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HBABTT AT 90 Ninety yean old last week, Mark Morton, last of the fabulous "wit family," gpeat the day quietly at ' Ala 24-room "Morton Manor" northwest of Wheaton. One of four son* of J. Sterling Morton, he it • brother of the Morton Aboretnm at Liale. At 90 he ii Interested in business affairs, keeps an eye on his personal interests and attends an occasional eoatpnny MN meeting in Chicago. FREUNiyS DAHHf OEASSAMtLK Homogenised Milk, Coffee Oreem, Whipping Cream, Buttermilk, Ohooolate Milk, Butter, Eggs, Half and Wo ckeeai 6>. w. Mnaiay, fmiHk S»lmil>y and Thursday and at * y. m. Triday, Saturday tad Sunday. PHON* McHENEY «38 W-2 * - MORROCO WASHED STOKER COAL "I'- clean, economical and carefree stoker operation, try a load of this specially prepared stoker coal Washed and sized properly to get the utmost efficiency from your stoker. A trial load will convince you. Call your local tracker or phone us at Morris 80 or 90. %, > . . ? .r.'&l- « - * . : The following sisea are also available at attrac- LUMP6*> FURNACE LUMP fr"x3M SMALL EOG 3'W Morris Coal & Mining Go. Box 311 MORRIS, ILLINOIS f-. •. j, 4'viW^: - Mane located at junction of U. S. 6 and HI. 47 »P» would you like to show your friends? 3 If your kitchen leaks something like this /. change K to a gleaming beauty. BY MULLINS » »*d« to highest quality standards, of steel; steaming white. YouTl appreciate the well planned "Jptchenaider^ cabinet sinks with acid-resisting porcelain enameled tops, the roomy floor and wall cabinets that pve you plenty of handy storage space for everything. Come in and see how this smart new ftyiipn^nt can modernize your kitchen at ^ ~ ®»y On Our Easy Payments ALTHOFF'S HARDWARE PhMtoMcBenry 3M: • "V Main St. ^ TWICE TOLD • a i m Iteaw ef litirNt Mm Iks Wan of the «( Tears Ago inn TEAM Mm ' The person who took a lantern from Heimer's saloon on the night of parade will please return it at once. Arthur Coon, while at work around the separator, in Oatman's Butter factory, in this village, on Monday, received a severe gash in the lead from a bolt which loosened from the ntaehine. W. P. Stevens, tho west side hardware merchant, is putting into residences the cheapest and most common sense furnace we have seen in a long time. j Ben and Bla Wright, sons of Bob't. Wright, of this village, started on Monday for New Tacoma, Washington Territory where they intend to their future home. FIPTT TBABB A** Jacob Freund and Miss Mary Kattner, were married at the Johnsburg church on Thursday of last week. Father Mehring officiating. .Jos Blake is building a new barn on his premises east of the cemetery, lately purchased by him. E. W. Howe i> doing thq work. E. J. Han ley will move his family to Chicago the last of this week, where he will make his home for the present. " ' E. B. Perkins is painting the outside of John Justens new home on Elm street this week. " FORTY TBABB AlO One of the biggest transfers made I in Lake county in years was that [filed Monday, when the Truman ; Brophy stock farm at Fox Lake was iscdd for $57,000. The J. J. Fluskv farm, together !<Hth the tenants' interests, located , south of Mr Henry on the Crystal | Lake road, was recently sold to | Chicago parties, the consideration • being around $30,000, we are told, i The farm consists of 292 acres, j Butter remained firm at 30 cents | on the Elgin froaxdVf frai^ ! day. | The depot was again far too 'to accommodate the crowd last Sunday evening and as a result a large number were compelled to stand in the open and recefve a drenching. Well, possibly the C.ftN.W. officials are not aware of the fact that it also rains in McHcnry at times, but this fact can be vouched for by our entire population. November 15,1048 City Council met in regular semi-monthly meeting with Mayor Overton presiding. Aldermen present: Althoff, Anderson, George .J. Freund, George P. Freund, Regner. Absent: Tonyan. Motion by Begner, seconded by George P. Freund, that the minutes of the last meeting be approved as road. Motion carried. Reports of activities in various city departments were given by officer and employees of the city. The clerk was instructed to contact Engineer V. H. Kasser regarding temporary walking over BOOM Creek at site of new bridge con-' struction. Contingent upon cost, a request was made by property owners for an extension of the sanitary sewer on Court Street north of Washington 8treet. The clerk was instructed to contact Engineer V. H. Kasser to prepare lay ottt of proposed extension. Motion by Althoff, seconded by George J. Freund, to adjourn. Mo fioa carried. f " • - ' .-'fig*'P ' t Container for Fat Coffee percolator Is an excellent container for storing used fat The hot fat can be poured from the skillet or pan directly into the percolator through the wire basket. It is strained and stored all in one operation. Caettal Punishment ^ lfew Zealand abolished the death fMRalty In 1M1 end Rumania in £M6. Brazil liberalized its capital punishment law in 1M6 by limiting the death penalty to military eftenses in'time of war. Switzerland U 1942 made a constitutional Change which extends abolition of capital punlshr*--^ to all cantons. tfoed rubber sttuapsf Order, at Hie PKtindealeri Fiims. whose remarkable athletic abilities are weU known, consume three times as much milk per capita as the 'British. , , .v-^. ^ 1%* vine-like branches of the unusual cannon-ball tree of South America twine around the base of the trunk. Thus, the large round trult for which the tree is named often grows on the ground. T WATER ANALYSIS Check well water at frequent intervals for fecal contamination. Unsafe well water miij carry disease. Water can be examined for bacterial Content, Water Sample most be container. a sterile For details Phone 29|. MeHenry X-Rayand Clinical Laboratory HOUSEMOTHER DIBS Miss Elese Dorathea Kleve, 66, a house mother at Todd School, Woodstock, for boys, died at the Woodstock hospital on Nov. 23, following a stroke. Miss Kleve came as a young girl to this country and went to live in the home of her uncle and aunt, Rev. and Mrs. Thoresen in i South Dakota. Miss Astrid Thoresen, j cousin of the deceased woman, cane j to Todd school as a primary teacher about twenty years ago and fftus' her parents died, Miss Kleve sa--f Todd also/ serving as housemother f o r t h e p r i m a r y b o y s , - ^ : ' s ^ . • *i first watch was Invented 1900 by Peter Hsnle. #ho Ihre# Si Nurnberg, Germany. For this safeton and because of shape, the Qrst watches ed "Nurnberg Eggs.* • -. Christ For MeHenry I Join ns in the LEGION HALL on GRE1H ST. EVERY SUNDAY AT 3 P. M. »m M Sible-believinjr and Inteixlenomlnatieeal ^ Sunday School and Worship Sendee ^ / Donald G. Liberty in Charfe ,t, Special Mnsic This Sunday, Dec. 5 ' ; Vred Hardman, Trumpeter, tsm (&ka«o 1 .2 TWENTY-FIVE TEARS AGO New machinery and equipment, which will very much modernize the local plant of the Borden milk bottling plant, are now being installed. Frank Stoffel has sold his interest fn the MeHenry garage to his partner, Harvey Nye, and since Nov. 1 the business has been carried on by the latter. B. J. Adams has started work on a new garage building to be erected on the premises he recently purchased on Elm street and known as the Michsel Justen estste property. Julius Keg, operator of a dredging outfit which has done considerable work along the banks of Fox river,1 Pistakee bay and lake and other points throughout this summer resort district has decided to make this city his permanent home and has purchased the first home to be erected in the Stenger subdivision. GET FRESH CANDY EVERY TIME from our WHITMAN'S Refrigerated Candy Department Fee $6.00 EVERYBODY WELCOME 4^ \f jSri I' , , *1 s JSC ^ TOESENTS ITS CREATIVE MASTERPIECE; *v--• >»«« tm-%. »,V-^ $<At >( /{{/r/ff /^/ (/((• /(r o((j fof(j( ( lie <MHlae asawmctawnt in ever been more significant than the aoa tm*ch appears on this page. For, this year, Cadillac presents its creative ijjllaslm piece a wholly new V-type eight-cylinder engine--which le, bejrood nil doubt, the highest development yet attained in automotive power plants. ># This great power plant has been twelve years In the building--dor basic ^prolopment work started In 1934. It has many unusual qualitiee which set It apart from all other creations of Us kind. It la far more alert, powerful and responsive to the throttle--yet It affords an Increase In gasoline economy ft approximately twenty per cent. And the manner of its performance actually the imagination. It Is liquid smooth; It la quick and H* driver Is scarcely aware af the engine's sileieata. The carj to move by automatic propulsion. * Been experienced Cadillac owners must put aside all prevtous^conce prions of performance when they drive the 1919 Cadillac. It le a revelation--from silken etart to silken stop. * There are, of course, many other advancemente In addition to the history-i engiiA. There is new beauty in ths frent eneemble; there is e newiy-designod, more attractive Instrument panel, with all driving controls at your Anger tipe; and throughout the chassis and body will be found thoee characteristic leSnements which result from Cadillac'e unceasing search for perfection * But the big Cadillac story, .for 1949, is performance- It Is not or.h t*i. MMMH In Oar Whitman's Befrigerated Candy Department Every Box Of These Delicious Confections Keeps Its Richness and Tastiness the Way Tea Want Them - Fresh . BOLGER'S » . . < r . • ^ _, _ a a aU experience; yet the power application Is so eflorttoee that fp*iri*** mm standard--^ <s beyotid the world's OVERTON--CAEilLLAC-PONTIAC CO 403 NT STREET - • .j. • • •> ;c. .»• McHENSY, ILLINOIS