Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test! Here’s How It Works: Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!
CLUES ACROSS
1. Current unit
7. Reciprocal of an ohm
10. God of the sea
12. A way to disfigure 13. Positioned
14. Tall tropical American tree
15. Large deciduous trees
16. __ and ends
17. Part of a machine
18. Brews
19. One who leads prayers in a
mosque
21. Indian state
22. Partisans
27. Top lawyer in the land
28. Former Dodgers MVP
33. Title for women
34. Heated and allowed to slowly
cool
36. Copycat
37. Sounds
38. One-time Israeli diplomat
Abba
39. Part of (abbr.)
40. Hateful
41. Collide
44. European football heavyweight
45. One who works for you
48. Song
49. Ancient marvels
50. Bridge building degree
51. Delivery boys
CLUES DOWN
1. Continent
2. Submissive
3. There’s a lot in a bowling alley
4. Sun up in New York
5. Court decision __ v. Wade
6. Finish line
7. Young women
8. Hives of activity
9. Hyman Roth’s right-hand man
Johnny
10. Eastern U.S. river
11. Popular cooking ingredient
12. Greek mythological princess
14. Scent for men
17. Cost, insurance and freight (abbr.)
18. Once more
20. Irate
23. Triangular spaces above a door
24. Norwegian playwright and poet Henrik
25. Atomic #58
26. Patti Hearst’s captors
29. Natural logarithm
Answer:
30. Talk incessantly
31. Went by
32. Strives
35. Fall back
36. Manila hemp
38. Not easily explained
40. Former “Double Dare” host Summers
41. Mollusk
42. Capital of Togo
43. Letter of Semitic scripts
44. Founder of Babism
45. Indicates near
46. Family of regulator genes
47. Indicates before
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‘Roger Sass Moving Auction’
Saturday, Sept. 7 at 10 a.m. 404 Robert Ave., Rockford, IL 61107
Large Live Auction! Surveyor’s Transit; Antiques & Collectibles; Furniture; Stoneware; Art Pottery; Primitives; Glassware; Quilts; Jewelry; Adv. & Beer Lights; Nice Household & Bedroom Sets; Woodworking, Machinist Tools & Chest; Generator; New Cub Cadet Snow Blower; Air Comp.; Lawn & Garden; Fishing; More!
Soft Closing starts at 7:00 pm on Wednesday September 18, 2024 Pick up will be at: 1481 IL Route 75, Freeport IL 61032 Friday September 20, 2024, from 9:00 – 3:00 pm and on Saturday September 21, 2024, from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Auctioneer Note: Arnold drove and worked on Semi Trucks for years. He collected a lot of interesting items over the years. These are just a s ample of what is part of this auction — over 400 tagged items
Dale Earnhardt Snap-on roll away 14-dr tool chest Mdl #KRL1001BPHB - SER #E3704566A, 10 dr toolbox Mdl #KRL1201APHB - Ser #E370655A Never used purchased new 11-2001, Project Collector Tractors: 9N Ford, CASE Narrow front end SER #490432SC, CASE SER #VAC5360088, CASE SER #AC5353119, CASE and other tractor parts, 3 -Oliver front slab weights, CASE PTO gear box, set Oliver tractor side shields, set CASE tractor fenders, Oliver 1650-2108 gas tractor runs 155-083-452 Tractor Attachments: 72” Woods Rotary cutter 8’ Woods scraper blade, FORD CL-20 skid loader SER #3589 needs work, Vintage Trucks: FORD F250 4X4 long bed 4-spd manual not running, FORD Rangers from 1986-1996 years none running, Vintage snowmobiles projects: JOHN DEERE Liquifire Ser #34LG080206M, JOHN DEERE sportfire ID #J44SM-222118M, 2-Arctic cat JAG 1-3000 Ser #9025738, 1-3000FC Ser #0035825, YAMAHA SL 338D, Large amount of new semi parts, Antiques: SUPERIOR crock 25 gal butter churn on frame, lots of old signs, Tools: Large asst. Snap-on tools, chainsaws, and so much more
Visit our website at advancedauctions.hibid.com for more information and to be able to register and bid on this auction. A 18% Buyer’s Premium will be charged.
2000 loader, McCormick 80 pull type combine, International 37 disc, New Holland 275 square bailer, JD 14T square bailer, JD 1240 corn planter, JD 495A corn planter, New Holland cycle mower, JD 4 run cultivator, Allis Chalmers snap coupler plow, Ford 3 pt 3 bottom plow, Dearborn 2 bottom plow, 5 ft. Woods 3 pt mower bad gear box, 5 ft. Woods 3 pt mower 60-4, King Cutter mower, New Idea 2 row wide picker sheller, JD spreader, New Idea spreader, 3 pt cultivator, end gate seeder, 3 pt cherry picker, drag cart with sections, spread co blades, 1 shank 3 pt ripper, JD 2 row cultivator, JD crimper, IH crimper, JD hay rake, Parker gravity wagon, Freeman flair box and gear, Farm & Fleet gravity wagon and gear, 90 HP jet ski boat rebuilt engine, 4x8 trailer, 16 ft. trailer frame, bulk bin, T posts, gates, hand tools, some scrap items and vehicles. KARROW FAMILY, OWNERS
TERMS: Cash or good check. Have positive ID. Not responsible for items after sold. AUCTIONEERS: Rob Young, IL #441000593, 815-632-8000; Kevin Conklen, Sale Manager, 815-590-8027. CASHIER: Dianne Behrens. CLERK: Cheri Lockhart. Sale bill will be posted on AuctionZip.com (ID #43915) 460829
Any questions or for a private showing, please contact O.D. Holley of Advanced Auction & Appraisal at 815-218-0705
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Don’t judge me – or my microwave
We judge people all the time. We judge ourselves as well.
Even though none of that should take place. We aren’t here to judge one another. We are here to live and laugh and love.
But mostly to love.
Well, that, and to judge. What fun would life (and the laughter) be if we couldn’t judge the actions of others?
Some of them are quite funny. Especially when they are done by politicians. But let’s shine the light a little closer to home, shall we?
By JILL PERTLER Columnist
Most of us aren’t running for office. But most of us are running something much closer to home, more specifically in the kitchen. Even more specifically, the microwave oven.
According to the bureau of labor statistics (which apparently keeps statistics on such things) more
than nine out of 10 U.S. households owns a microwave oven. Which leaves at least 90% of us open to judgment. Ahem.
Here goes: What does the inside of your microwave look like? That’s right. You heard me. Get ready to face the truth, because the truth lives in the hidden places we don’t want others to see. That’s where you can measure the substance of your character. Or perhaps, better put, the substance of your leftovers.
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Therein lies the microwave.
We all know food spatters and splatters while heating inside the confines of that handy zapping unit sitting atop your range or counter. We all know.
And we all know that covering food before heating it in the microwave is the adultly responsible thing to do. We all know.
But sometimes we get lazy. Sometimes the people living with us get lazy, or just careless (most often in the late hours of the evening, if I might add my own two cents here).
Then, you know what the smart among us might say:
Splatter happens. It all seems fine and handy at 11 p.m. when the leftover chili is calling your name and your stomach is practically screaming. It all seems forgivable to
put the bowl of chili in the microwave, sans cover, and press the three-minute quick-heat button. Beans be damned!
After that we all know its just toast – in the worst of ways, and without the peanut butter.
At 11 p.m. it’s all food and games, but come morning, you find yourself confronted with reality and regret and exploded bean guts. So many, many bean guts.
If you are the responsible person you truly want yourself to be, you will scrub the spattered walls of your microwave before lunchtime. But that takes effort, not to mention time away from your morning coffee. And time is precious – not to mention money.
So, sometimes we might, in our weakest of moments, simply drink the coffee and
One man’s opinion
ignore the interior of the microwave. After all, it is practically invisible, unless you are peering directly into it and who does that except you? So if you come over someday and have a need to reheat your coffee and I forget and let you do it yourself and you see the inside of my microwave and you happen to notice some splatter effects in there that look quite a bit like bean guts, please don’t judge me. It’s not my fault. I blame it on my kids. It might not be the cleanest of excuses, but I’m sticking to that like bean guts to the innards of a microwave.
Jill Pertler is an awardwinning syndicated columnist, published playwright and author. Don’t miss a slice; follow the Slices of Life page on Facebook.
The privilege of calling him ‘friend’
On Aug. 18, we laid him to his well-deserved rest. He truly was a man among men. He lived for 88 life-filled years. I don’t think he ever gave much thought to leaving a “legacy,” but he certainly did. In casual conversation over the years, I clung to most every word; more often than not they were profound. We often hear of people who “suck the oxygen out of a room” with their rhetoric. This man did it with his quiet, unassuming mannerisms.
The person I’m commenting on is Gary Schreiner, a Lena, Ill., businessman. Gary was a long-time farmer who evolved into a farm equipment dealer with a small lot on Highway 20 at Eleroy, known as “Eleroy Sales,” where he bought and sold used farm equipment. From there, he ran Northwest Equipment in Stockton, Ill. He went on to become the sales manager for Curtis and Son John Deere of Lanark, Ill. It’s often difficult to nail down just what it is about
By JIM SACIA Former State Representative
someone that attracts people to them.
I wrote of his quiet, unassuming mannerisms; you always felt like that long-lost friend who just came back into his life even if you just saw him the day before.
The memory card at his service in Lena Burial Park, with all of us gathered next to the beautifully restored John Deere “A” that Gary started farming with those many years ago, summed it up beautifully. Words written by his family: “Whether he was needed by people, crops or farm animals, Gary instinctively knew what they needed to thrive. He was a person of action. Nothing happened on its own.
“Gary’s success can make it look like he knew how to do everything right. It’s
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important to remember that he was living in the present. No one, himself included, knew how it would turn out. The excitement was how it might turn out. He shows us that we should love what we do, and then persevere.” Gary Schreiner, a remarkable man, left an amazing legacy. Rest in peace, dear friend. Jim Sacia, who resides in Pecatonica with his wife Jenny, is a former Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives, serving the 89th district from January 2003 to October 2013. Sacia’s professional experience includes serving on the Board of Directors of the German American Bank, working as Chief Executive Officer of NITE Equipment Inc., a police officer in River Falls, Wis., and Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He served as a Lieutenant in the Wisconsin Army National Guard from 1965 to 1969. He has also published his memoir, “Not in My Wildest Dreams: Memoirs of a Veteran FBI Agent.”
What tractors used to be
When we were kids in the early 1970s, an 80 or 90 hp tractor was about as big as anyone had in our neighborhood. However, all the farmers had a plethora of 30-50 hp tractors all over their farms that they used to grind feed, haul wagons, run the blowers to fill silos, mow, rake, chop or bale hay, or just about anything else that needed to get done in those days. We all had a bunch of these midrange tractors, and we only had one or two of what we called the “big boys” that we used for the bigger jobs like plowing or pulling a field cultivator to get the land ready for
By SCOTT CERNEK Columnist
seeding. When I was in high school, one of our neighbors splurged and bought an IH 1486 with about 140 hp. Man, he was really farming, we thought, and he was the trendsetter in our neighborhood.
We used to hook up a five-bottom plow behind our Farmall 706 and a fourbottom behind our 560 and two of us would plow all
day in the same field. Those two tractors combined had only about 150 hp. It was sure satisfying though to come in from plowing an 80-acre field to milk the cows and know that you got about 50 acres done. It was always fun to go back out after milking and plow until past dark just to get the field done. The next day the two of you would grease up the plows, fuel up the tractors and head out to find another field to work. We had such a good time farming in those days as kids. The hard work bonded us together and taught us to love the farm as
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we were growing up. Sometimes two people were plowing, two people discing and one was cultimulching in the same field. We had a 14- and a 12-foot disc and a 14foot cultimulcher that our smaller tractors could handle with no trouble, and so with five or six of us in the field, counting the planter, we were able to get the crops in quickly each spring. When I was in high school, we began to expand the operation and rent more land so we bought a couple of 140 hp tractors ourselves so we could chisel plow or offset disc instead of plowing the old fashioned way with moldboards. Later we purchased a new 160 hp tractor with front wheel assist and that thing could really work. Now the bigger Case IH tractors put their horsepower right on the name of the tractors. For example, the Case IH Steger 350 has 350 hp and the 400 has 400 hp and so on. That makes it pretty handy to
know what you’re working with. We still have all of the old tractors around the farm somewhere and most of them still run. In fact, on my little farm where all I do is make a little hay and mow weeds out in the pasture, I still try to use them like I’m farming in the old days. I mow hay with my grandpa’s rebuilt and repainted 1954 Super MTA. I rake with my brother’s 1965 IH 1206 diesel and I bale with the 1965 Farmall 706 that my dad bought new. So, one might say that I am living in the past. I have to say it sure is fun though.
It’s kind of hard being the only guy driving up and down my road on these old tractors, but as they say – that’s progress. In Ecclesiastes 7:10 we read, “Do not always be asking, Where are the good old days? Wise folks don’t ask questions like that.” I don’t think this verse is talking about farming. Until nest week, God bless.
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1985 TOYOTA SUPRA Original owner, California car, 172,000 miles. Evansville $8,000 OBO. 608-322-2483
Boats
2011 ALUMACRAFT FISHER-
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MINI PONTOON BOAT All alum. 1yr. old 15 hp, elec. start Mercury motor. Great buy, $7700 OBO. Call George, 608-897-4177.
Campers and RVs
1994 WINNEBAGO WARRIOR 22’ V8 454 engine, 97,200 miles. Newer tires, new battery, new sub floor and flooring. Rooftop A/C works great. Rust free, runs good and ready for travel! Asking $10,500. Located near Rockford. Call 815-520-0997.
2022 COACHMAN FREEDOM EXPRESS 24’ Travel Trailer with Q bed. Very clean. $19,000. OBO. 262-470-4083.
Motorcycles
1999 HARLEY DAVIDSON Road King Classic $5000, Excellent condition, 450 cc, fuel injected, 28,300 miles, Cobalt blue One Owner, Comes with windshield, backrest, luggage racks, side bags, cover. Needs a rear tire. Bill Hauri 608-214-6283
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MOTORCYCLE/ATV TRAILER All aluminum, like new, approx. 20’ x 6’. $3,000. 262-492-5134.
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