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mm Dnring January and February we will offer bargains in Winter Goods that will interest you. Our stock of Winter Suite and Overcoats of this seapon'a cut style and make-up is yet reasonably complete. The price we make yon on them now, is after the holiday kind. We have too many Wool Hose in Men's, Women's and Children 's, are willing to divide pro­ fits with you to unload. Fur Coats, Fur Robes, Horse Blankets, Duck Coats. Caps, Mittens. Wool Jackets. Sweaters,. Flannel Shirts, Etc. Extra large piunes. lo pounds for ONE DOLLAR. Dried Apples, Peaches and Apricots. Flour, Buckwheat, Graham and Corn Meal, Yours for Winter Trade,, i West McHenry, Illinois. JOHN J. MILLER BUY FURNITURE HOW! Every merchant has a few articles left after the holiday trade which he would be glad to dis­ pose of at reduced prices, and such is the case at my store. If you wish any article in furniture now is the time to inves- tigate.^ Call at once and see what I have to offer. $ 5* 5 $ 6 u £ t g i Undertaking and Embalming a | Specialty. B i II Jacob M c H E N R Y , J usten I L L I N O I S . « m _____ fcfr Not Equaled i No one can deny that I carry about the most complete stock of 9helf and heavy hardware in this neck o'woods. In tinware, cut­ lery, etc., you can find every­ thing imaginable at proper prices Gasoline Stoves It will soon be time to consider the oil and gasoline stove prop­ osition. Bear in mind that you can get just what you want at this store at bottom prices. Plumbing and Gas'Fitting This is my specialty, and I guar­ antee every bit of work done. Let me make on estimate on your work. GEO. 50MMERS. The same quotations and slaughter in prices of last week will continue all through this month, and each week additional bargains will be added to the list. This week we will offer in addition to other snaps about 200 pairs of up-to-date Shoes ail out on the tables in plain view at 50c, 75c and $1.00 for choice, while they last. Now. is the time to take advantage of our Cloth­ ing offer,'all going at 50e on the dollar. , S H E R M A N S . C GAVE CHECKS TO EMPLOYES. Hall & Co., Dundee, Pay Seml-An- nuttl Dividends. At the Spurling hotel in Elgin, the C. F. Hall Company of Dundee recently tendered its employes, their invited guests, and representatives of the Dun­ dee and Elgin press, a banquet, after which C. F. Hall, treasurer of the com­ pany presented each of the employes a check covering the amount due as a semi-annual dividend of one per cent of the gross business done by the firm dur­ ing the last six months. On the occasion of a similar gathering six months ago the firm made known its intention of in future conducting its business on'a profit-sharing basis with its employes, and the result, Mr. Hall stated was most satisfactory, the busi­ ness of the last half year having reached $50,000, much the largest in the firm's history, jlhe dividends distributed last evening/amounting to $500, were divid­ ed among twenty employes in the ratio of the salary that each is now receiving. The highest check wns $76.35, the low­ est $2.28. In the course of his remarks, Mr. Hall took occasion to pay a high tribute to the faithfulness and efficiency of the employes, and assured them that it gave the firm much pleasure in this manner to show its appreciation of the faithful service rendered. Several of the employes, Bpeaking for all, expressed their gratitude for the firm's generosity and pleged themselves to renewed efforts to make the coming year's business show a substantial in­ crease over that of last. H & , • I r.~ v I Want Your Patronage! It was mentioned in The Plain- dealer recently that merchants de­ siring your support would ask for it. For many years I have kept a standing invitation in The Plain- dealer, knowing full well that my customers appreciate the "^attention given them. I am still asking for your patronage and offer as nice a line of goods as the market affords in Drugs and Medicines. Julia Jl. Story. • S&-* "Sometime ago my daughter caught a severe cold. She complained of pains in her chest and had a bad cough, I gave her Chamberlain's Cough Remedy according to directions and in two days she was well and able to go to school. I have used this remedy in my family for the past seven years and have nevor known it to fail," says James Prender- grast, merchant, Annato Bay, Jamaica,- West India Islands. The pains in the chest indicated an approaching attack of pneumonia, which in this instance was undoubtedly warded off by Cham­ berlain's Cough Remedy. It counter­ acts any tendency of 9 col4 toward pneumonia. For sale by Jqlia -£• Story and G. W, Resley. School Notes, Iva Mead has left school. Walter Krause has returned to school. A new Latin class baa been started in high school. Elsie Howe has been absent from school thin week. Earl Waite has been absent from school this week. Belle Gallahec was absent from school the latter part or last week. Miss Osborne, of Chicago, visited the three lower rooms on Monday. Celia Kane has entered onr school, being enrolled in the 4th room, Mayme Ibsch and Mark Jensen have returned to school after a short absence- Frank Geske and Ed, Bosaman are absent 1 rorn school on account of sick­ ness. Jens Paaski and Agnes Cleary are ab­ sent from the first room on account of sickness. Thousands Sent Into Exlli. Every year a large number of poor sufferers whose lungs are sore and racked with coughs are urged to go to another climate. But this is costly and nt*t always sure. JBfon't be an exile when- Dr, King's /New Discovery for Consumption will cure yon at home. It's the most infallible medicine for Coughs, Colds, and all Throat and Lang diseases on earth. The ffat (Jose brings relief. Astounding cures remit from persistant use. Trial bottles free at Julia A. Story's. Price 00c and $1.00. Every bottle guaranteed- •Flint Wliat U>« H<7« hd<I Cfirlt* Need, The Chicago Record-Herald mates it a special point to cater to the interests of the younger members of the family by printing every week in its Sunday ibsue a page entitled "Talks with our Boys and Girls"--a page that u always bright with the sort of entertaining illustrated stories that boys and girls enjoy, curious facUt and fancies that apijeal to the imagination of yonng people,condensed items from the world's important news, etc., and also the I "Open Window Clnb" department, which has'been instrumental in the or- ! K"> ligation of thousands of club "chap in" for mutual improvement and en- rtainment. Every issue of the Sun- v edition contains al*o a young peo- A LETTER FROM OREGON (Continued from page one) BURGLARY AT NUNDA. t.' ti­ des'eamon contains aifto ft yc phi's puge full of all that U brightest a u< I most attractive to the boys and | girls. j CASTORIA | For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bmght Bears the was insisted upon1 by onr Secretary of State as the northern limit of the Span­ ish possessions from the Rocky Moun­ tains to the Pacific coast. The bound­ ary line left us in possession of the country of the upper Missouri and of the Columbia. The population of Oregon in 1850 was 18,294 and in 1900 was 1,168.116, an in­ crease of f, 154,822 in 50 years. Farming is the main pursuit of the people, for it was indeed the business that brought them to the country. Oregon raised 0.21 per cent of the total wheat crop of the country in 1850, and produced 0.05 per cent of the total wool clip. The single county of Umatilla, in eastern Oregon, has in recent years produced 1 per cent of the country's wheat. There were in Oregon what the super­ intendent of the census was pleased to term 1164 far ji plantations comprising 132,951 acres of improved lands and 229,951 acres of unimproved lands. The cash value of the farms was placed at $2,849,170. Each farm averaged 372 acres, and was valued with its improve­ ments and machinery at $2,605, The points of advantage the Colum* bia River has over all others on the Paoific coast have been dilated on so many times that we are all more or less familiar with them. Irying M. Scort in the New York Commercial says that if the Nicaragua canal is' not built the great bulk of goods to and from the Orient will be via the Colum­ bia River route in preference to San Francisco, because it is shorter and trains have no hills to climb. That the Columbia River affords a great harbor for all classes of vessels is demonstrated by the fact that they are coming here continually, a few years ago they her­ alded a ship drawing 19 feet as a great ev^ilt, but today a 25 footer is not an uncommon sight. The demand for fresh fruit is a grow­ ing one. Shipments of apples are in- reasing both i" number and in size. The results are better as the packers gain in knowledge and experience. The finest apples in the world are raised a few miles fror^Portland, known as the Hood River valley, the apples that Queen Elizabeth served were from this yalley. Miping is another of the important factors in the wealth of the state, the gold fields lying in eastern Oregon, 14,- 000 square miles principally in Union, Baker and Grant counties an extent of country nearly as large as the combined areas of the states of Mftssachusets, Rhode Island and Connecticut- The St, Helena minihg district lies in a peculiar position, The territory is within the state of Washington, yet is not tributary, to Tacoma, Seattle or Spokane, being more like a suburb of the city of Portland than a region of interest to Washington people. This situation has largely made the territory isolated from the channels of publicity, the newspapers of the Northwest, so that, while other mining regions tribu­ tary to the leading commercial cities of Washington have been given the largest notice, this St. Helens region, lying down near Portland, was, for m»ny years passed by with as much qilenue by the Washington papers as though the region really lay in Oregon- The St. Helens mineral wealth is nearly all copper. Southern Oregon peaches and Hood river apples beat the world. Southern Oregon mines have added millions of dollars in gold to the stores of the world's wealth. The great pine forests of Oregon are so extensive as praotical<- ly to safely defy the ravages qf 4 cen­ tury's cutting of timber before these forests will be denuded of their great wealth of timber- The Willamette Valley, extending softth from Portland for a distance of nearly 200 miles is the garden fepot of tbe coast, (t is rich in agriculture, in fruit production, and the adjacent foothills and mountainous districts are covered with thousands of square miles of the finest timber for general commercial purposes in the world, On December 80 I was out aqd pioked some roses that bloomed out of doors here and were not in » sheltered place either but right ont in tbe open yard. The people back there seem to think that because we call onr winter tbe rainy season that it rains here all the time, well they are very mngb mistaken there for we don't have any more rain than yon do there in the months of March and April, and it never thunder* or lightenings. The rains are fine and light not hard and beating as they are there, and very little wind with them. Well as this in all I can write for Ore­ gon for this time J will close wishing yon the compliments of tbe season, lam yours very truly, GEO. W. HOW* tbUm Coiue With Wh^oD; Carry Away Large I'art of Store's Stock. Elgin Courier: Nunda citizensawoke on Monday Morning to find that one of their leading drygoods stores owned by O. C. Colby had been the scene of a wholesale burglary during the night. The thieves came with a wagon and they took away with them one trunk and five telescopes filled with satins, silks, laces and jewelry, besides five overcoats and other garments. The value of the goods taken is estimated at over $£,000. The village marshal, Andrew Hen­ derson, traced the thieves to a point 10 or 12 miles west of Nunda and then all traces of them was lost. It is now thought the thieves went into hiding Monday 'morning and made their es­ cape the following night. Child Wotth Million)). "My child is worth millions to me," says Mary Bird of Harris burg, Pa.," yet 1 would have lost her by croup had I not purchased a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure." One Minute Cough Cure is sure cure for coughs, croup and throat and lung troubles, An absolute­ ly safe oough cure which acta im­ mediately. The joungest child can take it with entire safety. The little ones like the taste and remember how often it helped them. Every family should l.ave a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure handy. At this seassn especially it may be needed suddenly Julia A, Story, McHenry; 0. W.Besley, West McHenry. Auction Sale. The subscriber having rented his farm will sell at public auction on his farm, three miles south of Solon, one-half mile east of Ringwood and four miles north of McHenry, on Thursday, Jan. 23, 1902, commencing at eleven o'clock, forenoon, the following property: Sixteen choice coarse-wool sheep, 3 good work horses, 2 colts, coming two years old; 2 colts, coming one year old; 75 chickens, 2 lumber wagons, truck wagon, milk wagon, road cart, land roller, lever drag, seeder, pulverizer, corn planter with check row, 2 hog racks, hay rack, hay rake, hay tedder, Rock Island hay loader, McCormick binder, Deering corn harvester, fanning mill, 2 steel-beam plows, 2 corn culti­ vators with spring-tooth attachments, 2 mowers, pair bob sleighs, Fairbanks scales, 30 bushels choice seed potatoes, 200 bushel^ choice seed oats. 8 sets work harness, canvas 16x26 feet, log chain, crow bar, cross-cut saw, iron maul, tank heftter, brush hook, hay fork, 2 do?, grain bags, lot of milk cans, lot of choice seed corn, wire stretcher, shovels, forks and other articles too numerous to mention- Terms of sale: All amounts under $10, cash; over $10 one year's time on good approved notes witb 6 per cent, interest- Two per cent ofT for cash, Free lunch at noop, John Kennebeck. F- J£, Granger. Auctioneer, Ed, P. Granger, Clerk. I 4 A Deep Mystery. It is a mystery why women endure Backache, Headache, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Melancholy, Fainting and DiygySpells when thousands have proved that Electric Bitters will quickly cure such troubles. ' 'I suffered for years with kidney trouble," writes Mrs, Phebe Cherley, of Peterson, Ja., "and a lame back pained me so I could not dress my­ self, but Fiectric Bitters wholly cured me, and, though 78 years old, I now am able to do all my housework." It overcomes Constipation, imjiroyes Ap­ petite, gives perfect health- Only 50c at Jul^a A. Story's drug store. Kfcupityt) Ratfts to Farmers' fnatftpt* at Crystal Lake, 111., Via tbe |?orth-Western Jjine. Excur­ sion tickets will be sold at reduced rates January 23 and 24, limited to return un­ til January 36, inclusive. Apply to agents Chicago & North-Western H'y- Blown Tp Atoms. The old idea that the body some' times needs a powerful, drastic, purga­ tive pill has been exploded; for Dr. King's New Life Pills, which are per­ fectly harmless, gently stimulate liver and bowels to e*pell poisonous matter, cleanse the system and absolutely cure Constipation and Sick Headache. Only gfio at Jnlia A. Story's drug store. f^tnnlan S»t«n to fr'»ru>et*' IqitltRte at Hebron, 111., V}a the North-Western Line. Excur­ sion tickets will be sold at reduced rates January 20, 21 and 22, limited to return until January 28, inclusive. Apply to agents Chicago & North-Western R'y, O A S T O H I 4 . I * The Kind Vou Haw Al*a|fl The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has bed*. - I n u s e t o r o v e r 3 0 y e a r s , h a s b o r n e t h e s i g n a t u r e o f . and has been made under his per* : sonal supervision since its infancy* A^low no one to deceive you in this* All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-grood" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children--Experience against Experiment* What is CASTORIA Qfwtorlft Is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare> forte, Props and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. I* fKmtains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcoti^f instance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worm$ and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wimf Colic* It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation!^ and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep* The Children's Panacea--The Mother's Friend* GENUINE CASTORIA Bears the Signature of ALWAYS Tbe Kind You Have Always Bought In U86 For Over 30 Years. THB etNTWM OOMMNV, TT MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK crrv. RE DEAF? all cases op DEAFNESS OR* HARD HEARING ARE NOW CURABLE ( . by OUT n©w invention. Only those born deaf are incurable. ' , HEAD NOISES CEASE IMMEDIATELY. F. A. WERMAN, OF BALTIMORE, SAYS« BALTIMORE, Md., March 30, 19M. GniNemtn entirely cur«d of deafness, thanks to your treatment, Z will now gfotyOB •. full history of my case, to be nsc-cj at your discretion. . . About fiye years ago my right ear began to sing, and this kept on getting worse, until I Iok •ay hearing in this ear entirely. . . u . I underwent a treatment faf catarrh, for three months, without any success, consulted a num­ ber of physicians, among cithern, the most eminent ear specialist of this city, who told me that Tily an operation ®QH*ld liolp me, and even that only temporarily, that the head noises would .ien cease, but the heqrillff ill ilie affected ear would be lost forever. .* | thtP your odvertiweireut accidentally in a New York paper, and ordered yourtrea^ ment. After I had used it only a few days according to your directions, the noises censed, an<l to-day, after five weeks, my hearing in the diseased ear has been entirely restored. I thank yoa heartily aud beg to remain Very tru^r yom s. A, WERMAN, 730 S. Broadway, Baltimore, Md. 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