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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1903-06-19
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES.

Thursday morning Alms's sixteenth
commencement day opened dark and
dreary, with a drizzling rain. At the
appointed hour the usual procession was
formed under the m~arsbaling Of Prof.
j.. w. Ewing, aud by 10 o'clock the
chapel was fairly bursting with people.
We give below the personnel OF this, the
largest class that ever graduated from
the institutions:
Lucius Saxton Bagley, "The mission
OF the conservative" William Raw
Baker, The progress OF n%ationalism in
the United States" John Yonker Brook,
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1903-06-19

tire program was of rare quality. but
the following numbers were unusually
good: ITO the Spring" (Greig) Miss
Wallace; 1.-THE Gypsy Maid" (Doni-
zette) Miss Howard; 1.-The King Of the
Winds" DAVID Mr.. Bagley; "Hark
Hark My Soul" Shelley Miss Wal.
lace, Miss Howard 'Loure," Bach
Mr.. Milliken
Miss Howard shows excellent judg
ment in using her voice. In spite of
her heavy part on the program the last
number was sung as clearly as the first.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1903-06-19

Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock stu
dents. alumni, aud friends assembled in
the chapel and Rev. Louis Brooke, 'a6,
gave n talk on Alma athletics, after
which he presented the "A's'' TO base
ball, track, basket ball and indoor men,
who have won points this year. After
this the chairman called upon the fol-
lowing gentlemen all OF whom respond.
ed most el%oquently on some phase of
Alma athlehcs: ] l.. Mcbride, Pearl
Fuller, A. J. Helmer, Frank Hurst. o.
W. Sl~debotham, Prof. Geo. Randels,
Prof. j. f. Mitchell, aud DR. A. f..
Bruske.
The address, Of Rev. Chas. A Lippin
cott, Of Flint. bet re the Christian Asso-
cations Wednesday evening, vas a
mastery effort. ard was thoroughly en-
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1903-06-19

description Of the present critical con-
ditions in Eng and The second prize
Was equally divided between Miss Susie
Hawse and MIR. Ernest Rohlf. Messrs
l.. A Sharp, j. X. Wooton and +. r..
IL ,thaway acted as judges. It was very
hard TO arrive at a satisfactory decision,
for all the papers We're excsllent in
thought and the delivery was good
The ladies' quartet appeared on this
for the first time this year with
Mss Nellie Wallace in Mrs Con ats o d
place as first soprano, aud met their usu-
al good r. ception
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-08-20
Pope Has Painting Spell.

Rome, Aug. IA week has elapsed
since the election of Plus x and he
has been already overcome by the un.
accustomed strain of his pontifical
duties. He tainted while at mass
His collapse is considered to be due
to heart weakness aggravated by ia
tigue, It constitutes the first victory
Of his encourage. Even though he dis.
appointed some people, they urge him
not to concede audiences to all corners
and to render himself less accessible.
DR.. Lapponi recommended the pope to
take complete rest. He has or.
dsrsd all audiences postponed.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-08-20
Modern Sun worsnipers.

In Europe several persons now sedu-
lousy pay homage to the sun, and in
a learned Journal. entitled L'Ecole
Nouvelle, one of them maintains that
the sun should be especially honored at
Christmas.
Christmas should be regarded as a
festival for the benefit Of humanity
he says. "In this way we can once
more become united with the Aryans,
our ancestors, who worshiped fire and
who celebrated the birth of the divine
constellation, who is the father of
light, Of heat and of life"
He then suggests that the following
prayer be said daily:
20 thou who causest lies to vanish,
who drfvest away the evil influence of
prodigies, OF malignant predictions, of
dreams and Of wicked apparitions
thou who brfngest to naugh1 the plots
of the wicked. to thee we pray, Lord
Sun. since thou art the light of the
Us3ld.e
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-08-20
No oaense Intended

AT the exhibition of the International
Live Stock association in Chicago a
portly old gentleman remarked to one
Of the men in charge of the cattle de-
partment, You don't call this the fat
stock show any more, it seems"
No. replied the other ITS quality
that counts with us now and not guam
tity. You can put fat on any kind Of
an animal. and after it's all done he's
nothing but a big, fat-I-I--I beg par
don. sir! IL hadn't noticed-I didn't
mean
The porty old gentleman had begun
to turn red, and the attempted apology
only made the matter worse. After an
Intellectual effort to express himself he
waddled on in speechless indignation.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-08-20
A nost Liberal Offer.

All our farmer readers should take ad.
vantage Of the unprecedented clubbing
offer we this year make, which includes
with this paper The Iowa Homestead, its
Special Farmers Institute Editions and
The Poultry Farmer. These three pub.
locations are the best of their class and
should be in every farm home. To them
we add, for local, county and general
news, our own paper. and make the price
Of the four one year only Sl.4o. Never be-
fore was SO much superior reading matter
offered for SO small an amount of money
The three papers named, which we club
with our own, are well known throughout
the West, and commend themselves to
the readers favorable attention upon mere
mention. The Iowa Homestead is the
great agric cultural and live stock paper OF
the West; The Poultry Farmer is the most
practical poultry paper for the farmer
while The Special Farmers Institute
Editions are the most practical publica
tions for the promotion of good farming
ever published. Take advantage of this
great offer, as it will hold good for a short
time only. Samples of these papers may
be examined by calling at this office
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-08-20

W. Bradley at Old Hamlin, all the
members living being present: TAX
ing them in the order of their ages
there were Mrs. NJ. B. Drips, OF
Milwaukee, Wisconsin; j. T. Bell
and Mrs. j. S. Bradley, of Old Ham
lin and j. II. Bell, of Extra. Their
united ages are 2S9 years or an aver
age of over 70 years each, j. II. Bell
being the youngest at sixty-tive
years. A very pleasant day was
spent in "reminiscences of childhood
days when all were gathered at the
parental home and many were the
long, almost forgotten happenings of
early life once more narrated and de-
scribed,
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-08-20
AnelnIusian Specter.

Upon mountain in Andalusia quaint
spectral forms are frequently seen.
Whenever there is heavy mist and
persons are ascending the mountain
they appear in all their gllostly splen.
dor and sometimes so suddenly as to
strike dismay into the hearts of those
who see them for the first time.
OF course it is all a trick played by
the sun. When a mist partially shrouds
the mountain. the sun is naturally OBJ
scured, and then he revenges himself
by projecting the shadow OF any per.
son who is ascending the mountain I'M
til it assumes the form of q gigantic
s11a1tar
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-08-20
Not Oyer=Wise.

There is an old allegorical picture of
a girl scared at a grasshopper, but in
the act of heedlessIy treading on a
snake. This is paralleled by the man
who spends large sum of money
building a cyclone cellar, but neglect
ing to provide his family with bottle
of Chamberlain's collie, cholera and
diarrhoea remedy as a safeguard
against bowel complaints, whose vic
Tins outnumber those of the cyclone a
hundred to one. This remedy is every
where recognized as the most promp-
and reliable medicine use for thest
diseases. For sale by Nick Dof1ing e
& Co.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-08-20

John Carlson OF Elkhorn is visiting
his step brother, j. G. johnson, this
week.
Joe Petty is still assisting his
father through the rush Of harvest
work.
The Sharon merchant John Boberg,
spent Sunday at the j. G. Christen-
sen home.
Nels and Knud Nelson of Elkhorn
are visiting at the home Of Jes Nissen
for few days.
James East is in Atlantic this week
visiting his son, Frank, and attend
ing the Chautauqua.
A boy was born to MI. and Mrs.
Soren Madsen in south Hamlin town.
ship on Monday August 10.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Kymme, out
west of Hamlin, entertained Mr.. and
Mrs. Nels Rattenborg and family last
Sunday.
Nels Jensen the carpenter, is a
second Isaac Walton, having captured
fifty-two fine fish the other day at
one sitting.
Miss Bonnie Woodward passed a
few days the first Of the week with
her relative, Mrs. Nate Carper, at the
poor farm.
Oluf Hansen is having the drive
way in the Elkhorn lumber shed
filled in to make it high and dry in
wet time.
Will Young is engaged in running
a threshing machine and is still
anxious to secure farm to rent foI
next season.
The American show bill
posters were sticking up bills here or
Tuesday for their show IN Audubon
on the 9th.
Hi Wilson of near Old Hamlin wa!
in town Tuesday swapping stories
with his former neighbor, j. M
Bryan Of Bayard.
Henry Shryer, ex-agent here left
tuesday on the noon Tram Tor Omaha
when he hopes to get situation as
operator at which he is an expert.
Farmers are all busy this week il
stacking their grain which they have
been enabled to do as it did not rain
for two whole days up to Tuesday
Justesen u Son say that trade ii
again picking up with them, anc
when the harvest is out of the way
that it will almost be normal again
Hans Petersen of east of Kim ball.
ton, was in town last Tuesday haul.
ing out lumber for an addition to his
house. The addition is to be 1Sx2c
feet.
Nels Rattenborg's five year old boy
is almost recovered from the acct.
dents which lately befell him il
being harpooned, and stepping on s
rusty garden rake.
Miss Dagmar Mickelsen, who hal
been working for her aunt, Mrs. Nell
Mickelsen out in the country west o.
here, is again at her home on the
southwest suburbs of town.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-08-20

To avoid buying Holsters which have
been cooked and laid on ice until all
their firmness and sweetness have been
sacrificed lay the creature on its back
and straighten out the tail. II when
the tail is released it springs back into
its normal cur!ed position, it may be
considered fresh. But if it stays back
and seems limp and fabby it is unfit
for use.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-08-20
Theory versus Practice,

Medical SCIENCE has reached the
point" boosted the optimistic young
doctor, that for a patient to die we
must take out his-heart' and kill it with
q club"
On his way home be caught cold
and for the next three weeks made ev.
cry one miserable listening to nis-symp-
TOMS.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-08-20
The SnOb.

There is little satisfaction in being a
snOb. Yes, satisfaction, to be sure, a
lonely, selfish, melancholy pleasure en-
juyed by men and women who draw
the social Uneven in the cemetery.
But the worms! What is their opinion 2
--Schoolmaster.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-08-20

"My wife found poker chip in my
pocket and l told her it was dyspep-
sla tablet"
'TThat was clever"
Ear from it. She swallowed the
chip, and the doctors bills cost me
more than the jackpot" philadelphia
Record.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-08-20
Ar Easy Order.

ShopkeeperW'hat can show you.
cir?
Absent Minded ProfessorI want
let me see, what do 1 want? Dear me!
I can't for the life of me remember
what it is. Well, well, II doesn't mat
ter. Give me the nearest thing you
haEe to 1t.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-08-20
EHtinEuished.

BOOKSELLER have very interesting
work by a favorite authou-'"The Last
Days Of Pompeti.''
Clstomer-Pompeii? 1 don't know
an author of that name. What did he
die of?
Bookseller-Of an eruption.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-08-20

Strength and vigor come of good
food, duly digested. Force"
ready-to-serve wheat and barley
food, adds no burden, but sustains,
nourishes, invigorates.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-08-20
Evangelical Church.

Sunday School 10 o'clock 8. m.
Preaching IL o'clock a. N.
Young Peoples, meeting I O'Clock
p. m.
Preaching 5 o'clock p. m.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday
s.o'clock p. m.
j. WIRTH, Pastor.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-08-20
Presbyterian Services.

OLD HAMLIN.
Sunday School O'Clock p. m.
Preaching O'Clock p. m.
Christian Endeavor o'clock p. M.
Prayer Meeting at the parsonage
every Wednesday night.
LONE STAR.
Sunday School 10 O'Clock a. m.
Preaching j O'Clock a. m.
Rev. j. FL. MONTGOMERY, Pastor.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-11-14
BIG DAY AT WAYCROSS.
Fair Visited By 5,OOO-Awards in
The Beauty Show.

Waycross, Ca, Nov. 12.-To-
day was great day at the South
Georgia Fair, the gates register
ing oyer 5000 admissions. The
day had been set apart as Con=
federate Veterans and Military
Day, and the Waycross Camp of
ueterans entertained probably
100 old soldiers from neighboring
cities. All veterans and military
boys were admitted free, and at
II O'Clock they listened to a short
address by Judge J. L. Sweat.
president of the Fair Association.
One OF the features of the dav
was the beauty show" in front
of the grand stand at noon. All
young ladies of sixteen years
we're entitled to compete for the
prizes, and there were a number
of entries. The first prize of$5
in gold was awarded Miss Kat
herine Slower, of Waycross, and
the second prize of $3.50 in gold
to Miss Alzetta Moore, of Ware
county.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-11-14
To The People.
Fitzgerald, NoY. 18th.

Fitzgerald, NoY. 18th.
My Dear Brethren
Speaking of Reforms, and re-
form methods-have you noticed
that the way to cure an evil is to
prevent it?
Take our own county and our
fourishing little city, for exam
pie: If l could prove to the tax
payers, the teachers, the parents.
OF this county that l can save the
people thousands of dollars every
year, to say nothing of the thous-
ands of Metaphysical lives-and
the lives of as many after this
mortal coil has been "shuf1ed
off, l say, if I could prove this to
the people, how many readily
they would interest themselves
in the work we are doing.
Some are seeing this more and
more plainly every day. Others
are just now awaking, still others
are fast asleep, and will soon be
beyond the reach of mortal aid.
We don't expect to do much with
the old people, as a rule. They
are fixed in their habits, and sat-
isfied.
We must work mostly with the
young. A woman from several
miles south of Douglas, whose
body was vile with tobacco and
filth asked money of me t'other
day, to enable her to take a trip
into another state, of course we
did not give her a cent. But at
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-11-14

the same time we are spending
much time helping children to
make the right start in life and
to enable them to come to beau
tiful and we'll rounded and hon
ored old ago.
Will you help us? Are you in
terested in humanity more than
in anything else?
Then join us in this work. By
the way, what of your own chill
dren? Are you studying the
work of the kindergarten and
the gymnasium? Where is your
boy when he's not studying?
What is his body worth to him?
Shall we help you save it for
long life of usefulness? And the
Girl too-what of her life?
Next Sunday the music will be
especially for the young. The
lecture will be:
A MESSAGE TOYOUNG MEN
The time 800 p. m. sharp. The
closing early. You are most
Cordially invited to come.
Your Brother,
EARL WARD PEARcE.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-11-14
A Prominent Citizen
Suddenly Disappears.

Mr.. A. w. Monroe left the city
last night rather unexpectedly
and is probably we'll on his way
to Cuba by this time. He left a
note to his wife stating that he
would go to Cuba. No cause is
assigned for his sudden depart
ure. Mr.. Monroe is we'll know
and highly esteemed here; was a
candidate for mayor at the last
election and his friends fear that
his mind is slightly affected.
He had recently borrowed $50
from friend, who seems a little
bit worried at the turn of affairs.
He married last spring and
his wife is here. His friends
are at a loss to account for his
strange actions.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-11-14
PEOPLE OF MACON ARE
TO BE VACCINATED.
State Board of Health Gets Az
ter BIB County.

Macon, Nov. 12.-The special
committee of the State Board of
Health, Drs. Westmore1and, Har-
ris and Williams, which has been
in session here for three days
past, after reviewing some of the
health conditions of the county,
has put it up to the Board of
County Commissioners to inn
prove the health conditions of
Bib or stand the consequence.
The health board was brought
here by representations as to GER
tain conditions obtaining, and af-
ter careful inspection and in
vestigation, declared that com.
petent physician should be Sc
lected by the board, to whom full
authority and power to act in &C
cordance with law should be def
egated. In reaching this con-
clusion, the health board was ac-
tuated by a desire to eradicate all
possibility as to a recurrence of
contagious diseases which held
sway to certain extent here last
winter.
The Board of County Com mis-
sioners convened this afternoon
to give attention to the sugges-
tons of the health department,
and without dissenting voice.
selected DR.. O. c. Gibson, one Of
the city physicians, to see that
the suggestions of state board
were carried out, DR.. Gibson will
adVise the county physician of
the work indicated by the COM,
missioners in making the se1ec-
ton, but will have power to call
on tnat physician at rny time TOR
help or ADVICE.
Assuming the duties indicated
by the health board, DR.. Gibson
will tomorrow morning begin a
house-to-house vaccination
throughout the city and county
He is authorized to hire such help
for vaccination work as he NAV
want at the rate of $40 a day.
Acting under the state law,
DR.. Gibson has authority to en-
force vaccination. It is within
his province to cause the arrest
and incarceration of any one who
refuse to allow the use of the
vaccine point. DR.. Gibson has
had charge of the isolation hos
pita1 here during the run of con-
taigagious diseases and is fully
competent for the work in hand.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-11-14

ate farewell, you have my best
wishes for your comfort, happi-
ness and success in life; farewell
to you all my dear pupils.
A. II. WALDEN.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-11-14

and Gentlemens.

Aklngs us to the close
nolastic year and in bid.
7u farewell accept my best
~ for your happiness and
IS in life.
pa willlearna after a while, that
costliest thing in the world,
neither star dust nor gold dust.
here is a diviner light than any
oentgen ray. The wise men
onnd that light when they fol-
owed The Star of the East. It
Asfthe unfettered light of a HUI
man sou1-The choicest products
Of education cannot be estimated
IN dollars and cents-very many
of'the best things in life cannot
be bought with money; they grow
and develope as the mind and
heart grow and deve1ope. You
may buy a..fine house but cannot
buy happy home, that must be
made by you and those who oc-
cupy it with you. You may buy
pew at church, but you cannot
buy an easy conscience, that re-
suits from your manners of liv-
ing with others. You may buy
the finest works of art, but you
can never purchase the power to
enjoy them. For the highest and
best things in life there is no
equivalent. They can only be
attained by living the higher life.
Education gives a man more
things to think and enjoy in
creases the range of his interest
enlarges the sphere of his activi-
ty. High thinking is better than
high living. Hence the energies
OF q government are never better
employed than fostering high ed
ucation and making ignorance i'm
possible.
There are 100000 of children
10 the South. Of these but 40
per cent. now are in the schools,
attending an average of four
rnonths a year.
Alabama your sister state put
"a force, one week ago today an
enactment, of her recent Legis-
aature prohibiting the working of
any child under IA years of age
~ any shop or factory in her
commonwealth, this will compel |
them to go to school for they will |
have nothing else to do, and in
few years it will result in great
betterment of her people.
The South is the training
ground of the American Citizen
and its people are now eternally
resolved upon education for all.
The battle cry should be OPP
portunity for an elementary ed
ucation for every child in the
land. The chief hope of Georgia
lies not in her splendid agricul-
kural wealth, whose fields today
are white with snowy fleece of
cotton nor in her majestic pine
forest whose lumber floats grace
FULLY upon every ocean of the
world; but in the brains and
Drawn that are now developing in
the schools and that will some
lay control all our resources for
ne veal or woe of mankind.
We found the tree of human lib
erty planted here when we came
ITO this world; let us see to it,
bat we leave it standing"
We found the sacred torch of
eedom burning let us keep it
and pass iton. Let the sower
II It must be so; but let him
atter good seed first, and then
i've the harvest to Time and
God" AS firmly as if my feet
ne on the rocks. / believe in ;
right, believe that justice will
rule the earth; believe the
ke banners of universal peace,
plant the blood red flags of
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-11-14
of our royal stock of
G r O C RE S

is frst-high quality. Second-com-
peteness. Third-the perfect condition of
our goods, and, fourth-the moderate prices
at which we sell.
Cheap food may be popular with those
who do not know that it is not cheap be-
cause it lacks nourishing elements and
that twicethe quantity must be purchased
to get results equal to those given by our
groceries. Everything in this stock is
fairly priced.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-11-14

To Be Given Away.
$500 in Gold on every
Wednesday at 1880
until further notice
Our Grocery Department will give SIS
in gold to the lady who makes the best
bread out of Dakota Flake Flour or
Big Horn Valley Flour.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-11-14

To Be Given Away
$500 in Gold on every
Wednesday at 1880
until further notice
Our Grocery Department will give SIS
in gold to the lady who makes the best
bread out of Dakota Flake Flour or Big
Horn Valley Flour.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1903-06-18
FIRED FOR GRATING,
Supt. Metcalf Of Money Order
System is Discharged.

WASHINGTON, June 17.-Aa a
result of alleged indiscretion in
matters pertaining to the award
of contracts for printing the
money order forms of the gov
ernment, James T. Metca1f, for
many years superintendent of
the money order system Of the
postoffice department. today was
removed from Office by the post
master general.
A full investigation of the case
will be made later. The dis
missal is the result of acts of
Mr.. Metcalf in opposition to the
bid of Paul Herman, of Ruther-
ford, N. j., the lowest bidder by
$4,000, and in favor of the next
highest bidder, the Wynkoop-
Hallenbeck-Crawford Co., of
New York, of which MrNMet-
calf's son is an employee.
The story is briefly told in the
letter of dismissal, signed by
Postmaster General Payne,
which says;
The charges upon which
your removal is based relate to
your action in the matter of the
letting of the contract for money
order forms. These charges
were made known to you this
morning and a transcript of your
answer thereto is enclosed here
with"