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K-vfflB rarsday, October 14.1954 " .THEMcHEHRY PLAINDEALER ' -' •A i. 1 Py Mrs. George Shepard Mrs. C. L. Harrison entertained the women's five hundred club at her home Wednesday. A dessert luncheon was served at 1 o'clock. Prizes were awarded to • Mrs. Pete SebastiaA and Mrs. Oscar Berg. Mrs. Walter Low and Mrs. Antone Wieser entertained at a pink and <blue shower for Mrs. Ernest Winters, at the home of Mrs. Wieser Thursday evening. Games were played. She received many hide gifts. Table decorations were little booties. The Home Circle will be enter= tained in the home of Mrs. Oscar Berg Thursday, with Mrs. Agnes Jencks as co-hostess. The Round-up club held its meeting in the Greenwood church basement Saturday evening. Election of officers was held. They are Mr. arid Mrs. John Hogan, presidents; Mr. and Mrs. Gordon f'ossum, vice-presideii'ts.;su.2i Air; and Mrs. Robert Loiv, secretaryand treasurer. Church News The Ringwood Finance- committee and all members of the teams met at the schoolhouse Tuesday evening. The Senior Youth Fellowship group wilt sponsor a box social and Jocal talent night at . the Greenwood church Saturday night. Everyone is invited, proceeds to go toward the Ringwood building fund. Layman's Sunday will be observed at church next Sunday. The Bunco club was entertained in the home of Mrs. Mildred Munshaw in Elgin Thursday, honoring the birthday of one of its members, Mrs. Wm, McCannon. Dinner was enjoyed at the Y.W.C.A. and bunco was played afterward in the Munshaw home. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Viola Low, Mrs. Georgia Thomas, Mrs. Helen Young, Mrs. Lizzie Thompson, Mr^. Lester Carr, Mrs. Oscar Berg, Miss Mae Wiedrich and Mrs. Thomas Doherty. Other guests from Elgin were Mrs. Jennie Brown, Mrs. Fannie Udall and Ms. Laura Munshaw. Mrs. John Hogan and Mrs. Chancey Harrison attended Home Bureau at the home of Mrs. Plottner at Wonder Lake Tuesday. Mrs. Louis Hawley and Mrs. Ernest Reinwall, Jr., visited Mte. Schultz at Johnsburg Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Sebastian were ^jtors Vtyprcdstoek-Wedmorning. * Mrs. Agnes Jencks and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Holly spent Wednesday in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. George Shepard were visitors in the Wm. Cfexton home at McHenry Wednesday morning. Mrs. John Hogan, Mrs. C. L. Harrison, Mrs. Milbrandt, Mrs. Fiala, Mrs. Munchow and Mrs. Ed Peet attended the style show at Grayslake Tuesday evening given by the Grayslake Home Bureau. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Howe of Crystal Lake and , Mrs. Louis Hawley visited Mrs. F. A. Hitchens at the Sycamore hospital on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Andreas spent Sunday afternoon' with Marion and Jean Schwemm at Ivanhoe. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Cristy and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hoppe visited Relatives and friends at Waiipica, Wis., over the week- Dr. Bruce Stockton of Washington, D.C., spent the past week in the Oscar Davis home. Mrs. Lenard Ackerman and children of Poplar Grove are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mis. Clayton Bi-uce. Mrs. Donald Brenner and children • of Arlington Heights visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Harrison, Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Erdmann of Chicago spent Sunday in the Wm. Hafer home. Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Butler visited friends atyGary, Ind., over the weekend. Mrs. Roy Harrison- and daughter, Edith, and Mrs. C. L. Harrison were visitors at Waukegan Saturday. David Waller of Chicago was a visitor in the Clayton Bruce honie Wednesday^ Mr. and Mrs.. Ben Walkington are visiting, their daughters and families at Armstrong, Bioomington and Evanston, HI. j Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Harrison were Sunday dinner guests in the Henry Marlowe .home at Huntley. Pvt. Joe Carr 6f Camp Chaffee, Ark., is spending a coupfe of weeks' furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Carr. Mrs. Agnes Jencks spent Sunday in the hoipe of her daughter and family at Barringtori. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wilcox of Woodstock, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Low of McHenry and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Low and' family spent Sunday in the Mrs. Emily Beatty home. Mr. and Mrs. George Shepard were visitors in the Earl Colby home at Crystal Lake Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Hunt and family left Thursday for Omaha, Nebr., where they spent the weekend with their daughter, Louise Hunt. Mr. and Mrs, Wm. Cruickshank spent Thursday evening with Mr. and Mrs. MacWilliams at Waukegan. Other guests were Mr. MeGowan and Mv Fosr of. Australia. Mrs; Clarence Adams brought her sister-in-law, Mvs. Ii'Vin May, home from the Woodstock hospital Friday, where she underwent major operation. Mrs. May is getting along nicely. Mrs. Ro# Harrison and daughter, Edith, spent Sunday- in the Clarence Harrison home near Greenwood. Mr. and Mrs. Duane Andreas of McHenry and Tom Huemann of Johnsburg were Sunday dinner guests in the Weldon Andreas home. Mr. and Mrs. Roland Bauer and family spent Sunday with her mother at Spring Grove. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Aissen and family visited' friends at Hartland Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Webster Blackman and family of Chicago spent Sunday with Dr. and Mrs. Wm, Hepburn. Use this book and they'll unravel! Look in Hie YELLOW PAGES for • BUS LINES • LU66A6E PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIP* MENT ft SUPPLIES » PHYSICIANS I SURGEONS • TAXICABS and anything else yea need! M---- mn.mi.ii u I Find it in the YEUQW PAGESthe Classified section of your telephone book VHALiOiIt iN'gy CPMING/ see our ... „ haunting wear i ' \ The Hallowe'eners ride again . . . i n s o m e o f t h e m o s t B O O - t i f u l costumes ever to be scared up! Bony skeletons -- men frbm outer space -- everything in our collection of happy-go-spooky ^wear! PIRATE f $1.98 DFvH $1.9 SKELETON $1.98 WITCH $1.98 other Costumes at 98c - $1.49 - $2.98 WE HAVE v EVERYTHING IN • MASKS • COSTUMES • CANDIES 8c FAVORS Make this your Hallowe'en Party Headquarters ... Free Loot Bags with every Hallowe'en Purchase BEN FRANKLIN So. Green Street McHenry, HI. * Mr. and Mr?. Fr$d Meyers h$4 dinner with their daughter and son-in-law, Mr,' and Mrs. John Linton at Lake Bluff Thursday evening. Mrs. Linton returned home with them to attend the homecoming at the Richmond high school Friday. Mr. Linton came for the weekend. Miss Jean Block and girl friend of Sheboygan spent Sunday with Dr. and Mrs. Wm. Hepburn. Mr. and Mrs. Aissen and family attended the football game between McHenry and Woodstock at Woodstock Friday evening. Miss Marian Peet of Elgin -spent the weekend with her mtK ther, Mrs. Lena Peet. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Vowels 6t Capron spent Wednesday evening in the Wm. Hafer home. J*vt. Joe Carr spent Sunday* evening in the Elmer Schaefet home. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Walkingtoif and family were Sunday dinner' guests in the Ray Wilcox home at Woodstock. Mrs. Fred Wiedrich, Jr., Mr$, James Wegener, Mrs. Louis Winn arrt? Mrs. Frcc*>. Davis spent Thursday in the Phelps Saunderfi; ho.r.,i at Sycamore: Mr. and Mrs. Leo Riley of Barrington spent Friday in the Wm. Hafer home. • EdwinBenoy left for his home it Clarkaton, Wash., Monday after spendingv a few weeks here with his children and their families. Mrs. Jack Leonard and children of Lake Geneva spent Sunday in the Fred Wiedrich, Jr., home. Sapper guests were Mr. and Mrs. Louis Winn of Richmond, Mr. and Mrs. James Wegener of McHenry, Mr. and Mrs. James Dickson of Mendota and Mr. and "Mrs. Bob Brennan and children. Mrs. Fred Davis of Richmond spent Friday until Sunday in the Fred Wiedrich, Jr., home. fi School News - The lower room teacher, Miss Heideman, ordered three educational movies. They were "The Fireman," "Animals on the farm" and "Handling a Basketball." The firemen showed how they put out a fire and how to get into a building when .it is on fire. "Animals on the Farm" was to show the children what kinds of animals are on a farm. Some of the -Animals were goats, cows, pigs, sheep, chickens and horses. ;, "Handling a Basketball" was interesting to the fifth through .'eighth grade: It showed how to fake a pass and other -things. The upper room had an interesting soccor game between the bdys and the girls. The girls won 8 to 2. Wesley Bruce, school reporter CROP COfsjfDITIONS . More sowing of winter wheat has been completed in northern districts of Illinois, where soil moisture is generally in good supply, than in the sduthern pa^t of the state, 'according to the weekly report of the state and federal departments of agriculture. FOr Illinois as a whole, about one-fourth of the planned acreage of wheat has been seeded, which 5s close to the average for this date. 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