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* ' ... 125 I95& f IS. i f - t-« '\ RING WOOD By Mrs. George Shepard W Ben Walklngtons Entertain Mr. and Mrs. Ben Walkington entertained their "five hundred club at their home Tuesday evening. High score went to Mrs. Carl Hallstrom and Louis Hawl «y, and low to Mr. and Mrs. Pete Sebastian. r» 500 Club Mrs. Ben Walkington enter-" tpined the women's five hundred fub at her home Wednesday. A o'clock dessert luncheon was served. High score went to Mrs. George Shepard arid low to Mrs. Wm. Cruickshank. Supper The W.S.C.S. will serve a roast beef dinner in the church dining room April 21, serving to start at 5 p.m. <6^' Rummage Sale The W.S.C.S. will holc( a rummage sale in the church basement April 27 and 28. Pancake • ^ The pupils . of the Sunday School will hold a pancake breakfast for their parents and «friends at the church Sunday morning, April i5, from 9 to 10 a.m. Combination church service for Ring- ^wood and Greenwood will be held in the Ringwood church at 11 a.m. Bunco Club The Bunco club was entertained in the home of Mrs. Nick Young at McHenry Thursday. A 1 o'clock dessert luncheon was served. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Oscar Berg. Mrs. Grace Mc- (JCannon and Mrs. Georgia Thoirnas.' ^ Round-up Club The Round-up club and the Kupil's, Klub held a combined meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Omar Haimbaugh Saturday evening. Zeni Yamomoto, a high school teacher and a counselor of youth in Kobe, Japan, was ^present and spoke to the young •people. , Personals Among those from here to attend the pot-luck supper at Greenwood were Mr. and Mrs. Goi*don Fossum and daughters, Mrs. Frank Harrison and children, Mrs. John Hogan, daughter, Pat, and sons, Mike and Harry, ^Jim Hunt and Anna Mae Aissen. %•' Jtfr, and Mrs. John Hogan and sons, John, Jr., and Harry, attended the F.F.A. banquet at the McHenry high school Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Licas spent Easter weekend with their daughter and family at Onarga, 111. While there they visited Mrs. Licas' Negro nurse-, Dora Knox, who was 106 years old in January. She lives alone and does her %wn work although she is nearly blind. They also visited the vicinity of Buckley and viewed the ruins of the recent tornado where farm buildings were reduced to kindling. Mrs. Georgia Thomas and Mrs. Vernon Rabe spent Monday morning in the George Shepard home. 4 Mr. and Mrs. John Dmohowsha if Dolton, 111., called on Dr. and "Sfirs Hepburn Saturday. " Mrs. Louis Hawley left Thursday, morning for Nashville, Tenn., to visit her daughter, Mrs. John Woodward, and family. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Harrison were dinner guests Sunday in the Wayne Donahue home at Huntley. Mrs. J. C. Pearson spent Saturday in Chicago., Mr. and Mrs. Paul Norman and family of Evanston were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Walkington. Miss Genevievev Knox and M,rs. Catherine Conway of McHenry called on Dr. and Mrs. Hepburn Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hinze of Crystal Lake spent Wednesday evening in the George Shepard home. ' - ; Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Spencer and family of Urbana spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Sowers. Will Claxton and John Dreymiller of RtcHenry were Sunday dinner guests in thp K<*orge Shepard home. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Low and family, Mrs. Viola Low and Mrs. Emily Beatty spent Sunday in the Robert Low home at McHenry. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stiiart of Richmond called on Dr. and Mrs. Wm. Hepburn Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Alan Ain^er and daughter, Mary, spent Thursday evening with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Shepard. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Sebastian and Mrs. Cora Woods spent the weekend with relatives at Moline. Mrs. Sebastian and Mrs. Woods remained longer. Mrs. Emily Beatty and Mrs. Viola Low spent Friday in the Irving Herbert home at Burlington and found Mrs. Herbert much improved from her recent illness. Mrs. Millie Rush of Richmond spent the weekend with her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. John Ehlert. Mr. and Mrs. John Ehlert and daughter, Mabdl, and Mrs. Fred Bowman spent Wednesday evening in the Tony Senkerik home at Sunnyside Estates. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Butler of Chicago spent the weekend in the B. T. Butler home. Sunday guests were Mr. and Mrs. J. N. 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Heine of Chicago spent Sunday night and Monday xin the George Shepard home. Atty. and Mrs. Floyd Eckert of Woodstock called on Dr. and Mrs. Wm. Hepburn Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cruickshank, Jr., and family of Mundelein spent Sunday evening with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cruickshank, Sr. Miss Shirley. Walkington grid Jack Shull of Libertyville spent Sunday evening with the former's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Walkington. • Mrs. Davis of Park Ridge, spent Sunday afternoon in . the Fred Wiedrich, Jr., home. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wiedrich, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. James Wegener spent Sunday evening in the Jack Leonard home at Lake Geneva. Mrs. Bob Brennan and children spent Sunday afternoon with her parents at McHenry. Mrs. Jack Leonard and children of Lake Geneva spent Friday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wiedrich, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Roy Harrison spent Saturday evening with her sister. Mrs. Nellie Vollman, in Elgin. Mrs. Ardin Frisbie of Greenwood spent Thursday evening with her mother, Mrs. Flora Harrison. Mrs. Warren Jones and brother, Loren Harrison, spent Saturday evening in the Donald Brenner home in Elgin. TITO McHENRY PLAINDEALER- '^iiaaaggstt McHenry County Through He Years -• • jy. Marie Sch&ettgen Chapter 54 When one examines ther. newspapers and periodicals of yesteryear, one is inclined toward the idea that perhaps just a little bit of censorship might prove to be a good thing. In glancing through an issue of 1878, we found this precious gem -- an advertisement by John B. Ogden of l^Tew York offering free to "suffering humanity" a recipe for making a simple remedy to cure "nervous debility, premature decay and all the effects of youthful" indiscretion." & « -•-•'ft •. .Another bit of advice t6 women admonished them thus: "If your man goes around tfye lipase wishing he were dead, <ibn't£rifeh to put away the opium \ip$jfie, he doesn't mean it.' 6b'viously, the opium bottle was kept in the family medicine cabinet just as we now keep aspirin, gargles, etc.,It's amazing that the "good old days" didn't breed a' riation of dope fiends. Guess they were really rugged pioneers and could take their opium or leave it alone. An old cook book in the family has an entire section devoted to "cures" for everything from chilblains to cancer. Most of the "receipts" called for the purchase of ten cents worth of »heroin from the apothecary. * A letter to the editor in 1878 dated Crystal Lake, signed Odd, Jr., laments the fact that the beautiful weather in January is for those who have nothing to do but enjoy it, but to the farmer1 it just means mud and sUnsItine. Odd, Jr., also notes that renovating bed springs and mattresses seems to be the most important business in town. It was a mild winter and the ice crop will be small; For 25 cents your druggist would sell you a bottle of "lung syrup" that, will cure your pul- [ monary complaints. Another remedy to cure all cases, of piles, leprosy, scrofula and "humor." as well as all diseases ,of the skin and blood. F. J. Barbian operated a cigar factory on the northeast corner of the public square. Johnsburg boasted a ^marble works. McHenry had flour and feed mills, wagon and carriage makers and merchants galore. There were no virus diseases or allergy cases, but we feel that only people of the finest physical stock could survive the "Cures" of their day. Shop at Home and SAVE! FACTORY EARNINGS Factory workers in Illinois were earning an average of $86.16 a week as of Jan. 1,' 1956, the highest figure on record. Wages in Illinois are substantially above average for the United States as a whole. TTiis showing is reported in the latest issue of the Illinois Business Review, published monthly by the College of Commerce, University of Illinois. In January, 1956, the number of private non-agricultural workers i employed in Illinois was 3,016,- 500, according to the Review. This total is 17,200 larger than the number reported one year ago, and only 6,000 below the all-time record high of January, 1954. ELECT GERTRUDE CASEY FOR MEMBER OF McHenry Grade School Board DISTRICT 15 SATURDAY, APRIL 14TH 12 TO 7 P.M. -- QUALIFICATIONS -- 1. UNDERSTANDS AND KNOWS SCHOOL POLICIES AND PRINCIPLES. 2. 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