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»>: Twice T o l d T a l e s iBtereithi Biti of New* ' ffcom the Columns of j. t'laindealer Fifty aa Twenty-five Ye»rs :i0L^ .. DECEMBER, 1878 _ ; The thermometer registered 20' de- 'i •" jjrees below zero Tuesday morning. , ? Sunday was a bad day on the feet, ^^rf^ooden shoes had to be resorted to in |everal instances. The youngest daughter of Joseph - Buch died on Wednesday last of membranous croup, aged three years and % 3fve months. Tickets have been issued for a party ' ?•#t the Parker house in this village and f'idmarsh's quadrille band of Wau- ./ fonda will furnish the music. .... There is now more snow on the 1 > Ijfround in this section than has been i 'fjjcnown for a long time at this time of ;->.".-:jihe year, there being from fifteen to ilighteen inches. On Saturday it Snowed all day and, what is remark- • able for this latitude, the wind did not blow. ^ * There is one good thing about this ^ jllectric light When a man's collar Jbutton gets away from him and starts ." a 4n an exploring expedition across the ? foom, hfe can look under the bureau \* i- for it without resorting to the dangerous and unsatisfactory expedient ; ,.-#f laying a glass kerosene lamp down ' •« On its side on the floor. That is if the ^Impression we have received is correct, that the electric light makes ail light *nd no shadow. \ DECEMBER, 1903 The Borden condensing factory at Woodstock is nearing completion. Milk bottling will be the first operation, biit it is expected to (condense milk in the near future. Patrick McCab^ undoubtedly the Oldest resident of McHenry county, <lied at his home in Hartland Friday morning, aged 102 years. McHenry was the scene of a strike, ,4m a small scale, Monday, -which did •xot result favorably for the strikers. Mrs. Mary Dowe's sale was wetl attended even if it did rain all day. • Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Passfield, N[r, and Mrs. Roy Passfield and Miss Irene Dowell and Charles Davlin were Chicago shoppers Friday. Mrs. Mary Dowe and son, Herman, are moving to McHenry; and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher1 and son, Richard, spent Sunday at Libertyville. Rev. and Mrs. Windham Bonham are to spend the Christmas holidays with relatives at Omaha, Neb. Rev. Hoover of Greenwood is to fill the pulpit while they are away. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher and son and Mrs. Esse Fisher were in Waukegan, Saturday. Chester Hironimus and Miss Emma Bratz of Waukegan spent Sunday with relatives at Volo.." Quite a number from Volo attended the card party and dance at the Polly Prim at McHenry Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stsdfield and son, Donald, of Wauconda, spent Stmday visiting Volo relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Will Hironimus of Round Lake was a caller at the Frank Hironimus home Thursday afternoon. Clarence and Evaline Hironimus were Waukegan callers Saturday. and Mrs. Frank Hironimus and daughter, Elen, visited with Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Wagner, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bohne and Mr. and Mrs. Chester Bently and children of Elgin spent Sunday with Mrs. Rose Dunnill. Clyde Wright at the S. J. Milton Dowell injured his hand quite painfully while roller skating at Woodstock recently. Mrs. Frank Hironimus'-was a caller at McHenry Monday. » Evaline Hironimus spent last week visiting with relatives at Mundelein./ Mrs. Lloyd Eddy and daughter, Marjory, of Grayslake spent Wednesday at the H. Passfield home-. / Herman Dunker of near Crystal Lake was a caller at the G. A. Vasey home Monday. Orin Marble was an Ingleside caller Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Wilson and son, Junior, and Mrs. H. Passfield and Son, : Laws Could Add to : Personal Comfort To the Editor: Here's a copf of tike sending to might not dast give itteout to pers so here's a copy of it:„- To Congre§s: / \ .Well, ladys and gents{ I resume It ain't customary for noblody only the president to send you hoys a message but still and all they'slno law vs. nobody sending you one a specially a man that come as close to the white house as myself, and might/of got all the way in if I hadn't of left Washington a few minutes before the Cooiidges decided to make it a amusement park, at least judgeing from some of the birds that did get in I don't flee how they could of bailed this baby. And besides if you'boy* te anything like our last congress a message will go just as big whether it comes from me or the president or the onija board, ao anyway I am going to write and point out a few thirigs that needs ten- John, attended the poultry show at Antioch, Saturday. The boys had some chickens there and captured some of the prizes in the 4-H club. Well, gents, you know the ol that people that lives in a glass shouldn't drink out of a bottle so the place to commence makeing reforms is right where you are at, namely the nation's capital, and I don't know no way you can make a better beginning than appt, a committee to attend all the ball games in Washington this season and find out If the home tpam is really playing their best. And the next thlag to do Is to give the town Pullman telephone booths so a person can enjoy a nights rest while waiting for the wrong number and kill 2 birds with one nickel besides getting yonr shoes shined. "Please use this rag to wipe your razor as one small cat destroys a towel." "Guests without baggage 25 ct*. extra for meals served in booth." "Stop; hjave you anything left?**1 Pas's a bill providing for the president not to leave Washington during his incumbrance as they are libel to run wild when they get (away from be men, about fourteen in number, , jvho work inside the house, have been r ^receiving $1.75 for a day's work, but '•A ,^i>n Monday some of them concluded -that the work was worth $2.00 and in llow workmen to make that amount. The demand was mdt with a flat refusal. A few stuck to "their work while most i>f the men qnit. On Tuesday morning, htrwev&r, most of the strikers Went bacK to work and now all isi feerene at the Borden. Nick Bohr's home on Gxeen stree^ is nearly completed and is one of the ; |>est in McHenry. which is saving .'"'T^-l^tnuch, for we have several ele 'glomes in the village, v |f i - According to the expression f tooiitical leader of McHenry X><nnan T. H»y of Woodstock will in fell probability become a candidate for, ! ^secretary of state on the Republican ' istate ticket. Mr. Harvey Dora *©. Besley were married in Chicago yesterday. That was not a storm cloud that ]hid the sun Tuesday afternoon. It -was only Deputy Sheriff Charlie Wandrack driving in from Woodstock. Anyway, * veiling speed. . L - stone gathers Easy street leads to the poorhouse or the morgue. What this country asterisks in plays. need? ts moie Nowadays It's getting so that where there is smoke there must be girls. • movie hero is one who changes his mt daring the progress et a pictura. ; Nearly 500,000 Mohsmmedahs took part la this year's pilgrimage to ool annual. phoney as the photos in a nickhigh VERT COMFORTING TO ELDERLY PERSONS A persistent hacking cough, nerve Tacking and weakening, recurring at intervals, is common to elderly persons. Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, the very name a promise of healing, at once puts a healing, soothing coating on the irritated surfaces, and relief is immediate. Every ingredient of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound is active and potent. ? Agreeable to take, acceptable to the (most sensitive stomach, contains ne " 'opiates. Try it. Thomas P. .Bolger. When the meek inherit the earth what will become of the golf links? --Exter Times-Advocate. Passenger n < a dirigible make a ten-cent tvu ^areNscarcely worth thinking about. The five-cent cigar Wasn't much in evidence this year either as an inducement or an issue. *A dean furnace bonis less coaL" And likewise a clean conscience consumes less energy; Among the several efforts to be bigger and better that fall is varnishing a corncob pipe. * Hoover tells ns that we have now the greatest per capita wealtfe in the world.1 Try and get It! They don't have to find a new and valuable vitamine in porterhouse, it being expensive entmgji. S "a silbigger The Zeppelin is desci ver fish." Fish •^jilture beco: sport than fis^Catchlng. Books are those oblong, printed things that Junior needs $20 for. two days after landing back at college. SPRING GROVE Lawrence Foulke of Madison, Wis., is spending a couple of weeks with his parents, as the medical . school is closed because of the flu. Mr. and Mhrs. Anton Meyers and daughter were Sunday dinner guesis of Mr. and Mrs. Anton May. - The ladies' Foresters of this village will be glad to know that they are holding their meeting this Thursday (Dec. 20) in place of Tuesday, the regular meeting day at Johnsburg. <' Miss Sylvia Richardson of Ridgefield spent Thursday night with her brothel Alfred, and family. Miss Estelle Roepke spent Saturday and Sunday with lifer mother, Mrs. Frank Ward at Kenilwor^h. Miss Agnes Weber, Miss Eva Weber and Mrs. J. C. Furlong spent Thursday shopping in the city. Math Welter of Ringwood was here on business Thursday. Mrs. Bertha Esch was day the past week at Elgin. Mrs. Ina Gracy and two children, Ruth and John, of Crystal Lake called on her sister, Mrs. Ada Carr, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Leon VanEvery motered to Woodstock Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Charles Behmes was » Chicago shopper Wednesday. Mrs. Jacob May and som, Forrest, were Woodstock shoppers Wednesday. Mrs. ThomiGi/^^OStfferty and Mrs. Edna Sweet m^ppd # Woodstock to do Christin«pfijHta>inpr. Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs^Prank Sanders and family of Hebron were Sunday callers at the R. D. Carr home. Martin Butlerjw a McHenry caller Saturday. of land which Is covered bf the tide twice dally are gradually being won from the sea nnd turned In'o valuable soil for farming by means of a special kind of grass, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. It Is a msh-llke variety and collects mud shout Its fine roots and slender stalks, inch by Inch It builds up the shore level. Rural earner No. 8, from Woodstock, was unable to make the whole route Monday. He tried through Bull Valley and got stuck and had to gcrfv the help of a horse to get out. There [X are some very bad places on the dirt roads at the present. So much rain and snow, and heavy trucks passing over make deep ruts. Berner Dalziel has breakfast and sapper in his home here. He works at Woodstock in the Alemlte factory. / Mrs. Nina Sherman and little s'on, Bud, sp^nt Sunday with her parents in the old home. Joe Harris did not get to Chicago with his truck and poultry as planned last week. Too much rain and slippery roads. The milk hauler has a hard time these days. One place he cannot well get to the milkhouse and he carries the milk to the road rather than get stuck. He has a trip-of about seventy miles from home and back again. He leaves his home north of Woodstock early in the morning and picks up a truck load of milk and delivers it to Chemung. The Oh tend and Bull Valley schools are both practicing for Christmas exercises. Ostend's entertainment will be given next Monday afternoon and the Bull Valley program on Friday evening of this week. Rollin McCannon is the Ostend teacher, and Theresa Kaiser teaches the Bull Valley school. Alice Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Clark, has been quite ill for several days with a severe cold. B AhMx& yotu*4 x Florsh4itti$ OH Frm A plant has recently started fis tirti* couver, B. <\, to extract oil from fish. This oil has In. making • preparation for protee> Hon against the bites of mosquitoes and simitar ppots. "Think* tb« Cat. HntnJffis, thinks the farm cat M Kartn and Fireside, must annoy cows <ts much as they annoy us cats. TTlerry Christmas Prom tahe S&ore tbhat> sells FLORSHEIM. SHOES McGEE ]Oaa(s)Bt=H»«E <7 WEST SIDE GARAGE Adams Bros., Props* Tel 185 nil lug -- -. - Res. Phone, 639-R-2 & ft'i- Greetings for a Very Mefrry Christinas " ^ from AQATHA SHOP Last Minute Shopping Hets Qifts Far AH home and go to gay Paree and buck the Tiger or something. Presidents, of course, like to travel because they get 10 cts. per mile which nets them about 2 cts. profit at the present rates minus the amusement tax on a upper but if they claim they can't get along without some such kind of a get rich quick scheme, why allow them a dime for every mile they stay on the fairway and I guess by the end of 4 yrs. they will have enough saved up to buy % interest in a milk chocolate. I also wished you would put up the names of the different govt bldgs. la big letters so as when a man Is showing his Mrs. the town she won't act like she has him subpoenaed. Borrow a 16 yr. old dejfendent child MHnewheres and give It to the bird that figured oat the personal exemption allowance on the Income tax and make him support it on $200 a year. Pan a rule to permit smokeing in the senate and bouse so as you boys won't keep asking teacher if you can leave the rm. So much far local legislation and ( now we come to matters that effects: the whole C. S. States and the first j thing to do is pads another amendment; because it takes in both the 18th and j 19th amendments to have this new j amendment provide that Election Day j Is Kings X from prohibition so s man will have some place to hang around while the madam Is spoiling ballots. | Repeal the truants law so a person | won't have te go all spring and tall without a caddy. - Repeal the law vs. the rabbit punch in boxing. This punch is a blow that lands at the base of a fighter's brain and it looks to me that the man ihat lands it instead of being disqualified ought to be given a seat in the hall of fame along with Columbus and Admiral Peary. No % fare minted congress wants to show partiality towards either one of the 2 big govt, war schools so another sporting event that should ought to be laid on the shelf is the service game. This saves them the trouble of getting rid of the tickets. Pass a law vs. men wearing dinner clothes which don't benefit nobody but the Chiuaman. Or if it looks like there was too much opposition to abolishing this quaint custom all together, at least leave us havQ some govt regulation so as when you are called up and ast to dinner you won't have to go through no all day battle of the Marne deciding II you will or you won't. Make some kind of a universal rule in regards to hats in co-ed elevators. The way it is now a man Is all • right if he stays in one town but the minute he goes visiting he Is all wrong. For inst. If you are in Chicago yon beep yowr bat ^a unlert the .elevator is in a hotel or a department store. In N. Y. city you also take them oft in a apt bldg. providing the lady ain't your own wife or a relative. But in places like Washington you got to expose yourself in elevators of all kinds and when I and the madam were on a sight-seeing trip to the different floors of office bldgs. I discovered I was the only gent in the car with a covered egg and felt even sillier than ever. These is a few of the needed legislations, boys, and I wished j*>u would find time to give them tension but I suppose yoq will be too busy monking with the words and music of a peace treaty with a country that knows, or at least has heard rumors, that we aint been fighting them for 10 yrs. <0 by th« Bell Syndicate. Ine.) M HENRT of Furniture oa Display * Here Is a Suitable and Practical ' 5 V' /• J* >:^f] the gifts that you might wiifo to |ive, furnituvg is tfrfe>ii$ that till give the greatest amount of pleasure and the longest term of service. "^Laok of space makes it impossible for us to name even a small portion of the many gift items that await your choice here, but we welcome you to y <!M>me here shopping soon and often. Bete ate a few suggestions; v TflOR WASHING MACHINES ud PORTABLE NfflGLERS Free-Westinghouse Electri£_T . Sewing Machines- Magazine Rack» * Ladies' Desks End Tables Mirrors Telephone Seta Sewing Cabinets Table and Bridge Lamps Small Rugs Serving Trays Card Tables Occasional Tables a Fancy Pillows V* Smokers i s ROTARY IRON ^HOOVER /t BEATS. mt it SiPM*I M « CZMMI SHE doesn't say it--but she knows how much tod great are the demands of cleaning drudgery on her strength. Why not let this Chrirtmaslift the burden? A Hoover will do it. You can t give anything that will hold a fuller measure ot happinesr for fee* ,M9'• . Ml Up Chairt Easy Rockers „ Parlor Sets JHning and Bedroom Sets Look These Over for tlie Kiddies Doll Buggies Doll Bassinettes ^abjle and Chair Sets Kiddie Kars Peddle Bikes Sleds and Wagops Old Lady: 'How are you today?" M#n (who had recently had both' legs amputated): "Oh, I guess I can't kick."--The Furrow. < ' Grandma: "Doesn't that little boy swear dreadfully?" Grandson:. "YcgTm, he sure does. He don't put no expression into it." --Sovereign Visitor. Jacob Justen & Sons & iCorner Qreen and Elm Streets, McHenr^ I Cuts in more attr your ad kelp to Ive. teOP W M'Hl /