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Cnameled VYC1TAL JOHN ***** ~ zvwri^vr wt *%» - ^TT-rngrm. ' ̂ ^ iTiiiiiTiiilfitiW^tii,!"1.' U ^nwiT>ii^*>M^>iMjaiwiiii ••• ntfnitiri^ wnMBwn iw*iiirwwM«iga>" BUM A pure, wholesome, reliable Grape dream of Tartar Baking Powder. Improves the flavor and adds to the healihiclaess oi the ioou. 21 tORHEI JOmSBDKG RESIDENT DEAD 4 "0 ' . 3 ' - f# v-«v- A liberal discount on Overcoats and Suits DURING JANUARY JOS. W. FREUND, West McHenry, III. KEEP YOUfi Dry by dressing them in our Shoes and Rubbers. We can fit the entire family. John Stoffel We Still Have IN WINTER OOODS ANft IT WILL PAY YOU TO CALL. •••if*:- •, • • & •M M fm\ f: WEST McHENRY, lUL, r- (rjv'. m £»M While on his way home village, whither he had brought a load of wheat to be ground into flour at Spencer's mill on Thursday, Feb. 13, George Kneasley, ope of the best known men of Warren township, Lake county, toppled over dead on his load as his team was trudging along the highway. His friend and neighbor, Henry Tay­ lor, saw him fall overhand stopping his own team rushed over to Kneasley's wagon only to find that the man was dead. This sudden and unexpected .ending of ^ man who had never been sick a day in his life, who was the picture of health,1 weighing 260 pounds, created a shock to the mind of Taylor which he had difficulty overcoming. It was the most unusual sight people along the old plank road had ever seen--that of one farmer driving a load of flour on which lay the dead body of his friend and neighbor, his own team following along behind, pull­ ing another load of flour. Taylor had accompanied Kneasley to this, village, each bringing over a load of wheat to be ground into flour, leav­ ing home at 7 o'clock. They took the wheat to the mill, it was ground into flour and they started home about 3 clock. It was about 9 o'clock that Taylor, sitting on his own load and smoking, and shortly after he had been calling out to Kneasley some trival matter, looked in time to see his friend topple back on the bags of flour. Taylor's description of the incident proved that the death of Kneasley was ^narked by a most unusual and excit­ ing feature. He told the story to a friend about as follows: "I was driving along at a jog, and looking up saw Kneasley apparently leaning over as if asleep. I watched him some time and then concluded that he really had fallen asleep, the cold, etc., helping to make him numb and Sleepy. \ I then decided I had better get up to him, but his horses also were trot­ ting slowly and as I came up and tried to pass they increased their speed. They kept this up for three miles or more. Every time I tried to get past him they would dash ahead and as I looked up at George I realized all the more that something was wrong. Mile after mile I tried to get past him in order to stop his team, but the horses would not let me get up to them. At last, as we drew near Haines- ville I kept, yelling 'whoa' and finally they came to a walk and I was able to pass them, stop in the road and thus halt the team. "I then climbed on his (wagon to see what was the matter and found him lying back on the load. I tried to rouse him, but he did not respond so I concluded he was asleep. I threw a blanket over him, hitched my team on behind his and started for home as fast as possible. "All this time I felt lie had just gone to sleep on account of the cold or that he had been taken ill. When I got to the yard I called for help and his fam ily came out and helped me get him down off the load. Then it was that we found he was dead." Mr. Kneasley was really a giant in stature. He not only weighed over 260 pounds but he stood about 6 feet, 4 inches in height. He was always considered one of the strongest men in the county and used to enjoy friendly scuffles with men who thought they knew how to wrestle. He was so big and strong that years ago some of his friends believed he would make a good professional wrestler. , Mr. Kneasley was known some years ago by local athletes as a wrestler of ability, his size and Btrength being such that few fellows cared to tackle him. Kneaslev had been feeling in his visual good health all day. In fact, he had joked and had enjoyed the day greatly. Therefore his death was the more sudden and more of a shock than if he had been feeling badly. Heart trouble was ascribed as the cause of his death. C. L MATHIAS' [The Stacyvllle (la.) Monitor,] Again we are called upon to record the passing of an aged pioneer mother. This time it is Mrs. Mary Weber of Johnsburg- who has answered the cftll and passed over to the great beyond. Mrs. Weber was born in Huerten, Germany, January 30, 1831, and died at the home of her son-in-law, John Mullenbach, in Johnsburg, Minn., Sun­ day, February 16, 1913. She ran the course of her life in 82 years and 17 days. She came to America with her parents in 1842, when but a girl of eleven years, and settled in Johnsburg, 111. Here it was that she met John Weber and was united in marriage with him in 1848. With him she came to Minnesota, settling near Johnsburg in 1857, and this has been her home since. What can be said of all pioneer mothers can be truthfully said of her. She was a faithful wife, a loving moth­ er and a true friend and neighbor. Every pioneer left here has but the highest praise for her. She leaves to mourn her loss two brothers, Peter Adams of Little Falls, Minn., and Casper Adams of McHenry, 111.; also one' sister, Mrs. Schaefer, of McHenry, 111.; two sons, Nick Weber of Johnsburg and Mathias Weber, of McHenry,. 111., and two daughters, Mrs. Mary Sabel of Adams and Mrs. Anna Mullenbach of Johnsburg. Be­ sides these she leaves thirty-six grand­ children and thirty great-grandchil- Vain is the attempt to measure the loss of a mother to her children; as they gathered around her bedside, her boys and her girls--always boys and girls to her, tho now grown to mature years with boys and girls of their own as the death dew gathered on her brow, they watched with tearful eyes the life so long interwoven with theirs pass out to eternity. Each death is a link that binds us to the beyond, so we should live and do that which when time comes will be found a good link In the endless chain of the plan of Nature. Funeral services, conducted by Fath­ er Dolle, were held in the church at Johnsburg, interment following in the cemetery adjoining. AGENTS WANTED. The Velie Motor Vehicle company at 1615 Michicago Ave., Chicago, wants some live agents thruout ttyis section of the country. They have an excel­ lent car and want to push its sale in this vicinity. Write them at once for particulars, it will be to your inter* est. 37-3t WONDERFUL DAIRY OF MILK PER DAY. Easter post Petesch's. cards and booklets at ' Richmond Gazette: W. H. Gardner of Solon, one of McHenry county's most successful dairymen, has a dairy of twenty Holsteins that produced bet­ ter than 1,000 pounds of milk; per day during the months of Pfeciftnber and January, or a daily avera'ge of 50 pounds per cow. During the two months Mr. Gardner delivered to the Wieland milk plant at Solon 57,L5f> pounds of milk, his check for the two months amounting to $1,013.70. Mr. Gardner's December dividend amount­ ed to $485.82 for 26,990 pounds and the January dividend called/for,$527.88 for 30,165 pounds. The above figures do not quite average 1,000 pounds per day for the two months, 100 pounds having been used each day for feeding calves. Adding this to the total factory re­ ceipts, however, would bring the total a trifle over the 1,000-pound daily aver­ age. Mr. Gardner is one of"the new school farmers and is a firm believer- and advocate of the present' day farming methods, carrying on his dairy and other farm work along scientific lines. His cows are feo a balanced ration, containing those feeds which are re­ quired for milk production, they are kept in a sanitary and well ventilated barn and are given the very. best of care. Each cow is fed and milked three times a day. The extra milk obtained from the third milking more than pays for the feed consujned and work involved, according to Mr. Gard­ ner, who claims that a cow gives, ten pounds more milk if milked three times a day during the first two br three months after freshening; ^-- • Believing that some dairymen would be interested in his system of feeding, Mr. Gardner has given us the balanced ration that his cows are fed, from which they averaged 50 pounds of milk per cow during the ,l§st two months. The fration consists^of 50 pounds, of silage, 15 pounds alfalfa and 12 pounds of ground feed. The ground feed is a mixture of 400 pounds of ground corn and barley, 125 pounds of Ajax Flakes, 100 pounds of gluten, 100 pounds of bran and 100 pounds of oil meal. The above ration of 77 pounds is the'daily average ration of each cow, tho he varies the amount given to each cow according to her size and (age. The ration is for a cow that is fed and milked three times a day and would prove too heavy feed for^cows milked only twice a dayr ADVERTISED LBTTER8. Letters remaining unclaimed in the McHenry, 111., postoffice for the week ended Feb. 15: Mr. T. P. Feagen. This letter will be sentTto the dead letter office Feb. 24, if not delivered before. In calling for the above say "advertised," giving date of list. JOSEPH C. HOLLY, Postmaster. The One Best Feed for your baby chicks is on sale at our store. A scientific mixture which etarts them right and k^eps them growing. Stop ex|*er- tanentlny. Just use pr&P Baby Chick Food and you will positively grow the best flock of chicks you ever raised. Sample package free. ** Your money back if it falls." 160-page poultry In boxes and bags, ssc ui book PR] CE. Get Pratt* Profit-sharing Booklet. J. C. DBBKECHT, FRANK MASQUKLBT, JOHNSbUkUH JNcHENRY STRING UNE Dress Goods ^ is now complete. Come and look H yovC We have * veey nice line of - : • • Dress Goods, Ginghams. Percales, Calicoes, Lawns * t> , . - \ ' : have quite a lot of Remnants and broken lines which we will blose out. BUCK CAT STOCKINGS, SECONDS VM Mtbckings that sell regular at 15c and 25c, now,.,... toe Stockings that sell regular at 25c and 50c, now£j» fij 15c ?. H. Boblander There is lots of good reading on the back of a Dollar Bill. If you wish to keep some of the Reading mat­ ter you should consider the list below. It is also good reading. Twelve-inch Emerson and Rock ford Gang Plows; 16-inch Emerson and Rockford Sulky Plows; 14-inch Walking Plows; Hoosier & VanBrunt Drills, Disc and Hoe; 6, 7, 8 foot Emerson Pulverizer; 6, 7, 8 foot Osborne Pul= verizer; 2 and 3 section Low Harro.ws; Emer­ son and Hays Corn Planters; Emerson and Rockford Cultivators; Town Surface Cultiva­ tors; Emerfcon and Wisconsin Buggies; Low Lift All Steel Spreaders, built like a bridge; Pump Engines and Jacks; Engine Oil, Axle Grease, Chicken Coops, Etc. WM. Phones: OPFICB 88-.1 -RESIDENCE (F West tty UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY CAPITAL STOCK, $25,000. BUILDING A FORTUNE generally commences with a start at saving. The fabulous fortunes of the present day were all started with early sav­ ings. You have the same chance to become rich if you s ave s t ead i l y and in ­ vest wisely. The West llcltenry State Savings Bank will care for your savings aiyl pay you interest as an encour­ agement. Do you know of any reason why you shouldn't commence? ....SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES, $3.00 PER YEAR.... BANK EDWIN L. WAGNER, Pre*. ---OFFICERS:-- DR. C. H. FEGER8. Vic* PTM. CARL W. STENGER. Cashier. SHON SfOTPEL. ~ Vlee Prae. Live stock and farm sales a specialty. My motto is, "One price and a square deal to all." Remember the and call phone 607-M-2> C. I. Allen dorf^ Wert MeHenry, Boufee JL 1$4Adv Phone 7Q-J L. F. McHenry, III. We have several lines of Men's, Ladies' and Children's button and lace Shoes in which the mil of sifea is badly broken, and rather than carry them on our shelves and order in new sizes we have placed them all on the sale table. These shoes are good clean stock, selling at $2.00, $2.25 and $2.50. Take ̂ our choice of as many pairs as you like at per pair • • • * • • SWEATER COATS ] CHll-l^>RJEN'S COATS Men's Sweatee Coats, $4.00 value, at*.^ $2.75 Men's Sweater Coats , $3.50 value, a t . . . . $1 .98 Ladies' Sweater Coats, $3.50 value, at - • $2.50 Ladies' Sweater Coats, $3.00 value, ij&.-i $2.25 75c quality Flannel Gowns for children...; ;v£OC $1.00 qual i ty Flannel Gowns for ladies . . •«t75c Coats that sold at $3.50 and $4.00 now. • SSkSO Men's $3.50 and $4.00 Shoes to close at.. $2.39 Ladies' House Dresses, of good percale. $2.25 Kimonas, to close.......... .^S|.. $1 • 75 }CiuiOD3Sf to close • • •'-» - vr,? • * * All $1.50 Bed Blankets f . j $1.00 ••fS' '• £:• iMIfc