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VOLUME XXV, MCHENRY, ILLINOIS! THURSDAY, APRIL 5. 190^. NUMBER 40. iiMMi GENERAL COUNTY NEWS. p#s INFORMATION GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. * '* Some of the i; Happenings l>* our County In Condensed Form for Busy People-- Exchange Gleanings. Jasen Miller died at his home south of j^oodstoek Friday, March 86; aged 72 * years.' \ Quite a number of Woodstock sports-; ?f|n ® have gone to the river, where ducks! e said to be quite numerous. X Judge and Mrs. E. T. Glennon, of >;'|phicago, were guests of Woodstock rel­ atives and friends over Sunday. John Kaiser, an old resident Of Mc- Henry county, died at his home west of Woodstock Saturday, March 81, aged 62 • »v-:' ,-<f <• . . ears. , .. >i \, .• . Mr. and Mrs. f &." Perlet, of West flartland, entertained a number of friends Tuesday evening in honor of Mr. I'erlet's 56th birthday. The Thos. Walker farm of 120 acres' Sin Co. Line was sold March 22 t< v- Herman Kruth, of White Oaks, the * jprice paid being $65 per acre. yj't Chas. R. Guthrie, who opened a general store at Big Foot last November, " ;||as closed the same and returned to lite v, ̂ former home at Guthrie, Wis. Lyman Pierce, last week purchased the Swan or Dennison farm, consisting , of 110 acres north-east of Hebron. The -J land was owned by J. M. Hoffman, of ^Chicago. / Dr. A. M. Wray returned to Rich- / Xnond Tuesday evening, having ,com- | pie ted his studies at the Chicago Vet - 1 erinary College, and is now a full \HgdgedV. S. - ; Wm. Steffen, who lives on A. B.. Qun- ; "ham's farm in Coral, has purchased the .^.Jfonas M. Frink farm, in the same town- Ship. Mr. Steffen will not move on to . . the farm until next year. f The city caucus was held in the city 4 hall, Woodstock, last Saturday evening, ,'»nd resulted in C. W. Hill and A. -.1 ,-pwight Osborn being - nominated in the ^spouth ward and A. J. Cannon and Fred rSv*'-- fechuett in the north ward. m The following republican town officers Were elected in Woodstock: Theodore Hamer, town clerk; Charles D. Judd, Assessor; M. P. Schenck, collector; R. P. Cohant, highway commissioner; Fred B. McConnell, 'school trustee. M. Zimpleman and Frank Weaver, of '^farengo, have invested in a ranch of .1,300 acres in southern California, which ;|hey will devote to growing alfalfa. •Both gentlemen will soon leave for Cali­ fornia to be permanent resident?. The remains of Mrs. Cynthia Sampson -/'Were taken to Richmond from Lake Ge­ neva for burial, Friday, March 22. Tlklrs. Sampson was for many years a -president of McHenry County, having *g|ettlecf u® a farm near Richmond in ",4845. enry Boehmer & Co., of the W< stock city creamery, have made con tracts with their patrons for the next seven months at 87 cents per hundred. They are receiving 9,000 pounds of^milk^ daily/ and more farmers have promised ring their milk. Daniel Collins, an early settler in the county, died at his home about three miles north of Marengo, on Friday, rch.231, aged eighty-two ygarsV He . 4 had been nearly blind for a number of "jrears, and in feeble health for some •r : 'time. He was a citizen of this county . ^ for about fifty years. Mrs. Mary Adelia Duvon, wife of Louis V. DuVon, 'died in Marengo Tues- iiay evening at 7:30, March 27, 1900, £t$j|rfter many months of suffering, aged 44 ~^^years, 7 months and 26 days. Surviving lier are the husband and three children, a son and two daughters. Statement of the Spring Grove Creamery association for the month of February: Pounds of milk received, 201,186; pounds of butter made, 9,216; money received, f2,224.01; average test, 4; yield, 4.68; cost of making, 2.2 cents; price received per pound for butter, ,24.13 cents. Two 'bus loads of Royal Neighbors vfroui Dundee and Carpentersville went "y'^fco Algonquin, Wednesday evening, VMarch 28, in response to an invitation, •^•tN.and were royally entertained by the yL'Neighbors of Lady Washington camp of ; that place, ftotf reporfc a most enjoy- SI ffi&X the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jacob smoothly. The council starts out with a* good membership and under very auspicious circumstances. ' , Richmond Creamery Co., paid their patrons 98.99 cents per hundred for February milk. The amount of milk received during the month was 207,365 pounds; 9.518 pounds butter made; money received, $2,295.23; average price received for butter, 24.12 cents; average yield, 4.58; average oil test, &7IN qeiit of manufacturing, 2$ cents. BRIEF"NQTE&; *7 "*V-*# *' "i y Refardlmg What is Going on In the Worlilf Around. LOOK INTO THIS MAnER FEW SETTER PLACES THAN THIS VILLAGE FOR FACTORIES. The funeral services over the le nains of Mrs. Frances Stupfel, who died at Schwamb, of Woodstock, last week Si Wednesday, were held from St. Mary 's Catholic church on Friday morning, %c r.; Rev. Father Quinn officiating, and inter­ ment took place in Calvary cemetery. The institution'of a new Council of the Royal Arcanum in Marengo, oc- 'iM curred March 21 in the Knights of the Globe Hall. There were a number of |§£t visiting brethren from Belvidere and ifoicago m&evetjMpv gawpd, <# very 'ft#- I Dr. F, M. Stewart, a distinguished- looking old man, who mig*it easily be taken for a United States senator, was arrested in Chicago Monday, on com­ plaint of Mitt Nolan, of Henderson, Ky., who says he was lured into the physician's office in the Lakeside build­ ing, Adams and Clark streets, by a bunco "steerer" and. robbed of $60. i Archbishop Feehan owns the neck­ cloth worn by Louis XVI, of France, on his way to execution. Several hundred Jews from all partt of Chicago contributed yesterday to a fund which will be sent to relieve the victims of famine in Russia, / The University, of Chicago, is tfce only legitimate "get-rich-quick" con­ cern, and Dr. Harper is its prophet" In an office building in Chicago a 215- pound janitor is called "Cherub" and an elevator boy whose weight is 105 ib known as "Ox." The fifth tier of cells,in the Oook county jail has been named "Bankers' Row" by the 100 or more prisoners con­ fined there. E. S. ]Dreyer and Robert Berger occupy cell 23, and George L. Magill is in a cell near by. With th« incarceration of Mr. Berger the entiri- former banking firm of £. S. Dreyer & Co., is now in jail. Dr. St. George Mivart, former lect­ urer on zoology at St. Mary's hospital Medical school and professor of biology at the University of Luvain, long re­ cognized as the leading scientist with­ in the Roman Catholio church in England, is dead. The temperance people of Aurora have undertaken to raise $35,000 in one year for the city's treasury if the voters at the spring election this year will vote no license. The sum named represents the amount of the liquor license, and the certainty of securing it from licen­ ses has hitherto effectually counteracted the temperance sentiment. School teachers' salaries in Berliii vary from $563 to $810 a year; in Vienna, $500 to $625; in Paris, $850 and an in crease of one-tenth every three years. It now costs rich persons who die in Great Britain almost $90,000,000 per an­ num to pay their final taxes, according to the New York Evening Post. The Illinois supreme court met Tues­ day. Judge Phillips will not be resent. Judge Wilkin is not expected, his is the last term to be presided over by Judge Cartwright, who will be succeeded in June by Justice Boggs. George Weimer, former supervisor of Lemont, was arraigned before Judge. Smith, accused of the embezzlement of $10,000 belonging to the township, t It was asserted that he collected the money in 1897 and made no record of it in the books kept for that purpose. The ice in the upper Ytikon shows in­ dications of breaking up, making navi­ gation possible this spring six weeks earlier than in any previous season within the memory of Alaska pioneers. This is the news brought by the steamer City of Seattle, which arrived Sunday. Captain Charles D. Sigsbee, United States navy, who commanded the battle­ ship Maine, and during the war with Spain commanded the auxiliary cruiser St Paul, will be the guest of the city of St, Paul for the remainder Of the #eek. The steamer Newport, Capt. Chester, enroute from Seattle to JtJnalaska, ran on a reef in Tongass Narrows March 26, sustaining injuries to her hull that. will necessitate the return of the vess^l to Seattle for repairs. < Two hundred thousand dollars will be put into a box factory and car shops which the Anglo-American Packing company will erect beside its big pack­ inghouses at the stock-yards in Chicago. Work of construction will begin May 1. William Marl ton, shipbuilder at Goderich, Ont., has under, construction three tugs for delivery at the opening of navigation. One for N. Dyment of Barrie, to be uped for towing on the Georgian bay; one for the Dominion Fish company, and the other |or Purvis Bros, of Gore Bay, Qrit. Fred L. BonQls, one of the Denver editors shot by an attorney a few months ago, was in Chicago this week undergoing an X-ray operation to locate the bullet. * Moving pictures, illustrative of Pope Labor Troubles Compel Manufacturers to Look to the Country for Locfttions-- Sic Henry Want* Them. / - iW-- / St. Charles has secured the ? <5able Piano Co., to locate in that city. Little pnoney was required but the business men of St. Charles were determined to secure a manufacturing establishment to number among their enterprises (Last fall an associationwM"rorraed in McHenry to use all honorable means to get manufacturers to locate here. Several meetings were held, officers elected, by-laws and a constitution was adopted and all seemed in a fair way to get a plant of some ed t̂ in this H ° GuTler "of 11 president, Frit ^The Gail Borden Condensing Company * -- -- nt representatives here to look over the ground and report. As far as we were able to learn they were very (J favorably impressed with the jjn$look, "and so reported. Have they decided locate elsewhere or have they still this village under consideration! Our village needs factories. They .jive employment to our unemployed :-a,nd increase the poor man's house and lot as well as help the merchants and everybody else. ' „ " . Just now there is an unusual number jf Chicago manufacturers looking to­ ward the country for location owing to the labor troubles which have been in­ terfering with the prosperity of their business and which are at present worse than ever before with no immediate prospect of any long-continued relief. The country within a hundred miles about Chicago is the best for most kinds >f manufacturing in the United States, [t will, before many years, contain such jreat manufacturing towns and cities is surround Boston, for this is the more central point for obtaining raw material ind distributing finished products, and uere can be obtained steam coal in abundance. Located on the banks of the beauti­ ful Fox River, only fifty miles from Chicago on a railroad that will do most anything in reason to help shippers, with two telephone systems, water works, low taxes, complete freedom from labor troubles, itfe-eertain' nearly all kinds of manufacturers can pro­ duce an cheaply here as elsewhere. We would suggest that the president of the association call a meeting at an early date and take steps toward trying to get some sort of a manufacturing establishment. McHenry people should work together for the general welfare of this village. If you do not approve, in all particulars, some project somebody has mentioned, don't turn your back on it, refuse to attend a meeting, and plod along in the old rut, wrapping up a pound of tea, cutting a slice of steak, selling a yard or two of ribbon, making out some little legal document for your client, or attending to these little things that surely can be put aside for an hour while you gather with your fellow business man and fellow citizen and encourage a pffblic enterprise by your presence. Besides you may learn something--for you do not yet know It all--that may result in a great advantage to yos|^and your village. . Anions*some of the enterprise^ that are considering locations afad have already decided to locate are the follow­ ing- A Chicago industry employing 200 hands is looking toward Belvidere, and may locate there. Aurora Herald-Express: The mayor of Aurora has received a communica­ tion from a Chicago shoe firm which de­ sires to secure some location near Chi­ cago to which they can remove their factory. Understanding that this city would like to secure any concern look­ ing for a good location, the firm writes here asking what inducements this city will give if the company will locate its factory here. The reason for the move is the constant annoyance of labor agi­ tation in Chicago and the greater con­ veniences of the smaller city. The con­ cern employs about oue hundred hands has a pay roll of from $700 to $1,000 weekly. The work of the firm *equir a floor space of from 20.000 to 30,Oi square feet, ^hs mayor turned communication over to the new im provement,-association to; take action upon. ?*'* ' , \ v ;; * Tb# copperas factory now being con­ structed in connection with the Wire £&d Steel plant, at DeKalb, will be an extensive addition to DeKalb's factory buildings and will employ a large addi­ tional force. Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling, of Hart­ ford, Conn., was a guest of William Grote in Elgin on Tuesday. Mr. Gat- •ntwued op page eight) ' „H'V •**' u • HERE AND THERE. A MlmeUaneons Afjrregatfon of Informa­ tion Interesting to All* Wfc have two indications that spring s here, viz: The wild geese are flying orth and the bell of the scissor grinder heard on our streets. ' The horse sale at Dundee, March 28 proved very successful. Some forty- One horses were sold mostly to Chicago buyers.1 Some sold as high as $100 and $125. At Oregon, III., the Masons and Odd Fellows are figuring on building a Fraternity block th1$f season. The Woodmen also have an option on a Site and may build. At a meeting of the directors of the Elgin Butter Company recently Geo. DeKalb, was elected Fritz, of Elgin, secretary, fend G. £. Hawthorne, of Elgin, treas­ urer. v I Rev. J. C. Stougliton, who will be re­ membered by old resident! of North­ ern Illinois, particularly those of the Rock River Conference and the Eighth Congressional District, died on .Mon­ day at Aurora. Will Hatcher has the finest big drove of beef cattle ever in DeKalb county. He brought them last fall from Utah, and they have since been fatting at his Sheds in Sycamore. The drove consists of 70 Herefords. Almost an unprecedented fact in the history of Dekalb county was that from New Somonauk. Their tax books were turned in on Saturday last with every dollar of tax--personal, real es­ tate and dog tax--paid. During the two years ending March I, 1898, Aurora's pauper bills were $33,409; Elgin's $24,779, a difference of $8,530. During the two years following Aurora spent $20,054, a decrease of $13,- 385, and Elgin $23,002, decrease $1,777. A man boirnd for Arlington Heights veas ejected from the Harvard train at Mt. Prospect Tuesday evening because he wouldn't pay his fate. He engaged Mr. Hertel to convey him the remain­ der of his journey by carriage. Better feeep sober and not try to bluff the conductor in future, V Eighteen hundred JPtiinkards Mth |heir stock, etc., passed through Grays- iake March 28,"tttid business ^s Readily increasing cm the W. C. R., Station Ugent Higley having to work almost day and night for the past two weeks. Grayslake is greatly in need of a night operator or a helper. ' The Capron Brick and Tile Co., ex­ pect to begin operations as soon as the frost is out. The stockholders will hold a meeting the last of this week to formulate plans for the season. Already large orders are being received for the product of the plant and they expect to do a good business this summer. Dr. D. K. Pearson, the Hinsdale Philanthropist will reach his eightieth birthday on the 14th day of next month. Steps are being taken to commemorate the occasion. To have lived four score years is of itself noteworthy. To have \vith|p|lhat limit cleared four million honorably and fairly, and then to have arranged to give, every dollar of it away in a manner unquestionably judicious and effective, is something pimply unparalled. If a newspaper man desires .to know how generally his effusions are read let him print something that is regarded as objectionable to persons who never take his paper nor pay him a cent. He will wonder how they knew these things were in the paper, but will wonder in vain. There is evideqtTy a vast amount of sponging done. It might be added that he may say nice things about a man for ten years, without a word from him, but make an uncompliment­ ary notice of one of his wife's aunt's Second cousins and he will coipe in with a club to have the slander corrected. The merchant who orders his adver­ tisement in the paper when he feels good and orders it out when business is dull or his mood changes tviII never reap the full/f)eneirr from his expenditure. It is th*/steady, never miss, wet or dry, hot or cold, in season and out of season ertising that wins tradaand holds it. Regularity and persisteircy in the use of printer's ink will surely win if there only a business behind it. Remem­ ber1 tha state of the weather or the con­ dition of a man's liver is not a safe barometer by which to regulate adver­ tising expenditure or enterprise.--Ex. Edward Hickox, who died Thursday at the Rock Island Infirmary, was the oldest Free Mason in Illinois. He was one of the early settlers of northern Ill­ inois and would have been 99 years of age in April, had he lived. He was a.; member of a drum corps in the war of the rebellion. He lived for a number of years in Iowa as a Baptist minister. In later years he dropped his membership in the Masonic order, and, having di­ vided his property among children, who afterwards refused to take care of him he was taken to the county infirmary, but later was reinstated in the Erie lodge of Whiteside county, with the understanding that a general appeal was to be made for him to all the lodges of the state. He passed away before the appeal could be sent out. t A serious accident occured early last Sunday morning on the Illinois Central six miles east of South Elmhurst, result­ ing in the injury of twenty-two men, none being killed outright. Dr. Bates, who is the local surgeon of the Illinois Central was called by telephone at 6 o'clock a. m. and taken to the scene by a special train from South Elmhurst. The collision was caused by a broken coupling pin which allowed the rear cars to go back down grade, striking the second section and throwing a coach containing 19 stockmen and the caboose with the trainmen down an embank­ ment 55 feet high. The reck immediate­ ly took fire and it was with great difficulty that the injured men were rescued from the flames. It is feared some of the injured cannot lite. * 1 Church Noten. •• JUST FOR TODAY. v- Lord, for tomorrow and Its need*, f | I do not pray; Keep me, my God from stain of nifi, •V Jostfor today. , Let tUe no wronj? or Idlo word , Unthinking say; r Set thou a seal upon my lips, Just for today. Let me both diligently work And duly pray; Let me be kind in word and deed, Jtist for today. Let me In season. Lord, btt grave, - In season gay; . Let mobe faithful to thy fraee» Just for today. In pain and sorrow's cleatisingiliftii, Brief be my stay: Oh, bid me if today I die, ' AS Come home today. 8o for tomorrow and its needs, I do not pray. But keep me, guide me. love me Lord, Just for today. The Willing Workers will meet with Mrs. John I. Story Thursday afternoon, April 12. members are cordially invited. The Ladies* Aid Society of the M. E. church will meet with Mrs. R. Sher­ burne, pn Friday of this week, at two o'clock: All are invited. WHAT WILL CHRISTIAN AMEKIGA DO FOR STAKVTNG INDIA? Shall America say to India that re­ ligion and charity are not related? While 50 millions of human beings are' perishing. They are not mere animals but human beings. The same blood that flowed from the wounded side of the world's Christ flowed for them as much as for us. The most pitiful cry, that ever escaped human life is rising' from these dying for want of food. Two cents a day will support a life, $1.00 will save a life for two months, $10.00 will save five for four months. "He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord: »And that which he hath given will he pay him again." Prov. 19:17. Rev. W. L. Whipple has received amounts for this fund and will gladly receive any others for this good work. Let us help lest they perish be­ fore relief reaches them. W. L. WfilPPLE.' Preparations are being made for Eayfer exercises to be held in the M. E. church, of Ringwood, Easter Sunday. The exercises will be given in the after­ noon. Delinquent Tax. The delinquent tax is quite small in McHenry county this year, being con­ siderably less than $8,000 out of a total tax levy of over $190,000. The follow­ ing table will be of interest to readers of The Plaindealer: Town Riley.1. Marengo-- Dunham. Chemung.. Alden ,.>V Ha it land... ..*t Seneca Coral -- Grafton. Dorr Greenwot»d. ... Hebron .... Richmond Burton McHenry N u n d a . . . Algonquin Total Tax. Delinquent .$ 6742 06 $ 234 45 . 20425 78 910 47 . 5364 54 7914 . 23344 W 186 92 . 7038 72 133 99 . 5787 45 317 00 . 750803 304 64 . 8141 87 123 94 . 11292 20 398 59 . 27205166 1348 23 . 6985® • 550 til . 9157 83 84174 . 7890 41 95 54 2105 22 197 . 1496334 824 47 . 12400 64 913 34 . 14806 80 • t 1022 64 An Enterprising; Fiwlfc. / Gilbert Bros, are making many JUnj torovements in their stqre^ffanticipation uf a heavy"spring trade whiclHs sure to fall to the hit of this enterprising firm. Their soda fohntain will be in running order by Easter Sunday aild all lovt r. of this luscious beverage can indulge to their heart's, content. f Family Dinner. ItgC^H. C. Smith was sixty-three years old Sunday, April 1. A dinner was given at the family residence in honor of the event, at which only the immediate members of the family were Advertise in the Plaindealer. (Co»aaaed on ANOTHER ONE IS CALLED TO MEET THE ONES WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE. Mrs. W. J. Cuttredge Died at Her Home in Lake Geneva, Wis., Tuesday, April 3- Formerly Resided Here. s After the toil and trouble, tbeife a rest; After the weary Conflict,peace on tbegavtour's breast; • After the care and sorrow, the- glory of tight and love; After the wilderness Journey, the Father's bright home above. ; ,"1 After the pain and^stcknessr ib* totus arefcll wiped a^ay; After the flowers aye &&there$ no more of earth's decay; t Attar the deep heart sorrow, an end of every strife; After the daily crosses,a glorious crown of life ^ McHenry was plunged into glojnr and sorrow Wednesday when a message 1 telling of the death of Mrs. W. J. Cutt- ridg^ofJLake.Geneva, was receive^ Maggie Clark wiw th^ifloptSTdaugh- i |er of Mrs. L. A. Clark, for many years ja prominent resident of McHenry^ and who h&s preceded heir daughter to the great beyond by . only a few shcflr| months. All of the old residents of our village remember Maggie Clark as a little babe» who grew into a sweet and lovable child, developing as she grew to woman­ hood, a character so beautiful and noble that she made a place, never to he effaced, in the hearts of all who knew her. She is spoken of as possessing the qualifications of mind and manner that go to make up the ideal in woman. Gentle, loving and affectionate to all, she was ever loyal to her friends and in later years nothing gave her so mudh pleasure as to renew their acquaintance. She was for many years a member of the Universalist choir and was a zealous worker in both church and Sunday school. In social matters die had equals and none excelled her. Some thirteen years ago she was united in marriage with W. J. Cutt- redge at Woodstock, 111., and shortly after the young couple, in company with Mrs. Clark, took up their residence in Lake Geneva which place has since been their home. Having devoted herself to the care of her mother during her long and sever* illness her health became impaired, but she bore up bravely until last Thurs­ day when she fell a victim to pneu­ monia. Owing to her frail condition she was not able to conquer the dre«d disease and Tuesday morning of this week her spirit took its flight. She child mot day) WlHB^^^ofieo îock from the family residence Lake Geneva. ^ Candidate)* dominated. : ;.:vy'y7f'licHenry, 111.., March 81, IfOOL Two o'clock p. m. Caucus met pe#- •' suant to a call at the village hall. < ' Call read by John Stoffel,, village clerk. v On motion duly seconded J. Van- ^ Slyke was elected chairman of ' caucus by acclamation. *•; 'fV. On motion duly seconded W. A. Cristy was elected secretary of the caucus by \ acclamation. v ^ On motion of George Curtis second|& ^ by Oliver W. Owen, Simon Stoffel was placed in nomination for president ^of the village trustees. There being no / other nominations for said office and\^ e motion to that effect, Simon Stoffel w*s declared the unanimous nominee of the caucus of the said office by acclama­ tion. i v : On motion of F. K. Granger dtiljr seconded, John Stoffel was declared twr * unanimous nominee of the caucus by acclamation for the office of village clerk. f ' • On motion duly seconded, Peter Jf. Freund, Sherman S. Chapell and Anton Engeln were declared the unanimous nominees of the caucus, for the office of trustees of the village. ; * On motion of H. C. Mead seconded byA John I. Story, the chairman and secre­ tary of the caucus were empowered ^ fill all vacancies that might occur CMS , 1 said ticket before election. On motion duly seconded the caucus t was adjourned. * W. A. CRISTY, J. VANSLYKE, Secretary. Chairman. tf Who Cetelt? Say what you may, but it is the firms who advertise that do the bulk of the business. Take it anywhere and the rule is that the stores of advertisers have a more prosperous air; there is an atmosphere of thrift about them the others do not possess. There never was, and never y^ill be, a business that will grow to any magnitude without its owners are liberal advertisers. There isn't a single oue of the wealthy merch­ ants in the country but says that his success has been largely due & adver* tising. ;1r , V