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^^prnTr^;.»4;iP|i'v:^W^«»\,^ y -^WNTIIIW!!^1 ,l--*!*HWI-"'IP* >. •"* >/ y?' T THE M'HENRY PLAINDEALER, THURSDAY, MB. 11, ftt6 X '. V^:ii.'- *&;V'7 V " -v.; !\ I ; THE M'HENRY PLAINDEALER ! Published every Thursday at McHenry, 111., by Charles F. Renich. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at McHenry, 111., under the acOof May 8, 1879. Subscription Rates One Year .. Six Months $2.00 $1.00 V A. H. MOSHEE, Editor and Manager Many a checkered career ends la • striped suit. One beautiful thing about popular songs is they don't last The Chinese war is so old that It has produced 6,789 generals. At least there will be no more wars Started to borrow from Uncle Sam. About the only way to outgrow a hate is to outgrow those you envy. About the only thing that attains fame by leading a night' life Is the •tar. 1 ILLINOIS I | STATE HEWS | CLASS 1 RAILROADS EARN 4.83 PER CENT Net Operating Income in 192$ Wat $1,136,973,477, Statement Shows. Divorce experts are married couples who know how to live without having to get one. It now seems to be the fashion*t# kill a man and then go crazy to escape punishment. The only thing that always should be accepted at face value is a can of beauty cream. When he says, "I appeal to your intelligence," he usually means "What little you have." You never read about the victim of a motorcycle saying he couldn't hear the thing coming. The radio is said to be oply in its infancy. Have you tried giving static a shot of paregoric? * "Truth knows no defeat," and for that matter neither does the side that Issues the communique. "I Miss My Swiss" is the latMt In comedy songs. If it means cheese it should be easily traced. The coal strike that the people will really notice will come when they strike the bottom of the bin. Blessed are the poor. They don't bother the police with tales about being robbed "Wf $75,000 in gems. The* world isn't hopelessly blase 11 a wedding of the hero and heroine Is still considered a happy ending. A baker was fined for selling bread an ounce under weight, but an ounce at present prices is a lot of crust. The difference between an optimist and a pessimist Is the former counts and the latter discounts his blessings It is said that radio is still In its Infancy. Which probably accounts for its bad behavior when you have company. The gent who first referred to trifling sum as "chicken feed" had probably never taken her to a gilded cafe. Girls may put on a few more garments as cold weather approaches but don't expect them to burden themselves. The average man Is so busy keeping his nose to the grindstone that he can't turn up said nose in snobbish disdain of others. A few of the powers want peace in China, but the most of them continue to have hankerings for Just a piece or two of it Apparently reckless drivers travel in the fear that the devil takes the hindmost Sometimes he selects the vanguard. The growler hasn't a reasonable excuse to offer, for in summer It's "hot as hades," and in winter It's as "cold" as the same place. The chauffeur arrested on eight charges probably is ready to Join the ranks of those who contend that we have too many laws. There is always room at the top, and now that flying has come In, more room than ever. The trick is to stay up there or descend safely. Americans loved and admired American womanhood long before the spec tacular stage undertook the Job ol "glorifying the American girl." Policemen in Constantinople have been compelled to shave off their whiskers and are expected to get results, thus completely disguised. Though France has two wars on hand, Spain has one, and Great Britain is threatened with one, the outlook for world peace Is fairly good. The scientist that declares that ether waves are the cause of gravitation ought to find a way to put oil on them so the aviators can stay in the air. A scientist says there are germs so small that a million of them can sit on the point of a pin. Maybe he counted them as they got right up again. An airman predicts an aerial speed of 850 miles an hour. Traveling at that rate Isn't so dangerous, probably, but coming to a sudden stop while thus engaged is risky. A New Tork man has grown dahlia 16 feet tall'; but on the other hand, a California man who had the longest whiskers in the West leaned over a buzz saw and lost them. John Cuckheisen, postmaster at Kenilworth, was held up unci robbed of a diamond pin and ring worth $200 and $300 in cash. • Th4 Loxa elevator Offices and the Big Four railroad depot In Charleston were destroyed by fire supposedly of incendiary origin. A total valuation of $320,597,972 was placed on the physical properties of the 192 railroads in .Illinois by the state tax commission. A $10,000,000 superpower plant furnishing power to. all Illinois light and power corporation .llnes_ from Peoria to Cairo, will be located in Venice, it is announced. A nonresident of the state Is not eligible to appointment as a probation officer, Attorney General Oarlstrom opined in answer to a query by Joe F. Allen, state's attorney of Jefferson county. ' ^ Robert B. Roe, Plnckneyville, incumbent, has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for lerk of the Appellate court of the Fourth district, embracing 34 counties in southern Illinois. Chief Theodore Simmons, Assistant Chief William Reiker, Capt Grant Doan and two firemen were injured fighting flames which threatened to envelope the heart of the retail district of Danville. The property loss was $200,000. A special census of Elgin, taken under the direction of Edward \V. Koch, an official of the United States bureau of census, shows a population of 33, 384, or an increase of 5,930 over the government census figure of 27,454 for the year 1920. By unanimous vote the Chicago city council decided to continue daylight saving this year and put the measure up for repeal at the November elections. The extra .hour of sunlight will go into effect April 25 and will end September 26. Olivet college, operated by the Church of the Holy Nazarene at Olivet, will be sold at public sale June 10 at the college administration building. The order was entered by J. G. Burnside, United States referee in bankruptcy, on petition of the trustees. Any man who has taught school for 30 years has a right to run for the office of county superintendent of schools, in the opinion of Attorney General Oscar E. Carlstrom. The opinion answers the Inquiry of Charles T. Flota, state's attorney of Saline county. Excursion rates of fare and one-half for the round trip from all stations In Illinois and from St. Louis, have been authorized by all railroads for th* annual meeting of the Illinois Farmers' Institute and department of household science in Qulncy February 23. 24 and 25. Plans whereby the distribution of milk from most of the dairy herds that supply the Chicago market will, be controlled absolutely by the Milk Producers' association, were approved by 1,200 dairy farmers, members of the association, meeting at the Hotel La Salle, Chicago. Mrs. Leslie Hobbs of Chandlervllle gave birth to twins a few days ago. On January 30, 1925, she gave birth to triplets, so that her contribution to tHe Cass county population has been five within the year. She is thirty years old and there are four other children in the family. Safety measures were believed by mine officials to have saved more than 1,100 coal miners In a gas explosion at the new Orient mine at West Frankfort Five men were killed. The explosion was the first to occur in the mine, which is one of the largest and most modernly equipped in the world. Purchase of the controlling Interest in Randall mine, a mile north of Freeburg, for more than $16,000 by William J. Rlchert, president of the Freeburg Milling company, from Peter Brandenburger, was announced by Relchert. He intends to reopen the mine, which has been idle for the past two years. For the third consecutive' time Illinois last year led all states in the production of ton litters of pigs. She produced a total of 122 that weighed a ton or more each at the age of 180 days, according to an official summary of the work for 1925 issued by W. H. Smith, state leader of farm advisers at the college of agriculture. University of Illinois. Ranking of states educationally which has placed Illinois variously at the twenty-second and sixteenth place from the top, has been both "unsatisfactory and untrustworthy," Francis O. Blair, state superintendent of public instruction, has written in a circular letter to Illinois teachers and school officers. "What we can say of Illinois, with a high degree of accuracy," he wrote, *'is that comparing what we are educationally with what we ought to be and what we can be, there Is room for great advancement." Yeggmen, safeblowers and stickup men had better be on their guard while trying to put over a Job in Peoria, for the chief of police has Issued orders to his men to shoot to kill whenever they encounter a lawbreaker at^hls work. Dr. Thomas McClelland, eighty, president emeritus of Knox college since 1917 and its president from 1900 to 1917, died in Galesburg after a long illness. During hn administration the Knox endowment Jfund was increased $820,000 and the/attendance grew froa 248 to 506. ^xraanmgcon.--Class 1 railroads la 1925 earned 4.83 per cent on their property investment; according to reports filed by the carriers with the bureau of railway economics, and made public. This is based on reports from 191 class 1 roads ^representing a total mileage of 237,048 miles. The net railway operating income in 1925 over the preceding year was due not only to the fact that freight traffic handled in 1925 was greater than during the preceding year, but also, the bureau said, to increased efficiency and economy In the operation of the railroads, largely the result of enormous capital expenditures rttade during the last four years. It is an interesting fact, in connection with the Increased efficiency with which the railroads were Aper»|ted in 1925, that, with gross operating revenues in 1925 approximately 3 per cent above those the year before, there was only an increase of % of 1 per cent in operating expenses, although there was an increase of approximately 6 per cent In the amount of freight traffic handled. Gross operating revenues in 1925 amounted to $6,186,608,566, compared with $5,987,662,225 in 1924, while operating expenses in 1925 totaled $4,- 583,246,375, compared with $4,559,764,- 810 in 1924. Out of every, dollar of revenue earned in 1925, 74.08 cents went to meet the costs of operation, exclusive of taxes. This ratio compares with 76.15 cents out of every dollar in 1924 and 77.75 cents in 1923. Maintenance expenditures in 1925 amounted to $2,093,617,038, an increase of approximately $20,000,000, or 1 per cent, over those ma-de in 1924. Expenditures for maintenance of equipment alone amounted to $1,268,724,179, a'decrease of $1,987,529, or 1/10 of 1 per cent, from those for the preceding year. Yet railway equipment in 1925 was In better condition than It had been for several years. Maintenanceof- way expenditures amounted to $824,- 892,859, an increase of $22,224,000, or 2.7 per oent. In 1925 class 1 railroads paid out $363,262,000 In federal, state and local taxes. This was an increase of $18,- 717,000, or 5.4 per cent, over the amount expended for such purposes in 1924. Fourteen class 1 railroads operated at a loss for the year. Five of them were in the eastern district, one In the southern and eight In the' western districts. In 1924 20 had operating deficits, of which ten were in the eastern and ten liTthe western district Bureau Heads^Assailed by Colonel Mitchell Washington.--A parting shot at the bow and arrow men who make up the self-perpetuating oligarchies" in the War and Navy departments was fired by William Mitchell, whose resignation from the army recently went into effe<4, and prior to his leaving on his nation-wide speaking tour. "I shall always be on hand in case of war or emergency, wherever, I am needed," the former colonel said as be bade good-by to his former counsel, Representative Frank R. Reld of IlHnola. On February 10 Mr. Mitchell will start his tour with a speech in Jfew York city in Carnegie hall. He will then speak In Boston. After that he will speak <ln the following cities: Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Detroit, Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati, Chicago •and Milwaukee. Looking as dapper In his derby hat and gray overcoat as he did In h!s uniform, Mr. Mitchell seemed In the best of spirits. "No man has had such a wonderful life in the service as I have had," he said. FOLKS: A Friend tells me this: "I love married life. It is wonderful to have a loving wife to share one's joys' and sorrows, in whom to confide one's hopes and plans. Life is so happy, so thrilling, when one is married. No joy can equal that of having a wonderful woman to welcome one home, after tKe day's work is done. Ah, no man's life is complete; no joy is full, without a wife to share it; a woman to understand, to sympathize; a woman who is a loving companion in fair wfcather or foul; one who will bring joy to the harassed heart of her toiling husband; a pal who will proVe faithful through thick and thin. A wife who never nags; one who never criticises; a woman who believes in. you. I love married life! I have never been married." , Willie was admonished by his father to develop the habit of observation. "Cultivate the faculty of seeing and you will be a successful man" he said. The boy's uncle added to the admonition and his aunt also dilated upon the necessity of observing everything that went on. The triple lecture made a deep impression on Willie. That evening he told his father that he had been using his eyes. "Tell us what you have learned," aid his aunt. "Uncle Jim's got a bottle of whisky hid behind his trunk." said Willie. Aunt Jennie's got an extra set of teeth on her dresser and pa's got a deck of cards and a box of chips behind the books in the secretary." "I do not carrot all for you; you're not well-bread," said she. "'Dear Gasoline against me, please; you are the one for me." "Oh mustard be me?" smiled Gasoline, "Then lettuce not delay. If you will beet it off with me I'll marry you today. My celery is rather small, but I'll catsup in thyme. We're such a happy pear, my dear; our life will be sublime." "That snuff!" the milk yelled, pale with wrath. "Ice cream, protest, 'gainst this. Sweet Peaches needs some sage advice, the little silly miss! There's only one way to bring peas; I'll cabbage this sweet prize. Turnip your lips now, Peaches, dear; Potatoes, hide your eyes!; Sweet Peaches sighed upon his neck: "This suits me to a tea; cress me again--I'm in a jam, but soda like to be!" An efficiency engineer stood behind an enormously fat woman in a crowd watching some prohibition agents pour some choice liquor down a sewer. "Alas!" he cried, "never before in my whole life have I seen1 such a shameful waste." A i the hospital some hours later he asked why the fat woman had attacked him. Bwrbank Claim* He Can Cure by Laying on Hands Santa Rosa, Cal.--Power to cure the ill by the "laying on of hands" is claimed by Luther Burbank, plant wizard, whose recent announcement regarding his views on religion caused a sensation. Burbank said be had demonstrated his power to heal in two or three hundred cases and could relate results "that would almost make your hair Stand up." "The power is not supernatural," Burbank said, "and bear In mind that I will not allow the afflicted to be brought to me; I cannot have my door thronged with patients. I am far too busy to take on any more work." Ag. Girls Against Smoking Amherst, Mass.--The girl students of Massachusetts Agricultural college voted, 88 to 12, against permitting smoking by coeds at the college. The question of keeping UP appearances and DOWN expenses has lots to do with LOWERING the HIG cost of living--and the people who run in HIGH society and have LOW incomes while getting the GREAT things of life are overlooking SMALL things that make MUCH happiness and LITTLE trouble. That's the HIGH aitd LOW of the whole business. Don't Buy From Peddler• A school principal taking up a collection for flowers from the faculty walked Into the kindergarten of the school. The principal had just "successfully solicited a donation froiii the kindergarten teacher and was passing out, when Johnny piped: "Teacher, I Treuldn't buy anything from .that man. Mother always says to bjgjr in the stores and not from those /peddlers." _ • .p Methodist Pioneer I The first Methodist preacher In America was Philip Embury, who had been In the Irish Methodist conference before coming to this country In 1766. He found a number of Irish Methodists in New York city und gathered them into a small congregation that held Its meetings in his house. A Common Feeling ' "Some of us wouldn't, mind reforming," remarked the Man on the Car, "but we wouldn't like to have a reformer reform us."--Toledo Blade.; POLITICAL ADVERTISING CHARLES T. ALLEN Republican Candidate FoI COUNTY JUDGE Primaries, Tuesday, April 13, 1926 Head the Ads and Profit MILLERS' STORE GET YOUR COUPONS Beginning Feb. 15, we will give coupons for CASH purchases only. Customers wishing to get coupons for a KITCHEN EASE STEP STOOL on their accounts will please pay their accounts by Feb. 15. After that date we will give coupons for CASH purchases only. AUCTION GEO. V0GEL, Auctioneer ftaving decided to quit farming, I will sell at Public Auction, oae mile east of McHenry, on the Volo road, on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16 Beginning at 10 o'clock, a. m., the folowing described property, to-wit: 71 HEAD OF LIVESTOCK CATTLE--32 Milch Cows; 7 Heifers, coming 2 years old; 1 Hoistein Bull, 3 years old. HORSES--Bay Mare, 20 years old, wt. 1,200; Bay Mare, 14 years old, weight 1,250; Gray Mare, 10 years old, wt. 1,100; Bay Mare, 16 years old, wt. 1,250; Bay Mare, 8 years old, wt. 1,300; Bay Mare, 10 years old, wt. 1,350; Sorrel Mare, 11 years old, wt. 1,400. HOGS--23 Brood Sows, 2 Boar Pigs. Dog and Dog Coop; Horse Blanket. HAY, GRAIN AND MACHINERY 34 toiw Timothy Hay; 8 tons Alfalfa Hay; 500 bu. Oats; 188 bu. Barley; 100 bu. Corn; 22 bu. Seed Corn, picked from Ripe Standing Corn; Deering Corn Binder, nearly new; McCormick Grain Binder; John Deere Corn Planter, nearly nfew; John Deere Cultivator, nearly new; 2 Tiger Cultivators; 8-ft. Imperial Grain Drill, nearly new; 3-section Drag; 2-section Drag; John Deere Gang Plow; 2 Sod Plows; 3 Hand Plows; 14-disc John Deere Pulverizer; McCormick-Deering Side Delivery and Tedder in one; Hay Rake; Deering Hay Loader; McCormick-Deering Manure Spreader, nearly new; 16-inch Peaber Silo Filler; 6-roll Corn Husker, Appleton; Bowesher Feed Mill; 10-20 McCormick-De'ering Tractor and 14-in. Tractor Plow; Tractor Pulverizer; Milk Wagon; Truck Wagon; 2 Top Buggies; 2 Lumber Wagons; Hay Rack; Pig Rack; Top Box; Bob Sleigh; Cutter; 4 1 ets of Harness, two are britchen harness; 2 sets Single Harness; Cowboy Tank Heater; 60-gal. Feed Cooker; 7 Pig Coops; 2 Pig Boxes; 2 Self Feeders; 2 Hay Carriers and Ropes, 165 ft. and 140 ft.; Scale1; Corn Sheller j Hand Seeder; Milk Cart; 11 Milk Cans; Fanning Mill, nearly new; 5 long Pig Troughs; Galvanized Tank; 7 Good Chicken Coops; 500 Baby Chick Ilover; Stewart Horse Clipper; Wheelbarrow; 2 Drive Belts, 1 92 ft. and 1 180 ft.; Pinetree Milking Machine, 2 double units; 2'/z-hp. Linsey Engine; 1 hp. Pump Engine, nearly new; Pump Jack; Corn Drying Rack; Iron Drill and Bits; 40-gaI. Oil Drum; 15-gal. Oil Drum; 100 lbs. Hog Dip; 6 Pig Gates; 2 Fly Sprayers, 1 nearly new; set of Dump Boards; Bottles & Weges Cross-cut Saw; 3 Slop Barrels^2 Lanterns; Hot Bed Windows; Barbed Wire Stretcher; TaekW^fcta^k; Log Chain; Woven Wire Stretcher; Grindstone; Vise; 2 Straw Knives; 35 Grain Bags; two 10-gal. Barrels; 2 Milk Pails and 1 Strainer; 1'/2-ton Jack; Shovels, Fork, Feed Baskets, Barn Sweeper, and many odd tools too numerous to mention. HOUSEHOLD GOODS--12-ft. Oak Table; 9x12 Rug; Hanging Lamps, Cook Stove; Stepladder; 4 Chairs; Kerosene Lamps; Imperial Incubator. PLENTY OF FREE LUNCH SERVED AT NOON TERMS OF SALE--*A11 sums of $10 and under, cash. On all sums over $10 a credit of six months will be given on good bankable notes bearing 7 per cent interest. Beit M. Kennebeck C. W. STENGER, Clerk. A McHenry woman has solved a big problem. When she gives he husband letters to mail, she puts with them a postcard addressed too herself. If it comes to her the next day, she knows hubby has done his duty. The principal danger just now of printing so much about Red Grange and Irving Berlin and others who make so much money is that congress is in session again and may vote itself another salary increase. German Jews Fight Suicide Berlin, Germany. -- German Jews, called to combat the increase of suicide In Germany, entered into an antisuicide pact. The meeting was called by lodges of the Independent Order of B'nal B'rlth. Bedouins Kill Sixty Druses Beirut, Syria.--The Leja Bedouins, who hitherto have been neutral, have attacked the Djebel Druses, killing 60 of them and capturing horses and live stock. It is raining on the river, and the sky is low and gray; it is raining in the timber, its a dismal sort of day. But a fellow shouldn't holler though the day is dark and drear; for it's always raining somewhere--and it happens to be here." Somewhere else Hhe sun is shining, somewhere else the world is glad; somewhere else they're having weather of the sort we wish we had. Some time, maybe to-morrow, sun will shine and clouds will clear; for its always shining somewhere--it may happen to shine here. As to Resolutions --\ Salve for someone's conscience from the Whltsett (Ga.) Courier: "The editor is persuaded that the man who never broke a New Year's resolution never made one." Credentials Football Coach (to applicant for place On ..team)--"What experience have you had?" Applicant--'">Vell, last summer I was hit by two autos and a truck."--Boston Transcript. Mirandy says that we should go down where there ain't no ice and snow and spend the winter in the land where posies bloom on ev'ry hand. Down south there ain't no fires to make, and so she says we'd better take a Ittle trip and leave the man to keep the farm the best he can. She saved her chicken money up so why not take her and the pup and just enjoy the balmy breeze that blows across the Florida Keys. That plan of hers appeals to me, and if shell pay the cost, by gee I'd just as soon take such a tour, although I tell her I am sure that it will leave us busted flat and she can't have a new spring hat. But then, her clothes will last awhile, she ain't no hand to put on style. Of course 111 have to dress up some this suit of mine is on the -bum, 111 have to get a new plug hat, or brand new suit to go with that, a new tie and checkered socks to cover up my shins and hocks. A well-known character like me has got to dress the part, by gee, when I go out to take the air there ain't no hayseeds in my hair! for Economical Transportation Twelve great factories tmsufw passed in completeness of manufacturing and engineering facilities! Two basic truck models, each with a durable, powerful chassis designed to combine economy and relia* bility! Dealers and service stations everywhere stocked with parts to render prompt low-cost service! The most economical time payment plan in existence! That's why Chevrolet has become the third largest builder of motor trucks in the world! See us today. Let us prove that the start by Ku can save irony t yiftg a Chevrolji OneTonlruck Chassis aaiy- 550 8U. Paul B. Bonslett Waukegan Road and Front Street West McHenry, Illinois Q U A L I T Y A T L O W C Q • T