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. . ?« - •;#W^ , . • ' " 8* Jjnu 10, 19ST *UIHDBAL*R "; •;*!> VIVS*^" #;. ?• -.#3f . "• <,%, j,-; ' ^"PlaP ^'i/; , "• T* OL1> moms' CLUB - • " *"H- . * : . * - i *•*7* ^ •'- . : " p 'tfAH-'v. LETS HAVE A CHAT ii West McHenry, III. ^ June 8, 1937. ww the picture of an Old Timer in lftst week's Plaindealer and it did us all good. Our old friend, Charley BOBS, tent it in and let us guess. Some may not know who it was, so we will revive him for a moment." Yes, you are right, it is John Stroner, our old shoemaker, who had his shop where the bank now stands. • We can see him in memory, as he was wont to stand in front of his shop, his arms folded and glaring across the street at Fred Schnorr, his competitor. Little did Mr. Stroner think when my Dad took his picture that it woiild be in the Plaindealer forty-five years later. - The other night Wally Woodburh M T al 4 Talat Items *i btimt IfckM *rom iht Files of PlalndNhr ml Yean Ac* Our Washington ^ Letter '. By ntMami editorial TWENTY YEARS AGO Washington; June 9--Ghosts of the Blue Eagle as noted in the Administration's new bill to regulate wage and hours continue to plague Congressional minds at current hearings on this pending legislation. Other issues are subordinated for the mo- CONGRESSIONAL VIEWS ^ By Congressman Chatintiey W. Reed C. Ct C.: Upon the War Departmen- falls the task of supplying the C. C. C. with the necessities of life, including clothing of ' all kinds. The manner in which this government, agency has beert able ,to do the job without an increase in operating bvercost of admitting aliens to citizenship has been cut in half since the New Deal came into power, with a consequent loss of revertue to the government of about one million dollars annually, Iji 1931--106,272 aliens obtained certificates of arrival and filed declarations of intention to become citizens at; $5.00 each, paying fees + Jaininr the D. A. ft. The requirements for joining the Daughters of the American Revolution are that the applicant must be a direct descendant of one who served in the Revolutionary war, or direct descendant of one who was in the civil service during that period. , iiiut iit nr Nn in i|.4t Q«t Om Tf»-<Sy Phone 5i-J * enman. McHenry V>' head, is indeed a credit to'tjiat service In addition to the procurement of the ordinary peace time requirements of (therefor in the amount of $1,062,720, the Army, the Department has just,^n 1936--148,118 aliens paid $2.50 each awarded contracts for supplying" the or a total of $740,590. In 1931 there ment. Despite denials by sponsors|c. C. C. with 450,009 paipj of shoes;(were 142,249 petitioners for citizenship that the latest attempt to regiment' 1,000,000 pairs of light weight wool, ®t, $10 each, making a total of $1,- Butter on the Elgin board of trade industry *nd trade under the thumb of I sox; 400,00[0 pairs of wool trousers; 422,490, while in 1936 there were sold at 43 f«ntf per pound last Satur- a government agency has no connec-j 600,000 pairs of denim trousers; 300,- 165, 559, such petitioners paying a fa*. ition with the earlier idea, the suspi- j 000 neckties and more than 800,000. fee aggregating $827,795. • _ Tho .....l.*,! ' fo. L-rt-wi' cion Persist« that tl*e project has all wool blankets and comforters. SinceI Marine Band: The authorization to drove over from Woodstock iri his newIn® -J*™" (the identification niarks which led tojthe beginnings of the C. C. C. and in- send th<S U. S. Marine Band to tht Dodge sedan and invited me for a j J"?™w i r t h i t h e I . n t e r r n e n t ' ?* the NRA-under an eluding the 450,000 pairs of shoes just; United Confederate Veterans Reunion ride. "Say," said he, "let's go out to; comoleted order for oil w;u "nanim.ous decision of the Supreme j purchased, 7,414,671 pairs shoes at Jackson, Mississippi and the appro- Walter Walsh's and s6e his, brother,an oraer xor on qourt in the famous Schaqhter case. | have been procured for the C. C. Q. jpriaitoji of $5,300 ' to cover expenses PETERSON MOTORS 7^ Stop in or telephone Petersen Motors for demonstration with the new Hudson or/Terraplane. Drive them yourself, then use your own judgment. We are at your service at any time. Towing, Repairing, Gas, Oil, Tires and Batteries. All used cars guaranteed, according to the price you pay for them. > - i One Block East of Fox River Bridge on Route 20 - Phone 14 v McHenry, Illinois EdJ placed. Nothing could have pleased me more { .^red and years fell away when he grasped °.n Main S^eet t*lsed and a - focrtd*- us by the hand, that old hell-raising tlon DmlV : , Ed. Remember how he could play the! .Maple sveifiue. fro)m S>t» Mary ® Developments at the open sessions ofj Resettlement: Senator Byrd, Demo-' brught forth comments-from Members the joint committee indicate that, the jerUt of Virginia has requested the Sec-1®^ Congress - who had unsuccessfully .measure, may be revised, - but .tlie [reltary of Agriculture to stop work on tried to get the band to attend the chances favqi its enactment before >jje Shenandoah Homesteads project Spanish-American War Veterans Conadjournment: The lawmakers art|th'at is being set up tocarfe of ! vention- to.'be held in Columbus, Ohio. piano by ear better than most, of his church north has undfeigone notice- anxiously .pressing for a vote before) families that will be evicted from the! Have We Solved the Relief ProbVem: schoolmates could by note. Ed said: >ble improvements of late. The street, the country has time to realize the full! Shenandoah" National Park "Charley Buss wrotte a letter to his:has beei* in bad shape for sometime implications of the plan on the every McHenry friends, but I guess W has-1 and the repairing of same is »pp?en't sent it in yet." ' jciated. • . . , „, How come, Charley? We want it THIRTY YEARS AGO day life of the employer and the em ployee. They knowfull well that raising one ghost often puts » whole churchyard in motion and explanations are difficult when the home folks ex- The bullhead season is now on fit press bewilderment. and right away. Thanks for the picture and the Plaindealer will welcome word direct! blast. Orife evening last week, in The fanfare and trumpeting over •frnm Harrv Wiehtman since the' Cer>- ^ess ^an two ^ours' "Buffalo",the Connery-Black bill is inspired in tennia^ but andFeltz and Martin Conway landed 137 part by politics and probably by hon- Elma will be with us for the annual of^e fin"y tr^e" . ,lest desire to better the living condi- Chas. Wright has again assumed tions of workers employed at a subthe duties, assigned the* baggageman at the depot. standard rates of pay. It is estimated that the provisions of the legisla Bernard Mueser is having the east|tion cover 12 million workers and the room of the old Gilbert block.on the:effect would be to raise the income of first class ^ at, ieast three million \by prescribing mains to be seen. Home-coming. Fred Schnorr tells us that he will be on his way by June 20, so that flood, riot, earthquake and pestilence cannot prevent his being here on time. Last yefir^he walked from Council Bluffs, Iowa,\o McHenry in!^est ^e» fitted up twelve hours That's the spirit, Fred, restaurant, which he expects to open|certain standards having the force of Charley Owen was outSover Sunday;111 4 the n«a T r futur®' statutes. There#is a division of opin- „v,__ taiire nhout old davs he August Larsen has recently dispos-jjon wjthin the Administraton wing as starts looking for a row boat and he'*1 °l.his gasoline launch, "Rosedak^| to exemptions for small businesses still pulls a wicked oar. A week ago Howard Perry and Bernice were here among familiar scenes The Sen- j the past five years the federal govator claims that ccoraing to Dr. R. G. ernment has spent around $ 1?,000,000,- TugweH's own. figiaiTs,,, the land in:relief in one form or another, question is posting the government However, we still have 9,261,000 unem- $24.70 per" acre while thesurveyingployed. In March, 1929 there Were charges and etc. amount to $30.00 per '44,162,000 employed. In March, 1937 acre. The project calls for small there were 41,698,000 employed. All homestead sites of between ten and °f which causes one to question the retwenty acres, inclu,ding a small dwell- fusal of the Administration to sancing, the cost of each homestead is said tion a survey of unemployment and to be well in excess of $6,000. If the!relief necessities and thereby deterpro ject is successful, the mountaineers! mine accurately what has been acconvwill, not only have bath tubs, toilets plished by the expenditure of biUtons and Icttchen sinks with running water, °f dollars. but electric refrigerators as well. Whether Dr. Tugwell's esthetics and the mountaineers will mix or not, reand planning on the big home-coming. Likewise our old bunch of rose« and ve, was; v* •"« •> ' tvj CACiapviutrs- 1^1 anion uusiiicoocd to Otto Schuenemann and • Henry {employing 14 or less employees. Sec- The President Has His Way: Not withstanding the vote of 386 to 13 over-riding a presidential veto on the measure extending the ftve-year War Risk Term Insurance,' the. President "Bine Dan" Webster When Daniel Webster left his coun* try home for college and then on to fame as; orator-statesman, he was clad in a suit all of homespun cloth and rode to the college town on horseback. On the way rain drenched him to the skin, the suit, Mueaster two young men of Chicago. retary of Labor Perkins feels they|and his leaders were able to^"again | "^eeP1y» darkly and beautifully blue," should not be exempted because this dominate the House and obtain the full S transferred its blue to his shirt and FORTY YEARS AGO freedeom from government control $if5Q0,000,000 relief appropriation, un would encoura skin, dying him blue from head to foot. Staples PinsTacks Indispensable in the Office, Store, School or Home. 'he World's Best "Low Priced" Modern Stapler at a price low enough so that you can equip every desk in your office with this fastening device. _ Staples or pins up to 30 sheets. ~ Ideal for tacking drawings, tracings, bulletins, tags, etc. COMPLETE WITH 100 STAPLES $1.75 r ,w.. hastened to get back ii ^ .s . ™ • I effect on competition within any in- j vot h : n„ oofi to 44 t o ^ E x - a l d e r m a n D e i f e , o f C h i c a g o , d U s t r y . A n o f f i c i a l s u r v e y o f h o u r l y i f . D . . . variety of ways. AAnnnnaa NNoorrddqauuiisstt wwiillll bDee hneerree , aannda .f r' is .paintl"^6 ^he mterlor of his ™fr" j ing pay of common labor ranged from gt handsome manner, which 99 5 tft 62 5 rents ner hour Imagine Clara Bennett and brother, Herb. In , ininroves its abearance f TV T ts ^ . g nu who "ran o-et n ,mPloves appearance. 1 ehe pnght 0f a solon tinkering with fact, every Old Timei who can get John j Bishop is having his barber .. scales in all sections of the here is coming. McHenry is blessed! , newlv oaDered riafhted and these waJr®scales al| sections with th.. finest children in America - "e papeieo, paime country. The relatively high concenwith the Unest children m America grameci( and whfen completed, it will tration 0f Neero common laborers'in and it is a pleasure to have them be the handsomest shop W this sec- "If ™ greet you. Come if you have to walk, j ^on FRANK BENNETT. Tib Week's Observations of the Old Timer 1 - Mrs. "Sandy" Nickles has the first ripe strawberries irom her own patch that we have seen. Mrs. Chet Howard, who has been on the sick li^, is quite her old self again. • , • The trees, flowers and vardure are the most beautiful in years. A section of the old mill pond is being planted to potatoes and corn. FIFTY YEARS A©* The clover blossom business has commenced, and there is now plenty of work for the boys. partisan issue as Southerners occupy places of power in Congress and far out-number their brethern from other sections. Therefore, all this talk about "geographical differentials" 19 so much political dynamite. It is a subject that figured prominently in . Heinier has commenced paint-1 code_making and will prove a sore spot ing the outside of his building. Let the good work go on. O. W. Owen sold to Geo. W. Colby on Monday, the handsomest organ that was ever brought t?o the county. It was a Story and Clark, and was indeed a beauty. S. S. Shepard and Son will be ready Last week the boys caught many|to receive clover blossoms at their carp in the creek above Highway No. dryer, in this village on Thursday of 20. Sunday a visitor fell out of a boat at Karls' pier and traded ashore with an unuttered prayer of any kind. Joe Holly has re-painted his home and filling station and built a firstclass icehouse. Toddy Engeln has made his yard this week. SIXTY YEARS A«0 if left to the caprice of a five-man board answerable only to the President. The word has been passed that the White House has concluded its series of "messages to Congress." With signs of retreat on the court reform issu# increasingly clear, optimistic legislators look forward to closing the curtain sometime in July. The exact date of departure depends on the speed which marks the passage of "must" measures or proposals which the President wants to the exclusion of McHenry, through her efficient minor matters. Mr. Roosevelt may street commissioner, Isaac Wentworth , a vjcto on a subject which is "mending her ways" in a substantial hag ,.Je or n/oppo8ition_revenue manner Walks are being rebuilt and I amendments _to ^ Ux evader8. into a thing of beauty. He has a'repaired, streets graded, culverts put •,"e,,u",eni* ™ ^ W rpiunmdmpiHng! w^ater. * rCpUC* °f h"!in » !afe f°"di.tion' and other much!rigerdeyf^se so"that this triumph of j needed work being done. ing a defense so tms George Mayer, i. out to the «um-| The Ciacoette train « put on, «,'«*• triU wWwrt mer and quieUy paued his 81»t birth-j Monday, and we now have four trains ™" ; h k h ° la^,t , day, J»« 4. He ha. hi. garden, all eachw.y that pa5s thia] .Ution daily | rf«„„d a^pow." There will be a .oc.al party a^fte | pro Jhe Pre8id(,nt,8 ,ly „ J public utilities and water power resources may complicate the quick ful- Itillment of the program because seveJrin and is feeling fine. Just.try to outlive him if you think you can. If you need pepping up, call on Walter Freund and watch him repair tires Friday evening, and tubes. MEET YQil AT THE REUNION-* Highand Park, IH. Dear Old Plaindealer: I hear you have had another birthday. I wish you many happy returns of the day and enclose $2 for renewal. I have read you inside and outside ever since I could read. You brought us tidings of births, marriages and deaths and all the news except the scandals. It must be said the Plaindealer never mixed into the gossipjust the plain news. The past year it seems death has taken . so many fine people. I had meant to write to the relatives of dear friends, but one day followed another and time went on. I hope you know I thought of you and accept my apologies. ' Wonder what 'became of the Old Timers' Club. Lots to write up yet of "When ^McHenry Was Young." Remember way back when Mr. Schnorr had mor% flowers than anyone else and so proud of the fact? -j- Only polite people could coax a bouquet from him. Oh, my, them was the days, as Doc Bennett says. Mrs. Nordquist was quite a lover of house plants. Many times she gave me slips. My father (Sam McDonald) sported one of Jerry Scherman's' patent gates. Was it a wonder? I rode through the village and out on the Elgin road not long ago. Hardly knew deary's woods or Doherty's hill. All things are changing since Maggie was young. She changed, too, and busies herself with new people and new places. People get old just looking backward. Time marches on, as they say on the radio. ' ^ . Well, so long, dear friends, till we meet 'again at the reunion in July. - Yours very truly, , 4 , MARGARET McDONALD. ' 3§4 North Second Street, new cheese factory, near Wm. gett's, southeast of this village, on j All are invited. LISTENS TO WOES at million citizens are s^ock-holders m these privatg enterprises already reputedly ham-strUng by government competition and rigid regulation. Opinion is growing that eventually the. Federal government will be engaged in producing aiyi selling power in all seections of the country by extending the TVA theory. The ringing of the last bell for the school term this month .provides a [problem for employment agencies and Federal relief officials. Private industry, faced with the prospect of government standards for maximum hours and minimum wages is not encour^ aged to take on inexperienced help direct from schools and colleges. The National Youth Administration carried nearly a half million students on a payroll costing $3,000,000 monthly during the nine-months school season. Now they are turned loose to look for private jobs, which will make the competition keener for the unemployed adults,, especially the unskilled types. The Federal ^ovemmenr was pleased a year ago when the Supreme Court upheld their claims against the Georgia Power Company. This week finds the Department of Justice in the unenviable position of having their same court procedure, which won a casee, used against them by attorneys for the Aluminum Corporation in seeking to make permanent an injunc tion restraining the government from its long crusade against this company for alleged violations of the anti-trust Capitalizing on her faculty for listening to the woes of others without appearing bored, pretty Alice Tefft, of , Rochester, N. Y., who has been "cried on" all her life, has become the world's first "professional listener." For $2 an hour you may figuratively weep on sweet Alice's shoulder and if she is unable to offer sympathy, at least she won't I statutes. Notwithstanding the irony yawn in your face or tell you to hire a hall. Before coming to Rochester from her home in Oxford, N. Y., Miss Tefft was a Sunday school teacher in the Baptist church. 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