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' •., i«^k' ••'- . • . •».* 4»r -••«**" >w ' .«- 0*1 V •*..' »*' * ^ JftK* ( \ \ \ . r 1»:>4 At .* t'* H >%' >n fek'icijja U» ;, .>« i W-.J iSWfeA' ^ ':•/ •'-•*! : " A ' < * McHEHBY, 1LUNOJB, THTJESEAY, MAY 30,1940 y*- DEATHS iWEli DISS IN TAVERW AT WOODSTOCK Elverd A. Hawkins, 78 years wof's , ^*, /retired Chicago A North Western w * ^vjxaSroiid Pulhnan conductor, ptaeed ,-vV »§ aw&y in his sleep at his borne at WdSii\ n\ «!** Lake Sunday morning, apparently „/V the victim of a heart attack. Hawkins, who wm bom :n St. 14 ;/Charles, III., on May 18, 1868, retired several years ago after having bey> employe of the railroad tar fbety 4. v " years. He purchased a home at Wonder Lake and has resided there since • his retirement Two nieces and a nephew from Chicago visited him Saturday nigljfcThey told Coroner E. H. Cook that Hawkins appeared in good health when he retired about eleven o'clock Saturday wight. When they attempted ttt - awaken him Sunday morning they found him dead. • f The body was removed to the Jacob Jnsten & Son funeral chapel in this city where Coroner Cook conducted an inquiry Sunday afternoon. The jury found that death was due to natural ELECTED SENIOR CLASS PRESEDENTAf COLLEGE OF PHARMACY, CHICAGO f . t - _____ . Riehard Vycital.-whe h|w iustaompleted his JhinimMpear "at the Uiilve?- of of Pkpmaer, has the honor of.hehtg elected president of t.h« Senior class of 1941. Re has been (Hither honored by having been asked-te.ash'x- in the Senior class of ty& Mt $mht graduation exercise* to be held June 7 atf the Civic Opera house in Chicago. Richard, An honor student at the university, has served as a member of the student council, was chairmen •W the dinner-dance held at the Edgewater hotel early this spring and was aW'*|ifN4|$ed dmrman of the Junior class pfa&c beld May 8*. ABOUND THE »> ; COURT HOUSE ON BOND Albert Poster was released on bond Monday morning after Ids arrest on a disorderly conduct charge. His wife, Dorothy Pester of Alden, signed th'e complaint. The c«se was continued one week. 1 CHARGED WTni THKPT ^ggj Ray Cossboin is being held in the Hawkins was preceded in death by eounty jail on a charge of larceny of his wife, Nellie, nee Kelly, to whom)* thirty dollar necklace from-Hazel he was married on December 18. 1884.1 Hubbard in h tavern At Burton's Although they had *no familv of their Bridge last Saturday. own, they raised two children who survive, Albert Hawkins of LaGrange and Birdie Van Steenberg of Chicago. DISMISS SALES TAX SUIT The case of the Department Of He is also survived by a sister. Etta Finance agafnst Julia Petriak of Judson of Washington, D. C.. and by , Cary charging $143.39 delinquent several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conducted at two o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the .Jnsten funeral home in McHenry, with Interment in South Elgin cemetery. Gene Cunningham Gene Cunningham, a transient newspaperman, died Saturday night at mid* night in a Woodstock tavern. Nothing is known of the man's family relations, nor the cause of the sudden "death. Chief^of Police Harold Kemer- * ling has been pressing a search to find sales tax was dismissed Friday. The defendant could not be found in the county. *'I'**./&• Ji Ho. 2 is »GHTH cnunisRs KSCHVX DIPLOMAS AX TOBLIC SCHOOL Friday, May 31, the pupils at the. Public Grade' "Schobl will gaily trot home, carrying all their books and a carefree air, for they will be on the brink of a tlMMMMMth vacation. Besides a load Of books, nineteen eighth graders will proudly possess a diploma whkh'WlH nark the end of a big step ill education and they will be looking forward to an even higher thrill, that of entering high school in the fall. The class vaise Marshall Edstrom, Hunter, Ru Landgren, Alia# ler. Mary Ann Bonnie aid SchaefMV Sherman. Daro i« m follows: Ger ire Be!lmg, Jr., 48 SENIORS TO MERIT HrUMl FRIDAY EVEIOK s. T. wmuis TO oiurn V'i.: Address I^orty-ej^ht students are looking forward, not too eagerly, to Friday night, May 31, when they, the class ^ of 1940, will assemble to receive their INryl Coiby.'Betty JtiipiomM at the M^Henry Comnumity Hayes, Everett®^2'1 school auditorium. > Elaine Barbara Mil- ; Norman Neiss. Redraft, Don- Achaefer. Edith omas. HEUBY NEWS ; any relatives or friends of the man. DIVORCE GRANTED charge was , desertion. They were divorce from Julia Mae Freeman by Judge William L. Pierce Friday. The playing variou s games. Besides the npuried on September 3, 1931. PETmOKB TQlt BOND ISSUE ELECTION SOON WILL BE CIRCULATED rlMSQiuMP*«ntenced ^ 1serre •nths in Ine county jail Friday my EN SIX MQNTHS six months ... »..vj j. Information from the police de-jby Judge William L. Herce on a partment disclosed that Cunningham j chaMg^of contempt of court. Schalx s,u^u had come to Woodstock May 18. or is cW^jfiil with iteSSing an order of earlier, being released from an Indi- the court in a separate maintenance suit filed by his wife, Margaret. The court ordered Schalz to pay fifty dol hospital six weeks before. He had spent the week in McHenry eounty, although all of the time spent lars per month for the support of his within the county is not accounted for. wife and child. It is said he is $460 He came to McHenry last Friday but back in his payments. Schalz was arit is not krfown definitely how long be rested last week on a farm near Johnsremained in the city. i burg by Deputy Sheriff Harold E. Police Chief Kemerlinr is of'thejRese. Officers had been hunting for opinion that Cunningham was in hisjSchals since last October at which ffoorrttiieess,, aanndd maayy ppoossssiibbllyy have been a time a warrant was issued for his ar- ' World War veteran. He had told people that he had a wife and child, but no means of positive identification yM found on his person. ; # . Xemerling said he had learned from . various people from whom Cunningrest by Judge Charles F. Hayes. Another road meeting was held at ithe McHenry city hall Monday evening, attended by representatives from the nearby communities, when plans were again discussed for the township bond issue. Mayor R. I. Overton pre- . , CAU8E& 14 -C. ft. -Willett, Wftsultfng Hifinewf ^ from Dixon, 111., was present and answered many question which came up regarding the proposed issue. Petitions are now being prepared, asking for a call for a special election to be held on the bond iseue proposition. These will be circulated within the next few days. • News of the improvement now being made on what is known as the Bay road by the county was received with much pleasure on the part of the resort residents, an account of which appealed in last week's Plaindealer. The bond isue, if voted at the special election, will cover about eleven or twelve miles of improved roads in McHenry township. NEW TRUCE IS REACHED MAY IN MILK STRIKE OVER •zi&T CONTINUE DIVORCE CASE v. After i lengthy hearing on the divorce Spit of Vera Orton vs. Harold Orton in the circuit court Friday, the ham had asked for work that he was ' case was continued for one week. a graduate of Notre Dame university, j Mrs. Orton is seeking a divorce on a and had worked on various metropoli-I charge of drunkenness. It was dis- HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS tan newspapers. J closed near the conclusion of the hear-1 SEEK LOCAL EMPLOYMENT An inquest was conducted by Coron- ing that the plaintiff had previously er Edward H. Cook of Huntley at 4 filed a suit for divorce in Kane coun- With the advent of summer vacao'clock Monday afternoon. I ty. Attorney V. S. Lumley, represent-1 tion, Mr. Duker is again running a lit- Marshal George Jepson ling the defendant, asked for'a con-j tie employment bureau at the high Marshal Geon?e Monroe Jepson. 60. tinuance until he could investigate school for a number of Juniors and years old, who had been employed by what action had been taken on the the village of Wauconda for nineteen Kane county seat. The plaintiff lives years, passed away Saturday, May 25, in Marengo. in his home. He was' born in Stara-1 ford, Vt., May 22, 1880, and came to MAY BE DEPORTED Illinois in 1899. j John Schmidt 32 years old, of Chi- Deliveries of milk were started again Monday morning, after a strike of wagon drivers fn Chicago, which lasted for eight d*jrs. A new truce was conceded the night before. The drivers voted to return to work at the pre-strike basis wag® of $48 a week, pending further investigations. The Inside Dairy Workers Union agreed -to a similar proposal. The strike cost farmers $480,000. Strikers lost >280,000 in wages. Dealers, who said they were losing money before the strike began, incurred additional losses which put the total strike bill at more than a million dol- S. Members of the Teamsters Joint council, headed by Leslie G. Goodie, to sit in on negotiations. (The drivers' union is affiliated with the teamsters' council.) 4. If no agreement' is reached by June 10, disputed points are to be discussed within forty-eight hours at a meeting with Mayor Kelly and State's Attorney Courtney. 5. There will be a 64 hour week. €. Seniority right will be United, with actual proviaions subject to ne gotiation. 7. If all negotiations fail, an ar bitration board of two dealers and two jFour hours solemn Ceremony at Immaculate C<m0Sfttion chapel, Mdndelein, Saturdays May 18, climaxed a week of praytr and meditation for thirty-three yoting faen who Were ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood on that dajr, with Archbishop Samuel A. Stritch officiating. A former dance band musician was at the Ridge field Gospel Tabernacle on Sunday evening, May 26. Evangelist Charles B. Bernadi, a converted dance band |B«taian of Highland Park has playM at many dances around Crystal t*ke and nearby places. Many feita danced to his music in that vie m&. His unusual presentation of the uMpel and the saxointerest to all. Coupled with the joy that comes as a result of having completed a great milestone in the life of each student. there is that touch of sadness which reminds each one that this commencetnent exercise will probably be the^v « last time the entire class- will he to- re* v fcether. •. •• s Many members of the daw* Are de-frsi«N! > termined to seek higher education^ c others are going to larger cities to-' find employment, and some wiH work-* • - J out a career in the community. But . :T whatever be their calling, our wish isfor their happiness and success, and * the determination to carry out their ? ; undertakings. >> Program for May $1 . following is the program, the. twentieth annual commencement exercises, which will begin at 8:15 p.m. Friday: Processional, "Priests' March" from Athalia--Mendelssohn. < > Overture, "Poet and PeasaBtfJisp-vwi • Suppe. • i v;\ High School Orcnestra- N _ : , Director, Mr. Paul Yandet ? :/?r Address -- Mr. E. T. Wilkes, Director Union League Foundation for Roys*- * Clubs. ' ' "The Heavens are Declaring"Lad- r wig von Beethoven. ; \. !* The Senior Class Director, Miss Lucia Rat 4 y?i*i Mrs. Elizabeth Flannery, 67, a resident of the New Castle hotel at Libert yville with her husband, Earl, for the past year, died at 1:30 a. m. Sunday, May 1% pn the way ^to Condell Memorial !hQ|^H|where she was taken after sUrapfnff in her chair at Hansen's cafe where she was having a late me45^l!fWrt» of thfc Libertyville fire deprtment «qusd to revive her proved futile. Paul Donovan, 34 years old, of Elunion members is to be set up. If the gin, and his companion, Miss Anna board cannot agree, Archbishop Stritch or some one named by him will be asked to be the final arbitrator. MARRIAGE LICENSES' Walter Wegner, Crystal Lake, 111., to Elma Kahle, McHenry, 111., May 18, 1940. Leon C. Rogers, Woodstock, 111., to Gertrude M. Phillips, Woodstock, 111., May 20, 1940. Walter J. Gerijotas, Cicero, I1L, to Mildred E. Maltby, Chicago, 111., May 22. 1940. Raymond C. Lange. Crystal Lake, lars. To this was added the cost of, 111., to Edna M. Rottschalk, Crystal Seniors who are seeking employment In the vicinity. There are about ten girls and ten boys who are interested in do}n«r almost any type of work. The girls are capable of doing office / riedly called receiving stations in the work, typing and shorthand, clerical Chicago milkshed. where 1.000.000 work^ housework, etc. The boys would i more quarts were waiting. The fl»-st the first strike May 1-3 Agree to Eventual Arbitration Both unions assented to eventual arbitration if new negotiations are fruitless. Archbishop Samuel Av St-'^ch. head of the Chicago Catholic i»-rhdiocepe. or his authorized reprr»- =-nt»tive. will be asked to arbitrate tji® disnute. With only 300 000 quarts of the Sunday supnly available, dealers hur- He is survived by five brothers, cago, was turned over to E. W. Krause Andrew. Marshall, Robert and Norris of the department of labor last Fri-1 like to mow lawns, clerk in a store, 1 tank trucks were rolling toward Chiof Stamford, and Chauncey Jepson of day. Schmidt has been held in the work on a farni> or do any number of cago before midnieht Ringwood; his widow, Edith; two county jail on a charge of selling odd jobs. sons, Stanley and Gerald, and a daugh- mortgaged property without the con-1 ter, Mrs. Mary Heidner, all of Wau- ( sent of the mortgagee. Schmidt no^v j Mr. and Mis. R. E. Sutton of Chi- ately at the pre-strike basic wage conda, ~ " " Seven Point Proposal 1. Men to return to wr^rk immedi- Local Firemen Injured At Dairy Plant Fir# | faces a charge of violating the immi- jcago spent the weekend with Mrs. Ger- 2. Negotiations with the dealers to He was a member of Mayflower gration law. It is claimed he and his trade Justen. ((he continued until June 10. chanter, O. K.45., and Wauconda lodge,' family entered the United State#-from ; A.F. A A.M. j Canada in 1936 without the proper Masonic services were held T"°«dav i papers and has remained in this counafternoon at two o'clock In the Peder- try too long being classed as an alien. ated church, Wauconda, with Rev. R. It was indicated as the federal officer C. Hallock officiating. I took over the custody of Schmidt that Mrs. Mary Cook he will be deported immediately. When Mrs. Fred M. Cook, 80 years old,! arrested Schmidt was employed as a died in her sleep sometime early Mon- taxi driver in Chicago. day morning in her farm home in j Greenwood township, east of Wood- LIONS CLUB HOLDS stock. Her health had been 'failing! for the past three years.,, " • j Survivors are her widower, to w&onw d i e w a « m a r r i e d f i f t y ^ L e i « r h t y e a r * S j f o j H . . . . . . . and a daughter, Mrs. Ed'Beck of.Cfe-i' I cago. She was born in Mankato. Minq., ] year was held by. the McHenry Lions Lake, 111.. May 23, 1940. Cyril J. Bosteda, Gurnee, III., to Anna Hogberg, Libertyville, 111., May 22,1940. A marriage license has been issued in WJaukegan to Henry B. Harper, 22, and Rosella Sandbloom, both of McHenry. CARDOFTHANK® We wish to express our thanks and appreciation to the members of fire departments and all who assisted at the time of the recent fire at the dairy, and to apologize to those customers j who missed delivery the next day, due to injuries to the drivers of our trucks. MHk delivery win now continue as | usual. I McHENRY DAIRY, .,2 Dale Thomas, Prop. ELECTION OFJ3FFICER8 pit TUESDAY EVENING tjlectipn x>f officers for the coming and with her husband came to the Woodstock vicinity fifteen years ago from Portland, Oregon^ Funeral services were held on Wed- •*».. neftday at the Merwin funeral home in Woodstock, with interment in the . Greenwood cemetery. , Fred Nelson Benent * Fred Nelson Bement, who had te- , sided at Wauconda for the past fifteen . years, died at ten o'clock Saturday . • j night. May 25. in his home after a lingering illness. He was bom in Burnett. Wis., on November 10. 1873. was a Spanish-American war veteran and was active in Masonic circles. Survivors are the widow, Elfrieda; a daughter, Mis® Ruth Jane Bement of Chicago, and a sister, Mrs. Edna White of Brooklyn, Wis. Funeral services were eopdueted at ' J two o'clock Wednesday in the Feder- "jT ated church by the Rev. R. C. Hallock aed the Masonic service was read at Oe grave in Wauconda cemetery. Order Commencement flowers at the Mr#pnry Floral Co. Phone McHenrv , «08Jt-l. 1-2 OWer your Mte ift^Vhe club Tuesday evenings »t a dinner meeting tk ULs McHenry Country c'nb result<ng in the following being named: P^sident--Fred Ferwerda. 1 # First Vice-president--A. E. Njw». focond Vice-president--Chas. TJrttL' Third Vice-president--Paul Schwerman. Secretary--Charles Vycital. " Lion Tamer--Charles Rietesel. - - Tail Twister--George Johnson. ' Directors--Wm. H. Althoff and C. H. Duker. A nuttine contest 'vas wreen before the dinner, with A.< E. Nye capturine first honors. The town shin road question was Htarticsed. with fPaul "Schwerman. chairman of the road committee, givi"< » a detailed report of the accomplishments. The npxt meeting ji Md.ea^Tnne 18. N o t i c e ! McHenry postoffce b* for window service day The loh- Hie plraml Thursday (Decoration Dav). by will be open from 7 to 8 o'clock, but no rural deliveries will be made. Mail will be dispatched at 6 p. m. Gross, also of Elgin, experienced nerve-wracking thrill Monday evening of last week when Donovan's automobile was struck by an express train and twirled around on the pavement at the Hoqgli street crossing of the Chicago A Northwestern railway at Barrington. Donovan, traveling north on Hough street, had pulled around to the right of a car driven by Jack Schancer, Barrington township, who had stopped at the crossing, and halted also. * The Elgin man failed to realize he had stopped so close to the tracks. • Ralph Morris, tenant farmer in the Marengo area, marketed forty-one hogs, six months and seventeen davs old. May 13, which av»faged 247 nounds and for which he received $563. The nrice paid was $6.25 per hundredweight. Eddie Warship, 1815 Kristian ave.. Waukegan. colored, reported to .North Chicago police last Wednesday that several parts were stolen from his car while it was narked in the rear of his residence. Taken were the front bumper, the rear bumner guard, the front lens of the headlights, and the ignition switch. A large stock barn was burned to the ground late Tuesdav afternoon of last week ojj the N. J. Xloltrin farm on Route 22. about two miles east of Lake Zurich, with a loss said to be in the neighborhood of $10 000. The Are started when the barn was struck by lightning. Two Fox Lake school bov«» are to be brought to county court this week for breaking into the Fox Lake grade school building and stealing twenty dollars from the bookcase of Principal William B. Ferry. The two bovs. Ted Monkman, 15, and Harold Winters, 16, were alleged to have jimjnied a rear door on the east side of the school building and then forced open the door leading to the principal's office. Charles Didier, of 4109 N. Ashland avenue, Chicago, a mail carrier, suffered painful injuries Wednesday noon of last week, when he sought to be a good Samaritan. Priving on U. .S 12, south of Wauconda, Mr. Didier noticed a woodchuck on the naveroent which apparently was crippeld or sick. Stopping- his cpr he was about to help the animnl to a place of safetv. when Mr. Woodchudk up and sank his teeth into the mail man's left hand and arm. Rubin Carter, 55. of 1504 Catalpa avenue, Waukegan, is in a critical condition at the Victory Memorial hosnital with injuires sustained Saturday morning in an accident at the North Western repair facks. Carter, an employe of the "railroad, suffered fractures of both legs and oossible internal injuries when-he fell between the tracks- under a moving freieht train. The box car* tvassed over him •before he was rescued. C. H. Duker. "Salutation" -- Samuel R. Gaines, fg "Ave Maria" -- Nicola A. Montani. 'v, "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" -- Noble Cain* CL Girls' Sextet ^ f Presentation of DiplomM <•& M'laa/ Helen C. Stevens. A;:: "America*' -- Leo Ornstefii'V Senior Clas#:. i Class of t#4% UTHOf* tured above, looking at the ruins of dairy plant fire, which occurred at the McHenry Dsiry .last ••»•••••>»»« t »M 11 It 11IH JBirttis Mr. and Mrs. Eari R. Walsh are re- .Thursday morning, are Herman JLreataer and Ted Millar, two members of the McHenry fire department^ yhfr wn I ^ at^t°Wwd severely burned whUe fighting the blase. The dairy pl»nt is owned by Dale Thomas and will be rebuilt. , (stock hospital* | . - ' a ' - , . • " tf • A' - » '• • • * " ^ r ANITA MARIE ALT! ETHEL A. ALTHOFF ELVA A. BAUMAN GER A I,DINE W. BECKER ^ PAULINE CATHERINE BCttjp MABEL BOLGER MBERWYON BOTTRELL* HELEN LUCY BUCH > s BEATRICE JEANETTC RUM RICHARD W. CLARK . ^ ESTHER GRACE COLBY » . KENNETH CRISTY. JR. LAURA ELAINE DENMAN 'fik MARJORIE DUKER< II DELMA BEATRICE FREUBQL^ RICHARD W. FREUND " * EDWARD JOSEPH GAUSDttJ LEO JOSEPH GERT.ACH . MARIE LOUISE JOHNSON ' DORIS JEAN KENNEBEC* * HELEN KILDAY GERALD J. LARKIN WALTER EDWTN LOW JANE Mr ANDREWS ' CATHERINE MARY McCARTOT RETA MAE MERCHANT /I ROBFRT C. NFWKIRK , - ALICE I OTTTPF NlCKEt P **§ LLOYD WILLTAM OFFFII#, •PBGC.Y ANN CWFFLING ^ BETTY MAF ORR *•'»<*& .. *•••••"<* RUTH FSTHER PATE .w. . PATRTCIA M. PHAT TN JAMES A. ROTFFRMEL T,OPRAI>fE.C. PCHAEFER • . ' WH.RFRT H. SCHAEFER '•» Is,, FRANCIS M. 5STHMITT HEPM\N AVDRFW SCHMITT ROBERT JEROME SCHUL^ 1 PAUL WOT Fr.\NG SHAMJE . EARL L. SMITH ^ LTTET,T,A SMITH PEARL SMITH DAVID RUSSEl, SWANSOH CHARLES L. THOMPSON DONALD H. TONYAN EUGENE UNTI LUCILLE E. WEINGART \ TWO EAGLE SCOUTS ^ OIVEir RECOGNITION AT COURT OF HONOR • At the Court of Honor which wiis held at the high school auditorium on Monday evening, two Boy Scouts were recognized as Eagle Scouts, although they have not as yet received their pins. These two boys, Ted Belling, Jr.. and Glenn Peterson, Jr., were recognized by Mr. Murphy, Field Executive of the Boone-McHenry district. The award as Life Scout was pre» sented to Thomas Lawaon by Rev. Albert Blood. Star Scout awards were presented by William H. Althoff to the follow-* ing: Junior Bonslett, George Brda," Rudolph Johnson, Robert Clark. Rob* ert Richardson and Dean McCracken^ Adolph Weideman, Charles Page, Robert Peterson. Norman Knaack an«j~ .Marshall Buchert received their First{ Class Scout awards from Ray Page. M. L. Schoenholtz awarded the Sec-* ond Class Scout pins to Carl Adams and Norman Freund. Mr. Duker participated m the activities by awarding the Merit bady*«, David Swanson. Jr., Assistant Scout*-qmaster, took an active pact in tho v lesdinf. * Buy' your "Raby Chicks at the Farra-» ers ilfill, the Bom* ef Geed Q»kriai| 4?,S r . .tfe. ^ - A •; ."•'j .!j • SSfri! "••AF i- • ""i % • 4"-