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i?w; "S0nisi#^^v-'74R^tw ki "•• * : A *&*•*" ,* :< v, • \-f<? n *;^'7 *„ -v . 11r » vrC . i * * >' \f * ^ ^ * ' » • > I. -"• •<' •v*': TOE tfcHEJTOT PI-AINDEATjER, McnRJJST, III* /•£;. •;>.. •>*' IB; & M«s. sfe^- w." SS-*. fe»- f -|y: • c:mt-;' # - - ' v rr / • &;fv . '•• • IflP #:*«-?• fear -M« Hi* Dr.Price's e-" RAKIWG POWDER Sixty Years the Standard No Alum--NG Pltospfaate THE M'HENRY PLAINDEALER PUBLISHED EVEMY THURSDAY BY F. G. SCHREINER Office la Bank Building Telephone H-W TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: On* Y«v Six Months, 79c $1.5* Three Months, 44c Thursday, March 23, 1916 WATCH YOUR HORSES Big Cow and Bull Parade Is About to Start--Governor to Be There For Village Clerk I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of village clerk and will ap­ preciate the support of the voters at the coming spring election. 38-tf W. G. Schreiner. To the Voters of the Township I herewith wish to thank you for the support you gave me at the town­ ship primaries for tax collector and again beg your support at the elec­ tion April 4, 1916. Mathias Miller. Announcement I wish in this manner to extend nty thanks for the support tendered me at the polls at the village primary and once more ask the voters of the vil­ lage of McHenry for their assistance at the election to be held on Tuesday, April 18. J. C. Holly. To the Voters I wish to state thru the columns of the McHenry Plaindealer that I did not intend to come out in the pri­ maries because there were not any petitions filed for the different offices, but I will come up by petition and would appreciate very much your sup­ port at the village elections April 18, 1916. Thanking you for past favors, I am, Respectfully yours, Wm. G. Schreiner. Auditors' Meeting Notice is hereby given that the Board of Auditors of the Town of Mc­ Henry, County of McHenry, State of Illinois, will meet at the Town Clerk's office in West McHenry on the 28th day of March, A. D. 1916, at the hour of 2 o'clock p. m., to audit any and all bills against said town and to transact such business that may come before the meeting. Bills may. be left with the supervisor or the under­ signed. Dated this 15th day of March) A. D. 1916. Chas. B. Harmsen, Town Clerk. Annual Town Meeting and Election Notice is hereby given to the legal voters, residents of the Town of Mc­ Henry, County of McHenry, Illinois, that the annual Town Meeting, ji^ind Election of officers of said Town will- take place Tuesday, the 4th day of April, proximo, being the first Tues­ day in said month. The election will be held at the following places: First election district, Woodman hall, Ring- wood, 111.; second election district* vil­ lage hall, McHenry, 111. The officers to be elected are: One town clerk, one assessor, one collector, one commis­ sioner of highways and one constable, to fill vacancy. Also to vote on the following propositions: "Shall this Township become Anti-saloon Terri­ tory?" and "For or against" abolish­ ing the P0U Tax (cash system). Polls wUl be open at 7 o'clock a. m. and close at 5 o'clock p. m. of the same day. Given under my hand this 22nd day March, A. D. 1916. ' Chas. B. Harmsen, Town Clerk. OSTEND Mrs. R. H. Richardson is one of the miny afflicted with a severe cold. Mrs. F. R. Eppel -is recovering nice­ ly from an attack of grip. She has no time for many groans. Miss Knox was not able to resume school work last week. Her place was filled by a younger sister. Henry Hobart is numbered with thoae suffering with a severe cold. March winds make sad work. We hear <Jn gvery side this advice: Be aure and go to election and vote. Yes, we will, with health and strength. Mrs. Ida Muffley moved last Satur­ day from the I. E. Mason farm in Cherry Valley to the vacant house on Ed. Wallis' farm. Farmers are very busy now getting up their year's wood. Nearly every /-farmer uses wood during the cold ^months for cooking. F. R. Eppel and wife have been making some long wished for changes in their home, some new floors, some partitions taken out and some put in. Albert I$uchert did the work. Open Letter to Simon Stoffel My Dear Simon Stoffel: In reply to your article in last week's Plaindealer will state that my reason for voting as I did on the res­ olution you introduced is it was your intention to give yourself an opportu­ nity to express and cough up your bitterness and antagonizing and ma- 4 licious feeling. That is the reason why I voted NO and will do so again. I am not a member of any trouble makers' union and am not eligible to ; become a member as I cannot degrade and lower myself so low as to prowl about nights to get our citizens to join r such a bunch. Yours, £ Wm. J. Schumacher. [Editor's note: This article was ordered and paid for by Wm. J, Schu- madMT.] No, this is not a regular circus pa­ rade. Circuses do not circle at this season. This particular parade is the first howitzer of the Illinois state food department in its campaign for the extension of dairy farming. Ten of the finest thorobred Holstein bulls obtainable were presented by the Illinois Central railway for distribu­ tion among the farmers along its line. They will be the features of the parade which is to be held in Carbon- dale on the last day of this month. Business men, bankers and farmers from all over southern Illinois will be on hand. Among the prominent speak­ ers will be Governor Edward F. Dunne of the state of Illinois, Senator Rich- d Barr of Joliet, Senator Kent E. Keller of Ava, 111., Hon. Reed Green of Cairo, 111. Illinois has fewer dairy cows at the present time than it had in 1879. In the.year 1889 there were over 277,000 more dairy cows than there are now. Commissioner W. Scott Matthews de­ cided that something must be done to remedy this. To this end he in­ vited a number of prominent business men, affiliated with the dairy indus­ try, to co-operate with his department in extending this most important in­ dustry. As a result, sufficient funds were promptly raised to carry on the work. It is the intention of the commis­ sioner to interest bankers in loaning money to the farmers for the purchase of dairy cows and to create a senti-f ment among t^em to buy dairy cows. It will educate farmers in modern dairy methods in order to make their purchases more profitable. Experts will be sent into the different com­ munities to instruct them in proper feeding methods, care of cows and give them information which will be valuable to them in marketing their products. *. - . The department .will also assist in organizing, bull associations and do everything else in its power to make dairy farming a bigger and better in­ dustry. The Real Question The real question to be decledd in the pending Wet and Dry contest is not whether men shall stop drinking or drink less. A man who has an ap­ petite for something to drink the day before election will not lose that appe­ tite because a majority happen to vote dry. Here are some of the questions to be decided: Shall the liquor consumed in this community or state pay license, rent, wages and taxes at home or else­ where ? Shall the supply be secured in a lawful way from a licensed dealer or from a bootlegger, a blind tiger or a mail order house? Shall we buy at retail or wholesale ? Prohibition prohibits the collection of revenue, but does not stop drunken­ ness, for it cannot stop drinking. One bottle in the home is a greater menace to temperance than 100 down­ town on a bar. Prohibition prohibits the real estate man from collecting rents, but does not prevent mail order houses from shipping wet goods to former custom­ ers of saloon keepers. If it is a good thing for local busi­ ness men to have people order wet goods from foreign dealers, why would it not be a better thing to have them purchase ALL their merchan­ dise from Montgomery Ward and Sears-Roebuck? People who get the habit of ordering wet goods from foreign dealers will soon learn to buy other things from mail order houses. Every dollar sent out of town, either for wet or dry goods, is lost to your community forever. Vote wet and keep this money at home. ' [Editor's note: This article was ordered and*paid for by the McHenry Liquor Dealers' association.] VOLO Henry Stadtfeld was in McHenry Friday last. Mr. and Mrs. John Benwell spent the past few days in Chicago. C. G. Huson and Marion of Elgin spent Saturday and Sunday at Lee Huson's. The parcel post .gocial held at the M. E. church oh Saturday, March 18, was a success. Miss Bessie Mead of Grayslake spent the past week as a guest in the home of Ray Paddock. The Ladies' Aid society will meet with Miss Ella Moore Thursday aft- ^Vnoon, April 6, to sew. Miss Ella Moore attended the Ladies' Auxiliary meeting at Waucpn- da Thursday of last week. Volo was well represented at the primary election held at Wauconda on Saturday, March 18, also at the spe­ cial election for a township high school on March 20. taining story, will begin in the issue taining story, begins in this issue of The Plaindealer. Start with the open­ ing installment You'll like it. * The Mayor's Answer McHenry, III., March 20, 1916. Editor Plaindealer: While I have no desire to enter into a newspaper controversy with Simon Stoffel, or anyone else, I feel that jus­ tice to certain members of our village board requires an answer to the uiv justifiable attack made upon them in the article that appeared in last week's issue of your paper over the signa> tures of Simon Stoffel • and William Spencer, who are also members of our village board. \ I am advised fey very competent legal authority as follows: 1. That it would be unlawful for our village board to in any way sub­ mit to the voters of our village the question of whether or not the village of McHenry shall proceed to, install a system of sewerage. 2. That the propriety or advisabil­ ity of installing a system of sewerage in our village is by the statute of this state vested solely in our village board of local improvement, of which the said Simon Stoffel is now a mem­ ber. 3. That the question of a new or a changed system of lighting for our village as well as the making or changing of any contract therefor is also by law left entirely to the judg­ ment of the president and board of trustees of our village and that the law does not permit that question to be decided by submitting the same to a vote in our village. The members of our village board, who refused to follow the leadership of Mr. Stoffel and vote to do some­ thing contrary to law, are too well and favorably known in this commu­ nity to need any words of commenda­ tion from me, and they need no jus­ tification at my hands fQr refusing to vote with Mr. Stoffel and Mr. Spencer in favor of a proposition that was con­ trary to t&K laws of our state. Again I repeat that the question of installing a system of sewerage must be decided solely by the board of local improvement of our village and like­ wise the question of changing our lighting system must be determined by the president and board of trustees and each member of the two boards is by law, and his oath of office, in duty bound when the time arrives to decide these questions according to his own best official judgment and not<»seek to shift or escape his of­ ficial duty and responsibility as Mr. Stoffel and Mr. Spencer seem to have tried to do by voting to submit these questions to the voters of our village. In my judgment Mr. Stoffel might as well have asked that the board of trustees vote to submit to the voters all of the numerous questions which the law makes it the duty of the dif­ ferent boards to decide and act upon officially. Since it must be apparent to any fair-minded person'that the members of our village board who voted against Mr. Stoffel's resolutions to do an un­ lawful act, were voting strictly ac­ cording to the law of our state, I sub­ mit to the people of McHenry village that the resolutions and the article of Mr. Stoffel's were both purely asinine on-his part. Very truly yours, D. G. Wells, President Village Board. [Editor's note: This article was ordered and paid for by D. G. Wells, president of the village board.] Barnes May Run Waukegan Daily Sun: Recent re­ ports from McHenry county are to the effect that Attorney Charles P. Barnes of Woodstock may shy his hat into the^ political ring and become a candidate for the Republican nomination for state's attorney of that county. It goes without saying that there is no more important office in the entire judiciary than that of state's attor­ ney and should Mr. Barnes become a candidate and be elected the people of his county will be assured in advance of an honest, fearless, conscientious and efficient administration of that office. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT All advertisement* inserted under this bead at the following rat«>»: Flrelineaor le«», 86 oent* for first Insertion; 1ft eente for -.>ach subsequent insertion. More than Ave lines, 6 cents a line for first Insertion, and .hrents a tine for additlonl insertions. FARMS FOR SALE--Inquire of C. W. Stenger, West McHenry State Bank. 19 FOR SALE--Good driving horse. L. F. Pouse, ,West McHenry, 111. . Phone 638-M-l.* 33-tf FOR SALE--A kitchen cook stove, al­ most new. Mrs. Anton Schneider, McHenry, 111. 39-tf Notice to FOR SALE--House and lot on east side of Fox river. All Conveniences. Inquire of Al. Krause, McHenry, 111. FOR SALE--Twenty choice Barred Rock pullets. Bred from prize win­ ners. L. E. Turner, Solon Mills, 111. FOR SALE--A light milk wagon. Will be sold at a bargain if taken at once. S. J. Deinlein, McHenry^ 111. ,40 FOR SALE--Team of horses. One a mare, 6 years old; the other a horse, 9 years old. Louis Wrede, McHenry, 111. 39-2t* FOR SALE--A 5-passenger 1914 Jackson automobile. In first-class con­ dition. _Dr. D. (J. Wells, McHenry, 111. 40-It* Card of Thanks I wish in this manner to thank the voters of the town of McHenry for the support tendered me at the polls last Saturday. By request of friends I will come up again at the election to be held on Tuesday, April 4, at which time all favors will be appreciated. John Niesen. QUARTER OF A CENTURY Items Clipped From The Plaindealer Of Twenty-Five Years Ago An Easter concert will be given at the M. E. church next Sunday moaning at 10:30. Duck hunting is now in full bloom and hunters are thicker than shad flies in June. Isaac Wentworth has been on the sick list the past week,*but is now able to be around again. Easter party at Heimer's hall on Monday evening next. Music will be furnished by Smith's orchestra. The work on the new bridge is pro­ gressing favorably and the contractor^ expect to have it completed early next week. « August Busholz has opened a cus­ tom tailor shop in the brick building one door east of Dr. Child's office on the West Side. Harry Dunnill shipped over 200 ducks from this station on Tuesday morning. The duck that Harry doesn't get has got to fly high. Wm. Page, who lived southwest of this village, has moved to Chicago and his -farm will be run by his son, Charles, the coming season." Our public school will close on Fri­ day of this week for a two weeks' va­ cation, giving a much needed rest to both teachers and scholars. FOR SALE--Six room stucco house. Barn with 2Vfe acres of land, near vil­ lage limits. L. F. Pouse, West Mc­ Henry, 111. 39-tf FOR SALE--An extra large young wqrk horse, with four of the best legs you ever saw. N. F. Colby, West McHenry, 111. 39-2t* FOR SALE--Good, clean clover seed. Won the prize at last year's McHenry county fair. W. E. Whiting, West McHenry, 111. 40 FOR SALE--A quantity of Dusty Rural potatoes. Will deliver at $1.00 per bushel. E. G. Petersen, Johns- burg, 111. Phone 625-M-l. 38-tf FOR SALE--A limited amount of clover seed, first prize at the grain show. Inquire of C. "L. Page, West McHenry, 111. Phone 620-J-l. 37-tf FOR SALE--Brown horse, 9 years old, weight 1400 pounds. Also 12 li. p. Fail banks-Morse gasoline engine. Frank Veimet, Vaupell farm, east of McHenry, 111. 40-11 LOST--March 17, on the road between Ringwood and the old Allen Colby place, a ladies' handbag, containing money and papers. Return to Plain- dealer office and claim reward. 40 FOR SALE--One wood or coai range, one small heater, coal or wood; ex­ tension table, 14 foot; good single and part of nearly new double harness. Everything in good condition. Mrs. Alice Simpson, McHenry, III. 40 FOR SALE--Furniture, consisting of beds and springs, stands, wash stand, sideboard, chairs, feather beds, new stair carpet, small safe, etc. Goods to be found at the Searles house, occu­ pied by Mr. Caspers, McHenry, 111. 39 FOR SALE--A quantity of early G0- day oats, known as the Kershon vari­ ety. These oats yielded better than 90 bushels to the acre in 1915. Hill- crest Stock farm, W. E. Whiting, Prop., West McHenry, 111. Phone 620-R-l. 36-tf FOR SALE--Holstein and Durham heifers, some with first calf, some have second calf, some coming in soon; also some cows with calves and some springers, at reasonable price... Inquire of Mike Pitzen, Geo. J. Sayer farm, Pistakee Bay. Phone 616-M-l. On account of the storm on Satur­ day evening last, the entertainment to be given by the students of Oak Lawn academy, Ringwood, was postponed and will be held on Thursday evening, April 2. On account of sickness the Easter concert, which was to have been held at the Universalist church on Sunday evening next, has been indefinitely postponed. Card of Thanks I take this means of expressing my thanks for the support tendered me at the polls last Saturday and will ap­ preciate the assistance of the voters at the election to be held on Tuesday, April 4. Wm. B, Tonyan. PROBA TE NJUVS x t [Furnished by McHenry County Abstract Company, Woodstock, Illi­ nois. Office in Arnold Block, east side of public square. Abstracts of title and conveyancing. Money to loan on real estate in sums of five hundred to ten thousand dollars. Time and pay­ ments to suit borrower. Phones 634; 903 and 911.] Real Estate 'Transfers Martin Lay & w to Ben II. Stilling, seVi neV4; pc inlTfi. se cor ,ne lA ne 14 sec 11; s* nwlA sec 12; pt n\k vw M, sec 12, McHenry. .. . .$14000.00 Myron Francisco & w to C. E. gherman, sety/.e^i sw. M sec 21; It 1, Co.* Clk's plat of eVfe neV sec 29; It 2, Co. Clk's jflat nwVi sec 28; It 7, Co. Clk's plat wVa neU sec 2R, in all 117.92 a, McHenjfy 12971.00 Jacob WorVi to Nicholas M. Bowers, V;Ms neVi sec r>, Nundaj^sMs se% se% sec 32, MfcHenrV (ex 1 Vfe a) in ill 98Ms a 8776.00 f Marriage Licenses Irvin Lawrence, 21 Woodstock Nellie Nesbit, 20 Woodstock Duane Hollarbush, 21 Woodstock Almo Irene Tyre, 18... .Spring Green Read The Plaindealer and keep post­ ed on local happenings. stow nraire ror C. F. CLAUSSCN & SONS The Chicago Tribune of Dec. 31, 1915, says one boy at Orchard place cleared $370.00 from one acre last season. CONTRACTS AND SEED AT r. A. Bohlander's WEST McHENRY, ILL. ( H I M N H Grains Stains Varnishes -A GREAT HATCH MADE WITH A- CYPHERS INCUBATOR We are now carrying a full line of CYPHERS INCU- I^TORS AND BROOD­ ERS. Also a full line of ready mixed Poultry Foods made of sound, sweet grains only. No weed seeds, by­ products or grit. Finely- granulated. Ask for free printed matter. SOLE LOCAL AGENTS Dona vin &Reihansperger Wejft McHenry JE Old floors orvwood\vork finished with the Chi- namel graining outfit will look like new wood. . Call and see the samples at The Ji&KOVL. Store E.- V. McAllister DECIDED TO BUILD? Come right, down to local Imildingf headquarters-our of- lict» and we'll he)(> you with all the details. Nothing like talk­ ing these things over with some­ one who kuows how from expe­ rience--it's the one way to act­ ually save money, be insured sat­ isfaction and cut building costs. Plans for most anything you may want to build ready for your in­ spection. Come today. WILBUR LUMBER CO. West McHenry Plione 5 VHPiT PLEAS' Send the children to OUR store when you want g r o c e r i e s . V E L I K E CHILDREN. You will get just aa good service as if you were to come yourself. We sell to everybody a t t h e s a m e H O N E S T PRICE ; and this price is the AWAY-DOWN price for the AWAY-UP, always fresh kind of groceries we sell. We will WELCOME the CHILDREN. Schneider Bros., - We^t McHenry Hot v'akos, Tight, brown, de­ licious and plenty o{. them, made from Early Riser flour, the king of all flours, wlweh gives success every time. It is the best flour made and is always the same. Buy Early Riser flour next time and see how your appetite for good bread, rolls, pie, cake, cook ies, etc., increases. WEST N'HENRY FLOUR AND FEED MILLS Yes- We Bake (akes and they are of. the sort that you will like. When you buy one of our cakes you have the assurance that it is 100 per cent nutritious. Our' wagon is ever in service. Just call us up and tell us what you wtfnt and we will make prompt deli%, eries right to your very door. .: :: SATURDAY SPECIALS Marslimallow Cakes Coffee Cakes THE N 'HENRY BAKERY A, Lailinger, Prop. 'Phone 104-R. and rand Has Faster Pick-Up And Quicker Getaway than any car we have ever seen" writes one Giant Six owner. Moreover it is easy riding; it is economical--goes more miles to the gallon of gaso­ line than any SIX we kno«' of--beats Any "four." A ad it Ijas 9 rentfcrkabje -- amazing flexibility. Completely equipped, £79o f. o. fa. Fitjjilay, Ohio. Cotif0 if 1 Granf &'V k^fof* you buy vy cur, JOS. H. HUEMANN AGENT JOHNSBUBG, IM DR. F. J. AICHER DENTIST Office in Telephone Exchange Bldg, Centerville McHenry, , Illinois Telephone No. 79-W Wall Paper Spring House Cleaning is not far off and per­ h a p s s o m e o f y o u r rooms need new paper. Now is a good time lo make your seledion here, as we carry a pretty good assortment in stock, besides sam­ ple books from which you can order. :: John Stoffel i\1.y select line of Spring Togs for the dressy youug man has arrived. Without doubt, the line is the very , best that I have ever handled and it gives me great pleas ure to show same. My stock of hats, which in­ cludes all'the very lat­ est ideas, is the very best ever shown in Mc Henry, , while nothing has been overlooked in the gents' furnishing department. Have you placed that order for your new Easter suit? If not, better do so at once while the selection is complete. :: J. D. LODTZ QUicp in $paulding pMg. Phone No. 7J-R ALFORD H. POUSE Wedt McHenry, * - 1)1. Office Homo to a. m. 00 to 4iM p. m(• 00 lo 8:00 p. oi. )>lepli0pr« Office »7 HfiMdem-v 51-W A. I. FROEHLICH Physician and Surgeon FREUND BLDG. Over McAllister's WEST McHENRY PLUMBING AND HEATING R -- - Eitppripncefl Workmen PPNAVIN pc REIflANSPF.RPF.f* Telephone Np. IM-Ji SIMON STOFFEL Insurance agent for all classes of properly in the best companies. WEST McHENRY, :. ILLINOIS. f.* •'.*