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3 ' n 7* - * : :r *1 ^ A -4: ., "- ^ if/--* -c -*v 5 '?«r ^ i, ,T.F : £ m-.yt hK' '•?i. v. Twice Told Tale* Items of Interest Taken From liw Flks of the Plain<U*fer -•. el Years. AfO';Lv> FIFTY YEARS AGO i At the meeting of the board on fkonday evening the marshal was Ordered to enforce the ordinance - ifeainst the using of sling shots with- "t- •."•vjii the corporate limits. Also the one • • • Requiring the saloons to close on Sunday and at 11 o'clock each night V-v ' luring the week. *• , " 7 ' - L. H. Berry and family, direct from Jfaino, arid enroute for settlement in • ; 5 Jlinnesota, are now', visiting at the •.vv. v-jjome of Elder Wheeler, Mrs. Wheeler "•v j hieing his sisteij. * The annual reunion of the Old 'If * Settlers' association of McHenry and ;3t«ke counties has been postponed 8ome time in September, .the ' '• • date of which will be fixed hereafter. <\V FORTY YEARS AGO ^ • H. E.' Wightman carried fifty-five passengers to Pistaqua Bay on Satui- ^Uy last*- ;; There were twenty-seven rainy lays in the month of May, and at this Writing the prospect looks favorable .••for as many more in the month of June. During the storm on Saturday evelung last lightning struck a large evergreen tree in front of the residence of Prof. F. M. Overaker, tearing It all to pieces, and cracking twelve lights of glass in the window of his .Residence. Some fanners are not yet discouraged over the corn prospects. A fermer said the other day that the kept crop of corn he ever raised in this Sountry, he planted the 10th and 11th •/Stf June. and if her record as a student has any bearing, her career as an instructor should be a most successful one. The dinner at the Riverside was well attended on, Decoration day. Kirkland's Chicago orchestra furnished some excellent music for the occasion A canoe club came up from Dundee last Wednesday evening and the following day returned to their homes by way of Fox river. The t j^turn trip was made in seven canoes. TWENTY YEARS AO© An elegant crop of hay will be harvested from our park withfn a short time, maybe- We wondeT what in the world McHenry has a park for, anyway. The Chicago train last Sunday evening was packed to its utmost capacity when it left this station. Every available seat was taken up, while the aisles and platforms were also crowded. Miss Maud Curr of McHenry has been visiting her sisters. Mrs. Huggins and Mrs. Hillebrand at Crystal i Lake. The sisters have just been j left a legacy of $100,000 by an uncle . in Europe, The canning season is here and J Math Lauren can supply youn with the | best line offruitsto be focmd- oft the , market.1' • ' V. '.v • ' TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Butter was quoted at 23 cents Arm 0U the Elgin board of trade Monday. Miss Lillian Wheeler has been engaged to teach the Ostend school Jtoxt season. , Miss Wheeler graduated from the McHenry school this year, ;v-S/:' TEN YEARS AGO The exercises attendant tui closing of the community high as well as the public schools were held here last Thursday and Friday with large crowds attending the entertainments. A class of fourteen graduated. j A1 Krause, erstwhile dispenser of milk, is now employed at the N. H. Petesch drug store, having started work there the fir3t of the week. Al's many friends will, no doubt, be pleased to know that he has decided to remain one of our number. Some of the departments at the Terra Cotta factory are putting in over-time on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights of each week,, which makes the day a decidedly long one for the men employed in these departments. Probably no announcement evar made from the pulpit of St. Patrick's Catholic church here met with more general favor than that from Rev. M. J. McEvoy as made last Sunday morning, when he told his faithful followers that the contract for the building of a new church had been let. Plain dealers at Bcnger*S. Oiow to play firidg» AUCTION m CONTRACT me Ferguson Author of 'PRACTICAL AUCTION BR]DOB* topyrigbt, 1931, by Hoyle. Jr. ARTICLE NP. 31 . Why is it that tome players invari- Trofv lose the big rubbers and win the little ones? How and why do the big losses occur? Generally speaking, it's impossible to suffer big losses at Auction or Contract unless you are holding good cards. When you are holding worthless cards, there is no temptation to overbid and hence no big penalties. It's when you are holding good cards that are not quite good enough, or when you are suffering from bad ""breaks" that you are apt to lose heavily. The good cards, instead of winning for you, are a source of loss. Why is this? There must be some reason for it and the answer is really very sinlple. A player just cannot remain quiet with good bards. He must bid and keep on bidding. The good cards intoxicate one said you become blind to the many signs that the odds are against you. You fail to notice that your partner is passing and that both of your opponents are bidding. What can one good hand do against two? If players would only ask themselves that question, many a big penalty would be avoided. Moral: Don't overbid good hands. Remember, a good hand nas a better defensive value against two good hands, than it has when used for offensive, purposes. It's an axiom of the game that one good hand against two has one hundred per cent better chance to save a game than to make game. In nearly half of such hands, it would have been possible to have saved game and in the other half to have defeated the opponent's bid. Recently the writer kept a record of the over-bidding of one player during one evening's play. Oufcof fifteen of his bids that failed to make good, twelve were doubled. On ten of the hands, the player could have defeated his opponent's bid and on the other five he could have saved game. He was one •of those players who consider it a personal affront to be overbid and his ' opponents knew he would continue to, bid. Such a player is under a great handicap and yet cannot seem to realize what is the trouble with his game. He complains of his hard luck and of the big rubbers he loses, but hasn t the good judgment to realize that it is his temperament, rather ffesa his bad cards that is making him lose. Take these remarks to heart and, if in the class specified, look for the result of hands in which you fail to make your bid. Ifjtou'could have saved game or defeated your opponent's bid, your loss is not justifiable. Is it more difficult to play the dum* my hand against two opponents or for the two opponents to play against the declarer? That question has been the cai::e of much discussion, but to the writer there seems only one answer. It is much more difficult for the opponents of the declarer. The latter can see his twenty-six cards and should know the best way of combining them to the best advantage. He is not in the dark like his opponents, for they must guess as to the other's holding and they are just as apt to guess wrong as right. Also in the opening lead, the opponents of the declarer are at a disadvantage. If partner has not bid, what should be ths opening lead? This is a question that puzzles tte experts at times, but ths average player can greatly overcome this difficulty by the careful study of a good table of leads. In playing against the declarer, try to convey as much information as possible to your partner by use of conventional leads and discards. Watch your partner's play and that of the declarer very closely. Not only try to make every play of your own convey information to your partner, but also try to learn something from every play of your partner and of the declarer. The following hand looks easy but, unless the proper lead is made, the game is lost: Hearts -- Q, J, 8 Clubs --7, 4, 2 Diamonds -- K, 10, 7,4 Spades -- J, 4 - The dealer bid one spade and all passed. ^ What is the correct opening lead with the above hand? The correct lead is the queen of hearts. Any other lead with this hand would have lost game. The player who held it opened the four of diamonds, a very baa lead. Never open a. suit containing the king against a suit bid, if there is any other possible lead. It is nearly always a trick loser. 4 Solution to Last Week's Problem Diamonds -- 10,9t 8,7 Spades -- none Hearts -- 4 Clubs -- 8, 7, 6 > Diamonds -- notife Spades -- A, J, 7 ir : , • ' * ••... B it Hearts -- K, 6, 5 - Clubs -- none Diamonds -- K, O, 6 Spade#'-- 10 Q,J,W Clubs --Q7j ? ' " Diamonds--jk Spades -- 8 |ff^^spad*a«tramps-and Z is in the! lead, how can Y Z win all of the tricks •gainst any defense? ^Solution: Z should lead the king of diamonds and Y should discard the •ix of clubs. At trick number two, Z should lead the six of diamonds and Y should trump with the jack of spades. B should play the jack of clubs but, if Ik wants to make a fancy play, he can discard the eight of spades. Y should then lead the eight of clubs for Z to trump, and the last four tricks are then taken by the queen of diamonds, king of hearts, seven of spades and ace of •pades. . Suppose, however, B, at trick two, M»akrs the proper discard of the jack of fftube. At trick three, Y should lead the sev«i of dubs, wM<* 1 with the ten of spades and follow with the king of hearts and five of hearts Y should trump the latter with the seven of spades and lead the ace of spades. Y s club is now good for the last trick. At trick two, suppose B had discarded the ten of hearts. In that case at trick three, Y should lead the four of hearts, which Z should win with the king and lead back the five of hearts. This trick Y should trump with the ace of spades and lead back the seven of spades. Z must win this trick with the ten of spades, and now has the good six of hearts and queen of diamonds lor the last two tricks. It is a clever little problem tad worthy of the closest stuay. TO MAKE P0 R|VER HIGHWAY OF TRADE ii I. \ i ii Italy to Spend Vast Sum on Ambitious Plan. Washington.--Recently Italy started work on an ambittous project to turn the unruly Po river Into a highway of commerce from Milan to Venice. The project will require several years for completion, and an expenditure of close to 300,000,000 lire. A bulletin from the National Geographic society describes the Po river and the rich country tributary to It, "The Po is a surprise to many observers, 1 who cannot at first understand how a really large river can flow from east to west for 416 miles in obviously narrow Italy," says the bulletin. "The explanation Is that the Po lies just outside the peninsula portion of Italy. The top of the 'Italian boot' flares up Into the European mainland among the Alps, and it is in this continental part of Italy that the Po flows. Across this northernmost part of Italy It Is approximately 400 miles from French to Yugoslavian territory; and the Po, because of Its many meanders, "easily runs up Its high mileage in the somewhat shorter air-line distance from the French tfocUei1 to the Adriatic coast ' * . Valley la "The 1*0 valley is unique among European river basins because of tis great extent of almost level land for long distances inland. Viewed on a relief map, this great tongue of lowland is seen to cut upland Italy almost In two. There is a reason for this. Not long ago, geologically, the sea extended into northern Italy along the foot of the alps almost to the present French border. The great Po basin Is this old gulf, filled now with alluvial material washed down from the mountains. The relatively large flow of the Po. especially at certain seasons. Is owing to the fact that the basin Is hemmed In on three sides by mountains (the Alps to north and west, the Apennines to the south) and that the run-off from these heights Is at times very rapid. The river flows along virtually the entire stretch of the Italian Alps, and receives water from most of their southern glaciers and lakes. "Because the 'plain of the Po' is so nearly level, particularly In its seaward half, the river has brought disastrous floods to the residents along its course, throughout historic times. Even during the early days of Rome It was necessary to build dikes and embankments to restrain the rising waters. During the early, gart of the Dark ages after the fall of Rome, these protective works fell Into decay. The river wandered over the plain, each major flood creating new channels. Large areas of the rich valley reverted to marsh. "Long before the renaissance, the work of restoring the Po's dikes and constructing drainage canals was begun, and by 1500 the valley was again well protected. This region was one of the earliest In Europe to see the development of reclamation engineering as well as the construction of canals for water supply and commerce. In the Twelfth century Milanese engineers constructed their grand ship canal from Milan to the Ticino river, making use of locks. Works Rival Holland's. . "In recent centuries the embankment and dike system of the Po has gone on developing, until the protective works rival those of the^Netherlands. In many sections the confined river flows at a level much higher than the protect$ d, fertile fields. About three million acres are protected by dikes, and approximately 5,000 square miles of land are under irrigation. This latter area exceeds that of the entire state et Connecticut. "Since the river has been confined to a narrow course, the silt which formerly was spread over a wide delta, now is washed Into the sea. The coast near the principal mouth of the Po is being built outward at a rapid rate. Sand dunes marking the site of the coast of some centuries ago, are now 15 miles inland. "The level sweep of the Po valley, ita natural fertility, and the ease with which it can be cultivated make it an enormously productive region. It has been so from the earliest times. In the days of ancient Rome it was i source of wheat, of cattle pastured on irrigated meadows, and of swine which fed on the mast of the forests that covered the foothills. Today It produces all these products, and besides large quantM|p of rice. Mulberries are grown'TO feed silkworms, and vineyards cover wide areas. MI lan and Turin, situated in the Po .basin, are populous cities atad prosperous centers of industry and commerce; and scattered through the valley are numerous thrivir g local market towns. The region is one of the most populous in Italy. "Although tremendous amounts of money and time have been spent on the Po through centuries, the works have beeu primarily protective against floods and for the taking of irrigation water. The new project will supplement this by making the stream navigable for larger boats and longer dis tances. The plans call for numerous dams and weirs to regulate the depth and for reservoirs to Impound surplus water and regulate the flow." HISTORY RELIC IS I USED FOR BULLETS PUiqu« Melted by an Illiterate 1 Jtt'. Voodoo Doctor. ^ j • 1 v 1 Orleans.--An Illiterate t«Ni»o doctor who kept a rattlesnake for a pet found a lead plaque marking the original French claim to Louisiana territory, t melted it Into bullets and shot It away, according to a story told the Louisiana Historical society. Worth of the relic today to larger historical societies would have been as much as $1,000,000, Frank H. Waddlll, engineer and vice president of the Historical society, said. This Is YVaddill's story of the claim, and of the plaque which was destroyed years later when It was found by the voodoo doctor hunter: "Rene Robert Caveller de LaSalle with 22 Frenchmen and 31 Indians formally took possession of Louisiana on April 9, 1682, at a point about 70 miles below New Orleans. He claimed the land from the gulf to Canada between the Rockies and the Alleghenies in the name of Louis XVI. "He erected n column, set up a wooden cross and plaque with the Inscription in Latin 'Louis the Great Reigns,'April 9, 1682.' "Four years iater the evidence of the cereniony there had vanished. "Then about 1895 a hunter known as Vilgere Dinet dug up a leaden plaque from an Indian mound near there. On it were three rows of Inscriptions. "He decided it was Indian writing. Natives there, generally Illiterate, could not read It "One day I told George Lee Hays, a friend of mine in that district, the story of the missing plaque and I said I would hunt for it if I were younger. "'Why, I know about that plaque( Hays said, and he then told of its discovery and how Dinet had melted it and shot it away. "The plaque to Dinet was *jwt an old Indian relic."' Salt Prtitmd Ha j Baker, Ore.--The unusual cows of William Chambers, Rock Creek ranch er, prefer six-year-old hay to that stored last year. It was put away with salt and retain* that yontbXul alfalfa coloring. < Ore Pail Turns Mining - Town Into Ghost City » Sacramento, Calif. -- A mile-high tram line, with its ore buckets creeping along glistening cables, Is taking away the life blood of one of California's famous mining towns. Another "ghost" city is In the making. Towns have boomed and then disappeared since the discovery of gold in 1848, but. no exodus has been so strange as this one high over the glistening snows of the Sierra range. The famous Walker copper mine virtually has been forced to cease operations. More than 350 men, most of them with families, will have to look for work elsewhere. Snowdrifts 20 feet deep cut off the mine from civilization. The "tram" is the only way out So the population of the little town that has been built up around the mine is disappearing over the tramway-- two at a time--eighteen a day at best. By the shortest route It is 70 miles. Ifs a novel way to start looking for a new home. For nine miles the ore buckets wing over the mountains the Grizzly range, 7,000 feet high-- and the deep valleys so far below that giants look dwarfted--until Spring Garden and "civilization" J»ally are reached. Offers Wife Trunkfut of Money; She Rejects It Chicago.*-- Maurice Lippert, 9100 Commercial avenue, owner of a trunk full of money and bonds, was sent to jail by Judge Daniel Tftide for nonpayment of $160 alimony to Anna, his estranged wife, to whom he met through a matrimonial agency. His suggestion that Anna take the whole, trunk full and leave him In peace was instantly spurned by her. "I want my $100 and that's all 1 want," said she. "Let him keep his trunk. I've looked through it. The money in It Is in Russian rubles, prewar, and the bonds are pre-war German." F>m S«tm Man's Life Middlesburg, Pa.--A fuse 20 miles away is credited with saving the life of Thomas Mitchell, Middleburg laborer, when an iron bar he was carrying came In contact with a high-tension electric line. The contact blew out the fuse and broke the electric circuit. Mitchell suffered leg and arn burns. Educated Mule Can Walk on SnowshoeS -Bherridon, Man.--An educated mule which walks on snowshoes is the latest addition to the transportation facilities of northern Manitoba. Natives of this northern tripping and mining center were becoming somewhat bored by the frequent arrivals of roaring airplanes, screaming locomotives and barking dog teams when Bill Klnowick walked in from his trap lines with his snowshoeing mule pulling a toboggan. ^ The snowshoes are approximately 18 Inches In diameter. Klnowick taught the animal how to \ise them while working on his trap lines 600 miles north of here, and now, the mule refuses to walk in the snow without them. The animal makes good speed over the high drifts. \jghts of NEW YORK 9, WALTER TRUMBULL A man who never had visited New Tork before told me that his first impression of the city was its size and quantity. "Our town," he said, "has wider streets than some of yours, and sometimes they are Just as crowded. But go 25 blocks and the crowd has melted away. You begin to get out in the rural section: Here, you can go for miles and still keep on finding throngs of people. It Is the same way with everything else -- skyscrapers, stores, taxicabs. We have them all, but yours are multiplied.", * • * * * I always have thought it would be Interesting If part of the residential portion of New York could be divided Into 48 sections, governed In relative size by the population of the various states, and then to gather all the former residents of each state Into their own section. They would all feel that they were at home again, especially if the floating population was assigned to quarters under the same system. Even now we have miniature countries in New York---little Italy, China, Hungary, Africa. There are mighty few races la the world that are not represented somewhere in New York, and .there is scarcely any article of trade known to man which yop caqnot find i somewhere in the city, It you know where to look for it • • » Peoples, jewels, objects of art, animals, foods, shrubs, trees, flowers, drugs, chemicals, all sorts of things from every corner of the earth, find their way to New York. You may see lions from Africa, tigers from India, dinosaur skeletons from Mongolia, spices from Araby, diamonds from Braallw emeralds from Columbia, cherry trees from Japan, paintings from Italy, dresses from France, something from every known country, in the course of a day's wandering. If a student were Intelligently to visit New York's museums, parks, libraries, theaters, movie houses, stores, foreign quarters, hotels, docks, business districts and restaurants, he would "fcain more information, learn more than he would if he devoted the same tlQM tflr a trip around the world. Having just safd that yon can find everything in New Xork, I wish I knew exactly where to lay hands on oysters Rockefeller, and pompano In paper bags, such as they serve in New Orleans. Or even those thin-skinned grapefruit, half the size of a pumpkin, they have in southern ciimes. ' • • • On the other hand, I do not believe you can get any finer meats anywhere than In Manhattan. And there is no better food than roast beef or beefsteak to be had on this spinning earth. * • • Dr. Charles H. Mayo, one of the famous brothers from Rochester, said recently that the greatest enemy of the human race Is food. He maintains that most persons either eat too much, or have poorly selected diets. This sounds reasonable. We do not believe in any diet which includes creamed codfish, brains and eggs, or parsnips, and we don't think any man, unless he has been engaged In hard manual labor should eat over ens roast of beef at a sitting. "/ ' Louis Angel Firpo, to WiWi&,;Tfted' to eat a large beefsteak garnished with a dozen fried eggs, and he was certainly a healthy looking specimen. But he also was larger than the ordinary man and also had known times when food was not plentiful, so perhaps he was only striking an average. Diamond Jim Brady was at ane time a famous eater, but he ended by widowing some sort of clinic for stomach troubles at Johns Hopkins. i , (C, im. Bell Syndicate.)--WNTJ S«r*fM. Eat Most Egg* Ottawa, Can.--Practically an egg per day Is eaten by every man, woman and child in Canada. The average per capita yearly consumption of eggs in the Dominion is 361, the highest of any country, according to an official compilation. Hen Turns Miner Boner*.' Calif.--Joaquin MonrUf hen has turned miner. When he went to feed Old Biddie he found she had scratched up a gold ,nugget Yjalfled at Of Unknown Origin The laying "united we stand, divided °#e fall," was popularized in this country as a line In Dickinson's song "The Patriot's Appeal," from which it was taken jas the motto of Kentucky, but it Is fouud In the remotest literature, and is of unknown origin. ' Obscwe . There may be no fan like work, hut lots of people can't see the joke. ^ Cava NaaM to Stylo ?.;• Sft architecture, the term "d*TOrlgueresque" is applied to the late, luxuriant, Spanish baroque style, so called from its most famdqs jrghlfoct, Dos Jose Churriguera. * * . Maaning of "Mash" Traveling in Alaska by dogsled IS celled mushing because mush is the Eskimo word used by ths driver In starting the dog team. Building Sway May Make Stenog Sick Coiajnbus, Ohio. -- "Stenographers of the future may become 111 in lofty offices, be rushed oft to a physician and hear him say they are suffering from "synchronous swaying of pendulous fixtures." Prof. Clyde T. Morris, Ohio State university engineer, said here that something like seasickness may occur in upper stories of tall buildings. Commonly, he said, it has"1>een believed this was caused by the swaying of the structure In the fresh winds of the lower ski38. But, in fac{. It W the swaying of the fixtures. Experiments in the American Insurance Union tower here, the tallest structure west of New York, showed a sway of only °one-tenth of an Inch In a SO-mile wind at the thirty-seventh floor. * >• i* A . 'V • s, '* ^ . 5 r> "-r 4 ' " Dana Given Cridlf Che spying "When, a dog bites s man, that's not news; but when a man bites a dog, that's news," is attributed to Charles Dana, editor of the New York:8o>i.... . . « •' i i f. /"¥ ' Knew Virtna •( Solitada Our forefathers did not do so many things as we do but they understood better the spiritual uses of 'solitude.-- Harry Emerson Fosdlck. JOBIVBBURG Mrs. William J. Meyer* and Mis. Joe Kfogr motored to Woodstock Tuesday morning. Mary and Barbara AKhoff motored to McHenry Wednesday. Mrs. Jeeeph Sehaefer and John Nett motored to Chicago Wednesday afternoon. Joseph J. Freund and Mrs.^W^Iiam May motoVed to Woodstock Tuesday. Mrs. Math N. Schmitt visited h«>r daughter, Isabel, in Chicago Wednesday. Joseph King was a Rfogwood -ealkr Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Nett and Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Thiel and family motored to Chicago Thursday. Em.il Simon of Chicago visited with Mrs., Rose Miller and family Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Huff and daughter, Shirley, visited with Mr. and Mrs. John Smith and family Saturday. Miss Laura Meyers and Bud Barmti of Chicago visited With Mr. and Mrs. Wfllam J. Meyers Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and M!rs, Jim Chamberlin'of Chicago visited John Pitzen Saturday and Sunday. Miss Emma Freund. of McHenry visited with John IL Freund Sunday afternoon. * Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Skifano, Mrs. Ben Sahr, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Skifano and daughters, Betty and Loraine, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Skifano and family from Chicago, Mrs. Sue Fons and son, Nick, from Willis Spring and Michael Thiel of Techany were visitors here Saturday. Mir. and Mrs. Joe Sehaefer and son, William, and daughter, Emma, and Emil Mersman motored to Chicago Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Freund of Chicago visited with Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Freund over the week-end. Roy Sehaefer and Ed. Hettermann were McHenry callers Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Miller and son, Victor, and daughter, Lillian, and Mrand Mrs. Charles Miller were callers in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe P. Michels SundGay. Mr. and Mrs. John Degen and daughter, Jeanette, were Woodstock callers Wednesday. Miss Mabel King from McHenry visited with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe King, Wednesday. Mir. and Mrs. Charles Michels and family, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wiengart and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gerasch and family of McHenry visited with Mr. and Mrs. John A. Miller Thursday night. •? George Zomstoff of Spring Grove was a caller here Thursday night. Mr. and Mrs. Math Lay and Mr. and M!rs. John Lay of Spring Grove were callers here Thursday night. Mis® Emma Freund and niece, Miss Jeanette Bishop, of McHenry were visitors here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Skifano and daughters, Betty and Loraine, %nd Mrs. Sue Fons and son, Nick, of Chicago were visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sehaefer and family Monday. Charles Dunham of McHenry was a caller here Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Gorski of Woodstock visited with Mr. and Mrs. Joe P. Miller Sunday and Monday. Edward Huff, Ed Schmitt, Miss Alvina Schmitt and Miss Viola Schmitt motored to Chicago Sunday. Bill Thompson of King wood was & caller haw Sunday night. Miss Boeemary Sehaefer and Mi" Annabel! Meyers were McHenry bsfiUers Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. John Rauen of Spring- Grove were callers here Sunday afternoon. Bernard Althoff of Wheatland, Wis^ visited with his parents, Mr. and Mrt- William H. Althoff, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Smith were Sunday visitors in the home of Mr. «nrwf Mrs. Frank Michels. Fred Smith, Arnold an(g Clemens Freund were Crystal Lake callers one day last week. Mir. and Mrs. Frank Michels were- Crystal Lake Callers Monday afternoon. _•? Mr. and Mrs. John Degen daughter, Jeanette, were McHenry callers Monday afternoon. Misses Asella and Angela Tonyaw were visitors at the home of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Althoff, last Monday. Mrs. „Anthony Freund and M$i» Martha Hettermann were McHenry callers Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. A1 Wegener and daughter, Marion* of Wauconda and Mr. and Mrs. Martin Obenauf of Fremont and Mr, and Mrs. Peter Wagner were Sunday visitors in the home4 if Mr. and Mis, Wm, Althoff. Arnold Miller of McHenry visited with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob A. Miller, Saturday and Sunday. Miss Katherine Althoff and her wide, Henry, motored out from Elgin to spend Sunday and Monday with home folks here- , The Wonder Lake team the Johnsburg team by a score of 14 to 6 Sunday. Mir. and Mrs. Jacob H. Adams and son, Alex, and daughter, Genevieve^ attended the funeral of William Bradly Wanzer at Dundee on Thursday. $mil Debrecht and Arthur and Wm. Frett of Chicago visited at the Jaks Adams home Sunday evening. Miss Marie Nett visited Miss GMfc» evieve Adams on Decoration Day. ^ Alex Adams and his sister, Genevieve, attended a dance at Twin T-wkes on Saturday evening, where they saw Clyde McCoy atid his orchestra play.' Coinage Statistic* * The United States gold dollar ccMSf tains 25.8 troy grains. A troy pousd contains 5,760 troy grains, but ths more familiar avoirdupois pound contains 7,000 troy grains. A million dollars In United States gold coin, thers* fore, weighs 8,686.4 pounds, avoirdo? pols. The standard silver dollaC weighs 412.5 troy grains, and a mllliotf dollars in such coin would weight 58»« 881 pounds, or nearly 24Mi toifc« . w Sight* of Bosnia • strange, beautiful, fantastic country is Bosnia in Yogo-Slavia. The Romans left old forts and stone bridges, for Sclplo crossed the Na« renta In 156 B. C., now 'a stream one can juipp across. 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