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^ Denotes Day of Rest :fn>e word Sabbnth 1b • form of t)w fbrcw word sliabbath, which means rest from labor. EAST SIDE GARAGE v." v General Overhauling ttRES $9 AND UP Special prices on Mobiloil in Qgjflg one 49 «!> "RE DISCOVERING ILLINOIS" I By LESTER B. COLBY, Illinois Chamber of Commerce Farm Loans or 5Vfc%, depending on value of land per acre Prompt Service SAVINOS BANK 07 • KEWANEE Kewanee, Illinois 0. W. KLONTZ, M. D. Physician and Surgeon (Also treating all diseases of the Bye, Ear, Nose and Throat and doing Refraction) Honrs--8 to 9 a. m., 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays by Appointment Office at Residence--Kent Home-- South of City Hall, Waukegan St. Phone 181 McHenry, 111 WM. M. CARROLL Lawyer Office with Kent & Company . Every Wednesday Phone 34 McHenry, HI. Telephone No. 108-R. $ toff el & Reihansperger Kistcrance agents for all classes of property in the best companies. WEST McHENRY, :: ILLINOIS J. W. WORTH PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT •adits Systems Income and Inheritance Tax Matters Member of Public Accountants Association of Illinois 206-J McHenry, HL Phone 126-Wi Reasonable Rates A. H. SCHAEFEB Draying McHENRY, ILLINOIS Inure-In Sure-Insuraace I/' r WITH -Wm.G. Schreiner Auctioneering OFFICE AT RESIDENCE -tfcoae W-R McHENRY. ILL KTJNZ BROTHERS Local and Long Distance. Wanling Phone 204-J McHenry, DL Old Fashioned Buckwheat or Self-Rising Buckwheat We Have Them Both This is the time of year when buckwheat cakes are mighty good. Order today. Manufactured, by McHenrj Flour Mills / Wea". McHenry, III. McOhesney ft Brown r (INCORPORATED) DENTISTS fir.l. W. Brown Dr. B. M. Walker Established over 46 years and . still doing business at the old 1 stead. Pioneers in First Class Deans try at Moderate Price* Ask sour neighbors and fcmids abfwrt vs. S. E. Cor. Olark A Randolph St. 146 *. «ark St., t to ^ ftaHsjs t te That can of "sugar corn" which you bought at the corner grocery and Opened for your dinner this evening had a romance of Illinois sealed between its unromantic covers. You *iay not know it but the packing of sweetcorn, in the central west, was started in Hoopeston almost a half «entury ago. This year was the forty- ninth "pack." You may not know it but Hoopeston is a city of 6,000 that has grown up almost entirely around the canning industry. You may not know it but seventy-five per cent of the machinery used in the entire fruit and vegetable canning industry in the United States is manufactured in Hoopeston. It may surprise you when I tell you that, there is a can manufacturing plant in Hoopeston, making Complete cans out of flat sheet tin, so marvellously equipped that its twelve automatic can-making machines can turn out, all soldered and tested, 3,000 cans in a minute; 180,000 an hour or about 1,500,000 in a working day-- which is 37 carload^.of cans! That's cans. Hoopeston is ty4)Se northern end of Vermillion county, near the Indiana state line. Something in the soil there somehow meant a better, sweeter sweetcorn. That was learned' by the early growers and they bent their backs to the opportunity. The sea^ son's pack in Hoopeston in 1925 was 800,000 cases or 19,200,000 cans. It fell off in 192ft, the crop yielding only about 16,800,000 cans. In this lesser yield this season is something else for use to think about, a story of the battle to give you that can of corn you had for dinner tonight. It is a story of an army of workers fighting against difficult odds to win. For this year the fields were flooded by rains that came in torrents. For days the packers in the district feared that you would not be able to have that can of corn and if you could not have it their crops would only be waste. The canning companies in Hoopeston had plowed and tended during spring and summer about 15,- 0OO acres of sweet corn. Farmers who sell them corn, had grown another 5,000 acres. They were disturbed when, as the picking season came, floods poured into their level acres and the waters stood waist high. But man is hard to beat and the army of pickers waded into the fields. All day they toiled In the cold water and soft mud. When the wagons were loaded it -required six and eight-mule teams to get them out. The animals tugged those wagons to the concrete roads. Twenty-five rubber wheeled tractors came to the rescue and the wagons were made up into five-wagon trains on the hard highways. "Men who risked sickness, who toil ed long hours in distress, concrete roads and gasoline saved the crop-- or the most of it," said one of the packers to me. "It cost us a heap of money but, well--I guess we were saved financially for the loss of the crop would have meant bankruptcy." It was a big job. One company operated 220 wagons to get the corn to the plant. And the packer added this bit of information: "Either one of the two plants here packs more corn yearly than any other plant anywhere." If you look inside your can after the corn is emptied, if the can comes from Hoopeston, you will find something else. For this year, for the first time, the inside of the Hoopeston cans are enameled. That's to give you a prettier corn. Beauty in manufacture has extended even to corn. There is a trace of sulphur in sweet corn. The action of sulphur on tin is chemical. It has meant a slight darkening of the golden-white meat of the corn. It does not hurt it at all, chemists say, but it is not so pretty. So after years of experiment a way has been found to keep the corn free of this slight discoloration. The thin surface of grayish enamel, baked on under intense heat, means that the corn never touches the tin. And something more is done to please the buyer! The great corn-canning industry in Hoopeston began a half century ago in a very small way. First only a farmer or two grew the corn and it was canned in makeshift plants. For years all of the canning equipment was made locally--because there was no place to buy it. Then about forty-five years ago "down east Yankee," Welcome Sprague by name, came to Hoopes ton from Farnham, N. Y. He set out in a small way, to manufacture canning machinery. Today that plant has grown into the great Sprague-Sells Corp. It makes any kind of canning mai chinery wanted and ships all over the world. Special machines are designed' for any purpose. They are made to operate under the "continuous" plan. Belts and chains and moving "sidewalks" keep the cans in steady motion. They never stop during the process. When a can moves into an oven or heating chamber it keeps going, slowly under the heat, and comes out cooked. The speed of the moving parts regulates the time under heat. And today everything imaginable is canned-- except oranges and lemons, perhaps, for no way has been found to can satisfactorily these citrus fruits. I said everything is canned. I meant almost that for even fertilizer, they told me at the plant, is now being canned for certain special purposes. The company was surprised a few months ago when it was asked to design a machine for "filling" tins with fruit cake dough. Here was a new idea. For the making of fruit cakes, in large quantities, with citrus and raisins and nuts and all that goes into fruit cakes, had become an industry of large proportions. The manufacturers set about it. After a time a machine took form that today is filling from forty to fifty fruit cake tins, ready for the bake ovens, per minute. Some products are ute per machine. I mentioned the heavy rains. They told me that the rains this year created another problem. Heavy rains meant heavy moisture content in all field crops. Canning plants were quickly in trouble. Early batches, at canneries all over the country, did not turn out well. Some'of them spoiled. . By experiments it was found that with the added moisture content the materials, no matter what, and whether raised in Ohio or Illinois or Colorado-- for it ha# been a wet year everywhere-- had to be cfoked longer and under more beat. But it was done. I had heard of this in an individual plant or two but I had to go to Hoopeston to find that the problem was general. For only at Hoopeston '•ould I find men who had their fingers on the pulse of the nation's canning industry. This is the center, the capital of Canningdom. The quality, texture and taste, they teil me, as a result is the best ever known. You may ask if this canning industry is really a big business. You may be convinced when I tell you that the Sprague-Sells Corp., of Hoopeston, gave one order for 250 tons of steel-- to go into canning machines. Hoopeston has made its imprint on the canning industry in other ways. Take the case of H. W. Phelps, president of the American Can company with great plants scattered all over the country. He was a Hoopeston boy, got his start here with the Union Can company, of Hoopeston, an unimportant plant in its beginning but a unit of the American Can company now. It is the plant I told about that can make 3,000 complete cans in one minute when going all speed ahead. Mr. Phelps lives in New York but often "comes back home." For fifty years or more certain wags have called Hoopeston the Holy City. Should you go to the Dearborn, street railway station in Chicago today and ask for a ticket to the Holy City the ticket agent without hesitation, probably would hand you a paste board giving passage to Hoopeston. That name was applied in jocularity in the beginning because there has never been a saloon in Hoopeston. Those who laid out the town on prairie land saw to that and it is in the titles and deeds. Hoopeston beat the Rev. Mr. Volstead to it by a lifetime or two. And Hoopeston takes pride in the fact. The salary of the mayor of Hoopeston is fifty cents a year, by ordinance, and the aldermen get twenty-five cents a year. The city has $50,000 in its treasury. At times it has even loaned its surplus money to its own business people at interest. Yes, romance, adventure, prosperity, development, important human events --all these things and many more-- can come out of a tin can. The next time you prod a tin can with a sharp point of a can-opener think of Hoopeston, home of 6,000 people, a city built on tin cans and canned foodstuffs, the Holy City of Vermillion county, Illinois. JOHNSBURG J. B. Hettermann, of the Hettermann Motor Sales, attended a Chevrolet dealers' meeting at the Ball Room Tavern in the Sherman hotel, Chicago, Monday. He also made a business trip to Waukegan Tuesday. S. H. Smith's new modern bungalow is well under construction. The foundation was built by the Artificial Stone company, the carpenter work done by Jacob A. Miller and the plumbing installed by W. J. Donavin Co. The foundation for the new home of Mrs. John Frett is in, the work being done by Frett Bros. The carpenter work is to be done by Pitzen & Freund. , ( Joe King is remodeling his home on his farm adjoining Johnsburg. The work is being done by Pitzen & Freund. John V. Freund has the foundation completed for his new home here. Joe H. Neumann's new house is nearing completion. , Johnsburg seems to be enjoying quite a building boom at the present time. In addition to the above mentioned places, the new modern bungalow of Otto Adams is completed and Mr. and Mrs. Adams are occupying the new home. The carpenter work was done by Mertes & Adams, the plumbing installed by W. J. Donivan & Co., and the mason work by the Matthews-Tonyan Co. Ladies, take a "timely tip." Buy your Zipper boots and four-buckle overshoes now at Erickson's Dept. Store, while the stock is complete. TERRA COTTA T o l d Tales Interesting Bits* of News Taken From the Columns of the Plaindealer Fifty and Twemty-five Years Ago.. November, 1876.v Variety is the spice of life, and that is what makes us think that the political pie is pretty highly flavored. The Rev, Mr. Cooper received for his services the past year, $350 from Ringwood, $325 from McHenry, his moving expenses $14, paid for house rent $10.00 per month, house furnished with bedsteads, chairs ,table and stove. Actual service less ten months and a half. At Solon and Spring Grove he received $17. One month was given him by his charge to visit the Centennial. Signed, JOHN E. BASSETT. William Langham left at our sanctum a beet that beats any beet we have seen this season. It was a monstevin size and weight and would make a meal for three or four families. Millinery and fancy goods at cost at Mrs. C. H. Morey's. A rare chance to get a nice hat or bonnet at one-half the usual price. Don't fail to call and see for yourself. George Schreiner, at his saloon opposite the Parker House, keeps the celebrated Woodstock lager beer. Phillip Hopper is erecting a new blacksmith shop on the lot just north of the Baptist church. He will have it finished and ready for business in a few days. -- November, 1901 The" society of "Merry Workers" are making up a box to send to Orphan's Home at Lake Bluff. Any article of clothing, picture books, story books, games or play things of any kind, anything for the comfort and pleasure of the little ones would be very gratefully received by the society. Articles may be left at Miss Story's drug store or with the president, Lillian Wheeler. At a meeting held in Chicago recently ,the Milk Shippers' Union adopted the following schedule of prices per car for the winter months: November, $1.15; December, $1.15; January, $1.10; February, $1.10; March, $1.10; April, 95 cents. W. C. Evanson's ad reads: Best blue prints at 5 cents a yard. Ladies' wrappers for 89 cents. A good tennis flannel at 5 1-2 cents per pard. Ten bars Queen laundry soap 25 cents. Flour in barrel lots for $4.00. Anton Thelen bought a horse from John Kennebeck for $100. It is a fine animal and there wasn't a prouder man in Johnsburg for several days than Tony. Gilbert Bros., Centerville grocers, advertise coffee at 12 1-2 cents per pound, or 9 pounds for $1.00. E. Lawlus, merchant tailor, advertises tailor-made pants for $3.25 and suits made to order for $9.00 and up. jTHE LINKS REFEREEl ' Imtorprotetiions of tho Rmloe \ of Golf By IN HIS BROWN Editor, The Q+tfer) Frank Spraud of Chicago was a guest at the home of Frank McMillan Sunday. Rev. William A. O'Rourke of McHenry called on friends here Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Engene Leisner of Chicago spent Sunday with the former's sister, Miss Alice Lei$ner„ Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mcjfillan spent Saturday and Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. J. S. Lynott at Wheaton. «•' Mr. and Mrs. M. Knox and Miss Vera Doherty spent Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Green in Woodstock. The teacher and the pupils of the Terra Cotta school entertained the mothers and several friends at a delightful Hallowe'en party Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. M. Knox visited relatives in Sycamore Monday. Mrs. John Long and daughter, Edith, and Mrs. Edward Malone of Elgin called on Mrs. M. Knox Thursday. ' Raymond J. Riley is spending a couple of weeks in the east. Ladies, take a "timely tip." Buy your Zipper boots and four-buckle overshoes now at Erickson's Dept. What it the_ correct procedure in a case like the following f A player drives into the rough, where the grass is very thick and high. After a very casual search, he decides he von't he able to find the ball, so goes bach and plays another. Just as he is about to play his second stroke with the second ball, his caddie finds the first. Can he then play out the hole with the first ball, disregarding the strokes played with the second? This question Involves a point in the rules that frequently causes misunderstanding. The rules allow a player five minutes to look for a ball that Is lost. Not only that, he Is obligated, to make a flve-mlnute search before giving the ball up as lost, since there may be occasions when It would be to the player's advantage to give the ball up as lost and play another.' In other words, his opponent has the right to Insist that the full five minutes be spent in looking for the ball before it lis given up as lost. In tournament play tt Is customary to do this, but in friendly matches, a player frequently decides to give it up before looking Ave minutes. In that case, It must be assumed that his opponent agrees to cutting the limit of th* search, and the player thus definitely considers the ball out of play. Hence when he pats another ball te play, he must continue with It, and le not entitled to go back and resume play with the first ball, even though It be found within five minutes from the time ths search for it was bego*. CO by the B«U ByndtMU, Ike.) *- Disliked Color of Groom Parnell, the famous Irish pblitician, had a deep-rooted dislike for green. He suffered agonies if compelled to speak in a hall draped with green. Sir Edward Burne-Jones, the celebrated painty, also believed green hb> f Cruelty "I'll never speak to Olga again. She is mean! I bought a hat Just like hers and then she went0 and bought a new one and gave the other to her cookl" Only a Hope 'TThat pretty women aren't brtgtit isn't Kt> much a com Kt ton us a hope.-- We've got nine criminal lawyers in Pea Ridge, but it'd be hard to prove it on .them. "I jmade yon what you are!" declared Mrs. Tatters, in the -midst of a family jar. "I reckon so," agreed Ragson Tatters of Pea Ridge. "And looking the result up one side and down tuther I'm ofeleeged to say that you didn't make much.*! - Ragson Tatters (excitedly): Hello! Hello! I want to speak to my wife. Operator: Nnmber, please. Ragson (indignantly): Ntainber? I ain't got but one. "Well, how are things going here nowadays?" asked a recently arrived guest. "Lively, sir! Lively!" replied the landlord of the Pea Ridge hotel. "Why, three divorces were granted just this week to gents whose wives danced the Charleston!" The restaurant man at Pea Ridge is thinking about moving his business to the depot so he can charge doable price for everything. Did any of your ancestors do things to cause posterity to. remember them?" asked the city woman. '"I reckon they did," replied old Gagpon Tatters. "My grandfather put mortgages on this place that ain't paid off yet." Her eyes were as blue as a Moon roadster. She had all the grace and poise of a Cadillac, and she seemed to float along like a Rolls-Royce. Her teeth were as even as the front wheels of a Chrysler, and her neck was as slender as the lines of a Packard straight eight. But boy!--she was faster than a Dusenburg and made more noise about it than a Ford. A fellow who goes up in the air when there's a kick ought to be a football My neighbor says all will be lofft if we should have an early frost. Whene'er the nights begin to chill he's out examining each hill to see how ripe his corn has got and whether it will spoil or not if we should have a right good freeze aw:omin' on the northern breeze. When mercury begins to drop you ought to see that fellow hop, he stands around and shivers, B-r-r-r, and glares at the thermometer, each day he's gettin' blue and bluer a-frettin' 'bout the temp'rature. The weather's a peculiar thing, and if it's wet and cold, by jing, there ain't a thing that we can do but just to wait till it gits through. We can't git rain in time of drouth, bg gum, by shootin' off our mouth; no matter how much we may fret we can't bring sunshine when its wet. The wind may blow our corn down flat but how can worryin' stop that? No hail storm ever failed to come because we cussed and stewed, by gum. The only thing to do, gee whiz, is just take weather as it is; in time of frost or drouth or flood I just sit here and chew my cud. I've got too old to worry now, I guess IH git along somehow! After tall girls, after short, night and day the men cavort. After fat and thin they-chase, follow ankles, follow face. That's what seeing fellers do. And ti»e Mind men marry, too. . Men go chasing up and down, Tbout the village and the town, searching for a pretty face--and of course enjoy the chase. But when they see it full of paint they fade tfWay into a faint. A clever young Illinois lawyer was defending a man accused of housebreaking. "Your honor, I submit that my client did not break into the house at all. He found the parlor window open, inserted his arm and removed a few trifling articles. Now my client's arm is not himself, and I fail to see how you can punish him for an offense committed only by one of his limbs." "That argument," said the judge, "is very well put. Following it logically, I sentence the defendant's arm to one year's imprisonment. He can accompany it or not, just as he chooses.*: The prisoner calmly unscrewed hif? pork arm and leaving it on the tablfr walked out. a*' t UMERALD PAR& Wr. and Mrs. William Hoeft enter* tained the following in their cottage over the week-end: Mr. and Mrs. Bellan, Mrs. Mayme Wakefield ana Adolph Hoeft, all of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Carlson, Pre4 Barnes and G. Farnure of Melros* Park spent the week-end in the Carl>- son summer cottage. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schmidt spent the week-end in their cottage here. Hugh Kirk of Chicago and Dan anfr Paul Haxton of Park Ridge spent thgt, * week-end in their grandfather's wtl* tage. Miss Anna Malefyt of Chicago an4 Sv nephews, Edward and Adrian Amitii#;t> s p e n t the week-end in Miss M a l e f y t * ' i cottage. Mr. and Mrs, A. Lessard and familf'- f of LaGrange spent the week-end their cottage. ii |- Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sutton and soir *' and Mr. and Mrs. M. A. 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