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: >< ' .. • T. • , . . . . . . „ „ . . . . " \ . . -- . • J \ . ' " - v s . ' " * " •. *i . . ' i * * \ • • . . . •• i """ '::: . • V • - . k ' . ;•• '-y$ - VOL. <1 - McHENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, JANUARY, 30,1936 No. 36 ^ • 0 BROTHER HELD TUESDA death of Ck>unty Allen last Friday sadness to huncounty citizens. He home of his broth- Allen, at South Bend, Allen had been in ill health for many months. Last fall he went to Rochester, Minn., for observation at the famous Mayo Brothers clinic in November he submitted to- a serious operation. Other operations followed and two weeks ago he left the and was taken for further m of his brother, who is a phy- '"'..V.v.; An improvement in his condition "was noted during the last few days - and plans were made for Judge Allen jand his wife to return to their home at Gary. Death came unexpectedly ' Friday afternoon from a sudden attack of spinal meningitis. V.,: The remains were brought to his home in Gary Saturday, from where s funeral services were held at the home, followed by services at the Cary school auditorium, on Tuesday after- INTERESTING NEARBY NEWS TAKEN FROM COLUMNS OF OUR EXCHANGES H. C. Frick, Crystal Lake, for 32 years with the Bowman Dairy company and for 16 years employed as superintendent of the Crystal Lake plant, will be employed with the company at Harvard. At present, Mr. Frick is doing some work for the ooirjpany in Crystal Lake since the plant was closed last week Wednesday. It is not known whether he will be^at Harvard permanently or whether--he will be placed at some other point. V. D. Kimball, 71, life-long resident of Lake county, dropped dead last Thursday morning of a heart attack at his home in Wauconda. The Wauconda resident arose at his usual time that morning and without making any complaint went into the bathroom. He collapsed there and died within a short time. 4He was born near that village and has lived riear Wauconda all his life. ' Lyle F. Paulsen, 19 years old, qf Woodstock, is one of eight farm youths of the state who won a Pure Milk Association short course scholarship at the University of Illinois. The announcement was made public following the completion of thp dairy short course during Farm and Home week at the University, Jan. 13 to 17. Marengo has a new industry, equipment for which is now being installed at the Borden plant. In the future railroad tank cars used for milk will be repaired in Marengo, according to E. C. Robb, manager of the local Borden's plant. Equipment is being moved to Marengo now from the Genoa City Borden's plant, which was closed as a result of the milk strike last fall. The new industry will bring at least three families to Marengo per- Mr. and Mrs* Clyde Trow me an accident while going home Hebron (Saturday night of Itut week. About half a mile from Harry Hansen's, their car and a rut failed to agree and the car flopped neatly over on the driver's side and crosswise of the road. Mr. Trow had thought to turn off the switch, so there was no danger from fire. The Trows climbed out of the car, righted it, and continued on home. The vehicle had the glass broken on the one side and the door smashed. Mrs. Trow sustained a cut on her ear and bruises and Mr. Trow's knee was slightly hurt. n.iflI if II jV.ijr' Fire Destroys Woodstock Landmark KNOWN AS THE BUILDING STONE THREE LIBRARIES AT COMMUNITY HIGH BUILDING 10 LIBRARY TO BS OPENED SOON 7 . /#>.. perhaps, have four brick imSv, - •• - \.W . with from The flapping wings of the mythical j there and she came The body was taken to Woodstock from Cary after the funeral services, •V-where it will rest temporarily in the vault at Oakland cemetery, until final arrangements are made for burial at Cary. . Judge Allen is survived by his wife, two sons, Russell and Robert, and one had finished their task, and Dr. Stan- -±----brother, George, of South Bend, and ley D. Anderson, Grayslake, following [two sisters, Rose Austin of Woodstock in their wake, rushed into the resiand Mrs. Anton Graff of Seattle, dence of Mr and Mrs. Walter Burke, . Wash. 54 Years Old Charles Thomas Allen was born The Stone building, one of Woodstock's oldest landmarks and the oldest building in the dbwntown business district, was completely destroyed by fire Tuesday morning. Fire broke out in the Corner Tavern, operated by Harold Stone and Max Figlewicz, at 4:07 a. m. and spread quickly through the entire building. , 1 Five business firms w'Sre' completely ?iped out by the fire, which is estimat- -ed at having caused between $15,000 and $20,000 damage. The*, firms wiped out in the disastrous blaze include the following: ; Corner Tavern. Roehart's Tavern. Lindvall Shoe Repair; , Rransby Studio. so many " •:'"5 Readel Lunch Room. • Besides Photo taken Tuesday morning about 9:30 o'clock, when the temperature stood at 10 degrees below zero. AGED RESIDENTS GALLED TO REST SUNDAY MORN MRS. JOSEPHINE BOLEY CAME HERE IN 1871 One of McHenry's oldest residents, Mrs. Josehine Boley, 89 years old, answered her summons to the Great Beyond on Sunday, January 26, 1936, after an illness of bronchitis. Mrs. Boley, widow of the founder of the McHenry Brewery, had been a resident of McHenry for more than sixty years, coming here with her husband in 1874. Here they went to live in the brewery building, where she remained until her husband's death on Sept. 18, 1900, when she went to live in her home on the adjoining corner; Josehine Anna Pytlicka was born' in Czechoslovakia on March 18, 1847, the daughter of Stanley and Anna Pytlicka. Her childhood was spent hoU3es for exclusive rights Jo patents AmCflCR AT1Q.. • „ r\ •• U M <>( M <t VI CLASSMATE OF LOCAL DENTIST DISCOVERS WONDERFUL FORMULA , Dr, F; G. Aicher spent Monday evening in Chicago, whei;e he attended a meeting of 2,500 members of the Chicago Dental society at the Stevens hotel and heard a lecture by Dr. Leroy L/Hartman of New York, discoverer 6f a chemical formula, which he believes will banish pain in dentistry? as he instructed dentists in this area in the use of his discovery. Dr. Aicher, who is a member of the Chicago Dental society, and Dr. Hartman were classmates, graduating together from the dental school of Northewestern University in 1913. Dr. Hartman, a professor of dental surgery at Columbia University, recalled episodes of his twenty-year search for the ideal dental pain killer. He explained the technical development of his ffooir nrula tfnd after citing twenty case histories in which the formula had been successfully employed for the relief of pain, he gave the weight proportions for ^compounding the solution. *4 / Declaring he had declined offers of large sums from SEVERE COLD WAVE BROKEN TUESDAY NIGHT •these firms Miss Rita Ritzer, who occupied the living rooms over the Corner Tavern, also lost all her household equipment She was lucky to escape with her life. Miss Ritzer was awakened by an explosion and before she had time to dress flames were shooting up from all parts of the building. By the time she reached the street the entire building was a fiery furnace. Other than the business firms wiped ; Out and mentioned above jrery little of FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER LIGHT SNOW&w stork helped speed the operations of a state highway department snow plow and a crew of six men early last Thursday morning. The stork was still on its way when snow plowers owners of the Druce Lake riding stables at Druce Lake. A few minutes later the stork arrived with a seven Chicago in I8tl, the year of the Chicago fire. Married In 1873 On September 17, 1873, she was united in marriage to Gottlieb Frederick Boley and they came to McHenry to live. •---'--: -- Mr. Boley was an experienced brewmaSter learning it as a trade in Germany. In 1899, just before his death, Mr on the formula, Dr. Hartman stated "It was long ago in my search that I decided that I would give to the world the formula I was sure I would find." Dr. Hartman preferred, he said, to have the solution available as it is now, at 60 cents a half-ounce bottle, enough, for twenty applications. The weather has been the chief topic of conversation during the past week which has broken all records for the most severe cold wave in modern times and the one of longest duration. Day after day of steady sub-zero weather, with temperatures ranging all the way from zero to 25 and 30 below and accompanied part of the time by icy winds from the north and northwest, has been the cause of considerable suffering in this vicinity as well as many deaths in the state. While everyone continues to be interested in the weather, yet there is no one in this vicinity who is not familiar with its every detail while those in Florida and the warmer clipharmacentical j mates,--and well why should they worry about the freezing temperature* in the frozen north ? Haul Milk In Sleigh Many rural roads, drifted high above the fences, are only now being opened for travel, with farmers hauling their milk in sleighs through the fields in true old-fashioned style. Uecause of the extreme cold road men have been unable to work and stock in the Royal Blue Store eaat of the Stone building was damaged by smoke and water. The offices of Drs. Bradley and McCluskey on the second floor of the Royal Blue Store were also damaged by smoke and water. : Water found Its way Into the basement of the Bohn Hardware store and damaged a new shipment of wall •thu "a t/ t htehmeye eetx!pne*ctf etnhVe df ,istcRo vdeercyl arftoi the work has been delayed and al- tho h ^ hi h are ^ prove a boon to the puhhc and to the ig on, & Qne t ^ February 27, 1882, in Algonquin town- | pound boy. The cause of the race was ship, one of the six children of. Thomas jthe frigid blast and the whirling snow- C. and Margaret Allefl, long residents drifts on county roads. Dr. Anderson of that community. I got his hurry call in the midst of the He attended the public schools of storm and he called on the state high- McHenry county and the Elgin Acad-1 way department to clear his way from emy, from which he graduated He Grayslake to the Burke home. The then studied law at the Northwestern j highway department accepted the Law School, being graduated there-; challenge, did the job and arrived from in 1910, and was admitted to the J jahead of the stork at 3 a. m. bar. " In tJ)e fall of 1910 he opened a law office at Cary, also entered a law of Miss Edith Field. 40, head nurse at the Lake Bluff orphanage for the past eight years, was found by Chief % fice at Woodstock, giving all of his { of Police Eugene Spaid and Officer time and talents toward building up a successful practice representing his neighbors and clients from the southeastern part of the county. In 1915 he formed a partnership with Attorney V. S. Lumley at Wood ... juoi. iiio vrc«i.ij, ... ... .. ... '3 » uiie-wuv umiic lane wn Boley remodeled the brewery and built j Profession alike, asserting that many makes travel slow and hazardous, or. who have feared the dentists. j_ i_u-_ • j- - ... . , Bertram Colclasure recently on the beach at the foot of North ave., Lake Bluff, after spending the nierht wandering in the bitter cold When found she was rushed to the Alice Home hospital, Lake Forest, and was attended Ctoek, but continued to reside at Cary. | by Dr. A. J. Rissinger of Lake Forest, morning Later upon Mr. Lumley's election as i He found that her ears, hands and ' state's attorney, he became his as-1 legs were frozen. He .stated that while it was not possible to say definitely at this time, it may be necessary to amputate spme of her toes. Mrs. Mary Madden Harms, 35. widely known resident of Wilmot and on an addition, installing steam boil ers and an up-to-date plant at that time. From the days of the old brew kettle arj4 the wood burners to the modern methods of the present day, this! old resident travelled a long way in the march of progress to t'ae present time, always interested in McHenry and its people. Mrs. Boley w;as a jnember of the Christian Mothers «md. of St. Mary's church. Surviving are three children, Mrs. Kathryn Worts and persons chair now can have their teeth taken care of without pain A warning against home use of the solution as toothache drops was sounded by Dr. Hartman and the dental sosistant. He retired from the office of assistant state's attorney in 1921 to devote all of his time to his private practice and to extensive real estate interests which he had acquired in the vicinity, narrowly escaped death by Fox rtfrer valley near Cary, also freezing Saturday night, of last week, serving as attorney for Cary and Al-, when she fell exhausted, while atgonquln villages. I teirtpting to walk home after an auto- Bected County Judge I mobile in which she had been riding Ten years ago. in 1926, he entered stalled in snow drifts. Only the barkthe eontest as a Republican candidate; ing of a dog saved her life She was and In the fall of that year was elect- j found, half buried in the snow with ed county judge of McHenry county,: her hands, feet and legs badly frozen. She is reported to be recovering satisfactorily. Sam Haldeman, a farmer residing in Illinois, south of Wilmot, discovered the freezing woman lying in his yard when he went to investigate the cause of his dog's continuous barking. Mrs. Harms had walked a mile and a half, battling her way through huge drifts that comnletely blocked the highway south of Wilmot, before she collansed. Apparently, she had seen the Haldeman farm house, onlv a half mile from her own home, and had turned into the yard -before McHenry and Mrs. Josephien Olson of Hugo, Ore , and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held Tuesday at 10 o'clock, with burial in St. Mary's cemetery. Father Miller officiated at the mass. ' Outside labor v. as discontinued during the few days of intense cold and telephone men were called in and told not to risk accidents or freezing in repairing broken wires caused by the contraction of the freezing temperatures Garages are overcrowded with cars that refuse to start and Jthose put in for warm storage and employes are rushed with repair work. School Closed Two Days The traditional old stork was the The schools in McHenry resumed loser in a close contest with the erim j sessions Monday, after being closed Gottlieb C- of j reaper, Death, during the year 1935, it, two days last week but many absences LOCAL BIRTH AND DEATH RATE BOTH FALL IN YEAR 1935 Members of the Woodstock fire department, under the leadership of Chief A. W. (Jack) Gelster, did noble work in keeping the fire from spreading to the Royal Blue building, the Bachman building on the north and the entire Hoy Block. To many in the crowd it seemed that Chief Geister would need to summon help from nearby cities. However, with a well trained Corps of men after thre$ hours of work the firs was put out Water from fouif or five leads of hose played on the fire with much concentration being placed on the saving of the adjoining buildings when it was apparent the Stone building could not be saved. Sab-Zero Weather It was 12 degrees below zero when the firemen arrived on the scene. In less than a half hour the clothes on these men Were frozen stiff. However, this did not stop them from staying at their posts until the fire was Nev walls enclosed partments of learning as are to be found within the confines of the Me* Henry Community high school. No difference how often one visit®- this interesting institution of learrfc^ ing there is always something neir.* and intriguing to claim the attention whether it is found in the regular high school course of study or in the:""-' Junior college work. The feature which we want to tell you about this time, however, is the several libraries which are formed within the confines of its walls. Here are three libraries, the high school library, rural school library and the public library with » fourth library at the grade school which we. aiso hope to tell you about 4.000 Volumes The high school library is one of real benefit to the students, consisting of about 4,000 volumes pertain* ing to various subjects of referenc* and research, as well as fiction. Approximately $200 is spent each . year for new books and in replacing and repairing the badly worn ones, with about fifty rebound If a volume is noticed before it too badly worn it is put aside and ke until the annual visit of the bookt er. The supervision of the library its libraries is in charge of Anglese, high school teaeher. we are indebted for this information. Student Help The library is student help, with eight girls as librarians, each taking one a day for the work. There is a very definite set of brary rules similar to those of public library. For example, student has his own library card and is allowed only one book at a time; no one is allowed to go into the library except the librarian and no student' is permitted to keep any book longer than two weeks. Each department in the school )un access to a large number of pertaining specifically to that field. Besides the large number cf of reference type thy? arg also books which are to be read tor ure, enjoyment and recreation, about a thousand volumes of fiction in the library. The students have access to all of the encyclopedias and dictionaries at any time and they may use them as, many times a day as they desire. In addition to this there are on an average of 150 books taken out and returned to the library each week. As there is a total enrollment of about under j 20® students f the high school this control.. l^'ould signify hat a iarge percentage-- Men going home, from work at the, students tvail themselves each Alemite factory were heard to remitrk wee^ opportunity to read goo<( that the fire truck was on the scene i bo< ks, and that the library is a real, before the whistle stopped blowing. I Praetical benefit to the young people. It Is hard to. estimate the loss. Stone! There are six complete sets of enand Figlewicz had just completed the j eyejoedias in the library which are installation of new tavern fixtures and j use(^ extensively in reference work, equipment and their load above inaur- j addition to these the approximate nnce is expected to be several th'ou- nurr'ber of books in the library is as sand dollars. | follows: Fiction, 100 volumes; Social Fred Boehart had the latest type of 225; Mathematics, ,100; tavern equipment and all this was Science, 300; English, 500; French, completely destroyed, with several 1. ' kat,n> 125; History, 400; Non-ficthousnnd dollars loss. | t'on'.200- Public Library Open Sooa .... The public library is also conveniently located in the higrh school and will be opened to the public soon. The Mothers club committee on the Edwin Lipdvall had all modern equipment in his shoe repair shop and this likewise was completely destroyed. • Upstairs Kirby Bransby suffered a heavy loss of all his studio equipment. THANKS. UNCLE JOE The Plaindealer acknowledges receipt of a copy of the St Petersburg (Fla.) Evening Independent, sent to us by our fellow townsman, Jos. J. Frett, who is spending the winter months in that resort city. The'Independent * is called the "Sunshine" is learned in statistics kindly submit-1 are reported because'of the cold and ted by the city clerk, Peter A Neiss, | bad roads. who is also registrar of these records | Old timers cannot recall many cold for McHenry. spells equal to the present one, »1- Twenty-nine persons died during the' though one about fifty years ago is year, thirteen of these " being in the I said to have been a bad one with the city and sixteen in the township, while ' mercury below zero and a heavy snowthere were twenty-four births regist- j fullered, thirteen of these in the city and : Starting last week Wednesday with a blizzard and falling temperatures, reinforcements of cold air have kept moving in from the MacKenzie river basin of western Canada with the cold front pushing down into the Texas coast and Rio Grande valley. At Brownsville, Tex., the second southermost point in the country, eleven in the township. These figures show a decided decrease in the death rate fts well as the birth rate since 1934. > During the year four births were also registered for previous years, one in 1906, 1920. 1929 and one in 1879. newspaper. It gives away its Home , This latter registration was made by edition absolutely free t"> everybody' a passenger on a European trip who ; freezing temperatures were reported ,V to which office he was re-elected twice and has served with honor and • distinction 0 . • , - * , In 1908 Mr. Allen was man led to e -* v'jtlis® Vera Mentch and tney have two ?. jfonfi, Russell C. and Robert E. Allen, '/'-.lie was a member of various fratem- :• «1 organizations. / For mary years he has been active . In Republican politics in this county, .and Wm long represented his home ^ "preeiiiet 0,1 ^ county central com- ; tnittee ,where he waa one of the moat «ai ioAwttia] members. •... <C>«tl»»sii -- kit paga.) * F«|*) every day the sun does not shine on St. j could not obtain a passport without a Petersburg. The record is 116 free birth certificate. issues in 25%k years, averaging i% free papers a jrear. Of the twenty-four births the girls were far in the majority, with eight girls bom in the tov> nship as compared to three boys and nine girls in the city and only four boys In the deaths, however, the number was nearly equal, \»ith eight women ana five men dying in the city, while in the township there were six women ind ten men. A decided drop in both the death NOTICE TO VETERANS and birth rate in the county since 1984 Adjusted service application blanks lis shown in records atrWoodstock, also, have been received and can be secured j There were 306 births-reoerded in the from any officer of McHenry Post, j county in 1935 and 453 in 1934. Deaths American Legfe* totalled 294 in 1966 and 410 te 19S4.. M. E. CHURCH You are invited to attend services at the M. E. Church every Sunday. , Sunday school, 10 a. m. Morning worship, 11 a. ripir Epworth League, 7:30 p. n. Pastor. Rev. R. W. PlnelL but the temperature at Miami, Fla., was 76 in the shade and beaches at the nation's winter playground were crowded." In Iowa the heavy snowfall is said to be a boon to farmers as it formed a protective covering for winter crops and stored up ample moisture for spring planting. „ The widespread cold wave has brought suffering to many people and casualties attributed to icy blasts have been described as the worst in many years. Wednesday the coM perio . aeoimdf to have been "broken and the thermometers rose to several degree# above tb* sero mark. • • • L . ' public library planned to meet Wednesday afternoon to select a list of new books to order. The committee is being assisted by the state library extension division in selecting new ! books 'and in censoring those on hand. On the north end of the downstairs j ^lany have already been donat- Delbert Readel's lunch room was wlp- • t0 e "brary. | Also lost are many photos of local peo-1 pie and scenes that had been collected over a period of some seventy years , during which a studio has been in operation in the same location ed out. These men have no idea Just what their losses are until a check is made. However, regardless of insurance carried by the various tenants the loss will reach thousands of dollars. Firemen_a^ved cash receipts of several hundred^lollars in the various places of bnslness. These recetpts were from the business of the previous day and were in safe keeping in the building. The old vault used for years by the old Donovan bank housed the receipts and stock of the Corner Tavern. Saved Hoy Block There is no question but that the quick response of the firemen to the alarm and the heady work of Chief Otister saved the entire block from being destroyed. To a bystander who watched the work of the' firemen for i.iore than three hours It is hard to believe that they were able to save the Conrad and Hoy Blocks. Water was played high on top of the Conrad building, which no doubt saved this bollding/from catching ta Or* Ok the north ead VEHICLE TAX Your McHenry city vehicle tax" is now due and payable and will be $1.50'until March 1, after that daU- a 50c penalty will be added. 34-3fp Mr, and Mr&-R F. Conway, Mrs. John R. Knox, and Mrs. and Mrs. It. M. Fleming were Monday evening callers in the Judge Allen home at Cary. firemen stayed on the job tcr thre*> hours pouring water "on the side c4 the Bachman building to j^eep the fire from spreading In that direction. Afu-r hours Of -.rork it was a problem for the firemen to walk or beud over so frozen was thejr equipment It was the fourth alarm in less than a week answered by the department and all the alarms In sub-sero weather. There is much comment on how the fire started, but nobody really know* other than it did start in the front of the building and apparently waa from an explosion. 8e«eral persons saw tbe fire at the same time and several calU