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* , •'*"'s*"1* - '* ~**»« '^KX ^ ' ^ ¥ , . - •t.Vjsrj.vt'a-' »m 'Wfet^T'*».*%;»'. • ^ •»>...-r*^ • • •;«•/ *»**••'«<>> •*«••• • V: " L- d j r ^ - s r w - H T .- ". •• - •" riii&A" ,v v *•'• > Vt • til -> w " *! t\* „ - \ ^ .. . ... " ' '* ' ./ -' /' • _ ' "/• i f , ,, P •• • '. ' ** McHENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1940 No. 41 BOWERS KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT NOTED TACKLE OKLAHOMA FOOTBALL TEAMI NEPHEW OF NICK P.AND FRED JUSTBN . I®-;;- Justin Borers, 22 years old, son of ; Mrs. Marguerite Justen Bowers of Waukegan, formerly of Spring Grove . and McHenry, was killed near Oke- '•**0. mah, Oklahoma, Wednesday, Febru- M&if- »ry 28, when the car in which he was riding plungfed into a culvert and 1$^* overturned. The famous tackle on the University of Oklahoma football team " v? was riding with Fullback Jack Steele • V" > • '^] m .of Lone Wolf. Okla. 20, who was not ... I thought to be seriously injured. The players were returning from A meeting of Oklahoma University AjU umtoi at Muskogee, Okla. > >: *' -J ,,K |?; Studied Engineering * fcXik Bowers, 6 feet 4 inches. weTgtifng over 200 polinds, right tackle for the •'% "Sooners," was a junior in the School i of Petroleum Engineering at Norman? •> % Okla. He was a nephew of- Nick P. £/% ' and Fred Justen of McHenry. Syf'r A graduate of Waukegan High school in 1937, he had won conference honors on the high school football team. He made the freshman team at Oklahoma University three years ago, and in spite of his size, was said to have been the smallest man on the V .'.' ,Cr " MBS. KATHARINE BAUER 1 DIES AT CHICAGO HOMF Mrs. Katharine Bauer, 66 years old, who has had a summer home in Woodlawn Park for the past twenty years, died at her home in Chicago Tuesday evening at 6:30. She had been ailing for the past year bat her death came as a shock to local relatives and friends. Mrs. Bauer, nee Bits, was born in Nudorf. Austria. Her home was at 3411 N. Springfield. She was the beloved wife of the late Joseph Bauer. The surviving children are Ferdinand, Joseph, Margaret and John of Chicago, and George of Flushing, N. Y. Funeral services will be held Friday morning at 9:80 from the funeral home at 3521-23 N. Pnlaski road ,to St: Viator's church. The body will He interred in St. Joseph's cemetery. DOCKET LILY LAKE CASE TO SUPREME COURT DEFENDANTS TO ANSWER BEFORE MARCH 6 CONCERT AT HIGH SCHOOL APRIL 2 LOCAL FOLKS SEE SOUTHLAND AND MEXICO CITY. ATTENDED MARDI GRAS CELEBRATION JUSTIN BOWERS Bowers formerly resided with his brothers, LeRoy and Steve, who operated a drug store in Waukegan. During the summer he worked in the oil fields. Thiti did much much toward --k, toughening muscles and adding foot- ^ .j; ball strength. ... LOUIE E. LeWIS "TO ADDRESS DEMOCRATS AT BfclDGE, TONIGHT * LOUIE E. LEWIS AROUND THE COURT HOUSE ARREST TWO BOYS Delinquency petitions wer Vincent Quinlan and Richard Wood, both 16-year old lads of Woodstock, in the county court Saturday. Hie two boys wer Henry last w»ek j* a aJu„c.vi ci>nU&o>r.ng.ret. " *», * ATTACHMENT SUIT A $860 attachment suit of Dr. F. T. Forrest against E. J. Knox was dismissed Friday in the circuit court. The suit was for medical services. Theodore L. Hamer, attorney for the plaintiff, asked the suit be dismissed. Knox was severely injured in an automobile accident last year in which one person was killed. Advance sale of tickets indicates that approximately 300 people will attend a dinner meeting, sponsored by the Democratic County Central Committee at The Bridge, McHenry, tonight. \ Louie E. Lewis, state treasurer, will be the principal speaker. Other speakers include a former lieutenant-governor, Thomas iF. Donovan, of Joliet, and Rep. Thomas A. Bolger. The dinner is scheduled to start at 6:30. PROBATE THREE ESTATES .* Letters were issued to Attorney IPIoyd E. Eckert, public administrator, in the XI.300 estate of John Arts, who died at Union February 4. No heirs are listed. The $20^90 estate of M. F. Cavin. who died in Hartland township on February lfe was probated Monday. By terms of the will the property isleft to the widow, Ellen, and two daughters, Alice Kiltz and Marie Brady and a son, Raymond. The son is named executor. The sum of $100 is left to St. Joseph's church in Harvard for masses and a similar sum to the same as a contribution for the golden jubilee. The §2,500 estate of James Duffy, who died in Woodstbck, January 3, was probated Monday with lettei*s being issued to Sarah Jones of Woodstock. Other heirs listed include Nellie Kittenger. Niles City, Montana: Mary Duffy, William Heichel and Sarahx Jones, Woodstock; John and Edward Duffy, addresses unknown and Agnea Waldo, Chicago. INTERESTING NEARBY NEWS Col. O. B. Zimmermn, long a resident of LaGrange, scholarship pupil, teacher, mechanical engineer, lieutenant- colonel of the O. R. C., has recently been informed that in June he is to receive the Cyrus Hall McCoripick gold medal for 1940. This makes him one of the few men to possess two of the highest honors it is in the .power of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers to bestow. In 1935 he was made honorary member of the A. S. A E., an occurence whicn happens but rarely in this'famous society. Frank Melahn, for several terms president of the village lioard of East Dundee, died at his home in that village at 3:30 Monday morning, February 19, following two years' illness. Sunday's horse races at Long Lake attracted a crowd estimated at between 2,000 and 2,500, and the spectators were treated to some thrilling events. The challenge race between Judge Oscar F. Nelson's pacer, "Hollyrood," driven by "Peg" Behning. and L. L. Mullins' ','Bob Axthworthy," crave the fan* a real treat. The first heat was so close that many of the spectators believed that it. was a tie, but the iudges gave the race to Behning by the narrow margin of a foot. Mullins won the next heat, his colt nosine out Hollyfood at the finish line, but "Peg" took the last heat, driving the quarter-mile course in thirty-three seconds, which was just fast enough to beat the LL Ranch entry. McHenry avenue in Crystal Lake, from the end of the t>resent navement south to the citv limits will be improved by a black top bituminous pavement by June 1. it was stated at a me#>tinflr of the Crystal Lake city council Tuesday nieht. Febniary 20. l (Approximately $150 in damages were caused when fire broke Out in the bedroom at the home of Mr. and WORONUK CASS Mrs. Letter Gibson, 404 F. Hillside John Woronuk who was brought to, avenue, Barrinsrton, at 5 o'clock Sun- Woodstock several weeks ago by Dep- j dav morninsr. February 18. The fire uty Sheriff Harold E. Reese on a is believed to have been started bv a FARM DAY PROGRAM AT ANTIOCH, MARCH 6 -V . ' March 6, a Farmers' Day program is to be held in the gymnasium of Antioch Township High school. The program will be held in the afternoon and evening, under auspices of Lake County Farm Bureau and Antioch High School Vocational Agricultural Department. % Professor J. C. Hackehnan of the University of Jllinois will sp^ak on "What's New in JTybrid Corn Productions" at 2 o'clock on the afternoon program. However, farmers are urged to come early and view the educational and commercial exhibits on display. There will be farm implement*, hybrid com. fertilizer, feed, and soil testing exhibits to study. In the evening, a band concert by the Artinch Hi>h School Band wiil proceed the motion picture and sneaking program. Movies on Hybrid Cofr will Se shown and Professor Hackelman will speak on a subject of great interest to the dairymen, "Pasture Development and Improvement." Anytime before 2 o'clock a peck of shelled com may be entered. This will be judged by market^ standards and ten prices awarded to tne ten best* displays. Farmers are urged to enter in this contest. charge of violation of his parole from the circuit court last summer was ar- Walter Mutz of New Orleans, arrested for smashing sixteen store win- Hows worth $600, explained that "he just wanted to hear them jingle." defective bed light ccd. Mrs. Gibson was awakened by the heat to find raigned on an indictment charging! the under part of the mattress in burglary and larceny Saturday. He flames. pleaded not guilty and his case was | An attack by three savage dogs on, continued so as to allow him to talk his brood sows durinr broad daylight | A with his attorney, Hugh A. Deneen. I was reported last Friday noon. Febru- Wbronuk is charged with breaking ary 16. by L. C. (Ren) Tanner, farminto a cottage owned by Carl Robson j er in the County Line area, southwest in Seneca township on May 2, 1939.; of Harvard. Attracted by the com- He was also indicted for burglary and . motion, Mr. Tanner secured a whip larceny in connection with breaking, a^d managed to drive the dogs, desinto the Young filling station at the | crib^d as "police type," from the junctions of Route 47 and 14. In this i premises only after one sow had been case the state waived the felony and j injured very bady and a second had made the charge pety larceny. A peti-1 be°n hurt less seriously. Hon for probation was filed by V. S. | E. S. Smith, of Harvard, retired Lumley in behalf of Woronuk and he i business*man and farm owner, reached was placed on probation list June. He j the 81st anniversary of his life on left the state shortly after and this: Thursday, February 22. Asked by a constituted breaking of his probation.1 Harvard Herald reported what he He is charged in the indictment nowrwould do if he were starting life ever in question with taking two sets of j again, he said: "I would engage in •*«Tf clubs, rifle, surveyor's bevel and i farming because I believe it offers as ^cVne t*rkle I go<">d an bpnortunitv as any line of Sheriff Lester Bdmg»r has warmrfts j endeavor with which I am familiar. frnwj Indiana and Kentucky for Wor- Of con^e I h<*ve no Information along *»nuk on charges of . passing bad "rofessional lines, bu* in other fields I b»ve had exnpn?nce." Dr. Sidney Wilgus, 68. (of Rockford, widely-kn^wn psychiatrist and former of Illinois state >"»«;pitals, di*>d Fridav in hi« ®le«*n. We w»s chief examiner for th* New York Board of Alienists from 1904 to 1910 when he was named superintendent of the Illinois State hospital at Elgin. In 1911 he was named head of the Kankakee State hospital, serving in that capacity for two years. For. more than twenty years be had operated the Wilgus sanitarium at Rockford. South of the border! Mrs. Fred Eppel has graciously presented The Plaindealer with a story of her trip to Mexico and southern United Statesr Mr. and Mrs. Eppel were accompanied by Mrs. Zeleska Hoppi and son, Ar thur, of McHenry and Mrs. Hantel and daughter, Zeleska, of Chicago The party started out Saturday evening, February 3, spending the night in Chicago, and traveling downstate to Vandalia for lunch. Here they learned that the prison, covering 1,400 acres, houses 1,200 inmates. At Cairo, 111., they were impressed by the beauty of the well-kept state cemetery. They were surprised to find dikes all along the Ohio river bank, i Crossing the toll bridge over the Mississippi river, they continued the journey into Missouri, first nicrht at Sikeston. Monde v morning they drove back across the five mile bridge spanning the Mississippi to Memphis, Tenn. Through the state of Mississippi the road lead close to the muddy river. At Vicksburg, the National Cemetery was a most beautiful sight. Here they saw the central monument which is engraved with the names of hundreds of soldiers. Spending the night at Natchez* Miss., they sped on to Baton Rouge, La., the next morning. This being the capital of the state, they naturally wished to see the building which makes it so. ^ Tonr State Capitol The capltol, built by the late Huey Long, is an immense, up-to-date structure. Mr. Long's grave is in front of the building. Our sightseers rode the elevator to the top of the 450 ft. tower. Palm trees and wellkept grounds surround the building. The frost, which thev found even across the Mexican border, had frozen some of the trees. Again crossing the Mississippi, this time on the S3.000.000 bridee which Huey Long was instrumental in building, they arrived in time to witness th?v gaiety and snlenHor of the last afternoon of the Marrli Gras celebration in New Orleans. They saw several of the elaborate floats for which the people plan all year lon«e. It is said that the day thf Mardi Gras is over for one year, the various concerns start planning for the carnival of the following year It seems that the king of the carnival is chosen on rather a money basis, for h»> must "nv $t 000 for the ereat privileee. The king is not chosen until almost the last day. His Attendants must also pay quite a sum The Lily Lake case made the headlines again last Friday. Appearing before Judge William L. Pierce, Attorney Paul J. Lietzel, in representing the newly organized village of Lily Lake, asked leave of the court to have certain orders in the case properly authenticated as exhibits in the susme court where the case now stands. The petition was granted. The case concerned a quo warranto asking that the president of the village board, Harry H. Wise, and other village officers show by what authority they held office. After a lengthy hearing before Judge William L. Pierce the petition for quo warranto was ^denied last summer. The other officers included were Ben Chelini, Joseph Spatafora, Frank Harder, George Vollmer, Louise Gannon, Harry Jacobs, Jerome Boyko and Irving S. Roth. !s Folowing the ruling of the court Attorneys V. J. Knox and C. Russell Allen appealed the case to the supreme court. The case was docketed in the supreme court on February 15 and the defendants in tfie case were given twenty days to answer. They have until March 6. Orders Into Exhibits It was for this reason Attorney Lietzel Friday appeared before Judge Pierce and asked leave to have certain orders, entered in the county court where the case was first started, be made official exhibits. Amoner the orders asked to be made exhibits include the following: 1. Petition for organisation of the territory as a village. 2. Order setting date of election to determine whether the community would organize or not. 3. Canvass of the vote of the above The Philharmonic Orchestra of Waukegan, of which Richard Stenger is president and also a violinist, will present a spring concert in the Mc Henry Community High school on Tuesday evening, April 2. This concert is to be sponsored by the Mothers' club and it is hoped tiiat all music lovers in McHenry wilLbe ableeto.j^ . Laughing and singing, falling off and scurrying back on again, eighteen girls of the Stenography II class, chaperoned by Miss Snyder, enjoyed an old-fashioned sleigh ride last Monday night. Coming into town, they serenaded the teachers, most of the town benefitted as well. After satisfying their hunger at the Nook, they called it a well-spent evening, we{ feet and all. HIGH SCHOOL MUSICIANS TO PLAY MARCH 14 COMPETE AT GLEN ELLYN SATURDAY BIG PHA MEET AT AUDITORIUM ON MARCH IS 4. Order declaring territory organ- 5. - Order setting the d*te for election of village officials. 6. Order to canvass the vote of the election for village officials. The ca«e in nuestion has created Conoerto. One of the ma of the high school curricular activities will be the concert presented by the instrumental departments of the Community High school. On March 9, the Saturday before the concert is given, the soloists and ensembles will go to Glen Ellyn to compete against other talented musicians of Boone, DeKalb, Kane Du- Page, and McHenry counties. The ensemble which will go are: the String Quartet, consisting of Paul Schadle, violin; Roman Schmitt, violin; Gordon Scholle, violin; Warren Jones, cello. They will play "Old Monterey" by Zamecnik. The Brass Quartet, consisting of Robert Weideman, cornet; George Freund, cornet; Martin Baum, baritone, and Gordon Schole, trombone. (They will play "One Fleeting Hour" by Dorothy Lee. Also the following soloists will go: Gordon Scholle, violin, "1st Air Varce" by Dancla; Martin Baum, baritone, '^Beautiful Colorado," and Warren Jones, cello. "Andante" from A Minor OUTSTANDING SPEAKERS \ ON PROGRAM r Presdent Gerhard H. Ekhoff wiD call the fifteenth annual meeting at -' '• >' •' the Pure Milk association to order sit 9 o'clock Tuesday morning, March 18; in Chicago.' This promises to be ooe of the most outstanding meetings ever " held in the history of the association. The future of the milk marketing" order, trucking, PMA's plant program and advertising program will be among the extremely important subjects to bfc discussed on that day. The president, Gerhard H. Ekhoff, General Manager Arthur H. Lauterbach, • Treasurer E. T. Houghtby, Comptrol- 5 ler R. P. Alexander and Secretary Charles M. Cosgrove will give their individual annual reports. •> speaker of the day ach, secre considerable interest in the Lily Lake community. It. resulted in the state legislature on July 12, 1939. passing a special validating act to help make the organization of the village legal. It also resulted in a contempt of court proceeding before Judge H. L. Cowlin in which the LUv Lake village attorney, Irving S. Roth, was found guilty and sentenced to serve thirty days in iail. This sentence has not been served to the case being in the process of being appealed. Observing Peacefulness The quo warranto proceedings was started bv the late Louis Schroeder as plaintiff. Following his death the name of Fred Dosch was substituted. The plaintiffs in this case charge that the petition setting up that there were some 300 residents in the community was illegal and there was illegal voting in both elections. Peace and quiet has been noted in the village for several months. Last July 4 a near riot broke out between opposing factions of the community with the result that a call was sent for help from the sheriff's office. The village has rtveived its charter from the state. Officials have been elected, ordinances passed and in general the village is operating as a legal village although a case involving the legality of its organization as a village is pending in the high court of the state. Also Compete March M B. F. BEACH I4 8. F. Beach, secretary-manager of the Michigan Milk Producers' association with headquarters at Detroit. F«p many years Mr. Beach has guided the ' i Michigan Milk Producers' association and his outstanding work as a co-op"* . erative leader is recognized through* • ; out the United States. Detroit maf-| ket problems are similar to those W.'-' the Chicago market, and all PMA.. members will find Mr. Beach has • On March 30, the bwd and orcliea- worthwhile story 0f how Michig^ tr•aa wwiillll ggoo ttoo GGlleenn EEllllyynn ttoo ccoommppeettee da^yme'n ^m^ n'rnst u'DrpiivlmulsitVs npllaannft against others of the above counties. • ' The band will play the "Traveller Overture" by Buchtel, "Robin Hood Fantasy" by Brocton, and "Show Boy." March (as a practice number) ch«"*ks Woronuk will probably be tried when Judge Pierce returns to Woodstock March 2. --: T"r-- " • Buv vour Babv Chicks *t the Fartn- M"l. the -Home 0? Good Chicks. Phone 29. 38-tf-fp * Mrs. Emilie E. Hand sued for a divorce in Boston, charering that her husband had gone to Chicago because be was annoyed IjjV the "Harvard accent" of Bostoniana * Although the temperature was nuite comfortable, this was said to have been the coldest Mardi Gras weather in fifty years. On their wav again, they passed RECEIVE LETTERS FROM&t OLD TIME RESIDENTS Word eame recently to Mr. and Mrs. Linus Newman from Mrs. May Poile, a former resident at McHenry. who now resides in Haines City, Fla. Writing about the four weeks of cold numerous erasoline storage tanks own- weather in the South, she says ed by the Standard Oil company. They Some lost all their fruit. also went by the Celotex manufacturing plant and were surprised to learn that the product w»s composed ma'nlv of sugar cane. The latter is necked ii^ bales which look much like strtw Territorial Oddities - They Crossed another Huey Lotig bridT* and fittinclv called the territory th» "Land of Bridges." Because there i« w»ter «o close to thp surface »>f the e«r+h. all the graves are placed on too o* the c^und Thev *>lcr» noted Our grapefruit seems to be O. K.. but the oranges are all dropping off of the trees. All of the shrubs and flowers are frozen; leaves are blowing everywhere and everything is brown. It is terrible. All those who depended on the fruit crop for their living, lost everything they had.". The Newmans also received a letter from Mr. and Mrs. Colby at Burlingame, Calif., also former residents. They congratulated the Newmans on thoir fiftieth wedding ^anniversary. the food condition of th* schools and £°lbyS W,U b»ve ***" marr'ed ^ur-hes - or.rtre«t to the lowlv fifty-four years this Orotber Mr. cWks -habited -by negroes and ^ C^v are ^ithful^ub^c^hwlntes alike Iers Plaindealer and stated that Thev viewed the nietnresaue south-1 ^ey enjoy ihe paper yerv much as it om plantations, with thp?r huge col- ^ the .on,y. wav thev learn of the ~,iol surrounded by vast .haPpen,n"s ,n the,r old home t<"Tn- '"wm and large trees covered Withf _ ... » ,, , hanging1 moss. 1 ^a«re of Maple Hill. Kansas. Leaving Louisiana, the party snent * ^ at " the nieht at Houston. Texas, where °°ked e«ch 7en,n* a> ei/ht 0 c,<x* they had a deliehtful visit with Mrs. ^ p:event water raids by farmers and Marv Rwitzer who is now visiting her "tocKsmen. Hwivrhter. Mrs. Lisle (Bassett, in West McHenry. (Continued on last page.) An ordinance of Dayton, Ohio, fbrbids the feeding of a cow or hog on any of the sidewalks within the city. trucking problems. Ladies of the Pure Milk association will as usual hold their annual lunch>. eon in the gold room of the Congre#§ , „ _ ^ hotel, and all ladies desiring to ai»* . u 6 orihes v tra W / ,H plfty the tend should secure tickets from their Balletto' from Orpheus (as a .prac- district directt)r( local president « bee number) by Gluck "Roman,an secreUry Luncheon tickets ar« sixty. Fantasy ' by Velska, and the "Gypsy, fiye cen£ ^ % Overture by Isaac. , Raymond Sayre, president df The purpose of these groups enter- the American Country Life assocfc in? the contest i^ma.nly for exper- ati ^.president of the Associated , lence. However, they will play their Women of the American Farm Bureau various numbers at their full concert, Federation> and state chairman of U» March 14 ajpng with the rest of their WonWs committee, of the Iowa Far* fine selections. [ Bureau F~dcration will talk at tlw^ Further details about the full fcon- women-s i,n,,heon. Her topic will # cert will be in the next issue of The Plaindealer. . , Earl Pomrening, Pub. l*«r, : MEDICAL PROFESSOR GUEST SPEAKER AT MEETING OF LIONS lTn To Our Problems." A very interesting talk was given by Dr. Edward G. Tatge, professor in the School of Medicine at Northwestern University, before the Mc- Henrv Lions club, at its regular semimonthly meeting, held at Karls' Cafe Tuesday evening. Dr. Tatge is secretary of the Evanston branch of the Chicago Medical So- : ^iety. His talk was on "Socialized Medicine." He seemed to be well posted on the matter. First, going back to the early years of medicine, he •?ave a history of events in that pro-] oft V'}** AlltS. RAYMOND SAYRIJ fession and led up to the subject Noted Wcman to Lecture state medicine and health insurance. 1 the message of Mrs. Sayre should The doctor is very much opposed to be of extreme importance to all ladiea the act which is before congress at! of the Pure Milk association. She i* the present time and, should it pass j a farmer's wife, live at Ackworth, and become a law, he stated, we will Iowa, and has b?en active in farm afbe burdened with a still larger fed- fairs for many years, starting at the eral debt and, according to his opin- (bottom when the Farm Bureau was" ion, the people of the poorer classes | first organized in her county, working will not receive the medical care that, up through positions of township they now get under the present sys- chairman, county chairman, and now tem. 'in her fourth year as state chairman. Dr. Tatge told his auditors that the of the woman's committee of the I own idea of socialized medicine as repre- J Farm Bureau Federation. Her talk sented in the present bill introduced will not be just theory, for she lives in congress, is promoted by people | on a 600-acre livestock farm thirty-^ who are closely allied with Moscow, five miles southeast of Des Monies an£$' and warned of the results which would • is the mbther of four children. Iil~ follow its passage. Once the bill is 1930 the magazine "Fanner's Wife* passed and put into force as a la"\ recognized her as a master farm he said,, it wil! be impossible to eet it homemaker. off the hooks, and he advised writing) The ladies luncheon, as previously to senators and representatives before j announced, will be held in the gold it is too late. ' ! room of the Congress hotel, which c?>h The dcotor said he had been a med- be reached from the Auditorium withical practitioner in 'Evfenston for the out going outdoors--a definite advanpast fifteen years and that tfiere are; tage in case of bad weather. very few physicians who are not will- i Among the highlights of the annual ing to render gratuitous services t* ' meeting will be a report by Carl P. the poor and needy who are unable , Deysenroth. executive secretary of the to pay. . It was decided by the Lions a't the meeting to again entertain the patrol boys at a dinner the last meeting in March. r ^ *P, Milk Foundation, Inc. In auuitio very fine entertainment has been a-* rantred for at the Auditorium theat~« and at the ladies luncheon in the ^o"4 room of the Congress hotel. • v . • * '