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" ! •' - - ' > • • * - ' •>. • • * • ' . _ . • t • ' . . . • " ' " : ? 1 ' ' , \ * " VOL. 62 McHENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 17, 1936 . r . -- No, 17 RAINFALL DURING 48 HOURS GIVEN ,.Jfi SEVERAL PLACES BY LIGHTNING "r- ' HIT Then came the sunTs After weekend of torrential rain, dangerous electrical storms and nights of dense fog, (when the rain waarit flooding the countryside) with, a four-inch downfall reported in Chicago and a 5.45 inch total in Elgin, the dtfuge just about broke the record foi; precipitation in this vicinity and left residents with damp and musty homes, in which swollen doors refused to close, windows stuck and even the varnish on furniture was sticky from the excessive moisture. The sun was, indeed, -a welcome sight on Monday, although people suffered during the day from the heat made more unbearable by the great humidity. Starting on Friday, with the severe electrical storm, the rain poured steadily during the night and following day with water standing in pools on highways and pavements. Public servi9e men were kept busy repaiiing damages made bj{ the severe f-lcctiical storm of Friday night, when several places were struck by lightning, fuse boxes were burned out, lights were out for long intervals and considerable damage was done. The local Public Service men, with other' employes of the company, worked: steadily through Friday night repaiiing farm transformers and working on the high line wires near Crystal Lake that were cut off by the storm. < About twenty farms in this locality were left without lights and electric ,power when their transformers were ; blown cut by the heavy bolts of lightning and these were re as possible during the MISS AGNES STEFFES AND AUGUSTINE FREUND ON SATURDAY 'The Gift Of Simple Speech' One of the loveliest weddings of the season was solemnizeu Saturday,!,;-; morning, September 12, at :30 o'clock" "pj.f. at St. Marys' church when Miss Agnes Steffes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.- Matt Steffes of' McHenry, became the >£ bride of Mr. Gus Freund, son of Mr, and Mrs. John V. Freund of Johns-- burg. Msgr. Charles S-. Nix, pastor of the church* officiated at the ceremony and the nuptial High Mass, which was attended by a large assembly of relatives and friends. ! During the mass Miss Adele Froeh. lich sang the "Ave Marie" and after the mass she rendered the appropriate selection, "I Love You Truly." To J.he strains of the wedding march the bride's father, who gave her in marriage, escorted her to the altar, preceded by the ushers, Thomas Diedrich and Carl Bickler, and other members of the bridal party, including Miss Loretta Steffes, who served her sister as riiaid of 'honfcr, Alvera Wein-, gart, a cousin, as bridesmaid, B. H, Freund, a cousin of the groom, as best man and Herman Steffes, brother cf the bride as groomsman. The bride was lovely in a princess gown of white satin, made entrain with buttons trimming the back. Heir tulle veil cascaded in graceful folds from a cap effect headdress held in place by a coronet biaid of satin. She carried a bouquet of whifse roses and lilies of the valley. The ' maid of honor, Miss Loretta Steffes, wore an .exquisite floor lengtTi dress of rose beige moire with a brown velvet turban and tulle veil, brown net mitts and other brown accessories. She carried a bouquet cf pink roses and blue delphinium. Miss ' Alvera Weingart, bridesmaid,1 wore a dusty blue moire frock With brown accessories and also carried pink roses and blue delphinium. The men in the party wore the conventional dark suits with white rofe^ • i f t bouttonieres. night f Following the ceremony a fourrh r<*h « *strn<-k course wedding dinner was served at AmoiiR th. places st.uclTby hotel » '•»!«>' f"'»> •"f * C4.• , which a reception was held at the I mm MISS MARIE FREUND A SEPTEMBER BRIDE; ::a.' WEDDING SATURDAY :li. Saturday ' afternoon, , M At 3» o'cloc September 12, Mms :Marie Freund of McHenry, was , united in marriage to Mr. William Berndt, son o£ Mr. and Mrs. A. Berndt of-Chicago,^ in an impressive ceremony solemnized at St. Mary's parish house, with Msgr. Chas. S. Nix, pastor of^St. Mary's church, officiating at .the ceremony. Miss Celia Murray of Wauconda attended her cousin as bridesmaid and Harry Biester, a friend of the groom, was best man. The bride was charming in a floor length princess gown of French blue chiffon velvet, made simply, with high neckline and long sleeves tight to the elbows. She wore a blue halo of velvet and net with a shoulder veil, blue slippers and other matching accessoiies and carried a colonial bouquet of bronze chrysanthemums tied with a blue satin ribbon. The bridesBiaid, Mtss Celia Murray^ wore a May wine chiffon velvet frock made in Queen Elizabeth style with a velvet turban and other matching accessories. She also carried bronze chrysanthemums tied with a ribbon to match the bride's costume. About forty-five guests, including relatives and friends, attended the reception held at the bride's home after BOLT HITS TREEMOTHER AND SON RECEIVE SHOCK MRS. RALPH BENNETT SERIOUSLY INJURED , The severe electrical storm that struck McHenry late Friday afternoon wrought havoc in many waysv among themjbeing the injury 'to Mrs. Ralph Bennett and her little son, Ralph Jr., when she narrowly escaped death when struck by lightning. Mrs. Benhett, >vho before her marriage was Dorothy Marshall of McHenry, was alone with her little son in her tiome on Washington street, when she became frightened in the storm and started for the home of Mayor and Mrs. Peter -J. Doherty, next door. Lightning Hits Tree As she ran through the yard, lightning struck a big tree on which a wire clothes line had been strung; in back yard at the Doherty home. The bolt followed the tree down to the wire and knocked Mrs. Bennett down as she ran through the y aid. She fell face down into the mud and the ceremonv and the dinner served at onto the fourteen-months-dd baby and Bickiers' 'hotel'at 5:30 o'clock. The:was unconscious when found by thj. house was attractive with bouquets of cut flowers and the tables, also, arranged in banquet style, were decorated in gladioli, dahlias and ferns. Mr. and Mrs. Berndt. left that evening i'i r Chicago, where they will make their home, the bride travelling in a brown suit with brown accessories.... The bride is a graduate of the Mc- 'Henry High School with the Class of mayor who had been attfaeted by the cries of the infant. Mrs. Bennett and her son were carried into their homo,wheredoctors were summoned and gas and electric^ men were prepared to administ tificial respiration, but it. prove neessary. ' Mrs. Bennett, received severe burns from her vhest»down and the child was '33 »n<l both she and her husband are; afaobuvned^btt-.hte lep./.She was".takpopular in the younger set here, The groom graduated from Lane Tech in Chicago in 1932 and is now «t th<. Western Klectric compoxy. King were St. Patrick's new church, ;Well as the old church from which the cross was knocked off, a tree in the yard of Mayor r Peter Doherty, ~ Which injured Mrs. Ralph ; related elsewhere in this issue* and a tree at the heme of Mrs. Wm. A. Sayler, from which the lightning followed a clothesline to the back porch splintering a post, wrecking the meter box and blowing out fuses' in the • basement, but, fortunately, no fire resulted and Mrs. Sayler, although feeling the shock, was uninjured. The lightning, as usual, played many freakish, tricks and the whole atmosphere seemed charged with -electricity ' bombs continued to home of the bride's parents. The tables were attractively decorated in the wedding colors of pink and with fern leaves, flowers and candles and a lovely wedding cake centering the bride's table. Msgr. Nix capably filled the rojje cf toastmaster, calling on various guests for short remarks.' Among those who responded were Dr. A. I. Froehlich, Earl, Walsh, B. H. Freund, Herman Steffes, •Mrs. John S. Freund, and Father Frank Miller. Between the courses Miss Adele Froehlich rendered the following selections, "When I Grow Too Old To na the daii^^-wwo -- - - Dieam," "Because,and the Italian ilT. n break and strike directly over McHen- " Bacio. ry in the most severe electrical storm ^ L*ter in the day Mr. and Mrs. experienced here in many years. Freund left on a honeymoon trip, the . At the home of Mrs. Agnes Mar- ^nde wearing a dark green wool suit shall the lightning followed the wires ^'th wolf collar and green accessory Vfcd" the refrigerator, jumping from Upon theit letrnn they will leside in there to the stove, where it made a the Mrs. Mary Dowe house on Richhole in a ccpper kettle and at the .«icnd roafi- ' • __holae of Mis. 1'. Q. r..** t,Ls,» were Both Mr. and Mrs, Freund arepop. blown all over the place. ulal young peopleTT.Th.s commtirat About $35 worth of electrical equipment was damaged at the Farmers Jiill when the lightning burned the control for the big electric motor. At the Mat Baur home fuses were *'fctown from the switch 6ox and in 1 many instances^ wires were shorted.--_ Chicago weekend visitors started home early Sunday because of reports of highways made impassable by water standing over the pavement in several sections, among them being a where they have many friends, The bride, who graduated from the Community High School with the Class ef '31, has been in the office of Dr. A. I. Froehlich, Attorney Vernon Knox and Earl Walsh during the past year. •' The groom, who is a partner in the firm of Adams and Freund, dealers in farm implements, graduated from the local high school in 1925 and for several years was employed in» the West place on Route 54, south of Milder' McHenry State^Bank. 1 in - 5 ! : The Plaindealer Joins their r ! friends in extending many Fox River Rises ^ • j rienus exienumg best wishes and : The Fox river rose several inches congiatulations. ^ i)vei the weekend and a row of flash- _ • --L . boaids were taken out Sunday as the REPUBLICAN MEET water continued to rise. It reached its^ AT CRYSTAL LAKE peak on that day, however, and when the iain stopped the water lowered. , The county precinct Republican wo- -Duiing the rains of the last two men gathe,e'd at a dinner at the Crys BROOKS SPEAKES AT WOODSTOCK TUESDAY NIGHT ATTACKS NEW DEAL FARM POLICIES ON Watch Your Dogs! INTERESTING NEARBY NEWS Attention was called to the menace of dogs being allowed to roam the city at will when iv ehild wMs bitten in the face today. The dog is under observation for rabies and the child under, a doctor's care. The above* men- j tioned: dog has been running at largo and if it should prove to have rabies, I there are doubtless other dogs in ijhe 1 ! en to tht Woodstock hospital where she recovered conscoiusness during the liight, although she teniembered nothing that had happened since 5 o'clock. , Mrs. Bennett was brought from the hospital to the home of her mother Sunday evening, where she is still in a serious condition, but is recovering slowly. According to latest reports Mrs. • Bennett is recovering as w-ell as can ttedrge "Lordy" Remke of Niles be expected, but she is conned to bed member of the McHenry 1 in a weakened condition and is in conthe severe GEORGE REMKE DIES SUDDENLY WHILE ON FISHING VACATION TAKEN FROM COLUMNS Center, , Country Club Tor many years, died siflerable suddenly Monday while on a fishing ' trip, 400 miles north in Wisconsin. OF OUR EXCHANGES "Ml-. Kemke Whs fishing with a friend in a boat ami had just caught a musky. Wauconda fire department Wras ! The two men were sitting with their •t . f . w M n , . . out .';We,lnesday noon' of ^tTMs tc> each othef, when the friend !!S'"^5 .^!y!LP0,h!fty„^iS:!•«•«*• • "extinguish • a blaze that;! I eard Mr. Kemke say he was sick. - :-;n. ': j. h;- burns. The burns on the Ijjiby's legs are healing nicely. ^ DR. HESS TRANSFERRED TO SIOUX FALLS. S. D. and Brooks. Republican ine<* for Governor of Illinois, made a tour of four cities in McHenry county on Tuesday and added two more to his list Wednesday; At Algonquin, Crystal Lake, McHenry and Woodstock the popular world war veteran^epoke before large crowds and the .enthusiasm displayed is an indication that Mcs, ued orders ,.t hat. any dog ru, nn,i ng | threatened, for a time to destroy a | ^ heh he reached his partner, the man £ose upon, the city streots •whether, lruck Vne(, by DavUn & Mitchell, lc-j found Mr. Remke was apparently lifebear, ng a licehse or not shall be shot cal.excavating contractors. The blaze less: He worked over him for some- "on" "si ght. If you value the" li" fe" of time with -no results and then.started your dog, keep it off the streets, for eyen a license is little protection against a bullet. The Mayor's order is to be strictly enforced cation of this notice. BEGINS STUDIES AT wan quickly placed, under control, \yith very little- damage. ; •'; ;-..i V Struck by an aufo while directing switching oi'erations at the Northwestern 'sidetrack at the Highway and Dr. and Mn* G. W. Hess attd their tWc sons, Jack and James, ol New York City, spent the weekend in McHenry enruute to Sioux Falls, S. D, where the doctor has beeh,transferreti to go for help. The boat had become in his wt rk for the govei nnu nt. They lodged on a rock^and [were happy to greet many old friehds He went to hours Ix'fore ,lu,;i,.K their several .Years ithe sick man t.ad passed away. Iresulence here when Dr. H«« Western avenue in DesPlaines, freight j y^e friend is reported sick in bed county veterinarian :; in McHenry conductor Osgood. Crystal Lake was I ^ his sorrowful. experience. After f0^: run down and seriously injured byimakinK arrangements for the ship-1 ROCKFORD COLLEGE motorist Helen Weiss, Mt. Prospect, in McHenry Dr. and Mis. , ment of the body, he had^to drive the i Hess aiid their ^occupied their old; Saturday morning of last week. Os- jon>; disUnCt? home by himself. (home here, now the residence of *Ii> Mr. Remke was considered one of . the best golfers on the local course. tn') the eu t' " Miss,'Ruth Reihansperger left this good w/s taken to the Northwestern week to enter Rockford college, a girls' | 1)<'^,1)itaCkufftii-ingJnternal injuries. school having an enrollment, of about i Billy Meyer, oldest son of Mr. and j ^ a -^-other operated a meat 375. She enters the college on -a, Mrs. Irvin Meyer, Crystal Lake.,-.wa.s at Kiles Center. scholarship and will stay at the dorm-1 taken to the Sherman hospital in Eland Mrs. Elmer Freund, who, on a called on the former ltory. . Arm ng the students whom Ruth will meet at the college is another newcomer, like herself. Mile. Suzann McHenry folks jUst . before they left New York City on their transfer trip.' , _ . . • _ L.U nt. The two boys visited high-school Funeral services are ; Monday morning before they contitiu, treated rthere for an injury to his left : A li'umber of members of the f1 with thclr 'Pal'cn'1^. t0 %heiv nexV eye. While at the home of L. W. Cobb, > ' . • _«.• i home. [gin last week Friday and is being C. WAYLAND BROOKS Republican Candidate for Governor Henry county ^ill again give to the Republican party an overwhelming vote at the November 3rd election. Although a near cloudburst descended on the county seat for an hour before and during the time ot the meeting in fhe opera house there, a goodly crowd gathered to hear the next Governor of Illinois discuss the issues of the day on Tuesday evening. northern France, who c-nines to Rock ford to study on the scholarship offer _ to a ! ent. Mile. Bourdon, whose home is in St. Quentin, in the province ,of Aisne, near Paris, sailed Sept. 2, on the French liner, Champlain, and is Expected to airive today, when the college dormitories are officially opened fcr the year. She spent several days in New York before coming west. Her predecessor, Mile. Paule Marie a piece of steel chipped off a hammer he was using, flew into and pierced the eyeball. He was rushed to the hospital where he has since been under. along nicely. The farm, riear Hebroii, on which Mr. and Mrs. R. John Stewart resides w,as visited by chicken thieves Sunday night cf last week. John was a .chapel, in Niles Center noon. Country club are in attendance, Deceased is survived by two sisters •^arid two brothers. AT ST. LOUIS, MO. --^eeks the river rose about ten inches, tftj Country Club, last Thursday it is stated by George Witt, in charge even;ng with members of the press, of the dam. officers of the Young Republican clubs The unprecedented downpour made and couflty candidates. pp almost overnight the deficiency in Frank Daly, chairman of the Re- , _ . . rainfall for the .year occasioned by the pubjjcan Central Committee, acted as The highlight of his speech in Wooddrouth of June and July. _ ' toastmaster and introduced Mrs. stock Tuesday was reached when he »" •" The rainfall was general in this lo? ^ou^se Brocks of Hebron, countyl said that it was about time the voice ' " cality with the downpour at times~Bs- c|;aji man 0f Republican women, Mrs. j of the Middlewest should be heard in Burning the proportions of a deluge m offer,-district chairman of young Chicago. women voters arid Mrs. Celia Kuppe, Automobiles stranded during the secretary of" the countv Republican "heavy rainfall kept garages busy and women and also MarCelius Senne, basements were flooded by the down- countv chairman of the Young Repubpour which came at Uie end of one of jjcan "cjub, ; the dryest seasons in the history of . address of the evening was giv- Illinc _ 'en bv Wm. M. Carroll, candidate for Again on Tuesday evening another gtate-,s attorney lieavy downpour hit this territory and JJ(-a]^ was one of instruction to continued to rain during most of the women, whose task will be to connight. ' tact the women voters in their pre- ^ ~ " T ~ u 1 cincts, his discussion/being on taxes, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Krause, M.ar- cjvjj service attd education. ion Krause and Leo Lay are spending - the week in the north woods. \ FINAL WARNING II ownels of nrulor vehicles irr t-he-j---,Mc. a lid Mrs. Jivcpb Adams left -- City of McHenry are warned that they Monday to spend the week at St.,. must purchase city stickers immed- Louis, Mo., where.:they will attend the iately and display same on their wind- gplden jubilee, honoring h^r sisters, shields, or they will be giveii a ticket gjs^er Johanna of the House of Proviby the city police and hauled into dence,-where she has been for twenty just finishing the milking about "6:451 CoUrt.' Sec. 7 of ^ the ordinances pro-! year^t and Sister Baptist, who is Suo'clock and was taking a pail to the j .vjjes that "it shall be the duty of such perior at St. Mary's hospital, Racme,: m i l k h o u s e w h e n h e h e a r d a . d i s t u r b * ] l i c e n s e e . t o a f f i x s u c h w i n d s h i e l d s t i c k - j ; \ v i s . - " * - ance among the chickens. Picking up' gi- in a conspicuous place on the front, sisters will remembered by - a club he ran towards the noise and i-yf.atiy motor propelled vehicle where ' many in this vicinity as Christine and Passy of Paris, was well liked when!-rounding the xorner of the barn saw | the same may be easily seen and it Marguerite Freund who were born and she studied on 'thecampus last yeir. I a'large man with a bag full of chick-j shall be unlawful to use or operate any ] reared Un the homestead where Mr. Arrangements for Mile. Bourdon's I ens- The man became frightened,; such licensed vehicle Upon the streets, antj ^ls .Adams n.ow live. Mrs. Adyear of study in America were made I dumped the chickens and taking his ! avenues and alleys of McHenry unless. through the Institute of international bag, vaulted over the fence and raced. such windshield sticker is attached Education. Nominated by the office I down the roadv It,,was impossible to, thereto as herein provided. a committee of the Rockford college Washington and -that the Republican facuity. ticket is offering the voters of this [ Entering Rockford as a Junior, Mile, state an opportunity to send to W ash- j Bourdon" has studied at the Lycee de ington two. men from prairie states ot \ St. Quentin and at the Lycee Faid- Kansas and Illinois, ill Governor Al-' herbe at Lille. She has studied math- National des Universites, interviewed j catch him. . and selected by a committee of French J There are cherry trees in blossom m and American college officials, she was •.Marengo. selected from among the candidates by ' Mrs, George Kuhn was called to ( "Walter Brooks is enjoying a ^aca- Michigan last Friday by the death of tion in the north woock. • - her sister, who passed away. Thurs- Mi. and Mrs. Nipk Freund and Dr. jay. Funeral services were held Satan4 Mrs. C. W. Klontz have left on a urday and Mre>Kuhn was expected motor trip to Yellowstone Partu j home this week. fred M. Landcm and Col. Frank Knox. The speaker brought out "the point that the delegates to the national convention at Cleveland last June select, ed a pair- of men who can be trusted, if elected, to return the national government t0 the people and to take the government out of private business. Lands Landon and Kaox He lauded the qualifications of Gov- Laudon and Frank Knox and said that not only haft the Republican party given to the Middlewest these two fine candidates, but that it also had given co the party a natural born leader in (Continued on'last page.) ematics, science, english, philosophy, and history and speaks English well. She spends her summers at Louatre par Longport in Aisne. Two tree* on the grounds of the Nebelow Wcleben home in the south part of Marengo, last week burst into full bloom, much to the surprise of Mr. Woleben. The trees are believed to have been "fooled" by the 17-fp LICENSE COMMITTEE, CITY COUNCIL. • v OPENS FALL COURSES Miss Mildred Calianan announces thei oening of the fall classes in dramatics and public speaking. This work covers the subjects dramatic interfact that a fire burned all the grass I pertation, character sketches, effective around them during the drouth. Both 1 speech, study of play production, apare old trees. Carl Ferguson reports ^ preciation of the drama and children's that he should have some real apples | Little Theater work. j about Christmas time as an apple tree! Both private and group lessons will in his yard is covered with fresh bios-1 be given and for the benefit of those BROTHER OF LOCAL PHYSICIAN DIES Milton C. Klontz, 58, of McConnell, 111., brother of Dr. C. W. Klontz of McHenry, died Sunday at 7:30 P- m. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2 p. m., at the United Brethern church at McConnell. Surviving besides his brother, are three children, a grandchild, and a sister, Mrs. Fred Schramm of McConnelL soms. A Chicago man and his wife, Mt'- and Mrs. Frederick Meyer of 2630 N. Maplewood ave., were enjoying themselves out at Diamond lake for the weekend when they suddenly remembered-- the water heater. interested, registration will be held at the home of Mrs. Peter Doherty on Monday, Sept. 21, 1936. afns and Mrs. Stephen F. Schmitt Johnsburg are their only two living sisters. .. : - '---'j-..'•• The two sisters are included class of twenty-live, - who -are celebraU ir.g fifty years in the Franciscan Con: vent and are celebrating the golden . jubilee at the mother house in St. Louis, Mc It is expected that thejf will returnWith Mr. and Mrs,;..Ad^O'S .to spend the weekend here.. home in Chicago where their four W hiting. Mrs. Cynthia Fryer of Belleview Fla., spent part of last week visiting It was back! in the home of her brother, E children and Mrs. Meyer's father were keeping house during the Meyers' absence. Early Sunday morning Sergt. (Continued on last page.). Miss Anna Blake, who has spent the past three months in Washington, D. C., is spending this week in tiw Peter Blake home. -v • WANTED -- OLD PICTURES Does any one have ni're. old tim? pictures to be reprouueed in the Plairfdealer? If so, just bring them in and the Plaindealer will be glad to print them. • Now is the time to start oldfashioned album as^we hope to have many n;ore prints for you. Births Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Schniel-er an* parents of a sJry born at Woodstock hospital Wednesday, Sept.