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^aPte~€5 THE M'HSMftY PLAINDEALER, THURSDAY, NOV. 14, 1929 ? v Jb*r, / :*~*r.; *v. v«sV V?' ? • Ji v'i- i, •" t > - *. *••• * -11 * "4 gf: s *52g£ felHGWOOD 1 ' -*i£*• ^ •' fc- :l.,i> H-y 'The Bingwood Unit of the Home Bureau met at the home of Mrs George Young on Tuesday, Nov. 5 Roll call was responded to by each lady naming a dish for a Thanksgiv ing dinner. The first book report was given by Mrs. Lloyd Benwell. The book, "The Time of Man", is a story of a girl in the south. Miss Greaves gave a lesson on "Labor Saving Equipment to Be built in the Home" and demonstrated the same with pictures The December meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. G. A* Stevens and -will be a Christmas party. A few friends of Mrs. G. A. Stevens gave her a pleasant birthday surprise at her home Saturday afternoon. Bridge was played. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Henry Vogel first, ; Mrs. Foster second, and Mrs. F. A. Hitchens the consolation. At the close refreshments were served. Mrs. G. A. Stevens attended a birthday surprise luncheon at the home of Mrs. Will Austin at Woodstock on Thursday afternoon. Don't forget the bazaar and chicken * dinner at the M. W. A. Hall Nov. 20. Those wishing to donate packages for the parcel post may leave same with Mrs. G. A. Stevens. .They will sell for 10 and 25c. * Mrs. Emma Merchant, in company with Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Merchant, spent Sunday . at Rockford. Miss Violet Webster of Woodstock spent Friday with her grandmother, Mrs. Emma Merchant. Edward Harrison of Elgin spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Harrison. ' Miss Mary McAndrews of Chicago spent SundaxJm the Lewis Schroeder home. 3 Carl Fay of Chicago spent Sunday with his mother, Mars. Jennie Spaujding. Mrs. Merrefield is enjoying a week's vacation, while Mrs. John Krumpen is taking care of Mrs. Jennie Spaulding. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hawley and family. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Hawley and son, William Giddings and Mr. and Mrs. Del Bacon spent Sunday in the Frank Hawley home in Chicago. Mrs. W. J. Boyd of Chicaeo spent the *eek-end in the C. D. Bacon home. Miss Dorothy Peet of Woodstock spent Sunday with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Block and daughter of Kenosha spent Sunday with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Grover Allen of Chicago spent Sunday in the F. A. Hftchens home. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Beatty, MTS. Viola Low and children, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Boyd and daughter and Mrs. W. J. Boyd spent Sunday in the William Hendrickson home in Richmond. S. W. Brown and mother, Mrs. Emma Brown, Mrs. A. W. Smith and Mrs. Bruno Butler and daughter spent Thursday afternoon with relatives at Zenda, Wis.; Mrs. Nick AdamsCand Mrs. George Worts of McHenry spent Tuesday with Mrs. Ed. Thompson. Mr. and Mlrs. Wilson Boyd and daughter of Chicago spent the weekend in the Sam Beatty home. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kelley and daughter of Crystal Lake spent Sunday in the William Kelley home. Mesdames Nick Young, William Mc- Cannon and Ed Thompson attended a bunco party at the home of Mrs. Nick Adams at McHenry Wednesday afternoon. Byron Hitchens of Chicago spent Tuesday and Wednesday at the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. James Rainy have been entertaining their nephew and his wife of Moline the past week. Mrs. E. C. Hawley spent Friday at Elgin. Guests in the George Shepard home Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Sam Price of Dundee, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Henzie of Crystal Lake, Miss Jennie Cairns and Miss Ruth Cunningham of Woodstock. Mj*. and Mrs. William Beth, J jr., and Max Beth of Chicago spent Sunday and Monday in the William Beth home. Mrs. Minnie Coates spent a few days the past week in the home qf her son at Woodstock. Earl Jencks of Harrington spent Sunday afternoon ami evening in the G. A. Stevens home. Mrs. Gus Pearson spent Wednesday and Thursday at Batavia. Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Shepard and family spent Thursday evening at McHenry. Mrs. Edgar Thomas spent Thursday with friends at Elkhorn. Miss Wynne Kelley spent Thursday with McHenry friends. Mrs. Lewis Hawley was a Chicago visitor Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Hitchens and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Peters attended a bazaar and play at Foplar Grove Wednesday evening. Mesdames Frank Fay and William Hepburn drove to Wheaton Friday. They were accompanied home by Carlton Fay, who spent the week-end with his parents. Mrs. Edgar Thomas and children spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives at Brodhead, Wis. v Edward Thompson of Chicago speni Sunday and Monday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Thompson. Mrs. J. F. Claxton and Mrs. John Dreymiller of McHenry were callers in the George Shepard home Saturday. Mrs. Nellie Hodge of Lake Geneva and Mrs. Mary Hodge spent Tuesday and Wednesday with friends at Elmhurst. Mrs. Agnes Jencks and daughter, Mary of Chicago spent the week-end in the G. A. Stevens home. Mrs. Clay Rager and daughters spent Sunday afternoon at Genoa City. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rahn of Elgin spent Saturday in the G. A. Stevens home. Mr. and Mrs*. Emil Otsel and daugh ter, Irene, and son, Leslie, and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ottel of Highland Rark spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Olsen. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Olsen and daughter of McHenry spent Sunday in the Fred Wiedrich home. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fay, Clay Rager and son, Cecil, motored to Wheaton Sunday afternoon. Carlton Fay returned to Wheaton with them. Mlrs. Ed Carr 'and daughters of Richmond spent Monday in the Clay Rager home. Mrs. Bird of Highland Park, Mrs. F. N. Wilson of Richmond and Mrs. G. A. StevenS" were Woodstock visitors Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Schroeder and daughter, Jessie, attended the show at Crystal Lake Sunday evening. Mr. Falkingane of Chicago spent Sunday and Monday in the William Beth home. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Peters spent Sunday at Belvidere and Hunter. Mrs. Paul Dirksen and Mrs. William Rothermel of Springfield, and Miss Bertha Justen of Chicago spent Sunday in the Ben Justen home. Mrs. H. M. Stephenson attended a party at McHenry Friday. Mrs. Del Bacon of Crystal Lake was a caller in Ringwood Monday, Mrs. Anna Withie and son, Vernon, of Chicago spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Hitchens. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Bumgartner of Detroit, Mich., Mrs. Fred Gilbert of Canada, Mr. and Mrs. George Bacon and Mr. and MTS. Lester Nelson of Antioch, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Burns and son, Bobbie, of Chicago, Miss Mildred Rae Dodge of Beloit, Miss Beth Seward of West- Chicago were among those to attend the wedding of Miss Eleanor Dodge. Woman Appeals to Court Against Voodoo Lynchburg, Va. -- Witchcraft and other mysteries which play on the minds of the superstitions are still vogue, according to evidence adduced in the $ Municipal court by a young colored woman. She claimed a colored man cut her hair and ^ then told her that he had placed the hair under a tree and that ^ the tree was dying and that she would • be dead when the tree was dead. These' statements frightened the girl and she rushed to court to break the effects of the voodoo. When the case came to trial she withdrew the charge, tilling the judge that the hair had been taken from under the tree- and inasmuch as the tree would not die her life was no longer in jeopardy. SPRING GROVE During the absence^ of Mr. and Mrs. Harry McGinnis from their summer home in the Colemar subdivision, many valuable articles were taken on Monday or Tuesday night of last week. Victor Siegler .of Springfield spent the week-end with his parents here. Vincent Feltes was pleasantly surprised Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. Feltes' parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Ellhert, the event being in honor of his twenty-third birthday. ,He received many gifts. Refreshments were served. Martin Butler and Si Robb motored to Princeton Thursday with a load of fish from the Spring Grove Hatchery. Russel Franzen of Richmond spent the week-end with his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wagner. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Esh and family spent Saturday and Sunday with Mrs. Bertha Esh and family. The many friends of John Bell of Hartford will be sorry to hear that he is quite sick at the hospital*/ Miss Viola Engels is enjoying a visit with her parents. Math J. May is slowly gaining in strength and it is hoped he will soon be able to be out. J. J. Freund left on Thursday for Western Kansas, to look over his farm interest there. Mr. and Mrs. H. Adams and family. Mr. and Mrs. John Adams and Mr. and Mrs. John Jackson attended the wedding of a nephew at Johnsburg, Saturday. Misses Agnes Weber, Eva Weber, Agnes Lay and Mrs. Arthur Kattner attended the church wedding of Math Adams and Dorothy Bauer Saturday morning at Johnsburg. Word has been received from George and Chasv Sweet saying that they are enjoying California. Boy of 15 Dies in Fight After Being Called Sissy New York.--Fifteen-year-old John Nolan of Paterson, N. J., was kicked to death in a fight with a boy who called him a sissy for wearing the wrist watch his widowed mother had given him as a graduation present. Louis Torvello, sixteen, was his opponent. Torvello and two boys who sided with him are held on open complaints pending the completion of the police investigation. * Safety Pi» KiMs Bay Shore, N. Y.--A safetj pin lodged in his throat six months ago has caused the death of year-old Frank l*age. Jr., of this place. flying Stone Kills Lakotii, N. D.--His heart pierced by a flying piece of grindstone, Simon Tangen, pioneer farmer, was killed here. -- ALONG THE TRAIL If when you are stilling through the woodlands you come upon the scattered remains of a cardboard box, egg shells, a parchment paper, string, soiled wooden plates, charred sticks and a cork or two, these circumstances are taken t as evidence that some one has picniced there If further on you come to a wire slip-noose attached to a bush, the noose encircling the neck of a ruffed grouse or cotton-tail, with the skeleton and a few feathers or bunch of fur still in place, this ;s circumstantial evidence that the snarer has been there. Still further on you find a rope tied to "It stake on the banks of the river, and following it to the waters edge you finally pull up a gill net with several dozen half strangled fish squirming to free themselves from the contraption you have real evidence that another pest enemy of the outdoors has been present. Column after column could be written of these experiences and actual happenings that have had much to do towards destroying game and decreasing the population of our outdoor inhabitants. Little good would be accomplished from such lengthy articles anyway, and besides, it seems that 99% of us know better than to practice any of the above forms of hurting nature. However, we cannot forget that lone one percent that remains. He's the fellow we must eliminate if future Outdoor America is to be saved for posterity. This can only be done by schooling him in the rights and wrorfgs . of nature's program. A general understanding of the great necessity of conservation will do more towards converting a game law violator than all the fines and jail sentences combined. The Izaak Walton League of America teaches the higher ideals of good sportsmanship in its extensive program of conserving America's natural resources. Walton Chapters have been organized in every state in the Union, each individual community benefits by the work done by the League and the community in general takes on a more beautiful aspect from practicing the teachings of the League, whose slogan is " A BETTER AMERICA FOR AMERICANS AND BETTER AMERICANS WQ& 'AMr ERICA." - v Chilean Independence Day The "Dieclocho" is the "Chilean Fourth of July." Its annual observance is Sep» ember 18 in commemoration of the anniversary of the day on which Chile wrested her freedom from Spain. This Independence day ushers In a three-day festival of a patriotic, social and religious nature. Too Poor to Buy Milk; - Mother Burns Infant Los Angeles.--Because she was "ashamed to face the milkman," to whom she owed a three-weeks' bill, Mrs. Josephine Valente, nineteen, burned her eight-month-old son, Dominlck, tp death in his go-cart, she confessed to the police. Mrs. Valente, held recently on a murder charge, declared her husband, Sablntlno, twentyone, refused to give her money for the baby's milk. The young mother said she often tried to help by going to work, but could find no job. "And I couldn't afford, to put onr boy in a nursery," she explained. "I knew the milkman would leave us no milk," Mrs. Valente related, "and I gqt to wondering what I would do. So I got a match and threw It into the baby's carriage after 1 put -him to sleep in it." Valente, employed by a motion picture studio, insisted he had tj?ven his wife $9 for groceries one morning. Detective Lieutenant Frank Condaffer said a $875 insurance policy on> the baby's life was issued recently. •, Genin* In Fumflie* Among brothers and sisters Who have distinguished themselves are: Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossettl, Dorothy and William Wordsworth, Charles and Mary Lamb and William and Caroline Berschel. AUCTION! CHARLES LEONARD, Auctioneer CHICAGOAN, 75, ... , SAYS KONJOLA r » IS WONDERFUL Spend Hundreds of Dollars in Vai» Search for Relief--New Medl cine Scores Triumph Having decided to quit farming will sell at public auction on the Joe Raycraft farm located 5 miles north of Woodstock o>n the Woodstock-Hebron road on -- Thursday, Nov. 21 Commencing at 12:30 sharp, the following described property, to-wit: 80 Head Livestock 80 USUAL TERMS Anton Winters American Natfonal Bank, Clerks MR. JOHN BOEDER ER "For years 1 suffered from indiges- it tion; kidney and gall bladder^ troubles," said Mr. John Boedeker, - 2451 West 67th Street, Chicago, Illinois. "No matter how light my diet, the food remained like a lump in my stomach. I spit up bits of undigested food; pains assailed me after every meal. I was constipated and had dizzy spells and pains across my back. Every night I had to get upseveral times. Naturally I lost weight and strength. "I heard about Konjola and decided to try it." What a surprise was in store for me. In two weeks my digestion was restored, my kidneys were functioning as they should and the constipation was relieved. I haven't a sign of an ache or pain and. » am eating and sleeping as I have not done in years. I read that Konjola is the medicine"with more than a million friends. If everyone knew what I do about Konjola it would have a. billion friends." Konjola is sold in McHenry, 111., at Thomas P. Bolger's drug store, and by all the best druggists in all towns throughout this entire section. Hettermann Motor Sales All kinds of car and tjnek and general repays, ing, also welding, done by expert mechanics. " •>- ;• Main St, West McHenry Phone 191 I * < 1 » » 1 1 » i iM'**» • I - » » » » • I ' » » » » » » » » » » » • ! • » » » » » » » » • > » » » » » » < • » » • » < • ! • » » » • » » » • ! • • • • » » » » » » » < , » » < • » » » » » » » » , » • » » • » » » » • > . .... 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