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> ^ y cW( ' • *? .^ * «• ><^i '^PUPPP1^WjPiJt #SiPW^|^^^ipp THE M'HENKY FLAINSKALXR, THURSDAY, OCT ,,. ^'.T'sgi- <f---ra": «3ijr 'p^';'x:-p . 14, 1830 »t / * ; i ^ • * jv - * t ••%.' -~v. .-. « * -. F „ > -.? •• • . -•&•*•• •-; . " ssamrw & v Farm Loans 5%, 5Vi% or 5V2%, depending on value of land per acre . Prompt .Service SAVINGS BANK . vi ^ KEWANEE Kewanee, Illinois „ ' ~ W. KLONTZ, M. D. Physician and Surgeon (Abo treating all diseases of the Eye, • Bur, Nose and Throat and doing • -" Refraction) Office Hoars--8 to 9 a. in., 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays by Appointment Office at Residence--Kent Home-- Sooth of City Hall, Waukegan St. Phone 181 McHenry, 111. WM. M. CARROLL ^ " Lawyer •.' - ^?|;. 1 S Office with Kent & Company Every Wednesday Phone 34 McHenry, 111. (Telephone No. 108-R. Stoffel & Reihansperger Insurance agents for all classes of property in the best companies. WEST McHENRY, :: ILLINOIS ~ jTwTworth PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT - .Audits Systems Income and Inheritance Tax Matters Memiber of - Public Accountants Association of Illinois Phone 206-J McHenry, I1L Phone 126-W. Reasonable Rates A. H. SCHAEFER Draying - McHENRY, ILLINOIS Insure--la Sore--Insurance WITH Wm. G. Schreiner Auctioneering u OFFICE AT RESIDENCE .• Vfcone 93-R McHENRY, llL KUNZ BROTHERS Local and Long Distance Hauling Phone 204-J McHenry, 111* "RE-DISCOVERING ILLINOIS" :• By LESTER B. COLBY, Illinois Chamber of Commerce Chicken Feeds We jarry a full line of chicken feeds for baby chicks and laying hens. We manufacture some of our scratch feeds and mashes, and can sure , you money. ^ Sr Manufactured Ifj MiHeiif) flour Mills ^ Wei' McHenry, 111. Drs. McChesney & Brown (INCORPORATED) DENTISTS Dr. L W. Brown Dr. R. M. Walker Established over 45 years and still doing business at the old* stand. Pioneers in First Class Dentistry at Moderate Prices. Ask your neighbors *Tid friend* about vs. S. E. Oor. Clark & Randolph St. 145 N. Olark St., Chicago Daily 8 to 5, Sundays 9 to 11 Phone Central 2047 666 $ 'ft m Pi- Is a Prescription for GOLDS, GRIPPE, FLU, DENGUE, BILIOUS FEVER AND MALARIA. It kills tfee genu. DR. HARRY O. RAND^r and Staff of Physicians Office over Bolger's Drug Store Hours: 10 to 2 every Thursday and Saturday McHENRY, ILL. < Do you know where the first gasoline engine in all the world was built? Go to Sterling, Illinois, and local historians there will tell you, ready to take oath that what they say is true, that the first interna combustion engine, operated on gasoline, was built in the plant of the Williams & Orton Mfg. Co., now the Chwter Gas Engine Co. of Sterling. They will like to tell you about it. Sterling and Rock Falls are in reality one city, straddling the Rock river, and since their beginning have been the home of men skilled in the mechanics of metals. Many of these artisans, originally from the east, visited the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. One of the startling contrivances there was a mechanical marvel. It was an engine that operated on gas. It made a great impression on the minds of J. B. Williams and B. E. Orton. Gasoline was a waste product then run into streams or burned in flares to get rid of it. If an engine could be run on gas why not on gasoline? Orton and Williams'went to work on it. That was quite a time back. John D. Rockefeller was only 36 then and Standard Oil, as a trust, was not born for another six years. Henry Ford was thirteen, a school boy in Greenfield, Mich. Harry F. Sinclair was only born that year. Yet how the gasoline engine was to effect tneir fortunes! They tell me in Rock Falls and Sterling that Henry Berger, mechanic, now dead and gone and little rewarded while he lived, did more than any other man to bring that first gasoline engine into existence. Unfortunately there seems to be no written record of the years it took or the money it took --but an engine finally ran. Legend has it that this first engine was sold to Larrtrence Bros., makers of builders' hardware, in 1886, that they paid $1,000 for it, and that it ran in their shop until 1892 when it was yanked out for one of newer design. Original patents, I am told, were taken out in the name of John Charter who got control of ttie firm and renamed it the Charter Gas Engine Co., a name it now bears. It is interesting to not that this company which specializes in stationary engines, is now making a heavy-oil engine--pioneering again for crude oil is now the cheap fuel as was gasoline in the beginning. I mentioned builders' hardware. Fifty years ago John H. and Edwin F, Lawrence kept a hardware store in Sterling. Then they began tdfc make barbed wire and builders' hardware. They prospered. Others followed in. Steel barn door hangers - were one of their first offerings to the trade. Today Rock Falls and Sterling comprise one of the largest centers for builders' hardware in all the central west. The most of the men who entered the business came out of the Lawrence plant or the engine factory. Finally came more complicated machinery and wood working grew up. Have you ever heard of the machine that makes fat women thin; fat men, too. The machines sell for $1,000 each and . 240 have been made--$240,000 for making lean ladies out of bulbous ones! And an order is in for twenty more machines. The Fort Dearborn Mfg. Co., of Sterling, makes 'em. The inventor, I was told, got the idea when he came home one day and found his wife rolling on the floor. This company makes any sort of special machinery. One now being turned out is a candy machine; 9,000 pieces of candy a minute, 450 machines made and sold! This machine's specialty is candy shaped like raspberries, cucumbers, peanuts, bananas and peas. One cough drop company has just ordered fifteen of them. Figure the cough drops j»t fifteen times 9,000 a minute! When a veneer taping machine was invented the world's market was estimated at fifty machines. That was to be the saturation point. But more than 1,000 have been sold to date. It's a busy world. If there is money in the mechanical de-fattening of over-stuffed ladies there's also money in bobbed hair. Leo J. Wahl is building an 18-room house in Sterling. He is reported well on his way to his first million. As a boy he never paid much attention to girls or other frivolous things. War came and he joined the Big Parade. Army officers discovered genius in him and he was assigned to laboratory work. He invented a new type of electric hair clipper. Simple and different, it is said already to have saved the barbers of the United States and Canada not less than $6,000,000 in investment. The clipper plant employs forty people. Bobbed hair and war did it. The well known World War used millions of pounds of Sterling barbed wire, too. But whether the war was won by barbed wire or the Carolus barbed wire cutter is a mooted question in Sterling today. Dr. W. B. Carolus, a practicing physician in Sterling, invented a tool which will snip off a bolt or wire in a twinkle up to three-fourths of an inch in diameter. Lloyd Carolus, his son, went overseas and 50,000 of the doctor's wire cutters went too. Uncle Sam's soldiers as a result waded through the .entanglements catting them like butter. Ever hear of grave stones being sold by mail. Walter J. Moore, of Sterling, conceived the idea of merchandising monuments by mail thirty years ago. The business today is large. He ships all over the United States. , Another company makes limousine hearses. That business grew up when wagon-making became decadent. But vje will turn to livelier things. One of the outstanding developments in Sterling is the wooden toy industry. Rock Falls is the home of the Hustler toys and other toys; wooden dogs that run and bark, wooden beads in many colors, little wooded crews that Tow boats. Used to be that Europe made our toys, cheap tin soldiers and pewter uhlans, tin wagons and fire engines. They fell to pieces in no time. American wooden toys are running them out of the market. American wooden toys cost more but they last better and save many tears. Clare A. Wentzel, normal training school teacher, is credited with being the father of the top industry in Sterling and Rock Falls. The top business used to be seasonaly, limited to Christmas trade. Today it is an all year business, due largely to more freedom with pioney, more travel and summer relMirt development. Yet one plant in Rocfti. Falls has 500,000 toys ready for the holiday trade. Ever hear of a gladiola farm. Roy E. Shelley as a boy loved to hunt and fish. The outdoors was his. After he was graduated from high school in Sterling he went back to his father's farm, overlooking the Rock river east of Sterling. One day he planted thirteen gladiola bulbs! Those thirteen bulbs changed the way of his life> This season he shipped out to the world about 5,000,000 gladiola bulbs. Edgewater farm, with fifteen acres of blooms, is today one of the show places in northern Illinois. Shelley is called the "gladioli king." It is no uncommon thing for t Sterling postoffice to handle 2,5i boxes of gladioli bulbs, outbound, in a day. More go out in barrels and wooden boxes by freight. It was work the boy loved and it has all grown up in a dozen years! Sterling markets other farm products. Sterling on a tomato is like sterling on silver. Sterling brand tomatoes are highly prized on the Chicago market, so much so in fact that complaints have been made of other communities misbranding their tomatoes and using the name to gain higher prices. A few miles out is a great musk melon center. The J. M. Paver company has a cannery in Sterling. This year it canned the products of 2,700 acres of rich farmland. All in one field that would be a strip a quarter mile wide and seventeen miles long. Sixty-five acres were devoted to carrots, 100 to lima beans, 125 to pumpkins, 911 to peas and 1,500 acres of corn. Diversification has made this district prosperous. Not only diversification in farming but in manufacturing. Builders' hardware, metal products, machinery, tools, gas and gasoline engines, woodenware, toys, gravestones, hearses, hairclippers, and many other things. Hezekiah Brink, first settler, who came here in 1834 and who used to tell the story of how the wolves broke into his cabin and stole his food, would hardly know the place. They say there are fifty-seven twists and turns in the Lincoln Highway between Sterling and Dixon. The Lincoln Highway follows Hezekih's footsteps. He hewed the trail out, cutting the easiest pathway. The Lincoln Highway through Sterling township is paved with brick. You'll know when you get there if you travel the road by that. This brick predates concrete. It was the first stretch of paving on the Lincoln highway west of Chicago. The brick is a monument to Sterling's precocity in roadbuilding. To 1 d Tales Interesting Bits of News Taken Froai the Columns of the Plaindealer Fifty and 1 r J *•{ H CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS Council Room, Oct. 4, 1926. The city aldermen met in regular session Monday evening with Mayor Wattles presiding. Aldermen present, Doherty, Frett, Frisby, Hughes, Overton and Thennes. The minutes of the last regular meeting were read and approved. The following bills were read and approved by the finance committee: Knox Motor Sales, painting signs $ 1.50 Joe Engeln, cement walks, etc 21.50 Jno. Walsh, marshal services for Sept 115.00 Jno. Walsh, services at sewer 15.00 Geo. Meyers, hauling gravel 21.00 Western United Gas & Electric Co., Sept. gas bill .65 Wm. Aherns, lbr. on streets 8.00 Jno. Pint, marker Jframe and iron bar 5.0$ H. L. Fisher, grading 8.^1 Libertyville Independent, print-' ing arrest notices (ordered by Manczak) 4.50 Wm. Althoff, 1 shovel 1.00 N. J. Justen & Son, 1 doz folding chairs 18.00 Public Service Co., power for sewer lift 94.77 Public Service Co., street lights..l09.02 Public Service Co., mushroom lights 5.00 Public Service Co., street lights..l 18.83 Public Service Co., traffic lights 17.60 Public Service Co., city hall JO D. I. Granger, salary to Sept. 15, 1926 40.OO Carey Elec. Shop, lbr. and material 25.43 Chas. S. Ensign, lbr. on W. W... 18.75 John Malch, 4 weeks lbr. on streets 80.00 R. F. Conway, postage, phone calls, paper clips, etc 2.60 Valvoline Oil Co., 3 gal. Turbin oil ~ SjOO Public Service Co., power for electric pump 41.50 Jno. J. Vycital, turpentine, etc. 1.30 Motion by Doherty, seconded by Frisby, that the city issue an anticipation warrant for the amount of $2,500.00 to take care of any outstanding bills against the city of McHenry. Motion carried. Motion by Overton, seconded by Thennes, that the reports of the clerk and collector be accepted as read. Motion carried. Motion by Frisby, seconded by Frett, that the clerk communicate with the Illinois Bell Teelphone Co. in regard to installing a pay telephone in the city hall. Motion carried. Motion by Doherty, seconded by Overton, to adjourn. Motion carried. F. H. WATTLES, Mayor. *. P. CONWAY, Clerk. October 1901 Bargains and ready-to-wear hats, ladies', misses and children's, from 50 cents up at Mrs. M. A. Searles. A. B. Johnson, formerly an employe in the Plaindealer office, has bought the Antioch News. His many friends here will wish him the best of success in his new venture. The ice house being built by the Borden's Condensed Milk Co., will be a large structure, consisting of two rooms, each 35x80 feet, with twentyfoot posts. A large coal house will soon be erected on the grounds. The stone has arrived for the abutments of the new bridge. They are monsters and no mistake One carload weighs over 40,000 pounds, and only six stones on • the car. George Meyers has secured the contract for unloading and moving the stone and iron work. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Besley and Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Lamphere drove over to Waukegan Monday morning to take in the festivities in honor of the 86th birthday anniversary of Samuel Cone, Mrs. Besley's father. Mr. Cone, though quite feeble physically, continues his work and despite his 86 years is at present manager of the opera house of which he is a third owner. Theo Itamer, deputy county clerk, has been here this week on business pertaining to the surveying that is being done. Jos Frett and son, Anton, were out from Chicago over Sunday and indulged in a mud hen hunt. They took over 100 to Chicago with them Monday morning, just to show the boys. Miss Lillie Niesen gave a party last Thursday evening, it being the anniversary of, her birthday. Thej young people gathered at the Riverside hall and passed the evening in dancing, everyone seeming to enjoy the diversion. Miss Niesen surely proved herself to be an entertaining hostess judging from the reports of those in attendance. A party composed of Mat Heimer, Henry Heimer, John Bishop, Ben Sherman, John Barbian, M. T>. Weber and Chet Howard went out after mud hens last Thursday and succeeded in bagging 376 of the birds. An still there are some left. Mr. Joseph Miller and Miss Mary Meyers were united in marriage at St. Joseph's church at Jojmsburg, Wednesday morning, Oct 16, at nine o'clock, Rev. Fr. Mehring officiating. After the ceremony a large company of friends and relatives repaired to the home of the bride's parents where they partook of a bounteous dinner. The young people received many beautiful and costly presents. A dance was held in Heimer's hall last night in honor of the newly wed. Last week Stephen Reynolds received his abstract of title and the old Bishop mills was turned over to him for a consideration of $8,000. The purchase includes the grist and flour mill and the planing mill, together wtih about fifty-nine acres of land, most of which is under water, constituting thet mill pond. The old mill was built by Owen Brothers in 1852. Candidates for county offices are beginning to trim their feathers in j readiness for the fray. As far as can be learned at this writing the following is a complete list of the aspirants now in the field. Judge O. H. Gillmore, D. T. Smiley, both of Woodstock. Clerk, G. F. Rushton of Alden, W. A. Cristy of McHenry. Treasurer, J. E. Jewett of Woodstock. Sheriff, Geo. Eckert of Woodstock, Charles Wandrack of Algonquin, M. W. Lake of Harvard, N. Brotzman of Riley. School Supt., G. W. Conn, of Hebron, P. S. Harrison of Greenwood, J. A. Sheldon of Huntley. Legislature, E. D. Shurtliff of Marengo. PERSONALS Miss CJara Miller spent Monday In Chicago^ Mrs. A. Cox was a^ Chicago visitor Tuesday. Miss Clara Miller spent Monday in Chicago. s Peter Engeln spent thofirst if the week in Chicago. £ John Thennes and family visited at Holy Hill Sunday. Mrs. Margaret McCarthy spent Friday in Chicago. , Miss Genevieve Carey Wfs a Chicago visitor Monday. Will Smith was a business visitor in Chicago Tuesday. Misses Mary and Dorothy Walsh visited in Chicago Monday. Mrs. Ed. Malone of Elgin spent Sunday with relatives in McHenry. Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Engeln was the guest of friends here over the weekend. , Misses Helen Welch and Adele Pufahl were visitors at Woodstock Monday. Misses Lenore Cobb and Clara Barbian were visitors in Chicago last Friday. Mrs. B. Relihan and Miss Marjorie Phalin were visitors at Holcomville Sunday. Mrs. William Welch and Mrs. John Phalin were callers in Woodstock Monday. Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Powers and little son spent Sunday with friends at Ridgefeld. Miss MalviiVa Breyer of Chicago spent the week-end with firends in this vicinity. John Reihansperger of West Chicago spent one day last week with relatives here. Peter Justen and Mrs. N. J. Justen and Miss Clara Schiessle motored to Rockford Monday. Mrs. Ellen Ensign spent several days the first of the week visiting her sister in Barrington. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Schuenemann of Chicago spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. Schuenemann. Mrs. Jennie Bassett has returned to her home here, after spending several weeks at Woodstock. Miss Katherine King entertained at a dinner in honor of Miss Jennie Mae Cooley on Sunday evening. Howard Phalin, who spent several days with his parents here, returned to Notre Dame last week. Miss Hanna Glosson spent a few days last week as a guest of her sister, Mrs. Rauen, at Kenosha. Mrs. J. Morafski and Mrs. P. Breyer were guests in the home of Mrs. J. B. Buss last Thursday and Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed McEvoy of Chicago spent Sunday with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John McEvoy. David Brandt and daughters, Gertrude and Grace, of Elgin visited in the home of James Frisby on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Ritter and son of Chicago spent the week-end in the home of Mr. and Mrs, ThdVnas Wilson. Robert Taylor returned to his home here the last of the week after spending several weeks with relatives in Chicago. Mrs. Frank Hughes and daughter, Frances, and Mrs. J. Keg and daughter, Jaunita, visited friends at Fox Lake Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Werner Dolling and children of Chicago spent Saturday at the pleasant farm home of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Claxton. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Mahon and son, spent Sunday as guests of Mr. Jonn, 01 Chicago spent Btinday in the Mrs. J. F. Claxton and family. home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Miller and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gans left Monfamily on Green street. day morning for a week's visit in the „ ^ Mrs* Garland and home of Mrs. Ringling at Bars- Mrs. George Garland, Sr., of Antioch boo, Wis 'JKL ¥ ' H; GOOD NEWS! m at the; : <,)f j f f%i j f Polly Prim Pavilion f * £* i Jimmle1* Society Orchestra £ &dll make you step Wffbiesday, Saturday and r To thte Ife appreciate the patronage of , the woman. Their business with US' is already large and steadily increasing. If you are noUnow one of our customers, please consider this an invitation to. become one. The Bank that helps jpa ahead ^ McHENRY ILLINOIS »•••••»•••»•»»•»»•»»•»•»•••»•»»»•»»»»»»••»»»»»»»»»»•» i • # * '* •> • • • » »•> » <• .4, 'tr • ^ AtWAYS~At M5NEY^VWG October, 18?f ^ The new fence around the public square is now completed and the appearance in that locality is greatly improved. Among the new amusements to be brought out this season are pumpkin pie parties. Each guest brings a pie and the host supplies the doctor. Anthony Snyder left at our office some specimens of apples raised by him, that would be hard to beat. There were several of them that would wegh 1 1-4 pounds each. They were smooth and of the finest flavor. John King of the firm od King & Heres, proprietors of the McHenry brewery, died very suddenly on Saturday morning last. He had been out of health for the past year, but on Saturday morning was around attending to business as usual. About 9 o'clock he complained to being cold, was taken from the brewery home and put to bed, but before 12 o'clock he was dead. The party for the benefit of the McHenry Cornet band was very pleasant and enjoyable, although not as large a crowd was out as was expected and consequently the benefit was not what could have been wished. The music was A. No. 1, the party was pleasant and all seemed to enjoy themselves in the best of manner. 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