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sntnro OSOTX }kx i:r'"'Mrs. August Kattner.passed SSUfcy » ,'f in the city Thursday evening. Mrs. >< .' v Kat tner has been in poor health for pi*"' ^ some time but her death came as r : " shock to *er relatives. She leaves a v husband and a son two years old. Wj#'.-""Their many friends iff® in sympathy with them. Mrs. Joseph Etton is very sick at this writing, in the home of her daugh- * ter, Mrs. St. Hoff. Miss Frances Bretz of Wilemette * epent Wednesday here. « Mrs. Joseph Allwiler and two children were*1 Chicago passengers Satur- * day. * Mrs. Charles Behmer spent Tuesday S in the city. - Her mother, Mrs. Steinke, ** returned with her, after having J spent the past four weeks here. * Mass Julia Gobe entertained the Evening Five Hundred club Thursday. ; First prize was woi* by Mrs. Siegler, 1 second by Mrs. S. Robb and third by •Miss Agnes Weber. Bern Bretz motored to Pistakee Bay I Saturday morning. Mrs. J. J. Freund is confined to her .bed. Her many friends hope for her t speedy recovery. , J Mr. and Mrs. Reed Carr and Mrs. - Fanny Carr attended the 80th birth- > day anniversary party of Mrs. Jane I Amelia Carr at McHenry, Sunday afternoon. ^ OUTDOOR ARENA BOXING STATE LINE PARK r Ob Rente 12, between Richmond and Genoa City Friday Nite 6,1928 Mrs. Math Ninsgsni entertained tinj Afternoon Five Hundred club at H>erT home Thursday. First prize was won by Mrs. Boneman, second by Mrs. Math Nimsgern and third by Mrs. J. J. Frwi?te OSTEND Mrs. Hoppe and son, Arthur, visits a few days last week with friends in central Illinois. The family moved here from the central part of the state. . James Cornwell, a former resident, but now in Wisconsin, and Oscar Spmmer were dinner guests in the Hobart THE WORLD'S GREATJiVENTS ALBERT PAYSON TERHUME t# «r DoAA. HmI * Company.} Oliver Cromwell A MIDDLE-AGED farmer--red and swollen of face, slovenly of dress, dirty of linen, harsh'of voice and woefully lacking In dignity--was so disgusted with political conditions In England In the first half of the Seventeenth century that be decided to emigrate to Auierlcu. King Ciiarles I Auspices American Legion 8:45 Standard Time Jim Simmons, Kenosha, vs Jack White, Chicago--145 lbs. D. M. Farrell, McHenry, UL, vs Mack Gaines, Chicago Shiek--122 lbs. Rusty Hoskins. Genoa City, vs Bid Karoff, Chicago--140 lbs. Bobby Hermance, Genoa City, vs Ben Marks, Chicago Cyclone--118 lbs. Harry Everson, Lake Geneva, vs John Da venporty. Springfield, 111.--150 lbs Ed Curtiss, Lake Geneva, vs Jack Sandes, East Side--148 lbs. Joe Cozzi, Chicago, vs Win. Debbans, Slock Yards--132 lbs. FIGHTERS THAT FIGHT Admission $1.00 Ladies Especially Invited home one day last week. „ Considerable work that was much ^refused him and his companions perneeded has been done on the south road from Ostend corner. A few days when raining it was in bad shape, soft and rutty. One car and two trucks got in so badly they had to have help to get out--ask Jim Sayler. Road* now passable. The storm last week put several telephones out of order. A report soon brought help. The dance party in P. W. FVeunds barn last Saturday night is reported well attended. Nearly all that were invited attended and some passersby looked in to see what the. amusement WMrs. Dalxiel has been feeling badly for some time but at this writing is reported better^ Her health is never good* C. J. Sherman and family of Woodstock motored over to this neighborhood Sunday afternoon in their new Paige automobile just recently purchased. Haying has commenced here. Several farmers have alfalfa put up. Other hay is improving fast since the rains. Joe Greene rented, the farm where the still was taken out, put on cows, and report is ten cans of milk are made there daily. Woodstock must have some kind of a draw card judging from the number of families that visit the county seat city every Saturday from different localities. All seem to be purchasing more-groceries than other kinds of goods. 'PEAKS "SHRINK* AS FAKES FADE M Once Called Far From It. Tallest, Largest Fixed Star The Naval observatory says that Alpha Scorpil (Antares) is the largest fixed star so far as Is known up to the present time. It Is abont 400,000,000 miles in diameter, accord* lng to Hale. Don't Loee Your Temper Losing one's temper Is dangerous, becanse the heart gallops and the blood is forced at such speed and pressure to the brain that a vessel may burst Temper has killed many In that way. Reaction, too, may bring about a collapse. Telephone Service, a Public Trust THE widespread ownership of the Bell Telephone System places an obligation on its management: to guard the savings of its hundreds of thousands of stockholders. ] ts responsibility for so large a part of the country's telephone service imposes an obligation that the service shall always be adequate, dependable and satisfactory to the user. The only sound policy that will meet these obligations is to continue to furnish the best possible service at the lowest cost consistent with financial safety. • There is then in the Bell System no incentive to earn speculative or large profits. Earnings must be sufficient to assure the best possible service and the financial integrity of the business. Anything in excess of these requirements goes toward extending the service or keeping down .the rates. * This is fundamental in the policy of the company. The Bell System's ideal is the same as that of the public it serves--the most telephone service and the best, at the least cost to the user. It accepts its responsibility for a nation-wide telephone service as a public trust. ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY BELL SYSTEM One Policy • - One System < Universal Service •o- Give the Kids Plenty of Milk . There is nothing better f©T children in warm weather than plenty of pure milk and cream. Pht>ne your order today. We handle nothing but Bowman's Pasteurized and Degreed Products BEN J. SMITH i. Phone 657-R-l mission to go. In doing so the king virtually signed his own death warrant and the death warrant of "the divine right of kings." For the wouldbe emigrant was Oliver Cromwell. It was a crucial time In England's history. Queen Bllzabeth% had been succeeded by James Stuart, son of Mary Queen of Scots. James, "who never said a foolish thing and never did a wile one," was succeeded by his son, Charles I. Charles inherited enough of the vljje traits of his grandmother, Mary Queen of Bcots, to make him thoroughly untrustworthy, despotic and Inconsiderate of the people's rights. He set aside the wishes of his spb- Jects, as expressed through parliament; levied heavy and unjust taxes; pursued an unpopular foreign policy; was suspected of conspiring against the established religion of England. In 1642 king and parliament came to an open rupture, and civil war swept England. Oliver Cromwell-- farmer, legislator and stanch Presbyterian-- was made captain in the par- JJameptary army. He was an eloquent preAcher, but had no knowledge of war. Yet I £oloSetcy and raised a cavalry regiment of Puritans (nicknamed "Ironsides"), whose powers of prayer and exhortation were only exceeded by their zeal for slaying royalists. With Bible In one hand and sword in the other, Cromwell led his invincible band of psalm-slnging lighting men to victory after victory. The king's followers were known as "Koyallsts" or "Cavaliers"; the parliamentary army, from their close-cropped hair,' being dubbed "Roundheads." Little by little, at Marston Moor, Naseby and elsewhere, the Roundheads broke down the royal power, until at last in 1646 Charles fled for refuge to his father'u people, the Scotch. The thrifty Scottish lotds promptly sold him to parliament (Cromwell being largely Instrumental In the "purchase"), and he was brought'back to England a prisoner. Now that the king was captured. parliament did not know what to do with him. Cromwell and others sought for means by which Charles could still nominally reign while parliament should actually direct the government.' But they could not trust the shifty monarch. Bo his adherents were cleared out of parliament, the house of lords dissolved, a special court was chosen and Charles was tried, condemned and In January, 1649, behead ed; Cromwell's name appearing third among the signers of the death warrant. Scotland, Ireland and Wales rebelled against this drastic set and Cromwell successively crushed the three revolts. Parliament's methods did not wholly suit him, so he disbanded that body by force and formed another composed of his own friends. Two years later parliament made him sole governor of the British commonwealth with the title of "Lord Protector." Be ruled wisely and well, winning the approval of the people at large by giving them added liberty. The nobles and the clerical element hated and feared him. Parliament, wholly under his control, offered him the title of king. But the offer met with scant popularity In the nation at large. Quick to feel the popular pulse and doubtless fearing to share the fate of Caesar, Cromwell refused to accept the proffered honor. In 1658--In his sixtieth year--Oliver Cromwell died. His son Richard-- weak, amiable incompetent--succeeded him as lord protector; btft anarchy at once broke out, and General Monk, Cromwell's right-hand man, was instrumental In bringing Charles' son, Charles II, back to England as king. After this restoration, Cromwell's body was dug up from Its grave In Westminster Abbey and beheaded. The head was stuck on a pole In front of the abbey and the trunk was hung in chains on a Tyburn hlU gibbet. A revulsion of feeling set in. England was tired of blue laws, purltanlsm, plain dress and piety. Forgetting that those things had saved her from corruption, perhaps from total ruin, the nation swung to the other extreme. Under Charles II gayety, frivolity and extravagance held sway, and Cromwell was denounced as a usui"per. It Is hard to form a just idea of Oliver Cromwell. He was the first great republican, and the first Englishman to exploit successfully a government for and by the people. He also built 'up a political machine and system of bosslsm that Is unsurpassed. His severity may be partially forgiven when one remembers that through that severity alone he was able to hold In check the many unquiet elements in his realm. He was the last and greatest of the Puritans; and with him died the physical power of Puritanism In Bogland. He and purltanism were the strong, distasteful medicine which alone could cure his country's debilitated "body politic." His treatment of Ire- Land was unpardonable. His government of England was almost ideal. Jasper Park, Alberta.--Todgy & I® a matter of common knowledge to every school child that the highest peak in America, excluding Alaska jtnd the Yukon, is Mount Whitney, 14,501 feet In California. Twenty years ago, when their elders were going to school, it was equally certain that tlie highest altitude on the continent was attained by either Mount Browu or Mount Hooker, high above Athabasca pass, in what today is Jasper National park, Alberta, but in what at that time was but a dimly known north country. So much can fable do even for the height of a mountain. These twin peaks, which stood guard over the pass that was the gateway between the valleys of the Columbia river and the prairies to tl»e east of the mountains, became endowed with marvelous proportions by the early travelers, unaccustomed to the spectacle of height, who passed beneath their shadows. David Thompson, noted explorer and geographer of the West, estimated their altitude to be about 18.0»K) feet. In 1830 James Renwick, professor of chemistry and physics at Columbia college, communicated his belief to Washington Irving, the writer, that these mountains compared in height with the Himalayas. David Douglas, distinguished botanist from whom the Douglas fir of the western coast receives Its name, when making the overland journey- about 1825, placed the height of these peaks at close to 17,000 feet. He named them Hooker and Brown after two botanists he had ado^tred. And ?o The legend persisted until close on to 20 years ago. It was dissipated by expeditions taken by Prof. Coleman of Toronto, which settled the altitude at something close to.that given by the interprovincial boundary survey in 1920, namely Mount Brown, 9,- 156 feet; Mount Hooker, 10,872 feet, Man's zeal forVpreclsion had toppled another fond ilrasi the years. Bion persisting through The Members mt the Bite* > club pleasantly surprised Mrs. Wm. Thomas at her home in Woodstock on Wednesday afternoon. Five tables of bunco were played with first prize awarded to Mrs. Viola Low, second to Mrs. Mhbel Merchant, third to Mrs. Claus Larsen and consolation to Mrs. Agnes Dohfirty. The Ladies' Aid gave a cafeteria supper at the Woodman hall Wedtftsday night. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Smith and son, Earl, of Urbana, are spending a few days with relatives and friends. Miss Norma Whiting of DeKalb spent the week-end at her home. Mr. and Mrs. P. N. Mjusser of Elgih spent Sunday with Mrs. Ellen Whiting. M!r. and Mrs. Frank Turner and little daughters of Lincoln are spending a few days with Mrs. Hodge and other relatives and friends. The Bunco club was entertained at Mrs. Ed Peels, as a surprise party on Dorothy's birthday anniversary. There were eight tables of bunco, first prize to Mrs. George Worts, second to Mrs. Viola Low, third to Mrs. Grace Mc- Cannon and consolation to Edna Peel. The club presented Dorothy with an appropriate gift. Mr. and Mxs. Lewis ScKroeder and Mrs. Emma Merchant were Elgin callers on Thursday. The ball team defeated the Greenwood team 6 to 2. This wasn't a league game but don't forget the big game with Johnsburg on Wednesday. Mrs. Florence Smith entertained a company of little girls at a party at her home as a surprise in honor of her little niece, Pearl Smith. After a pleasant afternoon refreshments were serwi. $. Ji. Freund © SOB flMisral Buildimr Oontiafitm ~ v"' -K. 'PhDBA 127-H Car. Pearl and Park 8ts. Ktisenry, XH White Man** Mam Burden Too much of the white man's burden is carried at the waistline.---Boaton Herald. And the Moat Popular Probably one of the best ways of calling attention to old age, Is trying to hide it--Rushvllle Republican. ut your in shape lor ymx§ service ' Our records show that the average useful yS'tWEfi of a Model T Ford is seven years.' ..ThAv. , . means there should be a lot of good service lelt ., •• your car. ' Don't sacrifice it just "to get a new auto? * mobile, but bring it in and let us look it over. 1 'We '11 tell you just what it needs and fix it up ^ few cost*. The labor charge for completely ovet«» %auling the jengine and transmission is only $2(fc* KNOX MOTOR SALES Phones 30 and*31 McHenry Find Brains df Great Like Those of Smalt Philadelphia.--The brains of the great do not vary so greatly from those of the small. ^ Post-mortem examination of the brains of G. Stanley Hall, eminent psychologist; Sir William Osier, for many years an outstanding figure in the field of medicine, and Edward S. Morse, widely known naturalist and zoologist, did not show striking variations from the normal, Dr. Henry H. Donaldson of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, told members of the National Academy of Sciences here. They were, however, slightly heavier than> the brains of more nearly average individuals studied for comparison. "The variations in the form of the convolutions," said Doctor Donaldson, "may mean something but they do not explain that for which explanation is sought, for in their fundamental structure human brains are remarkably alike, and the variations In the convolutions are incidental, as the several measurements show.'! North Sea Island Contains Iodine Property Wyk-on-Foehr.--The healing properties of the North sea air are due to strong emanations of salt, radium and especially iodine, and now a scientist of the Island of Foehr has established the fact that the milk of cows, goats and sheep on the North Sea islands and the coastlands also contains a surprisingly large amount of iodine. As much as 210 mlllionths of a gram per liter has been found In cow's milk. Iodine is the sovereign remedy for hardening of the arteries, and mUk with an iodine content is also indicated for various children's diseases. It has long been known that the inhabitants of this part of Germany are almost never afflicted by hardening of the arteries. Wow! High Trousers With Plaits for Men New York.--There has been comment from time to time on the popularity of high trousers, profusely plaited and short double- breasted waistcoats. With the coming of spring the odd waistcoat Is prominently mentioned, chiefly in tattersall flannel. For the extreme dresser the fancy waistcoat of the variety mentioned might be recommended as timely. A prominent clothier, in commenting on the rather bizarre trousers the men are wearing, remarked that he would not be surprised at anything the men might do. „ "A great many of as hesitated to accept the theory that the men would ever take trick trousers seriously, but they seem to have done so. They have also gone back to-suspenders, a rather startling revelation In itself. "As a finishing touch the double- brearted waistcoat offers a "daring background and is being liberally boosted by the makers of such novelties." Flashing performance --at no extra cost Any gasoline will drive your car--but it takes 400 "Extra Dry*" the wonder gasoline, to give you the real thrill of motoring--the feel of irresistible power--the urge to "let 9st gow-- the sense of flying over the road* Once you try 400 "Extra Dry" Shell Gasoline, you will want it always. It is alive with power--quick to respond --flashing in performance--because it is ALL gasoline-- refined by a revolutionary process that takes only the most volatile elements from the crude. It is EXTRA DRY*--overy drop vaporizdl-- every particle is converted into power---there are no impurities or heavy, greasy elements to foul the sparks plugs, pass the pistons unburat and dilute the oil in the crankcase. 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