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' - «. ' " . • - . * ***• , ' * -. , -,. i • * v • .'/tV*. ^ - **• > ~ • ... » s ^ - - 1 . , J , ,j*' . \ i •V-'"-. '..VA ••• " . . ':v j As , • •_ • '••A' ' iv. K fOL. 61 McHENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, MARCH, 12,1936 No. 42 HEAD OF LIVESTOCK PERISH IN FIRE Y > 1 SUFFERED SY • NELS isx FARM BUILDINGS DESTROYED ' - ^ sweeping swiftly through Hie barn and five otter buildings on tike farm operated by Nels Pearson, about four miles south of McHenry, Tuesday noon burning hay, grain and twenty eight head of cattle, caused an estimated loss of $10,00> including a loss of $6,000 in personal property tuul $4,000 in buildings. The cause of the firte is not known 2,500 Attend Eleventh; Annual Meeting of PMA DON GEYER MAKES A Scenes and Persons in the Current News' TAKEN FROM COLUMNS OF OUR EXCHANGES Carl Kulin, Crystal Lake, suffered a broken leg Thursday morning of last weelk when he fell on the ice of the driveway walk at his home. He was enroute to his work when the accident happened. Mr. and Mrs. John Schessel, both natives of Germany, who were married a half century ago at Crystal •lid the early report that the blazei Lake( ceiebrated their golden wedding started from a water heater in the, anniversary on l&st Friday at their milk house was discredited by mem*'home. They have lived in Richmon<l ber.s of the family, who stated ^that for the last 35 years. , the heater had not been turned on Reverend Fathef-Afolm A. Dufficy, that day. •• , " Mrs. Pearson (was aloftie ion the fcrm at the time he. Itamng, archdiocese of OhieaKo jorK to Chicago to attend the P»«ithat ^ ^ app(,intol to be resi- Kilk meetme and the hired man leav.| Home fo] ll«r only a short t,me Yffi&J&'.U* Fj-iendless, 739 East 35th street, broke out to go to Crystalf Lak^with „„r,l a neighbor. _ Wife » | WtHer A AUen „,s tound dead (*oing out to pret the majors ' ^ ear, last Priday when c»,-l Pearson n the, end1 of the/baA m Inslesid. K1.0cer, came to the flaum es i.aun du qut.i ckly ran to^the 1s^i0de , Allen 'h om6e at Rollins a«nJ,di Wilson, ,r.d,1h^. , ••w•h2e.r. e the heat .w as greatesl,t toi ,1r„0„0is- , , „„„„j r near Ingleside. The body was moved p"'- •' pastor of St. Anne's church, Barring, ton, was notified by the chancellor's X vy • Vj •CJ i f l l P s i WALTER WINN ELECTED DIRECTOR, DISt. 6 CHARGES AT SENATORIAL COMIT- :- ^TEE MEETING A stormy meeting ofTthe Democratic Senatorial <*>mmittee of the eighth district was held at the city hall in McHenry on Monday night, March 9, for the purpose of determining the number of representatives ip the General Assembly to be nominated on the Democratic ticket. The chairman, Emirett Maroney.? of to fall in, nearly suffocating her, Mrs. Pearson heroically saved part of the fifty-t^w o hv. eadJ ofe 1l-i ves*to c1k m +thv.e« Ib,a.,r.n,, i mond °s oldest resi,d e.n t passed away J Sunday morning of last week at ttLhen home of her daughter, Mrs. Robt. 1--New $10,000,000 palace on the shore of Lake Leiiian iiear «ienevav Switzerland, whh h has just ort upiotl ly the League of Nations. 2--Alexander V. Dye of Flora, II!.. new dlrtvlor of the bureaii of foreign and '.domestic Mrs. Lydia Foote Eldredge, Rich-i commerce of the Depart inent Of Commerce." 3--View In .the uiftlli • featured tlie inauguration of Edward Barclay as president I.ihvrin^ . including two horses and most of the young stock. 28 Cattle Burned . .T w, ent'y -eight . h.e ad o, f cattle burn,<- .i ng ,t,h e p_a st. t, wo wee.k os . MM-r s. rp«.l ed, however, and' two horses as well K , w. . _ - .. u 100 tons of hay and 1,600 bushel. ?redp- f Rlch™01;d s m"»' '» of grain ttet filled the barn. t loved res.dents, would have been 88 Gibbs of Richmond after an illness of some time, which became critical dur- 93 CANDIDATES flLE FOR JOBS AS COMMITTEEMEN With the primary only a few weeks Ik^des the barn other buildings de- ! uC °n T^oi Smond off and the allotted time for the fil- • stroyed by the fire were a machine ^^age toMr. Eldredge in 1867. in^ of candidates closed, interest in IK C pile oefnWeSep^0 also | C. A. Ellison, Hebron monument 1 the approaching contest burned and about 200 is becoming greater as the days rapidly slip by. Polling places and judges of elec- I tion have been approved by the board 1 AGREE gallons of oil! dealer, bed a consignment of mem and 300 gallons of distillate and some °nal w°rk com%,n ^ Z vt bv ma^6lZj^nrrevafir0 e ^enartment re the°two drivers storting from ! °[ supervisors of the county and final ^ded « Xy fire .S aTdMth'«»_,city at 4 o'clock the Wed th. bi» event „ be,n« T . . . . . . 1 n a o / i i i i r n r o v m i i o A m i a r r i v i n g i n H e - 1 SUPERVISORS IN COMPROMISE ON PETEIT SHORTAGE the help of neighbors, whq formed a bucket brigade, the corn crib was saved, as was also the tractor, which was pushed to a safe distance from the burning buildings. The flames virtually swept everything before them and ih an hour's time the buildings and their valuable contents were a mass of smoking ruins. Pearson, who is president of the McHenry local of the PMA, has lived on the farm, which is owned by W. T. Stewart of Chicago, for about twenty years and carries on several other nesday previous and arriving in Hebron at 7 o'clock Saturday morning. The polling places and judges in TO ACCEPT OFFERED SUM By an unanimous vote, the board of supervisors, Tuesday afternoon, VETERANS HONOR THEIR COMMANDER. "KELLY" CONWAY At least sixty local veterans from McHenry towtiship have sent in their benus applications, it is estimated, with a possible fifteen or twenty who have not yet attended to the details of the matter. Ninety-six of the world war soldiers in this vicinity were notified us to particulars in making out applications for the bonus by the local Post Their speedometer registered 1,300 the three McHenry precincts will bej°\ supervisors iwsaay aiternoon aanndd tthhee ggrreeaatteerr mmaajjo rity of this num> f sj^ometei register^ i,0 | ' F voted to accept the proposition of, ber have responded, miles. They planned to stop at a city,« iomows. Harry Fv. Peteit, former MMc^Hoennrrvy . . . . . It .g estimated that about $35 m ui V j ^unty tfri*eAaasauiirMerv, ft ao esaeftftllae rthnen aOI llalrreaHg < e..d. il ... in'thi^ n hall, Ringwood; judges, Clayton short[ge found by an audit of the ,^.aIit^ tJ!hnt! Lin! exploiUtion by chiseling de rrison, George \ oung a.n d A. J. lreecoo rdass f hi office for the vears of *ocallt> th'X)U^|1 the bonus compensa- extended, urging co-operat» OT nis on ice ior ine years oi tion-which will come in handv for * :_.ar._- u_i. in Ohio on their return and take on! McHenry 1--Polling place, Woodfreight of another nature to convey it | man '"-Se^uSpSr'spring drought Meyers. . * ' " • I »ill eome in handy for that developed in Fox Lake last week j McHenf^^P0]!ing"pUce,~cIty7haM;! audit ,vJo,l showed' a shortage , °f when the village pump broke down judges, E. H. Nickels, Earl Walsh, $4,238.00 the county board of super- j that BnnrnYin,a. lv when the Johmn uFa y. « t» ^ !I vMissoorrss vvootteedd ttoo aacccceenptt tthnee ccoommmpr-oommiissee ' estimated that appioximately 35q 000 veterans in Illinois are elig- McHenry 3--Polling place, Colby settlement of $3,105.50. | ible for bonus payments and the The compromised settlement was amount to be paid out will total about proposed by W. L. Pierce, counsel for ( $141,000,000 for the state. was at an end last Friday pump was again in working order with new parts in operation. A normal water supply was available, although workmen are still repairing building; judges, S. H- Freund, M, A, Conway, George P. Steilen. . . . . i nrvrtions ct thp distribution svstem I J1The last day for filing for the office i *rD '""is »«» me omce Mr. Peteit, to State's'Attorney V. S. I Over sixty members were present :SS3vin 'active VpMA ! village pump is located above a f ? M,a!xh l LumIe?;• lftte,t.h.? !*t th« meeting of McHenry Post of work. 940-foot well. He was reached by telephone in Chicago and arrived home about 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. About a year ago the barn on the Gracy farm, also rented by Pearson, was destroyed, by fire with a heavy •loss, The loss is partially covered by insurance. o loot wen and a 10181 of 93 candidates have1 proposition to the board at its last.; the American "Legion held "in Legion Snarks fmm a defective chimnev1 ^ ,n the county on both RePublican meeting on February 19, but action hall Monday evening. The rally of caused $2,000 damage Saturday of 'ant* democratic tickets. |was delayed «on the matter until a members and the added enthusiasm last week'to the home of Sol La- i *n McHenry contests lire slated on .future date. of the meeting was in honor of the Plant, on Route 54, just south of the.the Republican ticket in all three pre-1 The settlement is the outgrowth of comnvander, "^elly" Conwayy- who lAntiwh city limits! Antioch firemen ^!ncts- In McHenry 1, Peter Smith an audit made by the H7iV. Snyder j was highly pleased with the demonwith the aid of 700 feet of hose from is ^i"# opposed by Earl Whiting; in ( Company, public accountants, of Chi- j stration. I the nearest hydrant averted a total McHenry 2, Herman Kreutzer is be-' cago, in which is was disclosed that I A corned beef and cabbage lunch lloss of the home which is valued at ing °PPosed by C. W. Gibbs and in, during the years of 1931, 1932, and' was served and cards and other $8,000. The fire broke out ju?t be- Prec'n<;t 3, Ray Conway is opposed1 by 1933 a pJiortage in cash receipts games were enjoyed during the even- ^ ifore noon when sparks from the chim'l^0!1" ^"geln and Harold Fre'tt. ) amounting to $4,238.00 was due the ing with music furnished by^the Ad- WRAVJir rvnVT T? TITTC- • ' jney ignited the roof which was de-!., ' 1"°'r'lu Lci aa w m/! ! stroyed along with a part of the sec. j the present comnatUeman, in precinct | Five Suits Pending. CAN FIND NO KIN 'ond floor - 1 Peteison, the present commit- , There are five suits now pending OF 60-YEAR OLD BIAIT Albert Mathison, Jr., a resident of ^man who did not file for re-elec-1 in the circuit court against Mr. Peteit the southeastern farm1 community, ex-«l ,10"' defeated Kreutzer by one; vote. ami his bondsmen, brought by Mc- . Pure Milk Association members on Tuesday turned toward the erection of milk manufacturing plants as a means of easing their serious surplus milk problems, when the voting delegates decided that the organization should make provisons of hand-j Lake county, presided at the meeting, ling and processing surplus milk that .with Paul Bcherty, secretary and the 14,500 members of the oigapiza-1 committeeman from McHenry countion produce. | ty, and Ed A anl^O'Brien, committee- The decision was reached at the ma,t ^ro,n Boone county, present, j eleventh annual, meeting of the asso-j Chairnian Maroney immediately ciation held in the Auditoriurh Theat- ; endeavored to control the meeting by erV Chicago. More than 2,500 dele- • reading a letter purporting to be an - gates-and-members of the association | ojiinion from the attorney-general's attended the meeting. - , office as to the method of voting to An invitation to all groups of pro-|fix and determine the number of repducers in the Chicago milk shed' • to., •"esentatives to be nominated. The meet around the conference table with ^secretary <if the committee responded the PMA in an effort to stabilize war- that the letter was not an official . ket conditions and prevent ruinous and even if it was, the comnVittee was not bound by it without a t ourt decision. Maroney, et>ming- from the large county i f I^ke, with its many-voters, as. of course, desirous of having two . andidates name-,1 on the primary ticket, thus giving the Lake county (andidate a chance to run. Because <>f the large -number of voters in his county-Maroney' proposed that each committeeman vote the number of primary votes cast by his party in the last primary in each county in determining the number of candidates to be nominated for he knew if he could put this across his vr.te would overbalance the votes of the other t wo men. In the past it has been the custom I of the members of the committee to i i vote as individuals and this was pro i posed by the secretary, nho stated that! they follow the precedent of many years and each committeeman vote one vote to determine the question. j Maroney then offered a resolution fixing two candidates to be nominated' declared his resolution carried $nd I the meeting adjourned without putdealers was ting the question of adjournment to operation of all' a vote. farm organizations to bring parity j Secretary Doherty then tried to apprices for agriculture. peal the decision of the chair and In addition, the association went on finally offered a resolution to certify record as being opposed to Chicago's one candidate for nomination, which daylight saving time, commending: w-as accepted. WLS for their efforts to prevent such j These resolutions have been tiled changes to the detriment of agricul- | with the county clerk and secretary ' ture in the middle west. , of state, who will have to decide the Farewell was bade to Secretary- i controversy. . Manager, Don N. Geyer, who recently | "High-handed Tactics" tendered his resignation to accept a • In speaking of the meeting ittfp. t. post with the Hood and Sons Dairy A. Bolger, who was present at the JOHN P. CASE President of Pure Milk Ass'n. Co. of Boston, Mass., and tribute was ' stormy session, states: paid by the entire assembled member-j "In all my experience in public life, .ship and delegates for his "loyal and * I never attended a meeting where a" faithful service" to the Pure Milk as- chairman or presiding officer acted in sociation, "despite trying times in the ! such an aubitrary manner as di 1. ten-year existence cf the organize-^ Chairman Maroney at the meeting tion." ! Monday night. He refifeed to recogn- Eight directors were re-elected by j ize any motions from the other two. the assembled delegates, seven of j members of the committee, neither "i th<» .A - viiv ovuureoovctii mailt vviiiuiuiiibj^ va-* j , j '» • . 11 r,-.- -- j - -- - Frank Doyle, 60 years old died at 'Perienced a painful accident last week ?s ®n. m precinct 3 Conway is Henry county through the office of Woodstock hospital about 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon while attending to Elf'"CU^ V • ^ State's Attomey V. S. Lumley. They - t-ngeln, his opponent is a former reimbursement for the shortages ARRIVAL OF ROBINS AND SEED CATALOGS INDICATE SPRING fill out an unexpired one year term, chair. He was determined to have his The fifteen directors are elected for I w*y on the strength of what will two-year terms, directors serving in j prove to be a phony opinion from the the odd-numbered districts being attorney-general's office. elected one year, and the directors Sunday morning, where he was taken 1 the mechanism of his car. While ap-1 °P?°nent: " * Iormer ask reimbursement for the shortages j • The warm sunshine of the past few Saturday afternoon from his home at plying hydraulic brake fluid to the jf"' ... . ' .I- , 1 fajd to be due the county by the-audit. days brought a promise of the ap Johnsburg, He had been iH nearly a brakes, his .brother-in-law, Johq| . J*1"8'110 h® pres" jof the Snyder company. | proaching springtime with the robin month of heart trouble. O'llolleran, by accident applied the „lp..tjnn I. . p?J The proposition voted on was to i appearing as hai-bingers of the warn Doyle, who had lived alone for brakes.and the fluid squirted into Mr. j Bacon^n ' ^ 1% i'h eive State's Attorney. Lumley the j days. , many years, was cared for during his Mathison's eyes. He was immediate- j » • • pie^1!lc ' a,J^ ,,®nry authority to make the settlement witii The snow has gradually meltc Alness by A. Rodig, a neighbor, j ly taken to Hebron for. medical at- {„ P^cmct 4. ^ In Ihe third Mr. Peteit. The settlement in no way away and the grass underneath the He was bora in Wexford, Ireland, I tention, but the accident has proven | . , jC"ry T[^ 18 be""!' °P" has anything to do with the criminal deep snowdrifts appears green and on Feb. 10, 1876, and was a member ! to be very, painful. One eye was in- ° rf,. ° n ennes. j action now pending against Peteit in healthy. The deep ruts made by th < • M E SITPPFTi the same matter. This criminal action. ic& on the pavements are disappear Vi'TZi- " ».\l '„ u! / , , is entirely up to Lumley. ling, as the fee thaws and pavement The ladies of the Methodist church; A , ^ ' a.-o Wnmino-' o)Mr »™in a win of the Steamfitters* Protective asso- i Jured much more than the other. ciation in Chicago. \ However, it is hoped, and the physi- Coming to this vicinity in 1914 he 1 cian id encoui-aging in that there will ^ ^ acivc tl carnal in Niesen's Woods and twelve probably be no defect to the sight a"s! ,, i.. x a., i.-... - ~ *u_ at tne cbuich on next Thursday, Mar.: will serve their annual March supper! Mr..Peteit had already made a pay- , a™ becoming clear again after uiu iviarcn suPPer!ment of 12,091.55 toward the alleged , ter of dangerous travel 19. Serving will start at 5 "o'clock I short*?e since he h" term of and continue until all are served 40 i off'c,e in December, 1935. . The settlement mentioned above is for the claimed shortage in cash receipts only and has nothing-to do with the money claimed due the county from Mr. Peteit in connection with the overspending of $1,661.98 above the appropriations made by the board years ago he went to live in one of a result of the accident. three cottages he built on his prop- j iSeven-year-old Billie Britz of Rondl ^rty, just north of the Johnsburg cut is at the Condell Memorial hos-- , bridge on Fox river. From the in- pital at Libertyville with a fractured] p ' e"„unfer } oome from his cottages and the rent- i arm and leg bruises he received re- | • ,' , , " J1616 W? 'v a ' ai of boats he was able to live cojn-cently when he ran in front of a j ? °andy Vy mem" fprtably. ' j truck on 'Route 176 just east of the I • % •T Altho*gh he occassionally spoke of railroad tracks; F. R. York, an em-l- ... , .T aFe,.° ® pu ,c ls.so'" relatives in Boston and Salem, Mass., ploye at the Red Top) fann near Lib. i , * e! .° are making they could not be located and he "Was ertyville, reported to the sheriff's of- thj . R '{ur expenses of his office. buried alone without the presence of flee that he was driving the truck on M E uu h ' ^ f 4 I The whole matter has Wy kin. | Route 1?6 when bhe boy suddenJy ran member the date and tell ! much debate for over a yaar. Wheth George Jus ten arid Mr. Rodig went in front of the Vehicle. York picked ajK)Uj jt ^ your friends __ _,tl < to Chicago Tuesday, hoping to find'the injured boy from the road and iome clue to the address of relatives, took him to the hospital! He also but were unsuccessful in their quest, j notified the boy's mother, Mrs. Myrtlfe Funeral services will be J£ld Fri-j Britz, c'f the accident. day at 8:30 a. in , at -St i^atrick's j Two Chicago young men are dead Church, with burial in Woodland I and a third lies critically injured at Cemetery. ^ {the Northwestern hospital 42-fp Seed catalogs aje arriving through the nrtail and plans fcr gardens an i spring cleaning and redecorating will dispel memories of the cold and sno v of the severe winter just past. While the snow is fast disappearii in the cities there remains plenty of it in the rural districts and some of | the rural roads are not. yet open for, travel. Also on the state highway to Elgin north of Algonquin .there continues to be one-way traffic lanes lin- in the even-numbered district* the'foler the settlement made" Tuesday will' ed by snowdrifts. The road o.'er lowing year.' . -if- t nnoaViino- tVi«»! Dohertv's hill and south of the Walter! Those elected this vear are: L. M. been one of ^ W. . , . WALTER WINN Director, District 6 "He claimed to represent Lake county in his desire to have two candidates certified tor the nomination, iiut the fact is that the Laie County Democratic Central committee, by » \ ote of more than two to one went on l'ecord favoring one .candidate. Personally Mr. Maroney seems to i e a pretty decent s rt of a ftllow, ' ut he evidently was acting under orders from the Bundescn crowd, who ;,re trying to embarasts me in my campaign for renomination because I am supporting Governor Horner. "I am not concerned s*> much now whether one or two candidates are nominated in the coming primary, but in view of the action of the Lake county committee in favoring one candidate and because if the highhanded tactics employed by the Bandesen cro»vd through their reresentative, Maroney, I propose to fight this iiiatter through to the finish." . MRS. T. J WALSH FILES SUIT FOR $20,000 DAMAGES NORGE ANNOUNCEMENT H. E. Buch -nd Son, local Norge representatives, have an announcement in the display columns this week, of a 10-year warranty on Roll- j that the motor of the auto, a ator Compression Unit'Refrigerator. Be sure to read it. 42-fp Order your rubber stamps at thf Plaind**a]er. Flaines as the result of an accident which sent their skidding auto crashing into the Belt Line viaduct on Central road early Monday morning. So great was the impact of the crash 1926 model sedan, was torn from its moor* ings and hurled into/in adjoining ditch. The bodies of the three men were scattered ovefHhe pavement, to be picked up by the county police aft- Seed corn is very a Very limited supply Early Yellow Dent Phone J9. , . .. _ _ the crimiral case against at Des-; er a neighboring farmer, hearing the j as * wedge td-secure a conviction on Ahrens of West McHenry. crash, had investigated. The dead ar<i i the civil suits. Emil Chylik, 28, and William Melville,! --r-- 22. Chylik died as his broken body DENTAL EXAMINATION was being carried into the hospital. Students of the high school receiv- Melville lingered four hours before' ed free dental exanina'ion at the ATHLETIC BANQUET TONIGHT Coach1 Norgren, basketball coach at the University of Chicago and Bill Haarlow, star forward of the Big Ten death released him from suffering oc-1 high school Tuesday, the work bein,r;! school, will be guests at the athletic casioned by a skull fracture and severe internal injuries. Lewis Fehrberger, 22, is in an unconscious condition, suffers from a skull fracture and other bodily injuries. done by local dentists. Dr. R. G. Chamberlin, and Dr. F. G. Aicher. If a student's teeth were clean and had no cavities they - were rated 100 per cent. . banquet held in the High School gym tonight Persons who wish to see these two, may do so at the conclusion of the banquet, at about 8:15 p. m. 111., District 10; G. H. Ekhoff, Grant ] against George and Math Glosson in Park, I1U District 14; G. L. Morgan, ; the amount of $20,000. Mrs. Walsh Wfestville, Inf'.. District 16. j see«ks this amount" for personal in- In addition, O. II. Wernlund, Maple! juries she alleges she, received when Park, 111., was elected director ^f Dis- ushe was struck and knocked down by trict 9 to fill out the untxpiied term th Gksson car. , in'that-districts ! The accident occurred on Oct. 13, Members learned that in J935 they ! 1935, when Mrs. Walsh was injured received over $24,800,000 /or milk while on hef way to-church. sold; making a monthly milk check of ' In the "bill filed Wednesday of last over $2,000,000 to the 14,500 mem- fceek •several violations of the motor bers of the association. This milk traffic law is alleged. - I -. - m -f.