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I Li Sidelights Of Early Days In City Recalled (Memories of earlier days in McHenry, particularly as they refer to the old Riverside hotel, are noted by Father William O. Hanner of McHenry, retired Episcopal Vicar. The picture of the hotel also was taken by Father Hanner.) McHenry has never seemed an unknown place to me. Often, when we lived in Geneva, my parish work called for trips through McHenry to Racine, Wis In those days the town was about 2,000, more or < less, in population and was a healthy rural area, unthreatened by city ways. This was forty years ago. The other day I went over to visit with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thompson about early days in McHenry for they have lived here all their lives. Mrs. Thompson was a Gage and you may recall that part of McHenry was once known as Gage town. Anything I may have in this article that is not as you remember, blame on me and not on the Thompsons for I have been known to make plenty of $rrors. We know that McHenry was once the county seat. There was a McHenry county courthouse across the street from the present park. The courthouse was at Park and Pearl. Of course, it is long gone now. And once, many years ago, there was a movement, I have heard, in Algonquin, to make it the county seat. A sort of sub­ terranean election was held to establish in Algonquin - the new court house. Wind of it got about, however, and the move was defeated by about 1,000 to 2,000 votes. Woodstock became the county seat in Sept. 24,1844. In 1855 a bill was passed in the legislature that allowed the county to vote on the question of moving the county seat nearer Crystal Lake. This was defeated in an election, 2095 to 1049. As most of us know, the county offices have just been moved to a new location on the outskirts of Woodstock. The Riverside hotel at the corner of Elm and Riverside is an old landmark in these parts. I first got interested in it by hearing Mrs. Norman Cram of Kenilworth tell of a night she spent there in 1944. The Crams were then living in Libertyville. They took a trip by car in April of that year. Late in the af­ ternoon a rain started that turned to sleet and then to snow. Mrs. Cram was driving and had her mother, Mrs. Fleming and three children with her. The car got into a ditch and it was necessary for them seek shelter in McHenry. They got one room at the Riverside for the five of them. (Mr. Cram was at work.) Later a bus, unable to proceed, shed its passengers at the hotel. They were taken in. That night the passengers slept on anything that was unoccupied, even to places on the floor. The next morning someone from Mrs. Fleming's home came and took the "strays" home. At the time of this experience, all the Cram children were small. Today their son is a com­ mander in the U.S. Navy Chaplain's corps, one daughter is teaching at Yale, married to an architect, and the other daughter now lives in California where she is in the school system of a town 1 don't recall. It was thirty years ago all this happened but it is a very present memory to the Crams. So the Riverside hotel in­ terests me. I have found that it was started about 1864. I find the name Adolph Potter con­ nected with those years. As I hear the tale, Mr. Potter did not entirely finish the hotel and in 1869 sold his holding to D.S. Smith. He completed the hotel and it was formally opened July 4,1870, with a dance. Mrs. Thompson says her parents often went to these dances. Mr. Thompson showed me a brass tag on a thong of leather. It was a "parking stub" of the old days. If you "parked" your team and buggy, sleigh or rig, they gave you a brass tag and the other was put on the team. You claimed your tran­ sportation by presenting your check after the ball. The bricks for the old hotel may have come from the brick factory here in McHenry; the lumber came over from Waukegan. At one time there were porches all about the building on first and second floor. They were removed in the late '20s. The first two floors were rooms and public places; the third floor was a large ballroom or hall. The building is at least about 110 years old. Out Ringwood road, a mile or From The Farm by Donald Arnold Assistant Extensive Adviser Spare your pets - and your family -- the itch and discomfort caused by ticks and fleas this summer with a few simple precautions. Fleas ordinarily bite only dogs and cats. However, if not controlled, they will attack people, often leaving a series of two or three punctures. a little more beyond the American Legion building, lies Smith's Corners. Here lived the three Smith brothers. Part of the family equipment was a store building I8'x40', heavily built with sturdy underpinnings and jgists. One of the brothers, John W. Smith, decided to move the store to McHenry across from the Riverside hotel site. He waited 'til the ground was well frozen and early in 1854 he was ready to try. The store had been set on runners and was to be dragged by ten yoke of oxen led by a span of horses and a driver on one runner and a second ten yoke of oxen were on the other runner also led by a span of horses and a driver. There must have been scepticism and joshing and raillery about the entire un­ dertaking for it is recorded that one bystander said, "I hope I shall live as long as it takes that store to get to McHenry!" There was a small stream to be crossed and here the sup­ ports under the oxen gave'way- -without damage to the beasts but with some trepidation as they made the slow way through. When the store came upon the spot, the long distribution of the weight on the runners enabled it to cross safely. By night of the day they started, the store was in its place on the southwest corner of Riverside and Elm. There it stood for many years. I have no record of any remarks by the man quoted above on the /Safe delivery of the store to its new site. He'd said enough already. In the worm stage, fleas live in your pet's bedding, in rugs and upholstered furniture and even in the soil of flower and shrubbery beds. The worm stage often goes unnoticed and is harmless, but adult fleas suck the blood of warm-blooded animals. Ticks live in bushy, grassy areas near lakes, ponds, or streams where dogs and cats- and people-attract them and carry them into homes. To control ticks in your yard, spray the grass, shrubs and flowers with diazinon, malathion or carbaryl (Sevin). Do not apply diazinon to ferns or hibiscus, malathion toI canaert red cedar or carbaryl. to Boston ivy, however. Commercial pet dusts will also control most ticks. For per­ sona1 protection, repellents such as OFF, DEET, 6-12, and others will prevent ticks from attacking. A plastic-resin flea collar containing dichlorvos (Vapona, DDVP) will protect your pet, from fleas. However, these I collars are only effective for a few weeks and some dogs and cats are allergic to them. The University of Illinois recommends dusting your pet with either 4-percent malathion or 5-percent carbaryl (Sevin) during the warm months (May to October) to help control fleas. Applications should be made every month or so, especially if your pet is in contact with other animals. For added protection, treatments should be made once or twice during the cold months (November to April). Be sure to read the labels on all chemicals and insecticides carefully for recommended directions and safety precautions. The world has few rain forests outside the tropics, and Olympic Peninsula National Park in Washington is the largest and densest of all. Yosemite is classed as being the world's most beautiful valley. The average teen-ager, using the family car for one night, can subtract years from the car's life, and add them to the age of his parents. PAGE 19 - PLAINDEALER - FRIDAY, AUGUST 10,1973 ~7~. The highest priced single skins are those of the pale pink mutation mink. W2A' TIRE THM1' JESS PRICE BARGAIN PRICES ON THE FAMOUS 4--ply polyester cord passenger car tires by Firestone Low. wide 78 series profile >J Seven rib tread for excellent traction y/ Concave molded to puf tread flat on road for long mileage >/ Strong, smooth Mding 4 ply Firestone construction LOOK AT THESE BARGAIN PRICES THE •Sfiffio Un BtednvoN test frtct* umim has* »rtc- IWHHn-- FAT. Un BtednvoN test frtct* prict umim has* »rtc- prtca FAT. 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