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The increases in electric and water rates petitioned for by the Public Service Company are very modest compared with the increases demanded and paid for most commodities. They do not exceed 25% in any class, compared with a 50% increase in passenger fares on the railroads and ranging up to 700 per cent in the case - of sugar, which, so for as we know, is at the apex of the pyramid of high prices. The profiteer, unrestrained by the public utilities commission or other regulating body, would look on a 25 per cent ^increase with contempt, a bagatelle not worth considering. This would imply that the public utilities commission is of some use in the world, in spite of |||f jjiplty we Jti|e in the bakit of bestowing on ill;. V'*. per kilowatt hour which the large user is drying now, the.company is asking 9 cents. The commercial rate would be 12 cents instead of !0t and the users of maximum quantities of' electricity, of whom there are cone outside of the bakeries, we ba^eve» would pay 4 eeots iastead of 3 cents. - :4K .'Kf' In acCdlrthftide wfttr the projitosed the rate for 18,750 gallons of water, aow charged for at 30 cents, will be 37^2 cents. The mimimum rate of $1.75 per quarter year remains in force, so that a little rationing and care in the use of water will protect the small consumer from increased rates. The large user of wsiMF Instead of 12 ceats per k^owa* hour the small user of electricity has been paying, tile Public Service Company is asking the privilege of charging 13 cents. Instead of 8 cents There is nothing in the schedule on file in the office of the company herein regard to street lighting rites or fire hydrant rental. The can-~ tracts the two towns have with the ^omjpaiQr for this service soon expire. The statement is an exceedingly fair (me. The costs of our product have advanced enormously, whereas the selling prices remain what they were in 1914. The personal experience of every one who reads it will indicate that this is an impossible situation. Every community we serve is interested in seeing that the situation is relieved because every commufr ity is interested in seeing that our service is maintained on a high plane of efficiency We the very minimum advance in rates necessary to . . c - of Northern Illinois :> ' . i*'. '• * • . >• t ' I ^.*v f0-, j/f £ ** " ' . * j 1 -4 ' f/r. • sViv AND 00«8 OF A WMfc IN OUR BUST VILLAGE ; ] A0#pn by PUin«|«»ler IZeporteia m|l(d Into Oar Offce b» Frilal* Mrs. F. A. Bohlaader wm « /3tl. ago visitor Monday. . Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Stod^or were Chicago visitors last Thursday. Thos. Boigw and WiHiam 6nttxm were Elg^n visitors last Smiday. Mrs. Peter B. Freund was a Chicago visitor the first of the w*ek. Miss Elsie Wolff is spending the week as the guest of her sistw in El- Kin. - * Miss Florence Colby of Efgin w«e the .guest of friends here over fhe week end. Miss Lelah Claxton went to Chicago Monday for a few days' visit with friends. Afty. A. F. Kendall <rf Watseka, IlL, was a recent gruest in the home of John M. Blake. E. J. Cohan and Mr. Boiand of Chicago were guests pi McHenry friends last Saturday. Jos. Hoffman of Chicago was a Sunday guest In the home of Mrs. Helena Heimer. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Meyvri and cMldren of Chicago were week end guests of relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Bnras of Chicago passed Sunday at their cottage at Emerald Park. Miss Maude Granger of Chicago passed the week end as the guest of McHenry relatives. Mrs. Sarah Reece of West Chicago is a guest in the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. J. Donavin. Miss Emily Lojjg of Genoa Junction spent one day recently as the guest of Miss Florence Kamholz. George Heimer of Chicago was • week end guest in the hojne of hid mother, Mrs. Helena Heimer. "%fr. and Mrs. John Behlke of Chicago were week end guests of the Jatter's father, John J. Buch. Miss Ellen Walsh passed several days this week as the guest of relatives in the metropolitan city. 'Mrs. Eliza Lockwood of.Woodstock spent the week end in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. T. Perkins. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Sutton and son of Chicago were Sunday guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. N. J. J us ten. Miss Bertha Wolff passed the week end as a guest in the home of her siser, Mrs. Chas. McArthur, in Elgin. Mrs. E. Lawless returned to her home here last Saturday after a three weeks' visit with Chicago relatives. Miss Lena Hartman returned to her hfme at Marengo last Saturday, where she will pass the summer vacation. Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Burns and son, Robert, of Austin were guests of relatives in and near McHenry Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Landwer and son, Keith, of Woodstock called on McHenry friends Sunday afternoon. Miss Ella Newman of Elgin passed Sunday as a gue§t in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Newman. Alderman W. J. OToole and Mr. and Mrs. Luke OToole of Chicago were guests in the ^home of Mrs. B. Frisby Sunday. Mrs. John W. Fay passed the latter part of last and the first of this week as the guest of relatives in the metropolitan city. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Feibran and family of Belvidere were recent guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kamholz. Miss Eva Stenger has returned^ to her home at Green Bay, Wis., after a two weeks' visit in the home of her brother, C. W. Stenger. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Dunn of Lake Geneva spent the week end in tiie home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Whiting, northwest of this village. Wm. T. Stewart and sister, Lucy, and the Misses Elizabeth and Helen Morrison bf Chicago were recent guests ki the home of Mrs. Clara Starritt Sheriff C. W. Peters and family of Chicago are once more occupying their summer home at £istakee Bay, having come out for the season's stay last week. Fred J. SchTtorr of Council Bhiffs, la., spent a few days this and last week looking after his business interests here. He made the trip via automobile. Mrs. John Karls and daughter, Bveiyn, returned to their home in Woodstock Sunday after a few days' visit in the home of her sister, Mrs. 'Frank Zuelsdorf. Miss Dora C. Kenney is spending her vacation with home folks at Milwaukee, Wis., having .returned to that city last Saturday evening, after a successful term as one of. the instructors in our high school. W. J. Donavin passed the week end as the guest of relatives at West Chicago. He was accompanied home Sunday evening by his wife and daughter, Kathryn, who had passed ten days as the guests of relatives in that city.s Mr. and Mrs. Ed. L. Hayes and children arrived in McHenry last Sunday morning from Aberdeen, N. D. Mrs. Hayes and children expect to spend a few weeks as guests in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Whitihg, northwest of town, before their return to the West. Mr. Hayes, who is the vice preseident of the Hackett- Hayes-Stanfield Poultry company of Minneapolis, Minn., is here looking after business interests of that concern. This business, the greater part of which is in Chicago, will keep him here for about a month. Incidentally he also expects to take in the Repub-1 lican national convention now in session aTOMOotlsMaa It'OHc**!86"'**11* Items Clipped From The Plaladeaf* SI 2^ f* Tweaty-*ve Tears Races at Woodstock June 26 27. McHeniy will celebrate the anting Fourth of July. Six loaves of bread for 25 cents at the heaae bakery of C. R. Huber. A sim of George Meyers was quite jBeveniHi kicked by a horse on Wednesday lastj, » Last Sunday was Children's day at the M. E. church and the occasion'was celebrated in an appropriate manner. Jos. J. Mertes will hold the grand Sjpaning of his new summer resort, Oak Park Club House, Pistakee Bay, on Monday, June 17. Died--At Lanagan, Mo., June 7, of whooping cough and material fever, ^loise Alberta, aged four years, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Lincoln. Mrs. S. A. Dodge of Maywood has just erected a very fine monument in Woodland cemetery in this village to the memory of her father and mother. It was put up by Miller ft Son. Harry Dunnill, Jr., of Fox Lake tooJc" part in the Illinois Sportsmen's association shooting match at Burnaide this week. On Tuesday he won the diamond badge in a close contest. The members of the new German church in this village let the contract for building a handsome new parsonage on the grounds adjoining the church for the sum of $1,349. R. Waite was awarded the contract. Between forty and fifty persons went from McHenry with the Woodman excursion to Madison on Thursday. It is reported that fully 30,000 Woodmen were in that city that day. Thirty-one trains were required to transport them to and from Wisconsin's capitol. John Stilling, one of the oldest residents of this town, died at his home wo miles east of this village on Sunay afternoon, aged nearly eighty ears. He had been a resident of this own over fifty years. . His funeral vas held from the Johnsburg church in Tuesday morning. ' We have been passing thru one of he most severe heated spells known for years. On Monday the thermometer ranged from 98 to 104 in the fchade. This, with the long dry spell, made the heat oppressive. A fine shower on Tuesday afternoon cooled the air and revived things generally. To the surprise of a large majority of our citizens when they arose on Funday morning it was discovered that during the night Fox river had been dammed. Who was at the head of the scheme we know not, but this we do know that between time and ten o'clock an extra train pulled in at the depot and that immediately after twelve {o'clock teams commenced hauling from aid train heavy loads of sacks con taining Portland cement "Snd sand. These, with the aid of a large force of men, were sunk in the river at point aibout forty rods below the iron bridge and by ten o'clock Sunday very formidable dam raised itself above the water of the raging Fox at that point. MAKE FIRST COMMUNION Twenty >«iglit Children Form Inpm sive Sight at St. Mary's stores and shops, is having one of these manufactured in a Barfiagton shop and hia ^nten^tt Is to !*§» made in that yUl«$to when kit fete feady to manufacturt tfiim in numbers.. ' *•' ' Misses Helen and Catherine freond and Mrs. Stf Keanebeck were Crystal Lake esters -Saturday afternoon. - A beautiful and most impressive sight was witnessed at the eight o'clock mass at St. Mary's Catholic church here Sunday morning, when a class of twenty-eight little folks made their first holy communion. The altar was most beautifully dec orated for the important occasion, while the two angels, with their elec trie lighted torches, never shown more brightly. A congregation that well filled the spacious auditorium witnessed the impressive sight A very fitting and beautiful sermon, especially prepared for the little folks, was pleasingly rendered by the pastor, Rev. Edward Berthold, which was followed up with another sermon to the older ones, who had come to take part in the services. At the conclusion of the mass breakfast was served to the class in the basement of the church. The personnel af the class/follows: Anna Blake, Florence Blake, Alvera Blake, Rosella Blake, Wendalina Diedrich, Alvina Freund, Rosella Freund, Flora Freund, May Justen, Margaret Joos, Mathilda Miller, Eleanor May, Margaret Steinsdoerfer, Genevieve Young, Rosina Young, Joseph Brefeld, Edward Frett, Albert Justen, Peter Justen, Elmer Meyer, Roy Miller, Eugene Nye, Michael Pavlick, Carl Rothermel, Frank Steinsdoerfer, Edward Thennes, Clarence Thennee and William Wolf. ADDITIONAL EXCHANGE Woodstock will celebrate the Fourth under the auspices of the American Legion post of that city. Joseph D. Robertson, ex-service man, who lost a limb from wounds received in battle, has been named Barrington's new postmaster. Geo. Rowe, a Richmond barber, has given notice that his shop will close at six o'clock on Tuesday and Thursday evenings of each week. Thieves get away with 1200 pounds of sugar, ai\ adding machine and a quantity of other goods and tools when they entered the Weiland Dairy company plant at Spring Grove one evening recently Three children were bitten by a dog at Cary one day recently and since then the village board of- that municipality has passed an ordinance making . it necessary to muzzle all dogs running at large from May 26 to September 30 of each year. Mil a Oofmm of Cfefcago who m:- - l£ky*teian and Surgeon McHENRY, ILLINOIS I " Office over Petesch's Drug Stop# ; JOHNSBURG, ILLINOIS \'v"-j PHONES: -TV: McHenry, 44 Johnsburg, 62S-B-2 ' ^ t ^HOURS-MeHENMT -J'i 1®:30 a. m. to 12 noon ^ '•"11:30 p. m. to 8:30 p. m." ? a-v, , •OURS--JOHNSBURG *"f'> ^ 8:0^ a. m. to 9:00 a. m. * * . 12:00 to 1.80 p. m. 6:00 p. m. to 7:00 p. ML •. * mmm wm m m m t m n m m r n m m m m * m m m m r n r n m t m m ^ &;8hipment,. <g kimono aprons and house dresses for young girls and ladies, ranging in price ffOm $1.00 to $3.50. Also extra sizes lor stout ladies, such as 46 48 50 52 and 54. They are jjiflde very neatly. We U>. JOS. J. MILLER McHENRY, ILL. rr~ . '.%• 1 Flour •• • ,y*i "r ' t S""' "l *> ' \ A ' ' ' . ** ^4 4^' » . » ' , Jtr tv * - * t-j-t' -1 ' : i-v. - Scientifically made and guaranteed to be absolutely pure. McHENRY Flour Mills - WeSt McHenry, ill. MMMHBT Economical in Deloo-Light costs no more to operate than the old coal-oil lamps. One gallon of coal .oil gives you four times as much light when used for fuel In Delco- Light a«v. U fives In ooa)*>il lamps* / v -\ ter- Catak>j|,^^' McHENRY LUMBER COL DELCO-LIGHT DEALERS WisSi MdfaTT. There's a satisfied user near yoo .. . w. M& •'tf ;V t'.l <4,