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Vfr -'l V " '* •<* ' * ^ i "n J Thursday, *v^rr ;.; "* - * ^ *si n , » ; : .* *. - , , < * , * t : , ' 'Wls'-i Pa^e Thrtt HOMES SOUGHT FOR HOMELESS BOYS The State School for Boys at St. Charles, 111., has at its disposal a number of fine young boys who as a result^ of the completion of their program at the school, with a very good showing, are now eligible for parole. In most instances these boys, ranging in age from 10 to 14 are either without homes or*parents to return to or else home conditions are such as forbid a return. We are interested in hearing from good wholesome folks who have the intelligence, patience and kindness at heai^t to open their homes to one ot these boys so that they might further benefit by wholesome iiome surroundings and training. The. State will pay a fair rate of board for the care and maintenance.' If interestied, please WTite to Mr. W. T. Harnun, Managing Officer, State School for Boys, St. Charles, 111., giving references and specific directions for reaching your home whether it be farm or town home. One of our field workers will be pleased to call on you to fully explain our plan of f<08ter home placement. .< E. B. PANKRATZ. * , 0NE PROJECT FOR COUNTY •"•it has been announced from Springfield that the Illinois Division of Highways had awarded contracts in thirty-one counties, covering forty-one projects, at a total cost of $1,647,338. In the list of projects, McHenry county drew one job, the bituminous surface treatment of 2.40 miles of road from Johnsburg to Koute 20 at m cost of $7,316, the contract being awarded to Andreason Corp., Chicago. OBSERVE CONTOUR FARMING Ben Justen, Will Justen, Peter Miller, C. F. Jepson, A. F. jepson, and R. T. Burroughs were six 'McHenry County farmers who observed methods of farming rolling farmland in the demonstration tour held wt _F port on June 25. There were interesting ex^fnples of contour farming, strip.-owning, crop stepping, terraces and \perraanent stuctures for the prevention of soil losses. Farming on contour is bringing about better conservation of soil as well as making the be^t possible use of rainfall during the growing season on the fields observed. Through the use of narrow strips of different crops or crop stripping in rotation on slightly rolling ground, erosion has been held to a minimum. Alternate strips of hay land with narrow areas of row crops planted on the contour is known as strip croppta*. ,*• EARLY floods 2 One of the worst'early floods recorded in the history of Fox river took place on March 12, 1849, and the preceding night. The flood was caused by the melting of the immense quantity of show and ice in the lakes region which in breaking up caused considerable damage. Other disastrous floods were recorded in 1857 and 1887. Spring freshets, now unheard of in this locality, were a common occurence and washed out dams and bridges. Mr. and Mrs. David Low and family of Muskegon spent Friday in the S. H. Beatty home. NOTICE During the summer months my McHenry Optical officc in the A. E. Nye building will be closed. Dr. Paul A. Schwabe OPTOMETRIST Glasses Fitted Eyes Examined Phone 674 - Woodstock. (for appointment)' Monday --- Wednesday ----- Saturday Phone 200-J Fred J. Smith, Prop. Johnsburg The best equipped garage in this bounty. We can take care of any kind of repair job and.our work is guaranteed. Give us a trial Standard Service Station 24-Hour Towing Service FEED SMITH, Prop. SILVER DOLLAR BRADY RENTS PENTHOUSE FOR PRIZE HORSE Silver Dollar Brady, wealthy cowboy from Dallas, has the world's first "penthouse corral" high above Chicago on the 17th floor of Hotel Sherman. Brady and his horse are shown here "at home" looking out over the city's attractive, skyline. "More Silver Dollars In circulation will bring back better business conditions a whole lot faster." That's the idea of Silver Dollar Brady, who arrived in Chicago today, with the Intention of getting more Silver Dollars in circulation. Brady, big, six-foot wealthy rancher from the West, walked into the Hotel Sherman today, tois prize horse trailing behind. First, he registered with the horse at his heels . . . then he went into the coffee shop and both man and beast had a bite to eat. He had wired for reservations for .himself and horse, and was given a penthouse high above the street on the 17th flow, with a special corral, hay, oats and alli for his horse. ' "The trouble with paper dollars is, you don't feel 'em in your pock- * et," Brady sai<l. "Now, it's different with Silver Dollars. You know you got 'em, They seem to mean a whole lot more. But because they're heavy, you spend 'em a lot quicker." _ Brady said he was going to urge Chicago merchants to pay their employees in Silver Dollars. "Then you just watch business boom," he said. Brady, who is an 'Ambassador of Good Will for the Texas Centennial Exposition at Dallas, wears a valuable belt made ot old and rare Silver Dollars. MELANCHOLY SONG LEADS 18 TO TAKE THEIR OWN LIV1 'Sorrowful Sunday" Is Banned in Budapest After# Sunday Epidemic. WOMAN STARVES TO DEATH WITH AMPLE * FOOD IN KITCHEN Bank Books of Victim Show She Had Deposits Totalin* $30,000. Chicago.--"Sorrowful Sunday" Is now a banned song in Budapest--a song of death.. Hungarian orchestra leaders shake their heads when It ts mentioned. Its haunting melody, its bitter words, have driven 18 persons, disappointed in love, to commit suicide. Frank J. Kovach. Hungaian radio entertainer who has broadcast, the song a few times from a local station, has supplied what is believed to be the only copy extant In the United States. He brought it back with him from a tecent trip to Budapest. Now that so many persons^there have ended their lives after hearing It, Mr. Kovach understands why he found "Sorrowful Sunday" so depressing--- and why he did notv care to continue broadcasting it. Triad to Focflat It. . " From the time of the firet Budapest orchestra leaders have tried to forget the song. But requests of patrons cannot be ignored. Joseph Keller was the eighteenth to take his life. He asked an orchestra to play the mournful dirge--and fell dead at the leader's feet, clutching a note asking that 1.0(H) flowers be placed on his bier. Then police acted. They ordered that the song never be played again la Budapest But (hat order cannot stop the phonograph records, whose ssle Is reported to have been phenomenal. Housemaids Stab Selvss. Several of the victims have shot themselves while listening to .the rec ord. Two fired bullets into their hearts as Hungarian gypsies strummed the song on their guitars. Two housemaids heard the music in the drawing' rooms of the families that employed them, and ended their lives with daggers. Kovach, wlw> was director of the first Hungarian air program broadcast . from Chicago, translated the words into English: ' Sorrowful Sunday, 1 waited for you. my dearest. . J • With hundreds of flowers and church prayers. With dreams gon*- astray, Sunday b«- -* tore noon. My own carriage of angrulah r,Warned without you. ; Since then my Sundays have been sorrowful. Tears are my drink and sorrow my bread. . Sorrowful Sunday. On my last Sunday, dearest, again will await yoO. > There will be a priest, ..a cofttii, a shroOd-covered bier. Again flowers will await you. Under the blooming trees my Jourivey will be the last; My eyes will be open so I can see you for the last time. Don't be afraid of my eyes, because even In death thipy idolise you. ' On my last Sunday. Man Escapes Death Four Times in a Few Seconds New York.--Charles Nundorff, fortyseven years old. of Babylon, N. Y„ escape death in a smashup. by electric shock, by explosion, and by fire all within a few seconds. •His coupe was .struck by a Long Island railroad train at a crossing near Babylon. The machine was hurled against the third rail of an adjoining track, overturning as it went. Current from the rail caused the gasoline tank to explode, enveloping the wreckage In flames. Nundorft retained presence.of mind enough to smash a rear window of the car and drag himself out before the flames reached him. A short time later, while the train crew stood helplessly by, believing him trapped In the burning wreckage, he was seen wandering tn a daze in a field alongside the railroad right of way. He suffered concussion of the brain and severe burns about the Jiead, face and arms. Mm* Tork.-- Mrs. Anna Cloutier, sixty- one years old. a widow in comfortable circumstances, was found dead of cold and starvation In her home at 764 Home street, the Bronx, a three-story frame house containing three apartments. Her brother-in-law. Amedee Clouter. who shared -the first-floor apartment with her. was in a semiconscious condition in his room, near death from the same causes. He was taken to Lincoln hospital. Mrs. Cloutier, the ambulance surgeon said, had been dead two or three days. There was plenty of nourishing food in the kitchen, a few steps from the rooms In which the Cloutiers lay in their beds, fully clothed, but the fire In the heater had gone out lopg before and the water pipes In, the house bad frosen. >: Toe Weak to Summon Aid. - The police believe that Mrs. Cloutier and her brother-in-law had become ill at about the same time and after throwing themselves on their beds, became so weak that they could not get up to keep the fire going, to get food or to sumsnon help. Mrs. Clou tier's husband, a builder, and their son, died about 16 years ago. Since jhen site had lived a most <retired life. Her neighbors seldom saw her except when she was sweeping her steps or the sidewalk or was going marketing. It was apparent that she had ample means for the simple life she had chosen. The police found bank books Indicating that she had about $30,000 in cash and there were numerous pieces of old-fashioned Jewelry. some of which is thought to be valuable. Neighbors said that It was fully a week since they had seen Mrs. Cloutier. They were beginning to wonder if she had gone away or if something was wrong at her home, for the last snowfall never had been cleared from her sidewalk, and that was something about which she was most particular. , No One Else in House. The apartment she and her brother lived in was the only one in tiie house that was occupied and there was n-< one in the house, therefore, to complain of the lack of heat or the condition of the sidewalk. Children playing in front of the house noticed that wafer was oozing beneath the basement door. Some of them told their parents and the police of the Morrisania station were Informed. 'Patrolnirih James Hagen and. Walter Iteiss got Into the apartment '-through a window on the rear fire escape and discovered the strange situation. The place was bitterly cold and water from the broken pipes had frozen on the floors. It was from these pipes that the water came which had attracted the attention of the children. RINGWOOD World Output of Gold Is Highest in History ] ^ New Haven, Conn.--The world's rate of gold production Is now at the highest point in history, according to a report by Dr. Adolph Knopf, professor of geology at Yale university here. During 1934 the precious metal mined totaled 27,475,000 ounces, he said. That Is equivalent to slightly more than $900,000,000. The low point In gold mining was reached in 1022, be said, adding: "More than half the annual supply of newly mined gold since that time has come from South Africa, from the world's greatest gold field, the Hand." Clock Collection Shows 0 - Trends Through History Boston.--James C'onlon, a clock maker for 35 years, has a clock collectioif that depicts their progress through history. He has Quaker clocks, grandfather clocks, cable and wooden clocks, ones that tick on monotonously and somo that have two-octave chimes. The Quaker timepiece is called the "coffin clock" because of its construction-- a long wooden case with only a simple wooden scroll and a chaste metal ornament on the outside. Conlon's wooden clocks probably were made in Holland or Germany .about the Seventeenth century. i m Beggars' School Trains Tots in Tody^f Trade Pllsen. Czecho^ff^^^^fty "beggars' academy" has been wJWn^red by the police of Pllsen. the famous beer city. An empty barn in the nearby village of Skvrnany was the seat of that Institution which had two adult Instructors and 26 boy "scholars." The teachers fold their pupils how to look miserable and "maimed." and how to behave as "blind" and "dumband- deaf." Practical exercises were held, and crutches, bandages and other beggar's appliances were purchased at general p-ices. Lessons were also given for writing hedging letters, and instructions were given where and how the individual hoys had to beg. The booty was handed over to the teachers, who retained one-half and distributed the other half among the hoys. Mrs. Ray Peters entertained the Scotch Bridge Club Wednesday afternoort. Prizes were Awju-ded to Mrs. Viola Low and Mrs. Louis Schroeder. Mrs. Will McCannon entertained the Bunco club at her home Thursday afternoon. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Nick Freynd and Mrs. Nick Young:. Mrs. R. E. Howard ahd daughter, Alice, and Mrs. Kenneth Merchant of Kenosha and the Misses Ethel. Marion, Lois, Dorothy and Audrey Merchant spent Wednesday in Elgin. Mrs. S. H. Beatty attended a funeral of a friend at DesPlaines Thursday. _ • - Elmer Olsen, George Young and Ben Justen spent Monday ^and Tuesday at Woodstock. Jilrs. Sayler Smith and Mrs. Larry Pease of Portland, Oregon, Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Butler and family and Mr. and Mrs. George Shepard and family spent Wednesday evening in the-J. F. Claxton home at McHenry. , : Mr. and Mrs. George Yoting find son, Alfred, were visitors at McHenry Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Young spent Wednesday evening at Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Burns of Chicago were callers St Mrs. Nellie Dodge's Thursday evening. Mrs. J. M. Butler and son, Elmer, find Mrs. Herbert Farnum and son, of Bath, 111., and Shirley Butler of Elgin are visiting in the F. A. Hitchens home. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dunham and children of Fort Dodge, la., are visiting in the B. T. Butler home. * Mrs. G. O. Allen of Maywood, Mrs. Anna Whittie of Lynxville, Wis., Vernon Whiltie and Wilma Trout, Prairie- de-Chine, Wis., were callers in the F. A. Hitchens home Friday m,orn* ing. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Heine and son, Eugene, , of Chicago spent July 4 it) the George Shepard home. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Todd, Mrs. Floyd Todd and Mrs.- Amy Bragy of Chicago spent Saturday and Sunday with Mrs. Agnes Jencks. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Young, spent July 4 at Wilmot. Mrs. Genevieve Dodge and children of Woodstock spent July 4 with Mrs. Nellie Dodge. Mrs. Larry Pease left for.her home at Portland, Ore., Friday after visiting relatives and friends here. Her mother, Mrs. Sayler Smith will remain for a longer visit. Mr., and Mrs. Joseph Schaefer and daughter, Shirley, were Woodstock visitors Friday afternoon. Roy Neal of Chicago spent. tfee weekend with his family here. Mr. and Mrs. Felvey Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Carlson and daughter of Woodstock spent Wednesday evening in the Alec Anderson home. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Foss of Richmond, Mrs. Dora Williamson and daughter, Josephine, and Mr. and Mrs. Alec Anderson and family and Wayne Foss spent July 4 with Mrs. Rilla Foss. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Killey and family of Garden Prairie spent July 4 in the Mrs. Cora Kelley home. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ritter of Kenosha spent Sunday evening in the Frank Fay home. Mr. and Mrs. .George Young and son, Alfred, spent Sunday in the Fuller Boutelle home at Lake Geneva. Mr. and Mrs. Soollng of Waukegan spent Sunday evening--in -the A. L. Laurence homot Mr. and Mrs. Lester Brooks and son of Crystal Lake spent Sunday evening in the Frank Fay home. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Krause and daughter of McHenry were callers in the Herman Salzman home Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Haynes of Chicago called at the Louis Hawley home Saturday afternoon. Miss Amy LaurencS of Crystal Lake is spending two weeks at her home here. Mr. and Mrs. George Young and son, Alfred, spent July 4 in the Edward Smitjijhcphe at Crystal Lake. Miss Virginia Jepson spent July 4 in Elgin. * Among those from here to attend the dinner and program at Greenwood July 4 were J. V. Buckland, Miss er and family spent Sunday ih the Raymond Porter home at Huntley. Olive Jepson and Anna May Williams of Elizabeth spent the weekend with, the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Jepson. " Virginia Jepson and Lucille Peet are attending, the Epworth League caipp at Conference Point, . Lake Geneva. John Smith spent Saturday and Sunday at Fort Sheridan where he attended the State Rifle team try-opt. Mr. and Mrs. William Wurtzinger of Woodstock spent Saturday and Sunday with ther latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Smith. M iss Bernice Smith and Mrs. Anderson of Antioch spent Saturday evening in the S. W. Smith home. Mr. and Mrs. H. M., Stephenson called on Mrs. Libbie Stephenson at Ridgefield Sunday afternoon. " Mr. and Mrs. Louis Engstrom said, family of St. Charles spent the weekend in the Ray Merchant home. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph' Clay and family of Rockford, Mr, and Mrs. B'utterworth and son, Robert, and daugh- Flora Taylor, Rev. and Mrs. Collins, j ter, Hazel, and Lincoln Davidson of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Stephenson, Mr. Belvidere and Mrs. Hattie Clay of and Mrs. Raymond Harrison and Apple River spent July 4 in the Ed family, Mr, and Mrs. Charles Peet, Peet home and they ai>d the Peet Mrs. George Harrison, Mrs.) C. J. family fct-; Jepson and daughter, Olive, and'Anna Lake. : May Williams attended tips program! Robert Howe, son of Floyd Ho«re.- in thei afternoon. and Miss Blanche Shales of Wood- Fred Wiedrich^and son, Roy, were stoc were united in marriage at the visitors at Richmond Sunday morning. Mr. and" Mrs. Dewey Beck of Chicago spent the weekend in the Charles Carr home. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Carr and sons spent Saturday evening at Crystal Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wiedrich and family* and Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Fishhome of Rev. Collins by Rev. Collons at 6:30 Sunday afternoon. Their attendants were Miss Hazel Shales, sister of the bride and Howard Walkington, Jr. A group of young folks from Woodstock and Ringwood were there to witness the ceremony and to offer them congratulations. The Sewing Circle will meet with Mrs. Rilla Foss, Friday, July 17. ( D I S M A L T H I S W E E K Set ISO Million Years as Age of Palisades New York.--The rocks which make Up the Hudson river palisades are 150 million years old, according to a scientific determination reported recently to more than 500 geologists, mineralogists and paleontologists in joint annual convention here. Rocks near Duluth. Minn., were found more than 500 million years old. In other parts of the world, rock specimens showed an age of 900 million years. These determinations indicated that the age of the world as a planet must not he lels* than two billion years, according to Prof. Alfred C. Lane of Tufts college, ^chairman of a special committee on the measurement of geologic time which sat to receive the results. Dr. William D. Urry explained his method_ of timing the life of rocks by measuring their radio-active decay. Early Arizona Indians Played Baseball, Too Phoenix.--Ball playing among early American Indians was not limited to the Aztecs and Mayas, according to Dr. Harold S. Colton, of the Museum of Northern Arizona. Near Flagstaff, a Joint expedition of the museum and the Arizona State Teachers* coll'ege discovered a large oval "bowl'.' in which a form America's most popular sport was played 800 years ago. The bowl is about 100 feet long and 4<t ieet -wide. The sides are 8 feet high, and the floor is level, with 'a plan somewhat like that which has been found on the Yucatan peninsula. Frank Companions , The most agreeable of all Companions is a simple, frank saan, without any high pretensions to oppressive greatness. CUSTOMER "I understand that Chevrolet is now enjoying the biggest demand in its history/' "You're right. And there's a good reason. 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