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K V ^ "" '-v. i ?' W* ** * 4 ?3|pBH8§p lK^s" .. LI i *• *J'[ • r* - v i, . * ; ». W . i Clothing, ' Shoes, Hats* v Shirts, Glaves, Underwear " We deal entirely in Men's and Boys' wear andean save yon money in these lines and allow you a larger assortment to select from than yon can find in JVlcHenry County r Call and see our line and convince yourself $£ Oitr statement. : : • ' JOS. W. FRBUND WEST McHENRY, - - PHONE 303 4 M, . . Sr.. ,v V I, Tfl tie Lover of 000P (Of EfE We wish to advise you that we hare In­ stalled In our store a new ROYAL ELEC­ TRIC COFFEE MILL. This machine Is equipped with steel knives which cut the berry into practically uniform clean cut particles, instead of grinding and crush­ ing it, as by the old method. All coffee mills heretofore used will only crash the berry, mutilating the minute oil cells, allowing the coffee oil to evap­ orate, thus impairing the strength and flavor. By this new process the little oil cells remain unbroken, the essential oil (food product) cannot evaporate and the coffee thus retains its fine, rich, aromatic flavor In Its full strength. This is one reason why a pound of coffVe cut in this mill will make from twelve to fifteen more cups of full strength coflVe than will any coffee ground In the old way. The lover of good coffee finds here a rich­ ness of flavor never found In coffee ground In the oniluai-y way. Another feature about this mill Is that you may have your coffee cut as fine its the finest sand and it will still be practi­ cally free from that tine i : wish,;i is produced by the old method of grinding. You wiii, therefore, aiway* ~ cup of coffe instead of the muddy effect-- a result of using the old style mills. ROYAL CUT COFFEE is also adaptable for percolators or French drip coffee pots. TRY A POUND OF OUR COfTEE CUT ON A ROYAL MILbAND WE KNOW YOU WILL BE PLEASE!) WTO THE RESULTS. :: JOHN STQFPPLW.M9HENRY I • • • • - • •>X • • W' 10 per cent Reduction Now that the Gasoline" Stove sea­ son is almost past, we are placing those we have left on sale at a re­ duction of ten per cent from their regular price. We haven't the room to carry them over and for this reason are placing them on sale at this great sacrifice. There are only a few left, so call in while they are being sold at Bargain Prices. Uycital I* 'V.: #t * Sf.. ' FT, #-*>' • $ s/ * Kvw * LR > ^ » AT REDUCED PRICES We have many remnants and small pieces of Sum­ mer Dress Goods to dispose of in the next two weeks at .Greatly Reduced Prices Ladies', Misses', Children's, Men's and Boys' Oxfords in popular shades and shapes at A Saving to You Straw Hats, in common and fine dress shapes, new up-to-date goods.. _ At Cost GROCERIES OF THE PUREST AND BEST QUALITIES Try our 50c Tea. None better. Coffee at 25c, 80c and 35c per pound. Special prices in large quantity. FLOUR --Early Riser, Drum ^Kepnb- Mc and Seal of Minnesota. Corn Meal, Graham, Whole Wheat and Spencer's Breakfast food 1 ^ ' Goods deliTest d promptly. 'Phone 343. . J. WALSH. WEEKLY EXCIMSE ITOB AS TAKEN FROH THE COUIMB Of >. -jJfWt MNV EX(SAN0ESi| i. miSCELLANEOUS ASSORTMENT OTDEWS ITEMS IN CONDENSED FOMI FOR BUSY PEOPLE. The village board of Union has granted s franchise to the Woodstock- Sycamore Traction company to operate their road thru the village and engin­ eers were there last week making surveys. D. P. Barclay, Sr., of Elgin olaitnS the honor of starting the lotus beds in Grass lake forty years ago. He found two or three plants at the entrance to the lake, took seen] and planted them where the big bed now is. The origi­ nal small bed disappeared soon after. Seventy-one sites in all have been submitted to the state board of admin­ istration as places for the location of the new $1,500,000 state insane asylum. The merits of the respective places will have to be investigated before the location is determined and it will prob­ ably be a month or more before a con­ clusion is reached. Conductors on all Northwestern pas­ senger trains have been keeping tab on the amount of express carried by passenger trains during the past month. It is believed the company desires this information for the purpose of deter­ mining whether it will be advisable to put on exclusive express trains and en­ tirely eliminate the express from pas­ senger trains. During the severe wind Mid rain storm which passed over this section a week ago last Saturday the ski slide on Wellek's, near Cary, was blown down. The slide was 80 feet in height and had just' been undergoing repairs by some workmen from Chicago. Mr. Wellek says it will be rebuilt at once and that probably a steel structure will replace it, as the national tourna­ ment of ski jumping is to be held there the Coming winter. Plans for a new union railway sta­ tion to cost $20,000,000 and to be used by the Pennsylvania lines, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroads and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul are announced. The building will be erected on the present site of the Union station extending from Adams to Jack­ son street and from Canal street to the Chicago river. Work will be started next January and it is expected that it will be complete in two years. Edward Wilder, a farm hand and a resident of Woodstock, was gored by a bull on Monday of last week while at work on the farm of Bernard O'Brien, whose place is south and east of Hunt­ ley. Wilder was taking the bull from the barn to the water tank when the animal' turned on him, knocked him down, broke his arm and jaw and sev­ eral ribs and would certainly have killed him had not Mr. O'Brien ap­ peared on the scene with a pitchfork, which he used in trying to drive the bull away from his victim. Wilder was taken to an Elgin hospital for treatment. % Delavan Republican: A mill pond at Hayton, near Clinton, was blown up by an explosion Monday evening, ac­ cording to press reports. A thunder­ storm came up and a bolt of lightning struck a wire fence, one strand of which dangled in the mill pond. A terrific explosion followed, mud, weeds and a vast quantity of dead fish being hurled high into the air, while the flare of flames flashed in the heavens like a volcano in eruption. The earth shook as hy an earthquake and hun­ dreds of persons within a mile of the pond heard the explosion, which was witnessed by a score of persons. The youngest prisoner with whom Sheriff Andrew H. Henderson oi this county has had to deal is now being held at Woodstock on a charge of horse stealing. The youngster is Thomas Weatherby, eleven years old, and to him belongs the distinction of being the youngest criminal ever arrested in this county. He had been placed in the Boys' Home at Feehanville and escaped from there last week Monday morning and stole a horse and buggy belonging to Chas. Dacy of Woodstock. He stopped at a farm house where the rig was recognized and he was taken back to Woodstock, fie seems to be a natural born thief and will probably be sent to Pontiac for this offense. No stamps but the regular official United States postage stamp will be permitted upon the address side of mail matters, hereafter, according to an order issued at Washington by Post­ master General Hitchcock. The order shuts out the Red Cross stamps and Christmas seal which have come into popular favor in recent years. The ruling states that hereafter no adhesive stamps or imitations of any form or de­ sign whatever shall be affixed to the address side of domestic mail Blatter. Letters or packages bearing such stamps will be returned to the adcit^ss of the sender if the address is knowb. Otherwise they will be sent to the dead letter office. Such stamps, pro­ viding in form and design thqy do not resemble the lawful postage stamps and do not bear numerals, may be affixed to the reverse side of the do­ mestic mail matter? Brings Prompt Aid la M fase ol. Fire THE farm buildings are often at the mercy of flames. A minute's time gained at the outbreak' of a fire, means saving the properly. A call on the Bell Telephone saves the precious minutes. / The (ar-sighted farmer appreciates its pro­ tection as well as its economic value. The best time to join the army ol prograt* ihw farmers is NOW. Consult our local manager. CHICAGO TELEPHONE COMPANY r P H I L I P J A E O R R GENERAL COHMISSION MERCHANT SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO THE SALE OF Dressed Beef, Hutton, Hogs, Veal, Poultry, tildes, Etc., Butter and Eggs This is the oldest house on the street Tags and price lists fnrnished on pplication. COLD STORAGE FREE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. \ •llfMltSSSSSSSIIiiUM! The McHenry Bakery AND LiiMtH ROOM We have publicly introduced ourselves now we want you to call and meet us face to face. You will find us to be as courteous and obliging as we appear on paper. We are not in the habit of boasting but we do feel that our baking is as good as one may find - in any first-class establishment. Our Lunch Room business is also picking up very nicely which tells us that the public appreciates our efforts in giv­ ing McHenry a high-class, sanitary eating place. "Phdne 1033 k. TIETZ, Prop. mssssssstssssissinimiiiMismiw "LARRABELLE" IS SOLD. "Larrabelle," the house-boat that has been on Fox river at this place during the last few years, and which has been the scene of many a good time, has been sold by its owner, C. W. Edwards, to John J. Buch. The new owner became t^e possessor of the boat last week and he is already making plans for the future and if carried out (and we have reasons to believe that they will be) there are some "big times" uooiiug for Commodore J. J. Buch and his friends. The boat, ac­ cording to the dope that is being hand­ ed out, will set sail for the south about October 1, with the cognmodore in charge. Just to show the former owner of the "king of the Fox" that his heart is in the right place, the present owner has already named C. W. Edwards as vice commodore. The regalia of the two commodores is now being made in Germany and is expect­ ed here about the middle of Septem­ ber, so that when the big day arrives the departure from Buch's docks will be a sight to behold. Just how far south the faithful old ship will sail is still a conjecture. That the boat will go south, however, is an absolute cer­ tainty. Berths may be reserved by calling or writing Commodore Buch. SIGNS POINT TO AN EARLY FALL. Wild grapes are ripe and are now being gathered in the woods. It is said by those who have any knowledge of such things that this is fully a month earlier than they have ever been gathered before. At the same time all farm produce is said to be from two to three weeks earlier than in former years. This all indicates, according to old-timers, that we are to have an early fall. Nature, they claim, usually adapts itself to th6 con­ ditions that are to follow. These wild grapes have grown of their own ac­ cord, have been ripened by the season without man's help or artificial means. The corn is also far advanced and with anything like seasonable weather dur­ ing the next few weeks it will be out of the way of a frost a full month earlier than is usual. These things point to an early fall and the old-tim- ers who predict an early arrival of the cool weather season ask that their prognostication be recalled to see if they have not been about right in doping out the weather. The moat powerful melodrama of the century, complete in every detail --"The Convict's* Daughter." At the Central Sunday, Aug. 20. 9-11 •h-.x . IR:*, •>/r\ "fi =305X3= F. A. General <pBS Capital Stock, $25,000. DIRECTING the affairs of business enterprises requires sound judgment and studied consultation. This bank's direc­ tory directs monied enterprises of larg­ est extefit in this com­ munity. Consultation our "Directory" aids the furtherance of business projects. Be our patron and we "direct" you right. -- Safety Deposit Boxes, $3.00 Per Year -OFFICERS! Edwin L. Wagner, C. H. Fegers, Sr., Pres. Vice Pres. Cart W. Stenger, CuMer. Simon Stoffel, Vice Pre*. Protect your cattle with Stand­ ard Fly Shy, for sale exclusively by us, :: :: :: JUST ARRIVED--A carload of r* us-^„i~-a s lutuuiuuca vuiu AA&I v cotciS auu Twine. By'giving us your order early we can serve you better. WM. STOFFEL f I f 1 ! OFFiCtis*77at' rnunc .̂ rksidence- "JOLLY SIX" ENJOY OUTING. Six young ladies styling themselves the "Jolly Six" enjoyed a day's outing on Fox river, near the Orchard Beach hotel, on Wednesday of last week. The girls left McHenry early in the morn­ ing and remained until just before dusk. Both dinner and supper were partaken of/and a fine time was had by all. Those who made up the jolly party were:, Misses Laura Barbian, Clara Freund and Clara Miller of Mc­ Henry; Marion McOmber, Marguerite Friedley and Elsie Waldroo of Chioa- BLOCK & BETH KE McHENRY, ILL. Sale Sale Sale ffere is your chance: We have taken our entire stock*of Men^ Oxfords regardless of price and made one big lot and one low price. Remember this takes in our entire stock of the Thompson line of oxfords, none better made, giving you oxfords that sold at $4.00, $4.50 and $5.00, your choice of patent colt,, gun metal and tans, at the one price for all Good quality M^n's Shirts and Drawers, each. .. 28 Good quality Ladies' Vests, sleeveless.. • .11,18 Muslin Corset Covers, trimmed with embroidery and lace, big values, each.. 2S, 38, SO Good quality Men's Sweater Coats, jnst the thing to slip on these cool mornings. t... .80 TELEPHONE $4« Sale Sale Sale Ladies, Notice: We expect our new line of fall and winter Ladies' Shoes the next week and in order to make room for the large line we must close out oun entire stock of oxfords. Here is your chance to get a pair of oxfords or pumps for a lit­ tle of nothing. All oxfords sold at $Z25, $2.50, $2.75 and $3.00* to close out quickly are now.. 11.88 Lawns, Lawns! Here they go--we don't want to carry over a yard of summer goods. All lawns and batiste sold at 15c and 18c to go in one lot. .10 Gingham Petticoats* Made of good quality nurse stripe gingham, full cut, ruffled flounce, sell­ ing at. 10, 6®, 78, $.100 M"W •• -> " '•J*'1-'1.. • T'. * 'i.