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• v " • - - * ' « » . - * • • - ' • • - ' , . - : T H E M c H K N B Y P L A H T D E A L E E , T H U B S D A Y , J U L Y 7 , 1 9 3 T * * * , • - * " * - • * ' * " * ' « ' ; " & • * ' • } , * - w laf1' SPRING GROVE y>xy cx-r. * . s Clair Furlong and Charles Sweet Motored to Lake Geneva Sunday evenfag. Dr. Blakeman and family and Mrs. Edfth Thompson of Chicago were guests at the Chester Stevens home tfver the Fourth. \ Mr. and Mrs. Steve Barnard and MMi, Francis, of Beloit and Joseph J*nes of Rockford spent Sunday with 1ft-. and Mrs^ Reid Carr. Harold Fredricks and sister, Helen. Chicago spent a couple days the week with Edwin Shotliff. Mike Dagon of Kenosha is a guest tiff Math Nimsgrem and family for a couple of weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Behrnes entertained relatives frpm Chicago over the Fourth. Mr. and Mrs. Leon VanAvery drove to Wilmot Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. TTiomas McAfferty son, Donald, and Mrs. Edna gweet motored to Rockford Wednesday. • ' ;*, * .What might have been a very terious accident occurred last Thursday to Bryon Orvis who is employed by Chester Stevens. Mr. Orvis was cultivating and at the noon hour was unhitching his team and left one tug still fastened and stepped in front of the cultivator when the team started and being frightened by not being free started to run. Mr. Orvis was dragged about ten rods and bruised quite badly. There were four stitches taken in his jaw. At this writing he is improving rapidly. Mrs. Maude Merrill and Mrs. Clyde Bell of Solon Mills were callers here Thursday afternoon. Joe Young and family of Ringwood were Wednesday evening guests at tile Math Nimsgrem home. Miss Dorothy James of Rockford Is enjoying a couple weeks' vacation with her aunt, Alice Wagner. .. Sunday afternoon the late Joseph Jame's estate was the scene of a merry crowd gathered there to spend the day. Those present were: William James, Mrs. Ida Osmond, Mr. and MVs. John Horn and children of Antioch, Joseph James of Rockford, Mrs Emma Barrels, Mr. and Mrs. Steve Brown and son, Francis, of Beloit, Mrs. Ina Gracey and children, of Honey Creek, Francis James of Waukegan, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Wilson and children, Wichita, Ks., Mr. and Mrs. Ed Peacock, ttoward Peacock, Mr. and Mrs. Reid Carr and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sanders and family of Hebron. ' John Bretz of Rockford and Bernard Bretz who has been spending .Jfihe past week with his brother and friends motored here Saturday. Mrs. William Fredricks and family «rf Chicago are spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Oxtoby. Miss Frances Bretz, Miss Mamie May and Edd Hoffman of Kenilworth and Father Dummermuth of McHenry were fourth of July guests at the 1t)illiam Bretz home. William Bernstein and sister, Helen, ' ,.#f Chicago were week-end guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kattner. This is a store where men can be outfitted as well as women and children. A store for the whole family. Erfckson Dept. Store. JOHNSBURG •for. knd Mrs. Frank Kempfer, Mrs. Joe King and Mrs. Joe J. Freund iriotored" to Chicago Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Frett, Mr. and Mrs. George Frett, Mrs. Josephine Frett, Miss Kate Frett and Mr. and Mrs. Smith of Chicago visited with Mr, and Mrs. Math Freund Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Oeffling visited J with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Jtfichels one d a y l a s t w e e k . j Mr. and Mrs. Joe Regner and chil- j dren visited with Mr. and Mrs. S. N. j Smith Sunday. Mrs. Christina Brefeld of Chicago j is visiting' with Mr. and Mrs. John R. Freund for a few days. Misses Helen Schaefer and Martha Hettermann motored to Lake Geneva, Wis., Wednesday where they fished and went boat riding during the day. Ben J. Schaefer our prosperous merchant installed a Frigidaiire which is more sanitary than ice. Joe Pitzen of Chicago visited with with Mr. and Mrs. John Pitzen on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Abrahard Dietz and daughter, Catherine, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hettermann Sunday. Mr. and Mirs. John A. Freund are the proud parents of an eight and one half pound baby girl, born Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Abrahard Dietz and daughter visited with Mr. and Mrs. Michael Bauer Saturday. M)r. and Mrs. Cap Bickler of Chicago visited with Mr. and Mrs. Joe J Freund Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hettermann visited with Mr. and Mrs. A1 Pipping Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Schoreder and family, and Frances Pitzen of Chicago visited with Mr. and Mrs. Ben J. Schaefer and Mr. and Mrs. John Pitzen over the holidays. Rose Pitzen and George Obenauf of Volo visited with Mr. and Mrs. Ben J. Schaefer Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Smith motored to Chicago with Mr. and Mrs. Alex Freund Monday. % Mr. and Mrs. Joe Freund of Kenosha visited with Mrs. Mary Tonyan on Monday. The Jolly Eight club and the Afternoon club surprised Mrs. Frank Kempfer on her thirty-eighth birthday, Thursday evening. The evening was spent by playing five hundred. Our grocery department is filled with all the wants of the campers. We carry a full line of fresh vegetables and fruit, also smoked meats. Erickson Dept. Store. Savings deposits made on or before Friday, July 15th will draw interest from July 1st. West McHenry State Bank. Resources over $800,000. 5-2 J IF F Y IFJV For Tour CALLOUS JIFFY Callous Plaster is made to fit your callous. Put it on that painful spot--within a week yon'will peel the entire callous clean off the foot. Also Jiffy for Corns and Bunions. Each 25c. ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED Thomas P. Bolger Sailing Paper Boata, * Great Poet*9 Caprice Whenever Shelley, the great English poet, caught sight of a body of water he could not resist the temptation to make paper boats, which he would then launch, watching their progrett with great Interest until they capsized or drifted to shore again. He would remain rooted to the spot until all hit paper was exhausted and he could make no more boats. As It was his custom to ta^e a book along with him oo his walks^the fly-leaves of most of his books were fiilsslng. To what lengths he went to indulge himself In this favorite pastime may be Judged from the story told concert} ing the day he found! himself on the bank of the Serpentine without any gaper, having exhausted his supply on the pood in Kensington gardens. The onty piece of papier he could lay his bands on was a £50 note. He struggled with temptation for a long time, but yielded at last. Twisting the note with great care and dexterity, he committed It to the water, watching, to be surej its progress wlttj ever mwe Intense anxiety tnaiTtisual. Fate was kind, and In due time the little craft was wafted to the opposite shore, where the owner was already waiting Its arrival with bated breath.--Market for Exchange^: Modern Hymn Writer* Fail to "Take Half Hymn writing, says the New York Evening Post, seems to have become a lost art Down to the early eighties practically all of our most beautiful and cherished hymns had been composed and churchgoers were as familiar with their hymnal as "Gospel hymns Noe. 1, 2 and 8M as they were with the three R's or the catechism. With the introduction of Jazz and bines into our secular musical life composers of hymns, especially for evangelistic services, wrote somewhat In that manner. Not unlike many of the songs written for the moment, these soon lost favor. The otd hymns, however, still retain their inspiration and charm. Such authors as Fanny Crosby, Ira D. Sankey and others who wrote these "immortals'* will always be revered by those whom they have comforted. Jnst as onr song writers swing around the circle, we may again produce writers of sacred music who will compose hymns similar to those ef a half centnry ago. Sorely Not Overworked The doctor had called at the Jonee home. The occurrence was so unusual that Sed Smith, from the next farm, decided to Investigate. "Yes," answered Old Jones, upoo being questioned, "Eliza, the wife, Is sick. Don't know Jest what's allin her. She got up this mornln* and bad breakfast for me and the hands at five, and then she did some washin and some bakln' and the chnrnln' and a little cleanln'. besides a-dlggln' some 'taters and a-weedln' a patch of garden. She got dinner, and was a-sewln' and a-mendln' this afternoon when she sorta keeled over, t Jest kaln't think what kin be the matter, tor she's been a-doln' nothing but keepln' bouse here, easyllke, for the last 15 years."--Los Angeles Times. Magpie9 A magpie is somewhat,intermediate between Jays and crows and closely related to both. It Is the genus Pica, the species of which are known wherever English Is spoken. In size and coloration magpies resemble small crows, while In many other respects they aft more like the Jays. Their most prominent external character la the long, graduated tall, which ts sometimes longer than head and body together, and the outer feathers of which are scarcely half the length of the middle pair. The best-known (pedes of the genus Is the common mag- P»e of Europe (Pica pica). AMERICAN FORCE IN PEKING HELD READY Believed Adequate to Protect -iniees and Property--*-™ <JButlcr in Tientsin. *1 Peking.--With the Chinese civil war steadily approaching northward, the American forces In north China to protect American lives and property have reached 4,60;) men, including 1,100,. marines from the Tenth provisional regiment, with an aviation dotnclr meiit, vvcrg ipni-k^l a few days ago in the Tientsin region. t*-or!< Thus far there have beth no Indications of the early removal of the American legation at Peking, althou^u plans for its removal have been formulated In cose this should become necessafy. ; The Shantung offensive by Gen. Chiang Kni-shok, leader of the moderate nationalists, which was planned at a recent conference at Suchow with ^lai^haj Fens Yu-shlang, appears to be in full sway. """* ••?-**-» .*«*•- Official and foreign reports say that conditions approaching panic exis among the Japanese along the Shantung railway. Japanese residents a Tslnanfo, capital of the province n Shantung, are pressing their consul to send Japanese troops to that eity fron Tsingtao, but no move In this tfirec tion has been made as yet. The United States consul general at Hankow has been instructed to assist in the evacuation of eleven American Roman Catholic Passionlst mission aries, of whom three are women. The party is at present engaged in an ar duous trip from stations in the prov ince of Kweichow and Szechwun, the only route open to the Yangtze river because of the war. Butler Goes to Tientsin. Shanghai.--The United States trans port Henderson Railed for Tientsin, carrying Brigadier General Butler commander of the American marln forces in China, who will establish his headquarters there. Eight airplanes, which have Just ar rived from New York, two tanks and supplies are to be taken Tientsin. France May Pay It» Debt on War Stocks Washington. -- Intimations that France will pay off the full principal of her $407,000,000 War stocks debt to this country la the near futuie were current tn well-informed quarters here. , Normally, If France ratifies the Mellon- Berenger debt settlement, payment of i ie war stoc ks debt would be spread out over 62 years, like the remaindei of the $4,000,000,000 she owes for wai and post-war loans. Without ratification, however, the $407,000,000 falls due In 1029. Considerable weight was attached to reports that the war stocks debt ma. be wiped out hef<ve that time, in view of the" meeting In New York of head? of the Bank of France and the New York Federal Reserve bank, as well as the Bank of England and the ilerman Reichsbank. . • ~ Testing Times ON a levee at a bend in the Mississippi a thou* sand men were building with sand-bags a second-line defense against rising waters which threatened hundreds of miles of fertile cropland. Over a telephone, housed in a wooden box nailed to a tree, an engineer was talking to headquarters --reporting on the progress of the work, asking for reinforcements and additional material, receiving Weather Bureau, forecasts which would be vitally important in planning the strategy of th» grim battle. The^ telephone had been put in service but a few minutes before, after a -construction crew had .Worked from svmrise to sunset, often waist-deep ' In swamp water. , . # Such is telephone service in emergency---fterVice in which telephone men and women do very much the same things they do every day, but do them under conditions that give vivid emphasis to the import of their efficiency, devotion, and fidelity't# public interests. Energy From Graim Of the food eaten by the people of the northern part of the United States, 90 per cent Is represented by the following five articles of diet: Bread and cereals: These furnish 87 per cent of caloric energy. Fat, Including butter and lard, contributes 16 per cent of calories. Meat provides 16 per cent of food energy. Sugar yields 10 per cent of nourishing service. White potatoes, the most generative of the food fuel required to keep the bed? machinery to operation. Mine Owners of Ohio Vote to Reopen Pits Columbus, Ohio.--Ohio's coal mines, closed since April 1, because of wage differences, will reopen July 15, either on a union or nonunion basis with the November, 1917, scale of $5 per day in effect, it was unanimously agreed by the Ohio Mine Operators' association in session here. Under provisions of the ultimatum to be served on union officers, they will be allewed until July 15 to accept or reject the compromise proposal, a continuously competitive s« ile, which In event of change in West Virginia or Kentucky fields, automatically woulu change in Olilo. The operators contend the 1917 scale will plac Ohio mines a fair competitive basis and •t the ~"me time provide a means ol employment for many idle miners, and will furnish an adequate fuel supply for the state. She Meant Well Little Mary's eyesight was Inclined te be weak, and after an examination the doctor announced that she would have to wear glassee. Some time later he happened to call at the house, and Jn the course of con venation asked after his little patient "Oh, doctor," said the child's mother, somewhat tearfully, "I can't get her to wear those glasses during the day. but"--she brightened V a little-- "when she's asleep 1 creep upetalrs and slip them on I" Cypress Wood Lotting Cypress has always enjoyed a wortd #£le reputation for durability. Among the ancients, a plantation of cypress was so highly valued that It was enddered a sufficient dowery for a daughter. Cypress doors of the ancient St. Peter's at Rome were about 1,100 years old when they were removed, jet they were in a state of perfect preeer vatfoo. ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE CO. •ELL SYSTEM One Policy * One System Vrifin itif "Til ij»S Vikingi In History Ylklngs of the early Middle aces took their name from the fact that they were dwellers along the vlks or creeks of Scandinavia. They were also known as Norsemen and sea-rovers. They ravaged the coasts of lungland and northern Prance In the Ninth and Tenth cen*irles. Norsemen took possession of the coast country of France and became known as Normans. WEEKLY PERSONALS COMERS AND GOERS OF A WEEK IN OUR CITY As _Seen By Plaindealer Ref porters and Handed In By Our Friends Mr. and Mrs. Johnson of Chicago spent the holidays at McHenry. Dr. and Mrs. R. G. Chamberlin and family were Elgin visitors Saturday evening. Miss Lenore Freund spent several days last week with her school friend Mrs. Paul Taylor at Yorkville. Mrs Merwin Kent and children visited m the home of Mrs. W. T. Pierpont at Evanston one day last week. ^ G. A. Hanly of Elgin here Tuesday. Mrs. J. E. Wheeler was a Woodstock caller Tuesday. A, M, Written of Chicago spent the week-end at McHenry. > P. J. Cleary was a Crystal Lake visitor Monday evening. John Malsch was a Woodstock visitor Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. George Lindsay were Waukegan visitors Sunday. Joseph Weber attended a wedding in Chicago one day last weelc.' M_ J. Kent was a business visitor in Chicago one day last week. ' Miss Doris Bacon of DeKalb spent the holidays at her home here. MJr. and Mrs. H. J. Schaefer spent Monday evening at Crystal Lake. Tom Gill of Chicago was a weekend guest in the J. J. Frett home. Miss Pauline Pufahl of DeKalb spent her vacation at her home here. Mr. and Mrs. A. Lallinger attended the celebration at Crystal Lake Monday. M!rs. Jos Neil of Ada, Okla., was a Sunday guest in the Jame9 Marshall home. Arthur Peterson of Round Lake spent Sunday in the Andrew Eddy home. Mr. and Mrs. John McMann of Chicago visited friends here over the holidays. Miss Harriet Bobb, who is employed in Chicago, spent the holidays at her home here. Misses Esther and Dot Runge of Elgin were geuste of Mir. and Mrs. A. Eddy Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Goodell and Miss Ethel Jones were Elgin visitors Sunday evening. Mrs. Ella Goulke and daughter of Woodstock were guests of McHenry friends Tuesday. Mr. and Mirs. George Kamholz and son of Chicago spent Sunday in the Fred Kamholz home. Mrs. Caroline Scheissle spent one day last week with Mr. and Mrs. George Young at Ringwood. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Eddy and daughter of Wauconda visited in the Andrew Eddy hoi^e Monday. Mrs. Raymond Arvedson and children are spending the week at the A. C. Granger cottage on Fox River. Mr. and Mrs. Adelbert Portman and son of Chicago visited in the G. B. Frisby home over the week-end. Mrs. Emma Fay of Philadelphia, Pa., arrived last week to spend the summer in the home of her brother, John Fay. Mrs. Joseph Wegener and daughter, Marion, spent one day last week with her mothert Mrs. A. Lawrence, at Ringwood. Mr. and Mirs. John Busley of Chicago spent the holidays at McHenry. Mrs. Harry Morris spent a few days last week in Chicago. MHss Arleen Harrison, who is attending the summer term at the Normal school at DeKalb, spent the holidays at her home here. Mirs. Martha Page w^s a Chicag# visitor one day last week. Mr. and Mrs. Merwin Kent an^fam* * ily spent Thursday at Elgin. Miss May me Keg of Chicago spent •' the holidays at her home here. r - • Misses Rosina and Cornelia Freund of Chicago spent the week-end - a^1 •. ' their home here. y* Miss Lenore Freund who has beeiifcft teaching at Libertyville is spending * the summer at her home here. f- • wee « visitor ff 'y******"!'**'**'!'***'1' East Side Garage m . GAS and OIL ^ACCESSORIES * Moving and Long Distance Hauling HERMAN SCHAEFER Phone 49 I*:#? sAff ft ff t tltltll I > » H 1 ItlMtjlV-JPhone 100 Grayslake, I1L HART-PARR TRACTORS, E-B and JOHN DEERE PLOWS and DISCS, WOOD BROS, and J. I. CASE THRESHERS, U. S. HTJSKERS, GRAIN ELEVATORS AND DRIVE BELTS Hudson and Essex Cars Big Sale of Fox River Chix 25,000 to 30,000 per week ^ CASH AND CARRY PRICES FOR MAY Barred Bocks, White Rooks, Buff Orpingtons, White Wyandottes, Rhode Island Reds, per hundred $12.00 White Leghorns, Brown Leghorns, Anconas, per hundred - $11.00 FOX RIVER HATCHERY < Telephone 1537 63 Grove Ave., Elgin, 111. De Aatremonis' Hani Cost Half a Million Spokane, Wash.--It cost half a million to put the De Autremont brothers behind the bars. Their pictures girdled the globe on more than 3,000,000 posters, and there were other expenses. The United States, the American Express company and the Southern Pacific railroad paid for the m'.n hunt Conference Over Coal Wage Scale Fruitless Chicago.--The wage-scale conference between Illinois bituminous coal miners and mine operators looking toward ending the suspension of mining effective since April 1, when the old contract expired, was adjourned without an agreement having been reached. For Aviation Academy Clilcopee, Mass.--A b'll providing tq>r e United States aviation academy, to take equal rank with West Point and Annapolis, will be introduced by Senator David I. Wnlsh when congress convenes, he said. Investment Opportunitiee New York.--According to a compilation made here, new capital issues n.Vered to the public In the Mrs* six ur.mthft of 1027 reached tile huge u : l Of H.OOO. i i. Bfesi-i, Death Knelts "Customs of Mankind" says that the ringing of bells or death knells for the deeeaneii is very ancient. Bells themselves are very old, dating back many centuries before Christ--Indeed, back evca fartlier th&a tu« biblical record. In ancient times bells were rung only when Important peo pie died, but with tha coming of Christianity it was the custom to ring death bells "for all good Chrls- Lots in Haegele's Hickory Point Subdivision on Shore of Beautiful Lake Elizabeth ALL LARGE LOTS Or any other day, there is a man on the ground at all Vvw* who will cheerfully give you full information. HAEGELE'S H16KORY POINT is jiast & mttei from Kcienry, between Genoa Junction and Twin Lakes, Wisconsin. to Every lot has privilege of a Befautiful Bathing Beach and Boat Landing. ALL IMPROVEMENTS IN «f XMvnfa Home on the Shore of beautiful Ldke Elizabeth -'fjffintff**-"