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THE M'HENRY HIUNBEALER PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY F. G. SCHREINER Office in Bank Build ins Telephone «-W TERMS OF SUBSGlUPTIONi OH Year ....Ilii (it Months, 75c Three Months, «c Thursday, August 6,1914 ADDITIONAL PERSONALS Jack feehlke spent a few days last week in Elgin. Bob Sch&efer was a Round Lake vis­ itor last Sunday. Mrs. J. W. Aebisoher was the guest of Chicago relatives Sunday. F. O. Gans and son, Frankie, were Chicago visitors Wednesday. Misses Martha Wagner and Emma Worts were Volo visitors Sunday. William Smith transacted business matters in the windy city Wednesday. Miss Julia Williams of Woodstock was a Sunday guest of McHenry friends. Miss Pearl Claxton spent the latter part of last week with DeKalb friends. Miss Isabel Niesen has returned from a month's visit with relatives at Beloit, Wis. George Jones spent Sunday as the guest of relatives at North Crystal Lake. Miss Myrtle Cobb of Chicago is spend­ ing a month with L. P. Newman* and family.. Miss Norma Matthewson of DeKalb spent last week at the home of J. F. Claxton. Miss Mabel Eisenmenger is spend­ ing a few days as the guest of Chicago relatives. Miss Mabelle Wheeler spent Sunday as the guest of friends at Lake Gen­ eva, Wis. George Chesnut of Marengo was the guest of McHenry friends thre first of the week. • ;* '1: Ray Corr and James Gannon spent Sunday as the guests of relatives at Woodstock. Miss Amelia Broecks of Buffalo, N. Y., is the guest of Misses Anna and Irene Frisby. Miss Caroline Worts of Hebron is spending the week as the guest of Mc­ Henry relatives. Walter Grantham of ^hicago'spent Sunday as the guest'of McHenry rela­ tives and friends. Frances May Petersen is spending two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Will Sat- tera at Slocum'sLake. f * Mr. and iMrs Clayton Harding and sop, James, of Woodstock were visitors in town last Saturday. Miss Kathryn Keunebeek of Wood* stock spent Saturday and Sunday as the guest o£ relatives here. Edna Carpenter of Beloit, Wis., is a guest in the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Niesen. Mrs. James Murray of Wauconda spent a couple of days last week as the guest of McHenry relatives. Rev. A. Royer, who is receiving treatment in Chicago, spent Friday last at St. Mary's parsonage. Mrs.'Walter Wiberg and sister, Miss Blanche Read, of Chicago are guests this week of Miss Lucile Byrd. Miss Arlette Hanly of Peoria is a guest in the home of he rgrandparents, Mr. and Mrs. James B. Perry, -t" Miss Christina Pint Of Ohie&go spent Sunday as a guest in the home her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Pii4.' Miss J. A. Story of Los'Angelgs^ Cal., is the guest of her aunt, J&rs. Sherburne, for an indefinite J4ga£. Miss Alice Waite passed last week as a guest in the home of her brother, J. E. Waite, at Lake Geneva, Wis. Fred Mershon returned to this vil­ lage last Friday from a few days' visit with relatives at Kalamazoo, Mich. Fred Schnorr, Jr., of Council Bluffs, la., passed part of last week as a guest in the home of his father, Fred Schnorr, Sr. Mrs. C. H. Fegers and daughter, Gretchen, of Keokuk, la., are visiting among relatives in McHenry and vicin­ ity. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Wormley of Chi­ cago were guests ip the home of Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Winkel the first of the week. Miss Nellie Biggie has returned to her home in. Chicago, after a week's visit among McHenry relatives and friends! 1 , Mrs. Geo. Bohr spent a few days the latter part of last and the fore part of this week as the guest of Chicago friends. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Simbn of Crystal Lake were Sunday guests in the home of the former'6 parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Simon. Mr. and Mrs. Math. StefTes and fam­ ily and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Weingart spent Saturday and Sunday with Lib­ erty ville relatives. Miss Bess Peterson and brother, Joe, of Estherville, la., are here for a few weeks' visit with relatives and friends in McHenry aiid vicinity. M rs. Lou Seger and son returned to their home at Kenosha, Wis., Wednes­ day evening after a month's stay among relatives in McHenry and vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Barker and daughter, Glenys, of Crystal Lake spent Sunday as guests in the home of her parents, Mr., and Mrs. P. J. Freund. Mr and Mrs Peter Wirfs and daugh­ ter of Crystal Lake spent Sunday and Monday as guests in the home of the former's mother, Mrs. Casper Wirfs. Mrs. M. E. Whedon and daughter, Louise, of Ft. Smith, Ark., have been recent guests of the former's mother and sister, Mrs. S. Sherbjrne and Miss Anna. , Misses Frances Welch and Inez Ba­ con, have returned home from a six weeks' stay at DeKalb, where they took a aummercourse in the state nor­ mal school.1 Mis. F. Potratz and daughters, Elsa and Alice, of Chicago spent the latter part of last week as guests in the home of the former's sister, Mrs. L. H. Eisenmenger. Sailor Boy Adolph Tietz spent a couple of days last week with his par­ ents. . The boat he is on visited Chica- g».at the time, which gave him an op­ portunity to take a run out home. Mrs. L. F.Newman, Ella and Bernie, Mrs. Gerald Newman, Mrs. Lewis Mc­ Donald .and son, Ford,' of Woodstock, Miss Myrtle Cobb of Chicago, Mrs. Theo. Winkel and Mrs. Geo. Bohr went to Wilinot. on the Gladene Wed­ nesday. QUARTER OF A CENTURY ITNES CLIPPED FKOH PLAINDEALEK OP TWENTY-FIVE YEAKS AGO Mrs. Isaac Went worth, and her two daughters, Mary and- Heuie, started today for a month's visit with friends in New York state. V. Married, at Lake Geneva, Wi$.,.Jupe '26, 1889, by F. A. Buckbee, Esq.yMi;.. : ~tK. Millard D. StoMarjT and Miss Kittle B. Lincoln, both of McHenry. Henry Althoff, of the firm of Althoff Bros., has been wrestling with cholera morbus for the past few days. From appearances Henry got worsted. The steamer "Mary Griswold" made hep first excursion of the season from this place to the lakes on Sunday last. She was chartered by a party from Woodstock. The Good Templars of McHenfy wtU have an ice cream festival on Wednes­ day evening, July 24. - If the weather is faTorable it will be held in the pub­ lic sqiiare, and if not in the city hall. George Owen's team took a lively turn thru our streets on Monday morn­ ing. They were standing' in front of his residence, hitched to the agricul­ tural wagon, when they started out on their own hook in a lively manner. John Blake's buggy got in their way and as a result was badly demoralized. No other damage of consequence. JULY 31, 1889 The United States fish commissioner was here on Saturday and put 25,000 young catfish into Pistakee bay. One of W. A. Cristy's team of bron­ chos broke its leg while being in the blacksmith shop one day last week and they were obliged to kill it. During the storm of Saturday night Jerry Sherman, who lives west of this village, had three horses killed by lightning and Thos. Phalen, so'ith of this village, had a cow killed. It was the severest storm of the season. The railroad^company is making ex­ tensive improvements in and around the depot in this village. They are painting the depot inside and out, put­ ting on a new roof, fixing the platform and making other needed repairs, which when completed will make It one of the neatest % depots on the line of the road. The Legal Adviser sayst "Clarence A. Knight, formerly Asst. corporation counsel, and Paul Brown, master in chancery of the circuit court of Cook county, have formed a co-partnership for the general practice of law in the courts'of this city under the firm name of Knight & Brown. Both members of this firm are prominent at the Chi­ cago bar and are held in high esteem by the members of the profession. The ot&ces of the new law firm ate located in the~United States Express building, where they will be pleased to see all their old friends and clients." One of the severest thunder storms knowci fojp years visited this section on Saturday evening. The rain cSme down in torrents and those who were so* unfortunate as to be caught out thought for a time that another JonhS- town disaster was upon them. North and west of here the storm was even more severe; being accompanied by hail that did great damage, in many plages ruining eorn and small grain, broking $}oidows, etc. From Spring Grove cotp&s,-reports of hail stones be­ ing picked^jfli. that measured eight inches/ig-ptrcumference, while at Heb­ ron thjfey' -are' reported as large as eleven inches. The amount of damage it is hard to estimate, but it must have been immense. The damage by light­ ning was also considerable, several horseB and cows being killed and wlnd- millB demolished in this vicinity. It was such a- storm as few care to see often. There's complexion protection^in our cold cream. It preserves good com­ plexions and improves poor ones. 25c at Petesch'a.