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IF mi you «# already a customer of ours may we «|pt, at this the beginning of a new year, ask you to give us a trial? We feel confident that after you have tried our goods and enjoyed our service you will be a regular visitor at our store during the year 1920. Always a nice line of fancy and staple gro- • ceries. Our perfect delivery system is at your service every minute of -the day. M. M. Niesen McHenry Phone 86-W Mrs. Minnie Gerding, Mrs. Albert G. A. Schmidt and son, Albert, of Chicago; Mrs. Ray L. Thomas and children, Irma, lone and George, of Crystal Lake spent Sunday in the home of Mrs. Barbara Schiessle, the occasion being her seventy-fifth birthday anniversary. THE- ; to an unusually efficient and beautiful gas heat : er that can be placed in the fireplace or anywhere desired in a I room. Its coloring when lighted is exceedingly attractive, the everchanging opalescent glow rivaling the witchery of flaming logs. The Radiantfirewill heat the largest room in the house quickly : and at small cost. The heat rays are radiated to the furthest corners. Western United Gas i Electric. Compay WRITES' FROM CHINA Edwin M. Boyle Writes Interacting!? of Trip to Orient A food may be very high in nutritive quality but just the same you won't hanker for it if it doesn't taste good. Toast has a place in the list of good foods. But the toast often served has about as much flavor as hay. Sold on Monthly Payments O yes, a humbug does occasionally get over the plate. But not often a second time. A thing to last must have a deep substratum of merit. Andfproof that the electric toaster is a good thing is the fact it's part of the equipment of hundreds of thousands of American homes. All Types Public Service Co. OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS 2 frh - - i OUR TELEPHONE NO. IS 114R j"fl"y Mi" Call us up at any time for anything In the line'of stapleand fancy groceries and general merchandise. We deliver to any part of town. JOS. 1: MILLER McHENRY, ILL. OLD FASHIONED Buckwheat Flu The old mill stone is practically a thing of the past. It is an old fashioned means of milling, as old as the milling ihdustry itself, but the very suggestion of one brings pleasant memories to the minds of the older folks of the many tasty things that were made from cereals milled on the old mill stone. Our buckwheat Hour is still milled on one of these time honored mill stones. That is why we call it Old Fashioned Buckwheat Flour. McHENRY Flour Mills Weft McHenry, 111. Grocery Savings Sun Maid Seeded Raisins, 15 oz. Pkg-i Cal. Seedless Raisins, 15 oz. pkg. ...... tk Fancy Cal. prunes, per lb 25c Extra fancy evaporated Peaches, per lb^^.... ..... ......Me Select Santos Coffee, per lb 4tc Kellogg's Krumbles, 2 pkgs..... 25c Sifted Early June Peas, No. 2 can, 19c Jiffy Jell, 2 pltgs.. - • 25c Shredded Wheat Biscuits, 2 pkgs 25c Mixed Nuts, per lb Mc JOHN STOFFEL," WEST McHENRY I i P- # * I, L Federal Farm Loans THRU FIRST JOINT STOCK LAND BANK OF CHICAGO, ILL. NO COMMISSIONS • NO DELAYS I have been appointed agent for McHenry County for the making of Federal Farm Loans through the above bank. These loans run for thirty-three years with privilege of paying sooner. Upon the payment of the interest only daring the full period of the loan, the entire lotui is cancelled. A portion of the interest each year is applied on the principal and in this way the mortgage is lessened each year and finally cancelled at the end of the thirty-three years and the average rate of interest, if the loan runs the full period, is less than 4 per cent. This does away with renewal of farm loans and protects your family in case of death. The loans are not limited in amount, only as to appraised value. I am handling the above in connection with my law business and also have arranged for the selling of tax exempt bonds. t£s" . if* HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS County Advisor Gives Reason Why Accounts Should Be Kept WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS The following letter was received (this week by Miss Elola Boyle, the {first since her brother, Edwin, sailed Hast July, and will be of much interjest to his many friends here: ! Tientsin, China. Just a' line to let you know that I j landed safely in China on Aug. 10, J but because tof so much bouncing | around I have been unable to write j before now. Ever since I left Frisco it has been just one strange happening after another and talk, about strange sights and people, well I've seen them all. Following I will endeavor to give an outline of my trip: Wq^left Frisco on the 5th of July and my trip was somewhat different than what I had anticipated, yet it proved much better from the sight seeing point of view. The weather was ideal with as smooth a sea all the Way across as old McCollum's lake ever was. Well, on July 13 we landed at Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, and the islands are surely a wonderful spot. We left there the next day, July 14, and at midnight on the 18th we passed the Midway Island, the lights being very plain in the distance. With our journey uneventful we sailed into Volcano bay and Sangar straits off the coast of Russia. We lay at anchor in the straits for some twenty hours, because of the dense fog and mist, which were so dense we could hardly see fifty feet. This was on the 28th of July. Three days later we docked at Vladivostok. We layed here for four days, as the Sherman" was carrying supplies to the troops stationed there. While in Siberia we hid - some what of a chance to see the country, which, as far as scenery is concerned, is very good at this time of the year. Rather mountainous or hilly, but picturesque. On the 4th of August we left here and landed in Nagasaki, Japan, on the 7th, and what little I saw of Japan impressed me very much, especially around Nagasaki. The harbor is most beautiful and the hills on both sides are terraced like from the top clear to the sea shore. And, to say the least, I was greatly interested and have had « world of experience. ^ We left Nagasaki the same afternoon on the transport ^Warren, which we transferred to while in Japan. Then on . August 10 we landed at Chinwangtao, China. We went into the summer camp here and spent about a week. Chinwangtao is on the shores of the Yellow sea. This is where the soldiers spend a month each summer and the swiming is sure fine and we were in the water every day. So when our week was up we went to Liechwang, where the rifle ange is, and where I qualified as marksman. After we finished shooting we came here to Tientsin and joined our company, the machine gun company, and it surely is a fine outfit and a dandy bunch of fellows. We have had several field meets since I have been here and I have been partaking in all of them. We also have a basket ball team and 1 am kept pretty busy with athletes and it makes me think of my school days and good old Tutty Dorr. Now to tell you something of China. It's a great country and the Chinamen are some people, but they arj more like rats than people. Of course the high class chinks are different, but the coolies are ab solute!y unbearable. I've seen more dirt and filth than I ever imagined there was on the face of the earth, but for all that, it's of interest all the same. I suppose it will become mo notonous in time, but I guess I can put up with it for a few years. There is one thing sure, soldiering over here is pretty soft. We have very good quarters, built of concrete, a recreation and reading room, pool table and a very good assortment of books in our library. And lest I forget, we have a Catholic priest here as our chaplain, a fine old man, and a veteran of many companies, Chaplain Doherty by name Send me The Plaindealer once in awhile to keep me in touch with McHenry. Will close for this time and, if fates be kind, we'll meet again some day. Edwin M Boyle, 15th Inf., Machine Gun Co., . Tientsin, China. U. S. Troops Additional Personal I sell farms. D. F. Quinlan. E. Hunter passed Wednesday in the metropolitan city. J. C. Bickler transacted business in Chicago Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Jus ten were Chicago visitors last Friday. P. J. Heimer attended to matters of a business nature in the metropolitan city Wednesday. Mrs. J»ck Walsh was called to Urbana Wednesday by the illness of her daughter, Ella, who has been attending the university there. Mr. and M*s. Louis A. Erickson and daughter, Charlotte, were called to Caledonia Wednesday by the serious illness of Mrs. Erickson's father. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Young and son of Ringwood were Sunday guests in the home of her . parents, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Smith, at Emerald Park. Mrs. fuller Boutelle and children of Lake Geneva, Wis., are spending the week as guests in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Smith, at Emerald Pack. Mr. Boutelle w*s~here for a Sunday visit. Tlie impression "High Cost of Living" has been used so persistently in the last few years that many of .us shudder at the sound of it as a comment on the perfectly obvious. We must sometime admit, however, that the way to know how to combat it twill be to make a thorough study of the expenditures we must make and 'those we can do without. Household accounts are a record jf the year's, receipts and expenditures over a period of one year. It is also a record of our year's experiences in a form that may be easily grasped and interpreted. The purpose of this' record is to tell how the income was spent, how much was spent and the specific object. It aims to be a guide for wispr spending. For this reason, the kind of food purchased must be shown in order that the housekeeper may look back to see, "Did I endanger the health of my family by buying too much meat and trying to save on milk and fresh vegetables?" Thru tempting bargains we are often inviegled into impulsive irrational buying. "Twenty-two fifty for. this suit marked down from eightyfive dollars was too good ^o pass by. Of course I needed a coat more than a suit, but you know how it is. Isn't it a darling?" Another aim is to teach us to distribute our money sanely over all classes of expenditures. The shop girl over emphasizes clothing, the stout person, food. Some of us have too much recreation that has no permanent values, while others never have recreation enough of any kind. Over and above the economic value of keeping accounts is the fact that a business like management gives a woman respect for her job. She is the manager of an establishment run by business methods. Public Auction! staek of' corn stalks. Machinery McCormick corn binder, McCormick grain binder, Jones mower, 7 ft. cut, Milwaukee mower, 4% ft. ciit; Tiger grain drill, 7 ft.; Clean Sweep hay loader, Emerson pulverizer, 2 Hing cultivators, Janesville corn nnter with wire, 2 section harrow, walking plows, wide tire wagon, :TOW tire wagon, bob sled, top. hay, grain and hog rack, one horse milk vri;j*on,. heavy milk wagon, 2 sets b ^ Mng harness, 2 single harness, far. ing mill, new; set wagon springs, corn sheller, platform scales, galvanized milk tank, 50 grain bags, hay fork and rope, 2 wheelbarrows, 6 milk cans, pails and strainer, forks, shovels, and other articles too numerous to mention. * Terms of Sale: All sums of $10.00 tnd under, cash; over that amount a credit of Bix rffonths' time will be given on good bankable notes bearing interest at the rate of 7 per cent per annum. No property to be removed until settled for with the clerk. ' , 1 , Robt Thompson. * Carl w; Stenger, Clerk. INFLUENZA AGAIN PREVALENT McHenry and Vicinity Has Numerous s Cases of Mild Nature 1 PLUMBING AND HEATIM > - j? - - BY Experienced Workmen ^ DON A V1N & R I- IH ANSPF.RCJF.j|' Chas. Leonard, Auctioneer Having decided to quit farming, the undersigned will sell at public auction on the E. M. Owen estate farm in the village of McHenry on SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1920 commencing at one o'clock p. m., sharp, the following described prop erty, to-wit: 29 HEAD OF LIVE STOQK --consisting of-- * 22 Choice Ct^a some new milkers and "balance close springers; 2 ten month old calves, 1 registered Holstein cow. Hones Gray mare, 8 years old, weight 1400 pounds; gray gelding, 12 years old, weight, 1400 pounds; good work mule, sorrel mare, 4 years old; bay gelding, 3 years old. These are pacer bred with good breeding. Grain 18 tons of hand husked corn, List your farm with D. F. Quinlan. | The Em-i*au home bakery. Buy your apples of M. M. Niesen. Phone 40. Spencer's mill is once more one, of the real, busy places in town. Farmers from near and far are once more ; finding their way to McHenry, giving evidence that all were anxiously awaiting the re-opening of our flour and feed mill. . » The two census enumerators here are reporting very satisfactory progress in their work thus far and it now looks as if their labors will be competed in the time allotted them., ^ ph,.lc;aiI ^ Sorgeour The census is bringing out fiany m- * « M „ . INni»\ teresting facts, some of which The McHENRY, ILLINOIS^ Plaindealer hopes to make public 0«ce over Petesch's Drug Store some time in the future. JOHNSBURG, ILLINOIS PHONES: McHenry, 44 Johnsburg, 625-R-2 HOURS--McHENRY 10:30 a. m. to 12 noon 7:80 p. m. to 8:30 p. HOURS--JOHNSBURG ^ 8:00 a. m. to 9:00 a. i|U^' * 12:00 to 1.80 p. m. 5:00 p. m. to 7:00 p. m. Telephone No. 10&-4t SIMON STOFFEt. tfiiiurance agent for all classes of property in the beat coaprrt-- WEST McHENRY. - ILLlNOlff if ' 'ir. IV II Mornin t rhv •Y'M'V-fl ALFORD H. POUSE • Ai*oroey-at-Law Thone 26 .West McHenry, III. The influenza epidemic is again with us and as a result this village and community have quite a number of cases, altho they are not nearly so severe as a year ago, when the disease caused a number of deaths in McHenry township. Local physicians are asking everyone to use every precaution in guarding themselves against the disease and the spread of same and if everyone will do this there will be little need for fear here. • , - The teaching staff of the McHenry public school was the first to be hit by the disease, no less than three of the instructors being down or under quarantine at this time. The following instructions are now being strictly adhered to by the doctors here and it will be well for everyone to know them. They follow: * Quarantine case and pla-card premises. Properly isolate the patient from the rest of the? household. If there is any contact between the patient and other members of the household, all persons living in quarantined premises must be quarantined until termination of case. Patients must be excluded from school until recovery and until five days after temperatuie becomes normal. Other children of the household must be excluded from school until after termination of quarantine It is sincerely hoped that parents of children afflicted with the disease will assist the physicians and health authorities in every way possible in the elimination of the epidemic. Hosiery and underwear at Ericki System peace, as dM ifc#protslwiM of war, involve heavy expenditures by the Telephone Company. There is much reconstruction aqd even more advance construction work to do before the former positioji of Readiness . to Serve is regained. Little or, no construction work for two - years, a vast increase in demand for ^ service and a vast increasein the population to be served, presents a stunning problem to the telephone management. A dollar will not buy as much service or as much material as heretofore, which further complicates the problem. In the circumstances the Telephone Company must adopt the policy so «nirorm among merchants in every fine of business and sell its service at ^higher prices. The higher rates are a protection to a service that is in the interest and for the convenience of every subscriber. CHICAGO TELEPHONE COMPANY JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE! IS NOW IN PROGRESS The object of this sale is to free our stock shelves of all broken lines and all lines of winter goods, regardless of cost, for the new incoming Spring Stock. This sale is domg it. If you have not pur. chased do not miss those extraordinary values. OVERCOATS lien's and .young men's Overcoats in the latest models. Plain, half belt and belted coats Our reg. $50.00, $52.50, $55.00 and $60.00 coats at-$38.M Our reg. $40.00 and $45.00 coats at ... --$33.50 Our reg. $35.00 and $38.50 coats at----; $29.85 . SUITS Your choice of any suit in our stock, $35.00, $38.00, $40, $42.50, $45.00, $50 and $52.50 values at . .JIMS A wide selection of models and patterns BIG REDUCTION IN-- MEN'S AND BOYS* MACKINAW COATS Men's all wool Patrick Railroad Mackinaws, our best Mackinaw, $18.00 values at $12.95 Men's shawl collar, belt all around Mackinaw, $9.0# values at $6*®* Boys' and Youths' shawl collar Mackinaws, $12.00 values at... W.W Men's moleskin sheep lined Coats with large sheep -- collar, $19.50 values at $15.85 Ifen's brown duck, blanket lined Coats, corduroy collar, $6.00 values at -- $4.95 Men's gray duck, blanket lined Coats,.cordui:oy collar, $5.00 values at Big Saving in Boys' Suits These suits are all late models and the selection is big. Double and single breasted with belt all around. During the sale 25% discount on any suit. -- $10.00 values at...... VlM $12.00 values atl.-- $Mt $14.50 values at._^__. $10.88 $15.00 values at -- $ll*tf $16.50 values at $!2J8 $18.00 values at... ..ftSJO Men's all rubber, 4 buckle red Arctics, heavy tap sole, $4.25 values at -- -- $3.15 Men's German Socks and-Rubbers, $5.25 values at. $4.15 Felt Boots, Our reg. $4.00 quality at. - (Ul Good Values in Sweaters All wool shaker knit Pull Over Sweaters, large shawl collar, plain solid odors or stripes, $12.00 ! values at. :C---- FUR CAPS For quick clearance $10.00 values at. $7.50 values at,l. $7J5 $6.75 Big Redactions in All Lines of Winter Goods! T-- Ask the man who hts been here if he is satisfied with the extreme values we are offering iVLsGe« &CnNWftY McHENRY, ILLINOIS i