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Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-07

Hillsdale-C. H. Ranney has re-
signed as assistant cashier Of the
Hillsdale Savings bank to become state
auditor for the John Hancock Mutual
Life Insurance company, with offices
in Detroit, and will begin his new
duties August l..
Holt-Myles F. Gray, grandmother
Of the Michigan Odd Fellows, points
out the Holt lodge as one of the most
enterprising and ideal lodges of the
500 in the state. The Holt lodge was
instituted five years ago with but a
small membership. This lodge"
says Grand Master Gray, sis accom-
plishing big purpose; that of max
ing itself the social center of a com
munity. It's activities are many and
its enterprise untiring. An indica
ton of its substantially is the fact
that, although it has been organized
but five years and has membership
limited to possibly half hundred, it
has built two halls. The first one built
burned down, and the members i'm
mediately started subscriptions to
erect another. This record has
scarcely been equaled, considering its
membership, in Odd Fellow history
of the state"
Owosso--A meeting soon will be
held in Owosso for the organization
of local branch of the Holstein-
Friesian Breeders of America. There
are now about so breeders of Holstein
cattle in the county. Many fine Hol-
stems have been shipped from Shia-
wassee. The great COW, Valvessa
Scott I'd, which for some time held
the worlds record, was bred and
owned by B. E. Hardy, of Owosso
township. 1t is expected there will be
100 head of Holsteins exhibited at the
county fair in Owosso in September
Monroe-Twenty years ago Henry
Cooley, then lad of 10 years, at the
deaIn OF ms 1ather was placed In st.
Joseph's orphanage. He was appren-
ticed to a farmer and went to North
Dakota, thence to New York and fin
ally to Jackson, where he married
Through Postmaster Cooley, of Mon
roe, he found his mother and sister,
Mrs. William Boss, of this city, after
the long separation.
Misunderstanding will be
started toward the condemnation of a
portion of city park here for high
school building site.
Port Huron-Cecil E. Whitney, of
this city has been awarded a prize of
500 by the American Association of
international Cancellation for the best
essay on American policy.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-07

Superintendent, Detroit Recreation
Commission; Mrs. Caroline Bartlett
Crane, National Red Cross Society;
A. H. Gansser, Bay City, State Sena-
tor; L. ID. Dickinson, Charlotte, Lieu
tenant Governor, Michigan; Mrs. A,
II. Roberts, Marquette, President
Marquette Welfare League; Mrs. Jen-
ME Buell., Ann Arbor, Secretary Mich
igan State Grange; John l.. Burkhart,
Lansing, Secretary Michigan Board
of Health; Arthur H. Vandenberg
Grand Rapids, Editor, Grand Rapids
Herald; Stewart Hanley, Detroit,
State Board of Corrections and Char
tiles; Mrs. Francis Burns, st. Louis,
Great Commander, L. o. T. M. M;
d. B. Montgomery, Coldwater, Super
intendent State Public Schools; Fred
L. Keller, State Superintendent Pub
lie Instruction, Lansing; Mrs. T. c.
Greenwood, Detroit Twentieth Cen
fury Club; Clarence A. Lightner,
George Junior Republic, Ford Repub-
lie, Detroit-By Mark T. Mckee.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-07
If WOMEN ONLY KNEW
What a Heap of Happiness 1t Would
Bring TO Thousands of Homes.

Bring to Thousands of Homes.
Hard to do homework with an ach-
ing back.
Brings your hours Of misery at lei
sure or at work.
If women only knew the cause
that
Bachache pains often come from
weak kidneys,
Twould save much needless woe.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for weak
kidneys,
Thousands Of grateful users en-
dorse them.
Mrs. Mary ]. Conklin, Forest Ave-,
Frankfort, Mich, says: II was in a
bad way with kidney trouble. l had
q dull, throbbing pain in the small OF
my back. Others of my family had
had very good results from Doan's
Kidney Pills, and ! decided to try
them. l got relief from the first box.
| took about three boxes and haven't
had any more trouble. ! always keep
Doan's Kidney Pills on hand"
Price SOC, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Conklin had. Foster-Milburn
Co., Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-07

ing pictures.
1t was formerly the practice of
English police inspectors to request
a man charged with drunkenness to
say truly rural"
A wise housewife says: "To keep
tea kettle from rusting keep an oys-
ter shell in it.. The shell should be
taken out occasionally and brushed.
The English Lee-Medford rifles
carry 10 cartridges in the magazines
as against in the German Mauser
rifle.
There is no capital punishment in
Italy.
According to statistics, one man out
of every AZ in England and Wales is
a pauper.
Austria boasts tree 48O feet high.
1t is stated there is not an old maid
in Turkey.
The trade of the United States with
Canada in 1914 amounted to $751;
'45O,324.
Because Miss Frances Whitney,
aged 62, of st. Louis, keeps 20 cats
in her home, her friends want her
mental condition investigated.
l.. c. Kennedy of st. Paul has in
vented a device which will enable
rifemen to aim correctly at distance
of mile or more.
Wireless messages are now being
sent from Honolulu to Japan, dis
lance of 3,400 miles.
Government experts assert that an
easily reaped crop of kelp, which
grow along the Pacific coast, can be
made to yield six times as much
potash annually as this country i'm
ports from Germany.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-07
Great State Movement
In Child Welfare Work
Michigan Fraternalists Organize to flake State
Wide Survey If Entire State and Outline
Plan for Effective Corpora
, tive Work.

About three hundred persons were
present at the conference, each in a
majority of cases, representing some
very potent influence, either through
out the state or in some particular
district. These included the Fra
ternal Beneficiary societies of the
state and other fraternal societies, in
all comprising about seven hundred
thousand members; state officials,
state boards. institutional boards,
hospital boards, welfare leagues and
societies, charities organizations, play
ground and recreation commissions,
disease prevention movements, in fact
all boards, societies, clubs, organiza-
tons engaged or interested in any
uplift work in the state.
Prominent Speakers.
Among the speakers at the confer
ence, besides Mr.. Hart, the New York
expert, were: DIR. William A. Wilson,
superintendent of the Florence Crit
tenden Home in Detroit; Grant H.
Slocum, founder and Supreme Secre-
tary of the Ancient Order of Clean
ers, Detroit; William Z. Brown, La
peer, president of the Michigan Fra
ternal Congress; d. B. Montgomery,
superintendent of the state schools at
Coldwater; Ira w. Jayne, superin-
tendent of the Playground and Re-
creation Commission, Detroit; Rev.
Caroline Bartlett Crane, Kalamazoo,
National Red Cross Society; DR.. John
L. Burkhart, secretary of the State
Board of Health; Mrs. Orion H. Clark,
president of the Michigan Equal Suf-
frage Association, Kalamazoo; Miss
Bina NJ. West, Supreme Commander
of the Women's Benefit Association of
the Maccabees, Port Huron; Stewart
Hanley, vice president of the Michi-
gan Fraternal Congress and men,
Der of the State Board of Charities
and Corrections, and others of equal
prominence. | f
At ground table" about fifty of
the brightest minds in the state en-
gagged in spirited discussion and all
promised the hearty cooperation of
the units they represented in gen.
eral organization in which would be
co-ordinated all interests engaged in
child welfare work.
1t was decided to effect a perma-
nent organization and make COM
plete survey of the conditions in the
state and report the same at a con-
ference to be held late in the fall at
which time sessions covering three
days will be held, outlining plans for
the carrying out of the work.
The officers of the organization and
the executive committee are:
President-Dr. William A. Wilson.
Secretary-Mark T. Mckee.
Executive Committee.
Grant H. Slocum, chairman, De-
troit, supreme secretary, Ancient Or
der Cleaners; Rt. Rev. Charles d.
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Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-07

Howard Elliott president of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad says the day is coming when
the great labor organizations will be
regulated in the same way as big cor
porations.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-07

Learn Watch Work, JeweIry work and
Epo, a inn A fine trade commanding a good
Lug "s' salary, and your services are al
ways in demand Address THEOLOGICAL
Department. Bradley Institute, Peoria ILL.,. for
our latest catalog.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-07

Henry Ford on the Fourth of July
was host to the villagers of Dearborn
where he spent his childhood. The
celebration cost the great automobile
manufacturer $4,000. He has just
completed a $4,000 summer home
there.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-07
Executive Committee.

Grant H. Slocum, chairman, De-
troit, supreme secretary, Ancient Or
der Cleaners; Rt. Rev. Charles D,
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-07

w. A. Fishback, of South st. Paul,
Mimi, announces that he will not
have his hair cut until the European
war ends.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-07

Rear Admiral Taylor. chief con-
structor of the navy, has perfected a
heavy chain net to be used by dread
noughts as protection against tor
pedos.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-07

German military authorities are
said to have developed an aerial tor
pedo that can be directed by Hertzian
rays from the deck of a Zepplin diri-
gible balloon.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-07

A giant aeroplane designed by
Glenn Curtiss is being built at the
Canadian Curtiss plant for Great
Britain. 1t will have a wing sweep
of rs feet, will be 800 horse power
and will carry 1000 pounds.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-07
Current Events
By Paul Leake

1t is estimated that near 300,-
100000 feet or more than $4,000
miles of films are used annuolly to
satisfy the worlds demand for NOV
ing pictures.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-07

Bismuth deposits have been discov-
cred in New Mexico, which are said
to be the largest in the United States.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-07

Owing to "the business depression"
a Huntington, w. Va, Judge declines
to fine drunks more than $1.OO each.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-07

Reports from Dresden, Germany,
tell of successful experiments in in
creasing the yield of gardens by
heating the earth with waste heat
from factories and industrial estab-
lishments. Fruit and vegetables
grown under this condition have at
tanned from 10 to 100 per cent greater
size than those grown in unheated
ground. ti
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-07

1t was formerly the practice Of
English police inspectors to request
man charged with drunkenness tt
say truly rural"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-01-01
HOUSEHOLDER
HTNTL1 49,
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

Do not throw away - old salt or
sugar sacks. Split them an ouen and
sew them together They make eX-
cellent dish cloths and towels
Removing Cocoa Stains From Table
Linen-Many have difficulty in remov-
ing cocoa stains" from table linen
and napkins. This can be easily over
come by first washing the article
stained in clear cold water without
the use OF soap, before putting with
the clothes to be Numbered.
School Misunderstanding sleeves,
fronts and backs OF WORKOUT white
waists, cut into handkerchief squares
and hemmed, make nice, soft school
handkerchiefs for little school girls
and boys, who are so hard on yland-
kerchiefs, and. i lost, there is not
much loss.
To Prevent Rats and Mice from mo-
Testing meat when hanging in smoke
house-Take a sheet of sticky fypa-
per, make it funnel shape. and put
over meat; fasten small end
around top .of meat, with string or
safety pin.
Cheap Dustclothes-Mix half pint
raw linseed oil and one-fourth pint
each of cider vinegar and turpentine.
Saturate cheap cheesecloth-not very
moist This will last as long as six
25-cent dustclothes. will not cost more
than the price of one and just as good
White Window Shades-Save the
old rollers and fiat sticks and get a
good piece of white cotton cloth, cut
into lengths to fit your windows. Hem
bottom to run fat stick through. If
1t is the right width for windows.
leave selvedge edge; if too wide. hem
both sides Starch stir and iron
smooth. Tack to rollers. using tiny
tacks from old shades Oarger ones
will interfere with the spring. Hang
up and you will be surprised at the
nice effect. They can be taken down
and washed as often as you like and
Will always be beautiful and white.
They can be used for good many
years as shades. then washed and
made into aprons, pillow slips. laundry
bags or anything that piece of white
goods may be needed for.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-01-01
IIAI)T ono
HOME
DQeBLIMS.
MS eli AEETI TEeAOS a.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: "a Do you
have any hours in which you could
give advice to us personally?
CD Do you think the fox trot is
going to be danced this winter. and, if
SO, do you advise US to learn it.? We
Will do just as you say.
2 81 u has been going with boy
four weeks and he gave her this sta
tionery for Christmas. Do you think
he cares for her?
"a Would you think any young
man attentive enough who would
drive 10 miles four times a week when
1t is % below zero TO see a lady
friend?
e (5) Do you think young man
has cause 10 be angry because his
lady friend danced with another per
fectly respectable young man, leay-
ing him to sit the dance out?
= 90 Do you think anyone with dark
hair and blue eyes could wear red
well, and. ii SO. what shade OF red
would you suggest?
Z. AND I.
% I am very busy woman and
{ am often out OF town, so I am afraid
a personal interview is impossible.
I am sorry, bat l am glad TO help in
any way by eorrespo ndence.
CD AT present the fox trot is
popular and It bids fair TO hold its
own. IL anyone wishes to dance he
will have to learn the new dances. as
the waltz and two-step are decidedly
out. There is proper and improper
way to dance all the new dances. Be
sure and get a teacher who makes
them attractive and modest, not gro
tesque and vulgar. They can be
either.
Il CD There is no reason for any
girl to think any boy has any feeling
for her but a purely friendly interest
unless he tells her SO. Probably the
boy has no sisters and was not up
In stationery qualities.
"a Surely young man who
would make such an effort to see a
young lady must think something OF
her.
(5) 1t is customary for young men |
taking young ladies TO dances to ex- |
change dances among themselves and /
30 fill the young ladies' programs |
md their own and no one would have |
10 SIT out dance alone. He GER
3Ainly could not expect her 10 dance /
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-01-01
Coming of Symphony
Orchestra Event of Year,

s One of the most important events
that comes with the opening of the
New Year is the appearance of the
New York Symphony orchestra which
will be Monday evening, Jan. Is, at the
Illinois. This famous orchestra under
the direction of the distinguished con
ductor, Walter Damrosch. comes under
the auspices of the Rock Island Must
cal club as the annual big musical at
traction of the year.
Since its organization six years ago
the Rock Island Musical club has
brought to the city each year some
artist of acknowledged reputation.
Madame Schumann-Heink, Madame
Frances Aide. George Hamlin, Mischa
EIman and others being among its
entertainers. These concerts have
received the ptronage of the best peo-
pie in the community and have been
successes musically and financially.
proving conclusively that the tri-cities
do appreciate and enjoy good music.
s. Walter Damrosch has at various
times devoted himself to composition;
to conducting grand opera; and to
lecture recitals but after all it is per
haps as the conductor and program
programs is n art that is not under
stood by all conductors.
S. Since he left the Metropolitan opera
house 10 years ago Mr.. Damrosch has
devoted himself heart and soul to the
perfecting of the New York Symphony
orchestra. The future of his orchestra
is now definitely assured by the mag
nificent endowment of Harry Hardness
I II. IrT
bars a year. This gift is one of the
great events in the musical history Of
America. and will be far reaching in
its influence on the future development
of music in New York and the country
at large.
The New York Symphony orchestra
is now in the position of absolute finan-
cial independence which has been the
dream of its conductor for many years.
The members of the orchestra are the
foremost players of their respective
Instruments and as they have been
under the baton of Mr.. Damrosch for
years the finest details of technique
and nuance are obtained.
The artists committee in charge of
the concert met with the committee
chairman. Mrs. J. r. Tuckis. yesterday
and selected the committees to be in
charge of the arrangements. Mrs. J.
*. Scott was made chairman of the
committee on tickets and the members
of her committee are Miss Grace Girls
woId. Mrs. F. X Khoads Miss Violet
Doney, Mrs. A F. Williams, Mrs. Al
bert Huesing, Jr., and Miss Nellie
Swanson. These ladies will in turn
have under them all the active mem
bers of the club. dividing the member
ship according to sections OF the city.
Mrs. Tuckis will be in charge of the
sale of boxes. II is very important
that the active members attend the
meeting of the club next Tuesday at
the New Harper in order that they
may procure their tickets and get to
work at once distributing and selling
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-01-01
THE TABLE.

Mock Maple Sirup-Take enough
sugar (granulated) with black coffee
mot too strongJ to make a strip TO
suit; add TO the strip a little extract
of vanilla. A very good substitute
Roast Rabbit-CIean and dress. re
moving head and feet (some leave
head ON; lay in salt water about half
an hour. then rinse in cold water. wipe
dry. rub inside with salt. nil with d
dressing of bread crumbs. a little
melted butter. pepper and salt, half
cup sausage meat. little sage. Sew
or tie up the opening and place IA b.
bit in roasting pan in which are few
slices Of salt pork. Sprinkle with
pepper and salt and lay two or three
slices OF salt pork. cut very thin. over
top of rabbit. Place in moderately hot
oven and haste frequently. Bake
about one and one-half hours. Basic
with butter and water that should be
in the pan. When done. remove care
fully so as not to break il. remove
strings and serve with slices of the
dripping in the pan, adding water il
not enough
Cl4t anu pAit-ldl1 POUNDS nut
ter creamed, fifteen egg yolks Cbeat-
EN-, one and one-half pounds sugar.
Beat well and sift in two Cscantl
pounds -four with three teaspoons
baking powder Mix in beaten whites
of the eggs. Crate two lemons in half
cup of molasses. add it with two
pounds finely chopped raisins. one
pound chopped citron Bake two
hours in moderate oven. When cold.
ice handsomely.
Fruit pudding-One cup graduated
sugar zone egg, one cup milk, two tea
spoons baking powder, two cups -four,
one quart can any fruit (canned) will
do for this pudding. Beat egg and
sugar together until creamy. add
milk. flour, and baking powder. beat
ing until smooth batter. Pour fruit
into deep granite baking dish. pour
over batter end bake 20 minute
moderate oven. This makes a deljc-
ious dessert; enough for six.
Nut Cake-One cup white sugar.
half cup of lard, pinch salt, one cup
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-01-01
SOCIAL EVENTS

(Rachmanioff) Miss Ames.
Prelude (Pachulaski), "Craiovienne
Santaspique CPaderewski) - Mrs.
Oberholtzer.
Floods Of Spring" CRachmanion)
Miss Ames.
Miss Frances White Of Oberlin con
servatory, who was a guest of the
afternoon, played Etude in a Flat
(Wollenhaupf).
Refreshments were served at the
close of the program and a delightful
social time was enjoyed.
MANY ATTEND WATCH PARTIES.
Those Who did not attend some
sort Of New Years party last night
were very much in the minority for
large mum ers of parties were given
by individual hostesses. clubs, socie-
ties. etc. Practically every church
opened its doors for the entertainment
of its people and here attractive pro
grams of music and readings were ar
ranged. Refreshments were served
and as the hour fer the arrival OF
the New Year approached appropriate
services of song and PRAYER were held.
The night was ideally beautiful,
just crisp enough to be comfortable,
the full moon as bright as daylight
and the sleighing splendid and it drew
large hunters OF people out into it
and sleighing parties made the night
merry with their horns and laughter,
At the approach Of the New Year they
cong& gated in homes and club houses
for supper and to give it a rousing
welcome.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-01-01

sweet milk. two teaspoons baking
powder in two cups -four, one cup nut
meats. Bake about half hour.
Icing. Pulverized sugar mixed with
a little milk. Place haIe nut meats on
icing.
Devil food can be made by leaving
out nut meats and mixing half cup
cocoa with the sugar.
Fine raisin cake is made by using
one cup Of raisins in place of nut
meats, or use specs 20 make good
fruit cake Also makes good white
cake by leaving out nut meats; make
pretty pink Icing by mixing pulyer-
lied sugar with juice or canned cher
ries. straw berries or cranberries
Make lemon extract and make icing
by mixing puRerized sugar with
lemon juice
Mock Venisou -- Place leg Of lamb
in deep crock and cover with a mari
made of two parts vinegar to one Of
water. one teaspoon cinnamon, half
teaspoon cloves and alspice and the
same of ginger. two bay leaves, two
large sliced onions and three strips OF
lemon peel Add paprika and salt lib
orally. Keep in this marinade five
days, turning twice each day and keep
ing closely covered Remove with all
the ingredients and put in pot or large
vessel TO be simmered Cut two strips
Of bacon into small pieces and insert
in lamb Make Sits with sharp knife.
Keep two cups OF liquid to simmer
lamb. add one teaspoon extract beef
mot necessary. two small ginger
snaps and all the Ingredients Brown
one tablespoon sugar in a sauce pan.
brown two tablespoons -four in butter.
add to stew and let all simmer five
hours. adding one tablespoon Of fruit
juice a. last. Vemson is in season
now.
Eggs an Gratin-Arrange poacbeG
eggs on shallow buttered baking dish.
sprinkle with grated cheese. and pour
over all bechamel sauce. Cover with
stale buttered crumbs and sprinkle
again with cheese Brown in. oven
Bechamel sauce: One cup milk. one
fourth teaspoon salt, one tablespoon
butter rounded. three-fourths table
spoon -four Toundedl, dash white
pepper. Put utter in sauce pan:
melt until it ub bles, add -four and
seasoning; st until Well blended.
Four on mix ,wly first drawing the
sauce pan to Eool part of the range.
Should you pd milk all In AT orce
you will pro5s have lupnv sauce
'na' you WIN We toftrain. A wire
whiskN is bel for sArrinc a sauce