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PL.A Kon**Skids ..%* u. *1 - y OUR NEXT I State's Attorne# than the plain tread styles of several other standard makes* When you buy a Fisk Non-Skid you get the best tire on the market for a price that j is reasonable and right--the mileage returns this year are better than ever Compare These Prices " on Flak Grey Non-Ski*? G&sings fcNf-SO . . 10.40 4J x 35 . . 31.2® 31 s 30 . . 13.40 41 *38.. 31.SS 4 * 33 . . 22.00 5 * 37 . . 3730 and remember that besides Fisk Quality there is Fisk FREE service at more than 125 Dinct _ Blanches. OVERTON & CO WEN McHcory, Illinois ^Ftced by demands from the conductors, engineers, firemen and brakemen would impose oil the coyntry an additional burden in transportation costs of ,000^060 a year, the railroads propose that this .wage problem -be settled by thence to JSn impartial,Federal tribunal. * With these employes, whose efficient service tt acknowledged, the railroads no differences that cbuld not be considered^ fairly and decided justly by such Ityjic body. ° y , Railroads Urge Public Inquiry and Arbitration The formal proposal of the railroads to the employe* for the settlement of controversy is as follows: - ' s . • , % N "Our conference* torn demoi»»trmted that we ctnnot harmonize our differences of opinion and that ereatualljr the •MMtcr* lo coRtrov*!*? mutt -be sawed vpM by cttherand disinterested agenciea. Therefore, we propoae that youf |npMib and the propoaitioa of the railway* be disposed of by one oi the other of the following method*: I. Prefatfbly by submission to the Iateratate Commerce Commission, the only tribunal which, by reasN of its accumulated i»/oaMtioa htaHwg en railway conditions and ita control of the revenue of the railway*, is in a pmi* tioa to cO&aflUr '&ad jflfMtCt' (hrtitbtl'aod equities of all the interests affected, and to provide additional ̂ revenue accessary 4o oeel thraddid coat at operation in case your proposals are found by the Commission to be just and reasonable ;W, in the eveat the InnttU Commerce Commission cannot, under existing laws, act in the premises that we jointly request Congress to take such action aa nay be necessary to enable the Coramiaaioa to caaaisier aw pMmptly dispoae of the -fiitttfon* involved; or ^ ubittriMS ia^ctirton with the provisions of the Federal law" (The Newlands Act). t\ Leaders Refuse Offer and Talce Strike Vote Leaders of the train service brotherhoods, at the joirft conference held in New _rdikpJune 1-15, refused the offer of the railroads to submit the issue to arbitration >r federal review, and the employes are now voting on the question whether luthority shall be given these leaders to^declare a nation-wide strike. The Interstate Commerce Commission is proposed by the railroads as the »ufe)itf body to which this issue ought to be referred for these reasons: ployca aa wagca; and the Aioney to pay iacreaaed waga> can come from no other source than the ratea pai# •- No other body wkfc auch aa iadmate knowlsd^a ef railroad condition* haa auch aa uaquestioaed posi* . ties ia the public coafideace. "The rates the railroad* may charge the public Uf V- tfaasportatioa are aow largely lied V tWi Gove*- SMnt board. . Out of every dollar received bv the railroads frop Hp public aearty aaa-belf la paid dir X:- ' ' by the public. The Interstate Commerce Commission, with ita cm> trol over rates, ia in a prrsfrtnn to vmake a complete , investigation and render tftich decision aa would pro* tect the interest* of the railroad employee, the owactt of the railroada. and the public. - "i\. t ^Three Planks of His Platforni CHARLES P. BARNES 6 --iTTiat T will compel the present State's Attorney to account for and pay over to the proper authorities lor the benefit of the taxpayers and our school fund! all money he now holds that should be turned over by him as State's Attorney* 7--That I will fully comply with the law by accounting for and paying over to 1 the proper authorities all money due them from me as State's Attorney, and that I will use economy in incurring any bills that 1 may be authorized to in­ cur, and which are to be paid by the county, or from public funds. That I will not ask tl|e taxpayers, through the county board, for * paid assis­ tant, as I consider the employment of a paid assistant State's Attorney at $10#- per month a needless and entirely unnecessary expenditure of the taxpayers' money. Jhe present salary of the office, at $3900 per annum ($3500 from th* county and $400 from the ^ate] being very ample compensation for the ser­ vices and time'required. r?'~ " CHARLES P. BARNES. ,*. rAikJqalyn and Luml^y wheretbeyiftand on any of these quedtioq? ^v,:. QU ARTRR OF A CENTURY .torn* < tip?>ed From Tile Plaindeaier Yean WEEKLY PERSONAL ITEMS COMBRS AND GOERS OF* A WEEK IN OUR BUSY VILLAGE (r Jack Hwrrell took in a young lady boarder last, week^ Excursion to Devil's Lake Tuesday, August 11. Andrew MHler had Hie misfortune to sprain his ankle on Monday. The board of supervisors are in session at Woodstock this week. Mrs. Henry Poile, nee May Wight- man, was sick at the home of her par­ ents here last week. Mrs. .Rkhard Bishop is reported quite sick fit this writing, but under the care .of Dr. Howard her friends hope she may be around again soon. A law was passed by the last leg­ islature, which went into effect last week, prohibiting the running at large of ahy kind of domestic animals in any incorporated city oi* village in th* state. Miss Lena Buch, daughter of Jos. "fiBuch, had the misfortune on Monday to get her hand caught in the pully of a hay fork, cutting off one of her fin­ gers at the first joint and bruising her hand in a-horrid manner. The editor has been wrestling with a sprained ankle this week and in con­ sequence thereof feels just a little ugly and has strongly threatened to sue the president and, board of trus­ tees for damages on account of defec­ tive sidewalks. Capt. Walter Hill caftie down from fox Lake on Monday with the steamer "Mary Griswold." He had a load of pleasure seekers from that famous resort. The citizens of McHenry have pleasant memories of the "Mary "Griswold." Since she changed her ^headquarters from McHenry to th^ lake those pleasant steamboat excur­ sions are things of the past, and now a visit to the lakes by our citizenyfs of rare occurrence. CATCH CHOP As Seen By Plaindealer Reporters and Handed Into Our Office By Our Friends For Fields In-Which Caen Has Been Destroyed •half ia paid directly to the JA Question For the Public toDecide The railroads feel that they have no right to grant a wage preferment of 1100,000,000 a year to these employes, now highly paid and. constituting oqjy ^ne-fifth of all the employes, without a clear mandate from a public tribunal th^t- determine the merits of the case after a review of all the facts. Tht singfi issut ktfort the country is whether this controversy « l» be settled by 09 ' ' G$vgrm*ent inquiry ft by industrial war/art. ^ . National Conference Cotnmitteo of tho Railways > JHA LEE. tXmi/rmmn U K A1.BRIGHT. Atiaadc C«Mt LIm •riirMit , W. BALDWIN. GrnUMmmmm, Caatral •! G«Hl* Mw«y. .. • SARDQ. Ss»7 I Niw YiA, N«« H««w A MutMl H. COAfMAN. Vim-.n •Hill • B. COTTM. Wabot! Railwar I.E. CROWLiy.itatf. revAaMa Ni« Y«rk ClMrtl Ktilaif. O.ft. EMERSON. Gra'f MIIIWP, Gr«at Narthara Rtilwtr. CJt. BWING. G~'l nilae*t*Ma ft KaMlM RaHway S. W. Q*ICB. Gtm'iSm**: Trmmrnf. Ch««a»Mka ft Ohio KaUwar > A. L ORB1G, Ait. fa Iwtww, St. Laai* ft Baa Praaaiaao Balliaai C. W. KOUN8, Gm'l NMUr, AtoMaon.Teiiaka ft flaata Fa RdNMa •. W. MeMASTBB. Gtm'iMi Wkactiag ft Leha Brla ~ N. D. MAHBR. rtm-PwtSUmt. flsrlolk A WMtin K.ilivap. JAMES RUSSELL, Gtm'i D.av.r & Rio Graada Riilioil A Mr SCHOYBB. Si.! hiaiylvuia Liaaa Waat. V. L. tBOUON. ru+-Pm.. Seaboard Air Llaa Railway ft. J.STONR. Vitt-ftnUmi. Brie Railroad O. B. WAID. VicfPrm. 9 Omtl Baaaat Caatral Liaaa MMoa l.llir, of *ocd &ad UBaOP tad RAT CORN iri !U DM4V la miaaa aa Mac*. IU» If) «9> No edof VlluWi haokket m me* a» Dwnqr lit. SOa •*>•! SI .00. & " McHenry West V. McAllister, •OYAL Poultry and Garden Fence ia ideal for all places used for the keeping I" or breading of amaP animals. It amply protects your flower and vegetable I dens, orchards and yards from fowls. Poultry farmers everywhere adopt Ii fence. No top or bottom wire required. I s strong and substantial. The Royal Loop is famous the country over. II weight. Full aise of wire. Fall length of rolls. "Qliook for the sign: Royal Fencepjp' Mad* br ' :-J limrBifiM ST££L dk WfF rmiPAMv f\. ^ Ar5efatr - •£*:: :*Vr" VILBUR LUMBER WEST MUgNHY, PHONES V r«r- -re? Next Meeting of R. N. A. foe next meeting of Fox River Valley camp, No. 3251, R. N.. A., will take place Tuesday evening, July 18. Books will be audited. Social and beneficial members please note that assessment No. 6, with per capita, is past due. .Loretto Walsh, Rec. M. E. Church Services aB follows next Sunday: Suhday school, 10 :00 a.' m.; preach­ ing services, 11:00 ft. •#*» evening service 7:45 p. nu , • w. v» WCWj fl'Mfs a.; Many fields of corn thruout the county have been partly or entirely destroyed by grubs, wire wormiS or wet weather and poor seed. It is now so late in the season that a corn crop under the best conditions could not give a very large return should these fields be replanted. It 'would therefore be more profit­ able to put in a catch crop on the fields question and get some re­ turn. Where the farmer is shoj^ of hay, German or Hungarian millet ;:f?may be seeded at the rate of one hiushel to the acre. Where hay is plentiful, Silvearhulled buckwheat may be seeded at the rate of three pecks to the acre or Japanese buck­ wheat at the rate of one bushel to the acre. Land which has been in corn need not be plowed again before seeding to above crops. A thoro disking is sufficient to prepare the seed bed for either millet or butkwheat. Under (ordinary conditions either millet or buckwheat should,, not be seeded later than July 15. Where fall feed Ib desired Dwarf i Essex rape may be put in at the rate of five pounds to the acre, either drilled or broad cast. Rape may be seeded as late as July 15 to July 20, ant| affords excellent fall feed for sheep arid hogs, also for cows if al­ lowed, to pasture only a short time after each milking. Care should -be taken in the purchase of rape seed, because of the similarity of the seed to wild mustard seed. Where it becomes impossible to get the fields seeded by the middle of July, fall rye may be seeded the lat­ ter part of August or first part oi September. _ , jytcjlenry Co. Soil Imp. Assn. J. Gafke, Co. Agri. Agent* - ^ $100 Reward, $109 The rdadirs of this paper will ba pleased to learn that there ia at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly influenced by constitutional conditions requires constitutional treatment. Hall s Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System thereby de­ stroying the foundation of the disease, giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting na­ ture in doing its work. The propria- tors have so much faith in the curative powers of Hall s Catarrh Cure that theyofTer One Hundred Dollars for any .case that it fatla to cure. Send for list 'of testimonials. . _ Addreaa: F. J. CHENEY ft CO.. Toledo, Ohio. Sold by all Druggists, Tie. Math. Freund carries a complete line of fanh machinery. See him when in the market. • - 8-2t • Bsftd The Ptaindfcaler ads. Will Smith was a biisiness visitor ii/ Chicago Tuesday. Mrs. H. E. Price of Wauconda was a visitor in town Sunday. Mrs. F. G. Spurting was. ft metro­ politan city visitor Monday. Mrs. Sarah Dermont passed Mon­ day in the metropolitan city. Mrs. McEvoy was among the Chi­ cago passengers Monday morning. Wan. F. Holtz was among the Chi­ cago passengers Monday morning. J-. J. Vycitaf and son, John, spent Tuesday in the metropolitan city. Fremont Hoy of Woodstock, attend­ ed to business matters here last Fri­ day. Miss Villa Smith of Elgin was the guest of relatives here over the week end. Geo. Justen spent several days last week as the guest of Chicago rela tives. Frank Rossmann of Chicago spent Sunday as the guest of relatives in town. James Overton of Elgin is a guest in the home of B. J. Overton and fafniiy. " v - Mrs, F. A. Bohlander attended to business matters in Chicago last! Friday. I Clarence F. Hoy of Crystal Lake was a business visitor in town last Friday. John R. .Knox attended to busihess matters in the metropolitan city Monday. Mr. and "Mrs. Gus Walters of Woodstock called on friends in town Sunday. Mrs. Richard Overton of Solon was the guest of relatives in town the week end. C. J. Reihansperger was among the Chicago passengers last Satur­ day morning. J. W\ Smith attended to matters of a business nature in the metropolitan city Tuesday. Mrs. Mayme Lamphere of Wood­ stock was the guest of McHenry friends Sunday. Miss Anna Adams of Chicago is a guest in the home of her sister, Mrs. Frank Thurlwell. Misses Verena Justen, Elsie Wolff and Helen Heimer were Chicago vis­ itors last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wirfs ef Waukegan called on relatives in town last Saturday. Mrs. F. V. Cobb of Hebron called on her mother, Mrs. Sarah' Dermorlft, last Saturday evening. Miss Priscilla Breen of Elgin was a week end guest in the home of her sister, Mrs. Ben Wagner. Mrs. E. E. Bassett and son, Lisle, were the guests of relatives at the county seat last Thursday. Mrs. G. A. • Barker and daughter, nionyo^ a# Rcckfcrd passed last week as guests of McHenry relatives. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Granger ef Chicago passed last iveek at the Granger cottage at Emerald Park. Mr .and Mrs. A. K. Burns of Aus­ tin were guests of relatives here and at Emerald Park over the Week end. Gilbert McOmber of Chicago spent the week end aB the guest of his par­ ents, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. McOmber. Glenn Waite of Woodstock passed Sunday as a guest in the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Waite. Rev. M. J. MfcEvoy left Monday morning for Peru, -HI., where a re treat of Catholic priests is taking place this week. Mrs. A. Miller and daughter, Ag­ nes, of Chicago are spending a coupfe of weeks- as the guests of Mc­ Henry relatives. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Gallaher and sons, William and Houston, of Chi­ cago passed Sunday as the guests of McHenry friends. Mrs. Mary Schreiner and son, John, Miss Carolyn Miller and Caro­ lyn Steffes visited some of Chicago's beauty spots Monday. , , Mrs. Maude Wheeler and Miss £thel Dickenson of DesPlaines were guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Spencer Saturday. ^ Miss Margaret McDonald of High­ land Park passed the latter part of last and the fose part of this week as the guest of McHenry friends. Mrs. Geo. H. Johnson and daugh­ ter, Marguerite, of Waynesville, 111., are spending two. weeks in the home TO OUR STATE'S ATTORNEY Wfodsto^fc, B1M July 12, 1916 To David R. Joslyn, State's Attorney, Woodstock, HI. Dear Sir: The numerous charges I have made against you as State's Attorney, with reference to your pilfering our county school funds, to the amount of thousands of dollars, are too well known to be here restated by me. You well know that your own figures in your sworn reports show you received thousands of dollars of justice fines that un­ der the law should have been paid by the Justices directly to- our County superintendent of schools, and you also know that the same reports show that you padded them by charging therein thousands of dollars of illegal fees in the exact sums apd in the very cases as published by me. Everyone now knows of the two court decisions against you and that our former Attorney General also ruled against you holding the justice fines. While you are extremely clever at explaining, talk won't erase or change the figures you inserted in your reports, and no one knows better than you that the only honest explanation^you can ever make to our taxpayers is to turn these fines over to our school fund and eliminate from your reports the thousands of dollars of illegal charges that you fraudulently inserted in them <and swore to) in order that you might absorb or cover up these justice fines you illegally received and which you are still held- If the charges I have made are not true I ought to be de­ feated by the voters for making and publishing false charges against a county official, and if the charges are true, certainly you are an unnt person to noid any public office and you ought not to receive one vote in the entire county for a renomination for a third term as our State's Attorney. As our Sate's Attorney you represented the people and tax­ payers, and they had no other attorney and no one else to repre­ sent them when you were fraudulently receiving these justice fines when it was your sworn duty as State's Attorney to see that they reached our school funds in place of your pocket. When you turned your back on our taxpayers and began looting our school funds, who was there to speak for* our tax­ payers or object to your putting their school funds in your pocket? Did the taxpayers have any one to represent them or ob­ ject when you were padding your swosn reports with thousands of dollar% of illegal fees to offset ' land cover up the thou­ sands of dollars of justice fines you had fraudulently received? You certainly gave your clients-*--the taxpayers--a fine shew oh these matters, considering that you (supposedly) represented them and that you sustained a fiduciary relation to .them* the same as a guardian does a ward. It is no wonder that you have so readily conceded that en explanation is due to our taxpayers from you, their elected and paid representative and attorney. I have decided to speak in every townhip in this county before Primary Day on your record as State's Attorney and on having your son as a paid assistant state's attorney at an ex­ pense of $1200.00 per year to our taxpayers, and I now hereby publicly ask you to join with me in a fair joint public debate or a joint public discussion of this entire matter before the voters in •very township in this county, before Primary Day. After the voters have heard your long-delayed explanation and all that you and I can say and show on these matters (in- including your claim that at one time I acted as one of your at­ torneys) they surely can be trusted to render a proper and jj>st verdict on Primary Day. The truth of every charge I have made is proven by youi* own reports and the records at our court house, and your oratory can't change or erase your own figures in your sworn reports. Eight years ago, when you first sought a nomination for this office, you insisted that Mr. Lumley must not be nominated because he had not honestly accounted to our school funds when he* was formerly State's Attorney, and you showed by the rec­ ords that he never turned in one penny to our school funds and you also then said (over your own signature) in articles pub­ lished in our county papers, that this matter of a state's attorney honestly accounting to our county school funds was "a subject of public interest, concerning which the oublic have a right to be informed," and you must know that fiflr pJay requires that in this controversy between you and the taxpayers over the school money, they should be represented by me or some one else when you are presenting your side or making your explanation to the voters. For once give the taxpayers a show and let their side be heard by the voters when you are presenting yours, and the voters can then judge correctly. Both sides are represent­ ed in a law suit, asd the uutpayers' aide should be given witn yours. In a joint, public discussion of this matter you can ng&m make known to the voters the great importance of a state s at­ torney honestly accounting to our school funds and also restate youjc 1908 views that a state's attorney who has nftt honestly untec can also tell accounted to our school funds should not be re-elected, and you can also tell the voters whether you think you have kept the promise and pledge you made then, in 1908, that if they would then nominate and elect you to the office of state s attorney, that you would honestly account to their school funds. Whether or not I am nominated, you or your bondsmen make a fair and honest accounting to the schcK^ f^ids, are to hear your excuse or explanation as to^ojir scnow fUI1<You can speak first one night and I will s^akS W>t each soeTik forty or fifty minutes, and the one speaking .. . >P^sve fifteen or twenty minutes to answer the "and 2Kb be fair and avoid personalities and taxpayer is interested in this matter anil firsi otter and as I temporarily representing the taxpayers on this mt~ ter of our school funds (at my own expense) l t^>t * SL iToai. an an open letter, and 1 am also sending you date an exact copy of the same. Since the question is whether or "SPmSS rwnvor their school money, I believe that y®o will roaeiiy th t ;ustice and fairness require that each side be represent- you are offerme youVexcuife, and when this » beinir nublicly discussed before the voters, and trusting that my request and awaiting remain, Very truly yours, CHARLESP^«A*NESfc | DR. F. J. 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