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A.?-.. ft Shell of tho Agea ' 3k large fragment of a mussel shell, COMPUTED to Ik about 100,000,000 years Old, has been found In New Zealand. Judged by the measurement made on this and other fragments found elsewhere, it Is estimated that the mussels -of its remote date, apparently the heyday of mussels, grew to be as much tinea feet In length. J. i/, ] * Sick of Work L * f The highly paid, responsible emgtoyoo seldom has anything bat a real physical breakdown. The poorly paid person suffers all kinds of Ills simply from a Job complex.-- Woman> Home Plenty 9torm the discouraging note In th* caaa M the New Haven woman who left her husband because he played a aatophons is that there are apparently enough saxophones . lo go •j" . Simplicity Raima people cay few sound things when stride to say extraordinary ones. Sften a thought is too feeble to wear • Simple expression, that Is a sign to nfect it--Vauvenarges. "To look as if you 'own the earth', decorate the part of it that you do own. •# ?s# Twice Told Tales In Methodist circles they used to repeat this littlq rhyme: •"What kind of a church would my church be, If all of its members were just like me?" Let's apply the thought in another way: what kind of a town would this one be if every one's lawn looked like oursT Or yourst If each of us would add ust one lovely feature to is lawn, how much more "beautiful our whole town Would become! --t'v: tilil ust lag Bits ef News Tatan Ftmb the Cohuaaa ef the ^ JPlaindealer Fifty and *€•••"<•** fpnty-lnTelH Age JULT1MS Ernest Bach, son of John J. Buch met with an accident last Saturday that nearly proved serious. He was riding a horse, when it became suddenly frightened and went through a few circus antics. When the horse got through with its perform Mice Ernest was lying on the ground, to all ap pea ranees fatally injured. He was taken home and soon the physician which was called assured Hie anxious parents that their son was not in danger, but badly bruised. Stephen Smith will dedicate his new building at Johnsburg Tuesday, with a grand opening. The hall floor made of maple scraped and polished, and when thoroughly waxed, it will be one of the finest flora in the country. There is no change in the price of butter. The quotation committee decided on 20 cents steady as the market price of butter. John Stoffel turned over the affairs of the West McHenry postoffice to H. C. Mead Monday Dooming, and all documents from that office will here after be signed H. C. Mead, P. M. Mr. Stoffel will assist the new postmaster' the balance of the week. A large number f fish were found dead and dying in the mill pond near the dam Mondayf and the cause is a mystery. The most likely theory is that the fish are killed by being dashed Into the rocks along the shore during the storms. JULY 1878 Wool still continues to come into this market at a lively rate.. We learn that 31 cents was the price paid Monday and Tuesday. The number of pleasure seekers going to and from the lakes for the past two weeks has been larger than ever before. A number of splendid residences are being built this season, and Fox Lake is fast becoming one of the popular resorts of the west. We learn of two accidents in this village on Monday last. The first was Mrs. Rothermel, of Johnsburg, a lady about sixty years of age, who fell from a cherry tree, breaking her leg just above the knee. The second was a young man by the name of Fleming, near Barreville, whose team ran away with him, throwing him out and breaking his arm just above the wrist. 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" Wbea a man yoa like dlssgrssa with you, yon try «e accommodate year •tews to his. * Handwriting on the wall vfhen next to a telephone doesn't mean' as much as it did to Beishazsar. If people had to express all their thoughts in words or keep quiet* conversation would become a lost titfe * Genius Productive in Middle Life and Age In painting, Titian produced masterpieces as a nonogenarian. Most painters develop progressively, acquiring freedom from the claims of technique and therefore full play for their imagination only by the middle years --Rembrandt is a good example. Id science, Galileo wrote perhaps his mo^ important scientific work at the age of seventy-two, and made the telescope discovery of the moon's diurnal and monthly Ubrations the following year. The scientist, Edison, is at the present time producing original work st eighty. In politics, wisdom seems to grow progressively with (the years. One need mention only Disraeli and Gladstone, prime ministers respectively in their seventies and eighties, and among living statesmen Lord Balfour at seventy-nine, and Clemenceau and Hlndenburg, both ^ver eighty.--London Chronicle. 'Abridged Talk people: Play bridge because they haven't anything to talk about and then talk all the time they're playing bridge.--Detroit Free Press. Illinois' third special session of the general assembly adjourned sine die a few days ago after writing into the Statutes three bills giving the state tax commission authority to order a reassessment of property in Chicago and the downstate at any time. There was no opposition from Chicago or the downstate. The group of three measures went through with 35 members voting in the affirmative, after which the bills were signed by Lieutenant Governor Fred E. Sterling, and sent to Peoria for the signature of Speaker Robert Scholea, who is ill. Governor Small is expected to give his Immediate approval. The new laws became effective July 1, when the taxing officials of Cook county were expected Jo begin a reassment In compliance with an order of the state commission, which was held premature in an opinion from Attorney General Oscar E. Carlstrom. The senate gave its approval to three bills appropriating $24,000 for the expense of the session. Included ia this amount is $50 for each member payable en July 1. • survey of the mad degaltuation in Illinois, conducted by the state department of agriculture, Indicates that the epidemic has attained its peak. The dog-muzzllcg orders Issued by the director of agriculture, and enforced by local peace officials, tends to curb the spread of rabies. In districts subjected to control measures outlined in the rabies act of 1927, all dogs must be locked up, restrained by leash and muzzled, or subjected to a vaccination that practically assures Immunity. Dogs thus treated must bear a tag that signifies that they have received the vaccination. Local officials, refusing, failing or neglecting to enforce the law pertaining to rabies control are subject to fine. County and city peace officers, the veterinary branch of the department of agriculture and the analysis service offered by the laboratory of the state department of public health -all work together for the protection of the public and the live stock of the state over an area that embraces 20 entire counties and parts of several others. Deaths from heart disease have Increased so rapidly that that disease now outranks tuberculosis as a drain on human resources, Dr. Isaac D. Rawlings, state health director, said recentl; In his hen'th review. Nearly 20 per cent of the mortality, he said, occurs among people less than forty years old. Doctor Rawlings, regards this as the most serious phase of the growing seriousness oi heart disease. Heart disease In persons under forty, said Doctor Rawlings, usu ally is the result of some Infection that has poisoned the circulatory sys tern. Doctor Rawlings recopmended preventive measures and medical cafe. LAUNDRY Jut phone McHenry 67-W and we'll do tin rest Our modern laundry equipment give you quality service. Standard Wet Wash of Elgin. Martin Smith, Dist Mgr. I VISIT THE ^ . Agatha Shop Secretary of State Euunersoa has issued a charter to the Quincy Memorial Bridge company, Quincy, with a capital stock of $400,000 and 10.000 shares of stock of no par value. The company will construct a memorial toll bridge across the Mississippi river between Quincy and Marion county, Missouri. Bids have been received by the state department of purchases and. construction for a bridge at Meyers bay, McHenry county. The apparent low bidder was the Matthews-Tony an company of West McHenry, for $14,- 168. The bridge, a part of the state waterway plan, Is to be constructed in 120 days. Beauty culturlsts are under supervision of the state and not a municipality, the state Supreme court held recently In. passing upon a case from Chicago in which a beauty culturist was arrested for falling to comply with the provisions of the ordinauce. Bow milk production champions are groomed will be explained during the Illinois state fair, August 18-25, In accordance with arrangements fair officials are making with H. C. Horneman, Danville, owner of the Kenfleur dairy farm and one of the stars of that establishment. Lady Crescent's Ideal 141951, who holds the world's record for production as a four-yearold Guernsey cow. In a production test conducted under supervision of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin agricultural colleges, Lady Crescent's Ideal yielded a total of 16,096.7 pounds of milk and 854.9 pounds of fat in one year. Dr. A. R. Crook, chief of the Illinois state museum, has published a booklet on "Its Fifty Years of Service," 1877 to 1927. Before the museum was made a separate Institution a half century ago, it was a part of the state geological survey, started in 185L At the Illinois state fair grounds, work is progressing rapidly on the six dairy cattle barns and the dairy cattle exposition pavilion. Concrete foundations are completed, and an army of brick layers is making splendid headway with the masonry. Dalrymel*throughout the state are ex pressing their approval of the plans that will provide them with commodious quarters for their exhibition cattle. In recent years, increasing entries in the cattle classes of the fair have made it necessary to place the overflow In tents. - The car-lot movement of early cabbage from the Quincy truck garden district is well under way. Growers in that section have obtained inspection service offered by the state department of agriculture, through the division of standardization and markets. The chief of this Inspection service, supervising the grading, packing and refrigeratioh of the cabbage crop reports the quality as good. The leaves are bright and crisp. The heads are medium to large in size, and well matured. Five cars loaded during the first day of thfc harvest, arrived at the Chicago market on the following morning, and were Bold through the American Fruit Growers' exchange, upon the certificates of grade and quality provided by the state department of agriculture. This service costs shippers $2.50 per car in place of $5.00, the former price. As the result of Increasing volume of Inspection service, the state derives more revenue at the lower rate than was formerly received at twice the present fee. " • - The Illinois Council of Religious Education which met in Springfield recently, has awarded Quincy the 1929 convention. The following contracts have been awarded by the state division of highways: Route 4? Grundy county, bridge; to T. and L. D. Libby company, Minneapolis, $15,805.14. " Route 72, Ogle county, bridge; to I\ Kaney, Forrestoii, HI., $8,901.20. Route 140, Wayne-White counties, g.*ading; to M. Hasse, St Joseph, Mo., $79,323.47. Route 78, Carroll county, grading; to Nelson, Mullen ft Nelson, Minneapolis, $103,812.26. Route 78, Whiteside county, grading; to Stevens Brothers, St Paid, Minn., $62,105.05. Route 78, Carroll county, bridge; to A. Olsen, Waterloo, Iowa, $7,631.80. Route 173, section 131, Boone-Mc- Henry counties, pavement; to Froemming Brothers, Milwaukee, $124,654.97. Route 89, Marshall county, pavement; to Cameron-Joyce, Keokuk, Iowa, $24,334.03. Route 153, Washington county, pavement; to W. F. Smith 4 Co., Wood River, $127,545.28. Springfield, the capital ctty, was first among nine of the larger cities In Illinois during the month of May in the amount of building permits issued, with a total of $414,060, as' shown by figures prepared by the chamber of commerce. This sum Is also In excess of that of other larger cities outside the state. The comparative figures follow: Illinois cities: Decatur, $370,910; Jollet, $304,225; Peoria, $229,165; East St. Louis, $214,- 050; Bloomlngton, $184,500; Rock Island, $78,028; Danville, $53,200; Quincy, $44,621. Other cities: Des Moines, Iowa, $282,000; Terre Haute, Ind., $96,514; Davenport, Iowa, $120,- 273; St Joseph* Mo., $77,400; Springfield, Ohio, $129,560. Milk goats from all sections of the country will compete for national Championship honors an J cash prizes at the Illinois state fair, August 18- t0, as the result of the adoption of the Illinois goat show as the official exposition of the American Milk Goat Record association, the national organization of pure-bred milk goat owners. Between 150 and 200 specimens, representing the four breeds recognized by milk goat registration officials, will be on exhibition. Will L. TeWalt publisher of the Goat World, official publication of the record association, and its secretary, in a • ommunication to all owners of milk goats of record in America, urges them to participate in the Springfield show. WHEREAS, A petition addressed to the undersigned as County Judge of Kane County, Illinois, has been filed in the office of the County Clerk of said County, which petition is signed by 1,089 persons, who represent themselves to be more than one percent of the legal voters of the territory described in said petition, said petition asking that the undersigned as County Judge of said Kane County may take the necessary steps under an Act of the Legislature, entitled, "An Act to Create River Conservancy Districts for River Control, Sanitation, Development of Water Supply, Navigation and Protection of Fish Life" (approved July It, 1925) (laws of 1925, page 346) to create the Commission which shall hold the Statutory hearings, give the Statutory notices and cause an election to be held at which the question shall be submitted to the legal voters of said proposed District, whether such proposed territory as therein set forth, or as amended, after hearings by said Commissioners, shall be organized as a Conservancy District tender Said Act of the Legislature, said petition contains a definite description of the territory proposed to be organized as such Conservancy District, the largest portion of which proposed Conservancy District lies in Kane County. That the undersigned has called to his assistance for a hearing on said petition, the County Judges of the Counties of Lake, McHenry, Cook, Kendall and LaSalle, in the State of Illinois, and said County Judges, together with the undersigned sitting as a Board of Commissioners, have determined that a hearing shall be had on said petition at the County Court room in the Courthouse at Geneva in said Kane County, and State of Illinois, on Monday, the 9th day of July, A. D. 1928, at 1:30 o'clock, p. m., and continuing thereafter until the boundary lines of said proposed District shall be fixed and determined. Therefore, notice is hereby given that the said Board of Commissioners will hold a meeting in the County Court room in the Courthouse at Geneva in said County on the 9th day of July, A. D. 1928, at 1:30 p. m., foi; the purposed of considering said petition and the boundaries of said proposed Conservancy District, whether the same shall be as stated in the petition or whether said description shall be amended, and in what manner and to what extent, and will also consider all other matters pertaining to said petition and the organization of said Conservancy District as the same may come before said Board of Commissioners for said District. At which time and place every one interested in the organization of said proposed Conservancy District may appear and be heard upon any question which may be raised affecting the organization of said District and the boundary lines thereof. Dated at Geneva, Illinois, this 11th day of June. A. D. 1928. HARRY C. DANIELS, County Judge of Kane County, 9-9 Illinois. Dutch Pacific Charity Fresh evidence of benevolence In times of national disaster has been given by the Dutch people. Thousands of persons contributed to the relfef commission working on behalf of th^ victims of last year's floods in the Meuse district Now a number ot prominent Dutchmen have informed the commlslon that they will bear the costs of a building to accommodate many of the worst sufferers la tbe afflicted area. Turkish Plana Failed Discovery of a road winding through the arid waste of northern Arabia Is a grim reminder of the danger that threatened the Sues canal during the war. The roadway waa built secretly by the Turks as part of their ambitious plan to capture the canal. Fortunately, the stratagem was discovered. The existence of the read was forgotten until three French motorists rediscovered it rttesUy, - Competition "What shall we do tonight? Shall we go to the cathedral of the motion picture?" "No, I think there's a better picture this week in one of the Cinema goguea."--Life, No pedestrian 1 this is leap year. The acme in daring: A spending his vacation in Chicago, A bit of good advice to party ers: Never start anythng you a stop. Chicago is ninety-one years of bat will have to mend its ways to 1 to be one hundred. An electrical storm caa be wn rifying than a blizzard, mayfcst nobody has to shovel it. j_ Hit Fatm OTuddle--Poor Weeks has always been the underdog in the fight O'Muddle--Yep, and now the poor boob is going to get mailed.--New Bedford Standard. Blowing It "When old Richielgh died he left a request that his dust be scattered to the four winds." "Well, his spendthrift son ia attending to that aty right" yon Information Pleaao Traffic Cop--Say, lady, do know how to drive a car? Fair Motorist--Oh, yes. What Is it you wish to know? There might be less talk about ooas-j panlonate marriage If there were mow that are, In nontechnical sense. The Maine hen that laid SOS in a year most beUeve that a ct a day keeps the hatchet away. Sometimes we are inclined to be-j Ueve that professional reformers arai simply extracting the pie out of piety.! About the only frills and furbelows, now extant are those pantaiette ef-j fects on lamb chops and roast chicken' legs. . In order to enjoy life a person to keep himself up to a standard efficiency that will at least enable' to digest pie. Aviators call the fogs and smokai which obscure the vision "smog." In' politics such things are called "defining the issues." "An optimist" says s peselmfst,-*!^'-" a man who spends his time thinking! about what a good time he would have' it he were having It" . The boys have Invented so many lat» preSslve and high-toned synonyms fifrt credit that It seems almost undignified.^ or something, to pay cash. Plaindealer Publicity Paya. •- - Hollow to Many It was a reading class, but the subject ot solid geometry was brought up with the mention that there were also other kinds of geometry. The teacher was halted. 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Facilities for making the examination at the conference this year will be greatly improved, according to information given out at the office of Dr. Isaac D. Rawlings, state health director. Bids for the construction of approximately 143 miles of pavement and many bridges and heavy grading sections will be received by the state division of highways In Springfield on July 18. The sections receiving Improvements are scattered over the entire state. Why Take a Chance .'•^"1 • v on Tires? There are scores of different brands of tires on the market--they all look pretty much alike-- everyone claims he lias the best--there are all kinds of 44special offers" floating around--it is no wonder car owners are confused. Here is one sure way to play safe. Buy a genuine Goodyear Tire from ua--they cost no more-- frequently less. Our service is always in your interest--Prompt ~Expert--Courteous. < AJuL*TYPES -- ALL SIZES -- ALL PRICES ' ALL GOOD YEARS The state court of claims. 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