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\-,4f , ' C.' W.'r1 mT '-" • wj- ' •". •SUM. Qfcfffe.' T-- :.'-•:'•'P'-'ff vSBSV -"'• ' •'•'• !, •f-M - TV .r/#S -' 4- 45 ^ Jfr ^ rnxmntT njdM>SAiJU,nranAY, fAMtfturirtt, ins / ' - ..•-•i,'i J*-.' -- «_ -»_'J * , • ." :mi i-""'JX*f. •4^- -r - * J *> Copyr«g»t 9km to pt*y Bridge AUCTION 4 CONTRACT SyVfyonc Ferguson Author of "PRACTICAL AUCTION BRIDGE* 1931, by Hoyle, Jr. {RTICLE NO. 13 '".V "ifra Iftfonfi'atoiy dotil^e !s fetill an • Important factor in Auction and Con* 2, tract, and presents some interesting ai^d puzzling questions of bidding. For example, suppose the dealer bids one no trump and second hand doubles (informatory), with what type of hand " should the dealer's partner make a bid? • There is still considerable difference of opinion among the experts as to the proper procedure in this situation, but the writer has very definite ideas in f'" • regard to, it. There are four distinct r types of hands at either Auction or, Contract which should be bid by the • 5 t . drier's partner over an informatory ! double of one no trump. First: with a ".v *',,«• hand as good as an original, no trump, ' dealer's partner shouid redouble. For ^sample, with a hand of t_histtijpe:,. i . l»v«: • Wf%M <w"> $ • *j K 7/ v-yi. Hearts--- A, 4, 2 >• , . , ;v „ .CTubs--- K, 7,'4' "i "V _V, ' Diamonds-- j, 10, 3, 2 , ' *, ; SpadesK, 10, 9 ,»•; ^ The redouble is a powerful weapon >wf>en properly used and the scurce of • many big penalties. After ft: redouble; partner should double any bid made and try for penalties. * Second: If the dealer's partner holds as good as an original bid in a suit, he should bid two in the suit over the * double. For example, wjth ahand of this type, bid two clubs: •. ' • Hearts -- 10, 4, 3, 2 Clubs --A, K, J, 4, 2 Diamonds -- 10, 7 Spades -- f , 2 fey so doing, you give the exact information to your partn?r that you have as good as an original b.d in that „ suit. It JS the only way you can give this exact information and for that reason the opportunity should not be lost. - Third: If the dealer's partner holds a set-up minor suit, he should bid two no trump over the double. For example, with a hand of this type, bid two no trump: :• Hearts -- 7,6,2®^ Clubs --10,4, 3 y,.^. Diamonds -- A, K, Q, J, 7 /.• Spades -- J, 4 Here again you have the opportunity U 't&'give this exact information to partand you cart only do so by bidding the two no trump. -- Fourth: If the dealer's partner holds a hand which justifies a major suit take-out of the no trump irrespective of the double, it should also be bid over the double. For example, with this type of hand; bid two spades: Hearts--1#,"? ' •'*. Clubs --J, 9,4 „ Diamonds -- 0,6 : Spades -- J, lu, 7, 6,4,1 • When you hold six or more hearts or spades, it is obligatory for you to bid that suit over partner's no trump and the obligation is just as strong when the no trump has been doubled. Such a bid gives partner exact information that you have a justifiable take-out and that information may be very valuable. * ' Problem ' •' ' 'Hearts -- Q, J, 9, 8, 7, 5'« „ ; ^-'.,\^ciub« -- io, 9 ;'fr; Diamonds-- 9, 2 " f"',\ i • , • :. Spades -- 7, 6, * „ MM Twice T o l 4 Tales item of latere* Taken Prat the Flics of the Plaiadealer , ::l 'A ' of Yeara Ago .5 . Y B- .9 % No score, rubber game. 7. dealt and bid one no trump ana A doubled. What should Y now bid at either Auction or Contract? In case Y passed, B passed and Z bid two spades, which A doubled, what should Y now bid ? From the foregoing discussion it should be obvious that Y should bid two hearts over the double. He has six hearts and therefore an obligatory take-out of the no trump. After making the mistake, of passing, however, the right thing for him to do is not so obvious. When B also passed the double, it yas evident that he did so because he was certain of defeating Z's one no trump bid. In other words, both A and B have indicated strong hands. Z's subsequent bid of two spades merely indicated that he realized his no trump bid would probably be defeated and that he figured he had a better chance to get out of trouble by bidding spades. A's double of two spades indicated he could defeat that bid; so Y was confronted with a difficult problem. The fact that he had three spades was an • argument against bidding tlyee hearts, but his outside hand was so weak that there was little or no chance for Z to make two spades. On the other hand, Y had a strong heart suit and, if his partner had high cards in the other suits, he would have a good chance to make his bid. For these reasons, the writer is of the opinion that Y should bid three hearts over the two spade bid at either Auction or Contract. Jt is a close question and shows the value of bidding such hands at once over the double. Then you don't get into trouble. * FIFTY YEARS AGO The ice harvest on the pond, by Shedd & Co., is progressing rapidly, and the quality of ice secured is of the best. We are informed that C. B. Curtis and R. Bishop are making preparations to build a Fickle Factory, on the West side «f the railroad track. The work of straightening up the bridge is progressing favorably, and by the close of the week it will probably be all in good shape. Thirty to fifty cars are daily loaded with ice from the Richmond mill pond. The work is giving employment to every idler who has ambition enough 'tBL'jMup'.a dollar.•. . FORTY YEARS Henry Foile and wife are moving here from Waukegan. They will occupy the house one door west of Lawhts' store. Miss Mary Block returned from Woodstock Monday evening, where she has been for the past week taking care of her sister who was sick. Her sister returned with her. The many friends of Mrs. R. K. Todd will be pained to learn that she died at her home in Woodstock last Wednesday, after a short illness. The funeral was held on Monday afternoon ft 2 o'clock. Burglars paid the store of J. C. Fitzsimmons a visit on Friday night last, getting away with about $25 in money, a quantity of shoes, glove3 and mittens and other goods. There is every indication that the work was done, by home talent. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO V The iceman fs all smiles these day.?, as is also the coal man. Every man has his day. During the severe wind storm last Saturday night a part of the brandt ice house at McCollum's lake blew to the ground. We understand the house will be rebuilt a£ once. Died, January 17, 1907, Bridget Sutton, wife of R. J. Sutton, after an illness of one week, aged fifty-eight . V ' Washington' Letter --By-- National Editorial Association ] week shows that in ten years the yearstotal waste of publications amount-! Butter advanced one-half cent on ' ed to 23,899,839 copies, which cost the' the Elgin board of trade Monday, and 'government more than a million dol-. remained firm at 29% cents. The j lars. The sale f of documents is neg-j'wiee^'y output was 527,100 pounds. ! gible. A few years ago "the Senate! tatter part of this week, j and House folding rooms sold as paste Frank Masquelet will have in op- I paper approximately 2,000,000 publi-' eration the old Julia A. Story stand ! cations that had never been removed ^e new owner of the property is ex- ! from their wrappers." The Public Pending quite a sum of money in im- Printer says there are undoubtedly provements and when the job is Qora- "tons of other useless publications pleted will have one of the neatest now stored in and about the Capitol.". drug stores in the county. Iff Washington, January 27 - Perhaps the most important little ..band of politicians in the country today is the Democratic policy committee which functions at the Capitol. On their shoulders rest the fate of important legislation. Even the critics in the Republican camp have conceded th3t these men, the board of strategy, have functioned admirably since the Democrats assumed control of the House of Representatives. The fact is that the future of their party depends more on their judgment than on the so-called high command at their national party headquarters. With vital non-partisan emergency legislation for relief enacted into law the partisan question again raises its head. In shaping legislative policies they may agree heart and soul with the motives of underlying^ plans advanced by their brethern to harass . and defeat the Republicans but the policy group must weigh the consequences. The sword of Damocles never evoked more fear than the aftermath of the nation-wide-wage cuts by the railroad workers. Congress has been side-stepping what is obviously the inevitable--a sizeable reduction of salaries of 600,000 on government payrolls. It has been rather pathetic to watch them dodge around the issue by resorting to parliamentary tricks. The House Appropriations Committee, which has been drafting bills for Government expenditures, could not provide the Senate and House with a loop-hole. The word has been passed that curtailment of government projects and reduced allotments to departments will not bridge the gap. Additional savings will come only by way of payroll slashes for Federal employees, and the workers are fairly well organized. The wage reductions accepted by the organized railroad workers affects 1,100,000 citizens and means a saving of about $250,000,000 Senator Simon Fess of Ohio is undoubtedly a sincere,and well-meaning legislator. Unfortunately, he has the knack of blundering into political pitfalls which leave him the worse for the slip of the tongue. His position as chairman of the Republican National Committee naturally singles him out for attack by the opposition. Their criticisms are expected and taken accordingly.' The Fess baiters are as vociferous among his political tribesmen. The Progressive Republicans take particular delight in heaping ridicule on the stocky Ohioan. It is written on the wall of party councils that Fess will step down from directing the party after the nominating convention in June. One of the choice spots for economy is never considered by Congress. They refuse to save on words and deluge the country with "&• mist of words like halos around the moon, make the -Hght less." The government departments share the responsibility in their propaganda. The annual report of the Public Pointer this An interesting side-light on the "great public demand" for the Congressional Record is revealed in the Public Printer's report. Out of a total daily circulation of 36,00C|^ there are only 636 paid subscribers to this palladium of official information. In other words, more than 98 per cent of the readers of the TWENTY YEARS AGO Butter, was declared firm at 37 cents on the Elgin board of trade Monday. • The grocery stock of Gilbert and Weber has been moved from the old Huemann building next door, owned Congressional (by Chas. G. FVett and at one time the Record are what is popularly known home of the West Side post off iceas "dead-heads" or recipients of a Two ski runners, evidently Chicagogift. The daily edition when Con-; ans who had made a trip * to Cary, gress was in session in 1931 averaged . passed thru town last Sunday noon. 108 pages which is a marked increase: They were in full regalia when seen from other sessions when the average j here and were navigating with the aid was 83 pages. This date proves that'of push poles. The sight attracted Congress is becoming more talkative, more than a little attention. The truth is that "about one-third of I George Johnson former bookkeeper the Record was devoted to matter'at the Wilbur Lumber company's other than the actual proceedings and: office here, but now of Michigan, debates in Congress." The legislators called on friends here one evening loaded up the pages with speeches, laat waek. written but not spoken, and with a conglomeration of letters and clippings. Failure of the Insurgent Republicans to take a strong stand and bid for delegates' at forthcoming TEN YEARS AGO Eight below zero on Tuesday morning of this week and over three feet of frost in the ground. Who says state ,another mild winter? primaries is interpreted as a signal jn 8pite of the bitter cold McHenry that the third party movement will arKj the surrounding community were not figure prominently in selecting j very well represented at the Cary ski Presidential candidates. The "Young jump last Sunday afternoon Guard, or aggressive newcomers Solicitors who made the rounds last among the Republican Senators, have Saturday to collect membership fees &- -€8 •/* POOR ^ MARCILI^ 31 • v '•&. i Story of Persistent By FANNIE HURSt 88- « been given important posts on the' in the newly organized McHenry Senatorial Campaign Committee. Country club met with very good sue. There are thirty-four Senators whose terms will expire March 4, 1933, and \ themselves as well as the officials. their successors must be selected in A start has ^ made on excavat- November of this year. A slight shift ing for McHenry's hew laundry in ree or four states will turn the;building which is to be erected on y° ^ oveJ to tJle Waukegan street near the Park hotel S' j *re a^e nine^een Republi- No doubt the severe cold as well; as £ir l ®emoc™U ?onUng up *he dePth of the frost has hampered this fall as the "people's choice," the progTe88 ^atly cess, much to the gratification of Variation in Hearing Range of hearing decreases with age, and many old people fail to hear notes which, to the middle aged, are quite distinct Three individuals, none of them at all deaf, may listen to the same note; the first will merely call It "rather high," the second will complain of its painful shrillness, aad the third will hear nothing! 'Tobacco Condemned Burton, of the "Anatomy of Melancholy," believed in tobacco as a medicine, but denounced smoking for pleasure thus: "Most men take It as tinkers do ale." Also "A plague of mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health--hellish, devilish and d--d- tobJccozJhe r3in a5d overthrow.of body aid soul." • ~ .<• Probably French The name "rip" is said to have been adopted from the French reps, a word of unknown origin, and It has also been suggested that It Is a corruption of "rib." : EaUon's Busy Yean In the course of forty years, Thomas A. Edison took out more than -000 patents In Ihe. United States alone,' Army Gunners Soon May Hit Target® at 45 M. P. H. Washington.--So precise are the new army methods of artillery fire patrol that officers expect soon to hit targets moving at 45 miles per hour, •which are invisible to the gunners. Maj. Gen. H. C. Bishop, In his annual report to Secretary of War Hur ley, said: "A method of attacking such speedy targets when Invisible from the gun positions has been devised and will shortly be promulgated to the s^tsdee. Bishop's report summarized the advances of the last year in using radio communication to direct the fire of batteries, In developing efficient -mounts of anti-aircraft guns, and in standardising army vehicles so that an adequate supply may he had quickly, in the event of war, from commercial manufacturers. "If the situation requires It," he said, "I want to be able to fill all motor requirements In the field artll lery from vehicles wh eh may be found on the streets or any American city and, whose spare pa s and accessories ar» found Io • multitude of shops." • (© by M$Clure Newspaper (jrnttMliV (WNUServkcO WHEN she was eighteen, the only child of the Honorable Festus Martin had been painted by Delmar, presented at the court of St James and introduced with formality to the official social life of Washington. It was a quick transition from the busy, unremarkable life of Marcella Martiu's childhood, as daughter of a prosperous manufacturer of radio parts, to the highly complex social plane achieved by Festus Martin after bis growing wealth had enabled him to foster political ambitions, and after those ambitions bad landed him in congress. Undoubtedly It was the combination, of Marcella's estate of only child, combined with the doting ambition of parents who could have leved her more wisely^ which was accountable for the six years of rigid social disciplining which were imposed upon the protesting Marcella. ' It was said of the Martins, laughingly, in certain Washington circles, that the adoring parents of this girl had actually succeeded In making over her face. A rather plain face, too long, with overhanging brow and dull brown hair entirely lacking in lights. But so Often had this and that artist idealized It, and so long and arduously had schools of massage, dentistry and hairdressing, expended skill in improving It, that by the time she was eighteen, Marcella was Ihdeed quite an improvement upon the lank, lusterless little girl of other days. It can readily be imagined that the Martins spared neither tinje nor the most elaborate expenditures to launch successfully Into an estate befitting her father's rank this idolized and only daughter. The fact that she was diffident, frankly unsocial,> unimpressed by wealth or station, unambitious along lines assiduously mapped out for her by her parents whose dreams of ultimate highest realization lay in this girl, only conspired to urge the elder Martins to maximum effort. "Why, Marcella, another girl' with your opportunities would be In -her seventh heaven of delight. Doesn't it mean anything to you to have all the things your father's wealth and position can afford for you?" "Of course it does, mother, only I want them in my way. Tin no good at this social-round kind of thing. I don't like It chiefly, I guess, because I'm a failure at it. Don't force, mother. Can't you reconcile yourself to the fact that I'm not what you want me to be?" No, neither of the parental Martins could. Festps Martin, as much as his more obvious wife, wanted this daughter a fitting complement to his achievements both official and social. His wife was that. A pretty, pamperedlooking woman with small eager ways and deep gold eyes that were brighter than, if not as profound, as her daughter's. "Emma," he confided to her once during one of their frequent controversies about this problem of their girl, "I actually believe you still have more youth and social charm than Marcella. What Is it ails the child? She's as fine a girl as you'll meet in a. thousand years, and yet--and yet-- no two ways about It--something's missing." "It's her own fault, Festus. Marcella's heart Isn't In living the life about her. That's what hurts me so. To think a girl with her opportunities doesn't appreciate them." Marcella's reaction to these Implications of her doting parents was emo-' tlonal and deeply sincere. "Dears, don't you think it hurts me as much as it hurts you that I don't seem to live up to what you want of me? If pnly you could make up your minds that you're trying to make a silk purse out of---" "Marcella Martin, nothing of the sort. You've ten times the sense and Intelligence of the girls you compete wlih. .Why, a man like Senator Morris wouldn't look at the swarms of silly girls who buzz around him, If you so much as took the trouble to exert your self to interest htm. That's what trou bles us, dear. You have all the opportunities for success, including some very natural qualities of your own, and you won't use-them." The subject of Senator Morris was a mooted one in the Martin household. It seemed fitting to the parents of Marcella that the most eligible bachelor In Washington, one of the most outstanding members of the upper house, a man with much achievement behind him and obviously again as much ahead, should be potential timber for Marcella. After all, the only child of a millionaire many times over, per sonable, probably the most all round educated young woman in the capital traveled, informed and by no means without a certain quality of distinction, had the right to cast her eyes high. Anyway, the Martins felt that wa> about It, and spared neither time, ef fort ndr expense to the bringing to gether of these two. It must be admitted, however, thn these somewhat ingenuous and not al ways skilfal effects. Ml with little ft Is doubtful If in all the tines he met Marcella, both in the Martin home and at public occasions, the beautifully gowned, Jeweled, caparisoned little lady of longish face, bulging brow, deeply Intent eyes and clear brown skin, ever more than passingly snagged his attention. Oh, yes, his reaction, If any, might have been: Martin's daughterf Said to be clever; bot a solemn young lady with that dark brown loojt. Good enough fellow, Martin, If he knew enough to keep out of politics. Pretty little wife with soapsuds for brains. , Marcella's reactions, secret as her own sercretlve-looking eyes, were not In line with the senator's. There resided in the makeup of this aggresslye, massive-jawed, rough-haired member of the liberal wing of politics, qualities that were stirring within Mafcell& keen, new and exciting thrills. The most interesting man in all Washington, the most Interesting man in America, the most Interesting man she had ever met, was the senator. Secret as were these deep-seated emotions, and imperturbable as her brown eyes continued to remain, that fact grew with the months. Secretly, Mareellp. was in love with Senator Morris. That It was unrequited caused her neither bitterness nor undue pain. One Just went on--alone--caring--hoping for the glimpse of him here and there, picking up crumbs of information of his comings and goings, and outwardly reconciled to defeat. After a while, even the Martins became half reconciled to It. At twenty- four, Marcella simply had not made her dent. Her generation of debutantes had come and gone. Practically all of the girls who had made their bows the winter that the Marcella Martin coming-out ball was the crowning event of an eventful .social season, were married now--rightly. > At twenty-five, something latent In Marcella rose and asserted itself. Against the resistance of her parents, which she wore down with a highhandedness uncharacteristic of her, she enrolled In a school of social research, and after two winters of intensive work became allied with a settlement house In New York known as Mulberry Center. Then began the happiest, most interested years of her life. When she was twenty-eight, Marcella was first assistant head of this large Institution and an outstanding figure lnt her chosen field. The Martins, in their way, were prond of this success. Of course It was miles and miles removed from what had been their dreams for her, but, well, It takes all kinds of people to make a world. Poor Marcella. Of course, one appreciated her brains and her distinction, but just the same, the heart of the mother of this daughter seemed to beat to the* rhythm: poor Marcella. It was when she was thirty-two, considerably heavier, and with streaks of faint gray In her strong dark hair, that Marcella Martin, appointed by her government as first woman member of "an international conference on housing conditions to be held in Geneva, again encountered Edgar Morris, now Governor Morris. He, too, gray now, heavier now, found himself sitting beside her at a political luncheon at Geneva where he was In attendance at a conference. Life, tides, affairs, had flowed swiftly for him In the years which had In- t tervened since his previous meeting ' with her. It is doubtful If he recalled her at all. He only knew that suddenly he was meeting a woman whose talk, whose point of view, whose deeply quiet eyes and a certain unworldliness, were giving him the first serious pause he had ever in his life felt where the other sex was concerned. It occurred to him even, %a he sat there beside hei; in the first hour of that lunch In Geneva, that he seemed to be developing symptoms of a man on the verge of falling in lfi* . Biwy Matthews and son*, Rotert and Lyle; were business callers it Lake Zurich Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Geary and son, Eugene, were callers at McHenry last Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren attended the theatre at Crystal Lake Saturday evening. Mrs. Clara Smith wa# a CaHe* at Wauconda last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Nellls were callers at Crystal Lake last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. William Darrell and son, George, of Wauconda spent last Thursday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews. Mr- and Mrs. Wm. Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse and Otto Petersen of the flats spent Sunday at the home of Mir. and Mrs. Wayne Bacon. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren and Mrs. Raymond Lusk and daughter, Betty Lou, of Volo spent Sunday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Anderson at Cary. Mrs. Ray Dowel 1 and daughter, Delorea, spent last Wednesday and Thursday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. •Wm, Davis. Mr. and Mr*, Wayne . Bacon and sons, Donald and Kenneth, spent- last Tuesday afternboai at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Davis OR- the •Flats. Mr. and Mrs.V Willard Darrell, Harry Matthews, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dowell and Miss Myrna Bacon attended the basketball game at Wauconda last Friday evening. Mr. {md Mrs. Leo Zimmer and daughter, Joan, of Barrington spent Saturday evening at the home of Henry Geary. Mr. and Mrs. Joe DoWell and daughter, Alma, attended the annual meeting of the Lake Co. Farm Bureau and Lake Co. Farm Supply Co. at Grayslalee last Thursday. Mrs. Wayne Bacon and children spent Saturday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Bacon at Roseville. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Brooks.and Miss Orissa Brown of Wauconda called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Johnston at Elgin last Wednesday. Mrs. Blanche Mead and daughter, Jean, and son, Harry, of Crystal Lake were Sunday afternoon and supper guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Nellis. , * Mr. and Mrs. Willard Darrell, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Esping and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews attended the annual meeting of the Lake Co- Farm Bureau and Farm Supply Co. at Grayslake last Thursday. Mrs. Harry Matthews spent last Thursday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Boehmer at Wauconda. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell spent the week-end with relatives at Aurora. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks and son, Chesney, were callers at Round Lake last Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Shaffer of McHenry spent last Tuesday evening at the home of the latter's father here. • Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Esping spent last Thursday evening at the home of Mr. and Mr* Frank August at Wanconda. Mr. and Mrs. Draper were callers last Wednesday forenoon at the W. E, Brooks home. Fortnightly club members and oft* guest were entertained at auction: bridge at the Harry Matthews home on Tuesday evening with Mrs. Matthews and Mrs. Myrtle Esping as, hostesses. Honors were awarded to Mesdames Meyer, Donvfti, Fink, Warden, Smith and Hallock- The guest prize went to Mrs. Truax. A very dainty lunch was served at the close of the evening. Th# next meeting will be Febniary 2 at the hnma nf Mrs. • Natalie Startup. ,,-P^V v." ' *'• V '•* -Hi V) ^ * LILY LAKE Mrs. Math Brown'"WnMtfr' ily visited with Mr. and Mrs. Al Wegener at Wauconda last Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Brown and son of Crystal ' Lake spent Sunday at the home of Leo Regner. . Mr. and Mrs. Hamer, Mrs. Scirurtnaker and Mr. Schneider, aE of Chicago, spent Monday at the Hamer home on Shore Drive. . Mrs, Pteter Weber Visited at the home of her brother in Chicago last week. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. RothermeL ©I*- Wauconda spent Tuesday evening at the John Wagner home. Wm. Tansy of, Chicago spent Sun-: day at the home of his sister, Mrs. Fred Holly. Mr. and Mrs. James Taylor of Chicago are spending a few days in their cottage here. Mrs. Margaret Wegener and sons, Joe and Edward, of Volo spent Sunday evening at the' home of Math Brown. Mr. and Mrs. A. Skelly of Chicago spent the week-end ia their cottage here. Guests in the home of Phillip Thennes Sunday evening were Mr. and Mrs. Peter Brown, Mr. and Mrs. William Etten, Mr. and Mrs. John Wagner and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stoffei and daughter of Volo. Stanley Hlavacek and Frank Harder of Chicago spent last week at the former's home here. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Diedrich of Me- Hen^y spent Monday afternoon at the-, home of John Wagner. John Martin of Round Lake spent Saturday evening at the home of Geo. Shelton. Misses Caroline and Dorothy Wagner attended the dance at Ivanhoe Wednesday evening. Mrs. Louise Gannon of Chicago spent a few days last week in th® James Taylor home. Theodore Shelton of North Chicago visited at the Peter Weber home Sunday. • • J -x'Xa*S Sa1' V!S?& * - f x,'!> V ./ Not "Monkeys" ape" and "monkey" til "Ape* The terms . popular language are more or less tnterchangeable. Correctly speaking, however, ape refers to any of the large anthropoid primates which are entirely tailless, and monkey to aiiy of the smaller members of this order with either short or long tails. ;.. . Strong Bond Between George V and Scotland When the lord provost handed to King Geo- ge the keys of Edinburgh, the cerei onial required his majesty to say, ) i returning them, that the key could not be In "better hands." The British rulers were celebrating the thirty-eighth anniversry of their wedding In Edinburgh. This was fitting, because it is due to two weddings that the keys of the city were handed to them at all. If the Tudor princess had not married a king of Scotland, James VI of that country could never have been Elizabeth's successor under the title of James I of the United Kingdom, of Ireland and the Dominions Beyond the Seas. And If his daughter had not married the elector palatine the house of Hanover, from which George V is more directly descended, could not have come to the British throne after the .death of Queen Anne. Because of their marriages George V bears the blended blood of the royal house of England and Scotland. His Plantagenet ancestors (through John of Gaunt) were repeatedly chased out of Scotland. His Tudor ancestors didn't dare try to conquer the braw ilk of Caledon. His Stuart ancestors were the Scots' well-beloved. Because of that strain they forgive him his Hanoverian blood.--New York Times. DR. C. KELLER Optometrist and Optician During the winter months I will examine at my summer home in Lasch Subdivision, on Riverside Drive, one block North of city limits of McHenry, on West side of river, on Sundays and Mondays only. Phone McHenry 211-R Phalin's Garage Phone 324 Storage, Repairing, Oil, Greasing Pearl Street, McHenry ^ McHenry Floral Company Main Street, McHenry Where quality is tost and prices are lowest . Funeral Work a Specialty Flowers for Weddings and all occasions -T The Art of Illutioa "Remember," said the earnest eltlcen, "that the eyes of the public are upon you." "That condition Is provided for," answered Senator Sorghum. "In political prestidigitation the hand-out must always Ue quicker than the eyesight." CniiM'i Iiluul lie scene of Robinson Gkosoe's erTle !s one of the Juan Fernandez' Islands, which are In the South Pacific, about 400 miles due west of the coast of Central Chile. Supreme Court Slttiafi The Supreme court of the United States meets in October of each year, and with certain recesses, which are voted by the court Itself, sits until the following June. V Wealth and Virtu# Riches, though they may reward virtues, 'yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.-- Feltluu*. Mm ef Moat Meat dealer® came to be called butchers from the old French word "bochler," meaning one who slays hegoats, goats at "one time being a much* prized meat. Dividend Notice rr-WE BOARD OF DIRECTORS of Public i Service Company of Northern Illinois has declared the regular quarterly dividend of $1.50 per share on the Company's 6% Preferred Stock, $1.75 per share on the 7% Preferred Stock, and $2.00 per share on .the Common Stock, payable February 1, 1932, to stockholders of record, at the dose of business, January 15, 1932. \ PATTON.t Secretary'• PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS Serving 6,ooo square miles--520 cities, towns and commumties--utth Gas ana Electitctty I '• 'St &Sr:-