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Mr. and Mrs. George Lundgren attended a party at Fox Lake Wednesday. (Mrs. C. K. Werden entertained the •Ladies' Auxiliary Thursday. Mf. and Mrs. J. L. Harris and MJss Laura Harris were Waukegan visitors Tuesday. Dr. and Mr*. Sidney Homes of Chicago spent Saturday at the C.*C. Haller hone. Miss Grace Granger of McHenry is spending a few days wih Mrs. Lillie Toyon. L. E. Hughes and son. Merlin, of Crystal Lake called on friefeds here (Wednesday. Mrs. Albert Meyer and children of IMundelein called on relatives here on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Paddock of Round Lake called on relatives here Wednesday. Mrs. M. S. Clark and daughter, Lydia, and Ernest Hines spent Thursday in Chicago. Mrs. Joe Wheeler of McHenry spent last Tuesday with her aunt, Mrs. H. K. Harris. Misses Maude Wheelock and La- Verne Hapka were McHenry callers (Wednesday. 4 Edward Daley spent the first of the week at the Albert Meyer home in JVtundelein. Mrs. Hairy Francisco, who is attending school at DeKalb, spent the week-end here. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Green of Chicago spent Sunday at the home of Mrs. Florence Green. Mrs. E. J. Cok was taken Sunday to the Sherman hospital in Elgin, where she is receiving treatments. JDonald, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stadifeld, has the measles. A. L. Crabtree of Cary was a caller here Thursday. Mir. and Mrs. C. W. Jenks and Mrs. |C. E. Jenks called on Mrs. E. J. Cook at Elgin Tuesday. VErs. William Gossell and daughter and Mrs. C. E. Wheelock spent Tuesday in Waukegan. Misses Myrle and Esther Knigge of My. and Mrs. O. W. Grantham. Mrs. William Gossell and daughters •ad Mrs. John Gossell called on Mrs. C. R. Wells in Waukegan Friday. Irwin and Myrle Nicholls of Roseville spent Saturday with their little cousins, Audry, Udell and Arbutus Grantham. Mrs. Ella Cady and Charles and Robert Harris spent Wednesday night at the Clyde Harris home at Libertyville. Mr. and MVs. A. H. Bochmer and sons spent Thursday evening with Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Wait at Round Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Stoxen and family, Arthur Stoxen, Mrs. Natalie Stroup, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Dorwin and Mrs. Harold Buck were Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Stoxen near Wilmot, Wis. Marjorie, the six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Knigge, returned home Sunday from the Victory Memorial hospital at Waukegan, after an operation for appendicitis. She is improving nicely at this time. A&r. and Mrs. Harry Grantham and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Lee Geary at Gilmer. Mirs. R. E. Kent, wife of Mayor Kent, was laid to rest in the Waucbnda cemetery on Sunday afternoon. Funeral services were held from he home on Maple avenue, followed by services in the Federated church. The Past Miatrons' club of Mayflower Chapter, O. E. S., was in charge. G. D. Stroker, cashier of Wauconda bank, returned home Monday, after being confined in Washington Boulevard hospital in Chicago, for four weeks. Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Houghton and daughter, Thirza, of North Chicago, called on Mr. and Mirs. Clarence Daley Friday. Misses Nellie and Grace Cross of Rockford spent Sunday in the J. B. Turnbull home and also attended the funeral of Mrs. R. C. Kent. Miss Dorothy Peck and Herbert Shroeder of Chicago spent the weekend with Mrs. Edith Peck. Ronald and Doris Geary of Gilmer attended the show here Saturday night. Emmerson Cook and Andrew Sorenson visited with Mrs. Emmerson Cook at the Sherman hospital Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Deitrich and family and Mrs.John Brown, Sr., of Volo, spent Sunday at the home of the latter's son, John Brown. A large crowd attended the recital of Mrs. Mildred fioffman's Friday evening. Find Greased Shoe Stays Dry andv Wears Washington.--Farmers who grease _ their shoes to make them last longer lake Zurich spent last week wttf Ssre following a sound scientific printiteir parents here. Miss Viola and Alma Geary spent Saturday night with their cousins, Audry and Arbutus Grantham. Dr. Elmer Golding and wife of Libferyville spent Sunday with Mr. and Jffes. Henry Golding. Mrs. John Young and daughers of Xmnston were callers at the Will (Geary home Sunday. Mrs. Owen Paddock and children are Spending a few weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Seymour. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Paddock and daughter and Mirs. Leslie Turnbull were Waukegan callers Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Gossell and daughter, Bemice, attended a show at Barrington Sunday evening. William Whitman, Claire Smith and Kay Clark attended the boxing show at McHenry Friday evening. STr. and Mrs. M. E. Smith and children left Sunday on a motor trip to Minneapolis and North Dakota. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Winkler and son of Waukegan spent Sunday with clple and not a "fallacy of the hlnter land," the Department of Agriculture Insists. Greasing shoes, experts say, not only prolongs their life, but helps to keep the feet dry. They recommend neat's-foot, cod and castor oils, tallow and wool grease or mixtures of these. Shoes won on the farm get particularly bard wear, since they are subjected to mud and water and at times to extreme dryness. All these, it Is observed, ruin leather, whereas oil and grease preserve It. Bclieoe San Laid Eggs There are scores of beliefs regarding man's origin. The queerest Is that of the ancient Peruvians, who believed that the sun came down, laid two eggs, and from those the first human beings came. Many dollars are saved by reading the ads in the Plaindealer each week. Aviator \ Flour A new flour made fromW estern Hard Wheat Ask your grocer, for ip • • Spencer THE WORLD'S GREATEVENTS ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE n. m (® by Dodd, lCa*d a Company.) Chart-- XU A' fcOUOH LOOKING boy of fifteen came to the throne of Sweden In 1687, under the title of Oharles XII, and started In at once on a cross between the simple and the strenuous life. He gave no sign that he was going to make a name for himself, for he hated the stupid business of state and spent most of his time In hunting and athletics. Nor was there anything very kingly in his looks. His habitual dress was an old blue coat with copper buttons, buffalo skin gloves and huge boots that came above the knees. In those days of hard drinking and hiih living his way of life made him a marked man. He drank no wine, ate only coarse bread, and slept on the bare ground covered by a cloak. Patkul, the wily Lithuanian diplomat, thought the boy king a fool and hit on a plan whereby other countries might take advantage of Oharles' carelessness of state affairs. He formed a triple alliance--Ruasia, Poland and Denmark--against Sweden. Denmark opened operations by invading Swedish territory. Then, for the first time, the world realized what character of king this unkempt, sport-loving boy was destined to be. For Charles, with a fierceness and vigor no one had dreamed he possessed, drove out the Danes and turned on the two other members of the alliance. He put away forever the pleasant outdoor home life he loved and turned to the wilder sport of hunting men. Russia, following Denmark's lead, had advanced on Narva and the country around the Gulf of Finland. Poland's army had besieged Riga. Charles, with barely 20,000 men, marched against the 80,000 Russians encamped under the walls of Narva. Then followed one of the strangest and briefest battles in the annals of warfare. Charles, disdaining all known military tactics, "rushed" the enemy's camp, charging headlong into a force four times the size of his own. In less than fifteen minutes he had stormed It. Of the 80,000 soldiers, 30,000 were killed and the rest captured or scattered. Without pausing, Oharles hurried his little army across the Dwlna, attacked the Saxon army intrenched there and utterly routed It. Then he turned his attention to the Poles. By 1706 all Poland was helpless before the twenty-one-year-old Swedish youth, and three years later he dictated peace terms to his three enemies. He had these once-powerful foes wholly at his mercy, yet he treated them magnanimously. Having completely broken up the alliance agalnBt Sweden and saved his country, Charles might have been expected to go back with a clear conscience to his old, easy-going mode of life. But his fighting blood was up. The lust of conquest had fired his brain and his former pleasures no longer appealed to him. He planned to crush Russia, and In 1707, with an army 87,000 strong, he marched on Moscow. But Instead of going thither direct and striking one decisive blow, as was his "custom, he listened to the advice of his ally, the Uoesack chief Mazeppa, that he march first through the Ukraine in the hope of Inciting the Cossacks to join him. The Ukraine expedition was a failure. In 1700 Charles attacked the rich city of Pultowa and was about to capture It when Czar Peter I of Russia bore down upon him with 70.000 men. Oharles turned eagerly to meet this new foe. But In a preliminary skirmish he received a dangerous wound in the thigh. So, in the battle itself (July 8, 1709), he had to issue his commands from, a litter. His troops, deprived of his inspiring presence, and weakened by starvation and fatigue, fell back before the superior Russian force. His hopes baffled and his army beaten, Charles seemed to have lost all Le had hitherto gained. But he wasted no time In despair. To check the Russia invasion, he promptly Incited Turkey to war with Russia. The latter country's diplomats, however, persuaded the Tyrks that Charles had designs against Turkey, and an armed body of men was sent to arrest hlml Oharles was still at ^arnltza, in Turkish territory, and had a guard of less than 300 Swedes. Tet with this puny force he defied all Turkey. He defended his house against a whole army Of Turks and fought off the besiegers until they burned the house over his head. He was captured, fighting, but escaped In disguise and made his way to the fortress of Strelsund. There a mighty army of Russians, Danes, Saxons and Prussians assailed him on December 23, 1715, and by sheer weight of numbers defeated him. No longer able to win by force he now, for the first time, turned to statecraft He torqgd % stupendous plan to win what might In time have amounted to a world empire. His idea, In brief, was to form an alliance with Russia, attack and conquer Norway, from Norway to cross to Scotland, Invade Great Britain and dethrone King George I. The scheme al most succeeded. The alliance was made with Russia, Norway was Invaded and partly conquered. But, on November 80, 1718, while besieging Fredrlkshall, Charles' head was crushed by a cannon ball. Charles XII was but thirty-six when he died, and with his death Sweden sank from the liLgh power to which his genius and mad courage had raised her. ^r>/ Good Dividtuh ' A dollar spent for a show Is i dollar spent for transient pleasure; a dollar spent for a good book Is a permanent Investment for the whole family. --Pathfinder Magazine. OLD SWORD RECALLS DE SOTO EXPEDITION Part of Ancient Blade Dug Up in Georgia* Washington, D. O^Part of • Wsty u^?u 'i6P\ \ r-m. Georgia is believed to have been lost by the expedition of Hernando De Soto nearly 400 years ago. "If this was the origin .of the weapon," says a bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the National Geographic society, "it is a relic of an expedition that was a tragic mistake from first to last, and the only important accomplishment of which was the discovery of the lower reaches of the Mississippi river. Had Helped Conquer Peru. "De Soto had amassed a fort^$e by his association with Pizarro in the conquest of Peru," continues the bulletin. "He prevailed upon King Charles V of Spain to grant him the right 'to conquer Florida/ and threw his fortune into the enterprise. The whole matter was approached on the basis of the conquest of South America and Mexico. De Soto thought the present southern states of the United States constituted a land of superlatively rich Incas and planned to loot their temples' and 'palaces' of gold and precious stones. "When he had wandered over what is now Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana, killing thousands of Indian agriculturalists and hunters, finding only towns of huts and wigwams and losing hundreds of his men and scores of his horses,, he came to the realization that there was nothing in the region worth 'conquering.' "De Soto's expedition was not the first to reach Florida, bqt It was the first to go In on a large scale, and the first to penetrate westward through the Gulf states. His bestknown predecessor in the peninsula was Ponce de Leon, who searched not for gold, hut for the fountain of youth.' It was he who gave Florida its name. "De Soto's party, including foot soldiers, cavalry, and servants, left Havana, Cuba, in May, 1539, and is "believed to have landed on what Is now Tampa bay. They pushed north through swamps and forests, always harassed by the Indians and spent their first winter near the present town of Pensacola. •"In 1540 they went into the northern- pail of the present state of Georgia, still fighting and oppressing the Indians and still believing that gold lay just ahead. The wanderings turned westward and southward to the vicinity of Mobile. The following winter was spent in the Yazoo valley In what Is now Mississippi. Found Mississippi Muddy. "Soon after camp was broken !• 1541, the westward-pushing wanderers came upon the 'Great River* as they named It Palntlngs»have represented this as something of a gala occasion, with De Soto taking possession of the stream In shining armor. In reality it was a ragged, unkempt, rusty crew of discouraged men which found its way blocked by the muddy, driftstrewn waters of the lower Mississippi, somewhere south of the present Tennessee line. "Bargesfewere built, and the adventurers femed themselves and their horses Into what Is now Arkansas. They scouted as far north as the present situation of New Madrid, Missouri^ and still finding no gold, turned westward, ^he next winter was spent In the nHgheorhood of what 1^ pow Joplin, Mo. "No 'gOld was found in th|s region, and the party turned south and followed the Red river back toward the Mississippi. They became involved in the swamps and bayous of the Red river valfcy, but finally won their way through to the Mississippi neas the | mouth of the Red. There they encamped in an Indian town, with the natives rather unwilling hosts, and prepared to build boats. "But this was to be the end of De Soto's wanderings. He sickened, and within a few days died. His body was buried temporarily, and was then sunk, in the early summer of 1542, In the great river which he had discovered. "After wandering westward for several months Jthe survivors of De Soto's expedition retuitoed to the Mississippi, built seven brljatlnes, and floated down the river. They first killed all their horses and dried the meat for provisions. In the frail boats, the last of the party of adventurers entered the Gulf of Mexico, and skirting the present Texas coast, finally arrived at a Spanish settlement In Mexico, near the present port of Tarn plco."' 1 Out of 5 Weddings Gets Airing in Court' NeW York.--A least one out of every five new marriages in the United States results so deplorably that the case comes to court according to reports handed to the meeting of the joint committee on Domestic Relations Courts of the National Probation association. The matter Is so serious, the report of the United States children's bureau in Washington on the Domestic Relations court of the United States affirm?, that the bureau has made exhaustive study of the problems underlying family disruption and divorce and la formulating mtth ods of correction. - > ' • Thought for Today If we wish to know the fores of human genius, we should read Shskespeare. If we wish to see the Insignificance of buman learning, we may study his commentators.--Haalltti 126-W. Reasonable Bates A. E. 8CHAEFBK ••V-. Dnjiac MeHENRT, fUJNOIS fslsphons No. 1064L Stof fel & Reihansperger Insurance agents for all classes of property in ths best companies. WEST McHENRY, ILLINOIS McHENRY GRAVEL & EXCAVATING CO. A. P. Freund, Prop. Road Building and Excavating of Every Description _ Estimates Furnished op ' . Request • High-grade Gravel Delivered at any time--large or small orders given prompt attention. Phone 204-M McHeary WW.* OAiBfljj; Ltwyw . OSes with Kent A CWM* Every Wednesday 11mm 8 McHenry, DL losere-h Sore-Insurance WITHWm. G. Schreiner Auctioneering r ® . . OPTICI AT RKSIDBNCB ^ McHKNRf,"tiX Locomotive "Stranded" Out In western Kansas stands a locomotive that Is 30 miles away from any town or railroad. It was once the property of the road known as the Scott City h Northern. Hard times came along and a creditor served an attachment on the locomotive and chained it to the tracks. The railroad went broke and the officials of the road junked everything with exception of the engine and the two rails It stands on. And there it is today, 90 miles from nowhere, with rabbits and birds living In 1|, and under It Died Sear Hi» Ch&fr When the curfew bell, rung for many years at Berdlck-on-Tweed, did not sound as usual and the to£h clock stopped, people were surprised. Investigation of the unusual happenings led to the discovery of ths master belirlnger hanging dead In the bell loft.--London MalL Double-Jointed Eye* eyes of a chameleon work with- a In their sockets upon the cup-and-bali ^ principle, and each one can be moved Independently, so that the creator* % has the power to look in front ead»^ behind, or above and below irsttlf. at If the same time JkS # "if SeUUh Goodneee good out of a feeling 1 placency is likely to result in sel|f shame. Ths Good Samaritan went i 9X ' msMM to i Just because he wanted ta--American I Made Dancing Popedom The first public dance hall was ^ opened In London in 1788 by an BSsi» Hnhipan named Tlck&on. The first \ shelter soon proved Inadequate and he built a large hall known as the: "Grande Chaumlere." ( 0. W. KLONTZ, M. D. Physician and Surgeon (Also treating all diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat and the Fitting of Glasses) Offloe Hoars--8 to 9 a. m., 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays by Appointment Office at Residence, Wankegan Road. Phone 181 McHenry, HI. Will have a load of choice Holstein and Guernsey Springers t at my stock barns, on Rout$ 19, Washington St., Woodstock, 111. All sold on 60 day retest plan. at private sale Frank J. Green Hwa Wnditicki 63 Watch Still Tickinf ^ Found Inside Fishj Cape May, N. J.--A chronometrlcal croaker was hauled in recently by Capt. Francis Holmes, of the Reeds Beach fishing fleet, along the Delaware bay shore here. The captain was dangling his line over the side of his boat when the croaker, a( fish which noses among the clam beds for' dainty morsels, bit and as he was1 brought up his captor could hear ai distinct tick, tick, tick. ' The four-pound fish was opened and Inside of him was a watch, which' one of the party with Captain Holmes, had dropped over the side a littler while before. Despite a plunge off several fathoms and Its incarceration' Inside the croaker, the timepiece hadt JMfe Htissed a tick. ZfHEVROIET *7he Worlds S m: The COACH - Matter for Wonder This country is making so much educational progress that It become* an Increasing, wonder where all tJb^t ignorance comes from. -- Bostott Transcript T*** SmWkkVe Those who declare that modesty Is a thing of the past overlook the Modesty of most of our Incomes.--Boston •*" Eaey am the Wrieie Professional Beggar (to clerk In hat store)--I'd like to see something in 4 very light hat--it's to be held out, yod • sensational _ lim. and Better Chevrolet is due in greaj measure to the fact that it is the biggest autoi mobile in the world available at such ama> fcr>g low prices* z7 ^the 107* wheelbase is of vital significance ii| i low-priced car. For it means that the buyef Can now secure the balance and roadabilitf^ jgiat only a longer wheelbase can provide-* plus the restful comfort of ample room for both driver and passengers. Come in for a demonstration--and ttlnngl * . 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