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THE M'HENRY PLAINDEALER; published every Thursday at McHenry, 111., by Charles F. Renich. Entered as second-class matter at the poetoffice at McHenry, I1L, under the art of May 8, 1879. Subscription Rattv One Year .. Six Months >•••••••• •.» • ••«.• •• .$2.00 . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . , . . . $ 1 .00 A. H. MOSHER, Editor and Manager _m.lnm,1!pR()p0SES NAy|0NAL Mews Brevities | of Illinois | iiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiimiMiiiiiiiiiiiiimnir; Fire at Mason destroyed three grocery stores In the business district, causing loss estimated at $30,000. Lombar 1 basket-ball lettermen have elected George Hanseman, guard, of Des Molnee, Iowa, captain tor next year. Prank E. Pratt, veteran harness manufacturer of western Illinois, is dead at Kewanee at the age of eightyyears. Mrs. Sarah Crose, ninety-nine. Saybrook's oldest resident, died' at the borne of her granddaughter, Mrs. Charles Daniel. * John H. Jackson, seventy-two. former mayor of Streator. and long prominent in Democratic politics In LaSalle county, Is dead of cerebral hemorrhage. Mrs. August* Rennhoff, a Belleville •oft-drtnk parlor proprietor, was sentenced to AO dsyn In )Nll slid fined flOu and costs for i.roitiMUon law violation. It was her second o'*ns*. Leonard Hornsr slid l>elphlo Petay. accused of murder for the death of Mary Serjar, who Jumped from their car and was killed on a Joy ride last summer, have been rearrested at Ottawa. A three-years' flght to save his rich 16-acre farm in Stark county from foreclosure to satisfy a $20,000 debt Incurred In speculation on the grain market was won by George E. So triers at Peoria. Using building methods in vogue a century ago, when log cabins dotted the plains of Illinois, three employees of the Alton state hospital have constructed a replica of one of Lincoln's early log cabin homes. Prank Fetters, seventy-one years old, farmer and prominent Mason of Elwood township, is dead at his winter home at Ridge farm. He came to Danville with his parents from Green county, Tennessee, in 1865. Revival services to close roauhouses or near Lansing, 111., were halted PROHIBITION POLL Senator Edge Demands Refer' endum <on laaue in November, 1928% Washington.--Prohibition Is to -be given a public aiding before a senate committee th$L^ro weeks beginning April 5.. This was determined by the senate Judiciary committee, which approved with only a single dissenting vote the program recommended by Its subcommittee of five for hen ring* on pending measures for modification. The first week will be reserved for presentation of arguments from wet Iforces; the second week la set aside for the drya. Washington.--The" house unofficial committee for modification of the Volstead act will give the senate Judiciary committee first whack at testimony on prohibition and will defer its own lieu ring set for tills week. The committee will co-operate fully with the senate official body and, in addition, litis appointed a spokesman to present its views and those of the modification senators to the committee, which will begin its aaoslona on April 5. Washington.--A practicable plan to give the American people their first opportunity to express themselves on national prohibition at the polls In the general elections of November, 1928, was proposed In the senate by Senator Walter Edge of New Jersey, leader of the wet forces in congress. A Joint resolution, sponsored by Edge, which would require approval of the senate and house and slttnature of the President, outlined in detail the method for holding a national referendum on modification of the prohibition law. Since the vote would be taken In connection with the Presidential and congressional elections, it la held It ^ _ would bring out the maximum Dunlin the "arrest oTthe' leadingreVvdtet °f vofers and f"rn,3h Rev. Benjamin M. Brown, as he was leading his gathering In song and In prayer outside the Ridge Road Inn. Teaching of the artistic use of rouge lb place of forbidding cosmetics among high-school pupils was advocated by Miss Adah Hess, state supervisor of home economics, before the central division meeting of the Illinois State Teachers' association at Peoria. tioned expression of public sentiment. Expressing belief the drys will not be able to cite any acceptable reason why such a referendum should not be held,* the wets propose to hammer away until they get action on the resolution, although it la doubtful If it can he had at the present seaslon. This was manifest from the reaction Edwin Bauer and Sam Leoprich attended the show at Grayslake Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Dell Townsend have purchased a new Chevrolet sedan. Peter Walter Freund spent Sunday with Morris Townsend. Earl Townsend was a Waukegan visitor Monday. Earl and Irving: Townsend and Misses Helen and Georgia Vasey attended the Lyceum at the Wauconda high school Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Gussie Townsend spent Saturday at Waukegan. John Rosing has been on the sicklist. Mr. and Mrs. Will Dillon and son, Walter, spent Sunday at D^erfield at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Vineyarcf. Tom Vasey has been on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wilbur of Grayslake spent Sunday at the Tom Vasey home. Bert Vasey ispent Sunday at the Jay Vasey home. Mrs. Rose Dunill of Yolo is spending a few days with her daughter, Mjs-^Will Hironimus at Round Lake, where she has been seriously ill, Mrs. John Walton of Volo spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Krueger at Wauconda. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wegener were Chicago shoppers Saturday. Ethel Fitzgerald spent the weekend in Chicago. Mrs. Peter Stadtfield is driving a new Ford coupe. Peter Stadtfield and Bert Vasey attended the Farm Bureau banquet at Libertyville Monday night. Mrs. Krause and James Mack have taken possession of the Volo Garage, formerly owned by Peter Wegener. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stadtfield and son, Donald, of Wauconda, spent Sun- I day in the home of Mrs. Molidor. j Joe Wegener is driving a new Reo I truck. j Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Waite and Jas. j Nish spent Saturday at Grayslake. { Floyd Renehan has rented the Stanford farm for the coming year. The ! Stanford family will occupy part of | the rooms for the summer months. We are glad to have them with us. Mrs. Will Vandenboom, who has been ill, is feeling somewhat better. Rev. Tompkins was unable to preach Sunday evening, due to illness. Mrs. L. V. Lusk and Mrs. Jim Kirwan visited Elgin friends one day last week:' The Stanford family donated some books for the Sunday school library. Miss Neoma Reather was a Waukegan shopper Saturday. Mrs. Joe Vogt spent a few days at the Stanford home. James Nish spent Sunday with Frank Vogt. Mrs. Jack Frost is spending a few days with her daughter, Mrs. Will Iluson, Round Lake. Helen Effling has been on the sick I y™r office list. j • Mr. and Mrs. Levi Waite spent last Friday at. McHenry Some wives turn GBt to be prizes others surprises. Where a mirror is concerned a woman will always look on the bright side. A woman seldom loses her head over a man who has lost his hair. Imitation is a flattery that a woman doesn't relish, in matters of dress. A woman may be able to weave a spell without having the ability to darn a sock. A woman can always forget her age, provided she doesn't look it. In society a woman is known by the week-end company she keeps. A woman's idea of a good likeness is one that looks just like she' thinks she looks. A cynic says that unrequited love doesn't cause woman as much suffering as unsatisfied curiosity. Windy Wolf's milk boy's mother brought the milk Saturday morning. She said her son was sleepy, and she decided to humor him. An exhibition of kindness, of mother love, but thousands of children are injured in that way. Every child is a little worse off for such humoring, and pays a penalty for imposing on his mother. The absent-minded profesor who ' The absent-minded professor who sweeper was probably not half as flustrated when he realized his error as was the pretty schoolteacher who was about to get aboard a street car just as a gentleman whom she thought she recognized as the parent of one of her pupils got>on. "Good morning," she said with a cheery smile. Instantly she saw by the quizzical expression on the face of the man addressed that she had made a mistake. Intending to correct it, she added quickly: "I beg your pardon! I thought you were the father of one of my children." A McHenry husband telephoned to say that he could not get home to dinner. Late as^it was it would be much later before he had finished his business. "You poor dear," answered his wife sympathetically, "I wonder you can get anything done at all with that jazz band, playing A boy in his first long trousers, never feels half so conspicuous and Adeline Rossdeutcher of Long Lake | irresistible, as he does twenty years Andrew Walsh disturbed the feast 'e<^ by Wayne B. Wheeler, Of a large golden eagle in his poultryyard, near Jerseyvllle, killing the bird with his rifle while it was killing some of his choice pullets. The feathered marauder weighed 30 pounds and measured six feet from tip to tip of Its wings. Negotiations for the sale of the Citizens' Telephone company of Pekln to the Kellogg Switchboard company are nearlng completion. The Citizens' exchange operates phones in Pekin, East Peoria, Lacon, Havana, Manlto, Delsvan and Green Valley. The plant la valued at $3*0,000. Judge T. N. Green's sarcasm Is equaled only by his ability to "put it over." "Why don't you give this murderer a gold medal?" he demanded of a Peoria Jury which returned a verdict of not guilty against Earl Taylor, charged with the slaying of Leon Charvat and the latter's wife. The Dlinols section of the American Waterworks association, meeting at Urban a. elected as officers U. R. Oels- , ton, Qulncy. chairman; G. C. Habermeyer. Urban a, vice chairman; H. E. Keeler, Chicago, treasurer, and L. R. Hpuaer, Chicago, trustee. Chicago chosen as the 1927 meeting place. " After a very light death rate among the old soldier members of the National Soldiers' home for several months, the present bad weather has caused a sudden Increase In deaths. Several veterans of the Civil war, varying In age from eighty to eightelght years, have died In the past few days. •• Shabbona, famous chief of the •loux tribe, who was a frlen^ of the .white settlers, is to be memorialized. Ijtae board of supervisors of Grundy liounty voted to sell 20 acres of land Which were left to the chief and his helre In perpetuity, and utilize the proceeds^ In erecting a suitable monument. general counsel of the Anti-Saloon league. He promptly turned thumbs doWn on the proposal. The resolution specifically provides that the referendum Is to be held "In order that congress may obtain Information necessary for the appropriate exercise of its legislative powers under the eighteenth amendment," and submits this question to the people: "Shall the congress amend the national prohibition act so as to allow the manufacture, sale, transportation and possession of beverages containing as great an amount of alcohol as is lawful under the Constitution, provided that such amendments shall not Interfere with the constitutional powers of the several states to legislate with respect to Intoxicating liquors as each state may deem properT The resolution was referred to the senate's judiciary committee. spent Sunday with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Art Kaiser of Waukegan spent Sunday at the home of John Kaiser. Miss Hazel McCabe of Chicago is spending a few days at the home of Michael McCabe. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ehredt are the proud parents of a baby girl, born last Saturday. Mrs. L. V. Lusk and Miss Elsie Tuttle attended the Sunday school institute at Grayslake. later, when he reverts to adolescence, and appears in his first pair of golf knickers. "What will become of the last pedestrian?" asks an editorial. Well, he will probably be found riding in an automobile hearse. You can't dodge them always. A Methodist negro exhorter shouted, "Come on up and jine de army of de Lord." " I'se done jined," replied The children who are to take part one of the congregation. "Whar'd Balnea Die of Meaalea New York.--Measles has cut short 8*288 infant lives In New York since January 1. WASHINGTON BRIEFS The house committee on Immigration, under the chairmanship of Representative Albert Johnson of Washington Is working diligently in an effort to solve the undesirable alien problem. in the Easter program will please be at the church at 2 o'clock Saturday. Mrs. Tiltiwood and daughter, Harriet, visifSft at Bernie Geary's Monday. The Easter services will be held at the Volo M. E. church Sunday evening. Mrs. Earl Townsend sjient Saturday at Grnyslske. JOHNSBUBG Repeal of the flexible tariff was ad- , voeated before the special senate investigating committee by Thomas ; Walker Page, former chairman of the , tariff commission. Opposition to Impeachment of Ped- Wllllam Burkhardt, member of the leral Jud«e George W. Enright of nii- Bllnols commerce commission, who disappeared a few days ago at Sprlngfljeld, was found at Calgary, Canada, according to a telegram received by Mtfs brother-ln-law, former Mayor Wll- i ttam Hale Thompson. nols is expressed In a minority report prepared by three members of the bouse Judiciary committee. A military guard of honor for the He was discov- 1 lo,nb ltie unknown soldier in Arered in a sanitarium, suffering from i'ington cemctery has been ordered by amnesia. Secretary Davis of the Waf departyou jine?" asked the exhorter. "At de Baptis' church." "Why, chil'." said the exhorter, "you ain't in de ari«y; yoh's in de navy." A flapper was recently ' heard to announce that she had taken Ph. D. from Northwestern. Her listeners were rather astonished. Her listeners vestigation, however, they found that she had really taken a "Pretty Hasty Departure" from college. Charles Ingle, forty-seven, a Spanish- American and World war veteran, who went through both conflicts without a scratch and little sickness, Is dead of burns received when a bucket of gasoline he was .carrying out of a garage was thrown over him as he stumbled and fell and the gasoline was Ignited from a broken wire of the l^nlytion system of his car. Mary Vickery McCall, one hundred >'«ara old, died at her home in Princeton. Had she lived until June 26 she would have been one hundred one. William Gerricks, aged eccentric, waa found near Vandalla after he had passed the night wandering about j !• a winter storm. His recovery Is doubttul. department, and will take Its station there within a few daya. Senators McKlnley (Rep., 111.) and Lenroot (Wis.) have announced that they will lead a fight against the reduction, of appropriations for the elimination of bovine tuberculosis, as proposed In the conference committee report submitted to the senate and the house. Eleven Die in Sea Bloat Grimsby, England.--Eleven members of the crew of thirteen perished when the boilers of the trawler Salmonby exploded off Sprunhead. The vessel ~ , 1ft Mr. and Mrs. Joseph King and family were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Steve King Sunday. John E. Freund of McHenry was a cailcr here Monday. Karl Bradley of Ringwood was A caller here Monday. Miss Margaret Smith spent a few days this week with relatives in Chicago. Rev. Wm. Weber boarded the Chicago train at Spring Grove Monday. S. H. Smith attended to business matters in the metropolitan city Tuesday. Frank Kempfer of Milwaukee is visiting with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kempfer. A public dance will be given by the men Foresters at the parish hall on Monday, April 5, for the benefit of the church. Installation of officers of St. Agatha court, W. C. O. F., will take place at1 the parish hall April 13 at 3 p. m. j Banquet* will take place at Nell's hotel at 5:30 p. m. In the evening a public dance at Nell's pavilion. Everybody is cordially invited and all assured of having a good time. A home talent play will be given here in the near future. Mesdames Peter Oeffling, George Michels, Peter R. Freund, Jos. J. Michels and Margaret Freund were McHenry callers Friday. Mrs. John M. Pitzen was a McHenry caller Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Horick of Woodstock spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Smith. J. B. Hettermann was a Woodstock caller Sunday. The Jolly Eight club met at the home of Mrs. John M. Pitzen Sunday evening. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. S. H. Smith and Mrs. Joseph Thelen. Consolation to Mrs. Jos. J. Michels. A delicious luncheon was served ' - Wedding invitations and announcements beautifully and correctly printed at the Plaindealer office. • Negotiations looking to the merging of the First National bank at Blue Mound into the State Bank of Blue Mound have been temporarily halted if the suicide of J. C, Terry, cashier Doctor to Fly on Arctic Plane Washington.--Dr. Daniel O'Brien of Johns Hopkins university has been chosen by Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd, U. 8. N., retired, to be medical officer on liia forthcoming aretlc trip. Derivation of "Heathen" The word "heathen" In its original sense means, "of the heath or open country." It has been suggested that the word acquired Its meaning from the fact that at the introduction of Christianity Into Germany the wild dwellers on the heaths longest resisted the truth. V cm. Mrs; ifToppe was fe week-end caller in Chicago. Two new pupils in our school, both first graders. They are Mary Paull, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Paul], and Luella, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Freund. Elcida Freund, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Freund, all his school days a pupil here, is attending a Catholic school at McHenry. All milk producers are getting very anxious. April 1 is almost here and then, what about milk ? All can drink their fill and still many quarts left. None have fear of tuberculosis from o ver-i ndulgence. There are eight farms on the 'road* running south from Ostend corner, leaving route 20. And not one has tried the TB test. Frank Kaiser and son, Frank, have both been on the sick list for several days. Not confined to bed but just able to be up, both afflicted with colds and grippe. The gravel roads this way have all been dragged and some bad places mended, but{ the snow of Monday night will put them in about the same bad condition as before dragging. Great inventions rise from little thoughts. 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