J R Hobbs Dies at Home in Joliet Community Leader
James R. Hobbs a lifelong Joliet resident active in business and civic life died at his Highland Park area home on Cass Street in his 90s. He built the Hobbs building and operated a grocery cafe and hotel, helped develop Highland park area, and gave 22 acres of Hobbs parkway to the city. Survived by widow Kathryn two sisters a nephew and two nieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James R. Hobbs
Joliet
Highland Park
East Cass Street
Hobbs
Highland
Pilcher Parks
Illinois
Chicago Street
Ottawa
Clinton Streets
Stillman
Lockport Township
Kathryn
Antoinette Barrett
Jennie Rey
Franklin Barrett
Barretts Hardware
Charles Russell
Montclair
N. J
Mabel Hobbs
Milner
N. D
People’s Outfitting Company
Mary Brown
New York State
Thomas Hobbs
Maryland
Chaney Pupils Offered Immunization Shots
Immunization clinics will be held at Chaney school tomorrow and on April 21 and May 19. Dr Jack Roberts will administer DPT vaccines with smallpox revaccinations available, assisted by public health nurse Miss Mary Ruth Keefe and a PTA mothers committee. Cost is 25 cents per shot.
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Chaney School
James Monge
Will County Health Department
Jack Roberts
Mary Ruth Keefe
Re-elect H. Klett to Chairmanship
Howard Klett of Jolie is re elected chairman of the Northeastern Illinois Farm Bureau. The meeting in Geneva on Tuesday elected him to lead the Farm Management Service with about 200 farmers across eight counties. Don Smith is employed as fieldman for this service.
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Howard Klett
Jolie
Ilinois Farm Bureau
Farm Management Service
Geneva
Illiois
Don Smith
Manbitten by Dog in Morning Walk Near Union Street
George Peers of 109 Union Street reports being bitten by a dog while walking to work yesterday morning. He said the dog belonged to a newsboy carrier passing with the morning paper.
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George Peers
Union Street
Population up 10000 since 1947 Joliet directory estimate
L P Dressler of R L Polk and Company says Joliet area now has about 60 000 adults plus under 18 children for a total population exceeding 80 000. The 1950 directory covers Joliet Rockdale and part of Lockport township, with 40 districts canvassed to date and 46 000 names enumerated. final finish target moved up to April 1 census start.
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Joliet
L. P. Dressler
R. L. Polk and Company
Rockdale
Lockport Township
Joliet Township
Lockport
Dressler
Polk
Room 415
Morris
West Allis
Wausau
Wis
Minneapolis
Joliet YMCA to Host Illinois Area Recruiting Conference
The Joliet YMCA hosts Saturday's Illinois Area Recruiting conference for YMCA secretaryships. About thirty students from Illinois colleges will attend with twenty veteran secretaries guiding them. The program runs 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and features L. McClow speaking on The YMCA as a Profession, with interviews to follow.
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Joliet
Illinois
YMCA
L. McClow
Chicago Ymca
Chicago
Ilinois
Wilmington Man Sues For Divorce After Return From Abroad
Marion Hines of Wilmington filed suit in circuit court against Patricia Hines for divorce claiming that after his March 15 return from 28 months with U S occupation forces in Korea and Japan he found his wife was expecting a baby. The couple married December 9 1946 at Waukegan and have a son living with the paternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Richard Treadman.
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Marion Hines
Wilmington
Patricia
U. S
Korea
Japan
Waukegan
Richard Treadman
Theft cases filed against Warwick and Irwin in county court
An information filed by State's Attorney John S. Pearce charges Stanley Warwick with petit larceny for stealing junked iron in Lockport. A second information is expected to charge Bill Irwin with passing fraudulent checks at Joliet and New Lenox taverns and businesses.
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Office of State
John S. Pearce
Stanley Warwick
Lockport
Bill Irwin
Joliet
New Lenox
Puzzle Era Election Remembered in Joliet 1933
A 1933 Joliet town election used 12 by 15 inch GOP candidate puzzles as a campaign gimmick. A boy found a box of puzzles in a shed triggering county discussion about the election. The full Republican ticket, headed by Charles Lauth and including Joseph Hartley Paul Larson and Edward Smith, was defeated amid Roosevelt era sentiment.
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Joliet
Charles Lauth
Joseph H. Hartley
Paul Larson
Edward E. Smith
John L., Jevitz Jr
John W. Shroba
Charles Barney
H. Frank Hall
Alois E. Sittel
George Schoettes
Raymond P. Button
Rededication Week Urged for 1950 in Joliet
Mayor Arthur A. Janke received a lever from the American Heritage Foundation urging him to appoint a Joliet American Heritage Committee. The committee should plan a community Rededication Week and supervise local participation. The program aims to reaffirm American freedom principles as essential to preserving free institutions, building on the foundation’s 1949 holiday effort that involved 269 communities nationwide.
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Maayor
Arthur A. Janke
American Heritage Foundation of
New York City
American Heritage Committee
Joliet
Foundation
Escapee Donald Elms Seen at Home Before Departing
The sheriff's office received a telegram reporting 17 year old escapee Donald Elms from Manteno State Hospital at his home at 185th and Wolf streets in Mokena. Deputies Malle and Martin rushed to the scene but were told by the boy's mother that he had already departed on a bicycle.
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Donald Elms
Manteno State Hospital
185Th
Wolf Streets
Mokena
Fred Malle
Eugene Martin
Texaco workers authorize strike amid stalled contract talks
Lockport Local 222 of the Oil Workers International union voted by a substantial majority to authorize a strike against Texaco if negotiations fail to yield a new contract to replace the expired agreement. Tabulation at the union's international HQ in Colorado will reveal the exact count. Negotiations continued today at the Hotel Louis Joliet with N L White and J W AtkIns leading Texaco's delegation and Roy Skeldon chairing the workers' side. Elroe Brown, international representative, was also present. The union stated workers are prepared to strike on any date approved by the international board.
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Lockport
Oil Workers International Union
Texas Company
Colorado
Louis Joliet
N. L. White
J. W. Atkins
Roy Skeldon
Elroe Brown
International Board
Taxpayers Profit by Arsenal Leases
The U S army leases 60 900 acres of military land in Illinois Wisconsin and northwestern Indiana to tenant farmers. The plan saves taxpayers about a half million dollars yearly and preserves land resources. About 27 000 acres are at Joliet arsenal and 200 farmers will work land this season.
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Illinois
Wisconsin
Indiana
U. S. Army
Joliet Arsenal
Chicago
Corps’ of Engineers
Turk Brother of Joliet Store President Killed in Chicago Crash
Joseph A Turk a resident of Chicago and brother of Frank J Turk president of the Eagle store in Joliet was killed instantly at 11 pm yesterday when struck by an automobile in the Irving Park area of Chicago. The driver was a 24 year old man and funeral arrangements were not yet complete.
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Joseph A. Turk
Frank J. Turk
Eagle
Joliet
Irving Park
Chicago
Turk
Grundy county sheriff candidates listed with background notes
The Spectator profiles eight Republican contenders and one Democrat for Grundy county sheriff. Andrew Veronda of Coal City, a longtime resident and former Metropolitan Life executive, runs as a sports enthusiastic candidate. Joseph Olson of a Morris-area farm outlines a fair law approach and juvenile crime focus. Democrat Frank Vignocchi of Gardner, a World War II veteran, is making his first political bid. Other Republican rivals include David Wharrie, Bud Washburn, John Cromwell, Swaney Hexdall, Lee Korty, and Jimmie Bell.
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Andrew
Do Do) Veronda
Grundy County
Veronda
Coal City
Dodge and Plymouth
Tesdall Motor Sales
Morris
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Metropolitan
Illinois
A. B. C. Club
Joseph H. Olson
Roland
Iowa
Olson
Frank Vignocchi
Gardner
Gardner- South Wilmington Township
Beverly Ann
Kathy Mae
Vignocchi
David Wharrie
J. Russell
Bud) Washburn
John L. Cromwell
Hans A
Swaney
Spectator notices and publication details from Joliet Illinois
The entry lists first class matter date October 1 1940 at Joliet Post Office under March act with volume and issue numbers for March 23 1950, plus office address at 107-113 W Cass Street Joliet Illinois and a phone line.
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Jon Illinois
the Spectator
Cass Street
Joliet
Illinois
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Chaney
H. Klett
Pat
Texaco
Arsenal
Joseph Turk
Spectator
Republi
J. H. Olson
A. Veronda
the People’s Newspaper
William R. McCabe
The
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