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IBKSffWPPSBPWPB * > ' • • • - ' • -;:V !PP«1 1 jait.so GUT CROSS COUNTRY TO 12 HOURS Mystery Ship Expected to Lower Record. - Atlanta* Ga.--Some time next spring - when the elements between Los Anf || geles and New York return to normalcy, Dong Davte, crack Atlanta pilot, expects to fly the distance In U about twelve hours. The record, BOW held by Capt. Prank Hawks, is close ta seventeep hours. But that fact apparently offers little obstacle- to the man who recently clipped three tifeprs from the record of the trip from New York to Atlanta. He used a Travelalr "Mystery" ship --*-a bullet-like monoplane which looks a bumble bee upside down but ,cv» '.*v wWch functions with unprecedented efficiency. WotiJd Ply Straight Up. ^*v'8 WOB the cup for America's mort meritorious flyer of 1929 in the ' ;Same pfOjectilelike craft at the Cleve- " V ^ Iand alr races- He was in New Yorfc pearly In November and wanted to eD- ;ter it in an air race In Atlanta. J ;';v ; v So he took breakfast Hn Gotham and t .. lunch in Georgia, actually flying the ;800 miles In four hours and thirty . minutes through rain, and fog. The entire trip required five hours, with ^ •' ;,'"f4wo stops of fifteen minutes each for •V'.; . ,4&*»el. y>; '- "*~M Davis believes his "Mystery** ship \<-i " T? Shas greater possibilities than any sim- *-> k *3liar craft extant, believes Its highly developed maneuver ability and excessive speed would make it an inj vulnerable fighting unit in time of war. M' _ He recently said that shortly he exif , < pected to open Its throttle somewhere E: in tlie vicinity of the ground, point-Its nose "absolutely straight up," and cut »•;" swiftly heavenward for one solid mile at an , angle of 180 degrees. ^ I# .^Fastest Climbing Plana. Already he has climbed to 3,000 feet in that manner after a 250-mlle-an H hour start. Present equipment of the^ Frank had a dreadful case on you and plane, he said, does not permit more altitude because of gas tank adjustment, which he expects to alter. The plane can take off at an angle greater than 45 degrees and hold ,it "all the way to the exiling," Davis said. "I believe It is unquestionably 'the fastest climbing plane ever built." It is an open cockpit affair and responds so swiftly to the controls that « sudden change of direction will produce temporary blindness for the pilot That happened in the Cleveland races, Davis said, when he rounded a ,pylon too abruptly. A nine-cylinder motor of 300 horse power twirls the plane's 22 degree pitch propeller 2,300 revolutions per minute and propels the whole craft •more than 250 miles an hour. "A novj^e is out of place at its controls, but it is perfectly safe In the bands of an experienced pilot,'* he Jsaid. Plans Airplane Capable of 2,000 Miles an Hour New York.--Within a few years Fritz von Opel, German Inventor of the rocket powered car, hopes to have perfected a practical airplane capable iof speed of 2,600 miles an hour. The machine, he said, would be driven by a new fluid explosive which his engineers are now testing. i This fluid i| produced by combining -itwo other high-powered explosives according to a secret formula, and by next year, Von Opel said, he expects to have built a rocket driven plane -"with which he will attempt a flight across the English channel. Herr Von Opel, who is only thirty, arrived in New York recently aboard w$he North German Llyod liner Colum- • -fit)us with his wife. He is to remain .||n the United_States for a year, studyv Ing the motor Industry, and also will - confer with navy officials at Washington. J? The young inventor ridiculed the ' *|dea of shootfng a rocket to the moon, -<>Jij^pd especially that of a man travelif|| ng to the moon in a rocket driven i„|<!ar. His rockets have far more prac- . i«SStJf- •* j,.,, . Tax Irks CMmSS^'a If: SMnghal.--Angry at a ftp* tW " 1 cent "superstition tax" which the local ^Chinese municipality has ordered levied against religious incense and candles, shopkeepers affected have oined to resist the duty and threaten to declare a strike utilM the order Is . yescihded. oooooooooooooooooooooooooo Back Home Where Cupid Reigned *•*'"" By CORONA REMINGTON oooooooooooooooooooooooooo (Copyright) ELI.O, Madge, supper ready? Your turn to cook it, yoli know. Brought some lettuce and tomatoes so we could have salad." Vivian Longmire dropped Iter packages on a nearby chair and, removing ber hat, flung it on the bed. "No, 1 was kept late at the offlca Just got In and found a letter from Alice White and simply bad to read it." „ All this from Margaret Holllster as she continued scanning the pages In her hand. ' "What's new back homeT" asked Vivian, crossing the room and leaning over ber friend's shoulder. "Alice Is going to be married. What's the matter with us anyway?" asked Madge. "We left that little sleepy hole of a place because we thought--" "We thought we'd have a^ better chance of marrying well If we came to a big city." "Well, we've been here three years and most of the evenings we've spent tolling around in our kimonos reading books from the free iibrary, Exciting!" "And even if we do write thrilling letters to the girls back home about how interesting our work is we'd give our heads to quit tomorrow. And yet we'd And country life even more unbearable no^v. I remember how Prank used to come over Sunday. He'd.walk home from church with me and then he'd stay to dinner and afterward we'd walk some more if It was pretty weather and sometimes he'd stay to supper and on until seven or eight o'clock. Then he'd get up and go home and go to bed. And* all the time he was there he wouldn't say a single word unless It was something about the crops or the weather." Well, you'll have to admit, too, that Millions of Children in China Illiterate Peiplng, China.--Three million Chinese children in Hope! province alone are unable to read or write In their own or any other language the department of education of the province reports. The department urges Institution of compulsory education for all children as soon as possible, but estimates thai such a pro gram would require $30,000,000 at the start, and as the province has been barely able to meet ordinary administrative expenses, it is not believed that a real beginning can be made In the near future. As a temporary measure, the department suggest^ that compulsory education be started first in large cities, where the people may be able to afford it. that makes some men sort of awkward and speechless. Everybody thought it was going to be a match." "I guess It would have been If we hadn't come out here. Wonder whfet they're doing at home now," sighed Vivian. "Cleaning up the supper dishes and getting ready to go out for a ride.** "It makes me sort of homesick to think about It. I can just hear the lacy tinkle of the cow bells as they browse around for a last dewy month* ful before lying down." "Hush, Vivian, do. " Hiis is unhealthy. Let's go get supper together." "I don't want any supper. I'm homesick-- downright homesick and I want to go back," Vivian persisted.' "So do I." So it was arranged. Their father* met them at the station and took them home in a wheezy, muddy car. "Land, but It's good to have you back," Mrs. Longmire said as Vivian jumped out of their little touring car and fell into her mother's arms. "Dont seem like I could ever let you go again. I told Frank you was coming today and he'll be over after supper. I'll have to go and see about the supper now. Come to the kitchen, VIv, Boon's you get your things off." Mrs. Longmire, energetic and more than contented, hurried into the kitchen. The fresh country food seemed so good to Vivian's craving, homesick palate and she was happy for the first time In ages. Afterwards she and her mother cleaned up together. In the middle of the Job Frank appeared. •They told me out front I'd And you back here, so I just came on in," he explained. "Hello. Frank," she smiled. "It's good to see yon again. Here's a clqth; you can dry these dishes .while I wash 'em." Once at work Jils embarrassment left him. "Viv, you goin' to marry me this time, honey?" be asked gingerly taking her hand. As she made no effort to withdraw it he grew a little bolder and slipped an arm around her shoulder. "1 built us a little house on ths edge of your place 'cause I knew you'<f come back to me some day; an' nov^s a good time for us to start gettln* settled 'cause harvest Is done." "Harvest! What music to her ears and not long ago she had so hated the word. "You better," said Frank, "'cause you won't have any little partner to go hack with you. Madge's going to marry cousin Bill. He's got them a little house built, too." "Oh, you're kiddin'," she laughed. <*No. Honest. She promised him six months ago. I saw the letter." "The little fraud! She never toltf me." "Well, I dont care about her. What are you going to do about me?" h* asked Impatiently. "Why, I'm going to say 'yes, please,'" she answered demurely. "And Tm going to add that you have to get away from folks and things to get a right perspective sometimes and to learu how to appreciate them." I W • ' Dismal Swamp Larger -f Ji. Tfee area of the Dismal swamp N Virginia and North Carolina Is 750* (Square miles. The area of the Okefl- rce swamp in southeastern Georgia about flOn square miles.;- ; -i'V jv America's Forest Trees 1 There are 862 species of forest _ in this country, and If the dififcrent varieties and hybrids are adO- •6 the total of different forme of fortrees would reach 1,177. ision of Flies llie greater part of the head of a fly Is occupied by the eyes, some several thousand in number, described as compound, between the compound eyes and near the top of the head Is a triangular arrangement of. three simple eyes. The upper two are much farther apart In the female than In the male. In spite of the arrangement of the eyes and the great mobility of the head It Is not believed that' the vision of. flie$ la especially acute, although the range of vision Is wide First Book b English JL; William Caxton was the first ferstfa to print a book in English. In 1474 he printed a translation of Raoul de Fevre's history of Troy. That was the Orst book ever printed In English. Ambition One trouble with human life is that the boy who knows his onions too frequently is Inclined to fool with orchids.-- Lafayette Journal and Courier. World's Oldest Library Discovered in Syria What la supposed to be the most ancient library in the world, consisting of documents written in the first alphabetic signs known to savants, was discovered in Syria by a French archeological expedition. Eighteen large and small tablets, engraved with letters that are neither hieroglyphics nor Assyrian cuneiform characters, but evidently parts of the first alphabet made of 26 and 27 signs, were found by a young Alsatian arcbeologist on the Syrian coast of the Mediterranean, at a place called Ras-Shamra, near latakieh (Ladikiya). The expedition had discovered ther^ a necropolis, the 4.000-year-old ruins of a Phoenician palace and town, and numerous ancient vases, jars and statutes of great arehpological and historical value. The opinion was put forward by the Academie that these ruins represented traces of an Aegian colony that existed on the Phoenician coast 2,000 years before the present era, and whose civilization was of the Mycenian period. Salomon Reinach, the famous French historian, who was present when the report waa presented, declared that the discovery was a most extraordinary one, and that it would he of the greatest importance Sot (tie suuly of ancient bit* tot*. • RINGWOOD Ruin* of Ancient City Loaf Hidden in Jungle After being hidden for centuries in a tangled-up mass/of jungle, the ancient city of Gedi, has come to light only 50 miles from "modern Mombasa. Professor Fleure, of the University college of Wales, who has been visiting Kenya colony with the members of the British association, believes that Gedi, known in Kenya as the "buried city," is of Persian origin and at least six hundred years old. The ruins disclose a fine Arabic writing, especially in the mosques and tombs. Professor Fleure thinks that Gedi woul^J well repay investigations by archeological and ethnological experts. He does not believe these would be difficult in view of the profusion of evidence provided by the ruins. The town was known, to tribes on the coast for many years, but It was shunned _ by them because they regarded it as being haunted by the spirits .of the dead, wlio wreak special vengeance on Intruders. The lighting of a fire in the precincts of the ruins was considered partlcu>arly dangerous by the negroes, even if the Are was oniy a, elgaretft. > " , Christmas Fireworks * Both the Chinese and Hindus employed fireworks in their religious festivals long before Europeans knew of gunpowder. Other people copied them. Ancient races used firecrackers, roman candles, and fireworks In connection with the winter solstice celebration. Such pagan ideas have since been incorporated into modern religious and other observances. In Italy and other countries this pagan feature continues In some Christian religious festivals to this day. Christmas eve in some of the Southern states resembles the Fourth of July. There are elaborate fireworks displays, and the children get firecrackers In their Christmas stockings. - 4 • - Quits Every Half Miaate Every half minute an earthquake occurs somewhere on earth. Great ones powerful enough to destroy towns happen jibout four times a year. Two especially sensitive zones exist: 1-- along the almost continuous stretch of the Alps, Caucasus and Himalaya mountains; 2--along the whole mountainous circle of the Pacific. Often shaken Italy is In the first zone, California and Japan in ,the second. Eastern North America along the Appalachian chain goes through a noticeable, but usually harmleas quake at least once a year, and a damaging one at about five-year Intervals.-- Time, the Newsmagazine. He Kaew the Law The late Haley Flske of insurance fame told this story at an Insurance men's banquet in New York. "An American company," he said, "opened a branch in eastern, Europe and was soon doing well. "A rich peasant visited the main office one day. Insured his farm, and then said to the manager: •' 'Now, then, sir, I must have everyth. ng plain and clear before I go. Exactly what would I get If my house and barn were to burn down tonight?' " 'Not more than ten years and not leaa than three,' " aaid the manager. Twraty-Thnt Adjectives A California man, suing his wife for divorce after less than two years of marriage, says that she is "sullen, mean, irritable, morbid, disagreeable, nasty, gruesome, cool, bitter, jealous, heckling, picayunish, loathsome. Insulting, brazen, miserly, gluttonish, temperamental, selfish, contemptuous, Inattentive, uncivil and Inconsiderate." It is obvious that one who chose from Roget with such care did not mean to imply that abe waa uncongenial. Giviag Om'i Bast Play fair with your employer, and he will do the same by yon. If yon think enough of a job to. accept it, think enough of yourself and your obligation to do your work the best you can, and yon are booat ia coaM off on top.--Grit. '"\ '•? f^-eparatioa of Saede ^Su&Je ts usually mocha or lambskin tanned on the wrong or bleached side or witji the thin, glossy outer grain ahaved or peeled off. leaving aftvandressed surface. Wooden Worry Don't worry if your job is small and your rewards are few. Remember that the mighty oak was once a not like you.--Boston Transcript. Mrs. Ben Justen was called to Chicago Tuesday by the serious illness of her aunt. Miss Lora Harrison spent a few days in Chicago the past week visiting friends. Gedrge Herbert returned to his home in Woodstock Tuesday from a few days' visit with Ringwood friends. Jack McLaughlin was a Woodstock visitor Tuesday. Mrs. Ed Whiting was a |fcHenry visitor Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. G. Ei Shepard were visitors at Woodstock and McHenry Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Walkington are the proud parents of a daughter, born Tuesday, Jan. 21. Mrs. Nick Young entertained the Bunco club at her "home Thursday afternoon. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Nick Adams, the punch prize; Mrs. Ray Merchant, first; ^Mrs. Nick Freund, second, and Mrs. George Young the consolation. At the close refreshments were served. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Kitchens entertained the Five Hundred club at their home Thursday evening. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Ray Peters and Geo. Young, first, and Mrs. George Young and Ray Peters the consolations. At the close refreshments were served. The Home Circle will meet at the home of Mrs. Bruno Butler Wednesday, Feb. 12, Miss Lora Harrison entertained a few friends at five hundred at the home of her parents Saturday evening. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Jay Cristy and F. A. Hitctiens, first, and Mrs. F. A. Hitchens and Jay Cristy the consolations. /At the close of the games dainty refreshments were served. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Olsen of McHenry jspent Friday and Saturday in the Elmer Olsen home. Wayne Foss of Greenwood spent the week-end at his home here. Glen Trion of Bedford, Ind., spent the week-end as the guest of Miss Lora Harrison at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Harrison. Ralph Clay of Rockford spent Sunday in the Ed Peet home. Andrew Hawley spent the week-end with Chicago friends*, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Weber and son of McHenry spent Sunday In the Nick Young home. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hinxi^of Crystal Lake spent Sunday in the George Harrison home. 1 Mrs. Charles Carr and son, Elmer, *were Woodstock visitors Wednesday. Miss Eva Williams of St. Charles spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Williams. Fred Wiedrich and son, Frank, were Richmond visitors Thursday afternoon. Mx. and Mrs. Irving Walker and family of Waukegan spent Sunday in the Roy Harrison home. Oliver Laurence was a Woodstock caller Monday morning. % Edward Harrison and Miss Ruth Owen of Elcin spent the week-end in the George Harrison home. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Dodge and sons and Mrs. W. A. Dodge were visitors at Woodstock Monday aternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Carr and son spent Sunday in the Charles Carr home. G. A. Stevens was a McHenry vis ^-^itor Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wilson and ^daughter of Riclftnond spent Tuesday afternobn with Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Stevens. Harry Turner of Solon Mills was a caller in the George Noble home Sunday afternoon. Mrs. D. C. Bacon of Crystal Lake entertained the following ladies of Ringwood to a dinner bridge party at her home Wednesday: Mesdames G. A. Stevens, F. A. Hitchens, J. C. Ladd, H. M. Stephenson, B. T. Butler, A. W. Smith, Ray Peters, Martin Klintworth, E. C. Hawley and Miss Agnes Bigelow. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. A. W. Smith, first, and Mrs. Ray Peters, the consolation. Nick Young, Claus Larsen and Axel Carlson motored to Chicago Thursday and were guests of Math Freund of McHenry and went thrpugh one of th? International Harvester factories. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schroeder an J daughter, Jessie, attended the show at Crystal Lake Sunuay evening. Mr. and Mrs. James Rainy spent Sunday in the home of the latter's mother at McHenry. Clay Rager of Brooklyn, Wia., spent Monday nigbt and Tuesday with ^»is family. Miss Wynne Kelley spent Thursday with Woodstock friends. Miss Frances Helms was a Woodstock visitor Monday morning. Mr and Mrs. Harold Kelley and daughter of Crystal Lake spent Sunday in the William Kelley home. Ralph Simpson of Chicago was guest of Miss Cora Beth Sunday. David Stanley of Woodstock was a caller in the William Kelley home Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Romey and daughters, Evelyn, Bernice and Lutie, and son, Morton, of Paddock's Lake spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dick and family. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Hopper of Harvard spent Friday in Ringwood. Miss Nellie McDonald is again able to be at her work in Brown's drug store after a two weeks' illiness. Mrs. Clay Rager and family spent Saturday afternoon at Woodstock. Mrs. Dell Bacon of Crystal Lake spent Monday in Ringwood. Mrs. Rillah Foss and son, Floyd, and Mrs. Frankie Stephenson were callers in Greenwood Tuesday evening. Leon Dodge took a truckload of hogs to Chicago Tuesday. Mrs. C. D. Bacon and Mr. and Mrs. William Hendrickson were Woodstock visitors Tuesday. Mrs. William McCannon, Mrs. Edgar Thomas, Mrs. Nick Young and Mrs. Viola Low attended a quilting party at Mrs. George Shepard's Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Allen of He«, T>ron spent Wednesday afternoon in the Sam Beatty home. Merritt Cruickshank of Elgin waj a caller in the William McCaimor. home Monday. ^ S. H. Beatty and Louis Schroeder were business callers McHenry Thursday. Mrs. Edgar Thomas and son, Adrian, were McHenry vjaitara Saturday morning. C. W. Harrison waa a Woodstock visitor Friday. Mr. and Mrs. William McCannon were McHenry visitors Friday. Woodstock friends of Mrs. Carrie Stephenson gave her a postal card shower on Sunday in honor of her birthday anniversary. Miss Genevieve Carey of McHenry and Albert Wohl of Chicago spent Sunday afternoon in the Thomas Doherty home. LeRoy Peet of Woodstock was a business caller in town Monday. I. N. Butler and Mr. Ring of Elgin spent Monday at F. A. Hitchens*. Kirk Schroeder and Adrian Thomas attended the show at Crystal Lake Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Hitchens were supper guests Sunday evening of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Bacon at Crystal Lakt. Mrs. C. J. Jepson arid daughter, Virginia, and Marian Peet spent Monday morning at McHenry. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Peters spent Sunday with relatives at Belvidere. Helen Whiting spent Friday night and Saturday in the F. A. Hitchens home. Mrs. Frances Hall, Mrs. T, A. Abbott and Shirley Neal are on the sick list. Mrs. Ellen Whiting spent Saturday with friends in Woodstock. Mr. ,and Mrs. Ernest Duval of Elgin spent last Friday with Mr. and Mrs. George Adams. A number of dairymen from Ringwood attended the county milk meeting in Woodstock Monday. County Agent E. M. Phillips and Walter Schuett were callers at Geo. Adams' Monday morning. The annual meeting of the Ringwood local of the Pure Milk association was held at the M .W. A. hall Saturday afternoon. Election of officers was held at which time Kenneth Cristy was elected president, S. W. Smith, vice-president, and Thomas Doherty, treasurer and secretary. Committeeman elected was Peter Smith of Johnsburg and the county director, Ben Winn of Richmond. Delegates appointed to attend the annual meeting at Chicago in March were Will McCannon, Ringwood; John Smith, Johnsburg; Frank Barber, Greenwood, and Howard Siedschlag of Sprang Grove. Mrs. Jennie Bacon had as her guests Sunday, her children, grandchildren and their families in honor of her son, George. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. George Bacon, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Nelson and daughter, of Antioch; Mrs. Malissa Gould and daughter, Jean, of Elgin; Mr. and Mrs. Leo Karls, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Anderson and two sons, Ray BarthofF, Frank Buchert and daughter, of Richmond; Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Bacon, of Crystal Lake; Mrs. John Wolfe and two children, of Woodstock. Romance From Miaaives in Cavern Post Office In Wind Cave National park, soutb of Custer, S. D., 1$ a cavern serving a unique puruo^e. Some 200 feet under ground, the cavern ta called the post office. Here tourists and sightseers lentfe mementos, usually their nmnes and addresses scribbled on the back of an envelope or some oflier piece of paper, and stuffed into one of hundreds of box-like formations on the rock walls These natural crystalline formations suggest the Idea of the post office. A perusal of the "mail" reveals some Interesting things. One finds names aud addresses from every state in the Union and from foreign countries, it Is permissible to take these, and many miss or youth has vlsioued his or ber future love as a half doaen or more names were selected. I I I ! I I I I I » -- , - • 1 ^ ANNOUNCEME NT TO THE VOTERS OF McHENRY COUNTY:-- # v I hereby announce my candidacy for th* office of ^ *.. i County Treasurer of McHenry County at the coming &e- • s ^ publican Primaries April 8, 1930. Having been Deputy County Treasurer for the past four years under the present reorganised system, handling approximately $1,500,000 in taxes each yew, same being distributed in a short space of time. v My qualifications are a matter of record., * JL Business College Graduate, , ^ Ik Business House Accountant, A Business Man for 12 years and * thorough knowledge of modern business methods. It is on these qualifications I seek your support ana iwemise to do my utmost to give the people of McHenry County an efficient and economic administration. HARRY F. tETEIT Deputy County Treasurer Much Bacon oa Tliia Hog The fossil skeleton of a giant hog which stood seven^eet tall is mounted In Morrell hall at the University of Nebraska. The terrible pig In his prehistoric day was as high as the tallest modern motor car and had a wheel base of about 40 inches. The fossil was dug up In Sioux county. Nebraska. Only two of the giants have ever been discovered, the other being smaller than the university'a specimen. The pig, scientifically termed Dlnohyus hollandl, lived during the late Oligocene or thfc early Miocene age, which would give him an antiquity of some 12,000.000 years.-- Kansas City Star's Science Servic* Our Want-Ads are business bringers Better Left Unsaid •* Sanders meant well, but somehow he was always putting his foot in It. At a dance he was presented to a young woman whose proportions were anything but meager. Sanders asked her for a dance. ' "I can only spare you a one-step," she replied, "and I can't actually guarantee that, because I'm afraid my friends will be leaving before it takes place." "Oh, how empty the room will seem when you're gone," gurgled Sanders. Outioafr Noah's Ark The island of Marajo, at the 200- mlle-wide mouth of the Amazon river,- Is as large as the kingdom of Denmark. An area of dense jungles, great' prairies, rivers and a long shore line! on the Atlantic, it is a haven for a ' vast congregation of wild life. Ani-, uials, birds, fish and gorgeous insects abound^ In great numbers, including the Jacare, or Rrasilian crocodile*. J. Point °f Greatness The prevallin' weakness of most public men is to slop over.-- Charles Farrar Browne (Artemus Ward, 1834-1868). "Fourth of July Oration.** t Colonial Money ', ^ f s .3 ' 1*'% colonial paper it says, price was 20 shillings, proc." What ^ r""^ does proc. mean? The abbreviation' . V zj probably stands for proclamation^. j money, which was the name given toi^r i_"v" | coin valued according to a table de- -> . va scribed in a proclamation of Qneen^^ 1 Anne. 18th of June, 1704, In which* the Spanish dollar of 17% pennyweight f was to be rated at 6 shillings im j the colonies.--Washington Star. ' , f-5 j Gem* Mast Be Polished Diamonds as they come from the ground have approximately the same Y color as when they are cut, except that > ')& " they are rough and do not have a pol-'V*'* ^ ished surface, although some are un- ^ usually smooth. They generally have ^ ^ .x a greasy look, Iflce pieces of glass cov- • ered with vaseline. To give theiu their \ ' - characteristic appearance it is always, * necessary to cut them into the proper , - „ >-*>J W*it*d Life There ts nothing more disgraceful *• | than that an old man should have notb- . ii Ing to produce as a proof that he has -J •'J lived long. I'rivnt his years.--Seneca. -J< -i- To the Voters of McHenry VT'. " •" • County-- 1 hereby announce my candiflacy lor ax: ' ' $4' for consideration of the voters at the primaries this coming 8dbr day of April, 1930 I call attention to my record as member and chairman of the Board of Supervisors and if that record appeals to you and I am nominated and elected, I promise that I shall put into the sheriff's office every effort, that I possess to en* force ALL laws for ALL the people ALL of the time at the least possible expense to the taxpayers of this county. I believe in a square deal for all. Being now in the prime of life, am prepared, if necessary, in order to fulfill the duties of that; office, to work twenty-foux hours a day. . I respectfully solicit your support and vote VOLNEY E. BROWN i! . 4 ' w* '* h. •