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. * "f\ »! >", Xv -. .. 3fe- ?W S! • 'K- of C. }'* All members of the McHenry Council, Knights of Columbus, are kindly Requested to attend a meeting this Evening, January 9, in the K. of C. • • • • 'f ; *rthday Party v Joan Reihansperger celebrated the fact that she was fifteen years old on January 4 by entertaining sixteen of ••••••• fcer friends. The guests played ping- --?--|»orig and games and enjoyed a lunch. " * * * 43^*\ Aftctoom Contract Bridge On TnesSay afternoon of this week, rs. Wallace Dobyns was hostess to members of the Afternoon Con- ^ tract Bridge club. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. C. C. Hoyte, Mrs. Harold Mrs. Harry land will entertain on January StL 0wen and Mrs. ]>obyns. Duria • • Pinochle Clab > - Mrs. Francis: Bauer entertamed tfie - pinochle club Friday evening at her ; fiome on Riverside Drive. Prises were j Awarded to Mrs. Helen Hauser and fgiss Laura Weber. Mrs. Anna Thenties will; «at£rtain the , club; in, two weeks. niufMiy ArWfTlwm WHlge Mrs. Harvey Nye was hostess to the members of the Thursday Afternoon Bridge club on January 2. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Maud Rothertnel, Mrs. Anna Sutton, Mrs. Margaret Stilling, Mrs. Eleanor Nye and Mrs. Elizabeth Michels. On January jt». Joe. J. Miller will enUrtajiu * * * The Woman's Society v A general meeting of the WomSfi*S society of the Community Methodist church will be held in the church hall Thursday, January 16, at 1:30 p.m. JMrs. Waterton will lead the devotions. Following the luncheon and business meeting, Mrs. C. W. Goodell will review the book, "The Importance of Living" and Mrs. Ray Fip will review "Moment in Pekin." • • • Family Gathering Mr. and Mrs, A. P. Freund entertained their family at a dinner Sunday at their home on Richmond road in honor of their first grandson, Paul Joseph Petitclair, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Petitclair of Waukegan, Who was christened on December 29 at Waukegan. In attendance were the baby's great rndparenta, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Freund. as well as Mr. and Mrs. tDelphine Freund of Wauconda, and Mrs. Arthur Tonyan of McHenry*,':/., . On New Year's Eve, the Epworth ILeagoe hdd their annual Watch jNight party at the church. Chester Colby led the devotions as the New „:•> . -Year catered. For recreation the i jlgnmp played ping-pong. After de- "H tot>wi» tlqr enjoyed a lunch. V On January 5 the league met at the Jhome of Warren Jones. Beryl Colby lifted the devotions. Next Sunday, Janu- 4«ry 12, the members will meet at the 'parsonage at seven in the evening |where transportation will be provided out to Colby's, where the meeting will ibe hdd. Esther Colby will lead the Iswrtions, * * * tivarview Onp fliwrriew Camp, R.K.A., V* K. of C. hall Tuesday evening. -Plans were made for Installation of Officers which will be held January ^'21. After the business meeting a . »/-social hour was enjoyed. Kathryn Barbian received the prize in five Jlnibdred, while Gertrude Schaefer and v JpHelen Weber took the awards in pin- ;"**ochle. Refreshments were served. b «{ The members will meet at Raris' -cafe before the meeting on January 21 for dinner. Reservations may be made with Mrs. Maud Rothermel not later than January 20. The new officers are requested to practice on Friday evening, January 17, at 7 o'dock. • • • V X r C. D. of A. Court Joyce Kilmer, No. 573, Catholic Daughters of America, held their business meeting Thursday, January 2, at the K. of C. hail; a good attendance was present. Following the business of the meeting, cards were played, with bridge prises being awarded to Mrs. Fred C. Schoewer and Frances Bauer, while Mrs. Ed Thompson received the five hundred award. Refreshments were served. The fourth party of the card tournament will he held Thursday, January 1®, *woncl merchandise club will aim utart at thU time. The pub- Ik U invited in join. For information rail Mrs til la Rum or Mrs. Elisabeth H»" «W«M HrfcUl Hhower IrfmnNrtl Anlonson. a recent bride, wm surprised Sunday afternoon l>y almost seventy relative* and friends who presented her with many lovely miscellaneous gifts. Mrs. Antonson Is the former Miss Carmen Freund, daughter of Mr. and Mm. Nick Freund of McHenry. The afternoon was spent at cards and bunco, with prizes in bridge going to Mrs. Carolyn Justen, Mrs. Marie Wilbrandt and Mrs. Ed Sutton; In pinochle to Mrs. Emma Lay and Miss Dorothy Lay; in five hundred to Mrs. Elseda Fuchs, Mrs. Mayme Freund, Mrs. Trace Kennebeck, and in bunco to Mrs. Hilda Carlson and Miss Helen Fuchs. Refreshments were served. . Out of town guests were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Antonson, Mrs. Fred Dillon Mr. and Mrs. Paul Carlson and children, Pauline and Herbert, Mr. and Mrs. George Carlson, Mr. and Mrs. Lege Carlson, Miss Ruth Sylvin, Mrs. Walberg Anderson and Miss Maxine Bacon, all of Chicago, and Miss Victoria Shorter of Lake Forest. Mothers* Ckd> On Friday afternoon, Januiury 17, the Mothers' club will meet in the Legion hall. The committee in charge is composed of Mrs. Carl Weber, Mrs. Peter Schaefer and Mrs. Dan O'Shea. » • • Fox River Valley Camp Wfhen the Fox River Valtey Camp met Tuesday evening plans were made for Installation of Officers to be held on Saturday evening, January 18. Each member may invite a guest to this function. . Mid-Week Hie Mid-Week club met Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Frank Hughes. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Lillian Cox, Mrs. C. C. Hoyte and Mrs. C. W. Goodell. On January 22, the club will be entertained at the home of Mrs. Cora Bassett. • * * Betrothal Announced v Mr. and Mrs. George A. Stilling of McHenry announce the engagement of their daughter, Louise, to Mr. Fred Wahl of Evanston. No date has been set for the wedding as Miss Stilling has yet to complete hefc ^tojif^ .at Lake. Forest college: ^ * • * Bridge CMh Mrs. Anna Geyer entertained the Bridge club at her home last Thursday, January 2. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Emma Freund and Mrs. Jack Smith. Refreshments were served. The next party will be held at the home of Mrs. Jack 8mith on January 15. Welcome ISO The members of the Hly Lake Bowling club celebrated the coming of the New Year at a very enjoyable party last Tuesday night at Roy Hobbs' "The Vogue" at Lily Lake. Arrangements were made for a midnight roast chicken dinner for about fourteen guesets. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Harold Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Ericson. Pete Simon and Sam Novak of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. L. Krieger, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Budil, Mrs. Mae Budil 'and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Vachet of Lily Lake. An adjoining g^oup, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. George Miller and a party of eight, all of Chicago, took quite a part in the' noisy welcome which was given the New Year. ». P.-T.A. The Parent-Teach«*r association of St. Mary - St. Patrick school met Wednesday afternoon in the school hall. After the regular business meeting Miss Adele Froehlich entertained with two vocal solos, "A Prayer," and "111 See You Again." Mrs. Clarence Angiese also took part in the program by giving two book reviews, "My Beloved Returns," by Miann, and "Mrs. Miniver," by Struthers. The award for having the greatest number of mothers present went to the second grade room. The mothers of the fourth and fifth grade pupils acted as hostessses, with Mrs. John R. Freund and Mrs. Henry Heuser as co-chairmen. The next reguab meeting will be held February 5. * * * Attend Music Federation Mrs. C. W. Goodell of West McHenry, Mrs. Winifred E, Adkins and Mrs. Milton Jacobs of Elgin, all members of the eleventh district board, Illinois Federation of Music clubs, attended the gala luncheon held at the Chicago Woman's dob building Monday and the pageant which followed the luncheon. In addition to hoard members, many Chicago musicians and friends of the federation were present, among them Mr. and Mrs. Alec Templeton, who were the guests of honor. The highlight of the afternoon program was the pageant called "Hintformation Please," which portrayed the aims, achievements and ideals of the federation, using the artistic aid of dramatic, music and dancing. Among the pertinent facts brought out in the pagenat were the following: that 87,000 Illinois children and young people have been entered in musical competition; that $50,000 has been presented in prizes to Americancomposers; that the federation has made more than 100,000 yearly presentations of American compositions; and that the federation has sponsored four premier performances of American operas. U• e3* . iMviUaSuI 'JD^ODJIQJMioMmrS Take Long Chance; Seldom Escape Work of Postal Inspector? Makes Such Hold-Ups Unprofitable. WASHINGTON.--Six gunman who recently climbed aboard an Albany, N. Y., local train in the Bronx and rummaged through the mail car until they found a pouth for Yonkers went out of their way to court the attention of the most persistent band of thief catchers in the nation. Yet, the very fact that they got nothing of importance makes the case one that will be harder for the postal inspectors to crack than if they had made a big haul, like, say, the Rondout gang, which got away with $2,050,000--and had all been lodged in jail within less than six months. The little ones are harder to piece together than the big ones. They take more time and patience. Clues are fewer and harder to and. There was, for instance, the attempt to rob the post office at Devils Lake, N. D., on the night of the primary election in 1924. A policeman who strolled into the post office driveway while the robbery was going on, wholly unsuspecting the presence of the robbers, was shot dead. The men fled without taking anything. For clues, the inspectors had a .38 caliber bullet and some torches that had been stolen. Difficulty Upon DilBenlty. It took nine years to crack that one. Such persistence, plus the wholehearted co-operation the inspection service gets from local police and law enforcement agencies, comes at the top of the list of reasons given by K. P. Aldrich, the redoubtable chief of inspectors, for the steady decline in mail robbery during recent years. His dark eyes glow with pride, too, when he tells how railway mail clerks have stood up and shot it out with robbers, in one recent case putting their assailants to rout. The heyday of the train robber was in that period between the Civil war and the turn of the last century, with occasional notable exceptions, like the Rondout robbery, since. John and Simon Reno led the first organized gang of train robbers into notoriety in Indiana in 1866. They died kicking their heels at New Albany in 1868. A mob of Indiana vigilantes hanged them without bothering to take the brothers--plus a third Reno whose name has been lost to history--out of the jail. The vigilantes simply strung them up to the rafters while an overpowered sheriff looked on. Technique Perfected Early. Few improvements have been made in the Reno brand of train robbery since the brothers started oet on their lurid trail. Sam Bass used about the same formula. So did the Dalton boys, the bandits who plagued the Southern Pacific, and the later day Rondout gang. The Reno boys boarded a train at a station, held it up after it had pulled away, climbed off with their loot, and fifed. On that first haul in 1866 they got $13,000 from the express messenger and dumped off a safe which they were compelled to abandon because they could not open it and it was too heavy to cart away. Truth and fiction are so intermingled in the stories of the Younger brothers, the Dalton boys, and Frank and Jesse James that it is virtually impossible to determine where the one ends and the other begins. But all of time were picayunish affairs compared to the Rondout, 111., robbery in June of 1924. Here two men forced the trainmen to stop 35 miles north of Chicago near a highway. Two automobiles were parked on either side of the track, and from them the robbers swarmed to their task. S&ty-two pouches with valuables worth over $2,000,000 were taken. The seven men involved were captured within six months. Virtually all of the valuables were recovered. DoetonToId Nearly half the childless couples who wish ohildren can have them now after proper treatment, although 20 years ago only a half a dozen specialists were able to achieve 20 per cent success in treating sterility, it was reported to the section on urology of the American Medical association. The importance of this advance, according to Dr. Samuel R. Meaker and Dr. Samuel N. Vose of the Boston university school of medicine, who prepared the paper in which the statement was made, is indicated in that more than 12 per cent of all marriages, or 2,000,000 American couples, are involuntarily childless. One of the greatest advances in the diagnosis and treatment of sterility, the doctors said, was the realization that a number of factors usually are responsible for barrenness, and in 90 per cent of the cases these factors are divided between the husband and wife. Of the contributing factors now known, they said, about 30 per cent appear on the male side. But of 78 cases of divided responsibility studied the lack was equally divided in 51 cases and chiefly on the husband's side in 12 cases. Among the causes of sterile factors in the male they listed poor general condition, body poisons resulting from disease, infections or other causes; weakness of the sex glands, and physical defects in the reproductive system. The last were most often the basic causes, they said. Favorable results obtained by implanting pellets of synthetic hormones inside the male reproductive organs were described by Dr. Bernard Strauss and Dr. Genoa R. Bi»> kind of San Francisco. > Heaven Not for White Man, Iroquois Believe Thsre is a belief among the Iroquois, that ancient American nation of hardy warriors, that no white nisn has ever entered heaven, except one. This exception was made to bestow upon a lone white man the greatest honor at the command of the Indian--that of inclusion in his religion. Thus the Iroquois, who struck such terror to the hearts of our forefathers during the early days of our history, show their admiration and gratitude to one of their former enemies and greatest benefactors, Gen. George Washington. By the peace of 1793, between England and the infant United States of America, the Iroquois were abandoned by their English allies and thrown upon the mercy of the Americans. At this critical moment, Washington intervened in their behalf, protected their rights and showed them such leniency and justice that the "Hedenoaaunee" or Iroquois believed that for his kindness to the red man the Great Spirit prepared a celestial residence for him in their "Hawenneyu" where he is destined to remain through eternity in solitary enjoyment, for no other white man aver ca« antar the Indian heaven. ' TRIP < Continued from *MfrOno) practically flew his auto in and out of Tampa and along the Ramiami Trail to Miami. Here they took time out for a few days of rest and sightseeing, after straight riding from 9:30 Monday morning until 7:30 a. m., Tuesday, a mere 1,023 miles. At Miami the four young men had the pleausre of spending five days. During this time they ate at a restaurant only once, making citrus fruits and coconuts their basic diet. However, they did sleep in hotels rather than in tents, as Joe had done on previous trips. Friday saw them paying a visit to Key West, via the seven mile overseas highway, which cost them $3.50 in toll. As a precaution during these troublesome times, the government is keeping strict guard over these islands and keeping close watch on all visitors to this place. As a result, the visitors were restricted from the nava! base and* the coast guard station, and as they entered the famous lighthouse, their cameras were taken from them. Joe had an advantage here, as he had visited the site last winter and had taken snapshot of the village from this lighthouse when this practice was not prohibited. As they were in Miami on Christmas day, they witnesesd the beautiful parade of floats, really floats, as they were on boats, depicting various Christmas scenes. These decorated boats sailed down Indian creek. Another interesting feature of this stay was the opportunity of meeting Fred Snite, Jr., "The Boiler Kid," who, as everyone knows, received that name because he has spent the last few years of his life in an iron lane* Our narrator tells us that the city is literally crowded and that there is a great building boom in progress, especially the erection of hotels. Joe, whom you know by this time is quite an adventurer, took great delight in a chat he had with the bugler on the U. S. S. Memphis, which was docked in the Miami harbor. Fourhundred- fifty men were on board this ship and it was this lad's duty to awaken them at 5:30 every morning. You can imagine that he was wellliked by all his shipmates. The sailor told Joe of an adventure he had just returned from in the Caribbean sea. The ship had sighted a British destroyer and passed within one hundred yards of it. The following day the American sailors learned that this same destroyer had found the German freighter it had been looking for, scuttled it, and towed it into port. The boys left Miami Sunday morning at 8:30 and drove along the east coast. At Port Everglades they stopped to see the A urea, the German prison ship. Daytona Beach Spssdwsy Daytona Beach was the next spot of interest and here the boys took the car «* a« tlMl speedwmy. SnM^ beaSMoa tfae car wns too haMflj knd', <4 an# there w too much headwind, Joe could not give the Mercury motor a test trip. In contrast to the over populated city of Miami, they found Daytona Beach a very quiet and easy going city. St. Augustine, the oldest city in America, was visited next by our Mc- Henryites. They especially noted the number of horse drawn carriages in use in this city. At Jacksonville, the boys were most interested in the negro district because they became acquainted with a policeman whose beat was in that particular part of the city, which is called Bread Pan Alley. This policeman told of some of the ways and msans thsy have of retaining discipline in this place. At one a. m., he told them, all negroes are required to be off the streets. If the two policemen 6a beat find anyone lurking about, they either get them in front of the squad car and make them run at the rate of fifteen miles per hour, or in more severe cases, they are forced to lash them with a rubber hose filled with buckshot. The policeman also showed them a collection of knives he had which he had gathered from these negroes who think nothing of knifing each other. From Jacksonville the quartet headed north to Augusta, Ga., where they spent the night. The following morning they continued through South Carolina and a portioft of North Carolina, stopping at Hendersonville. Here they looked up a relative of Senator Reynolds, the U.S. Senator from North Carolina, and'spent a few enjoyable hours at her cabin in the mountains. A beautiful drive, through the Smoky mountains, was next in line on their itinerary. Out of Washington, mmitmm- mA -i igiini jBMuiisi mrt • •> ft SMlifedL and they hibwhiIwI siiniy hairpin curves. The trip on Monday nigbt ended just out of LaFayette, Ind., after covering 760 miles that day. On Tuesday, December 31, thsy completed the last lap of the journey, arriving in McHenry during the afternoon in time to celebrate New Year's eve. The trip had led them over 4,300 miles of road, driving sixty to seventy miles per hour most of the way. Luckily, they had no tire trouble and the expenses on the car amounted tq. about fifty dollars. 80 Square Percale fej.i,:5 } iff* * " W;- # '.-i-w 'iiV ~ •• -'MChecks, gtripes, floralpattarni, also from the bolt* • y* PLAID DEEm MAT 36 and 39-mch wid&a, yard •• • Bo: WOOL. HELTON JACKETS, 32-ox. wedgiit, ip 14-18 $1.M John Stoffel 1 BABY CHICKS t ^ Urder your baby ehfe** !* the Zarawn Mill. Phone McHenry 29. 160,000 baby chicks sold to 400. satisfied customers during the past four years. Special discounts win be offered to customers who place tbair Ofiflpr befora Xebruary 15th. , V?/ ;#fcHenry County Fanners - Co-operative Association FkwS JOHH A. BOLGXR, Mgr. McHanry IMMMMWtfMMMIHM Among the Sick Ronnie May, son of Mr. and Mrs. George A. May of Spring Grove, is recovering from pneumonia. Mrs. Gerald Carey has been confined to her home due to illness. Eugene Knapiw of Spring Grove entered St. Therese's hospital Monday as a medical patient. The case of Mrs. Michael Knox, who was taken to the Presbyterian hospital, Chicago, for observation recently, has been diagnosed as pernicious anemia. Mrs. Phil Guinto has been confined to St. Augustina hospital in Chicago this week following an operation last Saturday. Mrs. Barbara Huemann of this city was admitted to St. Therese's hospital Tuesday for medical treatment. Emil Simon suffered a leg injury Monday while at his work. , Mrs. Mae Powers and daughter, Marie, have been confined to their home this week with severe colds. An official report of the British Air Ministry says 3,534 German warplanes were shot down over Britain alone during 1940, while The Royal Air Force lost only 1,050. Practically all the German airmen involved in these losses were either killed or captured, while about 500 Britons landed safely on home soil. Alien Here Since 1884 Says She's Just Visitor WILMINGTON. DEL.--Employees of the alien registration office here were amazed by the quiet, well-bred English woman who reported at the office to register. "Must I register?" the little grayhaired woman asked* "I'm just a visitor here." "Where are you from?" she was asked. "England," she replied. "You see, I am only a visitor here, but I came on my visit in 1884 and have been here ever since. No, I have not been naturalized, as I'm. only, a visitor." , Plan as Keep Him Buy Wnno manufacturers beat a path to a little one-man shop in Marshfield, Mass., bearing the simple inscription over the door, "Lawnmowers and Tools Sharpened." It is the plant of Chjudhea Randall, who manufactures piano dowels. The owner says it is the only shop of its kind in New England and altbmgh he supplies thousands of dowels annually to tiie great piano manufacturers of the Mtt&e West, RandaB also finds time to shaspen tool* aad lawnmowers for sesidents of the community. The dewels look like lollipop sticks, but aae really the* product of fine precision workmanship. On an average day he can turn out and tumble* finish 3,000; every one necessarily perfect in every detail. All tools and machinery were designed and manufactured hy the owner himself. Firebox Sounds Alarm . After Five-Week Wait SAVANNAH, GA.--A fire alarm pulled during a hurricane here reached the indicators in fire stations five weeks later and brought four companies. City electricians said the alarm box had been out of commission and without current since the big blow. "As soon as we made the line hot the box began to click out the old alarm," one said. Dead Trees Deeoratfve Consider the possibilities> artistically and decoratively, of a dead tree and hesitate before removing it. The California and Maine coasts are famous for their twisted dead trees against the skyline. It yours is just an old dead pear tree, but fairly solid, plant trailing gourds around it. The strange-shaped fruit falling from the black wooden branches will have a distinctive beauty in the fall and the shade of its deep green leaves will be welcome during the hot months. If your tastes run to flowers, try bright red or blue morning glories or moonvine for night blooming and sweet fragrance. Birds like dead trees as much as live ones with vines trailing over them. So "woodman, spare that tree" until you look at it fcom several angles. On Display a( the Central Market--the World's Largest-* B O L O G N A AS LONG AS FROM ONE END TO THK OTHER 6 INCHES IN DIAMETER Guess the Weight > and Win $5.00 In Trade Karber'a Bulk * LARD, 2 Lbs. for 15* Tend'r'z'd Picnic HAMS, lb 194 Bacon SQUARES, lb. „ 12*44 Bulk Pork SAUSAGE, lb. 154 Lamb (whole) SHOULDER, lb. _ 194 . Young Pork / LIVER, lb. Spare RIBS, lb. 15^ Bologna, Liver, Blood SAUSAGE, lb. 194 Fresh Park HOCKS, lb 121/*4 1 IN CASE OF TIES . , 1 THOSE TIED WILL || GUESS THE LENGTH Birds Save Oar Crops The humming bird is one of otpf tiniest and loveliest birds, one you usually see hovering daintily before a blossom as he sips nectar. But a substantial portion of his diet consists of spiders--some nearly as big as he is. This is one of the birds that eat the insects that would eat the crops that we eat. *As long as they stay on the job we eat. Other birds that protect our crops include the woodpeckers, cedar waxwing and the indigo bunting, cardinals and the junco fledglings. Sunday guests in the home of Mr, and Mrs. Herman Kreutzer were Mrs S. H. Smith and son, "Bones," Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Regner and children, Betty and James, Mrs. Mayme King and son, Gene, and Mr. and Mrs. James Geier of McHenry; Mr. and Mrs. Ray Horick of Woodstock and Mr. and Mrs. Alex Freund and daughters, Nancy and Lois, of Chicago. Thirteen hearts were held in one hand in a contract bridge game played at the home of Mr .and Mrs. 0< M. Johnson in Wytheville, Va. Mr. and Mrs. James Mackeyof CMcago were Sunday visitors at the Lily Lake home of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Vachet. Since it was Mrs. Mackey's birthday, congratulations were the order of the day. J I I K h e r c b t h e p l a c e ** to go to gat a GOOD WILL USED CAR* "Yes sir, Joe, get a used car from a responsible dernier--a new CSf dealer. One who is going to be in business a long time.... One whaSS business tomorrow depends on the good will he builds today. That's why I go to a Pontiac dealer--yon can always depend oa him. "Pontiac dealers sell Good Will Used Qui--cars you know att •boot before yon buy. Good Will Used Cars are tecondirioned jH 21 vital points. "And that's why people go back to Pontiac dealers." •OOD WILL USED CAM SOLD OWL DEALERS •0 Among the books beughl Vf the government last year were 250 copies, of Hopper's "How to Play Winning Checkers." They were distributed to libraries on Naval ships for the edification of the nation's sailors. R. I. Overton Motor Sales Where Customers Send Their Friends. -- BUICK AND PONTIAC -- Low, Liberal General Motors Terms -- Thirty Guaranteed Used Oars to Choose From! - ' . ^pTest McHenry, IB. -Jn