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Overton of Mc- Henry, was killed outright last Thurs- ^•y morning, July SI, 1941, at about 11:45 o'clock when he was struck by • a,fast train on the Chicago, St. Paul . alfd Minneapolis railroad crossing at Sf Ion Mills, his home town. Mr. Ovetron was just returning to .his home with the mail, having made hjp customary daily trip to the post office. He had been deaf f<?r several . yfars and was walking along the highway as usual without a thought of danger. As he approached the railroad crossing he looked neither to the right nor left. A twelve-year-old neighbor boy, observing the danger and knowing of Mr. Overtoil's lack of caution, tried to signal him, but failed. 'Hie old man njet instantaneous death when he failed to look up and walked directly in the path of the onrushing v. ttbin. William J. Overton was the son of • James and Harriet Overton, both natives of Lincolnshire, England. His parents came to America at different times and were married in 1832 in Mew York. Later they came to Solon Mills where he first conducted a cheese • factory, later buying a farm covered with timber, most of which lie cleared and sold to the railroads. . i Bom on Homestead Farm William was born June 16, 1854, on - ""iKe homestead farm, one of four chil- " dren. One sister, Addie, died at the of twenty-five years, and Rath away at the age of sixteen years. A brother, Richard, died in -1900, aged fifty-four years. In 1878 he married Alisa E. Rich* ajrdson and to them were born Ave children. James and Sidney are de- Ceased, while surviving are Lynn of Milwaukee, Addie (Mrs. W. H. Gardner) and Duane, at home.. Also sur- "living are eleven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. His wife jpasesd away in 1986. In his younger days Mr. Overton Was an active participant in all local •fairs, social, political and in the breeding of fine cattle and horses. He xegularly had displays from his farm at the county fair at Woodstock and his brother "Dick" usually had a horse in the harness races. Since 1926 Mr. Overton had spem his winters in Florida, of late years always accompanied by his son, Duane. Because of his deafness he was handicapped in his conversations, but he was a constant reader and kept alive to world events through his newspapers. Funeral services for the deeeaaed Were held Sunday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. It. Gardner, just west of Solon Mills. Three Hurt in City Five people were injured this toeak la two accidents which took place in and near McHenry. Three were injured in a two-car collision and a young 4l>uple was hurt when their ear struck dt)S horse. . The two-car collision occurred shortly before two o'clock Sunday morning at the intersection of Bn street and Riverside Drive in McHenry. Emfl Proehming, Elmhurst, who was accompanied by Mrs. Sue Moulton, also of „ Sfanhurst. was driving his car directly «orth across the intersection on Riveraide Dnve when his auto was struck btroadside bv a car operated by Donald Hay, 22, of Ringwood, who was traveling east on Elm street. It is said the litter was driving at a terrific rate of 4*eed. Mrs. Moulton received several fractured ribs, head and leg lacerations gjnd a sprained ankle. Froehming received a gash on his head which required fourteen stitches to close it. Bay also suffered head and leg lacerations and bruiees. They received first •fid treatment at a local physician's elT.ee Both cars were demolished. Car Strikes Horse The second accident occurred last Priday evening at about 6:15 p.m. •ear the Jecks farm on route 120, two atiles west of McHenry, at which time a car operated by Harold Trawinske, lis years old, of 344? Newland avenue, Chicago, struck a horse which had wandered onto the pavement and tilled it. Trawmake and his companion. Miss Barbara Chambers, 18, of 3805 North 'Newcastle avenue, Chicago, were treated by a McHenry doctor and then taken to the Woodstock hospital. The former, who sustained a broken shoulder, was also badly bruised. Miss Chambers efccaped^-wjth bruises, cuts and shock. They were on their way to their summer home at Wonder Lake when the accident took place. Mrs. 6. H. Freund and chlidren of Delavan, Wis.; spent Tuesday with McHenry relatives. * John Metzger of Chicago was vacationing in McHenry a few daya "l?Jt - f...« FILES $19.«M SUIT John Zagar filed suit against Gttstav Johnson and Fred Ekstrom Friday asking damages in the amount of $10,000 in connection with an acoident on route 14* southeast of Crystal Lake on March 11, 1941, in which the pl|dn: ti|f, aUeges he was seriously injured. oral PROBATION ' a"'petition for probation was' tfted in ©ehalf of Eugene Brown, Chicago juvenile, under indictment for burglary and larceny, by Attorney Theo.' L. Hamer Saturday. The youth pleaded guilty to the charge. Judge Dady referred the case to A. A. Crissey, probation officer, and requested a report on August 9, Brown is alleged to have broken into several Crystal Lake homes recently. FAEMEES SEER HIGHER VILE: FEIOES AS COST OF PEomronoif RISES THIRTY PIGS STOLEN John Freund, who lives near Spring Grove, reported to Deputy Sheriff Harold E. Reese that sometime between July 19 and 22, thirty pigs weighing one hundred pounds or more each, were stolen from his farm. They were valued at ten dollars apiece. AM pgOBATE ESTATE May V. Howell was named executrix of the estate of H. E. Howell in Woodstock last Wednesday. 'Life use of the $15,500 estate is given Mrs. Howell by terms of the will of her husband who died recently. The will is dated May 23, 1924. NAB ARTHUR 8TEPA|0^ Arthur Stepan. wanted in Woodstock since last February in connection with numerous burglaries in that city, was arrested in Chicago Monday «nd turned over to Sheriff Lester Edinger Tuesday. Harold Kemmerling, Woodstock police chief, was notified by Chicago police late Monday that they had picked up Stepan. Stepan was indicted on February 28 in six different true bills together with his alleged partner, Harry Carroll. On March 7 Carroll pleaded guilty to a burgary and larceny charge and was sentenced to serve from one year to life in the state prison at Joliet. He was twenty-three years old at the tiine. ^ •••#*» V OLD AOS PAYMENTS IN COUNTY SET NEW HIGH DUEINQ JULY An increase in prices paid to farmers for their milk was the topic of an address Monday by Arthur H. Lauterbach, manager of the Aire Milk association, representing 12,090 milk producers. He stated that this was necessary 44if the farmers are to receive anywhere near the cost of production for mHk.M Lauterbach addressed a meeting called by the department of agriculture in response to the dejmand of milk producing associations for a price revision under the federal milk marketing order to meet increased costa. Edward O. Mather represented the government at the hearings. Lauterbach said the farmers "will have to get a blend price of $2.50 to $2.75 per hundredweight for 3.5 per cent butter fat milk." This would result in an increase of about half a cent a quart to the producer and tjbe same to the consumer, hp said. Figures based on a survey by. the Pure Milk association, showed that twenty-five producers, reported fortynine per cent less available labor this year than last, with wage increases as high at thirty-five dollars monthly, Lauterbach said. The average wage increase, he added, was sixty-two per cent monthly. The survey also revealed a thirtyseven and one-half per cent, increase in child labor, forty per cent more women farm workers, a sixteen per cent i nee rase in the coat of machinery and a twenty-four per cent increase in cost of feed. Because of the tabor shortage, he said, farmers have been forced to invest in labor-saving machinery to do their work. The farmers sought the increase also in order to adjust the seventy cents premium they receive over the govprice. They want as a basis for the premium tiie higher price fixed by condenseries outside the area covered by the present federal milk administration schedule. The government code price based on Sheriff the butter and cheese market, for June was $1.66 per hundredweight. The condenseries paid $1.95 per hundredweight. Questioned by Mrs. Alice Be tester, delegate from the United States conference on the high cost of living, Lauterbach said dairy production had increased six per cent in response to war demands. "Dairy farmers cant expand further," he said, "without government assurance-that expansion will be compensated for at the end of the emergency. One-third of the dairy farmers of this country lost their farms at the end of the last war. We'll have to be protected, the same as the industrialists.* ALFRED HLUER, a TEAK, DIES AT WtPM SIVKBAL OTHttB TAXIN BY DEAY^ / Lees than two noat&s after his marriage, Alfred Miller, 21 years of age, died at the Woodstock hospital on NAB YOUTHFUL B&MLAR8 Sheriff Clarence jntulsgrove of Mc- Donough cuttuiy Mftn»eia Sheriff Lester Edinger Saturday that he has two youths. Cecil Hunter, 19, and Stanley Hurhert, 18, in custody who have sd ettimewt-fixed «ede eandm«ery mitted breaking into the Jobe and Kelly garages and the Baird drag store at Marengo on July 11. They are from Penn Yan, New York. Hie two are Wanted by Missouri state police and by the McDonough authorities for crime violations. Edinger lodged a warrant against them in McDonough county in hopes ef getting them. Old age payments to McHenry county during July exceeded those of the previous month and set a new top figure of 499 amounting to $10,692. The June total was $10,570. The total of $72,292 has been paid in old age aaeistance in the first seven months of 1941. Arthur C. Lueder, state auditor of the public accounts, last week announced that old age assistance payments in the state for July also nation, creased to a new top figure of 147,280 amounting to $3,442,398. This represents an increase of $45,- 071.00 over June when 149,960 IHinoisians, sixty-five years of age or over, received $3,397,327.00. J : COMING EVENT^ August 7 East River Road Hnochle--Mrs. Albert Vales. ^ Auguat T - 9 Red Cross Sewing Days--High School. Auguat 9-19 St. Mary's Carnival and Chicken Dinner-- McHenry. August 12 Pinochle Club--Mrs. Nick Pre«a£ August 29 Pinochle Club--Mrs. Lillian Stoffel. August 23 East River Road Improvement Ass'n -- M. A. Sutton. Two, arrested FORim .• ^ PARKING VIOLATIONS --JmHee of the Peace Albert Kraus* heard two cases this week involving parking violations in McHenry. One of the offenders was from Crystal Lake and the other from Chicago. He also issued a warrant for a third violator erf the paridng lawa ia-tbe city. . • " • • Francis Bonslett of Evanston called >n McHenry relatives Wednesday. LOAN APPLICATIONS IN TENANT-PUECHASE PLAN SHOULD BE FILED NOW A. W. Dillon, county supervisor for the farm security administration advises that tenants and farm labor families in McHenry county who want to be considered for Bankhead-Jones tenant- purchase loans should file their applications immediately. McHenry county is one of sixty-one Illinois counties selected by the U. 8. department of agriculture for the tenant-purchase program. Only a limited number of loans will be available in the county for the purchase of farms this year, Mr. Dillon said. Applications which are received first jrifl'be given first consid- "Any renter or farm labor family which cannot get the necessary credit elsewhere is eligible to apply for a tenant-purchase loan," Mr. Dillon said. "The loans are>ayable over a fortyyear period at three per cent interest. They provide for purchase of the farm phis repair and alterations of buildings and land development where necessary." He explained that it will he necessary for the applicant to locate the farm to be purchased, which must be of a "family type." capable of being operated without help other than the members of the family, except during short peak labor periods, such as the threshing or corn-picking seasons. In addition to choosing a farm, the family must work out a sound farm and home management plan. Mr. Dillon and the county home management supervisor, Nellie M. Houck will cooperate with families obtaining loans and help them work out these management plans. N O T I C E New Store Hour*--Monday Frilay. 8:3ft a.m. to 6 p. m. Saturday, 3:30 a. m. to 10 p. m. Sunday, 8:30 a. m^ to 12 M. Closed .Sundays after Sept. 1. The Atlantic A Pacific Tea Co. 12-fp Mr." and Mrs, Fred Samlow and daughter, Dorothy, of Elpiwood Park were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. "Fred C. Schoewer. (PM» lr WmuUM ALFRED MILLER She was married twenty-one years ago to Frank Lasco, Twelve years ago they moved from the Antioeh vicinity j to their farm near Spring Grov? where they have resided since. Besides her husband she leaves her. mother, Mrs. Nellie Willett of Ann tioch, one sister, Mrs. Wilbur Turner, and a brother, Rosy Willett, both of Antioeh. The last- rites were held in the Antioeh M. E. church with Rev. Col- Una of Ringwood officiating. Burial was in Hillside cemetery, Antioeh. Peter J. Myer Peter J. Myer, 62, who suffered a stroke and fell to the ground while loading hay cm his farm one mile south of Lake Villa on highway 21 last Friday, died Tuesday, August 5, 1941, at St Therese's hospital, Waukegan. At the inquest it was determined that the stroke was the direct cause of tha death. Mr. Myer, born in Wheelin county, Ontario, Canada, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Myer, was well known in McHenry, as is his widow, Marie. Surviving are the following children: Mrs. Jeanette Dutcher, Miss Emily J., Miss Bertha V.. Miss Margaret Elaine, all of Lake Villa; Mrs. Betty Schad of j Round Lake; and Melvin, who is in an army camp in Pennsylvania. Funeral services will be held from the late home to St. Joseph's church, Round Lake, Saturday at 10 a. m. Interment will be in St. Joseph's cemetery. Marten EMredge Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 1:30 at the Senne Funeral home in Maywood for Marion Eldredge, daughter of Mrs. Harry Eldredge of River Forest, an old time resident of McHenry. Burial will take place in Woodland cemetery, McHenry, at about 3:30 Saturday afternoon. . Her death occurred early Wednesday afternoon, August 6, 1941. Thursday morning, JgjEfol, 1941, following a six weeif* llpAMi He was born at Johnshuyg on January 17, 1926, the son of Jeeeph P. and Mary A., nee Meyer, Miller, and he was graduated from the eighth grade at St. John's school at Johnaburg. <Jh June 4, 1941, he married Jeanette Hergott of Spring Grove and they made their home in Woodstock where both were employed at the Alemite Die Casting plant. On June 18 he was operated at the Woodstock hospital for the removal of his appendix and was permitted to re- EOAD IMPROVEMENTS UNDEE BOND ISSUE OF LAST FALL, COMPLETED The road improvement project in McHenry township, for which the voters in the vicinity gave their "0. K." to the expenditure of $80,000 on August 14, 1940, has been completed, according to an announcement by Joseph J. Freund, township road commissioner. The sum was appropriated under this bond issue for the improvement CHICKEN-DUCK; MNNER AUG. 10 The Very Rev. Msgr. Charles S. Nix, pastor of St. Mary's church, McHenry, 111., again announces the annual parish summer festival which will be held on the church grounds on Saturday and Sunday, August 9th and 10th. This two-day carnival will be a homecoming for the former members of the parish, for the friends of the parish residing in the neighboring cities and for the thousands of Chicagoans who spend their vacations in McHenry's vacation-land'. ^ The Rev. Paul A. Tuchlinsky, assistant pastor, will be thfe general chairman. He will be assisted by the members of the various societies of the parish. The carnival wiH start Saturday evening and will continue SAnday afternoon and evening. Those who have attended St. Mary's festival in former years know that everyone, both young and old, will find something to interest and enjoy themselves in the several hours spent at McHenry's superb carnival and homecoming. The outstanding feature of the festival will be the annual dinner of chicken and duck for which St. Mary's is noted. This dinner will be served on Sunday. August 10th, from 11:90 o'clock to 3:00 o'clock, DST, and will be under the auspices of the Christian Mothers' Sodality of the parish and the Young Ladies' Sodality- . Coaanittoe Chainaea Bingo--William Hv Althoff. Bars--Nick Weingart an<) Charles Herdrich. , .. ^ Chuck-Luck--2te£jpe P. freund. Milk Bottle Uawe--Alfred Weingart and Paul Bnldi . Hot Dog Race--Anton. JWreund. Hooligan Game--Tiffie Ntx. Cane Rack--Ralph Freund. Money Pitch--Donald Weingart. Novelty Stand -- Charles Weingart and Marie Miller. Dart Game--Agatha Schmitt. Candy Booth--Jack C. Thlea. Refreshment Stand--Gertrude Weber. Lunch Stand--Elisabeth Michels. Fish Pond--School Sisters. MSGR. CHAS, PASTH OF LOCAL CHURCH 20 YEARS turn home when it was thought he | twelve miles of gravel roads, , . ., : urhi/»h urero lurfirM bv the auburwas out of danger. However, after a couple of weeks he was forced to return to the hospital where it was discovered that he was the victim of metal poisoning. He submitted to two more operations, the last one occurring on Wednesday afternoon, July 30, at two o'clock. He died Thursday morning at 6:10 o'clock. Surviving besides his beloved wife and parents are four brothers, Tony and Leo of Chicago, Leander of California and Elmer at home; also five sisters, Mrs. Michael Gorski and Mrs. George Zarastorff of Woodstock, Mrs. George King and Mrs. Jacob Thiel of Johnsburg and Mrs. Rose Corey of Genoa City, Wis. Another brother precedes him In death, having died in infancy. Funeral services were held Monday morning at ten o'clock at 9t» Peter^s church in Spring Grove. Burial in the Johnsburg cemetery. •} Mrs. Grace Allen , •* • Mrs. Grace Allen, wife of E* Allen of Richmond, passed a way her home Wednesday night, July which were surfaced by Subur ban Oil company of Oak Park. These roads which were repaired are scattered throughout the township in such a way that the benefits are being derived by a large group of real estate owners. The new blacktop stretches are located as follows: Two miles north from route 120 to Wonder Lake. Three miles west from route 31, through Ringwood, to Olson's corner. Two and one-quarter miles west from route 31 to Horn's grocery at McCullom Lake. One mile north from Johnsburg on the Spring, Grove road. A stretch of about eight hundred feet north from the Johnsburg road in Johnsburg to the district school- One and seven-tenths miles northeast from Johnsburg to the old chapel. About one mile on the west side of Pistakee Bay from Sayer'a corner, which connects the previously biacktopped Pistakee Bay road with a point near the Bay shore. Sixteen hundred feet north from MSGR. CHARLES S. NIX tion next Sunday, August 10, success, for this day marks the twentieth anniversary of the day Msgr. Charles S. Nix. their pastor, took'Up his duties here in that capacity. For twenty years he has guided them and labored for them to the best of his ability, and in appreciation, his parish has offered the utmost co-eperation in all undertakings and functions which the church and the various societies have sponsored. As a special gift to the Monaignor •n this twentieth anniversary, his people have seen fit to sponsor the decoration of the interior of the church, and this week the finishing touches were completed after the scaffold had been removed, revealing a moet beautiful spectacle. • » .-i . ' " ^ The entire church has been painted J|i dainty pastel shades of ivory, '--^£5 | pink and blue, thus inspiring a light The dinner wii"£ prepaned by the a«d exu,ta"t mood. The pure white J Christian Mothers and served by the ^ ^e backed by a shgjtly deeper young ladies of the parish. The traf- | ^S^und, which make the.r beauty fic and parking will be under the Ieven supervision of Sylvester Wirfs. 1941. She was born June 24, ltf», | the McHenry city limits on Riverside and was united in marriage with Allen Drive; on January 6, 1998. Funeral services were held Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at the Ehorn funeral home with burial at Richmond. P. F. Hanrahan Patrick F. Hanrahan, father of Atty. James R. Hanrahan of Woodstock and a man well known in Mr- Henry, died at 3:45 p.m. last Thursday afternoon, July 31, 1941, at Glenwood hotel, Fontana, of a heart attack which followed years of illneaa. The Rosedale road connecting route 120; just east of the new bridge, with the Johnsburg road, matting $ at the transformer corner. FIVE MILLIONS TO BE GIVEN ILLINOIS FOB HIGHWAY IMPBOVB9BB2NT Illinois will receive the fourth largest quota of road and bridge construction funds when the federal appro- The deceased, who was eighty-four j priation of $320,000,000 for improveyears old, was a retired Chicago ment of highways in army camp areas policeman, and had made his home in ' is ready for distribution. The state s more apnarent. In tho sanctuary, above the high altar is an exquisite painting of the Assumption, while above the two side altars are the reproductions of two angels, painted also in oil. •<<. The statues tbojunre all been retouched and the Statioiis ofDthe CroM have been cleaned, their real splendor having been revived. | And so. in this way the parishioners OF LOCAL SIDEWALKS (have once main "•'own their gratitude for the many works performed in Mc- Stephen H. Freund and Anton P. Freund are directing the construction of the stands. George Wirfs has been appointed chairman of the kitchen workers. CITY WILL CONTINUE TO PAY PAPT OF COST Woodstock with his son and family since March, moving with them to Fontana for the summer. Previous to that time he had lived with his other .4on and family, Dr. and Mr». Wm. M. Hanrahan in Chicago, since share is $5,000,000. The bill provides that allocations to states will be on a 75-25 per cent basis, with each state furnishing onefourth of the cost. In Illinois the war department al the decease of his wife, the former ready ha9 designated 1.900 miles of Catherine Conway of McHenry, who sUte highways as strategically impassed away on August 10. five years ! to national defense. U. S. ago. Besides his two sons, eight. 20 fn>m Chicago through Elgin grandchildren survive. . I and Belvidere to Chicago is included Funeral services were held Satur- jn the rQadg designate<i by the war day morning at ten o'clock at St. Mary's Catholic church in Woodstock, interment was in Calvary cemetery. Mrs. Frank Lasco Funeral services were held at two o'clock Monday afternoon, July 28, for Mrs. Edith M. Lasco, 46. wife of Frank Lasco who resides near Spring irove. She passed away Saturday morning, July 26, 1941, at the Woodstock hospital where she had been a patient for four weeks. She had been in failing health for a long time. She was born Edith M. Willett on February 16, 1896, at Antioeh, the daughter of Fred and Nellie Willett. department and presumably some of the federal funds will be used to widen route 20 and to make such .other changes as the war department deems necessary. Walter Rosenfield, Illinois director of public works and buildings, has received official notification at Springfield of the amount of funds to be allotted to the state and is awaiting notice from Washington of the specific highways to be improved. Largest allocation, $7,500,000, goes to Texas whtleji^ $6 000,000. An encouraging note to property owners comes out of the city council meeting held on Monday evening of this week. Recognizing the need of sidewalk improvements, the council agreed to continue the plan on paying twenty cents per lineal foot o.. four-foot sidewalks. The property owner will pay the balance of expense in connection with the construction. All plans must be approved by the committee in charge and a permit secured for the construction. The annual tax levy ordinance was passed, approved and is ready for filing with the county clerk. Fred C. Feltz, superintendent of the disposal plant, reported on attendance at a district meeting where many valuable ideas were discussed to assist operators in the efficient operation of the plants. The longest discussion of the meeting concerned violations of city ordinances by a small minority of taverns. The mayor and council members solidly backed the police department in its efforts to maintain proper order. While it received the full co-operation of the majority of tavern keepers in their high standards of operation, it was apparent that action will be taken to enforce regulations. The report of flagrant disregard foi parking regulations also came to the attention of the council. Reports indicated that several arrests have been made in an effort to curb parking practices that might cause accidents on the city streets. THREE LOCAL PERSONS H SEEK CmZWSBlP With the deadline passed for filing citizenship papers for the September 22 hearing, a total of forty-one applications are on file. Preliminary examinations were given fifteen in Woodstock Tuesday in addition "to the twenty-six already on file. The names of the local persons whe have filed for citizenship are: Emma Gies. McHenry, a native of Luxembourg. Julia Zeilinski, McHenry, a mative of France. Justyna Pesx, McHenry, a nativ* of Germany. . ; # : ifeir Henry by Msgr. Nix. t .: Came from Vfargfl ' ' On August 10, 1921, he came to St Mary's from Virgil. 111., where he had been a pastor for ihirieen years to succeed Rev. Edward Berthold, who was in failing health. Here his first work was the building of a modern rectory which was greatly needed. As years passed, he gradually laid out a beautiful lawn and improved its appearance with a host of flowers and shrubbery of all kinds. Then on June 30, 1935. he w*s invested as a Private Chamberlain to His Holiness, Pope Pius XI, with the title of Very Rev. Monsignor. This honor was renewed by the present Pope. Pius XII. In 1937. in conjunction with St. Pitrick's church, he was instrumental in the construction of St. Mary - St. Patrick school, erected at a eost of about $75,000. This school is taught by the Sisters of St. Francis of Milwaukee, Wis. These are but a few of the highlights of his pastorate in this dty and today he is grateful that he has been able to continue his work here for so many years among the finest people in the world and in the spot he loves more than any other in the world, j* WALKS DISTANCE OF SIX TIMES AROUND GLOW Having walked the equivalent of six times around the earth is the newel record of Edwin H. Friend, for twentysix years carrying mail out of the Woodstock post office. Now retired and enjoying himself, spending hie winters at St. Petersburg, Fla., and his summers in®Woodstock he has time to reflect on such mathematical problems as the above. Following the . Uf'J same route of approximately eighteen • " -~1 miles, 305 times a year for twenty-six years, he figures his total mileage as 153,140 miles. Quite a record. Mn. Anna Sprovere, son, Franda* Mrs. William Sprovere and MisS Deba Beckwith were Waukegan visitor® oa Tuesday. Mrs. A. Mann and daughter, Lauretta. of Chicago spent several days last week in the Fred C. Schoewer home at Wil-El-Mar. ^ w ; 33*5? i&i