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w': ; -^.. ""..l IP1 •.' •' Page Tw®l»tf ^•••;; -- • • -tlflii{ 'r.tl-il. 1 -I I n«i»... . I.- I -- THE McHENRY "PIiXINDEALjER '"^:!^"A>v:\--1.•••'•'.- - s t<«a MMMVttttAi Thursday, AprU Si 1956 Richmond Communit y News By Fhyllis Carlson - (We are* grateful to Darwin Ehorri for his excellent coverage of Rlchftiond sports.) Rotary Club Reporter Wifh all the preparation for Easter, we feel a little let-down now that it is over. It's worth all the fuss and bother/though, cton't you agree? It giv£s me £UCh a lift to be a small part of the Easter sunrise service, to see the cross unveiled and join in the beautiful Easter hymns and t*i happy. The Easier rabbit did lib share to mal:\? the day bright aihd gay too, and don't you think tfec weatherman was most cooperative? Church News The churches wore all busy places last week with Holy Week and Easter services. In fact, perhaps that is why news' 'S so scarce this week -- Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and twice on Sunday we spent in church. , ^Monday night the church ooundft met at the Lutheran parsonage. Tuesday evening the Women's guild met at Grace church. Mrs. D. Sheldon gave a book review. Sunday evening the Senior Youth Fellowship group will meet at Grace church. Sunday. He w&s a retired furniture company inspector who | moved here from Chicago. Born j Aug. 7, 1886, he was the son of i P e t e r a n d M i n n i e S c h w a r z o f ' Dubuque. He leaves his wife, Mary, a daughter, Mario Hern, of Richmond and a son, Eldon, of Mokena, 111.; also five grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. Amelia- Link and Mrs: Fred Utzig, and two brothers. Ernest and Frank, all pf Dubuque, Iowa LEGAL ELECTION NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of an order of the County Court of McHenry County entered on the 26th day of March, 1956, on the petition filed in said court a special election will < be held on Saturday, April 28tK\ 1§56, between the hours of seveh-Tto'cIock A.M. and six o'clock P.M. of that day within Here and Tbere Mrs. Olga Madden attended the funeral of an old friend near EIroy, Wis., on Easter Monday. Pastor Carlson had the funeral service for Mrs. Kline, a Wonder Lake resident, in Moline, 111., a week ago Tuesday. The Erling Westgards were visitors in Richmond on Easter Sunday. They have moved back into the county again after having lived in DeKalb and in Fort Wayne, Ind. They live in Crystal Lake now. Edna Speaker was home from Hammond, Ind., for the Easter holidays. Linda and Kevin Schultz and Jimmy Schroeder are among those kids with chicken pox. Ruth Carlson spent a couple of days with her cousin, ^Kathy James, in DeKalb this week. She attended Kathy's birthday party. Do you like to travel? Come to Grace church Sunday evening. April 15, and see the pictures Dr. and Mrs. Weng took on their trip to Europe. Dr. Weng is the president of the Chicago Lutheran seminary in Maywood and is a most interesting speaker. He and Mrs. Weng showed their pictures at Wonder Lake last icionth. ^ "Don't forget to vote in the * primaries Tuesday. School board elections will be held next week. Watch for more news in the next issue of the paper. Sorry we missed Pete Adams' Mrthday last week. He was 77 years old March 22. Belated congratulations, Pete. The J. Wallace Kruses spent Easter weekend in St. Louis, Mo. Edith Buchert was sick for several days last week. Did you ever think of what a fat, little bunny- that Easter Rabbit must be if he eats all the lettuce and carrots that the kids in town put out for him on Easter Eve? The poor little thing probably can't even manage the Bunny Hop. Mr. Schwarz was a member of |the limits of the territory de- St. Joseph's parish. Father J. jscribed as follows: Kaiser of St. Joseph's offered The west half of the southwest mass for Mr. Schwarz. He was quarter of the southeast quarter buried in St. Josepn's cemetery. Section 18. Township 45»North, j Range 8 East of the Third Prin- Rotarv Dinner jCipal Meridian; also the southeast _ _ „ " , , . , iquarter of the southeast quarter The Rotunans ontMtami 1 the ,of Sec„on ]3 Township 45 North, members of the tootball and (he ; East basketbaU teams at a turkey din-. Merldi also the entire ner Tuesday. March 27. They had Si'ib(j.vis.on Wooded an excellent speaker in 1 coach on of Farm ag who is now at Northwestern unl- pia, reCorded in the office of versity. The fathers of the plaj- jRccordcl. of Deeds for McH(!nry ers were also mvued to the din- Goun(yi Imnols on March 2| ner' i 1935, in Book 8 of Plats, on page I ^ being a part of the Southjwest quarter of Section 18, Township 45 North, Range 8 East of the Third Principal Meridian, together with the five foot strips of land along the outer side of the REVIEWING EARLY HAPPENINGS IN McHENRY and VICINAGE Plaindealer Files Furnish Memories of Yesteryear? .j, j. .I, I , , ; , , } 4"!' 'I"!' RICHMOND-BURTON By Oar Ehorn Bowling Women Borre's Twin Lakes Ed Dicklin's Wilmot Marion Winn, 173; Joyce Kiska, 170-199-160- 529; Lorraine Rudolph, 164; Ev Gall, 447. Won Lost 46 38 44 v2 39 V* 42 42 35% 48',2 194-447; Eva, Men Hildebrandt's Miller's Standard Oil Anderson's Spring Grove Village Inn Won 21 20% 20 19'4 19 8 Lost 15 15 Ys 16 boundaries of said subdivision as shown on the plat of said sub- | division, said strips being along iand adjacent to the section line ion the south and the section line |on the west, ?nd along and adjacent to the quarter section line, on the north and along the east line of Block 5 of said Subdivision; all in the County of McHenry and State of Illinois. for the purpose of submitting to the legal voters residing within the limits of the territory described, the question of whether the above described territory 16l.£ : shall be organized as a Village 17 28 W. Fa|>er, 200-541; Joe Anderlick, 204; C. Miller, 204-565; Stev^f Mikolis, 244; Phil Borre, 530. under the General Law of this State to be known as the Village of Wooded Shores. It has been further ordered by said court that the legal voters of jsaid described territory shall deposit their ballots at the polling Rocket Baseball I place to be held at the garage Coach Ned Morgensen called1 building of Horace Wagner, his first practice last week. HENRY L. COWLIN, About twenty-five turned out fori Judge of County Court the first session. The practice j 0f McHenry County, Illinois Mr. Schwarz Dies Edward A. Schwarz, 69-yearold resident of the May subdivision in Richmond, died Easter was used mainly for shagging flys and wind sprints. The. Rockets open the season soon. Sport« Banquet At the regular meeting of the Richmond Rotary club on Tuesday night, March 27, a banquet was held in honor of the high school football and basketball teams. All of the team members, their fathers and members of the faculty were guests of the Rotary club and a home-style turkey dinner- was served by the Order of the Eastern Star. A total of eighty-five were present. Guest speaker was Stu Holeomb, who was head football coach at Purdue university for seven years and who is presently athletic director at Northwestern university. Holcomb gave an excellent talk about football and j basketball and his experiences in j the field of college athletics. Following his talk, the speaker held a question and answer period and the audience, students and adults alike, made good use 1 of the session. JOSEPH X. WAYNNE, Attorney for Petitioners McHenry, Illinois FORTY YEARS AGO The annual town election took place on Tuesday of this week and as a result Ahe following officers were elected: Charles B. Harmsen, town clerk; John W. Kimball, assessor; Mathias Miller, collector; William B. Tbnyan, highway commissioner; William H. Kelley, constable. Mr. and Mrs. Ray F. Conway have moved their household effects to Crystal Lake, the former, who is employed by the Western United Gas & Electric Co., having been transferred to that city. The roads, especially in the country, have been in very bad shape during the past two weeks, although they are now gradually improving. Last week the rural letter carriers experienced more than a little difficulty in covering their routes and getting back in time to make the 4:30 mail. Nearly twenty-five people residing in and around McHenry are now employed at the Oliver typewriter factory at Woodstock. Miss Elizabeth Thelen entertained a large number of visitors at the annual spring opening of her millinery store last Saturday. EDDIE the EDUCATOR says _£ tn 1932 Lincoln said: "I deilrc to see the time when education and by its means . . morality, sobriety, enterprise, and industry, shall become more general than now." Our subscribe to such goals. Mliitois Education Association TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Regner's Grocery and Market will move from West McHenry to the new location on Green street next Monday and be ready to handle trade as usual. Miss. Helen Stevens, play coach, has started rehearsals of the senior class play, "The Whole Town's Talking," to be presented May 5. The play, "Headstrong Joan," produced by the Johns burg Dramatic club, was a big success and was enacted before a packed house of appreciative listeners. Special numbers between, acts featured Florence Schmitt, Frank Gans, Albert Vales and Barbara Schmitt. Foi> the first time in three yearC Easter Sunday, the greatest church holiday of jthe year, was a pleasant one, with the clouds of the morning disappearing and the sun shining brightly throughout the afternoon. Sephen H. Freund, supervisor for the town pf McHenry, won out in a sweeping five to two victory. Ben J. Dietz, who owns & piece of valuable ground at the corner of Elm and Court streets, informs us he contemplates erecting a building on this corner, Which, if his plans materialize, will contain both, business rooms, an auto show room and service department, storage for cars, a gas station and heated flats on the second floor. Plans are under way to send the McHenry high school state championship orchestra to the national orchestra contest at Cleveland, Ohio, on May 14, 15 and 16. Insured Savings: Savings invested in Crystal Lake Savings and Loan fAssociatlon are Insured by the Federal Savings and Loan Inguranoe Corp., and earn 2 /2 per cent plus y2 per cent extra. 38-tf Sell Cull Dairy Cows This Spring If you are' holding unprofitable dairy cows until the beef market goes up, remember that prices of lower grades of beef are usually higher in the spring than in the falk J. G. Cash, extension dairy specialist at the University of Illinois College of Agriculture, says the outlook for neither prices of lower grades of beef nor prices of dairy products appears to warrant holding unprofitable dairy cows. In addition, Cash points out, selling unprofitable cows wjll increase your net dairy earnings and will also take surplus milk off the market. On most Illinois farms it will pay to cull, as unprofitable, cows of the higner testing breeds that produce less than 5,000 pounds of milk a year and cows of the lower testing breeds that produce less than 7,500 pounds. NOTICE IN THE MATTER OF THE APP L I C A T I O N OF TWELVE ACRES, INC., an Illinois Corporation, FOR A CHANGE OF CERTAIN PARCELS AND VARIATIONS OF CERTAIN PARCELS IN REGARD TO THE ZONING REQUIREMENTS AS SET FORTH IN THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That in compliance with the provisions of the McHenry County Zoning Ordinance relative to changes or variations in zoning classifications of property, a public hearing will be had before the McHenry County Zoning Board of Appeals in connection with the application of Twelve Acres, Inc., an ' Illinois Corporation, for changes in classifications or variations in regard to use of the following described parcels, such changes and variations being set forth prior to the description of the various parcels Parcel 1 . Thait the zoning classification of certain of the lots included in the proposed eighty-nine lot First Addition to Eastwood Manor Subdivision be varied to allow some of these eighty-nine lots to comprise less than 12,000 square feet in area; a copy of the tentative plat of the proposed First Addition to the said Eastwood Manor Subdivision is attached to the petition and made a part thereof. Parcel 2 --- That the zoning classification of the following described property be changed from "R-l" to "B-l" and subsequently varied to permit the use of the property for the storage of boats: - All that part of Lot A of Eastwood Manor Unit No. 1, according to the plat thereof recorded in the Recorder's Office of McHenry County, as Document No. 296453, on the 15th day of August, 1955, and recorded in Book 12 of Plats on Page 45, excepting that part of the said Lot A described as follows: The VILLA NURIBNG H IE ON PISTAKEE BAT, NEAR McHENRY Home for the Aged SENILE . . . . BED PATIENTS PHONE McHENRY 461 East 45 feet of the West 140 feet (measured at right angles) of the said Lot A in Eastwood Manor Unit No; 1. The hearing will be held on. the 24th day of April, 1956; at the hour of 3:45 p.m. in the City Hall of the City ot McHenry, Illinois, at which time and place any person or persons desiring to object tio such application will be entitled to be heard. McHENRY CdUNTY ZONING BOARD QF APPEALS By: HAROLD BACON, . Chairman AIR POLLUTION Gov. William G. Stratton has directed the state Department of Public Health to prepare a full report on air pollution in Illinois. The governor pointed out that air pollutants affect human health as well as plant and animal life. They also damage building materials, clothing and household furnishings. HIGHWAY DEATHS Motor vehicle crashes On Illinois highways during January and February killed 264 persons. This death toil is 14 per cent below the number of fatalities reported' during these two months in ,1955, according to a summary by the state Division of Highways. The 1956 twomonth total is the lowest recorded in the state since 1951. What you are has its influence in making other people what they are. Famous CuUigan ATER All Exclusive Features Phone Wauoonda JAckson 6-5421 !i&:: DEMOCRATS FOR D Our candidate, Arthur J. Desmond, was born .and raised on a farm in Hartland Township. He was educated in the rural schools and Woodstock High School. He spent 15 years in the oil business for himself with a large farm clientele. With this experience he is well versed in the problems of the farmers today. He is also familiar with the present problems of the small business man. Having spent 8 years as alderman' for the City of Woodstock, he has had plenty of experience in legislative work. e , He comes from a pioneer Democratic family, always ready to do their share for the success of the party. His father was the party's candidate for County Superintendent of Schools and later a candidate for County Treasurer. His brother, Donald, in 1948 helped the cause as a candidate for County Treasurer and Arthur carried the banner for Sheriff in 1950 when he received the largest Democratic vote polled for a county office on the Democratic ticket since the Civil War. We feel this is a fine opportunity to elect an outstanding personality to the legislature and glan reward this staunch party man for his untiring efforts in the past. Let us all get out and ask for a Democratic ballot on April 10th and support Arthur J. Desmond for Representative in the new 32nd district. m There is no substitute for EXPERIENCE ^sT* U fe? inmmi i jPP - ( A* . J t t M - k t Signed: DEMOCRATS FOR DESMOND COMMITTEE OF THE 32nd DISTRICT, McHENRY, BOONE, DEKALB and OGLE COUNTIES. Vote Tuesday, April 10 For JOHN P. MANNING Rochelle, Illinois Republican Candidate For STATE REPRESENTATIVE i@®ne, DeKalb, McHenry and ©<g8® Counties Life-long resident of Northern Illinois. Veteran of World I. 35 years successful business experience operating major automobile agency. • Republican Precinct Corrimitteeman in Rochelle for 28 years. • Republican Central Committee Chairman for 22 years. • Well and influentially acquainted in Springfield. • Civic leader and member of the Elks and Moose. • First-time candidate for public office. Political Advertisement 'VOTE REPUBLICAN -- VOTE FOR MANNING' COME IN AND: TEST DRIVE ^ THE NEW a 1956 FORDS (No Obligation, Of Course) ; B u s s M 0 T 0 R S A L E S U $ » f WE'RE OUT TO MAKE 1956 OUR BIGGES^ YEAR IN SALES! WE ARE OFFERING THE BIGGEST TRADE-INS IN OUR HISTORY! COME IN NOW AND HEAR OUR EXCEIn LENT PROPOSITION. or Pfiene MeHenry 1 5S1 W. Main St, McHenry, III. IT Mm