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. V.".' i tn UAATOLT nimnuB WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN LEONARD A BARRETT V LOCATING WATER ' Elgin, Ql. Old Timers' Club:- . IT'S UP TO YOU, ALBERT! ; • St Paul, Jan. 18. Well, well, well, JVIr. Stoffel has • No men could have been more separated from each other by heredlt/ and environment j gack jn tjje seVenties, eighties and j joinecf up and mighty interesting I lan the two sta es "|earjy nineties my father and I, under reading and we all hope he will be an ! the name of E. M. Owen and Son, active member I don't suppose that -dealt in agricultural implements he can remember the Bennett boys, across from the old mill and, among He was always so busy, going some- S* men whose birth day anni versa Ties' .ire celetKitod In the.moh^iMh of^Feb- ' other things, sold pumps. I gradually where from somewhere, selling insurriiary. f Knn-ii<sh I irtii w»« 'eot interested in wells and well dig- ance, and always so pre-occupied that, :i n aristocrat He driving, including the ques-tl am afraid, he. missed a»lot arid that was a rich. man, li a v I n g Inherited what In tlio.se days i tion of the best * place to sink a well' was me. to find water. There was no city wat-1 He never had time to.&trike one qf fer at that time, the artesian well • those smelly sulphur matches, so I oatiide^rriBtiona in MeHwry, u Mr. Bradley was my mother's cousin. Hello, Elmer, Clifford and Harry, we Jvope to see you at the centennial. Tony En^eln had sheet iron siding put on his* saloon building and ceiling? Mr. Engeln proudly told that some fellows were coming out from Chicago to steel die building. John Brentz, who was a G.A.R. veteran, got his bag of ducks and mud hens during shooting reason ? ttandty, Mmiy, t, IftM R1N6W00D We played hide and seek around the-Riverside barn? in and Alice Frisby worked at the Riverside Hotel and waited on the table? John I. Story tripped on a pail on , . the top lari*ding of the rear outside was • considered i pumping- station and laying of pipes l don't think he ever u^ed tobacco. Re-1 stairs to the Riverside and all but eomf.ortftble t:o is. f*n the •streets. coining later. So there. member that two-wheeled cart he used wrecked himself? Of Course you didtune. He had1 nil. ;^,as hiore well digging, then than now. [ to ride in? I can see him now with|n't and he "never told about it nor the advantages and op*T ,'A' nian came to this locality in the j^he whip in'his hand and always neat-j impromptu eulogy of chambermaids poft un'Ues whi<;;> sixties or .severities who claimed to | ly, attired. No amount of food could in general that twanged the dreams of health could, afford. Those, who have j be abletto_ l0cates water from the sur-j fatten him up and I'll bet that today «j£ited the old homestead jri Mount , face cf the ground'so that no mistake: he is the same wiry, thoughtful citi- Vernon are readily convinced of the would be made in sinking a well. Asj zen as when I kn^w him. More letcultural ehvirohment ip .'.which Wash- is well known,-pur soil is of glacial j ters, please. Ington lived. His service to his gov- 1 formation, with a large airiount of j Shush and shush again, Albert-Holly. 'Ybuknow a lot about Old Timers daoffbter^MtMvikfc aiMt AiMireir Jepson spent Thursday in the Roland McCannon home at Algonquin. Miss Gwendolyn Jackspn of Woodstock was a caller in the home of her grandparents, Mr, and Mrs. S. H. Beatty, Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs Louis Abendroth of Elgin spent Sunday with Mrs. Jennie Bacon. Frank Hawley of Chicago, Edwin Hawley of Crystal Lake and Andrew HawJey of Elgin were visitors here Friday. Louis iSchroede* t^as a Chicago viSernment wa$ not only 'o.f av very.'high..-clay, which often appears in Strata or ; order, but was entirely without, per- layers of. greater or less thickness, sonal ambition/ XV^hington; wodid and these strata, are quiter or entirehave preferred the* Life pfs country |lj- impervious to waiter.'.- It is,'theregentlenwnrathor than of a political fore, often very uncertain- whether a * Career. When duty oalled/: however. J well will; need to go down say twenty - he answered with a fu,l| surrender of feet or $ixty or more feet, sometimes all his time and 'strength in stabllt/.- [a hundred. '..,A farmer might sink a log a country which was daying the well for his house arid get good water foundations of the,worlds most free at twenty feet He might then put my joyous'ears, ;••; ^ The fellow who failed to jump when the Riverside barn burned ? •;- -„V The regulars from Fort Sheridan and you are passing the buck when j encamped yearly just north of Bert yoti say you have not the ability to j Howe's apple orchards? NOTE--I write interesting reminiscence. Tell j sent a letter of greetings to the Covells and Howes a' month ago and have not heard from them; ; Mr. and Mrs. H. C Hughes of Mc- Henry; J. V. Buckland and Mrs. E. E. Whiting attended the funeral of Mrs. J. D. Smith at Urbana, Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Matt Nlmsgern of Spring Grove and Mr. and Mrs. Nick Young were visitors at Wopdstock Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Byron Hitchens of Chicago spent Tuesday in the R A. Hitchens home. •- Mr. and Mrs. Nick Young spent ^°r Thursday, Wednesday afternoon in the home of I ^r" an<* Mra. J. G. Wagner, Spring their daughter at McHienry. | Crove ^ere visitors in the Leonard Mr. and Mrs. George Shepard and Eranzen home Thursday. Mrs. Louis Hall spent Wednesday aft-! Mr- and Mrs* F- A- Hitchens spent ernoon at McHenry. ; Sunday in the Andrew Butler home" Mis. Ed Thompson of McHenry *n Chicagospent Thursday yith Mrs. Will Mc-| Mrs> J- Butler who has spent Cannon. , I t^ie Past two months visiting in the .Mrs. Jennie Bacon returned home' 9utler and Hitchens homes is visiting Thursday from a few months visit m the homes of 3°ns. Andrew and with her daughter at Elgin. i Julian in Chicago. Robert Wilson of Atlantic, Iowa,' Miss Mercedes Lindemann is spendpassed away on Tuesday evening at.in* a couPle of weeks with her grandthe age of 60. Funeral services were ) mo^er' brother at Dundee. held at the home of Mrs. Jennie Bacon Mi. and Mrs. Dewey Beck of Chi- Saturday afternoon at 2:30. Rev. Coir <:ago sPeijt the Weekend with the latand glorious' nation. His was a patriotism in which integrity and hig:i ideals dominated, and not the spirit of graft and special privilege. It Is Interesting to note that the heredity and environment of Lincoln was Just the opposite to that of Wash- = lug ton*» down a well for his barn a couple of hundred feet away and not strike efoough for a flow until seventy-five feet was reached, or more. This mart said he could overcome . this uncertainty and he -was put to j the test. He indicated the spot for* "• M " us about your being. a graduate in dentistry, but your heart was in the newspaper business and your, experience in that line. Remember the time Roy Murphy, you and I started out at 9 o'clock at" night and walked the ties to Genoa Junction? Then we rode on top of a freight to Kenosha and arrived there at daylight. We had breakfast and appraised Lake Michigan and wondered at the big boats and then went to Milo Howe had a" music store in lins officiated. Burial was in Ringwood cemetery. Mr. Wilson was a nephew of Mrs. Bacon. ter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cart. Roy Wiedrich and Clarence Harri Mrs. Mildred Munshaw of Elgin so? Sp*nt Wednesday \n Chicago. spent the weekend with Mrs. Jennie Bacon. Dir. and. Mrs. Will Hiene and son, Eugene, of Chicago, were Sunday din- Racine and called on my sister, Clara. lean born, but was -born as lowly a8 the ^lTand they struck water as he Then we washed our necks, had food, the son of God." -ran anv good come ! sai J d' •T*iey him agrain and a^ain i ,stayed a11 ni^ht and next morning out of Nazareth?" would have been and he mvanably was rigrht. He did j bought round-trip tickets on the City the Inquiry ofanyone who saw the Imore than to locate the well, he even ; of Racine to Milwaukee and spent humble lob cabin iw which Llncaln was 'approxirnated the distances required • most of our time there chasing a fire born. He had to overcome a vicious ^ get to water and the amount of j department and watching the gulls .environment, lighting all the, time for the development of his natural re sources. From this condition of abject the flow. It was uncanny and people j began to gossip about it and to susi pect 'Vitchery." Some got so expoverty. with all odds against him, ex- !c^d. over that among themselves skimming the harbor. Then, on the return trip neglected to get off of the boat at Racine and the next stop was Chicago and no extra fare. Remember that, old kid, and how TO»e "pillar of fire" wps the patriotism which burned in the hearts of Washington and Lincoln. QABBY QERTJE cept his indomitable will, he became i they" almost moBbed a Swede living at not only the great Emancipator, but ! Hollow Four Corners in Lake j we walked clear across tfiat city' until the Inspiring example of Americanism. |county. who practiced it. They, we got a train fo^ DesPlaines? It His was a patriotism which was• «i«o thought he was a real witch. We was a Sunday night and you and I dominated by the spirit of sacrificial must remember that people were more j went to church, but Roy was so dirty service. " ; superstitious in those days when they j in that light-colored suit that he had True patriotism is not "My Country ' Pot around' so little as compared with j bought at Ed Lawless' that he did not Be She Right or Wrong, My Country," noW* I dare to go to services with us. We hot rather that interpretation of national ! Anyhow, nothing was done and! the ' eventually arrived home and your idealism which sacrificially seeks to >man * speak of in time left these, mother was wild, but forgave all at save the country from selfish individ- ! Parts. I got to know him quite well the joy of seeing you safe and dirty, oafism. .. ! and he told me how he did it, and I Alexander Hamilton once wrote, "It j tried it, and it came out alright. Then, la ours to be a country ~!n which the at different times, I did it again. To hopes of the world shall be entombed, this day I don't know how or why it or a pillar of fire that shall pilot the should work, but it did. He told me race onward to Its millennial glory.' jhow to get a fair-sized branch, like a crotch, from a tree, and this tree must 1 be One whose seed had a stone, such as a plum tree or cherry tree. Ptit the sharpened end of this branch in the j ground and one could tell from the | "feel' whether there was a response. For some or many it would not work, but it did for me. I got so that I always used it before starting a well and it is remarkable how successful I was. Many old inhabitants will recall about this "witchery." I want to tell about the incident of "witchery" for Eugene Wheeler. In 1895 I was out on a vacation from Chicago and met him in Owen and Chapell's store, "Gene" said, "You are just the man I want to see. I paid out $225 for a flowing well and haven't struck water yet." I said, ^You've got lots of water near your barn; there are plenty of springs, around there." So I promised to go down that afternoon and look things over. My > wife and sister, who wanted to see the I fun, went with me. I cut a crotch from a cherry tree, thirty rods from the house, and trimmed it and trie it. Then we went towards the hou .and I cirlced a wood-pile, trying fit l and at one place il9 worked strong, -^struck a stake in the ground and said: "Put your well down here thirty feet and you will have the most splei amount of water; an engine can't pump it dry." ' '"How much do I owe you?" says Gene. Say, young fellow, I'll bet that was one of your first adventures. Suppose you tell how you came by those blueberry pies that you put inside of your shirt and we were chased down the 300-ft bank of the James River at Newport News, Virginia. Tell em that the pies lodged somewhere in your panfe and your leggings salvaged them. Or were those pies inside of my shirt instead of yours or were they a fifty-fifty. Darned i| I know. Gol darn, Albert, I have fond recollections of you. Eh? What say? Maybe "Evening's twilight may find us gentle still." It has been said that "the boy is father of the man." Let's see about that at the centennial; What say % Your old pal, FRANK BENNETT. REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN-- The way Cal Curtis could triple tongue a cornet wis something to remember ? John McOmber was a familiar figure upon our streets ? Fred McOmber was a fine natural boxer and had a wicked straight left ? Gagetown? He carried a stock of ner in the George Shepard pianos, guitars, banjos, etc. Alsolhome- In the evening they and Mr. phonographs, just coming into use, and Mrs. JHjepard attended a party in and they had the roll records. Let's *^e RoBert rTl see now if we can recall a popular selection after forty years. Can you remember this one ? "Jim Bird was like a beardless boy, although a man he'd grown. He bought sorife hair restorer for a dime, "A girl may be said to be over eatifi0 when she lunches across the •trect." nk McLean, who then lived north- ?;es^of McColIum's Lake happened at the railroad crossing just as r»u " billed a big hog belonging to Old John Smith? (It was before my time.) Hank put in a claim on the spot for $20 and the next day Smith, calling on the Judge, was asked to dinner by Hank and treated to some very fine chops, while they discussed, L * • become of He rubbed it all around his chin to make his whiskers grow, Then weiit to bed and slept for Quite a time, But when he awoke n^ moling, what a sight,. His beard it had been growing all the night, - It grew so fast that really on my life the hair had suffocated all his children and wife. But still his whiskers grew, etc." I'd give you the rest Pf it, but you finish it. We Worked^ so hard in school on that very de<ul language called Latin? Let's see if any of it stuck. Oh, yes, here are a flock"of prepositions, that took the dative ant1 we had to look for an ablative absolute. You kids, let me know if I am wrong. "Ad, ante, con, de, in, inter, ob, post,'pre, pri, sub and super." Good stuff that and we use them every day, and what a comfort to know where they came from and their meaning, especially when we get ahold of a new word with those prefix. Who will ever forget that verb, amo, amas, amat? Then, "Orgetorex moraturus est." And "Dumtiorix." H« wasn't so dumb. Let me tell you youngsters, soak up that Latin, for, outside the three R's, it will do you more good than any study in high school, and dont neglect to read Cooper. FRANK BENNETT. THANKS, MR. STEVENS " Waukegan, 111.. Feb. 2, 1086. The McHenry Piaindealer, McHenry, 111. Here is, for a year's subscription to the "Old Home Town" paper, and, believe me, I would not miss it, especially this year, for many times this amount, for I am sure that through its columns I will learn of many of the home people of the days when we ! were kids and about whom I think often and wonder where are they, still here or crossed over? I hope to meet many at the Centennial's various home-coming celebrations during the year. I know that I can depend upon The Piaindealer to keep me posted on dates. The letters of various ones who Henry. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McCannon and son, Loren, spent Sunday in the Roland McCannon home at Algonquin. Mr. and Mrs. George. Bacon of Antioch spfnt Friday with Mrs." Jennie Bacon. V George Young and sons, Stanley and Alfred, were visitors at McHenry Saturday afternoon Mrs. Frankie Stephenson spent Saturday afternoon at Woodstock. Lester Carr spent Friday afternoon ft McHenry. . «' Fred Wiedrich and son, Rioy, spent Friday afternoon at Richmond. Mrs. Thomas Doherty and son, John were vistiors at McHenry Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Stephenson were callers in the Harry Alexander home at Hebron Saturdary afternoon. Community services were held at the M. E. church Sunday evening. There were 75 in attendance. A fine program was enjoyed. Mr. Muzzy gave a very interesting talk on a trip through twelve states in the south Mr. and Mrs. Merrit Cruikshank of l a family took in an auto Dundee and Mrs. Mildred Munshaw of a house car. Elgin spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. William McCannon. Among those from a distance to at> tend the funeral of Robert Wilson were Mack Curley and Mr. Moore of Valisea, Iowa, Mr. and Mrs. George Bacon of Antioch; Mrs. D. C. Bacon and Mr. aiid Mrs. James Conway of Crystal Lake; Mr. and Mrs. Jay Wilcox of Greenwood; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bigelow, Woodstock; Mr. and Mrs. W. Sullivan, Marengo; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Anderson, Mrs. Leo Karls, Mr. arid Mrs. Frank Buchert. Mr. and Mrg. William Hendrickson and Ray Bartholf, Richmond, and Mrs. Milred Munshaw of Elgin. Miss Mildred Jepson of Evanston spent Wednesday night and Thursday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Jepson. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hinze of Crystal Lake spent Sunday with the letter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Harrison. 1 The Home Circle will meet in the home of Mrs. C. J. Jepson Wednesday, Feb. 12. Russell and Lyle Franzen spent Saturday evening at Spring Grove. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Jepson and have written to the Old Timers' department have been sent to me by cousins in McHenry. Each proved so interesting, I didn't miss a line. To me it sure is great to hear from them. I want to say, Hello Folks, to all of you and 'to express here and now a keen desire to shake your hand, at home this year. Yours sincerely, ASAHEL GAGE STEVENS. 1202 Yeoman St., Waukegan, 111. Dr. C. Keller OPTOMETRIST Sundays and Mondays at-'- my- Simmer Home, Riverside Drive. v McHenry, 111. All Kinds of Repairs, Tel. 211-R The sale season is now at hand. I have a number of sales listed. I will be glad to eall and see anyone needing my services. My 30 yearq experience will be much help to you as I am in touch with more bvyvra than any auctioneer in McHenry County. Three days I sell in th* hit sale markets in Wisconsin and 1 meet all the buyers from far and near who want to buy farm personal property of all kinds, including, horses and cattle. OHAS. LEONARD Auctioneer Phone 478 Woodstock, IIL J. V. Ear! WhMac and Rev. Collins spent Monday morning in Elfin. • •V.,1 .^7 •* FREEf-'ifo ^coVfc B O O K . ^ T sagagagESg --Cor those inflariac tam i STOMACH OaPOOPPU*. > ULCUS. DVK TO HTm- AC1DITT--POOR DIGESTION, ACID DTSPfflU, SOUK 8TOMACH, OfcSSINISS, HXAR TBURNTOONSTI - - PATION. BAD BREATH, SUaSPLSSSNESS on H»tnitf!H»S, DUB 1t> EXCESS ACUX A* h»»>wiww ti irstartjfMWft WATTLES DRUG STORK Phone 37 Main Street "w, INSURANCE RTG& «« EARL R. WALSI Preventing Reliable Companta* ' > v.fcv. Wlwn you need imunuaee of Ptoae 41 or Cl-M lyg Pries Bldg. - - \ ' •"» » * • • PheeM*. ' VERNON J. KROX ATTORNEY AT LAW Pries Bldg. 6FFI&B HOURS Tuesdays and Fridays * Other Days by Appoint ml McHenry ALFORD H. POUSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 1*7M Benton^St Woodstock, 11. Phone Woodstock 191 McHenry 278 Telephone No. 800 . Stoffel ft Reih&nsperger Insnrnnce agents for all classes of property In the best conipanics. WEST McHENRY - - ILLINOIS S. H. Freund & Sod CONTRACTORS AMD BUILDERS Ptone 1S7-R McHenry Ov erperienoe ii it Tovr Senrioe in bnildlnf Tour Wants Smith's lost porker. Nothing eyet happenedi^~i« McHenry? I can't. '^1e S^ttons were very fine farmers and their cattle and horses and young- ' liters were of the very best? Hello, "It's a pleasure to me to do it for you. Nothing," I replied. ' I didn't see Gene until the following summer and at the same store. "Golly," said he/ r'I only went down thirty feet where you said and cold spring water came up twenty feet in the pipe. Never saw anythnie like it,.' Another time, in the eighties. I put] Alice. At a girl! you sure are an Old down a well on our place at Pistakee | Timer and a live wire. We want to Bay. Coroner Hertz saw it and as i hear from you again soon. , he wanted to drive a well en his new 1 - . " <-- . , ; 1 place, asked me to help him. I went to j Mrs. Linus Newman, as Mable Pird, his house on a Sunday anthwe start- and after she married, pepped up ed. first to find a good branch. There every social gathering or anything were twevle of us and different one.i j ^at she had anything to do with? tried the "witchery,'- but it wouldn t More of those good letters, please. Ford Builds 'High Wheeler' for Difficult Roads Christabel Pankliurst. now fifty-live years old, tfho with lier motlior Km . mellne and her sister Sylvia; war, one, of the outstanding suffrage leaders in the British Isles, has recently been made dame commander of *be Most Excellent Order or the lititish Hmjiire. This photograph was takeii in heihome in London. p « T Tffta.; work for any ef them. Mrs Hertz came out artd said she wanted the well close to the house and near the hack door. I went all around the house, trying in many plaees, but it wouldn't work. Finally, twenty-five feet north I stnick it strong. I told Mr. Hertz he would pret a plenty of a flow there. So we bored down, at that spot through twelve feet of clay and then put on a perforated point and drove to thirty feet. Water as cold as ice then rose in the pipe a^d Mrs. Hertz was greatly pleased. I might tell of a number of such instances. Can anyone explain it? Is there a scientific basis for it? CEO. W. OWEN. A cantata was held in the Methodist church 'and Alice Bennett wore a dress covered with gold stars cut from gilt paper ? Phil Mayes, Bert Stebbins, Lewis Owen and Fred McOmber raised their share of the, well, dickens, in their youth ? We younger fellows made ourselves scarce when they ganged up. . ... Minerva Slafter, nee Ostrander, married Aimer Bradley of Kenosha, Wis., and moved with her three little boys to his very fine farm. That was the nearest I ever earnest having A FORD V-8 "HIGH WHEELER" for use in rural districts where exceptional road clearance is needed is now being produced by the Ford Motor Company. The car is equipped with 18-ineh steel spoke wheels and 6.00 by 18 4-ply tires, instead of the 16-inch drawn steel wheels and 6.00 by 16 tires which are standard 'on the 1936 model. The additional road clearance enables the "high wheeler" to negotiate roads with deep ruts and trails with high spots such as stones and stumps. The view at right shows the standard wheel in front,. with the new "high wheel" behind. A. P. Freund Excavating Contractor meting, Hydraulic and Orant 8erviee -- Road Building TeL 204 M McHenry, HI. Dowas Motor Eiprest The Pioneer Line Operates daily between McHenry and Chicago Wsbssh 7518 Phones: McHenry 256 XEHT ft COMPANY AU Kinds of I N 8 U R A N $ * Placed with the most reUaWs Companies . - 1- Cone in and talk it over **booe McHenry S . Charlie's Repair Shop Just East of Old Bridge Over Fox River (Rear- Schaefer's Tavern) - is Repaired, i>ocue8 and Fenders ^ Straightened Sign Painting Truck Lettering Acetylene Welding CHARLES R1ETESEL Reducing Gold Cblorida When a solution of g ;ld ciiloricio Is reduced to gold under caret ally on- •trolled conditions the metai Is forueJ In particles whose diameter L< of *be order of a millionth of an Inch. Su'th particles, writes Dr. Thomas M BecK, tn the Chicago Tribune, are ertirely too small to settle out of solution withia any measurable time Interval. Ij Moreover, they possess electrical chargss, quite small ones, bat sufficient to present them from sticking together •M fanning larger particles. SUCH LIFE Jly Charlm SeglMW SNOW SUIT! &YOU TLUHk GOOTE THAT -rME TFOMORS ME\V SMOW/ T~ VASES' THAT ONE/ ' V