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PURELY PERSONAL Wm. Clough of Wanconda was here Friday. „ T. J. Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. F, L. Chicago Tuesday. Dr. Armstrong of ealler Wednesday. Harry H. Fay spgpt Saturday and Sunday in the city. Mrs. Mike Justen is visiting friends in Chicago this week. Mrs. Frank Schnorr is week in Wisconsin. Peter Leickem has been in th£ city a few days this week. Miss Bernice Kimball visited friends at Richmond Sunday. Dr. F. C. Roes transacted business in the windy city Saturday. Mrs. Eisenmenger and son visited at Dundee one day last week. ' Miss Susie Barbian is Spending the week with Chicago relatives. Miss Dorlesca Granger recently called on relatives at Griswold Lake. Martin A. Howell, Jr., of Chicago spent Sunday with his parents. Mrs. C. Stegman of Chicago was vis­ iting here a few days last week. ' Misses Susie, Katie and Emma Weber are spending the week in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. John Kennebeck visite3 Mr, and Mrs. John Lenzen Monday. Henry C. Mead attended the soldiers' reunion at Belvidere on Monday last. Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Diedrich spent sev­ eral days in Waukegan the past week. Nick VanDyke and daughter of Hum­ phrey, Neb., are visiting in this vicinity. Miss Katie Kennebeck went to Chica­ go Monday to take treatment for her eyes. Isaac Wentworth came over from Gilberts to spend Sunday with his chil­ dren. Wm. Feltz and wife returned from their Honeymoon trip on Wednesday last. Mrs. Fred Feltz has been visiting rel­ atives at Glen Ellyn, 111., for a few days. Mrs. Hattie Blaokman of Elgin has been visiting' her sister, Mrs. H. C. Mead. Miss Lizzie Buss has returned to Chi­ cago after a few weeks' visit with rela tives. Mr. and Mrs. Sayler E. Smith are at- y, tending the stat^fair at Springfield this week. Mrs. D. F. Hanly and Mrs. H. H. Hanly were Woodstock yisitors last Friday. Albert M. and Ferninand Frett of Chicago spent Sunday with their broth er, C. G. Pant Wooster and Carl Mead of Woodstock called on McHenry friends Sunday. Ray Kimberly and MiloPrioeof Wan­ conda were McHenry callers the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Buss, Sr. spent Sat­ urday and Sunday with friends at 'Bur­ lington, Wis. W. T. Wells of Chicago spent Satur­ day evening at the home of his brother, Dr. D. G. Wells. Geo. Smith went to Chicago Wednes­ day to assist Carter Harrison in enter­ taining the city's guests. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Schoonmaker and son returned Saturday from a two weeks' visit at Genoa, 111. Jos. Miller and daughter, May, of Libertyville visited with McHenry friends Friday and Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Wheeler are en­ tertaining thi latter^parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. Borst of Kilbourn, Wis. Warthen Kimball of Chicago and Miss Emma Welch of Wanconda called tm friends here Sunday evening. B. C. Getzleman, cashier of the bank at Algonquin, was a guest at the home of 8. 8. Chapell Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Bohr and Miss Lena Sprang of Chicago were guests of Mr. and Mrs. T, W. Winkels last week. Mrs. Margaret Knox, Miss Katherine Knox and Mr, Maher of Elgin were guests of F. J. Ward and family oyer Sunday. John Ralston was under the weather last week bat has fully recoverd. In company with his wife he went to Chi­ cago Tuesday. Rev. F. W. Miller, pastor of the Uni­ versalist church, officiated at the funer­ al of Mrs. Abner Martin at Wood­ stock Monday. F. G. Schreiner, the Plalndealer fore­ man, went to Chicago Monday to wit­ ness the centennial festivities and enjoy a week's vacation. Mrs. Mary Reams and son, Andrew, and Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Ward of Chi­ cago spent the past week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Ward. Tom Ellis, who has been spending the summer at Pistakee Bay, called on Mc- up her position at 8. S. Chapell's store where she has been employed during the past two years. Miss Etta Simes will fill the position thus vacated. F. M. Goodman, professor of materia medica and director of the microscopi­ cal laboratory, Chicago College of Phar­ macy, resumed his duties at that insti­ tution Tuesday, the vacation days hav­ ing ended. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Eisenmenger, Jr., and son, Edward, went to Chicago Sat­ urday morning. Mr. Eisenmenger re­ turned Monday, while his wife and son will remain for a few weeks' visit with her parents,' A. L. Howe is here from Portland, Ore., for a month's sojourn. Mr. Howe enjoys meeting his old frieuds ip Illinois but has no intentions of ever residing here again. -The balmy breezes of the Pacific coast have completely captivat­ ed him. ELIJAH THE TWOLTIMES Hope That Blacks and whites Marry In Zion City. Will ^Heory friends last week before leaving /or his home in Kenosha, Wis. Thos. Muldoon and family of Robey, Ind., have been visiting relatives here the past week. Mrs. Muldoon is a sis­ ter of M. J. and John Walsh. Mrs. L. Stoddard of Belvidere was a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs, T. J. 'Walsh last week. She also visited her sister, Mrs. Carr, at Grass Lake. E. A. Sessions of Chicago, Mrs Geo. W- Howe's father, called on McHenry friends this week. Mr. Sessions is in­ terested in western mining property. Miss Stella Nordquict will'toon give John Alexander Dowie has solved the race problem, to his own satisfaction", at least, and intends that the solution shall be put in practice at once in Zion City. His plan, which is a simple one, pro­ vides for the intermarriage of blacks and whites on the ground that "we are all members of one great family." The views of Dowie on this matter are pub­ lished in the current number of his magazine, Leaves of Healing. "I trust," Dowie says, "that we shall have marriages in Zion between all the fami­ lies of the one great race upon the earth, for there are not a number of races. "There is only one race, but there are many families. All this nonsense about different races is so much trash. You must remember there was grumbling about Moses marrying an African wom­ an. But God said, 'My servant Moses is faithful in all mine house.' God had not lost confidence in Moses because he had married an Ethiopian woman." Dowie has an opportunity to solve the race problem and has the money and races to experiment witht says the Bar- rington Review. Just how a colony composed of a mixture of blacks and whites will flourish on Lake county soil remains to be seen. Advocates of mis- cegnation are few, but Elijah the Two Times has a faculty of popularizing his fads and, no doubt, will carry out his desire. John Thelen Hurt. John Thelen, son of Peter Thelen of this village, lies swathed in bandages at St.Mary's hospital, Chicago, as the re­ sult of an accident last Thursday in that city. He was working on one of HAPPENINQ8 IN M'HENRY ADJACENT COUNTIE8. will be dedicated on the Thursday, October 1st. Mrs. J. S. Reynolds, formerly dent of Wanconda, died Wednesday at the home of her daughter in Chicago. Burial Friday at' Wanconda. Mrs. Reynolds was a sister of J. W. Mullen of Wanconda. Charlie Daniels, composer of "Hia­ watha, " received $10,000 from his pub­ lishers. Had he aocepted a 5 cent roy­ alty on each copy he would have re­ ceived $50,000. for more than a million copies have been sold. Waukegan Sun: The population of Waukegan is surprising, as it shows us to have over 15,000, an increase of 3,330 since 1901, when the directory figures Bhowed the population to be 11,950, the number of names being 4,780, against 6,112 for this year. The Algonquin village board met last Friday evening and opened bids on con­ struction of cement sidewalks in that village. Abqut 10,000 square feet of walk are to be laid. The contract was given to J. C. Henderson of Elgin on a bid of 9f cents per square foot--Herald. The Borden factory was in operation nearly every evening last week on ac­ count of the large amount of milk being received and the shortage of help. From present appearances it will be but a short time before it will be necessary to enlarge the plant. It is certainly a great thing" for Hebron and the sur­ rounding country.--Hebron Tribune. Fire, which broke out apparently in a pile of cinders, caused a loss of about $35,000 to the plant of the Kenosha Gas and Electric company Saturday night. Several persons were slightly injured by the explosion of the boilers. Engi­ neer John Trestle narrowly escaped with his life, not having time even to secure his clothes. Harvard Herald: Geo. King of this city brought to this office la»t Saturday a half dozen potatoes dug that day in his garden and were the second crop from the same ground. In the early spring he planted a strip of ground to Early Ohios and the same were ripe on July 8. The following day he planted the same piece of ground with Rural New Yorkers and on Saturday last dug the same, both crops being fine potatoes, and thereby establishing a record in this line that is very unoommbn. The potato crop of Lake county ruined, owing to incessant iains, and fields, which some weeks ago gave promise of the biggest returns ever ex­ perienced in this county, will yield practically nothing. A prominent farm­ er sums up the deplorable condition in general when he says, concerning his own prospects: "The potato crop is practically a total loss, due to the rainy weather, and whi'e earlier in the summer the fields gave promise of 200 bushels to the acre, I expect an average of only 15 bushels now, and poor stock at that, the few re­ maining potatoes not totally destroyed by rot being of poor quality and dis­ eased. I expect no crop at all in some places, and not over 15 bushels to the acre at the best.".--Waukegan Sun. QUARTER OF A CENTURY HAPPENINGS IN M'HENRY TWEN­ TY-FIVE YEARS AGO. Items Clipped from The Plain dealer Pub­ lished Ootofier 2. 1878--Particularly Interesting; to Old Residents. Geo. Smith, a butcher who works at the Central market of R. Waite, . had the misfortuoe to break his leg on Fri­ day last. We had the pleasure a few days ago of seeing a portrait of A. S. Wright, of Woodstock, painted by Miss Cad Owen, which we consider one of the best we ever saw. Mrs. E. Howe of Greenwood has rent­ ed the millinery st&re of Mrs. C. H. Morey, in this village, and will imme­ diately open it with a fine stock of fall and winter millinery. The foot race between A. Walsh, of this village and Nick Paul, of Chicago, has been set down for Saturday of next week, Oct 12th, and will positively take place on that day. Just as we go to press we learn that the hardware store of J. Story & Son, near the depot in this village, was en­ tered by burglars last night, and goods to the amount of $350 taken. The Fox River club, of this village, went to Elgin on Saturday last and played a game with the old Bluff City club of that place, and were victorious by a score of 22 to 9, in six innings. The Democratic convention at the Riverside House on Tuesday, for the purpose of putting in nomination can­ didates for representatives in this, the 8th district, was a regular old fashioned Democrat fight. The convention was composed of 22 delegates from McHenry »iV"C< Rev. S. W. Lauck, pastor of the M. E. church of this village, will go to Aurora next week to attend conference, and we take this opportune time to pub­ lish a brief history of the Methodist so­ ciety of McHenry. In the year 1844, when McHenry was a mere hamlet, composed of a few houses and a handful of struggling, in­ dustrious pioneers, the M. E. church society was organized. At that time Rev. H. Stocking was presiding elder, Wm. Yallett being the first preacher in charge. Darius Reynolds was steward and Freeman Harvey and Luther Finch, class leaders. There is no record of the number of members at the beginning, probably not many, but they were in­ defatigable in church work as in world­ ly pursuits of life and as a consequence much spiritual good in the community resulted. The McHenry circuit includ­ ed three appointments: McHenry, Sol­ on and Queen Ann Prairie. In 1845 Hebron was included, and in 1846 T. M. Bay's class, English Prairie, and Mon- talona were included in the circuit Following is a list of the members of the quarterly conference in 184Q: Joe. Mitchell, presiding elder; Amos Wiley, preacher in charge; Wm. I. Rider, Plumer Conch, local preachers; John M. Bay, O. G.a Wilber, Jas. G. Mnrphy, G. W. Murphy, Joa B. Streeter, Rufus Raymond, exhorters; Freeman Harvey, Darius Reynolds, Zeno Streeter, Albin H. Parker, stewards. In the early days the society met in the school house, which was located near where the Universalist church now stands. Later, meetings were held in the brick (taptist church, which stood on the corner now occupied bx Dr. D. G. Wells' residence. Not until 1860 was the present church building erect­ ed, while the circuit was in charge of Rev. C. Lazenbee. At that time F. Harvey, Curtis Gale and Wm. Still were trustees. The building underwent extensive repairs from time to time, but it re­ mained for Rev. J. R. Clark, as pastor, to inspire the • people with a desira to have a modern and beautiful church, such as the present. These repairs cost about $800, and the society has ever since been thankful that the work was accomplished. In the fall of 1844 a parsonage was built at Greenwood, being left to the care of the following trustees: Lyman E. Bure, Matthew Carr, Alden Harvey, John M. Bay and Andrew W. Murphy. The papers held by the trustees con­ tained these words: "To have and to hold in trust for the circuit, a lot with a parsonage house thereon." The present parsonage in this village was erected in 1879, under the pastor ate of Rev. W. A. Adron. It is a house of eight rooms and was, at the time it was built, considered a good residence, And it is yet, with a few needed re­ pairs, a comfortable home' for the preacher. As time advanced and the country be­ came more thickly settled the circuit was reduced, and at present the only outside society is at Ringwood. The latter plaefev^as included in the circuit in 1847. ^ ' Sunday evening preaching services, al­ ternating between the two places. This has been tried before, but until the present pastor took charge proved un­ successful. The church is in a good financial con- djtion. The Sunday school member-, sliip has been greatly increased both in McHenry and Ringwood, and teachers and members are taking deep interest in the work. Rev. Lauck has also been conducting prayer meetings at Ring- wood every Thursday evening, a duty that former pastors had not attempted. During the fifty-nine years that the M. E. church society of McHenry has been in existence forty-two preachers were appointed to the charge in the order named: Wm. Vallette, Amos Wiley, L. Whipple, J. A. Nasson, N. Jeanett, C. W. Bachellor, Elisha Bib- bins, L. S. Walker, N. Jewett, EL Brown, J. H. Grant, H. Ely, C. Lazen­ bee, J. Nate, T. R. Saterfield, M. H. Stewart, Samuel Bundock, M. Triggs, D. F. Wilson, S. H. Adams, R. Davis, J. W. P. Jordan, Jas, Souls, S. Hews, John T. Cooper, W. a L. H. A. % J». ,*9i . S. S. Chapell W. C. Evapson Joseph W. Ft Anton Schneider Emil Snyder F. L. McOmber J. E. Cristy Butter on the Elgin board oil mains firm at 21 i cents. One hundred < and sixty-five tubs were sold at figure. r ' Corn contest! Are yon McOmber's ad. Corn 'Contestfel:^ " '%& , Set of triple plate knives and forkij* to be given away. See McOmbet's ftd. Thirty-two excursion tickets for Joliet were sold at this station on Thursday last Weather permitting, Wm. Bell will finish his work on sidewalks here thia week. The marriage of Mr. Joseph SchaefeT and Miss Annie Freund will take placet at Johnsburgh Wednesday, Oct You have a chance to win that beauk: tiful carving set at McOmber's har<$^ ware store. Corn contest. Read the adj."*" " '-fjv'" When you are passing, call in at Os- ; mnn Bros.' and examine those choicer. tlannels and dress goods. Read the ad. Prices rights; RJDV. S. W. LAVCK Adron, J. W. P. Jordon, J. C. Bigelow, S. Searl, J. M. Conlee. E. M Baxter, H. E. Wyckoff, A. J. Brill, Wm. Clark, Geo. A. Wells, Charles W. Fletcher, O. F. Hall, Joseph Caldwell, Wm. Cald­ well, J. R. Clark, W. L. Whipple, S. W. Lauck. THE M. E. CONFERENCE. Coming Conference Awaited with Uaunal Interest." * METHODIST CHVRCH, MoHENRY. Brand's iqe wagons on the day men­ tioned, and in stepping from, the rear end of the wagon to the ground, landed on the street car tracks. He failed to notice the car which was approaching at full speed and was struck with great force, being hurled several feet. That jolt was enough to kill an ordinary man but it was not enough for Thelen, who is a powerful fellow. He was thrown directly in front of a passing team and before the driver could pull up the victim was under the wheels. Even that did not finish John, but he was a fit subject for the hospital. He was terribly bruised about the head and body And will be laid up many weeks. Charles F. Lsngdon. Charles F. Langdon died suddenly of apoplexy at his summer home at Howell's Yilla last Sunday. The fu­ neral was held at the family residence in Chicago, 5203 Kimbark Ave. , yester­ day at one o'clock. Mr. Langdon was forty-eight years of age. He held a re­ sponsible position with .Armour ^ & Co. as secretary. F. L. McOmber is offering two ele­ gant prizes for the best 12 ears of corn left at his store on or before October 30. Bor partienlan raad his a&r. Geo. Morris this week sold his farm northwest of Libertyville to A. L. Ver- geron, a Chicago man who has other farms near Chicago, for $25,000. The property includes 250 acres. Mr. Ver- geron will hire a man to act as foreman of the farm and will not live there him­ self. Two years ago Mr. Morris bought the farm for $16,250, but has since im­ proved it extensively. He was the heaviest milk shipper on the Wisconsin Central or St. Paul roads in Lako coun­ ty.--Libertyville Independent The annual game dinner at Muehr- cke's Fox Lake resort Wednesday was attended by Some three hundred, most­ ly Lake county people. It was a dem­ onstration of royal entertaining and the man who didn't have a good time was somewhere else. It was in no sense of the word a political gathering. Among those present were men who oocny prominent positions in the national, state and county political arena, but there was no wire pulling or fence build­ ing, though the only "professional poli­ tician" on the grounds said such was the case.--Waukegan Gazette. The corn contest at McOmber's hard­ ware store will be an exciting event. The prizes offered are superb. and 17 from Lake, and their views the policy to be pursued was different as oil and water. The county fair was held at Wood­ stock last week, and in point of exhibi­ tion was equal-to the "best ever held by the society, although the attendance was not jas large as in many former years. On Monday evening last, about six o'clock, Wm. Stoffel, who works for O. Bishop, was waylaid in the road about two miles south of this village, by three disguised ruffians, knocked from his buggy with a club, and robbed of his pocket book, containing about $22. This time Edison thinks he has hit upon a perfectly feasible process by which he can and will drive gas out of our streets and houses, and give us "the electric light in its stead. The new light, he says, besides being a great deal more brilliant, will be a great deal less expensive than the old one. Moreover, the same wire is to bring power and heat into the house as well as light, and be as available for cooking or for run­ ning the sewing machine as for illumi­ nation. If Edison is not deceiving him­ self, we 'are on the eve of surprising CKperlenoM. The present organization of the Mc Henry society is quite complete, with the following officers for the ensuing year: Trustees, Wm. Hutson, R. Sher- burn, Geo. Colby, E. S. Wheeler, D. E. Sayler, J. J. Reser; stewards, Mrs. C. C. Colby, Miss Ethel Smith, Mrs. R. Sherburn, Emery Kimball, D. E. Sayler, Miss Mabel Sayler. Sunday school--Prof. E. C. Fisher, superintendent; Geo. E. Osmun, assist­ ant superintendent; Guy Colby, secre­ tary and treasurer; Alice Waite, organ­ ist. Epworth League--Emery Kimball, president; Guy Colby, Bessie Smith, Stell C. Lauck, Carrie Beckel, vice pres­ idents; Emery Wheeler, secretary; James Sayler, treasurer. Ladies' Aid society--Mrs. C. C. Colby, president; Mrs. W. F. Gallaher, vice widelyl president; Mrs. E. Wheeler, secretary, 'Mrs. K. Sherburne, treasurer. The Baracca Bible class is the latest organization of this church, consisting of thirteen young men as charter mem­ bers. They meel every Sunday in their room over the vestibule of the church for Bible study in connection with the Sunday school and will in the near fut­ ure introduce other things which will be helpful to young men. Their present officers are: James Sayler, president; Emery Kimball, vice president; Guy Colby, secretary and treasurer; Emery Wheeler, assistant secretary; L. R. Lauck, class reporter; Edwin Evanson, chairman of secret service committee; Geo. E. Osmun, teacher. / During the pastorate of S. W. Lauck the societies at McHenry and Ringwood have enjoyed a substantial growth in numbers and in spiritual zeal. The membership of both places has increased from sixty to ninety-four, and nearly every member is a worker. In the past two years the Epworth League has been organized at both places and the young people meet every Sunday even* ing. Rev. Lauck has also succeeded in arousing and maintaining interest m Because of the election of minister­ ial and lay delegates to the general con­ ference of the M. E. church, the ap­ proaching session of Rock River Con­ ference at Aurora, opening October 7, is awaited with unusual interest. Secretary J. A. Matlack will report property worth $5,000,000 with $355,000 paid on pastors' salaries and about |100,000 for missions and other benevo­ lences. There are 325 appointments in the conference and about 850 preach ers, quite a few of whom are too old to preach and are classed as superannuates. During the past year the following preachers have died: A. M. Early, Prophetstown; C G. TruesdeH, D. D., Lake Bluff, and David Gostelow, Platte- ville. Among the ministers mentioned as likely to be chosen delegates is A. T. Horn, presiding elder of the Dixon dis­ trict. Dr. M. M. Park hurst is among the possible reserves, D. C. Cook is among the lay probabilities, as is J. P. Prindell of Batavia. The bishop will appoint two presiding elders as the terms of Dr. Mandeville on the North Chicago district and Dr. Holmes on the Joliet district have ex­ pired. Senator Hopkins will have charge of the reception to the visiting Methodists Tuesday evening, Oct. 6, in the First church. Dr. Isaiah Yillars will preside at the temperance meeting Monday night A Close Call for M improves. Attorney V. S. Lumley was one of the principals in a peculiar incident last Saturday. He had a customer who wanted to rent a farm and was driving with him in the northern part of Nunda township, showing him land. He en­ tered the farm of Thomas Phalen and ahead were the Musgrove brothers, driving their team. In the distance could occasionally be heard the report of a gun, but nothing was thought of it until one of the Musgrove horses reared up and fell to the ground, with blood streaming from its forehead. An ex­ amination of the prostrate animal dis­ closed the fact that a spent bullet had struck him in the center of the forehead, entered through the flesh and glanced to one side, felling the animal to the ground.--McHenry Go. Republican. 8herman Hill School. Report for the month of September: Nunber pupils enrolled 17 Total attendance 381 Ayerage daily attendance 16 9-22 The following pupils have been neith­ er tardy or absent dnring the month: Evelyn Sayler, Adah Kane, Frank Say­ ler, George Kane, Florence Sayler, Lor- en Martin, Allen Noonaii, Lester Sher­ man, Eddie Px'annenstilL EMKKY L. KIMBALL, Teacher. About fifty attended a popcorn social' -.'A given by the Epworth League at tha-v~4' *' residence of C. C. Colby last Friday ev^ ^y-V,' ening. A pleasant time was reported.'. * The Epworth League meeting next :. - Sunday evening will be led by Mies' ; Vera Lauck. Subject: 'Know and * > 'j o b e y t h e w o r d o f G o d . " B i b l e s t u d | * : * I rally day. Matt 19:17. .J fk In response to a cordial invitation £; v^Jt number of the Willing Workers of tha *1' . Universalist church will meet with Mra. , * • Charles Curtis at Elgin next Saturday^ T04 "11 Mrs. Curtis is a member of the McHenr£; \ }' organization. . -V . Jos. J. Mertes, who has again ast« \ sumed control of the Oak Park Hotel ajjfc vV Pistakee Bay, will giye a game dinnejp - /' , ^ next Sunday, Oct L Everybody is ;^®f| vited to partake of the good things, a^, j' '/"<!' only 50 cents psr plate. ,'Jgf The Epworth League sent about sev- • ' enty-five bouquets besides six large boxea^'^ ^ Jl of flowers to the deaconesses of Chicago , <•-<:> i this summer. Some flowers have alaa ;' 'If been sent to the Salvation Army. In: the sick rooms of the poor these tokemfc'j ' are a great blessing, •" .(% M. J. Walsh states that he had noth­ ing to do with the selection of the color for his store front, the painter, "Paddy'* ' Bohr, being responsible. That accounts! for it. Paddy is a German, bnt waf born on St. Patrick's day--he is Ger-; man by Irish consent V-|| Officials of the Northwestern road are ^ out on their annual tour of inspection ' which extends, over every mile of road' *, jf: owned or controlled by the Northwest-*, ern system. This means that the Mc* Henry depot will be inspected. Wowl ., ^^^ Perhaps a-new plank will be appropri* •M'i ated for the platform ! The Plaindealer twenty this week carries columns of advertisements,' %• total of 435 inches, and leaves fifteen, ^ columns of pure home-print readingfy ̂ matter. There is not another town in ^ " m the state that shows through the col- ^$ omns of its newspaper a more progres­ sive class of business men. ^ * m Anton Schneider will open his nawv grocery store, near the river bridge, on T Saturday, Oct 10, the building being •'•"*•0 about completed. Mr. Schneider haa\-' contracted for space in The Plaindealer. - •* - M' his first adv. appearing in this is8ues.|;i-^; Mr. and Mrs. Schneider will occupy' pleaasnt rooms over the store. J Very Lew Rates to Detroit, Mich.. Via the North-Western Line. Excur­ sion tickets will be sold Oct 14 to 17, inclusive, with very favorable return limits, on account of Christian Church National Convention. Apply to Agents Qhicago & Oetl? Jack Dempsey is again in McHenry ' with a car load of South Dakota horses* ^ f i which willl be sold at public auction at[^.?:^; the stock yards, Saturday, Oct 3, com-^;> t mencing at one o'clock p. m. sharp, y * ^ There are sixty horses in the bunch,4^ fourteen of which are harness broke,^ ,; ^ . the balance being yearlings and two- year-olds. Geo. Vogel will officiate at t'-'"'!* the block. - • Fred Schnorr's tnansion oa Main * street is resplendent in a new dress of * pure while paint. Ben Hutson was the artist employed, and the fact that Mr. Schnorr is well pleased with the work c^|| speaks well for Mr. Hutson's ability ^11 with the brush. It was no ordinary jotv, ^ of painting for a conscientious work­ man. It "was necessary to remove all the old paint scales, which were hard a& flint, making the work tedious and ex­ asperating, But the job is finished and iu Mr. Schnorr's estimation Ben Hut~ • . .,s,;3 son takes rank among the best in the business. The best opportunity of the season . *v;; for bargains in stoves and general win- t ter hardware supplies is now! Osmun , Bros., McHenry, I1L _ „ <- ,.'v" * 'A' VM Hearjr Hotps, Henry Hoepe died suddtiul^ home in Chicago, 730 North Wood St. fl" Wedueaday, Sept. 23, of heart disease. The funeral was held Saturday from the home. The diseased was well n 4 known in McHenry, having spent the J\,V${. summer months at his Roeedale cottage '•• •'%