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, r ' & -- ,? '^r>f V - -":' * •h 5> .' . 7 » *' . - - «*S .*. ' «* - ft* . < ir- • ' " - •*'**»' 3?WSfe * * -»•*(,« (NjSnw"" Jf«- *•> *#> W» «fM«n v. .: • • -C-V . , - v. rata McHENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1936 Ho. 5| %-*. *#- fv-~'w3'< « < - f ' • *• "" ;..• f • - « V • 1. • - > 'Mj ?• i® •&» •SvSV . > -^v*- ' V- **:v- '• " « . - "'" V"**"-: ^'4; ~-:J Dhristmas Services *-• ' •Wi-w.r-.. At Local Churches All church diwiBlaitiou will unit* tgainthia weak in the spirit of Am iferistmaa tide, with church services, aad sermona on Sunday and today, Christmaa Day. The glad tiding* that came to the ittle town of Bethlehem long ago rhen a guiding star moved across the ildes will be heard on this Christmas lay and the clear voices of carolers rill echo the message of peace and ood will through churches where alars will glow with candle light. The churches are preparing for >eautiful services, with special music nd appropriate sermons, while Christoas decorations and altars beautiful with plants and flowers lend aa imiressive charm to the services. St. Patrick's Church Six masses, and an appropriate rmon at each mass, will make up he Christmas services at St. Pat iek's church, with high mass and eaadiction being at 6 o'clock Christas morning. The beauty of this early morning oar can be realised only by those vho see it as the altars, draped in ovely silver cloth and banked with botna8 trees and lovely poinsettas, ith the crib, renew again the story 1 the Christ child. Tn the darkness of the chtfrch the tar gleams over the crib and the blue ights shed their rays upon the alters they gradually glow brighter until t church is illumined during the ragtag of the loved Christmas hymn, Silent Night," which opens the imessive service. The choir will sing Rosenwig's First mass the children's choir wSH sing Christmas hymns. At 10:00 high maas and benediction will be celebrated. The mixed choir will sing "Holy Family Maas" by Singenberger, "Adeste Fidelia," Novello and "Angels From the Realms of Glory," Koenen. The church will be appropriately and beautifully decorated with Christ mas trees, poinsettas and flowers and the crib will add to the impressiveness of the occasion. Evangelical Lutheran Services at the Zion Evangelical Church will be held at 7:30 o'clock Christmas night, when there will be Christmas services, a tree and chil dr£n's program. The Christmas message will be brought by the Rev. Herman P. Meyer, pastor. , Methodist Church Christmas services were Observed at the Methodist Church last Sunday with • a sermon, "The Reason and Meaning of Christmas," by the pastor Rev. R. W. Pinnell, and special music by the choir, In the evening the children of the Sunday school gave a program of songs and recitations, which pleased the large audience, gathered to see the little folks put on theia program During the morning service the choir rendered an anthem, "Silent Night" and H. D. Ellis, a vocal solo, "The Birthday of a ting." St. Join's Church Christmas day at St. John's church will bo celebrated with all the solemnity of the Catholic charsh. At 4:46 a. m., Veneration at the Crib and the time honored hymn, Silent Night," Father A. J. VoHman, pastor of the church, will deliver the sermon on the "Incarnation" at the mass. A low mass will follow at 8 o'clock and a high mass at 10 a. m., when "Glory to he offertory with solos rendered by He choir members during the mass. Law masses will follow at 8:00,8:80, *0, 9:80, and 10:00 o'clock. " * St Mary's Church •" The feast of Christmas "WTO be the sermon title will be, wautifully solemnised at St. Mary's God in the Highest." torch Friday morning with solemn j Beautiful music for the masses has _ IF mass at 5 o'clock, preceded by been prepared by the choir which has Christmas melodies by a string en* been practicing for some time and its ihle at 4:45 and "Silent Night" by appropriate music will add to the immixed choir. Msgr. Nix will of* pressiveness of the service. Iciate at the high mass. The church will be beautifully dec- Low masses will follow at 8:00 a. orated in evergreens and silver Christm, €:30, 8:00 and 8:80. At the 8 o'clock bells. •f • -- S - NEARBY NEWS TAKEN FROM 00LUMN8 or OUR EXCHANGE 1,000,000 MONTHLY AVERAGE FOR r. M. A. LOCAL • - " "•««?• > ~i Mrs. Caroline Weaver, 85, colored, K. Chicago, was seriously injured when the automobile in which she was riding skidded on the icy pavement, left the road and struck a telephone pole near the Berkley home on Rand road, at 11:45 Sunday morning of last week. Her husband was also an occupant of the car, but escaped uninjured. Rineholdt Fisher, 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Fisher of j antj PEARSON RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT Round Lake, suffered ugly face lacer* ations Sunday afternoon of last week, vfhen the automobile in which the family was riding collided with a car driven by Hollis Haggard, Chicago. The accident occurred just- south of Wauconda on the Rand road. Employes of Jewel Tea Co., Inc., shared in a 890,000 special wage extra December 19. This form of bonus will be the ftfth wage extra declared by the company, and it will be the third to be paid during 1936. Jewel employes have received an "extra" on all wages and salaries since January 1, 1984. A La Salle sedan, driven by Carl Schultz of Wilmttte, was destroyed by se£ved" fire Sunday afternoon of last week ar FritzeTs tavern, Crystal Lake. Nels Pearson was re-elected president of the McHenry Local of the Pure Milk Association at the annual meeting held in K. C. hall Saturday night, at which about forty members were in attendance. Other officers elected for another year are Paul Dohertjr, secretary; Lester Sherman, director, Martin Weber and Peter A. Freund, delegates to the annual meeting held in March. John Case of Naperville, president-, of the Pure Milk Association, was guest of honor for the evening, as were also Charles Cosgrove of Elgin, secretary of the PMA and Walter Winn, director. These guests gave talks concerning the vital points of interest to the farmers, such as milk ordinances and the need of raising the price of milkA due to the high cost of feed. Following the business session there., was a program with J. F. Claxton, Will Quinn and M. A. Conway furnishing music and an oyster supper wa* Alcohol in the radiator is believed to have come in contact in some way with a spark and the Atr was a mass of flames when the fire department arrived. Mr. Schultz was on his way to Dundee with his mother when the car The McHenry local of the PMA consists of 100 members, who during past year have sold approximately 12,- 333,000 pounds of milk or an average of about a million pounds per month. ^ About $20,000 a Month For this immense output the farm- " - - L i • • • - ..." BKeHXHSYOOUHTY FABMS HT DHUMD The prcfercent of wealthy Chicago business men for fafm land as i Among the Sick means of safj^frvestrndtt* for their causing a great deal of illness among accumulating pre^U, has caused the the residents. Several older residents McHENRY BOYS ^ ^ FINISH STORY - Hie following story has been submitted by Billy Pries and Felicie Unti, who wish to relate the kindness of Albert Woll, well known in McHenry. "In the last issue of the Piaindealer we described our trip through the District of Columbia quite briefly and we wish to add one incident which may make you smile, but where we registered a frown developing into a black back-ground of woe and worry such as anyone would wear when asked for seventeen dollars fine. But we want to tell you how Mr. Woll re- . ^ m t. . j Heved the preMhure on our minds. An epidemic of the flu has preva.led ^When ^rSering the District of in McHenry during the past few weeks Columbia we looked up Mr. and Mrs. Woll, who are living in a homelike accum«»ai« ptw, p~ «««» we "».aenw. u«rer bu a]ow Iocated on Franklin street sale of hundreds of farms in McHenry are also ill from other ailments and Mrs Wo„ ig a former re8ldent of Mc county during tin last year or two the doctors of the locality are kept ronght new residents to this vi- busy these winter days. ciuity. Many pupils have been absent from However, with the increasing good school because of illness, it being retimes the farmers are also buying ported that thirty children were abmere farm land and only recently sent from the grade school Friday. Henry, being the former Miss Genevieve Carey, and the Wolls are parents of a lovely pair of six-months-old twins. "But getting back to our story. After leaving their home we intended to iohn A. Miller, a well known farmer Gwendolyn Overton is confined to ^ the commercial buildings illuminated at night, a sight most beautiful. As we approaached an intersection, we failed to stop lor a red light because we had not seen it. The highway being quite wide, it was easily overlooked. Continuing down the street we were greatly surprised when one of those playful little fellows on a motorcycle stopped us with information as to what we had just done, also adding the fact that we were travela this vicinity, purchased the Schmitt bed by illness at her home on Waufarm of about 70 acres, north of kegan street. Johnsburg, which he plans to carry on Mrs. E. E. Bassett has been ill at in addition to his present farm land, her home on Main street. Property intown is also beginning Mrs. Nizzie Holly, 86 years old, is to change hands and show some ac- very low at her home with her sOn tivity for the first time since the de- and wife, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Holly, pression. where she has been confined to bed The excellent dairy farms, as Well for several weeks. Mrs. Holly is one as the wooded hills in this section, of McHenry's oldest residents and have attracted investors who are buy- well known by all Old Timers and for- ^ ing around McHenry, Wonder Lake raer residents, as well as present' j^ Smiles in a 25-mile zone, makaad in Bull Valley. citizens, who regret to hear of her | ing a fine of a totaj of f17. An old landmark in Greenwood serious illness. By good care and kind township, the Herb Thompson farm, attention, she is being kept as comfcai recently been sold to George E. fortabla as possible. Brawn of Chicago. The farm, com* Little Mary Jane Hunter of Waltprifing 400 acres, was sold for a con- worth, Wis., is very ill in Harvard gjdtration of $40,000, bringing a price hospital. She was taken there for considerably higher than much of the ainua trouble which later developed tain Bull Valley. The farm is be- to pneumonia. ing remodeled with improvements on Prompt attention and .medical •cars a barn already completed and a fence probably saved Bobby Frett of Joh*?- cewtructed at a cost of $6,000 around burg from the loss of an eye, followthe farm. ing severe injury to his eye when it was cut by a tree branch which flew back and hit him. The eye is healing We were taken to police headquarters where we saw we were getting nowhere fast. We called Mr. Wott, a prominent attorney in Washington, on the phone and in a short time he was with us and soon made it clear that we were not familiar with the rules and regulations and were passing through on a trip. Just two hours later we were again on the street with our worries over, but much more on the alert for lights and speed signs. We thanked Mr. Woll and said good night for the second time and returned to our trailer for the nigfit." NOTICE TO CORRESPONDEJfTS AND ADVERTISERS : ATTEND JUBILEE MASS Ihe Rev. Frs. Wm. A. O'Rourke of nicely. | St Patricks' church, A. J. Vollman of Mrs. Josephine Frett, about 73 years St John's church, J. Dalieden of old, suffered a stroke last week at her Spring Grove, Frank Miller and Msgr. home in Johnsburg followed with' C. 8. Nix of St. Mary's church attend- pneumonia, is considerably improved (ed the solemn Jubilee Mass of the this week after a second stroke with) '"The Piaindealer will be issued c-n moat Rev Edward F. Hoban, bishop which she was stricken Saturday. She Wednesday of next week instead of of Rockford, Monday, at St. James is stall very sick, however, and under Thursday. Correspondent s and adpre- Cathedral, Rockford, which cele- the care of a trained nurse. I vertisers are asked to get &>py in one hvated the fifteenth anniversary of Because of illness the operator at J day earlier than usual. hie episcopal consecration. They were the Empire theater was absent from also gueata at the dinner, which fol- 1 lowed at St. Thomas High School. AlMsrt Yalaa spent oaeveral daya laat week la Chicago. ^ •fary 8chanmsna, Jr., at Chicago is vjaiting in the hooae of hia grandr, Mia. John Schuepamann. his work for a few nights the last of kegan street. She is being cared for the week. Roy Miller, manager of by her niece, Mrs. S. Whiting, and the theater, who is well veraed in ail Mrs. E. Kelter. departments of his business, was pinch hitting for his operator during his ill- Miss Etta Powers Is. critically ill with pneumonia 4 har tome on Wau- Mrs. Smith, aunt of Katie Kuns, is seriously ill at her home in the north end of town- -- Miss Gertrude May ia a patient at the Woodstock hoepitaL M ANNUAL MEETING OF CO-OP. ASSN. HELD ON DEC.12 JOHN A. BOLOES IS &Z •LSOTCD passman- John A. Bolger was re-elected president of the McHenry County Co-operative Asaociation for the eighth consecutive year, at the annual meeting of the aasociation held at Woodstock Dec. 12. Other officers elected were J. C. 01- brich. Harvard, vice-president, and E. F. Kuecker of Marengo, secretary and treasurer. Directors elected for a term of three years were Mike Knox and William Kegebein of Crystal Lake and John Olbrich of Havard. The association, with headquarters at McHenry and a plant also at Crystal Lake, had a satisfactory year's business, paying an eight per cent stock dividend and a four par cent patronage refund for the year. The company, formed in 1920, now has 275 stock holders, comprised of farmers of McHenry county. Other directors of the aasociation are Jacob Olbrich, J. R. Beard, Henry McMillan, John Phalin, John Bolger and E. F. Kuecker. The following editorial which appeared in the Harvard Herald concerns one of McHenry's most progressive enterprises and refers highly to the business ability of its president and manager, John A. Bolger. Local Farmers' AccostplislMBent "Members of the McHenry County Farmers' Co-opera live association, which operates plants at McHenry and Crystal Lake, have demonstrated what can be accomplished where an organization remains intact and executive capacity is possessed by those who direct the affairs of the organization. "Sixteen and a half years ago the association was formed tfiW Was proceding nicely when the crash in farm products took place. A drop of approximately $20 per ton in the price of bran occurred almost pver night, and other mill stuff ind field crops fell proportionately. Foi\a time the association was near collapse, Geo. L. Murphy, Woodstock banker and: farm owner, supplying the needed funds and virtually saving the organization. "Fortunately the association has had a group of capable officials who have worked together and brought the enterprise out of what seemed like financial ruin. The work of John A. Bolger as the directing executive, however, has been outstanding aad to his efforts in conjunction with the work- NEW P£AN PROPOSED BY UTILITIES BOARDS The Boarda of Directors of the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois, the Commonwealth Edison Company and the other principal electric operating companies in northern Illinois last week announced plans to co Under the Commonwealth Edison Com P*ny. I James Simpson, chairman of the Boards of the Public Service Company and the Commonwealth Edison Company, in announcing the plans, said*. "Because the two companies have been drawn into very close operating rela* i tionships, due to the tremendous growth of electricity production and distribution and the pooling of power supply through the interconnections of transmission lines in the Chicago metropolitan area and the joint utility operations in numerous former suburban areas annexed to Chicago and previously served by the Public Service Company, the full ownership by the Edison Company of the voting stocks of the Public Service Company will insure the continuance of the benefits arising from the many operating arrangements. A more closely knitted utility operation in the great metropolitan district served would also be possible." It as not intended, according to Mr. Simpson, that Commonwealth Edison Company should acquire direct ownership of the physical properties of any of the companies. Neither is the merging of the operating organizations and personnels of the companies contemplated. i Before being launched, Mr. Simpson pointed out, the program must be approved not only by Edison stockholders but by the Illinois Commerce Commission and the Securities and Exchange commission in Washington. burst into flames. This was the first «« >7, received * alarm answered by the departmenttotal of $232,959 during the past year since Aug. 8. *or »n *vera«e of •bout $20,000 per James McCauley, Jr., son of Mr. . ... .. . and Mrs. J. J. McCauley, Harvard, is D»iry»n* » by far the most i*- recovering from injuries received late buf«n«»s '"/his part of the last Friday afternoon while coasting country w.th the fsrmers brmgin* on Hall's hill. Junior, as he is mora ,nto McHenry a large sum of money familiarly known, was sliding down month. ... . ,w . . hill when he noticed the Lush, Ver- ; Th« "test of mdk in the loaal milya A Co. truck approaching. Fear- is 8-65- kept u? J* . , , ing that he would hit the truck if he "umbe/ Guern t sef ,n kept going, Junior turned hs sled to though the greatest number of dairy the side and ran into a telephone pole. C0W8 *re ° 9 impact broke his right arm a j ff* Onhna®** January 1 is the data when all*p£i» jUllver milk w the Ching* f> -f ^ The ordinate and simplify a consolidated few iftchev §bo*f til? wrist, fPt and' vanuary^i capital structure of the companies bruised his face and Wrecked his sled. (lucers' S"5 He was rushed to the Harvard Com- "?> rnirket, must comply with the munity hospital, where his injuries Chicago Grade A milk ordinance >o were treated. avoid a shatoff and consequent loss Joe Kuhn, Jr., Richmond, was in- °' mmrketjured in an accident Saturday night ^ health department reports that about 9 o'clock, near Genoa City, when *« «tructural work that is to be done his csr was crowded off the highway on farms has been practically cornby a truck and as he tried to get bsck pkted and that compliance along thla on the highway, another car hit him. "ne practically complete. . • He suffered several broken ribs and Annual district rreetmgs w,llbegin scratches about the head and face. A >n January to be followed by the aapassing motorist, Mr. Long of Genoa meeting in Chicago. City, brought him to the office of .a ^ redisricting committee is meat- Richmond physician. He was returning home from Lake Geneva when the accident happened. Dale Barnstable, Antioch, was paining in Chicago before the holidays. a fully injured at 5:30 Wednesday even-|r NEEDY FAMILIES ARE FEW THIS YEAjt ing of last week when his bicycle collided with a car carrying a Wisconsin license and driven by Franklin Harp. The accident occurred on North Main street. The lad was severely bruised on one hip and an artery near his ankle was severed. The car driven by Walter Kalbo'v, - -- , - Marengo, skidded on the ice Sunday Prove *ver afternoon of last week on Forest stand ran into a water hydrant, breaking it. As a result of the accident, the city water was turned off all of Sunday evening when temporary repairs were made, and again on Monday afternoon for about two hours when the permanent work was done. Victor Larson of Chicago, has pur- Because of 'the improvement in local Conditions the township relief association will not give out charity baskets this year for the first time- since the depression. Nearly everyone is working this year and conditions have rapidly im» "" those of the past few years when truckloads of Christmas baskets were delivered to those in need of provisions. What few families there are who are still tn need of assistance will betaken care of by local organizations^ lodges and clubs, who will look after deserving families recommended by their own members. At their annual Christmas party, chued the former Blodgett f.n» of Moth,rs Club eontrik- 216 acres, two mile, south and .hk. ^ ,M p, (ood ,nd toys for d,stance we.^tolISharon; Christmas basket, and thj. practice 1 - * •. • '• • who negotiated the deal. The farm is situated in Leroy township, Boone county, 111., and appealed to the pur- McHenry. The Girl Scouts will experience the of being Good Fellows at this Yule time as they are preparing a Christmas basket for a local needy family. TEACHERS ON VACATION. The teachers of McHenry schools ( will spend the holiday vacation with chaser'as a safe investment, Realtor home folks wherever possible. Mrs. adds, saying: "Many Chicago A. J. Rulien, school nurse, and Miss q£ means are in quest of farm Ellen Baker, leave this afternoon for ]and and they are buying with the ^ thought in mind that investment b.ske? wiliw M^s » i n. f o r 0 1 Une at her home in Chicago. Miss Four c'OW3 on the farm 0f Carl Taylor will go to her home south of Wittmug( five miies south of Har- St. Louis and Miss Holden will go to d were found dead in the dairy Macomb. v ;:'^tj|t>am when Mr. Wittmus appeared te. i - miuh nto i of at H0 the milking the morning of Dec. 15. i/ivNltss new 'That the cows were electrocuted is the Each one of the girts will contribute as well as clothing for member^ of the family which has been selected and found to be worthy of help. SINGING MOUSE ON RADIO PROGRAM Judge Ralph Dady on Tuesday over- of Mr wittmus, who notified of- Woodstock made the headlines last ruled a ^on w for a *G1m ficials of the I,linoi8 Northern Utili- we«k when a singing mouse was Mrs. Ihomas 2^1 ties Co., which supplies electric cur- caUght at the children's home. Minnie 80" c«se and an order entered w a rent to the local farmer. Employes Mouse also sang over the radio aad ju gmen a gains t en in of the utility hastened to the scene ^ji] soon appear on the movies as she to make an examination of the bam has been photographed by several and equipment In addition to the movie film comp^m*8- four cpws found dead, others of the, All Woodstock waited to hear the amount of $5,000. together spirit of the nine directors this association has come thasugh splendidly and basis. ia bow oa a .fnyiag herd were stunned and in a trembling aoog of the little mouse which appMft . fCaatiaaed oa laat page.) ad an time aad aaag geaereuaty. • tii afterMri<Ba»ai^ii"itiL-irin;T . s "M' „ 'SL.