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STOWS Riverside DriVe erery Satttrtay afternoon, 2 to 9 p. m. By« ckiiiMd aad gluiH made to order only V •11 repnias 0i pi-'-; *s wiMliy 15, by entertaining a their rdatives and friends., a distance to call were fad Mrs. Eari Sherman, Mrs. Lib bis Iton and Mrs. George Jones of Mrs. Henry Purvey, Mrs. WWte and Mrs. D. C. Bacon of tal Lake; Mrs. Albert Purvey, Albert Krause, Mr. and Mrs. Wattles of McHenry, and Grafll'-Scfcott of Chicago. They re ceivw many nice gifts. The roof on the B. T. Butler residence caught on fire Sunday morning from the sparks from the chimney I . A- L. Laurence happened te see it end in no time a crowd gathered and p*t out the fire. Miss Mildred Jepson of Evanston it enjoying a month's vacation with her parents, Mr. and lbs. C. J. Jepson. Mr. and Mrs. Byron Hitchens of Chicago spent Sunday in the F. A. Hitchens home, Mr. and Mrs. Howard of Woodstock spent the week-end in the home of their daughter, Mrs. Leon Dodge and family. Wm. Hendrickson of Richmond was a Sunday dinner guest in the S. H. Beatty home. Mr. and Mrs. A.'K. Burns of Oak Park were Sunday visitors in the Leon Dodge home. Kirk Schroeder was a Chicago visitor Friday. . , * Mrs. S. W. Brown spent a few days Hie past week with Woodstock friends. Mrs. Agnes Jencks and daughter, Mary, of Evanston spent the weekend with Mrs. Lillian Stevens. Esther Burndahl and Mr. Johnson of Chicago were callers in the Wm. Kelley home Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Edinger and eon and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schneider of Woodstock were Sunday Callers in the S. H. Beatty and J. F. McLaughlin homes. Joe Welter and family of Chicago spent Sunday in the M. L. Welter heme. Fred Wiedrich spent Monday in Chicago. , Mr. and Mrs. W.v O. Fisher and daughter, Myrtle, spent Saturday evening with relatives at Hebron. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wiedrich and •family spent Sunday m the Howard Fisher home at Huntley. Dorothy Carr of Chicago spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carr. - Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Olsen and daughter of McHenry spent Sunday • fjfltw Ul tJaLwL*.; to you m BOTTLED GAS das for Cooking Everywhere Httrty spent SuMto wtth Mrs. Rtllah FOBS. Mrs. Roy Neal and children and Mrs. Frank Dix and children attended the theatre at McHenry Sunday afternoon. Charles Stevens of Milwaukee spent Saturday with Mrs. Lillian Stevens. The Ladies' Aid society will hold a dinner at the M. W. A. hall on Decoration Day. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peet and daughters spent Sunday afternoon with Greenwood relatives. Edward Harrison of Elgin spent the week-end • with relatives here. Edward Thompson of Chicago spent Monday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Thompson. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Hitchens and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Schroeder fittended the ball game at Ivanhoe Sunday. Mrs. Ed Thompson and daughter, Grace Mary, Mrs.- Wm. McCannon and Mrs. Nick Adams spent Wednesday afternoon in Waukegan. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Young, in company with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Weber and family of McHenry, spent Sunday with friends at Lake Mills, Wis Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fay were Sunday guests of relatives at Kenosha, W5s. Mrs. George McClellan and son, George, and Mrs. Fuller Boutelle and sons, Earl and Clyde, of Lake Geneva spent Friday with Mrs. George Young. The teachers and pupils, of our school attended the theatre at Crystal Lake Saturday afternoon. Quite a few from here attended the township exercises at McHenry Friday evening. Miss Grace Schott of Chicago is visiting with Mrs. Lewis Hawley. Mrs. Andrew Hawley of Elgin spent Saturday and Sunday in the E. C Hawley home. Mrs. J. F. McLaughlin and daughter, Julia, spent Saturday afternoon in Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. George Shepard and family spent Friday morning in Elgin. Mr. and Mrs. George Herbert and Miss Kelley of Woodstock, were visitors in the S. H. Beatty home Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stonebraker of Indiana are spending the summer in the E. C. Hawley home. !j Mrs. Viola Low was a visitor at Woodstock Thursday. ' Mr. and Mrs. Roland McCannon have moved into the E. P. Flanders rooms. Mrs. Viola Low and children attended the theatre at Woodstock Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Neal Bech of Chicago and Mr. and Mrs. Armour Birk of Woodstock were callers in the S. H. Beatty home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert McLean of Woodstock spent Sunday with Mrs, Frank Stephenson. ' Mr. and Mrs. Ray Peters spent Sunday night and Monday with rela tives at Belvidere and Hunter. Adrian Thomas of Chicago spent Friday and Saturday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Thomas. WM. H. ALTHOFF HARDWARE none 284 McHenry, 111. Consort Uatrn* to Napoleon Marie Louise of Austria deserted Napoleon when he was on his way to Elba and returned to Vienna with Count Neipburg. While Napoleon was at St. Helena, Marie Louise lived 'openly with Neipburg at Parma, and die bore the count a son shortly after the death of her exiled husband. |s', * P. L. Stadtfleld General Blacksmith WINDING, FENCING, PAINT, OIL, KEROSENE AND HARDWARE - Phone McHenry 628-M-l; Res. 628-J-l , s Vol®, Hi I?: •, Ice Co, Phone McHenry 59*M * CONNEL M. McDKKMOTT ATTORNEY-AT-LAW HMrs--Every evening, 7 to 8JI. AU day Saturdays Pries BMg. Cor. Green and Elm Sts. TeL McHenry SM - McHenry, IB. Rich mead It lettuce* ripe toffiatoee and craddy bacon with picklee and olives on the sid*--good op ^ fashioned dtongtuMStB and savory hot coffee, t*; # Jtist one of the scores of appetizing suggestioiw Westover, Virginia, Estate of William Byrd II. Iisk Our Pure Artificial Ice "In your refrigerator keeps vegetables and meats moist and flayorable We deliver regularly and .wmnfy A phone , call is all that is necessary. •* • \, Butler (Mfpared by th« National OeorrapUlO c! - Sociatr. Washington. D. C.) (WNU Service.) THE setting aside of three areas in Virginia as the Colonial National monument, by proclamation of President Hoover, creates what might be termed a "Junior national park" that is a shrine of American history. Included in the monument is the southern half of Jamestown island, where the first Virginia settlement was made; a portion of the town of Williamsburg; and the eastern half of Yorktown, with the surrounding battlefield area. But there are many other shrines in this region in which so many of tiie leaders of the Republic lived. As one wanders up the James river, Journeys up the Rappahannock, follows the Virginia shore of the Potomac, or motors along the eastern foothills of the Blue Ridge, he discovers hundreds of fine old estates that have played a part in the drama of America. What a galaxy of gems of residential architecture greet us as we ramble around the Commonwealth! Mount Vernon, the home of homes in American history, has been described and pictured Innumerable times. Monticello, second only to Mount Vernon in its sacredness as a shrine, unrivaled in its perfection of line, angle, and curve, unsurpassed in the magnificence of its situation, has also been described by many pens. Arlington, with its memories of Robert E. Lee and its Valhalla of soldier dead round amout, is a third Virginia estate well known to all readers. But Westover--what fairer spot Is there than this fine old home, with its memories of the second William Byrd and bis fair daughter Evelyn? The emerald clasp of the golden necklace of the James, it has been called. As one sits on that glorious Javvn, with its magnificent trees, two centuries old, history recreates itself. Courtly cavaliers In brilliant coats, flowing ruffles, satin knee breeches, and with stiver shoe buckles, jeweled swords, and golden snuff boxes, gather there and pay court to lovely ladies with powdered hair, patches, fans, and dresses of flowered brocade, who come and go as in the days when William Byrd II was known as the "Black Swan and Evelyn's beauty was the toast of two continents. We see again William Byrd III, in his scarlet regimentals, riding off to his command in the French and Indian war, or in his lordly coach-and-six with liveried outriders, going with his ladles to visit their neighbors at Shirley and Brandon and other seats of the "River Barons." The fine old mansion, chaste and beautiful in Its design, mellowed to old rose In hue, lovingly restored by its present owners, stands in as rich a glory as In any period of its history, in- the midst of its magnificent riverbordered, yew-and-elm-studded lawn. 8hirley and Brandon. Shirley is its neighbor up the river, Brandon down the stream^ Who that has visited Shirley could ever forget this fine old three-storied, dormer-windowed, square-built mansion? For nearly two centuries It has sheltered hundreds who have played distinguished roles in the drama of American history. Here came, to wed the lovely Elizabeth Hill, John Carter, son of *^King" Carter of Corotoman who owned a quarter of a million acres of Virginia's choicest land and built a dozen baronial seafs for his many sons and daughters; and here also came Light Horse Harry Lee to woo and win the fair Anne Hill Carter. Brandon, seat of the Virginia Harrisons-- who can describe its simple beauty, with its two wings, Its central structure connecting them, and Its delightful garden, as it has been restored by its present owner? A list of the flowers that grace the river garden of Brandon would constitute a catalogue of all that are beautiful and capable of thriving In the kindly soil and genial climate of the James. They have been brought together In a way that combines the -- Z beauty of the formal and the charm of the unstudied. A 15-foot grass walk leads down from the old garden to the river, and as one looks from the front porch of the house down through the vista formed by the trees of the lawn that was the old garden, the prospect of the James is unsurpassed. One wishes that he could take his readers on a ramble around Williamsburg, visiting the house* of George Wythe, teacher of Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, James Monroe, Henry Clay, and Edmund Randolph; stopping at Bassett hall, where Tom Moore wrote "The Firefly," and inspecting the John Page home, where the plot of Mary Johnston's "Audrey" was laid. And one regrets that space limitations permit only a mention of Claremont Manor, Upper Brandon, Weyanoke, Flower de Hundred, and Ampthill, colonial gems come down through the ages to us. v On the Upper Neck. Bat the- Northern Neck call* as. Here Is Sabin Hall, with a situation as beautiful and a garden as delightful as can be found In all America. "King" Carter built it for his son Landon, one of whose wives was Maria Byrd of Westover. At Mount Airy, with its three housies grouped about a central axis and connected by curved, covercd ways, always have lived the Tayloes, intermarried with the I'laters and the Ogles of Maryland. The race horses of Governor Ogle and those of Colonel Tayloe were the most famous of the early American turf, and Colonel Tay- Iqe's race track brought the elite of two colonies together. Farther up the Northern Neck we come to Stratford, ancestral home of the Lees of Virginia. From Its precincts went two signers of the Declaration of Independence. Descendants of the original owner have Included governors of Virginia and Maryland, generals in four wars, members of constitutional conventions, and many another whose name graces the pages of American history. Today it stands as a pitiful relic of its one-time glory, but a Connecticut chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy has recently acquired It and is making plans for its restoration to the aspect of days when Richard Henry Lee, Francis Llghtfoot Lee, Light Horse Hatty Lee, and Robert EL Lee were born there. On the north bank of the_ Rappa* hannock, at Fredericksburg, stands Chatham, the home of the Fitzhughs. There George Washington courted Martha Custis, there Robert E. Lee courted Mary Randolph Curtis, there Abraham Lincoln visited the Army of the Potomac. >• And across the river Is the little home where lived Mary Washington, Mother of the First President. One loves to visit the shrine. Where Mary Washington Lived. When George Washington reached maturity and left the Ferry farm, where he had spent most of his tender years after leaving Wakefield, his sister Betty Invited their mother to come to Kenmore, nearby, which Fielding Lewis had built for his bride. Her answer was: "My wants are few. 1 feel perfectly competent to take care of myself." So she moved, instead, to the little cottage because "George thought it best." \ History raises the curtain and gives as a glimpse of her life there. Her daughter frets at not hearing news of her brother George at the front, and is admonished that "the sister of the commanding general should be an example of faith and fortitude." Lafayette visits her. He enters her garden by the side gate and finds her raking leaves and wearing a linsey-woolsey dress and a broad-brimmed hat over a pleated undercap. She takes his hands In both of here. "Ah, Marquis," she exclaims, "you have come to see an old woman. But I can make you welcome without changing my dress." Speaking of this visit later, I^ftayette declared that he had' Men "the only Roman mother living at this day.' JOHN DUCBT VBTBKINABIAIt-' TB ami Blood Testing RICHMOND, ILLINOIS 'St. KcHENBY QSAVXL * ' SXOAVATJHO 00.. .' W tL V. Fraud, Prop, fe Road Building and Excavating Estimates Furnish^ on Request High-grade Gravel Delivered at any time--large or small orders given propjpt attention. Phone 204-M ^ : MoHenry HENRY V. SOMPEI* General Teaming Sand, Gravel and Goal for Sale Grading, Graveling and Boad Work Done By Contract s if Every Descripttotf-p7, or By Day ' Phone McHenry 649-R4^r . McHenry, HI. j f l^O. Address, Route • . : ' -*6,0*; WM. M. CARROLL mJ Lawyer Oflet with West McHenry flint* Bank ISVery Friday Afternoon 4 McHenry, Illinois Phone 128- W IS ' Reasonable Rates • ' A. S. SCHAEFffll _ . . : Kc&ENBIf ILLINOIS Telephone Jfa. 1M-* JP Stoffel & Reihanaperger bsnranee agents for property in the WEST McHEKRY all classes el companies. . 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His wish was fulfiUed that afternoon when, during a slight thunderstorm, the cow was struck dead by lightning, and the was deprived of his milk and had trouble of rearing a young calf. : ; • :'WVpect to take tours during the hot weather season--and of course must look to our tires. That, as all of us realize, is very important. supply you with the famous iM* V V# : f* -ri r, \ " L'?1 TIRES There are none better and the price is right. Check the accompanying ptkes in,your size..^^;^:. 'WALTER J^ FREUND TSr# Tnhft Tnlmnixinff battery nhanrinir anil fiansirin# ^Irt' . v.v .. Z&o •'. * vT • % .•>- y". i jS- *" 1 Tire and Tube Vnlc&nmng Phone 2M Work guaranteed West McHenry ^ C 12M 12.91 13.0f 13.49 13.7# " 14.61 *. 4.40-20 4.50-20 4.50*21 4.75-19 4.75-20 5.00-19 5.oo -iao 5.00-21 5.25-18 5.25-19 5:25-20 5.25-21 5.50-18 5.50-19 5.50-20 6.00-18 6.00-19 6.00-20 6.00-21 6.00-22 30x3 Va OL Reg. 30x3 Vz OT. O . & 31x4 32x4 32x4V4 33x4 34x4 V2 30x5 Heavy Duly 33x5 Heavy Duty 32*6 Heavy Dnty