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LAKE ! .' __ ^., > « »HJty and mer> siaking ushered new year th e was, also, in anxiet; and sorrow as lay eriticUy ilL in such a h«ne in this vicin- Rudolph E. ahnson, 51 years jprietor andowner of Bald lotel and sutmer resort at e, was taken Suddenly id died on the first day of rear, Friday January 1, 1937, f., of pleura pneumonia. past two weeks Mr. Johnbeen ill wth influenza, but that he had it practically was afele to come to Mc- Monday of last week. taken 11 with a chill on the morning, however, and his > grew serious, rapidly develo piiteumonia. Although was done with a trained specialist summoned, the Friday, the news of his ling as a shock to his many t>me of whom did not know had been ill and others who lim so recently. Bom At Rwkford Eugene Johnson, tin son QA&OIJ> F. OOODSLL v DIES AT QftBI BAY ^ Harold F. Goodell. of Graan tipaf»; oidaat brotiwr of C. W. Goodell If lplp city, died Snaday morning, foOowtef a year's illnesa. He is surrlTad by his wifa, a son, nroett; |po sisters, Mrs. Roy Marshall of Ft Atkinson, Wis., and Mrs. Ed Vincent, DiPlm, Wis., and two brothers, Alton Goodell of l«na, Wis, and C. W. Goodell of Mctynry. Funeral serrtoes were held at Green Bay Wednesday aftetrnoon. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Goodell kft McHenry Tuesday night, taking a train at Waukegan for Green Bay attend the services on Wednesday. LOCAL ARE ENJOYING Ijy CLIMATES FLORIDA IS ATTRACTION THISSEASOII McHENRT, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1937 CLARINET CLASS OF MR. ELLIS No. 33P ;. *"<r V / Front Row: Donald Schaefer, Laara Sierman, Reihamperger. Marshall Buchert. Back row: Bngem Frank Martin, Vernon Peterson, in rear: Mr. Elite. Artfcv Hennfng, Joan Miller, Robert SlillW«, MKS. LYDIA COLBY, 78, DIES AT CRYSTAL LAKE s the daughilliam R. Wil- Mrs. Lydia Colby, of Crystal Lake, f8 years old, died Saturday in Sherman hospital, Elgn& following a week's illness of pneumonia. Born on a farm near Barmville, ^Jan. 11, 1868, Lydia Willard ter of Mr. and Mrs. lard. On Oct 28,1885, she the late Fred L. Colby. ing a farm near Bai years, they moved to Crystal Lake. Surviving are a son, Claude, and three grandchildren. Funeral services were held Tuesday at 2 p. m. at Crystal Lake. s married to ter operatle for a f|w WILLIAM ALTHOFF. 82, PASSED AWAT MONDAY EVENING :"A-. CITY COUNCIL IN JANUARY MEET MONDAY NIGHT DISCUSS PLANS FOR A - MUSEUM llie" Unreasonably mild holiday weather came t to an end this week when snow, rain and freezing temperatures 9wept the country from coast to coast. Temperature readings ranged from 15 below zero in northern Washington, near sero in the middle west to just below freezing in the eastern states. In this vicinity more rain fell in American Bandmasters' Association, j juirts of the country, including Louis 14 and 15 this year. | Members of the council are investi- December than in the past ten years Herman D. Ellis, director of instru-: Friedman, music supervisor of Win- j Mr. Ellis devotes practically his «h-j gating ordinances of other cities nearand mild weather prevailed.! ;mental music in the Mctlenry schools,'Chester, Ky., schools; Lytton S. Davis, tire time to the instruction of music;by, intending to draw up an ordinance The warm weather that prevailed has an interesting article entitled,: former state director of music in Mis- in the grade and high schools, having' concerning the license as soon as they here over* Christmas, almost convinc- "Starting the Very Young Clarinet-jsouri; Karl W. Schlabach, music di vocal music as well in the grades and j determine the best wording for it. I ing local residents that a trip to the ist." This article is illustrated with rector at Benton Harbor, Mich.; Ron- the band and orchestra in the high I c- i; ^ . south would be unnecessary, has de- ~ *- * *' -e -,J ° r,-'~ 1 1 1 ^T', -- ' ' In the December issue of "The magazine is one of intereat to musi- the national solo contest School Musician," the official organ' cians arid contains articles written by| The national orchestra contest will of the National Band, Orchestra and -musicians and teachers from various be held at Columbus, Ohio, on May 13,1 would be possible in any other'way. A moriAAn Ren/lmoefa^o' AaaAAiatiAn ' «tapfo a# inolii/liMer T yviiio 1A an/1 IK > n MAAM I m m • .. .. PIONEER MERCHANT - JOHNSBURO ^ A pioneer merchant and shceniaker.. v" well known throughout nerthern Illi-t ', nois and Wisconsin, having been irf'-V; business for fifty-eight years in the same building in Johnsburg, William 1 Althoff, 82 years old, passed away at , 6 p. m., Tuesday, Jan. 6, after » ' month's illness. . ^ » Taken ill with influtnta and pneu^< monia about a month ago he recoverf vied and was again able to be up but ; his heart was weakened and he died from a heart attack which came as great shock to his family and friends. ; Mr. Althoff was born September 1864, at New Munster, Kenosha County, Wis., the son of Mr. and Mr it- Henry Althoff. He was the oldest and last of a family of ten children. When a young ijnan he learned the ; -- . TT «... shoemaker's trade, working four year» ^West Mrflenry will haw toother ;.t Waterford, WisT three years at tavern m the near future as . license; Burlington, Wis., and two years af j was granted Nick Nett at the city, Richmond, becoming an expert maket : council meeting Monday night. He of boots and shces> will open a tavern in the Mrs. Delia | Married In 1878 » ' Matthews building on Main street. j 0n October 8, 1878, he was unite# The city council, in a move to license Jn marriage to Adelaide Brother at all peddlers and solicitors from out of New Munster and came immediately ^ town, will do more to win the approv- to Johnsburg where he followed hi§ v al of the housewives of the city than trade as shoemaker, being well t I'-.f f : r ,-i •'? * ; agents, who are parted wwi^hilly winds temperatures are bringing the warning that winter is at hand. Florida, Favorite State Midwinter vacations lure.increasingly large numbers, with Florida rated in* the small clarinetist a photograph of the clarinet class of, aid Faulkner of Greeley, Colo., schools school. There is also, the beginners i . . . . . Ellis, which is reproduced here, 'and JP. Giddings, supervisor of orchestra, and Mr. Elils gives ' freei„ ^_A js vicini y, are numer- In his article Mr. Ellis states that'music of Minneapolis schools and class lessons on the various instru-!.. . , . mes very msis xn the clarinet has been his principal in- others. . • ments. I the, f r *;s," scl1' ^ovmgto be real . . . , . » , ) _ . , . . i ~ . p e s t s t o t h e h o u s e w i v e s , w h o w i l l a p - strument for eighteen years and he There is also an interesting article! Boundless apportunity in music to' rec:ate t f _niiru.:i goes on to point out the problems fac- j written by Donn Mass, trombonist, of pupils of the McHenry schools with' these transients I >h E. Johnson Mr, and Mrs. Oscar John ford, was born May 27, as the most popular place to spend the winter and escape the cokl north winds and snow. The main attraction of this siren among the states isr based nowadays on its sunshine instead cf its subdivisions and it is re- ] ported that Florida will have more than two million northerners down to see her this winter. * : j Winter vacationers are usually. tracted to Miami where gaiety is the keynote and the early season rush is on. Miami offers the arrivals a fine , ' ^ stretch of ccean beach, popular with UNUSUAL W EATMER bathers as well as for those who en- THE CAUSE joy deep sea fishing. i Over twenty million dollars worth Shorewood, Wis., telling what helped free advantages rarely found in pub- tf\eids_ to seek other Illustrated "with many pictures the him most to win the F'irst Division in' lie schools of this sise. "FLU" EPIDEMIC SPREADS INTO MANY FAMILIES IRockford, where he lived un- want to enjoy its attractions, e a young man. »«--*•--- « member of the Swedish ch at Rockford, where he tday school until he was when lqe was confirmed rent to Chicago where he in marriage to Hilda birthday, May 27,1918. to reside in Chicago i to Plstakee Lake to kome eighteen years ago of new construction has set a new N u®u"des # en' record for Miami's hospitality and of the ^^5° ^ h^'eX; guarantee a home for everyone who P^ed the hope that the arrival the cold wave and season weather would aid in chh<e cEins Ltiexi rer of Nature nature, Mr. Johnson was the site of his present ie came out to Pistakee hunting with a friend in the fall Returning to Chicago he beauty tnd soon decidroperty, known as j>wner, Mrs. S. two years set in t*.' Piara- C' S>n first of winter Trailers Popular weun«r wvuiu uu m ing the Among the more than two million M>n»d of influenza and pneumonia visitors in Miami are local people, in- k*8 8WeP region. ^ eluding Dr. and Mrs. N. J. Nye and As a precautionary measure visitors their party, who, independent of hous- quarantines have been imposed at the ing conditions, are living in their Elgin State hospital and a warning trailer for the season. issued about crowding in public places. Trailers are qujte the popular mode In McHenry the epidemic of flu ( of vacation living nowadays and Mr. has been widespread, with scarecly a, and Mrs. Howard Wattles are, also, family escaping, while many havei spending the winter in a trailer home been seriously ill and deaths have reat Miami. 'suited from pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. William Pries, who are1 The public has been warned by spending the winter in Florida, are medical men to take utmost precauon beent of instni" arging ings to Plying ng also making their home in a trailer. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Cope are spending the winter in St. Petersburg, where, also, thousands of people dresstions against the epidemic of influenza and pneumonia which has been described as the worst since 1918. Above all things patients are urged ed in summer clothes are enjoying the to remain in bed and keep warm, outdoors under whispering palm trees "Don't try to eat," says Dr. Irving and sunny skits. S. Cutter, health editor of the Tnbun# Mrs. J. Ladd of Ringwood and Mr.'and dean of the medical school at and Mrs. E. E. Cropley of Solon Mills Northwestern University. Starve are at Orlando, Fla, again this year. yourself for a few days. MS6R. C. S. NIX STARTS ON TRIP - TO PHIUFPINES DUKER ATTENDS STATE TEACHERS ASSN. MEETING I Concerning this matter the women Jof the community were always gratefful to the late Mayor John R. Knox, mho handled this nuisance ih a most thorough manner. j Although the city clerk, Peter Neiss jWas present at the meeting, writing ; of the notes for the minutes was done; by Ray F. Conway, a former city ! clerk. Permanent Museum • | McHenry may, in the near future, NOTED SPEAKERS ON*THE have a permanent museum, if interest in the project evinced by the city PROGRAM council is continued. j The idea of a museum originated At the eighty-third annual meeting,l"t summer at the time of the Cenof the Dlinois Educational Association, tennial celebration and has been agiheld at Springfield during the Christ- tated since by several members of the , William Althoff mas holidays the Illinois teachers Old Timers' Club who^are interested j towished at the age of twenty-fout charted their legislative course for the in seeing it materialize. | yMr8. coming bientiium. The exhibit of ahtiques and histor- j jjr_ Althoff, whose memory retaiifS * Five sessions made up the three-day. leal pictures, letters, books and other ^ ^ anusua] keeness up to the ver|fe meeting, during which various import- documents on display in the high! jast( related the story of his inter* ant issues and unsolved problems were, school at the time of the Centennial (esting life to one of his sons only fc; discussed by prominent speakers. was most complete, consisting of <>v«* short time before .Jij died, He told «j|s .Matters of prime importance were 4,000 pieces, and it was from this | mainng shoes for many of the pronfi a demand for increased state financial that the idea of a permanent place in ^nent pioneers of this section, inclodinj|- aid to the schools, a system of dis- which many treasured antiques might boots for Senator F. K. Grange* •" "IsP tribution to fit the varied per capita jhe displayed, developed TO ATTEND EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS wealth in the different parts of the state and a more just system of taxation and a minimum wage law for teachers. Prominent Speakers Leaders of the differentt state organizations expressed their attitude and that of the body they represented • toward th« educational Droo^am Appoint Committee which were of calfskin with speci«| tops, others for Charles Eldredg?, Tom At a meeting of the city eouneil the; Cole, and Ben Watts, while m,aq| subject was discussed and a commit-. walked from Harvard to have boofe tee of three aldermen appointed to | ma(ie by Mr. Althoff. make plans and arrangements for the Having once made a pair of shoe*. museum." - jfor a customer Mr. Althoff never fcip^- One alderman from each ward was, the size required which also pro* chosen #S follows: Herman Kreutaer,je(j true in the merchandise business of, Ri I. Overton and George Freund. j Regardless of the number of custor*- Association in session. . This committee will proceed slowly, iers he always reme,nberedthe si# Among these speakers were M. J. biding their time until an appropriate, 0f each and ityle of ^ • J Murphy of Bloomington, State Com-[place is found for the museum, when I t M Msgr. Charles S. Nix, pastor of St. 'mander of the American Legion, i antiques will be solicited. As shoe factories became general _ ,_p ^ Don't eat Mary's church, will attend the thirty-j whose address was a feature of the | Local residents, in the meantime, Illness in the home of Mr/ Mary even soft boiled eggs. Tea, toast and third International Eucharistic Con- afternoon program on Dec. 29. Other,can look over their antiques and de- ,'ar»» has delayed plans for a trip to f_ ruit .juAic es are a^ lIlI rig* ht ^ Drinn k 'l« oA^tse gresmsm aAt4 MAa nflb 2i1l aA , PhUA L ,ip Mp•i nMAe TIsilll aAn d« Ls M, |I s peakt.e rs w_ ere G^ eA •r• tA •r u• • dJe -- \NT evin Wil- ci.de what to give to the museum. Florid* od a threatened attack of of water." | Februiary 2 to 7. He will join a group liams, president of the Illinois Con-1 The idea of a museum for McHenry pneumonia\^f overtook John Schaf- A physician should be called im- of pilgrims at Vancouver to sail on gress of Parents and Teachers; John is a novel one and will be something fer before he gOa iway fayHie south- mediately if there is pain from breath- the Empress of Japan. C. Watson, secretary of the Illinois rew in this part of the country as land in one of the new tiSers which ing, blood in the sputum, or if the! Msgr. Nix was taken to Chicago on Agricultural association; Victor Oland- cities of this size seldom aspire to a he sells. temperature doesn't recede in twenty- Wednesday morning by Father Miller, er, secretary and treasurer of the II- project of this kind. However, the On Tuesday morning Mf. and Mr*, four hours. Do everything possible where he expected to leave about one linois State Federation of Labor, and fact that interesting material abounds Math Laures, his mother, Mrs. Eliza- to guard against pneumonia. j o'clock on a special train for Van- Dr. Charles H. Judd, of the University here is well known and the undertak-( beth Laures, and Mrs. N, J. * Justeii Dr. Cutter adds that there seems to couver, Canada. With about 800 other 0f Chicago, each one of whom explain- ing may not be a difficult one. After became known for many miles a left for Florida, with St Petersburg be more influenza than at any time priests he expects to sail from the ed the attitude of their organization being once started it will, no doubt, jn addition to being a pioneer as their destination. They plan to since 1918, but it is not of the vicious Canadian port on Jan. 9. [toward the educational program of thogrow rapidly, especially with the back-J chant he was probably the only oci* ioe generi and competition grew keen there was no longer the profit in the trade Mr. Althoff gradually worked into Utfr general merchandise business. He was the first merchant in thiQ section to realize the need of a wages to sell throughout the country to the j farmers and as his business expanded he covered more territory, selling to the farmers at their hemes and type we had then, although very bad.) The Rev. Fr. F. J. Brummel, pastor state association. presileague, its princisted in the j California, also, comes in for its ... which was 8h»re of popularity. pr Bundesen. Those who go to bed, him most happy, membership Mrs. Johanna Walsh of Fox Lake, drink citrus fruit juices, put woolen M«S 1° *Rnd her daughter, Irene, of McHenry, socks on their feet and get medical No. 1, in are enjoying a few weeks' vacation at treatment almost invariably visit various points of interest - ing of the people of the community. Florida during the winter. Dr. Bundesen stated that because of St. Joseph's Catholic church, Elgin,1 Dr. Preston Bradley, Chicago min Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Martin and of the increased number of pneumonia will also be a member of the party. ister, also gave an inspirational talk children are expected home soon from and flu cases, no oxygen tents or, As Msgr. Nix drove away from his on the evening of Dec. 28, declaring a trip to Florida, where they spent the trained nurses are available in the home Wednesday morning with Fr. that education must be kept free so holidays with his mother at Belleview, city. (Miller, the school children lined up that neither communism nor facism Fla. Dont Neglect Colds " j along the drive, waved a farewell and "can set their deadly fangs in our to $1.79 and $1.49; stock limited; buy ding anniversary, spending a happjr ft is those who neglect colds, says cheered him as he rode by, making democracy," On the future of educa- now; shoe prices will be higher in the day with their children and relatives. Dr. him most happy. ,tion, he said, hangs the future of the near future. Popp's Shoe Store, West; A kind husband and a loving lather* Presented With Parse ; nation's government. He also stated McHenry. 33-fp; Mr. Althoff liveB a quiet, simple home Also at the meeting of thfc'ffoly that every teacher is vastly more im- J life, enjoying his home and seldom Name society Monday night Msgr. portant as a personality over the| Teachers are asking that the dis- leaving it without the companionship of his age in northern Illinois to actively engaged in his business, whicl BIG FACTORY REDUCTION IN I he had carried on for fifty-«ight yfiars. PRICES J Celebrated Golden Wedding On ladies' and misses' shoes; broken, On October 8, 1928, Mr. and Mrs. lots; not all sizes; reduced from $2.98 Althoff celebrated their golden wedavoid. Los Angeles, leaving hrre before the pneumonia, sinus infection .and other Nix was honored at a farewell party classroom and in the community than j tributive fund be paid on the basis of of his wife holidays. ^ complications. 'when he was presented with a purse any subject they teach. $20 per year for every grade and high, He was a man of fine character and Another winter - traveller was Dr. In the state, pneumonia prevalence from his parishoners and local busi- Civilization is being rearranged and school student in attendance. The exemplary habits, commanding the re« D. G. Wells, who joined his son, Dr! jumped last week to 1,056 new cases, ness men. readjusted, said Dr. Bradley, and * 'present figure is $11 per year for stud- spect and friendship of all who knew Glen W. Wells and Mrs. Wells of Los compared with 615 of the previous! The McHenry pastor expels to be child's training as to how to act in ents in the first eight grades only. him. Angeles, Cal., in Chicago on a trip to week, described as the highest weekly gone about three months, returning society is more important than the It is planned to increase the state's He was a member of Canada, where they spent Christmas incidence in the state since 1928. j about the middle of April. conjugation of a verb or of other proportion of the expense and de- Court, No. 96, Cat -n, Marie Louise,jWjth the former's mother. Along with this disease, influenza] His Excellency, the Most Rev. Ed- facta. Icrease the local tax rate, which would esters, of \\ Jr., aad Herbert Wil- Miss Rose Huemann plans to leave was reported to have increased to 450 ward F. Hoban, bishop of Rockford, Three Major Items j mean about twelve and a half million secret. ro sisters, Mrs. Irving jon the eighteenth of this month for new cases from 164 the previous week, represented the Extension Society in Three major items in the HMnois dollars to the grade schools. Mrs. Kay - Pittenger and her annual stay in Florida. She scarlet fever from °27 to 437 and assisting other leaders of religious Education Association program for ) Plans were also discussed concern- c neighbor, Mr. everyone, and ork around his % the. members !he is survived A! rj£ugene Thomas Pittenger, Angeles, Cal. Tlas an uncle, Prof. Graner, who professor of Latin at Augustana College, Rock Island, an uncle and ten cousins at Elkhart, Ind., and many relatives in Sweden. Immediately following his death the remains were taken to the Fred Olson f*»«ral parlors at Rockford, where ffca funeral services were held at 1 ( spends the winter at Pensacola. The diphtheria from 30 to 59. j orders, societies and groups in making 1937 interested the teachers who were, ing a more permanent constructio. Misses Jean Matthews and Julia Mc- During the last half century mortal- plans for the organization of the present from all over the state. ) the teachers' pension Laughlin will accompany her to Flor- ity in Illinois has shifted so that the cruise. Bishop Hob^n will ida for a month's vacation, returning annual high .is^-n^y.., reached in mid- chaplain during the trip. act as home on the train. winter ins^eafl of 111 quid-summer, as Mr. and Mrs. Ben Diets left Wed- in formerC years, Public Health Direc nesday morning on a trip to Florida tor Frank^Jirka asserts. where they will visit points of interest Fifty years ago mortality was the for several weeks. highest in the summer months and occurred among persons less than fifty Bruce Granger Chicago. New Year's in years of age, while the exact opposite is true at the present time. Through the courtesy of Fr. Miller, the Plainddaler hopes to report on the progress of Msgr. Nix from time to time. Mr. aad Mrs. H. E. Buch and family spent Sunday with relatives in Chicago. Among these were included appro- j who have taught twentj priations covering delinquincies in j receiving a pension school fund payments of former yesrs,' crease in amounts^ an increase in the state distributive by teachers ai fund and extension of state aid to high; fund will have schools, as well as schools teaching the j Supt C. H. first eight grades, rearrangement of schools attex the state pension fund for teachers Springfield and recharting of the certification laws j going report, into a more standardised fonn. lest to all te and rnae. th Tonyan of Bernard and' ome; Louis and William -McHenry; Mrs. Rose Sattetn, isti'ck; Mrs. Peter M. Wagner Volo, and Catherine of Elgin; the twenty-three grandchildren and fifteen . security, great-grandchildren. e McHenry, Funeral services will be held at Su nvention (.at John's church at 10 o'clock Friday the fore-j morning, with Fr. A. J. YoUman* of« be of inter- ficiating. Burial will he a St John** aa others. I cemetery. tj .1 ; ,