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i*3?S e Drive This article is written noWy for ; 0 i. th« benefit of such golfers u do not score lower than 42 or 48 for nin» t * holes, and who do not have the adi, v? ,,..j vantage of a winter golf school for their indoor practice. The putt, the approach, dwt and the **M drive are the three most important - $ shots in golf, a* it is almost impossible f * make even a fair score if one does me w?:.; &V* not have an average drive and one |th at is fairly dependable, f To obtain a fair drive one must v know something of what constitutes '•'a proper swing and to get this knowl- *.? edge one should go to a professional yjor to some real good player who has ^acquired that knowledge. It is safe to say that not over one golfer out of twenty knows how to swing properly and it is also very h true that it is one thing to know how *, the swing should be and quite another - thing to make it that way. • I have played golf seven years and right now I am putting in over an i hour each day in diligent practice, try- '% ing to work out my swing so it will he something near what it should be < in the season of 1924. During the .* season of 1923 I put in hundreds of • hours in diligent practice on my swing 1 and I did not get it anywhere near .. what it should be, altho I did improve U my driving to quite an extent. I would like to see the McHenry fcj Country club come to the front this ;'v season with a men team of first-class players, and also with some real good i lady players, and it can surely be done * if you will all get busy and practice. ; Don't wait for the season to open before you commence practicing your , swing. All of you can surely find a * room large enough so you can practice •<' your swing to your heart's content. f; and if you will only get that swing going right, before the season opens, | before July 1, 1924, you can lower <, your best scone of last season for nine holes by at least four or five strokes. It is practice and lots of it that makes perfect. You cannot live long enough to acquire a real good Swing by playing around the course. You only get eighteen drives from a tee in playing eighteen 'holes; while in actual practice you ean get eighteen ^ practice drives in less than that-many 3 minutes. f Now let ane tell you how to start practicing your swing. Ge to the drug store and get 10 or 15 soft rubber balls, no larger in size than an ordinary golf ball, or even a little smaller. Get a fiber door mat or i take an old rug, and then build wooden platform a yard square so you can stand even With the mat or V rug. If you are afraid of your wall paper where the balls are £oing to hit hang up a quilt or a blanket or fasten up some beaver-board. k with a mashie. IMftd of iptftpp will swing more than til-tites of t in with a quarter wHlig. have practiced that for three or different times then go to the half and do it all with your mashie. If you wish to acquire a good swing there is no club in your bag that will you to get started as well as your mashie. After you have practiced your half strokes for four or five different times, of one hour each, then increase your swing to the threequarter stroke which would mean that when you have pulled back for the three-quarter swing your club is straight up and down and dont leave either one of the different strokes I have mentioned until you can hit the ball fairly well without a miss for at least fifteen times. To practice your drive, unless you are swinging right, will do you harm in place of helping you to a good swing. To swing right you must always hit the ball from the inside. By this I mean that you stand parallel to a straight line on which you wish the ball to travel after it is hit. In your swing you must not let your FRANK SLAVIN OF HEBRON RErOMBON ANNUAL MKKfTfNQ associ ii a shi iworfcj? of my port at ennry fanaer Nearly 1,000 Illinofs farmers attended the ninth annual meeting of the Illinois Agricultural association at Galesburg on Jan. 16 and 17. Ninety counties were represented by 177 voting delegates. J. Ray Beard and myself were the voting delegates from McHenry county, representing circulation, the McHenry County Farm Bureau. Geo. A. Hunt, newly elected secretary of the McHenry County Farm Bureau, and A. J. Gafke, farm adviser, also attended the meeting. Sam Thompson, Quincy, was unanimously re-elected president of the Illinois Agricultural association for 7924. C. B. Watson of DeKalb county was elected to serve as vice president. nee nd-ceijMUg* The following are the new elected and installed by Valley M. W. A.: Consul, C. C. Colby* 1TBMS CLIPPED FROM PLAINM MALBR8 OF * YEARSAGO The new one dollar hills have been issued, but as yet are not in general fortunate in securing a member on the executive committee to represent Will, Lake, Kane, DuPage, Cook and McHenry counties. Jacob Olbrich, treasurer of the McHenry County club reach this line of flight until just Farm Bureau and one of the best and at the time it hits the ball and after ^ most progressive farmers in the coun the ball is hit let your club go straight out along this line of flight tU! your Mrs. Elisha Hubbard suffered a partial stroke of paralysis the latter part of last week. Noah H. Pike of Chenoa has been spending the past week looking after his property at the Bay. The ice harvest at Crystal Lake was finished last week. The largest crop ever fathered at that place. The Pistakee Yacht club will build' McH.nr, county w» exceedingly >" «'«?•"' dub how* at «>e B,y 'early m the spring. It will be 35x70 feet. Saturday last N. H. Pike of Chenoa and J. C. Parks of Aurora went out for a spin with J. B. Perry on his ice boat. Parties from Chicago will soon commence the erection of a club house Stat Os- County of In the y and burial hi eH , Ccunty, January Term, A. D. 1924. ? Fox River Valley State Bank) I •' yg tvtor John Cl.xton; clerk, H. C. M«d; wjln>m j Buttjier, rt .1, > V. escort, C. L. Page; banker, B. Ham- . . * « m son; watchman, E. L. Brink; physi- 8,11 Foreclose. <*"• No. *t<#6. cian, A. E. Auringer; trustees, T. P. Walsh, A. P. Baer, John Slimpin. N. J. Justen on the West Side is now -a licensed undertaker and embalmer from the state board of health, i he having graduated in the best school of embalming in October, 1898, and on Dec. 6, was examined by the state boatri of health, passed his examination and was granted a licenee a» balmer and undertaker. . NEW SUMMER RESORT NOW BEING PLANNED If the plans of Mortimer R. Miller of Libertyville materialize as he be-/ lieves they will Silver • L&ke, located two and one-half miles east of Crystal Lake and about the seme distance fractional quarter of Section one (1), north of Cary, is destined to become a in Township forty-four (44) North, of Rjggg summer resort of importance. A 124- j Range Eight (8) East arms are out as far as they can reach, and then your club will of course naturally turn some what to the left as it rises in the air. j . Three-fourths of the players make the mistake of swinging in a sort of a half circle with their club, turning quickly to the left as soon as ty, was unanimously chosen for the. , , _ .... position on the executive committee. ^ S °cum s lake on land belonging to ! Tv V* Slocum* Hie son of Join Adams, aged --- r about five years, died on Wednesday such a great and influential an organ- evenjng The funeral was held from ization as the Illinois Agricultural as- gt Mary-S church on Priday sociation until my recent visit to the I Frank Beffnett has bten in ^ver&] uirH1Ilir ninth annual meeting. For two daysj^^ where the companieg of the the ball >1 sat and Hstened the rep°rts °f th! ! third Illinois volunteers wen® being MIC Vmll i : J i. i brought out at the trial ahftwad that , . the Riggs boy was sitting with his ^ -- the Third ^her on the seat of a wagon near ik* acre tract is to be divided into ten, Principal Meridian, which lies east of Grayslake when ^ Callahan truck - parts and sold to persons who will be.a strip of land containing twenty- ;cra$hed into the rear of the ri_ ^ •#> able to spend at least $50,000 each!seven and one-half (27%) acres and;thrGW thfi ^ ^ for improvements. is hit, which is entirely wrong, as make the shot correct the club should follow out along the line of flight just as far as the arms can reach instead of turning sharply to the left when the ball is hit. In my next article I am going to give in detail what should be the proper swing with your driver at the tee, but if you will practice as indicated with your mashie you will rapidly acquire the ability of hitting the ball accurately each time, besides a great anprovement in your swing. ADDITIONAL EXCHANGE The terms of eight of the seventeen supervisors of McHenry county will expire this spring. The annual McHenry county high school basket ball ' tournament again be staged in the Crystal Lake tagh -school gym this year. Friends of Chas. M: Eldredge of Richmond are trying to induce hint to become a candidate for state senator at the coming spring primaries. Burglars jimmied their way into the Schutt shoe store at - Barrington one night last week and got away with j president, secretary and treasurer | mustered out selling splendid picture iM i assoc'a^'on an^ °ther speakers. I < jn porto Rico. was very agreeably surprised to learn | The citizen8. Telephone company that at least one farm organization j wjjj move their exchange office to the was on good financial foundation. |buiiding now occupied by Mrs. E. W. The Illinois Agricultural association jjowe ag millinery rooms on March 1 has a net worth of $214,293.24 and $150,000 of that amount is invested ;n government bonds. I was very much impressed by the appearance on the program of such speakers as United States Congress-1 anon, Ohio, has been writing some men C. A. Newton of Missouri and L. very interesting letter* tor The Plain- L. Dickinson of Iowa, who ttfld of the j dealer. legislation which has been passed in j Wm. Rothermel, son of George congress thru the efforts of the Farm i Rothermel, who was a member of Co Bureaus. G. third" Illinois volunteer infantry. I learned in the two days which I after his discharge at Woodstock on spent at the meeting that the Farm, the 14th, has enlisted in the cavalry | Bureau is an organization with a j service in the regular army and left j broad vision. They call into consul- at once for Fort Sheridan and Will then institute all night ser vice. Miss Emma A. Fay, a former tesi dent of this village, but now at the National Normal University at Lebtation the best minds in the country. The masquerade by Prof. Bryhn's This was shown by the men who ap- dancing class, at Stoffel's haAl.on Fripeared on the program: George E. day evening last, was a very pleasant Frazer, noted public accountant of. and enjoyable affair. There were Chicago; George Wicker, department about thirty masked couples and of agriculture, University of Minne-j about fifty or sixty couples who took sota; Dr. J. P. Tilden, president of |in the dance without masks. Lombard college; John Camlin, presiident of Illinois Chamber of Comsixty- five pairs of high-class men's! meree, and Richard T. Ely, professor shoes valued at $500. jof economics, University of Wiscon- Ten entries of homing pigeons from B'n* the flock of Homer Mann of Woodstock carried away seven firsts and two second prizes at the national poultry and pigeon show as held in Chicago last week. Over 1,900 birga vera •entered in fche show. The farmers are Indeed fortunate to have an organization with officers who have such a broad vision and who are continually looking after the problems of the farmer, whether they be farm taxes, co-operative live stock The cake walk at the masquerade at Stoffel's hall on Friday evening was participated in by three couples and was very interesting. The prize was awarded to Miss Florence Howe and Harry Fay. The judges were H. B Throop, A. P. Baer and Lute Lincoln Died--At the home- of liis son, Lyman Francisco, west of this village on Thursday, Jan. 19, 1899, Abraham Francisco, aged 98 years and Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a decree made and entered by said Circuit Court in the above entitled cause on the 14th day of January, A. D. 1924, I, James F. Casey, Master in Chancery, of said court will on Friday, the 8th day of February, A. D. 1924, at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day, at the east door of the court house.Sn the city of Woodstock, in the said County of McHenry and State of Illinois, offer for sale and sell at public vendue to the highest and best bidder, for cash, the following described real estate insaaid decree described to-wit: : All that part of the North West fractional quarter of the Northwest said of lai «n a1 *-wie one; (7.71) acres of land, more uated in the County of State of Illinois. '7-• TERMS OF SALE; Ca* on £$ of sale. •. : Dated tkfr Slst day of January, A. D. 1924. James F. Casey, Master in Chancery of the Circuit Court of McHenry County, 111. 33-3t NEW TRIAL DENIED Judge Edwards in the Lake comty \ circuit court at Waukegan lait #atur day denied motion for a the personal injury case in Which John . J' ^ Callahan of the CaHahan Dairy com- ?' pany was ordered by a jury to pay $6,500 for the death of Raymond ^ ^ Riggs, thirteen-year-old son of Mr. * ; and Mrs. Thomas Riggs of Woodriver, •' f | 111. Hie damages were awarded to the parents of the boy. The evidence r i lL . f27%) &CTe* a,,"ithrew the Boy to the road, inflicting being the west twenty-seven and one- ; fatal injuries. Wk'J'rS. M Cs%fv. *- 4 Eleventh Congressional Distridt h ",*1 - PRIMARY ELECTION, APRIL 8, 1924 ^ 42^1 EDWIN F. DEIKF'S candidacy has been endorsed and is supportedby every newspaper in DuPage county. He is a practical business man and farmer. 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