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p- mrnmm: r B^ppipB^BFi|IR! t;.v*T& * S^^haiHii A City m 1 A Qood City in Which to Live! • m This week we continue the historical sketch of the early days of our city, showing who were some of the pioneersf their activities in building up the community and several of the happenings wayt>ack years ago. The continued story will be carried on each week. This series is made possible by the progressive business firms whose ads appear on this page. Each one stands squarely for a Bigger'and Better commnnity and as leaders in a movement for the betterment of our city, they deserve your patronage. Read each page carefully and learn more about the commnnity in which you HVi, ' Save the Tickets for a sot of Penn China to We are giving a ticket with each 10 cents worth of family ns demonstrate what we can do on family wash and be tickets. Phone 189 a$d our wagon will call. ^ Me HENRY LAUNDRY L. V. Adams, Prop. ash. Let e McHenry Artificial Stone Company MASON CONTRACTORS All Kinds of Building Material Office Phone 257 McHenry, Illinois «?AME8 E. BEAVI8 TAILOR 300 All Wool Suits and Overcoats made to your order. Regular $30.00 t<x$35.00 values at $25.00 Phone 271 Cleaning, Altering, Pressing J O H N J . V Y C I T A L GENERAL HARDWARE, STOVES, PAINTS, OILS Sporting1 Goods, Glass Ware ami Crockery Sheet Metal Work and Furnaces Orders Filled PnapUf Phone 98-M Protect your poultry by using Celo Glass or Glass Cloth. Produce more by using Egg-a-Day. Special Saturday £b lb. pail, $2.60 value for. .... J9.M 12 lb. box, $1.25 value for.... .$1.00 5 lb. box, 66c value for --.JW Allen-A Underwear MaHory Hats Ray McGee Home of Hart Schaffner and Marx- Florsheim Shoes Wilson Bros. Shirts '.Flowers--Glassware--Linens--Dinner Tapers--Place Cafds Tallies for-Thanksgiving at the AGATHA SHOP v^ral Pieces ofSiamped Needlework at reduced for the week-end Visit Our New Store on RIVERSIDE DRIVE I © and when you need anything in the line of PLUMBING, HEATING, OR ELECTRICAL V WORK let ns figure on the cost before placing the contract. We employ experienced workmen and guarantee satisfaction. * H. E. Buch Phone 48 McHenry EARLY DATS IN M'HENRH (CONTINUED FBOM LAST WEEK) Nearly one hundred years have passed since the first white settlers arrived here. Animated by the promises of youth and the rich prospects epread out around them they struggled on through storm and tempest and many adversities until the grand, culminating reward is summed up in the achievements of today. Today the screeching of the sand hill crane and other primitive birds is replaced by the whistle of factory sirens and train whistles and the spots where the painted savage, the prowling wolf and the timid deer roamed unmolested are now replaced by cities and villages where dwellings mark the happy homes and the farmers have turned into fields the prairies of grass and flowers. Civilisation has established a permanent residence here and made room for a higher, more perfect development of the vegetable, animal and intellectual kingdom. As we look over the country today, behold how changed! Shanties have given place to spacious dwellings, constructed with all the convenience and elegance of the most approved style of modern architecture. The rude habitations of the past exist only in the memory of the few remaining old settlers as among the things that werV This country with its fertile hills and verdant plains, seems to be the chosen ^spot of all others on this green earth for the highest and most perfect development of human intellect, with a government based upon the principles of equal and exact justice to all mankind, recognizing the principle of human equality before the law, with freedom of thought, freedom of speech and freedom of the press. America is fast advancing the sciences and arts and is today the gutding: star, the light and hope of the world. Our railroads and telegraphs, our steam boats, wireless devices and automobiles with thousands of other wonderful and marvelous inventions are the results of American science and industry and the product of the age in which we live. Glorious prospects are spread out before us for all succeeding generations in the wonderful inventions and improvements of today and the pioneers when called from this world have gone leaving a proud, imperishable record. Probably no part of the country offers more brilliant prospects for the future or satisfying promises for the present than does this prosperous Fox River country. This quiet, gentle stream meanders in leisurely fashion through a verdant landscape, winding through low-lying meadows which are in their turn enclosed by hills as lonely as any sung to fame by English poets. It was a passageway carved out in some remote age by one of the tremendous glaciers that crept down from the arctic regions and left their marks on this northern hemisphere. These scars are evidenced by gravelly morains that crop out of the steep hillsides and by odd heaps of pre-historic debris for which ordinary erosion does not account. In Fox River valley are to be found many prosperous farms with some of the richest soil in the country where the owners, under modern methods, are developing and reaping richer harvests than ever before. From the hilltops and the surrounding farms the eyes rove over a landscape dotted with homes and estates, with cottages by the river's edge, smart motor cars and the beautiful Fox aliv<* with canoes and motor boats. Amid these surroundings McHenry sits on top of the world, where after the shifting tides of migration, it has become one of the most up-to-date cities to be found in the valley. Today at McHenry trains travel back and forth between the world's third largest pity flnri the inviting cottages along the river bank. (TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK) BRDA'S HARDWARE The history of the city of McHenry is drawing to a close and with it the history of the various business houses advertised on this page will be completed, but although completed they will »ot be forgotten. There are bound to be pioneers in every walk of life and business industry and today, as in the days of early history, their activities in building up the community distinguishes them as being among the progressive business firms of this city. They stand squarely for a bigger and better community and as leadprg in a movement for the betterment of our city, the^ deserve your patronage. One of thesfe business firms is the hardware store owned by John F. Brda, situated on Green street, in the business section of McHenry. Mr. Brda and his family came to-this city several years ago and purchased the building on Green street when he opened up a hardware store, which he has continued to enlarge and improve until he has established a reliable and permanent business. He handles all the high grade lines of hardware, paints, oils, sporting goods and household utensils, furnaces, gas stoves and rangfs. Mr. Brda also does all kinds of tin and copper work and installs furnaces and is ready at any time to give an estimate on any work in his line. Not long ago Mr. Brda built a large addition at the rear of his building which gives him a large convenient work room with a basement underneath which extends the full length of the building and affords plenty of room for the storage of his supplies, material and stock. # All work is personally supervised by Mr. Brda, who offers the best in quality, service and prices and invites the public to pay him a visit. -- reading between the lines is THE Organized Dollars" DYNAMIC POWER THAT OPENS THE DOOR OF OPPORTUNITY 'ORGANIZE YOUHS" with an account at this bank STATE BANK OF M'HENRY 'WE'LL CO-OPERATE*'--in theHflirt CITI FALL LEADERS Cannonball Coaster Wagons, roller bearings, rubber tires, disc wheels. Sturdy enough to endure juvenile use. Coaster Wagon Specials, regular $6.50 value -$4.50 Regular $5.25 value, $3.25 Others at $5.50 and $7.50 Roller Skates, ball bearing, hardened School Aids rollers, special $1.90 Thermos Lunch Kit with Vacuum Footballs $1.00 and $2.00 Bottle, special aV--..»-- $2.00 West McHenry, 111. WM. H. ALTHOFF HARDWARE Hardware, Paints, Oils, Sporting Goods -- Protane Bottted Gas Phone «-J Before Yon Place Your Order For TIN and COPPER WORK OR FURNACES y Let Us Give You Our Estimate All work is personally supervised by JohnF. Brda. . The best in quality, service and prices IRDA'S HARDWARE Tel 1C1 Green St. MeHeary LET THE INSURANCE COMPANY YAKS THE CHANGS Be protected against fire, tornado and burglars. We can write ypp a policy in the best companies in the world. Do not neglect your insurance-- tomorrow may be too late. KENT * COMPANY phone 8 Riverside Drive, McHenry Seasons may change but the wonderful meals BICKLER serves never change. QTry our Sunday Chicken and Steak Dinners and convince yourself, €|,Wc serve fresh fish Fridays. Friday -«<•' Saturday Specials Self Rising Buckwheat Flour, 10-lbbag 5-lb. bag Seedless Raisins 3 ^8. Savoy Peaches, No. 2 Vt cans, --^......3 for $1.00 «5* 35<£ 25# Peas, Sifted Early June g cans 25<^ Gold Dust, large sise. 23c Parlor Broom...... L_*~ 69<^ Rice, Fancy Bine Rose, . 3 25* Mince Meat, 1 lb. jar. 28* JOHN STOFFEL Here Is Your Chance To Secure PENN CHINA Ask Us--Save Our Cards--They Are Valuable One Cird With Each 25c Purchase PLEASANT VIEW SERVICE STATION George Troyke, Prop. SHELL PRODUCTS EXCLUSIVELY Light Lunches, Refreshments, Cigars, Cigarettes' / On Route 20*-West of N. W. Tracks West McHenry, Illinois This is Radio Headquarters We hold tie franchise for the following radios and aim to have at 1< one model of each on our floor at all times for your inspection. RADIOLA FRESHMAN SPARTAN CROSLEY llTH ILCO Radiator Repairing Yes, we have it in JS< nry now! What? An up-to-date Radiator Repair Shop. -We install new cores and repair the old ones. Prices reasonable and work guaranteed, so get ready for winter and have it fixed now. • WILKINSON & MEIER v&i' * Service 441P99 Station .il j Nye Jewelry, Music and Radio Shop Phone 123-J West McHenry, HI. Phone 255 On Route 61, Near Mill Pond Bridge "We Can FIX It" McHenry