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Thursday. February 16, 1956 THE: MCHEKRY PLAINDEALER f ' n Johns burg News By Mrs. Setty Community Club Meeting On Monday evening, Feb. 6, the Jfahnsblirg Community club held Ira monthly meeting. President IMke Schafer called the meeting tb order and roll call of officers Wis taken, alter which the business at hand was taken up. Plans, were discussed for the forthcoming Easter Monday dance and for the club banquet ^i^ming up on May 7 for the members and their guests. AJ Pepping was voted on as a new member at this meeting. /Rep. A. B. McConnell of Woodstock was present at this meeting. Mr. McConnell gave short talks on the happenings at the state capitol. The meeting was adjourned and the committee in charge served corned beef and cabbage to all ^(^embers present. (Forester Party Over 150 men Foresters and their guests gathered at the Community club hall for the annual Forester bowling banquei. A delicious roast beef -dinner was served, followed by the presenta^ tion of trophies and prize money. Music was furnished later for an livening of dancing. Our hats off to all the fellows who made such a rousing success of this party. teieorate iioiden Anniversary Our congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. William J. Lloyd of Sunnyside Beach, who celebrated their anniversary/ on Sunday, Feb. 12. % Their daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. '•Orlo Campbell of Elmhurst, and their three daughters, Ann, Nancy and Elizabeth, joined friends from Chicago, Johnsburg and Sunnyside Beach in honor of the occasion with a dinner at Antioch. Heartiest congratulations are extended to this wonderful couple. In Ne\y Homes Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Freund and family moved into their, new home recently on Church street. The Charles Busch family members are among our residents once again. They moved into their newly completed home near the river last week. Happy housekeeping to all. Enters Hospital Greg, 15-month-old son ' of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Schmitt, is scheduled to enter Memorial hospital this week. Greg is to undergo minor surgery. & Number Two Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Klapperich welcomed their second son, born at Memorial hospital on Feb. 11. The little fellow weighed 7 lbs. 13 oz. and will be welcomed home by his 2-year-old brother, Keith. Birthday Club Georgette Miller celebrated her fourteenth birthday with a party for her girl frifends at her home. Present were Sandra and Nancy Whiting, Virginia Meyers, Judy Michels, Janice Huff, Joyce Schafer, Marilyn Fuchs, Joyce and Janice May, Barbara Sprentny, Diane Fugate, Patty Hiller, Kathy Thompson, Ruth Regner, Roselle Stilling, Harriet Daly, Janice Wakitsch and Charlene Freund. Georgette's sister, Nancy Kay, celebrated her tenth birthday With a party later' thie same week. Feb. 4 was the day Kathy Hjc- Guire was hostess to some of her friends, honoring her 'eleventh birthday. Refreshments were Sgryed tQ.^atricia Riley, Patricia Weber, Barbara Smith, Carol S&mpel, Elaine Michels, Nancy Boston, Sandy Hettermann, Kathy Hettermann and Kathy Carmichael of Chicago. Birthday wishes are extended to Keith KJapperich, who celebrates his second birthday this month. Don Rosing celebrated his birthday oh Feb. 15, Carol Ann Dehn will celebrate her sixth birthday on Feb. 2% and Mary Lynn Meyers celebrated last week. Pvt. Thelen is home on furlough, after which he will eon-r tinue his Army training in Texas. The George Lassers of Chicago visited his parents, Mr.' and Mrq. Rudy Lasser, over last weekend. . Mrs. Eleanore Mangold was hostess to a group of ladies at her home last Wednesday evening for a jewelry demonstration. Mrs. Mangold %erved refreshments to the following: Jo Paul, Billy Freund, Marilyn Miller, Ann Zeller, Mary Einspar, Marge Petersen, Marie Kruger, Dolores Meyers, Joan Freund, Florence Speilman, Ann Erbanek, Emily Colomer,. Elain Meyers,N Ann W°* zoba' and Bess. Zosahlik. It's a Boy Mr. and Mrs. Don Rosing of Jak-Aiia Heights welcomed a son last Monday morning, Feb. 13. The little fellow tipped the scales at 8 lbs. 1 oz. and saw the light of day at Memorial hospital. It is the Rosings' first child. Around The Town Mr. and Mrs. Gene King, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hettermann and Pvt. and Mrs. Harry Thelen were guests at the Leroy Meyers home in McHenry last Monday evening. I ft % m X f t A I I K J? • Genuine CHIPPEWA JACKETS Water Repellent $27.50 Value $ Days $21J8 $25.00 Value $ Dap 9.88 $12.50 Value $ Bays $ 9J8° $19.95 Value $ ys $15.88 $ Genuine CHIPPEWA Wool Shirts 100% Virgin Wool $10.95 Value $ $ $ 9.88 $12.95 Value $ in ©.88 $22.50 Value $ Days $17.88 AFfC Game Warden Boots *13.88 Reg. Value $17.95 1 MARK'S 212 So. Green St. Phone 1000 Sporting Goods > Marine Supplies Hobby Shop Mcflenry, 11L 3 DUCK-GEESE SURVEY Approximately 1,343,000' ducks and 191,000 Canada geese were in Illinois in mid-January, according to a report by Glen t>. Palmer, director of conservation. T|ic count, made by field men of the conservation department, the state natural history survey and the U.S. fish and wildlife service, shows 17,000 more geese and 245,000 more ducks than were found during a similar survey a year ago. McHenry County Through The Years by Mftrie Schaettgen Chapter 53 The motto of the Plaindealer in 1875 was this lofty phrase and worthy ideal which we hope still sets the policy of the paper: "Pledge but to the Truth, to Liberty and Law, No Fsivors win us and No Fear Shall Awe." Mr. Van Slyke certainly hitched his wagon to a star! \ In this same issue we find a long article dealing with the death of ex-President Andrew Johnson. This item seems to bring the past much closer to us. To find the names which we now consider as part of history in the newspaper • of our own town makes us realize that time is indeed relative. Disastrous floods occurred in Illinois and Indiana and other midwestern States. Chicago's reputation must have been pretty black even in 1875. One facetious writer decared "196 persons who never swore or Advtrtiianent From wfeere I sit... ty Joe Marsh She Knew It All The Time Chances are, long ago your grandma knew how to keep you from catching cold. Mine did. "Stay out of drafts," she'd warn. "Bundle up. Don't get wet." Then, maybe, when you grew up you found that the old lady's theories were considered old fashioned. Germs were the thing --and the way to avoid a coldwas to avoid infection by somebody who already had one. Now I read where scientists aren't so sure. Germs carry a 1 cold, of course, but they now be* lieve something else "sets it off** -- something like drafts, wet fe^t or going without your muffler. Grandma, take a bow! From where I sit, there's liable to be sound reasoning behind the old customs people believe in. "Early to bed, early to rise," for instance -- or the practice of drinking hot milk or a glass of beer at bedtime. I'm not saying you ought to hold with these beliefs yourself... but you'd better get the facts before giving them the "chilL" &oety(t Copyright, 1956, United States Brewers Foundation dr^jik,' smoked or chewed died in Chicago last "week -- they were all under one year of age." A railroad timetable printed for the convenience of this area shows that service has not changed much in seventy-five years. A passenger train left Geneva Lake at 7:25 a.m., one at 8:31 a.m. and an express at 4:45 p.m. A freight left at 1:35 p.fti. Going north there were trains at 11:17 a.m„ 5:45 pin. and another at 7:10 p-m. Not knowing the exact schedule we cannot say that the service was faster but there were more trains than in 1955^ Real estate values have changed too. A lot in Huntley went for $50, another for $36, but in Johnsburg a changed hands for $1,050. In AjjtK, 1875, the Plaindealer reported that in the east a gas balloon made a successful ascension but when the balloon returned to earth three of the four passengers had died of "altitude asphyxia," which struck them at 8,000 meters. An advertisement promise^ that "$10 to $500 invested in Wall street may bring you a fortune." . ITlie variety store really was just' that. Even a drug store carried paints, oils, brushes, dye* stuffs, medicines and finally, physician's prescriptions. Henry Col* by was the pharmicist. Many cures for opium users were offered through the ad columns. The Western Union Telegraph company had just completed a "vast monopoly, with an unscrupulous scoundrel as the ruling power," by buying the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph company for two million dollars. HOMEOWNERS Do You Need \ V \ ' LI'TA \ NO DARK ROOMS ! 00UILI VENTILATING LOUVRES AT ENDS ! STUR0Y ALUMINUM FRAME! 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