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*WICE TOLD •f hteirt Mat fruit the Pile of the Plaindealer i «f Years Afo ^ TWENTY-FIVE TEARS AGO , Ed Nordin has rented the Mrs. Widget Relihax farm, south of tt>wn and will move onto? the place ijeyt spring. •-j| -- x |[ Miss Jennie Mae Cooley is asbating at the L. A. Ericksop store arlng the Christmas rush of business. • " '» • The milt pond is now Covered rith a good thickness of ice and fVers of the sport are enjoying excellent skating Uutt--the lace affords. ;*•/> I John Karls, "who 'tints- a short pme ago conducted a restaurant Ifclsiness in the John J. Buch llock. this week purchased the Jps- J. Rothermel building on Riverside Drive, wherein he expects to open about Christmas a light lunch room and confectionrORTY YEARS AGO LA large barn raising took place cb the James Carey farm south of "tlpwn Tuesday afternoon. Over fifty meD assisted in pier forming the feat. Theo Blckler, who has been an tpnployee at the Plaindealer during the past one and one-half years, has resigned his position fnd taken up work on -the Wood- <^tOck Republican. Butter went up a *Mt,,and a half on the Elgin boarosjoif trade Monday and was quotectat 31% cents. Dr. W. C. Beslev of Woodstock recently stepped onto a aail, the accident necessitating him a walk on crutches for several days. FIFTY YEARS AGO On Tuesday evening at a' ilieet- Sfcig ot the business men's association, the following permanent officers were elected; President, John Evanson; Vice President, George Hanlev; Secretary, Wm. Stoffel; Treasurer, O. N. Owen; Bxcutive Committee, John Evan- •on, T. J. Walsh, Dr. C. H. Feg- •rs, H. C. Mead and A. S. Parks. On the Elgin board of trade Monday, butter advanced one cent over last week, 97 tubs sell- ^ jftTT at 26% cents: ! , The faif held in Stoffel's hall t|nder the auspices of the mem- Patrick's church was a The total receipts .92 and expenses $192.63 netting $892.29. Hon. P. K. Granger and wife celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of their marriage qn Saturday last. They spent the day very jg^jleasaatly in Chicago.' SIXTY YEAKH A«l - * Geo. W. Colley and family will depart for their new home in Vir» 4|inia, the last of next week, llis foods have been shipped. Birth of Free Speech One of the important events of the Colonial period was the trial in • 1735 of John Peter Zenger, New York City publisher, for seditious i^Vbel for having criticized the , {British government in his weekly I- . fiaper. His acquittal by a jury was | |t pioneer victory for freedom of : Speech and the press. Subscribe for" The PlalndCttlfirr fir • NKW LOCOMOTIVES • NEW ROLLING STOCK • NEW ACCESSORIES COMPLETE SETS $18.95 to $199.5 ACCESSORI Illuminated S No. 132 $8.95 tr Flood Light Toww No. 395 ** $3.95 Non-Deraili Remote Control Switches No. 022 $18.75 pr. Train, Blaster Transformers $13.95 to $22.95 ' • * * .. ^ f £uy on our Convenient Lay Away Plan KexC^oor to Bank • McHenry M0-Yur-0M 'News Map* Aequircd by Yalt Colltgc One of the earliest examples of *n American "news" map--dating back almost 140 years--has been presented to the Yale university library. - Tf"he map, which was made on August 20. 1813, shows the New London, Conn., area and the blockading of Long Island Sound and the Thames river by the British during the War of 18i2. Announcement of 'this latest acquisition was made by Alexander O. Vietor, curator of maps in the Yale library. The map was presented by C. Sanford Bull, Yale Class of 1893, of Middlebury, Conn. The map was drawn by Amos Doolittle of New Haven. Only three other copies of it are known to exist: one belonging to the American Antiquarian society, of Worcester, Mass., and the other two in private hands. In describing the newly-acquired map, Vietor pointed out the oddity °f its being dated to the exact day, a practice on war maps which came into popularity about the time of World War I.' By checking through history books and old newspapers, Vietor learned that on August 17, three days before the map was made, the British frigate "Orpheus" and "Ramillies" took up a position off New London, where they are pictured along with ar, unidentified sloop , on Doolittle's ir>,ap. The purpose of this move was to bottle up the American frigates, the "United States" and the "Macedonian," and the sloop-of-war "Hornet." The three U.S. vessels are shown lying off Gales Ferry, present- day site of the Yale crew's bathhouse. The "Hornet" was the only American craft able to run the British blockade. The two frigates, which had been captured from the British, remained in the Thames River off Gales Ferry throughout the remainder of the war. Commodojre Stephen Decatur, of Tripoli fame, was in charge of the American squadron. Hard Waltr Difficulty S«l»»d by Wafer Sotttntr "As right as rain" is an old saying especially true with soft water. For rain water, unspoiled by minerals and bad odors picked up on the ground, is the perfect kind of water for laundering, food preparation, dishwashing, and bathing. Hard water, filled with minerals, iron, acids, and unpleasant odors or tastes, is hard on the budget and means more work. Unfortunately it is difficult to get pure rain water in adequate quantities for household use. Rain water in the usual type of cistern is contaminated by dirt on the roof and eaves. Water can be softened by automatic softeners. Softeners usually pay for themselves within a year *>r two tt<ecaiuse~of their saving ftp soap alone. A family of four can save $28 or more in soap a year if they have soft water. Hard water causes complaint from homemakers because it leaves a sticky scum on dishes, glassware, washing machines, bathtubs, and other plumbing. The more soap you use to cle^n off. this scum, the higher your cost of living goes. Hard water difficulties can be eliminated in homes today by the installation of a zeolite water softener. Such a softener removes all lime and magnesium and converts the water into one with no trace of -hardness. A zeolite water softener consists of a tank which contains the zeolite mineral. This tank is connected to the house piping; after flowing through the zeolite the water leaves the tank and then flows to the faucets. Complete line of Beebe* livestock remedies at Wattles Drug Store, Me- Henry. S-t< Early EtkbM Wkala Hwrt DaplcM •« Wkala MM A pictograph on whale bone of an ancient Eskimo whale hunt was among the choice relics of a longvanished culture <Sf migrating Eskimo obtained by Dr. Henry B. Collins. Jr., of the Smithsonian institution and his assistant, J. P. Mich^a of the National museum of Canada, in stone ruins on far northern Cornwallis island in the Canadian Arctic archipelago last summer. This site, lying near the 79th parallel, is one of four old villages with well-preserved' remains of stone and whale-bone houses. Within historic times the region has been entirely uninhabited. Collins' excavations, the first to t>e made in the northern part of the Canadian archipelago, showed that the villages were built, perhaps about 500 years ago, by whale and walrus hunters who were doubtless ancestral to some of the present- day Eskimos. They represent what is known to Eskimo ethnologists as the "Thule culture," which had its origin in northern Alaska. They were primarily whale hunters. They lived in excellently constructed stone-floored, stone-walled houses with roof supports and beams of whale bone. Collins found one house in which four large whale skulls had been incorporated in the walls. They took the place of large stones. Any precise dating of the ruins is impossible at present, Collins says, but the culture must have been flourishing at a time when conditions in this part of the far North were better suited to human habitation than is the case today. Apparently there was an abundance of bow head whales. Now there are none. Considerable use was made of driftwood. Now it is unknown on Cornwallis Island. This indicates that ice or current conditions must have been different some centuries ago. ----- Laundry Supplies III addition to supplying M per Cent of the wash goods by laundries each year, cotton is of vital importace in the manufacture of laundry supplies, last year providing 115,000 bales for laundry in* dustry use, the National Cotton council reports in a new survey of cotton in the laundry industry. Suhwibe for The Plaindealer. How It Started- A water jug started a fire up in Danbury, Conn. The hot rays of the sun were magnified by the gla&£>, and focused upon wood, which bufst into flame. • In Portland, Oregon, a light switch caused $60,000 damage An engineer went down into the basement to investigate a gas odor, and, turned on the light. The spark from the switch .set off an explosion which wrecked the building and injured the engineer : Static electricity from I man's body was blamed for a fire in an Indianapolis paint factory. 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