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'The fire wsis deliberately set here "m 1884 by striking coal miners and has defied three major attempts to extinguish it. Acres of farm lands and woods have been destroyed, homes have been abandoned, and the fire now running wild over an area of sever, square miles, is still - expanding. New Straitsville is in the southeastern part of Ohio. faking a lesson from the pioneers, who plowed furrows in the path of prairie fires to halt the sweep of the flames, the W. P. A. crews at work here are making preparations to , isolate the fire. The project will cost some $385,- 000 and both Federal and state governments are sharing the expense. 1 •; Oil and Gas Wells in Ar«j». In several places a few yards from -spots where smoke and fumes are escaping through fissures, oil ^nd gas wells operate. In other places miners arejaow digging coal in sight of hillsides spotted with blazing craters. Curiously enough, it has been only lately that the people in the district realized how much the ultimate loss might be if the fire is not put out, and put out soon. After numerous unsuccessful efforts business men in the district finally got the Federal government interested enough to have engineers work out a plan and then the aid of the W. P. A,, was enlisted. ; The story of hot? the fire was started is a strange one. In 1884 miners in Ohio went on strike. The first units of the miners' union in Ohio were organized here in that year »and it was one of the most bitter &bor struggles in American history. Strikers Fire the Mines. Six months after the strike began, the miners one night seized some loaded mine cars on a tipple, poured oil on them, fired the coal and ran the blazing cars into five different shaftjs. Within twenty - four hours the workings near the town were honeycombed with fire, and before . a week had passed the creeping flames were beyond control. A number of ventilation channels, necessary in mining work, reached down into the hill where the t8rch cars had been spotted and they acted as smokestacks, providing a draft and fanning the spreading flames. Year after year the fire expanded into new territory. During the last half century -a number of efforts have been made to check the flames and fortunes spent in the effort. Cement walls have been sunk into the earth at what were thought to be strategic points, but the intense heat cracked the cement and the fire passed on through almost as if the walls had been peanut brittle. Many people don't seek great luxuries btpaua of bother, *v»e they are « 10 , It is not always the that has the^abst people that does the best fighting. - Few of the laws weigh heavily on a good citizen, except the tax laws: and they spare him not. Mrs. H. M. Stephenson entertained *rt- Wilbert Swanson entertained the Easy A em at her home Tuesday members of the Lily Lake Ladies' eraoon. . _ Lesagne Tuesday afternoon. Prises entertalMd "°" in »•«=« by Mrs, F Do**, CONGRESSIONAL VIEWS ^ By Cou^essmanChauncey W. *aed Helen Harvey and Mrs. Wilbert Swanson. The serving of a lovely luncn concluded a met «ft«n><x>n. :rajn of ,23,454^24 w b«n ,p.„t Mr. and •" n BRIEF JOTTINGS fWand was part of the Empire from 1809 to 1911. The islands of the Pacific ocean number tens of thousands. A wffvey shows that only half the adult population reads with ease. The^Hoitae Circle at the Jaome of Mrs. George Shepard Wednesday. A one o'clock luncheon was served by Mrs. Shepard, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. J. C. Pearson. A fine program in charge of Mrs. F. Hitchens, Mrs. Louis Hawley and Mrs. L. Hall was enjoyed. , There were thirtytwo present. / Mrs. H. M. Stephenson entertain- Mrs- John Casick of Chicago. ed the Richmond Auxiliary at her Josph Cssvprinski of Chicago spent j r~ money. Federal Boosing: The annual report -of the Federal Housing Administration reveals that from the date of its organisation to January 1, 1987, the1 wonders what about the $4,081,227- 249.62 French debt now due the Unitwithout noting nJL eoloriag an tha label. The companion H.R. 900 is awaiting .action by the House Oenmil* tee on Jnterstate and Foreign Cora* merce. Crime: The House of Represent*^ tives on Tuesday passed unanhnoosly a bill introduced by your Congressman - ed States^ $178,940,749.62~of which is Providing for the punishment of haklin default. We also have a law pro- tual criminals in the District of Cc4« u_ . -- - hibiting the making of loans to coun- Under .this bill if a pe j Manson a"d h'oy in operating expense. This amount tries who have defaulted in their debt Wlth * previous felony record com-, asoghter ox Chicago spent Saturday does not include Tommhi on inmrrpd; to ur. Are these all to be diaiegafued ra'ts another felony, he will be giv* y at their cottage at Lily Lake. | loans. During this time it has trans-1 and are we to co' tribute funds for the the maximum sentence by law for tHe Weekend guests at the home of Mr. acted over one billion dollars worth of building up of armaments in Europe? co™"1'88*011 of the second crime, and Mrs. Fred Dosch were Mr. and business. It is pointed out that the j We hope not. ! Veterans Administration Mail: The | Federal Housing Administration lends j pnre Food Drags* The Senate ^ Section of the U. S. VefceransAd- TTie business on its books1 ^ finally pasM<] the Copland Pure ministration in Washington receives ;r4. Cribs railings high. of Japanese only about babies have eight inches Painting is the favorite hob! Queen Wilhelmina, of t^e ,Ne lands. of ,er- The av«nrage temperature for the year at Rio de Janeiro is about 74' degrees. • The Hui Manii, or bird society, imports songbirds yearly to stock the Hawaiian Islands. A census estimate of the population of New York state places the total at 12,965,0000. mid but few good roads. idnd Au , . . home Tuesday evening. the weekend at Lily Lake. represents private capital supplied by and Act. This measure has an *ver*ge of 26,000 pieces of maff Fred Wiedrich and daughter, Mae, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Daly and Gen-! b*nks **** other lending instittitions to since 1933 and is degi?n. per day. The average dispatch rf spent Monday afternoon at Richmond, evieye Daw visited the home of their finance the construction of ne^r homes,1 ^ to strengthen and enlarge existing " 86,000 pieces per day. ; . Mrs. D C. Bacon of Crystal Lake sen, Mr. and Mrs. George Daly, of refinance homes already built, and pejg^i regulations. One notable fea-j and Andrew Hawley of Elgin spent Chicago, and also celebrated the birth- for modernization of ture of tl.e bill j8 that it permits arti-' Mrs. S. W. Brown was a Thursday morning In the Louis Haw- day of their granddaughter, Lorraine. structures. The overhead costs of coloring in butter ard cheese Woo<ratock Saturday. ley home. Saturday evening. the administration for the calendar Max Beth of Chicago spent Wednes- Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Swanson were 7*** of 1936 is said to be $11,258,- day in tnfe home of his father, Wm. Chicago visitors Friday at the home 010-81. Beth. V of her sister, Miss Lillian Schonauer, | Salmon: It is generally recognized Mrs. Ralph Simpson^-of^---ArHngten wbafei? ill. - that eighty per cent of our national Heights attended Home Circle at the Mr. andi Mrs. John Tysler and son, salmon supply comes from Alaska. home of Mrs. G. Shepard, Wednesday. George,, and Mrs. Clara Winter and The salmon and halibut fishing in- F. N. Muzzy, Howard Shepard, Lor- Francis Karl, all of Chicago, visited dustry of the Un?ted States and Can* en McCaunon, Lloyd Fransen, John the home c»f Mr. and Mrs. Ffed Dosch, ada is being threatened by the in- Doherty, Zane Grey and Urban Bauer Sunday afternoon,, j roads of Japanese fishermen accordattended a Boy Scout meeting at Mrs. Jack Wrublewski is slowly re- j ing to a certain Senator. The Japanese Harvard Wednesday evening. " covering from an operation at tb^1 methods of off-shore Ashing eon- Tfee Young Adults group was en- Waukegan hospital., and all her friends sists of sending out large floating cantertained at Greenwood Tuesday evei\- *t lily Lake hope to see^ her; home j neries where the fish aire canned as ing. w soon. Patrick Coyne of Chicago spent the Mr. and Mrs. Martin ,of Chicago past weelT here with his family. spent Sunday at their cottage at Lily < Mrs. Teresa Fink of Barrington Lake. spent the past few days in ,the Bre- Mane Etten spent the weekend at field home. She <rvas called here by the the home of her parents, Mrv and Mris. pp. „ „ , illness and death of her sister-in-law, William Etten. thl^ 8!^^ Thir^ ,Mrs- Amelia Brefeld, who passed away Mr. and Mrs. Alex Wirfs were visthan 850,000. There are no railways y morning. itors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. George Shepard and Harry L. Miller of Cicero Sunday family were visitosr at Woodstock Saturday evening. Sixty million souls are crowded together in Japan on an area only a little larger than California. . - A LITTLE QUEER "Wonder Fish" Loses Eyes and Expires From Grief Sydney.--Vicious little box fish ni» more than 6 inches long, have caused the death of Australia's "wonder fish/' thie 11 foot 6 inch gray nurse shark which set up the world's record for length of captivity. , During nearly, four years m captivity at the Taronga park aquarium here, Skipper II., as the shark was known, is estimated to have swum 35,000 miles. After it was attacked and blinded by the box fish, the shark remained motionless at the bottom of the pool, and despite attempts to save its life, the huge fish pined and died after being blind for three weeks. Since being captured off Sydney Heads in November^ 1932, the shark had never stopped swimming previously. Visitors had been anxious abouT the safety of the shark because of the tiny fish. Another shark has been in the pool for three years and eight months and "Ihe. box fish have been removed to a separate pool to safeguard it. Girl Steeplejack Says Job Is Easy and Simple Newburyport. Mass. -- Take il from Miss Mildred Plunkett, eighteen, only professional womar steeplejack in the business, there'r really nothing to it. "It's such a simple job 'rig' s steeple that we do it at night so the people can't see how easy it is," says she. Miss Plunkett has perched in : many New England cities, atop a Itiny Bos'n chair 300 feet* off the iground applying a paint brush, While the pole swayed dizzily. "You only have one accident ii> . this business," said Miss Pjunkett. 'I tiaven't had one yet.** " - ™ First Tin Plate in U. S. The first tin plate in the United States was produced in Wellsville, Ohio. However, in 1877, less than a year after the plant was erected at a cost of $80,000, it was at sheriff's sale for $10,000. , Life Makes Records -- The years write their records OB human hearts as they do on trees* in inner circles of growth which no The kingfisher builds Us nest with fishbones. Horse-dra Paris with a cabs said farewell ta treet race. Medlars, fruit like small brown apples, are only eaten when rotten. Will Adams, an Englishman, is known as the, founder of Japan's navy. One Tokyo paper has 500 carrier pigeons and three men to care for them. - To persons once declared insane is forever denied the privilege of voting in North Carolina. No buttons, pins or hooks and eyes are used by the Japanese in fastening any of their clothes.* L. B. Jolly, Streatham, England, has an alligator which crawled back to him after he had given it to a zoo eight miles from his home. A physician examining Canadian Eskimos was surprised to find nine Eskimos with foreign "bodies in the eye, not even aware of an irritating object. on evening. Mrs. Amelia Brefeld passed away an<J Thelts Saunders of Fontana. at her home Friday morning after a , Andrew Hawley of Etan was a few days illness of pneumonia. She visitor here Monday. "\, ^ " the^-states .Was 82 years old. She leaves to mourn Mrs. Henry Hinez of Crystal Lake her loss, four children, George, Jos- was a gues^ 'n the home of her parephine, Frank and Joseph. Funera* en*®' Mr. and Mrs. George Harrison, services were held at St. Mary s Wednesday. church at McHenry Monday morning Mrs. Charles Feet and daughters with burial at Johnaburg beside her and Miss Lora Harrison spent Wedhusband. nesday at Waukegan. Among those from here to attend _®®r* ^rs; A. Hitchens spent the funeral of Mrs. John Gibson at Thm^day evening at Crystal Lake. Woodstock, Sunday were J. V. Buck- ,s free so R»ngwood folks will be fore expected that soon as they are caught. This method reduces costs and enables them to undersell their competitors. The United States and Canada have spent huge sums of money in protecting the spawning grounds of both salmon and halibut and have sacrificed immediate profits to protect the fishing grounds from becoming deplete. An effort is being made to effect a treaty to correct this situation. Soil Conservatkai : Under the terms of the Soil Conservation Act, the Federal Government was to turn over to the administration of the entire plan on January 1, 1938 provided a sufficient number of states had by that time enacted suitable legislation to continue the plan. According to the Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, the states have not co-operated sufficiently and would not be ready to take over the plan until 1940, at the earliest. It is thereis free so recommendation Miss Flora Taylor, Howard loo^R forwards to hearing him as will be made to contyiue the present Buckland, Mrs. Collins, Earl Whiting, failed to appear when he was set up for at least three years more. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stephenson, Mr. scheduled before. , j French Financing: Reports that the and Mrs. William McCannon, Mr. and Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred French Government would invite Mrs. Joseph McCannon and Mrs. S. Wiedrich, Jr., Were Mr. and Mrs.. Paul American participation in a proposed W. Brown. Norddium of LibertyVille, Mr. and $1,000,000,000 national defense loan Mr. and Mrs. Si W. Smith and Mrs. Harold Alms and son, Mrs. Roy provoked considerable comment on the daughter. Berniece. and Mrs. Lonnie Smith and Mrs. Fred Davis of Chicago j floor of the Senate recently. One Smith and son, Charles, spent Satur- & $ / ' "ft msr. -• VAB-AWAT IBIINBS ABB YBV7B NBIClltM L eleoL&ne When your (bought* turn to ah absent friend or relative, reach for your telephone. A few cents and a few seconds will bring you H^iillm for a visit that will {TUte mitmntmgrof tkebmrgain Lo*gD\m*rr rme* uikick emck evening mnd mO day Sw*y.|. cheer you Try It ,, Yaull find out-of-town calk . dearer and lower in cost tliul ever before, and as easy to makl^ - as-telephoning the earner gram - • 1. KI ft* f i day in the Lyle Hopper home in Chicago. • i Mr. and Mrs. Henry Marlowe of ' Huntley are the parents of a son, bora .Saturday, March 13. Mrs. Marlowe I was formerly Miss Helen Harrisoct, {daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chancey j Harrison. J Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McCannon spent | Wednesday in the Merritt Cruikshank home at JDundee. Mrs. Cruikshank'« j mother, Mrs. Jane Carr, who is stay- I ing with her, is quite ill. ' ] I Ben Walkington and son, Paul, re^ [turned home from Laurenceburg^ TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT jTenn., Saturday, where they spent tho Ipast week. Mrs. Walkington remained Every citizen of Warsaw, Poland, had to take part in rat-killing week. The note of times so loud mile away. cricket is somecan be heard a Many of the booksellers in Cairo's bazaar of the booksellers sell books by the leaves. Oyster shells have been found 4,000 feet under the ground in Texas gulf coast.oil fields. , Although 5,000 oharacters are used "regularly in Japanese, .Tokyo papers limit themselves to 2,000- 3,000. "Everything for dwarfs" is the slogan of a shop in Budapest. The owner of the place is a dwarf. Enough soup for a family can be made from a pig's tail costing a penny, says the Bacon Development Board of Britain. , : Traffic signs in Czechoslovakia, erected near dangerous curves and intersections, bear directions -for finding the nearest doctor. WORDS OF WISE MEN Knowledge is the antidote to fear. --Emerson. A good intention urith sudden poser. - clothes itself - Emerson. If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of other people would not harm us.--La Rochefoucauld. Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.-VAddison. Wars are to be undertaken in oi> der that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.-- Cicero. Men are born with two eyes, but one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.--C. C. Cgiton. * !--eye can Emblem < Salt has always been considered an emblem of purityyN^itness the Disciples being called "uSsgalt of the earth." The phrase "If si lost its savour wherewith shall it tar salted?" refers to rock - salt, which loses much of its saltness if exposed to the hot sun. Tree Erogs Like Toads The treerfrog is more closely related in structure to toads than to frogs proper, ' or a longer visit. Adolph J. Bratz of Chicago has purchased the Mrs. Martha Bradley Rahn store building. His son-in-law^ Mr. Ruehlman, is running a Royal Blue store there. He and his family, have moved into the Dr, Hepburtf house. Floyd Carr of Greenwood and Mrs. Wm. McCannon visited Mrs. Jane Carr at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Cruikshank in Dundee Saturday. Roy Neal of Chicago spent the week end with his family here. • I, Mr. -and Mrs. Wm. Wurtzinger andf; daughter of Woodstock spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Smith. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Jepson and daughter, Virginia, and Andrew Jep-~f~% son, spent Sunday with relatives at Wauconda. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Carlson and daughter of Woodstock spent Sunday in the Alec Anderson home. Mr. and Mrs. Joe McCannon and; son, Loren, were Sunday dinner guests t in the Lester Edinger home at Wood- ' stock. I Mr. and Mrs. George Young and son, Alfred, spent Sunday afternoon' in the Jame$ Bell home at Lake Villa, j Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Stephenson! spent Sunday with friends at Wauke- .fan. ' Mrs. Mayme Harrison of McHenry' Spent Friday afternoon with her daughter, Mrs. J. C. Pearson. Mr. and Mrs. George Young and, son, Alfred, spent Saturday evening at; Woodstock. | Mr. and Mrs. Ray Peters spent the] weekend in the Robert Mclntyre home, at Poplar Grove. Mr. and Mrs. Harry" Peet of Woodstock were callers in the S. H. Beatty home Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wiedrich and family spent Sunday in the Fred Wiedrich home. Edward Young of McHenry spent Monday in the George Young home. Mrs. Viola Low and son, Robert, spent Monday in Chicago. Mr. adn Mrs. Fred Wiedrich and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wiedrich spent Saturday afternoon at McHenry. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Carr spent Saturday evening at McHenry. Fred Wiedrich and daughter, Mae, fwpent Saturday morning at Richmond. Ethel and Lora Wiedrich spent Thursday afternoon fat Richmond. & Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Collins and family of Beloit spent Sunday with Rev. and Mrs. Harry Collins. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Collins of Wilmette spent Thursday with Rev. and Mrs. Collins. _ Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Harrison attended church services at Richmond Sunday evening and heard Dr. John Holland. Dr. Holland reports he will be at Ringwood the first Sunday be Your Kitchen Sta^s Clean When You COOK : il H it'.-a' '4 ELECTRICITY % modern •(•ctric rang* giv#t spoHess htat --and it's as easy to kf§p clean as a china diihl ail die advantages of electric cooking --enthusiastic electric range owners rate this the highest. . . it's clean! 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