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JPoor old Illinois, ridi and maddy-- willjeu wake iip and, by follown's lead, permanently pull of the muck? An auto- 1* ^mobile tourist needs no guide-board : v sto tell him when he crosses into Wisconsin, the road condition tells the story. The small cities, towns and viilajree along the line of our journey seemed to have caught the progressive 5" r| >.spirit and boasted of concrete streets, sewers, water systems and electricity. ? * cEven little places of less than a thousf-* jjnd people, with no especial mission in *4 If life that was evident to the eye, sport f|all of these municipal improvements ._'and seem prosperous and busy. The r-> ^stores and stocks of merchandise were f* ? inferior to those at McHenry and our HERE5 / FLAG- THAT SHOULD BE: FLOWNWHEREE'ER TH£ ART Of* COOKIN6& KNOWN 1 < W FIAT'S thev iwe t>f wasting a lot of food cooking* on men s that are not as goo J as they should t>e when for the same money you can buy steaks and chops and roasts and poultry at this purity-guaranteed market? What's the use. anyway? ^ . •• • * ( >' Watch lor Mr. Happy-Party •FRETT'S; MaOTioocEinr merchants are better managers, but when it comes to a comparison of the •general appearance of our town «nd the same sized Wisconsin community-- but what's the use! The river dams at Wilmot and at Burlington are small affairs in the class with our own dam here at McHenry, but at Rochester, our next stop, there is a whale of a dam, rising above the river bed like a fortification, and forming a deep and navigable stream on its upper side. Here, for the first time since leaving Wilmot motor boats were seen. This is dam No. 3 and supplies power to a prosperous mill. We carefully inspected this dam. How handy that volume of water would have been to Dick and me last June, when we were dragging the Water Gypsy over the shoals and sandbars at Dayton and Wedron, with this same old Fox river only six inches deep in spots, and McHenry and hom* seventy long and weary miles away. Two miles further on was Waterford, Racine county, where we proposed to spend the night. Here a mighty dam, straddling an island holds back the Fox and creates a long, winding and inland-studded lake, not shown as such on ordinary maps. Hie lake sweeps away to the north and west, connecting with Tichigan lake and with the great marsh to the west thereof. This region, adjacent to Kenosha and Racine, is rapidly building up with summer cottages and will in time be a miniature copy of our own Fox lake and Pistakee bay. Owing to my demon driving, or owing to the super-excellence of the roads, or at any rate owing to some cause, we reached Waterford hours ahead of our schedule and after registering at the Fox River hotel, had the whole afternoon on our hands. I wanted the family to see the lake and searched the town over to find a motor boat for hire, but could discover no launch owner both willing and able to make the trip, as our party would fill a sizable craft. Finally, by the proverbial good luck of the Prouty family, I happened to meet a fellow, who knew a'chap, who directed me to a man, who introduced me to a gentleman, who took me to his cousin, Mr. Frank T. Huening, a Chicago lawyer who owns a summer home at Waterford and spends his week ends there. Mr. Huening, a gentleman and a sportsman in every sense of the word, was born right here in Waterford on the bank of the Fox and knew and loved every bend and reach of the you' Onlj launch, nver. man all his whole bunch three hour twenty-footer 'Waterford Belle." Knowing the river as he did, Mr. Huening talked very instructively and entertainingly of the Fox and of the surrounding region, and seemed to like to hear what the writer had to tell of other and more distant portions of the stream. On this boat ride we passed several beautiful islands in the lake and one of them, Big Egg island, especially pleased us by its contour and location, so that we all exclaimed over it. "I'm glad you like it." said Mr. Huening, simply, "because, you see, I own it." What a comrade Huening would make on a canoe trip, let us say down the Mississippi from Lake Itasca to the jetties. At the hotel {hat night little sixyear- old Junior complained of toothache, and couldn't eat his supper, and wept on his mother's shoulder. Later, a local dentist was so kind and obliging as to leave his easy chair and after-supper cigar and fill two cavities for the little chap, giving him instant relief. How kind everybody was to us at Waterford and with what pleas ant recollections we look back to our visit there. That night it rained again--rair.ed until the hotel roof leaked so badly that, we had to arise and shift the location of the beds to escape the downpour; yet next morning, when we drove on to Big Bend, those Wisconsin roads were dry and hard, even to the little side roads which we followed in order to keep close to the river. At Big Bend the Fox quits its generally north and south course and bends sharply to the west, proceeding in that direction for seven miles-- makes a big bend, in fact. Hence the appropriate name of this village. Big Bend is a pretty spot and should prove an ideal home fofr an old codger like the writer, to which he could retire and dub around on a small income and be elected justice of the peace. Mukwonago, near but not on the river, is a lively place, with garages, restaurants, hotels and soft drink establishments all reaching out for the dollars of the auto tourist. It is a meeting point of several of the state highways and a railroad town as well, so that with its clean paved streets and well kept homes it makes a fine impression on the stranger. From Mukwonago to Waukesha, not iravel||pm fast the air resletalfei wouljf ystfthit. Tt|§;'Iake?" legal rate of apaad on these frt*|fejk$tt>- moment sitting peacefully withint'lajftt ways is thi^-d^fe miles per kftf^fjnd t than one hundred yards from the 4jg|$ we certainly «fttaled that. At Wau- inquired for, "Search me." Wfcfcfc kesha we twice crossed the Fox, now' goes to prove the theory that if you rrduced in size to a small creek. The desire accurateilocal information, pass last of these crossings was in the up the native son and ask the brakehe art of the city and stores are built man on a passing freight. j jfht over |Jie stream, the river flow-' At two o'clock that afternoon we ng under the street thru a gigantic bade goodbye to Pewaukee lake, the concrete pipe. Just above this bridge village and the infant Fox river and is dam No. 5, a small affair and appar- turned the radiator nose in the direcently out of business in dry weather, tion of the McHenry watertower. Our but now, because of wet weather, mission completed, we became a thru backing up the water behind it, and in- boat, a regular twentieth century iluencing the state of the river up to limited, with absolutely no stops be- Pewaukee, five miles further north. tween terminals. So well and stead- On this, the last leg of our northern % did the wheels revolve that by late journey, we again crossed the Fox, afternoon we rolled eastward over the here so small as to be easily confused with Poplar creek, a tributary stream McHenry bridge and down the river road toward home. How fine and imwhich here joins it. Thence, a mere PQs,n£ ^e river looked and how vastly brook, it ran along just north of the highway and in plain sight thereof. We followed along beside it, watched who Would possibly suppose from its different from the purling brook we left behind us three hours ago. Yet it diminish to the size of Boone creek west of the railroad and at last--right in the midst of Pewaukee village--saw it issuing from a ten foot iron pipe, the outlet of Pewaukee lake. We 'gave three cheers--at last our ambition had been realized and we had actually chased Fcx river into its hole. The aforesaid iron pipe serves to conduct the river from the lake and under the main street of Pewaukee village and start it on its way. A tiny adjustable dam at the lake end of the appearance here that in the next hundred miles our fine river would shrink and shallow ana finally slink into the Illinois, a stream less than half in volume of that in front of our cottage. Rivers are like people-- their start and finish are often miles apart and in totally different surroundings. But when, dusty, tired and hungry, we at last roanded Hairpin Turn in the Hughes lane and came in sight of our cottage, with the blue river at its pipe serves to regulate the lake level feet and the Freund and Bolger cornand at the same time the flow of wate?***!*5 »nd meadows stretching Up hill into the river. A brass plate, fixed in on opposite shore, we felt that in tlje stonework of the bridge, warns the all <*"• journey we had seen nothing public against altering the adjust- so beautiful--because this was HOME ment of the dam without the consent of the Wisconsin river and lakes commission. From the end of the pipe | opposite the dam emerges the baby I AUCTION Fox river and as a tiny, grass-choked ' Having decided to quit farming and brook starts on its long Jburney to boing desirous of olosing out as soon join the Illinois river at Ottawa. This m possible, I will sell at public sale on little runlet looked to be easily jump-1 Crystal Springs Farm TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11th able by any active man under sixty a* 2:00 o'clock p. m., on the premises and I was urged (and even dared) to formerly the Jas. R. Sayler place, lotry, but I feared the disgrace of a cated 3% miles west of West Mcpossible failure and begged off on the Henry, 5 miles south of Ringwood, 7 plea of rheumatism. Then we took mil®* east of Woodstock and 8 miles some photographs and quit. north of Crystal Lake, my j^ace We had accomplished our stunt; it kn CRYgTAL SPRINGg FARM acres, which good broad experience have hotel and bearing a large sign reading, ' • ^»-y. i / • * ' rs V ! - " ~ ^ -M t ••fM, ?0;\ s Difficult to Get What You Want " Days With Prices Lowered - * * " • -::v^ „ -T,' S I Here you dtatft have to "Rhow tfie differlnceBetweei and is good, and--what looks good but isn'%^ * * "rf', * '* . #. .y > 'c. > <-4 * gd**'/ ^ si" ^ ^ ^ ^ v - *j ^ *•' •>, v 'V t -Hv' •' x>M.. is " M? .ZfeV'h m: •J?'--* reasOT'fof the makers guarantee the clothes here now for you to be satisfactory in every way or money :v fS? %* That's bee a u S€ we kno# ey're right--styled by America's foremost designer, hand tailored bij> "-experts, piade of fine all wool -• fiabrics. & ' •' - (K . f.k ' 1 %",$$• ••lis-, It's easy to get what you want here. We guarantee it! Priced tongive you most for your money. ^ I'. ^ •: $ •"r"•. • < vr:•?. • 'V:. NHCNRY was Sunday noon and we were hungry. Across the street stood a building appropriately named the Fox Head 1 , ** v pronounced the best balanced stock farm for fertile soil, timber and water i to be found anywhere and with a set !of buildings to match the farm. / | A comparatively clean farm wit^ (no quack grass or velvet weeds. Springs of purest water furnish one hundred' thousand gallons per day, whickrnows by gravity through pipes to all buildings and yards on the place and then is cared for through a most perfect drainage system. Crops grown this-year: One hundred acres of corn, 60 acres of grain, 10 acres of alfalfa, and all good for this year and are here to show for themselves. Any person with a desire to own as ! good a stock farm as anybody owns j should not fail to see this place and | learn the favorable terms under which • it will be sold. > I A most desirable place for a man of i means with a desire to develop one of ' the show places of the country, or for one of less means who would thrive on jthe products of its fertile soil. j Can give possession on March 1st, ' 1922, or at any time before that date, {and will sell all hay, grain, stock and farm equipment to the buyer of the Ifarm at a price they/ can afford to I pay and carry oh where I leave off, namely: All hay, grain and feed 1 giWwn on farm at 76 per cent of Chi- ' cago market value of like grain with J-8% tons of hill corn silage equal in lvalue a ton of hay; mill feeds at their market value, with all live stock and farm equipment-at an equally advantageous price. Will be pleased to show the place to be interested. E. J. FALLOWS* West McHenry, 111. Reduced Rates to Chicago and Return Account of Semi-Ontennlal Cele bration Chicago Fire l&tl Via Chicago & North Western Rjr. Reduced fares will be in effect. October 1 to 10 inclusive, to Chicago eind return account celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the great Chicago fire, Oct. 9. In addition to. the innumerable other attractions regularly offered visitors at this time of year, a festival play will be given in Grant park to feature the wonderful story of Chicago's romantic history. Seats will be provided for 20,000 people. All the arts of pageantry, music and the drama will contribute to the most beautiful and elaborate spectacle of its kind ever presented in Chicago.. The cast, with singers and musicians, will include 3,000 performers. Chicago's history from the coming of Marquette and Joliet in 1673, thru the Fort Dearborn days, the Civil war, the Great Fire, the World's Fair, to the Chicago of today and a vision of Chicago of tomorrow wiil be shown. Don't fail to attend. Tickets limited to return within five days from date of sale. For tickets and full information apply to ticket agents, Chicago & North Western Ry. FOR SALE--Four pure bred Poland China boars, farrowed last half March, 1921. Ready for service. Sired by Half Ton Fashion No. 864961. Dams Orange Lady No. 1072508 and Orphan Waif No. 1072512. Price very moderate. W. J. Kittle, phones McHenry 608-M-2 and Crystal Lake 55-J. 17-2t S * / 'i- ^ • T '#f'r mm ^ • .** -f-',. < - -xjfrZMSuea: .11 wh.JW.1 Th« KOHLBR AutomdHc POWER and LIGHT Plant no storage batteries power and tijbt standard 110 volt --has acatycity of 1S00 watte <» two electrical horsepower --operates tAasp&f at the touch of sny button anywhere on theckcuk Write for illustrated Ktaatuifc Come te and ace tha pto* lp, ,4 Qpowooi #,1. BOWELL t m* J , - M«SHeary, l i t , - ' . only. trips Mondays and Thursdays. " fax 1*ffcFOHK flour reacbes •*-* you it goes thru several stages io order to find its Anal form. Too many people don't bother themselves about what flour was, -pr where it came from. We guarantee to you the history of our flour. The fi&Bst wheat, purest ingredients and clean milling mak# iia,s,- I /history. ' McHENRY •*' Flour Milts West McHenrv. lift. AUCTIONEER HAVE A GRADUATE TO CONDUCT YOUR SALE ERNEST ROSING -:- INGLESIDE, ILL. Phone. Round Lake 33-W-l Full Size Bed Blankets "r'fh, cool nights make carcful oonsidcration ottf values and the point of wisdom of replenishing your , supplies of blankets; the qualities are better and the prices much lower than last season. Woven of exr eel lent quality yarns; soft, deep nap insures unusi :/.;^rmth.^feiir careful Inspection ihvitied. T^Sj JOHN STOFFEL WEST MCHENRY PHILIP JAEGER GENERAL COHMISSION MERCHANT ( k . SPJCdAL ATTENTION aiVXN TO tffit &AUC ! 'r 7*"/" •r Dressad Beef, iluttoiH Hofi, £ Hides, Etc., Butter and Eggi , Thlsts the oldest fctonee on 1ihe «tr*«t Tags and price lists fvradsbwi on application COI.O STORAQR F*?rn staii i a j, PaMiB:«i, WlMtoMl* Markat , » .• -j CHICAQO, ILLINOIS. 45 HEAD REGISTERED Poland China Hogs T AUCTION Woodstock, 111., Saturday, Oct. 8 Sired by Wrigldy's Great Giant, The Great Clansman. Clansman, Bi(f Square Jumbo, Mouw's Chief, Lindberg's Wonder and Haudel's Giant by Grant 's Great Giant, biggest hop in McHenry county and first prize winner at McHenry County Fair. 1921. A real offering in every respect. If you like the Ijreeding, you will like the hogs, for they are well grown, cholera immune aod the kind that you have tiien raising that have made you the most money, whether in the feed lot or your breeding herd. This is my first sale and I know there will be tome bargains. Get the catalog now. W. B. Duncan, Auot. Bob DgMt represeate The Wisconsin Farmer. A* J. HANDEL, : : Woodstock, III. 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