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ii<r Society Motes m,- I f ATTENTION. W.C.O.F. the ladies of St. Clara's Court, W.C.O.F., will receive communion .fat a body Sunday morning, April 3. All members are requested to, be pre»r, ent and meet at the school hall. m m » ENTERTAINS CARD CLUB Mrs. E. H. Nickels was hostess to members of her card club on Friday evening. Two tables of bridge were in play, withhigh honors awarded to -'Mrs. Charles Mertes and the consolation to Mrs. George Lindsay.* • 'i. • • & MID-WEEK CLUB The Mid-Week Club met at the home Mrs. C. W. Goodell Wednesday afternoon, with four tables of bridge in play. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. C. W. Klbntz, Mrs. H. M. Stephenson aind Spencer. MIXED CHORUS TO. PRESENT ITS SPRING CONCERT ON APRIL 7 Our *• >$<**• WashingKMi (Letter MOTH--J Sdltoctel (Continued from first page) 9H-&. . EASTERN STAR : A regular meeting of McHenry chapter, O. E. S., was held Monday evening, when plans were made for a social hour to follow! next ineeting in two weeks.. ' Invitations have been received to attend past officers' night at Nunda " , chapter, April 1 and $. dessert-bridge party at Woodstock, March 30.' . V> HONORED ON BIRTHDAY A party of friends were entertained follows at the home of Miss Bernice Freund Monday evening in honor of Miss Prances Fuchs, whose birthday anniversary was on that day. Fourteen The Hiking Song," English Folk Song--Arranged by the Krones. • Mixed Chorus Little Girl with the Turned-op Nose," Clark. •' "Just A-Wearyin' for You,* Cairie Jacobs-Bond. ^ v V "Night Fancies," Blon. Girls' Quintet- ' '^Liebestraum," Liszt, "Valse in E Mindr," Chopiti Barry Taxman "Drink to Me Only With Thine Jonson-Pitcheri' " ' . . *Pop Goes the WeilSeV Schaeffetr Kauntz. .. "Oh, Susanna/' Foater-Riegger. ^ y " Bdys' Sextette *The Medicine Show," Stuart Miss Stevens' group "Three Limericks," Noble Cain. ' - ,. "In a Persian Market," Ketelby. -I "He Never Said a Mumbalin' W^^ Arranged by Krone. , " ' : "Praise Ye the Lord," Cesar Pranck. Mixed Chorus The members of the Chorus are as Western trailed >Vc Company Issues / y" Annual Report The annual report of Western United Gas and Electric Company^ehows operating revenues for lS&rot $7,- 904,483, compared with $7,649,666 in 1936, an increase of 3.3%. Gas revenues decreased 1.8%, while electric Interesting Nearby News (Continued from first page) years as an automobile thief, and Joseph F. Nemroer, of Racine, Wis., made the confessions. Their accomplices, they said, were Michael Ktfrajournous, and Jerome Welsch, of Racine, and Joseph Russo, a Chicagoan One hundred and seventy-nine vot revenues were greater by about 10%.1 ers school district 103, which in- Operating expenses and taxes were c^u^es the village of Half Day, six $5,525,094, compared with $5,292,276 miles south of Libertyville, voted Satin the previous year, an increase of urday to float a $19,000 bond issue $232,818. | to build a new school--a modern brick Taxes continued to increase. The building that will accommodate ninety Washington, March 30--With rebellion stalking their footsteps, Senate and House leaders for the Administration are doing their utmost to hasten adjournment of the Congress. Unfortunately, a number of vitally Iprovisiona for taxes amounted to $922*.' students. The old structure stands on important and unfinished chores pre- 899, or approximately 12% of the to- ^oute 22, a few rods west of Milwautal operating revenues for the year. '£ee ave* It will be sold at auction For 1936 the total was $847,969. fand either torn down or removed, ac- Net income amounted to $857,781 in cording to William Rapp, president of 1937 compared with $884,894 in 1936. ^the school board. The original build- After the payment of $828,324 div- in8T was erected nearly fifty years ago idends on the outstanding preferred. ®n<l since that time has witnessed the shares, $29,457 was added to earned educational progress of many of the vent the closing down of the legislative work shop. While the President is vacationing in the South, his Capitol Hill lieutenants have a hard task holding their wavering lines. The debate and subsequent action on the government re-organization bill left deep scars in the Senate. Yet, the!surplus as a result of the year's op- local residents. The new school will subject lacked the popular appeal of the tax bill which is now blooming in vastly different color from the White House approved draft sent over- by the House as a means qf raising revenue for the Federal government. Administration chieftains privately confess that the turmoil is proving something of a drain on their resourcefulness in meeting delicate political situations Successfully. Congressional bosses have a tough time these daysjustifying their rights to high-sounding titles. The controversy. over a wage and be erected on the same site but just south of the present building. The public's craze for novelty enguests were present to enjoy the even-!ager; Shirley Butler, librarian. ing at cards and games and lunch was j Sopranos--D. Lay, R. M. Merchant, served. Miss Fuchs received pleasing,H. Nell, G. Shepard, I. Simon, E. Smith, L. Stacknick, R. Vogt, A. Althoff, P. Bode, A: Freund, E. Hunt, H. Kilday, M. Knox. Second Sopranos---©. Anderson, M. Bolger, S. Butler,'I. Feilens, P. Smith, Oeffling, hour measure has flared into the open |with resentment, in Southern camps Chorus Membership. v f over ^r* Roosevelt's haak hand slaps Officers -- Eleanor AlthofF, 'during his Georgia speech last week, dent; Lorraine Engeln, vice-president; The lawmakers have been checking Herbert Reihanspeger, publicity man- sentiment over the telephone and by devious methods. The feeling here is that the President gained little or gifts in honor of the occasion. • »%» COUNTY LEGION MEETING The coiinty meeting of the American Legion was held at Crystal Lake Thursday night when Adolph Hani-j v. Jepson, M. J. Laures, P. mesfahr of Chicago spoke on "Behind <3* Simon. the Enemies' Lines." He is a member I 'Altos--L. Esh, E. Althoff, L. Enof Advertising Mens' Post of the Le-!gelni H. Herdrich, C. Rothermel, G. gion in Chicago and brought a thrill- j Kennebeck, J. Schnaitman erations. Therms of gas sold in 1937 amounted to 39,162,308, as compared with 44,- 935,551 therms in 1936, a decrease of te'rtainment is making possible one of 12.8%. Sales to domestic customers the tyiost unusual real estate develop decreased 1.1% and sales to commer- ments ever attempted in this terricial and industrial customers increas- tory. The village of New Lebanon is ed 11.4%. Sales to large industrial about, to live again through an ingencustomers for boiler fuel and other i°us plan for the reproduction in depurposes on an infcerruptible,. supply tail of a frontier town of '49. When basis fell off about 35%. . {Col. A1 Young of Chicago read! last Customers, using gas for space heat- December that "the town of New Lebings at th<e Close of the year increas- i anon was for sale he convinced a ed 8;7% over the previous year. J group of Chicago associates that it Total electric service supplied by was the logical place to build a repthe company, exclusive of energy sup- *'ca of - one of the early American plied to other electric utility compan-! frontier villages, so plans were made ies, amounted to 104,568,084 kilowatt-! to purchase the town. A. D. Young hours (the highest in the .history of ^ Associates, now the owners of 240 the company) as compared with 94,- acres of land at New Lebanon, will 400,803 kilowatthours in 1936, an in-'break ground within the next two crease of 10.8%. | weeks for a complete frontier town Electricity sold to residential cus-> ?nd adjoining dude ranch, representnothing by his bitter comparison of tomers (including those classified as *n£ a total investment of close to the feudal system and the "Fascist." J*111"8') amounts to 28,059,759 kilowatt- $500,000, including the land. Talks in Congressional corridors "°^rs> an increase of 12.9% over 1936.' Following approval by Mayor W. L. among the Dixie delegations indicate Continuing its rural electrification Miller and the Marengo City Council, Mr. Roosevelt is a bit haywire in say- ProSram the company now has elec- "Timbers of the Marengo Boy Scout trie service available to 91.3% of the troop committee decided that the farms and rural establishments with- Scouts would take over the city on the enson to the house, and on Saturday morning the Injured man was taken to the Harvard hospital. He had suffered a broken hip and an injured knee in the collision. The front end of the car was damaged. On the way to Deep, Lake early Sunday morning of last week, to,clean up a summer cottage for weekend guests, Mrs. Florence Gratton, 50, of Chicago, was killed instantly when her automobile crashed into a telephone pole on Grand ave., about four miles west of Gurnee. The death of Mrs. Gratton, wife of Richard Gratton, office secretary of the Chicago city treasurer, was the fifth traffic fatality in Lake county since Jan. 1. Mrs. Gratton was driving west on Grand ave., accompanied by Ralph B MacHarg, also of Chicago a broker! when she lost control of the car.^ The automobile careened across the paveiment and went into a ditch on the south side of the highway. It traveled for over 100 feet in the mud until it struck a telephone pole, breaking the pole. * - Fire, which obviously resulted from a grass fire which got out of control, burned the house and barn on the old Herzing farm, near Wauconda, tenanted by the George Robinson fam* ,ily, Monday morning of last week. The house was burned to the ground and the bam entirely enveloped in flames when the Wauconda fire department. arrived, and only a small shed could be saved. The Robinson family were only able to save a. few (Pieces of their furniture, and' were left in very serious circumstances by the loss they suffered. The entire loss was estimated at about $2,000, including $1,000 value on the house, the barn $500, and household furnishings $500. . Ub Windcrmer* Uke Windermere Is tha l*ke in England. Situated wooded hills in the neighborhood Scofell and* other mountains, tween Lancashire and Westmoreland, it is 10% miles long, 219 deep and about a mil* wida. Discovered Iodine in H»ll Iodine was discovered in 1811 „ French chemist, who, in trying make gunpowder for Napol treated calcium nitrate with the of sea weed. EASTER is the finest boa of oaady in America -- $L80 fdt the 17-os. dse. Other package* 28a up. •!>•. lastei E«fi . . . «« Ite . ; Using His Big Voice Jud Tunkins says a loud voice gives a man a big chance in life. He has to decide for himself whether he will be a side show barker or an opera baritoqe. THOMAS P. BOLGWI , ' Druggist •. Phone 40 . • McHenry mg there is little difference in the systems because fascism is generally cradled in centralized power as against feudalism with no supreme authority. Tempers have been rubbed raw by the caustic comment so ing story of espionage service for the| Tenors--J. Cristy, L. Balke, H. Con-i that the future of the wage control United States. He served during the way> jay Cristy; G. Knox, G. Smith. I bill is still in doubt. John L. Lewis World War and also saw service in Baritones--K. Cristy, H. Ferwerda,! has demanded a 30 hour week as a China. HVE YEARS OLD N. Harrison, G. Miller,3 H. Reihansperger, R. Williams, H. Shepard, R. Smith, J. Gausden, B. Klontz, J. Lar- Little Miss Mary Kay Freund was L. McCannon, E. Simon. five years old on Saturday and to cele-j Basses--F. Cox, L. Hettermann, J. brate the occasion several of her McAndrews, E. Neilsen. friends were invited to a party at her home Saturday afternoon. Games were played and a delicious lunch was served by the little girls' mother, Mrs. George Freund, with a pretty birthday cake decorated with candles as the center of attraction. Those present were Mary Elaine, Donald and Terry Bauer, Betty, Jean and Allen Schmitt, Billy, Richard and Kenneth Adams, Jackie Thies, Bobby White, Joan, Marilyn, Doris and Sharon Freund, Mary Margaret Buss, Dorotby Ana aid Elaine Blake. Herbert Reihansperger, Publicity Manager. MltlM M»»M » • » Among the Sick lid Eli W --- PARTY Ifrs. AIby Krug was honored at a tea Friday afternoon given by the Sunday school teachers of the M. E. Church at the home of Mrs. C. H. Duker. _ Mrs. Krugt who has been a teacher in the Sunday school for several years, left Monday with Mr. Krug and their daughter, Elaine, for Antioch, where *r- Krug is managing the National Tea store. The afternoon was spent in playing Lexicon and prizes were merited by Miss Ethel Jones and Mrs. Eva Bacon. Lunch was served around a large table attractively decorated in yellow and white, with a bouquet of yellow jonquils as a centerpiece. • 'A gift was then presented to Mrs. "Krug in appreciation of her service, ;as well as wishes for happiness in 3her sew home. INTERESTING ANNOUNCEMENTS McHenry friends will be interested in the following announcements concerning two young people who are closely related, although now living Beverly Schwerman had her tonsils removed at St. Tbereae's hospital, Waukegan, Tuesday. Mrs. Nick Adams has been very ill at her home on' Court street, but is slightly improved. Joe Engeln is in Presbyterian hospital, Chicago, where his condition is considered very critical {ma it was expected that he Would-undergo an operation this (Thursday) morning. Mrs. George Wirfa is quite <iU and confined to bed at her home on Richmond road. John F. Claxton is ill with dropsy and heart trouble at his farm home east of this city. substitute and further confused" the political thinking. Meanwhile, the in the territory it serves, and 85.2% date of one of the regular April or of all such es, tablishments are now u--s- Ma.y meetings of the council. The e--xing its service. The average use of act date will be set by Scout leaders 1 ^^r'iC-,ty by rural customers was and members of the city council, with ft kilowatthours. .the probability being that May 3 will. 1 , jPtember 23, 1937, Common-. he agreed upon. The Scouts will elec©' u Subsidiary Corporation noti- a full slate of city officials by ballot ned the holders of the preferred a°d these officers will spend the day ft. tuc °' Western United Gas and in pursuit of their various duties and House Labor Committee is wrestling j \ 0~°manjr <>' an offer to ex- then will conduct the regular council with a flock of compromises which are ^ shares of Commonwealth , meeting in the evening. " = , o n C o m p a n y s t o c k o f t h e p a r I F o r t h e f i f t h t i m e w i t h i n t w o y e a r s value of $25.00 each for each share the Atchinson school house, near of the outstanding preferred stock of Huntley, was broken into Tuesday western United Gas and Electric com-! night. A few pencils and other small pany. Commonwealth Subsidiary Cor-: articles were taken but much damage poration owns all of the common stock I was done in the room. Windows were of Western United Gas and Electric broken and sand was thrown about L , I the room. An investigation was made stockholders have been advised by county deputies who obtained a irT.}ime « tlme by Commonwealth: number of finger prints, which will b« subsidiary Corporation of the exten- traced. Authorities expect to make sion of this offer, and to date the termination is not fixed, but provision has been made for at least ten days written notice to the holders of record pf. the preferred shares of Western United Gas and Electric Company. EPWORTH LEAGUE WILL SPONSOR MOVIE APRIL 5 The members of th.e Epworth League are sponsoring the movie, "The Life of Emile Zola," at the Empire theater on* Tuesday evening, April 5. "The Life of Emile Zola" was selected as the best picture of 1937 and is being screened through the courtesy of Roy Miller, manager of the Empire theater, who is co-operating with the local League members. Starring the famous cha-acter actor, Paul Muni, the picture offers a designed to bring harmony among the warring clans. The Administration, working overtime for a bill of sorts, is whispering a warning question to rebellious solons, "can you afford to return home without a vote on a vital labor question?" Few listeners have altered their views under this form of persuasion for the betting is against this labor legislation sponsored by F. D. R. and his allies. The chats in official quarters cover a variety of topics. However, the diplomats are oq their toes as the State Department measures repercussions from its new policy of welcoming refugees of persecuted minorities; doctors and others in private practice are concerned with the implications of the President's Inter-departmental Committee to Coordinate Health and Welfare Activities on the suspicion tfiat state medicine is on the way; the rtport of this committee this week estimates that one-third and perhaps one-half of the population is "too poor to afford the full cost of adequate medical care"; the. TVA inquiry by Congress is awaited for its bearing on legal questions involved in the President's dismissal of Chairman Morgan and possibility of a new inquiry into abuses of pat*onage(power by ignoring the merit system, especially in view of recent disclosures where politics rather then comparative intelligence rated post office appointments. A Federal /studyfoflretai^alies in the independent stores in the Middle West this week shows a decided slump in business for February of this years as compared with the same month of 1937. The decreases rank from 7 to 15 Paul Banyan Legend The Paul Bunyan legend is said r\£ave b**un 'm the Papineau rebellion in Canada in 1837, when a niighty-muscled, bellicose, bearded giant named Paul Bunyan raged among the Queen's troops like Samson among the Philistines.!? -- Xoam Is « Soil A loam is a soil having a mixture °f the different grades of sand, silt, «id clay in such proportions that the characteristics of no one grade predominate. It is mellow with a somewhat gritty feel, yet fairly smooth and slightly plastic. an arrest soon. Volunteers dragged Duck Lake^ near Ingleside, early last week for the body of Chester Cygan, 28, of Chi cago, who was drowned late last wee Sunday in a heroic effort to save a companion who had fallen out of a boat. Cygan was in a rowboat with Joseph Smetena, 21, also of Chicago, on Duck Lake during the balmy weather Sunday afternoon when Smetena fell out. Though unable to swim; Cygan reached out from the edge of the boat in the attempt to grab hisl companion and fell into, the water; He went down and disappeared before rescuers reached the scene. Smetena was saved. Emil Anderson, Hebron, met with a serious accident on Friday evening of last week. He was returning from, Hebron, and when he turned from the highway into the driveway to his farm, home, he struck the gate post. Frank Alberts, the hired man, took Mr. And- NO SQUIRMS JoeAc? from 50* |K the safety ei M So follow, wby W' Mild. fated StyBng. No-Gap Y-Froat Jockey Underwear Is Wfj OK ijiiiii ana to soft year inq todap McGEE'S - supporting cast headed by Gale Son- per cent in a „ story of Eimle Zol, „ interwoven1 of m imJep«ndent ,tore, ir| UU9C1JT iciawju, Bltnougn with that nf tfeo muepenaeni Store! considerable distances apart Moth- armv inti-im,* fw*;„ „^ Wisconsin shows » decrease of 7 per ers of the young people are --* 1^ residents of McHenry. Mrs. R. P. French writer and Ja^Sf^ ther hand'in Indi#na for Feb* Arvedson was formerly Miss Mayme Mrs faameCarrie8 ^ « "M Teteil sale, fell off Granger and Mrs. John A. Watson was formerly Miss Harriet Lamphere of McHenry and they have relatives and many friends here. George Raymond Arvedson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond P. Arvedson of Los Angeles, Calif., was married March 16 to Miss Lonie May Adams, PERSONALS Katherine Rothermel and Fred Meyets^vifiited friends at Wilmette over the weekend. Mary Celine Adams of Elgin spent according to announcements received ®un(lay an(* Monday with her parents, at Carpentersville, the former home of the family. The ceremony was read in the Episcopal church at St. Louis, Mo., by the Mr. and Mrs. George Adams. Mrs. J. W. Rothermel and Marion Krause were Elgin callers Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Adams of El- Rev. Mayles, rector, and a reception gin were Sunday visitors in the home followed in the home of the bride's Ihis Parents, Mr. and Mrs. George parents Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Harriet Elizabeth Watson of Royal Oak, Mich., to Mr. Kenneth Howe Bender, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence H. Bender of Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rosing of Libertyville spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Jos. May. Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Burns of Oak Park were Sunday callers at the Geo 15 per cent, 9 per cent in Kansas, 8 per cent in Illinois, 12 per cent in Nebraska. It is noteworthy that in Kansas, for instance, cities with populations of 2500 to 5000 reported the smallest decrease with a loss of onehalf of one per cent. Areas of less than 2500 in this state, showed a decline of 6 per cent in sales reported. On the other hand, with a recession of 15 per cent in larger cities the sales in areas with populations under 2500 in Illniois reported a decline of only one per cent, while in Nebraska the loss in small towns amounted to 12 per cent for February of last year.- It is mighty hard for government experts to write a measurement stick of prosperity on a month to month retail sales report. It would require a small army of : you warn a car that's gorgeous and one that's thrifty, too* -- " * Wbrhutock wants are plain or & fancy, here's your car. It's the smartest that ever led the traffic parade. It provides the generous luxury of a private railway car. Yet owners say "18 to 24 miles per gallon" i . . records show that 84$ of all Pontiacs ever built are still in daily use ... and the price tag proves that Pontiac's big, new six is one of the lowest priced cars you can buy! So tune in with Spring--get a Pontiac. Your pride and pocketbook will both be bettej: far it. Royal Oak. Miss Watson is the daugh-1 Johnson home and at their cottage at foreign spies to obtain the military te^of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Watson. rH^ory Grange. (information regarding the United^ Mrs. K M. Fleming was called to j States army's plans which are made erwyn this week by the death of. public in the printed document simul The wedding will be an event of June 18 at the First Presbyterian church, with Rev. Robert S. Steen of- her sister, Mrs. Havorka. ficiating. Miss Watson was graduat- ^r- and Mrs. Robert Ulrich and ed from Royal Oak High School in little son of Oak Pa^k visited here 1932 and is employed by the Personal Saturday and Mrs./ Ulrich and son re- Finance Company. Mr. Bender was mained for a longer visit. graduated from the same school in February of 19G3, when he was class president. He will be graduated from Detroit Institute of Technology with a bachelor degree in commercial science. He is employed by the Royal Oak board of education. Paul Kamholz and little son of Chicago visited his parents Tuesday. Mrs. Ray McGee, Mrs. H. E. Durtaneous with the introduction of tha. appropriation bill in the House of Representatives. This document of nearly 800 pages gives American citizens and other world powers a working idea of what our military author ities are doing in the matter of preparedness in national defense. No "Arkansas" Name Used by Indians "Arkansas" was the name formerly used by the Illinois Indians designate the Quapaw tribes livnear the mouth of the Arkansas and was probably derived from the name of a Sioux clan division of which the present Omaha, Osage and Kansa tribes R' TO"0*'J^F8' Ted| other government in the world opens Snlrt • p Wm. Klapperichjas vast reservoir of military data for? ££yn°n. ' F'emme " Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thompson and Miss Maud Granger visited Mr. and Mrs. Will VanNatta at Crystal Lake Sunday evening. Mrs. R. V. Powers and Mrs. Henry Buchert of Crystal Lake visited the former's mother, Mrs. Josephine Pouse, Tuesday. . Poultry .DnW St^; - ' " • V':-- '• The infomation i3 part of the testimony given by high-' est army offices in justification for their demands for money from Congress for the next fiscal year beginning July 1. With a pro-Navy President, the army is coming out secondl best in the bid for appropriations. Goby, A goby is a fish on nearly tropical carnivorous all temperate 1±_, :V r ONLT LOW-PRICED CAR WITH SAFETY SHIFT AMERICA'S FINEST LOW-PRICED CAR R. I. OVERTON MOTOR SALES front Street W. McHenry, I1L /* ANTIOCH POKTIAO SALKft