THE McHENHY PiaONDEAXEtt ~ L~ " Wfcr? ' I I I B't 11' 11 It f i t T' ! 'T 1 I'T T T '*"* ifi *' •*' PREVIEWING EARLY HAPPENINGS IN McHENRY and VICINAGE Plaindealer Files Furnish Memories of Yesteryears Compiled by A. H. Mosher £rave in Woodland cemetery, wliere a marble stone marks the last resting place of Clinton Rorer, son of Mrs. Samantha Button, of this city. Mrs. Button, who will be 100 yea'rs old- next December, lias the unique distinction of being the only living white woman who had a son in the Civil War. FORTY YEARS AGO From Issue of May 27, 1915 Burned by Kerosene- Mrs. Nickels, mother-in-law to Charles B. Harmsen, met with a very painful accident at the Harmsen home Friday evening of last week. Mrs. Nickels, who is well along in years, started to prepare supper and in order -to build a quick fire she poured sojne kerosene into the stove without knowing that the firepot contained some fcot coals. The result was an explosion. Boy Breaks Elbow-- " Earl Conway, the seven-yearold son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Qonway, who reside on the Peter Welch farm, about one and onehalf miles south of town, broke saw at his home on Monday. Dr. say at his home on Monday. Dr. Wells of this place set 'the fracture and under his care the ilittle fellow is getting along nicely. j Win County Track Meet-- j For the first time in the history of the school, the athletes representing the McHenry public school, won the county track meet which has been an annual event participated in by the various schools of the county during the past several years. The meet was Hield at the Woodstock fair grounds last Saturday " afternoon. By Winning the silver trophy the athletes of the school have accomplished a feat that no team representing the McHenry school was ever able to do. , Items of Local Interest-- John Thennes is driving a new Ford touring car, ' purchased through tfiie John R. Knox agency. W. H. Krause has moved his family from the Weber cottage on Water street to the Wirfs building on the. West Side. R. I. Overtop, the West Side 'liyeryaatfitt and garage owner, brought his new auto bus out from Chicago the first of the \veek and has already placed same into commission. Harvey Barron, a new employee at tiie Borden milk factory here, has moved (his family from Hebron to this village and is occupying the flat over the N. 3. Justen furniture store. A pair of electric side lamps were stolen from a buggy owned •%»y George E. Adams, who resides west of town, last Thursday i#vening. Mr. Adams informs us that he was attending a K. of C. meeting and left his rig in Cenas he went to light Up to go home. Announce New Model-- Klein & Rauen, agents for the Empire car, announce that the new 1916 model 33 touring car is on display at their Spring Grove salesroom. It will sell for $975. ' ' TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO From Issue of May 22, 19S0 29 Students to Graduate-- Tine personnel of the Senior class at McHenry high this year is as follows: Edwin Austin, Lois Bacon, Margaret Carlson, Frances Collison, Bethel Draper, Glen Draper, Bernice Ferwerda, Mildred Gans, Orval Granger. Fred iiuemann, Marguerite Kinsala, HMen Lawrence, Ford McDonald, Elm£r Meyer, Fl'ed Mueller, Florence Olson. Clarence Pierce, Gwendolyn Overton, Maurice Schrriner, Herbert Smith, William Sutton, Elsie Valentine, Albert Vales, Edith Vogel, Berenice Weber, John Thorsedl, Daniel O'Shea. Edwin Hergott and Genevieve Young. Civil War Mother-- On Memorial Day again will be decorated the graves of those brave soldiers who gave their lives to their country in the Civil War. Among tfnem will be a TEN YEARS AGO. From the Issue of May 17» 1945 Walter Cropley Dies-- The McHenry friends of Walter Cropley were sorry to learn of his death in Solon Mills on May 9. He had been ill for many months. The deceased was an agent for the Chicago & Northwestern railway in Solon Mills, where he had resided for more than thirty years. Narrow Esca|»e-- The fate of drowning was narrowly escaped when , Patsy Ann, 21-month-o) J daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Brefeld, fell into the cow tank. The little girl was playing with her sister, Irene, five years old, in the farm yard of c.er parents, who reside on the Smith farm on East River road, when she accidentally fell into the tank. Thought For The Week-- "The old idea of romance: The country boy goes to the city, marries his employer's daughter, enslaves some hundreds of his fellow humans, gets rich, and leaves a public library to his •home town. The new idea of romance: To unjo some of the mischief done by the old idea of romance."--Seymour Deming. Savings invested in Crystal Lake Savings and, .. Loan earn 2 Vi % plus i/2% extrti. 23tf GAS PUMP THOUGHTS By: Ed Guettler A customer was telling me how his father had refused him permission to attend the burlesque years ago. "No," he said. "You might see something you shouldn't see." But he disobeyed and went anyway. I asked then. "Did you see something that you shouldn't have seen?" "Yah," he replied. "I saw my father." And this is one of the reasons I like running the GUETTLER'S CITIES SERVICE. You do good work on servicing automobiles, handle fine merchandise, and because of it, you make friends of customers and hear some dandy stories. Phone 331 SPECIAL DISCOUNT TO COMMITTORS Before you buy any range, find out FLAME TYPE 5 minutes 31 seconds--still below boiling point ELECTRIC 5 minutes 31 seconds--at boiling point ^RESULTS OF RECENT IMPARTIAL RESEARCH: Independent engineers of the R. W. Hunt Company (who made this series of teste) stated: "We ran several speed studies--comparing 3 modern flame-type ranges against 3 modern electric ranges. One electric surface ifnit boObd'a quart of Water in 5 minutes and 31 seconds. That was 56 seconds faster than the best flame-type burner tested. We made' tWenty-one tests in all. Results showed that the three electric ranges averaged 40 seconds faster than the three flametype ranges." (All ranges tested were top brands.) The answer: Nothing cooks faster than today's electric ranges! If you have to get meals in a hurry, you know speed is important. " But modern electric cooking offers more than speed. For instance, when you cook vegetables the waterless electric way, the flavor is all there! And don't worry about scorching, because the electric unit heats- the pan evenly. There's no cooler way to cook than with a new electric range. Electric ovens are so well insulated they keep your kitchen up to 10 degrees cooler than flame-type. 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