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Our Washington -?» Letter i Jerry Laririn, who is attending | school at the University of Illinois, | spent the weekend at his home here. I Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Meyers at | Lake Zurich spent Thanksgiving in the home of their son and family, Mr. ! and Mrs. Prank Meyers. [ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ulrich and L7-^ v; f' srV, ," *d'•--. " \ -. V v - - • Washington, November 26--Turbuent days, for labor onions and the government keeps the public! daughter. Virginia, of Oak Park were from pondering over j Thursday guests in the home of Mrs. affairs. Despite the prospect Ulrich's mother, Mrs. Nellie Bacon. -4f » compromise in the mine workers' Mr. and Mre Guy d ,ittk it seems doubtful that Mn of Champaign were holiday via. reUtions wiU eomesoon itors 5n the c H Duker home. wogh to stop the restrictive strike Mrs M j WaUh snd famil 8pent #t Cap- I Thanksgiving in the Louis Yoong ^ H*U. The dqpand for action home in Wankegan. - Kmong the legislators is so prortounc- j jjr ^ ^ Arthur Boger and id that the pro-labor committees in, family of Maywood, Mr. and Mn. .jf8 Senate and House may find bills j Harold Prett and Harriet Boger of .and Mrs. Harold Wells of Elgin were W union control taken out ot their ; Chicago were Thanksgiving guests in : Saturday callers in the Liinus New- " " 18 Dow a <P*®«tion as to the home of Mrs. Kathryn Boger. ! man home. | Robert and Adolph Wiedeman and Lois Fred ricks sprat several days In Chicago last week. Dick Freund of Notre Damo spent the holidays at his home here. JMRr-T- LOOK, MISTERTK* GALS CEHTfcifc.LV LIKE us sailors; THA*S whether the powerful trade union lohfeiea can matter sufficient support to •jMKfify drastic anti-strike laws in the 1 aking. There is no question about the ef- |ect of the enrrerit strike on the thinkof the lawmakers. The actions of I Thanksgiving day at the A. K. Buhis Wm"VoAemdTlfr' and 4ohn itt defying the govern- home in Oak Park. Mrs. Lort-n Rothermel, Rose Huemann went alienated many solons Who have ISmmi' A SKILLED TWOE *1 "Itf N&N. "TtfSflLORS KANE PUEWVOF FUN-- WT* lOTSOl1 TIME TO VISIT "TW LANDS OF ROMANS* AM' OPPORTUMltCV/ -I'LL BET NA UHSHES W WAS IN TH' MAW.'.' r m "™T i IM, i n THAT I THOUuHT VOU VUERE RETIRED. ADMIRAL NAVW/i & 1 X Big Hollow School to be Finished Soon LILY LAKE Y«* pay falte Navy is gravy No rent to pay. No food to buy. No dodw't or dentin's bifit Evea-nowi and dhet milntsiw --nt or» froo. And wfc-- yon fif* Nwy (im yow $118.00 worth of wraforml And if yen want to Warn a trade, itt* Navy it A* piaco to do it. There are forty-Awe odd tiedw you con loam training that's worth hundreds «i dollar* the first year. The Navy offers the chance of a Blfal to young men. If you are 17 or'«*•*, 0*1 a free copy «( the illustrated booUot "UK M IK U I NAVY" from the Navy Edfcor of this i Simply write or caH. SERVE SOUR GOUNffiVti BUILD VOUR FUTURE! GET IM THE NAVM MOO)! Thanksgiving day guests in the Joseph J. Rothermel home were Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Rothrrmel, Raymond and Florence Rothermel, and Wm. Billiter _ _ _ , . . . . ° f C h i c a g o ; J a m e s R o t h e r m e l o f S t . u.^T ^rSre J °hnf°" f*miy J??* iMary's college in Winona, Minn.; Mr. Ipng voted for any social gains sought *1 Chicago spent a few days last ;ljy the labor groups. Somehow the gnxiety over this domestic disturbance Ifas side-tracked the usual Congressional discussion on international affairs. .. This diversion has been for- Hunate for the diplomatic agencies hich are always fearful that for- Mrs. E#h Hayes and eon, Richard^j ,ad Miss MayAusten of McHenry. a#?] Billy Kinsala, and Charles Carson ot' Chicago. Mrs. Elmer Kinsala and 1 children remained to spend the weekweek with her mother, Mrs. Ellen Whiting. Holiday guests in the Herman Kreutzer home were Ifr.". and Mrs. Winfield Hagberg and children, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Moderhack and family and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kreutzer, jigners will misunderstand the import | all of Chicago. *f our political harangues. The Jap- j Dr. and. Mrs. Jack Purvey and chil- ' Ifnepe mission has been in a series of dren of Crystal Lake were Thinksijonferences with the hope of ironing 1 giving day guests m "the Joe Miller ; iut barriers to a Far Eastern agree-' home. ~ Ihent. Professional military and naval j Mr. and Mrs. A. Kosinski of Elgin ^ fjnen still consider the Nipponese issue : Visited- in the home of her mother, . '"iii powder keg which may be set off at Mrs! Agnes Marshall, last Thursday. ; *ny minute. , j Thanksgiving day guests in tne ^ President Roosevelt has askfd Con- ' Thomas A. Bolder home were Mr. ano ^or more money to finance de- ' Mrs. Ed Sullivan, Vivian Bolger and Jense production. Defense expendl- Virginia Schnell of Ivigin. ; : Allures have, been increasing about 200 Guests in the Henry Kinsala home laillion dollars per month since July Thanksgiving were Mr. and Mrs. .. ind in October totaled 1,527 million Elmer Kinsala and children, Marie and " dollars compared with 287 million dil- 1 *lars a year earlier. The physical vol- . |me of processed goods represented "i £* defense and exports is estimated to end i&ave been more than twice as large Genevieve and Marty Knox Visited in October as a year earlier. Trends in Dixon last Friday. ' *%i defense expenditures and consumer I Mr.'and Mrs. Martin Heckman of ,* • Incomes indicate that production prob- \ Chicago were visitors in the Martin ably would be considerably higher Cooney home on Thanksgiving.- , ",;j|han it is now if materials were avail. | Guests in the Mrs. Wm. Bacon home •>: .. able. A Department of Agriculture ' last Thursday were Bill and Arleen jraport this week points out inventor- Bacon of Chicago, Private Marshall tes of manufacturers, wholesalers, and Bacon of Fort Knox, Ky., and Mr. and -v Vijetailers have been increased during Mrs. L. D. Mitchell and family «f - * |he past year and except for some Waukegan. items stocks in general probably will' Mr. apd Mrs. Clarence Whiting and w §e adequate for some time yet. Con- Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Whiting and ? lumers also will be getting more ser-1 daughter, Terry, of Elgin were i 'v-" . _.*ices, such as amusements, utilities, Thanksgiving guests of Misa Gen- •nd personal service. Thus, a moder-' evieve Knox. •', »te decline in the production of civil-1 Mr. and Mrs. Edward DiMer and ;;>^ittn goods need not result in a corres-' family, Mary Dibler, and Mr. and ' 1 ->I Ifonding lowering of living standards.! Mrs. George Dibler of Woodstock vi»- A sharp reminder that the days of ited in the Edward Nickels home last leckoning are approaching is revealed Thursday. in the distribution of a new tax form I Mr. and Mrs. Earl Walsh and SOB ^ jor the 1941 tax returns. The Treas-! and Miss Ethel Freund spent the »ry has just distributed the revised ! weekend with Mrs. Walsh's sister and " '/ Schedule so that sufficient copies will {family, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Britz, in in the hands of collectors of in- | Rock Island. ^ lernal revenue by January 1. It is | Dick Clark, a former McHenry resi- ; Estimated that 10,000,000 or more tax- ! dent, who is nbw stationed in tine I'"' •' payers will use Form 1040 this year ; Navy in New York, spent part of a / ' flind some 12,000,000 taxpayers the ten day furlough visiting friends here. ; tlimpliiied Form 1040-A. Every effort | Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Haskins of lias been made to simplify the infor- ; Algonquin, Miss Beatrice Gaylord atM ~ Thation blank because it will-be the Miss Helen Weisweedle of Woodstock '; • ^ ^ ,<rst direct contact that millions have i were Thanksgiving guests in the ; Ifrith Uncle Sam a,s a tax collector. It Clyde Dowell home. Ikas been so arranged that persons Mr. and Mrs. .Geoqge Adams aad f * ho8e income is entirely from salaries j fismily spent Thursday visiting Elgin *|ind other compensation for personal relatives. Service, dividends, interests, rents, j Sister Veronica and Sister Sulticc ;*foyalties and annuities may fill in j of Chicago, Joseph Kortendick and 'fsies one and two of the new Form | daughter, Kathryn, and Mr. and MM, gnd disregard the remaining two | Wm. Kortendick of Rockford were |iages. • ' ,*-| Thanksgiving day guests in the John ^ - * Youngsters and oldstecs are the, ®°Jfer . . ' .. I-,V-§rst to feel the impact of unemploy-! Mrs. Tony Wirtz and son, Jackie, , gnent. This conclusion has been reach. < s^nt the wee^end visiting in Chicago. bd by the Bureau of the Census after *. -" digesting elaborate statistics. Other f <pacts revealed by the analysis were ; _ %hat non-white youth enter the labor market at earlier ages than white -'^outh; that men living on farms . 'fnter the labor force at younger ages , j;5?#nd remain in the labor force longer • • ihan men living in non-farm areas; ,, „ . . ., T v * , «tnd that the proportion of worker. McHenry were guests m the John J. • . £mong women twenty to Sixty years of i Murtaugh home Thanksgiving, > Age was markedly higher in 1940 than <'! , _ |n 1930. The increasing number of iomcn in industry 11 explained in con- fiderable part to the operation of a jng-run trend arising from such facj| ors as technological developments Mrs. O. C. Murray and daughter, Marjorie, of Geneva were dinner guests of Miss Kate McLaughlin last Friday. Mrs. Murray and daughter called on a' former pastor in the afternoon, Rev. A. J. Neidert, of Johnsburg. Accompanied by Miss McjLaughlin they also visited in the Robert Kralowitz home at Ringwood. Miss Botoette Cristy of Illinois Wes. leyan college spent Thanksgiving and the weekend at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Cristy. ' Jerry Baum, who is attending Illinois Wesleyan college at Bloomington, 111., spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Baum. Joan Strick of Chicago spent the weekend with her uncle, ^Chester Goodman, . And changes in industrial employment r • " practices; increase in service, tHide, : and clerical occupations, where opporl. * lunities for employment of women are Numerous; desire to increase the famr 4ly income or to become economically ' --independent; and decreased home re- J «ponsibilities resulting from increased V use of mechanical household equip- *' ' |nent and a declining birth rate. ' It has been found that men living on farms in the open country tend to . *nter the labor force at an earlier age ftnd leave it at a later age than men iving in the urban and rural-non- % ^ farm areas (villages). The early en- "" : trance of farm dwellers into the labor i "'.'i.5 force is encouraged by the existence . J-nVif opportunities for employment as tinpaid family workers or as part-tinw ^^"^arm laborers while they are still at- '1^/ lending school. Continuing farm em- |>loyment opportunities as laborers or * ~ Operators tend to keep the older per- :'v r fons in the labor force in rural-farm J^reas. U».' Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Thies, Mrs. del Aide Gausden and son, Joe, viait- >;?f§d Chicago relatives last Thusrday. : Mrs. Peter A. Freund, Jr., spent the ^faeekend visiting her sister, Mrs. Ora in Chicago. ^ " Kate and Thomas McLaughlin were idinner gu^^s in the Robert Kralowitz j ^'Jiome in Rirgwood on Than^kgiving.' t'y wm. Thies of Chicago spent sevfral days last week visiting hi* par- *%if%g|nts, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Thies. Evelyn Kraft of Richmond spent The new Big Hollow school building, which is being erected an the same grounds as the one which has served for so many years, is really getting under way. The site is at the inter; section of route 12 and the Woosteir Lake - Pi stake* Bay h*ghwj»y. Tlie contract for the erection of the building was let to a McHenry contracting company earlier in the month and they now have the basement almost completed. The approximate value of the new school will be $13,000 and it will be a handsome, fire-proof building of buff briok. . Passing of the old school is being regarded with mingled feelings by residents of the Big Hollow district who recall the happy Hays which they spent within its old frame walls. The school housed many of the better known residents of Grant township during its long period of service. Mr. and Mrs. Linus Newman ware visitors in the Charles Newman home at Slocum's Lake last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Klabough and daughters, Jeannie, Kathleen and Mary Edith, spent Thanksgiving day visiting at the home of his parents in Mauston, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. George Harper of C&ry and Mary Hufcbell and Helen Robinson of Chicago visited ft the Dosch home Saturday. Mr. and Mrs.. Henry Fait of Chicago spent a few days at their home at Lily Lake recently. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Krinn of Chicago and Mr. and Mrs. Alex WirfS r.nd daughter, Roberta Mae, and son, Wayne Edward, of Lily Lake were dinnei* guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Wegener Sunday. Fred Dosch and daughter, Josephine, were dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert "Swanson on Thanksgiving day. Mr. and Mn. Cooper spent the weekend at Lily Lake. Mr.'and Mrs. George Lindsay were Hebron visitors on Sunday. 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