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V 3' fl,- . Wl i,l Wi'H-'- I?. w- Twice Told Tales Ilwwllng Bite rf Newt Tabs* Eton the Columns ef tk Plsindealer Fifty aid Twenty-five Twa A|* Fifty Years Ago * A child of Peter Schreiner, aged about four years, died last week of diphtheria, and was buried on Sunday. Peter Bothermel, who has been to Hebraska building a house and barn Ml land owned by him there, arrived j^me on Saturday night last. . Red horse fishing has commenced •ltd the bridge presents a lively appearance, day and evening. We have seen some big ones taken out in the last few days. By the first of next week, red horse fishing will be at its .height. On Thursday night last, about half past ten o'clock our citiaens were alarmed by a cry of fire, which was soon discovered to be in the old Mc Henry House, which is located near the bridge. A large number of our citizens were soon on the spot, and with ladders and wooden pails succeeded in extinguishing the flames before much damage was done. We understand that there is strong talk of putting up a telephone from the depot to the Riverside House. This would be a great convenience for our citizens and we trust that it may be done at once, > Twenty-five Years Ago \ iThe marriage of Mr. Peter J. Miller Iflt this village to Miss Christina Smith of Johnsburg took place at nine o'clock Wednesday morning at St. John's church, Johnsburg, Rev. Fr. Beck officiating. A company of young ^people gathered at the rooms of E. C. Joslyn last Saturday evening, the occasion being in honor of Dick Walsh, who left Sunday evening for his new home in Evanston. Miss Maud Cnrr of Chicago has rented the John Glosson house at the corner of Green and Broad streets and will again make McHenry her home daring the summer months. Simon Stoffel has just received word from Western Kansas that the crop outlook there is fine. He will take another party of prospective land buyers to that great land, Tuesday, May 16. J. J. Buch is now ready for the summer trade. He has converted the second story of his spacious new brick building into bedrooms and this summer will be prepared to care for all comers. At St. Mary's German Catholic church Wednesday morning at 8:30 o'clock occurred the marriage of Mr. Gerhard Wegener to Mrs. Lucy Miller, the ceremony being performed by Rev. M. W. Barth. The couple will go to housekeeping at once on the Wegener farm east of town. The lifeless body of Anton Lutsh was found beside his bed in his room at the home of Oliver Moore last Sunday morning about 6:30 o'clock. It is supposed that he died during a coughing spell, as a guest in the next room reports that he coughed considerably daring the night. One hundred and ten couples attended the Miller-Smith wedding dance at the McHenry House last Wednesday evening. \\ The Girl Called W "Becfc" By ROSE BELDEN B >^%%*MVV*>nn^VVV\AA»V/'kAirXnAAAAJ*' EL TOVAR THEATRE Crystal Lake Phone 644 THURS.-FKI., MAY 15-16 ALEXANDER GRAY SERNICE CLAIRE te "NO, NO, NANNETTE" Stupendious Musical Comedy JJkTURDAY, HAY 17 Matinee 2:30 BUSTER KEATON * WM. HAINES ANITA PAGE la "FREE AND EASY" SUNDAY, MAY 18 Continuous 3:00-11:30 JEAN HERSHOLT ELEANOR BOARD MAN in "MAMBA" Thrilling Tale of the Jungle Now Playing in Chicago MON.-TUES., MAY 1*20 GARY COOPER RICHARD ARUBf MARY BRIAN "THE VIRGINIAN" JWHSD.-THURS.-FRI. MAY 21-22-23 • f ECKY," said Maud Frame languidly, "Just take this book into the house nnd bring me the other one, will you?" She looked very fragile and fair, leaning back among the gay cushions piled on the sand. The girl, Becky, a slim, plainly attired girl, came from under the gaystriped beach umbrella and sped toward the row of cottages that faced the sea. "What did I tell you?" inquired George Graydon. "My surmise is quite correct, Ned. The little girl is either a maid or a companion." Ned indignantly flung his paper aside and rose to his tall height. "Of all the Idiots, George! I for one refuse to sit here like a pair of did summer boarding house tabbies, speculating upon the social standing of new arrivals I I came here for the fishing and I'm off in the dory--want to come?" George Graydon hesitated, and then, ashamed to refuse, he reluctantly followed his friend. While he would never have stooped to a vulgar flirtation, George's imagination had clothed the lovely Maud with romance. Some one at the hotel had mentioned that Miss Frame had heaps of money-- and George was poor and heart free, and selfish ! The two young men fished all day; not once had Ned permitted his romantic companion to mention the subject of the newcomers--the two girls and the severe elderly gentleman who lived with them. Ned sighed as they headed tor the shore. It had been a perfect day for fishing, but now in the southwest a big black cloud foretold a squall. "For the luvva--" began Ned, and then stopped short. "Hand me the glasses," he ordered. Putting them to his keen blue eyes he focused his vision on the place called "Pond Point" a jutting sand spit, where there was a deep rock pool at high tide. There was a flicker of red and white that might be a beach umbrella--it was, he decided, and beaded the boat in that direction. "It is Miss Frame,'* cried George excitedly, "and her companion--the girl she calls 'Beck.' They have planted themselves down at the point, and any moment the tide will cover the point Can you make it, Ned?" "(Jot to," snapped the other, peeling off his outer garments and revealing bathing flannels. "Get ready to take 'em aboard, George, when I make a dash for 'em." Even the lethargic George was tensed for action as the dory dashed for the point They could see the forms of the two girls cowering before the wind, in terror of the rising tide. Suddenly the girls saw them and ran to the edge of the water, holding up. their arms. The dory turned and swooped, her keel touching sand, and Ned bending low caught Maud Frame and brought her to safety. He gave her to Gray don's willing arms and turned to rescue Becky, but the sands were empty. Frantic with fear, Ned brought the boat about, when something small and wet and dark appeared above the rail. "Here I am," she said coolly. "Why did you do that?" scolded Ned In a shaking voice. "I was afraid you couldn't get back In time, so I went to meet you." "Becky!" squealed Miss Frame. "See here, my good sirl," rebuked George sternly. "You have frightened your mistress--she seems quite faint" "I am sorry, sir," she said penitently, and going at once to Maud Frame, fanned her vigorously with a newspaper. The point was hidden under a smother of spray as the waves dashed up to the foot of the blulg. Becky looked seriously at Ned. That was a brave thing you did-- under the circumstances. We might have been lost if it hadn't been for you, sir." Ned reddened fiercely. How ridiculously she drawled out the "--sir." As they approached the pier a group of people came down to meet them, among them the stern elderly man in a military cape--Major Frame. The girls were silent as they mounted the slippery steps to the pier, Ned and George, wet and brown, bringing up the rear. The Major folded Becky in his ample cape and carried her off. Maud followed with an elderly maid. After supper, George and Ned. fresh and clean after the exciting day. sat on the veranda looking at the evening papers. The prim maid came with « message. "Major Frame's compliments, sir, and he would be pleased if Mr. Blythe and Mr. Graydon will come over this evening and meet his daughter and his niece." "Niece," said George thoughtfully, as he prepared for bed that night. "Maud may be only the niece, and poor at that but she's the girl for me!" "Becky--the little darling." thought Ned, and to this day .Becky Blythe, when she wants to tease her husband, drags slurringly. "Yes--sir?" (Copyright.) Tiny Post Offica The smallest post office in the Unit ed States is said to be at Grlmshaw, N. C. It is 8 feet long and 6 feet wide, built of logs, with the Inside working space 6 by feet W, S. Alexander is postmaster, and the bjjsi ness of the office amounts tp from $160 to 1175 anDUftUy. 100,000 OF HERMAN SOLDIERS MISSING Many of Then Buried in Nameless Graves. THeOutdoors Berlin.--Eleven years after the war 100,000 German soldiers are still missing. Most of them are believed to lie in mass graves in foreign soil, dumped there by the enemy and no record kept of their identity. But a healthy percentage, 10,000 perhaps, are believed to be alive and to have remained "somewhere in Siberia," disinclined upon liberation to go back home to a shrewish wife or to face financial or other difficulties, says the Chicago Tribune. Of these 10,000, many undoubtedly live in bigamous bliss, married to a Russian girl who ma; or may not have been informed about the frau back home in Germany. 43,251 Were Prisoners. Of the hundred thousand missing, 43,251 were last heard of as prisoners of the French. What hapened to them beyond that Is not know^. By far the greater part probably aled in French army hospitals or on their | and biological research, way there, in the opinion of the German Reich association of former war prisoners, which has just Issued a report on the situation. They were likely buried in mass graves and no adequate effort made to keep any record of their identity. A greater number, 51,213, were last heard of as prisoners of the Russians. Most of these are assumed to have died in the epidemics that swept the badly managed Siberian prison camps from time to time. The number of dead probably made it difficult for the not too efficient Russian hospital and burial services to keep tabs on indentificatlon. To this day the association Is kept busy disposing of rumors as to what happened to Germany's hundred thousand missing. Sometimes the rumors are investigated. Sometimes they are absurd on their face and without investigation receive immediate and emphatic denial. Of the latter variety is the rumor which persists in springing up now and then in Germany that the French and Russians maintain secret prison camps where German seidiecs are still being confined. Canard Branded. Another rumor goes to the effect that France forced thousands of German prisoners to join her foreign legion in North Africa. The German Former Prisoners' association brands that one as a canard manufactured for the purpose of maintaining ha^ed between Germany and Franco. The story was probably suggested by the fact that about 60 Germaa prisoners at the end ef the war chose to join the foreign legion rather than be repatriated to the fatherland. It Is also true that many of these luyd pasts that were not unclouded and"preferred not to go back home. Other German missing are scattered about the world, buried in the soil of the far flung battlefields where they fought and fell. The former German colonies in China, Africa, the Balkans, Italy, Turkey, and the seven seas--the latter holding the hundreds of Germans who went to sea in U-boats and who never came back--all these figure in the list Finally, there are those German* confined in Siberian prison camps who when set free chose to stay. One Berlin daily, the Zwoelf Uhr Blatt, estimates the number at a good 10,000 and remarks that 10,000 German mothers or wives still have a chance to see their long lost soldier nan alive. West Virginia's "Gretna Green" Sets New Record Wellsburg, W. Va.--This "Gretna Green" for elopers of the tri-state district achieved a new record in 1920, 3,360 couples having secured their licenses from the bureau here. Even the record cold day of the year--the Saturday following Thanksgiving day --when the frigid blasts seemed unbearable, 17 young, hopeful couples made their appearance and secured the necessary permits to wed. A recipe for after-dinner speaking is given tersely as "Stand up. Speak np. Shut up." A good many longsuffering diners out would reduce the formula to the last two words.--Birmingham News. •4- Ur»MtU««nd One of the European sturgeons, base huso, called huchen in Germany, Is the largest known edftte fish. It reaches a weight of 8,000 pounds. Chinese Have Hundrlftli of Monetary Systems Shanghai.--There are hundreds of different monetary systems in China. Almost every small settlement and city has its own system and when a person from one village wants to buy something in another he must make a number of complicated calculations before he knows what he must pay. DR. GEORGE E. VINCENT HEADS IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE One of the greatest honors every bestowed upon the Izaak Walton League of America, and the cause of conservation in general, was the immediate and unqualified acceptance of the presidency .of the League by Doctor George Edgar Vincent, Greenwich, Connecticut, retired president of the Rockefeller Foundation and formerly head of the University of Minnesota, following his unanimous selection by the recent National Convention of the League in Chicago, reads an editorial in the current issue of Outdoor America. Doctor Vincent has devoted his entire life to services for public good. He is a man of pronounced individuality and of defined opinion, and brings to the administration of the Izaak Walton League of America the highest type of leadership. He is internationally known and respected as an educator and as a man who has been keenly interested in sociological Doctor Vincent's services have been in constant demand for the highest positions of educational and humanitarian responsibility. Doctor Vincent's valuable time, broad experience and unlimited energy will be exerted, as a volunteer, in behalf of the League and its extensive program of conservation. A few years past sixty, Dr. Vincent has arrived at the place where he desires to perform a crowning mission of a distinguished career. It is his will to dedicate his time and energies to the work of aiding in the protection and preservation of America's natural re-; sources. Every national character possesses a hobby--Dr. Vincent, loves the woodland trails, the picturesque mountains and the murmur of the brook. He has traveled thousands of miles in various sections of the universe in quest of outdoor recreation. His favorite saddle horse is a constant companion on many of his tripcL and long into the deep wilderness for contact with nature are frequently taken. It is not difficult to -visualize the value and prestige which Dr. Vincent brings to the Isaak Walton League of America. His name assures entree to every educational.and scien tific institution in America. His broad knowledge of national and in-< ternational affairs is unquestioned, and his ardent outdoor enthusiasm stamps him as a man's man, who stands squarely and honestly before the world as one of the great leaders of public thought. Doctor Vincent's life history teems with interesting facts and outstanding accomplishments. Who's Who in America devotes a prominent space to ,his distinguished career. It is unnecessary to comment farther on the ability and accomplish ments of Dr. Vincent, except to remind our public that under his leadership perhaps the greatest effort for the education of the plain people had its flowering--we refer to the Chautaugua movement. The Izaak Wklton League of America will benefit in proportion as it responds to its opportunity in his council and guidance. The future of the League has been^given a powerful impetus by his election as President, and that he will earnestly support is very evident by his unanimous choice as the League's titular head. Every member of the League is proud to acclaim Dr. Vincent as its new president. Conservation organizations throughout America rejoice in his active entrance into a field which means so much for the future welfare of this great country and for the boys and girls of tomorrow, and in the kindred fields of health and education there is newly awakened interest and expectation. The words of President Herbert Hoover, Monorary President of the League: "The Izaak Walton League has become the greatest force in the country for the protection and development of opportunities for outdoor life. As our people increase in numbers and in leisure we must have stimulation of health and a^ove all the moral value that comes from association with nature. Every member ,mu etf the League is a further soldier in our ranks fighting an organised bat tie for this vital thing1 in the nation," are fittingly recognized by the leadership of the League In tfie person of a man whose record of non-political public service is perhaps the greatest in a great country. Early Aatricu Class first industrial enterprise Ja the United States was a glass bottle factory erected fa the Virginia colony soon after 1007. It was located In the woods about a mile distant from Jamestown. Window glass was manufactured in what Is believed to be the first glass factory in New Jersey. It was built about 1739, a mile east of Allowaystown, s»ierp county by par Wistar. Talfp. In The miles and miles of bulb fields la Holland are a rare sight in spring. But the Dutch grower is no sentimentalist ; the bulb fields would koon disappear, an unprofitable industry, if he did not send his workers oat, day by day, to cut off the full bl°oms and thereby strengthen the bulbs for future flowering. The tourist is welcome to as tnany flowers as he can carry away from the "refuse idle" pe> side every patch. Hounl Ea|Hdi Scholars William Henry Ireland, 1777-1888, Was the son of Samuel Ireland, who was an author, engraver and dealer In rare books and curios. Young Ireland first forged Shakespearean manuscripts to tease his father. Upon finding how credulous he was these forgeries were foisted upon the public. Many scholars were deceived for a time, but exposure followed. The disgrace was said te have hastened his father's death. lutiiBMit CalcvlatM A simple device ttfat will calculate the time at any point on the earth's surface in relation to the tiipe at some other place has been invented by the United States bureau of standards largely because of the demand for such an instrument since the advent of International radio broadcasting. StafeaaeMteCtfce • meat, Bte, Kaatfiat fcr tfce Act~e#" Ce.gr-- ef Aagart U. I»l* Of The McHenry Plaindealer, pub» lished weekly, at McHenry. m., for- April 1, 1930. State of Illinois, • County of McHenty. ss. r S: Before me, a Notary s for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared A. H. Mosher, ! who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that heis the managing-editor of the McHenry Plaindealer, and that the following is, to the best of his knowldege and belief, a true statement of the owner-' ship, management, etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown fer: the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912. to-wit: 1. That the names and addressee •• of the publisher, editor, gA, itor, are: • £ . Publisher, Chas. F. Renich, Woodstock, 111. ™ Editor, A. H. Mosher, McHenry, IB,. Managing Editor, A. H. Mosher. „ McHenry, 111; 5 2. That the owMr .il Chas. F. Reriw 1 ich, Woodstock, 111; ' - > , I 3. That the known bondholders,, mortgagees, and other security holdr ers owning or holding 1 per cent at more of total amount of bonds, mor|» . gages, or other securities are: Non& A. H. MOSHER, i . Managing-Editor. „ Sworn to and subscribed before mlp this 13th day of May, 1930. JtOSi (Seal) SALIE STILLING, Notary Public. laftaiag Colored Ihnwap •ers of so-called Ink are due t% • the presence of smoke or soot In th«f air, and showers of "milk" to chalk earth. Some of the most remarkably falls of dust, including incidental show*, ers of colored rain, have been cause<|. by explosive volcanic eruptions, in which mineral material was projected!*' to great heights in the atmosphere an<|: subsequently spread far over the globe. Baaafit* of Travel pTft# ,tue of traveling is to rqgalat* Imagination by reality, and Instead of thinking how things toay be, to tm* them as they are.--Doctor Johnson, !. ' ba«H a**. v i ^ W iTANDKVG VEATVJRBS OF HIE Slew streamline bodies. Choice of attractive colors. folly endmed, dent four-wheel brake* ; Four Hondaflle fright, enduring RuatleM Sled for many exterior metal parts, jUumimim pistons. Chroma aUajrlranwnisslon jean ^three-quarter floating rear axle. - " yfttore than twenty ball and roller bearings* five steel-spoke wheels. Adjustable front Mis in most bodi# >le«ctiiig hydraulic shock absorber^ Chrome silicon alloy valves* snatts. i:; „ :-.r . 55 to 65 miles an hour. iow first cost. L 'if f ~ Economy of operation. Xorq iie-tube drives Extensive use of fine steel fdrgii||ps and electric weldingjji Triplex shatter-proof glass windshiel ' i -L v v £?• Quick acceleration. Ease Of control* and long lit* Good dealer service Woman's Back Talk Costs 60 Days More ;; Washington.--Back talk to the judge, telling him where to go, cost Miss Dorothy M. Davis, twenty-four, a sentence Of sixty days in jail on top of thirty already decreed her . by Police Judge Hitt here. Judge Hitt did not hear the remark, but his attention was called to it and he thereupon notified a brother magistrate who held oy>er the young woman suspended sentences in two dry cases. The original thirty days 'had been given after conviction of tapping a gas main. i 4 j V, am l.i *!?** w.Tiflwoc/' VS " a. iiy.so«firfou • Til NKV rOBD TVDOl SID AN #• S435 Coape tSM S^wt Coup* Tudor Se*ue . . . . $53* l#Km/. •> k P.«!•!«, freight mmd rfillmj. Bmimpwrw rnrnd • Stre PiiIitM (Mb Ci«^anr plmm tin w--*i mmmthmr fmr*I Forb Motor Compan* • • : . v v ~ * De Lus» Csttpe. • fHt Omvertible Cabriolet #64| Tkreo-wiadew Fotdor Sedan #fM l^e Lbm Sedan S66S Town Sedan • • Hlf Dictatioa The llttit boy's definition jsay be right, St that, when he Intimtfted that "dictation" is what a man takes from his Wife and gives to his stenographer. --*avawah News. Laagaas of Various I The league is an old measure ef lefetb varying at different times and innuitereai cttatriei &eai H is «.« i &Mg. v m BUSS-PAGE MOTO^ SAI^ES .-si Authorized Ji &WE SERVE AFTER WE SELL" A demonstration^^ yoii til tfie (••a: tti the NEW FORD. Just Phone 30 thA.. <ci; 1 : :' <r. - ,(m nA'fi,, 1 . ~~p- •• 'in- '• iify 8'