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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1940
Page
3
A reader criticizes Joliet officials for lax traffic management and a hostile stance toward pedestrians. The letter laments lack of a true traffic squad, criticizes the administration’s finances and priorities, and praises Mayor Barr’s past reforms while urging decisive leadership and action since 1935.
The Kiwanis club will entertain 100 Joliet grade school students selected from every building. The group will visit Brookfield Zoo as guests of the club on Wednesday June 5.
Joliet marks Memorial Day with services at local cemeteries and a 1:30 PM parade. Veterans groups from United Spanish American War, Cantigny post, and American Legion lead ceremonies with six marching divisions and multiple school bands.
Police note a flood of punch boards appearing in Joliet bars and other shops with a former official allegedly promoting them. Officials say most boards skirt fines while one handbook in the Young building is left exposed. Mr Lentz claims ignorance of the activity.
Three hundred farmers township highway officials and others will attend an all day weed control meeting tomorrow. Town clerk Martin Gleason cooperates with farm bureau officers to organize. Morning session at 9 o clock CT discusses weed control with an afternoon thistle elimination demonstration at Oak Grove near route 69 Outer Belt highway beginning 12 30 CST. Four adjacent counties Will Kendall Kankakee Grundy cooperate in the demonstration. Open to all interested.
Jack Mansell aged 14 of 304 Sherman street reported a leg bite from a dog owned by Mrs. Wilbur Whitney of 210 Third avenue. Dolores Sealy aged 10 of 514 Shelby street said a dog owned by R. E. Halley bit her hand while playing baseball. Police ordered both dog owners to keep their dogs tied for ten days for observation.
An automobile belonging to Dr. Robert Lennon at 900 Western Avenue was stolen from the garage behind his home Tuesday night and recovered on Wacker Drive in Chicago yesterday.
Graduation week events unfold at Joliet Township High School and Junior College. Commencement services will begin Thursday at 8 o’clock in the combined gymnasiums. The senior class play You Can’t Take It With You opens tomorrow at 8 in the auditorium with a June 5 and June 3 reprise listed as dates. Rev. Wilbur Christianson delivers the baccalaureate on Sunday at 8 and selects the topic Foz. The high school choruses perform, and Rev. Joseph Minnis offers invocation and benediction. Junior College hosts its annual banquet June 4 at Central Presbyterian with Rev. Edgar W. Smith as speaker. Ivy Day is set for June 5 at 10 a.m. The band leads to the fountain as George McDowall receives the Betsy Ross flag from John Hummel, Suzanne Bickley reads the Ivy Day poem, and Jack Ellis delivers the oration. Class Day follows.
Seventy fourth annual G A R convention planned in Joliet attracting about seventeen veterans. State and national leaders Thomas Ambrose and John Andrews set to attend. Tablet dedication for William Calaghan at Mt Olivet Cemetery on June 3 noted among events.
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