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FIFTY YEAHS AGO (Taken from the files of January 13, 1927) Kent & Company, McHenry realtors, report the opening of - the new year with one of the largest deals ever made in this locality. The sale was of the 240- acre farm of Charles Gleason, Who resides north of Richmond. An exchange of property was also made whereby a six apartment building, located on Garfield boulevard, Chicago, valued at' $60,000 was ex­ changed for the farm. The total consideration was over $96,000. Roy A. Kent of Kent & Co., handled the entire transaction and the deal was closed within a week Fred D. Pasley, feature writer of the Chicago Herald and Examiner, visited McHenry Tuesday of this week and the next morning there appeared a double-column article in that metropolitan newspaper, expressing his views regarding wha,t he found in the district known as the playground for Chicago and northern Illinois. He called McHenry the place where they manufacture health and happiness The local quintet defeated the Woodstock team in one of the closest and hottest basketball games of this season by a score of 17-15 last Friday evening at the high school gym. Wood­ stock came here bent on win­ ning, as they have lost the games of the past two con­ secutive years to the Orange and Black. But McHenry was just as, set on keeping her reputation and did so by a narrow margin. The McHenry Sash and Door factory, which has occupied the old Crystal Lake road, has moved to the building formerly known as the pickle factory. This building has been owned by the Sash and Door company for some time and was used for storage purposes. FORTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of January 14, 1937) The McHenry Brewing company, now known probably as McHenry's foremost in­ dustry, has commenced the building of an addition on the rear of the brewery on Pearl street, giving increased cellar and main floor capacity. The contract for the entire job has been let to the Tonyan Con­ struction company. u; An increase in deposits of approximately $200,dOO for the past year was announced by the West McHenry State bank, at the thirty-first annual meeting. William Carroll, state's at­ torney of Woodstock and vice- president of the bank, was elected chairman of the board of directors to fill the vacancy caused by the death of F.B. Wattles, and C.J. Reihan- sperger was elected vice- president to take the place of William Carroll. .Recommendations of the Road and Bridge committee, submitted to the board of supervisors, stated that the committee had estimated that there will be $100,000 available until December, 1937, from the MFT fund for use on roads and that this amount '.1 finance the completion several routes. Among their recom­ mendations was improvement of the East river road from McHenry to Lake Defiance, a distance of three miles, and a two-mile stretch from Route 60 through Spring Grove to Lake county line/ TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of January 17, 1952) The annual stockholders meeting was held at the McHenry State bank Jan. 8, at which time the following directors were re-elected: Gerald Carey, William M. Carroll, Charles J. Reihan- sperger, William A. Nye, M.D., and Robert L. Weber. On Monday of this week, Otto Mueller, treasurer of the McHenry Choral club, an­ nounced that a check for bet­ ween $100 and $125 would be mailed to the city library within the next ten days, representing the net proceeds of the recent benefit concert. This, together with a private donation made this past week, will take care of the purchase cost of the new library building, according to a library board member. Gerald P. Newman of West McHenry, a member of Bankers Life company, DesMoines, Iowa, has won recognition as a member of the company's »$300,000 Honor Volume club. He earned membership in the club for his production of more than that amount of new life insurance business during the )95l calendar year. - Between* 125 and 150' teenagers were present at the V.F.W. clubhouse last Tuesday evening to enjoy the first in a series of recreation nights planned by the Business Men's- association, in cooperation with three other local organizations. TEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of January 19, 1967) The first inter-faith meeting of its kind to be held in McHenry will take place Wednesday, Jan. 25, at St. Patrick's church on West Washington street. The meeting will take place in the form of an Inter-faith Service for Christian Unity and will begin at 8p.m. Clergymen from St. Mary's and St. Patrick's Roman Catholic churches, St. Paul's Episcopal church., Community Methodist church and Faith Presbyterian church as well as iaymen will be participating in this service. A young Chicagoan was in­ formed that violence would have no root in McHnery when he appeared in Branch III court. The presiding judge, John Kaufman, emphasized his point whenvhe pronounced a sentence of ninety days and $300 for William F. Gannon, 20, of Chicago, on a charge of battery. The charge originated as a result of fiot conditions which existed in McHenry on the night of Dec. 18, when several hundred youth left a dance at the roller rink and continued a series of fracases throughout the city. Mayor Donald Doherty has announced that the Automotive Controls Corp., will start operations approximately Feb. 1 in its new plant now nearing completion on North Industrial drive, north of Rt. 120, west of the North Western railway *»• tracks. SECTION 2 - PAGE 3 - PLAINDEX f Grants Support Cerebral Palsy Research Projects kLER-WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12,1977 report of a study on normal and pathological gait being made at the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rehabilitation Engineering Center. My Fault Will Rogers told about one trip to Washington: "They took jne in to meet President Harding, and I said, 'Mr. President, 1 would like to tell you all the latest jokes.' " "You don't have to," he an­ swered, 1 appointed them." i United Cerebral Palsy of northeastern Illinois has an­ nounced approval of $252,869 in grants to support ten additional cerebral palsy research projects throughout the U.S. in fiscal year 1976T7. The national organization's current and projected support of research and training grants for the year now totals more than three- quarters of a million dollars. The approved projects are for studies on the effect of in­ fections, amino acid im­ balance, cerebral edema and other factors associated with development of the fetal brain, and for computer-aided studies to improve ttye gait of children with cerebral palsy. The research grants were, awarded by the United Cerebral Palsy Research and Educational foundation, the scientific arm of United Cerebral Palsy Associations,, Inc., New York. Since it began in 1954, the foundation has awarded more than $16 million in grants for research and to train medical and research personnel.- The latest action was at last month's annual meeting of the foundation's board of directors in New York. 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