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r*!i1 'Mr. and Mrs. William Davis were /ijfonday callers at the Leslie Davis fcome. Mr. Leavitt, Mrs. B. Leavitt, daughter, Eleanor, son, Allen, and Jack Lar- Idns of Chicago visited at the Doweft] brothers' home Friday. Mr. and Mrs, Lloyd Eddy and daughter of Gray slake spent Sunday with Mr. and MVs. Roy Passfield. Archie Rosing was a business caller M ti"8 community last week. rEari Hironimus is employed in , Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Dwell and family spent Sunday afternoon at the heme of Essie Fisher. Gerald Grover of Kentucky spent Thanksgiving at the F. E. Wilson Ifcme. "Junior Wilson spent Sua "••©n with Arthur Davis. Miss Vera Vasey spent Tbanksgiv- • fag "with her patents, Mr. ind Srs. €L A. Vasey. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Freuod of "Solon Mills spent Suajiay at the Jo* Wafnfer home. .Misses Smyrna and Beulahr^Bacon ffent from Tuesday until Thursday HHth Mrs. E, Bacon. Mr. and Mtm. Lloyd Benwell and laughters, Mr. and Mrs. Hermarn Dtm leer and eons, and Leslie Jensbold enjoyed Thanksgiving with Mr. and Mrs. <19. A. Vasey. Mr. and Hh. Essie Fish*r apent am Friday until Sunday with Mrs. try Ames in Waukegan. Mr. and Mrfc. J6e Passfield were Sunday guests at the George Dowell %>®e- . Mrs. John Molidor was a McHenry, eiller Saturday. - Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher and son «mt Thanksgiving with Mr. and^lrs. org«i> Scheid of Wauconda. George Dowell and son Raymond tire McHenry business callers Mony morning. 'Arthur Wackerow.apem the Thahksholidays in Chicago with relatives. ' "'Essie Fisher has. purchased a new ffuck. ' " Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Davis and 4ai4ghter were Barringtpn business filers Tuesday afternoon. The teacher and pupils of Roseville J" fthool gave a very nice program Wed- * apsday afternoon. All who attended : oil joyed a treat to popcorn balls and fandy. Mr. and Mrs. Clark Nicholls, Mr. td Mrs. Alvin Case, Mr. and Mrs. oyd Fisher and Mr. and Mr*. Jo* Passfield attended the dance at Ivan- ||pe Tuesday evening. ^ Mr. and M!rs. Marshall Smith and / fl|g»ns of Wauconda attended church itrvices at Volo Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs.^asie Fisher spent » thanksgiving with MK and Mr^, Les- ; l|e Davis and family. ^ " Arthur Dillon of Urbana enjoyed mksgiving at the G. A, Vasey VOLO C" 1 fat stock show in Chicago Saturday. John Walton and son, Jay, motored to W\aukegan and spent Thanksgiving at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kuttenburg. They were acc&npanied by Mr. and Mrg. H. Kruger and family and Eleanor and Walter Dillon of Urbana. While drawing coal Mr. Etton hit by a car, damaging his wagon and also the car. Mrs. Raymond Lusk spent a few days recently at the Blomgren home. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell and daughter spent Thursday evening at the Leslie Davis home. Mr. and Mrs. Ifrank Hironimus and daughter were business callers in Waukegan Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher and sop were Friday callers at Waukegan. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Davis and Mft.rIdaughter were Friday afternoon c-Hers at the Howard Davis home. Bart Dowell was a supper guest at the Lloyd Fisher home. Gift scads an4 toy* gulf* •' £ricks«Rt'»3i<»re. , - For fcaby*i Camf ort It baby could write, it is fair to sitp-' pose that Santa Claus would be deluged with letters saying, "flense, dear old Nick, bring me a nice little hotwater bottle to make me comfy." A miniature hot-water bottle In a beflowered satin case is a cunning gift. It doubles the message of comfort if a bit of talcum powder be Included. These nursery requisites are obtainable in matched sets, beautified with flower craft which creates such wonderfully lovely posies out of satin Frank Bacon was called to Waukegjan Monday oit jury duty. 1 Walter Vasey and Arthur Dillon at- / #nded the fat stock show in Chicago ^ Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. George Dowell and V%mily, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Passfield and son, and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Passfield and son spent Thanksgiving with l|r. and Mrs. Joe Passfield. ---Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bacon and jEjfemily spent Thanksgiving at the Elit- *' th Bacon home. TL. PJ " #Atklln> *fr+**a4l*4l fKa ttemin&sr bf Coift Age - Witch burning f'Jiluys In Scotland were rem lied when a human akuSl was found during excavations at the Bogle hole, Mullesbiifgh. The Bogle hole was one of the places in Scotland where witches were burned after trial It was known in 1561 as the Terror's Croft The last recorded trial of per sons accused of witchcraft was held In Musselburgh on July 20. 1061. Ol bteratfaf Bite ef News Tahaa Fraat the Columns of the Plaindealer Fifty ami Aga Taking the Blue Out ,r . of Monday V ' • J?.-, •* tlNG LAADNElt >o tee <»<!••••• Henpepkod A firttlsb educaft- ssaayyis husbands live longer than other boa bands. They live a more sheltered Ufa Probably they do--but a life that Is too sheltered Is not worth living at alL And most men who are tuenpecked would rather have more real storm and lees shelter.--Exchange. DECEMBER, IMS George Meyers has secured contracts for filling moat, if not all, of the winter. It is a job that rwitfims about two weeks' time and the employment of ten or fifteen men. There is more iee pot up in McHenry f6r local use than in any other town of the siao in this part of the country. H. H. Fay, who has been clerking for Gilbert Bros., wtfL, after the 14th of December, be found behind the counter at M. J, Walsh's store. Wm. Laugrhlin, who has been with Mr. Walsh for iorae years, will leave about the first of the year for Effinghara, to take a fail course, in advanced photography. Butter was firm at twenty-five Cents on the Elgin hoard of trade. F. ,J. Herbes, the plumber, has contracted for space in the Plaindealer. His first ad appears this week, telling of the self-cleaning acetylene burner. B. Harrison sold sixty-four hogs to Frank Wattles Tuesday. It is a fine bunch of porkers of the blue ribbon variety. ITtey will be shipped to the Chicago market Sunday night. Theodore Hamer, the present deputy county clerk, has announced his candidacy for the office of circuit clerk. Mr. Hamer is in every way qualified for the position which he seeks and will receive the support of many prominent men of the county. Peter Heimer, who was in Chicago last week as witness in the "Silver Core" case, was taken suddenly ill on Thursday, while in his room at the hotel. It was at first thought that he had suffered a stroke of paralysis as one entire side became dead, there being no feeling whatever. He did not seek a physician until he reached home. He is now recovering nicely. DECEMBER, 1878 Do not fail to read the Proclamation of Fred Renich, Woodstock, which will appear next week. We learn that the Methodist'society of this village, propose having a Christmas tree at their church. We will give full particular? as soon as we learn them. \ Only one carriage left, out of foqrteen two months ago, at E. M. Owens. Saturday evening a young fellow from "Brooklyn" disgraced his father and mother and himself by getting fighting drunk and picking a quarrel with everybody he could. He was not alone in the drinking df Richmond's temperance "beverages," and the hoodlums managed to make night hidious till after 12 o'clock. I have a good mind to give names, but forbear, hoping the affair will not be repeated. A taste of winter came to us on Sunday in the shape of about three inches of snow, but at the time of writing, {Tuesday), the sun and a warm south wind is rtaking it fast disappear. il mm I exhibition illustrated variety exclusive prtoaJ attractively low ... Bectuse at their usefulness and dooocettve lamps make ideal Christmas PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS .1 V eohone 280 If UU 1. A. Scha District Mantunr To the Editor: 1 don't know how it is around different parts of the country but out our way the boys U all worried about Biue Sunday and what they going to do with tbemselfs when the Lords day alliance gets to work on the sleeping beautys down la Washington and slips another dose of bug poison to the boys that still staggers to their ft. when the band plays the land of the free. A few of the bo>s takes tb* propo- 'attloa like a Joke and Say they won't nothing CuBC «m k, that tin MimSf MiAds that makes our lawv will knock this oae tor a row e< vfeabarb. Well they MM the same thing ia regards to pittUMtioa- bint yo* *** drive your «Hvter a* anil tfewa MaSa St. all day ioag oww days with** gettteg «M* •Wlpad .fct a* fceev'tfiiek. Shi Mjra migfet as welt get It la their Man that i*e new law wttl ge threvgh Kite it was playing Tale and in a few more wks. old Mr. Monday, that everybody eee to crab *t baeaaee it meant io ge to work, will be a 2d Xmac with people waketag full of sip suad siapiftg 1 another on the back and hollering merry Moaday east"- taw? of. tbem. Personly 1 haven't saw no draft of tbe statue but ihey tell me it provides for everybody to go to church and as far as that Is consented why they might just as well because It also provides that they won't be no movies or no ball game or no Sunday paper and you can't dance or go rldeing or swiming or picnicking or shoot craps or play cards and etc. with penalty's all the way from 30 days to a couple of minutes in the electric easy chair. Well friends when this comes tfcey's just 3 ways to take It You can pack your tooth brush and night gown and move to Paris or you can stay here and obey the law or break it. Now wile maay books and sqjngs has been wrote about the glorys yf gay Paree I seen enough of It so as I would advise my readrs to stay here even after the Master Mindj passes the next amendment witch is comelng after this one and witch will provide that you can't eat meat or have corns. As for obeying the law they's no use obeying the letter unlest you also obey the spirit and the spirit of the law Is.to see that everybody has a rotten time Sunday, yourself Inclusive. This ain't as easy as It sounds like, so for the benefit of my readers I have figured out an ideal program for a blue sabbath as follows: 6 A. M. Get up and take a cold bath. Shave with Ice water and find your own clothes. 7 A. M. Breakfast Burnt toast with any good coffee substitute. 7:90 to 0 i. 1L Doa't smoke. 0 A.M. to 1 P.M. Babbeth'school and church. 2 P. M. Have duck for dinner to wlt<*h Is invited a man 4hst was In the war and his wife and 4 kiddies. Ask the man about the war. 3 to 5 P. M. Keep asking4 the man about the war. No amoMag. 5 P. M. Vespers 6 to 7:90 P. M. Try and call qp somebody thst has got a new number. 7i» to # P. M. Churcli. 9 P. M. to bedtime. Talk nice about everybody. As for the boys that wants to evade the law, the 1st place they can't be too careful as the penaltys is going to be mighty stiff like for Inst. 8 yrs. if you are caught laughing unlest «its at l of the ministers gags or some Sunny crack In the colic for the day. But for the boys who Is willing to tfcke a chance I have got up a serious Of substitutes for the different crimes like motoring etc., that can be pulled j Off without no fear of detection unjfost the people you play with and Inlite Into your home Sp a wolf In «}>eap ctothelng. \ ' Motoring.--livery time yon get home from church run out to. tjjjp garage and ehnnge tires. Cards, craps and etc.--Set In churrh With a pal and bet on any of the following propositions. l.The next gal that eomes in will be a blonde. The odds against this -.8 about 2^to 1 un-f1 lest It's s irid Jumper's church. 2 Will the text be fr^rn the odd or even •Bumlier chapter, li Who will cough 4ext a man or a woman. s Surf Batheing.--Hill the bath tub With water and pour^*4 bbl. of salt, ta it. Then you nnd the wife and kiddies pot on a batheing suit and get In. You duck them apd they squeal. Picnic.--Put your dinner In a basket along with some bugs and dirt. Uprinckle the dlnlttg rm. floor with leaves and sand burrs and set down ahd eat. A. Movies.--Put ou« the lights and shut the window curtains. Hang a Sheet at one end of the rm. and set chew gum. ^ Baeebalt.--Set on the Ironing board atid keep hollering, •That a boy." Funny Papers.--Your wife gets In bed and you pretend like Its 2 A. M. and you are just getting home. She says where have yon been. You say -*ou been to a lodge meeting She breaks off a bed post and hits yon er the bead with It. You say "Bint5* Golf.--Hide a couple of balls 1 Sanlook for them , the next.*, Ml SyadMtt*. IM.} ^ Control* Thought The gray matter, or what scientists call the "corte*," Is the part of the brain that does the thinking This is a thin layer from one-tenth to onequarter of an inch thick spread over the surface of the upper part of the bmtB.^1% . H ,¥?t . ^ •imXTAlj i.' i • V Will buildings In American cities continue to be built higher and higher? Architects say yes, that In the cities of 1975 the buildings wiH rise half a mile Into the air, and modern newspapers will appear on the upper skyline of their skyscraper- streets at 7 p. m. of the preceding day, says Capper's Weekly. Air taxlcabs will be rigidly supervised by the traffic deoartmeot and because of so much air travel and high-up living there will be public Giygvu uauil iu tui park*. Tueo th* newspapers will print pictures of what cities of tb* year 3000 will look lik*. aad evety eae srtp atir tttgr ae» Impossible. ' flat f**t are reepoasIM* tor 40 per eeat of the drownings at bathing beaches each summer, according to a leading pedlatrist, who advise* all those so afflicted io shoe deep water. That wema about as sensible te th* ordinary man as it would be to assert that bald heeds cause most of th*1 automobile accidents. How would it do to warn all bald-headed men to avoid traffic and do all their car driving on back roads? An Oshkosh man who served a five* day sentence rather than pay a fin* he considered unjust, says the worst feature of workhouse life is not th* "can't sing, whistle or smoke rule, but the lack of newspapers." Whatever people may think of the comparative hardship of doing without singing; whistling, smoking and newspaper reading, It is true that even a single day without a newspaper leaves thf modern man hopelessly at sea. The Iowa State Agricultural college has htade the announcement tftht a method has been found for removing the bark from the dog and the crow from the rooster, with no harm don* either to the animal or to the fowl* Can't the college operate on th* ttuUo ta remove its static? The mall order catalogues are flood* Ing the malls. There should be « market for the out-of-date catalogues Id New York where they give paper showers to parading heroes. It is said they have run out of ticker tap* aad telephone books. Weight of Air ' Hot air is lighter than cold air. The latter Is denser and therefore weighs more. Hot air carries more water vapor than cold air. The amount of moisture necessary to produce saturation Increases rapidly with the increase of temperature. Food for Tkomtkt We often wonder what a center *f population that hasn't any coilege president emeritus residing ta Its midst does when It needs s chairman of the committee engaged in A* promotion of any given worthy causa. --Ohio 8tate Journal. I S. H. Freund & Son 0tno«l Bnildiaf Contractors " Phone 127-E Cor. Pearl aad Faik Bts. *cHenr*HL L. Anyway, it Is some comfort to the pedestrian to realise that the manufacturers of ambulances do not make It their habit to boast about the va^ hides' magnificent pickup. Berlin Is teaching 7,000 street-car conductors to be courteous. Now tf this only proves to be catching for the rest of the populace everything will ha all right. """ "" 0HAELS3 LSOSfAKD, Auctioneer Havir-g sold the farm, we will sell at public auction, 5 miles east fltf v McHenry, 4 mfles west of Waocoada, 2% miles south of Volo, and V tail* itortk of Burton's Bridge, on - *> -j ^YKUESDAY, DECEMBER 13 \ < . beginning at 10 o'clock sharp, the following described pioperty*• -; f •: 31 -- HEAD OF LIVESTOCK 0 19 Milk Cows, some with calves by side and close springers; S Heiferifc : 18 months old; 2 Heifers, 9 months old; 1 Holstein Bull, 2 years ofa^ 1 Holstein Bull, 9 months old. This herd has passed two cleafti tests and will be sold subject to a 60-day retest. 5 HORSES: 1 black horse, 10 years old, weight 1400 pounds; horse, 14 years old, weight 1400 pounds; 1 bay horse, 10 years weight 1300 pounds; 1 bay horse, 15 years old, weight 1300 pounds • grey horae, 18 years old, weight 1100 pounds. _ .., 350 WHITE LEGHORN CHICKENS SC, .*' " it ifilY, GRAIN AND MACHINERY * ' \ " ; •„ 13 tons Alfalfa; 25 tons Mixed Timothy and Alfalfa; 31)0 bu. Wheatf 850 bu. Barley; 800 bu. Oats; 35 bu. Wisconsin 107 Oats; 1,000 b% » ' Corn; 90 tons Silage. f '• 2ix3& Wood Bros. Threshing Machine, like hew; Papec 16-in. Silo FiL* *•„' , ler with 45 feet of pipe, and distributor; 10-in. International Feci - Grinder, like new; 12-in. Tractor Plow; Double Disc; Deering Gra^- • Binder; Deering Corn Binder; International Corn Planter; Seedef^ ^ - Culti-Packer; Side Delivery Rake; Fordson Tractor; McCormick rao^. • er; Easy-Way Hay Loader; 2-section Steel Drag; 3-section Woodffi ' drag; One 2-row janesville Cultivator; Two Walking Plows; One 1- row Cultivator; International Manure Spreader, nearly new; Tw^ . , 4-in. Steel Wheel Wagons; Three sets Double Harness; 4-ia. Lumber Wagon; Milk Wagon; Silo Wagon; Two sets Heavy Wagflir^""* Springs; 75-foot 6-in. Drive Belt* 30-foot 6-in. Belt; One Hay Rack) One Grain Box; Fairbanks-Morse l\fc H. P. Engine; Fairbanks-Morie • 3 H. P. Engine; Pine Tree Double Unit Milking Machine; Sixteen Mii|t Cans; Hay Fork and Rope; Tackle Blocks; 500-lb. Scales; Fanning Mill: Corn Sheller; Tank Heater; Fifty Grain Bags; Single Harness? - set Bob Sleighs; set Gravel Planks; 1Svo Heavy Jacks; Two 50-gaL Steel Drums; Thirty White Oak Fence Posts; Thirty-five Steel PostSj- 500-Chick Buckeye Coal Brooder; Large Canvas; Grindstone; Chickaa Feeder; Wire Stretcher; Milk Pails and Strainer; Forks, Shovels, ^ - eners and many other items too numerous to mention. ) HOUSEHOLD GOODS ? One Blutf Enamel Cook Stove; One Black Cook Stove; 9x12 LinolwrfxS Rug, like new; 7x17 Strip of Linoleum; One 15-gal. Crock; Four S-j Crocks; Five dosen Fruit Jars; Bed and Spring Two Wash Tabs. TERMS All sums of $25 and under, cash. On sums over that amount, a cre<Q( ^ of six months' time will be given on good bankable notes, satisfactory to clerk, bearing 7% interest. Positively ao property to be reaaovsd until settled for with clerk. • -'x"W4 nand look br th* Lonmly Man If he has no faults what doee th* p»i>r fellow do for congenial cow* f i S B l f * ! * ? -- ' T o l e d o B l a d e . f t , ' Socccss at Failing i" Don't call a man a failure ualess know what he was trying to da * Maybe his'ambition wWs to get by without working. --^irn , ~ Cmrp Arm Votormm ; It Is elslmed that there are carp lii ponds In Eurnne twe bandre<l years old. Authorities claim that a Carp twenn years «»f sge *li<Mild w*lgli in«l a* fM<iin4r i<> tM |M>nn<ta. • . y . " 1 • M --5^ •fit.'*- • ' J.. Mrs.Mary M. Dowe & Soil Good Free Lunch at Noon GERALD CAREY, Clerk 4 • ^ s t ; Christmas ... all the thrill^ol the New Year are concentrated in this new^BUICK Silvernttniversmrw With Ma$frpi0€€ JBodies By Fie he OVERTON & COWEN Bnick Motor Cars West McHwry, IS. . W.1EN TTKft AHTTOMOBILK* 4*1 «mi.a TWiat