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x% ESSKI V "•'- ^ Light, Tasty Biscuit* Just let mother call, "Biscuits fair Breakfast!,? We're sure there's a treat that can't be beat in store for us --light, tender biscuits' tossty brown and all puffed up with goodness I For mother is sure of her baking powder--Calumet She never disappoints u because CALUMET BAKING POWDER never disappoints her. It's dependable. Results a/ways\he same--the best Try it. Calumet contains only such ingre­ dients as have been approved offi cially by the U.S. Food Authorities. Too Save When Yoa Buy ft. Too Save Whai Yon Use It mm w HIGHEST0" S2 BAKM6 mw TIE PTBERKY PLADTDEALER Mum ETUI IHUMT IT F. G. SCHREINER BtakBuOtftes Talcpho-- »W , December 5.1918 COUNCIL ' - •£\\ *- 103.30 75.00 75.00 1.20 14.20 2.85 2.40 10.00 ft:." • ; Council Room, Dec. 2, 1918. The village trustees met in regu­ lar session with Pres. Chamberlin presiding. Trustees present: Doberty, Hei- «w. Kamhols, Knox, Kraase and StoffeL The minutes of the last regular •Meting were read and approved. | The following bills were read and | approved by the finance committee: | Standard Oil Co., gasoline...$ 26.45 | Public Service Cd., lighting sts, , supplies and traffic lights.. , James Revor, police service.. John Walsh, marshal service. ' - A. F. Ibsh, gravel W. P. Bassett, lbr with teni. I * J. J. Vyeital, supplies Ben Hiller, lbr on waterworks P. W. Pringle, donation Motion by Doherty, seconded by Hetmer, that the minutes be accepted g as read. Motion carried. Motion by Stoffel, seconded by Kamholz, Hie treasurer's and clerk's I reports be accepted as O. K.'d by the * finance committee. Motion carried. 5 Motion by Knox, seconded by Kam- £ holz, that the bills be accepted as O. * K.'d by the finance committee. Mo- f tion earned. t Motion by «<T11ij||qd by Heimer, that the insurance on the city U hall be given to J. W. Freund for the I term of five years. Motion carried. | "i""uu l»y oloutjl, seconded by ^ Heimer, that the village donate ten ((10.00) dollars toward opposing the increase of the telephone rates. Mo­ tion carried. Motion by Kamholz, seconded by I Stoffel, that Dr. C. H. Pegers be ap* ^pointed local health officer in the ab­ sence of Dr. D. G. Wells. Motion car­ ried. Motion by Heimer, 'seconded by • f , Doherty, to adjourn. Motion carried. R. 6. Chamberlin, Pres. * \.W. & Schreiner, Clerk. Charles Mortensen, 24... Clara Kelelr, 21... .Marengo .Marengo Bead The Plaindealer for CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT SALE--J. M. Kelter farm. In­ quire of C. W. Stenger at the West McHenry State Bank. " 25 and the plates have m feod tine, which Ifi&ps up our interest. I have not seen a paper for a few days, so do not know how things are in gen eral, but I do know they are going to beat the band right here. .November 7, 1918. Just received two more letters and some pictures. They are groat. You must have had some time when Bul­ garia quit. Didn't effect us at all nor when Turkey and Austria quit. I guess most of us will save our hur­ rahs until we reach U. S. I am writing this on a plank as we still are unsettled, but I found a room today so everything will be O. K. It is hard to send or receive mail from here, so don't worry if my letters are slow in coming. November 8, 1918. Everything is fine except the mud. am well fixed in a room in town. We got a-room from a "village cure," ©r priest, who' was very poor and proud. We brought them a large loaf f>f bread, two quarts of wine, a pound of coffee, two pounds of sugar and I gave him some cigarettes, so now we •re pretty solid with them. It has been raining since we came here so couldn't get up much and maybe peace will come before the weather clears enough to get real busy. If you want to show my let­ ters about some of our experiences to your friends you can, but you had better not put them in the paper. This will reach you about Thanksgiv- ing I guess. . Well, eat a good meal lor me. I dont suppose we will have turk and trimmings, but we have first-class eats and plenty of it. Next year we will go to it, as this will be the only Thanksgiving away from home. Remember me to all. Love, • From Wm. H. Althoff The following letter, received by Mrs. W. C. Sattem, who resides near Wauconda, from her brother, Wm. H. Althoff, a Johnsburg boy, who has seen strenuous service in France, will no douftt be interesting to his many friends in McHenry and vicinity: France, Oct. 29, 1918. Dear Sister--Your most welcome fetters were received and glad to hear from you. You can't imagine how glad i I am to get mail. You see we were up at the front and I did not have time and material with which to write. ' I suppose you heard ^about Ed. Tonyan being killed while up at the front. Paul and I were surely lucky, for Ed. was sitting in between Paul's legs in the trench and I was stand­ ing about ten yards away when one of those big shells dropped, right on the edge of the trench/and hit Ed. in four different places. His wind­ pipe was cut and just above his jaw and 6ne piece hit him in the back and the other in the bottom of his stomach. He lived about two minutes after be­ ing hit. Paul and I never got even a scratch, but Paul's pack was all cut to pieces, and what seems so strange is that Ed. got killed just a year from the day we left home at the very same hour and minute that we went into the car to leave, 1:16 p. m. How well I remember that, as I looked at my watch just as Cousin Joe said, "Now, boys, pile in the car," and I said, "I wonder when we will see this burg again," but poor Ed. will never see it. Ed. had two rosaries with him .so I took one and put around his neck before we buried him. Tell the folks at home ,to have a mass rea<| for him, as we boys promised each other that if one got killed we would have a mass read for one another. Tell Ed.'s folks I am trying to save his personal be­ longings, his wrist watch, ring and rosary, and will try my best to bring them back with me. I am in the base hospital with in­ fluenza and rheumatism, but expect to be well soon, for I am getting the j best of treatment. We have American Red Cross .nurses here. They are from Buffalo and surely are fine nurses. They do all they can for a fellow and believe jne they have got a lot of work. There are two nurses in this ward and I guess they have about sixty patients, so you might know they are kept busy. You can't imagine how good it seemed to s I know if I am jumped by three or an American woman.' I can't say four of those hell hounds IH get at- enough for^the Red Cross, for they least two of than before they get me,! ere like a second mcfther to a man if they ever do,, and it's queer, but I j over here. V like it better every day. It's an aw-1 I have been troubled with rheuma- ful fascination to see ones bullets tism quite a bit since being over here (tracers) going into an enemy plane 1 sleeping on the ground and the and gives a fellow a lot of satisfac-! wet and muddy trenches do not agree tion to see one go down. It's some, with me. I was down and out They game all right, still I enjoy the ex-' carried me on stretchers to the first eitement, but suppose 111 get a jolt aid. I could not walk any more LETTERS FROM SOLDIERS COMRADE TELLS OF Eft. YAN^ DEATH WON- and Walter H. Interestingly of Life Lieat. A. H. Fay Write* f̂ fer There" :. From Uevt. A. & Pslji'/ - France, Oct 22, 1918. Dear Mother and All--I received a bunch of letters, pictures and paper* today. The pictures were fine and surely make a fellow feel good to see So you hear I have a snap job. Not much, there is no siiap jobs or large salaries up in the front lines, but I'm not out for either. I could have had a captaincy at the artillery school and be sent back to the U. S. as instructor like many of my friends did, but I didn't come over here for that. What I wanted was to get a chance at the Hun directly and I've got it and as long as I can keep busy doing my little bit I'm satisfied. I'd rather be lieutenant in this squadron than a commander in the rear and aB long as I am in it I api going to get all the excitement I can out of it, and I guesli I am in the right service to get it. Believe me, 111 have some­ thing to talk about when I get back. A lot of planes went over the front today. Four Boche planes got after one of ours. After the officers (one my chum) had fired a few shots the Huns beat it. If the Huns had the nerve our boys have it would go hard on our boys. The Huns are cowards right. They can't fight plane for plane, they must have four to a dozen to our one. Nothing doing except heavy fighting. October 31, 1918. Got some more mail today. It sure is fine. I had a scrap with six Hun ni»nM. hut by some good luck I am still on the job. It is funny how cool a fellow can be fighting in the air. been in bondage tor four years. gave them bread, etc., to help them what ,we could. There are no dugouts here. We are living in buildings with wall paper, beds, fire places, pictures and the way we have our room fixed up is great. We have put glass in the windows, cleaned the place up and it sure seems like home. We have a big fire place, hard wood floor, good table, bunks and chairs and we have chopped a pile of wood for a month's use. I have been on the telephone gang for two days, getting our communica­ tions in order. I've just bought twenty francs of smoking, so I'll have enough for awhile. Well, my ambulance went on the bum tonight just as we were getting in, so I'll have to close and get some sleep and fix her up tomorrow. Hop- ing you are as comfortable, well and as I am, 111 close for now. ; Walter. ^ From Math. W« Beheld ' Camp McArthur, Texas. Dear Sister--Just a line to let yoa know I am fine and hope you are all better by this time, I am drilling when, the weather permits, but it rains every other day and a little cloud makes it too muddy to go out, but it drys up quickly. I have good times down here tak­ ing everything into consideration, that i^ mud, sleeping in tents, long hikes, etc. We are the happiest bunch down here and one can jiear someone singing' any time of the night. • I saw twenty-four aeroplanes in oopr bunch the other day and you ought to see them, up in the air about three or four thousand feet and making nose dives about 506 or a 1000 feet then -1ss ipy, but some of them killed, but I have not iiKiiam them fall ^o far.. v*\'. f I may not get to write to you next week, because I might go on the range, but am not sure. Bven if I do, will get my mail, but wont get time to write. Must close, hoping you are all better. With love, Math. W. Scheid. nrltrti inHumm^ininiimmumHmMM PROBATE N£WS M i l Real Estate Transfers Joseph May^ &*. wife to Adolph ^ Ibsh, pt ne% se% sec 27, McHenry (1.03 acres) 300.00 Elijah J. Coates to Eliza J. Merchant, % sw^4 sec 18; nH It 2, sw % Sfb 18; 10 a in nw% sec of n% It 1, v.-/ -l: ; A. J. MULLEN • ?y : 1 ̂f Attorney at Lnr ̂ McHenry State B*ak Every Friday Home Office, :: :: Woodstock. HI m Herman .Lake. Geneva Jwlia Standarski, 22. ^ Oliver H. Reed, 29..K Helena Mary Sweenty, •4* Telephone No. 10S-S SmON STOFmi ? •Insurance agent for ill classes of property in the beet companies WEST McHENBY. ILLINOIi MEN WANTED! WANTED: Bench and Machine, Molders aifd men to learn mold­ ing trade. Good prices. Steady work. Pr^tt Malleable Iron Works, Joltet, Illinois. m :• • V •Mm FOR SALE---Plymouth Rock cock- erels, Buckland's strain. Inquire of wick Bohr, McHenry HI. 25-2t* LOST--Full grown brown female col­ lie, white beween eyes. Suitable re­ ward if returned to Swank Bros., West McHenry, HI. Call phone 613- 25-lt* R-l. IFOR EXCHANGE--The property nown as the Fred Schnorr homestead, one of the most sightly ylaeee, large grounds and an ideal suburban Also store bojldfng with six room fl&ove, a& jritoeted in West McHfmy, f̂Ufcange the above for Address some day and have to take a vacation. November 3, 1918. Another Sunday and a hew month and we are extra busy today, as we are packing. We move forward to­ morrow. I don't like this kind of work very well. It's like house clean­ ing and some how I have more bag' gage to cart along every time we move. Of course you read about the good work we are doing. Say, maybe the U. S. boys aren't doing anything to the Huns. The Germans are running so fast it is hard to find her troops. wouldn't be surprised to hear we have peace with the whole crowd in short time. I was out the other day real low, also did a few stunts for our soldiers, which we all enjoyed. Of course the air was full of planes and shells, but we had no disputes. Coming home we went above the clouds in the bright sunshine - with below and it was beau- */e November 6, 1918. are now at our new camp and as usual a little up set, but that will ^infantry and could *not rest any pjace, lying down or anything else. I am up and out of bed again and can walk a* little with a cane, but my back is quite weak yet and my hips bother me quite bit '" Well, sister, I must dose now for this time, wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Your loving brother, X _ Wm. H. Althoff. Walter H^ Fay November 8, 1918. Dear Mother--Received yours and James' letters and a couple of papers a few days ago, but I've been0 busy and had no time to write. The night I wrote last we started the Huns retreating with the heav ierft bombardment I have heard and they are still going. They put the infantry in trucks to catch up to them for a few hours. We have moved again and now I'm writing in an old French house. On the way up I saw American and German dead laying where they had fallen and things were laying just the way the ^ left; &§*. We have PHILIP JAEGER OBNERAL COllMISSION MERCHANT % p ̂ SPECIAL ATTENTION OIVKN TO THE 8AXJC fXt .rv-^Oruicd Beef, rtutton, Hogs, Veal, Poultry, 'Hides, Etc., Butter and Ess* A ^ TMe Is the oljJeft hQJW* o» the street. Tags and ' applieatk*. • • :> - COLO STORAGE FREE Stall i a j, Pnltoa Wj, WlMteMto Market. dmCAOO. ILLINOIS. S K U N K S iiv-4 * 1 Wfli pay 1 ̂ ^skinned or unskinned. Bring; imskin 'L '^1 \j. ^ed skunks while they are fresh. Also , ^ ̂ ^pay highest prices for all other ̂ R. S. HOWARD '#ON£ JW •inf. •r_ ̂ McHENRY, ILLINOIS Is thai eJI ? r i us to keep from. *torb getting" anything 1CAKS A LIST of what you need before you oolite to oujp store. * " ' r • •••••;. • If you uan^i yourself, send one of tiie children. A child is always welooaed iM our store. - If you' 11 g i v e you|r child some money to spend for himself, wft oan se l 1 h is ruKffg candy and year's nuts An Internatioiial Service Bnik Tiny Profib Per Pound Some industries have been able to get step with war demands more quickly thai others. In many cases mighty plants have up--but at a prodigious cost. The packing industry was'able to itself to unheard of demands more quickly, perhaps, than any other industry. And this was because the vast equipment of packing' plants, refrigerator cars, branch houses, etc* had been gradually developed to its present state of efficiency, 90 that in the crucial hoipr it became a mighty international system fclr war service. s Not by making vast inroads into the capi­ tal wealth of the country, but largely by using, from year to year, a portion of the profits, %tr provide for expansion. Swift ft Company's profits have always been as tinyE compared with sales, that they have had practic­ ally no effect on the price of meat (amounting to oo%r a fraction of a cent per pound). %• * And yet the owners of the "busine i have bed! content with reasonable returns on their capital, and have been able, year after year, to put part of thp profits bade into the business 'to provide for its expansion.' • . i|< These fractions of tiny profits have been repaid to to the public many fold in the form of better service* and better and cheaper meat, and made it possible for Swift 8c Company to meet, undaunted, the suddea cry for meat for overseas. * Could any other method of financing a viu|l industry involve less hardship to the people of the country? Could there be a better instance of true "profit-sharing" than this return in added usefulness and in national prepsredness ̂ 9 Swift & Company, U. S. 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