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E jm»; Bxaminm A. E. Nye Bldg. Wast McHenry McHenry 1214 Woodstock 674 #r. Paul A. Schwabe OPTOMETRIST THURSDAY MORNINGS , BY APPOINTMENT ONLY iiiBMWiiyi (Political Advertisement) E l e c t » t C. JAMES DOWNS iepublican Candidate for Committeeman For the Second Precinct McHenry Township PRIMARIES: APRIL 9, (Political Advertisement) E G F fO* CO**** jgamvooiatt "Ts.SWA'0« FOft ^ POiUC DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES APRIL 9 w • it • • • • • • • 1 (Political Advertisement) BACK TO AMERICANISM Nominate •••'< ^ and ELECT VERNE CORLEY STATE SENATOR 8th Senatorial District TEN POLITICAL COMMANDMENTS 1. Tou cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. f. You cannot Arengthen the weak by weakening the • strong. , $. Tou cannot help small men by tearing big men down. 4. Tou cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. 5. Tou cannot lift the wage-earner up by pulling the i wage-payer down.' 6. Tou cannot keep out of trouble by spending more .. than your income. 7. Tou cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. ^8. Tou cannot; establish sound ^social security on borrowed money. t. Tou cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. 10. Tou cannot help men permanently by doing-for them what they could and should do for themselves. NOMINATE AND ELECT A pum who will help us get back to the good • AMERICAN Way. VERNE CORLEY FOR STATE SENATOR Twic# To I 4 Tales • A «f htomt Take* Tnm Nm FDm «f ikr PlahiA--Us mt Y«n Afi J8IXTY YEARS AGO j, Robt. Patterson, has opened the bakery in Howe's block, formerly occupied by F. Best. N O T I C E To Track Owners • We have installed a complete set of equipment to officially test your brakes and headlights to comply with the truck law of the State of Illinois. Upon your testing your truck you will receive a state sticker of approval from us. We also have a weH equipped lip&r shop^to oare of your correction that you may comply with the law. CENTRAL GARAGE FRED J. SMITH, Prop. 200-J • Towing lohnsburg Isaac Went worth started for Chicago on Tuesday morning, where he has been engaged as foreman in a brick yard, at a salary 6f $100 per month. At an election held on Saturday last for school trustee, from Orlando, Fla., last weekend, where he had been vacationing the past few months. Mrs. Overton and her daughter, Mrs. Gwendolyn Jones, returned home via rail on Monday afternoon. Mrs. Elisabeth Michels, who has been spending the past few months in Waukegan, has returned to her home on Court street. 7 Rev. W. P. Rueckheim is again settled at his home in Lily Moor after an absence of a few months. • Mr. and Mrs. William Martin of Waukegan visited his aunt, Mrs. Eleanor Nye, last Wednesday. „ Audrey Rothermel, of DeKalb Normal, returned to her homo here Thursday to spend the remainder\of the week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Rothermel. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Short of Lake Geneva called on Mrs. Eleanor Nye last Wednesday. Miss Gladys Friddy and mother of Waukegan werts business callers at McHenry last Thursday. Mrs. George H. Johnson drbve to daughter, Mrs. E. J. Buss, were Woodstock visitors Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Martin were guests in the B. F. Martin home at Grayslake Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Davis and daughter, Evelyn, of Joliet, called at the Louis Stoffel home Sunday afternoon. SIP &NACK INN CHANGES OWNERSHIP Mr arrtf Mrs. Ben J. Dietz have sold the Sip Snack Inn on Elm street to i Mr. and Mrs. Herman R. Kreutzer I who will continue to operate the place under the same name. The Dietz's! will move back to their home on the j Fox river, about a mile south of the | bridge, where they will subdivide j about four acres of property known i Hillcrest Acres. Mr. Dietz has | operated the inn for the past seven \ years. ANNOUNCING... n "PINK" HARRISON'S Pistakee Bay, HI. SEASON'S OPENING SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1940 Music by Barbara Horick's Orchestra ' . --: : FINE DBXNKS i Remember "Pink" Invites You and Your Friends E. Griswold < was elected to fill the vacancy caused 1 DeKalb Friday to get her daughter, by the resignation of Henry Colby, i Marguerite, who spent the weekend and John Harrison for the full term. her borne here. The Board now stands, J. E. Bassett, j Mr- a»d Mrs. Walter Warner and John Harrison, E. Griswold. children were visitors in the home of - E new M. Owen & Son have- put up a elevator on the south side of Mrs. Mollie Givens Sunday. Arthur Bast, who established th« their warehouse, for the purpose of | f t" ' raising andJowering machinery, which cannot fair of being a great help to them in their business. 4* *i': t < riFTY YEARS AGO 3. W. Lawson, of Spring Grove, sold his four year old Bellfounder Stallion last week, to a party from Indiana, for $250. Corporation election next Tuesday, at which time will be elected one president, four trustees, one clerk and one police magistrate. « ^hiring the storm on Moiidy night the barn of Thomas Phalen, three miles south o£ this village, was struck by lightning, and two cows and one torse killed but the barn was not turned. A small cyclone struck this village on Tuesday night. The new ice houses of the Knickerbocker ice company are a total wreck, a part of the battlement on Owen & Son's agricultural warehouse was blown off and havoc on a small scale prevailed generally. FORTY YEARS AGO Henry Boehmer & Co., of the Wood stock city creamery^ have made con tacts with their patrons for the next seven months at 87 cents per hundred. They are receiving 9,000 pounds of milk daily. We have two indications that spring is here--The wild geese are flying north and the bell of the scissor grinder was heard on our streets. Statement of the Spring Grove Creamery association for the month of February: Pounds of milk received, 201,186; pounds of buter made, 9,216; money received. $2,224.01; average test, 4; yield, 4.68; coat of making, 2.2 cents; price received per pound of butter, 24.13 cents. has purchased the Louis Lyons Variety store in West Chicago. Mr. Lyons, was a former business associate of Mr. Bast. & Dr. and^ Mrs. A. I. Froehlich attended a 'musical recital in Kimball hall, Chicago, Saturday evQning in which their daughter, Adele. participated. Miss, Froehlich offered two vocal solos. Earl Converse of Slocum Lake was a business caller at McHenry last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. William Powers and, son of Elgin called on relatives heTe Sunday. Linus Newman was a visitor in the Charles Newman home at Slocum Lake Saturday. ^ Mrs. William Aebischer of Chicago visiting in the Louis Stoffel home this week. Mr. and Mrs. John Phalin and Mrs. Eleanor Foley and children were Sunday guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Mahoney at Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schoewer were Chicago callers Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. James Wall and children of Svcamore visited his sister. Mrs. May Powers, and Marie, Sunday. Rev. Louis DeLere of Our Lady of Peace church, Chicago, was a caller; in the home of his sister. Mrs. Jay Powers. Sunday. He baptized his little nephew, Donald Joseph. Mr. and Mrs. Linus Newman and Model Illustrated Super Value 6-40 Price Only $129.50 B4SX TERMS WE'VE EVER OFFERED Big 6 Cu. Ft. FRIGIDAIRE bdilt to highest quality standards • See this brand new 1940 bar* gain beauty! Has Double - Easy' Quickube Trays throughout, Double- Width Dessert Tray and gc&» . uine Stainless Chromium Shelves --a feature you couldn't buy a year ago in any refrigerator at any price! See all other deluxe features offered at this bargain price ia* eluding: Famous Meter-Miser Mechanism • Uni-Matic Cold Control with Automatic Reset Defroster • Big Cold Storage Tray • All 4 trays have Automatic Tray Release and Instant Cube Release • 1-Piece Allsteel Cabinet • Automobile Type Door Hinges.... and many mor«l; JACOB JUSTEN & SONS Green Street -- McHenry, 111. 1 THIRTY YEARS AGO Butter was declared firm at 31 cents on the Elgin board of trade Monday. Simon Michels has moved his family from Johnsburg to the Mrs. Schaefer cottage on East Waukegan street, Mr. Michaels expects to become an employe at the Terra Cotta factory. Arhur M. Dorr, who at one time was in the saloon business here, is now engaged in the blacksmith business at Capron, 111. Dr. C. H. Fegers, Sr., who for over a quarter of a century has practiced medicine here and at Johnsburg, has disposed of his home and practice to Dr. N. J. Nye of Johnsburg, who took possession on Friday, April 1. -- TWENTY YEARS AGO The umbrella mender has nibde his annual visit and now we are sure that spring is with us. Several from this village and community have made trips down to Elein this week to witness the destructive sights left by the tornado which visited that city last Sunday noon. Notwithstanding the fact that there has been an over abundance of rain during the past three weeks some of the farmers throughout this locality say that their fields are in good condition for spring plowing. One of the new employes of the Hunter boat factory here has rented the Peter J. Doherty cottage and has already moved his family into same. ersonals Mr. and Mrs. William Miller of Chicago visited his mother, Mrs. Anna Miller, Sunday. Edward Landnesser of Chicago called on Mrs. Miller Monday. Mr. and Mrs. George geheid and Mr. and Mrs. Nick Kennebeck of Griswold Lake were visitors in the John Scheid home Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur.Bickler of Chicago were weekend guests of Mrs. Annabel Aicher. ! Mr. and Mrs. Howard Christiansen lof Richmond called on relatives here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Dowey of Elm- J hurst visited his aunt, Mrs. Eleanor :Nye, Sunday evening. Mrs. George 1 Strandel and children and Miss Doris , Steins of Aurora, called on Mrs. Nye j Saturday. . % ; Mrs. Gerald Carey, Mrs. Ray Mci Gee, Mrs. Floyd Cooley and Miss i Mayme Buss of McHenry and Mrs. j Carl Nelson of Elgin were luncheon icuests of Mrs. Julia Kent at Chicago i last Friday. Mrs. Charles Miller is entertaining jher grandmother, Mrs. Horn of Chii caeo. this week. | Vale Adams, a student at Lake Forest, is spending his spring vacation at I his home here this week. i Mayor R. I. Overton drove back rmciple! entirely 9 action wiifa "Honcf-lroning ONLY *472 A MONTH! RONlfcG foe 24® sheen wriflKlcs 3ACTIO0S •\ , w«k»' FrM Hon- ^ . n home "-"oiupdL if J""/00" tbe sam1e truiSne . Ask .bo"! •h*®' OTHER IRONERS, TOO! 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