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XIV I'I ' I! ill i I Summer Suits! We have a fine line of Men's and Boys'Suitson hand and if in need of a" Suit, We can save you $5.00 on a Suit and give you a Suit equal to any tailor make. - JOS. W. FREUND, WEST McHENRY, ILLINOIS. WOMEN'S HIGH GRADE MAN-TAILORED MADE-TO-MEASURE SUITS, SKIRTS AND SILK DRESSES Fall and Winter Season 1908-09 With pleasure I announce to our lady friends of McHenry and vicinity that the new Fall and Winter styles from Chas. A. Stevens & Bros. CHICAGO are now ready and as their local agent I shall be pleased to show you the large fashion plates and samples of materials of the strictly high class suits, skirts and dresses, which are made to order according to your individual measurements, from your own selection of materials and a perfect fit and satisfaction guaranteed. The great variety of models illustrated and the immense assortment of materials admits of every woman selecting the style and material best suited to her taste without fear of being duplicated. I will be pleased to render you every assistance in the selection of your fall suit, skirt or dress and I am sure you will enjoy looking through the line. MISS F. HILLEBRAND, REPRESENTING Chas. A. Stevens & Bros., Chicago The greatest exlcusive establishment in the world for women's wear. P H I L I P J A E G E R GENERAL COHMISSION MERCHANT SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO THE SALE OF Dressed Beef, riutton. Hogs, Veal, Poultry, Hides, Etc., Butter and Eggs This is the oldest house on the street. Tags and price lists furnished on application. COLD STORAGE FREE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Stall 1 a 3, Pulton St. Wholesale Market. |Nm Oreha-rd Beach Sanatorium McHenry, Illinois For the treatmeut of curable Chronic Diseases (nervous afflictions, diseases of the stomach, bowels aud liver, gout., rheumatism, obesity, catarrh, anemia, general debility, et«.) Only Natural Methods Are Employed. Dr. (arl Strueh, Prop. 100 State Street. Suite 1409. CHICAGO, ILL Bank of McHenry This Bank receives, deposits, buys and sells Foreign and Domestic Exchange, and does a GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. We endeavor to do all business intrusted to our care in a manner and upon terms entirely satisfact­ ory to our customers and respect­ fully solicit the public patronage. floney to Loan on real estate and other first class security. Special attention given to collections INSURANCE in First Class Companies, at the lowest rates. Yours Respectfully Perry & Owen, Notary Public. - Bankers. HORSE GOODS! of every description is what w6 deal in. Every­ thing that goes to make up a first-class Harness Establishment may be had here. When you get ready for that new work or driv­ ing harness, if you appre­ ciate quality and good workmanship we will be pleased to give you our p r i c e s . : : : : : : M. A. Thelen BM4 Tha Platndealac. REGARDING COUNTY SCHOOL8 MM} Items of Interest to Oar Knim Concerning County Schools. McHenry county paid out 1142,843.95 in support of its schools during the past year. While this Is a large suui of money it is undoubtedly expended more readily and more cheerfully than any other item of oor poblic tax. Teachers and school officers cannot havejtoo high a sense of responsibility in the judicious use of this money. While the county superintendent has been trying con­ sistently to bring about a higher soale of salaries for our public school teachers it is with no idea of extravagance, but to the contrary, that the wisest economy may ensue. The amount expended for the preceding year was $144,220.07. There were <5280 pupils enrolled in the pnblic schools of this couuty last year. There were 3528 pupils enrolled in the town or graded schools, and 27fi7 en­ rolled in the country or ungraded schools. There were 224 teachers em­ ployed in the schools of the county last year, of whom 203 were women and 21 were men. The country schools em­ ployed 118 teachers, of whom only 4 were men. There is a great need for more men in the work of the school­ room. This was one of the weak fea­ tures noted by members of the Moeeley commission, who visited our schools a few years ago. State Superintendent Blair has ren­ dered an opinion on the high school tuition law in which he interprets the scope of the free tuition clause as apply­ ing to all pupils who are graduates of the eighth grade in those schools where no higher grade of work is done. The tuition in these instances is to be paid by the district. This practically in­ cludes all graduates of the country schools of thif county. Directors should exercise extreme care in the matter of engaging teachers who do not possess the legal certificate. A great many embarrassing situations have arisen due to the neglect of di­ rectors in this regard. No person can draw public money for services rendered as a teacher who does not possess a cer­ tificate. Plans are being laid for the formation of some local farmers' and teachers' in­ stitutes on the "circuit" system. If this materializes, we shall have the un­ usual privilege of providing a series of addresses by our state university lectur­ ers to each local institute at the cost of one. This idea is worth considering and the progressive citizens of the town of Riley are seriously thinking of trying the scheme. Teachers should come to the meeting at Woodstock on next Saturday pre pared to carry back some reading circle books for their professional benefit. The people of McHenry county are showing that they are not beggarly in their sup port of the schools provided they get value received. Salaries are going higher and this means that the efficiency of the teacher must be higher. A large number of teachers have been in attendance at the summer session of the state normal school at DeKalb. By the way, teachers, a little arithmetic will show that the increase in wages during the past year in this county would defray the expenses of about 80 teachers for this summer session at the normal. So you can afford to go if for DO higher motive than a pecuniary one. Most of the schools of the county will open on next Monday. It is to be hoped that we shall soon see the good to come from a uniform year for all the schools. Many reasons can be given for a uni­ formity Ujftt would see all the schools beginning on the same day and ending at the same time in the early summer. Ideal Newspaper Fiction. Stories of newspaper scoops on mat­ ters of current news are many, but it is seldom that a newspaper can claim a best upon a popular novel. Such a tri­ umph in the discover)* of a popular novel was recorded recently by the Chi­ cago Record-Herald when it printed serially "The Wings of the Morning" by Louis Tracy. The judgment of the paper has since been verified by the un precede 11 ted Hale the book has bad both in the United States and iu England The Record Herald s keen judgment in fiction enables its readers to get the best novels often before they reach the book stands, while its policy of giving just the right amount daily and Sunday makes it a pleasure to follow its serials- A radical departure in Sunday journal­ ism was marked by the advent of the Sunday Magazine of The Record-HeraId, It is particularly strong in fiction, both serials and short stories, and it has all the other attractive features of the fam­ ous illustrated weeklies and monthlies and challenges comparison with them. Why James Lee dot Well. Everybody in Zanesville, O., knows Mrs. Mary Lee, of rural route 8. She writes: "My husband, James Lee, firm­ ly believeB he owes his life to the use of Dr. King's New Discovery. His lungs were so severely affected that consump­ tion seemed inevitable, when a friend recommended New Discovery. We tried it, and its use has restored him to perfect health.'.' Dr. King's New Dis covery isthe King of throat and lung remedies. For coughs and colds it has no equal. The first dose giyes relief. Try it! Sold under guarantee at N. H, Petesch's drug store. 50c. and fl.00. Trial bottle free. •• NINE 8KELETONS UNEARTHED •l WertitBSB EzMT«tln( Far Bsw ,it Algonquin Last Week. While gonquin earthed posed ly Indiana. excavating lor a home at Al- last week, two workmen nn- nine human skeletons sup- thoee of Monnd Builders or The first find was that of a man with an eight inch copper spear­ head imbedded, in bis skull just above the right ear and another similar spear­ head in the dirt between the back bone and breast bone of the skeleton. The discovery created unusual in­ terest because of the copper spearheads and because of the place in which the skeletons were found, and the number of them. The demand for well pre served ribs, skulls, jawbones, and other trinkets has been great, and all that is left of the savage warriors is well dis­ tributed thru the village. One can ob­ tain au excellent collar bone or rib at bargain prices. Indian skeletons have been unearthed in Algonquin l>efore now, but never nine at a time. Stone arrowheads have been found, but never copper spear­ heads. And all the glamour and mystery that attaches to the name "mound bnilders" is invoked , by the fact that the skeleton# were found in part of a monnd two and a half to three feet high and thirty feet square, located in a level field near the river. The mound always has been a source of wonder to the residents of the dis­ trict, but no attempt ever was made to delve into it any further than a plow­ share would penetrate until the owner wished to erect a house on the premises. The development of an active trade in souvenirs has been the principal result so far, but an investigation may be made by the department of ethnology of the Field museum with results of scien­ tific and historical importance. In any case, further excavations probably will be made, for the village is hotly divided on the question of the origin of the souvenir mine. Some insist it was the scene of an Indian battle, and that the mound simply was thrown up to cover- the dead. Others insist that it was the graveyard or "mound," of the pre­ decessors of the Indians, the extinct "mound builders," basing their argu­ ment pn the fact that the Indians used stone arrow heads, not copper spears. Resolutions of Respect. Members of McHenry council, No. 1288, sustained a great loss in the death of brother Fred Bishop, a charter mem­ ber of the council, and one who was always in attendance at regular meet­ ings and was at all times interested in the council work. The following reso­ lutions were adopted by the council on his demise: Whereas, The infinite wisdom of an allwise providence has seen fit to call from labor to reward our beloved brother, Fred Bishop, a charter mem­ ber of our council, and Whereas, he was a man of noble char­ acter, of kindly disposition and untiring industry; a splendid citizen, highly val­ uable in all the relations of life, both to our order and our holy mother church, therefore be it Resolved, That it is with great sorrow that we have learned of bis death and that the entire membership of McHenry council, No. 1288, Knights of Columbus of McHenry, IU., extend their deep sympathy to the family of the deceased, and be it further Resolved, That a copy of these resolu­ tions be spread on the records of our council and that a copy be sent to the family of our late brother. Jos. W. FREUND, Grand Knight, REV. PAUL BOITRKE, Chancellor, Com. on Resolutions. She Likes Good Things. Mrs. Chas. E. Smith, of West Frank­ lin, Maine, says: "I like good things and have adopted Dr. King's New Life Pills as onr family laxative medicine, because they are good and do their work without making a fuss about it." These painless purifiers Bold at N. H. Petesch's drug store. 25c. We have arranged with The Weekly Inter-Ocean so that our p&trons "can He- cure that sterling paper, together with our own, at the exceedingly low rate of f 1.75 for one year, This is a rare op­ portunity and ahonld be taken advant age of. Get your "Fly Shy" Lumber Co. of the Wilbur Notice! To insure publication in The Plain dealer copy must be in the office no later than Wednesday noon of each week. Advertisers, especially, are asked to take particular notice to this effect Feed Grinding. Until further notice we will grind feed mornings only, commencing at 10 o'clock daily. WM. BONSLETT. The Plaindealer wants a correspond ant at Oatend and Spring Grove. Who will help oa out-in this respect? Oftei Tie Kidneys Are Weakened by Over-Work. Unhealthy Kidneys Hake Impure Blood. It used to be considered that only urinary and bladder troubles were to be traced to the kidneys, but now modern science proves that nearly all diseases have their beginning in the disorder of these most important organs. The kidneys filter and purify the blood-- that is their work. Therefore, when your kidneysare weak or out of order, you can understand how quickly your entire body is affected and how every organ seems to fail to do its duty. • If you are sick or " feel badly," begin taking the great kidney remedy, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, because as soon as your kidneys are well they will help all the other organs to health. A trial will convince anyone. If you are sick you can make no mis­ take by first doctoring your kidneys. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, "the great kidney remedy, is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases, and is sold 011 its merits by all druggists in fifty-cent and one-dollar size bottles. You may have a sample bottle uomecf svmiap-EscL by mail free, also a pamphlet telling yyu how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. Mention this paper when writing to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Ring- haniton, N. Y. Don't make any mistake, but remember the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the ad­ dress, Biugliamton, N. Y., on every bottle. ULIW-- QUARTER OF A CENTURY. Items Clipped from The FlalndeaTer of AuKiiat 29, 1883. The reunion of the old soldiers of Lake couuty is being held at Wauconda today, Wednesday. We learn that Buchanan & Moody, of the Johnsburgh cheese factory, paid 64 cents per hundred for Juue milk, and that Oatmau & Sons paid 59 at Ring- wood and 60 at the McHenry factory. The style of pants are now cut skin tight, gently sloping toward the feet, where they are pasted to the ankles with mucilage, intended to keep the ants from crawling up a man's legs at picnics. So says an exchange. Miss Gertie Bonslett, eldest danghter of Jacob Bonslett, was married on Thursday last to Peter Freund of Johns burgh. A party was held at Gillee hall in their honor, and was a very pleasant affair, everything passing off iu the most quiet and orderly manner. The game of ball on Friday last, be tween the McHenry and Harrington clubs, was rather a one sided affair, the Barringtons being the winners by a score of 22 to 10. The Barringtons are good ball tossers, besides being in per­ fect practice, while on the contrary, the McHenry club has played but one game before this year. The result was not unexpected. Excellent health Advice. Mrs. M. M. Davison, of No. 379 Gif- ford Ave., San Jose, Cal., saya: "The worth of Electric Bitters as a genera) family remedy, for headache, biliousness and torpor of the liver and bowels is so pronounced that I am prompted to say a word in its favor, for the benefit of those seeking relief from such afflic­ tions. There is more health for the di­ gestive organs iu a bottle of Electric Bitters than in any other remedy I know of." Hold under guarantee at N. H. Petesch's drug store. 50c. Place Your Order Now. The government postal authorities have caused to be posted in every posi- office in the country ci rcular letter to the public, urging everyone to use en­ velopes with a returu card printed thereon. Every business man, farmer or person of any occupation should have his name and address printed on his envelopes, thus insuring their return to the sender if anv mistake is made in the address. Call at The Plaindealer office and leave orders for this stationery and it will be put up in first class manner. Oravel and Sand. We are now prepared to deliver gravel and sand in any quantity or will sell name by the load to those wishing tr haul it, but none to be taken from my pits without first notifying us either by calling at my office or by telephone, Aug 37 WM. BONSLETT. FOR UP-TO-DATE GENERAL MER­ CHANDISE COME TO THIS STORE. F. A. BOH LANDER, WEST McHENRY, ILLINOIS. (F West M(Henry State Bank OP WEST McHENRY, ILLINOIS. Capital Stock, &25,000. •OFFICERS:; EDWIN L. WAGNER, President. PARKER S. WEBSTER, Vice-President. SIMON STOFFEL, Vice-President. CARL W. STENGER, Cashier. CHECKING ACCOUNTS, SAVINGS AC­ COUNTS, CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT, DOHESTIC AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE, COLLECTIONS, NOTARY PUBLIC. : : 3 percent paid on Savings Ac- -counts and Time Cer. tificates of Deposit^ Cbc Carpenter smiles when he sees our wagon back up with A LOAD OF LUMBER for he knows he can do a good job and do it quickly. A good Carpenter is as much pleased with such a job as you would be. It means reputation for him, money saved for you. The moral, of course, is to buy your Lumber here and get the BEST. YOURS TRULY, ttlilbur Cumber Co. TI1IS STORE IS OPEN EVERY EVE- NINO EXCEPTING T U E S D A Y A N D T H U R S D A Y BLOCK & BETHKE -TELEPHONE, NUMBER 541 Best Quality Here at Lowest Prices Boys' Knee Pants in regular bot­ tom, made of good quality cordu­ roy and cheviot, sizes 5 to 16 years at per pair 49c Knickerbocker Pants for boys, made of all wool worsted in mixed and plain colors, a big value at . . 75c & $1.00 School Time Near For the school room we are offer ing Tablets in ink and peucil at 5c and 10c each that you can't find elsewhere. Also drawing tablets, pencils of all kinds, slates and rulers. SHOES! SHOES! Our Shoe Department is offering, all the latest shapes and shades in Men's, Women's and Children's Shoes-- high and low cut--at bar gain prices. Will you look at our line? WrapperTalk Our Wrapper Department is the talk of the town. There is no material spared in making up these wrappers, they are cut full and made to tit, all seams are double seamed and taped, quality of goods used in these wrappers is 84 percale, made up in shirt waist style, a full line to pick from at $1.39 Shirt Waist Suits! We are showing several patterns in Shirt Waist Suits, made of a good quality percale, waist made with collar and ruffled bottom, skirt cut full with deep flounce, special at $1.00 See our line of calico prints at 6* cents per yard. We are showing a large line of Gihgham and Percale in a variety of shades and patterns. See this line at io, 13$, 15 and RettiooatsI Ladies' Petticoats made of a good quality satteen, full cut, with deep cut flounce, neat­ ly ruffled and corded, in colors and black, at.. 9*c, $1-39. $1.98, $*.35 and $3.75 BBSS