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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1935
Page
4
Chief N J Fornango orders motorists to obey school boy patrols at city schools. He cites complaints of drivers ignoring stop signals and warns arrests and maximum fines for violators. Patrol boys are trained and instructed to record license numbers and report violations to headquarters.
Postmaster J. Walter Lowrey of Joliet leads eighteen Will County postmasters at the National Postmasters Convention in Chicago. The event opened Tuesday and will close tomorrow with attendees from Beecher Braidwood Channahon Crete Elwood Frankfort Goeden Lockport Manhattan Mokena New Lenox Plainfield Wilmington and others.
City officials and the local fire department plan a city wide observance of National Fire Prevention Week from October 6 to 12. Schools will be inspected and fire drills timed while loop buildings are checked for hazards. Fire escapes will receive special inspections as urged by State Fire Marshal Sherman V Coulins.
A grand opening dance is set for this evening in the remodeled Croatian ballroom. George Rusch and his Chicago radio orchestra will provide the music, featuring the Florentine Trio with Marge Lannney, Jim Hruby, and Saddie Gabriel.
At last reports, the utility holding companies were living up to their name. The burden was a bag.
The Seven Musical Salvationists of the Chicago Salvation Army staff band visit Joliet for Sunday shows at Ot tawa Street M. E. church First Presbyterian church Salvation Army hall and First Baptist church. Members include Bernard Smith band master William Scarlett Douglas Norris Lewis Keeler William Ogg Leroy Abing and Jo liet boy Jack Neilson. The group has played together a decade and appeared in major central west churches.
Nomination of officers for Cantigny Post No. 367 VFW will be held this evening at 8 in the hall at 205 North Chicago street. Commander Henry Schelling urges all members to attend. election is set for the second Thursday in October.
The speaker notes that the allure of obtaining value without cost is a longstanding concept, arguing it shaped the founding era and the nation’s early land settlement.
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