The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

THE PTHENRY FLAINDEALER PUBLISHED EVEKY THURSDAY BY F. G. SCHREINER Office In Bank Building Tale phone W-W TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Ooe Yew. |lil SI* Month*. 75c Three Month*. Mc Thursday. June 7,1917 WEEKLY EXCHANGE ITEMS AS TAKEN FROM THE COLUMNS OP OUR EXCHANGES Miscellaneous Assortment of New* Items In Condensed Form For BIISJ People Lake Geneva's Red Cross chapter now has a membership of 150. Elgin's subscription to the Liberty bonds has already passed the half million mark. A carnival company will hold forth at Woodstock all next week, begin­ ning next Monday. Harvard doctors have announced an increase in prices for all services ren­ dered within the county. The opening of Wauconda's new moving picture play house was at­ tended by about 500 people. D. Hereley & Sons of Harvard have disposed of fifteen thousand bushels Jiof seed potatoes since last fall. Lieut. J. G. Maxon bade his Harvard relatives and friends goodby last week and is now on his way to Hawaii. Out of nineteen liquor cases prose­ cuted by States Attorney James C.1 Welch of Lake county he has secured fourteen convictions. As a result of a Red Cross tag day recently held at Barrington $142.69 were collected by the young ladies of that village. The Lake Geneva cavalry, designed as Troop F, 1st Wisconsin, will be called to colors June 15 and will like­ ly be sent to Camp Douglas. The formation of the Cane creek drainage district will reclaim 1600 acres of land along the Dunham and Marengo town line in this county. Marengo's Chautauqua this year will take place the last week in July. The Mutual Lyceum and Chautauqua system will furnish the entertainment. A new electric fire alarm has just been installed on top of the W. D. Hall building at Harvard. The alarm is operated from the local telephone ex­ change. Eight young men of McHenry coun­ ty received citizenship papers at the county seat last week, the documents being conferred with a fine talk by Judge Charles H. Donnelly. Barrington's new factory building is rapidly nearing completion. Some of the lighter machinery is now be­ ing installed and the company hopes to begin operations at an early date. John C. Donnelly, prominent Wood- stock Democrat, has just been ap­ pointed deputy United States marshal to fill an extra position created in the northern district owing to war activ­ ities. The common council of Lake Gen­ eva, Wis., has just granted Charles Hammerstrom of that city permis­ sion to erect bath houses on the lake front. Thirty rooms will be erected at once. A permit has been issued to the stockholders of the Wauconda bank to make that institution a state bank with a capital stock of $25,000. The change will become effective at an early date. If plans do not go astray, a state highway of brick or concrete con­ struction will be built between Wau- ' kegan and Highland Park. The esti­ mated cost of the improvement is $250,000. A big flag raising will be held at Hebron next Wednesday, June 14. Committees in charge of the event hope to make the occasion one of the biggest ever held in that village. A gigantic parade is fanned. The Wauconda Choral club, com­ posed of forty members, gave a con­ cert at the township high school auditorium in that village last even­ ing. The club is under the direction of Prof. Kourtzenborn of Chicago. A birthday dinner, given in honor of G. W. Conn of Hebron, was attend­ ed by three old time friends, all resi­ dents pf that village. The combined ages of the four men gathered was 335 years, the ages ranging from eighty to ninety years. A registration day parade, in which the old vets, Woman's Relief corp, young men called to 'register, Red Cross nurses, Boy Scouts, parents, teachers, ladies and reserves took part, was held at Wauconda on Tues­ day afternoon of this week. Rockford has set her clocks ahead one hour. That is, some of the city has. Many of the business houses as well as factories in that city have adopted the new day light schedule, while the schools, railroads, postof- fice, telegraph offices and practically all business lines having outside con­ nections still adhere to the old, or standard time. Harvard has landed a skirt and dress factory and work is now under way by which the idle factory building in that city is being fitted for the new enterprise. Machinery is already be­ ing placed in the building and the com­ pany hopes to have the factory in operation within a very short time. At least twenty-five ladies and girls will be given employment right from the beginning. On their return home from an auto­ mobile trip about nine o'clock last Friday evening, burglars were dis­ covered in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Alexander at Marengo. Mrs. Alexander, who was the first to enter the hbme, discovered the intruders, but all made good their escape before her husband had time to answer to her screams for help. Nothing was missing frofn the home. Harry Bemis, an employe of the Wisconsin Condensed Milk company at Grayslake, was called from his room at the Grayslake hotel at about mid­ night Wednesday of last week and up­ on reaching the street was given a severe mauling by two young men, one a farmer and the other an employe of the factory. As a result of the occurrence Mr. Bemis was taken to a Waukegan hospital for treatment. Both assailants were placed under bonds of $500 each to assure their ap­ pearance at a hearing to be held this week. The reason for the assault has not been learned. "THE HOUSE OF LIES" With Edna Goodrich at the Central This (Thursday) Evening "The House of Lies," the Morosco Paramount photoplay coming to the Central this (Thursday) evening, brings forth this problem: Edna Coleman is the stepdaughter of a society matron, who candidly ex­ plains that she intends to exploit her daughter's beauty in the marriage market. The marriage market, with its shallow veneer of modern dress and modern manners, but with an amaz­ ing similarity of spirit to the old "slave market," only perhaps a little competition. What will the socially restricted s I, , • debutante do when she finds it is to the handsome young dramatist that she is to be displayed? To the one she prefers to meet above all others. What will his opinion be of her whom he meets in this manner ? But there is a way that sets all the tangle right and Edna Goodrich, play­ ing the starring role, finds that only in a great sacrifice is the clear path that leads to happiness. The vicious selfishness of the very fashionable is revealed in all its heartlessness in the hew Morosco Paramount photoplay "The House of Lies." As the name implies, it is the abode of artificiality, of pretense, of vain strivings, but in all these things it only portrays what is so often a true condition of the society devotee. Amid these surroundings develops an amaz­ ing character, a beautiful woman whose experiences are so startling, so interest compelling that her strange course of conduct is intensely baffling until the dramatic denoument, ADDITIONAL PERSONALS People Who Come and Go During a Week H. H. Fay boarded the Chicago train Wednesday morning. J. C. Bickler was a business visitor m Chicago Wednesday. x M. J. Walsh was .a "business visitor in Chicago Wednesday. T. J. Walsh of Grayslake attended the K. of C. initiation here Sunday. Atty. A. H. Pouse attended to legal business at the county seat Wednes­ day. Wm. Spencer attended to business matters in the metropolitan city Wed­ nesday. Wm. Bonslett was among those to board the Chicago train Wednesday morning. Mrs. Linda Sherman passed a day recently as the guest of friends at Richmond. Wm. Smith attended to matters of a business nature in the metropolitan city Wednesday. Rev. J. M. Lonergan of Cafy at­ tended the commencement exercises here last Saturday evening. Floyd Cooley came home from the State University at Urbana Monday to spend his summer vacation. C. W. Gibbs and W. E. Whiting at­ tended the farmers' meeting at Crys­ tal Lake Friday evening last. Prof. C. E. Smalley of Crystal Lake attended the comemncement exercises at the school auditorium last Satur­ day evening. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Greiner and children of Chicago were Sunday guests in the home of the Mrs. Grein- er's mother, Mrs. Peter Wirfs. Mrs. Louise Nielson and little daughter, Laraine, of Chicago are spending a two weeks' vacation with her sister, Mrs. Fred Kuhn, on Main street. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Hunter, Jr., of Milwaukee, Wis., are spending two weeks as guests in the home of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Hunter. -*Prof. Nye In South Dakota Prof. A. E. Nye left for South Da­ kota Sunday evening to be absent two weeks while representing the Ginn & Co., book publishers of Chi­ cago, in a text book fight. The state tion with many book companies will every four years, hence the competi­ tion with many books companies will be keen. Before leaving Prof. Nye called attention to the fact that stu­ dents interested in teachers' examina­ tion should make a thoro review of eighth grade subjects and the high school subjects for college work.