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' ir-f IY EDim ZITTLER MtClure Ht--mr Syndicate. WNU VMturn. GRANDMA BYAN opened the kitchen doo&for old Matt, with • broad smile on her (ace and - a smudge of flouc on her forehead. "Well, well, I guess feedin' a sol 4|er must be a pretty big job." He eased his bent frame down on to his favorite kitchen chair, near the window. He reached over to hang his wooden cane on the door knob, as he always did. "Is the lad havin' a good rest? Eatin' a-plenty?" He was settled now for his almost daily <lNfsit with his oHLaeUthbor. "I've been BSkfog since early morning. I'm certainly glad .I've been saving my jsugar, but people have been good. Annie Worden sent over a nice piece of baked bam Soon's she heard the boy was home. And Mrs. Haines brought over a big Jar of peaches. You know my Danny, though, Matt, he thinks there Just isn't anyone who can cook as food as his old grandma." v "Besides eatin', what's he been 4toin'? There's lots of pretty gals Ring Attached to Carrot When Robert Cox lost a diamond ring at his farm three years ago he gave it up for good. One r evening, while pulling carrots, his attention was caught by a sparkling object. To his amazement the diamond ring was about an inch from the top of a carrot. It had grown directly through the ring. flyer Back From THROWING THE BULL Among stories which Of Two Husbands. <>,- •>In town eager for attention." "Yes, Matt, but he's always been OAKLAND, CALIF. - Navy Lt. James H. Cales Jr. came bapk from the "dead" aboard a plane from Japan, but it v*as several hours before he met his wife, Mrs. Laurie Cales- Bernsteiri, who remarried after he was shot down in flames at Okinawa. Cales located her at the home cf relatives. "We met alone," she told report-1; ers there. "He broke down and cried." , Cales took their infant son in his -fjich a quiet boy. 'Course, he had -I and held him while he told to work after school to help us both' reporters : . _ • ! I couldn t wait to see the baby. 'Snuffy' is wonderful. * This is one .of those things you can't explain. "I think this is going to work out 11 right. I love Laurie, aad I want to stay married to her." Mrs. Cales-Bernstein said Cales "looked grand," and was "just wonerful, in the fine way he took the news" of her remarriage to a wounded veteran of St. Lo. Laurie has indicated that her decision between Navy Lt. Cales and Army Lt. Ethan P. Bernstein must await a talk between the three of Ihem. Lieutenant Bernstein has filed suit for annulment of the second marriage. - If Laurie will have him, Cales said, he will apply for immediate discharge from the navy. If she chooses Lieutenant Bernstein, Cales 1 reported he expects to stay in the j navy "the rest of my life--even if j that's 30 years more." j "I read about my wife's marriage i in the service newspaper, Stars, and Stripes, in Manila. I went right through the overhead (naval term for ceiling)," Cales said. "I did not know what to do. I've got to get this mess straightened out." Tipn/I" W5f a Pnwrrl crossed the ocean about those fabuf "«v IXCWvU jous British Commandos is this sto- --• m' | ry of one who had spent a long evejj:-~---- p. . -^i j ning with friends at the village inn. Fttr Her to Pick One I They showed him a quick way home across the fields, forgetting that the local bull was loose. The bull attacked, not recognizing the Commando's red beret. The unfortunate animal was gripped by the horns and lugged about the field un til. it managed to break free and bolt. "Pity I had those last two drinks, said the soldier-matador. "I ought to have got that chap off hi? a Besides eatin »?» what's Good Neighbor Polio*' ' Jones looked over his garden fence and beckoned to his neighbor. "I say, Smith," he said confidentially, "I understand .you -have Brown's lawn mower.'S ' V - "Yeah, what of it?" 1 "Well, if you'll let me borrow it occasionally, I'll let you use his rake and shovel." Sports Item Mother -- You were supposed to come home from the ball game in an hour, and you stayed nearly two hours. Boy--It really wasn't my fault, mother. I tried to steal home in the fifth inning, and they wouldn't let me. IB: GOT PLENTY! 'i*%!5T3 get along, and I guess he worried about things. I suppose that when a boy is raised by his grandmother it must be kind of a hardship for him. Maybe he doesn't get the same understanding other boys -do, maybe. . . . " "Bah! " The 'Old man laboriously lifted one leg over the other. "You've done everything for him since his own parents passed on; worked harder than anyone knows . . . except me ... to bring him up honest and decent, and you've done a fct Job, Lucy Ryan. Just happens some people keep more to themselves than others." Gntedma Ryan poured (he shining yellow batter into a round tin. "Ah, I tried my best, anyway, and I can't say that I'm not proud of my boy. But talking of girls, I suspect he still thinks about Ellen Mason. He always seemed to favor her. But she went off to the city to work and then the war came. I guess they kinrfa loat touch. She's home on a visit now, Mrs. Jordan tells me. She always was awful sweet. 'Course, peopk change some when they're away train home." Old Matt absently studied a red square in the linoleum as he sat in silence. His shaggy brows were drawn close together over his eyes. "Let me see now." He clapped his •®ee. "Aren't they having a dance at Town Club Sunday night?" "Yes. I mentioned it, but Dan di&n't seem to want to go. Said he'd rather stay home with me, but I finally got him to promise he would JltPP in for a while." »Ve'll see that Danny- does have some fun," Matt said. A? Dan came in his tanned face glowed from a fresh shave. He looked from one to the other of the old people. "Well, I ... I guess . I'M go." He bent to kiss his grandmother. Then he held his hand out Is Matt. "I'll walk to the gate with you," the old man said. "Want to tell you somethin', sort of man to man." He winked at his old friend, who sat Kindness of Churchman . Missed by Down-and-Outs NEW ORLEANS. -- He was the friend of the poor, the low in spirit and the down-and-out who flocked to the rectory of the Church of the Immaculate Conception. They called him "Dearie," and well they might, for he had handed out 135 loaves of bread to the less fortunate every day for the last nine yeafs. The poor of New Orleans* lost a great friend recently when Brother James Broderick, S. J., died at the age of 73, ending a long life that had been filled with charity and a goodness of heart. For several weeks after his death, Dearie's benefactors continued to ask for him. Upon being informed that he was dead, they would go slowly into the church to pray. His nickname had become so popular that even the parishioners had started calling him Dearie. His job was that of porter, but his cleaning duties were secondary to those of charity. After his death the priests found no clothes in his room at the rectory. Dearie had given them all away, even the new ones that had been bought for him shortly before he became ill. • Mr.--While I was out with the boys last night, a burglar broke .into our house. Neighbor--Did he get anything? Mr.--I'll say he did. My wife thought it was me! Something Missing Mother--Jimmie, you appear to have been at the jam again. - Jimmie -- Don't go by appearances, mother. Mother -- No, I go by disappearances. Rational Behavior Mrs.--Is it true that the butcher got so fed up with the meat shortage that he closed his shop and went on a vacation? Mr.--Yes, he's gone on a meat loaf. Maritime Service Will Give Training Courses* WASHINGTON. -- The maritime service-training station at Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, largest merchant marine training school in the world, will become a permanent installation*, Capt. H. H. Dreany, assistant commandant of the United States Maritime service, said here. The Station will provide one-month refresher and upgrading courses for unlicensed merchant marine personnel. Established in 1942 to train civilians in merchant marine entry ratings, Sheepshead Bay is to be one ,pf five permanent installations which will maintain "a trained and efficient citizen personnel" for the postwar merchant fleet, according to Captain Dreany. ' * Fleet Will Need 100,000 Men. Vice Adm. Emory S. Land, head of the Maritime Service, has anticipated a postwar merchant fleet of 17,500,OOOi tons, and Captain Dreany said such a fleet would require 100,- 000 unlicensed personnel. Men entering the merchant marine probably will be trained at the St. Petersburg, Fla., maritime school, he said. The merchant'marine academy at Kings Point, L. I., planned as a four-year "Annapolis" for merchant marine officers, will supply about one-fourth of the licensed personnel. Other officer candidates coming up through the nonlicensed ratings will take their training at Fort Trumbull, New London, Conn., and Alameda, Calif. During the war, 10,000 men were trained at one time at the 76-acre Sheepshead Bay station. There are seven barracks, each housing 1,360 men, and a ship's company barracks housing 834. At present, about 4,800 men are in training there. Captain Dreany said the maritime service will continue the present program for the duration of the shipping emergency. The new TNIF ktltsr IIHWII as "sed for the purpose ft ways. It belongs tothe: group of chemical substances that have crime to be recognised in recast years ss "plant growth regulating Substances," according to Dr. John W. Michel! of the department of agriculture. When sprayed on certain plants this chemical affects the whole plant rather than merely the parts sprayed as is true of some other weed killers. Finally, and of great practical importance, is the fact that it affects some groups of plants powerfully and has little effect on other groups. The name, 2, 4-D, is a popular abbreviation of the chemical term 2, 4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. Chemicals such as chlorates, arsenates and sulfamates have been used widely, particularly during the last 15 years, as effective herbicides or weed killers* They are very effective when properly used, but some sterilize the soil for a time--or in some 1 cases indefinitely. Some are poisonous to animals and all are more or less expensive. Also, they kill only those parts of the plant with which they come in contact. In contrast, "2, 4-D causes such abnormal development of some weeds that the whole plant, including the root, dies4 --even when the chemical is applied only to the top. It seems likely that 2, 4-D will be relatively inexpensive. Another peculiarity is that 2, 4-D is selective in action. It seems to have little if any harmful effect on most grasses. Thus, it seems prob-. able tnpt this growth regulating substance will prove useful on lawns to kill such weeds as dandelion and plantain without destroying • the grass in the lawn. Until further tests under way can be checked, the department of agriculture is being cautious in recommending the use of 2, 4-D in control of common farm weeds. But with the proper precautions, its use on lawns is recommended. OFFHR FULL COURSE twenty. Students of St Mary's Minor Seminary, Crystal Lake, who reside in five different states, have resumed classes following Easter vacation. «The students come from Illinois^ Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. Opened last September by the Franciscan Fathers in the former country club building, the first and second years of high school work are offered. This fall, a complete four-year high school course will be offered -with an enrollment of 75 to 100 resident students. In addition, the Seminary is open to day ptfpils who may be interested in becoming priests or who may show an apptitude for the priesthood. at O at MeHenry, I1L under / ' aet« Ma, *, 1879. • ' TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY Want Ads on Page Nine $10,090 DAMAGE SUIT _'A $10,000 damage suit has been filed in Lake County circuit court as1 the result of a brawl Jan. 13 in' which one man received a broken I leg and other serious injuries. The I Clarence Breunning, FOR SALE -- Sand, gravel blacfe «ffsn|re hU wife,° ^~S>ine8-»nd .Lawrence '-Truck •'la Vera, minor children: Clara, William and Kenneth. * FOR SALE and four Dorothy, E, RECKLESS DRIVING E. Swick, 15, of St. Charles, faced charges of reckless driving and failing to have a driver's license, as a result of his arrest last week after he had eluded Batavia police and j iffs mg Service. Tel. MeHenry 638-R-l* - W FOR SALE---Six-foot wall case cigar counter, $35. Good condition^ Telephone Wonder Lake 401. 4$' Fresh Cheese A good way to Mep cheese fresh is „ _ to store it in the refrigerator in a Kane county deputy sheriffs in a 90-1 cloth dipped in weak vinegar and mile-per-hour chase which covered then wrung dry. more than fifteen miles. Swick was apprehended at his home, officers having traced his identity through the license number of his father's car. Silk Culture ^ . In Parts of the United States rind Common Cold Is where climatic conditions are favor- U ,able for 8iUt culture, it has made . anortened by Penicillin , little progress because of high labor CHICAGO. -- Highly concentrated costs and the time and care which solutions of penicillin'inhaled as a are required. Recently, however, mist have brought complete relief, experiments in sericulture (silkto persons suffering fronp several, worm growing) have been made in respiratory infections, a medical in- j north central Texas and some cloth vestigator reported in the current ] has been woven from silk produced journal of the American Medical as- by home-grown worms. Silk was sociation. considered so important as a future Dr. Herbert N. Vermilye of Forest American industry, says the Nation- • Hills, N. Y., said in the publication al Geographic society, that Virginia that he hqd used the treatment Sue- j colonists in 1656 were penalized if cessfully on more than 200 patients they failed to plant at least 10 mulafflicted with inflammation of the lungs, tonsilitis, sinus trouble, sore throat, and bacterial asthma. A form of the drug known as aerosol penicillin, he said, inhaled through a mouthpiece or oxygen mask, has shortened the duration at colds by haltib^ secondary infec- JEWELRY THEFT Aroused from a sound sleep about 5 o'clock one morning last week jeweler Wfelter .W. Kardas of Crystal Lake was startled to hear the voice of a neighbor, Jack Washo, early-morning commuter to Chicago, inform him "someone has thrown a brick. through the window in your store." Hurrying down town, Mr. Kardas found the plate glass window had been badly broken and inside lay a brick. He informed the police and a check of the losses showed the following : Elgin watch, 21 jewel, $110; Elgin watch, 17 jewel, $60; Grant watch, 7 jewel, $39; three diamond rings valued at $100, $95 and $125. The jewelry was valued at $529. _ Scent Lingerie Toil can scent lingerie by sprinkling the ironing bqard with cologne before ironing. The pressed-in scent clings to garments. Farm Rejectees Farm youth, 18 and 19 years old, showed the highest rejection rate of any group in selective service for physical, mental and educational defects. Read the Want Ads tions. Long aad Short el II-- Wifle -- Does the newspaper give any description of the missing cashier? Hubbie--Yes, he was about 5 feet, 0 inches tall and about $70,000 short. Woman Asks for a Baby; , Finds One on Back Porch SEATTLE. -- A Seattle woman who, in a newspaper story, said she | never could have a baby of her own ! and asked aid in adopting one. found I the answer to her prayers in a • woodbox on the back porch of her homg. Mrs. Fred Kuhn told the Post-Intelligencer of her wish for a baby after two cases of abandoned infants aad been reported. learning ' --* I Returning from a day of visits to ,, . . . I possible baby donors, she and her belJnci^s th^nVvt !^ gatl?,e T red hls i husband found a 12-day-old baby girl ^ ft gU!SS ! sleeping quietly in the woodbox 88 f°r ! To the chil.fs. blaAke» was pinned My grandma is the best cook in tee world." Dan smiled. He paused »r a moment and looked at himself in the old stained mirror over his dresser. He squared his broad khaki shoulders. ."Have a good time last night?" Old Matt fingered a magazine lying on the bed. _ "She's going to write me, Matt, #e said so. Often." He turned toward the old man, trying to modify a smile by biting his lower lip "That so?" Matt tilted his head to one side, and tried to appear nonehalant. "Uh-huh. Starting Even She--I see by the paper that a boy who speaks six languages has just married a girl who speaks three. He--I'd say that is about the right handirap Winter Winds Myron--This is certainly terrible Weather! Byron--Yes, all it's fit for is conv e r s a t i o n . _ -- ; a note penciled in a school-girlish hand: "I read your story in the P.-I. And I can see that you will give the baby a good home. Attache^ to the baby is its formula. It was born September 7, 1945." History Lessoa Teacher--What did Caesar say when Brutus stabbed him? Boy--Ouch! = ^ Golf Yarn - Brother--I made a hole In oro* Sis--One stroke? Brother--No, one sock. Screams Rout Prowler As Rifts and Dog Fail VmCENNES, IND.--Mrs. George Wilson felt secure at night when her hysband was away from home, because she had a quick-action automatic rifle and a fierce watch-dog. But when a man' entered her home ops evening, both dog and gun failsd. The dog, aha discovered, was sound asleep. And when she pulled the trigger of the gun as the intruder advanced toward her, the hammer struck an empty barrel. Mrs. Wilson relied on a couple of blood-curdling screams to arouse her father next door, and the intruder fled. THANKSGIVING _ , I guess this helped." The boy unpinned a small bronze jmedal from his coat and handed it to Matt. The old man turned it over in his palni. "Yep. I guess the ladies all •Omire brave men. They never change, I imagine. Nop£," he said guess they haven't changed one bit since the day this nedal was pinned 00 my father by General Grant." „ % Hot Ireats Cai More than 40 flrei a day in the United States are caused by electric irons that have not been disconnected. - & Aolis 1m Pretela Twenty-three separate amino acids Yank Soldier Slops Jap ' Grenade but Loses Foot EAST MOLINE, ILL. - On the Villa Verde trail three miles out ot Santa Fe, Luzon, Pfc. Joseph D. Womack of East Moline used his head to save his life, but lost a foot in so doing. Now in McCloskey General hospital, Temple, Texas, the soldier said that he was on top of a hill his company had just taken and had gone down into a bomb crater with eight other men. Just then a Jap crawled up and threw a grenade in the hole. "I just slapped my foot down on it and shoved the grenade in the ground," he said, "When it exploded it blew off my foot." Mr.--May 1 have the afternoon i^ll to go shopping with my wife? Boss--No; certainly not! Mr.--Thank you very much. Extra Long Mrs. --I saw a swell show' ' this afternoon, but I couldn't stay for the last act. Mr.--Why not? Mrs.--They said it took place month later. Loose Nats Loose nuts cause delays and may result in expensive machinery repair bills. Lock washers can be had for those that keep loosening. lave been found in protein, and m is known that ten of them are Sissntlsl to life for the normal IMMV person as well as the Peer Hearing About 14 per cent of all the peopl( in the United States are hard of hearing in one or both ears, it is estimated. Probably 5,000,000 to 8,- 000,000 of these are seriously handicapped by poor hearing. Double Trouble Bess--I hear Jack's dad has two wives to support. Tess--You don't mean he's a bigamist? Bess--No, but Jack just vied. Japs Pay Yanks $1.33 a Package for Cigarettes TOKYO.--A growing black market is sweeping Japan despite orders by American and Japanese authorities prohibiting the fwrchase or barter of goods brought into the country by United States troops. Japanese merchants are paying soldiers 20 yen (about $1.33) for a package of American cigarettes, and reselling them. to tobacco-starved Japanese for as much as 40 yen. Japanese business men will pay 10 yen (about 66 cents) for a small package of sugar and 20 yen for a can of hash stew. berry trees to every hundred acres of land they owned. First sSUk mill on the western continent was built in Mansfield, Conn., in 1810, but there was a decline of silk production all over the country when a blight destroyed nearly all American mulberry trees in 1844. Shaded Daffodils Daffodils have become favorite material for those-so fortunate as to possess a bit of woodland. They flourish in shaded locations, coming into bloom under early spring sun before the trees have leaved out, and later the shade protects them so that they ripen their foliage and mature their bulbs without being prematurely ripened by hot summer sun. Another most effective practice is to tuck bulbs in vacant spots all over the garden between other perennials and under the edges of shrubbery so that in their season the daffodils give character to the entire garden, and then their leaves,, which are unsightly and floppy during their maturing period, are. concealed by the foliage of the perennials which mount above them and provide shade for the daffodils. For this purpose the older and cheaper daffodils and narcissi are ideal and furnish as fine an effect as can be obtained by the larger flowered and much more expensive modern ftybrids. YOUTH ARRESTED James Walter, 16, son of'Mr. and Mrs. John Walter of Barrington, was taken to the detention home in Chicago recently, following his arrest by Police Chief Ernest Baade on charges of unlawfully entering the home-of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nielson. James was accused of taking a large sum of money "about $120," he told chief Baade, from the -Neilsen home after securing a key to- the .place.--- NOTICE All bills against the estate of Edith Karls must be presented to me within the next sixty days. EVELYN KARLS MURPHY, 48-2 Executrix. Sals Costly Eats not only eat a lot of but cause hundreds of dollars worth of damage in tev^ry community for feed they spoil and other damage they cause. They may xstry disease and parasites. GREEN ST. UNNEA'S GAY GIFT PACKAGES are welcelhe everywhere. Cheerful and exciting PERFUMES at $1.00, $2.00 and $3.50. COLOGNES at $1.00, $2.00. GIFT SETS $1.00^ $5.50. FINE SACHETS, POWDBt MITTS, VANITY BAGS* CREAMS. LOTIONS and MAKE-UP. BOLGER'S DRUG STORE McHENRY 100* Wool *Shrink Controlled "9 Order yotlr Rubber Stamps at Th Plaindealer. Kissing Autoist Fined $30 in Fatal Accident GREENWICH, CONN.--Pvt. Stanley Hordeski, 24-year-old Stamford soldier, who Coroner Theodore Steiber found was kissing a girl in his car when the vehicle struck and killed Mrs, Caroline Dereski, 53, of Port Chester, N. Y., on July 15, was fined $30 in court on a charge of negligent homicide. Hordeski returned from his camp in Texas tc stand trial and Judge L. Paul Burke said he took that fact into consideration in imposing a light penalty. Jap Newspaper Predicts 4 Million Unemployed TOKYO, JAPAN.--The newspaper Asahi estimated that Japan would have 4,770,000 unemployed after demobilization of servicemen and war workers and repatriation of overseas Japanese. ' The government, Asahi said, is planning an ordinance to give first preference in employment to the demobilized men, and restricting which may be held by women. 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