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FORTY YEARS AGO w * (Taken from the files of Deo; 6, 1928) • Mrs, Frank Nimsgern of Spring Grove has bought the Mat Blake:house on Green street and will move into it about March 1. Her daughter and husband, Mr.' and Mrs. Martin Stoffel, of this city, will move to the farm at Spring Grove which Mrs. Nimsgern will leave on that date. , The cement pavement at the city limits on the Crystal Lake road is now completed as far as Sjpencer*s hill. Skaters are waraed to keep off the ice on Bowie creek east of the Green street bridge. Since the recent dredging has been done there tin water inthe channel is from ten to twelve feet The members of the Evening Bridge club motored to Elgin on Sunday evening where they were entertained in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Stringer. A luncheon was served at six o'clock after which the evening was spent at bridge. William Fleming, who resides in Bull Valley, recently shot and killed a silver fox. TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (Taken from the flies of Dec. 9,1943) Lieut. Lee Gladstone is one of three brothers now serving their country. A physician in civilian life, Lieut. Lee offered his services with the ski troops and was stationed for some time at Camp Hale, Colo. He was one of three chosen for special training at Walter Reed hospital, in Washington, D.C. the largest military hospital in the United States. His brother Roy, is with the meteorology department of the army and an other brother, Melvin, is a bombardier. Mr. andMrs.EHsworthShoemaker and daughter, Marilyn, left last Saturday for Wilmington, Delaware, where they will make their home. They have been residing southeast of Mc- Henry for several years. Hie American people were asked this week by J.A. Krug, Director of the Office of War Utilities, to confine Christmas lighting decorations to Christmas trees inside private homes. A surprise party was held at the Peter F. Miller home one recent evening in honor of their granddaughter, Violet Miller, who left Monday for service with the W.A.C.'s. Friends in this vicinity will be interested to learn of the marriage in the Crystal Lake Methodist parsonage Nov. 17 of Miss Ethel Granger, formerly of McHenry, to Mr. Warren Hackman. TEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of Ndv. 25, 1958) Duane and Doris Bauer An- . dreas are temporarily making their home in Goeppingen, Germany, while Mg».Andreas is in service, v. • .0 • • •• Eleven officials and alumni of the McHenry high school participated in a conference on school university relations at the University of Illinois. It was sponsored by the Illinois secondary school principals association and the university and was third in a pioneering series to concentrate on the teaching of English. The principals, counselors and English teachers conferred with their former students now in the university for suggestions and also regarding methods to improve high school preparation for college Work. Hie Kountry Kitchen at Lilymoor was broken in and fifty dollars worth of merchandise was taken. Next month's meeting of the McHenry Garden club will be at the home of Mrs. G.C. Krickl. There will be a potluck luncheon served and a Christmas stocking will be filled for the Hartland home ooe for Shangri-La. . One picture by a M$3 stereo fan* has been for showing in the Chicago Lighthouse tional Exhibition of Stereo Photography. Each year the1 attracts outstanding work by experts across the counliy«%" thur -W. Bennet ofMcHenr^S^- res had one slide accepted |oy the judges entitled "Surirfee Serenade". . t Eleven members of the Rotary club of McHenry attended the weekly meeting of the Rotary club of Evanston Iflist Thursday and later visited Rptary*& world headquarters^ * Evanston. MCHS CHAIRMAN AIDS COLLEGE TEST AS READER 385-0171 MRS. DOLORES KRUEGER . Mrs. Dolores Krueger, chairman of the Humanities department at McHdnry Community high school, East campus, and teacher of sophomore English, has been serving this week in Atlantic city, N.J. as a reader for the December, 1968, College Board English composition test. Mrs. Krueger is one of 430 readers from throughout the United States participating in the Educational Testing Service, having been appointed on the basis of experience and recommendations. At McHenry since 1956, Mrs. Krueger has taught sophomore English and senior writing for a number of years. In addition, she was the English department chairman. She has served on three evaluation committees for area high schools during their North-Central association*!^ valuation programs. Mrs. Krueger has been anaetive member of the local Curriculum council since its formation two years ago and has also worked on the philosophy committee for the high school. She participated in two in-service courses on teaching the gifted and was enrolled in last springs credit course conducted locally by a staff member of Northern Illinois university. Mrs. Krueger has attended several articulation meetings at the University of Illinois and at Northern Illinois university. Mrs. Krueggr, who has a Bachelor of Arts degree from a private college and a Master of Arts degreefrom the University of Wisconsin, came to McHenry after years of experience in high schools at Argyle and Sheboygan, Wis. She taught English classes from ninth through the twelfth grades and sponsored an award-winning school newspaper for eleven years. 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