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'^',r a % ^ / < -r ?>*>,$ <W£^ ^lyn^f fj^fr ft • Thursday, September 14, 1944 fli '., - c . ~' ' * • 1 y • * ; "'. ;*• < i ^ Page Sem » -V.. Fig Tree a Parasite; Grows on Other's Limbs As city dwellers fig trees serve as ornamental shade trees. Left in their wild state, they, become gnarled giants. Their bases are frequently used by the settlers as shelters for their animals. Almost all these trees, especially those of the scrub lands, begin their lives as parasites, says the National Geographic society. A tiny seed dropped into a shet» tered arm of another tree by a bird may germinate and send down long rope-like roots to the ground. Wrapping its aerial roots firmly around the trunk of the tree, this uninvited "guest" grows into a tree by snuffing out the life of its host. The fig tree has often been called "strangler." A Florida legend has it that skeletons of humans caught and strangled in the death grip of the tree have been found dangling fromt^e root "ropes.'*;" Kathleen Norris Says: Home Front Is at War Too Bell Syndicate.--WNJJ f eatures. Need Rubber Stampit The Plaindealer. Ojd?r at AUCTION A« we are. moving to California, will sell at' auction our household goods and office equipment, at 1:30 P. M. SATURDAY, SEPT. 16, at 24 N. Williams St„ opposite the Theatre, as follows: White enameled kitchen cabinet White enameled 75-lb. capacity jgi b°x . Kitchen table and two chairs . Lifetime fumed oak bookcase Dining room set, 5 chairs and sideboard. Table. Upholstered Davenport with good springs, perfect condition Lounge chair, springs in good order 2 Arm chairs Bed Daverport with food springs, arm chair to match Walnut steel bed with box springs, curled hair mattress Mahogany finish dressed 4 Library tables 1 Wooden bed, coiled springs ' Squart Library table " Antique spool bed, coil springs made to fit. 4-burher gas stove 2 2-burner gas plates OaH rocking chair Dressing table and chair to match 2 Coat racks 9x12 kitchen linoleum 3 Office linoleum 8x8 9x12 all wool Wilton : ; 2 9x12 Axminister ruga' • 2 Electric floor lamps Hoover vacuum cleaner Curtain rods and bathroom fixtures Garden tools Lawn mower 2 Galvanized wash tubs and boiler Several feet of white pine lumber, 12 inches wide and 6 inches wide Good pieces of Beaver board, that may be used for making table tops 2 Office desks Philco radio Home-made office box set, mpde of good pine lumber 3 Office chairs Swivel chair Many other things too numerous to mention, such * as iron skillets, frying pans, etc. H. 0. JOHNSON AUCTION i s EVERYBODTS BUSY Having sold my farm and giving frpm"\he" marines8 camp^it^i" „ with everyone reaching for the ra- Every girl . . . driving a riveter, grimly toiling over i tmrret Imtlf, b working Wider pressure like that of battle. By KATHLEEN NORRIS OME of the boys on leave get too much spoiling. They become absolutely surfeited \#ith parties, cake, visitors, compliments. They don't have a moment alone. Aunts, uncles, cousins, friends they have hardly seen for years unite to indulge and pamper them, until they long ,for just a little peace--a little of the old ignoring and solitude and casualness that used to mean "home." Other boys are in the position of Walt Baker, who writes me a blue and disgusted letter from one of the South Sea islands. . "I am just back from leave," says Walt's letter, "and up against all the discomforts and loneliness of this place. We get enough to eat; we're not in any immediate danger; we have movies and cigarettes--but we're all so homesick that we can't talk of anything else but what we'll do when we get back! "But as far as I'm concerned I'd Just as soon go anywhere else than home, when the war is over," the letter goes on. "My la^t leave was a funny eye-opener for me. The folks are all into the war up to their chins--nothing else talked about but war work. "My mother's working, both my sisters are in volunteer hospital service, my Dad's on ration boards and bond drives, and my girl is making three hundred a month and going around with a lot of guys who wear oil-soaked jeans and look as if they never washed. For that matter, she looks that way, too. No Rest at Home Now. "I thought I left the war out here, but I'll be darned if anyone was talking about anything else, where my folks live. It was paper drives and fat collecting and canteens and bonds, entertaining the dear boys A soldier home on leave after many weary months in the South Pacific area writes that he is sadly disillusioned. Nobody has much time for him. His mother, his sisters, his girt are all so busy at their war plant jobs that they cart spend only a little time talking to him, and they are too tired to go anywhere with him. Walter doesn't think his girl is going to wait for him, either. She is making three hundred dollars a month and running around with a lot of greasy mechanics. Things look pretty dark to this tired fighting man. Well, Miss Norris replies, what woirid the soldiers and sailors think if people on the home front weren't thinking and working and sacrificing? It's everybodys war and the harder everyone pitches in the sooner it will be over. for sale the following personal property at my farm residence located 3 miles northwest of Lake Zurich on Miller road, 3 miles north of Barrington, just east of intersection of Miller road and Hwy. 59, 3 miles south of Wauconda on SATURDAY, SEPT. M 12 CClock 18 CATTLE--10 head of choice pure bred Holstein cows, freshen in November and December. Balance of milk cows are grades. Pure bred Holstein bull, 2 pure bred Holstein heifers, due to freshen in January, 5 Holstein heifers. HORSES--Matched team of iron grey horses (mare and geld.), 5 and 6 yrs. old. This is a real pair of horses, gentle and sound. PIGS--2 Hampshire brood sows; 20 Hampshire shoats (av. wt. 75 lbs.) 11 weaned Hempshire pigs. POULTRY--150 Leghorn yearling hens, ducks and geese. MACHINERY--J. D. 6 ft. povjer mower; fert. spreader (on rubber, like new); J. D. power lift 2-row tract, cult.; J. D. 2-bot. tract, plow;; 7 ft. tract, disc (in good cond.);, V--J. D. 3-sec. drag; J. D. corn planter! with check wire and fert. attach.;: J. D. side del. rake; J. D. rubber | tired wagon and double box; J. D. • end gate seeder; culti-packer; 2-sec. springtooth; McD. 8 ft. grain binder; Int. hay loader; McD. corn binder; J. D. corn sheller; Deering corn binder; New Idea manure spreader; 2-wh. trailer; Sears 6-in. hammer mill; high speed belt; scales; breeching harness and collars; battery elec. fence controller; galv. tank, andj many other articles. This machinery j is practically new, is in excellent | condition, and has been well housed. | MILKING EQUIPMENT--Hinman j milking machine, two single units \ complete with motor, pump and \ pipe (this machine is like new); elefc.! clippers; 14 milk cans; elec. milk stirrer; herd record case; pail, milkj stools, strainers, etc. I POULTRY AND HOG EQUIPMENT-- Portable sprayer; 6 mash feeders; 4 chicken waterers; port-J. able roosts; 350-chick oil brooder; hog feeders; troughs; Sears automatic hog waterer, etc. FEED--18 tons of alfalfa hay in barn; 35 «cres of good standing hy-' brid com: some hog supplement. Usual terms. RICHARD T. ROBB i Froelich & Wick. Auctioneers, Lake Zurich. 3331 - Wheeling 52-M. Public Auction Service Co., Clerk.! TeL 866-W. Burlington, Wis. ' dio when the news commentators were on. Everyone talking of Normandy-- postwar--Ploesti oil fields --East Prussia--De Gaulle--more cookies -- ration stamps. Maybe that's their idea of a nice restful homecoming, but I can tell yuu it wasn't mine. "From what I saw I don't believe my girl's going to wait for me," this despondent letter goes on. "There doesn't seem to be any place for me in any of their lives. I'd go in and sit on my mother's bed to talk to her at night, and pretty soon she'd say, 'Darling, I'm terribly tired. That old alarm is set for six o'clock. Trot off to a movie.' "With my sisters it would be, 'We're on night duty, Walt. Can't help it--shorthanded.' And with Eleanor it was apt to be, 'I've got to get to bed early, Walt. We've promised a shipment before the first and we're all working overtime.' "Can't you pep up some of these women," finishes Walt, "and tell them a man likes a little fuss to be made over him when he comes back from the Marshalls?" Wei), yes, I can, Walt, and I do. There's a happy medium even in war work. But I can't help laughihg at your predicament, for never before, in all the long history of the world's wars, have men had reason to make this complaint. Women Some boys get to* mutch spoiling.* . South American Red Cross Lima, Peru, has a Red Cross disaster preparedness plan which ranks favorably with our best chapters in the United States. Ecuador has gone far in its development of chapters and now has chapters with some part of the Red Cross pro* gram in thirteen of its fifteen provinces. Venezuela has a good Red Cross hospital and nursing school, apd the same is true in Argentina "and Brazil. have been encouraged--more, they have been urged to do their share today, and royally they have responded. Comfort yourself that what you saw was the supreme effort to help at the very top and crisis of a world disaster. They answered the country's call for help, and they are as absorbed in their share of winning the war as you are in yours. If Tables Were Turned. Imagine just how embarrassed and bored you would be if your two sisters turned up in camp, in the very middle of an engagement. You couldn't knock off work to take them about to restaurants, theaters, movies. The smoke and din of battle, the roaring of the guns, the hurried movements of troops and supplies and hospital would distract you so completely that the girls would be only an annoyance and responsibility. "»• Just so are affairs at home with the women who are straining every fiber of their beings to Iceep up with hospital work, fill army contracts, keep assembly lines red hot" We may not actually hear the guns or see the wounded, but the racket and smoke and groans are forever in our hearts. Every girl swiftly changing hospital beds, hurrying about with trays, driving a riveter, grimly toiling over a turret lathe, is working under a pressure like that of battle. Every girl feels that unless she comes up generously to her quota of work somehow the whole structure of defense will fall through. You needn't worry, Walt. Thes* are unnatural times; bad for you out in the Marshalls, bad for, us on the home front. We're not trying to make them normal--it's no use. We're just trying to get through. We feel that every hospital tray, every cooky, every knitted helmet or W*mail letter, every bomb and every gun barrel completed and sent is one more nail in Germany's--in Japan's casket. We want their obsequies to be swift and complete. If we can do our job here half as well as you are doing yours far down in the Pacific, 1945 will see you all home again, and the girls pretty and dainty again, and free to entertain tired soldiers. Ribbon-and-Flower Headdress For an attractive headdress to set off sleeveless frocks appropriate for theater or restaurant wear, simply take a length of velvet ribbon (or a ready-made velvet bandeau complete with ribbons to tie it on with for about 50 cents), add a spray of flowers to your own liking, sew sequins on the leaves of the flowers and presto, you've a charming headdress. Or take a black velvet ban deau, sew three huge silk roses across the top and a tiny velvet ribbon bow over each temple. Fastest With Mostest The statement "Get there fustest with the mostest" is credited to Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest during the Civil War and is variously quoted as "to get there first with the most men," "I got thar first with the most men" and "I got there first with the most men," SLOCUM LAKE (By Mrs. HaiT*' Matthews* Wm. Burkhart of Williams Park was a caller at Barringtori Tuesday. Mrs. Harry Matthews and Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Spafford were callers at McHenry last Thursday. Mr. and -Mrs. Frank Jordon and . son, Charles, of Harvard, spent Sunday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Newman. Mr. and Mrs. Axel Nerstrorii and son, LeRoy, of North Chicago were Sunday evening guests ta the Blomgren- Lusk home. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Clarence of Williams Park visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Redmore in Chicago Wednesday. j Mr. and Mrs. H. Lu^erman, Mr. and Mrs. F. Hulska and Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Burkhart Were Sunday - dinner and evening guests at the home, of Mr. and Mrs* Wm. Burkhart at Williams Park. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh- Jones and children of Burlington, Wis.', spent ' Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. j Robert Jones on Golden Bull Farms; ! Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Esping and Mr. and Mrs. AV. L. Spafford were callers at Arlington Heights Saturday. Mrs. Hugh O'Brien of Roseville, and Mrs. A1 Maitzen of Park Ridge were Sunday evening1 visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hansen. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cook and Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Burkhart of Chicago were guests last Wednesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs^ William Burkhart at Williams Park. Mr. and Mrs. Frank LaBelle were, guests Friday evening at the hoi of Mr. aind Mrs. C. H. Hansen. Mr. and Mrs. James Thomson of Williams Park called at the hbme of Mrs. Wmi Fraser at Berwyn Sunday evening. ' Mr. James Thomson attended the funeral services for Wm. Fraser in; Chicago Monday. J Mr. and Mrs. William Sullivan and Mrs. Myrtle Lanergan of Chicago visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Newman last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Brooks and Mr. and Mrs. W. sO. Brooks of Libertyville were supper and evening guests Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgreri and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Lundgren of Wauconda were Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. arid Mrs. Peter Anderson at Cary. Chesney Brooks, was a caller at the Schultx home at Solon Mills last i Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks and son. Chesney. attended the wedding 'f Miss Roberta Eatiri^er and Cpf. Edward Wiser of the U. S. army on Monday at Transfiguration church. Spade Best , Ar«pade is best for sftmfr soil '<* for^od, but a spading fork is lighter* to handle and works more easily inf" stony or heavy so;1. Every spadeful should be tunned over completely to bury grass and weeds deep enough? to kill them. r.meraia isie Delicate plants flourish in Ireland, grass grows rankly, flowers "loom profusely. Trees grow sparse* along' the wind-swept coasts. Ter for structural use has come in large measure from Great Britain. Fir, larch, spruce, and pine have made headway in reforestation ' projects. . • : r \ _Tea Drinkers The British merit their reputation as tea drinkers. According to U. S. Department of Agriculture figures, Britishers consume an average of 2.400 cups of tea a year, or almost!'" seven cups a day. In the United1" States the yearly average is only 140 cups * a \ , V 1 Order your Rubber Stamps at Tfc% Plaindealer. For Truck and Passenger Cars Need Rubber $ tamps? The Plaindealipr • Order at TIRES AKD TUBES We have a complete stock of'both passenger a&d truck, tires. You can now have your tires retreaded without an OPA order. Bring them in. v ^ , TIRE AND TUBE VULCANIZING Trade in your old battery on a new FIRESTONE. We allow $2.00 fpr your old oiifr, - Walter J. Freund OFFICIAL TIRE INSPECTION STATION MAIN ST., WEST M'HENRY PHONE 294 NIGHT AUCTION 7:30 p.m., sharp :. 20 At Gaulke's Sale Barn--Route 47--Woodstock, Illinois Charles Leonard, Auctioneer 250 HEAD OF LIVESTOCK 125 HEAD OF DAIRY COWS AND FIRST CALF HEIFERS. EITHER FRESH WITH CALF BY SIDE OR CLOSE SPRINGERS ONE LOAD OF JERSEYS BY MR. PARKS 100 HEAD OF FEEDER PIGS 25 DAIRY HEIFERS Don't fail to attend this auction, if you want herd Heplacements, You will find the best buys offered in years at prices you can well afford to pay. ATTENTION FARMERS: BRING YOUR VEAL CALVES AND KILLER HORSES FOR HIGHEST market prices. * Call Woodstock 572 or 499 if yon have livestock to consign All consignors make arrangements to get your livestock in, either the day before the sale or bring same morning of sale. lerms: 25 per cent down, balance in monthly installments. l-4o 16 months time at y2 of 1 per cent interest. Woodstock Commission Sales Company WILLIAM E. GAULKE, Owner Phone 572 W A R T I M E l i E A S F O R F O U L T R Y M E N Mouse Light,™ Steps up production and profit! One of the secrets of successful poultry raising is in knowing how to keep your chickens working more and yourself working less. Poultry house lighting is an easy way for yon to make your layers put in more overtime on those wartime jobs of theirs -- producing more food for Victor)' . . . and boosting egg profits. Just one of two small bulbs and a home-made automatic time switch (like either of those pictured below) are all that's needed to get them up earlier and ijKii. keep them working longer on the egg production line. Power isn't just limited to the lighting job in the hen house. In almost every phase of poultry raising it has a time- and work-saving chore to do. It operates electric brooders that cut chick losses ,. . pumps and warms the. water that builds more and bigger eggs . . . grinds and mixes feed efficiently and quickly--and does all this with a mullmium of work on your part. Build an easy-to-make automatic time switch -- a silent bugler that gets them up early 1 PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OP NORTHIRN ILLINOIS