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SLOCUM'S LAKE Mrs. Elmer Esping and pupils of Slocum Lake school attended the Farmers' Institute at Ela Township high school Friday. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgfen were ? business callers, at Crystal Lake on Thursday. Mrs. Jos. S. Haas of Wauconda •pent last Thursday at the home of her sister, Mrs. Clara Smith. Mrs. Earl Converse and daughter, ^ Frances, spent last Thursday in Chiefego. Mrs. Raymond Lu&k of Maple Park spent Monday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren. « Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Williams and James Howard, of Crystal Lake spent Sunday at the home of Mrs. Clara '"Smith. . r Mrs. Frank Dooley and son, Robert, ;of East Chicago were callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks list Friday. ; •: Mrs. Celia Dowell and four daugh- ' ters attended the funeral ^services of Mrs. Dowell's sister, Mrs. Harry Passfield at Volo Sunday. Mrs. Clara Smith, who has not be^en, ~ well, is spending this week at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Mt. and Mrs. J; D. Williams at Crystal Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Frank August of Hubbsrd Woods visited at the home of Willard Darrell last Thursday. Herman Christian of Oak Park speern t -Sunday at the home of Mr. and MIrrss . Earl Converse. Merle Dowell had the misfortune on last Thursday while running the silo filler on the farm of Henry Geary, to break one bone in hfts right arm just above the wrist. He was taken to the office of Dr. Nye at McHenry where . the bone was set. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Decker and son of Waukegan were recent quests at thfe home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Kirk and daughter, Darlene, and Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Peck of Aurora were Sunday guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. Dowell. * . Mrs. LaDoyt Matthews of Forest Park spent a fefr days this week at the home of her father here, while Mr. Matthews with a party of six friends are enjoying a fishing trip at Eagle River, "Wis. Willard Darrell returned home Saturday after spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Bailey at Amboy. His daughter returned home with him. While here Mrs. Bailey will play the pipe-organ at a wedding at the M. E. church at DesPlaines on Oct. 8. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren were Sunday guests at the home of G. Lag- "erlund at Elmwood (Park. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Esping spent Saturday, at the home of Mr- and Mrs. LaDoyt Matthews at Forest Park. Mr. and Mrs". Harry Matthews, Willard Darrell and guest, Mrs. LaDoyt Matthews of Forest Park, attended an annua} Good-Will banquet sponsored by the Board of Directors of the Lake-Cook Farm Supply Co. at the Congregational Church, DesPlaines, Wednesday evening. An attendance of about 125 enjoyed this banquet and meeting. Animal*, Insects Carry On at Their Own Trades Nearly all animals carry on a regular business and in their variety represent various trades among men, says an article in a newspaper more than seventy-four years old, and reprinted by the New York Sun. Ther6 are no better geometricians among men than bees. Their cells are so constructed that with the least quantity of material they have the largest sized spaces and the least possible interstices. The mole is meteorologist. The bird called the ninekiller is an arithmetician; also the crow, the wild turkey, and other birds. The torpedo, the day, and the electric eel are electricians. The nautilus is a navigator. He raises and lowers his sails, casts and weighs anchor and p e r f o r m s n a u t i c a l f e a t s . Whole tribes of birds are musicians.' The beaver is an architect, builder and wood-cutter. He cuts down trees and erects houses and dams. The marmot is a civil engineer; He not only builds houses, but Constructs aqueducts and drains to keep them dry.' , - . - The ant maintans a- regular standing army. Wasps -erg paper m a n u f a c t u r e r s . C a t e r p i l l a r s a r e silk-spinners. The squirrel is a ferryman. With- a chip or a piece of bark for a boat, and his tail for a sail, he crosses a stream. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and many others, pre hunters. The black bear and heron are fishermen. The ants are day laborers. The monkey is a dandy and rope-dancer. There are also sloths and burglars and "black-legs" among animals, but they are not quite so bad as those found among mefi, Boxer, German Breed of Dog, Suggestive of Dane The boxer is purely, a German breed of dog suggestive of a Great Dane and the English bulldog. Its origin, according to a writer in the Los Angeles Times, has many tales, but quoting from the official handbook on, the boxer published by the Boxer Club in Munich, Germany: "the Brabant bull-baiter is the direct sire of our boxer . . . the Englishmen, who are geniuses as dog breeders, fastened on the grotesque and super-typical features of the small bull-baiter, and so created the modern British bulldog. The more practical German did not want to sacrifice the usefulness of the bull-baiter to fantastic appearances . . . But soon bulldogs came from England and were crossed with our dogs. With them came the English word boxer. We then, bred the English bulldog blood right out of the strain. It is misleading to associate the British bulldog with the boxer. The two breeds have a common ancestor--that is all." Their high rate of intelligence makes them good subjects for police training and they receive much recognition for this type of work. You Pay Taxes levied on manufacturers are a part of their cost pf operation and are included in the price of their products. In the end you pay them. For example, one and two-third cents of the price of a loaf-of bread is Federal taxes. It helps to pay the high cost of New Deal government. Britain Traces 1776 Failure The British attribute their failure in our Revolution to the fact that, according^ to them, it was j largely a naval war and the Eng- j lish fleet lacked its usual daslj and enterprise; " Their armies failed on land for want of proper support from the sea and Yorktown's surrender was due to the actual, if | temporary, loss of the, command Pf the sea, with Paul Jones harrying th# English at their nwn doors. Character in Ey^S Clear, well-opened eyes looking straight at you show an open, frank nature; half-opened eyes denote a rather secretive nature; eyes looking sidew„ays, a sly nature; eyes which first look at you, and then wander restlessly around, a -nature which begins well, but does not stay long, according to a writer in Pearson's Weekly. Eyes dancing about and never still indicate an unstable nature, not to be relied upon; restless, narrow eyes, a calculating and cruel nature; screwed-up eyes which make a ridge or frown mark over the nose are discontented eyes, never satisfied no matter whnt good things come their way; eyes which look down all the time and only glance at you now and again, are eyes of the not'quite honest person. . New Deal Took Women's Jobs First American Meat Packer The first American meat packers were Colonial farmers who, within the 'lifetime of the Pilgrim Fathers, began packing away in salt not only pork and beef, but also venison and even bear meat. After 1641, while England was busy with her Cromwellian troubles, these farrpers were able to take ove!r the British trade in meats with the West Indies. The first American to give his whole time to meat packing is believed to have been William Pynchon, the founder of Springfield, Mass., who started driving cattle to Boston in 1655 and was packing large numbers of hogs by 1662. .Third-Eye Reptile A creature allied to the lizard is the tuatara of New Zealand; this1 has been.called "the living fossil," for it iS the sole living representative of the ancient reptiles which roamed over this world millions of years ago. It retains traces of the third eye which was a feature of some of the terrible monsters of the past. The tuatara is supposed to be the parent of all lizards. CHICAGO. HI.--"New Deal appointments that placed four women ' in position of importance in the administration were a camouflage to' cover up the discharge of hundreds jof others when Section 213 of the Hational Economy Act was put into operation," was the charge ;made by/ •Judge Grace A. Miles of Independence, Kansas, in a speech before a meeting of the Illinois League o£ Republican Women. Judg^ Miles, director of the Landon Business Women's Clubs of the Republican National Committee, ..j»aid that "while the Economy Act ause affecting women Civil Seremployes was publicized as an lomy measure it actually cleared (he way for political appointees .v../'/-:;" TMrd ;Amendment Not Used No case jn American history has arisen under that clause of the third amendment to the Constitution which reads, "No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered ir. any house without the consent," etc. But when drawn it was important as a remembrance: of British occupanc- of private hpmes. Born in Pennsylvania Alf M. Landon, Republican candidate for president, was born at West Middlesex, Pa., in a Methodist parsonage--the home of his mother's parents--on September 9, 1887. Turtle's Flesh Now Any One's In former times, in the Fijian Islands, the flesh of the turtle belonged to the chiefs only; now, to the chiefs' chagrin, anybody who catches a turtle may eat it ' - •• '.< • / ' . v HOW= "FRENCH LEAVE" GOT ITS PLACE; IN OUR LANGUAGE -- French leave is a /Secret departure^ especially --Without paying one's To take French leave, in the common sense, according to a writer in the Indianapolis News, is to go away or do something without notice or permission. The phrase, it is believed, originated with an Eighteenth century social custom in France. According to accepted practice, a person withdrawing from a reception or other social gathering takeS formal leave of the host and hostess. This ceremony was dispensed with according to a fad introduced in France. A person who wished to le^ve early would merely withdraw quietly without disturbing the remainder of the company! The practice -had seme vogue in England^ where it was frowrted upon by conservative society people. They called it "taking French leave." The earliest use of the phrase recorded by the New English Dictionary is one from Smollett written in 1771. To* desert m French is "S'eri aller (or filer) a l'anglaise"; that is, to leave English farhion. This has led some etymologists to suppose that "French leave" originally meant desertion from the army and originated during wars between France and England, when it was customary for each people to accuse the other of cowardice. But evidence is lacking to support the theory. How Our Continent Came to Be Called "America" Our continent was named, *of course, for /vmerigo Vespucci, the Florentine navigator and merchant, who first visited the new world five years after its discovery by Columbus. Vespucci was a ship chandler in Spain and, having helped to fit out a number of expeditions, decided in 1497 to make a voyage westward himself. Between then and his death in 1512 he went on four or five expeditions to America t - More important for his owr fame, he wrote a book which was the first to show that South America was a continent and not an archipelago. It was translated into several languages, and did much to acquaint scholars with the character of the trans-Atlantic discoveries. For this reason, one of his translators, the German, Martin , Waldseemueller, proposed in 1507 that the new continent be named for Vespucci. The suggestion had a gradual adoption, and the name America, which Waldseemueller had offered, came finally to be extended to the northern continent as well as the southern.-- Cleveland Plain Dealer. How to Clean Feathers The best way to rid feathers of lice and mites, says a writer in the Montreal Herald, is to put them in an oven and subject them to the greatest heat possible without letting them burn. They will catch fire easily, so it will be advisable to place them in a receptacle raised a couple of inches from the bottom of the oven and it may be necessary to open the door of the oven if the heat cannot be carefully regulated. Heat will dry out or cook th- eggs us well as lice so that they cannot reproduce. Feathers can be dyed; that is, the wing and tail feathers. Downy feathers would be spoiled by dyeing the same as by washing. : How Exchange Alley Got Name "Old New Orleans," by Stanley Arthur, says: "The fiat marblefaced building pn the right - hand side of Royal street was the famous Merchants' exchangt during the golden boom days of New Orleans Erected in 1835-36 at a cost of $100,- 000 from designs by Charles Bing ley Dakin, the building, as it does now, fronted on both Royal street and the Ruelle or alley in the rear ; This narrow thoroughfare was ere ated in 1831 and as the exchange was planned to have two entrances* the alley was named Passage de la Bourse or Exchange Passage." o How Rayon I* Made Rayon,,or artificial silk, is a lus; trous, continuous thread formed by dissolving cellulose, either as cotton linters or wood pulp, in a suitable solvent; passing this fiuio through a spinning machine, solidifying the product in a mixing bath, combining and twisting the result ing filaments into a thread, and finally transferring it into the type o! package in which it is to be sold or used. All a Mistake By MARGUERITE HANSON .© McClurc Newspaper Syndicate. WNXJ Service. RINGWOOD /L 5 NONA MEEKINS gripped the steering wheel and stepped on the gas she looked like a very beautiful but otherwise perfect replica of Mrs. Jiggs. "He ought to be ashamed of himself," she muttered to the wind. "Playing pool--of all the horrible habits for a man--and he swore he never did anything of the sort when he asked me to marry him. Little he knew I'd come along and "find his car standing outside. Wonder what he'll do when he discovers it's gone. .I'll keep it in our garage a month before I tell him. Don't care how much he spends advertising.'-,. A quick twist of the wheel and she left the street end turned into her own driveway. With practiced hand she ran the car into the gar; age, stopped it and jumped out, slamming the door behind her. As she attended to the hundred and one duties of a prospective bride she laid her. plans for the campaign. When he called she would be natural, otherwise he would grow suspicious. "Let's sit over here," he said as soon as he greeted her that night. "Got something for you. What'll you give me for it?" "A kiss," she answered lightly. "A kiss!" He feigned amazement and horror. "Make it three . . ." "We-ell, maybe. . . . But it must be worthwhile." Bob Freeman produced a small jewel box and opened it. Within lay a lovely string of pearls. "Bob!" The light in Nona's eyes were all he needed. She raised a flushed and raduint face to him. "You're dear," she added in a low voice. • Later he Said. "You haven't heard the bad news, though." It was coming. How would she treat his confession? What should she say and do? What did women do, anyway, when their lovers announce that they were black sheep? How Navel Orange I< Produced The navel seedless orangt^orig iijated at Bahia, Brazil, in the*earlv part of the 19th century, and was introduced into California by Wljliam Saunders of the Department of Agriculture, in 1870, through Mrs L, C. Tibbett of Riverside, Calif The seedless orange is propagated almost entirely by budding. > . . H o w F i b e r R a g s A r e R e s t o r e d • Life and color can trequentl> be restored to some kind of faded oi soiled fiber rugs with tour houi household enamei. The enairie: should be thinned witn a lutle Jin seed oil and worked therougi/y mtc the fiber with a oiusn. plying a second coat, allow, the ru^. to dry thoroug/ily. ! Reduced Automobile licenses \ Alf Landon, as governor of Kansas, reduced the automobile license fee by 50 per cent, and increased the total amount collected by seeing to it that every owner of a paid the reduced price. Egypt's Gold Egypt of long ago derived great quantities of gold from the Sudan, and it is estimated that in the days of Rameses II no less than $400,000,000 worth of gold vu tok* m from there anrn mer oi car oi gou lualijr. too," Bob was saying. "If I'd only taken out the keys. But while I was in the jewelry store buying your pearls someone stole my car. I left it right in front of that poolroom on the side street, just around the corner from Minton's jewelry store. I suppose someone noticed that I hadn't locked it and simply drove it away. I'd let my theft insurance run out, too. Nona's breath suddenly seemed to stop. Her hands grew cold and the room* went topsy-turvy for a minute. "Don't take it so hard," said Bob, alarmed at the paleness of his fiancee. "The old car wasn't worth half that." He put a soothing arm around her. To confess all would be to show that she did not trust him, and that would kill his faith in her. To say nothing and let him go on-worrying. . . . Yet how could she explain? Nona tossed all that night and it was a most subdued fiancee who greeted Bob the next evening. "What? Not still worrying about the old car?" he asked incredulously. Nona turned Srshade paler. "You --you haven't found it yet?" The worry in Bob's eyes was tinged with irritation. "I do wish you'd stop worrying about it. I'll walk for the next three months and then buy a really good car. Do me good to walk, anyway." It was at that moment that the 'phone rang. Nona answered and found it was for Bob. A gruff voice greeted his ears. ' This is Sergeant O'Malley speakin'. Your car's standin' down here in front of Kelly's pool parlor. Never thought to look there for it. One of the copf says it's been standin' there all d y--that a swell-lookin' young lad drove it in. These wimmin, you can't never tell a thing about 'cm!" ' • The sergeant hung up. . "They've found the car," Bob explained, pleased. "Some womgn ;Stole it! Imagine a woman with that much nerve--I mean to return the car to thp very place from which it was taken. But probably it's some crook's wife who's trying to keep him straight. Yes, sir!" Bob was sure "he had the solution. "Some women will do anything for their man." "Oh, yes," Nona said- happily. "You just have to trust them, that's all." The Canadian Galjhifll The Canadian or imperial gallon 4Sr about One-fifth more than the United States gallon. While our gallon measures 231 cubic inches, the Canadian gallon is 277.42 cubic inches. Since a United States gallon of gasoline at 60 deg. F. weighs 6.151 pounds, a Canadian gallon wjll be 1.23 pounds (19 1-2 ounces) heavier. , . v . "Bricks Without Straw" The old saying "to make bricks Without straw" means to do something without having the necessary material at hand. The allusion is to the Israelites in Egypt who were commanded by their taskmasters to do so--Exodus 5: 7. The ancients used straw in the making of bricks, but the modern process iis entirely different. One Fourth Is TaxtM One-fourth of the working man's wages and the farmer's income is taken from him by the Roosevelt administration for Federal taxes. Most of it is in the form of hidden taxes which they do not see. That's "Flattery" "Flattery," said Hi Ho, tile sage of Chinatown, "is welcome to one Who, unable to deserve the praises of Admiration, is willing to fub* Btitute the compliments of Fear.*' Mrs. Nick Young entertained the Bunco Club at her home Thursday afternon. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Lester Carr and Miss Mae Wiedrich. » Mr. and Mrs. George Young were Elgin visitors Wednesday. ? The Young Adults group was entertained in the Charles Krohn home on Tuesday evening. . A Treasure Hunt was enjoyed. Harold Kelley and daughter of Garden Prairie spent Tuesday in the Mrs. Cora Kelley home. Miss Alice Peet attended the Young Adult conference afeDeKalb this week. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Young spent Saturd^r at McHenry. Mr. and Mrs. Roland McCannon and family of Algonquin and Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Marble of Greenwood spent Sunday in the Joseph McCannon hotlje. Mr. and Mis. C. J. Jepson and daughter, Virginia, spent Sunday afternoon at Mundelein. . , Among those from here to attend the Whiting-Powers Wedding- at McHenry Saturday were Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Whiting and family, Mr. and Mrs. Lowell, Mi^'and Mrs. Thomas Doherty and son, John, and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schroeder. George Shepard attended a Legion meeting at Richmond Thursday, everting. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Doherty and son, John, were callers at Hebron on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles'Schneider of Woodstock spent Sunday in the S. H. Beatty home. Mr. and Mrs. Robert McLean of Woodstock spent Sunday with Mrs. Frankie Stephenson. > Mrs. Frankie Stephenson was a visitor at Woodstock Friday. The Home Circle will meet at the. home of Mrs. Clayton Harrison Wednesday, Oct. 14. Mrs. Thomas Doherty was a Woodstock caller Friday. Mrs. Charles Peet' and daughtei-, Marion, were callers at Woodstock on Friday evening. J. V. Buckland was a visitor at Janesville Monday. Mr. and Mrs. George Dixon of Eagle Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Brockman arid son, Bobby, of Racine, and Mr. and Mrs. Chet Osborne were visitors" in the J. V. Buckland home Sunday. Mr. and' Mrs. Joe Schaefer and daughter, Shirley, Florence Adams and Mr. and Mrs. Nick Young attended the Democratic picnic at the Hunter Golf Club Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Harrison entertained their children and their families Sunday evening in honor of Mr. Harrison's 85th birthday. Those to attend were Mr.-and Mrs. Henry Hinze of Crystal Lake; Edward Hai> rison of Elgin; Lora Harrison of Evanston; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peet and daughters, Alice and Marion; Mr, and Mrs. W. B. Harrison and son, Earl, and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Harrison and sons, Neil and Howard Bruce. Mrs. Lester Carr and sons and Mae Wiedrich spent Friday afternoon at Genoa City. Mrs. Harold Wiedrich and childreif spent Saturday morning at McHenry.. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Carr and fam ily spent Saturday evening at McHenry, o Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Smith and son of Harvard were Sunday dinner Tguests in the George Young home. In the afternoon they all drove to "Milwaukee. J Mrs. Agnes Jencks and daughter, Mary, of Evanston spent the weekend at the Stevens home. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Harrison and j family were Sunday dinner guests of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. Wattles at McHenry. In the afternoon they all drove to Dundee. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Justeh, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stilling and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Doherty attended the Pure Milk Picnic at Aurora Tuesday. Ben Justen received the gold medal for the neatest farm, Henry Stilling received the Bronze medal as third prize and; Thomas Doherty received the Junior .award. • ^ Mrs. C. L. Harrison and daughters, Amy and ;Carol, and Mrs. Henry Mallow were Chicago visitors Thursday^ Mr. and Mrs. Ji F. McLaughlin aifid daughter, Julia, spent Sundsy after- Dr. C. Keller > OPTOMETRIST ; 'J; Sundays and Mondays at ay -8nnner Hone, Riverside Drive, McHenry. 111. - All Kinds of Repairs, TVeL 211 -R nor. in the Thomas McLaughlin home at McHenry. Mrs. Jennie Bacon is spending " a few days with relatives at Richmond. Mrs. S. W? Smith and daughter, Bernice, Mrs. Lon Smith and daughter, Esther, and William Wurtzinger spent Saturday afternoon in the Lyle Hopper home in Chicago. • Sunday guests in the S. W. Smith home were Marie Gorman and friend, Billie Robin, and Harry Connel o£ Chicago, Lucy Howden of Richmond and Mr. and Mrs. C. Anderson and daughter of Antioch. , APPOINTED ADMINISTRATRIX Letters of administration have been issued to Mrs. Minnie Hapke in the estate of George H. Hiapke. who died Sept. 20. The estate consists of farm nuifhinery, horses and crops in the amount- of $2,000. ; Other heirs are fthe children, Stella, Celia, Adelia and R o b e r t H a p k e . ' "* " VTax 'di. Pork Chops . . you buy a pourid of poffc Chops, included in the price is SWV en cents for New "Deal taxes. ; Farm Marketing Without a Telephone Is Like Driving a Nail J#ihd(otded - j. may hit It on tho head--if you don't, you suffer tho consequence. You may sell your form products ot a good price without a telephone to guide you, but why take that risk. Get a telephone and use it. Then you know you are getting the best available prices. The extra profit more than pays for the telephone in the long run. Order one today. IS A GOOD I TIME! TO -- AUTOMATIC REFRIGERATOR See yeah Heiakforkwd dea£efof HE HAS MANY EXCEPTIONAL VALUES TO OFFER • This is the season for values in electric refrigerators your neighborhood dealer and see the many attractively priced models h£ has on display. 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