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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 10 Sep 1936, p. 1

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ENROLL M'HENRY SCHOOLS FOR WORK, WITH REGISTER AT HIGH SCHOOL THE estimated 500 seats in the three lenry schools were filled this week as the younger part of the city's population returned to classrooms at the end cf the summer vacation period. . The public grade school, with an enrollment of 158 pupils, and the Community High School, with 185 students reporting, opened on Tuesday, . Sept.- 8, while St. Mary's Parochial school convened Wednesday with an -enrollment of 158 pupils, matching that of the' grade school. " At the high school sixty Freshmen have enrolled for the year,-forty-five Sophomores have reported and there are forty-two Juniors and thirty-seven Seniors. The enrollment shows a slight decrease this year at the high school, which,' a few years ago, was crowded with more than 200 students enrolled in the peak year. It is expected that enrollment tljis year will be increased, however, as several students, who have not yet returned, are expected. In the public grade school the enrollment is as follows: Kindergarten, V, \ : 'Scene Following Fire of 4; Individual ballots kve rrrttUik . to voters of McHenry and. nearby; ^ "~' Communities in a new Literary Digest poll of over 10,000,000 persons to ascertain who will be the next President of the United States. The votes' should Be distributed by the postoffice locally within a few days, according to advice received today from the magazine's publishers. Returns from Illinois ih this 19361 referendum will be tallied as a unit so they may be compared with the voting in other states, it is announced. The voting of the post-card ballots is secret as no signature or .other identification is required and the return postage is paid by magazine. To guard against tampering and counterfeiting a specially manufactured cardboard is tised for printing the bal-r lot, according to the sponsors, of the poll and all spurious vote's can be detected immediately and destroyed. The ballot asks the voter's choice of seven1 officially nominated candidates and for whom he or she voted in the 1932 election to reveal the general drift from one party to another. This is announced as the fourth quadrennial national Presidential poll conducted by The Literary Digest. The three previous polls have forecast the Presidential winner with "uncanny accuracy." 18; first grade, 13; second grade,,14; Ballots are reported being mailed third grade, 17; fourth grade, 17; fifth fr0J11 the magazine's headquarters in grade, 18; sixth grade, 19; seventh vtcw York at the rate df over 350,000 grade, 26; eighth grade, 16. , | per (jay an(j wjjj continue until every Teachers back .from summer studies section of the country has been sent and vacation trips and students who j jts proportionate share cf the total had begun to tire of the lengthy holi- bejng mailed. ' day, greeted the new school year with Publication of the first tabulated restored vigor, and enthusiasm this returns will start this week. week. | The forthcoming balloting-will be There is no change in the teaching the twelfth national multi-million vote Staff at the high school this year, with pcli conducted by The Literary Digest the excepUpn of the fact that W. N. besides several localized ref&endums, Sears df Barrington, teacher of in-: which jnciuded the 1933 mayoralty strumental music, will not be here this ! contest in New York City and the 1934 year, his place being filled by Her- gubernatorial election in California. Seven of the twelve polls were held in advance of elections and each of man Ellis. One New Grade T the grade school one change was-' the "seven" forecast the official outcome •--^iltective in the hiring of Dorothy.j with a small margin of error, the Fisher to fill the vacancy made by the magazine reports. resignation of Catherine Walsh. j' The Literary Digest states that just . At St. Mary's school the teachers prior t0 the eiection it predicted Roose- *11 returned with the exception of the velt woUid get 59.86 per cent of the seventh and eighth grade teacher, who |popuiar vote in his campaign against ' is here for the fast time this year. ) Hover. The official returns showed A program similar to that of last that the Resident received 59.14 per year will be followed at the high cent of the Roosevelt-Hoover vote, reschccl, with the expansion in some ef veaiing an error of 0.72 per cent in the the subjects made last year, continued again this year. Last year agriculture was added to the course and is increasing in enmagazine's forecast. A staff of more than 2,000 additional employees is reported to have been engaged by The Literary Digest for rollment this year, there is a cloth-1'the maiijng 0f the ballots and the taling 2 course again this year and there iyjng 0f the returns in the forthcom was a marked expansion in boys' and ing presidential poll. girts' athletics during the past year. Football Practice Starts I Football practice has already commenced, with Coach Reed losing no time in getting his squad assembled ; and the tennis courts are popular with the girls. ST. JOHN'S SCENE OF SUMMER WEDDING j. A pretty, late summer wedding, of interest--to a host of relatives and The music program will, no doubt, friends, was solemnized at St. John's get under ;way at once with Mr. Ellis j church, Johnsburg, at 9 o'clock Weddevoting all of his time, with the ex-, nesday morning, when Miss Mabel ception of an hour each day, to the in- King, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. struction of music in -the grade and King, and Mr. Leo Smith, son of Mr high school. [and Mrs. Fred Smith, were united in Miss O'Gara, director of .the Glee marriage, with Father A. J. V oilman, clubs, has already commenced testing j officiating at the nuptial mass and voices for the glee clubs which num- ' marriage ceremony. ber over 100 students. j The bride, on the arrri of her father, Supt. C. H. Duker and Mr. Ellis plan who gave her in marriage, approached to go to Chicago Saturday to pur- the altar of the beautiful chuch to the chase ^instruments for band and or- strains of Lohengrin's Bridal March, chestra and it is hoped that these mus- played by the church organist. ical organizations will see a large en- Besides the bride and groom, memrollment this year. ! bers of the bridal party were Eleanor Laboratory and typing periods do King, sister of the bride, Marie Miller #not commence until the second week and Caroline Freund, the bride's ccus .-of school. ins, and Marion Weingart, cousin of The school buildings have both been the groom, with the bride's brother, st0re, and the manager of the Antioch freshly decorated and are in the best Leo .King, and the groom s brother, | gtore, composed a committee in charge of condition for local children. Hubert -Smith, as. ushers and grooms- j.Qf . arrangements for the montlilv , No child ever regrets having attend- men. | meeting of the National stores in this ed high school and parents should en- ^ The bride was lovely in a white sat-1 district under Mr. Kredler, which was couiage their children to complete in wedding gown, floor length, ^'i^h) held at Algonquin Tuesday evening, their education. train, -worn with a three-quarter I The business meeting was followed Local people may be justly proud of length lace jacket. Falling in, grace-" a social hour and the serving of their schools, where improvements for fui folds to complete her costume was | |yncjj better education are being ^ade eaph a long tulle veil w.orn in coronet style j This was the first meeting after the yeati " l and off the face effect, forming a halo ;'summer vacation and these gather- 254 APPLICANTS SUMMER PEOPLE BACK TO THEIR IT* i'-r - , T '! One of McHenry's major disasters is recalled .in the above picture which shows the fire of April 1, 1897, which wiped out the Howe block on what is now Riverside Drive, making several families homeless. The blaze started about 6 p. m., in the old ice house or adjoining city jail on Pearl street, then situated where the implement shop of Adams ' & Freund now stands, and spread rabidly through the old frame buildings that composed the Howe block until everything up to Tony Engeln's saloon, now Barbian Bros., store, was wiped, out. The Fred Karls, Woodburn and Wosnoski families were made home- A total cf 254 applicahts horn Mc- , Henry county citizens: for old age. pension have been approved by, the state; according tp Mrs. Lulu Barter, htsad of the old age. pension board in the county. , ' ° This number was paid$3v505 for the month of August or an average of approximately $14 per person. Mrs. Barter said that twenty-four new applications were received during August. There were 173 disposed of during -the month and 104 approved by the county board and sent to 'seventeen, applications /recorded were declared ineligible and. tWentytwo wore withdrawn. Three who made applications died during the month. ' ; ... At present there are approximately 100 applicaticnvto be investigated. There have been 684 applications filed with the board of which 254 have been approved by the state. Mrs. Barter explains that - every source of information'is exhausted be- '-vi: LARGE CROWDS OUT FOR LABOR DAY The summer vacation drew , to; 4 close over the weekend, with fair skies and the desire for one last outing attracting many, tourists to Mc-: Henry and the lakes region for Labor Day and the weekend,- Rivaling in numbers the crowds that gathered here for the Fourth of July holiday, thg town was filled with visitors,, hotels and rooming houses' .were forced to turn away transie nts and business in the local stores \vrs rushing. "• . . ' • " Cars from nearly every state in the •unioq, were seen on our streets and' people Were here from St. Paul, Detroit, Indianapolis, Canada, Hawaii, and even some who had just returned from a trip to Europe. Homeward bound holiday7 excur sionists congested the highways in less, the Rosenberger barber shop was burttfd as well as a bakery, shoe repair shop and other business places. Residents on Elm street moved out their furniture, fearing the fire would :| spread unchecked. Among these wer«* , Miss Julifi Story, who owned a, drug store in what is now the Gritzmacher building. ' • .1 1 ' ' i-'.°riiir,iri • <|" INiijiTt"-1 • • -| ' '- fore an applicant is refused. Mem-j this vicinity with Route, V; S. 12 havbers of the board and the clerk^l1 ing the heaviest travel, and the steady force are- doing their utmost to {ojrn-| procession of automobile lights that plv with the law and provide .service t twinkled along the route Monday to'the people whom the act is desired I night gave evidence of the steady and 68,372 CATTLE TESTED IN YEAR A total of 68,372 ciattle were tested in McHenry county during the past year according to the annual report submitted to the county board Tuesday by the office of the county veterinarian. This total is somewhat sm er thar> last year when 75,059 ca were tested. . . . .;r^ -- A total of 2,589 herdsr'were tested during the year which is smaller than the previous year, when 2,863 were tested. The report shows 2,499 clean herds the past year as against 2,<»51 the previous year. In the clean herds the report shows 65,540 cattle as against 68,112 the previous year. Of the 68,372 cattfe tested the report shows 2,832 infected. The report shows 222 reactors in the ninety infected herds. This is a drop from the previous year which show0*! 449 reactors. It cost the county approximately three and a half cents per head for testing during the year. Total expense of the office is given as $2,528.42 which includes $2,253.90 for salaries and $274.f>2 for office expense. " Although the county has probably more cattle than any other county in the nation it also has less infected herds than most of the counties. The committee of the board which supervises this work recommended that the county continue under the present area plan of handling the eradication of tuberculosis in cattle in the county. The recommendation was approved by the bo^rd at Tuesday's session. '•>. •• ; --- DISTRICT MEETING NATIONAL EMPLOYES A. W. Krug, manager of the local National Tea Co., store, writh Eleanor Kinsala, manager of the Fox Lake around her blond hair and attractive FILE ACTION AT REPLEVIN • features. Orange blossoms trimmed Fbssession of a speed boat caused t^e veil and the bride's bouquet v as stmt excitement the past week when 0f white roses and lilies of the valley, action at x-eplevin was filed in circuit, The four bridesmaids were dressed .court Saturday by Arthur Carroll of ai|ke blue satin gowns with jackets Wonder Lake, who claims to be the;and wore matching hat3 and acces- * owner of the boat. Action waa! s01ies. Each carried a bouquet of brought against UrBan Janisch and pink roses. his wife, Margaret, ings will now be held oh the second Tuesday of each month. Others from the McHenry store who attended were, Marie Powers, Evelyn Shcber, Lyle Franzen, George Kinsala ?nd Melvin Peterson. Mr.' and Mrs. Clarence Craig, Mr. and Mrs. Laurence and Mrs. Edna Heimer of Chicago were Labor Day 1 guests of Mrs. Josephine Heimer. Dt. and Mrs. R. G. Chamberlin, son, Rollo, and Mr. and Mrs. Jake Stoffel ( and little daughter left Tuesday morning on a two weeks' fishing trip in -\orthern Wisconsin near the Canadian ' which they will reside in Johnsburg. Following the ceremony a reception was held at the home of the groom's parents, where a wedding dinner and supper was served to about 300 relatives and friends. » A wedding dance at Nell's Pavilion in the evening completed the memorable day. The couple left on a tw<# weeks' honeymoon trip in Wisconsin, after i line. Since his graduation from the Com- Mr. and Mrs. R. Davis of Joliet were munity High School, Mr. Smith has weekend visitors in the Louis Stoffel been employed at the Buss-Page garihome. | age. ..For,- -fch* i»»t RURAL TEACHERS . Other rural teachers not previously listed in our columns are as follows: S. M. Prudens < will again be at Johnsburg, district 12; Wayne Foss-of Ringwood will teach at Montelona, district 30; Alice Clark will again teach at Ostend; Mrs. Eveline Larkin will teach the Prairie school; Mabel Knox will be at Terra Cotta and Elsie Vycital will again teach at Fox River Grove. years the bride has been employed at the Woodstock Typewriter factory. They have many friends in this yicinity who extend congratulations. MAXWELL BUYS FARM LAND IN BULL VALLEY WILL ERECT 16 ROOM Maxell, president of the S: A. Maxwell company, wholesale wall paper, Chicago, has brought 600 acreS in Bull Valley, his estate comprising the land known as the Wille farm, Schneider farm and part of the Sheron farm. Mr. Maxwell is now erecting a large colonial residence on his property on the Country club road, about four miles southeast of Woodstock. Willard Walker of 536 Lake Shore Drive, is the architect of the 16-room house,, which will include six baths, four large porches and a three-car attache ed garage. Exterior walls will be of Wisconsin Laiinon stone, brick, and wood shingles. The entire building will have an all-year air conditioning system and ^completely electrical kitchen T The large estate will haye a concrete swimming pool, a lake, tennis courts, a, guest house, caretaker's cottage and other buildings. A rustic fence, in imitation of the old rail fence, has, also, been built along the property on the Country club road. The Chicago home of Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell is at 2130 Lincoln Park West. This is only one of the many farms being purchased in 5T?Henry county by Chicago business-, arid professional men, who are staging a back to the farm migration such as real estate men have not seen in many years. Buy Best Farms Securing some of the best farm land in the county art what has been considered ih previous years "give away" prices, hanging from $05 to $100 an acre, the shrewd business men of Chicago know an outstanding bargain when they see it as well as a safe investment where their money may be safe from .the feared inflation and other Npw Deal financial jinks. A new farpi plat book for McHenry county has just been, published by the Stacy Map publishers of Rockford and will, no doubt, contain many of the farms under their new ownership. Sales of farms during the last year are nearly 50 per cent greater than in the previous year, while construction activity throughout the country during July shewed a decided increase in both number of building permits and in: estimated cost as compared with the same month last year, according to the United States department of labor. In Niles Center work was scheduled to start this week on an extensive building program, involving erection of twenty-seven residences, while in the south side Chicago suburb of Markham a building program of 100 completed residences monthly is under way. , NUSJ MEMBERS HEAR COUGHLIN to help. CONWAY O'SHEA NUPTIALS TODAY continuous flow of traffic. Althi ugh many accidents were fe? ported over the weekend, this vicinity was fortunate in escaping any serious conditions. It was predicted that more than 300 deaths would result fi'om accidents over the Weekend which has been described as "death's favorite A lovely early' fa\l wedding was solemnized at St. Patrick's church this Thursdav morning, September 10, holiday.' when Miss Betty Jane Conway, daugh- j Beat Races Labor Day - ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray F- Conway of i Hundreds of people were attrjtf$®d Riverside Drive, was united in mar- to McHenry by the. boat races on Lariage to Mr. Dan O'Shea of McHen- boi Day and Riverside Drive \vas lined ry. Father Wm, A. O'Rourke, pastor with cars and the river banks were of- St. Patrick's church, officiated at' crowded with ' spectators. Some of Several local members' of the National Union^ir Social Justice went to Chicago Suryfay' where they heard the marriage ceremony and nuptial high mass at 9 o'clock before a large assembly of relatives and friends. : With the altars decorated with glad- Father Charles E. Coughlin re-open ioli, the church presented a scene of his . war against President Roosevelt ' ' ' ' u • *u" before an audience, of a reported 100,- 000, the largest eVeir gathered to hear his voice. these spectators also received wet feet as piers, which were too heavily loaded, gave way, letting their human cargo down into the water. Business houses and stores in McHenry closed at noon- in order to take '.J • \ -i colorful beauty as the bride, on the, - unuA*v rf t>.» arm of her father, who gave her in j advantage of the ftnal hol.day of the marriage, approached the altar to the"; summer. Many sought recreation at . - strains of Lohengrin's Bridal Chorus, the McHenry Country Cub gotf The noted p^est spoke in the open j Played by the jhu^h 01^an1^ J^riSn^'Emiiw'thwier™ here a special air on a large tract of ground adjoin- Kar' Webei. Dunng the nuptial mass, . p-iven on Labor Daw ing the amusement section of "River.- '.sung by the church choir, Earl Conview Park, which ordinarily is occupied by a golf driving ground and midget auto races. A special stand, erected at one end of-the fi^Id, provided a glaring white baickground 50 feet wide and 20 feet Ingh. for the solitary figure of the wie.st, who stood on a concealed plat- «oim slightly above the center of the yhite expanse. After an introduction,alternating in religion, philosophy and economics, he spoke on «ne of his favorite subjects, the Federal Reserve bank, and then opened his attack on the president. Father Coughlin announced that he wiirresume his weekly radio broadcasts Saturday night. r~ Among those who attended were John Adams', Lester Adams, William Klapperich arid son, Wilbert, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kicketts, Jake Stock, William H. Althoff, Louis'Althoff ,'/aj^d son, Cletus, and Joe Brefeld. way sang, "Panis Angelicus" at the offertory and "I Love You Truly," following the mass. As a recessional the organist played Mendelssohn's Wedding March. Miss Florence Conway, auht of the bride, served as maid cf honor, and Charmayne Cleary of Elgin, and Margaret Bishop were bridesmaids. Jack Purvey served his" friend as best man and ushers were Arnold Miller, a friend, and LeRoy Conway, uncle of the bride. matinee was given on Labor Day. In contrast to the busy sur days, McHenry is a quiet place this week as many of. the resorters returned to Chicago for the opening of schools Tuesday. Many, however, plan to return for weekends as long as the weather remains pleasant. Survey by Airplane A survey of traffic conditions in northern Illinois, including McHenry county, was made by airplane at dusk Monday and according to Hal Fojtfst of - the Chicago, Tribune, th£ main tL •it/tl!e e*M» ari• on Gr«ra.,c,e- rCAonnw«.avy , sister - ro. utes from Chicago to WisconMsicn of the bride, was the charming flower girl, who carried out her role in a most competent manner. . The bride was beautiful in a gown were found to be crowded through McHenry and Lake counties. The airp 1 ane was chai tered t>y the Chicago Motor club from the Amerit- ^w®S n , " Air Lines for the survey and flyof white h^n l y -.. tue-jing at an altitude of 2,500 feet an acwith a train, over which Jell • Jhe rivnditmnS was HARRY C. KIST DIES IN CHICAGO •Funeral services for Harry C. Kist were held Monday, Sept. 7, at 9 a. m., from his home at 8058 South Elizabeth St., Chicago, to St. Sabin» church, with interment at St. Mary*s cemetery. Mr. Kist died after a several years' illness. He is survived by his wife, who was (ojynerly Christine Pint of McHenry, and his father, Reinhardt Kist. A brother, Marie, preceded him in death. Mr. and Mrs. John Aylward and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cleary of Elgin spent the weekend here. Mr. and Mrs. Charles ^offel of MilwaukeespentTuesdayhere. APPLE TREE BLOOMS AGAIN IN SEPTEMBER An apple tree in bloom, in September is the unusual sight that greets visitors to the M. A. Sutton farm at Emerald Park this week. The tree, wfhich blossomed in the spring as usual, w«" evidently encouraged by the excessive, rainfall of the last few weeks into thinking that spripg had again arrived after the extreme- hseat and drouth of mid-summer. INFANT DIES A daughter was born Tuesday, Sept. 1, to Mr. and Mrs. Anton J. Schmitt, and passed away on Sept. 4. Burial was in St. Mary's Cemetery last Saturday. . Mr. A. A. Anderson and her daughter, Ella May. of Elgin, called on the former's aunt, Mrs. Ella Wheeler, on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Anderson, who is the daughter of the late Cora Wheeler Coleman, v%ill be remembered by old friends here who knew her as Hazel Lincoln. 'Her daughter is the namesake of Mr^. Ella Wheeler. graceful fold, »« . ton* «» • I pura^.x,f listing conditions WM. Crowding - and' congestion; was frequent on two-lane highways, where halo effect. The costume, of unusual beauty, was completed .with a shower bouquet of white roses carried by the bride- Miss Florence Conway, maid of honor, was gowned in vel 1 <,w satiii wjth gold slippers and carried a bouquet of 4)ink roses as travel on the 40-foot slabs moved satisfactorily. The motor club is advocating the widening of RoutVs 12 and 14 to the \V isconsin line for (.•atti' safety-- -- MRS. J. B. SCHNEIDER DIES IN CHICAGO Margaret Bishop, a . bridesmaid, wore a floor length gown of blue chil'- fon with silver slippers and carried a bouquet of yellow r-scs and blue delphinium. ' Mrs. John B. Schneider of ,4219 N. Miss Charmayne Cleary, also a Troy street. Chicago, died Tuesday, bridesmaid, wore cherry color cniffor. j s.ept. 8. Mrs. Schneider was {• rmerly with silver slippers and carried Tabs- Gertrude Steilen, daughter of Mr. and man roses. jMrs. N. P. Steilen. and resided in Mc- Each of the bridesmaids, as well as j Henry with her parents for many the maid of honor, wore a tiara of. yC|n-s. ' •. > chiffon flowers corresponding in color ghe is survived by her husband, .a to that of her gown, which in each son jack, and daughter, Mary Helen, case was-floor length Th > flower girl, Marion Grace Conway, was sweet in a green chiffon dress with a green bow in her hair and white slippers completing her costume. She carrijed a bouquet of mixed flowers. , , Following the ceremony a wedding breakfast wa„s served at Bickler's Hotel to about seventy guests, after which a reception was held at the home of the bride's parents. Decorations at the breakfast and in the home were in yellow and white. , Father O'Rourke acted as toastmaster and called on various guests for short talks: I ' ; Mr. and Mrs. O'She* left on a wedding trip, north, after which they will reside in one of the Schneider, apartments on Riverside Drive. Both the brkle and groom are well known in McHenry, where they are popular in the younger set, having many friends. The bride is a graduate of the McHenry Community High School with the class of 1935. The groom who graduated from the local high school in 1930, i* manager of the .Standard her parents, and brothers, Nicholas F.. and George C Steilen. • V \ Funeral services will be held Friday. Sept. 11. at 9:30 a- m., at Oar Lady of Mercy church, with burial in St. Boniface Cemetery. She was a member of St. Susanna Court, W.. C. O. F., No. 42. ACCEPTS NEW POSITION James Walsh, who has held a clerkship in the McHenry postoffice for some time, has resigned his job; and accepted a position as salesman for. tht Chicago Motor Club. w:th heidquarters at the \\oodstock branch. Mr. and Mrs. John Bonhen of Wilmette and his brother and wife,, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John King. Sunday. 1 • Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Schmitt are moving -this r week into the Albert Vales house. " ' • Oil rilling station on Route U. S. 12 in West McHenry. The Plainde^ier joins their many friends in congratulations and best wishes for future- happinesi.

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