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W ' Pife Six THE McWlii*PULDTDfiALKR iurwiay, January 31, ld35 (FOR SALE-- A HOMET ; T By :••'•• . LEONARD A. BARRETT 'Roberta" at Erlanger „ Seven Nights a-Week In the <!ail.v press an announcement friMj urritly occurs as follows: For Sale--The home of Mr. --, located --. Purchaser may have t immediate possession. Sale at auction, courthouse, (date, t i m e). Terms: Gash. This announcement was of a sheriff's sale. Because of unpaid taxes long overdue, or a default on a mortgage, the law, in Its effort to protect the owner of ..the" mortgage, 6r ?•'" V.i'tlie state in its collection of taxes, off^^ fered the place"' for sale; Su$i fe^'^iare usually made at a price cipiJ* ft llt- ,~v?v.' <tle In advance of tlfe taxes or jaort- ' V gag« due. The original owner vacates , ,'\fO the premises, If he hap not already - done so, and thW purchaser tabes p6ssession. .A '/tragedy?. •'YwJ -It ways ft tragedy, and a most painful when '-one lose®..a hbraei ... * ; %!$$*! Let us pause for V moment and fct- . amine the transaction a little \«U>re closely. What did the sheriff really ^ -' - offer for salt? A piece of land upon , which stood a house with its furnishings for which the owner, in order to possess, may have sacrificed a very great deal, but what was sold under • the hammer of "the sheriff, was a "house." The advertisement waf in error in calling It a "home." A house Is not a home, and a home v need not be in a house. One, mav have a home in a one-room apartment, or any spot where a lamll.v dwell together In love .and understanding. A home therefore is not a "thing"--it is a "spirit," a state of mind and heart. It was a rare treat to read the' encomiums of the Chicago dramatic critics of "Roberta," the Jerome Kern-Otto Harbach musical comedy, current at the Erlanger Theatre. They were rave notices, in fact, seldom has such unanimous praise of a show come out of the six Chicago newspaper offices. They were a climax to a publicity campaign that was so wide sweeping in its scope that everybody within a radius of 100 miles of the town knew that "Roberta" was coming; and for a Sunday night opening in a theatre which had not given a show on a Sunday night for twelve months. This policy, so the management of trie Erlanger announces, will be followed during the engagement of "Roberta in that theatre. That is, performances will be given seven nights a week and the usual Wednesday and Saturday mat: inees. \ Something should be said in passing1 about the prices for "Roberta ; the top price: for both matinees is $2.20 only. That; is no advance for the Saturday matinee. The minimum price is 83c. The top price at night is $3.30 but there are 300 choice seat? for 83c each These prices are.quoted to show the difference in the Chicago rate as against the price in the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, solid I. INTERESTING TRIP THROUGH FLORIDA Tourists are invading Florida by the hundreds with twenty-seven extra trains pulling into one terminal at Jacksonville in one night, according to information received by Quentin Walsh, in a most interesting letter received from his Aiint Stasia. There are1 very few people in this vicinity who do, not know "Aunt Stasia," who is Mrs. Stasia Malone of Elgin, sister of Mrs. M. J. Walsh of this city. She, With Mayme Aylward, left a short time ago for the sunny southland to visit the Will Heaneys in1 Jacksonville and tour Florida. esting account. of, the trip to Florida: Dear Quentin: Just a few lines to tell you of the first part of our trip to the Sunny South. As we had planned, Mayme Aylward and myself left Chicago at 2 p. mi on the Dixie Express, the crack daylight train of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. R. The train carried an observation and club car, a diner, ten Pullmans and two coaches, besides the mail and baggage cars. We learned afterwards , on- account of heavy traffic that there were two other sections of' the same train equally large immediately preceding ours, The first call for the dining car r . .was at Danville and we had. our des- Where this musical comedy ran a solid jserj. juSt as the train crossed the,hisyear at $4.40 top price for best seats. t6ric banks of the P5v<ir The following letter gives ,an inter- Mrs. Frank Wilson it Volo Monday. What the sheriff's order for sale instance no relative really "meant, was* a "house" is for sale. The owner had moved his "home" elsewhere. A home can neither be bought nor, sold. Its possession Is priceless in value.. It can never be mortgaged, and no taxes can ever be levied upon it, and no deb.ts can ever take it from us. " , The cryi The Erlanger Theatre, being a large house,, it is orify fair to prospective patrons to advise, them that there are choice seats for all performances to "Roberta." • Often the report gets about wheti there is a success in town that the houses are selling out and there ave no seats t^Jje had at any price. In'most cases this is not true. Any seat, any place in the Erlanger Theatre, in any event, is a good seat for this particular attraction, this fascinating "Roberta"; it is charmful if you sit in the last roW or the first row. The old adage "distance lends enchantment" in this values; in close proximity or in row X, "Roberta'* is something to be desired. "iRoberta," now ensconced for a long time it is hoped fn the Erlanger Theatre, Chicago, is the one and only "Roberta" company Jn the whole United States. It is the original production; which was transported to ^ crjiuf utoi ,1 vu. '° ;C^ica_0 jn four Pullman cars and for homes which reflect more of the, K 4.v,o^« l spirit of our parents and even grandparents, and less of the superficial Bplrit of our Twentieth century materialism. ' • ©. Western Newspaper Unloo. ! three baggage cars, there being i eighty people in the organization and Wabash River. Shortly-after We stopped at that, pretty town of pre-Revolutionary days and one of the first settlements of the west, Vincennes, Ind. No doubt you recall that famous .novel based on that locality, "Alice of Old Vincennes." At a little after 9 o'clock that night we left Evansville and slowly crossed the high bridge over the Qhio River into Kentucky. We could see the packet boats and a large ferry carrying a load of passengers back to Indiana. Gradually the crowd on the observation platform and in the club car thinned out and when we had reached Guthrie, Ky., most of the train was dark. When the first streaks of dawn showed we had passed Nashville and were just leaving the famous battlefield of Murfreesboro, now a thriving town of 20,000. A little further the porter pointed out the outlines of Missionary Ridge and then Lookout Mountain and an hour later we were in the' main depot of Chattanooga. All around us for maybe sixty SLOCUM'S LAKE Earl Converse was a business caller at McHenry last Friday. John Nestad spent Suhday With friends at Waukegan. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Brooks of Waukegan spent Sunday afternoon j answers given By the extension and evening at the home of Mr.,and servjCe of the College of Agriculture Farm Bureau News Corn-Hog Information To assist in disseminating accurate information relative to the 1935 AAA corn-hog program and how it will af-" feet producers in McHenry County, the Plaindealer is publishing some of the more common questions, together Mrs. W. E. Brooks. Mr. and Mrs. LaDoyt MatthfeWs of Forest Park spent last Thursday at the home of the latter'»s parents here. Mrs. Darrell has not been so well. Mrs. Celia Darrell and daughter, Ethel, visited at the home of Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Lundgren at Wauconda Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Win. Harris and daughter, Darlene, of McHenry , spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell. Misses Jeiinie and Ethel Dowell vis ited at the home of Mrs. Jane Eatinger at Wauconda last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Miatthews and son, Lyle, Mr. and Mrs. John Blom greh, Willard Darrell attended the annual meeting of the Lake-Cook Farm Supply Co. at Lake Zurich last Thursday. Donald Kirkpatrick, attorney for the I, A. Was principal speaker. of the University of Illinois and the farm adviser, W. A. Herrington. Q.--Can a contract signer reduce his corn acreage more than 10 per cent in 1935 and get benefit payments for extra reduction? A.--Yes, he can reduce up to 30 per cent of base acreage. No payment will be made on acres withheld from corn production »n excess of 30 per cent. Q.--Must all land in a farming unit be included in a corn-hog contract in 1935? V.;/ '."r . A.--Yea. „ \ Q.--Whit M !>y term "farming unit" ? ' A.--A farming unit shall include all land which at- the time of the execution of the contract by " the producer is to be operated by the producer in 1938 as a single operating unit with work stock, farm machinery, and labor substantially separate froth that for any other tract of land. Q.--iln" the fall of 1932 a field was sown to wheat. The stand winter the same as feeders in the contract this year? A.--Yes. A contract signer without a feeder pig base cannot buy breeding stock from a non-signer. He may, however, boy any number of breeding or feeding hogs from contract signers. Q.--What restriction is placed on the production of livestock a$id livestock products other than iogs in the 1935 contract? A.--There are no restrictions on any class of livestock or livestock product other than hogs. Q.--What restriction doesf the 1935 corn-hog contract place on the seeding of wheat ? . '/ '• A.--None. V Q.--Besides' operating W^own iaifd", a farmler also operaues land rented from two landlords. If all corn acreage reduction is made o>n his own land, must the landlords also sign the contract? A.---It is not necessary in this case for the landlord to sign unless there is a livestock lease involved. Q.--When will benefit checks be issued in the 1935 program? A.--First corn and hog benefit payments will be made as soon as completed contracts have been accepted by the Secretary of Agriculture. Second or final payments on or about Jan. 1.1936. into three groups. Those who attend the explanation meetings will know into what particular group they come for the sign-up. The remaining explanation meetings will be held according to the following schedules: Monday, Feb. 4,. MlcHenry Higk School, 1:15p. m. • Tuesday, Feb. 5, Crystal Lake High School, 1: 15 p. m. Wednesday, Feb. 6, Hebron School, 1:15 p. n. . Thursday, Feb. 7,- Harvard School, 1:15 p. m. Friday, FebT 8, Woodstock, Bureau Office, 1:15 p. m; Mrs. Ray Dowell and daughter, killed, and in the spring, of 1933 the Dolores, called on Mrs. Wayne Bacon field was plsthted to corn. Can this . « -1 1 t- r' mi J . . . > . , . t the brilliant cast. There could be no m;ies we could see mountains in every Gabby Gertie second company in existence, for the simple reason that the talent assembled in the one and only company could not be duplicated In the wide world and no producer, not even Max Gordon, would have the courage to launch a second company of "Roberta" upon the treacherous highways and byways of' this country. So, whereas there were a half dozen half-milion dollar musicals in the heyday of the late Flo Ziegfeld today there is only one musical comedy on tour in the U. S. A., and it came so near to costing a half million dollars that it will be many a moon before any producer will be able tO organize another. - ^ JOHNSBURG The opposing element makes It al» MMt impossible to keep the lid on." • Ql' botf ttLthby U gjlpula. s'jtfrrjt "An eld bachelor u only i tf sciaoa." FEBRUARY S--Milady busy buying rats VST and puffs (or her hair, 1910. ** New England is ihaken by • severe earthquake, aVfel t736- rf~, 7--Daniel Boone is captured' by the Indiana, 177*. S--Firat colony of Spaniards start for New Mexico, im •--Jefferson Davis becomes > Confederate President, 1861. hi. 10--Philadelphia Pr Malted with gas. ^ 11--'Temperature of 73 a' cero in Cleveland, 0^1932. POTPOURRI Mrs. Nick Bertrang of Aurora is spending a few weeks with Mr. and Mrs. John Thelen. Mr. and Mrs. John Rauen of Spring Grove spent Tuesday with John H. Freund. Miss Isabel Schmitt, Miss Caroline Freund and Miss Eleanor Hergott of Chicago attended the Forester dance here Wednesday evening. Miss Emma Freund of McHenry spent Sunday with her father, John H. Freund. Mr. and Mrs. John Lay of Spring Grove spent Sunday with Mrs. Stephen Schmitt, Mrs. Steve King and son, Eugene, spent a few days in Chicago with Mr. and Mrs. Alex Freund. The Lady Foresters held a meeting Tuesday evening with 36 sisters being present. After the meeting cards and bunco was played, prizes being awarded to Mrs. Leo Hiller, Mrs. Alma Schmitt, Mrs. Joe Huemann, Mrs. Joe Miller, Mrs. Willam Oeffling and Mrs. Math N. Schmitt. •Edward Frett of Wisconsin was a caller here Wednesday evening. ~Mr. and Mrs. George Gerloch were Chicago callers Thursday., i Mr. and Mrs. John A. Jung and daughter of Spring Grove were cal lers here Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Freund and daughter of Chicago spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Smith John H. Freund is quite sick at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Turner and daughter of Crystal Lake spent Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ben 3. Schaefer and family. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Thelen and Mr. and Mrs. John Thelen have modirection and the Express wound around first one and then another, with sometimes a tunnel to shorten the mileage. v At Cartersville a fresh dining car was hooked on with an entire new staff of chefs, and waitefs and an hour later breakfast was announced as we passed through Marietta?; the northern suburb of Atlanta. For several miles the railway runs towards the center of the town, parallel with the famous Peachtree_Boulevard, the main thoroughfare of Georgia's capital, and we could see it crowded with early morning workers burying downtown. As we were finishing breakfast we met the Dixie Flyer northbound from Jacksonville to Chicago pulling into Atlanta. Then with a new engine coupled on we spent the next few hours-ffeoing through the peach, pecan and cotton section of Georgia. At Albany we had to set our watches ahead an hour as from then on we would be in Eastern Time territory. Around the middle of thie afternoon we passed through the Okeefenokee Swamp, celebrated in song and story, a wild section like the old bayou country of Arkansas and Louisiana and the last frontier of Georgia. This territory was formerly the hiding place for fugitives from justice and escaping slaves during pre-Civil War days. It is still noted for its bear, deer and turkey hunting and is traversed by numerous creeks and streams and has an area of about 2,800 square miles. Then just as it was, getting dusk we left Waycross on the last stretch to Jacksonville. We were due at 8:30 p. m- in Jacksonnville, but the pas senger travel was so heavy that wt were two hours late in entering the Terminal Station there. There were twenty-seven extra trains from th« north that one night so everything was delayed. For example, the New York-Havana Special southbound, in» stead of one train, had five, all due fifteen minutes apart. The Jackson^ at Grayslake last Thursday. Mr3. Bacon returned home with Mrs. Dowell for a few days' visit. Ray Dowell was a caller at Lake Zurich last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren spent last Friday at the homie of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lusk at Maple Park. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews and sons, Robert and Lyle, Mr. an& Mrs. Earl Matthews and daughter, Susan Ann, and son, Earle, of Wauconda spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. LaDoyt Matthews at Fores I Park. Mrs. Earl Converse, spent* from Thursday until Tuesday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Esping, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mattfews and sons, Robert and Lyle, Willard Darrell, Arthur WackeroW and John Nestad spent one evening out of the three evenings at the WLS home talent Barn dance show at Gurnee. The program was very good and it was put on again Monday evening in order to accommodate the number of people that was turned away Saturday evening. land be counted as 1933 corrt ground in determining the 1932-1938 base corn acreage? A.--It can not, unless an equal area of land originally intended for ocrn planting in 1933 was left idle <$hat same year. Q.--Has the export market for hog products improved in the past year? A.--Exports of pork from the TJ". S. picked up slightly in 1934, but exports of lard continued to djgp off. Exports of pork to foreign countries are only abut three-fourths of a billionpounds a year as .compared with nearly two hillion shortly after the war. - ~ _ Q.--Will the 1934 county com-hog control association carry on through for the 1935 program? A.--No. After the first sign-up in the 1935 program, applicants will be called together to elect diretcors and permanent committees for the 1935 county corn-hog control association. Q.--What Can a producer do with the land which he holds out of corn production under the 1935 contract? A.--He may use it for -any crop except corn. • Q.--Are breeding hogs considered E.. F.. Ku6cker, President of the McHenry County Corn-Hog Control Association, states that interest in the 1.935 program is very good aA indicated by the two explanation meetings held at Marengo and Huntley. Approximately 125 wei« In attendance at the meeting at Marengo. Five additional explanation meetings will be held in the county before the sign-up meetings begin. At the explanation meetings Mr. E. F. Kucker and Bert Bridges, members of the Allotment committee, have explained the main features connected with the 1935 program. W. A. Herrington discusses McHenry County is well represent, ed this week at the Annual Meeting of the Illinois Agricultural Association at Quincy. A party of 20 left Woodstock Monday morning. The party includes the following: K. N. Cristy, Ringwood; Stanley L. Church, Huntley; Fred S. Gay, Harvard; W. J. Schuett, Woodstock; Clinton Martin, W. McHenry; Math Schmitt, McHenry; Richard Ettner, Marengo: R. T. Burroughs, Woodstock; W. A. Herrington, Woodstock; L. A. Siedschlag, Spring Grove; Arthur Beard, Woodstock; Cole Peterson, Woodstock; A. F. Miller, Union; Melvin Stalbeis.A Woodstock; Burt Bridge*, Harvard} Aimer Aavang, Woodstock; Marguerite Stalbeis, Woodstock; Kathryn Sinr ding, Woodstock. An attendance of Over 6,000 is pected at Quincy. Illinois farmers are intensely interested in Chester C. Davis's talk on the subject of "Agricultural Adjustment, Present and Future." Other speakers will include Gov. W. I. Meyers of the Farm Credit administration, who will discuss "Building a Permanent Farm Credit System;" George N. Peck, special adviser to the president on foreign trade who will talk on "Foreign Trade and Money." , J, C. Christiansen of St. Paul will talk on "Dealing in Futures;" Edward the economic reasons for the 1935 I A. O'Neal, president of the American program, illustrating his points with charts which have been furnished by the government. The new sign-up will begin immediately after the explanation meetings. For the purpose of efficiency and the saving of time signers will be divided Dr. cficelier .OPTOMETRIST Farm Bureau Federation, will discuss the opportunities and responsibilities of the present day farmers: Earl Smith, President of the Illinois Agricultural association will discuss current pending farm legislation as it affects Illinois farmers. Sundays and Mondays at my Summer Home, Riverside Drive, McHenry, I1L All Kinds of Repairs, M 211-R ville Terminal can accommodate thirty trains at one timle, but was crowded beyond capacity. It was 10:40 when we finally land; ed, tired but happy. Will Heaney and John Meehan met us at the depot and drove us out to the Heaney home in Avondale. Next week I'll write you about ©or first few days in Florida. Your affectionate aunt, STASIA. *2 DOWN for Washer or Ironet Costs as little as 69c a week 9 Highest Bridge • The highest railroad bridge In the world crosses the Zambezi river on tbe Cape-to-Cairo railway in Afrioa. It Is 420 feet above the water and has a single cantilever span of 500 feet. It was built In 18 months. A net was suspended beneath it during construction to catch any falling workman. ©, Wcetarn Newspaper Union. 01 o t h e 8 do not make the man is a flimsy maxim that yon can shoot straws . , , through. They do not v*V,J make the man, but they ge$r him an Veedleoce, and they . always adrertise 'wtet Manner of man he 1ft £ tored to Florida where Mr. and Mrs Henry Thelen will spend the winter, while Mr. and Mrs. John Thelen will I'etum. inja, few weeks. Mrs. Charles Michels entertained the 500 club Wednesday afternoon. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Leo Freund, Mrs. Steve May and Mrs. C. Michels. Mrs. George Lay is ill with the flu. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Gorski and son, Kenneth, of Woodstock and Mr. and Mrs. George Kin at and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Joe P. Miller. L John Thelen motored to Aurora on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. George Hille*. mlotored to Chicago Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Freund were Woodstock callers Wednesday. Alfred Smith of Crystal Lake visit ed with his parents, M!r. and Mrs. P. Smith Wednesday. Mrs. George King and iton, Junior, spent Monday in the home of Mr: and Mrs. John King at McHenry. Miss Katherine Althoff of Elgin spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Althoff. SEES FIRST ROBINS _ Spring is just around the corne We're sure of it--and who wouldn't be--when two plump, red-breasted robins were see;n last Friday by Jos. J. Frett at his home on Riverside Drive. These first harbingers of spring must have mixed their dates some way and arrived about a month ahead of time, but now that they are here they will no doubt remain until warmer weather brings more of their companions. Even when trees are bare the robins seem to know their choice and selected a cherry tree for their resting place at the Frett home. 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