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Aaeieat Polish Customs 9 Festivals at Christmas and other holidays, the Polish peasants' ancustoms and folklore traditions dafl for the wearing of some unusual old costumes retained through many years. At the end of harvest, the tenants present the owners of their lands with baskets and flowers and corn, and the dances performed in his presence are a quaint and colorful display. JOHNSBURG Household Hints Grapes in Second Century Grapes were introduced to China from western Asia in the Second century A. D. - " * ' . . i ,- : * ! * % ' > * NEW £MPIRf McpENRY, ILLINOIS Sun. Mat. 3 p. m. €ontinaq«ai/ FRIDAY -- SATURDAY vi F e b r u a r y 3 - 4 V - Henrf Fonda - Barbara Stanwyck ^rTHB MAD MISS MANT01T^$£ Also--Comedies i SUNDAY -- MONDAY February 5 - 6 • SAMUEL GOLDWYN present, GARY COOPER MERLE OBERON with PATSY KELLY WALTER BRENNAN Directed by H. C. POTTER Released thru UNITED ARTISTS NOTICE! -- On this picture (only) Price Change--Matinee.' Adults 20c Evenings. Adults 30c - Children 10c all day. (A request by the„ producers.) »" TUESDAY -i- lfe - 20c Charles Ruggles - C. Bennett (1) "Service DeLuxe" (2) "Christmas Carol" . WEDNESDAY -- THURSDAY Joan Crawford - Margaret Sulla van Robert Young "THE SHINING HOUR" j> - I r • $" : • W x Vf MILLER Theatre Woodstock FRIDAY 1 , Errol Flynn *~ "FOUR'S A CROWD" Saturday -- Continuous From Comic Strip to the Silver Screen ... Ann Giles aa ' "LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE" ALSO SECOND HIT A New Type of Western "SANTA FE STAMPED!!" Plus Dick Tracy SUNDAY AND MONDAY Second in Series of "Treat Days" with Two Great Hits at Regular Admission Prices! First Glorious Hit! JOAN CRAWFORD MELVYN DOUGLAS MARGARET SULLAVAN ROBERT YOUNG Featured in -- "THE SHINING HOUR" Plus Laugh Riot JOE E BROWN at his best in 'FLIRTING WITH FATE" EXTRA! ! ! SPECIAL! ! ! The latest advancement in sound ing engineering -- New R. C. A. Photophone Sound will be in operation at the Miller start* ing Sunday. 10c -- Tuesday --' 15c Dennis O'Keefe in "BURN EM UP O'CONNOR" PLUS--Many BIO Reasons Wednesday and Thursday "ARTISTS AND MODELS ABROAD" COMING -- FEBRUARY 12 18 "SWEETHEARTS" \VE'RE always crabbing about twin beds. For purely practical reasons, rest assured. Because most bedrooms aren't big enough to hold them and leave room enough to turn around in. Besides, it takes just twice as much bedding and laiindry to run them. , And yet twin beds are a lot more comfortable for twisters and turners. Besides, they do look more stylish somehow. We asked a decorator friend oi ours for her ideas on the subject. "Oh, I don't have any trouble arranging a room with twin beds," -Said she. "I just put them where I please, instead of right out in the callers Wednesday | ** "T1 "For example," *re encouraged her, to go on. "Well, as often as possible I place them so that they can each have a long side to the wall. That saves loads of wofks. 'best.'; if:. Mr. and Mrs. A1 Wagner and children of Wauconda visited their grandmother, Mrs. Wm. Althoff, Sunday afternoon. , i Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Althoff of McHenry were vistiors in the home of the former's mother, Mrs. Wm. Althoff, Sunday evening. j Mrs. Joe King and Mr. and Mrs. Leo King spent Saturday in Richmond with Mr. and Mrs. Joe E. Miller. j Mr. anji Mrs. Bob Wilkie of Chicago spent Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Freund and family. Mrs. Wm. J. Meyers visited with her mother, Mrs. John King, of McHenry Friday afternoon. ^ t Mrs. Fred Diethorn of Waukegan spent a few days with her sister, Mrs*. John M. Schmitt. i Mri and Mrs. Wjm. May and children were Richmond evening. Mr. and: Mrs. Peter Smith called on Mr. and Mrs/*Joe Friend at Richmond Thursday evening. Mrs. Richard Guyser of Chicago spent a few days in the home of Mr. and Mfs. Wm. Oefflihg. " Doris Jean Michels, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Michels, had her tonsils removed at St. There&e hospital Waukegan, Wednesday. v Mr. and Mrs. Joe P. Miller were Woodstock callers Saturday. • V Mrs. George Miller of Grayslake and Mrs. Henry S toff el of Volo spent Tuesday with John Pitzen. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Karls and daughter, Mary Ann, and Mrs. George King were Woodstock callers Tuesday. Mrs. John King of McHenry spent! Wednesday afternoon with her sister,! Mrs. Anna Bummer. j -- Mrs. Wm. J. Meyers entertained the ( leaving five hundred club Wednesday afternoon. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Steve May, Mrs. Peter Smith and Mrs. J^hn A. Miller. John Pitzen celebrated his birthday recently by inviting his children. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Chamberlin and Mr. and Mrs. Schroeder of'Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stoffel and daughter, Marie, of Volo; Mr. and Mrs. George Miller of Grayslake, and Miss Katie Pitzen "Of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Smith of Chicago spent Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Smith and family. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Adams visited with Mrs. Art Ifiedrich at St. Therese hospital, Waukegan, Saturday afternoon. Quite a large crowd from here attended the opening of Joe E; Miller's tavern at Richmond Saturday evening. RINGWOOD BETTY WELLS Mrs. W. B. Harrison entertained the Easy Aces at her home Tuesda> | afternoon. Prizes , were awarded to Mrs. Kenneth Cristy and Mrs. Jay Cristy. ' J „ _ ^ at the home of Mr. and Mrs. i tained the five hundred club at their home Thursday evening. Prizes were awarded to Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Hitchens and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Peters. Mrs. Robert Howe entertained at a kitchen shower in honor of her sister, Mrs. Maynard Stohlquist, a recent bride, Friday evening. Hearts and airplane bunco were played with prizes awarded to Ellen Paulson and Joan Camp. Those to attend were Mrs. Arthur Stohlquist and son, Marshall, of Harvard, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Shales, Miss Sade Shales, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Still, JHrs. Laura Still, Mrs. Ray Haldeman, Mr. and Mrs. Felvey Davis Bernice, and Esther Smith called on friends in McHenry Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Smith are the parents of a 12-lb. son bom at their home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs, C. L. Harrison and family were Sunday dinner guests of the latter's mother at McHenry. The Home Bureau held a card party Clinton _ in five hundred were awarded to jtfrs. Ed Carr and Matt Blake, and in Chinese Checkers to Gordon Larson and Charles Martin. Ben Walkington wag a visitor at Libertyville Sunday. Miss Ruth Owen and Edward Harrison of Elgin were callers in the home of the latter's mother, Mrs. Geo. Harrison, Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Felvey Davis of Woodstock spent Sunday in the Alec Anderson home. !" Miss Julia McLaughlin hias been enjoying a two weeks' vacation from her duties at the Claire Beauty Shop One way to place twin beds. ttee are tw° opposite walls of the Wo„der Lake amiTeverTof Mrs M°: 'Vthe. middle of the floor pupils played selecclear. But if there aren't two opposite walls with the corners free, I use one corner, building in a false tions On the piano. Refreshments were served. Mr. and Mrs. George Young and square of cortnpo board, like this." sfo?nn,' AAllffrreedd,, ssppeenntt SSuunnddaayy eevveenniinngg iinn She got out a pencil. "I have a Weingart home near Mclamp niche on each side with a shelf for books; radio, clock and Henry. aiicu. iur uuuKSj rauiu, CIOCK ana so Miss Mercedes Lindemann, of Crys- On at the head of each bed--that ^ T^ake spent Wednesday evening SLOCUM'S LAKE Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Davis and daughter, Marion, and son, Arthur, of the "Flats" spent last Friday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs Earl Converse. George Schneider, Walter Smith and Tony Shradjas of Chicago spent Saturday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Marlette Henry. The men enjoyed fishing on the lake. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren spent last Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Anderson at Cary. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Litwiler, Round Lake, spent the weekend at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Burnett. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Esping spent the weekend at the home of Mr. and Mrs. LaDoyt Matthews at Forest Park. Willard Darrell, in company with A. D. Smith of Libertyvile and Eb. Harris of Grayslake spent Monday and Tuesday in Chicago where they attended the annual meeting of the 111. Agricultural Association at the Stevens Hotel. On Tuesday night they enjoyed a banquet in the ballroom of the hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Schneider, Miss Beatrice Olmsted and Edward Webster of Chicago were Sunday supper and evening guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Marlett Henry. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Raebui^ and son of Diamond Lake spent Sunday at the,home of Mrs. Celia Dowell. Mrs. Mary Obenauf and daughters, Dona Mae and'LaVeme and son, Harvey, of Libertyyille were Sunday dinner and afternoon guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wagner. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Mike Wirtz and daughter of Mundelein and Mr. and Mrs. John Wirt? and daughter of Ivanhoe. Mrs. Harry Matthews, Mrs. LaDoyt Matthews of Forest Park and Mrs. H. B. Schaefer of McHenry attended a one o'clock luncheon at the home of Mrs. Arthur Boehmer at Wauconda last Wdnesday. Cards were enjoyed in the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. John Dutzler and Mrs. Mike Wirtz of Ivanhoe spent last Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wagner. takes the place of bedside talbles. Or if you just have studio cotsl in- S stead of beds with heads and feet, with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs W. Smith. oicau ui ucua wxlii ncdus axiu icci, Mrs. Lj-#ovuuiios Swcthmruoceudecri aaniidu iMvirrss.. SO.. then of course you can have your W. Brown spent from "Tuesday until corner built-in just table height for Friday with friends in Chicago. lamps, books and the like with stor age space within. 'Xnother thing you can do with Saturday. S. W. Smith and daughter, Bernice, were visitors at Wilmot and McHenry simple low beds is to place them end to end along one long wall. Or Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. A. place the two beds together along side and clamp them tightly. Then use one spread for both--continent Ruehlman, and family Mr. and Mrs. Frank Block and family of Kenosha spent Sunday with Dr. al fashion; at least that saves the and Mrs.'Hepburn. CHG OQ haturoon thA «»/x4 r space between the beds yet gives the comfort of twin beds. Of course, you know about that new bed with a single headboard but two springs and mattresses that pull apart easily." -:T. • The Perfect Hostess Eleanor lives alone and likes it. .She's a widow who has found that the "lone" woman is not such a sorry creature after all. We like to visit her, and so do a lot of other people, because, somehow, she's achieved that generous attitude towards hospitality that makes every guest of hers want to come again, and then come again some more. It isn't so difficult to be a charming hostess when you have a large home, a happy family to fill in the gaps, and the habit of automatically preparing comfort for others besides yourself. First, she takes just as much pains for a twosome dinner as though she were giving a state dinner. Eleanor is by no means wealthy yet her sturdy but small folding dining table, drawn up before the fire in her living room on winter evenings or in front of a large window overlooking a park in summer, is as notably s^t as any in the land. NameL of Some Phobias Tlie names of some phobias with their definitions^are as follows: Acrophobia, fear of height; ailurophobia, fear of cats; claustrophobia, UU-°' incl°sed spaces; thanataphobia, fear of death; pyrophobia, fear of fire; doraphobia, fear of furry animals and objects; autophobia, fear of being alone, and pharmacophobia, fear of drugs. j Tree Surgery Old Practfe* Tree surgery dates back to the Sucteenth century, at which time Sir William Forsyth was supposed to I have^been knighted for having compounded a filling for trees consisting of a mixture of cow manure and well tamped mortar. The profession itself was. developed mainly since 1900. Phosphate in Arctic Circle Within the Arctic circle lies Klr- \au ei6ht-year-old town of 35,- 000. It has a huge output of apatite, from which phosphate and industrial phosphoric acid can be obtained. - Eleanor bought priceless china piece-meal. I Her secret is, of course, th&t she has bought priceless china piecemeal (you don't need a full service for two) and what she lacks in quantity she makes up in quality and variety. The food she serves is always very special--squabs on toast or sweetbreads or inches-thick lamb chops topped with giant stuffed mushrooms. All, you see, the sort of food that you can buy inexpensively for two where it might cost you a small fortune for a big family. She brings everything to the table on a tea-wagon so that she doesn't have to keep hopping up to get things which would cause a dull lag in conversation or necessitate shouting back and forth to the kitchen. Her coffee is superb because she knows how to make two cups at a time, in a small drip pot, instead of a large amount that tastes stale with the second cup after dinner. She usually has a small nosegay of flowers at each plate and urges you to put yours in your button-hole on departure. She's learned to do varied things with waffles, like spreading them with flsh pastes for a light supper (this served with fine tea) or covering them with creamed this and that for more hearty repasts C By Betty Well«.--WNU Scnrlec. Mr. arjd Mrs. Frank Bielke and daugh- at McHenry. ters, Mrs. Bess Camp and daughters, Among those from here to attend Martha Pigg, Ellen and Audrey Paul- the annual Farm Bureau meeting and son, Eleanor Rahn, Helen Bernhardt, dinner at Woodstock Tuesday were Mrs. John Welbon of Woodstock, Mrs.)Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Harrison/Mr. and George Shepard ar$ daughter, Gladys, j Mrs. Jay Cristy, Mr. and Mrs. Robert and Dora Anderson. She received j Howe, Kenneth Cristy, Floyd Howe( home of Mrs. Clans Larson, Wednesday, February 8. Rev. and Mrs. Collins attended the Ladies' Aid dinner at the home of Mrs. Bertha Esh at Spring Grove on Thursday. S. W. Brown, H. M. Stephenson, Jay Cristy and John Smith attended a hockey game in Chicago Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Staines and son, Mervin, were callers in the Lee Whiting home at Woodstock Friday evening. Mrs. W. B. Harrison and Mrs. Fred Charles went to Chicago Friday and heard Cornelia Otis SBhner in "Candida" at the Grand^pera house. || Mrs. Wm. Haller returned to her ill home at Little Rock, Arkansas, Friday, after a week's visit with her iS parents, Mr. and Mrs. Claus Lappa, ^ ^ CARD OF THANKS j * In this manner we desire to express our sincere thanks and deep appreciation to neighbors and friends for floral offerings, expressions of sym- Si pathy and acts of kindness extended M us in our rec^it bereavement. MRS. IDA KREUTZER vv- *87 AND FAMILY. 1 dl Illlillllllll'lM'.lili many nice gifts from her friends. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Jepson and Mrs. Viola Low were visitors in Elgin Saturday. • , VA \ Miss Martha Lea of McHenry was visitor in the George Shepard home Sunday. Community services were held at the M. E. church Sunday evening. The choir furnished the program of the evening and several of the pupils of the elecution class gave some readings. Mr. Fossler and his son of Mr. and Mrs. Bratz of Chicago spent Mrs Smith daughter, Charlie Krohn, Mr, and Mrs. Ben Justen and Mr. and Mrs. Jiick Justen. Will Beatty of Keystone was a caller in the home of his sister, Mrs. Jennie, Bacon, Monday. Ringwood School Notes Several rural schools joined the local school in enjoying "Behind the Circus Stage" movie and lecture by circusman "Ty Colvin" of the Save the Circus Society of America, Wednesday afternoon at the school house. A good crowd attended. Howard Bruce Harrison has been out of school this week due to a foot injury. Local teachers attended a meeting Monday afternoon at the McHenry high school to discuss plans for the spring concert which will probablv be held May 5. F. N. Muzzy attended the McHenry County Principal's Club meeting at Woodstock Tuesday evening. January P. T. A. , was postponed temporarily due to the unavoidable absence of the speaker, County Superintendent Mrs. Ethel C. Coe. Sunday guests in the Wm. Staines home were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gloss on of McHenry, Mrs. Feltes and son, Dan, of Spring Grove, ArthuV Staines of Woodstock and Joe Boxer of Harvard. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Justen and family were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Kennebeck at McHenry. The Home Circle will meet at the FIVE STAR STORED G R j E f W E S T U U ? P R I C EmS 4-TINE MANURE FORK--Strap ferrule, polished oval tin®* 98tf 21 Gal. GARBAGE CAN Made of galvanized sheets with vertical corrugation. 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