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>age Sixteen Told Tales - **7 >,FTY years AGO -Taken from the Files as - of May 11, 1911 ' A $6,000 summer home on Crab Apple island, Pox Lake, belonging to Frederick Cornish, . a.Chicago attorney, wais burned to the ground Sunday, within an hour after the builders had finished it. .. Work on razing the old mill Was started on Tuesday of this week.J. W. Bonslett, the purchaser of the property expects to complete the work in about ttiree weeks. The McHenry high school team journeyed to Dundee last Saturday afternoon, and then and there took the measure of the local high school tear# by trimming 'em up to the tune Of 12 to 10. Bobby Knox was ope of the shining lights on Gtor side last Saturday. Miss Maude Eatinger, who Besides near Volo and who dur fcog the past several years has Ijjeen the rural mail carrier between Volo and Round Lake, b&s invested in a 1911 Ford Ejadster and now makes her r&ute via automobile. If McHenry gets all the railroads that are headed in this direction (on paper only) we can see where our little village will soon assume a real city air. Another meeting for the purpose of receiving the report of the committee appointed to investigate and get figures for the construction of a new dam in Fox river was held ID the grill room of the Riverside hotel last Tuesday evening and the attendance was flLslight improvement over that $eld on April 25, but was far what it should have been. That the members of River- View camp, No. 6818, R.N.A., are some entertainers will be vouched for by all those who turned out at Buch's hall last Saturday evening. The music furnished by Henry J. Schaffer and Miss Mayme Heimer was highly enjoyed and a hard time drill put on by the camp, caused much merriment. The baskets were raffled off by G. A. Sattem and brought the camp the snug little sum of $45. FORTY YEARS AGO Taken from the Files of May 5, 1921 David P. Woodburn, Civil war veteran, and who, if he lives until Aug. 30 of this year will be eighty-three years old, left JVJcHenry last Saturday for Sfoungstown, Ohio, where he expects to make his future home with his son, Winfield S. Woodburn. Bill Dunn, who resided in a shack on the Cossman farm and made his livelihood by fheans of a truck garden, was taken to the county farm at Hartland this week. He always tbok pride in his onion patch aiyj every fall sold enough of ihe "breath strengthened" to carry him through the winter. "Surprise" greeted the ears of Math Laures as he entered his home on Center street Tuesday evening, "the greeting came from six little nephews ftnd nieces who had gathered at his home to remind him of his twenty-eighth birthday. A 6 o'clock- dinner was served by his wife, who had planned the party. Out-of-town guests were Mrs. Howard Christensen and sons of Spring Grove, Thomas Knox of Chicago and Misses Anna Knox and Rose Laures of Elgin. Carlton Prouty, whOo has a summer home near Fox river dam, is about to make another attempt to reach the headwaters of the Fox river by boat. He has made two previous voyages up the river from his cottage, reaching Silverlake, Wis., in 1919 and Rochester, Wis., in 1920. On both occasions the river ran out of watter and the explorers were forced to,return. Now with the Fox river sat flood, there should be no reason to expect a lack of water and accordingly, this week, Mr. Prouty will launch his river skiff, "Water Gypsy", and with his eleven year-old daughter, "Dorothy" as crew, will assail the perils of the Fox. The motive power will be sail, oars and push paddle as no gasoline boats can be operated north of Wilmot to sandbars and boulders. The junior class play, "All a Mistake", will be presented at the Empire theatre Tuesday evening. Members of the cast include Howard Phalin, Ed_ mund Barbian, Earl Walsh, Glenn Wattles, Arline Harrison, Mary Pender Walsh, Gladys Van Natta and Lillian Doherty. What is known as the Snyder hill in Bull Valley is being straiened. A whole gang of men are at work there, using dynamite, teams, plows and scrapers, something that has needed to be done for years. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Taken from the Files of April SO Mathew H. Fitzsimmons, 93 years old, an early settler at Barreville, died at the home of his nephew, James R. Hanrahan, at Woodstock, Monday night, after an illness of pneumonia. Stanley Young, 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Young, of Ringwood, passed away at the home of his parents Monday, following a two weeks' illness. Dr. Preston Bradley, well known radio speaker and pastor of the People's church, Chicago, will be the principal speaker at the meeting of the McHenry Townsend club at Community high school next Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Henry Miller, D e mocratic committeeman from (the third McHenry precinct, was the unanimous choice of the county members Monday night for chairman, succeeding Thomas Keating of Huntley, who was not a candidate for re-election. From "So I Hear" comes the item that the senior class play at the high school last week pleased a large crowd and brought back many memories: "Some of us will never forget our director and fviend. Miss Pryor. We gave her plenty ot worry and she gave us plenty back. But, all in all, a grand time was had by all. We can well remember one plav when no less than the valedictorian THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER -ruir'-i . - • i y • v parted the curtains to thank 'all < of youse for craning heri> tonight'. What a blow that was to his English teacher!" Mr. and Mrs. Charles Alien entertained a group of friends at their home on the Maj. I,. R. Lohr farm Tuesday evening. Prizes in cards were awarded Mrs. Lester Bacon, Mrs, Fred Schoewer,,, and Mrs. A. H. Pouse while the men's prizes were given R. V. Powers, Lester Bacon and E. H. Nickles. PUBLICISE CENSUS DATA SHOWS "FILL-DP* OF POPULATION Despite talk about "scatteration" and "urban sprawl," new population in the six-county Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area is tending to fill in near Chicago rather than scatter out into outlying town ships, an analysis^ of the 1960 census figures shows. The same analysis indicates that there is no "runaway growth" in unincorporated parts of the metropolitan area. Instead, incorporated municipalities increased their share of total suburban population during the 1950's, while the proportion living in unincorporated areas declined slightly. These findings are contained in a four page planning information bulletin on "Shifts in Surburban Population Distribution, 1950-1960," issued by the Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning commission as part of a program for providing essential planning information to local governments of the metropolitan area. The bulletin is the second in a series, the first of which had provided the first final 1960 census figures on population and population growth for counties, townships and municipalities with mere than 2,500 inhabitants. Bulletin No. 2 traces relative population growth in the metropolitan area outside of Chicago--that is, which sectors and which types of community increased their share of the suburban population, and which ones showed a relative decease. Copies of the NIMAPC planning information bulletins are available from: Northeastern. Illinois Metr o p o 1 i t a n Area Planning Commission, 72 West Adams Street, Chicago 3, III. (The Plalndealer ;r invites thepubltc to use this column as an expression 0f their yiews on subjects of genera! interest in- our community. Our ojMy request is that writers limit themselves to 3U0 words or less and that all letters have signature, full address and phone number. We ask, too, that one individual ntft same subject more them once each month; We.'reserve the right to delete any materialwhich we consider libelous or in objectionable taste.) power to ^investigate. > V. Unites, along with the rest of "I don't object to honest world. The sooner we wake Thuradaft May II. IfltT PAINT 8YS7J-.M To keep stairway in use while it is being painted, split the painting job into two halves. Do every other step the first day. Allow this to dry Qvemigfrt and paint alternate steps the ne*t day. ---1 TAEditor, McHenry Tlaindealer McHenry, Illinois "Dear Editor: "The movie "Operation Abolition' 'Has created such a controversy that I would'like to add a few comments to the melee. "I firmly believe that all Americans should see the movie and use their own con sidered judgment in tiying to arrive at the film's worth. I think the movie does an excellent job of showing us the true nature of Communism in this country. Even the critics of the movie cannot deny that the vicious, contemptuous, de fiant people we saw shouting at a legally appointed committee of Congress axs not exactly firm believers iff out Constitution. Whether |ieie people are Reds, pinks, ^How-travel ers or just Ultra-liberals is not i m p o r t a n t . The i m p o r t a n t thing to remember is that the House Committee on Un-American Activities is a committee of the United States Congress, and when these people defy it they are defying all of Congress and all of us who elected Congress. Certainly one cannot brush this o$, by^&aying "They*re jtlfit har&less Rids." Let us" remember "%at ,'harmlesskjds" have, helped to install Communism in • many countries throughout*' the wofld, , ' - "Many fpeo|>Ie' object to the idea of this Committee's right to investigate. other hand, marly people object to paying taxes, oir'tlfiving at a certain speed limit. However, as lojtg as this country is a republic run by laws, we must eithei* obey those laws or -change them, ia^JegaUjn&nner. Defiance of them- only leads r't6 ultimate > ariA*chy, Personally, I hppelh&t Congress will always mairit£kW-.the As an added service to ; pastbmiirt.' I now pump septic tanlse aadl WeK/ar M. Gorreifs P. O. Box 381 Pfeon® EV 5-2101 McHenry, 111. An Ideal Gift for ier 6 a9 ndq - ~jfri n nah P O R T A B L E Electric Mixer ' WHIPS ® BLENDS » -SEATS- • MIXES ; IV1ASHES 3-speeds to do every mixing Job easily -- quickly. Convenient heel rest, instant beater release, thumb-tip speed twitch and never jpeeds oiling. Whtt* - Pink • Y.lfow - Turquol*. 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This campaign certainly has the approval of the Communists in this country, although I am not implying that everyone who disagrees with the film is a Communist. I wilj impiy, however, that many of the film's critics are incredibly complacent and unrealistic however loyal and wejl-meaning they may be. Also, I am greatly disturbed that most of these "fairminded" critics never see anything wrong with a film like Edward R. Murrow's "Harvest Of ,; Shame" which pictured America very unfavorably and which has since been proved to be packed with inaccuracies. "For some strange reason, there are many Americans who have the naive idea that the American Communist party is just another .political party, no more to be feared than the Democrats or Republicans. If "Operation Abolition" does anything to dispel this stupid idea, then it certainly must be worthwhile. The Communist up to the fact that this is more likely to happen from within than by enemy invasion the better off we'll be. "I am not in any way advocating a witch-hunt in which we condemn anyone whose views happen to differ from ours. I do advocate a little more pro-American attitude by all of us in our conversation, in our reading, etc. When we are tempted to criticize otir government and our way of life, fine, let's criticize to our heart's content. But let's remember to insert a kind word on occasion too. After all, nobody in the history of the world "had it so good" and let's keep it that way. One of the ways to keep it that way is to be alert and informed and to respect the opinions of men like J. Edgar Hoover more than those of sOme of the professional America-haters in this country. "Sincerely . "H. C. Reihansperger" KNOW YOUR USS JOSEPH P. KENNEDY, JR. (DD-850) USE HIGH?, SCREWDRIVK& Three sizes of screwdrivers are all the home handy man needs for most jobs around the home. Using the correct size for each job eliminates chewgoal is to. take over the United ing up screws and the tool. 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