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ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COM PANY •W y: Twice T o l d Tales Itetas oT latere* Taken Fnmt :'H» Files of the PUiad®«k* of Years Ago - . . , , ' >--. - -- FIFTY YEARS AGO Quite a large number of our citizens are complaining with cholera morbus and colic. The public school'building jis receiving a new coat of paint, both inside and out, which will greatly improve its appearance. Cartiss ' and Perkins Jire doing the worki • ' : McHenry is well represented on th® Jury for the September term of .Court. Thfe names drawn from this town are, on grand jury, Edward Bristirold;' 'oivpetit jury, - Chiarles T, Eldrcdge, • Leonard- Bbrisletfc, ,C. V» Stevens, F- A. Hehard- Berj. Gilbert j»nri Wm. Harrison.':. V - E. Buck Jof1 Crystal Lake sold two Colts* the past month, ,©ne four and the/oiher five years old,...fpr the handsome sum -of $500 each. , FORTY YEARS AGO 1 The> front of Barbian Brothers. ?Gigar store an® J. J. Bishop's barber shop are each deceiving a coat of paint, which much improves their appearance. Mrs; A. S. Wright was at Pistakee Bay on Tuesday and purchased a lot on the south of the cottage Qwned Sy her father, O. W. Owen, on which she will build a neat and substantial cottage at an early date. There were families from Elgin camping on the banks of the river south of- town on Saturday and Sundav last. 1 V . The Illinois state geological survey division has just Jpublished an Educa tional Bulletin, No. 1, on "Typical Rotks and MinerA^iljllinois." The booklet is especiallyadapted for use in schools and was written primarily to accompany sets of rocks and min erals wrhich the division is distribut ing to high schools throughout the state. This publication, the third of series, with Bulletin No. 1 on "The Geologic Making of Souther nBttTTOis" and No. 2 on "The Rock River Coun try of Northern Illinois" miy be se cured free of charge for use in schools anywhere in the state of Illinois and will be supplied to the general public at a cost of ten cents each by addressing the Chief, State Geological Sur vey^ Urbana. . . - * , WEST SIDE GARAGE Otto Adams, Prop. General Automobile Repairing Res. Phone, 639-R-2 Corn 5aiMoiidaf| Tuesday? -z-not in her house TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO John L. ,Traub and Miss Lillian Ott were marrild Saturday evening, July 21, at the Moody cottage. Quite number of Bay and Chicago friends were present. Rev. E. H. Beal of the McHenry M. E. church officiated. . George Henry, who has been conducting a meat market in the Colby block on Water street during the past few months, has closed up his shop arid gone to Chicago. Wm. Bacon, during the past week, has drilled two wells, one for Rev. Ranrpe at Volo and one fop^ Emil Lasch. He also erected a windmill for' the latter gentleman- Simon Stoffel sold the P, J. Cleary farm of 200 acres to W. J. Harris and sons of Spring GroVe for $ 17,000. • „--TWENTY YBARS AGO Butter was declared firm at 26 cents on the Elgin board of trade Monday. Fred Pflug found u 44 grain pear! in Fox river at Elgin the other day Which sold for $1^200. The Fox river is to be scraped put -to aid the city officials in fighting off the attack of typhoid fever. The river bed' is said to be • lined with r . • • * " TEN YEARS A«0 The. Lake Shore hotel property at Crystal Lake has been purchased by a syndicate of Chicago men who will transform the place into an exclusive country club. , - Rev. Wm. Weber, beloved pastor of St. John's church, Johnsburg, who has not been in the best of health for some time, went to Chicaga Friday for treatment at the Alexian Bros, hospital. .Mr. and Mrs. C- W. Peters of Chicago, who bear the distinction of being among the oldest resorters et Pistakee Bay, have just returned from a trip through the New England states. 1 Miss Lucile Byrd of this community was married Tuesday to Loui's Rohman at St. Paul's Universalist church in Chicago. ^ • --She used „to shy~away from Migc cans of corn and peas and peaches--even when they were priced^very special". There are pnly two of them in there'd be too much for 5 eal. and ^he knew •Vv'r "i "r But now that she owfis an elearic rdiigerator: C She buys the large cans of everything--and saves/ money. What's left over simply goes into a covered dish and into the cabinet. And corn on Monday doesn t mean that there'll be corn again on Tuesday. It may be several days before it comes out to make its second appearance--- as tasty as it wii in the beginning---in a souffl6 or in fritters. - ,,' --\ : . • yoil investigate electric refrigeration ^ for your home? It lets you economize in so many ways in your marketing--lets you save money every day by buying in quantity when price* are low. * • There s a model just die right size for your ^kitchen. See the nqw Frigidaires and Genera^ Electrics at your PUBLIC SERVICf: STORE. Your LOCAL REFRIGERATOR^ DEALER will also be glad "to demon* sttate these and other makes. Only p small down payment, aad-one is youtl..; Angler'» Mighty Catch ' Here Is the tale of the largest fish caught with hook and line in New England Inland wafers. In many a year: Frank E. Wells of Mllton,\Tt., was fishing through the Ice on Lake Champlain. A line on..which a small perch hook was attached was violently agitated. -Wells, grabbed it and started to pull. For three hours the excited fisherman struggled without knowing what was on oth^r end. Then he managed to drag the exhausted flsh up through the hole In the ice- It was a sturgeon five feet long which weighed 78 pounds.--Boston -(Mobe. IIHnais. libraries ^ report ati siiiitiattal increase In the number of bookti cir culaied for home reading- tfnemployed men and women haye turned to the libraries in ,this<-time of business depression, reading not only for recreation but Sor kifortaaUon/ .aijd fpf aid in increjitsihg their btfsineM opportunities and values. Plans are being made to open the old North mine at Virdeh as well as one at Nokomis* following ma^ meetings with officials of the Southern Illinois, Utilises comp^i|yB, ..Jjjeld The horseshoe Wssers . of~TtIinois who would share in the distribution of c%sh prizes at the Illinois State failare welcome* to enter the contest to be held during their annual convention at the Illinois State fair on Wednesday evening, August 26, in conjunction with the state championship tournament. ' ,, Mass production methpds, a charge often aimed at large educational Institutions, will be pushed farther back with the enrollment, of University r6t Illinois freshmen this fall, reads an announcement from the faculty committee which has Been developing a new registration system. Practically an entire week will be given over to a serious but friendly and cordial attempt to get the incoming freshmen off to a proper start. It will be a week of instruction and advisement, at the end of which it is felt that the new students will so thoroughly understand the university and Its purposes, as well as their own capabilities and responsibilities, that the mortality rate among the yearlings will be greatly reduced and their future immeasurably helped:-- ;--~ Colonel Richard J. Shand is JEfc. peeled to retire from the position of United States Disbursing officer, August 18, when he will have reached the federal age limit. He will con tinue, however, to serve in his capacity of assistant adjutant general. - From questionnaires sent to twen? ty-lve cities in the United States, fifteen larger than Springfield and ten considered in Springfield's population class, Springfield ranks high in the way it handles traffic and shows its present system of traffic operation a n d t r a c i c l i g h t s ^ a b o u t a s standard as any. . . ~ I _ _ ' From statistics given out by the department of labor it is shown that hand loading is the most perilous job in the mines, Out of 5,472 mine accidents in 1930, 2,273 happehed fco hand loaders. Persons engaged in surface occupations incident to mining had 493 accidents during the year, while underground occupation accidents totaled 4,979. With 496 accidents, cutting machine men had tha nejftnhighest number of mishaps. Notices on bids on rates of interest Illinois' banks will pay if state funds are placed on deposit with them have been sent out to state and national banks in Illinois. There are now about 750 banks designated as state depositories, paying three percent interest on inactive accounts and two percent interest on daily balances on active accounts against which checks are drawn. The interest .goes into the state treasury. The proposals will he opened Monday, Sept. 7, by State Trfj^sHirer Edward J Barrett in the pr*s&nce of State Auditor Oscar Neland Garrett Kinney, director lance. Public Reprimand Usually the motorist who gets bawled out by the cop for infracting a truffle rule can take comfort in the fact that at least pasnersby are not hearing a verbal lashing. Now the Detroit police have taken away even this comfort, says Popular Science Monthly, by mounting loudspeakers con- 'Hcd by & microphone on one of thsir autos, for demonstration purposes. This sedan cruises about the city and when a motorist is observed doing what he should not do, the policeman In the sedan gives him a lecture that can Im beard a block.. a,way. Literary Monarch OtMM-lemajrne, king of the ^Franks, A. \r 768-814,kIs responsible for the presant typ»* of letlors. such as occur on tills page, according to nn answered question In Liberty: Although he himself never learned t© write Charlemagne commissioned Alcnln. an 'English monk, to design the letters, v - Narrow tut Fam The width of the strait tar varies from about nlr the west entrance to abo miles at the east entrance. nel is Ave miles wide through the ter of the strait. miles at thirteen The Illinois state tax commission ir speeding up its work so that a tentative total of assessments may be available at an early date in order that a study may be given the revenue needs of the state before the meeting of the rate board to fix the state tax rate. The commission also expects to have assessments on railroads and capital stock ready for county clerks before the" first of th® year, thus avoiding delay m extension of local taxes. . Illinois rank# third in th# amount of llfft meni»on/tA nn!4 year and Springfield policyholders and beneficiaries received $2,025,500 from life insurance companies in 1930, ranking fifth among ctties of Illinois in the amount of insurance payments daring 1930. Inquiries about tk* •xaminattan* indicate that three hundred applicants are expected to register with the state department of^mines and minerals, to be examined for six classes of licenj required by state mining regulations. When United States Senator i. Hamilton Lewis recently spoke at ceremonies in Chicago in w,hich he presented khe national colors to the Firsfe battalion of the twenty-fourth regiment of marines, ne declared tlMt the United States navy "is one navy 6f aii the world that is a navy of da^ fense and under no orders for prepalr* ation of assault." C. KELLER Optometrist and* Optician WALSH'S DRUG STORE Riverside Drive every Saturday afternoon, 2 to 7 p.*. Eyes examined and glsasee wade to \ oixter only • sAlM-aB repair#" . r ', hsnr^Io Snre-lnsoraoce 7 ••---- WITH ---- Wm.G. Schreiner Auctioneering OFFICE AT RESIDENCE ? Phane 93-R McHenry, IUiaeia Telephone No. 108-B * Stoffel & Reih&nsperger Insurance agents for all classea of property in the best compania. WEST McHENRY - - ILLINOIS 'A. 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