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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1903-10-23
EE. POL Alma. MIoh:
Leadins Dry Goods. Carpet or Shoe House.

from freezing, if you have large
amount TO cover, before you have time
to see 10 them.
ave have kept beets very good by
covering with beet tops and then cover
ing with earth on top of this just before
freezing weather begins, but it is much
more labor to uncover them pitted this
way than if pitted with two thin coats
of earth with a layer of beet tops be.
tween.
Now do not forget to take good care
Of your beets if you want the 25c extra
per ton for pitted beets that is promised
after December first. II beets are
thrown In little piles aud only covered
thinly so they freeze and thaw and turn
black you certainly will not get 25c per
ton extra for December deliveries. Our
patrons who have fiat contracts and do
not take care Of their beets well so they
will not freeze and turn black, such
beets will be refused entirely or only &C.
cepted on the percentage plan.
Hereafter all those who have fiat
contracts will get their tickets from the
weigh stations where they deliver their
beets, and please remember that we are
the ones now who are getting the cars,
so, If you are requested to stop drawing,
You must do so on short notice no mat.
ter how much there Is left yet on your
ticket.
with our best wishes for few days
Of fine weather, we are
every truly yours,
"ALMA SUGAR COMPANY"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1903-10-23

1878 he moved TO Michigan, locating at
Portland where he clerked in a store
for a short time and then worked at the
carpenter trade. In 1884 he moved TO
Alma where he worked at the carpenter
trade for five years and then moved to
Saginaw. After living there two years
he returned to Alma and again worked
at his trade here. AT this time he began
to take contracts for building and found
plenty to do. He kept contracting and
building for two years and then decided
to join party bound for Oregon and
take up a claim Of govern ment land.
This he did, and securing a valuable
piece of timber he remained there five
years, when he proved up his claim and
sold it for a good sum.
Mr.. Decker was enabled by this sale
of his claim TO get good financial start
in life and he again returned TO Alma
where he saw good future ahead in the
building line and took up the business of
contractor and builder where he left off
five years previous.
There is hardly block in the village
but where can be found residence built
by him since that time. He has been
very successful in this work and those
who have employed him once, if the
occasion demanded, have employed him
again, and those residences bear mute
evidence of his labor. He has always
employed competent workmen and used
material Of the quality desired by the
Continued on Eighth Page
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1903-10-23
THIS BEGINS TO LOOK
LIKE REAL BUSINESS
HAS BUILT MANY HOUSES
An Alma Contractor and Builder
Whose Work Stands as a
Monument of His Labors.

This week The Record gives short
history of the business career of one OF
Alma's most successful contractors and
builders, who has also during the past
few weeks engaged in other business.
and identified himself with our mercan.
tile interests by the purchase of the s.
Stanard harness store in the opera house
block.
Mr.. Clark II. Decker was born June 3,
1854, on a farm i'll Lake county, Ohio,
where he spent his boyhood days re.
ceiving common school education in
the country schools of that locality. In
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1903-10-23
TIT lIl0HN NTTT Instructions the
IHt \IIl,uH ktt Pittng of the Crop for Late

as you wish. Before covering, pick
up the beets around the edge and
make the surface of the pit as
smooth and tight as possible by
placing small beets in the holes be.
tween the large ones, then cover
with about three inches of earth
right on the bare beets and on top
of this put over about six inches Of
beet tops, leaving plenty OF ventila.
tion at the top. This is plenty of
covering until it gets to be cold,
freezing weather, then put on an
other light covering Of beet tops
and about three inches Of earth.
This will keep the beets fresh and
crisp 30 there will be no shrinkage in
weight and the test will be just as high
IL left to be taken out very late as it was
when beets were put into the pits
Beets buried as above will not freeze al
all until we get quite spell of zero
weather, and, II they do freeze, IL takes
long spell of warm weather to thaw
them out for the beet tops make hol.
low wall between the two coats Of earth
which prevents the thawing as we'll az
freezing. 1t is very easy to uncover
beets pitted this way for the thin coats
Of earth can be broken very easily.
1.-THE beet tops for second covering
should be drawn early before freezing
weather and spread around the base OF
the pits so they will prevent the ground
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1903-10-23
Ask Your Grocer For II.

phchI RAJ Cures Old snd syghlll.
By DrussIsta and all skin Diseases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16
W. z. EDMONSTON,
]. ID. COUGHLAN,
Trustees.
nyS-d&d

On SATURDAY. THE TwENTY-THIRD OF
MAJ. 1903, AT FIVE PM, on the premises the
undersigned VII offer for SALE at auction the fol-
lowing property: Forty-eight Of land, more
or less. On the District line, of which thirty
and f1e-tenths, more or less, in Montgomery
a''res and tve-teDths, more less, In the Dis
trict Of Columbia, tha said tract being situated
about mile east OF the Chevy Chase Club and the
car .Ine on Connecticut extended, and about
a naH mile west OF the upper end OF the Daniels
roa9, and within quarter or mile OF the Rock
Creek Park. and known the Patrick Cummings
estate The property Is rolling and well elevated,
above t!dewater. About one-third of 1t is in tim
Der. IL Is well adapted TO subdivision and sites
Tor country residences being only ten minutes
walk from tie Conn ave. electric cars. The pres
ent entrance Is over 20foot right of way leading
through the Cummings fa:.: iruni the
end OF Bradley lane road to the east
through the Rock Greek Park and TO Brightwood
avenue, has been recently laid of and constructed
Tor most OF that distance. being graded to within
Few hundred yards Of this property. This sale Is
made by virtue Of authority conferred upon the
undersigned by deed dated the oath day Of
March 1898, from all OF the parties interested In
the tract and authorizing sale for the purposes
life fsnsSt.
Terms OF sale: $500 deposit at time Of sale
Ten days accorded for examination of title by
purchaser. Title good sale. Taxes paid to
dats ot sale. Purchaser may pay all cash
third cash and the remainder in four equal in
stallments payable In one, two three and four
years from the a=:s of sale. with interest at per
GAIT.
CLARENCE A. BRANDENBCR G, Trustee
Fendan building Washington, D. @.
JAMES W. RATCLIFFE, Anct. myl3-1Ot
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16

Patrons of a Pennsylvania avenue barber
shop were unable to account for the appar-
emily strange conduct of man who entered
the shop one Saturday afternoon not long
ago and then suddenly left the chair with
the lather on his face. When the man en-
tered the parlor of the tonsoriaI artist he
was in a great hurry, as he had to catch a
train. Making himself comfortable in one
of the big chairs, he was prepared for a
few minutes rest after a hard days labor
with crazy people. His face had been given
a coat of soap and the barber had put his
razor in condition. 1t suddenly dawned
upon the customer that the barber had been
one of his customers only few months
ago, and his feeling at that time caused the
man in the chair to imagine what might
possibly happen should the barber recog-
nize him.
The man in the chair was the popular
sanitary officer at police headquarters who
is so widely known as Capt. Frank.
II had sent the barber to the insane
asylum" he remarked when his heart
beats had dropped to normal. Il also re-
membered that the man very bitter
toward me and had accused me of being In
conspiracy to get him out of the way.
His remarks at that time indicated that he
would some day make an effort to avenge
the supposed wrong. With sharp razor in
his hand and with me in the chair hardly
knew what he might do should he recognize
me-"
Capt. Frank was to have returned in a
minute but his time was on the order OF
that of a member of Capt. Boardman's
staff who frequently requests his friends
to wait a minute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16

both to the eggs of the wtithing crustaceans
and to the fingers of the shippers. A row
of these operators will seize the protest.
ing Holsters. one byts one, graspfng them
from above. turning them on their backs
and lowering them. heads downward. into
vessels designed for the purpose. The
sides of these vessels will confine the lob
sters in such manner as to prevent their
manipulation of their claws. and while each
is thus held a dull knife with a short
blade will be brought under the egg clus-
tiers to separate them from the hairy fbers
holding them. The stripped Holsters will
then be removed uniniured to tank of
fresh sea water and later to the regions
whence they were removed.
An average of over I.900 eggs will be
taken from each female. The number OF
eggs depends entirely upon the size of the
producer. A female eight inches long pro-
duces 5000. Thence the number doubles
with every two inches of additional length
A ten-inch female carries 10000: q twelve
inch 20.oO0: a fourteen-inch 10000 and SO
on up to 100000 eggs. which appear to be
Che maximum.
The lobster incubators inside the hatch
cry VIII consist of tier after tier OF what
appear to be large viehy siphons. such as
the man with the white duck jacket squirts
into your Uncle Dudley's "high-balL Each
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16
SAVING THE LOBSTER
Uncle Sam Throws Out a
Timely Life Line.
FIRST q. s. HATCHERY
SECRETARY coRTELYou HAS IT
I'm CHARGE.
Congress Gave Him Twenty Thousand
Dollars to Rescue the Tooth
some Crustacean.

Copyright, 1903, by John Elfreth Watkins. jr.i
A life line spun Of 10000 crisp one-dollar
bills has been thrown out to the American
lobster Congress has given this sum to
Secretary Cortelyou for, the rescue Of that
toothsome crustacean. In spite of what we
may gather literally from the words of the
sIangster the Yankee lobster crop is fast
dwindling That Uncle Sam, after scratch
ing his head for couple of years, has
finally come to the rescue will be cheering
news for the epicure. And there is now
at their post-opera a la cartes may yet
fasten their incisors into the charred flesh
of the delicious ''broiled lives"
The first American lobster hatchery is
straightway to be erected at Roothbay har-
Dor, Maine, little town of Loo souls,
which juts out from the rock-bound coast
at point thirty-five miles above Portland
by the way the bird flies. Nine acres skirt
ing the rugged shore have been selected as
a site, and soon there will be equipped
thereupon shelter for the tiers of incu-
bators which will hatch out hundreds of
millions Of the little kicking WEIGHING.
pfnching fry each season Maine was given
the hatchery because her coastline supplies
two-thirds of the Holsters Of the United
States. The fish commission, now a bu-
reau Of the new Department of Commerce
and Labor, will have direct charge of the
institution.
The American lobster has just ten years
before he is lost to commerce unless these
heroic measures are taken to save him.
This l am told by one of the fish commits
sions scientists, who adds that only mil
HonaireS could have afforded to buy Ameri-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16
A Novel Excuse.

Offenders who appear before the judges
of the Police Court make all manner Of
excuses for their conduct which results in
their being arrested and brought into court,
and the spectators and court attaches are
often greatly amused. Several days ago
colored man appeared in court to answer to
a charge of assault, it being alleged that
he struck friend with stick.
II might have hit him. the prisoner ad-
mitted when called on for his version of the
trouble, but wouldn't like to admit it
because I'm not sure Of it,
why not? Were you drunk?' the court
inquired
mo, sir; wasn't drunk, but was under
the influence Of
''Of what, liauor?" the judge interrupted.
mo, indeed, I'm member of church and
haven't drunk drop since was baptized
two years ago. You see." the defendant
went on to explain 'I works in gas house.
and / guess 1 was under the influence of
gas when the trouble occurred"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16
Baltimore and Ohio r. x.

Leave Washington, New Jersey Ave. and @ st.
CHICAGO AND NORTHWEST. 'I0:oo am.
V G;fSciSNArI, ST. LOUIS and LOUISVILLE
PiTTSBURG AND CLEVELAND. 1850 an.
COLGMBUs AND WHEELING. se:2o PM
WINCHESTER. tS:s5 an. f4:15 and 1850 pm
AASSNAPoLis. f7:so. $780, f1l:So an. t.:so.
'g FiRsEbERIcK. ts:ss. $500. tlo:5o am. n:ls.
1H1GERsT6WN. t1o:oo an. and IS 80 pm.
BOYD and way points, 1855. 1890 am. HIS,
1890, 1880, s10:1S, I'll 80 pm.
GAfTHERSBURG and way points. 1885, 1900
an. tI25e. Sl;iS, 1880. 1850. $780, t6:3o.
WashiSGToN JUNCTION and way points,
1875, 5000 an, 1:15 t4:3O. 1880 pm.
BALTIMORE, week days, 1900, $780, $50.
RIOS, 1890, 1880 e:35, 1880 x1o.o0 II 80 a. m
1920 noon II :35. 1900, x4:oo x4:3o ABS rs :05
1920 i:15. 1900. 1880, x5:o5. 5:25. ESQ., IS co.
ROYAL BLUE LINE
All trains illuminated with Pintsch light
BALTIMORE, PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK,
(Bunet), 1900 Dinerl. ITO 90 Diner} am, 40
fDiner), 1900 f"Royal Limited" Diner), f4:00
iPhfia only}. '5:o5 DINER. 800 and al 30 PA
(Sleeping Car open at 1000 o'clock.
ATLANTIC CITY. t7:o5 flo:00 an. 1920.
sDaiiy. Except Sunday. ssunday only.
xExpress trains.
Baggage called for and checked from hotels and
residences by Union Transfer Co. orders left az
ticket Offices. 610 Pennsylvania avenue northwest.
New York avenue and Fifteenth street. and st sta
tinaA no24-Se
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sense of the word. And sometimes he and
his brother will attempt to gobble each
other at one and the same time. Hence it
Is disastrous to the lobster yield If all the
small fry are allowed to go hungry and
the result would be that they would even
tuaily eat each other up until only the one
httest fellow survived. So superabun-
dance of natural food must be supplied In
the receptacles which contain the fry.
Protecting the Fry.
The fry are regarded in their turn as
dainty morsels by larger denizens of the
deep. Hence another vexed problem is to
separate them from their enemies while, at
the same time, giving them access to their
own prey. Hitherto in the government fish
hatcheries. where some attempts at lobster
propagation have been made as a side is
sue, the newborn fry have been returned
to the sea almost Immediately But here
while In the free swimming stage, they
have become food for all sorts of fishes
Boxes with cloth sides have been filled
with the fry and submerged for expert
mental purposes The small crdstaceans
upon which the young Holsters choose to
feed have readily found their way into
these receptacles, which have kept out the
enemies Of the Holsters. But this has
been an expensive process. An artificial salt
pond stocked with food for the fry may
be made an adjunct to the hatchery. The
young would have to be kept in this con-
finement but six weeks, inasmuch as after
that period they begin life at the bottom,
where they can fortify themselves well
against their enemies. During the year fol-
lowing this change of habit the young lob
ster grows to be two or three inches long
and sheds his shell eight or eleven times,
at longer and longer intervals. Like the
periodical locust, he rips his shell up. the
back and jumps out of it. In five years
he attains a length of ten and half
inches and a weight of one and three
quarters pounds. His span of life appears
to be indefinite.
The largest lobster known was caught at
Sandy Hook. N. j., some years ago 1t
weighed thirty-three pounds. Its claws
were large enough to clip off the arm of
man.
The adult lobster moIts every summer
He preys upon all sorts of bottom fish,
even crabs, starfish and CLAIMS. The can
nibal instinct Is with him until the last
When hungry he will crack the shell of
his brother and make a meal of him. Like
his human cousin he varies his ration with
vegetable matter.
Our great eastern lobster zone extends
along 1900 miles Of seaeoast In Maine
alone 3,100 men operate $4,000 pots or
traps. These are half cylinders of lath,
with funnel-shaped net leading inward
from each end In the center an upright
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.

SG0eQul9 y,
Trains leave from Pennsylvania Station.
$40 Am. Daily. Local for HarrisonburH. War
renton, Charlotte and way stations
1o:61 am. Daily. Washington and Florida Lin.
to Jacksonville, Fla. Dining service.
11:15 an. Daily. United States Fast Mall
First-cinss coaches and drawing room sleeper to
New Orleans Dining car service.
A:0l pm. Week Days. Local for Harrisonburs
and way stations on Manassas branch.
4:30 p. m. Daily. Local for Warrenton and Char.
s:zs DIM. Daily. New York and Atlanta Express.
First-c1ass coach and sleeper to Atlanta; Mondays
Wednesdays and Fridays Sunset Route. Tourist
sleeper Washington to San Francisco. Pullman
$50 pm. Daily. New York and Florida Express.
Efst-class coach and sleeper to Jacksonville and
Port Tampa; sleeper to Augusta and connection foR
Aiken. Dining car service:
tied (via Lynehburg) First-eIass coach and sleep.
ing car to Roanoke, Knoxville, Chattanooga and
Memphis; sleeper to New Orleans. Dining car
:45 pm. Daily. Washington and Southwestern
Limifed All Pullman train, club and observation
cars to Atlanta and Macon; sleepers to Nashville.
Atlanta, Macon. Memphis. New Orleans. Dining
~-- Trains ON BLuFMoNT BRANCH.
Leave Washington $50 .. m. and 4:49 p. m. daily;
week days, 100 Pm. 4:36 pm. and e:25 .. u.
Through trains from the South arrive Washington
pm. e:I5 pm. and o:5o pm. daily. Local trains
fom Hs5risonsurs. lI:5s an Msek days and s:os
' Tickets sleeping car reservations and detailed
information can be had at ticket Offices, los 18th
street. Oil Pennsylvania avenue and Pennsylvania
Station. Baggage checked through from hoteis and
residences.
Phone $780, P. R. R. Cab Service.
A AckbMT eee General Ma Pass a.e,
I. 8. BROWN. General Agent.
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spearhead holds the bait, usually cod, bake
or halibut heads. Attracted by this, the
lobster reconnoiters around and over the
pot before entering He Invariably mani
tests the true burglar instinct by backing
into the trap that he may face a fancied
foe which may be following. Were he to
navigate forward his claws would prevent
his entrance. Once past the fatal threshold
he begins to suspect that the feast spread
before him was set with sinister motive
He Immediately attempts to escape, but
failure brings terror which banishes his
appetite. He nervously PAGES the confines
of his cage until the arrival of his eaptor.
The octopus is proving disastrous to the
lobster fisheries of England and France,
our two greatest European rivals in the
cultivation of this crustacean. We hear
many crimes laid at the door of the &C.
topus of late, but this enemy of the Euro
pean lobster Is the real live article. This
octopus IS gobbling up the old-world lob
sters as voracfDusly as the figurative
American octopus Is alleged by some poll
ticians to be swallowing the fgurative
American lobster. He makes so bold as to
enter the pots of the English and French
fishermen. and in some districts the IN
dustry has been a failure ON his account
This recent onslaught of the octopus Is a
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nys-d&ds


BY VIRTUE OF A CERTAIN DEED OF TRUST
TO u.s. recorded In Liber No. 221S, folio 3s3 ct
seq, of the land records of the District Of Column
bia, we, the undersigned trustees, will sell at
public auction in front of the premises, on TUES
DAY, THE NINETEENTH DAY OF MAY. 1903,
AT FIVE O'CLOCK PM. the following described
known as Georgetown, described as follows: First,
lots - and 49, according to subdivision of part
Of lots ~ and -, in ''Oid Georgetown (being In
Georgetown, now known square 11SS in city of
Washington, filed in Equity Cause No 6329, 8. O.
u. c., and in Book A. X. $. (GtnD folio 119, In
lumbla Second, also part Of lots II and 10, in
Old Georgetown, In said square 11SS, described
as follows: beginning on south line Of Cherry
street at northeast corner Of said lot IS and
ming thence easterly along said Cherry Il 50
feet to point 100 feet west of High street,
theme southerly parallel with High street to
along the north line Of said lot u to point where
said north line would be intersected by the east
line Of said lot 49, If extended. and thence north
erly to beginning. Subject to right of way for
lots q to 50 in said above mentioned subdivision.
Third. also part Of lot u, In Old Georgetown In
said square HISS. described as follows: Beginning
with south side Of Cherry or Grace street and
running thence south along High street about 20
feet z inches to southeast corner Of said lot Y,
and thence westerly along the south line Of said
lot 30 feet thence north parallel with High street
TO south side Of Cherry street. and thence with
said south side of Cherry street to beginning, to-
gether with the improvements WIN be sold sub
3cct TO prior deed Of trust recorded in Liber 2224
folio %. securing an Indebtedness Of $4,000.
Terms Of sale: Cash. deposit Of 5000 will be
required of the purchaser at the time of sale All
convey apeing, recording and notarial fees at the
cost OF the purchaser. Terms of sale to be COM
piled with within ten days from day of SALE other
Property at the risk and cost of the defaultinS
purchaser
w. E. EDMONsTON.
J. d. COUGHLAN,
HiyS-d&ds Trustees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-16
LUTHER FULLER, Trustee.
ny l5-d&ds HENRY 4. BAKER, Trustee.
c. G. SLOAN & CO., AUCTIoNEERs. 14o7 G ST.

TRUSTEES, SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
PROPERTY. BEING TWO TWO-SrORY BRICK
DWELLINGS, NOS. $40 AND 642 l. STREET
SOUTHEAST.
by virtue Of certain deed of trust, dated March
10 1900, and duly recorded in Liber 2464, at folio
5OS ct of the land records for the District
OF Columbia, and at the request Of the parties
secured thereby, we will sell at public auction, In
'front.' I OF the premises. on TUESDAY. THE TWEEN
I1-SlATH DAY OF MAY, 1903, AT FIVE
O'CLOCK IN, the following described land and
premises, situate In the city Of Washington. Dis
trlct OF Columbia, known and distinguished and
being the east twenty-five (25y feet front by the
rnii depth Of original lot numbered two (2), in
square numbered eight hundred and eighty-one
!ssp, being improved by two twostory brick dwell
ings. known as Nos. $40 and 642 L st. s.e., WASH
Terms: Ons-third cash, balance In one and two
years, with interest at So per annum payable
semi-annuaiiy, and secured by deed Of trust
the property sold. or all cash. at the option of
the purchaser. deposit of 500 will be required
at the time Of sale. All conveyancing, recording.
notariai fees, &C., at the cost Of the purchaser.
II terms OF sale are not fulfilled within fifteen days
from the day OF sale the trustees the right
to readvertise and resell at the risk and cost OF
the defaulting purchaser, after due notice pub
hshed In some Washington newspaper.
DAVID MOORE.
CHARLES w. SIMPSON
my1fd&ds Trustees. III Hath st. NV.