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•i •' • >• '•*> um • M- '.rv.j ^ K>. /-'.".TV " -»rS, ,,r« *V/' -- V VsK • "* * «• ?*rr ^ * i . • y«*',- f t l M M l •MMiimnm Ntwt Wrmm Wonder Lake ^•••eeeeeoeeeeeeeoeeeeee By Vumm Sella " illToday is Christmas eve; the anniversary of the birth of the Christ child, whose cominjj into the world gets pretty much mixed up in a welter of commercial enterprise and the ttltural urge to receive. "Good will to men--" the angels sang; and we will be lucky if the frood will Jasts until next week, and sn't it sad. Surely the spirit of good will shouldn't be lost in the heartbreak of Tendering if your gift was good enough; surely it shouldn't be lost because you couldn't afford a gift at all; or if you only sent a card and received a gift. . It seems, sometimes, that" most of 3iii are too much concerned with tbings--inanimate objects instead of concern for our souls. How much better off we would be if we could live, as a dear friend of mine does, as though each day were her last <me. By such a creed, there can only bt> good will. If this were your last day on earth would you have lived it to you did? Would you have screamed at your children? Would you have cried because your neighbor got a mink coat, or a new car? Would* you have brushed away a friendly gestuure because you had no time for sentiment? Think back-- if this were your last day, is it just this were your very last day, wouldn't your surroundings, no matter how poor, take on new light and new meaning? Wouldn't your home, though shabby, seem very dear, if you could never see it again? It is Christmas eve; the anni- 'Wrsary of the birth of a child who became Christ. And Christ said, "Love One Another." Do you? A fitting prelude to the Christ- Mas season was presented on last Thursday evening at McHenry high school by the McHenry choral group, with whom many local residents sing. Mrs. Ethel Hansen, Mrs. Mildred Howorka, Louann Howorka, Mrs. Pauline Grill, Mrs. Clara Cristv, and Mrs. Delia Cheney, all of Wonder Lake, were among the singers, and Mrs. Virginia Monteleone served as accompanist In the tableau shown in connection with the music from Handel's ^Messiah," Dannie Cheney, Donald Grill and Bob von Bampus were among those sevring1 as aheperds, Frank Cheney and Roy Noren served as wise men, Alree Noren was the angel and Anton Grill of Wickline acted the part of Josephs Mrs. Max Voight, local British war bride, showed me a letter from a small cousin of hers. Site Reyner, 8*4, of Elm Hall Withan, Essex, England. The little ^irl said that she hoped that she might receive a sewing set for Christmas, or perhaps something to wear. She said her 7-year-old brother wanted a football, but that it was too expensive. These children live on a farm in England and their father's income is the equivalent of $16 in American money. In contrast to these meek wishes, 11 have also before me a letter which I my own 9-year-old wrote to Santa I Claus. It goes like this: "Dear ! Santa: This is what I want. From j Gambles, I want a shower stall, I a supermarket, a Sunbabe rubber 1 doll and a super deluxe service station. From Wards, I want a 15" dydee doll; a climbing tractor with a detachable grader and a toy uke and banjo and a honeymoon express. This list comes to eractly $29.95 with ! the tax. (signed) Sandra Sells." I It looks as though Santa came I through the garage at the home of j Wayne and Mabel Sartwell,-or isn't l that a brand new Chrysler? j The Busy Bumble Bees 4-H club | held a carol sing and party on Sun- ! day evening. With their invited ! guests, there were seventeen in the , caroling party which returned after ! several hours of singing to the home jof Sharon Sells, where they popped j corn and pulled t&ffy. Assistant j hostess, Geraldine Cormier, suffer- 1 ing from a bad cold, did not go I with the carolers. She stayed behind i and experimented with varieties of fudge -- all of which, strangely, turned out well. Santa Claus came early to the home of Pat Wrede. Last week a big tryck backed up and tried to deliver a shiney, new gas range, but the lady of the house refused to accept it. "Oh no," she cried, "there must be some mistake. W« haven't ordered a new stove. Anyway, we just can't afford it now--we have a new baby! Folks with new babies can't afford new stoves the same year!" The delivery man insisted, though, and finally Pat phoned the store, who verified the place of delivery. : her husband sly was hers, Still dubious, she and found that it a Christmas prat-- _ Have you noticed lifct aroma latety in her neighborhood T Pat is baking cookies ana pies end cakes aftd Gail Wrede does . look stouter! A group of ladle* from Wonder Woods were reeent ^sitors at the Haeger Pottery company in Dundee lastweek. AnyM. those viewing the pottery processes -were Mrs. Eugene Roy, Mrs:' W, Perry, Mrs. John Noble . «nd Mrs. Lorenxo Thomas. - Mrs. E. G. Roy- of Wonder Woods accompanied Mrs. Frank Wiedemann of the Mill Inn to Chicago last week on a shopping tour. They also took Mrs. Wiedemann's sen to see Santa. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Thorns of McHenry are parents of a boy born Dec. 17. Friends here will remember the Thorns as former residents of Wonder Lake, and know Mr. Thorns as the meter-reader in our district for Public Service company. They are the parent of Another son, Brian, now;. 4 years old. 1 Henry Cross Jr. was nearly drowned -Sunday afternoon in an accident on the lake when he fell through a hole. A number of the local boys were skating when Henry walked out on the ice and, in fun, began kicking a hockey stick across the ice. The stick, sliding far out toward the middle and Henry, running toward it, fell through a hole that had been cut < by a fisherman and which had y." f T-V' * • ' 8W ;:#*?!$i !Kv|v iftif mite fmUb in India to the warm with another got his friend ed further due Skippy Noren, stick, finally the water. H0L1DA1LSERVICES At WONDER LAKE GOSPEL CENTER % , (Nonesecterian) * Frank W. Anderson^ Pastor * Cforistmas Day, December 25th Early Christmas Service - 12:01 A. M. A Candle Light Service - Special Christmafc Music Sermon Topic: "Why We Celebrate Christmas.". Sunday, December 28th Sunday Bible School at 10 A. M. Morning Worship Service at 11 o'clock Sunday School Festival and Program, 7 P. M. yMe Children's opportunity to present the Christmas Story New Tear's Eve, December. 31*1' Watcsh Night Service--A Most Timely Service at 11 p.m. Gospel .Center Thanks to genarous hearts inventive minds and willing hands, our chapel is beauttflilly decorated for Christmas. Hie ffcergreen trees on the front lawn have also taken on a gorgeous and Christmas like appearance, being lit lip in the Evenings with large colored electric; flights. The young people .will be qut sieging Christmas carols between 11 ana 12 o'clock on Christmas eve. 1 The early Christinas candle light service will begin on*, minute/past midnight the first and earliest hour of Christmas Diw. The pastor will speak on the svlmbt "Why We Celebrate Christma*/' Paul F. Anderson and others will ipider special Christmas music. WE welcome one and all to a service worthy of the occasion. ' . ^ Next Sunday, Dec. 28, the Sunday Bible School and Morning Worship Service will be held at the usual hours. In the evening, .at 7 o'clock, the Sunday School1 festival and program will be given, when many of the children will take part in singing and recitations. Prizes will be awarded and there will be.gifts and treats for aO. A.Watch Night service will fee held at the Center at* 11 o'clock oe New Year's Eve. ' < 9' PLACE ""Tavern and Restaurant Our kitchen will be closed on both Christmas and New Year's Day, but the bar wlh remain open on both da^s. GREEN STREET McHENRY LEGALS VERNON "jf KNOX, Attorney • NOTICE OF CLAIM DATE Estate of Fred Beller, Deceased Notice is hereby given to all persons that February 2nd, 1948, is the claim date in the estate of Fred Beller, Deceased, pending in the County Court of McHenry County, Illinois, and that claims may be filed against the said estate on or before said date without issuance of summons. ' KATHRYN M. BELLER, <*> Administrator. (Pub. Dec. 26 - Jan. 1 and 8) Cost ef Erosion At least 48 million tons of phosphorus, potassium and nitrogen-- the principal ingredients of commercial fertilizer--are wasted in the United States each year through unchecked soil erosion. AUCTION CBAS. LEONARD, Auctioneer i'lilcloc * --/•) Surrounded by myth by,primitive peoples, the mistletoe was taken over by Christians who also wove fanciful legends around it. In ancient mythology, the mistletoe was the instrument of evil. The Druids of Britain believed the . plant possessed healing powers. Other primitive people thought that mistletoe found growing- on oaks had magical powers. Taken over into Christian tradition, the miatletoe was dedicated to the Christ Child. Adopted as symbolical of the healing power of our Lord, it was used to adorn the altars at Christmaff. Monks of the monasteries called it the "wood of the cross" and attributed supernal ural powers to it. The white berries were said to reflect the radiance caught from the guiding star when the Wise Men were led to. the manger. CHPi5TMA5 Norwegian farmers give their cattle tubs of home-brewed ale on Christmas Eve. At midnight of Christmas Eve people in Madrid eat 12 grapes for good luck in the coming year. There are 175 different kinds of holly. Christmas has been celebrated on more than 100 different days in various parts of the world. Christopher Columbus and his men landed on the coast of Cuba on December 25, 1492, naming the point Navidad. George Washington crossed the Delaware and made a successful attack on the Hessian troops at Trenton, N. J., on Christmas Day, 1776. • Oliver Cromwell and his Puritan followers abolished Christmes Day in England, banning all. feasting and fun. The ban lasted for seven years and was lifted when Charles II became king. ' The needy are considered in Hungary at Christmastime, a levy being assessed against richer citizens so the poor may have sufficient to eat and drink. ifts ^Jkat uit >ry one THE old saying that it isn't the gift but the giving that's appreciated may be true, but just "the same a good gift quickens the heart so much more. In being able" to draw upon the abundance of the country, farm people are in a position to present especially valued gifts at comparatively small cost. For instance, a box full of spruce, fir, pine, holly, cedar or balsam is always welcomed as a decorative source by city friends. City people, like everybody else, also appreciate good things to eat, and home canned country1 fruits and vegetables or some fowl can be expected to make a big hit. Gardeners CHRISTMAS A Season Joyous Christmas! No vaunting phrases can truly carry the meaning of that word, no marching adjectives picture its fulfilment. Its being \ *; i ** and expression must He in thesimple words of the prophets, in the unpretentious but meaningful phrases of the 0f "ON EARTH PEACE, GOOD WILL TO MEN.'t^ T. P. MATHEWS • ^Wonder Having decided to quit farming, I will sell at public auction on my farm on Route 120, first farm east of Lily Lake, 4 miles East of McHenry, 1 mile West of Volo and 5 miles Northwest of Wauconda, on TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30th - commencing at 12:30 o'clock sharp the following property: Thirty-two Head of Livestock Eighteen Holstein milk cows, six with calf at side, some close springers, balance milking good; five heifers ranging 5 months to 1 year; one bull 14 months old; black team of good work horses, 8 & 10 yrs. old FEED--700 bushels ear corn in crib: 600 bushels oats; 23 feet of'good silage in 14-ft. silpf 400 bales of straw; 500 bales ofvfirst cutting alfalfa and timothy -mixed; 300 bales of second cutting alfalfa. MACHINERY -- Mc-U. Model F 20 tractor on rubber; Mc-D. tractor cultivator; Mc-D. 8-ft. tractor disc; Mc-D. 14-in. two bottom tractor plow; M-W walking plow; Emerson sulky plow; 7-ft. horse drawn disc; 2 single row horse cultivators; cultipacker; 2 Mc-D. hay mowers, 6-ft. and 6-ft.; New Idea manure spreader on rubber; Mc-D. side delivery rake; one dump rake; hay loader; McD. corn binder; Deering grain binder; J. D. corn planter with 120 rods of check wire; Buckeye seeder; 7-ft. Tiger grain drill; 8-ft. phosphate spreader on rubber; three section drag; bob sled; rubber tired wagon with rack; steel wheel wagon with rack; set dump boards; 600 lb. platform scale; scalding kettle; 50 grain bags; 120-ft. hay rope with fork and pulleys; 2 sets breeching harness; milk cart; Universal milking machine, double unit with pipe line for 20 cows; 8 milk cans; pails and strainers and rinse tanks; electric brooder; some household furniture and other items too numerous to mention. Terms: All sums of $25.00 and under that amount <iash; over that amount a credit of six months at •8. per cent, will be extended on notes approved toy the clerk. Anyone desiring credit kindly make arrangements before purchase is made. No property to be removed until settled for with the clerk. WlfJLIAM ETTEN ' ' McHenry State Baak, ClerUnc |C rop Condi 1948 wheat crop fa* proved agricultural observes on the basis of tha Dec. l crop Ushed last week. A Winter wheat «wp ef >*,700,000 bushels will be b gammer if there are no Inroads ttntu bad .weather or other _ able conditions. And u the spring enm raantirn the moderate alas efsV;' .-.- 875,000,oooCbushels, the combined r-^'fllini would amount to ' •:l 70s,ooo bushels, the observers --1"misted F"; Such a total would'enable the United States to continue its heavy ' ahlpmentsto probably not at this year's ntevjbkb may go to JWWWWOe bustwu. one estimate was that 300^00^00^^. bushels could be raared, which still wortd be triple the preWar axports of wheat fromthis country. ^ , „j The expected inflfeaae was due to larger pi«n«ng* by farmers out-** ' J'r, Bide the great plains. The total Winter wheat acreage was reported > at 58,648,000 acres, 1 per cent above tUayear, with only Kansas, Texas^^ite and New Mexico falling short of the 1M7 seeding. Use of the calorie content of foods as the of price was provided! P*ys la Operate Moderately Eqttipr^t toed at modi rates of Wterettan always wil Mwigai, give leas treuMe ftad.eave Ip* energy consumption. Operate refrigerator Inore at lower of the cold control. Do more lag with the lower heats < era. Don't try to hurry the by overloading the machine. off light end heating appHwicea mediately whim through tt them. Fire your furnace model ly and maintain an even tempera*. ^ ture in the house. Be conscious eftsmoderation and avoid the daftf aeiBj i. X; tear way of doing things. In the foreign aid bill by Congress last week and sent to Presldent Truman for his i Known as the "Wheat calorie prtee formula," the new plan wouldj authorize the government to sell foods to nations for the price per calorie, psing wheat as the basis of ^alue rather than the cost of production or acquisition of the foods. The contemplates the sale of foods acquired under the support procramto nations which hitherto' , have refused to buy because of the high cost per calorie. £ The Agriculture Department has that wheat costs 3.4 cents - per thousand calories.J^Br other foods, the cost per thousand calories^"-j. Include 45.6 cents foe d«ted eggs, 44 esnts for frozen eggs, 7.4 cents for; ' - prunes ana u Mlt lpr hIiItw. Then four items are the only foods; ^ -Ibe govemment now hes available tar sale under the new form«% ^ ,; . TH3B COLUMN 18 SPONSORED^? MCHENRY CO- FARMERS CO-OP. ASSK. PHONE 29 523 Wankrgan R4. City Council Proceedings The Gity Council met in * regular semi-monthly meeting with Mayor Overton presiding. Aldermen present: Afthoff, George J. Freund, •George P. Freund, Regner, Tonyan. Absent: Anderson. Motion by Regner, seconded by George P. Freund, that the minutes of the last meeting be approved as read. Motion carried. ; Reports of committees and appointive officers were received by the'Council. The City Clerk was instructed to contact V. H. Kasser to secure information as to zoning procedure. rUHIJU MOTUJK Notice of froitoced Change la SclMd» vie 111. C. C. 6 The Western United Uas and Blcctrie Company hereby gives notice to the public that It !• proposing to extend the availability of its Industrial interruptlble gas rales unUl May < 1, 1949. These rates now expire on December 31. 1947, and In order to accomplish this extension of availability, the Company has filed with the Illinois Commerce Commission on December 2. 1947. Jtate 44 (4B). Interruptlble Gas Servlc£-r ~ - Motion by George P. Freund, seconded by Althoff, that the meeting be adjourned. Motion carried. EARiL R. WALSH, City Clerk. R. I. OVERTON, Mayer. % W m WINES Service--Boiler Flrtng. Rate 43 (4E), Interruptlble (Jas Service--Glass or Chemical ProcesslnK. and Rate 43, Interruptlble Uas Service--General Processing. No Change Is made In the charges or conditions of service by this filing. - Further Information may be obtained with respect thereto either directly from this -Company or by addressing the Secretary of the Illinois Commerce Commission at Springfield. Illinois. A copv oi the proposed changes In the schedule may be Inspected by anv Interested party at any business office of this Company. WESTERN UNITED OAS AN1KEI. E'TRIC COMPANY ^ I s / C. E. COLLINS. Vice President Subscribe for The Plalndealer CLASSES NOW FORMING ROCKFORD SCHOOL -4-^--; OF--* the: Beauty Culture ENROLL "KOW Call or Write for Full her Information NO OBLIGATION 307 W. STATE STREET ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS Phone 3-6833 BODY and FENDER REPAIRING WELDHFG PAINTING Wreck Work a Specialty Over 20 Years in the Trade. S00 Front St. HANS FLACH Phone McHenry 244 R McHenry HOLIDAY SEASON . Canadian Club - Fifth - $5.55 . Walker's Deluxe - Fifth $4.97 Imperial Blended Whiskey Fifth, $3.40 Hill & Hill, Old McBrayer Old Sunnybrook Bond and Lillard Choice, each $4.10' i'1 Old Grand Dad, Old Taylor Old. Forester, Old Fitsgeral^. Xenticky T^vem, Old, • Overhalt, OM Crow Your Choice, each $6.75 Four Roses $4.25 Fifth*4 Calvert Reserve, Schenley, Three Feathers Your Choice, each $3.95 Seagram's VO - $5.50 For That Exclusive Gift Seagram's' Seven - $4.00 in the big town will gladly welcome a packet of seeds gleaned from an expansive country garden. Handy home-makers can convert old articles into attractive gifts. An old felt hat can be made into a beanie for some young girl merely by using the crown and adding yarn stitching for decoration. The best part of an old fur coat beyond repair will make a rich carriage robe tor a new baby. Pol-holders, dusting mitts, bath powder gloves, shoe bags are some of the items which can be salvaged from small scraps. And, O yesl what could be more useful to a young bride than a home made cook-book containing the home-maker's favorite recipes? Nol only will such a book provide toi tasty eating but it can also be ex pec ted to guide the young wife ovei some rough moments in the kitchen Many Plants Needed Size of the World War II aircraft industry is indicated by the fact that 92 aluminum plant* were built to supply raw materials to wartime aircraft producers. HATIISW ^ swciiKjiEi TRAOI MARK PRECISION MAGflMED 35 MM CAMERA feeble Sap Fim . TRe first American . was compiled bgr Noah Wetwlar in 1783 in West Hartford, Coon. Previous to this an achooftooka were by English authors. Also Available--Eastman Vigilant: and Monitor and Ansco Cameras , • * > i r 117 RIVERSIDE DRIVE McHENRV GIN--Gilbey's, Walker's, Fleischman's Your Choice, each $3.25 -IF SCOTCH --- Teacher's Hig^ land Cream, Black ft WhitV White Horse. Your Choice, each $5.95 WINES -- Garrets, Gallo, Italian Swiss Colony, Bragnot Port, Muscatel, Sherry, Pale- Dry Sherry. Your Choice, each 95c v We carrv a full line or sold by €he- caee. Blatt, Schlits, Budweisef^ Pabst, Prager, Drury, Fox and Master Bran. - / / ' ' LARGEST STOCK IN TOWIT ' I* the STORE darner Green ft Elm Ml TEL. McHENRY 104-R -It4: