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CkM» Their Own Mute According to an occupational con MM there are practically no women piano tuners In this country. Much haa been mid about women forsaking motherhood for careers, but It seems •that most of them would rather take eatto of grand babies than batty grab dm. --New Orleans States. Sure-lnsDiance . '• 'W WITH--~- . ',^Lc.... Wm. G. Schreiner Auctioneering * 1^,. OFFICE AT RESIDENCE - "'iNwfHt MeHenry, Illinois J*»W lletsonafela Katca H,, 8CHAEFEB ,, ^ Dwyhf ' .v,*,.*; S^';irafois DR. JOSEPH C/FMLEY , J * Dentist MeHenry - - Illinois : Fridays 10 a.m.to 8 p.nu Saturdays9 a.m.to 7:30 p.m. " Sundays by appointment. Artificial teeth made by the Davies process. Latest electrical equipment fpd modern methods. 4" Riverside Drive over Barbian'a ~ ~ JA1'V.' ' **• Grocery and Market McHENRY GRAVEL & EXCAVATING 00. ijEfwaw } v V£ < O# \ wu pi'V Twice Told Tales latereatinr Bits of N«wa Mn :;}pvm' the Columns of tlw plaindealer Fifty mmi 'C. . Twenty-&v« Yeari . • Af» •.u'V'y. Fifty Year8 Ago C. E. Reed of Genoa Junction haa leased the old Fisher meat market in this \jllage, which he will open for business in about ten days. C. T. Eldredge continues to dress about a thousand pounds of poultry daily, and is ready to buy all that you bring along. Died-f-At Darien, Walworth county, Wis., Jan. 22, 1880, Leonard Gage, aged 72 years. Mr. Gage was a brother of Hon. George Gage of this Tillage, and was well and favorably "known here. G. W. Besley is talking of putting up a telephone from his store to the residence of Dr. Anderson. We learn that a bakery is soott to be opened in this village. ^ '•/ »• Twenty-five Years Ago The death of Mrs. John Brefeld occurred at her home east of town on Wednesday morning, Jan. 18. The funeral services were held at St. John's Catholic church, Johnsburg, on Saturday morning. About twenty young people accompanied the basketball team to Richmond last Saturday evening and all agree that they were highly entertained by the Richmond people. In spite of the inclement weather NEW ARMY RIFLE FASTEST OF ALL ~ A. P. Freund, Prop. Road Building and Excavating; the masque dance at Buch's hall last of Every Description I?' Estimates Furnished on Bequest, High-grade Gravel Delivered at any time--large or small orders given prompt attention. Fhone 204-M MeHenry 0. W. KLONTZ, M. D. f ;t; physician and Surgeon (A)io treating all diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat and the Fitting of Glasses) OSd Hoon--8 to 9 a. bl, 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays by Appointment Office at Residence, Waukegan Road. Fhose 181 MeHenry, 111 If HENRY V. SOMPEL ; • Li General Teaming •» Sand, Gravel and Coal for Sale ^ Grading, Graveling and Road Work Done By Contract or By Day Phone MeHenry 649-R-l - P. O. Address, Route 3 , MeHenry, EL ?! Tuesday evening under the auspices of Owl Camp, No. 41144, was attended by about fifty couples. The gentlemen in charge of the dance did exactly as they had advertised, by giving the dancers the best time of their lives. The hall had been put in the best of shape and everything was arranged for the convenience of the guests. . J. E. Waite, the Tailway Uiiail clerk, has again received a promotion. He now has the Lake Geneva run only, thus giving him every third week off, instead of the fourth. The Lake Geneva run is not the hardest kind and Earl is very worthy of the promotion. L. F. Newman, who was recently laid up with an injured knee, received on Monday of last week from the Woodmen Accident association, of which he is a member, a check for $21.02, the amount being full payment for the accident. * WM. M. CARROLL . Lawyer .% 0£e wffli West MeHenry State Ban • Every Wednesday Phone 4 McIIt-nry, Illinois Favored Flower* • National flowers found listed «*•: China, lotus; India, sacred lily; Egypt, lotus; Japan, chrysanthemum; Spain, pomegranate; France, fleur de lis; Germany, kaiser bloom; England, rose; Ireland, shamrock; Scotland, thistle; Switzerland, edelweiss. Fires Ten Times and Reloads ^Automatically. Washington.--A new model semi automatic rifle, which can be fired three times as fast as the old Spring field service rifle with which the doughboy Is armed, has been developed under the "supervision of the War department, it has been disclosed. The weapon Is referred to as model T-3 Garand, and was invented by an employee of the ordnance department On the recommendation of the semiautomatic board, which has been testing out the merits of nine German, Belgian, Czechoslovakia and American rifles during the summer, the War department has ordered the construction of twenty of the Garand rifles for extensive service tests. The board liked the performance of the Garand rifle better than that of any of the other weapons presented. It recommended, however, against adopting any semi-automatic rifle as standard prior to comparison of the service tests of the Garand and the Pederson semi-automctic rifle, which until recently was regarded as the best weapon of its type. The Garand is a .276 caliber weapon as compared with the .30 caliber Springfield. Despite the fact that it is a semi-automatic, the Garand weighs slightly less than the Springfield, a circumstance that surprised the board members. The Garand fires ten times and reloads automatically. All the op-» erator has to do is to pull the trigger for each shot and insert a new clip when the ten cartridges have been fired. According to officers who followed the tests at the Aberdeen proving ground, the Garand can be fired ninety times a minute, as compared with thirty times a minute for the regular service rifle. f KEEP CLOSE GUARD ON BROKERS' LOAN? U. S. Officials Say There's No Chance of Leak. ^^lephone 'Not 108-R r' : Stoffel & Reihansperger Insurance agents for all classes of f. property in the best companies. WEST McHENRY Q. - ILLINOIS ED J GENERAL ; ' AUCTIONEER Firm Sales a Specialty II O. Solon Mills, 111 TeL Richmond 264 Reference Past Sales SATISFACTION GUARANTEED - Scotland'* Ancient Nam* . Albany was the ancient name for Scotland and Is still used at the present time in poetical works, etc. It was made official in an act of a Scottish council held at Scone, In June, 1398, when the title, duke of Albany, was conferred on the brother of King tobert III, the duke at that time acting SS regent for the kingdom. "7 Wayside Peddlers Ruled Off California Road Los Angeles, Calif.--Cleaning up and improving the appearance of highways is bejng made more effective by California through a law prohibiting fruit, vegetable and other peddlers from using state roads for the sale of their wares. The statute represents'an advance in the campaign to "clean up and beautify highways" initiated and being carried on by the Automobile Club of Southern California, It is pointed out. Since the rights of way of state highways in almost all cases extend well beyond each edge of the surfaced or utilized roadways, it is evident that this new law wllf eliminate from those main thoroughfares many transient peddlers. A regulation prohibiting the posting or erection of advertising signs of all kinds or sizes on the state highway rights of way has been in effect for a number of years in California, it is observed by the automobile club, and state highway commission employees are instructed to remove such signs, billboards or other displays wherever found along the state's roads. Hard-Hearted Outfit "1 told in? troubles to my bankers,' remarked a man on the bus, "and tuere wasn't a wet eye tn the rooai" NEARLY KILLED BY GAS --DRUGGIST SAVES HER "Gas on my stomach was so bad it nearly killed me. My druggist told me about Adlerika. The gas is gone now and I feel fine."--Mrs. A. Adamek. Simple glycerin, buckthorn, saline, etc., as mixed in Adlerika, helps GAS on stomach in 10 minutes! Most remedies act on lower bowel only, but Adlerika acts on BOTH upper and lower bowel, removing poisonous waste you never knew was there. Relieves constipation in 2 hours. It will surprise you. Thomas P. Bolger, Druggist. Chewing Gum Delays Reds' View of "Chicago" Moscow.--The American stage success "Chicago" is scheduled for early production this season by the Moscow Art theater, where it is now being rehearsed. 7 Russian actors meet curious ob*' stacies in following the stage directions of this play. They were greatly puzzled by instructions to one of the characters to light a match on his trousers. Experiments showed that It could not be done with Russian matches and arrangements are being made for importing a few boxes of the American variety. The Art theater directors were also amazed by the amount of chewing gum which figures in the stage directions, and that item, too, wiU be imported. / > Washington.--Utmost precautions to assure secrecy prior to publication of the weekly brokers' loans figures, regarded widely as the single most important barometer of stock market activity, are taken by the federal reserve system. Reports circulated recently In Wall Street that a "leak" existed by which these figures are obtained prematurely by some brokers are discounted by reserve system officials who made public their method of handling the loan report, issued at 4 p. m. oach Thursday. Compiled In the New York federal reserve bank each week on the basis of mailed reports from reporting mem. ber banks in New York city, the detailed report showing the total of loans to stock market operators for the week are telephoned here each Thursday at 3:15 after clow ,^,tbe stock exchange. 'I** , Locked in Room.,•- \ The report is received at the reserve board's offices here by one man who is locked !n a room with a messenger shortly before that time. Without leaving the locked room, the man mimeographs the reports and places them in a sealed envelope addressed to Gov. Roy A. Young of the federal reserve board. When prepared, the reports are entrusted to the messenger, who rushes them direct to Governor Young's office. On the dot of four o'clock the envelopes are unsealed and the reports placed on the press table In the governor's spacious office on the second floor of the treasury department's huge gray stone building. In the opinion of- reserve board officials, this procedure eliminates completely any possibility of a leak in the figures from Washington. The reserve board has been advised by the New York reserve bank that extremely careful precautions are taken there to make sure the figures are not released in advance. Indicator of Trading. Because of fluctuations in the stock market In recent months Interest In •the weekly report by the reserve board on the extent of borrowings by brokers In New York has been intense. In the past six months the weekly brokers' loans figure has constantly risen until now nearly $7,000,000,000 Is considered as Indicator of the volume of trading on the New York exchange. Responding, to questions raised In Wall Street about the accuracy of the reserve board's brokers' loan figures, officials explained that the report does not represent the total borrowings by brokers inasmuch as only loans made through member banks are reported to the reserve system. In recent years an Increasingly large percentage of brokers' loans have been made direct to the mart by private banks, corporations and foreign agencies. Lendlngs by, these private agencies aggregated $1,472,000,000 on September 30. and such direct lendlngs to the stock exchange have increased $400,000,000 in this year alone. This element of loans unreported through official channels makes prediction of what the loan report will show decidedly uncertain, officials emphasized. fmmm (Vt •»#$*** Letter Asking Jars Goes 45 Miles in 17 Yfears Petersburg, Mich.--Seventeen years ago Miss Leo Lowe of Detroit needed some fruit jars* so she dropped a postcard to her mother to that effect. The card reached Its destination in excellent condition several days ago with no marks to indicate what delayed its 45-mile journey. Meanwhile Mrs. Lowe died and her daughter, now Mrs. William Hersbeck, no longer needs the jars. Stole 300,000 Chickens; Now Protects Farmers New York.--Robert F. Stephens, who says he stole 300,000 chickens in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa during a period of eighteen months, now hopes to protect farmers from night prowlers through the publication of his memoirs. Stephens tells in Farm and Fireside, how he headed a gang operating with swift automobile trucks, robbed between 10,000 and 15,000 hen roosts and was finally caught and sentenced to the Nebraska state reformatory. He has now finished his sentence and has already exposed several fake protection agencies, saving fanners near ly $100,000 a year. He plans to expose the methods of small farm robberies; in a manner which" he says will reduce annual losses through theft, estimated at $15,000,000, by half. Explaining Bent Cross on Crown of Huqsgpoi'jr With reference to a question recently asked concerning the famous St. Stephen's crown of Hungary and the reason why the cross on top of It Is bent, a Hungarian reader, B. S. writes as follows: "As a painter I painted signs which bear the Hun garian royal crown. My master t<»id me they had a revolution in 1848 and some one burled the crown In the for est of Lakwa, southeast of Zlatica. No body knew of it for years until Fran* Josef was to be crowned. The government sent men to look for It and by the help of a Serbian shepherd they found it with its cross bent" Th>* story Is confirmed by Henri de Wendel's book, "The Real Francis-Joseph, which states: "Before Kossuth left he burled with bis own hands the Hun garian crown, the old crown of 8t. Stephen, in the neighborhood of, the frontier village of Orsova. When it was recovered later, the little cross on the top was found bent on one side. From this time onward the arms of Hungary have borne a crown with a cross bent toward the JefL"--Detroit News. ^ Beaver's Powerful Tall" ' Serves Many PurpOtifes There is a popular belief that the beaver'* tail Is shaped as it is to enable him to use is as a trowel in his construction work. Scientists, however, have observed that the beaver usually carries in his fore paws the mud, rock or sticks with which be builds and that he uses the tail o steadjr himself, either by planting 't on the ground or by waving it from side to side. In the water he uses Is as a rudder and sometimes &a a pro* peller. The beaver's tail is flat and wide. Its steering power is taxed to the limit as the beaver swims, tuglike, by the side of a pole or log that he is towing to the house, dam, or food cache. It keeps him from moving in circles. By its loud slaps on the surface of the water, the tail also serves as a "signal gun" which acts as a^wafoifi^ t# friends or enemies. •- T k H Weasel's Storo "ill*:.# recent issue we mentioned a bird that provides stores for the winter. Weasels share this foresight. When slicing a poplar at a sawmill it was found that no fewer than 44 mice bad been carefully stocked, one above the . other, in an ordered pile, with sand and mould between them, to form an airtight mound. These mice were in as fresh condition aa if they had just been caught Two magpies had been placed on top of them, and a large collection of acorns filled the hollowed-out cavity to the entrance, which was just large enough for tli$ weasel to slip inside.-- London Tit-Bits. Have you a house to rent? Try a classified ad. RAILROAD MAN STAUNCH FRIED OF NEW KONJOLA Suffered Fifteen Years With Indigestion and Other Ills--Praises Modern Medicine Church's High Title The John Street Methodiat chords New York city, is kawMl arf' the "Cradle of American Methodism." It# cently portraits of Philip Embury and bis wife, founders of Methodism In America, were presented to this churcb by Be*. Howard Ingham of Philadelphia. The pictures were painted by John Barnes In ma- and SI* on portraits oa wood. SpM Gave Nam* to Cofleg* Barnard college. New York city, was named for Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard. He was a Yale graduate and became president of Columbia. Highly interested In higher education for women, he aided In the establish ment of a separate college, closely allied with Columbia, since be could not prevail upon Columbia to admit women on an equal footing with men. True Aff« Zesterdays are part oi affection. Today Is not a broad enough canvas on which to paint* that picture.--Woman's Home Companion. --By Job Or pay Work Portable air compressors and electric hammers for breaking concrete, drilling rock; tunneling, driving sheet piles, riveting steel work and breaking frost Wm. O'Neill Lake Geneva, W|(L. »-4 0 * ' a m * . 1 * (, Peterson Garage and Repair Shop Located in the Morrow Building, West MeHenry, recently known as the Chevrolet agency. I am now fully equipped to handle all kinds of car and truck repairing. Alvin C. Peterson Business Phone 256 Residence PEone 1S7-W WEST SIDE GARAG9 Adams Bros., Props. *p general Automobile Repairing TeL 185 Res. Phone, 639-R-2 n*UC-Jt 1O0OE =113** S. H. Freund & Son general Building Contractors Phone 127-R CoivPear] aiitl Park Sts. McHefif^tlL Central Garage JOHNSBURG FRED J. SMlTfiC Proprietor Chevrolet Sales. General Automotive Repair Work Give us a call when in trouble EXPERT WELDING AND CYLINDER REBOR1NG Day Phone 200-J Night Phone 640-J-2 A Drink That's Good the Year 'Round Milk, as we deliver it to you, is the one best drink for grown-ups as well as children, for each and every day of the year. It contains in easily assimilated form, the needed food elements. Our careful handling assures it reaching your home in p(^j||ct condition. C ' Home-churaod Buttermilk Community Dairy Phone 660-J-1 Ben J. Smith, Prop. Denies He Was Robbed; ;; Other Admits Robbery Milwaukee, Wis.--One hears of denial of robbery by the accused and the insistence of the deed by the accuser, but when the tables are turned--. That Is the question which grew out of the caBe In which Bruce Spence, confessed narcotic thief, figured here recently. While he wa9 charged with six th^ts. Spence asserted he had robbed < • the office of Dr. H. C. Ladewlg, Milwaukee physician. Doctor Ladewlg was Arm in his denial of tlie robbery. Spence was equally Insistent that he had committed a felony. The Judge held the case open to determine whether the prisoner was a drug addict. New Yorker Pays $25 to "Conscience" Fund Washington.--"John Brown," who apparently lives in New York, squared accounts with the treasury by a contribution to the department's "conscience" fund. Announcement was made that $25 had been received and so deposited. Such a fund is maintained for anonymous deposes «nade by persons who feel they have "cheated" the government. Mr. "Brown's" method of making his contribution was somewhat different than is usual, however, for he took the trouble to buy a money order and make the amount payable to Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury. Highest Quality-- ^Lowest Prices " the Mother of ColBab# Most writers agree that Columbns was an Italian and net Jewish though recent Investigators have cast doubt on his birthplace and claimed that hli mother waa Jewiah. v' WaHtag Oat«Id> „• . ft li wlghty hard to berore tfcat conversation is a lost art while yon are waiting for your turn at the public telepfcoue^-Lfraiarliio Tipua. | Sargent, Former Cabinet _ Member, Collects Clocks Ludlow, Vt.--Collecting and repairing old clocks Is a hobby which for many years has brought enjoyment to former Attorney General John G. Sargent. At his home here he haa a huge collection of antique timepieces which la nationally known among clock connoisseurs. To the interested visitor Sergent explains witli pride that all hla clocks, even the most ancient of them, are still Workers Uw la Dmm In the dome of St Peter's cathedral Rome, 400 feet above ground level, there are living quarters for workmen permanently employed to keep the building In repair. \ Doact Arga* 4 tftrt* thing aa haifl to trtB «i fame and fortune Is an argnment with the "dearest little woman In (he world."- • Cincinnati BpqutoMi. MR. HECTOR L. PAQUIN "For fifteen years I was the victim of stomach trouble," said Mr. Hee tor L. Paquin, 4536 North Hermitage avenue, Chicago. "I often wondered, as I tried in vain different medicines and treatments, if anyone ever had indigestion as bad as I had and got over it. I was constipated chronically and my system must have been fairly saturated with poisons and impurities. No wonder I became highly nervous. I could not rest well, and every morning I got up tired, worn-out and groggy. Sometimes I had terrific headaches all day long. "To my astonishment and delight, two bottles of Konjola did me more good than all the medicines combined I had tried in fifteen years. Two more bottles won a complete victory over my health troubles. I am feeling simply great and never overlook the opportunity to tell what this eplendid medicine did for me." Konjola is sold in MeHenry, 111., at Thomas P. Bolger's drug store, and by all the best druggists in all towaa throughout this entire section. Women Suffering^ V"!- Bladder Irritation v If functional Bladder Irritatlirtl disturbs your sleep, or causes Burning or Itching Sensation, Back' ache, Leg Pains, or muscular aches, making you feel tired, depressed, and discouraged, why not try the Cystex 48 Hour Test? Don't give up. Get Cystex today. Put it to the test. See for yourself how quickly it works and what it does. Money back if it doesn't bring quick, improvement, and satisfy you completely. Try Cystex today. Only 60c. ..Thomas P. Bolger, Tfce MeHenry Dngfirt. Ask far Special Trade'in Offer o§ /JTWeathers and Double Eaglej Beoause more people bay Ctoodyear Tires--because Goodyear builds nearly one-third of the world s tire output and thus enjoys lowest coats--we can offer yon history's lowest price# on the Goodyeara e««N produced. ^ Furthermore--before you buy--we can demonstrate and prove the Goodyear superiority of tread and carcass which protects you from skidding, puncture® and blowouts and assures you more miles of troublefree service. Game in and see thi* demonstration. All tires expertly mounted free and you also get our year round service Walter J. Freund Non-skid Chains, Alcohol and Prestone for Radiators,' Crank-case Draining, Top Dressing, Etc. ' TIRE AND TUBE VULCANIZING -- BATTERY CHARGING AND REPAIRING ALL WORK GUARANTEED West MeHenry, JSL i= <rr I:.. >v