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•.* : J. ^ • _ ' . - *j*kLSl,:i " ' - j* 4 : C "Y- '<? &• . •Yi. • y'yJ a:'1 • • " ' ' ••• '.V" • , • • uii. 1* Pjjom « ui ftun&M pu« ss»utdd«q jo aan^nj « i~~ sanoX Uiof hjm saqsiM ano 9a s.awax A3N m^iupiiu f° 9r~~ aq; "0 "SWI ui aaqsn . --^tttdap ^t6I 99« asanaa jiaq^mu aim* jo spu«s aifl sy AGATHA SHOP i Green Street 1 • ,a\ >-v; P-i I 1 1 As fresh as the spirit of the women of America, is the spirit in which we wish you a sparkling New Year. May its main attraction be the personal happiness it brings you, and may each day of it be filled wit* good health and enjoyable occupation. , RIVERSIDE BAKERY Mr. and Mrs. Htrbert Wolff U w® could--we'd make the rounds personally and sing "happy New Year" into your ear! But the number of our friends would make that job take us until next New Year's --so accept our sincere good fishes through these words, meant for one and all! „ BETTY NIELSEN Dress Shop, Riverside Drive Over the air lanes far and wide, go our deep thoughts of New Year's sentiment. We p look to it for so much--front;.-" the bringing of peace to the world, to the personal contentment of each of our friends. And of course YOU are included in our kindest thoughts. OAREY ELECTRIC SHOP Green Street The universal wish of all freedom-loving people, as we set our sights on the year ahead, is that it may bring Victory and Peace to all peoples of all nations. -To you we wish a New Year happy as possible. "V; the with every \ --- y accessible from „.„or. What good fellowwe can enjoy if 1945 w^ll an end to war and all najoined together in liberty. MARION'S BEAUTY 8H0PPE : - ' V , •Ti- -- -- -!* -• With revelry and old fashioned cood wishes, we greet the New Year! Amid your gay surroundings think of us, and remember that you have our sincerest thoughts. Here's to a New Year of Peipe, Health and Good We're proud of the men and women who were Once • our neighbors--and who are now serving around the world in Our armed forces. To them es- 'ly go our New Year's its and wishes for their safe return. SCHWERMAN CHEVROLET SALES Cars and Trucks ' • m i "i r •»! >i „,--. , , • New Year's is pretty much a universal holiday, but we feel it's always celebrated with special zest in the grand American O iy. Here's to it, then, and ly it bring you and yours Many are the strange places where New Year's will be celebrated under the stars and stripes this year. Yet as far around the world as our uniformed men and women may be, we hope our Greeting will reach them with ourv^Wish for their glorious homecoming. f„7?or-. YEAR M'HENKY FLOUR MILLS - W Feeds . We're proud of the - have actively helped toward the goal of Victory. To them we extend this special New Year's ' greeting wherever they. max he. COLES RADIO SERVICE Riverside Drive * : sncfbm PETER M. JUSTEN FURNITURE 00. Main Street, West McHenr^ Far and jride our words of cheer are sent to reach those at home and those across the seas, who have been our friends as well as customers for many long years. Greetings all, and may we together soon enjoy the benefits of Peace. A. S. BLAKE MOTOR SALES DeSoto -- Dodge -- Plymouth «KW «f>* r'S' ?• HAPPY i Imrp art singing --%nd the New Year is being ushered in. We add our thoughts to help make it cheerful and happy for you. ••<45 Around the world onr wishes travel, wherever there may be men and women from this Community. "Happy New Year" we say to you all with Victory otir first desire. M'HENRY LUMBER CO. Lumber and Fuel PA'S TAVERN mmm -- HERDRICH & SON Distributors • ; ,;<*nd the second it ' fcight start to KNIGHT'S eloti t passes mil celebrate ming of the New Year • • 1945. There's much w< ask of it, and much we • ' It to bring. Suffice it to hope it will be . in every sense of the TION We doff our eap to every fighting hat worn t>y an American lad: and to those boys we say, "lA Victorious New Year made possible by your efforts; a hap- Sier New Year because of your omecoming!" TONYAN CONSTRUCTION CO. Building Contractors We're proud of our boys in navy blue who sail the seas delivering the wherewithal for the winning of Victory. A salute to our navy accompanies these New Year's greetings! BARBTAN BEOS. Groceries and Heats "Send" it drummer boy! Beat Out our greetings to the New Year and our good wishes for every one we know! And as much cheer as we may enjoy this New Year's will be doubled ..by further Victories in 1945. MATH N. SCHMITT » Insurance Agency Rough and chojapy waters may toss about any craft; but good navigating and keeping to its course will bring it through. The past war years may have been rough and choppy, but now we see our way clear to Victory ahead! M'HENRY LAUNDRY n • We send you the greetings of the past year--and of the year We're sure AVKJeUM MEW YEAH Ask any fighting what he wants most and he say "to be home again"; so we're making it our New Year's wish that all our boys return victorious A. WORWICK phtxtographer, Riverside Drive NEW YEAR |ARL R. WALSH Insurance It is our sincere hope that your quota of good things will be enriched and enlarged with the coming of the "New Year, 1945. Call on us for any service we can render. No wish, is more deeply rooted in the hearts of Amercians. No wish is more significant at this time. That is why our greeting to you as we look toward 1945 is--"A Victorious New Year." And we're sure your wish is the same! M'HENRY FLORAL CO. JMile South of McHenry on Route 31 Think of all the merry times you've had in past New Years! Think of how much we Amer- , icans have to be grateful for this New Year's! And look forward to next New Year's with faith in our Victory and Peace to come. -.V • Every bell which rings out to welcome 1945 will be echoing^ the resounding glory of our Liberty bell. In its spirit we look to peace around the world in the year ahead. ALBERT KRAUSE NEWS AGENCY Elm Street Three cheers for the red, white and blue--and for the bells ringing out the arrival of the New Year 1945. Let each of us do our level best to make it a happy New Year by sticking to, our jobs producing, and buying bonds for Victory! that your innermost desire is for Victory --as is ours, so we join you in wishing for it--and more important still, in working for it without interruption! M'HENRY ICE CREAM CO. "Cream of Creams" By the hour glass--by the cloc --by the sun dial; no n$|ttj how you may choose to tell ti time of day, you will know th. a New Year dawns once pa' the stroke of 12 the night >• December 31. At that momeii and always, we wish you we- SOHAEFER'S GROCERY AND MARKETYou couldn't wish any more zealously than we do for §> good year ahead! ITiat encompasses the joys of Victories to come, and good health and prosperity! So what better greeting can we extend to you than that all our mutual aspirations come true. ALEXANDER LUMBER 00. Lumber and Fuel ", T" fl"Ti,i i.Vii; i As Old Father Time lool^to the future we hope he 'determines on 1945 as the year which will see an end to world , strife and the beginning of a I peaceful life spent in true harmony by all mankind. May your New Year be rich ijP all good things. OLD TOWNE TAVERSE Floyd Coleman mrnmmm MEW YtAJ» Church steeples the world around are sounding out the passing of a year fraught with Warfare and sorrow. Let us .'hope that it will be followed by .'a year of good cheer during Which peace will envelop the earth. STOFFEL 41 REIHANSPERGER Insurance SMITH BROS. General Merchandist Read all about it!. 1945 nu|kes a grand entrance bringing with it the promise of Victory--if we all buckle down and work as hard for it as we can. Our Sreetings to you for all " the ays ahead. . . . i KENT & CO. Real Estate and Insurance M'HENRY ARTIFICIAL STONE CO. Gather the gang together and make merry this New Year's Eve. And when you do, give us a thought, for our heartiest good wishes for* your merriment will be with you. And through the year ahead as in the past, we hope to serve" you •well. DUESLER-HENN POULTRY RANCH (dn Route 31, North, of McHenry " , ' 1 - 1 f. 1 1 |1"IIM Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, into a New Year we do go--and may it soon bring everything good to everyone we know. That includes Victory and Peace foremost while you can make your personal wishes for yourselves! MATH N. SCHMITT Supervisor, McHenry Township % M. FLEMING IMPLEMENTS ^ " West McHenry Up in the skies where our air force flies there's a different g?rspective to the land below, ut from our point of view the big thing to be hoped for «n 1945 is the achievement of total Victory and the beginning of world peace. MI PLACE RESTAURANT & TAVERN Green Street The sign of the "V" is the sym- . bol of Victory. The stars and } - stripes are emblems of liberty. s| 'Together we blend them in the || hope that 1945 will see • this land visited by final Peac^ WATTLES DiRUG STORE Main Street, West McHenry In some parts of our country this time of year finds >the earth mantled with snow. In Other parts of our country this time of year blossoms with verdure. But though climates vary our people are as one in their unchanging desire- for maintenance of the true "American way"-- HOLLY SERVtCE STATION V Elm Street we will keep: your a happy New Year will be echoed as our voices pick up the refrain and sing it back to you! Happy New Year, one and all! •IT: NICKELS Main Street, West McHenry W** wmmm " " / I f : We take occasion to compose our New Year's greetings around the theme of recognition to our war working men and women for their great contri- " bution to world welfare. May IM6 hf;to you! HESTER McHenry ,,, is the time of year when bygones are bygones, and small differences are forgotten in mu- ^ tual observance of New Year's. Let that spirit be expanded so that after Peace comes all the world - ill live together joyously. eA. P. FREUND 00. Excavating Contractor There's a sentimental thrill tohearing New Year bells ring out. The most sophisticated of us must admit it. So here's an old fashioned greeting to accompany their tune, "Happy New Year!" CARL RIETESEl* ' i " Upholsterer j We've thought of a thousand things to say--but discarded them all in favor of this very heartfelt sentiment: "a Victorious 1945." Once we have that all other blessings will follow 4or you and us and all the lie of the earth to share. XLEINHANS BUILDING SERVIGB East of Fox River, on Route 120 We hope yon hava the very best of luck all through 1945. iBut luck alone isn't the key to good things! What we need is continued hard work and plenty of it--if we are to enjoy the fruits of Victory and Peace! We're with you--on the job; CENTRAL GARAGE Fred Smith, Prop. Johnsburg _ We can't get aroun^ to each and fevery one of our mends to say greetings of 1945, but we can reach you all through this medium; so believe in our sincerity as you read these words --"Happy New Year!" haV'4*!^., •ifcWEw fit H|ur MARIE'S BEAUTY SALON \J* ' ' D r i n k - . - a t a i s t - , -- ahead. Swing the noisemaKers and join in the festivities. Have as good a time as you can and then refresh yourself to return to your wartime duties so that we may celebrate next New Year's with even greater mejr- JOHN J. VYCTTAL HDWB. Green Street We'd liksi to be of service to you /ill through the year ahead, and we can promise the best in our .power! Looking back over the difficulties of the past year, we must say you have been wonderfqjly co-operative, and we have appreciated it! FITZGERALD'S MEN'S SHOP Main Street, West McHenry Take a memo--'to count every day of 1945 as precious, and to remember our best thoughts are with you as we continue to serve you to our utmost ability. Please don't hesitate to call on Us when you need us. CLAIRE BEAUTY SHQPPE Jewelry •; ftikt'i thii headline w* imit to help write! So we're bending every effort to bring total Victory into reality as fast as we NYE West McHenisx Here's a toast to all the good things^ you want for the New Year--and to that greatest of all wishes. Victory! May our collective efforts bring it soon* and we'll really celebrate again!.; WALTER J. FREUND Tire Shop 4 trough new little member of his family. It shall be known as 1945, and it's up to us to see that it thrives, prospers and lives peacefully. That means sticking to our war jobs- with good old-fashioned American stickto- it-iveness. 6*** WEBER'S PLUMBING & HEATING Little man, you've had a buiy year! And a still busier one looms ahead for you. What do you say, we redouble our efforts and help get this war over with quickly? We can't think of a better New Year's resolution! M'HENRY RECAPPERg Elm Street > ^ Here'.s to our men in olive drab. Here's to our boys in foxholes and in the skies; in slit trenches and on transports. Here's to every fighting American-- and to your homecoming before nexrJ$HRr Year's eve! EVA'S RESTAURANT Riverside Drive f The American is a wonderful Composite of grim determination to see justice done, and of a gay spirit of abandon when it comes to fun-making. That's why the fighting American if. a winner every time! To each' and every one--a happier New Year next year! GLADSTONE'S Department Store, Green Street . 4s fleeting. No words were ever spoken. Yet for each of us, our allotted time seems long. That is why we should make the most of it by accomplishing what we can to help make a better world. Happy New Year! rREUNS'S DAISY Tlck,/ock! Tick, tock! 1944 is wearing out. Another and, we hope, much better year, is ahead of us. Let us enter it with new zeal, new hope, new objectives. Looking forward, we wish you all the blessings the bright New Year can possibly bring. XORTHXRN GREYHOUND BUS LINE DEPOT Qus Unti Our tophatted snowman speaks for us when he wishes you all good fortune in '45 -- which means of course, the return of our victorious men to share the happy peace to1 come! M'HENRY CLEANERS Elm Street We ' publicly ourselves to the cause of Victory in '45! And in that year we to serve you to the best MARIE and BART YEOOl r - •• .Wert McHenry • ; " 111 'A wish for a happy New Year this year is synonymous with wishes for the defeat of the Nazis and the Japs, and for the victorious return of our brave boys. THE BRIDGE last of Fox Rivir V^w" /:*•" Hooray for the year to come and all the good things we hope it will bring. Join us in a happy spirit of celebration as we send our good wishes wherever our friends and customers may be this New Year's. JOHN STILLING S SERVICE STATION Phillips "66" i yHumble homes and palatial >--y manses are visited by the £ame joys--by the same tribulations --by the same exigencies of war. To one and all we, therefore send the same good greetings for the new year. ,May it be a happy one--rich in health »C(^: . #e* and God's blessings. REGNER'S GROCERY AND MARKET ; Green Street Here's to the New Year! Go > forward to meet it with a heart full of cheer, and may our good thoughts of you help you Wfi? come it warmly. MILLER PRODUCTS The bells are ringing for happy days ahead, when free peoples all over the world will live in friendly harmony again. May we know it' soon in Victory is our New Year's wish. M'HENRY TOWN CLUB Corner Riverside Drive and Pearl Street The ringing of the New Year is music to our ears. May you find yourself in the midst of good times all through the year, in harmony with health, joy and. prosperity., BILL'S DINER Main Street, West McHenry . May life bring an the richness can hold with health, prosperity and happiness Increased two-fold. That's our wish for you as you go your way-- HAPPY NEW YEAR every day! BROADWAY BARBECUE John Anderson Especially to the boys, and girls in service--May health, happiness and good fortune come to each of you during the next twelve months and may you be happy as never before. A. & P. STORE Green Street The show goes on--and may 1945 mean 'Curtains" for the enemy! That is our constructive wish for the year ahead-- and we know you share it with us ! v RIVERSIDE HOTEL Corner Riverside Drvie and Elm Street The^ fntm*? ' Your gwss te as good as ours--but, if our wishes count for anything, there is a lot of health and happiness in- store for you in 1945. SIP SNACK,INN Win Hagberg, Prop. With a merry tune and a warming toast to your good fortune, we help you welcome the New Year. May it abound with beauty and success for you. GREEN STREET TAVERlff Jos. J. Miller . This JU! sample of our good wishes for you and yours as a New Year is marked on our calendar. ifay„, "home, sweet home" ever be a peaceful haven. Hettermaaa'i JOHNSBURG TAVERN We want to wish you all good fortune for the coming year. None of our sacrifices, shall be lessened--all are so worth the E'ving. May they bring our iys back home soon to enjoy the happiness of Victory. KARLS CAFE J. M. Mosley, Prop. Riverside Drive To all the men and women in the service of their country all over the world and to all our customers, we wish a very Happy New Year. OLD MIDGE ^KVERN Frank Immekus ^ vC",U V I ; ..ry Ut is for us the living1' to <^n- _ joy the beauties of life in a. t V? peaceful world of happiness. That New Year's wish will be realized if we do all we can to further the war effort now. HUNTER BOAT CO. We wish you the most cheer- . filled wish in the world for this A' New Year--for peace once X/ more and security again for us v* all. More War Bonds will see it come true sooner! SCHAEFER'S RECREATION East of Fox River