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ft CROWNS 8TILL LEAD Rexalla Climb From Fourth to Smm Place la Race If %-Wb. ' ^ • OF A mourn Woodgtook AM 8een by Standing «f Teaia* Handed lata Priaada Seportera aad ,-^f/ 0MT Oftee by Oar The Sign of Quality ^ ^ j- * ;^v;i -,/j ;•" 1 v- <s '- •> , j s,^<£ - & Are Now Allen Noonan spent last Saturday lit the metropolitan city. Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Frazar ware €hl- i ©ago visitor* Monday. Walter M. Warner of Elgin spent | Sunday with his wife and family here. j Patrick Mariarty of Chicago was a | [ week end guest of McHenry friends Communicated To the Editor: *y1 ; This article has been rgiflp::,fnd typewritten for publication soma tfcree or four weeks as can be verified by several reputable people, but has been withheld that other matter of equal ok more importance. could be made known. * In view of recent developments we feel justified in asking for its introduction now, leaving the other until later. Histery «f Sewer Movement Far Last • Three Year* Some two or three years ago there N. H. Petesch attended to business:,- „ , matters h, tk« metropolitan city Mon- J'™"* ' er°up cf,ng • j themselves Progressives, whose slog&n Or. D. 0,1Mb «u . rK>f«»lon.l;J??: "We. *r.e /«' i"P™vem.nt« lifn** in (-Ua mAfunnnlifan mftr Mom ! organization put up candidates ^ ..r v • >*» Thisis your opportunity to take advantage here of immence £0 savings on high quality merchandise. id V"-st Inventory means reduction period when ail small lots and seasonable merchandise must be disposed of at far below regular g^ices in order to make room f^ ^ CQim^ SpringMerchaadise, .* -*vV* ^ Radical price reductions are now in effect and extra prices will prevail on many special purchases of daily necessities Which have been included to add more spice to the offering. : 'M mw If" THESE m PROGRESS Iff'!5: e for Men Timely Offerings in Sales of Clothing, Furnishings, Shoes and Accessories four attendance will be worth to while because of the value t^p»p sales ""W tt&k If V 50 These Dollar Days, our first this year, are of especial interest owing fj> the fact that they include the close-outs of a number of winter lines on which prices have been made unusually low* Be sure to take advantage of thus,sale; Remember: The following represent only a few of the many bar* which you will find on these days. 4 Men's Sample Shirts I ^ _.. (1M 13 Men's Handkerchiefs.. $1.16 Ladies' House Dresses, all sizes $1.19 3 pr. Men's Silk Hose, seconds $1.M 9 yds. f'leached Towelings $1.90 Pillow Slips. 3 for U~M-- -!*••• 4 Men's Knit Ties ... $IM 6yds. Apron Ginghams. _$1.M Ladies' Combination S uits, lace trimmed $1.H Large Assortment Women's Spats. 98c Men's Cotton Sweaters $1.99 Women's Waists, voile or georgette $1.99 2 yds. Silk Warp Poplin $1.66 3 pr. Men's Wool Sox, black or tan $1.69 Ladies' Grey Shoes, cloth top, kid vamp $1.99 Men's Grey Ribbed Fleeced Union Suits _$1J9 , Women's Silk Hose, fancy ribbed..$1.99 - 9 yds. Curtain Scrim, fancy border.$1.99 i 3 yds. Pillow Tubing 42 or 45 in $1.99 Child's Gingham Dresses, all sizes.$1.99 ; Boys' Warm Fleeced Union Suits 2 for $1.99 ^ Men's Fancy Wool Sox reduced to.$1.99 12 pr. Men's black or brown Sox._$1.99 , Quilt size Cotton Batts.. .--$1.99 Men's Flannel Gqwj Men's Flannel Shirts $1.99 S yds. Tennis Flannel, light or dark $1.0# 5 pr. Army Wool Gloves...|^^ $1.99 Traveling Bags i i u~.t. - $1.69 Wee Curtains, each... _$i.9io 2Vt yds. Double-faced Heavy Draperies ... .$1.9# lyds. Part-wool PlaidsJ^^JCX- JLW $pr. Men's Suspenders !.. . . $1.69 2 pr. Ladies' Wool Hose, asst. colors |i.0fv Women's Felt Slippers, large choice ^ T-> ---.88e and $1.69 §flk Foulard, per yd... $1.69 inter Coats, women's and children's, only a few___ $1.91 All sizes in Ladies' Aprons $1.69 large size heavy Blanket Sheets...$1.99 Men's extra value Gloves & Mittens $1J| Child's Shoes, in 3s to 5s, black or brown $1.09 Boys' Knickers, corduroy or ck>th-$1.99 4 pr. Women's Ribed Top Out-size ?> r Hose....... __ tiA | yds. Quilting Challies, goodr ti patterns.__ ... $1.99 All sizes in Ladies' Corsets $1.99 Women's Brown Shoes, cloth top..$1.99 2 Boys' Waists, flannel or percale..$1.99 Men's Crusher Hats, black or grey . $1.99 Women's Dress Skirts $1.99 ; n:,<v vc:;\. •• •iiC. ••"5**~%.->!fl.00 OFF ITEMS -'f'.'vr.A ; 4 In addition to the abtove (and many other) Dollar Bargains, we shall offer fi number of items, Suits, Overcoats, Sweaters, Mackinaws, Blankets, etc., at $1.60 off from regular prices. • * CL F. HaU Co. 'visitor in the metropolitan city Monday. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Earl Monear passed a few days last week in the metropolitan city. Mrs. Wm. Bonslett attended the funeral of a relative at Evanston last Friday. Mrs. George Boas spent several days last week with relatives in Chicago. " . Miss Avis Carey of Elgin spent a few days last week with relatives in McHenry. Mrs. Edmund Knox and daughter, Dorothy,'were Chicago visitors last Thursday. Mr. and Sunday as the guests of relatives at Wauconda. Miss Bertha Wolff spent the week for aldermen, which candidates were elected. These aldermen at once put into action their scheme for improvements. It appears from looking over the records of the town that the main idea of these so-called Progressives, whose slogan was "We are for improvements," was "We are for sewer," And with that idea in mind a so-called improvement board was formed in that council and given authority to order an assessment ^spread for sewer and also for writer extension. An assessment was finally spread in accordance with their plans, which, to ; put it mildly, was the most ridiculous Mrs. Frank Meyer spent if™1 contemptible in the history of the town. This assessment was for sewer and also for water extensions, running the same way on the outskirts of end"™ the guest' of Chicago "relatives 1*°™ whe™ hous^ were few and scat" and friends tering. It was an assessment that Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Cleary spent fun^Ge?" forJixtefn OT ^h' one day last week as guests of rela- j ^een dollars, Mrs. Anna Knox ties in Elgin j mneteei1 or two thousand dollars, W. L. Howell attended to matters of !Mrs" Lena around two thousand a business nature in the metropolitan i0LtWe"t.y Ve ^red. ,°, frS\?any city Tuesday. Miss Helen Pauiy of Elgin passed the latter part of last week with McHenry friends. • Mr. and Mrs. John H. Miller spent the week end as guests of relatives at!41118 8ame Wlse improvement board Milwaukee Wis. |f°r over three hundred a lot that no Miss Helen Pint of Chicago passed ;one would teke as a *ift and ^ the the week end with her parents, Mr. jtaxes and assessments thereon. One and Mrs John Pint ; assessment was around one hundred Mrs. John Walsh and son, Ray, of !and twenty-seven dollars per lot per sewer, the other was one hundred and | other citizens on the outskirts of town 'in a like proportion, and the Hanly | estate for ten thousand ^dollars- and ' only one house on the street. Lots ! were assessed on the outskirts of town Fox Lake spent Sunday as the guests of McHenry relatives. Miss Mayme Barbian passed the week end as the guest of relatives in the metropolitan city. Mrs. Frank Meyer and nephew, Edwin Miller, passed last Friday with relatives in Wauconda. seventy-nine dollars per lot for a water main and in eacli case, 'water and sewer both on the outskirts of town, it was clearly against the wishes of the big majority of those who were assessed. At the first public hearing on the Edward Brefeld of Chicago spent t sey/eT Q^tion, which by the way was the week end with his parents, Mr.'one of the most disgraceful affairs and Mrs. B. J. Brefeld. , ever held in our town, a petition was Alfred J. Richardson sp^nt Sunday Presented signed by one hundred and with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. thirty-two tax payers protesting Richardson, at Ridgefteld. against the installation of sewer at Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Martin of that time, labor and material thenbe- Wauconda wweerree tthhee gguueessttBB of Mc- the highest ever - known. That Henry relatives last Saturday. Misses Rose and Josephine Stoffei are spending several weeks with relatives at Stratton and Denver, Colo. Miss Gladys Matthews of Crystal Lake was a guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fleming, Sunday. petition has never been heard of since. It was ignored and, while the pretense was made that the improvement board did not wish to go against the wishes of the tax payers in the matter, the assertion was made that the names to that petition were obtained thru mis- Mr. and Mrs.. WilliamTurner of representation and fraud. The Chicago were Sunday guests in the authority for that statement was Mr. home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ferwerda.' -^^ord P°use, the same authority that Miss Marion Conway of Elgin was Glared a few weeks ago at the meeta week end guest in the home of her *n v'"a^e ^a" that the objecparents, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Conway alon* the river 10 locatinS the Louis Stoffel of West Chicago was a guest in the home of his mother, Mrs. William Stoffel, over the week end. . Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Justen visthe septic tank on the river bank were few, if any at *11. Recent developments have proven that this statement as well as the previous one by Mr. Pouse were absolutely untrue, ited Mrs. Roy Hankermeyer at the showin8T a desire or evincing a design Garfield Park hospital in Chicago I'°n of the sf*called 'mP10™* Sunday. ment board to over ride the wishes of Mrs. A. J. Kamholz waa a gueat in the taxpayers and install a sewer the home of her sister, M». Wm.!whether the tax payers {t or Dryer, in Chicago the latter part of'not In P«8inS we *** that the la8t week. jsame improvement board assessed the Miss Nellie Doherty spent a few tax Payers of McHenry one hundred days last week as a guest in the home iand seventy-nine dollars for water; of Mr. and Mrs. Jamas P. Green at that the .same identlcal improvement Woodstock. I has been* installed in the neighboring John Reihanspargar of West Chi- town of Palatine for between fifty and cago passed last Saturday in the home sixty dollars a lot' M of ^hich 18 ?" of his son, Chas. J. Reihananerger, spectively 8ubmitted and can be and family. proven. For some unaccountable Ray McGee spent last Friday night reason these 3°"called Progressives at Woodstock, where he called on re'a- have been unable 10 8ee the necessl*y tives and friends and also took in the for or Pron,ote anything else in the Elk initiation. village of McHenry in the way ft an Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dowling of improvement with the exception of Chicago spent the week end in the 8ewerage- lt 18 evident to any °*?m' home of the latter's parents, Mr. and ary citizen that there are,many thmgs Mrs. F. O. Gans in McHenry that it would have been Mr. and Mrs. Herman Salzman of the part of Prudence ^ for ^ we? Woodstock were weak end guests in of our people to have Promotedthe home of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Math. Baur. and which have been ignored by these .worthy gentlemen. Qne of the most Miss Ella Rosenthal and Hubert vital and necessary of these would McCollum of Crystal Lake were week hav® been ^ Promotion of a fire end guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fleming. Mrs. Clarence Tuttle of Dundee and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Noonan and daughter of Elgin were guests of McHenry however' * the case: About a year company. To many people, who have not thought much on the subject, the fact that there is not a fire ladder in the town seems incredible. Such, relatives, last Thursday. Miss Irene Conway of this village has gone to Elgin, where she has reentered the employ of the Elgin National Watch company. Peter Kerling arrived in McHenry from Austin, Minn., on Tuesday morning of this week for a two weeks' and a half ago the volunteer members of the fire department all resigned, the council failing to sustain them in the way of equipment, ladders and other equipment. The result being that insurance rates in the village of McHenry, especially in the business section, are abnormally high. If these visit among relatives in McHenry and «o-called Progressives, that love the J-o -h nsburg. good old town of McHenry so much Mr. and Mrs. Henry 8chnenemann and children of Chicago were guests in the home of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs, John Schuenemann, over the week end and were so earnest and sincere in the way of improvements as they pretend to be, ha£ started to organize a good, up-to-date fire- department with a i good, up-to-date equipment in Mc- E. L. Cleary stepped war for a few Henry they *ou,d have found hardly days' visit this week In the home of a P^1' «PP<>sed to it, the averhis grandmother, Mrs. Ellen Frisby, "*• property owner knowing that the south of town, on his way from Sioux reduced insurance premiums as a re- City, la., to Cleveland, O., where he 8U,t of a KGod fire company and ®<Juip" expects to make his future home. ment would in the course of four or Misses Anne McCarthy of Chicago, jfive more than offset a11 the ex" Vera Bolger, Ethel Callinan and P"1** of ***fire compa^r. Agnes Peters of Woodstock attended ! ; McHenry Municipal League. the installation of officers as held by; _ Joyce Kilmer court, Daughters of! John i. May By A. 8. Parks, will take your subretain the Rexalls Fords . .. i .4. Buick Six ... Hudson-Essex Indiolas ....... t..... Altho the Crowns lead in the local bowling league, the Rexalls have climbed up in second place and now close upon the heels of the cigarmakers. The Rexalls have taken six straight games since our last issue, three of these were annexed a^the expense of the Indiolas, while the Fords were the ether victims. \ Hudsona Trim Bokka The Hudson-Essex quintet took three straight from the Buick five on Thursday evening of last week? Hook, rolling with the winners, was the high man of the evening, getting a total of 546 pins in. the three games. The scores "m .169 .193 .152 Hudson-Essex Al. Pataka .. Hook Spurling ^ W. Bickler E. Gorman .....1*7 ......4«8 2nd 166 174 134 156 167 8rd Total 167 491 179 170 143 153 546 456 476 478 Totals... Buick Six L. Meyers ...... W. Patzke Schmitt ... J. Weber ..... G. Bohr .849 1st .131 .141 .140 .146 .145 786 2nd 115 135 151 173 169 812 2447 3rd Total 131 377 142 146 134 159 418 437 453 473 . Totals. 703 743 712 2158 Indiolas Fall Before Rexalls The Rexalls trimmed the Indiolas in three straight games on Friday evening. Leo Thurlwell, of the drug team, registered the high total of the evening with 562 pins, while Walter Vogt shot the high game with a total of 212, which was made in the second -etto. The scores: Rexalls A. Patzke R. Page ...... . L. Thurlwell , Stenger Vogt 1st .203 .169 .186 .140 .166 2nd 182 153 176 140 212 3rd Total 162 547 183 200 140 151 495 562 420 519 Tot*!*..... .844 Indiolas R. Patzke *. N. Meyers .. Heimer Weinschenker Schoel 1st .115 .168 .143 .120 .136 863 2nd 137 166 176 159 146 836 2543 3rd Total 171 423 138 113 177 204 462 432 456 486 Totals 672 784 803 2269 Bexalla Bounce on Fords On Tuesday evening of this week the Rexalls, just to demonstrate that their Friday night's win was not an accident, shot the Fords full of holes by slipping it over the Lizzies for three straight. Vogt was high man on this occasion, piling up a total of 529 pins for the three games. High score of the evening was made by C. Patzke, who hung up a 202 in the first game. The scores: Pour 1 is CM.' - J.-'; cago. ^ Henry MiUer was a Chicago visited i Tuesday. ^ Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Bohland* Chicago visitors Tuesday. ~ Alfred J. Richardson passed TneS»"^ \" day in the metropolitan eity. 7 Miss Mayme Ibsh pasfied Tuesday and Wednesday in the metropolitan! city. Miss Helen Justen is spending a fe$t days as the guest of relatives in Chfe cago. V *\fi James Walsh of Chicago was tl|a guest of McHenry relatives the first of the week.. > Mrs. Thos. MeCabe spent Wedne^j day with her husband at the We«t Side hospital in Chicago. Phone 49 . Reasonable llatl|^t^ f^CHAEyER BROS. * Draying and Transferrin Long Pistance Hauling McHenry, Piano Tuning* PLAYER REPAIRING®!! Prompt and satisfactory atteutionw . . / ADAM S. JUNG Phone 12 :: ' Woodstock, J#» r b Z4 BAKING POWDER you use less Agency For Leave Your Bundles Here & J JOHN STOFFEL, WEST McHENR* ATTENTION, FARMER; You arc looking for the best possible# market for your cream. Therefore, pleas<£ f ship via express pr baggaice direct V , t*earsall at Elgin. Make this your slogail, " ? \ for bigger cream profits Cans retumw^,;! promptly and check mailed for each shlp*^, t ^ •, ment. Our good patrons are increasing;- '• daily because of our excellent reputatioipHV* . and standing auiong the farmers. Send" ' u» your cream and the nameti of some of' " your n e i g h b o r s so t h e y t o o may b a r e t l i f « > „ . ' benefit of our market. Write for tags^ " 1 shipping instructions and our quotations^',, ., Ask your grocer wben yon go to tow for Hillside creamery butter, known .al over the United States, II: B. S. Pearsall Butter Co. Elgin, IK. Rexalls C. Patzke .. T. R. Page ....... L. Thurlwell .. Stenger . Vogt . . 1st .202 .182 .166 ;.162 .178 2yd 150 121 159 146 161 3rd Total 162 514 179 482 126 451 157 464 190 529 Totafau 890 Fords Whiting-„»/4, Wattles .T.iy/ Pries . Perkins Laures . * * * * ' 1st .140 .161 .160 .168 .178 736 2nd 156 109 138 148 168 814 2440 8rd Total 146 442 142 412 164 452 149 455 160 496 .787 709 761 2257 NEW OFFICERS ELBCTED McHenry County i Board at By Real Estate nie McHenry county real estate board held its annual election of officers at Woodstock on Tuesday of last week, Jan. 9, at which meeting D. F. Quinlan was elected president, G. C. Peters, vice president; Ed. Martin, second vice president; Willard S. Battern, secretary, and Geo. B. Hoffman, treasurer. Committees were appointed and the annual banquet was discussed and plans are on foot to make same one long to be remembered. All of the county banks and newspapers are associate members. This is now one of the strongest organizations in this part of the state. The Hon. Judge Edward D. ShurtlefF, speaker of the house and one of the fathers of the real estate law/and A. M. Shelton of the state board of education and registration, were both voted honorary memberships. They are both residents of McHenry county. A uniform listing blank was adopted also a uniform rate of commissions. The multiple listing system was also adopted and rule governing what constitutes a real estate office. It must be placed easy of* access to the public, at which the public may enter without knocking, and to be kept open during the business hours of each working day, meaning that a man must not have his office under his hat and shall have, a states license framed and hanging in plain sight of such office. j Salesmen must account to the office out of which they hold a salesman's license, dividing all commissions op sales made by them, except where they work on salary. In that case all One Dollar Down P"A. -?1During January it ^ill constitute the preliminary payment on Electrical. - Appliances^ bought on terms of / | Monthly Payment* We include among the goods offered, articles slightly shopworn at extremely low prices. But the number of theie is limited and so if the matter interests the thing to do is, to jet • quickly. ^ I '^'Jiipareat Sates Room^f Crystal Lake -"B '*i: Public Service Co. OF NORTHERN II.LINOiS AnMTls* .1 th.]*»t'Krii>tton to .Jtotgapl°.**r ---,5. ^ IWtoU*.. puind~1" SPECIAL .; . : favor to nqr old friehda of McHenry and surrounding territory^", * I will make, for the next four week^ ^ ; a special double thick cable templ||f*|^ frame, with a pair of periscopic lens4| .. v for $6.00. These glassy will be on\§t 1, of the commissions belong to such fit- for reading and sewing. I have 5,000 ' -e; of these frames on hand and off«*; * Hie recent advance ,in the price of them at one-half of the original priced K \ ilk was gratifying to the board as No one needs to have trouble witi^ they had gone on record at their last their eyes when * guarantee a fit. t . •« meeting assisting the farmers in their am at my McHenry office on Sunday* ^ " efforts for a fair price for milk and and Mondays only, from 4:00 to 3:0|| ^ ; cte- , _p. m. Phone No. 9. ' Dfc C. Xpiter, Mchenry, %