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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1929
Page
19
E H Sothern appears at Joliet Township high school auditorium Tuesday December 17 at 8 pm in a recital program. He will read from Macbeth The Merchant of Venice If I Were King with prefaces on plots and composition. He will also recite Wilson poems and Kipling The True Romance in the If I Were King section.
The Junior Chamber of Commerce completes plans for a New Year’s Eve cabaret at the Chamber of Commerce ballroom. A known dance orchestra singers and dancers will headline with an unusual dinner menu. Reservations must be made before December a by invitation only.
Joliet Kiwanis members will visit Guardian Angels home in a group Monday after their weekly Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Children at the home will present a program for the visitors. The trip is sponsored by the Underprivileged Child committee led by Eugene Harris.
Phil Dooley and his orchestra provide music for the Log Cabin regular dance on Saturday night from 9 to 1. The band is a season favorite and this is the last chance to hear them before they relocate to Marigold Gardens. Dancing is restricted to couples.
Joliet contractors and building material firms plan a Home Modernizing campaign led by George Peterson of Hansen Peterson. The effort aims to induce residents to repair porches remodel interiors paint and similar work while preventing overbuilding and providing winter jobs for many workers.
Joliet workers face normal conditions for the season aside from a large influx of unskilled laborers drawn by the deep waterway project. Swellyn Rogers of the Illinois Free employment office notes locals are steady but hundreds come from across the country hoping for jobs on the canal work.
Roy Shackleton in charge says the deep waterway is four months ahead of schedule. Retaining walls are 72 percent complete and the work has cost 400000 dollars under the budget. Between 200 and 300 men will be employed on the project through winter.
United States air mail planes will make regular stops at the Joliet airport when the park board project on the Barr highway is completed according to Don Mateer president of the park board. Bids for the runway construction will be opened Monday. The airport cost is expected to be about 150000 dollars.
William Huen, superintendent of the Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway Company, announced tentative plans for extending the street car line on Washington street and erecting a sub station. The project, estimated to cost about $100,000, will begin early next spring.
Fifty pounds of meat is purchased each day to feed the 176 children at the Guardian Angels home.
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