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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12
Arcada's Road System,
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built entirely at Mr.. A. w. Wright s
expense, on which was travelled mile
east thence south two miles to Berming-
ham Corners. in that distance there are
three bridges, all Of the improved style,
with heavy concrete abutments and steel
frames. Mr. Ely believes that the pub
lie must be protected with good bridges
first, and the highways receive second
consideration and that has necessitated
the construction and repairs OF IA bridges
for which the lumber alone has cost
$500 per year for the past three years.
The drainage is greatly facilitated by
the placing of II new steel tubes at
various points throughout the township
which are placed under the road to con-
meet the bitches
South Of the Ely school house there is
also considerable grading being done,
and new steel bridge put in.
But commencing three miles south OF
the sugar factory and running straight
through east TO the Emerson line is the
finest piece Of new road The Record
ever had the pleasure Of inspecting. Ii
is "a II. wide and straight az die and the
first thought that comes 10 one Is that
you are on a railroad bed which is about
ready for the ties There IL ample room
for two loaded wagons TO pass with ease
and safety, as the slope to the drain on
either side is gradual and smooth. This
makes a direct route for all the farmers
in that locality 10 the sugar factory and
enables them 10 measure their loads by
the capacity of wagon and horses rather
than by the condition of the roads.
The art OF scientific road making is
certainly exemplifed in this stretch OF
highway, and il is safe TO say, there
isn't piece or road in the county which
will surpass it,
At Peter Fletcher's corners the road
south will be graded three quarters OF
mile, but the work is being held up for
the present until after the drain is COM
pleted.
The increased cost Of new bridges and
repairs this year has made il impossible
TO construct as much new roads "a de-
sired. but from the appearance OF the
new bridges, this cause will not hinder
the construction OF many more miles OF
this excellent road next year.
The prevailing condition OF our roads
will entltle US 10 more rural mail routes,
and after the inspection OF Col. &. V. X.
Pond, of the L. s. post-office department
who is now in the county, we will no
doubt get them.
The agitation Of the good roads move
ment is no longer confined to wheelmen
and automobile owners. The man who
wants il most is the man who has farm
produce to sell and wishes to get il to a
railroad or his market at the lowest
possible cost. Everybody approves of
them and the once difficult task of con-
vincing those who would be benefited
most, that il was to their advantage,
has been entirely overcome, and by their
active part have made it possible for
Gratiot county to have ideal roads In
every sense OF the term. The farmers
not only approve Of them. but are will
ing to pay their share and do their part
We have the material and the DISPOSE
ton and can, and do make them accord
| ing TO the concise definition Of good
road, which 10 one with o water tight
roof on IL and dry cellar under IL.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12
REPRESENTATINEH HOLMES AND THE
AUTOMOBILE.

Scarcely day passes that the news
papers do not chronicle the death or
serious injury of some person as the re-
suit of some reckless chauffeur careless
handling Of an automobile.
TWO years ago, when the automobile
craze was vet in its infancy, the Hon. j..
W. Holmes, then a member of the legis-
laturc from Gratiot, with his usual fore
siehtedness. realized that it would not be
good policy to leave the state without a
law governing the speed and rights to the
road of the machines, framed a bill which
fully covered the situation on country
roads.
The bill was passed by both houses of
the legislature and provided that when
the machine was passing vehicle drawn
by horses, going in the opposite direction,
the chauffeur must turn t. the right, tax
ing but half the road and slowing his
machine down to five miles an hour, and
should the horse show signs of being
frightened must bring his machine to a
full stop until the horse shall have passed.
When approaching vehicle going in
the same direction, the chauffeur desir-
ing to pass the vehicle, must give timely
warming Of his intention, and pass to the
right.
d. NJ. Ferry, IT,. then member of the
house, and an enthusiastic automobiles
fought against the passage of the bill III
the house and followed it TO the senate,
where he gathered all his forces to defeat
it, but Mr. Holmes friends of the meas
ure in that body stood uobly by him and
he was successful in getting it through
tie senate.
It then passed to the chief executive
who in the past has done many strange
and erratic things, and this was no ex-
ception to the rule-he pigeon-holed it
for the time being.
Mr.. Ferry, fearing he might resurrcct
it. sought the assistance of r. a. Alger
Jr. son OF our dearly beloved Senator,
and several other influential men of De
roit all enthusiasts of the automobile.
'ho collectively stouned the executive
office with protests against the bill be-
coming law The good. kind governor
Of the great state of Michigan, ever will
ing to please his friends and never wish
ing to offend them, ALLOWED THE
BILL TO DIE BY LIMITATION.
For the past two years, with no law to-
govern them the moment they get be-
yond the city limits majority of them
open their machines wide and travel at a
reckless speed, utterly regardless OF the
welfare Of others, and it has got to a
point where a farmer hardly darcs take a
high-spirited horse onto public high
way, much less womau.
Mr.. Holmes will be back in the legis-
laturc this winter, and with that stalwart
gentleman in the senate the Hon. T. a.
Ely, who believes in equal rights to all,
a nd a governor in the person of the Hon
Fred NJ Warner, who cannot be handled
i'm the hollow Of your hand, and who be
lieves The farmer has as much right TO the
road as his city brother, a law will be
passed that will prevent the reckless speed
Of the automobile in the future.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12
NIAGARA FALLS EXCUR.
SION, AUGUST 18th.

The Ann Arbor II. Il. will run its
annual excursion TO Niagara Falls,
Alexandra Bay and Toronto Thursday,
August 18th. Special train Will leave
Alma at $3.50 p. IN. Fare for round trip
to Niagara Falls 1926. To Toronto the
fare will be 81. 80 higher, TO Alexandria
Bay s. 90 higher, and to Montreal SO 60
higher than to Niagara Falls. Special
train will run through to the Falls
without change. 24-26.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12
Excursion to Muskoka Wharf
Ontar.o.

On Thursday August 25th the Ann
Arbor r. r. will cell excursion tickets
to Muskoka Wharf, Ont, ana return in
connection with Grand Trunk Annual
Excursion to that point The fare from
Alma will be Is 90 for the round trip
good to return September 9Th. 25.27
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12

WuEx looking around for person to
FIJI the office of speaker of the House the
party should not overlook the fact that
the Hon. J, w. Holmes, OF Gratioi' Is
cmueuuy fitted for the position, having
acted IN that capacity on several occasions
during the last session of that body.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12
$3.50 Hot Springs, :. ID.
5000 Deadwood andI.aa

and return, from Chicago daily, via the
Chicago & North Western R'y. Corre-
spondingly low rates from other points.
The Black Hills region, the great natural
sanitarium of the west, is one of the
most picturesque spots in the world and
well worth visit. Information and
tickets can be secured from your home
agent. illustrated Black Hills Booklet
with valuable map mailed on receipt of
Z cents in stamps by w. II. Kniskern,
Chicago. 26-,,
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12

THE abulated vote for sheriff at the
head of The report of the county conven-
ton i'm last weeks issue Of The Record
made it appear that {. II. Gum was IN
the race from start 20 finish, whereas The
name of T.. p. Potter, of Hamilton Town
ship. should have appeared in place of
Mr.. Gums. Mr. Gum was in the race
for the FIRST three ballots only
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12

Round trip tickets will be sold at all
stations, and via different routes, as
desired. Dates of sale, Aug. II, Is and
l4' good for return trip until Aug. 20,
With extension Of limit, if desired, to
Sept. 80. Through tourist sleeping car
from Detroit. For rates and reserya.
tons apply TO local agents or write
W. c. Britton, D. 2 A., Saginaw; II. J.
Gray, ID. p. A, Grand Rapids, or II. L.
Moeller, G.. p. A., Detroit.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12
CURE FOR HAY FEvFp

Hyomei is a positive cure for the
sneezing, watering Of the eyes, exces.
sive running of the nose, and intense
burning of hay fever. It soothes and
heals the irritated mucous membrane
and gives quick and lasting relief.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12
$4,000 California and Return

Send cent stamp for itinerary of
special personally conducted tours TO
California, leaving Chicago August 18th
and August 25th. via the Chicago, Union
Pacific IL North Western Line, account
Triennial Oonclave Knights Templar at
San Francisco. $50 round trip from
Chicago. Correspondingly low rates.
from all points. w. II. GUERIN. IL
Campus Martins, Detroit, Mich. 24-27
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12
NORTHERN RESORT
EXCURSION

VIA PERE MARQUETTE RAILROAD.
AUGUST 3oTH
ANNUAL LOW RATE EXCURSION
GOOD FOR TEN DAYS TRIP TO
THE RESORT COUNTRY.
Excursion tickets will be on sale at
all OF the principal Offices of the Pere
Marquette X. K. Co. on date above men.
toned, for regular and special trains.
Tickets will be sold 10 following
points, but may be used TO intermediate
stations north of and including Baldwin,
where regular trains are scheduled TO
stop.
LUDINGTON TRAVERSE CITY
MANISTEE ELK RAPIDS
CHARLEVOIX BAY ' rW
PETOSKEY FRANKFORT
MACKINAC ISLAND.
For particulars as to rates, time OF
trains, ETC., see large bills or make in.
quiry OF Pere Marquette agent.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12
EXCURSIONS
VIA THE
PERE MARQUETTE
Saginaw and Bay City sunday August 1 4
Rate 05c.
Train will leave Alma at 1921 a. m
See posters, or ask agent for particulars.
III. +. MoELLER. q. L. A.

Grand Rapids sunday August FL. Rate
S1.25.
Train will leave Alma at $40 a. IN
See posters, or ask agents for particu-
lars. Suabenfest at Grand Rapids. II.
+. MoELLER, G. p A.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12

Sunday Excursion to Frankfort and Crystal
Lake.
The next Sunday excursion to Frank
fort and Crystal Lake over the Ann
Arbor r r. will be given August 7rst.
Special train will leave Alma at Sos
a. m. Pare for round trip fr.7S. Chill.
dren over FIVE and under twelve years
Of age half the adult fare. 76-76
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12

On account Of his duties as Secretary of
the Michigan Sugar Manufacturers equir-
ing so much Of his time at their Saginaw
office Mr.. Hathaway has resigned as
treasurer of the Alma Sugar Co., and Mr..
l.. A. Sharp has been elected to succeed
him
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12

II. 3. Strickler, of Scottdale, Pa,
is registered at the Wright House. In
pany with +. w. Hooper, of this
place, he spent part of the time
looking over the country about Meredith,
in Clare county, where they own a
large tract of wild land.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12
FRIDAY, AUGUST II, 1904.

THE American voter can read The Re
publican tariff plank without the aid OF
an Interpreter.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12
Worlds Fair. ST. Louis.

Round trip tickets at low rates. On
sale ut all ticket stations. Ask agents
for rates, limit Of tickets and full particu-
lars. l4-tf
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12
Settlers Fares to the South
and Cnnthaaof

One way. second-class tickets on sale
at all stations on first and third Tues
day Of each month. Ask agents for
particulars. 14-tf
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12

pOOSFI-TsTT FAIRBANKS
For President, For wee fre9ldeh''
DARRAGU
For Congress,
ETN HOLMES
For Senator, For Representative
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12
FOR SALE. RENT EXCHANGE ETC.


WANTED. i want 100 men and teams 10 ,vori.
" on lne sumner Seville drain address
WANTED. A good trusty man with family 70
W Worh on farm 10y the month or wear Write
TO VIM. Sloan. Alma r. r. u. No > a6 nd
EOR sALE.-A irst-cass Victor Ridrad Arm
Ialklng machine TO be- sold at a bargain
inquire OF Morris johnson or Phone 10. Union.
III OUSE FOR sALE-We have concluded u
II sell our nine room and bath room steanW
nttteu, electric lighted. frame house. opposite
residence OF Mr. Wright and occupied bv Mr.
foley Apply 10 j. II Lancashire x Co
PULL TERRIER PUP FORsALE Heis four
~ months Old well bred and Handsomely
marked Price / 10 90 Enquire "Coachman =
y IL. lAncashire's stable. Alma
k'Ok sALE-One span of two-year-od hav
~ mare colts. Inquire OF J. h. McCarty.
am" 26pd.
EOh SALE-As have sold my property here
IL wish to dispose OF all my furniture m IL
Is your opportunity 10 buy cheap Inquire OF
ME-. Walters, Alma. 5i,t 1
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12

Thursday August 18th. to Niagara
Falls, TO Toranto, Ont, Montreal, Que,
Alexandria Bay.
Tickets are good TO return for 12 days
from date of sale. For rates and parti-
culars see local agents. II. +. MoELLER,
G.. +. A.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-08-12

Low Rate Excursion Via Pere Marquette
aud Wabash Railroads and ID. Il ~.
BnaIa
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
TEACHING OF THE BLIND.
Austrian Expert Says They Are De-
veloped Mentally Through
the Hearing.

DR.. Peller, director of the Jewish in
stitute for blind children, Of Vienna, de-
sribes some highly interesting and i'm
portant observations which he has made
in recent years.
He insists that the educators Of the
blind are wrong in assuming from the
first that the mind of the blind is weak
ened and instructed by the sense Of
touch. He says that the progressive
phenomena of blind child's develop
ment are so minute as to be microscop-
ical. Closest study has revealed to him
that, except in those who are also deaf,
the blind are developed mentally by
hearing, not by touching.
This explains why SO many Of the
blind. led by fancy and imagination, ex-
list 10 dream life which, while 1t makes
poetical beings of them, also renders
them prey to distress and misery.
DR.. Peller lays down the law that
schools for the blind of the future must
teach them to recognize by the ear what
they have learned to conceive by touch
ing-material. dimensions, form, num-
bers and SO on. He says, too, that in
teaching them great attention must be
devoted to changing the passive imag-
ination Of the blind into active imag-
nation. process very slow, because the
blind are nearly enthralled by passive
Imagination.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
CAR GIVES TO WAR FUND
Contributes $40, 100000 Toward
Payment of Enormous Expenses
Will Sell Palaces If Necessary.

The czar of Russia has donated $780,
100000 to the Russian treasury to be
used to pay part of the enormous ex-
penses OF the Russo-Japanese war.
Even this will not make the czar
poor. Nobody knows the exact amount
81 his immense fortune, but it is fact
that Nicholas II. owDs 100 palaces and
castles scattered in all parts of his
great empire. On these estates he gives
work to 1000 servants, cooks, pages,
Wallets, grooms and gardeners.
The wages of this army Of employees
amount to more than 100000 year.
In his private stables are $500 car
riage and saddle horses and he owns
more than $4,000 head of cattle
The czar himself knows only small
part of his chateaus, and has only Wis
tied 38 Of the hundred palaces belong
ing to him. Should necessity arise he
has declared that he will sell half of
them or more to raise money for the
war, If Rlssias foreign credit should
become exhausted
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
NEED MANY NEW CLOTHES
Army Officers Raise Cry at Being Com
PEELED to Have Large Num-
her Of Uniforms.

1 "Why do the army requirements make
MS buy 80 many clothes?"
This Is the complaint made to the war
department at Washington by army Of
Acers in the United States, and in recog-
milton of the complaint, it is probable
the general staff will very soon order q
reduction of the number of uniforms so
~ to make 1t possible for an officer to
live at less expense.
Anyone who has inclined to the belief
that all soldiers are fond of trappings
need only to apply to the general board
to be informed of the true attitude Of the
American officer, who, 1t appears, has
little Of the peacock proclivities credited
to his fellow fighters abroad.
The officers of the junior grade especial
~ find it hardship to provide the va
Ttety of dress which is exacted by the
regulations. Their pay very often Is
seriously curtailed by this consideration.
An officer, for instance, must have four
pairs Of shoes, and at least six different
uniforms for different occasions. It is
now proposed to cut down the uniforms
to two, one for service in the field and
the other for dress occasions. This
would do away for one thing with tho
full dress coat, a heavy and costly gar
ment.
In Its place 1t is proposed to use COM
poslte blouse, to which would be at
tached shoulder straps OF shoulder knots
- the occasion required.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
OUR FIGHTING MEN.
GEN. AINswoRTH REPORTS ON
CONDITION OF THE ARMY.
Total Strength Of Regular Force Given
as 72,s17 Men and ofcers-Dis-
cipline of West Point Ca
diets Very Good.

The annual report of Gen. F. G.
Ainsworth, military secretary of the
army, the first issued from his office
since Its creation by congress at its
last session, gives the total strength
OF the army at the close Of the last
fiscal year at 3,S71 officers and 6S,946
enlisted men.
The loss of officers from death, dis
missal, retirement and other causes
lost by death was 456
A reduction in the number of mala-
rial fever cases at West Point is at
tributed to an attack made on the
mosquitoes.
Speaking of the discipline of the
the close observance Of the reguia-
lions governing the treatment of
fourth-class men is due as much to an
increasing disposition to yield ready
obedience to authority as to the fear
Of the results of disobedience.
The average cost of maintaining
cadets was stated to be 64.3 cents, as
against 53.9 cents the previous year.
This increase in COST" the report
recites, was partly due to the unusu-
ally high prices of all food supplies
and partly to the maintenance of an
extra table during the active athletic
season. and to the visits of instruction
made by the classes during the year.
OF the 27.3SO recruits enlisted dur.
ing the last fiscal year, 1862 were
foreign born. Complaints as to the
number of unsatisfactory recruits art
said to have been unusually numer
| GUS.
| Speaking Of the militia, it Is sale
satisfactory progress has been mad
toward bringing the organized militi,
respecting armament, equipment AM
discipline, up to the standard of th
regular amry.
| A total of 6.906 officers and 1911
enlisted men of the militia organiza
tons were present at the inspections
Referring to the act of congress pro
viding for roster of officers and en-
listed men of the Union and confeder
ate armies, the report says the re
sponses of the governors addresse
inviting their cooperation have bee
such as to assure the department tina
they fully appreciate the ipportanc
of the work and will cooperate heart
lily with the department in it's effort
to give to the confederate soldier th
place due him in the proposed CON
pilation.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
AGE OF CALIFORNIA TREES
Many Of Them Said to Have Been very
Old When the Christian
Era Began,

We speak about a persons being as
old as Methuselah. Yet, he lived but
brief hour. compared with some of
the great sequoia trees which are be-
Ing sacrificed to short sighted greed in
California.
A late PROSTATE monarch of the
woods, that was Is feet in diameter
several feet from the ground, began it's
existence in 271 B C. BY 254 A. d.,
when it was SIG years of age, a forest
IRE burned on its trunks a scar three
feet wide. Then it enjoyed 1,19O years
of placid life. But in 1441 A. D. the
tree, then aged LIP years, was injured
In another fire and 1t took the scar
66 years to heal. The worst attack of
all occurred in 1907, when the tree.
then 2,o6S years old was attacked by a
fire which left a scar which it took 1O3
years to heal.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
ALASKAN CABLE is DONE.
Big Telegraph System Connecting
Behring Strait Region with
United States Completed.

Gen. Greedy has received dispatch
from Maj. Edgar Russell, of the signal
corps, announcing that the Burnside,
which has been engaged in laying cable
from Valdez. Alaska, has at last buoyed
the eastern cable end at the mouth of Sit
ka harbor. 1t will require several days
to make the shore end connections in
the narrow passage of Sitka harbor and
throw open the cable to commercial
business.
This completes the Alaskan telegraph
system, which has been under construc-
ton for the past three years, during
which time about 1000 miles Of land
lines and submarine cables have been
constructed and laid. and 1t brings the
Nome and Behring strait regions in d.
rect communication with the United
States over an all-American route.
This system contains the first SUBJ
marine cable Of American manufacture
and the length is sufficient to extend
from Newfoundland to Ireland.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
SURGEON AIDS WoLINIsT.
Reduces Size Of His Fingers Giving
Him an Improved Touch-Lat-
ter Then Wins Honors.

Inspired by his desire to attain pre-
mier honors in music to submit to pain
full and delicate surgical operation, ].
Henry Saylor, Of Richand Center. Pa,
has returned to his home from Leipsic,
Germany, where his art won for him
the highest distinction ever awarded to
q student there
In order to render his touch on the
violin more delicate and perfect. Saylor
placed himself under the treatment of a
surgeon, who undertook to alter the
shape of the digits of his left hand, and
at the same time make them pliable and
sensitive to an extraordinary degree.
An incision was made in the underside
of the tip of each finger, and a small
elongated diamond-shaped bit of flesh
removed. The incision was then stitched
together and, In healing. 1t narrowed
the fingers at the tip The result made
1t possible for saylor to finger the
strings of his violin with more rapidity,
certainty and finesse.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-12-23
KISS CAUSES DIVORCE SUIT
Wife Drags Husband Into Court Be-
cause He Woke Fer with o.
culatory Salvation.

Because he reused his wife from
sleep by imprinting kiss on her lips,
Aaron Huddleston, well known
throughout San Bernardino and Los
Angeles, Cal, is defendant in divorce
proceedings.
The complaint states as ground for
the action extreme cruelty, which Hud-
dleston says consisted solely of kissing
his wife while she slept, when she re-
taliated by slapping his face.
The couple were married at River
side, Cal, four years ago, and until
recently to all appearances the union
was happy one. Huddleston had oc-
casion to leave town early, and in
order not to disturb his wife used every
precaution to dress noiselessly.
Before leaving he bestowed parting
kiss, and an instant later received a
slap in the face. He was nonplused
and began to quote scripture, when his
stepson entered the room and threw
him out. When he returned to town
be was served with the divorce sum-
mons