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" J* ^ t *%s " r • w* THE M'HENRY PLATNDEALlUt--SIXTIETH AlftTIVERSAKY Thursday, June 6, 1935 BACON'S STRIP t--r^ >« Br i*t ----- *ZEKE" BACON seemed to resent some statement I made attd gaW me a little publicity of an adverse nature*- But on the whole, these incidents Aare in the minority and the job has provided contacts not possible to make under other circumstances, has provided ^-imuch enj%ment out of associations jand has given me much enjoyment, ' SixtyV , loner, - long yeaxr s! What a I' tlvo' say frothing oVfI a€» iruanthiceir lniubceiraa^l span of life that covered ^hat a Lducation that I just couldn't help ab- : .Jht^titude of enterprises have come js0rbing. Not an education as far as V *n pone during that time. Ai^d yet ].nowjnp, anything is concerned, but \-,i:the McIIenry • Plaiftdealer* ^founded f j-ust .actual "experience that comes to those three score of years ago, still |one ajong with, the passing of the maintains its place in the newspaper years - - world of today and it is with much ' i; .... . " r'-pride that .I as a member of its pres-; A<fain j wish-t0 compliment the ejjt-day staff, do congratulate Mr. oditors of ;this paper and their-co- S :Mother upon his capable manage- workers and ! sincGreiy hope that our . ,»ent of .the Plaindealerof today and (Connections in the future may be as the part he has played in the last i enjQyable as they have been in the -*®n yeaw of its sixty years of life, jpas^ ancj successful. And might ' • • Par* h^s been brilliant and a ; j state here, if anyone ever offers , standout «s one views, the entire his- j a job subbing'for anyone or anything, , a'so ;take it. - There might lay opportunbe hereto recoi.vethe^ congratulation^ sjtyf onlv^waiting to he uncovered .^f the multit-ud^ upon .the. seventieth,bpfore j'/plitters in the Sunshine oi the eiVhtnth Imthday. al-o.^fe< Suoh haAe becfx my plo&§ant' . , - - V . ' " • ' ' ' - * * , J e x p e r i e n c e s , V . , . 4 ' I have^no* spent six*" * years as • --_--. : - sjforting edftor on the Plaindealer, a ,G^OSSdlT&k£^"if6'l.^--i V->* .six year* that J - shall 'never "forget. ; TW PTTfWTWP PHIVTRAT , Whether or not I am e%er to be a' IW ;F11 " ~T«t" .Ijmember of anofhef paper* ftaff is --""-- • " the greenskeeper and Harry Morris is the pro, having been here tot the past eleven years. ATHLETIC GIRLS RECEIVE AWARDS With school over for the yejir/the tennis tournaments for the girls' athletic association are also ended. At a party given by the association tennis and basketball awards were made as follow^. As fne Freshmen do not receive awards for the .first year, but chalk up points instead, those Freshmen re-, ceiving ten points in basketball were, Lorraine Engeln, Louise Staling, j Mary Erickson, Audrey Rothermfel, | Eleanor Althoff, Rosemary Hettermann. ; • Girls receiving a 1936 monogram in basketball toere Eleanor Bolger, Viola B r e f e l d , L e V e r n e E n g e l n , E t h e l Freund," Adele Froehlich, Kathleen Justen, Darlene Lockwood, ; Ruth. Reihahsperger aJtd Mildred Vascy; - : TTjose receiving a 36 numeral ^ in basketball were . Berniee ^lalon^yj mentioned meetings were subject tp a very heavy discount. In closing this effusion I desire to thank all the people of this town for permitting me to live among them for 51 years and hope that before long the splendid talent that we have in all three parts of the town will again organize a "Hot: rStove," a "Chair Bottoming," and a "Sons of Rest" society and thus create a little amusement without harm to anyone and which will, at the same time prolong- the life of all of u'&. • ~ , SIMON STOFFEL. FIRST COUNTY CHAMPION IN HIGH SCHOOL GOLJP ' verv doubtful,'btit*. be' that • as .|,he L ^oid rnannenstin P^t> aat A gOd" of fortune I Mill m»v have c«»mp in sortip -Of the fat averai - my own pleasant t^vghtfc about-,the [the Johnsburg "sluggers, but Johnyj?'.,:,- ' ^jtpennoos, both happy and otherwise,, burg tnanaged to ek«j out- a 4 to 2 that I >iau gone through yncc'I firn a§ their oWn1;hurlor, Joe Glosson^ • . t^k niy pJuivi?e ' into -thV newspaper was doing his bit-, and alldwed six .^world and pecked out my first boluifin hits, the same as his mates collected , Harold J^liann^nsti'il .A-Jterrlbif ""^gesTt'ii^n;d-'?l?'W?nci6r Miller. Kathleen Justen, LaVern Penants ,^0^ 1935 fbr Seniors o^hly were awarded to Dorothy Althoff, Shirley. Cqvalt, Carmen Freund, lrm^ Knaack, • /Mary' Lfind 1/•'$ how more t.han six years ago. One doesn't often think of a subpff Phannenstill. JOHNSBURG--4 E. Hetterman, cf game, and yet, viewing my past his- Cj, Smith, ss.;7'.i.„..i..^. tory. I can readily see where a sub L. King, 3b.........1..*...^.. is one of the luckiest guys in the H. Smith, 2b,.f..4,,;i..... •*W>rld. Back in. 1922 I first got intp J. Preund,' c...«.» ' a basketball suit on a high school : Bud Miller, team. It was f91- good old McHenry R. Hetterman, irf,.,...,. ; High and.,basketball was just being jc. Stilling, lf.\„...,..,„...' revived in high school here as the j j. Gloe^on, p! gym was restored to'the student" for athletic purposes after having been i . ' utilissed as an. assembly during those ' VOLO--2 pinched years before the taxpayers Wiser, ss. saw fit to erect a new high school Anderson 3b;.........,...... for the beneTit of theit hopefttl off- .Hironimu^, ii..,...:.....; Spring. -• ,:'A. Phann'still, cf - •' •' A,-1- ' Wilson, c Gordon G. Stringer and Superin- : Paddock, 2b laeaident C. JT. Duker had just come . Amann, If..., to McBenry from Huntley High and Stringer was the coach, the first one that I ever had. Well, to get down .to brass tacks, I was fortunate enough to make the grade as a sub on H. Phann'stilt, jpf4.,...,.( Oi 0 3 1 1 4 0 ^2 .,.;A ; b . 0 4 0- 1 ...4 0 1 • -A'. 9 •"fiC • " A ^ * V 2 1;;: /V • 0 35 6 ...4 1 • 1 ....3 0 ...4 0 3 .. .4 ^ - 0 . 0 ....4 0 0 . 1 1.4 ~ 0 0 -* -} 0 ' 0 ; Eugene Sayler, great-grandson of Rev. Joel Wheeler, one of the first settlers in McHenry, coming here .n 1837, was "the first county champion in high school golf tournaments, 34 2 C Johnsburg batting averages--L. the first string, a 120 pound sub to King ,428; H. Smith .428; C. Smith - be sure, but nevertheless a wearer 1.308; J. Freund .308; W. Smith -of the varsity at least part of the J.250; J. Glosson .222; L. Freund R. Hetterman 143; E. Hetter- . Large monograms awarded for extra i>oints, ability and for coming-out' for games, went to Dorothy Althoff,' Shirley Coyalt* Mary 't^inil; and ^«an \ \ " h i t i n g . % ; . . • ; " ' Numerals of '37 went to Constance Boyko^ Mary D„urland, Janice Klontz, Evelyn Schaefer, Miriam Sayler, Lorraine Stilling, Doris Whiting, Marita . Blake, Rita Phannenstill. . In tennis, monograms were award* ed to Evelyn Schaefer, Lorena Esh, Miriam Sayler, Janice Klontz, Audrey Rothermel, a Freshmen, receivr ed ten points and the Seniors, Carmen Freund, Shirley Covait and Dotothy Althoff received tennis pins. '* In a six to one match with Evelyn Schaefer,. Dorothy Althoff won the local high school tennis tournament this year and was awarded the cup. Last year Adele Froehlich won tha cup. Last week the tennis players went to Harvard where they won a match. Janice Klontz and Miriam Sayler won in the doubles and Adele Froehlch and Kathleen Justen won in the singley. The week before when Harvard came here, they were also defeated by McHenry, with Adele Froehlich and Dorothy Althoff winning singles and Kathleen J-usten and Jean Whiting doubles. . * • EUGENE SAYLER evening. Of course, the squad was .222; small, I must confess, so small that man .000; Bud Miller .000; I wasn't a sub on the. first team until > ling .000. " I had completed, my duties on the second squad. The squad was also 00 small that, after a few of the C. Stil- THENNES PITCHES WINKEL'S OUTFIT TO A 15 to 5 VICTORY "Red" Winkel's outfit went out and won themselves another ball game "boys had difficulty with their studies and some minor misunderstandings with the coach, d° I remember Uast Thursday evening when they de- ^ m&ht when "Ebby accidentally feated the pai.k Sideg 15 to 5. bit GGS with the basketball, a re-! John Dreymiller started on tb« sounding clip on the side of the head, and tften spunkily refused to apolo- . gize because it was plainly an ?accidient.) I received my first chance to mound for the losers and after two innings of the hill he reported to the manager that as a pitcher he would make a pretty fair outfielder, so exr start a big game, just because there chanfred places with A justen. Thcr was no one larger than myself to get j Mvjtch proved a RQod one ag the win. Jnto the fracas. Well, time went, on j hers were unable to score another and I played more and more regu- ; vun . whi]o John hand]ed everythinf. larly, just because I was fortunate that came his way in left field enough to. b^a sub ^ben- .«]) thfrt . Thennes pitched a very creditablo happened. I game for the winners, allowing but • . " ~T , jfive runs ^nd nine hits. The score: Some time later, four years after j wtwvttt I had graduated from high school1 and was still pounding around aim- R H PO lessly in sports, getting a big kick i M „ out of participating in most any- „ ^ ('. Freund, lb...; - 4hing that provided eompetition, an- r ow 'other opportunity came along. True, !^,on,:va^' , rvtt waf» just a job to sub for one night on an assignment that was as strange ,f,u in e ^ j:.;....3 .........I; to me as hunting wild animals in an : Thennes, p..., African jungle, and* I was just about r^.' as scared to tackle it. WirtsJ lss. J. Miller, rss. ..2 1 U...1 .....1 0 . Seems they'" were";,;^fliiing""' prtze T^TRghts at the Polly Prim that spring j and Jim Sayler had been covering, "AKKblURS them for his wife's benefit as that; i. ' • task was slightly outside.-that star ^ sten* reporter's scope.0 Well, one Wednes- fjUrvej;:, 3b......;., day night Jim had other plans more' T) r<Trnl urgent so he asked "Mose" to get ^^Wftrmel, 2b... someone else to cover them. "Mose"' |--5: ^reun"» lb-... ^ picked on Earl W^lsh as the^one to j5 2,e? , Till the bill, but Earl* wasn't feeling1^' ® ; , So hot about that time arid he, being ^ ,r\ c*"."u real pal, offered me the job, know- -k'tX ing that I had" never written for a ' •. ~ ^ j»aper. let alone had never seen a. SCORE BY INNINGS . . . boxing match. Well, I, tickled to •--«-"3 0 0 2 0 0 0-- 5 death to get the opportunity to sefe . .a........:,...5 10 0 0 0 O x--15 the fights, didn't look far enough _ , bases--Park Sides, 3; ahead to he scared about writing up ^'hkel s, '7. Double - Plays--Winkel the card, so I went to the Prim and j*'0 Conway> -A- Justen to G. Freund. enjoyed every bit of it. Well, when l®ases on ^11^--Off Dreymiller, 1; it came to producing, I delayed asi0^ 0, off Thennes, 0. Struck ; long as I could, a little shaky about \out by Dreymiller, 0, Justen, 1; Thenwhat the outcome would be and !nes* Two base hits--Hughes, Ger- • Anally turned in my story when the;"sc^' Jbennes, Wirt®, Purvey. Threa deadline approached and could no ^ " • --- longer be -put off. • • R H PD ........ 0 3 .1..-;.. 2 2v: 2 1 0 ........ U:2 . 1 . ........ ......0 • r * 0 ;o - 0 ......0 1 ^0"[ .0 ;"•**: V; 9 18 SIMON STOFFEL-GLA^ JTHEY HAVE LET HIM LIVE HERE 51 YEARS Mease accept my humble congratulations and best wishes for the future success of your valuable paper which I have read for sixty years. I have been requested by the Saturday Evening Post, one of the largest publications in the world, *.o write an article on how to overcome the depression. I have also turned down an invitation to attend the celebration of King George of England recently on account of too much business of local importance. If you will publish the few items that I submit to you, you must do So at your own risk; I respect the memory of the old settlers who have been reported to you by others. I yill endeavor to remind the people of our town of some of the many characters, some winning the title in the first , annual tournament of McHenry county, played on the McHenry Country Club golf links in 1933, when he was a Senior at the local high school. Shooting the lowest score turned in by any of the boys he won the gold medal with a score of 83. During tjie following years, McHenry Community high school has continued to hold the golf championship with Clarence Anderson winning the medal in 1934 and ' this year George Johnson, grandson of F. K. Granger, winning the medal, with a score of 85. ,Well, -I'thought that would be the last of that Lo, and behold! Next Wieek Mosher came along with an offer to cover all the sporting events and to make a column of local sports Sews for the paper. I thought he ?Ust been having bad dreams, •but he insisted that he thought it could be done and that he was willmg to pay for the work. The idea the citv~ limits of getting paid while I was taking1 in sporting affairs sounded good *0 me so I accepted, and right then and there was born "Bacon's Strip." : base hits--Conway, Gerasch. Home irun--Rotbermjel. ' Umpires--Weber behind plate, Smith at first, Bickler at third. M'HENRY GOLF COURSE POPULAR PLAYGROUND Perhaps the most popular recreational center in McHenry is the eighteen hole golf course of the McHenry Country club, located within In July 1922 a nine-hole golf course was opened on a part of the Owen farm, with the rough farm lands being transformed into velvety ^ Since then the "Strip", has fare\J ?r®ens and wel1 kept fairways "for better and for worse. At times! an additional nine holes - it has been mighty pleasant to U®i!l !,ta.rt i ed and the course was de- -the; staff. At other times-#^*Tavo I liJ^ ^ of the most P°Pular felt that the .job wasn't worth all ; hundred,^1 Ju™ Illmois^ attracting the grief tha/t went with it. But ^hl^api:oans annually, -such is life, £ail of its .ups and downs club Se xt ^c"enry Country and we must take the. hard with the Frank Connollv • Sa5rler.' Presideht; soft, the bad with.,the good. As I ^ E think back now I can remember twice ! treasurer- ThomnJ'p i" • Carey, when things weren't going so hot. jH f*iShh»^AlUrt "5™' xT One time a baseball player from n Nye, R. I. Overton and D I Gran^' n e i g h b o r i n g t e a m s t o p p e d m e o n t h e ™ • * « " s e r attreet';.and threatened to pop me ?ne unless I laid off razzing him bsause he had gone to sleep on the bases and lost a game for his team. Another time ohe neighboring writer members. Richard B.^WaJsh -of Chicago served as president of the club for twelve years. Albert Ptirvey, who has been here since the golf course was opened, is of whom have been taken care of by the ever present undertakers, and only a few of whom renyjin giving. ' I recall the pleasant meetings mdny_ of the people at the West Side have had with the assistance of some able talent from Centerville and the East Side, even from Ringwood and the Town of Grant in Lake county, and7 will endeavor to refresh the memory of many of those who knew those people and who are now survivors. • Do you remember the following^ John Fare, John Stroner, iacob lletzel, Jacob Bickler, Roll Howard, John Boyle, Peggy Feltz, Jack Dermont, Gene Howe, Bill Dunn, (the maker'©! a famous salve), Bill Wall, George Engeln, Tommy Feehan, Ad and Bill, Mike O'Brien, Mikey Purcell, Jimmy- Knox, Bob Murphjr, Dr. Spurling, Jimmy Cleary, Jimmy Dalziel, B. J. Buss, Ed Walsh, Jake Spahn. You may recall the business meetings that were held at the Hetzel barber shop and at Stroner's "Bloody Heart" office.- Also Fort Scott, Kansas, and the Benders who figured extensively in those meetings. Do you remember the trouble Bill Dunn had in establishing himself as the champion salve manufacturer in the United States, and his correspondence and meeting of his prospective buyers at the train? Also the trouble he had trading the- recipe for his salve with Oscar Tabor foir a span of mules.' •• '• • - - - . . There was also the matter of the military training, which was held .at the park and led by the Honorable Mr. Fare. Then, too, you will recall the troubles which Ad and Bill had (everyone knows them). John Fare was also the official weed cutter and petition circulator of the town. Many people remember with pleasure . attending the open-air meetings of the people named above on the sidewalks at which there was an exchange of hot air apparently relished by the by stand ere, It is remarkable that men of the talent that many of .these men possessed did not make a fortune out of their ability to prevaricate, or that they were not appointed at a big salary to stand at the h£ad of many standard-recognized Ananias or Baron Muenchausen societies, I was always an innocent bystander in those meetings and recall them with pleasure'and do not in any way intend to offend any person or relative of those mentioned in the list: Since the death of many of those heroes t^e-~ttN$Ti has gone back and it doe^r not appear to attract the people or create Vdesire to have any open-air meetingsX It was generally Understood that all statements mate at fthe above THE SONG OF THE PRINTER (By TCW>mas MacKellar) . Pick and click Goes the type in the stick, . •• • As the printfer stands at his case; e His eyes glance quick, pud; .frj* fingers pick The type at a rapid pace; And one by one as the letters go,' Words are piled up steady and slow- Steady and slow, But still they. grow. 'v. ^ And words of fire "they soon will Wonderful words that without a sound Traverse the world to its utmost bound; Words that s^all-Tmiike^'-Wr^A-r-^^i' The tyrant quake, : 1 And the fetters §f the oppressed shall break, • .< % , Words that can crumble an army might, » ' Or treble. its strength in a righteous fight:, '• Yet; the 'type the^." liabk but jeaden •r - and dumb, As he puts them" in piac.e with finger ,'f V. and thumb. ,' V" ••• • ',.U But thjp printer smiley '• > And his work beguiles ^ 6 V By chanting a song as the letterS' • he^ piles, With pick and click, y -• Like the world's- chronometer, tiekl tick! tick! ^he!%. is the.'utaft' With - awh A"'jy*imple tools ' Cap govern the world "as -,r:;-i With- a printing press,' an iron stick*' And a, little • leaden die, With paper of white, and ink of black, I support the right, and the wrong attack. Say, where is he, or who may he be, Thaf can. rival the printer's power ? To no monarchs that live the "wall; doth he give,;-- Their sway lasts only an hour; While the printer still grows, and God only knows When his might shall cease tp tower. From WM, EL MARTIN It give's me great pleasure to congratulate The Plaindealpr on its 60th anniversary. The Plaindealer will always have i particular significance for me because my first pay-check* come from writing for its' columns. No tribute to The Plaindealer would be complete without a hearty compliment to the editor; Mr. Mosher, as my first boss, I found to be a man of unlimited patience. When, for instance, I would drive Dt^cTKeller OPTOMETRIST Sundays and Mondays at mjr Summer Home, Riverside Drive, McHenry, I1L AH Kinds of Repairs, off in the company car across McHeniry's environs in the "morning, play "hide and seek" with the office until evening, returning with two flat tines or a „broken spring and no particular nev/s, "Mose" exasperated beyond the point of human endurance, did not throw me out of the office, but would smile benignly, allowing me to . walk out. ' It is'my earnest hope that The Plaindealer may continue to" during the coming years. Sincerely, r ' WM. B. MARTIN tf Cross River By Ford When the first settlers came McHenry they formed a ford constructed of square cut sandstone across the river. . • The pioneers soon 1 established.a ferry and the first ferry boat was brought here in 1837 and used until 1842, when a bridge was constructed, which was carried away by a freshet in 1849. It was rebuilt the same season by Jacob Story and Alden Harvey at an expense of $1545. It was built on the tresseUwork plan and was replaced by a new bridge several years afterward. In 1864 a thi^rd bridge was built and the iron bridge was built in 1880 and 1881. Say you read it in THE PLAINDEALER.. ' * " , , EVERY MODEL GIVES A COMPLETE REFRIGt E RATI ON SERVICE The Super Freezer provides the right kinds of cold for every purpose--all in the same cabinet. There's fast freezing for making ice , cubes and desserts; frozen storage for meats and ice cream; . extra-cold storage for keeping a reserve supply of ice cubes; moist storage for vegetables S T A N D A I D MODKL 4-33 Uses less entreat than one ordinary lamp bulb. Lifetime Porcelain interior. Equipped with Super Freezer. Interior lighuAuior matic reset defrosting. Automatic ii tray release. Hy-tv drator. . . ON1T •nd ft ultr, and mrmat Jfrmge below 50° for food$ requiring dry, frosty cold. It's more economical, too. See it today. MUlt &OWN PAtMlNf * EASY Jacob Justen & Sons Green Sit. McHearyig It's a cinch for Uncle Sam to tax most just slaps, on the regular gas tax and that's that. But Tydql is something of a problem for him . . . for this gasoline is different from the others. You see, into eveiy. 7 gallon of Tydol is blended _ a special lubricant. This s :es cai --keeps the upper-cylinders and valves- of- your niotor cool, frictioii-free, and smooth-running. .. a job your regular G\»UoicC) twice, once as a gasoline, and once contains. the lubricant But between ourselves, we don't much mind paying that extra tax for TydoP s exti^ lubrication feature. ! seems ^ motor oil cannot do. So Uncle Sam sayis, THERE'S AN ENG/NEfR EN Y GAHON' double-duty Tydol is actually a different and a better gasoline -jMu^And that's something which a lot car owners must have - < > • • ' • . • discovered, judging fro$|^ - our business* In fact, business is so ^ good, thank you, that we doix' t chkr^ everf a penny extra for Tydol's extra quality* TYDOL GA'SOLIHE IS LUBR4.CATEJ> V'\ SUPERIOR OIL CO., Distributor l^ese produpts secured l^ .foUowin^ statioi»i Hranat^oAT BARNARD'S MILI, SCHEID'S RESORT7 THOMPSON SERVICE STATION Fox and Charles Streets