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SLOCrorS LAKE • OLD TIMER'S CLUB *•$ 'A \ "' »S* Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews and «Ons, Robert and Lyle, were callers at McHenry Saturday. ... *• A. H.Grewe of DesPlsines spent Sirnday at the home of Willard Darrell. Mrs. Celia'Dowell and daughters, Jennie, Ethel and Marion, were callers at Woodstock Saturday, evening. Arthur Wackerow and Mrs. Jane Eatinger and Mrs. George Eatinger of Wauconda were callers at Waukegan Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Lundeen of .Chicago spent Sunday at the home - of Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Gilkerson of Llbertyville were caUers last Wednesday evening at the Home of Mr. and -«iCrs. Harry Matthews. * . . Mr. and Mrs. Elmer. Esping spent the weekend with relatives at Forest Park. Mr. Esping also broadcasted h number in whistling from the .studio in WLS during the Home Talent program and they attended the first show of the National Barn Dance at the Eighth Street Theitre in the evening. Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Burnett attended the funeral services of Mrs. Anna Matthews at the F. O. Rowley home at Crystal Lake last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Haas of Wauconda and Mr. and Mrs. Page Smith spent last Friday with . Mrs. Clara Smith at the J. D. Williams home at Crystal Lake. , Mrs. Roels of Chicago is spending; a few weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Douglas Smith. j~ Mr. and Mrs. Lon Pretzman and ,v daughter of Richmond and Mrs. Page Smith called on Mrs. Clara Smith at Crystal Lake Sunday. Mrs. Clara Smith is quite ill at the home of her daughter at Crystal Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burnett of Chicago spent a few days last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Smith. John Feaz and Misses Olga and Irene Brown spent Sunday evening. with Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Smith. Mrs. Page Smith spent a few days last week at the home of her, daughter at Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Esping attended a relief party for the Red Cross at the High School gym at Gurnee last Friday night. Cards and entertainment furnished the diversion for the evening. Mr. Esping appeared on the program. RINGWOOD The Sewing Circle will meet with Mrs. Claus Larson Friday. A potluck dinner will be served at noon. - I The Home Circle was entertained in the home of Mrs. J. F. McLaughlin (Wednesday. A bne e'clock luncheon j was served. In the afternoon a fine ! program was enjoyed. Valentines 'were exchanged. ' \ The Epwovth League held a Valentiite party at the Kenneth Cristy home Sunday evening. Games werg played and lunch was served. * • The five hundred club enjoyed a potluck, supper at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Shepard Sunday evening. • Mrs. Viola Low and daughter and son, Walter, and Mrs. Fred Gibbs were visitors at Woodstock Friday afternoon.. Mr. and Mrs. George Shepard ind daughter, Gladys,were callers at Woodstock Friday afternoon/ i Mr. and Mrs. George Bacon .of Antioch were callers at Mrs. Jennie Ba jcofe's home "Friday afternoon. j" Mrs. W. B. Harrison entertained [the "Easy Aces" at her h<$ne Tuesday ' afternoon. Prizes were awarded to ;Mrs. F. A, Hitchens, Mrs. H. M; Stephenson and Mrs. George Shepard. I -Mrs. Leslie Allen of ,Hebron spent f Tuesday afternoon with- Mrs. Viola i'ikjw., '• David R. Joalyn, Jr., Solicitor «*ATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF McHENRY, SS. In the Circuit Court of McHenry County, Illinois. HOME LOWNERS' LOAN CORPOR- " ATION, a Corporation of the United r States of America, created by Act . «f Congress, 'Plaintiff T : vs. , BION H. BARNARD, et ai, defendants. IN CHANCERY, Gen. No. 27618. Public Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of a Decree entered in the above entitled cause on the 13th day of January A. D. 1937, I, Fred R. Ketfley, Special Master in Chancery of the Circuit Court of *McHenry County, Illinois, will, on Saturday the 27th day of February A. D. 1937, at the hour of eleven o'clock in the forenoon of •aid day (Central Standard Time), at the East front door of the Court Hense, in the City of Woodstock, McHenry County, Illinois, offer for sale and sell at public vendue to the high eat and best bidder, the following described real estate, to-wit: The South one-half (ft) of the ^following described . premises: ,-All that portion of Lot Two (2) in Block One (1) of the Original ; jhat of the Village of West McHenry which lies Westerly of a line drawn from a point on the Southerly line of the Waukegan Road two and one-fourth (2%) rods Westerly from the North p=Easterly corner of said Lot Three (3) to a point on the Northerly •. line of Main Street one (1) rod - Easterly from the South Westerly , eorner of said Lot Two (2), also • JU>t Three (3j in said Block One (1) (excepting and reserving \fherefrom all that portion thereof which lies Easterly of a line »' drawn from a point on the Southerly line of the Waukegan Road $Vo and one-fourth (2^4) rods ;.j"-';l;.V'e8terly from the North Easterly corner of said Lot Three (3) to - a point on the Northerly line of Main Street one (1) rod Easterly from the South Easterly corner „«f said Lot Three (3); also ex- ' Oepting and reserving therefrom the West fifty (50) feet thereof .. ,|is conveyed by Frances Froehlich :• and husband to Mary E. Martin and Clarence E. Martin, by Warranty Deed dated September 18th, A. D. 1929, and recorded in the • "Recorder's Office of McHenry County, Illinois, in Book 193, of ©eeds, (on page 231); said Block One (1) being located in and being a part of the South West quarter (S. W. %) of Section Twenty-six (26) and the North J quarter of Section Thirtyive (35), in Township Forty-five <45) North, of Range Eight (8) East of the Third Principal Meridian, situated in the City of Mc- -- jjlenry, County of McHenry and State of Illinois. Terms of Sale Cash in hand on day of sale, at *flrlch time a Certificate of purchase will be issued, in accordance with said Decree and theStatate. Dated this 27th day of January A. ©•1937. FRED R. KELLEY, Special Master in Chaneery af the Circuit Court of McHenry County, , IM Pauline Palmer, Chicago painter of note, and member of the McHenry OW Timers Club, whose childhood was spent in this vicinity, has again gained renown by the picture, "Provincetown," in the Chicago Artists and Vicinity exhibition, which opened last Thursday in the east 'tiring galleries of the Art Institute. Mrs. Palmer was awarded the $300 prize of Mr. and Mrs. Jule F. Brower, for her summary painting1. < The forty-first annual exhibition by artists of Chicago and vicinity opened last Thursday at the Art Institute and gives promise of being one of the most successful shows the Institu has ever hung, teays Eleanor Jewettf' Santa Margarita General Merchandise Store which I think is the oldest one in the Valley under one continual ownership and management. Archer's at Lyford and Brenner's at Raymondsvnle are close seconds. "At that time, Cameron and Nueces counties covered the coast from Corpus Christi to Brownsville but later Kleberg, Kenedy and Willacy counties were carved out of this territory. The carving of Willacy was engineered by S. L. Gill and W. A. Harding., . . Gill, being the first county judge, W. •were vl8,tors McCharen was the second. j Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Carlson an [daughter of Woodstock spent 9fin3S^ Jin the Alec Anderson home. / • | Rev. and Mrs. Collins and Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Stephenson attended the funeral of Sam Rahn at Eight Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Nelson and family of Antioch spent Thursday with Mrs. Jennie Bacon. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Carlson and children were callers at Woodstock on Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Simpson of Arlington Heights spent the weekend in the Will Beth home Mrs. Remer and daughter of Chicago spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Coyne. Mrs. Max Beth of Chicago and Mrs. Ralph Simpson of Arlington Heights attended Home Circle in the J. F. McLaughlin home Wednesday. Mrs. Ed Peet and daughter, Lucille. at Woodstock Friday afternoon; „ "Bond elections for cement roads! Mrs. Leo Karls and children and failed to carry under each judge andj Mrs. Ella Perkins of Richmond spent I was then elected county judge, de-1 S'turday afternoon with Mrs. Jennie feating McCharen by one vote. He,®acon- Mr. and Mrs. Lestei Carr and_sons the highest court ~whe& I finally came and Ethel and »I*ors Wiedrich attendout the winner by a few more votes. JUDGE MEAD SETTLED IN .TEXAS contested the election and took it to WHEN COUNTRY WAS " . , WILD -w.' ---- .The rulings in this case (McCharen "This office is in feceipt of the vs. Mead) are often quoted in election "Brownsville Herald" containing the cases, it having covered almost every following article of W. H. Mead in angle of the election laws. Vhich local people will be most inter- ."I then put over a road bond elecested. tion from which was built the highway Many local residents and readers of parallel with the railroad through Wilthe Plaindealer can recall W. H. lacy county to the Kenedy county line Mead's father, Henry C. Mead, at one where it still ends. time postmaster of McHenry, and his "I have served as school trustee, mother--yes, and Will Mead himself, justice of the peace, deputy sheriff, borp and reared in McHenry, and his county judge and county school superbrothers and sisters. rinteadent. His wife, also, was a local girl,1 "Before and during bandit times I Lida Schiessle, and has- two sisters have been shot at several times but ed the show at McHehry Saturday evening. "Clarence Harrison and Fred Wiedrich spent Monday in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Roland McCannon and family of Algonquin spent Sunday with the latter's parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Jepson. Mr. -and Mrs. Fred Wiedrich" and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wiedrich spent Wednesday evening at Richmond. Miss Mildred Jepson of Evanston is visiting her parents, Mr; and Mrs. C. J. Jepson. Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Smith • and WOODSTOCK "M^N CELEBRATE BIRTHDAYS LILY LAKH Three of the best known residents of Woodstodc and l&nown throughout the county, Charles P. Barnes, A. S. Wright, and George Eckert, observed their birthdays on Valentine's Day. On that date Mr. Wright was 90 years old and Judge Barnes celebrated his seventy-fifth anniversary. Both have been in business in Woodstock for many years, Mr". Barnes practicing law in the county for fiftyseven been I A meeting of the Lily Lake Ladies'* Leagtie was held Tuesday afternoon. Prizes were given and_,the serving of a lovely lunch concluded a most joyable afternoon. " Mr. and Mrs. Hanson and baby^ daughter of Chicago spent the weekend at their cottage at Lily Lake. family were Sunday dinner guests in I for seventy-one years. He is the last the home of their daughter, Mrs. .Writ, member of the G: A R, in Woodstock. Wurtzinger and family at*Woodstock.' Miss Mae Wiedncfn was a shopper in McHenry Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. George Esser_ and years and Mr. Wright having' fami,y of Chicago spent Sunday at druggist in the same "building!their cotta^e at LilV Mary Catherine Edinger of Woodstock and Virginia Jepson spent the weekend in the Roland McCannon hdme at Algonquin. -' / Bernice and John SmitK visited at Antioch Sunday. ' > " ; Elmer Francisco of Woodstock and M iss Blanch Waterman of Colw'ell, Idaho were callers in the S. W. Smith home Thursday .afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Qeorge Young and son spent Sunday afternoon in the Ford Jackson home at Johnsburg. Louise and Antone - Williams spent Friday evening Joe Schaefei: home. - ...v Mr. >and Mfs. Louis Abendroth of ^Elgin spent Sunday with Mrs Jennie a/Bacon. In the afternoon they and Mrs. Bacon called on Ray Bartholf at Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Schaefer and children spent Sunday afternoon in the Stephen Huff home near Spring Grove. J Mr. and Mrs. Frank Block and family of Kenosha spent the weekend with Dr. and Mrs. Hepburn. Mrs. S. W.^ Brawn spent Tuesday at' Woodstock. j S. W. Brown and Clayton Harrison' attended Masonic Lodge at Woodstock1 Thursday evening. | Mr. and Mrs. Hal Plum Of Chicago, were visitors in the S. W. Brown home' Thursday. J Mrs. S. W. Brown attended the funeral of Sam Rahn at Elgin Friday, ° ! Mr. and Mrs, Nick Young spent Sunday with their daughter and family at McHenry. ! Mrs. A. L. Laurence and son, Wiiliam, and Mrs. D. L. Hall were Elgin visitors .Friday. i | ' Mrs. Viola Low and son, Robert, spent Monday in Chicago Mr. and Mrs Dundee spent Sunday in the William McCannon home. Quite a few from here attended the funeral of T. A. Abbott Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Wirfs visited at the home of Mr. &nd Mrs. Harry Mr. Eckert has successfully carried' Miller Thursday evening. on a lumber business over a period of 1 Genevieve Daw | caller Saturday. , 1 1 Joseph Suprinski of Chicago spent Chicago the weekend at his cottage at Lily " "Lake. fifty years. Mr. and Mrs. Martin of spent Sunday at Lily Lake. Was a Waukegaa :^§Sj S4 J YOU START FASTER r LESS than 2 second* ix the utaal itartisf ' lime of Sheliv Tsilor>Made Aromax gaW1 „ line--even when tem)>er&tqre* drap W jer«. Take time for an extra cup of coffee '• these cold mornings. Yon won't be ."•tailed^ and la!« to work --with Skelly Aromax in the tank. Start fatter. Warn up faster. Get extra mileage. 7 ONLY SHELLY TAILOR-MAKES J GASOLINE for Each Couranity SKELLY oriciaeted the tailoraaakiac of r ' gasoline to fit the weather. Still, tooaj, :.... only oae gasoline is Tailor-Made for each ". comaranlty. That gasoline is Shelly Aromax. Yoa can buy it only at the saga of ' the Skelly Diamond. . <~.> - • m s VIRGIN GASOLINEJUIDED / TO REFINERY GASOLINE / VIRGIN gasoline Is a volatile, high odeae, J stabUised podaet-- tbe cleanest, £aa*aststarting jmaoHae kaowa. At 24 taUeelag _ points, skelly adds varying anwla (an to S8%) of Virgin to re&t«ry geeaHae, • taUoriag Aromax for yoar weotber. IVt a ' faster, tailor-made Start tomorrow. Drive ia where von see the Skelly Tailor. © 1»M, Sk«lly Oil Co. 613B &. to Fli Your -A' FSEUND OIL 00., McHenry. 111. Of R- !' OVERTON GARAGE, West McHenry • , - NICK ADAMS GARAGE, McHenry _ C. E. BOKEMIER, Ringwood " GEORGE BLAKIE SERVICE on U. S. 12, West McHenry • " 7 now residing here. never hit and have held inquests on< For more than thirty years Mr. and some who shot at me. I have many | Mrs. Mead have been away from this loyal friends among Latin-Americans j part of the country, but memories of some of whom I saved from execution them still linger with their friends. j while the rangers were cleaning up RAYMONDVILLE, Jan. 21--Judge undesirables. ^ W. H. Mead of Santa Margarita near "I have seen Captain Hamer of the here had the grim satisfaction during rangers kill white wings flying with the border troubles in the Valley to two out of three shots from his .361 hold inquests over several men who rifle. Hamer was no ordinary old type shot at him--and missed. 1 ranger. He had a heart. He was not Judge Mead, now operates a ceil- the killer type with an itching trigger eral store at Santa Margarita. finger but any bad man whom he knew The Valley pioneer has seen this had it coming to him surely got ft section grow from brush land into a sometime somewhere. veritable paradise and seen several "The Meads have been a scrappy counties carved where there was only bunch, every generation having volunone. As a matter of fact, he is a teered and gone to war. My youngest pioneer of two frontiers, having been brother, Carl E. Mead, though exempt, reared along the middle western fron- volunteered and went to the World tier before coming to Texas., No one, War in France. He died in a governhowever, can give the story as well ment hospital in Chicago soon altar as Judge Mead himself and here is his return. the way he tells about it: | "My son, L. W. Mead, though < t- "I was born in 1865 near Chicago empt, went at the first call and retu iiand spent my early years on the ed from France with a Croix de Gueipfrontiers of the Dakotas, Nebraska re with a citation for bravery under and Kansas. I then went 'back eas*' fire in the signal corps. My scraps to Chicago where I married a local ll»ve ***" Political, but being close to girl. We lived severil years in Chicago and finally came to the Valley in 1906 when Jim Wells was king of politics in South Texas and Lon Hill was starting his developments. Hill, that picuresque character who founded the city of Harlingen, offered me land from the Rio Grande river for six dollars an acre. "I ate my first meal down hel*e in the old Millet Hotel' at a long tabic sitting across from Jess Wheeler and -his wife, editors of The Brownsville Herald. "Jess had an eye for business, and lost no tin j getting my subscription the next day, signing the receipt on a show caste in Rutledge's jewelry | store. I also banked some money in the old First National bank. j "It was a great experience crossing the Rio Grande to Matamoros in! / a row boat. ^There were no bridges! then and the ferry was the only way to get across. The fare was only five cents Mex or about two and one-half cents Unfted States money. Everyone1 in Matamoros at that time was very ! polite and would give you the shirt off. his back if he had one and you asked for it. I "I soon landed in Lyford where we' first lived in tents as did others until the Currys drilled a well and build-1 ings were erected. We lived on vem- ' son and wild turkeys that we shot I nearby and groceries obtained from' Kingsville and Brownsville until Tom' Hood built a store. Deer could be had in a three minute walk from camp. j "Soon we moved to Santa Margarita, then a place in the brush, northeast of Raymondville to take charge of developments for the Gulf Coast Irrigation Co., drilling wells, aad clearing, fencing snd renting land sold. 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