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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 12 Jun 1930, p. 5

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"-.A •' J •' :-. ,.»•••• •'• • ' . '".»- ••:•. . • _ • ' • •• -- • ' * ' • . } ' t EALEE. THTO^DAY, JUNE 12, 1930 mm WfflUY PERSONALS tlOMERS AND GOERS OF A WEEK IN OUR CITY Iks Seen By PlaiiidealerJUporters and Handed Is >^| Br On-* Friends .-v | Robert Weber was en Elgin *Wt- <Jr Sunday. * Mrs. Ellen Eniigs Vatted at Richl^ iond Friday. John Thorsell is spending the sum- |f(ier at Mundelein. ' Lenore Cobb of Chicago gpent Thursday at her home here. Mrs. Arch of Chicago is spending lie stflftflier at Fistakee Bay. Jacob Buss of Belvidere visited v Jelatives in McHenry Sunday, p. r j Mrs. Stephen Heimer spent a few kst week at Delavan, Wis. ^ Mrs. Emma Schultz of Hampshire v %ent a recent day in McHenry. . :- v f i Arlin Wiseman of Elgin was the! / jjjiuest of Willie Green Wednesday. ~ *,£ Walter and Herbert Fenske of Chivisited friends here Sunday. ; Hamilton Parr of LaGrange was a| - ijfjlcHenry visitor over the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd CoTmaua of Ghi- _ ^/"'fpgo spent Sunday with relatives here. Bernita Grunow of Chicago was a lucent guest in the Simon Michels Ipme. ; Ven. Sister M. Jerome of Chicago visited friends here a few days last •yfteek. ^ Mrs. Clarence Eriekson is at her :!fcome at Pistakpe Bay for the ton- . per. ... , William Green is epetiding the week it Harvard in the National Tea store ttere. * Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Klein of Wau- Ij^pan visited relatives here last Wed- *fcsday. Donald Powers of Long Lake spent Jhinday with his mother, Mrs. Mary Flowers. Mr. and Mrs. Math Nimsgern of 8pring Grove were callers in McHenry Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Martin of Round Lake visited McHenry friends Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. George Shepard and - children of Ringwood visited relatives here Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Sutton and children of Chicago were week-end visit- '0*8 in McHenry. j ; Mrs. E. F. Kelter has returned to her home here after spending several days in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Alexander if Hebron spent Sunday in the Robert Thompson home. Mr. and Mrs. Heints of Chicago were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. 8fmon Michels. Mrs. Helen Oder of Chicago spent the week-end with her parents, Ml. Stfid Mrs. John Fay. Rev. Fr. Hacket of Polo spent a fyw days the first of the week with friends in McHenry. . Misses Eleanor and Mjuion (tarjcin at Elgin spent the week-end in the Edmund Knox home. \ Mrs. W. A. Small, Jr., of Chicago is spending the summer at her summer home at the bay\ Mr. and Mrs. Nick Bertram of Aurora visited relatives at Johns burg and McHenry Sunday.. Tony Hines and Mr. and Mrs. Nick Hines of Aurora visited relatives in this vicinity Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Brefeld and family of Waukegan visited In the B. J. Brefeld home Sunday. / Mr. and Mrs. Perry Short of Chicago spent a few days this week in the Dr. N. J. Nye home. Gladys Warrington left Sunday for Bedford, Mich., near Detroit, where she will join her father. Mrs. Carl Schmitt and children of Chicago visited the last of the week in the Fred Kamholz home. Mr. and Mrs. Seeley Johnston vt Champaign were guests in the P. H. Wteber home the first of the week. Miss Kathleen Powers has taken a position as bookkeeper at the Unti lee Cream factory for the summer. Miss Verena Jus ten of Chicago was a week-end visitor in the home of her jwrents, Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Justen. Mrs. Frank Martin went to Crystal Lake the last of the week to visit relatives, before her return to Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Dowling of Chicago were week-end visitors in the home of her mother, Mrs. Ella Gaos. Mr. and Mrs. Will Volling of Norwood Park were Sunday guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Kramer. A Mat Karls of Chicago spent Sunday with his parents. His family in Chicago is quarantined with scarlet fever. Mrs. Otto Herman and family of Norwood Park were (guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Kramer Monday. Dr. and Mrs. A. I. Froehlich and daughter, Adele, left Sunday for Winnebago, Minn., where they will visit relatives. Mr. and Mrs. George Hanly and daughter, Grace, of Elgin spent the week-end in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Sayler. Mr. and Mrs. George Schlitt *nJ Mrs. Charles Jackworth of Chicago were visitors in the Math Latues home Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Earl McAndrews and children returned home Saturday, after spending the past week with relatives at Mankato, Minn, Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Knox, daughter, Genevieve, Mrs. Clarence Whiting, son, Claire, and Richard Conway were Elgin visitors Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Duker, son, Guy, and daughter, Marjory, left last Week for Indiana where they will visit relatives for a few weeks. Mrs. H. B. Schaefer spent several days this week in Chicago where she was called by the illness of her son, Earl, who has been visiting there. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Heckman and •aons, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wagner and son, Harold, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brooks and son, James, Mrs. Ed Wagner and Mrs. Rossi of Chicago spent Stjnday at the J. B. Kelter cottage, Defiance. ' \t t ^ I \ W - V-1 - - , ' ' * * i '**#1 -?>** 1 krC* - f • *'.* I ' SwPtaviiVfil . , OPEN LETTER 1£burin.* is wffincftnp. s • , - ivf"t. m ; .»& _ "flu" » - ' *.ri .ror live years I have livecTainong you here in McJenry 'and havg built up a business of which I am proud. It is "the finest drag {(tore ill Illinois." . tend to have the quality and the aai^rtmeiit of ci that I ha/ve or sell what they do have at the prices you pay here. That kind of service and politics don't wiir, %• i • ' i- . My • profession," if you call it such, waa learned under the heel' ^ ptafonadsts in Northern yihwqI#, . .. • " • • ' ' Even as an apprentice boy I was taught cleanliness, purity fend ' i honest merchandise----with the accent oncleanlines s ^ / vl all the time. To the very best Of my ability, McHenry has boon given {§ drug store that any toro twice the siie caa be proud of. .* . . .-i . •" • • ' • • - , _ •>.' \ ..... . W6w T am drawn lnio a political fight. Against my will, againgt - my inclination and contrary to all the facts in the case incautious pefsrW sons, who 'may not be possessed of the facts, may allow themselves to believe that I am a politician instead of a druggist. Oome into mf storeand i«!eteftig«t^e closeof abusy day, you will find order, cleanliness, neatness and more cleanliness froiii the front door to the back. Won't your good sense tell you I can't keep a store as big as this as clean as I do and play politics? Look at my paint department. You can get almost any kind of paint here you want and in almost any quantity. Here are paint brushes, the best brushes that mpney can buy; the best brushes that anybody makes at prices low and quality high. Look at the modern fixtures I have in this store, fit for a city ten times bigger than McHenry. All a part of cleanliness, order and neatness. Books, [, we don't pretend to be a book store, but you can ge% some quite good reading matter here. There are late, there are new, and there are the sort of stories you will enjoy reading. There are en*y tertaining stories not too heavy and yet selected for your and satisfaction, i* prices you can afford to pay. V t r Do you suppose I have time to concentrate on such a business and play politios, too? ^ i- "4^ same Ast any physician as to the kind of drugs yoa get here. They are pure drugs bought from the greatest sources in American industry, according to the standards and ratings of the pharmacopoeia. You know a man can't play politics and run a business like this; f#6r the other must nftm, . Look at the metropolitan fountain that is in this store, see how it shines; how inviting it is. Observe its neatness, cleanliness, orderliness.! You know many hundreds of my customers, through the whol#| of the summer season, come from the great cities and are accustomed t<lfe V' the finest in food service that money can buy. It has been my pride that no customer in any city anywhere could find in his own I town a cleaner, better ordered fountain than mine, or procure better service at any .price than he gets hen*-- : J. ! *• . . r. . . ' " Why, a child buying a 5c sack of peanuts is treated with the same courtesy here as a woman from the City who comes for a $5 flacon of . Houblgant's rich and rare perfumes. Supplementing our book department, we have daily newspapers, souvenirs of every sort, penpants, postcards, bathing caps and beach shoes are here in profusion. Why, man, we have entirely too much merchandise in this store and our problem of turnover is entirely too important for us to bother with politics. Had you asked m# tfe> weeks age, I would havo said I didn't dtfe who was postmaster of McHenry. Of course when the proposition cam# up and the postmaster was to be changed anyhow, I took the oppor*, tunity to get preferment for a man who has served me long and welly : who has gone as far with me as he could go and who deserved promo • tion beyond what I could give him. I did exactly what you or anyone else would do; I put his name "in the hat" and I hoped he would get ^ the job. That was the beginning and end of m£ "politicking." That's going to cost me sokfethiiig. I'll have to l&ik in a new . man, I'll ha veto do even more work myself; I'll have to acquaint new clerk with the thousands of items I have in this store. , Thiiit*4 allright , ( I helped the other fellow to get ahead. Come in and buy some purses, goods here at reasonable prion You will find the lovliest of leather m We have both.. v Look at my cigar counter and see the wide line, the almost inexhaustible assortment of smokefft' preferences that yon or any other customer may buy fromme^ i Do ftm think I have timeio run a business like this and mix up in politics on the side? -- ----- ~ ~" Sheer nonsense! t Did yon ever notice my department of toilet necessities and accessories? * There is a Ford car bearing a Nebraslga license parked in front of my store and just beyond that a town car, with a chauffeur in livery, from the North Shore. One buys a lotion for his sunburned hands and the other buys a vial of the essence of roses. Bach goes away satisfied, each has been courteously treated, and each got just what he wanted at a fair priotf. , And the candy counter! Why, there are confectionery stores in the big cities that don't pre- Drop into our refectory. It's the little nook at the left of our fountain, built of fumed and weathered oak, in Old dgrle, after the Gothic period, and you can eat a dish of ice cream from the top of any table in the plao*. That's how clean it is. - Note the long distance telephone booth we have for your convenience, the radio reception, the women's retiring room, not od1j,hh^ but miraculously clean. ^ 1 " Why we even have one department devoted to rehgious «»mKU»w prayer books, rosaries, and the ikons and symbols of devout worship. The thing, perhaps, we are proudest of is that perfume department, with its essence of flowers, its odeurs by Houbigant and Cheramy. No, friends, finally believe that I have the best drag store--else of the town and population considered--to be found anywhere in. Northern Illinois, and every man who reads these lines knows how hard I have worked to develop this business to the point where it serves you and your town so weU. # • ' ' " - • ' It is unfair to embroil me in a political discussion concerning which I have no interest other than to see a good "guy" get ahead. Of course! I have my friends as you have. I can't be loved by everybody any more than you can, and I can't love everybody without cheapening my friendship. Other than that I am interested in my business, I am interested in my trade, I want you to be a customer of this store, I want the opportunity to serve you, and we have lots of things here which you need*every day you live. Pure drugs, expertly compounded, under conditions of absolute cleanliness, in the neatest of surroundings, and the spirit of glad service to go sincerely and happily with every transaction. i rt haven't time to play politics. «>j I ctrr-si "TOM" BOLGER "Just a Druggist" McHENRY f'.;(' ' A"?i Af * • *5: Li?.- • ' '

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