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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-12-19
Benefit OF UNITED ACTION
Central Organizations Can Do Much
TO upbuIld Any Town or
Community.

There seems to be strong need for
central organizations where delegates
for the various municipalities may
meet and by comparison OF notes de-
term.ne where mistakes have been
made and the proper method Of pro-
cedure, says the Los Angeles Times.
These meetings also stimulate actiy-
ity where Indifference or municipal
lethargy are responsible for lack OF
progress. In many eastern states
great good has been accomplished
through state declarations a
New Jersey was the first state IL
the Union TO enact a model shade-tree
law. By the act of 1893, it provided
for the planting and care OF shade
trees on the highways Of the munich
palities Of the state. While the in
crease in the number of shade-tree
commissions during the last few years
has shown the growth Of interest In
the subject, the actual results accom-
plished by the shade-tree commissions
have not been uniformly successful.
The various tree boards have been
working in an independent way, and
so the maximum results for the good
Of the state have not been secured.
1t had been felt for some time that
there ought TO be some coordination
OF interests among the various tree
commissions I'm order that the ade-
quecy of present laws might be stu
died, the general questions of policy
considered, and help extended to new
Informed shade-tree commissions, and
efforts made to extend the movement
for the planting and preservation OF
shade trees in the state. New Jersey
now has very effective shade-tree
federation.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-12-19
How to Care for Trees.

With trees, as with all other living
things both animate and inanimate, II
is far easier to form than to reform.
las the twlg is bent so the tree In
clines" is all of truth and none of er-
yor. Too little attention is paid to the
training OF street trees. Before the
winter season sets in they should be
deprived of top heaviness so that when
the soil becomes softened by winter
rains the excessive top will not catch
enough wind to blow the trees over.
Over-heavy tops that receive the full
force Of the winds are apt TO be torn
or suffer serious splits, aside from the
danger of blowing over. and all these
evils may be visited upon a single
tree.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-12-19
Drew the Line.

Pat had been at work for three
days digging a well, and as the fore
man wanted it finished within the
week he had promised Pat another
man to help him. 1t was getting on
for eleven o'clock, and Towser, the
foreman's bulldog, was looking over
the edge of the pit, when Pat said to
himself: 'Ill have a smoke"
He had just filled his pipe, and was
about to light it, when he glanced up
and beheld Towser's handsome fea-
lures.
Slowly removing the pipe from his
mouth, he said: "Be-e-egorra, DIVE
worked wild Germans and Hengar-r-
rrians, and DIVE worked wild Oital-
ians and niggers, but If man wild a
face like that comes down here to
work beside me Oh gets up"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-12-19
REV. MASON INSTALLED.

A meeting Of the saginaw Freshly
terry was held Wednesday evening,
December 4th, for the purpose of in
stallng Rev Mason as pastor of the
College church Rev. H. V. Reagan,
of Saginaw, and Moderator of the
Presbytery, was in charge Rev J.
Q. Durfey, of Ithaca, preached the
installation sermon. DR. Jay Clizbe
delivered the charge to the church.
All seem happy-now that there is
a resident pastor and that the stu
dents are so fortunate as to have a
man Of Mr.. Mason's ability to speak
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-12-19
zETA SIGMA ELECTION.

After the general program last
Monday evening, the Zeta Sigma
members proceeded TO the election
of officers for the ensuing term
They placed the following men in
charge:
President-A. c. Edgerton.
Vice-president-Allen Hooper
Secretary-Sidney Cook.
Treasurer-Gordon Snider
First Critic-E. A. Thompson.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-12-19
Second Critic. c. Hyde.
Janitor-Oscar Anderson.

Coach Ic'mer took his Normalites
through Alma Friday on his way over
TO Lax View where he opened his
bas' cason with The high
that place.
en 3aisdell and Mr. Andcr-
.ldcd the banquet in the Pres
hyierian church at Ithaca, Monday
evening. They both aided in the en-
tertainmcnt that followed the feast
Banquet was given by the mems
class.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-12-19
Universal Talent.

Don't you think umpires ought &c
receive higher salaries?"
Perhaps. But they can't expect
them in the face OF so much competi
ton. There are thousands OF people
In the bleachers every day who are
willing to step right over and take
the job"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-12-19
The Wav TO Date.

you say you hope to become en-
gagged to a suffragette?"
well, I'm going to submit the ques-
ton to referendum consisting OF her
two sisters and her parents"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-12-19

to them each week and to offer them
his council
Milford chronicle., 1912-04-05
100000 COAL
MINERS IDLE
Raise il Wages Likely Solution
Of Anthracite Crisis. A
IDLfNESs TO Be SHORT
Modified Demands May Be Found Ae.
cePtable = Compromise In Bitumi
nous Field Averts Strike.

The absolute suspension of all Goa
mining, in both the anthracite AM
bituminous fields, took place on sat
HrdaE and more than 100000 miners
are idle and will remain so until tht
referendum vote of the miners ap
proves the agreement entered into a
Cleveland for the bituminous mines
The anthracite operators will renew
their conference with the men in tnis
city on April 10.
r At an informal conference among
operators in New York possible term.
OF compromise were considered, AMI
the feeling seemed to be that some
thing would be conceded the men, al
though nothing official was done One
operator said after the meeting that in
no case would the union be recog
nized, but that an agreement on the
basis OF a slight increase in pay was
possible.
approximately 100000 mine w6rke s
IN the anthracite field have quit work
until they get further orders from
theirH leaders, as an expected out.
growth of the renewed conference Of
miners and operators in Philadelphia
on April 10.
There has been no attempt, so far,
to segregate the non-union workers
and continue operations with them.
Most of the mining plants are in need
OF repairs and will remain closed for
at least the two-weeks' holiday that
now seems inevitable. Many employees
look for an increase of 10 per cent in
wages.
AL. coal available in the Schuylkilt
region has been marketed at high
prices, instead of at the usual 50-cent
cGt in April, and the operators are
millions richer because of even the |
prospects of a strike. Washeries will
be capable of producing all the steam
sizes Of coal needed for months to |
come, if the mines remain closed
The shutdown of the mines in the
bituminous field promises to be but
brief. The agreement reached be-
tween the miners and operators has
increased the mutual good feeling,
and both sides are doing all that is
possible to hasten an early resumption
of work. While the agreement is yet
to be ratified by the policy committee
of the United Mine Workers, and then
by a referendum vote of the union
members concerned, as little time as
possible will be lost in these formali-
ties, and it is expected that production
will be resumed within few days.
Throughout the bituminous field
general satisfaction is felt over the
TACT that there will be but a short
although neither operators
nor miners are entirely satisfied over
he compromise.
Milford chronicle., 1912-04-05
EMPLOY THEIR OWN MsN
Scranton Companies Won't Import Men
to Guard Mines.

HgiautOu COMPANIES W0u lIuPglN mSN
to Guard Mines
The heads of all of the coal com
panies in Scranton. Pa, have announc-
ed that they would not employ any
but their own workmen. The foremen,
weighmasters, clerks and other en-
ployes not affiliated with the union
will act as guards.
The officials also sent out orders
formally closing down all collieries
The Lackawanna company will oper-
ate some of their washeries, said Su-
perintendent Tob' le coal mining
department, to get coal to operate en-
gines and pumps. The Delaware &
Hudson company announced that they
would do likewise.
The Peoples Coal company, non
union, will continue to operate its sin
gle colliery, according to Superinteld.
ent John Hayes. This colliery was
kept going during the last strike and
was a storm center in this region.
Milford chronicle., 1912-04-05
ADMITS SHE
KILLED II
Many Louisiana Murders Are
Explained.
THE DEATH LIST TOTALS IS
Negro Cult Performed the Rites o.
Human Sacrifice" and Whole Fam.
lilies Were Killed.

! In most amazing confession, Glen
entine Barnabet, a negress, under al
/; rest in Lafaytte, La, cleared the mys
terry that has surrounded the murder
ers of seventeen negroes in western
Louisiana, and has given clues whic
are expected to fix the guilt for eigh
teen others in this state and Texas
which have been charged to the mys
terious axe man."
From her tale, it appears she led {
mysterious negro cult, the members o.
which performed the rites of human
sacrifice" She declared she killed sew
enteen Of the victims with her owi
hands, according to the police.
The police declare Clementine told
I her tale OF wholesale slaughter with
no apparent appreciation that the TAX
ing Of human life was a crime Sac
told her part in the thirty-fve assas.
sinaticns, but declined to reveal the
names Of the members of the mystesi
Gus cult that helped her
The murders have been committed
in the last year. AS one series of kill
ings was added to another in different
towns of West Louisiana and South.
east Texas, the authorities deci e
one mind directed all. The mulatto
confessed she was the directing head
of the cult known as the Church OF
the Sacrifice" which has for its creed
the belief that by life sacrifice alone
may a person gain immortality.
Before engaging in any of the
crimes, Clementine armed herself with
a charm or amulet, which she got from
a preacher, and which she and othel
members of her band were assured
would protect them from the law
While the exact reason for the mur
ders is not explained to the satisfac
tion of the authorities, it is believed
that the weakened brains of Clemen
tine and her companions were affected
by the eXhortations they had heard in
the Church of Sacrifice"
Most of the thirty-fve assassinations
were accomplished in the killing o
families of three or four members a.
one time. In every instance the mur |
der was committed at night. The re
ligious fanatics took possession of a
cottage owned by a person marked 70,
and a bloody orgy followed /
So far as can be determined, no mem
bers of the cult suffered death in any
of the ceremonies of sacrifice.
She declared that she killed the foul
members of the Randell family. who
met death here last November; fom
members of the Andrus family, who
we're killed here a eyar ago last Feb
'uary; five negroes at Rayne and four
negroes at Croatley. The other vic
inns at Lake Charles and in Texas
who wer killed since her arrest, were +
ilain in exactly the same manner, and
he authorities thing that they were
rictims of the unnamed members o
he band of fanatics that aided he
n part of her bloody work.
A peculiar feature of the case is
hat Raymond Barnett, her father, was
onvicted of the murder of the An
rus family, she being the chief wit
ess against him. Raymond was sen
enced to be hanged, but has been
ranted new trial. She now declares
nat her father is entirely innocent OF
he crime
Milford chronicle., 1912-04-05
Two Negroes Lynehed.

Two negroes were lynched in
Blacksburg, s. c., after an unusual al
tack by them on white man.
The negroes-Joe Brinson ana Frank
Whiscoant-are alleged to have forced
the white man to drink whisky and
then, when he was intoxicated, to have
beaten him.
He reported the affair after he re
viyed. The negroes We're arrested
Several men broke into the city Jail
took the prisoners out and hanged
them.
Milford chronicle., 1912-04-05
carneaIe sues For 5000. .ooo.

Andrew Carnegie filed suit in the
supreme court in New York to recover
s2,00O,0OO he had loaned to the Carne
gle Trust company on Dec. 2S. 1909.
Mr.. Carnegie charges that he loaned
the trust company 1000 bonds of thu
United States Steel corporation, wortl
$1,000 each, with interest-bearing con
pons. The Carnegie Trust compan.
suspended early in 1911.
Milford chronicle., 1912-04-05
QUIET AT WILKES-BARRE
Miners Urged to Remain Away From
Collieries and Behave Themselves.


Collieries and Behave Themselves. !
All the mines about Wilkes-B Barre
Pa. are idle The union men held
mass meetings and the leaders warn
ed the men not to 90 near the mines
and to avoid disOrderly conduct.
Large numbers of special men hirec
by coal companies from professional
strike breakers reached the region
and most of them were 4pietly taken
to some of the minestJJ Hotels and
boarding houses in Coulning towns
have refused to acc6gar. alate most Of
these men, and sQation gi{ companies
employing them syrup, mae and feed
them behind thelas no supei at the col
lieries. ping cough
That not all age guards
outside the reg de evident,
when tie K1 Oriilgs lla company,
which operates 7 gen e,sT PonT ~, and fifteen
tunnels. began AeSP o,I ;yy';Ii Iii lbn men on
guard. officials o which woi inpany say
none but union on is vervh employed
and that no efforimple thingsde to work
the collieries. quences.e
9betber thisistance and will be
changed in the ei are glvenagreement
being resabed il dlstress Nm. Union
men patru. the ooiu Dy aing to the
varions collieries- - region, in
order to see howal ParloF'buspension
Ordef - ODs'7s' hell, Dent
Del. OF
Office hd
Windsor
Milford chronicle., 1912-04-05
cettvsbnrn am 80 Honse-

Federal participation, with an expen
diture of $4,000 in celebration Of tbs
fiftieth anniversary of the battle
Gettysburg at the Pennsylvania bat
tlefeld was assured by the passag.
of an appropriation bill by the hous
and previously adopted by the senate
Milford chronicle., 1912-04-05
Arizona Passes Judiciary Recall.

The bill submitting the judiciary r.
call amendment At the next generl
election passe4 the lower house il
Phoenix, Ari5 An identical bill IS 3"
the hands Of taa senate committee q.
constitutions amendments.
Milford chronicle., 1912-04-05
A MEKvY LITTLE GIRL
Walks More Than a Mile With Two
Fingers Cut OFF.

Fingers Cut Off.
With her hand nearly cut off as the
result of an accident, Mary Corkhill
a seven-year-old girl, of Glendale, Nd,
walked for more than a mile from
woods, where the accident tool,
place, to her home, and then calmly
held her hand while physician am
putated two fingers.
The little girl and her younger
brother were playing, when the boy ac
cidentaily cut her with an axe so tha
two fingers were evered, the other two
mangled and the hand badly cut. ]
was only after the dressing Of the
wound that the child began to cry.
Milford chronicle., 1912-04-05

The newest models in La Frances
3 and Warmers Corsets. These cor
sets are sure to give perfect salts
faction.
Milford chronicle., 1912-04-05
shuster eets New Ioh.

W. Morgan, Shuster, deposed treaa
urer general Of Persia, has been aD
pointed South American representa-
tive of the National City Company, c
New York.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-24
PRINCETON STILL UNTRlEp.
Tigers Have Yet to Meet Eleven Strong
 Enough to Test Strength.

Princeon, N. J., Oct. 23.-The foot ball situation at Princeton presents a peculiar problem this year. A super f1uity of bacl1field material and a dearth of forwards confronts the coaches, and it is problem which they have not solved entirely as yet, even though the season is just half over. The Dart mouth game comes next Saturday, and that is a contest about which many are rather doubtful. Every man at Prince ton remembers very wildly the work of the Dartmouth team here last year, and the freak goal by means of which the Tigers won.
 Reports have it that Dartmouth comes fully as well equipped this year as last, while the Tigers team is hardly as far advanced at this stage as it was a week before the Dartmouth game in 1911. Following at intervals of a week come the Harvard game at Cambridge, New York university at Princeton and the final championship game with Yale here.
 The students have no real idea what
 the personnel of the team is likely to
 be in the big games, nor do they know what sort of tactics the team is likely to resort to in case they get hard push ed This is due to the fact that Prince ton has not been tested to teh limit Lehigh came heralded as a team with a
 wonderfully strong line.. but at the game it did not show up at all strong against the speed of the Tiger backs
 The same was true of Virginia Poly
 technic Institute a week ago. Syracuse was crushed and the team will go into the Dartmouth game without having
 had real hard tryout the whole sea- | son.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-24
as fOllOws
uHLANs GREAT RECORD.
Famous Black GeIdinq a Wonderful
 Trotter-MiIe in 1.58.

Frank S. Cooke in. the Detroit Free
 Press says: For the first time in it's
 history the famous race Track at Lex
 ington holds the worlds record for a mile in the open. Lexington has play
 ed a leading part in harness racing
 since the long ago, but somehow or
 other attempts to step faster than
 other horses have failed, although the track itself is suited to extreme speed at the time of the year when the Lex ington trOts are supreme in the mlnds of the patrons of this sport. But, aft CT all of these years, Lexington has the record. Not only the best mile by trotter unaided by windshield, but also faster than any pacer has been out in the open.
 "This great honor. so long deferred, is doubly appreciated because the per formance was in a class by itself when figured in comparison with pre- yious attempts against the watch. Perhaps it is not any greater in this day than was the first mile better than 2.SO by Lady Suffolk, the first mile better than 220 by Flora Temple, or the first mile better than 2.10 by Maud
 s. Time has changed conditions, and this mile in 1.5S by Uhlan few weeks ago shows that there has been prog | ress in breeding and in the training of horses and the preparation of tracks. "The importance of the feat may have been lost to many because it oc- cured on the first day of the worlds series of ball games, but it is safe to say that of the news cabled to Russia, Austria and Germany that day there was no happening in America that caused so much comment in these
 lands where the trotter now has such
 foothold."
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-24
: souTHPAWs' POOR SEASON.
With But Few Exceptions Lefthanders
 Have Been of No Use.

Although Rube Marquard leads the National league pitchers, Eddie Plank heads the lefthanders of the American league, and Harry Krause is the best American association finger, the ma
 jority of the lefthanders are not hay ing what could be called a very suc
 cessful season. The three mentioned stand out as exceptions, and possibly there are a few others. Nap Fucker and Vean Gregg, for instance, who are going we'll. But winning southpaws
 are few and far between this year.
 Even Gregg has been going none too
 well, having lost more games already
 than he did during the entire season
 of 1911. But two other American
 league lefthanders, in addition to
 Plank and Gregg, have succeeded in
 winning half of their games. They are Ray Collins of Boston and Pennock of the Athletics.
 Mogridge of the White Sox and
 Hamilton of the Browns have lost
 more than they have won. Jim Vaughn has won but a small percent age of his games. while Willie Mitchell of the Maps has done no better. Lefty George has been charged with several defeats and credited with no victories The season has proved such a tough one on the lefthanders that more than a few were sent to the minors. Con- nie Mack turned adrift Krause, Lefty Russell, Danforth,, Salmon and Pike. St. Louis and Detroit each released Bill Bailey, while the Tigers also can ned Bill Becker and Pernoll. Wash ington sent Becker to Montreal anu | St Louis cut Frill off the payroll
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-24
COX HEADS WINNING LIST.
Veteran Driver Secured Stakes of $54,- SS5 in This Years Grand Circuit Events


 New Yorw, Oct 23.-The S9th Grand Circuit, which opened at Grand Rap ids, Mich, July g, and closed in Lex ington, Ky. last week, was in every way the greatest and best in the his tory of this famous chain of harness horse meetings. There have been oth- CT big years. but never before one where there was not somewhere along the line something that left the cam paign not entirely perfect. This year there did not occur one thing to mar the record of high-class, scandal free circuit.
 From the first bell tap at Grand Rap ids until the blankets were put on for the last time at Lexington It has been history of great racing and record breaking. No horse in any class had a sinecure on first money. as did R. T. C., and even in the big battles, like the Baden Esther w. races, the result was in doubt to almost the last foot in the deciding heat. In 1911 every member of the Grand Circuit encountered rainy weather, but this year. out of a total of 69 racing days, only one daHs programme Cat Salem) was anlulled. Several of the meetings were betless. but every one made money. It presages remarkable Grand Circuit for 1913, for where sev- eral members went to the New York meeting for dates last January with trepidation, they will attend January g next with tke utmost confidence.
 The Grand Circuit. this year gave 69 days of racing, there were 256 races, and the total amount of money distrib-
 uted was s539.S .S04. The money was so well split up this year among the diff l ferent stables that no driver approach ed the-worlds record for big season winnings which Thomas W. Murphy of Poughkeepsie established last year when his horses earned ssS,000. Mur- phy won this year more than $44,00C with his own horses, and in addition
 he got about ss,Ooo when he drove Dave Halle. besides big sums with An ma. AK Me, Director Jay and other
 horses, upon which he accepted mounts l but technically Walter Cox of Dover
 N. H., heads this years winning driv- CTS, as horses entirely confined to his
 stables earned s54SS5. The stables
 that earned more than s10,o0O each are
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-24
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
AVALANCHE OF SELLING ORDERS
Liquidation of European Holdings Causes General Declines.

New York, Oct. 23.-The local stock market was >put to another test today by recurrent waves of foreign liquida- tion. The movement gathered it's great est momentum during the noon hour, when an avalanche of selling orders from various European points resulted
 in series of precipitative declines. Canadian Pacific was the weakest of the high grade issues, declining over four points and giving color to rumors of enforced liquidation by Berlin and Vienna. In fact, it was understood that the Australian capital was the scene of some financial unsettlement,
 but private cables received here later in the day declared that the enlbar- rassment was hardly more than local The opening here was not altogether reassuIing, a majority of the better
 known stocks recording slight losses. The only notable exceptions were Chino Copper and Chino convertible bonds, these issues ascending to new l high records on rum0rs that\the stock l IS soon to be put on a dividend basis. Another incident of the early session, interesting because of it's bearing upon l steel trade conditions, was the an- | nouncement that dividends have been l resumed on the preferred stock of the Republic Iron and Steel company, which l early in the year suspended payment because of the unfavorajble outlook l In the final hour prices recovered in part from the low level, but the mar
 ket's undertone indicated feverishness
 and uncertainty, with dealings in re- stricted volumes. Fully one-third of 1 the days business was transacted on l the declining movement at midday ! The unfavora ble condition of the
 local banks was shown in the harden ing of time loans, per cent. being
 asked for 90 days accommodation and 1 four months money advancing IA per
 cent, Call money held around pei | cent, with some concessions at the 1 close.
 Bonds turned heavy with stocks, aft l CT early steadiness. Total sales, pal ! value. were $1,S00,000
 United States bonds were unchanged on call.