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: Wmm m'SffiSIMmi Ute^t • MM1 rifv rourzsBXi ^THE McHENRY Mr. and Mrs. RUsseU GahJifte^ and family have just returned* from a vacation at' Eagle River, Wis. fWM< 1811'H SPRING GROVE Congratulations to our Girl Spout troop, which won first prize for their exhibit at the McHenry county fair in Woodstock. They had an exhibit on trees showing various types of trees and their products and uses. Second prize also was awarded them on demonstration -- the singing of their song. We heard them from the fair grounds on radio Friday afternoon and might say we are very proud of them. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Miller and family are enjoying a Vacation in Stacyville, Iowa, this week. Those who enjoyed a swim party and picnic at Cedar Lake Tuesday night were Mrs. Frank Tinney and Kitty, Mrs. Charles Freund, ban and Vic, Mr. and Mrs. John McGovem and Richie. ' Mr. and Mrs.. Charles Freund and Vic attended the all-star game of, the Pony league at Antioch Saturday afternoon. Dan Freund was one of the boys chosen for the team. They witnessed a real ex~. citing game and to make it eveft better our team won 4 to 3. Mrs. Helen Smith is a patient at Michael Reese hospital, Chicago. Happy Birthday to Judy Olson, Beverly Adsit and William Shotliff. Happy birthday to Judy Olson, Beverly Adsit and William Shotliff. Mr. and Mrs. Tom McCabe of Waukegan were visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Freund on Wednesday night. Tom Jessie, Katherine Tinney, Richard Smith and Joan London spent Sunday at Wisconsin Dells, They greatly enjoyed the boat trips through the upper and lower Dells. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Buch are enjoying a vacation in northern Wisconsin this week. Mr. and Mrs. William, Shotliff, Mrs. Alice Wagner and Mrs. Nell Hawkins attended the Shotliff family reunion and picnic at Macktown, Rockton, 111. last week Sunday. Mrs. Nell Hawkins, * who has been visiting Mrs. Alice Wagner this summer, has returned to her home in Phoenix, Ariz. MORE THAN 3.000 I MOTORISTS APPLY FOR NEW LICENSES More than 3,000 motorists requested replacements last week for license plates from which the paint« has peeled, Secretary of State Charles F. Carpentfer said, recently. This brings the total number of replacements up to 18,- 000. Mr. Carpentier again urged motorists to take advantage of the manufacturer's offer to replace defective plates free of charge, sothete can be no question of full compliance with the law. All that is needed to obtain replacements is a postcard or letter to the secretary of state's office., stating that the paint has peeled from the plate, and listing the license number and the owner's name and address, Secretary Carpentier said. THOSE WERE THE PAYS 'you KNOW 'THOSEf WERE THE: DAYS' CMAd IBIUTY./ GETTING INTO? IN-LAW By ART BEEMAN NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH by Arnold WHAT ANA X GETTING INTO? HOSSFACE HANK DISEASE DECREASE A report by Dr. Roland R. Cross, director of 'Department of Public Health, showed decreases in Illinois in many major communicable diseases, including polio, for the first half of 1957. YOO-HOO - COWBOY I WILL YOU COME HERE, PLEASE l DON'T WANT TO SEENV-\ -- IF HE JUST BUNKS His EVE/ rg, Reletatd by Smith Servks y N. j. /^THERE IS SOMETHING SO^ \VNMIILUDU /AMNNUD RKOVJMIVAi AN|NT IIICU • ABOUT A COWBOY/ J 2>> ( AW-wA I GOSH, A. v. miss-- 5 By FRANK THOMAS /^AND VOU ARE SO CAPABLE.. .THERE SEEMS" TO BE NO JOB YOU ARE ^AFRAID TO TACKLE ^ ^punctured The milk that Illinois school children drink under the special school milk program would make an unbroken row of half-pint cartons from Chicago to Los Angeles and back again. SONNY SOUTH By COURTNEY ALDERSON CONVENIENT HOURS FOR DEPOSITING YOUR SAVINGS BENCH CUSHIONS BENCH CUSHIONS BENCH CUSHIONS HOUSE LOUNGE RURAL DELIVERY By AL SMITH Fridays Other Weekdays 9 A.M. io 9 P.M. 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. CLOSED WEDNESDAYS EARN UP TO A°/ SAFETY! THRU FEDERAL INSURANCE 1 SAFETY SAVINGS I'M NO LITTLE DUMBBELL/ I'M SMART/ ,1 WANT AN INTELLIGENT JOB' I GOT CHA A GOOD JO&I SURE. I WANT A JOB-BUT NOT ANV OLD JOB/ T pv a I. WANT A JOB WHERE I CAN (JSE MV HEAD/j AMUSE PARI O.K. I HIT THE MAMWlTHAHeA| AND WIN A " LITTLE FARMER McHENRY SAVINGS and Loan Association 8^6 W. Elm PHONE 2 McHenry Farm Service Way A U C T I O N HENRY FREEMAN Auctioneers WILBUR KUECKER Having purchased a farm and personal in northern Wisconsin, the undersigned will sell at Public Auction on the Alden - Woodstock Blacktop - 1 Mile So, of Alden, 111., or 9 miles No.-of Woodstock, 111., or 5% miles East of Harvard, llL, or 6 miles S.W. of HebrOn. Wednesday, August 14 1057, Sale to Start at 10:00 A.M. D.S.T. Lunch served by Ladles Aid 69 Hi-Grade Holstein Cattle Mostly Vaccinated - this is a young Hi producing Herd -1st • 2nd • 3rd calf - An outstanding opportunity to purchase the best In a working dairy herd. 5 1st calf Heifers are Registered. 45 COWS -- 20 fresh and springing. Bal. to freshen, this fall and winter. 10 Heifers, Bred, • 7 Springers; 13 Heifers, 5 mos. to 1 yr.; l! bull, Holstein. MILK EQUIPMENT--1 Surge milking machine; 3 new style Surge units, 6 mos. old; 30 no. 8 milk cans; 2 wash tanks, 1 water heater; pails and strainers. POULTRY--90 Leghorn hens. POULTRY EQUIPMENT--Brooder house; feeders; fountains; etc. GRAIN, HAY, FEED--1800 bales 1st crop alfalfa hay; 5 ton loose alfalfa hay; 3000 bales oat and barley straw; 3500 bu. Nemaha Oats; 500 bu. old ear corn; 97 acres standing corn; 9 ft. ensilage in 16 ft. silo. 2 TRACTORS--1 1956 McD "40Q" fully equipped like new - about 600 hours; 1 McD Super "H" live lift - 1500 hours, A-l condition; 1 tytaD no. 455 Quicktach Cultivator. TRACTOR EQUIPMENT--2 McD tractor gang plows, 4-16 inch with ram, No. 16 Hevi duty on rubber - McD. 2-16; 1 McD tandem <$isk wheel, No. 37 - 1956; 1 New Idea manure spreader, less than one yfear old, No. 19; 1 McD 7 ft. field digger; 1 Harvey hammer fll with traveling feed table; 1 - 100 ft - 6 in. rubber drive belt; New Idea 7 ft. power mower; 1 Mc-D "45" P.T.O. hay baler, 3 years old; 1 U.S. Grain blower with truck hopper; 1 McD £*Tow* corn planter with fertilizer attachment; 1 McD "64" - 6 ft. combine * with motor and starter. FARM MACHINERY--1 - 4 row rotary hoe; 1 stock tank; 2 lavivoi j. iw icitw » j. i'cw luca t Ual rdKc S1CI0 QCl|VGryj 1 McD 8 ft Windrower; like new; 1 Farmway 40 ft. weed sprayer; 13 rolls snow fence; 1 overhead gas tankt 2 silage carts; 2 feed bunks; 1 English road bicycle like new. Usual friendly Farm Service Way terms available to all farmers. RALPH FELDT Farm Auction Service Inc. "Auctions that Pay are Managed the Farm Service Way" . gABM AUCTION SERVICE, Inc., Lake Geneva, Wis.., Clerking By K£KN PEUfcKSUW OFF MAIN STREET w j I I i I' WATCH VOUR LOCALTEAM / Ol| »• * \Xi'. v By JOE DENNETT VOD M HOW C6ULDI ? WGOOD GRIEF/ NO WONDER ^ SHOULDA ] HE HIT THAT ' ITS SO HARD TO PITCH PITCH OF YOURS OVER THE FENCE/ DEEMS FOR THIS TEAM ! EtfERV ONE'S GOT AN EXCUSE I K*icitt4 by Smith Scrvke By TOM OKA GRANDPA'S BOY nt&etN <m'\w - V, * -An o By BRAD ANDERSON XTHINK IN6EP A "BATH, i STOMP 1vi6h*WOfeLb? tMlS OLD GlA>lT ELM TREE 6TUMP STILL STANDS IN Worms, <3ermanq-- ACCORDING TO government RECOROS/ THIS TREE WAS , . 6KQWWG 86POR6 I&H Aft. // Human bcinqs can etand tewparatuws HOT enouqh to GRILL A STBAK / <2Soj OP TWS Aie \$ DRV, AMC> ENOU&M WATER IS COMSUWBD) (J^HEN THE VOLCANO KRAKATOK EXPLODED INJ I83S, TWE Sound of ITS EXPLOSION WAS £ HEARD' SOOO MILES AWAV// •v ©AW C10CEETT fc MAYBE REAL THROW "_r C0MPf0tJc3^ Uncle c Tod Bolton says that when his wife gits all wound up she always runs him down. •• • • • Many a chap who just start* out to take a shot, ends up loaded. • * • With a little practice a woman kin stay around twenty* five years old for yeari • • • Nothln' kin scare a feller like a kid headin* for him on roller skates. • • • Plant a few seeds of kindness and you always git a good crop in return. • • • What we really need to end wars is united notions. (Ciwsssw©^ Some farmers are glttin' paid for not plan tin' crops that they didn't intend to plant in the first place. * • • Tubby Tyler's wife says that Tubby Just gorges his meals and she "just don't like gorgeous men. • • • A young feller don't have to be good lookin' if he's got a convertible. • • • : If yon do have the right of way and the other feller has a truck, you're stuck. • • • A bigamist is just a feller that loves two well. --BEV. CHARLEY GRANT E-2-55 ACROSS I. Dread 6. Footf of antma! 8. Caudal appendage 12. River in Italy .13. Before 14. Arm bone 15. Ragged 17. Evil glanc« 18. Composition 19. Desired 21. Spread to dry 23. Likely 24. Contest of ipeed 27. Egg; shaped 30. Anger j 33. Entire 34. Brings up 35. Not. prefix 36. Tiny 37. Italian community 38. Old . 39. Mimic 41. Salt 43. .Released frpm prison 47. Dry measure 51. Above 52. Hardened _ 54. For fear that 5a. Rorn 56. Ceremony 57. Worthless parte 58. Craft 59., Observed * DOWN 1. Destiny 2.=P«fiods of tint* 8. 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