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V PG. 2, - PLA1NDEALER - FR1. MAR. 22, 1968 Engagement Announced Historical Society To ii ' ^ i Hold Annual Meeting Plan Summer Wedding "<'1x7 v^ W r / \ ' ; •: jJ . GRACE WEBER •t Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Weber of 3708 W. Maple avenue, •$IcHenry, announce the engagement of their daughter, Grace, $p Mr. Alec Beaudoin, son of Mrs. John C. Beaudoin, 1003 Krings Lane, Joliet. > Miss Weber will graduate in June from Northern Illinois university, DeKalb, majoring in elementary education. Her fiance is working on his M.A. in finance and management at Northern Illinois university and presently is teaching math in Leijiont, 111. A July 27 wedding is planned in St. Patrick's Catholic fchurch, McHenry. Plans are being formulated for the annual meeting of the McHenry County Historical society, which will be held Monday, April 29, at Central school auditorium, Crystal Lake, starting at 8 p.m. President H.S. Walkup, Crystal Lake, is appointing a reception committee to greet the members. Election of officers will take place. Under the society bylaws, the directors nominate one candidate for each office to be elected and the general membership will vote on them. However, the by-laws also demand that nominations must be called for from the floor, and anyone whose consent to serve has been obtained before the meeting can be nominated. Offices for president, vicepresident and one director, pre-? ferably from the Marengo/ Union/Huntley area are to be voted upon. Miss Edith Bohn, Woodstock, is chairman of the nominating committee and serving With her are Fred Crichton, Crystal Lake and Van Sells, Wonder Lake. Lowell Nye, editor of the forthcoming History of Mc-< Henry County will give a talk on some of the interesting things that are coming to light in gathering the material that will go into the history. Also on the program will be a paper read, giving the history of one of the oldest, if not the oldest, firms in Crystal Lake, which is also claimed to be one of the oldest of its kind in the country at large. Affiliation with the State Historical society now requires that several meetings a year must be held, so the annual meeting will be the first under this new rule. A picnic will be held in the summer as the second meeting and later in the fall a meeting will be held in another community in the county. Anyone with suggestions as to where that meeting should be held is asked to write to the society, at Box 30, Woodstock. A piece of sheet music, donated by Mrs. Lester Swain, Woodstock, entitled " Old Kishwaukee River" published 1933, arranged by A1 Bishop, words by Jack Harmer and Earl Babcock, is now at the society headquarters. Does anyone know anything about these authors, were they residents of the county? Any further information will be most welcome. Twice Told Tales Set Fall Wedding Date OES Wil1 Hold Members' Night McHenry chapter, No. 547, Order of the Eastern Star, will hold its-annual Members' Night on Tuesday, March 26, ajt Acacia flail, 8 p.nw At this special meeting, members are encouraged to bring as guests those who hold memberships in the O.E.S. but have less actively participated in the organization's events. IYgpm jnoh : FORTY YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of March 22, 1928) Hie Fox River Valley Camp No. 3251, Royal Neighbors of America held their regular meeting on Tuesday evening, which proved to be a birthday party in honor of the camp which was twenly-two years old on March 15. The past oracles were guests of honor. Mrs. Wentworth being one of the first oracles of the camp when it was organized in 1906. Three charter meinbers were also present. They were Mrs. Callie Perkins, Mrs. Leah Brown and tyrs. Etta Watties. Mrs. Forrest, Mrs. Dunham and Mrs. Guinto, Owners of the newly opened cafe in the John Buch building announce that the "Cadillac" is now open for business apd ready to serve meals. A 35 cent lunch will be served between the house of 11 and 2. Miss Celona McClellan of Richmond and Mr. Thomas Kane were united in marriage March 15, the ceremony taking place at the Palmer House, Chicago Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Baron sold their new bungalow on Waukegan street to Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Schoewer. Mr. Baron e^qsects to be transferred to some other city when the Bor don factory closes. Joseph F. Haas, 71 year old cook county recorder, died at his home in Chicago March 14 after an illness caused by pneumonia. Mr. Haas was well known in this locality having spent his summers at his beau* tiful summer home on Pistakee Bay for many years with much of the trading of the family being done with merchants in this city. Mrs. Haas has been in a critical condition, grief stricken by the death of her husband and one week after his Tell Engagement *: MARY JO WEINGART • Mr. ana Mrs. John Weingart ot 3»08 N. Weingart road, ^McHenry, announce the engagement of their daughter, Mary •ijo, to James O'Brien, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ward O'Brien of «^807 Iroquois Trail, McHenry. > Both young people are graduates of McHenry high school. TiVlary Jo attended Mueller School of Beauty Culture and is now 'Employed locally. Her fiance attended Elgin Junior college. ** The wedding date has been set for Oct. 5. for top honor, Kathy Johnson from Arlington Heights was selected. Those accompanying Mrs. A. B. McConnell of Woodstock representing Kishwaukee Trail chapter were Sandra Thayer of Alden-Hebron high school, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. ' Harold Thayer; Kathleen Bolger of McHenry high school, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Wm. Bolger; Janet Raw son of Woodstock high school, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Wm. Rawson. Sandra Roehr, selected from Marian-Central high school was unable to attend because of a previous commitment. Attending from Crystal Lake high school, but sponsored by the Elgin chapter , were Marie Edmund and her mother, Mrs. Nicholas Edmund. SGood Citizens StoA re Honored At ;DAR Convention v Recently, five Good Citizen girls from McHenry county, accompanied by their mothers, Srent into the Conrad Hilton Jiotel to receive honors at the Illinois State Convention of the :j)AR. Here they met girls ;from all over the state, who ;were selected, as they were, ;on the basis of patriotism, ;tefidership , service and de- •flendability. The girls were privileged to .'hear Mrs. Wm. Henry Sullivan, IJr. President general of DAR, 'speak to them on "Good Citizenship" . Mrs. Sullivan opened her talk by stating that -"Freedom is not free and the ^spirit of '76 must be kept alive. ^Freedom begins in ypur own 3}Ouse, on your own street, in Jrour own town". She enumer- •jated some of the dangers to freedom, stating that a lack of drained youth is the Communist garget, but further added that the knowledge, appreciation and practice of good citizenship will ?be the salvation of our country. ^She informed her listeners of *«n Americanization school, in ^SVashington attended. b/_L50O •persons, representing ninety •Jjlifferenty countries. Of these 207 girls eligible MILDRED REPKY Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Repky of Rt. 1, Rockland, Wis., announce the engagement of their daughter, Mildred, to David Gende, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gende of 1207 Riverside drive, McHenry. Miss Repky is the seventh and eighth grade literature teacher at Harrison school, Wonder Lake, No definite wedding date has been set. USE THE CLASSIFIED NEXT FRIDAY will ba GOODWILL PICKUP DAY in McHOfHY AREA Dial 385-0863 Agnes T. Addams For a Goodwill truck to stop at your home. Hbijjr iiiB iitliirii'-iippetl to help themselves by giving dlscares. ij iiBgii Special 6 - 9 P M S p e c i a l s GE STEAM & DRY IRON Reg. 10.50 ELECTRIC CAN OPENER & ICE CRUSHER ' Reg. 24.95 $1| 88 Sunbeam "Tile Time" KITCHEN CLOCK Reg. 9.98 49 lit. jumL Iiv il®ctric death, March 21, she passed away also. TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of March 25, 1943) Friends were saddened to hear of the death March 22 of William Zenk at his farm home south of McHenry. He was 76 years old. He has lived on his present farm for forty years. For many years the family raised broom corn, which they sold to the Elgin Watch company for use in cleaning watches. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Swanson and baby have moved from the Kreutzer cottage on John street to Richmond. Mr. Swanson is employed at the chemical company in Ringwood. Sam Joseph of McCullom Lake has purchased the Boyle place in the same vicinity. Harold Phannenstill, who left for army service Monday, was honored at several farewell parties, Thursday evening, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Blake, the second at Waukegan at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L.D. Mitchell and Sunday night a third party at the home of Mrs. Peter A. Freund. A benefit party was held at Anderson's Creamery Saturday evening with the proceeds being used to purchase books and other supplies destroyed in the fires at the Griswold Lake school a few weeks ago. At the March meeting of the Lily Lake P.T.A. a vote was passed to purchase a carton of cigarettes or some other gift amounting to $1.50 to be presented to any of the boys in the armed forces in the immediate vicinity of Lily Lake who returned on furlough. The first two boys honored under the present plan were Pvt. Paul Harvey and Pvt. Jim Smith. The organization also made a donation of $5 to the American Red Cross to help with their quota. TEN YEARS AGO (Taken from the files of March 13, 1958) Joanne May of John street was capped at an impressive rite held at St. Therese hospital school of nursing in Waukegan last Sunday. McHenry friends learned Tuesday of the death of William H. Vaii Natta, 91, of Railroad street, Crystal Lake, he died March 11 at his home. Four cars were wedged on the curb in peculiar fashion late Wednesday afternoon as the result of an unusual accident which occurred at the corner of Riverside drive and Pearl street. Considerable damage was reported to all four cars but no one was injured. Mr. and Mrs. Magnus Nelson J? y? VJUDITH WALSH Mr. and Mrs. Quentin E. Walsh of 814 N. Center streeSt, McHenry, announce the engagement of their daughter, Judith, to James W. Smith, 2120 W. Church, JOhnsburg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Smith. , Miss Walsh graduated from MCHS in 1960 and in 1964 from the American School of Beauty Culture. Her fiance graduated from M.C.H.S. in 1959 and spent two years in the Army with the Military Police, stationed in New York. Their wedding will take place Aug. 3 at St. Patrick's Catholic church. who for many years lived on the Math Freund farm west of McHenry on Rt. 120 have purchased a home on Woodstock street in Crystal Lake. An open house and tea in observance of National Library week will be held March 18 at the library. McHenry is very proud of its own library which has 5,200 books and 1,252 registered borrowers and in a twelve month period the number reaches 12,000. Jack Wirtz, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Wirtz, has )teen selected concert master of the 1958 season of the Fort Smith Symphony orchestra, which has been appearing at Fort Chaffee, Ark. PFC. Theodore S. Schaefer, Route 5, McHenry, has become one of the nation's first soldiers to take part in field exercises testing the army's new "Pentomic" battle concept. The Pentomic tactical plan features streamlined units with great mobility and fire power able to meet the needs of atomic and missile age warfare. FIRE DISTRICT MEMBERS ATTEND 25th CONFERENCE Jack" Russell, president, Frank Higgins, attorney} Capt] Jack Rice and Capt. LeeLeman of the Wonder Lake Fire Protection district attended the twenty-fifth annual conference of the IllinQis Association of Fire Protection districts held at the Pere Marquette hotel, Peoria, last week. This was the silver anniversary conference of the organization. Among the Outstanding authorities in the fire prevention and fire control fields appearing on the program were Emmet T. Cox, director Fire Prevention department, Western Actuarial Bureau; Warren Y„ Kimball, manager, Fire Service department, National Fire Protection association; Elmer Raske, manager, Illinois Inspection and Rating Bureau, Frank E. Oberg, editor, Minnesota Fire Chief magazine, and Edmund T. Valiquet, division marshal, Fire Prevention division, Chicago Fire department. There are now more than 650 fire protection districts in Illinois providing fire protection to nearly 2,000,000 persons in all areas of the state. The Illinois association is an organization of fire district trustees. It is by attending these annual meetings and availing themselves of the other service offered by the association that the trustees of the Wonder Lake Fire Protection district can provide better service to this area. DEACON - TEACHER WILL SPEAK TO HOLY NAME MEN St. Patrick's Holy Name society will hold its regular monthly meeting Monday, March 25 at 8 o'clock in the church hall. Deacon -teacher Barry Deal of Marian Central high school, wiil be guest speaker for the evening, talking on "The Church in Africa". Mr. Deal will be ordained in May. An executive board meeting at 7:30 o'clock will precede the regular meeting, for which officers would like to see a large attendance. Refreshments will be served. WILDLIFE WEEK Gov. Otto Kerner has proclaimed March 17 through 23 Wildlife Week in Illinois. Theme of the week is "Learning to Live with Nature". ITEM: If you use a pancake turner to slide sandwiches into waxed paper packs, the soft fillings will not ooze out of the sandwiches in the process. 1005 N», Front St. McHenry 385-0882 lb tell the truth, you'll do just as well without a Sherman House credit card. How can we tell a girl from Dubuque from the Maharajah of Kaipur? We don't bother. (Though carrying a doll can be a dead giveaway.) During your visit with us you'll be served by many of our staff of 1100. In your air conditioned room or suite; in the College' Inn, the Well of the Sea, the Celtic Room, the Dome, the Coffee Shop, in our garage (we're downtown Chicago's only drive-in hotel). No one will care whether you have our credit card or some other, or none at all. At Sherman House there's only one kind of guest. 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M\RCH 31 Grand Opening - McHenry County Citizens' Ogilvie Headquarters - 386 Virginia Street- Crystal Lake - Richard Ogilvie Speaker - 4-6 p.m. APRIL 5-6. Job's Daughters Rummage Sale - Masonic Temple - 1309 Court Street - April 5 - 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. -- April 6 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. APRIL 9 O.E.S. Stated Meeting, Initiation - Easter Program, Acacia Hall - 8 p.m. APRIL 17 Spring Salad Luncheon & Card Party - Sponsored by the Lakeland Park Woman's club - American Legion Hall - 12 noon. APRIL 23 O.E.S. Meeting - Friends Night - Acacia ^ Hall - 8 p.m. ANNOUNCE ENGAGEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Leo M. Meyer of McHenry announce the engagement of Miss Colleen Hocking of Ishpeming, Mich., to Sgt. Michael J. Meyer of K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base, Mich. A June wedding is planned. CAMP DIRECTOR TO BE FEATURED ON RADIO SHOW Camp Arrowhead's approach to the problem of reading improvement will be the topic of discussion on the Call Dr. Kehm, CBS radio show, in Chicago, Tuesday, March 26, at 11:10 a.m. OT WBBM. Dr. Freda Kehm, a consultant psychologist, has one of the longest sustaining programs of her kind in the nation - over seven years. It is one of the original talkandtelephone-participation shows in Chicago. Many listeners have questioned her over the years about reading problems. As a result, she has again invito. \ James Doran, director of Camp Arrowhead and a teacher in McHenry, to be her special guest. The response to last year's . discussion, "The Camp Arrowhead Idea" was enthusiastic. Over the past seven years close to 200 boys from the McHenry area benefitted from the unique reading and recreational program of the camp. It was originally created by Paul Baker, who is now principal of Crystal Lake high school. 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