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TBE M'HENRY PLAINDEALER PUBLISHES EVEXY THURSDAY BY i ¥. G. SCHREINER Olflce in Bank Budding Telephone W-W TERMS O* SUBSCRIPTION: Oae Year.. 1 $1 J*. tis Months. 7Sc , Thr«e Monthl. «c Thursday, March 21, 1918 QUARTER OF A CENTURY Items Clipped From The Plaindealer of Twenty-five Yean Ago March 8, 1898 Our tax collector is closing up his books this week. Some nice strings of fish are being caught thru the ice at the lakes thesej days. Miss D. E. Granger, who has been spending the winter with relatives in Wisconsin, returned to her home in this village Tuesday. Our democratic friends in this vil­ lage celebrated the inauguration of Cleveland on Saturday last by the firing of the cannon. H. W. McLean is moving into the rooms over Huemann Bros.' store and Ralph Bush will occupy the rooms va­ cated by McLean in the Hubbard house. R. Bishop is fixing over the second story of his warehouse for a carriage repository. He is putting up a new wide stairway and putting in large double doors. D. Dice, J. Pedtrey and F. Gardner of Chicago were out here one day last week and caught over two hunt-. dred pounds of pickerel and bass on .Plstakee bay. Frank Chapman, deputy postmaster here, will resign this week, having accepted a more lucrative position in Chicago', and Chas. Lamphere \yill take his place in the postoffice here. John Purcell, who lived south of this village on the prairie, died very suddenly Sunday evening. He had been around as usual during the day, but was suddenly stricken down while doing his chores in the evening. We are now enjoying some mild weather and the snow and ice* are fast disappearing. It seems good after the long, severe, cold weather for nearly four months past. The past winter will pass into history as being one Of the steadiest and coldest for many years. Wednesday, March 1, 1893 The McHenry County Teachers' as­ sociation will meet at Nunda Mar. 11. W. E. Colby has moved to a farm he recently purchased near Spring Grove in the town of Burton. H. E. Wightman has secured a match for his silver-tailed pony and now has one of the finest little driv­ ing teams in the county. The party at the Riverside House on the 22nd, Washington's birthday, was attended by 108 couples and was one of the pleasantest of the season. Jos. Heimer is preparing to build an addition to the McHenry House. It will run north forty feet from the taain building and be two stories high. Rev. D. W. Brown, a colored preacher from Chicago, lectured at the Methodist church on Friday even- !ng last. Subject, "History and Pro* ress of the Colored Race of the North and South." The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Martin, aged two years, died at the residence of Freeman Whiting, west of this village, on Sunday after­ noon last, of membraneous crop. The funeral was held on Tuesday. A good deal of sickness is reported in the vicinity of Volo, Lake county. Scarlet fever Seems to be the pre­ vailing disease. John Brown, .who lives about three and one-half miles east of this village, buried two chil­ dren on" Monday. A regular old fashioned thaw set in on Monday morning and before night water was running down our sti-eets like a mill race. In the evening it rained quite hard, but at this writing, Tuesday morning, it is froten tighter than blixem. ' Fish in the Illinois river are dying by the millions. The reason given by an old fisherman is that bass, pike and other game fish frequently come to the surface at air holes in the ice, which they have been unable to do this winter on account of the thick­ ness of the ice. Nick Schaefer is drawing lumber for a new barn and the repairing of the houre on the Will Colby farm and also for a new house on the farm where the one was burned last sum­ mer, two miles northwest of this vil­ lage. There is a large amount 'of building incontemplation in this vicin­ ity the coming spring. One of the new Steamboats, the Elma, which i3 to ply between Mc- Hcnry and the lakes the coming sear.on. has arrived and is now being painted and put in shape for early navigation. The Elma is a stern wheeler, sixty feet long, light draft, with plenty of cabin room, will carry cne hundred passengers with ease and is expected to make the trip to Fox Lake inside of an hour. The Willard ui.l also be ready for navigation soon, and the two will give a fine steam­ boat accommodations. The Willard is forty-seven feet long and capable of carrying reventy-five passengers. Mes «rs. Wilde and Reese has this line ;n charge. RED CROSS NOTES Owing to impassable roads a branch of the Red Cross has not been organized at Johnsburg. A meeting will be called soon. This soldier is a stranger to Mc­ Henry residents, but nevertheless we congratulate him uyon the lucky draw, as Mrs. Justen is a very ef­ ficient worker in the local Red Cross unit and we are sure that the socks will afford him comfort and fit. Camp Grant, March 3, 1918. Mrs. N. J. Justen, McHenry, 111. Dear Mrs. Justen--Finding your name attached to a pair of socks that I drew to day, I want to kindly thank you for them and I heartily appreciate the sweater, wristlets and helmet that each man in my company received this morning. God bless the Red Cross women of this country, for the soldiers will never forget their kindness and untiring good work that they are do­ ing for this great cause and the com­ fort of the boys that have given up everything they had to fight and down the enemy on the other side, which we will do or die. I am a Huntington, W. Va., boy, leaving a father, mother and two brothers behind, • We leave for an eastern port to­ morrow morning and will be with our comrades over there soon. Thank you again. Good-bye, Grover G. Chambers. 3rd Provisional Co., 13th_ Engineers, Camp Merritt. N, J. Women's Com. C. N. D. The women's committee, C. N. D., has started a campaign for fluids. McHenry county's quota is $100.00. A committee of five will be apointed in this town or township to solicit funds as soon as the chairman is no­ tified the amount expected from this township. April 18 has been set for" the con­ clusion of our registration drive. Of course there will always be opportu­ nity to register wdmen as long as the war lasts--the girls who are becom­ ing sixteen. The ability of every woman is tabulated. The cards are being put to valuable constructive uses thruout the state. Registrars will be sent to Johnsburg to complete the census. The work assigned each chairman in their various appointments will be explained later, as many questions have been asked regarding their duties. For instance, the chairman on home charities will try to assist the Charitable and Philanthropic associa­ tions at home. The women's commit­ tee provided inmates of old ladies in homes with wool in order that it may be knitted into comforts for the sold­ iers. Seeking volunteers to go into these institutions to help and instruct. Up-to-date it has placed 508. The local conservation chairman will urge women to practice economy, telling, them what to eat and how to cook it, giving demonstrations on war cooKing, etc., endeavoring to get her share of the 22,000.000 households of the coun­ try to save wheat and meat, telling what substitutes to use and how to use them. Don'ts for the Knitters of Socks Dcrn't cast on tightly. An otter- wise well knitted sock <may becotne useless by a tight cord at the top. Don't knot your wool. Join the ends by splicing, or by knitting the ends double for 2 or 3 inches. Don't make a heel with a seam on the sole. Remember a man may not have a chance to change his socks for many days and a lump or knot brings a blister. If the blister breaks, blood poisoning may set in and result in the loss of a foot or even of a life. We cannot afford to lose our-, men thru negligence or ignorance. Don't use black, dark or bright colors. Here again lies danger of blood poisoning. Don't use needles too fine for the wool. The knitting should be elastic, if too tightly knitted the sock becomes hard and boardlike in use. Don't make a foot less than 10% inches long. Don't use pins in fastening pairs. MUM*M«MM#»»*••>« PRO BATH NZIVS J [Furnished by McHenry County Abstract Company. Woodstock, Illi­ nois. Office in Arnold Bi'jck, east side of public square. Abstracts of title and conveyancing. Money to loan on real estate in sums of five hundred to ten thousand dollars. Time and pay­ ments to suit borrower. Phones 684, !>03 and »U.l Real Estate Transfers Geo. D. Hamiel & w to Char­ lotte May Chapin, It 6, Mat­ thias Schaefer's sub div, McHenry $ 1.00 Cora A. Flanders & h to Otto Johnson, pt wV6 se% se% sec 21, McHenry. r 1500.00 Elvin P. Flanders & w to Do., ne% se^4 sec 21; pt se% se%; pt w% ne% ; pt wMi se%, sec 21, McHenry..... 6500.00 Albert L. Howe & w to An­ drew L. Isberg, It 44, Or­ chard Beach, McHenry 1Q.00 Dmiiel Walker to Michael Miller, e% seM; e% w% sk% sec 1, McHenry 700.0Qo Marriage Licenses David F. Lewis, 25 , .Harvard Anna E. Marx, 18 Harvard Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday school at 2:00 o'clock p. m.; preaching services every Sunday aft­ ernoon at# 3:00 o'colck. 4 •; FOR SALE--House and four lap. Excellent building sites. Mrs. Mxrf Schreiner. West McHenry, HL