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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 23 Aug 1934, p. 1

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M'HENRY SCHOOLS OPEN SEPTEMBER 4 FOR COMING VUR E ENROLLMENT EXPECTED IS - ^Scarcely two weeks remain before f .' Labor Pay and the opening of the r \ Schools of McHenry* after a ...../three months' vacation* which the students ,have been enjoying during • the sum- } S me*- •"* v • \ - "With the "approach of the late --' Auguf-t days, with their indications of the coming autumn, our thoughts : turn again to school days and preparations to get back into the old regime once more. v 4 Schools will open September 4, the • day after Labor Day, and the school buildings are being cteaned and the ..... teachers have been hired in readiness for another buey year. ' . The office of the local high school .Will be open for registration on Mon- • -day, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. ' Registrations on Monday will be for the Freshmen, on Tuesday the Sophomores will register and the Juniors and Seniors will register, on Wednesday. The office will be open from 9 a. m. to 12 noon, from 1 p. m. to 3 p. m., and from 7 to 8 p. m., when Supt. C. H. Duker will • be present to receive students for regis- ~ Wat ion. New books for the high school have been ordered and are on hand for .sale /during the registration period. High school students who have second hand _ Woks which they wish to dispose of through the school are asked to bring them in early Monday morning. The books will then be prepared for re- •Vftole during the registration period. • Students who do not obtain their .books during registration will be Vgreatly handicapped> 'vyhen--school opens on September 4. - Large Enrollment Expected5 It is expected that'the high school will have the largest enrollment in Its history this year, which indicates that the number of students will probably exceed the 200 mark. Each succeeding year finds a larger attendance in the high' school and last . year was considered a record-breaker I With its large enrollment, but, according to present indications, all attendance recoils will be broken again this year. A very large Freshman class is expected as the eighth grade graduating - class last spring was unusually large .. and if all of these pupils start high gchool next week the school will have <a reeord-fbreaking Freshman class. • , There^ will be only one change in . the personnel of high school teachers this year with Miss May Justen, a local girl, having been hired as teach- " er of domestic science in place of Miss ~ Lucile Grant. Miss Grant will not return this year. Miss Justen, who taught in the local grade school last year, is a graduate -of St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, . • Where she received her bachelor of science degree in home economics. In addition to teaching home economics in the high school, Miss Justen '.'.l,*tj£ill be assistant .director in vocal liiusic. Miss Margaret O'Gara will be the director of vocal music in the * high school this year in additigp to teaching history and English. The vacancy left in the grade school jfrhen Miss Justen was transferred to the high school teaching staff, will •fee filled by Miss Mary Booth, of Slornson, III. Mjss Booth has had several years' experience in teaching and is a graduate of the Northern Illinois State Teachers College at DeKalb. She also ------took one year in public school music at the University of Illinois and has had a year of music at a conservatory of music in Chicago. Miss Booth comes from the home STATE'S PRIZE WINNER HAS RELATIVES HERE - Local people have an added interest in Paul A. Engel of Washburn, who was 'chosen healthiest boy in, Illinois at the state fair held at Springfield this week, for he is the nephew of Dr. and Mrs. ~F. J; Aicher of McHenry. The contest was sponsored by £-H clubs with entrants from every county in the state, numbering 110 boys in the contest. Twelve boys were selected from this number and then the winner was chosen after five hours of examination in the clinic. This is the third time he has qualified in the contest, ranking third, then second and this year coming out fast in the competition. Crowning \>f the 4-H club health champions opened the 82nd annual Illinois State fair at Springfield, with the first of the top honors of the eight-day exposition going to Maxine Smith, 17-year-old high school senior at Abingdon and Paul A.' Engel. 20 years old, of Washburn. They were given gold medals and $25 each toward their expenses at the International Livestock exposition, when they will represent Illinois in the national contest- _• ' Engel, who has brown curly hair, 'bhle eyes and perfect teeth, was given a rating of 99.2. On Tuesday at 1 o'clock he was interviewed over the radio on station WLS and Dr. and Mrs. Aicher and several of their friends listened with interest to the conversation. The young man, whose picture has appeared in the papers, is to be -congratulated upon possessing the requirements of health of which he may be justly proud. • ; . Ralph Schroeder of Chicago Was a Sunday visitor "m the Jacob Steffes1 home. Scenes and Persons in the Current News vh; * ST JOHN'S CHURCH ITEMS Or INTEREST : :: TAKEN FROM COLUMNS - ; - fO ALL TO ATTEND THIS ANNUAL EVENT OF OUR EXCHANGES town of Clarence Ahglese, another of the high school teachers, and it is understood that they were in the same graduating class at the Morrison high school. This Year's Teachers The teachers in the high school for the year are: Miss Heleij Stevens--English and Dramatics. Miss Lillian Doherty--Foreign Languages and Girl?' Athletic Director. F. S- Orr--Science and Athletic Coach. L. J. MpCracken--History and Assistant Coach. Clarence Ariglese-- Science, Mathematics and Librarian. Miss May Justen--Domestic Science and Assistant Director of Vocal Music. Miss Dorothea Holden--Commercial Work and School Finance. Miss Margaret O'Gara -- History, English and Director of Vocal Music. Mrs- Joanne Rulieri-*-School Nurse. W. N. Sears--Music Director. In the grade school, Mr. Schoenholtz will teach the sixth and seventh grades this year and will direct the boys' gym work. The teachers of the grade school are: Miss Mary Kinney--Eighth Grade, Girls' Gym. M. L. Schoenholtz--Sixth and seventh Grades and Boys' Gym. Miss CatherineWalsh-- Fiftfe grade. Miss Mary Booth -- Fourth Grade and Music. Miss Nellie Doherty--Third Gr^de. Miss Alice Ward--Second Grade. " •Miss Genevieve Knox--First Grade. Miss Marie Ropp -- Kindergarten and Art. , Ev&yone is interested in the schools of the commufHty and in their success and each one should, therefore, assist in every way possible to see that all of our boys and girl® return to school this fall. " The ^nnual picnic and .dinner dates have been announced by St. John the Baptist church, Johnsbufrg, being Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 25 and 26. People of J.ohnsliurg and surrounding communities always look forward to this annual event. They know from past experience they are guaranteed a good time and on Sunday one of the finest dinners that the ladies and girls of the church prepare with homecooked foods served in the good old fashioned way. ^ There will be amusements for the whole family. Plenty of shade is provided by- the tall trees and the St. John's park near the chureh, Adequate parking space for hundreds of cars. . T S * St. John's church extends a cordial invitation to all to' attend this picnic and dinner at Johnsbiirg Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 25 and 26. 1--Stepping tho steel racing ninst of Endeavor, T. O. M. Sopwlth s Knglish dm Monger for the America's cup,-at Newport, R. I. 2--The first McConnick reaper In the parade of Farm week at the World's fair in Chicago. 3--Reichsweht troops taking the oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler, chancetlor-leader of Germany. J. J. MARSHALL NOW HEADS LEGION POST BOUNTY GETS $4,696.27 FOR USE OF SCHOOLS Mrs. Ethel C. Coe, county superintendent of schools, has received the first allotment of the gas-tax fury} for relief of schools, made possible by a recent special session of the state legislature assigning one-third of the state gas-tax fund for school relief. , The first amount totalled $3r144.45 for elementary schools and $1,541.82 for the high school districts and is the first of eight checks to be received for that purpose. The elementary schools' have received an allotment monthly in previous years as a distributive fund from the regular state tax. The amount received monthly since March, 1934, is $3,366.99. Th^ amount from the gas-tax fund, with the amount from the state tax, will practically double the amount'received previously and will greatly aid in the defraying of school expenses. This is the first time the high schools have benefited from the regular state fund on the gas tax fund. Mrs. Coe is pro-rating the amount and will send allotments to the township treasurers for distribution- CHICAGO WOMAN DIES AT BOWLER HOME G. 0. P. RALLY AT WOODSTOCK SEPT. 6 BROOKS AND JONES SPEAK - TO Joe Frett's Package Excites V Wheaton Postal Authorities (By Lowell Nye) There live# on Riverside drive a jolly old man called Joseph J. Frett. The father of a well-known McHenry family. .."Uncle" Joe is still hale and healthy and plays ball nearly every day over the radio with the Chicago Cubs. No one woud ever picture this rizzled patriarch as an anarchist of e 1880's--clad in black hat and cape, flowing bushy whiskers and sneaking around dropping bombs. For all we know, the good soul probably never did, but a little incident happened last Week which might lead one to suspect that maybe he has had some experience in that racket. It was written up big in the Wheaton Daily Journal. Here it is: # A. J. Frett of Wheaton, Joe Frett's • lion, visited his father a week ago ftanday. 4. few nights after that, policemen rapped on the door of the Frett home in Wheaton and asked Tony if he was expecting to receive a iifcck in the mail.' Mr. Frett told the '||feri that he knew nothing abou such time-piece. They reported that the Wheaton postB office had received a .package addressed to him which from time to time an intermittent ticking |ouM be heard. ^ ... : -Jmy'* Jpftrt jlrippjMl. a beat.1 Tke cops stood there with long faces and all the time the rascally little machine ticked away quietly before the horrified clerks downtown in the post office. Things were looking pretty bad. One of the cops finally added, by the way, that the return address on the package was from Joseph J. Frett in McHenry. Then Tony knew. It seems that during his visit here, he had talked with his father about taking back a small clock which needed fixing. But at the time of departure, Joe had decided not to bother with it and the matter was dismissed. Apparently he changfg} his mind later on and packed the clock carefully in a small wooden box that had contained dried fish. ~(H) Upon the arrival of the box at Wheaton, the postal clerks thought it a bit queer that smoked herring should be ticking, so they called the local constubalry. The cops took one sniff of the very ordinary-looking box and concluded that there was foul work afoot. Not knowing "Uncle" Joe as we do, they could easily imagine the box to contain • bomb and fuse and probably expected «J1 of Wheaton to be blown Mrs. Catherine Sweeney, 71 years old, mother-in-law of James B. Bowler, Chicago public vehicle commissioner and former alderman of the 25th ward, died Sunday at the JJowler summer cottage near McHenry. She had suffered a stroke of paralysis Saturday. Mrs. Sweeney is survived only by her daughter, Mrs. Bowler. A soil, James Sweney, Jr., her husband and a brother, Matthew Ryan, preceded her in death. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 9:80 a. m-, from the Bowler residence at 1311 South California avenue to St. Agatha's church, with interment in All Saints cemetery. She was a member of Isabella Court, No. 8, W.C^O.F. BAY RESIDENT KILLED WHEN AUTOS COLLIDE •JEnroute from her summer home at Pistakee Bay to Streator, Mrs. Lucy Mohan, 61 years old, was fatally injured Tuesday afternoon in a head-on collision of automobiles on Route 23, three miles north of Ottawa. Mrs. Mohan's home is at 1130 E. Eighthfirst Place, Chicago, but she had been spending the summer months in a cottage at Pistakee Bay. The fatal accident occurred when cars driven by Frank Mohan, assistant state's attorney of LaSalle county, and Henry Pitstick, met head-on- Both Mrs. Mohan and her son were thrown through the windshields Three other (flrsons were injured in the accident, but pone critically. fi Mrs. Mohan and her son were enroute to the home of another son at Streator. OBSERVES BIRTHDAY Mrs. John Schuenamann observed her birthday anniversary Sunday at her pleasant home on Riverside Drive, where all of the members of her family gathered to spend the day with her. Those from out of town were Mr. apd Mrs. Leo Schuenamann, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schuenaipann, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schuenamann and their families and James Flynn of Chicago. Others present were her sister and brother, Mrs. Josephine Heimer and Charles Kuhnert and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Durland and family of Jfc&cary. The first Republican rally of the fall campaign will be held in Woodstock on the afternoon of September 6, when tiyo G. O. P. speakers will make addressee, the' McHenry county Republican. Central committees was advised recently by state headquarters. The speakers to appear there include C. Wayland Brooks and Milton E. Jones, candidates for congressmanat- large. The meeting will take plaA' at 4:30 and will probably be an out of door meeting, the place to be determined later. The meeting will be one of a series of meetings to. be held in northern Illinois. On Sept. 5 the above pair of speakers and candidates will visit Crystal Lake at 10:30; the same afternoon the two will appear at Marengo at 1:30. At 4 o'clock the same afternoon they will visit Belvidero and in the evening at 8 o'clock a huge, meeting will be held at Rockford. f Following the meeting in Woodstock on Sept. 6, both Brooks and Jones will visit Waukegan where a large meeting is being • planned lor 8 o'clock. On Sept. 7 a meeting is being planned at 10:30 at Elgin at which time Brooks and Jones will speak. Brooks is said to be the most sought after speaker in the state by the G. O. P. Better known as "Curly" he is in demand in every city and village in the state. "*He is well known in McHenry county where he has many close personal friends. Jones is from downstate where he is well known. He is a capable speaker and is making a fine running mate for Brooks. Final plans for the meeting will be announced later. It is expected all candidates for county offices on the: Republican ticket will appear on the platform with Brooks and Jones when they speak here. -- THREE MEN INJURED IN AUTO COLLISION A serious automobile accident occured on Route about four miles west of McHeffPy. Saturday night when two cars met in a headon collision near the A. H- Freund farm. A Plymouth sedan, ^driven by Russell Maedge of Chicago and occupied by. fout other young men, was travelling east on the highway and a Stephens car, driven by Edward J. Malicke of Chicago, who, with two friends were driving west, sideswiped with such force that both cafs were hurled into the ditch on opposite Sides of the highway. The Stephens car was a total wreck and its three occupants were seriously injured. Those who received injuries were Wendell Anderson, concussion of the brain; Leo Laninger, cuts . an.l bruises, and Edward J. Malicke, cuta and bruises. The injured were brought to^a doctor's office in McHenry and then taken to the Woodstock hospital, where the condition of Anderson was. considered critical. 1 V' All of the men were 22 and 23-years old... • "JSlUFF," CHILDREN'S " FRIEND, GONE WEST JOSEPH M'ANDREWS, 75 DIES AT FARM HOME Joseph McAndrews, 75 years old, died at his farm home west of McHenry, Tuesday, August 21, 1934, after an illnesB of only a few days. He was bom at Wauconda on May 16, 1859, and his entire lifetime had been spent in this locality. • ^ On September 1, 1884, he was united in marriage to Edith Courtney and to this union three children were born. Plans for the celebration of their golden wedding anniversary were being made by Mr. and Mrs. McAndrews on September 1 which was also to be the wedding day of their only daughter. Mr. McAndrews is survived by his wife, three children, Ray, of Woodr stock, Earl of McHenry and Mary of Chicago; five grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. Kate Beschel of Gurnee. Funeral service? were held this Thursday morning at 10 o'clock at St- Patrick's church with burial in St. Patrick's cemetery. " . NOTICE All children who will come to St. Mary's school for the first time this year are asked to register at the residence of the Sisters during the present week, that is, from August 20 to Ungrwiv as. . "Buff," only a yellow dog, but the friend of eveny boy anil girl in McHenry, has been. missed during tlw past few days and his friends will see him no more. ' " , ' Buff, you see, appropriated himself a home at the George Johnson domicile a few years age and made regular visits to other homes in th? vicinity, where he was always welconft. But this summer Buff contracted a bone infection which could not be healed and it was decided to end his existence and suffering. Friends may come and friends may go, but there are none more true than a dumb animal. WATERWAYS GROUP ^ ELECTS OFFICERS John R. Deusen, Fox Lake, Sunday, was named permanent president of the Lake and McHenry County Waterways Improvement Association, an organization by the state government for improvement of inland waterway? The election of permanent officers was completed at a meeting held in Kramer's boathouse at Fox Lake. Other officers for the year are C. Kier Davis, McHenry, first vice-president; Maj. James M. Bubna, Lake Villa, second vice-president; & K. Anderson, Antioch, treasurer, and F. J. Buenger, Ingleside, secretary. Einar Sorenson, Channel Lake, speaking at the session said he believed "that any bill asking that action be taken to preserve and maintain our lakes will receiya»support of the legislators at Springfield thir fall." HELP JELLY PROJECT The housewives of this community are asked to help in the jelly project of the Legion Auxiliary in which they have been pledged to collect 100 glasses of jelly to be used in charity work. You do not need to be a member of the Auxiliary to assist in this work. Anyone and everyone is asked to make an extra glass or two of jelly to donate to this good cause. Notify Mrs. Marie Schiessle when your jelly is ready and she will be glad to call for it. : The ladies of tha Auxiliary will appreciate the halp of thair friends in Oua VMriu • James Marshall was elected commander of Mcjienry Post, American Legion, at the annual election^ of officers held Monday night in' t<fegion hall. : - Other officers elected were: Ed Conway--Vice-Commander. Finance Officer*--Arthur Smith. Chaplain--John Dreymiller. .Sergeant-at-Arms-r-Moms Takman. Adjutant--Fred C. SchoeWer. Other officers will be .appointed by the commander. The officers will ba installed with the Auxiliary officers on Sept. 20. HIGH SCHOOL REGISTRATION The office of the local high school will be open on MonCay, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week for registration. On Monday the Freshmen will register, Tuesday the Sophomores and Wednesday the Juniors and Seniors will register. The office will be open from 9 a. m- to 12 noon, from 1 -j# nt to 3 p. m., and from 7 to 8 p. m., for registration. Second hand books to be sold should be taken to the high school Monday morning. *' . t Students will obtain their ^text b o o k s w h e n t h e y r e g i s t e r . ' V . School opens September 4. Will any boy or girl refuse to accept the opportunity of attending? A few years ago only a few were privileged to accept the opportunity for higher education. Today there are very few who do not accept this opportunity. What does your boy or girl plan for this year ? To truly enjoy life one must £e educated. This education may be obtained in two ways. It may be obtained outside the school room through the hard experiences of life. Many a well edu* cated person has never gone beyond the fourth grade. However, the be. t and most economical way to obtain one's education, is in the organized class room under the guidance of well trained teachers. If a person wishes clothing he goes to the clothier and obtains it. He cduld take the wool and through hard experience finally obtain his clothing but it would not be economical. A persoij can obtain his education through experience but the economical method is to obtain it through educational institutions. To tru)y.,..exdajL.Me one must have high moral and ethical ideals. Education which is not backed by high moral and ethical ideals is harmful. The school furnished a small portion of this training but the bulk of the moral training must come from the home and the church. Let us see that our boys and girls prepare to enjoy life. Let-us ye that they are educated and let u* see that they cultivate the highest tooral and ethical ideals. . Masons at Crystal Lake paid tribute to their^oldest Vnember at' a meeting " "Tuesday night of last ^eek. The guest f /- cf honor was Albert H. Dilley, a"raeHi-1r|';|! ber of the lodge fbr over 50 y^ars. A spotted adder, more than four feet long, was killed by Charles Rahn of Marengo in the front room of hiscountry home on West Grant highway on the morning of Aug. 13. How the ' " snake got Into the home is unknown. - The Dayton Hotel barroom in Bar- " rington was burglarized early Monday morning of last week when robbeis , ransacked the place after gaining en- . trance by forcing a door entering the tavern from the hotel proper. Sevei'al * pints of liquor, some cash and two slot machines made up the loot. ; While swimming in the bay between the Riviera and the .main beach, Harry Rice, of Racine, was stricken with a v heart a'ttack at Lake Geneva and died Sunday afternoon of last week. Spectators heard a call for help and the life guard rushed to his assistance immediately, but he was dead. His wife and three children were on the shore watching him. • v t A ' Lawrence D. Buck; 48 years old, of 6217 Inglesiib avenue, Chicago. Sunday, became the- 22ffiJ~drowhing victim of the summer in Lake county when he_ lost his life at Loon Lake near Antioch in the presence of his wife. Buck leaped from a boat to recover an oar that drifted away and never car^e to the surface. He suffered from cramps, Coroner J- L. Taylor believes. Automobiles driven by William Krause, of Crystal Lake, and John Legan, HaF'TOrd, were damaged in a collision on a gravel road three miles west of Huntley last week Saturday night- Krause was traveling east and Degan was going west when the collision occurred. With Degan was hij Wife, Maryland Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Coeries, also of Harvard. They were cut and bruised and were taken to a physician's office in Marengo. Mrs. Prince, a part-time resident of Gardner's subdivision, located in Fox River Grove, was killei^by a hit and^ run driver in front of her home in Elmhurst last Thursday evening. She and her aged husband were sitting on " t h e i r p o r c h i r t t h e e v e n i n g w h e n a ' , small fox terrier belonging to one of the neighbors across the street an- > proached them and played about. Mr?.' Prince, fearing for his safety, gathered the,dog up in her arms and wa< -cttempting to cross the street to take it home when she was struck down and her body« carried two blocks before it dropped off the death car. The automobile was without lights and was occupied by only the driver. The driver speeded through a stop light and escaped. ' ! 1 Paul Deshon, 10 years old. of Chicago, was taken off the tank of the •engine of one of the Chicago & North Western's fast pasenger trains at Har-, vard last 'Week Thursday afternoon. He was turned over to the officers. ^ by the train crew who had questioned him at length but were unable to get a straight story from thei young lad. He was discovered by the fireman ol the train at Harvard.* He claimed he' climbed onto the engine at 'Janesvil'e and that he. was leaving his grandmother at Janesville where he had been staying. He was put on the train and taken to Woodstock. Deshon told several conflicting stories to Sheriff Edinger and Deputy Sheriff Reese. According to the latter, Deshon had been sent to Janesville by th-.' Chicago ji\venile court. His grandmother and mother went to Woodstock Friday and took him back to Janesville. The railroad depot at Lawrence. built 78 years ago, has been torn down • and the lumber has been used in the construction of a barn by C. L Bunker, owner of a 40 acre tract of the former C. Ruggles farm in the Lawrence farm community. Mr and Mrs. Bunker, Chieagoans until they ibcid^d to move into the country and acquire a small farm, are gradually improving the tract purchased some time ago. A barn is-a necessity and this they will , acquire as a result of-lumber f rem the•= old depot structure. Tearing , away the old depot at Lawrence revives memories on the part of early day residents who recall that in the long ago Lawrence gave promise of bein *- the largest municipality in McHenry county. Only Woodstock seemed its rival for a number of years. Lawrence gave every promise of being a business center, a city of considerable sire even before the depot was erected. In 1856 the railroad was extended ftt>ra Woodstock tc Harvard and thereafter the latter became the business center. But for years Lawrence and Chemung were rivals an4.„th#re--_wasyi«»o Harvardr* • £ - ,-v is^tto I WOODSTOCK® MAN IS KILLED ON HIGHWAY Jerry Sullivan, well known Woodstock resident, was instantly tiUe*i Sunday night on Route 19, while walking on the highway just northwest af the city limits of th* couaty seat was a bachelor.

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