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- vv-| .1 a„»*j , <*v •V,' AMERRY CHRISTMAS ;»,?&• i?*fe •: * • *¥0*. 'W^ ';• ; ".':} • ;**/ -4' v •-«** I?. * *• • -v *;-•«•, .-•••/.•• - *> » . C r ..'t '^W1 -.- V ' 'I*r ' ""'* ••* vt, - -y * »• t» :.&/V> S£ ' "'v\ *« «y - ^th * ^ * V"^} JL v. HONE so-* N. H. PETESCH DRUGGIST This is the time of happy greeting*, Of wishes fond and true, Of handclasps of friendliness, , And good wishes to you. " tt*9 the time when rich and poor alike Share in the happiness of others, When everyone, both great and small, Think of each other as brothers. It's the time when business comes not first, The time of cheerful giving, When all the world looks bright and fifty And all of us are glad we're living. It's the time we think of all our friends And wonder how they &re; Our thoughts go out in silent greeting To those both near and far. lift glad that I have lived this year. And 111 not think in vain, , If I have made a friend of you Then I've nothing else to grain. NoW 111 wish you "Merry Christmas" And if youll believe me sincere, not regret that I'm living, ^ And well start with a "Happy New Year." Sincerely, " ii i ii i i LOUIS A. ERICKSON GENERAL MERCHANDISE Greetings ° . IN this season of reminiscence and resolution, we look back with sincere gratitude upon the favors you have shown us in the past and resolve to merit to the utmost of our ability the confidence you have placed in us. May this friendship deepen and association draw us closer in the days to come. N. J. Justen & Son WEST McHENRY, ILL. fti fih Overton & Cowen say that the New Three Point Cantilever Spring Susv pension makes Model 4 Overland glide qver the road. The only way you can appreciate this car is to take a ride in one. Call us up and we will be glad t% demonstrate to you. t) VERTON& CO WEN AGENTS WEST McHENRY, ILL. WEST McHENRY ridgshsld J. H. Slater is still an the tick list. W. Levey was a Chicago passenger Saturday. F. W. Hartman was at Woodstock last Thursday. Mrs. L. I. Benqftt was a Woodstock shopper Monday. F. J. Wilkins was a Crystal Lake shopper Saturday. R. Wallis was a business caller in Woodstock Saturday. J. B. Lynch was a Chicago passenger Saturday evening. S. Bliss and sister, Laura, drove to Crystal Lake Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Johnson spent the week end in Chicago. Misses Luretta and Grace Wegner were at Crystal Lake Monday. A. G. Parker was entertained ^n the home of 'R. Reed over Sunday. R. M. Lynch attended the union lodge meeting at Harvard Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Yank® drove over from Greenwood Thursday. Mrs. C. Wallis of Woodstock spent Sunday night with Mrs. R. Wallis. Arthur Tate and James Bennett were Crystal Lake callers Saturday. Mrs. 1. Martini and Miss Christina Ericksbt\ were up from Crystal Lake Sunday. Mrs. A. Anners and little Helen Mc- Mahon of Woodstock were callers here Saturday. Mrs. H. N. Cooper and children of Elgin spent Monday afternoon at Father Wille's. Mr. and Mrs. F. Reed and son, Windell, of Woodstock spent Sunday at the home of H. Reed. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Baker and daughters of Crystal Lake attended church services here Sunday. Enoch Johnson has moved from the small J. p. Button farm and Lars Nelson is the new tenant. Mrs. Jessie Wille of Woodstock spent last week here with her daughter, Mrs. Walter Reed. Messrs. F. W. Hartman, R. M. Lynch, Wm. Abbott and A. Nelson were Woodstock passengers Monday. There will be no church services Sunday as Mr. Parker will spend the holiday vacation with his parents in Kansas. F. Wille and son, Henry, returned Wednesday from a six weeks' visit in the home of the former's daughter, Mrs. Breymeier, at Paxico, Kan. Mesdames A. Allbee and daughter, Marjorie; C. Johnson, S. Reed, L. I. Bennett, W. Reed and son and J. Wille were Christmas shoppers at Woodstock Monday After several months of intense suffering Mrs. Ralph Wallii passed away early Monday morning at her home here. Funeral services at the church Wednesday morning and interment in the Ridgefield cemetery. Following is an item copied from the last issue of the Railroad Telegraph: "We were all very sorry to hear of the death of Bro. Elmer Jacobitz, aged 36 years, on Friday morning. Nov. 7, at the Milwaukee sanitarium. Funeral services were held at the home of his mother, Mrs. Mary Jacobitz, in Kewauskum, Wis., Nov. 10, and at the Evangelical Peace church at 1:10 p. m., interment being made in the cemetery of that congregation. His aunt, Mrs. Annie Hook, from Wyoming, Minn., and a number of friends from Lomira, Waukesha, Milwaukee, West Bend and Oshkosh attended the funeral, and with the members of our order expressed their heartfelt sympathy for his mother in her bereavement, as he had been a devoted son and her support. The oommittee appointed to collect a contribution turned over to his mother on Nov. 4, $136.40, for which, and the beautiful floral offerings for his funeral, she wishes to thank all the O R. T. brothers." Several years ago Elmer was employed here as night operator and pumper and was quite jk popular young man with the young people. stock at one load for John McBroom Warren Francisco, is slowly recovering from his recent illqpss and is able to be up a part of the time and occasionally walk out. Hairy Hobart delivered thirteen turkeys to Mr. Evans at Woodstock, the lot weiging 234 pounds, at 3S cts. per pound, live weight. Ed. Wallis and wife received the news of the death of the wife of their son, Ralph, at Ridgefield and also of Mrs. Wallis* brother at Woodstoc k, both occurring Monday, Jan. 22. Elbert Thomas is gaining strength slowly he thinks but surely. Yesterday, Monday, he walked up to the mail box and back. There was some complaint of his lower limbs, but rent cured all complaint. QUARTER OF A CENTURY Itena Clipped Ftms The Plaladeatar of Twenty-tve Years Ago TERRA COTTA Staple and fancy groceries at Brickson's. Miss Agnes Frisby was a visitor in Elgin Saturday. -:-i--1- Miss Frances Knox WM an Elgin visitor Saturday. Mrs. John Liddle wis a visitor in Elgin Wednesday. Philip Hoffman of Spring Grove visited relatives here Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Royal Gracy of Crystal Lake spent Wednesday evening at J. H. Gracy's. Miss Frances Knox of Woodstock is spending a two weeks' vacation at her home here. Wm. F. Burke of- Coloma, Mich, spent Thursday and Friday with M Knox and family. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. F. Burke were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. M Knox and family. Mrs. Leonard Beal was a business caller at Crystal Lake Wednesday evening of last week. Geo. W. Phalin of Tuscaloosa, Ala., spent the fore part of the week at the home of his brother, J. M. Phalin. Thomas Phalin left Sunday for Toledo, O., and will drive a car home from there for R. I. Overton of Mc- Henry. George Phalin came home from Notre Dame University Friday even ing and will spend a three weeks' vacation with his parents and other rel atives here. OSTEND The school children are busy selling Red Cross stamps. A merry Christmas to all the Main dealer force and all the readers of the good old paper. Fred Eppel is helping haul John McBroom's wood to the county seat to keep people in some kind of fuel | Roy Hobart drew fifty-one hundred ^ and thirty pounds of wood to Wood- December 19, 1894 A concert by the German society will take place at the McHenry House hall the 26th. Died--At the Women's hospital in Chicago on Dec. 8, 1894, Dr. Stella R. Medbury, aged 38 years, 7 months and 12 days. Christinas exercises are to be held in the M. E. church Monday evening. There wiU be * tree and appropriate exercises. ; Rouen l^ros., at their market near the iron bridge, killed one of the finest sheep one day last week ever butch ered in this section. It weighed 122 pounds. Wm. C. Howard, who is buying fur in this vicinity, made his first ship ment a few days ago, as follows: 105 skunk skins, 107 mink, 952 muskrats, 16 coon, 3 house cats and one grey wolf. At the Universalist church on Christmas eve preparations are being made for an instructive and pleasant time. Santa Claus will be there in person and distribute hosts of tine presents. The Knickerbocker Ice company has its men at work here getting things in readiness to cut ice on the pond. They will put up four new sections on the south end of their large building to take the place of those which blew down a year ago. A grand entertainment will be given by the ladies of the German Catholic congregation for the benefit of the new German church, as follows: Overture Mendelssohn Bar&an Bros. Orchestra Address Rev. Father Kirsch Christmas Song..... .School Children Address Welcome Caroline Rothermel The Boasters Two Boys Math. Thelen and John Neiss Die Schoenste Blume (the most beautiful flower) .11 Girls Annie Miller, Katie Heimer, Kate 4Weber, Francis Buss, Mary Weber, Lucy Myern, Lillie McGee, Emma Thelen, Maggie Schreiner, Carrie Niesen. Die Vogel Orzel ... .Farce for 8 Boys Orton Zens, Fred Bishop, ('has. Buss, Geo. Schmidt, Wm. Weber, Wm. Gilles, Wm. Meyers, Gottlieb Boley. I Wish I Knew My Letters. .Dialogue Matthew Rothermel, Willie Hiemer, George Schreiner, Willie Weber, Jos. Schoewer and Louis Miller. Mamma's Help Recitation Lillian Winkels Dialogue 4 Children Now Bumble Bee...Mary Engeln My First Type Martin Stoffel Rosebud or Thorn . L. Lawrence Representation of all nations of the world School Children Christmas Recitation Kate Karges < The Jolly Picnic of McHenry--Comedy 7 Little Girls Rosie Justen, Lillie Heimer, Anna Bick|er, Barbara Schreiner, Susana Weber, Emma Weber, Mary Miller. Tableau The Crib Anna Heimer, Kate Freund, Lillie Heimer and the children's choir. -i"' it I'" -V 1 'I/I!/ * '4. 1 -I, A Bright and Cheerful Xmas fCome to Every | .. *••• WE INVITE YOU TO BECOME A MEMBER W OUR CHRISTMAS CLUB "irninllaMnmnrM,..; ,.l'Vll-,l..rl inrii- ' 'k TiL,... <,*• ,, -V -j, ^ >. t.. ,,,,. :• - •. = "" . t. • When Christmas comes, you will get in p lump sum all you have saved, which will be just like finding so nraeh ntoMy. It will bfe advisable to save year if you have never saved before, because prices, 'no doubt, will continue to be high and it will take more racney than ever to buy presents and meet other expenses. '•Ottr Christmas Club solves your Christ- ' mas* problems. .Be one of the merry throng who win be sure to have money to make themselves and others happy; <. Make it a sore thing. Enroll at om»« " Every one in your family and your ' friends will also be welcome as members. r- ••••_. ' • . It will bo a lot of fun to belong to this - ' I hig friendly club. * It is a big, helpful plan, which will ratable you and others to accumulate money for Christinas by saving small amounts by easy stages. You will enjoy belng a member and «ilt be delighted to see how rapidly your p4fr*: ttles, nickels and dimes grow into dollars J; / It's so easy to save that you will never Ihiss the small amoup^ you vfy fr trm t u n e t o ; KEEP UP THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT FOR THE SAKE OB THE LIT- !*LE FOLKS. KEEP IT ALIVE THAT THE WORLD WILL BE BETTER AND BRIGHTER FOR EVERYBODY HOY BANKING COMPANY McHENRY, ILLINOIS We wish ail our friends and cmtomers a Mm (hristmas CLASSIFIED DETARTMERT FOR SALE--A new Hamilton piano at a great reduction. Inquire at this office. 28-3t FOR SALE--Fur coat in excellent condition. Very reasonable. Inquire at this office. 28-31 LOST--Fountain pen on Green street on Tuesday eveningi Finder kindly return to postoffice and receive reward. FOR SALE--The John A. Smith estate farms, one of 189 acres and one of 145 acres. S. H. Freund, Mc Henry, 111. ' ADDITIONAL EXCHANGE Harvard, in common with most of the cities thruout this part of the state, has organized a Good Fellow club, which provided Christmas baskets for the poor of that city this (Thursday) morning. Because he has failed to pay his wife and child $8.00 a week as he promised to do on his last appearance in court, Dick Whapples of Harvard is once more one of the star board ers at the county jail at Woodstock. A forty foot Christmas tree, erected near the home of Arthur Leath at Elgin, is attracting considerable attention. The branches of the tree have been trimmed to a height of nine feet from the ground and the remaining thirty-one feet are trimmed in red, white and green electric bulbs. The spectacle may be seen for several blocks. Merger of the Peter Brothers' manufacturing plant of Algonquin and the American Ironing Machine company of Chicago took place this week and the company will hereafter be known as the American Ironing company with their main office at 168 N. Michigan Blvd., Chicago. H G. Gross of Chicago is the president of the company; E. C. Peter of Algonquin, vice president, and Jos. W. Taft of Elgip, secretary. Large additions to the factory at Algonquin are now under way of construction More than $100,000 will be used in the erection of new buildings. The company now has 100,000 square feet of floor space, which is to be in creased to 250,000 square feet. 0*e hundred and fifty men are now e ployed at the plant and by spring this number will be increased to 200. Algonquin is just determined to M. M. Niesen McHenry Phone St-W HELP WANTED--Men and boys be tween the ages of 18 and 40. Also girls wanted. The Oliver Typewriter Company, Woodstock, 111.26-4 NEW OLIVER TYPEWRITER NO 9--Best Xmas gift. 5 days free trial. Price $57, no money down, 1% years to pay. Order now. H. T. Cooney, agent, Woodstock, HI. 24 Bell System Revenue is to the corporation what blood is la the body, reduce or thin 1t and the corporate body at once shows financial anemia, physical v impairment, operative inefficiency. ' A corporation engaged in the Telephone business, upon wnich the public is so vitally dependent, must have ample revenues in order that the equipment shall be of the latest •nd best type; that the lines shall be kept in perfect condition; that the personnel shall be ; Contented and alert on account of liberal Compensation and attractive working Surroundings, and that bond interest and a treasonably good dividend rate shall be secure, in order that new capital for extensions and ; improvements may be readily obtainable. Die source of these revenues is the charg^i^ the public for the service rendered. O < i Under present conditions higher rates and good service are interdependent. The Telephbne Company is the Trustee of the public tor the ^ * Receipt and expenditure of funds devoted H " the service of the public. ' "4 ~ {2HIC AGO TELEPHONE COMPANY •r-'J FOR SALE--Emperial ringlet strain Barred Plymouth Rock cockerels and cocks; also pearl guineas. Inquire of P. M. Freund, McHenrjs 111, Phone 630-M-2. 27-tf FOR SALE--Big type Poland China boars, grandsons of Gertsdale Jones and Long Expanioo. Shipped on approval. Price $45.00. C. A. Sverkerson. Crystal Lake, 111. Phone 117-R- 1. 25-4t* •12 WEEKLY. Msn-wonon. Advertise. Start candy factory at home, small room, anywhere. We will tell how and furnish everything. Specialty Candymaking House, 5 South 18th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 20-10t NEW DRESS GOODS We have just received some yard wide French Wool Serges in blaok, brown, Copenhagen and wine color; also yard-wide storm "f* A A enrim in flknlr nurv. sneci&llv nriced. the TS(d.. . . '1'^ Mc $1JS _ $1.48 18c serge blank and navy, specially priced, yard OUTING FLANNEL PETTICOATS TAFFETA l'ETTICOAT.3. plain and fancy colors <X)VERAL1. APRONS, assorted styles and patterng.f--- -.,.? OUTING FLANNEL, millends, per yard BED BLANKETS, wool nap, large size -A... UNION SUITS, low neck, sleeveless BRUSHED WOOL CAP and SCARF SETS IU» Si.K .11.45 JOHN STOFFEL, WEST McHENRY FOR SALE--A few choice Poland China gilts, bred for March and April farrow. Bred to Gerstdales Pimm, No. 369571, a grandson of the Gerstdales Jones, a $6,000 boar. James Hunter, West McHenry, 111. Phone 613-J-l. 28-tf FOR SALE--About 200 whiskey barrels in A-l shape. Having purchased a carload of these, and now requirinjg some of the storage space, we have these barrels for sale at a reasonable price. Price F. O. B. at Terra Cotta quoted on request. Apply to The American Terra Cotta & Ceramic Co., Terra Cotta, Illinois. Phone Crystal Lake 24. 28-3t PHILIP JAEGER GENERAL COJIMISSION MERCHANT SPIOUL ATTENTION GIVBN TO TBS nil! OP J Dressed Beef, Hutton, Hogs, V--i. P<w»rf> Hides, Etc., Butter sod Eggs ' This is the oldest house on the street Tags and prioe lists fWSlM ii application COLO STORAOE FREE i A }, MM , CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. WMM*I* Marfcst. ALFORD H. POUSE Attsnwy-at-Law •Phone 20 West McHeaty, UL Telephone Nol 198-K S SIMON STOFFEL i Insurance agent for all clMMa«f^ property WEST McHENRY, ILLINOIS come one of the Henry county. biff towns of Mc- Plaindealer ads bring results. Just Us club will entertain you at Stoffel's hall next Wednesday evening, Dec. 31. Total sales of the Co-operative Marketing company of the Milk Producers' association for the first nine months totalled $16,000,000. Poor lee ' We are told that the ice at McCot- 1 urn's lake is only about seven ir in thickness and of poor quality. lake is now being scraped of its a tie of spow with the hope that will help freeae the ioe to a thickness.