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Ringwood News FISH Group Holds Benefit Card Party A fund raising card party will be sponsored by FISH of Wonder Lake-Ringwood area on Wednesday evening, Sept. 26, 8 o'clock at Christ the King church in Wonder Lake. This is a worthwhile, non-profit organization without any means of support other than donations, and there are operating expenses which must be met mbnthly. Support this card party by buying one or several tickets whether you can or cannot attend. Tickets may be obtained .through Mrs. Don Malo, 653-3537. Dessert and coffee will be served. Mark this date on your calendar. ' BYKOTAS The BYKOTA group will meet Friday night, Sept. 14, with Ringwood the host church. Details of plans for the evening will be announced later. SUNDAY SCHOOL TO START Sunday, Sept. 9, is the starting date for classes for three year olds and up. The sessions will meet from 10:30 to 11:30 and if you wish to enroll your youngster, call Mrs. Art Baker 653-9291 or Mrs. William Cristy 728-0259. CANASTA CLUB Your reporter "goofed" last week in neglecting to report this news item. Frank and Mertie Harrison were hosts for the evening with Muriel Benoy and Bill Cristy taking the high scores. BACK HOME Happy to report that Mrs. John (Curley) Skidmore returned home from the hospital last Friday and is feeling better. Glad to hear our greetings and best wishes were a big boost in your recovery, Curley. CELEBRATE 54TH ANNIVERSARY It was a happy occasion last Sunday when Kenneth and Clara Cristy's family gathered for a picnic on their lawn to honor them on their fifty-fourth wedding anniversary. Children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren joined in the festivities. HERE AND THERE The Art Christophers traveled to Appleton last Sunday to visit their daughter and son-in-law, Gary and Diane Linstad. The weather was just as hot as in Ringwood but they enjoyed the visit. Rev. Ruth Wegner has returned from a two weeks vacation. Part of it was spent enjoying the beautiful scenery in northern Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. Roger Petska and boys and Craig Ackerman spent four days with the Kenneth Petska family in the Chippewa Falls area of Wisconsin this past week. Seems that the wanderlust has captured the Bruces this year as Clayt has retired from work. Their home on wheels has had its workout this summer, and this past weekend was no exception. Clayt and Virginia and Leroy and Lois McPherson made their own little caravan and spent a week in Northern Wisconsin. Guess the northland is the place to go as the Bigger Luv Bug and the Charles Acker- mans spent a few days in the Rib Lake area of northern Wisconsin. Presence Of Lincoln Pervades Central State "Vacation's almost over!" Tlw liability risk of causing personal injury to others continues inall sea­ sons - and this can be our greatest financial risk. We Invite every individual, farmer and businessman to check with stoffel & Rei- hansperger Insurance Ag­ ency for a realistice level of liability protection. well guess who finally went away for a couple of days? That's right the Leonard Ackermans. They just took off and visited a day with the John and Ann Hogan family of Mountain, Wis. They say it is very beautiful there. Also they said that the soft Maples are turning red. BIRTHDAYS Celebrating his first birthday is little Jeffery Mergl on the second, and on the third Larry Cristy and Sonya Lehmkuhl celebrate and Mike Hogan and my Uncle Gran on the fourth, the fifth finds Mrs. Rose Tonyan and Betsy (Fossum) Gleesner taking honors. Tom Low, Betty Madden, and reporter Katy Christopher sharing their natal day, on the eighth Edith (Curly) Skidmore can celebrate her birthday. We hope that each and everyone has a great day. Happy bir­ thday all. On the second of September we find that Bob and Valeri Klapperich are celebrating their first year of marriage. Happy anniversary and many more to come. The Gang. School starts next week so to you all be extra careful of our little people who forget that we go much faster than they do or think. Thanks. aTOFFEL and REIHANSPEPGER} INSURANCE AGENCY HERB REIHANSPERGER, BOB MORTEll I 3438 W. ELM 315-0300 McHENRY; ILL (by the Rev. Wm O. Hanner) A person can hardly go into Central Illinois without becoming aware of Abraham Lincoln. He pervades the whole state but particularly the center part. On Illinois Route 89 going south, about fifteen miles before Peoria, lies the little town of Metamora. Its population is about 2,200, give or take a bit. Once it was the county seat of Woodford county. That was changed in 1894 when the seat was moved to Eureka, which is barely larger. In the early days there was constant competition for the county seats. Here in McHenry county the county seat was once in the city of McHenry and while Wood­ stock finally received the prize, both Algonquin and Crystal Lake have been covetous. Springfield is the third capital of Illinois, both Kaskaskia (now under the Mississippi river) and Vandalia have served. The present capital building is the sixth such building. The third at Kaskaskia and the fifth at Springfield still stand. Let me get back to Metamora. Why should one stop there? Well, it is a pleasant friendly little town. I had a nice visit with the lady on duty in the Fireworks A Menace, Eye Injuries Indicate At least fifty-one Illinois citizens suffered eye injuries in fireworks accidents over the Fourth of July holiday this year, a survey conducted by the Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness has revealed. There were no deaths. This compares with one dead (a 24-year-old man killed by an explosion at a fireworks display) and fifty-two injured for the same holiday in 1972. Twenty-five of the accidents occurred in Chicago and its suburbs, and twenty-six in downstate communities. The actual Independence day fireworks toll was far greater than that, according to Leonard H. Heise, executive director of the Illinois society, since the society's compilation refers only to eye injuries and does not include other types of accidents to other parts of the body. In addition, all eye doctors queried throughout the state did not reply to the society's questionnaires. Of the 189 eye doctors who did answer the forms, Heise said, thirty-seven of them reported eye injuries directly attributable to fireworks, firecrackers, bombs, Roman candles, sparklers, snakes, and other types of explosive devices. Despite the fact that legislation against the private use of fireworks was first passed by the Illinois Legislature in 1935, and that curbs on these explosive "merchants of menace" has been tightened since then, the illegal importation of fireworks into Illinois is obviously con­ tinuing, Heise pointed out. Illinois law now bans all types of fireworks from being manufactured, sold, used or possessed, unless used by a group or community organization which has ol> tained a special permit for a regulated public display. But although they are illegal in Illinois and its surrounding states, fireworks are too often readily available to school-age youngsters or adults who bring them back from the twelve states where they are not banned. Furthermore, Heise explains, bootlegged fireworks are smuggled into the state and sold undercover by traveling purveyors who hide them in trucks or in their car trunks and sell them to eager youngsters looking for a thrill. Among the victims: Two young people in Sterling, a 17-year-old girl and a 24-year- old man, suffered corneal in­ juries while playing with firecrackers which exploded too soon. A two-year-old boy in Jacksonville suffered the total loss of vision in one eye when a glass bottle with a lighted firecracker inside blew up and glass fragments penetrated his eyeball. A cherry bomb explosion in Waukegan caused severe corneal damage to a nine-year- old boy, and in Park Forest a 45-year-old suburban woman suffered corneal abrasions postoffice. Lincoln practiced law in the old courthouse in Metamora. It is still standing. It was built in 1844, close to 130 years ago. There it stands under the trees across the square, pleasant and peaceful. The day we were there it was warm and balmy. An art teacher had a class of children under the trees before the old building painting. Some children were painting the courthouse itself. The edifice cost $4,400 to build. It is a 40' by 50' two-story structure. The court room is upstairs and is restored today to its original condition. The old offices downstairs are now a museum. The builder baked his own bricks and felled his own black walnut trees for joists and flooring. Besides Lincoln, Stephan A. Douglas, Robert G. IngersoH and Adlai E. Stevenson, who later became Vice-President, practiced law there. Steven­ son's son became Governor of Illinois and candidate for President and his grandson is now one of our Senators. In the circuit rider days the court would move from town to town, lawyers, judges, clerks and hangers-on. A session lasted about six weeks. Lawyers came to town, met from a flying red-hot sparkler wire. A McHenry man, 35 years old, was another victim of a firecracker which exploded, damaging his eyes. In Olney, a 13-year-old boy, experimenting with a "Comet" device, suffered corneal damage when it exploded close to his face, and in Godfrey, in Madison county, an ll-year-old youngster survived corneal and facial burns and lacerations when an aerial bomb blew up in front of his eyes. Dynamite and a firecracker caused the two Quincy eye accidents. A 28-year-old resident suffered severe vision damage when a stick of dynamite blew up in front of him, and a prematurely ex­ ploding firecracker injured the eyes of a six-year-old boy. An Ottawa resident placed a lighted firecracker in a bottle, and when it exploded the bottle burst, a sliver of glass cutting his cornea. On the same holiday a battle rocket blew up in Granite City, injuring the eyes and causing facial burns on two boys, 18 and 10 years old. This year's toll of fireworks accidents proves once again that enforcement of anti- fireworks laws must be in­ tensified if accidents in 1974 are to be kept in check, the Illinois society emphasized. The ex­ citement, noise and adventure of fireworks is by no means justified considering the danger of serious injuries. This is particularly true of cheaply- made bootlegged fireworks smuggled into the state. The only "safe" firecracker, in short, the Illinois society believes, is one resting on the bottom of Lake Michigan. FOR 22 YEARS WE HAVE SATISFIED YOUR SCHOOL NEEDS FOR ALL YOUR NEEDS - BE IT SCHOOL SUPPLIES READY TO WEAR HOSIERY TIAAEX WATCHES GIRLS GYM SUITS LUNCH KITS SHOES UNDERWEAR LUGGAGE GYM SHOES COME TO ben$frankun their clients and prepared their cases for immediate trial. There were busy days and relaxing nights. After the weeks of sessions the whole cpurt moved on to another county seat for trials. There were a number of .counties in each Judicial circuit. One of the judges on the old Eighth circuit, which included Metamora, was David Davis. Judge Davis was instrumental in securing Lincoln's nomination at the old Wigwam in Chicago. Lincoln remem­ bered this and appointed Davis to the United States Supreme court. There he served from 1862 to 1877. There were politics and rewards in Lincoln's time too. Lincoln appointed five men to the High court including one Chief Justice, Salmon P. Chase. The power of these ap­ pointments is great indeed. Recall Eisenhower and his appointment of Earl Warren. Probably the most influential appointment, perhaps the chief act of John Adams, second President of the United States, was his appointment of John Marshall to the Chief Justiceship. Marshall occupied this office for thirty-four years. He was our greatest Chief Justice. We live under decisions he influenced to this very day. 0>ne of the trials in which Lincoln was representing the accused, Melissa Goings, was held in Metamora. Mrs. Goings was accused of murdering her husband. The trial was not going well for her. Lincoln asked and received a recess to talk things over with her. After the recess Mrs. Goings was nowhere to be found. Lincoln was accused of ad­ vising her to flee. This he fervently denied. His ex­ planation was that she asked for a drink of water and that he, Lincoln, had pointed out to her that Tennessee had excellent water. No one ever saw Mrs. Goings in Illinois again. For confirmation of this incident refer to the Common Law Record Book of 1857-61. It may be that exile to Ten­ nessee was regarded in that court as a form of punishment- who knows? Illinois-it is a great state. I'AGK 7 PLAINDEALER - FRIDAY, AUGUST 31. 1973 New License Plates For Physically Handicapped A new license plate for physically handicapped per­ sons has been approved for 1974 registrations, Michael J. Howlett, Secretary of State, said this week. The special plate, called the "wheelchair" plate, uses the handicapped symbol of a person in a wheelchair. "These plates will easily identify cars being driven by physically handicapped per­ sons," Howlett said. "It is estimated as many as 20,000 persons are eligible to apply." Handicapped plates, which' Help Yourself and Someone Else! Be a Blood Donor ... Join CBRP were approved by the General Assembly, are optional and carry the fcame registration fees as regular plates. They differ from disabled veterans plates which are issued free. Handicapped di.vers with valid Illinois drivers' licenses may apply to the Secretary of State's office for an affadavit to be certified by a licensed physician. This form is to be returned with the pre-printed renewal application, 1973 ID card and proper registration fee to the Secretary of State Cars equipped wi'h han­ dicapped plates - *e not exe«.i. from parking or traffic laws unless exr ions are provided by loca. city ordinances. 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