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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-09-02
Smothered in a Trunk.

Playing hide and seek in her home
with several companions during the
absence OF her parents, Viola the five
year-old daughter of Edward Parks,
who lives on Clark lake, II miles
south of Jackson, met her death by
suffocation in a trunk.
The child was missed by her play
mates and a search was begun. In
the attic they found an old trunk,
and lifting the lid discovered the
body. The girl had crawled into it,
1t is believed, and shut the lid, which
locked.
She was FIVE years old Thursday
and the mother had come TO the city
TO buy birthday presents. Her father
conducted a restaurant on the lake
shore.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-09-02
THE STATES VALUABLE WATER POWERS
Have They Been Gobbed Up Before The New Law
Becomes Operative To Prevent?
Next Is To Come Holding Company, So Report Says,
That Will Control This Vast Source of Wealth.

Eighteen new power companies
filed their articles OF incorporation
with the secretary of state Friday.
The companies intend to do a gen
of the state. The counties in which
the plants will be located are mostly
all situated in the northeastern part
of the state, and are north of the
Thumb. Plants will be located in
Oakland and Genesee counties in
southern Michigan and Arenac, los
co, Bay, Osceola and Altoona counties
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-09-02
MICHIGAN BREVITIES.

John Hopkins broke the Muskegon
record of a bag punching machine in
the shooting gallery, and broke his
right arm in doing It,
Harold and James Irish, of Inlay
City, IA and IS years old, tried to
sell their fathers $3.50 horse and
buggy in Flint for 800 to buy ice
cream. They're in Jail.
While he was crawling through a
fence the rifle carried by 12-year-old
Gerald Walker, of Marshall, was dis
charged and the bullet tore through
his right arm from the elbow TO the
wrist
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-09-02
The Road To success

has many Instructions. but none so
desperate as poor health. Success to-
day demands health. hut Electric Bit
tiers is the greatest health builder the
world has ever known. Ii compels
perfect action of stomach. liver kid
neys. bowels. purifies and enriches the
blood. and tones and invigorstes the
whole system Vigorous body and
keen brain follow their use. You
cant afford to slight Electric Bitters
if weak. rundown or sickly. Only soc
ents Guaranteed by &. + Brown MI
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-09-02
commission the same as the compa-

commission the same AS the compa-
MES already doing business.
The law was prepared by Represen-
tative d. u. Curtiss, Of Detroit and
submitted to many prominent consti-
tutional attorneys who gave the opin-
ion that it was a sound law. The bill
was passed by the legislature after
an exhaustive investigation by joint
committees of the house and senate.
1t will be attacked on several
points, particularly that il is uncon-
stitutional throughout and technically
because it is said that the title is
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-09-02

J. A. Carr and Son, Lansing, Mich.
writes: I'VE have useG i.~.-,.- :.
Condition Powders on our livery horses
for about three years and have always
found them superior to all others. We
have found that livery horses are sub
ject to great abuse and Harvell's
Condition Powders always bring back
the appetite and puts them on their pins
Sold by @. +. Brown. druggist.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-09-02
A DOZEN
FREE ACTS

in front of the grand
stand on a platform
and in double circus
rings every after
noon q n d evening
com mencina Sep
TENDER 4th. Biggest
and best ever seen in
Michigan.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-09-02

Come and see the motor
cycle and automobile races
September 2nd, 3rd. 9th
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-09-02
LIVE STOCK
Every section In the
Wolverine state Will
b q represented n
this exhibit. II will
be the finest display
since the fair was
organized.
HORTICUL-
TIRE Fruits and
hONb kind T ed
products will be dis
played in great pro-
fusion. The Fair
will show how boun-
tiful nature has been
20 Michigan during
the present season.
BIG HORSE
SHOW sim similar ...,. to

Chicago horse show
every n ht COM
mencing September
4th in front of the
grand stand. A new
and beautiful feat
ure.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-09-02
Sacred Concert Sunday

Navassar Ladies' and Kopps Cincinnati Bands will
give Sacred Concert in the State Fair Grand Stand
Sunday, September 5th afternoon and evening.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25
FORTUNE FROM TWO WATCHES
Lucky Deal He Didn't Want to Make
Brought Wealth to Jeweler OF
Seattle.

Two watches, one worth 800 and the
other $50, traded n little unwillingly
for two tracts of land near Seattle,
one ten and the other five acres, about
thirty-eight years ago, has piled up a
fortune for John b. Miller, who for.
merly had a jewelry store in Portland,
a Seattle dispatch says.
Mr.. Miller had a watch store on the
West side when Seattle had a popula.
ton of about 1000. A friend came in
and wanted to trade ten acres near
Seattle for a watch. Miller was not
anxious to trade, but finally consented
and secured a deed to the land, for
which he gave a 800 watch. Shortly
afterward the man came into the store
again and said his wife wanted a
watch and offered to trade a five-acre
tract adjoining the first ten. Miller
finally consented and got a deed to
the property.
The land was then some distance
out from Seattle and was really of lit
tie value, but Miller chung to it.
About twelve years ago he was offered
$4,000, but he refused to sell, although
his friends urged him to do so. He
went over to Seattle several years ago
and has sold from the f%ive-acre tract
$4,000 worth of lots and out Of the
ten acres $4,000 worth. He still
nolds II lots.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25
What a Man May Do.

know of one conspicuous example
Of what may be done by men of in.
herited fortune. A young man Of
ample means who did not wish to en-
gage in any business pursuit thor.
oughly educated himself here and
abroad at the universities. He then
made himself master of a technical
pursuit by the study of forestry
abroad. After a year or two of pro.
fessional work he r%elinquished it to
accept a responsible position In the
government, where he is now render
ing great and highly appreciated serv.
i've in working out the best policy for
conserving our forests and other nat.
ural resources.-From A. Barton Hep
burns 1.-The American Business Man."
in the Century.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25

10 TeuldTh Oh lue yelloW AGA oNoS
to the leeward side of her chair when he pent
toward her in debating a letter.
He made the rounds of the Office employees,
asking whether they smelt egg, but all being
too polite to tell him he had overlooked an i'm
portant point, declared they snlelt no egg. the
odor stayed with him.
In desperation he fled to his private Office, NUT
tering as he slammed the door: my heavens,
the whole world smells, and no one knows it but
me-"
But that is only a minor point in the adoption
of a new national food by Uncle Sam. With
each year the production of the hens of the coun-
try is becoming smaller in proportion to the de-
mand for eggs. AS a consequence the experts
declare that each succeeding year will see the
price soar beyond expectations. The last months
of winter and the first of early spring are the
hardest for the egg eaters, for then the cost
scars, there are less of the precious morsels and
those which appear are often followers from the
year previous, but even those bring prices rang
ing from 80 to 40 cents a dozen.
The time is member by many when the
best eggs brought IL cents a dozen in retail
stores, and the wholesale price was below that.
So steep has the conventional cost become that
thousands of farmers are yearly devoting their
land to the raising of fowls.
The industry has already become a mighty
factor in national life and within two decades If
the country continues to eat eggs at the present
rate Of increase, the business of growing eggs
may outweigh that of cattle and grain.
In the large cities. Chicago, for instance, the
high price of meat compelled the poorer classes
to adopt the egg as a means of obtaining nourish-
ment. The increased demand of course boosted
the price, but still the middle and upper classes
cling to the fowl product, foul or fair.
In the great marts of trade the egg industry is
perhaps the most interesting of all. One great
cold storage warehouse in Chicago during the
last egg famine, unloaded on the market close
to 5000, 900. and every one was sold to the local
retail merchants. The eggs were said to have
been in cold storage for nine months, pending an
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25

increase in price sufficient to yield the spectators a
profit. They estimated the proceeds
after all expenses had been met, at four cents on the
900 on the lot.
Other great egg corners have been manipulated and
the profits doubtless have been even greater, but
hey seldom come to the public ear because of the
,hekels which are raked in from the enterprise.
In the egg corner mentioned above, scores of men
worked day and night for two days getting the prod
let out of cold storage to place them on the market
while the price held up.
The workmen were where they could be called at
once, and the minute the word came over the tele-
phone to get the great crates out of the cold storage
the toilers were set to work. Two days
later every egg had been sold, the money collect.
ed and more than half of them eaten by the con.
sumner.
1t was a great coup and only one of the many.
Other enterprises of like nature where the pro-
ceeds have ranged into large figures, have been
told, but the details seldom became public prop
erty. This, by reason of the fact that the egg
corner" is to-day a rather undeveloped science.
But the monarchs of other branches of the pro-
ducing world have come to look upon move
ments of that sort as one Of the money makers of
the days to come.
Early this month when eggs leases returned),
were bringing only 10 cents a dozen, wholesale,
the lover of them felt fairly jubilant and barn
yard prognosticators predict that this jubilant
feeling shall prevail for the rest of the summer.
Extra quality eggs were then selling at 23 cents
a dozen, while ordinary "frsts" brought 10 cents
and "irsts' one cent more a dozen, prime frsts"
selling at Fl cents.
So, with the sway of the strawberry the price of
eggs dropped off, and before August, it is said, the
cost may go lower.
With the private producers, who sell only lin.
tied quantities of eggs, 40 cents a dozen Is not an
unheard of figure for what are known as "eggs
laid fresh today" OF course, the right to that IT,
tie must be undisputed, and often when eggs are
sold, backed by a reputation for freshness, high.
er prices are paid for them by the epicures.
However. frauds in eggs are as frequent as
swindles in other industries, and f~astidious per
sons, who hate cold storage eggs worse than they
do paying fancy prices, are often taken in by the
farmer" who rides into the city on the interurban,
buys UP a large cargo of eggs in the open market,
rents a wagon, the muddier the better, and pro.
ceeds to distribute cold storage eggs for the prod
uct he claims is laid fresh to-day"
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25

fruit from the market at the city by the lake had
to go eggless Easter.
Jim Patterns wheat corner will be a mere baga-
telle alongside of the movement of the man who
can corner eggs. Small egg corners are frequent,
however. Cold storage men often lay aside sew
eral millions in a semi-frozen state and hold them
for nine months or so, dumping them on the mar
ket when the price is in the clouds.
But the cold storage egg is inferior because
the fresh egg advocate argues the chicklet has
a chance to grow a little before the yellow inside
freezes, thus storing up nasal evidence against
the purity of the product.
For the housewife in the big city there is an
everyday opportunity to effect a coup, for when
she can find a producer who sells eggs laid fresh
to-day" she considers herself a model of wifely
devotion. But as there Is no smell on the outside
OF the shell, there are often lots of angry glances
from the male partner in the household. which
are born of the unborn chick.
The length of time that an egg will keep fresh
is governed by the care which is taken in its
preservation. They are packed in ice as a rule,
and II packed soon enough after being laid, the
chicken life is properly killed and thus the an.
cry eye-to-eye message is eliminated.
Suitable to the occasion is the aged tale of the
man with the flowing mustache and the time
marked egg. He had it for breakfast-the egg
and being a city man rode down to his place of
business in conventional manner, taking no no
tice of the fact that while the seat beside him
remained vacant there were half a dozen COM
muters standing nearby.
AS he alighted at his destination a sniff likened
NO the odor of an egg of evil intentions pierced
his nasal sense. During the walk to his office
Ihe noticed that the smell was everywhere. 1t
was in the street. in the rotunda of the Office
building, in the elevator, in the hall ON the nine
teenth floor, and he was startled beyond meas
ure to find that On entering his office he smelled
egg there, too.
Stepping to the desk of the head bookkeeper.
he asked him II he smelt an unhealthy odor.
Why no." replied the knight Of the day led
ger casting a glance at the yellow streak clear
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25
German Prince Now Merchant.

Prince Henry XXXII. Of Reuss has
Just passed his examination at the
Commercial academy at Cologne
whereby he secures a diploma as q
qualified merchant. The prince, who
has been studying at the Cologne com
mercial college for two years, is the
first prince in Germany who has
trained himself for a commercial
career. He will follow up his success
full examination by entering the Office
of a great Hamburg merchant as q
voluntary unpaid clerk, and in this
capacity he will serve his apprentice
ship. His choice Of a business calling
is regarded as a remarkable sign o.
the times.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25
Helnina the Halt.

A certain informed bachelor, one of those the
Gateway succeeded in getting on the list during
leap year, tells Of one of the boys who after at
tending a farewell bachelor supper meandered
home in a muddled state late one Saturday night,
or rather Sunday morning, and, getting as far as
the entrance of his rooming house, he sat down on
the stone steps, his hat fell off on his knees and
with head bowed down he slumbered peacefully,
He awoke about nine o'clock and found "a cents in
his hat. Charitably inclined early churchgoers had
mistaken him for a beggar and dropped their PEN
MES into his upturned hat--Bremen (Ga.) Gateway
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25

Starch, like everything else, is be-
ing constantly improved, the patent
Starches put on the market 25 years
ago are very different and inferior to
those of the present day. In the lat
est Observation-Disclosures Starch-all
injurious chemicals are omitted, while
the addition of another ingredient, in
vented by us, gives to the Starch a
strength and smoothness never ap-
preached by other brands.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25
His dishonest Hair.

They sat at a little table on the
balcony at the Ninth ward summer
garden, looking over the railing at q
mar at a table below.
"That man." he vas telling her, "is
a scoundrel. He hasn't an honest
hair in his head"
From here" she commented, III
looks as if he hadn't any hair tc
speak Of. It's a pity that what he
has can't be just a little bit honest
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25
When Some People Use Il.

A little boy was asked by his teach.
err to define the fluid known to chem.
lists as H2O. Almost without hesita.
ton, the bright little chap answered.:
Water is a colorless liquid which be.
comes dark when you wash your
hands in it."-Lippincott's.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25
A Resourcefuj Mind.

What would happen II a comet
should manage to hit this whirling
sphere of ours?" asked the magma.
tive man.
81 don't know" answered MI. Fan
son, but I'd be in favor Of offering It
an engagement on our home team"
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25
Necessity for PIainness.

Hes very plain in his speech. He
GALES a spade a spade" well. he
would hardly get one in a hardware
store if he called 1t a pianola. would
her"
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25
Courtesy.

Don't keep me out in this night
air." walled the fair hold-up victim.
"I'll catch my death of cold" Where
upon the ~gentlemanly robber covered
her with his gun.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25
CHICAGO uI-Cnttle-

CHICAGO. HI.-Cattle-Beeves T.2t
@7.25; stockers and feeders. 5000
$50; cows and heIfers. 2.50@6. 80; calves
5.75@7.55. Hogs-Light. Z, 30@7.9 80; mixed,
$50; porkers. 7.55@7.S5; pigs. 6.25@715.
Sheep-Native, 3.75@6.00: western, 1850
$50: lamb. 5.O0@S.25; western lambs, 5,75
@82 &c.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25
THE
LIVE STOCK.

Cattle-Beef steers. 4.5O67i5: caws
and heifers, 3.40@6.0O stockeis and
COWS and heifers. 3.4O@6.9O; stockers and
feeders. 3.75@4.S5; calves. in CARROTS $50
$500. Hogs-Mixed and butchers, 1900
sos; good heavy, 7.90@S.10; rough. 1900
40; light, 7,50@7.S0. Sheep-Mutton, 400
@5.50 lambs. 6.25@8.75.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25

KANSAS CITY. Mo.-Cattle-Native
steers, 5.O0@7.oO; southern steers.
4.00@6.25; COWS and heifers, 2.75@6.00;
stockers and feeders, 4.60@5.50; bulls,
3.00@3.50; calves, 3.50@7.00. Hogs
Heavy. 7,65@7.SO; packers and butchers,
7.50@7.75; light, 7.15@7.65; pigs. 6.OO1
700.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25

Lewis Single Binder, the famous
straight &c ~cigar-annual sale 1900, 900.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25
Or, They Should,

Shakespeare: Welcome ever smiles.
and farewell goes out signing.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25
NJ.

ST. LOUIS, MO.-wheat-No. 2,
red. 1.45m1.52; No. 8, lao: No. 4. 1850
100; No. 2 hard, 1.30@l.35; No. 8. 1.52@
1.5S; No. 4. 1,O5@1.20. Corn-No. q. 73;
@76; No. 3, rs, No. 2 yellow, 73X; No. 3
70. Cats-No. 2. SAY; No. 3, 52h @53%;
No. 4. 50; No. 2 white, 57h; No. 8.
h5h @56h; No. 4, 53h m55.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25

Your country manufactured $4,000
pianos.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25

900 a year.
Every man, woman and child in the country con
sumes a little over an egg and a half each day. II
you, personally dislike eggs for food there is some one
else in some part of America who puts three away as
a foundation for his or her breakfast coffee.
Easter week, the biggest egg occasion the year
round, sees the consumption of about two billion eggs
violet, pink, crimson, purple, yellow and some green.
That the egg will dsplace all others as the national
food tidbit is the prognostication of those who earn
their livings by raising chickens. Chicago, alone, with
less than two million population. Easter week last, put
away 10000, 900 eggs. So greedy was the Windy city
about this article of diet that lots of other portions of
the United States which secure thu allotment of hen
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25
NERVE.

Excuse me, can l speak to your
typewriter a moment?"
"You cannot; she's engaged"
That's all right; I'm the fellow
she's engaged to-"
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-whest--No.
l.20@1,84; No. 2 hard, 1.sf01s6; No. &.
1.27@1.85i No. 4. 1.1S@1.3l. Corn-No. 4.
s9h No. 3. 69h; No. Q yellow. 69% @7o:
No. 3. 69K; No. 2 white,71M: No. o., 71Js.
white, tS@6t; NO. 8, 81 O67.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25

CHICAGO. HL-wheat--No. red
1,5o@l 6oS No. 3, 1.40ml.5O:o No, 2 hard
1.20@L25. Corn-No. .. TAX @74%; No
74h @74A; No, 4. 1874; No. 9 white
76&i No. 2 yellow. 75@75h; No. 3, 74&M
7b5; Oats-No. 3. 55; No. 3. 56h; No. 4
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-06-25
fMzT1N@E@@Sb by the I'M
BNLTLTWN NMAAn0Na0o0o~ ISL

UNCLE SAM is the heaviest egg eat
err in the world. In fact, so fond Is
the old u. S. A. of the hen product
that another century may see the
deposition of the b%ald-headed eagle
and the browning of another feath-
cred monarch.
These United States eat 1~54,000,0O
eggs each day, 0S0 900 900 a week
1890, 900, 900 a month-56, 100000
Evening star., 1909-06-18
THIS GRAFT HONEST.
Surgeons Use Lambs Leg to Repair
a Human Limb.

CHICAGO, June 1s.-A rare surgical
operation, the outcome of which will be
watched with interest by the medical
professors, was performed at Frances
Willard Hospital yesterday. when Sec
ton Of bone from the leg Of a lamb
was grated into the right leg of Docear
Townsend to replace a section OF shat
tered tiba.
Townsend is an elevator operator and
was taken to the hospital several days
ago after an accident in which he suf-
fered compound fracture of his right
leg. Amputation was at first decided
on. Later DIR. CasSisus G.. Rogers was
called in consultation. and it was decided
TO try to graft bone from the leg of
a healthy lamb.
Surgeons of Chicago asserted today
that this was the first time this opera
ton ever was attempted in America, and
that il never had been attempted more
than four or five times before.
Evening star., 1909-06-18
MAGNATE's MONEY BARRED.
Nebraska University Will Not Make
Request of Rockefeller.

OMAHA, June 1S.-None of John D.
Rockefeller's money will be used for i'm
provements on the athletic field of the
University of Nebraska. That is the de-
cision of Gov. Shallenberger and hCancel-
lor Avery. Although the hand of Bryan
has not been shown, it is the opinion that
his influence has been felt. as he defeated
the plan proposed two years ago, when
the oil king offered to give money to
pay for the erection of a building on the
campus, the only condition being that 1t
should be known as Rockefeller Hall.
For some time the athletic board of the
university and the students have been cir
culating a, petition to be presented to
Rockefeller by Judge T. c. Munger. a
personal friend, asking that the donation
be made. Yesterday the petition was pre-
sented to the governor and the chancellor
for their signatures, they being informed
that if they signed $4,000 was assured,
but both refused to affiX their name say
ing that the positions they occupy would
not permit of them going on record as
asking for the gift Their refusal has
caused the matter to be dropped
Evening star., 1909-06-18
CHAPTER XIV.
Caleb Conover Takes an Afternoon
Off

The Fighter made life a burden next
day for the office staff of the c., G. &
y. An electric aura OF uneasiness per-
vaded the big station-the indefinable
wordless something that gives warning
to the most remote denizenS OF every Of
flee when the boss is out of temper.
Yet Caleb. as it happened. was not
out of temper He was merely unhappy.
The effect to casual observers was the
same as on the not very rare days of
his RACES. But, instead of storming up
and down his office on the latter oc-
casions. Caleb merely Sulked i'm his desk
chair chewed countless cigars and
reused himself every few minutes to
make toll horror for such luckless
subordiinates as just then chanced to
impress their existence on his mind
Hence the presidents private office