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Club Mows - EASTERN STAR NOTES ~ ' McHenry chapter, Order of the; Eastern Star, will sponsor a Hard H; -.Times party in Masonic hall, Saturday night, November 18, to which the' public, is invited. ' Old clothes, calicocs »nd overalls will be the popular cost tumes of the evening with fines beinjjf imposed for costumes not in keeping with hard times. Bring your extr* jpennies as there will be a penny cav* mival, bingo and fortune telling games There will also be games and dancing .xvith both old and modern dances. ^Members and friends are invited to attend this party where a good time Is assured for all. There will be a jsmall admission charge of ten cents, ry; On Friday evening Miss Elsie Vy- . " , , icital and Lisle Bassett ^cted as matron and" patron at Wood- * - i?tock chapter. They were accompanied . : "by MrsL J. J- Vyital, Mrs. E. E. Bas\. ^•^-•^eett; Mrs. Henry Vogel, Mrs Minnie - "f > - .>Iiller, Mrs: J. E. Wheeler, Mrs. J. R 'V^Smith. Mrs. R. A. Thompson,Mrs. C 'Hasmiwyaen, 'Mrs; N. Qarlpon, Mrs. '•V . Sanies BeaVis, Mrs. , James ^Perkins, •' Mrs. F. Spiling, veil's. \ \Vm- Kblt^J .•iMrs.VArlrn£ Pear'Orr, "Mrs. H. M. ?> ' Stephenson, Mi^. Martha Pagip, Mrs., A. Landwer,' Andrew Eddy, H. „M, :"l;-^Stephenson, Mrs. George Kramer arid.I t ' Anna Anderson. \ „ " '> 1; The worthy patron, Lisle Bassett, j., is preparing for a trip to "i'exffsN On November 27 Mrs. C. Wv Klontz> will be conductress sryi Frances Vy-.l • 'rffatron at Richmond • chapter on Friends' night. ; Miss Elsie Vycital is to be Adah ,ii , Libertyville chapter . o this Thursday ] evening- ' 4, L. Mr*. Dan Nellis, a member of Mc- Henry chapter, is seriously ill at the > Home of her daughter in Crystal Lake, ^ MOTHERS CLUB | " fW Mothers club met at the histhe ; of Mrs. Richard Fleming Friday af--j ternoon with Mrs. Herman Schaefer as assistant hostess. The usual busi-j ness meeting was conducted by the . • president, Mrs. C. W- Goodell, after j which Mrs. Joanne Rulien, the school' jiurse, read a paper on the three rules | of health. Two girls, daughters of Mrs. William H. Alt*aoff, entertained with son^s and mandolin and guitar - accompaniments and Mrs. Ray McGee ' gave an interesting report of 'the j Home Bureau work financed by the i department of agriculture for the im-j provement of leisure hours of the child and adult. Mrs. Fhalin and Mrs Clarence Douglas read pieces ap-; propriate to the day, being the day! before Armistice day. Following the program Which was in charge of Mrs. , E. J. Buss, games were played under j the direction of Mrs. M. Taxman. The serving of lunch completed a pleas* ant afternoon. BUY NOT, EAT NOT • . . »j BOOTH TARKWCTON ; : Sometimes we have to go against our training or go broke. Sometimes what we have always believed to be a rule of virtuous oondact proves fatal in practice. For in«tancr, we have grown up in the belief, fostered by our parents and teachers and enforced by our government, that we have no right to take or use the property of another person without his consent, but if the property in question happens to be a blackjack that the other person is about to bring down on my head I shall have a better chance of surviving if I perceive, in time, the unwisdom of clinging unalterably to old convictions. That is, there are times of emergency when clinging to an old conviction will be ruinous. Let us consider the present time in its relation to our oM MBviction in favor of thrift.' . People of pioneer stock ari uften spoken of as the "backbone of die country," and probably they are. Pioneers are thrifty or they don't sur-' vive. If the wood pile js used too freely in the autumn it may not last through the winter, and the Midland child learned thrift at its grandmother's knee. Moreover, we've been taught for several generations that it isn't what a man e«rns that counts and takes care of him in his old age; it's what he. saves. We've always believed thaf thrift is a virtue, that spending is risky and that squandering is suicidal. We. , demand thrift from our government, vote against political candidate* proven unthrifty* and we investigate, and often relegate to private life, officials shown to be'carelessly lavish with public funds. The- value ofthrift, indeed, is one of our Strongest convictions. No one doubts that. it is a right and useful conviction or that it would be dangerous tt*" ' unsettle it; but here is-the I'nited States government coming to • now, asking'us to buy. buy, buy. advising us to spend our money rather, than to"save it, and generally appearing,to set itself strongly in opposiv tion to that old principle (if thriftiness in which we were trained. There; \ seems to be a contradiction somewhere.'; v-','-,'"" > Moreover, the government a?ks us to spend at a time when we havtj - the least to sparl, at a time wli£tr»the Federal government, itself, aV well as our State, county and city governments, are taking heavily from •'* us in taxes and in thai way lessening our power, to spend. Worse still, our government, through the N.R.A., asks us to spend at a moment"' of great financial uncertainty in our lives, at a moment when we don't Know whether we're emerging from the depression or going deeper into it, and when we aren't sure whether,we're less afraid of the future than we were a year ago, or more so. The curious thing about the government's exhortation to us to spend is that the exhorters know how ^re feel and how we're situated; they know our old conviction in favor of thriftiness and they agree with that conviction---and yet these same exhorters ask us to buy, buy, buy! i j; What's the answer? Money is a means of trade. If you had a cord • of wood and no food, and your neighbor had a cellar full of potatoes and no fuel, and if neither of you were willing to trade, he'd have raw. potatoes to eat but he'd freeze to death, and you'd have heat enough perhaps, but you'd starve to death. Thrift is indeed a virtue; but this is a time of emergency during which it's necessary to buy goods so that somebody'11 have money enough to pay us for what we produce. If it's hard for us to get rich by washing one another's shirts, it's certainly impossible for us to make a living by washing our own. It i wiser to live by spending than to perish by saving. SELECT OUTSTANDING 4-H CLUB MEMBERS The County 4-H Club committee recently m'et and selected! the outstanding club members. Those selected are as follows: Dairy, James Davis, Huntley. Garden, Agnes Brian, Huntley. Corn, Henry Hartman, Huntley. Poultry, Earl Ham, Marengp. Hogs, Otto Nulle, Marengo. _ Sheep, Kenneth Reed, Huntley. > Earl Ham was selected as the outstanding member for the whole county. The above were selected from a group of f90?' This project Is sponsored jointly by the McHenry County Farm Bureau and the Extension Service. Members of the County Club committee are as folows: Kenneth Cristy, Chairman, Ringwood; J. B. Adams, Harvard; Paul Amdt, Mareneo; Henrv Marlowe. Huntley and Jasc Cornue, Hebron. In addition to the County Club committee the following ^erve as leaders of their respective clubs; George Gehrke, Crystal Lake; j Russell Beard, Hebron and Joseph I Getty, W. Harmony. > Wfci . - ATTENDING INSTrrUT^^ ti Mrs. Dan Desmond, county hon e bureau, president, Mrs. Ben Barber, chairman of Greenwood home bureau unit, and Mrs. John Walkup, chairman of the Crystal Lake unit, Miss Catherine Brian, president of S. O. S. 4-H ;club, Huntley, and Clara Greaves i Sweeney,Home Adviser* are reprei sentlne the Home Bureau at the District Recreational Institute at Sugar Grove this week, November 14, 15, 16 and 17. W. P. Jackson, Field Secretary of 'he National Playground ass'n New Vork Citv. will be in charpre. rt is •^roufh the efforts of the University if Illinois Agricultural Extension Service that these institutes are held, »nd fer the purpose of training folks to provide wholesome and constructive recreational activities for the leisure time of McHenry County folk-: POTPOURRI Harvest Moon The harvest nmon is so i ailed- because fanners in northern latitudes are able to work in harvest fields until late at night. It shines more brightly In northern" Europe and Canada than in the United States While the harvest moon occurs !a the northern hemisphere at niid- September, ft .occurs In March in the southern hemisphere. ©, 1933. Western Newspaper I'll Ion. POST-NUPTIAL SHOWED * Twelve girl friends of Mrs/Albert ; Blake motored over from Woodstock j . Thursday evening and entered her home as self-invited guests. Mrs.! . Blake recovered from her surprise j and was very happy to see her oldfriends. The guests presented Mrs. Blake with a waffle iron as a gift , from the group. tables wtetrie arrjjj'-^ed for bridge and Misses Carol Nienstedt, Margaret Haines and Gladys Gaulke • won the awards for achieving high the girls dishes Not Many "to Spare" A "Yankee dime" is 'an expression denoting payment in full by a kiss. In the past it was a favorite method of payment demanded by ardent swains of their lady love for favors done. It was also known as a "Dutcty quarter" and a "Quaker nickel." J In the Style of the *90*. Alaska-Canada Line ' Alaska covers more than two-thirds #t the western line of Canada. Block From Early Library The lintel block of '» library -lu Athens, about 98 B. C.. was recently found, to complete the pleasant evening. PHILATHEAS MEET _ A good attendance of members was present at the meeting of the Philathea club, which met with Mrs. Violet Carlson Thursday afternoon. Several completed articles for the bazaar were handed in and some beautiful articles to be embroidered were donated by Miss Ethel Jones, with all necessary material for making. This donation was much appreciated by the members. The Thrift sale, which was planned for this Saturday, has been postponed indefinitely. The next meeting of the Philatheas will be held with Mrs. Clarence Doug- W*t Thursday afternoon. Early Ohio Hangings • Executions for capital crimes In Ohio were carried out at the cifunty Jails until 185-,. ' Invented Arc Light The Inventor of the arc light and storage battery was Charles Francis Brush, born near Cleveland In 1849. SURPRISED ON BIRTHDAY A party of friends surprised Miss Loretta Steffes Monday evening in honor of her birthday anniversary. Twenty-six guests were present to enjoy the evening in music- and dancing, with the (Serving of refreshments completing a happy evening. Thi home eveni LINGER LONGER Linger Longer club met at the H Mrs. Charles Mertes Friday j. Bunco was played and the prizes were won by Mrs. Frank Meyer, Mrs. Howard Culver and Mrs. P. J. Schaefer. The next meeting will be with Mirs. Peter J. Schaefer next Wednesday. . : ' ^ CHICAGO STQCK SHOW EXCELLS PAST RECORD Chicago--Through eight big days and nights, the International Live Stbck Exposition will celebrate its 34th anniversary in Chicago from December 2 to 9. Earlier predictions that this largest of the continent's five stock shows would erceed its own past record^ in" the number of animals that would be exhibited have been realized, reports 6. H. Heide, secretary-manager of the! Exposition. There in an increase of j several hundred entries over last year,! which broke the; record up to that time, he says. | Huge though the big plant is, that houses this m&mmoth display of live stock afid crops, at the entrance to the Chicago live stock market, officials of the show will be taxed to find stall room for the many thousands of farm animals, the finest the " world proudces, that will be on vieAjr. : The international iaspect of the Exposition may be morp impressively stated, the management points out, with a listing" of entries by the states from which. exhibition herds and flocks will be coming. Sheep will be sent from fourteen states and Canada draft horses from 11 States and two j Canadian provinces, Shorthorn cattle ' from nineteen states $nd Ontario;! Herfotd cattle from fourteen stages; and. Ontario;. Aberdeen-Angus cattle j from Jwelve states and the Pominion. Thirteen states, the District of . Columbia, Carada, and Scotland will i contribute the judging talent who J will place the ribbons in the compe- | titions for the twer»v-nlne different ! breeds of live stock that will be rep- i resented at the International Live Stock Show this year. Unusual entertainment programs have been planned for the brilliant nvenirg end matinee Horse Show programs of the Exposition. The managers of the Horse Show state that the leading stables of the country will be represented. Special low round trip fares will be offered by the railroads and the bus lines to Chicago during the first week of December for this evert, the management has been informed. INTERIOR DECORATING Miss Marian Dalstrom, daughter of Chas. A. Dalstrom, who has been a summer resident at McCollum's lake for the past twenty years, is completing her studies at the Prances Harrington Professional School of Interior Decoration at the Allerton Hotel in Chicago. Last semester, Miss Dalstrojn won a number of valuable prices and honorable mentions for ber beautiful and original sketches. Many of thes^ sketches were on exhibition last August at Galeries Simonson No. 7 Rue Caumartin in Paris, France, where they attracted a great deal of attention and received flatter, ing comments in the columns of the leading American newspapers in Paris BARGAIN IN BOOTS Men's and boys' felt boots and German socks, a few sizes, per pair, 50c. All rubber overs, a few siaee* 60c. At Erickson's Dept Store. ' *25 Peter Gies does first-class shoe and harness repairing. Formerly Gritzmacher's. > 25-tf BUS LINE CUTS LOCAL FARE TO 2c PER MILE Reduction of all local bus rates in Wisconsin and Northerrt Illinois to two cents per mile, one way, wafe announced today by J. L. Williams; General Traffic Manager of Northland Greyhound Lines. The new fares will be effective on and after November 15th and will apply to all Northland Greyhound routes on which the bus line has local certificates, he said.'. Bus fares to distant cities are already below two cents per "mile, according to Mr. Williams, knd many excursion fares of this type average about one und one-half ceats per mile, with special round trips as low as one cent per mile. Fares to points in Western and Pacific states have been reduced 15 to 25 per cent, effective at once, and other reductions will be made as quickly as practicable, it was stated. Better get that roof repaired before sloppy weather sets in. We sell gN& roofing and asphalt coatings- for rw^ pairs. Alexander Lumber Company. Phone 5. : 25 Better have that car of yours overhauled for winter. Noorian's Garage is equipped to give you first class service at small cost. Repairs on every make of car. Oil and gas. Plymouth Sales and Service. 'Phone 311 . 24-2 Oyster stew, 20c. Broadway Bar- B-Que, Highway 12, Beer on draught. WHAT COULD BE FINER FQR THIS COLD WEATHER ' Than one of these waimJFlannel or Flannelette SHIRTS They are wonderfully well made to assure fit and long wear. ; $1.53 to S2.84 We have a large stock of GLOVES and MITTENS from which to make selections for coverings for the hands No numb or frostbitten fingers if you cover them with these warm gloves or mitts 50^ to $1.53 Green Street M cGEE'S McHenry, Illinois , "v. : The iv.wis art- rHU-cted in tliid Kargere- deslgned ensemble of black j^elvet and ermlDe. The oM-fashionedij"tlppet" scarf and purse uiuiT are Combined In an ensemble to go wit^i the black pressed velvet suit, which j features the quaint &&0 puft sleeve^ r Sure Did Lik« HU Mcdicino A strange document in old court archives at Heckington, Lincolnshire, England, is a medicine bill of 55 closely written columns, tiled by an apothecary for collection. The bill lists purchases by one Samuel Jessup, an eccentric old Englishman, who in the last years of bis life tried to satisfy an abuormal craving for all kinds of medicine. CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY Miss Rita Martin entertained a party of friends Sunday evening in honor of her birthday anniversary Cards and games were played during the evening: and prizes were won by Arleen BacOn, Ethel Freund and Evelyn Anderson. A happy evening drew to a close with the serving of refreshments. Those preent were: Arleen Bacon, Adele Froehlich Miriam Sayler, Emily Steffes, Mildred Vasey, Ethel Freund and Evelyn Anderson. FACTS ON GAS PRICES wms youa GASOLINE MONEY WENT Iff 1926 WERE YOUR GASOUNE MONEY GOBS NOW PAST ORACLES TO MEET Pox River Valley Camp, R. N. A., will observe past oracles' night at if3 meeting next Tuesday, Nov. 21. The McHenry County club of past oracles will hold its meeting in the Woodman hall Tuesday afternoon and will serve a pot luck supper. The members will remain for the evening meeting at which they will hold office AUXILIARY TO MEET* The American Legion Auxiliary will hold its regular meeting in Legion hall this Thursday evening. After the business session a card party will be held, to which the public is invited. Lunch will be served. Members and friends are Invited to attend. D OF A's MEET TOP daughters of America held their regular business meeting Monday evening, after which a public bingo party was held. A good attendance of members and friends was puesent to enjoy the evening. /T TOTAL-Z3.Z6* \ TAX Z34-CEHTS FREIGHT-3.CENTSV REFINER, PIPE UNE,PRODUCER 1031 CENTS r TOTAL 19.64-* ~\ TAX 5.64 CEHTS j l t i I 111 1111111111 II | j || 11| I I I WEIGHT 3-cews i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i KH MARKETING: REFINER, PIPE LINE,PRODUCED &C£NTS GASOUNE 20.9Z TAX 2.3* GASOUNE &00 TAX 5M : •• M E. CHURCH are invited t» attend services J Atfhe M. E." Church every Sunday. * Sunday school, 10 a. m. 4 "Morning worship, 11 a. m. .Sermon subject: "Your «hureh and Mine," by the pastor. During the depression gasbifMJ prices sank to below cost levels Compared with 1926, the government index for wholesale gasoline prices was down to 43 4 in the first six months of 1933 Farm products sank in the same period to 45.7. / With recent Increases, the average retail price of gasoline (less tax) was at last report 14 as compared with 20 92 In 1926 Average U* had Increased from 2.31 cents to 5.64, making the to- > Courtesy Oil and Goo Journal ial price paid by the consumer 19.64 cents today as compared with 23.26. Gasoline has tttill several cents to go before equaling 1926 prices. The* oil Industry receive^,' cents a gallon for gasoline a# compared with 17.92 in 1926. balance of what the consumer pays ROCS to railroads tor freight and to gasoline tax-funds. Krpight is practically unchanged, gasoline taxes have risen 14jl cent. .1. ili • Of the 321 communities served, 214 have populations of less than 1,000 and 287 have populations of less than 5,000. The area served covers 6,000 square miles including 30,000 farms^of which 9,289 have electric service. PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS tvW *£4 ' ? .*