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3 •7»'.*'K.g.'^ /.:-x s - ; y - : r a : . ' » * • • : i L.V- ./? VOL. 61 M HENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 19, M'HENRY PEOPLE AWARD IOWA COMPANY INTERESTl TO START WORK I NEARBY NEWS IN NEARFUTURE ^ Scenes and Persons in the Current News! mm WAS LOW BIDDER 121,137 # AT :4w; The contract for the construction of a sewage treatment plant, pipe lines and other appurtenances for the City of McHenry has been awarded to the Guyesosald Construction company of Iowa, for the amount of $21,- 137. The company will mpve its machinery to McHenry next Monday and actual work on the project will be started as soon as possible, probably At a special meeting of the city council field Wednesday night a representative of the company expressed the desire to get started on the work at once and to •get the complications that had been delaying the commencement of the work cleared up. There has been considerable controversy between the American and Simplex compahies as to the type of aereators required for the sewage plant, the latter company protesting the bid of the former , company. It " is expected that this difficulty is now cleared up and that there will be no further delay in pushing the arrange- -ments through to an early start. The government bonds have been approved and the $20,000 loaned by the government will be transferred to the Woodstock National bank, one of the requirements of the government. Probably the first work to be done in commencing on the improved sewage system for McHenry will be the preparation of a roadway leading to the sewage plant, the right-of-way for which has been obtained by the city, tvation will then be started and on the sludge bed continued through the fall and winter until completed. The construction of the sewage treatment plant is one of the Public Works projects allowed for the county and the expenses of the repairs will be paid from the proceeds of a loan and grant of $20,000 from the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. The contractor will bei'tequired to abide by the rules adopted by the Federal administration which includes the fixing of wage rates. Not less than $1.20 an hour may be paid for skilled labor and 60 cent* will be paid for unskilled labor. The Guyesosald Construction company %as the lowest of eight bidders it was found when the submitted figures were opened on August 2 at the city hall. The bids ranged from $21,- 137 to $25,693, and were t received from the following firms: Tonyan Construction company of McHenry, Edgar D. Otto of Downers Grove, Adams Construction Co., George D. Herdin, Chicago, G. Graham, E. M. Scheflow, the Guyesosald Construction Co., and Julius Keg of McHenry No proposals were accepted unless the contractor furnished satisfactory evidence to the city council that he had the necessary facilities, ability, equipment and finances to fulfill the conditions of the work to be done. The successful bidder will be required to give a bond equal to the amount of his bid with sureties approved by the council. The plans, instructions to bidders and specifications for the improvement were on file at the office of the engineers, the Wells Engineering Co., at Geneva. LOCAL BANK DEPOSITS PERMANENTLY INSURED The West McHenry State Bank has received official notice that all deposits in that bank are now insured up to $6000 under the permanent plan provisions of law, through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. This bank was one of the first to qualify and was early accepted in the temporary organization, which on July 1, 1835, was made permanent. A certificate of this Corporation ben received and a copy of the same appears on page eight of ttiis issue. v • TAKEN FROM COLUMNS OF OUR EXCHANGES Andrew Dapkus, a Park Ridge barber, was nabbed by DesPlaines police last Saturday night as the person who has been stealing women's underclothing and lingerie from clotheslines. He was arrested at the police station where he was identified by Officer Jack Wigham as the person whom Wigham had chased in an unsuccessful pursuit from the home of city attorney Kenneth G. Meyer the same evening. Thomas Keating, a prominent farmer and democrat of Huntleyr-Hl., was the unahimous choice of the members of the McHenry County Democratic Central committee, for county chairman at a meeting held in the court house last Friday evening. Following the acceptance of D. W. Kelley's resignation as chairman, which was read by Dan Desmond, secretary, the name of Mr. Keating was proposed by William Clawson of Union. There was no opposition to him and the secretary was instructed to cast an unanimous vote for Mr. Keating. Lester T. Tiffany, former Lako county sheriff and chief of police at Lake Forest, is confined in the Alice Home hospital by injuries received last Thursday when his car struck a truck on route 173, near Antioch. The former sheriff was at first removed to his home, T>ut the extent of his injuries, which included broken ribs and a fractured vertebrae necessitated entrance at the Lake Forest hospital where he is now under the care of fch-. Theodore Proxmire. Latest reports from the hospital stated that tiffany's condition remains COUNTY POST' MASTERS MEET VISIT HOLY ^iffany's The Zion police department is of the belief that haystack fires in that community will come to an end, now that two youths, Thomas Kelly, 16, and William Yonke, 17, both of Section 17, Zion, have been apprehended. They were taken into custody last week following the second haystack blaze in 24 hours. Flames ate up a large stack of hay belonging to J. located northwest of Shiloh The fire department answered the call about 11:30 p. m. and the Zion police also rushed to the scene in time to capture the two youths who Were trying to escape. Plans are being perfected by the Fox Lake Golf and Country Club for the annual Stratton Day which will occur on Sunday, Sept. 22. The affair promises to be a big one and an all day of golf and good time will l>e had in honor of the club's president, Wm. J. Stratton, well known throughout Illinois. Friends of Mr. Stratton are invited to 800-MILE CRUISE ' A. group of McHenry men left Wednesday afternoon to join Chicago friends on an 800-mile cruise on the Marelto II. Leaving Lake Michigan the Marelto II will cruise down the Illinois river into the Mississippi on a ten-day trip and the men will eat and sleep on the boat. Those making the trip are Thomas Brennan, Carl Bickler, August Freund, Arnold Rauen, Melvin Walsh. Harry Wallis Warner of the Standard Oil Company, AT Rumley of the Rumky Foundries of LaPorte, Ind., and F. E* Western-Union manager. , Many prices and forms of entertainment wilf^ be provided, according to Nick Robinson, Jr., secretary of the club. A county tax levy of $183,340 was made by the McHenry county board of supervisors at its session Monday. This amount includes county tax on all taxable property of the county for the year 1935. The county clerk was instructed to extend the amount of the levy on all such taxable property. The levy this year was $63,000 more than that of last when a total of $126,040.00 was levied by the board. The difference of $63,000 is accounted for in that the county Will be required to take care of the poor of the county this year while the individual township took care of its paupers lavt year. This necessitates an extra levy this year for the county. Merle Lohman, Lake Zurich was critically injured Monday evening when he was thrown from his motorcycle on Route 19 between Cary and Fox River Grove. He was taken to the Sherman, hospital, Elgin, where he has remained in an intermittent unconscious state. Probability of a new state park at Grass lake grew more certain last week as quit claim deeds were prepared by State's Attorney Charles E. Mason and Assistant State's Attorney Okel S. Fuqua for turning over swamp and marsh land now owned by Lake county to the state. Meanwhile, a resolution is being drawn by the board of supervisors' swamp land committee and wifl be presented to the board just as soon as the description ef properties involved^ can be prepared and quit claim deeds executed. Buckingham Chandler II, 19-yearold son of Buckingham Chandler, 9 Indian Hill road, Winnetka, died Friday evening at the Sherman hospital, Elgin, from injuries received when a monoplane he was piloting crashed on the S. B. White estate on Blinker road, 3 miles west of Barrintgon, at 1 p. m. Friday. McHenry county will continue to do its share toward setting a new record in applications for final naturalization papers this year, judging from the list of applications to be heard in circuit Mart when it convenes at Woodstock Sept. 23. The list includes -.••• - 'V : ; . • 1--Florida National Guardsmen firing volley over tin- collins <>! war veterans killed In the rocont hurrienne before the bodies--were cremated. 2--Two companies of South Carolina uillitiabien guarding the plant of the Pelzer Manufacturing, company In Pelzer after a strike riot In which n woman was killed and more than a score of persons were injured. 3--Democratic Representative Michael K. Rellly of Isobel Hall of Washington and New York, a noted concert soprano.- , ' - ' , ' > MILK DUMPED NEAR DUPAGE COUNTY DAIRYHEN AROUSED • More titan 1500 gallons of milk were dumped near Richmond Saturday afternoon by a group of farmers said to be from the Chicago milkshed in connection with the trouble which has been brewing at the Natoma dairy farm in Hinsdale. The milk which was dumped Saturday was being trucked into Illinois from the P. E. Miller milk depot located at Genesee, near Whitewatei Wis. A total of 160 cans were taken from two Miller trucks and dumped alongside the highway. The trucks were stopped near the viaduct just southeast of Richmo on Route 12/ The trucks were then ordered driven td a side road leading to the highway where the milk was dumped by some fifty farmers. It is said that displeasure of Jthe pickets who dumped the milk w aroused when the Natoma dairy at Hinsdale began buying its supply of milk from Wisconsin instead of from rmers in Kane and„ DuPage coi ties. E. H. Burns, the dairy manager, claims that the change was made in order to gA pure Guernsey milks, the close-in supplies having mostly Holstein herds. He also added that in conformity with its contract with the Pure Milk association* Natoma had given 30 day's notice of the intention to change. Farmers Picketing It is said that more than 600 farmers had been picketing around the Natoma plant to prevent trucks from moving to or from the farm. Saturday, it is claimed, many of these farmers went to Richmond to await the shipment of milk from the Miller depot and dumped it as soon as it crossed the line into Illinois. Otto Buchert, Richmond police officer, notified Sheriff Henry A Nulle immediately following the dumping of the milk. Chief Deputy Sheriff Harold E. Reese went to Richmond to investigate. No arrests were made as the crowd had dispersed when the officers arrived. - r , t f , . , 1 8 STUDENTS REGISTER AT JUNIOR COLLEGE Fifty years ago the McHenry public school opened with J. J. Vasey as principal, Miss Clara Wightman in the intermediate department, Miss Nettie Page as teacher of the primary department and E. W. Wheeler, teacher of the West McHenry divi- * DANCING CLASSES Margaret Nelson is opening dancing classes in K. C. hall, McHenry, next Wednesday, Sept. 25. She will teach all types of dancing, including acrobatic and tap, toe and ballet, ballroom and tap. Class lessons 50 cents. The baby class for children from 3 to 6 years old, will convene at 3:15 p. m., tap classes at 4 p. m., and ballroom and tap at 7:30 p. m. 17-fp Richard Frarike, of Cary, formerly of Germany; Frederick Theodore Nor, Jens Jorgensen Nor and Peder Wigh Jorgensen Nor, all of Hebron, formerly of Denmark; Olof Ferdinand Pettersson of Woodstock, formerly of Norway; Anders Helmfred Nyberg of Woodstock, formerly of Sweden; Andrew Linus Emricson of Woodstock, formerly of Sweden; Louis Stanke of Marengo, formerly of Poland; and Ernest Julius Nilsson and Martinus Severin, formerly of Denmark, whose applications were carried oiv«r from Utfaa jwontie ngebsoanss : of illness. ' •' How interesting a fact that just fifty years from that date there opened in McHenry not only its wonderful Community high school, which compares favorably with any high school in the county, but also, for the first time, a Junior College, affiliated with the University of Illinois, and the first one of its kind in the county, opened in McHenry. Many remarkable advancer in the public school system have been made during'the passing years, but perhaps the most outstanding achievement is the inauguration of the two-year college course which became a reality this year only through the co-operation of the members of the high school board of education and Supt C. H. Duker, who has worked faithfully during the summer vacation period in putting over the project which places the McHenry educational system ahead as a leader in the county. The Junior college opened in the high school building Monday morning with a registration of six alumni members. Registration is continuing through the week, however, and it is expected that there will be ten or twelve en- their rooms and gathered thefirst rolled when classes begin next Monday. Because of changes made by the federal authorities " this week Miss Roepple, who was announced last week as a college teacher, has been replaced by Mr. Dykstra. Mr. Dykstra has received his mastter's degree in history from the University of Vermont, entering that school with a scholarship from Hope college, Michigan. He was a straight A student. Supt. C.HL Duker will teach mathematics. Subjects available are Rhetoric, English Literature, 3-hour-period; American History up to 1828, 3 hours; Economics, 5 hours; College Algebra, 3 hours. The services of these Junior College teachers will also be available for evening courses if local people so desire. Night school in history, economics or English literature could be started if enough are interested. A commercial course will also be offered in connection with the Junior college in which those interested in an advanced course or a high school course may enroll. The advanced course will include filing, secretarial studies and advanced bookkeeping while they may also take any regular subject such as typing, stenography and bookkeeping. The course will be in eharge of Miss Frances Wheeler, who graduated in June from Gregg Business school in Chicago. Anyone interested in this course is asked to report at the high school this week. ' COMPLETES PROJECT Julius Keg, who has just completed work on a project at Joliet, spent a few days this week at his home here. His dredge has been moved to Spring Valley, 111., where he expects to start work in a few days, removing piers. BURNS FAMILY RETURN HOME EXPERIENCE HURRICANE IN FLORIDA Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Burns and* son, Bob, of Oak Park, who spent tho> past month at Miami, Fla., passed through an interesting, although not an enjoyable experience, in Miami, during the recent hurricane, the force of which struck to the south of Miami, causing great loss of life and damage to property. According to the early storm warnings, which were sent out over the radio at intervals of every hour, then every half hour, and as the storm drew nearer, every five minutes, the full force of the hurricane was expected to strike Miami and residents hurried to protect their windows with shutters kept for this purpose and to otherwise safeguard their lives and their property. As everyone knows from newspaper reports, the great force of the storm struck south of Miami for which Mr. and Mrs. Burns, as well as residents in general, were, no douht, moat thankful. However, the terrific wind atid heavy rain which swept the city Monday caused consternation and occupants of the apartment hotel, in which the Burns family lived, deserted RAY McGEE IS HOST AT ,fg..^ESHf'S,«A«;,lF; 7 ' / " lliy McGee, postmaster of the McHenry postoffice, was host to th« postmasters of the county at the regular monthly meeting of the association held Wednesday evening, a k Niesen's restaurant. Abouth thirty-five postmasters and their wives, members of their office force and other guests gathered at the Riverside Drive restaurant for « seven o'clock dinner at which Representative Thomas A. Bolger, accompanied by his Wife, was guest of honor. This vias the first county meeting that the McHenry iiepresenthtive has been able to attend and hi; was welcomed by all present. Mrs. Elizabeth K. Butler, postistress of Crystal Lake, president of the county organization and alsv treasurer of the state postmasters' organization, presided at the meeting, the main topic of which was the National Postal convention to be held in Chicago next week. Mrs. Butler, who is on several state committees, gave a review of the convention program, including the business sessions to be opened by Postmaster-General James Farley on Tuesday moininc and the interesting cntertainmem planned for the ladies, which will comprise a tour of the Chicago postoffloor to. await developments. Lights Out Two Days At midnight Monday the lights went out and the radio stopped and from then until Wednesday night there were no lights or other electric facilities. Mr. and Mrs. Burns left Miami for the north on Thursday, motoring home along the east coast and through Georgia and the path of the storm, where they saw big oak trees torn up by the roots, wreckage of buildings and general devastation. Mr. and Mrs. Burns have a summer home at Hickory Grange and Mrs. Burns is a foi^er McHenry resident, being a sister of Mrs. George Johnson of this city. Mr. Burns, who went to Florida to avoid hay fever, was in good health while in Miami, but contracted asthma in Georgia enroute home. MGR. FRIEND SPIKES RUMORS OF BRIDGE BALL ROOM CLOSING Contrary to widely circulated rumors the Bridge Ball Room will remain open all winter, just as it has in the past while under the capable management of Joe Friend. Mr. Friend states that these rumors have gained considerable credence recently and begs to assure the public that they are entirely groundless. Under Mr. Friend's management the Bridge has proved one of the brightest spots in the community and he intends to do everything in his power to keep that way. You and your friends will always be welcome at the Bridge throughout the coming fall and winter where even better entertainment than in the past is planned for your amusement. SHRIlfE IR MEMORY QT , C MARQUETTE. Stephen H. Freund. McHenry township, with his wife Mrs. N. J. Justen and her sister, Mrs. Christina Marquardt of Chicago, motored to Holy Hill in Wisconsin, Stm^ . day. Holy. Hill, which is situated about thirty miles northwest of Milwaukee in the Waukesha and Oconomowoc lake district, is just one more of the many places within a shor^t distance of McHenry and^located in southern Wisconsin that everyone of us should visit. Not only on account of the great natural beauty, but for historical and religious associations that are fully as interesting and satisfying as the points which tourists visit who have taken the trouble and expense to go to Europe. When the" great Marquette, explorer and missionary, came down tho west shore of Lake Michgan to the mouth of the Milwaukee river, ha di-* rected «his Indian oarsmen to row up the river. This they did, until they came to a range of hills now known as the Laphan hills. * They constitute part of the watershed dividing the Stl ' Lawrence and Mississippi systems. Marquette and his party ascendei the highest hii. and there Marquette, with his scientific knowledge, decided fice7te"a and a"styl7show It Ma.shall . ^at a mythical-drop of water falling Field's store and a cruise on the lake. ™ s'd* m^,cal lo" Next Meeting At Hebron I ^at flU would eventually go* It was decided that the county as- |'^o the St. Lawrence river and a sociation meet on the second Tuesday | mythical drop on the other s.de would of each month, the towns to rota* , 'nto ,the Mlss,ss,ppi; , in entertaining the posmasters The I Therefore, on account of its stratenex. t mee.t.i ng will be it.).... igjc position Marquette erected a flag- held at Hebron, ^ ^ ^ ^ Oct 8, with Postmaster Melvin Begun as the host. Miss Lillian Clausen of Union, secretary and treasurer of the county, was unable to be present at the local meeting because of conflicts in time which also caused the absence of other county postmasters. Postmaster Ray McGee. invited members of his office, force and rural carriers as his guests for the evening, including Mr. and Mrs. Ray Page, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Wfll Ha* Will Schaefer and James Walsh. Leo Postmasters present were Joe Qvidwas not able to be present Postmasters presentw ere Joe Qvidia, Cary; Mrs. Elizabeth Butler, Cry.y tal Lake; Jos Dvorak, Algonquin; Raymond Kelly, Huntley; Ralph Metcalf, Marengo, Dan Desmond, Woodstock; John O'Brien, Harvard; Melvin Begun, Hebron; John Ryan, Richmond; Elmer J. Freund, West Mc- H?wy- Both McHenry and the West McHenry postmasters, Ray McGee and Elmer Freund, are planning to attend the National convention in Chicag: next week and te be there for the opening session Tuesday morning when the Postmaster-General will deliver an address. pole and raised the lilies of Franco in the wilderness and went through a formal ceremony Common in those days when explorers took of the land, in the name of the of France and the pope of Rome. This, of course, is purely but when the first settlers came into that country they found marks that told them that man had been on the top of that hill before. In some way they heard the story of Marquette probably from the Indians, and they found a spring on top of the hill which they called Marquette spring. Shrine On Hilltop Inasmuch as that particular locality was settled by devout Catholics th<* first priest who had a charge in that territory erected a shrine on top of the hill to the memory of. Marquette and people made trips to the shrine and to the spring. The next development was the erection of a modest church on top of the hill and along the winding path through the primeval forest, to make crude stations of the cross so that the faithful might be in the proper mental mood when they arrived at the little church for their religious devotions. Seen on a beautiful day like the present ones with sun lighting up the colors of the trees* and the faithfuls making the stations of the cross, the observer can not help but be touched. Finally arriving at the top of th*>' PICNIC SUNDAY! hill at the front portico of the church _____ | one looks on the lovely region of the Oconomowoc lake district. In the distance, shining like silver dollars o> the landscape, are neat ly thirty small lakes and toward the east the darkened horizon indicates Lake Mich- _ igan. Now newer and larger church YOUNG MEN S EEPUBLICAN CLUB Everybody is cordially invited to attend a Youn.c Men's Reoublican) Club Picnic next Sunday afternoon i and evening, September 22, from 2:00 p. m. on, at Hadley Thompson's woods, in Greenwood township, 4 mile north of Route 20, at Clark's 1 corner. Good speaking, free refreshments, baseball and other games and contests and a good time in general. This picnic is sponsored by the several clubs in McHenry county. Come and join the festivities. - RAISE ALLOWANCE FOR RE-EMPLOYMENT crowns the hilltop and ean be sees for many miles. | At times . hundreds of pilgrim* : coining from Milwaukee to make the' j stations at Holy Hill, may* be seetw • In the olden days they carried staffs | with them and, as they marched, sang [old songs of the church, resembling the pilgrimages, in the olden time from Europe to the Holy Land The place stirs the emotions ami the trip is one worth making especially during the lovely autumn days. The old world aspect of the place is further enhanced by the fact those who have charge of the in the church are Henry Sherman of Rockford, 111., lost a pocketbook containing $700 in cash and $2,396 in checks and notes. It wfas found ib a mailbox with stocks and nofcM jnJ tWiPc L hnl jths £AAk Supervisor S. H. Freund of McHenry was among the county board members who voted to raise the monthly allowance of the National re-employment service in connection with the paying of the expenses of calced, or barefoot, Carmelites, the Woodstock office. For the past After ascending the hill an< year the board has paid $25 per month | sorbing the atmosphere of the toward the upkeep of the office and one feels as though he had tra the government has paid $579.80 per | hundreds of miles! from the busy month.. The motion to pay an additional $15 was carried by a vote of 13 to 5. The annual report of the re-employment office disclosed the fact that there have been 3,660 men registered the past year and 682 women, making a total of 4,342. Of this number 2,958 have been given positions, 992 men being,placed on CWA and 30 women; 169 men were placed on PWA and no women; 1,162 men were placed in private industry and 606 women. „ The re-employment office has bees in charge of R. V. Olson of Harvard practical world in which we live. Holy Hill is about Hartford, Wis., and is Watertown or Waukesha. Following the 83-mile trip to Holy Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Freund, with their daughter, Mrs. Blake, and Mrs. Justaa and her sister arrived in time to attend the. 10 o'clock mass, saying the • stations of the cross as they wended their way a long tjjie winding path way through the wooded hillside. _ Th«r» are masses •every hour trwu * to U * o'clock. - They town where they visited friends. DBAUOL. Sv-i1?':