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WLUMb XXXIV. McHENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 190& NUMBER 0 EXCHANGE GLEANINGS. HAPPENINQ8 IN M'HENRY ADJACENT COUNTIES. AND A KliMlIaiwoDt Auortmeat of News Itani In Condensed Form for Conven­ ience of Bnay People. New cases of smallpox are still appear­ ing in Elgin. The Elgin watch factory is running only four days a week. , The Flora DeYoss company will open Hie season at Richmond Aug. 1. Woodstock is now agitating the ques­ tion of securing free city mail delivery. A canoeing party left Dundee last - Saturday and expect to paddle as far as fit. Louis. The schoolcensus of Woodstock gives that city a population of 4,588, a gain of 18 over last year's count. Ang 3 is Waukegan day and big preparations are being made by that eity to entertain many visitors. Bad half dollars are in circulation The coins are far too light to pass for the genuine and the face is poor and •lightly blurred. The first drowning of the season at Cary occurred last week Sunday, when Rudolph Otto, a 16-year olcf* Chicago boy, lost his life at Fox River Grove. The corner stone of the magnificent new chnrch of the Sacred Heart at Ma­ rengo was laid last Sunday. The esti­ mated cost of the building and furnish­ ings is about $18,000. Bumper crops-are looked for in the sugar beet culture about Elgin. Over 2,000 acres of land are now under culti­ vation in Kane county and the industry is fast becoming the best paying one in the county. Elgin will probably soon have another faetory. -The Leader Fence Machine Manufacturing company has grown too large for its present quarters in St. Charles and the chances are that Elgin will be the new site selected. The young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schmidt, Elgin, is very serious­ ly ill from smallpox and fears for her life are entertained. Her case is the most serious in the recent epidemic. • Only one case of scarlet fever remains. Several boys, while fishing in Catfish creek, near Brocton, 111., found what in believed to be the tooth of a mastodon, Partial skeletons and detached bones of these prehistoric animals have been fonnd in this section of the state in re­ cent years. Harvard Independent: Eugene Saun­ ders, manager of Saunders' Hall, met with a peculiar accident while working ill the engine room of the building last Saturday morning. He stnmbled over a timber and struck his nose on an iron plate, breaking the bridge and also nearly severing the fleshy point of his nose. The creamery plant belonging to the Bowman company at Bristol, near Wil- mot, Wis , burned to the grouud recent­ ly. The flames are supposed to have started in the boiler room. The loss is $3,000. The building was an old one and the new one that will take its place will be more proportionate to the busi­ ness done. At Cordell, Okla., the record for quick work in the harvest field goes to Wash­ ita county. On the Heffner farm in that county wheat was cut, threshed and marketed all in the same day. In the morning the wheat Rtood in the field, and by the middle of the after­ noon it was sold and the money, 77c per boshel, was in the owner's pocket. The Hoak Manufacturing company has installed several carloads of ma­ chinery and material in the Cutter & Crbssette factory at Dnndee and expect to be ready to begin work in about two weeks. The line of manufacture in­ cludes farm implements of various de­ scriptions, such as wagons, bobsleds, harrows, etc , for which they claim to have large orders on h«nd. - Unknown vandals cut and slashed •mail trees, vines, shrubs and flowers, knocked the tops off flower vases, and then removed the top of the fish aquar­ ium by cutting it into several pieces, and killing several fish, in Lord's park, Elgin, early one morning last week. No explanation for the acts can be advanced unions the perpetrators were sookisg revenge for a reprimand given1, for mis­ behavior while in the park. At a recent triennial bead camp of the M. W. A., which was held at Pe­ oria, 111., the salary of the head consul was increased from $5000 to $10,000. The salary of the head clerk was raised from $4,500 to $7,500, bead banker, from $3,600 to $5,000, and the five directors from $15 a day for time Bpent to fti.ooo per year. The annual per capita tax of members was raised from $1 to $1.30. The minimum annual tax for the salary of the local clerks was raised from 60 oents to $1 per member. A wave of prosperity seems to have come over the conntry and many plants and shops are again running full blast. The plant of the Pressed Steel Car com­ pany at Pittsburg is giving employment to 10,000, the Santa Fe shops at San Bernardino, Cal., are working at full capacity.<6m ploying 1,000 men, at St. Louis every wholesale house is working an extra force at night to meet out of town orders, and the Parlin & Oren- doreff company's plow factory at Can­ ton, III., has resumed operations with a force largely increased over that em­ ploy* prior to the shutdown several |tki ago. • | SHURTLEFF'S REPLIES TO OLSON. OPEN UETTERS TO PRESS FROM SPEAKER HON EDWARD D. SHURTLEFF. Marengo, July 20, '08. Mr. Editor--Ih an office in Wood Stock, backed by Chicago money and turned into a political manufactory of "the peerless candidate for senator,' "the farmers' friend for congress," and "the candidate of the common people for state's attorney," a newspaper article was written, which first ap peared in the Waukegan Gazette, and which has been eagerly copied by the Woodstock Republican, the Harvard Independent and the Hebron Tribune as follows: 'McHenry county seeks not only the senatorship, but the legislature as well a step which has broken the old agree ment passing the Beuatorship between the three counties in rotation. Shurt­ leff's entrance into the race for re elec­ tion is the one thing which broke the arrangement and that step alone will lose Mr. Shurtleff many votes in Lake county, because it had been hoped the old agreement wonld prevail even under the new primary law. The thing for Shurtleff to have done was either to go put after the senatorship or else retire for two years and then again seek the legislature when it came McHenry's turn to send a inau to the lower house. According to reports, Shurtleff's stand on the primary law, together witlh other things, are going to hurt him much this time and it is Reported there is danger that be cannot eveu carry his own connty in his race for renomina- tion. Accordingly, if he gets the little support expected from Boone and Lake counties, his chances for re-election look rather dubious." It sounds strange that the pure friends of the people should endeavor to nullify the primary law and seek to nominate their candidates by the sanctity of a political bargain. It is astonishing that a "peerless leader" and "the choice of the people" should become so worried about the intelligence of the people and their political action that he should seek to divert them by means of a polit­ ical bargain or enstom that had been made by unholy politicians. And who is it that is invoking the aid of a political bargain to elect a state senator from McHenry connty? It is Albert J. Olson, of Chicago. Mr. Olson was a delegate to the judicial convention in Cook county in April, 1006. Mr. Olson sat in the Cook county Republican convention as a del egate on August 8, 1906. Mr. Olson was a delegate to the Republican state conventional Springfield from the 6th delegate district of the 22nd ward of Chicago, on August 14, 1906. Eighty- three days only after sitting in that convention, Mr. Olson cast his first vote in McHenry county, on November 6, 1906, in defiance of the law that requires a ninety day residence in a county be­ fore a person is entitled to vote. Mr. Olson was a member of the Illinois bouse from Chicago in 1895 and in 1897, and voted for the Allea law, granting a fifty year franchise to street railways, the gas consolidation law, and the gas frontage act, which created a gas mo­ nopoly in Chicago. Mr. Olson was a member of the city council in Chicago from 1898 to 1902. Albert J. Olson is in the fight for state senator from this district at the request of Governor Charles S. Deneen, and has joined hands with David H. Jackson, mayor of Lake Forest, who is the Deneen leader in Lake county and a candidate for the lower honse. Mr. Olson is hand and glove with an element in Boone count)', ten of whom a few days ago visited Governor Deneen in Chicago and obtained, their orders that I must be driven out of politics in this district. Albert J. Olson, if elected to the state senate, and David H. Jackson, if elected to the house, will furnish two votes at the command of the Chicago machine and combiife. On what theory, or by what argument, should Albert J. Olson be sent to the state senate? What has he ever done? What will he do for the eighth sena­ torial district? At Woodstock, in the early part of May, he Attempted to buy the state senatorship by getting alt op­ position out of the way. Thru his newspapers, and personally, thru the district, he has made the issue that I must be defeated, because, as he says, I am supporting Mr. L. E. Mentch for state senator. Personally, I am for Mentch for state senator. I gave my word to Mr. Mentch to support him be­ cause he is a good man, a worthy resi dent all of his life of McHenry county, a tried and true Republican, and a man, who, if elected, would make bis voice heard and his vote count in the Illinois state senate. Mr. Mentch is not asking to go to the state senate for the purpose of Bilver-coating any tarnished record, and I would rather go down with my friend to defeat than to turn over the representation of the eighth senator in) district to the city of Chicago. If Mr. Olson is the '-peerless leader' that he claims to be, let him confidentIj trust the people of the eighth senatorial district and not prate about political bargains. Lake connty, also, has a can for representative. Boone county has candidate for senator and one for repre sentative. If my election means the defeat of Mr. Olson, and Mr. Olson's election means my defeat, I shall be more than glad to accept Mr. Olson's ohalleuge am not trying to dictate as to whom the people of this district shall chouse for state senator. Neither shall A. J. Ol won, David H. Jackson, et'al. dictate to me whom I shall support. Let the people choose. Very respectfully, EmVAftn D. Shi-rtlkkf. didate for senator and three candidates Marengo, 111., Jnly 25. 1908. Hon. A. «T. Olson, Woodstock, III., Dear Sir--In a published statement over your signature, dated Jnly 1908, headed "Olson's Answer to Short leff's Attack," you state: "If my nanip appeared as a Cook county delegate t< any convention after the primaries for governor in 1904, it was without my knowledge or consent." The primary election ballot for Re publican delegates voted at the fith del egate district, comprising election pre cincts 21, 22, 27, 28 and 29 of the 22nd ward of the city of Chicago, at the pri tnary election held Aug. 4, 1906, l»ear* the names of Albert J. Olson and Sam uel E. Erickson as delegates to the state convention, and it also bears the name* of Samuel E ErickHon, Albert J. Olson Franc O. Desaix and B A. Nelson as delegates to the county convention in Cook connty, Illinois. The Chicago city directory of 1905 gives: "Olson, Albert J , milk, 261 N Franklin." I have caused to be filed with the county clerks of Lake, McHenry and Boone counties a certificate itwned by the board of election commissioners of the city of Chicago, III , as follows: Lists of persons voting at the "Repnb lican primary election Aug. 4, 1906 22nd ward," and on page 4 is the fol lowing: "Franklin St., 261, Olson, A J.; 269, Gustavson, Oscar; 899, Larson, C. W." State of Illinois ( County of Cook f "This is to certify that the foregoing list of voters at the Republican primary of August 4, 1906, was prepared by this office, from the original poll books used at said primary. ISAAC N. POWELL, Chief Clerk." (Seal) This is the official list of all persons voting in the 22nd ward at the primary election of Aug. 4, 1906; and as it has been a matter of such general repute in the city of Chicago and thru the direc tories that your place of business before and at about this time was No. 261 North Franklin street, will you explain to the voters of the eighth senatorial district how yon could have voted your own delegate ballot, with yonr name on the ballot as a state delegate and as a county delegate, and not have known it V You further state in your circular as follows: "1 voted at the Smiley-Gil- more primaries in Woodstock in August, 1906, which can be proven by Judge Smiley." It is a well known fact that the pri­ mary election on Ang. 4, 1906, was an official election, poll books were kept, and the names of voters registered under the law. I submit a certificate of George F. Rush ton, county clerk of McHenry county, Illinois, as to your voting at the Smiley Gilmore primary, which was held under the forms of law, Aug. 4, 1906, in McHenry county, and it shows that you did not vote at that primary. CERTIFICATE. State of Illinois, j McHenry Connty, hh Office of the County Clerk, ) "I, George F. Rnshton, do hereby certify that I am the connty clerk of McHenry county, Illinois, duly quali- acting and was such connty • A+U An%T A n -- "M wuv v/t AiU^url, A. li. 1906, and have been such clerk ever since said time. "I further certify that I have fnily examined the original poll books used at the primary election in the third election district of the township of Dorr, of said McHenry connty, at said primary election, and that on the poll books of said election district and of the other election districts of the said town­ ship of Dorr, at said primary, which I have fully examined, there does not appear the name of Albert J. Olson, Albert Olson, A. Olson, or any other name describing Albert J. Olson as a voter at said primary election, and that if the said Albert J. Olson voted at said primary election in the said township of Dorr on Aug. 4, 1906, his name was not recorded by the clerks on the poll books of said election. "I further certify that the records •»how that at said primary election David T. Smiley, of Woodstock, III., was nominated as the Republican can­ didate for county judge. (Seal) G. F. RUSHTON, County Clerk of McHenry County, Illinois." Aleo, consul! Judge Smiley yourself as to whether you voted in that pri­ mary. Will you explain to the voters of the eighth senatorial district when and where yon voted for Judge Smiley in the Smiley Gilmore coutest, or when yon ever voted in McHenry county prior to November, 1906? In the city of Chicago, on April 28, 1906. another primary election was held to select delegates to a judicial con­ vention, to select one Republican candi­ date for supreme court judge, and I be- Heve, one or two other judges. The records show that you were voted for as a delegate and elected to this conven­ tion, and it was the delegates selected to this convention, upon their election, that selected th® Republican County Central committee from the 22nd ward of the city of Chicago, and in which was the celebrated fight 1 Kit ween Sum uel E. Erickson and B. F, Cletteuherg for control of the ward. During this contest, Mr. Erickson and Mr. Cletten berg were both members of the legitda tnre, and I knew from them, at the time, from Mayor Busse, from Mr. Kil course and from Dr. Frank W.. Lsinb den, and from many other prominent men of Chicago, that you were actively engaged in that contest and sought with Mr. Erickson to get control of the ward I submit herewith a statement signed by Mr A. L Lambden as to yonr con nection with this contest iu April, 1906 The statement speaks for itself. "Statement made by A. L. Lambden, now residing at 902 Walnut St., in the city of Chicago: "1 am acquainted with A. J. Olson, who is now running for state senator in the 8th senatorial district, and who formerly lived in the 22nd ward of the city of Chicago. 1 am also acquainted ifcith Frank J Chsiser, and have known hoth Chaiser and Ol.son for over fifteen years last past. "Two days before the April primaries, 15)06, these men met at the North Side Turner Hall, A. J. Olson, Frank J. Chaiser. Martin Mullen and Dr. Frank W. Lambden, and A. J. Olson proposed that they should divide the patronage of the north and south ends of the ward, and said there wonld be no trouble about it. It was decided to be for Sam Erickson for committeeman from the 22nd ward. Mnllen was a walking del egate for the Teamsters' union, and it was agreed that he should go to Dr, Lambden and Olson and get money as he needed it. Mullen agreed to deliver his precinct. In the campaign Dr. Lambden and A. J. Olson both spent considerable Aoney. The doctor spent about six or seven hundred dollars. Chaiser was to have the patronage of the mirth end of the ward, and Olson the south end. Dr. Lambden did not care for any patronage, as he lived out side of the ward Erickson agreed, if he was elected committeeman, to let Olson and Chaiser run the patronage. "This Frank Chaiser is the same per­ son who was caHhier for John A. Linn while Linn was clerk of the superior court. He turned state's evidence against Linn and caused Linn's indict­ ment, and confessed in court that he was the person who had changed the books and records, by which Linn got the money. "After Linn was sent to Joliet, Olson bought a huff interest in a saloon and restaurant at 11 State street for Chaiser, and said that he had put in six thousand dollars. Chaiser did not stay there long, but sold out and took a position from Olson as a salesman, soliciting milk orders in bulk, and is now in the milk business at the corner of Oak and Chestnut streets, at Olson's old stand, under the name of F. J. Chaiser & Co., but Olson is a silent partueri backing Chaiser up. A. L. LAMBDEN, "902 Walnut St., "Chicago 111." And if this is not sufficient, I attach hereto, editorials from the Chicago Chronicle, the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Evening Post, showing not only th it you were connected with this content in the 22nd ward of Chicago in April, 1906, but that it was yonr con­ test. As to the other statements in your reply, charging me with falsification, I shall not go into them, but leave it to yourself and your conscience to settle in any way that you "see fit, as to what you have said or done, or have not said or done. Bnt as yon have been so iolently mistaken as to the above matters, it is more than pos'sible that yon may be mistaken as to the re­ mainder. 1 have no desire whatever to do yon any injury, bnt the people of the eighth senatorial district are entitled to know the truth and to form their judgment upon the truth and not to be misled by things that are not the truth. Mr. Olson, nnder all of these circum­ stances, don't yon think that you should retire from the race for state senator, in favor of Mr. L E. Mentch? Aren't you the man who is keeping McHenry coun­ ty from having a state senator? Uhicago Evening Post, Friday, April 27, 1906: In preparing for the judicial pri­ maries set for tomorrow, Republican connty leaders say the only contest will be in the twenty second ward, but the indications are that the fight there will be a battle royal, ft is not, however, a contest over the nominee to be placed on either ticket, tbe participants in the struggle being solely interested in secur­ ing control of tbe ward committeeship. Representative Bernard F. Cletten- A. J. OLSON'S ANSWER TO SHURTLEFF'S ATTACK. SAYS SHURTLEFF'S STATEMENTS ARE ABSOLUTELY FALSE. (CONTINUED ON LAST PAGE, )' Woodstock, 111., July 23, 1908. To the Republican Voters of Mc­ Henry Connty and the 8th Senatorial District; In answer to an article, signed by Ed­ ward D. Shnrtleff, which has appeared in certain papers thruout the district, I wish to say that the statement made by Mr. Shurtleff, that the article which appeared in the Wankegan Gazette was written in an office iu Woodstock, or by any one in any way connected with my candidacy for state senator, is absolutely false, and my statement can be verified byicommnnicating with Mr. Smith, the editor of the Waukegan Gazette. 1 never heard or knew of the article until my attention was calleu to it sev­ eral days after its publication in that paper. The statement of Mr. Shurtleff that 1 sat iu a Cook County Republican con vention, as a delegate, on Aug 8, 1906, and that I went as a delegate to a Re pnhlican State convention at Spring­ field on Aug. 14, 1906, is also false. If myf name appeared as a Cook county delegate to any convention after the primaries for governor in 1904, it was without my knowledge or consent bnt, in 1904. I was elected a delegate to the state convention, altho I did not ask or seek tbe position, and did not know 1 was on the ticket as a delegate until a few days before the primaries. No one then questioned my right to act. and I had not at that time ever voted in McHenry county. Mr. Shurtleff makes another • false statement when he says that I cast my first vote in McHenry county on Nov. 6, 1906, in defiance of law. 1 had resided here continuously since the spring of 1903 and was then a legal voter of Woodstock. I voted at the Smiley Gilmore pri­ maries, in Woodstock, in August, 1906, which can be proven by Judge Smiley, whom I supported, and neither candi­ date or their supporters then questioned my right to vote, as everyone in and around the city of Woodstock knowB that I and my family have had no o*,her home or domicile of any kind, than onr home in the city of Woodstock, since the spring of 1908, and that for ten years prior to that time I am my family lived in Woodstock eight months of each year. The statement of Mr. Shurtleff that lam in the tight for state senator "at the request of Governor Charles S. Deneen" is a malicious lie, and made by him to get Yates men to vote for him­ self and Mentch. I told Mr. Shurtleff at his Chicago office, in the presence of a reliable wit­ ness, before announcing my candidacy, that if he wanted to run for the stsate senatorship from this district, I would not be a candidate, but would support him. I challenge Mr. Shurtleff, or any of his friends, to produce one person in either McHenry, Lake or Boone coun­ ties that I have asked to vote for Gov­ ernor Deneen or againBt Richard Yates. 1 am a candidate for state senator, and have not mixed in the governorship contest in any way. The further statement of Mr. Shurt­ leff that I have "joined hands with David H. Jackson, the mayor of Lake Forest," and that I am "haud and glove with an element in Boone county" is also untrue. I have many friends in both Lake and Boone counties that are working earn­ estly for my nomination and have been since I became a candidate, but I am iu no way to blame if Mr. Shurtleff is disappointed in not getting them to de­ sert me, n5r am I to blame because many voters in both counties have re­ fused to give Mr. Shurtleff their sup­ port. The further statement of Mr. Shurt­ leff that if I am elected state senator will furnish a vote at the command of any Chicago machine or combine, is nn- true and ridiculous in the extreme, as Mr. Shurtleff must know by this time that I do not take orders from anyone but.the people of the district I repre­ sent, and I can assnre the voters of this district that if elected I will not repudi­ ate and spurn any instructions they give me in the way and manner Mr. Shurt­ leff did the instructions of the people of this district and the whole state iu regard to the passage of a primary law. The other statement of Shurtleff that in the earlier part of May I attempted to buy the state senatorship by getting all the opposition out of the way is as untrue as it is foolish. I can prove by Judge C. H. Donnelly, C. J. Hendricks of Harvard,, and others, that I was called out of bed and asked by the judge to come to the court house at 10 o'clock at night, where Mentch then and there told me in the presence of Mr. Hendricks and other responsible persons that he had withdrawn from the race for state senator in my favor, and that he would support me, and this was not done by Mentch until he had conferred that very day and evening with Shurtletf and his other friends from different parts the conn^r the district I have made the issue that • Mr. Shurtleff must be defeated because he was supporting Mentch for state senator, is also maliciously false. I do not own any newspaper or any interest in any, and I have not asked any one to vote or work against his can didacy. Mr. Shnrtleff claims I should be de­ feated solely becanse I seek an office that was promised by him and ethers to Mentch several years ago, in yiolation of the people's right to nominate a sena tor, and I leave it to the voters of the district to decide on August 8th wheth er E. D. Shurtleff et al. or the voters are to make the nominations. Lake and Boone counties have eac had the senatorship since it was held by a McHenry county man and, regardless of the custom which Shurtleff has for years insisted must be kept, McHenry county is this time entitled to the sena torship. No complaint of this twenty year enstom was made by Sh.nrtleff un til after I became a candidate and not then until Mentch had re-entered the race for state senator (after withdraw ing) and Shurtleff had himself become candidate for the lower house. Mr. Shurtleff's claim that he and Mentch should both be elected, would he to deprive either Lake or Boone of house member, which would be con trary to thje custom followed hy Shurt leff heretofore, and in my judgment contrary to justioe. I am willing that the voters of this district should judge my record in the legislature by comparison with the one made by Shurtleff on the primary law and other legislation without further comment. Very truly yours, A. J. OLSON. Editor McHenry Plaindealer, McHenry, 111. My Dear Sir--In answer to the new charges, made in the second letter of Shurtleff's, will say: I never owned a saloon or any inter­ est in one, nor was I ever even inter ested in one, nor was the said Frank J Chaiser ever employed by me ae "sales man, " or in any other way. I am not now (nor was I ever) a part ner of said Chaiser, either "silent" or otherwise, nor is said Frank J. Chaiser doing a milk business at my old stand under the name of Frank J. Chaiser & Co. I will say further that I am great ly disappointed in Mr. Shurtleff. 1 thought him far above using the cam­ paign methods that were first started in this senatorial campai'gn by his friend Mentch, of Cary, who is a candidate for senator againat me. I know the numerous charges are be­ ing made to prejudice the voters and in an attempt to secure Mentch'a nomina tion. I ask Mr. Shurtleff to prove to the voters of this district a few nf the many false charges he and Mentch have made so promiscuously before making any others. Very truly yours, A. J. OLSON. OF A PERSONAL NATURE WHOM WE ENTERTAIN WHERE WE GO. AN© , Tbe other statement that "thru my newspapers" and personally thru Mr. Mentch and some of his support ers have reported in various parts of this county that Lake county would not support Mr. Olson for senator. Reports from the people and press of that county are entirely to the opposite, and it looks as if Mr. Olson would carry Lake county by a good majority. No one except very enthusiastic Mentch men even predict that Mr. Olson will not carry this county by a large majority. He has tbe solid support of tbe farm era of the entire district aDd will, with­ out doubt, not only carry McHenr> county by a large majority, but will in addition receive tbe nomination. It is up to every Republican in Mc­ Henry township to go to the primaries and vote, and vote right. The Antioch News of July 23 said in speaking of tbe fight for state senat­ or, said: Tiio r;:r wg approach to tbe primaries tbe more evident it is that Hon. A. J. Olson of Woodstock will re­ ceive the nomination for state senator. Tbis is apparent from the fact that Mr. Olson will carry his home county by a large majority and will alsoreceiye a big vote in Lake county. Mr. Olson is a bustler and has visited every city, village, milk station and s&anilet, called on individuals every­ where, and has been received with favor wherever he has been, and the encour­ agement be has received is a sure indi­ cation of his popularity. They admire bis hustling methods and straightfor ward manner and have promised him their support. With the tight in the dis­ trict at white heat, no ope can expect to win without an effort, lind this is not being done by either of his opponents. Mr. Olson has many friends in the township of Antioch, and in fact, thru all parte of Lake county who are ear nestly working for his sucess, and many of his Lake county supporters are confi­ dent that this county will give Mr. Olson the largest vote for senator of any can­ didate in the field. Tbe farmers of the entire district owe it to themselves to attend the primaries on Saturday, Aug. 8th, and help the caudidacy of Mr. Olson for senator. His interests are their interests. From the beet reports ,|£rat can be ob­ tained thruout the entire ^district, we predict the nomination of Mr. Olson for state senator by a large majority. McHenry EntortalDt a Large ConiHuy iff Visitors During: th® Weak--Whom W* Knt*rtaln. Albert Krause was a Chicago visitor last Saturday. Miss Carrie Niesen was a Chicago vis­ itor last Saturday. E. J Hanly was a Woodstock visitor one day last week. Mrs. W. C. Evanso& wae a Chicago visitor lust Saturday. • Jacob Jnsten was f hnwniaq y'litBT in Chicago last Friday. %: Miss Rosa Justen was a metropolitan visitor one day last week. C. T. Smith visited relatives in Rich­ mond one day last week. Miss Dora Stoffel of Chicago spent Sunday with her parents here. James Fitzsimmons of Chicago passed Sunday with McHenry relatives. Mrs. Probst of Chicago spent last week at the home of Jos. Diedrich. Mrs. N. H. Petesch and children were guests of Chicago relatives last week. John Degen of Kenosha was the guest of McHenry relatives last week. * Misses Peari and Ruby Claxton are guests of Chicago relatives this week. Geo. Blake of Kenosha, Wis,, is the guest of McHenry relatives this week. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Dowe of Inglesito spent Sunday with McHenry relative* Mrs. Elizabeth Smith has returned from two months' visit at Denver, Coiio. Miss Lillian Heimer spent Saturday " and Sunday with friends at Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. John Schreiner of Elgin spent Sunday with McHenry relativea. Ray Wilbur of Milwaukee, Wia., was a business visitor here last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Parks of Wood­ stock were guests of relatives here Sun­ day. Miss Lucie Carey of Elgin passed Fri­ day, Saturday and Sunday with home folks. Miss Vera Hyde of Elgin was guest of friends here a few days latit week. Harry Warden and wife of Chicago spent Saturday and Sunday in Mo- Henry. Arthur Bickler has resumed work at the Elgin Shirt factory after an extended lay-off. Miss May Webster of Chicago has been visiting at the home of Theo. W. Winkels. Mrs. Mayme Overton spent several days last week with relatives and frienda at Solon. F. A. Holly of Genoa, 111., is spending a week's vacation with his mother and brother here. Geo. and Robt Schilling of Chicago are spending the week at the North­ western hotel. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Jackson of Chi­ cago spent Sunday at the home of G. W. Besley. Geo. Meyers, Jr, was a Chicago visitor one day last week. Geo. wants to be a Chicago "cop." Miss Nellie Newman returned last Friday from a two week's visit with Chicago friends. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Steffen of Chicago were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs, Theo. Schiessle. Mrs. John Damgard and son of Otta* wa, 111., were guests of McHenry friendjp the first of the week. Miss Clara Frisby of Austin is spend­ ing tbe week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B. Frisby. Mrs. Johu Swadish and «ni) of Kenosha are visiting relatives friends in McHenry. Mrs. Alex Richmann has returned to Elgin after a pleasant visit among rela­ tives Had friend* here. Dr. and Mr"- W. C. Besley and chil­ dren of Woodstock spent Sunday at the home of G. W. Besley. Mr. ani Mre. Wm. B. Besley of Wau­ kegan spent Saturday and Sunday at the home of G. W. Beeley. Mrs. W. P. Sherman of Harvard was the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Kimball, a few days last week. Mrs. Charles C. Chapell of Asher, Okla., spent a few days the past week ith her niotufer, Mrs. E. M. Oms. Mrs. Wm Grantham and son, Wal­ ter, of Chicago were guests of relatives and friends here Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. M. Purcell, son, Walter, *nd daughter, Ethel, of Austin were guests at the home of Geo. B. Frisby last week. Mrs. W. P. Portman, son, Harold, and daughter, Florence, of Austin spent last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B- Frisby. Mr. and Mrs. John McAuliffe return ed to their home in Chicago Monday morning after a very pleasant week'a, visit at the home of Mrs. Mary Carey. Mr. and Mrs. Zima of Chicago are in charge of the Hille photograph gallery!, this week, while Mr. and Mrs. J. J, Hille and children are enjoying a vaca­ tion trip thru the Great Lakea. •. f- Jos. Schoewer of North Crystal Lake* was a Sunday guest at the home of hia parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Schoewer. Joe is now employed in the blacksmith shop of Peter Scheid at the crossing. Eddie Simee of Nunda was a guest at the"bome of his parents Sunday. Ed. who is employed at the Terra Cotta factory, informs us that many of the employes at the factory are already talking of making McHenry their home • should the proposed new railway go ^ thru. 4' • 4i®5