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mfm v. V'-^-M ' lid: McHfiSiV PLAMftEALER Thursday, May 17, 19Sj> REVIEWING EARLY HAPPENINGS " : IN McHENRY and ¥SCSNAGE Plalndealer Files Furnish Memories ! of Yesteryears FORTY YEARS AGO From Issue of May 11, 1916 .Through the efforts of Raymond Howard and M. A. Conway, Who have been soliciting for funds, McHenry will have a baseball team again this year. Richard B. Walsh has again conpentad to manage the team and those who have asked for trybuts are Roy Sahlberg, George Braiisford, Johnny Koob, Walter Warner, Jack Mitchell and John G r a n t . . . . Twelve members of the "Just XJs" club enjoyed dinner and a theatre party in Chicago Thursday evening. Those who made up the gay crowd were" Misses Lilliah and Annabel Heimer, Clara, Lena and Julia Stoffel. Bertha Wolff, Theresa Barbian, Anna Knox, Anna and Irene Frisby, Fanny Granger and Mrs. George H. Johnson. Carl W. Stenger, cashier of the McHenry State bank, was elected state treasurer of the^ knights of Columbus at the annual convention held in LaSalle this week. He was accompanied to the convention by M. J. Walsh. A. W. Biekler, who formerly was a member of Heimer and Biekler here, has moved his fam- ' ily to Spring Grove, where he has purchased the buffet formerly conducted by A1 Pepping. the thirty-secohd graduating class of Sherman hospital nurses, held .at the Methodist church, Elgin, last Friday evening. "On To Cleveland" is the slogan of the McHenry Community high school, as well as the city of McHenry, as plans are being completed to send the high school state champion orchestra to the national contest at Cleveland next week. •. At a meeting of the board of supervisors last week, Stephen H. Freund, supervisor of McHenry township, was named to serve on the following committees: Finance, public buildings' claims of county, poor," McHenry county home and resolutions. than fifty years, died -at her home on Green street Saturday morning. Rev. F. C. Pudsell has been installed as resident pastor at the Zion ; Evangelical Lutheran church. ' Friends of Miss Helen Stevens are offering congratulations oh the very interesting and informative article entitled "Lady You Can Own Y6ur Own Home," which appears in the May issue 6f "The American Home" magazine.- Miss Angela Freund, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Freund, became the bride of Volney Brown of Woodstock at a service read at St. Mary's church May 1. Miss Luella Thelen, daughter of the John Thelens of Johnsburg, was united in marriage to James Hunter, son of the Donald Hunters, with Rev. Nick Schmitt officiating at St. John's church, Johnsburg, May 1. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thompson entertained seventy-five relatives and friends on Main street TEN YEARS AGO From Issue of May 16, 1946 The McHenry Athletics open . _ . . the season Sunday against State j. Sunday. May 5 in observance of Line. This game will also be the ! their twenty-fifth wedding anmdedication of the new ball park | ^rSai_>- the actual date being on the old Mill Pond site. I May Charles F. Pich will leave for i Chicago Friday to attend the tri- ' annual convention of the Su- j preme Council of the Catholic j McHenry has been saddened Knights of Columbus; which ; by many deaths this past woek. meets at the Congress hotel next j Mrs. Josephine Heimer died at Sunday, May 10. the Woodstock hospital at the ' ; age of 88, Miss Maud Curr pass- TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO | ed away at Hartland at the age From Issue of May 14. 1931 | of 94- Mrs ?race CraveJ °f Va!" , ' paraiso, a former resident, <b, Announcement has been made • ^ May u gnd Mrs Mollie of the marriage of Miss Mai ic j rpre^zier) mother of Charles Riete-' Valentine of Chicago and Paul j se, d in Chicag0 at Kamholz, son of Mr. and Mrs. I , q., Fred Kamholz of McHenry, ! which took place last month. Alfred Landwer," a former McHenry resident, died at his home in Woodstock May .7. Five ladies, all over seventy years old, were entertainedv at the E. E. Bassett home Saturday afternoon, honoring Mrs. Jennie Bassett, whose eightieth birthday occurred Mother's Day, May 10. William Conway died at the home of his sister Mrs. John Aylward, in Elgin last Tuesday. Burial took place in McHenry. Edward Smith and Mike Bud- FORTY YEARS AGO From Issue of May 18, 1916 Thomas Conway, an old time McHenry resident, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Wood, in Chicago last Friday. Funeral services were held from St. Patrick's church Monday, with burial in St. Patrick's cemetery. Mrs. R. T. Wray has been appointed grand lecturer of the Order of the Eastern Star in this state, therefore being capable to instruct any chapter in the grand jurisdiction of Illinois. More than 200 Knights of Col. u.m. bus and fr, iends honored C. . , , T. , . „ . ler have formed a partnership _ ' , enger ,a • " S Sunday evemng m recogniittii on off |a nd will operate an ice business under ,he of {he puri(y Ice , company. Clarence Niesen, proprietor of the Fox Pavilion, has announced the 1931 opening of the Fox Saturday, May 16, with dancing every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday evenings throughout the season. Mr. and Mrs. John Phannenstill have moved into their new home on John street. William F. Doherty, Sr., celebrated his ninetieth birthday on May 14. Lend Uncle Sam Your Dollars his recent appointment as state treasurer of the K. of C. of the state of Illinois. Prof. E. C. Fisher of Rock Island, 111., former superintendent of the McHenry public school, will be guest speaker at the annual graduation exercises to be held next Friday evening. The class is made up of seven girls and four boys. Mrs. Eliza Thomas Draper died at the farm home of her son, Clarence Driaper, last Friday morning. A farmer in the Ostend neighborhood has a team that will answer when the dinner bell rings. This is better than some men will do. Mrs. Thomas Powers died at her home on Main street Saturday. Services were held from St. Patrick's church Monday. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO From Issue of May 7, 1931 Miss Eva Whiting, daughter of W. E. Whiting, was a member of TEN YEARS AGO From Issue of May 9, 1946 Mrs. Katherine Schneider, 76, a McHenry resident for more OPEN CLOGGED SSWERS WITHOUT DIGGING! _ R00Y Dissolves Roots, • 1 Sludge, Groat*, Papor easily ©nd! inexpensively! B@¥iR ROOT DESTROYER ALTHOFFS "McHenry County's Leading 'Hardware" PHONES: 283 - 284 501 Main St. McHenry, III. 'Life Is A Game That Must Be Played" •(Author's name below) You can live a great many years longer than was expected at your birth because medical science has not only achieved the biblical three score and ten years of average life expectancy, but each year hopes to increase that figure. But you, yourself, must be an active player in the "Game of Life." 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