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'Wit?? o '* " * *- iK? 5f^ • & I'-,"' fe'" i^;. &?V • i \-t: l,: m"' IK • •. - • The Clothing Business has been a specialty with us for a number of years, and this Fall we have tried to outdo former 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 make-up. Our stock was bought early, thus having the \ largest line to select from, and by saving all discounts are a in shape to name^ou prices that are the lowest, consistent J with good Material and Workmanship. a LEATHER dDd RUBBER EOOTWEARS This Fall lias 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, Fur Plush and Wool Lap Robes. Underwear, Duck Coats, Gloves and Mittens, Fur Coats, Wool Caps, Groceries and Flour. Yours for Fall Trade, WEST McHEHRY, DUBOIS. j. ! It is with condiderable pride that we call J 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 PENINSULA R, 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 an4 c§,n 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 . H c O M B E R . W E S T S I D E H A R D W A R E . ffill AND WINIEK MODS * * » * * We are showing a large line of Ladies' Dress and Walking Skirts in all new weaves and colors, finely tailored and trimmed. An elegant assortment of fancy Waist Patterns in French Flannels, Silks and Wool Corded Velvets, Metal- ic Velvets, Etc. Dress Goods in the newest and most popular weaves and colors. Flanneletes, Outing and Tennis Flannels. Underwear, all grades and sizes, at popular prices in Cotton, Fleeced Lined and Wool. Hats, Caps and Gloves, Covert and Duck Coats, Shirts, Overalls and Jumpers. Our Shoe Stock is the most complete in town, all kinds and the most up-to-date styles ranging from 25 cents to $4.50. Clothing made to Heasure! We have about one thousand samples to select from in Foreign and Domestic Cloths. A perfect fit guaranteed. Yours Truly, (Mi Delivered Proaiptly. Long distance 'photic hit. 363. WOOOMVOOOOOOl There are Reasons XI m' V':' P ' ' kf:; id.-:.:' F why yon should trade with as. And the best reason is that yon get honest prices. Do not take our word for it, but call and see for yourself. Again we say that if yon want bargains yon will find this Store to be the Bargain Center of McHenry County. We defy competion. We are Offering the following Goods at the VERY LOWEST PRICES: Big line Winter Pants, all sizes. Overcoats for Men and Boys. Wool, Cotton and heavy fleeced Underwear for Men, Women and Children. Mittens for Winter wear, largest line in McHenry. Suits in the latest styles. Men's working and fine Shoes. Husking Gloves. Sweaters, all kinds. Wool and Cotton Bed Blankets. Ladies' Shoes at "lonlffg out pries. Rubbers, Etc. A Few Quotations: Extra heavy wool socks, worth 40c ©19c "Very best machine thread, 2 spls for.7c Flelaher knitting yarn, best, per lb. ,88c Men's caps, worth 50c @ ,28c Heavy Corduroy Pants® ' Boys' Shoes, 8H to 13H, very best @.$1.10 Bed Blankets 10-4 tol2-4, up from 60c Boys' and youths' overalls, 28 to 32 (f&.35c West McHenry. J. HURWITZ. i INSW hmkn Auction Sale. The undersigned will sell, on the premises known as the P. J. Cleary farm, two miles sonth of McHenry, on the Barreyille road, oh Thursday, Oct. 30, commencing at ten o'clock a. m. the following described property: 44 choice cows, new milkers and close springers; 8 two-year-old heifers; 10 yearling heif­ ers; 3 two-year-old heifers; stock bnll, 4 calyes. gray mare three years old, 1800 pounds; gray horse 3 years old, 1225 lbs. bay driving mare 4 yrs old, 1050 lbs ; brown driving horse 8 yrs old, 1000 lbs.; bay horse 8 yrs old, 1200 lbs.; brown broodmare 8 yrs old, 1100 lbs.; gray Priuce Noir colt 1 year old; 40 choice shoats, new clean sweep bay loader, 2 truck wagons, Champion binder, Crown mower, land roller, seeder, McCormick corn harvester, milk wagon (Grimoldby & Pint), 25 milk cans, 2 walking plows, sulky plow, 2 spring tooth cultivators, pulverizer, set drags, corn hnsker, J. I. Case horse power, hay rack, 2 sets work harness, row boat, set bob sleighs, 15 tons timothy hay in barn, 80 acres corn in shock, 200 bushels oats, 10 acres corn stalks. Terms of sale: All sums of $10 or under, cash; on sums over that amount one year's time on good banka­ ble notes wfth interest at 6 per cent, per annum. One per cent off for ca3h on all sums entitled to credit. Free lunch at noon. HENRY DEC EN, Prop. H. B. Throop, Auctioneer. The Worst Form. Multitudes are singing the praises of Kodol, the new discovery which is mak­ ing so many sick people well and weak people strong by digesting what they eat, by cleansing and sweetening the stomach and by transforming their food into the kind of pure, rich, red blood that makes y^u feel good all over. Mrs. Cranfill, of Troy, I. T., writes: "For a number of years" I was troubled with indigestion and dyspepsia which grew into its worst form. Finally I was in­ duced to use Kodol and after using four bottles I am entirely cured. I heartily recommend Kodol to all sufferers from indigestion and dyspepsia " Take a dose after meals. It digests what you eat. Julia A. Story, McHenry, and G. W. Besley, W. McHenry. River Conference. At the last day's session of the Rock River Conference the following appoint­ ments of interest to McHenry people were made: McHenry and Ringwood, S. W. Lauck; Mount Morris, W. L: Whipple; Alden and Big Foot, William Ashford; Cary, C. F. Graser; Chemung, H. A- Snyder; Greenwood, C. E. Coon; Harvard, T. R. Strowbridge; Hebron, G. T. Nesmith; Marengo, H. J. Hark- ness; Nunda, W. B. Doble; Richmond, Thomas Gee; Wauconda and Volo, F. M. Lapham; Woodstock, N. A. Sunder- lin; Union and Franklinville, M. S. Freeman His Life In Peril. "I just seemed to have gone all to pieces," writes Alfred Bee, of Welfare, Tex., "biliousness and a lame back had made life a burden. I couldn't eat or sleep and felt almost too worn out to work when I began to use Electric Bit­ ters, but they worked wonders. Now I sleep like a top, can eat anything, have ained in strength and enjoy hard work." They give vigorous health and new life to weak, sickly, run-down peo­ ple. Try them. Only 50c at Jnlia A. Story's drug store. Mrs. Jones had hired two men to help her with her house-cleaning. "Those picture fiames," Bhe told them, "should be cleaned." "Yes," answered one of the men, "if you could get us some whisky, why, it's the finest tning ro clean them with. "Oh," she answered, "if whisky will clean them, I will send down a bottle of it I have up stairs, and you may try it." The men washed the frames with soap and water, and, of course, drank the whisky. When Mrs. Jones saw the frames bright and glisten­ ing, she remarked: "And so whisky cleaned those frames?" "Yes," said one of the men, ' 'it was the whisky that did it." ' 'And just to think," remarked the woman, "I came yery near throw­ ing that whisky away. I bathed poor Fido with it before he died, yon know." It Btands alone, it towers above. There's no other, it's nature's wonder, a warming poultice to the heart of man­ kind. Such is Rocky Monntain Tea. 85c. G. W. Besley. CV*, ^ *afr, PERSONAL NATURE (Continued from page one) F. A. Holly is doing the windy city this week. Mrs. M. J. Walsh was an Elgin visit­ or yesterday. Michael Jnsten was a oaller at the oounty seat Tnesday. John Sutton, of Minnesota, is visiting McHenry friends this week. Miss Gray, of Libertyville, called on McHenry friends a few days last week. Mrs. Jacob Stock attended the funer­ al of Joe Moritz at Melrose, Minn., last week. Frank Walsh, of Harvard, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Walsh, this week. Michael Josten and wife visited with Peter Schaid and family at Crystal Lake Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Melander called on Mr. and Mrs. Mike Jnsten Satnrday and Sunday. Misses Katie Jnsten and Maggie Schriener were Nunda visitors a few days this week. Mrs. Thos.. Hayes, of Harvard, is a guest at the home of her father, Phil Sutton, this week. Mrs. Ben Buss, Mrs. Bert Whiting and Mrs. F. K. Granger were Chicago passengers Tuesday. Mrs. Meyer, of Stacyville, Iowa, is visiting a few weeks with her parents, John Miller and wife. Will Krouse is taking a lay-off from his duties at the bottling works and is spending his time nursing a healthy boil on his left hand. A. W. Reynolds and Miss Stella Clay­ ton, df Chicago, spent Sunday at the home of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. Reynolds. Arthur K. Stearns, of Wankegan, in­ dependent candidate for the legislature, was in McHenry last Satnrday building his political fences. John Miller and wife, accompanied by their daughter, Mrs. Meyer, visited at the home of John Lenzen, Fremont Cen­ ter, Saturday and Sunday. A. P. Peck and Clarence Draper left for Wyoming, Minn., last Friday night where they will buy a car load of cattle. Ed. Long left this week for Minnesota to buy cattle. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Neish and two sons, of Spring Grove, Mrs. Geo. Mans­ field, Mamie Mansfield, Merritt Cruik- shank, of Greenwood, Mm. Frank Brownell, of West Chicago, and Mrs. K. Krumpen, of Richmond, were all in McHenry the past two weeks for dental work at Dr. Ross' office. Do Good--It Pays. A Chicago man has observed that, "Good deeds are better than real estate deeds--some of the latter are worthless. Act kindly and gently, show sympathy and l9nd a helping hand. Yon cannot possibly lose by it!" Moat men appre­ ciate a kind word and encouragement more than substantial help. There are persons in this community who might truthfully say: "My good friend, cheer up. A few doses of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy will rid you of your cold, and tbere is no danger whatever from pneumonia when you nse that medicine. It always cures. I know it for it has helped me out many a time." Sold by all druggists Facilities for Reaching the Pacific Coast. The trans-continental lines have been making extensive efforts lately to im­ prove their service to and from the Pacific Coast, the latest development announced being that the Personally Conducted feature of the Chicago & North-Western and Ui^on Pacific serv­ ice is to be expanded and extended to include personally conducted excursions to the Coast twice a week from Chicago via Omaha, Denver,and Salt Lake City, in addition to the three a week now operated to the Coast via Omaha and Cheyenne. This gives the tourist a chance to enjoy the most beautiful scen­ ery that Colorado affords, the route ^be­ ing through Colorado Springs, past Pike's Peak and via the Royal Gorge, Glen wood Springs and Salt Lake City. This, with the two tonrs a week via Cheyenne and Ogden to Sacramento, San Francisco and Los Angeles and one a week to Portland, makes five person­ ally conducted excursions per week from Chicago to California, Oregon and Washington. This personally conducted feature has expanded wonderfully in the last few years. The service has steadily im­ proved, so that Pullman tourist sleep­ ing cars have all the conveniences of the standard sleeper and are particular­ ly well adapted to the use of family parties and those who desire economy in travel. With the low rates now in effect to the Coast, this branch of the service promises to be very popular in­ deed, and will doubtless enable thous­ ands to visit the Coast who otherwise would have been unable to go. These thousands will include a large percent­ age of the people who hope to find on the sunny slopes of the Paciflo a place where life's hard struggle may be made easier and where a competance may be gained with a small investment in fruit raising or some similar occupation; to which class is added the invalid who finds in the far West the dry and balmy air and sunshiny days that bring health and strength that the East failed to provide. Spent More Than fl,000. W. W. Baker of Plain view, Neb., writes: "My wife suffered from lung trouble for fifteen years. She tried a number of doctors and spent over $1,000 without relief. She became very low and lost all hope. A friend recommend­ ed Foley's Honey and Tar and thanks to** this great remedy it saved her life. She enjoys better health than she has knowh in ten years." Refuse snbsti* tatea. Sold by N. H. Petesch. Bears the Bignatnn Tonii^ > The Kind You Have Alwiyg fiflgtt A LARGE ATTENDANCE. .iL At the County Sunday School Sapcrtn- tendents' and Teacher*' Conference. Last Saturday, October 18, proved aft ideal day for the County Sunday School Superintendents' and Teachers' Confer* ence, held in the First Presbyterian church at Woodstock. Every township but three were represented by eighty- three registered delegates. A marked interest was manifested from the open­ ing session until the meeting adjonrned at 4:30 p. m. The first topic, "How to get good music," was introduced by Rev. J. W. Moore. He plead for the grand old church hymns to be sung in the Sunday School, which was endorsed by ih$ leading workers present. Primary work was presented in a practical way by Mrs. Lillie Hyatt, Chicago. She not on­ ly interested the children and primary teachers, but commanded the closest at­ tention of the entire conference. The intermediate department of the S. S, follows so closely upon the primary, that it is hoped our superintendents and ' teachers will realise the importance of this department and give it especial at­ tention. "Junior and Senior--class and1 social work" was acceptably presented by G. W. Conn, Jr., ex-county presi­ dent. He claimed that the social as well as the class work should not be of a temporal nature; that the emotional should be cultivated and true friendship inculcated. C. W. Hart outlined some principles of teaching as follows: 1st. The pupils should do the talking, the teacher directing the lesson by ques­ tions. 2nd. The teacher should know more than the pupils. 8rd. The teach er should expect and maintain order. Any teacher not being able to secure or­ der should not continue to teach. 4th. Children like to work, hence should be allowed to do instead of being done for. 5th. Instead of the present internation­ al lesson system, he advocated "Bible text books." Our county president, E. C. Fisher, McHenry, spoke of the "Du­ ties of the Superintendent." He speci­ fied "personal work" and the "joy of Knowing and being known by every pu­ pil in the school." May God bless his words to us, for he stands in the front ranks of ideal superintendents, beloved by all his school. This, the first superintendents' and teachers' conference ever held in the county, was voiced by "those present, a success. Many true and earnest Chris­ tian workers, willing to sacrifice time and labor, that they may know "how to do His work," were present. The ad­ visability ofxholdihg semi-annual con­ ferences was advanced by several pres­ ent. May god lead the way. MRS. N. C. HARRISON, Co. Supt Goes Like Hot Cakes. "The fastest selling article I have in my store," Writes druggist C. T. Smith, of Davis, Ky., "is Dr. King's New Dis­ covery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, because it always cures. In my six years of sales it has never failed. I have known it to save sufferers from Throat and Lung diseases, who could get no help from doctors or any other remedy." Mothers rely on it, best phy­ sicians prescribe it, and. Jnlia A' Story guarantees satisfaction or refunds price. Trial bottles free. Reg. sizes, 50c and $1. School Notes. The following persons were elected officers of the McHenry County Athlet­ ic Association for the ensuing year: Pres­ ident, G. N. Snapp, Marengo; secretary and treasurer, C. W. Hart, Woodstock; vice president, E. C. Crain, Hebron. Following is the treasurer's report for 1902: , Cash on hand... $198.841 Total receipts 169.35 $362.69 Expenses for 1902... Cash on hand ...$182.58 . . . 1 8 0 . 1 6 $ 3 6 2 . 6 9 Balances: 189J, $77.45; 1900, $82.10; 1901, $193.84; 1902, $180.16. The de­ crease for 1902 was caused by the weath­ er, for it rained nearly all afternoon. C. W. HART, Sec'y. Warren Howell has been absent from school for several days. Miss Grey visited the high sohool last Friday afternoon: Lillie McGee, Nina Colby and Cart Ross have been absent. It is not( possible for the proprietors to publish more than a very few of the numerous letters received in praise of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar­ rhoea Remedy, and telling of its re­ markable cures. Tbey come from peo­ ple in every walk in life and from every state in the Union. The following from Mr. T. W. Greathonse, of Pratts- burg, Ga., speaks for itself: "I would have been dead now but for the use of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar­ rhoea Remedy. It cured me of chronic diarrhoea after seven years of suffering. I can never say too much in praise of that remedy." For sale by all drug­ gists. Dalf Rates tu Northern Illinois Teachers' Convention at Rock ford, Via the North-Western Line. Excur- cursion tickets will be sold at one fare for the round trip on October 22, 23, 24, limited to return until October 27, in­ clusive. Apply to agents Chicago & North-Western R'y. 16-2t She's a radian*, witching, wondrous gem that beautiful, blushing wife of mine. She is an angel on earth, so von can be, only take Rocky Monntain Tea. G. W. Besley'8. Paper Cutter For Sale. We have for sale a twenty-two inch Paragon paper cutter. Is good as new, having been used but little. Price $40. Address The Plaiudealer for particulars tf CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Tit Kind Yra Han Always Bought xi r*r 'ON. If ydtt catiH buy Coat, some Staley wear, Bed Blanket^, all kinds of warm Winter w^a*. The store is filled with Fall and Winter Bar Don't wait until the best is gone, come m early and get the pick. Get fitted out in all wool Under 3$$, Now is your chance, for one week only. Any pair of Shoes in the House at 10 per cent off the regular Don't let this chance go by. price Chapell Aumim >T> iJW JWm. aJW A m rffca A BATH ROOM in your home is not a luxury, but a necessity. Those who have this auxiliary to their homes would never be without one again. We burnish all fixtures complete and do nice neat work at moderate prices. If you con­ template putting in a bath let iun figure with you. CHRIS SCHHIDT, ricHENRY, ILLINOIS. Agent for the Eagle Acetylene Qaa Machine. I furnish the entire oat* fit complete. riiMiiHimi AVfcgetable Prepacationfor As­ similating the Food andRegula- ling the Stomachs and Bowels of l N h A N T S / ( H 1 L D K K N Promotes Digestion.Cheerful- siess andltest.Contains neither Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. >TOI" NAUC utic . ffObMrSMUBLPrrGMR HtmfJtui Semi" J4£*.Sgi?I*V t IkekelU Stdto-- Jkue Senl * <ermmt - CASTOMA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature / Semd,- fl*G Aperfec! Remedy for Constipa­ tion, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and Loss OF SL&UV Fac Simile Signature of NEW YORK. EXACT COPT OP WRAPPER For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA TMl CCNTAUH COMFtN^ NCW YORK WTV. ' M- Attractive Auction Bills at this office - A ,