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*v*e** 1 x ^ r* ^vETJPjv (1 ^"jP ». A • -* *-* *•• •- - --4 Page Thiitee* Do You REMEMBER WAT BACK WHEN-- There was a jewelry and repair shop successfully conducted by the late N. A. Huemann in the onestory frame building that now houses the popular insurance firm of Stoffel & Reihansperger in West .•v'j: McHenry.-- About 25 years ago Mr. Huemann built th^ large ttfo-s£ory qement block building and, with a musical department, was kept busy furnishing beautiful pianos and 4 phonographs to happy home& . •+ ' „ •For the past 12 years, Mr. aridifrs. A." K. Nye and < | family have owned this spacious property 'w^Te " Nye c o n d u c t s a v f e r y m o d e m ' " • ' < • . - • - * Music, Jewelry, Gift, Radio •r/V and Repair Shop with silver server fre£ with each silverware purchase. REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN-- Your groceries were delivered with a bicycle of a horse and wagon? Everything sure has changed. Quite ofttfn we talk ' about the good old days. Others arc sure the cash and carry plan is better, but, after having delivered groceries for twenty years, I am sure there will always be rainy days, 20 below zero days, when your relatives are at the hospital or something unexpected happens. Your grocer, being a regular fellow, will ppobably be the first to pat you on the back and tell you to pay the hospital for the new baby first, our bill can wait until next pay day. Our customers"can depend <j>n us in a pinch. . V V 1 --V i&ips. * y "a' j • • f *• 'yyAx 1 • < £ * . * ; y ? • - • - *.*E\7*>\ " f • " v - 0 v "' Eg* *. K.f V.. " \ $*• V-X' . St. Patrick's Church Built In 1922 THREE PHYSICIANS HERE 60 YEARS AGO We extend congratulations to the Plaindealer on its birthday anniversary. ; •: -- • Art Smith "West McHenry REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN-- Wagons were shipped from McHenrj^by the wrload? Builders For Ten Years v l--J,.-, Folks, we want to thank you for the interest you have shown us while we have labored here under our present business since 1925. _/• Your co-operation has been exceptional. You . may rest assured that as we ponder over the past ^ail-too short ten-year period, since we have been building in and around the community, we have had *many a happy thought of those with whom we have come in contact, and especially those of our friends who have helped us to make our work a success. , Tonyan Construction Co, GENERAL CONTRACTORS West McHenry, Illinois REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN-- Simon Stoffel drove that bay horse. and two* 'wheeled cart? Our office hereby thanks its many valued patrons for their support' and confidence placed in our agency and the strong,, reliable stock companies represented bv us for nearly 50 years. As the first 50 years are the hardest, we ask for another 50 years of kind supi>0rt. l^This is our only business knd we try to interfere with the prospects in life of others. STOFFEL & REIHANSPERGER INSURANCE Tel. 300 West McHenry St Patrick's conjp-egration was organized in 18^oSjy^hc Rev. de SL I alais, afterward Bishop of Vincenres, Ind. The first Catholic settlers in McHenry were John and Michael Gutton, Georg-e Frisby, and James Gibbs. ^ Until the year 1853, Holy Mass was offered occasionally as weli as the Sacraments Administered in the homes of the different settlers. How- | was replaced in 1899 by a modern rectory erected by Fr. O'Neii. Th«i present beautiful church was built in ! 1922 by Father M. J. McEvoy, at a cost of about $70,000. It is of Fenn- |Sylvania brick and Indiana Bedford, T^ere were three practicing physistone of Romanesque type of archi*--cllins in McHenry sixty years ajr<}SinJ j tecture and has a winter ahapei at itached. The church has a^seatirig capacity of 450 persons with yn additional 100 in the chapel. Tha basement of the church is fitted ufv as a hall with stajre and other ceirfveniehci s for entertainment. AmonK the priests who( have attertd.- t d St. Patrick's since its foundation) weVe the R v. de St. Palais, Gruguen, ^1C(iorisk, McM-\Hon, Uampston, 11 VIKU Hr'ady, P. Gaffney, James Moran, A. Kustace, James Meagher, P. Smith, <i. Pren<lergast.. Peter Birch, John Kilccording to our flies they were, Dr. Edwin A. Beers, Dr. O. J. Howard, rnd Dr. H. T. Brown. However, the first doctor in Mc- •n'enry, who came here almost a ce»itury ago, was Dr. Christy G. Wheeler who came here in 183? from New Hampshire. He was born in Dunbarton, N. H-, March 24, 1811, and later, because of failing thtalth, de<fided to- chan^j climate. * ^ He with his wife and two, children came to Illinois in the fall of 183r>. Kenny, Michael Welby, P. M. O.'Neil. j Aftir stopping a few weeks at'Genwho spent the last thirty years-of his life at McHenry, Paul Bourke, Dan. Lehane, Henry Hairen, Thas. eva they came to McHenry, beftag the first white family to locate in tho township. The following May, the II. Quinn, M. J. McEvoy, and the pre- ! stake was driven locating the county ; cnt pastor, R< v. Wm. A. 0'Rourke. I seat at McHenry. Christy Wheeler ! : paid the cost of the survey of the -I'ATHER O'ROL RKK SAYS town which was $100. • He purchased j "LONG MAY YOU RAVE" a small store and. kept the first post- | Hurrah, hurrah, "hurrah"! Let me J office in the county. He was aftere one of the many to congratulate j wards recorder of deeds and held that FATHER WM. A. O ROURKE ever, in that year several emigrants from Kilkenny made the building o* a church A necessity. Consequently 1 r. small brick Church was built at a ,<-ost of about $3,000. In 1872, the • Rev. Birch, and in 1883, the Rev. O'Neii, made substantial additions to \ the original building, which for aboilt seventy years served the needs of the congregation. The first parochial residence was built by the Rev. A. Eustace. This you on !your Sixtieth anniversary. More power to you, and may you live forever. office at the time of his death, Mai^h 28, 1842. Dr. O. J. Howard was a native of Truly you should be proud Of your Madison county, N. Y., and was bor.i record and arhievemfents. I never Oct. 12, 181C. thought your papier would live so ! His grandfather, John Howard, long; really, I looked for it "to fold | served in the Revolutionary War, was up" any day, and no doubt it. .would, captured at Crown Point and made were it not for such a cap*Me and ^ his escape by jumping from the wind- | competent editor. ow of a two-story bouse and runhing I am proud to state that it is the , for lif* whilf bullets fell Around him. best paper published in this city,-- | *** attended medical school in In brief, up-to-date, and prints the news j d'®na and Ohio and practiced in Liv^1 that is fit to rei*d, provided you can iP°°l» Ohio, for wventew years, lit. read English. I like your society j »hen came to McHenry- , _ I page, best - then comes Bulger's I ^ ! ad. Long may you race. God bless you. . F J arfie,d' ^} - in u 182" FATHER O'ROURKE ••x.m t" vv 1 X " % < V ' REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN-- The women wore hoop skirts and picture hats? 44 TED'S" PLACE ,A throe-score jubilee and a silver anniversary! ? things a.re liappeniug iu tins old town this weeK This is the twenty-fifth year that Ted's Place has been in business in the Gilbert building in West McHenry and, of cours'e^ the three-score jubilee is the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the Plaindealer. , So ' 'Ted" and the.,home-town newspaper are eelebraiingitp^ ether two events of-.equal importance, to e«wjh one and both wishing for the other.'continued prosperity and success. r_ . •^i^.^ed's'Oafe was started in 1910 by Tlieodoi'e Schie^- Sr., who conducted it iiiitil Ms death when it yrsfc tiken over by hi§ son, Ted, who is the pre&eht proprietor, • v Sittiat^i in the Grilbert building oh the; •.west side, the f afe vis cotiductod in one of thb diciest landmarks in McHenry which was owhed^ try :the Oilberts hiany year^ A record of a quarter of a "century of advancement and "success, with ownership remaining in' the same family, could have been possible only through a.-service of value and benefit to its customers. r«From Ted's Cafe to the Plaindealer come best wishes for success for another sixty years of progress-- REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN-- a Yon were afraid to walk on the edge of the board sidewalks,1 ffjbr fe&r |Uid other side wo>iild fly up and hit you? ^ • •'4* % f on their 60th anniversary. i.. Our business was founded in 1883 and we" can really appreciate, that, though there have been storms and depressions to combat by all, our good old Plaindealer always comes out* on top. v . i Watch our windows for photos of people you knew in days gone by. ;;. . ;• -t ' ' - v . - - 7 ' ' ' • . " ' V vV N. J. Justen &-lSon West McHenry, Hi REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN*-- 5 , A ,t is.ut:, The medicine show used to visit 'XoBteary an# t&er ^ "professor" tried to sell you Kickapoo Indian REV. MARTIN J. McEVOY Paitor c^ St^. Patrick'^ From 1915 Until His Death in 1926 Father McEvoy, pastor of St. Patiiqk's church and beloved by all members of his'parish came to McHenry in July, 1915, from St. Peter's at South Beloit, 111. He was born April 12, 188(^ at J-oliet, 111., and received his A. B. de- Lrree and later his Master's degree from St. Ignatius College, Chicago. He made his seminary course in Baltimore finishing with the degree of S. T. B. He was ordained by the most Rev. James Edward Quigley, D, D., in Chicago on Dec. .15, 1916, and was shortly after appointed assistant to the late Rev. P. A. McMaHon St, Mary's Rockford. While pastor of . the McHenry parish he was instrumental in building the present church which was erected in 1922. He died in McHenry Feb. L 1926, and is buried in St. Patrick's cemetery. * • cd in 1853 from the medical department of the University of New York In 1859 he came to'McHenry where h® died Nov. 26, 1879. His widow, who is now over 100 years old, lives in Chicago. Dr. Henry T. Brown, was a native of New York state. He was born Nov. 1, 1823. His father came to II- j Hnois in 1837. In 1850 Dr. Brow^V graduated from Rush Medical school in Chicago. After living in Californ- ; ia two years he returned to McHen- i ry. ' • • ! Dr. C. H. Fegers, was born in Pru - sia in 1846. His father, a physician, came to America with hiff^tamily 1850 and located at West Poiiit,-la. In 1876 he returned to ' Germany, where he died. Dr. Fegers graduated from.the Chi cago Medical College in 1879 and bv • gan .his practice at Johnsburg coni-' ing to McHenry in 1883. He was followed by hi* nephew, Di . Charles Fegers, who came here from Keokuk, la., and later by Dr. N. J. Nye, who is still in practice here. Other physicians of the present day in McHenry are Dr. Nye's son-,-Dr. Wm. A. Nye, Dr. D. G.. Wells, Dr. A I. Froelich and Dr. C. W. Klontz. The life of a medical practitioner in a newly settled country was one of toil and hardship Early settlers 'were generally of strong constitutions, however, and there was little sickness, however, the chief complaint being fever and ague which was especially prevalent in the region along the Fox river. The disease disappeared as the country itn proved. . yTTvr"" International Extradition The right of one nation to require another to surrender persons to it for the purpose of criminal trial Is based on treaties between the various countries. -Whether a country can be required to surrender its own citizens accused of having committed a crime In the demanding country depends upon the; terms of the particular treaty. Maiiy nations, including the United States, customarily, insert a provision in their treaties to the effect that they shall not be bound to surrender their own citizens. The right of International extradition is confined 'to per sons accused of having committed a crime. V . " . * " " I L i a t e f i c t • " y 1 Good Quality Moderately Pric.ed. MRS. PICH Bank ^.Building (keen Street REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN-- Everett Hunter, Sr., reported the catch of a 28-inch - pickerel and a 21-inch black bass? :•... / - J; D Lodtz and P. F. Lodtz SUITS--TOP COATS--PLAIN DRESSES Cleaned and pressed 80c Pick up and Delivery Anywhere PHONE 104-M / Hat Cleaning--Tailoring--Rn«r Cleanifli|: Established in McHenry .40 years. ;