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Thursday, August 5,1954 THE McHENRY PLAINDEALER Page Fifteen Wonder Lake News By Vanesse Sells Legion Installation Last Friday night a most impressive installation "-ceremony was conducted for the American Legiofn post officers and the auxiliary of the post. - Albert Fianz took the oath of office as commander of the post and Lois Weeks was sworn in as senior vice-commander. Wilber Haak is the junior vice-commander and Art Dangler is adjutant. George Pilgrim is finance officer and Herbert Howorka, Jr., is service officer. Bill Kamp is chaplain and Roy Meiswinkle is sergeant- at-arms. Installing officer for the post was Lester Sicdschlag of Richmond and installing sprgpflnt-flt-flvnis wan Ernont Arp, also of the Richmond post. Alice Murdock is the new president of the auxiliary and Leoda Freund and June KiddelJ are her vice-pi esidents. Lorraine Stahl is secretary and Geraldim Elbersen is treasurer. Lois Haak is chaplain and Jay Hansen is historian. Marie Bendl is sergeant- at-ai ms. Installing officers for the auxiliary were Rose Arp of Richmond and Marian Cannon of Wonder Lake. \Marian Ruzicka, the publicity chairman for the unit, said that thanks were tendered to all who donated and prepared the buffet supper, even though it was eaten during the Fi iday night blackout. gion post. _ Visits in Wonder Lake Marita Thomson of Richmond was a weekend visitor at the Wonder • Lake home of Sandi Sells. Marita, formerly a resident of McCullom Lake, will move to Elgin this fall with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Thomson. During the weekend together, Marita and Sandi attended a party for Janice Franz, and took in the wonders of Marine Day. However, Marita worked in the 4-H milk stand. Firemen's Carnival The people of Wonder Lake are reminded that the volunteer firemen of Wonder Lake ara holding their carnival on the fire house grounds this weekend -- Aug. 0, 7 and 81 Supporting the carnival means supporting aid to your own home if fire should ever strike. Carnivals of the past years have helped build the fire house and helped to buy the fine fire fighti lg equipment. Stolen Car A car stolen from William Tonkin was found parked in front of Constable Elmer Mutphy's house. Also a motorcycle without a license was found the early part of the week parked near the. Murphy residence. In both instances the sheriff's office was notified. To All-Star Game Some lucky little boys from Wonder Lake will be chosen to attend the All-Star game in Clucagjrxjn^ Friday, Aug. 13, Through the courtesy of the Woodstock chief of police, Emery Hansman, a number of tickets to the game were given to Fred Zandier. He will choose the boys and escorts to attend. Back From Camp Mr. and fon'S. Gail Wrede of Wickline Bay have returned with their family from a month's trip camping on the northern peninsula. Peggy Selsdorf, who also spent most of the summer there, has returned to her Indian Ridge home and is getting ready to return to Northwestern this fall. Francis, the Mule The moving picture, "Francis," about a talking mule and his adventures, will be shown on the American Legion grounds this Sunday at dusk. The movie, which is free, features Donald O'Connor, Patricia Medina and Zasu Pitts. • The movies are sponsored each Sunday evening by the rife squad of the Wonder Lake Le- YOU CAM DBPgND ON IT! Next to enjoying easier, faster, cleaner cooking, the nicest thing about PYROFAX Gas is its complete dependability.Every tankful is thoroughly tested --for quality, for purity, for full, accurate, guaranteed measure. You can't buy a better product! Let us show yOij^how you can enjoy the many work-saving advantages of this efficient, economical fuel. •• "Pyrofax" is a refhte>red trade-mark of Pyrofax Gas Corporation % BOTTLED GAS SERVICE \ LeRoy M. Smith "The Home Of Gas Appliances" \V. Elm St, McHenry, 111. PHONE rro-w Skip Gets Discharge Roy (Skip) Noren, son of Mr. ana Mrs. Roy Nurrn of Wonder Center, was discharged last week from the army. He returned last month from a year's tour of duty in Germany. The Norens elebrated the discharge with a rip to Manitowish Waters, Wis. < Skip is a graduate of Harrison school. McHenrv high school arid of Lawrence college at Appleton, Wis. Fair Starts Today 1 The McHenry county junior fair opens today, Thursday, and continues thiough Sunday. \ large number of Wonder Lake youngsters will compete at the fair for ribbons in the 4-H divisions and for money in the open class divisions. The girls of the 4-H clubs wili parade before the bandstand Sun day night in the clothes they have created. The public is invited to attend the fair and see what the children of McHenry county can dr artistically, in home economics with livestock and with gardens. The trip to the fair may givr you a new respect for the young people <of the area. Janice is Sixteen A swimming party was helci for Janice Franz of Indian Ridge Satuiday afternoon on the occasion of her sixteenth birthday. Janice is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al Franz. Those attending the party in-' eluded Kay KiiTt^ Nancy Swanson, Jean Selsdorf, Janice Johnson, Ann Lundborg, Babette Jordon, Jane and Jean Blake, PhylJjs Schniitt, Betty Jan? Schaefer, Audrey Tonyan, Kathleen Anglese, Donna Brown, Jewel May, Marita Thomson, Connie O'Connell, Jean Young, Barbara Schroeder, Sandi Setts and. Layne Bucher.' Discuss Zoning There will be a meeting Monday night, Aug. 9. of the Count: yside Improvement association, No. 1, at the Joslvn. cabin on Valley Hill road at 8 p.m. Paul Magnuson of Barrington " will speak to the group on the subject of zoning. McHenry County Though The Years by Marie Sohaettgen Chapter 24 Algonquin Township of a mile from the lake. . An interesting fact is revealed | Hollywood Really Needs ! Those Technical Advisers ! The butcher, the baker, the cat* j dlestick maker--and about «veryonc | else--watch Hollywood closely to see that they are done right. I Let a movie maker show as little , as 50 feet of film wherein a plumb- J er, doctor, dentist or bricklayer ' uses the wrong tool and he will get | a stack of~ihail. That's why hardly a movie Is Gospel Church News Mr. and Mrs. Linn Loshbough. accompanied their son and 'daughter-in-law, Mr. and ' Mrs. Jack Loshbough, to New York to see them sail for Southhampton, England, on the S.S. Queen Elizabeth Aug. 4. From England, they proceed to Brussels, Belgium. where; they will be engaged in language study, in preparation for their missionary service in Africa. Mr. and Mrs. Linn Loshbough expect to be back home before this Sunday, Aug. 8. The girls who spent a week at the Williams Bay Bible Camp report a wonderful time. Next Sunday, Aug. 8, the pastor will speak on the subject, "Followers of God," at 11 o'clock. Other services are Sunday Bible School at 10 a.m. and Evening Gospel service at 7:30. There is also a prayer- service each Wednesday night at 8 o'clock. ROAD PROGRAM Bids totalling more than, $9,- 000,000. have been opened by the state Division of Highways in the seventh road letting on Governor William G. Stratton's highway and bridge construction program for 1954. The most recent letting covered 68 separate projects in 48 Illinois counties and increased > to more than $56,000,000 the total value of projects on which bids have been opened since the first of this vear. -. * iaci Algonquin township is located in (he school statistics of the in the southeastern corner of late -S0.s At about ^ g McHenry county. This township ! there upi-p ... has many more hills and bluffs i o0I1,quin tou.nsh"_ j That's why hardly a movie Is than most of the rest of the : ?h f°*nship. This exceeded made these days without at least one county The Fox River flows I M °f sch°°ls in any 1 technical adviser, and sometime. SSSi "V.* ! SUr •°w"sh'P I or four. j ,. , - „„ "" value of $12,- In '-'A Streetcar Nauieu Desire,' sin™ \ wonc* ul ass . 80°- A modern gymnasium in one I one scene briofly shows a machine e Fox here, too, is use 0f our schools costs more than! shop where some welding is going as a summer playground. Plea- , ton schools 'did seventy years sure craft abound here as they , ago. do on the upper Fox at McHenry. i „ 2 At one time the Fox river was ! t J annual amount paid to so * placid as it passed through : fn a<? s sounds unbelieveable, ^ ^ Algonquin township that it was fum of $3,336, sev- J his craft were correct. " compared with the Nile in Egypt, j ~ c^s l®u£"t 630 children, j Plumbers are the most sensitive In the 1880's, this township • We with today s salar-j craftsmen, according to studio exboasted more miles of railroad ( .J5-,^en though they are often ] ecutives, and next ctome doctors and than any othpr in the eonntv. ; inadequate, .this ; dentists. That's why you seldom sp«» n^iire sounds jinwrn-iohf jokes in pictures any more about plumbers forgetting tkeir too)a. overcharging, hooking gas lines to water or cold water to hot. on. That was_ the signal, then, for Warner Brothers to call in Arthur Johnson, a veteran welder He went on the pay roll as technical adviser to be sure all scenes pertinent to f Mrs h ran HOMELESS ^HE MOST CELEBRATED SONG ABOUT HOME- •HOME SWEET HOME' WAS COMPOSED BY A MAN WHO NEVER ACTUALLY HAD A HOME.' JOHN HOWARD PAYNE WAS A PENNILESS WANDERER WHO COMPOSED HIS IMMORTAL SONG WHILE IN FAR IS / CAN'BE INSURED BY REGULAR PURCHASES OR U.S. SAVIN6S BOHDS - YOUR 6C5T MSURANCE FOR SECURITY/ V Is the The name Algonquin was sug-n "V _ , '^s downright ri.dicu ge;sstteedd bbyy SSaamuueell EEddwaarrddss,, ffrroom S' . most of the teach Philadelphia, w^io had once been a sailor on a ship called the Algonquin. Prior to this, the township had been called Fox precinct. Algonquin claims the honor of receiving the first settler in McHenry county, in 1834, Samuel Gillilan made his claim on the west bank of the Fox river. The first school in the township of Algonquin was taught by Miss Hannah Beardsley in 1838. •. Grist and sawmills were about the first industries to be established in the township. The first sawmill was located on Crystal Lake outlet "about three-fourths ers had other lucrative tions, as many do today. avoca- ALFALFA n> ARTHRITIS? 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