Community notices from Dalton Riverdale area list events
Local society notes recount a September 17 party at Melody Mill attended by Top Hatters of Riverdale. Numerous births, anniversaries, surgeries, birthdays, visits, and family gatherings are recorded for residents of Dalton Dolton Harvey and nearby towns with dates, names, and venues.
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Top Hatters Club
Riverdale
Melody Mill
22Nd Street
Cermak Road
Mary Keisler
Homan Avenue
Albert Simnick, Jr
Joy Ann
Lloyd
K. E. Schultz
George
Dorothy
Norma Greenow
Chicago
David Fadtke
Theo. Koch
Fred Treftz
Albert Treftz
Charles David
Dalton
George Jones
Lansing
Ill
Minnie de Turk
Reading
Penn
Robert M. Weidner
Gilbert Lane
Harrisburg
Buffalo
New York
Arcade
Carol Jean Klitzke
Lyle Klitzke
South State Street
Ingalls Memorial Hospital
Harvey
Alfred Kort
Dolton
Thurel Meeder
Shirley
David S. Meeder
Mt. Pleasant
Raymond Hedlund
Gilbert P. Lane
Mary Good
Schaefer
St. Petersburg
Fla
County Teachers' Institute Set for October 7
The Cook County Teachers' Institute will be held in the Cameo Room at Hotel Morrison on Friday October 7 1938. Noble J. Puffer Cook County Superintendent opens the program at 10 o clock with speakers Charles C Stadtman Clem Lane Kirby Ambler and Dr Paul J Misner. The institute emphasizes closer home community and school cooperation to adapt children to a changing world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook County
Teachers’ Institute
Morrison
Noble J. Puffer
Charles C. Stadtman
Clem Lane
Kirby Ambler
Paul J. Misner
Mr. Puffer
Young Democrats of Calumet Township Elect Officers
The Young Democrats of Calumet Township elected officers at their meeting at headquarters 2327 W 121st street. Joseph Phillips was chosen president with Anthony Kazmierczak as vice president Aurelia Strosinski as recording secretary Leonard Carriere as treasurer and Edward Krick as financial secretary.
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Young Democrats
Calumet Township
W. 121St Street
Joseph Phillips
Anthony Kazmierczak
Aurelia Strosinski
Leonard Carriere
Edward Krick
Rev. Bassler Attends Elmhurst Convention Highlights
The fourteenth annual convention of the Women's Union Federation Northern Illinois District of the Evangelical and Reformed churches met September 21 22 at St. Peter's church Elmhurst Ill Attendees included Rev and Mrs Ph H Bassler and Mrs Harold Rampke of Immanuel Dalton About 449 people heard leaders and speakers such as Mrs Ethel Gaffney Miss Genevieve Staudt Rev F Frankenfeld Mrs Herbert Gass and Rev William Krause The federation aims to raise two thousand dollars for a minister pension fund and to fund a church parsonage in Bensenville TL
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The
Women’s Union Federation
Northern Illinois
Evangelical and Reformed Churches
St. Peter’s Church
Elmhurst
Ill
Ph. H. Bassler
Harold Rampke
Immanuel Church
Dalton
Ethel Gaffney
South Bend
Women's Federation
Bensenville
E J Sullivan Opens Real Estate Office in Ivanhoe
Edmund J. Sullivan former Mills and Sons sales manager opens his own real estate office at 43 W. 1dith street in Ivanhoe on Sunday September 25. Herbert Mitchell will partner in business offering full real estate services and home design and construction in Ivanhoe and beyond. They invite inspection of Chicago land's most unusual real estate office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmund J. Sullivan
Mills and Sons
Ivanhoe
W. 1Dith Street
Herbert Mitchell
Chicagoland
Washington School News Highlights From Our Classrooms
First graders enjoy a Dick and Jane scrap book while second graders follow Little Elephant. A third grader brings a turtle named Methuselah. several students miss time due to illness. Ten pupils earned perfect spelling papers last week. Arthur Casoni enters fourth grade, boosting enrollment to thirty. Science books excite pupils and Indian life studies include plans for a village and music. Seventh grade reports three absences due to illness. Arthur Pelley leaves for Franklin. Eighth grader Susan Casoni returns after illness. Art classes explore spatte paint techniques using brushes and screens. The Washington boys lose a 10 to 7 ball game to Lincoln. Scout Troop 9 preps for Circus on October 8. fourteen clowns selected, more needed. Weekly Monday meetings at seven. Circus tickets available from Scouts for 25 cents. Girl Scouts begin organizing under Miss La Crosse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington School
Joanne Nomes
Methuselah
Eugene Reichert
Arthur Casoni
Donald Kraefft
Alice Waterstraat
George Wells
Arthur Pelley
Franklin School
Susan Casoni
Washington
Lincoln
Miss la Crosse
Roosevelt School Pupils Observe Insects And Sports Contest
First and second graders collected caterpillars and grasshoppers while George Lytle found a large mother crayfish and hatchlings appeared. Third and fourth graders held basket ball throwing contests with the boys winning 20 to 16. The science collection grows as a worm makes a chrysalis and a tomato worm burrows to form a brown jug. Wasps seen to have grown since emergence.
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Roosevelt School
George Lytle
Franklin School Activity Highlights From Room 2 to Troop 16
The Franklin school pages reveal Room 2 painting with aprons, class magazine completion by fourth graders, and third graders’ history stories. Patrols meet Thursdays with leaders Ray Gibson and others. Troop 16 plans acts for the Boy Scout Circus in Chicago Heights on October 8. Glee club work for seventh and eighth graders begins with two part harmony and sextette selection.
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Franklin School
Ray Gibson
Jack Zoller
Don Bonnema
Elmer Schultz
Arne Williams
Chicago Heights
Berger School Faces Lincoln in Rematch After Loss
Berger School played a seven inning ball game against Lincoln School last Monday and lost. A rematch is scheduled to be played soon.
School Election Plans and Student Flower Donations
Achievement club members form two parties the Yankees and Blackhawks with leaders Lockhart and Bannings. Candidates include Andres Villarosa George Boomsma Virginia Wilkins Leora Milhahn Frederic Diekman Grace Alt Peggy Jones. Elections set for next Friday. Room 3 children bring flowers Dorothy Pedvic Donna Spina Beatrice Vandenberg to brighten the room.
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Our
Achievement Club
Yankees
Blackhawks
Lockhart
Miss Bannings
Yankee
Andres Villarosa
George Boomsma
Virginia Wilkins
Leora Milhahn
Frederic Diekman
Grace Alt
Peggy Jones
Dorothy Pedvic
Donna Spina
Beatrice Vandenberg
Bowen School Weekly Activities Mixed Grades
In Room 1 the class learns a new rhythm game A Hunting We Will Go with Janice Selle on piano under Miss McCarron. Eleanor Hence missed due to tooth extraction and five of the second graders earned 100 in spelling last week.
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Janice Selle
Miss McCarron
Eleanor
Phyllis Ferguson
James Vogel
Room Two
Room Three
Miss Hedtke
Betty de Vries
Lorraine Tomky
Jimmy Rochfort
Bessie Coleman
Muriel Wordelman
Ruby Ahrens
Shirley Tatgenhorst
Shirley Golding
Patty
Miss Mills
Room
Columbus Chases His Sailors Play At Lincoln School
The second grade plans a Columbus Day play titled Columbus Chases His Sailors. Arlene Kort in fourth grade welcomes a new baby brother. A Health Chart is now displayed in the third and fourth grade room.
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Lincoln School
Columbus
Arlene Kort
Sixth Grade School Notes And Local Sports Update
In music the sixth graders learn a song called the Little Dutch Kindergarten. Geography reports focus on Egypt. The English club is the Sixth Grade club. An Armistice Day program is planned. Shilely Meeder visited in Iuws last weekend. Mr. Reaugh gave the seventh grade autographs for the class collection signed by Amos and Andy Jess Willard Jack Dempsey and Red Grange. On Friday the seventh and eighth grade boys beat Washington school 10 7 in softball. Monday Berg er game forthcoming. Mike Vitiritto travels to Ohio for a week.
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Egypt
Shilely Meeder
Iuws
Mr. Reaugh
Amos and
Andy
Jess Willard
Jack Dempsey
Red” Grange
Washington School
Lincoln
Berger
Mike Vitiritto
Ohio
St Paul School Classroom Notes and Activities
In Room 1 spelling class plans a dictionary style book for new words. Room 3 fifth graders study a history lesson on machines and living changes while sixth graders tackle Roman conquests. Room 4 reports individual student photos and Palm Sunday confirmation prep. Also seventh graders formed a book club with Glenn Rhode as temporary chair and Lorraine Cale as secretary, planning monthly readings.
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Kemnitz
Glenn Rhode
Lorraine Cale
Lincoln P T A Holds First Meeting With Guidance Theme
The Lincoln Parent Teacher Association meets Tuesday afternoon October 4 in the music room at 2 45 pm with Rev Ph H Bassler of the Evangelical and Reformed church speaking on Guidance for Purposeful Living. Entertainment by Jean Lou Franke and Barbara and Marilyn Dreshall. All parents and friends invited.
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Lincoln Parent Teacher Association
Ph. H. Bassler
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Jean Lou Franke
Barbara
Marilyn Dreshall
Lincoln School
Franklin P. T. A
Lyle Klitzke
Franklin
Parent-Teacher Association
Franklin School
Frohner Anderson Couple Wed at Morgan Park Church
Miss Katherine Frohner daughter of Mrs Emma Frohner 14413 Normal avenue married George W Anderson of Morgan Park on Saturday September 24 at Rev C K Carpenters Morgan Park Methodist Episcopal church parsonage. They will live at the bride’s Ivanhoe home.
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Frohner-Anderson
Katherine Frohner
Emma Frohner
Normal Avenue
George W. Anderson
Morgan Park
C. K. Carpenter
Morgan Park Methodist Episcopal Church
Ivanhoe
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Georgia Propper
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St. Francis Hospital
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Earl Vincent
Carvet City
St. Margaret’s Hospital
Hammond
Vincent
Grace Cogswell
Elmer Isler
E. 140Th Court
Theodore Hedtke
Frank Thompson
Helen and
Bernis
Leroy Mahony
Marie Mahony
Jean Kay
William Guild
Mildred
Zoe Andrews
Gene Fortier
Leon Stevens
Lenora Burke
Gene Raliegh
James Andrews
Crown Point
Ind
Lester Mills
Donald Berschinski
Lois Unruh
Ruth Stutzhiem
Herman Wiebke
Huth
Stutzhiem
Glenn Bishop
Community Firemen’s Association
Midlothian
Dalton Fire Department
Richard Gilbert
Grant Street
Dolton Park
Cook County Hospital
M. Robert Weidner, Jr
Emerson Claussen
Lincoln Avenue
Louise Var
County Teachers’ Institute
Bassler
E J. Sullivan
Bowen School
ST. Paul School
Marine A. Plar
Walter’s
Lincoln Ave
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