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;Wm Sf§ nBft«t»t m :?- *;• Twiw Tot k-'iS"' of Inter--t Taken .*» mat of (he Plalndwkv «f Ttui Aft SIXTY YEARS AGO Kews has just been received of the IlKth in Germany of the mother of Joseph and Frank Weidemann, of this •illage. Doran & Co.'s butter and cheese factory, to be built in this village is now a fixed fact. Matthews cheese factory near Barre vi Ik, was burned on Tuesday evening. The fire was plainly seen from this village, but none were able to locate it. Captain Hill informs us that another steamboat will be put upon Fox River as early as possible this spring. iJFTY YEARS AGO John B. Blake will move to Chicago ijext week, where we understand he will be interested in a meat market. At this writing, Tuesday afternoon, we are: enjoying mild, spring-like weather in this section. P. S.--A change has come over the spirit of our dream. Wednesday morning cold as blixen. John Heimer has been painting' and decorating the interior of his placa of business, which much improves its appearance. John Neiss, one of the best painters in this section, is doing the work. We understand that Harry Dunnill of Fox Lake, has refused an offer of $600 for the trotting gelding, "Harry D," #0RTY YEARS AGO M.D. Smalley now occupies the Sarah McOmber residence having moved in the first of the week. Grot & Damgard have leased the brewery from Mrs. G. Boley for a term of five years. The Chicago Telephone company have placed an electric motor in the McHenry exchange and hereafter the office will be lighted by electricity. A load of Volo young people spent last Wednesday evening at the home «f A. J. Raymond. The evening was •pent in playing progressive carrom. THIRTY YEARS AGO Miss Amelia Turner and family have removed to Solon. They occupied the S. H. Freund house on Pearl Street. We are unofficially informed that the 1910 census of McHenry shows a population of 1,081 souls, an increase of eighteen over the returns of ten years ago, when the figures were 1,013. Martin J. Stoffel will this week resign his position with the Kerber packing company of Elgin and with his family will move to this village next week, where he will work for his father, Wm. Stoffel ,the progressive implement dealer. At nine o'clock on Wednesday morning at Our Lady of Sorrows church, Chicago, was solemnized the marriage of Miss Marion Logne of Chicago and Michael A. Sutton of this place. TWENTY YEARS AGO » j9t E. Behlke completed the job of Installing a large electric sign bearing the firm's name in front of the «tore of Smith Bros., in Centerville the first of the week and the "juice" was ta$ied on lor the first time last evening. . John Unti, brother of C. Unti, the local ice cream manufacturer, will be accompanied by a bride when he returns to this village from a trip to his old home in Italy. Rev. Father Duer, who during the past several years has lived in retirement at Spring Grove, passed away at his late home in that village last evening at the age of eighty-three years. The highway commissioners together with other influential citizens of Bla township are working hard to have the Rand road extended to Lake Zurich this year. Ice Cream Pie Is Excellent Lessoai in Refrigeration^ New York.--Some of you may have had this air conditioned, or so-called ice cream, pie that is going around. You bake the lower crust of a pie, let it cool, fill with ice cream, put meringue on top and toast the meringue in the oven until brown. Your guests are properly bewildered and appreciative to find the ice cream inside still hard when they eat it. Their amazement comes from • lack of understanding of heat insulation^ air conditioning requirements and similar profound topics which you, as the pie fabricator, can check off on your fingers. Meringue Acts Like Cork. The meringue, you point out, of course, consists of just about nothing except bubbles of air with walls ffof egg white, and the same properties which give cork its grand insulation qualities in preventing the passage'of heat enable the meringue to keep the ice cream from melting during its brief visit to the hot Oven. [ No one has perhaps figured out the size of a bubble of air in meringue. But the cdrk cells are about one one-thousandth of an inch in diameter and some 200,000,000 of them would be needed to make up a cubic inch. Ench cell of cork contains air and heat has great difficulty in passing through even a small thickness of them. Net All Cork From Spain. Thus while your guests are ea^ ing their air conditioned ice cream pie and the topic of conversation has naturally turned to cork you may add that despite the war in Spain the supply of cork is decreased only a little. Some of them may not know that the bark of a certain species of live oak tree, that we call cork, is produced in much greater quantities in Portugal than it is in Spain. And that as much or more than is produced in Spain comes from Italy, France and North Africa. Last year's Spanish harvest of cork (technically it is known as the "strip") was naturally decreased by the civil war, but world markets have not yet been affected. AIMUTT WfGIIflPIJUrrTO BE K&KOTSD BT BUICK Hormone Induced a Rat to Mother Yotmg Squab ^WPA TO START WORK ON FLOOD GATES IK FOX RIVER AT WILMOT New York.--The spectacle of a healthy, grown-up female rat cherishing and mothering a tender young squab, just because a few drops of a hormone from the pituitary gland had been injected into the rat's body, was described by Prof. Charles R. Stockard of Cornell university medical college at a meeting of the New York Academy of Medicine. Professor Stockard used this phenomenon, discovered by Dr. Oscar Riddle of the Carnegie institution of Washington's laboratories at Cold Spring Harbor, to illustrate the powerful influence that hormones or gland secretions may exert on the body of man and other animals. The rat he talked about was a perfectly normal rat that ordinarily would have made a prompt meal of the tender meat of the squab. The only difference in this particular rat was the few drops of hormone. Hormones have other effects on the body. Together with the nervous system and brain, they are responsible for all the different parts and mechanisms of the body working together as a whole. Hormones and nerves, moreover, depend on each other. Nerves stimulate glands to secrete hormones and hormones stimulate nerves to control muscles, even in such simple movements as those involved in walking and talking. Which of the two is more important may be surmised from the fact that hormone control is an older and more primitive method of integration than the nervous mechanism. Plants, for example, do not have anything like nerves, but they do produce hormones for controlling and integrating life processes. One of these, a growth-producing hormone, has actually been isolated from the growing tips: 0 young plants. ^ Flint, Mich. -- Steel contracts for the construction of its $31,000,000 aircraft engine plant in which this manufacturer will launch national defense production, have been awarded by the Buick division of General Motors corporation. Harlow H. Curtice, a vice-president of the corporation and head of the passenger car concern, announced that structural steel awards, totalling in excess ofy $1,000 000 for fabrication and construction, were made to the Mississippi Valley Structural Steel company, a Melrose Park, Chicago, steel firm. Bids were opened at the Buick offices and the go ahead given for immediate fabrication of the steel. Besides producing the structural material the steel company was given the job of erecting it in conjunction with the general contract for the huge building which will shortly be out for bids. Curtice said that time was an important factor and that the fabrication of the structural steel will go ahead with all speed looking to earliest possible completion of the building. The Buick organization already has placed substantial orders for machin- < ery and equipment for the new plant and plans to co-ordinate delivery so j that installation may take place while construction still is in progress. The executive said it is expected the general contract under which the steel and other sub-contractors will function will be let before the end of the month. The building plans call for a huge engine manufacturing plant having total floor space in excess of 1,TOO,000 square feet, personnel and administration buildings, a power house and twenty-four test cells. Meanwhile, Buick process engineers and production men are shaping plant layout and operating plans looking to the full adaptation of skilled automobile production technique and manufacturing methods to the new aircraft engine project. The new plant will be' erected at Mannheim road and North avenue, in the village of Melrose Park, Chicago suburb. When completed and in operation it will be capable of producing 500 Pratt and Whitney 1200-horsepower radial engines a month and will employ in the neighborhood of 10,000 people. CONGRESSIONAL VXKWS by Congressman Chauncey W. Reed Hws# Verbal Warriors Proponents of the 'so-called Lend- Lease bill have at last come out into the open and admitted that the enactment of this bill will probably mean the involvement of our nation in the war. Beating their chests and bellowing challenges to the whole universe several venerable patriarchs informed the world during the past week that they are not afraid of conflict and that they are ready to fight--(in Washington). Some of the favorite phrases heard during the past week were: ' There are worse things than | war." (The gentleman who spoke this phrase apparently has never seen war); "We'll fight. If war comes I'm ready," (the gentleman who spoke these words didn't in '98' or '17.' We wonder why he wasn't then.) If medals were issued for verbal bravery plenty of brass would be necessary to decorate some of our nation's patriarchs who prefer to do their fighting with words instead of guns. Another indication that our country is on the brink of conflict was a statement made by Secretary of Commerce, Jesse Jones, who, in testifying before the House Banking Committee uttered the following remarks, "We're in the war; war; at least we're nearly in the --, we're preparing for it; when ! you do that you've got to throw money away." The Secretary was testifying in behalf of a bill permitting the Federal Housing Administration to insure defense housing mortgages. After he had made the forgoing statement, Secretary Jones turned to the committee's official stenographer and asked that his statement be removed from the record. Informed of the Secretary's remarks President Roosevelt in commenting to newspaper men in effect said, "Words, just words. Speaking against the bill in the Senate, Senator Johnson of California declared that the bill "makes the Chief Executive a dictator or worse." Senator Clark, an overseas veteran of 1917 denounced the legislation as a war bill and predicted that if our nation goes into the war it will emerge with a totalitarian form of government itself. Senator Vandenberg charged that the White House has become the general headquarters for the second World War, and that this bill would make the President "the power politician No. 1 of the World." Attention, Young Men 17 to 22 Tears rf Age! The United States Coast Guard will hold an «p«n competitive for appotebnents to cadetshipii in the United .Slates Coast GuaSj| Afltitiwiy. This examination is open to all physically fit boys throughout the United States between the ages of 17 and 2St years who have the moral qualifiedtions and educational preparation. Successful completion of four yeant of cadetship leads to a Bachelor at Science degree, a .commission and a career in the United States Coas| Guard. While the course is mainly professional, sufficient time is given to purely cultural subjects In addition to the time given to engineering and such subjects as Seamanship and Navigation, etc., the cadet specializes in Maritime Law and studies related to Maritime Economics and Marin#' transportation. The course is designed to fit him for a commission in th* United States Coast Guard whose function is to enforce all Federal laws on navigable and territorial waters of the United States and to promote safety. and ' security to vessels that use our waters for legitimate commerce and pleasure; to have its personnel, units and stations prepared for active war time duty and to organize yachts and small craft and train their crews for duty in case of national emergency. All inquiries for information should be directed to the Commandant, Unitsd State* Coast Guard. Washington, I>. C. • , « 4 _ ^ , . • N O T I C E ! , Examinations for teachers' certificates will be held in the office of the county superintendent of schools in the Court House in Woodstock, on Thursday and Friday, March 6 and 7,1941, bearinning at 8:30 a. m. ETHEL C. COE, 41 ' County Supt. of Schools. it* pacific ocfjtm 19 WONCMtS icwf# M/ n/g _ fWMMJ VM4V/V . Off THe ABOm /2° DIFFERENT A ARC SNCIUPED IHL MDusmsm PeFFNSf PHEWUM- &RPIMNS gH&NES. MJ*»V OF PPBrt^/OMt •l?w 'cms #umseeaonrtm rooDf ACTUALLY 96* escAPc# DO/EIOPED A NEW process ay */HK:H woop CA*I BE M&HTSP AND &WED "to DESAED C®RM. WW INDUSTRIAL PLASTIC* By S P E E D Y ' JL w HEY, MISTER DONTT YOU -THAT OLD TDV/VMO HbUPSELP AT LEAST6000 US6DOAS ROSSMAN MOTOR SALES HASH. -PAOEASO " SwUte ftu SASH AMBASSADOR 6 at the** ^ AUTHORIZED SERVICE &</ RDS5MRN MOTOR SALES RIVERSIDE DRIVER PEARL STREET - PHONt 13 Crop Failures Reason for Deserted Pueblos METHODIST CHURCH NOTES ^Friday, February 28, is to be observed in all churches throughout the land as the World Day of Prayer. The Community Methodist church will unite in a period of meditation and a Communion service. In the face of World filled with turmoil, let us lift <0nr hearts in a spirit of worship. This comes as we enter the Lenten season, that we might remember our Lord's prayer in the Garden of Gethesmene. I*et us pray with him. we all unite in this short ser- Friday, February 28, at 7:30 p. at the church. ermon topic foi the Sunday worship service March 2, will "They Appeared As Sheep Having Shepherd," taken from Matthew On this Day of Compassion we all to worship. ause of the Men's dinner which ijrill be served immediately following %e worship service, Sunday School begin promptly at 9:30 and the Worship service at 10:30. Please obthese changes in time. The Junior League will meet at 6:30 at the church and the Epworth at 8:00. McHenryite, Dr. John C. •ecently purchase the property, corner Pomeroy Virginia street, Crystal Lake, will house remodeled at an estief *1,000. St. P*ul, Minn.--Deserted Indian villages, pueblos in silent ruin, might have warned many an American farmer not to try his luck in the treacherous dust bowl areas in our western plains. This is the vital lesson from America's past, which science is beginning to uncover, and which may help avert future farm tragedies. Reporting to the journal Science an investigation of many Pueblo Indian ruins in southwestern Great Plains, Max C. Markley, biochemist of this city, declares that crop failures, not marauding enemies, apparently drove Indians from thess valley farms. His discoveries in New Mexico uphold the recently advanced theory of Dr. W. H. Wedel of the Smthson ian inst:tution, that drought «ras routed Indian farmers in re;; ons of Kansas and Nebraska. Plans have been made for the con* •traction of flood gates at the Wilmot, Wis., dam according to a statement issued Saturday by Frank Zoubek, WPA Director for the Kenosha county board. The Works Projects Administration will be responsible for the building of these gates and for th« improvement of the park area in thf vicinity of the dam at Wilmot village. Zoubek indicated that materials will be furaished by the county and that funds for labor on the project arc provided in a $9,675 allocation by tha Federal government; The construction fo the flood gate* on the east end of the Wilmot dam in the Fo* river, north of McHenry, is a long sought improvement from the standpoint of property owners in the area. Tke gates were ordered for' the dam by the Wisconsin Public Service commission a year ag» follow rig a hearing on complaints of exee*s»va high water damage by the Fo*. river at flood stage near the daaa Testimony submitted! at the bearing a year ago showed that since the suspension of activities of a Wilmot power development company, a mill race fell into disuse and watr eventually hibeked. Hbs development brought an aggravation of fltaod conditions north of the dam and involved property and crop Tosses when the Fox river rose to near flood stage* The Commission onfer requested Kerfosha county to take steps to alleviate the flood situation and the new WPA project, according to Zoubek is the c< anty move for the fulfilment of the order- Under plans- for the projeet, the gates will" be constructed as a by-pass at the east end of the century oJd dam. The gates- will be twenty-four feet wide and twelve feet high. The gate construction according to Zoubek, will be entirely adequate for the purpose. Heavy logs, installed so that they can be raised or lowered as flood conditions require, will be featured in the gates. The project has now been given federal approval and will be started as soon as funds are released by the state offices. The project will provide 17,000 man hours of work. rn 1 V*. * FIRE AT WILFRED BLAKB HOME EARLY TUESDAY Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Blake were awakened at their farm, home near McHenry early Tuesday morning by board which fell on the attic floor directly above their bedroom, to discover that the house was filled with smoke and the roof in flames. Unaided by the fire department, ihey carried buckets of water up three flights of stairs from a hand pump and in short time the blaze was extinguished. However, the fire ate a good-sized hole out of the roof. A defective chimney is thought to have been the cause of the blaze. STOCK HOUSE SOLO . Mrs. Jamse E. Larkin and famBy moved Saturday from their farm south of McHenry into the Stock resi dence on Pearl street which they recently purchased. The house was occupied until that time by Mr. and Mrs, Frank Stock, whose home is at Manistee, Mich. 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