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, 4 ; - V H *V ' -. "' ' * ' ' ' • X ••'••• - ';C:'::Vv-'-! :-; '::1- .V ••; V • , . / ' • • • ' • ' r-;- & t J ;• • ; r- VOL.59 \ McHENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1934 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES JUNE 1st his year, will not TO GRADUATE HAZEL HOWARD GETS : HIGH HONORS Wednesday was the last day of school for the Seniors of the Community high school, who comprise the largest graduating class in the history of McHenry schrtol. The second largest class consisted of forty-eight graduates who left the high school at commencement 1932.x I'he Seniors have' been busy making final preparations for commencement, which will take place on Friday, June 1, and for Which the prog- ram will appear next week. It is expected that there will he about fifty-five graduates this although the exact number be determined until after the examinations for the Seniors on Thursday and Friday of this week. The regular school work for the year for the other high, school classes will be completed on Monday of next week, with exams on Tuesday and Thursday forenoon.' On Friday, June the stadents will report at the high sch&ol to received their report cards. On Tuesday of next week the Seniors will assemble at the high school for the class picture. It will be taken this year on the stage of the auditorium. The class motto chosen nates this year is, "Today W< Tomorrow We Lead." There is something about a group of graduates which claims the admiration of th» public as they enter into life with the confidence of youth and determination to win success. The class flower is the white rose and the class colors are Yale blue and white. 1 ) The president of the^ctaSS-isr Vivian Whiting, vice-president is Evelyn Justen and secretary and treasurer is Vivian Bolger. Hazel Howard is valedictorian of her class, having the highest averaga for, her four years' Work in high by thegrady We Follow, Dm personnel of the Seniorchuu is «s follow*: Berniee Gertrude Allen. Kathryn Margaret Allen. . ; Mfcrian Ruth Anderson. , , Florence Lorraine Austin/ Maxine Bacon. Clarice E. Blake. Lucille H. Blake. ' Vivian Clare Bolger/ - Wanda Boyko..' Charles J. BrdC ^ R6Ilo Densome -Dorothy Nell Comes. Catherine Diedrich. <^iy Duker. Anna L. Fox. Lyle Donald Franzen. Lorraine Madeline Freund. Lenora Elizabeth Frisby. Ethel E. Granger. .Clarence E. Harrison. Earle E. Hlarrison. Helen Elizabeth Harr^son,- Hazel M. Howard. Clara S. Justen. Evelyn C. Justen. Henry LeRoy Kamhofa. • Eileen Dorothy Kilday." George W. Kinsala. Walter A. Kreutzer. t Mercedes Linderman. Jeannette A- Lindsay. Lewis Marshall McCannon, Darlene Merchant Joseta Merrick. Marvin E. Meyers. Agnes Marie Mischke. Edward G. Moony. William Moony. Ruth E. Nye. : ; Harold H. PhanpensUH,: Jeanne M. Powers. * Willys J. Schreiner. w ; i - Jessie Laura Schroed**. El vera E. Smith. * * Wanda Smith. - Mary Catherine Sutton. 0 Bertha C. Tonyan. Kenneth J. Tonyan. Bern ice D. Unti. Stanley W. Vycital. Beatrice. E. Weber. * Eleanore M. Wegener^ x MJarian B. Weingart. * Vivian Whitinjf>\ Louis J. Winn. \ Baccalaureate, May 27 Tie activities of the final week of school will commence Sunday evening. May 27, when tlie annual bacalaureate address will be given to members of the graduating class and their relatives and friends at the high, school auditorium beginning at 8:15 p. m. DST. The Rev. Fr. Nell of Teutopolis, 111., a former resident of tbis vicinity, will deliver the address of the evening. Fr. Nell, who has many relatives and friends here, has a niece, Mis« Anna Fox, who is a member of the .graduating class. He has been at his present parish for fifteen years and has gained renown as a writer, havin? contributed articles to the Literary Digest, Country Gentleman, Prairie Farmer and Farmer's Wife, also speaking over the radio on station WLS. The baccalaureate address, with musical numbers, makes a fitting introduction to the closing week of the Finds the Cannon He Served in 1862 "Silk Hat" Hurley, ninety-year-old Civil war veteran and only surviving of the Jacksonian Democratic club of Boston, discovers the caunon he used 72 years ago at the Battle of Baton Rouge, La., on August 5. 1862, at Old Point Comfort, Va., while on an Inspection trip previous to the Memorial day celebration there. Mr. Hurley was five times mayor of Salem, Mass. BAND CONCERT HELD _ IN AUDITORIUM What was lacking in numbers was more than made up in volume and quality of tone at the annual band concert given by the Community. High School band at the high school Thursday evening. Altough not as large as in former years, the personnel of the band is made up of some real musicians who evince great interest in this part of their school curriculum and who put on a most interesting program composed of marches, overtures and waltzes by composers of note. Because of the death of a resident in the vicinity of the high school, finil preparations for the-concert to be heid outdoors were dropped and the c< cert was given MI the auditorium of the school building where parents, friends and musdc lovers spent an enjoyable evening with the band members and their director, W. N. Sears, who is popular with students and adults. For the past two years the concerts have been given outdoors where they e heard'by more people than assemble in the auditoHum. The annual band concerts are one of the musical treats of the season and are anticipated by the public in general. The band is composed of about thirty members who have worked faithfully towards the completion of the program and they, indeed showed their friends how well they could do. The program was varied with selections by the band, interspersed with solo numbers, duets and selection by the boys' and girl' glee clubs. Miss Dorothy Holden assists in the band work, Miss O'Gara directs the boys' glee club and Miss Grant trains the girls' glee clubs. Although some of the members of the various musical bodies of the school will graduate this year, it Is expected that others will be able to fill the vacancies and keep up the high standards of music in the high school PMA WIRES WALLACE FOR PRICE INCREASE Frank Green was the speaker at the meeting of the McHenry local of tin Pure Milk association Monday night. The 80 percent rule supposed to take effect on June 1 has been put off until July 1. The Pure Milk association made up of some 18,000 dairymen in the Chicago area, wired Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace for permission to raise the base price of milk from $1.75' to $2.25 per hundred pounds. The wire was sent by the president of the association. The request was based on lack of pasturage, depleted food stores and consequent added expense and was coincident with the issuance of the weekly government crop bulletin revealing the need for more rain in the corn and wheat region. The crop report comes at the end of the driest four and one-half months period in the middle west: In the first sixteen days oT May only .02 inches of rain had fallen. The normal for May is Z.hi inches. The middle west has suffered from lack of rain more than it has in years. Many dug wells are dry and the subsoil is without moisture. Dust storms created havoc throughout the farm land area. Feed is gone and no grass will be available even though rain starts immediately. (Continued on last page.) WANTS TO BUY FARM \>idney Smith, father of the Gumps and other comic sketches, was a Woodstock visitor last Thursday where his big Dusenberg roadster with the familiar license number, 348, attracted considerable attention. It is reported that the cartoonist is interested in buying a farm- COURT Of HONOR FRIDAY EVENING McHENRY WILL HAVE 8 EAGLE SCOUTS Friday evening, May 25, is the date set for the Court of Honor for Mc Henry County Boy Scouts which will be held at the local high school auditorium. This will be an important meeting for McHenry and it is expected that many local people will attend as a growing interest is being shown in Scout work. Four McHenry Scouts will receive the rank of Eagle Scout, with one ether from the county, and in addition to this there will be about ten Second-class Scouts and four Firstclass boys from the McHenry troop to receive badges, in addition to others from troops of the county. There will be between thirty and forty men to get Scout awards earned at the county school for training Scoutmasters and troop committeemen. The badge of Eagle Scout is one of the highest ranks which can be conferred upon a Scout and requires much study and passing of many tests before the rank can be attained- ,The Eagle Scout badge is awarded to a First-class Spout qualifying for twenty-one merit badges. These twenty-one badges shall include first aid, life caving, personal health, public health, cooking, camping, civics, bird study, -pathfinding, pioneering, rthletics or physical development and any nine others. There are three classes of Scouts, the Tenderfoot, Second-class and First-class Scout. On meeting certain requirements and passing tests, boysi may advance in Scoutcraft. The Boy Scout program js so big and broad and attractive as to make it possible for the boy to maintain his interest indefinitely and there are abundant opportunities for the older boy to take part in Scouting. The boys from McHenry who will become Eagle Scouts at the Court of Honor Friday night are Richard Vycital, Stanley Vycital, George Johnson and Raymond Hughes. To Get Scoutmaster's Key Mr. Schoenholtz, McHenry Scoutmaster, will be the first man in the county to receive the Scoutmaster's key, which will be presented to him at the Court of Honor. To be entitled to the key he must have been a Scoutmaster for five years and attended at least forty Scoutmaster's meetings. McHenry already has four Eagle Scouts, who are Tony0 Wirtz, Charles and Harold Vycital and Mr. Schoenholtz. Second-class Scouts who will receive badges are: Wilbert Klapperich, Francis Cox, Kenneth Franzen, Wilbert Sehaefer, Angelo Unti, Harry Conway and Bruce Klontz. First-class Scouts who will receive ladges are Harold Taxman and Jack Hess- BUY A POPPY; HHP A SOLDIER Fail in Nonstop Flight to Rome REHABILITATION FJJND WORK of the for the welfare of disabled World War veterans and their families, carried out by the American Legion and its Auxiliary, will be made possible by means of the memorial poppies which will be distributed throughout the nation next Saturday, according to Mrs. Eleanor Althoff, rehabilitation chairman of the local Auxiliary unit. Contributions for r{he poppies will form the principal source of support for the Legion and Auxiliary's welfare work during the coming twelve motiths, she N»id. ' "Even before the curtailment of governmental benefits for the disabled, a vast amount of relief and rehabilitation wterk was left for the Legion rnd Auxiliary to do," Mrs. Althoff explained. "Federal economy measures last year increased this greatly. Because of the inflexibility of laws and the necessary technicalities guarding governmental expenditures, the government was never able to reach all the needy disabled, and now the number left without government aid is larger than ever before. Problem Is Great "Here in McHenry our unit of the American Legion Auxiliary has a constant relief and rehabilitation problem. Disabled veterans are under n severe handicap when they compete with able-bodied men for employment, even in good times, and under present conditions their situation is frequently desperate. The American Legion and Auxiliary always have been their friends in need and with the help of those who wear the poppy Saturday, we will continue to be during the coming year." The Auxiliary women who will distribute the poppies will work as volunteers and all of the money contributed for the little red flowers of remembrance will go to the rehabilitation and child welfare funds of the Legion and Auxiliary. L'apt. lieorge J£. Toad (right; and Lieut. Osare Sabelli, first transatlantic flyers of the year, set out from New York on a nonstop flight to Home, but were forced to land In Ireland because of engine trouble. Their big Bellanca plane, the Leonardo da Vinci, Is shown In the illustration. -- • -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ' -- -- ^ ANNUAL PLAY DAY HELD THURSDAY RURAL SCHOOLS CONTESTS HOLD Have just received an attractive line of batiste and voile dresses. Sizes from 16 to 52, priced at $1.49 and 31.95. Come in "and look them over while the line is complete. The Style* Shop, Kathryn Barbian, Green, street 52-fp • • THEME IS PUBLISHED Laurence Lauck of 114 Harding St., Flgin. who is attending the University of Illinois this year, wrote the theme, •'Subduing Virgin Lands," which was published in the May number of The Green Caldron, a magazine published by the rhetoric staff for outstanding work in rhetoric. Laurence is the nephew of Miss Edith Lauck of Elgin who is remembered by many friends here. LOTUS WILL BLOOM EARLIER THIS TZAR With grass and all vegetation dying from the drouth, there remains one specie of plant in this vicinity which the dry weather does not injure, namely the popular lotus flowers at Grass Lake. Although the water level at Grass Lake is lower than it has been for many years, there is a sufficient amount to take care of the famous lotus plants which are flourishing in the mud and rushes of the lake they have made famous while surrounding fields and hillsides are becoming brown and seared by the hot sun. According to Jack O'Connor, resident at Blarney island, in the center of Grass Lake, who is known as an authority on the lotus, the lotus will bloom much earlier this year because of the dry weather and low water levels which always hasten the lotus season. The earliest blooming recalled was eleven years ago when the flowers appeared on June 29. The next year, 1924, was the flood year, when the lotus beds were almost completely destroyed by high water. It has been only during the last two years that the famous beds have regained their former splendor. O'Connor, from his small island in the heart of the lotus beds, observes the beautiful flowers year after year r.nd is considered an authority on them. This year he has built a tower p.t the water's edge on the isle from which may be seen over 2,000 acres of water. He has named it "The Lotus Observation Tower" and, no doubt, it will become popular with the thousands of visitors during the summeiC The Grass Lake Lotus Association lasjLyear erected over 300 metal signs ?lopg highways directing tourists to Antioch and the lotus bed§. The signs were placed on highways from Chicago, Elgin, Rockford, Beloit, Madison, Milwaukee, Kenosha and other main thoroughfares leading to the chain of lakes. , „ A long sea?<ort of the flowering of the lotus is anticipated, as the blooms will last until SeptemDer, according tc residents of that vicinity. The annual play day for the schools of the McHenry district wss held last Thursday with 196 pupils in attendance and forty visitors. Various stunts kept the pupils busy *nd winners were as follows: Boys' Dash--Ray Reichard, Frank Rudolph. Girls' Dash--Lorraine Erber, Verna Nelson. Boys' Broad Jump--Leon Dod?e, Ray Reichard. . * Girls' BroAd Jum Katherine Zuroske. Boys' Hopping--Junior McDonald, Leon Dodge. Girls' Hopping--Lorraine Erber, Beulah Hubblley. Boys' Wheelbarrow (First)--Richard Freund, Richard Malch. Boys' Wheelbarrow (Second)-r-Nd> son Cristy, Leon Dodge. Girls' Wheelbarrow (First)--Evelyn LaDeau, Beulah Hubblley. Girls' Wheelbarrow (Second)--=-Verna Nelson, Lorraine Erber. Boys' Three-legged Race -- Earl H. S. GIRLS ATTEND COMMERCIAL CONTEST Miss Hazel Howard was awarded a gold medal at the Commercial contest held at Grant high school Saturday, winning the award against stiff competition from students entered from Downers Grove, a school of ever 800 students and other larger schools from surrounding territory Six schools were represented in the contest with two girls from each school, making a class of twelve contestants. MSss Hazel Howard and Mias Bea trice Weber represented the McHenry high school. They were accompanied by their commercial teacher, Miss Dorothy Holden. More than half of the contestants were valedictorians of their schools this year and were judged on their typing ability, their grades in all subjects for the four-year high school course, their personality and on a written test. Three cups were awarded with Downers Grove winning fir.st place and three gold pins were awarded, with Miss Hazel Howard winning one of these. Each girl in the contest received a shoulder bouquet of roses. WEEKLY EXCHANGE HEMS OFJNTERESl TAKEN FROM COLUMNS OF OUR EXCHANGES Thieves who had an eye for only the best in whiskies early last Friday broke into the Liebschultz wholesale liquor store in Highwood and carted away a quantity of liquor valued at close to $500. Realizing an urgent need for better sanitation, lighting and police protection, citizens of Channel Lake are unitii|g in a move to have the resort area incorporated as a village, it was learned recently. Einar Sorenson, resort keeper at Channel said that the move to incorporate given added impetus last several prominent business and civic leaders of the resort said they would' support the drive. Thieves visitetk^he Thomas Vasey farm near Grayslake We<Tnesday night of last week, gan^tj entrance to a brooder house by forcing a window, and made away with 220 chickens, and a dozen hens. The chickens were largo enough to sell, and Mrs. Vast/* had made arrangements to dispose of part of them. The brooder house, which was new, was securely locked, but this fact did not prevent the loss of poultry. ' Volume of milk handled at the Marengo Borden's plant has been increased approximately 20 to 25 thousand pounds of milk daily by the addition of 45 dairy farmers to the patrons of the plant. The Marengo plant is now handling whole milk from 255 patron*- The 45 new patrons formerly sold their milk to the Wrightwood Dairies of Chicago, but that dairy quit boy? ing from them during the recent milk strike. Since that time up to last week, these farmers have been selling their milk to an Elgin dairy: According to word given out last week by District State Engineer R. T. Cash, work of construction of Route 59, from Wauconda to Barrington, will get under way in the near future, provided, of course, that suitable right of way can be obtained. This route is among those released for construction by the state highway department. The department estimates that it will take about two weeks to draft the after which efforts to eeenre the right of way will be commenced. MVs. J. F. Hollister, of Barrineton, caught her right hand in the wringer of an electric washing machine Menday morning of last week and is suffering with a badly bruised hand and ' a split thumb- Associated Press dispatches last Friday carried a report of the finding of a body on tAp. Chicago beach which was later---identified as Mm : . > : 0:: :UHuff, Frank Schramm, Washington T School. Shore Business college, Chicago- In Girls' Three-legged Race--Nelva, this test personality was judged by Ehlevt, Betty Ganger, Washington personal appearance, Condition cf the School. * I hair, hand and dress, type of voice and 60-yd. Dash, Girls, 5th and 6th j carriage. They were also asked quesgrades-- 1st, Nona Powers, Clemens j tions concerning their favorite books, •School; 2nd, Loretta Fisher, Harrison | magazines, movie stars, etc. The contest started at 2:30 P^mv, w Saturday with a 15-minute tj^in^ *w^nne^Gafiney, 60, a widow, who test. Thb was followed by a person-1 Crystal Lake clity test and was judged by Dr. *"e k**e county line Hamrin of Northwestern University j ^ i'nd Mr. and Mrs. Johnso^, of Lake School; 8rd, Jean Frey, Ringwood School. » 60-yd. Dash, Girls, 7th and 8th grades--1st, Sylvia Freund, Ringwood; 2nd, Ruth Vogt, Lincoln; 3rd, Beulah Bacon, Griuwold Lake. Baseball Throw, Girls, 5th and 6th grades--1st, Katherine McCarthy, English Prairie; 2nd, Loretta Fisher, Harrison; 3rd, Dorothy Krohn, Harrison. This was followed by a written test designed to show whether or not they were well adjusted to environment at home, school and socially. The local representatives had dinner at the school cafeteria and remained for the evening program when the awards were presented. The state typing champion in the amateur class lives at Fox Lake and she put on an exhibition, typing ninety-five Baseball Throw, Girls, 7th and 8th words-per minute. Dr. Hamrin gave tne address of the evening entitled Nu-Art-Flower Studio, one mile east of McHenry mi Rand Road. Mrs. Peter A. Freund. Phone 614-R-l. 51-tf-fp l-H MEETING TO BE AT WOODSTOCK MAY 26 All 4-H Club leaders and, two or three girls from each club are invited to attend a special county meeting with Miss Martha Hensley, Northern Illinois District club leader, at th« court house, Woodstock, Saturday afternoon, May 26, 1:30 Standard Time. Miss Hei sley, assisted by some of the 4-H Club members in the county, will have charge of the program. grades--1st, Opal Fisher, Harrison; 2nd, Henrietta Herdrich, Ostend; 3rd, June Witt, Griswold Lake. Three-legged Race, Girls, 5th and 6th grades -- 1st, Norma Powers, Clemens; Loretta Fisher, Harrison. Three-legged Race, Girl?. 5th and 6th grades--2nd, Dorothy Krohn, Helen Stewart, Harrison. Three-legged Race, Girls, 5th and *6th grades--3rd, Betty Hauri, Genevieve Kotlewski, Griswold Lake. Three-legged Race, Girls, 7th and 8th grades--1st, Winifred Benwell, Ostend; Sylvia Freund, Ringwood. Three-legged Race, Girls, 7th arid 8th grades--2nd, June Witt, Alice Stewart, Prairie. Three-legged Race, Girls, 7th and 8th grades--3rd, Mary Knox, Prairie; Lois Harms, English Prairie.^ Broad Jump--5th and 6th ^irls-- 1st, Katherine McCarthy, English Prairie; 2nd, Nona Powers, Clemens; 3rd. Loretta Fis>her, Harrison. Broad Jump--7th and 8th girls-- 1st. Sylvia FVeund, Ringwood; Virginia Carr, Ringwood; 3rd, Henrietta Herdrich, Ostend, g Class A, Standing Broad Jump-- ISt, Harold Dowell, Clemens; 2nd, Robert McDonald, Cherry Valley; 3rd, Henry Tonyan. Lincoln. Claf B, Standing Broad Jump--1st, Norman Siedschlag, English Prairie; £nd, Elmer Erber, Clemens; 3rd, Walter Lowe, Ringwood. Class A. Running Broad Jump--1st, Harold Dowell, Clemens; 2nd, Rich "Thoroughly Prepared." The evening was concluded with dancing. The local representatives are to b? congratulated upon their fine record made against the keen competition from larger high schools. SHOWERS MONDAY BREAK HEAT WAVE Refreshing showers Monday night battered down sizzling temperature; ?nd saved the local community from an approaching dust storm. While the rain halted severe discomfort in this vicinity, weather observers said that it was not general enough over the midwest to bring any large amount of relief from parching farm lands, although some localities benefited from j&o|king downpours. The welcome/ showers ended a warm wave which weather "bureau records showed was the most severj since 1896 for the first three weekof May. The period had temperature.-1 11 per cent above normal, and in addition had the smallest amount cf rain in the history of the weather bureau. Total destruction of the barley crop in parts of northern Illinois and unusual damage to wheat were predicted despite Monday right's ' rain. Truck gardens have been damaged badly a^vl chinch bugs are ruining many fields. The first shower to visit McHeniy came shortly after noon Monday. just across in McHenry Identification was made by E. A. Kavanagh, a nephew of the dead woman. He said that his aunt had arrived last Saturday for a brief visit and that she had apparently gotten up during the night and walked to the lake. The waters of Bangs lake were again stocked last week with walleyed pike. Several large cans of this specie of fish were turned loose on the ea'r't shore of the lake. The exact number of course, was not ascertained, but according to Art Stoxen, there were well over five million. Raymond Liss, 21, of Chicago, died Sunday afternoon of last week at th* Condell Memorial hospital, Libertyville, from injuries received two hours earlier in an automobile accident on Milwaukee avenue, near the Libertyville Country club. Tiie machine in which the victim was riding wa.^ driven by a companion. Donald Cook, also from Chicago. The latter was attempting to pass other cars and could not jSjpt back in line, according to testimony at the enquest. To avoii crashing into approaching auto.<\ Cook drove into the .ditch, where the car hit a culvert. Liss was thrown through the windshield by the force of the impact, .suffering a ponctured lung pa, [well as many other injuries. The famous lotus flowers iiy Gram lake and adjoining waters will bloom much earlier this year, according to Jack O'Connor, resident of Blarney . Isle, who for many years has been ' known as "the king of the lotus." Dry weather and lower water level always hasten the blooms, O'Conner states^ • The earliest blooming recalled was eleven years ago when the flowers appeared on June 29. The next yetu*. 1924, flood year, the beds were almost completely destroyed by high water. It has been only during the last tw*» year* that the famous beds have regained their former splendor. 11 ma was followed by a. downpour at 6 o'clock and later in the night moie ard Miller, Ringwood; 3rd* George ^ This Erber, Clemens, Class B, Running Broad Jump--1st, rain fell. Another small shower Wed Glenn Was pi, Washington; 2nd, John resday evening was followed by still (Continued on last page.) lower temperatures. nr GRAND OPENING Claus Ander announces his i-rvniag fit Riverdale, Saturday night. May 36. Free lunch. Music. Beer on draught. Good time for all. "Si / AMONG THE SICK Little Geraldine Carey is ill "scarlet fever. Harold Blake, eleven year ol; of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Blake, erated on last week at St. TheresaVlifB*^ H jytKvlCE . •"* 4 it Atlas Tlr«« .•iJdi ' J'.M- >&*-.