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t,." .w-sc? •*?• *fc* ITHfflOtT FtACTDBAMHt, THTOTOA*, DRJSMBni 18,1M»* a?" JOHN8BURG FftKD J. SMITH, Proprietor Chevrolet Sales. General Automotive Repair Wfft ^ Give us a cull when in trouble • EXPERT WELDING AND CYLINDER REBORING Day Phone 200-J Night Phone 640-J-2 i' WEST SIDE GARAGE Qentral Automobile Repairing , 'v,; :, v - Werb Boib Ways ll-J A bank can fail an<< wreck a com munity. Bat a community can fail and wreck a bank.--Country Home. m-'-m TeL 185 Res. Phone, 6S9-&-2 Young Men Green Silk Mufflers maa •••• OU S«yr»tltiof : - VMtfll &azi«gwa« practiced by the alMfeBKts. Ref««qpa appear to It in sir^Tr^ fT"-- praetiCM ajnong the native itfbss et Worth and south America, Asia, Awtralla and Africa. CLWMJ MILT to SbmIm When a ban on smoking was placed recently In a pressed steel mill at Cowley, England, 100 night-shift workers •track, claiming that smoking on night work and overtime is a recognized practice in tho »n|im»Hn| world. ,i**w •'• *. . ; v , v/ •$' y -•& a, Vi Does Youiiij#;^a,K Insurance Policy Say What YOU RINGWOOD fl- Mr) fev^gr- •&* i - 1S> >'fT Most motorists believe that if their Car should be burned or stolen, their insurance ? ©ompany will pay them the amount stated in the ~ ; policy. The fact is, however, that the amount named In the policy is a valuation used to determine the cost T of the insurance, the rate for fire and theft insurance > being a certain price per hundred dollars of valuation.v ."•'ft'"*" 'fe " r • - * «' * ' * ^ Ift. event of a HDtal loss you will receive an amount not to ex- H ceed the actuaT loss sustained, the settlement to he agreed upon by you and the adjuster for the in--' §|. surance company. If you fail to agree, the claim will be arbitrated. This is the usual policy, which is known I--" |fc the insurance world as the "non valued" fom, • While alighting from a street car in Chicago Tuesday afternoon of last week, Mrs. Clay Rager had the misfortune to step in a hole in the pavement, tearing the ligaments loose in her foot. She is getting along quite well now. Her daughter is home ear* ing for her. The Ringwood Home Circle held their annual Christmas party Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Clayton Harrison. A one o'clock dinner was served by Mrs. Harrison, assisted by Miss Flora Taylor and Mrs. Chauncy Harrison. Mesdames Arthur Merrill and Clyde Bell of Solon Mills and Mrs. D. C. Bacon of Crystal attended the Home Circle party Wednesday. Mrs. Lewis Hawley spent Thursday and Friday in Chicago. Mrs. George Bacon and Mrs. Lester Nelson and daughter of Antioch spent Thursday in the W. A. Dodg* home. Miss Marian Hawley spent Thursday and Friday with her aunt at i CrysU1 Lake. «• Mrs. Belle Bayd of Chfeage Is vis- • . "-A itinir in tiu» S H n«tht -te- ••. y. Then there is the "valued form" policy. Under the terms of this policy you are paid die face value of the policy, the amount on which you have paid premium, should you suffer a total loss. *•»* * The Inter-Insurance Exchange of the Chicago Motor Club issues a VALUED FORM |?QI*ICY. T' - , ' - ' ier behefits of membership are: bail bond, mechanical first aid, touring, home district *|iid accident prevention services. Sixty-four branches: 34 downstate; 30 in Cook County, Dues per year $10.00. Enrollment fee (first year onlyA $2^00. Write for fires bfkltu Gip c»mpmk*hw> 1 W-' ' f - ' H ,9*3 A. A. A, C/vn in United Staf* MOTORS Ming at 66 Ea*t Sovtk WotH StTMt , Charles AA.HAYE^p«fc NdERRY COUNTY BRANCH - Srtey E. Rardin, Mgr, ^ If9 Dean St., Woodatocfll i Phone Woodstock 58 |, G. A. Stilling Garage ." , Mecbanfcal Serrke StatiM RiT*rsid« Drhre aad Eba St i .-jHWoi] iM»»inifiiaf ittMttittiimimtinainiiHiMMMissa CHICAGO MOTOR CLUB | 109 Dean St^ Woodstock • Gentlemen: Please «eod me £re« ,^k"; V . S booklet, "How 100,000 Moto**' i iscs Cut Motoring Expense." It '* | is understood that sending for this booklet places me under no i obligation. ril I. e • «»• •.•»••••• • '» •' "?** ' »• • •••••• *»« •« j.yv ' 5;"' :• ... »%••• ...••«• "'-J.., i»- " ' •• ..J l; , mjicK EIGHT Luxurious Model r - ' r • ; * ' <4 •r.- ;tr *>$•*- • " " -MS, f Overton & Cowen Phone 6 Bniek Motor Cars West McHenry, wttm Btnat aurmaomus a«e •uKr.awcic wiu tuiio inm Vr4 Twice .'V'- Told Talcs , - •, ItcoiB of Interest Taken Fim Uhf Files of the Pliiaiwlit of Yean Ago 'ting in the S. H, Beatty home. Mr- and Mrs. Charles Carr were Woodstock shoppers Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Olson and son spent Wednesday evening at Mc- Henry. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Peet and daughters, Dorothy and Edna, were Elgin visitors Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Harrison spent Wednesday afternoon in Woodstoek. Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Beatty, William Beatty and Mrs. Belle Boyd visited relatives at Woodstock Wednesday. Mrs. F. A. Hitchens spent Friday and Saturday in Chicago. The Five Hundred club was entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs., Elmer Olsen Thursday evening. Prizes! breed, were awarded to Mrs. Ray Peters and J. C. Pearson, first; and Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hughes the consolations. Refreshments were served. Clark Huson of Elgin spent Friday in the C. J. Jepson home. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Peet and dangh* ters, Edna and Lucille, and Olive Jepson were Elgin visitors Saturday. Mrs. Paul Dibble and son of Greenwood and Mrs. C. J. Jepson visited Mildred Jepson at Evanston Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Shepard arid children were visitors at Woodstock Saturday. Mrs. Viola Low and Mrs. Elmer Olsen and son were visitors at Woodstock Saturday. Mrs. J. F. McLaughlin and daughter, Julia, were Woodstock visitors Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ames and Mrs.' Frank Moska of Broadhead, Wis.. spent the week-end in the home of Edgar Thomas. Sunday guests were Mr. and Mrs. Homer Mann and son and Mrs. Ada Mann of Woodstock. Mrs. Ed Peet and daughter, Mrs. Ben Wsalkington and Mrs. Jepson spent Tuesday at Woodstock. Sunday guests of Mrs. Jennie Bacon were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Buchert and daughter, William Hendrickson, Mrs. Rae DeGrant of Richmond, Mrs. Belle Boyd of Chicago, Mrs. Malissa Gould and daughter, Jane, Melvin Wagner and Lewis Abendrough of Elgin. Miss Dorothy Carr and D. Beck of Chicago and Mr. and Mrs. Lester Carr and son spent Sunday in the Charles Carr home. Mrs. J. C. Pearson was a MeHenry visitor Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Olsen and daughter of MeHenry wore visitors here Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peet and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Stephenson and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Harrison wers Woodstock shoppers Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hinse of Crystal Lake spent Sunday at the George Harrison home. Mr. and Mrs. Roland McCaimon spent Sunday in tho C. J. Jepson homo. Edward Harrison and Ruth Owen of Elgin spent the week-end in the George Harrison home. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wfeber and children of MeHenry spent Sunday in the Nick Young home. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Jepson and daughter, Virginia, spent Saturday afternoon at Mundelein. Mr. and Mrs. Math Nimsgern of Spring Grove and Mr. and Mrs. N. Young spent Friday in Elgin. J£r. 'and Mrs. Ralph Simpson of Chicago spent Sunday with the latter's father, Wm. Beth. Mina Laurence spent the Week-end in the home of her uncle at Crystal Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Neal and family spent Sunday in Chicago* Mr. and Mrs- Ray Peters spent Sunday and Monday with relatives at Belvidere and Hunter. Miss Nellie McDonald was an Elgin visitor Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Toseph Wagner FIFTY YEARS AGO The strike is ovgr and work on the pond and at the ice houses is being; pusHfed with vigor. The Elgin Envoy is the name of a new paper which takes the place of the Elgin Dollar News. It presents a neat appearance typographically, and is a very readable paper. It will be issued semi-weekly. The new bridge is fast assuming proportions, and it looks as though it would be easily completed in the time designated in the contract. It has been fortunate for the traveling! public, as the crossing on the ice has been good the entire time since the bridge was torn up. We learn that parties from Dundee were here on Monday last, looking for a sight to build a Cheese Factory. It would seem to us that there is no better point in the country. J. F. Parker and W< D. Howe of Greenwood sold and delivered to Geo. Eldredge in Richmond a few weeks ago, three hundred and thirty-five fleeces of wool that averaged eight and one-third pounds to the fleece. The sheep were of the Spanish Merino on* Tuesday and put a sudden end to their pleasures. The power ice boat, owned by the Star garage in this village, has once more made its appearance on the river. Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Freund, who reside west of town, welcomed a boy to their home on Monday. Atty, A. J. Mullen of Woodstock has been appointed master in chancery to succeed Atty. E. H. Waite. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Michels are the parents of a girl, born on Sunday, Uad* Efcea . "Don't bet on a boss race," said Uncle Kben, "unless you knows all about hosses. An' If you knows so much as all dat, you Is so smaht as dat you ought to make a hit in btgxyr bxislQesfi."--Washington Star. FORTY YEARS AGO ^hft»V"WaIsh who lives near the Mudgett Cheese Factory, has rented his farm to Henry Grabbee of Wauconda, for three years. Workmen are engaged remodeling the interior of the M. E. church in this village, adding a class room, and other needed improvements. W. A. Cristy has put a new iron roof on his boiler house at the pickle \ factory. A party from Chicago did the work. A. L. Howe has purchased a new hay press, and will soon be prepared to press hay on short notice. Died--At the residence of his daughter, ' Mrs. F. Brittain, Huron, Dak., at 4 o'clock, Dec. 5, Joseph Arnold, aged 89 years. Detective Benthusen brought in on Saturday last, and locked up in the village lock-up a man supposed to haw been the one who attempted to burglarize the, store of Bonslett £ Stoffel a week ago. He is also suspected of helping in a robbery at Dundee. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO At the meeting of the O. E. S., No. 547, last Monday evening Miss Eolia Boyer was installed as worthy matron and R- G. Chamberlin as worth patron. John C. Frisby passed away at his home in Nunda township at 3:45 o'clock last Friday morning, Dec. 15, after three and one-half years of illness. * Boley & Worts have just completed a new ice slide on the west side of their ice house which stands near the banks oif the mill pond. ~M. J. Smith, who resides near Johnsburg, will hold an auction sale on January 24. The shoot meetings, under the auspices of the MeHenry Gun club are being well attended and some good shooting is being done. Wm. Phalin, manager of the West Side mill, who has been laid up with a very sore hand, is again at his old post and ready to serve in his satisfactory manner. While returning home with a load of feed last Saturday, Ed Peterson who is employed on the farm of Frank Martin, fell from -the wagon, breaking his right arm. The pupils of the Volo school are preparing for a Christmas program to be jtfven on Christmas eve. TWENTY YEARS AGO Mrs. Harmon Snyder, and old MeHenry resident, and who is favorably known to many readers passed away at the home of her daughter at Rogers Park on Saturday. John Helms, a Spring Grove young man employed at the Wieland dairy plant was found dead just outside the plant on Saturday morning. Death was due to a fall, his neck and other bones being broken. In a private parlor of the Beach hotel in Chicago at high noon on Wednesday of last week, the Rev. H. (J. Collins of Greenwood spoke the words I that united the lives of Miss Edith and Tuttle of Ringwood to Mr. Londell daughter of MeHenry spent Sunday'Todd of Dundee. in the Abe Laurence home. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Dodge and family and Mrs. W. A. Dodge were Woodstock visitors Satruday. ' Mr. and Mrs- F. A. Hitchens spent Sunday with their son in Chicago. Mrs. Clayton Bruce and Miss Gertrude Carlson of Woodstock spent Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. Axel Carlson. The Ladies' Aid society will hold a roast pork dinner at the Woodman hall Wednesday, Dec. SI. The proceeds will go towards redecorating, ice eo{(j water, John Walsh, our popular West Side policeman, has been appointed deputy sheriff by Sheriff Henderson, for the town of MeHenry. - The sad news announcing the death of Mrs. Nick Schmitt, which occurred at her home at Comfrey, - Minn., on Dec. 7, has been received heife. Harvey Nye, son of Dr. N. J. Nye, met with an experience on Monday last which he would not care to repeat. He attempted to jump across a channel on the pond and fell into ihe the hall. There will be a card party during the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. D. C- Bacon of Ct8* tal Lake and Ray Bartholf of Richmond visited Mrs. Jennie Bacon Friday. Mr. ini Mrs. Fhner Olsen and son and Mrs. S. H. Beatty visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Frey at Deerfield Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Clay Hughes of MeHenry were Ringwood visitors Sunday Excluding Transjordanla, ths are* of Palestine Is slightly over 8,000 TEN YEARS AGO Since Monday, Dec. 13, the bank at Ringwood has been doing business under the name of the Ringwood State Bank, the charter having been secured a few days before the change took place. Wm. H. Althoff, employed .as a state investigator in the department of-public works, division of waterways, has been given more territory and now covers two miles of the Dlinois river besides taking care of the Fox. The season's first skating on Fox river was enjoyed last Friday and the young folks were having the time their ttw wh«n tho ;.iv\ •4 OtMRrs Every wears, and every man needs-- SHIRTS. These are Shirts of the finer sort, tailored to a nicety, and offered in a brilliant assortment of colors and patterns. Fine French^ percales, broadcloths in pastel shades with collars attached--a great gift array, which vfo• feature at $1.65 to $6.50 u&tfy In the better grades of Shantung, crepe and repp are presented in square or reefer styles. Plenty of colors and combinations at • $1.50 to $5.00 M Silk Neckwear All hand tailored, comes you in one of the finest showings of the season. Mogadores, Repps, Twills in 0olors .and patterns at $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 r :.i •r:'$ .VV Gifts ill the Store for Boys Natty togs give real pleasure and reaJ service to a real boy. In our | - 'M Christmas selection are scores of swanky wearables, stitched to withstand toughest treatment Boys' Knicker Suits Boys'Overcoats Sweaters Ages S to 14 years $10.00 to $14.50 , an With t pair Wkers " r ' VN..-W ' Boys' Long Pants Suits Ages 14 to 20 years $12.50 to $25.00 ail with 2 pair hragies Boys' Overcoats Ages 3 to 7 years specially priced at $6.1 -v Pallovers with nkeks; hi wool material. $1.95 to $5.7* Boys' Overcoats Ages 10 to 15 years specially priced $8.85 Ages 15 to 20 years specially priced $11.85 la attached. Print Shirts patterns. With oritan $1.00 ** MAKE YOURSELF A PRESENT OF A NEW HART SOHAFFNER AND mahy SUIT OR OVERCOAT Ray McGee Green Street MeHesry,