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" J •Mm PMA LOCAL TO v ELECT OFFICERS l" The annual meetinp and ejection of |fi officers of the Pure Milk association ^ will be held -Saturday niprht at K. C. j- " hall.. John P. Case, president of the ^Tv ' P. M. A;, will be the guest of honor ^ and W, E.' Winn, director, will also '"v*. be present. On last week Wednesday night Nels Pearson, president of the PMA local of McHenry. presided at a meeting held at the city hall for the purpose of nomination of cAndidates\fcr office. ' ^ W. E. Wipn of Spring Grove, a director, was present and spoke on the ' : price situation. and the Chicago health ordinance. Mr. »nd„MrsM: W. Rothettnet were Chicago visitors Saturday. ATTENTION MEN! * , We Are Equipped To Gfve You A Complete Line Of Beautv Services STOMPANATO'S V Barber, and Beauty Salon 226 Main St. M . 229 Bentoh St, Phone 641 ; ; ; r Woodstock, 111. TIKE YOUR MIND tfF YOUR NOSE! Doot be always H»»l4 Items of Intel**4 From tb« Files of th" PWn;twU«t ; of detest public aUtJn' When you powdeyewj tec*, powder at laut tar four hours! Lafe Brthar Fact Powder leta you go about to confidence. For this face powder stays on for at least four hours. It not snty stays on, but retains its original freebaeaal While Lady Esther Face Powder cttnga to th* *m, it doe* not clog the akin. It goes Mrtc ths but not into it it gives die akin a rail of delicate beauty through which it can frseljr brc&the. t j Lady Esther Face Powder ghrss yoor akin, odor as well aa aoftneas and amoodmaea. It is s lace powder at living color - not merely * «MHB| for your skin. Try this face powdsc today and see what a transfocmation in your For Sale by THOMAS P. BOLGEE SIXTY YEA US AGO It, Bishop and Son ' have put into their mill a machine for making pat ent flour. ' The auction s&le of W. W. Goff last week footed up as follows: Total sales, $1',369.5_0. The cows sold for $1,215.50, an average of $45.16 per cow. Jas. A. Dufv?ld removed from this village to Harvard last week, where he intends "making his home for the future. "* - Thursday and Friday of last week \vere the coldest days of the season, the thermometer ranging from 18 to 24 degrees below zero in different parts of this village. ^ We are now having a possible run of sleighing and business is livening up accordingly. On Monday and Tuesday the village was full of teams and merchants report trade as brisk. A1 Hankins is again wintering his stable of blooded horses in this village. Large quantities of fish were caught through the ice at the lakes last week and shipped to Chicago. Business is unusually brisk in McHenry these days. We claim there is being shipped njpr^eattle, hogs, poultry, grain and ha^uian from any other town in McHenry county. sold his fine black carriage team last week to a party near Harvard, for the siim of $500. , I Theodore JSmith, son of John W. Smith, who has been in Nebraska for the psst few years, is visiting' with friends in this vicinity We learn that the farm house, known as the Stockton place, about a half mile west cf Solon, was burned to the ground on Saturday last. It was one of the best farm houses in the /town of Richmond. This section is now enjoying the first sleighing of the season. About six inches of snow fell on Tuesday. John Myers commenced the work of filling the brewery ice houses week. Our Washington,. ^ Letter --BT-- Katfooal Editorial Aaaodatlaa \ FIFTY YEARS AGO ••••••Me- understand that Chas; Siaiteridge,, of Lajte Geneva, has been engaged as teacher of the Ringwood band. W. H. Ford, of the Riverside House- Prepare for Snow ! Equip your car or truck with --r GOODYEAR, GILLETTE, FIRESTONE, U. S. AND MOHAWK MUD AND SNOW TIRES Free Tube With Every Tire PYRO ALCOHOL Completely denatured Gallon 60£ WINTER OILS As low as 48^ Gallon 100% Penn. Winter Oils* NATIONAL BATTERIES To fit all cars $3-95 and up Let us drain your crank case and put in a winter oil that does not congeal. Drive in and let us put winter grease in your transmission and differential. Tire and Tube Vulcanizing, Battery Charging. Good used tires in all sizes. Phone 294 West McHenry, 111, Washington, December 16 -- Apr praisal of the current trend in national affairs clearly indicates that peace and good will among business men and their government unquestionably last hinges on the attitude of the White We believe he has the contract House The return of the President ,n from his South American trip this weefe again focuses the spotlight on to fill all the private ice houses the village. S. Raymond has sold his residence the Executive Mansion as the hub of and land on the Vest &ide in this vil- country's life. The belief is growing lage to S. and J. Sherman and will that the long cruise away from the give possession of the same early in heats of politics has .given Mr. Roosethe spring. . velt a better prospective--a detached The question has been asked us sev- view--of the relationship of the Federal times why our street lamps were eral government to commerce, labol not doing duty on Saturday, Sunday, and consumer. It is cogently argued and Monday nights last, three of the that the president, as * practical darkest and most disagreeable nights politician and experienced^ mariner the fXfts J1"8 8e"on*. had plenty of time for retrospection We give . .it up. Ask us something an(j introspection away from the madeasy* /•."'V" 'S:--5.- - dening throng of favor-seekers and advisers. Just how he will chart the course of his next term is something which cannot be safely predicted for several weeks. The fact that large segments of in- LIGHTING THE WAT FOB SANTA . •*«"<> * f v-« Y » > • • Y w Thursday, December 17,1936 Desired Land The gentry of the Middle Agil thought little of trade and business, but were obsessed with the desire for land. Land to them was the source of power and wealth, for which men strove, and this was the explanation of the castlel --fbCMfc safeguarded the land. Beginning of Commercial Law Our system of commercial IjMr had its beginning in the fairs of the Middle Ages. FORTY YEAKS AGO Barbian Bros, have laid a new hard wood floor in their cigar store. 5o?^W^L?kPXi8wLr in 8e# sion at Woodstock this week, "d«sV^d Do not fail to attend the entertainment for the benefit of the school library at the city hall tonight. We are informed that Mrs. Kate Harrison dropped dead at her home in Ringwood, on Monday evening l&st. John H. Miller is building quite anextensive addition to his barn, on Gre^n street. S. S. Chapell has just purchased a new Crown piaiio of the agent here, O. W. Owen. \ The Boot and Shoe store, which was opened in Schnorr's block, on the west side, by F- Cohn, in March last, "folded its. tent like the Arab and as silently stole away" a few days since. THIRTY YEARS AGO M. A. Thelen has opened a second harness shop in McHenry, his new business enterprise being located in the west room of the old Gilbert building on the West side. Thirty-one cents was the price of butter on the Elgin board of trade last Monday. Skating OQ the mill pond is furnishtune of relations with the government does not necessarily mean that everything is milk and honey along the Potomac. There are as many uncompromising "die-hards" among the New Dealers as in the ranks of anti-Administtation groups. They do not want to write a harmony for co-operation. With all the zeal of militant crusaders these off-shoots of the original "Brains-Trust" are fighting tooth and nail to put industry in a straitjacket. The President, however, is now inclined to turn a deaf ear to their protests. The extent to which he is prepared to go in having the Administration and Congress reciprocate in the overtures of good will may be revealed in his message to Congress January 3. Many of his own ideas have been put on paper during the ocean voyage but'will be reviewed by the Cabinet and other counsellors.- That the Chief Executive has no intention of permitting others to unduly shape his plans was observed in his message to the Berry industry-labor conferences here a few days ago. Anxious to perpetuate itself and gamgreat political power, the Berry One of the pleasing outdoor effects | cealed possible with easily made ornaments. The shadow of a small composition board cutout Christmas tree is projected on the door by a floodlight conthe foreground. Colored lights around the doorway, colored paper decorations in the windows and the Christmas star add to the holiday setting; USE THE CLASSIFIED COLUMNS FOE QUICK RESULT* Rellmv Strangling PAROXYSMS Tiy FREE BREATH To**> Xf you g«t hard spells of asthma--paroxysm* (attacks) so bad, so painful that you think every breath la going to be your lant--go to your druggist today, without fail, and K*t FRBB BREATH. FREE BREATH has given thotlaanda of users glorious relief from strangling, chest-binding asthmatic attacks! They, like you, oouldn't sleep. or lie down and rest. Many tried every other medicine without result. Then they tried FREE BREATH! Now they tell of blessed relief from asthmatic paroxisms the first time th,ey tried FRMTBREATH. Some are so grat^uKthey say TREE BREATH Is • wortJFtnore than cold! If you suffer tHTparoxysms of asthma--get FREE BREATH today ! FREE BREATH has ;.- meant relief tor thousands--for your ^ own sake, try It! Recommended THOMAS P. BOLGER ing more than a little pleasure for the er young folks. Some of the oldei; ones council on Industrial Progress wrote are enjoying the sport. ou^ , a legislative program for the While' about to retire last Tuesday White House occupant to forward to evening, Mrs. Andrew Kennedy, moth- Congress. They ignored his pointed remark that he ha a not personally called the meeting and expected nothof Mrs. H. C. Mead, and who refides at the Mead home, accidentally fell and broke her left arm and also *n£ more than "constructive thought. Berry, an adroit printing unio leader, expected an official endorsement from the President and a chance to make Congress swallow the legislation advocated by his coterie. Becausejof the schism of union ranks, Mr. ftrosevelt wisely steered clear of taking sides or bestowing power on Berry, a pro-Lewis champion against William Green and his American Federation of Labor. Here was a case where Mr. Roosevelt was obliged to walk on eggs, so to speak, and did nothing to strengthen any faction. Failure of government agencies to check the epidemic of strikes which endanger lives and property is gradually developing sentiment for statutes which will make labor organizations responsible for their acts. At ^ present they are institutions favored Butter on the Elgin board of trade and protected by statute enjoying the quite severely injured her nose and face. The price of butter on the Elgin board of trade Monday was 31% cents. Fishermen are reporting some good catches of perch in the river. The boiler at the electric light plant, having been repaired, our citizens are again enjoying first class service. An elegant new organ has been placed in St. Mary's Catholic Church and /will peal forth its music for the first time on Christmas Day. Houses for rent are a rare article in McHenry at the present time. There are now three or four families looking for houses to rent. Who is going to start the building boom? TWENTY YEAItU AGO P sold at 40 cents per pound last Saturday. A number of the farmers residing in this vicinity, have been doing their fall plowing during the past week. Plowing in December, especially in northern Illinois, is rare, but nevertheless a fact. M. A. Conway informs us that he has been made an offer on the small rating of fraternal groups. The current report that the program of the aggressive John L. Lewis faction for strikes in key manufacturing industries gives ri§e to concern in government quarters which heretofore have bent backwards in helping trade unions. The politicians, noting the growth of a "labor party" under the guiding hand of Lewis and his fust so easy-going in. their attitude as to legal checks to strikes and disputes. Enactment of a law making local union officials legally responsible as ia now the case with less favored pond and the land surrounding it on lieutenant, Major Berry, are not now his farm just east of the river, near this village. In case the deal goes through, the purchasers will use the place for a fish hatchery. The recent election cost McHerjry county about $3,500. Something like groups would probably pull the poll- 12,000 votes were cast at a ccxft of tical program for 1940 up short. It about 29 cents each. all depends on the damage wrought by Butter sold at 37 cents per pound on strikers during the next few months, the Elgin board of trade last Satu»c_ Now that President Roosevelt is day. " back on the job, things are expected We are experiencing some real win- to hum. Jim Farley, his political ter weather, just to the liking of old generalissimo, returned from , a Santa and the merchants in general." European trip prepared to withstand More welcome news. Taxes will be the siege of political pie-hunters. considerably higher than last year. Minor changes have been made in Fed- What next? eral personnel since the election, biu Wm. Heimer, L. I. Edinger, P. J. the major positions will not be filled Heimer and G. E. Schoel are on a until after the holidays. In fact, Mr. f\shing expedition at °istakee Bay Roosevelt may find it advantageous to Flowers * for Christmas Nothing expresses the beautiful Christmas spirit better than flowers. If you want to please, u Say It With Flowers." For this season we offer for your selection Pom Poms, Chrysanthemums, Roses and Poinsettas. ARTIFICIAL WREATHS AND BLANKETS FOR GRAVES Remember to grace the festive board on Ohristmaa Bay with a beautiful center of flowers. Place your drder nov, Free Delivery. t . McHenry Floral Co. ML W. Crouch, Prop. West McHenry today. (jABBY QERTIE V'5~; "When a possibility become* fact, the fast eaa he drives hone/ Earliest Blue Laws The title blue laws seems to have attached to the earliest code of the colony of New Haven about 1640. The list of 45 such laws published in 1781 in a "History of Connecticut, by S. A. Peters, a fugitive Tory clergyman, was compiled mostly from the codes of various New England colonies and did not represent.. the laws of Connecticut. * ' * Her We have just the kind she will like in beautiful Xmas wrapped boxes. JULIA KING'S is one of the most popular. "49^ and 70^ GIVE HIM Some SMOKES A box, nicely wrapped in holiday attire, of any of the leading brands of CIGARS, CIGARETTES, or if he uses the pipe, a Xmas can of his favorite TOBACCO. A new pipe could be included. V We serve a wonderful 35c Dinner every day. Sunday, a full Turkey Dinner for 75^ On When shopping for gifts -- Come over on RiversideDrive and stop afc^ KARLS' CAFE ROUNTAIN SEKVKJt DeLUXE hold up many appointments until he has definitely established his control over the new Congress. Patronage will keep more mavericks in line when other medicine fails. An opportunity for reprisals is at hand if the Senate Campaign Fund Committee decides to hold public hearings as an aftermath of the elections. The struggle for House leadership has reached a bitter stage with Representative Sam Raybum of Texas as a favorite in the betting. The cliques of other contestants may leave their mark on the Administration's legislative program if the White House leans out of the way. It is the old story of Congress wanting to select its own bosses without interference from the Executive. And Vice President Garner, once popular in the House, is risking trouble by campaigning for his fellow Texan. 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