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W i- «*« ^ • jfc. i -j-^~. c*^=: Local Hardware Dealers Attend State Convention $#d«eity) BIRTHDAY IS HONQRED A party of friends surprised Mrs. Letah Davis at the jiome of Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Powers Sunday evening in THE M'HINBY PLAINDEALER, THURSDAY, FEB. 9,1933. Mrs. Mary A. DalxieJ Mrs. Mary A. Dalziel, 61 years died at her farm home west of this city on Monday afternoon, Jan. 30, 1933. She had been in poor health for some time. Mary A. Larkin, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James'Larkin, „way born at I^g-lesrde on Aug. 14, 1871. She grew to womanhood in that locality where she married Douglas Dal. ziel. After their marriage they moved . , m." j 'the guest?, who had assembled,for tho The convention opened on Tuesday I Gv_ „ • <-f : -5 lfr. and Mrs. W. H. Althoff, local hardware dealers, attended the convention of the Illinois Retail Hard-* warp association -and report a most ^interesting trip and business meeting, iheld at Springfield. The Althoff Hardware has estab-1 j,onor Qf her birthday anniversary .The 'if".J-. jj'shod a reputation in c enry o surprise was most complete with Mrs. * jkeepirg abreast wi e imes •\n j)gV^g presumjng that she would only w , . , ,. , " . report that the convention has given visit at the Powers home f Wauconda, where they lived.on a - >t;hem valuable information in Oie, Qn her ^ ghe wag d b farm until the last six yeats wheft she proper management of the craft. ^ j thp who had assembled>for th, has lived near McHenry. Her son, Bernard, operates the |arm and it was in his home that she died, her-husband having preceded her in death- Mrs. Dalziel is survived by six children, Mrs. Laurfi Stedman of Graysla^ e, Mrs. Irene Frank of Oconomo- *!£>.' Presidert Swank of 'G«lya' sounded "g,nests seated at a long tableC A birth-j ^rs' • J?'| itoV in Chicago Wednesday, ' t h e k e y n o t e o f t h e c o n v e n t i o n a n d i n a c a k g ( a d o r n e d w i t h l i g h t e d - < * a n d - •j ^ j r ! « L ' i . v a T very (leaivand concise manner issued jgs>-Was'enjd'yed and furnished amuse- i . T *?* * t i ; j j im, ' • f s y • 1?, fA ^ w c ' t d a l l f p t s i i ] h & r d w f t r o " * -C i i i * 1 • v • . j " C h r i s L & t i i i n o f . I n u l c s i d c , &nd T h o s , • • • • , ^ Furieral aerviees' were held Thur?- , tm • r- . s n...• rryrnes. m-r-; <tnu ..iuxs. £.u«am •J_ ......... tion P0N u. .. , „ . She was presented with .. _ worning at 10 a. mM with the follow-1 tft |n honor of thg Cards fex ^ Pr.Q8Tam: ** %m were played during the evening and ^ Singing, led by W. H. Althoff, "c" prizes were won by Mr. and Mrs- Al- Henry 111. 1 fred Richardson, Edward Nickels and \ Invocation, Rev. Smith of Spring-^iMrs. John Dreymiller. field Methodist church. Refreshments were served with the; Lester Page waa a Chicago risitor Wednesday.* ~ Misses Margaret, Lucy and Agnes MeCabe attended the auto show in Chicago Saturday. Miss Clarice Miller is spending a few days in Elgin. Paul Bonslett of Chicago visited relatives here Sunday. . Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thompson were Chicago visitors Sunday. . Mr. and Mrs. ^Stephen Schmitt were Elgin visitors Thursday.' Mrs. George Frey ?pent a few days ! snow shovel as .we really can sweep 'Old Betsy" doing To Fair At Ghicago the Plaindealer is indebted to Mrs. Frank Stock of McHenry for the following interesting story taken from a recent Sunday edition of the Portland (Ore) Oregonian, and also an excerpt from a letter*' she recently received from her sister, who resides at NeLalem, Ore. The letter speaks cf the unusual weather this winter in the following language: "We are having a real winter just like back east. The snow is so'deep we have our roads cleared with a snow plow. Nobody out here has a this week at Libertyville- Will Heine of Chicago visited in McHenry over the week-rend. • | Edward J. Buss was a business Vis- ; of the v-v £ Association-,rnad^ .- - v, , t ppa»«Ht aaccttii vViItHie«Ss aHnUdH ouuutiliimne™d plans for j Those present wei-e: Mr. fend Mrs. -- aws «• »he-aWroyrf of .',f St. Patr. nd charts dat The Good Wild card party was heia uresented his ' ihter- in the Eastern-^^Star hall Friday afters Ringfwood Unit, Home a Bureau, To Meet Fels. '14 J iacfc ect in a listing manner. . " ' noon, Feb. 3, with the first prize won' This* talk was followed -Jb^P. S. .bv Mr£ Lu]u Klontz. and second priie Hanna^ editor of the Chicago Journal by Mrs.' Minnie Miller. Mrs. Cora . of Commerce, v?ho is a positive Bassett and Mrs. Emma Smith were authority on government costs, who ht&tesses. . knows the effect that these excessive j "^e^next party will be held Friday costs have on the tax payer. This|evening Feb jf- kt tj,e" home of •subject brought out some very inter-: Misses Elsie and Frances Vycital. tsting facts and proved conclusively,- An invitation has been received that our present government wastes frcm ^aukegan ' chapter to attend are far beyond the .average expecta- their birthday party Thursday, Feb. 9. tion. One of the things he cited was The Eastern Star will serve its an- with thrift recipes. a report on home planning, whiclr had juai SUpper at the hall on Feb- 28.| Miss Clara Greaves will give the _been sentVout by a department-of oar.,- Serving will commence at 5 p. tn.r at lesson and will have illustrative mar OtL-Pccouht of the fenoW storm the meeting of Ringwood unit of the Home Bureau has been postponed until Feb. 14', when it will be held at the home of Mrs. C. J. Jepson- The meeting will commence at 11:30 with the minor project chairmen, Mrs. W. B. it off or leave it, as It usually goes in a day or two, but we have had snow now for over two weeks." The interesting-article from the "Oregonian", is reprinted in full as Miss Lucy McCabe spent the past follows: v ^ ; week with Chicago relatives. . , HTOQUIAM, Wash., Jatt' 28.r^'(Spe- Miss Rita Bacon of Gray^lake spent' cial.)---"Old Betsy," probably the oHthe week-end with home folks^, est serviceable locomotive in^ the^ . jii.ss Elizabeth McCabe is spending United States, is going to the Chicago the week witfr Chicago relatives. fair. Jerked from her supposed r?- Mr. and Mrs, Theodore. JSchiessle tiretnent in the Poison Jigging coinleft last, week' .oh a motor trip, to Flor-- pany * yards here by the' Northern ida- *• v- ; . • - f Pacific railway, which traded anoth o r Mr»V;C^Orgia'.Meihe and Mrs. Ffed engine for her, "Old Betsy," a vetft:>«i S^hoewef w6re. Chicago visitors Frir. 60 ye«w> of service^ is ,to be slicked day. ...'..'"Vv.ij up to "run circles" around a hii.'v Mrs. Harold' Evans of Woodstock modern 550-ton leviathan of the rail-,, vjsited relatives- here! the first Of the At the Chicago exposition the anweek. Cierit locomotive will be placed on Miss Mary Brefeld returned Sunday rails around a 559^ton malle^ and wsl! from a week's visit with Waukegan spend the summer steaming>' around relatives. The Busy ;Bee Cafe on Main street closed last week for the remainder of the winter. Miss Anna Stock and sister^ Mrs. the circular track. Alongside the mallet, with its 16 drive wheels, "Old Betsy" will resemble a rowboat 'alongside the Leviathan and will show a striking Contrast in the development of locomotives in the time since she left the Smith & Porter yards in national government, containing forty- 35 cents plate. Mrs. Fay is chair- j terial on curtains and draperies- Mrs. eight pages in booklet form. -This re- man. 0f the kitchen committee, Mrs. j C. J. Jepson, Mrs. W. B. Harrison and port showed that curtains served a Alice Lindsay is chairman of the des- j Mrs. B. Butler, delegates, to the con ! Dundee Saturday, two-fold purpose in the home, namely. sertftYftiW^'lltof,'; of the [vent-ion- at Urbana, will give their re-j Miss Ellen Frisby to insure privacy and keep out the light, another part of the same report, showed that the proper arrangement ©f rooms was essential to the" hom-3 and had a Questionnaire on it which rehd in part as follow^: Is your bedroom located to insliro privacy? Dp you get satisfaction out of it? What .-'is the .distance fronv bedroom to bath room? and many other nonsensical questions which have ro bearing on the home, or its planning. . M. F. O'Niel manager of the dealers' service bureau, Firestone Rubber Co., of Akron, Ohio, gave an interesting talk on unfair trade practices as used by mail order houses and chain" stores, and cited some of the experiences of his company with this type of competition. This talk was followed by E. C •Hunter, editor of the Harrison and Mrs. C. Peet, preparing j Lydia Bierbaum were Chicago visitanother of the one dish meals. Eaen lors Saturday. 1 \ one present is to bring a dish to pass. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Chapman of Pittsburg in 1870. She is 63 years of The afternoon session Will open with'Woodsfock visited Mr. and Mrs. T. J. f.ge, and still has her orginal boiler, the response tp^U call)being given [Walsh Sunday. and - up until her retirement in 'ls)2S Mrs. L. H. Brattain; Mrs. John Fay hardly missed a day's work. I and Miss Lois -Bacon motored to . First N. P. Train Hauled Evanston Friday*: I The ancient "lokie" has some his^ Mr. and Mrs, Louis: Althoff attend- torical significance, too, especially to ed the funeral of Mrs. Fred Reifner at the Northern Pacifi?, in that hauled the first Northern Pa<ji Ti• * has returned tables. port of the meeting. The community home from a several weeks' business project will be a big donation to Ae trip to Wisconsin. Old Peoples home at Woodstock. Fifty guests and members of Ring- ; BIRTHDAY SURPRISE Thomas Wilson was surprised by a group of friends at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John Stilling, Sunday evening, honoring his birthday anniversary. Pinochle'and bridge furnished entertainment with pinOcl'le pTizes going to Thomas Wilson, Albert Vales and Mrs. B. Dietz, while, , • bridge winners were John Wflson.'i ^ contes^ being put on in the county Mrs. Vincent Martin and Mrs. Albert wa$ won for January,' by Chemung Amo Miller of Morton Grove visited his aunt, Mrs. -Minnie Miller, wood unit registered at the winter j Thursday evening. picnic at Woodstock Friday, "With the j Mr. and Mrs. Jack Brownell have largest crdTwd ever in attendance at j moved from the Hobart farm in Osone cf these meetings. Uptown unit tend to Ridgefield won the box of can<Jy. with the greatest number of members and guests registered before noon. The member- Vales. A dainty lunch, including a prettily decorated birthday cake, was served by Mrs. Stilling with tables also decorated in keeping with the occasion. Guests were Messrs, and Mesdames T. ^ Wilson, A. Vales, E. Sutton, B. Dietz, Illinois Ipalr' A-;^™ase, V,.Martin, A. Purvey, John unit with Greenwood second and Ringwood third. Trade Commission News. This was . ^lsses Jane and Ruth followed by a general di-sctts^jon.fcoin !n^' n ar^ Thomas W ilson, the floor of the convention led by ft. R. Beatty, of Clinton, 111. ." Still- THC .. ?4.., -K-; v' *• PHONE 291 SATURDAY-SUNDAY T FEB. H-12 . . . . _ t , MCALt Her SAVAGE" with CLARA BOW Also Short Subject* BIRTHDAY SURPRISE Members of the D. H. <J. club surprised Louis A. Erickson Monday evening, the occasion being his birthday M. E. CHURCH ; ,1f0tl are invited to attert§:ieryices at t,the M. E. church every Sunday. Sunday school, 10 a. m. Morning worship, 11 a- ra. Sermon subject: "How Lincoln Prayed," by the pastor, Rev. L. H. Brattain* There will be a special Lincoln Day feature and all are invited to attend this service. - . CELEBRATES 87th BIRTHDAY Mrs. Cclia Burton, widow of Horace anniversary. A delicious oyster sun- Burton, of the "Flats", celebrated" her S6Ven 9'cl°ck' af tor I 87th birthday at the home of her which the evening was spent at cards daughter, Mrs. George Crabtree, at with prizes for high scores being awarded to Mrs. C. W. Goodell and James Sayler, while consolations went to Mrs. J^ames Saylerl and E. E. Bassett. "; . ^ - PAY R. N. A. DUES Members of Riverview Camp, R. N. A., must have all January dues f>aid not later than Monday, Feb. 13. The next meeting will be Tuesday, Feb. 11, but this will be too late for the payment of dues which must be sent away not later than Monday. , • Florence Cobb, Recorder. -. ENTERTAINS BRIDGE CLUB " j Mrs. John Drymiller entertained hejf t bridge club at her home.east of to.vn, • Thursday afternoon. Prize winners | were Mrs. H- C. Hughes and Mrs. Robert Thompson. - St. Charles, 111., on January 15. Mrs. Burton was formerly Miss Celi'a Mudgett of Griswold Lake, McHenry county and her young days were spent there. She will be remembered by many old residents. Many gifts, card* arid flowers were received. - Pari* Boulevard Renamed "Avenue du General Kerrie" Is the name of one of Paris' boulevards. It Was so uanied in honor of General Ferrie, late chief of the French military radio services atwl- one of the world's outstanding ratlin scientists. Depths of Poverty "lie who has nothing to share with the poor," said hi h0) the sage of Chinatown, "is himself fn the saddest of destitution."--Washington Star. - .2 The Second We Three more to come ily Sale Watch this space $1.00 Squibb's Mineral Oil 75c Popular Fiction Books. .... 60c Eaton's Box Paper 60c Bag Balm .1; $1.10 Houbigant's Perfume $1.00 Squibb's Cod Liver Oil.. 25c Sani Flush ;. 50c Dr. West's Tooth Brush... $1.00 Coty 's Face Powder 50c Lysol 1 50c Lennex Cough" Syrup 25c Venetian Shoe Cream !. 10c-Miller Nipples 10c Palmolive Soap Gallon Mineral Oil 'r 25c Johnson's Baby Powder 50c Pepsodent Tooth Paste $1.00 Krank's Lemon Cream 49<^ 49 29 c4 49^ 63c 69d 16<^ 32c 79^ 29c ' 16c 3 for 10c 5 for 25d $2.00 16c 59C 50c McKesson Shaving Cream.. Pound Peanut Brittle 65c Mistol ...49c 85c Pound Johnson's Paste Wax 56^ Pound Morosan PsyUa ^e^.„..,.._33C 10c Palmolive Beads'.... 5^ train over the Rockies 50 years ago. Since then she has been shunted Ik ro and there about the northwest until tlje railway company is, to enshrine her as the very symbol of it§ f i l t h anniversary of transcontinental 'service. Following her initial feat of Jinffing oyer the Rockies, "Old Bei<y" operated on railroads between -Spokane and the Columbia river in 1H~S and 1879. A firm or loggers took ho; Miss Verena Juste-n of Chicago spent Sunday with ner parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Justen. George Kunstman of Chicago spent to haul 10,000,000 board feet of 1 the week-end with his family in the at the mouth of the Yakima river in Herman Schaefer home. 1§79. Her history is lost in the years Mrs. R. J. Gebel of Chicago is until 1889, when she was placed on spending the week in the home Of Mr, the job Of constructing a railway to r.nd Mrs- Fred Schoewer. .Grays harbor. Here Tom Ireland v;i- Miss Rosina Young of Elgin i3 the first engineer and Lee Schofi< M, spending several weeks here, assisting now a business man in Kent, was In in the care of her mother. last engineer before she was sold to '• Mr- arrd Mrs. Ralph Smith and fam- the Poison Logging companjr in lS'.tr,. ily of 'Harvard visited her -mother, Alex Poison himself steamed her ovi 1 Mrs. Catherine Young, Sunday. _. the line from Kamilchie to Montesrui i. Miss Theresa Brefeld and Herbert loaded her on a barge to start his big Hagemann of Chicago were Sunday logging enterprise near Hoquiam. guests in the B. J. Brefeld home. j Lomg Service Rendered. Mrs. Mollie Givens and family and ; "Old Betsy" was queen of the I"« ' Miss Anna Frisby were Sunday visit- son road at least until 1903, when ors in the Walter Warner home in heavier locomotives supplanted i > Elgin, Mrs! Ben Wegener and son, Richard, spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. L. J Joliet. on the main line. The now fame old Ten Spot was one of these. T . Spot was purchased in 1902, but w: McLaughlin, and family at not used until later, because the r;n were thought to be too light to sta 891 29c 49^ ^4c^ •18^ • $1.25 "44" Cigars .... Pound Hospital Cotton $1.00 Woodbury's Creams 10c Powder Puffs Pound Horehound Candy ; $1.00 Dr. Hess Poultry Panamin Pint McKesson Milk of Magnesia 29£ $1.00 Colgate's Toilet Water 69^* 50c Chocolate Exlax :'r ' _._33c^ 5 pounds Epsom SaHs•>;.£ 33<^ 50 per cent off on all WAHL PENS - AND PENCILS THOMAS P. &OLGER Phone 40 s ' f " A ®^e8l®tered Pharmacist Always in charge McHenry Mr. and Mrs. Bernard O'Connell of up under her weight. The rails cf 11 Chicago spent the week-end with his. from Centralia's old street -car syst parents, Mr. and Mrs. George B. j In her heyday as aJogging locoi;. Frisby. j tive "Old Betsy" hauled from 55 to ' <* Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Young; daughter, cars in one day over a three mile inn Eleanor, Mrs. Fred Schoewer and,She could handle 15 loads downgrr. !<-. guest, Mrs. Gebel, visited Waukegan!but could budge only seven sets of relatives Saturday. [empty trucks upgrade. Qn the day f Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Walsh, s^n, her retirement on the Poison line in Richard, Jr., and little daughter, i 1928, "Old Betsy" could do 30 miles an Sqlly, of Evanston spent Sunday with hour with a train and 40 miles win1!; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Walsh, alone. Mrs. C. J. Reihansperger, Mrs. Ger-1 She hauled logs steadily until 11"" . a l a C a r e y , M r s . R o b e r t T h o m p s o n a n d w h e n s h e w a s t u r n e d o v e r t o t h e • s Lera Stoffel visited Mrs. Culver ! "iwork gang," laying new steel f 1, r fit St. Theresas hospital, Waukegan, j additional logging road. She Monday. Mrs. Joe May retu rne4 -home Sunday night from a visit in the home of her son, Frank, in Chicago and also with her daughter, Eleanor, at Wilmette. •' Mrs. Harry Lawrence of Chicago spent a few days the last of the week in the home of her mother, Mrs. Mollie Givens. Mr. Lawrence was a weekend guest- , "• Miss Mable King, who for a number of years has been employed at K^rls' Cafe, is spending an enjoyable week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe King, at Johnsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Walsh, children, Billy and ^Shirley, of Lake Villa, and Mrs. John Walsh of Fox Lake were visitors in the Mrs. B. Frisby home Friday evening. LEFT HAND CHAMP UA ha-' seerr 33 years of service with the l'< i son company "When retired m' -jp^rf. < t mechanical condition. Some of h e - t old Poison engineers were John M;i tin, Dan McCrimmon, Ross Cannon and "Bolivar." Even Forest Fire Survived. At one time, it is told, a forest fp crept upon "Old. Betsy" and burn; i her cab and all other wooden fixtu Thinking the engine was through, ' i,- camp cook appropriated her be',!, which he refused to relinquish wli n "Old Betsy" had been recondition-*!. Only through the intervention of Al* x Poison himself was the cook forced t * give up. the bell. "Old Betsy" is about 20 feet lc including tender and drawheads, ai * weighs between 14 and 16 tons. The reason she looks "boxlike" is that slw is fitted with saddle-tanks for v^atet .e give her additional weight over in 1 drive wheels. She has four dm. wheels. At the Chicago fair she w,! contrast her length of 20 feet again--; the 125-foot length of the big mallet MISS M. THOMPSON Fred Webb uf Shelley, N. C.. won the national left handed championship over the Mluini more country clubi. course. X shoMrtt witi) the trophy he -wO: \\h{> golf rait- 4* Buffalo Niclt«U BpflTalo nickels, whatever date* t*e , & c e u t a e a c h . 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