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IMfP i T \ -V' ' *• -..-m mx patois r • ".-^i j * 'p^«^p|fsi«si!f5'? : •-.y}»* . .• *' 1 -!• "V &VK* - ' '" '***•' V' ' • ', V#""' ^ ". .- •"» -»'V' *••!*• *#---^V;•-*•*•-,'>• y ' . •: X'T^/ 'v ^ < ' ""4i'r VT"""'--" - isy . ^ +» *N# -" " VV* " *~ BENEFIT v™m Sponsored by WOMEN'S UNION LABEL AUXILIARY an* |fcHEHR7 COUNTY BUILDING TRAD1 Affiliated with A. F. of L> ' Saturday, May 25, at the Bridge - McHenry Dancing and entertainment Free -- Dinner 50c per person fUtfttONt 1, If yon haven't a telephone, order one now, so that yam name, address and telephone number will be listed in the new telephone directory--the one place your friends and the people who want to talk business with you are sure to look. Arrange for it with the telephone Business Office. There's still time to be listed--if yon hurryI la McHenry, call 9981 or stop at Park Avenue near Elm 'T ' ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONK COMPANY MgOULLOM LAKE Mrs. Joseph A. Schaefer and daughter, Eleanor, and Mrs. Warren Barber, spent Thursday in Woodstock. Mr. and' Mrs. Walter Johncock and daughters, Jean and Grace, and friends from Berwyn spent the weekend here. The following: families spent the weekend here: Mr. and Mrs. A. Elarton, Mr. ^nd Mrs. Plunkett and son, Mr. and Mrs. Wafjonseller and son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. White and son. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fritz and i friends, Mrs. Pardell and son, Frank, j Mr. and Mrs. Sam Fido, Mr. and Mrs. I Frank Fido, Mr. and Mrs. Wagoner, Mrs. Bowler and daughter, Mr. and j Mrs. Harry Schlauter and sons, Mr. {and Mrs. John Adlftas and daughter, all of Chicago. Joe Brouillette of McCollum Lake apent Saturday and Sunday in Chicago. Miss Marie Sladeck, R. N., was a Jgeekend guest of Miss Hagedorn. • Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Burg and family of Chicago spent the weekend here. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Madsen of Chicago spent Saturday here and then went to Delavan Lake to spend Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. H. Greenwood and Children, Chicago, spent Sunday here. Arnold Hay and Joseph .Tusien of J&ngwoad were callers at McCollum Lake Sunday. Miss Arlee Madsen entertained her club from Chicago Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Thompson and children of Berwyn spent Sunday here. Callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Winkrantx on Sunday from Chicago were Mr. and Mrs. A. Kegan and daughter, Mary, Mr. -and Mrs. Joe Chick and Miss Anna Berry. Miss Jean Macey of Chicago spent the weekend at the home of Miss Norene Bourelle. Miss Macy is leaving June 11 for Indianapolis where she will become a nun of the Cloistered Carmelite Monastery. Elmer Schaefer of McCollum Lake called on Clarence Etten Sunday afternoon at Lily Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Green, Evanston, spent Sunday afternoon at their rammer home here. ;• Kiy V*';' "V VvX' told T a l e s * at iMtanrt Mm Fwa Hi VIIm at th*' if Tear* Age Public Pulse (All communications for this department must be signed by tka writer, otherwise they will not be published. The Plaindealer invites its readers to express their opinions in these columns.) TWENTY YEARS AGO At this time it looks rather doubtful if St. Mary's parsonage, which was destroyed by (ire some time ago, will be rebuilt' during tile "summer months.' Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith are now rjdhig back and forth from their home to the Empire theatre in- a new Chevrolet roadster. The graduation class of the McHenry high school this year numbers thirteen. The family of Frank Zeulsdorf has CARD OF THANKS We desire in this manner to express our appreciation and thanks to friends and neighbors for their expressions of smypathy and acts of assistance during our recent bereavement. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Btickland. & i , » 2," -. r Need Rubber Stampa? Order at 11M Plaindealar. "0 f5 MAKEUP YOUR MIND^ BOYS! These words are aimed at the boys of war age. What will you say when the mobilization day will have been decided? Are you going to use your head and cry, "No! I choose prison rather than to fight an economic war."? V Or will you follow the sheep and mumble, "I guess I must go too. The ether fellas' are going." It won't be long before you can make this' all important decision in your life. Our neutrality is actually a laugh. In a short time the American boys will again be going over there to fight for Britain and France. We have not been neutral and we are not neutral now, in any sense ot the word. We are shipping war materials of all kinds to Britain and France, without even a blush. We are informed that the "war emergency" vacated the flat over the C. Unti ice occupies much of Mr. Roofeveti's atcream 4p.a^,r lour., .a ncd is n•ow nicely set- j OTOV.Cv^r,.*.' tention, that agencies of government tied in the Mr3. Susan Wegener house have instructions to plan for dealing on: Maple avenue. 5 THIRTY YEARS AGO Albert Etten, the new cash dealer, is kept busy these days leaking coal deliveries. The foudnation for N. A. Hueman's new store building on the West Side is now completed and the laying of the cement blocks will be next in order. The Rev. Wm. Nickle, who taught school in McHenry fifty years ago, will occupy the pulpit at the M. E. church next Sunday morning. In a letter from Peter M. Justen who is now at Denver, Colo., we learn that he has an excellent position in the coke department of the. Denver Gas & Electric CO. J FORTY YEARS HGO Qeorge H. Hanly is showing us something fine, with a swell new rubber- tired trap that quite takes our breath away. Harry Wightman with the correct Christian spirit has taken pity on the poor editor and the like who don't afford such finery and has added to his livery three new vehicles two of which have rubber tires. Mr. D. E. Sayler, on Thursday last, delivered six crayon portraits, the product of the carefully and skillfully guided hand of his daughter, Maybelle, whose fame as an i-xecutor of fine crayon work '* rapidly increasing. The Current Event club will meet with Miss Julia A, Story nex.t Tuesday evening at the usual hour. NEARLY ALL MAKES AND MODELS • • • A T T R A C T I V E ALLOWANCE FOR YOUR OLD CAR " $•: V 1938 Chevrolet Coupe With heater. 1937 LaFayette Coach I with trunk and heater. 1937 Chevrolet Coupe with heater and radio. 1937 DeSoto Sedan with heater and radio. 1936 Dodge Sedan with heater. 1936 Chevrolet Master Town Sedan with heater (3). 1936 Chevrolet Standard Coach with heater (2). 1936 Plymouth Coupe* With heater OO/U^OUUl 1938 Plymouth %-fton Pickup. 1936 V-8 Ford %-ton Panel 1936 Dodge %-ton Pick up. 1936 V-8 Ford yt-ton Pickup. 1936 Dodge 1%-tfl* Stake. ' 1936 V-8 Ford ^-ton Pickup. 1935 Chevrolet V/% - ton Chassis and Cab. 1934 V-8 Ford %-ton Panel 1934 V-8 Ford %-ton Delivery, 1936 Dodge Coach with Trunk and heater. 1935 Dodge Coach^wfth Trunk and heater. 1935 Dodge Sedan with trunk and heater. 1934 Chevrolet Master Coach with radio and heater. 1933 Chevrolet Muter Coadh with heater, 1933 Plymouth Sedan . with heater. 1932 Chevrolet Coach with heater. FIFTY YEAnS AGO By direction of the Treasurer of the Cemetery Association, Mrs. T. J. Walsh, the cemetery has been raked and cleaned in a thorough manner and now presents a very neat and tasty appearace. John Myers died at his home near Johnsburg on Monday evening. He has been sick but a abort time, but he failed rapidly. Harry Eldredge had the misfortune to break one of his fingers while playing ball one day last week. H. C. Mead has received the apt pointment of Census Enumerator for this town, and will commence operations in June. SIXTY YEARS AGO with an economic emergency; that the spirit within the government is anything but neutral; that we must help the Allies. Our statesmen at Washington are on the verge of consenting to extending unlimited credit to Britain and France, the empires that never paid or intended to pay their World War debt. What six year old child doesn't know better than to burn his fingers twice in the same fire ? It takes "mature" and "seasoned" citizens to tackle this question. Just why should we sacrifice our lives for Great Britain and France? The war is- lopsided already. Great Britain owns 13,000,000 square miles of property with a population of nearly 496,000,000 and France has 5,- 000,000 square miles, with 113,000,000 people. In comparison, Germany has only 265,000 square miles--and remember the thousand--with over 85,- 000,000 crowded on her lands. If we attempted to compare resources, words could not express the lack of materials in Germany against the richness in resources of the Allies. So, We ask what is holding Great Britain back If she wants to fight? x And do you think for a moment if we do offer our services these British and French Shrill take up rifles and be our buddies in the trenches? A thousand times no. They use the brain and not the muscle. If our President and Congress and our financiers would invest their brains and money in America they would not have to worry about Europe. They are getting us in shape again to make the world safe for International finance. And after it is all over, what will we get? Just what our World War soldiers got--nothing! And what will the international bankers get? More money and more power and more territory to exploit-- thanks to you -- now known as the damned soldiers who cry for a bonus when you have given your best. Now what's your answer? Will you go over there? Or will you have a worthwhile sit-down strike here ? Remember, wars would not exist in the world today if men would not consent to fight them. CLETUS ALTHOFF. SLACKER® ^f-MUST BE WfcOkG 41 By George Peek First of all gentle reader, please be advised that this particular article is not addressed to you. This columnist knows full well that you are one of those good citizens who automatically goes to the polls at each election for the purpose of exercising your American heritage by voting for candidates of your own selection. You fully appreciate just how fortunate you are to be a citizen of a country which af-. fords you this priceless privilege. But rather, this column is directed to the thirty-four million American citizens who were qualified to vote in the 1936 election but failed to do so. Unbelievable, I hear you mutter, that «ut of a total of eighty million eligible to vote, thirty-four million should have been so ungrateful to our Founding Forefathers who were ready to give up their lives for the very right to vote, as to careleasly toss aside this favor. Undoubtedly, a few of these nonvoters had a good excuse but most of them simply were shirking their duty as good citizens. Yet, these nonvoting, careless citizens when confronted with their delinquency say: What good could my one little vote ha?e done when there were so many millions?" This is a hollcw excuse--in fact no excuse at all. It reflects selfishness as well as laziness on the part of the person who offers it. Just imagine what would happen in this country if every adopted that same laissez-faire attitude! America would be handed over bodily to be exploited by selfish interests. It also demonstrates woeful ignorance because many of oar elections are decided by small majorities. For example, in one election the vote in New York State decided the election, and the President-elect carried that State by only 1149 votes. It is rather a paradox bat one generally finds the most caustic critics of elected legislators and officials, are the very fellows who hadn't been interested enough to Vote when the objects of their spleen were up for. election. So, what are we going to do about these thirty-four ntillion shirkers? Our responsibility really doesnt' end with .casting our own votes. We've got to see to it that the other fellow also Qerfbran his sacred and patriotic duty. Perhaps the greatest contributing reason for not voting, is failure to register. So, ride hard on these slackers-- shove them--drive them--carry them if necessary but someway or another get them to the place of registration. Make them realize their duty and then make them do it. Having registered and having discovered that it is not a painful ordeal, that no dire disaster befalls the good citizen who does his civic duty, when election day rolls around, theyll probably go to the polls to put in their votes, without coaxing or coercion and entirely of their own volition. Read the Want Ada Lemon Jnice lecipt Ctaks Pain Qoickly Patrick Magill, who resided near Fox Lake, and has been in the employ of Col. Lippincott for the past year, died last week and was buried in the < Cathoic cemetery in this village. Mathias Freund, 1st, who resided near Johnsburgh, died quite suddenly on Thursday last. We have received a liberal sample of butter made at the new butter factory of James Overton, near Solon and find it fully equal if not superior to any butter we ever tasted, which proves that as a butter maker, Mr. Overton is certainly a success. Keep Foods Fresh for Health "If all housewives realized the value of keeping foods fresh for healthfulness as well as edibility, they would quickly adopt electric refrigeration,' declared Miss Edna I. Spark man, na tionally known authority on home economics. t Miss Sparkman has made a thor ough and comprehensive study of /modern modes of refrigeration from a practical, as well as theoretical viewpoint. She has supervised a great deal of refrigeration test work, writ ten extensively for national maga zines and is well known for radio household advice talks. Phone 277 Schwerman Chevrolet Sales I .. ? HcHenry, Ift / June Bride^, AttenUonf From the first day a bride begins housekeeping, she is faced .with the problem of food preservation. With June the proverbial month of weddings, there are many brides-to-be who will find it an advantage to understand the subject of food values and protection, and their relation to health and well-being, which is a subject of common knowledge to experienced homemakers. Preservation of essential vitamins, it now is generally recognized, contributes in no small measure to greater food flavor and value. For a number Of years foods have had the advantage of protection by automatic refrigeration, and more recently a solution been discovered to the problem of how to safeguard foods so they ill retain their nutritional value and palatabilitv, even though kept uncovered for days In an electric refrigerator. If you tuSer from rheumatio, arthritis or Muritii pain, try this simple inexpensive hone . recipe that thou winds are using. Get a package of Ru-Ex Compound toda Mix it with a quart o{ water, add juice of 4 lemon*. It's easy. No trouble at all and pleasant. You need only 2 tiftespoonfula two time* _ a day. _ Often within 48 hours -- sometime* overnight _-- iplendid result* are obtained. If the pains do not quiekly leave and if jron do not feel bettef. Ru-Ex will cost you nothing to try as it is sold by your druggist finder an absolute money--back guarantee. Ru-Ex Compound it for tale and recommended by THOMAS P. BOLGEB Thonday, May 23,1940 FLOKAL 00. * Kvpi Phone flQ8-R-l^:r" % : # V- - One Mile South of McHenry " on &oute &L .• -- 'Flowert for all ocoaeions! *... • <•; V t - H Phone 48 J. KNOX AT LMP" % Priei BIdf. ; OFFICE HOURS - vv^r-^Swidaya and FrMafi " Other Day* lor ApyeintaMnt McHenry - - . PHONE IS aa/.s. BAT&aa •H,": DENTIST OCfee Hears 9-12 and M Iqr Aypitowt Vv, 1 Mate 8treet* * W. McHenry A.*. Excavating Contractor TrpefeiBg, Hydraulic Service --Eoad Building-- Tel. 204-M McHenry, ®. Worses Wanted I B U Y OM and Disabled H Pay from $5 to $14. ARTHUR W WERRBACK ' Phone 444 3S5 Hayward Street Woodstock, III INSURANCE TSt EUL R. WALSI rant AUTO Miablf Ooinpaniee Whan jren need inearance «f any kteft Phone 43 or 61-M Pries Bid* McHanry Phone McHenry 624-R< -- Basement Excaval NETT'S SAND AtfD GRAVEL Special Rates on Road Gravel and Lot Filling Black Dirt and Stone • Power Shovel Service Power leveling and grading Cement mixers for reft J. R. NETT Jehnalmrg P. O. McHenry, IB. MONEY TO LOAR I have etteata who have money to lend on firat mortgagee en real aetata ami ethers who want to borrow nsn ey on real estate. M interested either way, I wM he |M to talk it over with yon. Joseph N. Sikes Wankagan Natiesml Bank BMg. 4 & Grtisn SL, Waakegan. ML TRU MA4B9HC Rt No. m Stoffel & Beihansperger Insurance agents far pmpaty in the heat fTSST MaHXNRY - all claaaea af ounoib Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ernst, daughter Mary, and son, George, and Ernest Unger, Chicago, were weekend Quests in the William Hanvmen home at Wbnder Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Meyer and son, Eugene, and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Smith of Spring Grove were visitors in the Jacob F. Justen home last Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Sanders of Chicago, newlyweds, visited the latter's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Thies Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wiedling and daughter. Dorothy, of Chicasro and Charles Wiedling of Urbana, 111., were .McHenry visitors this weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Sands. Mr. and Mrs. George Michelson and son of Chicago and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Keller and son of Elgin were Sunday guests in the William Bishop home. Miss Helen Stevens has returned from New York where she was called by the illness of her father. Miss Helen Welch of Woodstock went the weekend with McHenry friends, v 4 • * • CAMPBELL'S ATHLETES FOOT FOWDEB iJped over 8 years by doctoca, nurses and hospital*. Money back gua nntee! ! AT BOLGEB'S DRUG I STOBE • Green Street McHenry DB. JOHN DUOEY Veterinarialif: ] Treating HORSES, CATTLE, DOGS, OATS, ETC. Telephone Richmond 16 Richmond, 1U. CASH FOB DEAD HOBSES and CATTLE Horses, $3.00; Cows, $4.00; Dead Hogs and Sheep removed free! MIDWEST BEMOVAL 00. Tel. Woodstock 1624-M-l or Dundee 10--Reverse Charge* PETER PEEVE b,-" ** •-'f'4 \ r k mEn'L-.i ate*!*..? S. H. Freud & Son OONT&ACTOB8 L_Jun> Bunans , r ' • Phone 56- W SfroHcnry Our ExpexJenoe is at lour Service in Building Tour Wants Ctatte's Ktpair Shoe gOfbbeeil of State HrMge at Char tea Street ttgn Painting Truck Lettering Upholstering r - ' and Repairing 08ARLES BIETE8EL KENT & OOMPAHT I N S U R A N C E Placed with the meet flaaM te and talk it« T Phase McHenry t m aa. L. B. MURPHY • • piMTiaq, . MbTSdH _ t ».«u fW' ' A* '7"