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We Wish Each ani Everyone ̂ A Merry Chnstmas Four Big Bargain Days FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY AND MONDAY '** Let nothing happen on Christmas Day To dampen the spirits of all so gay The Dinner should be of the very best OUT goods will stand the supreme test December 21, 22, 23-4 OPEN ALL DAY ON SUNDAY t '*<*>• * X;, " BUTTER " As you all know butter is way up, selling at 53 to 55 cents per pound. Here is your last chance to the best butter on the market, at per H*.--- 49c ' r V BUTTfeRINE ... r J - Best Armour's or PearsalTs Butterine, per 1d3T C •- ; % / r i £ : ~ law* //',> lTe!y%dit1)ufe tttrrf' per pound. .. i_ 1 Your last chance to buy a tub of Lard, at pec. pound...ci.-- - 28Ke --r Bis lot of Christmas Trees arrived today. • Gome and see. All sizes, all prices. „ • n . c f r . i S , . . b •»«•• -""'Vint.,ii,,, "...'jft'V ' %*j ' r ; ̂ • u ~ - ~ - o R p E R s F O R ^ -- - ' n l ^ : - •. ^ Turkeys, Goose, Duck or Chicken i..; must be placed not later than Friday, Dec. 21 ' 4 JV * FRESH FISHf All kinds of Fresh Fish on Friday* Afoo Oysters, Smoked Fish and Herring. ••At1 "» "Miti'mf •' - CHEESE •'• »"•'* ' 1 American, Limburger and Brick Cream Cheese at only per pound . 30c Buy your supply of Cheese now. Never again will you be able to buy at such a bargain. ̂ ; ? . " ~ - • • ') 1 ';"*"*"' Large assortment of Fruits and Vegetables V""' 'Cifl -VA v VJt \b * 'COFFEE £ v>„ Our regular 25c Coffee, per pound - - * »'Siis&fe- -17c Fancy Green T ̂r^ular 50c seUer, at per pound «'VK -# \ * I' "'-"soaps All Soapfe at 6 bars foil Xj; «•«*»• -1*' m •» <•" '% Jft» *• , s , -- . . . . „ * i f c ' * ' .CAN GOOD# ;wiV None Such Peas, per can--^^_Lr •? 14c None Such Corn, per can 14c None Such Beans, per canu», 14c A square deal at this store means a square meal of Quality Gpods at the home of each and every patron. We buy Hides, Poultry, Eggs, Calyes and Hogs *•;» -f- and pay highest market prices saifecs r v *f". •' ?• V"J \ v ' ' & N U T S A N D C A N D I E S , X M A S T R E E O R N A M E N T S • •",wMi'J>r.u I ,'ymw „ i'w,1, wi • I "m 4-1 >£\ v1l'W"iii.t|,rri.-iilir,i' m*' /iiri/.'i .' '\y in Mti-iiij1!.'!, '& When you deal with ui you are sure to get good, honest, correct weights no maf- i Z. C v ' ' ter if ito ln Nyto« <w selliaj!. • " r'«'. : "• • --^K S>^ v " & " k 'Phone 26 , *;:• v- ADAMS BROS, 4 ^ ' 1 ^ ' McHENRY, IL^ •d * ' d' "* +* \Z . . • :"ii , FRESH MEATS \ IF , - i t • ' $ ; , ' l \ i * All kinds of fresh Beef and Pork Sirloin Steak, at per pound.- j., -rr~- 23c Boneless roll Roast, no waste, per lb L:__ 22c Whole Beef Rounds, rump off or on, lb__ |4^C No. 1 Hindquarters, per pound t̂ -J4Kc No. 1 Forequarters, per pound. ̂13c No. I Beef Rib, per pound. 15C * " 1 * You can compare the above prices \$ith those of any other place. We buy the best meats obtain­ able. None better, h < •* i " . - ' I •i # '^1 ' * ] ~ih . ' • * :t I --'5 ; Elgin and Janesville i&s* ' * Sbakery goodI Pies, R K. E. Haeger, ^ GROCERIES **' J //v We claim to have the largest variety of the best brands of Staple and »\ Fancy Groceries ̂ inMcHenry. Not ̂ only that, but at as low a price as the lowest. - ' I J 1*VJ « c • Bo you know that ther©. > is a difference in Bain- : *- ety Goods. Our bakery goods are made of j best material that., money can buy. We use the beat leaf lard, eggs right from . the farm in our cakes and; pastry. . We bake evei?£ afternoon, Buns, Bread ajiiu Koils. R tune ui bet* that bakery goods are ^ not improved by being shipped a long distanciesr They are best wh# t bought at the place thoy aire made. Our special Coffee Cakes on Satur* day ar6 good. In fac^ M Sunday breakfast & " not complete withof^t one of them# t 5^ £+' 5 >•'£ S*. * ' v ̂ The McHeHry fedd^y A. LAlXINCiER, PROP. Patronize your home bakery MANY ATTEND ROAD MEETING Hear Explanation of $60,000,000 Bond Issue bjr State * .,*«• ijoo Real Estate Transfers ,vfd T. Smiley & w to Bernard Wegener, sw% swH sec 82, \ McHenry l^K) tcob Schissi# & w to John " Motzer, pt It 1, Sunnyside, Mc- " Henry * Jacob R. Justen ft ? to Geo. J. Sayer, sw% se^4 sec 18; a n 8 chs of ne &, ;i«e 18, Mo Heniy^..................... tiyDO Marriage Uecnses Ralph Ritzert, 23..... Marengo Alma' Pierce, 23 .Harvard Boy Melvin Jacobie, 25. K... .Sharon Catherine 3Lee Marty, 25. . . .Elkhorn Alexander C. Hannah, 2t... .Madison Viola Durkee, 22. ...Detroit John Tsatsos, 48............Chicago Anostasio Chieles, 2S;. . . . . W o o d s t o c k - Lake Herald] Nearly a hundred men, representa­ tive of practically every community in McHenry county gathered at the court house in Woodstock Tuesday night tc attend a good roads meeting and to listen to an explanation of the possibilities of the $60,000,000 bond is­ sue passed by the legislature last May, under which the money paid to the state for motor vehicle license fees can be used for building cement roads connecting practically all of the im­ portant centers in the county. The meeting was called to order by Circuit Judge Charles H. Donnelly, who presided. Judge Donnelly intro­ duced as the first speaker Wm. G. ITVUnc nrosiHati* nf *Jh« Illinois BUorh- way Improvement association. Mr. Edens is the father of the good roads movement in Illinois and has been devoting much tfme to the work in connection with this movement for, a number of years. Mr. Edens explained how, from its very inception a hundred yeafs ago, Illinois has lagged behind in the mat­ ter of building good hard roads, how the state is divided into counties, the counties into townships and the road- building has been handled by three commissioners in each township, mak­ ing a total of 4,500 men in charge of road construction in the state. As a result there have been about as many different ideas of road-building and types of road and no comprehensive system of state-wide roads. About five years ago an improve­ ment was made in that the Tiee law was passed by the legislature, provid­ ing for the building of hard roads under the state aid plan. Under this plqji about ^0 per cent of the roads of the state were converted into hard roads. But the state aid plan, while a step ahead, was still far from being satisfactory. Last May, thru the efforts of the Illinois Highway Improvement asso­ ciation and others interested in "pull­ ing Illinois out of the mud," a bill was passed by the legislature providing for a f60,000,000 bond issue for the purpose of building permanent hard roads on a comprehensive system mapped out and providing for hard roads reaching into (VMJ fouwty aif the state of Illinois. The exact roads to i>e improved are designated in this bill, which must be ratified by a vote of the people next November, and will provide cement roads leading into, thru and up and down the state in every direction. The annual automobile license fees have b^en doubled by an act of the legislature, and the total interest and principal of the $60,000,000 bonds will be paid from automobile or motor ve­ hicle license fees and still leave "a sub­ stantial sum to be used in improving other roads not designated in the bill. The map which has been drawn up showing the roads designated for im­ provement, which in reality means converting into cement roads, shows that McHenry county has been al­ lotted 100 miles of such roads. One of the designated roads runs from Barrington in Cook county thru Cary, Crystal Lake, Ridgefield, Wood­ stock and Harvard to the Wisconsin i;«« A A1 --L -- pense of the state. W. L. Pearce, attorney of Belvidere, was the second speaker during the evening. Mr. Pearce announced that little Boone county, with only twelve miles of designated state road, has decided to take up the proposition, and will vote Jan. 9 on a proposed bond issue for the purpose of improv­ ing the designated roads and will go farther and improve many lateral or connecting roads at the same t-ime= Mr. Pearce explained at some length and quite thoroly how the automobile license fees would more than care for the expense of the designated roads and leave a balance to care for other roads to be improved along the same line. „ "The people will be for this bond issue," said Mr. Pearce. "The man who owns an auto will be for it, be­ cause he will have to pay his increased license fee anyway and might as well to seeura those roadu as soon as pos­ sible. Mr. Shurtleff brought out the fact that the old system of road-building never got anywhere and said that the state bond issue plan was the first comprehensive and practical system for securing hard roads in a reason­ able time that had been devised, and comprised about 4,500 miles of main traveled roads within the state. Mr Shurtleff pointed out that- the matter of bonding the county to build the designated state roads at once had been brought to the attention of the that • -A fV.=f fH auu uiau body would hold an adjourned meeting Dec. 20 to consider the question of putting the proposition to a vote of the people. By looking at the map, said Mr. Shurtleff, you will see that the south and west half of the county is pretty well covered by the designat­ ed state roads, but that the northeast man present, many of whom not be­ ing fully conversant with the provi­ sions of the act, were previously op­ posed to it, favored the bond issue for the county. RURAL MAIL DELIVERIES May Vk Discontinued Unless High­ ways Are Put In Better Shape The expected has not yet happened, but it is likely to happen unless public highways, on which the rural mail carriers travel in their daily routine of mail delivery, are not improved and put . in such condition that they will be passable at all seasons of the year. " Postmasters the country over will be called on to secure an accurate list of all mail takers who cannot be reached on account of bad roads. Later rural natrons will be notified L uito iiuuijuavc Waukegan thru Gray slake in Lake county thru McHenry to Woodstock. A third road ruits from Harvard thru Marengo to DeKalb. A fourth road runs from Elgin in Kane county thru Marengo to Belvidere in Boone county and on to Rockford, being a part of Grant highway. The issue of bond for these cement roads will not mean an increase in taxes on McHenry county property, for the increased automobile license fees will take care of both the princi­ pal and interest of the bonds as they fall due. As it was stated at the meeting Tuesday night, the bill pro­ vides that these cement roads shall be built solely from the money derived from motor vehicle license fees. To build this state-wide system of highways, however, will take some time, a^lKriothing can be done on the proposinitm until the bond issue has been ratified, but this need not delay the building of the roads, for the leg­ islature passed an enabling act per­ mitting counties to issue bonds for the purpose of improving the roads designated by the state at once, and the state will reimburse the counties which take such action for every penny they hpve spent on the desig­ nated road. The money thus received may then be used to pay off the bonds, or if desired to improve other con­ necting roads in the county. The first counties to take action in improving the state designated roads will be the first counties to be reimbursed. After the roads have been built they will be maintained at the ex­ ilic money used for uuiluinie j «<*»* ui lie ewuiiiy ia not touched by 0f the conditions prevailing and will hard roads. The man who does not these roads. While not caring to ap- own an atito will be for the bond is­ sue, because the hard roads will not cost him a cent. They cannot be paid for by assessment on property, but must jfce paid for out of automobile license fees.'* Attorney Pearce had the facta and figures to back up his arguments. Only that afternoon he had investi­ gated the records at the court house and found that in 1917 McHenry county had expended for Toad im­ provement $148,399.17, shown as fol­ lows: * Road and bridge tax..... .$117,899.00 County appropriation for state aid roads.. . . . . 1 2 , 9 0 0 . 1 7 State aid *p{nropriatiott«V.^12,900.00 Total... f. $143,399.17 Under the present plan of road im­ provement it will be generations be­ fore the county will have a compre­ hensive system of hard or cement roads. Under the present system the county will in twenty years have spent --figuring on the basis of what was spent last year--$2,600,000 on its roads and still have very little hard road. Under the $60,000,000 bond is­ sue plan the county will have at least 100 miles of cement road for the use of the present generation for much less than that amount. The proposed type of cement road will probably be built 18 feet wide. Representative Edward D. Shurt­ leff addressed the gathering on the subject of hard roads'and the propo­ sition of bonding the county in order pear in the light of attempting to die tate what the board of supervisors shall do, it is my opinion, stated Mr. Shurtleff, that the board should pass a resolution authorizing a special elec­ tion, at which the people could vote on a. bond issue sufficient to provide hard roads on the main traveled roads of the county, in addition to the desig­ nated roads already provided for in the bill passed by the legislature. The designated roads are to be built anyway, whether tile county issues bonds or not, but some time will elapse before they can be built, unless the county takes action on the matter, and the counties which pass a bond issue and start building the roads will be the first to be' reimbursed when the $60,000,000 bond bill has been rat­ ified next November. The people of Cook, Lake and Win­ nebago counties have already voted in favor of building hard roads in their counties* At the close of Mr. Shurtleff'a talk a petition asking the board of super­ visors to pass a resolution authoriz­ ing an election to be called, that the people might be permitted to vote on a proposition of bonding the county for $900,000 to build cement roads under the state act, was circulated, and practically every man who at­ tended the meeting signed the peti­ tion, which will be presented to the board at its adjourned meeting next Thursday. After hearing the talks on the sub­ ject of hapl roads, practically every likely be told that unless the roads are put in proper shape the mail de­ livery will be discontinued. Highway commissioners will be asked to exert their best efforts in meeting a situation that is unusual in many localities. Since the postoffice department made a complete change in routes by extending them from twenty-five to thirty miles the situa­ tion has become acute. One mail car­ rier after another has resigned be­ cause of the increased mileage and the consequent bad roads until in yearly every postoffice in the eountry there is a condition that alarms of­ ficials of the department, it is said. That the route extenion has re­ sulted disastrously is the consensus of opinion expressed and how to remedy it without co-operation on the part of highway commissoners is what is troublesome -now, but highway com­ missioners are without funds to go on with a general improvement of the roads. Unless something is done before long, it is predicted the routes will be abbreviated and those who live on impassable roads are pretty sure to have their mail service cut off en­ tirely, ia. the way the matter Is put up by some who profess to know the existent situation. No Hunting Notice is hereby given that tres­ passing, hunting and trapping are strictly prohibited npon our premises. P. E. Martin. . >- Martin Sroa. ; Having decided to quit, undersigned will sell at the L. D. Lowell farm, about 3% miles southeast of Moifeftry on the river road and about 2 Miles northeast of Burton's bridge, on V SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 111$ ? commencing at 10:00 o'clock arm., tile ; | following described property, to-wit: 34 HfiAD OF LIVE STOCK / - • - --1-consisting of-- j St High Grade Hoistein Canra 19 milkers and springs. The above * herd is of my own'raising. Also 1 heifer, 15 months old, 1 heifer calf, 4 months old and 1 Holstein bull, 2 year* "V old. . I/ISI S Horses Bay mare, 11 years old, in foal, «$f unn »b~.; bay --.arc, 3 years old, wt ^ 1200 lbs.; grey mare, 9 years old, wt 1100 lbs.; bay maae, 11 years old, wt ^ 1100 lbs.; black draft colt, 6 month* 1 old. 7 pigs 14 weeks old. 100 White | Leghorn chickens. * .^ 1 Hay and Grate 10 acres hill earn in ehock, qsutity •" ? of timothy hay in barn, 200 bushehr / ; of oats. Machinery, Etc. r McCormick corn binder, nearly MWfr: ^ McCormick mower, Bradley sulky V plow, new; 2 walking plows, 2-sectioft drag, C. B. & Q. corn planter with 80 rods of wire, nearly new; Oliver earn cultivator, John Deere hay loader, 12- disc pulverizer, land roller, grindstone, top buggy, Stoughton truck wag'uft* S inch tire; low iron wheel truck wagon, new; light milk wagon, combination hay rack, set dump boards, set breech­ ing harness, new; set light work har­ ness, single harness, 2 sets 3-horse whiffietrees, wire stretcher, ti milk cans, 2 milk pail?, forks, shovels, wM other articles. ' "%$>aed Free Lunch at N«i» ^ Terma of Sale: X.,,,,,,, AU sums of $10 and under, easfe; over that amount a credit of 6 months* time will be given on good bankable notes bearing interest at the rate of per cent per annum. No property to be removed or possession of it-- given to purchaser until settled for ; with clerk. t ^ " Wm. Hianaa, P*a|k K Simon Stoffel, Cleric. V i "' Give ua~your neit mim far graved calling carda and mm what * Mat jofc we «aa > ,.g; • y* . • ^ \ : VI - r n! ( ^ JUJ - 13 • M ' .-•-r'« V 'VT' J - ^ ... ,r