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, November ifc, 1943 THE McHSKRY PLAINDEALKK "SO I HEAR ! by EARL R. W ALSH 11 *:y m We are pleased with a letter from .Bart "Legs" Dow ©I I who has travailed ftir from Mc Henry in the serrice of eur country. We can give you parts of,, the let- . "Yes, Earl, I do receive the Plain- ^a4«r, usually about a month late tat even at that it is most welcome. Cine doesn't really appreciate his home ' lowh paper until he gets away from kbme. "One thing I would like to stress to people back home is the fact that grass skirts and ff&ronga "a la Dorothy tamotr' are strictly products of roaiantic minded writers. In other . words, there Just ain't no such thing-- oinly on the shelves of the curio shops for curious souvenier hunters to send v-.Back home. . >"Saw Verne Harrison about 6 weeks ' ago--Also saw Melvin (Walsh) about .1#; weeks ago. Seems funny but for • a couple of weeks Melvin and I were r -within a city block of edch other and neither one knew the other was there. . fiure seems good to see someone from • $be old home town once in a while. ,; ; v/'These islands are beautiful, the cli- •; ;jttate is ideal, these brown-skinned . ^wahines (gals) are not hard to look at. but ]L.. wouldn't trade the) whole rdamn works for our back yard back home." anxiously for another change at thbt gang. . We watcehd our boys in a bit uf practice Tuesday afternoon after school how*^ •: What do W have? #«t. *e MESSAGOEUSR F RSEORMV ICEMEN (Continued from Page One) That's where we crawl seven inches under barbed wire and they fli% machine guns seven inches above your head. Here's one guy who is going to be a human mole. to is the sunny California weather. It's not like they advertise. V \ best regards!! As always, EDDIB E. MATTHEWS. Dear Moee: . . First of all 1 wish to thank you for sending me the paper so faithfully since I have been in the service. Like i bone of alert cadets and most of the fellows I have put --~*e! By the way, my outfit was on theiwi^'n^ ^ moved and am sorr, air last Tuesday. Some of you might|,hat 1 dldnt wr,te sooner. I am sur have heard the program, "This Nation | cverybody in the service appreciate - at War." Well, that was my battery • the home town paper. and I'm sure proud of it. We made i * have moved from Florida®to a days with Gene and his pappy in the good old bread business and I can always remember the swell fun we had in those days. ThieJa^iu^ the life. I believe that noWnere in the world do fellows get fed better than we do here. Three solids a day and what } mean three solids. Major Riley has a firm belief that food is the baekthe cook {J really follows his orders to the letter. I'm getting sqld on the idea myselt. f it wasn't for the two hours of P. T. (physical torture) a day I'm afraid ifiy waist line wonld 8o&»*%how it also. I'm wijh a group of eighteen and , the best outfit in the New York re-;1'amp near Prc8no' California. Th •>; nineteetf^ear-old lads but due to the! r.aV.enL8e^^e^0U®?_ yet .t0 | gion. They're a swell bunch and they j food her* ,B •» well as good, j past nine months, of truly strenuous The ! hail from the forty-eight states and | The clty bus llnes run P*81 the j education and labor on my part, I find ' also a few from Canada. Some of|camp 80 ^ *s easy Set into town. | my twenty-three years have disappeartheni" read your paper as they don't! *'re8no seems like a nice city and the j ed and I feel in the pink. Flying over receive any from their home town and ! ^r's ®re plentiful, which seems j the Tennessee river and surrounding it looks like we have speed, team lacks height they really enjojr it. The ten men wc saw grouped as first team timber were Norm Neisa, Bud Miller, Harold Michels, Bob Frett, Dean McCracken. Art Jackson. Paul all ,ighted up and it sure is nice. As 'Louie Bonslett Bob Schaefer, Bob 1 you know they>ve turned Qn mo6t of Carver and Morrie" Crouch. j the ,ightg now , strange, as most places are low on country side has become great fun Oh yes, Mose, I've seen New York r11"18 for 11,6 amoUllt of Boldler8 pre8'Ithe past week and has aroused inent. • Crouch, a husky fellow with athletic ability, will not be available unr til after the first of the year. /'• "1. They still have what it known as a brown-out though. That last paragraph is a masterpiece. There is nothing missing -- nothing need be added. IN READING T^E PAPERS WE NOTE: That we have about as many killings over here as they have over • tlrere. (And Pistol Packin' Mama hasn't laid her pistol down yet.) That the King of Egypt was injured when his car hit a truck. (The American way is spreading fast.) That we are going to have a new War parley soon. (We suppose they Come first, but God speed the peace parley). A Holstein bull sold for $26,000.00. (Taking our meat bills pound by pound that doesn't seem so far* out of line.) That DeMarigny wants to come to t|ie United States. (Is that necessary?) Prise definition: Small boy: What's a politician, mama? ; Mama : A big mail who talks too much, honey. That's the group we saw* ' lacked smoothness at this early staged but give those boys a couple "of games; and watch 'em go! • Anyhow, night. . . w a t c h n ^ x t ; Tuesday Oh, nttrse! We couldn't belfere 6'ur eyes when we saw a nurse enter the McHenry Post Office and tender "Gman" Brda with a pork-chop sand- On my way here f had the good fortune of passing through Chicago instead of a southern route. It sure 1f seemed good to^see Chicago again kfe 1, Mr. Mosher, thanks again for ter noj seeing it for several months, your paper and thanks to the McHenry j one tj, jng Which looked good to us people who make it possible that we was the sight of neon feigns at night can receive it, as it makes us feel which have been off on the Atlantic closctr to home for a little, while coast all the time I was down there. / SGT. RAY L. NEWMAN " • ' J - ' F l u s h i n g , N e w Y o r k . Dear Folks: 1 8 " * ; • • Just thoQgfiiit-'v^6'4^'ti^'^^e::Hnt\ I'd drop you and the people who made ) in this city we went to the Capitol and We rode the tirain across Salt Lake which sure is si lbng bridge. It is »a .Sight worth seeing. In Sncremento .Calif., we had a lay-qver from early in the forenoon until; evening. While terest anew. Will be looking for next week's news, so let tt come. I'll be waiting for It ' i _ » \ Yours sincerely, ' f " r ROBERT G HARKE V i?eoatur, Ala. it possible for me to receive the home town paper a line. Certainly wish to thank you ever so much for it. purely do enjoy reading every word of it when it reaches me. So far I've been wich. We knew that last bowling j in three different countries and none match with the Jones Candy Kids took |of them can compare with the States, an awful toll, but had no idea any of j Wish I could write all about these the boys were under the care of a i countries, but at the present time we registered nurse. j aren't allowed to even tell where we are. But I suppose most of the people Bowling notes have been bounced out this week. Ail we can do is give you a very few scores: "Uncle Ed" Smith, 628; "Hup" Smith, 604; Ed Peisert, 604; Grimelli, 620; Matty K:"g, 232-568; Win Hagberg, 215-- 572. The MCHS basketball Schedule appears on the sport page this week. You will note that Huntley plays here next Tuesday night. For some years our old time fans have wanted to see Woodstock and Crystal Lake listed on our schedule. They're on now! A few years ago the main interest was in the county tournament and oar battles with county teama. SPORTS PANS SOLVE TRANSPORTATION AS BASKETBALL BEGINS I A separation between' the larger and smaller schools in recent years caused mttch distress among former players and fans who relished a win, lose nr draw battle with county rivals. Those games were termed naturals. We have b«4 some te^ps that didn't stand a ghost of a cfcanqe against the larger schools. But, we've had years when local boosters itched to send oar sharp-shooters after 'em. Some of the boys of our day* Ln high school never tire of recalling a bob-sled ricte to Crystal l^dte ofie lit* ter cold winter evening. I Howard Phalin drove the team of horses that tipped us into a moW" ' bank on Payne's Hill: • We finally arrived "in Crystal Lake Uray past game time. We hurried into suits and the game was on! If we didn't get trimmed 60 to 5, It uras In that vicinity. > * . But, players and fans alike waited FREE SIMPLE TEST NOW TELLS YOU WHICH COWS HAVE MASTITIS Hare U • quick, «aay w*jr to teat your cowl far Maatttla. You can do It yourself right In your own barn. Teat J* cowaln M ml9. with the Bee be "BTB" teat. And It doea not coat yov> • penny. Here ia all you do: Ask ua for the apectol Bee be "BTB" Teet Card. We win SlTe you FREE one teet card for tach «sw la your herd. Ail you do la follow th* aim pie dlrectloaa on the card. We hm lube "BTB" teet carda In atock now. Aak '. far your FREE aupply today. Remember, • The MCHS basketball season will open next Tuesday night when the Huntley five will appear on our home floor. . » Any doubt of local fans wishing to continue this fine sport during this war period was duelled when thirtyfive , individuals offered to furnish their cars for the transportation ol players to out of town games. Perhaps there are other loyal fans in the community who would gladly come to the front for our young athletes in this transportation problem. Some may not be aware of the plan or have not been approached on the subject. For those who would like to join the crowd, we would suggest that you call Coach McCracken as soon as possible. Your sport page will carry a list of names next week. With encouragement and assurance from so many fans, our boys are going about their practice sessions in earnest Remember the first game is next Tuesday night, November 23. . Following is a season schedule. Why not clip it out and keep posted on the games? * '• Basketball Schedule: ^ Nov. 23--Huntley, here. Dec. 3--Marengo, here. Dec. 7--Grant, there. Dec. 10--Crystal Lake, there. Dep. 14--Hebron, here. Dec. 17--Woodstock Comm., th«f%. Jan. 7--Richmond, here. Jan. 14--Huntley, there. Jan. 16--Marengo, there. Jan. 18--St. Mary's, here. Jan. 21--Richmond, there. Jan. --Grant, bet*. Jan. 28--Crystal Lake, here. Feb. 4--Woodstock Comm., here, Feb. 8--Guraee (Warren), there. Feb. 11--Delevan Deaf Schoo|« here Feb. 15--St. Mary's, there. ' Feb. 18--Hebron, there. v Feb. 25--Gurnee (Warren), here. could make a good guess and know where. Been reading the letters the boys hare been putting in the Plainde*ler and it sure seems like the McHenry boys are all over the world and that some of the ys really have been doing themselves a lot of good and really getting up in the army. Seems to me we have quite a few of the McHenry boys over here but so far I haven't been lucky enough to run across any of them. I did happen to eat in the same outfit as Freddie Meyers for about two weeks but never ran across Freddie. Oh well, that's army life for you. I'm getting short of paper so I'd better close for now and again wish to thank you for tho paper. I;;.'*. As always, 4 CORP. ALFRED P. MILLER, : v New York, care, of Postmaster. NEWS ABOUT OUR SERVICEMEN Glenn Benson has been transferred from Settle, Wash., to Camp Stoneman, Calif. P-M"»nt transfers include Walter Nickels from Champaign to Jefferson Barracks, Mo.; George C. LeVco from Camp McCoy to New Yorjt; and Leo Heimer from Treasure Island, Calif., to San Franciscc. Lieut. Vale Adams and family of ^ "ycross, Ga., are visiting home folks. , • .. '; Harold M. ^Nelson, pharmacist's inato, second class, who is stationed at Chelsea, M^iss., spent a ten-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Magnus Nelson. Dear Staff: I received last week's Plaindealer from you and wish to thank you for sending it so promptly as I've been here only a little over a week. Needless to say, that's one thing that we all look forward to and always read every bit of it Francis Cox gave you a pretty good idea last week of what this camp consists of. As you may know, he, Phil Doherty and Alex Justen are all here with me. I See Alex every day as we're both in tbe tank battalion but I haven't seen the other two since the day we arrived, due to the site of the camp and the fact that we are restricted to certain areas for the first two weeks. This camp is really mechanised but don't be deceived into thinking that we escape the traditional marching and hiking. There are plenty of aching feet every night and we'll get a lot of road work for the next three or four months of basic training. It's a bit warmer here than in good old McHenry but the nights get plenty cool. Thanks again for the Plainde&l- 'tm coming. Sincerely, \ t JAMES LARK IN V Camp Chaffee, Ark. f««r aatratM apent In teetlaft yoar cowai ItaetltU may ear* aome of your moat t«1»- Jtble animals from ahmShtar. THOMAS P. BOLGER Tbe McHenry Druggist NOTICE The Central garage, Fred J. Smith, pioprietor, and the Johns burg garage, Otto Adams, proprietor, will b? Closed Thanksgiving Day. WANTED--Maintenance man. Hunter Boat Company. 50-tf JOHN8-MANVILLE TTPS A HOME INSULATION STALLED b\ THE WALL-FILL CO. ORIGINATORS OF BLOWN-1N ROCKWOOL INSU1AT10N FOR ESIIA1ATE CAJLL LEO J. STILLING McHENRY 18 Dear Mr. Mosher: I have moved again and because I don't want to miss the Plaindealer I have prompted myself to write a letter. I missed a copy or two of the paper while touring Tennessee on maneuvers and I don't want it to happen again if I can help it. We left Camp Forrest, Tenn., last Tuesday morning and arrived in Richmond Thursday morning. We were e a r l y , g e t t i n g there even before the bugler got up. We were greeted by a very wet and cold rain. All the fellows were talking about how nice it would be to get back in barracks a f ter almost three months of living in the fields. We are still looking for the barracks as we are living In tents. We are now part of the air corps and it seems that the "powers that be" here were anxious to see what we knew about digging gun positions and the other things that go with maneuvers. We moved into positions as soon as we unloaded the train. The first field problem lasted about a week and we are now going through regular garrison training for a few days. ; I hear tflat Bob Adame is now in North Carolina where I was stationed for part of my army life. He can have my share of Carolina because I am not anxious to go back there. I Before I close I want to thank you for Bending me the Plaipdealer each week. ^ - Sincerely. ' CORP. THOMAS Ifi -BOLGER Richmond, Va. Dear Mose'"tf - - r--rr-rr ' Thanks to you and the many others that made it possible to receive the Plcindealer each week. So far every copy has reached me 'u record time and is reau from cover to cover. Yes, I go so far as to see what Earl has to say. It's fun now that 1 know he won't be ribbing me. Since arriving here we have been training constantly with marine^ as they seem to know a lot about where we are going. That's more than the rest «f us can say. It's all very good but one thing I can't get used the surrounding grounds, which are worth seeing. Some of tlie fellows in our group had the good fortune of shaking hands with the Governor of California. It sure seems nice to see nice green grass around here instead of sand as in Florida. Well, the bugle is blowing for lights out so I'll bring this letter to a clo3e. I am writing my address at the bottom of this letter. Sincerely yours, CPL. JOSEPH N. SCHMITT Fresno, California. Dear Mose: Hate to complain but it's happened again. I've been transferred again so consequently I've miss the home town news again. Without the Plaindealer the weekends aren't complete so let's see what can be done about it. It's really enjoyable to read about the old buddies and friends in Bervice from McHenry, especially Gene Nielsen and his rising fame. The way 1 have got it figured, Gene is about one solid year ahead of me, but this is to inform him that I'm well on my way of catching up and hope to live up to his fine record. I spent quite a few happy teen-aged Dear Mr. Mosher and Staff: • , Thanks loads for the pleasant * surprise of getting the Plaindealer. I j sure e n j o y e v e r y page of i t . It p u t s ' me right back in my favorite home j town, read in e: about what goes on there at home and what the other j boys are doing while they are in the ! service. "• . • , ,. v." ! My folks keep me well Informed but J your paper helps fill the gaps so I get all the news how. Thanks again for the Plaindealer and I sure think you are treating us servicemen swell with your good, kind work. Yours truly, LEWIS A. BLOMGREN Townsend, Va. "iteiei why Mom nysitTOVS io worm with GIZZARD CAPSULES* tmr-Wmttkkm 1Mb Woahi pay* double 4>?f* Saadi tills yaar. la needed tm for OnaU Baa and Mini proSta far YOU. Is* 'em uvtaf this viator I Pst'd IaanlaWa Chpaula One tint doea sat lUaoht la siud iwatocte mail trine until crashed by •taaid--dsllran o<m«ct dose, full atnasth to wanna. Won't sktaa kMb ar knock an profimrtUm. Vor all S Mads of •imaa Pin. Larte Bouod aad Urp Tw 0«ts beads of all ••dm of Tsp«s tbat M> product an market can gel. About la or ten par IM Bolger's Drug Store Green Street McHenry 44 or Leave It" The Thanksgiving' season is with us once more and there cannot be one among us who does not feel that there is much more to be thankful for in 1943 than in several seasons past, for eacih day is surely bringing us closer to Victory. We are especially thankful that even though rationing has kept us from carrying as complete a line aa formerly, nevertheless, we are still able to "open shop" each day, operating as we like, without fear of censorship and dictation. Gome and visit us during the holiday season and see if we may have something you might want in the line in which you are interested. Remember, you still live where you can "take it or leave it." E. H. Nickels H a r d w a r e Phone 2 West McHenry COLES RADIO SHOP Will be closed on Thursdays and Sundays--Open remainder of the week from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. 218 RIVERSIDE DRIVE TEL. 101-R Trade In Your Old Battery on a new F I R E S T O N E We have a complete stock of TIRES, passenger and truck. Bicycle tires and tubes. \ You can now have your tires retreaded Without an OP A order. Bring them in. ^ TIRE AND TUBE VULCANIZING Sinclair Stock Spray, 75c per gallon. BICYCLE TIRES and TUBES - NQJPRIORITY. 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