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SCHREINER HHHu la Bank Building Telephone W-W Thursday, January 16, 1919 • SCHOOL N1 of Interest From Our Educa­ tional Institution rj*' Edwin Meyers has quit school: -||pi:KiiEllen Spencer visited room one last Thursday afternoon. The high school exams have been Jfestponed until'next week. The pupils of the grades are tak­ ing the mid-year examinations. Marguerite Kinsala is absent from sapm one on account of sickness. Elizabeth Vogt qf room four is ex­ cused from all examinations this sem­ ester. Charles Vycital has returned to room two after, being absent on ac­ count of illness. • The teachers met in. the laboratory Tuesday afternoon for their regular bi-monthly meeting. Frank Page's name should have ap­ peared on the fiftto grade honor roll published last week. Kathleen: "May I speak?" Mr. Nye: Surveying a la Eva gauy coiffure) "What language?^ Florence Kinsala, George Miehels and Elisabeth Vogt are absent from room four on account of sickness. - The sophomore program, which should have been given last Friday, has been postponed until next Friday. Mike Gramolak, James Fay, Letah Patzke, Helen Stoltzkfe and Bernard Kinsala are absent from room two on account of sickness. The first semester ends this week. The following new subjects will be taken up in high school: Civics and citizenship, commercial law, physiol ogy and agriculture. Honor roll for high school: Fresh men--Ella Newman, James Hughes Lillian Doherty, Mary Pender Walsh and Mildred Kinsala. Sophomore--Dorothy Boss, Teresa Conway, Mabel Krumpen, Adelia Hei- mer and Margaret Adams. Junior--Wm. Brunswick, Robert Weber, Jennie Mae Cooley, Genevieve Carey, Mary Smith and Rosemary Nye. " ... . Senior--Leona Croplejr, Sue Harri­ son, Thos. Frisby, Florence Kamhojz, Vera Buss and Ellen Walsh. Eighth grade--Earl Walsh and Alice filler. Seventh grade--Helen Powers and Gladys Rietesel. Freak Fad Hits High School Tuesday was freak day at school. A chance visitor to our insti­ tution of learning would have thought himself at the insane asylum or a rehearsal of the Ziegfield Follies. Dorothy Buss, Marguerite Overton, Rosina Freund and several others would have looked like actresses with those beautiful eurls if it hadn't -been for their funny clothes and stock­ ings--red, pink, blue, striped, checked, black ones, one brown stocking and the other white, shoes not mates, oh, what a sight. Clothes put on hind side before was a common sight, so you never could tell whether a person was coming or going. Mary Smith and Ellen Walsh looked like old tim­ ers in their puffed sleeves. Several rather highly tinted complexions add­ ed to the bewildering array of colors. When Robert Green and Leo Heimer appeard in- the knee pants of their childhood we thought they had mis­ taken the high school entrance for the first grade door. Didn't the other boys,, look nice with ribbons on their hair and say, wasn't Blanche a dandy Cleopatra? Some were too bashful (or too proud) to dress up, but they felt more "out of it" than the rest. Miss Vera Knox passed Wednesday in Chicago. H. J. Kennebeck was a "Woodstock visitor today. - ^ Mrs. Nick P. Justen was an Elgin visitor Saturday. J. P. Smith passed Tuesday in the metropolitan city. Henry J. Miller was a Lake Geneva visitor Wednesday. i J A E G E R MERCHANT GENERAL COHMISSION n - 'i , SFSCUkL ATTENTION QIVSM TO THE SAME OT Dressed Beef, jlutton, Hogs, Veal, Poultry, Hides, Etc., Butter and Eggs This is the oldest house on the street- application. . WLO STORAGE FREE Tags and price lists furnished on CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. t ^ Jt -Vat - / -t hi: This ad will bring you news from time to time of arrange­ ment we have been able to make that will be of money-sav­ ing interest to you in your buying. In our efforts to serve you best we have joined with more than a thousand other merchants in buying our goods, so far as possible, directly from the manufacturers, thus removing several profits be­ tween you and the merchandise. It enables us to sell you Merchandise at prices leaver than can be given you in any other way. We can undersell any of the mail order houses if you pay us cash for our merchandise and we will be right here on the ground to make good every claim for our mer­ chandise. Below are a few items to compare with Mont­ gomery Ward Co. last catalogue: ?«• •• r* , M. W. CO. , Cups and Saucers, per dozen. ^;_$2.9S Dinner Plates, per dozen _$2.10 $1.88 $1.1S $1.30 .80 $2.35 $2.10 WfL-$ Oat Meal Dishes, per dozen . Glass Coffee Mill.. No. 2 Gold Blast Lantern,^.. No. 1 Tin Lantern Set Dover Flat Irons . C t .T! No. 3 Standard Gal. Water Tub" , No. 2 Standard Gal. Water Tub $1.75 No. 2 Cistern Pump ^$2.58 8-gal. Milk, 2 1-2 Ignition . .« M tea Axle Grease, per pound "tzi „ _ _ .14 10-qt. Bread Raiser__ . ^;„|2.45 ' Flour Sifter,. #23 Pans, 3 for., t̂ And besides we save you the freight. Give us your order and save money. OUR PRICE $2.75 $2.ft $\M $1.M $1.09 t 7Se $2.01 $1.85 $1.15 $2.51 38e 7c $2.M •pe *7c m 1 J. 4; VYCITAL nr.. -fa:- It - . „ l-'C"" . k'J- Lcrrois mm SOLDIERS TELLS OF HIS TRIP TO GERMAN #||1. LINES . ^-*7; ; ; Jehu 111 kay Went Thru €e*man Trenches and Dugouts--A. H. Pouse Visits Places of Interest „ From Pvt. John May The following letter written by Pri­ vate John L. May to Martin B. Schmitt was handed to us for publication and we are sure that John's many friends here will be pleased, to read same: LaRochelle, France, Dec. 19, 1918. Friend Margin--Not having written you for some time will write again now. Don't think that I have forgot­ ten you, for I haven't. Have been quite busy during the past couple of weeks. \ * Made a trip up to the front. The last time we only went part of the way, but this time went all the way. Left here on the 4th and went up into the Toul sector. Sure had a fine trip. Took the h9rses%up to a place called Bkinecourt, near Toul. We ar­ rived there during the night and as we got our horses out early the next morning but^ could not get away until that afternoon we were given pre- mission to explore the country around there. You know this is th$ sector the Americans held. Some of the of­ ficers told us quite a few interesting things. They told us that the Ger­ man front line trenches were only about a miles from there. The town as well as everything around there is all shot to pieces. The Germans were still shelling this town on the morn­ ing that the armistice was signed, so someone up there told us. It surely was interesting going thru the dug­ outs and trenches. Even went over to the German trenches and had some time getting there,' working our way thru barbed * wire entanglements and wading thru mud over shoe tops. The Huns had things fixed up pretty well. They had electric lights, running water and even feather beds. Guess they must have figured that they were going to stay there. Got fooled this time, ehii One lieutenant told us that they even had bets on as to who would fire the last shot at the Huns. In the afternoon we took a truck and drove over to Toul, passing thru a lot of towns that had been shot to pieces. Will tell you more later on. Got back on the fifteenth, so you can see we had fine trip. Surely would like to have gone to Metz as we were only short distance from there, but the big truck did not go any further up and the only way to get there would have been by truck or narrow gauge track. Sure have some engines and cars for the tracks and they were busy bringing salvage back from the trenches. Will tell you when 1 .get back how the galloping rtB" went over the top in a box car. ' I suppose you are enjoying the cold weather and snow. Has been raining here during the Jast few days. Not cold so far. . Miss Margaret Wilson sang for the boys here on Dec. 5. Went down and heard her. " Best regards to yoii and the rest of the bunch and with a happy New Year, am, Your friend, ^ John L. May, • rim Remount Sqd. 313, ; ; I LaRochelle, France. From Lieut. A. H. Pouse \ France, DecT"l, 1918. Dear Mother and All--Eight of us officers took a fine trip yesterday, starting at ten a. m. for L--. It was a little chilly riding as it took us little more than three hours each way. Our feet jrot cold, but other­ wise we were very comfortable. We passed thru several towns. In P-- we had a good dinner. Then we went on to the city of L-- and started our sight seeing. The country thru the Duchy of L-- was somewhat hilly in places and very pretty and the city is also-very pretty, but not very lively. We walked up and down the streets, looked the people over and they gave us the twice over as we are still some­ what new to them. Thg people seemed friendly, however, and there were American flags flying and the words, "Welcome to our deliverers," etc. The people ggemed more German than anything else. All spoke Ger­ man and some French also. The palace of the reigning duke was also here and we had the* privilege of walk­ ing around it and admiring it thru the fence and a)«o enjoyed being saluted by the stjflr jointed guard who paced up and down in front of it. We took his picture several times and then asked him to have her "highness," the duchesa, come down and have hers taken, [it seemed we surprised and, shocked him awfully. We went to the movies, which were fair, and then went to bed. Everything is very high there. Coffee is $1.00 per cup, butter $4.00 per pound $tnd so on. I am enclosing a folder from the. hotel where we stopped and also a bill of the movies. We got back to camp this morning. Am looking for mail every day, but havent had any for a long time. Dec. 10, 1918. I have not received any mail since Nov. 22 and don't expect to here as we are in Germany. None of the other fellows get any mail either. I guess the P. O, can't find Germany. I am going to try and get fy>me as soon as I can, but don't hope for a "too soon" return, as we may be aw­ fully disappointed. Nothing is cer­ tain in the army. This is a nice town with everything in it that a fellow could want, movies, operetta, theatre, cafes, coffee houses, where we can get coffee, cake, pie, ice cream and every­ thing pretty , good and prices are reas­ onable. There is no evidence what­ ever of hard times here. The are fat and healthy looking. About all ws do to kill time is to walk around town, up one street and down the other, and some how the time flies. I'll keep you posted htow I succeed. Remember me to all. Love, Al. 'Circuit court convened Atjhe Oeqnty Seat on This Week Monday of Circuit court Convened on Monday of this week, Jan. 13. The grand jury was sworn in, J. H. Vinton was -Ap­ pointed foreman and A. C. Strain was elected clerk of the jury. They returned the following-indict­ ments: The people of the state of Illinois vs. Morris Fleming, assault with intent to commit murder. The people of the state of Illinois vs. Myron Thompson, forgery. The people of the state Of Illinois vs. Eric Ericsbn, larceny. The people of the state of Illinois vs. William Reese, .burglary and lar­ ceny. The common law docket was called and the following cases were disposed of by dismissal or otherwise: Bower vs. N^ish; Cooney vs. Nolan; Paulsen vs. Henderson; Woodstock & Sycamore Traction Co. vs.. Forrest; Evans vs. Elgin & Belvidere Electric Co.; John­ ston vs. Valeu et al; Fitzgerald vs. Brasch; Ciocco vs. Zuccone; kichter vs. Klapka; Crowley vs. Manley Hard­ ware company; Hansen vs. Quinn et al; Conley vs. Daniels; Kania vs. Kania; Leickem vs. Fellows; Black vs. Stuart; Heneberry vs. Steffens; Liddil vs. Bardwell et al; Baldwin Piano eom- OFFICIAL PUBLICATION. - Report of the condition of the West McHenry State Bank, located at West McHenry, State of Illinois, before the commencement of business on the 31st day of Decmber, 1918, as made to the Auditor of Public Accounts, . ior . tliu State of Illinois pursuant to law: BKSOORCKS.- Loans and discount i... Overdrafts ... . Investments : ;i,t. Banking house ^4....... Furniture and fixtures... Cash and due from banks... D.uC 4V.fi 1 141,523.00 13,000.00 5,200.00 53,oi;;.i.tt Total resources iiJi.; .$463,744.21 LIABILITIES. . Capital Stock paid In 50,000.00 Surplus fund Undivided profits (net)......4,501.26 Deposits: All other deposits..881,742.95 Dividends unpaid 2,000.00 Contingent fund 500.00 Bills payable secured oy juId Bonds 20,000.00 Total liabilities ........$463,744.21 STATE OF ILLINOIS, County of McHenry, \ ' I, CARL W. STENGER, Cashier of W<5st McHenry State Bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true, to the best of my knowledge and belief. CARL W. STENOER. Cashier. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT FOR SALE--J. M. Kelter farm. In­ quire of C. W. Stenger at the West McHenry State Bank. . 25 FOR SALE--About a dozen Rhode Island Red hens. t P. J. Cleary, Mc­ Henry, 111. Phone 83-R. 31-11* FOR SALE--S. C. White Leghorn cockerels from the best strains. Mrs. L. V. Lusk, Grayslake, 111. 31 FOR SALE--Nearly new Northwest­ ern truck wagon and a light liob sleigh.̂ Apply to or write John M. Frett, McHenry, 111. Phone 623-W1 2. 31-lt* FOR SALE--Six tons of choice up­ land hay in barn; also a quantity of Wisconsin pedigree seed barley. In­ quire of Chas. W. Gibbs, West Mc­ Henry, 111. Phone 620-W-2. 30-2t WANTED--To remodel, reline your furs, special coat work, enlarging, etc., mending muffs, collar fend cuff sets, made to order. New goods, nice work, satisfaction guaranteed. Materials returned. Address Miss Fannie Goff, 273 Division St., Elgin, 111. 30 FOR SALE--Being overstocked, will sell 7 head high grade Guernsey heif­ ers, coming two years old, sired by A. ft. bull, whose dam recorded over 9000 lbs. milk and 680 lbs. fat in heifer year. These heifers will make some extra choice dairy cows. S. S. Rogers, (on Fred Cooley farm), West Mc­ Henry, HI. Phone 606-W-l. 26-tf FOR EXCHANGrE--The propertz known as the Fred Schnorr homestead, one of the most sightly places, large grounds and an ideal suburban home. Alsa store building with six room fiat above, all situated in West McHenry, 111. .Will exchange the above for South or North Dakota land. Address F. J. Schnorr, Council Bluffs, la. 19 jDO YOV The point is, no matter why you eat, you want the best. .We sell the Best Teas and Coffees Purest of Lards Highest Patent Flottr Fruits in Season ~ Best Canned Good and the best general line of groceries of all kinds to be found in this town. We know we can satisfy you. M. M. Niesen McHcnry Phone tt-W If?;*-Af\..V s'":; ........i.•I*,*,'/ a.. J pany vs. Wright; Barnes vS. Brown; Brunchom vs. Dean; Wilcox et al vs. Holmgren; O'Cock vs. Siems; Greeley vs. Collison et al; Fleming vs. Stoffel. Judge Donnelly appointed the fol­ lowing committee to draft resolutions on the death of Judge Arthur H. Frost and Attorneys C. J. Hendricks, John J. Cooney and Joseph I. Lang: Jamps F. Casey, Chairman; A. J. Mullen, F. E. Eckert, P. J. Donovan and C. Percy Barnes. This committee was to report Wednesday morning, at which time> memorial services were held. The following cases are set for trial following the criminal docket on Mon­ day, Jan. 20, 1919: Sassman vs. Riley; Anderson vs. Sweeney; Bonslett vs. Vogel; Manley Hardware Co. vs. Crowley; Dacy vs. Wright; Waller vs. White; Cudahy Packing Co. vs. Rot- nour et al; Grover vs. Henderson; Mundinger vs».Jayne et al; Filmen vs. Miehels; Kqck vs. Eddy; Arnold vs. White.; Acme Harvesting Machine Co. vs. Austin; Roach vs. Maplewood But­ ter & Cheese Co.; Hall et al vs. Pin- now; Block vs. Palm; Doge vs. Sehutt; Miller vs. Ferris; Snyder vs. Eisen- menger, Jr.; Weltzien vs. Mey; Zes- trow, & Timm vs. 'Noble; Plapp vs. Xxage; Haertel vs. Carney; Spooner vs. Van Hoozeq; Peterson Vs. Keating; Gore vs. Austin; Dixon vs. City of WE BUY OLD FALSE TEETH! We pay from $2.00 to $35.00 per set broken or not). We also pay actual yalue for diamonds, Old gold, silver and bridge work. Send at once by arcel post and receive cash by return mail. Will return your goods if our price is unsatisfactory. MAZER'S TOOTH SPECIALTY Dept. X, 200? So. 6th St Philadelphia, :: :: Bfc. Federal Electric Washing. Machines ^ t ^ The time spent in g f doing the v family ^ v washing--they cut it. to a fraction. The labor--they get rid •'$u s I I of that entirely. Sold oo W1*'. Monthly Payments : ' . • t ; f; t They; use about ^ five cents worth of electricity in hand­ ling the job for theN a v e r a g e f a m i l y . £Figure that against the wages of a laundress--if yo# can get on$ mi- demonstration at oil? Sales Rooms Public Service Co. OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS Harvard; Rasmusseri vs. Lang; kop- sel vs. White; Richmond Radiator Cn vs. Nichols; Jones et al vs. Nichols* Andrews vs. McLain; Heaton v... Porep; Brunchom vs. Dean; Porejp vs. H6aton; Paulsen for use & C vsu Bod Th* Haindatto ' Vi . vji I -w.' v " iL^'V •'£ r.-'v 1 Good to cbaiM itMn CowiiBantoBMwM--» rtmi -L2 Y««rllnia, fair to fancy 'M Alt cows aa4 Mfera I OMinlns cow« and beifara -1 Bulla, plain to baat % Poor to fancy calves Waatarn rue*itoara....^...... >; '*These- j ' represent Eve cattle prices In . Chicago on December 30th, 1918. The list shows price ranges Von nine general classified groups Hlgpith a spread of $13.85*per cwt V"; •--the lowest at $6.50 and the highest at $20.35. * ? ^ ^ Why'tbis variatfdft Iki 5H | Because the meat from differ- r ent animals varies greatly in quality and weight. , Although the quotations fchown are in nine divisions, iwift & Company grades cattle ^|nto 34 general classes, and each ijplass into a variety of weights feAd qualities. £ As a result of these differences an Rattle prices, (due to, differences in ^weights and meat qualities), th^re is a v i'ange of 15 cents in Swift & Cooa- . *pany's selling prices of beef c«r- < casses. : • ; iese fabfs explaifii 1--Why' retail prices vary la different stores, (S|j--'Why it would be difficult! to v Q> > -'J***"-: regulate prices of cattle (Mr beef. 3-r-Why it requires experts to i j'y judge cattle and to sell meat, so as to yield the profit of only a fraction of a cent a pound---a profit too small to -affect VhV'-. ^ ^ c-.i: ;|Swift & Company,U. S. A. K I f-/ (•tmritfi.! V? , ' AC B e l 1 ^i » ' Uo. Mi' System -U i. -it. .5.. * rlfW V- -.V .,^3£ - "" .. Effective January 21st, 12^1 a. n. . ... , 1 5 ,5J, HJ '* . - ...T Jt 1 « f X " « V' * * ' Detailed information apd schedules of NEW LONCJ DISTANCE RATES applicable to this territory antf examples to LONG DISTANCE POINTS showing the classes of service offered and the' method of com­ puting the NEW TELEPHONE LONG DISTANCE ̂ RATES will be mailed under personal oa about January 21st to all subscribers. , V/ '•"•i • • f: • -r5; ̂̂ V ' ^JPATROFLI - are * requested' to paste4 2* f ' j _• > _ •_ xi • „* vnOAVlI? v ' "... !*• r. iWi. *is.' .,. ."if *-9 ' r fp- - the sheets in their TELEPHONE DIRECTORY for reference. 8s' " t' PiW!- i€ &• At v v',' • J.I, . i„«, >/r ts» .., • *>, - <* •* i • • •" * . * . •> .. ..?. . v _ 4 . t i v _.... / --'C!V ,r :r ^ f; •-V. ' , ,, w ^ , 4*^r " ** } ^> ..fit ...a II J ..^,.L .) \ *. * r. .. fc:,-'. -i < ' ;"rs '»V-