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Alma record., 1915-04-01

her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Philip
Hicks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cole of Half Moon
Lake visited at the home of V. d..
Stobbs Friday.
Floyd Rumberger and wife of Alma
are the guests Of the latter's parents,
j. Wood and wife.
Miss Ruth Graham visited her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Standish of New Haven Saturday
John Robson and DR.. Graham made
a business trip to Alma Saturday.
Mr.. Price of Greenville is the new
clerk at Mrs M. Finch's store.
Christopher Prince, an old resident
of Sumner township, was found dead
in bed Tuesday morning. Heart trou-
BILE was the cause. He leaves widow
and four children to mourn their loss.
The remains were taken to Lansing
Sunday for burial.
Mrs. Meade Wheaton of Port Huron
was the guest of her nephew, Y. ID.
Stobbs and family last week.
The Republican caucus was held in
fuckers hall Saturday and the follow
ing officers nominated: Ellis Potter,
supervisor; Samuel Cleverdon, clerk;
John Rockafellow, treasurer; A. Tom
lin, highway commissioner; John Fer
ris and Allan Stafford, constables;
Will Hicks and family of Alma,
Chas. Hicks and family of Ferris,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Bennett of Crystal,
Mr.. and Mrs. Allan Stafford of Sum-
ner all met at the home of their ia
ther, Philip Hicks, Sunday, to help
celebrate his sixty-fourth birthday.
Dick Lang, Frank Smith and j. f.
Tucker attended the funeral of their
brother Odd Fellow, c. Prince Sunday.
Miss Alma Waffsiger of Elwell was
a Sunday guest of Miss Ina Hicks.
a. f. Fowler is making an extended
trip in the Tipped Peninsula looking
after his timber land.
Mrs. John Ball was taken to Brain
erd's hospital Sunday where an opera
tion was performed for appendicitis.
She is getting along nicely at this
writing.
Alma record., 1915-04-01
Sc PER ACRE

The leading Farm Agency OF
Michigan. Indiana, Ohio and Illinois
makes only the small charge of >
cents per acre to owners OF i'm
proved and unimproved farm lands,
to register their Farm Property for
sale with a reliable Agency. In the
event of this Agency making sale
this fee is 10 fully cover all the costs
for examining Abstracts of Title,
Tax History. Drawing all necessary
legal papers. advertising, and Agents
Commission. No exclusive Sale con
tract required, purchasers buying
direct from us. Registration Fee to
cover Registration for one year. our
unequaled facilities for furnishing
buyers. and making quick and salts
factory sales of all classes of Farm
Property registered with us, can
not be excelled A large volume OF
inquiries reach this Agency as the
result of wide and efficient adyertis-
ing. owners who wish TO sell APP
preciate this service. and trans
/ f4rs are made with but small cost
TO owners. No Farms submitted to
BUYERS unless Farms are registered
Your opportunity is to REGISTER
NOW Make remittance by p. o
or EXPRESS order, and receipt and
agreement will be mailed you on re
ceipt of same. State lowest price
and terms. with full particulars.
AMES-COMBS REALTY CO, LTD.
| Suite 3-4-5 Brewer Block, Saginaw
Michigan.
Alma record., 1915-04-01
NEW HAVEN


Miss Grace Hodgen spent the week
end visiting Mrs Crispeh.
Mrs. Jack Barkman and son of
Breckenridge and Mrs. Harriet Du
Mont Of Detroit visited the formers
aunt, Mrs. Lee Townsend, several days
last week
Jno. Deiling has moved on his farm.
George MaXted has taken possession
at the store.
School commenced Monday at the
Brick school house with a new teacher,
Miss Buckingham, of Sethton.
Walter Lepley will work for Lee
Townsend this summer.
Mrs. p. L. Blanchard is confined at
home with bronchitis and grippe.
Mrs. Jake Siefert has been sick sew
eral days with bronchial pneumonia.
Harry Barnes has rented several
fields of Jas. Crispel.
Robt. Strouse and Leon Harris at
tended a dance at Ithaca Friday
night.
Mr.. Herman Meyer and family have
moved to Alma.
Mrs. Thos Harris is visiting her
mother of Detroit.
Alma record., 1915-04-01
FRANK MEDLER DIES IN IDAHO

Frank Medler, nearly sixty years
old and brother of NJ. l.. Medler OF
this city, passed away following sick
ness caused by Bright's disease, at his
home in Lewiston, Idaho, Sunday
morning and the funeral was held at
his home Tuesday afternoon at two
o'clock. Interment was made IN
Lewiston.
Mr.. Medler will be well remember
ed by many Alma people. Until ten
wears ago when he moved to the west
ern town he lived and worked in Alma
being a various times employed by
Frank Polas<y in his dry goods store
and Henry Vermulen in his store. AT
one time he was in partnership with
O. w. Rogers in a store of his own
From October until January he was lr
the city visiting his brother and wher
he returned seemed to be in good
health.
He leaves a wife, two children anc
many friends to mourn his loss.
Alma record., 1915-04-01
SOUTHEAST FERRIS

The Southeast Ferris Union Aid will
meet at the home of Joe Oswaldt of
Ferris on April Z. All are cordially
invited TO come.
Mr.. Donevin is much better at pres
ent.
John Flint and Jess Harrison were
Riverdale callers Tuesday.
Will Terwilager of Maple Rapids
is visiting friends in this vicinity.
Jess Milford and family have NOV
ed where he has employment on his
fathers farm for the summer.
The Union Aid was well attended
at Elder Teners' Wednesday. All re-
ported a fine time.
Mrs. Halabough and Miss Fulford
were callers on Mrs. NJ. NJ. Filth Tues
day.
William Red and family have moved
on the Ashelman ranch where he has
employment for the summer.
Mrs. Maud Ball, who went to Brain
erd's hospital for an operation Sun
day, is reported to be slowly recover
ing.
Miss Pearl Osterhout, who is teach
ing school, spent Sunday with her par
ents, j. S. Osterhout.
w. A. Harrison of Riverdale was il
the vicinity on business Friday.
Mrs. Gene Osterhout is caring fol
Mrs. Balls oldest son while the mother
is at the hospital.
Mr.. b. Tylor has rented the farm
owned by Frank Fountain and vii
soon take possession.
Joe Keel is visiting friends at Green
vile this week.
Hazel Flint returned to her work IL
Carson City Tuesday.
A very pleasant surprise was givel
to Eli Andrews Saturday evening,
being his twentieth birthday. Tn
evening was spent in music and sing
ing. All reported fine time and h
wishes his birthday might come NOR
|, often.
Mrs. Ethel Harrison visited her fla
ther, Will Wilson Tuesday.
Mrs. Eleanor Fulford and Mis-
Charlotte Duffied attended the SEWN
: circle at Ferris Center Thursday.
Allen Ramsyer of Elkton, whoh
, been visiting friends here in the V
cinity for few days, returned HON
Monday.
Charles Robbins baby who has bee
very sick, is reported some better
this writing.
Mrs. f.. c. Osterhout is visiting he
daughter, Mrs. Ella McClosky, for
4 few days.
J. r. Flint and family spent SUI
5 day with their parents. M. Nj. Fhnts.
Alma record., 1915-04-01
WHEELER.

Duncan Kirby was in Saginaw on
business Monday.
p. II. Kennedy of Mt. Pleasant was
in town several days last week.
Mr.. Hetfeld of Jackson county Wis
tied his sister, Mrs. Fenton, last week.
Miss Lulu Blackman was in Alma
Wednesday.
r. J. Lowery was in st. Louis We'd
nesday.
Mrs. f. Arnold of st. Louis was in
town Wednesday.
f. McCloud of Breckenridge was in
this place Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Newell Bradford Wis
tied Mrs. Bradford's mother, Mrs. Fo-
land Wednesday.
Rollo Allen was in st. Louis We'd
nesday evening.
Miss Leslie Eaton of Merrill Wis
tied her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Weeks, Tuesday.
Fred Brown of Ithaca was in town
Wednesday.
Miss Dolly Reid of Ypsilanti was
the guest of Mrs. Poland, Wednesday
| Barney Swope was I'm Breckenridge
Thursday.
Mrs. f. L. Street was in Clare
Thursday.
Mrs. George Smith attended the fu
neral of her father, Mr.. Fletcher, re
siding in the south part of the state.
Miss Miller, teacher of the primar!
grades in this place, returned to he
home in Clare Thursday on account o
her illness.
Miss Eva Wolansky, who is attend
ing school in Mt. Pleasant, is home ol
weeks vacation.
Alvah Hammond is working il
North Star at this time.
Miss Margaret Allen was in n
Louis Saturday.
Mrs. Homer Weed of Breckenridg
visited her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Jos
eph Ellsworth over Sunday.
The w. c. T. u. of this place hel
} very enthusiastic meeting here Fri
day evening. Mrs. Nudge, of s.
Louis, the district president, was pres
/ ent and gave very interesting tall
, The music for the evening was fuI
Alma record., 1915-04-01
SUMNER ITEMS.

Mrs. Jennie Woodland of Alma spent
last week visiting friends here.
DR.. Graham drives a new Ford car.
r. Forquer has removed his stock
of goods to his new store on the south
side of Main street.
Mrs. Anna Graham and Mrs. Nellie
Robson were Alma business callers
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emory Milford have
moved near Maple Rapids where they
will work for Foyer Bros, the coming
year.
Mrs. f. j. Tucker returned home
Tuesday after three weeks visit
with friends in Belding and Saranac
Mr.. and Mrs. Wills Plank are the
proud parents of baby boy born last
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Britton spent
the week end with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. c. A. Button of Alma.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. Milford visited
their son, Arthur, of Maple Rapids
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Harry Skinner of Mcmillan spen
last week with his mother Mrs
Thomas Lang.
The Willing Workers of the Adven
church met at the home of Mrs. Phil
ip Hicks Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Harvey of Chi
cago have purchased the Skinne
farm.
Miss Ruby Cleverdon is able to b
out again after a siege of typhoi
fever.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Dalrymple ar
moving their household goods to Riv
erdale.
Miss Ina Hicks, who is teaching a
St. Charles, spent the week end wit
Alma record., 1915-04-01
LECTURE ON TUBERCULOSIS
WORK

Miss Carol Walton of Ann Arbor,
state secretary of tuberculosis work,
will talk to the members of the Civic
Improvement league on good health
at the regular meeting which will be
held at the home of Mrs. Francis
King. This meeting will take the
place of the meeting which was an
nounced for the Reading room.
After addressing the members Of
the League she will talk to the Camp
Fire Girls.
Alma record., 1915-04-01
MAPLEGROVE SCHOOL

Ada Dolotf was a visitor at school
Monday.
The seventh grade have just finish
ed their agriculture.
Ida, Clara and Lola Dolloff were
visitors at school Thursday.
Miss Vern Doloff entertained her
teacher, Miss Pearl Race, Tuesday
night.
Loyal, Alvin and c. L. Egglestor
and parents visited their grandpar-
ents, l.. Tissue.
Alma record., 1915-04-01

Mrs. George Parks visited relatives
in Alma Wednesday.
Mrs. j. Brown and children of Yes
taburg were over-Sunday guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Brown.
Miss Mabel Stambaugh Of st. Clair,
is spending her spring vacation with
her parents at Elm Hall.
Mrs. A. +. North of Edmore, spent
Monday with her daughter, Mrs John
Young.
Mr.. Ryan Schnepp transacted bust
ness in Alma Monday.
VIM. Sturdavant returned Tuesday
evening from his two weeks visit
with relatives at Reed City.
Ed Winn of Alma was a Riverdale
caller Thursday.
Mrs. Fred Howe and children of
Elm Hall were ugests of Mr. and Mrs.
Van Senvan for several days last
week.
Miss Leah Knee, deaconess of Grand
Rapids, who is holding revival meet
ings at Elwell, visited friends in Riv-
erdale Saturday.
Mrs. Maude Phelps and son, Heu-
bert, were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. K.
Schnepp Friday.
Mrs. Dora Allen spent Thursday
and Friday in Ithaca with her sister,
Miss Alma Mathews and Mrs. Jay
Nickerson.
Miss Mary Holland, who attends
school i'm Mt. Pleasant, is spending her
NTH hon. Mr.
and Mrs. W. Holland, southeast of
town.
The Misses Ruth Vanalstine, Junita
Sutton, Ester Horton and Allen High
field, who attend high school in Alma,
are spending their spring vacation
with their parents in Riverdale.
Rev. Albert Baker and wife visited
friends in Elm Hall Thursday.
Mr.. c. Powers of Ithaca was in
town Monday and Tuesday on busi-
Mr.. Geo. Going, principal of the Ma
pie Rapids public school, is spending
his spring vacation in Riverdale with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie
Going. southeast of town.
Mr.. Ray Hardy Of Edmore was in
town Friday, on business.
Mr.. Floyd Owen returned to De
troit Tuesday morning, after spending
"a ten days visit with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. owen.
Several young people from Nesta-
burg Elm Hall and Elwell, attended
the skating ripk Saturday evening.
Mr.. apd Mrs. Forest La Paugh, of
near Elwell, visited friends in town
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Harrington
and children, north of Riverdale, were
Sunday guests Of Mr. and Mrs. r.
Harrington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Clelland, of St
Johns were Sunday guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Moblo.
Mr. VIM Emery of Edmore, was IN
town Friday on business.
Mrs. Tom Morton and daughter
spent Sunday with relatives at Elm
Hall.
Vern Norton of st. Louis was Riv
erdale caller Thursday.
Mrs. Patrick O'Brien of st. Loui.
was "A weekend guest of her sister
Mrs. Carrie Kerwin.
Alma record., 1915-04-01

There are few eases of fistula. Yet
Michigan horse-owners know that
liniment that can cure that is GER
tainly good for the ordinary external
ills of horses. This is what Roy n.
Rains of Cedar. Iowa, wrote recently.
'I am using Hanford's Balsam OF
Myrrh for fstula on a valuable horse
and il is curing same"
Alma record., 1915-04-01

Postmaster Burns of st. Louis was
a caller at The Record Office last Sat
urday while in the city attending the
Horse Show.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-11-16
MOST STRENUOUS OF SPORTS
Computation Made From a Physical
Point Of View Gives PromI-
nence to Three.

From a physical point Of view, the
three most strenuous sports are row.
ing. bicycle racing and mountain
climbing, says London Answers.
Rowing In an eight-oar race, such
as the annual contest between Oxford
and Cambridge, is said by experts to
represent the utmost achievement OF
human muscle, but the most highly
trained athlete cannot keep up such
strain for much more than twenty
minutes at time.
Cycle racers will ride for "a hours
or more on end, with only momentary
pauses, and the work of the winner
in such race is estimated to repre-.
sent nearly six times the energy used
by the laborer who digs for ten hours.
1t is, In fact. about the utmost that
could be extracted from the human
engine as regards work spread over
a day and night.
The cyclists work is purely me.
chanical. The work of mountaineer
Is very different. 1t acquisitions every
power, not only of muscle, but OF
nerve and brain. The cyclist Is for
the time mere machine, using his
legs to their utmost; the mountaineer
must use his arms. his back, his legs
and his brain.
Some years ago q German, Doctor
Buchheister. made an accurate esti.
mate of the work done by a 12-stone
man in ascending 7,O0O-foot peak in
period Of five hours, and he calcu.
lates that the total amount of energy
demanded by the five hours climb is
100000 foot pounds, or COG foot tons,
and this is very conservative esti.
mate.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-11-16
"PAy DIRT" UNDER NEW YORK
Legend Which Seems to Point TO Ex-
Istence Of Gold Under Streets Of
the Metropolis.

A Philadelphia assayer, Walter
Scott by name. recently took several
handfuls of sand from a street exca-
walton near Independence hall, and
after putting it through an assaying
process, extracted small quantity of
gold. He declared there was enough
gold under Philadelphia, in his opia-
ion, to make hunting it worth while.
Residents of Upper Manhattan re-
member Thomas Hartshorn, an eccen-
trio chap who lived in the vicinity Of
One Hundred and Sixth street and
Fifth avenue for many years. One of
his hobbies was absolute faith in the
divining rod. He talked about its I'M
erring certainty in the pointing out
of metal for many years until he could
seem to talk of nothing else, and he
got to be known as the Rod Crank.
One afternoon several years ago
Hartshorn sailed forth from his home
and, entering Central park, took his
way to where the McGown's Pass tav-
ern now stands. In those days it was
the Mount st. Vincent House of Re-
freshment. Several boys noticed
Hartshorn walk along the path to the
east of the tavern and hold out his
divining rod. Presently he was seen
to stop and, after looking around to
see II he was observed, stick a small
stake into the grass.
One of the Boys Swallowed him for
the remainder Of the day and told his
father. That night Hartshorn was fol-
lowed to the place of the stake and
they saw the Rod Man fill pail with
sand. The news spread the next day
or two that Hartshorn had found gold.
The Rod Man never denied it up to
the time he died, and many Harlem
ties still believe there is gold near Nc
Gowns pass.-New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-11-16
SAVED BY STRAINS or MUSIC
Home, Sweet Home," on tiarmonlca,
Gains Raging Moose, on Murder
Bent.

Mike, long regarded as the tough.
est bull moose which ever tipped a
horn about the game preserve Of
Henry Payne Whitney. on October
mountain, was so thoroughly over
come by the strains OF Home. Sweet
Home" played on a mouth organ,
that he ceased trying to butt down
q tree, from the limbs OF which one Of
the most frightened linemen In the
world was getting ready to fall. ac-
cording to a PittsfieId (Mass.) dis.
patch to the New York Herald.
Cleveland Morey, a telephone line
repairer, and Lawrence W. Kidney,
his assistant, were repairing wire
through the game preserve when
Mike, aching for an afternoon of unin-
terrupted murder, started to work.
Kidney leaped nine-foot fence, al
though ordinarily he cannot do moro
than one and one-half feet. Morey
few into q tree and Mike petulantly
began to butt it down.
Morey yelled for help and rocked
with the branches as Mike butted it.
while Kidney yelled outside the fence.
Finally, remembering that animals de-
light in mouth organs, he jerked his
harmonica from his hip pocket and
played what is Home, Sweet Home
when his teeth will stay apart. Mike
was overcome; one moment a roaring
fury. the second strain of the popular
tune converted him into perfect gen.
tleman. content to amble OFF up the
mountain dejectedly. Morey leaped
SO far out Of the tree that he had to
hurry back to Join the life-saving mu-
sician.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-11-16
WILD GEESE NEVER DIVORCE
Mating Of These Birds ls Always for
Life, and Their Devotion to Each
Other Extreme.

We know nothing Of the courtship Of
the wild geese, but we feel assured
that 1t must be seemly and worthy
affair. Once mated. there is no fur
Their need for vows and protestations,
for the birds mate for life. Together
they unite in building the nest, but the
goose alone watches over the eggs,
while day and night the gander weaves
In all directions on water and on land
his trails Of watchfulness, according
to q writer in the Atlantic Monthly.
Neither man nor beast may approach
without being fiercely and successfully
assailed, buffeted and routed by a re
lentless attack with beak and wings.
This guardianship is trebled when
the new generation. helpless and de-
pendent, voices its first need for pro-
lection from the perils which encom-
pass and beset 1t. If, perchance, the
small family elects to remain on the
shore, the parents will circle around
and around the group of golden gos-
lings, and If danger threatens from
any one direction the gander, by some
miracle Of strategy, will succeed in
placing himself at the one vulnerable
point in his entrenchment.
His loyalty, astuteness and unset
fishness are not to be found in those
unobservant folk who have presumed
to SANDER him. In swimming, the
strictest discipline is maintained. The
young form in single file. following
the mother. while the gander brings
up the rear. with eyes constantly
sweeping the whole range of vision.
His vigil is ceaseless and untiring.
Such is the life Of those two birds
who are mated In more than sex.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-11-16
STICKS IN HIS CEMENT BED
PIckax Needed to Assist Sleeper to Get
Up From Soft Spot in Which
He Lay.

It took pickax to arouse a citizen
Of this place from his bed. After the
pickax had been used there was also
some strong pulling by friends before
he could jump out, for he had slept all
night in bed OF concrete and it had
hardened more or less during the night.
It was late in tho evening, after the
rest Of the people Of Bayard had re
tired, that the hero of this episode
stumbled toward home. A new cement
pavement had Just been laid in front
of the home of Capt. W. P Wilgus, and
workmen had been stopped by the
darkness.
Our hero did not know of the pave
mert and landed on it with both feet.
Finding that he was sinking up to his
shoe tops In the soft concrete he laid
down and bothered no more about it.
In the morning the workmen found
him fast asleep and also fast in the
concrete, which had hardened during
the night. 1t took pickaxes before he
could be pried loose. A new pavement
is being laid.-Bayard (Del.) Dispatch
to Philadelphia Record
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-11-16
Sanitation In skyscrapers.

The skyscrapers Of New York city
are to be placed under scrutiny by
board Of health officials, the purpose.
1t is said, being to ascertain whether
sanitary regulations are adhered to
strictly. Safety Engineering thinks
the truth is that most, If not all, of
these structures were reared under
the direction of numerous city de-
partments, whose off1ciousness has
often been more marked than their
beneficent service.
THE new departure" that publica-
ton says, will place the officials on
trial as well as the owners and ten
ants OF the skyscrapers. II there is
anything about the buildings that mill
tates against the healthfulness Of their
occupants. 1t is the fault. to some ex-
tent Of the various civic bodies that
have assumed to dectate how they
were to be constructed. II some of
the older buildings have been deprived
of the light and air that they once
enjoyed, that is the fault of the build
ing department and the law. Ancient
easements of light and air were abol-
ished long ago."
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-11-16
What's In a Name?

The action of the Russian govern
ment in changing the name of the
capital from st. Petersburg to Petro-
grad, and that of the municipal coun-
Gil of Paris, after the heroic defense
of Liege. in honoring the Belgians by
converting Rue de Berlin into Rue de
Liege, bring to mind similar incidents
during the Franco-P russian war of
1870.
After the collapse of the empire of
Napoleon III at Sedan and the forma-
ton of the French republic, the ma
tional assembly, on whom the whole
safety of the country depended, spent
much of it's time although the Ger
mans were laundering down on the
devoted city-in changing the names
Of things-streets, buildings, depart
ments, and what not-from Royal
and Imperial to National" Finally,
by solemn decree of-the assembly, the
name Of the royal Bengal tiger in the
Paris zoo was actually changed to the
national Bengal tiger" and the custo-
dams Of the animal were charged to
see that the signs above the cages
were changed in accordance with the
decree.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-11-16
Woman in New Field.

The automobile school at the Y. M.
c. A. at New York has proved that
women have mind for mechanics as
well as for millinery, the fare skirt
and tango. The class at this school
has number of men and about a doz-
en- woman members. In order to win
a chauffeur's certificate, they must
absorb lot of technical motor in
formation. That the woman members
are doing so is shown by their exam
nation papers. Not one of their num-
Der has fallen below the 80 per cent
rating, and three of them have 100 per
cent. The women must learn the diff
ference between cog and a carbure-
tor, and also locate and remedy en-
CINE trouble. Instead of bossing the
job, they must get out and get under.
Mother Hubbards are used for this
purpose. There are more than thou
sand woman auto drivers in that city
and the number is increasing every
day.