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Thursday, August 27, 1964 THE McHENHY PLAINDEALER Section Two -- PageFiy*.; Twice Told Tales FORTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Aug. 28, 1924) The automobile traffic through the city on Sunday was the heaviest in weeks and kept our traffic officers quite busy throughout most of the day. The heaviest travel, especially on Pearl street, was experienced between the hours of 4 and 7 when hundreds of machines passed through on their way to Chicago from the lake regions of lower Wisconsin. Many of these machines stopped in McHenry for lunch. Boat races were held at Pistake Bay Sunday. The races were held under the auspices of the Fox River Valley Power Boat club and were run over the Pistakee Bay course and the start and finishing point being in front of the Pistakee Bay club house. There were many contestants and several prizes were won. Approximately 170 people in various ways connected with the banking institutions of McHenry county together with their wives enjoyed the first annual outing and banquet as sponsored by the McHenry County Bankers Federation and held here last Thursday afternoon and evening. The happy party left the Hunter boat line pier for a trip up Fox river and around the lakes. On their return to McHenry they gathered at the Polly Prim tavern, where a chicken dinner and dancing were enjoyed. Plasterers, electricians, carpenters and painters employed on the new community high school building are working at top speed in order to have our beautiful new building ready for the fall term beginning Sept. 8. Twenty members of the McHenry Boy Scouts along with their Scoutmaster, Gordon Stringer, will leave for a six day outing in the woods of Wisconsin bright and early on Tuesday morning. Alfred Nicholls, son of Harry Nicholls of Volo, met with a horrible death in Chicago, when his life was crushed out by the falling of an elevator under which the unfortunate man had been working. ADD TWICE TOLD TALES.. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of August 24, 1939) Maurice "Tip" Schreiner announces the opening of the Standard Oil station, corner Routes 31 and 20, in West McHenry, which he will manage. His slogan re&d$, "Come in please -- go out pleased" McHenry's added a much needed new parking lot west of the Northwestern hotel for tnose who ride the train to work in Chicago each day. ;' Ethel Biggers from Ring* wood was found dead in bed Tuesday noon. She was pronounced dead of asthma and a heart attack. Father F. C. Voet, former Woodstock priest now stationed at Warren, 111., was elected chaplain of the Illinois American Legion at the state convention held in Peoria this week. The annual picnic sponsored and planned by the Country Rural Youth federation is to be held in Thompson's Woods Sunday, Aug. 27. A full day's program has been planned. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen N. Schmitt, accompanied by Mr, and Mrs. Math Schmitt of Spring Grove, completed a 2,- 800-mile trip through the Southwest. The peach orchards of southern Illinois wre among interesting places of note on the journey. Sister Mary Vincentia, O.S.F. formerly Miss Mary Barbian, passed away Thursday, Aug. 17, at St. Anthony's hospital, St. Louis, Mo. Lake Defiance was the scene of the annual Sutton reunion last Sunday. All enjoyed the picnic dinner and supper and the afternoon spent at cards, various other games, boat riding and visiting. Mervin Schoenholtz of McHenry took part in a number of folk dances at the Language Hall fair at Boulder, Colo. The dances and costumes represented three European nations, France, Spain and Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Phannenst ill of Volo were presented a baby girl last Thursday at St. Therese hospital. She will answer to the name of Ruth Ann. During the first part of October there is to be a CCC recruitment. Boys interested in this work and who are in need of employment should apply now, either at the local relief office or at the Illinois emergency relief commission office, armory building, Woodstock. There has been a constant demand during the last few years for vocational courses for high school boys. The boarcl Of education has taken recognition of this demand and is opening a vocational trades course this fall. The course will be taught by Mr. Elmer Baum, a man who has had twenty years' practical experience jut vtiriiHip. building trades. TEN YEAKS AGO (Taken from the files of Aug. 26, 1954) Gerald Miller was a member of the Pure Oil Laboratories men's glee club which was entered in choral competition at the twenty-fifth annual Chicagoland music festival held Saturday night at Soldier field. Mrs. Norbert Yegge took advantage of her vacation last week to represent the Plaindealer by attending Editor's Day at the Illinois State Fair. Howard Griffith is recovering in Resurrection hospital, Chicago, from severe injuries sustained in an auto accident last week on Rt. 12, near Des- Plaines. Ray McGee, McHenry postmaster, was awarded the beautiful medal for citizenship at the Veterans of Foreign Wars carnival held on the grounds last Sunday evening. The Fox river claimed another victim last Friday evening in the person of 13-yearold Bernard Joseph Reiter of Lima, Ohio, who was visiting in the Jo'hnsburg area. He was a passenger in a boat which went beneath the surface of the water after being flooded by the waves of a passing, larger boat. George Rosing retired farmer in the community east of here, died Saturday morning, Aug. 21, at his home at Wooster Lake, where he had resided for the past half century. He was 92 years old. Serving with an armored infantry unit at Fort Leonard Woods, Mo., is Bernard Peschke, Jr., son of the senior Peschkes, who reside on Rt. 120, east of the city. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Cristy will hold open house at their home between Ringwood and Wonder Lake in honor of their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary on Sunday, Aug. 29. Miss Dorothy McAuley of McHenry became the bride of Vincent Tonyan of Ringwood in St. John the Baptist Catholic church at Johnsburg. Rev. Joseph Blitsch officiated at the double ring ceremony. Sunday night, Aug. 22, the senior Methodist Youth Fellowship council met with their advisors, Mr. and Mrs. Stinespring, to plan the fall program. In a pretty wedding solemnized in the Zion Evangelical Lutheran church of McHenry at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon, Miss Donna Cundiff became the bride of Mr. Phillip Skiba, Rev. Carl Lobitz officiated at the service. Outside U.S., some 80 per cent of all railroads are owned and operated by the respective governments.. COMMON WORDS DERIVED FROM ANIMALS: AVIATOR comes from Latin for bird: GERANIUM comes from a Greek word meaning cane's bill: MUSCLE, from a Greek word meaning little mouse: BUGLE is from a French word for oxhorn: PHILIP, from a Greek word meaning horse-lover: CHIVALRY comes from French for horseback: CANARY, from Latin for dog: CYNIC, from Greek, meaning dog's life. -- JPer6onat& -- Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Adams and Miss Kathryn Hudson returned to their home in Kansas City, Thursday, after a five day visit with their aunt, Mrs. F. G. Schreiner. Mrs. John Vycital and daughter, Frances, left Friday, by plane for a visit in the home of Dr. Richard Vycital in Boise, Idaho. Captain and Mrs. L. J. Mahony, Jr., of Wurtsmith AFB, Mich., visited her grandmother, Mrs. Nellie Bacon, Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thompson and Miss Maude Granger attended a reunion of the Van Natta family held at the Thomas Boarman home in Crystal Lake, Sunday, with folks present from Michigan, Elgin, Itasca, Rock Island, Brookfield, Grayslake,, Hinsdale and McHenry. Mrs. Ann Roden^irch returned Sunday from Marycrest, Kankakee, where she spent the past week in the home of her daughter, Mrs. George Fitzgerald, and family. Mr. and Mrs. John Thqlen and Mr. and Mrs. Stephen N. Schmitt visited relatives in Aurora Sunday. Mrs. Rita Ulrich and daughter, Virginia, visited St. Charles relatives Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Dan O'Shea, Norine and John of Grayslake, spent a recent evening with Mrs. Charles Gibbs. Mrs. Amos Balsom of Milwaukee was a guest in the home of her sister, Miss Ruth Neel, this week. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Patzke of Fort Meyers, Fla., spent a few days last week with relatives here. Mrs. Nick M. Justen entertained a group of relatives Wednesday evening honoring her daughter, Sister Nicele of Rockford, and her travelling companion, Sister Raymond of Milwaukee, who had returned that day, by plane, from a vacation in the west. Her other guests were the Joseph Justen family of Richmond, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Nischan and the latter's daughter, Sister Florence Mary, who has been in South Bend but is now transferred to Chicago, and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Justen. Sister Nicele, and her companion had left a few weeks before on a motor trip through the west accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Marie Martin, and daughters, Gretta, Carla and Marta, Stops were made in Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and' California. In Phoenix they visited Sister Raymond's sister and in California they were guests in the home of Sister Nicele and Mrs. Martin's sister, Mrs. Thomas Whittemore, in Menlo Park, and also did much sight seeing. Mrs. Martin and daughters returned home the first of this week. Mr. and Mrs. William Jordan visited in the home of her sister, Mrs. Frank Hovet, in Elgin Saturday and on Sunday were guests of friends in Rockford. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Zoia and children of Minneapolis were weekend guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Phalin, where Mrs. Zoia and children remained to spend the week. Mr. and Mrs. William Terry and children, Mathew and Cathy, of Little Rock, Ark., visited in the home of her uncle, Melvin Walsh, Thursday, and also called on other relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Morrison of Evansville, Wis., were Sunday guests in the Clinton Martin home. Mr. and Mrs. Joe May, Mrs. Rose Staines, Mrs. Irene Guffey and Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Miller attended the wedding of Miss Janis Bungard, to Mr. Walter Matyasic of Battle Creek, Mich., which took place at the immaculate Conception Chapel in Elmhurst at 11 a.m. Saturday; with a reception following at Plentywood Farm, Bensonville. Sister Alma of Notre Dame, Ind., spent a few days, last week, with her sister, Mrs. George Phalin. She was accompanied here by another sister, Mrs. A. H. Richards of St. Louis, who paid a brief visit. Both had been visiting in Minneapolis. Mr. and Mrs! L. Antonson and son, Mike, Martinsville, New Jersey, are spending a few weeks with relatives and fi'iends here. They were accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Robert Winkel, who had been spending some time in their home. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Bauer, Mrs. Jacob Justen and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schoewer attended open house in the new home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harding (Alta Denman) in Gurnee, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Volney Brown and family motorecL'tcrCarripbellsport, Wis., Suriday to pick up her mother, (Mrs. A. P. Freund, who had Been spending a few days with\ her sister there. ' Karen Davis of Lake in the Hills spent the past week with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lockwood. Other visitors during the weekend included Miss Amanda Behrens of Woodstock, Miss Lillian Behrens of LaGrange and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lockwood of Crystal Lake. Mrs. Richard Rapp and children of Rockford were Monday guests in the Fred Bienapfl home. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Miller spent the past week at Elkhorn, Wis., in the home of their daughter and family the William Morgans. If you read enough history books, and read them carefully enough, you will conclude that a few very obvious facts are visible: 1. 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