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- tc. A,=. ,' IP M'HENRY PLAINDEALER • • PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ®Y • v F. G. SCHREINER Office lii' Bank Building Telephonf H-W TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Oo« Year.;.... SI* Six MontH*. TV • * THrciti Month*. Wf Thursday, March 14, 1918 ADDITIONAL PERSONAL* Miss Kathryn Buch was a Chicago visitor Monday. • Nick Justen was a county seat vis­ itor last Friday. Si. J. Walsh was a business visitor in Chicago last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Spencer were Chicago visitors Monday. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bickler were Chi­ cago visitors last Thursday. Gerald Carey spent Sunday as the guest of relatives at Elgin. John P. Schreiner spent Sunday as tile guest of friends at Elgin. Mrs. R. T. Wray passed Saturday last in the metropolitan city. Mrs. Nick M. Justen was a Crystal Lake visitor one day last week. Mrs. M. A. Thelen boarded the Chi­ cago train, last Saturday morning. F. J. Barbian was a business vis to Dundee last Friday evening. William Bickler of Chicago was a Sunday guest in the home of his par­ ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bickler. Mrs. Ben Kennebeck and Miss Cath­ erine M. Freund were county seat visitors Wednesday of last week. John Reihansperger of West Chi­ cago was a visitor in the home of his son, Chas. J., and wife here Saturday. Miss Lillian Pouse has returned from a several weeks' stay in Chicago! and has again opened her millinery store in Centerville. Nick and Jack Franzen of Camp Grant passed the latter part of last Saturday last is said to have been week as guests in the home of theirl of the largest ever held in the county, brother, John, and family here. holds there will soon improvement. Heimer & Engeln sold two of lots on the river above this village to Chicago parties the first of the week. Consideration $400. " The ice is all out of the river and if present weather continues naviga­ tion will open between here and the lakes at an early date? The steamer "Princess" sank at her dock here on Friday last. Cause, the heavy ice coming down the rivtt, which broke a hole in her side. ' • • The teachers' meeting at Nunda on O. N. Owen and daughter, Ethel, and Miss B. Mae Small were guests of the latter's parents at Lake Gen­ eva, Wis., Saturday and Sunday. , Richard B. Walsh and Carl W. Stenger attended the Chicago federal reserve district war conference at the Hotel LaSalle last Friday. The event was held for the purpose of organiz­ ing and preparing for the third liberty loan and was attended by four gov­ ernors. A banquet followed the con­ ference. Mrs. Christina Schreiner and daugh- itor in Chicago the first of the week, ter, Mr,. Jos. W. Rothermel, passed J. C. Holly attendedJ to matters of the first of the week as the quests of a business nature in Chicago Monday, relatives at Elgin Thejr visit at this Everett Hunter was a business vis-1 time was to bid Ray Smith good-bye. itor in the metropolitan city Monday. who- is now in Uncle Sam s ser- Miss Irene Harruff was the guest jvice> vas home on a fe™ fyS of Elgin friends Saturday and Sunday. I lough and expects soon to leave for Al. Beck of Richmond was a busi- I "over there." Ray is a grandson of ness visitor in town last Friday morn- jMrs. Schreiner s and only a short time ago "was made corporal, QUAUTKUUF A CENTURY Items Cliptted From The Plaiadealer Of Twenty-Five Yearn Ago ing. .Mr?. Harry Alexander of Hebron" v. as a week end guest of relatives" here. Jcc Wrede passed a few days last week as the guest of Chicago rela­ tives. F. A. Beller attended to business matters in the metropolitan city last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Heimer were Chicago visitors last Thursday and Friday. Miss Blanche Pry or spent Saturday and Sunday as the guest of friends- in Chicago. Prof. A. E. Nye-Was among the Chicago passengers last Saturday morning. Mrs. D. G. Wells was amd^ig those to beard the Chicago train Monday morning. Miss Verona Niesen attended the basket ball game at Dundee last Fri­ day evening. G. E. Schoel of Chicago passed Sunday as the guest of his wife'and family here. Mrs. A. Lehmacnn of Jefferson, 111., §pent Sunday as the guest of Mrs. E. Schoel. * Miss Hazel McGee of Woodstock #ent Sunday as the guest* of Miss Theresa Barbian. MisseS Marguerite and Genevieve Knox were guests of Chicago friends over the week end. L. A. Turner of Woodstock was a Sunday guest in the home of his sis­ ter, Mrs. J. E. Wheeler. Geo. Heimer of Camp Grant passed Sunday &s a guest in the home of his mother, Mrs. Helena Heimer. Misses Alta and Varina Wentworth were guests of relatives at Carpen- tersville Saturday and Sunday. Miss Esther Miller spent Sunday as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Whiting at Lake Geneva, Wis. Chris G. Burkhartsmeier of Chica­ go was a Sunday guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Barbian. Mrs. Augusta Wolff and daughter, Elsie, were guests of relatives at El­ gin a couple of days last week. Frank Justen accompanied the Mc- Henry high school basket ball team one hundred and forty-three teachers being present. Dr. L. H. Davis, one of the oldest as well as one of the ablest of Mc­ Henry county's physicians, died on Saturday, March 4, at the residence of his daughter in Chicago. All was bright and cheerful at the house of Mrs. Roberts at Greenwood, Wednesday March 8. About thirty were present to witness the mawiage of Charles Henry Carr and Miss Juliet Roberts. John Buch will make some quite extensive changes in his building near the iron bridge this spring. He will move his saloon into the north end of building and change over the other part for a restaurant, hotel and, board­ ing house. P. H. McGrath on Monday took full charge of the cample room in the Cas­ per Wirfs building on the West Side and commencing May first he will, in connection with the present business, open up a first-class restaurant boarding house. v ;*•' f ' Wednesday, February 22, 1893 The young son of Joseph Heimer was quite sick last week, but is now reported better. L. Newman, who is working for the Swift Ice company at Lake Villa, spent Sunday with his family in this village. John Ballenger and wife of Mat- toon, 111., celebrated the seventy-sixth anniversary of their marriage on Fri­ day last. The aged groom is 101 years old and the bride ninety-four. Married--At the residence of E. S. Wheeler, the home of the bride, Feb. 22, 1893, by Rev. Miller, pastor of the Baptist church, Richmond, William Mollohan and Miss Anna G. Schuene- mann, both of McHenry. T. M. Cook, a prominent citizen of McHenry county, died suddenly at Woodstock Monday evening of apo­ plexy. He was .the father of Coroner Cook of Huntley and Dr. W. W. Cook of Woodstock. The Democrats of Woodstock have announced their second inaugural re­ ception and ball to take place at Murphy's hall in that city on Friday evening, March 8, 1893. Heimer & Engeln last week sold their property at Pistakee Bay to Chicago parties. They are also the owners of three acres of land on the river close to this village, which they have laid out into lots and will this season put up one or two handsome cottages and otherwise improve same. Land on the river front now com­ mands three and four hundred dollars an acre and is bound to increase in value as improvements progress. March 15, 1893 Wm. Bacon has been on the side list the past week. There will be a teachers' meeting held at Richmond Saturday. Jos. Heimer has commenced his ad­ dition to the McHenry House. The roads are now in a horrible condition, but if the present weather PROBA TH I burnished by McHenry County Abstract Company, Woodstock, Illi­ nois. Office in Arnold B'>«jck, east sid« of public square. Abstracts of title and ccnveyahcing. Money to loan on real, estate in sums of five hundred to ten thousand dollars. Time and pay­ ments to suit borrower. Phone* A84, !H):j and 911.1 Real Estate Transfef» Benjamin Tonyan & w to Wnfc. tonyan, eMs nw 14; pt w^fc- nwVi sec 14, McHenry, (86.09 acres) .$990fc0® Henry Degen & w to Wm. Blake, It 3 Co. Clk's plat, sees 23 & 22, McHenry (79.62 a). $1« Frank H. Wattles & w to Henry ^ Degen, s& se*4; s% sw^4, sec 29, McHenry. 10.00 Geo. W. Hutson & w to August Rossman, pt nw^i sec 5; pt sw^4 sec 5 (80% a), Nunda.. "1Q»90 Bernard Wegener & w to Elisa­ beth Schweighoffer, pt se^4 * sw*4 sec 32, McHenry, (la 15 sq rds)................. 1.00 Do to Peter F. Miller, s«^4 5, 133% a C. H. Donnelly & w to Elvin P. Flanders, ne% se% seq 21; - n 20 a of se% McHenry sr̂ 1.00 Thomas P. Jecks & w to Geo. W. Hutson, pt Its 9 & 10 of John McBroom's 2nd addn, Marriage Licenses Clarence Scherruble, 20 Aurora Esther M. Locke, 20. . Hebron Clarence L. Sherburne, 20. .Woodstock Gertrude M. Stamets, 19. .Woodstock Edward Marten, 23... .Rutland Twp. Ida Krause, 19 Coral Benjamin J. Schroeder, 30. Greenwood Alma Aavang, 28 Greenwood Egil Leveroos, 26<........ .Woodstock Minnie Eckdahl, 19. . Woodstock Woodstock 10.00 William Schubert, 23.... .Crystal Lake Jennie Peterson, 22 Crystal Lake Join the Red Crosa.^ 3 ;