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*i ., r .»</«- ** -.V.T -tV sw^ipasr.* ni£$e /"' *< % I Iff*- m ringwood r <=*&>• The pupils of the lower grades of •the M. E. Sunday school held a party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peet, Thursday afternoon. Games were played and ice cream and cake was served. Mrs. Ed Thompson entertained the "Bunco club at her home Thursday afternoon. Frizes were awarded to Mrs. Hay Merchant, Mrs. N, Freund, Mrs. Thomas Doherty and Mrs. Edga 'Thomas. At the close of the games luncheon was served. Mrs. George Shepard to company with Mrs. Roy Todd, Mrs. Harry Ehom, Mrs. John Grant and Mrs. john Diicey attended a McHenry county legion auxiliary meeting at iluntley Thursday evening. The Ringwood Home coming will 1MS held Aug. 22. There will be a good -program in the afternoon, followed by A supper, served by the Home Circle. Mr. and Mrs. George Young and family were visitors in the James Bell home at Richmond Friday evening. Miss Nellie McDonald spent Thurs- *Jay and Friday with Chicago friends. Mr. and Mrs. G. E, Shepard > and ^family spent Saturday afternoon in "Elgin. Mr. and Mrs. Irving Walker and family of Waukegan spent Sunday liere. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Frey ai\jd family of Deerfield spent Sunday in the S. H. Beatty home. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Young and Mr. J»nd Mrss Joe Weber and family spent 'Sunday at Elgin. ; Fred Wiedrich was a Richmond «fcller Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Williams and family of McHenry and Mrs. Ben Tonyan and children spent Thursday in the Henry Williams home. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wiedrich and Roy Wiedrich were visitors at^Lako <3eneva Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. George Shepard and children in company with Mr. and Jfrs. J. F. Claxton of Mchenry spent Sunday at Libertyville. Nick Miller of Elgin spent Sunday with his parents, Mr: and Mrs. John .Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Walkington spent Wednesday evening in the home of -their son at McHenry. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Olsen and daughter of McHenry spent Saturday evening in the Fred Wiedrich home Mr. and Mrs. George Harrison and daughter, Lora, Mrs. Charles Peet and daughter, Alice, spent Wedne day with relatives at Wauconda. Mrs. Lester Nelson and daughter and Mrs. George Bacon of Antioch spent Thursday in the W. A. Dodge liome. Mrs. A. W. Smith" attended the County Home Bureau board meeting at Woodstock Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. William Thomas and family of Woodstock were callers in the Edgar Thomas home Thursday Mrs. Viola Low and sons returned lome Sunday from a visit with relatives at Deerfield. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Schafer of Cincinatti, O., are visiting in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Dodge. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Harrison of Clinton, Wis., and Mrs. Owen and daughters, Ruth, Merle and Clara, of Elgin spent Sunday in the George Harrison home. Mrs. Roy Neal and guests spent Wednesday at Lake Geneva, Wis. Edward Thompson of Chicago spent the week with his parents. About sixty members of the Vasa Order of Crystal Lake and Viking Order of Woodstock surprised Mr. and Mrs. Axel Carlson at their home Saturday evening. They were presented with a gift. Miss Rose Wice and Miss Tessia Francone of Chicago are spending a few weeks with their aunt, Mrs. Roy Neal. s* ^ Miss Virginia Carlson returned to her home after a three, weeks visit at Melrose Park. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Marshall and daughter and husband of Belvidere called at the Mrs. Jennie Qacon and S. BL Beatty homes Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert McLean of Woodstock and Mrs, Frankie Stephenson spent Sunday in the Charles Carr home. Virginia Welter is visiting in' tha home of her uncle in Chcago. 1 Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Bacon of Crys- " -tal Lake spent Sunday with Ringwood relatives. Mrs. Clarence Rittfer of Kenosha, Mr. and Mrs. Wade Sanborn of Spring Grove, Mrs. Mabel Johonnott of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Rasmussen and family of Chicago, Mrs. T. A. Abbott and Mrs. Frank Fay were Sunday callers of Wayne Foss. Mr. and Mrs. F. Maaska of Genoa City were visitors in the Wm. Kelley home Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wetterer and children and Fred Schaw of Chicago were Sunday guests in the L. E. Hawley home. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Stonebracher and son of Rockfbrd spent Sunday in the E. C. Hawley home- Mr. and Mrs. G. Bacon and Mr. and Mrs. L. Nelson of Antioch spent Sunday with Mrs. Jennie Bacon. Mr. and Mrs. David Stanley of Woodstock and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kelley and daughter of Crystal Lake spent Sunday in the Wm. Kelley home. Mr. and Mrs. John -Wolfe and children of Woodstock spent Sunday with .Mrs. Jennie Bacon. The Ringwood Home" Bureau met at the home of Mrs. Elbert Thomas, Tuesday, Aug. 5, with thirteen members and three guests present. Mrs. F. Eppel carried out a very pleasing program for the afternoon. Mrs. Epp^l showed the ladies how to paint vases, and each one took home a vase. Mr. ..and Mrs, Clarence Ritter and THE M'HSSRY PLAHRDSAU5S, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1930 family of Kenosha spent Sunday in the Frank Fay home. Mrs. Lon Smith and daughters are visiting Chicago friends. Mrs. Minnie Coates is entertaining her sister from Dundee this week. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Hitchens spent a few days the past week with his mother near Peoria. . ' ' ' Farmer Hu Om>L»h«1 Chick Lindsay, Calif.--L. A. Gannon announces that a one-legged white leghorn chick was hatched on his rancb In an incubator with a lot tof normal baby chicks. It" seems comparatively easy to hatch chicks with extra legs, while double chicks and other freaks sometimes hatch from double yolk eggs, but so far as is known a .onelegged chick is something of a rarity. Increase in Pension for Spanish War Vets Washington.--The new Spanish war veterans* pension bill, recently passed by congress, provides for pensions as follows: j > Veterans nrrlnc N tejri or; mora; . , # Per Month No IncrMM A»» veterans re- Mlvinf |20 No increaa* tor veterans f«- otlvlnc U Veterans receiving |)| tat* creased to SB Veter&na receiving1 $40 increased to .J.,.. SO Veteran* receiving |U Increased to <0 No increase far veterans receiving 71 Pension baaed on ace, SO days' or more service: OS years, now receiving (SO, Increased to • »J0 68 years, now receiving |30, Increased to 40 71 years, now receiving $40, increased to B0 75 years, now receiving $50, increased to <0 Veterans serving 70 days or more: Veterans having one-tenth disability ; ..$12 Veterans havlngr one-fourth disability 16 Veterans having one-half disability lg Veterans having three-fourths disability /V;... 24 Veterans having total disability 30 Total disability where regular aid of an attendant is required >. SO Pensions based oa ajfe, TO to 90 days' service: 62 years ....$12 68 years 18 72 years 24 75 years >0 Increases will commence on the date of receipt of the application by the pension bureau. No Increase will be allowed except on new application. Age of Bronx* The Bronze age in Europe Is fixed by recognized authorities somewhere between 2000 and 3000 B. C. MHliotM In Oil Lam! Hinge on Bee's Knees Bakersfield, Calif.--Standard Oil Company of California is now standing on "the bee's knees," dependent on them for the millions of dollars In oil under the disputed Section 36 of Klk Hill. The government has long been seeking to recover the rich section from the company, alleging that It was known as mineral land when the survey was accepted In 190% Testimony to that effect wis given at a recent local hearing by A. GL Veatch/ geologist He asserted thrtt evidence of oil was found on {he nearby Section S2 as long ago as 1901--a discoloration of the ground, the rush of escaping gas, and an odor characteristic of oil seepage. which smells like a horse being shod. Apparently left without a' leg to stand on, attorneys for the oil company investigated and found the bee's knees to stand on. On Section 32 they found a wild bees' hangout. The discoloration, they say, turned out to be, not seepage, but remnants of a bonfire built by honey hunters In smoking out the bees. The "rujh of escaping gas," they say. was the buzz of bees. The aroma they ascribe to charred beeswax On the beeswax, five pounds of it, the company Is basing Its hopes of retaining the Elk Hills field--America's only field of oil with a beeswax xbase. 7,000-Acre Texas Field Broken for Wheat Crop Tulla, Texas.--What Is thought to be the largest field under one fence in the country is being broken for the sowing of wheat this fall ^y Hickman Price, most extensive wheat farmer In the Panhandle of Texas. The field contains 7,000 acres, the home of roving cattle for the last 50 years and of buffaloes and Indians long before that. The 11 -section tract lies in Swisher and Castro counties and is owhed by Mrs. T. F. Nanny of California, who has scarcely received enough rent money for the last several years to pay taxes. Porkers Fed on Bottle Regina, Sask.--How or where they received their daily ration was of little moment to this litter of hogs. Hence it is that the small porkers thrived on a bottle and enjoyed life in a chicken brooder, ever since their advent into this world at the H. Wallis farm in the d'Arcy district. Simple Cooking Device A "Dutch oven" is made of tin. Is about two feet in length, inclosed except on one long side. Standing on strong feet, It ts to be placed before an open fire, so that the- heat can cook meat which is carried on a horizontal spit, ' which runs through the middle of the device. , .1 \ Vr 2 J £ v ' 3 4 ' * "M:4: fit .%!. li tA ' ~ „ ,«5 . r . . / '<vi :h x '• ' % -s v. r" .^1 HERB'S THE CAVALIER, inade extra tough and extra t . Sturdy for those who like their v*»tires to cost little and last long. * $ M SILVERTOWNS 29 x 4.40 8,25 30 x 4.50 f:-,^ 9 20 28 x 4.75 30 x 5.00 31 x 5.25 32 x 6.00 33 x 6.00 ' m • V If,: T^LANNINGa trip? Want to have every mile Jl of it free from dangerous blow-outs and roadside flats? Then come in today and get your share of our mid-summer bargains in tires! The prices in the box at right are our sale prices on genuine Goodrich Cavalier Tires! They're another proof that we will not be undersold! • Ooodric JOHN STILLING'S TIRE SHOP "• <r: : fe® •. ".li Oar Washing Greasing Storage Accessories Battery Charging Eoad Servioe Tire Repairing TeL 157. McHenry, Bi ('}• Ujps H A C K W I L S O stars of the Chicago Cubs and •••lis •a H A L T O T T E N Popular Radio Announcer over WMAQ will be present at the GRAND OPENING of the F. S. Walsh Pharmacy Buch Drive, McHenry, Illinois f l ^ "' * To distribute Candy and Dixie Cups of |ce Cream Free to children. No Purchases will be required. This is our party and you are invited to bring the family and get acquainted! with these famous Stars and inspect this Metropolitan Drug! Store, which handles a staple line of drugs and sundries at attractive prices -v v v. • 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 v August $5,1930 ;>*S in iij ][ 'Sfe: