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I POPULAR TOWN It FANNIE HURS I T WAS one of those situations, which, beginning the size of a pea, gathered moss at such an astonishingly rapid rate that presently all those connected with tt were aghast at the magnitude of what they had done. The Midtown Gazette, on which .young Tom Powell waft a reporter and to which Miss Amy Strieker subscribed, had started a popularity content, the winning young lady to be the fortunate recipient of a tour •round the world. Of course, oiT-hand, one would have told you that Amy Strieker, so blond la her beauty, so bland in her blueeyedness," so tender in the springtime quality of her youth, wis the most jMpular girl in town. But popularity In the town of Orlando was one thing and popularity in a state which contained at least six cities of far greater population and size was another* In any event, before the township of Orlando realized it and with interest and ctfaipetition running high, here was little Amy Strieker, nineteen, assistant librarian in the .town's somewhat makeshift library,, piling tp votes in a fashion that flabbergasted upd delighted the amazed and amused coupon clippers. Of course, the line hand of Tom Powell was to be detected behind much of the activity. From the moment that the Midtown Gazette announced its policy of staging the conspicuous and dramatic contest, this young fellow, alert, up-and-coming and foil of the fine fettle of young journal- Ism, carried on his campaign for placthe victory in the hands of his lovely fiancee. Miss Amy Strieker. For three months, with comparatively no local competition, but with dangerous runners-up from the larger cities of the state, the war for popularity waged and circulation climbed. Miss Strieker's little desk at the library became the mecca of turbulent, coupon- cllpping scenes. The little frame house on Ludlow street, where she Hved with a married sister, sharing a tiny room .with two half-grown aieces, was electric with excitement b fact, the only calm aspect of this fesnzled fight for the spectacular reward was the small, beautiful blond flgure of Amy Strieker. She was as radiant as a lovely morning, her blue ayes never bluer, her smile never whltat. They said of her locally that she "Sras a Mary Pickford, at Mary's zenith. Youngsters adored her and followed ,fcer In little clumps.- Old ladies toddled to the library for the benefit of the gentle manner she had with them. Amy had more beaus than there were «halrs in the Ludlow street house to Accommodate them. Tom Powell, who £ad worked his way through Northwestern university, was regarded the tackiest fellow In town. He wanted Amy to be the luckiest girl in town. On the day of Amy's victory of eight thousand votes over her closest competitor, the town went wild. It was a miniature Lindbergh day. Factories and business houses blew their midday whistles and business was literally suspended for the hour that Amy fttrlcker, mounted on a paper float, irode through the town, bowing her aweet acknowledgments to the plaudits of crowds that were almost entirely composed of men, women and children with whom she had grown up. No royal bride was ever more pompously prepared for ceremony than Amy -la those weeks- preceding her deparfor the first lap of her ninety-day tear of the world. She was the community's interest, the community's pride, the community's responsibility. Ladles' societies met for the sole purpose of sewing Amy's traveling things. Local shops vied with one another in •applying Miss U. S. A. with paraphernalia- Tom Powell worked his eager hands to the bone, so to speak. Meing to it that the whole general picture was one of magnitude and Kope worthy of his fiancee. • .And then thare entered into this* pic- Jsre aspects of the human equation trtileh were to shock and disappoint the community beyond anything that had ever happened in its midst. A momentary shock, it is true, which later was to be superseded by a homely kind of feeling of affection for the "Itfsdemeanor of which Miss Strieker Mr. Powell had been guilty. . Two weeks before Amy's contemplated departure on a flower-decked, hunting-draped train. Tom Powell, seated In her stuffy little parlor one •rening, caught her In his arms and told her that he could not bear to let her go, that he was sure to lose her t» a vast and admiring world, that he $ad tried to he unselfish In giving to the world, but that his heart sick within him with what he d done. Amy in turn, with her cheek against m» shoulder, sobbed out her nostalgia; iffegged him to release her from the fast project of taking this tour alone; Jflung to him; needed him. The next fnorning, Amy and Tom went off to a town twenty miles away and were parried. / sg The newspaper, the town and the jptate gave a large grunt of disgust ijfnd turned to the second runner-up. /, , j# contestant in a large city who ha«i falM short of eight HMMtad vote wt Apr) acclaim, to take the rsto 01 Miss U. S. A. Excitement fell away from the threshold of Amy Strieker-' Powell overnight She became any little bride la any little town, married to any little struggling fellow. They set up housekeeping in three rooms of a two-family cottage on a scrubby street at the end of the town. The community was Irreparably disappointed in Amy and manifested itself by leaving her severely alone. For the first few months of the marriage, the town's resentment lingered, and then the case of Miss U. S. A. was forgotten. The Tom Powells became comfortably a part of local life. Amy took up her household duties and Tom pursued his work. There were the usual struggles, the usual happiness, the usual ambitions, desires and hopes. The first five years of their marriage Tom wss promoted twice, Amy gained fifteen pounds, and three babies, all of them healthy and vigorous, were Bora. If the perfection of Amy's bloom faded, the little bland, blue qaallty of her eyes burned on. She Wss beautiful because she was happy. And then catastrophe came. The eldest boy almost succumbed ,to meningitis, Amy fell off a laduer while painting her kitchen cupboard and had a bad time with a sprained ankle. Then Tom, oat of a clear sky, took to his bed for a period of eighteen months with a hip disease that had gradually to correct itself. Tom's disability pinched the little household down to a state of actual deprivation. Amy resumed her position at the library. During those long, dreary months she kept the little household going, maintained Tom in his wheel chair in dainty and immaculate fash- Ion, took two of the children to school on the way to the library, di<f her marketing on the way home, prepared meals, accomplished much of her scrubbing and window washing after dark, waxed floors on her knees, did some of her card cataloguing for the library at home, exercised Tom on his bad leg and tided over the finances without having to resort to borrowing. "There goes Miss U. S. A.," was the way the townspeople usually pointed her out to strangers. That came literally to be true. Tom, when he kissed her and fondled her, as if he could never leave off expressing his gratitude, always thought of her in his heart as typical of Miss U. S. A. T o l a /fT&lesi Iteasa «f Interest Tabs Frost Files «f the PUialejhv of Tears Ago FIFTY TEARS AGO The ladies of the M. E. church will hold their next sociable at the residence of Mrs. Isaac Wentworth, on Wednesday afternoon, Aug. S. All are cordially invited. One of the severest storms of wind, rain, thunder and lightning that we ever experienced, passed over this place on Thursday last. It was almost one constant flash of lightning. Thel your own armies. thunder was terrific and the rain fell in torrents. Joseph Frett has leased the Howe building, formerly used as a billiard hall near the southeast corner of the public square, has repainted and ren ovated it in a substantial manner, and will, on Saturday next, open it as a meat market. During the last week work has been pushed on the abutments of the Skinkle bridge. John Skellicorn bosses the job. Cement is being used instead of quicksand, which will make a much more enduring wall. It is the aim of the commissioner to put in abutments this time that will not .wash out or fall down. / fawurf by American The late Qen. Charlse Mangin's hib> it of studying and respecting the viewpoint of others amounted to a gift tor understanding men and situations. He understood both English and Americans better thsn any Frenchman ] know. He whs able Intelligently to admire their qualities and condone their limitations, David Gray writes ta the Century Magazine. Similarly he understood bis own race. If he had been at the head of the French military regime there would have been few disagreements with the allied commands. He was one of the few high French officers who from the beginning had correctly appraised the American aptitude for 'war, and he deplored the plan of using American manpower to reform depleted French and British organ!- cations, which at one Ume threatened a serious breach with Pershing. General Pershing is entirely right," he told me. "You are a fighting people. As a great power you must have From the begin- (ffl. 1131. McClure Newspaper Syndicate) (WNU Service.) . When First President's Wife Gave Reception According to an early chronicler, Mrs. Washington's levees were "open only to persons of privileged rank and degree, and they could not enter unless attired in full dress. The receptions . . . merely reproduced, on a smaller plan, the customs and ceremonies of foreign courts. . . . "At these receptions Mrs. Washington sat. Guests were grouped In a circle round which the President passed, speaking politely to each one, but never shaking hands. At the first levee in New York, Mrs. Washington announced: 'General Washington retires at ten o'clock and I usually precede him. Good night.' * Today we find in the unofficial guide known as authoritative on etiquette in our Capital: "It is correct for all political, official and resident Washington society to call egfce % year at the White House. This . . . consists of driving or walking Up to the main entrance and placing the cards on a tray which a footman brings to the froflt door or to your car. These calls being merely tokens of respect, no one asks to see the President's wife; the whole ceremony occupying about half a minute from the gate of entrance to the exit on the other side. "In re ent years it has become customary for women, after they have left their cards as described, to ask for the honor of being received by the (President's wife. This done by writing s note to her social secretary, which may be about as follows: •"My dear Miss : Will you ask Mrs. X if I may have the honor of calling upon be*-, and let me know on what day it will be agreeable for her to receive me? Sincerely yours,' and so on."--Maude Parker In the Saturday Evening Post PartaMt Q«Mtioa 4* Irishman strolling through London saw some pictures in a photographer's window. One was of a young man taken after he had attended a fancy dress ball In Mephistophelean costume. After looking at it for some time he .went into the shop and said he wanted a picture taken of his brother and himself on one card. The photographer made the usual preparations and then asked for his brother. "Oh, he's in Bristol," was the reply. "And ho%" said the photographer, can you expect me to take the picture of s man who is In Bristol?" "Well," said the Irishman, "I'd like to know bow yon took Sataa'a picture. Did you meet him here?" FORTY YEARS AGO The legal rate of interest in Illinois is now 5 per cent on judgment and in cases where no rate is mentioned, and 7 per cent on contract. The new law came into force July 1. On Thursday night last some passers by discovered smoke issuing from the Woodstock jail, and giving the alarm it was found that a crazy person confined there had set fire to his bqftding, and had thereby taken his own life, being smothered bfc the smoke. Otis Parker, son of Frank Panter, has been quite sick at the residence of J. Dermont, in this village, but is now reported better. TWENTY-FIVE TEARS AGO Next Saturday, Aug. 4, is primary day, the day that every legal voter should turn out and cast his vote for the men of his choice. The Woodstock Republican expects to occupy a new brick- building by October 1. The county circus and bazaar given by the Fox Lake Yacht club last Saturday evening proved a big success. The attendance was the largest ever- TWENTT TEARS AGO J. Miller, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Miller, of this place, was united in marriage to Miss Edna Wicks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Wicks of Woodstock, at £t. Mary's rectory at the county seat on Thursday morning of last week, the Rev. Corney of Hartland officiating. Waukegan, Lake county's largest and most prosperous city, and which for years has been a wide-open town, was closed up two weeks ago and the past two Sundays saw the saloons in that city closed up air tight. McHenry passed one of the dry est day ia its history last Sunday. ; TEN TEAKS AGO The announcement last Sunday morning that Rev. Edward Berthold, pastor of St. Mary's church was to leave McHenry, came as a surprise to this community. Poor health is the cause of his retirement. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Smith, at their home on Green street last Tuesday. The plank walk over the mill dam race is to be rebuilt. Although this is not a public highway, most of us seem to think so and will cross the ning you have done well wltli your divisions. You will learn the higher staff work quickly. Your officers are Serious and trained to work." He further admired Pershing for Insisting, despite the opposition of the French and British authorities, (Ml training for open warfare at a time when it was generally believed the western front could never be successfully pierced. Mangin was emphatically opposed to the policy of trench fighting. He pointed out that the daily wastage of men quickly amounted to the losses of an offensive battle with nothing to show for It. Moreover ,the shell wounds characteristic of trencih war reduced the percentage of recoveries and prolonged the average time of convalescence. I had been with him but a short time when he opened his casualty lists to me that I -might make a report on his losses during his first month of heavy open fighting, which proved his contention. His own theory of war was the offensive first, last, and always; and he carried it in practice further than any general since Napoleon with the exception of Foch. ' V"- , . WITH -- Wm.G. Schreiner ,;"yl Anctioneeriiig ^ at RlHDKKar U-K NaHenry. mint* Telephone Net. 10S-B Stoffel & Relhaflsperger agents for all riliw si property In the but companies. WEST McHENRY ILLINOIS CONNEL M. McDERMOTT ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Inn--Every evening, 7 to liM All day Saturdays Pries Bldg. Cor. Green and Elm Sts. Tel. McHenry 258 "McHenry, III Phone Rich 1« - ' Dr. JOHN DUCET - V; VETERINARIAN TB and Blood Testing | RICHMOND, ILLINOIS McHENRY GRAVEL iu ' EXCAVATING OOr P. Freund, Prop.f~ £ocui Building and Excavating Estimates Furnished on Request """ Sigh-grade Gravel Delivered at any time--large or small orders given prompt attention; Phone 204-M McHenry V->V2 - "LmmI of Midnight Sua" Norway reaches 300 miles into the Arctic zone, and nearly one-third of the country is in the domain of the midnight sun and winter darkness, but even in the extreme south the summer day la long and the winter day is short. DR. Ce KELLER Optometrist and Optician WALSH'S DRUG STOEE Riverside Drive every Saturday afternoon, 2 to 7 p. m. Eyee 'examined and glasses auuie to order only Also all repairs iENRY V. SOMPEII General Teaming Sand, Gravel and Goal for Sale Grading. Graveling and Road " Work Done By Contract Description. s^r By Day * £%one ifcHenry 649-B4 ?, McHenry, I1L r * r - a; ,v ^ • v ' ^ ' i' . " X3-S . **&•. -iv V >"L r J, ' : ^ . For your car to run easily and smoothly, U Ml . be lubricated properly and regularly. r "v Bring it in to us today. Chir experienced men t.will apply only the correct lubricants as specified C. / ^ •V-ft."1 •> by special charts {or your particular make of car. ~'yX NAnd we use only the latest greasing equipment and the Rotary Lift which enable our attendants to reach all working parts. Quickly and ' competently. Give «f*4l trisU Quk^, competent service. CENTRAL J»kaslnirg, 111. .Frod J. Smithy Pf pp /, P. 0. Address, Route S WM. M.CARROLL Lawyer OSes with West McHenry State'Ban! Every Fri(^ay Afternoon « r McHenry, Illinois 1M-W HsHENRY Drayfcg ILLINOIS We will have plenty of that CObd Wisconsin Creameries '< ICE CREAM 'Jt: >?•' r : Saturday & Sunday FIatots--Vanilla, Strawberry, Chocelate We made arrangements to have plenty this week end • As usual a complete line of Cakes, Coffee Cakes, ^ - Sweet Bolls, Pies, Etc. , ^ < J. J. MARSHALL, PROP. Tel. 118-J. ^ Green Street Wfcm H« SpMt (ha Day Mr% Maggs had invited her neighbor to see the new decorations. The house had been repainted, and after examining the living rooms they went into the bedroom. "My!" said Mrg. Diggs, admiringly. "Ian't it pastty? But what are the lovely pictures painted on the ceiling for?" "For my 'usband," explained Mrs. Magga. * 'B likes to 'ave something to look at on Sundays."---London Tlt- Blts. E. H. WAITE, Attorney •; ^ EXECUTOR'S NOTICE XSdkate of Ellen Bolger, Deceased. The undersigned, having been appointed Executors of the last Will and Testament of Ellen Bolger, deceased, late of the County of McHenry and State of Illinois, hereby give notice that they will appear before the County Court of McHenry County, at the Court House in Woodstock, at the September Term, on the first Monday in September next, at which time all persons having claims against said Estate are notified and requested to attend for the purpose of having the same adjusted. All persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned. Dated this 14th day of July, A* D. 1931. THOMA8 A. BOLGER, JOHN A. BOLGER, 7<4 Executors. - ^ Ivor TMak of ThatT •.^'"ilany a man," said Uncle Eben, •%hinks other folks Is ongrateful when #e*s merely holdin' a 'zaggerated idea da importance of his services."-- Ipraahlngton Star. Great Wall VblbU te Mean Eke Great Wall of China, with Its : tirtsts and turns of 2,000 miles, prob- ,-efcly Is the only work of man's bands QMUtioa Froai BiUe ^ " The proverb "A house divided against itself cannot stand" la found in .the Bible, Mark 3:25. Abraham Lincoln quoted it in a statement about the North and South at the time of the Civil war. Wild Dog's Qmer%*ea- The South American wild dog, about the size of a fox, has a peculiar habit of running for houos in a course Asscribing the figure eight y--A fWwriaUts 1819 commercial canning of food began la the TTnited 8tates. S. H. Freond & Sod CONTRACTORS! AND BUILDERf phope 127-B ^ ^ McHenry Our experience Is at Tour Service in building Your Wants • j~ budget in itself. Careful study of the advertisements will always help yon in picking and choosing . . . in comparing prioes . . . la weighing your needs and desires. PERHAPS yon do your staple shopping §y the week. Larger items nifnraL Household furnishings, automobiles, ra- Jios, and similar things are in the nature f investments, whether for months, Apr Making up your list is really a fascinat log game when you play it against your allowance. The more careful you are in the preliminary study of the advertisements, the better will be your chance not only to gel the best selection for you purpose . . but also to find out in advance how much money you can save for unplanned extras! |jrears, or for life. Yon buy these things at long intervals. But no matter what you buy, y*u serf* yourself best if you plan your purchase in advance. Every list you make is -A *'