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m:• mm* , t' ' ',A»itist5,1937 #>* <*& . . ' • * > v • ' - , s ? : '* ¥• •<?>. 'j * • • « > ' ":i,-r '* " '• * ^TSX McHENRY PLAITOEAIJSR T ' j J/ * t T* ' " • * \: . • ' „ ". \ " " , '•; " - ' • V ^ ; - . V . ^ , v* ^**J • K Primary Class in Gas Defense if' '\|,yv i' •; •«* \j m^mm BACK VIEW BEST A Sunday school teacher, anxious to impress upon her class of small boys the importance of making others glad as well as ourselves, offered a prize to any boy who would be able to tell her on the following Sunday that he had made someone else glad. When Sunday came a small boy held up his hand. "Please, teacher, I've made someone else glad." "Well done. Who was that?" "My Granny." "Good boy. Now tell us how you made your grandmother glad." "Please teacher, I went to see her yesterday, and stayed with/ three hours. Then I said to hei _ 'Granny, I'm going home,' and she said, 'Well, I'm glad!'"--Tit-Bits Magazine. UP-TO-DATE "L. In Japan even the children are included in the training for air-raid Spaergencies, and these Tokyo youngsters, Some wearing improvised Masks, are supposed to be extending help to a comrade felledby "gas." , , ' 'i 'I ' ' ' i ' 1 • -- : : 1 • ' ' Outstanding Boy and Girl *»*•* "Did Jones die a natural death?" .*'Yes, an airplane landed on him." Well Trained "In whose reign do we first hear of railways, Mary?" asked the teacher. "In Solomon's," promptly replied Mary. She was asked to think again, but persisted in her original statement, and the teacher inquired why she thought so. "Because," replied the child, "we are told in the Bible that the Queen of Sheba went®to Jerusalem with a very great train." In New York to receive the $500 college scholarship awards they ftron in the 1936 national social progress program, Billy Hale of Hixon, JSTenn., and Daphne Debruin of Fort Benton, Mont.-, the nation's outlanding boy and girl members of the 4-H clubs, are pictured looking Over the big city from the top of the RCA building. This is their first Visit to New York. Bad Biggest Noae in History Vatinious, a cobbler of Beneventum and favorite of Nero, was reputed by the ancients to have had -t||be biggest nose in human history. -- Women Tea Pickers Favored Survival of the superstition that cmly tea picked by feminine hands retains its delicacy has kept the Work for women. ' Beal Thinking Necessary Real thinking is as necessary ai. the actual discovery of facts for the true ptnd solid advancement of knowledge. Poor Kind of Courage Jud Tunkins says the only Jtfwj of courage a man who rocks the boat shows is a defiance of public opinion. Sweet Music "The fact that I am a good musician," said the lady, "was the means of saving my life during the flood in our town a few years ago." "How was that?" asked the young lady who sang. "Well, when the water struck our home my husband got on the folding bed and floated down the street till rescued." "And what did you do?" "Why, I accompanied him on the piano." PULLETS FED WELL WILL LAY IN FALL Careful Summer Attention Pays Good Returns. ; By H. H. Alp. Extension Poultiyman. University of IUinbU.--WNU Service. Cheapest of all ways to feed pullets this summer will be to feed them w e l l . Egg p r o d u c t i o n next September and October will depend on the summer feeding. Experience has demonstrated that worms and disease thrive best in poorly fed flocks, and that good pullets are never raised by making scavengers out of them during July and August. Prospects look favorable for egg prices next faff because many people will attempt to economize on .feed. Such a practice will make the feed used doubly expensive. A ration which has given good results with pullets after they are eight weeks old is the one made of a starting mash and ground grain. For each 200 pullets two range feeders are recommended; ^one containing starting mash and-the other a coarsely ground grain mixture of equal parts of corn, wheat and oats. Grinding the grain has a tendency to insure greater consumption of it and less of the mash. Some poultrymen are making a practice of closing, for a part of the day, the feeder containing the mash, especially if there is a tendency toward too early sexual maturity of the pullets. This ration in combination with a good clean green range such as alfalfa, plenty of clean drinking water and some protection from extreme heat should go a long way toward developing pullets of normal growth, free from worms and ready to lay next fall when egg prices are expected to be high. , Despite the fact that most laying flocks are laying well at this time of year, the need for careful culling should be noted. Every bird not laying and not havipg any value as a future breeder will consume about 20 cents worth of feeda month. CURIOUS BITS I Vienna has a municipal watch sad jclock museum. The Illinois conservation department killed 150,000 crows last Win-* ter with dynamite bombs. 1 Boys and girls of Myddle Church of England school near Shrewsbury 'have a team of handbell ringers. In Moline, HI., a physician . extracted a tooth from the mouth of a baby ten minutes after its birth. Lead pads, totalling more than 90 tons, keep one of New York's major hotels from vibrating to the traffic. Midget twins, who have attained a height of only 28 inches in 12 years, were born to a normal Los Angeles couple. - The ancient custom of distributing annually to the poor bread from a tomb was carried out recent^ at Woodbridge, England. V " „' Counterfeit money has"t>een found in some cases to contain" much more silver than the official coinage issued by the Royal mint.,. Iron ore is so aburtdant round Kropna, a village in Jugoslavia, that every one of its ,120 inhabitants is a blacksmith irrespective of sex In memory of the "spirits" of pearl oysters "killed" at a Japanese culture farm, a service Was performed by 50 priests before 10,- TO0 people. Forbearance "Would you kick a man when he's down?',' "No," answered Cactus Joe. "The truth is I wouldn't kick a man even when he's standin' up. However much I may dislike a feller, I haven't any grouch agin' his hip flask." ABOUT SAME THlUg WATER POEMS "Jack called me 'dear' last night. "Well all the other fellows call you expensive. . Error Pat wanted to borrow some money from Michael, who happened to have a small boy with him at the moment. '"Tis a fine kid you have there, Mike," said Pat. "A magnificent head and noble features. Could you loan me ten?" "I could not," replied Mike. "'Tis me wife's child by her figst husband."-- Montreal Star. Thought and Sound ' J<Why do you play the violin?" •'Because," answered the thoughtful person, "I am a philosopher." * "And also a musician?" "No. If I were a true musician and not a philosopher, the best I could do with a fiddle would probr ably distress me terribly.'* Gully Control Varies With Local Conditions Farmers keep in mind economy, effectiveness, and permanence when they build soil-saving check dams, earth fills or diversion ditches to control gullies, says T. B. Chambers of the Soil Conservation service. Check dams of straw, poles and logs, woven wire, and loose rock serve their purpose well, although they do not last as well as dams of well-laid rock or concrete and earth. ,; Gullies waste millions of tons of ' Valuable soil every year. SCS men on more, than 140 demonstration .j&reas are showing farmers how gullies can be prevented and checked. Control varies because climate, Soils, and cropping methods vary in different parts of the country, but farmers will find one or more of three methods effective. In practically all sections of the country gully sides may be planted to grass, shrubbery, or trees, "tenet established, the vegetation •Tows the flow of "little waters" after rains and holds the soil. Choice Of grasses, trees, or shrubs for such plantings is a question which may be referred to county agents or SCS specialists on demonstration areas. When gullies drain a fair-sized Eatershed, run-off can be retarded y the right crops and contour farming. Terraces or diversion ditches take care of excess run-off. Where the volume of run-off is high, earth, masonry, or concrete dams may be necessary. These dams are most effective where a gully slope is comparatively gentle and where they can be high enough to prevent further cutting back of the gully head. These dams also create reservoirs for livestock water and irrigation. An episode Hi an amsteur photographer** picture Odyssey of the travels v V water. Exposure iS2 at 1/2S second. npHB moods of water, tumbling. 1 bubbling, gushing, spouting, dashing, splashing, trickling, rolling, Tippling, dripping, glad, angry, smooth, rough, serene, peaceful, make~adjectives for poets. For the amateur photographer with any poetry in his soul whatever, they make themes for beautiful pictures and the subject of a delightful picture hobby. We know of one amateur photographer who used his camera to picture the grand circle water makes In its journey from land to sea to the clouds and back to the land again. This picture epic of water began with a photograph of a tiny woodland spring, then pictures of a rivulet, a brook, a river, a mightier river with its waterfalls and cataracts, the bay through which it flowed into the ocean, tbe ocean itself, a cloud and sunbeam picture over the ocean, thus picturing water being caught up for its return journey, and finally rain. ThlB idea far from exhausts the possibilities of poetic water pictures, especially when human interest is added. The majestic sweep of water over Niagara Falls is a . poem in itself but a honeymooning pair in the foreground adds romance. A fair swimmer in clear water on which sunshine is shimmering creates a poetic pattern of life and light A pseudo-moonlight picture over a placid lake of a youth and a maid in a canoe (a shot into the setting sun with a small lens opening) gives a poetic mood to "the waiters stilled at even." Foam at the prow of a careening yacht or Its churning wake over the stern depicts the poetry of motion. , Verses may be illustrated. "Where the breaking waves dash high on a stern and rockbound coast" is a place for photographs of one Of water's most inspiring moods, and then, from the hilltops "there is not in the wide world a valley so sweet, as that vale In whose bosom the bright waterB meet." Endless are your opportunities for making delightful photographs of water scenes. But there's a trick to successful water photography. It'a largely a matter of shooting so that the pictured water has the right "feel" or texture. For example, it's possible to shoot spray too fast, so that It has a hard, brittle look, thereby losing its essential sense of movement. On the other hand, rippling water should be shot fast enough so that the ripples are distinct, each with its own highlights. Another point is lighting. Choose the angle that gives you the maximum "texture," the characteristic interplay of light and shade. No one can tell you exactly how to go about this; a little experimenting will tell you better than volumes of words. But keep this in mind. Any fair-sized body of water reflects a lot of light. Your exposures, therefore, can be faster or, preferably, your "stop" smaller than for a comparable summer landscape. John van Guilder Get a Veil He was a widower, getting along in years, and no longer handsome. ""You are the fifth girl I have proposed to without avail." "Well," said the girl, kindly, "better wear one next time. Maybe you'll have better luck." ~ Vancouver Province. ^ ' > One Way r|lrs. Multikids -- I never punish my children. It's decidedly against my principles. Mrs. Morekids -- I wonder how you can expect to manage them. Mrs. Multikids -- I tell my husband when they misbehave and he larrups them.--Windsor Star. Unhappy Boyhood Days "Do you ever wish you were fcoy again?" "No," answered Senator Sorghum. "It is now my privilege to assume supreme intellectual authority. As a boy I had to listen in humility to .anything the teacher chose to tell me." "With the Farmers Large eggs do not hatch so well as small ones. • • * Nearly 900,000 tons Of wheat was groyfiruTGreat Britain last season. / . . . The University of California conducts a large horse breeding farm. . . . Poultry raising in America is rightly called "a billion dollar business." * • Non-layers of all ages should be carefully culled out of the flock until September 1. • * The Department of Agriculture says that the cost of keeping a farm horse, including cost of depreciation, is approximately $100 per year. • • * A summer shelter provides cheap, comfortable quarters for housing yearling layers at the end of the first laying yea.r.. . . • The Rose Comb White Leghorn is Identical with the Single Comb White Leghorn except in the matter of the rose comb. • . . Eggs are imported into the United States in the form of shell eggs; whole eggs, dried; whole eggs, frozen; dried and frozen yolks; and dried albumen. / Largest Log Bouse in 17. f* The largest log house hi the United States is the Forestry building at Portland, Ore,, which contains 1,000,000 feet of timber. It the last of the buildings of the world's fair held in Portland in 1905. SHORT AND SNAPPY Any game played in the street is game of chance. All birds do have . feathers no other animals have them. and From 87 Federal hatcheries last year came some 8,000,000,000 fish. The electric motors of a great battleship have the energy of 1,000,- 000 men. . " Helium is favored kn a lifting gas for airships because it is both light and noninflammable. 'Sixteen special issues of commemorative coins were authorized by the * last session of congress. °Boy Scouts in forty-nine nations now number over 2,600,000, an increase of nearly 87,000 in a year. It is estimated that Hawaii pays more taxes into the United State^ treasury than nineteen of t h e states. In Alaska there is only One per* son to every ten square miles while, in Puerto Rico there are 520 to a square mile. In downright combat, a horse cait move a big gun to a new point of vantage better than a motor, cavalry officers have tola the house a, propriations committee. S TAVERN McCULLOM'S LAKE Fish Fry Every Friday J S; Dancing Saturdays To the Music of Vfocg gflnnp* and His Jam Bafflf McHENRY BEER MIXED DRINKS '0' Come to Hoot's Tavern DINE AND DANCE EVERY SATURDAY NIOHt ^ , • Music by Chicago Music Masters „ flSH FRY EVERY FRIDAY & TAVERN Oh the corner of 20 and Riverside Drive, You'll find a place always alive. ELM STREET McHENRY, ILL. * Everyone Feels at Home Here --- Enjoy the Good Eats Along with that Good Old Burlington Beer NICK*8 TAVERN 2 T ^M»n Street , •. , West McHtmry HIGH BALLSt -!--- ASK NICK! « Delicious Roast Puck Served Saturday Nights at 7 o'clock T USE THE CLASSIFIED COLUMNS FOR QUICK RE8ULTS MILADY'S DOINGS Face powder is now used by 95 of every 100 women in England. More than 80 per cent of presentwomen. •"••• '• The brain in women seldom exceeds an average weight of 1,140 to 1,340 grams. South Africa's first Indian girl guide troop has baeo organised at East London. A woman in England blasts that she has had the same carpet on her floor for half a century. The average woman enjoys being envied even more than the average man enjoys being praised. Miss Virginia Keister has lived for twenty years at 702 Virginia avenue, Virginia Heights, Roanoke, Virginia. Of the nearly 11 million employ women in the United States, mo: than a third carry the full bilities of homemaking. TOLD IN FEW UNES 'tamingrad.. lands. is, situated on 19 1 ALARM CLOCK Handsomely d* signed and finished this attractive clock wiU ^dd to the appearance of any room. American mad% and fully guaranteed. Has 40 hour spring movement! - • -' concealed alarm bell with lop shut oft Height 6 inches by 5V4 inches wide. UUIMONEX Main Street West McHenry All land ln American Samoa is privately owned. Queen Elizabeth used two crowns at her coronation^ • A young crow requires about ounces of food daily. 10 1 Half the Massachusetts Stafts Police are college graduates. •J Thirty thousand gallons of champagne are imported into the United States monthly. Waste liquid at a Canadian paper mill is being converted into yeast, thus utilizing the sugar contained in the wood. -• Carved representations of human fingerprints have been found in ruins on an island oft the coast of France which are believed to be 30,000 years old. . •> Height ef Gorillas Gorillas attain a height of i feet, but because of their stocking posture, they rise only about four feet Xp^m the ground: v Shaft Honors Camels .. A monument at Quartzite, 'ftfii commemorates the introduction into the Southwestern desert of camels for any use. 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