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iftllflli •<: ... N-" <fi £: A W •*^ • «*i C ' % '"toe-Aim .rv'^vjv A*. mmmm THE PUBLIC PULSE IffllY PfllSONttS 2*:: OOMERS AND GOERS OF A I; WEEK IN OUR CITY 1/ Ac Seen By Plaindealer Re- ^ , r. porters and Handed * By Our Friends , W. A. Sayler was ft recent visitor ^ - it Woodstock. Mrs. William Gillespie «f Chicago ^ ' Was a recent McHenry visitor. Miss Margnret Hulholland of Chicago was a Sunday prueat in Hie home of Mr. and Mrs. W. £. Carey. Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Besley of Woodstock were callers in the home of Mr.'and Mrs. W. A. Sayler, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. David Stanley and MIrs. Mark Hutson of Woodstock were callers at the W. A. Sayler home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Duda of Chicago spent last week at McHenry where they conducted a sale at the Robert Duda tailor shop. All kinds of wearing apparel was sold at rock bottom prices : f. Dividend Notice THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS of Public Service Company of Northern Illinois has declared die regular quarterly dividend of $1.50 per share on the Company's 6% Preferred Stock, $1.75 per share on die 7% Preferred Stock, and $2.00 per share on the Common Stock, payable May 1, 1928, to stockholders of record, at die close of business, April 14, 1928. QEORQE R JONES, Treasurer PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY - OP NORTHERN ILLINOIS Serving 6,000 square miles--295 cities, Mmt and communities--with Qas and Elc&ricity M ¥^J, i LVIWU'-'--1'""1 • -in the Sky -at the Speedway •on the Road HwfiunoasBaickVahw-in-HeadEnfltM tua ghra COBCIUMV* proof of UnUnhip in ifl«hm»nti of perforn*- jaewmptriodoftMDtffimryMi. Uadbsnh, Makland, Chamberlin, Bfrf-tMCunoiufli*n of th« day-- ««gin«« employing th« V«lv*-a»- 4 friacipU is their record* Practically every ractag <* inters* h all the major ipctd claaak* of the paat twelve year*, hu baan Valra-ln* Head equipped. Chooia Buick --powered by the fiunoua Vaive-m-Hsad Bagias~M* prune in the ricy, at if oath* road t w ... BUICK MDANS $1195 to $1999 ' ' COUPES $1195 to $1*M SPORT MODBLS $1195 to $1525 e . jgMprium f.«. b.f F-t--imtr, VpiUcmL,, Atrt nmn*rnn4taniir (Ma»r,l itt km rsJtiU.T htG.lt. A, & OVERTON & COWEN Buick Dealers West ftfcHtnry, 111. Harvard, III. Crystal Laka,IW. The eteclriori «n of soaking it right at the table ia not only mora convenient, bat h alao turna oat slices that are uniformly fstdan brown and delicious. or a limited time we are oBering a selection of beautiful electric toasters at onto 50c down -balance "Little by Little" with your monthly light bills. Call and select yours today PUBUC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS 101 Williams St., Crystal Lake ,. S. A. Schabeck, District Manager Mrs. John E. FYetMid spfcni Thursday in Chicago. F. G. Schreiner was a Chicago visitor Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Pay were in Elgin Wednesday. • Charles Ensign spent the week-end at Milwaukee, Wis. Arthur Peterson of Grayslake visited here Sunday. William Hoeft of Chicago spent Sunday in this vicinity. John E. Freund was a Chicago passenger Monday evening. Miss Hazel Bacon of Chicago spent the week-end at her home here. Mr. and Mrs. Will Cowen of Harvard visited relatives here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mullen of Oak Park visited relatives here Sunday. Miss Genevieve Knox of Elgin spent the week-end at her home here. Miss Maud Granger of Chicago spent the week-end at her home here. C. S. Owen and son, C. N. Owen, of Chicago spent Sunday at McHenry. Miss Theresa Brefeld and brother, Joe, were Chicago visitors Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hildebrand spent several days last week at Menominee Palls. < Mrs. George H. Johnson and Mrs. E. E. Bassett were Elgin visitors Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Bickler and children of Chicago visited relatives here Sunday. Richard B Walsh of Chicago visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Walsh, Sunday. Miss Laura Karls of Chicago spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Karls. The Rev. J. J. Hackett of Fulton, 111., spent several days the palst week with friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Louis McDonald and family visited in the Ames home at Terra Cotta Sunday. Miss Claribel Martin of Woodstock was a Sunday guest of her cousin, Miss Floribel Bassett. MJr. and Mrs. Glen Robinson of Woodstock were Sunday guests in the William J. Welch home. Mr. and Mrs. Merritt CruickshanJ of Elgin were guests in the Richard Thompson home Sunday. Miss Caroline Miller returned to Wilmette Monday after spending the Week at her home here. Miss Rovena Marshall returned the last of the week after visiting relatives in Chicago last week. Bernie Newman of Chicago spent Sunday in the home of his parents, Kr. and Mrs. L. F. Newman. Miss Angela Miller spent Sunday in the home of her parents, Mr. and $Irs. Jacob Miller, at Johnsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Glosson of Waukegan were Sunday guests in the liome of Mr. and MTS. Fred Karls. Miss Harriet Bobb of Chicago spent the week-end at a guest in the hqme if Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Reynolds. Mir. and Mrs. E. J. Mansfield of Woodstock visited in the E. E. Bassett home the first of the week. Mr. and Mxs. Everett Hunter returned the first of the week, after Spending several months in Florida. Mrs. J. C. Peterson of Chicago is Spending the week in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore JWinkel. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Schneider, in ^company with itr. Mm. H. MStephenson, visited at Waukegan Sunday. _ , ..... Mr. and Mrs. Henry Foss and little son were visitors at Waukegan Sun- (Mrs. Anna Mlollohan of Ridgefield spent several days this week in the home of Mrs. EUa Wheeler on Green St William H. Althoff spent Monday at Woodstock where he attended the meeting of the County Central Committee. Mr. and Mrs. George Shepard and I children of Ringwood were Sunday visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Claxtbn. . Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dittrich and daughter, Margaret, of Chicago called on Mr. and Mrs. John E. Freund and family Sunday. Mrs. Agnes Wentworth, Mrs. William Bacon and J. J. Marshall and little daughter, Jane, were Waukegan visitors Sunday. • Harry Morris of Chicago attended the meeting of the directors of the McHenry Country club at the city nail on Sunday morning. ; Mr. and Mrs. William F. Burke and E. F. -Kelter attended the funeral of their cousin, Mrs. Doyle, in Chicago on Wednesday of last week. Mr. and Mrs. Rroughton and daughter of Wauconda visited in the home of their daughter, Mrs. H. B. Schafer, and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Baron, Mrs. John Miller and little granddaughter, Rosemary, and M!rs. George Kuhn were Elgin visitors Monday. Mrs. John Bolger and Mrs. Math Fitzaimmons of Woodstock ^ere visitors in the home of Miss Etta Powers last Thursday evening. Marshall Woodburn, student at the University of Michigan, visited lasf| week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Woodburn, on Waukegan street. , Mr. and Mrs. Pater Miller and family were Woodstock visitors Saturday where they visited their son, who is recovering from an operation at the Woodstock hospital. Mrs. George Fhalin and little daughter, Terry, in company with relatives from Woodstock, visited over the week-end with Miss Lucille Peter at- St. Mary's, Notre Dame. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Peterson of ^Chicago spent the week-end in the home of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Winkle. Mrs. Peterson remained to spend the week with her parents. Mrs. John Walsh and sons, Raymond and Howard, of Fox Lake visited the former's mother, Mrs. B. F. Frisby, Saturday. Grandma Frisby has been confined to her bed the past Week on account of illness. Mr. and Mrs. William Burnt, Mr. and Mrs. George Moriarity, Mrs. Stanley Conley and Mrs . Lucy Quinlan, all of Woodstock, were ifmnar and evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Woodburn last Wednesday. TAKEN FROM COLUMNS OF OUB EXCHANGES Assortment of Newsy Itesi In a Condensed Form For Busy People Herman Amann, son of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Amann of Fremont, and a student at the Libertyville township high school had the misfortune to lose his left eye Wednesday of last week when he was struck by a javelin hurled by Buckley, a member of the Barrington high school track team. The accident took place at Libertyville high school, where a track meet between Gurnee, Antioch, Barrington and Libertyville was being held. He was taken to Victory Memorial hospital at Waukegan for treatment, and is getting along as well as can be expected. Mlarengo is now assured of a City Pafk, of which she can be justly proud, when plans now under way are brought to a reality. At their meeting on April 9th the American Legion voted to give $1,000.00 toward beautifying the city park which will include tennis courts, wading pool for the kiddies, and, we understand, that one of the first things done will be to build a shelter house with toilet facilities. George Standish and grandson, Marvin Standish, of Marengo found the badly decomposed body of Oscar Becker, 58, wealthy Oregon, 111., farmer in the slough adjoining the Pecatonica river 12 miles northwest of Rockford, about 10:30 o'clock, Monday morning of last week. Standish will receive a reward of $300 for the discovery the offer having been made by Everett Patterson, Durand banker and administrator of the estate. Suit for $25,000 in slander was started last week by Joseph Hironimus of Volo against his neighbor, Jacob Biefield. A year ago Hironimus charged that Biefield circulated a rumor that he had stolen honey from .his beehives and had taken his chickens. Hironimus and Biefield have been neighbors for ten years. Mrs. Lucille Lins, a well known Powers Lake woman, was instantly killed recently when she leaped to the ground from a window on the sixth floor of the Francis Willard hospital, Chicago. She had been suffering from a nervous breakdown and had been in the hospital for about a week. Interrupted as they were piling shoes and boots on the floor of the Sells brothers store, in Highland Park one night recently burglars were forced to take to their heels in order to evade patrolmen close behind them, j Entry had been gained through a rear door. The building is being remodelled. A temporary door was used in the rear of the store. Vicious and wanton slaughter erf sheep in a large flock on the Hecht place, Libertyville, was completed last Friday afternoon by at least two and possibly more wolves. Two of them were seen at the slaughter and when the animals discovered that they had been seen they escaped in a southwesterly direction. During the winter months, there were several wolves killed in the vicinity of Libertyville. At Prairie View, a few months ago, nine v olves were killed by one man. Several small boys, playing along the banks of the Rock river near Beloit, last week found a traveling bag containing $6,000 in stocks and bonds, which had been stolen from W. A. Webber, 444 North Lawler avenue, Chjcago, on April 2. Webber went to Beloit to claim his property. He said that he left the bag in a railroad checkroom, from which it was taken. Kidnaped from an automobile in which she was sitting with Carl Sandstrom, of Sycamore, near Electric Park, near DeKalb, at H o'clock laBt Thursday night, Miss Ruth MacGaughy, 22, Sycamore school teacher, was thrown from the car of her abductors at 2:30 o'clock in the morning a mile and a half south of Burlington. Her face a mass of bruises and her clothing torn, the young woman made her way to a farm house and telephoned the Sheriff's office at DeKalb. Frank Czadek, popular Moose and business man of Wcfodstock, was elected head of the local Moose at the annual election of officers of the lodge held last Thursday evening. Mr. Czadek succeeds George Moncur, who has held the office of director for several years. Mr. Czadek served as vice-director last year. According to the Waukegan Sun, warrants charging William Huber, deputy sheriff, and L«e Middendorf, both of Antioch, but formerly of McHenry, and said to be co-partner® in th" Antioch Motor Sales with embezzlement o£ $15,000 from the Industrial Acceptance Corporation of Chicago, were issued Tuesday bj| Justice Harvey Coulson. Both men, it was understood made plans to surrender to Sheriff Laverne Dooi little and give bonds. Besides thf criminal action there is to be a civil suit. This will be filed by Attorney Herr, who represents the corporation, about Friday ftSd will Mk $25,000 damages. Short Talks by Thoughtful Mothers Says a Virginia Mother: "Use _ cough medicine that contains 'dope T Oh, never. To our children we give Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, as my own dear mother used* to give it to me. It so quickly relieves cough*, colds, croup, whooping coughs and those disturbing night coughs. Heartily endorsed by Mothers everywhere. No opiates, no chloroform, contents plainly marked on package. Once tried, always used. Ask for it. Thomas P. Bolger, Druggist. (All coauaonicatiens for this department must be signed by the writer, otherwise they will aot lie published. The Plaindealer Invites its readers to express their opinions in this colunn.) Woodstock, I1L, April 18, 1928 Editor of Metlefiry Plaindealer, McHenry, Illinois. Dear Editor:- , , Desiring to have the most hearty co-operation between the people of this county and the State's Attorney, and realizing the fact that a great many people do not understand .that a punch board is really a gambling devise and as much unlawful to operate as a slot machine. Therefore, I am asking that all those who have punch boards in drug stores, cigar stores and News Depots or other places, to co-operate with me and see that these machines an taken down. I am confident that the people of McHenry County wish to co-operatfc with the State's Attorney and in order to assure the county of our cooperation, I am making this request in Hiis matter. " Yours respectfully, V. S. LUMLEffl State's Atto Some one says that some one said. Well, forget it! Don't you mind! Fearless labor, fearless treat^.^ Never stop to look behind, What the tale, whatever kind,- To the gossip deaf and blind, Shape your course and go ahead-- Never mind what "some one said." The pedestrian taking his time crossing the street glared at the motorist who was impatiently honking to hurry him up. The pedestrian accelerated his pace not a jot. "I. do not choose to run," he said in now historic phraseology. --The Dental Digest. „ -J i-sls-W Some One Said Some one said that some one Something said concerning you; How it is you get ahead, How is it you never do. Whether false or whether Soon you're worried through and through, Courage gone and pleasure fled Over something "some one said." "Some one says," and some one near Brings the story, lass or lad, . Lets you know what others here- S}ay about you, good or bad. Often some a little add To the story that they had--. There is some one, never fear, ' Glad to tell you what they "hear." v - Many exceptional values in our WEEK END SALE ff of :HOUSE DRESSES and APR Embroidery Linens and Pillow Casap Vf5 %: Agatha Shop 1^':- M ": '4 •iSSSB "?• sft C^>W. t" ' --V v'-- . / -V*. •. _ BABY CHICK SALE > Chicks hatching four times per week. Pricft fc&nge 12c and up, all leading varieties. w* jay for Phone 1537f •" ^ Fox River Hatchery Elgin, III •all A Wonder Value Living Room Suite f Compare the values we are offering in Living Boom Suites before you decide upon what to get for refurnishing your home this spring. An ample selection of de signs from which to choose. FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKING / Phone 103-R s tells Story ! Every day, the Bigger tod Better Chevrolet is literally selling itself to thousands of new owners! .UN . ^ Here are smoothness and quie|^j.| ness of operation never befor#-- - thought possible except in higher* priced automobiles! Here arc conv fort and roadability that make continued highspeed driving 4 ; a pleasure! And here is effortleai * control that brings an entirely new order of motoring enjoymei4|x into the low-price field I ^ Gome in today for a demonstration. We'll gladly give you a ridb --as £ar as you like--over road^ of your own selection!, mat these Low Prices! TktSpeit ChhrioUt Th> Tkt *665 UdtityTmck $J,QC (ChassU only) TVTVw?.*495 *585 *595 All pried f. o. b. Flint, MichigM Chfk ChwroUt P«Uw«U PttoM indad* tbs low«*t htniWm --«l S--0>i ihiipunlliMi New Cook: "About those new biers you bought yesterday, mam- Mistress: "Well, what abort them?" New Cook: "Well, er, er, tumbled!" --Gotod Hardware. Retterinaiin Motor Sales Phone I9i West McHenry Q U A L I T Y A T * .L'CLW C O 8.T . - . l " . ...... . .