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' :* ": • "- •*' ' "• "* ' '•• .""' " -/"i.;; •••*" ."" s , . v,V i-;." ., jf-s ' , , . > »-• \. £* ; t Piano T PLATER REP PfceM meww ADAM & JUNG 12 weefetock, m. Btaytng and , ^ Lonf Distance Hauling •~r. %. " * * - McHenry, HL XLFORD H. POUSE ; ftp *Attarney-at4«W Telephone No. 1M-B. SIMON STOFFEL Insnruee agent for all (ill--I «C property in the bwfc eompanie# W««t HeKory, IB. WEST McHENBY, ILLINOIS HAPPY PARTY OF BUSS IH6-H0RC DCU6HTTHIS TO ANY I I 1 -• * <:*'• '•"'V - ,.y. ¥¥7HAT conjures up « more delightful entertainment than the idea of a nice juicy roaat served with the proper vegetables. This market makes such dream* come true.^;.r-:-.t;.,.»'^.^ -4mA for Mr. FHETT'S' IKUKT (rancor ")MST.WESTNdfNif,IU.I IE 3 - wHf f\ Mi tf i ! j' * ^ V i, • 2 4';? N. P.-..JUNA b T. • J > ' • - > •" " I N AV t SPECIAL As a special favor to my old friends of UcHenry and surrounding territory, I will make, for the next four weeks, a special double thick cable temple frame, with a pair of periscopic lense for $5.00. These glasses will be only for reading and sewing. I have 5,000 of these frames on hand and offer them at one-half of the original price. No one needs to have trouble with t h e i r e y e s w h e n I g u a r a n t e e a f i t . 1 am at my McHenry office on Mondays only, from 1:00 to 3:00 p. m. Dr. C. Keller, McHenry, HL Buy Furniture Now at ' Leath's August Sale! . A. Leath Ac Co-. Stor^if * ; Etsrtn, 7>-74 Grove Ave. :- Rocltford. Opposite Court Aorora. 31-33 Island Ave. Dubuque, 576-SM Main St. Free port, 5-7 W. Main St. -• • y * Waterloo, 5M-5M Lafayette St. * ^ Belolt, 417-6JI Fourth St. ^ /oliet, 215-217 lefferson St. Janeaville, M2-2M, Milwaukee It Eau Claire, Masonic Temple. Osbkoab, 11-13 Main St. -Peoria, 325 South Adaau St. -V'. Decatur, 432-459 N. Water St. V You might just aa well save from 15 to 40 per cent--our sale reductions. You get the very best in furniture-- your choice of our regular stock at sales saving* noir. lto delivary charges, either. SOLON MILLS Still better a* You save when y ^son's. Will Brennan is rengo this week. Mrs. Emily Wellnian is on tile sick list at this writing. Let me put up your eve troughs before the next rain. J. J. Vycital. Mrs. George Turner entertained hear brother from Chicago over Sunday. Mr.* and Mrs. James Jackson were business callers in Woodstock Saturday. Mrs. Fannie Overton of Harvard is spending the week with Mrs. Adelaide Coates. Charles Westlake and Roger Lynn took in the races at the Hawthorn tracks Tuesday. Dr. Arnold Mueller of McHenry was called here to care for Mrs. Jos., Jackson, who is ill. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bell of Spring Grove spent one day last week in the A. C. Merrill home. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Aylward of Hebron were callers Sunday in the F. G. Reading home. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. F. Cowen of Harvard were callers at the C. L Osborn home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. P. Schaefer of McHenry were calling in the Cropley home one day recently. Lyman -Johonnott of Chicago is spending the week with his grandmother, Mrs. E. S. Johonnott Robert Chapman and Kenneth Turner of Elgin are spending the week with Harold Osborn on the farm. Mrs. Harry Turner and her three daughters from Woodstock are spending the week with Grandpa Turner. Mrs. Jack Pester and Mrs. Chet Nortker attended the funeral of the former's niece at Libertyville Friday. Mr. and Mrs. James McFarland of Chicago are spending this week in the home of Mr. and Mr*. E. E. Cropley. Mrs. Westlake and son, Charles, spent Sunday with the former's daughter, Mrs.. McCannon, at Wi!- mot. y Miss Mae Aylward returned home Sunday after spending the past several months with her aunt, Mrs. Margarft McCarthy, at McHenry. RINGWOOD fishing tackle *• at 1, J. Enroll I NOW 1 Stertsjfoulcmaid the OwnertUp ef A and in a short time you will have a car of your own. Then all "out-of-doors" will be yours to enjoy with your family. Think of the comfort, the pleasure happiness which will be yours. Buy your car under the terms of the For as little as $5, you can select the Ford you want and place your order at once. We will put this money in a local bank for you --at interest. Each week you add a little more. This also draws interest. Soon your payments, plus the interest earned, makes the car your own. Come inl Let us give you full particulars about this new plan. ~ • •*»". -* * * V -M- - * •? ' 4 rm s>*: #John R. Knox -;TW* Q*nfc Depoaltory lor rvA Weekly Pnrchaae Phut Payments Fox River Valley State Bank Gel your Vycital's . Shoes for every member of the family at Smith Bros.' Ladies' and children's white canva* slippers and oxfords at Erickson's, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Coates left here Tuesday for Paul's Valley, Oklahoma. Mrs. C. J. Jepson spent- the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clark Huson, at Elgin. Mr. and Mrs. Cal "Williamson and two daughters of Los Angeles, Calif., have been visiting Mrs. Williamson's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Justen are the proud parents of a baby daughter, born on Thursday last. She will answer to the name of Dorothy. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Bacon, accompanied by their guests, Mr. and Mrs. Emery and daughter from Iowa, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Bacon at Antioch. The Ladies' Aid society will have another bake sale pext Saturday, July 21. The sale will begin at nine o'clock at Hawley's store. There will J>e a good supply of home baking and the committee will be glad to supply your wants for Sunday dinners. Phone your orders to Mrs. Ed. Peet. The Mystic Workers' annual picnit; will be held at Starved Rock on Sunday, Aug. 5. The affair will be an old fashioned basket picnic and sports of various kinds will be furnished, including dancing, swimming and boating. There will be Mystics on the grounds who will take you to the various points of interest. Every member and friends are invited to attend. -- OSTEND Let Vycital do your tin work. Men's and boys' work and shoes at Erickson's store. Forty-three patterns to choose from in ginghams at Smith Bros.' Ernest Brott, wife and children were Sunday evening callers on {fiends in this neighborhood. A little nephew of Mrs. Hoppe's from Chicago is spending his sum mer vacation on the Hoppe farm. Mr. and Mrs. Hoppe have very much improved the looks of their car, A Reo, by giving it a fine coat of paint. Little Elma and Buddie Sherman saddled their pony and rode up to Grandpa Holbart'si Saturday and spent the night. We have been informed that Mr. Hendeslider, who resides on the farm known as the Brott farm, has been quite ill with tonsilitis. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Penn and ehil dren, who at one time lived on the Wall is farm, but now in Chicago, motored out last week and called on old friends. Joe Harrer had the misfortune to lose one of his best cows. Cause unknown. He found her in the yard in the morning, lying as though she were sleeping, but she was dead. SELLS INTEREST IN WOODSTOCK AMERICAN QHMIfft OF A CENTURY PLAINOF *5 YEARS AGO . County Judge C. P. Barnes of Woodstock has sold his interest in the Woodstock American to Editor Al. F. Hock, who is now the sole owner of that excellent publication. The Woodstock American is probably one of the best equipped country weeklies in the state and since its birth a few years ago has made rapid strides, progressively speaking. Mis* Mildred. Welch paaaad Saturday in the metropolitan city. u*' fv: F. L. McOmber is putting on a steel roof on the new addition to the Park hotel. Ed. Sutton had quite a quantity of hay burned by lightning on Tuesday evening. The work of driving the spiles at the Bishop mill dam is progressing favorably.-- The McHenry Creamery company is treating the factory in this village to a coat of paint. John J. Bishop and wife and John Heimer, wife and children are camping at McCollum's lake. A boat on Delavan lake, with twenty passengers on board, was sunk during the storm last night. The steam merry-go-round arrived here yesterday and will probably commence operations Wednesday evening. Mrs. Dr. Abt of this village re ceived the sad news on Monday afternoon of the death of a brother in Chicago. Frett Bros. & Witt are putting up a handsome new. awning in front of their market. Jacob Justen is doing the work. ^ L. H. Owen and wife, S. S. Chapell and wife of this village and H. Getxelman and wife of Elgin are camping at McCollum's lake. Simon S toff el is fixing up a fine new hall for Valley camp. No. 97, M. W. A. It will be one of the finest halls for that purpose in the county. ' Damage is reported from all parts of the country from the severe rain and wind storm on Tuesday night. In the city, of Chicago great damage is reported. The McHenry boys who enlisted a short time ago, will start from Chickamauga Rark today for Newport News, from whence they will embark for the front. * George Earing, one of Richmond's well known citizens, was missing from the morning of the Fourth until Tuesday, when his body was found on the Sheldon farm, about two miles south of town, in a clump of willows on the bank of the creek. . By the list of army appointments made by the president^ on Monday we learn that Lieut. Howard R. Perry was promoted from second to first lieutenant in the seventeenth U. S. infantry, which has been doing duty in the front at Santiago.' Another severe wind and thunder storm visited this section on Tuesday evening and for a white it looked as tho we were going to have a cyclone. IShe rain fell in torrents. In many places the corn was blown flat and in some instances broken completely off. Mrs. G. W. Besley, Miss Mamie Besley, Mrs. Walter Bentley, Miss Libbie Windiate, Mrs. Law and daughter, Mrs. Emma Phillips and son, Mrs. F. L. McOmber and children, and Mrs. B. Gilbert comprised a party who had a picnic at McCollum's lake on Thursday. Tlje following is the statement of the McHenry Creamery company for June, 1898: Amount of milk received, 449,811 pounds; amount of butter made, 19,189 pounds; amounf money received, $3,044.68. Average price received for butter, 15.86c; average yield per 100 pounds milk, 4.26; average cost of manufacturing, 1.5c; over run, 16; average price paid for 100 pounds of milk, 61.3c. During the thunder storm on Tuesday morning the new barn being built by Frank Martin on the Freeman Whiting farm was struck by lightning and damaged to considerable extent. The perline post was struck by the boljt and shattered badly, one piece being thrown fully fifty feet, and abo^t three thousand shingles torn from the roof. The barn was almost completed, was 40x64, and when completed would have been one of the finest in this section.. ADDITIONAL EXCHANGE j Excavation for the new Elks' building at Woodstock has been started. The annual appropriation ordinance: as passed by the Richmond village board at the last meeting of that body appropriates $5,450.00 for the current fiscal year. G. F. Steifenhoefer & Co. of Bar rington, manufacturers of automobile bodies and cabs, are arranging for a display of their products at the McHenry as well as Lake county fairs A committee from the Woodstock Chamber of Commerce is investigating tfee Holmes Disappearing Bed company with a view of inducing this concern to locate their plant at the county seat. The factory is now located in Chicago. According to last week's Harvard Herald, the increase in the price of milk will mean an increase to the milk producers in the Harvard territory of approximately $60,466 during the month of July over that received for the same month a year ago. The Harvard Food (Products company, occupying the former Borden plant at Chemung, is now. in its height of the canning season. The company has 680 acres of land planted to peas and as a result fifty-eight people are now employed at the factory. On account of the death of the administrator named in th#» will of the late William H. Harrison of Crystal Lake, Clayton Cunningham of Chicago has been named for the position. He has filed his bond in the sum of $160,000 in the McHenry county court. The Express Body corporation has started the erection of a 24x80 addition to its plant at Crystal Lake. The company, besides manufacturing express bodies for automobiles, also •• swings, furniture, bird baths and gardencraft of every kind. Ih order to maintain its present v*ry low fire insurance rate, Crystal Lake is called upon to add another new fire fighting truck together with additional hose. ^ The city( now enjoys the distinction of having the best fire insurance rate of any city of its size in the state. Pouring of cement has actually started on the Belvidere road .near Waukegan and recent reports are also to the effect that better progress is being made on the bridge across the DesPlaines river. It now begins to look as if this stretch of road, including the bridge, will be completed this fall. FOR SALE--Chick and chicken feeds of all kinds. McHenry Floor Mills, West McHenry, 111. 2-6t BABY odds ai horns, Rocks, paid. Send check for quick delivery. D. T. Farrow Chickeries, Peoria, 111. 5-3t "CHIX--Thorobred assorted id ends, consisting of Leg- Barred Rocks and White all full bloods. $8-100 post- FOR SALE--A 35 acre farm near McHenry Good improvements. Inquire 4>t Ben Stilling & Son, McHenry. 46 FOR SALE*--Team of horses, weight about 2600 pounds, nine and ten years old. Inquire of Jo*. J. Miller, McHenry. 6-tf FOR SALE--About 40 acre* of farm land. Elegant place for home. N. F. Colby, West McHenry, 51-tf FOR " SALE--Buick roadster Velie five passenger touring Stilling's garage, McHenry. and car. &-tf WANTED--General housework by woman with two year old Inquire at this office^ 6-lt young child. FOR SALE--Ten room Msidence, electric light, gas, water, new hot water boiler, modern in every detail, corner of Waukegan and Elgin road. Large sun parlor and sleeping porch. Will sacrifice to make quick deal. See R. Kent or Kent & flreen, Real Estate, McHenry, 111. &-tf WEINSCHENKER'S Community Express WHOLESALER IN SOFT DRINKS Draying and Long Distance Haalfaf done by the hour or j«k Furniture moved with cam If men of long experience. PHONE 35 McHENRY See How Go Here You want fresh groceries of the highest quality at the most reasonable prices. We give you what you want. Our satisfied customers are our high-, est recommendation. We sell the best on the market at the lowest possible prices. M. M. Niesen McHcnry Phone 40 FOR SALE--The Mrs. Anna K. Bishop estate, consisting of a tenroom house and three lots near Fox river. L. C. Bishop, McHenry. 48-tf FOR SALE--Store building and flat, located on Main street, West McHenry. A fine location and building in good condition. R. B. Walsh, McHeury, HI. 61 LOST--Triangle fraternity pin with three letters surrounded with pearls. Name, Dorothy Goll, on back of pin. Finder will leave at Plaindealer office and receive reward. 5-2t FOR SALE--The John A. Smith homestead of 169 acies. Two miles east of McHenry. Also for sale or rent the Lake Defiance farm. Stephen H. Freund, McHenry, 111. 3-tf FOR SALE--The Eva Meyers house and one lot located on Green street, McHenry. Information can be had hy addressing Mrs. Emory Herdklotz, 1129 C. Main St., Rockford, 111. 52-lt FOR SALE--Seven high grade Holstein cows to freshen in October. Herd is under federal supervision. Will sell subject to test. Also registered bulls, all ages. Earl Paddock, Round Lake, 111. Telephone 10-M- 2. 5-2t« FOR RENT--Six room flat, hot water heat, electric light, gas, toilet and running water, sun porch and screened back porch. Located in center of town. Very reasonable rent for desirable party. Inquire of Roy Kent or Kent & Green, McHenry, 111. Phone 84. 6 that Compete Its Owner to Save/ E GOMFHLS, but does it 2 In a way that to "pleasant to take." It makes saving cmrtedn and •are. The very ones who, in the past, have found saving difficult, will, with-- i The Coin Controlled Clock | m --find tt a simple.matter. J This attractive savings device is a desk clock S and home-safe in one. It keeps excellent time 8 for twenty-four hours before rewinding is B necessary, then, before It can be rewound, a 8 nickel, dime or quarter must be inserted. Thus, if the Coin Controlled Clock Is to-be of service aa a time-keeper, the owner Is compelled to add something to his savings •very ttingh defy. Secure one of these attractive clocks today. • FOX RIVER VALLEY STATE BARK McHENRY. ILL. OKJ-KleA© •30. wit The Standard of Comparison Four Buick Roadsters To Select From-- ~ $ - This distinctive Buick Sport Roadster is an excellent example of the skill t&at Buick has displayed in developing roadster types for ail motoring tastes and requirements. Both in the four and six cylinder models the ' Buick line of roadsters provides a wide range of selection for those who desire the intimacy Of this particular design. \ ' ^ Whether for business, professional use or for pleasure driving there is a Buick roadster * suitable and perfectly adapted to. the need. ^ N P-SMt-Nf OVERTON & COWEN c^llcHENRY, ILL. HARVARD, ILL^ /WHEN BETTER. AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT. BUICK WILL BUILD THEM •m Si.-,' V