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'•;> - '.v. »V .I'**' ' -J" BARNtJM VS. BAILEY Some 60 years ago. when Barnum's circus Held undisputed my as the biggest Amusement enterprise in the world, the great showman had little cause to pay attention to several small rival circuses which sprang op, for they usually kept their distance. The time came, however, when one of them, headed by a young Irish- American named James A. Bailey, threatened Barnum's prestige. For one spring day in the Bailey menagerie a baby elephant was born. . This baby elephant -immediately fee-. Bantam's colossal aggregation, and Bailey began packing the crowds in, while the big show's attendance fell off. Chagrined beyond words, Barnam wired Bailey an offer'of <$100,000 for the baby elephant. I Instead of sellings Bailey had pre-, pared and displayed enormous potters bearing a facsimile of BarnumV telegram, to which he added in box car J letters, "This is what Barnum thinks' of Bailey's baby elephant." In desperation Barnum then offered] to take Bailey in as his partner, and, Bailoy accepted. Thus Barnum and| Bailey's "greatest show on earth" AFTERNOON DRESS •»; ' *;r 7- ? V . • ' • "• •• i, " T,* <" v "Ji/ ^ , '<• SNUG HARBOR TAVERN On East River Rood -- South qf the State Bridge A H. WATSON ... 'ind WALTER SOHIMMEL Fish Fry Every Friday rpinty Moore Special,Gonied Beef and Cabbage Every Thursday i ^ MI PLACE RESTAURANT Phone 37T JXJSTEN & FREUND, Props. Green St HALF SPRING FRIED CHICKEN FRESH PERCH linn IIC COCKTAIL LOUNGE AND DINING lUbUt ROOM AT LILY LAKE, ILLINOIS Featuring just Good Drinks and Good Food at Popular Prices Equipped with New Kelvinator Bar We invite you to enjoy our most unique atmosphere. ROY V. HOBBS, Mgr. k : v • |. ) • / * . JACK KEENAN Painter and Decorator Phone 106-W--Riverside Drive McHENRY, ILL. .No Job is Too Large or Too Small for Meto Consider and Estimate! It makes no difference whether you need an inside decorative piece of work or an outside paint job, such as your house, barn, etc., I am prepared to handle it satisfactorily! --• Modern Equipment for all Kinds of Spraying Work -- FURNITURE REFINISHING OALL McHenry 106-W [7%: CENTRAL GARAGE --One of the best equipped garages in Northern Illinois-- Now is the time to have your car prepared for winter driving. We can supply you with PRESTONE, or ALCOHOL, WINTER OILS and GREASE8, and a general tuneup. ^Full Line of Atlas and Goodyear Tires Jflectric and Acetylene Welding Car Washing and Polishing Phone 200-J Towing Johnsburg A McCormick-Deering Spreader Will Help You Turn Manure Piles into Profits PVERY manure pile can be converted into profit that will be realised at harvest time. Spread over your land with a McCormick - Deering All - Steel Spreader, it will build up soil fertility, which menu better and more abundant crops. It isn't . a hard job to get the manure onto the land with a McCormick- Deering. The large* capacity box is low, to make loading easy. When you get into the fields the beaters tear the manure apart and shred it, and the widespread spiral throws it oat evenly on the ground. Five spreading speeds are provided on the McCormick- Deering to spread the amount you want. The all-steel, rust* resisting, non-warping bos is built for yean of service. Ask us about this great value In spreader*. ADAMS & FREUND Phone 185 Pearl Street f •100 ROOMS HP* • 100 ROOMS wt* M **. *o CONANT HOTEL COMPANY ^WSANFORD Lonely North Carolina Town Marks Christmas January 5 If ODANTHE, N. C.» easternmost town in America, celebrates Christmas twice each year. "New" Christmas comes December 25 but Just as regularly on January 5 the inhabitants of this isolated town observe "Old" Christmas, a carry-over from the days before our current calendar was generally accepted. .Christmas trees must be imported, for Rodanthe has only one tree (see below), a gnarled oak. But the kids enjoy this plan, because Santa Claus visits them twice. Their parents, fishermen and coastguardsmen on an island that is little more than a shifting sand dune, participate enthusias-' tically in both celebrations. But around Old Christmas centers most of the tradition. n GRADE SCHOOL GOSSIP The fifth and sixth grades of the Public Grade School defeated the fifth and sixth trades of St Mary's Parochial School in a football came 14 to 0 Tuesday afternoon on the high sfchool athletic field. Summaries: Grade school--touchdowns, T. Larsen, 2. A St. Mary's player was tackled behind his line for the other two points. A thief broke into Herbert Clark's locked automobile at Des Moines, la* and took nothing but a Bible. CARD OF THANKS In this maner we desire to express j our sincere thanks and deep appreci-. ation to neighbors and friends for.' • floral offerings, spiritual bouquets, ex- " J pressions of sympathy and acts of ?! 1 kindness extended to us during the iljr r ! ness and death of our daughter and •isU*.- . MRS. ANNA FREUND ' - 4 v AND FAMELT. Need Rubber Stamps? Order at Hie ' Flafodealer. - - * - • Old-fashioned embroidery comes into its own in this afternoon dress i of wine-colored celanese rayon crepe set off by a flash of satin at the neck line. Interesting also are the mutton- leg sleeves and the row of fabriccovered buttons down the front. VOLOL Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hironimus and family spent Thanksgiving Day at the .home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cronln i in McHenry. . I Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Hanke of Evanston spent Friday at the home of j Mr. and Mrs. Frank St. George. I The Volo Sewing Circle met at the home of Mrs. Alvin Phannenstill Mon^ iday j M* r. and Mrs. Roy Passfield and fam/ ily spent Thanksgiving Day at the' home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dowcll j in Elgin. I Mrs. Ray Baur and son, Ray, of ! Chicago spent the weekend here at I the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hironimus. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Combs of Round I Lake were v Thanksgiving evening guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Waldmann. i Miss Mabel Wilson of Seattle, Washington, is here visiting her brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wilson. I Mrs. Frank St. George called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Wright, near Griswold Lake, Friday. | Mr. and Mrs. A. Frett of Chicago spent a few days here with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Oeffling. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Dunker and family and the former's mother, Mrs. M. Dunker, sperit Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dunker at Marfengo. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hironimus and sons spent Thanksgiving Day in Chicago at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. Baur. Arvilla Ann Fisher spent a few days the past week at the home of her aunt and uncle, Mr. vand Mrs. George j Scheid, Jr., in Wauconda. Mr. and Mrs. Frank St. George spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Hanke in Evanston. 1 A large crowd attended the card party and dance at the Volo Recreation Hall Tuesday evening for the benefit of the Roseville school. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Passfield and family called at the home of Mr. anfl Mrs. Charles Dalvin in Wauconda on Sunday. Messrs. Charles Miller, Joseph Lenzen and Joseph Tekampe, Sr., are enjoying a few days in Iowa with relatives. i Mrs. M. Dunker and G. A. Vasey of Crystal Lake spent Thanksgiving Day | with Mr. and Mrs. Herman Dunker. ' Mrs. Sarah Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher and family spent Thanksgiving Day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Scheid, Jr., in Wauconda. i' Many relatives in this vicinity were ,very sorry to learn the sudden death I of Mrs^ J. Vasey in McHenry Saturday evening. I Miss Mabel Wilson of Seattle, Washington, Mr. and Mrs. L. Pringle of Harvey, George Wilson of Jamestown, N. D., and Frank Wilson called on Miss Vinnie Bacon Thanksgiving Day. | Miss Dorothy Klemm is the proud owner of a new Chevrolet coupe, presented to her by her parents for her birthday. Mr. and Mrs. John Passfield spent Thanksp-iving Day with the latter's father, Joseph Dowell. Misses Bernice Powers and Mary Vanra of Wauconda called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher Tuesday morning. Ed. Bacoivand son, Glen, of Round Lake called at the Bacon home Saturday. G. A. Vasey of Crystal Lake called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Vasey Friday. Mr. and Mrs. John Thierm of Chicago spent Tuesday at the Dowell Brothers home. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Eddy of Grayslake called at the home of the latter's father, Henry Pasfield, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Selchon of Milwaukee, Wis., spent Sunday here, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hironimus. MMi Clearance Sale TO MAKE ROOM FOR CHRISTMAS STOCK Girl's Suede Oxfords Girl's Elk Shawl Oxfords .. Girl's Crepe Sole Oxfords Ladies' Dress Suedes Ladies' Dress Gabardines Ladies' Patent Pumps Ladies' Wine Kid Pumps .... Boy's Sharkskin Tip Oxfords, 12 to 3~ • THE SHOE BOX Riverside Drive------ $2-00 $2-25 $2-25 $225 $2-25 $2.00 $2-25 i 13.26 \ -AGATHA SHOPEarly Christmas Gift Suggestions Fostoria Striking Colors and AMERICAN GLASS patterns in OVENWARE Nice to give and V Pictures -- tempting to keep. Chromium BOOK ENDS -- LINENS -- LACE CLOTHS -- DISHES LINGERIE --- COSTUME JEWELRY PURSES rr llmn. ~ Boatswain's Mate P. A. Tillett, biggest man in the coast guard service, is 'Santa Claus for Rodanthe's Old Christmas party. They had to send to the mainland to get red cloth spacious enough for his suit. Each Old Christmas celebration is held in the school building where the only "furriner" is the school teacher. To the present teacher, a girl from Virginia, Old Christmas is the world's v ^ * most puzzling custom. But seasoned residents of Hatteras island don't look at it that way. To them, Old Christmas is no more unusual than the Fourth of July. On their isolated island the event has been celebrated by; generation after generation, and will probably continue for generations1 to come. Enemies and Friends "We has friends and we has enemies," said Uncle Eben. "We does well when we kin say 'enmity hot ceased' as easy as we kin say 'friendship has ceased.' " y An odd contest held at the tJniverslty of Chicago was an eating bout between a student and a pig. The student> Allen Dreyfull, president of the freshman class, undertook to eat a larger pie quicker than the pig could devour a, bucket of corn. The pig won j>y * snout., Rodanthe children believe in "Old Buck," an ogre with hoofs and horns who comes at Old Christmas to punish the naughty boys and girls, just as St. Nicholas rewards the good youngsters. None of the islanders remember how "Old Buck" originated, but he's definitely a part of the celebration. Old Christmas on Hatteras island, where autos must travel the beach. CoriAjIt the. WANT ADS Fireman John Brixie slid down the brass pole at the Sapulpa, Okla^fire house. Then firemen extinguished a blaze caused when the friction of the slide ignited matches in Brixie's pockets. Rev. Ernest Risley, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Savannah, Ga., announced to his astonished congregation that he was resigning because he "couldn't stand the church music any longer." « Christmas Cards will carry your Greetings all over the World. Our cards are beautiful and unusual. , Books and games for children-- "Sing a Song" player book. See it! Hear it! F U L L E R B R U S H F R E E C H R I S T M A S O F F E R With each package of three Fuller (regular or professional) Tooth Brushes, wo will give you a large can of Fuller Tooth Powder or a tube of Fuller Tooth Paste -- FREE. Fuller Tooth Brushes have natural unbleached bristles. ..they lost ^snd retain their firmness when wet. P<dr«I*d -- t for 99 * -- A for fl.91 FAMOUS F U L L E R BR1STLEC0MB POPULAR FULLER FLESH BRUSH SNORT TIMS OFFER -- Mm of Write vmtr Fader >w»w TO-MT -Special on Barn Brooms' $1.45 and MRS. EDWIN DENMAN Phone 51-J McHenry, 111. W&ek Store. BABY DOLLS METAL DUMP TRUCKS Torpedo Shoe Skates $3-29 These are just a few of the many gifts for young and old. DO YOUB C H R 1 S T M A S SHOPPING EARLY JOHN J. VYC1TAL HARDWARE Green Street "V ^ ' Telephone 98-M