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Pfister of District 7 (Lake County) was elected president of the Pure Milk association when the board of directors of the organization convened on Wednesday, March 15. Mr. Pfister will succeed W. C. McQueen of Elgin who has been president of the organization since its inception. Mr. Pfister is well known throughout the milk shed and since the beginning of the i*ure Milk association, has been active in its-affairs. From the beginning of the organization he hag served as treasurer and now PLAN TO MERGE McHENRY BANKS Mr. and IVlrs. John J. Story, former residents of the city of McHenry and leaves that position for the presidepfltforably remembered by old friends jcy. Mr. Poster's home is at Prairie here, were in the path of the quake View, Illinois, where he operates an and were in great distress and a tired, nrvous condition from the. effects of the tremor which brought disaster all around them. up-to-date dairy farm. The position of treasurer will be filled by John Case of District 10 (DuPage County), the board of direc "They live at Gardena, Calif;, which tors having elected him to this Id, four miles from Compton and ten miles from Long Beach, where the earthquake hit the worst. Gardena is a suburb of the beautiful city of Los Angeles where death and destruction followed in the wake of the disaster. In a letter to her cousin, Mrs. Mattie Smith, of this city, Mrs. Story •tells of their frightful experience. She said she was at the sink washing •dinner dishes when the terrible shock dune and in some way she got out into the yard. Mr. Storv and grandson, Paul, were reading in an position. Mr. Case has been a member of the board for several years, and was among the early organizers of the association. He makes his home on his dairy farm near Naperville, Illinois. Other officers elected wtre Charles Schmaling, first vice-president, G. L. Morgan, second vice-president; D. N. Geyer, secretary-manager. The election of officers followed the seating of the directors Tuesday, at the eighth annual meeting, when adjoining i ^u'y elected delegates from all rootm and they also rushed outside in ! over the ^P ure Milk asso. ciation terrian endeavor to find but just what had toryconf.rmed the nominations made happened. Later when they re-en-jby the varI<JU* districts. tered the house they found everything I The board of directors presented in chaos with pictures broken and the out-going president. W. C. Mclying on the floor, while the dining Queen with a solid gold watch in room floor was strewn with broken appreciation of the fine cooperation dishes hurled from the china closet, he has given the board dtiring his e "Wist McHenry State Bank and the. Peoples State Bank of McHenry are planning a reorganization and consolidation, which it is hoped will be completed in a few days- - Citizens of McHenry and contiguous territory are awaiting the day when they can again' have the privilege of local banking facilities, and it is believed that day is not very far away. The .officers and directors Of McHenry's two banks are working day and night to speed up the procedure and ask their patrons to have a little more patience until the plans can be worked out with the state banking department. . If the move for a consolidation is successful, McHenry will have but one bank and that one a very strong financial institution. - The bank holiday, ordered by the federal government, has brought a hardship on everyone, but, it is believed that in the long run it will create a condition whereny every bank which is permitted to reopen will have the confidence of the people who will feel that they can safely place their money in the banks again. Examinations of banks all over the country are taking place every day but it is a procedure which takes time. The president has said that just because a bank has not reopened that is no real indication that it is not in good condition. NEW TYPE BUSSES TOUR GROUNDS PETER B. FREUND FATALLY INJURED . Modernistic busses will carry millions ot visitors through Chicago's 1933 World's Fair this summer. The Greyhound corporation'® first busses of the fleet of sixty already have carried thousands of pre-Falr tourists through the grounds. Each bus seats fifty-two palsengers. The two lengthwise seat# face outward so all can view th#; passing wonders. The picture shows one of the blue and silver semi* trailer busses, with a load of pre-Fair guests, In the great courts yard of the Hall of Science. SPRING ARRIVES WITH SNOWSTORM its glass doors broken by the crash. The bath room floor was covered with presidency. In spite of bank moratorium and ;. broken medicine bottles shaken from j rainy weather which threatened the the cupboard and the dresser drawers attendance at the eighth annual "were shaken out about twelve inches; i meeting of the Pure Milk association, In the kitchen the cupboard doors several thousand farmers assembled Twere flung open, the stove moved at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago from its position and stove pipe in March 14 to participate in their arthe middle of the floor, which was j ganization's annual business Meeting, also covered with tinware and kitchen j Prominent speakers on the program utensils. Contents of jars and boxes ; included John Brandt, President of the <were emptied and on the floor was jx '< Land O'Lakes Creameries which is a mixture of broken glass, pots and cooperative organization numbering pans, commeal, powdered sugar, mo- 200,000 farmer-members, Charles Hollasses, cornstarch and many other j man, executive secretary of the things usually on hand in a kitchen. (National Cooperative Milk Producers Canned fruit was mixed with broken Federation, and Tom Stitts of the glass and .the pretty California home: Feder il Farm Board. Chicago men •was a mkss of wreckage and destruc-1 who appeared on the program include tioTj. The chimney fell off and the Dr. Herman Bundesen of the Health noise of falling bricks and splitting Department, H. E. Van Norman of timbers added to the fear and confu-' the Worlds Fair Dairy Exhibit, and Spring was ushered in by cold weather, snow and a severe sleet storm and for a few days this vicinity seemed to be again in the grip of winter. The storm started Saturday, turning into sleet, which hindered automobile traffic and utility service and resulted in one of the worst storms of the year. Autoists wRo ventured out on tha slippery highways found the going treacherous underneath and nearly impossible ahead, due to the ice clogging windshields. Much of the time Saturday night and Sunday the electric lights were BOARD DEBATES LICENSE f EES CRYSTAL LAKE LEGION Peter B. Freund, 67 years old, died at the Swedish Covenant hospital in Chicago about 12:30 p. m., Monday, March 20, from injuries received when he was struck by an automobile early Saturday morning. Mr. Freund, who made- his home with his son, in Chicago, was on police duty, waking nights and it was while he wa'k'NSn duty about 1:30 a. >ri. Saturday that he was struck by the car 4s he was crossing the street. He was taken to the Swedish Covenant hospital, where it was found that he had received a double fracture of/the leg and concussion of the brain in addition to internal injuries, cuts and WEEKLY EXCHANGE ITEMS OMNTEREST TAKEN FROM COLUMNS OF OUR EXCHANGES i®6:. -33$ Work will be started on the building of the old Eagle brewery in Elgin Monday morning M this week according to word received in Elgin this week. Sometime ago stock was beirig offered to leading citizens and anyone else who cared to invest in the new project. Eight valuable saddles and 12 bridles were stolen Friday night oif bruises and other brdfcen bones. Sp-?- last week from the Hawthorne Btacialists and trained nurses did every- bies on Hawthorne farm near Libertything possible for their patient but ville, according to A. C. Grantham he never regained consciousness and who keeps a stable of riding horses passed away Monday about 12:30 there. A door was forced and the noon, just sixteen years to'the day when his mother died. • Peter B. Freund was born on the township line in the town of Richmond, on October 15, 1865, and was equipment rolled away in a oar belonging to the stables. It waa tracked to a point on St. Mary's road where the saddles were loaded into an automobile. The loss was reported "••ft: i "-a &-• the son of Mathias S. and Anna to be $750. Freund. For about twenty-seven! Chas. Caupret, Barrington, employyears he lived at Johnsburg, then he ; ed a»s a kneaderman at the Foulde mill- • came to McHenry, where he made his ing company plant was painfully in- : home for about twenty years and jured last MOHM&y morning when the & w ere he was united in marriage to head of a macaroni machine blew out Emma K. Freund. For the past sev- and apiece of the metal struck eral years he has been in Chicago. He Caupret on the arm, inflicting a deep is survived by his wife, two children, gash and bruising the arm. Caupret Ed. of Chicago, and Mrs. Clara COMMANDER A SUICIDE ; Campbell of McHenry; three brotn- ^ i prs, -Stephen H. Freund, Joe W. ' Freund and John E. FOR SALE Of BEER COUNTY IN sion which in a minute's time transformed the city from a happy, peaceful scene to one of suffering and disaster- Streets were filled with people who did not dare to go into their homes C. Deysenroth of the Milk Foundation. Supplementing the program of addresses is the business of the meeting which includes the Annual reports by Secretary Don N. Geyer and President As tremor* were felt every hour all w. C. McQueen. Amendments to the night aafc the following day and (by-laws and election of directors also threatening tremors are still felt al-jfaave important places on the business though not so intense. Mrs. Story j propram< said they did not go to bed that night nor even take their shoes off for two nights after that and their condition Although about 5,000 farmers gathered at the Auditorium by 10:00 o'clock that morning, only 1700 of can perhaps be imagined by friends,them could be accommodated at here. I luncheon. A group iof 400 women Mrs. Story's sister and her husband: dined separately and enjoyed a protrho built on a lot next to them, had j gram especially planned to interest • Smaller home which was not dam- the women. This program included -aged so much. talks by Miss Martha Dunlap, Miss The schools were all closed and all Aubyn Chinn of the National Dairy houses were to be inspected before Council and Mrs. Elsa Lord of the children could enter school. Mrs. Story sends their lor© to their friends here whom she says they often think and talk of. Milk Foundation. A bid for the return of the milk pitcher to the farm table was made Tuesday of last week by Miss Aubyn She said they had always planned, Chinn, health educational director nf to return for a visit to the world's.the National Dairy Council, in her **ir, but ahe feels now that neither! address to 400 rural women attending afce nor Mr. Story will be able to make the eighth annual meeting of the Pure McHenry county superisors Tuesday took action so as to be prepared for the handling of licenses for the sale of beer in McHenry county outside the corporation limits as soon as the law permits. A committee consisting of Supervisors V. E. Brown, E. A. Dodd, E. F. Kuecker, Paul Rosenthal and S. H. V'reund was appointed to %ct as a license committee and report at the next board meeting their recommendation as to what fee off, coming on spasmodically as the I the county should charge in the matice laden wires were blown by the. ter. high wind. ' Prior to the action taken by the The storm did considerable damage, board, State's Attorney Lumley adespecially after the light rain turned j dressed the board and stated in his to dangerous sleet, and telephone ser-1 opinion the license fee should be made vice in outlying districts was hin-1 small, not exceeding $200. He said dered, wires were snapped in many this would give any person who wantplaces and the weight of the ice (ed to sell beer the right to do so broke many poles east of here, caus-| without having to pay a license ing Public (Service company and j which would work a hardship on him. other utility workers to be on con-1 He said the beer bill was passed to stant duty to repair damage and re - J make revenue for the government and instate service. ! the more places selling be<*r the more The storm seemed general and money for the government. heavy snows were reported in the Stop Bootleggers west and northwest. . The county prosecutor said he did Damage to telephone lines was re- not think the idea of the beer bill was ported as somewhat general in the'to charge a high license fee because district from Batavia to Harvard and this would have a tendency to en- McHenry and from Marengo to Pal-(courage bootlegging "hard liquor" atine, where about 1,000 poles were to make up the license fee. He said down, either completely on the ground j he thought it would be better to or hanging from wires. {charge a small fee because operators At Crystal Lake It was reported would not 1iave so much desire to Monday morning that automobile seu whisky in order to make up the difference of a high license fee. <C«Jy) Works, commander of Henry, and four sisters. Mrs. Marv William Chandler Peterson Legion Klapperich. Mrs. Emma Barbian, Mrs. post of Crystal Lake, took his own Kate Barbian of McTTenrv, and Mrs Jife Wednesday morning m the gar-, Gertrude Davis of Chicago age at his home- He had breakfast j bodv was brou^ to McHenry store ^ldhi'^^ m^nf toe 7t£k with his wife before he committed the, Tuesdav nifrht, where funeral services 0f merchandise E R g!s£ s£re He left the house as usual to were held this Thursday morning at merchamllse of *" K- store to th*1 depot where he was m i0 o'clock at St. Mary's church, with f taking a train every burial in St Mary»3 cemetery. Chicago, where he work-| was working 6n his own machine some distance from the other equipment which is operated by oil pressure and when the casting gave way he was in direct line with the flying fragment. Fire, having its origin ip sparks from the chimney falling on the roof of the building, claimed, the Alden habit morning ed. He lef!Khe house afcput 7:15, the train leaving at 7:45. About 9 o'clock Mrs. Works discovered one of the doors on the gar* age swinging and when she went t$- the garage to close the door she found the body of her husband between the car and side of the building BAND PROPOSAL TO BE PUT ON BALLOT Voters ©f McHenry are to pass on the municipal band tax at toe city election on April 18. A petition that the band tax be repealed was presented to the city coun- At the inquest it was di^losed He shot himself through the head with thig the question wlH ^ submitted to a .45 army revolver He left a note the voters on k ^ ballot on to his wife saying financial troubles i April 18 had gotten the best of him and the, For ^ past th years the mu_ only way left to provides for her wasjnicipal band Ux haa madp Jt ,)]g to take his own life. He wa* salesjfor McHenry to have a band which manager for the Underwood writer company in Chicago. Type DELEGATES NAMED FOR G. 0. P. CAUCUS Supervisor S. H. Freund of Mctraffic was hindered by icy streets and tree limbs on the streets and many wires and poles down. Telephone service around Woodstock was also impaired and several charged by cities or villages. He said motorists enroute to Chicago from this would protect the operator in a that city Sunday night were forced city against a person starting up a to return and wait until daylight to place just outside the oity limits and continue their journey. paying a license fee of several hunr Ice-covered streets and highways dreds less. •Th* members off the McHenry County Republican Central Committee met at the court house in Woodstock Monday night and selected delegates to both the seventeenth judi- , . . . _ T c•iail caucus a,t TB> eIlv*idJ e re on AA p«-rJilI ao when it was signed by Governor Len c n ® J and the Supreme court caucus at has been enjoyed by local people, and if this tax is repealed the city will no longer have a band. [The law provides that any incorporated city, village or town having a population of less than 500,000 may, j when authorised by popular vote, levy each year a tax not exceeding two" mills on the dollar for the maintenance of a municipal band for musical purposes. "" The bill was made a law in 1925 Rofkford on April 10. The caucus at Belvidere will be to select candidates for circuit judge in the local judicial district, including Lake, McHenry, Boone and Winnebago counties. Three candidates are Henry said he thought the fee should ^ ^ nominated by the Belvidere be at least $500, or the same as' caucus. Delegates to the Belvidere caucus include the following: Judge Charles T. Allen, chairman; C. P. Barnes, D. R. Joslyn, Sr., V. S. Lumley, D. T. Smiley, C. B. Whittemore, F. B. Bennett, William M. Carroll, Henry Cowthe trip. Friends in this vicinity will be glad to know that Mr. and Mrs. Story tscaped uninjured although they sympathize with them in the loss of prop Milk association. "It may sound like 'carrying coals to Newcastle' to talk to farm families about milk drinking," stated Miss Chinn, "but surveys in rural areas in Wisconsin. Iowa and «rty and in their frightful shock which other agricultural sections show that they received, and which can only be city children and adults, too are partially imagined by people who ahead of farm families in this rehave never experienced an ordeal of "this kind. spect. When we think of the old fashioned farm of a generation ago w'e think of FORMER RESIDENT DIES shade trees, a big house and an abun- Donald Simpson, 74 years old, died dance of good food with the tall bl-ie -at his farm home in Dundee town- milk pitcher always on the table. In ship Saturday. He was born in Scot- the trend from pioneer days to our wnd, May 27, 1859, and came to j modern time some of the less essential America m 1881. For several years, foods have crowded out the* milk he lived on a farm near McHenry pitcher habit. The necessity for and has several friends here ; finding those foods that give greatest Mr Simpson had been m poor, return for the money spent, however, I.eaJth for some time but was able ii9 bringi house^es kppreciate to be up and alxmt. At the time pf the economy of milk, according to his death Mrs. Simpson was reading j Miss Chinn to him and he passed quietly away, | Everyone will be glad to know Ins death coming as a great shock to,that recent investigations by econo- Small. The guiding principle behind the law is that the cost of maintaining a community band is shared-by all, and this makes the individual cost a very small one. This method of maintaining bands has received the indorsement of numerous business men and organizations throughout Illinois. By this means a specified sum is made available for band purposes each year. Under the older method, local business men made up an annual purse for the support of the band, on the theory that whatever stimulates community activity reacts to the benefit of business. This made the financing of a band hard and uncertain, while the present tax is being welcomed in proprietor, during the mldforenoon of Marth 10 The alarm was spread and efforts speedily put into execution to take merchandise from the building. A large share of the stock on the first floor was saved, bu» merchandise on the second floor and basement were consumed by the flames, as they devoured the building regardless of the> work of<~ fit* fighters. ' Accidental death while working in the capacity of a painter was the verdict of a coroner's jury late Thursday afternoon of last week following an inquest into the death of Peter Koenig, of Barrington, whose death occurred at the Jewel plant in the morning soon after he had fallen six or seven feet from a t caff old inside •the building. Mr. Koenig was painting the interior of the coffee roasting room on the fifth floor when the accident occurred. He toppled off a scaffold on which he had been standing and fell head foremost to the floor. A sleek, fat timber wolf, that dined ' high on farmer's chickens in th*. vicinity of Avon Center now is paying the Piper for his marauding escapades by being an exhibit to attract customers to a gasoline filling station on Route 21- Sherman and Glen Edwards, proprietors of the station, tired of the loss of chickens in the neighborhood and laid plans to trap the wolf. They were successful. Now the animal snarls and snaps as customers drive in to look it over, and Sherman and Glen prcfit by selling a wee bit more in the way of oil and gas due to their unusual attraction. Loss of more than $11,000 was caused and a three year old child slightly burned in three fires at Elkhorn over last week-end. Richard Schoeffer was pulled from his father's burning car iate Saturday afternoon. The child had been left in the car, and fire started from a heater arrangement- Mrs. Louise Snyder passing saw the child and removed •» - j made motoring extremely hazardous J Supervisor John Harrison said the! ii0t c. F. Daly, M. F. Walsh, F. E. Saturday night and Sunday and re-(board should not cross the bridge be- Eckert, J. J. McCauley, Thos. Houli- . suited in some accidents although fore they came to it because the act han, Thomas P. Bolger, A. A. Crissey, | motorists used considerable precau- (i9 not a law yet and beer will not Guy E Still L. D Lowell and Haz-1 tion and no serious accidents were be legal until early April. He said he Black Cherny. , , ,.««...* ^ reported. thought it would be better to waiti Alternates to the seme meeting .a* .6 i him from the burning machine, A and see what action the state legis- will include Russell Allen, D. R. Jos- j w .. ... , ' luxurious cottage owned by Leoiuu-^ latum did about laws (rovermnK the ]yn jr Hufth Dencm. Jf. T. Johns™, wSL.1 t i'wilrflt' I Nie<U"» burned »t Ukj Como beart. ««'« •>'>"" I" Illinois before taking d™ wicks, W. T. Hoy, U E. Mentch, WMdst<*k Llbertvvi"'- k,v« - 8(1 jjarry p Peteit, Lester Edinger, War- Supervisor V. E. Brown of Wood- ( ren Fish, Raymond D. Woods, Dr. E. s oc SAID the board should be ready, A. Meade, Chas. Ackman, Herman to act at ite next meeting and the ] Kreutzer. L. A. Stockwcll, F. G. Green, G. A. Dodd and Mrs. F. A. Barter. Delegates to the Rockford caucus. include the fdllowing: Judge E. D. SALES TAX PASSED; CARROLL VOTES "NO" The Illinois 3 per cent sales tax was passed by the lower house Wednesday of last week by a vote of 103 B1, ,.lf. 'iex.T: meetinSf and the to 45. The bill had,the backing- of:u by April 6 he Governor Horner. It will probably *^,,™ re»son wh/ a committee ; go into effect on ApriJlJ j should not be appointed to figure out I Among the members from this dlsj trict, Representatives Bolger and i Lyons voted for the bill, while Rep. | Carroll voted against Its passage. The tax falls heaviest on the small plan of handling licenses. He made the motion to appoint a committee. Four Vote Against Four members voted against the motion, the same being Supervisors Woodstock and Libertyville, have municipal bands. •» "GRAND HOTEL" HAS A'DAZZLING CAST Five stars instead of one shine in CM. .4 L • r» T> T I a t "Grand Hotel," spectacular picturi- Shurtleff, chairman; D. R. Joslyn, Sr,. !zation of the ceiebrated Vicki Baum C. Percy Barnes, M. A Caraack, C. l>novel and lay at the E ire Theatr<? F. Francis, C. F. Renich, L. W. Coob, "her and to his family. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Catherine Simpson, and four children, ICrs. Jennie Brown of Springfield, III., j single food*" she said WilHam of Western Springs, andjShown further that everyone can «n1 e' , ,, r I afford milk and no one can afford to Funeral services were held from be without it. If farm mists and food authorities have shown milk to be the best food investment because it is the most economical "They have retailer who will find it very difficult,, TT w buPprv',so" way, Dr. J. if not impossible, to pass it on to1-.], ^®mson aVd McCon- Jr., A. A. Crissey, J. A. the consumer. In Chicago the money ^r the motion members vot** H. Hale, John Philip j will be used to continue the present unemployment relief system, which now promises to become a more or less permanent dole system in that city. In many downstate counties part Lumley informed the board other counties have already taken action. A. H. Mosher, Sanford Howard, A. L. Johnson, V. S. Lumley, Ray Con- G. Maxon, D. R. Josly i, Peterson, A. and Charles Kucera. Alternates include: Frank Ferris, E. F. Kuecker, E. L. LeGros, Frank oofr tthhee mmoonneeyv wwiillll bbee uusseedd iinn aa lliikkee eitn *isc taed]m bo?st certasitna teit fll,e gisl^at ure but maimer, while the balance will go , . , „ , , , ^ . p to county boards to regulate the fee He said Winnebago county expects to j Cerny, M. B. Spooner, Ed. Kjellstrom, charge a fee of $200. Also stated the!Simon Stoffel, Fred Gay, Bruce Park- * governe? b7. the !aws hill, P. F. Rosenthal, Martin Bohl, Peter Smith, Fred Smith, John Colli the farm home at 1:30 p. m. Monday, with burial in Bluff City lSlgin. MRS. LILLIAN STEVENS DIES AT RINGWOOD Mrs. Lillian Stevens died at her lioine at Ringwood about 9 o'clock Friday evening, after a short illness of bronchial pneumonia. Funeral services were held at the liome at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. ^ ?wlCeS Mc"e,nry' leti^-Listeni^'ln'^^'introducJion p p er' * " : ^rs; Ari,ne;of Officers"wives, special guests and Pearsqn leading in the ritualistic j#therg The proprani ^ 5n charge housewives spend the money made from selling farm products for any other foods their money will not buy as much food value as is found in milk. The wise housewife will put the milk pitcher back on the table because she will find that the . whole family 'naturally' likes milk," stated Miss Chinn. The balance of the women's program included a talk by Mrs. Elsa iLord of the Milk Foundation, a play- (into the general school fund. In McHenry county this course will probably be followed, to divide the money received more equitably. to be charged. GEORGE ENGELN DIES AT MILWAUKEE, WIS. K. C.*S, ATTENTION! 0 GeJ orge Engeln, 55 years old, died The next regular meetjng of the. Sunday afternon at Milwaukee, death Knights of Columbus will take place i resu|ting from pneumonia. He is surat the K. C. hall this Thursdav,!™**1 a sister> Mrs- Smalley j March 23, at 8 o'clock. All members i®™1 br°ther, Peter, of Woodstock, and are urged to be present, as important s'sters> Mrs. J. D. Beatty and Mrsbusiness will be brought up at this son, Eugene Saunders, J. C. Wagner, E. C- Hawley, L. A. Douglas and L. H. Palmer. this week, Saturday and Sunday. Probably no film In recent years has attracted as much advance attention as this unusual screen drama which is described as a symbolical study of human nature in starling realism. The play ran in New York for more than a year with similar success accorded its presentation in other American cities as well as the capitals of Europe. The remarkable cast is headed by Greta Garbo with John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore playing outstanding roles. Lewis Stone and Jean Hersholt are featured in the large supporting cast. The story, which takes place entirely within the confines of a fash, ionable Berlin hotel, entwines the lives of a varied group of persons, including an exotic Russian dancer a reckmeeting. ; fp ------ of Miss Martha V. Dunlap, known to FREE DUCK SUPPBB {Pure Milk Association merhbers as At Nell's White House, one mile "Mary Ann" through her monthly east of McHenry, on Route 20, Sat-1 women's column published in Pure wday night, March 25. 43-fp|Milk. CAR STOLEN , On Tuesday of last week Robert Knox had his car stolen in Chicago while he was attending the milk meeting. Both the ignition and the doors of the car were locked and it remains a mystery as to how the car was taken. INFANT SON DIES Norbert Clements Smoak, aged 6 months and 10 days, died at a Waukegan hospital about 2:30 p. m. Sunday, after a short illness. The baby awoke early Sunday morning and peemed as well as usual! whose romatic interlude with but a little later he was taken sud-,jless baron saves her from suicide but denly ill and was, rushed to the hos- j results in her lover's murder. Tnpitai, where he passed away later in j volved in the drama are a scheming the day. I business man, a seductive *steno He is survived by his parents, Mr. [rapher, a consumptive clerk spending and Mrs. Gordon Smoak, two^ sisters j his savings on one last fling in life, AMONG THE SICK land his grandparents, Mr. and JfrsJa shell-shocked doctor and the hotel's Will Noonan of Elgin suffered a George Wirfs. jhead porter. How these people are paralytic stroke about three weeks| Funeral services were held at St.jail brought together and how their ago, from which he has not recovered. Mary's church at 2:30 o'clock Tues- j various intrigues and adventures Mr. Noonan was raised in this locality day afternoon, with borial in St-j change the course of their entire lives where he is well known. j Mary's cemetery, .{forms the theme of the plot- Charles Sheldon, and brother, Mathias, of McHenry. Funeral services were held Tuesday at Milwaukee. * ^ r Loss of the cottage arid fmrishings are estimated at $7,500. A farm fire at the Bucha Brothers farm caused a loss of $3,500. A fire of unknown origin completely destroyed a large brooder house on the F. S. Burt chicken farni about four miles northeast of Marervgo last Wednesday night, with a loss of approximately $200. There were no chickens in the brooder or no fire in the stove, so the cause of the blaze is a mystery. The high wind made efforts futile to save the building and it burned to the ground. The loss is covered by insurance. At the same time, 6:15 o'clock, the fire department was called to the George Kuecker house on East Grant Highway, near Marengo where sparks from the chimney had ignited the shingles. The timely discovery of the fire prevented much damage. Due to the prompt -action on the part of the neighbors and the quick response of the Richmond Volunteer Fire Department, the residence of DW. Overton occupied, by^ Mr. and Mrs. Homer Conerly in the north end af Solon Mills was saved from burning last Friday morning. Mrs. C-onerly stated that for some time she couki smell smoke but could not locate the cause until all at once ther^-wa? a terrific puff ard all rhe rooms filled with smoke. Leaving their' little daughter Emmy Lou outside she&raa to the nearest neighbor and eave the alarm. In a short time the fire company arrived and soon extinguish^ the flames that had crept abing the partitions for some distance in the walls and between the floors^ TS* Solon Mills Bucket Brigade also caM with ladders, pails, and trucks loaded with cans of water.