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' f~'-i~ ts" .">. '•••,'• , * -•v-'f' * ^ - • ' , ?> • - • ? * V- •• -f ' mf* • • :: : : . \. " r" "• • r. '• '*, ":- •>„ * » U&rfeft • »< - > ' •. .• * "V*-",T,> V •v"'-; :-•'>' • ."• ••••,• - > Vrt>""- '-.•-r • ' ' fc,'- . V ^ *#W?r - -:v. t-r >.;.v ku':#, S. V,-." ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, JANDABY, 16, ^ IV !*<•>','* * ' - •'.: 1/ JURY DECIDES MANDENBIIRG TOOK OWN LIFE! J'. OF WEALTHY TAX* OWHSR Otto H. Brandenburg, 48 years old, of Chicago, wealthy Chicago contractor and wine importer, died at the country estate of his brother, Walter H. Brandenburg, between Volo and Fox Ij&ke; about five miles northeast of McHenry, at 3:30 Saturday morning, following fatal injuries received early Friday morning when he was mysteriously shot four times near the heart. Members of the Walter Brandenburg family heard the sound of an -automobile horn near their home about 5 o'clock Friday morning, but believing it was someone who had come aft- «r some cattle, paid no attention to the repeated sound. About 6:30 a. caretaker on the estate heard sortie one groaning and upon investigation found Otto Brandenburg in the snow (flose to the house. The wounded man was in a semi-conscious condition and bleeding profusely from the bullet wounds in his chest. Not recognizing him the brother, Walter, ordered the injured man into the caretaker's house, where he . was recognized and his brother informed of his identity. A call was immediately put in for a -doctor, but his condition was so critical that no effort was made to reire him to a hospital. caliber bullet was removed V^best, the other three having emerged from his body through the back. r BrufcHlury'g car, a coupe, was fovnd in the driveway of his brother's : estate, afcatt 400 feet from the residence liS when 1&e nrst search failed to reveal any trace of a weapon, in the machine or on the ground, au- •thoiitks believed that Brandenburg had been the victim of a murderous amolt Find Gun In Car A more careful search about noon revealed the pistol which had fallen between the cushions of the car. This dispelled the murder theory and led ' Sheriff Doolittle of Lake County to ; believe the shooting was a suicide, as • it-was saidthat he had had financial . worries. The brothers and other members of the family did not accept the. v suicide-ttfeory, however, and even after the coroner's jury returned a verdict of "suicide while despondent," "" 'they could pot become wholly con- V vinced that' the mysterious tragedy was Solved. „ The cushions and running board of the car were blood-stained and uneven wheel tracks made it seem that the car had travelled several feet at an uncertain and irregular rate before it headed into the snow at the side of ----the -road. --- ---- - Refuses To Talk < A trained nurse was put on the case and Mrs. Brandenburg hastened to the M'HENRY COUNTY 100 YEARS OLD CREATED BY 101 PT LEGISLATORS McHenry county might, but probably will not, celebrate its one hundredth birthday today. It was on Saturday, Jan. 16, 1836, that the state legislature passed an act creating several new counties throughout the state, among them being the county of McHenry. Other counties that might celebrate a birthday today are Kane, Ogle, Winnebago, Whiteside, and Jo Daviess counties. ' The territory then comprising McHenry county „also included what is now Lake county and was, taken from the county of Cook which was organized in March, 1831, and embraced, in .addition to its present territory, what is now included in the counties of Lake, McHenry, DuPage and Will. The territory now comprising McHenry and Lake counties was formed into McHenry county by an act of the legislature approved Jan. 16, 1836. The title of the bill was "An act to stablish certain counties, and Section one read as follows: "Be it enacted, etc., That all that tract of country within the following boundaries, to-wit: Beginning at a point on Lake Michigan where the township line dividing Townships 42 and 43 strikes said lake and running thence west along, said line to the east lino of Range Nunjbe* 4, east of the Third Principal Meridian, thence north to the boundary Um of the state, thence east to Lak« Michigan, thenee along the shore of said lake to the place of beginning, skall constitute a new eoonty to bo clArf KfelTeiu ji Commission Appointed The legislature provided for the or ganization of the county, appointed a commission to locate the county-seat and set apart the first day of June, 1887, as an election day, for the choosing of county officers. At the time of the first election, in 1837, the population of the county was estimated at 500, of whom probably more than 300 lived within the present limits sot Lake couny. The census of 1840 showed that McHenry county had a population of 2,578. Lake county had been formed the year previous in 1839. The commissioners appointed tg> locate the county-seat were M. L. Coville, of McLean county; Peter Cohen, of Will county, and Daniel Dunham of Kane county. Every important settlement in the county desired to have the- seat of justice for its possession. Therefore Independence Grove, rtow Libertyville, Half Day, ' McHenry, Crystal Lake and Fort Hill each urged its claims to the honor. The commissioners, after examining the various competing points, on the tenth of May, 1837, fixed upon McHenry as the county-seat, it being near the ^geographical center of the Scenes and Persons in the Current Newt „ SV. * V * > M'HENRY SCHOOL WILL ENTERTAIN PEP MEETING 'HELD TUESDAY IS The sport spotlight shines on the Little Conference Tournament to be played on McHenry's floor Friday and Saturday nights of this week. Spirited yells of "Fight, Team, Fight," and "Nine Rahs for the Team" rang through the stands as local boosters joined high school students in a pep meeting Tuesday night. Joe's Aces pitted their skill against the high schol boys as a preliminary to the pep meeting. An air of friendliness met the crowd as the gracious hostess, Constancc 1--Photograph from the Ethiopian war front showing some of Halle Selassie's warriors starting from Dessye on a raiding expedition. 2--Workmen tearing down old buildings in the five-block federal slum clearance project In Detrolt. 3--Brtg. Gen.OscarWe«tover,whohMJ>eeoqiM*d« chiefofUi^.,wW corpa. M'HENRY'S NEW SEWAGE PLANT MOST MODERN PLANS SHOULD BE STARTED NOW FOR r- BIO CENTENNIAL IS NOW APPROXIMATELY «5% COMPLETED Work on the construction and im provflhent of McHenry's sewage plant, which has been in progress during the past three months and which is now 96 per cent complete, was discontinued this week Wednesday until spring, or such time that the weather will be favorable for the exterior painting, grading, seeding and landscaping, which still remains to be done. In the meantime the sewage of the city will be taken care of by the old, primitive system in use for the past twelve years, which was, at its installation, considered to be perfectly adequate, . but because of changing times and increasing population, the need of a more modern sjflrtem became a necessity. The work, which is being done by With the holidays over and local people settling down to routine duties again those interested in the McHenry Centennial observance to be held next summer are beginning to make serious plans for the event which is being sponsored by th« city council and McHenry Plaindealer. Mayor Peter Doherty has already appointed a committee, composed of Aldermen R I. Overton, Nick P. Justen and E. J. Buss, to take charge of general arrangements and they plan to meet soon with representatives from every lodge, club and society in the vicinity when many other committees will be appointed to carry out plans for entertainment and to set the date for the celebration. It will be necessary to send invitations to alKold residents and there will be a great deal to do if the celebration is to be a success. A definite THIEVES RANSACK SUMMER HOMES NEAR JOHNSBURG SIX COTTAGES ENTERED WITHIN WEEK Robbery of cottages and summer homes in this territory is again be* coming prevalent with six homes in the King subdivision at Johnsburg ransacked within a week. The first robbery to be discovered in the subdivision was at the William Maywald home, where several hundred dollars worth of jewelry, linen, silver and clothing were, taken. Discovered by Son The Maywald family, who returned last week to live at their rjver hom% OF DISTRICT NO. 6 WALTER WINN DIRECTOR Walter Winn of Spring Grove "waa elected director for a term of two years at the tenth annual meeting ojt District No. 6 of th«/Pure Milk asscte ciation held at the McHenry Commurf# ity high school Saturday afternocaU Mr. Winn, who has been active in' the PMA and" in the interest of the farmers for the last twenty years art! who served as county chairman of the PMA for the past two years, been acting director for some time, filling the vacancy caused "by the signation of Frank Green *1 the tims of the milk strike. Mr. Winn is popular and" well likedby the farmers who have contempt' In his judgment. He spoke concent* ' ing the subject of co-operative dairy~T' work in McHenry county twenty years ago and the progress it has made terminating in collective bargaining. • Speakers at the meeting,"which coil : vened at the high school at 1 o'clock, were Don Geyer, secretary-manage#, of the Pure Milk association, and Tons Stitz of die co-operative division of the Farm Credit Administration at Boyko, led the students in greeting all comers. "The newly organized pep band struck up some |nappy tunes and served notice that they are preparing special entertainment for us during tournament days. The band consists of local girl^, led by Adele Froehlich and her cornet. Other members are: Henrietta Herdrich and Dorothy Lay. cornet; Janice KlontZ and Winifred Benwell, trombone; Lorena Esh, bass; i Washington. Lorraine Engeln, drums; Lucille Esh;, Geyer, who was #ell received bf snare drum; Rosa Popp, Arlette New-jthe 200 members of the PMA present, mmaann and TL atul »r•a« ORiuiasastiAe, Clan rMin Meatf, J . # tL .1 a band that you will like. reviewed events of the last thraa years which led up to the milk strike bedside of her husband. Although he county then constituted. McHenry • the Gjellefald Construction company regained consciousness at interva'l s county then contained thirty congres- ~ ~ *,before his death Brandenburg refused' to discuss the shooting and answered --all inquries concerning the mystery with tightly closed lips. His brother township, and a small population, most of whith was east Of Fox river. Charles H. Bartlett, Mathias Mason, could offer no explanation for the j Solomon Norton were the first county supposed suicide, stating that his fin- commissioners and Henry B. Steele anciai affairs were not such that they |was sheriff, Michael C. McQuire was should have worried him and that his^1 coroner, Seth Washburn was record- W: home life was happy, Two Lake county deputies and gar- Age men pulled Brandenburg out of a snow drift near Fox Lake early Friday morning and after getting warm , in the garage he left, it was believed, enroute to his brother's home. The Brandenburg brothers were formerly partners in a contracting business, but Otto hfd only, been employed there during the last two years. Brandenburg's home Vas at 3445 Elaine place, Chicago. ,, His wife said that on Thursday evening he had telehoned that Ke would not be home and that it was er and Charles Moore was surveyor. Due to limited time and space we of Forest City, la, under a contract for $20,752, is a PWA project, known as No. 8155, for which a federal appropriation of $25,000 has been made, of which 30 per cent of this amount is a grant. The construction company loaded much of its machinery last week and program will have to be mapped out j order to avert a repetition of the and it will take considerable time to make plans for an Appropriate affair to mark the 100 years of local history. With the co-operation of the entire community it is hoped that the 1936 celebration will be made the biggest and best in history, but it will be only by getting started soon that arrangements can be completed. . TRUCK STRIKES CAR; DRIVER INJURED William Hiller is recovering at his Sent to ot^®r Projects for, near Johnsburg from injuries whjch the company has contracts, j received in an automobile accident cannot tell you more about the early i construction, all PWA project^ atnoiig ' wh'ch occurred 'ast Thursday afterh, Story of the county this week but then, bein* a sewer A i &££££ <j. is. *oley is the general superin ' robbery, had been in Chicago for two months and the theft was discovered when a son visited the place a week ago Sunday. He found a basement window broken, through which the thieves gained .entrance to the house which was topsy-turvy, with contents of drawers emptied out and cupboards upset. It is thought the robbery must have occurred a few days previous to the arrival of the soh as footprints leading to the place could be easily traced. Mr. and Mrs. Maywald came out the following Wednesday and Sheriff Henry Nulle was summoned to make an investigation,. Imported linens valued at $300, including spreads, beautiful tablecloths, napkins and tatting trimmed bed linen were taken from a cedar chest in ad- Miss Lorraine Engeln handled the and the present market situation and duties of toastmistress in grind fash-' asserted thftt interna) strife amonf ion, calling on Doctor Hess, George' dairy fanners must cease if milk pro- Stilling, president of the grade school du««r» hi the Chicago area ace to board; Miss Taylor, director of girli'jr*aliae the benefits to which they a* athletics fn high school j Harry Ander- entitled. son. captain the fint »auad; Ewll 4* also stated that then are y«ft many unorirmized dakprytftbts produeing festf a mU)£S poumL of milk, who should form some sort of an organized group, ^yst working in small groups and then elect representatives to meet and work with PMA officials in a, program of milk market* ing in which all would participate. Speaking on the base problem, which has been responsible for a great part of th« dissention within the PMA, Geyer advised that a base for 1937 be established on a four-month average production taken from the year 193C In his review of the milk atrik# Mr. Geyer stated that it had resulted in a loss of 1,200 *PMAr member^ 400 eCwhom were cancelled out by the assii* ciation. « In conclusion Mr. Geyer said that for seven years he had taken the hot shots and caustic remarks buried at the association, but had never know* in?ly misled the members. ,:In spft# of this," he added, the milk shed le torn to pieces and I hope that the new super-marketing council of milk producers will be carried hut and that we can bury the hatchet" 7*^ perhaps we can relate more about the early work of the commissioners next week. McHENRY LOCAL, PMA, ELECTS OFFICERS Officers elected at a recent meeting of the McHenry local of thle Pure Milk Association were Nels Pearson, president; Mat Glosson, vice-presi- __ ^ ^en" Paul Doherty, secretary and not unusual for him to go to his i treas"r'er and Peter A. Freund, directt> rother's home to spend several days ®r" V®'®g®tes to the district meeting At a time. She said he seemed to be odV" fnry Saturd«y »nd'to the "MA annual meeting to be held in Chicago in March are Ed Conway and E. R. Sutton. Local members remained loyal to the PMA, only two members canceling out. One of these members went to Richmond and the other is selling to a dealer at Ahtioch. The McHenry local has 107 members now delivering milk to the Bowman truck. Ing good spirits when she talked to . *•* t him and that as far as she knew he had not been despondent. Dies Saturday Morning Brandenburg continued to grow weaker until he died at 3:30 a. m. Saturday, without offering anjrtexplanation of the shooting. I An inquest was conducted by C$roner Taylor of Lake county, assisted • by the state's attorney, at the Brand- I ' §nburg home Saturday forenoon, ^ ' <|fc'here the jury, after an extensive investigation and listening to devils of the tragedy from many witnesses, retkrned a verdict of suicide while despondent over financial worries. Fol- ; lowing the inquest the body was reijioved to Chicago, where funeral ser- ----Vices were held Tuesday morning at ;^%0 o'clock) in the chapel at Graceland ... <|em^tfery. The body was cremated. He is survived by his widow, Jairnie " & flrtmdenburg, a fcfotfcer, Walter HJ - Brandenburg; and two sisters, Mrs. dition to silverware, two suits of Hiller was travelling north in his clothes and jewelry, diamond cuff ment engineer in charge of the local work is M S. Tomaska. Work Started Oct, 4 Walter Ehle.t and Mrs. Frank Kast- 0..-. He was the son of William B-andenburg. Until tv -> years ago he had been in business with his brother in a plastering business at 2924 North Western Avr nue, Chicago. Their last job was the iiv.w postoffice building in Chicago. • Walter Brandenburg, his brother, w&a a for:r.er vice-president of the Chicago beard of education and during the regime of Mayor William Hale Thompson was oae of his closest ad visera. * w . . T COI^f"y j1® Mc-i ^ach enroute to the Henry Williams ; links and stick pins were carried away. i m?VS 0.as"|farm and had slowed up to turn into'The contents of two suit cases were tv eif ei* 80 T>v.enr^ : the farm driveway when a large -mov- J dumped onto the floor and the cases 1 8 a r oreman. The govern- van a trailer attached, driven j used'to carry away the more valuable by Peter Pnek of Thorp, Wis., came. articles. . ; •frnm behind and in trying to pa«- Mr. and Mrs. Maywald ^rill pay „ • Hiller's car the truck crashed into it, a reward for the capture of the thieves win, comPany w®8 well equipped comp]ete]y demolishing the machine.! or for the return, of the stolen goods .. ° 3 an ^ry and worked! Hiller was thrown into the back of [or the goods may" be reumed with no ™ l Tt!y °nr>\ l J°b. S,"ce J.1 ,was, the car, where he was found in a stun- questions asked. e+ °.e i°n i C ° C1"u I ^11gh asined condition. The big truck hadi Five other cottages in the subdivi- • j wo oca men have been, em- turned completely around in the high- sion were entered about the same time ? ? °n . working in two wa an(j waa headed south after the' and were those of J. W. North, Chas. five-hour shifts dunng the day. coiLion. ,.F. Koester, Arthur Boon, Harry Han- About three carloads or fifteen tons A workmen on the highway .took 1 son and Arnold Blumenthal. Entrance .f ®e?ien # iVe«, erijUSf^ m ^ con" | Hiller to a doctor at Ringwood; where to all of the cottages was gained by -°V an s oth^r w-ork and ^t was found that he was suffering breaking a hole in a window through ^ 8 °UuC1? j ^ars °f j from shock, bruises and torn li*ra-| which they could reach the lock and san were auled from the Cary ments jrt his shoulder. He was taken j open the window, making entrance to his home where he is now recover- , easy. In some cases the house was ing from his injures. . ransacked with nothing stolen, even • 2---- i change being left in a cup in a'cuji- MASQUERADE PLANS j board, while in other instances con and "last, but not least--the one and only Superintendent Duker." Mrs. Carl Weber furnished dance music for the happy cfCTfd t$ close the meeting of "pep." McHenry's First Tournament A fine spirit of co-operation and sportmanship is evident in the school as all hands are busy preparing for the first basketball tournament ever held in McHenry. New lines decorate the gym floor. An electric score board has been installed. A new sign designating competing teams is placed in prominence. Adequate shower rooms are spic and span with a fresh coat of paint. The team members and cheer leaders are dolled up in nifty uniforms. It's McHenry's first turn to act as host to other teams in tournament competition and the school isn't missing a bit in their efforts to put the meet over in competent fashion. ' Not since 1925, when Coach Stringer's memorable group of sharp shooters Copped the County championship by taking a breath-taking battle from Hebron by a score of 22 to 19 ifir tho Crystal Lake floor, has McHenry tasted tournament " honors. Dick Overton, "Zeke" Bacon, Gus Freund and the Whiting brothers formed this unbeatable combination throughout the season, but fans will well remember how in the lost to the team through injury in the Elgin tournament. was bundled from a sick bed to the basketball floor to do noble service. To top all this, "Zeke" Jiaeon went out on fouls in the last quarter. Bill Nye, The meeting was a harmonious or|». and the turmoil occasioned at the district session a year ago at Woodstock was not repeated. The PMA membew • listened attentively to the hour and mishaps forced several changes! of.| Don ^fr ^ ;he battle front. Sib Whiting was sP°nded Wlth aPP»««se at its conclu- -->n. • x . i Tom .Stitz gave an account of the sickW hh enti *toC \»tr!ipn ^. a, r,m .C redit_ Adm. in, istration' work an~d ••' tolq of the financial standing of manp of the co-operatives. He discussed' the advisability of building plants tSA who was depended on for guard duty,; ^taakte care of surplus milk and (state# co-operative creameries tend to was also on the side lines. Adrian increase production. He asserted that Thomas, small but.quick as lightning.1 .. i. . . , . t was, pressed into service and gave the 1 l & ^5 fans all that could be asked. His four 1 a"d ^^1 °^^'Mtlon i s should free throws and fine defensive work I ThanHn themselves to plajsrd a big part in Winning the game 'Ch^ m c°ndlt.lons- r amf county honors. Ernie Barbian.: nrS «f C^I ^ presided at the meeting and Sam De- and LeRoy Conway completed this , Young of Hebron attended to his dutchampionship squad. It was long before this irt 1916 that les as secretary of the jistrict. The president and secretary will be elect- McHenry had won a to urnament f ^ ihe "e^ °f the d,s- Coach Dorr had a team that was The'tnCt adV1S°ry b°ard" talk of the county with such stars as "Dutchf Bacon, the Bonslett broth The towns included in District No. 6 are Hebron, Woods lock. Ringwood, ers, Hetiry Miller, Alfred Richardson. ^v,u, ^"k?'a„f Mch";"' Pi-ankie Justen, Ed BoyIe„, Vaurtn-V'JSJ '">d, gravel pits, two carloads alone beinj used in the sludge beds. The filling, whiih is not yet completed, will require about 1,500 yards of gravel and dirt. Three carloads of pipe and re-enforcements, valves, fittings and motors were used, with 6,000 face bricks and 6,500 common bricks and a quantity, of lumber for forms being among the \third materials necessary. The new plant is situated en a plot of land 15Q by 80 feet in size, located on Boone creek and Fox river, around which a tight, but attractive, wire fence is being built which *vil! have two gateways, a main entrance and a back gate on the river. This fence will be finished this week and in the spring it is planned to landscape the ARE COMPLETED j siderable loss was estimated. Mrs. Clintcn Martin, worthy matron, i Summer residents are becoming inpresided at the meeting of McHenry j dignant over the repeated depredachapter, 0 E. S., Morday evening j trons and no doubt steps will be taken T*hen plan« were completed for the | to prevent a re-occurence of the robannuai masquera le dance to be | bery and thieves, if apprehended, will in Stoffel's .hall on Saturday be severely punished. BoyJe^. Vaughn j eie we^ president of the district for eieht fiercest of then, all took placTwhen a" "'co"nt "f Pr McHenrv h..t frv.,.1 1.1. 5, i1"" community. It was voted to write a letter of thanks for the use of the hiidh school n,. , , „ „ ... . .auditorium and in appreciation of the' Old grads of McHenry High^aref enterUUnmenf furnishe<l. peoal effort to haver Musical selections were offered bV Jones and George Voeltz. Joh" ^,brich' of Mar^n^ who McHenry beat Crystal Lake 21 to '20 to take the county tournament. Old Grads To Be Present putting forth (Continued on last page.) held night, Jan. 25. Committees hav-f been appoiiited and are working hare to make the masquerade an outstand ing event of the year. Admissioi price is only twenty-five cents and tickets will be .sold in advance to give e.-eryone a chance to contribute. ,A fine line of prizes- donated by local business men may be found elsewhere in this issue. VEHICLE TAX . ,t Your McHenry city vehicle tax is low due and payable and will be vl.50 until March 1, after that date a tOc penalty will be added. 34-3fp Dr. and Mrs. Charles Leppert and children of Kirkland spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Minnie Miller. groups of, old teammates gather at the gym Friday and Saturday night. Business mert, realizing the importance of the event to the town aro becoming more and more enthusiastic as the time nears. Superintendent Duker has visited the other schools who will compete and reports a large demand for tickets. From all indications the gym will be packed to capacity. Coach Reed I.as put forth h-ird, persistent effort to bring his team up to tournament form. The boys are well conditioned and with the edge of playing on their own floor, loom as strong contenders for honors. On paper, the Richmond squad rates as a favorite, but local boys are confident that they (Continued on last page.) the High School orchestra and a folk dance was given by Miss Taylor's class. Vince Adams and his Bronco Busters also furnished songs. According to the report of the secretary, Sam PeYuung, the total shu»- mt its. for the eleven-month period ending Dec. 1. 1985, from McHenry were 12,056,999 poi'nds. Total shipments fro/n other plants were: Ringwood. 18,350,408: Woodstock, 25.772.- 509; hi ntley. ;4,246,302; Hebron, 32.- 410,698; Algonquin, 6.515,220; Cacy. 10,143,60S; Crystal Lake. 16,737.364. An average price of $1,719 a hundred pounds was paid for the same period of time; total net value, $2,382, 640.97. with a totai shipment of 136., 233,101 pounds. Mi.