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THE M'HENRY PLAIHDEALE*, THURSDAY, J^RILl, fHS LATEST HEWS IH DAYS OF YORE FkiwMer Items Twenty-five Years Ago Amtong th« real estate transfers of the past week we note the following: T. J. Walsh disposes of his hand- £me residence on the river to Nick arbian. Consideration in. the neighborhood of $3500. Mrs. Julia Bishop transfers her cottage to {John Huemann. Mrs?. Buch becomes the owner &t the F. G. Mayes residence. John Joseph O'Reilly, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester O'Reilly and grandson of John J. Flusky of Chicago. died Sunday, March 24, aged 4 years, 21 days. The little one was taken ill some two weeks ago with pneumonia and although everything that medical «kill could do or loving friends suggest was done yet it was without avail. The body was brought McHenry Ice Cream | Easter Special TWO-LAYER BRICKSFC MARASCHINO CHERRIES NEW YORK ICE CREAM Full Line of Easter Candies and Fancy Boxes Charles Unti Green and Elm Streets McHENRY Extra-Value Living Room Sets to McHenry for burial, the funeral occurring from St. Patrick's church Tuesday morning. March 17th was "Uncle Ben" Gilbert's birthday and the event was celebrated in a very pleasant manner. A family gathering was planned in honor of the occassion and a sumptuous dinner served. A farwell reception for Rev. Straub and family will be held at the Universalist parlor on Friday evening of this week. A cordial invitation is extended to all. Miss Bessie Hughes was born in Dublin, Ireland, 'Aug. 8, 1867, and died at the residence of her brother, James J. Hughes, on Friday. March 15. She came to America and settled in Brooklyn in 1872. Ten years later she came to McHenry which place has snce been her home. She has been in feeble health for the past seven years but during all that time she has preserved a hopeful and cheerful demeanor and was beloved by a large circle of friends. The funeral was held from St. Patrick's church, the Rev. Father O'Neill officiating and the interment took place in the cemetery adjoining. A disastrous fire occurred at Antioch last Thursday night which is thought to have been of incendiary origin. The fire stared in the bakery owned by George Sterdevant' and the entire block was wrecked. The principal losers were the Antioch bank, completely destroyed with many documents, the Ames Hardware Company and the Sterdevant bakery. The" less is estimated at $30,000. Miss Bernice Perry of McHenry was the guest of Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Besley from Friday till Monday, and an informal party was held in her honor at their rooms in the Kendall block on Saturday--Woodstock Sentinel. A McGuineas of. Elgin was'in our village last week looking up business for the Mutual Life Insurance of New York. Mr. McGuineas has been made special agent for this company and The most complete-collection of living room furniture we have ever shown--and the lowest-in price. Quality is equal to our usual standard, with which our guarantee of satisfaction or money back is always a part of the sale. Jacob Justen & Son Furniture and Undertakii$ McHENRY, ILLINOIS is assigned to McHenry County. Mrs. James Button of Columbus, Neb., arrived in McHenry last Wednesday and will assist in taking care of her mother, Mrs. William McCollum, who is seriously ill. A letter received by S. S. Chapell from Charles Nordquist, formerly of McHenry, states that Harry Kennedy has submitted to an operation for appendicitis and is on the road to recovery. Dwight Babcock has given up his position as local editor of the Marengo Republican to accept a similar position on the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Gazette, of which paper his brother is editor. We are pleased to learn of Dwight's success but sorry to lose him from McHenry County. John J. Miller has had the interior of His residence handsomely decorated Micheal Mattsen of Chicago was the artist. E. G. Mayes died in Racine, Wis., Tuesday, March 26, at 6.30 a. m. The body will be brotight to McHenry for interment and the funeral service will be held in the fd.: E. church Friday afternoon at 2:30. ; • - •> GAMES IN THE HOME he comes in the room, you ask him "Is it the Statue of Liberty?" "Is it Miss-- or Mr. and a lot of questions and he answers "mo" each time but finally when you ask about the right object, he says, "Yes.'/ Giving The Clue ^ You can give him clue in many ways including new methods which you and your partner can figure out yourself. For instance, the first object that you mention after a four legged object, such as a chair or horse, might be "it." Or you can mention something black, or something that swims, or something that flies, or some person with spectacles on in the room, before you give the J real object that your partner will guess. Dairy Record Extraordinary A. D. Cornue of Hebron, III. has the distinction of making the second highest record in Illinois in 1925 according to information just received at the Farm Bureau office from Dairy Department of the U. of I. Mr. Cornue's herd of 20 cows made an average of 441.9 lbs. butterfat and about 11,000 lbs. of milk per cow which is a record any good dairyman should be proud to attain. Three or four of Cornue's cows made better than 500 lbs. butterfat each and thus placed him second in the Illinois 500 lbs. Butterfat Club. . Fewer cows and higher producers is a slogan which would point the way to greater profits in the dairy business if adopted generally in this county Too many cows are being kept at a loss--not paying for the feed they consume. As an average proposition a cow that produces but 5,000 lbs. of' milk of average test is scarcely paying her board. Hence a herd should show an average considerable better than 5,000 to ^ring in the owners a profit. the Ohio river just above Cairo. The Ohio meets the Mississippi, filled With floating ice in the winter time, just below Cairo. The warming waters of the Cumberland and Tennessee melt this ice swiftly so that ice never drifts more than three or four mifca south of the mouth of the Ohio. So the Mississippi is ice-free from Cairo down all the year around." Ocean Port in Illinois Few persons realize that Illinois has an all-year, ice-free ocean port where shipping can be loaded forexport to the seven seas, says the Illinois Chamber of Commerce. It explains, "Barges Tun on schedule carrying cargoes from Cairo to be loaded shipside at New Orleans. The Cumberland and Tennesseee rivers, flowing out of the Southland, join POLITICAL ADVERTISING VOTE FOR James F. CASEY Republican Candidate For County Judge At the Primaries on April 13th,*^B.1926 "Compiled by Glenn D. Adams The Y. M. C. A. of Chicago" Two Man Opponents Hand Slap--One boy has his hands resting on top of the hands of the other boy. The one whose hands are on the bottom, seeks'to withdraw his hands quickly and slap the other fellows' hands. As soon as he accomplishes this, they face trade places. The boy whose hands are on top, can remove his hands as soon as the one below has removed his from touching. Snap the Cork--Place a cork lightly in the top of a bottle and have one after another run by the bottle and seek to knock the cork out of the bottle without hitting the bottle. It really is funny to see how difficult this little stunt is. The chances are that every one at first at least will either miss the cork entirely or else hit the bottle instead, if he is on a run as he tries. Cumberland wresting--In this each boy grabs his opponent around the waist and seeks to lift his opponent from the floor. Pull Across Line--A line is made on the floor by a thread or piece of paper and two opponents grasp hands across this line and seek to pull the opponent across the line. This may be tried in the same way, only trying to push your way across the line and using only one arm to push with. Secret Code Messages Guessing games are usually fun if you don't keep any particular one up too long and give every one a chance to show off their tricks for the others to guess. Various tricks methods of giving a message to a partner may be employed for the rest of the folks to try and guess. For instance, your partner is out of the room, the rest agree on some object either inside or outside the room which he is to guess. When It pays to Buy Good Lumber Q PEOPLE'S t T T T T - T T T T T T ? T T ? T T TT T T Tf T ,T I T T T 7 T 7 7 7 •7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 77 ? 7 7f t T 7 7t 7 7r t 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 •7 The greater length of service, the lessened eost of building and the better appearance of the finished building more than repay the small added cost of good Lumber. Pholte 46 MrHENRY LUMBER pr) J. JL Quality and Service First • m FOR TOWN CLERK By Petition N CHAS. B. HARMSEN • FOR ASSESSOR By Petition n JOSEPH N. SCHMITT • _ --- I hereby certify the foregoing is a Specimen Ballot to be voted in the Town of McHen ry, County of McHenry, Illi nois, April 6, 1926. CHAS B. HARMSEN, Town Clerk. POLITICAL ADVERTISING THE AJAX SIX 4-DOOR SEDAN Full force-feed lubrication, 7-bearing crankshaft,' 6-bearing camshaft, 4-wheel brakes, full balloon tires, 5 disc wheels, new Mallard Green finish, new Velour upholstery, automatic windshield wiper, cowl ventilator, dome light and cowl lights. Sin^ply try to match all the features Ajax v5ix offers with what you can get elsewhere in the $1000 field* You're sure to buy the Ajax~then! George A. Stilling Garage Phone 28 - McHenry, 111. ••a *4* CHARLES T. ALLEN Republican Candidate For COUNTY JUDGE Respectfully Solicits Your Support Primaries, Tuesday, April 13 1926 about good-coffee *making jl $100 for a Recipe! Listen in every Tuesday evening at 7:20, statiom WORD (wave length 273) for full details of our New Radio Recipe Contest You cannot know how fragrant and fall - flavored and alluring coffee can be until you've made it the modern electric percolator waV . . . just a snap of the switch right at the table starts the percolator bubbling with good cheer for breakfast and for every other occasion . . . besides making better coffee and saving trips to the kitchen, the electric percolator enables you to serve each cup just as you need it and serve it piping not. We have electric percolators ina variety of graceful styles fid at prices to suit every. \rse; call in and see theit, L PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS 101 Williams St, Crystal Lake Telephone 280 j. A. Schabeck, District Manager