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==rfc :r ,<«Pf»lli»lil >V m Vr,; < • • - Pfc^e Btt THE McHEN&Y FLAJNDEALEH vX/, . • « * ; :Jp |jPS Thursday, November, M, 19311 •£ CAN WE AFFORD ANOTHER WAR? »>• LEONARD A. BARRETT RINGWOOD Ola Timers covery In his book. "The Economics of. lte- Mr, Leonard • Ayres of - the • \ C l e v e l a n d T r u s t company at Cteveand, Ohio, writes: 'The lesson of this depression Js. that we cannot afford any m o rS g r e a t wars." True. A prevailing and rnther p e r s i s t e n t not ion irgues today that war brings prosperi t y . If *VP h a d . a n other great war. nil securities would In* ijteaser in valOeand. the "produce of th»; Mr and Mis Ray Peters entertained the live hundred club at their hqjiie Thursday'even in jr.. Prizes were award- ... ed to Mrs.-Georjje Youngj E. A. Hitch-( ; » ____ t ; ens, Mrs. F. A. Hitcheng and J. p. 1 ; ^ANTS MORE LETTERS Pearson. • . ! ^ Paul, Nov..2 Mi^'^t^u^lyeSin?i»°th^ fronvj the members are due for-more letters, f F luehHn hr^'e 'xm to 1897" : so, asGeo. Owen said, "Come on. you!" J. F. McLaughlin n jiie» , _ . *u» world's fair I ^ us »M the spirit of reminis- Mrs. Louis .ilawlcy spent Tuesday ^I"h|8»^I tooJMn *£« j cence and visit through the Plaindeafe; while he is "resting up.^ ; C ir N,; i Djbn't forget that we old timers are : tough and getting tougher. All"" of 1891 to 1897. In 1893 I took in the world's . in Chicago. Ladd'^ere dollars and had some change visitors at^Wbodstoci Wednesday aft- I after two days of eye strain. ^ ,! Hetty. Lewis Owen and Sherm Chapernooh. ' I Now I am going to, sit on that south^j were a,so Hve wires What a treat Mrs. Lucinda Francisco returned" to , porch and see."who gees'there. . Aft. j .f Mrg Wheeier and Mrs. Sherburne her home at \<Vidstock Wednesday Here comes Belle and Zuei Gallaher, would honor the cjub wjth a letter, after spending the week here with p flurry of skirts,' to tell me that friends - • ["Harriet Beecher Stowe is dead.'. would honor the club Tell us how you came to McHenry, your hardships, the wagon trails,,etc. Mr. and Mrs., J. ,F. McLaughlin "My! My! My!"' says I, "isn t that too j ^e]1 ug Indjan storfes; Every reader sperit W^dnesflay *'in :the Max Beth bad. I used to play with her when q{ the plaindealer is interested in thii home in Chicago. • • • ' she was a little girl, and her hair was ;coluinn it js up to all of us to make il^: "and Mrs. Memhaus of Bull Valr white as snowThere they K°> ^ar; j it a success. f * > u « - ' \ v n e « t . - a h d ' o t h f c r H o b a t t a n d : s o n , R o y ; o f i n g h o m e t o t e l l t h e f o l k s w h a t I h a d : FlUKK BfeNNET^i-4:: « : • V to fabulous prices." The fallaev. of VTcnxht ek'were callers in the home of told them. "Well, Frank Bennett said j f. ' this argument. Is fit opc'fe.,;;appafi.#ntv.2$|&-, . Wedriesda}*.-'evejiinfe. so," they argued with their mothers j vlien we .conSfder . thevfact' that thfr. ^ -^st Nellie Oodge'spent Thursday,;; Here they' come back, their faith iij - * " " - . , icht there Those and I'll a&ain those of the rtiajor Con^qn.eriee. rof.,.the wa-r/' -and • ;Mrs, is. H-/ Beatty speftt ttmay days. Hello, to you all ; The:total cost of the klst great "w<ir -at; \Vaukegan. ' : . ; ! Remember that double 10-gauge ' ' •; was. upwards df two- h i l n d r o d ' h l l i i o h Howard B u c k l a n d , Mrs. Cera g^Q^yj^ t h a t ybu always loaned to me ^v{ de!lars, shared by. aH the nations in^ '^iari'ders and Mi-S. Louis- Hall Were \\;iii? I came to a great tragedy one.; tolved. An Indebtedness so staggering visitors.at McHenry Thursday »fter- '^y and neither 5pou nor Mrs. Gallaher as to ieavfi ruirv in it's path; "b a- nk1 "• r ruptcieC wrecked fortunes/ unbalanced budgets and economic failures. Vet in spite of this clearly defined evidence. some~ persons still Insist- that war brings prosperity. " Let us remain sufficiently sober in our judgment to ask, can we afford another depression ? Surely we cannot. Then we cannot afford another war. The economic consideration, however. is not the most serious aspect of the enfee. The loss of the man pow- Vr of our conntry other war. Ruined homes and broken hearts with a corresponding loss of "morale." even in spite of organised Twice Told It«ms of Interest Taken From tbe Files of the Plaindealp .'"v^ of Years Ago.', • • ---^ m noon. " • > - 'ever knew. ' . Mr. and Mrs. Joe Schaefer and , One foggy day, a flock of geese hedaughter were visitors at Woodstock ( came bewildered and were circling the Saturday afternoon. I slough back of the school house, and John Doherty entertained a group j ran over to y^- house for the gun. of schoolmates a^ his home Saturday " jugt as j^rs. Gallaher handed it to me, afternoon. Games were played and we coujd hear them honk-honking to- • refreshments of ice cream and cake vvaTd us. I backed toward your east was served by his mother. 'gate, slipping in A couple of shells, i RTRRY VPIRC APO Mr. and Mrs. Charles Frey and Mrs_ Gallaher ran out, looking up to-,,-4j', *wn IliAK® AtoU t famUv of Deerfield spent the weekend i ward the south. There thpy came, a! We learn there is a prospect of the in the S. H. Beatty home. , ' ' F hundred• feet off the ground. .Cheese Factory building, m the cen- Miss Norma Whiting entertained a ( A shell exploded before I got the er part of the town, being fitted up ew of her friendi from Grayslake at gun to my shoulder and the charge, for some kind of business. Let the a Bridge party at her home Thursday . fust missed Mrs. Gallaher. j good work go on. . ' ' . • „ evening. j "Give them the other barrel," she ' Geo. ^V. Owen will have, when nn* Mrs. S.• W. Smith spent from Sun- yeHed , . r j ished, one of the nobbiest horse barns efforts of relief, do not argue for pros day unt i l"Wednesday in the C. And- , What wouid the leader have done in this section. 'Patent feed boxes, perity or for national security. One of erson home at Antioch. the most Important views, expressed Mr. and Mrs. ,C. J. Jepson and by some men in high places of respon- daughter, Virginia, spent Sunday in sibifity, is their apologetic attitude for the Harold Jepson home at'Rockford. having persuaded otliiers to a favorable j^e aspect of the last great war. Irrfeome Mary of their "'published* addresses they frankly apologize to the "dead soldier" whose life was sacrificed on the battlefield of the last war. , , • ! • Since the .recent war has left nothing but. r.u}n in its trail, we are ask- day Ing In all seriousness, just how -safe Hunter. feed in my place? I stood limp and "in a fine box stalls, and all the latest imcold sweat as I broke the gun and un- j provements known. loaded the remaining barrel We learn that parties are negotiat- Here comes.John Farr with & sauer- ing for the purchase of the H©we pro Sewing Circle will meet with kraut barrel on his back. - He has a perty in this village and that the old Butler Friday. A pot luck : sfout stick through the bunghole. Look buildings will be torn down and the dinner will be served. . v | "Chize" Woodburn is heaving a rock large store lU-ted up and a stock of The Ladies A^d Society will hold at barrel It hits the end and their annual bazaar and chicken sup- J a deep Jaoom, falls over the fence per at the M. W. A.^Hall, Nov. 21. ) and rolls toward the southwest corn- Mr and Mrs. Ray Peters spent Sun-' ner the school yard. Fai r lights relatives at Belvidere arid out after that pug-nosed, "freckled 'young mug This Will Be a "Shririe of Shrined" ^ : v h Steam Oil Push-Up Wave For Short Shingle Bob Styles; Also Ringlet End Curl Permanent M$1.50 Croquignole or Spiral Waves, guar. $3 valud, 2 persons $3 up AU Waves comp. with Shampoo, Set S T O M P A N A T O ' S Beauty Salon Tel. 641 Woodstock, III. 226 Main St. 229 Benton St. Note--A complete price list -will sent on request. FIRE AUTO INSURANCE FARM LIFE Before long this niche id the new archives building in Washington wilt be one of the most frequently visited of all American shrines. It will hold the nation's two most Important documents--the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. They are now In the Library of Congress.'; Along the Concrete .is onr \yestern. civilization when the Mr and Mrs. Will Hiene and. son» i " yeUo Wally, young fellow, why modern weapons of warfare have, sup- Eugene, of Chicago spent Sunday in 1 don.t 'u %vrite for the Old Timers' planted the gun and sword with air twoeortre Shenard home. AIHU 9 TAII 'ntv* general merchandise put in. : Miss Adaline Gates recently left McHenry for a visit to Minneapolis and. writes back that the place Tias .grown within the last five years beyond all belief. i,': when the _ _ " -- - - --- FORTY YEARS AGO the" George Shepard club"" Tell W'yourself.'" I Mrs. Spaulding and daughter have raids, poisoned gas and diseased germs. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Smith and Met- Wayne (Wally^s brother) hears the (moved into their new store, just corncedes Lindemann. spent Sunday after- profane victim and runs "Chize" down pleted on the West Side, and now have noon ip the Ed Turner home near and gives him a good trimming Hap- the handsomest and best arranged We frankly admit wo cannot afford another war if we want to preserve wha^ is left of the culture of our civlllza- Spring Grove. tlon and save for posterity the soul of Mrs. Louis Hall attended the funerj% y 7&£JOR>pbuf£ PBOrt'ttP 7Z? P£l /V££. 7HS//Z. apw one , America. C We»tem Newspaper Vnton. GABBY QERTIE UMA V|W M al of her aunt, Mrs. Frank Hobart at Woodstock Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Max Beth and son, Billy, spent Sunday night and Monday . this coiumil( don-t you see? -We want in the Will Beth home. 110 j^atg a]] of the old timers, in town Mrs. Libbie Ladd and Mrs. Cora | Flanders in company with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Cropley of Solon Mills left for Orlando, Florida Monday where j they will spend the winter. There were about thirty from here that attended the community services at the M. E. church in McHenry Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Collins of Winnetka spent Thursday with Rev. and Mrs. Harry Collins. r Roy and Mae Wiedrich spent Thursday evening at McHenry. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Beck of Chicago spent Sunday in the Charles Canhome. ' j Fred Wiedrich, Jr., wa* * Janesville visitor Saturday. I C. A. Matsen and son of Chicago | spent Sunday in the Gust Pearson i hbme. | [ Mae Wiedtkh spent Monday after- , noon ait Richmond. * j Mrs. S. W. Brown spent a few days | the past week in Chicago and Evanston. ,' Mrs. Agnes Jehcks and daughter, Mary, of Evanston spent the weekend here. r. and Mrs. Leonard Franzen and ! sons spent Sunday at Spring Grove. | Mr. and Mrs, S.'W. Brown visited Leonard Brown at DeKalb Sunday, i Mrs. Frank Block and children of , JCenosha spent the weekend with Dr. j and Mrs. Hepburn. . ' j Mr. and Mrs. Loiais Hawley and • Mince meat ue preserved "for the ^mi,y spent Sunday, with, relatives in winter by putting up hot in pint jars. S,1"' ... . „ , • Ong jar makes a goo^sized pie; I tU Th*, e ^,U ^ a Temperance play at »- » » ! the M. E. church Thursday evening beginning at 8 o'clock. A . Temper ance offering will be taken. py days eh, what? "Calm and peace-! millinery store to be found in McHenfU1 " ry county. John Kimball and family live across ! The pleasantest party of the seathe street. Very nice people; Where son is expected at the Riverside House are they now ? That is the purpose of on Thanksgiving evening. Slocum s - -- full orchestra will be present. Bain, followed by snow, was the alor away. McHenry is going to cele-. manac for this section the latter part brate its one hundredth anniversary ; °f last week. in 1936 and the Plaindealer wants to , Seven carloads of stock were shipknow where you are and how you are. j Ped from this station last week, five Times aarree nnoott vveerryy good, but, at by F. K. Granger and two by C. T. that, we> live better and in more comfort than we did in the nineties. Think it over and cheer up. We still survive and tomorrow well you know what Omar said. For years Will Gallaher and I mov ed the Methodist ministers Eldredge. TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO The brick work on the Schumacher block in Centerville was completed ...^. Tuesday afternoon. The balance of ut of the i the work on the structure will be rush- "The old-fashioned girl dropped her :eycw when she was embarrassed, but the modern, pyoirhoetic flapper is only embarrassed when she drops h«r teeth." My Neighbor : SAYS: Before trying to retnovfe soot from a tug, cover It with dry salt and let stand a short time before sweeping. ed to completion Station agent J. B. Buss is navigating with the aid of a pair of crutches these days- While stepping from freight car he suffered a very severe sprain of the left ankle Theo. Schiessle is making extensive improvements, on. his newly acquired property, the Gilbert block, on the West Side. When all improvements hug anybody unle'ssT know whom 1 are completed, we are told, the build ' mg will have the appearance of i new and modern structure parsonage and into the parsonage. Scrubbed the floors, beat carpets, tore them up and tacked them down, year after year. » One of the pastors was named Brill, another Conley and another' Cook, and others. The Rev. Conley paid me for all of them and as follows: One day I heard him talking to my father. Listen! "Mr. Bennett, I nev er I am hugging." It was a metaphor j and a classic. I am advising you l youngsters of today to grab it, like 11 did, and it will be wo th a heap to-j you. I paid for that tr asure of truth,' bpt it was a small r *"fce. Make it I, a part of yon Stop! Look and Listen! | And don't make confidants of people i until' "you know who you are hugging." When you feel like telling things, stop and think: , Has, this •person been tried by* fire and now adversity? I * Soon we are going to take a trip to the Gagetown postoffice and maybe find time to meet the evening train. I have, as yet, said little of my own generation, but then, we are going to meet quite a few times and soon. I My copy of the Plaindealer came last was g&s la required are kept clean. to neat water if coils Sponge rugs frequently with hot wa ter to which a little turpentine- has been $dded. Moths will not long remain in rugs treated in this way. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Abendroth and | tod T ay .(SatU!day] a,s Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Wagner of El- Do not "let soot* accumulate on the'*"1 spent Sunday with Mrs. Jennie Ba- ^oils of a bot water gas heater; Less! con" In the a,ternoon they M cal1" ed in the Harry Anderson home at Richmond. Paul .Stephenson , of Halamftzoq, Mich., spent Monday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Stephenson. * Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bishop and Mr. Emil Schmaltz of Carpentersville spent Friday evening in the" Leonard A broken bfoom handle whittled to l^r^nzen bome. a sharp point makes an excellent tool I Sunday dinner guests of Wayne tor digging holes in which hyacinth Foss and his mother were Mesdames and tulip bulbs are to be planted. Gora Flanders, Frankie Stephenson, • • • Minnie Coates and Nellie Dodge. A fur coat t h a t has been worn in a Mr. and Mrs. F. A. H i t c h e n s s p e n t §now or rainstorm should not be dried j Sunday in the Byron Hitchens at For- [spent Sunday in tHe Otis Murray .Deaf the fire, as Intense heat Injures fest Park. I home at Geneva, 111. the skin. Remove moisture with a dry I Mr. and Mrs. J. F. McLaughlin ;• Mr. and Mrs. Will Beth, Jr., of Chicloth and hang'In a cool pl^ce to dry ]and Catherine and Thomas McLaugh- cago spent Sunday night and Monday I sure enjoyed the letter from our new member, C. S. Owen. More of the same, Mr. Owen. These dear Old Timers can tell us a heap of history of pioneer days. I would make a personal appeal to my old pals, but, you see, I do not know who survive.^, Your letter* Charley "Scoopum" Block, is great reading to me, and please don't wait so long before writing. • . The club extends its appreciation to Mrs. T. J. Walsh and prays for her speedy recovery. We want her for a member, just as soOn as she can write. Also to our old friend, Mayme Buss, the same. We want "Chize" to write TWENTY YEARS A@$ On the Elgin board of trade Saturday, the price of butter placed at 29 cents per pound. The water in Fox river is unce way down and now everyone should be satisfied. The finishing touches are now "be; ing put on the Jacob Justen house on Elm street and same will soon be ready to move into. Announcement has been> made of the engagement and the approaching marriage of Miss Grace Doherty and Thomas Bolger, rural residents of this vicinity. The guide posts about town are now being very well respected, which evi "dences that the public approves of the posts and wishes to do its part i safeguarding, "traffic on our streets* •- .V TEN YEARS AGO Ben Stilling and Son, local realtors announce the sale of a large track of land just on the outskirts of McHen ry, east of Fox River, to the Old Col ony Club of Chicago, which it is plan ned to develop into one of the largest and most beautiful country clubs any where in this section of the country. John Simon, a former "resident Johnsburg, died in Hartland township Sunday. Mrs. Ellen Sutton Cleary, widow of the late Patrick Cleary, died "Saturday in St. Joseph's hospital, Elgin. 0 Associated Newspaper*.--WNU Servlcs. and Will Doherty of JMcHenry Ih the Will Beth home WE DRIVERS '•'A Series of Brief Discussions on Driving, Dedif cated to the Safety, Comfort and of the Motoring Public. Prepare• • fry General Motors , ^ No. 3--MISf FOG HOW MIST DROPS aiOUCf ILLUMINATION Miss Ann Smith of Chicago spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Wagner. Oo LONG as there is light we may skip around at a lively rate over this old O globe of ours. We may span oceans in surprising time. We may cross the continent from sun-up to sun-down. But every now and then Mother Nature decides to put us in our place, and of all her devices to make us slow down, none is more effective than mist and fog. Now we may not have to contend with fog and mist very frequently, but we're bound to now and then, and when we do, it can cause us a lot of annoyance and trouble. When a good heavy fog comes--on land, at sea or In the air--everything that moves, tnoves with caution. The ocean liner slows down several knots an hour. Lightships signal, buoys sound and foghorns boom. Airlines ground their planes and cancel trips. Even trains on tracks reduce their speed--and we drivers on the highways, too, must make our way cautiously through that baffling screen. For one thing is true. Ip spite of &U our progress, transportation still depends on pairs of eyes in human heads. Scientists who have studied fog, say that it is composed of tiny drops of water. These drops are so small and light that they hang in the air, and so close together that light can hardly get through them. Instead, these little drops act like tiny convex mirrors. When we try to pierce them with a beam of light, a great deal of it is thrown right back at us, so the effect is just like a great, gleaming white curtain in front of us. Experienced drivers say that the first thing to do is to get our lights right. The main thing, is to direct the beams downward. If we have them shining straight ahead, those little mist-drop mirrors reflect the rays back in our eyes. But if they're pointing downward, the rays are deflected toward the road. : ^Then they say it's a good idea to guide by the road edge at our right, end if we have a spotlight on our car, "to focus it right on that road edge, close to the front of the car, so the edge will be clearly lighted But we have to keep a good weather eye ahead, too, because fog veils more than the road. It hides not only things on the road but such things as roadside warnings of curves and hills and inter- • sections. Even the traffic light's red and green signal rays have the same hard time that our headlights do getting through that strange haze. In fact, in a good heavy fog, the best we caft do for our vision is , none too good. And so the main thing is to slow down. ' The ships have to do it, the trains have to do it, and we have to do it too. If we won't make up our minds to that, they tell us the best thing we can dQ is to pull off the road, or if we have not yet started put, we had better just stay home. But seeing in fog and mist is only half the story. We not only have to see, but we also have to oe teen. Our headlights properly adjusted are strong enough to do their duty in pointing us out to people coming from the opposite direction. And, in addition, some drivers use their horns like foghorns by giving them a toot every now and then. But another thing we have to think of is to be sure drivers behind us see us. That's why it's so important to have our stopsignal and tail-light working when we're driving in fog. And so it's a good thing to make sure that these lights are working and to wipe off those little red glasses if they happen to be covered with mud. If the weather's clear and our tall-light has gone out, the other fellow's lights may point us out fairly well. But if his headlights are fighting fog, they can't do much to protect us. So, when all is said and done, driving in fog Is lust a matter of having our headlights and tail-lights right and being a little more careful. If we do that, we can drive our cars safely, even through Nature's stubborn obstacles of n^st and fog. EARL R. WALSH ,, Presenting " , Reliable Companies When you need insurance of any ldM'; ^ •••; , IPIifliw 43 W 61-M <; V>: y-' McSemrjr Phone 43 J. • ' - - /'!: yJ '• ' ATTORNEY AT LAltf-^ Pries Bldg. OFFICE HOURS • Tuesdays and Fridays " Other Days by Appointment McHenry - Illinois my, - . . . . - . • • ALFORD H. POUSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Benton St. Woodstocfc, IU* Phone Woodstock 191 « . McHenry 278 Telephone No. 300 itoffel & Reihansperger. bNarance agents for all classes property in the best companies. WEST McHENRY ILLINOIS S. H. Freund & Son CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS Phone 127-R McHenry Oiir experience U at Your Service in building Your Wants • " . A. P. 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