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Fourieeir >'•' , ': • r ..; c.;f- THE McHENRY PLAJNDEALEH ' •% -_ "*:W •.. l:-'.'^ V ^Zvsit* ft tzw^^ Ipggppsp * /•• By Phyllis C&rlssn . Yuletide Vacations Christmas is the time when most everyone who has a home WaAtS to be there for Christmas. Thaf^s why we. have, seen so many familiar "faces in town these past few days. Many of our residents are speeding Christmas elsewhere. Bunny Frick and her husband left last Friday for Mariop, 111., to spend Christmas with Bunny's parents. , 'Mr. and Mrs. Morganson, teachers in Richmond, spent Christmas in Kalamazoo, Mich., with Mrs. Morgan son's folks. Tliey will be back for basketball practice "this week though. Mr. and Mrs. Duane Sheldon and Karen spent Christmas in Delavan and ElHhorn, Wis., with the Sheldons' families. Miss Ingiald spent <jhristmas with her brother and his family in Genoa City., She is in Chicago this Week visiting her sister. * fThe Harold Carlsons went to Chicago Christmas afternoon for a couple of days. Miss Edna Speaker came home from Hammond, Ind., last week for the holidays. Last Thursday the children at St. Joseph's school started their Christmas vacation. They had a Christmas party on the last day of school. \ We are gla<K-tO/-report that Mrs. Cora Stewart has been out a little. She was able to go to church a week ago Sunday for the first time since she fell. The young people of the Community church carolled for her after the Vesper Service and she surely appreciated it. The children of the Sunday School and the people who attended the Christmas program at Grace church brought many gifts for the children at Nachusa children's home. The Tuesday before Christmas the Carlsons took the gifts to Nachusa. If you think Christmas is exciting At your house with a couple of kid3, think what it must be in a children's home with forty-five kids all excited. going to let him forget it. The Milk Pail fund is, a separate fund and anyorye is welcome to donate toward 4t] It is set aside for worthy causes in Richmond- Burton townships. The fund is used for the destitute and crippled children. 1 "Our Rotarians know we had a good time because our Christmas baskets were filled with a lot of goodies, (the stag party) Freddie Schroeder said, ""Gee, fellows, it was really too much that you put into my bag, but I expected more." That's Freddie for you. Frank May, Jo Justen"and Bud Wendt had a similar experience. Santa was presented at the .town hall Wednesday night. All the kiddies left with a smile and a full Christmas bag thanks to all the businessmen in Richmond, to Frank Gargaro for music, to JBud Wendt for his service as song leader, and, incidentally, to Mrs. Santa for letting Santa comfi to Richmond. It surely is wonderful to have such a wiQjierative bunch of good fellows in ouf* town. The "service above self' should roll on 365 days of the year. Let's thank the committees who worked together 100 per cent to make our Christmas doings a success. Thank you, Carl Grant and your partners. - Our sergeant-at-arms, Harry Andersdn, checked in at .Memorial hospital at Woodstock for a thorough check up. He hadn't been feeling well for the last few days. We all hope he will be okay real soon. Men Standings W L Villaige Inn 27 15 Standard Oil 22 20 Millers Corners 22 20 Hildebrandt's 21 21 Anderson's 17 25 SprLng Grove 17 25 the second round, who- will be determined. early in the sprang. However, there is going to be quite a race tonight to see who can come up with second place. Three teams are so close that any one of the three can wind up -in the- runner-up spot." <• Rotary The Richmond stag/ party has always been a great success fiance the birth of Rotary in Richmond. The trim spirit of friendship and offchristmas was truly felt at our laaj meeting, Dec. 20. ^ Claud Gordon has a date with the Milk Pail fund and we aren't RICHMOND-BURTON >PORT! By Dar Ehorn Village Inn Cinches First Place The Village Inn, by winning three straight from Anderson's ^Jandy shop, cinched first place for the first half of the season even though there is another week to go. The Village leads by five full games over the two next teams so there just isn't a chance of Standard Oil or Miller's Corners catching up with one week to go. It was a nrght for three-game winners. The Village, Miller's and Hildebrandt's were three straight over Andersons, Spring C^rove and Standard Oil respectively^ Village Inn will now meet the winner of Ladies League The standings in the Ladies League hasn't Changed for seven weeks now. Vo team can se<?ni to get real luckyglknd put on a big winning streakto take over the lead from Twin Lakes Recreation. Borre's is just two games off the pace and Dicklin's just five games Off the lead so there is still lots of time for changes and it could happen. But the bowlers on Twin Lakes are shooting such good scores we doubt if anybody, will catch them. The women's league does not play a .split season, so there will be many games bawled before spring gets here. A change is possible. , Ladies Standings W L Twin Lakes 27 18 Borre's 25 20 Dicklin's 22 23 Wilmot 16 20 Zephyrs Whip Woodstock The Richmond Zephyrs ran their ; winning streak to five straight by I beating the Woodstock Otters last ' Tuesday night by the score of 78- 157. Dave Nichols had one of his [ best nights of the season when he j dropped in twenty-seven points on eleven field goaJs and five free throws. Jimmy Judson had 19 for j*unner-up spot. For Woodstock Shfrt5tT>opped his team with 19 points. Zephyrs B F P Heelien . 3 0 4 Tibbits 4 5 2 4 Judson 8 3 1 D. Nichols 11 5 4 Busch 3 0 4 H. Miller 0 0 2 D. Tilton 3 2 2 Totals 33 12 21 Woodstock Boyce Lribert Shook Wierike Gustafson Smith Totals Quarters: Richmond*. Woodstock % 1 4• u i i 9 3 3 0 20 17 15 1 1 4 9 0 3 5 18 18 23 19--78 -15 10 22 10--57 A JQY( GREETING NEW YEAR Rt©M TTHB Old Bridge T PON and KELLY Stor welcome obundance^>f fortune, naoomess «< 6 X RIVERSIDVBAKE SHOP Drive \ McHenry, 111. Zephyrs Get Revenge On Cary 100-71 ' y Last Thursday night at Richmond the Richmond Zephyrs beat Cary 100-71 and got revenge of a loss earlier in the season at Cary by four points. Jimmy Judson had' a real good night when he scored thirteen field goals and nine free throws for thirty-five points. Big Ron May, who is improving with every game, had a good scoring night when he got sixteen points and easily as many rebounds. All eight players figured in the scoring for the Zephyrs and every Cary player also, figured in the scoring, With Ballintine coining- 27. He is a former Crystal Lake high Cager. Zephyrs B F P Katzenberg 5 2 4 Tibbits 7 0 3 Judson 13 9 4 May 7 2 4 Nicholas 2 1 5 Tilton 2 2 1 Rudolph 5 0 4 Totals 42 16 28. Cary ' - B F P Flieder 110 Ballantine 10 9 2 Feffer, E. » 4 .0 4 Piper 2 4 2 Feffer, Don 4 2 5 Feffer, J. 5 3 4 Totals 26 19 17 Quarters: Zephyrs 20 30 19 31--100 Cary 15 25 19 12-- 71 SEEKS RE ELECTION Secretary of State Charles P. Carpentier has| announced his candidacy for renomination and re-election as Secretary of State in the April 10, 1956, primary and the Nov. 6 general election. Mr. Carpentier-made his formal announcement at the annual Christmas party for employees of his office in the state ^rmory at Springfield. v0 .4 4° ° e\*e <> * McHENRY FLORAL CO. PHONE 404 STORE and GREEN HOUSES 1 Mile South of McHenry on Route SI 195 •A' olql year maket its final exit im are happy to welcome 1Q56 with tha hop« that it bring to all our friends a full measure of good health anJ prosperity. McHENRY SH@KES Miller-Engvalson Co?p. Copies Of Rare Lincoln Photograph To Be Given Each County In State Copies of a rare photograph of Abraham Lincoln, the one he used in his campaign, for the presidency in i860, were given to each county in the state by Secretary of State a Charles F. Carpentier? The presentations were made at regular meetings of the county boards. The Lincoln photographs have been hung in the courthouses. This particular photo of Lincoln has an amazing history of narrow escapes from oblivion,' Secretary Gdrpfntier. said. Until only three years ago, experts believed that it was impossible to produce a good print, because the glass negatives, how under close guard at the Smithsonian^ Institute, were cracked,and broken. , But in thd fall of 1952, King V. Hostick, Springfield collector of historical documents, found a' duplicate "set of negatives in an assortment a of effects he bought from . the estate of George JB. Ayres in Philadelphia. - The story goes back to Alexander Heeler, a Chicago professional photographer, who botched a job of taking Lincoln's picture in 1857, and who"'was' asked to do another one after Lincoln received the Republican nomination for the presidency in I860. Hesler took the second picture on a Sunday, JUne 3, 1860, and it is believed he posed Mr. Lincoln in what was then "the State Capitol building, now the Sangamon county courthouse. •• Lincoln is commoffly quoted as havirig- isaid, when proofs were shown to him, "Well, that expresses me better than any I have ever seen." In those' day§, photographers - used wet, glass plates, ahd it was common practice for them to reclaim the glass by dipping it in an acid bath to remove the collodion which carried the picture. Somehow, the Lincoln picture escapedthat fate. In 1866, about a year after Lincoln was assassinated, Hesler's studio passed into t*he hand of Ayres. The full impact of the lliirsaay; iic^ember 2S,iSa5 Emancipator's greatness had not 7> dawned on the peppte, but Ayrea^ decided-£o keep (he negatives as i ' mementos. A year later he-sold( the studio and moved to the E^sfc-f taking, the negatives with him.'i Five weeks later, the studio.- was burned v out. • Ayres left the negatives to tt£o, daughters,v ahd in 1932, a Phi^a-;: dejphia attorney accepted than* • in lieu of a fee anc! a debt ofi $500 on the estate of one of the: daughters. When the attorney at-, tempted to send them by mail to St; Louis,, the negatives were ^ broken and were turned over to^ the Smithsonian Institute. % |ou could look the whole world over, and still not find wishes as hearty and sincere as our good wishes for you in the coming year. 1 BILL'S OUTBOAItB) M@f@iS Authorized Dealer for JOHNSON SEA-HORSE SALES & SERVICE -- BOATS 1041/2 Riverside Dr. 7 Phone McHenry 1076 / nt ....n J • % >WNNfc We hope the arrival of the New Year will herald a period of peace, prosperity and enduring happiness for everybody. A Happy New Year to all! CLARK CHEVROLET Sales & Service .Phone 277 McHenry, m. k' ' Highest Octane Performance -A %-M-O-O-T-h, S-^M-G-O-T-M P-O-W^R ... instant response ... that's' top performance?! yaol "Flying A" Ethyl Gasoline and Veedol 10-30 Motor Oil are top performers too ... noe matter how cold the weather! 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