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TT^T^ . . '• "•>>°*. .•*. msmi i»- J K 7 t y . t r j mm Japanese Children Dress the Part Olty Oonndl Ptooeedingt •WS'M " At the children's festival in Japan many of the children who were . ','f-taken to the temple were dressed as miniature generals and admirals. W-*youngsters were photographed at the Meiji shrine in Tokyo. ^ ' ' . " ' ' • - ' - --, i . * ,' L^sgSS^M ,, Sr.# - Spurns Gene Thedry of Heredity^ Professor Richard Goldschmidt of the department of zoology, University of California, formerly director of the Kaiser Wilhelm institute in f Germany, whose observations on the spontaneous mutations of fruit flies i lead him to the revolutionary conclusion that the genes, fundamental : units of heredity upon which rest the foundations of the whole structure I of the modern genetics, have been all along the mere figment of scientists' imagination. World's Oldest Laying Hen Council Room, January 8, 1988. -- ---The City Council met in regular monthly meeting with Mayor Overton presiding. Aldermen present: Bolger, Buss, Ferwerda, Freund, Kreutzer, Absent: none. <• Motion by Kreutzer, seconded by Ferwerda, that the minutes of the previous meeting be approved as read. Motion carried. Motion by Bolger, seconded by Kreutzer, that the treasurer's report be approved as read. Motion carried. Motion by Ferwerda, seconded by Freund, that the collector's report be approver) ns rei><] Molt.ion carried. Motion by Kreutzer, seconded by Buss, that the clerk's report be approved as read. Motion carried. Motion by Kreutzer, seconded by Regner, that the following bills be paid as approved by the finance committee. Motion carried. Public Service Company^ Public Service Company Public Service Company PubMc Service Company Public Service Company ..-..fe Pubjjic Service Company AugUstine Freund, FiremSn service Theodore Miller, Fireman $efvie* 4 ; : Harold Hobbs, Fitemaft sersSce,.' lister Fage* Fireman Serwce-..> Kenneth Grander, Foreman ser£ i vice ......< John Stilling, G»s, repairs:;on: ""fire truck John B. Wirtz, Marshall service . .. Peter Wirfs, Police Service , Fred ,C. Feltz, Caretaker sewer. service -- W. C. Feltz, Caretaker street service ..............w Miller Coal & Ice Co., Hauling sand ^Loren Miller, Sending streets Fred Miller, Gravel at Clay Hole Ernest Miller, Sanding streets LinUs Newman, Labor at Clay Hole Labor at .$ 28.20 V .68 , 1 . 0 9 .158.18 . 95.31 ; 30.07 6.00 6.00 3.00 3.00 2.56 110.00 95.00 75.00 100.00 2.00 17.50 5.00 3.20 18.C0 Along the Concrete VllH WmQ> EVERY A//6HT CHC'SfMAS WlHb To ATTACA ^ ~ PAM6EP f Robt. Patzke, ! Clay Hole r. Wm. Kreutzer, Labor at Clay Hole Ernest Miller, Labor at Clay Hole ......... Ray Howard, Jr., Labor at Clay Hole ......... Bob Conway, Labor at Clay Hole .... Wm. Kreutzer, Sanding streets Miller Coal & Ice Co., Hauling sand i Walter Kreutzer, Labor at Clay' Hole ................ Robert Conway, Labor at Clay Hole -mm Ray Howard, Jr., Labor at Clay Hole •••• Rnhprt. Patzke. Labor at Clay Farm opics INSULATION WILL ~S AVE WINTER FUEL 14.40 11.20 14.80 10.40 \ 14.40 3.20 4.7fr 2.86' 1.60 1;60 Nineteen-year-old white leghorn, owned and raised by J. T. Milligan cf Paso Robles, Calif., who is one of the outstanding poultry judges on the Pacific coast, was exhibited at the annual Great Western Live Stock show at Los Angeles. In 1927 the chicken was exhibited at the world's poultry congress at Ottawa, Canada, and won the plaque on white legyear the chicken laid 22 eggs, from which 7 chickens were batched. Mr. Milligan has undeniable proof of the hen's age. When this hen was younger, she laid 200 eggs per year, which at that time W8J» u- g° average. Photograph shows: J. T. Milligan, poultry judke ^na his aged hen, which, although a pet, has never had any other.liaitie except the number 25, which she wears on'a band around her leg. " i Hole Lawrence Miller, Labor at Clay Hole , Wm. Tesch, Labor at Clay Hole Linus Newman, Labor at Clay Hole Wm. Kreutzer, Sanding streets Ernest Miller, Sanding streets Walter Kreutzer, Sanding streets Fred Miller, Sanding streets .. Mort Ritt, Repairing clock .......; |L. V. Kjiltz, Typewriter repair Robert Conway, Sanding streets Charles Rietesel, Painting signs Mayme Buss, Clerical service, commissions - Western United G. & E., Three month Burner Rental Wester United G. & E Illinois Bell Telephone Co. ...... Earl R. Walsh, Supplies and stamps « Matt M. Niesen, Supt. service Alexander Lumber Co., Coal lor City Hall .... McHenry Lumber Co., Supplies for Clay Hole v~ Peter Weber, Labor at sewer .. Paul E. Gerasch, Material and labor for waterworks and sewer H. E. Buch, Taking out water meter McHenry Artificial Stone Co., Material and labor at sewer Illinois Municipal League, Annual dues Illinois Printing Company, Four special Assessment Books .•« John J. Vycital, Supplies .......... Wm. H. AlthofT, Supplies .......... Motion by Bolger, seconded by Freund, to rent a fire truck at the rate of $2.50 per day from the Peter Pirsch Co. for temporary use until such time as plans can be formulated for the purchase of truck for the protection of rural districts. Motion carried. A renewal street lighting contract from the Public Service Co. was referred to the City Attorney. It was agreed that the Ordinance Committee would meet wfith the City Attorney to review standing ordinances and investigate cost of printing same in bound booklet form. Motion by Ferwerda, seconded by Kreutzer to adjourn. Motion carried. , • R. I. OVERTON, Mayor. EARL R. WALSH, Clerk. Plan Worthwhile in a Farm or City Residence. By W. A. Foster, Associate Chief, Sural Architecture. University of IUinois. WNU Service. Good insulation in a farm or city home will pay for itself in three years in saving fuel. With winter sure to come, homemakers will find insulation wisely chosen and intelligently used to be worthwhile. It should be placed in every new home and in an old homes as soon as convenient. . >r Insulation isheat-saving by the use of a construction which reduces the leakage of air and retards the passage of heat through the"walls. vIts value as an insulator is measured by the resistance it offers to the heat traveling through the material." In addition to high resistance to heat travel, a first-class insulating material is one that is fireproof, that contains no food for rodents or insects, that is light in weight and inexpensive and that does hot deteriorate with age or moisture. Insulating material is classed in five groups. They are fills such as sawdust; flaked mineral, or torn fibers; flexible, or blanket; rigid, or board; porous and reflector types. Of the many kinds of fill insulators, the fibrous, or fiake, made from mineral or rock will not burn nor provide food for pests, insects or rodents. This cannot be claimed for 'sawdust or hair felt. The better known flexible or blanket type of insulation is made by quilting a grass or fiber between paper sheets. It may be placed in walls, between floors and over ceilings where it is protected and out of the way. Board or rigid types of insulation are made from waste products such as cane fiber, straw, cornstalks, stump hearts, roots and other material. Its adaptability .makes it one of the leading materials used for insulation. J Porous insulation is a cast material, sponge-like in appearance with the holes or bubbles serving to liold the sir and slow the hea^ movement. The reflect6r type is new and not so well known. It consists of a\ thin metal or mineral film or foil with a -tough paper backing. The 'theory is that the heat waves strike Insulation is of value throughout 1.20 2.80 8.50 1.60 1.60 1.60 12.05 4.00 1.75 1.60 5.00 26.29 3.00 8.84 4.70 4.26 50.50 10.88 3.18 8.00 12.04 2.50 73.99 20.00 6.40 2.63 4.71 the year in keeping a house warm in winter and cool and comfortable in hot weather. Layers Require Calcium to Keep Up Production South Dakota Agricultural Experiment station reports the results of five years' experimental work in comparing several sources of calcium for laying hens. Part of their conclusions from this work are as follows: » Over a five year experimental period, no significant difference was found in favor of any of the supplements used, namely oyster shell, clam shell, chalkstone, Black Hills limestone, dolomitic limestone, when results were judged by egg production, egg weight, and egg breaking strength. A lack of calcium fed as a supplement to the ordinary complete ration, either all-mash or mash and grain, markedly decreases egg production and causes a loss of egg shell strength. Added calcium is absolutely necessary for maximum egg production.' Added calcareous materials can stimulate the calcium secreting part of the oviduct in 24. hours after feeding, when such ma* terials had been previously denied the hens. Washington, January 12--Out of the welter of \qords hurled in the present controversy absorbing the public and the politicians* attention, a cold-blooded analyst cpuld rightly say that the hullabaloo is nothing more than a struggle between abuses in government and abuses in business. Valuable time is wasted by leaders and laymen devoting their efforts to a situation comparable to the childhood game of "tag" with each group unwilling to be labeled "it" or taking the blame for the slump. F^w helpful measures should be expected from the current dissensions which are dominated largely by political considerations. Neither the government nor business can afford to remain implacable foes without incurring heavy casualties in their bid for populat support?" Even the rank and file of lawmakers who ordinarily enjoy these sensational clashes about national policies are restive under the wave of criticism from the folks back home, who have little like for anything smacking of another depression. The beating of tom-toms at Jackson Day dinners this week and blasts from industrial camps about this and that government policy do not provide material for peacemakers. The President's address to Congress indicating modification of anti-business policies did not check the Ickes-Robert Jackson hymns of hate. The current hearings by a Senate Committee as to the causes of the depression and unemployment have clarified the smoking atmosphere in some respects. While the left-wingersvin the Administration persist in claiming the dubious credit for anything contemplating a strait-jacket for industry, the facts are that business itself has provoked many restrictive measures now pending. It is true that the ardent New Dealers originated many laws curbing normal business operations, but at least three major bills before the House today are directly traceable to inter-industry competition wherein one group attempts to freeze out their rivals through legislative means. A cross-section of important conversations here this week has to do with the identity of a successor to Associate Justice Sutherland,-who retires January 18; opinion prevails that the President must select a man from the West and one who can pass heated Senatorial examination as to his qualifications; that certain Administration advisors are toyfinj? with the idea of a wage bill providing a minimum annual wage while Vice President Garner, a power on Capitol Hill, is allegedly devising a compromise to the stymied wage standards bill which will be confined to regulation of hours; Congressional resistance to curtailment of outlays for public works in an election year; resentment among right-wing legislators toward plans for tax revision utiliizing taxing power as a penalty against corporations like the Ford Motor Company and other closely-held concerns who are in the bad graces of Administration ageneies; optimism as retail sales from the larger stores of the country show a gain of nearly six percent for 1937 with private surveys indicating the merchants faith in the future by budgets calling for a ten percent (increase in spring operations with only a few declines noted. A tinge of hopelessness may be noted in the annual report of the U. S. Civil Service Commission submitted to the Congress this week. The Commission has some practical ideas on the fubject of government servants which unfortunately clash with the exigencies of polities. /Recognizing the ramifications of politics, the Commission remains adamant in* its opposition to allo<»&on of Federal jobs solely on a patronage basis. The report frankly states "this growing tendency to introduce legislation in Congress exempting positions from the civil service law is a matter of grave public concern." The merit system of selecting public employees goes out of the window when lawmakers' have a re-election campaign at hand. The Commission contends the taxpayers would have better service from government employees under a competitive examination system with all the safeguards of a civil service rating. Under other conditions the temporary officeholders run to their political sponsors with petty complaints and are inclined to "soldier on the job" while their patron has power. A rough idea of the problem may be gleaned from official figures showing that 37 percent of employees in the executive branch of the government are not subject to civil service. Insurance companies, local health ifamdiar; Tannaqr 13,198$" much change in the death rate front, tuberculosis. The government is hopeful that enormously increased expenditures under the Social Security Act,. , which helped establish health cenfetfr ' in several county seats, will aid matejp* ially in the war on disease. The barrage, of printed matter whi<& flows from various government ds* partments requires 4460 different mauirtg lists and nearly two mtillion stencils. This figure does not embrace th# mailing lists of eligible voters maintained by many legislators for the express purpose of sending out propaganda designed to build good-will for office-holders. The U.S. Public Printer informed the solons that his prirttshop turned out 226,998,630 copies of speeches and government documents in 1937. In addition, the print order „ of the Congressional Record reached' 4,318,272 copies. The sale of docile ment&has been growing, but is only • drop"®m the bucket compared with free distribution of pamphlets. STUDENtlS VISIT ROCKFORD Mrs. Joanne Rulien, school nur*& and the girls of her class went to Roekford Friday, where they visited authorities and persons interested in I many points of interest, including the personal health problems will have tuberculosis hospital, the school for something to consider seriously when I cnippled . children, the Kishwaukee they read the report of the U. S. Sur-1 school for the deaf, and women's jail, geon General. The head of the Pub-1 Those who went with Mrs. Rulien wer^-- lie Health Sieryice reports that for [Alice Mae Low, Virginia Jepson, Marthe fiscal year ending June 30, 1937,' garet Coyne, Isabel Fellens, Dolores the general death rate jumped from J Wagner, Kathrine Rothermel, Mary 10.8 per 1,000 population to 11.3 with Jaj^e, Laures. art increase in infant mortality slightly over one percent. While deaths attributable to typhoid, measles, whooping cough, diphtheria and infantile paralysis showed a pleasing decline, the toll of heart disease, cancer, pneumonia and cerebral hemorrhage, climbed. The early data fails to. show fr5 M ¥ Valuable Trees BttrneA r Hundreds of great and valu&Mi tr^es, mahogany, ebony and tealH wood, are burned down every year by natives in many parts of Africfc to make clearings for their village* , *: and farms. CENTRAL GARAGE Prepare your car or truck now for winter driving. We can provide you with Alcohol, Prestone, etc, • FuU Line of Atlas and Goodyear Tires / v Electric and Acetylene Welding t 1 ^ ~ - Jiff, Washing and PoJjghing; ^ Phone 200-J Towing Johnsburg FOR JANUARY SEMI PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER OVIDE SHAPE A fin* quality of whif•, temi-porc*laine war*. Wide slanting lip saucer and tapering cup design. Every home needs for mJRfday use.Oiam. of cup V/4 in. height 2% *»• I I M 1 T T O A C U S t O M E R 12 CUPS AND SAUCERS. WM. H. ALTHOFT HOWE. lUinftrat Wmmmrnt Chickens Sent to Japan t One of the most valuable ship*' ments of breeding stock ever exported from the United States was a flock of 65 pedigreed chickens whicli were sent to Japan the past sum* mer. ^ --POTPOURRI Osmium Heaviest Metal The heavifest metal on earth is osmium which is 22^ times heavier than water, and twice as heavy as lead. While a cubic foot of water weighs 62% pounds, a like amount of osmium approximates three-quarters of a ton. Being very hard, it is used for pen points, light filaments, etc. 6 Western Newspaper Union. tvo Goat Hlandi There are two Goat islands. One is in the Niagara river and the other is a large islaud in San Francisco bar. . POTPOURRI Both Eyes on Same Side The flounder fish family has several species and all have the common characteristic of having both eyes on the same side of the body. Those living in warm waters throughout the world have both eyes on the left side of the body while those in cold waters have eyes in the right side. C Western Newspaper Union. ,:,k : : •. < Vfrgtada First In 1790 Virginia, Pennsylvania and North Carolina ranked one, two, three in population among the states in 1790. New York was then fifth. Belling Postage Stamps It is provided by law that postmasters and postal employees shall not sell postage star ps for more oi less than the face value of the stamps. But this restriction does not apply to persons not connected with the postal service. Private individuals, such as stamp collectors, may pay a large sum for a rare postage stamp, even though it is of small face value. And the owner of a stamp vending machine is permitted to make a profit on the stamps^ sold. Japanese Silky, Old Breed The Japanese silky is one of the very old breeds. As the name would indicate, it originated in Japan, but is said to have been raised in China during the very early days of pout try history. The breed is used principally for exhibition purposes though the hens are finding a place on game farms. They are exceedingly good for incubating quail and pheasant eggs and are outstanding in their gbility to, £ire ICST thesf chicks. Lamo Travels in "Style Buenos Aires, Argentina, recently greeted the most favored animal traveler to reach its shores in many years. He is Foxhill Royal lift, a Southdown shearling ram lamb, which had been bought in Engla by»an Argentine rancher. He cost $150, but the new owner paid more for his passage. A special home was built for him on the top deck of "the ship and a groom was m constant attendance. Foxhill Royal 116 was insured for $800. In 1938 CHEVROLET OFFERS TRUCKS FOR EVERY TRADE •m • Nickel Stronger to Cold '.Lit* stops, but modern industry goes on at 328 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. Here quicksilver freezes so hard that it can be used to ham-, mer nails, and iron vessels become jas brittle as milk bottles, but nickel and high nickel alloys, which be-^ come harder, stronger and more durable the colder it gets, are used for working parts of compressors opera^np at. this low temperature. 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