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Twice Told TaMs Item* of Interest Taken Pro the Files of the Plaindealer of Yeara Ago FIFTY YEARS AGO Henry Wachonfeld of Waujcegan has loased- the north end of J. J. Gilles' •uildihjr 'and ^ill open ft; bakery this week. " It is riedrly time for you to -go a!>out the premises,"' gather up the winter's, accumulation of tin cans, bid Experience and Social Service Qualify'boots, etc., and quietly heave then _ • ja | _ over into your neighbor's back yj^r.l. ^F%« IbOVv The steamier, "Mary Gilswold," will ' ' plant and town by fire. The'sale of the old school buildings advertised to take place on Saturday last, was only partially successful. The building and lot on the West Side was sold to Henry Smith for $560. The bid on the brick building notjbeing deemed sufficient by the Trustees, the sale was postponed for four w eey. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The West Side meat ftiarket is sporting a new canvas awning. The mill pond is again free from ice, the last of the frozen waiter disappearing last Friday. The highways of the village hav» been scraped and otherwise improved upon during the week and now present a very neat appearance. The town, of Burton; which includes $e village* of Spring Grove, will at the next Today's election, decide whether or not that town shall beanti- saloon terrtvol-y. . ~ t.* ; VfiUPT. RICHMOND SCHOOLS h REPUBLICAN candidate foe Superintendent .V- i?.V of Schools McHENRY COUNTY Primaries Tuesday, April 10, 1934 Your Support Appreciated jnake her first trip of the * season- to the lakes today, Wednesday. - '/L-- D. Lincoln has moved his fairis ily into thb. rooms jn the second sto.ry .of the Lansing block, near thV depot. AJjoitt the first of May he wtll open fiis restaurant in the same block. FORTY YEARS AGO F. L. McOmber, the West side hardware dealer, has come out With a nobby new delivery wagon, and a brau new roadster. Stoves will "fly" from this store hereafter. At the regular meeting of the All of the State requirements to hold this office are more than satisfied in every respect; i. e., Graduate of U. of 111. with B. Sc. Degree; Post j Board of Trustees Monday evening Graduate work in Education at U. of ! L^w Holmes handed in his resigna- Wis. towards a Master's Degree; jtion as marshal and Mat Niesen was Holder of a State H. S. Teacher's Cei-- (appointed to fill the position for. the tificate; Holder of a State Supervi-, balance of the year. sory Certificate; Completing 7 years , boiler in the Hager Brick and of successful teaching and adminis-; jjje Factory, at Gilbert, exploded on tration of the Richmond Public; Saturday, completely destroying that Schools, WHICH ARE? CONFIRMED j by complimentary letters and reports j " received from the State Dept. and the U. of 111. Accrediting Dept.; and 6% TWENTY YEARS AGO The Plaindealer is now located in its new home in the new addition to the Bank of McHeliry building. While we have not arranged things just to our liking, we feel quite comfortable in-our. new. quarters. \ Martin Conway has left the employ of the Borden Condensed Milk company here and has moved his family to a farm south of town. The country 'roads at the prer>ert time are in their very worst condition. Farmers in some localities are finding it quite a difficult task to pull over them with a*heavy load. Paul Barbian is now employed m the Star garage, conducted by John R. Knox. Paul worked in one of Chicago's large auto shops during the winter months. . . . ; Easter Sunday visitors in the B. J. Brefeld home were: Mr. and Mrs. Ed Brefeld and children, Misses Olga, Mary and Theresa Brefeld and Herbert Hagemann of Chicago and Mr, and Mrs. Joe Brefeld. Mr. and Mryjjoe Brefeld spent Mondfey and ^Tuesday in the Lloyd Mlann home aroantioch. Mrs. Schultz of Milwaukee, Wis., is visiting in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Neil Carlson. Mr. and Mr9. Fred Wynkoop of Woodstock called on Mrs. Ella Wheeler? Moncfay. Mr. and Mrs T. J. Walsh, with Mr. and Mrs/Frank Chapman of Wood- Ftock," enjoyed a happy Easter in the home of their son, Richard B. Walsh and family, at Evanston. Alex Adams and Florenz Stenger of Humphrey Nebraska, spent Friday at the Math Glossoh home. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Base, Mi&s 'Josephine Haitman, and Catherine •Schmitt of Chicago, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Adams. Florenz Stenger left for his home at Humphrey, Neb., after spending thrtee months visiting relatives and friend>\ '• ' : "... Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fay of Elgin spent Sundaiy in the -John Fay. hdrne Misses Marian Krause, Lois.Esh., Julia McLaughlin, Mrs. Lillian Steinhoff and Mrs. Clara Noonan attended TEN YEARS AGO The new altars and communion railing for St. Mary's church of this city arrived this week and are now being installed. All of the right-of-way for Route 20 through the city of McHenry has now been secured and the dedications forwarded to the proper authorities. There are four candidates in the race for the postmastership of McHenry, an office which becomes vacant wtih the expiration of Postmav ter T. J. Walsh's term on June li. The four candidates, -who ,made the trip to Crystal Lake last Saturday were John E. Freund, Albert KrauSe, James N. Sayler and N. F. Steilen. / - beauty convention at the hotel, Chicago, Tuesday night. Mrs. M. J. Walsh, son, Joseph, daughter, Dorothy, and Miss Ellen; Doherty visited at River Forest Thursday. James Jackson of Solon visited his daughter, HMfrs. Earl Moneor, Monday. Miss Lorraine Whiting of Geneva spent the flrS* of the weelt with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Young of Wau* kegan spent Sunday here. Walter Carey attended a denerat: Electric meeting in Chicago Mondlay. Robert Green and Frank Gans were Chicago visitors Saturday. Melvin Walsh visited at Antioch Sunday Haold Vycftal spent Friday evening at Wauconda. Miss Agnes Mischke is expected to return home from St. Theresa's hospital today. ... Miss Mildred Gansr visaed, at At«r*; ora and Forest Park last week. Mr. and Mrs. N. C- Klein of Wau-> kegan visited relatives here Monday. Fred C. Achoewer visited Bernard Baur at HinW hospital Monday. Mi.c«es Verona and Helen Freund ; Wilmette visited their parents Sun-' day evening. • " Mrs. John Niesen and daughters/ Mrs. F. A. Beller and Miss Isabel Niesen, attended the funeral of th«^ former's niece, Mrs. Helen Moody, at Harvard, today (Thursday.) Miss Lois Bacon spent several days this week in Chicago. Miss Helen Welch returned front Chicago to spend Easter with relatives here. Will Martin of Chicago spent the Easter weekend with his parents here. Mrs. Gerald Carey, Miss Clara Miller and Mrs. Ra$r McGee spent Wednesday of last week in Woodstock. Mrs. Gerald Carey, Misses Clara and Lena Stoffel, Mirs. Robert Thompson and M|iss Maud Granger visited in the F. L. McOmber home at Highwood, Saturday. * McCormick-Deering Drills (jive Y<w Crops a Qpod Start J . - .. >IT1VE, accurate feed is the outstanding characteristic of McCormick-Deering Grain -Driirs. When you go into your fields with one of these drills you are assured of uniform seeding in any quantity you desire. There is a wide range of types and sizes/and a variety of special equipment, in the McCormick-Deering line. A new drill may increase the yield enough to pay. for itself in one season. Don't go into another year with a«vorn-out drill. See the McGormick- , Deering Grain Drills on display in our store now. Adams & Freund . . Tel 185 Pearl St. years Accounting and Business Experience. SPECIMEN BALLOT FIRST WARD City of McHenry, in County of McHenry and State of Illinois. Election: Tuesday, April 17, 1934. ' PETER A. NEISS, City Clerk Taxpayer's (By Petition) FOR ALDERMAN a • R. I OVERTON FOR POLICE MAGISTRATE (Vote for One) GEO. BOHR WM. R. BICKLER SPECIMEN BALLOT SECOND WARD City of McHenry, in County of McHenry and State of Illinois. Election: Tuesday, April 17, 1934. PETER A. NEISS, City Clerk T axpayer's The Fourth Lovely Lady BY THERESE BENSON Xr Tlw Bobbs-Merrill Company WNTT (By Petition) FOR ALDERMAN FRANK H. WATTLES FOR POLICE MAGISTRATE (Vote for One) GEO. BOHR • WM. R. BICKLEE SPECIMEN BALLOT THIRD WARD Gity of McHenry, in County of McHenry and State of Illinois. Election: Tuesday, April 17, 1934. PETEft A. NEISS, City Clerk Taxpayer's Party (By Petition) EQH ALDEKMAM------ Q ALBERT BARBIAN FOB POLICE MAGISTRATE ' -- ' (Vote for One) ' • GEO. BOHjt, WM. R. BICKLER CHAPTER XII --27-- Stone, the next few weeks " were amQDR the happiest of his life-so far.' At last he was among friends, and not the least of his pleasures was the anticipation of Smifs surprise when phe arrived At Lovelylea to find the situation so completely altered. His early contacts were, naturally enough, with the men of the countryside, and so it happened, as Smif had hoped, that he did not hear of her Ttolt to Culthorpe. . Not q*tte so soon as she had expected she returned there and was welcomed with acclaim by its inmates. Cousin Mab was especially delighted to have her back. As an enthusiastic matchmaker she was eager to see the first meeting between Stone and Smif in order to draw her own conclusions. It is sure that if Smif had fathomed Cousin Mab's schemes she would have taken herself off at once. As it was, without a word to anyone, she had a horse saddled the morning after her return and rode off alone to Lovelylea. When she entered the grounds and walked her mount up the winding drive, her heart almost stood still. Nothing here was changed, really. And, strange to say, it had not grown smaller, as places seen last In childhood are so apt to do. ; The house, tall-pillared "and spacious, stood on a rise of ground scarcely high enough to deserve the jhaine of hill, .vet giving it command ait all the surrounding country. At sight of it, The suspense was over, her heart resumed its beat, her blood Beeined to sing through her yeiifs. For her, the old place wa* as it had always been. "And it's mine," she said under her breath; "at last all this loveliness is all my own. What more could I want in the world than this?" Pushing aside the screen door, shi; entered the hall. Here all was aft it had been in the old days. Invitingly open, smelling of--what wai that familiar odor? Beeswax! How she loved that smell--and the parlor would have bowls of potpourri, she was sure. It was amazing how little was cKanged. It was In whav was evidently Stone's office or study, that she found the portrait. It was hung on the wall facing his desk, an old mahogany kidney-shaped affair, the work of a good Colonial cabinet maker, but new to her. Entirely suited to the house, she was glad to observe. . She sat down in hia chair and looked critically at the painting. It really wag an extraordinary - combination of the two characters, hers and Lorraine Lovely. One could see in it whichever one was looklag for. And it was rather pathetic that Stone should have hung it as he had. Evidently he clung to this great^grandmother because she was a Lovely and through her he felt some right to be in possession of the Lovely acres. A scurrying of little paws brought her to her feet. Voltaire and Beaucalre were outdistancing their master. He must have told them she was there. She went into the corridor to meet them as Stone en tered from the portico. "Smif!" he cried, "this is to& good to be true. When did you come and where are you staying?" "I reached Culthorpe yesterday afternoon," she said, devoting more attention to the adoring dogs than to him. "And I'm certainly glad to see yon and the pups. think it looks? I haven't spoiled It, have I?" "That's the strange thing.--Not that you haven't spoiled It but that It looks so exactly as I remember it. I w&s afraid that I had an impossible Ideal In my mind--and here it is as I had dreamed." Stone was pleased. He could have had no Warmer praise than her expressive face offered him. "The dogs look well/' she remarked. "And at last you are established here for all time. Tell me, have you heard from Captain Miles?" "And that's an amazing thing," Stone declared, "wait till I get his letter." He went into his study and came ont with the letter in his hand. "It amounts to an answer, although it came so soon that it must have crossed mine en route. It leaves no doubt of what his reply will be." * "Don't tell me there's no Providence!" she exclaimed when she had finished It. "This fits in too An Innocuous young couple, the Gardners, from Boston, had arrived with Eve Goodhue under their wing, and one morning they were all in riding clothes waiting for the horses to be brought around when Daly appeared at Stone's side. "Telegrams, sir," he said cinctly, presepting a salver. : "Is one for me?" Smif asked with unconcealed eagerness. Bill-Lee might have telegraphed }n a sudden spasm of conscience. Stone picked them up and shooi his head at her., "Both for me. You'll allow me?" he added to Susan to whom he had happened to be talking. "Telegrams never require an apology," she said. "To me they seem to signalize bad newB." : "At least that one doesn't." w, handed it over to her. "My dear, I can't read it without my glasses. Tell me what it says." "Just that two fellows I knew well in England have landed and will join us today." "And the other telegram--" Stone read it and it was plain that Its contents pleased him. "That is even better news," he declared, "but for the present It Is a secret." "Who are th« men, Mr, Nesblt?" Pam asked. "One is Sir Gregory Dunn, who went to Eton with me though he is considerably my Junior. The other is Paddy, young brother of 8ml*I This Is Too Good to Be True." beautifully. Isn't It wonderful? Have you begun to search for a place for him? I'll help you--" "What would you think of Rockmoss?" Stone drawled. "This isn't the only letter I've had. Mercy writes me she is becoming beautiful beyond compare. She's bound to marry now, Isn't she?" He looked at Smif and she looked back at him, not absolutely certain she read his expression aright A man who never laughed was so baffling. 'Yes," she agreed finally. "I've no doubt Miss Mercedes will marry. Like me, she has been delivered from the curse of fatneas." "You never were fat, Smif," Stone averred. "I grant you Mercy was. I'm crazy to see what she looks like, aren't you?" Smif was at once aware that she would be able to bear it with equanimity if she never laid eye« on Miss Mercedes again. But it would not do to say so. "1 have no doubt she will be amazing," she said briefly. "Come, show me the stables; then I most go back to Culthorpe* ™ * CHAPTER XIII ^11 §®ON as Susan arrived with Charlie and Pam in tow, Smif. moved to Lovelylea. She had made up her mind to say nothing to Stone about her purchase of the plantation until she had received definite word from her-brother and- 'And the old placet How do you had sent the first payment to him. McHenry my best friend, a fine fellow. He has resigned from the army and is coming over here to buy a place. I'm hoping to find a plantation for him near me." "What Is his name besides Paddy?" Pam asked idly. This man who was expected was plainly English. She had made up her mind that she did not care for the English. "His name isn't Paddy at alL That's merely a nickname. It's Miles. Capt. John Miles." "But we know him!" cried Eve. "You remember, Pam? He was one of the ushers at Clntra's wedding. We liked him lots." "He is an Irishman who wants to make his home in America and become a citizen here. In fact, I suspect an American love-affair Is one of the principal Inducements," said Stone "Are yon all talking of that nice Captain Miles who stayed with us at the Manor after Cintra's wedding?" Susan asked. "If you are, add »< to the list of official welcomers. I thought him a very good sort." - Susan was an observant as well as a devoted mother and when she had so readily canceled the plans for Pam's presentation she had done so because she suspected that something serious had occurred to make her daughter take so positive and unexpected a stand. In some way. Captain Miles was connected with Pam's refusal to go abroad, rro bb ootmNUBD.) 0 * * * i » $ t * * t t * * IS I *. * * * 0 * * * *' $ t 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0, 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 * 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0\ 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0 0 0 0 0- 0 0 0 • * f. 0 . 0 0; * 0 0 0 0 0 t 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 4 1 ' I \ 0 0 0 \ 0 0 0 0 0 0 * 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 The Fourth Lovely Lady BY THERESE BENSON Copyright by Th« Bobba-ltarrlll Companr WNU S*rvle« j CHAPTER XIII--Continued --28-- .The arrival of Captain Paddy Miles and his friend Gregory completed the party which quickly fused into a well-mannered and congenial family. They were all having a good time and did not care who knew it Then, into this contented household burst Miss Martha Washington Mercedes. Miss Martha Washington Mercedes in what amounted to a new incarnation. Dressed, as Smif at. once realized, by Madame Georgette, with a taste and a restraint that threw a new light on that forceful woman's influence, she was at once pretty and striking. "I heard Johnny had a party over here," she began. "W^ell, when the cat's away, the mouse will pjay. But I didn't expect to find you here." She addressed Smif pointedly. "Miss Lovely and Mr. Nesblt are cousins," Susan told her. "Miss Lovely?" She spoke interrogatively, feeling the newjs unwelcome although she did not yet know why. "Don't tell me you didn't know she was one of the Lovely ladies of Lovelylea?" "1 didn't know It and I do not Understand people with two names," Mercy said crossly. This was not welcome news to her. Plainly Johnny was escaping from her clutches. She must consider what steps she had better take. Yet, after all, the road to a man's heart was well known. She would invite them all to dine, although She heaved a sigh at the thought of the good things she ought not - touch. Smif looked forward to that dinner with unconcealed interest and carefully concealed contempt. The food, of course, would be unimpeachable, she had Stone's assurance of that, but the lady of |he house-- As a matter of fact, Smif was destined to be surprised in more ways than one. Mercy made no parade of her dieting. She toyed with her food, making a pretense of eating but never letting a morsel pass her lips, and Smif, who had expected to see her fall before such ^ temptation, felt like clapping her which she did not attempt to deny to herself, she saw that he was concentrated on Mercy. Again and again she glanced down the table at him--always with the same result. She told herself, she ought to be glad. She ought to rejoice that since Stone was set«&--this match, his future wife promisi(l to be more suited to the position than she had believed possible. Why should she be selfish about it? It need not rob her of her friend. 4 But in her heart she knew it would. With a Sinking of the Heart She Saw That He Was Concentrated on Mercy. imnfa In generous applause, and shot a glance down the table to •tone. She was accustomed to find his eras ever ready to meet her own. Mow, with a sinking of the heart CHAPTER XIV * THE next day began as all days began at Lovelylea. Every one w*as very cheerful and very chatty about the affair of the previous evening, very loud in hisx praise of the fun and the food. On the assurance that they would find an equally delicious meal at the Graceys where they were to lunch, the mall arrived, interrupting further discussion of this enthralling subject and as Daly, who had sorted it, came to her side, Smif saw that the top envelope of her pile had been forwarded from New York and was addressed in Bill-Lee's unmistakable handwriting. The letter it held was short and an enclosure within It fluttered to the floor to lie there disregarded while she read: "Dear old Smif: On thinking it over, I feel sure it is generosity to me that has urged you on to buy the old place. Anyhow, I don't approve of your living there alone, so forget It as I have. It was a silly plan, and I was a fool to encourage it I've sold Lovelylea for a good fat figure, so it's over and done with for both "of us. I'll have enough now to play polo like a gentleman. Perhaps some day I'll come1 north with a Chileoo team to show New York the game--" There was a little more but she did not read it, silting for a moment as If she had turned to bronze. Then she mechanically accepted the slip of yellow paper that Daly had picked up from the floor and presented to her. It was a check for the amount which, at his request, she had advanced to Bill-Lee, to be applied on the purchase price of the plantation. Legally, should she refuse to accept it, she might be able to enforce her claim--at the cost of informing the world that her brother had broken faith. That she would n?ver do. Her decision was made on the Instant. With a murmur of letters to write before the party set out, she rose and left the room. Pam was occupied with Paddy Miles; Susan was watching her daughter's happy expression with tender understanding. Her Charlie might not be a romantic figure, but she had married him for love not for money. Most of the others were trying to follow Stone's finger as he traced their route of the day on a map he had spread on the table. Only Eve Goodhue saw Smlfs face and half rose as if to accompany her, then sank back in her chair, fearful of intrusion. There was no doubt in her mind that Smif had suffered a blow of some 'Sort, and this impression was confirmed a little later when one of t' .e maids came with a message* tl.ai Miss Lovely had a headache and was lying down. She would not attempt the long ride with them, and hoped they would make the necessary apologies and explanations to jtlrg. Gracey. . "She must be feeling very bad," 5. Susan said, rising. "I'll go up--" * "Let me, mother," Pam begged, "please! I want to see her for Just a minute. I'll find out if she ought to have a doctor--" Outside Smif's door she knocked lightly. Smif had expected this. She knew some one must come to inquire if anything could be done for her, but she longed passionately £^r their departure. She wanted S be alone at Lovelylea to take her farewell of all that she had loved through an absence that would have weakened the tie to any save a faithful heart. "Come in!" she called cheerily enough. She had herself well in hand. Pam peeped in cautiously as If she expected some serious manifestation of an illness that had laid low so stout a soul. "Is your head very bad, Smif, darling?" she Inquired. "Not at all," Smif replied prompt* ly. "My head is a polite prevarication. It's something inside me that's dropped a stitch. I know the Box Hall cook and I feel that discretion i3 the better part of valor for the present, so I'm going to stay --here," she had been about to say "home" only stopping herself in time. Lovelylea was home no longer. Not when Miss Mercedes was to be its mistress. Smif had** jumped at once to the conclusion that Bill-Lee had sold to Stone. "Keep the others away, Pam, that's a good scout. I do feel peculiarly rotten, but I'll be all right by the time you get back." ['am halted for an instant on the way to the door, then returned with a soft little rush and slipped to her knees by. the side of the couch. "I don't want to bother you, Smif dear, but there's something 1 want to tell you even before I tell fa• i ther and mother, because I believe you wangled it somehow, l'addv and I have Hxed it up. We're going to be married and I'm awfully happy. . . » : An Irishman is different from an Englishman, isn't I16?" "To be sure he Is," Smif agreed heartily. "Paddy Miles is a peach,, or whatever their favorite fruit if ' in Irelnpd. I can't think of anything but the potato." Pam dropped a kiss on her c heek. . "I'm off," she announced, "and I'll see that none of the others bother you." " She got up from the couch aud seated herself near the window to wait for the return of the stable boys and, sitting there, she looked down on the same vista her father and she had seen when they had .watched Remus, the foxhound, hurrying off on his urgent private affairs while the long lines of rain, like fine-drawn threads of ice, fell steadily, to melt into puddles on contact with the earth. Once again she then had a vision of the past Then she shook herself back to reality, both mental and physical. The group had passed and she was wasting time. Before the others returned she meant to visit all the 8pots she loved the most; to burn them Indelibly Into her memory; to store them up against the barren days to come. Thoughtfully she went from room to room, peopling them with her memories. Downstairs she came at length to Stone's study, to find that door shut. She hesitated before it Of course.--The dogs ! They had been shut in so that they would not try to follow their ntaster. Poor darlings, they and she would be much the same case once M was mistress here. Persona gruta. Well next to Stone, t loved her. They should come her on her rounds. She opened the door nnd walked into the room. It was a cool morning and a little fire of hickory logs was burning in the fireplace, before which the bulldogs stretched, sleepily luxurious. Although she had come for them, she took no note of them, for at the desk a man was seated. 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