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PtfrTm' • - j ' ' ' . i. ' \ THI: McHENRY S" • . ' • .. •• ;. \ " {.'•:/ • •• Z Tv -;.7V;V • " •• • •nv-~ •;••.. Thursday, f)ecember 29, fSifc BBHiiiniinmuraiiiiiiinurimiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiHiuiHiiiiiiii JOHNSBURG NEWS ^--By Betty Hettermann " c^iiiwiittaiiMiiflSiirilfffiiii8iWiiiiii!iiHiiiiiaiiii!iiiii<iii>i|iiitiii|BBi-" Forester Christmas Party Over fifty lady Foresters of St. Agatha's court, No. 777, gathered at the school hall on Tuesday evening, Dec. 20, to hold their annual Christmas party. After the pot-luck supper the officers and ladies held their monthly meeting. Six new members were taken in during the course of the evening. They are Mesdames Ethel Heim, Marcella Schafer, Clara Adams, Lu , Oeffling, Sue frhelen and Helen Schmitt. Father felitsch and the good Sisters Joined in the evenings festivities. While everyone was joining in on Singing Christmas carols, Santa Claus arrived amid a jingling of foells to distribute the various presents. The sisters were very happy with the canned goods of all types which they received for their annual kitchen shower. • Cards were played later in the Evening with prizes awarded to the high scorers. ; iSick List Bernie Althoff, who has been, in Memorial hospital for almost two weeks now, has been. improving nicely. We *hoi^te th&t he tyill'be home real soon. Arnold Michels was taken to Memorial hospital earlier last week, where he underwent an emergency operation. I'm. sure cards received toy these two fellows while they are being confined will certainly help pass some of those long hours. Joe Smith has made a couple Of return trips to see the doctor ifa Rockford since undergoing an eye operation several weeks ago. His eye is improving nicely. Home on Furlough Bob Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Smith, and Harry Thelen, husband of Mrs. Lois Thelen, arrived home for the holidays last week. Both Bob and Harry are stationed with the Anny in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. VI Belated Anniversary Wishes "To Mr. and Mrs. Louis Tomasello, who celebrated their eighteenth wedding anniversary on Nov. 22. Ladies' Bowling Party Last Thursday evening, the Thursday night ladies' league held their annual Christmas gift exchange at the bowling alleys here. Our very nice secretary, Alice Ross, and her husband, Earl, treated all the girls to pizza. Three cheers for Alice and Earl on thejr J^hristmas spirit. News In Early Next week folks, as it was this week, the news is due in the office early. So please call me early in the week. s PERFECT HANDS •The average golfer realizes tfiat bis chances of ever scoring a holeln- one are slim. Mathematicians say that the odds are around 9,000 to 1 against the likelihood that be Will one day tee off and watch the golf ball disappear into the cup. Yet how, about that othef phenomenon, . the perfect h a n d i n B r i d g e ? Every few months you read in the newspapers of a perfect hand--13 cards .of one suit--dealt in a game of Bridge. This freak of the card world is reported so often that scientists who apply their slide rules and complex computers to such matters are incredulous. An American mathematics professor <has figured that the perfect hand occurs an average of once in about 40,000,000,060 deals. He states that if this ftear-miracle- were to happen four or five times a year, as reported, every adult in the land would have to play Bridge.every night (And obviously this doesn't happen!) An English Bridge expert, with even stronger doubts, figures that there are about 600,000,000;000 different combinations possible in 13-card hands. Thus according to his calculations, one perfect hand would appear in 150,000,000.000 deals. There are perfect hands," of course, in other card games besides Bridge. Experts tell us that the odds against getting a perfect hand in Cribbage-- a 29 count--are 216,579 to 1. In Pitch, the odds against one player holding the Jack of Spades for High, Low, Jack and Game are 82,683 to 1. The odds against holding a perfect hand in. Gin Rummy, that Is, being able to go "Gin" without drawing another card, are one in 880,000 and the chances pf getting a 10-card sequence; in one suit in the same'game are one in 988,751,514. Poker players have one chance in 649,741 o£ being dealt a Royal Flush in their next Poker game. Drawing a perfect hand in a card game can sometimes prove to be too much for one person to take. In 1931 a Pinochle player in California picked up his cards, sorted them out carefully and then fell off his chair in a faint. He had drawn a perfect Spade hand. Patience is rewarding, even in cards. After thirty years of /playing Cribbage, a man in Miohigan realized his ambition and drew a perfect hand--a 29 count So that he and his friends would never forjjet the momentous occasion, he tobk "thfe hand home and had it framed. No one doubts that a perfect hand, like a ihole-in-one, does happen. If you play at your favorite card game long enough, perhaps you ttk> might realize that phenomenon of the pasteboards-- the perfect hand. Shop in McHenry 1 would like to wish all my readers a very happy and prosperous New Year. I also hope that you will all continue to cooperate with i*ie as you have this past year in giving me news items to make this column more interesting. Happy New Year. Here's our watchword for 1956: Good Cheer! And may the coming year clock many happy hours for you. 1 GLAPSTf '& DEPT. IRE "The Store For Everyone" 208 S. Green St. Phone 182- McHenry, 111. 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