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-rpl ^-F M'HENBY PLAIHDEALBR, THTO8DAY, OCTOBER », tm yimnjuwi 4 *,«•** ^wif .|PI yui, ** <IP.w«U> : A-i Interesting Bits ef Nm Fron the CoIumbs of (ha Plaindealer Fifty ul [Twcwty-flr* T< Age OCTOBER, 1878 1 - James R. Sayler left at this office tl* other day an ear of corn of the white dent variety that measured thirteen inches in length and was completely filled, being perfect in every particular. ^ Doc McLean, head brakeman for 'Conductor Flint, while making a coupling at Coon Siding, Monday night, got his hand caught between the bumpers and had it crushed severely. He is npw taking a "lay off" to rercuit. We would call the attention of our readers to notices in other parts of this paper of political meetings to be held in $his village this week, the first being i>n. E. M. Dennis on Thursday; Major Townsend, a Greenback orator, on Saturday evening and Hon. F. K. Granger and other prominent speakers on Monday evening. This is the "week of Jubilee" and on Tuesday next the mourners will be put to rest " OCTOBER, 1MI During six days' time recently Anton Schneider trapped 170 muskrats. Persons not acquainted with the habits of the rodent would never surmise that •so many could be found in this vicinity, but that number is only a drop in the bucket to what will be trapped between now and spring. All hides found within a radius of twenty miles of McHenry are sold to C. S. Howard. On Sunday, October 25, occured the marriage of Miss Nina Hobart to Mr. Earl Sherman. The ceremony was performed at Woodstock at the residence of Hev. Sunderlin, pastor of the M. E. church. Earl Ellsworth, the Woodstock murderer is now behind the bars of Joliet penitentiary, sentenced to remain there the rest of his natural life. Butter on the Elgin butter market went up half a cent on the Elgin board of trade. The market is firm at 21% cents. During the past summer many improvements have been made in McHenry which are appreciated by the citizens^ i>ut alas, we still walk in darkness. The old kerosene lamps still do duty at the street corners. Most towns the size of McHenry in the state have electric lights, and they are lacking in the natural advantges with which we're blessed. Mr. Reynolds, owner of the water power will either sell or lease privileges to the village, or an individual, if anyone desires to invest. McHenry must have better light. 'DAVY JONES' LOOKER" AT ERLANGEK THEATRE N#«r Marine-Aviation Drama Starts ^ in Chics gp, Sunday f'^ October 28 X group of well-known producers, Joseph P. Bickerton, Jr., Alex A. Aarons and Vinton Freedley, have joined forces to produce an up-to-theminute drama entitled "Davy Jones' Locker," by Richard Barry, which begins an indefinite engagement at the Erlanger Theatre, Chicago, on Sunday night, October 28th, with mat. inees Wednesday and Saturday. As the title indicates, the story deals with drama on the high seas, and one recalls stories of sunken treasure, pir ates and mutineers. Correct. Then to add the more modem element of courageous adventure, the author has introduced trans-Atlantic aviators whose wrecked pane falls into the ocean besides a steamer salvaging sunken treasure off the Irish coast. The wrecked flyers in "Davy Jones' Locker," are a daring aviatrix and her pilot in a non-stop flight to Europe, who escaping from their sinking plane, find themselves in an even more perilous situation on board the steamer, whose crew have mutineered over a division of the recovered treasure. Scenes of bitter hatred and murder, suspense and mystery greet the aviators, who are immediately involved in *he gripping maelstrom of this marine conflict. The aviatrix, who is silently loved by her pilot, becomes a pawn between the ship's engineer, spawned from the scum of the water-fronts, who would take by force that which he evilly desires, and the mate, leader of the mutineers, who of better breeding and intelligence endeavors to win the girl to his purpose by more subtly indirect methods. The ever mounting structure of conflicting purposes into which the flyers intrude in a dramatic and legitimate manner, makes for, it is said, a drama of enthralling interest, breathless thrills, emotional tension, suspense and high courage. The story is told in three acts, with the entire action taking place on board the salvaging steamer, Which is staged with elaborate and convincing realism. The ship is equipped with authentic apparatus for deep-sea divers, practical air-pumps working, the winches and derricks which are used to lower the divers into the depths and raise them to the surface. One of the most nerve-wracking scenes in the play is enacted by means of this diving equipment. With the returning cycle of melodrama at its peak, the producers of "Davy Jones' Locker" have provided the last wcrd in virile drama with the latest development of aviatiorf and its heroic followers blazing new trails of absorbing adventure. For such a play a company of unusual merit is required and has been provided with such players as Selena Royle, G. Pat Collins, John Rogers, Alden Chase, J. Malcom Dunn, George Tawde and others. Send your mail order in now for choice seats. "What do you want a new You've only had this a Father: car for? month.". Daughter: "Yes, but it's known to the police by now."--Punch. Plaindealers at Boiger's. WEST SIDE GARAGE Adams Bros., Props. General Automobile Repairing Tel 185 Res. Phone, 639-R-2 Frank Miller, Auctioneer We will sell at public auction on the Frank Kelsey farm, located about 3% miles east of Cary, and abouW) miles northwest of Barrington, commencing a^ 12:30 o'clock sharp on Saturday, Oct. 27 The Following Described Property, To-wit: -- HEAD OF LIVESTOCK -- -- 7 6 - HEAD OF HORSES - 6 Gray team, weight 3200 lbs.; Jjray riding and driving mare, 10 years old, weight 1000 lbs.; black mare, weight 1600 lbs., 7 years old; black mare, 8 years old, weight 1100 lbs.; bay horse, 3 year old. , . 1 Sow, due to farrow in October HAY, GRAIN and MACHINERY--McCormick Grain Binder; ]VfcCormifqk Corn Binder; McCormick Mower; two regular Corn Cultivators; McCormick Hay Rake; Disc Cultivator; Disc Har- . row; Spring Tooth Harrow; two Sulkev Plows; Rock Island Corn Planter; two Truck Wagons; Hay Rack; Bob Sled; Spike Tooth Harrow; Walking Plow and Cultivator; three sets Double Harness, one nearly new; All Small Tools, such as Forks, Shbv els, etc; Ford Truck; Double Unit Universal Milking Machine complete; two Gas Engines; Pump Jack; About 200 bu. Oats and 100 bu. Barley; 400 Shocks of Good Corn in Field; 35 tons Mixed Hav in Barn, and 25 tons out in Shocks. "JEST A QUESTION & SENSE" (A by I>. J. Walsh|. o SCAR L. REESE rolled a black cigar savagely back and forth between his teeth, at every motion resisting a desire to bite the thing In two. He felt like biting something in two, as if he didn't have srief/enough without Harry going on like/this. The business needed him in St, Louis, he was needed half a dozen places, and here he was tearing across the country to Portland because that son of his could not keep out of mischief. It was a fl?ht this time. Last time it was a car wreck. Why the d^uce couldn't the ho.v betiave himself? He had everything. His father had never denied him a thing. Harry ha-.l not the slightest ground for complaint, and yet lie never seemed satisfied. Well, Reese had decided he world show him this time. He wasn't going to stand for any more of It. He'd give the young cub a dressing down he'd never forget. What were these youns fellows coming to anyway? Now, in his day he didn't have cars and motorboats and money to spend. He had to hustle for everything 1:^ got. He hadn't wanted his son to go through that. He had seen to it that the boy didn't have to. And what sort of reward was he getting? The thing hurt Reese a lot more than he would admit, even to himself. He had hoped a lot nnd dreamed a lot and--oh, well-- He shrugged his shoulders and glanced through his- open window. He could make out nothing In the flying darkness, but he knew that the train was passing through desert country now. Just as well that there wasn't any light to see the bare hills and deen gullies and cactus-covered flats. Reese did not understand what the desert had ever been made for. Of all the earth It was the most worthless. Without the railroad It was less than nothing. Before the railroad it had robbed men of strength and hope and often life, and It gave nothing in return. He never saw a stretch of barren land without a feeling of strong distaste and a desire to get away, as quickly as possible. Reese had his arms up to lower his window when the crash came. It wan a very thorough spill. There were no deaths, but there were enough serious casualties to make railroad officials rub their chins thoughtfully for a good many weeks. A span of the old woodon bridge over the Drosky hollow gave way. It was the Irony of fate that all material was at hand to begin the erection of a new concrete bridge th? following week. Reese was hurled through the window as his car left the rails. He lit on extremely lumpy ground and rolled down a steep slope in the company of sticks and pitch-smeared pinion cones, boulders of various sizes and the half of an ant-hllL He brought op on bard-beaten ground In the circle of light from a Are. pawing at* pitch and ants. He tried to get to his feet and fell back with a grunt of pain. One foot seemed to be useless. A voice spoke close to him and he tnrned his head daxedly. "Where you hurt, mister?" R,eese looked Into the kindly eyes of a gray-headed man who was stooping over him. "It's iny ankle, I think." He could hear cries and groan* and screams from the wreck and Concluded that his portion had been light. Still, the pain was increasing at snch a rate that soon he was giving It all his attention. The old man deftly removed his shoe and sock and gently felt of the rapidly swelling joint. "Not busted," was his diagnosis, "but a prettv had sprain. Jest set still and I'll tlx you up in a Jiffy." He stirred the Ore, laid on* more wobd, and set over it a three-gallon pail half full of water. To this he added salt and vinegar and some dried leaves whose pungent ^dor Reese did not recognize. He W8ftfe|||t In a condition to recognize much of anything. He lay back on the blanket the old man had spread for him and wondered just how much pain a man could stand without yelping. At last the water was heated to the old man's satisfaction, he provided a worn canip stool for Reese to sit on, and told him to lower his foot gradually into the water. But Reese jerked up his leg at the first touch of the hot liquid. "I can't stand that! Can't we rub It with some salve or something?" "Thls's tlfl best way to treat a sprain," was the reply. "It's the only way I know that's any good. I got some dandy ointment, made out of balsam juice and herbs, hut this comes first. First bile out the meanness, t^en lay on the salve. That's jest sense." It took Reese ten minutes to get his foot into that pail and^then the old |fman began adding hotter water until I nothing hut a sense of shame preventfled the patient from drying out in protest But the pain had almost entirely ceased and the swelling was already going down. "It works like a charm," he admitted, drawing up his Rink extremity for Inspection.. "I've seen men laid up for weeks with a thing like this." The old man nodded. ^'Now for the salve." For nearly twenty, minutes he rubbed steadily and gently, working out the soreness, working in the healing compound. With the relief from pain Reese had time to study this stranger who had TERMS--All sums of $25.00 and under, cash. Over that amount a time of six months will be given on approved notes at 7% interest. No property to be moved until settled for. KYIDERA BROS., WALTER MEYER, derk^^^ S. One by one the (rid traditions an I ain't never had it happea1 being shattered. Now comes one who publicly proclaims a dally bath for curing insomnia, and away goes the Saturday night fetish. com^ to his assistance as naturally as his mother would have come. "One might thlhk." he. remarked, "that you were used to having people pitched out of passing trains Into the middle of your camp at night" The old man glanced up with a. twinkle. Just this way before, "Are you what they call a prospector?" "Yep. Been, up and down these Rockies for nigh onto forty year, now." JJeese watched him curiously, wondering how far desert etiquette allowed personal questions. The two could still hear people working about the wreck. They sew the flash of automobile lights and heard the authoritative voice of a doctor. Evidently a#-- sistance had been found in some near» by town. "isn't it m pretty lonesome 11/eT Reese asked. "Well, now, most any life is pretty lonesome, ain't It? I mean," he went on, seeing the other's puzzled look, "we mostly got to depend on ourselves, ain't we?" "We-ell, yes, I suppose that's right. But there's not much in it. Is there?" "Money, you mean? Prob'hly they's different ways o* look in' at that. How much you think you got depends on how much you want." "And have you all you want?" Reese's gaze traveled over the simple camp, the few blankets, blackened kettle and frying pan, two worn pack saddles, a canvas bag, of food probably, swung In the forks of a lowspreading pinion. A couple of gray burros dozed contentedly in the outer rim of the firelight. "Don't look like much to you," said the old man with a smile. "But you see, what I want and what 1 got go right along together." He looked up as if about to put a question, then thought better of it. "I know what you're thinking," said Reese, "you're wondering if mine go together. Tl>ey don't They never did. I wouldn't want them td." The old man nodded placidly. "It'd be a heck of a world -If we al*»wanted the same thing, wouldn't It?" He slipped a bridle ovef th*? head of one of the burros, saddled the animal and laid a thick pad of blankets atop. "We'll go find the rest, now!" "But, I don't need to ride," Reese had an uncomfortable picture of himself astride the diminutive mount. "You can get ofT 'fore we come la sight o' anybody," the old man told him. understanding him so perfectly that Reese was embarrassed. "But you oughta keep ofT that foot all you can for two or three days. 'Twon't give you a bit o' trouble If you do that" Reese mounted gingerly, the burro standing solidly under his awkward movements. "Are they always as patient as that?" he asked. "Well, all of 'em's generally patient outside. And if they're broke right they're patient inside." Seeing that Reese was again puzsied, the old man explained. i "It's Jest a question o' sense. They're Just Uke kids. You can whack 'euf Into mlndin' and get the work done in a kind of a way. But ever' time they get a chance they'll run off ffom you. Then you can be what you think la awful kind to 'em. and feed 'em too many oats. And Just as sure as sin they'll kick up their heels and run off the same. What brutes needs and what kids needs Is some dlcypline and some pettln' and a whole heap o' understandin'. But kicks and too many oats --them two things don't go." Oscar L. Reese, digesting this philosophy while he was guided through the velvet blackness of the desert night thoughtfully muttered "H-miup!" Whatever may be said- as to the decency of modern dancing, there ia no question that a duck approaching a mud puddle displays vastly mora of grace and elegance. Few Trees Attain to Really Ripe Old Age Trees live longer than humans; hut a baby hunun has more chance of life than a baby tree. A forest at maturity contains about 5 per cent of the trees that started life there. The percentage of human beings living from ten to fifty is much greater than in/ the case of trees. About !>5 per cent of trees die before they are^eighty years old, while only 87 per cent of persons die before reaching that age. There are exceptional trees which live to an amazing age. The sequoia tree, for Instance, sometimes attains the age of 4,000; so also does the cypress. At twenty years of age a spruce tree requires about four square feet of space; at forty years It will require 34 feet; at sixty years, 70 feet, and at one hundred years, about 150 feet Pine tree* need at least 15 per cent more light space than spruce trees. Just One More Bite Richard, age three, was permitted at this meal to partake of the delights found In a roasting ear. So interested was be in this new addition to his otherwise prosaic bill of fare that lie preferred to make his entire meal on the vegetable. When his mother thought that he had eaten as much as he should have, she asked for the cob, which Hie placed on a nearby bread and butter plate. In a few' minutes Richard looked in tentiy at the cob and said: "Mother, please let me borrow my corncob again. I think I see one more good Mte." * Class "Heard about that hotel de luxe?" "What about It?" '"The lighting fixtures ere solid gold." -- Well?" 'All hardware Is platinum-plafed, and they make out. your bill on embossed vellum." The Horse's Measure s Horses have been measured by "hands" from very ancient times. The measurement is from the top of the s»w>ulder to the gro^n^ A "haad" Is four?-inches The Spoilers A philosophical observer In the Woman's Hotne Companion declares that most everyone has spoiled, is spoiling or helping to spoil somebody. Genlle Warning "Anything to see In this giSHh-ftifc eakeu hamlet?" asked a New Tor% salesman who was In San Diegi for the week end. "Well, yes," responded the doorman of the San Diego hotels "Every once in a while yoo can see a funeral goes by--and occasionally it's the funeial of some feller that thought he was smart, and got what was coming te him."--Lse Angele^i Times. 4 ~ Although weddings in airplanes are becoming more and more common, no clergyman should be asked to present a guarantee against the marital machine going Into a tailspln and crashing. Manuel, former king of Portugal and "now a resident of England, has decided to make book collecting his lite work. Well, as Prince Carol might tell him, they can't deport that. A radio wizard In ToungStown, Ohio, recently drove three automobiles by "remote control." It will be Remembered that remote control, though not known as such, used to consist of knotting the reins around the whipstock.' - ,' Dividend Notic# THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS of PubUe Service Company of Northern Illinois has declared the regular quarterly dividend of $1.50 per share on the Con*> pany's 6% Preferred Stock, $1.75 per shaft on the 7% Preferred Stock, and $2.00 per share on the Common Stock, payabli November 1, 1928, to stockholders of reo ord»atthecloseofbusiness,October 13,1928. tQoE ORQE R. JONtS, Treasurer PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS Serving 6fi00 square miles--295 cities, tomms ana communities-- with Qas and Eie&rtaty jWM. -r * 4? .\.Vv • v ?% ;••• C The smart, tiew Erskine Six f. O.U bctorf is the finest, fastest car under $1000 Champion of its class-- 1000 miles in 984 minutes! . * Drive it 40 miles an hour the day a- 62-mile speed later. Change oil only at 2500-mlfe intervals! Fox River Motor' Sal<li s DOHERTY A RICHARDSON Elm Street Phone 261 STUDEBJIKER Q AliUJIMV NEEDS for the Visit your Public Service Store and see the interejji» ing autumn display of useful home appliances--lamps; portable electric heaters, heating pads, ironers, washers, irons, and many others •-ip .addition to special values mentioned here. THE SUNBEAM HON is an exceptionally well built guaranlied iron with an all pver •eating element:" fireproof case *12522 The Tittle by Little** way makes it easy to pay by the month and costsonly slightly more. The FEDELCO Washer The new Fedelco Washer is agitator type with enameled tub--It's rapid, safe and thorough. Trade in Your Old Equipment When you purchase the uew Fedelco Waaber, an allows ince of $10 will be made for your old wuher, regaidleas of its age or condition. Take advantage of this generous offer without delay. One dollar wg bt»Ho«d facyow ohl iron--of any mjjtp or kind --if you purcbaae this new Smkaaaa ««•£. tkl* limited «Mcial offar. Coom k> today. • How about aa mxtra cord set? It's convenient to have one for emergency. PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS 101 Williams St., Crystal Lake ^ Telephone 280 1 A. Schabeck. District Monaster --Have You Sufficient Convenience Outlets? m