Dixon Evening Telegraph from Dixon, Illinois • Page 2

THE EVENING TEL PATRIOTS POLO Mrs. Carl Bauer of Coleta spent a few hours here Monday en route to Freeport. Mrs. Charles Blake of Oak Park spent Saturday In the A. W.

Reinert home. She and Mrs. A. W. Reinert were schoolmates.

She is the granddaughter of Rev. Snyder of the IJ. B. church, generally known as Clifford Franks of Washington, D. arrived Wednesday for a short visit with relatives and friends.

Mrs. Franks and two sons, who have been spending a few weeks here, will return with Mr. Franks. Miss Bessie Waterbury spent Sunday with Oregon friends. Mrs.

Ira mother came Saturday for a brief visit. Mr. and Mrs. John Woessner of Coleta spent several here Monday en route to Freeport. Mrs.

James Bracken transacted business in Chicago, Monday. Dr. Jackman of Chicago was a Sunday guest at the home of Mrs. Margaret Franks. Ed Clinton transacted business in Chicago, Monday.

Dan Holmes spent Sunday in Rochelle. Mrs. J. T. Mulnix went to Milledgeville, Saturday, to help her daughter, Mrs.

Maurice Bernheisel, celebrate her birthday. Mrs. Dallas Wendle went to Rochelle, Monday, on Red Cross work. Mrs. Otto Oberg and two children I went to Oregon, Monday, for a short visit with friends.

Mrs. Samuel Clark spent Sunday with her sister of Sterling. Karl Gist went to Freeport, Mon- day, to visit his wife, who, on Monday at noon, underwent a serious operation at the St. Francis hospital. Dr.

McPherson made a professional trip to Freeport, Monday. Friends of Raphael Rubendall will be glad to know that he is on the gain. Mrs. Charles Rowland went to Rochelle on Red Cross work Monday. Last week, while William Dew was ploughing, he stepped from the tractor and in some way his right leg became badly pinched.

The swelling was so great that at first it was hard to say if any bones were broken. He as at a far end of the field when it happened and had difficulty in getting help. At the present writing we are glad to say that no bones were broken and that Mr. Dew is able to be about the house witli the aid of crutches. Edward Ackinson spent Saturday with friends.

In the evening he went to Princeton for a short visit with his parents. Dr. L. A. Beard transacted business in Oregon, Saturday.

Mrs. Clara Reed of Chicago was the of the Charles Heckman family several days las week. Last Friday evening the Freshman class of the Polo high school held a class party, at the H. L. Guyer, home.

Some of the boys if the class will leave school this week to assist with farm work. The president, Emory Bowan, is among those who will leave. His Eighth Birthday Kermit Krebbs, the son ol' Mr. and Mrs. Claude Krebbs, entertained at TO PUBLIC take great pleasure in forming you that we have added to our stock the Webb Poultry Remedies, Manufactured by the Webb Chemical of St.

Louis, Mo. After carefully inspecting this line we find the most Powerful and Effective Drugs known to science are used in the manufacture of same. This line is endorsed some of the Largest Poultry Raisers in the country, and guaranteed the Manufacturers. A personal inspection on your part would be appreciated by TILLSON DRUG Dixon IRA I BRENS, Yuchusa PAIL A. STEPHEN ITCH, Sublette his home, Saturday afternoon, in celebration of his eighth anniversary.

A number of his schoolmates were his guests and the afternoon was a most happy one for all. At 5 the guests entered the dining-room, where a lighted birthday cake greeted the young folks. The color scheme of pink and white was carried out in a specific way. Kermit was the recipient of many gifts. Those present were Robert Clark, Chester Weaver, William Lyon, Melvin Hurdle, Martin i Waylon, Pauline Hackett, Alice Rowland, Shirley Mills, Elizabeth Strock, Erma and Delbert Krebs.

Dr. Sickles of Dixon was a guest of Dr. Griffin, Sunday evening Sarah Ann Shrader, daughter of Tobitha and Armine Shrader, was born near Greencastle, November 15, 1845, and died April 24, 1918. She was 72 years, 5 months and 10 days old. She was united In marriage to Samuel Baker, March 17, 1870, at Greencastle, Penn.

She leaves to mourn her loss, Eugene Baker and Mrs. Minnie Tinnes, both of Freeport, 111. Three children have to the grave; she also leaves two sisters, three brothers, George Shrader of Dixon, John Shrader of Waynesboro, Mrs. Jerry Carpenter of Dixon, Calvin Shrader of Polo, and Mrs. Joseph McMillan of Beloit, Kansas.

Her death was due to old age and complication of diseases. She was a person who will be greatly missed, as she was loved by all who knew her. She was a member of the Evangelical church since girlhood. Mrs. Hiram Graybill of Dixon spent Saturday with friends.

Miss Blanche Tice spent the week end with her friend, Miss Ruth Fluck of Princeton. John Beck of Woosung transacted business here Saturday. Miss Myrtle Sweet spent Friday and Saturday with Dixon friends. Mrs. George McGrath of Woosung spent Saturday with relatives.

Mrs. William Pope spent the week end with Freeport friends. Al Jfahrney spent the week end with Chicago friends. Mr. and Mrs.

W. H. Snook were Sunday guests in the John Wagner home at Rochelle. Mrs. Harold Sheller spent Sunday in her home in Dixon.

W. L. Nicholas of Mason City, spent Friday with relatives. Mrs Harry Wrights of Dixon spent Thursday and Friday with friends. Mrs.

Anna Dwyer spent Saturday with Sterling relatives. Mrs. E. F. McQuaid spent the week end with Freeport friends.

Mrs. Gavin Cross, Mrs. Paul Anderson, Mrs. J- W. Carpenter of Dixon; Calvin Shrader, Miss Emma Salm, Mrs.

Sol Guino attended the funeral of Mrs. Baker at Haldane, Saturday. Mrs. P. A.

Dew, Mrs. Samuel Good and Miss Bertha Good were Freeport shoppers Saturday. Miss Lillian Dwyer spent Saturday with her sister, Mrs. Lester Plum of Sterling. Miss Goldie Strauss spent the week end at her home in Grand Detour.

Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Willett of Dixon spent Friday and Saturday with relatives. Miss Grace Coursey transacted business in Dixon, Saturday. Miss Myrtle Davis spent Saturday evening with Dixon friends.

Father Joe Lonergan, who is chaplain at Camp Grant, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Lonergan, of this city last Saturday. He is helping in the Liberty Loan work. Miss Mabel Higley spent Friday evening in Dixon.

Mrs. Daniel McCombs and three children of Dixon spent several days last week in the Edward Love home. w. S. s.

Jelly has been busy with riddles. she cried, and held up for public inspection the legend, "Why did the orange Ice printed In large letters. It saw the sausage roll under the said Elfrida. own Is much announced evidently bursting to declare It She was cordially urged to do so. it saw the lemon sponge on the dumb she proclaimed triumphantly.

nice and said Janet approvingly. vista of possibilities you open murmured Peter. instance, it might have seen the banana trifle with the maids of honor. Or the gooseberry fool with the nuts from Brazil. All very painful to an orange of really nice feeling.

But I like your dumb tho by Beatrice Kelston. Plant Now All early Garden and Flower Seeds, Gladiolus Bulbs, Dahlias; Cannas, Shrubery, Nursery Stock, Strawberry fresh, dependable stock at reasonable prices. The Dixon Floral Co. 117 E. First SI.

Uncle Sam'e Note, When the government sells bonds, ft takes no money out of the country. What it does is to ask the farmer, the manufacturer and the laborer to sell their products on time and It gives on Interest-bearing note In advance, until you and those other producers can make the supplies to conduct the war. The war department shoot houses and lots and grain at the Germans. It asks the producers to grant It the credit first and then get busy and make the supplies it needs, and when your government has on its hands the biggest war the world ever knew, there Is no time for trifling. Invest In bonds and see Uncle Ham and yourself through.

Give Children Toye That Teach. Toys which develop the Imagination are better than intricate mechanical toys und elaborately dressed dolls. NeJct to a ball, the very best plaything is a set of blocks, which is capable of being transformed into anything desired, from a train of cars to a pigeon house. Give a boy of five a hammer, some nails and a few pieces of wood see what he can results are often surprising. Children love to create, and the toy which they have made themselves will give a more lasting pleasure than the usual elaborate plaything bought ready-made.

Mrs of Polo wm In Dixon Tuseday. She was a French nurse. She had taken a special interest in the case of the German doctor who had been i i picked up in No Land. The doctors had given him up. But the girl stayed up day and night with him and pulled him through.

the time the German doctor was well enough n' to leave, the French girl was to be transferred to another hospital. She went around saying goodbye to all the men. The German doctor would not tell her goodbye. It made the French patients mad and one of them spoke to the German. The German called to the nurse and she went over to him.

talked for a little while, and then she put out her hands as if she were going to leave. He put out his hands, too, and took hold of And then he twisted her wrists and broke them. We heard her wrists This is a true story. we heard her scream, there was not a man left in bed. I need not tell you what we 1.1 did to that German.

They did not need to shoot him when we got through with him, but they did shoot what was left of one of the dozens of actual experiences in the life of Gunner story starts in The Evening Telegraph in serial form, Monday, May 5th. It will appear every day thereafter. If you think this is the Kaiser his will change your mind after you read the hundreds of revelations of the brutality in the character of the German people in this amazing series of articles. Depew was wounded five times, blinded in one eye; he was a prisoner on the fateful ship Yarrowdale; he lived through the torments of four German prison camps; he fought in Flanders and Gallipoli; was awarded the Croix de wants more. But first, he must tell the American public about the inside of the war was strip the American public mind of every idea that this is not a war against the German people.

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