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fronM V.F.W. Party of the members of the V. and Bugle Corps of Crysjoyed a Christmas party at . hall in that city last moon. The hall was apdecorated for the occasion the children and parents a tasty lunch at tlw close ;y. Those who attended enry were Mr. and Mrs. and family and Mr. and Mrs. ^i)it;Conway and family. Druggist *41 !- The tlfnl « I IOVAI» CRYSTAL UU, ILL. (Vfc LeaJuntTki ei atre FRL * SAT. -- December 26 - 37 Charlie Haggles - Bka Drew b •THE FIGHTING PAR80N OF PAN AM INT" AIfo -- Musical and Pop. Science SUN. ft MON. -- December 28 - » Sunday Continuous from 2:45 p. m. At last . . . it's here! Orson Welles in " -CITIZEN KANE" < * * with Dorothy Co*in(rm(iif! The picture you've been waiting for 1UES. & WED. -- Dee-ember 30-31 Ann Ratherford - Robert Stack in "BAD LANDS OF DAKOTA'* with Frances Farmer - Richard Dix and an all-star cast! Also -- Latest March of Time! MIDNIGHT SHOW -- 11:3ft p. n. Wed., Dec. 31 & Thurs., Jan. 1 Matinee Thursday, New Years Day Sunday Schedule and Prices Dorothy Lamour - John Hall in "ALOMA OF THE SOUTH SEAS" Also -- Community Singing Attend our Midnipht Show* and start the New Year right! 'HAPPY NEW YEAR- ^; Colony , Illinois THURSDAY -- FRIDAY Fred Astafce - Rita Haywerth "YOQUE'LTL NEVER RICH" Thursday Matbe, 2:45 Contiaaoas SATURDAY -- Q»e Day Charles Ragles • EOmi Drew in (1) "Parson of Panamint" •twnda Marshall - W>jm Morris (2) The Smiling Oiywt" MONDAY 2 8-29 Deeaaa Dulia - Otirin Laagtataa "IT STARTED Sunday 2:45 TUBBDAT ResaKnd WEDNESDAY TOUCH' Don't Mies Oar Attraction fer MIW TSAB'S KVK PASTY :N Introduces- In Wrusbtd Qold Plate atuHm- Mack er White Enamel " en Qold Piatt ' IteyMhottprwirdiiiiin tftc wid« your reflection withia ndi • pneiw vanity. A bijao with cachet, Edged with an arch of 1 i ^Ws«MW"WsTiH|^ gHIB emerald-green. Ctnttliii M|t Mid loose powder. ( . • <- ' ' h i dfe J-• iWfc! Mrs. Bat#£ bers of ti*' Christmas noon. Freund, Pete Miller.,' cards an ined nWtnclub at a flffcteRday afterttfetf'by Mrs. John ^SUllftr and Mrs. the playing of if grfts Among the mriNtn totfB ^HwW and aa'appetiz tiiy lunch wad>'dHie Mat meeting of the tlW *iff* 1>e #Mt Mrs. Arthur Stilling oh Jan. 8. * * ' iMft»«ttte».ted last ITtSe^X Graham in the Three Saturday hoefee &k Long Graham, AI LentfM/trtd era. The latter1 (I ' days' furloogh fbonr army. „ Among those1 frOm here who attend* ed the friends and relatires were MtavTWantoy, Melrm and Joseph Walsh ttffii BojrteC-*;'rwjO'* 1- • . oumamtt* The chlistening of the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Thompson of Barrington took place at St Anil's church, Barritigtfcitt, on Sunday, Dec. 14 The Ut*JO%ijr *HI ahsWer to the name of Katherine Mary. Sponsors were Mrs. Leo Too** and Eugene B. Freund, both of HcIJenry. A dinner anej supper were served the family, tlfe spons&rs and a few guests, V-: • » • ^Birthday Celeliratiea Jtl e'family birthday party which included the staff of The McHenry Plaindealer, The Woodstock Sentinel and his own farriily. Mr. Charles F. Renich, owner of hatty^afters, was honored last Satutdaa OTeanm<bn the thirty-fifth anrlfireiskfjr%r hn thirtyfifth birthday. A delieiooe 6:90 o'clock dinner was served t>9 abqut fifty guests at the Woodstock Cafe, alter which colored movies of Alaska anid Hawaii were shown. The filnjs were thoroughly enjoyed both for their enter* taining and educational values. Following the movies, the guests departed with the hope that, they might again be witij Mr. Renich. at his nest birthday cejebi'atfon. ! i f ^ ^ s C. D. of jjPiprtyt^- 3 The second uv .thfs series of card parties in the current, tournament sponsored by the C^Di:of A. was held last Thursday evening in tie K. of C. hall. This was also a Christmas party and gifts ^ were exchanged by those present. j - Prises in bridge were av*a#ded Mrs. Anna Sutton, Mrs; DWothy Adams and Mrs. Elizabeth Pieh; pinochle prizes were merited by Mrs.' Eleanor Youne and Miss Frances Bauer; the" five hundred award went • to Mrs. Gertrude Stilling, and contract bridge prise was won by Mips Marie Powers. Mrs. Anna Thenne* chairman, and her committee served refreshments at the close of the party. The next patty in this series will be on Jan. 15. *ly ianftns Lived in Pits 'Prefabricated' tofceys The- latest dmlopment on the culinary front, it sewn* is thft development of « "prafetarieated" turiMjr---a frozen fated, plucked, •biffed and ready te cMk. All the tha atm* sagM> to .serve dinner. ThetV* make; no there's not er. Now if • course in Win six tag day wiS for nMctaf to Ifeera to pull; tejtcaiiopentrifi jpt start i* backward mguaranthaiiksgiv Ussl fssanili The Am«rieM|v sUel industry is capable of producing 81,000,000 tons of steel ingots annually, Store AUCTION ei of 10th Conluqr People Found By Scientist*, - % r;: ft CfflCAGO.--Centuries befo^Sv %tr raids, Americans lived underground in pits that resembled Europe's bomb shelters of today. This was about the year A. D. 450--1,000 years before Columbus landed. A report from Dr. Paul S. Martin, lender of the Field Museum archeologieal expedition in the Southwest, now working pear Glen- «ood. If. M.r indicates thst he and his- sssoeiates ar» aewtag solufions 11* tff-^hffwystgrtrff surroundtag tl^oe anraent people. Ttie expedHion is in its tenth season of excavations. From fragments of potfSry and other artifacts un eartted, ahd ancient skeletons, the story of this ancient American civilization is being pieced together. Ia his report to Maj. Clifford C. 'Qngg, director of the museum, Dr Martin wrote: ^ "We have resumed digging the now famous Su (pronounced 'Shu') ruin, upon which excavation was begun in 1940. We have had a crew of 12 men uncovering the remains of primitive pit houses (a pit house is just what the term implies--a pi1 large enough to live in). ^ Oldest Type of Hoase. "These pit houses, which represent what is probably the oldest type of house in North America, are about 15 feet in diameter. To date, eight such houses have been excavated and these have yielded a vast amount of potsherds, bone tools, stone weapons and household utensils. "I am able to hazard the judgment that the civilization unearthed at the Su village is a hitherto unclassified one, as only one or two siics even remotely similar to it have ever been found and dug. Until recently, archeologists have known only two major cultural groupings in the great southwestern area-- the Basketmaker-Pueblo and the Hohokam. "It has been only within the last two years that knowledge of a new major culture has begun to unfold. This new group, called 'Mogollon' (pronounced 'muggy-own') after the name of a high mountain range near' which it is found, is distinct from the aforementioned two cultures. Its house types, pottery and bone and stone implements follow a pattern distinctly their own. Clue to Deep Mysteries. ' "It is a great triumph even / to locate the houses, because they are so deeply and perfectly buried that they cannot be detected by outward manifestations. "In the soft dirt which lies on tfie house floor, tools of stone and bone, and broken pieces of pottery are found. These discarded, broken, partly disintegrated and forgotten fragments of an ancient civilization ara the clues which we use for piecing together the story of this now extinct culture. "What people lived in these long abandoned pit houses? What became of them? Did they die out, leaving no descendants? Did they migrate and merge with other Indiana whose modern descendants cany a strain of the ancient Mogolkn Mood? Or did other Indians move in and intermarry with the people of the Su village? No one yet knows the answer to these problems. However, some light may be thrown in this Mogollon race by the study of the skeletons which we have discovered." CHAKLES LEONARD. Ai~-~ Having decided *® quit ^arqdag, I will sell at Public fiction o^the farm known as the Teogan farm foested one mile east of RiBgwedd, two aulas west of Johnsburg sal two miles north of *oSbAY7$&mm* Commencing at 12:80 •'clock sharp, the following described property to- *» HZAD or LIVESTOCK consisting of 13 Milk Cows; one heifer; Holstefn all, 2 years old; ye&Hfing bull. 3 Work HorseS. ' Hay, GrahMriIWlchinery 20 ft. silage; 600 bu. oats; corn in crib; 16 tons oat hay ln barn; quan tity oat straw in bant. • 16-in sulky plow; ^section drag, new; walking plow; 8-horse grain drill; corn planter; single row cultivator; wagon with hay reck; hay loader; dump hay rake? IfcCormiek Deering mower; McCoiniitiek-'Deeririf com binder; McComriekvD^ertng grain binder; bob slejgh; 608-lb. scale; 100 oak posts; grfndrftotl*; set double harness; lOO-ft hay^pe and fork; shovels and forks; disinfecting tanks; wash tank with gas heater; pails, strainer; 8 milk eans; 600-chick Simplex oil broader stove*; 2 steel milk stools; water fountains and feeders; pump jack, new; electric motor; gal vanised steel stock tank. 25 White Rock Pullets; 50> year-old hens; 120 Leghorn pullets.' Some household ^furniture -- Home Comfort cook stove, good condition; kitchen cabinet; folding cot. -- Terms -- All aunts of $25.00 and under that amount, cash. credit of six be extended on clerk. Anyone make made. No pi til settle^ for. J West UtM-rrgSu. Spot* 430,000 Miles Long Developing on the Sun LOS ANGELES.--A great procession of sun spots which filled half the Equatorial Belt is developing along the earthward side of the sun, Dismore Alter, director of Griffith observatory, reported. Dr. Alter estimated that the array waa 430,000 miles long. - At Mount Wilson observatory the spots were described as an unusual outbreak for this time in the solar cycle. Scientists said that this cycle of lift years showed spots developing and waning in a regular schedule. The maximum of the sun spot period passed four years ago. fp-vjj Pilots Have Boats in * ->r 0 Their Parachute Packs WASHINGTON.--Rubber boats in parachute packs are the newest aids for royal air force pilots, the commerce department reported. A pilot bailing out over water pulls two ripcords, one releasing a parachute and the other a rubber dinghy, which is inflated with a bottle of carbon monoxide gas. A small bellows also is in the pack. ^ c Backyard Is Blanketed With Four-Leaf Clovers -CLEVELAND.--Edward E. Henry is well fortified with good luck charms for seme time to come. He has a large patch of four-leaf clover growing in his backyard. Henry discovered the presence of the four-leaf plant while playing badminton on a courfc-in the yard. Friends #ho h|d |*en playing badminton with him want Homer" with their hands fan of the clovar there was plenty left over. t will •by the 1 M b chief engineer of In altar weather, lias a good as* "Oursisthe oefr afatfae in the work! ef clear ITahave with The line, Chi. aa Hattpnal Aviation corporation; -M lio--p «r list take aor m ALICE DUANX . - f *" (IfcCtu** SpB4tcat*~-WJVU S*rvte».> C ALLY BRENT was a sort of handy-man--or handy-girl might be better--in the editorial offices of one of the big women's magasines. David Lister worked in the art department. Sally could type, and she could write captions for illustrations. She passed on a good suggestion now and then to one of the editors--about readersofthemagaxine. Altogether die was a "really valuable young member of the editorial staff. Sally was a lot mure than that. She was pretty, she dressed well, and she was a thoroughly nice allround girl. And then: Sally had decided that she wanted to marry David. David didn't know this. Sometimes Sally wasn't quite sure of it, but she was alwagg rtagf to admit to herself that at legist she wanted to have »*chancfe to refuse David if she definitely decided not to marry him. And in an office, what could she do about it? David never paid her any attention. And, thought Sally, that was natural and to be expected. Men you meet in business don't propose to girls they meet in offices. Somebody had told that to Sally. Lots of women had told it to her, in fact, in one way or another. And Sally believed it. Or at least she usually believed it. And there were some men in the big organization, of course, who would, she thought, on encouragement, probably like to marry her. But not David, .foe more she thought about it, the more determined Sally was to make no mistake in anything that was becoming so important to her. Sally was getting so that she saw David's blond head before her in the subway crowds--but she knew perfectly well he didn't use the subway but commuted to Long Island. She was getting so she shivered when her work took her to the big art department room; so that she blushed if he happened to ride up or down in the same elevator with her; and so that she noticed what kind of necktie he wore and whether he looked tired or happy. So Sally, being a practical sort of young girl, took herself definitely in hand. She made an excuse to hang, around the telephone operator's desk one lunch hour, and by adroit questions found out where David usually spent his week-ends. "Yeah," said the girl, stretching her tired neck and shoulders as she slipped off her headpiece when her noon relief appeared. She didn't know it, but she was really answering Sally's question, as definitely as if Sally had askediit. Sally had just, said one thing and-another until the telephone operator was. giving her the information she wanted. "Wish I had a nice place to go, like some of these people. Mr. Lister, now, with his Saturdays and Sundays out there at Pine Lake in New Jersey. I bet he doesn't miss a week-end there all through the summer." The girl gosSiped on, just lazily talkative. And Sally made her plans. It wasn't very hard/ Three weeks later she got off the train at Pine Lake one Saturday afternoon and was met at the station by Hester Stanhope. It hadn't been hard to meet her--and when Sally wanted to be charming, she seemed to be just the person you'd always been wanting to ask . to your house as a week-end guest. "Oh, Miss Brent," aaid her hostess, looking past Sally up and down the crowded little commuting platform, "I've another guest coming out by this train--David Lister--oh, hello, David. Come over here and meet Sally Brent, Too bad you two didn't know each other. You could have visited coming out from town." That was the eni of it, so far as Sally's efforts wept- David took things in his own trends alter that. Sunday evening lp and Sally were sitting on the mo<|nlit terrace outside the Stanhopes' open living room windows. ^ "Sally," said David, as he nt silhouetted against ma brightness in the garden. Sally fat in the shadow of a pergola colutftn. She watched the golden halo behind his profile, and hugged herstlf for being a bright young thing. She felt sure, now, that David would propose to her. And she felt sure, too, that she would accept him. "You see, Sally--.I'm awfully glad to have found you here like this. I've been longing to get you to talk to me--to listen to me--" And that was that. Twenty minutes later, when Saly had told David die would marry hkn, she said: "But David, think of all those wasted months in the office! You never even seemed to see me." "Oh--that," said David. "Well, you see, it's this way. Girls you meet in offices don't marry the men they meet there. They don't fall in love with them. You know that. All girls in offices want is a good time. If that's aB a man wants, that's all right. But if he really falls for a girl, as X have for you-- then he's just out el luck. Girls in offices don't want to marry the men they meet there." Hidden in the shadow of the pertla, Sally smiled a wise little smile "I know, David," she said. ii'ilP'. - .;f& kfe if., - -Mi *f, 'fJ ' > • 'Mfi SSfZn.il i W" M • Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bacon of Round Lake were Friday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Bacop. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wiser, Sr., and family motored- to Chanute Field, Rantoul, 111., Sunday where they vijkttr ed their daughter, Caramal. Caramal will leave fpr Africa or the Phillipine Islands soon. She is now serving as a registered nurse at Chanute Field. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Peterson of McHenry were Sunday dinner guests at the home of the letter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wilson, ih honor of Robert Jene DoweH's eleventh birthday anniversary.. LeRoy Wagner, son of Mr* and Mrs. John Wagner, is confined to hie home at this writing. *nd Mrs. Edward Underwood and daughter of Waueonda were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Wis*. Mrs. William Wirt* and family called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ritta at Mundakrfn Thursday. Collection* art l&ffc fer War Mkf Toad# According to those in charge, a wonderful job has been done In the collection of money for war relief for the Red Cross and the United Service Organization. They have gone over the top in collecting $480 for the Red Cross and $270 for the U. S. O. By next week the total collections are expected to exceed $1800. The amount called for by each organisation will be sent to headquarters and the balance will be held so that when the next call for relief funds is made (and it is expected that this will be in the near future) the necessary money will be on hand and residents of McHenry will not be asked for another donation. Those who haven't given are asked to stop at the R- I. Overton garage or The Plaindealer and make their donation. The names and the amount given will be printed in the paper next week. Skunk In San Diego, Calif., an arrested motorist charged with drunken driving unsuccessfully defended himself by explaining that he had been zigzagging to dodge a skunk. feOULTBY SHOW SATURDAY RIGHT, DKC. 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