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RS Of A SY CITY :;~r j£',7'. BY PLAINDEALER RB- 5RS AND HANDED IN BY FRIENDS By Baron was .* Hebron visitor !£-&, Ganr |i*s a Chfoago visitor liFrMay | George Steilen wan a Chicago vis* (•r last Friday. |Mrs, N. II. Petesch was a Chicago Isitor last Friday. Miss Dorothy Freund was a Chicago |opper Wednesday. IMr. and Mrs. H. H. Pay were "Elgin itors one day last week. rs. Gertruie Thelen of E!gin was clienry visitor Sunday. mbrose Schaefer passed Wednesin the metropolitan city. isses Eleanor and Florence Cony passed Friday in Chicago. bert Taylor spent New Year's day wtth relatives in the metropolitan city. Miss Clara Miller spent last week ar the guest of relatives at Kenosha, wis. Miss Loretta Kirby of Aurora was a Sunday guest of Miss Rosemary Nfe. • ifiss Mabel Jones of Chicago was the guest of friends here over New Y«ars. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fleming were guests of friends at Crystal Lake Sunday. Miss Loretta Quinn of Elgin spent the latter part of last week with relatives here. Umid J. Knox of Aurora passed Saaday as the guest of McHenry fHends.! Miss Vera Stoffel passed New Year'# day as the guest of her sister \Jg Chicago Michael Weston of Woodstock spent Wednesday of last week with relatives here. Mrf. Mary MoCabe passed a couple at days last week as the guest of Chieaga friends. , Miss Marguerite Ferrell of Chi - - Mgo spent New Year's day with Mc- ""Wutlf friends. Hr..and Mrs. W.'F. Vogt passed last and Friday with relatives at ond, Ind. John W. Fay passed Sunday in the Mine of his daughter, Mrs. Harry Oder, in Chicago. Joe Buch passed a few days last week with relatives and friends in the Metropolitan city. Mrs. Mary Powers and son spent A few days the last of the week with Long Lake relatives. Miss Beulah Larkin of Elgin spent Mew Years with the-Misses Dorothy .«0)d Genevieve Knox. William Conway of Elgin was the •West of McHenry relatives the lat- .'•lir part of last week. Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Petesch passed M A few days this week as guests of relatives in the metropolitan city. Leo Winkel of Chicago passed New Year's day in the home of his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Winkel. Herbert Hoffman of Chicago spent the holidays in the home of his parents, Mr and Mrs. Frank Hoffman. Clarence Baron of Hebron passed New Year's day in the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Baron. John I. Sutton of Chicago passed New Year's day as a guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Knox. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fleming spent Mew Year's day as guests in the home >f the latter's parents at Algonquin. Miss Ruth Powers has returned to her school duties at LaGrange after spending the holidays wjth her mother here. Mr. and Mrs. Al. Wagner of Chicago *pent a few days last week in the home of the latter's sister, Mrs. E. F. Kelter. Miss Blanche Pryor of Cambridge. 111., spent a few days the latter part of last week as the guest of McHenry friends. Miss Irene Conway of Elgin spent the latter part of last week in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Conway. Mrs. Allen Noonan and sons, Anthony and Allen, spent several days last week with relatives in the metropolitan city. v' Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Houlihan and children of Park Ridge were Sunday guests in the home of Mr, and Mrs. Ray F. Conway. Misses Mabel Kellar and Mrytle Daube of Lake Villa were recent guests in the home of Rev. and Mrs. B. F. Wentworth. Misses Frances, Elsie, Helen and Violet Vycital and brother, John, passed New Years as guests of relatives at Racine, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Lawson of Elgin passed the latter part of last week as guests in the home of the latter's father, Mathia^ Weber. Mrs. Victor Meyers and daughter, Elaine, who are spending several weeks in Chicago, spent the week end with McHenry relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Herbes and children of Grayslake were Sunday guests in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Meyers. Miss Gertrude Kisch of Evanston and Mias Catherine Ashburner of La- Grange passed last Friday as tile guests of McHenry friends. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ward have returned to their home here after spending the holidays with their daughter, Mrs. Arthur Rasmussen, in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Marcellus Meyers and daughter, Marcel'.a, of Chicago and Mrs. John Montgomery and daughters of Forest Park spent several days last week in the George Meyers home. , Your news items always appreciated. Phone 98-W. A large cross, twenty feet in height, supposedly erected by the Klan, was burned on the lake at Lake Geneva, Wis., oik^phristmas eve. QUARTER OF A CENTURY ITEMS CLIPPED FROM PLAINDEALERS OF 25 YEARS AGO John ^fcConnell, a prominent citizen of Richmond, passed away suddenly while out in the yard at his home on New Year's morning. Mrs, Margaret Bonslett had a very enjoyable family gathering at her home On New Year's day. Those presest were Mr. and Mrs. Simon Stoffel, Mr. and Mrs. Will Bonslett of McHenry, Mr. and Mrs. Chas."Frett, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Bonslett and Peter Frett of Chicago. The opening of the New Year was pleasantly observed at the hotae of O. N. Owen. Among the relatives entertained at dinner were Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Owen, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Chapell, Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Owen, Mrs. E. M. Owen and Edwin Owen of McHenry and Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Babbit of Elgin. '/•. The ball given in Stoffel's hall on New Year's night was a grand success. A large num*ber were in attendance from Chicago and neighboring towns. At least 400 people were in the hall and 175 dance tickets were sold. Will Jungruckel of Dundee and Miss Myrtle Slimpin of McHenry carried off "• the- honors in the prize waltz. ' Theodore and Nicholas Adams, twin sons of Mathias B. Adams of Johnsburg, were drowned on the east side Half Moon island on Wednesday, Jan. 3. The boys started out, with a younger brother, Henry, to skate to Pistakee Bay. They skated as far as S. J. Mellin's, where they stopped and got warm, and then they started out to skate to the Bay. On the east side of the island the ice gave way and the twin brothers plunged in. The younger brother's skate strap broke and he stopped to repair the damage, thus avoiding a similar fate, The bodies were taken out at 12:30 after being in the water about two hours. They were fifteen years of age. The funeral was held on Friday from St. John's church, Johnsburg. ADDITIONAL EXCHANGE Three red foxes were shot by hunt* ers near Belvidere last Saturday. The fifty-seventh anniversary of the founding of the First Presbyterian church at Harvard was Observed last Sunday. Fire completely destroyed the home of C. Bernardomi, who resides on the Dell Thomas farm four miles west of Woodstock, last Friday morning. Waukegan's tax rate this year will be $11.33 per hundred valuation, 84 cents higher than last year, when the tax payers paid at the rate of $10.49 per hundred valuation. The Harvard postofltee is now in its new office in the building owned by the Harvard State bank and used as its home for many years. This gives Harvard one of the neatest postoffices to be found in this section of the state. The ice racing program at Lake Geneva, Wis., was inaugurated on New Year's day. Another very excellent program will take place tomorrow (Friday) afternoon. There will be two races with five horses entered in each event. Woodstock officials' will have their salaries raised this year. At a meeting of the city council there last Friday night it was voted to double the salaries of the mayor and city council men. The present pay of the mayor is $5.00 per meeting, while the aldermen receive $3.00. Rose Gorden has been paroled from the McHenry county jail at Woodstock by Judge Shurtleff. She was lodged in the jail several weeks ago on a charge of robbery. Her husband, Jack Gorden, received a sentence of from one to ten years in the state penitentiary. He has already started serving his time. Rev. J. G. Smith, pastor of St. Francis de Sales Catholic church at Lake Geneva, Wis., went thru his mass on New Year's morning while firemen were fighting. a blaze which had started the roof of the edifice on fire. About twenty , worshippers also remained in their pews. The fire did - damage to the extent of about $300. At the annual meeting of the An-' tioch fire department, held in that village recently, records showed that the department was called out fourteentimes during the past year and that the estimated damage by fire during' the same period was $100,000 The report further showed that the new fire truck responded to a few out-of-town calls during the year. Atty. George W. Field, formerly of Woodstock, for a number of years a practicing attorney at Waukegan, was united in marriage to Miss Blanche Ely by Justice Harry Hoyt in the county clerk's office at the Lake county court house last Friday . evening. Atty. Field has an extensive acquaintance in Lake as well as McHenry county and only recently acted as attorney for one or Ynore of the defendants of the beer runners' arrests. With ten cows from his herd of Holsteins entered, Arthur D. Cornue, Hebron farmer, now holds state honors for the largest number of cows nominated from a singly herd for membership in the Illinois 500-Pound Butterfat Cow club, according to announcement of C. S. Rhode, dairy extension specialist of the Illinois Agricultural college. This gives McHenry county the lead over all other counties in the state, with a total of thirtysix cows nominated from eight herds. Mr. Cornue is a fanner who built up a paying dairy herd by following up-todate and success-promoting practices, according to Rhode. The average production of his herd was 11,602 pounds of milk and 443 pounds of fat a cqjv for the year. GAME AND FISH NEWS By C. F. Mansfield, Jr., Sec. The Federated Sportsmen of Illinois That farmers aiyi sportsmen from all parts of the state are preparing for a vigorous fight against stream 'pollution at the next session of the general assembly is indicated from the mapy communications received by the secretary of the. Federated Sportsmen. Pollution of the streams of this state, particularly Illinois river, )ias reached a point where it is of interest not only to sportsmen, but is a" serious menace to agricultural interests and the health and welfare of the people of the entire state. Altho Illinois river' at one time ranked second among the rivers of the world in the value of the fooi fish it produced, it is now of little importance thruout its upper portions in fish production and is virtually an open sewer, a menace to the health and welfare of all persons living along its valley, and a serious handicap to the farming interests of this great area of fertile land. According to resolutions adopted by the Illinois Academy of Science at its last annual meeting, active assistance by this large body of leading scientists of the state will be combined with the efforts of sportsmen, farmers and pub- Phone 126-W. Reasonable Rates % H. SCHAKFER •• .*^V . Draying McHSNRY, ILLINOIS ALFORD H. POUSE • Attorney-at-Law Phone 26 West McHenry, IlL S. J. FOWLER, D. G. Palmer Graduate Chiropractor Monday, Wednesday and Friday Hrs., 2:30 to 8:00 p. m. Phone 168 Brefeld Bldg. W. McHENRY, ILL. www Fluff and Rac Ruga made to order nNnBoC . RD . PrwAPrPr ' WESPTH OMNCEH E16N2R Y DRS. M'CHESNEY & BROWN (INCORPORATED) DENTISTS i »f. J. W. Brown, Dr. R. M. Walker < atabliahed over 45 year* and •till doing Business at old stand Pioneers in First-Class Dentistry at Moderate Prices Ask Your Neighbors and Friends About Us K. E. Cor. Clark & Randolph 145 N.' Clark St., Chicago PHONE CENTRAL 2047 Daily 8 to 5; Sundays 9 to 11 lie health officials in their fight against this, needless pollution of streams. 'The plan includes additional legislation making the pollution of streams by any sewage or waste unlawful with proper and effective penalties provided for violation. Under our present laws there is no one officer or department which has the authority to mike exhaustive research, secure evidence of violations and carry on prosecutions, involving all phases of stream pollution. • v ' 62 The Best Service ^hraya M • & ' ; BERNHARD POP* v;' ' . Expert Shoemaker H'HENRY TOWNSBir MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. Insurance for Farm ^nd Residence Property "Geed Protection at Low Ceat X- ' • F ' «Y - *. * Agents McHenry, Michael Freund, phone 148- J; Johnsburg, Ringwood. M. N. Schmitt, phone 623-R-l; Spring Grove and Richmond, Fred Meyer?. Insure-- In Sore--Insurance WITH a'v."" W m. G. Schreiner Auctioneering OFFICE AT RESIDENCE Phone 93-R ' McHENRY, ILL. Reduced Prices on all winter merchandise FELT BOOTS and overs OVERSHOES, four and 5 buckle SWEATER COATS, Sport Coats BOYS' COAT style and slip-over Sweaters WOOL MIXED BLANKETS UNDERWEAR for men, women, boys and girls All to go at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES John Stoffel WEST McHENRY. ILL. This lack of effectiveness will remedied, however, if success folkvmi the plans of various members of the next general assembly for the concentration of these much needed powers in one department with fvB:- • - authority and responsibilities.^ East Side Service and Transfer Station Herman Schaefer & Co., Props. Geaoral Garage Phone 49 Jfrope. Movinf f v;-,' MeHENBY, ILI*- It doesn't mattter. The point is, no matter why you eat you want the best. We sell the best teas and coffees, purest of lards, highest patent flour, best canned goods, fruits, vegetables in season and the best general line of groceries to be found in this town. M. M. Niesen McHenry 4|;; My spectacles and eye glasses an mown all over. America. Thirty year* experience testing eyes and grinding glasses to order only. We make all repairs. Absolutely guaranteed. Dr. C. KELLER, Optometrist and Optician Chicago Address . McHenry, ffiL • 3407 N. Paulina St. Phone 167 - • Phone Graeeland 9540. v:;;--_ t" Mr ID WHIER CLEARANCE SALE • ' a* ---T T * Starts Jan. 10 and ends Jan. 31 •, -- » ' _ • | .. «*> We have taken our annual inventory and find that we are heavily overstocked in some lines. We have determined to turn this surplus stQ£kiatft i^gash and are offering a large quantity of high grade merchandise at greatly reduced prices. It would pay you well to go V, miles out of your way to take advantage of the remarkably low prices that we are naming Men's work shirts, $1.00 values, each. ....... .79c -- . : \ . • Men's 220 weight blue denim overalls, pair . . $1.49 Cotton challies, a variety of patterns, suitable for quilts and comfortables, per yard 17c -Beat quality 36 in. percales, light and dark pat- Herns, per yard 24c Kotex, 60c pkg., special 39c fruit of the loom bleached muslin, per yard.. .22c *9*4 or 81 in. wide unbleached sheeting, per yd.48c 9-4 or 81 in. wide bleached sheeting, per yd.. .57c 45 inch sheeting pillow case finish, per yafd. .32c Red and white plaid table damask, per yard.. 79c Outing flannel, 32 in., extra quality, per yard. .27c One lot of lace edging, special per yard 3c 20% Discount 20% On all silk goods, including satin militaire, silk messaline, crepe de chine, taffeta and silk crepe 20 per cent discount on all hand painted and fancy decorated china dishes 10 per cent d»cqu at m gll dfapar wage in seta or open stock , , « - ' -r'jy •< . : * J 20% Discount 20% On men's one and four buckle Arties, men's and boys' four and five buckle allrubber Arties, men's Felt Boot Combinations, Rubbers for German Socks, men's Leather Top Rubbers, men's and boys' German Socks, ladies', men's and children's light weight Rubbers and ladies' and children's artics. / --r -- • 11 fWiiirtrywi! •' . 20% DISCOUNT s OP ft&Ltdfel*, Men's and Children's Sweaters and Children's Knit Gloves, Mittens ' ' * ' - and Caps v c- V7 10% DISCOUNT ton all wool and wool mixed Flannels and Dress goocjf 19# DISCOUNT on all Winter Underwear 41# LOUIS A, ERICKSON WEST McHENRY, ILL. hum Patented mop stick, each . . 8c 10 bars American Family laundry soap...... .63c 10 bars P. and G. Naptha laundry aoap.47c 4 bars Jap Rose toilet soap..»*.... ....«,27c 4 bars Kirk Olive toilet soap . ;.».*.,r.,27c 4 bars Kirk's hardwater castile soaf|.... ... V27c 1 lb. package Parowax, special......... ."*>,#* 9c Bon Ami, per cake <.. •* ««* •«* #»• 9c Campbell's soups, special, per can....... *; .IHc Campbell's pork aiid beans, per can.. t. .*-i>^9ttc Imitation vanilla extract, 8 oz. bottle.... . .. ,45c Imitation vanilla extract, 4 oz. bottle. »25c Men's work shoes, uskide soles, special pair.§849 6 cup aluminum coffee percolater, .59c 6 quart grey enameled kettles, ^ch.. S.?0. S. steel wool, 30c package 10c size scour well steel wool, per 3 tin drinking cups Large size black metal roaster, Grey enameled water pails, ea^, l. . ^i;sS9c jfi^l9c .....22c 7c 10c 39c Aluminum water pails, « Large aluminum kettles, . ..98c •..»* *»«». w*98c »• •yr. 4' • ' • ' ' • v Y - r l r . • ' * •' m . ; \v •J,** ,>• rri •*,/ ; •- max >;. . :