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. > • . • • • • ' . . * 1 . , i- • #" .; lilt 5ipl» • I ^•nr-'-" • •: a T^. >uU in qwn bat BIG in sincerity-- Our Hope that you may hive A Happy New Year. !NEW (puttitt. l-SOar heartiest good wishes for yoti inim. • • ,V\ c/-.r Wm. H. Althoff Metal and Clothing appy Dew Timers' ! " WELCOME; 0i£ TIMER! ,|hum like a City printing oflice. John | Waukeg^n, ill., Dec. id] Simon usually was the horse-power, ; Editor McHenry fiainilealer j but not aiwajs avaiiaoie. Mr. uoupe REMEMBER VVAl ^bAlilv -- | Dear Sir:--A copy of your paper would work nonchalantly ar.uhu m% Thepe was great rivaiI.y was handed me with the suggestion press while I made about seventy-five the Bert Howes, Ciaxtons, Uweiis, '1 v.rite some items for .your Old bows per minute lie came to *iC-.«\Velshes, Colbys, Wheelers", W'uaiand 'Mrs. Chet Howard and a-hobc tuners Come on, piease. Hello to you, Ean Vvalsh vspoi^ writer). What do >ou mink 01 uui .uinnesota loutbaii 'outxit? bomo tieven, hey? Wnat? iour, spot,-, news is good reading, and to ihy ..nends who run tne "My Fiace." i um going to urop iu ou y«u a uu vane with the jackets on. ,\* uav say .' i i.i.t-rs Club. A few might be of interest. iiow many remember .'when Mcnenry only had two trains a day, a j. reigiit with one passenger and express car attached, and it took four took Henry quite opportunely and was a stons as tQ wj1Q ma(je the <i>eW buthighly educated and social gentleman. ter? i it was a t.ss up, ex- Opportunely tor me, I mean, as I cept Howe cattle grazed tno stood in need of just such broaden- rjver "and then a slight fisny taste ing as he gave me, and, incidentally, made it top them alK (That on. some pressure- off the should bring a letter). ' * Let us take the Life Book new Hope comes with the morning. With its leaves unspotted, "Peace on earth, good will to all" And with nobler purpose write,,. With the New Year's dawning. Leaving it unblotted! Let us trust and not despair; --Mrs. If. A. Kidde. v West McHenry State Bank Bank That Service SatttV "West McHenry, 111. hours to get to Chicago? -doctors and preachers of the village. I Who can remember^when there' Fred Kargas had a fine tenor voice Johnnie Br-itz was foir 'yfears jani iwere no sidewalks in town; then a and I "sang" baritone and strummed tor in the schools and he had a way ; two-plank walk was laid with the the guitar. Mr. Roupe had a re- of pinching our seats that rriade us : planks about one foot apart and nail- pertoire of . funny readings and, at skip? ed end to end? the suggestion, we three teamed up We brought home a can of water j Who remembers Fr^d King, • who and gave a show at the, Ostend school from the creek, rivet or pond, "tem- 1 taught school In-the old brick build- and again at Volo. We took- Orten pered just right," so that our moth;' ; ing on the West Side (then called Gilbert along to sell tickets. ers could feel it and know, that it j Gagetown) f Not many left that xh« music was pretty poor - and was warm enough- for swimming? ; went to school to Wm. Nickle in the the singing worse, but those read • j : « . [brick school house now used by the ings that Mr. Roupe gave.'were twice Pigs were slaughtered in the open German Catholics. , There are only «s lousy. In one selection he imitated on the southeast side of ihe mill pond three;;of those old pupils that still a man snoring, and I probably never and we lugged home all the hearts : live in McHenry, Mrs Nizzie Holly, knew how near we came to being and livers we wanted? ? , Mrs. T. J. Walsh and George W» mobbed. Not counting advertising, r- Colby. - ' . L think we broke about even on oui • ' On -Arbor Day, 18S5, we planted Anyone left that TOmembers ^e1 ConCert totor. The big expense was thpise trees ^n the new schoolhouse old brick yard, owned and run by for the livery-rig. ^grounds? I set the third one by the Well, in 1896, I taught the RoTe- sidewalk, just west of the front path ville school and was home for the *rpm the school building. How's ' holidays. Lewis "Poodle" Holmes had doing? departed this life and his brother, j Harry, asked me if 1 would, "sit up." ' _ hkrd work ^ When 1 got there I found that my *»sh that we caught through the ice companion was Mr. Roupe. Now, >n McCollum's lake ? -- please don't tell me that I am spell-J ing the i»me wrong, because that is! "Peggy" Feltz was plumb peaci Smith Covey, on the corner where your high school building now stands ? My father brought the first kerosene lamp into town, a small burner about one inch wide, but what a beautiful light it was, equal to three or four candles. People cam£>-from all over to see it, but not long before kerosene came into general use. As near as I can remember it was abput 1862. MRS. W. E. COLBY, 633 Massena Ave. ---- -Waukegan, 111. - --r- MINNEAPOLIS MEMBER Minneapolis, Mini.,, 12n1935 jTo Old Timers Club, McHenry; li*. • Dear Friends x'.' When you asked-about our old, old j j0n that was treasurers, I felt that I wanted to; Shortly 1 began tell you about a book I have, of which i my lunch and the smoke from his I am very proud. It was printed in j cigar started me to half-dreaming. 1810 and given to my great-grand ' mother, Wealthy Sherman, in 1821 the way he spelled it. Addie Holmes but could put up a good fight prepared us a fine lunch and I ex- any time ? ^ • changed stories with Mr. Roupe until . .. near 2 ... m„ when he said: "Better , Herb Bennett took tile Fourth o£ lie down for awhile, Frank/' He took'pnze? No one^cavthe- sofa and I lined up several'chairs contest against him, he swam and made nie a couch with cushions. course alone in Fox River. Backed by a hearty meal, a black j cigrar and a clear ccWscience, Mr. Roupe began to give a demonstration! in snoring that 1 have never' heard • ' , " : equalled. He ran the scale front- ,We were bab.es and could get our ward and backward, with an aban- "dmner" when we wanted it? If you delightful to hear. can y°u have me beaten, but it was to doze, and then Eddie Welsh, without Instruction, was a natural boxer ? a fact. The name of it is "Robinson C it is 2^sx4 in., is less than" V* in. I thick and weighs less than an ounce It has a paper cover Loretta W'alsh gave a grand party That summer, my father, James *4 ^ ^ome and Herb Bennett ro- B. Perry, Hank Mead, Anton Weber, de™ed h's nff ktlf pi"m and others had attended a G.A.R ™ei7*Br for Eh! What? Mrs encampment at Milwaukee and Dad ' a had bunked with Mr Perry. When ,, . .~~t . , , noo » Besides the flaatwheitri gKoUtL ihne mlilte: hliee was aass liwouussjyr aans . W. e ^t.h eredJ •c ai tU,ls* i*nu - the- s• loutgUh complete story, figures up to ten, a {-) Ct coon, and for some reasons' „f andI mta de a aislay ot tnem in tne punctuation marks, and the alphabet delicacy, never mentioned it to Mr. Par,or • m capital and small letters are on a Perry. As I lay there it occurred to page in the front and^another story, i me that maybe Mr. Perry thought, "Virtue Rewarded," is on the last • jf he had 'em that he taught theiii three pages. There are thirty-one from Dad. 1 let out a yell of delight pages in all. The pictures in it are and kicked over a chair. Mr. Roiipe ery crude, like block prints, but are staggered to his feet with a wild lcok in his eyes, his long, black front hair in his face. ow a P| |^/app^ fteu; , -...•.-••.,7. -v:- • ' ' As the New Year opens we re-dedicate vice and building a better community. to greater ser- Wattles Dru^ Store West McHenry, 111. (ht£t wij&SLA fir 19 3 6 We are proud of the confidence you hjitve shown by your continued patronage. And in return we want'to pledge ourselves to better service and higher values during the year. Art Smith's Food Shop West McHenry, 111. called "engravings^" For those who might be wondering who Wealthy Sherman was, I will say, she and Benson Sherman were the parents of my grandfather, Samuel, also of Jeremiah, Susan (Hanley), Libby (Wattles), (Frank's mother), and Melissa (Saylor). They drove in a covered wagon from New : both lousy." York state, in 1840, to what is now j Mr Roupe We would, go to the cheese factory and eat curds by the handful? The girls combed their hair over "rats"? { Bustles were the things worn by "What the 'ell', the matter, Frank, £» women T I remen.- what the 'oil's the matter ?" he a,ked ber '•««•;« ho™« » ^ of Seo we sa.t di own andj ,I reviewedi the su, g.a r and w.. as,' fo.,r a momentd,- teum p> i- „ .. - v.. j ed to give it a ride on Mrs Bishop s, matter for him which wa. covered by a beauti(nl Frank," says he, "I think they are. black .ilk dre.S. (Darn fool kid!) FRANK BENNETT. Chicago. Finding only a swamp McHenry needed his newspaper about good scout, but | UiA you kftow that John claxtoU) there, no good for farming, they went as much as we did another, saloon, 78 ?***% '?!?' wh° h*S ^oined the xm-u rrU_.xi„ ii so>about 1900, he sold out to the Plaindealer Co. 31, 1896. He had been 'vTillahgde cDoeCn' -/ ,. . . .. workmanship! ni , on to. McHenry. They*had leather-covered trunk full of silver money in the wagon with which they 'bought 320 acres of land, two miles 78 Old Timers club, has made four violins and completed a | telescope which required nearly ta west of "town, which is known today {stable and drove for Hank Wightman, as Sherman Hill Farms, Nos. 1 and 2. etc. These, farms came into the pos- J I never knew of Mr. Holmes teaspession -of "Sam" and "Jerry"; then ing Wilson Gates, but Wilson hated Hurrah for the Old Timers club and the new members who have been enrolling. We surely enjoy you let' vi W 4 ters and our readers are becoming J T , lug TI iisvil uawJS, UUV TV iisun n»teu .« .. * « Sam's son, the late Clifford E. Sher-' him with an intensity that was al- ™OPe enthus«ast1C over the club every man owned them. ^ Now his son, .ways evidenced whenever he became day. Lester, lives on one of them with his angry at anybody. "Hank Wight- It's your letters that make it infamily, making five generations. | man likes me better than he does folks and join I also have a blue willow plate, Old Les Holmes," and then such which dates back to the Reyolution-- fireworks as were ear blistering. it belonged to Wealthy's mother, Mrs. Jeremiah Gates--and a little flat glass dish used to put one's cup in ideas" and their influence on health, when the coffee was poured into the It seems but a short time since saucer. * those veterans of the Rebellion were I have a yellow patchwork quilt youngsters ef forty-five and fifty made 100 years ago by my great-1 years of age. They attended the grandmother, Mrs. Fellows (Mrs the Old Timers club. Members to date are: RPNe„cOeNn(tVly„ ,IT suNbKm ittead an art*i clI e on II q*F rr»a nki B«e•n nett, 20 S. Fairview Ave. "How Are We." and spoke of 1221 s. st. John Ave., Highland Park. • Albert Holly, Genoa, 111. Mrs. Amy Owen Chapell,. 1^28 N. Denver Ave., Tulsa, Okla. " Mrs. Jack Walsh, McHenry. C. F. Block, 415 W. First St., Dundee. . G.A R" post* and their yearly oystei* ^vent. One time 1 given to me by my aunt, Mrs. Leah ; heard "Hank" Mead tell a story about Sherman Brown, who lives in West j when his regiment Was on the march Mchenry. fully equipped." They came to an • j,. Most of all I treasure a little mag- ; exceptionally bad stretch of mud and V i enta (the color) wool dress (made enr-| ciders came to deploy right and left' tirely by hand), trimmed with many along high banks. Mr. Mead was yards of narrow black braid which' pufiering from a severe toothache Grandma Sherman made 71 years'and his jaw was swollen. 111. C. S. Owen, 466 Ida Place, Glencoe, Mrs. Agnes Wentworth, McHenry John F. Claxton, McHenry, ago ftr my mother, Eudor Sherman j One of his comrades got too near: 1 J".ed-T-Co'by; 514 Peninsular Ave- 1 ck -..-j Burlingame, California. Parsons, who lives with me. j the edge of the bank which caved in I wonder how many of you old'and the soldier rolled down into the1 timers went to school to my uncle, mud and Mr. Mead said he laughed Albert F. Parsons. My father's name j so heartily that his tooth stopped was Burnham Parsons, perhaps some aching. So it is?'with us all. We of y.ou will remember him also. j need something to laugh at and there, In 1930 I attended an old timers' are so many worse off than most cf R] . c T meeting in Ringwood, met many of j us that we can chear up and take a w ' hPe}lcer' la„ _ niy mother's friends and relatives, fresh hold. R F D Ra * and enjoyed it very much. j A number of years ago an old gen-1 m wT'r Ih I wish to make a correction in one tleman was stricken with pneumonia ! » i ,ich he I knew him well and when I heard Av« ' J1'; Gilbert Howard, Sturgis, S. D., Co: i 2759-V. i Mrs. Linus Newman, McHenry. | Herbert Bennett, 1045 Fauquier St., { St. Paul, Minn. . i Mrs. Mayme Owen Schnorr, Union | Delia Beckwith,' McHenry. Geo. W. Owen, 503 Center St., Elcorrection Mr. Bennett's letters in which ^ Sorenson, I 633 Massena iMMftVJMUifPlihl A. Worwick PHOTOGRAPHER stated that Ben Sherman invented | of his illness, I called to see him. The gates--it was "Sam" and "Jerry." j doctor was. there and my friend was i They also made a very good post-hole close to the brink. He whisered, I digger, a wire with tiny wheels in- "Doctor, am I going to live?" The Mrs. Maud Parsons Swenson, 373Gl . 16th Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. stead of i>arbs and the wire knotter on the McCormick binder. Yours truly, rs.) Maud Parson* Swenson, 8736 15th Ave. So., Minneapolis, Minn. A. O. ROUPE AND OTHERS St. Paul, Minn. Way back about 1894 A. O. Roupe j started a newspaper (The Journal) j in McHenry, and you should have [seen the hard work that I put in j making it a success. He had jcap- ! tured himself a very fine woman for j a wife and she was mighty easy on the eyes. | Abe Lincoln, the new editor and , myself were, perhaps, thre^ of the j country's homeliest men, at least I since the writing of the Constitution. Homely men are prone to find goodlooking wives to even up withv. But, that, you men will agree that the best look frousy at times. % So Mr. Roupe established a second paper in McHenry and for the sum of fifty cents I, many times, turned the fly wheel that made the press MRS. NETTIE HARRISON DIES i „ , , . i . Mrs Nettie Harrison, wife of the S^t l M fraVe ""I ^ dilate Ellery A. Harrison, died at. her n T d i h l J ^ a f v , h e T a l ^ 0 S h o m e n e * r W o o d s t o c k l a s t w e e k , inaudibly said. Praise the Lord, I Wednesday. She was taken ill with XT-, , ; pneumonia on the preceding Satur- What do day - T . _ • . . . « * . . . • • ' , , F u n e r a l s e r v i c e s w e r e h e l d a t the The mam thing, I find, is to look Woodstock Methodist church Saturto live by and to die by. you think? day afternoon with burial land cemetery. upon life as 'a great drama or com Oakedy. Get the idea from Shakespeare when his mother used to wash for us. Sometimes we are the joke and then others are funny. Let's watch the play. "The play is the thing." Relax our faces now and again into a smile. Don't get mad at anything. If people blow up and talk mean, just enjoy the show and keep our blood pressure down: Nice , edition of the Plaindealer of Nov. 21. Tliree new members. I just knew Fred Colby would' join and Agnes Monroe Wentworth. But when Mr. Claxton wrote, I turned handsprings of joy, as did all of us. Maybe now, you all begin to see just how much this club may mean to us. ar* 11 w" felt that the whlte Just sit down with a lead pencil and wou,d ** Mfer from molestation If the say hello and join up. We want to! Ind,ans were concentrated and kept on hear from Sim Covell and Bert Howe I P,ace* *et •"•de for them. Ltrfc Stat* in Brazil Mattoo Grosso, with its 570,138 square miles, is the fourth largest state In Brazil. Until the trans-Brazilian railway was built the Paraguay river was practically the oply means of access to this territory, qracb of whWh Is still unexplored. . ladita RaMrration* Indian reservations were originally set up when' the Indian problem was a large one. To some extent, tbe reservation system was a protective meas- GREETINGS 'Hei-o'i to Your H Success. in 19 56 ^ May 1936 be crowded' wi|fi^ 365 days of happiness for our just:^,p^at,aa::i^t|i» ^ McHenry? Jewelry Shop ^ LODTZ & 104-M " qA\ou. \Jiax Oungt/oa . %00& £udo •• . •. WM. SPENCER, Prop. West McHenry rfM,m/Vo 3-Qakk haL avvinessjz^L. Another opportunity to enjoy our task of serving you in a friendly, helpful way. May the New Year bring every wish for your well being that is in our hearts. . BUICK AND PONTIAC - SALES AND SBftVICB R. I. Overton Motor Sales :r; ; Spare the Postman-- Ybia don't have to dig through a sack of mail to find our greeting--here it is-- Happy New Year! ' Schaefers Grocery & Market FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Deliveries 9 and 11 a. m. - 2 j>. m. In Any Part' of Otjr Phone 172 West McHenry. IB. tDflltKiiihfS 1936 Whatever the New Year, may bring we face it the friendships of the many whom we have served in the us courage and hope for the future. For we take this opportunity to express our sincere extend all the greetings of the season. . J. Justen & Son West McHevy. IB. V;K'