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'v-" « FALL. 1910 . « $5.00 can be saved by buying ready made Suits or Overcoats from us, which are IH-LUT than made to order or Tailor Made because the cloth is thoroughly shrunk before the garment is made up and, there­ fore it keeps its / Shape Better and warranted by the makers. OS. W. FREUND WEST McHENRY, - - ILLINOIS. SEE WHAT THEY ARE WORTH? ARE YOUR HENS LAYING? NO? MARS'- Try. sack of Red Comb Meat Mash. There will soon be "something stirring." WILBUR LUnBER CO. WEST McHENRY TELEPHONE 651 ft OF THE VERY BEST CHARACTER WE hear a great deal these days about the value of practical Gifts. We know that useful things are the best. We know it because they are the Gifts that we ourselves appreciate. Why not make this more than ever a practical Christmas? You can save time and-trouble by coming to this hardware and cutlery store for help. You'll find here the best kind of Gifts for men, wotiien, boys and girls. Also toys for the little folks. :: JOHN J. VYCITAL, McHenry, Illinois. The Extraordinary Range of ELECTRICITY as a Servant In the Home has enabled the invention of a host of APPLI­ ANCES to REDUCE WORK, add BEAUTY to the surroundings and increase the COMFORT of the family. The subject becomes of special interest at this time of the year, THE SEA­ SON OF GIVING AND RECEIVING GIFTS. For whether it is a machine for heavy house­ hold work or a dainty table lamp, ELECTRIC­ AL APPLIANCES ALWAYS PLEASE TIIE EYE. Decorative lamps are many of them real jewels in bronze, copper, Etruscan and opales­ cent glass. We show an interesting line of appliances at our sales rooms at Antioch, Crystal Lake, Park Ridge, Wan kegan, Highland Park, Evanston, Harvey, Chicago Heights ahd Lagrange, and sell everything electrical at the lowest prices. North Shore Electric Co. LY EXCHANGE ITEMS AS'TAKEN FROM THE COLUMNS or OUR MANY EXCHANGES. ASSORTMENT OF MEWS ITEMS IN CONDENSED FORM FOR BUSY The official census figures give the population of the United States at tf3,462,151. The Ringling Brothers of Bamboo, Wis., have purchased 70,000 acres of land iu Saskatchewan, Canada, which they will improve. Skiing ia again talcing hold of the people of Rftdine, and the hills north and we.nt of the city are being nsed for the furtherance of this exhilarating sport. Wan kegan has A colored luau who is trraduallv turning white. The uhauge a few years aajo and he confident­ ly believes that it will not be long before i^very part of his body is white. John W. Dekay, author of Sarah Bernhardt'^ Judas." was born iu Mc- Ht-nry county. He was a compositor's assistant when he was fourteen years old. Ten years later he was the owner .fwite a number of newspapers, and now nt the age of 38 be is a millionaire. Crystal Lake Herald: Dr. H. ri. Bay came in from Dakota ana spent Tuesday and Wednesday greeting old friends in Crystal Lake. The doctor raised 425 acres of flax this year getting about half a crop owing to the drouth,, realizing for the yield on a failing market, about The Libertyville Mararoni company w as recently fined fifty dollars by Jus- lict Beswick at Lake Forest for com­ ix Ming girl employes to work more than ten hours a day. It was prose­ cuted by the Lake Forest Law and Order league, assisted by Factory In­ spector Davis. Ex-County Treasurer Fred Ames of Lake county is found to have a short­ age of $27,000 in his accounts. The news comes as a great surprise and shock to the people of Lake county, as lie was believed to* be capable of keeping a straight account and scru­ pulously honest as well. Because his name did not appear in the telephone directory, N. G. Van Sant of Sterling, brother of the national com­ mander of tne Grand Army of the Re­ public, was given jndgmeut of $10 aijaiust the Central Union Telephone company recently. It is said to bfi the first case of its kind in the United States. With milk at |3 per hnndred many dairymen in the vicinity of Harvard are realizing good sninsof inont y from their dairies. One Hartland farmer, and he is a renter, too, is making 750 pounds per day, which means $ 15 each day as his receipts from his dairy alone. An­ other farmer in the same town is mak­ ing 1,000 pounds, or $20 per day as hie milk money. About thirty-five or forty men were laid off indefinitely at the Emerson Typewriter factory at Woodstock Mon­ day night of last week. On the other hand, the Oliver Typewriter employes have been called upon to work two extra nights last week and all day Satnrday. In all probability they will #be called upon to put in considerable overtime in the next few weekij as there are many orders to fill. Superintendent A M. Shelton has secured a room in the county court honHe which is to be fitted up as a standard one room school. In thiH an object lesson in seating, heating, and equipment will be given. Country peo­ ple and school directors may see what constitutes a standard one room school. Thi s will be done without expense j»o the public, the manufacturers of seats, stoves, blackboard, etc., supplying the equipment without charge for demon stration. Hitching posts in Iowa are doomed as a result of an edict from the state board of health. Incidentally a row has be^u stirred up with the Iowa farmers, who now will be compelled to take their teams to stables The action was taken partly because of the epidemic of infan­ tile paralysis, which has swept over the state. The state board declared the dust and filth accumulated by horses standing at hitching posts endanger public health, and in towns where no street cleaning departments are main­ tained, posts must be removed. This affects almost every town in the state. Woodstock S-ntinel: At least a dozen people are infested with trichinae in the neighborhood of Union. William Hen- sel, living on the Steinke farm, killed a large hog early in the fall. T^he carcass was divided with his son-in law, Fred Ehlers, and both families salted the meat and made sausage. At present every member of the two families who has partaken of any uncooked meat, (and sausage is usually eaten raw among the Germans) is afflicted with trichin­ osis. Some of the patients have been ill for five weeks, but all are apparently recovering. William Steinke and the fnmily of Rey. Schulmelstrat of Har­ mony, who were recipients of presents in the form of this sausage, are also down with the disease. Hogs usually are infected with trichinae after eating the meat of the common rat, which an­ imal usually harbors the paresits in countless numbers. THE PATENT MEDICINE EVfiL AS SEEN BY A MEMBER OF THE JUNIOR CLASS OF THE HIAH Ends Winter's Troubles. To many, winter is a season of troub­ le. The frost bitten toes and fingers, chapped bands and lips, chilblains, cold Hores, red and rough skins, prove this. I'utsach troubles fly before Bucklen's Arnica Salve. A trial convinces. (Greatest healer of Burns, Boils, Piles, Cnts, Sores, Eczema and Sprains. Only 2"> cents at N. H. Petesch's and F. Mas- qnelet's. Yon will find the biggest and best line of Christmas candies and nnts at M. M. N ieeen's. The following composition was pre­ pared and read by a member of the junior class of the McHenry high school in one of the regular recitation periods in physiology one day recently. The composition is a truly good one and, as the old saying' goes, "consists of more truth than poetry:" THE PATENT MEDICINE EV1&, Americans consume iuOre urugs ana use more patent medicines than the people of any other country on the civilized globe. A sum of $200,000,000 is spent annually on patent medicines. Everywhere, in cars, on transfers, on bill l>oards, in magazines, in news­ papers, in the mails are advertised medicines to cure disease and devices in promote health. When weconsider that electric care contain from thirty- two to fifty-two advertisements each, three-fourths of which are directly or indirectly concerned with health; when we multiply these by the number of cars actually in use in American cities; when we consider the number of ad­ vertisements in magazines and daily papers, and the enormous circulation of these papers and magazines; when we consider that an increasingly large por port ion of advertising space is de­ voted to health, we begin to realize the cumulative power for good or for evil that health advertisements must have. Some of the main patent medicines are '"Colds Cured In One Day," "Ap- pendixine," health ioods, massage vibrators, violet rays, sanitary tooth washes, soaps and faith cures. New ones appear every day, enough to make a really sick person dizzy, let alone a person sutfeiing from imagin­ ary ailments. Last winter an Irish maid slowly lost her rosy cheeks and grew hollow eyed and thin. She was taken to a special­ ist who discovered a rapidly advancing case of consumption. He said that owing to the girl's ignorance, stupid­ ity and homesickness, her only chance of recovery was to return to the coun­ try at once. The girl agreed to go, but insisted on a few days to talk it over with' her cousins in New York. After two weeks had elapsed she was found in a stuffy, overcrowded New York tenement. She had found a doctor who had given her a little bottle of medicine for $2, which would cure her in the city. It was futile to protest. Days in the unventilated ten­ ement and nights in a dark room meant that she would never live to finish the bottle. Last summer a district nurse of the summer corps, who visited city babies under two years of age, encountered in the hallway of a tenement a bevy of frenzied women. A child lay gasping and rolling its eyes up into the top of its head. The nui-se asked the fright­ ened mother what she had been giving it. "Nothing at all," said the woman. But a tell-tale bottle of soothing syrup showed that the child was dying from morphine poisoning. Happily, the nurse came in tijne to save it. • Is it not pitiful, this grasping for a l>oison in an extremity; this seizing of a defective rope to escape the fireV The patent medicine evil cannot be cured by occasional exposure or by overexposure. Nor can it be cured by legislation unless laws are rigidly en­ forced. Over exposure is ineffective. It Is the evils of patent medicines that do harm, not their name .and not their pateAts. The medical profession has in vaih protested against proprietary medicines. Ethical barriers cannot be erected by revolution. The mere pat­ enting of medicines for profits does not make the medicine injurious any more than the mere mixing of unpatented drugs makes a physician safe. Phys­ icians, who would not themselves patent a drug, will use certain patent­ ed drugs wnose ingredients are known to be safe and uniform. True exposure of patent medicine evils will enable the average physician and the average layman to distinguish the dangerous from the safe, the fraud from the genuine, lies from truths. Enforcement must be. insured. Im­ pure drugs may do as much harm as patent medicines containing harmful drugs. In New York a vigorous cam­ paign was recently inaugurated by the department of health to drive out im­ pure drugs. Drugs are dangerous enough at their l>est. When they are r.oi what they pretend to be, whether patented or not, they may take life. Fighting patent medicine evils is a civic duty to be accomplished by civic co-operation, not private effort. It is impossible to organize unofficial educa­ tional agencies that can offset the cumulative, lying advertisement. P««>- sonal opposition is but the beginning. Official machinery must be set running and kept running so as to protect the public health against the commercial motive that preys uj>on ignorance and easily inspired faith. Saved Ffym Awful Death. IIow an appalling calamity in his fam­ ily was prevented is told by A. D. Mc- Donold, Fayetteville, N. C., R F. D. No 8. "My sister had consumption," he writes, "she was very thin and pale, had no appetite and seemed to grow weaker every day, as all remedies failed till Dr. Kiug's New Discovery was tried, and so completely cored her that she has not "been troubled with a cough since. It's the best medicine I ever saw or heard of. " For coughs, colds, lagrippe, asthma, croup, hemorrhage all bronchial trouble it has no equal. 50c, $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by N. H. Pet- esch and F. Masquelet. Old plmues made into willows and plumes cleaned, curled and dyed. Mrs. E. D. Fischer, 61(1 North 51st Court, Austin, 111. Jan. 10 Want Column. All M»«rtisementP Inserted nnder this heMt at the CO' sowing- Vive liut-B or !e#», S8 cento for fir»t IBserUcm: 15 eentu for eat-h Rubsequent insertion. _ J'! Ulan Ore linen, ft cents a tine for first Insertion, cents & line for itddltlonl ingertloBs, W AN,TE1J--a man to chop cord wood. Ap- * , Ply at this office. "EVJK HALE--Chester White boar* O. W. HARRISON, Rlngwood, I!!. TOST--Satchel containing piano tnnlng I? Return to O. H. FAMTHAM, Wood- stock. 111., and receive reward. JpOB SALE--The Dr. O. H. Fegere, Jr., ml t. dence^ and property In McHenry. For further Information apply to or address T. J. WALSH, McHeury, 111. ' -- -- 1 TUST-On Saturday, Dec. 10, a Waterman tr fountain pen. Finder will coiifer a favor by calling up telephone 861. TpOB SALTC--A cottage and two and one-half f- . lots on west side of town. For further uuormawon apply to or write THE PLAIN- DKAt.ER, McHenry, IU. 25-tf •pfM_)R SALE CHEAP--A fourteen-inch Em- plrp Aeoi-u self-feeding hnse burner, farther information apply to or write JOUH W. BONSLKTT, McHenry, 111. w »KNT--My property in r„-,s occupied by E. F. Matthews, Jr., as a meat market. This is a desirable location for business and can be obtained on reasonable terms. R. A. How- AKW. Inquire of SIVOK SnoevtOL. West Mc­ Henry. or the owner, SIS South State, Elgin, II1- U-U p^OR SALE ON EASY TERMS--elesrant cor ner property in village; Rood house, tau-n, well, shaoe trees, fruit, large tract of ground for garden, etc.; well located on main street, tor reiii -anutuer property, 86.00 per month: large lot, house, barn, well, etc.; one acre of 14 Eluded. Simon SrorrxL, 25-^ Wdst McHenry, III' QUARTER OF A CENTURY, ITEMS CLIPPED FROM PLAINDEALEK OP TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. DECEMBER 16. There is a rumor that E. A. Shedd & Co. are contemplating the erection of more iee houses here this season. We have been nnabie to learn whether or ijot rtimor is correct in this particular. Station Agent Boss is the proudest man in this section, the Northwestern Railroad company having lately put a new floor in the depot and office, fur­ nished him with a new safe and made other necessary improvements in and aronnd the station. The wife of Ed. C. Howard, proprie­ tor of the Howard House, Fox Lake, died very suddenly on Thursday morn­ ing last. She leaves three children, the youngest but a few hours old at the time of her death. Mr. Howard has the heartfelt sympathy of his many friends in this vicinity in this, his hour of bereavement. The Standard Theatre company, ac­ companied by thp McHenry Military band, go to Richmond on Thursday evening of this week, and by request to Wauconda on Saturday eveuing. We can assnre the lovers of the play in these towns that they will miss a rich treat if they fail to see this company. The drama, ' 'The Ocean Waif," is a fine one, the farce a bntton buster, while the original sketeb by Cutteridge and Going is alone worth the price of admission. DECEMBER 23. Cook Wright, who is with Marshal Field & Co., Chicago, made his parents, in this village a visit over Sunday. Kev. 13. Brunning will "occupy the pulpit at the Universalist church in this village on Sunday next, morning and evening. John Myers has commerced filling private ice houses in this village. He tilled Ilobt. Schiessle's this week with good ice about one foot in thickness. Arrangements for the New Year's party Friday evening, January 1, at the Riverside House are progressing favorably, and promises, as usual, to be a very pleasant and enjoyable affair. There will be appropriate services for the Christmas festival at the Uni­ versalist church^on Thursday (tomor­ row) evening. The choir will have appropriate music for the occasion, and Rev. B. Brunning will deliver an address. In spite of the thaw, Santa Claus, his wife, children and all will arrive at the M. E. church on Christmas eve. Come and hear Rev. J. M. Conlee's aidress to .the children. Come and hear the vocal selections by the Star quartet. Come and receive an intro­ duction, to Santa Claus' wife. Admis­ sion, 10 cents. Children of the M. E. Sunday school admitted free. Pro­ ceeds to furnish Sunday school supplies for the new year. Doors open at 6:45. Exercises begin promptly at 7:30. Ounce at McHenry Hnune. The second dance, nnder the present management, will take place at the Mc* Henry House hall on Saturday evening, December 81. Mr. Bickler promises the dance loving public a rare treat and has especially engaged Brodie's full orches­ tra of Chicago for this occasion. Brodie's orchestra appeared at pavilion danues in this vicinity last summer and thoee who have heard this musical organiza­ tion pronounce their work first-olass. A midnight supper will also be one of the big features of the event. This will be served in the dining hall of the hotel and will consist of the seasonable good things. Mrs. Bickler will have charge of this part of the eveuiug's program and it's a safe bet tbat no one will go away hungry. Dance tickets, 75 cents; supper, 50 cents per plate. A cordial invitation is extended to all. Wants to help Some One. For thirty years J. F. Bo.ver, of Fer­ tile, Mo., needed help and couldn't find it. That's why he wants to help some one now. Suffering so long himself he feels for all distress from Backache, Nervousness, loss of Appetite. Lassitude and Kidney disorders. He shows that Electric Bitters work wonders for such troubles. "Five bottles," he writes, "wholly cured me and now I am well and hearty." It's also positively guar­ anteed for Liver Trouble, Dyspepsia, Blood Disorder, Female .Complaints and Malaria. Try them. 60c at N. H, Petesch'sand F. Masquelet'a. Santa Claus has left an excellent line of Christmas candies and nuts at M. M. Nteaen's. Everything freeb. OUR LINE OFTOYS is the large** a n d m o s t TCT4 CTPi brought into the village. Come in and see the ex­ cellent dis- p 1 a y. We faave evert- thing t h at will bring J J -- ~ tU. JUJ hearts of the littie folks. ntt e roks o UR special effort this aeaacm in the direction of useful and ornamental feature^ has met with most gratify* ing success and we shall deem it S privilege to snow you a very exten­ sive assortment of HOLIDAY Goods that are as new as they are pleasing and appropriate. We invite your at­ tention to the'latest and best which insures an easy selection of appro­ priate Gifts for young and old. We feel confident thai the most critical examination of our complete and very appropriate lines of desirable Holiday Goods will convince you that they are not equalled elsewhere in merit or in price, :: :: t: :: F. A. Bohlander ft Capital Stock, $25,000. fp toyed when you were young' you could now be as gracious as Santa in distributing cheer and h a p p i n e s s . E v e r y young man should have a B a n k A c c o u n t with Uis. mcites the germ of saving, it makes you independent, and associates you with success­ ful' men. There will never be a better time to open an account than right now. ...Safety Deposit Boxes, $3.00 Per Year... -OFFICBRS: Edwin L. Wagner, C. H. Pegcn, Sr., Vice Pres. Carl W. Stenger, CaaMer. Simon StofM, Vic* Pr««. for FORD and REGAL auto­ mobiles, INDIANA silos, wag­ ons, buggies, pony carts, cut- ters, sleighs, pumping engines, manure spreaders, tank heat- rs, bolster springs, batteries, e r m i i i u l s , , w i r e s , m a c h i n e bolts, axle grease, etc. :: :: Drop us a card or phone „ us abuot Silos and we will be pleased to call on you. Always at your service, WM.STOFFEL Phones: RBs!De'r^el79i. \v. XMAS CHINA? We have a large stock of Imported China that is sure to delight the Christmas shopper, for it offers a tempting variety of beautifully decorated pieces; and all at a price amazingly low. Included are plates, footed bowte, salad bowls, bon bon dishes, sugars and Reamers; syrup jars, cracker jars, chocolate pots, cake plates, wall plates, celery trays, candle sticks, berry sets, spoon trays, cups and saucers, jugs, creamers, mugs, etc. :: :: BOOKS! BOOKS! A well selected line of the latest and best selling popular nov­ els at lesH than publisher's prices; also books for the boys and girls. Call in and look our line over. :: ..JOHN STOFFEL,.. West McHenry Telephone 301 &