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THE M'HBNRY PLAINDEALKB, THURSDAY, NOV. 25, 1926 1 " » .V -A,*"-,£> \: • -.•' ' •' .*}>•• FAST SIM r.ARAf.R 1 Br f o r • wu/mJ v i » « w l v « , ,4 • •• ;-^V~J' General Overhauling TIRES $9 AND UP Special prices on Mobiloil in cant Tflephone 49 Loans or 5*4%, depending * on value of land per acre Prompt Service SAVINGS BANK OF KEWANEE Kewanee, IUindlt ; Physician and Surgeon (Also treating all diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose.and Throat 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. ione 181 McHenry, 111 WM. M. CARROLL Lawyer -- Office with Kent & Company Every Wednesday Phone 34 McHenry, 111 •telephone No. 108-R. Stof fel & Reihansperger Insurance agents for all classes of ^ property in the best companies. WEST McHENRY, :: ILLINOIS jTwTworth ^PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Audits Systems Income and-- . Inheritance Tax Matters Member of Public Accountants Association of Illinois * ffcone 206-J McHenry, I1L 126-W. Reasonable Rates •1 H. SCHAEFER Draying McHENRY, ILLINOIS hsore- In Snre-bsaruue WITH Wm.G. Schreiner Auctioneering OFFICE AT RESIDENCE *3-R McHENRY,'ILL KUNZ BROTHERS Local and Long Distance Tfa.n1ingr ttone TO4-J McHewy, HI. Old Fashioned Buckwheat or J Self-Rising Buckwheat We Have Them Both This is the time of year whim buckwlieat ^ cakes are mighty goocf. Order today,. Manufactured by" "RE-DISCOVERING ILLINOIS" By LESTER B. COLBY, Illinois Chamber of Commerce When a little group of pioneers who had settled in Warren county met in ; J1831 to select the site for the county Iseat they set about the matter in scientific fashion. They took an inventory of the future possibilities and development of the county. It was agreed that this township, ultimately, might support eight or ten families; that another one might have twelve or fourteen and another one not so many. When that was done they chose the spot that they thought .would be the "center of population" and laid out the county seat. They called it Monmouth. The first selection was Kosciusko but this was abandoned on protest that few persons woudd ever learn how to spell it. Lots sold at from $4 to $12 each. That eight to fourteen families to a township, evisioned by the hardy pioneers, has grown mightily. Today there are approximately 4,000 farm families and about 2,300 city families in the county--and Warren county is one of Illinois' smaller counties. Farm crops in the county average in annual value about $6,000,000; " livestock, about $4,630,000. It may be infromatlon to you to know that Warren county has more hogs, per farm, than any other county in the state. The average is 62.3 hogs to the farm. Mercer county comes next with 59.4; Stark third with 54 and Henderson county fourth with 49.1. The counties coming nearest fto zero in hogs are Marion with 4.3 hogs per farm; Franklin, 4.5; Washington, 4.7 and Williamson, 4.9. But that is digressing. The old fellows who first came to Warren county and laid out Monmouth were mostly New Englanders. They wore biblical names. Gabriel Short was the first man to record the brand marks for his cattle. I saw the old books. He cropped off the ends of the ears of his live stock. Here are some of his neighbors and kinfolk--Abner Short,, Adam Ritchie, Elijah Davidson, Jeremiah Smith, Erastus S. Denniston, Josiah Whitman, Absalom Peckinpaugh, Ezekitl W. Lynn and Asa West. They sound like characters out of the" Book of Lamentations. Thangs have changed in rilany ways In Monmouth. Four concrete roads lead out in four directions. Monmouth township began building hard roads in 1892. These were of crushed stone. Brick roads were begun in 1897. This was rather early in the history of roadbuilding in the United States. Monmouth is served by six railroads which give 44 passenger trains daily and has what is claimed to be the first successful, profit-making air transportation field in the central west. It advertises a passenger rate of fifteen cents a mile. Compare that with your taxi bill. Aviators are schooled here and flying machines merchandised. Monmouth college, seventy years old, has about 570 students, forty acres of campus, good buildings, and has just completed a $250,000 gymnasium. The town's Y. M. C. A., not long built, cost $150,000. • Because of superior clay deposits this part of Illinois has made exceptional progress in the development of clay products. This is especially marked in such centers as Monmouth, Macomb and Abington. These cities lie along the "divide" between the IIIriiiois and Mississippi rivers. The Western Stoneware company operates two ceramic plants at Monmouth and one at Macomb. Because the early settlers planted many hard maple trees Monmouth has come to be known as the "Maple City." As a result it is the home of "Maple Leaf" brand stoneware. I visited the plant specializing in artware, and saw tons of art lamps, lily bowls, console sets, bud vases, flower urns, novelty book ends, wall pockets, pitchers, jardi-r nieres, and many other things. Demand changes, I learned, in stoneware and clay products as in other things. Used to be there was a big business in fruit jars, preserve jars, etc. That's slipping now. Pretty things, for display, are more wanted. Bird baths, ornamental pieces twenty- eight inches high to be placed out on the lawns are in favor. It gives the family, especially the youngsters, joy "to watch the bi*fls taking their baths," says the advertising of the company. This matter of joy seems to be playing a big part in many things. In clay products bright and colorful pieces are selling fast. Clay jugs to be made into vacuum packages, used for keeping liquids cool or hot on motor trips and at picnics, sell readily. M(lleor) Flour Mills Wee". McHenry, III. Many of the old, one-time standard items, long purchased for their strict utilitarian values, rather plain and sometimes even ugly, are passing out of the picture. Things have to be pretty and attractive today. Here's a little story of .getting ahead. It has to do with Oscar and Charlie Strand, born in Sweden, who arrived in Monmouth as boys. Oscar and Charlie decided to go into the baking business when they had saved up $500. They're still young men but they head a baking company known as Strand Bros., Inc., capital $100,000. Their estimated investment is $137,- 000. Their annual business is about $250,000. The business is 18 years old and they employ 32 people. They are spending $26,000 for improvements this year. « When they started they had a capacity of fifty loaves a day. The traveling oven they are just putting in will give them a capacity of 20,000 loaves a day. A traveling oven is one through which the loaves move steadily. You put the dough in at one end and the bread, baked, comes out of the other end, by an endless belt arrangment The period of baking is regulated by the speed. "We have the biggest bakery- for a town of this size and the biggest volume of business for a town of this size anywhere in the United States. Those are facts and can be proved," Oscar or Charlie, I forget which, told me as he showed me through the plant. I asked him what his receipt for getting ahead was and he replied with one word: "Hustle." j* Paraphrasing a familiar slang phrase, however, I might add that the Strand boys "know their buns." Thermos ^bottles for chickens is something new to most of us. I found in Monmouth a new plant just starting up, in fact I joined a party of local mep on an inspection trip to the new plant, which is being started largely on chicken-yard novelties. One of the chief articles of output is a large galvanized and insulated bottle with a baked clay water container inside. Fill it with hot water and invert it in your chicken yard. The hot water trickles very slowly into a compartment, regulated on the air-seal principle--and your chickens can have warm water to drink at any time even on the coldest day. Among the other Monmouth products are cotton mittens, farm implements, warm air-furnaces and stump pullers. Warren county has a public library, the central library being in Monmouth with twelve branches scattered through the farm districts, supported by a county tax. They told me in Monmouth that this is the only public library in Illinois financed under this plan. Something else, unique in a way, is a Fall Festival held every year in Monmouth. It has all of the features of a country fair with the exception of horse races--and admittance is free. Monmouth has 220 acres of public park, lying along a canyonlike stream. The park is highly picturesqu^l natural woodland, and scientists have found and named twenty-fline varieties of native trees and shrubs within its borders. The park was a gift to the city. The world is small. This paragraph just pops in out of the day's news. Loie Fuller, dancuse, pal of Queen Marie on her trip; was born in Monmouth, her father proprietor of a hotel there. An old newspaper informs me she gave a temperance lecture in Monmouth in 1875 and the same year won first prize for waltzing at a masquerade ball. The Illinois Bankers Life association, claimed to be the largest not-forprofit insurance organization in the state, with $110,000,000 insurance in force, makes its home in Monmouth. The city admits a population of 9,543. The government census of 1920 gave it 8,116. Considerable change has come since Gabriel, Abner, Elijah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and their brothers with Old Testament monickers paid from $4 to $12 each for Monmouth town lota. •w* A. iKWoua £ "Of course," said an Illinois real estate agent, "curious things happen in my business, just as in every other. Now I fully expected to rent that top suite of rooms in the Perpendicular building to a society that wanted to hire some club rooms. But it voted not to take theln." "What was the trouble?" asked a listener. • „ , "There's no elevator in the building, and the members wouldn't climb the stairs." "What did you say the name of the society was?" scyneona asked. The real estate agent looked pensively at a letter which he held in his, hand, and read: "International Pedestrian and Mountain Climbing Association." ' - "In this world nothing i« ; Certain but death and taxes,' remarked old Benjamin Franklin in 1789. "He probably meant death by taxis," corrected the McHenry side-stepping pedestrian in 1926. A man with a long head is worth two with a long face. Everyone is of some use, even if nothing more than serving as a horrible example. Happiness is a perfume that you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. The bigger the man the more modest he is about his attainments, and the more willing he is to learn. To get ability out of one's self is to increase one's efficiency, and to increase one's efficiency is to raise one's value. Many folks who are inclined to criticise their neighbors would do well to "step aside and watch themselves go by." Genius is usually frayed at the trousers; mediocrity is run down at the heels; but success is always well dressed. The young man who asks a girl for a kiss seldom gets it. The bee doesn't ask the flower for its nectar, but it gets it just the same. Twice^ Told Tales Interesting Bits of News Taken 1 r ruiii iuc Cuiumiu* in Plaindealer Fifty and jr-five Years ^iiAg© < November, 1876 The Palatine Herald has been removed to Arlington Heights, enlarged to eight columns and changed its name to the Cook County Herald. F. W. Hoffman & Co. are now the publishers. A new paint shop is to be opened over Philip Hauprich's new blacksmith and wagon shop, north of the brick church, where all kinds of wagon and carriage painting will be done. The annual meeting of the McHenry County Agricultural board, for the election of officers, will be held at the court house in Woodstock, Monday, Dec* A, i876. E. E. Richards, Sec... Tony was having his second son christened and, being very anxious to have his name recorded correctly on the birth certificate, remarked to the clergyman: "Will yu pleeze name my baby as I give ya?" "Tony, why do you make such a request?" asked the clergyman. "Well, ya see--it's like dis: My firsta boy I tella ya I wanta heem chrisfnd 'Tom' and ya putta 'Tomass' on hefesa paper. Now I wanta dis boy name 'Jack" amI no want heem nemo 'Jackass.* Another shower of pebbles and stones is reported to have fallen in central Mexico. The latest theory regarding this phenomenon is that some place near the American border a determined golfer is trying to get out of a sand trap. ." November, 1901 - " Siihort" Stoffel has decided to go Out of the ready-made clothing business and has this week inaugurated a grand clearing sale. Mr. Stoffel assures us that this is no bluff, but that he actually intends to sell every piece of clothing he has in stock, including everything except fur coats, at a twenty per cent discount. Ernest Kennedy and Charles Bachus have sold their farm in Dunham to Frank Ensign of Clinton, Wis., for $100 per acre. Not a bad price. Mrs. W. A. Christy, Messrs. and Mesdames Will Whiting, Freeman Whiting, Frank Whiting and Charles Harrison attended the golden wedding celebration of Mr. arid Mrs. Levi Waterman of Ringwood last Monday night. Henry Benoelken and wife of St. Anthony, Minn., Mrs. Frank Benoelken of Freeport, and Herman Benoelken of Albany, Minn., ifrere guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Diedrich and other friends in this vicinity this week. Henry, Frank and Mrs. Frank Benoelken were born in this vicinity but have been residents of Minnesota for ovar twenty-five years. E. W. Howe will arrive from Renville, Minn., this wreek to eat turkey with his family on Thanksgiving day. He will return to Minnesota later, however, as his work there iS not yet 1 finished. ; It is rumored that a party of capitalists are considering the plan of I forming a syndicate and establishing i an electric line between McHenry and , Pistakee Bay, via Johnsburg, also to I connect with Volo and Wauconda. Now | that a dam across the river at this ! place is almost an assured fact, steam- ! boats will soon be running, drawing ' many more pleasure seekers. AUTOMOBILE USED FOR "BULLDOGGING" STEERS A McHenry small boy went to school for the first time. He came home and was questioned as to his experience. "Nothing much happened," he said. "There was a woman there who wanted to know how to spell cat, and I told her." There is a man in our town whose name is Levi Shoke, and every time that things went wrong, the spirits he'd invoke. Had he a problem vicious, advice he would npt seek; he'd get out his Ouija board and let the banshees speak. If he'd a misery on him, to no bigwig would he trip; he'd get the table tipping and he'd take the table's tip. When luck was drifting from him, he never gave up hope, he'd hunt up an astrologer to cast a horoscope. And if he played the market, should his jinx a'sunder fluke, he'd hide in his dark seance room and interview a spook. And yet a woman loved him --this nutty misanthrope,--and overlooked his yearning for that supernatural dope. She stuck to him like beeswax, and Do More ffiadl Live &mM4 m£ Most people mateUvmg. Th« thrtfW iiiake move. •?-' "-7- '---7";--*- • By setting aside a poMon of y<rar income you can make life something more than living. The enjoyment which comes from eliminating worry, from being able to plan and carry 7* through those plans, belongs almost exclusively ^ : to those who save, ~ > Open a thrift account here. Start with only g f dollar, if you wi^ but st$rt» Do more than Ji*e * --enjoy life. < 7 ' „ » ' 3r ^ . • m - ~ - • . The Bai#. U|%e3i* a&ead ttcHENRY- "'iW ILLINOIS ; AN AD IN THE PLAINDEALER EVERY WEEK T WILL BRING RESULTS there's big money in muskraftrapping The automobile has invaded another realm of the horse, the dangerous game of "bulldogging" steers which has been popular in the Lone Star state ever since the vast herds of cattle first roamed its prairies. The stunt was successfully performed recently for the first time by a dar^ ing cowgirl at the rodeo held at Banj dera, Texas. | Couched oh the running board of a I Chevrolet touring car, she rode in pur- : suit of a wild Texas steer. A group : of yelling cowboys mounted on horses ; joined in the chase. The driver of the j Chevrolet adroitly avoided a frenzied j charge when the steer suddenly stood | his ground and attempted to gore his I pursuers. \ 1 The car then whirled in a swift cir* cle and ran alongside the galloping steer. The cowgirl leaped from the running board to the animal's shoulders, locked one arm about his neck and threw him to the ground. She suffered no injury. Veteran cowmen in Bandera county, the heart of the western ranch country, declare that "bulldogging" from a car appears to be safer than.when JUST look at the extnmmly high pmoa "SHUBERT** will pay you for quick shipments of Muakrat, Mink and Raccoon. 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B. SHUBERT, INC. Dept. 116 25-27 W. Austin Ave. CHICAGO STATE OF ILLINOIS * ILLINOIS COMMERCE COMMISSION . No. 12184 Application of Illinois Gas Association for revision of Rule 20 of General Order 66 of the Illinois Commerce . Commission. petition of Western United Gas and Electric Company for authority to increase rates for gas to domestic consumers in the event that B. T. U. value of gas by it furnished be changed from 480 B. T. U's Jq 560 B. T. U's. per cubic foot. , Public Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, Western United Gas and Electric Company, has filed the above described petition in the above entitled cause with the Illinois Commerce Commission, wherein andwhereby it prays that in the event it be required to increase the heat unitl value of the gas by it served to the public above its present standard, that it be authorized to increase its rates for gas to domestic consumers. Copies of said petition are on file with the Illinois Commerce Commission at its offices at Springfield, Illinois, and copies of the proposed schedule of rates showing increases are on file in all offices of the undersigned Company affected by said proposed change. Said matter is set for hearing before Illinois Commerce Commission at its offices in the City Hall Square Building, Chicago, 111., on Dec. 14, 1926, at ten o'clock A. M. WESTERN UNITED GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, By B. P. Alschuler, Vice President. Aurora, Illinois. November 17, 1926. ...15 Plaindealers mt Bolgew a A COMPLECT VARIETY OP WELL-KNOW* GUAUTY( W ALWAYS AT MOHIY^SAVING PK1CBS NATIONAL TEA CO. Specials for Friday and Saturday Beans Choice Selection » 20c National 25c Evaporated 3 tall cans P. & G. The White Naptha ' 10 bars 35c Good Luck Jthe well-known substitute lb. 25c National Tea Store GREEN AND ELM STS. McHENRY, ILL. <3 ' /