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Four ;v..o;_u ;::^'V--• ~ ; 4 - • " • " : ' • 1 - - K . • * - V * ' ; lE BS McHENRY PLAINDEALE& " ^ ' t r , \ ~- f ^ * •2" „ * ,S.*m:.$*: t '-J •*'•*». ~"lnA _ i' ^ *• Tl fifS /The Home Circle will be entertained In jthe home of Mts.. Charles Peet Wednesday, April 8. ' » Mrs. Ed Peet and daughters!, Edna and Lucille, were visitors at Woodstock Saturday afterncon. ! Mr. and Mrs. Chambler and Mrs. Charles Welcome of Racine spent Sunday in the Mrs. Frankie Stephenson home. ssisj^&v Explains the marvelousF7/larrf ^Treatment which i* I: Bma; tnovury-txvlt guarantee, PRICELESS INFORMATION --for Ihoso suffering from STOMACH OR DUODENAL ULCERS, DITTO HYPERACIDITY-- POOR DIGESTION. ACID DYSPEPSIA. SOUR STOMACH, GASSINESS, HEART BURN, CONSTIPATION. BAD BREATH, SLEEPLESSNESS OR HEADACHES, DUE TO EXCESS ACID. Ask for a free copy of Ifriflard't Afauoi* LEW OWEN JOINS i By-the-way, out of these teams has Cushing, OklA ,j gone a great many county, state and ' March 16, 1936. • national champions, also one plympic Editor Plaindealer and champion (Bobby Pearce), who Old Timers Club: /• , : . j "cleaned" everything in the U. S. and i I guess I will have to join, it "seems then took in the world at Los Anthat Frank Bennett and others are freles, Wrestling. driving me to it; would have- coil-| From our band went a, national tributed long ago but anything and champion cornet player, Tommy another delayed my writing. j Lewis. This boy won elimination conj I have certainly enjoyea nil the j tests in this state, hitch-hiked to In- "Old Timers'" leminiscenses that I j diana and conquered all the other have had tht privilege of reading. Not | state champions^at the national meet, being a subscriber to the Plaindealer winning first. perhaps not very interesting to any live and have many happy memories but those who had the honor of liv- j of life as lived there. ihg there at that time. | I am enclosing a'clipping from l's- Until that spirit' gets busy, Good- sue of Thursday, Sept. 6, t90Q, which Byma, Allll ww»ellll in the land of sunshine. •' you may Vish to print. LEW OWEN. ANOTHER NEW MEMBER Chicago, March 27. , Father and mother were-with me in Chicago for four and one-half years, during which time they greatly enjoyed a trip to California, where they visited mother's brother, Fletcher Britain. Going with them on this • - . . • ; V; WATTLES DRUG STORE Phone 87 . Main Street FIRE. AIJTO FARM LIFE. A.-K, INSURANCE EARL R. WALSH Reliable Companies Whe» you need insurance of any Kftd Phone 43 or 61-M Priee Bldg. - - McHenry Phone -ML-K":. VERNON j. KNOX ATTORNEY AT LAW Pries Bldg. OFFICE HOURS J . Tpesdays and Fridays Other Days by Appointment McHenry • • Illinois Downs Motor Express The Pioneer Line Operates daily between McHenry and Chicago Phones: Wabash Mchenry 7518 V 256 for a good many years, I . have had enly a few* copies selit occasionally to me by, friends and relatives, and perhaps have missed a good many^ of them, ,which I regret. But these, interesting articles bring back fond memories (and a good many laughs) of i my" Boyhood days, and the incidents connected With those happy days, gone but not forgotten. So, in order to keep up with these "fast ^rrters," I am herewith registering r again as a subscriber to this good old 'i : plaindealer. Igjr:/'l want to compliment! Frank BenV ^nett on his fertile brain.- He has brought back to my memory many interesting events, some of which had been forgotten long ago, most of them | very accurate and correct, but surely a few of them not exactly as is. One in particular, wherein he relates that . one day he wanted to go to Pistakee j Bay with our delivery boy and sent ' him to ask me if I cared, etc., and | that I refused with plenty of good and appropriate language, somewhat ! profane, however. Surely, Frank, you ' must be wrong, as I never use such j language, but if I did on that par- ^town •j ticular occasion, I believe I was justified in doing so, for you was about I the nearest relative of "Peck's Bad Boy" that I ever knew. You was a (live wire those days and into all kinds ' of deviltry. But, you know, my observations in later years has "made me a believer and an admirer of that type of boy--they • majfe real men, as a rule. I know, because I had one° that missed nothing. We have several more in the making. Have you ever heard of a boy by the name of Carl Hubbell? He's somewhat of a call player with the Giants. We sent him up from here. We raise repl champions here in this country, aijd this city sends forth mttre than its quota. At our countyseat (Stillwater) is located the Oklahoma A. &. M. College; their college wrestling teams have been state and national champions for ov.er fifteen years, defeating all the big colleges north, south, east and west, never defeated for a championship. Of the eight regulars on that team Cushing generally has one more boy from our high school. This year we have two, Strong and Nazworthy. The team goes east soon to compete against the big colleges there. Watch Strong. fhir schools also turn out leaders in most all lines of business. I mention all this as a comparison to the schools of my boyhood days and not exactly as a boast, also to let. you know that we are not all wild Indians and cowboys here. McHenry always was a "sporty but nothing like this and other cities in this southwest. They support their teams 100 percent and that is the secret of»success. In getting back to "way back when" so many fond memories '*popup" that I am at a loss to know what to mention first. I often wonder how a good many of us ever lived through those first eighteen years of our lives. We all had so many hair-breadth escapes, and a good many were not so for- Dear Editor Enclosed find money order, renew- __ ing subscription of the Plaindealer for trip were MraTRqffln Waite, mother'* another year. sister, Etta Alexander, her niece, and Enjoy reading the letters of the myself. Old Timers' Club as I am an old tim- | Mother and father returned to Mcer myself, way back When I spent my Henry for a few years, after which C ^m?. in McHenry- 1 was known they sold the home and went to Glenas Tillie Frett. I can recall quite a coe> jn the spring of 1909. In few of the old timers that are mem- February, 1913, mother was called to bers of the club, such as George and the Sunset Land. Charles Owen and Delia Beckwith. I iSomeone mentioned Johnny Brentz We were neighbors. We lived in the in one of the articles recently, and he Peter Schoewer home. - In fact, comes most vividly to my mind as I father built that home many year write. It was on a terribly cold day ago. His name was Albany Frett, when we took mother to McHenry to perhaps remembexed by many old lay her at rest in Woodlawn cemetimers. .. | tery. The first person we saw as we I remember L. "E. Bennett, tiie' alighted from the C. & N. W. train photographer. He took the first pic- 1 was Johnny, with the tears streaming ture I had taken; Remember the down his face as he came up to greet names of Frank and Herbert, but I «s. John and his dear wife, Lucy, left there when they were quite young had often helped about our home and and don't think they remember me. •v j we were much attached to them. Good luck to your paper and the-1 1916 ^father became paralyzed. Old Timers' Club, Hope to be with, W® w.ere sti11 Wviug i* Giencoe. At you for the Centennial next summer. time I • sold my home there and , CHLOTILDE FRETT WOOLEY*100^ ^at^er Wilmette, 111., where 13£3 E. 64th St., Chicago. y >? Tales Items of Interest Taken From tha Files of th» Plaindealer of Years Ago SIXTY YEARS AGO "SCOOPUM" WRITES AGAIN Elgin, 111., March 27. Members and Friends, Old Timers' Club: we were until his death in 1919, at Jessie's, Mrs. A. H. Hill, We made our second pilgrimage to McHenry to lay father beside mother. As we visit that beautiful cemetery, we can but feel thatf the greater part A _ i • || I , a • oVf* McHenry, aWs0 Wwve Jkv new it, are peacerinv. on/i iiT- i_ • Li. ,j oi i»yu, to bept. 1931, I was friend L^ A^ ^ j my connected with the Chicago schools. beW> Althoff (now passed It was a v ful, and haJ ,tf x ft \ T" m j resigned in 1931 to enjoy my little hha^d mnf»ann y .a g^ood ti me ?to gye Tth!earr.3 "H2ed •h ome -i n - Haines Cit'y, Fla, which is and his brother, Lewis, ran a store The voters of McHenry are requested to meet at the Town House, in the village of McHenry, on Saturday, April 1, at 3 o'clock p. m. to nomin&tie candidates for Town Officers. H. T, Dobler will please accept our thanks for, a nice basket of vegetagbles. The new german school, which is situated near the catholic church, opens oil Monday next. A new $75 American sewing machine for sale, or will be traded for a good: cow or wood. W. W. Bugbee, a former resident of McHenry, but now of Indiana, is in town visiting friends, and contemplates starting a manufacturing interest in this village and coming here again to live. £ Robert Sutton announces ifemself a candidate for the office of Collector of the Town of Nunda, and respectfully asks the support of the people at sustained will probably reach in thi neighborhood of $35,000. A large number of show goers were in town Sunday, viewing the JTWENTY YEARS AGO' A very novel sight, to McHenryites! " was the appearance on our mill pond. / yesterday morryng of several swans, ; John W. Fay has purchased the Fred Matthews house on John street. ' We understand he Will occupy same the first of May." Mike Freund is now occupying his home, formerly the Wightman house, in this village, having moved from Ingleside last week, . ^ One of the most disagreeable storms: of the season visited tlhis part of the country the first of the week. Heavy rains followed by sleet, ice and light snow, have put the roads in very bad[ .' condition and made walking anything but a pleasure. m M. E. aiuRca , Yo^l are incited to attend service* • at the M. E. Church every Sunday. Sunday school, 10 a. my Morning worship, 11 a. m, ... > Epworth League, 7:30 p. m. \ <• : Pastor. Rev. R. W. Pinell. ^ .• Special Palm Sunday services will,: ; be observed next Sunday .mondn^vff: when members of the Eastern Star, ."^ and Masonic lodges will be guests ofp.<: honor. ' On the evening <1 Good communion services Will be held, witit Dr. I. G .Whitchurch, head of th«V ' Philosophy department of Garrett Biblical Institute at Evanston, as tk« speaker. On Easter morning the choir will the coming Town Meeting, if they render the cantata, "^Christ Triumhave no other whom they think more phant," a beautiful story of the resurrection in gong. This cantata is one of the latest, having been published since January. . The use of plants and flowers for! decorating the church, both for Palm worthy of their support. FIFTY YEARS AGO The trustees of the Woodland cemlocated in the famous and beautiful | etery in this village are negotiating in the old town about fifty years ago orFloriS"0"' ^ ^ dtrus belt'for the P^hase of two acres of land, ^unday and Easter, will be appre- .„d never wiU I Wet ^ ^ ^ 1 ^ f ture in salesmanship. "Buckshot" Lawrence gave my father a brindle pup that was blind in one eye (we called it a watch eye). I happened to be in the store with Dad when Lew admired the dog. I sunshine in the midst of marvelous groves of oranges and grapefruit. To go back to the Wightman fam ily. It is hardly necessary to men-! is now one of the firm otf E. M. Owen I tion Harry, for I think he keeps in and Sons. touch with all his old friends that are to enlarged the same. I brouKht the church Saturday aft- Ed W. Owen Who has been with the!®rnoo A n or early Sunday rooming befirm, of Perry and Owen the past few i re o clock. years has changed his business and Anne iSmith of Chicago weekend at the home of Mr. and Mr* Our public school closes on Friday' J'- Wagner. • . ' John Wagner and Irwin Wagner at- . . ... „wll< tended a meeting, of the Flash clul fered me a dollar bill for him, and, to every road and eVery house anywhere I Last week all three of the barber Friday evenin^ in Chicago, his surprise, I took the money. within twenty-five miles, and- it i« »1 sbnn0 in Mrs: Anna Lusk spent told him that wratch eye enabled him left in and around McHenry. He is! of this week for a two week's vaca These, memoirs of the _ Old Timers | tunate. This last statement brings. to see in the dark. He promptly of- "a chip off the old block," and knows tion. are very interesting to ail of us who; to my mind one of the saddest memcan recalk to our dormant minds the j ories and events of my life. ; • characters and incidents mentioned.! After leaving school I worked in We "sort, of" liv£»again those happy j Perry & Owen's store. They also . _ . , ... „ youthful days, that at the time, we. owned the Bank of McHenry, which $25 worth. But to do that Wm. (Ed.) catch him on something, for, though (ber of unshaven fac&s were thought were "tough ones," What a : was located in the back of the store, Bishop and I hired a horse and Dem- several years ydunger than we girls, shame that youth has not the realiza:-j and the only bank in town at that j ocrat wagon from Hank Wightman -he-kntws "all about things" that haption of the happiest and greatest time, and whi^h I afterwards worked | and drove to WoffSstock and Crystal Pened long before he was born. money. Within twenty-five miles, and- it is a ' shops in this village, were closed on I MrsC Anna Lusk spent Wednesday Next one was selling red horse on j°y to ride about the country with ' account of the sickness of the .pro-'with Mrs' R' Howard in McHenry. the old iron bridge. One day I sold hir". We enjoy nothing more than to prietors. In consequence quite a num- Mr" and Mrs< Paul 0>Leary called ... .... on Matt Rossduetscher in Round Laks Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. H. Maypole of Fox Lake.spent ^Wednesday evening at the years of their lives. as cashier. The dam, mill pond, race our streets. We understand that a general store is to be started at Terra Cotta this Telephone No. 300 Stoffel & Reih&nsperger lararsnce agents for all. classes property in the best companies. Lake with a load and came home com-1 We have this winter enjoyed a visit spring. The building will be put up as;Herber<l Michalson home WEST McHENRY ILLINOIS S. H. Freund & Son CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS PhoBe 127-R McHenry Our experience i« at Tour Service in buildiog Your Wants pletely sold out. - j from Alma, his wife, and Lloyd and soon as the weather will perinit. Remember he fun we used to Marjorie, his children, while they' FORTY YEARS AGO Annual Town Meeting on Tuesday . . . . . » n e x t . . . • the mill-race left the pond, and had spring Hobbie Bishop and myself row-' 18 a lon* 'Jaunt from Fargo, N. This section was treated to a fine erected a spring-board there. Thisj ejl our fishing scow down to Burton's Dakota, where Harry is now living, to warm rain on Saturday. was not over 300 feet from the back j Bridge to pick up fence boards on our IIaines City> Fla. They left with tem-' We learn that a( two -hundred pound of the bank. One day a little boy,' way back. Made them into fancy Peratui'e at 21 degrees below and ' fish was caught in Pistaqua Bay one all excited, came running in the back j rafts, even to a big stern wheel, which made triP hoth ways without diffi-! day last week. For full particulars of the bank and said, "Mr. Owen I be- we propelled with our feet. Finally, ^u^ties» *n the face of constant warn-' ask Mat Pitzen. lieve there is a little girl drowned in Joe Engeln, who was the mechanical ,weather. j c. Horn, w*ho resided east of Fox the pond. I saw a girl's hat floating brains of our gang made one to work ,e Jessie, A1 and their Lake, died on Saturday last, aged on the water." I ran down, stripping I with a lever and then our navigation ^am,1y» have lived in Chicago, then in 80 years. His funeral was held from my clothing as I ran, and plunged in, I problems were solved. However, Wi,me.tte» for many years. In fact, St. Patrick's church in this village, on swimming out to where the hat was, | Hobbie and Joe couldn't get along at ever since their marriage. Their only Tuesday. but I could not locate her near the I all, so the gang broke up with a free- daughter and family liye in Haines \ O. W. Owen has rented the rooms hat, but after diving around under j for-all fight, which Hobbie and Joe City' and we are hoping that Jessie in the rear~of the West McHtenry water (I v;as a ^ood swimmer) I dis-1 finally fought themselves. How many and A1 ,may soon J0'*1 our colony here, j Postoffice, and will open therein an » sitting posture well of you "river rats" remember that ' ' Mae is spending the'winter with us, organ--and sewing machine repair By the time 1| scrap? All day we looked forward to comin£ down in December soon after shop. j Those days come back to us forcibly and flour mill were there at that time, i after facing and fighting this cold ; and a great many in going from one .. I World a few years, and we regret that j side of town to the other would cut' have on the river with our rafts ? were here, with Lloyd as director, we we did not improve ouf time to better | "across lot" by going across the dam. j Many a farmer missed some of his toure(* southern Florida quite thoradvantage and enjoy life more w.hile J The boys had a swimming-hole where fence boards to build-them with. One ou^'1'y the opportunity was good. In communion with my younger self I invar- , iably bring up fhy school days and ex-. periences; what a life, and we never realize it at the time. ' My first memory of going to school was at the '.'West Side" school located near the entrance to "Gage's Pasture," my brother, Oliver N., was the teacher. I only attended there one year, and the rest of my school days in McHenry were spent in the school building now occupied by the Parochial school. There were three rooms, Primary; Intermediate a n d "Up ' covered her in a Stairs' (High School). I passed j out in deep water $100.00 REWARD lor the name of any m,an living or-.'rance, .she was one of the best that dead that has sold more McHenry ever graced a school room--kind, gen- County Real JSstale than has Dan *le, instructive--just seemed to handle Quinlan--that's all he does. Farms the scholars with graceful ease, and for Sale and Rent in Northern Illinois made them like it. Too bad we haven't and Southern Wisconsin. Large ones more Ttta Torrances in our school And small ones. I sell farms. [rooms now. S. D. Baldwin was my DAN QUINLAN I first teacher up stairs. For the fir«t Woodstock 111 , | year or two as principal he lived at Long distance private phones 5(5 Gre€™d and drove down and back . every day, when he could. Talk about the hard winter you have just had, we had a good many of them those years. I weir remem'ber 'how one morning it earned o'clock and no teacher to call school to order. Of course we were glad of that for we raised "Cain" around the room and had a fine time. Wft kept ttiatf dow for Mr. Baldwin and his horse and buggy, but the snow was so deep land drifts piled so high that teams could not get through. •1 we spied a man walking, coming •across fields and over fences Qn through them all. The Superintendent j got her out there was a number gath- the close of school to witness same. "Henry's - death. They and their sons,! Theo. Buss, son of Jos. Buss, of or Principal was the teacher up j ered there and everything done .to Now, in a more serious mood, I read IyCe and Harold, have lived in Elm- Terra Cotta, died on Sunday night stairs. I cannot, at this time, recall i revive her. with much interest, the letter by Le- hui'st for many years. Ada lives in last, of diphtheria, aged 11 years. the jiame -of my first Primary teach-1 About ten minutes after this hap- nore Stevens VanSlyke. Never knew Chicago. She-will be well remember-J - er, but I will never forget, my teacher j pened that same boy came back to ( her very well, as River and Gagetown ®d ^ m®ny> as she was quite a child in the Intermediate room, Etta Tor- me and said, "Mr. Owen I think there j were a long ways apart and didn't'at- < when they left McHenry. Mae and is a little boy in there, too, there's; tend the same school. But remem- Henry have seven grandchildren to a boy's hat way out there." I plunged ber Mildred Stevens well. And was their credit. ALFORD H. POUSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 107 ft Benton St Woodstock, UL JPhone Woodstock 101 McHenry 278 , i . A. P. Freund; Excavating Contractor THIRTY YEARS AGO CSayton Ross has made rapid progress with his work in shorthand and now the familiar click of the Oliver - - w ,, - can, be heard marking increased speed found a little boy, about, 8 years old. bloaks called her "teacher's pet". Can ! woodland cemetery, when, this win-; and accuracy. Clayton ha kept at Everything was done to revive them, j still hear her "Columbus Dis-, ter> they laid Henry at rest there. I the head of his class and in and after considerable diving I that girl smart? We other dumb A third pilgrimage was made to ™ • .. , , , | the head of his class and ; >iind time This has been rather a personal let- for growth along other lint . ter, but how can it be otherwise \ The price of butter on the board of when writing of one family ? j trade Monday dropped one cent-offil should not close without mention-1 cial price, 26 cents. / ing Grandmother Wightman of | West McHenry was the scene of a singing but to no avail. ,| covered America 400 Years Ago," at a For some time we were unable to j special Columbus Day program. identify them, but soon learned they Where is my old neighbor and pal, were the children of Mr. and Mrs. Ben | Harry Wightman? Haven't seen him Buss, Jr. There was no witnesses to j for years. I wonder if he remembers _ vllc „ know exactly what happened, but it jthe time when I saved him from a staunch Scotch-Irish descent, a famil-1 most disastrous fire last"Friday^night seemed that the little girl was going;watery grave? We were walking iar figure in McHenry for many which broke out a trifle before midto the Catholic church, and the little i home from school one evening on very years, "Aunt Kit" Stebbins Sandberg, night hour. The fire, when first dis- 'boy was to stay at the pond and fish!thin ice over the flood waters of who died very suddenly a year ago covererd by Will and John Thurlwell until she returned. He perhaps got Boone Creek. He broke through and last December at Bert's in Rockford, who were just returning home was I tore down half of Mrs. Gregory's after spending the summer visitihg making a rapid headway near the fence to get him ashore. (among us. Then in April, Bert who center of the Evanson store. The loss You remember when Jack O'Rell, I , so deeply mourned the death of his out on the spring-board and fell off, and in her attempt to save him they both went down. This was a terrible VOTE THE ANTI-BOSS DEMOCRATIC TICKET Renominate GOVERNOR HENRY HORNER WHO SAYS: "I'll give up the Governorship and step out of politics before I will betray the people of Illinois and eubmit to the yoke of political serfdom decreed by 'Boss' Kelly, self-styled overlord of Chicago and would-be dictator of all Illinois!" For Lieutenant Governor JOHN E. " CASSIDY Prominent Peoria attorney. Wofll war veteran, wounded, decorated for bravery. Age 40. Married, father of six children. Appointed State NRA Director by President Roosevelt. Lifelong, active Dent* ocrat. First time a candidate for public office. Aggressive, torcefal, unquestioned integrity. shock, not only to their family and j think that was his name (the man mother, died as suddenly as had she, their future home in Chicago, where nmnity in j with the cork leg), used to tell us the leaving Florence, his wife, a wonder- Miss Clara is connected with public general. y j story of how he rescued a man from woman, and a une son, Jerome, to school work. It was with a feelin; I cannot remember the name of the \ drowning at Lakeside Hotel, Fox '. carry on the name. {of deep regret that we watched the boy that notified riie. If he reads! Lake? The man was in bathing and This has grown into too long a let- train pull out and realized, with a About 10:30 j this I would like to have him write stepped into a hole, called for help and ter, and many memories crowd upon sudden start, that from the depot ^as I have often "racked my brain" . nobody Would venture out. Finally my niind and I see in memory's mir- platform that figure so familiar and . -- recall h;; name; in the excitement Jack rowed out with his boat to the ror so many dear faces. grown dear to us would be missing snow,^ the wind blowin|f a gale. It he was forgotten. Since then I never place he last went down. When he | Frank Bennett requested me to and that the gruff and cheery voice For State Auditor HOMER MAT ADAMS • - r\ ..l-ii , ' ^ . ,-- ---- r- ......... ..v , _ in® m wrc |,iuu onu tuceijr vuiti ^.S , ^ ^ e scarf around see children playing near the water came up for the third time, Jack hit write of some of my pupils of Auld that always had a word for each pas -trucking, Hydraulic and Crane teacher insisting1"^ He d was d a g00 1 d ! but what I feel^ that I should stand- j him on the head with the blunt end Lang Syne during the three years I senger would not be there to greet us Service! Road Biailding $•1 204 M McHenry, I1L by and watch for their safety. |of an oar and floated him to shore, in spent as teacher in the Intermediate on our little pilgrimages in and out of W^f S V . . I 1 have not related this incident in a stunned condition. Everyone thought Dfipartment of that dear old building, town. We voice the public sentiment i home of the other Principals were [ the light of a hero in any form, as he killed him and the man's friends Perhaps I may "some time, but this is when we say that McHenry has never bheldon, Miles E. Lee (he was 'the j I did only what anyone would have wanted to lynch Jack. But he finally , a family affair. i witnessed the departure of a family1 Wishing you great success jun the with a feeling of more sincere regret. Charlie's Repair Shop just East of Old Bridge Over Fox River (Rear Schae' -'s Tiv rn) RADIATORS {EPAIRED BODIES and HINDERS Straightened . Sign Panting . Truck Lettering Acetylene Wcldin« - CHARLES RIETESEL Beau-brummel of them all, always done in like circumstances. I hap-[came out of it and Jack was a hero leoked as though he just jumped out! pened to be the, first one on the scene, Regards to all old timers of a band box. He was tfxceptionally' and deserve no special honor or C. F. (iSCOOPUM) BLOCK, good in mathematics and writing, all; credit. I mention, it more as an ex- 415 First St., Dundee, 111 his scholars were good writers. Then j emplification of one of the many hazthere were Vasey, Jackman, Over-lards of youth, and often wonder how aker, et al. It was all study and get] so many live to attain their maturity, lessons those days, no big gymna-i especially in this age when the hazsiums x>r sports connected with the1 ards of life have multiplied several schools. How different the schools of fold. j-^oday. Our Hi^h School has a large j This letter is getting too long for gym., well equipped, baseball club, de- ( many "way back when" incidents. bate teams, 2 75-piece band that the. This is just an introductory note, "|.city recently cubscribed $2,800 for written in a few THE WIGHTMAN FAMIL^ Haines City, Fla. March 16, 19« wget-together" of next summer. Sincerely, CLARA L. WIGHTMAN. Box. 564, Haines City, Fla, spare moments. Dear Plaindealer, McHenry, 111. It is with great interest that we j; have read the many articles printed ! in your paper under Reading, "Old | Timers' Club.' And it seems hardly \ Harry E. Wightman was born in New York, Jan. 1834, and came to Mc- Henry with his parents in 1837. His i first business venture was the estab- ; ~---- lishment of a meat market in a little The clipping mentioned in the above frame building near the pre ent site letter is herewith reproduced: j of* Mrs. R. Stebbins' residue* , in the WILL LIVE IN CHICAGO [early '60's, afterwards Moving to the Mrs. H. E. Wightman building occupi- *by Joi. £cl" 'eider, McHenry Last . as a jewelry stc Later he disposed Monday • ]of this business and took up t'"- livery -7----- i which he conducted vrr* "uccessfully Last Monday morning's train took until 1898, selling to HoHz r d Still- nevv uniforms, and plenty of more Seme^tune, when the "spirit moves fair to the Wightman family, so lohg from McHenry a family that has been ing. From 1879 .o 1885 '.2 was land- • societies and clubs. All these were meJMTwill write, a long one and a vital part in the affairs and growth closely identified with the village froni lord at the Rivenide Hcase and made v taboo when I attended school, but I answer some of the boys' questions, of the dear old home town, that it its earliest history, If. E. Wightman a grand success of this popular hosbeheve in them. i There i% plenty to yyrite about but should be neglected by those who still and family having decided to ma^e telry. One of Illinois' most promising young Democrats. Founder of the Young People's Democratic organization in Illinois, experienced in finance and student of law. Promises to keep banks and bank receiverships out of politics and to conserve funds of depositors in, closed banks or banks open/under restrictions. Married. ; >Wor State Treasurer JOSEPH T. SPIKER A successful Chicago business man, Jcsepli T. Spiker is qualified to serve the people of Illinois faithfully and well. Head of one of the largest fraternal insurance organizations. A graduate pharmacist Married. Father of five children. Active in civic affairs. Able, experienced, industrious. --o-- ASK FOR A DEMOCRATIC BALLOT 1EENT & COMPANY "AH Kinds of - I N S U R A N C E with the most reliable Companies. Come In and talk it over. ?•(!»• LAcHeitxy 8 N • -^14 ^7;>/ / SE SUCH IS LIFE i' C K ' i I - : - . - ? . ; ? C S . T C H 1M' F I S - H ^ J ' i ! BUT i AlHX :K" 'l MOWIM' -m' Vs&TC'.-ilW KIEITHEK By Cliarir»St(tu^M "POKJT !>t eo ^•fsCrEuJZ/ V"'