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THE M'HENBY PLAIWDEALER, THURSDAY. MAY*?, 1928 SPRING GROVE William Boneman and daughter, Mrs. Gust Roepke, Jr., and Mrs. Peter Christensen of Richmond, motored to Kenosha Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Haggle Feltes and son, Vincent, and Mr. and Mrs. John Zorostorff and son, Arthur, attended the party given Wednesday evening in honor of Mr. Millen and Mrs. Harry Zornstorff at their home onN^Snglish Prairie. Charles Bacon and Amos Smith of Ringwood were Saturday callers here. N. N. Weber and brother, Pete, of Johnsburg, motored to Round Lake Thursday to visit with their Bister, Mir. Martin Freund, who is ill. Donald Winn of Chicago, spent Saturday and Sunday with his sisters, Mrs. Joe J. Wagner and Mrs. Hefcry Nulk. Mass Frances Bretz of Kenilworth, was home over Wednesday, returning in the evening. M!rs. John Lay attended the funeral of Mirs. Weiderman in the city. Little Lucial May invited five little girl friends to her home Wednesday afternoon to help celebrate her sixth birthday anniversary. A dainty pink cake with six candles was the center of attraction. Lucial received many nice presents. Mr. and Mrs. R®ed Carr and Mrs. Fanny Carr were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sanders, of Hebron. Mr. and Mrs. Amos Nebgen and family of Chicago spent Wednesday and Thursday with their sister, Mrs. Math Nimsgern. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sweet and family motored to Rockford and spent Mother's- day with their mother, Mrs. Maine. Mrs. Krumpen, who has been caring for Mrs. Jennie Oxtoby, returned to her home Sunday. Mrs. Oxtoby is much improved. MJr. and Mrs. Arthur Merrill of Solon Mills were Monday callers at H. C. Sweet's. Mrs. Thomas McEfferty and son, Donald, motored to Kenosha Thursday. All the wanted shades in chiffon and service weight hosiery at Erickson Dept. Store. ftiT--inrscip^ We Build Better Homes t GENERAL CONTRACTOR AND . 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Seven, the division of animal industry of the state department of agriculture has announced, are shown on the revised map as being accredited areas, or entirely free from bovine tuberculosis. The map will be on display in farm bureau headquarters, offices of county veterinarians, offices of state quarantine officials and other public places throughout the state to show the progress of the department's fight to free Illinois from tuberculosis in cattle. Revision of the map is now under «*jr» , Coplgs of a resolution passed at the antiual meeting of the Illinois Stdte Academy of Science at Bloomlnprton, advocating a calendar reform, have been mailed to all Illinois senators and representatives in Washington. D. C. The resolution, which was presented by Dr. A. R. Crook, curator of the state museum, reads as follows: "Since men of science and men of business have long felt the need of an Improved calendar and since several admirable proposals have been made by expert students In various European countries and in this country, the Illinois State Academy of Science again urges Illinois senators and congressmen at the National Capitol to unite with other countries in providing a calendar, which from astronomical, mathematical, and business points of view will correct many of the glaring inconveniences and Inconsistencies in the so-called Gregorian calendar now in use." Secretary of State ftmnrerson has Issued a charter to the Citizens' Committee to Reduce Taxes, with headquarters at 140 North Dearborn street, Chicago. The object of the corporation is to bring about reform for the reduction of taxes in Chicago and the downstate. The plan outlined is to repeal the present law relative to full valuation of property, a reduction of tax rates, and for the prevention of passage of bond issues until there is a reduction in taxes. TELEPHONE COMPANY tawrn On the heels of an opinion of the attorney general advising against indiscriminate shooting Qf dogs, the state department of agriculture ha? issued a warning to persons falling to comply with the statutes dealing with the control and prevention of rabies. Attorney General (Oscar E. Carlstrom in a recent rulin^declared that while the statutes should be enforced, authorities should use discretion when shooting dogs, or else be liable to civil action. The department of agriculture announced that unless more rigid enforcement of the rabies regulation in rabies areas is established, a blanket order will be issued to include the entire state. After viewing the Abraham Lincoln flfatue In the Rosamond Grove cemetery, four miles west of Pana, A. .Funk of Decatur, 111., a personal friend of the martyred President, who has viewed more than 75 statues of Lincoln, said: "It is by far the most impressive of any Lincoln statue I have seen." This statue of Lincoln, the gift of Capt John W. Kitchell, a Civil war veteran and friend of Lincoln, was dedicated October 29, 1003. State Treasurer Garrett D. Kinney bas announced that he will call In $3,000,000 from Inactive accounts to meet the payment of principal and interest on state highway bonds due Ilay 1. Mr. Kinney's statement in part follows: "In view of the fact that the first settlement of state taxes from county collectors, due April 15 was unusually small, I have been forced to call in $3,000,000 from In active accounts to meet the payment of principal, and Interest on state highway bonds, due May l." A great highway, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, is contemplated under a bill placed before congress by Representative Henry R. Rathbone of Illinois. Proposing creation of a commission to investigate the project and report to congress Mr. Rathbone declared that the proposed transcontinental highway is the logical result of the country's growth. "This great highway would be a band across the continent, which would promote the unity of all sections of the country," Mr. Rathbone said. "It would be a bond of union. People would visit each other, come to know each other and then co operate with each otiber." The cold weather and late freeses killed about half of the cherries In Christian county, according to a . report Issued by C. E. Hay, Christian county farm adviser. A good crop is still expected, however. Last year there were about two thousand bushels of cherries in Christian county and this year It is expected that the yield will reach three thousand bushels. A county highway fund raised 4>y "a 25-cent ta^ can be used to purchase right of way for state hard roads Attorney General Oscar E. Carlstrom has informed States Attorney Walter S. Lamon of Paris. So long as the road has not been taken over by the state, the attorney general said, the county has authority to spend this money to lay out a state aid road, even though they know it, is to be taken over by the state is a bond issue highway. In the Edgar county case, the state agreed to build a road on condition that the county provide the right of way. "Uncle" Ephraim Adamson, one of tbi& seven surviving members of Lincoln's life guard, died in Moweaqua a few days ago at the age of eightynine. Realizing the need of a select guard for President Lincoln... Governor Todd of Ohio received "-permission to choose one hundred men as the guard. Mr. Adamson, being one of these, heard the last speech ever delivered by Lincoln. Finding life rather monotonous, Adamson and the others proposed to the President that they be transferred to fighting lines. Lincoln had never deemed a guard necessary but quietly replied that they had better stay on duty to please Stanton, secretary of war and sponsor of the Union Guard. Central Illinois farmers, whose wheat of winter seeding was killed by the cold weather, are skirmishing for seed to be sown next fall, due to the fact that a scarcity of seed wheat is reported. Some estimates place the percentage of winter wheat killed In this section as high as ninety. Much of the killed wheat is being plowed under by farmers and the land sown to corn. Corn planting is well under way in central Illinois. Edward N. Hurley, war time chairman of the United States shipping board, sailed from New York May 13 as an ambassador of good will In the interest of the Chicago world's fair. Mr. Hurley, who now has tentative appointments with government officials of England, France, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Belgium and other European powlrs, will attempt to interest them in the fair, planned %s a centennial celebration of the city In 1933. Building In Chicago for the first four months of 1928 dropped nearly $30,000,000 under the figures for the first third of 1927, It was shown by data made public by C. P. Paschen, building commissioner. Permits for buildings costing $147,094,700 were granted In the period last year and $115,127,200 this year. Mr. and Mirs. Peter Baur, Mrs. RUBsel Mead and children, Louis and Doris Ann, from Waukegan, visited with Mr. and Mrs. John Hiller Sunday. Miss Martha Hettermann was a Woodstock caller Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe King and children, Mir. and Mrs. Charles Michels and son, Harold, Mr. and Mrs. William May and Mr. and Mrs. Steve May and daughter, Violet, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Steve King Saturday. . Mrs. Ray Horick and Miss Grace Houek of Woodstock visited with Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Steve King, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hettermann and family visited with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Pepping of Spring Grove Sunday evening. Frank Kempfer and children motored to Chicago Sunday, where they visited with Mrs. Kempfer, who is in the St. Anthony hospital. Mrs. H. W. Hettermann visited with Mrs. Joe Frett Monday. Henry Althoff and Misses Kathryn and Mary Althoff of Elgin visited with Mr. and Mrs. William Althoff Sunday, Mrs. Peter Baur of Waukegan visited with Mrs. Catherine Tonyan and Mirs. H. W. Hettermann Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. William Danuaer and children and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Grafty of Chicago visited with friends here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Miller and child* ren of McHenry visited with Mr. and Mrs. George Lay Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Schmitt and Mr. and Mrs. John Lay and family and Mir. and Mirs. Math. Lay and son Tis~ ited at the home of Mars. Catherine Schmitt Sunday. Miss Helen Smith was a Woodstock caller Sunday. All the wanted shades in chiffon and service weight hosiery at Erfel* son Dept. Store. Announcing Opening of New | Studebaker Agency We announce to the public that we have opened a local agency * ifl McHenry £or the ft&k and service of the* ,. . y: Studebafcef Line of Motor Cars Located on Elm Street (Route 20), near Riverside Drive. This station will/toe fully equipped to service all Studebaker cars and trades. We invite your patronage. Fox River Motor Sales 1 J. E. DOHERTY •W. E. RICHARDSON » "WORLD CHAMPION CAES' The state division of highways has awarded the contract for the construction of the hard road from Wilsonville to Bunker Hill, Macoupin county; to Fogelman & Davidson, De- Soto, HL The price was $134,134.93. Other contracts awarded by the department are the following: Route 80, section 125B, Knox county, bridge; to the Clinton Engineering company, Clinton, Iowa, $29,476.72. Route 49, section 118-119, Champaign- Vermilion counties, pavement? to A. C. O'Cpnner and Sons, Ft. Wayne, Ind., $472,845.48. JOHNSBUBG State Representative Sherman Kckley died a few days ago at his home in Peoria after a brief illness. His death was the second among candidates defeated in the Republican primary of April 10. Penn Miller, the other defeated candidate, died the evening before Mr. Eckley. Plans for the construction of three fraternity houses entailing a total cost of $210,000 have been announced at the University of Illinois. The fraternities, all legal, are Chi Delta Pht, Gamma Eta Gamma and Phi Alpha Delta. The houses, which will be grouped in court style, will cost $50,- 000 each. Property for the houses cost $00,000. Publication of Mrs. Honore Wfllsle Morrow's "Mary Todd Lincoln" revives discussion concerning Mrs. Lincoln's Influence on the life of her husband. There is little accurate Information concerning the relations between Lincoln's home life and bis public career. "Had there been no Mary Todd," says Mrs. Morrow, "there would have been no Lincoln, the Emancipator." This declaration is based on the common assumption that Lincoln's character was one which Would have developed short of greatness, but for stimulation other than that furnished by bis own ambition. Judge Charles G. Brlggle will hear the cases of oil companies in Illinois to recover money paid to the state treasurer under the invalid gasoline tax law on Saturday, May 26, in Sangamon County Circuit court. Only one case will be heard, without a Jury, it is expected, and the rest will hinge on the decision in the first. Nearly one hundred Illinois women attending the annual conference of the Illinois Federation of Music Clubs at Urbana recently heard musical renditions by two young women whose ability has won them national musical awards. The young women were Miss Kathryn Witwer, Gary, Ind., winner of the national federation contest, appearing as a soprano, and Miss Pauline Manchester, Glencoe, 111., who accompanied her at the piano. In the year 1927 Miss Manchester won the Society of American Musicians' contest. , Miss Frances Pitzen and brother, Joe Pitzen, of Chicago, visited at the home of Mir. and Mrs. John Pitzen and Mr. and Mrs. Ben J. Schaefer Sunday. Mir. and Mrs. George Obenauf and son, Richard, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Ben J. Schaefer" Wednesday. Miss Mildred Schaefer boarded the train to Chicago Friday. : #fr. and Mjs. Joa Hettermann were ' • -em «%>•*. surprised on their eighteenth wedding anniversary Friday, May 11. Those making up the merry group were: Mr. and Mrs. Steve May and daughter, Violet, Mir. and Mrs. Joe J. Freund, Mr. and Mrs. Joe King, Mr. and Mrs. John Pitzep and Mr. and Mrs. John Hiller and daughters, Frances and Marie. Mr. and Mrs. William Krift an<J daughter, Magdalena, of BurKngion, visited with J$r. and Mrs. Henry W.' • ; Protect Your Investment in & 'VV. •ffffi Ford Motor Company is making a new car, but still proud of the Model T. It wants every owner of one of these cars to run it as long as possible at a minimum! of expense. Because of this policy and because of the investment that millions of motorists have in Model T cars, the Ford Motor Company will continue to make parts until, as Henry Ford himself says, "the last Model T is off the road.'* More than eight million Model T Fords are still in active service, and many of them can be driven for two, three and five years and even longer. So that you may get the greatest use over Ac longed period of time at the lowest cost, we suggest that you take your Model T Ford to the nearest Ford dealer and have Kim give you an estimate on the cost of any replacement parts that may be necessary. You will find this the economical thing to do because a' aoiall expenditure may enable you to maintain or increase the value of the car and give you thousands of miles of additional service. No matter where you live you can get these Ford parts at the same low prices as formerly and know they are made tn the same way and of the same material& «9 those from which your car was originally assembled. Labor cost is reasonable and a standard rate is charged for each operation so that you may know in advance exactly howthe complete job will cost* ir. FORD MOTOR COMPANY Detroit, Michigan -