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The Grocer (bfeelmde -rr-W SI LL J;IW>T3« I Received the highest award at Chicago World's .Fair Jaw, W'Wi.'iiili.'i lil.ini'K lit THE DAYS NEW YEAR PARTY " J • • ' " ' \ ' HAPP NEW YEAR heeM'tr ill lit Td£ M'HENRY PLAINDEALER PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY F. G. SCHREINER Offic* In Bunk Building Telephone 56-M TERMS Ot SUBSCRIPTION: One Year S1.S8 Six Months, 75c Three Months, 4Sc Thursday, January 1,1913 QUARTER OF A CENTURY ITBIU CUPPED FROM PLAINDEALER OP TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO WEEKLY PERSONAL ITEMS COMERS AND GOERS OF A WEEK IN OUR SUSY LITTLE VILLAGE At SEEN BY PLAINDEALER REPORTERS AND HANDED INTO OUR OFFICE BY OUR VIMENDS. John Larsen of Chicago is the guest of McHenry friends. Mis& Florence Welch spent Sunday as the guest of friends in Chicago. Simon Stoffel was a business visitor In the metropolitan city Wednesday. Miss Eleanore Phalin has been the guest of relatives at the county seat. Florence and Ernest Kamholz were recent guests of relatives at Marengo. Geo. H. Hanly was among the Chi- <cago passengers Wednesday morning. Miss Eva Stoffel spent yesterday and today as the guest of Chicago friends. Fremont Hoy of Woodstock was a siness visitor in town Monday after- Lester Gilles of Aurora was the guest of friends here the first of the week. ^ Miss Lena Geske of Cary was the guest of relatives here the first of the week. Miss Lillian Pouse attended a dance ' at the county seat on Friday evening of last week. Gilbert Howard attended to matters Of a business nature in the windy city '-Wednesday. *M4-S. E. J. Mansfield of Woodstock Is a guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs B. E. Bassett. Miss DeCamp of Chicago has been a the ^^le returned . • . , T „ , tnarfcB. Ash Wednesday, being nowi guest in the home of James Hughes , , ' V . . . . 6 t a i l e d u p o n f o r a s o n g , s t r u c k u p a His Coming of Afle Marked by a Din­ ner to Which All of the Fes­ tivals Are Invited. The Old Year being dead, and the New Year coming of age, which he does by calendar law as soon as the breath is out of the old gentleman's body, nothing would serve the young spark, but he must give a dinner upon the occasion, to which all the Days In the year were invited. The Festi­ vals, whom he deputed as his stew­ ards, were mightily taken with the notion. They had been engaged time out of mind, they said, in providing good cheer for mortals below, and it was time they should have a taste of their own bounty. It was stiffly debated among them whether the Fasts should be admitted. Some said the appearance of such lean, starved guests, with their morti­ fied faces, would pervert the ends of the meeting. But the objection was overruled by Christmas Day, who had a design upon Ash Wednesday (as you shall hear), and a mighty desire to see how the old Dominie would be­ have himself in his cups. Only the Vigils were requested to come with their lanterns to light the gentlefolk home at night. All the days came. Covers were provided for 365 guests at the prin­ cipal table, with an occasional knife and fork at the sideboard for the Twenty-ninth of February. Cards of invitation had been issued. The carriers were the Hours, twelve little merry, whirling footpages that went all round and found out the persons invited, with the exception of Easter Day, Shrove Tuesday, and a few other movables, who had late­ ly shifted their quarters. "Well, they all met at last, foul Days, fine Days, all sorts of Days, and a rare din they made of it There was nothing but "Hail, fellow Day! well met!" only Lady Day seemed a bit scornful. Yet some said Twelfth Day cut her out, for she came all royal and glittering and Epiphenous. The rest came in green, some in white, but old Lent and his family were not yet out of mourning. Rainy Days came in dripping, and the Sun- shinny Days laughing. Wedding Day was there in marriage finery. Pay Day came late, and Doomsday sent word he might be expected. April Fool took upon himself to mar­ shal the guests, and May "with that sweetness peniiliaf^to her, pro­ posed the health of the host. This being done, the lordly New Year from Take away the tattered page Of my erstwhile piety, Dim and soiled and outraged quite- Mocked of bland satiety; Resolutions such as they May greet the season with aplomb, But when the year, grown old and gTay, Time's not a crutch to lean upon Of all that lofty sentiment, I fain would close the vexing tale And yet again experiment. For like a bloom perennial And rosy tinted wake the dream» Of all the morrows yet to come, When life is really what it seems; When tardiness and broken vows. And duties shirked for Pleasure's court, And Mother Grundy's sad pow-wows. And fickle Fashion's mad report Are strangers to my righteous heart-- Tear up the old and frame the new. For I would make another start. ^Maude DeVerse Newton. Some New Year Don'ts Don't sprinkle salt on the tail of tempta­ tion. Don't try to get the better of a man who hasn't any. Don't snore in church. It's mean to keep others awake. Don't be satisfied to pay as you go. Save enough to ffet back. Don't get married with the sole idea that misery loves company. Don't follow the beaten track unless you are satisfied to remain beaten. Don't accept advice from a man who never offers you anything else. Don't expect Opportunity to come to you with a letter of introduction. Don't trust to luck. Nine-tenths of the people in the world guess wrong. Don't buy your friends. They never last as long as those you make yourself. Don't envy the rise of others. Many a man who gets to the top is mere froth. Don't greet Misfortune with a smile unless you are prepared for a one-sided flirtation. Don't make good resolutions unless you constantly carry p repair kit with you. Don't place too much confidence in ap­ pearances. Ma.-yra man with a red nose is white all fcAe w"Sy through. Dop'<f forget in times^Jf^peace to pre- P#t*S for war. That's about the only use -aome of us seem to have for peau». Don't fail to have an object in vie^v. Many a man leads such an aimless exist* ence that he could fire at random without hitting it.--Lippincott's. uth of town. Mrs. I rving Watson of Ch^go is a est injJjehome of hep^ter, Mrs. Fisher. Rev. Father Is&dore of Norwood Park assisted Rev. 1>. Lehane here on Christmas day. Mrs. Rose MeGee of Woodstock was a recent guest in th^ home of Dr. C. H. Fegers here. Miss Ethel Krumpen of DeKalb is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Jjilrs. Anton*Krumpen. George Conway is spending the holi­ days with his father and sisters in the metropolitan city. Mrs. George Buss and children are spending the week as the guests of rel­ atives In Chicago. Mrs. George Mix of Austin was a recent guest in the home of her sister, Mrs. John Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Frank O'Flaherty of Elgin were guests in the home of M rs. Ellen Frishy recently. Miss Irene Davoll returned home -Saturday from an extended visit with Chicago friends. Herbert Landwer of Harrington spent Christmas day as the guest of relatives •Qd friends in McHenry. Nicholas Pitzen of Turtle Lake, Wis., Is visiting among relatives and friends In McHenry and vicinity. Misses Pearl and Ruby Claxton are spending the week as guests of friends ID the metropolitan city Mrs. Silas Pierce of Crivitz, Wis., is being entertained in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wm. Bacon Miss Lfelah Claxton spent the latter part of last week as the guest of friends at Barrington and Chicago. George Kane of Woodstock spent the latter part of last week in the home of his mother near this village. Thr~l a#d daughter, Mrs. Clara StarrPCTy were guests of rela­ tives at Huntley on Qmstmas day Miss Emma Conway of Elgin passed the holiday vacation as a guest in the home of her parents south of town. Thornaa Wright of Wauconda was a caller in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Frisby on Friday of last week Jity Haarahap of Chicago was a Sun- dayfgsyest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. , Matt Fitzsimmons, who reside west of f Town. \ Mr.* and Mrs. H. J. Schaffer passed ci in day as guests in the home of "rs. Henry Geary near Wau- o? f Emma McOmais^and daughter, ine, of Elgin have been guests Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Aii-srV and chil- song, struck up carol which Christmas Day had taught him. Shrovetide, Lord Mayor's Day and April Fool next joined in a glee, in which all the Days, chiming In, made a merry burden. All this while Valentine's Day kept courting pretty May, who sat next him, slipping amorous billet-doux un­ der the table till the Dog Days began to be jealous and to bark and rage exceedingly. At last the Days called for their cloaks and greatcoats and took their leaves. Short Day went off in a deep black fog that wrapped the little gen­ tleman all round. The Vigils--so watchmen are called in Heaven--saw Christmas Day safe home; they had been used to the busiaess before. An­ other Vigil--a stout, sturdy patrol, called the Eve of St. Christopher-- seeing Ash Wednesday in condition little better than he should be e'en whipped him over his shoulders pick- a-back fashion, and he went floating home singing: * "On the Bat's Back Do I Fly," and a number of old snatches besides. Longest Day Bet off westward in beau­ tiful crimson and gold; the rest, some in one fashion, some in another; but Valentine and pretty May took their departure together in one of the pret­ tiest silvery twilights a Lover's Day could wish to set in. GOOD A8 NEW. "My good man, 1 hope you've made some good resolutions." "No, ma'am, not dis year. You see I've got a bunch of 'e^n I made last year an' never used. Miss Mae Kane of Elgin spent the latter part of last week as a guest in the home of her mother, who resides north of town. Miss Elizabeth Thelen passed the latter part of last and the fore part of this week as the guest of relatives at Elgin and Chicago. f Read The Plaindealer. DIDN'T OBSERVE NEW YEAR'S Puritans Regarded the Celebration as a Heathenish and Un-Christian Rite. The sole record of the observance of the New Year by the Pilgrims in the new world, named New England, was. most prosaic, most brief: "We went to work betimes." Many of the good Puritan ministers thought the celebration or even notice of the day in any way savored of improper and un-Christian reverence for the heath­ en god, Janus. Yet these English set­ tlers came from a land where New Year's eve and New Year's day were second in importance and domestic observance only to. Christmas. Throughout every English county New Year's eve was always celebrat­ ed; in many it was called by the pretty name of Singing E'en, from the custom which obtained of singing the last of the ̂ Christmas carols at that time. This New Day. Out of the tomb of night a day has risen. Be not anxious; this clay is all your own. Do not hurry, for in time it Is like all other days; neither delay, for now is passing. Early turn your face to the dawn and let its fresh beams bathe away all stains of night; then, ehould the noon be dark with storms, your smile will still wear the rose tints of the morning. Step soft­ ly among human hearts, and leave so much of kindness along life's pathway that gladness shall spring up, bearing tribute in the cool e entide of the world's glad New Day.--Croft. TO THE PUBLIC In tinning over my business and good will to iny successor i take this opportunity of thanking the <_:<»<M! peo­ ple of McHenry and vicinity for the liberal patronage extended me during the years that I have ' conducted the West Side meat market and grocery. It is not a matter of choice that I step out of the harness, but. on the advice of my physician. Kver since my last spell of sickness I have beet) looking for some trustworthy and reliable man to take the burden from my shoulders and in disposing of my stock and good will to G. C. ISosma I believe the right man is taking hold where I left oIT. I cheerfully recommend Mr. Bosnia to the public and bespeak for him the patronage that l^as been accorded the place in the past. Again thanking the public and wishing all a happv and prQsperous New Year, I am, Kespectfully yours, E. F. M AT'i'HKWS. Thomas Knox of Chicago spent a couple of days last week as a guest in the home of his parents, Mr. and'Mrs. John Knox. Mr. and Mrs. Stephenson of Mid field spent a recent day as guests iu the home of their daughter, Ali.4 Joi W. Schaffer When coffees are judged sole­ ly upon quality in the cup, the grocer gives you the best value pos­ sible to procure. The grocer is the most conven­ ient and the least expensive distributor of roasted coffee; therefore, he is the most logical distributor of coffee, and the one most deserving of your patronage. Mex-O-JaCoffce s a blend of our selection of genuine Sao Paolo and Mexican varieties -- e coffee OQ. natchable at the priee. Every package contains a fall pound, let weight--and it comes to you in a Banitarp pro- A'ctor carton, with broad green and red Btripaa. Hie Price May Change--the Quality New 30Cento P r i c e s u b j e c t t o t u H.\ion according to the ost of rata material. F« Povad ARBUCKLE BROS. Mex-O-Ja Salsa Dept. 845-465 E. Illinois St., Chicago, in. To Get Best Result* Grind Tour Co, at Hamm Pronounoca EX-Q-HA M N u Y e e r 11^\RESOLOSUUI _ iLt Kwit K God** £DJIKA- ^UIS/.. . bi&t 'THERE1" The Past and the Future. Carry into the new year only the choicest thoughts and inspirations. As in the olden days when men approach­ ed the Parthenon they cleansed their persons and arrayed themselves in white robes before entering that glo­ rious temple, so cleanse your gar­ ments from transgression, clothe your­ self with aspirations. Farewell to the past! Welcome and all hail to the future!--Newell Dwight Hiilis. NEW YEAR'SDAY IN fcKfli LA N D. New Year's day is kept very curi­ ously in. <5ome of the old countries. In 'Ohi^fSind the ringing of bells is about the only formal demonstration they show for the anniversary at the pres­ ent time, though years ago it was as much of a gala day as Christmas. They used to give presents and have great feasts, and there was a good deal of revelry and drunkenness, more :han there ought to have been in a civilized ^©nrthunity. On the whole the new' is quite as good as the old way, to my thinking. In Denmark the cannon booms, as a sound of joy to welcome in the new year. Every morning of the first oj January, Copen­ hagen is shaken by this peaceful can­ nonading. The people in the rural districts go to the farmhouses and fire tli"ir muskets under the windows of the sleeping inmates, to inform them that a new year is at hand. The cue- to m is not a very nice one; it smacks too much of old time roughness and rudeness. New Year Resolutions. I will try to be kind. 1 will try to find the good in others. I will carry sunshine with me, espe­ cially into the dark places. I will try to make someone happy e;ifh day.--Woman's Home Companion. RAYMOND PATCHEN WINS PROMOTION WAS FORMER MANAGER AT LOCAL TELE­ PHONE EXCHANGE liiiymond N. Patchen, who a few years ago was the local manager of the Mel I en ry telephone exchange, has been promoted to the position of traflic chief • or the Chicago Telephone company lor tin- (Jary-llammond district, the largest, one outside of Chicago. He takes charge today. Mr. I'atchen has been located at La- Crange and has had his jurisdiction enlarged several times. He has become popular in the towns along the Jiurlington railroad, where busitu ss interests called him, and is popular in the Husiness Men's associa­ tion, Masonic lodge and other societies in Tja(; range. His promotion is a testimonial to his good work with the company. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS Council I loom, Dec. 20, 11H3. The village trustees met in special session for the purpose of passing an ordinance amending the telephone or­ dinance, with 1'resident Stoflel presid­ ing. Trustees present: Harbian, Cham­ ber] in, Fisher, Nickels, Spencer and Weber. On potion by Fiaher, seconded by Nickels, that the ordinance be passed as read. Yeas--Barbian, Chamberlin, Fisher, Nickels', Spencer and Weber. Nays- None. Motion carried. On motion by Nickels, seconded by to adjourn. Motion carried. SIMON STOFFEL, "President. SCHREINKT ff* A- Y brother Lemuel married Mehltable Pierce when he was quite along In years. Nobody thought he'd ever get married at all, any more'n my brother Reuben an' Silas. The- three had lived together and kept bachelors' hall ever since our moth­ er died. I was mar­ ried and away from home long before she died. ^Y^idn't vjf ^ ^ know how they would get along at first but all of the boys had been nsed to helpln' ma a good deal, and they were real handy, and when J asked It they wasn't goin' to have a house­ keeper, they wouldn't hear to ' it They Bald they wasn't goin' to have no strange woman round in ma's place, nohow. So Silas he took hold and did the washin' and ironin', and Reuben did the sweepin', and Lemuel, he was the youngest, next to me, did the cookln'. He could cook a dinner equal to any woman, and his pies beat mine. My husband said so, and I had to give In they did. Well, they seemed to get along so nice, and none of 'em had ever seemed to think much about the girls, not eren when they was boys, that I must say I was astonished when Lemuel he up and got married to Mehitable Pierce. She was a little along in years, too, rather more so than Lem­ uel, and a dreadful tanart piece. She was good lookin' and she had property, but she was dreadful smart and up an' comin'. I could never see how Lem­ uel ever got the courage to ask her to have him, he was always a kind ol mild spoken little fellow. Reuben he declared he didn't. He vowed that Mehltable asked him herself. He said he knew it for a fact, and he said it with the tears rollln' down his cheeke. Reuben was the oldest and he'd al­ ways been terrible fond of Lemuel, "That poor boy would never have got in such a fix if that woman hadn't up an' asked him, an' he didn't have spunk enough to say no," said Reuben, and he swallowed hard. Mehitable had a nice house of her own that her father left her, all fur­ nished and everything, so^vf course Lemuel he went to live with her, and Mehitable's house was pretty near where I lived, so I could see every, thing that was goin' on. It wa'n't very long before I said to Hannah Morse, my husband's old maid sister that lives with us and teaches school, that I believed Lemuel was henpecked, though I hadn't anythln' against Me­ hitable. "I don't see what else anybody that married Mehitable Pierce would ex­ pect," said Hannah. She spoka real sharp for her. I've always kind of wondered if Hannah would have had Lemuel if he'd asked her. "Well," said I, "I hope poor Lemuel will be happy. He's always been such a good, mild, willln' boy that it does seem a pity for him to be rode over rough-shop, and have all the will he ever did have trodden into the dust." "Well, that is what will happen, or I'll miss my guese," said Hannah Morse. For a long while I thought she was right. It was really pitiful to see Lemuel. He didn't have no more lib­ erty nor will of his own than a five, year-old boy, and not so much. Mehiu able wouldn't let him do this and that, and if there was anythln' he wanted to do, she was set against it, and he'd al­ ways give right in, Many's the time Lemuel has run over to my houee, and his wife come racln' to the fence and screamed after him to come home, and he'd start up as scared as he could be. And many's the time I've been in there, and he started to go out, and she'd tell him to set down, and he's set without a murmur. Mehitable she bought all his clothes, an' she favored long-tailed coats, and he bein' such a short man never looked well in 'em, and she wouldn't let him have store shirts and collars, but made them herself, and she didn't have very good patterns, she used her father's old ones, and he wasn't no such built man as Lemuel, and I know he suffered everything, both in his pride an' his feelln'e. Lemuel began to look real downtrod. He didn't seem like half such a man as he did, and the queerest thing about it was: Mehlt­ able didn't 'pear to like the work of her own hands, so to speak. One day she talked to me about it. "I dunno what 'tis," said she, "but Lemuel he don't seem to have no go ahead and no ambition ahd no will of his own. He tries to please me, hut It don't seem as if he had grit enough even for that. Sometimes 1 think h ain't well, but I dunno what alls him I've been real careful of him. He'd worn thick flannels, and he's had wholesome victuals; I ain't never let him have pie." "Lemuel waa always dreadful fond of pie," said I. I felt kind of sorry, for I remembered bow foud poor Lemuel *•<> always been of moth what good ones lie used to make him­ self. "I know it," said Mehltable. "He wanted to make some himself, when we were first married, but I vetoed that. I wasn't goin' to have a man messin' round makin' pies, and I wasn't goin' to have him eatin' of 'em after they were made. Pies ain't good for him. But I declare I dunno what does make him act BO kind of spiritless. I told him today I thought he'd better make a resolution for the New Year and stick to it, and see if it wouldn't put some spunk into him." Pretty soon she went home. I could see ehe was real kind of troubled. She always did think a good deal of Lem­ uel in spite of everything. The next day was New Year's, and in the afternoon Mehitable came in again. She didn't have her sewin' as she generally did, she was a very in­ dustrious woman. She Jest sat down and begun twisting the fringe of her shawl as if she was real nervoue. Her face was puckered up, too. "I dunno what to make of Lemuel," said she, finally. "Why, what's the matter?" said I, kind of scared. "He says he's made a resolution for the New Year," said she, "and that he's goin' to keep it." "Well, what is it?" said I. "I dunno," eaid she. "Well, if it's a good one, you dont care, do you?" said I, "and it couldn't be anythin' but a good one if my broth­ er made it." "I dunno what it is," said she.-" "Won't he tell?" "No, he yon't. I can't get a wcrd out of him about it. He don't act like himself." Well, I must say I never saw such a change as come over Mehitable and Lemuel after that He wouldn't tell what his resolution was, and «he couldn't make him, though she almost went down on her knees. It began to seem as if she was fairly changln' characters with Lemuel, though she had a spell of bein' herself more'n ever at first, tryin' to force him to tell what that resolution was. Then she give that up, and she never asked him where he was goin*, an' he could come in my house an' sit jest as long as he wanted to, and she bought him a short-tailed coat and eome store col< lars and shirts, and he looked like an- other man. He got to stayin' down to the store nights, an' talkin' politics 0 t v m Of . f i Mci-i CLASS All at'-* followim lnaertiou More Ui and 3 (h - JOHN IV dress Ivi 17HJK SAW Weight] writt; 11. K. 29 4t* |^5K SAL! west sic bridge. Iii<j| Uenry. FUS, hALI Main stij or write All STENOKUat tiUMt SA I,i ll r line en] Will be sold | able pri< .ioliusbumh.l n*OH SA Lkl *• 1-1 lu ll. l| III) 8-locli d Inquir Bench, STAT] MCIUM ID tli State c Mehitable 8he Bought All His Clothes, I with the other men Feal loud. I heard him myself one night, and I couldn't believe it was Lemuel Well, Lemuel he never gave in, and he never told till the next New Year's day, when he'd said be would. He'd said all along that he'd tell her then. I'd got most as curious as Mehitable myself by that time, and New Year'B mornin' I run over real early--they waen't through breakfast I knew the minute I saw them that he hadn't told, He said he wouldn't till he was through his breakfast. He was most through--was finishing up with a big piece of mince pie, and he'd made it himself, too. When he'd swallowed the last mouthful, he looked up and hs laughed, real pleasant and sweet, and yet with more manliness than I'd ever seen in him. "S'pose you want to know what that New Year's resolution was?" said Lem­ uel. "I guess I can stand It a while long­ er," said Mehltable. Now the time had come she didn't want to act too eager, but I showed out jest what I felt. "For the land sake, Lemuel Babbit, what was it?" said I. Lemuel he laughed again. "Well, It wasn't much of anythln'," he said, in his gentle drawlin' way. *i didn't make no resolu- tlon, really." "What, Lemuel B a b b i t ! " c r i e d Mehitable. "No," said he; "I couldn't think of none to make, so I made a res­ olution not to tell that I hadn't made any." is spen guest II town. day wit ation Cluc:t Mrs. keepei Crv»t a a gut The uuki White, tier visees of .1; line A.. Hlodul Hurley: or devis the uuki kojjerS. viseos of| knowu son, <ie Mary A, the uii|,.ii< ardson. « visees et unknown of the Si quarter i iRunidfi!' Kegluniii< said Sum! tor and n tlon line parallel oast qu,? (SO) rods West al<> to the quarter South eit ninK. cm land, lie> of the >,< twenty- ii v| of land.i forty-ii '• (7) Kast > contain; more or County Notifi title of t' a suit, wi that prc< sued to i to the >-:• i' City of V , State of f I I January. .\ n test iin my hanii a my offlct ii b e r , A . I ' ! jcJrcuii ^ NOTIC1 < WAL I ( Notu ested th ajfe pur lyinn wit is District \i and M treasui offlct Illinois. 1914. and i era! tract nient rt to law M and cost You a sessmeut com per ber until i Mstrlcti and M a B i-afc.