Murder charge after Joliet man dies in DuPage barroom attack
Joliet man Leo Perry 57 dies at Dennor hospital after a skull fracture from a barroom blow by Charles Happy Fisher 59 now of Gary Indiana. Fisher is jailed on a DuPage murder warrant following the Elks outing at St Andrew's Country Club.
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Joliet
Charles
Happy” Fisher
Gary
Ind
St. Andrew's Country Club
DuPage County
Leo Perry
Western Avenue
Dennor Hospital
St. Charles
DuPage
Perry
Fisher
Joliet City
Robert Wraith
Mayfield Avenue
Wheaton
Joliet Wrought Washer Company
Connell Street
Rockdale
Virginia Greif
Florida
W. 35Th Avenue
Federal Sign and Signal Company
Judge foils Indian plot at Frankfort
Judge John C. Knight of Frankfort reported a possible confidence game after an Indian woman from La Grange approached him on the street and invited him to a church meeting she would preach at. She offered a cure in her car and claimed to be an Indian doctor. the woman weighed about 200 pounds with several cold teeth. No description of a man riding with her was obtained and investigators found no trace of the pair.
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John C. Knight
Frankfort
Sheriff's Deputies
la Grange
Auto Crash Near Riley Hill Injures Two Men
Two men were hospitalized after a wreck on Route 4-A near Riley Hill yesterday. Robert Lenger, 23, and Roy Neilsen, 18, both of local addresses, were passengers in Norman Lenger's car when it struck Charles Hill's vehicle as Hill was turning left. Lenger claimed brake failure caused the collision.
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Silver Cross Hospital
Riley Hill
Robert Lenger
McDonough Street
Roy Neilsen
Casseday Avenue
Norman E. Lenger
Davis Street
Charles Hill
Wesleyan Avenue
Lenger
Dent's big dent as box falls on car on Washington Street
Earl Dent of New Lenox reports a box fell from a railing onto his eastbound car on Washington Street near Scott Street yesterday. Harold R. Ellena of 335 Marble Street explains he drove a small truck with boxes that toppled over the railing into the street.
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Earl Dent
New Lenox
Fily
Washington Street
Scott Street
Harold R. Ellena
Marble Street
Railway Express Company
Dent
Missing patient James McFarland reported from hospital
Silver Cross hospital notified city police that James McFarland 52 of 720 N Raynor Ave was discovered missing from his hospital room at 7 20 yesterday morning. He had been admitted Tuesday and left in his wired clothes without notification.
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Silver Cross Hospital
James McFarland
N. Raynor Avenue
Hospital graduates 22 nurses tonight
Twenty two seniors will receive diplomas from Silver Cross School of Nursing at commencement exercises at the First Presbyterian church tonight. It marks the first August class, chosen to align with the end of the three year program. The list includes graduates from Joliet Township High, Plainfield, Lockport, and other areas.
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Silver Cross School of Nursing
First Presbyterian Church
Marlene Zettergreen
Fuller Avenue
Marilyn Carlson Sergent
Shirley Massey
Frankfort
Joliet Township
Hgh School
Lockport
Michalak
Lemont
Shirley Persak
Essex
Lois Peterson
Walnut
Joan Roth
Waukegan
Patsy Strum Goodman
Verona
Lois Towsley
Morris
Lynn F. Taylor
Roger B. Simpson
George Sprague
Silver Cross Hospital
W. Franklin Barrett
Board of Trustees
Henry Brunings
Earl Leimbacher
Adeline M. Jorstad
Florence Nightingale
T. Z. Polley
John Carney
Ruth Sundstrom
Hoffman Hall
Joliet Board seeks Sept 10 vote for new vocational building
The Joliet Township High School and Junior College board calls an election for September 10 to approve a 750000 building for trade and industrial education. The plan spans eight years of study and aligns with the citizens survey, with taxes rising about 1.5 cents per 100 dollars.
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Board of Education
Joliet Township High School
West Side
Herkimer
Collins Streets
Chapeter VI
Citizens’ School Cure Vey
Joliet Board Fires Chicago Architects Over School Plans
Joliet Grade School Board voted to terminate its contract with Graham Anderson Probst White after a review criticized walls load bearing layout and excessive cost. The panel considered revisions by other firms and asked lawyers to notify the firm of termination while preserving Pershing plans.
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Joliet
Chicago
Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
Stuart C. Kroesch
Kroesch
Raynor Park
Marycrest Schoors
Taft
Pershing
Kruegel, Wilkins, Healy & Moore
Washington
Forest Park
McKinley Park
Marycrest
Wallace McDaniels
al Steed
George Buck
E. D. Collins
Arthur Lumsden
Robert Wallace
George Duse
James Grumley
Leslie Keeler
C. D. Oberwortman
Bernard Anderhous
Edward Block
William
K. Waltz
William Gray
Robert A. Brown
Probst
Don Harper
Jim McCarthy
Harper
McCarthy
Paul Kauffman
Altho
Pershing School
The Spectator August 25 1955 Joliet Illinois
The Spectator a weekly Joliet newspaper announces subscription rates and office address. It lists mail and carrier pricing and back copy details. The notice provides standard publication information for readers.
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Bingle
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Sally
Olive S. Perry
Fern Culbertson
Broad and Grant
Richards Street
Robert Mulligan
Methodist Church
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Marilyn Johnson
Jo Ann Williamson
Corrine Wolfe Schrader
Plainfield
Beverly Bedecker
Longpoint
Carol Carstens
Peotone
Wanda Garris
Kankakee
Janice Hall Amell
Streator
Viola Halterman
Dwight
Lee Hansen
Moline
Carol Hartline
Wiimington
Beverly Johnson
Newark
Mary Kittelson
Miller Avenue
Gail Meece
Reddick
Theresa
School Board
Chicago Architects
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