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. ~ > VTY? TV WVTwy ;xp<|y ,,-r* terf: «, *^iK' tHE M'HENR*iKiAnraEAIdii^^^ '.'-fx- ';:-^H^ -v: f; Yage S«y« Do You Remember Way Back When ? REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN-- There was a butter factory'one-half mile north of • . • .r<J x , Johnshurg and Pete Williams Was the butter maker? -"••xy Elm Street P. H. FREUND At Old "Temptis Fugit" Location iv Mr, Ereund started seventeen ; pltiinbingi and- electrical; work* 'Mid. „in.' 02-8 built; & ifew ';lhiBine6S"'buIldil%;ai^ifl-^psp-ht location," where lie lift? a store 'carrying, a -line '-of CfiPO-MDatic Oil Burner^, Ice-OMatic RefngeratoT^, Water\j5ystems,/ Sheliahe Bottled Gas and Gas Stoves, Water Softeners-., and Cellar Draine r s , e t c ^ ' * f ' ( < ^ ^ - v' r Wticther it'"s a t'onliAd'fdr" ' * . PLUMBING, HEATING OR ELECTRICAL WORK Mr. Freund is In a position to offer the best of materials and experienced labor aiid asks for an opportunity to. submit' an estimate on your job with no obligation. . REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN-- The court house stood in what is now the McHenry Park? Part of Bidder's hotel was once the old court house.. :- * McHENRY HOUSE J. C. BICKLER, Pr^, i Chicken and Steak Dinners - A Specialty \r ALL HOME! COOKING Phone UL Riverside REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN-- ^ Thomas Dayment was millwright at the old Hanly ~ EARLE E. MONEAR. Prop. Established 1927 BILLIARDS AND BOWLING ^ McHenry's Recreation Center In Winter Coolest Place In Town In Summer • ' TAVERN IN CONNECTION REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN Chief Bald Knob of the Pistaqua tribe called his -brave warriors together by signal fires from the top of the land now known after his name, signalling from the Algonquin hills and the height of Woodstock the first white men were coming down the Fox River trail, that they should be ready to fight. Ho To for a real-recreation by enjoying, as many thousands do each year, a real chicken or fish dinner, or a fishing trip. Church, school or club picnic parties, can -be arranged ^ihout tfharge. RUDOLPH JOHNSON, PRO# - • * Phone. l&gS Old Timers Who Made McHenry History w. A. CRISTY W, A. Cristy was born in Vermont, coming here with his parents when- ; about eleven years old. He assisted in his father's general merchandise store and later became a partner in | the firm owning: the pickle factory. He married Nina Walker and they had two sons, Harold and Lynn. . George Gage George Gage, for whom "Gagetown" was named, ,was born in New, York state, coming west; in 41835 and { settling" ,ait„ Joliet. H^'"-latei*. settled at Gage's' Lake in Lake " county, where he lived for twelve years before coming tb JjfcHenry. He was one of those instrumental in getting the railroad thfptigh"Me-; He'riry. and the Gage- House was quo of his enterprises. , George Gagtr 'pNtftietb' cci-' eeived the idepv of. . ierecting public and private buildings^.jBfnC^ktS-ityr'ere soot sMd and; buik \ipon, , , " The depot located.- here arid gradually the business was drawn tfrotn the river. . ,• Parker Hoyse ^ The Parker House was built in 1858 by George C^age and was for a' time called the Gage House. It was first kept by a Mr. Van Doozen who w#s succeeded by William Murrey. After four years a Mr. Holmes took the place over afld was succeeded by a Mr. Edsop,.... Then L. D. Lincoln ran it two years. On Feb. 5, 1869, W. Parker purchased the property. and ran it until 1881 when? his son, F. A. Parker, took it over. "Ad" and "Bill" Musgrove . . Two characters, typical of the days before prohibition, who will never be forgotten by the older generation and who can never be properly visualized by the younger folks, were "Ad" and "Bill" Musgrove, extensive land owners, who lived on Irish prairie. Always drunk, fighting each other and everybody else, they spent their time in the salodfis. Often imagining they were robbed, and it was not always imagination, they would take their rolls of bills to a friend, whom they trusted, to count for them, being able to tell at once if any of their money was gone. They carried hundreds of dollars with thern at times and were always well supplied with bills. At their death their property wen ( to Willis Kittle and his sister, Etta, of Crystal Lake. „ Famous Cigar Manufacturers ^Barbian Brothers made McHenry famous with their Monogram cigars winch they manufactured here ;for many years. ^ Nick E. Barbian, who resides in the old "Dick" Bishop home on Riverside drive, still carries on the tenets of his family and continues to manufacture cigars. Lawyer "Hank" McLean Henry W. McLean, widely known as a politician,, was born in New York, coming west in 1837. He was admitted to £he bar in New York state in 1834 and to the bar of McHenry county in 1842. • ' . H. C. Mead Henry Clay Mead emigrated from New. York to Illinois in 1844, coming with his parents by way -of the Erie Canal and the lakes to Chicago and then by wagon to McHenry where they took up 240 acres of land just west of what is now the city' of McHenry. On May 24, 1861, he enlisted as a private in company A of the Fifteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, first known as the Woodstock Light Guards. Elsewhere in this issue will be found a letter from his son, Will Mead, now at Raymondsville, Texas. FLAVEL K. GRANGER Flavel K. Granger, though best known as a business man, was a member of the McHenry County bar of long standing. He was born May 16, 1832, in Wayne County* N. Y. l Passing his boyhood on a farm, attending school at Sodus, N. Y., later a seminary and then becoming a student at Wesleyan seminary at Lima, N. Y., he engaged in school teaching until he came west in 1853. JOHN R KNOX WAS VALUED OFFICIAL AND ^ PUBLIC SERVANT law 1-855 John R. Knox, elected mayor of MclTenry " in April 1929, was the founder of the Ford agency in McHenry in 1910, naming his business the Knox Motor Sales."4 : V In his first year of business he sold three Ford cars. He immediately began the study of L ln .^Ptember,.. 1928, he sold the W in Waukegan and in the fall 0?+^fmess to the Buss-Page Moto.- was adm i tti'd to the bar/ : On- Sales, now in business ih West Mc- 4'wyu - oumiLvtu .. w vi*c , yii-lw. ^ . .. aeount of poor health arid; t6: obtain i i'TX'V 1 . ;r.- out door exercise he camfe to McHen- ,:Be?iVdf A^ mwor. of,,Mcry, atid:engaged in' stock buying | served prev,c,usly as aldergrain raising. This'He conducted very successfully ^for/several years nsan of the Third ward. - ; : BefoW the expiratiori: of his--second thouS:"at K?ox die<l ^t0-! law 2racti'e ' ^ -jwr-4,'1932. He was a man of sterr. j ln _187o' was^ho^ff [ supervboc of the town -of: McHenrV,^ »«ost useful | rfi"ottha,»SLR°PUbh,'a-n ^'r tc>'.JACK WALSH, McHENRY*S He was twice re-«l«cte<3|' ' "'I^ETERAN POLICE CHIEF'! tion and iri"the fall .of 1872 he was j | elected representative to the legi?la-j jack Walsh, chief of police of Mc- I ture. To this office he was re-elected j'Heiiry for forty-two years, nonstable : three tmi^s without opposition, mov- and deputy sheriff of McHenry coun- i ing into the new state capitol build-1 ty, was known throughout the county. ; ing with his colleagues. ' j , ' I In 1896 he was elected senator and served mpst creditably in that posi tion. He died June 10, 1906. Mr. Granger was one of the members of a stock company which bought the McHenry Plaindealer in 1898, uri der the name of the McHenry Plaindealer Company. : William Nickle, Teacher William Nickle, who was born in Venango county, Pa., taught school in McHenry county in 1851 for thirteen dollars a month. In 1872 he was elected county superintendent. Nicholas Frett; Nicholas Adams anid Jacob "Schmitt wene the first settlers at Johnsburg. Gottlieb Boley, for many years owner of the McHenry Brewery, wa< bom in Germany. In J874 he came to McHenry and in 1880 bought th> brewery.. ~ | G. W. Besley, druggist, came to I McHenry in July 1879, and establishj ed his business. He was born in Michigan. His father was president of Besley's Brewing ' company at Waukegan. , Eber E. Bassett, postmaster at "West McHenry1. who is completing thirty years of service for the gOiVernment, is a grandson of Rov. J. |E. Bassett, who came to McHenry in 1852 Rev. Bassett was born in New York state and in 1835 was licensed to preach. /. " v James R. Sayler - Japies R JSavler, piorider.land owner, came to McHenry in 1847, making thy trip from his native state of New Y<uk b.y'way of the lakes to Chicago and then by land to McHenry. During the gold rush of 1849 he went to California where he spent three years in the gold mining district, conducting a trading post. His childreru_now living are, William A. Sayler and Mrs. Alma Thomas, McHenry and Mrs. Ella Smith, Portland, Ore. Win. H- Hanking Among other names of early settlers are those of Wm. H. Hankins and family, his aunt. Mrs. Valentine. and her son. First Post Office in 1837 The first post office established in the county was in. 1837 with Christy Wheeler the first postmaster. It was %aid that by subterfuge the postoffice was moved to west McHenry and for a year McHenry was without'a postoffice. Petitions'were sent to headquarters and in 1883 an office was established at both places i In 1885 Jas. B. Perry and Chester Stevens were postmasters.. JACK * WALSH and his death at the age of 71 year^. which occurred March 8, 1933, was mourned by every one. In 1890, Marshal Walsh was first appointed to his position of responsibility and saw the • establishment of many local improvements. He was born at_ Tulla,. Carlow \ County, Ireland, on October 18, 1801, and at the age of ten years, came to America with his parents, settling at McHenry. "Jack" as he was known to the .community in general, tempered the enforcement of the law with words of counsel and advice, and was interested in the younger generation of the town. His death occurred just five months after that of McHeriry's esteemed mayor, John R. Knox. REV JOEL WHEELER HAD Rev. Joel Wheeler, who settled in McHenry in 1837, had three sons, Hinton, who at one time was proprietor of the Riverside hotel, Elliot, a schbol teacher, and Eugene S., who carried on the homestead just south of this city and who was prominent in educational work, being elected a member of the first board of education and serving continuously for twenty years, until his death in 1909. CASPER M. ADAMS Casper M. Adamfc, who died in 1982 at the age of 74 years, spent his entire lifetime in Johnsburg where he conducted a store. REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN- ^ George Hanly, on hisjprancing horse, was marshal of the Fourth ; s o o f J u l y p a r a d e s ? jvi" * TIMES But it seemed like .milk bottles never Would until the advent of the new famous Cream Top Bottle. What an improvement! '-•'.-For the first time they make it possible for the housewife to off cream so thick it will whip stiff. t - Of course it takes jfood, rich milk to fill these bottles so they will meet such a test day after day. But that's another improvement! It gives, you a daily guarantee of the quality of the milk we deliver to -you.."/'-."r • "'.v:':.' There's just one thin^ this bottle has in common with the oldfashioned bottle! When you give its good, whole milk to the children, the bottle should be turned upside down se^rattini^s-^^ erf am is evenl^Tdistributed. • . You'll like\his rich milk .^ . this eream that whips . . . this modjatl service. Won't you .try .it? . TV mh dam. Elm Street REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN-- / 1 ^ t "" :r ; The plank sidewalk, 5 feet, 4 incheswide, was built from the depot to the iron bridge? Niesen's Cafe ; "on RiversideJDriv.e has been popular,for |natiy year§ jas aces in, McHemy to eat. - • „ "r 4 '" ^ place was' started bv ^Tfs.: John, Ni^sen mauv ' years «Cgo, but fof'the past nine* years it has been conducted by Mrs/ Phil Guinto, -Mrs. Charles I>unham and ^frs. TheFesa Fofst, who retam its,old name, however. These proprietors join With local people in extending good wishes to members of the Plaindealer staff for continued success of the newspaper" . REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN-- The Boone Creek bridge collapsed under Notfh Pilcp ' in a li^ht buggy after a bus load of passengers had . passed safely over it? I started selling groceries in a little building which, many years later, was moved west of the railroad track^ • St'veral years after Occupying .my present buildihg; a small stock of dry goods was added to the grocery line. Here yoh find a choice of Printed Percales, Seersucker Cloth, Dimities, Voiles and Broadcloth, and other iteojs Jn~the xlrv goods line that are in every day demand. Main Street West McHenry REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN-- : A singing school was conducted in the old city hall? r- Gas Station Seven years ago John R. Knox built the Super- :Service Gas Station at the intersection of Routes U. S. 12 and 111. 20, which since his death1te:Oetobefj^l932, his wife has carried on. ' ]VJrSt Knox joins with local places of business ih ex- '^ieiadi-ng- .congratul-ati»»s-to4he Plaindealer upon Its sixtieth anniversary. - Mr. Knox, w 1 to died during his . Becond terin as mayor, of McIIenry, was the founder of McHenry*s oldest automobih' firm and established a Ford agency in 1910, known as the -Knox Motor Sales. , v: Iii. 1914 he purchased the building ^ar the/wyer bridge froin J. J. Buch where his business grew to greate r p r o p o r t i o n s - - • . . . Super-service be^t describes the high standard of •business to which Mr. Kliox aspired and which Mrs.. Knox strives to carr\ on. Whether it be in selling gas or pitting out a ii"wspaper, Superservice is a. good aim to liave. REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN-- in the'good old days/ i few of the Beau Brummels , ! courted their girls on tandems^ MARGARET M. FREUIfl^ Riverside Drive McHenry, 111 LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S WEARING APPAREI* L Hats ; Gloves Purses Hosier>- Shoes Dresses Neckwedi> WOMAN'S WbRto PATTENS Blouses lingerie Girdles Corselets Infants' Wear Children Dresses Orders gladly taken for special items and given personal Shopping service weekly.,