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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-09-09

come to US either killed or injured"
These seeds or germs are killed or
crippled in several ways. Exposure.
to the sunlight for three or four hours
needs their life. Daylight and pure air
will kill them in from to II hours.
So will FIVE minutes of boiling. But
freezing will not Kill them, and they
viii survive a long time in water. The
worst enemies of this bacillus are the
best friends OF life-sunlight, air,
cleanlines3
These seeds, or little disease-bear-
ing lines, form whole colonies of dan
ger as the sputum in which they are
elected dries and is blown about in the
air. They are in the dust of the street.
The dust from the walls and floors of
consumptives' rooms has been found
to be swarming with them-this, of
course in the rooms of consumptives
who did not know how dangerous their
sputum is and therefore did not des-
have ever been the chief allies of the
White Plague. Enlightenment and
carefulness will spell its doom. Con-
sumption is going to be banished from
the earth just as the other great
plaques have been, just as wild wolves
have been killed out of America.
These. then, are the seeds of the
dsease-the first requisite for the dis
ease being handed on. For every per-
son who dies of consumption, three
more are infected. That is because
the original case of the three has dis
tributed billions OF these germs where
they could survive to attack others.
That is the ground for the modern
health slogan:
Don't Give Consumption to Others
Don't Let Others Give Consumption
to You
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-09-09
DON'T EXPERIMENT
You Will Make No Mistake if You
Follow This Advice

Never neglect your kidneys.
If you have pain the back, urinary
disorders, dizziness and nervousness,
it's time to act and no time to exper-
iment. These are frequently symp-
toms of kidney trouble, and a remedy
which is recommended for the kidneys
should be taken in time.
Doan's Kidney Pills are good rem
edy to use 1t has acted effectively
in many cases in this vicinity.
Can Alma residents demand further
proof than the following testimonial?
Mrs. II. Cooper, RR. no. /, Wheel
er, Mich, says: "My back ached and
| had trouble with my kidneys. / was
nervous and dizzy Doan's Kidney
Pills relieved the complaint. There is
no doubt about Doan's Kidney Pills
being the best medicine to be had.
thing that anyone who gives them a
fair trial will get good results"
Price soc. at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. cooper had. Foster Milburn Co.,
Props, Buffalo, ~ Y. adv.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-09-09
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS

To The Stockholders Of the Alma
Building and Loan Association
Sirs:
You will take notice that in pur-
suance of the application in writing
of seven stockholders of said Associ-
alton, that there will be convened and
held a meeting of the stockholders
thereof at the office of the Company
in the store building of Clapp & Fra
ker in the city of Alma, Michigan, on
Tuesday the 2Sth day of September,
A ID. 1915, at the hour of 8 O'Clock
pm. of said day.
The object and purpose of such
meeting of stockholders is to act up
on a resolution which will then and
there be offered for adoption or re-
lection which will then and there be
offered for adoption or rejection to
the effect that said Association pro-
coed to liquidate and dissolve such
corporation as permitted and provid-
ed by Section 26 of Act No. 80 of the
Public Acts of Michigan for year 1887
and the amendments thereto.
Each share of stock issued and
outstanding is entitled to one vote.
All stock should be represented eth
er in person or by proxy. A full dis
cussion and explanation of the stu
alton to all stockholders is earnestly
desired.
Respectfully,
p. NJ. Smith.
Secretary of Association
Dated-Alma, Mich.
Sept. 8, 1915.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-09-09
BECAUSE OF SMALL LOSSES
ASSESSMENT RATE is LOW

Unusually fortunate has the Farm
ers' Mutual Fire Insurance company
Of Clinton and Gratiot counties been
during the past year. The fire losses
during the year amounted to s26,OOO
The lightning losses amounted to only
81 500. The total losses last year
were s53,5Ol.
At a meeting of the directors of
the company, at st. Johns ,Wednes-
day afternoon, August 25th, the rate
of assessment was fixed at 1920 for
policy holders in the rodded buildings
class and 1925 for Sfose in the class
Of unrodded buildings. The assess
ment rate last year was $3.50, no diff
ferent classes being had at that time
If the assessment is paid before Sep
TENDER 18th, 8 per cent discount is
given. The directors decided to have
all policies rewritten. Some of the
policies have been running for eight
cen years. Agents of the company
will call upon all policy holders and
ascertain II the risks are satisfactory
There are nearly $4,000 policies in the
eight volumes in the company's office
but some of these have been cancelled.
tn directors Of the company are:
Frank Hurd, Dewitt; A. J. Burnes,
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-09-09
THE FARMER Is 1T"

We have heard a number of eulo-
gies on the farmer. But in most of
nese cases we always imagined that
...e farmer after reading them usual
ly grabbed for his pocketbook to see.
if it was safe. The GLOWING excerpt
from Golfers Weekly seems to be the
most timely, as well as best express
ed appreciation of the farmer and
his work that has appeared in public
print in years.
"The government crop report came
out as usual last month with its ser
ried ranks of figures, hundreds and
thousands of millions of bushels, and
the statisticians are now busy stick
ing i'm the dollar marks, as their taste
and fancy dictates The harvest is to
be better than ever and the economic
foundations of our country are solid.
While Wall Street mas been spinning
its black and red wheel of war stocks
and the politicians have been penros-
ing up and down the land that pros
perity depends upon them and the
lack of it on the other fellow, the
plain men of the United States have
gone out to the fields and plowed
prosperity into existence. 1t takes
hard work. but it's the only way. The
basis for the business of next year
has been established on the bench
lands of Montana, in the bottoms Of
Missouri and Illinois, and the tree
studded slopes of the older states and
the irrigated flats OF the new West.
The predicted results are over whelm-
ingly impressive in bushels and tons
and bales. but greater yet is the wide
spread intelligence, the faithfulness.
and earnest work that made the re-
suits come AS science gets further
hold among US these same qualities
will reap even greater triumphs. Our
cities have their place and pride,
they do most of the advertising and
make nearly all the noise, but when
the crop returns come in we know
on what the living strength of our
country securely rests. The farmer
is IT in the United States, and the
rest of us might as well acknowledge
the fact. He is in league with the
everlasting procession of the seasons,
and his allies are the powers Of the
earth and the unchanging needs of
men. His daily work relies on the
eternal promise of four thousand
years ago: "Whle the earth remain
eth, seed time and harvest and cold
and heat, and summer and winter and
day and night shall not cease" This
year has seen it fulfilled once more"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-09-09
THE COUNTY FAIR

The County Fair at Ithaca, last
week from a financial and horse
racing point of view was a grand
success. The races were exception
ally good, some Of she best horses IN
the state were entered. Polly Am
the Grand Rapids mare that took a
mark at Grand Rapids, last week OF
POS, drove a heat in the Free for Al
against the track record of 2:ll which
was a wonder, as any horseman
knows that the Ithaca track is a
slow track, but Notwithstanding this
fact this wonderful mare drove the
mile in 2:09 IA, the first half mile
in 1902, the full mile caught by many
in 2:07 1-2 The stock exhibit con
sisting of cattle and sheep was small
but good The exhibition of Harry
Tubbs Holstein herd, was the big at
traction, they were in fine condition
and made an excellent show.
On all hands you could hear people
critisizing the meeting as county
fair, this we must admit was justi-
fble in a measure, but who is to
blame for it? Every farmer in Ora
tiot county not only is invited to take
stock there but we understand all are
invited to attend the meeting of the
association at which time officers are
elected and all arrangements are
made for the coming fair. If you
don't like the fair why don't you turn
out TO this meeting and help arrange
matters for another year, if you don't,
keep still and stop your kicking. 1t
is deplorable fact that Gratiot Co.
outside of the races is considered one
of the poorest fairs in the state. Why
should this be? We have the best
county in the state and the only rea-
son We don't have a good county fair
is the fact that farmers do not take
the proper interest. To prove this
we call your attention to the fact that
the gentlemen in charge OF the fair
take more interest in races than in
agricultural exhibits, and in conse-
quence have the best races Of any
county in the state Now, suppose
a few good farmers would join with
the present management and make
both the races and farm exhibits a
success. The Record promises its
readers to inform them of the date
of the annual meeting and requests
that a rousing meeting be held and
let's put Gratiot County on the map
as having the best agricultural fair
as well as the best races of any coun-
ty in the state. 1t is much easier to
find fault than it is to take hold and
boost. A county fair properly con-
Quoted can be made to pay, if it can't
at Ithaca, let's have one at Alma and
prove it. Clinton County association
last year made $35OOOO over their
expenses.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-09-09
HOW TO GET TUBERCULOSIS

We cannot dispose of this topic in a
minute. All through this series, ways
of contracting tuberculosis will be in
dicated. Just now you are to get a
few plain facts about the methods of
contagion. To contract tuberculosis
at least two things are necessary
and these imply third. First, there
must be the seed of tuberculosis. Sec
ond, there must be the soil suitable
for the seed to grow and flourish. And
these two imply a transplanting of
the seed, or infection.
First, the seed. We have already
seen what a minute entity the tuber-
Gle bacillus is. Ii has some properties
of plant life, resembling the fungus.
but it also has characteristics of the
animal kingdom. The celebrated DIR.
Flick says: "These cro-organisms
grow in US in the same way as wheat,
timothy and clover grow in a field"
Only they multiply at most rapid
rate-the average consumptive in the
advanced stage giving off seven bill
lions $1,000, 200, 000) of these germs
in his sputum in a single day. The
ordinary discharge in medium cases
is iO0,OOO,O00 a day. These are the
invisible enemies of man. Fortunate
ly, the healthy nature has its soldiers
of defense as well, so that not all of
these 7,00O,00O,000 of germs from a
single consumptive live to do any
damage. In a city all of US breathe
consumptive germs, but most of them
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-09-09
Mns. IHORNTON'S FUNERAL
HELD FRIDAY

III funeral OF Mrs. Elizabeth
Thornton. mother OF Fred Thornton,
for a number Of years coal dealer
in this city was held in the Methodist
church. friday morning at ten o'clock
and The yody inferred in Riverside
cemetery.
Nj Thornton was we'll known in
Alma. having lived here number of
year At her death she was little
over sixty years of age. She was
born IN Painted Post, n. y, and came
to A ma at az early age. The cause
of hcr death was Ola age 1t occurred
at Davenport, Iowa, whore her son
Fred was taking a medical course.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-09-09
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

William II. Mason, Pastor.
Sunday Sept 18th, 1915.
Public Worship-10:00 am, Sub
ject: without Love-Nothing"
Sabbath School-11:30 am.
East End Eabbath School-2:45
pm.
Y.P.S.C.E.-6:30 pm, Miss Lura
Miller, Leader.
Stereoptican Lecture, "The True
Revelation of God. ESQ pm.
East End Prayer Meeting-Tues-
day Sept. l4th, 1880 pm.
Church Prayer Meeting Thursday
Sept. 10th, 1880 pm. Subject: Jesus
and The Will of God" $3.50 pm. SEES
sion meeting.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-09-09
CHANGE IN r. +. ID. SYSTEM

On the fifteenth of September Post
master V. p. Cash will send out re-
quests to all the rural patrons served
by the Alma office, asking them to
label their mail boxes with name, city
and state addresses, number of route
and number of box. This will greatly
facilitate the work OF the department
especially if a new man or substitute
is carrying the mail for the regular
carrier.
Automobiles are constantly COM
planning that mail boxes never have
on them the name of the owner or
occupant of the place. They have
been washed off or obscured by dirt.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-09-09
LITTLE ROCK COAL COMPANY
DOING FINE BUSINESS

The Little Rock Coal Company,
which was recently organized by en-
terprising Alma business men is pro-
crossing finely and has already re-
ceived several large orders and is do
ing a lively business. The Office build
ing on the corner of Park and Me-
chanic streets has been erected and
two twenty foot sheds are in the pro-
cess of construction now.
The company is fortunate in hav-
ing as its manager George Blesch
who knows the coal business from
Alpha to Ommga and has all the re-
quisites for successful coal dealer
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-09-09
BAPTIST CHURCH

j. w. Priest, pastor, residence S02
Gratiot
Sunday morning service-10:00 am
Sermon: "Ye Are My Witnesses"
Sunday School-11:30 am.
b. Y. p. u. meeting-6:30 pm.
Topic: Friendships that are worth
'orming Making them and keeping
them. Leader: Winnie Boyd.
Evening service-7:30 pm. Ser
mon: "A Wise Choice" \
Thursday Night Prayer Meeting.
All are cordially invited.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-09-09
DRY COUNTY BOOZERS

Acknowledgement Fellows ruled
Monday that when a person is found
intoxicated in a public place in To-
cal option county, he may be sub
poenaeG and may be required to ans
wer Questions before magistrate as
to Yhen where and from whom ne OBJ
TIMED the liquor.
= Fellows says refusal to supply this
information may be construed as
contempt of court.
This ruling by the attorney -gener-
ais department is regarded as i'm
portant as it will enable police Of
ficers in local option counties to
gather information and heretofore
has not been obtainable.
Tax Ruling
In another opinion the attorney
general holds that where property
is omitted from the assessment rolls
by local assessing officers that it may
be added by the state commission.
Mothers Pension Law OK.
The Encouragement has ruled that
the amendments made to the mothers
pension law by the last legislature
have not invalidated that measure.
County Clerks Can't Draw Double
Pay.
The encouragement holds that a
county clerk is not entitled to COM
pensation for services performed as
clerk of the board of county road
: commissioners.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-09-09

Harvey Walbridge, an Ithaca boy,
has three times been arrested for
drunkenness, was taken into custody
last week for tipping, and given from
6 months to years at Ionia. This
seems to be a case of bad company.
The offender has an aged mother, his
father having died some few years
ago.
The Sherif's department had a
busy week last week at Ithaca. The
Gratiot County Fair brought a bunch
of FOUNDERS and dips from various
sections Of the country and descrip-
tions of a bunch of pickpockets were
sent to Sheriff Bradford from the
police department of Owosso and
Grand Rapids
Samuel Lewis aged "a claiming to
be from Cincinnati was detected in
the act of endeavoring to fitch the
roll of n. w. Vernen Of Ithaca, the
latter wrenching himself clear of the
OBTAINING hand, but Lewis henchmen
Immediately showed themselves in be-
tween the two men, and the offender
got out of the fair grounds and was
apparently making a getaway along
one of the side streets of Ithaca, when
officer Lewis, picked him up, near the
Presbyterian church. The four others
were not apprehended although the
department here was prepared to
grab them upon the slightest provo
cation. Vernon identified Lewis. and
Saturday evening, Sept. 4th, was Civ
en- a preliminary hearing before Just
ice J. w. Meyers, and regular hear
ing set for September 18th.
Lewis has a bad record and is an
old offender; his sister, giving resi-
dence as Cleveland, appeared later in
his behalf. 1t is anticipated that Lew
is will receive a stiff penalty.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-09-09

Watertown; w. b. Casterline, Essex;
c. S. Belts, Hamilton, Gratiot county;
w. c. Mallory, Seville, Gratiot coun-
ty; c. f. Stowell, president presided
and William c. Sickels is secretary.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-09-09
ST. JOHNS CHURCH

Morning Prayer and Sermon-l0:00
am.
Sunday School-i1:30 am.
Vesper Service-5:0O pm.
J. Frank Jackson. Rector.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-09-09
Church Notes
METHODIST CHURCH

Rev. I. G. r. Brownlow, pastor.
Sunday, September 18th, 1915.
Preaching Service-lO:00 am. Ser
iaon by Miss Avery.
Sabbath School-l1:30 am.
Junior League-3:O0 pm.
No Epworth League. Epworth
League will have charge of the
service at 1880 pm.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-09-09

Ray Woodcock, aged % of Alma,
was brought to Ithaca, Thursday ev-
enng. He has broken his parole
having been given a chance recently
to be man, after being taken for
horse stealing Thursday he threat
ened the lives of his wife and child,
and when taken before Judge A. S.
Scarf, by officer Geo Brown, was Civ
en- from two to fifteen years at Ionia,
with a recommendation of seven and
one half Sheriff Bradford took him
to Ionia, the first of the week.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-07-02

Not to be outdone by France or Ger
many, bleeding Poland" today a ma
ton only in the wonderful unity Of its
people the world over, and in revolu-
tionary times in last throes OF in
voluntary dissolution, sent her son
to wage in America the struggle for
freedom that had gone against them
at home. SO Count Casimir Pulaski
and Thaddeus Kosciuszko came to this
country.
To tell OF the life of Kosoiuszko
would be to tell Of a wonderful old
world romance, Of love and hardships,
OF discouragements and great tri-
umphs.
Son Of a Lithuanian noble, he came
TO this country as a result Of a love
afair with one Of higher rank than he,
bearing with him. It is said. a blood
stained handkerchief, the only memen-
to OF the girl who had won his heart,
only to be snatched away from him by
force, at the conclusion Of a dramatic
attempt to elope.
The couple we're overteken and Kos
ciuszko was left all but dead, the for
gotten kerchief on his breast. But his
youth and iron constitution brought
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-07-02
Geometry Required.


Plato is said to have written over
his door: Let no one ignorant of
geometry enter here" Today such a
restriction would reduce his visit
ing list. Perhaps outside the profess
sional mathematicians he would have
no one at all. All the artists, the
philanthropists, the historians, to say
nothing of those ladies and gentlemen
of leisure whose critical faculties are
so Importantly developed nowadays,
would certainly be absent, and, worse
still, would suffer very little at their
exclusion. Yet going back into the
centuries for guests, a distinguished
company might have been assembled
Of those who, without being famous
merely for mathematical studies, were
known to have understood and loved
the subject. The Greek philosophers
would have been there in a body. Al
phonse X, Omar Khayyam, Albert
Durer, Leonardo da Vinci, Descartes,
Pascal, Napoleon and Lewis Carroll.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-07-02
DOG VALUABLE in WARFARE
Intelligent Animal Brings sorely
Needed Aid TO Wounded During a
Lull In The Fighting.

A war correspondent speaks Of a.
French soldier who, in writing to his
family. told how his life was saved by
the pet dog OF his regiment Struck
by a fragment Of shell in the arm
and with a saber cut over the head,
the wounded man was lying half-cov-
cred by the dead bodies Of his com
rades. when he felt a light touch on
his forehead. Il was Tom, the regi-
ment's dog.
In spite OF his pain the soldier tried
to raise himself ny a little. He knew
that the animal was trained to carry
to the camp a wounded mans cap,
but he had lost his own. The dog hest
tated, and the soldier said to him:
Run quickly, Tom; go and find my
comrades. Go on-hnd them!"
Then Tom understood. He dashed
away to the camp. ran about among
the men, pulling their coats and bark
ing, and at last succeeded in drawing
two ambulance men to the spot where
the wounded soldier lay. He was
taken up quickly. cared for by the
surgeons, and today he is fast recover
ing.
Tom goes toward the firing line as
soon as the bullets begin to fly. He
scratches a hole in the ground and
crouches there. During the lulls In
the firing he does duty with the am
bulance men, and helps to save the
wounded.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-07-02

walk the floor. / could not lie down or
sit still sometimes for a day and a night
at q time. / was nervous, and had very
little appetite, no ambition, melancholy,
and often felt as though / bad not a
friend in the world. After l had tried
most every female remedy without sue
cess, my mother-in-law advised me to
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Compound. ] did 70 and gained in
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Remember, the remedy which did
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It has helped thousands of women
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that bearing down feeling, indigestion,
and nervous prostration, after all other
means have failed. Why don't you try
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Lynn, Mass.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-07-02

him round and. Poland having no
further attraction for him at that time,
he came to aid the struggling colo
nists in America
Through Franklin's aid he was given
a place on Washington's star, and
afterward made colonel Of engineers,
a position for which he was eminently
fitted by a careful military training in
the best schools of Europe. He was
with Gates at Saratoga. with Greene
in the Carolinas, and again In charge
of the fertilization Of West Point on
the Hudson.
When he had finished at West Point
that place was considered the strong
est fortress in America. and Washing.
ton took pains to pay tribute to Kos
ciuszko's genius. At the end Of the
wal he was a major general in the
Continental army.
Then he went back to Poland to
fight for his own people. His efforts
we're unsuccessful. and, after a check
cred career, he died In 1917 at Soleure,
Switzerland. His heart was buried
under a monument there. and his body
embalmed and afterward laid at rest
at CracOW.