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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1932
Page
1
M. E. Luck district plant superintendent of Illinois Bell visits Mrs. Robert Meeks as the first Joliet housewife to receive instruction in the new dial telephones. Luck leads a crew visiting homes and offices to explain operations and dialing.
Chicago Weather Bureau forecaster C A Donnel predicts temperatures around 75 to 80 degrees for Jo lief and surrounding region through the next four to five days. NW winds from Iowa bring relief with humidity falling. by late Friday normal temps expected. Two heat prostrations reported locally. Chicago and other Midwest cities face higher death tolls from the heat.
Two men in deck chairs monitor every car passing through the loop traffic lights. A local Traffic Checkers Watchers branch watches the charts while the state highway department pays the workers to regulate signals and minimize tourist delays.
John Hare reports his nine year old son missing from 807 E Jefferson street. The boy was later found with relatives in Chicago Heights after taking rides with motorists on the Lincoln Highway.
Coroner E A Kingston investigated the death of 57 year old Joseph Roboski found dead late yesterday in a barn at the farm of Mrs Ida Dorv three miles east of Joliet along Maple road.
The Spectator promotes reading with a complete short story on page 7 titled Young Heart by Hester Robinson. Readers are invited to turn to page 7 for ten minutes of entertaining fiction by top authors of the century.
A Cord sedan believed owned by a Chicago resident was found by swimmers at the bottom of Western quarry on South Richards Street. Deputies suspect insurance racketeers drove it into the quarry. a Chicago tag 819-309 from 1931 was attached. The ignition key remained in place and little damage was noted. Further inquiry planned to locate other abandoned cars in the area.
Eugene H. Koehl of 115 Walsh street was elected secretary and general manager of the Joliet Calendar Co at a board meeting held last Wednesday night. He succeeds Arthur J. Stevens who resigned. Koehl is noted for business and civic work in Joliet over the past 12 years.
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