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VOLUME XXXI. McffENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, APRIL 19,1906. NUMBER 43 aSB if A PERSONAL NATURE. WHOM WE ENTERTAIN WHERE WE GO. «ND ScHenr; KnterUliii » I"|* ClmfMjr •* f Visitor* Daring the Week--Whom Thty Entertain. -V-/ B Henry Heimer Chicagoed laat Friday. ' W. F. Bolts spent Monday in Chicago ? Milton Out «M a Chicago "visitor Mon- $»y- ' • W, F. Holt* spent Th^sday teak in Chicago. * J. D. Lodtz was a windy city visitor lilonday. ( ^ ' C. H. Parks was a Nufda visitor C^fjnesday. ?•••'.• > Will Whiting was a Chicago visitor /Tuesday. ' : ' F. G. Spnrliag spent Friday in the stnoky city. . •• • . John P. Smith wqt liChicago visitor last Friday. ; Mrs. R. G. Chamberlin was a Chiofwo visitor Monday. John Reilly of Woodstock was a Sun- '"r dfty visitor here. Mrs. A. C. Matthews was a Dnndee f'- ; ^8itor Tuesday. Chas. W. Peters of Chicago WAS at r* the Bay Sunday. \ ; - Will Thurlwell, Jr., spent Friday last •*;„ .|b the great city. |V v. s. Lumley wasover from the Ootfn- | '* % seat Tuesday. Miss Florence Howe wis a reOent "Richmond visitor. .k/vy-F. A. Bohlander attended to business .V. In Chicago Tuesday. v'f;M. L. Van Natta and family were >' ' recent Nunda visitors. • Judge Trade of Chicago S|»eftt fries- ; v ^y at Howell's Villas. ; - 'VE. W. Howe boarded the Chicago train Saturday morning. Miss Lillie H«imer spent Tuesday Woodstock friends. Ed. Sutton and John Knox Thursday last in Chicago. tivC. S. Howard and son, Gilbert, were (Qbieago visitors Tuesday. Miss Marie Wagester was a business ' Visitor in Chicago Monday. V i Henry Antholz of Wheaton spent Sunday with relatives here. . Fred Rossow of Dundee was a busi- Wm*» visitor here Wednesday. - ̂Ed. Quigley of Woodstock spent Ban* 4ey with MoHenry relatives. . 'Miss Martha Wolff of Elgin spent ..Sunday .with her mother here. _ Peter Wasnowski of Chicago spent * Sunday with his parents here. Fred Thurlwell of Rockford spent v-. -Sunday with his parents here. , Mrs. Ed. Willigrflan of Chicago spent Sunday with her parents here. . Miss Dora Stoffel of Chicago Spent ^ .Sunday with her parents here. Fred Eldredge of Chicago Heights fpent Sunday with home folks. Ed. Walsh of Chicago spent Snnday .~ at the home of John Walsh here. Mrs. Jus. Quinn of Elgin spent a few ? : dlys last week with friends here. | . # x Mrs. E. Hunter and son were Chicago ^ visitors last Friday and Saturday. War fen Howell of Chicago spent-Svn- -,:&y with his mother at the Villas. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Parks spent a few , flays last week with Anrora friends. Harry Fay of Chicago spent Snnday ^frith McHenry relatives and friends. if 'Fred Schnorr attended the funeral of * »friend at Algonquin last Thursday. Miss Alice Waite spent a few days the past week with Oak Park relatives. Walter Geske and George Schreiner tire new employes at the Borden factory. Mi. and Mrs. 13. J. Frisby of Chfteago ̂ - jpent Sunday with McHenry relatives. Will Voelts of Ft. Wayne, Ind., spent Ws holiday vacation with his parents here. , » A. S. Parks came over from the * ty seat to spend Sunday witti his pW< ;<**• "• 'i - Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Preston of. Chi­ cago spent Sunday with IfltfHeftiy relfc* " ttvee. Will and Frank Thurlwell are doing' mason work at the county seat tbfer Week. Benry and John Bchaffer tdBk in thl paster dance at^ W an con da Monday frenirig. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bending of Chi* <eago spent Snnday at the home of Bobt. Schiessle. F. J. Herbes was a business- visitor in Chicago last Friday and Tuesday of this week. Philip Quigley has returned from Chicago, where he has been spending the winter. Will Frett of Chicago spent Monday and Tuesday with McHenry relative* and friends. John Mcftee and Everett Shsrautt; of Woodstock spent Snnday with Me* Benry friends. Messrs. Wm. Stark and J. XsatiBgofr Chicago spent Sunday at the hoine of John B. Fpisby. Mr. and Mrs. 8. S. Chapell and chil­ dren of Chicago sprat Snnday with Mc. Benry relatives. Miss Maggie Schreiner of Staanston spent several days the past wtfek with her parents here. Misses EvS and Mary Adams spent a few days this week with Chicago rri# tives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bothermelldi children of Chicago spMt Snndsty With _ McHenry relatives. I j Samael McDonald and daughter, Mar­garet, went to Chicago Saturday 1 Ing for a few days' visit r pLf » - -I , ^ Mrs. U Jordon spent Wednesday in Chicago. Mrs. I* F. Pcmse Is visiting frirads In Chicago. Qeo H. Hanly spent Wedneeday In thegreat city. T. H Bethke was a bnsiness visitor in Chicago Wedneeday. Chas. O, Buss of Chicago spent Snn­ day with home folks. August Larsen was a Chicago passen­ ger Wednesday morning. - Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Carr of Wanconda spent Tuesday in McHenry. Bev. M. W. Barth was a Chisago pas senger Wednesday morning. Clarence Sawyer of Dnndee spent Sunday with McHenry friends. Mrs. Jai&es Neville of Waucond* was the guest of friends here Sunday. Miss Bessie'Stone of Nunda called on MoHenry friends Tuesday evening. m Maade Qehreiner left for tin ex­ tended visit la Chicago Wedneeday morning. 6. W. Besley was a basinees visitor in Chicago and Wlakegan the first of the week. Xn. Lottie Niles of Oak Park spent several days this week with Mrs. Har­ vey Price. Isaao Wentw^rth of GHlberlS spent Sunday at We home of his son, W, D. Wentworth. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Lamphere and children of Gilberts were gnests of rel­ atives here Snnday. Dr. S. 8. Weils of Chicago was a guest at the home of his brother, Dr. B. G., the first of the week. L. Besley *t»d Chas. Meyer of Wan- kegan were guests of G-. W. Besley and family the first of the week. August Nordqmst of Fond dn Lao, Wis., attended the funeral of little Louise Clemens here Snnday. Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Bailey of Wood­ stock spent a few days this week with MoHenry relatives and friends. William Dwelly of Chicago and Mrs. August Walters of Mttgwood spent last Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Merriman. Mrs. Harah Dermont will leave for South Bend, Ind., tomorrow for a few davs* visit with her daughter, Mrs. lti| J. Shoemacher. If WHOLESALE POISONINC" SCARE THRUOUT OUR ENTIRE NA­ TION. LOUISE CLEMENS. UM* Oasghter of Mr. and Mrs. Say L, Otwtavn Called to Beavealjr H«MM. LottiSe, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Guy L. Clemens, died Friday, April 13, I960, aged 1 year, 2 months and 12 day*. Death is at all times an unwelcome visitor, and especially is this true when it intrudes its baleful presence into a home where sorrow had been unknown and selects for its victim a blight, win­ some little babe, the joy and pride of her home, and whose sudden taking away leaves an aching void in the hearts of the bereaved parents. To them, earth has lqst its look of gladness, but heaven will seem more bright, for where their treasures are, will not their hearts be also? She is happy in an in­ finite joy,--the band of angels that stole her away left in her place an angel child. The bright, sweet memories she has left will be ever dear, and, like the sweet life that was hers, will draw nearer to Him. Sleep oii, ixjuise, In thy beauty. Thou art an angel child; By sorrow anbligbted, By sin uodefi'ea. In this first sorrow, look up and see in the dark, ominous cloud gathered overhead, the hand of God. Tho yon amy see no sunshine, trust God. Go where He bids yon go, remembering He eannot break any promise He has A bud of life just opening Its petals fresh and ratr. But now frost-nipped and wttiSlSfl In spite of all my care! Both day and night I watched!!* •Twas never out of sight; 9lad tears I gave for dew-dro Aud love for silnshlne brigi JMh w: •». td yet it needs must wither? f • Father, »«!> me why. i * all In earth's wide garden ly tiny flower must die. jfe thousand happy mothers -Their little ones still hold. >.»• "f-. i Ihlle I for mine must hunger*. * ^ "With yearning all untold. s ' : m y c h i l d ' s v o i c e i s s i l e n t ^ "V4And no tells me why. Of all glad mother's children., 'My precious child must die! * . ; Uben came from out the silenqiiK'. hi : ^As thoufh some heart abovei Was melted into pltv-- These tender words of love: <§t> mother, In your sorrow, ' O father, in your grief, jCan you not trust a little, ' »d, trusting, ind relief? *1 lead you In the darkness JA way you may not tell; and, if I would, I cannot T*he mystery dispel. Will you can read the future, .. , jHow can you know today? *#|8 ever by the ending ^ That you must Judge the «%o your own little children, *'• - !2W6o, fearful, clasp your hand, n>u say, 'Fear not. but trust m: Pome day, you'll understand/ thus your own good patient; and one day, some height looking backward, 11 see your earthly way. *lYu8t, then, wblle thru the darkness sJ lead you by the hand. fhe ead tiat'iaMr bejondyoa ̂ • (Some day you'll understand." The funeral services were held at the home, Snnday, April 15, conducted by Rev. Arthur Roberts of the UniversaKst church. The scripture read was from Sam. ii, 12:16-38, Mid the comforting sermon from the words of Jesus: "8uf- dom of heaven." Mrs. J. J. Reser and Mrs. W. F. Gallaber sang three beauti- ful duets. The tittle form was laid to rest In Woodlawn cemetery, Misses Luoile Byrd, Florence, Mand and Fanny Qranger, fonr cousins, acting as pall beareik j • Tooth tarafa*, hair brnfches atPet Am Intercutting and Ably Wrttt«n Article From The Pen of R. G. Kecl*s, M. D., of Brooklyn, N. T. (Continued from last week.) Aow that large numbers of merchants a*e befog fined for adulterating? Alas this is unfortunately too true. Laws have been passed in a nnmbar of states that are a caricature on justice. They ' have been so constructed that they for­ bid courts or juries from listening to evidence or deciding on the true merits of the case. They are deliberately worded in a way that will make con­ viction certain without a hearing. While withholding from the accused the right of defending himself, they compel the court to fine and imprison him. The law is so worded that conviction is cer­ tain whether the accused i» guilty of wronging or injuring others or not. On the plea that courts and juries are in­ competent to judge, they have violated constitutional rights by making legislat­ ors usurp, in advance, the functions of judge and jury. They have asserted in the law that certain things are injuri­ ous, and have made definitions for adulteration that are simply ridiculous. Nor do these laws agree in different states. What is perfectly pure in one state is adulterated in the next. A mere difference in the size or color of a label renders goods legally adulterated that wonld Otherwise be quite pure, in that same state. The absence or presence of a word will make perfectly pure goods into adulterated ones, and subjects the the seller to fine or imprisonment. Just snch a ridiculous caricature of justice was sought to be pushed through con* gress last year under the enphonious title of "A Pure Food Law." There are states where it is a crime to attempt selling foods grown in California, Ne­ vada or Utah, because they contain borax. One food commissioner when appealed to on this point is reported to have replied that he did not care if the Almighty did put it in the food it was against the laws of his state to sell snch food there, jnst the same. The purest of pure cranberries violate the laws of that state, because Nature put into them too mnch benzoic acid. In another state it is a crime for druggists to obey the new pharmacopoeia. It is adulter­ ation of drugs for any drnggiBt to use the kind of drags whloh the doetor is supposed to want. The law has defined the word adulteration in a way that has produced this laughably stupid re suit. By the Washington standard of pure foods every druggist is gnilty of adulteration who Bells a glass of soda water that Is not made in the old, straight way, Instead of by blending flavors and carbon di oxid. By a strict construction of the same system of de­ fining, pure, white flour is adulterated because the bran and shorts have been removed from it Of course no one wonld think of taking Pillsbury into court and fining him for selling "Pills- bury 's Best" Such a case would be laughed out of court. Why T Because the judge knows snougb about the sub­ ject to see its Insanity. But when the same system of defining makes it criminal to do things the judge does not understand be meekly obeys the law and condemns without a hearing. He neither knows or cares whether the act wronged any one or whether it in­ jured any one. It -is enough that the law defines adulteration in this way and he is sworn to see that it is executed. Is it any wonder that enterprising food chemists are able to pile up scary rec­ ords of violations of food laws, and by bringing them all in juxtaposition, with a few rare cases of genuine adulteration, make the number appear formidable? Few can stop to examine his method with care, and so they conclude that manu­ facturers are, as 4 rule, a set of mis­ creants. There is never a suspicion that the chemist Is benefited by the foster' ing of such a belief. The game of polities is a remarkable one. and many there be who are trapped thereby. But what about preservatives in food? Are they not injurious to health? Has it not been proven that boric acid and borax are injurious to those who take them In food? The reply to these ques­ tions is that no one has ever attempted to prove that any preservative is injur­ ious to any one when taken in food in the proportions in which they are need for preserving purposes. We have had experiments that aimed at showing the effect of excessive doses, taken in cap­ sules at meal times. The yonng "men who took these doses were frightened at the start, by being compelled to sign an agreement that if poisondd they would hold no one reeponsible for tbe satns but themselves. They were not given preserved food, but concentrated doses of preservatives that could not do other than produce local disagreeable effects on the mocons membrane of the stomach by contact They had an epi­ demic of grip among them, while tak-fer little children to oome nnto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the king" preeervatives, and no one has at- • ' - ' . " • f t tempted to show which symptoms were due to tbe grip and which to the borates. If we grant that all that the experi­ ments attempted to prove was proven, then what of it? Is any person so silly as to believe that abuse of anything will not injure? Toprove that preservatives are injurious, When used in exoess, is to prove Krhat was well known by every* bVjfe",s«fs» body before the experiments were tried. What the public want to know, and what they have been led to believe these experiments taught is the effect upon them of preserved foods. This, how­ ever, is just what no one has ever at­ tempted to show. If our Department of Agricnlture-honestly seeks to protect the public, instead of to keep down competition in farm products and keep up prices upon the city poor, it should try to discover the exact limits of safety in which preservatives can be used, and then have a law passed giving its repre­ sentatives the power to condemn all food which transcends these safe limits. As a department such a course might not win for theiu that political snppdrt which is desired. It would make farm products keep longer, in good condition, and fill the market with eompeting goods to keep down prices. If all use of preservatives could be stopped, al­ most every kind of provisions in onr country would mount to nearly double our present prices. If more preserva­ tives could be safely used prices would go down much lorter than they now are. It is tbe duty of every person who wishes the cost of food to go up, to op­ pose preservatives. It is the duty of all who wish prices to go down to insist upon the limit of safe use being dis­ covered, and the permitting of their use within snch limit. That there is such a limit is as certain in this as in butter To abuse the use of butter would be to make ourselves sick. To abuse the use of preservatives will do the same. That there is a limit in which they cannot in­ jure is a certainty, otherwise we wonld all have been dead long ago, from our being compelled to use them in the food into which nature has put them. To say that we should stick to this limit in which nature has put them is to defiend the principle that all progress is wrong, civilization a crime, and science the sin of sins. We do not stick to the cloth­ ing nature provides us. We do not stick to the shelter that nature provides us. We do not adhere to the means of locomotion nature has given us. We take none of onr food exactly as nature supplies it We are incessantly seeking to constrain natnre to alter her wayB, and travel in channels which we have discovered are better for us, than those she has supplied in her wild ways. The opposition to preservatives is based on the thebry that substances which injure in large amounts must in­ jure, proportionately, in small amounts. If this theory is true then it is certainly wrong to use preservatives. But, is it true? Does such a doctrine comport with the experience of any human being? Is a belief of this kind not pure superstition--a figment of the overwrought imagination t It is an un­ fortunate fact that ignorant people have been led into believing this, just as they believe it will bring ill luck to break a looking glass or see the moon over the left shoulder. In no instance have they tried to compare their exper­ iences with the belief. This very super- stition has led them into skepticism of scientific medicine. Quacks of every stripe have played upon their fears, through its influence upon their thoughts. These quacks have denounced scientific therapy as wholesale poison­ ing, and scientific medical men wholesale poisoners. Intalligent lay­ men have reasoned that if substances that injure in large amount injure cor­ respondingly in small amounts, then must scientific therapy be a crime. If this logic is true for preservatives it is much more true for medicines. Medi­ cal men will administer as mnch of these preservatives in a week, to a sin­ gle patient, as that patient would be likely to get in several years consump­ tion of preserved foods. Is there a phy­ sician now living who is so ignorant of the effects of drugs, that he does not know that long continued use diminish­ es the possibility of ill effect? Instead of injurious substances injuring in smill, long continued dosss, immunity is established toward them. If tbe the­ ory was true that injurious substances injure in proportion to dose, however small, imagine what would happen to all our tobacco, tea, coffee and alcohol users. Some men have used in their BELOVED PASTOR GONE REV. P. M. O'NEILL ANSWER TO MASTER'S CALL. life time, more aloohol than would bury them fathoms deep. Use<l immoderate­ ly there is no questioning the harm done. All of the active agents in li­ quors, tobacco, tea and coffee, are very much more potent for harm, weight for weight, than is any one of the common preservatives. Take any article of food containing a preservative, and let any person use an excess of that food, and it will be the food that will injure. To eat two ponnds of jam would seriously injure any person. To swallow the two grains of salicylic acid used in preserv­ ing that jam would do the consumer no harm. To drink two quarts of wine might seriously endanger any person if drank at one sitting. To swallow four grains of salicylic acid would not produce the slightest ill results. Yet four grains of this acid to four pints is the extreme amount required to pre­ serve sweet wines in any climate and in connection with the normal production of alcohol in such wines. The law, however, is such that wine manufact­ urers are compelled to add additional alcohol, In amounts calculated to do twice or thrice as much injury to the consumer as would the preserving equivalent of salicylic acid. But why (Oontinued on last page.) 'ii? Sv- 'I"* §g% v; • t, * ... Was Pastor at St. Patrlek's Catholic Church In this Village for Past Thirty Tears--Was Great Man. Father O'Neill is dead. • These are the words that fell like a thunder bolt upon the people of McHenry on Tuesday morning, April 10 These are the words that, were caught from the telephone and passed from one to another with al­ most lightning rapidity until, as the news passed on, a great wave of sorrow surged to and fro and cast a gloom over every Catholic heart and home, not only in McHenry and surrounding vici­ nity, but also over many friends and loved ones who learned the sad tidingB in far distant cities. Father O'Neill had not been well "for several days, but at no time had he been unable to attend to his duties at the church, so no one thought of him as be- ing sick. The morning of his death, how­ ever, he seemed to be in his usual good health and he had just returned from the poBtofik-e and entered the library when he was stricken down and died instantly. His body was found, a few moments later, by his Bister who had come to the library to Kara what news the morning mail had brought them. As soon as the sad truth was learned, friends hastened to the parsonage and with kind hands and loving hearts prepared the body of their be­ loved pastor for the long sleep of death. A bier was placed in the parlor and, long ere the sun had set, all that was earthly of Father O'Neill rested there, surrounded by his weeping people, to whom he had, during his life, endeared himself and whose hearts were bound to him by tbe most sacred tiesjof religion and love.. Wednesday morning the body was borne to the church and placed before the high altar, where solemn high re- qneim mass was celebrated for the re­ pose of his soul, who had so ofter stood at that same altar and offered the august sacrifice in behalf of all mankind. The high mass was celebrated by Rev. Father Barth, of1 McHenry, with Rev. J. B. Stacbable, or Chicago, as deacon and Rev. Edward Cobb, of Indiana, as sub-deacon, all of whom were particular friends of Father O'Neill. The master of ceremonies was Rev. Father O'Brien, of the Cathedral, Chicago, and the ser­ mon, which was beautiful and eloquent and a high tribute to the rare worth of Father O'Neill as a priest and a citizen, was by Rev. Father McCann of Elgin. After the mass, the body, robed in the priestly vestments and with the chalice placed a bove the folded hands, lay in state in the church all that afternoon and night, and viewed by hundreds who came to look for the last time on their departed pastor and friend. Thursday morning the remains, ac­ companied by a large conoourse of peo* pie, were removed from the church to thedepot and placed upon the 8:80 train on its way to Detroit, Mich. A number of friends escorted the body as far as Chicago, and Peter Dohsrty, M. J. Walsh and James Frisby went on to Detroit as representatives of this parish. Father Cobb of Indiana and Father McCann of Elgin also accompanied the remains to Detroit. Friday morning, funeral services were held in the church of Our Lady of Help, and the burial was in the Mt Billot cemetery, Detroit, Mich. Thirty years ago, Father O'Neill oame to McHenry, young and full of zeal for the good of the church and the welfare of the people who were placed under bis charge, and as the years swept over him with steady and relentless tread they whitened his hair and fur­ rowed his brow with lines of care; but, still he lost none of his youthful, ardor, but toiled on, accomplishing a great task, which any man lsss zealous might tremble to undertake. For over twenty years he ministered spiritually to the wants of four different parishes. This, alone, was a great work, but how suc­ cessfully the work was performed by Father O'Neill is well known to this and the neighboring parishes. The financial affairs of tbe church were always managed wisely and prudently. He made many improvements during his stay here, but as a whole book might be written on his lifs and his work in McHenry we will only add that he was a great priest and a great man, and in his death the people have sustained a great loss, the sense of which it will take years to obliterate. Rev. P. M. O'Neill was a natifre of County Tipperary, Ireland, born June 9, 1839, and died at McHenry April 10, 1906. He was a son of Thomas and Catherine (Marshall) O'Neill. His fa­ ther died May 8, 1877, aged ninety years, and his mother April 10, 1854, aged fifty-two years. He came to America in 1898 and entered St. Mi­ chael's college, Toronto, Canada. He afterwards attended St. Mary's semi­ nary, Barrens county, Mo., and in 1864 graduated from St Mary's seminary, Baltimore, Md. August 6, 1864, he was ordained to priesthood of the Roman Catholic church at St Louis, Mo. Pre­ vious to bis coining to McHenry, which was in 1876, Father O'Neill had ap­ pointments at Independence, la., Ham­ mond, Mo., and Champaign, 111. Deceased is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Mary Powers of McHenry, who has been his housekeeper for the past thirty years, and Mrs. J. Tubbs of Ire­ land; one brother, T. O'Neill, of Ire­ land. Father Sadlier of Battle Creek, Miofa., is a nephew. Resolution. ^v The following resolutions were ad­ opted by St. Patrick's Court of Foresters: WHEREAS, It has pleased Almighty God to call to bis eternal reward our be­ loved pastor, Father O 'Neill, and WHEREAS, St. Patrick's Court, No. 745, C. O. F., has sustained by his death, the loss of a true Father and worthy, zealous Chaplain, be it Resolved, That we exprees our pro­ found grief at the sudden demise of this our dead pastor and Chaplain, and tender our heartfelt sympathy to the relatives of the deceased, especially Mrs. Powers; and be it further Resolved, That our beloved Chaplain's chair be draped in mourning for thirty days, that these resolutions be incor­ porated in the minutes of this meeting, a copy of same be presented to Mm Powers and that these resolutions be printed in The Plaindealer. May his soul rest in peace. JAMBS HUGHES, WALTER BOLGER, ) FIRST GAME OF 8EASONk _____ <• - $ . . j" '• ifoi'f' Baa* Vail Season to be Opened In Moltonry Next Sunday. The base ball season will be formally opened in McHenry next Sunday after­ noon, at which time the McHenry Blues will meet the Woodstock White Sox at the ball park in this village. The McHenry Blues, a newly organ­ ized team, will represent McHenry on the base ball diamond this year and gives promise of maintaining the excel­ lent record established by the Greens during the past two seasons. A ntimber of new faces will be seen in the line-up, and it has been said by some that seem to know, that McHenry Will this year haye one of the fastest teams In this part of the country. The Woodstock White Sox, who'have never been defeated by a McHenry team, have this year been strengthened to such an extent that they are now recognized as the leading team of the Typewriter oity. They will come to McHenry next Sunday for a battle royal and wlU do their utmost to retain their hold on Mo­ Henry. The Blues will be given ther initial test next Sunday and will go into the game to win. The Blues are making no promises as to a* hat they will do to the White So^, but do promise the rooters that there will be no loafing on their part at any time and will play the game as it never has been played before in McHenry, Owing to the faot that the players will be forced to catch the five o'olock train the game will be called at two o'clock promptly. General admission, 25 cents; ladies and children, 10 cents. t M. M. M. Notes. Really, boys, yon took the cake. The umpire was the most unhappy man. Three of the S. M. 's were not so slow the other evening. Well, boys, we don't Wish you any harm, bnt we hope thf> cake made you sick. Found, between N. Jus ten's residence and Wankegan road, an orange. The gentleman can have the same by calling at the club rooms. TheS. M's held the M. M.'s in such high esteem that they presented them with an enlarged photo of their secre­ tary. Many thanks, boys. That Lent was over was demonstrated by the M. M. M.'s Monday evening, when they assembled at the home of Miss Rosa Justen, and were royally en- tained by Rosa and Frances Buss. The maine feature of the evening was--fun. Among the invited guests of the even­ ing were. Miss Clara Stoffel, Messrs. Pete* Smyth, Jacob Croyer, Casper Vin­ cent, Oliver Carman and Nicholas Bradlejr- : v " OUR WEEKLY PKIHM* ITEMS1 PICKED UP ABOUT TOWN DURING THE WEEK. What People are Doing IntfwBatjLIMt ' City--Hewa a* Seen by Tho Plnlndealor E«>WWIlUtlTW. Batter Market. Butter on the Elgin board dosed firm at 21 cents Monday. Now is the time to get your stove fixed at Vvcital's hardware. Special savings on lace curtins aft Block ft Bethke's. Did yon notice our ad? • •; itf! - 1 "**• Tv.r- McHenry Blues vs. Woodstock White Sox at the ball park next Sunday after- noon. • ' .. See the new spring line of ladiea* waists at Block & Bethke's. Don't miss onr ad. A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mm ;-4;' Harry Baoon of Chicago on Wednesday, April 11. ] Remember that we put up eve trough- ing and do all kinds of tin work. John J. Vycital. • All the latest shapsa and ookx* t* man's spring hate at Blook ft Bettkkala.' See our ad. ; The Cherry Valley Aid society will meet with Mrs. Ben Hudson Thursday ̂ afternoon, April 36. , Work on the Riverside is progressing , rapidly and ere long we expect to see a ,<J&; "Modern Riverside." ? ̂ Spring has come at last Now, let's * have baby's picture taken. Ask iBK i. v special baby mount at Hille's. i - * This week Ben Laures offers his plaea of business and residence for sale or. rent See "Want Ad" column. „? ?v The minstrel show recently giteu hy the Woodstock Pleasure club netted. that organization nearly $800. Alderman Wilson of Elgin has rented his Ptstakee Bay cottage to W. B. Moore of Chicago for the season. . > The pupils of the McHenry public school will entertain yon at the Central opera house tomorrow (Friday} evening. The Easter dance at Smith's hall laat Monday evening was very well attend­ ed and from reports all enjoyed the event to the utmost Quite a number of oottage ownsis have been at the Bay dnring the past few weeks, getting their cottages and property in readiness for the coming The Lake Geneva News came to oar exchange table in an Easter attire laat week. The News is fast coming to the front as one of the beat weeklies that come to onr table. Opening Ball. The season of 1906 will be ' formally opened by the Lily Lake Pleasure Club with a grand ball to be given at the Lily Lake dancing pavilion, Lily Lake, 111., Wednesday evening, April. 36, 1906. Floor committee: West MoHenry, Dick Walsh; Volo, Peter Stadtfield; Johns- burgh, Fred Smith; Ring wood, Joe Law­ rence; McHenry, G. C. Boley; Round Lake, Earl Townsend; Wauconda, Piute Houghton; Woodstock, Frank Sahs; Lily Lake, John Phanistiel; Ingleside, H. B. Dowe; Nunda, Fred Willie; Long Lake, R. Graham. C. Hapke's Libertyville orchestra will furnish the music for the occasion. A oordial invitation Is ex­ tended to all. Dance tickets, 50 cents. Mew Meat Market. George Henry of Chicago has rented the Henry Colby store building, on Water street, and will open a first-class meat market therein on or about April 30. Mr. Henry has had nearly twenty years of experience in the meat business and his intentions are to give his patrons th« best that money can buy. All orders will receive strict attention and be deliv­ ered promptly. ^ r*11 Dissolve Partaenhim ̂ . J. 8. Brown & Son, who during the past six years hax e conducted the drug 8tore at Ringwood, 111., have, by mutual consent, dissolved partnership. The junior member of the firm, S. W. Brown, having purchased his father's interest in tbe business, will assume the entire bnsiness in the same way it haa hereto­ fore been oonducted. >ri. • 'c 1 £ *. a J'**#. ^ S r , , > . - v . Oliver Moore, one of the victims of the dynamite explosion, had his injured leg amputated just below the knee last Wednesday, all efforts to save the meah- ber having proven futile. Mrs. James A. Danielson died at her home in Fallon, Neb., on Sunday, April 1, of paralysis. Deepened was a sister of H. E. Wightman of Chicago, J. E. Wightman of Chenoa and Mrs. Jonas Sandberg of Plainville, Kansas. Mia. Danielson leaves a husband mid seven children. Elgin Courier: Frank Flak haa a**' turned from Indian Point, Fox Lake. He shipped to McHenry a new steam- launch built this winter at Pullman. The engine which he tried out In Ida river steamer last summer will be in­ stalled in the new boat and the old m rigged up into a family sailboat. Tbe village election Tuesday proved a very tame affair, only 103 votes being polled. Outside the regular ticket, cote- poeed of N. E. Barbian, Mathias Weber and Wm. Stoffel for trustees, and John Stoffel for clerk, there wasn't a name on any ballot, showing that the voters were well satisfied with the candidates. There are to be four Sunday school institutes in McHenry county during the month of April, as follows: Wood* stock, April 34; Richmond, April 39; Harvard, April 26, and Nunda, April 27. State Worker G. W. Miller will conduct these sessions and it is hoped that all interested in Sunday school work will attend at least one of theee institutes. . „ The baseball game at the ball t, last Sunday between the McHenry Blues and pick-ups resulted in a victory for the iormer, the score being 15 to 6. The Blues demonstrated to the handful of faithful fans who braved the chilly weather to witness the work of tike team that they are a husky lot and will give their opponents a run for the money this season. Again has McHenry had her nam***,: placed before thousands of people thra the efforts of the Hunter-Weckler Boat company, who had two of their boali on exhibition at the Power Boat show in Chicago last week. The larger of jthe boats having been christened "Mo­ Henry" gave our village no small amount of advertising. The "MeBsa ry" proved to be one of the fineaifcoaia on exhibition and won the afl«rtmHott of thousands. We have baa* taffanMi by officials of the Hunter-WecMar ttNft- pauy that both boats ware soli sooot after their arrival in CKIoago and that thru the exhibition a large orders ware taken la.