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/ :\~£? •Mi Arthur Larson, fifteen year old boy, iving wi^h his sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pierce, on the . JThomas Cole farm near Spring: Grove, gone to the reform school at St. •:< >. Charles. Young Arthur wanted to run "ithe place, shoot up a few of the inhabitants, barn the buildings and make rough house in general. He struck his sister with a rubber boot and since he was so good at striking has gone to try his hind at a place where they are prepared for such high flyers and know how to manage then. • rr-I .r * • S : s ' - f e - V -HAVE IT- sure will avoid the commonplace in dress. There is real value in a hand tailored garment. These are the intrinsic points: CI) Ypur suit is made to individual measures. (2). The suit is tewed and made by hand and the s h a pe worlcfcd into the garment, (3) Custom tailored clothes are / e c o n o m i c a l because they wear longer, look better and , cost no more. (4) 'Well dressed men have their clothes custom tailor made, * selected from the guaranteed line of 100% all pure wool-- Detmer Woolens. You Are Invited To Call Olive Brown Basket weave Suiting-..$38.11 /Heather Mixture Suitings..... ....$38.00 Grey Mixed Worsted Serge Suitings-->38.-- Blue Twilled Serge Suitings.^r.;r>r^$38.t0 FancyMixed Cheviot Suitings......__S38.>6 Flannel Cassimere Suitings -- -$38.00 ' - and a thousand others to pick from WE CLEAN AND HUB Y0UI SUITS TO UOt LIKE NEW John D. Lodtz McHENRY, ILLINOIS -GREAT- Plowing Match (USING TRUCK AND HORSES) Tuesday, Oct 19th 9:30 A. M., ALL DAY HORSE SHOW--Champion Saddle Horstfc .High Jumping and Steeple Chase. • GENERAL AUCTION SALE-Anything.Tw Auctioneers. ~ AEROPLANE--Take a ride and see our won- . derful section. EXHIBITION--By two champion plowmen from Wheaton and Bigrock (111.) Associations and a sixteen-year-old boy. AMPLE FIELD--Big Grove. Parking space. Good Food. Garage Supplies. Northern Illinois' Biggest Day BUSSE FARM •WEST OFLAKE VILLA, ILL. • \ . . For pflrlk ulai* Sep next we£lr*8 Ptafndealef or confer municate with Frank T. Fowler, Lake Villa. Phone 16 If bad weather will be held next day. . WEEKLY PERSONAL ITERS COM£BS AND GOERS OF • WBBK IN OUR BUST VILLAGE As Seen by PUindesler Reporters umI Handed late Our Olcc kj Ov Friends Alfred Richardson spent Monday in Woodstock. Miss Lena Hartman spent the week end at her home in Marengo. Jas. Edwards of Chicago spent the week end with McHenry friends. Mr and Mrs. L. A. Erickson passed Tuesday in the metropolitan eitjr. Byron Basinger passed the week end with relatives at Lima Ohio. Miss Loretto Quinn of Elgin spent the week end with her brothers here. Mrs. Henry Heimer and son, Harold, were Chicago visitors last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. James Revor left Monday for a several weeks' visit in Minnesota. L. A. Erickson, E. E. Basset* and Jas. T. Perkins wire Rockford visitors Sunday. Miss MyVtle Huek of Chicago spent the week end with relatives at Emerald Park. Clarence Cobb is spending several weeks with relatives at North Hyde Park, Vt. Mr?. Math. Freund and daughter, Marie, passed Saturday in the metropolitan city. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Stenger passed the latter part of last week with Chicago friends. Mrs. Nellie Renehan of Round Lake is a guest in the John Boyle home west of town. Mr. and Mrs. Jtegj^Martin of Woodstock were guests in the E. E. Bassett home last Thursday. Mrs. Belle Fairweather of Chicago spent several days recently with relatives in this vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Frank 0*Flaherty of Elgin spent the week end in the home of Mrs. Ellsn Frisby. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Meyers and children of Chicago spent the first of the week with relatives here. Mrs, Win. Spencer and daughter, Berteel, and Miss Elizabeth Vogt were Chicago visitors Saturday. James Boyle returned homo Wednesday from a several weeks' trip to Havana and Hershey, Cuba. Miss Marguerite Farrell of Chicago was a Sunday guest in the home Mr. and Mrs. Allen Noonan. Misses Clara Stoffel and Kathryn Burks passed the latter part of last week in the metropolitan city. Mrs. M. J. Walsh spent the latter part of last and the first of this week with relatives in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Peterson of El gin were guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Meyers Sunday. Miss Ellen Walsh of Woodstock was the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Walsh, here Monday evening Mrs. W. D. Wentworth passed several days this week in the home of her daughter, Mrs. S. J. Fazer, in Chicago. Miss Esther Stoffel of Chicago was a week end guest in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Simon Stoffel Mrsi Wm. Bacon and Mrs. Nellie Bacon were guests in the home of Wayne Bacon at Crystal Lake Satur day. Mr. and Mrs. Nick J us ten and sons, Elmer and Joseph, of Ringwood spent Sunday With Mr. and Mrs. Ben Kenneheck. Miss Helen Pint of Chicago was guest in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Pint, the first of the week. Mrs. Frank Cobb and daughter, Myrtle, of Chicago were Sunday guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Cobb. Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Wattles left last Friday morning for a two weeks' visit with relatives at various points in New York. Mrs. Simon Stoffel passed several days this week as a guest in the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. C. Westfall, in Chicago. W. D. Wentworth was a guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Frazer Chicago the latte/ part of last and first of this week. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Sherburne and daughter of Nebraska were guests in the home of Mrs. Sarah and Miss Anna Sherburne last week. Mr. and Mrs. Chris. Hapke and ilaughters, Mayme and Hilda, of Waukt* ran were Sunday guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Meyers. Mrs. Alsena Smith and her guests, Mn. S. S. Chapell and daughter, Har net, of Chicago, passed Monday with Mr and Mrs, Harry Alexander at Hebron. Mrs. S. S. Chapell and daughter, Harriet, of Chicago passed the latter part of last and the first of this week with the former's mother, Mrs. A1 sena Sifiith. Mr. and Mrs. Math. Warner and sons, Earl, Frank and Burt; Mr. and Mrs. Chris Leitner and children, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Fehn and children, Jos. Moser, Carl Luthuld and Forest' Wal baum of Elgin woke Sunday guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Warner. F ARM EMPLOYE .ELECTROCUTED Channeey Daviee Losui Life by Electric Current Last Thursday [Richmond Gazette] Chauncey B. Davies, nineteen, a farm hand employed on the Geo. Myers farm a mile west of Richmond, was instantly killed last Thursday evening at about six o'clock when he came in contact with a high tension electric wire used by the Southern Wisconsin Electric company to supply current to i f W of Hebron and Davies was driving home some cows and when near the house one of the cows became entangled in the live wire which had fallen to the ground and when young Davies tried to extriAte the animal from the enmeshing wire he was instantly killed. Mrs. Myers heard Davies cry out as he fell to the ground and immediately culled the power plant at Lake Geneva to have the current shut off. Davies' body was terribly burned, taken to the undertaking rooms of A. Neumann & Son in Richmond and prepared for burial. Fred Davies, father of the boy and a sister from Plainfield, Wis., came and took the body to Wisconsin Rapids for burial in that cemetery. Davies had worked for Mr. Myers about a yec.r and during that time had made many friends here, who expressed deepest regret because of the accident which caused his untimely death. 1 was OUR COUNTRY'S STANDING Jost a Few Things About Us Worth Knowing Jtosft Where the United States stands in relationship to the world is .pointed out by the New York Curb News, which suggests the "knockers" be presented with these facts thst America has: 6 per cent of the world's land. 20 per cent of the world's goHL 25 per cent of all wheat grown. : 83 per cent of the world's silver. 40 per cent of the world's steel and iron. , 52 per cent of the world's coal. 60 per cent of all cotton grown. 66 per cent of the. world's oil. 70 per cent of the world's copper. 75 per cent of all corn grown. 80 per cent of the world's automobiles. Previous to 1914 we owed England so much money that the annual interest was three hundred million dollars. Now England is paying us 150 million dollars a year interest Before the war We owed about four billion dollars abroad. Today the net indebtedness of Europe to America is ten billion dollars. America is now the richest nation and the financial center of the world. Before the war England was the greatest ship-owning nation. After 1920 America will have twice as many ships as England. The proposition to organise parts of the townships of Harrington and Cob* together with the village at Barrington into a community high school district was voted down at a special election held for the purpose Last The proposition lost by 186 votes. USE OUR STORES Loath Stores show beautiful room outfits and artistic settings. Use our ideaa--valuable and free--come often. A. Leath & Co. • Furnishers of Beautiful H A. Loath Sc Co. Stores Elgin, 79ft Grove Ave. Rockford. 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