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The picture, taken at. orchestra re- every town in the county with the extobe quite a spirited contest, with twoj-keawal, shows Sandor Kish, director ception; of orie^ were present to en- " ?nl) *i<-kpts in the field. East side, of the Waukegan Civic Orchestra, dis- joy the dinner served at 7:30 p. m.,at west side and all around the town, |cussinS a passage of musi<? with Rich-, Bickler's hotel. campaigners for their favorite candi- ar^ Stenger, and Dr. Richard Lucke. j Joseph Donohue of Rockford dates will be found on election day ir' Dr- Lucke is manager of the orches- the guest speaker and Adams B was ir j -- --,"°"«s« Ui «iu«co- u.c rmcsi r^eanei ana «u*ms Brothan endeavor to get every voter to the!tra an(* Mr_lStenger is vice-president ers furnished entertainment for the . 1 ftf ... thfl WflllraMn Hmknttva PKamI POP. . The present mayor, Peter 3. Doherty, will head one_of the tickets, and He will "fee opposed by R. I. Overton, one of the present aldermen in the First ward. Both have served many years on the city board. The final hour for filing was midnight Tuesday and shortly before that time the two tickets were completed. A third ticket, bearing the name of one candidate, that of Robert L. Weber for treasurer, was filed under the name of the Independent ticket. The Progressive ticket will bear the natee of R. I. Overton for mayor and Ear] R. Walsh for clerk. Joe Regner and John A. Bolger will be the candidates for aldermen i®€he First ward; B. J. Buss and Herman Kreutzer in Ward two; Fred Ferwerda and George B. Freund in Ward three four named are present aldermen. of the Waunegan Orchestra Choral evening. society -whitn is made up of the or-' President Canton of Huntley prechestra and the Waukegan Concert sided at the X^siness session and SENTINEL ISSUES 76 PAGES (HI ITS EIGHTIETH TEAR SCHAEFER HOME AT JOHNSBURG DESTROYED BY FIRE SATURDAY ACK TO TIME OF CIVIL WAR company. CIVICS cuss VISITS COUNTY - COURT HOUSE Charles Peterson of Marengo, secre tary and treaurer, was also present. TTie aldermen of McHenry were invited guests at the dinner meeting. - The president introduced William We're still reading and it looks like we would be at it for many hours yet before we brouse through the mammoth seventy-six page, eightieth anniversary edition of the Woodstock Sentinel, which was mailed oat Saturday. To say that the ^Tjig boss" and his staff of workers put out a work of art unsurpassed in newspaper history in McHenry county, is putting it mildly OVER 51 VOICES IN MIXED CHORUS ORCHESTRA A*D TO FUt • BAM) Tk> Nick Schaefer home at Johnsburg- was destroyed by fire Saturday about noon, the cause of the blare being unknown. There was no furniture in the housed as Mr. Schaefer had just moved tot Waukegan. to live with his daughter and the place was being redecorated . * before the new occupants, the ForcL^P Jacksonfamily, moved in. jTui^ appears on this page, will sing. The blaze started In the roof of the Do^n MoMS;- and <<k>od News,- negro spirituals, and "Gipsy Camp," The mixed chorus, an organization fifty-ftve boys and : girls of the imunity High School, whose picbuilding and had gained great head- | way before help arrived. The Mc- ' Henry fire department was called and Bickler, McHenry ftre chief and host anj the Plaindealer extends heartiest of the evening, who intrt^iuced the congratulations to Editor Renich and invited guests, the aldermen. The next meeting will be at Huntley in April. The association is entertained once PLEASANT RECEPTION BY OFFICIALS his co-workers upon their splendid achievement. It is hard to realize just how mam- , . - , , . . moth an undertaking an achievement a year by each fire department m the 'of thig kind is but bal5eve it or not> an t e mee ngs prove o Plaindealer staff understands just what it means, for the sixtieth edition of the Plaindealer, which was put out county benefit as well as pleasure members. Th« Civics Class, of McHenry High McH^NRY COUNTY : _ School, visited the county court houi^j- nm hm qi* a ft® The last in qrder to obUin first-hand factil * * V 8 A" from each county official, as to th«j On the Taxpayers tickets will be the]duties of his office. This information' nmw #f Peter J. Doherty for mayor; ®>ded the students in their study of a selected cast of players from Mc- P^BteM^iss, clerk; First ward alder- l°c«' government. Henry county sub-district of the Ep- political history, imb, Nick P. Justen_and_ Frank J-1 __" _ n_ eac^ depart- worth League will give a missionary history, a few years ago, gave us a fair sample of the work involved in the Woodstock masterpiece. Nine sections of solid reading, illus- MtSSIONARY PLAY j tra ted with a profusion of pictured, ada Russian Folk tune, at the concert ... . to be given at the high school this ^ • mM °* *V8:16 Do not fail to hear this >«Wncert, which starts at 8:15 p. m. tonight. The students and teachers hope fSr a full house and for this reason the program is being given without admission charge. „ ^ Show your appreciation of Mc- Henry's fine high 9chool, its splendid staff of teachers and the efforts of the students by your attendance at the program, this evening, and give them ON and for the wonderful advantages your children are receiving. The concert will include numbers by the orchestra, mixed chorus, girls' Mr. and Mrs. Mat Laures and little quartette, senior group, boys' sextette son, Jack, Mrs. Elizabeth, Laures and an(] band. Mrs. N. J» Jus ten arrived home Fri-I day after a delightful two-months so- RVEKS INFORMATION journ in Floridap where they spent M'HENRY PEOPLE RETURN FROM THE SUNNY SOUTHLAND COVER 5,400 MILES MOTOR TRIP • s1* vertisements that add interest and • about a month at Orlando and a month variety to the pages, early settlers,! at St. Petersburg, taking many side the wars, pioneer' trips and sightseeing trips daily. They CONCKKKme BROTHER Mrs. Elisabeth Cole of Glasgow; B -- ^ the progress of education, j traveled along the gulf and west coast Scotland, is •eekingvftjformation con- Schreiner; Ward two, Ray Howard and J^ient were made by the students, play at the M. E. church on Palm Sun- nothing has bccr. emitted to make the of Florida, crossing the slaU* on the wnsiRg feer broattf, Patrick Moran, Robert Thompson; Ward .three, Ray These reports were combined into the day. The evening's program will start edition complete and accurate in its Tamiami trail to Coral Gables and who died August 14, 1933. Sheriff 0«nway and Clarence Douglas. Mr. following story by Russell Franzen, at g p. t& Jus ten is one of the present aldermen aniel Justan and Geoige Frisby. j The one-act play, "*fe>e Color Line,1 H the First ward. 7**™ concerns - Two File For City Clerk " A " " The race fot city cleric will be , l tween the same candidates as two absent from the court house on the Bart R. Walsh. < Due to a change in the election law*, the city officials will be elected for accounts. , - _rT. Needless to say, the eightieth edixj „ 'concerns a young ChinesK boy who tion of the Sentinel will be treasured iienry A. Nulle is tne sheriff of Mc- came t0 America to study. He is in homes throughout the county as a ^ ^ snubbed by Americans and finally be-{reference book for historical facta, ^ ~ " comes discouraged and returns to gleaned and assembled through many hours of patient labor. Founded In ISM - Founded in 1856 by Josiah Dwight, the Sentinel was established" "to opymes ago, at which time Peter Neiss day of our visit, Chief Deputy Miner received a majority of 34 votes over Wok his place and explained the duties There he finds peace and content- J£e "J*®1*®*. .. . ment until his father kills an Amer- The sheriff is paid a regular salary, missionary. The cast consists of -- which is derived from fees and fines, youths from Solon Mills, Richmond.1 pose slavery years. However, this time three j collected during the year. Fines are Ringwood, Greenwood and McHenry. of the aldermen will be elected for I obtained from offenders of the law and The pla^ is directed by Elsie Vycital four years and three for a period of .fees are secured through serving pa- 0f McHenry. twe years. Following the election on pers, transporting criminals, sheriff's Cast of Characters April 20, this will be determined by (sales, and numerous other methods. Henry Lawson, president of Western the aldermen in each ward, drawing The chief deputy is the only deputy to College--Ed Dresdon, Solon Mills, lots to see Which will serve for four receive a regular salary, all the oth- pu Chun a Chinese student, young years and which for the two-year,ers receiving four dollars per day and handsome--Herbert Schuta, Soltm, - while in active service regardless of on Mills. -- time in service each d*y- Barbara 1McKean, daughter of a mil- WIFE CHARGES SPOUSE Finger-printing criminals is one sionarj-, a Junior in college-Ruth •pvvqi MONEY HUNTING duty of ^ 8h€riff and th« chief Klintworth, Ringwood. ^ puty *ave a demonstration for our Stanley Preston, a senior, in R. O. T. C. 11JN HCnSRAX 1 fiiUUJTUAX. beneftt First he put a finger print on uniform--Daniel Rawson, Greenj an ordinary sheet of paper. Then wood. * Charges, including renting a hunt- taking a small brush, he dusted the Wanda Williams, a good-hearted colis* slough near McHenry for $190 a paper *ith a black powder and the iege flapper--Evelyn Anderson, Mcyear, betting on horses, and buying ex* print then showed clearly. When such Henry. passive dogs and guns, figured in the a print is to be photographed, a clear Miss King, the president's secretary-- testimony of Mrs. Wood in a cross film is placed right over the print and jean Schultze, Richmond. eMsplaint, for separate maintenance' (Continued on page 5) ' Everyone is invited. against her husband, Captain David J.1 Wood of the Winnetka fire departsseat, who is suing his wife, Gertrude, fit divorce, as the suit gained headlast week. The story of the mysterious Carol CL, who entered the family life of the Waods' eighteen months ago, also continued to unfold as Mrs. Wood related hew the captain spent much time at tie home of a lady identified as Carol and r its extension." Through the years it underwent changes and growth. • \ In 1876 it is said Jay Van Slyke, associate editor of the Sentinel, left that paper to start the McHenry Plaindealer. Thte present editor and publisher of the Sentinel began his career in newspaper work in 1885 when his father, Fred Renich, established in Woodstock a German newspaper called the* McHenry County Volksblatt. Fred Renich died In 1890-mod his son, the present editor, struggled on, with the assistance of his brother and friends, until 1906 when he took charge of the Sentinel as business manager and publisher* The history of the founding of Woodstock as the county-s^at is given , (Continued on Page Five) Miami and home along the east coast Nulle received a letter from Mrs. Cole, tb Jacksonville. stating that she hfld Act heard from rOrlando, with its thirty little lakes brother foe fcnd profusion of flowers is truly the iig informatk* u- "city beautiful." still alive and Here visits were made to i many a cities and places of interest and many 1 P** Moran northern friends were greeted. I vicinity, wbetV Celebrate Anniversary ' many years On January 22, Mr. and Mrs. Laures farm, west of McHenry. About once celebrated their eighteenth wedding a year, around Christmas times-Moran anniversary at Flamingo Club on would receive a package from Scot-( the Lsitheran Deaconess hospital; Gti- Cheney highway, spending the even- 'and, which continued to come since Jcatfo, folloing an operation the pre •Whether he was id died had he known in this his home for Conley on a WILLIAM STEPHEN M'CONNELL WM. S. M'CONNELL DIES AT CHICAGO HOSPITAL, MONDAY .'H SERVED TWO TERMS AS COUNTY TREASURER William S. McConnell, of Woodstinck, well known and highly respected hasiness man and ex-public official of McHenry county, passed away early Monday morning, Mart^i 16, 1937* at ing with Mr. and Mrs. Ted Schiessle his death. . of McHenry, who came over from He is buried is Union cemetery at Bradenton to see them. ; Crystal Lake. , « They saw the big cypress tree in - The sheriff will inform Mfe. Cole of Seminole county park, the largest tree her brothers' death. east of the Rockies, 125 feet high, 47 feet in circumference and over 3,000; years old. EIGHTIETH Al EDITH Extra copies of the Woodstock Sen- In the highlands of central Florida^ ei htieth ^nive^ry edition, the famed Cypress Gardens, near -n durable form> Bre Winter Haven, were Visited ftod til© M.LI. ^4 TVy» Din tfiAPli Bok Singing Tower and Mountain Lake sanctuary, near Lake Wales. The Bok tower was built by Edward Bok and dedicated bjr Calvin Coolidge and has the largest carillon in the country. St Petersburg is known as the "Sunavailable at The Plaindealer office, at 60 cents per copy. The edition contains 76 newspaper pages. (Continued on page 5) ATTENTION, SCOUTERS! The Boy Scout Troop committee is asked t/meet at the Legion Hall on Monda/ March 22, at 8:30 p. m. ~ 'While Mrs. Wood remained at home aad took in washing, the captain enjoyed hunting with friends on his game preserve in this locality, spending money freely and generally havjag a good time on his salary of $226 per month, she related. FORMER RESIDENT DIES AT WINNETKA T MIXED CHORUS OF THE McHENRY COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL ' Br. Ralph S. Childs, 906 Oak street, Ifmnetka, a dentist, died last week at Mn home in Winnetka. He was a resident of McHenry With his permits about forty-five years ago, where his lather was » popular physician. A He is survived by his wife, MaryJT. Ifcilds, a daughter, Mrs. Harriet "C. Atwocnl, a son, Sherman Childs, a sis- ' • ter, Miss Myrtle Childs of Long Beach, #al., and a granddaughter, Barbara. • Funeral services were held Wednes- <|ay afternoon, March 10, at 2 p. m., \ . a| ,the funeral home, corner Linden fenue and Tower road, at Wubbard ^ Rummer residentjs HEART ATTACK "VICTIM ^ Mrs. Ann Sutton, of 6829 Cornell 7 avenue, Chicago, died suddenly«of a -Ifceart attack a week ftgo Sutiday. Her lmsband, who was enroute to attend funeral of a relative at New ^Fbrk, jfrturned by airplane. , • j* <• -- Besides her husband she is survived t;y a daughter, Louan. T77 They have been summer residents at : J^lVeweirs Villa for many years. Fun- ^ eiral services were held at 2 p. nl» Wednesday at the home, with buriil at Oakwoods. "ir • Bottom Row--Ruth Vogt, D<s«thy Lay, Angela Freund, Jane Durland, Eleanor Althoff, Lorraine Engeln, Lucille Esh, Gladys Juste'n, Lucille Peet, Rita Phannenatill.r . Second Row--Frieda Weitl, Johh Cristy, Emil Simon, Gerald Miller, Richard William?, Miss CGara, director; LeRoy Hettermann, Daniel Justen, Leonard Blake, Erickson, Henrietta Herdrich. '• r ' Third Row--Rosa Popp, Rosalind Vogt, Lorraine Staclcnick, Gladys Sbepard, Marie Vales, Evelyn Shober, Lorraine Stilling, Mary Durland, Miriam Sayler, Jane Schnaitma^ 4 Dora Anderson. , Fourth Row--Mary Knox, Virginia Jepeon, Leonard Blake, Kenneth Cristy, Joe McAndrews, James McAndrews, Herbert Reihansperger, Marita Blake, Lillian Nordm, Margaret Freund. " ^ .. Eow--Cletus Althoff, Robert Kilday, Robert Knox, Buaaell Fraasen, William Kinsala, Ralph Smith, Brace Klontx, Glen Caos, FJrancis Coatc Nielsen, George Frisby t 'Urn vious Thursday morning. He was 61 years of age. Residents of his home city were shocked Monday when the news of his death reached there, as the reports from the hospital had been very encouraging. Members of his family had visited with him during the day on Sunday and to all appearances he had gone through the operation successfully and in the'1 days following be was doing as well as could be expected. Suhday passed without sny indication that all as not well. During the day he read some and chatted with the nurses or his family. In the evening there was no apparent change until about 12:30, when, without a moment's warning, he passed from this life. Born In Woodstock Mr. McConnell was born la Wsedr stock, Aug. 1., 1870. He attended th** University of Michigan and was graduated from law school there in 1894. He was admitted "to the bar, but had never practiced law. Frcm 1903 until 1907 Mr. McConineH served as supervisor of Dorr township. He was treasurer of McHenry county from 1906 to 1910 and from 1918 to 1922 anH. from 1911/until 1915 he was postmaHer_of-Wofdstock. At the time of his death be was vice-president of the State Bank of Woodstock and president of the Woodstock Community High School board. He was a member of the Masonic lodge, ' the Elks and the Odd Fellows. 1 In business Mr.. McCcnqett was president <>f the Dacy Lumber Co. Surviving are the widow, 5usan, four sons, Harold S., of Chicago, William S., Jr., of Waukegan and John and Robert, both pf Wcodstcck; two daughters, Mrs. George Grant of Wilmette and Miss Mary Harriett McConnell of Woodstock; a brother, Fred "B. McC nnell of Wqodstock. and one sister. Mrs. Ida Southworth of Evansten. Funeral services were held on Wednesday afternoon. Private service* for the family were held at the hosac. followed by services at the Methodist church at 2:30 o'clock. Burial wj*»- 16 Oakland cemetery. Woodstock. 5 - Friend To Everybody It is safe to say that no ipan ever lived in-Mc Henry county who enjeyed more close friendships or who was rated higher as a public official than William S^cCoijpell. He was ed with a personality which everyone closer to him as acquaintanceship ripened into friendship. To know "Bill" McConnell intimately a privilege. His friendly greeting ways acted as a stimulant to who were fortunate enough to be classed as his friends. The editor of the Plaindealer is proud to say that he consider* himself one of a period of several years. A grand and good jnan has h|9 reward. *• " 'C . ; ' - • • t ' . T'v "• * • • • C ~ :• 'W"/' & iV*