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; y i j i j . V mmmmutm mmm The Clothing Business has been a specialty with us for a number of years, and this Fall we have tried to outdo foriner efforts. Our assortment is certainly very large, ranging in Children's from four years old to Men's largest sizes in either Suits or Overcoats, in the latest Cloth and J make-up. Our stock was bought early, thus having the ( largest line to select from, and by saving all discounts are in shape to name you prices that are the lowest, consistent a with good Material and Workmanship. 1 LEATHER dad RUBBER FOOTWEAR This Pall has been a trying one on Shoe Leather. Ours are made by Selz Schwab & Co. and they have stood the test well. Our Royal Blue Shoes need no recommend. All sizes, either Rubber or Leather. Horse Blankets, Pur Plush and Wool Lap Robes. Underwear, Duck Coats, Gloves and Mittens, Pur Coats, Wool Caps, Groceries and Flour. Yours for Fall Trade, WEST MCHENRY, ILLINOIS. JOHN J. MILLER. pr It is with condiderable pride that we call ; your attention to the line of STOVES we have on our floor for the coming season. They represent the best manufacturers in the world-- THE PENINSULAR, THE JEWEL, THE ACORN, THE RIVERSIDE, THE ELMHERST and THE QUICK MEAL. Although Stoves have advanced in price considerably in the last year we are in a position to sell for last year's prices in some cases, and for less money in many cases. We will take your old Stoves in trade, allow you their value. We make it a part of our business to repair, clean and set up Stoves and can do yours for you on short notice. We have some bargains in second hand Heaters for all kinds of fuel. Come and see them. f l c O M B E R . i --m PRICES! We are still slashing prices and the prices quoted be­ low will hold good the balance of this week and all of next, but no longer as the goods are being sold at a great sacrifice in many instances. Buy your winter supply now. Note the prices, then come and see the Goods. »,:r v, Knitting Tarn, Fleisher's very beet, worth $1.15 per pound, special price per pound 88c Fleeced lined Underwear, Boys' and Youths' 24 to 80 @ 25c Men's fleeoed lined Uhderwear 86 to 44 @ 45c Men's all-wool Underwear, worth $1 .50, special price, each.. .$1.15 Ladies' Underwear, heavy for fail wear @ 35c Underwear sold at $1.50 now goes at only 98c Ladies' heavy fleeced lined Un­ derwear, very best 48c Tennis Flannels, worth 15c per yard, special price 11c Flannelettes, 15c goods, special price . 9c Shaker Flannel, worth (He cents goes at • ±Jc Better quality Shaker flannel, worth 8c, @ 6c All wool Dress Goods, worth $1 per yard at half price 50c Next quality Dress Goods, fall wear worth $1 per yard, special price 60c Men's Corduroy Pants, worth $2.25, special price .$1.50 Boy's 2-piece Suits @ '. 98c Large line Sweaters in big as­ sortment at lowest puces. Men's Rubber Boots, the very best Snag Proof, sizes 6 to 12, go at the special price $2.69 Men's Working Shoes, marked $2,25, special price $1.49 Boys' Overalls, 26 to 80 (a 85c Boys' Overalls, 4 to 14 @ .*23c Men's woolen Socks worth 25 to 80c, special price 17c Wrappers' worth $1.25, sizes 82 44 <3 89c Men's Working Gloves at lowest prices in the county. Men's Overalls, without bibs, heavy blue, worth 85c, special price 49c Very best fleeced lined Under­ wear for young men, sizes 82 to 86, worth 60c going at 88c Telescopes at very lowest price. Ladies' black Underskirts, big sizes, lowest prices in the county Ladies' petticoats, worth 50, @.25c Men's Umbrellas, very best, worth $2.25, special price. .$1.15 Table Oil Cloth, per yard 15c Men's every-day Hats, best 45c Table Clothes, second best qual­ ity, fast colors, per yard 25c Next quality 89c Men's Working Jackets, black and blue, sizes 86 to 40, worth 50c, special price 19c Ladies' Shoes, very best, worth from $2.25 to $2.50, (it $1.49 Boys' Shoes, sizes 8| to 18i, worth $1.50 @ $1.10 Men's Cape at lowest prices. Duck Coats, worth $8, sizes 86 to 44, @.... $1.69 Men's Sunday Hats, black Fe­ dora, latest styles, usually $2, now $1.15 Men's working Pants, sizes 82 to 42, worth $1, @ 89c Ginghams at very lowest prices. Ticking, worth 18c per yard, special price 10c Rugs selling at 50c and $1.00. Bed Blankets at lowest prices. Men's working Shirts, heavy 1 weight, each 85c Overcoats, the la tee styles at very lowest prices. Men's Suits at very lowest prices. Children's Suits at very lowest prices. Boy's Shirts, sizes 12 to 14, 20c Lamps, worth $2, nice ones @$1.35 I have had occasion to um your Black-Draught Stock and Poultry Medi. cine and am pleased to say that I never used anything for stock that gave half as good satisfaction. I heartily recom­ mend It to all owners of stock. J. B. BELSHER. St Urals, Mo. Sick stock or poultry should not eat cheap stock food any more than sick persona should expect to be cored dv food. When your stock and poultry are sick give them med­ icine. Don't stuff them with worth­ less stock foods. Unload the bowels and stir up the torpid liver and the animal will be cured, if it be possi­ ble to cure it. Black-Draught Stock and Poultry Medicine unloads the bowels and stirs up the torpid liver. It cures every malady of stock if taken in time. Secure a 25-cent can of Black-Draught Stock and Poultry Medicine and ltwill pay for itself ten times over. Horses work better. Cows ^ive more milk. Hogs gain flesh. And hens lay more eggs. It solves the Sroblem of making as much blood, esh and energy as possible out of the smallest amount of food con­ sumed. Buy a can from your dealer. M'HENRY COUNTY EXHIBIT. Description of the Exhibit as It Appeared at Sprinfffit Id. We can save you a good day's wages by trading with us at these prices. We invite everybody to our store to look over the largest and best line of Goods in the county. J. HURWITZ, WEST MCHENRV, - - ILLINOIS. U 95 if: •*: & S: it: u $ 8. h* § if 5 6 § hi it": 6 & •*': v & •*: 8: 'if. k '& •i: H- s £ & Ki! if: & r*. •/: & r*. •i: % $ § £ $ & it; & r*. If: s I a i I I •t*: w & The McHenry county exhibit in the Dome bnilding at the Illinois State Fair 1902, consisted of 12000 pounds or six tons of the products of the county and occupied, a total of 1250 square feet of door space and over 1000 square feet of wall space, the wall| being 18J feet high, a total of 57 feet in width and divided into three sections. The back ground was of white with a wide border of red at the top bearing the words 'McHenry County Agricultural Ex­ hibit," in letters made with cross sec­ tions of white corn and extending the entii^ width of the wall space. The largest design was of superb bundles of grasses with the heads forming a oircle around a large star in the center, the largest bundles being used at the corn- and the shorter ones at the top, bottom and sides, the whole figure forming a perfect square. Another wall was covered with bun­ dles of grains arranged perpendicularly in two rows separated by two large horizontal diamond figures in the center composed of dark forage plants such as alfalfa, cow peas, soy beans, teosinte, peanuts, etc. A narrow wall space was decorated with a dozen varieties of pop corn of various colors arranged in the shape of a vertical diamond. The most attractive --all design was of an arch made with choice bundles of different varieties of oats placed on green background, a bushel basket decorated with corn husks and red rib­ bon and holding three superb sheaves of wheat occupied the center of the arch­ way; below the arch was a narrow shelf Molding a number of inverted bot­ tles of grains and seeds, the shelf being supported by several wires run throngh cross sections of red, white and yellow corn, while bangles made of sorghum heads dangled from the shelf between the supports. This design was greatly admired and was considered by many as the handsomest design in the build­ ing. The floor space was covered with over 150 feet of tables and shelves also two large pagodas or pyramids each with a series of shelves tapering from the bot­ tom to a single shelf or stand at this top. One of these pargodas was covered with some 30 varieties of pumpkins, squashes and gourds; the other con­ tained some 50 pails of grains and seeds, a fine display of bottled sweet milk, butter-milk, sugar of milk, and caesine of milk also the finest show of tomatoes in the building and was surmounted by a large globe containing a school of fish froth the waters of the Nippersink. Two large iron pillars were surrounded by giant corn Btalks, broom corn, sor- ghnm, kaffir corn, Jerusalem corn, pencillaria, hemp, flax, hops, Kochia scoparia,. tobacco sunflowers, etc. Two tables each four feet wide and 30 feet long were covered with Iruit, consisting of 100 jars of choicest sum­ mer fruits, several varieties of fresh grapes and over a hundred varieties of apples and pears arranged in geometric designs such as stars, crescents, circles, diamonds, etc., the different colors and shades producing a pleasing effect. Handsome polished samples of 87 different varities of wood, together with a large sign bearing the words "McHenry County Woods" made from 25 kinds of wood neatly set together in a border design was one of the most attractive features of the exhibit. A long table bearing half bushel baskets of choice varieties of seed potatoes and a great sign with the word "Potatoes" as well as a border and ornaments all formed with potatoes on a green back­ ground was also a very attractive feature. The different varieties of corn were arranged on wide shelves in pyramids of a dozen ears of each variety. Other tables and shelves held a great variety of melons, cucumbers, cabbages, beets, turnips and other vegetables. There was also a fine display of honey and a large number of packages of choicest dairy and creamery butter, • there were corn and broom corn stalks nearly 15 feet high, several small bales (of alfalfa, a table with a large boon in which visitors were invited to register, a revolving rack containing photo­ graphs of creameries and various farm scenes and other articles top numerous to mention. Hundreds of copies of a little pamph­ let descriptive of McHenry county, pub­ lished by Mr. Hunt, were laid on the tables daily and were carried away by interested visitors. The McHenry county exhibit con­ sisted of the greatest quantity and variety of products ever shown by a single county at the Illinois state fair, aud the quality of these products was so pronounced that before the exhibit was fairly installed the competing counties were ready to concede first place to McHenry county. It was a matter of greatest wonder and sunrise to many that a single county should be able to produce eo many varieties of timber, so complete a collection of fruits, so great a variety and so high a quality of products and at the same time produce four times as much but­ ter as any other county in the state. Senator H. 31. Dunlap president of the Illinois commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition was so well pleased with the exhibit that he was anxious to induce Mr. Hunt to arrange for an exhibit from McHenry county for the exhibition to be held at St. Louis in 1904. Mr. Hunt desires The Plaindealer to thank all who contributed articles for the display, as well as those who assist­ ed him so faithfully in preparing and handling the same; he wishes to espec­ ially thank Mr. H. T. Thompson of Marengj who had charge of the fruit and wood displays aud who prepared the entire exhibit of wood, including the unique wood sign that attracted 6o much attention and to whose persistent work is due a large measure the success of the exhibit. DUFtiELD SELLS DEMOCRAT. Pnrehmod by Syndicate of Woodstock .*• Republicans. The McHenry County Demoorat at Woodstock has been sold by its pub­ lisher, J. A. Duffleld, to a syndicate composed of V. S. Lumley, C. P.Barnes, D. R. Joslyn, J, F, Casey, P. R. Jack- man, C. •. Lemmers and Geo. L. Murphy. It will be converted into a Republi­ can paper and will be known as the McHenry County Republican, with C. A Lemmers as editor. This sale will leave the democrats of McHenry county without a party organ, nor is there one in this senatorial district. Natural Anxiety. . Mothers regard approaching winter with uneasiness, children take cold so easily. No disease costs more little lives than croup. Its attack is so sudden that the sufferer is often beyond human aid before the doctor arrives. Such cases yield readily to One Minute Cough Cure. Liquifies the mucus, allays in­ flammation, removes danger. Absolute­ ly safe. Acts immediately. Cures coughs, ci>lds, grip, bronchitis, all throat and lung trouble. F. S. McMa- hon, Hampton, Ga.: "A bad cold ren­ dered me voiceless just before an ora­ torical contest. I intended to withdraw but took One Minute Cough Cure. It restored my voice in time to win the medal." Julia A. Story, McHenry, and G. W. Besley, W. McHenry, Rural Free Delivery. There was onlv one applicant to take the examination for carrying mail last Thursday, Isaac Fairweather of Wau- conda, son-in-law of T.Bacon. Whether he will pass the examination is yet un­ known as no returns have been re­ ceived. Mr. Bennett laid out the route as follows: From McHenry to Mud- gett's Lake, to Slocum's school house, to T.Bacon's, to Compton's corner near Volo, back to McHenry on Wankegan road. Mr. Waite is confident that an­ other route taking in the country about Ringwood, Johnsburgh and the Bay will be established. It all rests with the residents along the proposed route. He is now circulating a petition. While opening a box, J. C. Mount, of Three Mile Bay, N. Y., ran a ten penny nail through the fleshy part of his hand. "I thought at once of all the pain and soreness this would cause me," he says, and immediately applied Chamber­ lain's Pain Balm and occasionally after­ wards. To my surprise it remoyed all pain and soreness and the injured parts were soon healed." For sale by all druggists. . Annual Mud Hongthoot. The McHenry Gun Club held its an­ nual mud hen shoot last Friday and the following is a list of those who par­ ticipated and the number of birds shot by each gentleman ; John Buch, 20; M. D. Weber, 25; Mat Freund, 46; Nick Hneman, 18; Ben Stilling, 68; Anton Engeln, 26; Martin Howell,36; Jos. Heimer, 25; T. L. Grot, 17; Peter Roth- erinel, 80; Wm. Holtz, 32; John Lodtz, 24: Bald Mound boys, 60; Chris. Klein- schrodt, 24. Total, 491. rIP* At jSt >' '» *•* .K 4 j ' " S ' P - V V * * " y V - ' • ; " 5 : y i t f w : If'-". 2 ^ ' » - • i> wvw I KEEP WARM! ^If you can't buy Coal, buy a Fur *** jr Coat, some Staley all wool Under- Twear, Bed Blankets, all kinds of $ i ^ filled with Fall and Winter Bar warm Winter wear. The stor? is gains. Don' t wait until the best is gone, come in early and get the pick. Get fitted out in VTW1 Wvw If you happen to be. oeo of tboM poor uofor- tuoitea--*11 run dowo, worn oat, thin tod «|n*d- tted--who h*v« doctorad for «v«ything exc*p< the (jght thklf, «M to OM It's Your Stomftch. To rvpin year tamgtb add Health ttks Dr. Caldwell's •(LAXATXVK) Syrup Pepsin Umokli th* yon mat • yonrNwaM oa • portal ud we'll Mad you • fraa umpl* bottle aad M iatercttiag book oa twmitli trouble*. Dr. CaUwaU't Sjrrup Fepein i( the gaaranttcd cur* for aH twrniarh, Itw aad kidaqr »tlm--; joc and )i.m bttbt All Druggists. PEPSIN SYRUP CO. 0 MoatlcaTW tJX I The Shoe Line I Now is your chance, for one week only. Any pair of Shoes in the House at 10 per cent off the regular price. Don't let this chance go by. s. s. WW & j 1A1 vPTrrTyTr The salt shed on the east side of the ware house just west of M. J. Walsh's store and the platform in front of the ware house have been removed. The stood work was done by Chas. Frett and Harry Wightman. J. H. Miller of McHenry Marble and Granite Works pnt up an appropriate family monument this week for Mrs. Etta Neville, in memory of her late husband, Hewitt H. Neville.--Waucon- da Leader. A few Hints to October We are showing the finest line of Ladies' Dress and Walking Skirts ever brought to Town, all sizes and a good range of prices. Dress Goods and Suitings in popular shades and weaves, all prices from 20c to $1.50 per yard. Flannelettes and French Flannels, Outing and Tennis Flannels in all grades and colors. Silks, Velvets and fatSsfr Flannels for Waists. A large line of Flannelette and Percale Wrappers, sizes 32 to 48, all grades, @ $1.00 to $1.75. Our Shoes are of the best quality obtainable in Vici Kid, Velours, Box Calf, Patent Leather, Enamel, Etc., all shapes and sizes. Ladies' and Children's Shoes in endless variety. Fancy Shirts, Collars and Neck Wear, Sweaters, Caps, Hats, Gloves and Mittens. On SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, we will make special low prices on many lines of Goods and quote a few prices below. 25 pounds Sugar for. $i.oo 1 pound good Coffee 9c 3 Cans good Peas 25c 3 Cans good Peaches 25c 3 Packages Mince Meat ..35c 2 Packages Yeast Cakes 5c 1 pound fancy Apricots 9C 12 pounds fancy Apricots $1.00 1 pound good Plug Tobacco 35c Gallon Pail fancy Syrups '.20c Goods delivered promptly. Yours Truly, c n. J. WALSH, WEST McHENRY, ILLINOIS.