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Bage Eighteen Sunnyslda Estates •Offer Ride To Polls Tuesday Polly Stevens EV 5-1256 . This is the last chance to remind you of election day -- Nov. 8. It is so important that everyone cast his vote and such a privilege to participate in a free election in a free country. Please vote for the party of your choice. If anyone in Sunnyside Estates needs a ride I will he more than happy to drive you to the polls and back home again. Just call me at EV. 5- 1256 and I'll be there. Condolences We would like to extend our sympathy to Carol and Bud Kennebeck on the death of his father, Ben Kennebeck, of Johnsburg... Wel^onn* Jt is with pleasure thai we welcome Hedwig and James Haninger to Sunnyside Estates find to their new home at 309 Indian Ridge drive. They have two children and are blessed With ten grandchildren: The Haningers come to us from Cicero and we wish them many tang and happy years in our community. THE MeHEtntY PLAINDEALER Thursday, Novamber 3, 1960 Millie Kropf's mother, Mis. Becvar, has been very ill. We hope she will soon be up and around again. A Visitor Lil Jensen visited her son and his wife, Ray and Donna, and Ray, Jr., one day last week. She also called on her old friends, the Kimbros, while here. Old Friends Polly and Jim Stevens were happy to have as dinner gufests recently, their old friends and neighbors of Chicago days, Vi and Pat Engh, now of Mount Prospect. Many hajgpy memories were re-lived during, the evening. Girl Scouts The Girl Scouts of Troop 295 treated themselves to a Hallo- Ween party Saturday afternoon, Oct. 29. It was held at the home of Co-leader Lois Anderson, Committee Women Alice Bieschke and Joan Walyzynski were present to lend a helping hand. The girls came attired in costumes of. the witch and goblin season.. Committees were formed among the girls to prepare the favors, games, cooking and dessert. They elso bobbed for apples Which were later turned into faffv apples. : Those attendine and attesting to a wonderful afternoon were Kathy Barth, Carol Ann pehn, Diane Hiller and Betty Himpleman from Johnsburg, Kathy Franke and Libbv Stinespring from Pistakee Bay, Cheryle Patterson and Susan Roggenbuck from Sunnyside, Mary Anderson. Rosalyn Hammershoy, Kandy. Kobus, Cathy Palmer and Judy Strorgil of Sunnyside Estates. A Fish Story Well! this one didn't get away! Jim Stevens went fishing one afternoon. recently and came home "bug eyed." He had caught a 3 pound large mouth bass and a 2% lb. blue catfish. Of'course, the fish had to be weighed, exhibited to all the neighbors "and"' "oohed!" and "ahed" over! His chest .was puffed out for days. Birthdays Happy birthday, today, to 5-year-old Tommy Fiedler and 2-year-old Steven O'Brien, to Clif Sabby on Nov. 6, to Ted Bferchen on Nov. 7, and to 8- year-old Mary Jane Lakowske and Marge DeFrancisco on Nov. 9. Happy birthday to all. Anniversaries A happy anniversary to newcomers, Karen and P. J. Schneider, who will celebrate two years of wedded bliss on Nov. 7. and to old-timers, Rose and Tom Felicetti, who celebrate twentv years on Nov. 9. Congratulations. News Please! You gotta call, you know, with your doin's and goin's and comin's for me to report it. Demonstration Twelve ladies spent a very enjoyable evening last Thursday when Jean* Leakey was hostess for a demonstration at her home on Spring Creek road. Those present were Jean Benoche and daughter, Jeaniejo, Mary Ann Berg, Vicky Bogal. Luana Christiansen, Rose Felicetti and daughter, Rosemary, Mary Rose, Luella Schultz, Pat Spindler, Jean Tomsa and Polly Stevens. UNCOVER PREHISTORIC TOWN Evidence of a large prehistoric town has been uncovered in southern Illinois by Illinois State Museum archaeologists during an attempt to rescue valuable antiquities from destruction by road builders. A "few city blocks" of downtown prehistoric Cahokia, a thous a n d - y e a r - o l d I n d i a n t o w n , have been discovered, according to Dr. Warren L. Wlttry, curator of anthropology at the Illinois State Museum. Exca vations, which represent the largest single archaeological undertaking in the middlewest in 20 years, were made 300 yards west of the famous Great Cahokia Mound, a long-time tourist attraction and the largest temple mound ever built in North America. The area is three miles west of .Collins ville. Twice Told Tales FIFTY YEARS AGO Taken from the Files of Oct. 27, 1910 Mr. and Mrs. Mathias Blake, who for years lived on a farm north of this city, have purchased the Peter Doherty house on North Green street where they plan to move this week. The committee in charge of the pound social to be held at W e n t w o r t h ' s n e x t T u e s d a y evening, is expecting big donations in chickens, ^eggs, vegetables, etc., from the best looking, biggest hearted farmers of the vicinity. •Mrs. Susanna Mueller passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John H. Kennebeck, Oct 19, at the age of 78. She came here from Germany in the early, forties and was among the first three families to settle at Johnsburg. On Thursday of last week Theo Winkel, while digging potatoes on his farm near this village, dug up one that weighed exactly twenty-seven ounces. Theo says that one and one-half pound potatoes were quite numerous but when he pulled up the twenty-seven ouncer he thought it advisable to let his friends know about it. A Halloween basket social and corn test, will be held at the Holcombville school house Friday evening of this week, Oct. 28. Conveyances will leave centerville postoffice at 7 15 p.m. and west side office at 7:30 p.m. sharp. Lucile Byrd, teacher. The local camp of the M.W.A. will give a public card party in their hall next Thursday evening, Nov. 10, Proceeds to be used for the erection of a tent at the tuberculosis colony at Colorado Springs. This tent is to be built and maintained by the M.W.A. of Mc- Henry county. a John Brents, school janitor, wore a smiling countenance, on Wednesday, when he received a half dozen potatoes weighing 10 lbs., as a gift fjrom one of the high school girls. The basketball girls are working hard under the supervision of their coach, Alford H. Pouse, and in the coming season will promise the public some winning games. FORTY YEARS AGO Taken from the Files of Oct. 21, 1920 A cabbage head, weighing exactly twenty-seven pounds, has been the source of much attention at the Pries mea: market and grocery here during the past week or more. Since last week's issue of the Plaindealer, it has been brought to our notice that we have another resident along the shores of our river who isn't afraid of the cool and refreshing waters of our beautiful stream. We refer , to Mrs. Eldridge of Chicago, spending the summer at Emerald Park, who tho' past seventy-five has yet to miss an afternoon dip in the Fox river during the swimming season. Miss Helen M. Frepnd and Henry J. Kennebeck were united in marriage at St. Mary's church on Wednesday morning, Oct. 20, and the wedding or Miss Amelia Kattner of Spring Grove and Joseph E. Miller of Richmond took place at St. Peter's church, Spring Grove, the same day. They will reside on a farm near Richmond. Two youthful Chicago bandits invaded McHenry, last Saturday night, and until Officer Jack Walsh and Deputy Sheriff John R. Knox got bijsy it looked as if they had succeeded in making their . getaway with a Ford roadster owned by Edmund Knox, which was stolen from near the Empire theatre. The car was foiled in the mud and water near the small bridge west of Johnsburg and the boys were apprehended on the streets of McHenry Sunday morning. Martin F. Schmitt, a highly esteemed resident of McHenry township, passed away at his late home north of Johnsburg, Sunday evening, after a long illness. Five of his seven children are living. They are Martin B. Schmitt, Mrs. Simon Michels, Mrs. Nick Freund, John and Irwin Schmitt. Joseph Neumann observed his eighty-fifth birthday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Anton Schneider, Sunday." Other members of the family present were Mrs. J. B. Wirtz and sons and Joseph and Anthony Neumann Chicago. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Taken from the Files of Oct. 24, 1935 Sidney Smith, famous cartoonist on the Chicago Tribune creator of the Andy Gump comic strip, and a former summer lesident at Chapel Hill, north of McHenry, was instantly killed about 4 o'clock Sunday morning, when his car collided with another auto on U.S. 14 just south of Harvard. John I. Story, early proprietor of the Riverside Hotel and Mayor of McHenry for three terms, passed away at his home in Gardena, Calif., Oct. 4, at the age of 88 years. He lived j to celebrate the sixty-eighth ! wedding anniversary with his wife, Mrs. Julia McOmber j Story on Sept. 18. ! The first wedding ceremony to be solemnized in - the new Catholic church at Mundelein look place Wednesday, Oct. 23, when Miss Gertrude Swandt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Swandt, of Libertyville, i nnd Mr. George Barbian, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Barbian were united in marriage. Mrs. William Lehman, 52, who had resided on a farm at Terra Cotta for the past twenty years, died at Brand's hospital in Woodstock Monday morning following a short illness. . Mr. and Mrs. Math Blake entertained fifty relatives an{l friends at their home Saturday afternoon and evening, Oct. 19, in observance of their twentyfifth wedding anniversary. Miss May Smith and Mrs. Bernard Freund entertained a party of friends at the latter's home Tuesday evening in honor of' Miss Florence Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Smith who will become the bride of Leo Smith on Nov. 6. Relatives in this vicinity received a telegram, Wednesday morning, telling of the death of Joseph Freund, 82, of Minot, N. D., which occurred that morning a few hours after the burial of his brother, Martin Freund, of Johnsburg on Tuesday. MCHENRY MAN JOINS FOREIGN TRADE INSTITUTE Homer Paul Greer, son of Mr. andjMrs. Homer Greer, Rt. 3, McHenry, has been accepted as a member of the 1961 class of the world-famed American Institute for Foreign Trade, Phoenix, Arizona. A 1959 graduate of Michigan State university, East Lansing, Mich., with an academic major in the field of business administration, Greer is taking the school's intensive nine month post-graduate training course in preparation for a career in American business or government abroad. Homer Greer, if certified for graduation, will be awarded a bachelor of foreign trade in May, 1961. COOKS CORNER by Marie Schaettgen People like snacks in winter, and visitors are more frequent than in the warm months. Here are a few snack recipes made of ingredients .which can be kept on hand and easily turned into delightful tidbits. Cheese Dip 1 3-ounce pkg. cream cheese 1 Tbsp. milk or light cheam 14 tsp. grated onion 2 Tbsp. chopped stuffed olives ^ 2 Tbsp. chopped walnuts dash Tabasco sauce dash Worcestershire sauce Add milk to cream cheese and mix until soft and creamy. Add remaining ingredients and blend. Use potato chips or small crackers to scoop up mixture. Cheesed Vienna Sausages Cut lengthwise slits half through canned Vienna sausages. Insert thin strips of process cheese. Broil until ch$£S| melts. Insert woodenpicks to pick up sausagj9|£ Serve very hot. ; * Bacon-Olive Bites jf. Wrap large stuffed olhjpl with half slices bacon; sectyi^j with a toothpick. 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