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pp * l^Wi. 0 ^ Washington " " Letten " --By-- National Editorial Association Washington, February 5 -- Though the vita] lend-lease bill is uppermost in the House of Representatives debate this week, committees are at work polishing other legislation for the Congressional pot. Noteworthy is the .proposal to increaes the legal debt limit from 45 to 66 billions. It is generally recognized that hoisting the public debt limit to such a stupendous SLOCUBTS LAKE Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse and daughter, Frances, were callers at Elgin last Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wagner and daughter, Joan, were business callers at Woodstock last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Burkhart of Wil- I liams Park spent Tuesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Burkhart in I Chicago. j Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren spent J last Wednesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Losk at Maple | Park. ! Earl Converse was a caller at Grayslake last Thursday. figure will by no means irieet the ,. Mr. a„n d , Mrs. Frank Oswald of Wil- A . problem of financing the defense out- I*"1® p«* «*ent Sunday evening at lays. Some lawmakers are frankly '^home of Mr" »nd M«- Wm- Burk" worried over the prospects of inflation I . ,, . „7 ,, . ^ as they tinker with the debt matter' Mr" and Marvin Wells of W involving broad questions of national > *P™t Sunday at the home of credit Mr- and Mrs- Harry Matthews. | Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Burkhart of On the political side, the cloakrooms Williams Park spent last Wednesday .bUw inf "vt0 at home °{ Mr. and Mrs. Charles what Wendell Willkie will do when j Burkhart in Chicago. he returns from his inspection trip to I Mr and Mrs Harry Matthews and England. The concern is mwt.y in WiIlard DarreI! attended ^e card the Republican camp where the for-' ^ at ^ home of Mr and Mrs standard-bearer has a low-rating | n0yd Fisher at Volo which was sponheld at SC. Petert ehurch at ten o'clock Tuesday morning with Rev. John Daleiden officiating. Pallbearers were Math May, August Huff, Nick Klein, Clarence Glosson. Math Lay, and Charles Freund. Burial was in St. Peter's cemetery. Mrs. Math Freund of Solon was released from St, Therese's hospital in Waukegan and returned to her home on Saturday. Guests in the A1 Schmeltzer home on Sunday were Mrs. Edith Cleveland, Martin Thelen and Mr. and Mrs. Francis Luby of Round Lake. Mrs. Charles Freund, son, Tommy, and daughter, Charlotte, visited in the home of her sister, Mrs. George W. May, and family on Sunday. Eugene Meyer, Arnold May and Ted Shotliff returned to the University of Illinois on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rauen of Chicago spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Kattner. VOLO Harold Littlefield of Lowell, Irtd spent Friday at the hone of Mr; -and Mrs. Len Littlefield. Mr. and Mrs. Jay Vasey and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Vasey of Grayslake spent Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Vasey. Mrs. Bertha Grabbe and Mrs. A. Wirtz of Waukegan were Saturday evening visitors at the home of Mr. apd Mrs. William Wirti. Mrs. Ray Maxson and son, Gordon, of Elmhurst called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Dunker Satur day. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher and son, Richard, and Harry Case visited Mr. and Mrs. P. .Peterson near Morris, 111., Sunday. • Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Case were busi- Mr. and Mrs. Leo Huff of Wauke-;ne8s callers at Lake Geneva, Wis., with his erstwhile campaigners. Many G. O. P. stalwarts would like to see their titular leader resume his practice of law. The Democrats hope they will have Willkie working with them in a high defense post, although many are openly skeptical of the political wisdom of such a tie-up. Much will hinge upon the outcome of the Resored by the Volo unit of the Lake County Home Bureau. Mrs. Celia Dowell and Mrs. Harry Raeburg and two children wefte callers at Waukegan last Friday* Chesney Brooks attended a meeting at the Epworth church in Chicago last Tuesday evening. Mrs. Marlett Henry visited at the puWican national committee meeting; home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. which wiH be held shortly to elect ajWm Bennet in Chicago Monday chairman and otherwise reorganize for another campaign with eyes directed toward capturing control of the House. Now and then a few outcroppings of sentiment are observed in the Senate and House to remind the public that the so-called old-age pension movement is not dead but merely sleeping. There is a definite trend looking toward liberalizing the Federal Social Security Act. It is likely that the pressure on the states will be of sufficient weight to force the commonwealths to revise their benefit plans to conform with Federal standards of larger payments and less waiting time. * The old-age pension item assumes Mr. and Mrs. Axel Neretrorii and son of North Chicago and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Nelson of Waukegan were Sunday afternoon guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren. Chesney Brooks attended the town meeting at Barrington Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bue of Island Lake were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Frank LaBelle attended a farewell party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. David at Barrington Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. David will soon leave for California. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Webster, Mr. serious proportions when consider-! awnd„ M~r s. Merle Parker and Mr. and ation is given the latest report of the MrS" G*°T Stfnsberry Chicago Bureau of the Census made public a Were Sunday afternoon and supper day or two ago. This nose-count by Federal enumerators disclosed (persons sixty-five years of age and over numbered 8,956.000 in 1940, an increase of thirty-five per cent over the number in this age group in 1930. A greater proportion of the .population was in the age group 20 to 64 years guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Marlett Henry. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rechwerit and son returned to their home at Island Lake Monday after spending two weeks in Florida, Mrs. C. H. Hansen and Mrs. Frank LaBelle were callers at Crystal Lake last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hellier of Barin 1940 than in 1930. The gradual aging of the population is explained i . , _ , , in large measure by the decreasing!nn?ton W€re Sunday afternoon and i • it > . ® simvwtv miaofa of fHA birth rate and improving .mortality conditions. The decrease in the birth rate results in a diminution of the number of young persons. It so happens that the House Committee on Ways and Means, which handles legislation of this kind, is completely absorbed with other fiscal matters including the debt lifting process. Then they will have the revision of internal revenue laws on their hands after the March 15 returns are filed. It seems that extension of security law benefits will be in the direction of including domestics and supper guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Burnett JOHNSBIJRG Mr. and Mrs. Leo Gerlach and sons, Leo and Billy, attended the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. H. Gerlach Saturday in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schulze and son, Robert, will spend a few weeks in Chicago. . farm employees. The Social Security1 Mr. and Mrs. A1 Weber and Mr. and w . v£ v W A A S™ Board is trying to devise a record-1 Mr"' Ni<* Miller and daughter of Mil keeping device like a punch card for this class of workers. Farmers and housewives would rebel against strict requirements for bookkeeping on time and pay of domestics and other employees. A word of warning sounded by real estate appraisers and state tax 5- perts will probably fall on deaf ears as communities reach out for new defense industries. Pressure has been resumed on official Washington for the earmarking of defense funds, primarily those stemming from the R. F. C. loans. Many areas want vital defense industries situated away from the larger centers of population. They are not entirely unselfish in that it is felt that location of these industries would result in boom business. Sometimes they overlook the fact that the aftermath of boonris is an economic boomerang. In wooing- government financed projects to their regions, many promoters fail to realize that the defense activity is necessarily of a temporary nature. An organization of real estate appraisers has stated that "ghost towns" may be left for the local tax appraisers and civic organizations to handle when the factory is shut down. There is talk that large contractors should sublet their government jobs and scatter the business around the country. One potent argument advanced is that this decentralization is a form of insurance against interruption to production in event enemy aircraft bomb American industrial cities. Legislators are flooded with lequests for such allotments--a demand which causes them no end of embarrassment for the defnse authorities are not much concerned over pressure from Capitol Hill in these critical days. The fact that many enterprising communities go the limit in attempting to induce the location of defense plants in their communities does not impress the seasoned indus tnalists now occupying government posts. In their private capacities these business leaders have been wooed by localities by means of subsidies, tax exemption and free sites only to turn a cold shoulder to the proposition because many essential items, such as available labor supply and housing were overlooked in the presentation. gan and. Mr. and Mrs. Ford Hanford were visitors in the George W. Msy home on Sunday night. Paul Weber, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hettermann, Johnsburg, left for Hot Springs, Arkansas, on Monday. They expect to be gone for several weeks. Twice Told Tales •f Interest Mm Thrum Pflse of the Plalndeakr e< Tsars Ago SIXTY YEARS AGO On Monday Smith and Snyder bought of Nick Schaeffer one hundred hogs, for which they paid him the handsome sum of $1,800. The question of a butter and cheese factory in this village has been agitating the public for some time, and from present appearances it seems we are to have two. Oysters by the can or quart, cheap »8 the cheapest, at the McHenry Bakery.' Rev. J. A. Farrar, will preach in the Episcopal church at Spring Grove on Sunday next. FIFTY YEARS AGO The fourth Demo^est Medal contest will be held at Ringwood, on Friday evening. The Knickerbocker Ice Company have a force of about eighty men working on the pond this week. The Lutherans now hold meetings every two weeks in the City HalL We learn that they contemplate building a new church in the near future. Mrs. H. C. Allen and Mrs. Bacon, of Ringwood were the victims of a runaway accident-on Thursday last. FORTY YEARS AjQO waukee spent Sunday in the home of Henry Klapperich. Mrs. John Lay of Spring Grove attended the Lady Forester meeting here Tuesday evening. Mrs. Ford Jackson and Mrs. George King were Woodstock callers Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Steve May, Mr. and Mrs. Joe King, ,Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stilling and Mrs. Delia Miller attended the wedding of Wirch and Miller at Richmond Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Horick of Woodstock were callers here Wednesday evening. Joe King was a Crystal Lake caller Friday evening. Mrs. George Miller of Grayslake and Mrs. Henry Stoffel of Volo visited with their father, John Pitzen, one day this week. . Henry Sompel spent a fjew days with friends in Chicago. Peter Merceans spent Saturday in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Keenai) and children of Peoria are spending a few days in the home of Mr. and MrB. Joe B. Hettermann. Miss Katie Althoff of Elgin spent Sunday in the home of Mrs. Wm. Althog and family. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Karls and Mrs. George King spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Freund of Waukegan spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Meyers. Ray Hettermann is spending a few weeks in the home of his father, Henry Hettermann. Mrs. Martha Freund and daughters, Virginia and Gladys, of Woodstock spent Sunday with Mrs. Math Freund. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Zollner of Chicago spent Sunday with Art Peters. The station on the St. Paul road, formerly known as Nippersink, has been changed to Fox Lake, and the former Fox Lake station is now Ingleside. On the Elgin board of trade Monday, the committee fixed the price at 21 cents. ^ A grand masquerade dance will be given in the McHenry House hall on Monday evening. Hapke's orchestra will furnish the music and a jolly time is in store for all. Dr. and Mrs. H. T. Brown entertained very pleasantly at dinner on Wednesday. The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. John Ralston, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Hazel, Mrs. E. M. Owen Ind John I. Story. THIRTY YEARS AGO Friday. Mrs. Clinton Raven and family of Slociim Lake called on her mother, Mrs. Pearl Dowell, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. William Wirtz and family were Saturday callers at the home of Mrs. Bertha Gratibe in Waukegan. ' . Charles Gearman of Cary, 111., spent Friday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher. Mrs. Walter Vaaey and son, Kenneth Lee, spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Margaret Grabbe, at Crystal Lake. • Wells Ritt of Crystal Lake called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Dunker Monday. Mrs. Ellvrood Dowell and son were | Saturday visitors at the home of Mr. , and Mrs. George Scheid, Jr., in Waoconda. Mrs. Joseph Wiser, Jr., visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Wright, at Lake Defiance Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hafer in Fremont township Wednesday. Mrs. Frank King called at the homa of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hironimus in Wauconda Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wilson and daughter were Woodstock callers Friday. A large crowd attended the card party at the home of Mr. and Mra. Lloyd Fisher Saturday evening. The evening was spent in playing five hundred, pinochle and euchre. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Arthur Powers, Mrs. Harry Grantham, Ray Seymour, Howard Converse, euchre; Mrs. Harry Matthews, Mrs. Levi Waite, Harold Rudzinski, Frank Meyers, five hundred; Mrs. Walter Crook, Mrs. Jay Vasey, Jay Vasey, Harry Matthew^ pinochle. Dainty refreshments were served at the close of a pleasant evening. The proceeds, amounting to $23.40, will be given to the Volo Home? Bureau treasurer. The Volo unit of the Lake County Home Bureau will meet at the home of Mrs. Carl Fink Wednesday, February 12. .This will be an all day meeting ana all members are requested to come and bring a covered dish for a pot-luck dinner. The major project, "Entertaining at Tea," will be given 'by Mrs. Howard Converse and Mrs. Frank Arney. The minor project, a book review, will be presented by Mrs. Layton Hubbard. Election of officers will take place for the ensuing year. 1UN6WD0D The McHenry Rural Teachers group and guests will hold a Valentine party in the Ringwood Community hall Friday evening, February 14. There will be a special program and games. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hawley have rented the McLaughlin home. Miss Rita Mae Merchant of Wood- Stock spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Merchant. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Hopper and daughters of Chicago spent Friday afternoon and evening with the letter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. W Smith. fir. and Mrs. George Young spent Monday afternoon at Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Dewey of Armstrong, 111., spent the weekend With the latter's parentB, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Jepson. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Walkington of Roc kford spent the weekend with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Walkington. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Block and family of Kenosha spent Sunday with Dr. and Mrs. Hepburn. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Waikington and son of McHenry were Sunday dinner guests of the former's parents, Mr, and Mrs. Ben Walkington. Mrs. George Jepson and ion, Gerald, of Wauconda spent Sunday afternoon in the C. J. Jepson home. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Brown spent Saturday at Oak Park. Mrs. Louis Hawley spent Tuesday and Wednesday with relatives in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carr and Mrs. Frankie Stephenson visited relatives in Woodstock Friday. Miss Bernice Ramaeker of Spaulding, Neb., is visiting her brothers in the C. J. Jepson home. Ralph Smith and son, Arnold, of Harvard qpejit Saturday afternoon wjtjrliis parents, Mr. and Mrs. 8. W. Balk. Mrs. Wm. McCannon and MUe Jacobeoh spent Saturday at EMchorn, Wis. Frank Hawley of Chicago, Mr. aad Mrs. D. C. Bafcdn, Mrs. Cora WeHer and Mrs. Ed Hawley and children of Crystal Lake were callers in the Louis and Andrew Hawley homes Sunday afternoon. Wm. McCannon visited relatives at Woodstock Saturday. Alice and Marion Peet of Elgin spent the weekend with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peet. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Foss of Richmond were visitors here Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Joe McCannon and son, Loren, Mrs. Roy Neal and Miss Patricia Phalin attended a music recital in Chicago Saturday. Mrs. Elbert Thomas and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Thomas of Woodstock spent Friday evening with Rev. and Mrs. Collins. Mr. and Mr3. Clayton Harrison spent Thursday afternoon with their daughter and family at Greenwood. The benefit dance given at the Community hail Friday evening was well attended. The Home Circle will meet with Mrs. C. J. Jepson Wednesday, February 12. Mrs. Cora Flanders had the misfortune to fall downstairs in the Mrs. Rilla Foss home and break the small bflne in her right arm Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Bruce and baby son have arrived home from the Woodstock hospital. Shirley Hawley and Robert Schulz spent Saturday in the home of Mrs. Paul Schulz, Jr., in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wetterer, Jr., of Minneapolis, Minn., visited in the L. E. Hawley home Saturday. Eleanor Rankin of McHenry was a weekend guest of Shirley Hawley. COUNT* PAYS mm OUtAGMA 3ESTANCB A total of $8,170,017 will be paid throughout Illinois in old age assistance to 142,716 reetpfettts for the month of January, according to an announcement this weektmd by Arthur C. Lueder, State Auditor. The average payment for January is $22.21. There will be 686 more people receiving checks for January than were sent out in December, 1940, when 142,030 warrants, totalling $3,132,064 were disbursed. A total of 446 persons in McHenry county received old age assistance during January. Total asaistanee rendered amounted to $10,172. A total of 446 received $10,135 in December and during the year of 1940 a total of $121,629 was expende* tm the county. '* COUNTY LEGION MEETING AT HEBRON TOMORROW The McHenry County council of the American Legion Auxiliary will meet Friday evening, February 7, at Hebron. The auxiliary is inviting the Legion posts of the county as their guests. State's Attorney Alex Strom, who is a legionnaire of Boone county, will be the guest speaker. His tA. will be on "Americanism." METHODIST CHURCH NOTE® Rev. J. Heber Miller, pes£or of the Community Methodist church, has announced that the subject he will speak on next Sunday is entitled "Of What is Your Diet?" The text is from the . first of the Corinthians, the third chapter, from the first, to the tenth verses. Train Water Okeh fa order to protect the health ai the traveling public, all water fist nished by the railroads for drinking or culinary purposes is obtained from sources approved by the Uoil- Read the Wfnt Ada I ed States Public Health Service. First for years ** *** , usi CirhMl finatav Ecsbsbt' jfjnm aMsd juits batman iraias! 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Mrs. was declared firm at 25 the Elgin board of trade Butter cents on Monday. C. M. Nogle, a former McHenry boy, but now of Woodstock, carried away forty-five premiums at the poultry show held at the county seat recently. Dr. Arnold Mueller, who has prac ticed medicine in this village during the past three years, will soon move to Johnsburgh to makfe his home Richard Fleming is now employed at the implement store of Wm. Stoffel. Mr. Fleming is an exemplary young man of pleasing address and will make a valuable man for his employer. TWENTY YEARSA<JO SPRING GROVE Fluttering Raises Temperature To raise its temperature when ^the^bat .BMirqjfr flutter Mr. and Mrs. Watler Brown, Mr. and Mrs. A1 Schmeltzer and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kattner, son, Billy, spent a pleasant evening at cards in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Freund on Friday night. Two tables of five hundred were in play and prizes were awarded Mr. adn Mrs. Arthur Kattner, while consolation prizes went to Mrs. Walter Brown and A1 Sfchmeltzer. Refreshments were served. Victor Adams is suffering a broken arm received on Friday while he was cranking a car. Michael Rauen, 72 years old, long time resident of this vicinity died at the hojne of his daughter in Kenosha on Saturday. Funeral services were The cement foundation for the new home to be erected by George Wirfs on Waukegan street was completed last Saturday afternoon. The snow of Sunday was very welcome to some, while others were not| • so well pleased. Farmers tell us that it is just what the land needs at this, time and much good is sure to result; from the visitation. g; A deal was consummated the first* : of this week whereby Clyde Kent of Chicajfrreomes into possession of the| Wm. Bonslett house and property; facing Waukegan street and extends back as far as Main street. Several new cases of scarlet fever^ have been reported in and around McHenry during the past week. Fortunately all of the cases are of a very mild form. Tree Marking far years, the marking of trees in botanical gardens has presented a chemical problem. The corrosion of the nails and screws has caused a fester or sore in the tree to such an extent that the metal fastening has lost its holding power. The problem has been overcome by the use of monel nails and screws which form a perfect seal with the wood, preventing decay and resisting the destructive action of tannic acid. V * General Motors De Luxe Metropolitan Six Four-Door Sedan, $921* (white sidewall tires extra} Pontiac's New Low-Priced Metropolitan "Torpedo" Sedan tht 1 lowest-priced 4-door, 4-win<36W sedan ig Pontiac history! Here is another true Pontiac, endowed with all of Pontiac's sturdiness, handling ease and iced "Tor- economy--plus the unrivalled comfort of body by Fisher, patttrued s Pontiac's '^Triple-Cushioned Ride." 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