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Thursday, May 7/1942 iijy' mjifWiP) jM "SO I HEAR" • by fy-" EARL WALSH? joHiigBimarxaKBs TUX SHAHKOCKS OPEKINQ GAME, 14 -4 Local fans got thair first glim*.* of home talent baseball last Sunday afternoon as the veteran Johns burg Tigers trimmed the up-and-coming How easy it is the night before to A*.t°. get up early the next morning. 1 RED 0*088 H0TE8 A public card party for the benefit of the local Red' Cross was given by the teachers and pupils of the Mc- Henry Grade School Firday, May 1. It was an event of elegance from the standpoint of p«triotism and skill. Never have we seen the co-operation and teamwork so harmoniously car- | ried out. From the moment you enter- That's why we might as well set at a column tonight. Writing a column is fun anyway.». so we say to ourself .. . ."Git goin'-- don't brood. You're a man--not a Bill Kreutzer, using a "nothing ball most of the afternoon, had the control j e(j courtesy and cheerful service preto put the ball right where his veteran vailed. More than fifty tables were receiver, Joe Freund, called for it. Jim Larkin, a stand-out moundsman with the Shamrocks last season, apserved a most delicate dessert lunch by the ladies, with little girls and their small girl captains, as well, flitparently was not ready for the as- ,tjng among the attractive tables givsignment against the. Tiger bat-wield-j prompt service. Each of the well ers. Of course, five errors by his trained waitresses was daintily garb- Getting news is much like they say about a lot of people who have an itch for money ... you have to scratch for it Just thinkin' . . . we've been fairly fiaceful in the column of late. Gtless it dates back to a discussion with'the editor on our expense account and income tax. Sex he, "Income taxes could be a lot worse. Suppose you had to pay on what you think you're worth." teammates were anything but helpful to "Big Jim's" cause. Dick Conway slammed Kreutxer's first offering of the game for a twobase hit and scored the first run of the game. But the victors came back with - three runs in the second and lyere never headed from there on. Do you realize that several of our good column characters are miming from the front line of John Dreymiller went back to farm- , ing. That was quite a blow. Ue and ... Iris dog Were good for newspaper , copy most any week. ' « . -HWe didn't get much news from Mattis Engeln; but we'll miss his imitations. Vern Harrison was misaed'last week especially. You know, he always had the Kentucky Derby houses picked for us 1-2-3. He's in the army now. -IIOf course, Vern could pick baSeball --"teams, prize-fighters or any winner in « sports. That's what he said! * J o k r a b a r g ' • y „ ' \ 7 AB '% H H. Freund, cf --J6• 3 fc'-. 2 N. Smith, 2b ......... 6 2 Meyer, ss ........... 5 1 1 W. Smith, lb ... 6 2 2 Pitzen, If --2 2 D. Freund, 3b 8 2 1 0 0 J 2 0 J. Freund, c :.... JJ-, . 0 1 Kreutzer, p 4 1 2 «o ur a:ttrac;k^? ,i S. Freund, Sb Milleir rf Totals Shamrocks /- 43 14 14 Now, Simon Stoflfel has been called from this earth. There was a humorist -- a fun-maker in any crowd. Man! How he and Vern used to get going when Joe Louis (the Brown Bomber) was coming into prominence. --II-- Leo Conway says he's the guy who Hpovered Lou Smith's step-ladder and if Lou paid four bits recovery fee somebody (like for' instance Matt Bauen) must have got it. Looks like a case for officer Baker to run down. -II- • Saw the Johnsburg Tigers beat the 8hamrocks last Sunday, Wet track. Tigers best mudders. "fc *»;• Conway, 3b W. Bolger, c 4*'. H. Dowell, ss - p 4 < Larkin, p - 2b „4. T. Bolger, 2b - ss ......4 H. Stilling, If 4 B. Bolger, rf ... ...4 j . Crouch, lb ....... ....2f B. Dowell, cf ......j „...2 L. Stilling, cf ......... Twice Told Totals ,.85 4 7 Score by Innings Johnsburg ..031 503 110--14 14 2 Shamrocks ..100 000 120-- 4 7 5 Two-base hits--Conway,, Pitzen, 2; W. Smith. Bases on balls--off Laikin, 7; off Kreutzer, 2. Struck out-- by Larkin, 8; by Dowell, 1; by Bill Kreutzer, 10. Hit by pitcher--Larkin (D. Freund). Umpires--Schmitt, Johnsburg, and Cristy, Ringwood. McHENRY INDIANS OPEN SEASON WITH 6 - 2 WIN AT HARVARD Like 01' Man River, Joe Freund goes on and on. Looked good last Sunday- -lilt will be interesting to safe the same two teams when they meet again. Those Shamrocks couldn't lose for winnin' last year and will be out for revenge. With a couple of more games under Larkin's belt, hell be tough to beat. -IIThe McHenry Indians want u£\to Harvard and got off to a good start, winning 6 to 2. v_ Joe Jackson held fti Harvard •wingers well in hand while his mates were scoring six runs. -IIIn checking the schedule of our high school baseball team, we find the next game coming up May 18 on our home oiamond. That's next Wednesday afternoon. Mark it down and tell your friends, enemies and everybody. Waukegan comes to town. -IICoach Reed has a high school squad that can play plenty of baseball. Zion - Benton plays )iere May 18 and Hebron comes to town May 20 for the final game of the season. -IIWhile we think of it, Harold Freund atruck out' the side in order in the ninth inning of that Richmond game. Last week we reported two men fanned. The McHenry Indians started the season with a win over Harvard by the score of 6-2. Joe Jackson, pitching for the Indians, allowed Harvard four hits. He also had fourteen strikeouts to his credit. Wagner and Wheeler led the hitting attack with two hits apiece, with the latter getting a double and single. The Indian^ will travel to Algonquin next Sunday. ed and wore a tiny cap topped with nosegays. We wish especially to commend the teachers for the success of this benefit which was the first public demonstration since war began. Though the boys and their leader, Principal M. Schoenholtz, would have us think it was just fun we appreciate their efforts discharged so willingly. Cards were enjoyed following introduction of our county chairman, Mrs. Phinney, and chairman of the Woodstock chapter, Mrs. Lawrence. Mrs. Owen gave an interesting account of Station Wagon duties and its service. It was parked and displayed on the school campus. School Superintendent C. H. Duker expressed his pleasure in the patriotic demonstration of good will toward the Red Cross and introduced the officers present. The school gymnasium was ablaze with flags and flowers and with the tumult of "ye friends" of the Red Cross presented a wonderful spectacle. Many of the Red Cross workers were in uniform to hoinor the occasion. ""The score cards were hand-made and were tiny folders with outside cover decorated with the Red Cross emblem. Tickets were also printed by the committee and the sale of same will enable Red Cross to provide for the comfort of our soldiers at war as well as needy evacuees. --R--C-- A. visit to Group I of the First Aid class consisting of forty ladies under the direction of Miss Hancock of Crystal Lake revealed a most worthy project of preparedness. The study of resuscitation was of great interest and the class aims to masted the course of instruction given. An iinhaiator-resusctiator was demonstrated by some expert whose name we did not Ittfh. itte visit was much enjoyed. --R--C-- " Elvira Durland and Alice Barbian were in Woodstock Tuesday. They visited the Red Cross chapter there. --R--C-- Nurses Aide will resume their studies May 15th following two weeks vacation. Mrs. Rulien, school ntm*F, veee4red many compliments on the excellent coffee served at the Bad Cross bene fit. TWENTY YEARS AGO Harvard -- & s i •J'-i v AB R B McCauley, rf .„w4 0 0 Venable, 2b 4 * 0 Anderson, ss R. Zell, lb * « .....3 l' ii B. Zell, Sb 2 1 a Flanders, If ,...2 0 0 Jones, c S *. 0 b Jackson, If-3b ............ ...J 0 I Wittness, cf 3 0 « Kottke, p ....5 0 1 Totals ..Jl * 4 Iadiaaa -- K \ AB R H A. Jackson, cf .....4 1 1 Lay, ss .....5 0 1 B. Britz, 3b .....4 0 1 Meyers, lb .....ft cc 0 G. Jackson, c .....5 '0 0 Wheeler, If .....4 1 2 J. Wagner, rf .....2 1 2 N. Brits, 2b .....4 1 0 J. Jackson, p 3 L 1 Totals ...39 <r • Herman Schaefer drew attention Tuesday night as he rolled a 681 series in the annual Watch City Tournament, taking over second place. Have jtvkeep McHenry on the map.. SPORTSSOFTBALL TEAM The softball team of the Pistakee Bay Boys school is desirous of arranging games with other high school teams in this vicinity during the spring season. Any teams interested are asked to call Pistakee 325. Tney Fanny Freund "won the singles witl ^ either on their own di*mond nM ' iii 1 or at the \ matches at Schaefer's with '$11. Mabel Lemeron finished second (583), E. Hoyte third (554), Carol Kean' fourth (528)'and Alice Barbian fifth <623). * -IIJufci to show that it makes no difference, Fanny rolled a 598 actual pins in the doubles now going on at Sch?efers'. -IIThe Viking Girls beat Woodstock in two games at the Palace Sunday night, but somebody walked off with the scores. ;• -IIA Shut Oat may have been good enough to win the Kentucky De by, but* trie White Sox needn't think they, can w in the American League pennant that way. Just when we were sold on the idea that the Sox needed a slugging outfielder, Dykes benches the whole infield. Now we are confused. -II- •litalias Tubby' Simonini, well known, Afgonquin pitcher is off to a good start with a Cardinal Class B farm club, Asheville, N. C. -II- . The Shamrocks, scheduled to play here next Sunday announcr?that their game has been switched tothe Crystal Lake diamond. -IIDid you ever think two pounds of sugar would look so important on the pantry shelf ... or wherever you hide it? , other schools. More than 10,000 signed pledges of greater co'-operatiop f^om war workers have been received by &far Production Board chairman Donald M. Nelson although no call for such pledges was issued in connection with the great national drive to increase war production by at least twenty-five •v tmL If you've never heard of this per Son you have been neglecting your news reading. About 24 years ago he and thousands of other soldiers ware over in France. Before that he was in Japan. Then he went on an expedition to Vern Cruz, Mexico. Upon his return from France he held numerous positions in "the same government department for which he ib now working. Some time after that he was in the Philippines as director oi national defense. His boss then or dered him to come back to the U. S. ' on a different job. His last name--and maybe this will give it away--is the same as that person's who collaborated with pen Hecht in writing, "The Front Page." He is 62( years old, and has bffthday four days before "President Roosevelt. The President sent him congratulations and greetings on his recent birthday. Do you know who he is? Well, he is Gen. DouglatS Mac- Arthur of Philippine Island cam' paign. ^ ( --8f* n"tc"*e Bonds-- out ef every IS OUR QUOTA for VICTORY wilb U.tWMB0m Receipts from the salt of playiag rards on the huge cake at the card psrty Friday brought in $17.10. It was divided between Mrs. Owen and Mrs. Olson. Mrs. Lowe vary kindly atmavncod to Red Cross co-workers through Mrs. Walsh, the birth of a born at Lying-in hospital, Chicago, Thursday, April 23. Weight, 7 lbs. She was named Veronica Mary. Mrs. Lowe came home Monday with her baby daughter. A son, Henry, four years old, and his Grandma Lowe 4waited them. Congratulation*! • . Sewing for Refagaea I flme is my mother. LOOK "well, please, so that if y6u should come upon her--plodding down some dusty road, or huddled in a field--you will know this, and do what you can to help. , She is beautiful. You see that, Jon't you? The way she smiles, an n d o m i t a b l e s h i n i n g o f c o u r a g e through bewilderment? And her vyt»s--holding both hurt and trust, not coiiipi ebi nditig why they must look so iuoii again upon daik horror. Will .,ou not help her, then? , They call her refujree^but she is nother first. Those tender hands healed my childish hurts. They helped till the land and make it home. They built security for me with infinite patience, knowing how precious and hard -o keep. And now home is shattered. hrurity gone, and she has no one but me, and I am not there. She is so brave, so tired and con- . used. These few sticks of furniture, .smoothed by the loving touch of her ingers, are all that remain. Soon she must leave even this, but she does not know and I hope they will not tell ivr just yet, for roots go deep. She is waiting for help. For shelter, and food, and reassurance, and a place . . est for a moment. She is waiting in Finland, in Poland, in Holland, in tieigium, in France, in Norway, in England. She will sit watching forever, confident that the next striding figure will be mine, so sure that somehow I will know what they have done and come quickly. I cannot come today, Mother; I am fighting on the wide plains of France and this is war. Mother, I cannot cume at all; yesterday I died in Flanders and so found peace. II perchance you meet her along the ondiess way she must go alone, will you not reach out your hand? She needs so little. A warm shawl, shoes without holes. A few medicines, pernaps. A safe place to stay where the war thunder is not always. 1 et who. Mother? will nave strength to whisper. "He is not coming" . . . and touch your hand in understanding, knowing why you do not cry . . . the is my mother; she neidg m and I am not there. ___ Nat Perfectly Round The earth is not perfectly round. The equatorial diameter of the earth is 7,926 miles; the polar diameter, 7,899.9 miles, or 26.1 miles less than Am equatorial diameter. I Paul Meyers and family have moved into the house on Pearl street recently vacated by Pat McCabe and family. Judging from the way the two local lumber concerns are hauling out building materials each day, the 1922 building boom for McHenry and the Fox river territory is already on in full swing. The new ice cream parlor on Riverside Drive,' conducted by Mrs. Jos. J. Rothermel, saw its opening last Saturday. The parlor is located in the old meat market building, which has undergone changes that now make it a most inviting place. John Karls, oldest son of Mr/*W]d Mrs. Fred Karls of this villajfe, wfhj during the past several years has been employed at the Oliver typewriter factory at Woodstock, has moved his family back to McHenry and on Saturday of this week will open up a cafe in the John J. Buch^ butiding>near th« river bridge. THIRTY YEARS AGO VA simple but quite impressive church wedding was solemnized at St. Mary's Catholic church here at nine o'clock on Wednesday morning, when Rev. Royer united the hearts and hands of Miss Rosa Adams and Mr. Mathias M. Schaefer. ^jOn this day John Heimer, the veteran saloon keeper on Green street, will pass the business over to his oldest son, William, and his son-in-law, Arthur Bickler. Butter was declared firm at 31 cents on the Elgin board of trade Monday. The ice cream soda season is on full blast at the McAllister drug 'store. The -new tables and chairs just suit the "little tots." The roads are very dusty of late What is McHenry going to do regarding the sprinkling of her streets this summer? FORTY YEARS AGO S. Reynolds is tearing down the unsightly and foul-smelling hog pens on his land back of the mill. It's a good move and will be appreciated by people in that neighborhood. Paul Mueller has sold his bakery to J. Jorgensen, t f Chicago, who will take possession soon. August Nordquist, of Chicago has purchased Anton Weber's interest in the blacksmith business and the firm will hereafter be Nordquist A Son. Henry Kennebeck. will soon build a new residence on his farm east of town. - F. L. McOmbar and John Stoffel have had city water installed in their residences. ADVICE ON RAISING WAR GARDENS GIVEN BV FUTURE FARMERS For tomato and cabbage in the family garden direct seeding is entirely satisfactory, and does away with the need of purchasing any other plants other than a few of the early varieties. It also prolongs the period during which these vegetables can be kept available. Tomatoes directly seeded will produce good yields and the seed may be planted much earlier than the safe date for transplanting, but matures later. Early cabbage seed should be sown with the first general planting and tomatoes with the second. For late fall cabbage and late cauliflower, seed should be planted about June 1 in McHenry county. Direct seeding of egg plant or pep-' pers is not recommended. For • transplanting to the family garden it pays to buy only well-grown plants in good condition. It is usually best to stick to recommended varieties or to those that have previously given satisfaction in your garden. Plants should be well hardened for transplanting, but not to the point where they show discoloration of stem or foliage or loss of leaves. Choose plants of average size, as they are easier to handle than large plants, are usually less expensive, and will recover more quickly from transplanting. Avoid plants that show any signs of disease or insects. To help plants recover quickly froi»r the shock of transplanting, be careful to disturb the roots as little as possible when digging them up or resetting them; ^ack loose ,moist soil firmly around each plant as it is set, water genrously, and shade from the direct sun until the plants rerrtain unwilted during the day and signs of new growth appear. Delay planting tender plants such as tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant, until seasonal conditions are .^ntirelv favorable. There is nothing to be gained by early planting when' conditions for growth are unfavorable, while severe setbacks may permanently damage them and cause a serious cut in yi^ld. When to apply water is one of the most common questions of th* family gardener. Before the plants have emerged light waterings are advisable to prevent the surface soil from drying out. These should be continued until the plants are well established. After the plants are well established they are the best indicators of their need for water. On a hot, windy day plants will usually wilt during the day and recover during the night. If they fail to recover completely overnight, watering is usually needed. Watering during the day will cause little damage, but it is usually advisable to apply water in the evening, since there is less loss from evapor* tion. Heavy, less frequent waterings usually give better results than lighter, more frequent waterings, since the former method encourages the development of a stronger root sv«t-»m. R. L. PRIMM, Agricultural Instructor. ALEMITE RECREATION CLUB Annual May Dance^ SATURDAY NIGHT, MAY 9, 1942 -- 9:30 PJ j ST. MARY'S GYMt -- WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS " 1 Bill Dobtar's Orchestra '~'v jr?. Admission: Club Member and Gnest Frflt. Non-members: Gentlemen, $1.00; Ifedies, 50ft ' flVTY YEAR8 AGO SIXTY YEARS AGO The 29 pounds of pig iron which go nto the manufacture of an electrically !i iven domestic sewine machine would make enough steel for a .30 calibre machine gun while two such sewing aaihines would yield enough bakelite to make the instrument pawl ior an army fighting plane.» MtU iMtoatWdur. MM IkkMfafay b J Y«tf fM. hn om Mk t--imi>w|. Mai 25 Smart £ '•Upftl, MEN'S wife i Phone II West McHenry Unique Mother's Day gifts direct from California at 60c to $1.60. Nye Jewelry and Music Shop. 61 Old winter will have to stand the accusation of lingering in the lap of spring unless there is a change soon. Cold, raw winds are now prevalent. At an election held recently, two townbhip school trustees, W. H. Harrison, was elected for the full term and Ed Thompson to fill the vacancy, caused by the death of Isaac Jecks. Dr. C. H. Fegers, of this village received the nomination for coroner of McHenry county, at the Democratic County Convention held at Woodstock. Jas. Perry, Jr., of Woodstock, came over on his bicycle on Saturday last. He made the twelve , miles in about two hours. We learn that a company has been formed in this village, who will immediately commence preparations for starting a brick yard on the premises of' F. A. Hebard, where it is said they have discovered the. finest clay for that purpose to be found- in the northwest. Notwithstanding the bad roads, the attendance at Riverside hall on Friday evening, to witness the drama of the "Hidden Hand" by the McHenry dramatic club *ras good and enjoyed the play- F.G. Mayes and his son-iri-la<v JS. H. Bartlett, have purchased of D. S. Smith, the corner lot east of the old Baptist church, and will immediately commence the erection thereon of a store 20x40 and two stories high, which they will occupy themselves, putting in, in connection with Mr. Mayes' merchant tailoring business, • stock of groceries and general merchandise. There occurred at Johnsburg today a double wedding, the marriage of Miss Josie and Miss Minnie Kuhnert, the accomplished daughters of Chas. Kuhnert of that place. 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