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* " *1' '" ' J V * £ ' ^ H- ' • . • r ' .- '•• 'A* LER. VOLUME XXXVI. MCHENRY , ILLINOIS . THURSDAY. APRIL 20, I»U. NUMBER 44. WOTLY PERSONAL jfENS COMERS AND GOERS OF A WEEK IN OUR BUSY LITTLE VIXAGE. TIE LADIES HAVE IflEB DAY. TURN OUT IN GOODLY NUMBER AT SCHOOL ELECTION. AS SEEN BY PLAINDEALER REPORTERS AND HANDED INTO OUR OFFICE BY OUR FRIENDS. Miss Agnes Perry was a Chicago visitor last Saturday. Everett Hunter, Jr., was a Chicago visitor last Saturday. J. H. Miller transacted business in Antioch one day last week. Irving Watson of Chicago was the guest of MeHenry friends Sunday. Everett Hunter was called to Chica­ go on business matters last Friday. A. J. Karnholz of Carv spfcnt Sunday with MeHenry relatives and friends. Mrs. Alsena Smith is spending the week as the guest of Elgin relatives. Edward Tetlow of Eigin spent Sun­ day in the home of Mrs. Mary Carey. Miss Edna Wicks of Woodstock spent Sunday at the home of Andrew Miller. Mrs. Frank Schnabel was among the Chicago passengers last Friday morn- ing. . Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Covalt visited relatives in North Crystal Lake Sun­ day. Miss Lillian Heimer of Chicago passed Sunday under the parental roof here. J. C. Bickler attended to business matters in Chicago Friday of last week. Mike Schaffer of North Crystal Lake visited at the home of his father here Sunday. Mrs. Ella Lamphere of Elgin passed Sunday as the guest of MeHenry friends. Miss Fanny Granger passed several days last week as the guest of Elgin relatives. W. T. Wells of Chicago spent Sun­ day at the home of his brother, Dr. D. G. Wells. Arthur Thelen of Elgin passed Sun­ day as the guest of MeHenry relatives and friends. Chas. G. Buss of Chicago was the guest of his mother, Mrs. Bernard Buss, Sunday. George Johnson of North Crystal Lake attended the Easter dance here Monday night. Dr. A. Mueller of Johnsburgh board­ ed the Chicago train at this station Monday morning. Miss Edna Hunter of Elgin spent several days last week as the guest of MeHenry friends. Miss Kate F. Howe of River Forest was a visitor in the home of her par­ ents here Sunday. Milo Loom is of Woodstock was the guest of his father, A. D. Loomis, Sat­ urday and Sunday. Miss Maude Bernard of Chicago was entertained by the Misses Anna and Irene Frisby Sunday. Miss F. Hillebrand passed a few days the first of the week as the guest of North Crystal Lake friends. James Burke of Chicago spent sev­ eral days last week as the guest of Me­ Henry relatives and friends. Miss Celia Geary of Wauconda called at the home of her sister, Mrs. Hepry Schaffer, last Saturday evening. Mrs. Chas. Gaulke of Woodstock passed Sunday,at the home of her par­ ents, Mr. and Mrs. August Feltz. Frank Schumacher of Chicago passed Sunday at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Schumacher. Dr. S. S. Wells of Chicago was en­ tertained in the home of his brother, Dr. D. G. Wells, the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Heimer and daughter, Elvera, of Woodstock were entertained by MeHenry relatives Sun­ day. Miss Katie Kennebeck of Woodstock spent Sunday at the home of her par­ ents, Mr. and Mi's. John Kennebeck. here. Mr. and Mrs. William Rigg of Ken­ osha, Wis., passed Sunday at the home of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Tesch. Mrs. L. P. Bending and daughter of Woodstock were visitors in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mi's. Fred Feltz, here Sunday. Roy Bohlander came home from El­ gin last Saturday evening to be the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Bohlander, Sunday. Leonard Phillips, Alford Pouse, Misses Mary Knox, Elfreida Berner and Dora Stoffel oi Chicago passed Sunday at their respective homes here. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Frisby and daugh­ ter, Claire, of Chicago spent a few days the first of the week as the guests of relatives in MeHenry and vicinity. Theo. Weidemann of Chicago was shaking hands with MeHenry . friends Sunday. He drove to this place in his auto and was accompanied by Lon Howard of Elgin. Mrs. F. A. Holly and children' of Genoa, 111,, are spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Holly. F. A. accompanied them here last Saturday evening and remained until the follow­ ing evening. Lewis Miller, Louis McDonald, Joe Heimer, Frank Masquelet, John Feltz, Thomas Kane, Raymond and ( larence Whiting, Isadore Feffer, Emery Hart- lette, Math. Laures and James Perkins of Woodstock were Sunday visitors in town. WEEKLY EXC! N'HENRY POWER BOAT CLUB The women of MeHenry have never, to our knowledge, expressed them­ selves publicly on the greatest question tli at lhe\ have before them today, viz., woman suffrage. On Saturday last, however, the day set aside for the holding of the annual school election here, they demonstrated, beyond all possible dd&bt, that they are more than willing to go to the polls and cast their ballots in a fearless manner when­ ever the opportunity present^ itself, this oJ>portunity, of course, coming but once a year in MeHenry. We do not mean to be understood by I his that the sterner sex had no voice in the battle, for they, too. made an exqellent showing at the polls. As a matter of fact, we will venture to say that the vote last Saturday was by far the very largest ever cast at a like election in this village, the total vote polled being 494. The largest previous vote cast at a like election was 41<i. During the past few years school elections in MeHenry have proven hot­ ly contested affairs, but the battle of last Saturday smashed all previous rec­ ords. As has characterized previous lights, the general public was unware of the fact that a battle was to be waged un­ til Friday morning, when the announce­ ment came that N. 1J. Steilen, the Water street groceryman, was out to defeat Wm. Bonslett as a member of the local school board. No sooner had the announcement come before the two candidates, with their friends, were rounding up their forces to do battle. Not one moment's time was lost by either side from that time on until the close of the polls on Friday evening, which brought out the following re­ sult: FOR PRESIDENT. James B. Perry . .. - 190 FOK TRUSTEES. W. D. Wentworth 190 N. P. Steilen - 97 Wm. Bonslett. - - - 93 That the result of the caucus brought no discouragement, was clearly evident at sunrise on the following morning, when both candidates, refreshed by a night's rest, were up and doing and when the hour hand on the old clock pointed to the hour of one every auto­ mobile and bus in town was placed in­ to service. If any voter in the school district did not get to the polls to vote it surely was^iot the fault of the two candidates. The roads in every section of the school district were kept comfortably warm from one until five o'clock and everyone appeared to be more than willing to be carried to the polls. Of course, thefe were a few cases where the voter consented to go to the JKJIIS just for the sake of getting a ride in an auto, but these cases were few, as the canvas made by the fighting forces brought excitement and spij it into the hearts of all who were approached. When the smoke of battle had cleared away* the judge and clerk announced the result as follows: FOR PRESIDENT. James B. Perry... . 494 FOR TRCSTKKS. W. D. Wentworth . 492 N. P. Steilen 2H0 Wm. Bonslett _ .234 Thus it will be seen from the above that Steilen won out by the small margin of twenty-six votes. One feature al>out the election, in which The Plaindealer and every loyal citizen takes considerable pride, is the fact that the light was fairly and hon­ estly waged, not the least sign of mud- slinging being in evidence. And thus it should be. The defeat of Mr. Bonslett tloes not mean the ending of his usefulness to the school district. He will continue, as in the past, to pull^for the educa­ tional interests of school district No. 1") and do everything within his power to bring the MeHenry public school higher up. Mr. Bonslett has always l»een a firm believer in education and has always performed the duties of school trustee in an efficient manner. Mr. Steilen. who takes Mr. Bonslett's place on the school board, is in our estimation, a wide-awake man and should fill the office that he has been elected to with honey1 to himself and to the satisfaction of every tax payer and citizen of the district. With James B. Perry again at the head of the board of education the school cannot help bot make progress. His long service in this capacity has served to make him a valuable man for the place. He is thoroly familiar with every detail connected with the office and, with the six capable men at his side, the public can rest assured that the interests of our educational institution, of which each and every one of us have reason to be proud, will be well looked after. Those, aside from the president, who will make up the board of educa­ tion the coming year are as follows: John Claxton, P. J. Cleary, W. D. Wentworth, John H. Miller, T. H. Bethke and N. P. Steilen. To keep the school in its pr696Dt high standing the board must have the co-operation of every citizen of the AS TAKEN ntON THE COLUMNS Or OUR MANY EXCHANGES. (Continued on page eight,) WILL HOLD MEETING AT RIVERSIDE HOTEL SATURDAY EVENING. The secretary of the MeHenry Power Boat club, I)r. D. G. Wells, has mailed letters to all members of that Isody, announcing a special meeting us take place in the parlors of the Riverside hotel at eight o'clock next Saturday evening, April 22. Many matters of interest wi l l be brought before the meeting, among which will be the location of the club's headquarters for the season of 1911. Quite a number of the meml>ers have suggested and are in favor of making the Riverside hotel their meeting place and from present indications it looks as if the suggestion will meet the eoiuing wi l l :> ! so r e - the coming MISCELLANEOUS ASSORTMENT OF NEWS ITEMS IN CONDENSED FORM FOR BUSY PEOPLE. Lake county now has the third largest correspondence school in the world--the Sheldon. The Emerson Typewriter factory at Woodstock now employs about 17"» men and the payroll approaches $10,000 per month. The logs which were in the World's Fair Idaho building on the shores of Geneva Lake h^ve been cut into planks for the construction -of the new city pier at Lake Geneva. Mi*s. Harriet Rowley was burned to death Tuesday of last week in her home at Rockford, to which she went as a young arid happy bride in 1S43. She was eighty-seven years old. Kenosha is rejoicing in the hope that the Michigan physical examina­ tion law will turn the Chicago couples seeking marriage back to that place. and that business may be brisk again. The ancient and antiquated railway depot at Del!*van. Wis., will be re l>laced bv a modern brick stnioiin-o to be erected this summer by the Chica­ go, Milwaukee \ St. Paul railway company. Frank Youngs of Sandwich, 111 . , a brother of Mrs. Orlando Garrison of Greenwood, died suddenly of heart trouble while on a visit at the Garrison home week before last. He was a vet­ eran of the Civil war. Hebron has been much wrought up of late over the school building prop­ osition. On Wednesday of last week the memlters of the board were served an injunction by Sheriff Henderson, restraining them from accepting any bids for the erection of a new build­ ing. Wauconda Leader: On Friday of last week Otis Phillips, while plowing near Slocum's Lake, saw a full grown deer in one of the pastures on the 11. M. Hoelscher farm. The deer was again seen on Sunday morning by Willard Darrell as it ran back of his barn to the woods. The new Baptist chajiel at Rondout, Lake county, the first church the rail­ road village has evt r had, will l>e formally opened and dedicated by the Waukegan Baptist church Sunday, April 2.1, and ii is probable that later a belfry will be added to the little structure and a bell installed. A steam well drilling outfit, owned by C. 1). Acly of Walworth, made a great record at the A. M. Miller place. east of Harvard. Wednesday of last week, going down thru blue cla\ a dis­ tance of 100 feet from 9 a. in. until t> p. m. that day. The price per foot for drilling is somewhere around *l.t>~>, so it will be seen that the machine niudi money for its ofcner that day. Mrs. Emma T. Bangs, aged eighty five years, died at her home in Don- nellson recently alter a short illness. Mi's. Kangs was. without doubt, the oldest active school teacher in the United States. She was teaching her 21st successive term in Dounellson at the time of her death. She had been a teacher in the country for over fifty veal's. She held a life certificate is­ sued by Newton Bateman. superintend­ ent of'public instruction for the state of Illinois, something like a half cen­ tury ago. M. J. Cal lahan , a young Hart land farmer, on March 2 lost his barn, horses, grain and farm machinery by fire, and on Monday of last week sus­ tained an additional loss when the farm dwelling was burned to the ground, taking with it all the personal effects and household goods on the second floor and what vegetables and property he had in the cellar. Much of the household effects rescued were greutls damaged by breakage. The tire is supposed to have started from a de­ fective chimney. Andreas Matson of Lamb's Corners . Lake county, has an interesting piece of native copper weighing |>ounds which was picked up on his farm last week. The copper is evidently an aerolite which must have descended in 1 i^ular young woman and has the best meteoric form from the heavens. The wishes of her many friends for a pleas- copper is pure metal, somewhat oxi- ailt journey thru her matrimonial life, dized, but otherwise in its elemental | jh,. groom is an enterprising young state. Such specimens are very rare j ,min of exemplary habits and, like the and usually descend to earth in the ju,ung woman he has thus chosen as form of "shooting stars." Mr. Matson s j , j s life-mate, is jjopular among his has a specimen that would be a valu- hundred-. of friends and associates. JOHN H. FULLER ELECTED PRESIDENT Or VILLAGE BOARD AT TUESDAY'S ELECTION with general approval at meeting. The regatta committee ;>ort racing schedule for season. One of the ver> important questions that will come up for discussion and will probably IK* settled is the matter of fixing the membership dues for the season. Last year the dues were placed at $1.00. bat this was found to be far too small to carry out the social fea­ tures as planned by the club at the beginning of ihe season. It is for this reason that the officers of the club are very anxious to have every member present at the meeting Saturday evening, so that the question i»ii\ be settled. A j»ost card has also been mailed to each member of the club, asking his or her opinion on the matter. The }K)st card, which is sup­ posed to IK» returned to the secretary' of the club no later than next Satur­ day evening, is so arranged that the menibeis' opinion may lie expressed by merely marking a cross in one of the squares on the caixl. The eiivular letter gives a thoro explanation of the card's purp<>se and how to mark it and it is hoped that the caixl* will be re­ turned to their proper destination promptly. After a season's experiment the peo­ ple of this village as well as members of the club should have made up their minds at this time whether or not the club is a good tiling for all concerned. , The Plaindealer firmly believes that the club has been a good thing gener­ ally and has been the means of bring­ ing more than one new rcsorter to Me­ Henry as well as holding the old ones here, and we suggest that each and every meiiilKT vote tip* $2.00 fee for the coining season, thus assuring the club of greater success during the sea­ son of mil. Spray y<jttT fruit trees and lierry bushes with Nox-all spray mixture, one pound U) twelve quarts of water. Fifteen cents |>er pound at IVteseh's. FIRST BRIDE 0^ SPRING MISS HARRIET WELCH AND WM. DEWEY JOIN HANDS. A very pretty Easter Monday wed­ ding took place at St. Patrick's Cath­ olic church here at nine o'clock last Monday morning, when Miss Harriet Welch, the accomplished daughter of Mi. and Mrs. William Welch, who re­ side east of this village, was unit»-d in marriage to Mr. William Dewey' of Indianapolis, Ind., the ceremony being performed by Rev. I >. Lchane. pastor of the cliutch. The bride was b* comingly gowned in a suit of blue with hat to match. The groom also wore a suit of blue. Miss Florence Welch, sister of the bride, acted as bridesmaid. while Thomas McDonald, a cousin of the groom, was groomsman. Blue was the prevailing color of the day. A wedding breakfast was served the happy pair at the home of the bride's grandparents, Mr. and Mi's. Thomas Powers, on Main street, West MeHen­ ry. The breakfast was also partaken of by immediate relatives of the couple. The newly weds left on the4:3»> after­ noon train for 1 .'hipago, from which place they left for their future home in Indianapolis, Ind. The bride has been employed at the Oliver Typewriter factory in Wood­ stock for the past few years. She is a able addition to any museum. The citizens of Algonquin are plan­ ning for the reconstruction of the ( ' ongra tu la t ions . Tlx PUBLIC CARD PARTY. married ladies' sodality of St. courses for both morning and afternoon j Ouholic church, will hold a events at the motor climb to j public card party at Buch's ballon June 25, 1911. Motor Club hill, as \he Saturday evening, April 22, the pro- morning course is called, will be -mat}^]^ will go into St. Mary's much faster by straightening out ; cY1UJK*I» fund. Prizes will be awarded curve and increasing the bank. 1 his ( lunch served at 2-r> cents. Tables hill was used first last year and was a ' arranged for domino play- substitute for Perry hill, which could ( (^ cordial invitation extended to nfct be secured on account of the ob- ;1| jections of Dundee township officials. J Phillips' hill has always been used for the afternoon events and this year it will be lengthened at the turn, a |»or ALUMNI MEETING. A meeting of the MeHenry High School Alumni association will be held on Friday evening of this week. April tion of the Phillips' farm being used ^1. at the home of Miss Mabel Granger, for this purpose. These changes will j Every member is urgently requested make greater spee4 possible and will jto l>e present. also lessen the danger for the drivers j p0r the latest and best in buggies -lit the turn. ' see W m Stoffel., DEFEATS HIS WORTHY OPPONENT. PETER J. FREUND, BY FIFTY-NINE VOTES-WIN­ NER THANKS VOTERS. John H. Miller was elected president of the village board of MeHenry on Tuesday of this week and for the next two years that gentlemen will hold down the presidential chair. The battle this year, as everyone al­ ready knows, rested between the two candidates for the village's highest office, the winner coming out of the fray with fifty-nine votes to spare. Tiie contest was exciting from start to finish and the biggest, surprise was in the number of votes polled. Out of .'{20 voters only 2fil made their way to the polls, wnile the candidates as well as other interested ones looked for three hundred at least. The contest from start to finish was a bitterly fought one and the loser has no cause for regret, as he has the sat­ isfaction of knowing that his friends stood with him to the finish and their showing at the polls Tuesday was any- ; !>iil disvouriiy iny. The new president is not new to our people, as he has passed the greater part of his life in this village and has proven himself an upright, honest citi­ zen. While the official capacity is a new one to him, the village and her l>est interests are not and we feel safe in predicting a square, honest and im­ partial administration by our tie w presiJJ dent. He has previously served as a mem­ ber of the board and this, together with his general knowledge of village affairs, should make him a valuable head of our village. With the new president the three old trustees are returned for another two years of service and the personnel of the village board for the coming year will line up something like this: President, John H. Miller; trustees, Win. Stoffel, Mathias Weber, George Meyers, Dr. R.G. Chamberlin, Jos. W. Freund and Fred Nickels. The vote at Tuesday's election was as follows: FOR PRKSIDKNT. J. H. Miller. 147 Peter J. Freund 88 .59 rOUND DEAD IN BED. BODY OF JAMES C. BEEKS OF C FOUND IN COTTAGE. 1<>8 215 205 3 2 1 1 Miller's majority FOR TRUSTERS. Jos. W. Freund,. Fred Nickels. Dr. R. G. Chamberlin Wm. Simes ... Simon Stoffel J. B. Murphy Will Krause Racult at W**<Utack. At Woodstock the Olson and anti- Lorimer forces again fought a lively battle, resulting in the defeat for the latter. J. I). Donovan, Olson's candi­ date for mayor, was re-elected over our old-time friend, George Eckert, by the slight margin of nineteen votes, while Olson himself retained his seat in the city chamber by a majority of 72 voles, his opponent being S. A. Greenleaf. Vlckara Wlna Out at Harvard. In Harvard Representative James M. Vickers was re-elected mayor over "Cal" Hendricks. Vickers, out of a total vote of 750, got a majority of 109. Hull D*l*at*4 at/Crystal Lak*. Dr. Hull, who has been the president of the village board at Crystal Lake during the past few years, was on Tuesday defeated for that office by F. W. Covalt, father of F. E. Covalt, manager of the Wilbur Lumber com­ pany's yards here. The race was very close, the winner having a majority of only a few votes. Statamant al Jahn H. Millar, PraaMant-Elact. To the Voters of MeHenry: I wish to thank the citizens and vot­ ers and all those who assisted me in the last campaign. I want to state publicly that I shall be for the best in­ terests of the village of MeHenry and conduct the office as I believe the ma­ jority of the people wish the same to be conducted. I shall strive at all times to do everything in my power for the advancement and betterment of MeHenry. At no time during the campaign, or before the campaign, did I ever state that I was in favor of a sewerage sys­ tem for MeHenry, and I believe now that the burden and expense of a sew­ erage system would be too great a bur­ den for the tax payers, and I take this opportunity to state that I have been in the past, and am now opposed to a sewerage system for the village of Me­ Henry, and those statements that ap­ peared in the public press previous to the election, insinuating that I favored such a system, were false. JOHN H. MILLER. EASTER DANCE AT JOHNSBURGH. The annual Easter dance at Smith's hall, Johnsburgh, will take place on Monday evening, April 24. Nett's five- piece orchestra has -been engaged and will furnish the music for the occasion. Mr. Smith is just "working his head off" to make the event a cracking good one and those who do not turn out will be missing something great. Dance tickets, 50 cents. Everybody is in­ vited. RAISE PICKLES. See F. A. Bohlander for contracts. National Pickle & Canning Co. May 4 The body of James C. Beeks of Chi­ cago was found lying on a cot in the cottage of Etnil Lasch by Harry Fox on Thursday morning of last week and from all indications the man had been dead at least twenty-four hours when the sad discovery was made. Mr. Beeks, who is a retired attorney and has also served I'ncle Sam in the capacity of colonel in the United States army, came out from Chicago last week to spend the summer months on the banks of Fox river, he having rented the Emil Lasch cottage. Mr. Fox, who discovered the body, had occupied the cottage during the winter months and had vacated the place the day previous to the finding of the corpse. Mr. Fox went to the cottage Thursday morning for the pur­ pose of getting what mail might have been left there for him and noticing that the Wednesday milk was still standing on the porch he began an in­ vestigation, and looking thru one of the windows of the cottage he saw what afterwards proved to be the life­ less bodv of Mr. Beeks lvinw on a cot After all efforts to rouse the supjK>§- edly sleeping man had proven fruitless Mr. Fox notified the proper author­ ities. The cottage was broken into and Dr. Wells summoned. The doctor pronounced the man dead. At the coroner's inquest the jury re­ turned a verdict to the effect that the deceased had come to his death thru natural causes, evidence minting to mitral insufficiency. Mr. Beeks was a native of Indiana and practiced law in that state, Ten­ nessee and in Chicago. He is survived by a widow, two daughters. Miss Ger­ trude Beeks of New York City and Mi-s, R. Loutisbury of Wihnette, 111., and two sons, Charles Edward of Seat­ tle and Mack W. Beeks of Detroit. The body was taken in charge by Un­ dertaker Jacob Justen and shipped to Fort Wayne, Ind., for burial on Friday of last week. ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST AS PICKED UP BY PLAINDEALER tE- PORTERS DURING WEEK. WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING IN TH1 LAGE AND THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY OTHER SHORT PARAGRAPHS. BEST SCHOOL IN THE COUNTY. TERRA COTTA TAKES LEAD IN COUNTRY SCHOOL INTERIOR. North Crystal Lake Herald: The Herald wants to compliment the di­ rectors of the Terra Cotta school Michael Knox, George Ames and John Phalen. They have made the Terra Cotta school interior the best in the county. The hardwood floor has been laid, new seats have been placed, slate blackboard adcted and a modern heat­ ing and ventilating system installed. The walls have been tinted in three colors, picture moulding put up and several handsome pictures now adorn the walls. There is a new desk and chair for the teacher, new curtains, and in fact the entire atmosphere of the room is wholesome and cheerful. The term of school is nine months, the same as most of the city schools. During vacation at the time of the teachers' institute the entire building was cleaned, the floors scrubbed and tiie windows washed, presenting an in­ terior equal to any city school. A great deal of credit in keeping the room neat and presentable must be given the teacher, Miss Nellie New­ man. She takes a pei-sonal pride in this matter and considers it just as im­ portant to look after the practical side of education as after the theoretical. Pupils leaving such a school as this, for school or college life, store, factory or farm, will make good, as they have a well balanced early training. EASTER SERVICES AT M. E. CHURCH. The Easter exercises at the MeHen­ ry M. E. church ta$t Sunday morning passed off delightfully. The training of the children had been thoroly done by Miss Pearl Claxton and Mrs. Went­ worth and each pupil did its part with­ out tripping or hesitation. There were nice musical numbers by the entire school and others by a choir of nine young ladies and three young men. The collection taken as an Easter offering amounted to about eleven dol­ lars, to which more will probably be added, as the notice of the collection was not understood by many. Services next Sunday at the usual hours: Sun­ day school at 10 a. in., preaching ser­ vice at 11 a. m., young people's hour at 2:30 p. m. AN ENTERTAINMENT AT R1NGWOOD. On Wednesday evening, April 26, Mr. J. Emerson Nye will appear in his specialty as a monologue entertainer. Words of praise of his ability as an entertainer can be found on the small leaflets. They come from the leading authorities of the land. This enter­ tainment is given for the benefit of the Ringwood public school libraries part­ ly, but mainly that the pupils may have the opportunity of seeing some of our best literature made real. Make it a point to be present to enjoy one of the best programs ever given in this village, which will be held in the M. E. church, Ringwood. RING WOOD PUBLIC SCHOOL. WILL GRIND BUT THREE DAYS. EJntil further notice, we will grind feed on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat­ urdays onlv. JOHN SPENCER. 44-tf Butter was declared firm at 21 cents on the Elgin l>oard of trade Monday. A baby boy was l>orn to Mr. and Mi's M. J. Walsh on Friday of last week. Now is the time for lightning rods. Better let us figure with you. Wm« Stoffel. The motiograph animated pictures at the Central Saturday and Sunday, April 22 and 23. Lubricating oils and mixed paints, the very best that the market affords. See Wm. Simes, MeHenry. Housecleaning time means that you need dirt banishing utilities. Get them at Debrecht's, Johnsburgh. For a square deal and a quick sale list your property with C. E. Gaylord, West MeHenry. 'phone 414. Oct. 1 Our lightning rods are 32 wire pure copper cable. Nothing better for the money in the market. Better protect your buildings. Wm. Stoffel. Wm. Simes can supply you with the very finest lubricating oils for engine and automobile use to be found on the market today. Better see him. The Ladies' Aid society of the M. E. church will meet with Mrs. A. D. Loomis on Friday afternoon of this week. All members are requested to be present. As a result of the petition sent to the Borden officials, that company isi now advertising the old mill in Center ville for sale. Looks like the-old land mark is doomed. Chas. Kand, who has been doing the wiring for the North Shore Electric at Wauconda, has been transferred to Me­ Henry and is now holding down the job formerly occupied by C. D. Ross. The members of the Fox River Navigable Waterway association will meet at the Riverside hotel on Tues­ day evening of next" week at eight o'clock. All members are urgently requested to be present. Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Schoewer have moved here from Beloit, Wis., and are now making their home with the for­ mer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Schoewer. Joe is again employed in his father's blacksmith shop. The distinction of making the son's first catch of lish from the river bridge is now borne by one C. W. Ed­ wards of Chicago, who on Friday of last week took two dandy black bass from the waters of Fox river at that point. It takes a rich man to draw a check, a pretty girl to draw attention, a horse to draw a cart, a porus plaster to draw the skin, a toper to draw a cork, a free lunch to draw a crowd, and a well dis­ played advertisement in this paper to draw trade. Peter W. Blake of Little Falls, Minn., in renewing his subscription to The Plaindealer, tells us that it is now thirty-seven years since he left this vicinity to locate at his present home and hopes that he may be able to enjoy thirty-seven more years in that beautiful country. About flfty couples attended the Easter Monday dance at Stoffel's hall' on Monday evening of this week. Altho a larger crowd was looked for the management is satisfied. A fine time was had by all present and the music as furnished by Sherman's or­ chestra of Woodstock was simply great. The Plaindealer now has a "missing word" contest of its own. A good church deacon sat down on the busi­ ness end of a tack. He at once sprang up and said two words. The last word was "it." Anyone guessing the first woi-d and sending one dollar and a hall in cash will be entitled to The Plain- dealer for one year. A number of McHenryites attended the memorial meeting in memory of Abraham Lincoln held at Memorial hall, Richmond, last Saturday. The event was given under the auspices of the Richmond W. R. C. and those who attended from here report an enjoy­ able time and most excellent treat­ ment at the hands of the Ricemond citizens. Is the art of dancing losing it* charms to the young people of MeHen­ ry 1? This question was asked last Tuesday morning when it was learned that the assembly at Stoffel's hall on the previous evening was made up mostly of outsiders. Wauoonda and Woodstock were both well represented while MeHenry made a very poor showing. The young people of Me­ Henry are either losing out in num­ bers or the amusement is less fasci­ nating here than in years gone hy when the old town was recognised as the dance center of the community. The fact that so many young people ait? employed away front home may also account for the above state of conditions. •C..-