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THE H'BERST HUINDEALER THTTRSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1926 CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS .. Council Room, Oct. 12, 1925 The city aldermen, with Mayor Wattles presiding, met Monday evening in special meeting to appoint a committee to secure the right of way for Route 20. Aldermen present: Doherty, Frisby, Good ell, Hughes, Overton and Perkins. Motion by Doherty, seconded by Perkins that an ordinance be created to establish a building commission. Motion carried. Motion by Goodell, seconded by Hughes, that the Mayor be given full .power to secure a change in right of way of Route 20. Motion carried. Motion by Frisby, seconded by Perkins to adjorn. Motion carried. . F. H. WATTLES, Mayor. R. F. CONWAY, Clerk. Get your printiflg done at the Plaindealer shop, " GARAGE PROVIDING PROTECTION TS THE BES' Garage Attractive in Appearance and Is Safe. : III rural districts the car and tractor olten are stored In a corner of thebarn or Implement shed. This is un- . satisfactory because It greatly increases the Are risk to the building and its contents as well as to the automobile and,tractor. Another result Is at* increase on the insurance premium. Car storage In any building used as a stable Is likely to be objectionable because fumes from stable refuse soon dull the gloss and luster of the varnish and tarnish the metal parts. Dust and moisture, which are always present around a barn are also Injurious to varnished surfaces. The farm garage is often made large enough # to accommodate the automobile, truck and tractor. J A garage which provides for protection against the weather, security against fire and theft, and Reasonable convenience in Its use and maintenance is the kind desired by the average builder. A garage constructed of concrete is the preferred type because ft provides for all of these important requirements, and at the same time offers an attractive appearance in harmony with home <5urrorndinss. A garage properly designed and constructed will enhance rather than detract from the beauty of the surroundings. Some predominant features in the Ijoii: e design usually can be introduced in the linvs of the garage to give unity of appearance. Sharp contrast in design between garage and dwelling Is liarslr and should be avoided. ,In whatever location the garage is placed, it usually appears in a gerieral view of the house and should, therefore, harmonize with it. An almost endless variety of colors and surface finishes is possible with portland cement stucco, the usual method of surfacing garages built of concrete masonry. Portland cement stucco can be given smoo:h, srippled. spatter dash, or any of the newer textural finishes that are proving so popular. * AUTHOR. OF "tjacow PUNCHER:. . GOPyRjGUT BY Koatzr STKAD • • . THE HOMESTEADERS. /f HAPPY NOVEL of the Northwest, depicting in fascinating style the romance of homesteaders on the Canadian plains. A story for men and women who love the West and take an interest in its real, not its impossible characters. Few writers have an ability equal to Stead's to present the prairie and foothills people just as they are. In this case they seem like neighbors to the reader. The story contains matters of vast interest to all lovers, whether married or single, and to all who have ever loved. You Will Have an Opportunity to Read It as a Serial in The PLAINDEALER It starts on another - page of this Issue Tried the Dead Rat Plan By DON MARK LEMON (Copyright. )£k T DON'T know who wrote the story. * It was a newspaper yarn, taken from an exchange that probably had got It of a syndicate--but It certainly was a clever little sketch. I .read It on the train one afternoon while going home from the bank, and, when I had finished It, I slapped my knee and exclaimed, "By George! that's neat." Then I got to wondering if anybody bad ever tried the scheme, or had the writer thought it up himself. Just for a story plot. When I got home I read It to my wife, and she laughed and said there was a rat In the cage down cellar, and if ij wer« gone In the morning she would know^hat I had taken it with me to the hank. Of course she was only jesting, but it went to show how easily one; could carry out the idea in tl»e story, and I must have looked ' bought ful, for my wife suddenly •tme over and threw her arms about me and exclaimed: "Why. Will, you wouldn't do such a dreadful thing!" Just to tease her, I looked sly and asked her if it were a fair-sized rat in the trap, or only a mouse. Well, she doesn't know yet how to take me when I'm joking, and pretty soon she went down cellar and when I strolled down a little later, the trap and rat were both gone. You see. the newspaper story was something iike this: One 4ay at a bank a bundle of twenty one-thou sand bills was found missing from the cashier's booth, and things were get ting to look bad for the cashier, when the teller saw the tail of a rat sticking out from under a desk that set against the grating Inclosing the cashier's'; booth. Well, they moved the desk, and by George! if that rat hadn't got him self caught between the bars and desk and strangled to death, with a bunch of flve-dbllar bills in his mouth I think it was about twenty bills. They all congratulated the cashier. Of course the rat had stolen the miss ing twenty thousand, and afterwards came back for more bills, and had been caught and strangled,in the grating. They hunted hours for his hole, byt couldn't find It. However, the rear door of the bank opened on! a short, blind alley, and it was Jplaln as Texas on the map that the rat had stolen in that way. and gone out the same way with the twenty thousand, and the bills were somewhere outside ifl the alley. But they never foun<l where. It was Just here that the writer of he story got down to the neatest little stroke. I don't remember Just liijs words, but they were something in this order: Why couldn't the cashier have brought a strangled rat In his pocket to the bank, stolen the twenty thousand, placed a package of flvedollar bills in the rat's mouth, and slipped him under the desk? That would have turned all suspicion from the cashier, and when you consider how simple a thing It was to do, and how few men in the world are strictly honest, you finished reading the story with the conviction that the cashier had stolen the money and done the trick himself. Well, that's the newspaper sketch. Now, here's my story, and mine Is where the fun comes In. About eleven o'clock next day, down at the bank where I worked--I mean the day after the sketch appeared In the newspaper -- we discovered that a bunch of bills htfl been mislaid, then another bunch, then another and another; and altogether two thousand dollars In bills was found missing from drawers and baskets. Suddenly I smelt a mouse, as the saying goes, and began hunting for a rat. I l'ound him! Then the cashier found another rat, about the same time the teller found another. Then the president saw a tall sticking from under a desk, and poked out the fattest rat you ever saw. I was laughing by this time till I could hardly stoop to hunt for rats. You should have been around the bank yourself that morning--it was better than having money there. Well, altogether, we found seven rats, every one of them strangled and ctead and each with a bunch of bills In his mouth. The bills we recovered came to seven hundred dollars, but thirteen hundred was still missing. So you see that little newspaper story cost our bank Just one thousand three hundred dollars, and we had to hush It ut> or lose our reputation, for seven dishonest men In one bank was a bit too much. ' But those seven dead rodents, hidden all about the office! I think I -would have laughed had I lot the i thirteen hundred myself. Seven Modern Servant» The electric fan, Iron, toaster, cleaner, percolator, washer and air heater are the electric appliances In irost common use throughout the Cnited States. As such they have been called "the seven electric servants of the home." At average domestic rates a family of five can use these seven electric appliances as much as Is ordinal' necessary for from a dollar to a^dollar and a quarter a week for the needed electricity. Profiting by Mistakes Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof, if it doesn't carry over till the next day. Man s greatest handicap lies in his failure to profit from his own mistakes and those of others.--Grit. Lemon Juice and Spud* A small amount of lemon Juice added to water in which potatoes ara boiled will keep them from turning dark.--Science Service School shoes at Erickson's Department Store. « PERSONALS MOST ACCIDENTS -DUE TO DRIVERS Some People Cannot Resist Temptation to Take a Chance. <Br C. B. AUEI,, President National Safety Council.) Few automobile accidents are traceable to a defective mechanical condition of the automoble Itself! Most are due to a faulty mental viewpoint, tem- IKirary or permanent. The underlying cause of most automobile accidents is chance taking. Some people can't resist the slightest temptation , to take a chfince, while others take few-, if any flings with destiny. The odds are always agallnst the chance taker. j Added to this fallacious mental viewpoint may be various aggravations such as fatigue, illness, intoxication, worry and chronic nervousness. To be a safe driver of an automobile., a man or woman should be wide-awake, in good .health, sober, free from worry a£j and not a neurotic. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Reynolds and daughter, Ida, and Misses Mary and Grace Brefeld spent Saturday at Waukegan. Mrs. Theresa Brefeld spent th# week with her brother, John Brefeld, at Waukegan. Mr. and Mrs.. Meyers of Chicago spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Math Steffes. George C. Steilen of Chicago spent Friday with his family here. Mr. Steilen is now employed by the Wieland Dairy company in Chicago as a milk wagon driver. Paul and Roy Bickler of Chicago were week-end visitors in McHenry. Mrs. N. P. Steilen spent Thursday and Friday with relatives here. Miss Christine Frederickson of Chicago visited friends in McHc:iry Sunday. States Attorney A. H. P.ouse returned Wednesday." af.ernoon from Sturgeon Bay, Wis., where they attended the funeral of Mrs. Pouse's uncle, Captain Cail Andersen. Mrs. E. Knox and" sister, Miss Miss Mabel Conway were Chicago visitors Thursday. Mrs. John Bea ty spent Friday 'in Chicago. •' ; Karl Miller attended" a ' business meeting of the telephone company Woodstock thi.s week. i Impulse to Taks Chanea; - . Mr. anu .'.I..W. J. Dortivan arid! people deliberately take danchildren were 'iyaukfega^l' visitors last gerous chances. For instance, few Thursday. V , , | sane persons deliberately cross raJl- Henry J. Miller ir.n.'.o 1 a " business road tracks In front of approaching trip to Montello, Wis., this week. trains. They usually are caught up Miss Helen O'Sullivan spent several! by the Impulse to take a chance and. days with home folks ir. ('iik-nro. with little thought, set out to gamble Miss Pauline Pufahl oi l)eK„.b was with a 300-ton locomotive. a week-end guest of hi m? folks^her'e. Automobile drivers, In falling to con- Mr. and Mrs. John vycitai visited sider the possible disaster of their are a number of things in the case that he wants to go over and that he would give his decision sometime in November, soon enough to be retried by the November jury, if such should be the case; Ask us about the and Business card* Hinged Calling Yank Educational Moving The government at Washington a anally tuts* out seen* «f MTlM, Bring in that job of printing befora yon forget it. We can give you better service if you will cooperate with us. relatives at Racine, V.'is., Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ravrmtij Vv niting and children of Lake Geneva, were week-end guests in the N. E. Barbian home. Mrs. M. Givens an.l . o:i, Donald were Elgin visitors Sundry. Mrs. Earle MrAnirews' spent a few days last week with Ch:ca'jr» friends. Masters Martin :.r.d Font on Mc- Hugh of Cincinatti, Ohio, are spyndin j: several weeks in the home of their g r a n d p a r e n t s , M r . a n d M r s . J o h n Mc-J Evoy. ' A daughter was born to Mr. and | Mrs. Walter J. Warner of Elgin, Fri-! day, October 16. Mrs. Warner is a daughter of Mfs. B. Frisby of this city. recklessness, are like criminals who fail to reckon the punishment for their crime. The criminal is not generally deterred by the thought of punishment because he does not expect to get caught. The automobile driver does not give thought to the possi bllitles of causing death or injury be cause he does not expect to have an accident. • That is an optimism absolutely unxupportahle by any facts. Work of Great Speed God. The great god. Speed, at whose altar Americans dizzily worship, has his hand in most accidents if we study underlying- reasons. In this mad jazzy age of ours, when we hustle here and there, with little time for Re opening of LOUIS' PAVILION on the new Northwestern Highway ' Saturday Evening, October 24 DANCING EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT FRANK BARKER and His 8-Piece Orchestra Best of cfco\vds_Best of dance floors Plenty dancing ][ space_ivSiijgm{> latest songs_OrehestrftlnoveUi€fl-_rA <> f good timi» for all __ Be sure and be there.. „ ' • !! LOUIS CERNOCKY, Prop. < Charles Miller and George View of sleeping and eating and virtually no Chicago were week-end guests in the time for thought, what wonder if we Ensign home. |" crash headlong into each other? Miss Florabel Bassett and brother; Lyle, spent the week-end with friends! at Des Plaines. Mrs. William Bacon spent last Friday in the home of her daughter, Mr.;. Harvey Damm, at Kenosha. Mr. and Mrs. Julius Gruenfield and son of Chicago are guests of "the fov-„ mer's mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Gruenfield this week. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Knox attende 1 A series of tests conducted recently by the Automobile Club of Southern California demonstrated that "haste makes waste." Scouting cars were operated on three different routes In Los Angeles. Kach route was first traversed at the highest speed possible with advantage being taken of every opportunity to make time. The same driver went over the same route a second time observing all traffic laws McHenry Ice Cream QtJAUTY AND PURITY come first in the manufacture of oar cream. follows. SERVICE These are the reasons for its popularity. When you say Ice Oream, don't forget to also aay "McHENRY" McHenry Ice Cream Company McHenry, Illinois the foot ball game at Woodstock^Sun-: and conforming to all the rules of safe day- jf • \ drlvillK The ful1 sl'wl trips saved Mrs. Clara Bourl ancTMrs. Julius," total of only , ten minutes In t w« Keg were Chicago callers Monday. j hours of driving or five minutes to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Schr.efer were ; the hour. visiting in Kenosha Tuesday. ! Why does a man speed? There may Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Schaefer callei|be exhilaration, but speed is really on Mrs. Martin at Pleasant Quarry! horn of a desire to get there. Why recently. does a man cut a corner? He may be Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dephorn of Wau-| ,az.v. but cutting corners means' (erkegan spent Saturday afternoon at r«»neousiy) cutting down time. In the the home of Mr .and'Mrs. Jacob Schae-i'lna' analysis, nearly all accidents are fer. . traceable to speed--the mad desire to shorten rime. \N e ca/i't condone a man tor taking •i chance just to shorten time. There are few gambles that are worth while. t The speeding autoist cavorts with traffic police, judges and the morgue to cut down a minute or two on a short he doesn't stop to think that, in speeding to save a minute, he may have to spend two hours telling It to the Judge. JUDGE REYNOLDS WILL DECIDE IN NOVEMBER The question of tt'iether or County Judge C. P. Barnes and At tomey V. S. Lumley will have a retrial on the conspiracy charges in which they were found guilty by a jury in the circuit court a few weeks ago, is now up to Judge Earle D. Reynolds of Rockford. The hearing of the. motion for a ciding the case he wanted to be fair to both sides. He said, "This case is new trial was heard before Judge | ong ^ the most important cases ~R eyno'l d* s in mthee cciiirxcuuiiit. cou*l- t last ^ history of the McHenry' county Wednesday. Judge Barnes argumen s jjar an(j means a whole lot to both the defendants and to the people of Ask us about the Hinged Calling and Business cards which come in a neat leather case. They are the latest in card printing. on the motion for a new trial centered around the instructions given the jury. <? '"7 He stated that a large portion of the defense instructions to the jury were rejected by the court, and secondly because the jury had fixed penalties in the cases, which, according to counsel for the defense, it had no .legal right to.do. Judge Barnes personally pleaded his own case before Judge Reynolds and although he touched some of both defendants, Charles T. Allen pleaded before the court in behalf of V. S. Lumley. Attorney Frank E. Maynard of Rockford, who led the prosecution, assisting State's Attorney A. H. Pou^e' •?« during the trial, argued for the state ^ in the rebuttal. i £ At the conclusion of the state's ar- j V gument, Judge Reynolds stated that he would not give his decision on the! case at this time, but would take the! $ evidence and instructions in the case!V with him to Rockford and would go|« over the whole matter before giving!^ a decision- I • Judge Reynold s stated that in de-' V If Tt f IT If !f v }i T -f IT T IT if T It T T T $ McHenry coun'.y "In giving my decision I want to be sure and make no error. As to the question whether the jury had the right to fir the penalty I am of the opinion that they were wrong in doing so, but I do not think that is a re versible error. However, I am of the opinion that the court could fix the penalty, whether the jury fixed it or not as far as a fine Vas consented." Judge Reynolds stated that there The Dance is on / Jieaven Kelp ny fhatd JAZZ music --swiahing, swaying feet. Everyone lightheorted except the hostess. There would be no cmam tm worry were her floors protected with Devoe Marble Floor Finish Varnish, which lays a fighting film between the floor and dancing feet. A single coat lasts longer •than two coats of ordinary varnish. DEVOE DEVOE Atk *s abomt At Dtow Hm mm* PLm vkfthj yrnrn an pmmt vwr tww-WM* md «mt--*md p*f jtr * JOHN P. BRDA, McHENRY, ILL. feazmg New Treat- Beit for Headaches Ivwytktaig Bm raited" «^erin§ -- chronic, maddertinc then heavenly relici -- bui wm* owii story -- ol praise is too much for PiaJt-n- Talilm, and I do not hesitate to them to persons who sutTer % iih as I did. Thct relieved where else failed. 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' ^ Mayor Wattles will oj>en this new "LL" Recreation Parlor by throwing the first baU down the lx>wlintf alleys. A general invitation is extended to all to be present it this openiag. Langley & Lazzoronia Projpiators