 157.22 for Special Assessment Fund, plus August balances of 990.50 and 32,940.80 respectively. Drainage notes State refusal to pay Village Inspector relocation costs near Halsted Street viaduct. referred to attorney. Police and fire reports list August fines totaling 11.00 by Justice Kinney and 118.00 by Police Magistrate Haht.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverdale Board
Nelson
Robinson
Schroll
Hanihan
Torpy
Hanschmann
Claussen
Halsted Street
Justice of the Peace
John E. Kinney
Louis E. Haht
Dolton Gold Star Mother Matilda Gall Dies at 71
Dolton mourns Matilda Gall mother of fallen marine Paul Gall as the community notes her long service with the Paul Gall Post and the Legion auxiliary. Born in Germany, she immigrated at 16 and married John Gall in Wanatah Indiana. She died September 18 1934 after a short illness. Funeral services were held at her home and at Kniman Indiana. She leaves two sons Otto and Roy, a daughter Edith, ten grandchildren, four sisters and one brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dolton
Matilda Gall
Paul Gall
Chateau Thiery
American Legion
St. Paul’s Taitheran Church
Schultz
Germany
United States
John Gall
Wanatah
Ind
Otto
Mellie
Edith
Paul
Roy
Mel- Hie
France
Los Angeles
Cal
Chicago
C. Rudolph
Dalton
Funer
W.J. Kemnitz
Kniman
W. R. Vandre
Lowell
Knma
Firemen's Festival Ends Sunday September 23
Dalton Fire Department hosts a fall festival on the village hall grounds with many attractions drawing large crowds. The event closes Sunday September 23.
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Dalton Fire Department
50c Charge Illegal In Suburban Towns Association Bulletin
The Suburban Area and Country Towns Association reports a court ruling halting the practice of the County Collector withholding 50 cents as costs on delinquent special assessment items. Broadview vs Nash, decided by Judge Trude, orders accounting for $11,550 held in the past five years. Maywood official Thomas A. Matthews notes the ruling and its implications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broadview
Nash
Trude
Circuit Court
Suburban Area & Country Towns Association
Thomas A. Matthews
Secrtary
Madison Street
Maywood
Health Clinic at Dalton Village Hall
The Chicago Tuberculosis Institute will run a monthly health clinic at Dalton village hall on Monday September 24 from 9 to 12 noon.
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Chicago Tuberculosis Institute
Dalton
Voters Must Re register for November 6 1934 election
All voters must register anew for the election to be held Tuesday November 6 1934. Two registration days are September 29 and October 9 1934 from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Registration must occur in person at the polling place unless ill or out of county, in which case a mail registration plank may be filed with the County Clerk by October 8 1934. Robert M Sweitzer County Clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook County
Robert M. Sweitzer
Patriotic Call for Girls to Join Junior Auxiliary of W R C
A civic appeal urges girls aged eight to sixteen to join the Junior Auxiliary of the Womans Relief Corps to foster patriotism. Applications via home or school. notification in The Pointer. Mention of a family pet and reward details follow.
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Free
Womans Relief Corps
Tragic Speed Boat Capsize Drowns Two Men in Calumet River
Robert May 45 and Carl Schmidt 33 drowned while testing a twenty foot speed boat in the Calumet River opposite the Chicago Brick Co yards Blue Island. May attempted a rescue while Schmidt aided in repairs. May’s brother Edward 41 witnessed the tragedy and recovered one body before the others disappearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert May
Ann Street
Blue Island
Carl Schmidt
Blue Telend
May
Calumet River
Chicago
Edward
Robert
Schmdit
Bowlers to Form League at St Pauls School Alleys
A meeting of bowlers will be held at St Pauls School alleys on Monday evening September 24 at 7 30 to form a bowling league. All interested are invited to attend.
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St. Paul’s School
Lindbergh Baby Kidnapper Hauptmann Caught
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Bronx carpenter, linked to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and murder. Ransom money totaling 13750 dollars found in his garage. identification by Dr. John F. Condon and a taxi driver aided federal investigators in solving the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Bronx
Hauptmann
John F
Jassie)Condon
Samuel E Trussell Dies at 74 in Dolton Illinois
Samuel E Trussell aged 74 years 3 months 28 days died at his daughter Ruths home 7723 Burnham avenue Chicago on Saturday September 15. He was born May 18 1860 near Montreal Canada married Edith Austin August 20 1898 at Marshfield Wisconsin. He worked 30 years for the C and E I railroad including ten years as traveling engineer. He retired seven years ago and lived in Rockville Indiana. Survived by widow two sons Charles Harold of Oklahoma two daughters Ruth Chicago Helen Dolton four grandchildren. Funeral Tuesday at daughter Helens home 14640 Grant street Dolton conducted by Rev Meyer interment Oaklawn cemetery.
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Samuel E. Trussell
Ruth
Burnham Avenue
Chicago
Mr. Trussell
Montreal
Canada
Edith Austin
Marshfield
Wis
C. & E. I. Railroad
Rockville
Ind
Charles
Harold
O’keene
Oklahoma
Helen
A. J. Klinkhammer
Dolton
Grant Street
Meyer
Oaklawn Cemetery
Birthday salutations and visits span a busy local week
Mrs. Caroline Dreger hosts a Sunday party for her 73rd birthday while Richard Hess, Sr. marks his 67th. Harold Duch visits from Crivitz to Chicago World’s Fair and local sights. Students from Riverdale and nearby towns enroll at Illinois and Chicago institutions. A baby boy born to Lawrence Stieman’s family. German visitors join a Dalton party with seventy five relatives. News includes travel to Gary Worlds Fair and a three week Wisconsin vacation.
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Caroline Dreger
Richard Hess
Harold Duch
Crivitz
Wisconsin
Frank O. Bergold
Chicago
George Duck
Bergold
Highlawn
School Street
Ellen Thomson
Leone Waddell
Lee Gladstone
Carl Garry
David Cohen
Irene Vandenberg
Champaign
University of Illinois
Edith Steinke
Kindergarten Teachers College
Bernard Bender
Winamac
Ind
Lawrence Stieman
Chicago Normal College
Womens Missionary Society of Our Saviors Church
William Schroder
Charles Green
Ridgeville
O. R. Warren
Joseph de Rossi
Peter de Rossi
Riverdale
L. E. Fancher
East 136Th Street
John Baseheart
John
State of Washington
Cecil Cheney
Dalton
Germany
Ben Struven
Forest Avenue
Albert Abraham
Qarl Trumper
Abraham
Kiel
Max Abraham
Carl Jennings
Trumper
Reinhart Wartenberg
Roseland
Howard Nelson
Horace Flood
Dolton
Franklin
Nebraska
Henry Kiel
Lincoln Avenue
Charles Bennett
N_ Gentry street
Frankfort
Raymond Baumgartner
Harvey and
Gary
Glenwood
Lansing Road
W. Claussen
Winona Ave
Sunnyside
Voters Must Register Before Upcoming County and State Elections
Representative Frank E. Foster urges in a notice that every voter must register for the forthcoming county and legislative elections on November 6. Registration and revision days are September 29 and October 9, with polls open 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. in three Riverdale and Dolton precincts, in person only.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dolton
Immanuel Church
Berger School
Calumet Sag canal widening and harbor plan moves ahead
A South End business and union delegation met with Mayor Kelly and won assurances the city will promote widening of the Calumet Sag canal and construction of the Calumet harbor. The government removed the major hurdle by changing 19 bridges and the sanitary district will modify three bridges, clearing the path for project start soon.
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South End
Kelly
Calumet Sag Canal
Calumet Harbor
Local residents on vacations and obituaries in Riverdale area
Mr and Mrs Elmer Steiner and family of Dalton left Saturday for New Hampshire for a two week vacation. John Eyerman of Riverdale died at Ravenswood hospital on September 16 from streptococci infection. funeral at Drake and Sons and burial at Burr Oak. Miss Lorene Waddell and Miss Virginia Stanley of Dalton were in California for three weeks. Leondo Ursetti and Dorothy Bishop welcomed a girl born September 16. I B Blanchet and Dalton residents returned from a two week vacation to New York and Niagara Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Steiner
Dalton
New Hampshire
Steiner
Borden Company
Theodore Schlueter
New Orleans
Otto Schlueter
Floyd Vogel
John Eyerman
Riverdale
Ag Pley
Ravenswood Hospital
Western Austin Company
Aurora
Chicago
Drake and Sons Funeral Home
Burr Oak Cemetery
John Baumgartner
Nampa
Idaho
Herman Werner
E. 186Th Place
Lorene Waddell
Virginia Stanley
California
Leondo Ursetti
Atlantic Street
Ursetti
Dorothy Bishop
I. B. Blanchet
New York
Niagara Falls
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Iee Company
Wm. G. Dolton
Peter J. Kurz
Jas. McLaughlin
W.R.C
Dearborn Street
Riverdlag
Chicago Brick Co
Lindbergh
Samuel E. Trussel
St. Mary’s School Hall
Margaret Stieman
Fred A. Rech
Milwaukee
Rech
William
Ben Stieman
Perry Ave
Fileen
Mary Harms
Europe
Europa
London
Frank E. Foster
Richard Hess and Son
Indiana Avenue
Calumet
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