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Pag* Fourteen THE McHENRY PLAINDEALER Thursday, March 16, ldti twice Told Tales FIFTY YRARS AGO Taken from the Files jf March 2, 1911 Mrs. W. D. Wentworth, who has recently been appointed assistant deputy of the Royal Neighbors of America, is about to organize a new camp in Mc- Henry. The West Side will soon boast of an elegant new billiard and pool room and bowling alley. The new place of amusement will be located in the old "Tip" Smith building. Miss Eilen Hall, the Ringwood nurse, has moved- her parents into the old Coates place and will use her own home, «vith the addition of several tents, for a tubercular sanitarium. Mrs. Peter Bowe r, well known Spring Grove resident, died at home Feb. 16, of a complication of diseases at the age of 38. She leaves a husband, one daughter and two sons. J. J. Flusky has moved from his farm to the M. E. parsonage vacated by F. O. Gans and family. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Loomis have moved from the Gage house, on Main street, to the Peter M. Justen house on Waukegan street. Clarence Ostrander and family have moved from the Thomas Powers house, on Waukegan street to the Heimer house on Elm street. F. O. Gans has moved his family from the M. E. church parsonage to the Riverside hotel, where things are being prepared for the opening of this popular hostlry. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Bassett, Mrs. E. Bassett, son, Lisle. Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Henise and daughters and Mrs. Ed. Knox attended the funeral of Mrs. Carl Magoon in Elein Friday. Mrs. Magoc.n was the wife of Elder Magoon. pastor of the Seventh Day Advent churches in Elgin and Aurora. She was well known in rhis vicinity and was 39 years old. FIFTY YEARS AGO Taken from the Files of March 9. 1911 That the McHenry Flour and Feed mill is reaching out and getting business, from farmers within a radius of forty miles of McHenry, was again demonstrated last week when J. W. Edwards and William Eickstadt, residing on farms near Marengo, each brought a load of grist to the mill. Mrs. Marion Woodburn wishes through the Columns, of the Plaindealer to thank her many kind friends fcr the many beautiful cards received on her sixty-sixth birthday, Feb. 28. F l o y d T h o m p s o n , C h i c a g o Telephone company employee, has been promoted to the position of wire chief at La Grange, 111. His many friends here will be pleased to learn that Alford Pouse of this place was admitted to the bar at Ottawa 111.: last week. A number of the young people of the community charivariorl Mac Sutton and his bride upon their arrival at the Park Saturday evening. Some noise! Friday evening the high school boys will play the town team at the city hall. This is the last game of the season for the high school boys and they are out to win. So far this season thev have not lost a home game and do not expect to. Admission 15 cents. Jacob Justen, Centerville furniture dealer, was out Tuesday for the first time since suffering a fall in his store three weeks ago. Referring to an item ,'n last week's paper in regard to the proposed opening of James street in West McHenry, it may be v\ell to know who owns James street. George Gage plotted West McHenry in 1859 and by so doing dedicated James street (as he did all the other streets) to the public ufe as a street, but a law is that if a street is not opened for u?e in i certain time the land reverts to the person who plotted the premises. As this street has never been opened it follows that James street belongs to George Gage or heirs so if the village wishes to open the street it must pay for the land. FORTY YEARS AGO Taken from the Files of March 3, 1921 The body of George Schreiner. who died of pneumonia while !n service in France, is expected to arrive in McHenry, shortly. All of the papers have been signed and forwarded to the proper authorities. McHenry friends of Miss Ruth Bacon, who is now teaching school at Marinette. Wis., recognized her picture in last Friday morning's Chicago Tribune as an entrant in the beauty contest which is being conducted by that paper. Our readers enjoyed a good joke at our expense last week when :.n ar/ item we referred to M. A. Trielen as conducting a barber shoo when it should have read a harness establishment. John P. Ekstrom, tenant on the W. E. Whiting farm, died last week of complications resulting from the flu. Thirty members of St. Patrick's Altar-Rosary society met with Mrs. Joan McEvoy at the rectory Tuesday afternoon. A musical program was enjoyed and a center piece raffled off was won by Mrs. R. I. Overton. Members of the Thirteen club were most delightfully entertained by Mrs. J. C. Holly at her home on Court street Friday afternoon, when the high score in five hundred was awarded Mrs. E. E. Bassett. The following officers were elected at a meeting of the Ladies Aid society of the M.E. church, held with Mrs. George Kuhn Thursday: President, Mrs. George Kuhn; vice-president, Miss Alice Waite; secretary, Mrs. E. E. Bassett; and treaisurer, Mrs. J. J. Vasey. The people of the community were sorry indeed of the misfortune that has again befallen Mr. and Mrs. Jacob R. Justen at Cando, N. P., whose infant child died there on Monday of AVOID COSTLY SEPTIC TANK TROUBLES . . . IT Enztvafor stops odors liquefies wast* reactivates sluggish tads Ruck's Hardware 501 W. Main St. McHenry. makes it a "Happy Easter with a great Spring Collection of tasteful styles for men from VAN HEUSEN* Celebrate the coming of die season with a Bern Easter wardrobe of Van Hensen finery. YonH look great on «*T avenne...and shell think so too! Come m •ad see our fresh array of Spring styles today. 5TORE for MEN this week following a brief illness. The body was brought to Johnsburg this morning for burial. It will be remembered that the family suffered the loss of two children about three years ago. FORTY YEARS AGO Taken from the Files of March 10, 1921 Word reached here from Idaho, this week, telling of the marriage of Walter Fay, son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Fay of this village. Walter has been in the western state for nearly a year and last summer gained quite a reputation there through his prowess on the baseball diamond. The heavy rains of the past few days have placed some of the roads :n an almost impassible condition. This is especially true in Lake county. Joseph W. Freund, George and Clifford Buss and Leo Thurwell are staying at the Northwestern hotel while their homes are under quarantine. Papers were drawn up on Tuesday of this week for the sale of the Miss Charlotte Madden house, on Elm street, to Albert Krause, village alderman and proprietor of the Riverside Dairy. Following an annual custom for many years, W. D. Wentworth of this village and his sister, Mrs. C. E. Lamphere. lointly celebrated their birthday at the Lamphere home Sunday, March 6. Nine girls from this village are employed in the Edgewater Beach exchange of the Illinois Bell Telephone company in- Chicago. They are Misses Dorothy and Louise Engeln, Margaret and Genevieve Bonslett, Emma and Helen Pint, Julia Weber, Kathryn Regner and Maybelle Hauswlrth. Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Steilen of Chicago have definitely decided to pass the summer months in McHenry, having rented living rooms in the Heimer Nock on Elm street. The first electrical and thunder storm of the season visited this section Saturday, while a second and more severe one was experienced Monday. The rain has assisted greatly in settling the roads. The Mrs. Susan Wegener house and property on Maple avenue, now occupied by the Frank Zuelsdorf family, was sold last week to H. H. Fay local agent for the Standard Oil company. ly of a heart attack at his home in Chicago on Feb. 22. Lois Ann, 3%-week-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Grever died Feb. 16 at Dr. Brand's hospital in Woodstock. The body was put in a vault in Woodstock to await j burial at a later date in I Neenah,, Wis. j The Terra Cotta hill was _ closed to traffic to avoid accidents as the melting snow had made the pavement so slippery that automobiles could not climb the steep grade. Travel was resumed Monday morning after the highway had been covered with cinders. Eleanor Pries suffered a broken arm Saturday when she fell down the stairs at her home on Green street. Mrs. George Bohr, who is with the Pries children during the absence of their parents in Florida, also sustained a broken arm. several weeks ago. from which she expects to have the cast removed this week. A wedding of interest to friends here took place at Woodstock Wednesday evening when Miss Elvera Ant hoiz. daughter of H. B. Anthol7. and Mr. Kirk Schroeder. son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schroeder. were united in marriage at St. John's Lutheran church. A party ol friends surprised Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Martin , at their home south of town, Sundav evening in observance of their twenty-seventh wedding anniversary. Mrs. Margaret Grabbc announces the marriage of her daughter, Frma. to Mr. Walter Vasey, which took place at Woodstock Feb. 25. They will reside with the gi-oom's father. G. A. Vasey, on his farm near Volo. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Conway were surprised at a housewarming party at their new home on Riverside Drive Suhday evening, with several outof- town folks in attendance. children and families around them, held open house on that day. Mrs. Anna Marie Brown, 82, died at her home in Volo suddenly Sunday afternoon. Miss Florence Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Milier of John street, went to Chicago Sunday, where she entered the West Side hospital to take up nurse's training. Bradford Smith, an old time resident of this vicinity, passed" away in Portland, Oregon, Feb. 22, at the age of 80 years. He is survived by his wife, the former Elien Disbrow, and five daughters. Mrs. E. H. Merrick announces the marriage of her daughter, Joseta, to Mr. Ross Zimmerman, which took place at Immaculate Con c e p t i o n church. Waukegan, Feb. 25. Frank Johnson, a sophomore, was proclaimed the winner of the ping pong singles tournament at the local Community high school in the championship match played on the staee of the auditorium before the student body of the school Friday noon. it is reported that thousands of fish are dying in northern Illinois rivers and lakes because the ice. which is 30 to 40 inches thick, has cut off the oxygen supply. The winter's snow and extrcme cold cost the city over S!>00 for clearing the streets of heavy snow, in addition to expenses incurred in thawing out frozen water mains. A. C. McHenry, Waukegan attorney and former pastor of the McHenry Universalist church, is a candidate for the state's attorney's office of Lake county on the Democratic ticket. Our word 'malaria' really means 'bad air', which the ancients thought was the cause of the trouble--before they heard about mosquitoes. NAMED STATION OPERATOR Kirk^Ierley of Route 7, McHenry, has been named chief operator of WLFM, the student- operated FM radio station at Lawrence college, Appleton, Wis. Merley is a freshman at Lawrence. The origin and the history of the Basque pocple of northern Spain is not known--their language shows no relationship to any other known language. The original valentine wa3 signed 1,691 years ago, 'From your Valentine', by a Roman priest, Valentine, bishop of Sopoleto, Italy, to the jailer's daughter, as he was being led out to execution, for advocating that love alone was sufficient basis for marriage. W Vermont was an independent republic for 8 years (1771- 1779 and was the first state to enter the Union after the original 13. 42nd Legion Birthday Party on Saturday/ March 18, 1961 Pot-Luck Supper -- 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Dancing from 9 p.m. 'til Music by "THE STAR-LITERS" All Veterans and their Wives Invited. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Taken from the Files of March 5, 1936 Shrove Tuesday, a day of feasting and making merry which precedes the Lenten season, which this year fell on Feb. 25, was a most appropriate date fcr the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. John King, who with their TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Taken from the Files of Feb. 27, 1936 Rev. Fr. Williarrt Weber, 64, who served as pastor at St. John's church, Johnsburg, for sixteen years, died unexpected- OVERHEATED MOTORS Qff> Me ffaut A dogged radiator can mean real damage. Inland'i Factory-Method How Tea# atturot 100% cooling (ffidMcy. RADIATOR Cleaning and Repairing AT LOW, FLAT-RATI PRICES tmptdiom WOQ iURINH11W,, otFRS Complete Stock Of Rebuilt Radiators ADAMS' BROS REPAIR SERVICE 300 E. Elm St. McHenry Phone EV. 5-0783 Custom by Bill Polkey Very Educational Visitors to some of the big museums and institutions are having the benefit of a taped radio-guide system which provides each individual with a personal guiding service. A transistorized receiver weighing less than a pound with earphones and carrystrap, receives the taped information of a professional guide as you walk from exhibit to exhibit. Of course, you won't be able to ask questions, but being individualized, the electronic taped guide is quite detailed. Keeping up with the latest ideas of servicing is an important part of the success of CUSTOM TV. Using a combination of fine electronic tools with know-how gives you fast service, and most important, satisfactory results for the finest TV viewing. And it costs no more than ordinary TV repairing, often less. Pllone EV 5-3757 or 5-5659 next time. HIGHTOWER FARM HOLSTEIN DISPERSAL On Illinois Route 42-A, Lake Bluff, Illinois, 1 mile North of 176 WED., MARCH 22,1961 11:00 A.M. 78 GRADE AND REGISTERED HOLSTEINS 32 Cows Milking age with records from 400 to 600 lbs. fat. 1959 DHIA herd average 514 lbs fat. This herd is rich in Carnation breeding. NIBCO Services have been used the past few years. 34 daughters of NIBCO sires are selling of which 14 are sired by Pabst Raven Finell. 43 head Open and Bred Heifers are included. These heifers are large and the right kind. Be at this Sale. BARN & DAIRY EQUIPMENT -- Starline Barn Cleaner; Sunset 400 Gal. Bulk Tank; Starline Stanchions and Pens; Bottle Gas Water Heater; Stewart Electric Clippers; Franklin Rotary Tattoo Outfit; Dehorner; Surge Electric Fence Charger; 4 Surge Seamless units, Large Size; Surge - 6 Unit Vacuum Pump and Motor (Good Condition); Brushes; Cleaning Equipment, PTO New Idea Manure Spreader, 120 bu. Capacity; Etc. DR. GEORGE MATULA, Owner Lunch Credit Catalogues Available 117 S. Green St. Phone EV. 5-0047 McHenry III. Open Daily 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday 9 a.m. 'til 12 neon USE THE FREE GREEN STREET PARKING AREA Auctioneers: A. C. "VVhitie" Thompson--Ph. Hampshire 5861, Burlington, 111. Wm. "Pat" Williams -- Ph. Geneva CE 2-0570, Huntley or Batavia, 111. 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