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i i i i BREWERIES PAID $282,965,000 SENT TO PENITENnART CARD. OF THANKS IN TAXES IN YEAR 1937 FOR STEALING ELECTRICITY JOHNSBUKO RINGWOOD BLANTON CASE IS STILL MYSTERY TO TEXAS AUTHORITIES Farm Paying $282,965,000 in taxes to the treasury, the brewing industry proved In this manner we desire to" express onr thanks and appreciatldn to neighbors and friends' or s.ftoral offerings. For the first time in Illinois a man was sent to the penitentiary for the Mrs. George King visited with her Topics theft of elctricity when Judge Robert sister, Mrs. Mike Gorskie at Wood- one oi tne major sources of federal revenue in 1937, according to analysis of the latest report of the Bureau of and for expression qf sympathy acts of kndness during our recent bes stock Thursday.

DUappearance of Father and Son Month Ago Unsolved Murder Feared. J. Uunne in Criminal court sentenced Gust Menagas, a Chicago restaurant 1W reavement. also wish to thank 1 Mr." and Mrs. Joe Jtine were Bur Mrs.

F. N. Muzzy entertained the Scotch Bridge Club at her home Wednesday afternoon. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Louis Schroeder and Mrs.

Roy Neal. Mrs. Wm. McCannon entertained the Bunco Club at her home Thursday aft Internal Revenue by the National In siituter of Manufacturers and Distribu donors of cars, hngton callers Friday. SUNSHINE, SUtPHlR FOR CHICKEN LICE Vinnonf Korri'n on1 CAnV owner, to from 1 to 10 years on a charge of grand larceny.

Evidence showed that Menagas had stolen $3200 tors. 'y- Mr. and Mrs. Alex Freund and 40 Translated into terms of emergency daughter of Chicago visited Saturday Mrs. E.

R. Sutton. Mrs. J. Nye.

Haymondville, Texas. The Blan-ton case, Texas' nonstop mystery, is more than ten months old and still with Mr. and Mrs. Steve H. Smith, work relief, the analysis shows revenue from beer was sufficient to keep ernoon.

Prizes were awarded to Miss arrie Adams and Mrs. George Shepr, Conjbination Is Effective in worth of electricity by diverting cur-r en around the meter. The state was able to srain its first Miss Evelyn Shober of Waukegan unsolved. more than 353,000 persons employed on spent Saturday and Sunday with her ard. "What became of the Blantons? PERMANENT" SPECIALS Parasite Control.

Mr rui Mrs. B. T. Butler entertain WPA projects for the entire Vear mother, Mrs. Art Shober.

conviction for stealing electricity as the result of a ruling of the State Su This question was on every lip after while the revenue from all alcoholic Mrs. Wm. J. Meyers entertained the the two men disappeared. Today five hundred club Wednesday after' preme Court that electricity is personal property and its theft a ''crime.

B- From 8 a. m. to 6 p. Short Time Only Between 6 p. m.

and 9 m. beverages in 1937 would provide such employment for 734,000 persons, and corjjecture is: "Will the case ever be solved?" Many say it will not. A noon. Prizes were awarded to Mrs, dre this, courts had considered elec- was greater than the total federal con Steve May, Mrs. Joe King and Mrs.

Sunshine and sulphur are being united as a team to fight external poultry parasites, including lice and "sticktight" fleas, in a series of x-periments by Dr. M. W. Emmel of the Florida Agricultural Experi few insist it will. Here's the mystery plot, briefly John A.

Miller. tributions for work relief to Illinois Prices Are As They ible" nature to be stolen, and prosecu- rWere. and ten other Mid-Western states. Miss Thelma Jackson is visiting a ed the Five Hundred" 'Club at their home Thursday everting. Prizes were awarded to Mr.

ihd Mrs. Geo. Your.g and Mr. Mrs. Ray Peters.

The Sewing Circle met with Mrs. C. J. Jepson Friday. A pot-luck dinner was served.

There were twenty women present. Mrs. Jack Nichols of McHenry spent Wednesday and Thursday with Mr George Shepard. i On November 18, 1936, Luther won could be based only on chargeB The Institute also made the follow few days Chicago. Blanton, fifty-seven, and his son ment station at Fla ot tampering- with an electric meter ing observations: "The alcoholic bev Mr.

and Mss. George Zornstorff of John, twenty-four, vanished shortly 2 Persons for $4-00 up to $18- Singly For $2.60 Up To $12. Usually parasites of this type are which is a misdemeanor. Woodstock and Mr. and Earl Hof- erage industry was second in produc after they left their farm near San nr controlled by external treatment, fien and daughter of Genoa, vis juciibkhs was maictea a vear aco Perhta to hunt ducks on a lagoon ing internal revenue during the past not far from their home.

ited with Mr. and Mrs. George, King year, receipts from this source being but Dr. Emmel worK is unique in that he controlled these para- They were respected men, with dui was ireea wnen a motion to quash the indictment was sustained on the grounds that electricity was not tang Monday evening. exceeded only by income taxes.

Fed, Mr. and Mrs. Nick Young ana Mr. Other Permanents $3.00 Up To $12. All Permanents Are Complete With Haircut, Shampoo And Set.

Marcel, Shampoo, Rinse 3 for $1.00 Marcel Only 50c Shampoo and Set 50c 60c Miss Kathrine Althoff of Elgin and Mr out known enemies. Believed Killed. r'K: VC" dding five per cent commercial eral revenue in 1937 from all alcoholic beverages was in excess of Total internal revenue amounted spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. funeral of Mrs flour sulphur to the laying mash. ible and could not be stolen.

The question was then carried to the State SuT preme Court where a reversal was won Wm. Althoff. Rumors are many as to their fate. 1 A preliminary report of this work Henry Friday. Mrs.

Viola Low and children were Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rodick and son to $5,301,000,000 exclusive of From an official standpoint, Capt. Shampoo, Finger Wave, Necktrim, Col- I was published recently in the Jour spent the weekend with relatives in Woodstock visitors Saturday afternon 000 obtained in social security levies." Bill McMurrey of the Texas Ran i ai a tti i by Assistant States Attorney Robert Wright ti nai 01 uie American veterinary 1 I WvitiAV Drill Chicago. "The 1937 beer revenue was equiv gers, after weeks of investigation.

Jir. ana iurs. jj-iuu u.io- MoHiffnl Association Tho rnnrt or Rinse, Arch, Facial 4 for $1.00 FREE 50c Facial with Perraan-ents From $3.50 Up. Miss El vera and Rosemary Hetter- concluded: "The men were either alent to 20 per cent of the total intern It is expected that the state's vic stated that chickens Were.complete- killed near the lagoon or taken away mann, John iierdnch, Miss twrotny al revenue collections in 1932, the year preceding relegalization of malt bever ry rid of lice by feeding them sul phur for a three-weeks period. Herdrich and Edward Hettermann and killed." STOMPANATO'S tory in the Menagas case will have a widespread effect in preventing crimes of this type.

motored to Burlington, Sunday. ages, and the revenue from all alcohol Phone 641 226 Main St 229 Benton St Oddly enough, the experiments in The scene is the colorful southwest Texas cattle country. Nearby Mr. and Mrs. Leo Gerlach entertain ic beverages equaled 41 per cent of family of Chicago spent Sunday in the Ernest Snyder home.

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Weingart of McHenry spent Wednesday evening in the George Young home. Floyd Carr of Greenwood spent Saturday evening at Wm. McCannons.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Heine and son Eugene, of Chicago spent Sunday in the Georee Shepard home. dicated that feeding of sulphur alone was less effective when the birds are the great properties of the for.

ed relatives from Milwaukee Sunday the 1932 total. The brewing industry has paid the federal government more mer King ranch, once called the afternoon. world's largest cattle domain. than $1,110,000,000 during the period were confined indoors than when they had access to sunlight. The first infestation was reduced only 25 per cent when the birds were con- SNOWSTORM HITS CHICAGO 1933-1937, and the combined receipts The lake to which the Blantons were supposed to have gone is lo from taxes on legal alcoholic bever McHenry received a light fall of snow Monday night, the first to arrive despite the fact that Chicago received ages in that period amount to cated on a section of the ranch set off as a state game preserve.

A state official said residents had been Dr. C. Keller OPTOMETRIST Sundays and Mondays at my Summer Home, Riverside Drive, McHenry, Illinois three inches of snow Saturday. The snow and strong winds prevailed as warned by the state game warden in this vicinity not to hunt on the RADIO SINGER ILL Friends who. listened to the amateur far north as Elgin, but no snow fell preserve without a permit.

in this vicinity. The enigma called to the scene hour over radio station WENR Sunday, between 5 and 6 p. expecting Mesdames MiKe rTeuna ana juseyn nnea. However, when tne same Kattner of Spring: Grove and Wm. Mc- birds were exposed to the sunlight, Cannon, Merritt Cruikshank and Geo.

the parasites disappeared complete-Young spent Saturday afternoon in the ly within one week. Ed. Bauer home. In order to check on the "sulphur George Shepard and daughter ami sunshine" treatment, four "con-Gladys, and son, Howard, and Mrs trol birds" were exposed to exactly Louis Hall were Woodstock visitors or the same conditions, except that Saturday. thev were given no sulphur.

This Mt and Mrs. Clarence Young were group showed no visible reduction Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs in infestation, either indoors or out. George Young. I In other tests, -sulphur feeding Mrs Geoi ee Young, Mrs.

Ed. Bauer. 1 was combined with the spreading The storm moved southeastward and many highways downstate were drift many peace officers, including two-gun, hard-riding Texas Rangers. Chaparral thickets and sand dunes ed and traffic hazardous. All Kinds of Repairs Telephone 211-R to hear George Vales were disappointed as the program ended without the announcement of the young man's name.

Flying conditions were so poor that for miles about were combed to no avail. only two planes took off in Chicago and a thousand city, workmen were engaged in clearing loop streets of the The case engendered bitter strife. We are told by his mother that Some citizens openly accused offi George was unable to keep his radio Mrs. Wm. McCannon and Mrs.

Mer-i of sulphur about the yards and in cers of laxity in their investigation. date because of illness and was quite the houses in a "two-way" treat birthday ritt rmiKshanK auenaea a court of inquiry, or ill with a heavy cold and tonsilitis and unable to leave the house. However party at Mrs. Mike Freunds at Spring dered by Gov. James V.

Allred, recessed, subject to call, without an he hopes to appear on the program in the near future. snow, the second heaviest of the season in Chicago. The Jengthening days are encouraging and bring a promise of spring, as does also the bright sun which shines only occasionally through heavy clouds. Sunrise is now due at 6:38 a. and the sun sets about 5:30 p.

making the day appreciably longer. nouncing whether definite progress had been made. The court itself had difficulty in functioning because of legalities. Its presiding officer was charged thrice. The Red-Shouldered Hawk About 20 inches long, the red- CENTRAL GARAGE When your car or truck needs attention, we are prepared to serve you.

One of the best equipped garages in Northern Illinois Full Line of Atlas and Goodyear Tires Electric and Acetylene Welding Car WashingiCnd Polishing Phone 200-J vTowing Johnsburg Mrs. at the in ment for combating "sticktight" fleas. The sulphur diet was augmented by adding 100 pounds of sulphur to each 400 square feet of yard area, and by placing a light coating of sulphur on the floor of the houses under the litter. Sulphur was found to be effective, also, in controlling the chicken mite in infested poultry houses. After the houses were cleaned as thoroughly as possible, sulphur was placed on the floors, dropping-boards and nests to a depth of one-sixteenth of an inch.

The mites began to disappear shortly, and at the end of a week, control was appar- Grove Monday afternoon. Miss Dora Anderson entertained the Epworth League at her home Sunday evening at a party in honor of herj eighteenth birthday. Games were played and a social time was spent She" was presented with a gift from, her friends. Merritt Cruikshank of Elgin spent the weekend in the Wm. McCannon home.

I Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Cruikshank and Mrs. Wm. McCannon were callers' at Greenwood Sunday afternoon.

Rev. Collins officiated at the funeral quiry, said she was sure her husband and son were dead. She said she heard three shots fired in the shouldered hawk has a wingspread of 44 to 50 inches. It is named for its reddish brown upper feathers. Beneath, it is a lighter shade, barred and streaked.

Its substantial nest of twigs and bark often lasts for years. The Glass Bead Industry The manufacture of glass beads has been chiefly carried on in Venice since the Fourteenth century. direction of the lagoon shortly after tne men left home. Afraid to Talk. A few officials and residents be lieve there are those who could clear up the case, but are afraid to talk.

W. E. McCharen. counlv of Mrs. Thwaite at Pistakee Bay rn-ently complete, dav.

She was buried at Watertovin judge of Willacy county, is among uiose oi this belief. That there is no intention of let Growing Out the Calves Profitable to Dairymen Professor Savage from Cornell university believes that the cow and the Vnan who feeds her are more Wis. Billy Montanye of Woodstock spent Saturday and Sunday with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. S.

H. Beatty. Mrs. J. M.

Butler of Bath, .111., is visiting tn the-F. A. Htchens and B. ting up in the investigation was seen in the following statement from Col. H.

C. Carmichael, chief of the Texas public safety department: While no tangible evidence has Butler homes. I important than the feed Joe Vaillancouft of Chicago spent Where-other items are properly controlled he has demonstrated that ever been uncovered, we are hopeful of solving the case and will nev the weekend at his home here. er stop the investigation. One great' Mr.

and Mrs. Shultz of Richmond Were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wiedrich. Mr.

and Mrs. Lester Carr and sons'J spent Sunday in the Charles Carr; home. Mrs. Roy Neal and son, LeRoy, and Loren McCannon were visitors at coVs hardly know the difference when changed abruptly from a 24 per cent mixture to a 20 per cent or even a 16 per cent protein mixture. He does say, however, that if, the hay contains one-third or more of legumes it is not necessary to feed grain containing more- than 16 per cent protein.

Woodstock Saturday afternoon. run no ru rm a avi-as difficulty was that fellow farmers trampled the ranch country in searching for the bodies and might have destroyed any signs left by the Blantons. Then, too, a heavy rain intervened before rangers began their search." Granted that if was murder, the bodies must be found before a conviction could be obtained under Texas laws. And so the story, itsmany ramifications making it almost a weekly headliner, continues, ebbing and flowing as rumors and developments pitch it to new heights when it appears to be dropping into tile doldrums. Mrs.

Agnes Jencks of Evanston and "trT" ul ,1 profitable herd if he neglects to Mrs. Appley of Libertyville were call-, his properly grow out calves. Professor Savage believes a calf ought ers here Saturday afternoon. to have 350 pounds of whole milk during its first eight weeks and this should be supplemented by a good calf starter until the calf is well able to take care of a standard fitting ration. A calf starter used successfully Mr.

and Mrs. Dewey Beck of Chicago spent Sunday in the Charles Carr home. Mr. and Mrs. Fred.

Wiedrich and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wiedrich spent Sunday afternoon in the Leslie Olson home at McHenry. Mr. and Mrs.

A. Ruehlman antffam- at Cornell is made up of 645 pounds ily entertained the former's father and ground corn, 360 pounds rolled pats, mother and nephew of Hebron, Sun 200 pounds bran, 100 pounds Unseed meal, $0 pounds white fish meal, 400 pounds dried skimmilk, 10 pounds steamed bone meal, JO pounds ground limestone, 10 pounds salt, 5 pounds reinforced cod liver oil. day. Virginia Jepson, Dorothy Krohn Shirley Butler and John Cristy attended a band concert in Chicago Sunday. 'mm mm mm Thij Certificate Riven with every demonstration serves aowo payment on purchase of ail Electric Irooer.

Air-Cooled Felons Will Get Own Radio Receivers Raleigh, N. Radio in every cell and a modified form of air 'conditioning soon be features of Norths Carolina's newly remodeled seventy-five-yeai-6ld state, prison. A-new electrical hookup will give each prisoner a set of earphones connected to.a central radio receiving set, so that he can enjoy pro grams without 'interfering with; (he sleep of his cellmates. All cells Vill have adequate ventilation through a systen of forced-draft ventilation by means of electric fans, latest-type steam heating equipment and automatic temperature, control, v. The $500,000 renovation program, wjiich has resulted in virtual rebuilding of the ancient castellated prison, is now nearing completion.

Most of the cell blocks 'will be occupied shortly. 1 1 Ill1 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Merrill of Solon Mills were callers in the S. W.

Brown home Saturday afternoon. i Helen Whiting of Chicago spent Saturday -night with her parents, Mr. and E. Whiting. Miss Mary Jencks of Evanston spent the weekend in the Bert Justen home.

Mr. and Mrs. Ben Fout, Ms. Ralph Clay and daughters, Maxine and Patricia, Edna Peet and John, Junior and Elaine Shubeka of Rockford spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.

Ed, Peet and helped them celebrate their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Hitchens and Mr.

and Mrs. Louis Hawley attended a Right in Your Own Home Iron Your Whole Of Interest to Farmers. Feed is orie-of the most important factors in egg production. Quarter pound eggs are laid by a Manchurfan breed of chickens. Watch closely for throat infection.

It spreads rapidly and will result in death by choking. Ducks can be bled in the mouth the same as turkeys or chickens; this is the proper way to kill them. Week's Wash in Less Time with Less Work WITH AN ELECTRIC IRONER! I''smhnk I Estimated annual loss to 1 party in the D. C. Bacon home at iT UZ poultry Crystal Lake Saturday evening, cele- Hiuusirjr in uie uniiea aiaies irom egS that fail to hatch is $20,000,000.

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George Harrison. Sunflower seeds are very high in protein and fat and are unlike most of the other poultry grains that we use. There will be community services "at the M. E. church next Sunday evening! ASX MCuT CUS SFEOrU CrTIR T.N BUmG BOTH A WASHER AND IRONER Only $8 Down $5 and Certificate) As Long as 30 Months to Pay Balance loo Cabinet-Top Iroawret fj H.

Beatty was" a caller at Woodstock Saturday. Miss Alice Peet went to Barrington Monday where she has secured employment. Mr. and Mrs. S.

W. Smith and Eggs laid by Kentucky hens in one year would reach around the earth at the equator if placed end to end. The color of egg sriells depends on the breed of hens. It in, no way indicates difference in food value or quality. Citizen of Russia Claims to Be 135 Years of Age Moscow, U.

S. R. One of the: oldest men in the world is Isaac Dan-ilovich Fedotov of Sverdlovak, who will celebrate his one hundred thirty-fifth birthday this year, according to Soviet records. Fedotov was born in 1802, starting work as a charcoal burner at the age of eight, and after 116 years of labor was given a state pension at the age of one hundred twenty-four. Some of Fedotov's seventeen, Children are themselves 'grandpa ents, but his descendants are so numerous he cannot keep account oi them, i Fedotov is in high' spirits ia.d does not look his reputed age.

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and Mrs. S. W. Smith and tfficient, gtntlt washing action. Motor mounted in, rubber a' eliminate daughter, Bernice, and son, John, Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Croikshank and Mr. Toles of Genoa, 111., spent Sunday uuiav hiu i 1 1 PUBUCSBRVICE Growth of Angora Babbit Wool Angora rabbit wool grows at the late of one inch a month. Young rabbits are first clipped at eight weeks. This initial raw wool is classed as baby The animal is then clipped every three months.

rOF ORTHERH ILLINOIS in the Wm. McCannon home. Miss Flora Taylor and J. V. Buck-land jent Sunday in the Uoyd Grat-j.

ton home at Woodstock; Mr. and Mrs. Chester of Harvard rapent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. McLaughlin. Few, And Dinger "Tear," said Hi Ho, the'sage of Chinatown, "is the more terrible because it makes so many humble themselves to ask for mercy, when there is no danger." OTHER DEALERS ALSO ARE OFFERING THE CERTIFICATE WITH FREE DEMONSTRATION Peerage A duke ranks higher an earl In the English peerage.

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