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McHENRY 1-2 38s-o i44 nop 312 GRAYSLAKE OUTDOOR °p; 2 2 3 8 1 S 5 A d u i t s S 2 5 0 C h , I d ! 1 1 8 u n d e r f - K E E A l ' e e l . A d u l t v i 2 i l l C h , , t j I I & u n d e r S ' 0 0 WOODSTOCK IHI \ \ \U M \ l \ s I K l I I I . I . I O i l I t i i s <| i i . i r \ ( InIk % 2; I 1 X I nd( r I 50 ; M j i io t r s I X 1 s iar l in t i J r id ; i S H O W P L A C E 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 K T E S 14 & 3 1 C R Y S T A L L A K E 4 S S 1 0 0 5 P R I M I $ 1 5 0 MATINEES DAILY TIL 5 PM S3 0GAdu l t j S2 00 foung Adu l t s 12 -16 S I 50 Ch i ld ren I I Sunder John Travol ta DOWNTOWN 455 2000 S3 00 Adu l t s S? 00 Young Adu l t s S I 50 Ch i ld I I & under SHOWPLACE 5 D O L B i S T E R E O V UiK I • I'MINDKALKH - FRIDAY. AtT.tlSTS. I» EARL WALSH home for sapper. I put thai over, but walked post her, she remarked, "Yon there was more to come. can't fool me". I uraed "Mose" to call his wife, but There were favorites to write about. u» iBmrfri me it wasn't Dcccssarv Swined John Dreymillci'. Gtouiv w53es, "Canopy^^ariTaS $£> tegHJL fi£, hTfound ot̂ w ̂always ̂ for a stonr out! She had a meal cooked and [ *»«1 immune from having ;ty waited -- and waited. Merry tables turned on me On« in a while Christmas' oneof the boys would rwort some tale _ > to the Plaindealer and II wmdd be We went out to eat, then I returned slipped into the column to my sur- HSmi Awmr I went to call on my best sirl down to the end of 48 years. How mucri (later my wife). As I noJUalaiSy longer? The Lord only knows. sports comments. We had some real amusing characters to write about and readers wasted no time in reporting something humorous that happened to sonwhody else- One of my favorite stories was the time when I reported on a high scnooi basketball game and told how a speedy player "dribbled the whole length of the floor". imagine my amazement when the paper came out and stated the player "ran" the whole length of the floor. When I questioned the change, Mrs. Masher, who was the proofreader, said she thought "dribbling down the floor" sounded imcoufth. Being a Democrat, I had a lot of fUn with the bosses, who were Republicans all the way. Mrs. Renich loved it and phoned one day, after I had written something, to say "Keep it up". It was the same whenever we met. One time I listed "Things I Would Like To See" and wrote one item: "McHenry people trade with McHenry merchants." "McHenry merchants trade with McHenry merchants." One storekeeper cancelled his two dollar ad when he took offense to the second line. One time the Repulican ladies held a meeting and one gal, who couldn't see anything funny about the way I lacked on my Republican bosses, wanted to have me fired. Mrs. Mosher attended that meeting and came to the any sports reporters, we couldn't give they deserved. I was busy making a living and couldn't have lived very mgn on me nog wim tnat newspaper fpyyfc County ifQffgHf Baseball high school basketball got attention, Weather and bad roads never kept us from night basketball games at home or away. Reports were written before going to bed. Scoring and reporting baseball games for both McHenry and Mn- sburg took up Sunday afternoons. The Married Men's C3ub had some lively softball games evenings in the Pearl Street Park and I was primad into service to score those wild and wooly battles. There was always time for fim in the eariy days. "Mcse" donated to all chuprhm at Chris timas time. One year he forgot a church that didn't have a regular, full time clergyman. Our printer happened to be a member of that church and told me about the over­ sight. I had my secretary write a note to "Mose" since my scrawl would be recognized. Of course, it mentioned the usual generosity, the need for funds and closed with "Remember, the Lord Loveth a cheerful giver". It was signed with the phony n«mf "Reverend Schicklegruber". The next time I went into the Plaindealer office, "Mose" called me aside and said, "Look at this". When I finished reading the note, "Mose" disgustedly remarked, "That d (the printer)". I never told. On a day before Christmas, "Mose" phoned and asked me to stop in for my present. A friend came in with a bottle, lime was lost and it was necessary to take the friend home. Too much celebrating. I was single at the time so phoned my mother and told ho* I wouldn't be contest for a name. It is now history that Marion Anderson came up with the name that has lasted all these years. Her prize was a baseball glove and that was right down her alley. C. F. Renich, who owned the Woodstock Sentinel, was also Publisher of the McHenry Plain- dealer. A. H. "Mose" Mosher edited the Plandealer, which was published once a week. The inside pages were mostly fillers. Some other stories were copied from the big sister newspaper, the Sentinel. This Friday issue marks my 48th year with the Plaindealer. Most of the humorous events took place in the early days when McHenry was small and the pace wasn't so fast. There were boxing matches at the Polly Prim - a large dance hall east of the Rt. 120 Bridge - later burned to the ground. Editor "Mose" asked me to cover the matches. Unable to make it so I suggested "Zeke" Bacon. "Zeke" accepted the assignment, turned in his story and was offered the Job as Sports Editor. His popular column, "Bacon's Strip", followed and at one anniversary of the paper advised that nobody should turn down a job as a substitute. He was a good athelte and knew sports. "Zeke" wrote the column and other sports coverage for six years before moving away. That is when I took over on August 5, 1935. Like a man without a country, I had a column without a name. Editor "Mose" decided to stage a Obituaries were a full column long and printed on the front page. With a shortage of experience on the editorial staff, "Mose" used to ask me to write the obituaries when some person of prominence died in the community. You had to give those kind a little extra dash. The sports section didn't get much prominence and and a 24 Pt. head was the largest used over any story. It was the Renicb-Mosher combine that decreed early in my career that SPACE ADVENTURE DA1.Y 2-4:15645-9 DAIY 2:154*7*15 STARTS S:10 National Lampoon's Vacation* PLUS STAYING ALIVE m SNOW WHITE* PIUS SUPERMAN IIIm The Twilight Zone (pq) • • • % Roger Ebert Call for Show & Showtime FH. * SAI. 2:38-4:38 M5*4*1M5 SM.-THWS. 2:38-4:30- 6:45-1:45 FH. ft SAT. 244:3M:38-1H5 SUM. TWO INOtS. 2-44:344:30 Ftl.ftSAT.2:1M:tS4JM.»1M5 SMi. MM WHS. 2:15-4:154:344:34 HELD OVER RUffl! 2:3tf:30 •7910:45 SUN. 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