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s#RVt*F • E ^ * tp-j- 5*v V - • "Merry Andrew" This was first applied to Andrew Borde, physician to Henry Till. H* tu very learned and very eccentric and In order to instruct the people, h« used to address them at fairs and other crowded places. Those who Imitated his wit and droll tricks, though not possessing his genius, were called Kerry Andrews. HERMAN J. SCHAEFER Moving and Long Distance Hauling Phone McHenry, Illinois RAGSOK XSCIEBS J • • HcHENRY GRAVEIi «r ^ EXCAVATING CO. ^ i A. P. Freund, Prop. Road Building and Excavating ^of Every Description Estimates Furnished on Request High-grade Gravel Delivered at any time--large or small orders given prompt attention. Phone 654-M-2 McHenry Old-fashioned and self-rising Buckwheat Flour Mow !• thetime to begin to >4 -n • think about some of those wonderful buckwheat cakes. There is none better than Hit product of the Mandy Lee has been a-going reg'lar ev'ry Monday morning to do Mrs. Judge Howell's washing but last week her husband called up an' says, "Mrs. Howell's," says he, "Mandy cain't come to do your washing this morninp," he says. "Why, what's the matter!" says Mrs. Howells, "Is she sick?" she says. "No'm," says he, "she haint sick," he says. "She's daid,"isays he. After years of experimenting, Windy Wolf believes it is easier to make a dollar than borrowflsse. NcHeir] Flour Nilis Weal McHenry, 01. A*k your grocer for ft. 0. W. KLONTZ, M. D. Physician and Surgeon (Also treating all diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat and doing Refraction) We finly all got out on bail from out our bells in that there jail. The lawyer and the chicken thief, they breathed a long sigh of relief, and I did too. I've grot a hunch that out of that whole bloomin' bunch the only honest one is me, a jury trial will tell by gee. That lawyer paid his bail, by heck, by givin' me a worthless check, and now he's got an alienist, whatever that may be, to twist the evidence, and make it plain that that there chicken thief's insane. The law is sure a funny thing, it seems to be designed, by jing, to let the criminals go loose, nor shut them in the calaboose. A thief that's got a lawyer's fee has got nine chances to go free; that is, in someone's court but minfiV I send them fellers down the line. The law don't mean a thing to me, I never read the book, by gee, it's justice that I'm after here, I don't let lawyers interefere, nor law books, I just get the facts, and that's how I decide my acts. I may not be so orthodox, but 111 protect the poultry flocks! Life has rts Httle ironiesrWheny ou can collect a can full of fish worms without digging up a whole city block, {he water is too muddy for fishing. mmmi i * My wrists are kmda achm', and my arms er lame, they are. Tis pains that I been takin' on my bloomin* motor car. Set myself ta rubbin' an' I worked with "vig" and "vim" ta give the bus the scrubbin' that would put the thing in trim. A thorough bath, I calls it, for I used the garden hose. Taint often such befalls it--not my auto, goodness knows. But sumthin' seemed ta strike me so I sails right in the task. It's not a wee bit like me--If ya care to ask. I finlly get 'er finished an' I 'ope she's^lookin' great, and when the dirt's | diminished--well, I up an' calls my mate. The missus comes a runnin an', while standin' by my side, she thinks she needs a sunnin', so suggests we take a ride. With all the neighbors, stewin', we go sailin' on our way. They think our i car's a new one 'cause it's never ; looked that way. But soon they find ' how wrong they are. The thought can Office Hours--8 to 9 a. m., 2 to 4 and 1 ne'er remain, for when ya drive a 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays by Appointment • washed-up car, it always" starts to Office at Residence, Waukegan Road. rajni Phone 181 McHenry, IU. ' WH.H CARROLL Lawyer Office with Kent & Company Every Wednesday Phone 8 McHenry, M. Telephone No. 108-R. Stoffel & Reihansperger Insurance agents for all classes of property in the best companies. WEST McHENRY, ILLINOIS Les Brane were telling Will B. Drunker that he lowed to get him a hog. "I can pretty ni keep it on the stuff we jest simple throw away," Les says. "You got any idy where I can get one?" says he. "Well," Will says, "if I was you I'd jest put a little ad in the paper," says he. So that evening Les took one over to ast Will if it were all right which he had rit: WANTED TO BUY--Hog; must be reasonable. Will give a look at it an' says he, "Les," he says, "I've knew » great many hogs in my time," says he, "but I've never yet saw on? that showed the least ajga of been reasonable," he s a y s . ^ ' ; > • ' •' Ratlin Dowell was a business caller at Grayslake Saturday afternoon. Mrs. R. B. McGill of Wauconda and Mrs. Earl Converse were business callers at Crystal Lake Saturday. Mr. and M!rs. H. L. Brooks called at the M. H. Detrick home at McHenry 'test Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Darrell were business callers at McHenry last Wednesday morning. Mrs. Jack Geary and son returned home Saturday evening after spending ten days with relatives in Chicago. Her sister, Miss Helen Bernur returned with her and spent- Sunday here. M!r. and Mrs. W. O. Brooks and Paul Brann of Waukegan spent Thursday evening at the home of the former's parents here. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse and daughter enjoyed dinner with Mr. and Mrs. William Davis Sunday. Clayton Haffey of West Chicago and Ben Miller of St. Charles called on the former's aunt at Oak Glenn farm Sunday. Mr. Kay and Anna Bloomfield of Elgin, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ohrwall and daughter of Crystal Lake and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Pfannenstill of IvanMoe spent Sunday at the J. W. Pfannenstill home. " Mrs. Wilbur Cook of Wauconda spent last JMonday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Brooks. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews and son spent Friday evening at Crystal Lake. While there Mr. Matthews attended a meeting of the I. O. O. F. lodge. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Winkler and son of Waukegan and Mr. and Mrs. Wlalter Winkler of Barrington were Sunday supper and evening guests at the home of their parents at Ardelow farm. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Weinecke of Barrington s^ent Friday evening at the H. H. Brooks home. Mrs. LaDoyt Miatthews and Miss Mrytle Darrell of Crystal Lake spent the week-end with relatives at Oak Glen farm. Mrs. Ollie Grantham spent last Thursday in Chicago. John Blomgren and Mrs. Sigrid Blomgren and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lusk of Wauconda attended a birthday party at the G. Lagerlund home at Elwood Park last Friday evening. Mir. and Mrs. Hugh Parks and Mrs. Ella Parke of Park Ridge were Sunday afternoon visitors at the W. E. Brooks Kome. " Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews and son called at the R. D. Carr home at Springy Grove Sunday afternoon and were accompained home by Mrs. Fannie Carr. Mrs. J. R. Knox, Mrs. Henry Shaffer and Mrs. J. N. Zimmer of McHenry and ^r. and Mrs. Harry Geary and son of Grayslake and Mr. and Mfs. H. E. Mainman of Wauconda were Sunday supper guests at the home of their parents here. Mrs. Henry Winkler and son of Waukegan spent the week-end with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Binks and family spent the week-end at Ardelow farm. Jack Resheck of Mikkelson, North Dakota, spent the latter part of the week with his wife's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Brooks. He also visited his sister-in-law, Mrs. Leon Larabee near Bristol, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Darrell drove to Crystal Lake Sunday and were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. LaDoyt Matthews to Fox River Grove where they attended the movie. Leon Smith of Elgin spent Saturday evening at the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Brooks were Saturday guests at the Leon Larabee; home at Bristol, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Harris and Mrs. William Whitman of Wauconda spent Sunday evening at the Page Smith home. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Miatthews and Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Grantham attended the meeting of the Wauconda Told Tales Interesting Bits of News Taken From the Columns of the Plaindealer Fifty an# Twenty-five Years f -v • November, 1877 H. C. Mead will accept our thanks for a cabbage left at our residence a few days since. It was a monster in size, weighing 23 H lbs. A few of that kind would make a good winter's supply for any common family. We offer fifty suits men's all wool underwear at $2.00 per suit. A bargain. Fitzsimmons and Evanson. We saw on our streets a few days since the finest fat beef we have ever seen for many a day. It was a five year old cow, bought by Walsh and Howard, the West 3ide butchers, of Allen Colby, and weighted, dressed 655 pounds and showed some as fine beef as we ever saw hanging in a market. November came in like a lion, about four inches of snow falling on Thursday and Friday, which made us think that old winter had reached us in good earnest.' Snow this early in the season is something unusual in this section but it is hoped that we may yet have some moderate weather before winter sets in. Ducks are said to be more plentiful on the lakes than for many years and hunters are having loads of sport, a number of whom are passing to and from the lakes every day. We believe there is no better place in the northwest for this kind of sport than Fox and Pistaqua lakes. November, 1902 Butter was declared firm at MVi cents on the Elgin butter m&rket. Stephen Freund has secured the contract for building N. J. J us ten's new home and commenced work on frame this week. Robert Schiessle has erected a steel wind nyill at the rear of his new brick building, which will be utilized in pumping water from the basement, which accumulates after a heavy rain. The election returns received up to this writing show that there has been a great Republican victory throughout the country, and that Illinois has gone Republican by a majority between 35,000 and 50,000. The fight in McHenry county was over the office of sheriff. John Bolger the Democratic nominee made a good showing in the towns: Dorr, Hartland, Algonquin and McHenry, hut when all returnst are in a majority of about 1100 votes will be found in Lake's favor. Maple syrup pure sap, % gallon cans at 50 cents; pure sorghum at 50 cents per gallon; faney English breakfast tea at 35 cents a pound; best granulated sugar at $4.75 per 100 pounds and McLaughlins XXXX coffee 8% cents per pound and grinding 1 cent extra per lb. At 9 o'clock yesterday morning at St. Mary's church in this village Mr. Peter Rothermel and Miss Lizzie Glossen were united in the holy bonds of wedlock, Rev. M. W. Barth performing the impressive ceremony. After the services the invited guests repaired to the home of the groom where an elegant breakfast was served, and the newly wed received the hearty congratulations of their friends. The bride is the daughter of John Glossen of this village and has resided here nearly all her life. She is a prepossessing young lady, enjoying the love and esteem of all her associates, The groom a son of Mr. and Mrs 1 George Rothermel needs no introduc- Farmers are very busy com husking and the best of all is they are much better pleased with the corn than they thought possible a few weeks earlier in the season. The crop is very good. Many from this locality attended the funeral of Mrs. Lutie Clark Thomas last week at Woodstock. The family have numerous relatives in and around this neighborhood. Mrs. Clara Kaiser is learning to drive their Buick car. She hopes soon to be able to drive without an advisor at her side. The Hobart family were recent callers on relatives at Harvard. Rollin McCannon, teacher of our school this year, is reorganizing the orchestra of last winter. The following are the names of the members and their instruments: violins, Gordon Clark, Eleanor Clark, Anna Kaiser, Vanetta Shaw and Henry Stalesky; cornets, Alice Clark, Glen Eppel; mellophone, Leta Clark; bells, Yvonne Benwell; drums, Frances Dalziel, E. Freund; trombone, Marshall McCannon; clarinet, Dale Shaw; triangle, Eugene Eppel. Don't ask any one fat this section for potatoes, that is a question many of the • neighbors are asking dealers. Some have about enough for family use, others part enough but none to sell. No apples in this section. WUl have to use cabbage, that seems very plentiful. Mr. Dalziel has been in very poor health all summer and recently suffered a relapse and the attending physician advised them to take him to Woodstock hospital. Monday they did so, he was so weak that he was unable to walk into the hospital and had to be carried. Tuesday morning early, they received a message stating he could not last long and the family started promptly but he passed away before they could arrive at his bedside. A large assortment of bed blankets at, all prices. Also a nice line of comforters at reasonable prices. See them at Erickson Dept. Store. Talking "To" and "With" To talk to a person is to address words to him; to talk with a person Is to speak and listen alternately-- to carry on a conversation; to talk of or about a person is to say things concerning him; to talk at a person Is to address words to another or others for the purpose of having them heard by the one for whom they am pent May ~SKed Arm ai A starfish may Jerk off each of Its five arms seized in succession; it may cast off an Injured or parasitized arm; in rare cases there Is multiplication by division. Sea cucumbers discharge their viscera In the spasms of capture and may thus escape from an astonished foe. The replacement of the food canal Is sometimes accomplished In ten days, though It may take as many weeks. Euchre club entertained at the home tion to MicHenry people, having been J.W.WORTH PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Audits Systems Income and Inheritance Tax Matters Member of Public Accountants Association of Illinois Phone 206-J McHenry, HL Phone 126-W. A. H. Seasonable Rate! SCHAEFER Draying McHENRY, ILLINOIS Insure--In Sure-Insurance WITH - W m.G. Schreiner Auctioneering I do nofc count at ttadm* around this farm of mine, pay bills slip shod and tandem without a written line! I tell you every nickel that comes or goes away, for whiffle-tree, or sickle, for barley-sieves or hay, is jotted down on paper in rigid black and white, so it can't cut caper and fly the coop at night. Some farmers, silly duffers, can never really tell how much their money suffers when they put down a well; they can not tell; but "recon" it's costing so and so, they estimate, they beckon, but never really know! In pockets here and yonder they've hidden slips away, they fish these out and ponder and wonder what they say! "I guess t\pis bill for shingles is ten or twenty-four--let's call it--holy jingles, I think it's even more! Let's see--those nails and flooring, and then the curb itself--it cost, let's see, for boring another heap of pelf.- That well, and well-house, surely cost quite a little bit! But then it's here, securely, so let's not have a fit." > of Mr. and Mrs. Redgate. Willard Darrell was a business caller at DesPlaines Monday afternoon. Page Smith spent Sunday with his son, Leon, at Elgin. Mr. and MrB. Joseph Haas of Wauconda were callers at the home of Mrs. Clara Smith. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Williams and son, of Crystal Lake spent Sunday with the latter's mother here. Have you seen our line of gloves and hosiery lately? Many and attractive are the styles of both. Erick* ipaDept. Store. Need a Transmitting ' "Knowledge Is wealth," but tha schoolteachers tell us the grocers refuse to accept it in lieu of cash tmt supplies--Boston Transcript ffMmm. •" " ng a mortgage jg good exercise to develop nifural stren IM A savings account is the best1 "apparatus" for that exerciser State Bank 'The Bank That Helpi Ton to Get Ahead' Q Vf?| r * Ms* '"M .• i . v DRAWING PAPEB AT THE PLAINDEALER Sheets 21x36 lnohet. TIRE SALE Saturday Only, Nov. tm ' Compare These Tire Prim with your Mall Order and remember these are standard makes 30x3 V% 30x3 y2 Cords .... Oversize GorcL. IT" 30x3 Vt Tubes 30x31/2 Oversize Tribes 29x4.40 Balloons. . H 29x4.40 Tubes : . $5.95 $6.95 $1.50 $1.75 $7.90 $1.80 Tires and Tubes and Accessories, Gar Batteries, all sizes, Radio A, B and C Batteries WALTER J. FREUND Tire and Tube Repairing, Vulcanizing, Battery Charging and Repairing West McHenry, Illinois raised in this village. He is a young man of considerable business ability,! is a certificated engineer and a good machinist. The happy couple will commence housekeeping at once in Anton Schneider's house north, of here. TERRA GOTTA OFFICE AT RESIDENCE V jMhone 93-R McHENRY, ILL' fit DENTISTS DBS. McCHESNEY & BROWN (Incorporated) ftr. L W. Brow* * r Dr;R.M. Walker Established over 50 years and still doing business at the old stand • pioneers in First Class Dentistry ail Advocate, ^ Moderate Prices / 1 V • Ask your neighbor* and r Friends about us. Diamonds of First Water A distinguished educator, polemic and literary man called In the office a day -or two ago and uttered a sentiment which will awaken a response in thousands of hearts and heads. The air of the man, as he uttered the almost Incredible statement, was that of a person who bad discovered a diamond,, of the first water. These were his words: "I ba.ve a stenographer who knows when not to talk."--The Christian 8. B. COT. Clark and Randolph St. 449 N. Clark St., Chicag# •M'i Baflf (tot, Sundays • to ll ^ L Pfcsae Central 2M7 t Think It Ossi Tou don't have to belong to the "laboring classes" to be honest; you dont have to belong to the "capW taltstlc class" to become wealthy Most other popular beliefs are abont as well founded as tho-- -- If*, and Mrs. Henry McMillan spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and MVs. Irving Lawrenz in Chicago. Mir. and Mrs. N. F. Burke of McHenry visited at the home of M. Knox last Tuesday afternoon. Rev. E. A. McCormick of Crystal Lake visited at the home of B. J. Shine last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. LaDean and daughter spent Sunday with relatives at Crystal Lake. Miss Esther Wagner of Crystal Lake spent Sunday with Miss Vera McMillan. Mir. and Mrs. J. P. Green and family of Woodstock spent Sunday at the home of M. *Knox. Miss Lillian Riley was a Chicago visitor Tuesday of this week. Harold Knox was the guest of relatives and friends at Notre Dame Saturday and Sunday and attended the football game there. Ruth Saalfeld, Mrytle Huffman, Ruth McMillan, Ruth Anderson, Phyllis Huffman and Marie Knox are the pupils of the Terra Cotta school who were on the honor roll for the month of October. Nels Person of Chicago spent Sunday with his wife here. Henry Bay of Chicago visited with relatives here Saturday evening. Have you seen our line of gloves and hosiery lately t Many and attractive are the styles of both. Erickjson Dept. Store, Future Food Supply Owing to the shortage of Import* ed foodstuffs, the production of foodstuffs locally Is ' being encouraged by the Straits Settlements and the federated Malay states. Even some of the rubber plantations have been compelled to utilize portions of their acreage for food products. This stimulation of agriculture has created interest In mechanical means to increase production, and a shipment of tractors made recently sold readily. Pertinent Inquiry Whereto serveth learning. If under standing be not Joined to It?--Mo®* talgne. For BETTER GLASSES BETTER VISION BETTER SERVICE See DK HENRY FREUND Optometrist Pries Btdg*. McHenry, Illinois. Hours: 7 to 9 p. m. except Sat- <£ urday; Wednesdays 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. , Phones: Office McHenry 182 11 Residence, McHenry 175. • J jM i ** u>* Use theJjew T045TM4STER Just follow the three simple steps illustrated and you can make perfect, golden brown slices every time with the new electric Toastmaster. Both sides of the bread are toasted at the same time--without watching--without turning--without burning. And the current turns off automatically when the toast is done. Handsomely finished in nickel, the Toastmaster makes an attractive piece for the server or dining table. ;nf AbeautytoownoHogiva Only Call in and let us show you this wonderful new toaster* PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS 101 Williams St, Cryrtal Lake Telephone 280 Schabeck. District Manager