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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1934
Page
1
The piece argues the Commission form limits voter choice. It critiques electing city officials by department rather than specific posts. It warns that primary rules allow unlikely candidates to win, risking inexperienced leaders for multiple departments at once.
Joliet Plainfield and Lockport youths in Camp Steamboat Roseburg Oregon report they are busy and healthy. They thank the Spectator for helping them keep in touch and list assignments including truck driving timber felling brush clearing and bridge building.
The automobile of A L Freland of South Bend found abandoned along South Chicago Street was turned over to its owner today. The car had been stolen from Freeland two weeks earlier, according to the sheriff's report.
Members of the local Moose lodge join a class of twenty Joliet candidates for annual initiation and picnic at Mooseheart on Sunday. Director General James J. Davis will deliver an obligation to the candidates at 2 PM in the Roosevelt auditorium. Women candidates welcomed in the women’s building. A Camp Sartori barbecue and evening program follow with music and entertainment. Commencement week events to be shown Sunday with open grounds and vocational displays. officials plan the largest Mooseheart affair since 1913.
Early Wednesday morning A G Anderson at 120 Walsh Street woke to sounds of someone trying to force a rear chicken coop. The intruders fled when Anderson appeared. Several chickens were reported stolen according to authorities.
A Will County Unemployed Association meeting forbade a SPECTATOR reporter from attending while about 20 witnesses testified to alleged unfair treatment by relief workers. Jesse Hinthorne said press presence was allowed in theory but barred in practice, and he warned action may follow. An official from the relief office remained largely silent as the panel called witnesses, about 11 hundred association members exist in the county.
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