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VOLUME XXXIII. MCHENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31,1907. OF A PERSONAL NATURE WHOM WE ENTERTAIN WHERE WE GO. AND THAT NEW DEPOT Wilt Be tin lit Nut Sprln*. A<wof4|a» to PMMBt Plans. MeH*nry Kntanaliin H UI«C Company of Vhihtra Ourliif th« Week - Wlioiu We Kntertaln. John McFadden was a recent Marengo visitor. Win. Bacon was a business visitor in Chicago Monday. Phi! Kane was a CMeago passenger Monday morning. J. H. Miller WM a business visitor in Elgin last Friday. Mrs. L. Jordon spent Monday in the metropolitan city. L. F. Block was a business visitor in Chicago Friday last. B. J. Frisby of Chicago spent Snnday with his parents here. W. H. Harrison was a bnsinees visit­ or in Chicago Tuesday. F H. Wattles was a business visitor in Chicago last Friday Dr. N., J. Nye of .Tohnsbnrgh spent Friday last in Chicago. Emil Lasch of Chicago Snndayed at his summer home here. James Barnstable of Fox Lake was a recent McHenry visitor. C. D. Ross spent Saturday and Snn­ day with Chicago friends. Miss Maud Curr spent Friday and Saturday in the windy city. E. C. Joslyn of Woodstock was a Sun­ day evening caller in town. Mrs. J. H. Spaulding took the Chica­ go train Saturday morning. Mrs. F. A. Bohlander attended to business in Chicago Tuesday. T. L. Grot of Ottawa, 111., was a busi­ ness visitor in town last week. B. Mueser and two children were Chi­ cago passengers last Saturday. Wm. Bonslett and son, Paul, returned home Sunday from Denver, Col. Joseph Miller of Spring Grove was a Sunday evening visitor in town. Jacob Justen and Math. Freund were recent Burlington, Wis., visitors. Dr. W- F. Stone of Chicago was a visitor in town one day last week. Wm. Simes and daughter, Alice, were Chicago visitors last Friday, Miss Kate Howe of River Forest pass- ed Sunday with her parents here. Miss Elizabeth Turner returned home from Chicago last Sunday evening. H. Zimmermann spent Saturday and Sunday with his family in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Justen hoarded the Chicago train Tuesday morning. Miss Frances Jones spent Saturday and Sunday at her home in Hebron. Mr. and Mrs Chas. Gibbs of Chicago were guests of retatives here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Miller of Zenda, Wis., spent Sunday with relatives here. Mrs. H. S. Gregory was among the Chicago passengers Saturday morning. Robt. Frisby of Cuicago spent Satur­ day and Sunday with his parents here. Robert Larsen of Elgin spent Satur day and Sunday with his parents here. ChaB. G. Buss of Chicago was a guest at the home of his mother here Sunday. John Larsen of Chicago was the gnest of his parents here Saturday and Snn­ day. Miss Fannie Haskins of Richmond spent a few days last week with friends hers. Mrs. H. M. Jensen and children of Woodstock spent Sunday with relatives here. Ferdinand Frett of Chicago spent Monday with his brother, Chas. G., here. Frank Masquelet attended to matters of a business nature in Chicago last Monday. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Buss and children were among the Chicago visitors Satur­ day last. Dr. and Mrs. Buettner of Chicago spent Sunday at their summer home on the river. Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Colby of Nunda were visitors at R. Sherburne's one day last week. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rothermel and children of Chicago spent Snnday with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Lamphere attend­ ed the funeral of Charles B. Curtis in Elgin Monday. Mrs. E. F. Matthews and daughter were guests of relatives in Elgin a few days last week. Miss Agnes Carey of Ring wood board­ ed the Chicago train at this station last Saturday morning. George Stilling of Chicago visited at the home of his parents at Pistakee Bay Saturday and Sunday. Mewlaiiies Frank Thompson and Ed Willigman were Chicago passengers last Saturday morning. Mrs. Elizabeth Hnnter and daughter, Edna, spent Saturday and Sunday with Elgin relatives and friends. Mrs. S. S. Torrance was in Chicago .Monday, buying additions for her al­ ready large millinery display. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Brown of Chicago spent Sunday at the home of the for­ mer's brother, A. M. Brown, here. C. M. Adams and daughter, Marguer­ ite, of Johnsburgh boarded the Chicago train at this station Friday morning. Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Eichler have clos­ ed their summer home at Pistakee Bay and returned to Marengo for the winter. Mrs. H. R. Biennemann and daughter returned to their home in .Kenosha. Wis., Tuesday morning, after a few days' Visit with relatives and friends here. It will surely be of interest to to learn that notwithstanding their dis­ appointment while seeing the weeks and months of last spring come and go with no indication of a new depot appearing, as had been promised, that the matter was not being overlookt nor forgotten. The writer was among the disappoint­ ed and proceeded at once, after his ill­ ness last February, to again get audience with Mr. Gardner and on May 9 sent in the following as a reminder: Dear Sir: Since meeting yon last December I have called as you request ed and on three occasions have been unfortunate in finding you absent from the city or busily engaged. At the time mentioned, upon informing you of the desire of our people for a brick structure and one larger than you had designed, after a few moments' reflec tion you stated that yon would very likely give us what we were asking for and that work on the building would -be begun on the bnilding early «4n the spring. At that time when I alluded to the amount of travel from our station, stat­ ing that at times several hundred await­ ed transportation, you said: "Bow oft­ en does this happen? Only two or three times* year." And not being as well informed as I ought to have been, I could only say, "I think more often than that." But now, after due inquiry, I can say that, approximately, it occurs every Snnday evening during the sea­ son and the number increases to Bix or seven hundred on holiday occasions, and in view of this 1 would again re­ spectfully ask that the building be made 86 or 40 feet wide iustead of 25, as the plan calls for. Yon will doubtless remember we have no sewerage system, -hence a toilet room would be useless, ^ut as the village water mains are near by, corner wash basins would be very serviceable, the waste passing to an outside catch basin. Summer service begiue next Sunday and we are hoping for immediate action. Respectfully. In reply to this, the following WHK received: My Dear Doctor: In reply to your favor of the 9tti iust., relative to a new statiou. It' it is not preeumiug on your good nature I wish that you might call at the office to see me some convenient day. I know that you have been very indulgent and we thoroly ap­ preciate it. Very truly yours, W. A. GARDNER. This was replied to on June tt, with the statement that the writer would call at the office on the 14th, as on that day it was arranged'to attend to university business as well, but before the time came the following communication was received- Dear Mr. Goodman: Yours of the 6th received this a m. I am obliged to ieave Chicago Monday morning for a trip over the western lines with the president and board of directors. Ex­ pect to be back in the office about the 20th of this month and shall be glad to see you in my office after that date. Would suggest, however, that you ad­ vise me a day previous to your intended visit. Yours truly, W. A. GARDNER. In order to make sure of a meeting, the personal school business was post­ poned until the 21st, but upon calling at the office it was learnt that he was out of the city, having arrived home a day sooner than he expected* and would be gone for thirty days. There being no apparent indications that the road^ intended making any changes during the summer, the matter was dropt until after the opening of school. OnOct. 2 the gentleman was found at bis office and when asked if our new depot were lost, strayed or stolen, offered such overwhelmingly courteous apologies that the writer felt he -was representing the most injured commonwealth on record. Boiled down, however, it amounted to this: The president, Marvin Hughitt, had fully concurred with Mr. Gardner that Mc­ Henry must have a new passenger sta­ tion, and on the strength of this Mr. Gardner had given the promise, bnt when the time came the Extension Board refused to accept the recommen­ dation and did not make any necessary appropriation. The gentleman shared the disappointment with us and said the board were anticipating the finan­ cial scare thru which New York has since passed--while contemplating the raising of funds for the new $20,000,000 depot for Chicago. He was asked if it never occurred to them to let the Chica­ go enterprise wait nntil McHenry had been served? He said he was afraid that thev had not even thought of it! He also stated that the board was to meet on the 17th instant; that he and the president would again nrge our claim and that he could report most definitely soon after. The writer dropt in on the 22nd and was told that the appropriation had been made at the meeting for a new station for us and that he had been instructed to get out new plans for a brick bnilding such as we asked for. He said that he wonld do so and that the work would be done next spring. The request was for a building em­ bracing two waiting rooms, each forty feet square, with ticket office and lava­ tory space between, 20x40 feet: of red (Continued on Page 8.) $20 GOLD WATCH FREE TO M08T POPULAR YOUNG LADY IN M'HENRY COUNTY. Plata dealer to Give Three Valuable Pri>ea to the Moat Popular ¥<IIIN( Ladle* of McHenry County. The Plaindealer this week has an announcement to make that wiU. no doubt, arouse a great deal of interest among its large family of readers Beginning tomorrow, Nov. 1, we open what is to be known as a Ladies' Pop- alar Voting Contest, for which plans have been in progress for some time. This is the first contest of the kind ever attempted by any paper ever pub­ lished in McHenry, and should, when fairly inaugurated, arouse extraordi­ nary interest among our readers, as the prizes to be awarded, as wili be seeu below, are worth going after. Our plan is to give one vote for every cent paid in at this office between Nov. 1 and Jan. 1. Thus, for instance, you pay us one year's subscription and you are eu'titled to 150 votes for the lady of your choice; or you give us cash adver­ tising to the amount of ft.00, this will give you 100 votes, and the same way with jo() work of xll kiuds. The rules and regulations governing this contest are as follows: The first prize, a ladies' $30 gold watch, 20 year case, Elgin movement, will be presented to the lady haviug the highest number of votes at the end of the contest, which closes at 5 o'clock ou Thursday, Dee. 31. Second prize, a $17 Eastman kodak, to the lady receiving the second highest number of votes during the contest. Third prize, a ladies' $10 ring. Ladies residing auy where in McHenry county are eligible to enter the contest. Should there be a tie. in votes, the prizes will be awarded by choice of con­ testants. Results as to the stauding of the dif­ ferent contestants wilt be published weekly, the final result being giveu in the issue of Jan. 2 Votes after being given cannot be transferred. When paying yonr subscription, ad­ vertising and jot work, ask for voting blank and cast your votes for the lidy of vour choice. OUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION. Boya Make an Unuaually . Good Showing During Month. TARGET TOURNAMENT To Take I* I nee at Oak Park Hotel Grouuda, Platakee Bay. One of the biggest target tournaments ever attempted in this part of the coun­ try will be pulled off at the Oak Park hotel grounds, Pistakee Bay, on Satur­ day and Sunday, November 9 and 10. The two-days' shoot, with pleasant weather prevailing, will, it is antici­ pated, bring a large number of the crack shots out to the popular summer resort. With this end in view, Land­ lord Mertes is already making arrange­ ments to entertain one of the largest gatherings of this kind that has ever congregated together in this part of the country. The fact that the better class of shoot­ ers will be there should not in the least interfere with the local amateurs taking part in the two-days' program, as the shoot will be arranged to give all class­ es of shooters an eqnal chance for the prizes to be hung np. The program is to consist of fourteen events each day, moneys to be divided 40, 80, 20 and 10 per cent. Blue rocks will be thrown from two traps at a dis­ tance of 45 and 50 yards. The average money will be $90, to be divided as follows: For high average for both days, $8; second high average, $7 and $5 for third. Professionals shoot for price of targets only. White City Comedy and Vaudeville Co. The return engagement of the White City Comedy and Vaudeville company next Saturday and Sunday evenings will be hailed with delight by the peo­ ple of McHenry and surrounding terri­ tory. Those that witnessed the per­ formances of this company last spring will remember that they were among the best performances ever given in the opera house. Everything is the clean­ est in comedy sketches and high-class vaudeville. This is not a company try­ ing out something to see if it is any good at all, bnt a finished, refined and amusing entertainment. Every person who enjoys a good evening's amuse­ ment certainly should see this, the beet show of the season. New,Kleetrte Koad Becurea Permit. > Construction of an interurban elec­ tric railroad from Chicago to Lake Ge­ neva, with branches to Fox Lake and Woodstock, is announced as the purpose of a $2,000,000 Chicago corporation, li­ censed last week by the secretary of state at Springfield. The concern is oalled the Chicago, Fox Lake & Lake Geneva Railroad company. The incor­ porators and first board of directors are: George M. Seward and Sidney F. Ma- iette, brokers in the Stock Exchange building; Lewis E. Starr, wholesale lumber dealer, Stock Exchange building; Maurice B. Louis, secretary Chicago, Dee Plaines & Fox River railroad, and Harry Y. Yaryan. Notice! To insure publication in The Plain- copy most be in the office no later than Wednesday noon of each week. Advertisers, especially, are asked to take particular notice to this effect Some bright new chairs make the first room yet more inviting. There is some new blackboard in two rooms, where it has been needed for some time. The boys make an unusually good showing this month. We are beginning work on a picture exhibit for the middle of November, announcement of which will be given at length next week. Gertrude Neiss is making unusually excellent progress in typewriting. Pumpkin vines are becoming a favor­ ite ornament of the rooms down stairs. CLASS RANK. Grade XII. Will Ensign.. ^ ... 98.8 Gertrude Neiss .96.6 Ray Page .96.8 Grade XI. Lucile Byrd. 96.6 Pearl Claxton .. .96.2 Leonard Phillips . .94.8 Enrollment in room 6 16 Boys. 8; girls, 8. Per cent attendance 99.8 Cases tardiness 3 WM. F. RICE, Teacher. Grade X. Clara Smith 96.8 Agnes Dodge and Julia Stoffel ,.96.7 Grade IX. Marguerite Granger 91 Houston Oallaher 87 Einil Thomas 85 Enrollment in room 5 16 Boys, 6: girls, 10. Per cent attendance 98.2 Cases tardiness 8 AGNES A. PERRY, Teacher. Grade VIII. Clinton Martin 95 Hazel Thomas and Ruby Claxton. ..94 5 Dora Hudson 94 Grade VII. Alice Rice 96 6 Agnes Tesch and Elsa Block .95.2 Inez Bacon 94.2 Enrollment in room 4 .88 Boys, 12, girls, 21. Per cent attendance 98 6 Cases ttrdiness 8 ALICE Br HERELEY, Teacher. Grade VI. Corabel McOmber. 95.8 Let ah Page 65.6 Sylvia Htlle.. 98.8 Grade V. Germer Petesch 94 James Burke 90 Ralph Van Natta 88 Enrollment in room 8 44 Boys, 22; girls, 22. Per cent attendance 98 Cases tardiness 5 ETHELWYN GRIER, Teacher. Grade IV. Gertrude Mueser 89.9 Clara Frisby 89.6 Alta Wehtworth and Jennie Owen. .89 4 Grade III. Agnes Frisby 84.9 Leone Perkins 91.4 Marion Matthews .91 Enrollment in room 2 45 Boys, 22; girls, 28 Per cent attendance 95.8 Cases tardiness A ... 7 MRS. OVERTON, Teacher. Grade II. Edwin Lamphere t 98 Lewis McOmber ®1 Mary Zimmermann....... 90 Grade I. Arinond Bethke ®4 Glenn Wells Ellen Walsh Enrollment in room 1 Boys, 28; girls, 27. Per cent attendance »« < Cases tardiness 6 FRANCES JONES, Teacher. Total enrollment 209 Boys 98 Girls ....Ill Per cent attendance, computed on number belonging Cases of tardiness 82 WM. F. RICE, Prin. The Plaindealer will be sent to any address on trial three months for twenty- fiye cents, and will be discontinued at the expiration of that time unless other wise ordered. Trv it. Election of OftMrt. The Ladies* Aid society of the M. E. church at their last meeting elected the following officers for the coming year: President, Mrs. E. S. Wheeler; vice pres­ ident, Mrs. W. F. Gallaher; secretary, Mrs. C. E. Lamphere; treasurer, Mrs. Robt. Sherburne. This society starts its new year with a Halloween social at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Besley on Thursday night of this week. They have also begun preparations for a holi­ day bazaar to be held about the first of December, further notice of which will appear in these columns later. Private Sale. A private sale of household goods is now on at the home of S. Reynolds and will continue until the entire list of goods is disposed of. Among these goods are a dining room table, i dozen dining room chairs, three small tables, bedsteads, springs and mattresses, two heaters, gasoline stove, kitchen range, bedroom matting and carpets, four rocking chairs, toilet sets, large wall clock, lamps and garden tools. S. REYNOLDS. Kxeuralon to Colorado. An excursion train carrying prospec­ tive land buyers will leave Chicago next Tuesday, November 5, for Colo­ rado. Free transportation to those who purchase land. For further particulars apply to or address E. W. Howe, the local agent, McHenry, III. Have you seen The Plaindealer'B new line of 1908 calendars? If not, see them at once. Our prices are the loweat ever. • EXCHANGE GLEANINGS. HAPPENINGS IN M'HENRY AND ADJACENT COUNTIES. FOX LAKE VILLAGE la One of the Moat Proaperoua In All Lake County. A Miaeellaneoua Aaaortment of Newa Item* In Condensed form for Conven­ ience of Buay People. Nine arreets in one day is the record made by the Antioch marshal one day recently. Two miles of cement sidewalks and about a mile of curbing were laid in Harvard the past summer. More than 15,000 letters have been robbed in parsing thru the Chicago postoffice daring the past year. Thieves recently attempted to rob the home of an Iowa editor. They should have been eent to an insane asylum. There is a well developed movement on foot in Woodstock for the establish ment of a small hospital in that city. The National factory at Elgin now employs 8,600 people, making 8,000 watches a day and pays out every month $180,000. The gas plant at Richmond is now in fnll operation and the people of that village boast of having one of the best lighted towns in the county. Nunda Herald: Chas. Frisch shipped a car load of cabbages to Chicago Wed­ nesday and is loading another for ship­ ment. Mr. Krisch raised 15,000 head from 1 $ acres and sold the entire crop to Chicago parties for 50 cents per dozen. Richmond is the first town in the oouuty to open a roller skating rink. The old Bower opera house has been rented by T. F. William and H. J. Kimball of that place, and roller skat­ ing wijl take place Tuesday and Satur­ day of each week. It comes put up in a collapsible tube with a nozzle, easy to apply to the sore 1 nesa and inflammation, for any form of Piles; it soothes and relieves pain, itching and burning. ManZan Pile Remedy. Price 50 rents. Guaranteed. Sold by N. H. Petesch, druggist. Joe Howard, the famous actor and musical comedy writer, is now a per­ manent resident of Waiikegan, and will erect a beautiful new $80,000 vaudeville tliosfv-r in that city. The »e«v amuse­ ment enterprise will be known as the Barrison theater, being named after Mr. Howard s wife. An exchange says that if things keep on as they have been for the past four or five years you'll soon be seeing ads in the local papers read like this: "Want­ ed--A man to do farm work; $75 a month and his board. Pie and ham every day, the use of the best room and an automobile at his service on Sun­ days. Will haul him to an<Y from the field in a phaeton, and never ask him to get np until breakfast is ready. Nanda Herald: Engineer G. Hum­ phrey, who came into Cary from his run rather late Wednesday evening, was the victim of three desperate high­ way men, who ordered him to throw up his bands, which it is needless to say he was only too glad to do, as he knew bis slight chances of resistance in con­ tending with such desperate characters, On their orders for him to deliver up bis valuables Mr. Humphrey in his ex­ citement threw s^Jiand satchel contain ing a large sum ^T mouey high iii the air. It alighted at some distance from the marauders and was overlooked. After relieving him of his watch and chain and a considerable sum of money, which he carried loose in his vest and trousers pockets, the thugs decamped in the>direction of Chicago, taking a tie pass. Up to date no trace of them has been found. Wanconda Leader; V. D. Kimball has three fine cows, and his dividends for several months average a little over $25. It would seem to us that here is an argument of keeping less and better stock and giving the few the feed and care to bring a larger net profit than is often realized by keeping too much stock. The farmer who buys from Aen to twenty good cows, feeds and cares for them and markets his milk with business prudence will seldom be short of money. Too many, and they are often shiftless about caring for and feeding cows, keep too numerous a dairy at only a living margin of profit. Never crowd your pastures nor stint your milch cows for feed and you have an ever paying dairy, no matter bow low the price of dairy products. The average farmer who is bard up is a poor manager and this is frequently <Jne of his mistakes, and, to digress, what is true of the dairy is true of poultry and swine. Too many hens yield disease and egg famine, when ofttimes one half the number would pay well Starve your shoats, big yield of squeals and no bacon. A pig should have enough to eat from the day of birth till six months old, when he may be marketed at 200 to 250 ponnds and is sure to pay a hand­ some profit then. There is more in feed and care than in breed, but breed, of course, should not be lost sight of. The first step to improve the breed, tho, may safely be better feed and more care. Fifty Veant a Hlaekainllh. Samuel R. Worley of Hixburg, Va., has been shoeing horses for more than fifty years. He says, "Chamberlain's Pain Balm has given me great relief from lame back and rheumatism. It ie the best liniment I ever used.' For sale by all druggists. A full line of school books at Peteechs Fox Lake people are just now point­ ing with pride to their handsome new school house, which is now under way of construction on a knoll overlooking the small lake which the village fronts on. The school house when completed is to cost about $4,150 and will have two rooms The building now used as a school is rented and at present has for­ ty-five pupils. The work of erecting the new school is in charge of Contractor Robert 6utts and work is being hurried Along as fast as possible. v Encouraged by the genorosity of the Knickerbocker Ice company in donat­ ing the acre of land ou which the new school is rising, the village board, thru President Brown, is making an effort to have a park for the prosperous village of Fox Lake. The matter has already been taken np with the ice company and President Brown has made a determined endeavor to get the company to donate six acres back of the school, to be used for a vil­ lage park. The land is so situated that it is of little use for anything excepting a park of some kind, hence it is felt that the company may conclude to donate it to the village, because if a park were started there it wonld enhance the value, of the company's property to a big de­ gree. The village of Fox Lake is now light­ ing its streets with gas light manufac­ tured from gasoline, and it is said the light is Surprisingly satisfactory. Plans are now being considered for the water works system and it is possible that by next fall the city will have its own wa­ ter supply. No village in the lake county has bet­ ter prospects than Fox Lake. The val­ ue of property there Iihh gone up faster than in most villages of the county, a condition illustrated by a recent realty deal when a certain piece of land was sold for $2,000, and it was only a part of what the owner paid $75 for seveial years ago. NEW CLUB HOUSE To Be Kreeted bjr Pox l.ake Yaeht Club M«xt Spring. NUMBER 19 OUR WEEKLY PICK-UPS ITEMS PICKED UP ABOUT TOWN DURING THE WEEK. ¥i B What People are Doing In Our Muay Little City--Newa aa Seen by The *"-'iitmr i Repreaentatl vea. Butter Market. Bnt|er dropped 2 cents on the Elgin board of trade Monday. Offerings of 140 tubs were withdrawn and the fnr- ket was declared firm at 27 cents. There Were no sales. Tonight is Halloween night. Better take in yonr gate and lock yonr barn. George Engeln was around town -8*fc- urday forenoon selling ted-horse,--quite a curiosity at this time of year. A baby girl arrived at the bone of Mr. and Mrs. N. E, Barbian last Mon­ day. We all smoke Royal Crown*, Nic. ' - • Oue of the biggest target shoots ever held in this vicinity at the Oak Pnrk hotel grounds on Saturday and Snndav, November 9 and 10. i '"I'-'a Attend the Balloweien social at the home of G. W. Besley this (Thntaday) evening. It's going to be an enjoyable affair, so don't miss it A bowling team from this place will go to Nunda next Saturday night, where they will meet the locals In the first match of the season. J Station masters McCann and Kelly of Ingleside and Fox Lake, respectively, have resigned their positions and will go into bnsinees at Russell, ta TiUltt county. The interior of the McHenry Honse is being repapered and varnished, and when the job is completed the fftmwit hostlery will present a very attractive appearance. A bard time orchestra will fanUi both old-time and up-to-date Tvwlrr it the Hard Time party at Stoffel' hall next Saturday evening, thus giving both old and young an opportunity to- the event. Thru the closing of a deal for the pur­ chase of Stanton point on Fox Lake, fifty-eight miles from Chicago, the Fox Lake Yacht club has begun plans for on^of the largest and best appointed iiffiMd yachting homes in the west, and wfflch will be erected next spring at a cost of $80,000. Stanton point is situat­ ed on the east side of Fox Lake aud is at the entrance of a splendid yachting harbor, The land was purchased of the J. E. Lane estate, and the tifle proved absol­ ute for the entire three acres. The club, being incorporated, now has power to issue bonds, and this move will be made at an early date. Commodore Orlando Wire and officials of the organization saw their lease expire some time ago and have been seeking a location for some time. The new 'ftub house will be on the order of laige country clubs, and will contain all the appointments which the fashionable suburban organizations con tain. There will be dormitories aud other important features. The present location of the Fox Lake Yacht club necessitates a four mile 'bus ride from the Ingleside station, while the distance next summer will be one andone-quarter miles, a twelve minute ride, from the depot. ... -- - ... ---•-- -- Think of what it means! $1.75 for The Weekly Inter-Ocean and this paper for one year. It's a special deal. Charlea B. Curtla I>ea<l. Charles B. Curtis, a former resident, well and favorably kftown to many of our readers, passed away at his home at 520 North Spring street, Elgin, at noon last Friday, at the advanced age of 88 years, 4 months and 10 days. The deceased was born in Massachusetts Juue 15, 1824, and when quite young came west with his parents. He had not been in business for some time, hav­ ing led a retired life. He had been a member of the Masonic order, and was an associate member of the Universalist church. The surviving relatives are Mrs. Rebecca Curtis, his widow; two sons, George S. of Chicago and Fred of Geneseo; two daughters, Mrs. George Owen of Elgin and Mrs. F. L. Calkins of Oregon. The funeral was held Mon­ day morning at 10 o'clock from the late residence. This paper and The Weekly Inter- Ooean--$1.75 for one year's subscription to both. Appointed 8tat« Ornniier. Adolph Fisher cf Elgin, who at one time conducted a German newspaper in this village, but who for the past sev­ eral years has been connected with the Elgin Herald, a German publication, has been appointed to the position of state organizer of the Catholic Order of Foresters. The new position will take np all of his time, which means a resig­ nation from his newspaper labors. Mr. Fisher will make Elgin his headquar­ ters, but the work will call him to near­ ly every city in the state. He is a broth er-in-law of M. A. Tbelen of this village. The Weekly Inter-Ocean and this p&psr delivered f©r one year at our "special deal" price of $1.75 for the two. Lew Bishop has Mr? frarhar shop from the Lawlns building to the Engeln building until recently fwwnyftnl by Jacob Hetcel. Lew --TT triingv-- sisted on Saturday evenings by Ms brother, Will. "What Money Will Do" small audience at the Central offer* house Sunday evening. The prodnc- tion was presented in a moet efficient manner by a company of capable artieta. The show merited a mncb better-at­ tendance than it was accorded. Remember every penny tame&JMtO this office between now and Jan. I iden­ tities you to one vote. Help yonr favor­ ite along by subscribing for The dealer, a paper that contains aH news all the time. You cannot I posted on local doings unless ; The Plaindealer family. The annual game dinner at Muehr- cke's hotel at Fox Lake last Thursday was quite well attended. One liiiiiiliml and fifty persons sat down to one of 4he finest game dinners imaginable, consist­ ing of venison, squirrel, dnck and the usual dishes. The visitors amnaed themselves during the day by exavr* aions in motor boats about the lake. The bridge over the old mill race in Centerville is in a most dangerous con­ dition and the authorities are now under discussion whether to replace it with a new one or to fill in the race and thus save further expense of rebuilding. The last named plan would be the wiser and the general public will breath* a sigh of relief as soon as the improve' meut is made. • Look out for the fence shark who is calling upon the farmers in neighboring counties and offering to put upan eight- wire fence with iron poets for eight cents per foot. No cash is required, but before the fence is put up be give* a promissory note agreeing to pay eight cents per foot as soon as the fence is put up. Later it transpires that it means eight cents a foot for each wire, making 64 cents a running foot for the fence. The card party given by the local camp of Royal Neighbors at Woodman hall last Tuesday evening was very well attended and a most enjoyable time was had by all. Fourteen tables were oc­ cupied, while many present did not par­ ticipate in the games. Miss Edna Hunt­ er was awarded the ladies' first prize, a beautiful cream and sugar set. W. IX Wentworth was the winner of the gen* tlemen's priffe, a beautiful stick pin. Refreshments were served after the games. Complaints are beard from all sides almost daily as to the unsafe condition of onr streets at night. In some parts of town tor We may say in nearly ait parts) pedestrians who have ventured out after dusk have found walking a most difficult task. That the village has escaped one or more damage suits is a miracle, as no lees than one-half dozen narrow escapes from serious ac­ cidents have been reported during the last two months. Why such prevailing conditions should exist in as thriving a village as that of ours is a question we cannot answer, but one thing is certain, that unless our citizens are given proper street illaimnfttioc oar city = ||j surely find themselves in a heap of trouble ere the winter has '•-4 "H •'SlHS J