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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1934
Page
2
Knights of Columbus members will elect officers for the next year at the meeting next Monday evening June 11. Final plans for the annual carnival June 20 to 23 at Central School will be formulated, with refreshments served after the meeting, per James Tynan.
Forty seven new prisoners were received from Chicago yesterday at the old prison, swelling the total at Stateville and the old prison to 5802. Warden Frank D. Whipp arranged to transfer 25 long‑term inmates to Pontiac reformatory to make room for the newcomers.
Clarence Cushing created a disturbance in the Y M C A lobby early Thursday in a drunken condition. When told to move along he became rough and was jailed after police took him to headquarters.
St Patrick’s church on Jefferson and Wilcox opens its annual carnival tonight and runs nightly through June 16 except Sundays. Parish improvements include trimmed trees and Spanish styled buildings. The event features Ferris wheels monkey races and other attractions, with Rev P L Kennedy as general chairman and Rev John Nellis as assistant. Elizabeth Maloney is general secretary and treasurers are Charles Reardon Charles Hossack and William J Hennessy.
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