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A Gas Water Heater is Efficient, economical and gives you water that is really Hot Water -the year around. Let us install a Water Heater in your home. It will adi atf much to yottr comfort. You will wonder how you fever got aloftf without it. - - : / /^WesternUnited Gas wJK* and Electric Company • wt D. M. WORKMAN, District Man*** ONE DOLLAR paid down will put in your house any Electric Appliance Balance of cost in monthly payments. This offer is limited to the first Two Weeks in March Therfe is no re«ervatk>B----everything i« included--Washing Machines, Vacuum Cleaners, Electric Irons, Electric Fans, Percolators, Toasters, Curling Irons, Utility Motors, Ironing Machines, Chafing Dishes, Grills, Radiators, Vibrators, Portable Lamps etc. On one of these articles the deferred payments are extended over the period of sixteen months; on^numerous others twelve months.. We suggest if you are interested in this opportunity that you place your order without delay because oar, stock of many of these articles is limited. At our Sales Room The nearest is at Crystal Lake ic Service Co. OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS PHILIP JAEGER GENERAL COriMISSION MERCHANT SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO THE SALE Off Drweed Beef# flutton. Hogs, Veal, Poultry, Hides, Etc., Butter and Effi » This is the oldest house on the street. Tags and price lists tarnished on application. GOLD STORAOE FREE * s. CHICAQO; HXtNOIS. Subscribe for Tbe Plaindeakr and keep posted on local happenings. * Alex Freund and daughter, Lois, of SOLON MILLS ^ We want your epjrs; marlet them every week at Eriekson's, John Gibbs spent pert of last week at Fon du Lac, Wis. James Ladd of Ringwood was a caller here one day last week. M rs. C. W. Cropley was a Chicago passenger Friday of last week. Martin Young was a business . visitor at Richmond last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Schultz were Chicago passengers Friday morning. Mrs. Wm. Cornish is nursing in the Anderson home at Ringwood. Math. Freund attended the E. M. Aylward auction at Hebron Monday. Mrs. A. C. Merrell and Mrs Math. Freund spent Tuesday morning at Richmond. Dr. N. J. Nye of McHenry was a professional caller at E. E. Cropley's last Friday. Dr. Wm. Hepburn of Ringwood made a professional call here Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schroeder and children of Ringwood spent Sunday at A. C. Merrell's. Mrs. Rose Aubert and daughter, Ruth, went to Chicago Monday evening for a few days' visit. Two sleigh loads of young • people from here attended the movies at Spring Grove Sunday evening. Mrs. Lynn Overton and daughters, Avis and Virginia, went to Milwaukee Friday to spend the week end. Walter Aylward of Chicago was a Monday and Tuesday visitor at the home of his father, Ridhard Aylward. Mrs. Ged. Vogel and daughter, Mrs. Wm. Brennan, and little son went to Kenosha Tuesday • for a few days' visit. Mrs. Geo. Vogel, Mrs. A. C. Merrell and Miss Mae Aylward were Hebron visitors Monday in the E. M. Aylward home. Messrs. Walter Reading, Wilbur Austin and Royce Ladd of Brooklyn, Mich., were Monday morning callers at Richard Aylward's. Several sleigh loads from here attended the E. M. Aylward sale at Hebron Monday. This was a large sale and footed up to $21,000. . RINGWOOD Lisle Jackson of Solon was in town Monday night. O. A. Tabor made a business trip to Woodstock Tuesday. t . Sugar, all kinds and all yon want, at Louis A. Eriekson's store. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Adams of Johnsburg were callers in town Tuesday. Miss Emma Madsen of Hebron spent the week end visiting friends in town. Mrs. S. W. Smith spent the week end in the home of E. F. Hewes at Hebron. Miss Martha Dailey spent Sunday in the Chas. Shales home at Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Bacon of Crystal Lake spent Sunday with relatives in town. Mrs. Harry Darrow spent Thursday last in Richmond wiy» her mother, Mrs. Orr. Miss. Lelah Claxton and friend of McHenry spent Sunday in the Geo. Shepard home. T. A. Abbott entertained an old neighbor, Mr. Florida, from Nebraska last Thursday. Mrs. Arthur Merrell of Solon spent last Saturday with her sister, Mrs. Lewis Schroeder. Mrs. W. E. Bradley and Mrs. G. A. Stevens were Chicago passengers last Thursday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Alec Anderson welcomed a baby girl into their home on Thursday of last week. - Mr. Hansen of Crystal Lake was in town Monday in the interest' of the Bowman Dairy company. Mr. and Mrs Jencks and daughter, Mary, of McHenry spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Stevens. Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Wegener and daughter, Marion, of McHenry spent Sunday in the A. Lawrence home. Will Mervin has gone to Kenosha to work in the factory. The family expects to move there in the near future. About thirty of our town people attended the dance given by the Relief Corps at Richmond last Friday night. All report a fine time and plenty to eat. . l JOHNSBUBG Shoes and rubber goods of quality at economical prices at Eriekson's. John Jaricfe and family visited at Mr. and Mrs. Richard Guyser's Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Williams were McHenry visitors last week Wednesday. Mr. '•and Mrs. Geo. Wirfs of McHenry were Monday evening callers here. Fred Diethorn is moving this week to the' Jos. Kattner farm at Spring Grove. Mrs. Frank Mathieu and Mrs. John Mertes visited Mrs. Arnold Mueller Sunday. John P. Lay passed away at his home here Sunday evening after a long illness. Arthur Adams of Woodstock wa6 a Sunday guest in the home of his parents here. Mesdames Jos. Thelen and Casper Bickler were Pistakee Bay callers one day last week. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schaefer are the proud parents of a baby boy, born Sunday, Feb. 22. Mrs. Mike Freund and children of Spring Grove spent Friday with Mra. Jacob Schumacher. Mrs. John Molidor and Mrs. John Pitzen of Volo were visiting friends here last week Friday. Peter Hess and daughter, Catherine, of Wauconda attended the funeral of Miss Mary Hess Friday last. Chicago were guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Huemann Sunday. Nick Freund and daughter, Martha, of Spring Grove attended the funeral of Miss Mary Hess here last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Math. Rauen and son, Arnold, of Spring Grove were Sunday guests in the home of John H. Freund. Mesdames Joe. Nett, Frank Mathieu, Hubert Michels and Jos. Freund were at a quilting party at the home of Mrs. Nick Nett Monday. About forty neighbors and friends called on Nick and Mary May on Monday evening to remind Mr. May of his* birthday. Cards were enjoyed until a late hour, when refreshments were served. TERRA COTTA J. M. Phalin was a visitor in Woodstock Monday. J. H. Gracy was a business visitor in Woodstock Monday. Mrs. Robert Knox spent Sunday at the home of Ed. Knox. Miss Agnes Frisby spent a few days recently at her home here. Mrs. Stella Peck spent Monday with her daughter* in Elgin. Philip Hoffman of Spring Grove visited relatives here last week. Miss Florence. Knox was a guest of McHenry relatives Saturdayevening. Mr. and Mrs. Jay Doherty and daughters visited at M. Knox's Sunday. Mrs. Leonard Beal of Woodstock vas visiting here Friday'and Saturday. i Mr. and Mrs. Edward Portman of Chicago were entertained at the home .of the former's aunt, Mrs. Geo. B. Frisby, Sunday and Monday. SHERMAN HILL Master Eugene Sayler of McHenry fs visiting at Hillside farm this week. Frank Grasser and family are much improved. The four boys have been sick with the flu. Miss Margaret Miller, teacher at the <'herry Valley school, has been boarding at'W. A. Sayler's the past two weeks, Mr. and Mrs. Waterman beng stricken with flu. Harry and Willianf Ostdick visted at the home of W. A. Sayler Sunday and drove their auto to Elgin. Vhey carried on the Crystal Springs farm last year, but expect to move itj the Rampmeyer farm on Higgens road near Elgin March 1. Has Neat Quarters ,, Everett Hunter, Jr., has neatly fitted quarters for the display of the Everett phonograph, for which he has the agency in McHenry as well as Lake counties. The retail store is located in the Peter B. Freund buildng in Centerville, which was recently purchased by Mr. Hunter. Five different models of the "Everett" are now on the display floor, with two more to follow. Miss Clara Freund, an expert musician, is in charge of the retail store and will be found ever ready to demonstrate the machines. Three booths, all equipped with Everett phonographs and all the very latest records, are always at the disposal of those interested. Besides the machines the local store also handles a complete line of new records, repairs for all makes of machines, needles, etc. The records handled are the Victor, Gold Seal Emmerson and Okeh, while other makes can also be provided. Mr. Hunter, who took a course in repairing in an eastern factory last year, is always at your service and no matter what make of a machine you may possess he is able to make repairs and furnish new parts and will be pleased to do so at a reasonable cost. Among other contemplated improvements in the building are the erection of a beautiful electric sign, window lettering and draperies, and after all of these have been made McHenry will be given one of the classiest establishments of the kind to be found anywhere outside of the larger cities. One of the very latest machines now on display at the store is an electrically operated "Everett" with a repeating attachment which has been on the market but about a month. ____ QUARTER OF A CENTURY terns Clipped From The Plaindealer of Twenty-five Years Ago Math. Pitzen of Pistakee desires to get up a team shoot between six young men of this vicinity and six from the National Gun club of Elgin. He claims there are marksmen here who can down the Elgin boys. F. K. Granger was shipping hogs on Monday from this station. He was paying $3.50 per hundred. He nforms us that the receipts at the stock yards in Chicago on Monday were over 75,000, the largest receipts for one day on record. Chas. Kuhnert, who has kept a general store in Johnsburg for many years, has sold out his entire business in that place, including his store building, to Mr. Lay, formerly of the firm of Lay & Adams, and has rented the Henry Colby brick block in this village, where he will immediately open up a general store. Died--At his residence in Spring Grove, on Friday, Feb. 1, 1895, Wyman Wilson, aged sixty-two years. He was a member of McHenry post, G. A. R., and was the first one to answer the final rott call since the organization of the post. Those attending the funeral were Comrades H. C. Mead, R. Thompson, A. Weber, Geo. Rothermel, Wat. Schreiner and Howard. , The Young Peoples' Social club gave a party at the city hall on Friday evening last. Th§se parties are becoming very popular among the young people. 1' . ?'• TAKE CARE of your dollars today and they'll take care of you when unable to earn. Place them on deposit regularly at Our Savings Department and they'll not only be safe but will earn 3 per cent interest compounded. \ >v CAN i SAVE? You are facing this question now. Perhaps you think the "high cost of living" makes it impossible. The fact remains that hundreds of prudent people, many with modest incomes, are saving regularly at this bank* Surely you. can find a way. $ .33® 0k HOY BANKING 1X4 McHENRY, ILLINOIS Parents Attention! Start Your Boy Now on the Road to Success and Independence . ' • If you will lay aside only $5.00 per month for your son, no matter how young; he may be, investing it in our 6% Preferred Stock, by the time your boy has reached middle age he will be well off financially with an accumulation of stock of the par value of $18,141 Jl. At 6% this will pay him an annual income of $1,080.00. Under our systematic, saving plan of purchasing this stock, y©B will make the monthly payments of $5.00 each until your boy is working and earning his own money. By that time, under your guidance^ he will have learned the value of saving and investing at 6% and wffi be glad to take over and continue the payments. Study This Table It shows you how your money grows when placed in the 6% Cumulative Preferred Stock of this Company with your dividends re-invested in the stocky 20 Months Periods Starting Dec. 1,1*10 1. INI 1, IMS I, 1*24 I, IMC 1, IMS 1, IMC (, IMI I, IMS I, IM4 1, IMC I, 1M8 1, 1CSC 1, IMI 1. IMS \ 1, 1M4 *pr. Dec. Aug. Apr. Dec. Aug. Apr. Dec. Aug. Apr. Dec. Aug. Apr. Dec. Total PH|Tments Made By You •ICS 7M Cumulative Savings I1M m Mi 4» 1CCC IIM 12M 1SCC 14M IMC 11* 1421 1C7I IMS 224S 2579 2M8 ssss 80 Moo^bft Ending Aug. 1. IMC Apr. 1, IMS Dec. 1, IMC Aug. 1, 1CS1 Apr. I, 1CSS Dec. 1. 1M4 Aug. 1, IMS Apr. 1, IMS Dec. 1, IMC Aug, I, 1M1 Apr. I, IMS Dec. I, IM4 Aug. I. IMC Apr. I, 1CC8 Dec. 1, IMC Total Pay* mente Made By You S1CCC 17M 18C0 IMC 2CC0 2IM 22M 2SM 24M 2 SCC 2«M 27CC 2 SCO 2CCC •wulatlve Pavings MM Cllt SS7S teen USSY 1*2*7 I47M l«M§ ISI4S '-i NOTE: The above table is based on the attsumptlon that tbe t» % Preferred SUx:k or some other equally ftood security of the Company will Hi1 available throughout tl»« entire .W-year period. Parents--talk this matter over now. Remember \Vhat it will mean to your boy to have this sound financial foundation as he meets and solves life's many problems later on. Remember, too, that the Public Service Company is a big, constantly growing Company furnishing nearly 200 Illinois cities and towns with gas and electric scarvice that cannot be dispensed with - a fact which assures the safety^ of this investment. Stop in at our local office today. Public Service Company of Northern Illinois 1 Altho it may not be generally known among the single men, each and every one of them who has had a weekly wage of $20 during the past freer is subject to pay an income tax. The I federal authorities this year mean to J look into the incomes of the single j men more closely than ever and if you come under this head and your income has been |l,00a during the year 1919, you must pay an income tax. In case of doubt, consult someone posted on the law, as it may be the meapi c& saving yo« • heavy penalty. Ninety Per Cent of Motors in cars for 1920 use some type of Hot Spot to vaporize the gasoline. Why not make your car up to date with a Losee PROTECT-O-MOTOR "Hot Spot?" See your local dealer qt wriH j* 4 '-h sA* LOSEE, HEBRON, ILL!