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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1937
Page
5
The next regular meeting is Tuesday night September 28 the last of the old year. A joint installation of officers will be held Saturday evening October 2. Friday installation at Harvey Post 155. Dues now due. Pinochle season starts Friday October 15 at 8 p.m.
Mr and Mrs Arthur Smith of Dolton entered flowers at the Midlothian Garden Club show held Sunday Sept 12. Their dahlias won 13 first prizes nine seconds and five thirds. Their Betty Nuthall eladiolias received one award and a special mention.
Members of Paul Gall Post and Auxiliary joined Blue Island Post and Auxiliary for a Thursday night installation in Blue Island. Upcoming events include a joint installation in Harvey on Sept 24 and Paul Gall Unit Juniors meeting Sept 25. An officer listing error is corrected naming Anna Schnell as second vice president.
Thornton Township high school hosts Downers Grove High School at home in Harvey at 7 30 PM to kickoff a demanding 1937 schedule. Danville High and Mooseheart Academy loom as main threats while Calumet City Bloom Kankakee Blue Island and East Aurora provide frequent tests.
Potawattomi Trails Council outlines enlarged fall program for Dalton area and Sauk Trail District. Executive Board of twelve met September 15 at Glenwood Manual Training School to approve a 1938 budget and reveal events including October district rallies and Courts of Honor, November merit badge expo, December Camporee at Hoxie Cabin, plus Boards of Review on September 30 at Franklin School for various troops.
Riverdale officials and Patrick Sullivan arrange free admission for school children ages 10 to 18 to Notre Dame versus Drake in South Bend on Saturday October 2. Bus transportation costs 70 cents round trip, kickoff at 1 30. Contact Mrs Viola Wiebke for bus departure times by calling Riverdale 269R.
Riverdale baseball note reports Herb Bremer sustaining a small finger injury Monday that will bench him for the rest of the week. He anticipates returning to the Cardinal lineup next week. Clarence Struss, Riverdale star, finished the Tulsa Texas League season and will join Los Angeles in the Pacific Coast League next spring.
William Wegener known as Pa celebrated his 88th birthday at his son Herman Wegener's home in Dalton on a Tuesday evening with children grandchildren and great grandchildren in attendance. Wegener came from Hanover Germany in 1881 lived in Glenwood before Dalton and worked as a teller in a government bank. He is active with daily walks reads widely and hopes to reach 100 years. He naturalized in 1884 and has voted in elections since Grover Cleveland’s era.
A local householder has heard the pitch so often that he cues the apprentice brush salesman when the student trips over the sales spiel.
Growers in South Haven Michigan celebrate a million-dollar peach amid blossom queen country. The article ponders which figure stands out among many contenders.
A railroad returns to its standard type after experiments with Filipino porters names. The practice of calling a porter George yields no notable reaction.
Ivanhoe Mr and Mrs Gene Lynch of 14459 So Halsted street are leaving Saturday for Oakland California where they intend to stay indefinitely. Friends of Mrs J Welderson of 114228 LaSalle street are glad she has returned home after hospital confinement following an automobile accident. Mr and Mrs P H Craig and Mr and Mrs P H Craig Jr and Beverly Jean of Chicago Heights were guests of Mr and Mrs Walter Craig of 14121 Dearborn st Sunday. Last Friday Mr and Mrs Walter Craig entertained Mr and Mrs Wm Harris and daughter Shirley Mae and Mr and Mrs Thiernau as dinner guests.
The meeting reviewed a corporate fund balance of 3 657 57 and motor fuel tax accounts with August activity and end balances. Collector's report showed corporate fund receipts of 3 512 08 and special assessment fund at 689 52. Officials addressed odor from a sewer drain and an open ditch, street light maintenance, and granted Henry George School of Social Science use of the Hose House at 13892 8 Atlantic Street for ten weeks with heat and janitor services provided.
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