Joliet Social Roundup Highlights Local Notables
A parade of Joliet residents is described with notes on cars, bridge players, barber, bar owners, hotel staff, and visiting relatives. Mentions include Bill Hennessy Jr a Plymouth car buzz. Ed Hamilton Harry Perrin Les Lawrence Star Johnston Leo Sohmers and Harry Murphy as exemplary young players. Mayor Hennessy recovered from illness. Joe Wilhelmi and others making social rounds and plans for events at Subway Bar and local venues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Hamilton
Harry Perrin
Les Lawrence
Star Johnston
Leo Sohmers
Harry Murphy
Home Made Articles Sold at Exchange
Women display and sell handmade needlework woodcraft at the Women's Exchange on Clinton Street to aid families not on county relief. Led by Mrs. Stewart Parsons and Mrs. Harry Weitzel, the shop features items from 80 participating families including quilts kimonos lace stands and decorative flowers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Exchange
Clinton Street
Stewart Parsons
Harry Weitzel
Fourth Avenue Line Replaced by Richards Street Bus
The Fourth Avenue car line will be discontinued on Monday July 17. The Richards Street bus will operate over part of the Fourth Avenue route replacing it. Buses depart on the even and half hours from Chicago and Jefferson streets per notice by C and J Electric Railway general manager W H Huen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fourth Avenue
W. H. Huen
C. and J. Electric Railway
Richards Street
Chicago
Jefferson Strets
Jackson court employee nets fish and duck on one hook
A Jackson Wyoming court employee recounts catching a fish and a duck with a single lure. The tale blends humor with local folklore as a novelty fishing claim circulates in the town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Wyo
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Bill Hennessy, Jr
West Side
Romeo
Third Avenue
Earl Kaffer
Q” Man
Joe Stanton
Western Avenue
Tommy Rowland
Joliet
Kemp
Joe Shepley
Jack Trotter
Robert Wraith
William Hennessy
Eileen Tennyson
Bridge
Don Corsini
Louis Joliet Hotel
John Walsh
Robert Haley
Johnny Mulvey
Frank Turk
Joe Wilhelmi
Henry Morton
E. E
Heinie Sick
Lockport
The
Republican Printing Company
James Kavanaugh
Police Department
Dave” Fisher
Peoria
Dave” Hirshfield, Jr
Ollie Krings
William Barrett
Lockport Clothier
Fred Adams
Wisconsin
Bayard Scotland
North Dakota
Ray Warner
Plainfield
Charlie Gabel
Tony
Jim Ruffo
Collins Street
Henry McRoberts
Bill Learnard
Freddie Scheidt
Matt DeZee
Buffalo
New York
George Bradshaw
Billy
Hazel Anderson
Frankfort
John Dames
North Broadway
Royal Coffee
Royal Tea CO
Cass ST
Wilson
Lincoln Store
Cass Street
4Th Ave
Dellwood Park
Eastman
Kodaks
Trip
Tillman
Lincoln
W.jefferson
N. Chicago
Buffo
Subway
S. Chicago ST
Jim
Atlas
WLS
Hickok
Eshes
Pro
Terry
Jantzen
Wil White
Palm Beach
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