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,< - y l%iS.vf l , , , , , , » . ; ' ^ _ ' ^ ^ - ' ; , . ' • ' , • J , THE M'HENRY PLA1NDKALKK, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1928 V,~4P®$ i : £ i McHENRT*S HO MB OT AMUSBMENT "WE CANT PLAY THEM ALL SO WIT PLAY THE BEST" SHOWS 7:30-9:00 THURSDAY - FRIDAY APRIL 5-6 "GINSBERG THS : GREAT" X Slapstick Romance of a tailor's apprentice--the ft®- niest farce ever filmed. Aad Universal Comedy , SATURDAY . v.- APRIL 7 Rt&INALD DENNY in "OUT ALL NIGHT" It's as snappy as a frosty morning. Packed with thrills and pMk. Believe as. it's a whangdoodle • =• y» with PATHE WORLD'S LATEST NEWS Big Time VAUDEVILLE And the Next Chapter of the Great Adventure Play "THE TRAIL OF THE TIGER" * Hie Next Chapter Play THE VANISHING RIDER" SUNDAY APRIL 8 Easter Sunday Matinee 2:30 The Opening Comedy--Aeeopa Fable-- "A BRAVE HEART" A great stimulant for your giggle apparatus , < with "THE SILVER SLAVE" ' Showing IRENE RICH Her Smile"* ? It did more damage to a man's heart than a blow torch does to a chunk of ice and when a girl as pretty as Irene--well- Watch out, tha'sall with VAUDEVILLE AND THE FOX COMEDY •THE CATS PAJAMAS" MONDAY April 9 * One Night Only THUNDfli RIDERS" Wednesday April 10-11 DOLORES COSTELLO ia "OLD SAN FRANCISCO" A iwaan of the daya when 'Frisco was the Paris af America "BETTER PICTURES" While you're alking about 'em we're showing 'em HERMAN J. SCHAEFER Moving and Long Distance Hauling Phone 126-R McHenry, Illinois ID New Location After April 1st N.W. Cor. Green and Elm Streets ML HENRY FREDND OPTOMETRIST Eyes Scientifically Examined Glasses Recommended Only When Needed Hours: Every Evening from 7 to 9, except Saturday. All Day Wednesday from 9 a. m. to 9 p. ny- Phone lit* Now is the time to select your field Crden and flower seeds. Erickson's ore. West McHenry> has Just received a full line. Prices are right. LEVIATHAN SKIPPER HAS UNIQUE RECORD Ran Away From Home M Boy to Follow Sea. Brooklyn--From catboat to Leviathan Is the record of Capt. Harold A. Cunningham, newly appointed skipper of the great United States liner, which is the largest ship afloat. Cunningham knew how to handle the" little catbbats and sharpies that the boys play with In Sag Harbor, L. I., soon after he had learned to walk. When, during the war, he performed what was considered the most astounding navigation feat of all time, his friends harked back to his days in Sag Harbor and later in Greenport, when, sailing tiny homemade vessel^, he would brave the heavy tide currents that swept into narrow inlets. The Leviathan, in the war days, arrived in New York during a strike of tugboat men. No pilots were available, either. Gray-headed officers on the Leviathan shook their heads. Thousands of troops were waiting to be transported. The Leviathan might have to wait at quarantine ,for days, perhaps for a week. "To the blazes with all your tugboats," shouted Cunningham, who was then navigating officer of the Leviathan, at the age of thirty-five. "We'll take her In ourselves." And So Cunningham personally took charge of the great ship whose very sire has baffled many a skilled pilot and took her into her pier without a pilot and without a tug. Captain Cunningham had a birthday recently. His luck, he believes, arises from the fact that he was born on the leapiest day of leap year. On February 29 of this year fie celebrated that anniversary that only occurs every four years. | Nearly a Conductor. Harry,, at the age of eighteen, narrowly escaped the signal honor of becoming a conductor on the Long Island railroad. "You should follow in the footsteps of your parent and become a railroad conductor--a rolling stone gathers n<> moss," his father, William Cunningham of Greenport, L. I., warned him when In his late teens he was considering a career. But young Harry Cunningham had fooled around the sea too long to fall for any such advice. 'Born at Sag Harbor, L. I., he grew up breathing the tangy atmosphere of the sea. He watched fishermen bringing In their catches of flounders. Soon after he learned to talk he took his first successful breast stroke, and from then on the boys spent the whole of many of their days In the water, swimming sometimes and then dtvthfc In "and out of their tiny boats, fearless of the heavy tides and seas on the south shore of Long Island. The captain gives his orders briefly and to the point. He runs everything smoothly without the necessity of the long conferences in which some skippers lgdulge. His friends, on the 3ther hand, are full of stories about his exploits, and report that when danger is at hand, or decision Is needed, he turns out to be a twofls££ d; determined individual ' Curinfngham fefole a slSet off his mother's bed to make the sail of his catboat at Sag Harbor. He lived at Sag Harbor until he was twelve, and then, his father being transferred by the Long Island railroad, he moved to Greenport. where at the foot of Cherry lane Cunningham continued to fool around with boats. ^ A senior In Greenport high school at the age of eighteen, Cunningham tired of dull books and tired also of the thought of becoming a Long Island railroad conductor when he graduated. He therefore ran away from school and got a Job as plain seaman on one of the little steamers of the Montauk Steamboat company that braved the waves on the run from Sag Harbor to Greenport to New York. Hie First Command. On the steamer Shinnecock, of which John Burns was skipper, Cunningham learned how to box the compass from Pilot Dennis Homan, now a prominent citizen of Riverhead, L. L He progressed so rapidly that three years later, at the age of twenty-one, he became a captain--a full-fledged skipper three months after attaining his majority. « The Manhassett, Captain Cunningham's first command, bounded over the stormy seas between Sag Harbor and New London. Cunningham moved rapidly to posts on bigger ships. He joined the Southern Pacific line, running vessels between New York and New Orleans, then became second officer on one of the vessels of the Mallory line. The first officer on one of these trips was lost overboard and Cunningham brought the ship in. He commanded the Momus, the first American ship to make the trip to France during the war. His masterful work on this vessel' won him the post of navigating officer of the Leviathan. JOHNSBURG T^ie installation of the Lady Foresters, St. Agatha Court No. 777 will be held at St. John's Parish hall Wednesday, April 11 at 2:30. After the installation a banquet will be held at Nell's hotel. The officers to be installed are: Elizabeth Schmitt, chief ranger; vice chief ranger, Dena May; recording secretary, Martha Miller; financial secretary, Agnes Hetterman; treasurer, Hilda May; conductors, Margaret Meyers, Catherine Hettermann; sentinels, Delia Miller, Margaret Schmitt; trustees, Elizabeth Thelen, Catherine Smith and Helen King. Mr. and Mrs. George Freund of Cary and Mr. and Mrs. Nick Freund of Spring Grove visited with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Frett Sunday. The Jolly Eight club met at the home of Mrs. S. H. Smith Sunday. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Joe Michels first, Mrs. Joe Thelen second, Mrs. John M. Pitzen third and Mrs. Margaret Freund consolation. A delicious luncheon was served. Mrs. Ben Schaefer, daughter Helen and son Ralph boarded the train to Chicago Saturday where they visited with Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Schroeder a few days. „ S. H. Smith boarded the train to Chicago Monday. Mr. and Mrs. John Lay and Mr. and Mrs. Math Lay visited with Mrs. Catherine Schmitt Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Regner and children of Chicago visited with Mr. and Mrs. John Regner and Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Smith Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Steffes and daughters of McHertry and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Horick of Woodstock visited with Mr. and Mrs. Steve King Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Oeffling and son Floyd and Mr. and Mrs. William Smith and family visited with Mi*, and Mrs. Joe Michels Sunday. Miss Viola Daeumer of Chicago was a caller here Sunday. Mrs. Catherine Tonyan visited Mr. and Mrs. John Freund Monday. Mrs. Ben Stilling visited with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stilling Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Thelen and Mr. and Mrs. John Schmitt visited with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Thelen Sunday. Now is the time to select your field garden and flower seeds. Erickson's Store, West McHenry, has just received a full line. Prices are right. RINGWOOD Personals Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Stringer and family of McHenry called on friends here Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Stephenson in company with Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Thompson of McHenry attendede the garden show at the Sherman Hotel-in Chicago Sunday. Edward Harrison and Miss Ruth Owen of Elgin were Sunday guests in the George Harrison home. Mr. and Mrs. Franzen and family and their friends from Chicago ate Sunday dinner with Mrs. Franzen's sister, Mrs. Wagner at Spring Grove. H. C. Hughes was a business visitor fn Elgin Tuesday evening. Mrs. Ben Justen, Mrs. Win. Justen and Miss Bertha Justen were Chicago visitors Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Ydung spent Thursday in Crystal Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Robert McLean of Woodstock were Sunday guests of Mrs. Frankie Stephenson. Charles Thompson of Greenwood attended the dinner given by the Ladies Aid society last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Isakson and son of Chicago spent the week-end in the Leonard Franzen home. Simon Kelley of Albion, Mith., visited in the home of his brother, Wnl. Kelly, a day this week. Social Affairs The members of the Jolly Sixteen Bunco club surprised Mfos Agnes Thompson at the home of Mrs. George Worts in McHenry last Tuesday afternoon, the occasion being in honor of her birthday anniversary. Five tables of bunco were played and the first prize was won by Mrs. Viola Lowe, the second by Mrs. Nick Freund, third by Mrs. Ben Justen and the consolation by Mrs. Nick Young. The ladies presented Mrs. Thompson with an appropriate gift. ' Byron Hitchens was surprised at his home here last Friday evening by a number of his friends. Bunco was played during the evening and the first prizes were won by Miss Julia McLaughlin and Dave Hodges and the consolations by Miss Bertha Justen and John Smith. A delicious lunch was served and the young people presented Byron with a nice fountain pen as a birthday rememberance. On Friday evening another surprise party was given in honor of Mrs. Leonard Franzen. Bunco was played and Miss Jessie Schroeder and Walter Harrison won the first prizes and Miss Lucille Peet and Leonard Franzen the consolations. A nice lunch was served at the close of the evening. A pleasant bridge party was held at the home of Mrs. Frank Hitchens Tuesday evening when she entertained the Masonettes. There were three tables of cards in play and the first prize was won by Mrs. Andrew Eddy, the second by Mrs. Clinton Martin and the consolation by Mrs. Chas. Goodell. Delicious refreshments were served by the hostess. The Lady Foresters of Johnsburg Court No. 777, will sponsor an Easter Monday dance. Music by "Sun Dodgers". Tickets $1.00 per couple. Now is the time to select your field garden and flower seeds. Erickson's Store, West McHenry, has just received a full line. Prices are right. SLOOTJM'8 T.ACT Relics of an Inland Ocean in Oregon Bend, Ore.--Clam shells and fossilised remnants of creatures, thought to have lived in an ocean of cretaceous times, have been found in Crooked River canyon. Geology students believe the finds tend to establish that millions of years ago the sea swept this region before the mountains at the west rose from the ocean bed. •» Weight of Metal» The weight of a cubic foot of various metals Is as follows: Pure gold, 1,200.9 pounds per cubic foot; silver, 655.1 pounds; cast Iron, 450 pounds; wrought Iron, 480 pounds; steel, 489.6 pounds. Men! Vote tor 's All Wheat Breakfast Cereal on the table every Make and Break clothes make the man, bit kw terfS to break him.--Wall street fro* nAL McHenry Hour Mills Ray Seymour was a business caller at Oak Glen farm last Thursday. Mr, and Mrs. Carl Converse and Mrs. Wayne Bacon were callers at Crystal Lake Monday. Mrs. John R. Knox and Mrs. J. N. Zimmer of McHenry were (Sunday guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Geary. Arthur Wackerow of Roseville spent Sunday at the Joe Dowell home. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bacon and children were Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Will Davis. H. M. Haffey and son Clayton of West Chicago and Miss Hazel Haffey of Wauconda were visitors at the Darrell-Matthews home Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Binks aud daughter Elanore of Oak Park were week-end guests at Ardelow farms. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Nellis were business callers at Crystal Lake Saturday. Willard Darrell spent Friday Saturday in Chicago. W. E. Brooks spent Saturday at Grayslake. Mrs. Page Smith and son visited at the home of the former's son at Elgin Saturday. Oatis Phillips was a business caller at McHenry Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse and daughter visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell Sunday. George Roesslein spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell and daughter were business callers at McHenry Saturday. Mrs. Page Smith visited at the home of Mrs. B. C. Harris at Wauconda last Thursday. Harold Wheelock and gentleman friend of Chicago were Sunday callers at the home of the former's aunt, Mrs. Willard Darrell. Chesney Brooks was a business caller at Barrington Saturday. , Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse and George Bennett spent last Tuesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Will Davis. Mildred Hoffman spent last Thursday and Friday at Des Plaines and Chicago. George Eatinger visited at the home of Mr. and Mirs. Ray Dowell last Friday evening. Claire Smith accompanied Mrs. W, Whitman and son, Floyd, of Wauconda to Waukegan and Libertyville one day last week. Chesney Brooks attended the flower show held at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago from Wednesday until Friday night. He also visited his aunt at Park Ridge. Mrs. E. Anderson spent the past week with relatives in Chicago. John Blomgren, Mrs. Sigrid Blomgren and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Luak spent Sunday with friends at Algonquin. Miss Myrtle Darrell of Crystal Lake spent Sunday and Monday night with home folks here. John Blomgren, Mrs. Sigrid Blom- Eren and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond nsk of Wauconda attended the movie at McHenry Monday evening. Now is the time to select your field Sarden and flower seeds. Erickson's tore, West McHenry, has just received a full line. Prices are right. OPOR Your last season's sport clothes need a trip here. Cleaned, altered, dyed--made freeb and loveable again and stylishly wearable. r. BEFORE and AFTER "Spotless Cleaning--permanent Dyeing--Tailored Pressing" Mrs. Anna Howard CLEANING, PRESSING and REPAIRING PHONE 143-W Located over Bolger's Drug Store DRAWING- PAPER AT THE PLAINDEALKR A Carload of Seed Is a large quantity of grass seed to sell* but that'* what we are- going to sell this spring, because we have hundreds of satisfied seed customers all over McHenry County, who demand PURE DEKALB SEED, and that 's what we sell! Come in and look over the splendid, quality of seed, (ionsisting of Alfalfa Sweet Clover Red Clover Alsyke Clover Grimm Alfalfa Timothy Field Peas Soy Beans Rape Seed. All Varieties of Sfced Com. Tour Business Witt Pleaso U» Our Service Will Plmae Yknt Farmers" 0*0*. MI EBONS 29) Wm. Spencer, Prop* i (I ' ft'" I TAXES We will appreciate your paying your taxes at this bank • . • ' Authorized by the County Treasurer \ u The Bank That Senrice Built"