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WWMi * r- Thursday, September, 5,lS3fc * *. ,*S • --TT "" f 1 * * % i* •**% *P ^ ^ « V ' f* , THE McHENRY Wb+iW *r*kigq9j*Ju' -afr PLAINDEALER Old Timers4 Club boys would go up to Bert Howe's place north of town to visit George and Will and oh, what a fine orchard they had, most any kind of apples. Then George (Boppy) Bishop and I used to trap woodphucks in Wheeler's falling back, but progressing, as the years have gone on. The town is indeed fortunate in having so able a staff at its helm if at the present time. Please accept my hearty thanks IN ADVERTISING " f« St. Paul, Minn. Now let's have a little chat about the Old Town in general. A person on the side lines hag a different per* apective than the contestants. To illustrate: When Albert Holly Cftlled on me, a short time ago, both lie and his wife had but one idea in seeing St. Paul sind that was to visit the State Capitol. My good wife said, "Fine, I have never been in it, so I'm going along." Imagine that, born in St. Paul, and never had been .in that sev^v million dollar pile of •tone, news to me. , ' So as I look over McHenry's publicity, the Plaindealer, I. see things *> {fcat possibly escape- the; home folks. >; - The first thing to impress me' is - the clean appearance of the Plaindealer, the readable type, the con- • ciseness of its news and display. You, trho have read your home town paper for years, take it as a matter of V'v.«wrae/ and: little do you tHink, of the efiort that has been, and is, expended to give McHenry an ex- <peptional weekly. "the advertising ' . keen and quick. Iread it all, and see many familiar names in business, * sons- cf my old friends. And just a word to you youftgstters: A merchant cotti have the best stock of goods in town, and still run down, if he fails to advertise, and keep advertising. It is your salesman on the outside, and even if you have to scrape the bottom out of the old sock to do it, advertise. Never "lay off" this, outside salesman, because you are going to slip if you do. I notice one and that fails to give the owner's name.1 Better correct thfct, if you are a McHenryite. Now come on„ you "old" felkrvVs, we are going into Perry and Owen's store and look around as of fortyfive years ago. That addition on the left used t0 be called^, and was label- ' ed Salt House. Now We are ins-idc. Can you see the groceries on the left, ar.d the dry goods on the right, ami the line of jugs on the top shelf.- Yes, there is Nick Huemann, slim and dapper, behind the counter and a girl diessed in blue. I fail tG recall Jier name, although she is very distinct. Died of consumption. Yes, I have it. Bertha Hollister. See that barrel of crackers ? Thy big cheese? And there is the barrel of sugar, and C. N. Owen with his hand to his ear. A Look at that big double duty stove. James B., "Old" Owen, L. E. Bennett, and 'Roll Waite, are having a heated discussion over religion and their feet high up on the stove as they tilt back in their chairs. In the corner behind a low partition is a large sbfc. The Bank oi McHenr.y Little fear of safe crackers, and there is a trap door above and Nick sleeps in a room up there. It would take something to awaken him, once he got to sleep, and that was instantly. Upstairs is the clothing department. Suits of the gay nineties. Let's go up there. Lewis Owen is selling Herb Bennett a suit, and Dad is there and his young son, Frank. Frank is making wise cracks about brother Herb. Wise cracks about fishing. .Causes laughter, but Herb licked me for it afterwards. A few days later Charley Nordquist asked Lewis, "if he could take me along to Pistaqua Bay, delivering groceries," and Lew said, "No, he is too dam mouthy." I'm going to pause, Lew, to thank you for that remark, which I overheard. It had a big influence, over my life.. I had it coming to me, and is sank in and did me a lot of good. It never pays to be unkind to anybody, at any tim>e, as I was to Herb; While we are on the subject, I recall another remark that sunk in. I met Tom Walsh on the Mill Dam one flay, and he put his haijd on my shoulder, and said, "Frank, your father thinks a lot of you. He thinks you can do anything." • That helped a lot. I was just a kid, and fatherly praise was very scarce. Looking back, I have always thought that T. J. just said that to encourage me, although Dad and I were great pais m his declining years, and I got acquainted with him, and I am here to tell you, that he was a grand old man. Let's step out the back door, and look around. Mrs. Culver lives to the rorth across the alley. A big gravel pit on the south, dug for fill, when the dam went out. A shady lane leads to the RingwQod road, anu just ahead is George Owen's barn, and we can see Geo. 0., head high in the air, looking over the fence. Let's go down to the mill pond. Gee, the smell from those hog houses. • -- Here comes Tommle Feean to tell Dr. Wells that his (Tofnmie's) mother is "dead dock, deader 'en hell." Tommy promised Father O'Neil that he would be sober for Christmas. He was. We fished him out of the mill race that day. Ah! The Great Parade!- Tom and Bob Murphy, August Wasnowski and fcis pipe, Mike Shugrue, Mr. Mills, father-in-law of J. VanSlyke, Bernice Perry, Lura Owen, Hattie Mead, Lena Br,5?, Edna Beckwith and Delia Knor J can see Maud VanSlyke, and Hattie Storey, pals*. Their funerals were but a week apart. Let's PUt a stop to this for now, we are touching heart strings, and watch Wilson Gates revile the world, aa his mother chases him up the street. Here comes Mat Kimball, driving the buss for Hank Wightman, so I must be going. Say hello to George Meyers, old boy. He had to break a leg so he could take a rest. Remember those lessons in French you gave Herb and me, George ? • Fun wasn't it? And they stuck. FRANK BENNETT. REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN: George Curtis had a, toboggan slide where the stand pipe is now? • • • Nick Winkle made cider put of your apples ? The preae ran by horsepower. - •-•••' J.. :*••*'* * Mr. and Mrs. Stegman lived across from the three room brick shcool? ' * » Mr. Hitchoax and family ran (.he farm just east of George Colby's farm? Freddie Brand owned the ice hjouse on , McCollum's Lake, <^ , Ed Shahks was foreman?. - : * * "Mave" Likum arid Frank Bennett beat up George Colby's bull with pieces of fence rail, after he had chased them out of the pasture? * #• • Prof. Overaker asked Herb Bennett, "what was worse than nothing," an^J Herb said, "two nothings," and -.the Prof, took it as personal? ,,;;"c. „•'. The boys jumped and swung on the ijpn rod pver the stair way in the Wree room brick school? * * » "Old" Ed Owen would walk down the street with his grandchild, Marj Lou, and he would chide her for looking back, and' would say, "Come on Mary Lou, there is just as much to see ahead of us?" * • • ^ Mrs. Chet Howard made those big delicious loaves of bread? * » • , The legend of buried money and jewelry on the Taber place? It was tru£ | A1 Howe built many of the-hollies in and around McHenry ? Emil Peterson (carpenter) was theorily: person who "chewed" snuff ? * * * John Niesen would "loosen his soul wood and Co veil's sheep pastureand jfc> your paper, and my sincerest get 25 cents each for the scalps, or {wishes thfit the Plaindealer may have Tony Zens and John Weber and I would go fishing or get out a row boaft or two and have a good time on the river or in "swimming. There were no motor boats in those days and w® often caugh,t enough frogs to have frog legs to eat. Mother didn't like to fry them be^r'ise they kicked" so when they got hot in the pan. Do you old timers remember the swimming hole and diving board we had back of Bishop's mill at the entrance to the mill race? Do' you remember what- a stir jt made around McHenry when humftn bones were found4 in the gravel pit back of George Owen's barn? Do you remember the old planing mill - and \fagon shop between the mill and the creek that were run by water power from the mill? f' As long ago as I can remember Nordquist and W,eber had a blacksmith shop between the mill race and nuuw» many years of prosperity1. Very Sincerelv, AMY OWEN* CHAPELL 1328 N. Denver Ave. / Tulsa, Ohklahoma. S.--Please send me your, paper fcr three months beginning Aug. 1, and send bill. Thanks JOIINSBURG P. creek . with the' Rothermel , wagon the stick. A NEW MEMBER r The Plaindealer acknowledge# jife* ceipt of a letter from a former resident, Miss .Margaret McDonald of 1221 S. St. Johns avenue, Highland Fak, renewing her subscription and telling us that tflie enjoys the paper and especially the Old Timers Club, in which we are glad' to enroll her as a member. Recalling: the days when McHenry was yfiung and the west side was called "Gagetown," Miss McDonald states that she attended the Gagetown school, learning, reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic to the tune of a hickory stick, E. W. Wheeler wielding shop on one side. of them and Madden's harness shop on the other. Gus Carlson afterward bought the harness shop which he conducted for a number of years aijtd then moved to Woodstock. Good otd Gus, he sure was a friend of everyone! She remembers^ the first home .tfclent shows put on by Frank Going, who always posed as the colored man with the banjo. Later on the singing of Charles Frett wfls enjoyed and I of course, Mr. and BCrs. T. J, Walsh [have been written into the History. "Sorry to hear of Mr. Walsh's pass^ ing and of Mr. Justen," she states.] The Schaffer Brothers Henry, Johfn and Mike, with their orchestra played for dances not only in McHenry, biit in surrounding towns and were popular musicians. She adds, "I used to enjoy going to Chet Howard's and often saw Mr. to arrest him or lick him, and no one ever did? « "Do you remember the old McHenry band--with Sneaky Wells, Rob Madden, Cal Curtis, Nick Heumann, Gus Carlson, Fred Wells and others a& they gave their weekly concerts in the park, and sometimes when Cora McOmber was in town she wculd play a cornet solo at the concert. And the old. town pumps-r-one at | Howard sorting fur. ^ He had quite a the soutH4we&t Corner of the park ! an^ru waf a mce- P»tient ard one in Centerville, right at the | Mrs- E la w»»eeler, one of the oldest corner where the old Baptist church i re*,.de"ts n0W hvmg> was. often seen stood, (where Dr. Wells Iater bujlt-^th ,.er ,to innuir£_ foit the big house). The first speech 1 % CaI1 on- some SK\ Oh, heard Dick Bishop make was one o'l '. ere, wer? PeoP^e worth writa platform at that old pump and *nR about ir\ McHenry had 1 time, but could he talk! • l*"am one. of the few who are fortun- Then came the SpaTrish-American 1 fte, .to„ w°^k to ke<?P from War! Several of the bovs signed up £°kin* too much, Tis said, v Old people live in the past,, they from his body," and defy the town [for a regimept which Judge Fuller of have no{ mU(?h future I'll look for- There pld ' were hickory 'Black Muck.". nut tineet V1^ Mrs. Wheeler gave parties at their home and lawn socials, and at one party, Agnes Perry took first praei a bunch of carnations? .* * * Prof. Sheldon rode a high wheeled bicycle? * * * Sim Kennedy and family lived in, and were a credit to McHenry? • * * Mrs. Howe, Gee's mother, lived across form the M. E. church? * * * "Modock Avenue" was v a place of neat homes and splendid gardens? • * • * Leonard Bonslett had black vfthisk- Geo. O. bit Stacey Clarks' arm foi whipping him? * • * " George Owen hired George Curtis ist $5:00 & day to walk around the park, ringing a bell ? i Belvidere wag organizing. That fell i . . ... through and later al>out a dozen of 0 on ^ an II, hiraH 'q ..hn« Honlr Whitman „OUrS Very truly, ANOTHER NEW MEMBER Genoa, Illinois / August 26, 1935 Mr. A. H. Mosher, Editor, McHenry Plaindealer, McHenry, Illinois., -"i;T("'"'r";" "• Dear Sir: The following letter Will perhaps be interesting to but few readers of the Plaindealer, however a general invitation was extended to all to become members of the Old Timer's Club, so here goes. About my first recollection of McHenry was when mV grandfather, F. A. Hebard, took me to the old brick yard, back of what is now the Louis Reed place on Water Street, and gave me a* ride on the sweep of the clay -mixer. F. A* Hebard and Ike Wcr.tworth owned the brick yard, Mr. Hebard furnished the land and Ike Wentworth the experience. Mr. Wentworth afterward acquiring the whole thing which he in later years, moved to the place south of West McHenry. My folks moved to McHenry from Woodstock when I was *aboAit 8 mcnths old( so I am really not a native born McHenryite. I started school in the brick school house which is now the German Parochial school with Elsie Gage as my first teacher. She died about forty years ago. Theri the other teachers, as I remember them, were Mary Wentworth and MSrs. Mary Cobb, mother of Frank and Ed Cobb. Ed, I believe, is an ordained priest with a parish somewhere in Indiana. I dont know where Frank is. My first years in school were spent with Harold Colby, John, Knox, Guy Colby, Gebrge and Will Howe, Clayton Wilson, Charley Block, Harry Kennedy, Ed Simon, WilJ Colby, (Henry Colby's son), Harry Fay, Winfield and Wally Woodburn, Hattie Howard, Julia Laughlin, Edna Beckwith, Mildred and Lenora Stevens and Elsie Howe. There were others but I can't recall their names just now. Later when the school in West McHenry was closed, Orton Gilbert, Will Schreiner, Warthon Kimball and Frank Cobb came over. I have a picture before me as I write this taken when Mrs. Cobb was teacher. I see Peggy Voeltz, Curly Kamholz, Will Thurlwell, Will Krause, Peter (Hop-a-long) Block and others that I should be glad to meet once more. Then in 1894 the new building was erected on what was known as Owen's Hill just west of the old cheese factory (remember that you old timers). That was about the time McHenry got her tar sidewalks which wore - the soles of our fthoes out so fast. , Sometimes on Saturday* w* town us hired a bus from Hank Whitman and, drove to Woodstock where they were recruiting for the 3rd Illinois Infantry. ! All were accepted but two, I believe. Of those who enlisted from McHenry only-five, I thHnl:, are still living (Frank and Heiib Ben-- nett, Mike Thelen, Albert Willey and myself.) If this is wrong, I wish scmeone would write and let me know. I haven't seen any of them for years except Frank Bennett, whom I called on and visited with for about four hours three weeks ago in St. Paul, and did we have a good visit. Boy, I'll say we did! Hadn't seen him for thirty-six years, but he is still the same Frank. Missed seeing Herb by a few minutes and was surely sorry. I attended the reunion of the old 3rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry at DcKalb, Illinois on August 12, and saw a lot of tljle old boys. Thei*e were only about 130 veterans in attendance out of about 600 who are still alive. They are scattered over the whole United States. We had a pleasant reunion and will meet again next year at Aurora on the Monday nearest the 13th of August. Would like to hear from any of the old timers and perhaps I may feel in the mood to write again somt i time. •' Yours, » ALBERT HOLLY, Genoa, 111. MEMBER FROM OKLAHOMA To the Editor of The McHenry Plaindealer: Dear Sir:- A copy of your 60th anniversary edition was recently received and for which I am very grateful. Although having seen one before, I again enjoyed entering into the spirit whicn permeated the splendid work. Incieed, you must have felt, even tho r.ot expressed, the deep appreciation sindere congratulations of all eld timers. . ' The edition is a work of art in commemoration of the early days when the foundation of your little city was laid. It is the result of very hard effort in the getting together of so much of value to the old residenters, The letters are especially interesting The one from Frank Bennett impressed me deeply. It was with a keen memory that he recalls in a clear attractive style the scenes and people Of 'the early day --. every name, every picture -- so true to life. It shows, as he says, that "Truth is often stranger than fiction. " Then the articles by Will Mead and Frank Colby are both full of worthwhile reminiscences. Every "Remimber Way Back When--" brought back "fond recollections." We do love to live over the old times in memory, for* the early friends were the true friends, and the eld home town will always be spoken of reverently as "back home." My father, E. M. Owen, was prominent in the upbuilding of McHenry. Settling there in 1838, he, with hia brothers built a ^sawmill, and the first grist mill, the largest in the state. They also owne 1 a general store. Later, with his son, George, who just celebrated his 80th birthday, carried on agricultural implement business, as well as farming. The old lyome, part of which is «the oldest house in town is still kept in the family and its memories cherished.. I'm sure that my father was one of tine first subscriber^ tQ the Plaindea) er for it was always anxiously looked for in our home. I received it for years until being away so long--35 years--I. see few familiar names. I think it most creditable that the Plaindealer, as started sixty years ago by Jay VanSlyke, (how familiar t^e picture of him at hia desk!) should "MARGARET McDONALD.™ Miss McDonald promises us that some day she will write us about sqme more1 old timei-s, so here's hoping she remembers her promise. 4 True Ghost Stories By Famous People Copyright by PubtTc L*dr«r. Ine. •WNU Servlc*. By WINNIE LIGHTNER Actrsse HCUDDEN gusts of wind are dread ^ ful to me," confessed Winnie Llghtner. "They bring to me the ghost of a man who was always fleeing from the wind, a man who one night, In the middle of a vaudeville skit, confessed to me that he was a murderer. "From the day this man, who was called •Sloe," Joined our company, gusts of wind seemed to sweep across, fRmj]y the theater whenever our company played. "This man had a habit of entering doors suddenly, ss though he had come on a run--propelled by a power greater than himself--and of slamming doors behind him so that windows rattied. "We always knew when he arrived through the stage entrance because of the slamming of doors and a rush of air which seemed to sweep across the stage and to rush down the halls and through the dressing rooms. "'He never left a door open behind him. It seemed that almost without his help, doors slammed behind him. People in the company who crossed 'his path declared that he seemed always to walk In a wind ; and that when he would rush away from them, they all agreed that the wind would Seem to die away as If It followed him, and that, moreover, thejsweet odor which seemed to fill the wind which followed him would die out, too. "Every one around him grew to jdread an2 fear his presence. "One night, when he was to give one of the poor little lines sgalnst which I was to crsck my silly little jokes and smart comment, I was suddenly terrified at his intensity. "He was to say," 'You wouldn't go back on a chap like rrte, would you?' "Instead, a sudden swish of air filled with a strange unpleasantly sweet odor blew across the stage, be shuddered and, brandishing his arms before me, cried In terror-stricken tones: " 'You wouldn't go back on a murderer like me, would you?' "Then he flew off the stage with a great slamming of doors and the rattling of stage fixtures. "I don't kn6w what comments 1 made on the stage. I was completely baffled until a few hours later, when the police telephoned me to say that a man who worked In my company bad killed himself, and that I should come to identify the body. "Sloe had made a full confession. It seems he had killed his young wife In a sudden burst of fury over some trifle and had buried her in the garden of their small home on the outskirts of an Illinois town. He then fled. No one had missed them, because they were a strange couple, who made no friends. *• After his confession they found her grave. Across their little garden, po lice reported, was a wide row where the trees and the lilac bushes and the grass were pressed flat toward the east, as though a great and contlnu ous wind had been blowing across that place for many days and nights. "The thing that Impressed me about his confession was the final sentence. It read: 'The wind blew all night' "That's why I don't like to hear the wind at night "Can you blame me?" Mrs. John P. Schaefer, Mrs. Ben Treund, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Miller attended the fair at Milwaukee Tuesday. , Miss Agnes Schmdtt was js Waukegan caller Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Miller and family of Richmond spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Steve May. Miss Katherine Althoff of Elgin spent Labor Day with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Althoff. Le0 King was a Burlintgon caller Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Tony Miller and son, Ronnie, of Chicago, spent Sunday and Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Joe P. Miller. Johnsburg Booster club picnic was held August 25 at Joe Kings' woods. A good time was held by'all. The main event of the evening was a wrestling match to the finish between Joe King and Joe Frett, which was won by Joe Frett on a foul and which wa9 protested by King Joe, the President of the dub. The other event of the evening was a Hot Dog eating contest, which was won by "Moon" Degen, who ate sixteen hot dog sandwiches. The runner-up was Leo "Hack"' Michels who ate fifteen of them. Miisic was furnished b"y Clemens E. Freund who played an automoatic squeeze box. Members of the club are, Joe King, J. J. Immekus, "Moon" Degen, Billy Meyers, Leo Michels, Arnold and Clarence Michel.?, Lonnie Michels, Frank Freund, Clem Freund, Joe Freund, Joe Schmitt, Henry Hettermann, Joe Frett, George Frett, Walter Smith, Charles Smith. Leo Smith', Fred J. Smith, Fred Smith, Henry Hiller, Fred Huemann Roy Schaefer, Louis Schmitt, Duke Adams, Joe Adams, Art Schweitzer, Tony Porst, Steve May and "(Butch" Freund. " Miss Katherine Pitzen of Chicago .spent the weekend with her father, John^ Pitzen. Irving Schaefer of Waukegan was a caller here Thursday evening. Math N. Schmitt was a Chicago caller Friday evening. Mr. and Mi's. Schultz of Chicago spent Sunday in the home of Mr. aiad Mrs. John J. Schmitt T Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Justen of Wa,uktgan spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Joe L. Freund. Miss Katherine Schmitt of Chicago is spending a week here witW her trother. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Gorski and son,- Kenneth, of Woodstock; Mr. and Mrs. George King, and family, Mr. and Mrs. George Zarnstorff of Spring Grove, Mr. arid Mrs. Earl Hoffine *nd family of Genoa, spent Sunday and Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Joe P. Miller. Mr and Mrs. Steve May and family. Mr. and Mrs. Joe King and family attended the circus at Elgin Friday evening. v Mr. and Mrs. Leo Gerlach entertained relatives from Milwaukee Sunday and Monday. Mr. and Mrs. George Schneiner Of McHenry spent Monday evening with Mr. and Mrs. John M. Pitzen. Joe Schmitt of Beloit, Wis., was a caller here Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Schroeder and Chicago spent Thursday FAMOUS ORCHESTRA TO * BROADCAST THIS FALL Jack Hylton, Europe's most famous bandmaster, and his noted orchestra and revue, who will arrive in the United States on the Normandie October 21, have been engaged for" a series .of radio programs by the' Standard Oil Company of Indiana, according to word received by Edward G Seubert, president of the coinpainy, from Alfred N. Steele, advertising executive, who is now in London completing final arrangements. Hylton and his musical troupe, according to present plans, will come to Chicago immediately after their arrival in" New York to begin the series of programs which will be broadcast for twenty-six weeks over the midwest network of the Columbia Broadcasting System, it was announced. The network consists of nineteen stations in as many cities. .) The visit was arranged by the Music Corporation of America in cooperation with the Standard Oil Company of Indiana and will be HyltonV first musical tour of America, it was stated. According, to music*} 5 observers, Hyfton's organization is the most popular orchestra on the. Continent, and has appeared with marked success in many European citifes. He is a member of the Legion of Honour and is a Officier deTIifS^ruction Publique. 7" The orchestra leader already • has gained wide recognition iri this country through his phonograph records, may of which have been Used on the air, and for having led the first English band to broadcast t0 America. He is noted particularly for his original interpretations of modern music. After a stay in Chicago, Hylton and his troupe will j^ppear i.i other middle western cities, it was stated. ,Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews and son, Robert and Lyle, attended the Wisconsin state fair at, Milwaukee last Friday. DO YOU KNOW-- Why trucks drag chains? You have probably noticed big|gasoline trucks rumbling along with qhains dragging on the ground behind them. It is annoying, racket; you have perhaps thought that the drivers might have prevented this noise had they wished to do so. As a matter of fact they were taking scientific precautions against explosion and fire. Large metallic bodies become eharged with static---that is electricity--from the' store always present in the atmosphere. If you touched an undergrounded truck with your finger yon rr.ight notice a spark. The chains ground the truck, draining off the electricity it has gathered, and preventing the possibility of sparks causing trouble when the gasoline <s being drawn off. Origin of the steel pen? About 100 years ago Joseph Gillott, apprentice jeweler, in the city of Birmingham, England, accidently split one of hia fine tools. It was at that moment, so runs the story that he was suddenly called upon to sign a receipt. A quill pen not being available, he picked up a fine pointed piece of the steel which had been broken off, dipped it int0 the ink, and vtith it wrotsf his name.' At once he envisioned a pen made of metal, and the crystallization of his' idea into the now familiar steel pen was only a matter of time. •?•••'.' -." y.. ' That the -first practical electric railway wis put into operation by Siemens and Halske in 1879 at the industrial exposition in Berlin, Germay. It was only a model railway, but served to demonstrate the ideas of its promoters and the potentialities of their product. The "road" was a circular track less than a quarter of a mile in circumference. "Rolling stock" consisted of a miniature locomotive and a single platform car, on which passengers who would do s0 might ridp free. This wa^ the forerunner of today's electric railway. f/ . • 0 -> ,',V *I5 f' * * * * f", -V v,;...* '.Y** \ ^ * v * • • n Central Garage Phone 200-J Fred J. Smith, Prop. Johnsburg The best equipped garage in Northern Illinois. We can take care of any kind of an automotive repair job and guarantee our work. „ . Standard Service Station 24-Hour Towing Service (Handy Location for Summer Residents) , FRED SMITH, Prop. afternoon with John Pitzen Mr. and Mrs. Joe King and Mr. and Mrs. William J. Meyers were Fox Lake callers Sunday afternoon. Joe Schmitt and Miss Katherine Schmitt motored to Racine, Wis., Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Pepping of Crystal Lake were callers here Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Joe King, Mrs. Fred Smith, Mrs. Steve May, Mrs. Peter Freund, Mrs. Peter Smith, and Mrs. Joe J. Freund spent Thursday in Chicago with Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Baer and family. Wdgkt of Brvwa Bears Brown bears weight up to 1,000 pounds, judging by animals caught. FREE! A FREE TUBE WITH GOODYEAR, U. S., KELLY AND MOHAWK TIRES, 2 gal. can Sinclair Oil Ford and Chevrolet Batteries 97 c $3.95 and up All Grades of Tractor and Motor Oils at the Lowest Price -- Compare them anywhere. Good Used Passenger Car and Truck Tires. All Siies. Walter J. Freund Battery Charging, Fan Belts, Radiator Hose and TIRE REPAIRING AND VULCANIZING Spark Plugs, Etc., to Fit Every Car or Truck PHONE 294* West McHenry, Illinois LOOK AND LISTEN Another Big Yolo Picnic SEPTEMBER 7 AND 8 AT ST. PETER'S CHURCH, VOLO, ILL. IffvAll the Attractions for Young and Old -- FERRIS WHEEL AND MERRY GO RQUND ' Dance, Music, Games, Refreshment®. . YOU ARE WELCOME fVERtBOJOY COME Mr. and Mrs. Victor E&ckson, Chicago, were visitors in tk» John Lay carry on there years, never j home on Labor Day.