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. '* * ' * a ,* *T * : " - . »&» v»- , r TAA ibBEDrsr PUHISXALZS •. .- ^rJfA • V, ;\M:\ ThtowUy, Mkr 18,1931 '.. . • . . r i i . ' r ^ i ' fii m SON BAPTIZED Daniel Raymond, little son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel O'Shea, was baptized At St. Patrick's church, Saturday evening. Sponsors were Mr. and Mrs. James Doherty. * : A thief who held up Bernard Strake In his grocery store at Lincoln, Nebr., i|scaped with $5, but promised to pay ft back with interest by June 15. S/ILS FOR Eft ROPE John Regner of this city left Chicago Wednesday, May 17, for New York and will sail for Europe on Friday, May 19. He will land at Danzig and visit in Germany, Austria and Poland, where he has relatives. He expects to be gone about six months. The new American legation in Bagdad, Mesopotamia, is a small'reproduction of the White House. BETTER CLEANING Renew tbe beauty of your garments* Our Cleaning Methods will do it! Anna Howard ^ Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing" y \- . ----Laundry Phone 42 Green Street McHenry Come and Enjoy Yourselves Saturday Evening at . PINK HARRISON'S --: At Pistakee Bay -- . • Divine Music Perfect Mixed Drinks FRIED CHICKEN -- 60c ASST. SANDWICHES BARBAEA HOBICK'S ORCHESTRA lancing Every Saturday Night Throughout the Season CENTRAL GARAGE -~One of the best equipped garages in Northern Illinois- Let us drain your winter oils and greases and prepare your car or truck for Spring driving. We will make a complete checkup and give you an estimate - of th^cost. Reasoanble prices and guaranteed satisfaction Full Line of Atlas and Goodyear Tires Electric and Acetylene Welding Car Washing and Polishing Phone 200-J Towing Johnsburg T • 14 It*- * Files ef +» efYeaieAa* TWENTY TEARS AGO Raymond Martin, who saw some of the heaviest fighting over in the Argonne regions, arrived in McHenry Saturday. The Plaindealer is informed that in case the new lighting system goes in McHenry will see the installation of a number of ornamental posts. An ear|y morning wedding of more than passing interest to our people took place at St. Mary's church in this village at six o'clock last Saturaway at her home here early teat Friday morning. Mrs. Owen had spent the winter with her daughter in St. Louis, having returned to her heme here two weeks ago. The large hay shed, 24x60, on the i irm of John Claxton, was completely demolished by the wind storm last Thursday night. Jay M. and O. B. Gilbert are now engaged in the fruit and confectionery business in the E. Lawless store, where they will be pleased to meet their friends. Two automobile loads of our young people attended a dance at Solon last Saturday night. A gay time is reported by the autoists. There has been considerable talk of late among our business men towards the introduction of a market day for McHenry. Congratulations to our village board. The Green street walk is to be extended. Peter Wirfs, son pf Mr. and Mrs. Casper Wirfs of this place, is now running a fish wagon out of Wauke- FORTY YEARS AGO WAYWARD WAISTLINE day, the principals in the happ&event _ _ _ being Miss Elizabeth Theelleenn of this wjj0 expects* to leave for Elgin in a village and Mr.. Charles F. Pich of Chicago, Rev. Edward Berthold, pastor of the church, officiating. Miss Sue Frett has given up her position at the store of Smith Bros., and her place has been taken by Miss Julian Weber. Nice strings of blue gills and bull heads have been taken from the water on the river and creeks in this village during the past few days. Carpenters are still in demand in McHenry and with the prospects of new work coming up right along it looks very much as if local contractors will be obliged to go out of town for help before the summer is over. The work of laying the roof on Mc- Henry's new theatre building was completed the first of the week and the carpenters are now directing their attention to the laying of the floor and other inside work. IBIRTY YEARS AGO Ray Lamphere has been duly installed as clerk at the Riverside House to take the place of Lewis Lincoln, The Spring Grove Journal is no more, the last issue appearing last Saturday. The subscription and good will of the paper have been purchased by the Richmond Gazette. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Wiightman of Chicago came out Wednesday evening for a few days visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Waite. Mrs. Oliver William Owen passed s*-': NTERS- >R BUY / -- ' V Magib Chef Gas Range With Lifetime Burner Guarantee Regular Pric# . . $105.00 Regular Trade-in for Old Stove 10.50 Special Sale Discount 15.00 NOW ONLY NOTE: This range, complete with every feature to meet C. P. requirements . . . only $85.50 • Why wait! The Range you've been waiting for is here - at a sensational low price. Only $79.50 and your old stove buys thfc gleaming modern ft^agic Chef Gas Rangy, Don't put off" enjoying the extra convenience and savings this new range afford* :,v,• • • • a single day longer. Come in and see it today--inspect the many other money-saving bargains now being offered doriSf our Spring Gas Range Sale! WESTERN UNITE Fj YVGAS*". ELECTRIC OQMPANYL/ Other Dealers Also Offer Sensational, Bargains In Modern Gas Ranges 'HEsc fUTliges Hanw- ^ "oiler JrCo--<- °«U tic TT o"» Ad WW Co To??*0" »•»**, few days to accept a position. Senator Granger .left for Springfield Tuesday afternoon, where he will remain until the latter part of next week. W. H. Jaeger and family departed Tuesday afternoon for Grand' Rapids Mich., where they will reside hereafter. It is reported that & new creamery is to be built at Barreville. Mr. Fitzsimmons is the promoter of the project. Jacob iBonslett's agricultural warehouse is being re-shingled this week. Matt Weber is the carpenter in charge of the work. Dr. Auringer's new office is nearly finished and ready for occupancy. He will have it equipped with the latest medical facilities. Jacob Justen secured a big contract to furnish the Thos. Daly summer resort hotel at Cary. This deal foots Up the nice sum of $.400. Butter on the Elgin board of trade Mond^yfclropped to 17 cents. FIFTY YEARS AGO The "Old razor grinder and his trained dogs arrived in town on Monday, much to the delight of the small boys. The steamers have begun making regular trips to Fox .Lake and Lake Villa hotel has opened for business. C. A. Walsh, who was elected Village Clerk, refusing to qualify, the president appointed and Board confirmed Wl A. Cristy as Clerk for the ensuing year. For the past few days some parts of oilr village has been thronged with cows that have been unlawfully allowed to roam our streets, wandering into yards and breaking the sidewalks. There is an ordinance prohibiting this and it surely will be enforced. Bennie Bonslett, youngest son of Leonard Bonslett, who has been attending the school pf pharmacy in Chicago, has accepted a position in Besley's Drug store, in this village. Howard R. Perry, of this village, has received from the War Department his appointment as Cadet to West Point, and is ordered to report June 14. McHenry has six saloons this year, one less than last, Joseph Buch having gone out of the business and moved on to his farm. Mrs. Burt Darling has opened a restaurant aiyl ice cream parlor in the brick store opposite the Parker House, and has fitted the rooms up in neat and tasty manner. Fuchsia and light bine are the two colors so strikingly nsed in this long-sleeved dinner gown of silk and acetate crepe. The low waistline dips down in a point to give » suggestion of baek fallness to the skirt. BREATH OF SPRING Breath of Spring could be the name of this smart ensemble in early leaf green coloring worn at Hampshire House. The monotone green frock is of a soft imported wool and the bolero jacket of green and yellow crossbar tweed. The bag is of the same fabric. BACK TO THE SEA SIXTY YEARS AGO Spring is coming around after all, and really seems inclined to behave rationally. She is feminine, you know, and must flirt a little. Besides, she. has been taking a cruel vengance on' „._n for their frequent slanders ofj her sex, and has nearly dislocated their | necks by the sneezing she has made j them do. . v _ i Never before in the history of our| country everything considered, could building be done so cheaply as today. Lumber, nails, paint, stone and brick, labor, and everything needed is cheaper than ever before. Eddie Owen had the misfortune to cut his foot severely one day last Week and is confined to the'house in eonsequence. The editor and family acknowledge £ pleasant serenade from the Johnsburgh band on Monday evening. Thanks, come again. Eight workmen are now engaged on the new boat, and it is being pushed as fast as such work can be. When finished it will be ail honor to Mc- Benry. i , . , A1 Hankin's two thoroughbred Worses, "Ammadus" and "Crockford,' will remain this season at his stables 'in this village, and will be under the care of T. R. Phalen. We are glad to announce that the poard of Directors have secured the Services of the present able and efficient principal S. D. Balwdin, to conduct our public school for the ensuing year. Isaac Wentworth is constantly mak Ing some improvements about his residence, which by the way is getting to be the handsomest in the village. Here's a novel idea for sun bathers which should certainly catch on, or rather stick on. The transfer of a boat or seascape is applied to the back, and as the wearer moves, the picture takes on quite a realistic appearance. HE LIKES EGGS While Attorney Charles Lewis of Chicago successfully argued a case, a thief took his topcoat and gloves. LOOKptG FORWARD (by Franldyn Waltman) JUNIOR DAIRYMEN Members who are holding offices for the following year are John Dohertjr, i president; Frank Martin, vice-presi- Several years ago a satire on the dent; Nelson Cristy, secretary-treaS» New Deal spending policies was un-jurer; George Whiting, 11--1 dertaken by Bobby Clark, the cigar- leader and recreational ---"j ~tow* biiu librarian, apd Edward smoking comedian, in a Ziegfeld Fol-I Blake, reporter. lies skit. Bobby Clark played the role! This club has a total membership of the harassed Federal Spending Ad- of twenty-one. Plans for a baseball ministrator who could not find enough j team are now being considered. This foolish projects on which to throw club will be among the many present away the taxpayers' money. Unless at the rally in Woodstock on May flfc- M1 Is new PIRH AUTO Pries Bldg. The eggs looked so good. Ernest Conley, barber of Atlanta, Ga., started to eat them. He ate 41 raw eggs before he finished, and thought nothing of it. „ -- -- m o n e y . he succeeded the New Deal would fire him. Finally a suave individual appeared to suggest the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi River. The Federal Spending Administrator turned __ , away in disgust, asserting that already ,. * J , bridges had been built across the Mis- * sissippi every half-mile irom its source to its mouth. The suave individual explained he had not made himself clear -- he proposed a bridge that would start at the head waters of the Mississippi and run parallel over it to the Gulf of Mexico. It was good theater and good satire. But all agreed it was a gross exaggeration. Yet I am not so sure it was not prophetic. After witnessing the pertinacity with which the Roosevelt Administration has sought legislation for the vlast four years for the construction of the proposed Florida Ship Canal, I <would not be a bit surprised to wake up .one day and find Mr. Roosevelt proposing a bridge from the source of the Mississippi to its mouth. It appears that the more useless or crackpot a scheme is, the more avidly the New Dealers go for it. The screwier it is, the more money the New Dealers are willing to spend on it. And, having once espoused such a scheme, a New Dealer never relents in his determination to carry it out to a conclusion, no matter how valid I and strong the arguments againat it may be. Reappears Like Bad Penny The Florida Ship Canal is a perfect illustration of the New Deal at its worst. Here is a project that cannot be justified from any viewpoint. At some time or other every interested department of the Federal Government has turned thumbs down on it. Congress has rejected it. Yet, like a bad penny, here it is again on the calendars of Congress waiting for a vote, with the power of the White House behind it, along with an aggressive and generous lobby. It will be recalled that back in 1934, P. W. A. Administrator H. L. (Holler Loud) Ickes, rejected an application for a loan and for the construction of this canal, cutting across southern Florida from the Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico, aft«r a board of army engineers found that such a project was not justified. In 1935, President Roosevelt, acting under the blank check powers given to him by Congress, allocated $5,000,000 for starting this project. Meanwhile, a terrific controversy over this project split Florida into two warring camps. When the initial allocation and $400,-1 000 additional was exhausted, Mr.; Roosevelt asked Congress to approve the project and appropriate funds forj its completion -- an expenditure variously estimated at between $200,000,- 000 and $300,000,000. Congress refused when it was ascertained that Amer- j ican shipping companies had no desire for or intentiori to use such a canal that it was nothing more than a grand boondoggling project National Defense New Reason Florida interests that would benefit by construction of the canal remained unappeased and Mr. Roosevelt, it appears, wanted vindication. The matter was permitted to rest until the Fourth New Deal, predicated on national defense, was inaugurated. Everything here is done now, you know in the name of national defense. So earlier this year Mr. Roosvelt revived the Florida Canal as a national defense project. This is the most humorous of all the arguments made in its behalf. In the first place, the Army and Navy thought so Kttle of the Florida Canal as a national defense project in 1937 that they did not bother to make any representations regarding it. Asked why, the Secretaries of War and Navy explained the canal had little or no military importance. j (But Commander-in-Chief of Army i and Navy Roosevelt changed their minds. Now both services think the F l o r i d a C a n a l w o u l d b e a g r e a t n a -j tional defense project---even though it will not be deep enough for either, large cruisers or battleships and pro- j gress through it will be too slow for i smaller naval vessels if they are in aj hurry. As for transporting troops and j supplies, if speed is needed, railroads would 'be used. I Takes 6 to 15 Years to Build | Yet that is not all. It is estimated^ that if the canal is constructed under t contract it will take six years -- bui! j if relief labor is used it will take 15, years. Aside from everything else, a lot of benefit this canal would be to the country if it gets into a war In another year or two! Perhaps Mr., Roosevelt is thinking about the Third, World War. { All of this has been convincingly, established, but Mr. Roosevelt and his spenders refuse to be convinced. They | just want their canal, that's all, and they'll stir up a war hysteria to get( it, if necessary. At the same time Mr. Roosevelt has the brass to tell a press conference he is concerned about Federal spending! Need Rubber Stamps? Otdfr at Tfc* Plaindealer. EDWIARD BLAKE. DR. C. KELLER -- Optometrist -- permanently located side Drive. Forty-eix years testing eyes and making git -- Can far Appointment -- All Pada of Repairs -- m lll-jj j Phone 43 ! VEMNNI J. ATTORNEY AT Priti Bldg. - Office hours^ - " Tuesdays and Fridays. '-Other Days bjr Appointment Mcflehry ' - fUhmjl A. P. Excavating Contractor Trucking, Hydraulic and Oraai Service ^ . --Road Building-- T«L 204-M McHenry, HI Quality Canvas Products BEjrTHONNESO* AWNINGS -- CRYSTAL LAKE ~ Across from Post Offi# TeL Cry*, Lake 8S8 -- 129 Main St. Window Shades - . Venetian Blinds Boat Covers - Outboard Motor Covers - Tarpaulins INSURANCE *£g EARL R. WALS8 ; Presenting ' Reliable Companies you need insurance of any kind Phone 43 or 61-M McHenxf o3\-n MONEY TO LOAN I have clients who have money to lend on first mortgages on real estate and others who want to borrow money on real estate. If interested either wsy, I will be glad to talk it over with you. Joseph N. Sikef Waukfgan National Bank Bldg. 4 S. Genesee St, Waukegan, I1L TEL. MAJESTIC 10S Telephone No. 80ft Btofiel ft fteihansperger Insurance agents M all classes «f property in the best companies. murr mchinry . . iijjnom S. H. 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