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PtftFri* WE M'HENRY PLAMDEALER * Publi«h«»d every Thursday at Mc- Jkenity, 111., by Charles F. Renich. . Entered as second-class matter at < *&e powtoffice at McHenry, 111., under tile act of May 8, 1879. ...$2.00 $1.00 One Year Six Months ...... A. H MOSHER Editor and Manager GABBY QERTIE - :... > '• it-:. FLAWDlAUUt IN A UNE QR TWO "it's an 111 wiad tasis a boat." that Um> kaliw * Says: ^ v When cutting quilt blocks, make • pattern out of a good ink blotter. When placed on the material it will •tick to the goods and Dot slide •round as paper does. • • • to prevent small rugs from sliprjiing, sew discarded jar rings under each corner. • • » Rqsse out your bathing suit in fresh water-after youhave been to tiie beach. It helps prevent the salt Water from rotting the material. • * • Scissors will tarnish if you do HP1 dry them after cutting the stems •0 wet flowers. * *• • • When angel food cake is made, the egg yolks can be beaten, stored ip refrigerator and used several days later. • Aaaocutted Newspapers.--WNTJ Service. NEW IWM McHENRY, ILLINOIS Air - Conditioned SUN-MATWCE CONTINUOUS FRIDAY -- SATURDAY A u g u s t 5 - 6 Spbia Sidney -- George Raft v*YOU AND ME" Also--Comedies SUNDAY -- MONDAY A u g u s t 7 - 8 Gary Cooper -- Si grid Gurie "THE ADVENTURES OF MARCO POLO" Also--Our Gang Comedy and World News TUESDAY, AUGUST 9 Double Feature - Admission 10c-20c (1) "Crime Ring" (2) "Blond Cheat" WEDNESDAY -- THURSDAY August 10-11 Rudy Vallee - Rosemary Lane Hugh Herbert - Allen Jenkins and Schnickelfritz Band "G0U> DIGGERS IN PARIS" AIR-CONDITIONED ANDCKI.CINS WOOPSTOCK Theatre -- Woodstock FRIDAY, BARGAIN NIGHT Bobby Breen - Ned Sparks "HAWAII CALLS" SATU RDAY SPECIAL " GWKe Raft - Svlvia Sidney "YOU AND ME" AND . Smith Ballew 'PANAMINT'S BAD MAN' SUNDAY AND MONDAY REGULAR PRICES James Stewart - Ginger Rogers "VIVACIOUS LADY" AND "BUND ALIBI" Richard Dix -- Whitney Bourne TUESDAY, BARGAIN NIGHT Frank McHugh-- Ann Sheridan 'Little Miss Thoroughbred" WEDNESDAY -- THURSDAY Robt. Montgomery - Virginia Bruce "YELLOW JACK" -Ladies- Watch for Friday, August 12 .".•Jv". There are about two miiuion lepers In tha world. ' Some birds start flying south as early as July. The Chinese and Japanese write in vertical columns. Calcutta is the second largest city of the British empire. ! New York averages thfe marriage of 14 persons every hour;-- --- Hitler's title, der Feuhrer, la pronounced dare Fhuh-rare. The1" National Hockey league now in its twenty-first year. It Long engagements are the rule with young English couples. In 57 years, Alaska has yielded in minerals alone 100 times what the United States paid for it. Chinese, high schools require mow than twice as many hours of classes a week as American Schools. At present, approximately eight Americans go abroad to one foreigner that comes to this country. The- female Anopheles mosquito which carries malaria is most likely tc bite human beings at night when they are asleep. HERE AND ELSEWHERE A baby is born in New York city every four minutes. Cube root, cultivated In Peru, la used in an insecticide. " Independence hall in Philadelphia is open daily to the public without charge. Belgium has the greatest density of population of any•„ European country. The first pil* bridge built in America at York, Maine, in 1757, is" still standing. Germany consumes more than a million and a half yards of sausages every year. Racing programs in Bermuda are divided between harness races and running races. All British prime niinisters since Sir Hugh Walpole have lived on Downing street. The Library of Congress collections comprise 10,000,000 items and increase at the rate of 500 a day. In, Moscow, if a person drops a piece of paper as small as a train ticket on the street, a policeman has the power to fine him on the spot. WORTH READING Yellow fever was! eradicated from -Cuba in 1899. ^ Experience is one of tha things you can't get for-nothing. The stings of bees, if sufficiently numerous, often are fatal. The card game of rummy is said to have originated in Texas. Weariness and the strained life is one of today's greatest troubles. The United States is the largest consumer of sugar in the world. Kicks of horses, mules and cows claimed the <livcs of eight Kansans in 1935. ~ A new graveyard of prehistoric animals has been discovered near Robert Lee, Tev>s. The Union of South Africa legislature meets in Capetown, but all other government offices are at Pretoria. Children often acquire fear of dogs, bugs, or darkness because they see adults showing fear of things. PEN POINTS 'Many men who sell popcorn are cracker-jack s&lesmen. Another man's wife always seems more economical than yours. The marriage tie wouldn't be so bad if it would only stay tied. A woman's portrait isn't natural unless it is a speaking likeness. The man who doesn't succeed in what he is doing should try something else. Many a man in dire financial straits has found he has a lot of close' friends." "" By the time a Man gets rich enough to sleep late he is so old he wakes up early. A hard day's , work and a good night's sleep make a man ready for another hard day's work. The cheerful man who whistles at his work isn't the person who listens for the noon, whistle.--Los Angeles Times. . 0°r Faith in Human Nature Our faith in human nature grows so scant," said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, "that we soon arrive at the belief that everybody who is ordmaroly polite is trying to deceive Name Austin of Latin Origin The name Austin is of Latin origin it may be a contraction of Augustine, which has about the same meaning, but is umsidMid arate name. • * HOW WORKMAN WHO IS RIGHT OR LEFT-HANDED HOLDS TOOL-- The manner in which a person grasps the handle of his implements does not always indicate whether he is right-handed or left-handed, asserts a writer in the Indianapolis News. A lefthanded person is one who. has a decided preference for the left hand instead of for the right. Right-handed persons normally place the right hand in the dominant and- directing position on the handles of all tools and imjflements. The relative positiop of the hands differs with different tools and with the same tool used for different purposes. Moreover, there are various degrees of lefthandedness and right-handedness, some persons being righthanded in certain respects and left-handed in others. When a person shovels right-handed Vie places his right hand nearest the free end of the handle and swings the loaded shbvel to his left. The right hand guides the shovel arid gives it a turn at the proper time to discharge the contents, while the left hand, which is permitted to play more or less up and down the central part of the handle, lifts the load and supplements the other hand. Thus the left hand often performs the hardest labor in the form of lifting, supporting or propelling, but the right hand does the brain work. . When a person shovels lefthanded the relative position of the hands "and the direction of the swing are reversed. In a general way it may be said that the righthanded person normally works with the left side of his body nearest the work being done. ALSATIAN SOLDIER HELD PRISONER IN GERMANY 20 YEARS Captarad in War, Forced Into Kaiser's Army, Reported Slain in Battle. How Problem of Mirage* Is Connected With Light The solution of the problem of mirages in the road is really governed by one of the fundamental laws of light. If a sheet of glass be held vertically in front of the eyes, vision through it is unobstructed. But if the top edge of the glass is now tilted away from the face, until the surface takes^a norizontal position just below the level of the eyes, it will be seen on looking along the upper surface that nothing is visible through the glass because it is acting as a mirror. The angle at which this change takes place is called the "critical angle," according to a correspondent in Pearson's London Weekly. In the case of the road surface, until the "critical angle is reached, the majority of the light falling on the road is either absorbed or scattered. Under certain circumstances, however, the light is reflected into the observer's eye, giving the appearance of a sheet of water or glass. flow "Big Apple" Is Danced The dance known as the "big apple" is a combination of the oldfashioned square dance and modern swing. From four to twenty persons gather in a circle on the floor and go through a series of steps to the call of a leader. The steps are a combination of the Charleston and various drags, swing steps and truckin'. The dance originated at the University of South Carolina where students saw it at a night club and named the dance after the club. Bow to Stop Floor Squeaks One good way of preventing floors from squeaking is to drive wooden wedges in the gaps between the ends of the boards. Care should be taken to do a neat job. In some cases where the boards have vfcarped and pulled away from the floor joists it, is necessary to renail the boards. Irr* doing this, the heads of the nails should be countersunk and the holes filled with a paste made by mixing sawdust and waterproof glue. How to Resilver Reflectors of automobile headlamps can be resilvered easily by dipping them in a solution, after they have been cleaned and polished. The. treatment requires no heat or electric current. The plating is accomplished quickly, the solution doing its work in less than one minute, and the interior of the reflector will take on mirrorlike brilliancy with little polishing ^Popular Mechanics Magazine. How Nordics Differ From Celts The Nordic has a long head, a long"face, a narrow aquiline nose, blue eyes, very light hair and great stature. The Celt has a round head, a broad face, a nose often rather broad and heavy hazel-gray eyes, light chestnut hair, thick-set stature and medium height. How to Measure for New Glass Use a rigid measuring rule or a steel tape (not string) when measuring glazing area of a window for new glass. The dimensions must include not only the size of the actual opening to be glazed, but also the little ledges against which the glass will rest. How to Keep Writing; From Fading The national bureau of standards says that the best way to prevent the fading of writing is to keep it in the dark, and where it will not be exposed to very damp air. Under these conditions writing with almost any kind of ink should last for decades. Mulhouse, Alsace --After 20 years as a war prisoner, during which all his friends and relatives believed he had died, an Alsatian has returned home from prison in Germany. His detention is believed to be the longest of any prisoner of war taken by either side in the World war. He is Alphonse Bientz, native of Mulhouse and member Of a pro French family. Bientz served as a guide to the French troops who occupied Mulhouse in the early months of the war. He did not try to hide his activities from the former German functionaries who still held their posts. He paid for his indiscretion iii a few days when a German push drove the French out of the town and brought the Germans back. Arrested, Bientz immediately was incorporated in the One hundred Twemy-ninth German infantry and sent to the Russian front, where the regiment was used in the most dangerous attacks. While many of his comrades were killed, Bientz escaped injury until September, 1916. That month the regiment was thrown into the battle of Kowl and he was wounded in the head. Reported Deid. ; While he lay for days in no man's land his papers were returned to his family and he was listed as dead. From then on his family never heard from him until he returned home recently from his long prison Odyssey. After the war his mother was granted a pension by France. She died in 1927 in the belief that her son had been killed on the Russian front. In August, 1936, his only surviving sister received a letter from the police chief of Riedisheim informing her that her brother still was imprisoned in the fortress of Glat2 in Upper Silesia. A year of negotiations finally brought his release. Alphonse Bientz reached Mulhouse in a miserable state. He had not eaten for four days, and the 1,000 marks which had been given him on his liberation from prison had been taken from him, because, he was told, it was forbidden to export marks. He told the story of his year's in prison. When the Austrian nurses found him on the battlefield he was half dead. Operated on in Poland, he gradually recovered and was transported to the military hospital of Straussberg near Berlin. The German authorities never admitted his identity. He was sentenced to various terms at hard labor. Finally he escaped from prison. He was captured again and this time sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. : ^ Moved From Prison to Prison* : He was transported from prison to prison, and there is hardly a prison in Hanover, Werl, Cologne, Muhlheim, the Ruhr, Calwitz and scores of other towns that he does not know intimately. After a hunger strike, Bientz was sent to a convalescent home in Upper Silesia where one of his doctors became interested in his case and informed the French consul in Leipzig. This led to his liberation. Bientz insists that there are hundreds of prisoners, officially known as lost, who are still imprisoned at Werl. They are mostly political prisoners who are forced to make shoes for nationalist Spain, he declares. When he was released the Oberwachtmeister told Bientz: "Go and tell France and Alsace what Germany is like but watch yourself! We will soon retake Alsace and then, you'd better watch out!" Bientz says he has no intention of traveling in Germany. FOR FOR SALE--All kinds of vegetables, also sweet corn and potatoes. Jo Pitsen, Johnsburg. FOR SALE--Milk, 20 cents per gal.; Bring your own container. Magnus Nelson, % mile west on Route 20. 9-tf FOR SALE Excavating - Sand - Gravel - Dirt and Sod -- Estimates given without obligation. Special prices on filling. I would appreciate your calling. Jin. mie Fitzgerald, Phone McHenry 207-J *10-0 WANTED WANTED TO BUY--One more crippled or down cow or horse. Must be: alive. You'll get more cash by calling Wheeling 102. We buy old pei horses. Shot on the premises if desired. ..DEAD ANIMALS--We pay more cash for dead animals if called at once. Try us for prompt and sanitary service. ..Wheeling 102--Reverse Charges. Sundays and Holidays included. 43-26 Thursday, August 4,1938 L* PICTURES AT THE FAIR Rides Horse 20 Milei to Prepare for Death Managua, Nicaragua. -- Pablo Mendoza, fifty-fWe years old, of Chacraseca, a small town 20 miles from Leon, walked into the office of an attorney in Leon and said: "I am well, but since the day before yesterday, I have had a premonition that I am going to die and I wish to arrange my affairs. I eat and sleep well. I have ridden 20 miles on horseback, but I am fearful as I hear voices that I do not understand. "My name is called but I see no one." His will made, Mendoza bid- his friends farewell and returned home. There he chatted with his family and explained his business affairs. After eating an evening meal he retired. Next morning he was found dead. He had a broad smile on his face. Physicians said he had died from natural causes. Blind Man Knows Voice of Chum After 32 Years Gridley, Calif.--Corey Hankf, blind lecturer and educator, recognized the voice of a former schoolmate here whom he liad not met since they were boys together 32 years ago. Edward Bates,'after listening to a sermon by Hanks and recollecting they had been schoolmates together at Charleston, Utah, 32 years previously, spoke to Hanks after the Sermon, only to have the latter call him promptly by name. .Hanks has been blind 21 years. ~An Indian Custom When an Indian with a gun met a white man and wanted to show that he was a friend of the whites, he would often hold out the gun, with ..the breecfy pointed toward the white wan. Religious Peaee . _. fteligious peace "does not make those who have it less open-eyed, less brave, or less strenuous. But it does this--it makes them less fretful, makes them calmer. WANTED--Wfcman or girl for gen eral housework; small home; stay nights. Call Mrs. V. Jf. Knox, Crystal Lake 452-J. 11 FOR RENT TO RENT--Kirk's Kottages Rabins. Riv. frt., $10-$15 wk.; by day, $1 person; mod. conv., fully equipped; fish bathe, boat. North end of Fair Oaks Sub, Phone 661-M-l. *11-8 mSOBLLAHEOmi GARBAGE COLLECTING--Let us dispose of your garbage each week, or oftener if desired. Reasonable rates. Regular year round route, formerly George Meyers'. Ben J. Smith. Phone 15? or 631-M-l. 2-tf FLOOR SANDING -- Beautify your home by resurfacing your floors witlr latest dustless equipment. Old floors made new. Estimates furnished. Work guaranteed. Htmning Newman, 932 Marvel Ave., Woodstock, Phone 451-M. 41-26 TREE SPECIALIST--Spraying, pruning, feeding; cavity treatment. Twelve years' experience. LEO P. THORNHILL, McHenry, Phone 129-J. Calf anytime. 8-tf HANDY MAN--John Stangarone of Emerald Park. For piers, painting, roofing, landscaping, grass cutting or jobs of wood or cement, please let me give you an estimate. Phone 661-M-l. 11 Stock showings provide snapshot chances at the fair--and so do many ether events* Take the camera wherever things are going on I! ; )TJNTY and State fairs supply a wealth of picture material for ..the busy camera. So do street fairs .and carnivals. Take your camera i, along when you visit these lively affairs, and you'll have no difficulty keeping it active all day long. On such occasions, there is always plenty going on, and wherever things are happening one can find subjects for pictures. Especially do these events offer opportunities for 'the "off-guard" type of story-telling snapshots. The vendor of toy balloons making a sale, the fat man munching a hamburger at a midway booth, the "barker" in front of a sideshow, the child gazing longingly at the merry-go-round -- these are but samples of the dozens of picture chances you may find In an aft^iib noon's visit. ^ And there are many other type! of snapshots to take. One always finds contests and exhibits, ranging from home-canned peaches to prise watermelons, chocolate layer-cakes aniTthe "best bushels" of corn. Snap* shots of the judging, as well as theexhibits, make good pictures toir your collection. Too, there are horti and livestock shows that offer masy picture-taking possibilities. Keep your eyes open, try to cap* ture the spirit of the fair in all its aspects, and you will come horns with a pocket full of good snapshots These occasions just give point tfl an old rule--if you want really good pictures,'and plenty of them, tak« the camera where there's somethini going on! John van Guilder. QABBY QERTIE "Revolving doors were probably invented by a Scotchman--they're such tight places to get eaaght In.*' ...and YOU can get it with SlUIIARl DEI CROWN TIE 10N6 MI LEAS E 6ASSLINE 'Uu, SPECIAL SUMMER GASOLINE .• STANDARD OiLOEALE! PI L, S for it at your favorite tavern Chas. Herdrich & Son, Dist. • / V ' . .