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! . MemVRT \ " 'vV-"-" -f Tl-v Thursday, February, 13, Ii96 WHERE DO YOU &; JLIVE? , By -.7 LEONARD A. BARRETT ; If yon were ^htrc do you asked the questtoty live?" you doubtless would .reply by giving a number on s street in a certain town. True, but is that, really where you live? The add r e s s y o u g a v e would be the place w h e r e y o u find shelter and iflerils, but where you actually live, cannot be circumscribed by mere geographical boundary lines. There Is a beautiful <5erman legend wbioh illustrates this thought. A poor peasant and his' little family lived in in obscure hnrnhle cnbin, deprived of all the so-called simple luxuries. No word of complaint ever came from the little family. On the contrary, sun-, fhine and happiness radiated from each one. When asked for an ex fdanatlon ivf this unusu«l and apparently unwarranted Joy, the old peasant Mid that he had trained his family to imagine dally that fhey were heirs of a; prince and possessed all that riches could bestow. Truly they had happiness without palpable wealth, for they lived in a kingdom of high Ideals and Spiritual realties. Victor Hugo in "Les Miserable*," writes, "Nothing Is so . Charming as the ruddy tints that happiness can shed around a garret room. We all . . . have had our rose-colored sky-parlor." - Where do you live? Where your soul and heart ie.ad you, not necessarily where your body finds a' shelter. Most houses have two stories, upstairs and downstairs. _ You may live downstairs, In an atmosphere that is sordid, selfish, Isolated. You may live all to yourself In a room whose walls are lined with many mirrors. In whatever direction you look, you will always see yourself and soon . grow weary of your own image ever before you. You will want new thrijls and satisfactions, a change In the environment of so-called pleasure. You will want something you fail to find downstairs! The upstairs rooms have many windows. Through them we can see far into the world outside of ourselves, windows of the spirit through which we see princes and not paupers. Meals and dreams Instead of sordid self-interests. In the upstairs rooms of the house of the soul, we read the best literature, hear the J>est music, dream the noblest dreams. Where are you living? Upstairs or downstairs? In a mirrored room or in a room of many windows? Not where you eat nor where you sleep, but where you really live determines your character and your life. As the wise man of old said, "Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are Oie issues of Hfe." , ^ © Western Newspaper Union. ABBY QERTIE \ Old Timers' Club s^eat "A man who has the wrong key generally sings off pitch." Says:= A sprinkling of ground clove roasting pork improves flavor. Slip arthimble into.; .the,, 'Mr*. -5 j Jjjjove when mending It, -If makes V pending easier. • Do not sift grains like whole wheal i Sour, or graham meal. Sifting such ! I ^our removes valuable nutriment. " \ To remove the odor of fish from a S,* "'frying pan fill pan wUh water, add 1 a little vinegar and let water come to • boil. - "CAPRICE** St Paul, Minn. • "Myself when young did eagerly frequent r . Doctor and Saint, and hear g Ifcgument About it and about; but evermore Came out by the saijje doer where in I went." My younger friends in McHenry, do you know. I have had in mind for years to look, up my friend, Omar, the Persian philosopher, when I get "Over "There." . Then there is my intellectual McHenry friend, the Reverend Brunning, who talked to me about the stars. There should be some mighty nicevisits in some .of those "many rharisioris" coming to you and me. Maybe we can then get an inkling of what this life of ours is all about. To me it has not been altogether satisfactory. There are so many unexplained things that pique me, and Will you. The myriad of conditions that are so delicately suited to our existence. The air we breathe, the water We drink and the foot or two? of fertile soil that covers, the earth; _ I am telling you youngsters, who are in school, to soak up all the learning that your school can give you. Unless one intend^ to become a specialist, with a one-track thought, he should get and continue to get a broad education. Very nice to be able to pick up a stone and be able to know something about its history. To be able to know the flowers and weeds and landscape. If I could but live ft all over again I would have no# timfe to read meaningless trash, when there are books by H. G. Wells, Darwin and the research of other master minds. Do not mistake me, youngsters, when I mention Darwin, I cannot abide that we are a sprout of the monkies. At the same time, I'd hate to meet up with my dear old grandpappy of a million years ago or even five hundred years ago, and express myself. Did you know that the learned men of Europe fought medical science, and even today, progress in intellect and progress in obvious human comforts are. retarded by bigotry and selfishness? The little red school house has done more for mankind than can ever be estimated. Even our schools of today are h&ld back in their progress by those in charge of education. You know and I know that a dozen bombing planes tan quickly destroy a $50,000,000 battleship and that thpse in charge of the navy still holler lor and get more and more of those floating forts, while the air fighting equipmeht and men «re held far behind. Progress today is keenly fought. Restrictions are put upon progressive individual research by those in power. I am telling you youngsters, who wonder about things, that you are not in competition with the old fogies, but with kids about your own age. The more you wonder and study the more apt you are to make a mark in this world Don't try to learn everything by experience, for it. is truly a dear teacher. . The other day a man lit a match to see if he could see the alcohol solution in his radiator. He didn't stop to think and just such carelessness has ruined many. Have you noticed the word "forget" in any of my articles? No, because it is a word I cannot tolerate. Do you school child ren know- that you are earning big salaries right now? You won't have a payday right' away, but the time will come A^hen the cheeks will be there. Statistics show thata child who finishes grade school and goes to work will earn about $35,000 by the time he is sixty. If he completes a high school course and goes to work he will earn about $80,000 by the time hfe is sixty; Right there, you see, you are over $10,000 per year to the good. Sup ^ose you can complete a college educf ion, Statistics prove that you are du for $160,000 by the time you are sixty, or $20,000 a year for a four-year course. Get the idea, youngsters, and figure ing cheated if you not go as far as circumstances wjll allow. Don't try to just get by in; your studies and don't become discouraged if you are not apparently brilliant in school, for quite likely you are storing way some good stuff that is not taught there steps news, hereabouts?" he asks carrier says, "(No mail for cabin •now. "Any 4is the you." "No news a-t^U, nothing ever happens hereabouts iny more," he replies. "Oh, yes, seems to me that I heard somone say that the Lincolns have a baby boy." Yes, it is true, when things look the darkest, the Creator has someone all ready who can turn on the light.* REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN-- Ella | Page played the organ in the M. E. church fifty odd years ago? (Many years and deaths occurred be-, fore the piano supplanted the organ.) Several of the brick houses in and aroufid McHenry were made from the brick made whfere the Community high school now stands? Smith Covey ran the brick yard. The Wheeler house was made, from the first kiln of brick ever made in McHenry. ' It is interesting to know that whfeh the old settlers took up virgin land in McHenry they purchased it for $1.50 per. acre. The deeds delivered dn 1843 were signed by President John Tyler and those in 1848 by President James K. Polk, All early deeds, or direct grants, were written upon parchment If the land was not all paid for in c^sh, the interest was said to be 25 per cent. (For above information we are indebteded to Mrs. Ella Wheeler and we are very grateful for heii kindness. John Adams, of Adams, Minn., can tell us a heap About those early days. That Old Timer can tell us a lot about the early days in Johnsburg and how that village got its name. The club is sending greeting to you, Mi*. Adams, and a most cordial invitation to the Centennial which would not be complete without /ou. Please plan for it and _a letter to the club for membership. Mr. M. F. Walsh, editor and founder of the Harvard Herald, won't be able to stay away from the one hundredth anniversary at the old countyseat. Come yourself or we shall come after you. Judge Shurtleff and Judge Barnes, you must plan to attend the big home coming in McHenry some time this summer. Your names are deeply grooved in the hearts and memories of us all. Jacob Justen had a furniture store and undertaking, "kit-a-corner" from Barbian Bros.? Can you still smell the old glue pot and see the chairs hanging from the ceiling and the pile of varnished pine coffins in the rear of the store? A1 Howe and family lived upstairs for awhile. Florence and Elsie were little girls at that time. The German Catholic church was built? St. Mary's. The original townships in McHenry county were as follows: Chemung, Dunham, Marengo, Rifey, Alden, Hartland, Seneca, Coral, Hebron, Greenwood, Dorr, Grafton, Richmond, Burton, McHenry, Nunda, Algonquin? (Could be used in place of "Senie, me^nie, mnee, mo.") Pistakee was written Pistaqua? The pervefter of that picturesque name did a very thoughtless thing. William Bonslett 'Was the "dark complexioned, active, young fellow who lived with his parents, brother Leonard and sister, Maggie ? Say, Will, I can see you all just as you were half a century ago. Join the club, let's visit. ' Will Smith, farmer near Ringwood, quit chewing tobacco and carried a plug until it dried plenty hard? When he was asked for a chew, he would hand over that tooth breaket. Hank. McLean lived just north west of McCollum's Lake? Some day I will tell you a good stoiy about when he lived there. " There was great rivalry' between Hank Mead *knd L. E. Bennett oyer the commandancy of the G.A .R. Post ? Just below the bridge over Boone Creek there was good bullhead fishing in the spring? v „ We , are going to be kids again *t the Big-Home Coming. - 7 .• * FRANK BENNETT. Fred Kargas, when he lost his fingers, buried them in the family lot in the cemetery? ; 1 Ed Gailsworthy. lived in McHenry for a time? It yas said that, at times, he had wild dreams and would run amuck in his sleep. O. W. Owen had a music store and sold and rented melodeons? In the front of the store, he had a window full of watches and clocks. He also did a general sewing. machine business. The Methodist church had a pastor named Wycoff and another named Nepper ? Rev. Wycoff had a very pretty daughter named Lucile. Simon Covell and Mrs. Hulda Parker, Oct. 4, 1875, were married? That was just thirty-one years to the day before my wife and I married. • How Tempus Fugit, says "Jeweler" Smith. Jake Bidder was a dark, handsome LOYAL CONTRIBUTOR Highland Park, 111. Editor Plaindealer:- I thought my letters were old-fashioned, but I was surprised to read that my friends enjoyed them. I'll say, in answer to Mabel Newman, is it twenty years since her good man's accident at our home? Time flies. I held the wound together for fear he'd bled to death. Having no telephone or hear neighbors, Henry McDonald went for the doctor ^ith his fast hor3e find road-cart. Not a soul passed so I hung on and he, knowing that I was alarmed, put up a good grit and soon Henry and good old Dr. Wells arrived and fixed him up. Mr. Newman was a pioneer that fought fires and helped anyone, without a thought of best clothes or pay. George Owen speaks of how they looked for a run of water. I think my father and Will Bacon tried that out and we got a well of great waterf Nice of the Owen family to write in the Old Time column. Mrs. Mayme Owen Schnorr paid me quite a compliment. Father often spoke of her as a lovely girl. Was glad to hear from Alice Sutton and her sunny south. It's snow and more snow here. Of course, snowplows go round. John Schaffer's letter was good. Should be in the Old Timers' column. • Mr. Claxton and'myself accidentally got on the same subject. In that issue we told the history irt full of the Parker House. I enjoyed Mr. Claxton's letter. Doc Bennett says, "Wasn't it a wow?" Mrs. Wentworth speaks of Will's father: He did his bit for McHenry, made fine brick and gave employment to many. How I remember Will's smiling face, coming in to tell Father his insurance was almost out. Bettw renew for five years. One night about 5 o'clock I met him at the postoffice. He said, "'I know now why I see you around 5 o'clock so often, you get the mail and the evening paper for Dad. Wonder when I am old, will I get such service?" Poor Will was called away from a dear wife and two lovely girls. We will miss his cheerful greetings. When I think of McHenry so changed, mill pond gone, sad to say, new sch6ols and churches and streets, I think of that old song, "When You and I Were Young, Maggie." That fills the bill alright. 1 used to look from Martha Howard'3 up the river in the spring and think it a lovely seene, but the last time I saw it, ft was not so nice, to my way of thinking. About time"" Gilbert told us how the Weather is up there. Mike Walsh might fill a . column of good stuff, I think. He knew Peoria Tom he told me, ha, ha, Will fionslett can use a pencil, too, I think. He's got a lot under his cap he might air. So Asahel Stevens gave two bucks to get all our blab. There is a column in the Hit'llc0me to town scantily clad; policeman told them to put some clothes on. ' V Gas was installed in houses? Mrs. Howell and sons started a lovely resort up the river, called Howell's Villa T ' Mr. Miller started house? green- Mrs. Pouse started the first variety store? Spencers bought Hanly's mill and made good pancake flour? John Smith, jeweler, always loved to paint his shop neat, called it "Tempus Fugit," which means "Time Flies"? • -- • MARGARET McDONAJWD. ; FIFTY YEARS AGO Racine, Wis. > Feb. 8, 1936. Dear Friends «nd Old Timers: I wish more of you would write. It must be they don't take tfce Plaindealer„ Brother Herb subscribed for me. J was reading Mrs. A. C. Grannis' letter of the 16th of January. I always think of the McHenry people as they were from fifty to forty-six years ago. There was Grandpa Slafter sawing wpod about where L. Newman lives now. There was " a baby buggy with the Monroe childi-en standing by the little sister in the buggy. There is Phil Mayes throwing snowballs at the girls as they left the schoolhouse, I can see the Wightman girls. Jessie was in the postoffice with Al Hill hovering the background. ' The doctors were Fegers, Brown, Howard and Dr. Childs. I was chief cook and bottle washer for Mrs. Chet Howard when Dr. Childs and the stork arrived with a baby boy they named Gilbert. This was April first, forty-six years ago next April. Dr. and Mrs. Childs had two children, Myrtle and Ralph. The doctor and wife have passed away, Myrtle lives in California and never married. Ralph was known in McHenry as "Jumbo." He lives in Winnetka, and is a dentist. He is married and has two children; a married daughter and a son, another "Jumbo"; looks much as Ralph did when a baby. I wish to send greetings to Mrs. Lolo Walsh. I had a nice visit with her last time I was in McHenry. I hope to be able to* visit you all this summer. I am counting on it. CLARA BENNETT SORENSON. REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN-- The sidewalks were a glare of ice just after a thaw? I was crossing the street with my fiancee, going west towards Justen's furniture store. My feet flew out and down I flopped. My escort could not prevent it. Just then a troop of school girls, headed by Amy Owen, came along and had a. good laugh at my expense. > ; ° Wisht^ ie club. Big doings and big business next summer. John Buch and saloon? you built fourteen years ago was a nice job. I \remember the nice yard, in join I land Park Twenty-five years ago the cashier' bushes and tr ees that fronted vour ,r i When cleaning a molding around a foom to protect the paper below, place piece of sine or cardboard under . molding. I < To keep the fat fronv sputtering f ' when frying ham or bacon and eggs, . * Jafprinkle a little fiour or cornstarch in ^„ the frying pan. tjs"' • Aaaoctat*! Nawapapera.--WNU8*r?\6», ," of a bank beckoned me to him' and said, "What are you planning for that boy of yours ? " - "Well," I answered, "he is only three years old and -quite likely the future will show to what he is adapted." . "Do your best," says he, "to train him so that his job will not be subject to the 'caprice of an employer.'" Get that last classic? "Caprice of an employer." Thirty years from now, you will know to your sorrow, maybe, just how much that means. "CAPRICE OF YOUR EMPLOYERS." POTPOURRI Names Misunderstood The Canary Islauds are really named after do^f< and not birds. This group of islands northwest of Afri-a were discovered by Spaniards In 1630. They were mmed Canaria, a 'vord derived from the Latin, meaning dog. They were sp called because at that time a fierce breed of dogs, now extinct, Uved there. © Wet era N«wapap«r Union. "NOTHING EVER HAPPENS? Way back in 1809, Feb. 12, in Hardin county, Kentucky. A scene on a gloomy winter's day. A rural mail carrier stops at a log Anything you know .send to "Betty Blabs." This letter looks to me like a lot of blab, but I guess it is no ran his cottage hotel .worse than some other. Some conso- Hello, John, that home lation. i ; It's good to hear of the Stevens family. Asahel'S father was a genial storekeeper and his mother kept postoffice once. I called on Mrs. Van- Slyke fL few years ago; was a lovely woman. She lives in Waukegan, too. Well, I hope the shutins are all better. I must close. With kind regards to all my friends. • Yours truly, MARGARET McDONALD, 1221 S. St. John Ave. I was 17 years of age? Stella Beckwith apd I were out on the mill pond, each with one skate on (my first and last venture with skates). Our skates locked and down I went; struck on the back of my head. Talk about seeing stars. I can see them yet, alter fifty years. Anyone remember the Ladies' Aid from the 'M. E. church ? Sometimes we met out in the country. I remember one time we met with Mrs. Hutson. SIhe1 sent for us all in a lumber wagon or hayrack. We always had a good time. Hutsons had three children, Frank, George and Hannah, that I. remember. How many remember • the Old Settlers' meeting? There was a barbecue and the picnic was held in the park. We had Sunday school picnics out to McCollum's Lake? Mrs. Charles Colby always brought fresh cottage cheese. Then we had picnics out to Newell Colby's. My, what a good time, high swings, and good games and plenty to*eat. We always had a good time. CLARA BENNETT SORENSON. ANOTHER NEW MEMBER This week we are adding the name of Asahel Gage Stevens to the Old Timers' club and will, also, put his name down with those who are planning to attend the Centennial celebration this year. We are glad to welcome ham as a member and hope that he will write again for the Old Timers' club; Also glad to hear from our member, George Owen, again. We want more members for the Old Timers' Club, so, come on, folks, write us a letter and become a member. We're waiting for you to join. Members of the Old Timers' Club to date are: Frank Bennett, 20 S. Fairview Ave. St. Paul, Minn. Margaret McDonald, 1221 8. St. John Ave., Highland Park. - Albert Holly, Genoa,1 III. ' ' ' Jt , - Mrs. Amy Owen Chapel!, 1328 18. Denver Ave., Tulsa, Okla. Mrs. Jack Walsh, Mclle nry. . C. F. Block, 415 W. First St., Pundee. - Delia Beckwith, McHenry.' Geo. W. Owen, 508 Center St., Elgin, in. ; . -v - j ' •' C. S. Owen, 468 Ida Place, Glencoe, 111. VV-. -V Mrs. Agnes Wentworth; McHenry; John F. Claxton, McHenry, ; ; Fred. T. Colby, 514 Peninsular Ave., Burlingame, California. Gilbert Howard, Sturgis, S. D., Co. 2759-V. Mrs. Linus Newman, McHenry. Herbert Bennett, 1045 ^au^uier St., St. Paul, Minn. Mrs. Mayme Owen Schnorr, Union Block, Spencer, la. Mrs. Clara Bennett Sorenson, Box 126, Route 3, Racine, Wis. Mrs. W. E. Colby, 633 Massena Ave,, Waukegan, 111. Mrs Maud Parsons Swenson, 3736 15th Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Alice Sutton, 3874 46th Street, E. San Diego, Calif. Simon Stoffel, West McHenry, 111. A. G< Stevens, 1202 Yeoman St., Waukegan, 111. J. W. Thomason, Attorney. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT To the Heirs at Law and Creditors of the Estate of Samantha R. Button, Deceased. The undersigned, Administratrix with Will Anexed of the estate of Samantha R Button, deceased; hereby gives notice that she wjlj appear before the County Court of McHenry County, at the Court House in the City of Woodstock in said McHenry County, in the State ot Illinois, on the 24th day of February A. D., 1936, at the hour of Ten o'clock A. M., or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard, and will present to the said Court her final account as Administratrix with Will Annexed of said estate, and ask that the same be approved; and that the said estate be declared settled, and the undersigned discharged from her said office, or if at said hearing a distribution is ordered that the undersigned upon making said distribution and reporting same to said Court, be then finally discharged. Final report is now on file in said County Court and at said hearing you may be present and resist such application if you choose to do so. ELLA R, KERNS, Administratrix of said estate. Woodstock, Illinois, January 27th A. D., 1936 36-3 • Milton Did Not Earn Much The poet's greatest biographer, David Masson, says: "Until Milton was thirty- two years of age, if even then, he did not earn a penny for himself." Sewers Making Girls' Garments hotel and I can vision your good wife and baby Katie in her arms. Your son,, Harry, used to look for trouble with Johnnie Niesen. Wilson Gates barely missed your boy, at close range,, with a big rock. If it had struck, McHenry would have missed a good plumber. Hello, Harry, 111 be seeing you. ^ (We are all going to have a good time talking over Way Back When next summer.) How are you, Mrs. Lizzie Carr ? Hello, Vic. Your father was "Tommie" Carr, wasn't he? Thomas pronounced the Carr the Irish way with plenty of RRRs. Althoff Bros, had a store in Centerville? " . REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN-- Walsh and McLaughlin kept a store? It was trimmed in green. Greatest bargains ever seefiV " Borden factory started? f Electric lights hit McHenjrfr? Last light south at S. McDonald's gate. Streuh had a sanitarium up the rlv_ er. They believed in sun. Used to Every one of the sewers shown here in a St. Louis WPA project will be the Beans of bringing joy to numbers of poor children, who will be the recipients ©f the garments, when they are finished. 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