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- /• Page Twelve THE McHENRY PLAINDEALER Thursday* September 10. 1959 Wonder Lake TOUR OF SOVIET UNION SHOWN AT PTA MEETING by Jane Ducey -- 27S1 The Harrison School Parent Teacher association will have its first meeting of the year Tuesday, Sept. 15, in the school gymnasium. Featuring the introduction of the faculty, the school board members, and P.T.A. officers and standing committee chairmen, it will afford an opportunity for the new residents of the community to become acquainted with the school, and old residents to meet the new members of the faculty. The meeting will start at 8 p.m. A tour of the Soviet Union is the timely program scheduled for the evening's entertainment. W. Jack Satorius of. Woodstock will show colored slides he took while on a good will tour and give his eye-witness account of what he saw there. Points of interest in the Soviet Union which Mr. Satorius will describe are Moscow University, an experimental farm near Moscow, a state farm and a collective farm, and agricultural and industrial exhibitions. Mr. Satorius was one of a . group of twenty-six men from Northern Illinois who took a Farmer's good will tour, en-, tirely by air, of the countries.' Hostesses for the evening will be the executive committee and refreshments will be served in the lunchroom in the basement of the new building. Frank Higgins, president of the P.T.A. extends an invitation to the community to come to the first public showing of these slides to be given in Wonder Lake. < school is graveled and can be used for parking at the PTA meeting Sept. 15, as well as the lot. Work on Addition Precceding The long awaited steel for the roof of the addition to Harrison school arrived Friday morning and the construction of the roof was underway by noon. It is hoped that the new rooms will be ready for occupancy by the first of October or shortly thereafter. The use of visual aids in the classrooms is meanwhile curtailed in as much as the room where movies are shown is in use as a classroom temporarily. Both Mr. Wenck and Mr. Wightman are getting their programs started with meetings for chorus and orchestra. Because classes are being held in "the band room and lunchroom in the basement of the old building it will not be possible to have meetings of Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and Brownies until the new addition is completed. Leaders are urged to make their applications at this time so that all will be in readiness when the rooms are again available. The newly created parking lot to the East of Harrison Nativity Lutheran Church News The sermon topic "Fear and Glory" has been chosen by Pastor Schroeder for worship services Sunday, Sept. 13. Services are at 8 and 10:45 a.m. with Sunday school at 9:15 a.m. The Luther League will meet Sunday, Sept. 13. at 7:30. All young people are invited to attend. The quarterly meeting of the visitation committee will be held Monday, Sept. 14, at 2 p.m. This group calls on the sick and" shut-ins in the community, .two nursing homes in Woodstock, and the county home in Hartland. More are needed in this important work, and anyone who would like to know more about it is invited to Come to this meeting. Teachers and officers of the Sunday school will meet at 7:30,. Sept. 15, to make final preparations for rally day on Oct. 11, and promotion Sunday on Oct. 18. All young people in seventh grade are invited to attend the first session of the junior confirmation class Tuesday, Sept. 15, right after school. iTiis will begin a two year instruction period including Bible study. Christian history, and L u t h e r ' s c a t e c h i s m , e n d i n g with Confirmation on Palm Sunday. If anyone cannot make the classes at this time, special arrangements will be made. The senior class which will be confirmed next Palm Sunday, will meet Thursday, £ept. 17, after school. Christening David Emil Malo, son of Don and Marlene Joosten Malo, was baptized Sunday, Aug. 30, at Christ the King church by Rev. James Vanderpool. Godparents are William Malo and Joan Joosten. Holy Name Society The Holy Name society will meet Thursday, Sept. 10, at 8:30. in the parish hall. An interesting program has* been planned. Refreshments will be served. "Every member bring a member", is - the slogan for the month. The men will receive Holy Communion together at the 7:30 Mass, Sunday, Sept; 13. Bible Church News A miscellaneous bridal shower honoring Diane Cartan will be held Thursday, Sept. 10, at 8 p.m at the church. The women of the congregation are invited to attend. A teachers' stpff meeting has been scheduled for Monday, Sept. 14, at 7:30. The north suburban youth for Christ group meets Saturday, Sept. 12, in the junior high school auditorium in Barrington. There will be a program by the youth choir and orchestra, as well as a wellrounded program for the spiritual life of teenagers. Speaker will be Roy Hillman, whp is very gifted in presenting God's message to the youth of today, according to Pastor Wright. The church board will meet Thursday, Sept. 10, at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4 is membership Sunday when new merhbers will be taken into the church. Anyone interested in joining the church is asked to contact Pastor Wright or a board member. Cub Scout Call Cub Scout Pack 358 would like to advise all boys who have reached their eighth birthday, or will soon, and who would like to join the <L\ib Scouts, to please have their parents contact Mrs. June Keller at W. L. 4272. Den mothers are also needed and any mother whose boy is just joining, who thinks she might be interested, please contact Mrs. Keller, also.. "If we do not get Den Mothers, many new boys will not be able to join and the older boys will not be able to continue", said Mrs. Keller. "It is rewarding work and I will be glad to furnish details at any time", she continued. News Briefs Jane Ann Wrede returned from Door County, Wis., last week after a summer spent as riding instructor there. The Gail Wrede family spent their usual month camping in July and left Peggy on with J'ann for another 3M> weeks as a member of the crew at the riding stable. Guests in the Wooded Shores home of the Wredes in August were Esther Chase and her four children who. were there for two weeks. Fred spent the weekend with the family before returning to Midland, Mich., to the new house the Chases completed this spring. Other guests were the Cliff Wrede family from Oceanside, Calif., who spent a week visiting at the Lake and in McHenry County. r " A parents and daughters tea at Little Company of Mary hospital in .Evergreen Park was enjoyed by Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Grochocki when they took their daughter, Barbara, there to start nurses training T u e s d a y a f t e r n o o n . G u e s t s were shown through the dormitory, chapel and the convent recreation room, and movies of the activities were shown. Barbara was honored at a going away party given by Darlene Koberl of Union the evening before for fifteen friends. A combination birthday party for Paul and Pam Schwegel, age 9 and 8, was given for twenty-five little guests at the Schw§gel home in Shore JKills Saturday. Another party for the family held on Sunday, with Mr. ana Mrs. H. Douglass of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. M. Schwegel of Gary, Ind., the two sets of grandparents attending as well as great-grandmother, Mrs. Emma Douglas, and great-aunt, Miss Emily Douelas. . Pam is now completely recovered from the mumps which brother Paul brought back from camp at Lake Geneva. The trip by jet plane that Joan and daughter, Pamela, took to California this summer is the most wonderful experience that Joan has had, absolutely the ultimate, she says. It was her first ride in an airplane and the view of Pike's Peak and the Grand Canyon from such a great elevation was breathtaking. Pammy plans to be a hostess -- on jets, of course. Children going to school for the first time should have special safety indoctrination by their parents, according to the Institute for Safer Living. Among things they should be taught are these: (1) Safest route to and from school. (2) Safest places to cross the street. (3) How to cross safely at traffic lights and intersections. (4) Why they must obey their school safety patrol. 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A local aerie of Fraternal Order of Eagles was instituted at Stoffel's hall in this village Wednesday evening, the class numbering more than fifty. The, Chicago Pleasure club will hold its first annual moonlight dance at the Lily Lake dancing pavilion next Saturday evening. Sept. 4. The club which will arrive in McHenry Saturday afternoon, will be accompanied by a brass band which will parade the town before going to the pavilion. A hayrack load of young people from Ringwood very pleasantly surprised Miss Ruby Claxton at her home Thursday evening. Refreshments were served and a good time was had by all. Miss Mary Gibbs was gently reminded of her birthday on Sunday by a number of her friends calling on her in a body. Nick Bohr has. reTQrned from a trip through the West. While traversing the Huberd Canyon in Colorado, he found a pair of elk horns, measuring about seven feet across, which he had shipped to his home and will be mounted. FORTY YEARS AGO Taken From the Files p, of Aug. 28, 1919 William J. Schumacher died very unexpectedly at his home on Broad street Thursday morning while assisting a driver from the Wilbur Lumber Co., in unloading coal into his basement. Mrs. Voeltz was hostess to a group of ladies from Zion Lutheran church, at her home Thursday afternoon. The affair honored Mrs. Paul Stolzke, who with her family is moving to Woodstock to make her home. An agreement was signed here the first of the week, whereby C. G. Frett of Aurora disposes of his entire McHenry holdings to William Pries, present tenant of the Central opera house block and the old place formerly occupied by Frett's market. Possession will be given Nov. 1. The McHenry public school will open tjext Monday, when with two exceptions, the corps of instructors will be the same as last year. Oswald Treadway has been engaged as superintendent to take the place of Prof. A. E. 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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Taken From the Files of Aug. 30, 1934 A pretty summer wedding, of interest to people . of this vicinity was solemnized at St. Patrick's church Tuesday morning, August 28, when Miss Dorothy Knox, daughter of Mrs. Edmund Knox ^and Mr. Carl Weber, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Weber, were united in matrimony. Attendents were Miss Betty Conway, niece of the bride and John Wilson, friend of the bridegroom. Barely escaping a frost, people in this vicinity were shivering with the cold the last of the week, with the perspiration from the record heat hardly dry on their brows. Coal was fed to furnaces in basemerd where as recently as two weeks ago families congregated for relief from the stifling heat outside. Peggy Armstrong, 12-yearold daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lennox Armstrong, died at their summer home at Emerald Park Tuesday. 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