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THE M'HENRY PLAIHDEALER. THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1930 p: rV' fe$; p.* Twice I, To Id Tales Interesting Bite of News Tabs* From the Colomiu of the PliiaMw Fifty ni ' Twenty-five Yean -- At* . p£ „ • ^fnan was Hon Fifty Years Ago James H. Gallup and Miss Emma •* Canter were married at Grand Rapids Inch., a few days ago. A party of our citizens numbering «bout fifty made the trip to Fox Lake fcy the steamer, Mary Griswold, on , Sunday afternoon last, and we must say that socially and otherwise it was «ne of the most pleasant events of the season. | We stop the press to announce the 4eath of Samuel H. Walker of Ringf ood who died very suddenly this ednesday morning. Married--Culver-Parker, At the Residence of the bride's parents at llcHenry on Monday, June 14, 1880, jKr. C. N. Culver and Miss Theresa Jtarker. Twenty-fve Years Ago A pretty church wedding took place |gt St. Mary's church in this village pst Thursday morning when Mr. £ouis Wolf of Chicago was united in Jtoarriage to Miss Katie Weber of this village, the ceremony being performed by Rev. M. W. Barth, pastor Of the church. The young couple left for Chicago on the Sunday evening Drain, amid a shower of rice, at jthich place they will make their Jlome. Last Saturday morning there passlid from this life to his heavenly re- Ward, a man who has, by his good deeds, won the respect and esteem of fjvery citizen in McHenry. This kind Flavel K. Granger. • Robert Frisby, who is employed at the Hunter-Weckler boat company, tnet with a painful accident when on way to the lakes. His hand got ft&ught between the flywheel of the gine and the floor of the boat, and e finger was badly crushed. The Second Annual banquet of the _ McHenry High School Alumni took 5lace at the Riverside House last aturday evening. About seventy-five *rere present to take part in the evenfcg's festivities. Butter took another half cent drop Monday, the official price on the Elgin board being declared steady at 19. -- at Wattles. ALONG LIFE'S^ TRAIL , Br THOMAS ARKLB CLARK D«aa at Ma. CaJvenrity mt A STORY OF CHRISTMAS Most Christmas stories are published before Christmas, perhaps to help fill up the O h r 1 s tmas editions ; maybe to Incite indifferent people to kindly and charitable deeds. But this story Is written some time after Christmas. It is the story of a woman who is In charge of an Ins t i t u t i o n w h e r e sick people are taken care of--a woman who has many busy people about her and who is herself the busiest of all. Christmas was coming on and as it approached, the cook seemed more despondent and detached from her work every day. She would be found crying as she went about her duties, but there was nothing the matter, she always said, when the superintendent tried to discover the cause of her despondency. They sat down together one night, the woman in charge and the cook, the one a refined educated woman of experience in the world, and the other Just a plain hard-working woman, and talked things over. The cook did not know whether she was a widow or not. Her worthless husband had gone off a year or two before and left her with four young children whom she was trying as best she could to feed and clothe and bring up in a respectable way. And now Christmas was coming on. and the children were clamoring for a Christmas tree of theiir own. "There's going to be a Christmas tree this year," the young woman said as she laid her soft hand on the hard hand of the working woman. "You're going home the day before Christmas, and jou're not coming back until the day after, and there'll be a Christmas tree." "But who'll do the work?" the cook asked, "for sick people haye to be fed even if (t is Christmas." And the woman smiled and said, "We'll take care of the work." Ij'm sure it made her happy to buy the Christmas tree, and to go about town looking in at one shop and another to find the proper presents for the little chilrren. There is no better way. (©. 1928. Western^ Newspaper UfetM.1 Public Pulse (All communications for this department must be signed by the writer, otherwise they will not be published. The Plaindealer invites its readers to express their opinions in these columns.) To the Taxpayers of the City of McHenry: At the February 1930 meeting of the City Council, after the writer had read a report showing that during the past few years the city council had advanced large sums of money to our public improvements, such as sewer, water and paving, that this money should have been paid back to the city's general fund as soon as the first installment was paid on each special assessment upon which these various sums of money were advanced. After some arguments Aid. Krause made a motion, "that the finance committee check the records way back before the auditor's report and try to get bills charged to proper acounts in the hope that it will be found that assessment roll bills have been charged to the general account, which keeps the city broke and can not pay its share of public benefits. If this is found to be the true condition then the assessment funds will reinbuse the general fund of the city." Aid. Doherty refused to assist in this work altho he is now and has been for many years chairman of the finance committee. His excuse was that he did not understand records and therefore cduld be of no help. Then Mayor Knox appointed Aid. Bonslett, Krause, StofTel and Clerk Conway to check these records. Jhis we did. The result of the investigation is as follows: We found there was due to the city's general fund from various special assessments the sum of $4168.29. Of this amount we found available at this time the sum of $3544.95. This amount We have collected and same has been credited to the city's general fund. The balance $623.34 is' due from Special Assessments No. 7, 8 and 20. These three accounts being short, we could not collect at this time. We recommended, that, "the city council pay out of money now in the treasury, all that the City owes for special assessments on its Public Property, amounting to $2902.24 as follows: Warrant No. \ v 6 City Park Sewer ..................f 69.09 6 City Hall, Sewer .................. 88.66 6 City Clay Hole, sewer 6 Lot 4, L: V., sewer 10.64 7 Lot 4, L. V., water 16.10 12 City Hall, paving 816.43 13 City Park, paving ............ 1561.93 14 City Water Tower, paving 264.69 22 Lot 4, L. V., sewer 6.90 24 City Hall, sewer 14.12 24 City P&rk, sewer . 28.26 ..41804.58 Total ............$2902.24 We recommend paying the following Public Benefit accounts in full: No. 7 Ringwood Road, water $ 53.11 8 Riverside Drive, water 55.25 12 Green St., paving 912.58 20 Crystal Lake Rd., sewer,.- , 776.73 22 Ringwood Rd., sewer ........ 6.91 Total 1st Installment No. 16 Elgin Rd., pav; $349.51 Due to date on No. 17 Waukegan Rd. pav. 123.58 478.09 Total amoupt to be P»i4 i 1' on special assessment at this time .'$517^91 By following above recommendations the city's debts on Special Assessments would be reduced from 26 to 10 accounts. All for Public Benefits. This will make it much easier in future for the city council and also for the city collector. Wle also found that several Special Assessments have, and others will have, quite a sum left to their credit as soon as the money from delinquents are paid. As our city treasurers have~tn--the! past years failed to call Bondfe- 4ghen " there was sufficient money in any one or more of the accounts, we recommend our city council to instruct the treasurer to do so in the future and thereby save the taxpayers hundreds of dollars annually. We thank our city collector for furnishing us all figures concerning the Special Assessment accounts. Respectfully submitted William Bonslett, John Stoffel, 7s* Albert Krause. Special Finance Committee did not ask Clerk Conway, the other member of the special finance committee, to sign this statement as we were unable to get him to attend even one of our meetings. The above report was accepted by the unanimous vote of the board at the April 7, 1930, meeting. The mayo? then asked the special finance com-* mittee to bring in a report to the April 21st , meeting, giving the amounts of bonds that could bf called for payment and on what special assessments they should be paid. We found that the Special Assess* ment funds after the delinquents art paid in (about July 15) will be in 85.421 the following condition, viz Silage Is Succulent and Excellent as Bslsncc Silage Is a succulent grass-like feed. It is cooling in effect, aids digestion, stimulates appetite and is an excellent balance for high protein concentrates. A dairy cow requires such I a feed because she is doing hard work I when producing a good flow of milk. The cow by nature is a user of roughage, and wlien fed in an artificial way on grains of high nutritive value there is need for 9 cooling grass-like feed, and silage comes in to fill this valuable place; silage has a high water content, but water,'is an Important item of the ration. Milk is 87 per cent water and beef over BO per cent. Dairy Facts The dry cow should be ted individually just as should the milking cow. • • • Sterility, udder trouble, and the loss of premature calves are all. symptoms of abortion disease. How to handle the dairy sine during the winter months--what to feed--and how much to feed--these are important questions. * « • Farmers who did not get their silage made before frost, may yet have good silage if they will utilise the dry fodder- for this purpose. Jerseys and Guernseys producing a high .per cent fat should be fed a pound of grain for each two and a half or three pounds of milk produced, daily. • • e Dairy cows differ in their ability to pay the farmer good prices for his grain and hay crops. Low-producing cows should be culled out Thermometer's Qualities There is no difference between an ontside and an inside thermometer In the registration of the temperature. The same Instrument may be used for both purposes. INDUSTRIAL LEADERS Thomas A. Edison, F. L. Maytag and E. H. Maytag visit at the winter home of Harvey Firestone, Miami Beach, Florida. These four industrial giants have a common interest in Edison's notable experiments, in searching for plants that will successfully produce rubber. All are anxious for the completion and success of the experiments, which will make America independent of outside sources for crude rubber, and establish a new in- DISCUSS RUBBER dustry in the United States--that 'A growing rubber producing plants: Harvey Firestone, one of the largest manufacturers of automobile tires and other rubber goods, makes the rubber rolls used for the roller water remover of the Maytag. As the world's largest manufacturer cf washers, The Maytag Company of Newton, Iowa, requires rolls for a daily' production of abo^fc ' 1400 washers, *.v• .• * 3 f 1 2 o» !i It o« 2 ii No. 6 .. .$7,356.06 No. 7 .. . 267.24 No. 8 .. 94.42 No. 9 .. . 268.58 No. 10 .. .. 613j89 No. 11 .. . 2,490.66 No. 12 .. .. 1,456.85 No. 13 .. 4,000.36 No. 14 .. . 3,242,37 Short No. 16 .. .. 310.00 No. 17 .. . 1,608.10 No. 18 .. .. 2,605.98 No. 20 .. .. 637.76 No. 21 .. . 505.81 No. 22 .. .. 204.64 No. 23 .. .. 1,341.44 Short No. 23 .. 36.05 No. 24 . .. 2,530.30 28,878.33 gO -BU « 0) ^ c3. • IS .5 ~ o c a . HOC 8 p>? J£3 C« )-9» •s'l * 3 = o ® '3 HQft O) n 0 § 21 •S.S| ».£ ! c 2 JS 8 © H 2 l S o VB aeg ah> cAo * £ J § Brt T<Jn Pv 7i3n "®5 Go T«u Co CQ xi A .a $ 704.22 $8,060.28 $3,300.00 $ 5.49 921.68 432.32 659.37 527.12 1,138.10 465.12 2,012.00 156.63 609.04 474.50 87*24 142.32 347.19 267.24 99.91 1,190.26 1,046.21 3,150.03 1.983.97 5,*38.46 3,707.49 1,702.02 1,764.73 2.605.98 1,246.80 980.31 204.64 2,217.68 106.27 2,877.49 200.00 100.00 3,500.00 2,400.00 4,000.00 1,700.00 3,700.00 1,600.00 2,600.00 800.00 900.00 900.00 900.00 100.00 1,100.00 none none >» 1*23 --. P.-C *» Ot © S.ti <J o 193.81 $4,954.09 69.21 55.25 roC OCO "c• 10 2 T3 S3 B OB >> 0.) <5 aeU tfsl 136.45 55.16 |2,309.74 r '1,353.79 1,729.01 1,561.93 264.69 349.51 123.58 7.76.78 18.81 42.38 2,012.98 3,000.39 2^72.18 1,088.81 1,705.98' 1,123.53 80.31 118.45 1,117.68 106.27 2,919.87 849.97 548.47 9,471.44 38,349.77 27,800.00 5,179.91 20,791.65 &061.W By above it would seem safe to on its public property and public c«ll bonds to the amount of $15,000 op Special Assessments that will have a large enough balance left after paying bonds due this year. Spread as. follows: On Special Assessment-- No. 6--Sewer $4,300.00 No 12--Pav. Green and Elm St. 1,400.00 No. 13--Pav. Green and Pearl St 2,000.00 No. 14--Pav. Waukegan St. 1,800 Ot No. 17--Pav. Waukegan St. 700.00 No. 18--Pav. Washington St 1,300.00 No. 20--Sewer C. Lake Rd. 700.00 No. 22--Sewer Ringwood Rd 100.00 No. 23--Pav. C. Lake Rd. 500.00 No. 24--Sewer Repairs 2,200.00 m' Peterson Garage and Repair Shop Located in the Morrow Building, West McHenry, rocently known as the Chevrolet agency. I am now fully equipped to handle all kinds pf gay ^ truck repairing Alvin C. Peterson Business Phone 256 Residence Phone 137-W Fox River Hatcheries SPECIAL PRICES All Heavy Breeds--$8.00 to $12.00 per tandrfi. Change of prices effective at once. " Call and reverse charger. We deliver to your door in lots of 900 or niMNk Duck hatching every week. j Jhwne WS7 «r 5410 Elgin m. ' . , $15,000.00 Total amount to be called for payment thereby saving the taxpayers $900.00 interest annually. We think this supplement to our statement of April 7, will give OUT Hon. Mayor and the members of the city council the additional information they asked for relative to the calling of bonds. We request that this supplement be embodied in the minutes of the Council meeting so the public may know what the city council is doing, for them in the above mentioned items. t Respectfully submitted, Wm. Bonslett, Jehn Stoffel, Albert Krause. Special Finance Committer T h is report was accepted at' tha council meeting on May 5, after a motion was made by Overton, seconded by Schaefer, that the Special Finance committee's report on Special Assessments be accepted and placed on file and thjlt the committee be released from further duties. Motion carried. It was agreed at the council meetings when these two reports were accepted, that each report be published in its aptirety with the other proceedings of the council meeting in which it was presented, but instead of doing so, the clerk saw to it that not one word of the contents of these reports wis published. Instead, "as per motion by Doherty, seconded by Kreutser, to accept the report of the special finance committee," and make out the vouchers for the payment of special assessments owed by the city benefits on April 21, amounting to $5,179.91, he published these items with the proceedings of the city council in a way to make it appear as thoi>*h the present council had ordered this ^$5,179.91 paid with their fether bills. The facts of the case are that this $5,179.91 was paid before the May .6 council meeting and at this meeting not one word was paid with reference to pay these special assessments. Rather a strange ending for work on which the special finance committee spent several months in compiling and which brought into the city treasury $3,544.95, also due bills that can be collected later on for $623.34, work for which the special finance committee on motion by Aid. Doherty, seconded by Aid. Kreutzer, was awarded a rising vote of thanks, this being the highest pay the city council could give, as no alderman or any other official of the city can draw more pay than his regular salary, for any work (even though it be, extra work) he does for the city, The special finance committee con siders it a privilege to have been able to render this service to the city. Respectfully yours, WM. BONSLETT Chairman Special Finance Committee. (ED. NOTE--This report was hand' ed in for publication five weeks ago, but owing to rush of business and lack of space we could not publish same until this week.) Italian Art MuUrpitcl Tftn stories from the Old Tesfsmetft are illustrated on the famous bronse doors made by GhibertI for the Baptistery at Florence, Italy, regarded «v among the world's masterpieces. Natural Gaaolia* What was formerly usually\ called esstnghead gasoline is now called natural gasoline and Is obtained from natural gas by compression and refrigeration or absorption. This gasoline is mdre volatile than commercial motor fuels and is used for mixing with ttralght ran or cracked gasolDMK, v., < - ? - > s K i" *• • ' /• ri" \4 ii|»rfr%f'- tf,, - - . Ah * . * *£ ?• *• "<v. ;v -., H; Ni 1' - * ' : £ u V SAFE FOR BABY v Community Dairy Milk ^ Milk that comes from contented cows, tuberculin tested and * properly fed. As a further precaution our milk is pasteurized and sealed in sterilized, airtight bottles. Surely, this is the milk you will want your baby to have. f ;s. Community Dairy Phone 6B0 J1 Ben J. Smith, Prop, VOLO GARAGE dtate Highway 20 and Rand Eoqd 34-HOUR SERVICE > Expert Mechanical Work Rapid Flat Rate Know what your job is going to cost before we start work. 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