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>.£*• 'V«»=V-»^#,« . ^ « ' .; * • f*«f'T^ M , p; " ,> M .-T*^ * .v: Ifo^ 'W\ i * N ,*'< As? ' - * "}"« x> 1 VOL. 61 McHENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 20, 1936 No. 39 PLOWS AND SHOVELERS BATTLE WITH SNOW * i DOUBLE SHIFTS FI6HT TO KEEP of 24, decrees below were registered here and every night the mercury registers below zero to shatter all records fqr protracted sub-*ero weather. '. ,.- : . .'_' V; The thirty day period ending Monday was the coldest since the government began keeping records in 1871, SEWER GAS FUMES DRIVE FAMU.Y FROM v . WEST McHENRY HOME ^KB-WAY TRAFFIC SOME ROADS QK was at zero or below on twenty of the • |d a y s . v . - ' .1 Two other old records will likely SS Because of the drifting snow dm-!** broken, also, that for the coldest V Tuesday night there]were no ™"ter ^ history and for the coldest trains through Wednesday, although. *e ru»ry- ^ $he snowplow went up about noon. | • • . . s. . . , _ ti.i* About ninety men have been em-1, Hem Voiwl, kiwr of the Hart- : ployed by the state department to I«8 A»s,,m '""fT T'T™* ; Shovel snow on the main highways in <*e <hlr>' "";torlst» """"•'boond .t ibis district during the past week in V" Crystal Y from Saturday to Tuesaddition to *bout twenty snow>lows i™1* Escaping sewer gas fumes were discovered by Dave Segel at his home in this city Tuesday evening after he During these thirty days in Chicago' had experienced seveie illness from the average daily temperature was 6.21 its effects. Awakening his wife, degrees above zero and the mercury j who had already retired for the night, ^working twenty-four hours a day to1 keep the highways open, it was stat-1 Marjory Phalin of Chicago, enroute *TbyFrank^Weingart local boss of weekend was also there. The crowd *ebJo£r?n an the first 5 M-M frp CWc^o Mjn; the week 1 neapolis, Crystal Lake and various e> ' -i ui •<- «.u-„ 4.-™: ' other points. One of the women in . Every available ,rani ^ t tK the party had frozen her legs from j Electric company have taken precautory is being given employment in the ^ | Uoh6ry steps in Elgin to safeguard HIGH SCHOOL used through the first six grades,! "BILL" PRIES GOES he summoned Ray Conway from the gas company, who investigated and found the trouble to be in the sewer main, while sewer gas was escaping into the house. The sewer drain was shut off and Mr. and Mrs. Segel went to the Northwestern,.hotel, where they spent the night and the trouble was repaired the following day. Mr. Conway states that the gas company has had no trouble in this region with leaky" gas mains which are all in gcod shape. Aware of the danger of sub-zero weather cracking the mains and allowing escaping gas to seep into residences and other buildings, officials of the Western United Gas and mdfeEASEI} INTEREST IS BEING SHOWN Music, .which has always been a popular subject at the McHenry Community high school, is being developed more fully this year and is being extended to the local grade school, under Herman Ellis, who was hired this year to teach music in the schools in addition to which, W. N. Sears, music director, continues to be here one day each week, on Thursday. with a special book for each grade, while a new publication "Singing Youth," • is used in'the two upper grades. The idea of music in the grade school is • to teach the children that they have a singing voice and Mr. Ellis states that there .are very few children who cannot sing if training is commenced early enough in life. ..Soma of the children in the grades have already shown remarkable progress in music and it is expected that even greater advancement will be made another year. Mr. Ellis has grown up in music, in which he has always been interested, and started when he was seven years old. He has always played in bands and orchestras and has taught imlsic for'the* past two years. He is a graduate of Milton college in Wisconsin and is well qualified to teach music in its various departments. The local schools are giving the wonderful Opportuni- OCEAN FISHIN' AND KETCHED 'EM, TOO! Word- has been received from Mr. and Mrs. William Pries, which states that they are how staying in Mianii, Fla., having spent the month of January in St. Petersburg. They spent a day going through the flood area, accompanied by John Schaffer, and, say that words do not describe the sight. Bridges are washed out,, railroad tracks on edge and bent in all shapes, railroad ties strewn all oyer, ships turned over oh their'sides, villages wiped out and people who have survived just existing in any way possible. - They talked to several people who had survived the storm. One lad had ...gigantic - and unpiecedented task Route u. S. 12 north of McHenry {against possible occurrences of acci- . opening the roads, shoveling tin o gh ^ blocked last Thursday by two dents such as have taken a toll of solid banks of snow twenty- ee j trucks which had become stall-! lives in several Illinois towns and in deep to widen the track and make ^ * . - | other cities throughout the muntrv. conditions safe for traffic. The jg,ork is being confined princied cities throughout the country. Mrs. C. W. Goodell has heard from I Prompt- reporting of the odcr of relative in Honolulu who writes j gas is'urged by-.Chester. ,E. Collins, pally to Route U. S. 12 south of Mc- '-^^ weather- fe even chilly there' district manager of the Western Rout? ir«nHrnorth to Shmnnd^n 1 knd that Pe<>Ple are travelling. miles.j United Gas and Electric company. Route 14 and north to Richmond am g the'unusual sight of the moOn- Although there has been no serious Sitk 8 Itains capped with snow; trouble from broken gas mains in this Mrs. Alva Roderick and three chil-, area, which includes Elgin and Mc- Ten giant fifteen ton snowplow, snowbound on Henry, he states that an alert vigil trucks some of them brought here ^ C. pierce farm near Green- is being kept and that a crew is on other noWvt father1 smith "havp^hpen' wood, while Mr! Roderick was em- duty in Elgin twenty-four hours a ' 2workin5g day Sand niLght In 1addit?ion to' P loyed. away from home, ^nt to; day to investigate all complaints of •8 many more of the smaller plows ^ regularly in use by the~highway "patrols in this district. • v j With two men to a truck, working in twq shifts of twelve hours each, ra&inder of the winter with relatives. The family was isolated for three weeks. School at Greenwood was opened ^e plows have been kept going con-1 Monday after being closed for a week. •Untly unless stopped for repairs or, At Marengo a crew of workmen V§as, plowing through twelve foot | »»cceeded m opening a country road drifts and where the banks were too!to the Hen!? f*™> Mon^ heavy tw*o trucks were put together to push through tne snow barrier. The trucks started work a week ago Sunday night and worked continuously through the week. Two Shifts : For several days the men worked in two shifts but as conditions improve they now work nine hours a day. Digging through walls of snow so that medical aid could reach Mrs. Leo Russell, ill with intestinal flu. A country road was also opened to the Henry Torman farm home, six miles north of Marengo, where Mr. Torman is ill. It was expected he would be taken to a hospital but he is not able to be moved. In Winnebago county so many schools have been closed that the Gas mains are about three and a Jn addition to music, which de» mands the greater part of his time, j students some Mr. Ellis teaches a class in generalities for 'instruction in music as well science at the high school. ^ {as in other subjects. Here his time is devoted to the ! * department of instrumental music and in the development of the band and orchestra. The band this year is composed 90 per cent of beginners and although it has been a slow process, considerable progress is being noted in the work. OFFERS WOTLD PAY SUM *3,10&23 0* An offer of a $3,106.23 settlement of the. claimed $4,239.58 shortage of Harry F. Peteit, former McHenry county treasurer, made to the board of supervisors Tuesday afternoon, not only created considerable debate but considerable sentiment was expressed been a member of ia family of seven-various members ofi the board beteen. None of the bodies nor . any 1 ^or® waa ^^Ny decided to withold "BUBBLING OVER" DESTROYED BY FIRK^a | g then it turned cold. tavern. northwest of Woodstock, on Route 14. . . , - . • Tuesday forenoon of this week. Thv1 Plans are bemg made for a concert jfire broke out at 9 0'dcck noar the to be given in March when the vocal, j fuge box at the end of the har and as well as the instrumental depart-, cntrance to the kitchen and quickly ments, will join in putting on a prospread throughout to the kitchen. The gram. An unusual opportunity is presented for anyone interested in music, as "half feet below the ground snrfacev it^rlass ^struction yet special -per; is said. The frost line is down below that, in some places it has been found as low as seven feet. Frozen ground proves an additional stress on gas mains and if there is any weakness at all in thd pipes, the strain is liable to crack open a seam or connection. When a gas leak develops in a main in warm weather, the escaping gas usually seeps up through the ground. The earth, however, is now frozen so solid and to such a depth that escaping gas follows along the main and other pipes until it can escape through ^ome porous ground, usually n^ar a 'warm basement wall. INTERESTING ^ NEARBY NEWS TAKEN FROM COLUMNS OF OUR EXCHANGES two free lessons each week are given ; Schneider and manaped b'v her hu*,. in addition to the band and orchestra j ^ Geo Schneider, the 'license b?- rehearsals which are also held twice a jnR issued to her s0n> Harold Leonard, week. While these lessons are in! The building was an old one, once . . . . . . . . , , , , u s e d a s a m i l k f a c t o r y . I t w a s f p are set asi^e for .individuals who need LenUy remodeled and said to be one additional help. This same opportun-1 of the finest equipped Uverns in this lty is given to pupils of the grade j vjcinjty. Onlv $l..r>00 insurance was school who receive instruction at the I rep0rted traces of the others has been found, (action until some future date. Mr. 'fPi ies had sojiie good fishing at ; The settlement, or proposal, was. St. Petersburg. In fact, so good that submitted to the board by State's At-. he had to be fished out himself. This ! torney V. S. Lumley, who stated :t is what he writes: Jwas handed to him several hours bef;' "We .fished one aifternodn.by Attorney-Williajn L. Pierce. steady rain into the Atlantic from ' counsel for Harry f\ Peteit. seawall about six feet high. "Wei The 'proposed' settlement is the cutgot soakiitg wet from the rain and. growth of an audit rrade by the H. Fire destroyed the .^Bubbling'th-er" I S®il U We shivered so. E Snyder an,I company, public aclocated al>out four miles I WC Oou^n 4 ^ait our hooks any rountants, of Chicago, in which it was I more, so ve went hohie.„ The next disclosed that during: the*, years of j day \ve went again to the same spot 11131, 1932 and 1933 an alleged shortand in the same steady drizzle. To age in cash receipts of $4,239.58 was ^ start with. I brok# my pole, then I due the county from former Treasur- . lost my pocket knife, two fish broke . er Peteit. In 1931 the alleged short- ; my line, they got aw,ay .with my hook, aKe was $1,825.30; in 1932 the alleged., sinker and parfc of the line, ah(f then,' shortage was $940.81 and in 1933 the as a final touch, I fell off the seawall alleged shortage was $1,973 47 into the ^ocean. A ^rfect 'lay of Accordinp to tho t?rms of the fishing! In spite of it, I caught hve posed settlement it was a ^ that.., nice trout. Mr. and Mrs. Pries plan to remain in Miami until about the middle of1 building and contents were completely destroyed. The tavern was owned by Mrs. Ann they aire widening one way traffic j superintendent has decided to extend lanes, shoveling out cars, etc., for ithe P^ent rural school year three which they receive fifty cents an hour |we€^8- This may be done in Kane and their dinner and they are taken to!^ounty; but only on the voluntary co- ; work in trucks. Headquarters for operation of those teachers who will ; meals for the men are at the Cadillac I work for the interest of the children and Karls restaurants. Imaking up the work. Robert Frisby is a sub-boss, taking Lake Michigan is a tremendous ice about half the men while Weingart almost entirely frozen over for takes the other half. Both Weingart 11*16 first time in years. and Frisby arc experienced road men ^"0 f°restall a fuel shortage classes and understand how tc make the 'the Immanuel Lutheran school in greatest headway with a gang ol i Ea.«t Dundee were dismissed TueSaay. „ „ , , T , - . ; . . workmen. In observing several dif-] Because of extreme cold the Bar- Fred Caibow, Crystal Lake, was m-. | school year. , ferent groups at work on the roads • "n^on schools closed 'again Tuesday jured last Wednesday night at the, The high school owns about twenty it is quickly seen that men working!not to °Pen until further notice- Gh^ago and North Western round, instruments which are let out to stu- ' Under these two local men are ac-' The closing order, coupled with bad house and is confined to his bed. The, dents upon the payment of a small eompKshing maximum results ro«d conditions, cancelled a joint con- J injury occurred when he fell into the ( deposit which is refunded if the in- 1 - - - ' - - * * - u ' -- s t r u m e n t i s k e p t i n g o o d c o n d i t i o n . There remain some instruments not in_u_se^at the high school and if any grade school, going to the high school for band and orchestra rehearsals. About forty beginners started on instruments at Ihe first of the school year and are showing good advancer ment in the music work, Band Has 35 Mihutes The band is now composed of abodt thirty-five members, while the orchestra is small with about fifteen members. More violins are needed in the orchestra and as there are several new violin players getting started it is expected that the orchestra will be considerably larger next year. It is expected that a beginners' orchestra will be commenced soon. Mr. Ellis states that the present time is the very best for anyone wishing to play a musical instrument to start. By commencing now and continuing with practice through the summer, the student stands a very good opportunity to enroll in the band CARS COLLIDE ON WOODSTOCK ROAD Dar Granger, retired rural carrier, damaged his car Monday afternoon in a collision with a Woodstock car while coming from Woodstock near Frye's corners. Granger, with his wife and daughter, was returning home from Woodstock when the accident happened. His car waa brought home by a tow truck. .'••••• or orchestra at the< g of the Snowbound for a week the John?-lcert of the Barrington and Dundee ' burg road from Nell's White House' hi^h sch°o1 orchestras scheduled for rto the Johnsburg bridge was opened tonight. These orchestra* by fifty men working a day and a e<* ^y W. N. Sears The meeting of the grade school board, which is held regularly on the first Tuesday of. the month, was postponed this month because of the severe weather and road conditions, which made it impossible for some postmaster of that city was confirmed ' one is interested in accepting this of the board members to gee to the turn-table pit. The appointment of Daniel L. Cobb» 284 Park a vie.. Highland Park, as jjajf - Snowbound for three weeks J001 by the senate last Wednesday. While rare opportunity they should see Supt. NeVs Reel Man Here resident students and T>0 teachers of j no official word has been sent to ; C. H. Duker or Mr. Ellis about it. Many pictures have been taken of the Allendale school near Lake Villa j Cobb he hopes- to take office by March! This is the first year for an all tfirls nearby highways and a Pathe News have du£ roads and dragged in food 1- , ' , pep band at the high school. Ten . . . . . . F o u r t e e n m o t o r i s t s t o o k r e f u g e i n ; g i r l s , k n o w n a s " T h e P e p p e r s , " w o r k snow drifts near the Nancy Frisby i b°ys have vis'ted the Allendale school. GRADE SCHOOL BOARD MEETS COLD WEATHER IMPAIRS RURAL SCHOOLS the $1,873.47 shortage for 1933 was correct, but that a settlement of half price was being asked on the alleged Aljirch, at.^h^.Ume they will, retqrn Bhortage»,of,.iaaiJand. Tn other, and take up their duties at home. words the proposal was to settle for $3,106.23, or $1,133.55 short of the MARTIN LAY DIES amount the auditor claimed in his re- AT SPRING GROVE port was due the county Five Suits Pending . Martin Lay,,80 years old, died sud denly at his home at Spring Grove, The five suits now pending in the circuit court are civil suit* against Thursday, Feb. 13. He made his home'^arry F. Peteit and his bondsmen with his sons there. . j brought by McHenry connty through He was born in Johnsburg March 1 the office of the state's attorney. 15, 1855, and had always lived in this Tl»«y aak that the county be reiif vicinity where he retired from farm- bursed for the alleged shortairea said ing several years ago. to be due by the audit of the SnydeV He is survived by four sons, Mat, 1 company. John, Joseph and Peter, of Spring In submitting the proposition to the Grove, and a daughter, Mrs. Wm. county board State's Attorney Lumley Klapperich of McHenry. His wife [said he was not doing it to indicate and two daughters, Mrs. Steve Jus- in any manner that he feared a jury ten and Mrs. Anton Schmitt preceded Jjiim in death. Funeral services were* held Monday morning at Spring Grove with burial at Johnsburg. His wifemnd a daughter, Mrs. Steve Justen, preceded him in death. . ASK $5,500 DAMAGES IN AUTO COLLISION I farm Prevailing high winds have kept highways blocked and retarded progress in opening the roads. All rural roads are blocked, some not even open for bob sleds and farmers drive miles through fields and sloughs, winding around snowdrifts in a lane of le&st resistance Lack-of fuel has caused the Batavia schools to close. Suffering and death Ts resultinu from the extreme cold and blocked roads^ Raphael Raffe, 65, living near the home of Mi-, and Mrs. John j up niusio to pep up basketball gam meeting. The postponed meeting was held on Wednesday evening of last week, however, when delayed business was given the attention of the members, a is keeping up well and rural children are able to get to McHenry in the school bus if they are brought tot the the Frank J. and Augusta Walker of Chicago filed suit in the circuit court last week, asking $5,500 as the result of a collision between two auto-, . mobiles in which both plaintiffs were'^ ,n,m action by injured. The suit was filed against Thomas McCafferty and son, Dorfald.' _ ^ ^ ^ vtXpriiqrftTwe--- • / : FILE FOR PRECINCT trial, but that the proposition had been submitted to him and it was his duty to present it to the board. Mr. Lumley assured the board that it was not his proposal, but did in-, dicate that if it was turned dawn, a;, jury trial would result in which many things would have to he taken into consideration whicH might drag the litigation over a long period of time, with no assurance that in the end tha county would receive one penny. He said he would be -ready today to start trial if the board so decided by refusing the proposed settlement and dejury It was charged that the McCafferty ! car crashed into the. Walker car on ; the Ringwood-Johnsburg road at the j intersection with . the .Johnsburg-' Spring Grove road, on July 21, 1935. COMMITTEEMEN $5,00 and Frank Walker seeks $500 damages for his car. Herman Kreutzer has filed his petition for precinct committeeman in Precinct 2, McHenry. on the Repubiid Henry. J. Miller, has... filed for committeeman in the, third precinct on the Democratic ticket. Miller is filing for re-election. In Precinct 2, Glen Peterson is now the Thatcher at Ivanhoe Saturday after-j and other meetings and meet in specnoon of last week, when the blizzard 1 ial rehearsals in which they are beswept route 59-A and made it impass- j coming much interested. able. Some of-the refugees succeed-J liir. Ellis also plans to work with [pavement from their homes as ed in getting away by Sunday, and i small groups of instTQm'ehtal music-'side roads remain impassable. went on to their destination by train. 1 ians forming clarinet and brass f May Eliminate Spring- Vacation Wadsworth in Lake county, "notified Others were unable to make the nec- ! quartets, etc. He believes that this | The matter of continuing school Sheriff Doolittle Monday night- that i'essary ' arrangements' and remained j type of music should be emphasized j late in the spring to make up for | in which is listed many bargains. ' i n , Friday and the deadline is March 5. he had been without food since Sun-' marooned in the Thatcher home until j as it trains each individual to be more several days' vacation necessitated J-y j a 9-cent sale. The sale will be on un-j Thirteen Republicans and eleven Fences "are" cut*""everywhere and ' da.V and fuel since Saturday because j Monday. responsible for their own personal, the severe weather and blocked roads til Feb. 25. There are items for' 9c,%.Democrats have'filed ux tltt'county: farmers will have added work this of snowbound roads. He had kept With dnly one dissenting vote, that, part and teaches the value of time is being discussed by .students, but it | 19c, 39c, ,5_9c and 79c, Only a small spring repairing them. |alive he said by drinking milk from'of Assistant Supervisor Frank Burke j and rhythm. There is always an rp- j is expected that the spring v his herd of cows and getting warmth '-9* Waukegan, the board of supervis-' portunity for smaller group music,! which was planned for' Eastertii BIG NINE SALE On Page .8 * of this issue of ( The Republican committeeman, defeating Plaindealer will be .found an ad of ^ Kreutzer at the last election. the W m. H. Althoff Hdwe., McHenry,; The first dav for tiling was last ' Conditions of major highways are becoming slowly improved, but many snov-banked traffic lanes are ope\i ©nJy to one car width. from them in the barn. 'ors recently approved a bounty of $12 whether it be in the'home or at small A crew of thirty plowmen broke j f°r each fox killed in Lake county, through to the home of George Thiel- i The hunter making a claim against A one-way route is maintained be- en- 51- north of Wadsworth Sunday | the county must present'the scalp of ft tween McHenry, Woodstock and Crys-'and carried him to the Lake County tal Lake. To get to Woodstock' one : General hospital at Waukfegap suf» may travel as usual on Route 20, but Bering from pneumonia. Efforts to to return to McHenry motorists are save his life failed and he died Monrouted to Crystal Lake and the Y over day hight. highway 19 and then north to McHen- j Another effort to reach the home j-y on Route U. S. 12. j Tuesday was made to take out his Route 14 between the Wisconsin "i0 year old mother, stricken Mondaiy state line and Chicago is orien, al- night with pneumonia. though for only one-way traffic be-' 'Some of the colder spots are Dicktween Woodstock and Crystal Lake, inson. N. D^, 43 below; Havre, Mont., Route IT. S. 12 is also oen from the ^8 below; Williston, N. D., and Sherithe fox to the board within 60 days after the kill. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fremming near Powers Lake" was completely destroyed by fire last week Sunday. The snow blockaded roads made it impossible for help to arrive on the scene in time to check the fire gatherings and training along this line is valuable in many respects. At the grade school even greater strides are being taken in music and this is the .first year that a correlated music course with any definite plan has been undertaken with the grade children. Through the fourth parade the teachers do most of the teaching work in music with Mr. Ellis giving them which burned ra,pidly because of j one period a week, while through the the high winds. It was thought the j fifth to eighth grades Mr. Ellis fire started from a defective chimney, ( teaches music twice a "week in, Jialf- A train wreck was narrowly avert- ! hour periods. * ptate line to Chicago. 'dan* Wyo., 34 below; Omaha, 10 be- ed on the Milwaukee avenue crossing j Rote singipg is commenced in the M*jor blockades are on Route 47,'low and Madison, 6 below. Lowlands; at Liberty ville on the St. Paul rail- I first grade, progressing through the >uth of Huntley and Route 22, north along the ice choked Ohio river fear j road at 7 o'clock Wednesday morning different ages of the pupils to the r serious floods-are inevitable. A fiftv last week when an castbound su- < sixth grade, where two-part singing couth of Algonquin. A/ter thirty hours „ .. highway department got through to 1 Ind., and at Cincinnati the river was 1 Hebron from Woodstock on Route 47, j rising six inches an hour. Monday. Route 173 is now open from Richmond to Harvard. Minnesota and the Dakotas bore the bruni of a neV- blizzard which Scores of mb'ovwts are travelling raged through the northwest, quickly , the county Highways to view the Bcenes unprecedt ated in their lifetime Eome of the best scenery is found on the WoodstocI: road south fiom the Greenwood road to the Frey farm, at the top of Shern an's hill, south of " McHenry on Route U. S. 12 and the >*» jtunnel lane to Cryatel Lake from "Woodstock. 24 Below Readied 0* Tuesday morning temperatures of work the m"e 'ce '-rorge stood above Evansville, burban train was flagged down with only a few minutes to spure when a large milk transport truck upse. on the crossing. Wm. McC^rmic\ and another unidentified man. who were waiting at the statioi to take the train, witnessed the accident and immediately set out up the track to fiag the train, which was due -in three minutes. The truck was towed from the crossing in a few minutes bj a coif panion truck which had been pre-, ceding it. Wallace Ingalls, former assemblyman from Racine county, who served as district attorney for Walworth blocking roads t'rat had just been opened after*a week long battle with icy, hard drifts. The thirtieth day of WlbW.-' zero weather broke the record at Sioux City, Ia. Little Falls, Minn., reports its all time8 low of 46 below. Miss Anna Bake of Wilmette spent the weekend at the home of hen parents. ' . (Continued on last page.) is being taught and soon three-part singing will b? commenced. In the be done away with and so sufficient time will be made up and the summer vacation will begin on schedule time. Rural schools have probably suffered the greatest loss of time because of the subzero weather and DORR SUPERVISOR acation portion of the many bargains are STEWART IS NEW time will ; listed here, but a visit to the store, corner Main street and U. S. 12, will j well repay every shopper. . | -- j Roy J. Stewart, former ?heriff and TO RESUME DANCING CLASSES (treasurer of McHenry county and also • '.Miss Nelson of Elgin wishes to an^a member of the state legislature nounce that she will resume her from this district, is now a memb r hether or not they will be required dancing classes here next Wednesday the McHenry- county board of SUD seventh and eighth grades part sing-, ing is bo in;.-.' studied. "^eachcs Music Reading Mr. Ellis states tl at he is making a definite attempt t' teach the read-' ing of music «.s he believes this to b^ an iniportant. pai$ of the work, and there is a greater tendency in the schools to return to it. The reading Shop, of music is commerced in the second 39-2-f|f grade, in\the third grade the tone intervals areWieht and in the remaining grades th* pupils are taught as rapidly as they can learn. The "Musk Hour" Is the text book to make up the time depends upon, the number of days lost and upon the decisions made by the school boards of the various districts. It is reported that Mrs. E. C. Coe, county superintendent, .recommends continuing classes in" rural, schools until th£ first of June. - While some of .the schools have been practically isolated and not able to open since the outset cf the blizzard ' more than three weeks ago a few of the schools, especially tho6e on the highways, were able to keep open most of the time until last week. : NOTICE '. v; I desire to announce that on March 1, I will move my garage from the present location on Route 20 to the John Stilling building on Pe.°.rl street. McHenry, west of Bickler hotel, and will still be known'as Adams Repair NICK J. ADAMS, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rosing and children of Libertyville Visited Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Blako unless again. the roads become biocked ervisors, having been chosen to fill * I out the unexpired term of the latv -----.• i •--- jVolney E. Brown' as JK>rr .supervisor. MEETING POSTPONED The members of the town board icaiie The meeting of the Catholic Daugh- the selection. V ters of America scheduled for tonight^ Mr. S.tewart and Mr. Brown were has been,postponed on account of the very close friends. ' They were assoweather. * 39-fp ciated both jn . politics and personal -- -- L -- a f f a i r s . This fact had an important OFFICE CLOSED FEB. 22' influence on the .members of .thetown The National Re-employment office, board in arriving at a. decision. located in the postoffice building at i v -- : W oodstock, will be closed .all day on WALL PAPER--A full stock of wall Washington's Birthday, Saturday. I paper. 48 patterns, just arrived, at Feb, 22- * ' j prices you cannot duplicate anywhere. • -- . j T r i m m e d f r e e . . WIJI H. Altho ffHdwt*. ^ INFANT CHRISTENED McHenry. . 39-fp The infant da'yftHej of Mr. and j . ------ MTS. Leo BlaVe i^as Christened Mar- , ,Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Besley of Woodion Jean on Suri(My< sors were Alb •it ltovi vilie and Mi3. John R. city. 16, Sponof Libertyeund of .this stock arid Dr. and Mrs. G. Vernon Besley of Freep^rt are aUnong the dentists, attending the convention in® Chicago this week. " ( Miss Carmen Fr -und returned tn Mr. and Mrs. George Kamholz and j her work in Waukegan Wednesday ekildren of Chicago braved the bad j She was at her home here since Satroads Thursday to drive to McHenry arday due to blocked roads. ^ to visit their parents, Mr. and Mrs.f JVed Kamholz, and to see how .thejgi Order your rubber stamps at tl« weae standinff the eztrome weather. - iPlaind^aler.