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Twice Told t HmH latarSst Wmi Fw» - tte FUes of the Plaindeeler P " of Years Ago FIFTY YEARS AGO It would appear that sheep thieves lire around. John W- Smith has lost thirty-three, and Wm Covill about forty. Just how these thieves operate is not known, bat that they make a dean job of it is evident from the fact that they leave no trace behind. It is ..m pity such rascality could not be tfetfcted. A very sad andpaiaful accident <i»«red at Barrevills oa Friday evening, Clark Sim son, who was work -ifeg there, iu company with a small - boy went out in the Mill Pond for a bath and getting out into deep water] and being unable to swim was FROWNED. :• Jack McCabe requests us to an. •ounce that he has started a saloon >$& Wauconda and that he will have a (rand opening on the 4th of July, to Which he invites his irlends. The best Hines, liquors and cigars, and everytjjUng^ orderly and quiet will be his FORTY YEARS AGO Our neighboring city of Harvard baa organized a Republican Club and now ready to open the campaign. Wm Frett, formerly of Johnsburg .te of Chicago, died in the latter city week. He was a man well known and highly respected in this community. ] There will be a picnic in the Johnsliurg Grove July 44. A large dancing .tform will be erected, good music plenty of refreshments furnished. Children's Day was held at the tfrniversalist church on Sunday eveiling. last, and the house was pecked tt> its utmost capacity. *a TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO I The board of trade price of butter Monday was 23 cents. Sunday brought out a large number flf resorters. The hotels along the liver and around the lakes enjoyed a fine patronage. Nearly all the •ottages are now occupied- : The clover fields about this section the country are said to be in the st condition that they have been at this time in many years. This is •specially true around Johnsburg. . , Water street was illuminated r.y iventeen one candle power lights last ,turday evening. Visitors in that 4nd of town at first thought that the '^lectric light plant was again in oper- •ItWB. TWENTY YEARS AGO Dr. W. H- Doolittle, a prominertt fjhysician of Woodstock, died Monday .'•|jjf last week. I Fox river is to be stocked again this fear with a choice variety of hundreds of game fish. Tom Walsh of Grayslake has been j|ud up for the past week or so with H bad foot. Mr. Walsh has had more 4jr less trouble with the member for wie last few years. From Waukegan comes the report it the Waukegan, Woodstock and Jjhicago railroad company is soon to ijpen an office in that city and that Actual work on the new road will bein at once. Well, here's hoping that ro this time. - ' 1 • '• J.,, TEN YEARS AGO j Very satisfactory progress is being aiade on the excavation work for St. Jga trick's new church. Another team nd scraper was added to the working orce this week. /-J Premature Fourth of July celebrations have been going on in McHenry fhat isn't tolerated in most tovns for i single minute. We believe that illcHenry also has an ordinance prohibiting such a nuisance. Weeds and grass along some of the ' walks in town have grown to such an , Extent that, they not only spoil the Appearance of our otherwise beautiful 4jity, but also make it mighty bad for iestrians especially after • heavy lin. They should be cut. Immense Log* Two enormous logs of mahogany were received recently at the West India docks, London. One, from Honduras, weighed over eleven tons, the Other, from West Africa, more Uuta tan and a half tons. ' ^ Damage Doae by Rata It is estimated that property amounting to $200,000,000 Is destroyed by fat8 annually; According to the Unitfed States public health service, there Is one rat for every human being in United States and each one does t half cent's worth of damage a day. M*lW Fin* S«w Fi _ The annual custom of burning Jheather In big bonfires Is observed In the western Isles, off Scotland. Huge Sires blazing in the mountains of Jura «re seen by fishing vessels SO miles away. The large number form /in Impressive Ears «f tb« BliaJ The Etude says that it has wnstrated many times that blind people have no better ears than .people who see. It is quite true that they acquire better use of their ears, and that in music particularly th«y pass tests with higher averages. ' Fuk Tkat Wieks .' 'jk naturalist in London lepoifti the "discovery of a fish that winks. We jhave long marveled at their ability to keep straight faces daring the petroit News. Street Scene In Palms, Majorca Island. W<u A' <ritp«.r«l by NftlMUl Ow|t»Dhl« Society. WMdntortoK, D. C.)-WKC Scrvle* FTER more than foar eeftturiee of government by European nations, the Balearic islands, how Spanish-owned, j of burden. Not •re seeking autonomy under the pro* MJss Mlnorca, visions of the new Spanish constitution. It Is doubtful if there is in the world's geographic photograph album a family group whose members show as little family resemblance as do those of the Balearics. Majorca, the big sister, so well known to the world, sits in the center, full-grown and radiantly beautiful. Minorca, slight and delicate, yet with a grace that suggests a certain knowledge of the world, sits at her side. While Majorca Is manifestly a daughter of Spain, Minorca's features and person partake of the north--a strange mixture of English and possibly a little Dutch with the Spanish. On the big sister's other hand, Ivlsa, a charming peasant in bright apron, skirt and shawl, hung with barbaric Jewelry, piques the interest of the genealogist, for in her a different strain, probably Arabic, seems to predominate. She gazes out of the picture with level, quiet eyes that are a bit mysterious and disconcerting. Her face is unsmiling, even slightly smudgy, but still peculiarly attractive. At her feet is Formentera Island, one of the two babied almost I visa's counterpart in face and dress. It seems unkind to draw attention to Cabrera, the other baby, crouched at Majorca's feet, for she is a spare, pathetic little figure, maltreated since birth. In her plain face are to be read the signs of misery. Such are the sister Islands, and their description fits their peopla The islanders are the pleasantest' of folk to visit -- simple-hearted, even-tempered, sober-minded, honest, and kindly. The welcome accorded the traveler in the Balearic* differs according to Island. Majorca greets the stranger with easy familiarity, for she has known many tourists In the last few years; Minorca with quiet grace;* and Ivlsa shyly; but the warmth of welcome is never in dout^, Ask a passer- by to indicate the direction to a store or hotel; you will be escorted to the door and bowed in, and generally you must not offer anything more material than thanks in return. The ideal Balearic climate contributes enormously to the traveler's comfort, and, in contrast to what one often experiences on the continent, It Is a gratifying, surprise to find the fondas, or inns, invariably clean and their meals wholesome. Mahon Has a Fine Hat-tool*. One of the outstanding features of the Balearic group is the abundance and excellence of its harbors. Mahon, the principal city of Minorca, Is an example. One's ship picks its way down a water lane, through pink and gray shores capped with rolling green, into what the Spanish government plans to make one of the finest harbors in the Mediterranean. Ever since Mago, the brother of Hannibal, wintered In this harbor (which still bears his name, Portus Magonis, now corrupted to Mfthon), it has been famed its a refuge for ships, alid its usefulness will be greatly increased when the Island of the Rata, a small knob of rock in the center of the basin, is removed. The islanders tell proudly how in 1798 Lord Nelson, during the war with France, came into Mahon with his squadron, seized the mansion that overlooked the port where his ships rode, and installed the lovely Lady Hamilton. But the town's historians smile rather sadly and admit that, while history is replete with incidents of Nelson's visit, It does not bear out the story of Lady Hamilton. And then Mahon! That is the way it cornea Suddenly, as the vessel rounds a point, it bursts into view, a quick splash of pink and whije on the hillside, tier after tier of quaint streets, splendid In the sunshine. Mahon sparkles, as does the whole Island. It Is a maze of spotless upand- down-hill streets of shining dolls' houses. From the steamer's deck the town, terrace upon terrace of white houses, with the spires of the Inevitable churches dominating the mass, appears pure Spanish; but that is just Mahon's little joke on the visitor, for many of the houses show English features peering from under their Spanish sombreros. • This mixture of the Entll»1' and Spanish gives Mahon a character of Its own, which I* shared kty Its people. It it the women who refuses to conform, In continental Spa^c and in the other islands they take their places In the fields with the men and che beasts so with upstanding She believes that "woman's place is in the home" or possibly, as a Concession to the march of the times. In the factory, but not in the field, and there she refuses to go. Minorca Spurns Alpargataa. Quite as remarkable, the alpargata, the rope-soled canvas sandal of Spain and the rest of the Balearics, is practically extinct here. Whether it is that Minorca, producing a large proportion of the fine shoes sold In Spain, excludes this humble footwear from a feeling of local pride, or whatever the reason, the fact remains that Minorca wears shoes. * The Balearics are rich in relics, from the days of the prehistoric inhabitants of the Mediterranean countries on down to modern times. Castles, churches,' palaces, forts, and watchtowers are seen so frequently that they become almost matters of course. In Minorca there are still standing more than 200 of the talayots, taula s and naus--stone structures generally supposed to have been used In connection with prehistoric religious ceremonials and the burial of the dead-- and the cliffs and mountains are literally honeycombed with caves. Within twenty minutes' walk of Mahon there Is a fairly well-preserved talayot, a truncated cone of huge stones, probably 40 feet in diameter and 25 feet in height, with a large taula near by. Surrounding the talayot, and marking another age in Mi nor can history, are the wails of a fort built probably of the stones of the talayot. The surrounding fields are strewn with fragments of pottery from prehistoric times on down through the Phoenician, Grecian, Roman and Arabic occupations, and the high stone walls over ^which one scrambles to reach th£"charmed hilltop are capped with other fragments laboriously picked from the fields by the Island farmers. , The deepest thrill for the visitor to Minorca Is to be found in Its prehistoric caves. A talayot, taula, or nau is an awe-inspiring sight when one realizes what it stands for, but it has not the Instantaneous effect on the Imagination made by one of those cave homes of no one knows bow pany years ago. The Cove Caves. The Calas Oovas, or Cove Caves, comprise a group In one of the many coves that indent the Mioorcan shore, and certainly a better location from a dramatic standpoint could not have been selected by the cavemen. The cove is a wild, winding gash In the shore, descending sharply from the in terlor tableland to the sea. The approach to the caves is along a narrow path hedged by a matted scrub growth and by fragments of the cove walls, which during the ages have become dislodged and have crashed to the valley. At the water level these walls are high, jagged, and precipitous; the sea beats and snaps at them and the 'plate itself compels awe. Wild deeds are plainly indicated. Add, then, to all this the effect of some forty black apertures extending from the water line to the tops of the cliffy--all made by man when the human forehead was lower and human life more precarious than it is now. It is a meager imagination, indeed, that does not immediately people the cove with small, active men, wide between the cheekbones and as agile as monkeys. We can conjure up the pic ture and see them leaping among the crags to their eerie homes, chatter ing and bickering and certainly ready to make It most unpleasant for for cign invaders such as ourselves. Palma, the principal city of Ma jorca, is snugly situated at the central point of a magnificent horseshoe bay. Like all other waters of these remark able islands, the Bay of Palma could supply half the colors of an artist's palette. The left-hand prong of the horseshoe shore, as one steams toward the %t"y, was the scene of the first fighting between Don Jaime I, the Con queror, and the defending Moors in 1229 A. D., and it is on this prong that Palma's fashionable tourist section has sprung up, with stately Bellver castle, built by Jaime II, overlooking it from the top of a handsome wooded hill. Palma Itself is a country village •f 100,000 people and of considerable commercial importance. GeeJ OU AND. Smm| If after ten years together a thinks his wife Is the greatest woman In the world it's a lead pipe cinch aha has never tried to tear him down and build him over, but has kept him fed up on apple sauce.--Cincinnati Enq u i * * . , r ? " Abeet Ourselves Ne'er let as know old age, m, Ms or sows, count no* tfc* yaars, tat tail of each its boon. Spread H»>>wni Plan your every deed with the thought of giving as much Joy to others as you possibly can. *Tis only a small contribution on your part, but it Is big In results. You are doing a "wonderful Job every time you contribate to another person's happiness.-- Grit draw upon MJsa Kmma Freund of McHenry visitedwith father Tuesday afternoon. Peter Miller and son, Roy, were ers here Tuesday. Mrs,; Gus. Vendetti and a friend vi»- ited with Mrs. William J. Meyers on Tuesday afternoon. Math Steffes of McHenry was a caller here Saturday evening. Gus Freund was a McHenry caller Sunday. Miss Evelyn and iae AnnsbeBe Meyers visited at the home of their grandparents Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Jo© King and daughter, Eleanor, Mr. and Mrs. Steve May and family, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Freund and family; Mr. and Mrs. John A. Miller and family and Mr. and Mrs. Leo Freund and daughter, Dian, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Joe J£. Miller and family at Richmond Sunday. • William J, Miners was a Waoconda caller Monday." Miss Barbara and Miss Mary Althoff were McHenry visitors Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Kauen of Spring Grove visited with John H. Freund on Sunday afternoon Miss La u*a Meyers of Chicago spent the week-end with her parents. Bill Thompson of Ringwood was a visitor here Saturday- John Schreiner and Mr. and Mrs. John Degen, daughter, Jeanette, and Dorothy Michels motored to Chicago Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ford Jackson wire callers here Monday afternoon. Bob Peterson from McHenry was a caller here Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Neiss and chit dren of McHenry were callers her# Mrs. Joe J. Freund, Mrs. Bill Mi and family and Misses Helen, ai Dorothy Michels were McHeitry ca ers Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Williams were McHenry callers Sunday evening. Miss Oliva Hettermann of Crystal Lake spent the day Sunday with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. William May and children, Mr. and Mrs. Art Kattrmr, Mr. and Mrs. Eld red Johnson, Mr, and Mrs. Joe J. Freund, Mr- and Jtft®. John M. Pitsen and Fred and Edward May visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Schaefer Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. William May and children visited in the home of Mr. Jest Foll«w Directieas Just In case you should happea to want to produce a bit of It in year cellar, the new synthetic rubber Is made by the polymerization of chloroprene, which in turn is made by the catalytic polymerization of acetylene to monovlnylacetylene, which Is treated with hydrogen chloride to produce chloroprene.--Arkansas Gazette. Aato Kaav Better! # "My cryptic neighbor," writes a bachelor to the New York Herald Tribune, "asserts that sprlngtlmp la the most 'trying' of the seasons for husbands. What does he mean, try* tag'?" "Trying," sighs the knowing editor, "to convince tjie Little Woman that the old car is better than ever.**-- Pathfinder Magazine. •fmi Mr. atid Mrs. John Lay and Mr. and l and Mrs. Jo6 L. Freund Sunday. , v. Mrs. Math Lay wen? callers here ot? Tuesday evening. Alice Baur was a caller here one day this week. Ben Schmitt of McHenry was a caller here Saturday evering. Mrs. George Miller and daughter, Marie, of Volo visited with her father, John Pitzen, Tuesday evening. Miss Evelyn Meyers visited with Mrs. John Hann at Fox Lake Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Michels and Mrs. Joe P. Michels and daughter, Helen, motored to Crystal Lake Saturday evening; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Maffiieu and Mrs. AnnafrLunkenheimer niptored to Chicago Wl»dnada}L__ J Mrs. George Justelr,~'fon, Bobbie, and her father of McHenry and Mrs- Joe Michels and family of Crystal Lake were visitors here Saturday evening. Math Schaefer of Chicago was a visitor here Wednesday. Mrrs. John Weber of McHewry was a caller here Saturday. Mr, and Mrs. Delbert Smith of McHenry visited with Mr. and Mrs. Earl J. Turner Wednesday. M}rs. Elizabeth Torryan daughter, Asella, Miss Barbara and Miss Mary Althoff and Bernajrd A1 thoff attended a home talent play at New Munster, Wis-, Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Althoff of McHenry and their father, Wm. Althoff, and Misses Mary and Catherine Althoff motored to Elgin Sunday^ Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Krift, daughter, Magdelina, and friend, Frank and Bernard Althoff were Sunday evening visitors in the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Tonyan and family, Dr. Hepburn of Ringwood was a visitor here Saturday evening. I Mr. and Mrs. Joe Freund of Spring Grove visited with friends here Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. Math N. Schmitt wer4 McHenry shoppers Wednesday night, Mrs. Joe P. Michels and Mrs- AI bert Huff and daughter, Shirley, wer® • McHenry visitors Thursday afternoon, Miss Gertrude Williams of McHenry visited with her parents Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe King, Mr. .an^ Mrs. Steve May and Miss Julia Stilling motored to Woodstock Wednesday.' Mr. and Mrs. Mike Gorshi spent Saturday evening with Mr. and Mrs-; Joe P. Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Freund and daughter, Lois, of Chicago visited with Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Smith Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. William J. Meyers motored to McHenry Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Math N. Schmitt were Chicago visitors Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Regner from McHenry were callers here Thursday. Louis Althoff visited with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Althoff, on Thursday evening. Joe ni^ig was a McHenry caller Fri day. rr Mr. jmd Mrs. Wilbur of Crystal Lake were callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Hi Her Tuesday evening. George Zornstaff of Spring Grove was a caller here Wednesday evening. M iss Mabel King of McHenry visited with her parents Thursday night. Mrs. Math N. Schmitt motored to Chicago Tuesday, where 'she visited her daughter,-Isabelle. Arnold Freund of Spring Grove,, Bill Thompson of Ringwood, Missi Helen Blank and Miss Evelyn Meyers' visited with Mr. and Mrs. Earl J. Turner Wednesday evening. ; Mrs. Barbara HorTck of Woodstock! visited with home folks Thursday. Freddie Jerack of Chicago is vis iting with his grandparents, Mr. and! Mrs. Peter Schaefer. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Brown and family from Volo visited with Mr. and1 M!rs. Peter Smith Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Joe P. Miller and! family visited with Mr. and Mrs. Ja-; cob A. Miller Wednesday evening. Quite a few people attended the! barn dance which was held at Jacob- Miller's place at Spring Grove Wed nesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Earl J. Turner and; Miss Rosemary Schaefer were Crystal; Lake callers Thursday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Chamberlin, daughter, Bernice, and Leroy Meyers motored to McHenry Friday evening. Mrs. Jacob Smith waa a Chicago caller Friday. Mrs. Louis Bishop, daughter, Jeanette, asd Miss Emma Freund visited with John H. Freund Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Smith of McHenry were visitors at the home of Mr- J^nd Mrs. Ben J. Schaefer and family Saturday evening. » . Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith were^McHenry shoppers Saturday. Mrs. Jacob Justen of McHenry visited with Mrs. Ben ^tilling Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. George Wirfs of McHenry were callers at the home of Mr. and Mr* ft* Kkin Saturday evening. I tS" v.... • Mr. and Mrs Elmev B, Geforeiy'of Chicago spent the day Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Math Schmitt. MT. and Mrs. Bill Lowe of Chicago, Mrs. Nick Bertrang of Aurora and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Schmitt of McHenry spent Sunday with Mrs. Jacob Schmitt. Miss Genevieve Adams entertained a party of friends at her home on Sunday afternoon, the event being a shower in honor of Miss Viola Adams, who is to be a bride this week. The afternoon was spent in playing cards and bunco. At the end of the games refreshments were served. She received many beautiful and useful gifts. Those present were: Rose, Julia and Margaret Stilling, Frances, Helen and Carolyn Bauer, Emma and Margaret Schaefer, Agnes, Leone and Marie Freund, Marie Mertes, Marie Nett, Josephine Freund, Helen Miller, Eleanor Hergott, Viola and Elvera Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Will Meyers of Elgin and John Meyers of Denver, Colo., visited at the Jacob R. Adams home on Sunday. Mrs. Jacob H. Adams, son, Alex, and daughter, Genevieve, Mrs- Peter Adams and daughters, Viola and Elvera, and Eleanor Hergott and Frank May spent Thursday at Racine, Wis. 1*1 g m '! , V(' •< J'1*-* A Qmltty Product f.o.b Term** Dry Australia great curse of Austratla to which sometimes burns up countryside and leads to multitudes of sheep perishing. A short time ago fires raged over a belt of country 400 miles long in New South Wales. But the Australian^ are countering this evil by spending millions on irrigation schemes and artesian wells. REFRIGERATOR Porcelain Interior . . . Flat Top .. . Heavy Inflation ... Multi-Powered ... 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