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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1932
Page
2
Gossip column recalls a city office manager scolding female staff for wearing stepins and smocks, a wife’s quip about dress code, and a speakeasy dress-stain dispute. It also notes charity ball plans for Hank Warner and Arlie Pierce, and various local social updates.
Walther League actors drew capacity crowds with Done in Oil a farce about wildcat oil well speculation at St Peters Lutheran school auditorium Monday and again last night. Ten percent of ticket receipts go to the Milk Fund for undernourished children with the rest funding the Northern Illinois Walther League convention in Joliet February 6 and 7.
Stateville penitentiary officials traced a theft of four chickens three ducks and two geese within the sixty four acre prison complex as authorities scanned the grounds for bonfires amid the ongoing security routine.
The city school board and high school officials agreed on a three week Christmas vacation. School will dismiss December 16 and not reopen until January 9. The plan trims the two semesters from 88 weeks to 36 weeks, citing funds. Superintendent W. W. Haggard announced the decision after a faculty meeting.
Approximately $9 000 in checks was distributed this week by the county clerk to judges clerks of election supervisors and polling place owners. Judges and clerks were paid $6 a day for three days with 87 precincts accounting for 3132 dollars in salaries. Polling place rentals for 87 locations totaled 1305 dollars and ballot printing costs run about 4000 dollars. County board committee members met last Saturday to determine payments.
Joliet community groups unite to provide a Thanksgiving dinner for families in need. Peter McCarthy plans to feed hundreds, with Morning Star Mission supplying a hearty meal and the Joliet police station distributing meals to those at the station and elsewhere.
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