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Richmond Community Largie Group At Camp Alpine by Phyllis Carlson i^t; Camp Alpine this week there are 101 campers enrolled. Rev. Milton Whitney of Warrenville is the director for the week. This weekend the state Luther League convention' will be held at Carthage college. Hie Rev. Paul Erickson from Camp Alpine will, be attending the convention. . A Utile Girl liStr. and Mrs. Richard Young pf Solon Mills are the parents of a baby girl, Dianne, born July 2. Baby Dianne weighed 6 lbs. 14 oz. Congratulations! She was born in Chicago at St. Elizabeth's' hospital. Biirthday/ Gerry Swartzloff, a Plaindealer Carrier boy, was 11 v ytaps old on July 17. Last Sat- Uraay Gerry with his parents find his three brothers left for a Vacation in Texas. Cub Pack 'The Cub Pack 349 met at the high school for a baseball game and its monthly pack meeting on Monday evening, July 14. Three boys received Lion b^ges. Jim Hoffman and Gerr. ™Swartzloff of Den 3 and Gary Steinke of Den 4. Baseball Practice Ray Bolk is supervising the boys in baseball practice at the High school every Monday and Thursday evenings. Mr. tieeves, the high school coach, helps him. Mr. Reeves coaches the older boys and Mr. Book, th^younger boys. ^ Vacation Church School Grace church is holding its vacation church school this week and next week, with its closing program next Friday evening at the church. Community Church Rev. F. Kranz who was a fqaper pastor of the church, will be the minister who conducts the service and preaches next Sunday morning at the Community church. His friends will be glad of an opportunity to greet him and to hear him speak.' Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cairns of Burlington, Wis. Mrs. Bess Elfers spehta few days with Mrs. E. Bell last week. Rev. and Mrs. Huntley and daughter, Susan, of New Smyrna Beach, Fla. visited the H. Carlson family Sunday afternoon. The jHuntleys lived in Lake Geneva where Pastor Huntley Served the Immanuel Lutheran church at< Lake Geneva. . ' Misses Myra and Edna Speaker were hostesses to Mrs. L. Lasater and Miss Kate Richmond of Hammond, Ind. The ladies from Hammond aiv rived on Wednesday of, last week. The four ladies then took a short trip -and visited various spots in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin returning to the Speaker home Friday .evening. , They visited Grant's home in Galena, 111. and travelled about 500 miles in all. News from Rev. and Mrs. Noyce was received from Berlin Heights, Ohio where they Will be spending some weeks. The Richmond Evening Unit of Home Bureau had its "annual picriic at the park in Genoa City last week. We -would appreciate it if you would give us some news of you and your families, or news you would like to read. We must have missed many of your vacations, please call with any item: phone 3442. David Carlson spent the weekend with the grandparents at Lake Geneva. We realize it isn't nice to bore you with too much personal news, but that is almost, all we know, so here is one more item. Pastor and Mrs. Carlson celebrated their twelfth wedding anniversary last Sunday. They went to Ravinia where they heard the Chicago1* Symphony with Byron Janis, concert pianist. This was both for anniversary and Mother's Day. Wish you all could have gone along, for it was excellent! Lilymoor THEMcHENRY PLAINDEALER Flftee* INTEREST IN by Sharon Couihey Phone 596-M-2 Day Camp Those from Richmond who were attending. Day Camp at V0mey View had lots of fun and are looking forward to another year of it. On Friday afternoon the girls had a program for their mothers. Many of their mothers attended the program and saw the tents the girls shared during the week. Even the leaders enjoyed it all. Mr. and Mrs. Theron Ehorn aq^ Mrs. Frank Motle/ atteTOed a reunion of the Harrison family at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bjerning of Genoa City, Wis. recently. Relatives from North Dakota, Arizona, Kansas, Illinois and Wisconsin Attended. Mrs. Cecil Hunt and granddaughter of Minot, N. D. were callers in the F. A. Motley home on Saturday, July 12. ^jsitors in the Ethel Bell home on a recent Sunday were Dr. and Mrs. George Elfers and daughters, Diane, Linda, Barbara and Becky of Bellflower, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Bell of Union, Mrs. Minnie Sommers of Woodstock and We wish to take this way of thanking our friends and rela^ tives who remembered us during our recent bereavement with flowers, cards and donation of cars. Special thanks to Pastor Carlson of /Richmond, and to Pastor Juhkentaal of Hebron for his many calls during Pastor Carlson's absence. Family of Harry Hudson Sr. ASSISTANCE CASELOAD IS DOWN FOR MAY Public assistance loads dec l i n e d i n May f o r t h e f i r s t time since September, Peter W. Cahill, executive secretary of the Illinois Public Aid commission, reported to Gov. William G. Stratton. May costs were $15,274,382 for 341,940 recipients of the five public aid programs. Of this amount, a b o u t $ 7 , 9 0 0 , 0 0 0 w a s f r o m state fund^. April costs were $15,148607 for 343,212 persons. In May, 1957, 289,645 persons were cared for at a cost of $13,849,913 ( The caseload for McHenry county includes the following: Aid to dependent children, 74, $3,088: disability assistance, 10, $865.20; general assistance, 248, $3,556.39; old age assistance, 169, $11,579.15. NEW POSTMASTER Stanley _ Aim of Richmond, brothei1 of Harold. Aim of McHenry, has been approved as postmaster at' Richmond. AGE 40 AGE 37 AGE 34 AGE 31 AGE 28 AGE 25 Now one physical examination lor Life Insurance carries you through the years I As we advance in age every man sooner or later will cross -the line of insurability when he can no longer buy life insurance, or must pay higher rates lor it Qpow . . * for the first time a revolutionary new idea that guarantees your "insurability" to age 40 . . . gives you the right to buy added insurance at standard rates, REGARDLESS OF HEALTH. This new concept was introduced by Bankers T.ifc. Company. It is designed to answer the age-old insurance question: "When I need more insurance and can afford it--will I be able to get itf" Think what this means to the man just starting out in the business world ... the young doctor ... lawyer ... men who know they will want more life insurance as they "grow". For only pennies-a-day more than the cost of an ordinary #an they can NOW guarantee the right to buy insurance later -- REGARDLESS OF HEALTH. Let me tell you all about this ekciting new life insurance concept Call me today. C. It. "CHUCK" PETERSON , ROUTE 1, BOX 1010, McHENRY, ILL. >i ' PHONE 878 # P ANK^R S COM P f t H Y BIS M-OfNIS. »&WA _ The next Lilymoor Association meeting will be on August 12. The mosquito control program was not 100 percent endorsed by residents of Lilymoor, therefore no action is being taken at this time .and no one will be collecting money which was pledged. We wish to thank those who immediately sent in pledge cards for their pledge of money and cooperation. Only* about onetenth of the 115 families responded to the letter which was mailed to all the residents of Lilymoor. M j . •a Garbage Pickup Please don't forget" that garbage pickup will continue on through the month of August on Wednesdays. Card Party A very pleasant evening was spent by over fifty members of the association, friends, relatives anld guests at the annual association card party Which was held on Saturday, July 12. Isabel Karmel acted as chairman and Helen Haines, Val Fradinardo, Mrs. Behrendt agd Mrs. Huckstaedt were cochairmen. Many lovely gifts were donated by members of the association. Coffee and cake were also donated. Altogether the evening was quite ,enjoyable. Community Methodist Church During the first two weeks in August there will be vacation Bible school at the Methodist church in McHenry. Also Sunday school is being continued through the summer. Services for all ages are at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Newcomers are welcome. the Sunday sfchool.on Sundays at 10:30. Earl Belford Sr., attended the first board meeting of the McHenry Methodist church on Monday night, July 14, at 8 pjn. This was the first board meeting of the ^ c^uF^h year which started Ji Birthdays Miss Laurel Huckstaedt of Lilymoor will be 17 on Saturday, July 26. Laurie will be a senior in higfr school this year. \ Miss Anita Hiland was sweet 16 on Monday, July 14. Afciita returned early Sunday, July 13 from a two weeks' vacation in San Angelo, Texas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hiland and her sister, Gladys. She also spent two weeks in Decatur by herself. Belated birthday greetings to Louis Schueler who celebrated his birthday on July 13. v. From Mason to Shriner One of Lilymoor's oldes]t residents, Alfred Seyfferth, was initiated in Chicago at- "the Shriners' diamond jubilee. Mr. Seyfferth's youngest son, Clarence and •Mr, Seyfferth's wife accompanied him to the jubilee. Mi% Seyfferth has been a Mason for over forty years and he is now very proud to be a Shriner. His wife is very happy about the whole thing too. Incidently, Mr. and Mrs. Seyfferth's youngest son and his wife celebrated their silver anniversary with 100 guests recently. Most of the guests were members of the family. Also Mr. and Mrs. Seyfferth's youngest daughter from Chicago spent a few days with them. . i. Lilymoor column for the month of August. If you have any birthdays, anniversaries or anything that you'd like to have written in the paper, Please call McHenry 596-M-2. Lilymoor Sunday 8chool Sunday school will be resumed at the schoolhouse from 10:30 to 11:30. The vacation Bible 6chool which was held at the schoolhouse on July 8, 9 and 10 was a success. A large number of children enjoyed those days at the schoolhotise. A picnic is being planned for all the children who attended vacation Bible school. All children are welcome at Visited Mr. and Mrs. Huckstaedt •and family visited Mrs. Huckstaedt's sister, Mrs. Robert Russell and family, twins, Mar- 'on and Marilyn, 11; twins, lanet and Janice, 9; George, 14, and Bobby, 5, in Big Rapids, Mich, over the Fourth of July weekend till Friday, July* 11. The whole family enjoyed the trip. In fact Cherif and Dutchie enjoyed it so much that they will stay up there for the rest of the summer. An Enjoyable Afternoon * Mrs. "Alma Huckstaedt of Lilymoor and Mrs. Gohl of Worthmore Estates enjoyed their regular canasta meeting and luncheon at the home of Mrs. Eunice Tobey on Wednesday afternoon. < ( I will continue writing the Dont Wait a | Bites a Dbg g Twice Told Tales FORTY YEARS AGO From Issue of July 25, 1918 McHenry's largest mercantile establishment, the F. A. Bohlander store, passed out of e x i s t e n c e l a s t M o n d a y w h e n the tremendous stock was turned o v e r t o t h e p u r c h a s e r s , Ginsberg and Co., oP Chicago. Mr. Bohlander came to Mc-' Henry eighteen years ago when he purchased the Simon Stoffel mercantile stock. The McHenry County Boys' Pig club has created much enthusiasm ajmong the members during the 'past week. Emerg e n c y C l u b l e a d e r T h o m a s Murray of Harvard bought and delivered 150 pigs to the boys in the county last week. Among the boys in this community entering the contest are Charles Whiting, James Hughes. Jr., Frank and Lester Page and Earl Walsh. How two young mfen, who had met before, both cif whom at one time made this village their home, were assigned to the same sleeping tent at Camp Jackson, S. C., is told in a letter received at the Plaindealer office. The letter came from Frank Rossman, who was born and-raised here, and Charles Pelikan, formerly associated with the - Vycital hardware store in this city. An ice cream social for the benefit of the Red Cross will be held on the lawn at the ] James Revor home Friday afternoon and evening, when ice cream and cake will be served for 15 cents. Mrs. J. W. Fay will be the" assistant hostess. A fine new parlor car has recently been placed in service between Williams Bay and Chicago, an accommodation which the "rich fellows" at Lake Geneva should enjoy. Mrs. Clara Starrit was hostess tp four guests at a delicious luncheon Saturday. Those who placed their names on the Red Cross quilt were Lola Boyle, Anna Frisby, Mary Burke and Kathryn Burks. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO From Issue of July 27, 1988 ,A spring chicken dinner will be. served at Justen's dining room Wednesday night, 25 cents a plate. Free dancing and good beer, Joe F. Freund, manager. . x The lotus beds at Grass Lake are attracting large crowds. T h e f l o w e r s a r e b i g g e r a n d more colorful than ever-this year and the season is expected to be a busy one. Mrs. Paul Bonslett, 29; died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Overton, July 25, after a lingering illness, and James Albert Barb i a n , i n f a n t s o n o f M r . a n d Mrs. Albert Barbian, died in St. Therese hospital, Waukegan, Wednesday. ^ W. M. Crouch, ownet1 of the greenhouses of the McHenry Floral company, has started work on a new greenhouse* which is being built on his property at the top of the hill on. Route 61, near the Farm House Tavern. Joe Smith has taken over the place known as the Huck garage on Elm street, where he will conduct a general automotive repair shop. Two men in an automobile burglarized the Charles Freund store in Spring Grove Sunday night and escaped with $75 in cash and merchandise including 4,000 cigarettes, silk hose, silk dresses and women's hats. TEN YEARS AGO From Issue of July 22, 1948 A car in which five nurses from Henrotin hospital, Chicago, were riding collided with one driven by Ray Roberts of Villa Park at the intersection of Green and Waukegan streets in this city Friday evening, as. the result of which nine were taken to Woodstock hospital. None were seriously hurt. Mrs. Rose Mueller, wife of the late Dr. Arnold Mueller, passed away at the Woodstock hospital Sunday evening at the age of 74. She had been ill for seven weeks. Mrs. Minnie Block observed her eighty-eighth birthday at a family gathering at the F. C. Feltz home on WaUkegan styeet on June 17. Miss Jennie Smith of Portland, Mich., an old time McHenry resident, visited friends here the past week. Miss Smith has spent thirty-three years as a missioner in foreign lands. Miss Virginia £>assfield, 'datKJ: ghter of the Roy Passfields of Woodstock^ and Robert Smith, > son of the Art Smiths, were' married at St. Mary's rectory : • on July 15. || Frank Clark, 78, - a lifelong • resident of the community, passed away at the home of1 j his sister, Mrs. Matie Harri-}; son, at Greenwood, July 20,; and Carl Schroeder, 92, .father* / of Emil Schroeder of McHen- ^ ry, died in Sherman hospital," Elgin, July 9. J Aesop Was so right. Tli<£ fellow who is fired with en-r thusiasm for his work is seldom. fired by the boss. 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