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J t y ~ * i ~ > I 1 y> ^»,3K >»'»'S« i£'A»' 'SS^'*>' if . '/. ,'. A- * •:--".«'.v ' % • t> •:••"• • - V> Vy ' , , v., v . . , ^"\% i;?y tfltx MtifcXIft? PLritBVDXAUEl, |^JJG J^JQNS ' Find Woods Safe Place From Bombs f, • b J • > " £vf. K ;* CHAS. LEONARD - ED. VOGEL Auctioneers Having decided to quit farming, I Will sell at Public Auction on the farm known as the William N. Freund Farm, 1 Yt miles west of Spring Grove on Route 12, % mile east of Solon Mills, 4% miles north of Johnsburg, 7% miles north of McHenry, on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Betrinning at 11 o'clock sharp, the - following described property, to-wit: 58 HEAD OF LIVESTOCK i : . .v27 cows, close springers and milk- / cr*; 2 yearlinps, 2 fall calVes. This It an exceptionally good herd, mostly jrrur raised on this farm. \ 11 Head of Horses 11 ' Team bay greldings, 14 and 15 y^S» . old. wt. 3,000 lbs.; Black team jreldinjrs. 4 and 5 yrs. old, wt. 2,800 lbs.; Team black mares, 7 and 10 yrs. old, wt. 2,600 lbs.; Black mare, 11 yrs. old, •wt. 1,400 lbs.; Spotted m$re, 11 yrs. old, wt 1.100 lbs.; Roan mare. 3 yrs. old, wt. 1,000 lbs.; Roan gelding, 3 ; yr». old, wt. 1,100 lbs. ; Black geld- "h»|t. 2 yrs. old. \ w ; { ; 15 Brood Sows--weight 240 lfts.- . ,1 Boar. *,300 White Leehorr. Pulletft. " • - .>,;125 Yearling Hens. - . Hay. Grain and Machinery ! 1:- \48 ft. silage in 16 ft. silo; 600 bu. ^ts; 125 bu. barley; 36 ton ear corn| 'I'•••'in'.'crib.; 36 tor mixed hay in barn; 3 t^ts breeching harness. j McCormick 7 ft. grain binder, near-j ly new: McCormick com birder,) nearly new: New Idea side delivery i rake; Rock Island hay loader; dump' rake; 3-section drag; 2-section drag;! John Deer marure spreader: 2-sectJon snring tooth drag; cultipacker; - 9-ft. di«c: 3 single row cultivators; John D^ere plow: Emmerson ' gang plow: Johr Deere 999 com planter, with sov bean and fertilizer atta^kment: 2 iron wheel wagons; wooden whe**l wico": 2 hay rwok with .baskets find box: 2 walking nlows. --- Store boat: potato digeer: potato hiller: rider nres«: 50-gallon kettle •with iacket* 9**n*ilk cans, nails and strainers: 2 tanks: electric water he8ter; No. 4 McCormick separator with motor: 150 ft. hav rone; 2 hay foTks; farnmg mill: 1,000-lb. scale. • Piano; davenport: 2 rockers. Forks, .. .Shovels and other articles too numerous to mention. --Lunch Wagon Will Be on Grounds-- Terms' Sums under 810.00, cash. On sums of $25 00 a^d over, a credit of six (6) months will be given, purchaser to give bankable rotes bearing 7 per cent interest. No property to be removed until settled for. WILLIAM N. FREUND McHenry State Bank, Clerking *. 0TV/ °<Mw VOLO sLocuars LAKE • e^t \fWll ? fK if ^ Thnnday, January 25,1940 When Russian bombing planes were dropping their messages 01 death «n Helsingfors, capital city of Finland, the safest place for the civilian population was found to be in the woods nearby, and to the woods went these two women and their four children. seem to bear fear of death or injury with £toici$m» , ° Nobody's Village on Western Front mm PUBLIC SALE OF FARM Public notice is hereby given, that the undersigned, as Trustee under the provisions of a Deed in Trust, dated January 15th., 1937, and recorded in the Recorder's Office of Lake County, Illinois on March 29th., 1937, as Document No. 434965, in Book 428 of Deeds, at page 224, will offer for sale, and sell at PUBLIC VENDUE, to the highest and best bidder, at SAID PREMISES, situated 4 miles NORTHWEST OF WAUCONDA, Lake Counter, Illinois, ©n FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 AT THE HOUR OF TWO (2) O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON, the farm known as the Bacon Farm, consisting of 191 acres, more or less, and described as follows, to-wit: The southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section nine (9); the east half of the southeast quarter of said Section nine (9), also the southwest quarter ' of the northwest quarter of Section ten (10); also the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of Section ten (10); excepting therefrom the right of way of Public Service Company of Northern Illinois, situated in the Township of Wauconda, County of Lake and State of Illirois, and containing one hundred nftiety one (191) acres, more or less. Buyer shall pay ten (10) per cent of the purchase price on the day of sale, and final settlement within fortyfive days thereafter. Title in buyer will be guaranteed by •irois Title Company in the amount the purchase price. Final settlement must be cash in tend, when deed is ready for delivery, . W>t more than forty-five days from tilt •dite of purchase. Dated January 16th., 1946. W.E.BACON. As trustee, etc. ^-##nuary 18 - 25) -Sk / ADOPTION NOTICE TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, TAKE NOTICE, that on the 22nd. 4iy of January A. D. 1940, a petition %f»s filed by Floyd C. Schnitcke and Goldie L. Schnitcke, his wife, in the County Court of McHenry County, for the adoption of a child named Jane v Doe in said petition, said child being of unknown parentage and abandoned Mid deserted by its parents for more than six months. Now unless you appear before twenty da^s after the date of this notice and show cause against such application, the petition •hall be taken as confessed and a decrfce of adoption entered . R. D.WOODS, Cleric, . Dated this 25th. day of January 1940. 86 This village, half of which was French and half German, belongs to nobody now. It is in no-man's land between the German and French forces on the western front. Now it is left to the rats, mice and the decay that is part and parcel of war. * Kills Wild Boar With Bow and'Arrow Armed only with a bow and arrows, Roger Raymo of Knoxville, T-enn., president of the Knoxville Archers' club, killed a ferocious wild boar in the government-sponsored wild-boar hunt in Cherokee national forest. After being hit, the boar charged at. the hnnter and dropped a few feet in front of him. Se& Buried Gold With 'Doodle-Bug" The Volo unit of the Lake County Home Bureau met at the home of Mrs. Earl Barron in Grayslake Wednesday afternoon. The Volo unit were guests of the Grayslake unit. The Volo unit selected Mrs. William Wirtz and Mrs. Walter Crook for local leaders for the next meeting, which will be an all day meeting at the home of Mrs. H. Converse Wednesday, February 14. The Volo public school is sponsor* in®: a card party Friday evening, Feb. 2. Mr. and Mrs. EJlwood Dowel! spent Monday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Boucher in Libertyvillgi Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Hanke of Evanston spent Monday at the home ®f Mr. and Mrs. Frank St. George. Mr. and Mrs. George Scheid, Jr., of Wauconda were Sunday visitors at the Dowell Brothers home. The Volo Cemetery Society wjll meet at the home of Mrs. Hu&h O'Brien Wednesday, February 7, instead of Thursday, February 1. Miss Ada Dowell is on the sick list at this writing. Mrs. Leslie Davis and family of Slocum's Lake visited Mrs. Sarah Fisher Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bacon of Round Lake were Tuesday callers at the home of Miss Vinnie Bacon. The Volo unit of Home Bureau will meet at the home of Mrs. Cecil Anderson Tuesday, January 30, to make plans for their membership drive. There were twenty-five ladies present at the joint meeting held last Wednesday, and they all enjoyed a very dainty lunch at the close of a very enjoyable afternoon with their neighbor unit, Grayslake. The following members attended the Grayslake joint meeting Wednesday: Mrs. Herman Dunker, Mrs. Ray Hafer, Mrs. Ray Seymour, Mrs. Ray Paddock, Mrs. Carl Fink, Mrs. M. Juehl, Mrs. P. Arney, Mrs. William Wirtz, Mrs. H. Converse, Mrs. Frank \^lson and daughter. Beatrice and Mrs, Wendell Dickson. Miss Edna Fisher of Waukegan spent the past week with her mother, Mrs. Sarah Fisher. Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Justen cordially invite the people of Volo and surrounding rural community to come and see their new funeral home on Saturday and Sunday, January 27 and 28, West McHenry, 111., Elm Street, on Route 31. Willard Darrell attended a meeting of the board of directors of the *Lake - Cook Farm Supply Co., at DesPlaines Monday. Mrs. Marlett Henry, Sr., spent Monday and Tuesday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bennett, in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell spent last Friday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Harris near Wonder Lake. Mr. and Mrs. James Delaney of Chicago were Sunday visitors at the hoipe of Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hansen of Island Lake Road were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Burnett last Tuesday evening. Harry Grantham t Sr., knd granddaughter, Mrs. George Staggs, of Wauconda were recent afternoon visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. J« Burnett. A number of neighbors gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews last Friday evening. The nature of the party was a surprise on Mrs. Matthews honoring her birthday. Five hundred was played with honors going to Mrs. John Blomgren, Mrs. Ray Dowell and Mrs. Harry Matthews and Arthur Wackerow, Marlett Henry, Sr., and Willard Darrell. Delicious refreshments were served and an enjoyable evening had by all and upon departing wishing Mis. Matthews many more happy birthdays. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Justen and children of Woodstock spent Sunday aftemon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks. Chesney Brooks was a dinner guest of Jack Downs at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Downs at McHenry last Sunday. Chesney Brooks, in company with thirty-six members of the Older Young People's Society of Lake county, attended the W.L.S. bam dance at the Eighth Street theatre in Chicago Saturday evening, January 20. Willard Darrell and Earl Kane of Diamond Lake were among the many who attended the twenty-fifth annual meeting, silver annivprsa ry banquet, at the Waukegan Armory, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of Waukegan - North Chicago. The speaker of the evening was W. Gibson Carey, Jr., president of the Chamber of Com~ merce of the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Justen eois. dially invite the people of Slocum -. Lake and surrounding rural commun-s # ity to come and see their new funeral W home on'Saturday and Sunday, January 27 and 28, West McHenry, 111., Elm Street, on Route 31.. Weekend visitors at the home of > Mr. and Mrs. G. J." Burnett were Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Litwiler of Round Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hillier and Jane and Betty Benola of Barrington. Mrs. Mai y Obenauf and two daugh-, ters and son, Harvey, of Libertyvill* were Sunday dinner and afternoon • guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wagner. ' -- • 7 ^ Test Tire Tnbet ^ Puncture-proof standards for ' sealing inner tubes have become «o rigid in the last year that tire ^ , engineers now reject a tube unless, after piercing with six tenpenny i $ nails and running 110 miles and allowing to stand for 24 hours, it does VI • s i not lose more than 10 per cent of its " ~*v original air pressure, according to a kv major rubber company's laboratory ' r *i officials. ? . v CCC Camps A total of 1,500 two-hundred-man CCC camps and approximately 100 smaller camps are now in operation. CAR-OWNER^#iU 0EUa»T IK TiltU mmwwmm 1 BARBARA STANWYCK, stor of "REMEMBER THE NIGHT' A cross-country cruise in a car, with a surprise at every bend in the road. That's Paramount's newest dramatic romance. Be sure to get' 'two on the aisle" when this swell show hits town. A handsome avtogrophvd print el winmm Bwbara Stanwyck (while Hi«y lent). Aifc any Standard Oil D*al*r. 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' 'am*d Cahieng* treasure which, legend says, wat buried near Oie Hollywood Bowl in the 1860s by a sheepherder who met a violent , K sought by hunters who are depending on the "doodling" SuJi muL *»,' drd,lf bK*;" * consisting of an electrode <:y •• mi Order year Robber at The Grapefruit Cultivation Grapefruit cultivation began tat Florida but has had its greatest development, in the last 20 years, in Texas, chiefly in the Rio Grande Yearly Keating Every year since 1902, William Olney, 90, London, has read his Bible from beginning to end. He is Spurgeon tabernacle's oldest deacon. War on Mosquito ,/l°rida East Coast Antlr Mosquito association has been awmed. Approximately 80 counties joined in the war on the ma toria^bearing pest. Go-operation ot jjM^stete board of health will be Talkative Americans The U. S., with only I per^sl of the world's population, has mere than half the world's telephones. AND ENIERTMIIHT < If i ? 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