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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1929
Page
10
Miss Loretta Elizabeth Hayden will present the play Suppressed Desires tomorrow night in the auditorium of Joliet Musical College to mark completing her teacher’s certificate course. She is a Wilmington High School graduate.
Visitors to the Western United Gas and Electric showroom at Ottawa and Cass streets encountered a Moore Gas range that talks and chats about weather furnishing and cooking. The talking stove remained on display today and tomorrow with its voice hidden in the oven or a burner.
About 400 Joliet Post of the American Legion members will join delegations from Will DuPage McHenry and Kane counties at the Plainfield district convention. State Commander David L. Shillinglaw will speak in the afternoon. Evening events include a Legion Band competition and a drum and bugle corps contest with Joliet competing. The all day program features golf swimming and dancing at Crystal Lawns and Lake Renwick.
More than half of the 80 Joliet grade school boys passed the first beginners test after the fifth lesson in a Y M C A swimming course. Twenty feet sufficed for the test and 21 boys earned the Y M C A buttons for swimming 50 feet. C R Makeever directed the program with Milton Lundeen as assistant. Secretaries Victor Rompel and G Thompson left on vacations. Thompson and his brother will travel through Colorado and Visit Estes Park Leadville and Pueblo. Industrial league games were rained out and will be postponed. Boys department membership passed 600. Elmer Johnson returned from a 1900 mile motor trip. Ladies Day was moved to Tuesday for the summer. The tennis tournament was postponed to July 6 with 12 entries. the winner will represent Joliet in the state meet.
Plainfield Maine Post No. 13 leads a district convention with R. I. Jones as general chairman. The group plans to accommodate more than 1,000 Legionnaires at the event.
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