Children Choirs Fill Central School Halls With Christmas Spirit
Between seven and eight hundred eighth grade children filled Joliet Central school halls with two hours of carols under the guidance of Prof. J. M. Thompson and Miss Mary Collins. The event highlighted a need for more space and additional instruments as they marched and sang around Christmas trees and closed with O Holy Night performed by Mrs. Odenthal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central School
Joliet
Ardelia Olden
J. M. Thompson
Mary Collins
Central
Miles Collins
Bertha Hprd
Abbie Snyder
Young Society Girl Plans Innovation for Salvation Army Cheer
Miss Lydia Gerlach will tour Joliet in an automobile on December 31 to seek toys and food for the Salvation Army Christmas event for about 150 youngsters. Captain Crusberg and Miss Gerlach request donations of toys or food to aid the celebration at the Salvation Army hall.
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Joliet Salvation Army
Salvation Army
Lydia Gerlach
Gerlach
Captain Crusberg
Miss Gerlach
Farmers at Grange Seek Own Legislator
Will County Pomona Grange met for annual election and overrode to keep current officers. They passed a resolution demanding that political parties nominate a farmer for the state legislature to fill the vacancy from James H Alexander's death.
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Will County
Pomona Grange
Grange Hall
The
Grange
James H. Alexan
Dhé
James H. Alexander
Alexander
Wm. Green
Spangler
Joseph Tehle
Jackson
Harry Eaton
P. F. Coyne
Fred Attaway
John Baker
Manhattan
John van Horn
Plainfield
Ollie Brown
John Alexander
Union
Ceres
James Warthen
Pomona
Bessie Culver
Flora—Gertie Green
Flora—Gertie Green, Spangler, L. A. 8.—Lulu Hemphill
Seth Gibler
W. F. Smith
Priest Anselm Mueller to Celebrate Golden Jubilee
Rev Father Anselm Mueller 0 F M will celebrate his golden jubilee as a priest at St Johns church December 26. He has long served as director of St Francis College Quincy Illinois and for four months as spiritual director at Josephs hospital. The Very Rev Father Provincial and other Franciscan superiors are expected to attend.
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Father Anselm Mueller
St. Francis College
Quincy
Ill
A Joseph’s Hospital
St. John’s Church
Father Provincial
Province of the Sacred Heart
Christmas Concert Shines Across Central School Rooms
A festive program filled nearly two hours with varied carols sung in multiple rooms. Each room delivered key titles such as Holy Night Room 4 Wake Oh World From Slumber Room 4 and Come All Ye Faithful Room 32.
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Central School
God
Prince of
Peace
Santa Fund Drives Christmas Aid From Citizens
United Charities appeals for donations to fill stockings for children while warning the public to verify need before giving. Local figures report substantial contributions from Dr Harry Copley and others as well as plans to distribute dinners and candy boxes. Stockings can be dropped at the Merchandise Clearing House or Joliet News office for proper delivery.
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Europe
Harry Copley
News
James Clyne
Associated Charities Fund
United Charities
Merchandise Clearing House
Cass Street
Joliet
Midnight clothing store fire in Chicago street blaze
Firefighters answered a midnight call to 918 North Chicago Street where sparks from a stove vent ignited a blaze in the clothing shop of John Kirincich. The strike was discovered promptly and a chemical extinguisher managed the fire.
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Chicago Street
Ohn Kirincich
Jury awards Grady $500 for streetcar fall injuries
A circuit court jury awarded Anthony Grady $500 for injuries from a fall while alighting a streetcar. The Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway company sought a new trial, with the judge taking the matter under advisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anthony Grady
Grady
Chicago and Joliet Electric’ ‘Railway Company
Doty-Barnes
Barnes
Mother Anastasia Namesday Celebrated at St Josephs
On Christmas Day former Rev. Mother Anastasia marks her namesday at St. Josephs hospital Joliet praising thirty years since the first mass in a Franciscan Sisters chapel. The order has grown from three hospital Sisters to over 400 serving ten hospitals and seventeen schools. Rev. Mother Marcella and Sister Aloysia are due back from a California visitation.
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Anastasia
St. Josephs ‘Hospital
Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart
Joliet
Marcella
Aloysia
St. Joseph's Hospital
California
Progressives Plan Work at Two-Day NYC Meeting
The Progressive party executive committee closed a two day session at the Hotel Manhattan in New York. Senator Joseph M Dixon chair of the national committee summed up their work noting plans for more thorough organization and division of the work for carrying up the movement.
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New York
Progressive Party
Manhattan
Joseph M. Dixon
Man Praised for Faithful Heart Yet Warned on Love
A brief exchange notes a man may love two women at once but should have more sense. The remark emphasizes prudence in romantic affairs and discourages duplicity.
Blasiar Heirs Win Land Dispute Over 80 Acres Near Mokena
A long legal fight over eighty acres near Mokena ended in court today with the decision that the property belongs to the late Mrs Blasiar heirs. The case, begun over a year ago, drew many Will county farmers as witnesses. Attorneys for Gall heirs argued prior life estate while Blasiar heirs presented title through the widow who later died in 1911.
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Mokena
Blasiar
Will County
H. A. Weld
Chicago
E. W. Schoede
Rock Island
Gall
Corlett
Clare
Charles
William
Albert
Louis
Auto Turned Over near Orland Injures Three Men
A Ford carrying James Jensen, his son, and neighbor William Braasch left the ditch after steering gear bolt failed. Jensen dislocated shoulder, Braasch badly hurt with possible skull fracture, the younger man lightly hurt. Doctors attended. Braasch expected to recover.
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Braasch
Jensen
Egermayer
Ludwig of
Lemont
Whitewash Committee Chosen In Beauty Contest Scandal
The scandal over the Sluas Beauty Contest is smoothed over with no police action. Assistant Chief Hennessy says the matter rests with a whitewash committee. Friends defend John Anderson as a good man despite the incident.
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Hennessy
John Anderson
John
Anderson
Court rules widow holds absolute title in partition suit
Ferdinand Stoll believed the widow owned the property outright but the heirs of Charles Gall claimed a half interest. The court held the widow had absolute title to the property, dismissing Dill's partition action for want. The Stolls thus retain the property.
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Ferdinand Stoll
Charles Gall
Agra
Dill
Stolls
Pill
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Joseph Mather
Dee New
DunCaie
Maurice Lennon
Strohm
North Broadway
Horseshoe Mills
Rosalie Jones
Ida Craft
L.L. Dock
Albany
Cates
Metropolis
Miss Dock
Opyr
Ed. Munroe
Kavanaugh
Staement — Life ‘Member
Ks.munroe
Muniroe
W. K. Kavanaugh
Jplan
Pi Warauehe
Washington
Mississippi Valley
St. Louis
Munroe
William Braasch and
James
Orland
William Branach
James Jensen
Ford
Blue Island
Mr. Braasch
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