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•'W& • • , - r • . . / • < . „ - - - * t , , ; • » ' ; . * * - . - v * 'v.* - * 4 • ? • „ . . , ; THg McHENRY PLAINDEALER (fef Mr*. Own ttiiitl) --_« * Mrs. . Agnes Jencks entertained B. G. club of Elgin at a luncheon mod cards at iter home Thursday. . The Brownie Scouts met at the s c h o o l h o u s e W e d n e s d a y n i g h t after school. They learned the rownie salute and song. Mrs. alter Low was hostess and served cookies. World-wide Communion Sunday will be observed at the Methodist ' church next Sunday. Rev. Maxwell of Woodstock will preach. Pvt. Mi^d Mrs. Stanley Lea are the parents of a> daughter, born Thursday- at the Woodstock hospital. Pvt. Lea is stationed at Ft. Lenard Wood, Mo. ^ Mr. and Mrs. fred Wiedrich, Jr., Entertained at a birthday party Saturday evening honoring the second birthday of Georgia Mary Saunders. Those to attend were Mr. and Mrs. Don Smart of Waukegan, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lenard and family of Lake Geneva, Mr. 'and Mrs. Louis Winn and Janet of Richmond Mr. and Mrs. Phelps Saunders of Sycamore, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Brennan and son, Mr. Clr. and Mrs. Leland Berg. Duane Andreas, who is attending college at DeKalb, spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Andreas. Mr. and Mrs. Axel Carlson of Woodstock spent Sunday "in the Clayton Bruce home. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Crlsty spent Sunday in the Gordon Fossum home at Solon Mills. Little Paula Smith is home Trom the hospital, where she has been a patient with polio. Dr. and Mrs. Hepburn were visitors at Antioch Thursday. Mrs. Paul Shadle, Mrs. John Shadle were visitors at Waukegan Tuesday. Mrs. Pete Sebastian was called to Moline by the serious illness of her mother Mrs. Cora Woods. Mr. and Mrs. Alan Aingpr and family of Hebron spent Sunday 1 1 1 1 1 " i •»-" with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Shepard. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wiedrich and family of Genoa City visited his mother, Mrs. Fred Wiedrich, Sr., Sunday afternoon. JHrs. R. J. McConnell, Mrs. Franson and Mrs. Kirkes attended grand chapter in Chicago Tuesday. Mrs. Kenneth Cristy. Mn. Mabel ColUus, Mrs." C. L. Harrison, Mrs. Lois Stedman, Mrs. Ball and Mrs. Walter Low attended a W.S.C.S. workshop at the Hemingway church at Evanston Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Walkington left Friday for a tri^ to Phoenix, Ariz., and California. Nancy and Mary Ainger of Hebron spent Saturday and Sunday with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George Shepard. Robert Anderson of Chicago and mother of Sharon, Wis., galled in the Wm. McCannon home Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hitchens of Sycamore visited here Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Henry llinzd of Crystal Lake spent Thursday evening in the. Mrs. Lena Peet home. Don Carlson of Chicago .spent Sunday in the Roy Neal home. Mrs. Andrew Hawley of, Fox RiveT Grove visited her father, S. W. Smith, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Peet of Woodstock were callers in the Mrs. Lena Peet home Sunday. Mrs. Oscar Berg and Mrs. Wm. McCannon wero visitors at Woodstock Friday afternoon. Nancy Bowman and Maryln Diedrich tit Johnsburg attended the Cubs ball game at Wrigley Field Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Powers of Chicago brought them home and spent the evening in the Bowman home. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Malsch and son spent the weekend at Madison, Wis. Mrs. James Conway visited Mrs. Amy Tonne8on;at McHenry a few days last week.,. Miss Violet 8 Webster and friends of Woodstock were callers in the Wm. McCannon home Sunday afternoon. Misses Marian Peet and Marie Hitzeroth of Elgin spent Thursday evening in the Mrs. Lena Peet home. HiiHa mm a«r, Mrs. Qeorge Miller and family of CUicago and Mrs. John Skldmore and family . were Sunday visitor* In the Fred Bowman home-. Mr. and Mrs. WHmer Montanye and family of Huntley. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wilcox of Woodstock and Mrs. Walter Low and family spent Sunday in the Beatty-Low home. Mrs. Mingel Andreas and granddaughter. Darlene Andreas, spent the weekend in the David Redmond home at Glen Ellyn. Kir. and Mrs. Weldon Andreas drove in Sunday afternoon and brought them home. Mr. and Mrs. Granville Carlson and daughter of Shlller Park spent Sunday in the Clayton Bruce home. Mrs. Nelson Crlsty of Crystal Lake spent a few days the past week in the Kenneth Cristy home. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Strukel of Milwaukee spent the weekend in the Mitchell Kane home. Mrs. Agnes Jencks spent Monday with her daughter, Mrs. Tom Pettise, and (family at Barrlngton. Mrs. Flora Harrison and Stanley Jepson returned home Thursday from their trip to Wisconsin. Mrs. Tollefson of Crystal Lake spent Tuesday with Mrs. Wm. McCannon. In the afternoon they were visitors at Woodst/:*k. Phelps Sannders of Sycamore spent the weekend with his wife and daughter in the ned Wiedrich, Jr., home. Henry Magna of California is visiting in the Wm. Pagni home. Sunday dinner guests in the C. L. Harrison home were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Marlowe and family of Huntley, Mr. and Mrs. Don Brennan and tamily of Arlington Heights, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Donahue and daughter of Huntley. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harrison and family and Glen Wattles of McHenry. ' Mrs. Mayme Harrison of McHenry spent Sunday in the J. C. Pearson home. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kane, Sr., and Miss LaVerne Horky of Mundellen spent Sunday afternoon in the Mitchell Kane home. Mrs. R. J. McConnell and daughter, Mrs. Mitchell Kirkes, of Wlckenburg, Ariz., are visiting her sister and husband. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Franson. With Mr. and Mrs. Franson they were dinner guests Saturday evening of Mr. and 'Mrs. John Walding In Chicago. ' Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Oxtoby Visited Mrs. Ruth O^oby at Hartland Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lenard Brown and S. W. Brown of Claredon Hills and A. W. Smith were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Butler. In the afternoon they all drove to Elkhorn and visited in the Harold Stanek and Alvin Benoy homes. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Oanter of Athens, Wis., spent a few days the past week with Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Oxtoby. New Director Of Science Museum Chosen Recently Major Lenox R. Lohr, formerly of McHenry, has announced theappointment of D. M. MacMaster as director of the Museum of Science and Industry. MajQr Lohr has served in the dual capacity of president and director of the Museum since 1940. In announcing the new appointment, Major Lohr pointed out that in view of the Museum's greatly increased activities it had become desirable to separate the two offices. The director's position is being filled at this time to aid in handling increased management responsibilities brought on by the expansion of all of the Museum's' services. Major Lohr will continue to serve as president. Complete line of Lee's poultry remedies at Wattles Drug Store, McHenry. 8tf Bolger'sDrug Store Phone 40 ur From Irrit&tions/ HANDICRAFT Bird Houses* Lawn Chairs, Lawn Swings, Picnic Tables. Tier Benches, Flower Boxes, Wheel- • barrows and Sand Boxes. Trellis, Pergola, Picket Fences, Etc. > Screens and Cabinets Made To Order. Clarence JtSmith JOHNSBURG mm Hg* Rm "#• Complete Dinner - 50 Cents But That Was Back In 1940 " C o m p l e t e d i n n e r s -- f a m o u s steaks, seafoods, chicken, :duck. turkey--50 cents", with music yet by the Windsor Trio. This wasn't back la grandpappy's time, it was In December, 1940. not quite eleven years ago. It wasn't, at any greasy spoon cafe either, but at "The Mill" in Springfield, then and now one of the favorite dining-out spots in the Illinois capitol. Today, the chicken dinner is |1.75. the steak dinners up to $2.50. On the same day in 1940:, turkey was advertized at a Springfield Btore at 25 cents a pound, center tmt pork chops at 18 cents, three pounds of coffee for 37 cents. The top price for a movie in town was 44 cents-in the evening, 20 cents before 1:30. According to George E. Mahin, executive secretary. Taxpayers' Federation of Illinois, this Is a definition of INFLATION tha(f impol^ant, however, to understand why this has happened and is happe ning to our dollars. Unless we know the real causes, we'll continue to fall for "cures" until we all have to be millionaires to get admitted to the poor house. That's why the article featured in the October Reader's Digest, ^OBSERVE "EMPLOY THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED WEEK" President Truman, has proclaimed the week of Oct. 7-13, for the seventh annual observance of NATIONAL EMPLOY THE PHYSIC ALLY HANDICAPPED WEEK. The week was first established in 1945 by Act of Congress to further the employment of the physically handicapped. Dnring this week, the efforts of manage- Inflation Concerns Everyone , ment anj labor and civic, fratershould be must reading for every man and woman, and required homework for every child. It's an easily understood story of the basic causes. sIt points up the basic cure. It confirms our repeated contention that higher taxes and expanded government controls may prolong the life of the patient prolong the life of the patient but won't prevent the death unless a major operation is performed at the same time to remove the cause of the illness. nal, veteran and other organizations are combined with those of state and federal agencies to publicize the fact that handicap- : 4 ped workers can be capable, pro- • ductive employees when they are '-properly trained and placed Jit-„. the right jobs. '? In this period of mohilizatioM for defense, the country mus( make fullest use of all of its resources-- human and natural. Defense Mobilization' Administrator Charles E. 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