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wmm . f*v >p?t^T^fr*K* t;^-\ \ ;- f/ }\\^t *«* > i/*r^*z7 - r~ ^ F*J^T , H ^L^I > * ' "" ' , ' . ^ * <. 1 \ ^ J > i V s. ^Wlti|i' xiL F >j£r ~ « I ££*»£* 1 ti'lui •* 1 f ' ' - ' 4 W. . " »* » J , -1 J »«•". * * " J^*J^ ^ " ***>«^< |^^l|' r f. ir m^. Language Of Love Has Changed* beap Year Valentines Reveal ^ ^ As far as eye, or any window- pw^et compacts that can always popper, can plainly see. St. Val- j be U(,ed and many other sentl- ^itine'o Day is still our most jngntai trinkets have been tucked rp6pular time of the eniirt year | wfthin the lace-trimmed borders &r romantic chit-chat ^ Leap Year style Valentines. lK>wever, reveal that Dan Cupid is tod up with -home-cooking ...j Jfre's last resort. Starchy foods and southern Ujied chicken, it now appears. Ittve quietly given way to satinsmooth flattery as the surest road to a man's heart < .-Exhibit "A" in this survey of It '<fllrrent romantic trends is a Val- *f: e&tine designed for the guv who's v 6*en stalling around' because he • wants to be an artist. It pictures ' * modern art museum where a « '"Btarry-eyed little moppet is wan- ' "dering about, as she sweetly says |i> ' I guess there ain't NOBODY *}• ' - What loves ART more than me-- Ain't you got no ETCHIfi'S u\." You'd like for me to see? 'fJXv'. . The traditional "Will You Be iiy Valentine '" approach has i'lfco •' fallen by the wayside. Feminine *! instinct has Jinully admitted that * better results may be expected *! from a Valeniine verse like this-- »• I don't need a mansion «• Or lots of money! *' With ^ou I could live On a shoestring. Honey! ** Dropping the handkerchief, of ** course, and provocative glances-- «. slyly cast from behind miladv's *k fan~"-were reluctantly abandoned J. about the same time that hoop «• skirts and multi-layer petticoats " paesed out of style. »• Love at first sight ;an't be depended upon either. Booby-traps «. for tnodein bachelors must be more cunningly contrived than *| ever--even if it means telling the •* truth. As this next verse trunkly JJ seems to.-do-- i •j Please try me for your Valentine, I wisht you would becuz-- /" . I'd druther be a "has been" Than jnst a "never wuz**! : Spring Grove (By Mrs. Charles Freund) A great tribute to a man who had made a host of friends was the large attendance at the funeral service of William Britz, held at St. Peter's church on Wednesof de luxe 1952 Valentines. You'll find, too, that the new Valentines have a wide variety of as i special titles, appropriate for wives and mothers as well as sweethearts ready to mail. Valentine verses also reveal certain subtle changes in the ., , . , . language of- ,l ove -fr om a „m ascu,l«in„ e i sympathy is extended point of view. The hard-boiled "I'll be your Big Bad Wolf, if you'll be- my Little Red Riding 11 neatly boxed and 1 day morning. A solemn Requiem 1 High Mass was held, with Fathers | Daleiden, Baumhofer and Coleman officiating. Our heartfelt to his bereaved family. Friends of Mrs. Ella Siegler were saddened by the news of her Hood" tvpe of verse has gone with 1 death. She had been a resident the "Wind: " t j here for many years but was liv- Generally speaking, the 1952jDwight. 111., at the time of Valentines for men are gay and ^er death. Mrs. Siegler passed light-hearted, yet strictly senti- ! away on Jan. 28. Funeral services mental. Heart-throbs and chuck-,were held at t^ie Baker funeral les, for example, are Carefully : home- in Dwight, with Rey- M. H. blended, in a verse that confess- Mue'ler> pastor es-- •••••. I'm usually carefree as can be I never fret or hurry.* But 'til you say that You'll be mine. Oh--- Worry, worry, worry! Then there's the frankly "come hither" type of Valentine, for those who believe "faint heart ne'er won fair lady"-- Everyone's BILLING and COOING . So why don't we Do some WOO-WOO-WOO-tng? This technique, you should remember, is full of pitfalls. For the girl who receives it could snap right back with one like this-- Gee. Valentine, I like you heaps! , Just say the word And I'm yours for keeps- Sugar-coated as they seem, the Valentines of today don't promise I Wednesday. of Emmanuel Lutheran church, conducting. Burial was at Wllmot cemetery, Wilmot. Wis, Committal service by Rev. R. P. Otto. Those froi| here who attended services at Wilmot were Mr. and Mrs. Frank May, Mr. and Mrs. William Shotliff, Mrs. Alice Wagner. Charles Freund and A1 Schmeltzer. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Klein moved on Saturday to a home near his post at Great Lakes, where he. is stationed. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold May are the happy parents of a new daughter, born at St. Theresa hospital. Waukegan, on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Jess DeGroft and Norman attended the outdoor show at the Coliseum in Chicago on Monday night. Steve Klein entered the Home for the Aged at Freeport ladt and Mrs>. Leander Lay. Mr. and Mrs. William Justen have moved to their new !tom? In McHenry. School Notes Rev. Mother Superior is Vle&ttg the nuns at St. Peter's convent so the children had a free day on Tuesday. Individual pictures were taken of the children at St. Peter's school Monday morning and uow we are all anxiously awaiting the results. TWICE TOLD TALES Forty Years Afro It has been called to the attenhigh school boys' basketball team triumphed over the Woodstock high school five by the score of 1» to 18. Anna, .Florence and Marguerite Knox. Ella Mollohan. ' Eleanor Phalin and Margaret Buss went This pur« any isa tion of the writer that McHenry is j the teachers' meeting. again experiencing a scarcity of | Twcnty-FlvA Years A#» houses. We believe that the build- j Tht sum of $S,(UiO was .recently ing of, at least Half a dozen j j)a|<| Gn the churca delit by St. houses in the village would be a j p.,trick'* parish, which reduced to Woodstock iSaturday to attend! Thursday afternoon in the K. C, . . . . e l e c t i o n o f XtSIClAK KILLED Lester B6ss, 27, of Milwaukee, a musician and entertainer, egarding the proposed | killea at 1 a.m. last week Wet|^ ' nesday when his car crashed int§ - a tree in front- of 544 New York street, in Aurora. His death w^yf Kane county's first tftiffic fatality for 1952. Boss, a member of a trij^ the high school auditorium, meeting i6 called for the pose of explaining . fully questions park district The Altar & Rosary society met j hall, at which time ! officers took ih&ce. The following good thing. The male choir of the Johnsburgh Catholic church will give a concert at the church hall on Sunday evening, Feb. 18. DEFENSE AID Dr, K&land R. Cross, dttoMor of the state Department of Public Health, has appointed a five-mem- j ber convittee from his department to wo. rk with state Civil Defense • „ , , » Director TL enox „R. .L o.h r i, n au ;in | Friday mornm« of !ns<t weektensive campaign designed to as- ^ double wedding of more than sure full participation by local : PaflS'n$ interest tOuur reatioi si health services in the state defense ' was s'>!emni/.-?d at St. Alary & program. The comittee will ea-! CafhoHc church here :u 9 o'c lock celebrated their tablish operations covering all "11 Tuesdaymorning pt this week. , anniversary the principals ill the t-yent being J Misses Kathryn Maxine 1' iigi ln and Kathryn Helen Ileiiner and i Messrs. Nicklous F. .tnd ^:"orge C. Steilen. thi debt to $3^506 on the building. ;7"~: McHenry's growth last year, as indicated by the number of new telephones installed, was describphases of civil defense concerned with health; J. C. Clemens jMssod away at ed by J. L. Wilburn, manager of his .home'south' of the village.'on | this exchange. Mr. Wilburn said that there was a net increase of forty telephones installed in McHenry during 1926. * Mr. and Mrs. James C. < Ladd gold«i wedding at their home in Ringwood on Monday, Feb. 7, 1927. This was a perfect day for the. happy couple,. who with their relatives and friends, lived over again the fifty golden years of constitute the staff of officers for the year: Mrs. M. A. Sutton, president; Mrs. N. J. Nye, vicepresident; Mrs. Richard Fleming, secretary; and Mrs..Peter Doherty, treasurer. which played in the Mural Loung ; duriag the Christmas holida; & j while enroute from Bloomingtoij,' | III., to Austin, yrhere hi# jwas schemed to accordian player. Light Colors Minimise Heat Building and apartment hous« courts--and the surrounding room j and apartments--are cooler when | a light color is used on the walls of ' the court than when a d«»rk color is i there. The light hue will reflect i instead of absorb the heat of the sunlifnt that faUs upon it. ~ Steel Source . Raiiroads are one of the prta^ (tail sources of scrap iron and steeC naving furnished about 12 per cent of the scrap purchased by the steel industry in 1950 : " .i : Renew that subscription to "^!* i flaindealer now. *; i • • • ••••••••••• •* • • • • • • »..• * • • • • •' PRODtTTIOX TESf " With 949 pounds of butterfat;" In perhaps the mos^ ' exciting their <i.Iife spent together, and 27,000 pounds of milk to her game that ever ttas' or ever will A public mass meeting Will be credit. Duchess Gloria Carnation, jje 8tage(j jn McHenrv, the local held Friday evening, Feb. 11, at registered Holstein-Friesian cow owned by Hickory Creek Farms, McCuilom Lake, has completed a 365-day production test in official Advanced Registry. She was milked three times daily, and was 9 years 6 months of age when she began her testing period. o (purest giv« thf World's Best Loved Box* | Flaytex Baby Products battles Drug McHenry III. anything actually. But, brother, the ideas they touchy off, in Dan Cupid's mind! .«> Thursday, Feb. 14, is the tradit ttonal zero hour on which the •* Leap Year manhunt begins. The great expectations of determined damsels everywhere are represented in another typical Valentine. It pictures a cute little cowgirl, who's waving her lariat and j yfoudly declares-- Happy Leap Year's here again Just like I've hoped and hoped-- So watch your step or else f^pbu'Il find I've really got you roped! I Back in 1948, the Valentine ex- •% 'ferts were surprised to learn as §' many men expressed! their romantic sahtiments during Leap ear as women! The main difrence being that men were especially interested in de luxe Valentines, costing from one to five dollars. This year, however, the Valentine displays are ready for male Shoppers--bashful and bewildered though they may be. little Valentine gift items, which will provide treasured MOTORISTS AIDED IN FILING INCOME TAX RETURNS OF '51 P fer In order to aid confused motorists in the filing of their 19l>l income tax returns the Chicago Motor club has released the following simplified list of legal deductions: By special provisions of the law, in computing his adjusted gross income on Form 1040, a motorist may deduct automobile expenses incurred* in carrying on a tradQ or business. For this purpose an employee generally is not regarded as being in a trade or business. If the motorist files form 1040 and itemizes his deductions on page 3, he may include these allowable non-business deductions: 1. All sums paid during the taxable year 1951 in the form of reg- Mrs. Charles Freund and Mrs. Shirley Dawson enjoyed seeing South Pacific at the Shubert theatre in Chicago one night last week. Dinner guests in the Walter Brown home on Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mikoleit, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rauen of Chicago^ Mr. and Mrs. A1 Schmeltzer at Round Lake and the Clarence Mib» ler family. Mr. and Mrs. ^losepji P. Freund and Sharon had Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Peter Freund in Johnsburg. We are sorry to hear that Mrs. Mike Till was taken to a Chicago hospital on Sunday. Among those from here who enjoyed the party at St Mary's hall in McHenry at the closing of the C.O.F. bowling tournament were Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Freund, Mr. and Mrs. Clareuce Miller and Mr. istrations fees, driver's license Attractive \ fees and personal property taxes. 2. All gasoline taxes paid by souvenirs j motorists to the state. In Indiana long after St. Valentine's Day has i this tax was $.04 per gallon durpassed. are expected to send i ing 1951. In Illinois the tax was hearts pit-a-pat all over the na- | $.03 per gallon until Aug. 1, and lion. I $.04 for the balance of the year. A gold-plated lapel pin, shaped 3. The interest on money borlike an arrow with a pearl and rowed for the purchase of an rhinestone centerpiece, is attached to the satin-heart inset of one feally beautiful creation. Distinctive cameo lockets, lovely automobile. 4. Casualty losses sustained by reason of damage to a passenger car while being used for pleasure. n AUCTION JAME8 FITZGERALD and ED VOGEL, Aaetloaecrs The farm having been sold, we have decided to quit farming and Will sell the following personal property on the C. W. Harrison Estate farm situated on the McHenry and Crystal Lake blacktop road. 4 miles * South of McHenry, 4 miles North of Crystal Lake and 9 miles Bast of Woodstock on the Paine's Hill road, on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12. 1951-- » at 12 o'clock sharp 5 36 HEAD OF LIVESTOCK 14 1* Holsteln milk cows, most all freshened In the last two months; fe | two-year old Holsteln heifers, bred; 8 yearling Holsteln heifers; 1 0 Holsteln heifers, 4 months old; 3 Holsteln heifers, 2 months old; 4 Holsteln bulls, 2 months old; 1 Holsteln ball, S years old; S horses, * ®°1"1 Grey Gelding and harness, p 4 MACHINERY 1 H tractor and cultivator, 10-20 McD. tractor, 6-roli Appleton M Corn husker, McD. corn binder, power lawn mower, new; John Deere » 99 corn planter, grain blower and pipe, grain binder, grain drill, silo * I filler and pipe, McD. 2-bottom 14-in. tractor plow, hay rake, tractdr vV j disc, cujtipacker. 2-sec. drag. 22-36 threshing machine, hay mower * McD. side delivery rake, McD. grain seeder, New Idea manure spread- J «r 3 brooder houses, tree spray pump, rubbr tire wagon and box 4f steel wheel wagon and hay rack, steel wheel wagon and box, bob |A sleigh and hay rack, horse disc, potato digger, hay bale loader, trac jj£. I tor chain saw. buzz saw, wheelbarrow, cream separator, 100-ft. snow fe' « fence, hammermill. lime spreader mounted for H tractor, fanning »;• * mill, scale, belt, hay rope, fork and carrier, iron wheel wagon and jjP * rack, husker gear. i FEED • ® tons alfalfa and clover mixed hay, « tons timothy hay. 28 tons alf&lfa and clover first cutting hay in stack, 600 bu .oats, 100 bt|. corn in crib, 200 shocks of corn in field, 10 tons of loose straw. 10 bu. open pollinated seed corn. MILKING EQI'Il'MENT Universal milking machine, double unit motor and pump and' pipeline for 22 cows; 12 milk cans; Safeguard electric water Tieate'r, new; two wash tanks; 2 strainers; 3 milk pails; electric water heater stock tank, tank heater; seed corn <grader; old wooden lathe, over 100 years old; dinner bell, forge, drag cart, corn sheller, two bench vises, anvil, grass seeder, grindstone, woven wire stretcher, 30-gal. tractor oil, 100- gal. gasoline tank, 2 oi^-horse motors, 14 horsepower motor, motor and pump Jack, barn tools and other small tools too numerous to mention. j FCXXITITRE--MANY ANTIQUES Davenport, Upright piano and stool circulating coal and wood heater, writing desk, iron bed, weighs 400 lbs., single bed and mattress, fruit jars and crocks, churn, 18"x24 safe. 2 tables, chairs, 38x44 dress form. Lunch Wagon On Grounds. Not Responsible For Accidents. TifSRM8: All sums of $25.00 and under cash, over that amount ^4 cash and the balance to be paid in 6 equal monthly installments plus carrying charge. All property to be settled for on the day of sale. No oroperty to be removed until settlement is made. POMRENING BROS., Ownan STOMPANATO'S 23rd Anniversary : Off On in Permanent* January and February Specials Starting at Reg. 97<50 up • for $6.00 up Complete TURTLES - _ BRAND MB* k thm flhfarmd Irodu Mark M DtAW'l, Ik *01 ONIV ST the famous WHITMAN'S SAMPLER BOLGER'S DRUG STORE GREEN ST. PHONE 40 ' McHENRY. ILL. pecidi rrearr £>0X8 and other Whitman's Assortments attractively wrapped for Valentine's Day BOLGER'S I D R U G S T O R E t I PHONE 40 McHENRY, ILL. • • • • ••• • • • ••• • • • • • »>'• • • • • • ttrnde and Hi-School Hirh Extra Special Reg. I7.50 Up For $5.00 Up Complete Professional Facial Packs Keg. $2.00 op For $1.50 Up STOMPANATO'S •Ultra Modern Beauty Salori i* '.j 226 Main St. or 227 Benton St|; Phpne 641 Woodstock, Ill| QUEEN W has a new AUTOMATIC _ CLOTHES DRYER O JUST toss in wet clothes as they come from your washer and set the dial to any degree of dryness desired. The rest is automatic. Everything conies out so fluffy that many things don't even need to be ironed. Yes, a Speed Queen Dryer is a wonderful time- and laborsavrr! BJng in a 16-lb. ioad of wet wash, and let us give >ou a free demonstration. 7XAREY ELECTRIC SHOP ^ lit S. GREEN STREET McHENRY. ILL. PHONE 251 ELECTRIC More than 4,000,000 people sleep under ELECTRIC BLANKETS --why don't you? That's right. Just one aufbfhiftic electric blanket replaces 3 or 4 of the old-fashioned kind and gives you comfort you've never had before, too! V.'i/T - ChOose the electric bedcover you want! Electric bedcovers are available in blankets, comforters, and sheets. Electric blankets have single or double controls. Choose twin or double bed size. See the newest electric bedcovers at our nearest store or at your dealer's today! PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS a -