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ipipp UPB•v;, FWk ipRippFiippriP^^Rr IfM |ii|4^W»#,MH| The Males of a t»H%y-two pound ptt&rifl recently caOtftkt it Lake Ge- 'Ut9*+-&ia.t were sent to the state «fciversity at Madison for the purpose * of determining the age of the fish. In? formation came back that the scales showed ten winter rings and therefore the pickerel was ten years old. f r ' Pfelr' f#t •. I? m K'-'c F * I" 'S". WALL :r '• "• can be at the ,. • , . piRECTORS- ... Ar.D.G. Wdh Ray McGee W». Smith W». Welch Win.-Pries John F. Miller N. H. Peteacb Dr. D. G. Wells, President J. A. Conrad, Cashier Hi Efeiv I r- WM. n. AUUOff HARDWARE For Hardware Our motto is quality and service at a fair margin of profit. West McHenry Illinois THE HOME OF Good Furniture Where honest prices and the best of service and treatment always predominate. Callus when you get ready to install that new furniture. JACOB JUSTEN MCHENRY, ILL. DEMAND THE BEST Ice Cream McHENRY ICE CREAM COMPANY ITEMS OFjnWST AS PICKED UP BY PLAINDEALER REPORTERS DURING WEEK WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING IN THIS CITY AND IMMEDIATE VICINITY Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith of Johnsburg welcomed a baby boy into their home last Saturday. Insure--in sure--insurance With Wm. G. Schreiner. Office at residence. Phone 93-R, McHenry IVLy Auctioneering. & I The mill pond in this city is once | more free from ice, the last of the win- ' tor coating has disappeared this week. I Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Simon, who ; resides near McCollum's lake, were presented with a baby girl last Fri- | day. The Social Wheel meets at the Uni- , versalist church parlors on Friday. March 27. Please bring in the booki lets for the candy raffle. | The roads have dried out consider- ! ably during the past week. Some of th? country roads leading into the city are already in mid-summer condition. | The snow shovel has been discarded • in favor of the garden rake and frotti i now on* many of our citizens will be preparing their lawns for spring and summer. Mrs. Mary Simon, who has been : spending the winter months in Chicago, has returned to her home here. She is now prepared and ready to do all kinds of paper hanging. If you reside in McHenry township your legals belong in The Plaindealer. Dont' let anyone tell you any different. Our prices for legals are the same as any other paper published In Mci Henry county. ! Members of St. Clara court, W. C. O. ! F., of this city are kindly asked to be | present at the next regular meeting which is to take place at St. Mary's church hall on Thursday evening of next week, April 2. Mr. and Mrs. John Keg have moved | their household effects from the Louis : Wrede house on Riverside Drive to the Frank Freund home on Ulm street. The change in residence was ! made the first of the week. | Sunday afternoon witnessed an un- | usually large number of automobile i tourists in the city. Riverside Drive presented a near-summer scene during the early afternoon and as a re- | suit the hotels and restaurants in that | part of the city enjoyed good business. The paving contractors for the two jobs in this city was in town on Tuesday of this week and issued the statement that machinery has already been loaded and is.on its way to this city. Within the course of the next few days it is expected that a gang of men will arrive to go to work on the job. This surely does sound good. In our article relating to the paving improvements as appeared in last week's issue of The Plaindealer, we stated that one block on Elm street, west of Riverside Drive is included. This should have read one block on Pearl street, west of Riverside Drive. This takes in the block from the McHenry house to the public park. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. McOmber, formerly highly respected citizens "of this city, have taken up their abode in Los Angeles, Calif. A letter from Mr. McOmber asks us to change his address from Highland Park to the western city. They reside at 202 West 40th Place. During the past several years the family has resided at Highland Park. The men of the Universalis! church entertained the ladies of the church and also the members of the Social Wheel at the church parlors last Saturday evening. At 6:30 o'clock a most delicious supper was served, followed by a few hours at games. The guests of the occasion voted the men as royal hosts. A most delightful time was spent by all. Considerable consternation was felt by members of the local Masonic fraternity at their hall last Friday evening when a chimney in the Fox River Valley bank building burnt out. For a few moments it looked as if sparks would surely set fire to adjoining wood structures J>ut a careful watch prevented damage. The big fire truck was hel<$ in readiness for any emergency. Sewerage connection permits are ob tainable at the home of Fred Miller Riverside Drive. These permits will be issued at any time during the day or evening and in the event Mr. Miller is not found at home, his wife will issue the permits. Those residing on streets which are to be improved with paving should lose no time jn securing their permits and have the connections made. • Local sewer contractors are again busy making various connections about the city. These improvements are especially desired on streets where the paving is to be put in. It is to be hoped that all connections will have been made on these streets so as to enable the paving contractor to get an early start. As stated in las^ week's issue of The Plaindealer, it is the desire of the contractor to have both paving jobs completed by the middle of Jufy. The city scraper has been put to work on our street* and within the course of the next few days it is expected that our main thorofares will present a very much improved appearance. While the conditions of our Ir; PHONE 79-M ^SAFETY MEASURES 'J?-*;#- FALLS SHORT OF CLAIMS ACCORDING TO STATE I. A. A. As a safety measure--the elimination of the incompetent, the reckless, the drunkard and the criminal--the proposed law to examine and license all drivers of automobiles falls far short of the claims made by its sponsor, Coroner Oscar Wolff of Cook county, according the Illinois State Automobile association. On the contrary, the provisions of this proposed law (S. B. 146)--as introduced in the state legislature by Senator Edward J. Glacken of Chicago, permit every one now driving in the state, whether good, bad, or indifferent, to get a driver's license, and without examination if they will make affidavit to certain general qualifications. For many months, Coroner Wolff has been making public speeches in favor of this proposed measure, asking, and in some cases securing, endorsement by various, organizations on the plea that this law would search out the undesirable motor vehicle driver. Then, when this bill is presented to the legislature, he throws open the door to practically every one, entirely neglecting the element of "safety" so loudly proclaimed by him. Coroner Wolff's bill says that any one who applies for a driver's license before January 1, 1926, making affidavit that he is over sixteen years old, has driven an automobile 2,000 miles or has had two years' experience in driving, has never been convicted of a felony, is not color blind, has never been convicted of driving while intoxicated, and has never been adjudged insane or has subsequently been adjudged sane, "shall not be required to take an examination in order to receive a certificate of competency"-- in other words, a driver's license. Analysis of th^restrictions imposed will clearly show that few "undesirable" drivers will actually be deprived of the use of an automobile. The police can not stop every motorist to see his license, so the criminal .will care little whether he has one or not when occasion requires use of a motor car, the number of motorists who have actually been convicted of driving while intoxicated is ao small as to be negligible. On the other hand, these restrictions will not get the potential drunkard or criminal. So far as the color blind driver is concerned, the committee on physical standards for drivers of motor vehicles of the American Medical association says: The insistence on normal color perception would discard three per cent of all males applying for license and would doubtless lead to the popular and speedy rejection of all physical tests. Moreover, though the color blind driver might not be able to recognize a tail light as red, per se, he would be conscious of its difference in intensity from a white light, and would give heed thereto." As a safety measure, Coroner Wolff 's bill seems to have overlooked some of the chief factors of safety. I. A. A. SUPPORTS GAS TAX BILL GASOLINE TAX EQUITABLE EASY TO COLLECT' CITY ALDERMEN MET IN ADJOURNED MEETING Council Room, .March 24, 1925. . The city aldermen met Tuesday evening with mayor presiding to finish the business of the adjourned meeting of March 2. Aldermen present: Doherty, Frisby, Goodell, Overton and Perkins. Absent: Justen. Motion by Overton, seconded by Perkins, that we pay the Obenchain Boyer company $2970.00 and balance according to contract, providing the Obenchain Boyer deposits with the clerk $150.00, which amount is to be returned to them when the board is satisfied that the automatic relief valves are on the pump. .. Upon roll call the aldermen voted as follows: Doherty, aye; Frisby, aye; Goodell, aye; Overton, aye; Perkins, aye. Justen, absent. Motion carried. Motion by Frisby, seconded by Overton, to adjourn. Motion carried. D. G. Wells, Mayor. R. -F. Conway, Clerk. STANDPIPE TO BE CLEANED Mayor D. G. Wells informs us that the standpipe is soon to be given a thoro cleansing. It has been about two years since the municipal water tower has been given a bath. A bit of news which will interest users of city water. ADMIVI8TRATORS NOTIC* William M. (AUTOII, Atty. Estate of Christina Neiss, Deceased. The undersigned, having been appointed Administrator of the Estate of Christina Neiss deceased, late of the County of McHenry and State of Illinois, hereby gives notice that he will appear before the County Court of McHenry County, at the Court House in Woodstock, at the May Term, on the first Monday in May next, at which time all persons having claims against said Estate are notified .and requested to attend for the purpose of having the same adjusted. All persons Indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned. Dated this 17th day of March, A. D. 1925. John W. Neiss, Administrator. ' 41-3t Plaindealer ads bring results. "IRtj wrfomonr CAMP FIRE jfftis Monday night we held a special cat* emonial meeting so that soma ct tile gir's could become Wood GatitorM* and start working for their Fir# Hiker's honors. . | The following girls became W«|t Gatherers: May Justen, Fanny Lefl| son, Berniece Weber, Gwendolen Overton, Helen Pries and Grace (hlfeger. • " F' At the next ceremonial will all be able to r^eat Gatherer's desire together. Lois Bacon and Fanny LevinaOft ceived their Camp Fife rings Ml night also. The date for our play has been set for Thursday, April 30, at the hif)i school auditorium. Don't forget tfcp * Mdvmaik W • meeting #• t tHe Wofi date, and be sore you come. A. S. Pi. ' Saturday, March 28, ft Opening Day Jlgatba Shop cordial invitation is extended to all our olcl"aSS' new friends to visit us in our new quarters. A fairer distribution of taxes for roads, lower property taxes, and more and better roads, are the aims of the Illinois Agicultural association, the state farm bureau of "63,000 THINKing-- farmers.", The organization is supporting the Cuthbertson gasoline tax bill, according to the Lake County Farm Bureau. The associatidn has issued a booklet on the tax question. It points out that 38 states now have the gas tax ranging from one to four cents on the gallon of gasoline used on public traffic, will soon be an island in a sea of gas-tax states. The main points in the I. A. A. argument for a gas tax in Illinois are: The road users must pay for better roads. They are already paying Heav ily for having bad roads. Property tax now /is financing 90 per cent of Illinois roads. A gas tax is a 'fair tax. It is easy and simple to collect and administer. Most states levy a tax for highway purposes. Motor vehicle taxes are not arguments against gas taxes. Assessors caught only 18,797 out of 300,000 cars in Cook county In 1923. A gas tax should replace an existing property tax. A two-cent tax in place of the 25 cent "county highway tax", property owners can be saved from paying $10 per e^ch $400 of valuation each year. The average saving on a 160 acre farm in the northern two-thirds of Illinois would be from $15 to $20. A two-cent gas tax would cost each car from $7 to $10, including Fords. Property would still bear the brunt of highway taxes. The proposed plan would remove from the tax books more than four millions of dollars now levied on property every year for the state aid roads. The Lake County Farm Bureau, in co-operation with the I. A. A., are behind the gas tax bill. Two mottoes have beeen chosen by the state farm bureau. They are: "A gas tax should displace the county highway tax," and "Let the tourists pay their share with streets during the past year have *** ***' not been anything to impress the vis- MATING SEASON FOR DUCKS itors, McHenry has been no worse Thousands and thousands of wild rtff than any other city which haa made ducks have been inhabitating Pistakee similar improvements. In another j and other nearby lakes during the past year our city will present a decided few weeks. This is the mating season improvement, at least, so f§r j|s our J for these birds. Many, of the birds main streets an coaaerasdt; ; {left for the north last srii) > • "W Mc HENRY'S HOME Off AMUSEMENT "WE CAN'T PLAY THEM ALL SO WE PLAY THE BEST" THURS. & FRI., MARCH 26 A 27 Tonight and Tomorrow Night THE GREAT AMERICAN DRAMA u A thrilling, stupendous picture of adventure and romance AND PATHE REVIEW . 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