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. ,Vr»r. 7 * - # <'<Xi:< *' *"* jjtr ^ - ' : ^*C«Six „ - . • -it .,- T-' *'<• * I i*V*: •y* • THE McHENBY PLAINDEALER SIP , , . r "$7>;{V p "TV ^ •»* ;, <w«-3*-r- " • "Boh I\.tfirst)n; "tKr"Adam^ brothers and Adeie Froehli'ch , were ~ aiyiong those on the program at Uncle O'Bie's barn dance at the Miller theater at Woodstock, Tuesday niyht. f'* George Mill'cr of Chicago sfieiit. the weekend with friends here, v.' frank and Helen Harrison of Ringwood visited their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Wattles, Sunday afternoon. Miss Arleeij Bacon, who is employ- - Our : Washington'^ Letfer S --By-- ; Nationar Editorial A si oration St. Mary's School Washington, Feb. »>--Conversations of the law-makers In. the private cloakrooms of the Senate and House and at° innumerable sofial functions do not always harmonize with their ed, a ,t W aukegan, sp^en. tv t.he. weekend ! .pr u b l i c u t t e r a .n c e s r e"g a r d i n g t h e t r u e . - f • state of affairs., Out of the weult er T°"ieT}Cre' t M . j of opinions a trained listener will find _ Mus,e Lo.i s„ Bacon spent Monday and u iv •„ Tuesday at Wr ood, st. oc,k , w,hue re she wab talk veering to t,h e p*.o ssibilities whicn empl,o y'e d. in the oxfft-i ce• o*f Mxt^rs.. frc. . r niav flow. fro.m , t,h .e discove.r?y that the " F J I President, with his great paper marj; ' JL, , Xf. • r>i_' jority" at Capitol Hill, is vulnerable. ; Mrs. 3. E. Wheeler, with Mr*. Era- wj,,iat0rS who seeretlv mvaV Bu_e t.l .o f Wo.o dstock, ,. wo.nit .t.o F. r>evt_- resented the ffate, w,h ichU made their. tjrt Fnd»y. ybere Sh^'attended ..r^ber-^mps" for White House I Richard ;WilliartIsr',} off.cialvM.t oMhe m,- ^ breathe easier in the hope ! A"i« AlUioff ««? of IH,0? " 0f-iLw'SS? that their individuality and ideas may Ethel Althoff and m Saturday <•»•»«• «•«"• >"«. the herd.JHelen Bnch; , ,, tion for Eastern Star members and „ , y. ... i. _ i Rmtriro Rum officers. She returned home Sunday. , Repub Kan-m«or,ty ha, a less. Beatrice Up, GRADE ft \ • . Honor RoU ' Slarie CTiarlotte Nix, 94 8-9. Geraidine Kennebeck, 98 1-9.; i Richard Justen, 92 4-9. : Perfect AtMidknce - Leonard Blake ^ s Jerome Buch .. A:"~ Richard Justen ; Gerald Milled Harold Stilling '• Angela Freund Marie Charlotte Nix Catherine Rothermel : ^ Emily Steffes Isabelle Stoffel \ 1 Rita Weingart V _ GRADE 7 ^Perfect Attendance Richard Freund * Joseph G^usden ' - ; v - . " Earl Smith V ' ; Geno Unti >/;•. Charles Weingart-* Tlmwday; iPebraajy % 19S5| TELLS OF SIGHT-SEEING towns of Cocoa and Rockledge. TRIP THROUGH FLORIDA Flocks of wild ducks *of varying M , sizes every few yards and fish jumptriD Up everywhere out of the water. pi Pelicans following t a returning fish- A 1,200-mile sightseeing through Florida in live days, is- the I • „"V" f ~B ••««- interesting experience that Mrs. Sta-'.,^ n . , • V en\we are on - 1 the main highway. At Eau GaUie wd droye across the bridge to the~i«4and and- came back to the mainland ,at Melbourne, a few miles further on. ,After thirty-six miles of beautiful bays, rivers and tropical scenery, we pulled in' for lunch at Vero Beach sia. Maloiie relates in & letter to heir nephew, Quentin Walsh, which follows: • It will ,be recalled-that last week we told<of Mrs. Malone's trip to 'Florida and of1 her meeting \vith ttSng.^ ojtlQok.^ %. sparks fly up: ate nd,e dj the TPvrie si- dje nit' s ib anll a4t (Wu<»?xod)- *•?w!•a r?d.. .. Th• Te spirit ,o f. i.n. surgency has c- -••• . stock last Wednesday eVenifte »ere.- V'- *«*"»* ^ the Senate and Rep. and Mrs. Thomas A. EolFer. Mr. " spreading to the Hou,e,where nia: f "$> and Mrs. Walter Walsh, Mr. and Mrs. jority leaders have a tight hem on *P. ' v n "Mr parliamentdry matters, .gv^hts' 'i^ay Henry MiUer, Clara .Milter,, Mr, ^ ^ ^ ^ ^chines'.hefej 'Harald Blake Phyllis MeyeWk Isabelle Simon . •'. . Lucille Weingart Perfect Attendance Edward Blake " . r'vf. '•'O/Si,- frieqds agri this week the details of t,.». ., - herTong trip through Florida will , Flft^n mrles further the fishing port o| Fort Pierce and an hour and ong trip through claim our interest. ,o , Dear Quentin: ' J1'. .. ^ Last week, if ybtt recail, I promised to tell yQU of our first fc>ig trip through Florida, so here goes: . On Friday, December 28, we left Jacksonville fairly early, crossing the St. Johns River over the county bridge into South Jacksonville. Six miles, further we passed the site of half later one of the- most magnificent places in the world, Palm Beach. I wish I were able to tell you of its splendor, (but I tan't. Miles of wonderful landscaping, flowers of every color and description, residences that I can't' describe, some of them costing over a million dollars, all combined to make an unforgettable picture. Soirte of the tropical residences proposed nrfew Vanderbilt Hotel down here are of §tucco, some blue, and following that Epping Forest; orchi(J gold, purpte, lavender, in the home of Alfred I. DuPont. Then fact every color of the rainbow, and the Bolles Military Academy, and a you just must see them to understand fruit laden orange grove, on each side and appreciate how they look. That of the road. [evening we registered at the Hotel rJVv' i .'Mfs. Ray v 'cou!(i not be protected and undisputed Lawrence Stilling; Mr. and Mrs. William;H. Althon ,/ . • •; , , - • Harrv Unti left Sunday to spend the firit of the ; kaderphlP re-estahhshed - by proper ^rry AJnti Week at Peoria, where they attended i JPBneuv er8, - a hardware dealers' convention. I Current talk in legislative circles is Amone 'the students from the Uni- |to the effect that danger lurks in too versity of Illinois who were home for : much experimenting and tinkering a few days ' vacation last week at the with economic theories Richard Weber ' Betty Blake?, Dolores Rosing Lucille Weber ^ GRADE 5 » ««•.**-- ,,vv" "- "**- | - . . , i The Roose- I Hnvonnvorr Rivoulnl start of a new semester were Guy jve."; chieftains are apparently con- j geatrice Williams 94 7-8 Duker, Sylvia and Lilian Segel, Ken- scious of this sentiment. »As a consc- j Qeor„e Freund 9l' neth Boley, Frank Harrison and Low- jquence, the proposal to completely re- |Madeline Freund 90 3-& • V ell Nye. Mrs. James Fay was also'vamp the National Industrial Recov-j . perfect'Attendance here. They" returned to Champaign ery Act may be sidetracked in favor i Qeor„e Freund Sunday. ' ,of an extension for. a period of one Dona](] Schaefer : Norma Whiting. Pauline Sutton,; to two years. This plan offers•" an jTjester Smitli " - • -- Mrs. McMillan and Mrs. Schlosser of escape from endless debate. Surveys ; Flmer smith • /-i ^ ' • TT1 ' ^v,^r „ 0f industries are " A mile further we swung to the Monterey at West Palm Beach. left and were on the New Bayard f The next morning, after break- Roads This new roiad cuts off five fast, we wet?t back", to Palm Beach miles between Jacksonville and St, vjgjted the Cathedra! and looked .Augustine and is well known for an- |}je windows of the style shops, other reason. - If yoti recall the news- Yott see all the famous establishpaper headlines of a few years ago ments like Worth and Paquin of Paris you will remeniher th^ Maillefert have branches of their Tadles' style case. The convict g^ng of which he shops both at Palm Beach and Miami, was a member was engaged in building this 14-piile stretch of road when he was killed. Along the side of the road, back a hundred yards in the jack pine, are all that remains of the abandoned barricade of the con- Also firms like Carrier's and Tiffany maintain jewelry stores down here. Fort Lauderdale had its river banks lined with dozens of yachts, with the owners and guests lounging or lunching under brightly hued canvas awnvict camp where the unfortunate New ilJgg_ Fifteen minutes later Holly- Jersey youth was found hanging in Wood and we leave the big hotel and Esther Althoff willing to drop, their part in NRA !gettv Blake ..ilargely because of failure of govern- Ma(j;;]ine yr( Grayslake visited Mrs. Robert Ulrich : a majority and little son atj th^home of Mrs Nellie Bacon 'Friday. evening^i^" uwau^;.W:...i«iiute ..yi'Suvernv, Madeline Freund Miss Viola Brefeld spent tht week- , m<?nt code authorities to support -ew- Virginia Mag GroSe -end in Chicago. / • forccment of assessments and fair . Luci]]p Simon Mr, and Mrs. D;. I. Granger visitea ] trade practices. Yet business' groups- ;.Beatrice Williams in the George Harris home at Wau- art' willing to continue the NRA with- - GRADE the barrel. Then the little cross road settlement of Bayard, where we had our first glimipse of a Florida pecan grove. Ten miles further on the shops of the Florida East Coast Ry., with a hundred locomotives in the most beautiful body of water we have ever seen Charlotte Harbpr. Through Venice and* into Sarasota, where we visited the $10,000,000 Ringling Mu" seum.. In rapid succession we passed Manatee, Bradenton and Palmetto and at 3 p. m. were in Tampa, the great cigar making metropolis, with its thousands of Cubans. We crossed the Gandy Bridge to St. Petersburg, 22 miles away, and found the town filled wtyh 50,000 northern visitors. After a---little difficulty we secured hotel accommodations there and then drove "around the town. Along all the main streets in front of all the business houses' are comfortable benches for the tourists. The Tourist Club has a big recreation ground for horseshoe games, shuffleboard, quoits and othej* games. Also ovei 200 tables for cards, checkers, etc. > Tuesday morning We drove to Clearwater on the Gulf and then to Tarpon Springs, the Greek sponge fishing toSvn, where more than half the sponges in the world are fcrought in by the fishermen who w;alk on the bottom of the Gulf in diving suits. Continuing we passed the home of Thomas Meighan, the movie actor. Early afternoon found us going through the fruit section and hilly country with the towns of Brooksville, Inverness and Dunnellbn. At Ocala. we had a late lunch and passed Silver "Springs, which was so crowded we decided to continue on and come back for a special trip later in the season. At 6:30 we arrived in Jacksonville, after nearly 1,200 miles of sightseeing in five days. Next week I'll let you kn£>w about our trip to St. Augustine. , ^ ^ AUNT STASIA: LILY LAKE. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Miller of Cic^*1-' ^ ero spent the weekend at the homd of Mr. &nd Mrs. George J. Wegenei, ^frs. Fred Dosch, daughter, Jose-^ phirie, and M!rs. Joseph Daly were Woodstock callers Friday. X'i- George"Toon of Chicago spent Saturday afternoon at the George Weg-- v \ ener home. . ^ Mr. and Mrs. "Mackey of Chicago spent Sunday at4 their summer homa" and were callers M the home of Jos e p h D a l y . f t ' Miss Christine Wegener of St. Anthony's hospital, Chicago, spen$ the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George J. Wegener. ° i - ' • Mr. and Mrs. Harry Miller spent • . '. a few hours with Joe Daly's and Fred Dosch's Saturday evening. :v Mrs. George Wegener and daughter, Eleanore, visited Mfcs. Christina^;^ ; Buss at Terra Cotta Wednesday. * ? *, Miss Genevieve Daw of Gray»lake ^ Spent the weekend with her grandpar- ; .J" . ents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Daly. Ed Wiesbaum of Chicago spentf corida, Friday. It Wm. M. Carroll, Attorney EXECUTOR'S NOTICE out substantial change in preference r . Honor RolL te !?e Virginia Williams, 95 4-8. would likely follow, the abolition :of; Bertha Freund. 95 3-8. %~Blue. E«5te^trt^~i^it^--;Thojtl-a8 Suttont 93 54 , . nrchyof officialdom Ms been set up : Eleanore YounfJi 92 ^ . under various powerful commissions R(,b(,rt. Smith, 91 5-8. recent y with almost'-ahsolufc-c.ontrol ;Clarc.nce Freund, 90 2-8. hover the particular business under; 1 uii'if su|)ervistim:"Rat!fer than endute/^ aarence. FreUM^~ [more bureaucracy industrial.'l'leader^ '^3 . BsUte of Peter J. Schcewer,Deceased Would prefer to plod .along under- the jfi()].(tnT1 Schmitt • The undersipntff. Executors of the !drooping banner of NRA. iRobert Smith last Will and Testament of Peter J. j Hearings on the social security bills 'Bornice Blake ; deceasedr--hereby-- give'and the thirty-hour week plan Irate 1 Bertha Freund, * i' " Notice that they, will appear before been confined to administration and Clare Freund the County Court of Mcllenry County, organized labor witnesses. Affected • Hilda Herdrich •at the Court House in Woodstock, on | industries,will start shooting holes- in Xadine Schaefer the 1st day *of April, A. D. 1935, "at-i the schemes this week. The dopesters 'Lorraine Si hmitt which time all persons having claims agree that the Senate may acquiescc l^jry Lou Stoffel against said Estate are notified and , to trade-ijftions'demand for a shorter . . GRADE 3 requested to attend for the purpose j worli week knowing full well that?the f • Honor Roll of having the same adjusted. All administration forces will block iti'j Harold Michels, 92 3-8 persons indebted to said' Estate are | enactment in the House. These tac- (Marilyn Schaefer 92 3-8 requested to make immediate pay- tics come under th« gentle art of | Norman Neiss, 92. BIG RANGE IN TEMPERATURE According to records kept by W. O. Beckner, official government observer of Elgin, residents of that vicinity experienced a range of 66 degrees in temperature in January. A maximum of 44Vz was reached Jan. 6 and a minimium of 11% below on Jan. 24v In January, 1934, the thermometer ranged from 50% above to 10 below. swing along the new road south through Golden Shores and Sunny Isles, where dozens of rock bridges give one the impression of a Venetian suburb. From now on we are in another world. Forgotten are the thousands of acres' we passed through earyards. We are now o<rer the line into Her in the-day with crops of toma- St. John's county and pass the Coun- toes,"peppers, egg ".plant, beans, etc. ty Prison Farm, with the sleeping Instead we are in a city of riotous January was the wettest month sine* quarters of the prisoners built on color, humming with every activity, j 1930. Total precipitation for last posts and the yard patrolled at night j Winding miles along the ocean and j month yds 2.39, as compared to 2.69 by the bloodhounds. .. ./ a few blocks west, we look across; In- j inches in January, 1930. However, in Five minutes later .we pass dian Creek and see estate after es« j January, 1929, precipitation, ^otaled tate with private docVs, yachts, speed ' boats, each sucqeedmg place 113ore beautiful than the one before. Deati' ville, The Lido, The Wofford, and the Roney Plaza all crowded. Then the Nautilus, Flamingo, Fleetwood and a Monday evening with bis family at'S? Lily Lake; '• ; Callers- in the Fjfed Dosch ' Sunday were Mrs. C. Perkins and Mr.lv>; and Mrs. 3. Cunningham of 'Barring-^ t o n . . . • » « _ v ' \ " Miss Eleanore Wegener was a call-' er at the Ben Tonyan home at Ring- ' wood Monday afternoon. Examination For roetmasyer The U. S. Civil Service Commission, at the request of the Postmaster-General, announces a competitive examination for postmaster at West Mc- Henry, 111. Recepit of application is to close Feb. 15, 1935. Apply at West McHenry, 111., postoffice or to the U. S. Civil Service Commission, Wash-. ington, D. C., for application forms, showing places of examination and . containing other definite Information. through the historic city gates -of St. Augustine, the oldest city in the United States, of whose glories iand history I will tell you in my next letter. We leave the city over the Bridge/ of Lions, which takes us * to Anastasia Island.--This place .gave hundred other®, among the larger us our .first view of something we hotels. The Hotel Roney Plaza has a found quite common on the east coast n0Velty we think all its own. Beef Florida. The gentle breeze from tween'the Roney and its sister hotel the ocean is so steady that the trees at Coral Gables, the Miami Biltmore, are all bent over toward the west at it operates its own passenger gyroan angle of about 30 degrees. .'scope for its guests.. In"other words At this point, ^ probably a niile the folks frowa the Biltmore fly over along the beach, is the Anatasia to the Roney for a swim and the peoj Light House, where the government pie from the Roney fly fifteen miles lights are maintained to protect the to the Biltmore Private Links to play ocean-going boats. The light house polf. Four davs after Christmas and ment to the undersigned. Dated this 25th day of January, A. D. 1935. BERNARD SCHOEWER, GEORGE GARRITY, Executors. D. R. Joslyn,, Jr., Solicitor State of Illinois, McHenry County, ss. • In the Circuit Court of .McHenry County. "buck-passing." The unemployment ( Ray Smith, 91 1-8.: insurance and old-age pensions 'wilJ-iJames Freund, 90 *2-8 be materially altered in the Senate. Robert Smith 90 1-8 Reports coming to Washington indir cate the opposition of many state governments to the administration program. The state groups claim j Norman Neiss they cannot possibly finance their Ray Smith share of the expense «is contemplated j Robert Smith - m pending measures. Employers ; Marilyn Schaefer V who must bear the burden of expense ! . , .. GRADE 2 for unemployment taxes on payrolls j Honor Roll Perfect Attendance James Freund Robert Justerr ALVIN S. KEYS, RECEIVER FOR ,display a marked feeling of helpless- j Dorothw "Freund i 8 THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY LIFE "ess. They^ contend the cards are Gladvs StiiHn^'93% 8 INSURANCE COMPANY, ' ^ ' - • >- °yS bUUlng' A'8- Complainant, . VS. XiOOB C. BICKLER, et al. >1 Defendants. • IN CHANCERY Gen. No. 26162. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that in pursuance of a Decree made stacked against them, at .the capitol Esther Freund, 92 3-8 with an administration showing an Elaine Schaefer, 91 5I8. anti-business complex at every turn, j Henry Townsend, 91 4-8. Labor unions, however, 4re really aggressive in advocating the measures but demanding exemption of workers from contributing to national and state funds fbr jobless relief. A snappy digest of behind-theand entered by /the Circuit Court of jscenes opinions would show :hat leg- McHenry County, Illinois, in the j viators are frankly puzzled over the above entitled cause on the 28th day 1 Propaganda of Father Coughlin, Dr. of January A. D. 1935, I, Heriry^' L. j Townisend and other agitators and Cowlin, will on Saturday, March 2nd, I how it affects their constituencies; the A. D., 1935, at the hour of ten O'CIOCK £°ld clause decision and inflation proin the forenoon of said day at flle East jposals; patronage; the bonus, what front door of the Court House in the!wiH happen when Senator Wagner City of Woodstock, McHenry County, [presents the labor union's drafts of Illinois, offer for sale and sell at pub-ja revision of Section 7 (a) of N^RA lie vendue to the highest and best! (the collective bargaining issue); need bidder the following described real i^r searching examination of various estate or so much thereof as may be j Wis to detect the handwriting of necessary to satisfy said Decree in ["Brain-Trusters"; how much importfull, to-wit: ---- j-ance may be attached to public hear Lots nine (9) and twelve (12) and :'nSs and how much is just "windowthe East one half (E%) of lots ten]dressing"; whether the opposition to •tlO) and eleven (11) in Block six- Secretary Ickes will bring about his teen (16), excepting and reserving from said Lot eleven (11) a piece ?<|f land described as follows: Commencing at a point sixty-six (66) leet Easterly from the Southwest Corner '•of. said Lot Number eleven (11), and running thence Northeasterly, parallel with Front Street, fifty-eight (58) feet^ence Southretirement and open a "pork-barrel" to the politicians wanting Federal projects in their areas ?; unified control of all forms of transportation involving the deeply rooted controversy of railroads and motor transport A movement led by Senator Ashu/ st, a Democrat of Arizona, to make easterly, parallel with the North 't possible to tax Federal .State and i1"6 eleven <11>» twenty- municipal bonds is apparently gaining f,vft . headway. Fiscal authorities in many Roman Bauer, 91 2-8. _ Joseph Munson, 90 7-8. Mary Ann Noonan, 90 3-8. Perfect Attendance Carl Adams Roman Bauer John Fleming Lee Grose . , Thomas Law»on John Meyers. 1 John Henry Miller Joseph Munson Richard Schmitt Dorothy Freund Esther Freund Jewel Grose Mary Ann Noonan Elaine Schaefer GRADE 1 Honor Roll r _,;_,five (25) feet; thence Southwesterly, parallel with the line of Front Street, fifty-eight (58) feet; thence along the South line of Pearl Street, twenty-five (25) feet, to the place of beginnmg, also conveying hereby a ; 8trip of land nineteen (19) feet wide 'Off from the North side of lot six ' <6) and a strip of land eleven (11) feet wide off from the South side • of lot five (5), in Block seventeen • ' <17). all of the above described property being situated in the Vil- Jage of McHenry, West side of Fox River, in Uie South East quarter |SE^4) of Section Twenty-six (26); Township forty-five (45) North, Range eight (8) East of the Third IPrineipal Meridian, situated in the Connty of McHenry, in the State v J>f Illinois. ^ . TERMS OF SALE • CtMb in hand on day of sale at which time a Certificate of Sale will be issued in accordance with said Decree and the Statute. P»ted this 7th day of February A. D. 1986. HENRY L. COWLIN Master in Chancery of the Circuit 'J ' Ctmxi of McHenry County, Illinois < »•• •- ' «•'•W of the large communities are opposed to this plah on the theory that they will be obliged to pay higher rates whenever a bond issue was floated. It will require considerable time to enact such legislaiton because it may be accomplished only by a constitutional amendment. Congress is only one agency in the ratification of such an amendment because a concurrence of thirty-six states is necessary. The chances are against its submittal to the legislatures this year. Until a few years ago a congress which appropriated over a billion dollars for all branches of the Federal service and all activities would have some tall explaining to do back home. The situation today in regard to large figures are ironically summarized by Republican Hamilton Fish to apoligize for talking about small amounts with the declaration, "I suppose we should not discuss anything under a billion dollars these dgtys,9 NEW PRESIDENT €5. B. Stillnnan, Chicago, was elect-' ed president of the Illinois Schoolmasters' club to succeed E. C. Fisher Ibflife.v../. . Joan Durland, 92. Marion Freund, 91 5-7. Kathryn Nye, 91 1-7; Joan Weber, 91. Eileen Smith, 90 1-7, Perfect Attendance, James Althoff . , * Roger Freund---:------: - John Herdrich Joseph Simon Jack Smith Richard Blake Nancy Carey - Marion Freund .. Catherine Gerasch Elvera Kennebeck Bern ice Blake looks like a gigantic barber pole,, rising 200 feet high out of the trees, with its revolving lights and powerful lenses, Adjoining it a few hundred yards is a big alligator and os-' 50,000 people bathing on the beach, ooen air dining places on the porfeh filled with crowds everywhere. So' this is Miami Beach? We finally headed for Miami proper trich farm. Some of the birds are across the Causeway or bridge and nine feet high and are driven to sul- its approaches, which is about four keys and after getting started are and one-half miles long. Miami like very fast travelers. !wise was crowded, particularly down- After, ten minutes we come to the town, so we drove out Biscayne Boul. bridge over Matanzas Inlet. This stream connects the ocean and the Matanzas River and 'is so clear you can see the fish eight and ten feet under the surface. Two negroes, boys about ten years old, have' a half dozen fish, each running from one to five pounds. Before crossing the N. E. to the Hotel Santa Maria to 32nd St. After registering we drove downtown and out through Coral Gables, the most famous suburb of the world, with its miles of Spanish architecture and winding Spanish streets. Going south and east we found ourselves at Tahiti Beach, bridge a glance back inland shows where we turned'north through Cothe shell ruins of old Fort Majanzas,'coanut Grove, passing the former, the scene of many bloody conflicts. , homes of William Jennings Bryan and In one encounter the garrison and j Mr. Deei-fag of tAie Deering Hpr all inside were massacred by the In- 1 vester Co. Here are hundreds ofc . ' Icocoanut trees, just like the ones at Twenty minutes later we turn Palm Beach, from which we picked right at the Hotel Coquina- at" Or- ithe two cocoanuts which we sent to mond, and four blocks on we are McHenry last week. stopped by the rippling waters of the I Now we are entering Miami again Halifax River. Here on one side of the road is the big rambling Hotel Ormond. On the other side The Casements, the winter home of the Rockefellers, with a sunken garden from the south. We stop for dinner at a gigantic cafeteria on Flaglei St. and a block further at the yacht basin gaze at hundreds of yachts from all over the world. These are between the house and the river. Two of every size and description, some miles south on the same street is the costing as much as $2,000,000. Just residence of Mr. and Mrs. Jame3 like your"delivery boy at home, fast Armstrong, who for many years ' speed boats are delivering groceries,t spent their summers at Emerald meats, etc. On one yacht two uni-] Park, near McHenry. Then Daytona formed chefs, each one busy at his Beach, the big 800-foot wide sand own stove, are preparing the evening boulevard, where Campbell will try meal while an orchestra is entertain-" next month to break his auto record ing about fifty guests on the upper" of about fourteen seconds for the deck. Flagler St. shops are all filled mile. I U tell you all about it at that with every conceivable kind of mertime. We crossed back to the mainland at Daytona pnd thirty minutes later were in New Smyrna, settled two chandise and a steady tide of people course along the principal business street. Along about 9 o'clock we cross the bay to Miami Beach and 4.04 inches. M. E. CHURCH You are invited to attend services at the M. E. church every Sunday. Sunday school, 10 a. m. Morning worship, 11 a. m. Sermon by the pastor, Rev. L. H. Brattain. Sermon Subject--"Loyalty." Dr. C. Keller OPTOMETRIST Sundays and Mondays at my Summer Home, Riverside Drive, McHenry, 111 All Kinds of. Repairs,.T«el. 211-R WASHER Now$ Reduced from $74.50 A NEW Low Price -- New Liberal Terms'to make wash days easier. | • *2 DOWN . . . a s l o w a s . 69' a week It nvr mttrtst anM Hthtr costs, m s»mewb0t • bightr price is cUarftd -for appliances iotd *n-^ deferred payments hundred and fifty years ago. There spend another half hour watching the WHY U. S. MOTORS MOST .The. world may go motoring today on 9,152,282 miles of highway a"d there are an average of 3.6 automobiles for' every mile of road on earth. Uncle Sam could take a jaunt of 3,042,780 miles by automobile with the boundaries of continental United States, although he would have to do some retracing of routes order to complete the. trip. No other half dozeft countries in the world combined can boast the road mileage of Amlerica, which explains in part, at least, the reason why this country possess almost three quarters of all motor vehicles owned by man. ' mlay be seen traces of the old Franciscan Missions, also the old indigo vats where the purple tints and dyes were prepared for the European royal families. Here, too, were developed the first figs grown in the new world. Thirty-six miles of the most beautiful streams, at least we think so, but developments prove we haven't seen anything yet! Titusville, also a very early settle- lights and crowds. Then back* to the hotel and to bed. Sunday morning, after church, we spent in general sightseeing and in the afternoon visited the Seminole Indian Village. Also Dr. and Mrs. Nye, and Mrs. John Carey and family- Monday morning, after an early" breakfast, found us on our way to the Gulf of Mexico by way of the ment, and now we are in the Indian Tamiami Trail. The Trail runs alon River Fruit country. A little north of Titusville, lying off the mainland and extending south one hundred miles, is a strip of land or rather a succession of islands. The water between these islands and the mainland is what is called the Indian the Tamiami Canal and for probably eighty miles the canal is full of fish. About every thirty feet we would sect fish rising up out of the water, some of them over seven or eight feet long, chasing thousands of littler ones in all directions. Flocks of wild THANK YOU! The members of the Married. Men's Athletic club wish to thank all those men who aided and donated tools for the skating rink. The next meeting of thai club will be held on Feb. 11. Buy you nmd H <m THB- FLAINDIALER. River and varies in width from two heron, cranes, and bright red flamingo to seventeen miles. The first and three feet high lined the banks. Wild principal island, namely Merritt's ducks all around and we saw several" Island, is traversed by the Banana flocks of young- geese flying. Some River, famous^ in song and story, of the flocks numbered in the hun-?' This river has phbsphate beds on§ts dreds. No towns or white settle-' bottom! which enable the fish to be ments except an occasional filling seen at depths of more than fifty station with here and there a villagf feet. A few miles out of Indian River j of Seminole Indians living just as City we veer left from the new high- I they did 200 years ago. Back from way and continue along' an almost the road in the wilderness are theix forgotten trail. 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