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apipiy J- ' v';:, • •. . ' ' '. 'M H." "' i r . r ' • T&V". ;--vW t m ' T r - ' ,.v '• v'"'S . ; ;"i r <• #*•*•"• '-•JLt-,:>•*.»*!<*?• ' • • < -.; . • ••** • .? •• '"'"V,'*/•'• * 7 "r-fi "iiit ,>- •*1- r~-->. - J J* * * *« ^ V ' % '/ " ' !' *4 ': • r ••'y~«£5ry:£^*^ - :V~V" :I •• • o'*r wfr-aM « •*« -v-.;;.' t - f - Volume 65 McHENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 193? 'f*. f SPEED UP WORK ON NEW STATE DAM AT M'HENRY »»* Two Views of New McHenry Dam CREWS WORKING AND NIGHt After struggling for twenty years v "£,,&> maintain an even and adequate sup-: '. ;ply of water in the Fox river during V the summer months, the new $125,000; flood control dam at the headwaters, ••5; • of the stream south of McHenry is ^•••/••icheduled to be open for operation ' this fall. Cv ;i>v Men are working day,and night to, "'••• ftnish the project bef6re the deadline .. - :'%hich will replace the old defective and obsolete dam. The new structure is equipped with -iiodern flood control gates to permit ... a more accurate and flexible control »f the water throughout t;he valley. With the old dam the only means of changing the level of the water was by installing flash boards or temporary wooden barriers attached to the crest of the dam. Determine Lake Levels ; ; According to the Chicago Tribune, In its issue of September 17. the new dam will also determine, the water level in the chain of lakes frontwhich the Fox river taK«-s its course „ Tlie spring flood waters will be stored to be released later in the summer When the supply is low. Civic leaders of the valley, summer playground of hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans, pgreed last week that the new dam will be a principal factor in restoring the stream to its original beauty and usefulness to sportsmen and summer dwellers. At the same time most of them concur red in the belief that the constructs* ; 'of the dam is only the first step ill the solution of the problem. It was * the concensus that at least three more 1 measures must be taken before thf condition of the river will be satis* factory. State Controlled Dams One of the most beneficial remediei; they said, would be legislation to peri mit state authorities to control all dams, private as well as public, be* tween McHenry and Wedron. NcW auxiliary dams and repair of present structures will also be necessary; -• * Of the eleven dams between th^s source of the river and its mouth at" Ottawa eight are privately owned ana .used for power purposes. Seven of these are in the upper Fox valleynorth of Aurora. Dams at McHenry and Algonquin are controlled by the state and the remaining structure in Aurora has not been used to generate power for some years. One of the strongest advocates for state regulation of private dams is ' William F. Hagel. president of the Kane County Sportsmen's league. Agreement Broken "We've tried for more than twenty years to solve the problems of low 'w^ter and insufficient flow," he sa'd. INTERESTING ^ NEARBY NEWS TAKEN FROM COLUMNS OF OUR EXCHANGES FOUR NEW TEACHERS OFFER SERVICES AT GRADE, HIGH SCHOOL rhoto Try Wrtrwl.ll V.'-s Work on the new dam is now progressing rapidly, with two shifts of workmen busy nutting cement and clearing the old structure away. The above pictue shows the nfw gates on the west shore of the river. The view is taken from the south. ,. (Photo This photo was taken from the top of the ga e structure last Sunday afternoon,ylobkint Worwlek) ' across the tiyer toward the east. It shows the large cranes whi -h have b?en removing tons of dirt, r<kks, etc. who have visited the site for many years would today hardly recognize the location of the old dam. Those CHICAGOANS SMASH ; CAR ATTEMPTING TO ' * FLEE FROM TAVERN, "Baby" certainly would have had more than one new pair of shoes R things had turned out as the plotters anticipated. Two strangers collected "We thought we bad""accomplished | approximately $100 from the bartendsomething a few yews ago when wejf « McHenry tavern Friday even- . . . X. Mi !ii_ it..1 11 KNIGHTS PLAN 816 DANCEJOR COLUMBUS DAY Approximately one million quail will be bagged by hunters in Illinois during the coming season, which opens in all zones November 10, Thomas J. Lynch, director of the Department of Conservation predicts. The O. L. Putnam Jersey herd, of Harvard proved that honors won in recent state fairs were rightly awarded when the thirty animals won first plaee in the third district of the McHenry County Dairy Herd Improvement Association during August. The heard averaged 665 pounds of milk and 43.7 pounds of fat on twice a day milking. ( Four Wisconsin men were uninjured in a forced plane landing on thej Eglund farm near Hampshire at 7:45 o'clock Sunday evening, September 17. Village people heard the plane circle over*' the village several times just before the crash. The engine was missing badly and it was evident that the plane was seeking a suitable landing pla^e. Quick thinking on the part of Alvin Eglund probably saved the lives of the four passengers when he rushed to the family's car, turned on the lights and centered them on an alfalfa field. The pilot was th.»s able to see land in the darkness and made a good landing in the fv>ld. FrecT Wilmington and George Lock*- wood were fishing on the south side of Crystal Lake one day a week ago and as Fred threw out his plug a kingfisher soared near, grasped the plug and started flying away. Seeing "4 that the bird wo\Jld end up with the plug, road and^^eel in a tree, Fred reeled his line in rapidly, pulling the old kingfisher through the water like a .bedraggled surf board. Charles George Raispes, 28, of Berwyn,. was killed about 6 p. m. Tuesday evening, September 19, when a plane he was piloting crashed east .)f Hodgkins. Mr. Raispes had taken off from the Stinson airport in a plane belonging to Donald Kruswick of Berwyn a few minutes before the crash. Witnesses at the coroner's , inquest said that the plane went into a spin about a thousand feet up and that the pilot evidently had been unable to pull the plane out of the spin. This Thursday and Friday, September 28 and 29, the fifteenth annual Warren Community Fair is being held at the Warren township high school in Gurnee. Approximately 800 exhib its were put on display and judged at the event las tyear, and it is expected that the number is exceed^ this year. Lovers of music listening in on *t*- NEW METHODIST MINISTER TO SELECTED SOON ition WMBI at two a Tek apr? Sx\n _____ !day were treated to a group of solos . . . . , . . . j-:' jbv a Dundee artist, Edward Graening.l Members and fiends_ of theJlc- w he v i o l i n n u m b e r s w h i c h Henry Cornmunity Method'st ch^chj / an arrangements of "Trees," are more than usually mterested fois „Cradle go „ and Spald. year in the annual session of the Rock!. , . q„„- ,. River Conference whoi.c h will be held L i " . ^ T „ i Fire of undetermined origin late ! uctoDer 3 to » in St. James Meth- _ ., „ , , _ 00 *uei entered "into aiT agire^nent with the1 ijMf during a crap game. When it was COLORED MUSICMAKERS odist church Chicago, with | - - 'GIVE OUT' Ernest Lynn Waldorf p i t siding. i Bejvj(jerei embracing a quarter- j mile area of bams, sheds and pens. Assistant Fire Chief Frank Letto csdam owners. They agreed to close i discovered that the two men were their power gates whenever the water using tops d.ce with which the level fell more than six inches below owners cannot lose, they hurriedly left j the crest of the dam on their pow^r I the game m their car, closely pur site. It was only a gentleman's agree- sued "W the »ose" ment and the temptation to violate it wa= too strong. "Now in dry weather the water falls below the level of the dam while Headed east, they lost control of their car and crashed into the right hand side of the old bridge at McHenry about 3:00 a.m. Saturday. The The local Knights of Columbus will celebrate Columbus Day, October 12, in a large way. Enthusiastic new officers are teaming with past officers and many ac-j moved during the summer to his home Ernest Lynn Waldorf presiding. At this time appointment, of a pastor for the McHenry church will be made. ^ ' Rev. Minar Gerrard, who had been pastor of the church for the p^ist year PAROLEE SLAYS RILEY FARMER ~ IN COW DARN KILLER, 16. IS CABTUREP ' T U E S D A Y - • •"•> fcharles Daine, 16, was captured on, a side road of Marengo Tuesday af- -ternoon after he had murdered L£s- J ter Groth, 34 yea% old Riley township ' • " farmer, as' he was milking at 6:30 Tuesday morning. The boy was lodg- ' ed in the McHenry county jail. Dain was a parolee of St. Charles / V-S • sjchool for boy? ?nd had been work- ... ing for the Groth family as $ parttime hired man for two years. The lad seemingly had planned to kill Groth, although Mrs. Groth states that the. victim and the boy have. nev-. er quarreled over anything . J Found in Dain's upstair's room of the farm house was a piede of scrap ,r paper on which were written school notes--he attended Willaimson rural school as a seventh grade student. .1 . . Plotter's Guide The note diagrammed a figure with ten small round Circles hinder the jugular vein. On the paper he had written: "To the Juggler." Above this was What officers believe is intended to repre- , sent the head and below the chest of a man. The ten little numbered circles are identical with the location of stab wounds found on Groth's body. Officers stated that a pocket knife had been used after Groth had been slugged over the head with a 22-rifle The wounds carried from about "one to four inches into the body. According to Mrs. Groth, Dain has • brother and a brothi r-nmaw in Mt. f Vernon, Illinois. Mistaken Trust Mrs. Groth said that though" the boy had lived with the family fo^,tw%> > years they had always thought him a good boy. He was always thought well of by the family, who kept him out of the state school because they believed they could help him to » better life. , According to Mrs, Groth, the 9oy had come down stairs Tuesday with » knife, and because she sensed that something was wrong guarded the _ children in their rooms. But she never | thought that any harm would befall 'her husband. Dain made his escape through the | rear of the cow bam where the slayi ing took place, and ran through corn f.e'ds. He was captured {.bout thre«- i o'clock that afternoon by two younc men, William C. Hahn end Freddie Soberer," as he emerg d from some bushes «bout three miles north of the -- Gioth farm. j- Crrriis Death Weapon ' According to the Chicago Tribune, _ : ijfc DJn's pockets were four pocket ; knives, one of which h*_d been wiped i clean recently. He blso carried; a flashlight, a watch (his own), and twenty cartridges for a 22 caliber rifl . He »a« wet r.nd shivering from the cold. His. first food of the day\ was a sandwich at the M r°ngo jail. Groth's body was found shortly after 8 a. m. by Donald Hy?er. a milk Miss Alice Ryan hegan her teach- The f. rmef's skull haiybeer, Ing duties,.on September 18 when it i crushed by repeated blows, and blood * MISS ALICE RYAN H MISS LUCIA ROSE RA.USCH \ t - . i rhoto by Worwlck MISS CAROLYN BAUER tive members to spark the interest of j in the west leaving a vi.cancy here to day afternoon timated the loss st $100 000 AlfonAlbert Auskalnis, 26 years was decided that there were too many f""'theknif'eut^ on h;s bot'y Stainold, residing near Coleman on runil . , ^ 1 « irom ine Knw . " .. - route 2. died of the gates to the waterwheels are open.] pursuer left the scene of the acci- m^. members to new heights. his annual celebration will be supplied at the coming conference, take' However, there will b • preaching at Wtien they are closed no water passes ( dent before the McHenry policeman, , "The Bridee," with enter- i the church next Sunday, as there has unti.l. .th. e l« eveil i• s ib .u..i'flxt up again itno EITlImmmemr ChristiiaaMnSsAenn , aArvri*iivire<udi . TTnhae » . • .< i i the crest of-yie dam. Often when the latter called state police for aid and tainment and dancing throughout the been during the past several weeks, A colored orchestra will 'to which everyone interested is invitnower gates are closed on a Friday, Patrolmen Paschke and Rogala took pour n* te an over the place, swing ed to attend night no water passes until they op-n the two to the Woodstock hospital Monday morning. As a result the j for first aid treatment. They gav% lower reaches of the river have only'their names and addresses as Phillip near pieman on Stud«nts this year for the number of d his 0ve alls and -hirt and floor ,f a sun s'rok® lM #t P";:t(Bachers. Having been graduated from ^ ^ Dr. Kennvth I.. -. ' ^ I, QfRosary college this year, Miss Ryan „ , . sUmm0red from Bol- Eljjin State hospital, a half hour a t ( ha<. un^er^ken hr»r .first year of _ ;J__1 r_^n, k a he was admitted to the institution. music or what have you for youth andj The coming session is the one Jiunold time tunes for those not so young, dredth annual session, of the"confer. This is not a celebration for mem- ence and special programs in honor, such water as is fed in from tributar- Madar, 2048 Washington Blvd., Chi- and their families alone. The, of the occasion will b > featured ies and drains. ! cago, owner of ^ public is incited. Just a good time! Incorporation of ,the Ro ' "If the state controlled these dams, Childers, 622 E. Sixty-Second Street, ^ - i Conference of the former such variations in the flowC) would be Chicago. The car, a Ford, was t>aai> { Executive Committee--LeRoy Con-Episcopal church, of which ST.v^ had their minor cut, .nd Ch,'rm R a"' "j'T SfS wr Lnt- bruises patched up, they were brought p"™8 t_* , Walsh ' the' back to McHenry .nd in tt.J"SJe'TomS^U. J. Eeihaneliminated. We propose to draft legislation to be submitted to the state assembly which will provide for the necessary control. A survey river had already been begun to gather information for this bill and a drafting committee has been appoint- E. A. Keplar of St. Charles, secretary of the Fox Valley federation, said that the efficiency of the new dam at McHenry would be greatly increased if more dams of an auxiliary nature were built. "The pitch of the river bed is so steep it is almost impossible to make the Mailable supply of water last all summer," he said. "With more dams we could slow up the rate that it flows away and help the situation considerably. It would also help to have the present dams repaired. Some of them - new leak as rr.trsh as twenty to thirty per cent of the water behind theiH." INCREASED MEMBERSHIP CREATES ENTHUSIAM IN year o estimated Groth h d been d>a^ teaching Mathematics and Community for #t 1(gst an hour His wife' jk&s Civics. j waiting for him to return ttOm .the r-Miss Lucia Rose Rausch, now teach- barn for breakfast. , ing English I and II at the McHenry Surviving Groth is his wif -.M^arl. Community High school, received her 2i, his children. Verl. 4. Sharon Lee, musical training at Mount Mary Col- 3 'and a baby girl, S-ndra Lee, six ••nil-linn imun nilin 'W< Milwaukee. The new teacher 'onths, artd his father, Henry, 70 M HFNRY LIONS CLUB •has a B A deKr<?e with an M.A. m ,years 0]d; \ in IILIlll I UUHW 1 Knglish. received at Chicago Univ r-j the St. Charles school Supt. Wil- . • 1 ! :iity this past summer. After being iiam T. Harmon s°id D_in was corn- the Mc- Addddeedd eenntthhuussiiaassm waass ccrreeaatieeda oonn eemmppiloo>yeedu fi»oir tmhec last three years _ atj ,njltttteoda " "Ifrroorma Mmnouumnt Viceir.in.o-.n-,. .i.n Jef- Homer Fitzgerald, j Henry church is a member, into the j Tuesday evening at the regui^ tnee^fFr^nklin Park gmde^ichwl^she city hall for the remainder of the Fi night. Fingerprints were taken ^ | merger, chairman; Gerald Carey, EISaturday morning and then the two me.r, "n. were removed to Elgin. Childers was' . Smcr"'rr»idonT"("thit"dty ind Bolder, cK.i™.n; E.rl was well known to policemen of that ?•* F»tzgei*ld, John^ 1. Karls, H u S P h a l i n . Saturday afternoon they were turn- J Ticket Committee---A. J. ed over to the Federal Bureau of In- chan-man; Clarence An^rte John vestigation and federal agents have folger, teorgvj^rkm,^ ^ Martin begun an investigtion of the case. new Methodist church will be offici-J ing of the McHenry Lions clubt ally effected at the annual session at the Karls dining room on also. It is expected that local people attend some of the sessions Advertising Committee--Thomas P. ] conference in Chicago including Mrs. C. W. Goodelf and Mrs. Harold Owen, who have been elected, delegate and held | undertaken her first year in this city. Miss Carolyn Bauer, a graduate of Corfesses Crime Assistant State's Attorney Donald LAKE DcriANCE GJBTS chairman; Felix Unti, Ed Sutton, Joet^A- beautiful SOME 20,000 NEW Xtl&tt Reiner, A. E. Nye, Stilling, a.- Hours Devotion alternate. •r FOETY HOURS C5LLCOKS BB TUESDAY EVENING AT ST. JOHN'S CHURCH Bolger, Ed Larkin, Clarence Martin, Paul Yanda, Vincent Adams. Raffle Committee--John A. Bolger, and inspiring Forty Kegner, t. wye, Leo owning, n.-riourB vewuvn came to a close on j J. fWirtz, Thomas A. Bolger^ Tuesday evening at St. John's church, -Owners of Lake Defiance, a private Refreshment Committee--Felix Un-. John sburg, in all the splencjor and lake, stocked their favorite fishing ti, Chairman; James Frisby, Robert solemnity of the Catholic service. The spot last Friday with some 20,000 lit- Conway, George Frisby, Jos. J. Mil-, altars were most beautifully decortie Ashies. Therib were About 2,000 ler, Anton J. Schmitt, Wm. E. Sut-' ated with a myriad of candles and Mueslis and croppies--the rest were ton, Ambrose Schaeffer, Frank Wein- with huge bouquets of gladiolas and butt Igart, Herman Schaeffer, Herman Stef-' asters. Father Paul Stimler, M. S. C., Mr. Tom McCafferty, who is located fes, John Thennes, Earl Conway, Leo' preacher for the three days of prayer, in Spring Grove and supervises all Wjnkel, Nick Adams, Leo Blake. Joe and Rev. A. J. Neidert, pastor, Were the various hatcheries in the state, M. Schmitt, Ed Wiser, Joe Wiser. extremely happy and impressed with rv« th* new winter schedule, Chi-'was in charge of the re-stocking job Hall Committee--Joe Adams, chair-{the fact that there were at least a at Lake'Defiance. He stated that the man; Anton H. Freund, Math N..:.thousand comihunicants. fish were all from last year's crop Schmitt, Quentin Walsh, Carl N. The priests who assisted at the ser- WINTER TRAIN SCHEDULE cag« and Northwestern trains will run as follows: Southbound Trains Vff ve McHenry ^ -- - ^1:06 a. m. SurawT" •" .1:20 p.m. Ex Sunday ^|:20 p.m. Sunday only r Northbeond Trains Lv. Chicago Arr. McHenry 8:19 a. m. 10:17 a. m. Ex Sunday 6:20 p. m. Ex Sunday 9:42 a.m. Sunday only , 5:18 p. m. a. m. Try our special Turkey and Duck *»]ate Lunch. 45c, at "The Bi idge," on Route 20, McHenry, 111, Saturday, September 10. .• .. and had reached a very respectable size. >• f Further inforr" tion is th^t about eight times as m. 'y fish will be plac. ed in our Norther n Illinois Raters as we have had in past years. This^will be good news to the thousands of anglers who scan our beauty spots' each year in quest of bigger and better catches. Jerome Josten> „ Bob Sultan - and Steve Wenthe of Chicago were weekend guests in the Ben Justen home near Ringwood. Weber. Concessions--Robert Martin, Chairman; Stanley Schaffer, Willys Schreiner, George Kinsala, Maurice Schreiner, Robert E. Knox. Clarence Carp, Melvin Whiting. LUTHERAN MISSION SERVICE The Lutheran Evangelical Church will conduct a Mission service Sunvices Tuesday evening other than those mentioned above were Rt. Rev. Msgr. J. F. Schmitt and Rev. Clarence Thennes of Aurora, Rev. Daleiden of Spring Grove, Very Rev. Msgr. C. S. Nix, Rev. Paul Tuchlinsky and Rev. William A. O'Rourke of McHenry. Mrs. Fred Kamholz surprised herself and all her neighbors when she diy, October 1. Services will^ be held: recently picked the second crop of at 2:15 p.m. and at 7:30 p.m. raspberries from her garden. Order your Rubber Stamps at The; Look for Walter Freund*s ad. Free Plaiad®aler. t tabe wit^ every tire.. 19 and many prospects for membership.! tended Rosary college for one year i him that he had risen at 5 30 Tuesday Although the attendance was good|and was graduated from Junior Col- j morning. Groth was in the b .rn mMkat this second September session, itjiege Intei mediate Course at the l ing the cows, two cows we e on the was not quite up to par, due to the|Nortbern Illinois State Teachcrs col- (milking machine. * • A fact that several of the members were|lege Before coming to McHenry this i On the way to the barn, Dain in attendance at the national conven- year Bauer taught four years he stopped in the tool shed and loadtion of the American Legion in Chi-|at ^e Lincoln school in McHenry ed the .22 rifle. He then entered the cago, and others on fishing trips up county and then four years at tsejbarn. Groth was getting the cows north. j Hainesville school in Lake county. I out of the pen. Lion Karls had a busy evening be-j ^ .Elmer Saum, whose pieture: Dtin said he was standing fiftee tween acting as chef to prepare the do<fg nQt appe,rt organrzee * group [feet away from Groth when he tvetty fine dinner served and filling his new for a Building Trades course; the .22 into the chest of the victim, office of "tail twister." the latter 5»-|and j,'as occomplished some wonderful;Groth moved forward, calling to nis suiting in a large majority of the; w(j, ^ jn the sbort time since school wife. , . V J W J • fellows being fined for not having thej ed He has had twenty years of Dain then clubbed the dying man Lions buttons on their coat lapels. AtI>racticaI experience at various build .with the gun, holding the bwrti oi, neaat lIi'tltll!e _ sum was collected ffnorr the ' Christmas fund. Lion Mosher responded to an invitation from the chairman of the program committee to point out some of the most interesting things se^n in . Alaska during the recent trip he took to that territory while attending the annual convention of the National Editorial association. The club will begin the last quarter of the year with its meeting to be held on October 10, at which time the membership committee. is expected to report the addition of several new Lions. ing trades. WONDER LAKE WOMAN DROPS DEAD SUNDAY . OF HEART ATTACK timPS in tfee che3t anJ onc* m the wetpon in the clubbing. The gun Jt>roke at the end of the stock. He admits stabbing Gnftth wth his knife, (one of the four found on him after he was taken into .custody), 7 Mr. and Mrs. John Bolger and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Walsh witnessed the White Sox ball game under lights Wednesday evening at Comiskey park. I Mrs. Justiha Parks, 79 ^ar widowr-^who has been living old her He wioed the gun clean and hid the. barrel df the rifle «n the from the rear ««* stock an t summer home on Wonder Lake these; to tKe barn, running through past few months, dropped dead Sun- th<? orchard corn field day, September 24, of acute myocar- j Dajn w motive for his crime ditis. Her only daughter and bus-jother than a '^ate quarrel over farm did band, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Russo, were; also vacationing at the cottage on th« lake. Mrs. Parks was born at Dslton^ 111., and is preceded in ceath by her. the toy and thf husband, John Edward Pa**s. !Week. ' ' Services for the dead were .held j Befc-- - _ ^ , Wednesday morning, September 27, at'pgjn said he thought of killing "T®- • Mr and' Sirs. Ray McGee attended j St. James Catholic church, Chicago. ^ut retired to his room and read > the Legion convention at Chicago on with interment at Mount (»ret ceme- (Continuod on Ian* rtg*> Tuesday. ltery. 11 He said that arguments over tihe manner in which h**, rk.T The latest Bght bevictim was last retiring on Monday night; Jb~ ••'tM V