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• \ 7^-V • ,£ Y v*' - • ;• ; V • ^ ^-i ^ •»>, 'v/v,- <- /;•., .v^ *~\7y >t.J\ •- " >, " / f*>r /• *77* ". . .•f iA F• ow*u*r* • ••- • .7_7* .»• •••* .•-. * ..<- ___• f. flMW-.gW.."IM«* t-; *»»«« '• '.-,) '.Intered m sefend-class matter at the postoffic* at McHenry, 1&, wader ite act^f Hay 8,1875. . t ontha K-, ' >f < • «? , " y • ~5" 77j r?.; .'1, / •^• •': v^»,. f, -- ^H# f ^ r f - ^ X [ 7%Z* *•* •.*> ^ M'HENRY PLA1NDEALER Published «very Thursday at McHenry, 111., by jChariaaF. Baifch. ....^18.00 $1.00 B. MO&BER, Editor and Manar*l- Liliian Sayler, Local Editor Telephone 197 Reed Tells of lVExperiences In Russia r i W ' --:-- ' " m 'v :Y j 1 Third of Series of Articles Written by McHenry High School Instructor, Relating Many Interesting Things 5 He Saw on Vacation Mptf/a*!!*' A V* IfSfi PKRSONALS * Vr s£> *;.rsit V-A v 1 - i ^*Y . (By O. Q. igt^Kvhfe' presented I* . f -v.- %* >«•* . •«. s<ymn;$vr •>• • ;* .v '".*, a meat prbdv*t!<Mt.' e"i 'f§w'&s:- '•.-.Very interesting study in the summer ceptions to this. Outside of Moscow <rfj$37. We Americans had heard there is a big daily farm with puremany fantastic tales about the crude bred Holstein and a large barn comjmethods of Russian peasant farmers, pletely equipped with the latest milkremaps there was some truth in these ing machines, conveyers, etc., all run tales of primitive agriculture. In the' by electricity, but this farm is mostly present year, however, the Russian just to show the use of electricity on jpation is attempting to make its ag-( the farms. Also there are some model ^culture- pot only modern but ultra- dairy farms on same of the collective ntodern. The modernization is still in Koikes farms throughout the Union, the process and rural Russia presents! There are a few Sovhovez. Some of a very mixed picture. Visitors seei these are special cattle breeding farms ^ farm machinery of a design used two (for the general improvement of cathundred years ago operating right tie. Along the Volga, the type of along side of 1937 models of modern animal we found was a scrub of dark farm implements. As I rode across j colors, reds, browns and blacks and a the huge wheat fields of a Kolkoz few black and whites. Up around Len- (State Farm) near Rostov-on-the-Don, j ingrad there were several black and I passed first, a high powered wheat whites--evidently a Hotstein Friesian combine, next a paddle-wheeled reap- ] produce since Holstein is not far away^ ... »s .. . Workers' Apartments at the Gorki Automobile Plant -ntfV •* cr «oeh as the Dakota farmers used in the 80's. { Next (only a mile or so farther on) a group of women swinging scythes, or cradles, and tying the bandies by hand, So it was all over the great wheat plains of Russia. They are wild about tractors, almost as "nuts" about them as some of our American farmers who spend all their time in high talk about cars and tractors and have no time left to do good farming. The Russians, because of generations of suppression, being re ejflesto be from there. There is" one native cendant of Holstein which used called the "Russian black and white." Down in central Russia and in the large valleys toward the Caucasian Mountains, there was a breed of a light cream and gray. The color and size was similar to an Ayrshire with fine horns turning, tyward and forward. There were quite a ffew of these and if there ev£)* Was" a dairy type in Russia, it was these. From the appearance, they wefe "flfice much more fused an opportunity to learn mechan- plentiful thaa a«r. As for breeds; ics, have little skill in mechanical ma-1 they evidently, have none, not like the nipuation. As a result, you see trac-!beef breeds as w^ know, here, which toi* around idle and broken quite fre-1 seems a "shamt tocktfee certain localquently. Many of them do not even ities such m Hie-greet plains area, JEnow enough to push in,a choke and; north from ttyj}fCaMMian Mountains abase the tractors considerably. The j to Ukraine, seemed to us an ideal government has aetablished "Tractor j place for tWJIif pi uUUUltull since this Machine Stations" over the whole' would be one good vxay of utilizing country. They are sort of garage vil-' that tvna nf Unri hnt tw seem ablages or groups of villages where j solutely ignorant OT any beef breeding, *~ty or forty mechanics live and although Englishman on the steamtake care of a fleet of tractors. There j ship repanfed to me that the Soviet are some 3600 of them. These trac- Government .was buying considerable tors are loaned out or rented to the atate farms and collective farms and men living there are taught farm mechanics and repair work. The many amall modern farm implements that «nr farmers use are practically un- Mra. W. B. Tonyan and Mrs. Albert Valea ware Waukegan vis! tors Monday. , f • s Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kamhoiz and son. Fred, Jr., visited relatives in Chicag# Sbnday. Miss Anna Frisby visited in the Witter Warner home at Elgin Sunday. Mrs. Kate Barbian left Sunday for a two weeks' visit with her daughter at New York City. Mrs. George Lindsay is in charge of her shop during her absence. Dr. and Mrs. Wlmt. A. Nye arrived home Monday night from a honeymoon trip to Central America. Their return trip was hastened, somewhat, by the illness of the doctor's father, Dr. N. J. Nye. Mrs. Win. Bacon and daughter, Arleen, left Friday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Hienry Lange at Connorsvi lie, Ind. They expert to be gone about a week. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Schaefer have spent the past several days in North Dakota. - Mr. and Mrs. Herman Nye of Aurora, visited hia father, Dr. N. *J. (Nye, who is ill, and other relatives the last of the weekv Mifes Doris Oberg of Duhith, Minn., called on Miss Emily Simon one day the last of the week. Bob and Ed Sens of Chicago and Mrs. Frank Mathieu spent Sunday in the home of Mrs. Rose Mueller, Mrs.. Betty Nielsen was a Chicago business visitor Wednesday. Miss Emily Simon is spending a few days with her aunt, Mrs. Sens, and her father, Emil Simon, in Chicago. Mrs. Josephine Pouse his returned from a trip to Florida. - r - Mr. and Mrs. C. R. White and 6on, Robert, of Rochelle, relatives of M. L. Schoenholtz, were Sunday dinner guests in the home'of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Schoenholtz. Misses Carolyn and Helen Bauer at-^ tended the homecoming at DeK&fb Saturday. Miss Dorothy Timmerman of Libertyville returned with them on Sunday. Genevieve Knox with Mrs. Clarence Whiting and son, Delbert, of Elgin plans to leave Friday afternoon for Cape Girairdan, Mo., to visit Clare FOB SALE FOR SALE--1930 Jordan automobile, 8 cylinder, 4-door custom-sedan. Must be sold to cover parts and repairs, Blake Motor Sales. Telephone 156 21 1*1937 .-mm • .... • i -J > , FOR SALB--Dr. Salisbury's Poultry Remedies. Bring ua your poultry problems. Fanners Mill, Phone 29. 14-fcf FOR SALE--Gas Stover, €flOr; Oliver Typewriter, $8; $47-00 Violet Ray, ^20. F. Holnles, McHenry, 111., .Route 2. *21 FOR SALE--Pears, 50c bushel. Peter A. Freund, Phone 614-R-l. 21 FOR SALE--Murphy's Sure Pay Mineral. 500-pounds for fi6.00. 29, Farmers Mill. Phone 19-tf FOR SALE^--4-year-old Jersey Cow, due to freshen Nov. 24. This cow is eligible for registration. James Rainey, Ringwood, 111. *20-3 FOR RRNT--One Modern 5-roorn apartnieiit and garage; newly decorated; steam heat. Tel. 17, Mrs. John R. Knox. . 10-tf FOR RENT-r-6-room house, electric and gas, twtf large lots, on Park ave., one Mock north of Washington street, McHenry. $10 per month. Earl R. Walsh, AgentV ' 17-tf FOR RENT--188 acre farm. Pare milk inspected. Also cottage with garage. Anna Justen, Rt. 3. 18tl FOR RENT--80 acre Tod farm, southeast corner Lake Defiance; stock, feed and equipment if desired. Call McHenry 615-W-l. 19-tf MISCELLANEOUS VISITORS WELCOME--At the Baird Farm, where you may buy choice apples at reasonable prices. *21 COMPLETE RADIO and Electric Motor service at my home on Riverside Drive. Alvin Rothermel. *21-2 FOR SALE--Pure Bred" Duroc Boars; also Jonathan Apples. Inquire at Pine Tree Dairy Farrn, No. 1. 20-tf FOR SALE--Household goods. Can be seen during the day or evenings, or phone 102-W. SL Patterson, Waukegan road, McHenry. *21 ALFALFA, TIMOTHY AND STRAW r*OR SALE--Weights and grade guaranteed. Write us for delivered prices. Chicago Hay Co., 4201 So. Emerald Ave;, Chicago. 21-13 FOR SALE--My beautiful $650 player piano and rolls for $49.60 before moving. $5 a month to responsible party. Write me today and I will tell you where in McHenry my player piano may be seen. Write Mrs. Mary Schultz, Route 5, Box 229A, Waukesha, Wisconsin. . *21 WANTED Whitijig,. who is Studying for the priesthood. . 0 Mrs. Albert Purvey went to Woodstock Monda$ to visit her brother, Jay Compton, who is improving after a recent operation. Mrs. Simon Stoffel, daughters, Clty-a and Mrs. C. J. Reihansperger, Mrs. Z. Baker and Anna Frisby were West Chicago and Winfield visitors Wednes- -day. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Doherty and M. A. Conway-visited Sister Marie Gratia in Chicago Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Boger and son, David, of Maywood visited relative? here Sunday. Mrs. Floyd Hopper and son of Crya- : tal Lake visited friends here Wedneaday. , «• Eleanor Kinsala, manager of the Natioal Tea Co., store at Fox Lake is enjoying a two-weeks' vacation. ^ Miss Nancy Frisby returned home Friday, after spending a week with her sister in Elgin. Alvina Schmitt accompanied her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Orin Stuckwisch, to 3an Francisco, Calif., recently. Mr. and Mrs.# Harold Phalin, John and Donald Givens were Sunday visitors in Chicago. Mrs. Mollie Givens returned home with them after a few/ days' visit there. Mr. and Mrs. John Bolger, with her father, Jos. Kortendick, and daughter, Kathrine, of Rockford, attended the game at Champaign * Saturday and spent the weekend with Mrs. BolgerY sister, ilpa, Howard Aahton, at Springfield. WANTED--Pleasant home and light work preferred to higher wages by farmer's widow. Write X, care' of The Plaindealer. v *21 WANTED--Girl or woman for general housework; adults; own room. State salary expected.-* Mrs. Harry McKinlay, 324 N. Ridgeland Ave., Oak Park, 111., Phone Euclid 9619. 21 WANTED--Girl for general housework, small family. Good wages and nice home. *15216 Elmwood Ave., Oak Park--Phone Village 4897. . : *21 GARBAGE COLLECTING--Let us dispose of your garbage each week,, or oftener if desired. Reasonable i rates. Regular year round route, formerly George Meyers'. Ben J. Smith. Phone *157 or 631-M-l. 2-tf DISCUSS And PROGRAM--Your life instance with this office. Do not "cai;ry" life insurance -- '^Own" it. EARL R. WALSH, Agent, Representing the Mutual Lifa of New York. 14-fcf CIDER MAKING--Have your apples and grapes pressed at Kattner's cider mill, 1 mile east of Spring Grove. Open Tuesdays and Fridays or by appointment. Phone Richmond 912 or 443. 5c per gal. 18*-6 TREE SPECIALIST--Leo P. Thornbill, 12 years experience; Pruning,' feeding, sprayirfg and cavity treatment. Telephone, McHenry 129-J. *20 Red Attracts Babies Babies can distinguish between colors and almost invariably reach for red as their first choice. A survey to determine color preference among babies rates bright red as the first choice with bright blue, white and bright green i following in the order named. This accounts for the brilliancy of the colors used in painting toys. V Problem of TratSr The problem of truth is to discov-. er the nature of the agreement between the things of the mind, our ideas, and the reality of which ideas are the knowledge. We call the agreement truth. 5\.V* * : r- , . p35 • • • /ms 1932 1932 " rV 1931 ; * " .1931 <931 > 1930 1930 : ( ' 1931 : - 1929 1929 1929 / 1928 1928 SMALL BUI0K SEHAK i/2 TON FORD TRUCK Paint any Color V2 TON CHEVROLET PAMEli Paint any Color CHEVROLET COUPE Fenders Refinished CHEVROLET COACH Fenders Reflnished 1 CHEVROLET SEDAN Fenders Reflnished IV2 TOtf CHEVROLET TRUCK WILLYS &EDAN x; ; v CHEVROLET COUPE f Z. V'j "WILLYS ROADSTER CHEVROLET COACH CHEVROLET ROAD&TER iy2 TON CHEVROLET TRUOk STUDEBAKER SEDAN - CHEVROLET COUPK -,"r ? FORD COUPE - C FORD COACH / ^ CHEVROLET SEDAK> FORD ROADSTER FORD COACH LaSALLE SEDAN PONTIAC SEDAN , J. * t #' •' Wtk . r.. A few other cheap cars to choose from SCHWERMAN CHEVROLET SALES USE THE CLASSIFIED COLUMNS FOR QUICK RESULTS - •> "• \ ,A >'.1 V •>' . 'f - {<• * English beef animals to be used for breeding purposes. , ^ ,.Many^O^en / . • I They, of course, have let* «f -o*en q. . __ pulling wagoMs and 'plows an0 doing Pia|ndealer Rubber Stamp" at The general farm work.: They are used Completely insulated. Oveo beat regulator.' Automatic top lighter. Noa*dog top borners. Baamelled dirooghoat. 2-piece grid-pan broiler. 2 roomy service drapers. 0 known in Russia; such as feed grind-1 era, electric motors, gasoline-powered •mall implements of one sort or another such as corn plows, ensilage eutr. Jftn, ete., ^ Poor Liveatock - The livestock'is Very pOOr. Steveu years ago the Soviet leaders told the Kulaks (middle-class land owners) that they had to give up possession of their land and stock and become memj hers of the collective farms: The collective farms to own all the property. Peasants who had no stock or land - tiked the idea. The Kulaks did not *ke this. To resist it, they hid the Mvestock, butchered it, or allowed it to drift away--anything to keep the "government from getting jt. as beas^^f ^^^^^til not needed so much and then they are butchered. The population of oxen in Russia since the time of the attempt to Socialize agriculture, has decreased a very great deal. , */. I did not see any hogs personally excepting a.«mall herd of perhaps seventy- five on a collective farm near Odessa and a few single animals in the small pens around the stables on 1 the peasants' farms along the-way. : The agricultural censi however, reports several million head of hogs. Since 1924 the population of hogs has come back up to practically what it was before the trouble over socialization of agriculture. Sheep in* Russia are a little better ' than cattle. Their number did not § A woman's work shop is her kitchen! How important h is then to have it modern and up-, update in every respect! And yet, today, many homes are still using ancient, inefficient stoves and ranges... equipment that should have been discuded long ago*- which they get -the Vary poptiUttr cacacul » fur, which is a popular favorite with wonrien the world over. This is the greatest producing region for this fur. It is taken from the young lambs as a whole fleece, not sheared wool, and is cured in vans by special process to get that highly glisteniifg and curly fur. Mutton "Sheep are very plehtiful in Russia. Russians eat lots of mutton. Th£ sheep can be produced on some individual farms where cattle can not. Goats arfe popular farm animals in Russia. Some of them are of very good quality. Some breeds have high milk production, others high wool production. I often marvelled at the way some of the white wooly little animals one saw could ke^p fine «end clean in To make it possible for every Ihome to enjoy modem cooking equipment, the Western United Gas and Electric Company now offers , a big Fall Sale of modern Gas Ranges. Come in and inspect the many sizes and makes on display. See the drastically reduced prices that mean big savings to you. liberal terms to mako it easy to buy now... so don't delay. Visit your Western United Store today. \ . /? •*4gi, jumii ncumg As a r6f: -Tault, the population of livestock decreased verv nrpatlv i »ireu uuiuuvr UIU nut --v """ line «*11U ncau III n • • $ | seem to be affected'by the agricultural 1 s"n~oumling& which sealed very dirty ^a>-tJe you see ownly occasionally, upheaval. There seems to be little • 'ndeed. Down in the Crimea, milch lay eveiy 50 miles, usuaTly in blanches scarcity of them. Their sheep are of K"ats are very good, most every fam- .1-- t_ --i.i i. ily having one. iMALL DOWN PAYMENT LIBERAL TERMS iftOty 9t this ft low ffthnty to seventy-five. | very good quality also. In southeast- ( 1 he cattle are all of mixed colors | ern Russia and western Siberia, thoy And evidently scrub stock of no spe-| have several breeds of long wool she«p *ial breeding. They are neither dajry which pr^uce high quality fleets and j.or beef type but mixed. Most Etus- in the Caucasian Mountains, they also jsian farmers evidently do not special- have good quality wool sheep. Among Fatal Ml--f rnrtnfnfliw ' "Most of our enemies," said Uncle Eben, "might have been our 2--r---'.~l V""' w ,1WV j Miawv Kuuu quaniy wooi sneep. Among' friends' .if we hadn't misunderstood lao m either dairy production nor j the** i. kwv each othar." ; " ^ "W/ESTERN UNlTtn WgAS'od ELECTRIC CQMl'ANYl_y your o/</ j 4 if-'./f.,, h It dM. . -v - -4"