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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-11-03
ARACADA GRANGE.

Arcadia Grange, No. 500, met in reg
ular session Saturday evening, Octo-
Der o. w. M. presiding. All officers
at stations except lecturer. Under
head of comforting degree two can
didates were given third and fourth
degree. Meeting turned over to lee
turer, whose place was taken by Sister
Edna Kuhlman.
Opening song, from Pentecostal
hymn, Leaning on the Everlasting
Arm"
Roll call.
Recitation-Lall Smith.
Recitation-Vivian Kuhlman.
Penny March.
Grange closed in form, after which
an adjournment to the dining hall was
had, swhere a bountiful supper of
chicken pie and other good things was
partaken of. Next meeting Saturday
evening, Nov. II. Visitors always
welcome.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-11-03
CHANGE OF LOCATION.

w. O. Avery, who for some time
past has conducted tonsorial parlors
in the Holiday building, has moved
his effects into the Ingersoll building
recently occupied by McPhaul Bros.
Mr.. Avery has three-chair shop and
has in his employ NJ. c. Guthrie and
Arthur Goodel, both experienced bar
bers. When in need of work in his
line Mr.. Avery will be pleased to have
you call. He will give you the best
OF service and courteous treatment.
Remember the new location in Inger-
soil block.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-11-03
SCHOOL REPORT.

Ely school, district No. 5, Arcadia,
for the month ending October %.
Number OF pupils enrolled, Is; num-
Der days taught, 20 average daily at
tendance, l67 Those neither absent
nor tardy are: Alton Cline, Mary
Robertson, Mabel Bradford, Edna,
Mary and Chrisse Hanford. Those
tardy but not absent are: Hugh Tay-
lor, Ernest Guthrie and Howard Guth-
rie. Those absent not more than one
day are: Clarence Stanton, Murl
Taylor and Wayne Elsea.
Parents and friends are invited to
visit us.
Jennie p. Crozier, Teacher
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-11-03
FINAL GAME SATURDAY.

The final and by far most important
game of the football season of the
Alma College team will take place
Saturday on Davis field, when the
local college meets the eleven repre-
senting Olivet College. There is a
very great rivalry between these two
institutions and the game Saturday is
exciting much interest. Olivet, last
years intercollegiate champions, claim
the championship this year. but the
local men think they are over-con-
fident in their assertions. The combat
Saturday will be without doubt fine
exhibition of football,
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-11-03
HALLONE' EN- PARTIES
Many Surprise Parties and Other En-.
iOyable Events Monday
FOR BIC FOLKS AND SMALL
October Day of Fun and FrOliC Is Made the
Most of by All.

The big and little citizens of Alma
the young people and people who feel
young, all were out for merry time
last Monday in observance of Hollow
cen. There were a number of sur
prise and other curious parties all over
the town. 1t was a case of forgetting
cares and troubles and devoting one
self to absolute, reckless foolishness
for the sheer fun of the thing.
About a dozen ladies of the town
gathered stealthily and donned sheets
and pillow cases. Then they pro-
ceeded carefully to the home of Mrs.
]. f. Suydam. There they rang the
door bell and kept quiet, Mrs. Suydam
thinking that it was some boys
OF the neighborhood trying to bother
her She stole softly up to the electric
button and snapped on the porch light
There, to her great surprise, instead of
a bunch of boys was company of
ghosts. 1t was an absolute surprise to
the lady, who was finally prevailed
upon to admit the company. After
unmasking, the evening was enjoyed
in card games. A three-course lunch
was served Each lady had brought
her portion of a pot luck dinner and
when it was all put together a delicious
lunch was the result
Another event of somewhat the
same nature was the surprise party on
the ten boys in Mrs. Ezra Smiths
Sunday school class. All the boys, in
cluding Don Smith, the young son of
the hostess, gathered at the home of
Miss Maude Herford, their manual
training teacher. There they were all
tightly blindfolded with checkered
bands and tied securely to a rope.
They were led through byways and
highways, avenues and alleys, until
finally they were met at a certain cor
ner by ghost. The ghost command
ed them to take certain course.
Upon doing so the young fellows soon
found themselves in warm room.
None was more surprised. upon hav-
ing the blindfolds removed, than Don
Smith himself, to find himself in his
own home, suddenly transformed from
a home to a banquet hall, decorated
for the occasion.
Printed cards were given each of the
boys The directions on them told
each boy his partner and gave list of
stunts that were to be performed.
Each pair went through several
amusing acts for the entertainment of
their fellow guests and hostesses.
The entire evening was in the nature
of field day. Perhaps one of the
most amusing events was the one
yard dash Two boys on their hands
and knees had to push a penny across
a carpet for yard. The winner, it is
safe to say, earned his victory A
galaxy of the usual Halloween jokes
were perpetrated upon the young
guests. A luncheon was served for
the boys, which they thoroughly en-
joyed Mrs Smith was assisted in en-
tertaining the boys by Miss Maud
Herford and Miss Inez Monroe
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-11-03
DROPPED IO DEATH
|. D. LamSOn Wanted TO Escape
From Asylum
HIS SHEET ROPE PARTED
Evidence Showed Death to Have Probably Been
InStantans GUS

The Traverse City Herald of Octo-
Der 20 had the following item relative
to the death of J. G. Lamson, former
resident OF this city and county:
"This morning at $40 o'clock Night
Watchman Parks of the Northern
Michigan asylum found the dead body
of one of the inmates of the institu-
tion on the ground on the north side
of the main building. Mr. Parks i'm
mediately summoned +. A. Easterday
and Superintendent ]. d. Munson, who
Immediately recognized the dead man
as J. G.. Lamson, one of the inmates
of the asylum
"Lamson had been in the institution
four years and had never caused the
asylum authorities any trouble, al
though being of mischievous dispo-
sition among the other patients, max
ing him at times rather unpopular
with them. According to the testi-
mony received this morning by the
coroner's jury, from the night nurse,
Lamson, whose room was on the third
floor in hall ward No. l3, went to bed
early, as usual, and made no noise.
Horace Butler, the night nurse in this
ward, said that he went to Lamson's
room several times during the night
and heard no sound whatever
"Nightwatchman Parks, who guards
the building and passes this room
kind, but at $40 he found the body
with a portion of sheet grippcd
tightly in his hands. Upon looking
up he saw another section of sheet in
the window. torn so that it was easily
seen that the man was attempting to
escape when the sheet rope broke,
letting him fall about 80 feet to the
ground, instantly killing him.
Upon further investigation OF the
clothing OF the man it was found that
he had broken a pair of shears and
used the one blade to make screw
driver with which he removed the
screws of the steel gratings on the
outside of the window sash. He had
evidently planned Systematically, as it
was found that the holes where the
screws were fastened were filled with
soap. so as to cover his work during
the inspection of the day
-Four sheets were tied together and
the man, who weighs between 180 and
200 pounds, let himself down to the
sill of the second story window below
his own, and when letting his weight
fall upon the sheet rope, it broke, and
let him fall to the ground, 80 feet
below
'Justus G. Lamson was brought four
years ago to the local institution from
Gratiot county, where he had lived for
about eight years. He was brought
here April IL, 1906, and has always
been very patient He seemed to en-
JOY his life in the asylum, playing
checkers and many other games and
not being at all violent. 1t is a mys-
terry why he should attempt to escape,
and the authorities think that he was
doing it simply for fun, the joke re-
sulting fatally.
The coroner's jury consisted OF
w. E. Salisbury, Levi Soule, Jud Cam
eron, Fred Roberts, John Moran, and
Malcolm Winnie. DIR. +. b. Minor
was Immediately summoned as soon as
the body was found, and the jury
verdict was that death was accidental
while attempting to escape conhne-
ment."
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-11-03

Harry Craig, of the Mt Pleasant
schools, was an Alma visitor Sunday.
The ladies of the Baptist church
held a baked goods sale last Saturday.
Miss Lois Fraker, teacher in the
Grand Ledge schools, spent Saturday
and Sunday with her parents and
friends in Alma.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-11-03

The Office of coroner is to be held by
another Republican. Will X. Ludwig,
who will undoubtedly poll vote even
surprising his party strength.
County Clerk r. E. Hughes and
Register of Deeds Long were in the
city Tuesday.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-11-03

Another office for which the Re-
pubicans in the primaries designated
an experienced man as their candi-
date is that of state treasurer, and
the man is Albert E. Sleeper OF Lex
ington, Lapeer county. Mr.. Sleeper
has been connected with various sue
cessful mercantile and banking enter
prises i'll the Thumb, in which his
home is situated A catalog of the
institutions with which he is president
shows that he is at the head of the
First National bank of Yale, State
Savings bank of Bad Axe, Commercial
State bank of Marlette and Citizens
bank of Ubly He is also interested in
several other prosperous business CON
Germs. Besides these private enter
prises he has been the choice of the
people of his home town for trustee
and president of their town board
several times as well as president of
their library board. He, like Mr.
Martindale, has served very ac-
ceptably one term in the office in
which the Republicans are endeavor-
ing to place him To handle the
financial affairs of the state no better
qualified man could be found than Mr..
Sleeper with his experience both in
the office of state treasurer and as the
president of four banks.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-11-03

|. N. PerrigO Of Forest Hill Takes
Agency Of Popular Machine

L. NJ. Perrigo of Forest Hill has
secured the agency of this territory
for the +. NJ. F. automobile and has
within the past week sold and deliv-
cred two of these popular machines.
Mr.. Perrigo is hustler and during
the coming season will undoubtedly
place many of the Z. M. F.'s in this
territory. ces
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-11-03

senate and was the Republican con-
vention's unanimous choice for the
office of secretary of state in 1908 and
was that same year elected for that
office. He has served in that capacity
in such way that even his political
opponents are failing to find a flaw
in his conduct.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-11-03

Mr.. Kuhn, the Republican nominee
for attorney general, received the
nomination of the Republican con-
vention under peculiarly gratifying
circumstances. Mr. Kuhn had been
appointed few months before the
meeting of the convention to the posi-
tion of attorney general to fill a
vacancy. Here in these few months
he showed SO clearly that he was the
man fitted for the place that the Re
publicans nominated him on the first
ballot for the chief legal officer of
the state. He will without doubt poll
a large majority in the coming cleo
ton.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-11-03

O. B. Fuller, the Republican candi-
date for auditor general, is an upper
peninsula man. Certainly if any man
from the northwestern part OF the
state deserves recognition, that man is
Mr.. Fuller. Mr. Fuller received the
greater part of his education in
Lansing and Muskegon. Upon leav-
ing school he went into the lumber
business. At present he is connected
i'll a high official capacity with the
State Savings bank of Escanaba and
the Escanaba Street Railway COM
pany, being president of the former
and vice president of the latter. He
is strong lodge Nan, being a Mason,
a member of the Knights of Pythias
and an Elk That he has the conf
dence of the people is shown con-
clusively by the fact that he has
represented the thirteenth district, I
which includes most of the upper pen,
insula, as representative in the state
house He has held one term as state
auditor which entities him to more
than ordinary consideration When
nothing can be said in criticism OF a
man who has been in Office for two
years, it surely seems evident that his
work must have been satisfactory.
Such a man is O. B. Fuller.
Huntley Russell of Grand Rapids
will receive the unanimous support of
his section of the state because there
they know him and know his value to
the state in the land office Mr.. Rus
sell will, when elected. be serving his
second term, as he was chosen by a
large majority for the position to
which he now aspires in the fall of
1908. He is connected with the Com
mercial Savings bank of Grand Rapids
and is also director of the West
State fair. He has repre-
sented his district in the state house
of representatives several terms. Be-
sides his business acumen Mr. Russell |
has a thorough engineering knowl- !
edge, being at one time an engineer |
in the employ of the n. Y. & n. f. |
railroad. Thus in every way he is
most excellently qualified for the posi-
ton which he seeks.
For congressman from the Eleventh |
district. the Republicans have nomi-
mated +. II. Dodds of Mt. Pleasant
MIR. Dodds was born in St Lawrence
n. Y. in 1858 and came to
Michigan in 1906, settling in Isabella
Here he received his early
He was graduated from
department of the University of Michi-
gan. During the years l8S0-8l he was
he president OF the law alumni of that
school. From 1894 to 1903 he taught
school, but since that time he has been
practicing law. That his
record in Washington during the past
wo years has met with the approval of
he Republicans of the Eleventh dis
rict was shown by the fact that he
was unopposed at the recent pri-
naries.
Tho nfttre Of rnrnnar ,c he hall r.,
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-10
High Cost of Living.

Time and again, long before the
press of the country began to become
alarmed at the high prices of neces-
stiles, the Record discussed this
question and sounded warning note
of what would follow the Tariff
measure enacted during the last sea-
son of Congress.
Those who burden themselves with
reading the editorials of the Record
will remember how it urged it's read
ers everywhere to write their Con-
gressmen and ask them to fight to
the last ditch this unjust Tariff Re-
vision. If the press of the country
and each individual citizen had
taken half the interest in preventing
the passage of the bill they now
take in condemning it, it is very
doubtful if it would have have
passed. Some of the economists
claim that the increased cost of liv-
ing is caused by the scarcity of food
products. Others contend that it is
caused from Trust monopoly. The
Record is inclined to believe that
there is a mixture of both. There
isn't any doubt but what too many
people have abandoned the farm.
Yet there is plenty of foodstuff pro-
duced to feed the world at reason
able prices were if not controlled by
the Trusts. Were it not for the rob-
Der Tariff the Trusts could not thrive
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-10
PAGE FIFTEEN
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simple reason that no part of it once
given away can ever be recovered
or replaced. A recent public Access
sion to the side of sanity and justice
in this matter is Speaker Cannon,
who announces that he will oppose
any such project.
The Utica IN. Y.) Press copies
from Western paper an article de-
scribing one of these irrigation
schemes, which it seems will cost
$12,OOO,OOO and benefit four Nevada
towns (think of that!), and peril
nently, though very mildly, asks:
rs it right to make the Eastern
farmer help pay the cost of changing
a Western desert into cultivated
farms?" The question answers it.
self.-COuntry Gentleman
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-10

as they do. Were it not for the dis
loyalty of our national lawmakers
such infamous legislation as the AL
drich-Payne tariff law would not ex-
ist. And further, had it not been for
the Democratic Deserters who voted
for the continued Reign of Cannon
ism Aldrich could never have passed
his unjust measure. If you do not
believe this read what Cannon him
self has to say of it. But listen
voters. Your time will soon come
to retire these disloyal and treacher-
Gus Congressman to private life
Will you do it? In every organized
army in the world deserter is shot
without mercy. The ballot is your
weapon. Will you use it to shoot
the Congressman who has deserted
you?-Royston (Ga.) Record.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-10
The Last Straw.

Everything indicates that the
thinking people of the country are
reused at last to some slight appre-
citation of the unspeakable folly and
wrong of the whole Roosevelt irri-
cation scheme; and we venture now
to predict that President Taft will
have mighty hard job to coax Con-
gress into approving his monstrous
proposal of an immense issue of
bonds to help the Government give
away, faster and faster, our public
domain, the one national resource
that should be far more carefully
conserved than any other, for the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-10
ParceIS.POst.

There are indications that sooner
or later Congress will take up the
subject of parcels-post. Representa-
tive Murdoch is seeking data rela-
tive to the package mail business
and wants to know why the Post
Office Department does not maintain
it's right to carry this class of matter.
He calls attention to the Postmaster
Generals report, showing a deficit
of seventeen million dollars last year
while the Wells-Fargo Express Com
pany declared dividends amounting
to twenty-five millions of dollars on
a capitalization of eight millions
The Murdoch resolution calls atten-
ton to the fact that the Department
has for many years surrendered it's
right to transport the packet mail
matter and emphasizes the point that
this lack of thrift in the Postoffice
Department is enriching the express
companies.-Bethel (Ohio) Journal.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-10
Agents Make$5aD av

selling our lovely Floral W all NJ ottoes:
beautiful enamel finish designed in
rich colors with Roses, Psnsies, Pop
pies, Fruit, etc. rs designs and texts.
Size l2Xl6 in. Something entirely
new. Sells on sight. Every home
lover will buy. Worth a 6. sells for
25 cts One agent sold 1900 in 10 days.
900 per cent profit. Particulars free.
81 l6l Randolph St. Chicago. III.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-10
Rockefeller and the Hook Worm.

0--~~ ~AAO AAOO~A
In the bright sunny South where
the weeviI abides, the hook worm is
gnawing the peoples insides, the
cane and the cotton plantations are
huge, but the children are crying for
John DIS vermifuge! If the people
grow sick and the children infirm,
they know right away it's the deadly
hook worm. If any ones lazy and
inclined for to shirk, in his system
they know the hook worms are at
work. They get in his blood and race
through his veins and fill his intes-
tines with terrible pains. But great
benefactor has sent him a brew
that'll make the old hook worms get
up and skidoo! Their fangs will be
loosened, their hooks they'll unlock,
and from the South's entrails the
worms will be shook. For he's given
million, and their schemes he will
foil, but we'll pay the freight when
we buy his darned il.-Hillsboro
(Ill.) News.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-10

AS soon as it was known that Mr.
Bryan had become a prohibitionist
the people of Alabama voted against
prohibition. Mr.. Bryan has ceased
to be the peerless leader.-New York
World.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-10
SAY OF OTHER EDITORS
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Bryan's Commoner announces that
Hon. w. j. Bryan will again be a
candidate for the Presidency. This
is no news; we all knew it.-Jasper
(Fla.) News.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-10

If the farmer who buys farm at
a cost Of $4,000 could produce a
crop worth $4,000 the first year he
would be doing well-in fact, there
would be rush Of the city folk to
the country. But, of course, no
farmer does this well. However, it
costs about $500 to construct the
average railway mail car, but our
Government is generous enough to
pay the railroads about double this
price in yearly rentals Stanberry
(Mo.) Owl.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-10

Lon Livingston says the reason of
population to the cities. (2) Over
crowding in cities. CD The all-cot-
ton farming of the South. How does
high tariff strike you as a reason?-
New Era, Talbotton, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-10

and efforts will be made by increas-
ing the price on newspapers and
monthly publications to put it on a
paying basis. But why should it
pay? Is the Navy Department on a
paying basis? Is the Army Depart
ment on paying basis? Is the Ju-
dietary, the Police, the Secret Serv-
ice, the Weather Bureau, the Agri-
cultural, or any other department of
the Government on paying basis?
And if so, what department, except
solely the Revenue Department?
And which of all these departments
is doing the most good for the coun-
try? Few would name any other
than the Postoffice Department.
Ocala (Fla.) Banner.
The candidates are getting very
busy just now and the people should
also get busy Investigating their
standing on public questions. Don't
fail to ask the candidates questions
about the things of a public nature
pertaining to their official duties in
case they are elected. Do not permit
them to side-step, but require them
to answer straight from the Shout
der. If they will not do this, you
can not trust them-Weekly Senti-
mel, Waldron, Ark.
Thirty-one dead, two missing and
forty-six injured is the total toll of
the Spanish River, Canada, railroad
wreck the other day. A bank fail
ure in China means the decapitation
of the officers of the bank. Some
such a law against railroad wrecks
in this country would make them few
and far between. There hasn't been
a bank failure in China for 1000
years.-Custer County Beacon, Brok-
en- Bow, Neb.
Mr.. Taft may as we'll save up as
much as he can this term, or, make
himself solid with "the interests"
for 1912 will see another man elect
ed to his seat. Clifford Pinchot's dis
missal from the position of Chief
Forester has started the big man
down the oboggan.-Better Way,
Minneapolis, Kan.
The National Packing Company
(the Meat Trust), is again on the
operating table, the Investigating
probe having been started at Chicago
Monday. This probe is being insert
or not the present high prices of
meat is due to an unlawful combina-
ton of the National Packing Com
pany in restraint of trade. Just an
ordinary layman can give expert
opinion on that branch of the sub
ject relating to the reason for the re-
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-10

We hear good deal of talk about
this time about there being de-
felt in the Postoffice Department,
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-10

The shouters for a Ship Subsidy
are as bold a gang of pirates as ever
cursed this planet. The shouting for
a Merchant Marine is but pretense
to make a raid on the Treasury of
the United States. Highwaymen or
bandits who contemplate footing the
United States minis, are gentlemen
compared with the grating coterie
who have Matched conspiracy to
break into the vaults of the Govern
ment and build at public expense,
ships that are to be converted to the
personal use of mercenary brigands.
Miners Magazine, Denver, Colo