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By Phyllis Carlson PJLftlNDEALER Saturday, July 14, Virgine had pot-luck supper at the Schultz and Alan Lackey were ! Community church. united in marriage at the altar of Grace church. Virgine gradu- ; Conference Delegate ated from RBCHS in May and ; Vorna Miller, daughter of Mr. was very active in band and chorus work. She is the organist at Grace church. Alan lives at TNvin Lakes and works in Chicago. Virgine works in McHenry. Virgine looked lovely in a gown of white lace and net. with a crown type veil. Miss Louise Schultz, sister of the bride, was maid Of honor, and Miss Mari- ( cienne Lackey, \sister of the groom, was a bridesmaid. Ronald Nicotera was the best man. Charles Meyer was an usher. Thfr bride's mother wore a pink and Mrs. Jake Miller of Spring Grove, has been selected by the Richmond chapter of the Future Homemakers of America as a delegate to the sixteenth annual Illinois state leadership training conference to be held July 23 through July 27 at East Bay camp. Lake Bloomington, 111. Vorna is a junior at the Richmond high school and is treasurer of her local F.H.A. chapter. Mr. It's A Girl and Mrs. Carl Eklof of dress and had a white orchid, j Dongola, 111., are the parents of Noyce, son of Rev, and Mrs. Noyce, is home for a week from Baltimore. Then, Steve Noyce, nephew, of Rev. and Mrs. Noyce, from Denver, Colo., is visiting here. Later in the week. Rev. Noyce's brother " from White Plains, N.Y., will toe here. It : sounds like an unplanned family reunion. We hope they all have a pleasant stay. ; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pretzman 1 of Oak Park were recent callers in the home of Mrs. Arthur Bell. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hardy and family called briefly at the home of Mrs. Nellie Phillips and at Mrs. Ethel BeH's__home. Ed Swartzloff spent some tjme in the West Suburban hospital in Oak Park recently. He is back to work again and is feeling better. Mr. Swartzloff works in Chicago and commutes daily. Donald Madden is taking his mother and his brother and sister, Shirley and Stanley, to visit 1 p^ay morning. "Ehursday, July <19; McHenry County Through The Years by Marie Schaettgen FORTY YEARS AGO From tissue of July 20, 1916 The class of 1916 of St. Patrick's academy, Chicago, celebrated its first reunion at the summer residence of their class president, Marion McOmber, where an enjoyable weekend was spent. Dr. D. G. Wells will leave Sunday for a two-month vacation. He will travel to Alaska and from there to Los Angeles, Calif. Drs. C. H. Fegers and Arnold Mueller will have charge of his practice during his absence. Gilbert Howard was sworn in as McHenry's motorcycle cop last week and went on duty The groom's mother chose a white dress with colored flowers and nlflo wore an orchid. Virgine, who plays the organ for most of the weddings at Cinice church, wasn't able to pltiy lit h<\r own wedding. Mrs. V (ti'NtmilHU of Genoa City plnytMl the oman and Mrs. H. Onl HI in KM nit. :*-•»«in- I.WINOII solemnized the mttri IMM" A HM'optlon was held in the church hiicImI room alter the wcililluu Mix Jones was in chmw of the reception. Carol Stolnke and Claiene Steadman poured the coffee and punch. After a short wedding trip, Virgine and Alan will continue ' to work and will live at Twin Lakes. ' ! Birthdays We find that July was a popu- ( lar month in which to be born. July 12 was Mrs. Glen (Babs) ; Buchert's birthday. I Paul Adams had a birthday j this week, too. j Gerry Swartzloff was 9 years old Tuesday end ^celebrated by inviting his frierios to a birthday party. ' Patty Madden Wjas 2 years old Tuesday. Her gran^nia fnade and decorated a beautiful cake for her in honor of her birthday. Patty is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Madden. a girl, born June 30. The Eklofs have another daughter. Melanie, who is 6 years old. i Mrs. Eklof was formerly -Ruth Benson of Richmond. Bridal Shower j Miss Virgine Schultz was the ! guest of honor at a shower j given for her at the home of j the Dick Rathkes near Arling- j ton Heights. The party was a ! surprise. The guests included j Mrs. Ralph Thomas, grandmo- I ther of the bride, Mrs. Kenneth ! Thomas of Genoa City, aunt of the bride, Mrs. Arthur Schultz, ! mother of the bride, Mrs. M. i Lackey. Mrs. D. Plowman. Mrs. i A. Carpentier of Twin Lakes, ] Wis., relatives of the groom, i and several relatives from the ' vicinity of Arlington Heights. relatives in Minnesota this week. Susan Harsha is enjoying her stay in Colorado, where she is learning to be a junior counselor at camp. She ahd Susan Johonott of Solon are spending some time this summer at camp. The rummage sale last Satur- 11914 by a summer resident who has had it refilled every season since. At the regular July meeting of the board of supervisors, it was unanimously voted to offer a reward of $2,000 for information leading to the apprehension and conviction of the murderer of Charles Eldridge of Richmond, who yvas slain on his wild game preserve July 4. TEN YEARS AGO From Issue of July 18, 1946 James Lynch of Oak Park, a local summer resident, has purchased the Park hotel from Earle and Walter Gorman and plans to remodel the thirty-two room building. Friends of Patrick Cleary, 92, CUB SCOUTS Supervisors of McHenry county enjoyed their annual outing | will be glad to know he is again Tuesday when six of Hunter's i abic t0 be out following his reboats carried 200 people to. the j cent illness. Mineola hotel, Fox Lake, for a sumptuous dinner. Mrs. Ross Robison, a former local residerit, died' at her home day at Memorial hall was well j near Crystal Lake July 13. attended. Most anything was for j N. D. Stevens passed away sale, books, furniture, clothes I very suddenly at his home in and food. I Ringwood Wednesday noon. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pretzman [ Mr and Mrs M L Qtt and are enjoying their family's visit j Harvey Gardiner left for their this week. Their daughter. Phyl- j new home in Harleton, Mont., lis, her husband and daughter are visiting from Texas. Their son, his wife, and daughter from Virginia are visiting mom and dadTOO. Mrs. C. H. Carlson of Genoa City, formerly of Richmond, this week. Home Bureau Picnic The Richmond Evening unit of the Home Bureau had a family picnic Tuesday evening in the Genoa City park. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO From Issue of July 31, 1931 • The old creamery on the Crystal Lake road was the scene visited Mrs. Ethel Bell last week. ! a federal raid last Thursday The three Richmondites who ! afternoon when prohibition Mrs. Gordon in Hospital j * Mrs. Wendella Gordon is j spending several days in an Elj gin hospital. We hope she is feeling better. Flower Show The Garden club of Richmond will hold its annual flower show July 26 and 27 in the basement of Grace Lutheran church. If you saw the show last year you will not want to miss it this year. Tickets are available from any memJOer of the Garden club. Mfis, Harry Anderson is president of the Garden club and Mrs. Evan Vogel is chairman of the flower show. The h<jurs of the show are from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday of next week. There will be table settings featured, as well as flower arrangements. It's a Boy! A/2c and Mrs. Carl Cupp of Richmond are the proud parents of a son, born July 10 at the Great Lakes Naval hospital. The little lad wil answer to the name of Carl Rickey. He weighed 7 lbs. 14 oz. at birth. The maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Rudolph of Richmond and the paternal grandparents •«>re Mr. and Mrs. Fred Calucog of Earlimart, Calif. The maternal great-grandfather is Joseph J. Schmitt of Spring Grove and the greatj great-grandfather is Norman Stewart of Hebron. Camp Alpine Camp Alpine is still going strong, in its third week of operation. There are seventy-seven intermediates enrolled this week. They range in age from 12 to 14 years. The kids leaving -on each ! ?re welcome to come a)on^. Saturday are ready to come back !Th* a"d f;he,,r leaders meot Boys The boys, who have been coming out on Mondajr nights, have enjoyed several weeks of swimming. This week, George Madden and Bob Lindbloom took the boys swimming at Twin Lakes. Mr. and Mrs. Dring helped with transportation too. If you are between the ages of 8 and 13 again next year and many of the counselors are ready to come again. We don't know if it's the at the high school each Monday evening at 6:30 p.m. Next Monday the boys' activicountry air, the full moon, the ,wi11 be B"™*- Probably baseball or soccer. Come on out and join in the fun. swimming pool or Christian fellowship. Maybe it's a little bit of each. Dr. and Mrs. Oberly, missionaries to India, were at the camp last week and will return for a week in August. Bake Sale The Lutheran Women's guild will hold a bake sale Saturday, July 28, in Memorial hall. Rotary Last week the visiting Rotarians at Rotary were Pete Schroeder and Dr. Nye from McHenry. Each of them received a cigar. H. M. Sanford of Cleveland, Ohio, was a gu£st of Carl Grant. The program this week was in Bud Wendt's hands and he planned to tell about the foundry business. are attending the University of Wisconsin at Madison this summer see each other occasionally. Mary Wittmayer saw DuWayne Sheldon one evening last week. Charles ^ayer, home for the Schultz wedding, rode part way home with DuWayne Sheldon. Tuesday afternoon was the annual meeting of Home Bureau in Woodstock. Several ladies from the Richmond area planned to attend. Mrs. Alida Wasmund and Arthur Cokell were united in marriage at Grace church by Pastor Carlson Monday, July 16. Ruth Buchert and Helen Klemstein are going to take a vacation together. They are spending it about 150 miles up in Wisconsin. Miss Betty Hosch was home this past weekend from Milwaukee, where she does office work. She enjoys her job. It is the same job she had part time while 'she took her business training in Milwaukee. Betty will return to school in September for a day, at which time she will graduate. Mrs. Cora Stewart attended the funeral of Mrs. Luella Weter at Hebron yesterday. Mrs. Weter, aged 97, was a sister of the late E. M. Stewart, Mrs. Stewart's husband. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Buchert i had weekend guests from Dolton, j 111. Mr. and Mrs. Schild and family spent Saturday and Sunday with the Jake Bucherts. Mrs. Schild and Mrs. Buchert are sisters. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Buchert and Mrs. Eddie Buchert's sister were Sunday callers at the home | of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Buchert. j Tommy Brewer and his new black and white station wagon go well together, don't you ' think? agents from Chicago raided a brewery, battered down the doors, arrested two operators and a truck driver and confiscated 6,500 gallons of beer and a new delivery truck. Clarence Nisen plans to start work on his new Fox pavilion on the Wattles property, south of town, next week to replace the old Fox, which was recently destroyed by fire. Adeline Kenders of Chicago and Bernard Dalziel of McHenry were united in marriage by Justice of the Peace William J. Welch Monday evening. In the prescription files at Bolger's drug store is to be found a prescription which has* been filled continuously each year for the past seventeen years. It was first brought to the store of N. H. Petesch in Mr. and Mrs. John Vycital are grandparents of a son born to Mr. and Mrs. Stanley* Vycital of Tacoma, Wash., July 8. Mr. and Mrs. E. Joseph Gausden announce the arrival of a son at the Woodstock hospital July 15. Warrant Officer (jg) William Martin, who has been stationed in Texas since returning from Nuremburg, Germany, last winter, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Martin. He has received orders to report back to Washington, D.C., and from there expects to be sent either back to the Nuremburg trials or to toP aris. H. C. Goettsche, a summer resident for many years, died at his home on Fox River road July 15 at the age of 60. ' BRIDGE CEREMONIES Gov. William G. Stratton participated in ceremonies in connection with the opening of the Wabash River Memorial bridge near New Haven, 111., Saturday, July 7. The governor predicted that the bridge, constructed by* the Indiana Toll Bridge Commission, "will aid the economic progress of southern Illinois as well as southern Jndiana." Illinois built approaches from its side of the structure at a cost of $2,647,539. This included more than six miles of grading, one of the largest grading jobs ever awarded by the Illinois Division of Highways. Lora Gelder Tel. Richmond 4103 ~ TRASH & MEASURES ANTIQUES We wish to extend an invitation to you to visit our shop -- Furniture, Brie a Brae, Glass, Lamps, Dishes, Rug, Etc: DURING JUNE, JULY & AUGUST OPEN ) A.M. to » P.M. East of Route 12 at Solon Mills Swimming Party The senior high Youth Fellow- j Here and There ship group had a swimming party I The Noyces have house guests Sunday night at Nippersink. Af- • this week, relatively speaking, ter swimming, the 'teen-agers for they are all relatives. 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Open Friday Nights Til 9 • Sunday 'Til Noon Pack 361 ' Whjle the weatherman reported approximately 1 inch of rain on Saturday night, July 7, there are seventeen Cub Scouts, seventeen fathers and one grandfather who will testify that it was closer to one fool In addition to the rain, . these hardy campers, who wera_attending the annual Kishwaukee council Cubday weekend, were confrontedwith such problems as "How to erect an Indian tepee," (for the answer to this, see the agile gentleman who climbs picnic tables like a certain jungle citizen) and "Ten ways how not to dig ditches around a tent" (we now have a father and son team who know the correct answer to this one too). Despite the soaking they took, all -parties concerned thoroughly enjoyed the impressive ceremonies conducted in a natural amphitheatre with a large bonfire for the setting. Our boys put .on a skit with a moral and did very well on siich short notice. During the brief moments when the sun was shining, several of the boys went hiking and reported seeing a large group of deer grazing in a nearby forest. There are other animals displayed in the camp area that added to the Cubs' enjoyment and all things considered, both Cubs and dads agreed this was one outing that will be remembered for many years to come. Pistakee Highlands By Lorraine Hurckes .A good time was had' by all last Saturday afternoon when Mrs. Harold Peterson entertained her Sunday School class at her home. Onqe a year, the teachers do something special for their group, so Mrs. Peterson invited them all up for swimming and a wiener roast. Those attending were Kay Kaske, Billy Roble and Christy Jual, all from Fox Lake, Garda and Karen Haubold, Jay, jgobby, and Eddy Di- | Fatta, Paulette Geiersbach, Sy- ' bil, Sharon and Corky Peterson, ! all from Pistakee Highlands. ! Mrs. Haubold and Mrs. Geiersbach assisted Mrs. Peterson in the serving and also helped keep an eye on the children while they were swimming. Welcome home to Rieky Hauck and Craig and Kenny Thoren, who recently returned home from a week's stay at Scout camp in Oregon, 111. i We have enjoyed having Mr. and Mrs. Tom Corcoran, Jr., who h^ye been spending thpir vacation with Mr. and Mrs. Corcoran, Sr. In fact, Tom, Jr., is quite handy, when it comes to fixing sump pump?, isn't he Mac? Mr. and Mrs. R. Jordan have just returned home after a start visit to Rockford to see tWir son and- his family. Mr. and Mrs. Hurckes were very pleased to have their friends from Chicago; Mr. and Mrs, F. Weber, spend the day wjth them. On July 27, 28 and,29, Sunnyside is having their police picnic which I hope we can all try and attend to help them tk>t started with a big success. A correction on the date of our picnic. It definitely will be the fifth of August, rain or shine. 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