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The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1915-04-30
ON LOCAL SUBJECTS
Local Items and Interesting Bits Of
News Of All Sorts

! were IN Ldcl6u6 OI1 MOuudy VI last
week were in st. Louis Wednesday
on their ret1rn trip it being their
thirteenth day out. They expect to
reach home on May Z, covering the
5000 miles in "a days.
VIM, Kraft is improving the
Haley residence property in west
part of town which he traded for
some time ago by tearing down a
part of the house, moving the other
part back and building a new ad-
dition. He has also put in a good
concrete walk along the front of
the property.
Mr.. J. Finley Farrar and Miss
Bertha Harris, two we'll and favor
ably known young people living on
route three, Laclede, were united
in marriage by Rev. W. G, At
wood at the Presbyterian parsonage
in Brookfeld on Wednesday even
ing of last week. They will re-
side on E. E. Kennedy's farm route
two, Laclede. They have the best
wishes of their many friends here.
Work Of improving the local
telephone system was begun last
Monday. A new 100 wire cable has
been laid under ground from the
central office to a pole in front of
Hotel Brown and all overhead
wires along that distance will be
removed. The new cable is 700
feet long. The cable now in use
will be connected with the south
end of the new cable and run south
to, the end of State. street and the
overhead wires removed. These
improvements will no doubt better
the service as we'll as improve the
looks Of the street.
The clean up season is now at
hand and the people of the town
should spend a little time in clean
ing the refuse that gather about
the premises during the winter
season. Yards should be cleaned
up; even the old fruit cans that
find their way into the back yards
should be removed. Give the house.
and out. buildings coat of paint
and you will be surprised at the
improvement in the appearance of
your premises that general clean
ing up will make. The city author
tiles should look after the back
alleys and see that refuse matter is
removed from the streets and
alleys.
The elegant new home Of Mr..
and Mrs. J. L. Mouser southwest |
Of town was the scene of a pleasant
gathering on last Saturday night.
Games of various kinds furnished
and a delightful even
ng was spent. Eats selected from
/ charade menu were enjoyed
principally for the curiosity aroused,
out the elegant refreshments served
ater were genuinely enjoyed.
Those present were Mrs. Anna
Nelson, Mr.. and Mrs. j, M. Nc
)onnell, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
1acto, Misses Marietta Welsh,
Helen Hoyt, Louise Bremen, Maud
Gahurin, Amanda Glenn, Edith
dahurin, Ellen Watson, Beatrice
Iarter, Bessie Perry, Ada Perry,
Ella Hancock, Bette Anderson,
lliva Anderson, Deliah Hunter,
ia Glenn, and Carlos Anderson,
has. B. Welsh, Sam Mcdonnell,
lobert Watson, Henry Brenner,
ilyde Balcom, Edgar Barton, Fred
irenner, Elmer Killing, 0rbid Bur
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1915-04-30
WAREHOUSES; BURNED
LacIede Business Block Badly Dam.
aged Yesterday

For more than an hour yesterday
it looked as if the whole business
section of Laclede was to be wiped
out by fire.
At about IL o'clock fire was dis
covered rapidly eating its way to
the roof of the large frame ware
house and stable at the rear OF
Kraft & Brenner's store.
The building was full of hay and
other infamable stuff and was soon
enveloped in flames. It was only
ten feet from an iron clad junk
room that joined to the rear of the
main building and within short
time the whole back of the building
was afire.
Just across the alley to the east
was another iron clad warehouse
20x8O feet filed with canned goods,
feed and other stuff. Soon it was
on fire from one end to the other
and everything in it was total
loss,
An ice house only rod or
so south belonging to J. H. Dick
was also burned.
The alarm spread rapidly and
large crowd of workers were soon
on hand and more heroic work Was
never done at fire. Fortunately
the wind was from the northwest
and the business houses were saved
with but slight damages.
A large iron clad warehouse at
the rear of j. W. Lomax & Co.'S
dry goods store burned and being
only a few feet away from the
main building the back door and
windows we're burned out but con-
tinual wetting from the top and
and within by the bucket brigade
kept the fire from the interior of
the building.
The coal house and part of the
Iron clad annex at the rear of
the Ross pool hall was torn
down and the fire prevented from
going farther north.
When it looked as if it was i'm
possible to save the store buildings
goods were removed from Kraft &
Brenner's store, Lomax's dry goods
store, a part of Sherry's drug
stock, a part of Browns drug
stock, furniture and fixtures from
the Rest Room, and Postmaster
Hetrick had everything packed
ready to take to the park.
Every store room, coal house
and outhouses of every description
were swept clean from the pool
hall south to the railroad track.
Had the fire once gotten inside
the main building the chances are
it would have again wiped out the
block.
Kraft & Bremen are perhaps the
heaviest losers, there being some
thing like $4,000 worth of -four,
canned goods and other supplies in
the three store rooms with only
$1,000 insurance.
There is one thing certain.
There will be no more fire traps on
the block as every building put up
will be either brick or concrete.
The fire is supposed to have
caught from burning trash at the
rear of Kraft & Brenner's store.
The telephone cable and wires
strung along the alley were burned
down and all the south part of I
town is ont of service. However.
the laying Of the new cable under
ground along the alley was COM 1
nletod tba dev hafore and a force !
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-22

over water, a much easier Had it not been for war conditions the engineers of the Amer ican Telephone and Telegraph Com pany would have talked to Paris from Arlington before they did to San Francisco and Honolulu"
 Used Same Apparatus.
 r B. Jewett, assistant chief engineer of the Western Electric Co, said the apparatus used af Arlington was the same that employed by the com pany in the experiments on Sept. 29, company in New York talked to John J. Carty at the Mare Island Navy Yard, San Francisco, by an dinary telephone circuit from New York to Washington, and thence by wireless telephone to Mare Island. He stated further, that the apparatus em- ployed by Mr> Shreeve and MT. Curtis, the company's< engineers in Paris, was the same as that used by MT, Carty, and by MT. Espenchied at Honolulu.
 Another record for wireless te1e- phony was made last night when the first tune ever sent through the air from coast to coast was transmitted from Thomas A. Edisons laboratory at West Orange, N J., to-San Francis GO, where 1t was listened to by MT. Edison, who is visiting the Panama Pacific Exposition.
 Further than this the strange fact was discl osed by MT. Edison himself that night when he talked to a gath ering Of friends in his laboratory, from San. Francisco, last night, it was the first time he ever had carried on conversation over a telephone eith- } CT wire or wireless. MT. Edison, w4lo> as is well known, is very deaf, uses a device for intensifying sound. but he dislikes to use it except on occasions when 1t is necessary for him to hear plainly.
 As it was Edison night at the Pan anna EzxpositionI about goo friends of the inventor met in his laboratory to celebrate the event and incidentally have a talk with him over the wire less phone. Attached to each of 162 chairs arranged for them were as many sensitive telephone receivers which at half past eight o'clock were connected up with the through wire and wireless telephone system be- tween New York and San Francisco.
 MT. Edison was called up in the usual way and the conversation from this end was transmitted by means of diamond disk record prepared for the occasion The inventor was con graduated on the fact that it was the Seth anniversary of his invention of the incan descent lamp. MT. Edi- 1 son had to have his little joke, and asked for a moment in which to find | his glasses He had a short conver- l sation with his Chief Engine eer, Mill CT R. Hutchinson, and then said to all | his friends+
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-22

lasted about three days, and then found himself stranded in Philadel- phia. He found work insJoohn Wana-
 makers store, and remained there about year. when he@Was again sta ge struck. He secured an engage ment with operatic road company producing The Brigand," and played the banjo and sang songs for $16 per week. At Montreal Charles Bigelow, the comedian. became ill, and MT. Hitchcock was given a chance to show what he could do in that line. He managed to .'get over.'' and became a
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-22

himself in the "11lums,'' he was ac- costed by a friend, and, according to the New York Evening World, the following dialogue ensued: = Listen, Hitchie!" said the friend. ..You saw your films, didn't you?'
 'I did.''
 'It was the first time you ever saw yourself act, wasn't it?"
 ''It was"
 well, frankly now, what do you think of yourself as an actor?"
 ''Honestly,'' came from the come dian, 'I wouldn't pay myself $3 per
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-22

week
 MT Hitchcock. didn't have an easy time in climbing the theatrical lad der As a boy in Auburn he was af- ficted with the amateur theatrical mania, and everybody told him he just ought to go on the professional stage and show up the cheap skates then performing before the footlights. With $25 and large stock of con- fdence he set out for New York, and when. down to his last penny he suc- ceeded in getting position with 8 -'ten-twent-thirt'' road company. He
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-22
Raymond Hitchcock Says He
 Isn't Worth $3 Per Week

Raymond Hitchcock, the come dian, will be A years old today, hav- ing been born Oct. 22, 1871, at Au- burn, N. Y., famed for it's prisons
 Like many other stage favorites MT
 Hitchcock has displayed his his trionic talent before the camera, and has thus achieved a vastly wider fol- lowing than he could otherwise hope to achieve. It is to be hoped, how ever, that the patrons of the movies will not share his own opinion of himself as an actor. After seeing
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-22

fixture. Later he was engaged for 'HThe Golden Wedding and since then he has. never, had to hunt for a job. And, despite his own modest estimate of his ability, he gets con siderably more than the s,3 per, week he earned when he started his career as a clerk in a shoe store,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-22
Description of Suite

In most design is to all no like the rocker chair made genuine solo hast sets sof sleep the slight operar1on t iron a bed Best 1mPerlal is guaranteed to give sat isfactory wear library thoroughly in keeping the built for
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-22
SERBIAN ARMY SHIFTED.

Paris, Oct. 22.-The Serbian army at Valandovo has been ordered to leave for the north to reinforce the troops there, according to a despater received by the Journal from Athena under Wednesdays date. It is, stated that Nalandovo will be guarded by forces of the entente allies.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-22

The Hotel Royal at New Orleans, which served as the Capitol of Louisiana from 1874 to 1882. will be torn down to make room for a mod ern structure.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-22

General Villa has started tho in vasion of. Sorozta-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-22
Terms Cash or Credit


 would nuc prefer on this cause when you buy you regular visitor gradually develop preference for our 1nuch need thing here giving thought of going
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-22
Great Specials

Throughout every of large floors you will find any number of values like these. You don't have to go any place else to save on the things you want for your home We are ever on the alert to secure the biggest values for our customers and leave stone unturned to bring together here the cream of the coun- try,s furniture market for your selection and at prices unmatched anywhere.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-22
To Young Married Couples

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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-05-20
FERRIS CENTER

Master Jack Meddick of Vestaburg
spent the week end with Master
Franklin Dyer.
l.. +. Woodland was an Edmore bus.
mess caller, Friday.
Decoration Day exercises will be
held at the Ferris Center Church, Sat.
urday, pm, May 29. All are cordial
ly invited.
Mrs. Geo. Holland of Crystal, called
on Mrs. c. l.. Dyer, Thursday
Chas. Walters has moved his family
into the parsonage.
James Fisher and wife of Sumner
called on her brother, VIM. Parr. Fri.
day evening. Mr.. Parr is some better
at present.
Martin Wickerson is moving into
his new house.
Mrs. F. ID. Hare visited her brother
DeForest Davenport of Grand Rapids
the past week.
Miss Erma Camp who has been al
the home of F. ID. Hare the past few
months, returned to her home near
Edmore, Tuesday.
Mr.. Mosher and family spent Sun
day with his parents near Cedar Lake.
Thomas Hill9nd of West Ferris, an
old settler, was buried here Saturday
afternoon.
Mrs. Henry O'Connor and Iona Dy-
er, were Vestaburg visitors, Friday.
Mrs. VIM. Griffin of Elm Hall Wis
tied her parents F. J. Scott and wife,
Saturday.
Mr.. Mathewson Of Edmore, was a
business caller here, Wednesday.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-05-20
PHYSICIANS PRESCRIPTION FOR
INDIGESTION
Important for all those who suffer af-
ter eating.

ter eating.
Ii you suffer from Indigestion after
eating and find that instead of the one
little pepsin or soda pill you used to
take, it now needs two or three to stop
it, it's time you called a halt and did
some hard thinking.
The plain truth is that there are
thousands of men and women in this
country whose stomachs are dead or
dying from lack of exercise while they
themselves still live.
Years ago famous physician wrote
the prescription for Mi-o-na Stomach
Tablets and thousands owe their very
life to them today. Most stomach
remedies work on the food and digest
it. Mi-o-na Tablets strengthen the
stomach walls, simulate the stomach
muscles and vitalize the stomach
machinery into instant and normal
action. c. G.. Rhodes and many other
leading druggists hereabouts, sell Mi
o-na Tablets, agreeing to refund mon
ely in any case where it does not
druggist thinks this we'll of Mi-o-na
you surely ought to try it. adv
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-05-20
FOREST HILL

+. b. Archie and Gladys Failing
autoed to Saginaw, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Mills are moving
to Lansing where Mr.. Mills has EN-.
ployment in the REQ auto plant.
Mrs. Hugh Byers and little daugh.
ter of Alma, spent Saturday at b. L.
Hamilton's home.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. M. Brewer spent
Saturday and Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Grant Brewers at St. Louis.
The social given by the young peo-
pie, Friday ewing, was well attended
proceeds were about SIS.
Mrs. Clare Vanderbeek and Miss
IVA Creech, called on Mr.. and Mrs.
Will Wood at Elm Grove, Thursday.
b. T. Hamilton made business trip
to Lansing, Saturday.
Miss Bessie Small returned from
Milo, Oscoda Co.. Wednesday, where
she has been visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Small, for few weeks.
Mrs. Ralph Richardson and two
children of Wheeler, called on friends
in this vicinity, last week.
Newton Burns of st. Louis was in
town on business, Friday.
Mrs. Edgar Sias entertained her
cousin, Mrs. Charles Ham of Shep-
herd, Thursday.
Miss Clara Johnson of Ithaca spent
Friday and Saturday with Miss Edna
Sias.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Creech enter
tanned DIR. Branch of st. Louis, Friday
and Saturday.
Little Melvin Leland, who has been
seriously i'll with pneumonia, is re-
ported to be better at present.
Freda Conley, Rhoda Sanders, Blan-
che Hamilton, Carlyle Gallagher,
Ward Leonard and Clara Foglesong,
took the 9Th grade examination, at
AlmS, Thursday and Friday.
Mrs. II. S. Parsons returned to her
home in st. Louis, Thursday, after
spending few days with her son,
Emery Parsons and family.
John Palmer has purchased a new
Mr.. and Mrs. Clare Vanderbeek cal
led on Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Ellison at
Alma, Sunday
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-05-20
RIyERDALE

Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Owen and mother,
Mrs. Aldrich, and Mrs. Whitney, auto
ed TO Elm Hall and Sumner, Tuesday.
Rev. Albert Baker. wife and child
rem, spent Wednesday with friends
near Elwell
Mrs. Young returned to Shepherd
Tuesday, after spending week with
her son, John and family.
Miss Reid of Ithaca, was the guest
of Mrs. Alfred LOCKER, Wednesday.
K. Hardy and daughter of Edmore,
called on friends in town, Thursday
Mr.. and Mrs. B. o. Markham, spent
last Sunday in Sumner, with relatives.
Mrs. Stella Follick attended the fun
eral of Mrs. Joseph, at Elm Hall, Mon
day.
Miss Inez White of Mcbride spent
several days last week with friends
north of Riverdale.
Jasper Norton of st. Louis, was a
Riverdale caller, Friday.
Mrs. Walter Bartlett and children
and Mrs. Robert Bartlett visited
friends in Elwell, Tuesday.
Mrs. Ted Lester of Elwell called on
friends in town, Tuesday.
Mrs. Emma Wiley and children re-
turned to their home in Manton, Tues
day, after spending several weeks with
her mother, Mrs. Mary Hyde.
Mrs. +. G. Smith of Lakeview. was
the guest of friends in town, last Tues
day.
Mrs. George Rexford Of Marion, was
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-05-20
SUNNI ERTON

Jesse Rearick returned to his home
in Ohio, Thursday, Mrs. Rearick will
remain for longer visit.
Alfred Dorman visited at the home
of Will Ingraham. Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Johnson entertained
their daughter and two children from
Clare, last week.
Rhoda Saunders, Fredia Conley
Ward Leonard and Carlyle Gallagher
were in Alma, Thursday and Friday
writing the 9Th grade examination.
Mrs. Frank Desmond, who has been
very sick. is improving rapidly.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Shong of Elwell,
visited at the home of Arlie Conley
Sunday.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-05-20

The 9Th grade examination was last
week, Thursday and Friday. There
were over twenty who wrote, from
Riverdale and surrounding schools.
The 10th grade sold ice cream and cake
at Van Alstine Butcher shop, proceeds
to be used for graduation exercises.
Detroiter Abend-Post. (Detroit [Mich.]) 18??-19??, 1915-05-07

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