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l:. v -;, .' - *• : * ws» #| J " U, t Wf-< f* 'f,'i>.' wr-sp"**^ •?|^»|r^>< thorsday, March 7,1940 COUNCIL DECIDES TO ENTER COUNTY ?•'•£ BLANKET PROJECT ersonals BAKE SALE The ladies of the Zion Lutheran church will hold a bake sale on Saturday, March 23, at the home of Mrs. F. C. Feltz beginning at 10 o'clock. MOTHERS' CLUB This .Friday. March 8, the Mothers' dub will meet in the Legion hall, with Mrs. C. H. Duker as chairman. Dr. Kirby of the Abbott Laboratories will be the principle speaker. The meetin ® will start promptly at 2:80. m m * * E. & Tb«r Order <$t the Eastern Star will hold ®ieir regular meeting next Monday, Marc! 11. Mrs. Minnie Martin has hmi ^pointed to serve on the Seal Committee of the Grand Chapv . • , W. C. O. St. Clara's Court, W. C. O. F., will receive Holy Communion in a body next Sunday. March 10, and all members are requested to meet in the school hall before mass. The lodge will hold election of officers oa Thursday evening, March 14. : v V • • • " I '• SUNDAY EVENING' CLtTB * ,* The Sunday Evening club met with Mr. and Mrs. Math Blake on March 3. The prize? were awarded to Mrs. Peter A. Freund, Ford Jackson, Mrs. Ford Jackson and Math Blake. The club will hold its next meeting with the Ford Jacksons on Easter Sunday. • » • NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB The last meeting of the Neighborhood club was held last week with Mrs. Peter M. Justen. The prizes went to Mrs. C. H. Duker, Mrs. William Spencer and Mrs. Alex Justen. Miss Lena Stoffel will entertain at the next meeting. m 9 • CONTRACT BRIDGE The Contract Bridge club enjoyed a delightful afternoon with Mrs. Ray McGee Monday. Awards were received by Mrs. Harold P. Owen,- Mrs. Harry Durland and Mrs. A1 Barbian. The hostess served a lovely lunch. Mrs. George Stilling will entertain the did) on Tuesday, March 19. • • • ANNIVERSARY DINNER „ The employees of the McHenry Dairy and their families attended a chicken dinner at the Vogue tavern in Lily Lake last Friday nipht honoring " Dale Thomas who has been in the dairy business in McHenry for five years. The thirty-eight people in at- • tendance spent the remainder of the evening dancing and having a general good time. Out of town guests were Miss Verda Hayes and Paul Veeecla of Woodstock. , • • • STORK SHOWER Mrs. Jack McCarroll, who is in anticipation a blessed event, was presented with many beautiful gifts on Mondayevening by a group of twpntyone friends. Mrs. L. B. Murphy, Mrs Math Freund. Mrs. Helen Justen and Mrs. Albert Justen were hostesses for > the party which was held in the L. B. Murphy home. Pinochle provided entertainment, with prizes going to Mrs. Maud Rothermel, Mrs. Agnes Thennes. Mrs Hazel Knox, Mrs. Helen McCarroll and Mrs. Nick Barbian. . YOU Alt I invited... • Yet, we'd very much like to have you come io and get acquainted. It would be a pleasure and a privilege to show you this modern pharmacy where the t.~ compounding of prescriptions hasbecomeaspecialized science. «* On our shelves are medicaments from all over the worldmany items which stores with a limited volume of prescription business could not afford to carry regularly in their stock. So, when you bring your Doctor's prescription here, it will be filled exactly as written, without alterations or substitutions. ~~ BOLGEB'S DRUG STORE EAST RIVER ROAD PINOCHLE1 The East River Road Pinochle club met at the home of Mrs. William Freund Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Ed Sutton, Mrs. Albert Vales and Mrs. E. C. Shoemaker were awarded the prizes. A delicious lunch was served by the hostess. Mrs. Ed Sutton will entertain the club on March 28. STYLE SHOW The Mariola club is sponsoring a style show at St. Mary's gymnasium in Woodstock on' Friday evening, March 8, at 8 p. m. Cronin's Style shop will show spring clothes and millinery by Scanlon's Hat shop. The tickets will be twenty-five cents. There will also be entertainment. • • • EPWORTH LEAGUE Last Sunday night, the Epworth league met in the parsonage, with Gordon Scholle leading the discussion. After the meeting, the members played games and had refreshments. There will be no meeting until Sunday, March 17, when Martin Baum will be host. •.vv.-vtv • • • • • '• 52ND ANNIVERSARY . Mr. and Mrs. George E. Sullivan of Woodstock entertained at dinner Tuesday night in honor of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Sullivan. Sr., who celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary. Mrs. Marie Schiessle and William Sullivan of McHenry were in attendance. Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan have resided in Woodstock for many years. Of late, Mr. Sullivan has not enjoyed the best of health. • it • FOX RIVER VALLEY CAMP Plans were made for a birthday party of Fox River Valley Camp, R. N. A., and the tentative date set for April 2. After the regular meeting Tuesday evening, the public was previously invited to attend a card party. The prizes for bridge were awarded to Mrs. Fred Schoewer, Mrs. C. W. Klontz and Marie Powers; the five hundred award went to Mrs. Leslie Olsen and the bunco prizes to Mrs. Etta Wattles and Mrs. Gertrude Thurlwell. Refreshments were served by the committee. • * a' NINTH BIRTHDAY John Owen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray McGee, celebrated his ninth birthday Tuesday afternoon with eight of his schoolmates. They spent the afternoon playing a variety of lively games and then enjoyed a six o'clock lunch. A large birthday cake, bedecked with nine candles, held the place of honor on the center of the table. The Misses Mary Harriet Bennett and Jean Frances Conway of Woodstock, cousins of the guest of honor, served for the occasion. The eight guests Trfere Martin and John Klapperich, George Worts, Dayle Brown, Charles Gies, Harold Nye, Jack Fleming and Jack Thi m m 9 RIVERVIEW CAMP The members of Riverview Camp, R. N. A., enjoyed a delightful evening Tuesday, marking the twentyninth anniversary of the existence of their camp. Six charter members were present at the six o'clock pot-luck supper, each expressing herself with a short address to an appreciative audience. After a short meeting, the evening was 'spent at cards, with prizes being awarded the winners. All members who are in arrears with their dues are requested to pay them in-full before Saturday by order of the secretary; Mrs. Maud Rothermel. Plans were made for a public card party to be held April &. MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENT Miss Virginia Young, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Young of Des Plaines, became the bride of Charles' Sherman, son of Mrs. Charles Nienhaus and Earl Sherman who reside a few miles west of McHenry, at three Saturday afternoon in Grate Lutheran5 Church, Woodstock. The Rev. Roger C. Kaufman officiated. In a floor length gown 6f poudre 1>lue net with matching veil and hat,:- she carried a bouquet of deep pinkf carnations and white stock. Her at- The City Council met again on 'Monday night. Mayor Overton and flAlderman Ferwerda, not having re- „ , , . , , turned from their winter tours, left ^ed r "" x* ?ran?p*r_*n.t!i_?ir- and the council still short-handed. However, all problems requiring immedi- Raymond Newman of Slocum Lake Mrs. Linus Newman, Saturday. Those who paid their last respects ate action have been met through the f1 the wake of Mrs. Katherine Bauer able guidance of Acting Mayor, John last Thursday evening at Chicago A. Bolger, and the remaining alder- ^ere JJ.rs; Joseph Diedrich Mrs Armen thur Diedrich, Mrs. Jacob Diedrich, The treasurer's report showed a bal- tJa 1 u*hter. VandeHna, and Mrs. Alex and of ance on hand of $6,504.81 ir> the gen- Adams- Attending the funeral sereral fund. The city collector collected v.lc«s 5? F"day w*re Mrs Jacob Died- $1,264.49 in water bills and $83 1 24 in ??fhj "andelina, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph sewer funds. The city clerk reported * son; Kenny. a heavy sale of vehicle licenses total- , M'®8®8 Genevieve Knox ing $656.00, besides the miscellaneous „. a Boyle were dinner guests rolleoted M,SS Georgianna Donahue at Huntley Perhaps of most vital interest to the Sunday. people is the fact that the council , Mr. and Mrs. Dan O'Shea were voted to enter the McHenry ^County Wbodstock callers Saturday. Project of WPA. ^ „ Mr«- Clarence Douglas and Mrs. Arno Kolls was present to explain Conway spent Saturday at Woodthe procedure necessary to secure any WPA assistance. The explanation revealed that the city can make up a blanket proposal, listing various improvements such as sidewalks, streets or bridges on an estimated basis. However, this does not bind the city to cary out any of the projects, Under WPA the city can secure labor and a small percentage of material in carrying out needed improvements. Mr. Kolls explained that* the department was anxious to see the stock. Schwerman will leave tomorrow, Friday, for a trip to El Paso, Texas, where Mrs. McGee will visit her sister, and Mrs. Schwerman will spend some time with her sister-in-law. They will spend the remainder of their two weeks or more in Mexico. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Purvey and Mr. and Mrs. A1 Krause were Chicago callers last Thursday. Mrs. Gladys Priddy of the Waukegan News-Sun called on Miss Anna Frisby Wednesday to obtain material for an article on the anticipated 100th anniversary celebration of St. Patrick's church in .September. Miss Marion Krause spent Wednesday in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Owen were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Owen at Glencoe. Eleanor Glark attended the Mid- West Beauty convention at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago Monday. During her absence, her beauty shop in! West McHenry was remodeled. Among the folks from Riley who Mrs. Lewis McDonald of Woodstock *t?Pdf;? the Democratic party at "The visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Linus Newman Tuesday afternoon. Robert Knox and Paul Doherty spent a few days last week in Springfield. Miss Florence Coffmann has returned to her home here after spending two months with relatives Louisville, 111. Bridge" last Thursday evening Mr. and Mrs. Carl Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. George Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Ruth and James and William Giblin. Mitzi Durland attended the siatteehth birthday party of Miss Vera at' Coffee of Crystal Lake which was held | at the Odd Fellow hall in that city: Forest Geary of Wauconda called Saturday evening. Miss Coffee's birthon relatives here Friday. Mrs. Annabel Aicher left Sunday municipalities plan and carry out with Chicago friends on a trip to New work of a lasting nature rather than; Mexico, the much criticized work such as raking leaves. It was necessary for the council to act immediately since March 16 is the deadline for entering the program. It was explained that approximately Miss Laura Unti left recently to join her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Unti, at Daytona Beach, Fla. They expect to return to McHenry within the week. Mrs. J. P. Frey,* Elsie Regner and two months will be needed to secure Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Rauen motored a final OK on projects planned. Amongr the Sick Joseph Iwaniec is seriously ill at the Woodstock Community hospital. Mrs. John Ray of Ringwood is a surgical patient at the Woodstock hospital, having undergone an operation Friday night. Mrs. Hall Albee of Crystal Lake, formerly Miss Audrey McDonald of Woodstock, has been quite sick at Sherman hospital, Elgin. Mrs. Lulu Benson, worthy grand matron of the O. E. S. of Illinios, has been seriously ill for the past week in West Suburban hospital, Oak Park. Geno Poultry Remedies at Wattles Drug Store. 42-4 to Florida recently for a month's vacation. Miss Elsie Harmsen of this city will be guest speaker at a meeting of the Lutheran Women's Missionary society of St. John's church, Woodstock, to be held at their school room on Tuesday evening, March 12, at seven o'clock. Miss Harmsen, will talk on her instruction and training at the state school for the blind at Jacksonville, 111., and what the Lutheran churches are doing for the blind . Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Redwanz of Chicago spent Tuesday at their cottage near the Fox river. George Vales was a guest in the home of his parents here Friday night. He left Saturday with the Don Chiesta band for Peoria, 111., where the bend has a month's engagement at the Pere Marquette hotel. Mrs. Ray McGee and Mrs. Paul day was February 29 Mrs. Anna Tonjran of Fox Lake spent the past week with her niece, Mrs. Joe Wegener, in this city. Mrs. Eleanor Nye was ft recent guest of Mrs. Perry* Short at Lake Geneva, Wis. Arthur Martin -and Hale Risetter were Dixon visitors Wednesday of last week. t Richard Justen of the University of Wisconsin spent the weekend at his home here in order to attend the funeral of his cousin, Justin Bowers, of* Waukegan. Mrs. Floyd Covalt, Sr., and daughter, Shirley, left Friday morning to spend two weeks in Hot Springs, Ark. Miss Eleanor Althoff of Waukegan was a guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Althoff, this weekend. Miss Nellie Courtney and nephew, Harold Pointon, of Wauconda were visitors in the M. J. Walsh home on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Joseph of McCollum Lake are spending a few weeks in (Florida. W. E. Whiting, chairman of the lie- Henry Rural school directors, and Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Butler of Ringwood attended a dinner given by the association at Woodstock Saturday night. Mr. Butler is the secretary. The Henry Nells, proprietors of Nell's White House on Route 20 east of McIIenry, returned home this week from a few months' vacation in Lake Worth. Fla. OLIVER APPOINTED TO 9 MANAGE STELLE-BARRETT CAMPAIGN IN COUNTY Stewart T. Oliver of Woodstock has been appointed manager for McHenry county to handle the StelleJBarrett- Adamowski-Maypole campaign. Headquarters have been opened in Woodstock and the caravan will be through on a speaking tour sopn. \ BROOKS-LYONS CARAVAN TO BE IN THIS COUNTY ON TUESDAY. MARCH 12 The Brooks-Lyons caravan will be going through McHenry county Tuesday, March 12. A meeting will be held at Woodstock at 10 a. m., in the circuit court room, court house. At 11 a. m., the candidates will be in Harvard and at Marengo at 11:30. Mr. Lyons is a candidate for governor and Mr. Brooks is running for U. S. senator. 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Wobt tize Check Q MoneyOrderQ Charge • CO.D.Q Name.. •A'i. i . •» VSf: I laMt Skowi Extra Poach tm fmwmt Chw»i McGEE'S Green Street McHenry, 111. & DOROTHY GRAY SPECIAL DRY-SKIN MIXTURE REGULAR $2£« $|®2 SIZE LIMITED TIME lass than half-price on this famous night cream for dry skin. Mtchlylubricaling- HelpssmooHl •way flaklnew,"weather* lines (educed by cold wind, steom beat. Leaves skin feeling* looking, smooth and supple, ivy several (ars for winter nowri Bolger's Drug Store PhraeiO tendant, Mrs. Arthur Holfreter, wore pink net and her bouquet was composed of pink carnations and white snapdragons. Alvin Young, of Northjbrook, brother of the bride, was the best man. Miss Bessie Wienke, organist, played the processional amt recessional. Following a honymoon trip, th€ couple will reside at 717 Division st., Woodstock. The bride attended the Woodstock schools and is employed at the Woodstock Typewriter factory. Mr. Sherman attended the WoodstocH schools and is an employee of the Alemite. P.-T. A. The regular meeting of the Parent- Teacher association was held Wednes day afternoon at three in St. Mary St. Patrick school hall, with over hundred members and friends present. The m e e t i n g was c a l l e d to o r d e r b y ' the president, Mrs. Ray McGee. During the business session, plans were made for Fathers' Night on March 27 the children will provide the program, On April 14, the association is plailning a public card party for the benefit of the school. Plans were also made to snonsor a soring style show on Ascension Thursday, May 2. After the business session. Miss A dele _JFroehlich sang two beautiful numbers ^accompanied by Mrs. Carl Weber. Father Paul, the speaker for the afternoon, gave a very instructive talk for the parents. He urged them to watch carefully their children's companions and to supervise leisure time. His talk was much appreciated by all the parents. Mrs. A. J. Wirtz and Mrs. Paul Brefeld rendered a piano duet The next meeting of the association will be held Wednesday afternoon, Ap*Jl 3. Above is the BUICK SPECIAL four-door touring sedan ing gets and the talk you hear abou{ right now, style-wise, comfort-wise and feature-wise, it is the car others will be like "some day. So do the'obvious thing. Go try out this superb traveler. You'll never be * really happy till you have one. five-foot front seat room in the SUPBK and its Foamtex cushions soft at tr* down puff. ^delivered at Flinty Mich. Transportation based on rail rates, state and local taxes (if any), optional equipment and accessories -- extra. Prices subject to change without notice. Prices Begin at THERE are a lot of things about this stunning 1940 Buick to claim your attention--that is, if you really want to know what's what io motor* For instance, yoti've got & admit that its style has done a lot to brighten up and beautify the boulevards*" And you have to agree, from the way folks are swinging over to Buick, that it must have something value-wise that's pretty important What you hear about its quick-off-th|i^ mark engine and the silkiness it gets from balancing after assembly certainly calls for inquiry. But skipping this--eVen skipping the fact that Buick's prices are lower than some sixes -- there's one thing that alone is enough to send you hot-footing to your Buick dealer. That's the fact,' obvious from the Very looks of other cars, that as Buick goes these days so goes the industry. So do the rave notices BuiCoil Spring* It set this year's pace last year--and for Basins* Coupe -Man prices start at $955 R. I. OVERTON MOTOR SALES firont Street, W*st McHenry, HL 216 Main St., Crystal Lake, I1L the Want Ada i mvs Sa/c6/" EXEMPLAR OF GENERAL MOTORS VALUE X*4