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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17
Why So Early?

The eighth district congressional
convention has been called to as
semble at Owosso October 10. The
purpose is to name two delegates and
two alternates from the eighth dis
trict to the national Republican con-
vention-the presidential convention
not yet called, but which will prob
ably assemble late in June, 1908. The
reason for calling the eighth district
convention so long in advance of the
call for a state convention is not ap-
parent. 1t will be the first Of the con-
gressional district conventions.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17
THE STATE IN
GENERAL
A NEW PRIMARY ELECTION BILL
TO CORRECT DEFECTS
IN OLD.
UP TO SPECIAL SESSION
No Political Policy in 1t, But the Leg
ieIature May Fix That Part of II
Before Passage.
Seems a Good Bill.

Attorney General Bird has prepared
primary election bill in which he
has endeavored to smooth out the
imperfections in the present law and
to simplify every provision to which
the attention of the department has
been challenged
Michigan should have a good
workable, consistent primary law If
it is to have direct nominations" said
Deputy Attorney General Chase to-
day, land in this bill the department
thinks it has accomplished the object
sought. Every one will be able to I'M
derstand it and work under it with
out the necessity Of constantly asking
for instruction.
Those questions of political policy,
such as the nomination of United
States senators and the 40 per cent
clause, have been left for the legisla-
ture to insert If it desires to do SO. We
haven't made any attempt to favor or
oppose any interest or faction, but to
eradicate some of the incongruous
provisions of the present act, and
make it more generally effective. 1t
merely simplifies and makes plain the
present statute.
IF the legislature in special session
desires this bill the department will
furnish it,"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17
Found His Wife At Last.

After travelling thousands of miles
in pursuit of his wife, and spending
large part of five years in the search,
Augustus Wilson, Port Huron de-
tective, has located her in Pontiac,
only to find her the wife of another
man. This morning Charles Phil
brook aged 40, who says he married
her fifteen months ago at Sandwich,
Ont, was arrested and lodged in Jail,
and a warrant will be served on Mrs.
Wilson as soon as she RECEIVERS from
an illness.
Wilson charges that his wife de-
serted him while they were living in
Port Huron. He returned home one
evening to find she had taken her
possessions and fed. He followed her
to Pittsburg, and after a desperate
search Of the city found where she
had lived. She had gone before he
arrived. He says he then spent three
years travelling about the east and
middle west, hoping to find her and
induce her to return to Port Huron.
Several times he secured traces Of
Mrs. Wilson, but she always had left
before he arrived at the house where
she was living.
About two years ago he gave up
what he considered a hopeless search
and returned to Port Huron. Recently,
through a friend he learned that she
was in Pontiac, and hurried there, to
find her living with Philbrook.
Wilson declares that If the Sand
witch marriage is recognized here he
will prosecute his wife on a bigamy
charge.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17
NEWS
Of MICHIGAN
THE DOCTOR SAYS FLlNT'S MILK
SUPPLY Is IMPURE AND
DEADLY.
DEARBORN LOSES BY FIRE
Eighth District to Hold an Early Con-
vention-Odds and Ends of News
Gathered Here and There.
Kills the Babies.

In tests made from the output of
Is dairies, DR.. j. Walter Orr, of the
Flint board of health, states that he
found poisonous substances, and that
to date he had been unable to find a
sample of pure milk in that city.
within radius of five blocks / found
nine sick babies, and l am positive
that their illness in each instance
was the result of impure milk" said
DR.. Orr. 1.-THE milk that is being ped
died throughout the city contains mil
lions of bacteria of the typhoid and
malaria family. But the worst of it is
that although the illness resulting from
impure milk oftimes manifest them
selves at once. in other cases the
seeds Of disease are sown which are
slow in developing. The maladies re-
sulting in these cases are typhoid
fever cholera infantum and some
times tuberculosis. Something should
be done at once to bring about bet
ter condition In Flint's milk supply.
OF whatever dangers there may be
threatening the city at the present
time, this is the most serious"
The Jackson board of health is get
ting after dairymen who are not
meeting the requirements Of the state
law and city ordinance, and will ad-
wise the public of unsanitary dairy
men as fast as the inspectors find con-
ditions to warrant it.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17
Ann Arbor House Robbers.

A series of the boldest burglaries
in the annals of Ann Arbor have led
residents to sleep with one eye open
at night and to chain their bulldogs
in the Railways during the daytime.
Hardly day or night has passed dur
ing the last ten days without en-
frances into one or two houses of
the city.
One of the men has done his work
by stealth during the day, getting into
the homes by some excuse or other
and walking out shortly afterward
with valuables and cash. At one time
he was seeking a room in the students
quarter. and at another he was tele-
phone repair man. About the same
time came reports from house near
the city where the occupants had been
chloroformed while the place was
robbed.
The most recent depreciation is the
burglarizing of the large residence of
Mrs. Mary Mcclure on Huron street.
The entire house was ransacked. The
family is away, and how much was
stolen is not known. The police have
no clues.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17
The American Tourist.

Every summer Americans overrun
Europe in numbers never equaled be-
fore" And every summer European
newspapers, especially the English,
discover that the American tourist Is
bad-mannered, that the father Of the
family chews cigars, that the mother
is uneducated, and the daughter loud
voiced. An American at home who
reads these accounts of his touring
countrymen wonders at first whether
the dignified gentleman who was to
leave his business and spend sum-
mer in England did not go, after all.
What has become of that gentle
school teacher who had saved her
money for three years to make her
pilgrimage to Shakespeare's country
and SCOTS? Just where in that out
rageous throng of "Amurrican" tour
lists are our own best friends who
sailed in June? The last time we saw
them they did not chew gum, nor vio-
late the English language further than
to use the word guess" racily and
correctly, nor talk with indecent ia
miliarity to the employees of hotels
Then it occurs TO us, remarks Youths
Companion, that many American trav-
elers do not speak loud enough for
the natives to discover that their
speech is American. Our countrymen
abroad are visibly and audibly repre-
sented by the kind of person that we
dislike at home. In the same way
the conditions of New York society
are portrayed in European papers by
stories of political corruption and the
few eccentricities of the many mil
lionaires. Normal events do not make
sensational press dispatches. The
unusual is seen and chronicled. Ameri-
cans who do not enjoy the reports of
the impressions which their country
men make upon Europeans have only
to recall our own strange notion that
Frenchmen gesticulate like jumping
jacks, and that Englishmen are humor-
less persons in loud-checked suits.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17
1t is evident that there is no anti.

1t is evident that there is no anti
American feeling in the royal family
of japan. A Japanese farmer has pur-
chased a collection of American cows
which will be taken to the orient to
furnish milk for the use of the SOW
ereign and his household. Moreover,
this enterprising Japanese agricultur-
list, who, by the way, contracted to
supply milk to the military hospitals
at Toxic during the recent war and
not only did the work satisfactorily
but made handsome sum by the op-
Grafton, has borrowed another Ameri-
can idea and will go into the con-
densed milk business. The plan has
proved practicable and profitable here.
and no doubt will work equally we'll in
Japan.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17
MICHIGAN.
The Fetish of Thorouehness.
G.. A. LIsK, Publisher.

A perfect housekeeper may not be
real homemaker. Her kitchen and
bedrooms may be spotless and her
dinners fit for an epicure; but If she
never has an hour for reading, or
leisure to play with her children or to
talk with her husband, she is a failure
as wife and mother. Somewhere be-
tween perfection and slovenliness
there lies a golden mean. To reach
1t housewife must learn to turn on
work, and to distinguish between the
kind of work which may be sighted
and the kind which must be done with
literal thoroughness. IAN all-day
washing makes a halliday ironing!"
used to be the motto Of wise wo-
man, who preferred clothes free from
CRIME and streak to carefully futed
frills and starching that would stand
alone. There are houses where the
fetish of thoroughness demands a
daily sacrifice, just as there are other
houses where the dragon of laziness
and disorder devours both comfort
and affection. An. old colored mann
N.Y." for years the chief dependence
of southern family, had genius for
getting work done. Nobody ever knew
exactly how or when her miracles
were wrought; but the house was
clean and the meals were toothsome,
and Aunt Car'line" was always happy
and leisurely, says Youths Compan-
ion. One day her mistress sent her
to put the guest chamber in order for
a distinguished visitor. She came
downstairs very soon, with the smil-
ing assurance, dat room am plumb
clean, Miss Gertrude!" so quickly?"
inquired Miss Gertrude. did you
dust it, aunty? l don't see your dust
err" Law now, Miss Gertrude, don't
you bodder yo'self bout Aunt Car
line. / Some dust dat room wild a
paamleai tan!" There spoke a re-.
sourceful hrusekeeper.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17
Lunatic Captured.

John Myquist, who with four others
escaped from the Traverse City asy-
lum, was captured at his old home in
Muskegon. Myquist got away several
days ago and arrived Tuesday, how
no one can find out. He confided to a
friend that his wife was plotting
against him" and that he intended to
kill her and their seven children Tues
day night. The friend informed the
police, who surrounded the house and
searched for several hours before
landing their prisoner.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17
Port of Grand Rauids.

Expert Engineer Lyman E. Cooley.
of Chicago, who has been in Grand
Rapids several days making study
of flood conditions, addressed an open
meeting of the council Thursday
night and said the only way to relieve
the spring flood menace to the west
side was TO build dock line walls and
scalp the river bed. Scalping, as he
meant, is to blast out rock. He also
put forth a scheme to build canal
from this city to Saginaw, which he
says would forever remove flood
troubles, as that part of the state is
lower. This, too, would make an ideal
waterway for large lake boats direct
from Chicago to the Furniture City.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17
Still In Jackson.

Charles Uhbanks, sentenced to
Jackson prison in March, 1904, to a
minimum sentence of one year and a
maximum sentence of two years, for
burglary in the night time, is still in
prison although he has long since
completed his maximum term. The
prison authorities refuse to release
him because it was discovered that
Uhbanks has already served two SIM
liar sentences and this makes him a
third term man and they are holding
him for the five-year limit. The cir
cult and supreme courts have refused
to release him and his case is to be
carried to the United States supreme
court.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17
The Crop Prospects.

The only depressing features OF
the latest Michigan crop reports are
statements of oats, apples and
peaches. In the southern peach belt
only $4,000 acres of orchards are
bearing, the prospect being for an
average yield of 81 per cent. In the
central and northern counties the
prospect is for yield of rs per cent.
The southern peach belt lost over half
its trees by the October freeze. APP
pie prospects are: Southern counties,
35; central, Sc; northern, 50.
Oats are badly damaged by thrips
in all sections. Most of the crop will
be harvested in August. The average
estimated yield is q bushels. July
weather was favorable to everything
but wheat, rye and hay. Corn has
practically made up all 1t lost in the
backward spring and the state
average is 80. Potatoes promise well,
but blight appears in some sections.
The state average is sc.
Wheat is badly shrunken in some
sections, but the general yield is sat
isfactory. The average yield in the
southern and northern counties is IA
bushels, and central IS. A total of
1S1, $40 bushels was marketed in July.
Practically all last years crop has
been marketed.
Sugar beets promise eXcellently
with a state average of SO. The ind-
cations are that Michigan will pro-
duce her banner bean crop. The con-
ditions are: Southern counties, so;
central, SO, and northern. sc.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17
Waves Cast Up the Dead.

The high-rolling combers of Lake
Michigan, few miles below holland,
gave up the dead bodies of two broth
ers, Herbert and Morris Won Valken-
burg. aged 16 and 20 years respective
ly. The young men were in swim
ming and as no one was a witness to
the drowning it is not known just
how it occurred. There was rough
sea, and it is thought that one of the
brothers might have given out and
the other in trying to rescue him, was
dragged under. They are the sons of
Charles Won Valkenburg.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17
A Superior Fish.

The biggest fish caught in Lake
Superior in many years has been
brought in by the tug Columbia. 1t
is trout weighing fifty pounds, meas
uring four feet in length, six inches
through the body, and twelve and one
half inches in width. The head was
ten and one-half inches long, the tail
had spread of fourteen inches, and
the front fine were each seven and
one-half inches long The trout was
netted in 120 feet of water off Stan
nard rock, about forty-five miles out
from shore
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17
Want the Money.

The Michigan. Corn Improvement
association has asked the supreme
court for a mandamus to compel the
auditor general to raise the $1,000, in
accordance with an act of the legisla-
ture, for the encouragement of corn
culture. The attorney general advises
that the act is class legislation as
the corn concern is not an Incorporate
ed body The corn people say they
will raise the average of corn from 20
bushels an acre to that of 60 If given
funds to further their plans.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17

Thomas F. Cole, president of the
Oliver Iron Mining Co., the iron ore
end of the steel corporation, is having
plans drawn for handsome summer
home which he intends building at
Clark's Lake, a Goebic county re-
sort.
The body of man supposed to be
Matthias Simon, of Fowler, Mich, was
found on the railroad tracks near
Portland by Frank Mann, farm hand.
1t was cut in two. A bank certificate
for 1925 and $40 In cash was found
in his pockets. Mann met the man
a few minutes before and says he
was intoxicated
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17

The timely arrival of two guests
from the Lake Harbor hotel saved
the life of Miss Clara Christensen,
waitress who had fallen in eight feet
of water in the channel leading from
Mona lake to Lake Michigan.
Although Arthur Sherman, who
was brought to Bay City from De-
troit by Detective Craig and placed
in Jail on a charge of burglarizing the
residence of Harry Tierney, pleads
not guilty, the officer managed to To-
cate a quantity of the stolen plumber
from Detroit pawn shops.
The next big Indian camp meeting
will be at Frost Lake, northwest of
Standish, the last of this month. In
dams will be present from all over
Michigan and Canada, including Mrs.
Sagatoo, the famous white lady who
married two different Indians at Sa-
gaming.
A census of Marquette is now being
completed by the postoffice force.
There are upwards of 10000 people. IL
appears, from these returns, COM
pared with 10000 In the spring of
1905, thus giving Marquette the dis
tinction of being the largest incorpor-
ated city in upper Michigan.
"well, we just started from home,
us and our old horse, to see some Of
the world explained an S-year-old
daughter OF John Nichols, farmer
of Henrietta township, when Deputy
Sheriff John Freeman accosted three
tots in buggy about o'clock Thurs
day night. The father was telephonod
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17
Candidate Dropped Dead.

In the midst of hot political fight
as candidate for delegate to the con-
stitutional convention, Attorney W..
Plummer, aged 65, of Benton Harbor,
suddenly dropped dead Saturday
morning. The deceased was probably
the foremost member of the Berrien
county bar He was a former mayor
and a veteran Of the civil war. He
leaves a widow and two children.
Edith and Harry, the latter practic-
ing attorney.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17

A parachute aeronaut dropped from
a balloon into a river at Middletown,
N. Y, and was married few minutes
after she had been got ashore, accord
ing to the advertised program. First
she got a wetting, and then she had
wedding.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17
SunfleId's Fourth Fire.

Sunfield, Eaton county, suffered its
fourth disastrous fire within a few
years Tuesday night when the large
general store of s. l.. Roarbeck burned
to the ground, entailing loss on
building and contents of $4,000.
Roarbeck's loss is $4,000, with $4,000
insurance. L. II. Saunders, of Lansing,
owned the building, and lost $4,000
with $4,000 insurance.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17
Cost Two Lives.

1t was because one of the men
rocked the boat. it has developed,
that Michael Nearer and Owen Filon
met their deaths by drowning in
Whitefish lake, Luce county, and
Robert McMinn escaped a similar fate
only by very narrow margin. Slow
progress being made on the voyage
across the lake to Neazer's farm, it
is reported by McMinn, threat was
made by Filon he would tip over the
frail craft unless his companions put
more vigor into their work at the
oars. The gait was not increased,
and true to his word Filon overturned
the boat. He was the first to sink.
The other men chung to the craft, one
of them to perish as he became ex-
hausted.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17

King Edwards taste in jewelry is
extremely quiet. A horseshoe or single
pearl pin and a plain gold ring on his
little finger are all that he ever wears.
with the simplest possible links and
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17
AGED Veterans Fatal Fall.

In Whitneyville, Kent county, Nath-
an Myers, aged about II years, an old
soldier, was found Wednesday morn
ing at the foot Of the Pere Marquette
viaduct. His back was broken, and he
lived but a short time after being
picked up. Myers Is from Lansing, and
it is thought that he was attempting
to walk to Grand Rapids and enter the
Soldiers home. In his pockets was
$64. No one has been found who saw
him start to walk over the trestle,
which is quite narrow. and he doubt
less stepped blindly over the edge
and fell the 20 feet.
Called to her home at Fort Wayne
Ind, by telegram signed by her
sisters name, announcing the death
of their mother. Miss Nellie Melon
aid, nurse of Kalamazoo, found she
was the victim of cruel Joke. She
collapsed from sheer joy when TOLD
her mother was alive and well. and
is in a serious condition.
Philip Lynch, aged 81, of st. Joseph
a conductor, was caught between two
cars in the local barns and fatally
crushed.
Genesee county Oddfellows held
their annual picnic at Thread lake
Addresses were made by Grand Mas.
ter Fred A. Rogers, of Reading, and
Deputy Game Warden e. J. Trasher,
of Lapeer.
George Tuttle, aged "A years, vet
eran of the Civil war, and Familiarity
known about town as "Old Tut" Is
dead. He died at the Oakland ho-
tel. Tuttle was one of the most ia
miliar characters about Oxford for
twenty-five years.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-12-05
Editor Met Death,

Kansas City, Dec. FL. j.
Groves, managing editor of the
Kansas City Post, who was
wounded Nov. % by Gen. Rich
ard Horne. died today.
o. D. Wood ward, president of
the Post company. who was
shot at the same time as Groves
is still IN the hospital. but it is
believed he will recover. Horne
is out on bond and is at home in
Marshall, Mo. He will be ar.
rested and returned to Kansas
City on the charge of murder
preferred agains. him.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-12-05
Tweuty-fifth.

Several years ago the Nc.
Leod sisters Mesdames Mamie
Hardesty, Josephine Yates,
Maggie SIayton, ]. #. Spalding
and Miss Ella Mcleod decided
to have alfamily gathering each
Thanksgiving day and did so
as the years rolled by.
Last Thursday proved to be
the twenty. fifth anniversary oi
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T..Spalding aud
that caused the family meeting
and the day proved to be OF
more than unusual inte! est be.
cause Of its being a wedding an
niversary of one of the parties.
There was not only the great
Missouri Thanksgiving dinner,
out beautiful useful silver ware
of every description.
TGose taking part in The f..-
tivities and donations we're:
Rev. FIR. P, F Cooney, Misses
Mary Daley and Ma ggie Cooney
W. r. Yates, wife and son Char
lie, Mrs. Mamie Hardesty aud
Misses Annie and Ollie. Fred
Hardesty and family, Walter
Hagan and family, Mrs. Maggie
Stayton. Miss Ella Mcleod,
Joseph BuckHan and wife, Miss
Dulcie Buckman, and John Ster.
ling, Alton, Glessie, Leila and
Charlie Bayes, Ed Isman. wife
and mother. Dr. J. B. Corley's
family and Lucy Yates
Now here is a dream Jim Tom
had bought his wife one Of
those fancy double decked
kitchen cabinets and after the
guests had all departed she
placed her numerous silver
presents in the cabinet so they
would show through the glass
doors and that night jim T9m
dreamed he was coon bunting
aud The boys had built a big
tire under a monster oak aud
then he a woke to find his wife
with lamp in hand before The
ca abinet counting her treasures
TO see if it was all real and
not dream.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-12-05
Basket Bali

A Hannibal paper states;
The II H S basket ball team is
practicing for another game
with the Monroe team and with
a Quincy team. The question is;
will the Monroe girls eat bon
bons until Gay of game and then
meet defea' or will tney get
down to had work and reap a
victory.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-12-05
Not Guilty.

Is the verdict of the jury after
bearing all of the evidence in
the case growing out of the
shooting and killing of U. S.
Senator Brown by his mistress
Mrs. Anna Bradley, The Judges
instruction to the jury practl-
cally called for an acquital.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-12-05
Former Residents.

Mrs. A. l.. Densbroder, form
erly of this city has secured a
divorce from her husband in
Quincy. She was given 81, 900
aIlmony and $50 per month for
the support of her two children
during their minority.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-12-05

souri, Baptist Orphans Home y
st. Louis.
Pastor Laughlin's work is do.
ing we'll at Philadelphia; one
baptized or Sunday Dec 1st and
two received the hand of fellow
ship at the evening service.