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AUGUST 6, 1975 • PLAINDEALER CENTENNIAL EOITION-^AGE 13 Old Items Of Interest (Taken from Sept. 8,187!?, issue of Plaindealer) BRASS BAND IN McHENRY: All persons interested in the organization of a Brass Band in McHenry are requested to meet at the Plaindealer office on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock sharp. We have the material for as good a band as there is in the county and if our citizens will interest themselves there is no good reason why one cannot be immediately organized. PER ORDER. Smith and Snyder bought and shipped from this station last week 5,000 bushels of new oats paying an average of 30 cents per bushel. There is nothing the farmers have to sell but what this firm will buy at a fair market price. Mrs. S.L. Orvis of Solon has left on our table a copy of the Cumberland Valley "Sentinel" printed at Chambersburg, Pa., Feb. 5,1847. It shows its age but nevertheless is readable. In it we find a market report of that date which does not differ as much as one would think from prices at the present day. We quote a few of the leading articles: flour per barrel $4.25, wheat per bushel 85 cents; oats 22 cents; corn 40 cents; hay per ton $6, potatoes per bushel 50 cents, butter per pound 15 cents; eggs per dozen 10 cents. This, it will be remembered, was 28 years ago. The baseball club of this village have a new uniform and present a very neat and tasty appearance. It consists of red stockings, white pants, blue shirt and belt, white cap corded with blue. Commencing at their feet, they now represent the national colors "red, white and blue". If they do not win the next major game we shall be much mistaken. The honor of the new uniform is at stake. (From Sept. 15,1875, issue of the Plaindealer) An exchange says a confectioner advertises "Centennial Kisses" but he can't sell any. No, people don't like them so old. They prefer them about Sixteen-nial. Hon. F.K. Granger has left at our office, a stalk of corn that is 14 feet in height the ear being fully 10 feet from the ground. It is necessary to inquire "how is that for high"? The east side of the Fox river along Route 120 points out the VFW ball diamond at the left of the photo. A carnival in progress at the time the picture was taken can be seen at the lower left. New Bridge Spans River cream factory. In )915. the Public Service Co,, acquired possession. The city water system was established in 1898. followed fourteen years later by gas. in 1912. ' •; - The public service of city officials in the early days required a great amount of time and all of the knowledge they possessed. In the year that (he first officials were installed after incorporation as a city. McHenry realized one of its biggest accomplishments of that time in the paving of city streets. Some will still recall, with a "smile, the common sight of cars becoming stLick in the mud of city streets w;hen the frost went out in th^'spring before this time. Mcrt;e paving was done in 1927, the same year that the state bridge over the Fox river was opened, taking major traffic from the old bridge one block north. View From East Of River REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN -- \ The Boone Creek bridge collapsed under Noah Pike ifi a light buggy after a bus load of passengers had passed safely over it? A singing school was conducted in the old city hall? In the good old days, a few of the Beau Brummels courted their girls on tandems? George Hanly, on his prancing horse, was marshal of the Fourth of July parades? , Chief Bald Knob of the Pistaqua tribe called his brave warriors together by signal fires from the top of the land now known after his name, signalling from the Algonquin Hills and the height of Woodstock the first white men were coming down the Fox River trail, that they should be ready to fight? Thomas Dayment was millwright at the old Hanly mill? Progress Is Evident From Earliest Days Following the arrival of the railroad in 1854, and the establishment of telegraph service in 1873, many other signs of progress were evident in McHenry in the days before the turn of the century and in (he years since that time. The first switchboard and exchange, owned by the Chicago Telephone Co., was established in the Stoffel building in 1897. under management of Simon Stoffel. In 1912, the exchange was moved to the Court street location. 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