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THE M'HENRY PLAINDEALER, THURSDAY, DXO. 23,1908 fc * « 1^" ^ k* * * r * * to* rsj# w * <** ** * -v ~ „ * *••"• ^•rv-V. *; , J7/:;<qy^v RiAnbow at Night The weather bureau says that a ttinbow at night Is an unusual phe* Mm^nnn, but not what should be called a rare phenomenon. It only refoires a sliower with bright mooallght it, wlier, the moon is not too fhe hea*ens d- ' -, Correctly Yerm«f The milliner who advertised tl»e .'. .litest in lints pt "appalling prices'* probably wasn't far out of the way at that. --Divton Daily News. Farm Loans 1|G>, 5^4% or 5*6%, depending X on value of land per acre Prompt Service SAVINGS BANK OF . KEWANEE , y*: « Kewanee, Illinois C. W. KlpONTZ, M. D. Physician and Surgeon {Also treating all diseases of the Eye, Nose and Throat and doing: Refraction) Office Hours--8 to 9 a. m., 2 to 4 and ? to 8 p.. m. Sundays by Appointment Office at Residence--Kent Home-- South of City Hall, Waukegan St. Phone 181 McHenry, 111 WM. M.CARROLL j. Lawyer Office with Kent & Company Every Wednesday Phone 34 . McHenry, 111. telephone No.' 108-R. , Stoffe! & 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 s McHenry, III "RE-DISCOVERING ILLINOIS" By LESTER B. COLBY, Illinois Chamber of Commerce Phone 206-J 126-W. More money is on deposit in the banks of Illinois than in all the banks of France. More telephones are in use in Illinois than in all the nations on the South American continent. More wealth is owned in Illinois than in all Italy. More acres of land are under the plow in Illinois than in all the continent of Australia. More hogs are fattening in Illinois than in all the pens of England. More cattle are being fed on Illinois farms than on the farms of the entire nation of Hungary. Illinois is larger than Holland, Belgium and Denmark combined and has more population than Sweden; it has more miles of railroad than Japan and mines more coal than all Asia With its billion people. Illinois' annual production of manufactured goods is greater than that of Canada. Yet even so recently as 1850 Illinois was an unsettled frontier. In that year Illinois' most populous centers were Chicago, 29,000; Quincy, 7,- (MX>; Galena, 6,000; Peoria, 5,000 and Springfield, 4,600. There were only thirteen other towns in the state with a population of more than 2,000. What has wrought this mighty change? -w • Natural wealth plus transport, says the Illinois Chamber of Commerce which has developed these and other facts' as a result of a recent sfhdy of the transportation system of Illinois. In the year 1850 the state had 98 miles of railroad. This consisted of three or four short lines with rails of wood topped with strap-iron. Horses and mules were largely the motive power. What is the picture today ? Illinois now has 12,033 miles of standard gage steam railroad, ar*gain of more than 12,000 per cent, and 2,700 miles of -electric line. Illinois has more miles of railroad than any state in the union except Texas, which is five times as large, and more miles of railroad to the square mile of area than any other state. Illinois' first great railway project when the railroads started, there was practically no mineral development in Illinois except around Galena where there were lead and zinc mines. Compared with that we find mineral output in Illinois in 1923 reaching $287,698,000. Today Illinois is producing more than $1,000,000 worth of mineral wealth for every working day in the year. And we find that fifty-five of every 100 freight cars loaded in the United States, every year, either originate in Illinois or pass through it on way to destination; Which gives Illinois f«H claim to the title of being the "busiest business corner in the United States." FINANCIAL REPORT .$ 2.45 54.80 .15.00 . 16.50 . 2.00 2.00 37.75 The following is a report of the receipts and expenditures made by the different organizations of our high school for the month of November: RECEIPTS Sale of Ath. supporters ... Sale of Ft. shoes Woostock contract ..... Sale of history notebooks ........ Mr. Duker, 111. Teach. Ass'n .».. Mr. Koerner, Joliet Tr. Con. fee.. Ath. Ass'n game and season tickets Candy sale i. 36.00 Armistice day game 80.00 Candy sale 25.20 From Miss Kinney and Mrs. Baron, Tr. Con 4.00 Book sale 1.00 Lucille O'Dwyer" 2.00 Sale of ring to Cecelia Stoffel 7.10 Concert, Nov. 16, 1926 90.00 i Candy sale 26.80 Sale of* shoes 25.65 Esther Keller, Joliet 2.00 Edna Giest, Joliet ................ 2.00 G. Stringer, Joliet 2.00 Earl Marshall for clarinet depos. 5.00 Athletic shoes and sw^if jerseys 19,00 Key deposit 1.00 EXPENDITURES Illinois State Teachers' Ass'n membership 30.00 T. P. Bolger, freshman-sophomore Reasonable Rates A. H. SCHAEFER Draying McHENRY, ILLINOIS hsDre-lo Sore--Insurance "WITH W m. G. Schreiner Auctioneering: OFFICE AT RESIDErtCai fboneW-R McHENRY. ILL *WF ~^i^yyiinnr^rMiMiririririn nnnnnrinrir tUNZ BROTHERS Local and Long Distance Hauling 91-R * McHenry, 111. Old Fashioned of ' Self-Risin|- Buckwheat i We Have Them Both This is the time of year when buckwheat cakes are mighty good. Order today. Manufactured by Ndienr] floor Hills i ' * DENTISTS Dn. McChesney St Brown (INCORPORATED) Dr. L W. Brown Dr. R. VL Walker Established over 50 years and still domg business at the old Inoneers in First Class lVHMtry at Moderate Prices. Ask your neighbors and friends about us. 8. E. Gor. Clark & Randolph St. 145 N Clark St., Chicago Daily 8 to 5, Sundays 9 to 11 Phene Central 2047 was the building of the Illinois - Central. It was incorporated in 1851 and the original charter called for the construction of 705 miles of trackage. This was from Cairo to East Dubuque •ith another line from th^ then main line at Centralia to Chicago. At that time Illinois was practically without highways. The most of the roads merely followed meandering Indian trails found when the white man came. On that first 705 miles of the Illinois Central system, except for Chicago and Galena, there were only two towns of more than 1,000 population. These were Bloomington and Freeport. From Chicago to Centralia, 250 miles, there wasn't a village. In 1850 Illinois had a population of 851,000; today, 7 200,000! Then the aggregate wealth of Illinois was put at $156,265.00; today it is $22,233,- 000,000 or an increase of more than 14,000 per cent. Then only 5,036,000 acres of farm land was under cultivation; today, 28,597,000 acres. In these years the value of farm property has Increased from $126,748,000 to $4,628,- 244,000 which makes Illinois, the twenty-third state in area, second in value of its farm property! Let us now look through another window at Illinois. Take manufacturing. We find about $6,500,000 in- Vested in manufacturing in Illinois in 1850 aS compared with $1,200,000,000 in 1923 which is the latest estimate from official so\irces available. The value of the products manufactured in one year in this time grew from $16,534,000 to $5,041,520,000. This is a gain of 18,000 per cent in money invested in manufacturing and gain of 30,000 per cent in value of the products. Turning back the pages of time we find that in 1850 there was not one single bank in Illinois. Today thereare 1,906 banks and their aggregate resources exceed $4,000,000,000. There were then 107 newspapers and other perodicals in Illinois in 1850. today there are 1,826 and Illinois is the second state in the union in publishing and printing. If that does not appease your hunger for facts about the remarkable development and growth in Illinois it will be a simple matter to point to the evolution in insurance. Life insurance was practically unknown in Illinois in 1850. Starting from scratch, life insurance has grown until today more than $4,500,000,000 worth of it is in force. On that memorable year when the Illinois Central, the first railroad system in Illinois was projected, there was more than 11,000,000 acres of unoccupied government land waiting for the hunter to claim it. Purchasers could have it at from 62% cents to $1.25 an acre. And almost as soon as those first ties were laid a flood of immigrants poured in and grabbed it all. We will turn for a moment to some figures on Illinois railroads available through the Illinois Commerce Commission. We find that the railroads of Illinois in 1924 paid out monets as follows: f Operating expenses $328,116,210 Taxes 25,872,585 Additions and betterments 42,986,468 party 2.20 Cash for small bills *15.00 A- E. Nye 1.00 W. F. Vogt l."50 Erickson Dept. Store 5.98 National Tea Co 3.40 J. C. Thies & Co.' 6.45 J. J. Vycital, pails, dippers and sponges 1.20 8.54 10.00 5.00 .90 .70 1.44 McHenry Artificial Stone Co., mortar color Wayne Callahan, referee at ft. game E. Olson, Ft. game ...;. Thos. Bolger, tape, bandage.... John Stoffel, 7 belts . Alexander Lumber Co., lumbar J. C. Thies & Co., candy, class of 1927 14.35 U. L. Glick referee Arm. day.... '20.00 Walter Thompson, umpire, same 11.00 Harvard Ath. Ass'n quarantine on game 20.00 A. G. Spaulding & Bro., guide and B. B. goods ; 8.98 Spies Bros., class ring 7.07 D. C. Heath & Co., maps and books 17.00 Hawthorne Hardware Co., volley ball '.. 7.10 Central Market, frankfurts class of 19& 7.50 Smith Bros., mustard and napkins .55 Frett's Market, buns 5.22 J. C. Thies & Co., candy 25.65 McHenry Plaindealer, programs, junior play 4.50 Boiley & Himes, athletic goods 34.14 Hawthorne Hardware Co., basket ball equip 5.20 Lowe & Campbell, Meanwell ball, cake and score book 8.05 Schaefer's, cider, class of 1929.... 4.75 Frett's Market, buns, class 1929 3.40 Central Market, wieners 3.62 Beware of the loose tongued gasaboo who alway% has some racy gossip about an absent brother. His conversation iB really only a veneer of self righteousness to hide his own rottenness. When mother drives ia the family bus, ' On the broad highway or the avenue, She sets up straight at the driving wheel, With her lips set tight, Mid her jaws like steel, And she flies along on an tm keel., That's ma. • She hogs the road like she owns the earth, And the men all cuss when she gets in front, • -'j'v . ; : "v She pays no haed to thS arOBsing . stops, - ' ' : v For she has no fear of the traffic cops, And she swings 'round the curves 'till your head just pops, . " ^ That's itna. She steps on the gas and lets her go, With a rattle and bang where the traffic's thick; She throws in the clutch, and she toots her horn, ' Like Gabriel's trump for the judgment morn, And she passes all cars with a look tit Scorn, " > ; . That's ma. ?3V . " Me and dad have to set in the back, Cause ma wants room when she puts on speed; Jehu ain't got a thing on us, If you don't believe it just hear dad CUSS, " I But she keeps on going Without no fuss, «--t * That's ma. Dad says he ain't going to ride no fnore, With a woman that drives like the very ducef' She'll pile us all in tlie ditch some day, And he says there'll be the very d--1 to pay, But she don't care a whoop for what ^e has to say, That's ma. If you see a car coming down the street, Just tearing along to beat the band, You'll know who it is by a man and a lad, For one of 'em's me, and the other one's dad, And the one at the wheel that's driving like mad, That's ma. LOW HOLIDAY FARES VIA CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN LINE Reduced fare excursion tickets are on sale from December 21st to 25th, 1926, inc., to points in Illinois, Wisconsin, Upper Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, North and South America, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado and Utah. Return trip must be completed to reach original starting point not later than midnight of January 6, 1927. Excursion tickets Will be honored in sleeping cars and parlor cars of all regular trains upon payment of the usual charge for space occupied. Children half fare. For reservations and full particulars apply to Local Ticket Agents, Chicago & Northwestern Ry. 29 Now that we've got this ice and snow, the touring season's over, so we've nailed our stand up tight till spring. I told Sary Jane, by jing, since she's not feelin' well, I thought, we'd take the profits that it brought and go off on a little trip, there's nothing better for her pip. Just where to go I harly know, I'd take a trip to Borneo; Sary'd like to spend a week, a-seein' sights in Mozambique. But when we have pulled out from hence well have to think of the expense, I fear my bank account won't stand a journey to Somaliland. A trip to Arjgentina would leave Sary Jane a feelin' good, and we could stop off on the way and see the sigl\|s of Paraguay, but still, a trip lijce that I fear, would make my as sets disappear. Your money don't last such a while when you are traveling in style, you pay your fare and then you tip ev'rybody on the ship. The porter and the chamberrhaid would ne'er forgive you, I'm afraid, unless you loosen up and slip each one of them a good-sized tip. The waiter and the engineer hold out their hands when you appear, your money melts away, by gum, when you're so far away from hum. Perhaps we'd better stay right here where living ain't so all-fired dear! ',($0 • v/# i :/• J t.*#i Over $xoo,ooo,ooo Was accumulated this year througfi Christmas Clubs Just think of it! Over $200,000,000 distributed to Club Members the first week in December. Amazing isn't it. Yet it is not so amazing when you stop to consider the idea behind The Christmas Club: - Patting aside a few nickels, dimes, and quarters EVERY WEEK for fifty weeks towards accumulating a fund to provide suitable gifts for all your friends and relatives without ever missing the money--a way to make gift giving a real pleasure instead of a burden. That's ^just what the Christmas Club does. You decide now just how much Ready Cash you want next Christmas, pick out the Club that will pay you back that amount next December--Enroll now as a member in that Club, pay a small amount each week until the middle of next November. About the first of next December you receive from us in one lump sum all yon have accumulated, plus the interest earned. That's just the reason The Christmas Club has caught the fancy of «o many thousands of people, all over America. Christmas Clubs are growing by leaps and bounds each year. This ia. the biggest year in Christmas Club history^ Next year it will eclipse all records. We are proud of our Club. We are glad to see so many people in this town solve the Gift Buying Problem so easily and so cheerfully. This is an invitation to join ou^ new 1927 Club now forming and be prepared with Ready Funds for next Christmas. Be one of the many that will receive a Big CJheck from us just when the sliopping^ssjLson smarts next December. ^ t Pick oat the club you want Come in and )oinlc CLU6-:--Start with^lc and increase lc each week, or start with 50c and decrease lc each week. Receive $12.75 Plus Interest 2c CLUB--Start with 2c and increase 2c .each week, or start with $1.00 and * decrease 2c each week. Receive $25.50 Plus Interest, 5c CLUB--Start with 5c and increase 5c each week, or start with $2.50 and decrease 5c each week. Receive.- $63.75 Plus Interest. lOcCLUB--Start with 10c and increase 10c each week, or start with $5.00 - and decrease 10c each week. Receive.. $127.58 Plus Interest to )oin from the list below . -NOW, TODAY 25c CLtJB--Start with 25c and deposit 25c each .week. Receive $12.5fr Plus Interest! 50c CLUB--Start with 50c and deposit ri 50c each week. Receive $25.00 . Plus Interest $1.00 CLUB--Start with $1.00 and deposit v $1.00 each week. Receive $50.00" Plus Interest $2.00 CLUB--Start with $2.00 and deposit $2.00 each week. Receive ..$100.00 Plus Interest ' $3.00 CLUB--Start with $3.00 and deposit $3.00 each week. Receive $150.00 77 1 Plus Interest $5.00 CLUB--Start with $5.00 and deposit $5.00 each week. Receive $250.00 Plus Interest;- $10.00 CLUB--Start with $10X10 and deposit $10.00 each week. Receive $500.00 Plus Jntereafc==s= Fox River Valley State Bank McHenry, Illinois were always willing to leave home and push into the wilderness. SMITHS LEAD IN TELEPHONE LIST Mr. Smith is one of the best known individuals in the United States, but Mr. Johnson is a close second, with Mr. Brown right on his heels. At least so it would seem from a recent roll call of tha clans which was made by some one who conducted a nation-wide search as city and tele-. phone directories. As a result of this study it was found that there are at least 1,300,000 Smiths in America, followed by 1,000,000 Johnsons and 730,000 Browns. Then come the Williamsese and the Joneses with 685,000 and 658,000 respectively. The Millers, according to the official census, produce 626,000 and the Davises 538,- 000. ; While the foregoing are the figures of the leading families for the country as a whole, their order in certain cities is somewhat different. For example, in New York City the Cohens have nearly eliminated the Smith| ' from first place, while in Boston th#^ Sullivans have reached second place, and the Murphys are in fifth.' In Cincinnati the Meyers rank third. It is interesting to note that thai Smiths also lead the Coolidges i$t L Washington, D. C., in the latest telephone book by 998 votes to 4, but thajfc' the name Calvin Coolidge is not listed However, most people in Washingtoa know who he is and where he can b# / located. After attempting to sit in a genuine Colonial chair or to sleep in a genuine (?olonial bed with any degree of comfort, one is better able to unClassified ads are winners derstand why the American pioneers 666 ;s|| a prescription for Cbfeli, Grippe, Flu, Dengue Bilious Feror and Malaria Total $397,035,263 Or we can reach out beyond Illinois and learn that the railroads of the nation employ 1,770,000 people, consume 28 per cent of the nation's production of coal, 25 per cent of the output of lumber, 33 per cent of its iron and steel, 20 per cent of its copper and about 50 per cent of its fueloil. In other words one fait)ily in every six gets its sustenance in some manner out of the railroads. • If we will follow the story o< the nation's railroads a little farther we will find that they paid, in 1924, federal taxes of $125,000,000: state taxes of $119,000,000 and local taxes of $147,000,000. Returning to the subject of Illinois. Back in that year from which we mark the beginning of Illinois' real in- McHenry Company We specialize in hauling rubbish, ashes, cans, etc. We will make weekly calls. We will also de' expressing of 'all kihds at reasonable rates. _ For Quick Service Call ZMcHenry 38 ALWAYS AT MONEY-SAVING PIUCES Christmas and the Family's Health Pure, reliable quality foods for the Christmas Dinner ready for you at the National Tea Stores--where prices ^re always on a money-saving basis., <1 CAMPBELL'S TOMATO SOUP 3 for 25* 'mi MINCE MEAT 2^ lb. jar 39* Old Style Moist „ PLUM PUDDING ' 1 lb. 28* R. & R. Brand, small 10* * WASHED FIGS per lb. 30# Fancy Smyrna MIXED NUTS per lb. 25* Fanciest Mixed '-'lis""* f PEANUT BRITTLE lb. Crisp, Chock Full of Peanuts RICE, Blue Rose 3 lbs. 20* II Use instead of Potatoes COCOA Walter Baker's ft lb. 18* MARSHMALLOWS lb. 19* Light--Fluffy--Pore NAVY BEANS Choice Hand Picked 3 lbs. 20* :: CATSUP ^ Lge. Bottle 15#Vj: American Home Y DATES Dromedary Golden in* FIG BARS 2 lbs. 19*_^: 10 o*. 21# Fresh Baked-Finest Quality • JELLO All Flavors 3 Pfcgs- 25* MTT.1T ' • i n L 3 tall cans 25# | > National Evaporated REMEMBER -Not only the items in Our advertisements are low priced but all merchandise at all times is on a money-saving basis. .Pay cash and save money. National Tea Store YOUR HANDY PANTBY GREEN AND ELM STS McHENRY, ILL. ^ ' " • * - M' _\ fSSiS