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If' |iiiuli» • mm •'5fe • $r ••r' k K'Vr ifc"tf<ii ?wrs THE M'HENRY PLAINDEALER, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, ltti WAUCONDA H w. I if v - • 3' '". V;;j • J- * .>1 Mi*, and Mrs. Alvin Case and son, v^T***y» of Roseville ate _ Christmas iV Winner with Mr. and IflSli.- Geu|< ; *v r**e and family. * B£r. and Mrs. Wiii Gemry and aOiif Iward, and Mrs. Ellen Cornwell and Tg. Alice Geary and daughter, ythe, spent Christmas with Mr. and Frank Mjeyers at McHenry. ^ " J.^r" an(* Mrs. Henry Dehne and son, f' f. J|aarold, ate Christmas dinner with the iormer's mother at North Brook, 111. Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Larsen and fam- -•.'Y 4y spent Christmas with relatives and " , friends at North Chicago. ' . Mrs. George Blackburn returned * jjjome from Chicago Friday evening. ?; Mrs. Eugene Prior is entertaining V J|er mother and sister from Milwaukee jfver the week-end". v : J Ronald and Doris Geary of Gilmer •pent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Har- Vr'.vljy Grantham, Jr. •Jj Arthur Baseley left Saturday morn- ,,»g for Wlhite Lake to spend the rest •Jpf the winter with his family. Q Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Jenks have both n ill with the flu. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Rudinsky of e Zurich visited with relatives ere on Tuesday. "Will Geary^and mother, Mrs. Alice : ; r0eary, were Lake Zurich callers Mon- -#<lay afternoon. - iL Caiman waS * Chicago caller i-;a Mr. and Hn. George Deinlein at- • :|jended the Genesee theatre in Wauke- , j|an Christmas Day. . Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Stroker enter- • mined friends andl relatives Christ* Ray Murphy spent from Saturday til Tuesday in Chicago. Mrs. Anna Garvin and daughters d Joyce Evans spent Christmas at rwyn. i Mr. and Mrs. Harry Grantham and Children spent Saturday at the Lee •eary home at Gilmer. | Earl Shaffer of McHenry spent a lew days last week with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George Broughn. C. Griswold is ill with the flu at his ome here. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dehne and m, Harold, and Udell Grantham atded a sale near Round Lake Satur- Mks. Albert Go^sell and baby rerned home from the St. Joseph hostal at Elgin Saturday. Dr. C. W. Sowles and family called his mother, Mrs. Mary Glynch, ednesday afternoon. L. E. Hughes of Crystal Lake was caller here Thursday. The Mayflower Chapter, O .E. S., their last meeting of the year on ursday night, Dec. 27. Installation •ill be Jan. 9. Mrs. Erwin Moody -jpi/ spending a sw weeks with her pfento in Chigo. * ' i , Stangland Bros., who own the meat arket they purchased from Paul roncheon early in the fall, are now tained relatives Christmas. Mrs. May Banks, mother of Walter Banks, owner of the Wauconda Leader, is seriously ill of pneumonia in a Chicago hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stadtfield and 1 son spent Christmas with relatives at Volo. Mrs. Fannie Pratt went to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joe Totnisky of Crystal Lake, Monday, for a few days' visit. Kirk Werden of Chicago was a week-end visitor at the home of his parents here. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Meyers and son, Donald, of MJcHenry called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Grantham Friday evening. James and Floyd Carr and friend of Chicago spent Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Lizzie Carr. Mrs. Ed Underwood of Gilmer was in town Saturday. Mrs. Frank Harrison, who has been at the home of her brother, Ray Seymour, helping to care for her mother, Mrs. Lcietta Seymour, had returned to her home in Chicago Thursday, but was called back as her mother was taken suddenly worse. W. V. Johns and daughter spent Christmas Day with Mrs. Johns and Mr. and Ifsa. V. H. Johns and son of Waukegan at the A. W. Foss home at Libertyville. Misses Dorothy, Hazel and Elnora Dillon of Champaign are spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kruger. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Meyer and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Davlin. Mrs. Clara Dixon and daughter, Benah, are spending a few days in Chicago. Ruth and Mary Banks are visiting at the Edward Dunne home at Waukegan. E. H. Dahms called on relatives here Tuesday afternoon. Rudolph Berg of Barrington spent Christmas Day at the John Gossell home. Miss Lent Bonin is visiting with her parents at Elgin. • Mrs. Frank Meyers and son, Donald, spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Will Geary. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Luak of Round Lake called 9a friends here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Winkler of Waukegan announce the birth of a daughter,- Virginia Fern, on Friday, Dec. 21, 1928, at Wai^cegan. Mrs. Winkler is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Grantham. Mr.sand Mrs. Owen Paddock and son, Clayton, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harrison and Miss Daisy Grovenor of Chicago spent Christmas at the home of Mr. and Iifrs. Ray Seymour. Winter weither requires one to wear warmer underwear. We have just what you are looking for. Erickson Dept. Stdre. Don't buy tires until you see Walter Freund's Goodyear ad. 31-4 Twice : Told: Tales \ - Interesting Bits «f Newi Taken Freaa the Cohuaas of fln Plaindealer Fifty aai ' Twevty-five Yean * Age •n ... "Dear Doctor: The use of hay tools Occupying the living rooms over the. alway8 ^ves me hay fever. My breath- Ijiarket^ tmublfis.infc_gi3eetly. .What can I Mr. and Mrs. M. 5. Claris attended^ to gtopUt?" l>»e silver wedding anniversary of Mr. Mrs. Ed Pratt of Chicago Tues- »y night. Mx. Clark And Mr. Pratt ./«j|re cousins. Mr. and Mrs. E. ,H. Prior entM^- fnined their mother, Mrs .Foulks, llfom Milwaukee, this week. The euchre and bunco party that ^as to have been held at the Woodhall Wednesday night was post- >ned on account of so much sickness the community. Mr. and Mrs. L«w Cypher and little fibn and Glenn Blackburn attended a (how at Barrington Wednesday eve- ' Sing. Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Davlin enter- Answer : aIt is unhealthy to stop breathing, but if you insist, please send me a two cent stamp for confidential suggestions."--Farm Machinery and Hardware. Quest (angrily): "I have never seen such dirty towels in my life, and I cant find any soap." Hotel Clerk: "You've gotta tongue in your head, haven't yoa?' ' * ~ l Guest: "Yes, bot I'm lot a m!LH-- The Open Road. Expert' repairman at the bench all the time at the Nye Jewelry, Music and Radio Shop, West McHenry. JANUART, 187* > Isaac Wentworth is now the Night Watchman at the Pickle Factory. Wood is now sold at a lower price in this village than for many years. Good dry wood can now be bought at 13.00 and $3.50 per cord. The week of Prayer is being observed by the Methodist Society hi this village. Services are held at the church every evening at 7H o'clock. The weather o? the last few days has been extremely tough on house plants, and many choice ones haive fallen victims to the withering touch of Ja?k Frost. The coldest weather known for many years has visited this section the past week, the thermometer ranging from 12 to 27 degrees below aero for five days in succession, and all business was virtually at a stand still. It is to be hoped that the weather clerk will let up soon. The Pickle Factory have lately put in new steam pipes, and their buildings are now all heat by steam. They have everything arranged in the most systematic manner, and their different departments are all pushed to their utmost to fill the orders daily received for their justly celebrated Pickles. Shedd A Co.'s force of Workmen cutting Ice on the Pond now number about fifty men, who with the aid of a nine horse power engine to hoist the Ice, are storing a large amount of the congealed element daily. By next week they will "undoubtedly have much larger force at work. The Ice they are getting out is from 12 to 14 Inchai tiwck. ^ JANUART, Vm Mr. Ernest, the promoter, and Mrs. Jencks, one of the persons interested in the proposed marble factory for McHenry, were here yesterday, look ing over the grounds. An informal meeting was hejd at Simon Stoffel's office, where Mr. Ernest laid his plans and propositions before the people. When the people of McHenry arose Monday morning and stuck their heads out of doors they did not fully realize how cold it was. Not a breath of air was stirring--in fa$t, the atmos. phere was frozen solid and could not stir. The thermometer registered twenty bel6w. Rev. Godfrey ScWachter, C. P. P. S., who is conducting the mission at St. Mary's church this week, has been well received by McHenry people. At every meeting he has been greeted with a goodly congregation. John Carey of Ringwood was in McHenry Friday. He made this office a pleasant call and renewed his sub scription to 1906. Mr. Carey is the third subscriber to have his label changed to that date, paying seventeen months in advance. Fire starts on stage enveloping floor and galleries, holiday croWd of pleasure seekers fight way to exits, awful scenes of horror as scores leap to street or fall from escapes. Exits were closed and 564 persons lose their lives in the Iroquois theatre at Chicago on Dec. SO, at the matinee hour. A vmo m w Cufr in 4<)y<jrf»;inp 6r'in£ jiurewcd returns P wefore wf of cufrjfo/* <er fo nfyOion e y y*\w , -yx Hiram. L The first edition of the new biweekly health bulletin, under the title of the Illinois Health Messenger, prepared for popular distribution and published by the state department of public health, appeared a few days ago in conjunction with an announcement made by Dr. Isaa* D. Rawlings. state health director. The innovation, which will replace the monthly bulle tin of the past, is another step initiated by the health authorities in an effort to keep the pnblic adequately informed concerning health conditions. seasonal epidemic variations, and new developments in the field of preventive medicine. Doctor Rawlings in hiR announcement said that '•epidemics usually travel from place to place, rarely exploding Simultaneous ly upon a whole state or upon any considerable number of communities within a state. They also travel more at certain seasons of the year than at others. Imitating humans In taking vacations. For this reason It is often possible to forestall an outbreak if the people In any particular community know of the approach of an epidemic. Precautionary measures are particularly effective against smallpox, typhoid fever, diphtheria and scarlet fever. Thus It is important to have adeqaate and sensitive communication facilities established between the state department of public health and the people throughout the state." • definite snow removal program is now a necessary part of the activities of the Illinois division of highways, and preparations have been made to keep the roads clear during the heavy snowfall periods, according to Corne lius R. Miller, director, and Frank T. Sheets, chief highway engineer. The division of highways owns and has available for snow removal work 100 V-type plows, four rotary plows. 232 straight-blade plows, 17B large trucks, and 35 caterpillar tractors, as well as the necessary small equipment. This equipment is located at strategic point8 throughout the state, so that it can be readily moved to points where it is most needed. Last year it was necessary to carry on snow removal operations on approximately 2.7(H) miles of pavement. During the heaviest snowfall of the year, nil roads were opened in less than 72 hours, despite the fact that high winds caused considerable drifting. The state civil service board held examinations for those hoping to get positions with the state a few days ago in Springfield, Chicago, Champaign, and East 8t. Louis. The positions for which tl-e examinations were held were for food Inspector, food chemist, inspector of private employment agencies, inspector of weights and measures, university junior library assistant; clerk, fireman, housekeeper, house father and house moth er at the state institutions; butcher: institution poultryman; gardener and ndvanced teacher. Assembled tests were for Institution recorder, institution bookkeeper, institution stenographer, university junior steoogcwptw and university Joalor typWt General revision of the taxing system, reapportionment, and the gasoline tax are the big subjects which have come to the fore in legislative discussion within the past few days. Cook county la demanding a revision of the taxing laws and also wants reapportionment Many of its sen Store and representatives are opposed to a gasoline tax. while many from the downstate are for It. Cook county members of the legislature are e&- |>ected to act as a unit In favor of Senatorial reapportionment. f j JUfa, Mary C. Glena, Champaign. .mother of United States Senator feiect Otis F. Glenn of Murphysboro. iflied In Prescott, Ariz., a few days %go. Mrs. Glenn, accompanied by her jlaughter, Miss Eleanor M. Glenn, had gone to Prescott to spend the whiter jibe waa seventy-one years oldL Railroads of Illinois must provide first aid equipment on each and every engine, caboose, and passenger coach "according to a general order issued a few days ago by the Illinois Coin luerce commission. The order is in icompliance with an-act of the last session of the general assembly. Governor-Elect" Louis L. Emmerson was presented with a shotgun aa a Christmas present by the department lieads of the secretary of state'rs of fice. The presentation address was made by Chief Clerk A. C. Mills fiaugh. Mr. Emmerson thanked his employees for their loyalty. lb The law, when It aayi "twenty years." metins nothing more or less than twenty years. Attorney General Oscar E. Carlstrom has informed fiinton Clabaugh, chairman of the Illinois parole board. Twenty years It as the minimum sentence in a life sentence for murder. Clabaugh asked trbether It should be construed as twenty calendar years or twenty "^statutory" years, at the end of which time the convict would be eligible foi parole. Carlstrom declared ths 'twenty calendar years was tha totc the law. Illinois coal miners who recently accepted a drastic cut in wages are now enjoying continuous employment with full dinner pails and the state Is regaining its coal business which was lost during the last nine years to West Virginia and Kentucky, Harry Fishwick, president of the iuinois district of the United Mine Workers, said in a statement a few days ago. Pointing out that fifty-five thousand miners are now employed in the state, as compared with twenty-five thousand employed before the recent agreement, Fishwick said that the signing of the agreement meant the saving of the Illinois Miners' union, as well a#- the International union. "Since 1019 Illinois has slipped in coal pro duction," Fishwick said. "Other states have increased. Today the cycle is rapidly changing. Our pro duction of coal last year was fortysix millions tons. In a few years under the new agreement and with the Coal Sales association functioning. It will be eighty million or more tons annually." Most of the 6tate officials spent the Christmas holidays at home with their families. Gov. Len Small was in Kankakee with bis daughter, Mrs. A. E. Inglesh, while Colonel Inglesh, the governor's son-in-law, visited his mother in Grand Rapida. Mich, Secretary of State Louis L. Emmerson. governor-elect spent the day at his home in Mt. Vernon. Attorney General Oscar E. Carlstrom visited with his family at Aledo. Bis son, a University of Illinois student was also home. Christmas was a sorry day for Charles W. Vail, clerk of the Supreme court, for he bad to spend the day in a Springfield hospital recovering from burns sustained when he attempted to extinguish a platter of flaming grease. S. J. Stanard, director of agriculture, spent the holidays at his home In Springfield.. Abraham Lincoln's old home near Hodgenvllle, Ky., is going to be* Improved and modernized to -provide better facilities for the Increasing number of sightseers and to protect the property, the United States War department announced a few days ago. The log house on the farm will be renovated and preserved. Fences are to be erected and roads Improved. Shrubs and native Kentucky trees will be planted along the approach r6a& • • Illinois tamers have reduced their fall planted wheat acreage about 730,- 000 acres, or 22 per cent from that of a year ago. returns from a state wide survey, made Jointly by the Illinois and federal departments of agriculture indicated a few days ago. The fall sown wheat acreage of 2,588,000 acres is just about equal to Average for the past five years and compares with 3,318,000 acres sown in the fall of 1027. 2.426,000 in 1D26. and 2,277,000 acres planted in the year 1925. Gov. Len Small has been presented with a gold and sliver plaque, bearing a duplicate of the Illinois state seal, by a group of fifty friends and associates in office. The plaque was uiade of 14-carat gold and sterling silver and is valued at $3,000. The governor was also gfven a sedan, valued at more than $4,000. The ceremony took place at the governor's home In Kankakee recently, with Col. I'ercival B. Coffin, Chicago, presiding. Both gifts were tokens of esteem in connection with Governor Small's retirement from office. The Inscription on the plaque reads; "To the Honorable Len Small, Governor of Illinois. 1021 to 1920. Presented at the Close of His Second Term His Friends and Co-Workers In th+ Service of the State." While the condition of' Pike county Is deplorable, in that it has only half enough money to pay the monthly allotment to blind pensioners, there's nothing the law can do about it. This was the gist of an opinion delivered to the state's attorney at Plttsfleld by Attorney General Oscar E. Carlstrom. Writing of the condition in which the county found' Itself, the state's attorney said the board of supervisors pro posed to pay one-half of the $30 a month and that when the refund-- which would eq(ual one-half of the county's payments--was obtained from the state, pay the remainder to the pensioners. • A county board legally cannot transfer money from the highway fund to the jrenerul fund, • Attorney General Cari9tro.il has ruled at the request of the Massac county state's atiorney, on the grounds that it would he diverting to other uses money collected by t:ixes for highway purposes In Massac county it was proposed to pay back to the general fund money transferred several years ago to the highway fund when more money, was spent for road purposes than was collected in highway taxes. Padtitriu UvefuM The automobile Industry, we read, is growing by leaps and bounds, and If yon want to know whose leaps and bounds, just stand on a street comer and take a good look.--New York Evening Post Tto First L*tt«ry. The earliest known lottery was drawn at Bruges on February 24, 1446. The late state lottery in Bogland was drawn on October 18. 1828, at Coopers hall. London, hn Basinghall street. U"" Look like Wall Strwt, bnt <!otet gamble. Mafc« , % good suit of clothes pay dividends. Cleaning 3' 'lind Dressing cuts. pvwtiaM ' I ! . **Mr. Before pd | "War Your Appearance's Sate" ^ mx mmM CLEANING &PIESSIN®- BOLQER'S DRUG STOR&) Full Cream Milk Milk is a splendid food for growing children especially if it is as rich in cream content as milk we supply. . $o get this better milk for youf v Children just phone 660-R-l and wt* v; * will deliver it to your home each day. We *handle nothing but Bowman's Paste and Degreed Products Community Dairy j phone 660-&-1 Ben J. Smith, Prop fiilir-"n S.•-"V 'irt'lf-iii CHARLES LEONARD Jtectionwr * The undersigned having decided to quit Farmme'amf^liaving rented the farm forjeash rent, will sell at public auction, on the John M. Phalin fans, 2tt miles south of McHenry, 5 miles north of Crystal Lake and 1% miles Mtfth pf Terra ( uttw factory on Illinois Route 6! ami; U. SL 12, on ednesday, Jan. 9th * commencing at m. *harp. the following described property, to-wHs Bids for the construction of f| bridge across the Kasbaskia rtver near Carlyie, which will connect the Black Diamond trail with central Illinois county seats, were received by the state department of public works and buildings a few days ago. An appropriation j of $150,000 was voted at the last session of the general assembly for the improvement. On the same day the department received bids for thfc construction of 20 miles of pavement on route 113, section 100. Kankakee county, and- section 113 In Grundy county. Sagar-Coated. *1 want a little pink tablet," said the customer In the drag store. •What's yonr trouble?" "1 want to write a letter." explained the custo- Weekly Color and Sound. It is said that at least 2 per ceat «f human beings associate a particular color with each sound they bear and sometimes this extends to the names it"v* "f 'he wf^k. Itmliaa Art. 11M earliest period of Italian art Is called the Gothic (about 1250-1400); that from 1400-1500 Early Renaissance; that from 1500 to 1600 the High Renaissance; .after that A* \tJ+> •*adence. Will Start It Going. ilivlL writes--Tell a woman a dead secret aud you may depend npon her to pni some life Into IU*r-Chicago Post 28 HEAD OF HIGH GRADE HOLSTEIN CATTLE 17 cows, new milkers and close springers; 2 heifers, two years old; 7 yil#^ ling heifers; 1 calf; two-year-old Holstein bull. These cattle were all tested on Friday, Dec. 21, and pmiind m clean test. Form 22 will be famished with each »nim^i sold, or 60-day re-test. 7 HORSES Team bay mares, eight and nine years old, weight 2800 pounds; bay gelding, ten years old, weight 1400 pounds; bay mare, t#elve years old, weight 1400 pounds; team of black geldings, thirteen years old, weight 2700 pounds; bay mare colt, one and a half years old. 7 Shropshire Ewes, 2 years old, and 1 Registered Back 0 HOGS 14 fat hogs; 5 brood sows; 20 fall pigs, weight 60 pounds. POULTRY 20 White Rock Chickens; 30 White Leghorn Chickens. HAY AND GRAIN 800 bnsheht eats, free from foul seed; 1200 bushels of choice seed bs»lsj't ftsa from ?oul-seed; 30 tons of corn in crib; 45 tons timothy hay in ban; SO feet of silage; quantity of cut stalks; 30 bushels of potatoes. * MACHINERY McCormick Deering tractor, 1020, used two seasons; McCormick grain binder; MicCormick mower; Emerson tractor plow; 10-foot tandem disc with tractor hitch; Deering corn binder; John Deere sulky plow; John Deere gang plow; walking plow; International side delivery rake and tedder; Easy Way hay loader; Hoosier 4-horse grain drill; 12-disc pulverizer? dirt scraper; New Idea manure spreader, new; 16-inch Papec silo filler; Universal milking ma* chine, two double units; International corn planter, 80 rods wire; Ford ted truck with gear shift; International feed grinder, 8-inch: cultipacker, 8-foot; two lumber wagons; set of dump boards; hay Tack; hog rack; double top grain box; grindstone; milk-cart; silage cart; 3-section drag; 2-section drag; pair of bobs; cutter; fanning mill; corn sheller; shaft and pulleys 6 milk cans; 80-foot 6-inch drive belt; Sol Hot kerosene chick brooder; 4 gasoline tanks; Cowboy tank heq£er; 2 sets of double harness; hay rope; fork and pulleys; hog crate; hog self feeder; hog troughs; fearks^shovels* path, sUiftfe* era and other articles too numerous to mention. *' TERMS * All sums of $25.00 and under, cash. Over that amount a credit of six months* time will be given on good bankable notes, satisfactory to t>e clerk, bearing 7 *per cent interest. IVwitivafer tto property to be rsmnv^d wti settled Apr with clerk. •- -v~"-v *'•'* John M. Phalin Thos. M. Phalin U CkrK.. . . v .. "•if- S3