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'it:" " '•i-'^ ,"4K* >•-.- >*;<A *:!&•, '-**F' VOI1TME XT.T MoHEXRY, ILTjTNOTS, THURSDAY. MARCH ltt. I91<> HIGHS BUMP' WAUCONDA WEEKLY umm ITEMS FORM PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION VILLAGE PRIMARY HELD u\\ > WEEKLY PERSONAL ITERS •COMERR AND GOERS OF A WEFJK IN OUR BUSY VILLAGE An Sf*i» By Plaindealer Reporters and Handed Into Our Office By Our Friends Mrs. Theo. Schiessle was a Chicago visitor Monday. Mrs. Sarah Dermont passed Mon­ day in Chicago. F. A. Beller spent Saturday last in the metropolitan city. J. W. Smith was a business visitor ill Chicago Wednesday. F. O. Gans attended to business matters in Chicago Monday. * Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Walsh were .Chicago visitors last FYiday. E. S. Brink was a business visitor in the Typewriter city Monday. J. C. Bickler boarded the Chicago train last Thursday afternoon. ^Ed. L. Hayes was a business vis­ itor at the county seat Monday. Local Five Have Easy Time Defeat­ ing Waueonda The basket ball fans of Waucpnda and vicinity were given the privilege of looking over a real basket ball team on Friday evening'of last week, when the McHenry high school team made a trip to the hustling Lake county town to take on a team composed of town and high school players. McHenry was in splendid shape for the game, but the work of the boys could not be c/iassed as their very best as the one-sidedness of the set- to sort of slowed them up after the first few minutes of play. However, the locals showed their opponents a few tricks about the game that they must learn to master before they will be able to take on a regular team. The first round ended 44 to 11 in favor of McHenry. During the sec- j-ond half, with two subs and F. Bons- I lett in the line-up, our side did not . Howard Wattles left Monday on a J show up as well, altho they succeeded business trip to St. Paul, Minn. J in adding 30 more points, which gave Mr. and MtsT C. L. Page boarded us a total of 74. Waueonda played the Chicago train Monday morning. I a better ball during the second half, Mrs. Everett Hunter passed Friday j adding 14 points to'their end of the of last week in the metropolitan city, i score, which gave them a total of 25 TOWN CAUCUS SATURDAY AS tAKEN FROM THE COLUMNS OF OlIR EXCHANGES McHenry Dairymen Get Together Here Wednesday Miscellaneous Assortment of News Items In Condensed Form For Btjsy People Mrs. W. Peatt of Greenwood spent Sunday as the guest of McHenry rela­ tives. Margaret and Richard Overton were week end guests of relatives at Solon Mills. Misses Ethel Owen and Birdie M. Small were Chicago visitors last Sat­ urday. Miss 'Gertrude Frett passed the week end as the guest of relatives in Chicago. Mrs. C. E. Gaylord attended to bus­ iness matters aj; the county seat last Saturday. Miss Alice Waite passed Saturday arrtf Sunday as the guest of relatives at Elgin. Ben Stilling attended* to business matters in the metropolitan city last Saturday. A. J. Winteringham of Dundee spent Sunday as the guest of McHen­ ry friends. tyr. and Mrs. Henry Block of Cary passed Sunday as the guests of rela­ tives here. Henry Gaylord passed several days last week as the guest of relatives at Delavan, Wis. Atty. A. H. Pouse attended to mat­ ters of a legal nature at • the county seat Monday. C. Unti attended to matters of a business nature in the metropolitan city last Friday. Everett Ffunter, Jr., was among those to board ttie Chicago train last Saturday morning. Vernon Lockwood of Woodstock spent Sunday as a guest jn the home \ of James T. Perkins. Mrs. Chas. P. Wright and daughter were among the' Chicago passengers last Friday evening. J. M. Phalin and daughter, Eleanor, were among the Chicago passengers last Saturday morning. Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Overton saw "Ex­ perience" at the Garrick theatre in Chicago Monday evening. Elmer Meister of Chicago was a guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Landwer last Sunday. Theo. L. Grot of Ottawa, 111., atr tended to business matters here a couple of days last week. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Fay and chil­ dren of Solon Mills were guests of relatives in town Sunday. Mrs. Wm. Cowen is spending the week as the guest of relatives and friends at Solon and Richmond. F. J. Barbian attended to business matters at Waukegan and other lake shore towns the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Steilen and son, Charles, of Chicago are guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Heimer. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Johnson and daughter, Marguerite, spent the first of the week as the guests of relatives at Crystal Lake. John Feltz gave up his position at the Oliver typewriter factory at Woodstock last week and has gone to Detroit in search of employment. Mr. ar\d Mrs. Geo. B. Freund and children of Woodstock were Sunday guests ill the home of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs.. Peter J, Freund. , Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Justen and children left the first of the week for their home at Juanita, N. D.» after spending a few weeks as the guests of relatives in and around McHenry. Henry Wagner left for the West last Saturday and after a couple of weeks' visit among relatives will as­ sist Stephen H. Justen on his farnj pt Juanita, N. D. Walter Warner, Guy Bacon, Geo. J. Schreiner, Albert Freund, John W. Fay, Geo. Steinsdoerfer, Lewis Stof- fel and Nick Freund were over from Woodstock last Sunday. Thos. $#i!iey and Qttp Rack, of the .Rovers Bepevolept association of f>hi- ffUfo, y/ftre in Jown last Saturday and While here rented the Jos. Miller Pot- ta«e at Pistakes Bay for th$ se&sop. They also found t»fne to eg II on their old chef, Thos. Bender, wha is follow.- ing his vocation in the buffet of Q. E. Schoel, McHenry could have run the score to a hundred had they so desired, but the boys were satisfied with their showing after the first half had boen played thus giving the two promising subs a chance to show what they were made of. The line-ups and scores follow: Waueonda (25j McHenry (74) Alverson Bangs Kirwan Tiffany Grantham R. F. L. F. C. L. G. R. G. E. Bonslett Bacon Miller Richardson Justen Subs--F. Bonslett, Bd^le, Voeltz. Field throws: Alverson, 5; Tiffany, 5; E. Bonslett, 9; Bacon, 6; Miller, 11; Richardson, 5; Justen, 1; Voeltz, 1; F. Bonslett, 2. Free throws: Alverson, 4; Tiffany, 1; E. Bonslett, 4. MARTIN WALLACE DEAD Dropped Dead In Chicago Hotel Last Sunday Martin Wallace, who during the past several years has beeti employed as a farm hand/on various farms in the immediate vicintty of McHenry, was found dead on the floor of his room at the States hotel, 555 S. State street, Chicago, last Sunday morning, The dairymen of this locality got together at a meeting held at Wood­ man hall at ten o'clock yesterday morning and started the ball a-rolling The estimated cost of Grayslake's for the organization of a Dairymen's proposed sewer system is $25,016.00 Protective association. Sixteen thousand burial permits The objects of the association will have been granted at Elgin since Jan. [be as follows: 1865- » *?o protect its members at the time The Woman's Thursday club <^f Bar- of a quarantine of their families or rington celebrated its twenty-second dairies. ' anniversary on Thursday evening last. f0 provide legal assistance when A night shift is now employed at necessary. 4 the Star company branch of the Illi- To prevent discrimination or unrea- nois Iron and Bolt factory at Carpen- sonable inspect&n by milk inspectors, tersville. To protect its members from having Manor Brothers, the music dealers milk refused at bottling plants with- of Hebron, have decided to close out]out good cause. their big stock and embark in busi- To reimburse as far as possible ness in another town*. Iwhen, on account of quarantine or any Owing to the fact that the petition I just cause, they cannot dispose of was found to be invalid the saloon their milk. luestion will not be voted upon at To get the dairymen and business Waueonda this spring. and professional men of McHenry in The Waite Tractor company, manu- closer touch with one another, facturers of farm tractors, is a new | The meeting was called to order by A LIVELY TIME IS ANTICIPATED BY CONTESTANTS Contests On For Collector, Constable apd Road Commissioner--Big Vote Predicted Women Vote More Intelligently Than the Men industry just secured by Elgin. The company will begin operations at once. Supervisors of McHenry county have voted down the proposition al lowing the people of the county to vote on the bond issue for good roads. Walter J. Walsh, president of the local branch of the Milk Producers' association, who explained the object f the meeting, after which work on organization was started. Officers vere elected as follows: Chas. W. Gibbs, president; Wm. J. Welch, vice president; C. L. I*age, secretary; John Hertel of Fremont, Lake coun- j Peter \t.*"I&reund, treasurer; W. E. ty, who was struck by a train at Area on the morning of March 1, passed away at the Jane McAllister hospital at Waukegan' last week. The prosperous little village of Lake Zurich is to have a bank. It is to be a state institution And will be owned by the people of that place. The new institution will have a capitalization of $25,000.00. The Fox River band at Dundee has Whiting ami John Claxton, directors Tor one year; (A*o. W. Colby and F. il. Wattles, directors for two years; Math. Blake and Johh M. Phalin, di­ rectors for three years. The dairymen of this locality were very well represented at the meeting, Jiirty of those present signifying their willingness to join the new as- ociation, and judging from the spirit shown at th# meeting it will not be resumed regular rehearsals in prepar- ,onff t^tore every dairyman in this ation for the season of 1916. Thisi| vjcfn|ty will join the new organiza- is one of the oldest musical organize- tion The membership fee will be tions of this section and has a mem- j^OO, while every dairyman member bership of sixteen. will pay in an additional 25 cents for A report from Hebron is to the ef- each cow owned by him. It is also feet that the L. E. Meyers company understood that this assessment of 25 of Chicago has purchased the gasoline |cents per cow may be paid in at once gas plant in that village and thatL,. jn installments, just as the dairy- Hebron will be electrically lighted be- men see fit fore many months have passed. | These protective associations are being formed among farmers and bus­ iness men all over this great dair; While feeding stock at the Rich­ mond stock'yards one day last week, Homer Hastings of that village was| district and it will be only a matter attacked by a bull. George Boutelle, of time before are formed into Hutii uain» m.i ^ i u an eye w'tness to the attack, drove |one gig.antj0 federation. Over at He his death being caused by heart the maddened animal off with The annual town caucus for the town of McHenry will be held at the village hall here next Saturday after­ noon, March 18. The polls will be open from 1:00 p. m. to 5:00 5. m., and with favorable weather conditions a big vote should be cast. Five offices become vacant this spring, viz., town clerk, assessor, col­ lector, commissioner of highways and constable to fill vacancy. Chas. B. Harmsen, who is now serv­ ing in the capacity of town clerk, has again announced his candidacy * for the same office and is asking the sup port of the voters. Up to the time of going to press he is without opposi­ tion. For the office of assessor, the pres­ ent incumbent, John W. Kimball, who has held the position for a number of terms, again seeks renomination and re-election. He is aly without oppo­ sition. John Niesen and Mathias Miller are the aspirants for the office of col­ lector. The former, who has h&d the office for several terms, is again out to win the nomination, whil£ Mr. Miller is also doing a lot of hard work among the voters of the town. Both of these men have many friends in the town and the old war horses here are predicting a close ^nd interesting fight. For the ofiice of constable, in the Rifcgwoot! precinct, Louis Schroder W. H. KeJley hai'.e made their candi­ dacies known. The office has become vacant by the resignation of Chas. Stephenson, the present holder of same. As previously stated, the candidates who haye- opposition are all out to failure. As near'as can be ascertained, Mr Wallace left McHenry about two weeks ago and the news of his death came as a general surprise to Mc Henry people, few of whom were even aware of the fact that he had left the village. The deceased had no known relatives in this country and as near as can be ascertained he was about* 55 years of age and unmarried. He was born at Cumberland Road, Belfast, Ireland and came to this countr^ when twen ty-one years of age. He came to Mc Henry about seven years ago, during which time he has been employed as a farm hand . Since coming to McHenry he told intimate friends that he came from quite a prominent as well as wealthy family and it is a known fact that he had received a monthly allowance from Ireland ever since he came to McHenry. He comes from a family of eleven children. One sister made a trip to this country about two years ago, at which time she visited the deceased. She remained in this country only a short time. Ojy|tsid6 of these meagre facts little is known about his past. A telegram announcing the death of Mr. Wallace was received here last Sunday forenoon and in response t6 same Mayor Wells sept a cablegram to relatives of the deceased in Ire­ land. A reply to the cablegram was received yesterday, which gave in­ structions to have the deceased's body brought to McHenry for burial. Fol­ lowing these instructions Undertaker Jacob Justen went to Chicago Tuesday evening to take charge of the body. The funeral took place this morning with ipterment in Woodland ceipetery. 0. p. s. Card Party The members of McHenry chapter, O. E. S-» And invited friends enjoyed a card party in their h$ll on Tuesday evening of this week, Pleven tables were arranged for progressive cinch and one for dominoes. Honors at cards went to Mrs. R. G. Chamberlin and Ray Page, while Mrs. \Vra- Bacon won the highest nunjber of games of dominoes. At the cjose of playing Mesdames W^ay and Mershon sang solos and Mr. J. Mershon gave two piano selections- Painty refresh­ ments were then served, which closed the enjoyable evening. Social Wheej The §Qcia| ^Vhejl *vil| fpeet the home of tyrs. Anqa Byrd on Saturday afternoon of this week, M^rch 18. In honor of J5t. Patrick's dgy each member js requested j!b be prepared to tell an Irish joke or story, Imported pure olive oil at C. Unti's. fork, thus .saving Mr. Hastings from serious injury if not death. E. E. Greenley, an employee at the Oliver typewriter factory at Wood­ stock, is the first man to add the twenty-year service bar, having com pleted twenty years of faithful ser­ vice with that company. Mr. Green- ley came to Woodstock from Epworth, la., the birthplace of the Olivers, with Rev. Thomas Oliver, the inventor. a pitch-1 foron a jj^e organization was formed a short time ago. Most of the dairy men as well as nearly all of the busi ness and professional men of the vil lage are members. Not only are the business and professional men of that village lending their financial assis tance, but they are at the same time working in the, interest of the dairy farmer of that locality. Last week the dairymen of Crystal Lake got together and perfected an Miss Evelyn* Mezler of Harvard was organization. A committee, which has the victim of a peculiar accident one | ̂een greeted for the purpose, will can vass the village of McHenry for the purpose of getting the business "and professional men here to joi nthe new organization, and we feel safe in stating that very few will turn the project down, as we need the farmer night recently. Miss Mezler was draw­ ing a celluloid comb thru her hair when the comb suddenly burst into flames. The hair on the back of her head was burned and the flannel dress­ ing gown she was wearing took fire. In her attempt to extinguish the ^'"ejand the farmer needs us, so why not Miss Mefcler.. suffered a severely burned arm and hand. Harvard Herald: L. B. Klugh of Woodstock, well known here as agent for the Kimball Piano company, in- work together for the common good of all? Another meeting will be held at the Woodman hall at ten o'clock next Sat­ urday morning for the purpose of per vested in a restaurant at Elgin several fating the local organization and tak months ago, purchasing it at a low figure, owing to the financial troubles of its owner. Mr. Klugh picked the place up as an investment and let it go when he secured a nice advance on the price he paid for it. If tht deal had gone thru all right he would have netted close to $1,000, but^ unfortun­ ately, W. G. Sinclair, the man he sold to, was able, to pay only $50 down. After running the restaurant a week, paying n° bills and hanging onto all the money that came in, Sin­ clair departed with over $300. Mr. Klugh has taken the restaurant back and is looking for a purchaser who is ready to pay more than $50 down. Woodstock Sentinel: William Stull, principal in the famous"Stull forgery case brought to a close by his acquit­ tal in the McHenry county circuit court a few weeks ago, is involved in law suit in which tax collectors of the county will attempt to collect from him t&xes for 1912, 1913 and 1914. An attempt is being made to assess him for an additional $30,000 sgi({ to have been the sup) deposited in the Stull bank in Omaha to oe used in making payment on the Stull farm, on which he is now living, in Marengo township. Attorenys Barnes A Barnes, repre­ senting Mr. Stull, have filed a bill for injunctiop, restraining "Fred J. Tan­ ner, tax collector for.-Marengo town­ ship, and Lynn Richards, county treas­ urer, from collecting Qfl the $30,p0Q, op fhe ground that adch tax­ ation is illegal. They will seek to show that Mr. Stull is not lawfully as­ sessed op the sum of $30,Q0Q, which the board pf review daln^s he had on hand in the years of 191& 1913 and 1914 apd fruM to B<*hed\*le with the t)ssessorr ng up matters pertaining to the local milk situation. Every dairyman of McHenry should be present at this meeting. ADDITIONAL PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. M. L. LaVelle were Chicago visitors Tuesday. M. L. Worts was a business visitor in Chicago Tuesday. F. H. Wattles was a business vis­ itor in Chicago Tuesday. Everett Hunter attended to business matters in Chicago Tuesday. Miss Eleanor Phalin called on friends at Crystal Lake last Sunday. Wm. Smith attended to matters of a business nature ir» Chicago Tuesday. Miss Esther Stoffel was among the Chicago passengers last Friday morn­ ing. Theo. Schiessle attended to matters of a business nature in Chicago Tues^ day. E. V. McAllister was a business vis itor in the metropolitan city Wednes day. Mrs. Edwin Jencks of Elgin spent Saturday and {Sunday at the Claxton home. Miss Gladys Mason passed Monday as the guest of her sister, Irene, at Elgin. Mrs. F. 4- Afthlafyder w#s a busi­ ness visitpr iri th$ metropolitan city Tuesday. John 1^. Ki\ox attended to matters of a business mature in the wipdy city Wednesday. John Puf^hl att^ded to matters of a business nature in the metropolitan city Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Q, A- Hiw.lec Spent Sunday the guests of friends Crystal LaKe- win and with everyone busy it is sure guess that a big vote will be cast As has been the custom in McHenry for a number of years, the names of the candidates and the offices for which they aspire will be printed on one ballot, each candidate paying his proportionate share towards the ex­ pense of having these ballots printed For tTie information of the candidates who have already announced them­ selves for offices and all others who may wish to have their names printed on the caucus ballot,, we will say that the tickets will be printed 'on Friday afternoon of this week so as to have them ready for delivery to the town clerk by Saturday.' Thus it may be seen that Friday noon will be the lat­ est that one may have his name print ed on the ballot. In view of the fact that a number of ballots were thrown out at Tues­ day's primary, it will not be out of place to state at this time that the voters should be very particular in marking his or her ballot. Let it be remembered that it is absolutely nec essary to mark a cross in the square before the candidates' names for whom you wish to vote. In a number of instances last Tuesday the voter wrote in the names of the candidates for whom he wished to vote, but failed to cross the square precec^ing the name. This is not according to law and as a consequence sucK ballots were thrown out. If you desire to write a name on the blank lines of any bal­ lot be sure to cross the square and thus assure yourself that your ballot will not go for naught. Don't forget that the big show takes place next Saturday afternoon. It is your duty to go down and vote. Buys Blooded Poultry Leonard Frett, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Frett of this village, has decided to go into the blooded poultry business. To start with he has pur­ chased four pullets and one cockerel from the prize winnig Barred Rock stock of B. E. Rogers of Woodstock. The cockerel purchased won first ex­ hibition pen prize a,t the poultry show held at Rockford this year and is a son of the prize winning cock which won prizes at all the leading shows in the West, Mr. Rogers refus­ ing an offer of $150 for the bird. Operator Leaves McHenry John Montgomery, who has been the moving picture operator at the Central opera house during the past few years, resigned his position and left this village on Wednesday morn­ ing for Riverside, 111., where he has been made the night telegraph oper­ ator at the C. B. & Q. railway station. During his stay in McHenry Mr. Mont­ gomery made many warm friends, all of whom wish him success in his new field of labor.. St- Day Services The patro^ial feast of St. Patrick's church will be celebrated by high mass at 9 o'clock Friday, March 17. The stations of the cross and benedic­ tion of the blessed sacrament will be he&t in the afternoon at 3:30 instead of in the evening as usual. Marquis wheat on sale at the West Side flour and feed mill. ' 3S-4t The second village primary ever held in the village o£ McHenry has come and gone and judging from the small vote cast the voters of McHenry don't think any more about the new way of holding a village caucus than they did at the time« the law became effective. However, a number of most interest­ ing points were brought out last Tues­ day, the most prominent of which was the fact that the women of McHenry are better qualified for balloting than the men. Of the 115 men who entered the polls at Tuesday's primary forty cast their ballots illegally, while of the thirty-one women who voted only eight had their ballots destroyed. In each and every instance failure on the part of the voter to write in names caused the ballot to be thrown out. In other words, forty-eight bal lots went into the ballot box in the same condition that they were when they were handed to the voter to be voted. Never before have the voters of Mc Henry been called upon to face a like situation. Every one of the three bal­ lots was printed blank. In view of the fact that only one man had pre­ viously announced his candidacy for any of the four village offices to be filled this spring, the voters (up to Tuesday morning, at least) didn't know whether or not to go to the polls. Just to create a little ejfritement a number of their friends got together Monday night and got some tickets printed asking the voters to vote for the three old trustees. Simultaneous­ ly with the issuance of this ticket J. C. Holly came out with a card an­ nouncing his candidacy for the office of village clerk. Before the time ar­ rived for the opening of the polls the news started to circulate about the village that the thre^ old aldermen show insults until after the noon hour, reason the tickets did not' begin to show results until after the noon hour, when voting becaflje a rifle more brisk. Up to the nO'^n hour only twenty-six voters had ^registered. The vote of Tuesday was as -follows: ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST AS PICKED UP BY PLAINDEALER REPORTERS DURING WEEK What People art Doing in This Vil­ lage and the Immediate Vicinity Other Short Paragraphs ^ Butter Market Butter sold at 35 cents per pound on the Elgin board of trade last Sat­ urday. Spring opening of Miss Thelen's millinery, Saturday, April 1. Chi-namel varnish and polish for house cleaning at McAllister's. Spring and summer millinery in great variety at Miss Thelen's milli­ nery store. Souvenirs will be given away at the spring opening of Miss Thelen's mil­ linery, April 1. ' E. V. McAllister expects another lof^ of fancy gold fish this week. See* adv. for prices. * House cleaning necessities--curtain stretchers, vacuum cleaners, etc.--«£. ^ N. J. Justen & Son's. / £ Turn to the classified column ftnri v read the adv. concerning household! . , furniture. It will pay you. Cf* Tomorrow is the 17th of March! Don't forget to do honor to old Patrick by wearing a bit of green. For spring house cleaning rent an electric vacuum cleaner of N. J. Jus- < ten & Son. 25c per hour; 75c per dny. Painting and paper hanging. Let. me give you an estimate. First-clasi work guaranteed. R. I. Turner, West!* McHenry, 111. 39-2tP The W. C. T. U. will meet with '... Mrs. Wilber Bassett next Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock. All mem- 1 • * • bers are requested to be present. Mr- and Mrs. Jacob Steffes are tertaining a young lady at their home - since last Saturday night. In fact,^ she has come to make her permanent-"* home with them. v Total vote cast. Total men vote cast Total women vote cast Invalid ballots, men Invalid ballots, women The Men Vote John Heimer, trustee N. E. Barbian, trustee Wm. J. Schumacher, trustee. J. C. Holly, clerk .146 .115 . 31 . .40 • ̂ .*>! ••A as i <$ .*i#S 'r3M . .65 . .66 . .62 . .60 Wm. G. Schreiner, clerk t...21 The Women Vote John Heimer, trustee 10 N. E. Barbian, trustee 12 Wm. J. Schumacher, trustee 12 J. C. Holly, clerk 13 Wm. G. Schreiner, clerk 10 Ballots Voted Village 144 Popular 2 That there will be at least one fight on at the election, which will take place on Tuesday, April 18, is already assured, as the present incumbent of the office of village clerk, Wm. G. Schreiner, will agajn make the race, and from now until election day the two candidates will be kept busy so­ liciting the support of the voters. Whether or not there will be any opposition ih the aldermanic race re­ mains to be seen. The three men now occupying the chairs were again placed into nomination on Tuesday, which means that they are again in the race (or re-election. However, we have heard other names mentioned in connection with these offices and it would not surprise us to see a real fight on for the city dad jobs. Most of the McHenryites employed at the Oliver typewriter factory at Woodstock are now making the week end trip from snd to that city v|* automobile. Several auto loads of our wrestling tan»i expect to see the O'Brien-Billiter match at .the "Woodstock opera house this evening- All will pull'for "Red" O'Brien to vin. • - Rev. Quigle/ of Elgin gave » «plett>; did Lenten sermon at St. Mary's CatJi-1 olic church last Thursday evening. In .: spite of th4 disagreeable weather large congregation xWas present 4^ hear him. The Basket Ball Saturday and Crystal Lake McHenry high school teams jwill meet for the fi The members of the Co-operative Library will hold a basket social at the Universalist church parlors Sat urday evening, March 25, for «£e pv, pose of raising a fund for the"u chase of new books. All are cordially invited to attend. ' Rep. Edward D. Shurtleff of M^ren-' go has our. thanks for four copies of the Fox river report, issued by the ' rivers and lakes commission. The. re-, port is in book form and is most in- • teresting. It also contains many half tone cuts of scenes along Fox river. Lewis Bishop, the Water street ton-' sorial artist, is one of the happiest men in town these days, all caused, by the arrival of tl* "Stork Special" at his home on Sunday. It's a girl and weighs nine pounds. Needless, to say that Lew is handing out the cigars. One or two of our people, who were passengers on the south bound Chi­ cago train last Wednesday evening, received checks from the C. &. N. W. company in settlement for injuries re­ ceived in the wreck which occurred near the Terra Cotta station that evening1. rst time this season on the local floor next Saturday evAiing. Crystal Lake played in rather hard luck during the , I). A. Granger, rural letter carrier early part of the season, but have mi route 1 from the McHenry office, shown some class in their last few j was showing his friends an 18-pound battles. They are coming to McHen-1 pickerel last Sunday evening which ry with the intention of giving our lads their hardest struggle of the sea­ son and the fans may rest assured of seeing some game on this occasion. A big crowd should turn out, as the boys need ail the assistance that you can possibly give them. St. Patrick's Day The reputation of the Honorable James Donahue of Chicago, who is to give the address at the St Patrick's day celebration for the Knights of Co­ lumbus of McHenry council, is a guar­ antee of excellence and, together with the rest of the program, is ex­ pected to furnish an evening of en­ joyment for those fortunate enough to l>e present. Stoffel's hall has been procured for the evening and, owing to the considerable expense involved in arranging the program, an admis­ sion charge of fifty cents has been decided on. Children will be admitted free. Bring a pail for your gold fish at McAllister's March 17. A10 dozen pieces of enameled ware ft Bohlander's March 17 and 18. he landed at Mudgett's lake, east of McHenry, during the day. Mr. Grang­ er is an expert fisherman and it is said of him that he can go out almost any time and bring home a mess of fish. The McHenry high school basket ball team journeyed over to the coun­ ty se*t last Monday evening, where they saw the Woodstock highs trim up Huntley 11 to 4. These tw& teams have now won a game each and those who saw the contest ajt^ear to be of the opinion that Huntley will find it­ self out of the championship running if the teams meet foe the decidjaf battle. Ray L. Conway, who has been em­ ployed with the Western United Gas & Electric company in McHenry ever since the mains were put in. informs' us that he may be transferred to Crys­ tal Lake some time in the near future. Ray h&s proven himself a faithful employe and, while the people of Me- Henry would be sorry to lose him and his estimable wife, thev' are pleased to know that the change, if made, will al­ so mean a promotion for Mr. Conway, SSB * !3 ;< "-/•S