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ume 66 McHENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 20,1941 SEEK TO OUST * : PRESENT STAFF ;.,AT ULY LAKE VILLAGE AGAIN CENTER OF ATTRACTION No. 44 ;:*Jff| ROT LACKNER, NOTED SPORTSMAN, IS DEAD The village of Lily Lake returned to the center of attraction last Monday when a petition was filed by some forty-four alleged residents of Mc- Henry county's youngest village asking that the present staff of village officials be removed from .office. Heading the petition were Claude P. McDermott, W. E. Swanson and T. C. Klabough. Following these appears the names of some forty people. Charges made in the petition for re moval of the present officials, in part.! follows: 1. Not residents of corpora* limits of village. -- '2. Not qualified electors of village. 3. \hat officials are residents of Chicago and Oak Park and that they spend ten months^of each year in Chicago and Oak Park. 4. That village meetings have, been closed and especially not open to residents of the village. 5. That records of the village officers are not available for inspection. 6. That non-residents of the village have been appointed special police in the village. 7. That children of the various officials attend school in Chicago and Oak Park. 8. That no notice of any kind has Funeral services for Roy Lackner, 48, Chicago sportsman, were held Tuesday morning at ten o'clock at St. Margaret Mary church at Chase and Clarmont avenues, Chicago, with burial in All Saints' cemetery. Lackner died Sunday in his home at i 2440 Estes avenue, Chicago. He was widely known in theatrical and sports circles dealing with baseball and football and was an active golfer in the Chicgo district. He held a membership in the Nippersink Country club.1 YOUTH DIES IN AUTO ACCIDENT AT JOHNSBURfi CAR STRIKES BUILDING BUNDAY MORNING The first traffic fatality in McHenry county occurred Sunday, March 16, 1941, at the Woodstock Public hospital in the death of Nathaniel Willis Adams, Jr., of Greenwood, who would have been twenty-three years old on March 27. He died of a fractured skull received in an auto accident early Shaday morning at Johnsburg. Adams, the driver, and a companion, Harry Mansfield, 19 years old, also of Greqfiwood, were traveling east on state route 22-A at about 6 a. m.. when they failed to make the curve through the village of Johnsburg. Ai- "it.: THE McHENRY CHORAL CLUB (Ph«to by WorwtcfiP Above is the McHenry Choral club, with its directress, Miss A dele Froehlich, center, in white robe, its two accompanists, Mrs. C. w, Goodell and Mrs. Carl Weber and Gordon Scholle, violin soloist. The individuals are as follows: bottom row, Emily Simon. Mary Powers, Betty O'Shea. Sylvia Snyder. Marie Vales, Miss Froehlich, Ruth Klodzinski, Marie Nix, Dorothy Weber, Helen Baum, Rita Sayler; mi<P die row, Carl Weber, Mrs. Goodell. Elvera Durland, Sue Rankin, Louise Schwerman, Lucia Rausch, Cora Duker, Evelyn Murphy, Leno# Cooley, Gordon Scholle; top row, Roy Redwanz. Norbert Mauch, Warren Jones, Emil Simon, Gerald Reed, Ly'.e Franzen, Gerald Miller. - Three members, Ethel McGee, Lina Kilday and Earl Conway, were unable to be present when the picture was taken. ^ ter knocking down a number of cebeen posted for the election of April! ment Posts, they crashed into the 15. 9. That officials have been absent from the village and by .so doing* have deprived the citizens of their right of Iranchise. Present Officer* The officers in question whose removal is being asked include the following: President, Harry Wise; Clerk, Ben "^phelini; jftoth; front entrance of the Joseph B. Hettermann tavern, knocking down a portion of1 the wall and splintering a shooting gallery which stood inside the door. The two received first aid treatment and were then rushed to the Woodstock hospital in an ambulance where Adams died at 9 a. m, Mansfield was only slightly injured and was released Police' Magistrate, Irvin S. i from the hospital Monday morning. Trustees, Joseph Spatafora, An inquest was conducted Sunday IJeorge Vollmer, Louise Gannon, Har- morning at the Merwin funeral home ¥y Jacobs and Frank Harder. An answer was filed by the officials denying the charges in general and ttating that the charges are mere conclusions and not statements of facta. f*hey also state in answer that no affidavits have been filed in connection tvith the charges. Irving S. Roth, police magistrate, States in the answer that the petitions invokes the jurisdiction of the court Over the office of police magsitrate, An elective officer who is excluded under the law in such case. in Woodstock by County Coroner INTERESTING NEARBY NEWS Wesley Gratz, 25 years old, died at COMPLETE EXTENSION OF TAXES ON COUNTY BILL FOR PAST YEAR Aft announcement was made Monday by County Clerk Raymond D. MANY HOMEMAKERS PLAN TO ATTEND COOKING SCHOOLS AROUND THE * A large attendance is expected at the Plamdealer's Cooking School, to ^ t __ Woods'to the effect that extension of be held at the McHenry High School 8:80 a. m. Monday, March 10,'at Con- ' taxes on McHenry county's 1940 tax j auditorium, on/ Thursday and Friday, dell Memorial hospital, Libertyville, from a basic skull fracture and other injuries sustained when the blue monoplane he was piloting crashed into a field the previous Sunday afternoon near Gage's lake. He lived tot just twelve hours after the crash. Development of an extremely compact, light-weight, portable radio field set for police and fire departments and military use is the project on Harry L Ehorn of Richmond. At!which the Electrical Reproduction that time Mansfield, who is employed in the Alemite in Woodstock, told state police he was asleep when the accident occurred, It is believed that Adams also fell asleep at the wheel, police having advanced this theory because the youths were off the route to their homes. Returning Froai Blgi* A Both had been at Elgin Saturday night, and were returning when the company of Antioch is working. The portable receiving and sending set will make it possible for field units' to take equipment into locations where a car could not be driven and comiIit i•s aoll„so- set up iiTn1 ftcnv6.* s nswer vtiftt accide« nt took pl.a ce.«. No tae stim_ ao ny was introduced as to the whereabouAt s.. ofj the petition contains 240 words, forty more than allowed by law in such case and that the court has no jurisdiction *nder such a filing. -The officials in their answer state that they were present in the village ©n March 11, the deadline for filing the youths, other than "they were at Elgin roller skating." The death was the first automobile fatality in McHenry county since December 20. 1940. Six major automobile accidents have been recorded in in the village election of April 15, un- the county, however, since January 1. til midnight and that the only petition | Nathaniel Willis Adams, Jr., was presented for filing was the one in j born at Jacksonville, Fla., on March Question which was filed in the circuit court Monday. Judge Henry L. Cowlin of the county court, where the first legal battle of Lily Lake's incorporation was fought some time ago, refused to have Anything to do with the petition when 27, 1918. He had made his home with his grandfather, Phenndas Adams, and his uncle, William D. Adams, at Greenwood since he was six years old. He attended elementary school in that village and received three years of high school training at Woodstock municate with a central station, using the car, equipped with the regular automobile simultaneous sending and receiving set developed by the company, as a relay station. Dr. Ralph H. Manley of Arlington Heights, formerly of Harvard, has resigned his position as assistant director of the Armour Research Foundation and head of the chemical research division to accept the position of sen-. ior chemist and acting head of the I hemuBI corn oil and protein division of the hemun* new government Regional Laboratory at Peoria, his duties to begin April 1. bill of $1,340,288.62 has been com pelted. The books were signed and turned over to County Treasurer C. Frank Daly for collection on Saturday. The 1940 bill shows a slight increase of $6,664.37 over the total for 1939. Dorr township leads all townships in total amount with $196,- 205.88. Algonquin township is sec- March 27 and 28. Many homemakers have expressed keen interest in the affair. Those who plan to attend are urged to be at the high school early. The school starts at 1:30 p.m. each day. The school will be under the personal direction of Mrs. Helen Weeks Harris, university graduate in home economics, special representative of ondj wii»t.hv 1•i1Q8f9t.o3c5r0t.T7o2 anmdA *M* ciHT enr«y ' the Spry Research Kitchen in Cam- lecturer ,„d wriur „„ I'ood subjects and recognized authority in the food world. third with $138,210.95. The extension of taxes in McHenry county is a job of much size as described In figures released T>y County Clerk Woods. A total <>f 46.915 legal descriptions are on record for the year. From this number of descriptions 270,672 extension* were made. How M<,,!"nrv county's 1940 tax bill of $1,340 (Iji |n divided up among the varlon* * 'wnahin* <>f the county •a rompam, J tfe' 1939 tax follows: This lecturer is a superb cook. In the course of hei demonstration she turns out delicious light cakes, tender ROB RIDING ACADEMY Sheriff Lester Edinger said Wednesday noon that burglars broke into the Fletcher Riding Academy located at the old Colemar country club, near Spring Grove Tuesday night and stole tour bridles and four saddles. PILES FOR DIVORCE Edna' L Watkins filed suit for divorce against Eugene Watkins In the circuit court in Woodstock Friday. They were married January 14, 1939. Desertion is charged in the complaint. PROBATE MAXON ESTATE . A sister, Mabel Maxon of Harvard, flaky pastry, and a variety of appetiz-1 received the bulk of the $25,000 estate Town* hip Algonquin ... Riley Marengo Dunham Alden Hartland .... When Mrs. Mrytle Kyler has com- *'"ir pleted the erection of a greenhouse j fjraftoii at the corner of Stott and Central streets in Genoa, she will have realized a dream of years and at the same time placed in operation in Genoa a business which has for years been greatly desired. Lake county's traffic fatality toll climbed to eight for the year with the death^of Richard R. Zito, 32, of 906 | Dorr Greenwood | Hebron Richmond . i Burton ....... McHenry . Nunda ....... 1940 1939 189.350 188.934 24.691 ' f 27.205 80,440 81.080 29.641 29,952 129.531 330,783 129.531 J 30,783 33.481 32.806 30,101 . 30.072 29.391- 30 351 41,181 40,600 61,826 ' 60,067 -196,205-----195,260 35,158 56,198* ing, economical foods that delight her audience. Best of all, she shows you how to get the same results. A trained home economist, her lectures are authoritative, and in line with modern food ideas. As an extension worker for the Spry Research Kitchen, her, demonstration technique is faultless. All the foods prepared during each day's school are to be given to members of the audience. Each person will receive a printed folder containing recipes of the dishes prepared during the school. Many valuable prizes will be given away during each school session. Remember the dates, Thursday and Friday, March 27 and 28, at 1:30 p. m., in the McHenry High School auditorium. There is no admission charge. 37,701 12,518 138.210 119,778 33,098 56,133 37,936 DROWNS IN UNDERTOW 12,563 121,877 117,796 $1,340 288 1,333,624 WHILE FISHING OFF ROCKS NEAR FRISCO Mr. and Mrs. Math N. Schmitt received the -tragic news this week of of the late Dr. J. G. Maxon, mayor of Harvard for twenty-three years, by terms of the will dated August 4, 1936, and probated Monday before Judge Henry L. Cowlin. R. M. Galvin is named executor of the will and also the $500 left in trust for Cynthia Ruth Maxon is left in trust to Galvin to be disposed of when the girl becomes eighteen years of aga.( ¥v- SENT TO VANDAUA LaVerne Roberts, 21, of Atderi, wfcS sentenced to serve three months at the state farm at Vandalia Monday noon by Judge Henry L. Cowlin on a plea of guilty to an information charging petty larceny. Roberts was arrested at Harvard several weeks ago. He was charged with taking five dollars from Stanley Colvin, Harvard gas station operator, on two occasions, February 23 and March 2. and fifteen dollars from Colvin on February 22. APPREHEND BURGLAR Arthur Kramer, 41, sought since It was presented in the county court: Community High school before enrollfor filing Monday. It was then taken J ing and graduating from Milwaukee to the circuit clerk's office. I School of Engineering as an arc The Lily Lake legal battle dates welder. Last winter he was employed _ Btucicwiscn aooui ao years oia a icar- L , • • . . back several years. In fact a case in- in Maywood, but for the past six or , about a half mile north of Half Day. | ed for county, road and bridge, school, mechanic who was drowned on -e bur£,a"zinf ot Arthur Ferns volving the legality of the incorpor- j eight^manths hehadbeen working for (zito, ridng alone, was driving north corporation, town, park distilct and Monday March 10, while, fishing off' [^Aurora TuesdTv nip-h^and^^nel over to Sheriff Lester Edinger. He i? urtder indictment for burglarv. Johr L. Strong and Niel Stoner. alleged to have been with Kramer on the night of the burglary, are also under indictment and have been confined in the county jail -at Woodstock^** lome time. ~ ation of the village is now in the su- the Thompson Appliance company m preme court for a ruling. ORCHESTRA PREPARES FOR CONCERT APRIL 4; SOLOISTS IN CONTEST On Friday evening, April 4, the high school orchestra will present-its Woodstock. He is survived by his father, Nathaniel Willis Adams of Maywood. a North Trumbull avenue, Chicago, Sun- from the number of legal oescnp- . . .. . jj. >. i n "HMUr *•>•*•* zjsm1*.r-; age mechanic, who was drowned on I - „ x T • Monday, March 10, while, fishing off I on route 21 at 7:30 a.m. when his fire protection purposes. In this con- th<? roc^s flt gan Francisco, Calif. I car went off the pavement opposite , action 49.577 items were extended in , Stuckwisch> an excellent swimmer J the W. J. Twait residence. It crashed , Algonquin township, not including | and a companion w^e indulging in . u .u t n a nA int0 * Culvert and Culvert P®81" After i 1 their favorite sport of fishing when a half brother, James, 14 years old. and)the car broke the cuiver post, it skid- County Clerk Woods stated Monday •ant breaker swept the former off a half sister, Margaret, 5 years old, of, ded back onto the pavement and fore- that 6,500 items of forfeitures, or ^ h at the rocks His com_ DesPlaines, | ed the right door of the car to sw}ng back taxes, were transferred to the nion who dived into the ^an in spring concert. The orchestra mem- i Tuesday afternoon at 2 p. m., with bers have been working very hard and! the .Rev. J. L. McKelvey officiating, as a result will present a concert ] Burial was in Greenwood cemetery, •which they believe will equal the fine besides his Greenwood relatives. ! open and hurl Zito out of the car. His Funeral services were held m the j body was found about ten feet South Merwin funeral home in Woodstock I o{ ^ere the car stopped. Unless Joseph A. Sweat, 23, of Maperformance giVten by the band last .§Viday night. The orchestra has chosen a very fine repertoire for this concert, including such pieces as "Glow Worni," "The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers," **March Royal," etc, FLEES FROM PARIS; ENTERS PISTAKEE SCHOOL Pistakee Bay School for Boys was very happy recently to welcome a new and distinguished pupil, Gferald Edgard Landa, whose former address The tickets' which were purchased, was 6 Rue Paul, Dupuy, Parish 16. for the band concert may be used for -- this orchestra concert; thus you may v attend two fine performances for the ? ' price of one. Watch for more details ' jiext week. ' Last Saturday six soloists and two ensembles, the brass quartet and the I* *; saxophone quartet, which were heard i. *jMat the concert on the previous night, s ' < went to Elmhurst to compete in the *•*--4iui»uict contest for band instruments. - jf^For most of the musicians this was a experience. Martin Baum received a first divi- , ision rating for his baritone solo; 'Elaine Landgren, cornet, first division rating; brass quartet, first division; f V iRobert Weideman, cornet, second diviision; Earl Pomrening, saxophone, second division; Laura Serman, clarinet, jig.,,...third division. The ratings of the V - (saxophone quartet and the baton %% >. • twirlers are not yet known. Mrs. Elmer Baum and Mrs. Charles ™~~r "Goodell' accompanied the group to serve as accompanists for the soloists. The boy has been in this country only three weeks. Landa, at the age of sixteen years, <Vtered Pistakee jBay school as a sophomore. He had been attending a boarding school in Paris called St. John's college, until it became necessary for him to flee from France. Although he cannot speak English flu ently as yet, he tells of a few breath- not only once, bat a half dozen times rengo, ceases his wooing of an un. named Elgin girl as a hopeless task, he'll have to raise $100 in a hurry or out in a S100 worth of work at the Kane county jail at Geneva. TTiat was the warning an Elgin justice of the peace gave Sweat last week as he gave him a $100 suspended fine on a charge of disorderly conduct. He was arrested because police claim he refused to stop forcing his attentions on the girl with whom he once kept company. 4 While his fellow citizens were uttering unholy things about the weather Tuesday morning, March 4, Clair Benson, of Whitewater, Wis., dragged out his coonskin, hitched his trotter to the cutter, and made a circle of the loop, collector s books amounting to $453,- an a^empt to save him, was unable *'• . . , ... . ,, | to battle the waves and was carried Of the back tax total there is on the safejy back on shore. Although the books $274,275 from three townships,! £oast Guards have been searching for Algonquin. Nunda and McHenry. In body, no trace of it has been found this connection Algonquin leads with, as ^ according to a report received a $170,089.37 total. All three of these townships are heavily infested with subdivisions where most of the back tax is recorded. j A comparison of the work in ex- <tending taxes in McHenry county with that of a trio of other counties in the, j£0 had met and married Miss state with a similar population as this Schmitt in San Francisco, and they by the Math Schmitts Wednesday evening. Surviving are his wife, the former Isabelle Schmitt of McHenry, and a son, Jackie, two and one-half years old. Stuckwisch, formerly of St, i; Miss Marie Vales of McHenry and • hurry Scharf of Ellkottville, N. Y., Mi . : • ' taking experiences when bombs were dropped too close to him for comfort. Although Landa was bom and lived in France until a few weeks ago, his father is a successful Chicago business man. He was transferred to Paris about twenty-five years ago, but returned to Chicago a few months ago to re-establish his business and provide a safe place for his family. After looking over several schools in the Chicago vicinity, he chose to send his son to the Pistakee institution. The new student is greatly interested in sports of all kinds. In Paris he was captain of a football team, he also swims, plays tennis and pingpong, Tides and is a boxing enthusiast. -or so, stopping only to pick wp and let off passengers. "My income tax is too high," Lucy Harrison, 22, of 215 Sheridan road, Lake Forest, complained last Thursday to her grandfather. Carter H. Harrison, in the United States court house in Chicago. Miss Harrison couldn't have picked a better person. For grandpa, a former Chicago mayor, is collector of internal revenue for this area. John Davis, 34, a trucker of Diamond Lake, was charged with grand larceny last Thursday in a warrant issued by Justice of the Peace Harry Hoyt on the complaint of Mrs. Theresa Schuh, who alleged that Davis took away 1,800 pounds of scrap iron from her property. Davis is to be Chrm * bearing later. county discloses the greater amount of work necessary in this county. In Bureau county with a population of some 37,000 only 26,740 descriptions are on record for 1940. In De- Kalb county with a population of 34,000 only 24,725 descriptions are recorded and in Morgan county with a population of 36,000 only 22300 des- »• >4ions are on record. This is a comparison which shows that nearly fifty per cent more work is necessary in McHenry county than in the three other counties mentioned ib^ve. This, it is said, is due to the subdivision property located in this 'ounty and which the three counties mentioned above have little contact with. SCOUT COOKIE SALE Ilia Girl Scouts will hold their annual cookie sale on Saturday, March 22. Each Scout will solicit the sale of cookies in a certain section of the city. Will you do your part by buying a box of Girl Scout cookies? Mrs. Pink Harrison Ties returned to her home at Pistakee Bay after spending several weeks at Hot Springs, Arksnaas, had resided there since their marriage about {our years ago. DEATH CLAIMS CHICAGO WOMAN, MRS. CLARA SPOO Funeral services were held 'this Thursday morning for Mrs. Clara Spoo of 5710 South Paulina street, Chicago, dearly beloved wife of the late Peter Spoo, from a chapel at 6652 South Ashland avenue to St. Basil's church. Burial was in St. Boniface cemetery. Surviving are seven children, Anthony, Peter, Mary Sharp, George, Charles, Clara Dunn and Vera Glennon. George Spoo, formerly of McHenry, was married to Susan Simon of this city. The deceased was also the grandmother of twenty grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren. Two of these grandchildren, George Spoo, Jr., and Mrs. Crystal Mahoney, now of Elgin, resided in McHenry for several years. N O T I cT Tuesday, March 25, wfl! be the fast day we will do commercial killing this season. Reiner's Grocery and Market c . . • . , • . • & PROBATE ESTATE Williar". Leon. Robert and .Jack Dodge of Woodstock are named as heirs in the $25,000 estate of Nancy Jane Lawson who died November 30 1937, by ttrms of th^ will admitted to probate Monday. The ,will was ad mitted previously in Clay county, Nebraska. However, real estate estima'ted lit $25,000 is located in McHenry county. The will provided that s one-sixth share go to the above named heirs. GIVEN JAIL SENTENCES John H. Fisher of Algonquin was sentenced to serve ten days in the county jail and pay costs of $98.50 by Judge Henry L. Cowlin Monday. Fisher pleaded guilty to violation of the unemployment compensation act Unable to pay the costs Fisher was ordered to work them out at $1.50 per day in the county jail. Fisher's sentence was the first of its kind in the county since the act was passed. ^ STRUCK BY AUTO Donald Huffman, 26 years o'd, of Greenwood was rushed to Woodstock Public hospital last Friday night after he was struck while walking on highway route 173, three miles east of Hebron. He sustained severe head wounds and bruises about the body when an automobile, driven by Louis Houghton of Genoa City, strock him. Huffman is an employee of the Alemite Die Casting company in Woodstock. Miss Kopple of Dubuque. Iowa, is visiting her amt. Mm. )(, Gtadstoia. PRESENT FIRST CHORAL CONCERT SUNDAY EVENING CHORUS COMPOSED OF LOCAL SINGERS Next Sunday evening, March 23, beginning at 8:15, the McHenry Choral club will present its first concert. for the entertainment of the entire community. The chorus, which was organized last December thfough the untiring ' efforts of its conductress, Miss Adele Froehlich, and its two accompanists, j Mrs. Carl Weber and Mrs. Charles W. " Goodell, is composed entirely of local singers. There are ten sopranos, nine - altos, four tenors and five basses, twenty-eight voices in all. Gordon ~ Scholle is their very talented violin Soloist. All of the selections by the mixed . chorus are well known to every music, lover. "The Easier Parade" will set ' you in mind of a joyful day soon to come, while the spirited "Anvil Chorus" will make you relive the colorful and lively scene which this operatic number implies. These are only two of a group of eight songs, each in a different vei) and mood, which the mixed chorus will sing for your pleasure. Besides these, special groups have prepared several novelty' numbers. Included in these are two songs by the Women's Sextette and three by the Men's Chorus. A duet by a very talented couple will also comprise a highlight of the evening. The entire group has worked with "might and main" to make this, their first concert, a most successful one. A large turnout would convince them that their efforts were not in vain and urge them to present more performances in the future. The admission is twenty-five cents. Program * Soldier's Chorus -- from "Faust,** Gounod; Sleeping Beauty Waltz, Tschaikowsky; Sympathy, Friml. -- Mixed Chorus. Winter Song, Bullard; On the Road to Mandalay, Speaks; Stout Hearted Men, Romberg. -- Men's Chorus.'^ • . Oh, Lovely Night, Bofcald; Thine Alone, Herbert. " -- Duet, Adele Froehlich and Roy* Redwanz. The Angel's Serenade, Braga; Easter Parade, Berlin; Shortnin' Bread. Wolfe. -- Mixed Chorus. Serenade, Romberg; My Hero, Strauss. -- Women's Sextette. In A Monastery Garden, Ketelbey Anvil Chorus--from Verdi. ' -- Mixed Chorus. AUDITORIUM PACKED FOR BAND CONCERT LAST FRIDAY NIGHT , McHenryites flooded the high school • auditorium last Friday night to hear • the McHenry High School Band pre- f sent its concert, to hear Glen Welty play the piano and direct the band in a 1 few numbers and to see and hear Eddie Peabody, the "King of the Banjo." ^ The band, under the direction of Paul Yanda, far surpassed, last Friday night, any performance it has ever given previously and set a new peak of perfection for itself. The quartets and soloists too, received much acclaim for their splendtd offerings. Mr. Yanda is deserving of a great deal of credit for the wonderful work he is accomplishing. * To climax the evening. Glen Welty, * who is musical director of the Alka- " Seltzer national barn dance, and also of the program. "Dreams Come True," heard every Sunday afternoon over the radio, sat down at the piano to accompany his good friend, Edd:e Peabody, star of stage, screen and . radio. Mr. Peabody was greeted with waves of applause by the local people who took great delight in Jistening to the music melt from ban jo in the hands of the renowned artist. He also gave them a few novelty numbers on the violin. The audience was reluctant to let him go, even after several encores. However, before Mr. Peabody left the stage, he made an announcement which concerned Bonnie Page, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Page, s who had given an unusually fine piano rendition of "Valse Chromatique" by Godard. He said that Bill Jones, the producer of the Sacks amateur hour. which may be heard every Sunday afternoon on a nationwide hook-up, who was present in the audience, extended his personal invitation to Miss Page to appear on the amateur hour. All three of these noted men, Mr. Peabody, Mr. Welty and Mr. Jones are residents of McHenry. After a few more selections by the ? - ^ band, two of which were directed by .. * $f Glen Welty. and a performance by the , drum majorettes, the program carae - to a close with the audience sing;ng ^ ^ "God Bless America." The Boy Scouts, the Girl Scoots and a group of Legionnaire* dbplayM Mka ia* -•? . for this number. Latest records and sheet music at t •>. 8 for $1.00. Nye's Jewelry, Muaic and f Radio Store. , - ~ J