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QENERAL WASHINGTON, HOST AND HUNTSMAN That General George Washington was an enthusiastic huntsman is evidenced in many of his oWn writings and letters, according to the Division of Information and Publication of the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission. He was a superb horseman. Lafayette, in describing him in a letter home, Spoke of him as the most magnificent figure he had ever beheld, when mounted on his white charger. General Washington loved his horses and his dogs, and enjoyed the keen sport and excitement of the chase. In fact, he joined in hunting and all the sports and games more for this reason than for honors or success. He was in the habit of hunting three times a week if the weather was heart of most modern riders. Washington took great pride in his hounds and had his pack so critically drafted as to speed and bottom, that in running, if one dog lost the scent, another was immediately at hand to recover it- When running in full cry, you could "cover the pack with a blanket." Mt. Vernon had a large kennel of hounds and a fine stud of . horjses. Washington kept with his own hands a careful register in which could be found the names, ages and marks of each. Had the records of horse-breeding during the Revolution, and the time immediately following, been more carefully kept, there is no doubt that the stables of the present day could boast descendents of the renewed favorable. During the hunting sea- stable, which included the fiery Blue- •t son, Mount Vernon entertained many sporting guests from the neighboring estates, from Maryland and elsewhere- These guests arrived, often with their own retinues of servants, their own mounts, and remained for visits, not of days, but of weeks, during which time they were entertained royally in the good did style. i- ; Breakfast was served at candlelight, the table groaning with the bounty of delectable southern dishes. Washington himself, however, rarely paytook of anything but Indian corn-cakes and milk. He often asked the blessing at his table, unless there was a clergyman present, all standing during this ceremony. At dawn the cavalcade would be ready to start, Washington mounted on his favorite hunter, Blueskin, a fiery animal of great endurance, dark iron gray in color. For hunting he wore the fashionable costume of the times, a blue coat, scarlet waist-coat, buckskin breeches,, top boots and a velvet cap. * He carriied a whip with a long throng. Billy, who was Washington's bodyservant during the war, rode with the hounds, mounted on Chinkling, a French huntsman's horn slung across hia Shoulders, riding fearlessly through brake and tangled wood, in a style which would strike terror to the skin, the famous full-blooded Arabian, Magnolia, Ajax, Valiant and Chinkling. Some of the hounds were named Vulcan, Ringwood, Singer, True Love, Music, SweetU^s, For^ter ,'ind Rockwood. -c Following these early "morning hunts, the party would return to Mt. Vernon for dinner, usually finding ad. ditional guests who had arrived from neighboring estates to learn the Result of the hunt and to enjoy the afternoon's gayety. A bounteous dinner was -served after which some of the guests would play loo, the preferred game of the times, others would gather about the harpsicord, and with the accompaniment of lute and violin, raise their voices in pleasing choruses. After supper which was served about nine "or ten o'clock, there was usually dancing--the minuet and jolly country dances which the young people especially enjoyed. As all rose early for the hunting, the h#ur of retirement was not late. All sports were suspended daring the war, and hunting was never revived at Mt. Vernon on its old-time scale. In 1785, Lafayette presented Washington with a pack of hounds, but increasing private and public duties caused him . to give up such pleasure. SLOGUM LAKE Mr. and Mrs. Jack Geary mild sons were callers at McHenry Saturday evening. Mr. and Mr®. Ray Dowell and children were callers at Woodstock last Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Foss and daughter, Pearl, spent last Thursday at Elgin. Harry Matthews and sons were call, ers at the Farm Bureau at Grayslake last Thursday. Mrs. W. E. Brooks and son, Chesney, and Otis Phillips were callers at Crystal Lake last Friday. Mrs. Earl Converse accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Davis and daughter, Frances, to Elgin last Thursday- Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren attended the El Tovar theatre at Crystal Lake last Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Maiman of- Wauconda spent last Thursday evening at the home of the latter's father here. Mrs. Ray Dowell spent last Saturday afternoon at the home of her par. ents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Davis. Mr. and ^frs. Harry Matthews spent Sunday evening with relatives at Crystal Lake. Mrs. Raymond Lusk and daughter, Betty Lou, of Volo spent last Tuesday at the Blemgren home- Mrs. Elizabeth Bacon and daughter, Vintiie, of Roseville, spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wiayne Bacon. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Foss and son, Billiev spept last Wednesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Foss at Libertyville. Dave Williams of Lake Forest and Mr.Huel of Williams Park restocked Slocum Lake with about 30,000 various kinds of fish. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Shaffer of McHenry spent last Wednesday after- • jioon at the home of Henry Geary. Miss Lillian Tidmarsh of Wauconda was a dinner guest last Tuesday at the home of Mr and /Mrs. . W. E. Brooks. **" Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Davis and daughter of the "Flats" were callers last Monday at the home of Mrs. Clara Smith. Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs- Wm. Foss were Mrs. Stewart Parks and son, LaVerne, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Parks and two daughters of Marshfield, Wis., Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Loomis of Woodstock and" Mrand Mrs1. Merrill, Foss and two daughters of Crystal Lake. Other afternoon guests were Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Schrieber and Mr. and Mrs. John Breck of Chicago.. Miss Pearl Foss of Libertyville and Wm. Berg of the "Flats" attended the basket social at Griswold Lake-y Mrs. S. J. Russel and daughter, / Alice, of Volo were callers last Saturday at the home of Mrs. Clara Smith. „ Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sund and two sons of near Palatine were Sunday dinner and afternoon guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Darrell. M2rs, John R. Knox of McHenry spent Sunday afternoon at the home of her father here. Fred Obee of Highland Park and Mrs. Emily Smith of Edison Park were Saturday evening callers at the home of Mrs. Clara iSmith. Mr- Heidner and son, Clarence, of near Wauconda spent last Wednesdayevening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bacon. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Brooks spent last Friday and Monday at Waukegan. Mr- and* Mrs. C. K. Werden. Mrs. Louise Werden and Lyle Thomas vf Wauconda were Sunday afternoon callers at the home of Mrs. Clara Smith. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Brooks of Waukegan spent last Tuesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. HP L. JJjpQtJfcS* Mr- and Mrs. William Darrell are the parents of a son, George Albert, born Monday at their home at Wau couda. MV. and Mrs. H. L. Brooks were recent callers at Lake Zurich. -- SPRING PROVE Dr. and Mrs. Blakeman and family and friends of the city celebrated at a triple birthday party Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Ste^ vens and familyt The honored were Mrs. Blakeman, Mr. Stevens and daughter, Lucy. This day is ope that will be long remembered. A beautiful three-tier birthday cake of pink and white was presented by the former." Mr. and Mrs. Nick Klein -and family spent Saturday evening and' Sunday at Racine, Wis. Mr. and Mrs- Math Rauen and son, Arnold, and wife of Chicago spent Saturday and Sunday at the former's home here. The many friends of Math Nimsgern will be glad to know, he is able to be at work again after his recent illness. Wedding bells are ringing again for Wednesday, the 18th, when Miss Marcella Hergott is to become a bride. The wedding dance will be "held at Solon Mills. Mr. and Mrs* Frank Sanders and family were Sunday callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe G- Wagner. Mrs. Minnie Jackson passed away at the home of her daughter, Annd Gherke, in the city Saturday. The fu. neral was held Monday afternoon from the M. E. church here. She had been ill for about a year and the end came as a relief to her suffering. The family has the sympathy of their many friends. She was laid to rest beside the grave of her husband, who passed away nineteen months ago. She leaves to mourn her two daughters, Ruth Duffy of Ohio, Anna Gherke of Chicago, and a son, Henry, who lives here, and two grandchildren, besides relatives and a host of friends. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Freund and daughter spent Sunday at Crystal Lake with Mr. and Mrs. A1 Pepping. Wilson Moore of Chicago spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. H. CSweet. Work is progressing fine on the new ponds at the State fish hatchery. BANKERS DEVELOP NEW FINANCE AD) President of American Bankers Association Describes Plan and Services of National Credit Corporation'. vj '5^,14^... . • . NEW YORK.--The National Credit Corporation, a billion dollar cooperative institution, 4b the method worked out by bankers to put into practical effect vthe central point in President Hoover's plan for renewing the cochmercia' and industrial activity of the r ation as proposed in his "statement to the nation of October 7. Harry J. Haas, president of the American Bankers Association stated in a recent interviews The corporation is strictly cooperative in character, he said, to unite the en>ire banking system and Increase the effectiveness of the financial sfer vices of bankq to their communities in the rural districts as well as the cities The plan will marshal! the banking re sources of (be country, he explained, toy creating a' national institution whose funds will be loaned when necessary to banks which have assets in their portfolios that are thoroughly sound but are not eligible for loans at reserve basks. v' '• To Benefit Everybody "There is no citizen in the United States but will benefit in very practical ways from the results of the operation o/ this forward-looking plan of cooperation, which may be regarded as one. of the most constructive steps that have been taken toward revival of sound business activity," Mr. Haas declared, adding: "The National Credit Corporation represents an instrumentality that should have far-reaching effect In storing the confldcnce of the public. The plan not only has been formulated oy the country's leading banking authorities, but also will be carried out locally as well as nationally by banking representatives who have given their time and thought to this undertaking as a real public service. "The American Bankers Association \ccnvention was In sessiod at the time the plan was proposed and unanimous 1? endorsed it in principle. I have examined the detailed formulation of the working plans as developed by the incessant labors of some of the Nation's leading bankers who have underaktiD to put it into practical operation lp single-minded devotion to the na Jonal welfare, and i am able to say without reservation that the National Oreuit Corporation as set up by thorn constitutes a practical, sound and efficient means for carrying out President Hoover's proposal." Hiram. According *© a prediction made by Director Henry H. Kohn of the state department (of purchases and construction, the state's part of the Lakes to Gulf construction program will be finished for the opening of the Century of Progress Exposition, May 1; '1933. Bids on the project will be opened November 24 and, at Governor Louis L. Emmerson'% request, water division engineers have arranged^ to place as much" construction under contract as soon as possible in order to relieve the unemployment situation. With an infant mortality rate 14 per cent lower than that of the nation as a whole, Illinois now ranks eighth among the states. In only seven other states was the rate lower than that of Illinois and none of the seven have half as great a population as Illinois. For each 1,000 births in Illinois last year, there were 5G deaths .among infants. This was a decline of 86 per cent when compared with 1920. the lawyers and the Izaak Walton Leatfwt. He j* also * varygpowj riant According to a recent report of the state department of public health, whooping tough is the most prevalent epidemic disease at this time in Illinois- Reports average about 220 new cases weekly. Pneumonia Is beginning to manifest the seasonal increase with about 125 new cases per week, while typhoid is « t Jfrfc Ji»w|kward t r e n d . ; ~~ • n > * ' According to a recent bulletin from Chief of State Police Walter LMoody, owners and drivers of trucks that, with or without trailers, exceed 20 feet in length, are urged to see that the markers and reflectors that the law demands are properly installed. . . Ralph 15. Bradford, iffrector of the state department of conservation, recently announced that an income in excess of one million dollars was received by the department during the past biennium. This is a new high record and the vast increase is attributed to the fact that hunting licenses and licenses to fish with hook and line have grown in popularity. Direc. tor Bradford stated that the collections from the sportsmen of the state, now in excess of $500,000 per year, finance the entire cost of conducting the fish and game propagation and protection service of the state. > According to W. F. Shahan, exec itive secretary of the Illinois Tuberculosis association, the Christmas seal campaign will be formally launched on Thanksgiving day and will continue until Christmas. ^ • In a recent opinion, Attorney Gener. al Carlstrom advised that a township treasurer is not entitled by law to a commission on township money paid out in the-retirement of bonds. Be Cl>e«rfai Nothing but trouble is ever gained by eternally looking on the dark side of things. For, as Hehry Ward Beecher said: "It Is worry, not work, that kills. It Is not the revolution of the wheels that wears out a piece of machinery; Jt is the friction."--Gtft, Scram 1 Irked by his occupation, and restless for i relief, a weary stoker asks Tit-Bits, "if people will follow the same pursuits in the next world that they do on earth?" "Not all," declares the editor. "We have an In-law who runs., an Ice cream parlor." . Indian British Army. Officer Tecumseh, the American Ipdlan chief, was made a brigadier general In the British army during the War of 1812, led a force of 2.000 Indians at Fort Meigs and commanded the right wing at' the battle of the Thames. Odd Trick «f Memory ' Among recently-tested cases of p#0» pie with remarkable memories, is a fcoy of poor mental development, wb* nevertheless could quickly give ths day of the week of any date betweoa ' 1920 and 1927. . ' No Limit to Charity , The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the de» slfe of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel or man come in danger by it--Baceov , Pari# Long in HUtory Paris was formerly known as tetla. Caesar describes in his "Commentaries" how it was burned during the first Gallic war, 52 B. C. During the first ccntqi*y there was refer*?#!!;"• to Lutetia as a Roman town. - At the annual meeting of the Scott County Farm Bureau. Which was held recently, N. S. Winder of Chicago, executive secretary of the American Farm Bureau Federation,)advocated a systematic program for re-forestatioh of sub-marginal lands as a means of helping to solve the surplus crop problem which has handicapped the farmers of the state and nation. Mr. Winder declared that waste and fire are diminishing the nation's timber resources four times as fast as they are being renewed. Delayed treatment is held respon- Attorney General Oscar E. Carl-j Pihle for the death rate climb of apstrom recently advised that a county p^ndicitis in Illinois. According to a board of supervisors may use its own statement from the department tff The institute for juvenile research, a part of the state department of public welfare, recently announced that county judges throughout the state are offered its services in examining children who are to be committed to various state institutions. Dr. Paul Schroeder, director of the institute, pointed out that only a few of the 2,000 children annually committed to state homes are subjected to adequate physical and dental examination. Phone 324 Storage, Repairing, Oil, Creasing i Pearl Street, McHenry •%r ••'•indiscretion in selecting a newspaper in which to publish a record of its proceedings and need not issue bids. HARD TIMES RENEW BANKER'S OPTIMISM Former Bankers' Chief Finds Much in Past Year to Inspire Confidence in Financial . Reliability Nothing Seems Permanent The fundamental propositions Of economics are now being challenged, and the reputations of modern authors shift in value like stocks in Wall street.--American Mapazine. Frait of III-Matiof The offspring of ill-matg9 things Mi disagreement.--Ovid. Spider'* Valuable Secret Vast engineering schemes at present utithouglit of would be possible if science could reveal the secret df the slider's web. If man could make ropes and cables with the approximate strength of a spider's web, suspension bridges could be thrown across on small cables, and^Jjeing light and easy to anchor, there would be nolimit to their length. Ed Vogel GENERAL AUCTIONEER FARM SALES A SPECIALTY ' ' : v; P. O. Solon,Mills, m. „ ' Reference Past Sales SATISFACTION GUARANTEED ROME C. STEPHENSON. retiring president of the American Bank-- ers Association, declared in an address on the expiration of his term of office that. In travelling about among the banks from one end of tha country to the other during the past year, he'had 'come out of it with a renewed faith in the strength of our banking struor ture and our banking situation, and A renewed faith particularly in the spirit and courage of the men in the banks that have enabled them to rise uncoilquered over difficulties cuch as met never had to face before, or to accept with fortitude misfortunes that wers> boyo* d human power to prevent" When he reflected, he said, that thi "entire human economic structure has been brought to tho verge of ruin un». der the difficulties that have swept over not only the nation but the entire world, and that the results of events of this kind react with particular d|> rectness upon the stability of our banks, and yet how few have su» cumbed, we may well renew our confidence In the banks of America; whea we think also of how many of ou^ bankers have stood up under the stress and storms of these times and how relatively few of them have bees proved wanting in the series of crisesi that have assailed them, we may well feel a sincere pride In our fellow bank* ers." He added: "So 1 come out of this year of soni' ber experiences not as a pessimist, but as an optimist--as one with a renege# faith and confidence in the spirit of his fellow men under overwhelming difficulties. And particularly do I comf, out of this year as a banker who it proud of his fellow bankers for the un^ daunted way in which they have met their part of the great test through which the times have put the nation*, I believe that this year has brought new honor to our banking tradltionsand our banking profession and bat won for the banker new title to thi faith ani trust of all classes of hit fellow ettlsens." State highway police, tinder the supervision of Chief Walter L- Moody, have made 29,704 arrests since the first of 1930. Fines and costs assessed by the local courts, as the result of those cases, totaled $445,098.14, according to a recent tabulation made in the highway division office. The report reveals that the crime of driving while intoxicated brought the highest |jnes and costs,--a total of 766 arrests and fines and costs amounting to $79,010.63 resulting ftp* that cause. Indications are that Judge Truman Snell, who is running for the Democratic nomination for Attorney General of the State of Illinois, will have no opposition in the primary downstate. Judge Snell is one of the outstanding attorneys of southern Illinois and has a host of friends among publio health, appendicitis was the cause of 1,326 deaths last year, the worst record from that disease. On October 80, the 14,000 school teachers of Chicago were given pay for the month of September. This was the first pay-day that the Chicago teachers have had since last April. The teachers have not been paid for the period betw;een last^ April and September 1. An income tax, a tobacco tax, and a special fee on motor trucks and buses were urged in the report of the executive committee of Governor L. L. Emmerson's tax eegrffcrence.. The income tax suggested by the executive committee would range from 1 to 6 per cent, the latter on net incomes above $25,000. Exemptions of $1,000 taxable income would be allowed unmarried persons and $2,000 to married couples. Exemptions would . include $200 for each child Wtckpr 18 years or other dependents.^ Dodge Shell Gas and Oils Greasing and Repairing on All Hakes of Cars Heated garage for winter storage--by day OF month Rates that are reasonable Dowe & Hawley TELEPHONE 3S7 Junction U. S. 12 and III. 20-61 McHenry > Day Phone McHenry 256 Night Phone McHenry 137-W , Peterson's Garage ^ TIRES--OIL-OAS Expert Kepair Service . One Block East of Fox River Bridge, Route 2®' 1-- Here's An Opportunity Specially built to burn oil, at a Wise Spending Careful and wise spending will help solve our economic problems and wilt* be of untold benefit to the farmer. Our troubles are not caused by the spend* Ing of money, but because it was spend ••wisely. / AflMricaW Wild Aaimtli Animals in North America when it was discovered were bears, wolves, Jynx, bison,- reindeer, moose, bighorn, white goat, beaver and the majorityof the rodents. There were also the puma, skunk and muskox. I g Lament Is u Old One Nineteen hundred years ago ihe«f Stoic philosopher, Seneca, declared that the world was filled with crimes and vices, and that wickedness ba<| become so widespread that innocence ~«, *v to be found. greatly reduced price. Can give a real bargain to someone needing a heating unit of this kind. Get ready for cold weather now. Use oil for fuel. . S'-'i •,> oastock 493'j and a representative will call* GLEN ROBISON 109 Todd Avenue * WOODSTOCK i •vl.'V'- • V'