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, AuCRTBT •, 1MB - * tp Mlmmmrn# visitor £P 5%' ^ . ;:'W- • OMB OP AMU8BMBNT «W1 CANT PLAT THEM ALL 80 WE PLAY THE BEST" v SHOWS 7'M-9*9 TM> Theatre ii eqaipptd with the latest inpcwred coeling system, the air being cku|ti tray three minutes. thursday-friday AUGUST 9-1® "DYNAMITE" T*w Wontfer Polk* Dog la "THE FOUR FOOTED RANGER" . AND LATEST BUSTER BROWN COMEDY SATURDAY AUGUST 11 "BABGMAN'S HOUSE" with Victor McLaglen Star of "What Price Glory" ia the greatest role of his career joat aiiss this one. BIG TIME . VAUDEVILLE PATHE'S WORLD S LATEST NEWS and "the next chapter of the absolutely different adventure play "THE HAUNTED ISLAND" SUNDAY AUGUST 12 , Syd Chaplin in M*HE fortune HUNTER" and Helene Costello plays the Village Vamp, te a play that's sore to please with BIG TIME VAUDEVILLE * AESOP'S FABLES and A FOX COMEDY TUESDAY AND I WEDNESDAY | i AUGUST 14-15 I Ignited Artists PressBt "RAMONA" with |)olores Del Rio "^Warner Baxter Vera Lewis Roland Drew Michael Visaroff A Film For You and Ywmr Family THURSDAY-FRIDAY AUGUST 16-17 Tex Rickard Presents the TUNNEY HEENEY FIGHT PICTURES 11 Rounds of Action aad the Great Comedy "BRINGING UP FATHER" with Marie Dressier Polly Moran J . Farrell MacDonald j. j PHONE ItS-J t. McHenry, Illinais WEERLYPERSONUS COMERS AND GOERS OF A WEEK IN OUR CITY HERMAN J.SCHAEFER Moving and Long Distance Wanting KR'- W: •* if:* ' • ?f. .jk*' MV:.- In New Location After April 1st N.W. Cor. Green and Elm Streets ff ML HEHRY FREUND I OPTOMETRIST ^ i^Tes Scientifically Examined Glasses Recommended Only When Needed Honrs: Every Evening €rom 7 to 9, except Saturday All Day Wed- Sesday from 9 a. m. to >VL Phono 175 Cats in yomr ad My Mors attractive. As Seen By Plaindealer Boporters and Handed In By Our Friends Miea Irene Conway of Elgin spent the week-end at her home here. Miss Vera Doherty is spending the week with friends in Chicago. Harris Fay of Elgin spent last week as the guest of Stanley Schaifer. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Doherty visited with relatives at Woodstock recently. Miss Frances Johnson of Chicago visited friends in this vicinity Sunday. Mrs. Laura Kent and son, Roy, visited at Lake Geneva Sunday evening. Miss Lillian Vales of Chicago was a Sunday visitor in the Albert Vales home. Miss Mildred Gans is spending. a few weeks in the home of her sister in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Louis McDonald and children visited at Woodstock Sunday afternoon. Mrs. F. E. Covalt and daughter, Shirley, visited With friends at Pell Lake this week. Mrs. W. A. Sayler visited in the home of her sister, Mrs. G. A. Hanly, at Elgin, Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schroeder of Chicago were Sunday callers in the F. O. Gans home. Mr. and'Mrs. Norman Brainard and little son of Austin visited with relatives here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Purvey visited at the Boy Scout camp at Pleasant Lake, Wis., Sunday. Philip Mahoney of Chicago spent a week recently in the William Doherty home, south of town. Miss Marie Freund spent last week in the home of her aunt, Mrs. Jack McCarroll, in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Hoffmeier and Mr. and Mrs. Cooley of Chicago were Sunday guests of Mrs. Mary Simon. William Clarkston and John Murphy of Chicago were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Purvey Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hall of Chicago spent Sunday in the home of the former's parents on John street. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hunt of Oak Park were week-end guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Sayler. Mr. and Mrs. John Kattner of Spring Grove were Sunday guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ford Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Hall of Grayslake were Sunday visitors of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Hall. Mr. and Mrs. William Karls and Mrs. Katherine Clemens of Chicago visited in the Fred Karls home Sunday. lifer. t&d -Mrs. Roy Wightman of Like Geneva were guests of Mr. and I L. F. Newman Thursday evening. " J Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lestina and daughter, Virginia, of Chicago were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Vates. Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Hershberger and family from Beverly Hills, Chicago, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Norton. Mrs. P. Peterson and daughters, Ruby and Martha, of Marengo visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Eddy Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Berkholder and children of Chicago are guests this week in the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Bender. Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Overton, in company with Mr. and Mrs. William Cowen of Harvard, left Sunday for a trip to Mackinac Island. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Christensen and Mrs. Frances Freund of Spring Grove were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ford Jackson. Mrs. Ida Windell of Chicago left for her home the first of the week, after spending a month in the home of Mrs. Mary Simon. Edward McEvoy and Patrick Walsh of Chicago spent Sunday with the for- | men's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John ; McEvoy, in McHenry. t Mr. and Mrs. William T. Mahoney ! and son, William, of Chicago, were j recent visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Doherty. Charles Howard, Miss Kate Howard and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jaster of Woodstock visited in the home of Mrs. Anna Howard Monday evening. Sister Ildephonse, Sister and Sister Jeremia of St. Joseph's Convent dt Milwaukee, Wis., returned Monday, after spending the week-end with relatives in this vicinity. Mrs. John Keg and daughter, Juanita, and Mrs. John Engeln and daughter, Virginia, enjoyed a picnic at Waukegan Satuday. The girls also went for a swim in Lake Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Krause returned home from their honeymoon trip to the Dells last week and are making their home with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Krause. Mrs. Joseph Mikulas and daughter, Marie, and son, Rudolph, of Brookfield, 111., returned home the first of the week after spending two weeks in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Vales. Miss Ethel Jones attended the gift show in Chicago this week. Five floors of the 'Stevens hotel are devoted to this show, where orders are placed for goods for Christmas and the coming season. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Norton and children from Chicago are spending their vacation at Oeffling's cottage on the Fox River. Mrs. T. Schuvor and her daughters, Irma, Charlotte and Olga, from Chicago, spent Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Norton at the cottage. Mrs. Frank Hughes, daughter, Frances, and son, Raymond, and Margaret Murphy of Milwaukee, Wis., spent last week in Wisconsin, where they visited with relatives at Jefferson, saw the beautiful scenery at the Dells and Kilbourne and stopped at other points of interest in the northeastern part of the state. They returned home It along the Wisconsin river and Prairie du Chien after a very pleasant trip. Paul Zenk was an Friday. Dr. A. J. Froehlich wa* ft Chicago, visitor Friday. Miss Myrtle Zenk was ah Elgin visitor Sunday evening. Misses Fern and Hazel Baeon were Waukegan visitors Friday. Henry D. Reisa of Chicago was a McHenry visitor Friday. E^iest Bohr is spending a few weeks with friends at Detroit. Miss Hazel Bacon of Chicago sprat the week-end at her home hers. Frank May of Chicago is spending his two weeks' vacation at his home here. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Hunter Jr., were recent business visitors at Kankakee. James E< Doherty was a business visitor in Chicago Monday and Wednesday. John Vycital of Washington, D. C., is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jbhn Vycital. Mr. and BQrs. Jack McLaughlin of Ringwood spent Sunday in the Thomas McLaughlin home. Miss Kate McLaughlin spent a day recently with friends and relatives^at Geneva and Elgin. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Frett and family of Slocum's Lake visited in the J. J. Frett home Sunday. Clarence Krause of Woodstock is a guest this week in the home of his aunt, Mrs. Anna Howard. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Draper of Chicago were the guests of Mr, and Mrs. William Zenk Sunday. Bernie Newman of Kewanee ia spending the week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Newman. is Adeline Perkins of Chicago spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Perkins. Miss Regina Blake of Elgin spent the week-end at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Blake. Mrs. Bertha Zibold and Miss Dollie Kirmeyer of Chicago have been spending a few days with friends here. Mrs. Richard Cronin of Chicago spent Sunday in the home of her sister, Mrs. John Engeln, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dowe and Miss Etta Rosenberger were recent visitors at Genoa City and Lake Geneva, Wis. Mrs. Stanley Caldwell of Waukegan spent a few days last week in the, home of her sister, Mrs. Frank Rowing. Miss Virginia Engeln is spending several days this week as the guest of her cousin, Grace Nicholls, at Wauconda. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Smith of St Joe, Mo., spent a few days last week in the Thomas McLaughlin home. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Conley of Chicago spent the week-end in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Frett on Riverside Drive. Miss Katherine Dignan of Chicago was a guest last week in the home of her friend, Mrs. William Doherty, and family. Mrs. Frank Rosing returned home Monday from the Woodstock hospital where she spent several days for treatment. Miss Grace Nicholls of Wauconda spent a few days the first of the week as the guest of her cousin, Miss Virginia Engeln. Miss Gertrude May returned home Sunday, after a ten days' visit in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Starck at Zenda, Wis. Mrs. Krause and Mr. and Mrs. Wal do Schneider and daughter, Margaret, of Woodstock, were Sunday guests of Mrs. Anna HowarSf Mr. ..and Mrs. Henry Heuser and children of Chicago are spending their vacation this week in the Mat Weber home on Riverside Drive. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Stucker and daughter of Chicago are spending the week in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Frett. Mrs. Catherine Young and her guests, Mr. and Mrs. John Zimmer and family of Sioux Falls, S. D., visited at Milwaukee, Wis., Thursday. Miss Maud Granger left Friday on an eastern trip. She expects to be gone about two weeks and will visit Boston, New York and Washington, D. C. Joe May and son, Frank, in company with Jacob and Mat May, enjoyed a motor trip to Rossholt, Wis., last week, where they visited with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. John Vales and daughter, Eleanor, and Frank Blaha of Fox River Grove visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Vales WEEKLY IX TAKEN FROM COLUMNS OF OUR EXCHANGES la a ( of Newsy Item Condensed Form Fee Busy People Edith Bowling, also known as Bollen, of Long Lake, was arrested Tuesday night of last week at her home on a charge of violating the prohibitory law. States Attorney A. V. Smith signed the complaint and charge, in a statement made at the time, that she sold liquor to Albert Cofflll, 73, of Ingleside, who is charged with the murder of Ervin Snyder, 80, of Lake Villa, July 25. His detectives found, he said, 125 quarts of home brew and 20 gallons of brew in the making. Coffill, Snyder and two other companions had been drinking at the time of the shooting, it was learned at the inquest. Crystal Lake is #er near prospects of a new*|heilt*r >«4ijch will seat 1,000 people, 0gph* full stage type building. Plans loir the building contemplate two stores and five apartments. A syndicate of Crystal Lake business and professional men will represent an investment of fl65,- 000 in the new enterprise. ' -- , Two small fields of corn in the township of Seneca and immediately east of Marengo are attracting Unusual attention because of their development and size. By many they are described as the finest corn to be found in McHenry county. One field of ten acres belongs to Will Polnow, carrying on the homestead farm, and the other is on the former Phil Webber farm and the corn owner is Walter Polnow. That the Polnow brothers are well versed in farming and that corn growing appeals to them is apparent to people conversant with their farming efforts. George Douglas, 38, of Lake Forest, was drowned last Thursday in Fox Lake. Douglas, it was learned, was in bathing at the time. The victim was seized with cramps and went down before help could reach him. A third near fatal accident has been reported at the Overhead bridge, east of Walworth, recently. An Oldsmobile sedan with four women passengers broke through the bridge railing, the front of the car hanging oyer the side of the wooden structure. The party was headed towards Lake Gen- Negotiating the turn onto the west approach of the structure, the driver lost control of the car, hitting the rough flooring and loose gravel. The machine struck the railing on the !« tH. of .ei„g de.. rs' at Peoria. Mr. Carney is survived by his wife. There were no cMMrtn. Mrs. C&rn^y is a sister of Mrs. Lester Edinger of Woodstock, and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marble of Greenwood. Interment took place at the Greenwood cemetery on Tuesday, in charge of the American Legion, of which Mr» Carney was a member. Safe robbers worked their way into the postoffice at Belvidere during Monday night of last week and with acetylene torches burned entrance into two main vaults, but after working several hours were compelled to abandon their efforts, failing to secure anything of value. Discovery of the robbery was made early the following morning. Postal detectives have been advised and search for the robbers is under way. Thus far no trace of the robbers has been found. George Smith, son of A. G. Smith, village treasurer of Palatine, is the scout who, putting into practical use the lessons learned in scoutcraft, prevented a drowning recently at the Deer Grove forest preserve. The life guard and others who were at the beach were not aware of the girl's p&gkt until George, with his arm around her waist, brough her out of the water. The resuce was accom«< plished so quickly that she was ablest to walk to the hospital at Camp Reinberg, where she received first aid. Six property owners are delaying? construction of the new state road between Elgin and Evanston, by de-i clining to relinquish titles for right of way purposes, it was reported to th« Cook county board last week. Hebron has the promise of a home town paper, to be established there by E. W. Peterson of Chicago, about! September 1. Mr. Peterson has hadj, • extensive experience in newspaper work in the northwest and promises to produce a good home town newspaper. Hebron had a newspaper until two years ago, when the Hebron Tribune moved to Woodstock and was, changed to the Woodstock News. Following that event the citizens of that: community began efforts to secure another newspaper. < William Wiggins, well known Wood-i stock man, was found dead in a chain in the Elks club Sunday morning at; 7:30. It Is believed that he had beeiv dead since early Saturday night. He was about 60 years old. Police of southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois are endeavoring to find Miss Ruth Spencer, daughter of the C. & N. W. agent at Genoa City| who disappeared from her home lastji Friday afternoon. When last seen| Miss Spencer, dressed in hiking togs, was walking south along the highway; which connects Genoa City and Richmond. Seized with a cramp and unable at an angle and breaking through. Due to the fact that the speed of the auto slackened after striking, it remained on the bridge, the front hanging over the side with the gear case resting on a beam along the edge of the bridge flooring. Jack Shumow of Milwaukee, Wis., the first witness to the accident, brought the women to Harvard, where they boarded the train for Chicago. The badly damaged auto was taken to a Wtalworth garage. The Waukegan Daily Sun and the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, were sold August 1 by William J. and Frank G. Smith to the Lake County Newspapers, Inc., for a reported price of $500,000. John A. Dickson, M. V. Wieland and D. M. Noyes, former Chicago newspaper men, are named as the incorporators of the new publishing concern. Sidney S. Carney, farm adviser in Rock Island county, 111., was almost instantly killed Friday night of last week in a bad auto accident in Mercer county. The driver of the other car also was killed. Mr. Carney was one of the outstanding farm advisers of Illinois. In Rock Island county he was loved by town and country people alike. In his four years' service there he had built up a strong organization modeled after the Illinois Milk and dumb to summon help, James Gerry, aged 21 years, of Chicago, sank to his death in the waters of Round Lake, near Renehan's hotel at aboutjf ^ 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Although the body was recovered within a few minutes after the youth went down all efforts at resuscitation wewf of no avail. WALW08TO OOUNTT 7AQt ON LABOR DAY WEEK Janesville's Parker Pen Band, Si, the Fiddler,, the Walworth High School Band, Whitewater City Band, Fort Atkinson Drum and Bugle Corps, Burlington City Band, the Cleora Miller Five, and the Holton-Elkhorn Band, will furnish the music at the Walworth Cpunty Fair this year. The Parker Pen Band has gained an enviable reputation and will play at the grand opening Monday. Si, Wisconsin's Champion Old Time Fiddler, assisted by his wife, Mirandi, will be in charge of the Old Time Fiddlers' Contest to be staged In the Band Stand on "Refreshment" midway Tuesday. The Walworth High School Band ii one of the leading school bands in the state, and will furnish the music Wednesday. The Whitewater and Burlington Bands have become a part of the fair and need no introduction. Ft Atkinson's snappy Drum and Bugle Corps will play Thursday evening. Watch 'em prance, listen to their music and it will beat taking a bath in the Fountain of Youth. The Cleora Miller Five have been ? ^ engaged as one of the special atfcractions and will be featured in frost ef ' the ampitheater every afternoon and ^ evening. The Holton-Elkhorn Band is probably one of the most widely known musical organizations in Wisconsin, one ot the very few in this day and age that play a class of music of which w» never tire. This, mingled with the whang bang produced bv the three hands carried by the Dodson's World's Fair Shows and all the other weeps and wails heard on the fair grounds, will remind anyone within earshot of the Hid* city that there will be a fair on at Elkhora Labor Day week. stfc- .'ffi • # "Did you ever realize anything oat. that investment?" ..y, "Oh, yes." "What did you realise?" "'Ml- "What a fool I'd been."-4fontn|f Family Herald. Trades Union Official: "How many men have you got working here?" Foreman: "About half of 'em."-- Punch. 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Arcadia Mrs Fred gmith Mrs. Peter Weber, Mrs. Hobart Weber, Mrs. George Weber, Mrs. Martin Weber, Mrs. M. 3. Freund and Miss Barbara Weber visited at Mundelein last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Zimmer and daughters, Frances, Irene and Vera, and son, John, of Sioux Falls, S. D., are spending two weeks in the home of Mrs. Zimmer's aunt, Mrs. Catherine Young. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Conway and daughter, Betty, and M. A. Conway, in company with Mr. and Mrs. Houlihan and children of Park Ridge, left Sunday for a week's trip to northern Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Amos of Cornstock, Neb., and Mrs. William Belcher of W)oodstock were callers in the Robert Thompson homg Tuesday. Mrs. Amos was formerly Miss Florence Randall. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Chapell, Mrs. S. S. Chapell and granddaughter, Marion Severn, and Charlotte and Virginia Snook of Evanston were Sun day visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thompson. Mrs. John Fay was a Waukegan visitor Friday. At this time she attended a luncheon given by Mrs. Ruby Drury at the new Kercher hotel for the members of the Commanders' club of the Daughters of the G. A. R. Twenty-two ladies were present to enjoy the luncheon, as well as to attend the meeting of the dub later in the day. MODEL FARM Public Sbnvici Commm* 2 utile* «*Mt qf the North Shore Um Stmtion mt MUNDELEIN M%»n thfa»tf m••r•m!! « See | the farm home, [With all the comforts of ?] electrie and gas service, the mods! dairy s^toip* ment, Automatic pumps and other new and better ways of doing old jobs. PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY PP NORTHERN ILLINOIS 101 Williams St., Crystal Lake Telephone 280 X. A. Schabeck, District Mgr. Our nomination for the Hall of Canad's Dumb, is the guy who stopped for half an hour at the railroad crossing, waiting for the Stop sign to change.--Stratford Beacon-Herald. % II you are When your valuables are in a safe deposit box in our vault, you know where they are, and you know they are safe. 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