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Jay Earl Waite Oi*rl«sBu*j Slimpin Nina E. Colby fc-MiSS it; .84 Avecage ..,.17 ....86 " ..jr/.ai pupils have nor tardy during Month and have made sat&tfactibry in scholarship and deportment: HIGH SCHOOL. E. Crtety Winifred Grimoldby A. Bolger Jenie Walton Rose Huson Mabel M. Granger Nina M. Colby Ellen Morgan Margaret F. Suttoit Rosina Reynolds Elsie M. Howe Dora E. Stoffel F. E. ANOEVINE Prin. J , > * J , FIFTH GRADE. C ^ I XtcM* Xtainger Lena Mason s « - ; C , i - L i z s i e B o l t o n B e s s i e M a s o n H ' ' AGNES A. PERRY, Teacher. FOURTH ROOM. GRAND BAZAAR AND FAIR. success as a himself upon atfcottc Chttreh Fair for the Benefit of the New Parochial HOBM Fund. AtthiB season the mud hens, having »K F°^tV,nX.V't'"e' ch~'k Aw* Frances BUSB Delia Beekwith Starr Brink Iva Head Canaie Ktdreftge ICamle Granger Chester Goodman Florence Howe Katie Eeiiner Charlie Heimer RatieJust&n Bessie Zimmerman ?4T MARY L. COBB, THIRD GRADE. Zoe KiUff Zinnia King Hattie Lamphere Millie Lawrence Iva Curtis Carlton Ross Lena Stoffel Martin Stoffel "Willie Slimpin Maggie Schreiner Willie Weber Teacher. Lillian Wheeler . , vChristinaWeber George FJreund *r«" V* Irene McOmber 4 i;Caroline Spurling " - Rosie Zimmerman Nellie Newman Lula Byrd JESSIE M. BALDWIN, Teacher. Anna Zimmerman Zne Gallaher Florence Granger Myrtle Wattlea Willie Heimer Willie Gallaher Emma Thelen Lucie Byrd Joe. Wrede Alma Buchholz Howard Wattles Dora Buchhobs Eddie Bossman Pearl Claxton Leonard Phillips Fannie Granger Victor Peterson Maudie Granger (i«s (Jbariie Fhalen fm*: SECOND ROOM. Ray Page Alice Olson Clarence Ostrander Julia Stoffel Gerald Newman Tillie Stewart Walter Lee Bertha Wolff Thomas Knox Paulie Auringer Earl Brown Gilbert Howard bft&i ftbot at a great deal, have forsaken IliW.il river and now dwell dnt- iS| daylight hours in the center of Pis- " Ittafake, a half mile from the shore. le numbers of them are inestimable. When thickly congregated they cover the surface with a solid blue pall for acres. Probably not less than 10,000 birds are visible at once, bobbing upai down on the tiny billows and occasion­ ally diving to tug from the bottom soirf section of wild celery root or other edibl ^ plant. Upon them move slowly from every point of the compass twenty small boats. In each of these are two men, one at the bow and one at the stern. The man at the stern does the paddling, the other merely sits still and says: "My, but there's a lot of them." The birds, watching the converg ng boats with un- easv eyes, drift more closely together. When the nearest craft is 150 yards ftwn v they begin rising, flying over those still'upon the water and pitching just bfcvond them. In a little while they dis­ cover that there are boats on every side of them and then they rise in concert with a sound like the muttering of thun­ der. So thick are they that a man un­ der them on a clear day is as completely shaded from the October sun as if he held over him an umbrella. Save for scattering shots, the coots would now be safe if they knew enough to keep on going but* they do not and will never learn. Some of the scores made recently in mud hen shooting on Pistaqua lake have been remarkable. Two weeks ago 688 birds were slain by aparty of 20 in an hour and a half. One week previous nearly eight hundred were slain by a slightly larger party. It should be un­ derstood that not one of these birds was wasted. Those which were not used in McHenry were shipped to Chicago. The mud hen has become a sort of game staple in this city within the past four 'ears. Formerly it went begging «nd ailing, it was simply indefensible butch­ ery. As now prepared for the table it is a toothsome bird. It should be skin­ ned, some of the underlying fat removed and then placed in salt and water over night. Next morning it is ready for the tastier or the roasting pan. Ruth King FRANCES A. OSBORNE, Teacher. FIRST BOOM. Harry Neisen . . Josie Adams > Ida Buchhols %£?Eba Block Maude CanfL, Baby Claxtii^ \M"' Johnnie Feltx Albert Freund Marguerite Granger Ann* KnOX Mattie Laures Arthur Myers 4?$ Nicholas Myers .. j Emma Kronse * W6bKATE F. HOWE, Teacher. jSmil Olson Edwin Owen ^ Boy Page A Lizzie Phalin Rossina.rs Leon Slimpin Frances Stoffel Maude Van Slyke Annie Yeske Charlie Witt Albert Witt Henry Witt What Would Von So * If you were in our place and had Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin for sale and knew it to be a certain cure for all Stomach Derangement, Constipation or Sick Headache? Why, you would keep talking about it, swear by it and sell lots of it just as we do.--At Julia A Story's. Citizen's Telephone Company. The new subscribers to .the Citizen's Tele­ phone Co. are: Grander C. H. r. 13 •jHetzel Jake r. 48 . Hazel E. J. r. 18 Jensen H. M. Rosedale 43 McHenry Public School 4ft. Spurling, Dr. A. C. 50 ^ IM^hton Station. Sims Store 23 --F. E. BILL, Manager. a ronto ia thaa taking It w*jr from the notae a»<1 confusion prevails in a busy sales room. _ Jtaten has been engaged as operator and will give her entire atten­ tion to answering calls, and service second to none will be furnished to sub­ scribers to thjis exchange. ) A new toll hafc m-enll^eCirt^Mtructed from McHenry via. Terra Cotta to it, connec­ tion with Elgin-Lake Geneva toll lines, thus enabling McHenry subscribers to reach Chicatfajqa- Elgin. \This is done ve thenTrartr-CTucago wires during the busy season and to give di­ rect connections from McHenry to the county seat and to provide a way out in case of trouble on the direct Chicago wire. Two years ago when the line was built from Chicago to Lake Geneva via. Mc­ Henry it was thought that one circuit, would handle the toll business for some time. Now they have five circuits be­ sides the Elgin cut off. All this goes to show that the public appreciates and realizes the benefits of connections with Chicago and other cities and towns. In connection with this it may be in­ teresting to the readers of The Plain- dealer to know something of the system to which McHenryjis a part. The Chi­ cago Telephone Co. system covers ten counties adjacent to Chicago. It has 55 000 miles of wire, 36,500 miles in ca­ bles and 7,000 miles of toll line, connect­ ing 160 cities and towns. There are 25,760 phones in daily use. An average of 8,500 calls daily are made over the toll lines and 325f000 calls are made daily over the main Chicago switch board. 2,500 peopte are employed by this company. This system forms a part of the American Bell System, cover ing every state and connecting every city and town of any size and imdort- ance, thus making McHenry an integral part of this immense system, and any city or town or business man who at­ tempts to do without it falls behind his competitor who is alert to the advan­ tages to be derived from a connection with this system. The time is not far distant when every prosperous farmer will be connected by phone and will take his place side by side with the business man in business as well as the social advancement of the world, and Mc­ Henry may well feel proud of her ex­ change and her manager who strivea to give first class service and to furnish the public all news of a public nature in ad­ vance of other mediums for the tram- mission of news. A Card. We, the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on a 50 cent bottle of Green's Warranted Syrup of Tar if it fails to cure your cough or cold. We also guarantee a 25-cent bottle to prove satisfactory or money refunded. JULIA A. STOKY. Our stock of shoes was never so large and attractive as this fall. M. J. Walsh. This Grand Bazaar will be inaugu­ rated at Stoffel s Hall, Tuesday.the 3wth of November and will continue for three days, concluding with a grand recep­ tion and tell on Thanksgiving evening. A special meeting of the committees in charge was held on Monday evening and preliminaries arranged for the fair. The members of the congregation are enthusiastic over the affair and all are aiding the committees with their usual willingness and liberality. Elegant donations are being received daily and a large number of tickets a: e already sold on the numerous articles to be raffled during the fair. The ladies are especially grateful 4o the celebrated W. J. Qnan &Co., whole­ sale grocers at Chicago, for a beautiful gold watch, which they have donated to be contested for during the Bazaar. Special attractions in the forms of concert and entertainment will be intro­ duced each evening. Booths will be tastefully decorated with articles useful and ornamental to be sold during the fair. Fancy tables by the young ladies and the married ladies of the Parish. The country store will be a wonder­ ful feature and the children will also enjoy a grab bag, these and numberless other attractions ana entertainments will be provided for all who attend. Music will be furnished by Lyon & Healy, of Chicago. Price of • admission will be 10 cents, with a coupon attached, good for one chance on a prize. Remember the dates, November 28, 39, and BO. Day and evening. All are most cordially invited to come out and enjoy themselves and at the same time swell the house fund. What He Can See. Some newspaper man feels called up- on to say: "We always feel sorry for a girl who is struck on a fellow who will spend a dollar for ice cream, choc­ olates and three for a Sunday buggy ride for her on a six-dollar-a-week sal­ ary. Somehow we see visions of bare­ footed children, a fijrazy-headed woman over a washtub, pans for dishes on the table and a combination of corncob pipe and a man in the kitchen corner. The young man who lives within his means while single will do so after he is mar­ ried." . Used by British Soldiers in Africa. Capt. C. G. Dennison is well known all over Africa as commander of the forces that captnred the famous rebel Galishe. Under date of November 4, 18^7, from Yryburg, Bechuanaland, he writes: "Before starting on the last cam­ paign I bought a quantity of Chamber­ lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which I used myself when troubled with bowel complaint, and had given to my men, and in every case it proved most beneficial." For sale by Julia A. Story. Made from put* cream pf tartars-1 Alum meaacers to are fbe grutuI of the present day* MWM. 0AKINO KWDCR CO., NEW rOfflt, Called Him a Liar. Barney Plumb of Kansas says be cal­ led every Doqtor a liar until he tried Dr. CaldweU's ,J$§-it saved him hundreds of dollars Doctor hills, for one SB cent bottle cored him of stomach troubie. Sold by--Julia A. Story. TftrANTED SEVERAL BRIGHT ANDHON- *' est persons to represent us as Managers in this and close by counties. Salary a year and expenses. Straight, bona-nde, no more, no less salary. Position permanent. Our references, any hank in any town. It is mainly office, work conducted at home. Ref­ erence. Enclose self-addressed stamped en­ velope, THE DOMINION COMPANY. Dept.. 3, Chicago. 11-lGt Postal Reunion. The Harvard Herald will five ft Thanksgiving Postal Reunion onThurs day, November 30, 1899, and invites all former McHenry County people to par­ ticipate. "Participation in this "Reunion" simply means the writing of a brief let­ ter of greeting for your friends and tell­ ing something of yourself, your family, or other McHenry county people near you. Send this letter to The Herald so it will reach us not later than Novem­ ber 24. This invitation is extended to everyone, Who has at any time in his or her life, had a home in McHenry coun­ ty, also in the towns of Walworth, Linn and Sharon, Wis., or in Capron, 111. It dosn't matter whether you are a sub­ scriber of The Herald or not: your friends will be glad to hear from you and we shall make room for at least a few lines from every one that writes, A copy of the Thanksgiving issue of The Herald will be sent to every one who contributes to the 'Reunion..' " It will not be a surprise to any who ite at all familiar with the good qual- ties of Chamberlains's Cough Remedy, o known that people everywhere take pleasure in relating their experience in the use of that splendid medicine and in telling of the benefit they have re­ ceived from it, of bad colds it has cured, of threatened attacks of pneumonia it has averted and of the children it has saved from attacks of croup and whoop­ ing cough. It is a grand, good medicine. O A F B T O X L X A . •The Kind You Have Always Bought isf- SS;' Slaughter of Mad Hens. The Chicago Chronicle of last Sun- ? day devotes nearly half a page to "Sport jon Pistaqua Lake*'5 Inpart it says: "Pistaqua lake, fifty-tour miles from ' the city, on the Chicago and Northwest- - .v , ern railway is one of the small bodies of j water through which the Fox River, of * 4 }t Wisconsin and Illinois makes its wind ing way. It is probably three miles long, by an average width of one mile, v \ and in places has a depth of fifteen feet V'.U This would not be suspected, however, * V .* as wild celery and water mosses grow ir . within a yard of the surface and make ^ '• a false bottom. Sometimes the luckless ' »* boatman gets spilled out and his legs be- , come entangled in this growth and he runs an excellent chance to drown. Silver bass, large-mouthed bass and Os­ wego bass make the lake populous. Around its edges at intervals of a halt mile or so, stand snmmer cottages, now ; for the most part tenantless. They be­ long to Chicago people, who enter them in May and leave in October. The pres- . p' ence of these cottages does not seem to disturb the wild fowl in any way. Pos- sibly the birds know that they are empty. 7 i Anyway, they swim about within 100 -/vf yards of the gravled walks which lead j£' /,1, down to the water's edge and above the 7-' red roofs the hurrying of their wings is * audible day and night. On Pistaqua at this season there is a sport in vogue which is distinctive. There is nothing like it in America, though it bears a strong resemblance to the manner in which pheasants and par­ tridges are butchered in some of the I great game preserves of England. It is mud-hen shooting in battue form. One who has taken part in it or seen it, though he may not have enjoyed it utter­ ly, will remember it to his dying day. It is slaughter steady and immense, vociferous and exhausting. It be one fall season some six years ago, when somebody discovered that the despised mud hen was really good to eat, and since then it has become the sport of sports in October, which in this latitude is mud-hen time. Everybody in that part of Illinois and Wisconsin who owns a gun and can get ammunition takes a hand in it. The mud hen thinks it sees food when­ ever it sees water and it is never too hurried or too busy to eat. Its average flight in twenty-four hours, even in mi­ gration, is not much more than 150 miles, so between its departure from ite hatch­ ing grounds in Canada to its arrival on the warm waters of the Mexican gulf many weeks elapse. Indeed the birds are in transit for three months. They do not usually reach their journey's end before some time in January. The chief faults of the coot's mental make-ui are its lack of watchfulness and inability to judge distance. In these respects it is strongly Spanish. It will not learn that man is its enemy until it has been shot at again and again. In the early fall, when it first reaches Pis­ taqua and the Fox, it may be approached by a man in a boat to within a dozen yards and it flushes in lazy and half­ hearted fashion, trailing its ungainly legs along the surface for twenty yards before it rises, Later on it becomes much shyer and will flush when the boat is 100 yards away. Once set to going, however, it flies around and around in aimless circles and often passes within easy gunshot under the blissful misap­ prehension that itcannot be reached with a cannon. The people about McHenry and Pis­ taqua lake are fair gunmen, as a rule, jimd reasonably accomplished sportsmen. They do not care for individual mud hen shooting, for there is little excitement in it. The invention of the battue, afforded them a sport they are fond of. It is exciting in plenty, not the least *x- hilaratlng feature of it being the lil e - hood that the gunner is apt to be filled with shot by some incautious sportsman in a boat not fifty yards away. The of shooting and being shot are constantly present and the sport takes on something' Used in Millions of Homes! Accept no substitute! Insist on LION COFFEE, in 1 lb. pkgs. These articles mailed FREE in exchange for lion heads cut from front of i lb. LION COFFEE pkgs. Silk Umbrella (either Lady's or dents). Seat by txprees (charcMpre* paid), tor 170 Ilea beads an< • very fine umbrella, made of union illk-talleta; 96-inch frame with seven rib*; cteel rod and lUvsr Congo bandle. Would cost »XOO at the store, K-j . | Best Coffee for the Money! {Try LION COFFEE and you will never use Uny other. It is absolutely pure Coffee and nothing but Coffee. Pfv Genuine Ruby Setting Geld Ring. For 2S lion beads and a2^ent •tamp. These rings are genuine rolled-gold plate, having the exact appearance and qualities of solid gold, and guuranteed by the makers to lust two years with ordinary usage., New patterns and very popular. Fancy Gold Ring. 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Rs fssenlftilL " ̂.. j j, *+ . i .L-J • , .... ,, NOTIONS. v.; > ;It is a well-known fact that we * iiiTy a superb line of notions, eon- sis ting of Perfumes, Stationery, Toi­ let articles, etc ;fBO. W. BESLEY, West flcHeiiry» Itt. $ .-J ^loaki; Clothing, clc. Never before have we been so well prepared to supply our customers in these lines. Our stock is complete and we are certain that we can satisfy all in price, quality and style. It costs nothing to inspect them. >" 1 IT , Coats! b. -s'T Mi f- „ ,-fS.r •>" **« •, ^ These coats are carried iff stock by |Wy a few country merchants, and we are one of them. We have a stock from Which anyone can make a selection and ||t will be to your advantage to buy now t Blankets V * for Man •*' ' 1 « " - ' . I * ' v A ' ' h j * i t and inspect our line of bed j and horse blankets. They cannot be 'Jf' duplicated at the prices for yrhich .we l^lt j|re offering them. Sofa Pillows at 45 cents each, j ;< Qux Superb Line of has arrived' T adies' Flannel or _ Mercerized A® Waists • ' ' ' li ? ^ We have them in many dif­ ferent styles and at all prices. The ladie,s sliould not fail to call and see them. 'M- -r • M I: ~tS". - • * • ' v " tw V *- SiriON STOFFEL, - West HcHenry i . ' ft. 'j-aj.'i / i » - *V.V: ..'..v.r 4$*' V -a?: s i ': >1 ? . ?/A%7""^ .j!*. - * - .,i _ C. C- * \;J