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Keller 45 Years' Experience Sundays and Mondays at my Summer Hone, Riverside Drive, MeHenry, I1L AH Work Guaranteed Tel. 211-R CHAPTER I TO MEET LORD AND LADY FERNCLIFFB Oliver Jordan, president of the Jordan Line Steamships, New York City, looked up from his breakfast as his wife Millicent, in dressing gc>wn and slippers came into the room, excitedly waving a radiogram. He put off, like a mask, the worried and preoccupied air that had emphasized the wrinkles in his forehead and about his eyes. •'Oliver! I've got them! I've got the Ferncliffes!" She read the message to him. " Delighted to dine with you Friday at eight. Femcliffe". "I have a date with our daughter ifdext Friday to hear Rachmaninoff." "But the Ferncliffes are terribly important. Hasn't Lord Ferncliffe something to do with shipping? I should think you'd want to talk with, him." "Mr. Oliver Jordan accepts," smiled her husband, graciously. She hugged him in her exuberance, and chattered so volubly about her plans for the dinner, whom she would invite, who in the city was available, that he seized upon the appearance of their daughter, Paula, ready to start for the job she insisted upon keeping, to make his escape from the social plottings of his wife. Millicent called after Paula: "I hope Ernest doesn't ask me how you've been behaving while he was away -- coming in at five o'clock in the morning!" Ernest Graves was Paula's fianel. "He won't -- he trusts me," was Paula's retort. "You don't seem wildly excited about this coming marriage of yours," commented her father too low to be overheard by his wife. "Iliad your own business, darhaving been given, a theatre by a wealthy man, she had retired from both the stage and New York, choosing to live in England and on the Continent. Along with many others of hia generation, when he wad a very young man indeed, Oliver Jordan had been one of her fervent admirers and, more fortunate than most of the others, admitted, tohereircle of friends. " Heavens, what a hole! " she exclaimed, looking about the dingy office which Oliver had kept because it had been good enough for his father. "Is that what I own stock in! 1 expected to see R all platinum and plush." " Gosh, I'm glad to see you again, Carlotta. Tell me, what brought you to America' " "The shattered fortunes need mending, darling. I'm as flat as a millpond. Railroads, oil, cotton stocks, --all down to next to nothing. No j tenant for the Vance Theatre -- pad-! locked for six months. I'll never go back to the stage. I '11 have my; double chins in privacy." "You're not thinking of selling your Jordan stock, are youf" asked Jordan, alarmed. "You wouldn't get what it is worth-- " "Yoij^ wouldn't want to buy it back yourself, would you, Oliver!" "It would be difficult, just now., Hold on to your Btock, Carlotta.... We'll pull through." Miss Copeland opened the door and big, breezy, self-confident, somewhat arrogant Dan Packard blew in, and Carlotta departed in a few minutes, reminding Oliver that she would see him at dinner Friday, for Millicent .had already 'phoned for her to mefit the Ferncliffes. Then Jordan put his case before CONNEL M. McDERMOTT ATTORN EY-AT-LAW Bans? Z ** to 11 a. m.; 1:30 to 5 p.Jm. Evenings, 7 to 8^-. Phone 258 z' Pries Buikfing S|cHenry, DL EENT & COMPANY All Kinds of I N S U R A N C E Placed with the moa^ reliable Companies^ ' v Ceae in and talk it tw "hone MeHenry 8 Telephone No. 300 f toff el & Reihansperger laaarance agents for all classes Of property in the beat companies. WEST McHENRY ILLINOIS Charlie's Repair Shop Formerly Pint's Blacksmith Shop--Pearl St. Radiators Repaired*: Bodies and Fenders Straightened Sign Painting Truck Lettering ><-^jKfcetylene Welding CHARLES RIETESEL "0 1 I » * r. ducky, ho art yout" "I've got tkt Ferndiftt!" Mrs. Oliver Jordan said. Downs Motor Express The Pioneer Line Operates daily between MeHenry and Chicago ; Phones: Wabash MeHenry 7518 • 256 ling," whispered Paula, pressing his arm affectionately Paula refused a lift, she preferred to walk, and as Jordan climbed into a taxi, the worried look settled down on his face again. He hated to tell Cannon, captain of the Castllllan, that, for the first time in forty years, the ship would not sail, it did not have a third of a cargo. The depression had hit his shipping business hard, new capital was necessary, and' Dan Packard, western mining man who had wormed his way into a position of financial importance in New York City, was about his last hope. Others to whom he had gone were as hard hit as he was himself. He found that his secretary, Miss Copeland, had finally located Packard, after 'phoning all over town, at the Athletic Club, and that he had agreed to call at the Jordan line offices. The question now was: Could he put his needs up to Packard in such a way that Packard would put money into a hazardous proposition ? He had just begun to glance at his mail when the door of his office burst iopen and Carlotta Vance, refusing to ,be detained by the anxious and pur suing Miss Copeland, entered dra matically, exclaiming: "Oliver, ducky, how are yout How bimply marvellous, to see you! I , never was so glad to see anyone in my life!" She kissed him on one cheek and then on the other, also dramatically, for she had been a darling of the New York stage until, the western financial wizard. If the, depression lasted, he would need money to tide him over; he didn't want to disturb any of the other stockholders -- it was a close corporation -- but he might have to turn over Bome of his own holdings as security. Packard was at once all business -- keen, sharp, aggressive. He wanted figures on the business-- balance sheet, assets, list of stockholders -- particularly the names of the stockholders. Oh, yes, it would be strictly confidential -- just to lay before his people. He'd do what he could. .. He blew out, all western breeziness and geniality, leaving Jordan with a feeling of uneasiness, Was Packard to be trusted! That list of fftoekholders, now -- why had Packard insisted so strongly upon tkatT lie would pledge only his own holdin;,'H. Jon .a pressed his hand over his heart, feeling again the pain that had o}.pressed him frequently of late, and It'fphoned to Millicent to invite] Dan I .:ckard and his wife to the1 for the Fcrncliffes. I Oliverl That noisy brute; and jH::it vulvar little blonde to meet! the Ki i iicliffesl Oh, dear... of coursei fjusinc-os and ffrflr help you.. ister, Hattie, just came in...1 I've ft to have an extra man. Do| try tu thitik of one, will yout . . .Oh, Hat tn fiays Larry Renault, that screei. stnr, you know, is in town. Peiiia;.* 1 can get him. He probably know* your old flame, Carlotta Vain " dis'Tv '0« if it 's "Mv > A. P. Freund Excavating Contractor Clucking, Hydraulic and Crane Service Road Building fW. 204-M MeHenry, HI. Elements ia Body ' At ordinary commercial prices, the cheinlcal constituents of an adult's body are considered to be worth a little less than a dollar. The United States bureau or chemistry and soils has given the chemical composition of the body, in percentages, as follows: Oxygen, 65; carbon, 18; hydrogen, 10; nitrogen, 3; calcium, 1.5; phosphorus, i; potassium, 0.33"; sulphur, 0.25; sodium, 0.15; chlorine, 0.15 J hingnesium, 0.05; Iron, 0.004 i loditte, 0.00004. There are also minute quantities of fluorine, Bilicon, manganese, zinc, copper, aluminum and even arsenic. : Making Glass Colorless •The trick of making glass colOrleM was not learned by glass worlcera until the Second century A. D. The Barber'* Pole The red-and-white striped barber'a pole dates back to the time when a barber not only cut hair and shaved his customers but also practiced minor surgery such as blood letting and wound dressing, says Pathfinder Mag- «zine It was not until 1745 that the barbel^,surgeons (as they were called) were prohibited from practicing surgery in England. It was abolished in France about the time of the revolution and In Germany around 1809. In the original symbol, a brass basin hung from the Btriped pole. It is generally agreed that the stripes represented bandages; the basin, the vessel for receiving the blood. Only the pole ia used In America. "*•» Plaindealers for sale at Wattles. S. H. Freund & Son CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS Phone 1274BL MeHenry Our experience u at Your Service in building Your Wantt BANKING RETURNS - TOWARD NORMAL Reconstruction Finance Corporation Loan Repayments Show Banks Lead Procession ut'.v Recovery Movement . ; Indicating* rapid return on the part of the banks to a normal self-sustaining basis, 64 per cent of the loans which they made from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to tide them over the difficulties of the past two yearg have been repaid by them, it i(L3hown in a recent official report. ' The R. F. C. report, issued on March 6, says that the Corporation since It began operations In February, 1932, had made aggregate cash advances to railroads, agricultural and home loan agencies, insurance companies and various other institutions in the amount of $4,786,410,000. Of this sum banks and trust companies, to the number of 6,783, received actual cash advances of *1,520,540,000, byt have already paid h%ck $820,260,000, or 54 per cent. These figures are exclusive of $376,390,000 In loans authorized but withdrawn or not availed of by the banks; J^on-banking borrowers received R. F. C. advances in the amount of $3,265,- 870,000, and made repayments of $377,- 830,000, or less than 12 per cent. Among other classes of financial Institutions reported as making high ratios of repayments are building and loan associations which had received $114,020,- 000 and have repaid $53,880,000, or over 47 per cent, and insurance companies, whose borrowings totalled $88,590,000 and repayments $34,340,000. or nearly 39 per cent. None of the major nongovernmental financial groups showed so high a ratio of repayments as the banks and trust companies as a group. BANK LOANS AND BUSINESS RECOVERY Official Describes Efforts of Reserve Banks to Bring Out Deserving Borrowers-- Present Situation. Typical Apropos of the part that an expansion of business loans by banks occu pies in the early stages of the business recovery which Is now gaining head way, a Federal Reserve Bank official recently gave an Interesting review of the experiences of his institution in this connection. In 1932 the Federal Reserve Banks were empowered by law to make direct loaifs to individuals in unusual circumstances when they had been unable to obtain loans from a commercial bank, he pointed out. From the middle of 1932 to the end of 1933 there were 1,286 applicants for loans at the New York Federal Reserve Bank under this law. The great majority of these applications proved on examination to be for funds for capital purposes, which are properly supplied as an investment in the business, or else were mortgage loans or others unclassiflable as commercial. Only Pourteen Qualify Only 250, or less than 20 per cent, wiere of the type which merited detailed Investigation. The amount Involved was $9,525,000. After further study of these, the Federal Reserve Bank was forced to turn down the applications of 236, finally offering credit in the sum of $i;417.000 to 14 prospective borrowers. Of this amount, only $806,000 was actually loaned, more than one-half of which was still outstanding many months later. Two of the borrowers went Into receivership. Since it was the special endeavor of the Federal Reserve Bank to make every possible loan undpr the emergency provisions of the amendment, and since their best efforts resulted in the extension of so small a sum as to have no effect on the total volume of commercial loans, it is a reasonable assumption that eligible borrowers entitled to bank credit are being provided for by the commercial banks," sayf the American Bankers Asso".:a< ion Journal in commenting on this episode. It Is characteristic, as shown by studies of past business cycles, for changes in the volume of commercial bank credit to follow behind either contraction or expansion of business activity, says a financial writer In the New York Times. This was manifest recently in England's recent recovery where there was a lag between Increased business and Increased commercial loans. County Key Bankers Describing the activities of the Agricultural Commission of the American Bankers Association, the Director, D. H. Otis, says: "With 2,500 agriculturally minded bankers, designated as county key bankers, there is enlisted a tremendous force for the Improvement of agriculture. These key bankers bring organized assistance to progressive bankers, who are led to see the possibility of agricultural work In their communities. Banker - farmer tours are emphasized as a means of acquainting bankers, farmers and other business men with first-hand knowledge of how agricultural improvement methods are working, out in practice. These give an opportunity for the key bankers to contact country banker* and work out new ideas." 8L Mary's School Report GRADE I w Honor Roll: * ! Dorothy Freund, 98 2-7. , Esther Freund, 93 1-7. • Carl Adam?, 92 6-7. Mary Ann Noonan, 914-7« Elaine Schaefer, 90 6-7, ' / Richard Schmitt, 90 3#^ Roman Bauer, 90 3-7. £ ' - Gladys Stilling, 90 2-7. ~ \ Perfect Attendance: Carl Adams. Lee Grose. Donald Kenneb^ek. Thomas Lawson. Daniel Meyers. John Meyers. Joseph Munson. Esther Freund. . ; Dorothy Freund. Jewel Grose. . Elame Schaefer. - , Gladys Stilling. GRADE n ' • Donor' Roll: •. James Freund, 94 3-8. ; * ' Marilyn Schaefer, 93. 'Harold Michels, 92 4-8. Betty Lou Weber, 92 4-& - Ray Smith, 92 3-8. ;v\ • • •' • Robert Justen, 92 1-8. * Robert Smith, 91 2-8. '*:• Norman Neiss, 911-8. ' ; •* Perfect Attendance: Edward Adams.'. Harold Freund. James Freund. Harold Michels. " - : Robert Sales. Ray Smith. Robert Smith. Stephen Huska. \ Marilyn Schaefer. GRADE in Madeline Freund, 96.2. Bertha Freund, 93.6. Thomas Sutton, 93.2. Virginia Williams, 92.8. Eleanor, Young:, 91.1. Clarence Freund, 90*%/ Perfect Attendance: , Charles Adams. Henry Buch. A Clarence Freund. Richard Rosin#. Norman Schaid. Gordon Schmitt. , Robert Smith. Thomas Sutton. Bern ice Blake. Winifred Carp. t * Mary Ann DietfricK. Frences Glosson..- Hilda Herdrich. Rose Mnrie Kunz. Nadine Srhaefer. Lorraine Schmitt. Mary Simon. Mary Lou StoffeJ. GRADE IV p Honor Roll: Beatrice Williams, 94.8. : E'aine Hieimer, 94.2. Marguerite Freund, 93.4. Ceorge Freund, 93.1. jletty Regner, 93.1.. •„ Ralph Freund, 91-8. ; ' Albert Adams, 91.2. •"Ralph Freund, 91.1, Betty Blake, 90.8. Donald Schaefer, 90.8.- Perfect Attendance: Albert Adams. Charles Blake. v_ George Freuatf. , " Ralph FreundL Rollin Justen. Vernon Kenneibeck. U Philip Meyers- : ' Donald Schaefer. ^• Elmer Smith., Lester Smith. ^ Esther Althoff. Virginia Mae Gmi. . Elaine Heimdfc » .. Grace Kunz. *' Betty Reiner. *' Beatrice Williams, 'ir J . GRADE V Honor Rod: Eleanor Rankin, 92,^. v , Dolores Rosing, 91.8f, -r *v Donald Weingart, 90.S. Elizabeth Althoff, 90-7. \ Edward Blake, 90.6. Marguret Schaefer, 90.5. * Perfect Attendance: Edward Blake. Robert Kunz. George Spoo. ' Loren Schaid- Laurence Stilling. . Harry Unti. , ; Donald Weingrart. Francis Wirtz. Elizabeth Althoff. Bernice Justen. GRADE VI Honor Roll: Anita Althoff, 95.8. Lorraine Schaefer, ' Beatrice Buss, 93.5. Ethel Althoff, 93.4. ; Earl Stoiith, 93.2. V Lucille Weinerart, 92$, Doris Kennebeck, 91.1; Perfect Attendance: . \ EdKvard Carp. _ Richard Freund. Josenh Gau«den. Earl Smith. Donald Tonyan. .. Geno Unti. Charles WHnewrt. Richard Williams. Anita Althoff. . . Eth-1 Althoff. Helen Buch, Jane MrArd'-ows. Doris Kennebeek. Isabelle Simon. VISIT OUR Lucille Weingart. GRADE VII " v -Honor Roll: Marie Charlotte Nix, 93 1-12.* Richard Justen, 91 2-12. Lois Meyers, 90 9-12. Geraldine Kennebeek, 90 5-lg. perfect Attendance: Clarence Adams.. , Leonard Blake. ^ Jerome Buch. ^ v ' - Richard Justen. r V Hiarold Stilling, i , Harold Wentl. ' \ Jane Durland. Angela Freund. Geraldine Kennebeek. J *' Lois Meyers. -- Marie Charlotte Nix. Catherine Rothermel. C~ Isabelle Stoffel. ; i' ; . GRADE VHtX Honor Roll: V; Theodora Kaelin, 94 3-12.- Anthony Noonan, 9111-12. LeRoy Smith, 91 2-12. ;; Audrey Rothermel, 911-12. • Eleanore Althoff, 90 10-12. Paul Justen, 90 3^12. Ralph Smith, 90 2-12.. Perfect Attendance: Louis Diedrich. . ^ i = i Irvin Freund. : i ' y.\; ^ ; Donald Justen. : Paul .Justen.* ' '-v.:' *• :;v •; Anthony Noonan.;. . - . Ralph Smith. N < Eleanore AJthoffT , Arlene Hay. Audrey Rotherrm«L Catherine Simon. Marie Vales. v.^1 •: ' • ^ • Bamboo Grass Some bamboo grass is a foot in diameter at the base, apd a hundred foi»t tall. Darid R. Joslyn, Jr., Attomir ADMINISTRATRIX' NOTICE ? Estate of William A. Dodge, deceased. . ! The undersigned, having been appointed Administratrix of the Estate ttf William A. Dodge, deceased, late of the Gounty of MeHenry and State" of Illinois, hereby gives notice that she will appear before the County Court of MeHenry County, at the Court House in Woodstock, on the 21st day of May, A. D. 1934, at which time all persons having claims against said E&tate are notified and requested to! attend for the purpose of having the same adjusted. All persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned. Dated this 3rd day of April, A. D. 1934. LORA A. BACON, Administratrix 45-3 Visit -Showing and learn what has happened in electric refrigeration! See why everyone's talking abool the Frigidaire '34. Imagine! It has outomstk defrosting... you don't have to (•member to turn the current on when defrosting is com* ftettdt It hu iot tray release... the trays slipoo^ at a finger touch. Its big« gleaming interior is of Lifetime Porcelain and its outside tni«h |s sparkling Dulux. It has extra room for tall bottles}"1; Plus Freight DELIVERED iod INSIALIJD •van a special coinpartnNNgt for frozen foods that must .be Igepc froz^O. ' On top of all that, this Frigid* jgire '34 actually uses less curlent than .one ordinary lamp ftulb! 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