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.^. •• * " " • ' - '{" $ ? ir 3* •*$*[ * 1 . i'rZ tUt* ' ^ y * %f^ 1f~*'A.: r¥*" *BM M'HENRY PLAINDEALER, THURSDAY, OCT. 7, 1926 ^ \ t ,1 J" , . HtoH Lees Hauling The self-feeder system for hogs which permits them to eat grain at will either in pasture* or dry lots is becoming increasingly popular. Some hog raisers build a crib or bin in the pasture in which they store a quantity of grain, to avoid hauling it to the hogs daily. The quantity of grain required will vary with forage crops used. With soybeans, cowpeas, peanuts, and velvet beans, which are hogged off when the seed is mature or nearly mature, less gTain will be needed than with green forage such as oats, chufas, sweet potatoes and clover. The self-feeder nuty he used safely, however, with all crops. Healthy hogs that have as much feed as they will consume give good returns for all they eat. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Worth pleasantly entertained a party of eighteen •t their home last Sunday evening. 0. W. KLONTZ, M. D. Physician and Surgeon (Also treating all diseases of the Eye, £ar, Nose and Thro&t and doing Refraction) Office Hours--8 to 9 a. m., 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays by Appointment Office at Residence--Kent Home- South of City Hall, Waukegan St. Phone 181 McHenry, 111. WJH. M. CARROLL Lawyer Office with Kent & Company Every Wednesday Phone 34 McHenry, 111. (Telephone No. 108-R. Stoffel & Reihansperger Insurance agents for all classes of property in the best companies.' WEST McHENRY, :» ILLINOIS JTWTWOI PUBLIC ACCOUNTAMT Audits Systems Income and Inheritance Tax Matters Member of Public Accountants Association of Illinois Phone 206-J McHenry, 111. i: "RE-DISCOVERING ILLINOIS" By LESTER B. COLBY, Illinois Chamber of Commerce i2e-w. Reasonable Rates A. B. SCHAEFER Drayinf McHENRY, ILLINOIS -la Sure-•Insurance Wm. G. Schreiner Auctioneering OFFICE AT RESIDEI^Ift ; Phone 93-R McHENRY, ILL V Chicken Feeds We jarry a full line of chicken feeds for baby chicks and laying hens. -We manufacture some of our scratch feeds and mashes, and can save you money. i Manufactured by McHenrj flour Mills Wes' McHenry, III. J&s. McChesney & Brown (INCORPORATED) DENTISTS Dr. L W. Brown Dr. R. M. Walker Established over 45 years and still doing business at the old stand. Pioneers in First Class Dentistry at Moderate Prices. Ask your neighbors and friends about us. S. E. Cor. Clark & Randolph St. 146 N. Clark St., Chicago Daily 8 to 5, Sundays 9 to 11 Phone Central 2047 I: 666 la a Prescription for <fJ,<OOLDS, GRIPPE, FLU, DENGUE, !$ BILIOUS FEVER AND MALARIA. It kills the germs. D&. HARRY G. RAND mi. and *[' ^ Staff of Physicians Office oyer Bolger'g Drug Store Hours: 10 to 2 every ^pprsday and Saturday JfpHXNRY, ILL. Joseph Ogee is tending ferry. The year is 1829. John Dixon, frontiersman, arrives on the Rock river. He barters with Joseph, son of a squaw and and French trader. For a small cash payment and a note Ogee's Ferry, as the crossing is known, becomes Dixon's Ferry . That is the beginning of Dixon, Illinois. Come with' me and we will visit for a while under the rooftree of George C. Dixon, of Dixon & Dixon, Dixon, 111. George C. Dixon is of the fourth generation of Dixons. John, his. son, is of the fifth. This room is bright for it is nighttime--a pretty hour for conjuring up the past. George C. Dixon calls it his museum. Walls are lined with old books and mementoes; an Indan bow, antlers, ancient pictures, yellowed parchments. We sit around, a little group of us ,and draw mental pictures of days gone. Old John Dixon must have been a man of education. His ancient account books which come out from some nook are kept in a firm hand and the entries are well spelled. The ink of the oldest is clear and plain after 96 years. We find that whiskey sold then for fifty cents a gallon. That food for man and horse" is billed at twenty-five cents; a bed cost a quarter. We find that John Dixon gave credit to the Indians. Among his customers are Old Grey Headed Pottawatomie, Old Grey Head's Fat Son, Manwith- a-Sick Squatf*, Mother Flat Face, Blinky, Limpy, Sour Eads Ox, Squirrel Cheeks, Long Sober Man! They bought beads and blankets, coffee and powder, knives. Two years pass. Black Hawk is bitter and his band restive. Militia is sent in to help the regulars when Black Hawk starts his rampage. We find among John Dixon's customers Abraham Lincoln, soldier; Jefferson Davis, who is later to guide the Confederacy; Albert Sidney Johnston, who is to head Davis' armies and die in battle; William S. Hamilton, son of Alexander Hamilton who was killed by Aaron Burr in a duel; Zachary Taylor, who is to precede Lincoln by a few years as ° president of the United States. ' „ Zachary Taylor's account.... shows that he ran up a bill of $11.50 at John Dixon's store, that he paid $5 on account and gave his note for $6.50. The account does not show that the note was paid. We will presume that it was. I'd like to linger here but I must be brief. Midnight finds me in the Nachusa Tavern. It is a hotel, originally built in 1837, later remodeled and then rebuilt. Nachusa was the Indian name for John Dixon. The word means Old Grey Head. John Dixon had a flowing white mane and smooth-shaven face. Legend has it that the old Nachusa Tavern once caused the United States government to remodel its financial laws. Nobody seems to know the story exactly. What I get is that someone conceived the idea of issuing greenbacks, backed by the United States treasury, to develop the new west. This was to give the money standing. These greenbacks, it was presumed, would be held against the property, redeemable when presented to the owners. So much money, the story goes, was issued against the Nachusa Tavern, that officials in Washington grew panicky and stopped the whole scheme. The political upheaval was such, according to old clippings, that jobs were lost in Washington. Old bills, two, three and five dollar bills, are to be found in Dixon today --but nobody seems to remember just what the story was. Let us go visiting about Dixon and see what the picture is today. First we will travel to the miljj: condensary, owned by the Borden company. Another Civil War romance. Charles Page, newspaper correspondent, found that the federal soldiers liked the new fangled milk that Gail Borden had developed just about 1860. The war over, Paige went to Switzerland as ambassador. Something of a stepup from the job of war correspondent. While there he organized the Anglo- Swiss company and began making a condensed milk. Page was born a few miles out of Dixon and when he be came wealthy and influential it pleased him to come back to his homeland and build a plant. It was sold later to the Borden company. Here are manufactured 100,000,000 cans a year for this and other Borden plants. 6reat machines, everything automatic, slice tin plate into thou sands of uieces. Ends for the cans are cut, a dozen at a time. Bang, bang, bang, with amazing speed. Machines bend the cans to shape, machines put in the ends, machines solder them, machines test them for airleaks, machines, machines, machines. Always speed with a few people watching here and there that all goes' well. From this plant go out 20,000,000 cans of milk each twelve months and 3,500,000 pounds of candy. The plant gets the milk of 7,000i cows and averages 200 employes; payroll and milk run in cash about $850,000 a year; value of the product, against which must be charged tin plate, sugar, overhead and other costs, about $3,000,000. Dixon was early a shoe manufacturing center. ^Illinois today has about seventy shoe factories making 20,000,000 pairs of shoes a year, value about $50,000,000 wholesale. The Dix on plant of the Brown Shoe company employs about 500 people and makes about 1,000,000 pairs annually. We find also in Dixon a corset steel plant--and learn something of corsets. More corset steels are being made than ever. How this seeming paradox? ' Well, they tell me, women used to wear a pair of corsets for year or more. The surgical elastic corsets now worn are thrown away at the rate of four or six pairs a year Corset steels go out of Dixon at the rate of 3,000,000 a month. The plant belongs to the Gossard company Dixon is also Hm heme of "aec«en cloth," the screens that go on our windows to keep insects out. H. G. Reynolds came into Dixon hom the east many years ago. He possessed little more than a patent, machines for making wire cloth in a rather simple way, and hope. The plant today employs 800- people and is working 24 hours a day six days a week. The company manufactures its own "rods," as the wire from which the screen wire is drawn is known in the trade. It also owns an interest in the hydro-electric plant at the Dixon dam. Dixon's electric power is one of its major assets. Dixon boasts that it is the largest "low head" hydro-electric plant in the world and that it is without peer in its class for effectiveness; that 78 per cent of the energy passing through its five 800-horsepower units is converted into electricity. Steam plants of the Northern Illinois Utilities company, at Dixon, which controls the dam, have capacity for 25,000 horsepower more. Ninety-two towns can be supplied with current from Dixon . Silica sand and portland cement are other products. The Dixon plant of the Sandusky Portland Cement company has a capacity of 3,700 barrels a day. The plant was built here because shales and clays and other products for the manufacture of cement are all found in close association. The company has materials to keep the plant running another 100 years. Deposits of silica sand, a couple of miles east of "Dixon, are among the purest and best to be found anywhere in the world. The same formation of St. Peter sandstone that outcrop between Ottawa and LaSalle come to the surface here along the Rock river. And I learned something about milk bottles. Silica sand for the manufacture of milk bottles must not contain traces of iron. If it does the glass has a blue or green tinge. That would make the milk look weak; bluish, like skimmed milk. The proper milk bottle is made by adding a bit of lead to the silica. That gives a slightly pinkish tint which means that the milk looks rich. Pink ' netting does the same to peaches. More history. Onc£ upon a, time the three important trading posts on the Illinois frontier were Peoria, Galena and Grand Detour. It is legend that the first steel plow and the first iron stove made in the Mississippi Valley were turned out at Grand Detour. John Deere got his start there with the Grand Detour Plow company. This company was organied in 1837 and "has never missed a payroll" from that day to this. Grand Detour is five miles up the Rock river from Dixon. The river here makes a big curve, four miles around, and comes back to within about a quarter mile of the same spot. Early canoe-men used to portage here to save the fourmile trip. The railroad missed Grand Detour but touched Dixon. So, after the Civil war, the plow company moved to Dixon^ and occupied old army barracks, built of stone, walls three feet thick. Many enlargements have been made Today the plant, a division of the J I. Case company, now employs 200 men and has a capacity of $2,500,000 worth of implements a year. Its specialty is tractor drawn implements and labor saving farm machinery; Dixon also makes lawn mowers, motor car defferentials, auto truck-and wagon bodies, musical supplies; has a poultry cold storage plant and a wholesale print shop. The Dixon Evening Telegraph was started as a weekly in 1851 by B. F. Shaw and has been issued continuously ever since. Mr. Shaw, long since passed to that realm where good editors go, was one of the thirteen men who met in Decatur and founded the Republican party which straightway went out and elected Abraham Lincoln president. Dixon has 300 acres of parks, including an 80-acre island park in the river. Lowell Park, outside the city limits, is owned by the city. It covers 200 acres with a half mile of river frontage. It is a nature park, no man made rustic stuff, no penned animals, no statutes or ornamentations; a park of hills, gullies, primeval forest, flow ers, ferns; a park that God made. The land was owned by Brig. Gen. Charles Russell Lowell, killed in the Civil war, and was giveji to Dixon by his daughter. J An "enabling act' was passed by the Illinois state legislature to allow cities to own parks outside their lim its, at Dixon's request, so that this park could be taken over. Many other towns and cities have taken advantage of this law. If your city today owns such a park, thank Dixon For in this evolution of park development Dixon led. old Interesting Prom Bits of News Taken the Columns of the Plaindealer Fifty and r-five Years . Give Calves a Chance Diarrhea, or scours, a very common and often persists disease of calves, always hinders their growth and development. The most important causes of the disease are irregular feeding, overfeeding, sudden change of feed, fermented feeds, the feeding of dirty or sour milk or milk of diseased cows, the use of dirty milk pails or unclean feed boxes, and damp, dirty stables. As soon as scours is discovered, seperate the affected calf from the others and carefully cleanse and disinfect the pen. The feed should be reduced immediately to about onehalf, milk pail^deaned and disinfected, and any other causes mentioned above eliminated. A few of the more common preparations used to treat the disease are blood mfeal, a teaspoonful at a feed; white of egg; limewater. A dose of four drops of formalin to each pint of milk has been used to advantage, and a drench of three ounces of castor oil followed by a teaspoonful of a mixture of one part salol and two of subnitrate of bismuth also is recommended. October, 1901 The Elgin butter market was made steady at 22 cents. The week's output was 607,560 pounds. M. Long of Greenwood was reappointed on the quotation committee for one year. The Gail Borden company commenced work on their ice house this week. ^ Peter Bower of Volo has purchased S. Johonnott's farm south of Spring grove, paying sixty dollars per acre. It is a good piece of property and lies on the new railroad. The old well house that stood in front of the west side meat market has been removed< to the lot occupied by the stand pipe. A decided improvement is thereby made in the street. We are pleased to note the merchants are endeavoring to close their stores at eight o'clock every evening except Saturday. This should meet with the approval of everyone. It is just as easy to do your shopping before eight as after. •< ' Simon Stoffel has decided to give up his outside work during the fall and will devote his entire time to the merchandise business. He has probably written more insurance during the past few years than any other agent in the county, and it has necessitated a great deal of trouble and plenty of hard work on his part. He does not intend to give up the insurance work by any means, but in order to recuperate will discontinue traveling for a while and transact all business at his store. Lady lately arrived from England is prepared to receive pupils. Terms reasonable. Apply at K. G. Dekker's store. Jacob Adams will leave for Germany this week, where he will spend the rest of his days. Mr. Adams has crossed the Atlantic eight times. He has many friends in this vicinity who will deeply regret his departure from America never to return. A. H. Anderson, owner of what is known as the James Collins farm, east of Harvard, has a corn crop of which he is justly proud. For one. field of about 15 acres he refused an offer of $30 per acre, or $450 for the field. Mr. Anderson estimates the yield in this and other fields on his farm will. re»eh 160 bushels to the a c s f c - - - -- -- " 7 ^ * October, 1876 Cash will buy sheeting, prints, cotton flannels and etc., at wholesale prices, freight added, at Lansing & Evans, McHenry. If wilful and bare-faced lying would win in this district, Lathrop would be elected through the efforts of the Rockford Gazette and Register alone. Their coluns are filled each week with falsehoods too silly and bare-fbeed to need contradiction. Keep right on, gentlemen. Gen. Hurlbut needs no better endorsement among the people than your opposition. The store of Coe R. Weeks of Marengo was entered by burglars last Friday night, and clothing, boots, etc., to the value of about $30 taken. The burglar effected an entrance by breaking a pane of glass, removing the fastenings over the lower sash, which he then raised, went in and helped himself to such things as he desired and then vamosed. The startling statement is made to the ladies that they have no less than nineteen fall styles of bonnets from which to make selections. Winter is coming. The leaves are reddening along their tips like a young woman's ears when she is proposed to by a man of sixty; George S. Curtis will please accept thanks for three ducks left at our sanctum on Monday. As a duck -hunter, George is a success. We are under obligations to Ben Hanley and estimable lady for a very nice sparerib, left at our residence one day last week. May their shadows never grow less is our heartfelt wishes. A business card on an envelope may be considered a' small affair, but it is really very nice. We have supplied many of our business men with envelopes, and can furnish attain want of them at very low prices. O. Bishop bought on Thursday last, in Chicago, one hundred tons of coal, which is now being shipped to this place. He informs us that it is nearly all contracted, and will be de livered as fast as it arrives. O. W. Owen and wife and Miss Clara B. Owen started for the Cen tennial on Thursday last. Also W. Parker and wife of the Parker House, started for the same place Monday of last week. They all expect to visit Washington, Baltimore and New York, and will be absent about three weeks. The team of Billy Thomas, who re sides on the John Colley farm, made a lively runaway on Saturday even ing, winding up by running into the creek near the new bridge, which effectually cooled their ardor. They were rescued not much the worse for their spree and with but slight damage to the wagon. Mrs. G. A. Vasey and daughter, Vera, were Waukegan shoppers Sat- Miss Ethel Fitzgerald entertained a friend from Kenosha over the weekend. Mr .and Mrs. Job Vasey of McHenry, Mrs. Bert Dowell were callers at the A. J. Vasey home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Passfield and sons, George, Roy and Johi), and Gerald Grover were Sunday callers at the F. E. Wilson home. Mrs. Mary Sable of Fremont Center was in Volo Tuesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Dunker and son, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Anderson and daughter and Mrs. Schmidt and son were callers at the G. A. Vasey home Sunday afternoon. Mr .and Mrs. Henry Passfield and Mrs. Lloyd Eddy and daughter were business callers at Terra Cotta Saturday. Many attended the funeral of Mrs. Gertrude Miller of Volo Tuesday morning. Peter Wegener was a business caller in Waukegan Monday. Junior Wilson of the Volo Boys' and Girls' Poultry club received first prize on pen of pullets and first, second and third prize on White Rock pullets at the exposition last week. They were purchased by Senator Swift for $3 each. Mrs. M. E, Smith and Mrs. Alvin Case and son were McHenry callers Saturday afternoon. M .and Mrs. Raymond Howard of McHenry attended the funeral of the latter's aunt at Volo Tuesday morning. New dress fabrics for fall and winter wear. Erickson's Dept. Store. STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912. Of the McHenry Plaindealer, published weekly at McHenry, 111., for Oct. 1, 1926. State of Illinois, , " ^ . County of McHenry, M. Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared A. H. Mosher, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is editor and manager of the McHenry Plaindealer and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership and management of the by the Act of August 24, 1912. 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are: Publisher, Charles F. Renich, Woodstock, 111. Editor, A. H. Mosher, McHenry, 111. Managing Editor, A..H. Mosher, McHenry, 111. 2 That the owner is Charles F. Renich, Woodstock, 111. 3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of the total amount of bonds, motgages, or other securities are: None. A. H. MOSHER, Editor and Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day of October, 1926. PETESCH, Notary Public. Latest sheet music, records and piano rolls at Nye's, West McHenry. Purchased Weed Seeds Nearly all purchased manure is full of weed seeds. If hauled to the farm when fresh many thaoupands of weed seeds will probably be introduced. Purchased hay and straw are almost certain to contain weed seeds, and the farmer who buys these can not expect to have a weed-free farm. Where h«v or straw is purchased, the only way to prevent seeds from getting to the land is to leave the resulting manure in a pile or preferably in a pit for f several months before spreading. # GOOD NEWS? ' ^ • ^Wiring af- thpy.j.' V , • Polly Prim Pavilion ;, f All Winter Jimmie's Society Orchestra ~ will make you step . Heibiesday, Saturday and Simtiav Evenlwg« :v. • : . f™" IP M • We Desire JCOUlft • !)0<F will )imdenci Your aceo Your goo Your confidence Your hearty oo<o; n. We Pledge You Safety, Convenience, Courtesy and Attention. A The Bank fihathelps yon get ahead McHENRY ILLINOIS See the Plaindealer for your loose jMl.fal. ledger reqiurments. VOLO Mrs. Will Hironimus of Round Lake was a caller at Frank Hironimus Tuesday. Mrs. H. Passfield and Mrs. Lloyd Eddy and daughter, Marjorie, were callers at the George Dowell home Thursday afternoon. Mr .Mertes is putting in electic lights in the Volo garage which he just purchased. Arthur Peterson was a caller at his aunt's, Mrs. A»d»w S44y, NATIONAL TEA v* A rr STORES OF QUALITY The housewives' standards of quality price - and service is the dominating influence that has made the National Tea Co. leaders in distributing quality groceries o&,«, money-saving basis. . FLOUR GOLD MEDAL Eventually, why not now?- lb/ sack Peanut Butter?*°hnnt Peas $1.20 well known brand L*e,*r24c Lakeside Extra Sifted No. 2 can a regular 30c value 21c Campbell's Pork and Beans With tomato sauce 25c Baking Powder An old favorite Swansdown 12 o*. can 20c A prepared cake Flour 2 3-4 lb. j>kg. Prunes Santa Clara 40-50 size lb. 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