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$ * I 3 ^ ^ .'I V V'r- i * «;* , ij&S* Volume 69 r^Vr?KW^v«T|f> jfv r.r;>ij -» '*-Sv;4^.,(5v""" .a.- ^ *•• 7."*- / *C ' " & ' ' * - * ' . s . « ^ r~ - • . > ' • . . . ' V ' t f , « ' -V *v ? >. ^ ^ ^ %, - v> ,s ' \ i , t =.A V •• ; • ' , '* V-" « J. . '* S .±f'j!k^u^ a^i a. 'v.-;*. ;*. . ' • •»#. •* -I 11- -f;i .••'•. CDHSTIUS WAS TIME OF HAPPY FAMILY REUNIONS McHENRY POLKS VISIT RELATIVES, FRIENDS McHENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26,1940 Ho. 32 OOMINO EVENTS Christmas is traditionally a time when families and loved ones gather y, around to exchange gifts and enjoy Sp?;v ^feasting and gaiety in a spirit of t/:~ * ;charity and good will. McHenry folks * arc certainly no exception to this tra- &••* ' Edition, for we find many traveling to :-i I /or from the city, far and wide, to be 'xfl:/ ' with parents and friends. r-4\* - In the E. E. Bassett home we find Mr. and Mrs. Henry Vogel of Delavan, ••• Wis., came to spend th« dsy. f" V » Dr. and Mrs. R. G. Chamberiin f "drove to Marengo, Iowa, to spend the { v ' "day with their daughter, Mrs. Greta McCabe. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schoewer were Christmas day guests at the home of her father, N. C. Klein, at WaukeganJ. 1 Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Fitzek and family of Berwyn, Mr. and Mrs. Charles % Harnish and daughter', Dorothy, of .y, Algonquin, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Blum of Oak Park and the Misses Mary . and Frances Fleming of McHenry • were dinner guests in the home of Mr? and Mrs. R. M. Fleming. The Robert Knox family and Thomlias Phalin family were guests in the John Phalin home Christmas night. ^ Jim Perkins enjoyed Christmas day with his daughter, Mrs. Adeline Mat- !son, at Waukegan. Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Nye of Liberty ville and Miss Virgina Haines of "Waukegan were guests of Mr. and '% - Mrs. A. E. Nye Christmas eve. I « Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bennett of Mcip - Henry, Mr. and Mrs. Bud Kosinski of | lElgin and Clyde Carr of Ringwood !were dinner guests of Mrs. Agnes ^Marshall. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burleigh of llngleside spent Christmas we in the .Albert Purvey home. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Krause enjoyed a Christmas dinner at the Jos. W. Jtothermel home. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kane were guests in the Gus Roepke home at Spring Grove. Detroit Visitor Mrs. Violet Woodward of Detroit, ieh., was a guest in the home of her nts, Mr. And Mrs. J. J. Vycital, esterday. Mr. and Mrs. Alfons Adams entertained a group of relatives on Christinas day including Mrs. John Walsh frnd son, Bob, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Murray of Wauconda; Mrs. Genevieve ^wenson and daughter, Mary Lorraine, of LaGrange ami Mr .and Mrs. Jtaymond Walsh, daughter, Shirley, December 17 Evening Pinochle Club--Mrt. Smith. East River Road Pinochle--Mrs. John Craver. December SI Wateh Night Party--Epworth League January 2 Thursday Afternoon Bridge--Mrs. A. E. Nye. Jaaaary 7. Fox River Valley Camp -- Practice Night. December 19 Mothers' Club--Entertained at Tea by Teachers. . Woman's Society--Christmas Party. C. D. of A.--Christmas Party--K. of C. Hall. Thursday Afternoon Bridge--Regular Meeting. December 20 Christmas Party--St. Mary - St. Patrick School--Sponsored by P.-T. A. AROUND THE COURT HOUSE STEAL TWO CARS Two cars were stolen over the weekend. Robert Schultz of Qrystal Lake reported the stealing of a car from his place while Roy Schneider of Crystal Lake reported his car stolen at Cary. The Schneider car was recovered a short time after it had been taken. EVELYN SANDERS HURT IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH; TWO OTHERS INJURED GRANTED DIVORCES Jaunita Ingels of Woodstock was granted a divorce from Floyd Ingels by Judge William L. Pierce Friday afternoon. They were married January 18, 1936. ^ Desertion was charged in the complaint. Charles Beu was granted a divorce from Anna Beu by Judge William L. Pierce Friday. They are from Woodstock. Desertion was charged in the complaint. land son, Billy, of Fox Lake. Mrs. Rose Miller was happy to jhpend Christmas with her daughter, jlfrs. George Stoffel at Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Warner of Eljfin and Mark Gildea of Washington, p. C-, spent the afternoon in the home -frf Mrs. Moilie Givens. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thompson and ;%lise Maud Granger were guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Alexander at Hebron. V Mr. and Mrs. James Mahoney and * children and Mr. and Mrs. Howard -phalin of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Haribid Phalin and daughter, Monica,, of &ake Villa, and Mr. and Mrs. George Phalm and daughter, Terry, of Mc- Uenry were Christmas day guests in , the John Phalin home. Mr. and Mrs. George Johnson and family spent the day with his father . at Crystal Lake. Mrs. Eleanor Dunne and son, Edof Lake Geneva, Miss Lynette iting of Elgin and Mr. and Mrs. 1 Whiting were Christmas guests f Mrs. Dell Whiting. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Owen and itforton Owen of Glencoe and Rev. and ffrs. J. Heber Miller were dinner truest* in the Harold Owen home I* ' Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Marshall, ton, Kenneth, of Crystal Lake. Mr. find Mrs. Bud Kosinski of Elgin, I .. Clyde Carr of Ringwood and Mr. and I * IMrs. Ralph Bennett and children spent S ^Christmas eve in the home of Mrs. Agnes Marshall.' y Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Longacre, Mr. I and Mrs. Eugene Nye and Mr. and . >Irs. Charles Stoffel, Sr., of Milwaur "Icee. Wis., spent Christmas day in the j|, falter Carey home. ^ t Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Orvis and Mr. Jmd Mrs. William Sbotliff and son, Ed- Ward, were Christmas day guests in |he Leonard Franzen home. William Marshall enjoyed Christmas with Chicsgo friends. Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Purvey of Crysj . ial Lake and Mr. and Mrs. Jcs. I. fliller and family of McHenry were ' Quests of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Purvey I* jfn Christmas day. Mr. and Mrs. Dan O'Shea enter- • gained several McHenry relatives inkV alurfing Genevieve and Martin Knox, f ^,3prs- R®y Conway and daughter, Mr. •i|nd Mrs. James Doherty and Father '•Walter Conway, of Notre Dame, Ind. RELEASED ON BAIL Br G. Allen of Harvard, who has been held in the county jail for several days on a charge of selling property subject to mortgage without the consent of the mortgagee, was released on $1,000 bond Friday. He is charged with selling twelve cows. The complaint was made by the Thorp Finance corporation through W, F. Powers, Miss Evelyn Sanders, 20 years old, of Woodstock, suffered an injured knee and back in a head-on collision which took place on route 47 in Hebron Wednesday night. Miss Sanders and Miss Virginia Stehuren. a Lake Geneva stenographer, were on their way to attend a prenuptial shower being extended the former at the Frank Westman home west of Woodstock. Leigh Lemmerhirt of Hebron, riding alone in the other car, was taken to the Woodstock hospital with body lacerations and a broken leg. State Patrolman Osmir Olson who investigated the accident, believes that one or both vehicles may have been straddling the center line of the highway. Both cars were considerably damaged and the occupants were pinned in the debris. Miss Schuren emerged from the wreckage with severe lacerations of the legs and face and a slight concussion. 1 Miss Sanders, an employee at the Alemite Die Casting plant in Woodstock, formerly of Spring Grove, was graduated from the McHenry Community high school a few years ago. She was taken to the Woodstock, hospital. . MATH SMITH, 63, FATALLY INJURED IN AUTO CRASH TWO INFANTS TAKEN BY , DEATH DENIED NEW TRIA§r Judge Henry L. Cowlin Monday overruled a motion for a new trial in the people's case against Earl Dixon found guilty a week ago by a jury on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident. Dixon was sentenced to serve four months in the county jail. He has been confined there since November 26. Attorney H. Krenz of Cary made a motion for a new trial after the verdict was returned. Mondan he argued before the court that the verdict was against the manifest weight of the evidence. That the state's attorney made improper and prejudicial remarks in his final argument to the jury. That the jury was unduly influenced to the prejudice of the defendant, when a member of the sheriff's family served the jary refreshments during the trial. NAB WOULD-BE THIEF Alois Mulholland, Harvard farm hand, was taken to the county jail last Friday on a charge of attempting to steal a car. Mulholland was arreted Wednesday night of last week near, Big Foot by Fred Willkie, Harvard police officer! and Lester Peacock, deputy sheriff. In a warrant issued by Magistrate Ray EL Lush of Harvard, Mulholland is charged with trying to steal a car owned by Eugene Fritz of Harvard. It is said that Mulholland entered the Fritz garage and asked to look at a used car. He was terested in purchasing a car and was given a demonstration by Wm. Kieser employed at the garage. Mulholland, it is charged, tried to strike Kieser with a crank from the car. He broke several windows, but Kieser managed to get the key out of the car and Mulholland made his escape. Later he was arrested the same evening. He is twenty years old and his home is in Wisonsin. It is said he wanted the car to go home for Christmas. The case has been continued. COUNTY FA&MERS 1-0 RECEIVE $500,000 IN FEDERAL PAYMENTS The 1940 federal farm program has already distributed $354,098.61 in agricultural conservation, corn and wheat parity payments to McHenry county farmers participating in this program. Checks totaling approximately $200,000 are due to be distributed before the program closes. Activities of the county committee are now being reorganized for the opening of the 1941 program. Com and grain acreage allotments for next year are expected to be received from state, headquarters during the coming week. Educational meetings then will be held to promote enrollment in the program, and sign-up of co-operators is sheduled to start in February. The committee again will use aerial photographs of the county in working out details of the program and in assigning individual acreage allotments, Bridges said. This method, used last year for the first time, has been found "W provide t!te most accurate measurements of crop lands. An important feature of the 1941 program will be the spreading of limestone as a soil conservation practice. At present the committed has received orders for 360 tons of limestone from farmers intending to co-operate next year. BUSS VIVIAN WHITING IS LOVELY BRIDE OF ' MR. ROLAND JACKSON Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss Vivian Whiting, lovely daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Whiting of Ringwood, and Mr. Roland Jackson, son of the Glen Jacksons of Richmond. The marriage took place Saturday, December 21, 1940, at the Wilmer Montange home in Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. Montange were the attendants. The bride wore a green afternoon dress with black accessories, while -her attendant's dress was biege, the latter also wearing black accessories. After the ceremony the immediate fsmilies enjoyed a supper at the home of the bride. After the middle of February, the newlyweds will make their home in Richmond. The bride was graduated from the McHenry Community high school with the class of 1984, while the groom graduated with the class of 1936 from the Richmond school. The latter is employed at the Alemite Die Casting plant in Woodstock. • %'\-t ' ' -Read the Want Ad|k . - , Math & Smith, 63, Idled at the Woodstock hospital last Friday, December 20, 1940, at 7:15 a.m., of injuries received in an automobile accident early Thursday morning, December 19. He crashed into a tree on route 47 near Hebron and lay at the scene, unconscious, for several hours. He was discovered by Robert Brensiecke of Hebron, the only witness at the inquest which was conducted at the Jacob Justen and Son funeral home in McHenry Friday afternoon at 1:30 p. m., by Coroner Harry L. Ehorn. Smith was born June 23, 1877, in Johnsburg, son of the late Frank and Elizabeth Smith. With the exception of eleven years spent in Zenda Wis., he resided in this vicinity during his entire lifetime. Prior to his death, he had made his home with a daughter, Mrs. Joe Huff. He was a gard- .ener by trade, Four children survive: Mrs. Joe Huff of Richmond, Mrs. Melvin Kutish of Chicago, Clarence of Zenda and Elmer of Spring Grove. He is also survived by three sisters: Mrs. Catherine Freund and Mrs. Margaret Steinsdoerfer of McHenry, and Mrs Lena Mullenbach of Johnsburg, Minn.; five brothers, Peter aqd Fred of Johnsburg, Ed, Louis and Arthur of McHenry. Seven grandchildren are also left to mourn. The deceased is preceded in death hv his beloved wife, Mary, and a daughter who died in infancy. Also two brothers, Martin and William Smith, as well as a sister, Mrs. Susan Baer. precede him. The funeral was held Monday at 10:00 a.m., at St. Joseph's church, Richmond, with burial in the Johns burg cemetery. Card of Thaaks We desire in this manner, to express our sincere thanks and deep appreciation to neighbors and friends for floral offerings, spiritual bouquets, use of cars, acts of kindness and expressions of sympathy extended to US ta our recent bereavement. * Mr. and Mrs. 3m Huff, ~ Mr. and Mrs, Melvin Kijtjjpi!, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer 8iali|» * Clarence Smith. \ Atlon DtWi Atlon Dsvis of Chicago, a summer resident of McHenry who owned a cottage on the F»«t River Road about a half mile south of route 20, was buried in All Saints cemetery Tuesday morning, December 24, 1940, after .services had been held at St. Ferdinand's church, 3116 N. Marmora avenue at 9:16 a. m. He is survived by his wife, Clara B. Davis, nee Hartman, and a brother, Herman R. Davis of Indianapolis, Ind. Warren Bauer Warren Bauer, eight month old son of Mr. fend Mrs. Eddie Bauer of Ringwood passed away Monday noon, December 23, 1940, of bronchial pneumonia. He was taken ill Saturday and died just two days later. The little boy, whose tiny soul has gone tq be with God for all eternity, is survived by three brothers, a sister, and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs Joseph Kattner of Spring Grove, feesides his loving parents. * Kenneth Lee Graseer Bronchial pneumonia claimed a second tiny victim last Thursday morning, December 19, at 8:30 in the person of Kenneth Lee Grssser, not quite a month old, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Grasser, Jr., who reside north of Richmond. Besides his parents, the baby is survived by four sisters and two brothers. j afternoon in St. Mary's churh, McHenry. with burial in St. Mary's cemetery. George Reid David Reid of McHenry was called to Chicago Christmas eve, December 24, 1940, by the sudden illness and death of his father, George Reid, of 6625 Normal boulevard. He contracted pneumonia as a result of a severe cold. He was 78 years old. Besides David he leaves two other sons, William at California, and James of Chicago, as well as • brother, Sinclair H. Reid. The body is at rest at a chapel at Sixty-Third and Harvard, where services will be held tomorrow, Friday, at 1 p.m. Interment will be in Fairmount. BURGLARS BLOW SAFE AT CARY LUMBER YARD; REPORT TWO ROBBERIES Burglars blew open the safe in the office of the D. W. Rattray Lumber company at Cary Sunday night and robbed the place of $63. The safe in the office of the Chris Franke Lumber company, also at Cary, was opened in some manner the same night, and although it was ransacked nothing was taken. However, a srtiall amount of change was taken from a cash drawer. Deputy Sheriff Harold E. Reese investigated the burglaries in both places Monday morning. Elmer Krepel, 18 years old, of Crystal Lake was taken to the county jail in Woodstock Monday mornling by George Ehlert, Crystal Lake police officer. It is said that Krepel made a statement to Officer Ehlert which clears up a number of burglaries in and around Crystal Lake during the past three or four years. Krepel implicated John Van Hulzen, 24, as taking part in the holdup of the Clifford Ecternack filling station at Huntley on December 13 at which time $6.75 was taken. The station is operated by Walter Zimmerman. Van Hulsen will be remembered as the youth who was arrested a short time ago by Sheriff Lester Edinger on a charge of not registering for the draft. He was turned over to federal authorities. It is said after registering in Chicago he was released. Van Hulzen was 'working for the Crystal Lake lodge near Crystal Lake at the time of his arrest a few weeks back. Although most of the burglaries confessed to by Krepel are of petty nature they did cause much unrest in Crystal Lake and puzsled police and the sheriff's office. Included in the various items taken was a bike from the Etling boys; a car from Rev. Johns in 1937; breaking into the Shell gksoline station; taking chickens, a watch, three cultivators and some shovels from Charles gSchroeder; breaking into the Rasmussen Tea Room in 1939; breaking into Scqtt's lunch box and the Bauer filling station both in 1939. Also admitted was the taking of $27.60 from Concordia college which money was returned. TAX RATE IN CITY INCREASES 17 CENTS County Clerk Raymond p. Woods announced more tax rates for various cities and villages in the county Tuesday. Probably one of the lowest rates for any community is Riley where the combined rate is $1.87 as compared to $2.17 last year. An increase of seventeen cents is revealed in the McHenry rate. The figures for tine two years follow: County ......... Town Road, bridge City Fire District High School . Neo-high INTERESTING NEAR8Y NEWS BOMB ROOKERY AT RICHMONI LAST THURSDAY HUNDREDS OF CROWS CHRISTMAS PARTY Last'Friday afternoon the Parent- Teacher Association of St. Mary - St. Patrick school entertained the entire student body, a goodly number of their mothers, and some of their smaller sisters and brothers at a Christmas party in the school hall. Mrs. Richard Fleming acted as master of ceremonies during the absence of the president of the association, Mrs. Ray McGee. A musical program, given, entirely by the children, was under the direction of Sister Mary Andreella. This urogram included the singing of Christmas carols, an operetta, several selections by the orchestra, duets on twin pianos, two tap dance numbers and others. Ssnta Claus then put in an appearance and distributed gifts to almost two hundred children. The children exchanged gifts among themselves in their respective rooms before the party. School was then dismissed for 4\ineral services were held Friday | the Christmas vacation. I ' y/-: Brace Klofitz, a student at Chicago .Tech. is home to spend the Christmas ^vacation with his parents, Dr. and Jjfrs. C. W. Klonts. Mr. and Mrs. Lisle Bassett and daagfrter, Eileen, spent Tuesday afferftoon in Woodstock where they attended the Christmas party at the Jfiller theatre which was given for Ihe employees rf ft* Alemite Ufa pasting plant. . - ROBTHREE HOMES The ipeanest burglar, or burglars, visited Woodstock Monday night. They entered two homes in the northeast part of the city and made away with many Christmas presents. Not only are they considered the meanest type but also the boldest. One of the hc?.ss entered the home of Otto Krull, night police officer, at 928 Clay street. The other, just a short distance away, was the E. P. VanHoozen home at 920 N. Madison street. At both .places numerous Christmas presents were taken. Night police investigated. While this was going on Sheriff Lester Ednger and Deputy Sheriff Harold E. Reese were answering a call from George Ehlert at Crystal Lake where the Williard Thurwell home had been broken into and fourteen dollars taken. This happen* ed during the early evening hours and Sheriff Edinger believes it was done by the same burglars. It is also believed that the burglaries were done by the same pair which only a short time ago burglarized several homes in tiie city, one of them being the Vaa- Hoosen boma. Plaindealer EXTENDS GREETINGS AND %ESX WISHES FOR A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS 1941 D PATftQNS Einar Sorenson, long active in Lake county Democratic affairs and a former committeeman from Precinct 1 of Antioch township, moved this past week to Buffalo lake, near Hayward in northern Wisconsin, where he operates an 80-acre resort property. Fishing, hunting, and general resort facilities are provided at his new: place. Sudden contact between a cow and an automobile Saturday morning, December 14, resulted in the car emerging second best. A motorist from Delavan, Wis., driving north, approached the Lippold farm, near Crystal Lake. A white cow was on the pavement, evidently paying little or no heed to traffic warnings. The motorist saw her too late. The cow fairly flew through the air for twenty feet after the impact. The driver of the car was uninjured but the front of his car was battered in. Bossy leaped a nearby fence, ran. a safe distance away and then turned and looked back at the damaged car, evidently none the worse for the experience. Two registered Holsteins owned by James Cornue of Hebron recently completed herd test records of more than 635 pounds butterfat, which is more than three and one-half times the country's dairy cow average as reported by the U. S. department of sgriculture. The higher,cow is Maywood Fobes Irene, s five year old, that produced in 336 days 676.3 pounds butterfat from 2tt,376 pounds milk. Laddie af Eockingweli, a young Labrador retriever owned by Foreman M. Lebold of Chicago and trained at the Hogan Kennels in Barrington, has been named the best young or Derby retriever of the Ilnitpd States. Laddie, only twenty-two months old, will be afrarded the Country Life trophy for 1940 which goes annually to the young rertiever of any breed which accumulates the most points by wins in trials. Ed Frankford, doing some paper hanging st the Sills property on Elmhurst street, Crystal Lake, recently purchased by D| D. Boodel, noted a page from the Crystal Lake Herald dated October 6, 1916 or twenty-four years ago. The pages of the newspaper had been pasted to the wall. Over this there were six layers of wallpaper. The copy of the old newspaper was well preserved. James Murrin, 17-year-old senior at LTHS, Libertyville, was named as a principal recently in Congressman Ralph E. Church's announcement of his two appointments to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. The nominee is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Murrin, 163 Austin avenue, Libertyville. His scholastic ranking at the high school where he is carrying six full time subjects, has been outstanding, Principal H. E. Underbrink reports. C. Phil Beath of 423 South Edge wood avenue, LaGrange, who has long been identified with Boy Scout work in that community, was one of three men to receive the Silver Beaver award, scouting's highest honor for its layman leaders, at the recent annual dinner meeting of the West Suburban Scout council in Downers Grove. Maintaining a hobby of such unique interest that he has recently been invited to be a guest on the national radio hour of "Hobby Lobby" is the leisure time pursuit of Anthony Cos ner of Dundee. This hobby consists of collecting sleigh bells, and so far as Mr. Cosner knows, he is the only person in the country with such hobby. County Coroner H. L. Ehorn of Richmond conducted sn inquest Saturday afternoon following the sudden death Saturday, December 14, of Mrs Christine Katrina Sorenson, at her home one and one-half miles west of Hebron. Mrs. Sorenson had been ill with a cold for four days, felt improved so got up on Saturday morning and colapsed a few minutes lster. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of death caused by acute myocarditis. On the folowing Wednesday, December 18, Martin Sorenson died at his home just west of the village. He was the widower of the above Mrs. Sorenson. It is presumed his unfortunate death came as a result of shock from the loss of his wife. Mr. Sorenson had been in poor health for some time. SeclhSr, well known writer ofil outdoor life stories for the Chicago ! , \ Tribune, had an interesting narrative i in Friday's Tribune about the bomb- % " ^ ing of a rookery in McHenry county. ^ v The story follows: "•^6*nts of the Illinois department^ of conservation bombed a McHenry county rookery Thursday night in an.lk*^ attempt .to abate the crow nuisance in I ' -JJ • that neighborhood. A cursory check- ~ *' >"T 4 up in the darkness prompted fatality ^ "-'J estimates varying from 600 to 1.200 f ' N i birds. v * ji- "The bombing was done in a forty \f acre tract of oak timber on the prop- f - erty of the late T. C. Schroeder, which jj'- M is located about ftve miles southeast J of Hebron and a little more than three miles southwest of Richmond. This wooded area was occupied by a crow population estimated at from 5,000 to 10 000. Throughout the year complaints had been coming in that they f! made this their headquarters for raids upon neighboring corn Sields and upon the nests of song birds and game birds. It's New Raid Area "This was the first time a rookery* had been bombed in McHenry county, ; though the department of conservation has been employing this method in other parts of the state for the last six years. A total of 326,000 crows was exterminated in this way last year, most of the action having taken place in the big downstate rookeries. "The blast rocked the trees with hurricane force. Lead pellets and steel ^ scrap splattered in all directions. > ' Some of the crows were blown one | ^ hundred years from their perches. '% Their bodies came raining down .... * through the swaying brandies. Mean- •„ \ while, thousands of survivors, shock- I ed into sudden flight, rose on wildly J . - * beating wings and soared off into the > \ darkness. Their shrill caws grew i V/' faint in the distance. Then as the 11 \ last brown leaves and dried acorns l! drifted to the earth, the agents came ^ S out from shelter to cheek the casual- > ties. • - - • "Frank S. Davis, the conservation department's inspector in charge of '! predator control, directed the placing ^ "i of the bombs and the touching off of f the explosions. He was assisted by I ?- Godfrey Biesenthal df Springfield and R. P. Nugent of Rockford. Hang 170 Bombs "Working from 9 o'clock i* tht morning until 2:30 in the afternoon, the agents hung 170 bombs in thirty-five trees in one section of the wooded tract. Each bomb was loaded with one pound of -forty per cent dynamite, two and one-half pounds of No. 6 shot, and scraps of steel known as steelblast They were wined up to an electric switch controlled by Davis. "After tiie bombs had been hung, the agents took to cover and waited for the crowds to start coming in for the evening. About three o'clock the birds began arriving. The extent of | the timbered area complicated the =1 . , task of making the ambush effective. | The agents circled around to more re- |. mote parts of the tract and attempted V to drive the crows toward the bombs. ' | At 7:45 p. m., Davis threw the switch, || setting off the dynamite." % S#1 % Miss Mabel Bolger, who is a freshman at Northern Illinois State Teachers college, DeKalb, returned to the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Bolger, last Friday to spend the holiday vscatien psrled. PROBATE KELTER ESTATE The will of John B. Kelter, dated October 23, 1922, was admitted to probate in county court on December 23, 1940. Three heirs are named in the will, Etta Cooney of Lakewood, Ohio, Ella Kelter Burke and Edward F. Kelter, both of McHenry. The state has estimated that he leaves about $300 000 in personal pipperty and $200,000 in real estate. Each of th* three heirs is to receive an eaual share. Vernon J. Knox is the attorney for the executrix. ^ Among the Sick Mrs. Peter Doherty fell as she was returning home from church last Wednesday morning and broke her left arm. She is recovering at her home on Green street. Miss Bernice Smith at Ringwood has been confined to her bed the past week due to illness. ?*• Births >MM»i Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Mannkm at Chicago announce the birth of a son at the Evanston hospital on Saturday, December 21. The Mannions also have a seven year old daughter. Sirs. Mannion (Evelyn) has taught dancing in Crystal Lake and Woodstock for several years. 5^ . < ih'ii MARRIAGE LICENSE A marriage license has been issued to Andrew Hawley. Crystal Lake, and Bernice Smith of Ringwood. Miss Vivian Bolger of Elgin spent Christmas day with her parents. Mr. I Mrs. AN. A. da .,Mxi&L,