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tei * -r> •- JPage Four SLOCUM*S LAKE ,-*V ' *.v •it.. Mrs. Celia Dowell and daughters, Jennie. Ethel and Marion, were business callers at Woodstock last Saturday evening. .Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse and daughter, Frances and Miss France# Davis were business callers at Kenosha, Wis., last Wednesday. Merle Dowell and Miss Ethel .Poweil were 'business, callers at Waukegan last Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wilson, Beatrice Wilson and feon, Robert Jeaa, of Volo visited at the homo of Mrs. Celia Dowell Sunday,afternoon. I Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse anddaughter, Frances, spent Sunday even-1 ing at the home of Mrs. Philena Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Huffman and daughter, Elizabeth, of Libertyyille were Sunday callers at the home of , Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews. , j Mr. and Mrs; John Blompren alrtdl Mrs. Raymond Lusk and daughter,) daughter, Betty Lou, were Sunday' afternoon and supper guests at the, home of Mr. arid Mrs. Peter Anderson ! at Cary. {.: • j Ray Cook of Ziou. spent Sunday At the homf of his parents, Mr; And Mrs. Wilbur Cook. - , 1 Mrs. Celia Dowell and son, Merle, and daughters; Jennie* Ethel and Marion, attended the funeral services of Mrs. J. F. Vasey at McHenry last Wednesday afternoon. i Mrs. Raymond Lusk and daughter, Betty Lou, returned home Monday af- £t>rnoon after spending a few days at the home of Mr. and Mrs, John Blomjgwn. I Arthur Wackerow was • a business I caller at" McHenry last Wednesday j night. I Robert Matthews spent the weekend fat the home of Mr. and Mrs. LaDoyt i Mathews at Forest Park. On Sanday, I Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews and 'son, Lyle, were guests. „ | Harry Matthews attended the regular meeting of the Lake County Farm ; Bureau at Farmer's Hall, Grayslake, Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren and guests. Mrs. Raymond Lusk and daughter, Betty Lou, spent Saturday afternoon At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews, Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Burnett visited at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Lyle Lit-; wijer at Round Lake last Tuesday. j H, W. Hensel returned to the home' of Mr. and Mrs. G. J Burnett last Thursday, after having finished the carpenter work on the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pmcknow at Delavan, Wlis. Alfred Norris, well-known resident of Mylith Park, who suffered a stroke two weeks ag.o, died at his home Saturday, Dec. 3rd. Funeral services were held in Chicago Tuesday. Although past the age of eighty years, Mr. Norjris was very active in all civic affairs at Mylith Park. He was a member of Mayflower' Chapter, No. 553, O. E. S., at Wauconda. Mr. Willard Darrell o£4his community attended the funereal services and acted as pall-bearer. ! Mr. and Mrs. Raymond VanNatta of Elgin were dinner guests last Wednesday at the home of Mr, and Mrs. G. J. Burnett. ! Mrs. Harry Matthews, with Mrs. Elmer Esping as co-hostess, entertained the members of their Bridge Club at [the home of the former. Five games j of bridge were piayea with prizes j awarded to Margaret Hughes, Fannie\ Fink, Jessie Seymonur, Bessie Hallock, Jessie Dorwin and Mrs. Blomgren. De- j licious refreshments vtere served st the close of an enjoyable evening. ••' Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Litwiier of Round! Lake spent thie weekend at the homo of Mr. and Mr§. G. J. Burnett., . Harry Grantham, Sr., and Mrs. Harr y L e e G r a n t h a m a n d d a u g h t e r s , A r -j butis and Ardeth of Wauconda were callers at the home of Mr and. Mrs.; G. J. Burnett last Thursday after- j •noon. ,/""'. - j Sunday visitors.at: "thp home of Mr.( and Mrs. G. J. Burnett were M. L,1 VanNatta of Franklin Park. Mr. Glen VanNatta and John Cook of Chicago. LILY LAKE Santa Claiu^lf; Really Has a Post Office ••K 'v-' • Go straight to Mother's 1 heart with this practical 1 Christmas present--abeauti- 1 ful, big, newGeneral Electric H Triple-Thrift Refrigerator! 1 She ll use it and appreciate H its modern convenience • every day for years to come. H It will guard the family's 1 health, and food budget, too! 1 The G-E--First Cheice of Millions 1 -- is Now Popularly Pricodl I I 1 '"^REFMGIRATOIl TBwm its ?aicE! Tuianri crfRKXTi TlUfTY II UPKEEP! !la. Simple,. Silent, Staled-in-St ami G-E THRIFT UNIT with Oil Cooling The original sealed-in-steel "cold maker" that revolutionized' refrigeration costs ... Its record for enduring economy is unmatched by any other sealed refrigerating mechanism. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert Swan son were Woodstock visitors Thursday. George Toons of Chicago spent the weekend at his cottage. Mr. and IVtrs. Edward Wehner of Chicago spent Thursday at Lily Lake. Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Swanson of Chicago visited the home of Mr. and Mrs, Fred Dosch Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Fritzs, Chicago, spent Thursday at their cottage. Mrs. Louis Schroeder is confined to her home with a broken ankle. Wilbert Swanson and Herman Brown were Chicago visitors Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Chelini and daughter, Lorraine, of Chicago spent Sunday at their home here. Mrs. Laven of Chicago spent Sunday at Lily Lake. Mr, and Mrs. Arthur Paul and daughters, .Joan and Patricia, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Geout, Mrs. Nora McCalla( Miss Margaret Farrell and Mrs. Richard Driscoll. all of Chicago, visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Klabaugh Sunday. VICTORY DINNER . V. Phalin of Chicago, former resident of McHenry, will be tendered a Victory Dinner at the Palmer House, Chicago, on Saturday, December 10, in recognition of his work as sales manager of the Quarrie corporation of Chicago. Mr. Quarrie, president of the company, will present him With a beautiful watch and plaque at this time. . This is the doorway to Santa Claiis land, a real village resting in the Indiana hills which has become world-famous because of its Christmasy name and also because Abraham Lincoln liv«d there from his seventh to twenty-first years. Santa Claus is ^n unincorporated village but its post \ffice does a land-office business each December because thousands of people send their letters there to be cancelled with the famous Sant$ Claus postal stamp. .flhonc 251 Green Street Commenting on the statement in a magazine that "the new internationalism must establish a symbiosis among nations, and nofl a phagocytosis," the St Louis TimesNStar snorts: "Sure it must. You took the words right out of our unabridged." fl*he following advertisement appeared recently in a newspaper in Kansas City, Mo.: "Lady who ran over pigs, Highway 40, wishes to communicate with owner." COME AND MEET SANTA AT OUR STORE SATURDAY HOLIDAY GAS RANGE SPECIALS SANTA GLAUS Will arrive at this store SATURDAY AFTERNOON DECEMBER 10 and he wants to meet and greet every boy and girl in McHenry and vicinity. Boys and girls, you can talk to Old Santa himself and tell him just what you want him to bring you. Don't forget--SATURDAY, DEC. 10. For 28 years James F. Martin was postmaster at Santa Claus, taking it easy each summer and working like a fiend during the Christmas rush. Finally the pressure grew so great that his office was rated as a thirdclass post office, a ranking usually enjoyed only by much larger communities. Above is the Santa Claus post office and general store, famous throughout the world! SKEETER BUG 39c A toy sensation. The craziest acting thing on wheels. It's a barrel of fun all by itself. TRICK AUTO 59« Very amusing toy auto. Charlie McCarthy sits m the front seat turning his head as auto turns in various directions. CHINESE CHECKERS A new Oriental Game for every one.Two games with one board--MAH TONG and Checkers. Give Her A New R O O E R • iort Xmas Pay As Little As $5.00 A Month CLIMBING ' TRACTOR 59 c Designed after the big ones. Climbs up and~~ down steep grades and pull a fairly heavy load. JUNIOR COASTER WAGON.._.......$0.89 CUDDLE PANDAS:, , 1.00 TINKERTOY .... .49 TYPEWRITER..... ... 1.75 Also a Big Variety of fOjggrnc/ 25 Cent Toys H Phone 284 West McHenry Succeeding James Martin when he died was the present postmaster, Oscar Phillips, forty-one. To him has fallen the duty of making thousands of children happy. Each day he receives hundreds of letters containing enclosures which are to be cancelled carefully with the Santa Claus stamp and sent on to all parts of .the world. * • "f ; •" f. v <1 J, *"4: ^ *" •m: Thursday, December 8,1038" Twice T o l d Items ef faitf--t Taken Ffon tke rttee of Plafodeakv A Aw ' SIXTYVEARS AGO Our citizens had the pleasure, on' Friday evening last, of witnessing th# working of the much talked of phono* graph and all who saw it and heard it talk, announce it a wonderful machine It talks, sings, whistles, and in fact will repeat any kind of a noise or sound that can be made by man. It is indeed .one of the wenders of the age. We learn that the Methodist society of this village, propose having a Christmas tree at their church. *.» A taste of winter came to us on Sunday in. the shape of about three inches of snow. v FIFTY YEARS AGO A daughter of Ernest Wendell, aged about two years, died quite suddenly on Friday last. Baines & Smiley is the name of a new law firm in Woodstock, C. P. Barnes and David F. Smiley being the principals. P. Conway has leased the farm of Thos. Lumley, on Ringwood Prairie, for a term of five years, and will take possession at once. For the past week act? of lawlessrtes have been committed in our village that would digracis the worst hoodlums of the Five Points of New York. Street lamps have been broken, fences and gates torn down, pickets broken, and in one instance the cap to one of the posts on the iron fence belonging to Fred Schnorr was torn off and carried"'away. Fred Kamholtz who Was married xecently, is occupying the house dwnod Mrs. J. P. Going, on John street. THIRTY YEARS AGO Butter remained firm at 80 cents on the Elgin board of trade Monday. We understand that a farmer living west of town had twenty-two turkeys stolen from his farm one day last week. , The first real winter weather arrived on a midnight special Moftday night and Tuesday morning saw our citizens in full winter uniforms. The depot ,w&s again-far too small to accommodate the crowd last Sunday evening and as a result a large number were compelled to stand in the open and receive a drenching. *WBNTY YEARS The Centerville meat market and grocery, of which Wan. Pries is the' proprietor, displayed a metropolitan , appearance last Sunday night, 'when the lights in the display windows wete' allowed to burn until after the closing of the picture show at the Central op-',, era house. Mr. and Mrs. Geo'. H. Johnson have , moved their household effects to this > village from Waynesville, 111., and SI ft have taken up their residence in the*" J a m e s R e v o r h o u s e , u n t i l r e c e n t l y o c - • cupied by the Martin Conway family. Work has been delayed considerable"*^ at St. Mary's church of late on account of the unfavorable weather con-['<'• * ditions. Mr/ and Mrs. Henry Degen have moved from the M. M. Niesen house J.15 on Water street to the Henry Heimer cottage on Main street. Carl Bickler is suffering frogi a sev- • erely sprained ankle, received in the ^ S : McHenry - Woodstock football game , here last Saturday afternoon. • * At Christmas Time« For close friends choose the gift that expresses personal thouglitfulness &nd esteem-- Your, photograph. 7 " Mftke an Appointment Todfiiy for an Early Sitting! -- WORWtCK STUDIO 0 Phone 275 Riverside Drive McHenry, Illinois FORTY YEARS AGO Br-#rHanly will move his family to Chicago the last of this week, where he will make his home for the present. We understand he has purchased a milk route in the city and will personally attend to the business. Several patrons of the Keystone creamery are hauling milk to Ringwood, making quite an increase in the number of pounds received. Dr. C. H. Fegers has now one of the finest offices to be found in this part of the Estate. He has a waiting room, a private office and an operating room, all neatly and tastily fitted up, heated by a furnace and convenient in every respect. * PROFITS CO UP When You Grind Ffced With MCCORMICK-DEERING Hammer and Roughs®® Mill* • When you belt your tractof to a McCORMICK-DEERlNQ Hammer or Roughage Mill you'll have a grinding outfit unexcelled in performance and operating economy. These mills are built for years of through, fast, and ecoa* omical work. Call us for • demonstration. ADAMS 8 FREUND 4?hone 185/' V- Pearl Street HflOmwU nrtriwf N*. 2 T, Under New Management As he should be, the real Santa Claus is the patron saint of this little Indiana community. This 25-foot statue of St. Nicholas stands all year in a little park, attracting visitors from all parts of the country. Yes, Santa Claus does have a post office! , Cba/ult the, WANT ADS New Year's Eve Save Your Reservations Until Next Week When Full Details Will Be Given In These Col- * • UUXIXSf*" JOHN E. FREUND AND SON VERN f T Y T T tT ft X