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Thursday, May 13,1965 THE McHENRT PLAINDEALER SfccttbiiTwo -- PagrOti* Twice Told Tales FORTY YEARS AGO M. M. Niesen, who for many years has conducted a grocery store on Green Street, is selling out his stock at cost and expects to retire from this line of business to devote his entire attention to the Fox dance pavilion which he built with his son, Clarence, and has conducted very successfully during the past three summer seasons. A cavalry outfit from Ft. Sheridan stopped in this city for a short time. The outfit Consisted of about 100 men and as many horses and the customary equipment. They were on their way to Sparta, Wis., where they will remain for the summer. The eighth grade commencement exercises, owing to the measles epidemic, will be cancelled this year. This is: on order from the office of the county superintendent of schools. McHenry's new fire siren was given a try-out Tuesday of this week and while everything appeared to work quite satisfactorily, city officials are of the opinion that the volume; could have been stronger. A few minor changes will be made. The wiring and installation of the system connected with the siren was done by the Carey Electric Company. The Modern Laundry in this city has reopened after a shutdown of a few months. McHenry's first paving will be laid tomorrow morning when the big mixer starts work at the foot of Main Street. According to Mr. McGucken, it will require about ten days to pave the entire length of Main Street to the C. & N.W. right of way and also one block on Front Street. Measles signs are quite common throughout the city at this time. Judging from the signs there are few homes that have escaped the epidemic. ,, Miss Marie Miller is a new employee at the local exchange of the Illinois Bell Telephone Company. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of May 9, 1940) The census has just been completed and there are 1,622 people, a gain of 268 people since the 1930 census was taken! The store which is under construction on the west side of Green Street, south of the Mc- Henry Ice Cream factory, will be one of the most handsome buildings in the countryside. It is to be occupied by the Maurice Gladstone Department store. Forty-five seniors of Mc- Henry high school spent the day in Springfield, 111., visiting the Capitol and all other places of interest. Since May 1, the Hilltop Inn on Rt. 31, a mile north of Mc- Henry, has had a new owner. Formerly known as Jerry's and Marie's tavern, the inn will now be operated by Mrs. Esther Wagner and Mrs. Dora Schimmel. Ray Peters, manager of the Bowman Dairy company plant at Ringwood, has been transferred to Harvard as manager there since the Ringwood plant has been closed. The milk has been hauled to Chicago by a trucking company from Waukegan since May 1. The public is invited to attend the dedication and homecoming of the new Volo school On May 15. W. C. Petty of Waukegan, Lake county superintendent of schools, will deliver a talk. B£iss Helen Bauer is the teacher and there are fifteen pupils. Martin Baum, accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Elmer Baum, and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Yanda will journey to Battle Creek, Mich., where he will enter the national instrumental contest with his baritone. He will compete with five other soloists who are winners of state contests. Mrs. Walter Fenske. and Mrs. Herbert Fenske of Chicago have purchased the house along the Fox river which was owned by Mrs. John Homer of Chicago, formerly occupied by the James Perkins family. They are remodelling it into a summer home and expect to move, in the latter part *of this month. On Sunday, May 5, the Floyd Cooleyso celebrated their wedding anniversary by attending the stage play in Chicago, "The Man Who Came To Dinner." TEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of May 5, 1955) Just east of Lakemoor shortly after midnight, Sunday, May 1, three McHenry young people were killed in an auto accident, Leo Gerasch and his sister, Mary Jane, and Louise Barbier. Another passenger in the car, George Hartmann, of Wonder Lake was taken to the Memorial hospital. He sustained a broken left arm and left leg. St. Mary's Catholic church was the scene of a beautiful wedding April 30 when Miss Joan Scholz of Shalimar became the bride of Mr. Paul Freund. Mrs. Laura Knaack of McHenry became grandmother and grat-grandmother all in a few weeks. The first day of April a daughter was born to her granddaughter and on April 18 a spn ws born to her son and wife. Pvt. Gerald Thelen, recently stationed at Camp Chaffee, Ark., has arrived in Germany. He sends word of appreciation for the paper. Mr: and Mrs. Roy Redwanz returned last week from a wedding trip through the south. Mrs. Harry Stinespring, Jr., Mrs. J. Kolar and Mrs. Lishamer accompanied the music groups to Macomb last weekend. The orchestra under the direction of Paul Yanda came home from the state finals of the Class B music contest with a superior rating, highest award. Receiving similar recognition were the boys vocal octet, in competition with fifteen from through out the state and the violin quartet. Excellent ratings went to the girls vocal octet, the flute trio, Sue Stinespring, violin soloist; and Barbara Eggert, string bass, JEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of ,May 12, 1955) The Robert Richardson family has been "featured in a California paper as being the typical family at Travis Air Force Base. He is a motor vehicle technician, classified as an inspector at the base. An octet from the famed Blue Jacket choir of Great Lakes will come to McHenry next Thursday night to appear as guests at the annual spring music festival. Leo J. Stilling, a veteran of World War One, died May 10 following a lingering illness. Mrs. Herbert Engdahl and Mrs. Fred Pepping motored to Iowa City, Iowa, to spend Mother's Day weekend with the former's daughter, Karen, and the latter's son, Jack, both students at the state university there. Mr. and Mrs. Wacren Holly returned from a two weeks vacation in San Carlos, Calif,, where they visited in the home Field & Road Tractor Tire by fimfott* It's ALL NEW • NEW Bar Anglo • NEW Bar Design • NEW Tread Action • NEW Sidewalf SENSATIONALLY LOW PRICES! PRE-VACATION SPECIALS on PASSENGER CAR TIRES 6.50x13 $14.00 7.50x14 $16.25 8.00x14 $17.50 Add $1.50 for Whitevvalls 6.00x16 $10.80 6.70x15 $11.30 All Prices Plus Tax--No Trade-Ins Necessary TRUCK TIRES -- All Sizes McHenry Tire Mart WALT FREUND, Prop. 3931 W. Main St. Phone 885-0294 McHenry, HI. 0EE THS GENERAL MOTORS NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR If you're completely satisfied with humdrum driving stay out of tiger country. This is the homo of the GTO, the Grand Prix and Bonneville, thp Le Mans «... _ . and 2+2, the Catalina and Tempest. Bucket seats and luxury flourish, ine WIOe-iraCK „• People seen entering tiger country never leave. You've been warned! Poiltiac TigCfS SEE THLM A.L AT YOU1? A^ I:;D PO'.TIAL O-.A__*S. OVERTON CADiLLAC-PONTIAC COMPANY -- Petdonaid -- Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sprouse of Stanwood, Washington, have been guests in the Robert Thompson home and also visited many other relatives and friends in this vicinity the past week. Mrs. Mark Vycital, who has been making her home in Nashville, Tenn., left last week to join her husband, Lt. Vycital, in Okinawa, where he has been stationed the past couple of months. Mr. and Mrs. Alfons Adams and Earl Paddock accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Trumble of Woodstock attended a special committee meeting of the Northern Illini Bowmen at the Harvey Eady home- in Chicago Thursday evening. * Mrs. Gertrude Pidgeon,. Mrs. Laura Brennan and Mrs. Alma McAuliff of Chicago were recent guests of the former's sister, Mrs. Walter Brooks. Mrs. McAuliff came to say good-bye to her . sister-in-law before leaving to make her home in Phoenix, Ariz. J Mr. and Mrs. Albert Purvey were in Fox Lake Saturday to attend the wedding of their grand-niece, Miss Susie Schue of her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Don McLennon. The grand opening of Havemeyer's located on Rt. 120 West of Rt. 12 is announced for Saturday and Sunday, May 14 and 15. The business specializes in yard goods, upholstery, drapery and slipcover remnants and carpets. The theme of the '55 Prom will be "Starlight Serenade". Plans are being made for the second post prom party at the country club, the seniors being assisted by the local Kiwanis club and the V.F.W. A Skokie child, Debra Frank, 3, daughter of the Albert Franks, was killed on Tuesday when she was crushed under the wheels of an equipment trailer in a vacant lot a bout a block from her home. Driver of the truck was Richard Soda of Rt. 3, McHenry. nemann, to Robert Laubach, which took place at St. Bede's church that afternoon with a reception following at the Legion hall there. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Patzke were Saturday evening visitors in the home of their son, Richard, and family in Grayslake. On Sunday they entertained Mrs. Patzke's mother, Mrs. Bessie Sund, and sister, Viola Buchert, of Crystal Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Dickinson and Dale of Rockford and Mr. and Mrs. William Jordan and Gary of Downers Grove were Sunday guests in the William Jordan home. Miss Henrietta Nell returned by plane to East Orange, N. J. Tuesday, after a few days visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. .Henry Nell, Sr. in Sunnyside and other relatiyes here. . " • " • • ( I Mesdames Joseph 'J. Miller, W. J. Bruce, S. J. Smith, Albert Purvey, Gerald Miller, Terry Becker and Carol Hunt attended a shower honoring Miss Lynn Purvey at the Gieske home in Lakewood, Crystal Lake, Wednesday evening. Miss Purvey's marriage to Kenneth Bruce of McHenry will take place in Crystal Lake May 22. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Patzke and son, Clayton, were Sunday guests of friends in Champaign. Supper guests in the Senior Leslie Olsen home on Mothers Day were the Junior Leslie Olsen family of Crystal Lake and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Low and Bobby. Saturday visitors were Mr. and ^Irs. James Kline of Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. James Powers spent the weekend with relatives in Dubuque, Iowa, where they attended the wedding of their niece, Miss Mary Ann De- Lire, on Saturday. The ceremony was performed by the bride's uncle Father DeLire of Chicago. Mrs. David Powers was a weekend guest in the home of her son, William, in Batavia. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Carey have returned from a few weeks vacation in which they visited Vicksburg, Natchez and Biloxi, Miss., Baton Rouge and New Orleans, La., Mobile. Montgomery and Thorsby, Ala., where they were guests in the home of their aunt, Mrs. Anna Phalin, and son, Thomas. Mrs. Frances Patzke has moved from the upper apartment in the Paddock place on Waukegan Street to the upper apartment, in the George Larkin home, across the street, formerly occupied by Mrs. Eveline Larkin who is now making her home with her daughter in Woodstock. Gerald Miller has been spending several days in Reno, Nev., on business for the company for which he works. Joan Adams was home from Chicago for the weekend and on Sunday accompanied her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfons Adams, and Joyce to Fox Lake where they attended a family gathering at the William Walsh home honpring their son, Billy, who made his First Communion at St. "Bede's church on that, day. Mesdames Victor Freund, Clarence Freund, John Herdrich, Frank Gende, Mrs. Robert Vogt, Jr.. Mrs. Henry Nell, Jr., Sister Florus and Sister Ancille accompanied several of the seventh grade girls from St. Mary's to Rockford Saturday where they made a tour of Mt. St. Francis Convent. Out of town guests in the home of Mrs. A. P. Freujid, on Sunday, were the Del Freund family, Wauconda, the Donald Freund, Richard Frett and Marvin Rooney families of Crystal Lake. Mrs. Freund. who spent the past week in Milwaukee to be near her sister who is critically ill in Sacred Heart Sanatarium, returned to Milwaukee again Monday. Mother's Day visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Miller on Waukegan street were: Mrs. Clarice Purvey and Alan of Crystal Lake, Mrs. Marie Morgan, Jeannie and Joey, of Elkhorn, Wis., Mrs. Gerald Miller and family and Mrs. Terry Becker and family. Mesdames Alpha Pedersen, Kathryn Worts, Mabel Johnson, Elizabeth Schoewer and Mary Kantorski, members of the McHenry County Past Oracles Club, and their guests, Mesdames Ann Moellenkamp, Gertrude Murphy, Luella Lockwood and Josephine Scalfaro, attended the annual club dinner party held in Harvard Tuesday, May 3. Mrs. Clara Wallin accompanied her daughter, Mrs. Nick Adams, and children of Elk Grove Village to O'Hare Friday to see her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bauerle, off for a trip to Europe. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bienapfl were Mother's Day guests in the Robert Brugger home in Kenosha, Wis. Mrs. Edla Antonson has returned home from St. Petersburg, Fla., where she speftt the winter with Mrs. Ann Ruark who accompanied her home for a visit. BUSINESS CENSUS SHOWS BIG GAIN WITHIN COUNTY IN DAIRY DIRECTORY Headed by Avery A. Vose, nationally known dairy farmer from Antioch, fifty distinguished dairy industry leaders who are serving as directors of the National Dairy Council during that organization's golden-anniversary year are listed in a directory which the Council has distributed throughout the industry. Vose, who is president of Pure Milk Association, major marketing and bargaining cooperative for dairy farmers of Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana and president of several other well-known regional dairy groups, is chairman of the NDC board of directors. Does it matter where your prescriptions are dispensed? It does! Try Nye Drug and see. 5-13-65 McHenry county's 532 service . establishments had total receipts of $13.3 million in 1963_ an increase of 54 percent from 1958, according to a report of the 1963 census of business just released by the Bureau of the Census, U. S. Department of Commerce. The last previous census of business covered operations during 1958. The service trades in the census of business included those providing personal services to individuals, miscellaneous business services, auto repair and other auto services, and other repair services. Also included were motion picture production and distribution business, motion picture theatres, other amusement and recreation services and hotels and motels. In th£ county there were 226 personal service establishments reporting 1963 receipts of $3.9 million. Among the other selected services included in the census were auto repair shops with receipts of $2.1 million, motion picture theatres with receipts of $461 thousand, other amusement, recreation services with receipts of $1.4 million, and hotels, motels, camps with receipts of $1.4 million. The selected service trado establishments in the county employed 729 persons (exclusive of proprietors) and had a payroll for the year of $2.7 million. The state as a whole included 61,710 establishments with receipts of $3,346.0 million. FREUND'S DAIRY, Ine. Locally 0<roed and Operated -- FREE DELIVERY [Complete Line of Dairy Products Phone 385-0195 or 385-0232 HORNSBY'S You'll Be Carried Away With Hornsby's LOW, LOW PRICES 1112 N. Front Street McHenry, Illinois HAIR SPRAY Regular or Hard to Hold REG. 99c CASHMERE BOUQUET TALC BOTTLE OF 100 BAYER ASPIRIN REG. Reg. owe i. 4 Be Prepared for the Hot Weather . Coming Layaway a FAN Now 20" $12.88 Hundreds of Unadvertised Specials! HORNSBY'S PONY SALE! & OVER 30 LIVELY, PRANCING PONIES TO CHOOSE FROM SAT. & SUN., MAY 15 - 16 • PONY & Complete Outfit Bridle PONIES ONLY -- 29 99 & UP Including Saddle, Martingale. ggoo Complete Also for Sale: Mares, Colts, Carts, etc. MEN'S WHITE Tee Shirts Soft, absorbent knit cotton. Sizes small, med., large. Reg. 69c Each CRISPY, FRESH K0RN KURLS Reg. 29c Bag 19 Just Arrived -- "BEACON" BLANKETS 72x90 . . beautiful, floral prints in assorted colors . . Nylon and rayon blend . . Soft, permanap finish. REGULAR $5.98 ONE TIME SALE -- $3" 24-INCH PORTABLE * FOLDING MOTORIZED GRILLS • U.L. approved swing-out motor • Chrome plated spit and tines. • Deep, heavy-gauge steel bowl. • Positive locking grid„ adjuster • Rust resistant steel hood. HORNSBY'S PRICE Same Grill as Above Without Motor, $ Spit, Hood Quick - Starting Even Burning 10-LB. BAG CHARCOAL / See our complete line of quality grills -- a size and type for every need! LADIES' -- GIRLS' -- CHILDREN'S TENNIS SHOES Made In U.S.A. Durable vinyl soles. White, black, red, navy REGULAR $2.00 VALUES Ladies' „ Girls' Child's Sizes I Sizes Sizes 6-10 • 12'/2-4 5-12 $1.32 | $1.32 $1.17 HORNSBY'S OPEN DAILY 9 to 9 -- SUNDAYS 9 to 6 FREE PARKING IN OUR STORESIDE LOT Shop 'n Save At Hornsby's Here in McHenry And In Nearby Buffalo Grove