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.1" < v7'« r X $ * • • ^ * Twice Told Tales nr:;V 1 '.V ^ --7/;'^'# >• • ii' J*'1'* ,< 7. March 22, 1951 »W3?8S v -v: 5»v;>\- •1...«; THE MeHEWHY PLAINDEALER .-Vt> * •" « V - Items df Interest t*kep troip th • of the McHertrjr Plafadealu • it . r« agr ' j-- - *•!*» Years A*o.• j;- - new chapter of Mysic Workers •111 be Organized in Mr-Hen rv in tile very n^r future, we are told. *«0W'M. M. Niesen'R earlrtad of seed and eating potatoes has arnvd. M you want some yoit had better . Itave your order early., : C. R. Jecka farm sale held f«cept?y footed up nearly tod C. E. is very well pleased witli result. Everything *on the place trought a good price. 'Mrs. _M. A. "Howell, who has again taken up* h^r home at ^Howell's Villas on Fox river after "passing the winter mpnths in Chi- £*go, says the prospects for snnvfller. especially at the Villas, loolc , » great deal brighter than last •fason. ( •This Is to give notice tliat ihe ' books of the McHenrv cannine foc- . tory are now open and ready for ? Contracts. Those- desiring to rai^1 corn for this institution the corn lag seqijen are respectfully ask^d Vo make contracts Hf an early date. The 1911 reception and banquet, given under the allspices of the * McHenry Knights of OoUimbus at Stoffel's hall last Thursdav evenine*. has b^eri set 'down in the rec» ords jof that organisation as one jo# the most glorious social «wcessefl of that order. With the banquet feature at an- end, Carl TV. Steneer. srrand knight of the Mc- ^FTenrv council arose from his chair ^wnd. in a manner thf»t was a credit to himself as well as* his order, made the addrfws of'-welcom*1.. Hn tlien introduced the loastmaster, Rev. D. Letoane. Peter J. Fr^un,d and trnng starti »4 work on the William „ O. Schreiner new residr-nce on Main Htreet this wfek. The reftid^mce to be ready for occupancy by June 15. • Miss Evelyn Thurlwell ^daughter the first Mardi Gras celebration ated in 1926, this six-hour pageant I Comparatively speaking, Easter of Mrs. Anna Thurlwell of Mc-1 has not been definitely established draws its audince from all orfer i cards are probably the most re- Henry, and Mr. Walter Patzke. i„ eitliei- Europe- or America. Al-1the South and Middle West. cent of all our Easter customs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Patz-1 though the New Orleans Mardi | Mardi Gras and the Passion They first appeared in Northern ^er.e uni e n niarrage Marco fjrrjs js jar better known, three Plays, obviously, are compounded Germany about 18;»fl. migrating to 20 at the parsonage of Rev. H. A. southern cities have Umg been I of Bibical history lind tradition. America around 1880., .Holy Land Laufer at Woodstock. .waring a friendly battle for the At a m-ttit met ting of the mean- : distinction of having staged the bers of St. Clara's court, W.C O.F., Ifirst Mardi Gras in North America officers elected included Catherine > TW'«xi. Miss , claims it all st->rt- Schneider, chief ranger: Carolyn Schiessle, vice-chief ranger; and Helen H. Schneider, recorder. Twenti-Flve Years Ago / 'Tn a sma'.l room on the twelfth flbor of the Terminal buMdinc. Chicago, last Friday at 11 o'clock, tliere was .assembled a crowd to attend the hearing before Maior Rufus D. Putnam, district engine >r of the U.S. engineers office, on the fnatter of the bridee across the Fox River in McHe-nrv. « Ray McGee. the popular McHenry clothier.announces in the ft^vertining columns of this -week's issue of the Plaindealer that he will carry the famous Hart Schaffner A Marks suits and9top coats for men. EASTER CUSTOMS. CELEBRATIONS HAVE SHOWN QHANGES • • Easter customs and celebrations are so closely woven into the pattern of American life that we . seldom question where they. • came from--or where theV began. In some cases their origin cannot be determined,- and in others there 3re conflicting stories. Naturally. most Eastertime events are related to Bibical recollections of the life of Jesus Christ. Fhit in many instances, it is'evident that tradition, "legend, superstition, irreverent invention^ or a whimsical mixture of all fottr-- have seeped into the Easter season. Mardi Qras. for example, literally means "Fat Tuesday." It's the French name for Shrove Tuesday, j Plav the day before Ash Wednesday, beginning of Lent. Actually. Fat Tuesday alludes to an did ceremony during which a fat ox. symbolizing the, passing of meat, was paraded through the street^ in Paris and other European cities. ed there in Februrav, 1699. v-^en Pierre Charles !e Monve d'Tb®rv'lie plantr-d the fine of King Louis XIV of France near tfce , present site of Biloxi just a few flavs.before Shrove Tusedav. Mobile. Ala . has uncovered evidence that tbr> first formal Mardi Gras annwrcrt there in and also recalls hoW French soldiers stationed in Mobile held their celebrations between 1702 and -, New Orleans. La., Oto tbp otbnv h«nd. has «et the .Standard bv which Mardi Graft ha grants are comnared. Their el aim to fame ,-c d->ted 1S27. wh«n students return ing from school in Paris- dan"<"d and pinved In the streets, as thev had seen people doing in France. Naturallv, not all of our Faster Customs have Aroused such controversy. Other pageants of various descriptions. ba.sed\ on the TrT<t ve^r® of Christ on earth, h^ve been dramatized both in C.ermanv^and the T'nited States. The Passion pre<Snjited every tenth vear since nt Obe'rammergan ' is the best known W thesek but other versions were presented aa early as the 14th century. The American Passion lMav was Inaugurated at Bloomington. 111., in-1923. It lasts about four hours, Lent being a period of fasting, {ar^ jR prpscnted everv Sundav in Mardi Gras. in time, became a ! April and Mav Similar relisrioua day of carnival. Frequently, the fat ox was followed or replaced by otherr forms of revelry and feasting. And for year^ in England, the day before Lent was observed by eating pancakes. Britishers, in fact, still refer to it as Pancak^e Tuesday. spectiacles are also performed annually in South Dakota and Oklahoma. \ At Holy City in \tl\e Wichita Mountains, an estimated 100.000 persons every year attend the "Oklahoma Oberammergau" -- an However, Wke so ma.ny of our j Easter sunrise service based on the Easter customs, time and place of traditional Passion Plav. Tnaugurl l 1 i FM RADIO AND ilLEVIStOH SALES S SERVICE Admiral & Raytheon Televisions 102 RIVERSIDE DRIVE • Let ns convert your 10H or 12?2 Admiral TV Into n 11-in. IfiMure tnbe. Work done by qualified technicians, tinaranteed mrk, fairly priced. Free pick up and deliver)- service. We specialise in tower installations and roof antennas. Work done by experts only. . . . ' • , 'Phone 979 from 9 a. nf. io. 6:3Q p. m. or residence. 577-M1, after 6:30 p. m. 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FREUND VERES TtBES -- BATTERIES -- ACCESSORIES. «RE and TIBE VrLCA>IZIX<3. \ ALL WORK GUARANTEED \ IOXE AM / WEST McHEITRT r But not all Easter customs are as scenes, then as now, were the most well founded. popular illustrations on\ Easter On Palm Sunday in Spaiti. for car^8' insUinee. natives formerly hung m recent years, llrft-heart.d thP palm they received at church greetins!:s with aurprig,'nR,v ani. alongside their homes-believing mat(Kl Eagter bunnJes chick^ the iKilms served as lightning rods UucklUigs-and manv others Just on Holy Thursday in certain parts like them-have Ta^ir.-d Amerof Mexico, children drive the devil f(.;l s fam.y Amone Ul(i 1!)M out of town by creating a terrific ,.ards you.„ find a wjde runse of din with rattjes. Sometimes rat- theSe w,linisi(.a, 1Utlf> t.rt,atuwg th-s are attached to a gratesque gaily announcing "It's Spring: 'Ifs effigy of the devil, which is then Ekster!" ' dragged through the village with • . a deafehing racket. - 1 The reason? 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The new booklet contains plans that will enable farmers to build their own spray applicators witii a minimum cash outlay before the beginning of the fly season. Invented by Willis N. Bruce, assistant entomologist of the Illinois Natural History Survey, the applicator enables cattle to apply to On Good Frida" in medieval Sunday falls on March 25 this year,' themselves a spray that rids them France, all chur< b bells were believed to make a piljitimage to Rome, and the townspeople stayed indoors so as not to see their flight Tlif-bells. naturally remained quie1 until their return on Easter Sur day moirning. If any local bell missed the excursion, it was believed that bad luck, poor harves' etc.. might follow. 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