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- PP§.% 1 * %«nmww ,•. •![ THE M'HENRY PLAINDEALER, THURSDAY, MA&OH 10,1927 John: (after first night on board ^ v /.ship): I say, old chap, where have my :--MClothes gone? Steward: Where did you put them? J°hn: In the little cupboard there, .with the glass door. Steward: I'm sorry, sir, that's the porthole.--Sea Breezes. Thieves stole $60,000,000 worth of cars last year and* overlooked our old insured bws, darn 'em--Chatham News If man were really a superior, being lie would not have so many of the dominant traits of the ass. Farm Loans 5%, 5M% or 5Vfc%, depending on value of land per acre Prompt Service SAVINGS BANK OF KEWANEE Kewanee, Illinois W. KLONTZ, M. D. ' 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 Phone 181 McHenry, 111. WM. M. CARROLL Lawyer Office with Kent & Compsay Every Wednesday Phone 34 McHenry, HI. (Telephone No. 108-R. Stoffel & Reihansperger Insurance agents for all classes of property in the best companies. WEST McHENRY, " :: ILLINOIS J. W. WORTH PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Audits Systems Income and Inheritance Tax Matters Member of Public Accountants Association of Illinois Pbooe 206-J McHenry, I1L Phone 126-W. Reasonable Rates A. H. SCHAEFER Draying McHENRY, ILLINOIS Insure -In Sure- Insurance WITH -- Wfta.G. Schreiner Auctioneering OFFICE AT RESIDENCE "•, Phone 93-R McHENRY,ILL Pi "RE-DISCOVERING ILLINOIS" By LESTER B. COLBY, Illinois Chamber of Commerce Many good citizens of Illinois are surprised when they learn that thefe are only five states producing more mineral wealth than Illinois. Many more are surprised to hear that Illinois produces, in dollars and cents each year, more mineral wealth four times over than Colorado. If that does not surprise them sufficiently you may tell them, and stay within the truth, that there are twenty- two states with an area nineteen times as large as Illinois whose combined mineral output, in value, just about equals that of Illinois. These states are Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Masachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Peleware, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Nebraska, Arkansas, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Washington and Oregon. _ Some of Illinois' mineral products are coal, clay (glacial and refractory), clay shales, sands (including glass sand, building sand, paving sand, grinding and polishing sand and filter sand) gravel, limestone, petroleum, natural gas, flourspar, tripoli, peat, fuller's earth, lead, zinc, silver and pyritc. Silver as a byproduct of flourspar and zinc mines in Hardin county has run more than $8,000 in a single „year. The five states producing more mineral wealth than Illinois are Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Texas, Oklahoma and California. Illinois occupies 1.8 per cent of the area of the United States but produces about five per cent of the nation's mineral wealth. The most of these facts come from a report assembled by the Illinois State Geographical survey largely from figures dealing with the years 1922, 1923 and 1924. Production of minerals, coming from the earth in Illinois, is now running more thatt $1,000,000 for every working day. This little preamble on Illinois' mienrals leads up to a visit to a city of 10,000 people in picnicking parties and by motorists for keeping drinks hot or cold. The W. S. Dickey Clay Mfg. Co., clay products, 250 people, and the American Steel Products Co., poultry and hog house supplies, 285 people, entered Macomb in 1925. Macomb has increased the number of wage earners in its plants between 50 and 60 per cent in a matter of a few months. That has been due partly to expansion of existing plants and partly to new industries coming in. The Elaine Garment company, specializing in dresses and rain coats, is a new arrival in Macomb. It employs about 90 people. The Macomb Dairy company started this year with eight workers and another small plant is that of the Macomb Pattern & Machine company. Three plants in a year and five in two years is progress. Reason for some 6f this new growth can probably be traced. Macomb for years has had a Commercial Club but it was devoted largely to social affairs. It conducted club rooms which included pool tables and a dancing hall with stage for amusements. Some months ago the club was reorganized as a Chamber of Commerce and since then the social features have been given small attention. The organization is now devoted to townbuilding. As is common at present in m¥ny Illinois communities a demand is pressing for better and larger hotel accommodations. Through the efforts of the Macomb Chamber of Commerce the 85-room New Hotel Macomb is being built. It will be ready for business early next spring Twice! T o l d Tales Interesting Bits of Newa Takes From the Columns of the Plaindealer Fifty and Twenty-live Years Ago March, 1877 . The Chicago market quotes creamery butter at 31 cents; eggs, 12% cents and lard at 9% cents. The McHenry market quotes butter, at 20 cents; eggs 12% cents; lard, IS cents and cheese 12% cents. McHenry is noted as being a town possessed of a great deal of musical genius, and now even the blacksmith's anvil rings out in sharp but unmistakable staccato notes, ready pay, ready pay. Now that the storm is over it would be well for our citizens to remember that there is an ordinance now in force requiring them to clean the snow from the walks in front of their premises within twelve hours, under a penalty of not less than three nor more than ten dojlars. The ordinance is a good one, and every citizen should see that his part of the duty is performed. _ • ' The morning train on the Fox River railroad encountered a broken rail on Saturday morning, one mile north of Genoa Junction, and were thrown into the flitch with great force. The Star restaurant at Woodstock Local stockholders, 460 in number,1 under the management of Frank L have purchased blocks of stock rep- Smith, is fast gaining in popularity, resenting investments of from $200 j If you want a dish of oysters or a to $5,000. The hotel will have no good square meal Frank can satisfy bonded indebtedness. Three new industries and a new hotel in thes first year of effort under a revised plan you every time. March, 1902 The Elgin market quotes butter, at of organized work, strictly for town 26 cents a pound. The week's output development, is something to consider. Other towns might well observe. Macomb is also the home of the was 599,500 lbs. Charles Eldredge and F. Wattles shipped one car of hogs and one of western Illinois. Its chief industries Western Illinois Teachers College, a j COWjJ f-0 the Chicago market this week. • " ' normal school with a teaching staff!| weelc Henry Stilling sold a bunch of fifty-two and nearly a thousand j of hoJ?g that averaf,ed 604 pounds students. " j each. They were full-blood Poland j China stock. SPECIAL ASSESSMENT NOTICE Mrs. Ed Sutton and family left for _ ., , .. .... - .. I their future home in HarrfsbuTg, S. In the matter of the petition of the D Monday. A large number of Chicken Feed We make our own POULTRY SCRATCH AND MASH Both excellent feeds and prices moderate. Try a Sack Today Mtiienr} Flour Mills McHenry, III. DENTISTS JDRS. McCHESNEY & BROWN (Incorporated) Dr. L W. Brown Dr. R. M. Walker Established over 50 years and still doing business at the old stand Pioneers in First Class Dentistry at Moderate Prices --~"r Ask your neighbors Friends about us. . S. E. Cor. Clark and Randolph St. 145 N. Clark St., Chicago Daily 8 to 5, Sundays 9 to 11 Phone Central 204T DOCTOR ORDERS VINOL FOR NERVOUS WOMAN have risen out of the eirth, from clay products. The place is Macomb. You probably would not think of Macomb as having anything to do with mineral or mining development. Yet probably sixty per cent of the wage earners in Macomb's industries are directly dependent upon mineral resources. Macomb manufactures insulators of every sort, tile, pottery, stoneware, earthenware, and other materials out of clays. This clay industry in Illinois is rather amazing when you get to digging around in it. A survey completed a couple of years ago showed that Illinois was the sixth state in the nation in the value of its pottery output making about four per cent of the nation's supply. Figures showed more than ten per cent of the nation's brick and tile to be manufactured in Illinois. Brick and tile made in Illinois in 1923 was valued at $29,527,311 which was greater than in any of forty-five other states. In the production of stoneware clay in Illinois is exceeded by only one other state. That is Ohio. Illinois produced thirty-four per cent of the nation's stoneware clay in 1922, or 30.154 tons. In fire clay tonage Illinois originated more than any of of forty-two other states in the Union. It is one of the only five states producing ball clay. Commercial clays in Illinois, furthermore, are seemingly inexhaustible. Working in clays is one of the oldest of industries. The potter's wheel has been little changed since the dawn of history except that in , modern plants they are turned at higher speeds with individual motor power. Let us visit briefly the plant of the Illinois Electric Porcelain company in Macomb. This plant is young as industries go for the first electric power plant was established in Illinois i onlv in 1879. The plant in Macomb makes about every sort of insulator and insulating device known. Clays of various sorts are mixed and kneaded, ground1, treated, purified and made into dough-like workable masses. Then the clays, all shaped by machinery, many finished by hand, are placed into kilns and burned un der intense heat. Some of the insulators are so small that a 3-pound package will hold thousand. Others, for gaint transformers, weigh fifty pounds each Between these sizes come a multitude of "most surprising forms and shapes and for infinite purposes. The plant has been growing steadily each year and today employs 235 people. The product is mostly consumed in tjje United States which leads in electrical development but --shipments have been made to Australia, .New Zealand and other far lands. The company was organized in 1910 with an original investment of $20,000. Its capital stock today is $325,000 and is represented by an investment of about $500,000. It grew out of a little stoneware factory and its first output was small and simple items, knobs and tubes for house wiring. Today not less than 8,500 items are manufactured And that is the development of one industry started in Illinois sixteen years ago based on a product of the earth. The Buckeye Pottery Co., manufac turer of stoneware, employs about 150 people; the Western Stoneware com pany about fifty more. Tile, sewer pipe, flower pots and other plain stone City of McHenry to levy a Special and ' relate were at the Assessment for a ! train to bid them farewell. Dr. H. F. Beebe has moved his office fixtures to his residence where he will hereafter be found. It is a wise consisting of a connected system of sewers for sanitary purposes, etc. in and along a portion of Crystal Lake road and other streets, in the j move Qn the part of the doctor, for a said city of McHenry, county, Illinois. McHenry separate office in a town of this siza not necessary, but more apt to There may be nothing so rare as a day in June, but there is nothing quite so delightful as a day in late October. Kid Notes: Bill Townsley junior wrote his dad the other day that his sister and Isobell Moses were doing some pathetic dancing and he guessed he'd close his letter to watch the performance. And Russell Townsley took a needle and some matches to his mother and asked her to paralyze the needle and take a splinter out of his foot. A Woodstock flapper's clothes admit so many violet rays to all parts of her body that the vaccination shows on her upper left. It just seems that the bottom of the left foot is the only place left for a vaccination, if it is not to show. ' In the back of our head we seem to have a recollection of a time when a girl with an unattractive face had to let it go at that. • •"There's a difference between a policeman and a flapper," declared Amos Tosh. "When the policeman say 'stop' h® really means it," The three important epochs in a man's life: When he was born, when he is married, when he dies. The three most important epochs in a woman's life: Whether it will be a boy or a girl, what the bride wore, how much he left in his will. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all | confuse his patients. persons interested that the city coun- j Mrs. N. H. Petesch and children of Oak Park, were MlcHenry visitors the first of the week. Albert Reynolds came out from Chicago Saturday night and took his first degree in Masonry, in the McHenry lodge. A. L. Howe, Will Howe, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Howe and Clyde Thurlwell will leave on Monday for Portland, Oregon. The enrollment for the month in the public schools was 190. A number of friends called at the home of Will Howe last Saturday evening, March 8, and spent an enjoyable evening, the event being in the nature of a surprise. The mansion on the river afforded plenty of room for the accommodation of the guests. cil of the city of McHenry, McHenry county, Illinois, having ordered that a local improvement be made consisting of the construction of a connected system of sewers for sanitary purposes, provided with all necessary manholes, house junction branches and vitrified stoppers, all connected and completely installed in place, including excavation and backfilling, in and along a portion of Crystal Lake Road. Mill street, Grove street and Waukegan Road, within the city of McHenry, McHenry County Illinois, as provided for in and by an ordinance passed by the City Council of said city February 19th 1927, and approved by its mayor on February 19th, 1927. entitled "An Ordinance For a Connected System of Sanitary Sewers in a Portion of Crystal Lake road, Mill street, Grove street and Waukegan road, in the City of McHenry, McHenry County, Illinois," the ordinance for the same being on file in the office of the city clerk of said city of McHenry, and having applied to tho County Court of McHenry County for an assessment of the costs of said improvement according to the benefits, apd assessments therefor having been made and returned to said court, which assessment is divided into ten annual installments bearing interest at the rate of six percent per annum; the final hearing thereon will be had on the 28th day of March, A. D. 1927, at the hour of ten o'clock a. m. or as », w. soon thereafter as the business of the An Illinois clergyman; wm> rides to court will permit. All persons desir- j his church in an auto received an aning may file objecti6ns in said courl | noymous letter calling attention to before said day and may appear at: the .fact that the Lord never rode to the hearing and make their defense. J church in a car. The clergyman read Dated at McHenry Illinois, this 7th the letter from the pulpit and then day of March A. D. 1927. ; added: HOWARD WATTLES, If the writer of this letter will come Person appointed by the President j to me next Sunday properly saddled of the Board of Local Improvements I and bridled I will gladly follow the of the city of McHenry, Illinois, to1 Lord's example and come to church spread said assessment. 40-2 j as He entered Jerusalem. An Illinois clergvman, calted away suddenly " and unable to officiate at the services in his church, intrusted his new curate with the duty. On his return home he asked his wife what she thought of the curate's sermon. "The poorest I ever heard." she declared: "nothing in it at all." Later in the day the clergyman, meeting his curate, asked him how he had got on. "Splendidly, sir." replied the curate. ">I didn't have time to prepare anything myself, so I preached one of your sermons." I'm planning with Sary Jane that •"-e will take a trip again to g«st away from snow and ice, in Florida, where the weather's nice. Still I'm inclined to think, by gum, that I had better stay to hum and paint the bam and fix the shed. If I'd fix up the place instead of going for a trip somewhere, it might be that I could prepare myself so next year I could be a Master Farmer then, by gee. My neighbor sure would be surprised, that feller hasnt realized how smart I am, he'd be distressed to see the medal on my vest. The trouble is, it's lots of toil to keep the weeds from off your soil and raise big crops of corn and oats and feed a crop of thrifty shoats. Fd have to jump in with a vim to keep my fields and yards in trim, Fd have no time to sit and rest. Sary tofd me that she guessed them Master Farmers don't sit 'round, they're out a diergin' in the ground. In my case, why, the trouble is, I like to sit and smoke, gee whiz, and watch the birds, and meditate, no matter if my crops are late. These Master Farmers are O. K.. they raise a lot of grain and hay but I ain't hardly in their class, so I just guess that I will pass the chance to be with them next falT and not have any rest at all. I'd rather spend the winter time a-restinr than in haulin' limef W- , V ' that really are Big Things They are the small amounts go for unimportant things--to satisfy whims, or sudden fancies. In a month--they reach a fair total. In a year--the item is big. 7* Start a Savings Account het'^ittiiee tur® your surplus funds go in the right direction. River Valley State Bank Bank That Helps You To Get Ahead" McHency Illinois Modern Bedroom Furniture The designing and the construction of our bedroom sets place them in a class by themselves. No finer furniture is made, everything con-' sidered, than you may boy here, at PRICES WITHIN REASON. Jacob Justen I Furniture and Undertaking fhone 103-R ~ McHenry h "Handy Pantries of the Middle West" NATIONAL TEA CO. tlMpi QUALITY GROCERS Regist* "Save every day the National way" Campbell's Tomato Soup 3 c*11* Fels Naptha Soap 5 hars 2n _ 24c Peas Amer. Home Telephone 2 No. 2 cans Corn Sweet-Tender No. 2 can 3 for .any 10c brand. Mr1' -ic. Could hardly walk. My doctor ordered Vinol, and I feel 100 per cent better."--Mrs. H. Willis. For over 26 years, this simple strengthening Iron and cod liver compound has been prescribed for weak, nervous women and men and frail children. The very FIRST week you take Vinol, you begin to feel stronger, eat and sleep better. Contains no oil--youll like its taste. Thomas P. Bolger, Drug- CUt , ^ r,wa 1 s J nerv®^s ^n _ nrd.. anem-1 war^e Jare made in enormous quantities acom^ Because of its clay working plants Macomb has acquired other industries. One of the manufactured items about which the Macomb Manufacturing Co is built is called the "Little Brown Jug." This is an earthenware jug, semi-vacuum type, surrounded with £| layer of ground coTk and sheathed in a neat aluminum container. It sells big especially in the spring and fall bwcauao it is waafjj to* McHenry Cartage Service Company • - V" We specialize in hauling rubbish, ashes, .cans, etc. We will make v. weekly calls. We will also do expressing of all kinds at reasonable rates. ' For Quick Service Call • iMcHenry 38 Flour Pillsbury Gold Medal Ceresota 24>/2 lb. Oleomargarine National Brand lb. 24c Salmon Medium Red Tall Corn meal Lux 13c Small Pkg. 3 for Swansdown Cake Flour Pkg. 25c Ms Pineapple Amer. Home Sliced No. 2Vz can Or- 25c Codfish Coffee Gortons v in Tin No. 1 can 29c Special Blend Lima Beans 3 ""$1-00 *llc National Tea Store Green and Kim Streets McHenry, IlL V; M •s '•