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w;g:« THB M'HENBY PLAINSEAIJES, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 19M fi nil • ' .f.: %. I $*' •%JVFavorite Operas and Artists Will Feature Civic Opera's Final I Told ,7 -by: leretf Taken From with Henry W. Hettermann Sunday, Misses Mary and Katherine Althoff visited with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Althoff, over the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Wm- Althoff and son, Bernard, and Henry W. Hettermann motored to New Munster, Wis., Monday' of last week, where they visited with Mr. and Mrs. Peter Epping and Mrs. Wm. Krift. ClAtfDIA MUM© AND TITO SCHIPA * . IN >LA' TRAVIATA" JAN. M.. f' I_£Cre*t Season by Chicago Company Near$ Clo*e; T* * Only Six Performances Remain, ">ri ; l';'t • The . twenty first season of opera, fcjy Chicago's* resident lyric: organization • drawing, - to-, a dose. TUe Civic iDpera will give its final six perform- . .^.^nces during the week opening Jan- Bary 25 and closing January 30. after . ,l?hich the company goes to Boston for f guest engagement "of two weeks. Operas chosen for the fin.il week are ymong the outstanding hits of the seaton, and will present a large part-of artistic personnel in important *nd favorite roles. For opera lovers ft will be a case of choosing favorite . ^rttsts and favorite works for the jfarewell visit to the Civic Opera House. , ^ , The week opens January 25 with a' <|>erformance of La Gioconda which ,j Avill lyive one change of cast. Charles {Marshall replaces Antonio Cortis in -tthe principal tenor role, and other- ! .^ivlse the assignments are as before, (featuring KoSa Raisa, Cyrena Van Cordon, Sonia Sharnova, Cesare For- . jinlchi and Chase Baromeo. Emil hooper conducts. Tuesday _ evening Die Meistersinjrer is scheduled, with otte Lehmann slngmg ilie role of Eva or the first time this season, ^oriia Sharnova, Rene Maison. Oscar Col- *£aire, Hans Hermann Nissen, Eduard 'Hqteich, Alexander Kipnis. Robert !Itingling and others are to be heard !in familiar roles. Egon Pollak will be at the conductor's desk. The season's third Carmen willagain bring Conchita Supervia before 'the Chicago public as a guest artist and Leola Turner remains in the cast as Micaela, but both the principal ""tenor and baritone assignments are changed. Antonio Cortis will sing the role of Don Jose and Cesare Formichi .that of Escamillo. Maestro Cooper conducts. Thursday night will mark - Claudia-Muzio's farewell for the season, in her famous characterization of . Violetta in La Traviata. Tito Schipa has the principal tenor role of Alfredo and Victor pamiani sings that of the elder Germont. Roberto Moranzoni conducts. t - ; The season's third Lohengrin" will serve ~as a season's farewell for several artists of the German wing, notaa. bly Lotte Lehniann as Elsa, Maria . Olszewska as Ortrud, Rene Maison as ••"k Lohengrin, Hans Hermann Ntesen as Telramund and Alexander Kipnis as- King Henry. Egon Pollab conducts. I'he last popular priced performance Of the year shouM be ah outstanding feaure of the -week for the tuneful and ever-popular Martha is the selection. The cast is unchanged frotn previous presentations, featuring Tito Schipa, Leola Turner, Coe Glade, Vlrgilio Lazzarl, Salvatore Baccaloni and Robert Ringling. Frank St. Leger will conduct. : The-week should prove one of the best , of the season, for it presents a selection of six, operas which have been among the "best sellers" of the year, and indeed" of any opera season. The schedule: ' ' ( MO'N'DAY, Jan. 25--at LA GIOCONDA* (In Italian). Opera In four acts by Ponchi'elli. With Rosa Raisa, Cyrena, Van Gordon,' Sonia Sharnovai, Charles Marshall, Cesare Formichi, Chase Baromeo. Ballet--Dance of the Hours. Conductor, Emil Cooper, , TUESDAY, Jan. 26--at 7;45--DIE MEISTERSINGER (In Gerriftm). Opera in three acts by Wagner. With fcotte T ebmann. Sonia. Sharnova, Rene Maison. Qscar Colcaire, Hans Hermann Nissen, Eduard Hahich, Alexander Kipnis, Robert Ringling and' others. Conductor, Egon Pollak. WEDNESDAY, Jan. 27--at 8--CARMEN (In French). Opera in four acts by Georges Bizet. With Conchita Supervia, Leola Turner, Antonio Cortis,. Cesare Formichi and others. Ballet. Conductor, Emil Cooper. THURSDAY, Jan.v 28--at 8--LA TRAVIATA (In Italian). Opera in four acts by Verdi. With Claudia Muzio, Tito Schipa, Victor Damiani and others. Ballet. Conductor, Roberto Moranzoni. SATURDAY. .Tan. 30--at2--LORES'- GRIN (In German). Opera in three acts by Wsfgner, With Lotte Lehmann, Maria Olszewska, Rene Maison, Hans Hermann Nisseir,-' Eduard Hahich, Alexander Kipnisr Conductor,4 Egon Pollak. > SATURDAY. Jan. 30--at 8--(Popular prices)--MARTHA (In Italian). Opera; in four acts by von Flotow. With Leola Turner, Coe Glade, Tito Schipa, Virgilio Lazzarl, Salvatore Baccaloni and others. Ceaductor, Frank St. Leger. FIFTY YEARS AGO .Charles Granger is to succeed C- IV Waite as Deputy Postmaster. C. L. James, of the Milwaukee Bridge company, commenced the work of straightening up tie; bridge this morning. ( Shedd & Co., hate commenced, harvesting the ice on the pond, and for a feW weeks it will be lively in that section. As their house here is full of last year's ice, this season's cfop will be shipped immediately to Chicago. VOLO Mr. and Mrs. Joe B, Hettermann and family visited Mr. and Mrs. Albeit Pepping, of Crystal Lake Sunday. Math Heumann of Stacyville, Iowa, visited Mr. and Mrs. John Hiller recently. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Michels and son, Lonnie, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Oeffling and Mr. and Mrs. George Michels and children visited Mrs. William Smith in McHenry Monday night. Mrs. Ray Horick of Woodstock Mr. and Mrs.. Joe Passfield enter spent Tuesday with her parents, Mir! tained the Five Hundred club at their and Mrs. Stephen H. Smith. « " home Tuesday evening; of last rweek- Mr. and Mrs-v Georg4 'Michels and Seven tables were in play. Prizes children and Lloyd Oeffling and Le- were won by .Mrs. Frank Hironimus, Roy Smith visited 3Vfr. and Mrs. Joe Mrs.' Charles Dalvin, Mrs. Beatrice Michels at Crystal Lake Sunday. s Dowell, Mrs. Frank Dowell, Frank St. Mrs. Peter Schaefer, Mrs. Henry George, Ellwood Dowell, John Pass- S toff el and daughter, Marie, Mrs. field and Howard Hironimus. A de- George ,Miller of Volo and Miss Mil- licious lunch was serveddred Schaefer of Grayslake spent Arthur Monoghan received word last Thursday at the home of Mr. and from Chicago Wednesday morning of Mrs. . Ben Schaefer. They finished the death of his brother, Fred. Fu- 1 services were held at 5908 So. Hblst farm Wednesday of Archie Rosing of Round Lake was a business caller in this locality Wednesday of last week. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Nichols of Mc Henry spent Thursday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hironimus. Wayne Bacon and family of Slocum Lake were Saturday dinner guests at ,, the Bacon home. Arthur Wackerow spent Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Darrell at Slocum Lake. Mrs. Clinton Ravin and family of Slocum Lake spent Saturday at the Dowell Bros. home. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bacon and family of Round Lake spent Sunday at the Bacon home. \ Mrs. Earl Hironimm and son of Chicago returned to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hironimus Monday. Clarence Hironimus was a Wauke- Mr. and M^s. 'Roy Pasfield, Roberta Dowell, Ellwood and Milton Dowell attended the shoytr at Crystal Lake Sunday evening. Mrs. F. E. Wilson, Mrs. Beatrice Dowell and son, Mrs. Roy Plassfiehf, Mrs. Joe Passfield and Mrs. Henry Passfield spent Thursday afternoon at the home of Mr*. Lloyd Eddy afc Grayslake, / ^ ' ' / . ! . ' Rhode* Scholarship* John Cecil Rhodes was a^-So&tfe African financier and statesman, ff© bequeathe'd the bulk of his great forfUne for the .endowment -of a large number of scholarships at Oxford university, with the intention of bringing about the complete tinion of the English- speaking races for the,peace . j® * lightenment and uplift of He died in March, 1902; mankind; making three quilts. Miss Olive Hettermann of McHenry spent the week-end. at tthe Home of her parents- 1 family spentTitonday .wining ,t th9 wB formerly with Ward Gale the ! «•, week-end ,t tie hcme of l„t-. h"ne of Mr. «nd Mrt. Chwtes Dal- *ers father, John Pitaert. | vm at ^auconda. Kedzie avenue, at the chapel to the St. Gall's church, Saturday morning'. Interment in the Holy Sepulchre. Mr. and Mrs, Roy Passfield and Foundry, in %his village, tally killed at the F< Wednesday last.- a.coder) on ^ FORTY YEARS AGO We learn that William Covill who lives' just east of this village, met with a fall on Monday, injuring his back quite ^ severely, which may lay him up for some time. On Sunday and Monday , several inches more snow fell and we are now enjoying good sleighing in this sec- Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Lay and daughter, Thelma. Mr. and Mrs. Ben' H. Meyers and Mrs. Wm. Ventura of Racine, Wis., tion, and business is correspondingly **' eyers improve. Good snug wtater wither, j Mr |ch^"of chi. "LIS,!5 better ,OT hea,th 3° ™^vic fTher'? P*re0ts' Thomas Kimball, while oomins- teek-ei3 ' °VW down the river with a team, Monday ,*• Vir-ij j j ti ti evening, broke through the ice, and ! SuSan himself and team took a cold bath J ^ a C*K*Z% rela" A. L. Howe went to his assistance, I ^y' Q and be reached home in a rathe^ \ tZ^left 1°* C1?1 ,Ca?0.t S^- chiUed condition. It might have been1 ?ay "lgkt'Jvher|, he Tu hl - |d aughters, Mrs. Elmer Schroeder and! Mrs. Jim Chamberlain, for a few weeks. Raymond Schaefer visited his coiisin, George Miller, of Volo Thursday night., Mrs, Ben Schaefer was on the sick list Monday. Miss Mildred Schaefer. of Grayslake j Mrs- E. Bacon and daughter, Vinnie, Spent Sunday with her parents hereJ-*?®1"© McHenry callers Wednesday. Miss Helen Schaefer spent Sun-1 MJrs. Eaise. Fishe'r ^'pdnf Monday day evening at CryBtal,. Lake with afternoon at the home of Mr. and Helen Blank. \ | Mrs. Ray Seymour at Wauconda. Mrs. Ray Horick, of Woodstock, j Mr. and Mrs. Roy Passfield and and nephew, Eugene King, spent family motored to Grayslake Tuesday much worse Mr. and Mrs, J. F. Claxton were greatly surprised Monday about noon when team after team came driving into the yard to celebrate their tin wedding. The party consisted et friendi from far and near, and numbered about thirty.' Miss Mabel King entertained a few «f her friends at her home Saturday evening. Cards, music' and bunco . ,, r, . , % - . , ,, , | were enjoyed throughout the evenat the Elgin board of trade Monday. ing by thoge present. Misses Magdalena Krift and Alma Burlington, Wis,, visited TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Twenty tubs of butter were offered ! The price dropped at 29 cents, steady. | The output for the week was 570,300 Krift "of pounds. C. S. Howard recently purchased $98 worth of pelts from "Freem" Foster of Crystal Lake. N. J. Justen, F. L. McOmber and E. F. Matthews have installed new systems of gas lighting in their places of business on the West Side. A $1,100 cottage is being erected at Orchard Beach by railway mail clerk Earl Waite. E. W. Howe and men are doing the work. of last week. Mr. arid Mrs. Lloyd Fisfcerr^ames, Ellwood Milton and Lloyd Dowell spent Monday evening at the home of Mr. and Mirs. George Scheid, Jr., at Wauconda. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dowell and daughter of Elgin, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dalvin of Wauconda and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Eddy of Grayslake attended the Five Hundred club at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Passfield Tuesday evening of last week. Mr. and Mrs. Washington Converse and Mr. and Mrs- Alvin Case were called to Chicago Thursday on account of the death of Mrs. Converse's brother, Fred. Arthur Wackerow spent Sunday in Chicago with relatives. Mfc\ and Mrs. J»oe Passfield and son, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Eddy) Mr and Mrs. Roy Passfield and family and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Eddy of* McHenry enjoyed Sunday dinner afl the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry PassP field . Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kaiser were Grayslake business callers Saturday Mr. Hoist of Chicago and Mr. Crayon of Crystal Lake called at the DR. C. KELLER :ometrist and Optician During the winter months I -will examine at ittv home in Xasch ^'Subdivision, on fiiv«nide North of city limits of McHenry, on West side of river, on Sundays and Mondays only. Phone McHenry 211-R . ; ' I m 111 IIM l l l t l l l i i l i f t I I I I t > 1 1 1 1 1 1 »•» Phalin's Garage Phone 314 Storage, Repairing, Oil, Greasing i[ Pearl Street, McHenry »I< »1<» 4> 4> '»• 'I' .t. it. •»• ,t, •«, ,t. * a ,f ,t «M t TT' t f 111 I t 1 1i -"'iA' McHenry Floral Gompany Main Street, McHenry , ~ ^ Where quality is best and prices are lowest/ Funeral Work a Specialty . ---- Flowers for Weddings and all occasions if* SLOCUM LAKE Mr. and Mrs- Wm. Davis and TWENTY YEARS AGO N. P. Steilen, the popular Water street groceryman, fell and sustained quite severe injuries last Sunday afternoon. He was walking along the street near the river when he suddenly slipped and fell on the icy walk. In the fall he struck on the back of his head and for sometime it was feared that the accident would prove fatal. Although under the care of a physician he is again able to be around. Ray Dowell was a business caller ;.t .Grayslake last Thursday. Harry Matthews and sons, Robert and Lyle, were business caller* *t Grayslake last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. H- L. Brooks were callers at Elgin and Dundee last Thursday. Willard Darrell, Harry Matthews and son, Robert, were business callers at Woodstock last Thursday. Ray Dowell and Rolin Dowell were callers at Crystal Lake last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren were -- business callers at McHenry last Tuesday. Wm. Foss and son, Leslie, attended a farm sale near Grayslake last Thursday. • * . Ray Dcwell and daughter, Dorothy, were callers at McHenry Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse attend ed the movies at Ciystal Lake last Thursday evening Mrs. Leslie D$vis and daughter, Helen,-of the Flats speiit last Friday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bacon. MT. and Mrs John Blomgren spent last Friday afternoon at the home of '< Mir. and Mrs- Raymond Lusk near Volo. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Foss and daughter, Vivian, of Libertyville spent last Sunday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Foss. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell and daughters, Dorothy and Delores, were party and luncheon last Thursday af ternoon at the home of Mrs. Carl I w-ik-" Kulin on Gate street at Crystal Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell and daughter, Delores, called at the home of Mrs- Frances King at North Chicago last Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Johnston of Elgin called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Brooks last Wednesday. I Mrs- Jack Geary and son, Donald,] spent the past week with relatives in Chicago. » j Simoi\ Stoffel of McHenry, Teddy Simms and Emmerson Cook of Wauconda were callers last Saturday at tho W. E. Brooks home. Mr. and Mrs. H.'J! Shaffer and Mrs. John R. Knox of McHenry spent Sunday evening at the home <ff Henry Geary. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Williams and son, James Howard, were Sunday dinner and afternoon guests at the home of Mrs. Clara Smith. Rev. Tayl&r- of Wauconda called at different homes in this community last Monday. daughter, Frances, of near Wauconda ! ^"day night or ssnpeenntt llaa«.tt MMoonnddaavy aafftteerrnnoooonn aatt tthhee 1 th, e yg toSraet uorfd apy mA orBnoinhgla nodf elra st week ho„me of„-M t. a,n,d. Mrs. Wayne Bacon.: j , , , ,, , Mrs. Harry Matthewts anpd Mrs.i El- i tered and relievedu i of sev•e ral dollars' mer TE-, spm- g were gues,t s a.t a ,b ri• dj ge j worth of seasonable wearing apparel, r 6 aacs. well as so„ me sma,l,l c,h ange. Tmhi ^ sa.me night the implement office of Stoffel was entered. Mr. Stoffel lost a pair of boots and leggings. Laures and Jones-, the West Side grocery firm, have disolved partnership, the former taking over the business which will in the future be known as the Math. Laures grocery. The ice harvest both here and at McCollums lake goes merrily on. The ice is the thickest that it has been in a aumber of years. iivwW-W c-F' Safety Measures Reduce Fear of Mine Disasters Washington.--The awful fear of being crushed and buried alive, or Sunday dinner and afternoon guests J blown to death, with which coal mines at the home of Mr and Mrs. William ha^ constantly threatened their work- Davis. * Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Esping spent Sunday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank August at Wauconda. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Brooks and Miss Myrna Bacon attended, the ski jump at Cary Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse spent Wednesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Davis. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks and son, Chesney, were Sunday <callers at Towt Lake. •-- \lfiss Pearl Foss and Bill Berg of the Flats attended a show at Barrington last Saturday evening. Miss Frances Davis snent Wednesday at the «home of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bacon. Mr. and Mrs- LaD^yt Matthews 'of Crv'tpl Lake spent Sunday evening with relatives at Oak Clcn Farm. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell attended the movies at Crystal Lake Sunday evening. - • Ted Morey and Harold Hapke--of Waukesha, Wis., were callers last IfMaesday j& th» W. E. Brooks hafie. ers, Is being alleviated by rapidly im proving safety records. There were 838 fatalities for the first seven months of 1931 as compared with 1,159 for the correspondi n g p e r i o d o f t h e p r e c e d i n g y e a r , a reduction of 27.7 per cent. The production of coal, however, was reduced 16.2 per cent, accounting for a part of the safety record gains. There was a decrease In the death rate under every one of the five main causes of accidents In coal mining, Scott Turner, director of the United States bureau of mines, reported-- namely, falls of roof or coal, haulage, gas or^dust explosions, explosives and electricity. There were only four major explosion disasters, with a death toll of 40, In 1931 period, as against seven, reporting 88 deaths, In 1930. Turner likewise pointld to the absence of a catastrophe since January 28, the longest period of immunity In bitumineips coal mines lt» 30 or more years, , TEN YEARS AGO Having secured a permit the McHenry. ice cream factory will start tomorrow making the newest iced delicacy known as Eskimo pies. Fishing through the ice at Fistakee and nearby lakes has been quite general during the paist two weeks or more. Silver bass are being caught in goodly numbers, while some very fine specimen pf bass and pickeral have also been caught. , Whoever took the boxing gloves ^rom the American Legion club rooms In this village is kindly asked to return them immediately as they will be needed in the very near future when another big atheletic show will be staged. . The work of filling the local ice houses was completed last Thursday very much to the satisfaction of tho owners, who for awhile had been give/i cause for worry when the out-look fou" a crop was a bit discouraging. George J. Donavin, employed in th<j hardware store conducted by his brother, Walter, on the West Side, is wearing his right hand in a sling since Monday morning, as a result of an explosion which occurred when he attempted to rekindle a lip io thti furnace at the store. 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