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OPENING ' ' GAME at JOHNSBURG Sunday, April 21 ,• • ; \ " 2:30 O'CLOCK Silver Lakte vs. Jolinsburg JShrer lake won the Tri-Oounty League Chnmplmwhip \« V A ml388 ' { ADMISSION ADULTS, 35fc CHILDRE*, 15c 1 »»<»•»»•»»•»•»•»'«<< »«<<«»»•• Hettermann Motor Salts All kinds of oar and truck and general repairing, also welding, donqby expert mechanics. ]; Main St., West McHenry v Phone 191 SLOOUM'8 LArjf TBI M'HENRY PLA1NDEALER, THURSDAY, APRIL 18,1929 • ^ j$ut here it is Had tola • RCA P _ -^33 is* A high quality console radio set iO $116*50 complete • • Nye Jewelry, Music and Radio Shop xai* mctmry >•»»»••»•»»<•»»»•»»»»»••» PHONE 123-J »»»< <<»<< t# i > > MM 11 Mill i Nmr you can buy your High GENERAt '--Low Price & Guaranteed Qeaner right here ! We are pleased to\be able to offer our patrons these remarkable General Electric Cleaners in two modcl*«l exceptionally low prices. *24- and *35- These prices (leas attachments) are, we believe, the very lowest ever quoted for cleaners of comparable quality.We shall be glad to demonstrate these cleaners--and to show you their fourteen points of superiority. Or just come in, try them ' yourself--and make your own decision as to their efficiency ... and their value! Mrs. O, W. Grantham spent last Tuesday at the R. H. Grantham home at Cary. Tom Dow ell and James Dowell of RoBeTllle -were Sunday morning callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Davis. Cheney H. Brooks Is the new Director of Slocum Lake School. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bacon and children visited alt the home of Mr. wnd Mrs. Carl Converse Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Darrell and daughter, Myrtle, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews and sgn, Robert called at the R. D. Carr home at Spring tJrove Sunday. Miss Ada Dowell of Roseville spent Friday night and Saturday at the home of her sister, Mrs. Clinton Raven. ' Arthur Wackerow spent Sunday with friends at Geneva. Mrs. La Doyt Matthews of Crystal Lake visited with home folks at Oak Glen Farm Saturday. Mr. an^ Mrs. Leslie Davis and little daughter were callers At Elgin ' Wednesday. Mrs. Elizabeth Bacon and daughter, Yinnie of Roseville were Sunday callers at the Wayne Bacon home. Morton Hiffey and .Miss Arlene Moor© of West Chicago called at the Darrell and Matthews homes last Thursday. Mr. ahd Mrs. Ferdinand Thurough and children. Miss Florence Rossman and Albert Smeltser of Crystal Lake were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bacon last Tuesday John Blomgren, Mrs. Sigrid Blomgren and Iner Groth visited friends at Hebron Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. FOBS of Liberty- .ville were Sunday guests at the Itome of Mr. and Mrs. William FOBS. Mrs. Page Smith accompanied Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Harris and daughter, Ilene of Wauconda to Elgin Sunday where they spent the day at the home of relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Geary and son, Eugene were business callers at McHenry Saturday evening. ^ Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mulholland and children of Chicago spent Sunday at their home here. Mr. and Mrs. A1 Wilson and daughter of Arlington Heights spent Sunday at the O. W. Grantham home. Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Harrifs of Waudonda Were Wednesday dinner guests at the- home of Mr. and Mrs. Page Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Weingart and children of Mchenry spent Saturday evening at the hWe of Mr. and Mrs. William Foss. Emmet Geary "of Fremont spent Monday at tht home of his parents here. t Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks and son Chesney were business cajlers at Crystal Lake last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Brooks returned home Friday after spending the past three months at St. Benito, Tejtas. P. Boniback -of Chicago spent Saturday at the Mulholland home. Mrs. John R. Knox of McHenry spent Sunday at the home of her parents here. In the evening she was accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Geary, Mrs. -Jack Geary and son, Eugene to the J. N. Zimmer home at McHenry where they were supper and evening guests. Oatis Phillips spent Sunday at the Ed. Johnson home on the "Flats." Little Leon George Smitlj spent Sunday and Monday at the home of his father. Leon Smith In Fremont township. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. McGill of Wauconda spent last Friday evening at the heme of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse. Mrs. Dick Dowell and two children of Roseville spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Davis. Mrs. Clara Smith was a caller at the Jos. Haas home at Wauconda last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Williams and son. James Howard of Crystal Lake were Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mrs. Clara Smith. Monday callers at the home of Mrs. Clara Smith were Mrs. Jos. Haas of Wauconda; and Mrs. Earl Converse. Mrs. Harry Matthews attended a meeting of the Past Matron's Club 0. E. S. entertained at the home of Mrs. Geo. Broughton at Wauconda last Friday. Miss Myrfld Darrell of Crystal Lake spent the week-end wltB home folks •It Oak Glen Farm. BRITISH EXCHANGE HAS LONG HISTORY Brokers Are Mentioned as Far Back as 1483. London.--The growing public demand that the London Stock Exchange be opened on Saturday in conformity with the New York Stock Exchange, • questiri which has been hotly fought out in the honse of commons, has brought the inatitutipn into the limelight. The discussion illastrates the great changes which the stock exchange has undergone as the result of the war. Saturday closing is a postwar practice, but it is one of the few viewed with disfavor by advocates of better business. The majority have hcen vast improvements on the methods previously permitted. There now are more facilities and greater protection for the investor than formerly, and there is a higher efficiency of service. Before the war It was possible for anyone to introduce shares on the stock exchange. Rule on New Issues. The committee for genera! purposes, composed of thirty members elected annually, has now so tightened the rules that no Issue may be introduced without its permission. This Is given only following the publication of responsible statements giving Information about the firms controlling the particular issue. The committee's procedure has greatly increased the respect In which the stock exchange Is now held as a pjblic Institution with grave responsibilities toward the community. It Is this committee that will finally rescind Saturday closing if It becomes evident that public opinion demands tt The stock exchange has its roots as deep down In history as the reign of Edward III, 148S-1485. when brokers and brokerage are referred to by contemporary writers, but, practically speaking, an exchange of stocks as a business enterprise Itegan only toward the end of the Seventeenth century. London stock brokers firBt conducted their business In and around the royal exchange, then in the coffee houses of Change alley and In the rotunda of the Bank of England. In the year 1773 they formed themselves Into an association called the Stock Exchange, Ltd., with headquarters at the corner of Sweeting alley and Threudneedle street. . Built in 1801. The present stock exchange at t^apel court, Bartholomew lane, crime into existence I* 1S01, when a capital of $100,000 was ruised and the new building was commenced. The structure was entirely-rebuilt some years later and considerable • extensions have since been mad<«. Stock brokerage and Jobbing did not always command thb respect that: is now accorded them. Manipulation of the murket brought down the censure of parliament in 1697, which declared In an act that brokers and stock jobbers were habitually combining unlawfully to raise or lower the value of securities for their own prl vate advantage. Dealers In stocks were In those days looked down upon as odious, sad many were executed (or fraud. Membership in the London stock exchange is on a very different basis from that in the New York Stock Rx change. A member Is elected for twelve months only snd ranst be reelected annually If be wishes to r* tain his membership. The year ends March 25 The candidate must be recommended by three members. wtiu become surety for lilm during the flrtt four years from the date of bis ad misaioo In the sum of S2..YI0 each Every member uiust' purchase at least one share in the stock exchange (limited), but may not own more thas 2tW shares. The company Is under the control of nine trustees and man agers. appointed by the shsreholders NOTICE OF PROPOSAL FOR BIDS Sealed bids for the construction of a local improvement consisting of re pairs to the sewage purification plant and outlet lines in the City of McHenry, Illinois, as provided in an ordinance entitled "AN ORDINANCE FOR REPAIRS TO THE SEWAGE PURIFICATION PLANT AND OUTLET LINES IN THE CITY OF Mc- HENRY, McHENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS." passed and$ approved on the 8th day of January, 1929, will be received by the Board of Local Improvements of the City of McHenry, Illinois, until the 29th day of April, A. D. 1929, at the hour of 2:90 o'clock P. M. (Standard Time), in the Council Chambers in the City Hall in the City of McHenry, Illinois, at which time and place said bids will be publicly declared. The plans, profiles and specifications for said improvement are on file at the office of the City Clerk in said City of McHenry and at the office of the engineers, Wells Engineering Company, Geneva, Illinois. AH proposals or bids must be made or. blanks furnished by the said Board of the City of McHenry and must comply with the instructions to bidders thereto attached. Said blanks may be obtained at the office of the. City Clerk or at the office of the engineers. All proposals and bids must be accompanied by check payable to the order of the President of the Board of Local Improvements of the City of MicHenry, Illinois, in his official capacity, certified by a responsible bank for an amount which shall be not less than ten (10) per centum of the aggregate of the proposal. The contractor will be paid in vouchers and bonds which will bear interest at the rate of six (6) per centum per annum, payable annually. No proposal will be accepted unless the party offering them shall furnish satisfactory evidence to the Board that he has the necessary facilities, ability, equipment and finances to fulfill the conditions of the work to be done, should the contract be awarded to him and all bidders will examine the ordinance, maps, plans, profiles and specifications and also the locality in which said work is to be done and judge for themselves the surrounding circumstances and conditions affecting the cost and nature of the work. The successful bidder will be required to enter into a bond in a sum equal to one-third the amount of such bid with securities to be approved by the said Board, conditioned for the faithful performance and execution of the work. The Board of Local Improvements of the City of McHenry, Illinois, reserves the right to, reject any and all bids, as authorized by law. Dated at McHent-y, Illinois, this 11th dav of April, A. D. 1929. BOARD OF LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS OF THE CITY OF McHENRY, ILLINOIS, By Peter Win. Frett,. w John R. Knox, •5-2 • Peter Doherty. like k C3TEND Farmers were all busy again Monday after a layoff of several days on account of wet. Tractors can be seen and heard in every direction. Roy Hobart attended the funeral of D. Edward Sayler Sunday. Mr. Sayler was once a resident of this locality. Work'on the bad strip of road was commenced Monday near the Hoppe farm. It was almost impassable after every rain. It will be leveled and then graveled. Frank Herdric has quite a drove of cows now. More keep coming, two or three at a time.. Two years ago C. E. Jecks was seriously injured in an automobile accident and just recently the last place on his limb that was sore has become entirely healed, no sore now from the accident. • Mrs. Nina Sherman was a visitor in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hobart, Saturday last. Pay your taxes at the Citizens State Bank, McHenry. Jgtf ThMBM P. Botger The McHenry DruggisT .•Vt' Mast Be the Climate * ^ Brown Trout grow to thirty pounds or more In 'New Zealand, and average more than double the size of the same flsh in English waters. Yet all New Zealand's brown tpout came originally from Grent Britain. ONE PROOF In both tread and car- Cass--the two main parts •/ a tire--we can demonstrate that Qoodyears are superior: 1--PALM TEST--shows you why Goodyear has the best non-skid tread. 2--CORD TEST--shows you why a Goodyear Supertwist Cord Carcass has greater endurance. That these two reasons are real is proved by the fact that "more people ride on Goodyear Tires than on any other kinfl." Come in and convince yourself. fidtilD/flEli SPECIALS--SATURDAY ONLY * • 29x4.40 Pathfinder - . , 30x3 Vi Tube .V' • ; 1 35 Batteries for Ford, Chevrolet etc. 7.75 Walter J. Freund West McHenry. 111. PHONE 120 R TIRE AND TUBE VULCANIZING "UY CHARGING Arijj REPAIRING ALL WORK GUARANTEED -BATTERY • . _ - . K » ' • • ••• a a • •• • a - - iri-Lf\nrM-inixnrinyin»i'juui GENERAL MOTORS T Carey Electric Shop FJtaw 251 4**#ea St. JttcHeMry i Nearby and Yonder • • • • by T. T. MAXEY Busy Water \Tl'.WTON CliKKK tonus a part of the boundary line between Krin k ijn and Long Island City. Its navi giih.'e length is approximately fiv«- Wilis, ,lts maximum width probahU IK £41 feet anil Its greatest lo\v w;it»»i depth Is perhaps 25 f«e/. Four bridges enable vehicles, street tars and pedes trians to cross it at e« nvenicm streei l;';crese»tions. It empties into the Rast river, which separates I«ong is land and Manhattan island, opposite Thirty third street. New York city. Iteastern end Is near the geographical cei.ter and its western end Is near the renter,of population of Greater tfe . York. II.v virtue of the feet that its *vn tire length is rear to both the wlioterr. Ie and the distributing n niers of Manhattan and that it penetrates ornof the world's leading manufacturing j-entcrs, which is growing with agton Ishing rapidity, this little creek lias the reputation of Iwlns the busiest waterway of its size* in ull the world. #»Sl.".*isti«*s indicate that (hiring a re«-enf year receipts and shipments via this little waterway aggregated more thaft MKlO.OOO tons of freight--man a factured products, sand, oil. stone, lumber and ore constituting the chief Items, having an aggregate valuation of something like $;500.000,000. More than 10,000 arrivals and a like tiumber of departing vessels were recorded during that time. (HilHI, Waatera Hwwpsyj Ctka.) , Boy'Reverses Theory and Betters Potatoes Burlington.. Vt.-Because he did an unusual thing Maurice A Holhroi k sixteen-year old 4-H club boy. pr«* fected his potatoes from Might last vear while those of his neighbors suf fered. In the midst of a light steady rain which promotes flight, tie went lnt< the liclii and dusted the plants with bordeaux. "People told me Ji would wa«di right off. hut ni«l It?" the voting ex perimenter remarks. The' next week ohowed the results. Potatoes were dying right and left, hyi mine were not touched Now. when I sell » bushel of potatoes I can say. 'Mister these spuds won't rot r ** Finds He's Been Hiding From $350,000 Bequest Oakland. Cal --After staying In se elusion for five weeks B. II. fvuhl Oakland house painter, discovered he nad been hiding.from a JftTrfMNNi for rune left by his mother, who died Ir • >klah<ii(ia. Kuhl said be had been a witness in a federal court trial and that "some body" had threatened "to get him." Five we^ks ago. he explained, he was Informed that a "mysterious man" was looking for him and immediately thought this "somebody" and the "mysterious man" were the same persoDS and went Into hiding. The mystery man. be found, was an attorney seeking to inform hln\ of his Inheritance. M»Ui - . - . V: v>,- See the NEW CHEVROLET SIX - a Six in the price range of the fowtl Von are cordially invited to mechanical advancements', ! visit our special diiplay of that Chevrolet has ever aa> the new Chevrolet Six--ar- nounccd, the new Chevrolet ranged in conjunction with - -Six delivers better than twenty the nationwide Spring Show- miles to tbe gallon of gasolk-- Perfect Waterproofing The finest fabrics are waterproofed by the Chinese by Immersing them In a mixture of half an ounce of white wax and one pint of spirits of turpentine. Tbe articles are bung 1b the open air to dry. Ideal Medicine Maa Ky idea of a good doctor," says Grandma Gravel In Farm and Fireside, *is one who takes pains and gives none." ' . ing of General Motors cars. Here, in a price class that has hitherto been occupied exclusively by four-cylinder automobiles, you will see displayed a«line of beautiful models that bring you every advantage of sixcylinder performance. Yet, due to the greatest array of with extremely low oil consumption. And this amazing six-cylii*» der performance is matched in impressiveness by the beautiful new Fisher bodies. Come in. See for yourself that no other car in the world can give you so much at prices within the reach of alL Tbe COACH Tk* Roadster.... ... Ic-ir Phactoa.«.*..» •'AJ C«oe.l..j..,'595 IX... .......'67$ Gabr '695 jTLksatCda u Ike .*725 •595 m Sedan Dcfivacr. '400 '545 VikTs£rr:.'65o AUpricttJ.m. kfmrtrny COMPARE (he dclrverc<j price as wtil as tto* lur • rice ia consideri oi •a*oa»ohtlc Cbf {OIM'S dalivarcd POT** oclodc omlj rtatoaafcM <tharses far deliTcrr IM taaocia*. ^ouar. Cordially to S--Our Spmdml ExhikitqftM* AT«w dMmbl Hettermann Motor Sales w 1* A L I T Y AT LOW