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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1931
Page
3
The Joliet District Observer describes improving conditions in Joliet as the 1931 year unfolds. Unemployment recedes and store stocks move while optimism grows. vacancies are said to be typical and removals modest with encouraging real estate sales across the city.
The Notre Dame club Joliet will lead a pilgrimage of several hundred to Rockne's grave in South Bend Indiana on Sunday May 3. The group departs from the Codruff Hotel at 9:00 a.m. in automobiles with state police escorts to Dyer Indiana and then Notre Dame. Committee members are Francis J. Dunn Edward King and Clarence Wilhelmi.
Donald Kroesch, a senior, won the annual extemporaneous speaking contest held Friday April 24 with Spain The New Republic as his topic. Ethel Scotland took second on The Qualifications of a Good Public Speaker. five finalists were chosen from 65 competitors: Robert Pilcher Elsie Rinearson Milton Button and the two winners.
Joliet items report Art Chester may take over Joliet Municipal Airport management with no salary and 24 hour service. A. R. McAllister travels Tulsa for Braniff stop arrangements. Carl Erickson wins art medals in New York. Vending machines, local profits, police car remarks, and various local notes cover entertainment, sports, industry, and city governance.
Mrs. Ella Heap of 507 Union Street will sail to France as a government guest to visit the grave of her son Harold R Heap in the 131st Infantry. The trip marks her second pilgrimage to the grave, following a 1921 visit, with the American Legion planning a ceremonial sendoff next Wednesday. Mrs Heap has devoted much of her time to sick and needy World War II veterans.
The high school hosts an open house and dedication of the new girls gymnasium and classrooms on Monday May 6 at 7 30 a m Superintendent W W Haggard and the faculty plan a special program with mass gymnastics by boys and girls gym classes and no admission charge
The Young Men's Republican Club of Will County will hold a meeting Tuesday night May 5 at 7 30 at the Irving Athletic club on S Richards street. John B Anderson chairman Will County Republican Committee will be the feature speaker. A hundred percent attendance is urged for important matters to be discussed.
A reader commends the newspaper for even-handed mayoral coverage and urges other papers to avoid bias. The exchange notes welcome impartiality and hints at a preference for removing unfounded contingencies or "ifs" from discourse.
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