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* *#AOE It - PLAINDE ALER - FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1984 Thomas Trausch, showing a water color painting ^ttiat he painted in a workshop-demonstration that $»e recently gave, will be judging the "Art in the Plaindealer photo by Anthony Oliver Park" Arts and Crafts Festival in McHenry, on Saturday, July 28, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ^Woodstock artist 'Art in Park' judge Thomas Trausch, has recently | x«w..k« uauxu, ..as itxaiu, ^been announced as judge of the jJ*Art in the Park" Arts and qCrafts Festival to be held in SVIcHenry on Saturday, July 28, ^roin 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Trausch is a graduate of the Jniversity of Illinois with a ichelor's degree in fine arts- raphic design, IIT Graduate "••School of Photography, and the ^American Academy of Art in ^vatercolor. He has had pain­ tings juried into American Painters in France, Paris, France; Grand Central Art Galeries, Founder's Festival Drawing in New York City; Louisiana Watercolor Society, Baton Rouge Louisiana and New Orleans winning an award and plaque; and many more exhibits. The artist has had a studio and gallery in Woodstock for nine and a half years, and is currently working on a book regarding the Woodstock Opera House. "Art in the Park", an outdoor arts and crafts festival, features area artist and craftspeople displaying various original, handcrafted items. Held rain or shine, the fair will include soft sculptured items, dolls, weaving, painting, photography, pottery, jewelry, stained glass, and woodworking. IQueen contest traditionally a fair attraction J? Since the McHenry County fair's revival in 1949, the Miss McHenry County Pageant has jfceen the opening night feature. This year 14 contestants will ompete for the title. In 1949 a •tal of 10 contestants appeared efore judged at the fairgrounds, saw their numbers deduced to seven, then to four- |irid then finally to three with lAVoodstock, Harvard and ^Crystal Lake comprising the final threesome.* £ Marilyn Thomsen, a 17-year- j)ld Woodstock High School ~ nior earned the first Miss cHenry County title. f This year's group recently pnet with the judges in preliminary competition, a step -toegun 20 years ago as an aid £*>th to the judges and the ^contestants. The event also provides a chance for the fair aboard to express its ap­ preciation to the local sponsors £of the candidates. Sponsor- representatives are guests at fXhe first appearance before the fudges. Miss Thomsen, in 1949, received $100 in cash and merchandise awards. This year's Miss McHenry County will receive money toward a college scholarship with ad­ ditional scholarships provided through contributions from Holmstrom and Green, Woodstock law firm; John Freund Funeral Home, Marengo and Wonder Lake; and George Justen Funeral Home, McHenry, , ft Dorothy Kleckner, chairman for the pageant, has arranged other prizes for the contestants. Assisting her this year is Linda Borhart as assistant director, Huntley; Ingrid Oost, Theresa Koss, Luci Yeadon, Connie Cutts, Harvard; Kathy Wegelin, Marengo; Margie Wiltberger, Spring Grove; Jane Reel and Barbara Titus, Cary; and Luci Miller, Hebron. At the preliminary pageant, the candidates modeled formals and swimsuits, then met with the judges for individual in­ terviews. The pageant finals begin August 1 at 7:30 p.m. before the grandstand audience on the fairgrounds. In order of appearance, these are the contestants: --Michele Berlin, 19, Wood­ stock. -Tina Spotten, 18, Hebron. --Stacey McCormick, 17, Cary. -Jenny Hoening, 16, Rich­ mond. -Tiffany Couper, 17, Algonopuun. hn« H'vifofirto -Dianna Bending, 20, Union. -Jacqueline Freund, 17, Huntley. -Michelle Key, 19, Lake in the Hills. -Michelle Boppart, 18, Harvard. -Sherry Syens, 17, Wonder Lake. -Betty Mihalik, 17, Fox River Gorve. 6 -Heide Bender, 19, McHenry. -Michele Merchut, 18, Marengo. -Jana Simonsen, 18, Crystal Lake. ig roast added to festival events Another attraction has been padded to the long list of ac­ tivities to be held during the Supcoming fifty-fifth anniversary ^celebration of establishment of Jjjthe Wonder Lake Dam. Tom jnnett, the new commander of the American Legion Post at fonder Lake, says the post will lave a pig roast at the Legion IjHome Sunday, Aug. 12, at 3 p.m. ^Commander Bennett says that ^iis post members will also •Jfriarch in the big parade on that late. Wonder Lake's Water Ski club lembers will perform Satur- lay, Aug. 11 at the Lake front. ^During the ski show, the boat prides will be suspended. ^Currently the boat ride ^schedules have been revised as ^follows: Saturday, from 11 a.m. Znintil 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. until 6 Sunday, the rides will be available about every 20 minutes from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. when there will be a break for the parade and then will again be held from 4 until 6 p.m. Most of the organizations at Wonder Lake have indicated they will have booths during the two-day observance. Lorraine Murphy, chairman of the steering committee, says that any funds raised by these booths belong to the sponsoring group ; no money is to be turned over to the committee. Baseball games will be held both days, with playoffs to in­ clude young men from all the subdivisions. The games are to be held at Jacobson park in Sunrise Ridge. The winning team will receive a barrel of beer. A booklet listing all the events is in the planning stage; posters McHenry's oldest resident dies FIFTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of July 26, 1934) Mrs. Samantha Button, who had gained reknown throughout the United States as being the only living Civil War mother, and McHenry's oldest resident, who had lived two and one-half years beyond the century mark, died Sunday night, July 22 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Culver. She would have been 103 in December. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William McCollum, Mrs. Button was born in Fairfax County, Ohio coming to McHenry in 1838 in a prairie schooner over winding Indian trails. As she grew up, she lived through the growth of the railroads, the invention of the telephone, electric lights, radio, automobiles and airplanes. TWICE TOLD TALES Edited from of years gone our files by Escorted by the flag of her country, for which she gave her son, Clinton Rorer in 1864, and by the Legion colors and with the tolling of the M.E. church bells, she was carried to her final resting place beside her soldier son in Woodland cemetery. FORTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of July 27, 1944) The Johnsburg Community club will be honored at its next meeting by having as guests many well-known men in county and state. Among them will be Senator R. Paddock,' Representatives Keller and Kelsey, States Attorney Carrol, Sheriff Nulle, Circuit Clerk i'.uflii 'i«>; Ziir.i ix} t 1 i •*>.< Lester Edinger, County Clerk Raymond Woods and County Treasurer J.G. Stevens. Amid historic demonstrations acclaiming his 12-year record in the White House and the promise of his future service, President Roosevelt was renominated for a fourth term by the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia received 89 votes, his support coming chiefly from southern delegations who registered a protest against the fourth term and the New Deal. "So I Hear" reported, "Those Shamrock boys are having their (roubles. For several weeks now they have lost by the narrowest of margins - one measly run." TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of July 23, 1959) Carol Frisby, an 18-year-old miss from Johnsburg, won the coveted title of Fiesta Day Queen last Thursday evening in a contest conducted in front of the V.F.W. clubhouse. She emerged victorious over 18 other contestants, one of the biggest fields of entries in recent years. During the first six months of 1959 there were 702 patients admitted to McHenry Hospital, an average of 117 admisiohs per month for the period, according to Ben Underwood, ad­ ministrator. Charles (Smitty) Smith received the "store of the year" award from Don Doherty, president of the Chamber of Commerce and William Pries, chairman of the retail mer­ chants committee. This award, based on cleanliness, neatness, hospitality and window display, was given by the Chamber for th first time during "open house weekend" to the furniture store on Riverside Drive known as "Smith Craft" which is owned and operated by Mr. Smith. The Family Outdoor Theatre featured Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty." SCtl IMOOBOOIM 8988&U) DlOll TEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of July 26, 1974) Norbert Smith and Terry Miller, employees of the McHenry State Bank, carried in the first batch of Illinois state lottery tickets which will go on sale in McHenry and elsewhere around the state July 20V-The bank is acting as safe£e<*per for the tickets and for money from ticket sales at local outlets. At least eight local places of business have been designated' as sales outlets for the new state lottery tickets. The first weekly drawing is scheduled to be held August 8. A large project to control a small insect has been in progress in McHenry this week. It consists of mosquito control by placing a certain species of fish which are effective natural enemies of mosquito larvae and pupae in local pounds. An adult fish may eat 30 to 60 larvae in a half-hour, which makes it a very effective tool in mosquito control programs. "Gambusia affinis" is commonly called the mosquito minnow. Un­ fortunately, many of the min­ nows which were flown from Alabama were dead on arrival. State cews and local volun­ teers cleared trees and brush away for the dredging of the creek at McHenry Shores. The two-week project just ended should assure that a stretch of roadway damaged by the recent floods will not soon agian be under water. Joe Weyland, 10 years old, McHenry, represented the sta of Illinois in the National Toi Sawyer Fence Painting con held earlier this month Hannibal, Mo. There werei 11 contestant from states borderini the Mississippi, ranging in af from 10 to 13 years. Joe, troduced as "our smallel contestant" was beaten by year-old Tom Powell Missouri. Contestants wc judged on costume, quality speed. Museum program features prairii are being prepared by Lynn Raske; and Heather Fitzgerald of the ski club will try to secure a banner to place over the road at Wonder Center. Murphy said the celebration is being planned so that it will not interfere with other area events. Sunday, July 29 at 2 p.m. the McHenry County Historical Museum in Union will offer a slide program on one of this county's remaining examples of a natural prairie. This special 40 minute presentation was prepared by the HUM Prairie Committee of the McHenry County Defenders and takes viewers to a high quality virgin prairie thirteen miles long and 60 feet wide that exists along the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad from Huntley through Union and Marengo to the Boone County line. Conducting the program will be Ed Collins, naturalist for the Pleasant Valley Outdoor Center, a Defender's board member and member of the HUM prairie committee. Historically, original prairie covered nearly two thirds of Illinois and in McHenry County the earliest atlas describes the prairie that existed here as "rich and fertile, the soil being a rich black loam, in places several feet in depth and inexhaustible in fertility." Today, unfortunately, many of the reminders of these virgin lands remain only as names and not facts-Crystal Lake Prairie, Irish Prairie, German Prairie, South Prairie, Prairie Grove. In this case, however, the old Galena & Chicago Union Railroad, later to become the Chicago & North Western, preserved the HUM Prairie. When the railroad came thr in 1851, the right-of-way fenced, partly to keep out fa animals. That, combined w regular maintenance bur allowed the deep rooted pi plants to survive. Today HUM Prairie is a living caps of the land in this area as it wc in the 1820'a. Already some 200 species native plants have been id< tified. This program is a w derful way to be introduced McHenry County as it once \ and the Historical Society courages everyone to attend interesting program. 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