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FPWIPPIWPP i-tt+s *7 . •<*e EIMOWOOI> J1M1U.CSL,' Mi THE |S?f?The members of the Bunco club and "* h few friends journeyed to the home ttf Mrs. Edgar Thomas Tuesday afternoon and reminded her of her birthday Bunco was played. Prises were awarded to Mrs. Paul Meyers, first; Mrs Viola Low, second; Miss Ethel Biggers, third; and Mrs. Emma Merchant the consolation. Mrs. Ray Merchant received the prize for having made the most buncos and Mrs. Leonard Franxen received the draw prixe. At the conclusion of the games lunch was served. Mrs. Thomas was pre- - Mtited with a gift. Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Neal and family spent Sunday with Chicago relatives. Paul Stephenson of Grand Rapids, Mich., spent Saturday in the home of his parents, Mr. and H. M. Stephenson. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Steveps were 1 .>HkHenry visitors Monday afternoon. C. W. Harrison, J. V. Buckland, S. -W. Brown, F. A. Hitchens and Dr. Chamberlin attended chapter at Woodstock Monday evening. . J. V. Buckland and Miss Flora Tay- ',:a and Mr. and Mirs. Lloyd Gratton ' .0nd family were Woodstock and Harv- Sunday. ""a1111 stock hospital Monday afternoon. He is very ill with pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Buchart and daughter of Richmond spent Sunday in the C. D. BaeOti home. Carlton Fay of Wheaton spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fay. Mr and My* Charles Gilford and daughter, Edna, of Genoa City were callers ir\ the Clay Rager home Sunday afternoon. Mr. and M>s. Frank Fay and son, Carlton, and MVs. Clay Rager were Woodstock visitors Saturday morning. Carl Fay of Chicago spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Jennie Spaulding. Clay Rager and children were Richmond visitors Monday. Robert Weber of McSenry «tt : a Ringwood caller Tuesday. > Mr. and Mrs. Will Blake of McHenry spent Tuesday in the Edgar Thomas home. Mr. and Mrs. G E. Shepard were Richmond callers Thursday morning. Mir. and Mrs. Nick Young were Mc- Henry visitors Wednesday. Jack McLaughlin was a Richmond visitor Thursday. George Young and Ben Stevens were McKenry callers Thursday. jfl-d visitors Mr. and .M.. rs. Nick F, reund were Mrs. Lewis Hawley entertained her bridge club at a luncheon Wednesday afternoon. There were two tables. A pleasant afternoon was spent. Floyd Foss was takpn to the Wobd- Ray Schaefer of Cincinnati, Ohio, spent a few days the past week with Miss Eleanor Dodge. Byron Hitchens of Chicago spent NEW, ATTRACTIVE NEEDLEW01 Arriving every week at 6»r AGATHA SHQP ;; " :A full line of colors in Nuns Four Strand Rayon^ Also Knns Boilproof Six Strand--High Luster--Pefle and J • Crotchet Cotton Thursday in the home of his parents* Mr. and M^s. F. A. Hitchens. Mrs. Ray Peters is visiting he* parents and attended the wedding anniversary of her brother and wife at Hunter this week. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Hitchens were guests of friends at Antioch Saturday evening. Edward Harrison of Elgin spent Sunday with his parents, Mt. and Mrs. George Harrison. Mir. and Mrs. George Shepard and family spent Thursday evening with McHenry relatives. Mr. and MVs. F. H. Hitchens were guests in the I. A. Bytler home in Elgin Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Weber of •McHenry was a caller In the Nick Young home Friday. Floyd Hopper of McHenry ws a guest in the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hopper Sunday. Mrs. Butler of Bath, 111., who has been spending the past few weeks in the homee of her daughter, Mrfc. F. A. Hitchens, and her son, Bruno Butlet, went to Elgin Sunday to visit her sop, I. A. Butler, and family for a few weeks. Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Shepard and family spent Sunday with McHenry j relatives. ' " " Miss Julia Huff otf Spring Grove was a caller in the Nick Young home Friday afternoon. i Mr. and Mrs. Frank Block of Kenosha and Miss Alice Wilcox of Ridgefield were over Sunday guests in the Dr. Hepburn home, 'V. mmm PLEADS MOWT TO MILL *WITCH"| IS V GIVEN LIFE TERM "Pow-wown Doctor il»y» Mil He Claimed Had Pit Spell oii Him. York, Pa.--John B. Blymyer, York "pow wow doctor," was convicted of the first degree murder of Nelson H. Rehmeyer, recluse farmer-sorcerer, and the penalty was fixed by the jury at life Imprisonment. The slender, pale-faced man ^rbo l<>- aisted he bad & right to kill Rehmeyer| at his lonely home in North Hopewell township on November 27 to break a "hex," appeared Impassive and disinterested. A few moments later, in the sheriffs office, he said: 8aya He's Happy. *1 a in happy now. I am not bewitched anymore. *1 can sleep and eat and I am not pining away." As an afterthought, and without the slightest emotion in his voice, he added: "Rut >1 think that they went a little Strong; yes. that's- it--a little too strong.** The Jury's verdict brought to an end one of the most dramatic and fantastic trials ever witnessed In any court. After Blymyer had been pronounced a borderline lunatic, a psycho-neurotic, hypochondriacal melancholic, know- Am MAlli ENVELOPES The Plaindaaler has air mail velopes on sale for the acc tion of those who wish to branch of the postal service; letters routed long distances across the country this service is the quickest and under the new postal regular* lions the cost is five cents for the first oupce and ten cents for each additional ounce. The envelopes have the necessary markings and may be purchased in any quantity from one *p. "v. -'**-tf --when men • % It is a real pleasure to us to MVe you come here to talk over business deals, asking our advice frpon problems that you are not certainhow to handle. Our facilities are yours to use* whenever y<m mi Citizens State Bank OF McHENRY i t , i f "The Bank That Helps Yon Get Ahead" Hepburn nome* itm tm iBACft-thAv juorftl ioiDli^tiofls of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Thomas and ?* ' ™ • ,, family and Miss Viola Low were * j Woodstock visitors Thursday. j if Nick Young was a McHenry caller, * " " ^ & Monday afternoon. | L\\ Miss Nellie McDonald and brother, I VilA Holland, were Woodstock visitors on Sunday. j Mrs. Edgar Thomas is entertaining iher sister and husband from Brodhead, Wist Miss Nellie McDonald attended the show at Lake Geneva Saturday night. J Mr. and MJfs. .Lester Carr were Sunday guests in the home of the tatter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wiedrich. j Mr. and Mrs. Ben Justen spent Son* day evening in Johnsburg. ' Miss Dorothy Peet spent several days the past week with her parents, Mir. and Mrs. Ed Peet. | Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Jepson and family spent Sunday with relatives at Wauconda. Charles Coats of Genoa City spent Sunday in the Fred .Wiedrich ljonie. Mr. and Mr. Lester Carr and Mrs. j Frankie Stephenson were Woodstock • visitors Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Walker and family of Waukegan were Sunday guests in the Roy Harrison home. | Miss Eleanor ' Dodge -, and ^Ray Schaefer were Waukegan visitors^ on Saturday. / >• j Mr. and Mrs. Frank Htfghes of Mi- Henry spent Sunday An the H. C. t Hughes home. ' Mesdames Ed. Peet, Fred Eppel, Chauncy Harrison and A. W. Smith attended the Home Bureau millinery school at Woodstock Wednesday and Friday. Each lady came home with a hand-made hat. ( Mr. Slickenmeyer of Round Lake was a guest in the home of his brother, Harold Slickenmeyer, and family Sunday. . Quite a number from Ringwood attended the W. R. C. dance at Richmond Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Smith and son Leo, were callers in the George Young home Sunday evening. | Miss Lora Harrison of Evans too is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Harrison. Mrs. Cossman entertained In* daughter and husband Sunday. WlStT SBtE QAMM& " 1 " JfkAam* Bra*., Props, Bes. Phone, 689-B-3 HAIB IW NUAM AW cun VeUJlM, ATconDiwc T» omciAi. nwui (MMWW) M<vt' t w •A' Big Car Power, $peed and Smoothness at a price you're glad to pay ' f,! C. ft N. W. CRACK TRAINS EQUIPPED WITH RADIOS Electrically operated radios have been established as standard equipment in the lounge cars of three crack Chicago & North Western Limiteds following experiments that have proven the practicability of ifcdioa on rolling trains. The New North Western Limited tha Told Him That Rehmeyer Had Helped Him. his act of violence than an untutored child, his attorney In his closing plea fought hard for an acquittal on the grounds of insanity. Blymyer's own story of hid life was 6ne of the most dramatic ever heard In a court. His justification could be summed up In two sentences: "Rehmeyer is dead. I am no longed bewitched--I can live now in peace/ Blymyer said he had killed becausd he was right; under similar circum^ stances he would kill again, because In the code of mysticism in wh^ch he believes, the death Of the "bexer" re. moves the blight, He told how for ten years he had been In ill health. Medical men coul#r do little, so he turned to the "powwowers." They told him he was bewitched. Told Me Was "Hexed." But it was Mrs. Noll, "high priest-; ess" of Marietta, Pa., who first planted" in Blymyfer's mind the delusion that resulted in the murder. She told him, Blymyer testified, that Rehmeyer had I hexed him and that the spell could be ' broken If he would get the book, "The Long Lost Friend," text book of the pow-wowers, or a lock of Hehmeyer1* hair. The book was to be burned and the hair to be burled. . . He Induced Curry, another pow wow victim, to Join him Ir. the expedition They found Rehmeyer at his home and, failing to ggt the book or bale, the murder followed. 1,192 §, Nash stood ninth in dollars and cents volume of exclusive of Ford, according to $T; 4k official figures for the year ,ijtt that date. n January 1, 1929, just six months ter, according to the same official figures, Nash stood jourtb. fn this very brief period the oMr, > Nash "400" has completely v'the automobile picture of America. •^With unmistakable enthusiasm, motorists everywhere have placed their " stamp of approval upon this new Nash --making it, by a tremendous margin, the outstanding motor success of ommI- . em automobile history. Why? Because Nash gives diem the Twin-Ignition motor . . . gives them cars equipped with the Bijur centralized chassis lubrication system . . . ' with hydraulic shock absorbers . . . with bumpers front and rear... spare tire lock . . . cars completely, luxuriously equipped ... at no extra cost. " Ninth to fourth place in just $ix months because th*~new Nash "400" is only car of all tb* new cars with every. new and progressive feature! ,, , ff <v**NASH400 ^ A JLesMf# the IIPfosrrMld <4asms JJHtMeattmotrr CCmarr fFWWisMse - IIPOBTAlVT ^FEATURES--JV*0 OTFCJI CitMt Of* THEM AmM Twin-Ignidon motor 12 Aircraft-type spark plugs High compression Hdudaille and Lovejoy • shock absorbets (or/ance Hmtk i Salon Bodies Aluminum alloy pistoas (ln**r Struts) New double dropfrsme Torsional vibrstien 'damper , World's easiest steering 7«bearing crankshaft (Min» crmnk pku) Bljur centralized chassis lubricarflM Electric clocks Exterior metalware xbrome plated over nickel Short turning radht Longer wbeelbasjie^ One-piece Salon fenders ' " Clear vision Croat - - pillar posts Nasb Special Design front and fear ^ - bumpers •v: •}i ru ,v¥> y Oeorge A. Stilling Garag#. FboneX8 ;l MsH--rjr, Pllaoit between 6hic«." "^d" g ~ Qbme see and drive the New Pontine Big Six. . It offers big car power, speed and • ^ a o o t h n e s s at a p r i c e y o u ' r e glad t# ' ' . pay . . . Here, truly, is a new idea in low coat motoring luxury 1 A car conceived, designed an| built for those who want something more thaa the cheapest--and who choose to reveal the^( . progreaaive ideas in better cara 4a wel) " better homes and better furniture. What a recejJH*- rinn theae buyers are giving the New Pontiac Big Six! For they've sensed that it gives them a new opportunity to step up in motor car quality; without atepping out of the low-priced field. Mc« t7*S mntI up./ o. b./« cterry, plus <Wli*ry rhorf«s. Bump^rm nwrf rmmr/rnrlrr guarat regular iquipm+rt t «t itifht mxfro cost, ('hat* k Otth* lanrCf f*f*i «rr loi(o cM do«tolirt*< «Trifmd 0p rPimesytm --+nli nclude lousit handling t hnrg00m Plan svaiUibU at minimum r«t#. % apolis, the Corn King Limited between . Chicago and Sioux City and Omaha, and the Rochester-Minnesota " Special are all now radio equipped, and plans are being made for installing sets on other through trains soon, according to C. A. Cairns, passenger traffic manager of the railway. I Chicago £ North Western passengers on all through trains heard national election returns by radio the flight of Nov. 4, the first time that (flection reports had ever been received by radio on American trains. The reception was so satisfactory that night and in subsequent experiments that officials have listed allelectric radio sets as a regular lounge car feature. MI suppose, Mrs. Johnson, you have given the medicine according to directions." "Well, doctor, I done^tnah best. You said give Sam one o^ these pills three times a day until gone, but I done run out.vof pills yesterday and Imt ejm't |gone yet."--Boys' Life. 1 S;c - * i it# McHENRY AtlTO SALfi 188 OnU.S. 12 Near Mill Pond Bridgi . •™»MEW MM PONTIAC BIGf) sentence. Ex^Convict Finds Way to Riches in Cemetery. Columbus. Ohio.--To Wesley Mc- Cafferty a cemetery Is more than mere graveyard. It Is a place to earn an easy livelihood In which the gross' returns are all gain. McCafferty was recently released on parole from jail at Columbus, Ohio. Being ambitious, he set out to make a ! living. A large soap concern wanted a list of prospective customers to whom It could send samples, so McCafferty went to a cemetery and compiled an 1 extensive list. He called at the fro®* office, collected the,samples mailed his I clients, and then sold the soap. Encouraged by first success, McCafferty aYiswered an advertisement to obtain signatures petitioning the city of Urbana, Ohio, for improvements. This time be was foi^td out an4 re^ * turned to j£ll. An attorney who advertised for a chauffeur, asked an applicant: "How about you, George--are you married?" "No suh, boas, no suh. Ah makes my own living."--The lUilroad Xaiegrapher. . 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