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EM SE ACHESS \ (Continued from other Mm) *>;v i 'k^ Greeta Chamberlin, 1928--Working t* in telephone office as "hello girl." f" f Pauline Freund, 1923--Employed by * i »V', > * lawyer in the metropolitan city. ^ 't. '-".ufr *^°^n Vycital, 1923--Taking a coarse t'J 0? mechanical <• ii^ifieefirig at th« Ufii- " versity of Illinois. Helen Vycital, 1924--Teaching school in the Barreville district. Cfcrolyn Steffes,, 1924--Teaching in Lincoln school. Helen Powers, 1924--Teaching in Sherman Hill school. Kathleen Powers, 1924--Teaching , 4# £«rton Bridge school. • ••f#* •- li •W - FRESHMAN CLASS NOTES We all enjoyed playing with the toys Saturday night. One of the freshmen didnt prove to be a very good electrician Saturday night for he blew out the fuse box in room 107. General science doesn't agree very well with the girls. Some of them have an awful time trying to get it thru their heads, Since the pond has been frozen over some of the freshmen have been com- : ing to school in the morning pricking themselves to keep awake. The ancient history class has started to make maps. When they drew the map of Italy they knew it was in the shape of a boot, but you should see the boots. While Joe was running the electrolysis machine he must have used up about all of the matches in the school. There was a great pile of them at his table. Maybe .he couldn't make them I vburn in the oxygen that he prepared. 1* *'" r -v-V* y. ***•. 'iii. SOPHOMORE CLASS NOTES r Mr. Tallmadge said teachers get some funny ideas. Yes indeed, how about ret! cards. The English II class has taken up Silas Marner. We hope it is no harder than Julius Caesar. Dusting off tfthe old ones. Miss Pryor: "Now Jesse, don't be a plebian." George Reynolds has been strutting around the hall ever since somebody told him he played basket ball like "Soup Semeny." Miss Miller's modern history class receives the Literary Digest and she has asked her pupils to recite on one topic once a week. These 'topics are supposed to be on current events and things that will interest us in the future years. Topics of government are discussed so that we may be efficient voters when we become older. The zoology class is casting lobsters, snakes and also making casts of other animals. The process is more difficult than it looks. The first thing to do is to prepare your animal, suppoci&f It is a snake. Oil the snake thoroly and then place it in as life-like a manner as possible. Next glue that has been melted and cooled is poured over the snake and allowed to harden. The snake is then taken out and the mould which is left is washed with a preparation of ether and calodian. After this piaster uf parish is mixed n'ith water and poured slowly in the mould. When the plaster of paris is hard it is taken out of the mould and we have a snake made of plaster of paris. The finishing touches of cleaning and painting are put on and we have a snake real enough to bit a person. THE ONCE OVER Red hair makes a man. Some of our "brightest" movie "star" have red hair. Wesley Berry for instance. But the person who puts us in mind of red hair more than anyone else is a certain student of this school whose given name is Arthur. This lad, for he is of a mere seventeen, has several names given by his chums, i, e., Torchy, Sparkle, Red-head, Art ard others too numerous to mention. Now Torchy, as we'll call him, is very remarkable, for many times have I seen him leave class before the period is over for the simple reason, so I have heard, that he knows his lesson very well and that his teacher thinks it is useless to make him sit in his seat listening while he might as well be reading fiction books. But Torchy, like all bright lads, absolutely detests reading magazine serials, sport stories, novels or the like. All that Torchy does is study from morning till night. Torchy has no girls on his mind because he believes worrying over "dates" shortens the life and wears the energy of the mind. We have a theory that the remarkable intelligence and activity of Torchy's mind makes his hair red as the chemicals inside of a carrot color its skin. Other people who know this boy rather well say that Arthur's brightness is simply a reflection of his red hair and that he is.not at all to blame for it. By A. Anderson. McHENRY BEATS WOODSTOCK. McHenry's first and second teams traveled to Woodstock Friday night and played two very close games. McHenry's seconds lost a hard fought game to the W«pdstock seconds. McHenry was just in "hard luck" the last part of the game. They were ahead up until the last couple of minutes of play. The final 'score was Woodstock, 17; McHenry, 16. Whiting was high scorer for McHenry with four field goals. Thomas at left guard played a great defensive game. Dewey and Skow made most of Woodstock's points. The McHenry firsts upset the Woodstock firsts by a score of 16 to 8. The McHenry boys began their sewing early and at the end of the half they were leading by a score of 11 3. The scoring for McHenry was done by Overton, J. Whiting, Bacon and Freund. The McHenry boys surprised their opponents by dropping in four baskets from the free throw line. Jensen, Maricoli and Foote each scored one basket for Woodstock. The defense of the McHenry team proved to be so great that the Woodstock fcoys could not get the ball thru and they were held to three field goals. The McHenry followers that traveled to Woodstock saw two very interesting games and they can be sure that McHenry will turn in some more good games in the future. Next Friday night, Dec. 19, Huntley meets McHenry on McHenry's floor. These two teams have always played very close and hard fought games, and this one promises to l>e another one. If you want to see the McHenry boys play another good game be sure and see them Friday night. McHenry Seconds FG FT FTM PF Page, If ....>•., i.-.. 6 Green, rf . ^ #• Whiting, c . Thomas, Ig .£V, v„ J'C'.' ; Newman, - rg ip Vk' Conway, rg ^ 5 a Woodstock 2S*L Anderson, rf .. Kunda, rf 7 FG 18 11 7 FT FTM^F Dewey, If . % 2 Skow, c . •; 4 • 'i'y-•vi Wieberg, rg k,>rtA. • • £ Schwarth, % ..... . l y '•••t -y/- • \^'.c. , * V.;X, "r • 6 ;- 6 McHenry FiittV FG FT FTM PF Whiting, If .... .v.. • 2 ,2 1 3 Overton, rf .....,. M. Freund, c ......... Bacon, rg .......f !»• Barbian, ig •... >.« •• . 5 ' i' s ' 6 Woodstock,1^- FG FT FTM PF Sornsen, rf , y a. -a-,..-; s Maricoli, If .. . Foote, c 4... 4- X Jensen, rg . .V'. ., * y f y : Besley, lg . : Y y j0 1 * 8 sX^fYNTHETIC DIAMOND* The' process of manufacturing" artificial diamonds was published in 1903. Mr. Henri Moissan was the inventer of this process. His experiments were begun after his finding of microscopic diamonds in nature, from the sands of Brazil. The process was as follows: It is known that solid iron is less dense than whsn in faaton, for pieoea of metal will float on the melted iron. He melts the iron in the electric furnace and saturates it with carbon and, to explain more definitely, he cuts cylinders half an inch long and twofifths inches diameter were placed in a carbon crucible and covered with powdered charcoal. This crucible was then placed under the arc and heated for three or four minutes with a current of 350 ampers at 600 volts. The cover - of the furnace was then removed and- the Crucible taken out with a pair of tongs and plunged quickly into a Cold bath of water. The crucible and metal remain red for a few moments, giving off gases which come to the top. It was feared that *an explosion would be produced when the melted mass at 3,000 degrees came in contact with cold water. But no bad effects took place. Later it was found out that iron filings would cool it*more quickly by conduction. ;; «• _ Made in this way the diamonds were of a peculiar nature and they contained specks of black carbon. The pressure seems to be less and the transformation of carbon into the diamond is less complete. To obtain a more rapid cooling a bath of melted lead was found the best; it was kept at about'the fusing point, or 617 degrees F. The crucible heated as before is quickly plunged into the bath of melted lead, which is about six inches deep. The iron, which is lighter than melted lead, is detached from the crucible in masses, which tends to form spheres and rise to the top. The smallest spheres, half 'an inch in diameter, were solid and sufficiently cool on coming to the top. Dipping the crucible into the melted lead is the best process. These spheres gave a good yield of diamonds. It is curious to note that three months after the formation of one of the largest artificial diamonds it split into two pieces, this being due to the irregularities of pressure at the time of formation. The samples of diamonds obtained by this method were interesting to examine as to their different forms. Most of them were smooth ancTbrilliant. All the specimens had the peculiar lustre which is characteristic of natural diamonds. Ernest Barbian. Toys and gift goods at store. ' Harvard's city vehicle tax has earned for that city a total of $7,878.50 for the current year. Licenses were issued to owners of 460 pleasure cars, 60 trucks and 8 dealers in automobiles. ALFORD H. POUSE MMm«ey-at-Li#^ y***'<' ' •' • • JV * * t Phone $8 :: West McHenry, IU. No. 106-&. > SIMON STOFF^L Insurance agent for all classes of property in the best companies. WEST McHENRY, ILLINOIS East Side Service and Transfer Station Herman Schaefer It Co., Props. General Garage Moving Phone 49 :: McHENRY. ILI> f.tLANOT ffffir 1Y Fluff and Rag Ruga made to ortUt MS. i. rorr Big display of toys at Vycital's. Insure -In Sure--Insurance ---WITH W m. G. Schreiner . Auctioneering OFFICE AT RESIDENCE Phone 9S-R McHENRY, LLI. wag?*'- ^WINDOW r«i§ THE Gfft DISPLAY . Tables* I * V* ^ * - ^Ipverstuffed Parlor Suit ;llers Kitchen Cabinets ;JSonora Talking Machine^* ^ Telephone Table and Chdifir * : Junior Bridge and Table Lamp* *4"*-;; & y#iiiii)» ihiiinw ^ir T'ni).!Hjji Rock^fM jDayBeds - "Cedar Cheats ,/ " Cox well ChSir ' 11 ^ « £nd and Console ""Tstnles 1Pri8riUa Sewing Cabinets \ Electric Washing Machin^^ ^"* ^ Martha Washington Sewing Cabinets i *Sleds _ al Bikes I)oll Carriages *' • ' •>: j '> t - Child's Desk and Chair Kiddy Kara Blackboards Children's Chairs Rockers ^ ^ ^ •SPECIALS SciI^Velocipede9 |•' - Wheelbarrows v., | Coaster Wagons^ tj ' Carpet Sweepers " * . * Leatherette Folding CTO Card Tabids.._._„3)ZeOU Console and Buffet Mirrors, up from. _ $3.50 m ii II' V Order your Gifts now for Christmas Delivery" WISHING YOU ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS . Justen & Son -r ,#v7. PHONE 63-W: WEST McHENRY, ILL. PWl- • % m ' v - ' -v. ^ 1101 3G 3E 3G 3G 3f t H: r f" k*K • :-p- ^ • •••• . *?• - ; v li: -• -y \I -yi A Gift that means a double pride--your pride in a gift thoughtfully chosen, his pride of possession. A gift that instinctively has those qualities of which pride is born* •• • . Men's Knitted Vests Pure Linen Handkerchiefs Pfciti and fancy borders, each 50c Men's Pure Silk Hose Thread Silk - Brown, Black, Tan Bark and Green each 75c ; ' Mfen'ft fine Flannel Broad Cloth Shirts [Collar attached. Grey or Tan S6.00 Lined Cloves Alfoe cape glove with lining $2.00 ;... Shirts 'In tfie new plaid^effects, very popular . . 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All wool and in the following colors -- White* Scarlet, Navy and Maroon each $12:00- r jMen's Beaver Hat|S& Extra fine quality in tans and greys ' $7.50 Sweater Coatti - Boys' knitted sweaters in the new heather colors * • $4.75 ' Moleskin Jackets Knitted collar, a good serviceable jacket $5.00 i • Fur fined Mocha Gloves A warm dress glove. s r-^r--$5.50 ^ Flannel Mufflers ' Indported Scotch pattems <.*y 5.50 • ynee Blouses for the boys. Colors Fast Each i !"i- Men's Fancy Bordfejied > ' Handkerchiefs | Gwmaieed fast colon, «pcfc| , 25c Fibre Silk Socks ick, each • 50c Lamb Lined Mitten#* i>- A dress mitten, soft and pliable per pair • ••• ' ? .50 Knitted *tte Silk knitted and silks " 50e Stieep Lined Coats 1 Fur collar, three quarter length • $22.50 " ' " Silk Knit TIMThe new striped patterns * $1.50 Brushed Wool Mufflers 1 ^ rjf?T' aii new patter**; 1 4^' ^ ;M " • 1.50 '• brothers Up to 3.50 stjjfe. i1