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VOLUME  2  — NUMBER 29 THURSDAY. OCTOBER 19, 1961
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Congregational Beef Dinner
Nearly 1000 persons were served wt the Congregationjil Church's Annual Beef Dinner. A beautiful fall day and a great amount of generous local suppport made this the largest dinner in the history of the church. Mrs. Norman Kal¬ sow, General Chairman, states that the enthusiastic response of so many persons to requests for help and donations made this dinner so successful. The Ladies Aid So¬ ciety netted nearly $200.00 on their Country Store and delight¬ fully entertained the ^wijMl'^'Bft^ with the clown and witch. Those who worked the dinner all re¬ ported that at its conclusion they were 'exhausted but happy'. The general committee of the dinner wish to take this opportunity, through the pages of our news¬ paper, to give thanks to all who made this dinner successful.
Boy Scout Paper Drive will be held Saturday, October 28. Those who ha\.e paper for the Boy Scouts to pick  up should call 5726.
Eions Clulf Meeting
By Roger A. Pearley
Twenty Lion members were present at the October 10, 1961. meeting of the Huntley Lions Club A fine dinner was enjoyed by tho members present; the din¬ ned was prepared and presented by the women of the American Legion Auxiliary.
Lion Ed Meahger acted at Tail Twister; he was visiting from Springfield; he really kept things 'roaring.'
Lions Cole and Urbach gave a report on their Canadian Hunt¬ ing Trip. They certainly gave a very interesting report.
The club welcomed back Lion Earle Johnson, who has been at the hospital.
A special guest was present at the meeting, this special guest was Lion Ernest Hansen, Zone Chairman. Lion Hansen presented a report on LIONISM in the dls trict
A report was given by Lion Lamb concerning the coming Children's Halloween Part of Oct¬ ober 31, 1961. A report was also given concerning tiie coming Trap Shoot and Gun Raffel of Novem ber 5, 1961.
Lion Ortleb gave a report con¬ cerning the Bar-B-Q that the Lions prepared for the Norwood Farm on Saturday, October 7, 1961.
Some chicken was lef tover from the Lion Bar-BQ held in August; it was donated to the McHenry County Childrens Home, Woodstock,  11.
Baseball Dinner
This coming Thursday, October 26, wil be the annual baseball dinner put on by the old timer's baseball club of Huntley. The din¬ ner will be held at the Fire Bam at 7:30. A donation will be charg¬ ed for tickets, and Mrs. James Enright will talk on his experi¬ ences with the game of baseball.
Peojrte liiCftestefl siWUM'Contact" Heine Reanfts, Norm Kaslow, Jim Beltz or Dick Dwyer.
Heart Asso. Meeting
Last Thursday night the Mc¬ Henry County Chapter of the Dl¬ inois Heart Association held their meeting at the American Legion in Huntley. Approxiijately 25 peo¬ ple were present. Many of them were country- doctors. The pres¬ ident of the Heart Association, Mrs. Edvian Eells, spoke on the "Roll of the Volunteer in Combat¬ ting Heart   Disease."
Each year the Heart Associa¬ tion conducts an anual fund rais¬ ing campaign to help combat heart disease. One of Huntley's representatives who may be con¬ tacted for this worthwhile cause is Mrs. Lima Tessendorf.
See picture on page 8
Fall Dance Oct. 21
There will be a fall dance spon¬ sored by the Crystal Vista Im¬ provement Association on Satur¬ day, October 21, 1961 at 9 p.m.. at the Crystal Lake Moose Hall on Grant Street in Crystal Lake.
There will bo music by Roman Toney's  Band.
Refreshments   will   be   served.
Snake Dance For
Hon&econ&ing
On Thursday, October 12, our homecoming celebration began with the snake dance and bonfire. After the bonfire began, /the cheerleaders led the students and parents in the school song. The varsity cheerleaders then did a cheer to introduce Coach Ander¬ son. He gave a little spech and - tlien- iatii udiMta^^»art mmiov .io«tr bal players. Coach Anderson said that he liked to dedicate the homecoming to the senior play¬ ers. The introduction and speech were followed by many cheers. Following the dieers came the snake dance. The band was first, playing many apropriate songs; then camo the cars with the king and queen candidates; and last of all tho students, who were joined hand in hand to form the
CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 SNAKE DANCE  .  .  •
Coils, Inc. Begins Work
Two of the buildings on the east end of Main Street are now oc¬ cupied. The one, written up in last week's paper, was Eggerbrecht Ford who will soon be having their grand opening in their new loca¬ tion.
The second business is Coils Inc., who manufacture timer motors, relays, etc., and in the near fu¬ ture, hearing aids. The location of Coils Inc., isi only temporary. In the future, they will be moving
into a new building which they will build. However, at the present time there are still two buildings for rent for worthwhile businesses on Main Street, and when Coils Inc.. is complete, a third building
will be available.
Mr. Plunkett and Mr. Bachi along with a few silent partners own this business. The past week has been spent setting up the 11 windine nuudilnes and finishing machines w^ich the business will use. When the machines are all set up, t^e business will employ from 30 to 35 people.
Before coming to Himtley, Mr. Plunkett and Mr. Baohi lookdfl over 20 different towns but then decided that Huntley would be the best place for them to be lo¬ cated. Mr. Plunkett went on to say   that   Huntley  was ideal   be-
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Homecoming Royalty
Homieconiing Activities
Huntley's high school hold their anual homecoming celebration last Thursday and Friday, Oct¬ ober 12 and 13. The celebration startedjrhursday night at approx- imsftely S" {)jhi. with a bonfire and epe rally at the high schooL
nunediately following this ac¬ tivity the cheer leaders and the student body formed a line and went through town doing a snage dance, n town a second pep rally was held. The six homecoming queen and king candidates road in two decorated convertibles and everyone heard psttriotic Hunt¬ ley songs. I Friday night Huntley played I against Central and was trounced I 40 to 7. The game was played on a slick field and in many places ' pulldes of water remained from the heavy rain the night before. Tliis made bal handling quite a difficult feat for both teams. Hnutley's football team is com¬ posed of one freshman, six sopho¬ mores, two juniors, and three seniors on the first string. Ac¬ cording to Coach Anderson, the losing games is the lack of speed and the fact that they are inex¬ perienced. There was a large crowd for this homecoming game which was apreciated very great¬ ly by officials at the school. Coach Anderson widies to ctxn- pliment the Central coach for not playing his first string during the second half of the game.
immediately folowing the foot¬ ball games, homecoming activities were concluded with the annual homecoming dance.
The stage was decorated as well as parts of the gym with red and white streamers and there was a nice background for the queen and king, who were Judy Per¬ son and Larry Kahl, and for their court, which was composed of Fern Kahl, Betty Senwald, Richard Zimerman, and Dave Wrohling. Music was provided by the Playboys.
Many alumni and friends of stu¬ dents were present at all three homecoming activities to partici¬ pate in the fun.
NOTICE
' Mr. Early Conley, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Enos Conley of Huntley, died at his home, after a short illness on Tues- ' day, October 17. Details are not available at this time.
Funeral services will be held at SI. Mary's Church in Huntley at 11:00 A.M. on Friday, October 20.
Oct. P.T.A.
Meeting
By ROGER A. PERUEV
At 8:00 p.m.. President Mrs. G. Cole, Jr., opened the October li; 1961, meeting of the Huntley P.T.A. The September minutes were presented by Secretary R. Perley; approved. The financial report was given by Treasurer C. Runge; approved.
Corespondencc was read fom; tho Home Economics Division, Home Advisor's Office, Woodstock, Illinois, concerning "feeding large groups"; and a "thank-you from Music Camp" from Carol Olson, recipient of the 1961 Music Camp Award of tho P.T.A. Mrs. Wm. Palmer, Huntley Community Serv¬ ice Group representative, briefly mentioned that persons interest¬ ed in securing a Huntley Library should contact her.
Vice-president, Mrs. A. Pope, presented a summary of the re¬ cent District 26 Convention, held at Poplar Grove, 111.
Members of the HunUey P.T.A. were encouraged to subscribe to the monthly P.T.A. periodical which features many interesting articles.
The money raising event selected by the Executive Staff was that of a "Family Night" which will be on Saturday, October 28, 1961. The committee for this event will be: Mrs. Wells and Mrs. G. Adams, co-chairmen, Mrs. Mattingly, Mrs. Kunde, Mrs. R. Staab, Mrs. H. Anderson, Mrs. Weber, M. Hertel. and Mr. Aune.
The program for the evening was conducted concerning the concept of a new idea for Himtley, Adult Education( other than that which exists in the area of Agriculture and Home Ek»noniics). Mr. Periey acted as spokesman. An Interest Survey was taken in regard to the practicality and desire of such as Adult Education concept.
Grade 7B and the fresmen had the largest percent of ixumit at¬ tendance at the October meeting.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:15 p.m.; refreshments were then served in the cafeteria. One-hun¬ dred-thirty persons were in atten¬ dance at the meeting.
The next pieeting of the Hunt¬ ley P.T.A. shall be on November 8, 1961. I