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T' Pig« Ztegfeld, Pleas® | Had Mr. Zieg-feld, produce** of The Follies, been present at the stag sponsored by the Progressive Twelve and held at the home of Mrs. Al. Krause last evening an attempt would have undoubtedly been made for the engagement of new material. It was one real stag so we are told, but that's as far as our informant would go, so it will be up to us to use our imagination for the balance of the story which rightfully belong with this. Besides other things that happened five hundred was played and prizes awarded as follows: First, Mrs. George J. L • . The Royal Entertainers SOLD INSURANCE INTERESTS Schreiner; second, Mrs. Al. Krause;!* The Royal Entertainers met at the third, Mrs. George Worts. Mrs. John home of Mrs. J. W. Bonslett on "Elm fwmwt Hoy Involved In Engeln acted as hostess. Delicious street last Wednesday evening. Five ; Iiwuranee Deal refreshments were served at the close hundred was played and prizes' ; , * 1 of the jollification. -Vv ^warded as follows: First, Mrs. Math. One of the real big deals fcb take Card of Thanks ^ • jS'Veurtd; second, Mrs. W. D. Went- place in Chicago recently was eonsum- We wish to extend our deepest appreciation and heartfelt thanks to the many kind friends and neighbors aa well as the fraternal orders for kindnesses shown, sympathy extended and floral pieces tendered during our recent sad bereavement. Mrs. Mary Carey and Family;. Worth; third, Mrs. Jos. Schneider; con- mated in that city last week and con Kolation, Mrs. J. Wormley. The games earns Fremont Hoy, president of the Fox River Valley State bank of this village, who, together with Elon A. NcVon, owned eighty-five per cent of were followed by refreshments. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Newman'and son, Raymond, of Rockford spent Saturday night and ^Sunday at the home of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Newman. Iiidifcation Points to Spring Building is just ahead Are you ready? Evefy community--every neighborhood needs scores of homes. Many are going to build with the first signs of Spring.. Don't put it off until the carpenters are all busy on other jobs. Start your building ^as early as possible in the Spring and avoid the rush of Fall. WILBUR LUMBER CO. jpfeoae 5 West McHenry, IH. Phone 5 OUR ANNUAL ANNIVERSARY SALE OPENS SATURDAY, FEB. 5TH : And Cootinoes For One Week Including Saturday, February 12th It Is our custom to conduct an Anniversary Sale every year whereby we are giving everybody a chance to buy meats and groceries below the regular market price. Don't miss this sale as it means mon^y to you. 10 lb. of Granulated mm 75 cents With Order of $2.00, butter, eggs and flow ajQt included CANNED GOOD# . 'fttnato Soup, 3 cans for 21c Sweet Corn, reg. 20c grade, 3 cans. Me Canned Milk, reg. 15c grade, 3 cans 33c Pork & Beans, reg. 15c grade, 1 can lie Karo Syrup, light, per can _ 11c Kitchen Klenzer, reg. 7c, 3 cans for. lie Canned Pineapples, large , can, reg. 45c grade, 3 cans for Sl.M Canned Blackberries, 3 cans for SI.If TEAS & COFFEES Uncolored Japan Tea, per lb. 58c Orange Pekoe, 1 jib. pkg 4Cc 5 lbs. Handy Gan Coffee... .$1.75 This can is useful to you in many ways Our reg. 50c Coffee is now selling at 4#e rv • - Adsure wiajief • Ifr•^Tr ~ T-T; - ' :w.., SOAP , ^ ; IJ Palmolive Soap, 5 bars for.. 43c Galvanic Soap, 10 bars for 53c Soap Chips, large pkg. ^ . . . S i c ' Batavia Toilet Soap, 3 bars fcjjfeiw/..25c ' Washing Powder, 5c size, 6 pkgs. lor 23c || ORDERS RECEIVED AFTER 10 ERED UNTIL THE 51b> of Choice Blend Coffee $1.00 Below q^ewaf prices MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES Fancy Head Rice, 3 lb. for. J 29c Yellow Corn Meal, 5 lb. for 13c Corn Flake^, fresh and crisp, 1 pkg. 12c Brooms, reg. $1.00 value 51c Prunes, large size, small stone, 3 lbs. 4#c Catsup, large bottle, reg. 30c, 3 for . 78c Matches, Saginaw Tip, the best on the market, f> boxes for ... 33c Navy Beans,.hand picked, 5 lb.Jor_ 34c Saur Kraut, home made, per qt 8c Our butter is known as the best in town, try it, per lb Sic We are selling that wonderful Platz Malt Syrup, per can . .. 95c Puritan Malt Syrup, per can.. __ $1.18 Makes 6 gal. of lawful home drink MEATS - 'Round Steak, per lb._^,~ -~ ,25c Surloin Steak, per lb. 27c Pot Roast, per lb.. lCc & 18c Plate Beef for boiling. - _!i 13c & 15c Pork Shoulders, butts, per lb. 22c Lard, home rendered, in 5 lb. lots, lb. 17c Picnic Hams, per lb '„_-2#c Bacon by the slab. 32c 00 A. M. WILL NOT BE DELIVFOLLOWING DAY CENTRAL MARKET WM. PRIES, PROP. PHONE 80 M , -V-'s) '; m:* thfc stock in the insurance company and about fifty-three per cent pf the stock of the Randolph building corporation, who owned the People's Life | building, mentioned in the article below and as taken from last Saturday's Chicago Herald-Examiner; "In a $2,000,000 transaction yesterday the Co-operative Society of America purchased the business and seventeen story building of the ' People's Life Insurance company at Randolph and N. Wells St, "Harrison Parker, president of'the Co-operative society, said: J" " 'We bought the building' on a basis of $920,000 and the insurance company on a basis of $1,000,000. " 'Elon A. Nelson, president of the People's company, will be retained as president. We plan to transform the , company into a co-operative insurance as soon as legal details can be ar ranged. Meantime the profits of the insurance company will accrue to the members of the Co-operative society, j " 'The Co-operative society now has 80,000 members. We have 122 retail 'stores in and around Chicago, with our own warehouse at 308 S. Green fit. We manufacture many of our products. This week we paid $179,000 cash for a creamery at East Troy, i Wis., from which ive will deliver 1,000 pounds of butter a day to our stores.' " ! "President Nelson stated that the People's Insurance company has $5,000,000 policies in effect and gross assets of $800,000. The company was organized as an Illinois corporation thirteen years ago. | " 'The Co-operative society/ " said Mr. Nelson, " 'is going to push the life insurance end. Salesmen at a meeting today pledged more than $1,000,000 worth of new business immediately.' " "Real estate men stated last evening that the sale of th« People's Life building for $920,000 wtl 'a bargain.' j "The structure, designed by Architect James Debalka, was erected in 1915 at a cost of $900,000, with the intention of leasing all the seventeen floors to the state for use, of various j department offices scattered about the : loop. The building is finished in marble to the top floor and is one of the best structures in Chicago. | "The ground, 60x100 feet at the southwest corner of Randolph and Welts, is owned by Jacob Frank and under 129-year lease from 1915 at $12,000 a year for ten years and then $14,000 a year until 2044. "The 1919 assessors' valuations were $216,172 for the land and $375,- 000 for the building. 1 "In the $920,000 sale the Co-operative society paid $460,000 cash and assumed a bond issue, made by S. W. Strauss & Co., for another $460,000. I "The Co-operative society will occupy the third and fourth floors with its general offices after May 1. The second floor will continue to be occupied by the insurance company. • "The purchasing society will also, it was stated, retain its offices in the Hearst building." < In an interview with Mr. Hoy at the bank last / Safcqrday morning the writer was informed that the above clipping as taken from the metropolitan paper covered the situation quite thoroly. • FARMERS OPTIMIST^ * Believe Slump In Prices of Products Merely Temporary Condition While farmers are in the discouraged mood because of the slump in the prices of products of the farmland livestock generally, yet most of them are optimistic over the future of land prices, which are destined to be restored to their former prevailing figures for good land. Only ten days ago a farm of 160 acres three and a half miles from Washington, or central Illinois, sold for $500 an acre. The farm in question is only fairly well improved, yet it brought the $500 per acre price. And a farm of 160 acres west of Monmouth, which is in western Illinois in the military tract section of the state, recently sold for $510 an acre, the total amount involved in the deal aggregating $81,000. The prices here given seem to es-* tablish the fact that, notwithstanding the temporary slump in the'prices of farm produce, there is no great reduction in the price of the better grade of farms in Illinois. It stands to reason, too, that farm grains and produce as well as livestock w$l again rise in value as the world is in dire need of more foodstuffs than can possibly be raised. The farm sales reported in the foregoing are in what is known as the corn and grain growing belts of Illinois and if the high prices can be obtained there following the period of depression it is only fair to assume that in northern Illinois, in the rich dairy belt of the state, farm value will likewise be revived, though the speculative buyer of farms may not readily be restored to the place he occupied before the bottom fell out of the boom in farm selling. The man, however, who buys a farm to make the business his lifework is sure to make no mistake and the investment thus made will yield him exceptionally well, everything considered. Save coal. Ptot on Wilbur Lumbar fin •tarn saah. < A LETTER FROM CHINA and Wife Buf maa Treo Nanking, China, Dec. 23, 1920. Loved Ones at Home--Do you think it's about time for us to speak up and tell of our whereabouts? Well, here j>oes. If this kills you I'll never write to you again. Two days ti|l .Christmas and, oh boy, what a lot bf fun we're going to have. 1 went out to get the Christmas tree yesterday. Let me tell you hoML to buy a Christmas tree in China. Well, you take along a couple of friends who also want to get trees and then you will take three coolies, one for each tree coming back--they carry them. One of the coolies says "I know where there are some over here on the hill, three miles away." Of course you walk because you can't run autoa on single foot paths. After you get' over to the hill you discover that the land round about there belongs to a certain Buddhist temple and you will have to get permission to cut the little trees. You go up to the temple to make inquiries. You are of course of great curiosity to those people who have seen foreigners like yourself only a few times in their lives. By the time you reach the temple about forty urious people are standing around you, examining your clothing, asking the price of each piece, asking how old you are, etc., etc. Chinese etiquette, but in all very courteous in their own way. You ask for the head man and are Introduced to an old fellow who has his head shaven bear. Those nine scares oh his head were put there with hot irons at the time he was initiated into the priesthood. It takes you twenty minutes to explain what you want, why you want it and all the •est, and then he tells you that he will introduce you to the man you ought to talk to about this matter. He takes you* up thru the woods till he finds the right man. He spends the next twenty <minutes passing the time of day and asking the same questions that you have already answered from two to six times. Finally he tells you that he regrets that he cannot sells the trees as they were set there to beautify the temple grounds. Thus the afternoon is half spent, but jfou go on your way rejoicing in the hope of what the future may hold for you. Of course there are just miles and miles of graveyards dotted here and there with evergreens and you are tempted to cut some of them, but you remember why they were put there and leave them. You make three or four fruitless calls on th£ farmers who have trees, but either the "big man" is not at home or he doesn't want to sell or the price is out of sight or his trees are no good. Finally when your merry Christmas spirit is about exhausted you spy three trees standing over in the cabbage field--cabbage is the staple food here--that you think might do if you can buy them. You explain what you want to the men working in the field. They get all the details and then send for the man they are working for. He asks the same questions and you think you're now about to make a deal when he says I'll tell the man who owns the trees." You wait till he runs to the house to get him: Meanwhile of course newcomers and passers-by stop to examine your clothing and you are the general curiosity shop. Look, here comes the owner of the trees. He approaches. He draws near. He asks the same questions over again.- Then^he starts to talk about the price. He wants twice what they're worth. Finally with the help of your coolies you are able to persuade him to. sell them for a reasonable price. When you have decided on the price you still have the difficult question of just how much of the tree you will leave for firewood. This agreed upon your coolies cut them down and you return home happy that you now have a Christmas tree. JUst this word to send you our love and good wishes at this Christinas season.- A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to all is the sincere hope of Yours lovingly, Myrtle, Sam and David. Dont Wori'jr Over Printers' Profits Communities shouldn't worry for fear their local newspapers are making too much money, thinks the State College of Agriculture; on the contrary, it is to the advantage of the community that its local newspaper shall be prosperous, in the college's opinion. Some of the difficulties of newspaper publishing are pointed out an editorial headed "Prices and Printers" in the current issue of the Extension Service News, issued by the college. The editorial follows: Before a community starts to worry for fear the publisher of the local paper is making too much money, it is well to know the facts. Few lines of endeavor have been so severely hit by changing industrial conditions as have the small newspapers. It is abunratnt testimony that there were 123 iefter weekly publications in this state in 1919 than in 1915. Only recently has definite effort been made to study costs on country newspapers; this study shows that few publishers have been getting even cost for the advertising space and printed matter they have sold. Like the farmer, they have been producing their commodities largely with the unpaid labor of themselves and the members of their families and without taking into consideration such items of expense as depreciation, interest on money invested and the like. For the sake of his community, every one should want his local newspaper to be prosperous. Only as country newspapers are prosperous Till tlurA hi Alt£i£tid to tbfll MAA of the brains and training necessary (tion has worked this out after for a position of leadership, nor can ; ful study. The local the publisher, unless, he is prosperous,1 produce a paper which is representative of the community, and of which the community may be proud. Moreover a paper struggling to make both ends rifeet is more likely to succumb to the luring offers of dubious advertisers or political charlatans. "No newspaper, regardless of its circulatipn, can sell its advertising space at less than 20 cents an inch and be prosperous. A committee from the National Editorial associaa .carenewspaper of V-j about 5,000 circulation must duotte . 3$- approximately 55 cents an inch. »• >* ' "A similar study has been made of the cost of job printing and tile re-' suits have been compiled in a loose leaf book, which is kept constantly revised. If the local printer and publisher quotes his price from this little black book the customer may know he is getting a fair price and the printer is getting a living Interlake (N. Y.) Review. - " The Plaindealer for news. i ALFORD H. POUSE Attarney-at-Lf* M ' • ..S\ • " ^iV.'rfVc" M ir«* MeHearf. Ill Telephone N*. 108-R S SIMON STOFI'EI.; Insurance agent'for all classes property in the beat eempantss WEST MrHKNRY. - ILLINOIS' DR. G. C. SMITH >, .... Specializing in ; PREVENTIVE DENTISTRY , / Oral Prophylaxis 4; «• jfc*Surgical Extractions S vDmtal X-Rays - HPhones, 434 and 384- Richmond, :: . :: :: Illinois DR. N. J. NYE • 0, ' Physician and Surgeon < t . X'Ray Treatment and Radiograffli rV;:* Ofice Hours: , - » „<-- ^ 7:00 to 9:00 a. nfc\ . \ 1:00 to 3:00 p. na4"* /..""ii" 7^00 to 9:00 p. a. 'Phone 62-R MeH«wy,Ht vff] A WkM: >TAKE YOURl Electrical Prdbtfems TO HARRY He can solve them in a jiffy and, say, when he does a jobyou can bet it's right, for every thing he does is guaranteed to be right, just call 83-M on the phone and have him ; v come and see you. HARRY'S ELECTRIC SHOP McHENRY, ILLINOIS . Bell System Ijttie Suggestions to Telephone Users Whefi you signal the telephone! operator and ask for a number she repeati She is trained to follow this practice in order to be sure she has heard you correctly. (t is a good plan to answer "Yes," "Right" or something similar if the operator's reply shows that she has rightly understood you. Then she it sure and can make the proper connection without loss of time. When a conversation is finished, it is . well for both parties to say "Goodj^ ye." This often avoids an extra call ftiade in the belief that the users Have been "cutoff" in the midst of their conversation. ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY LIGHT-SIX We are ready to demonstrate and make deliveries of this NEW LIGHT-SIX THE new Stadebaker LICHT-SIX meets the long existing demand for a comfortable, durable and economical light - weight, six-cylinder car. The public has always Wanted such a ear--the NEW Licirr- Six satisfies this desire. Although this new six-cylinder car weighs but 2400 pounds, it is ao perfectly balanced that its roadability is remarkable -- there is no side sway or creeping -- it drives straight as an arrow. You must ride in it and drive it to appreciate jjuBt how it sets new standards of, flexibility, comfort, ease of handling, smoothness of operatiaa and freedom from vibration. The motor of the Nkw LlCHT&IX is an exclusive Stude|/aLcr design-- conceived by Studebaker engineers and built complete in Studebuker factories. Mo other li^'lit, sixt yltnder motor yet produced is as free fron •ibratio|t or as flexible and powerful. You can have the advantage of this motor's wonderful gasoline economy and the satisfaction of its snkoothness of operation only by owning a Studebakrr LI«;OT-SIX. Let us give you a deinottitration of the NEW still drive it yourself. STILLING'S GARAGE GEO. A. STILLING, PROP. , .McHENRY. Ill $1488 JC t. * South Bend irjiESHopr , » . . ; ,.f