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Must Sell Many Cattle - It js predicted that at least 25 per cent of the dairy cattle in the county will be sold by Oct. 1, as many of the dairy farmers find it impossible to feed cattle at the present price of milk and dairymen assert that $3.00 "a hundred pounds will no more than pay for feed during the winter months and until next year's harvest. * Many of the farmers in this locality did no threshing at all this year. Many cut; wljat little grain they had •with a mbwer', not taking their corn- "binders out at all, with probably not ihore than 50 per cent of the farmers getting their seed back. The grain south and eafct of McHenry was ruined by the hail, which came in addition to the drouth, and many farmers on Route 20 made no pretense of harvesting any grain •whatsoever. On large farms, such as the Hanly farms, where theshing usually took from three to five days, the work was done this year in half a day and a farmer's'wife who said she had to cook eight dinners for threshers last ' year had not a single meal to cook this year. 1 Those of us who do not on farms fail to realize just how serious the conditions are and what critical problems confront the farmers of this region.. Hundreds of acres of grain Were plowed under early in the season, crops have been replanted as many as three times with a late planting of Sudan grass failing to grow. A normal yield of barley averages from 40 to 50 bushels to the acre, with oats averaging from 50 to 70 bushels, but this year the largest yield will not be over eight bushels to the acre with about 25 per cent of the crop harvested. Matty grain fields were never cut, some of the oat crop was pastured and one farmer drew in five loads of straw from fifteen acres. Many loads of grain did not yield more than ten Putting Straw In Barns Straw stacks will be a curiosity this year as farmers are, , putting what little straw they have into empty hay mows, some farmers tiavingho hay at all and some having already used it for feed. Very little wheat was grown here this year, but what little there is has turned out about the same as the oats and barley. In some instances an attachment was put onto the mower which would leave the grain in bunches, which was pitched onto wagons or loaded with a hayloader. Corn Crop Is Poor The corn crop, too, is poor, moth of it with no matured ears, the early corn being literally burned. Corn is already being put into- silos and silo filling will probably be in full swing next week. The recent rain, while it comes too MING DAY BINES HOSPITAL Mrs.' Peter A. Niiss and children attended homecoming day at limes hospital, Chicago, Sunday, and •«i?o visited Howard Culver, McHenry Legionnaire, who is a patient there. * The homecoming and old-fashioned basket picnic was held on the hospital campus under the auspices of the personnel of Edward.HineS, Jr., Hospital Veterans Administration Facility, at Hines, 111., through the courtesy of Dr. Hugh Scott, manager. Hundreds of friends- and relatives oi the inmates were in attendance and there were games by the Junior Legion ball teams, races, a ball game, a badger fight, greased pig and boxing were items of the program. Six drum and bugle corps gave exhibition drills from 6:30 until sundown, at which time a mass formation playing "Semper Fidelis" approached the flag standard. The lowering of the flag, while the large audience stood at attention, provided a colorful climax to the day. The day was a busy cne with activities in progress evary mintite of the time. Thirteen years ago the Edward Hines, Jr., memorial ' hospital was opened for the purpose of hospitalizing veterans, who served their ..country during war emergencies. Since that time the hospital has been gradually enlarged and today it -houses approximately 1,750 patients, and presents one of the most beautifully arranged groups of government buildings and grounds in the United States. Manager Hugh Scott has always endeavored in every way possible to make this Facility a home for comrades, rather than a mere hospital, a place where he may receive that personal and friendly touch of assistance which sometimes represents that dividing line between a life of discouragement and utter d&solation and a life of new hopes, realization of health and success. In his letter of greeting printed in the attractively arranged programs, Manager Scott said, ,lI welcome you all to participate in the> evehts of our annual 'home-coming day' to the fullest extent of our desire and abilities. I hope you enjoy every minute of the day, and want too thank you all for co-operating with us through your presence and thus demonstrating to our disabled comrades that there are friends who have not forgotten the sacrifice they have made.* Mrs. KOEPPE-COPE Elizabeth Koeppe and. Mr. Josiah Cope were united fn maijriage at St. Mary's church parsonage Saturday morning. late to be of much benefit to the corn, will start the pastures and fall feed and may help the second crop of alfalfa. Drouth damiage has extended over the entire county, drying and parch ing fields of corn and grain. It was estimated by the emergency committee of the board of supervisors tha# 95 per cent of the farms were infested with chinch bugs that wiped out fields in the southeastern section of the county. • A 'theckup of Woodstock National Farm Loan Association disclosed that $900,000 in loans have been received from the Federal Land Bank of St. Louis and the Land Bank Commission during the year. Loans are being made at the rate of $7,000 a year. - Honeycomb 13 Feet Deep Found In AMyiff Building (By Lowell Nye) "Bill" Althoff, well-known West McHenry hardware dealer, now knows something of what it is like to live in "the land of milk and honey." But if you wJH ask him how he liked it he'll probably tell you that it's not what it's cracked Up to be. That is,, as far as the honey part of it is concerned. Because Bill's experience last week 1 was a bit too literal to be thoroughly ideal. -"V ' All of which serves as a Sort of prologue to the story of the bees in Bill's bedroom. ! To begin with, it was a frying day toward the end of July when Jimmy, the five-year-old pride and joy of the Althoff family, was stung by a bee. Now this was not an ordinary sting. The little fellow, along with his three sisters, Eleanor, Betty and Ethel, had teen stung before and had borne up bravely so nothing much was done. But this particular bite was the grand climax to the series of juwioyances, and Father Bill decided it was time to act, .Arming himself with the weapons of a bee-keeper, namely, the mask and gloves, he sallied forth in search of the arch-villain, Mr. Bee. Knowing that his building had always been the •bode of a colony at one time or another, Mr. Althoff sounded the walls <is that what one does to find bees in bidding?) with the firm determination to exterminate the pest once and for all. Well, he finally ended up-on that section of the wall which encloses his bedroom. Beginning his fight to the finish by drilling through-the plaster on the inside up near the ceiling, with the intention of pouring in enough creosote to kill the culprits, Bill was confronted by a solid banlc of honeycomb. He tried it a few feet further down but met with the saimmee .ri esults The room was almost black with bees and the poor man was getting desperate. Locked in that little room and surrounded by the bloodthirsty fiends, he knew right then and there that it was going to be either he or them. So with courage undaunted (it was an awfully hot day, too) Bill drilled the third, time. Success! His drill broke through into the narrow open spaces and in weiit the creosote onto the torturers. Heh! heh!' It was only then that the Stalwart tincutter came to the realization that the busy winged creatures had amassed a comb thirteen feet deep (who said the number isn't unlucky?) which yielded at least a washtub full of hooeyyatjeording to Mrs. Althoff. But that doesn't me*u} anything. The room was a mess, probably needed redecorating,--and the honey wai full of dirt *&d couldn't be m»d. You cant win. ;Vv>'^v';,?V Persons in the Current News ' CRASH OCCURS AT « 1--View Hindenburg. ect In W Drake'hotel In Chicago of the huge Tannenberg memorial In East Prussia which has become the topib of President Paul von dent and Mrs. Roosevelt Inspecting the site of the Grand Coulee power and irrigation projon. 8--Gen. Hajjli Johnson receiving the NBA Mtthday. eake from Chef Ernest Skyssaert of the LOTUS BEDS ARE . IN FULL BLOOM THOUSANDS SEE FAMOUS FLOWER GARDEN Huge, Lemon-tilted lilies,, raising their stately heads high above the water, and the dark green lily pads nearly a foot in diameter, filling the air with their rich, exotic fragrimce, acres upon acres of them, this is the scene of splendor that greets visitors to Grass Lake and the famous lotus beds, the greatest attraction to visitors in this locality at the present time. The famous lotus beds are now in full bloom and are being viewed by thousands of people every week who come from all parts of the country to enjoy their rare beauty. 1 The national flowering lotus beds at Grass Lake are one of three of these famous beds--hr~the~world and make this region a mtecca for flower and nature lovers of the middlewest. Annually thousands join in the pilgrimage to the lotus beds and this year the fabled blooms are to be visioned in greater profusion than ever before. 2,000 Acres of Blossoms The two thousand acres of lotus blossolhs which convert Grass Lake into a Veritable flower garden are the most beautiful and abundant since they were almost killed out by the high water about eight years ago. During the past few years every effort has been made to conserve the flowers and increase the plants and so successful has this endeavor been that the beds are again blooming in all of their old splendor and even promise to surpass their former history in size and beauty. Once visioned they are a sight never to be forgotten as they rear their heads majestically, some as high as a foot above the water, presenting an inspiring picture with their millions o f b u d d i n g , b l o s s o m i n g , c r e a m y flowers, famed through the ages in song and legend- Playground of Chicagoland Vacation land in the Fox River valley annually casts its spell over thousands of vacationists who come over smooth highways to tarry in popular resorts. McHenry has been known as the gateway to the lotus beds and here every day passengers come seeking the Hunter Boat company's daily accomodations. Excursions run twice a day to the lake region, offering a. thirtyfive mile ride of scenic water travel. The channel through .the lakes is well marked with sign boards pointing the way for strange craft with the channel kept in condition by the division of waterways of the state of Illinois. Fox River a Busy Stream The river is a busy place, dotted with fishing boats, swift canoeS, rowboats, launches and everything that floats joins in the great summer* parade of water caravans that scoot up and down the river. Not the least of these boats is "Bill," the marine mail delivery, which makes daily trips to deliver mail to residents up and down the river. • . Leaving the rivfer, boats round the island into Pistakee lake, past the entrance to the Bay, under the bridge into Nippersink lake, past the entrance to Fox Lake, the largest lake, :n Norther# Illinois, and into Grass Lake, to be. greeted by the extensive beds of lotus which line each side of the channel. With 60,000 acres of lake water and more than 100 miles of sandy beaches appointed to make O. E. S. WILL SPONSOR FAIR SATURDAY It has been many years since McHenry has been- the scene of a fair, but on Saturday there will be, once morp, a fair at the city park, sponsored by McHenry chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. Committees have been and members are working this event one of the outstanding features of the year with entertainment for young and old during the afternoon and evening. On Saturday morning there will be a bakery sale at Justen's furniture store, Green street, which will be continued at thevpark during the afternoon and evening. There will be a large and varied supply of bakery goods on f*le during the day. Anyone who desires lunch will be served at the park at one o'clock or after and this will be an opportunity for the family to lunch out on Saturday. Beginning at 2:30 p. m., there will be a public card party at the park with bridge, bunco and five hundred played and a prize awarded for each table. The-charge for cards will be 15 cents. There will be various games, including corno and a fish pond, fortune telling and there will be pony rides for the children. Also a refreshment stand and bakery booth in addition to other special booths. Mrs. Andrew Eddy is in charge of the bakery sale, Mrs. Alice Lindsay and Mrs. John Fay and their helpers will work in the refreshment stand and Mrs. George Johnson is chairman of the card party committee. A program is being planned for the evening to which the public i's.invited. • MRS. SHERBURNE 102 YEARS OLD FRIDAY raw NOW 62 YEARS OLD INCORPORATED VILLAGE IN 1872 McHenry has haadd another unicipaly s Mrs. Sarah Sherburne, pioneer, and McHenry's oldest resident, will observe her one hundred and second birthday anniversary on Friday, Aug. 17, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Clayton Harrison w^o resides .on a farm northwest of McHenry, near Ringwood. . • For nearly 100 years. Mrs. Sherburne has been a resident of this vicinity, coming here at the age of eight years with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Colby, natives of Vermont. Her oldest friendr--Mrs. Samantha Button, recently passed away in her one hundred and third year and was also an early pioneer, both, as children, roaming the prairies and visiting the Indians unafraid and happy in their freedom. The anniversary of this aged woman will, no doubt, be a quiet and peaceful one as are all the days of her life which are filled with a spirit of love and friendship for every human being. Although'in good health, Mrs. Sherburne is exceedingly frail and weak. BOY BREAKS ARM James McAndrews, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl McAndrews, had the misfortune to break his arm at the shoulder, Sunday afternoon. Jamtffe and his brother, Joseph, were at the farm home of their grandparents and while running, James tripped and fell, striking his shoulder and breaking it. The boy was taken to St. Anthony's hospital, Chicago, Monday, where the shoulder was set, returning home later in the day. He ,is recovering as well as can be expected. birthday and we are, municipaly speaking, sixty-two years old this month. On August 10, 1872, when McHienry was incorporated as a village, numbered several hundred souls-- now lookit. On that day of the long ago, candidates for office made their stump speeches without any radio personal touch, to a handful of voters jvhile now more than a thousand men and women voters are numbered in our midst. Then we covered an area of small dimension, now our area has widened considerably. Then McHenry's real estate had a value of a few hundreds of dollars, now it is listed at seveial thousand. In the days of its 1872 swaddling clothes, McHenry possessed only a few buildings, but since that time many more larger and more expensive structures have been erected. First Village Officers At the first election held by the authorized voters of the village of McHenry, the following officers were chosen: President, Richard Bishop; trustees, J. B. Perry, J. M. McOmber, H. C. Smith, John King and F. K. Granger; clerk Michael Keller, and treasurer, Henry"tiolby. Since then our old home town has shown advancement in every phase of life, with an increasing population, a steady growth of building and an everwidening trend towards modern progress. This, the old site of the county seat, was the first town that took shape in" McHenry county. The settlement was laid out by a Chicago surveyor by the name of Bradley in the year 1837 through the instrumentality of Henry McLean. Mr. McLean b»ilt the first house in the place, a log building 12 by 16 feet/ near the present site of the Riverside hotel. The first store in the place was opened by Dr. Christy Wheeler. The first wagon-maker was Richard Bishop, who opened a shop in 1840. .Nathan Haight-was. the first blacksmith. He came from New York in 1837. The first hotel was built by B. B. Brown in 1837. It was a log building and served its purpose for about twenty years. The first post-office established in the township was in 1837 with Christy Wheeler as the first postmaster. He came here fn 1836. The first sawmill was built in 183 J and John McOmber built a house for himself out of the first lumber sawed at this mill. Previous to the incorporation of the v i l l a g e , f a c t o r i e s , c h u r c h e s a n d schools had become well established. In the same year of its incorporation, a grist mill was built by William Hanley, in 1881 a butter and cheese factory was started, in 1882 a brick manufactory was built, in 1873 a lumber yard was established and in 1874 a pickle factory was built. Many and serious difficulties^ confronted the young administration. The streets were inl bad condition, the city needed money--well, in a way, tempus fugits-7-and then again it hardly seems to, very much. for the enjoyment of vacationists, the lakes region is ready to entertain any number of visitors who are ,&iwaya welcome to this K. C. ATTENTION The next regular meeting1 has been postponed to tl^e fifth Thursday in August wftich is Aug. 30. Important business will be transacted at that^ time. Members date. ' 7. 4 WOMAN KILLED BY TRAIN AT RICHMOND Two Chicago youths lost thieir lives in an accident which occurred on Route* U. S. 12, three miles south of Richmond, about 3 o'clock Sunday morning. They were Thomas Stanton, 19 years old, and Eugene Joyce, 20 years old. -- Two other boys with them were Leonard Dalton, 19 years old, driver of thev car, and Robert Bodette, 20 years old, who escaped with fftinor injuries. - - ; ; The boys had been spending their vacation at Lily Lake and had attended a dance at Delavan Lake and were enrdute back to Lily Lake when the accident occurred. Dalton, testifying before a coroner's jury Monday at the TnquesV held by Coroner E. H. Cook, said that he either fell asleep or a tire on the car blew out, causing it to swerve into the end of a bridge railing over Nippersinka, fiK«ek between Richmond and McHenry. . » Stanton and Joyce^ were killed outright, both receiving fractured skulls and other* injuries. The other two boys escaped with bruises, cuts and shock. State Highway patrolmen L. R. Bacon and 'Phillip Guinto investigated the accident. Stanton was riding in the front seat with Dalton and Joyce' was asleep on the right side of the rear seat. The car was badly wrecked- Scores of other people were injured over th^ weekend in the Chicago area while twelve were killed in Cook county and one in Lake county. The death in Lake county was Conrad Limp, 53 years old, of Waukegan, a foreman for the Brummond Dairy company of Waukegan. He was killed when his automobile was struck by a passenger train in Wilson, a village five miles west of .Waukegan. Woman Killed By Train Miss Nellie Rehorst, 53 years old, a former resident of Richmond, who had been spending ber summers there, lost her life at noon Saturday when she was struck by a Chicago & Northwestern passenger train a short distance back of her home. It is believed 'she lost her balance while attempting to cross the track*. There is a dead-end street on each side of the railroad tracks and a footpath leading across. There is a considerable cut at the point'and Miss Rehorst was walking down towards the tracks when she is believed to have lost her balance. ^ ~ ' Members of the train crew told the deputy e<rfoner that they saw the woman stumbling down the embankment. She started to run to keep from falling and nearly succeeded in getting across the tracks in front of the onrushing engine, but she fell onto -the fails. Miss Rehorst is survived by two sisters, "Mrs- Henry Vogel and Mrs. Edith Wilson of Richmond. She owns property in Richmond and lived there until a few years ago when she moved to Michigan. She returned each year to spend her summers at Richmond. CURLY" BROOKS IN OPENING ADORtSS AT STATE CONVENTION ON AUG. 9 Representative in Congress. State^t? • Large, on. fhe": Republican=ticket, acted as temporary chairman at the ,R-ep&&- ^ K lican state convention ,4n Springfield on Aug. 9, and made the opening address, which follows: ' ^ . Ladies and Gentlemen: My first duty is to thank you for the honor you have conferred upon me in electing me to fill the position which has. in the t past been dignified by illustrious men. In calling this convention to order today, I do so with the full knowledge of the tremedous importance of our meeting, to take counsel with each other and to determine the course we shall take in regard to our government. We have the happy privilege to meet here officially, under • the law, Americans, representing and HAY DISTRIBUTION IN CHARGE OF GIBBS Charles W. Gibbs,* who has been field man for the Pure *Milk- Association, has recently been placed in charge of the distribution of hay in this district,, which is comprised of McHenry, Lake, Boone .Walworth and Kenosha counties. This.Ji&y..Js being handled for the accommodation of the farmers and already 10,000 tons have been shipped into this district, where it is estimated that an additional 20.000 tons will be used before sppng. The first shipment of hay came from the states of Oklahoma, Nebraska and Kansas, but this supply has been exhausted * and the last sixty carloads have come from southern Illinois.., • • ' ' There is no more alfalfa hay to be had and it is expected that' soy bean hay will be used now. Farmers in southern Illinois have 10,000 tons of soy bean hay, which they will sell if they receive orders for it. otherwise they will let it go to seed. Consequently, farmers here should get their orders in at once if they desire bay for present or-^future'delivery. According ,to Mr.- Gibbs, soy bean hay can be'ordered now at $19 Pey ton cash with shipment any time iromme present -to January 1. More jfeed will be purchased in this district this year than ever before, due to the drouth which has ruined crops and burned the pastures; o Willis Corney of Brunfield, who comes from the Chicago office, is acting as field man for the association in place of, Mr. Gibbs, who is kept busy with his new work. ** m Rev. and Mrs. L. B- Bra£tain and daughter, Miriam, spent .last .week with relatives at Anderson, IimL Way land Brooksconstituting one of the great political forces that guide'the destiny of a free people. We meet in the capitol city of a great state, nestled in the heart of a great nation. We represent the Re-^ publicans of the sovereign state of Illinois, the state that joins the east with the west and the north with the south, a state composed of more than seven and one-half million free men and women anxious to see the right and to follow it. Desiring to so conduct ourselves as to be worthy, of our heritage and to continue to build ft structure of government that will adequately meet the needs of the future and yet not destroy the truly American foundation which has been in the past and still is the hope of the world. * • As we meet in.this city, rich in its tradition and proud of its contribution to the advance and preservation of human rights, we come with a genuine sense of reverent gratitude for the life, the death and the memory of the man who gave birth to our political faith, who gave freedom to an oppressed people and preserved the^ union of the sovereign rights of states, re-united i» a common cause. "As we look over the rest of the world to<lay, with its devastation and distress, watching the cruel critical events of old despotisms masquerading under new names, crystallizing all power in the hands of egotistical individuals who loudly boast--"I am the government; I am the law; I am the supreme court"--and putting men to death without trial or consideration, . merely because they differed in their political views, we should be, and I am sure we are, grateful to the Divine Power and brave men, and women who gave us a constitutional form of gov* eminent; a government of individual liberty and rights, guaranteed by governmental powers being-nicely divided and distributed .among the people that make up that government and support it.; America stands at the crossroads today, lacking perhaps the full realisation that the destiny of any people is... not a matter of chance, but is a matter uf choice; not, soinething to V J for, but a thing to be achieved- and accomplished. Uncontrollable and unexpected events may retard c?r.quicken a nation's growth, "but the hiain purpose of any government will1 determine its Ultimate destiny. What then is the fundamental pu^ pose of our government ? - / The real purpose of the founders of our government was to secure for themselves and for posterity the, blessings of life, liberty and *he Pursuit of happiness by tfte individual..... citizens by throwing off the oppressive yoke of a distant government and creating a government at home and that purpose has been religiously fol-" lowed up to a little more than a year ago. Legislators elected by the peoplehave often opposed-each other on economic questions. They have quarreled among themselves bver finance and tariff, but they have always united and a greet! in .defen<ling self-government as the predominate and Controlling- naiwjns^ljideal. You and I hav^e lIit ved to see the time when the ancient doctrihe of imperialism, driven from our midst o*e* a century ^as returned, coming this time under the appealing guise of emergency and necessity. Once more (OMtinaed m last pa(«.)