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•» •" . "0: wt TE5 M'HENBY PLAINDEALER, THUESDAY, MA*CH 20, 1930 mm Coiocidaac* It Is no great wonder If to Jong process of time while fortune takes her coarse hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be Infinite, it Is all tbe more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity oI result.--Plutarch <40-120 A.D.). "Life of Sertoriu8." Mf. nJ Mr*. Gr«ibopp#» • ^fTrtrt elusive creature, the gra««b<if>- per, often heard but not so easily seen, has his ear? on his tnees! And, what is more, Mrs. Grasshopper has to do all the listening, for she Is dumb. Which, judging by the continual chirping to be heard in any Held, goes to prove that, given a chance, a man will talk as much as a woman!--London Tit-Bits. Gentle! So gentle is the cleaning of The Hoover that for the cleaning of treasured museum rugs and in stores selling the finest Orientals, The Hoover is preferred. Yet The Hoover, for all its gentleness, removes more dirt per minute than any other cleaner. Only $6.25 down. HOOVER hBBATS... mUSmmf m*CUmm Twice T o l d Tale* Isterseting Blta of News Sihn From the Columns of the Plaindealer Fifty and JVorty-ln Y« Age J. Justen & Sons Political Advertisement I n » ^V. ' ,V>, Theodore Iter " *) ffof Si':: i-tf5i --7"™ Fifty Years Ago Two new dwellings are being put up on the street north of the Parker house. A Wendell is. doing the carpenter work. F. A. Hebard had the misfortune, while working on the new wagon shop of R. Bishop, to run a rusty nail into his right hand, making an ugly and painful wound. At Riverside hall, on Friday evening, Brown, the mind reader will tell you what you know yourself--in short, "read your mind." Our citizens should remember the debate at the public school this Wednesday evening. The subject will be the property qualification in the right of suffrage, and some interesting discussions may be expected. The young child of |Irs. J• G. Fay, a boy about six years old, died quite suddenly on Monday evening. Twenty-five Years Ag» One of the most exciting caucuses ever held iij our village was that of last Saturday. There were eighteen candidates for the town offices, and this caused not a little excitement. The voters from Ringwood and Johnsburg began to arrive about noon, and from then until the meeting was called the streets of McHenry presented a busy scene such as is seldom seen in our A. C. Matthews shipped a carload of fine porkers to the Kerber Packing Co., at Elgin, Friday of last week. The heavy sleet storm of Sunday pnf every toll line of McHenry out of order and as a result caused more than a little amount of worry and work for the local manager, W. R. Marshall. H. C. Sweep of the firm of F. H. Bartlett & Co., of Chicago, who recently purchased the Hanly mill, was in town last Thursday and made this office a pleasant call. During his visit, Mr. Sweep stated that the mill will undergo extensive repairs and when finished will be up-to-date in every way. Last Wednesday, Mar. 15, was contract day at the Borden factories, the farmers signing contracts for the summer's supply of milk. The prices are about the same as last year, being an average of one dollare per one hundred pounds for the coming six months. * The death of Mrs. Stephen Ward occurred at her home west of town Thursday of last week, after a long illness. Funeral services were held from the home at eleven o'clock Saturday forenoon with bwial iay%i8#dland cemetery. Insects' SemM of Hearing Professor Regen of Vienna has proved that not only have crickets and grasshoppers a sense of hearing, but that they convey messages to each other by means of their chirps. It has usually been assumed that these insects heard through their antenna because they turned their antenna roughly towards the noise that called them. ; , REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE for COUNTY CLERK My 14 years experience as Chief Deputy County Clerk is respectfully submitted for consideration >f the voters in making their mk lection for this important office. Theodore Hamer Small Gold Cab» One dollar coins have not been minted for general circulation since 1880. Since that date some have been issued as memorial coins, the last being the Grant memorial coins, in 1022. The smallest current gold coin is ite iglO gold piece. Men Who Help The men who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticise.--Elisabeth Harrison. ILLER THEATR WOODSTOCK : ' LIFER ACQUITS MAN WHO SERVED 5 YEARS B« r b & v t » C o n v i c t e d o f Crime Despite Alibi. Marquette, Mich.--Whether Stanley Rldler of Detroit is serving 12% to 25 years in the Michigan atate prison at Jackson for a crime he did not commit is a question to which Arthur D. Wood, pardon and parole commissioner, is seeking the answer. Anthony Machus, serving Ufa in Marquette branch prison, has told Mr. Wood that he and an unnamed companion, now dead, carried out tbe holdup for which Rldler was sentenced. Machus said he had kept silent because he did not wish to Implicate his companion, but the death of the latter recently, he said, had removed this motive. Believes Story. w Mr. Wood said be bad gone over the Rldler case recently and was inclined to believe that Machus was telling the truth. Ridler has Insisted all the time that he is Innocent Mr. Wood Intimated he would recommend a pardon for Rldler if his investigation bore out the story told by Machus. Ridler was found guilty October 25, 1924, of holding up John A. Dietrich, superintendent, and Frank O. Welbon, auditor of the Detroit Twist Drill company, February 10, 1923. as they were 1 transporting an $8,300 pay roll. Ridled was convicted on his third trial, the first two juries disagreeing. His defense was an alibi. Mr. Wood said his Inquiries showed.« that at the time of the pay roll rob- 111 H in 111 H I mm I n I Of the First Generation C< By EDGAR T. MONFORT < . 4 1 1 I I H I I I I I 1 1 I I t I I M I I I (Copyrtrht ) UT, John, I couldn't do It. dear, BT haven't the courage. unhappy. Besides, It simply and you'd be very wouldn't work." Edith Montague clasped aqd clasped her hands nervously looked at her friend. , £ "Can't you see lit Cant yon feet it? Don't you know I'm rlghtf John Williams instinctively moved a little further away. "I'm at a disadvantage, Edith, I can't press my suit, and if yon don't love me. . . .** "Oh, John, you hurt so, you don't understand. You must realize that your people and mine wouldn't mix; You don't know any of the crowd t know. You--you aren't interested In the same things they're interested In.* "You mean I don't play golf and bridge all day and half the night and my parents aren't educated. That's what you mean. You mean you'd be ashamed of them, that's whet yoq really mean and you cant face the danger of introducing my mother tf• your friends and having her say *waaf for 'were.' I know it all. I realize that I'm the first college man in my, family and that your people have been educated for centuries. I know it alU I'm the first generation. Sometimes I; wish I'd have married the little jgiri I ran around with when I went to high school at home. ^ "I thought she was my future wife until I got out In the world, thedL bery Rldler owned a five-chair barber i when I went back things were differshop and was in a comfortable finan- eBt. She had changed, or rather I clal condition. At his first trial the jury stood 9 to 3 for acquittal and at the second trial the vote wpi &to'l f o r a v e r d i c t o f n o t g u i l t y . > , v : ' * Machos a Slayer^ Between his second and third trials Rldler disappeared and his bond was forfeited. He was arrested later at the home of a relative. Ridler also was arrested in the slaying of Malcolm McGregor at the Halfway house, owned jointly by Ridler and Harry (Kid) Harris, but was dicharged when tbe chief witnesses were unable to Identify him. Machus. a Chicago gangster, was one of four men who killed Patrolman Casimir Kaliszewski while fleeing after taking $27,000 from the Chene street and Harper avenue branch of the Central Savings bank, now tbe First National bank. His companions were Stanley (Big Stack) Podulskl, his cousin, John Podulski, and Walter Filipkowski. Machus, John Pouulsk!, and Fiiipkotfskl were given life for killing Kaliszsewskt, while Stanley Podulski, convkted of another robbery, was given 20 to 40 years. I E Friends Come to of Old Book Seller SL Lou is.--Rare bits of binding, first editions, beautifully printed and bound volumes, and just ordinary musty, second-hand books have been relegated to the ash heap--superseded by the radio and talkies--according to George T. Tourville, dean of St. Louis booksellers. For 50 years St Louis book lovers had been dropping Into George's shop to browse among the volumes, and George, always ready to gossip about his books, enjoyed a lucrative income. But with the advent of the radio and the talkies, people were no longer Interested in George's murtty, dusty volumes, and the veteran bookseller found himself In financial straits. Friends of Tourville, some of them men who as tads munched their sandwiches In his book shop, while they spent their noon hour devouring • volume, have come to the rw»ni«i, These friends hnyn devised a plnn to refinance the shop unit put ll on a paying basis. They plnn tu Ittfnr porate the "hop and Issue * Klfl,v shares will he sold lo prnvl'S, ; ^tirk tng capital, Tourville rtHfltfftf re malnlng which will hi noii voiliin stock until dividends eqiml the amount subscribed. The veteran bookman will remain In charge of his beloved books, LABI Technical ffi "Strebloialcrodactyty la a genetic term applied to the. inheritance of crooked little finger* ^ ,' VTIsse, tti Heeler' Unless It's something you did yourself, time will surely bring you peace. --Woman's Home ^impanion. World Ha* a Few A wise wife is one who pretends to believe everything her husband tells News. "V BM Hive's Popalatiow »•'-* The average beehive contains one •ineen, S00 to 400 'drones and 40,000 workers. Triumph Assured There never was a right endeavor but/ it succeeded. Patience and patience and we shall win at last. . . . Never mind the ridicule, never mind tbe defeat I Up again, old heart, there is victory yet for all justice.--Emerson. ' 1 The vast" resources and facilities + m 0 + that world leadership has given Maytag inspire*! ai\d m«ide possible : r' 'Ef you wants. «sy thatsmifc I Sunday-Monday Tuesday The Greatest Ontdssr Telktag. fletirt Erer Use Ultra Violet Rays in Crime Prevention JHtm York.--Science's latest contrl tint I on to lnw enforcement agencies Has discussed today, following a dem- ©nstrflflon of a*new device for burglar protection which sets off an alarm soon as an invisible beam of ultra Violet rays Is Interrupted or disturbed l>y an Intervening body. The rays may be used to tisphyxl ate any Intruder with a barrage of Jtear gas or set off silent alarms. Another demonstration * showed how the photo-electric cell or "elee trie eye" may be used. Persons entering a room may be counted auto jmatlcnlly as they cross a beam of Jjllght thrown across a doorway, the •badow of a passing body causing tbe "electric eye" to communicate with • I -counting machine. -Man With Wooden Leg - Loses Other Leg in Fall • New York.--Speaking of hard luck --Thomas ZotfHck fell in front of subway train. When the police emerg- ,#ency squad extricated him, they found sthat his right leg had been broken -Tf the injury had befallen the left leg, tt would have been trivial. Ike let! leg Is woods®. i •• • had, and I found myself wondering how I'd ever loved her. She was narv row and tame. Her brain was almost stodgy, she couldn't talk about any* thing. Didn't know anything to talk about. Then you came along. I wory _ shlped your culture and your knowledge of things. And now you've thrown me down, cast me off like an old dress--kept me dangling for sii m o n t h s , t h e n t h i s . . . . " He stopped from sheer exhaustion and Edith sat looking at him, her Hps parted, her breath coming in littls gasps. After a moment she spoke. ; "But, John, you forget that you threw Grace down after a life-long friendship, because you did not think you could make her happy or to ppt It more crudely because you did' not think she could make you happy. Yoa have just said it yourself, yet yoa blame me." The truth of the situation came td him suddenly--for the first time. "You arc right, Edith," he said at- • last. "I had never seen it in that light before, but I could have bet oil your saying the right thing. I accept your refusal. I am paying the price* of the first generation." , 'i Without another word^JMI; rose and moved toward the door. "Oh, John, let's be friends," she said Impulsively, following him. v "Some day you'll meet the right girl, the one who will just fit j^our heart and station and when you do I want you te let me know, because I'm very unhappy that this should have happened.?* "Don't worry about It. It's my sufc ferlng, not yours," he answered, his face averted. "I'll go now." With a mumbled word he slipped out the front door and down the imposing front steps leaving Edith staring in bewilderment. The weeks that followed wens' dreary ones for John. He threw himself into his profession and unconsciously frowned if a girl so much at crossed his line of vision., He ha^ had enough--too much. This fallinf In love business was a trick of nature to make you suffer. The only girl he couldn't shake was s little neighbor from back home wfafr hiul coijjfie to the city to study music, lie bud promised her parents that he otyfd go and see her each week |o Vwiii her from getting homesick and It w»y» upon one of these Sunday visi-ta^n eiijfly spring tl*at he really saw Can lyn "O^ay for the first time. They were taking a walk in the country outside the city when she looked him suddenly and spoke. ' "John,,you know what I'm going.to do when I go to get married? I'm ^o- Ing to marry a man who Is educated himself but whose parents have had no advantages--just like mine. I won't have anybody ashamed of my father and mother, thank you. They're too fine, and It would almost kill them. There's a girl down at school now who, is ashamed for her mother to meet her fiance because he comes of cultl* vated people. She's a snob. That's what she is and I'm ashamed of her-- not of her mother." He looked at the slim little figure walking beside him--at the healthy glow in her cheeks, at tlle~iarnest blue eyes. « "You've made me see myself in the proper light," he said slowly at last, "and you've shown me a way to happiness." "Oh, what is it?" she asked, catcti ing his earnestness. "I won't tell you now--you'll have to wait a few weeks." And all the way home as he walked beside her be was conscious of the thrill of her nearness and he said to himself over and over In bewilderment: J And I thought Fd again 1" MAYTAG genius is exemplified as never before in this NEW Washer. It represents the achievement of the world's most skilled, scientific washer craftsmen, inspired and guided by previous Maytag accomplishments. / Now, for the first time, you bkvc a washer equipped with a NEW one-piece, cast-aluminum tub...a NEW roller water remover with enclosed positive-action, automatic drain...a NEW quiet, lifetime, oil-packed drive, with handy NEW auto-type shift liver. 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