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THE McHENRY PLAINDEALER, THURSDAY, DEO. 15,1 ; Record Piece of Freight It Is said that the largest piece of •eight ever shipped over a railroad tNis a tower used in the manufacture of irasollne. This was delivered at IjOS Angeles from Boston. It Is 86 feet high, weighs nearly 80 tool and Was carried on three flat car*. PtBMANJ SOHAETER Moving and T^ng Distance Hauling Phone 126-R McHenry, Illinois McHENRY GRAVEL Ik ; EXCAVATING OQ. -r :3A. P. Preund, Prop. * ? Building and Excavating of Every Description Estimates Furnished ott; i > ^ Request ; High-grade GraVel Delivered *t any time--large or small Orders given prompt" attention. Phone 654-M-2 McHenry Twice To 1 d e« Interesting Bits of News Takes From the Columns of the Plaindealer Fifty and Twwrty-fivo Years • • Hmk I an, paA«d w M<®enry, all surrounded by the Holiday spirit with nothing to da but think and develop a Christmas and New Year Greeting to you. At the outset, let me take you hack thirty years. DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN: Eggs were 10c p«r dosen and milk blacksmith and wagon shop was 5o a quart, the Wither gave soup Francisco, and bows and away and treated kids | ^ ^ (or businM!!; December, 1877 Our efficient street commissioner has been busy putting down several new crossings the past week. A much needed improvement. Thompson Bros., have taken*posses- ' > • - CU-fashioned and self-risiag Flour Now is the time to'begin to think about some of those wonderful buckwhealt cakes. There is none better than the product of the lidlenr] floor Mills West McHenry, 111. Adt your .grocer for it. | 0. W. KLONTZ, M. D. sf: Physician and Surgeon • p "~ •'. v . - I':?, ' lw (Also treating all diseases of the Eye, ibar, Nose and Throat and doing Refraction) ..fHlrci TTnnrn--8 to 9 a. nu, 2 to 4 and ~ 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays by Appointment " Office at Residence, Waukegan Road. Phone 181 tycHenry, HI. WM. M CARROLL Lawyer Ofice with Kent & Company Every Wednesday PfcoM t McHenry, Dl. bones liver with bologna, the hired girl got $2.00 a week and did the washing. Women didn't play bridge, poker, gamble, powder and paint, they didn't smoke, vote, go without woolen underwear, tango, toddte or dance the Charleston. Men wore whiskers and boots, chewed tobacco, spit on sidewalks And cussed. Beer was 5c a glass and lunch was free. Laborers worked ten hoars per day and never went on a strike. No tips were given waiters and you didn't have to give the hat checker money to get your hat back after you paid three times as much for a meal as it was worth. A coal stove in the parlor, a kerosene hanging lamp in the sitting room, the family horse and phaeton in the stable represented the height of luxury. No one ever heard of microbes or calories, no one h$d ever undergone an operation for appendicitis and glands had absolutely no commercial value. Folks lived to be a good old age and every year walked miles to wish their friends a Merry Christmas. And nbw, my dear Friend, think about today: Everyone rides in automobiles or flies in airplanes, plays golf, poker, bridge, cooncan and shoots craps. Everyone goes nightly to the theatre or movies, listens to Grand Opera on the phonograph or via radio, and per- I forms on the piano with their feet. Woolen underwear is vulgar and the only charms the ladies HIDE are their EARS. Everybody smokes cigarettes and violates the, Volstead Act. ' No one ever goes to bed the same day they get up and everyone blames the HIGH COST of living on the Republicans and after drinking Toilet Water, Hair Tonic, Cologne and lemon extract, make themselves believe they are having one hell of a time. These are the days of suffragetting, profiteering, excess taxes, country clubs, hundred miles an hour living and prohibition, and if you feel in spite of it all as I do, thai life is worth living, it is a real and definite pleasure for me to extend to you that old, old-fashioned but very, very sincere wish: A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR. :V A reader wishes to know which interferes most with driving; having a wife in the back seat or a sweetie around the neck. Having carried both impediments, >re are qualified to answer, but beg the gentleman's leave to do it private^ telephone No. 108-K. Stof fel & Reihansperger Insurance agents for all classes of property in the best companies. WUST McHENRY, ILLINOIS J. W. WORTH PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Audits Systems Income and Inheritance Tax Matters Member of Public Accountants Association of Illinois 20*4 > McHenry, I1L Phone 126-W. Reasonable Bates A. H. SCHAEFER Praying McHENRY, ILLINOIS Our preacher says to me, says he, I want you at our Christmas tree all dressed up as our Santa Claus, you're just the man for that, because you're built just right, except perchance, you'll need a pillow in your pants. I hemmed and hawed, but what's the use, that preacher won't take no excuse. Sary Jane said she'd ^nake a suit and fix me up so I'd look cute, so all that I could was say I'd be on hand on Christmas day. The tree was fixed up pretty nice, with artificial snow and ice, the children all were there, by gum, there wasn't one that stayed to hum. When I come in with my sleigh bells you should of heard the shouts and yells! I made them kids a little speech and told them I'd remembered each with something for each one, by gee, ahanging up there on the tree. Them kids all cheered me with a shout when I began to hand them out the presents for each girl and boy, their faces fairly beamed with Joy. Then all at once, by some mischance, that pillow slipped from out my pants, the feathers flew about, by jing, and covered up most everything. I turned and ran without a word while some fresh kid yells out, "Some bird." I'll be a blamed sight older when I act as Santa Claus again! There will be a glass ball shoot in this village on Christmas and several splendid prizes awarded for the best shots. , For the biggest stock of holiday goods in the county go to O. W. Owens, McHenry. O. Bishop, at his warehouse, opposite Berry & Martin's store, has one of the largest stocks of farming tools to be found in the county. A first class corn sheller for $7. Feed cutters, all sizes, pumps, wheelbarrows, cutty's, bobs and in short everything usually kept in a first class agricultural warehouse. The old and well known residence of H. W. McLean one and a half miles west of this village, was burned to the ground on Thursday night last. The place is now owned by Nick Shafer and has been unoccupied for the past four or five jnonths and consequently the fire was the work of an incendiary. What motive they could have for such an act, unless it be pure cussedness, one can hardly imagine. Elegant sets of Mink, * Seal and Alaska furs. Low prices at P. D. Smith's, near the depot. December, 1902 The three large oak trees which stood "on the corner lot just north of T. J. Walsh's warehouse have beep removed and converted into stove wood. As a result Mr. Walsh's fine residence on the east shows up to much better advantage. Last Thursday evening a sleigh load of young people drove over to Nunda and partook of an oyster supper. The following enjoyed the trip: Misses Pearl Nellis, Etta Simes, Rosa Justen, Rosina Reynolds, Carrie Roth, ermel and Eleanor McGee; Messrs. Harry Fay, Harry Eldredge, Harry Reser, Will Schreiner and Star Brink. At last a club of some pretentions has been organized in McHenry and many prominent business men have interested themselves in the affair, thus insuring stability both financially and socially. The following officers were elected: S. S. Chapell, president; F- C. Going, vice-president; C. G. Frett, treasurer; C. R. Thurlwell, secretary; T. L. Gnot, N. H. Petesch, J. D. Lodtz and George Hanly, board of director^. About thirty-five men have signified their intention to join the club, which will be known as the McHenry Pleasure Club. Mr. E. Hunter called at the Plaindealer office* last week and made known his plans to organize a company for the purpose of manufacturing row boats, sail boats and launches and desired to locate in McHenry if sufficient inducements were offered. He asks that the citizens furnish the site, (about three acres on the river) and the company will do the rest. hsare~h Snre-hsnraice WITH Wm.G. Schreiner Auctioneering OFFICE AT RESIDENCE W»ne M-R McHENRY, ILL There is one thing we can't understand and that is why girl's basketball stockings are not knit shorter and not have to be turned down two or three inches at the top. They would be cheaper and show the naked leg just as well. mmMA ' '• ' O' . - I Henry L. Cowlin, Solicitor State of Illinois, McHenry County, ss. ~ - In the Circuit Court of McHenry County, State of Illinois, January Term, A. D. 1928. Bertha Gruber, Complainant vs Fred Gruber, Defendant In Chancery--Bill for Divorce. Notice is hereby given that the above is the title of the Court and the names of the parties to a suit which is now pending in said Court and that process for said defendants has been issued to the Sheriff of said County returnable to the said Court at its Court Room in the City of Woodstock, County of MicHenry and State of Illinois, on Monday, the 9th day of January, A. D. 1928. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at my office in Woodstock this 6th day of December, A. D. 1927. Charles F. Hayes, Oerk. (Circuit Court Seal) ' 27-8 A Thought for Today ' If a man be endued with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.--Plato. DENTISTS McCHESNEY & BROWN, , (Incorporated) 9b X W» Brown Dr. B. M. Walker •Hablished over 50 years and still doing basinet* at the old stand in First Class Dentistry at Moderate Prices Ciotet to Jerunalem Writing of the architecture of the synagogue, W. G. Tachau says, "The Holy of Holies, originally designed as the space foi the Ark of the Covenant, is always raised above the floor level and is placed against or in the waU that lies nearest to Jerusalem." oar neighbors and Fiioads about as. & &C*r. Clark and Randolph 8L rM - • .m 145 M. Clark St, Chicago . * Dally • to 6, Svnfeys » to 11 PROTECT YOUR CHILD'S HEALTH Through thoughtlessness the slight cough or cold of a child is sometimes neglected and becomes serious. A few doses of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, at small cost, taken at the onset of a cold, brings speedy relief. Be prepared, have a bottle of this safe reliable cough remedy on hand and give promptly when a cough or cold is first detected. Equally effective for grown persons. Ask for Foley's Honey and Tar. Thomas P. Bolger, For BETTER GLASSES BETTER VISION BETTER SERVICE DR. HENRY FREUND Optometrist ' Pries Bldg. McHenry, Illinois. Hours: 7 to 9 p. m. except Saturday; Wednesdays 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. Phones: Office X Residence, McHenry 18? m * JC*' > if 1 ^ ; - . » * •?' ' " '> MONEY ' w . BIGGER and MERRIER CfiRISTffilSf V •, . "v 1 ie fir JOIN OUR - * * ' * We have classes for every ag$ ; • and every purse Deposit a small amount weekly and receive a CHRISTMAS CHECK just when you need money to meet the usual extra expenses incident to the Holidays Fox River Valley State Bank Do Your Christmas Shopping Early and Do It in McHenry , Sister, Brother, Sweetheart and friend Christmas Cards--Gift Wrappings The Agatha Shop has been known as a woman's shop but it i» really a man's shop, too. Call on Friday evening and see i| this isn't true. AN INVITATION TO MEN To visit the AGATHA SHOP We Have Chosen FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 192/ as MEN'S NIGHT and we cordially invite the men of our community to come into onr shop and see the Christmas Gifts which we have arranged for easy selection. This is strictly a man's night. Men clerks will be^Iad to show our wide variety of gifts, suitable for mother and father, wife, daughter, and son. , .. . Jt - - •