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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-05
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Get after the cause. Help the
kidneys.
We Americans go IL too hard.
We overdo, overeat and neglect
our sleep and exercise, and 30 we
are fast becoming a nation of kid
ney aufferers. 1870 more deaths
from kidney diseases than In
1890, 10 the story told by the
1910 census.
II annoyed with bad back.
nervous troubles and Irregular
kidney or bladder action. modify
the bad habits, and use Doan's
Kidney Pills. Thousands recon-
mend them.
A TACOMA CASE
A. p. Bailey, captain engine Co.
No. 9, Gil N. Pine st., saye. For
number of years l have had q
dull. heavy ache IN the small OF
my back. The kidney secretions
used to pass too often, causing
me TO get up several times at
night. After using about three
boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills, my
back and kidneys got better"
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-12-08
What Wise Men Have Said

The man who procrastinates, strug-
giles with ruin.
Whoever is right, the prosecutor
must be wrong.
If principal is good for anything, it is
worth living up to.
We do not correct the man we hang;
we correct others by him.
Women always find their bitterest
foes among their own sex.
Women have fewer vices than men,
but they have stronger prejudices.
Be just, and fear not; let all the end
thou aims't at be thy country's, thy
Gods and truth
We seldom find persons whom we
acknowledge to be possessed OF good
sense except those who agree with us
in opinion.
Pride seems to be equally distributed
the man who owns the carriage and the
man who drives ii seem to have it just
alike.
1t is in length Of patience, endurance
and forbearance that so much of what
is good IN mankind and womanklnd is
shown.
If can put one touch Of rosy sun
set into the life of any man or woman,
| shall feel that l have worked with
God.
Who feels no ills should therefore
fear them, and when fortune smiles be
boubly cautious, lest destruction come
remorseless on him and be fall unpited
While tenderness of feeling and sus
ceptibility to generous emotions are &C
cidents of temperament, goodness is ar
achievement of the will and quality O
the life.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-12-08
AGRICULTURAL
EXTENSION
SCHOOLS
Ironton Has Been Selected For
One In March.

One OF the many means used by the
Michigan Agricultural College in bring
ing modern agricultural methods and
the results OF scientific research in
farm problems to the people OF the
state is the agricultural extension
school. These schools are promoted
by the director of college extension,
Mr.. r. j. Baldwin of East Lansing. The
extension department has on its staff
the twenty-six county agents, the field
agents from the various college depart
ments, the women demonstrators from
the domestic science department, and
the state leaders of boys and girls
clubs. The schools are conducted by
some two or three of the members OF
the college extension staff and lasts for
five days. Several topics of local i'm
portance are covered by lectures and
demonstrations. All interested farmers
who enroll for the work are expected
to attend regularly and help with the
demonstrations.
The community desiring an extern
sion school makes application for the
same to the director Of college extern
sion. There is no expense connected
except hall rent, fuel, etc. This is
borne by those attending the school.
Counties employing a county agent are
giveu first consideration in placing
these schools, for the county agent acts
as local manager, and experience has
shown that schools in such counties are
always most successful.
Director Baldwin has signified his in
tention of giving this county an exten-
sion school to be held early in March at
| Ironton. This may be considered a
recognition of the progressiveness OF
Charlevoix county farmers and all are
urged to give the school in return the
very best support possible.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-12-08
Make the Home Bright

The interior decorations of mans
home may have much to do with his
domestic happiness or unhappiness, as
the case may be, according to the Sec
retary of the International Association
of Master House Painters and Decora-
tors. The depressing effect of dark
colors in wood finish and wall paper
has wrecked homes which would have
been happy had the colors Been bright,
is the opinion of this expert.
Ozark colors in home decorations are
like dark, gloomy days in their effect
on people" he said. '1t is well known
that gloomy days are commonly known
to the police as suicide days There
are many more suicides, murders and
other crimes on rainy days. A man
owes it to his family to surround it with
bright rooms which will catch all the
sunshine there is and turn it into
domestic happiness.
ga room done in dark colors has the
same effect on persons entering il as
utter darkness. Ones senses cannot
be so active as in bright surroundings,
and there is loss Of buoyancy that
breeds grouches, with all their disas-
trous results. Bright, clean, open
minds are the sure result Of bright sur
roundings. kansas City Star.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-12-08
G. "A. RS ENTERTAIN
AND THE
w. r. {. ELECT OFFICERS

Stevens Post G. A. r. entertained
the ladies of the Woman's Relief Corps
and their husbands at their hall on
State-St. last Saturday, Dec. End.
This was the ladies regular meeting
day and business session was held at
which the following officers were
elected for Stevens Corps w. R. c.
President-Fannie Zerwekh
Senior Vice-Eunice Bowen
Junior e" Nancy Smith
-Chaplain-Clara Sheldon
Treasurer-Sarah Rogers
Conductor-Matilda Harrington
Guard-Alice Evans
Delegate to State Convention-Addie
Tindale
Installing officer-Elva Barrie.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-12-08
VANPELTS TOURING DIARY
The Bancroft, Worcester, Mass.
T..rI.x. no4 101D

The Bancroft Worcester, Mass.
Tuesday, Oct. 3, 1916
Another beautiful day for the two
boy tourists and our journey together
is fast drawing to close. We left
North Adams, Massachusetts,, at eight
a. m. to cross the mountains on the
great National Mohawk trail, and in
order to give your readers a far better
description than could possibly give,
| am sending the editor of this paper a
little booklet, gotten up by the pro-
prietor of the Mansion House, Green
field, Massachusetts,, which will tell
you more about it in ten minutes than
| could write in ten years.
BY the way, stopped at this hotel
over fifty years ago-one night every
four weeks for some four or five years,
and its just the same good old hotel,
but much improved in many ways.
Now, to 90 back to our trip. The
day was perfect and the view, as we
crawled up the mountainside, was
truly grand. We laid over couple of
hours at the Greenfield Mansion House
and then drove to Worcester, Massa-
chusetts, passing through Athol, Peter
sham and Barre. This hotel excels any
on the route. There are two places
we will never stop again-Troy, N Y.
and North Adams, Mass. The road
over the mountain cost about 1915, ,OOO..
90 to build and is about twelve miles
long. The balance of the way through
Shelburn was only fair, but from
Greenfield here it was fine. GOOD
night-the two boys are getting tired
and are ready to be put to bed.
VAN PELT.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-12-08
"Michigan's Gone Dry!"

There is sadness in the bar-room,
And the bar-keep's shedding tears,
And he's rather lost his chuckle
AS he's serving up the beers.
And the bunch that hang about him
Sympathetically sigh,
For John Barleycorn's been walloped,
And the state is going dry.
There's rejoicing in the cottage,
And there's gladness in the house
That has known the wobbly footsteps
And the vileness of souse.
And the patient wife and kiddies
See their troubles passing by,
For their greatest foe is dying,
Now the state is going dry.
There is weeping now where laughter,
Lewd and ribald, used to reign,
And there's laughter in the dwellings
That were ruled by want and pain.
Now the sorrows where it should be,
And the glad smiles homeward fly,
And this life seems bright with promise
Z. For the state is going dry.
Let the bar-flies do the wailing;
It's the children's time to smile;
It's the time for patient mothers
To be merry for while.
Long enough the homes been gloomy;
It's the bar-keep's time TO cry,
And the pinch is where it should be,
Now the state is going dry.
Edgar A. Guest in Free Press.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-12-08
MICHIGAN CROP REPORT

Lansing, Mich, Dec. 5, 1916.
WHEAT-The condition of wheat as
compared with an average per cent is
So in the State, "a in the southern
counties, SO in the central counties, 90
in the northern counties and IS in the
Upper Peninsula. One year ago the
per cent was IS in the state, S3 in the
southern counties, "a in the central
counties, 81 in the northern counties
and 96 in the Upper Peninsula.
The total number of bushels of wheat
marketed by farmers in November at
rs FIGURING mills is 110,8l4 and at II
elevators and to grain dealers 100, ,692
or total of 220,506 bushels. OF this
amount 169,34l bushels were marketed
in the southern four tiers of counties,
38, 1856 in the central counties and 12,-
969 in the northern counties and Upper
Peninsula.
The estimated total number of bus
hels of wheat marketed in the four
months August-November is 4,25O, 900.
Forty-eight mills, elevators and grain
dealers report no wheat marketed in
November
RYE-The condition of rye as COM
pared with an average per cent is SO in
the State, 8S in the southern counties,
81 in the central counties and SO in the
northern counties and Upper Peninsula
One year ago the per cent was 80 in
the State, Sc in the southern counties,
eS in the central counties, SO in the
northern counties and SO in the Upper
Peninsula.
FALL PASTURE-The condition of
fall pasture as compared with an aver
age per cent is 83 in the State and Gen.
tral counties, S5 in the southern coun-
ties, SO in the northern counties and
SO in the Upper Peninsula.
LIVE STOCK-The condition of live
stock throughout the State is 96 for
horses and sheep, 95 for cattle and "a
for swine.
COLEMAN c. VAUGHAN,
Sec'y Of State.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-12-08

many complaints by buyers OF the pre-
sence of dirt among potatoes, and
greater allowances are being demanded
in price adjustments on this account.
The mechanical sizer simply sorts as to
size and the stock must be further
graded by hand to eliminate potatoes
affected by sunburn, dry-rot, scabs,
frost or other defects.
All grading should be done preferably
on the farm. If the grower ships un-
graded stock to market, il must be
graded there where labor is more cost
ly. In addition to paying, in lower
prices received, for this labor, he also
pays freight on the rejected potatoes
and loses the culls, which he might
have utilized on the farm. Grading is
facilitated where the grower has suffi-
cient storage space for large part of
his crop. In this way potatoes which
do not show the effects of frost or other
damage when first dug may be detect
ed later and sorted out before the crop
is marketed. If the potatoes are ship
ped without sorting, the damage. usual
ly brings about rotting of the injured
potatoes before the market is reached
and reduces prices on the whole ship
ment
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-12-08
SPECIAL VAUDEVILLE
TEMPLE THEATRE
MONDAY, TUES, WE'D.

Rauf Brothers Novelty Shows will be
the feature attraction at the Temple
Theatre the first three nights of next
week-Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Dec. 1l-12-13.
The Company present a high clsss
vaudeville, comedy and novelty enter
tainment. They offer fun and amuse-
ment for everyone with nothing to
offend.
Two shows will be given each even
ing-7.0O and $50. Admission, Adults
20c, children 10c.
Complete change of program each
night.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-12-08

An authority that speaks from exper-
fence with reference to the matter ad-
vises the farmers of the section Of
Michigan against the practice Of cover
ing upS their potatoes with potato
vines after the harvest. This is sure
way of spreading late blight, IT is stated.
The fungus apt to be present in any
field will be washed from the vine to
the seed thereby affecting many pota-
toes. Don't use the old vines on any
part of your potato covering. g.-Cadillac
News.
Although defeated, the Hughes club
prophesies that as early as four months
from the time Of the Inauguration Of the
president every store and factory in the
country will be closed, 80 per cent of
the men and women will be absent from
work, all the industries OF the land will
be idle, loud reports and the noise of
pistol shots and the explosion Of gun
powder will resound throughout the
length and breadth Of the country there
will be the terrified screams Of wound
ed men, women and children, and the
great United States will be in turmoil
from one end to the other. II will be
the Fourth of July.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-12-08

Petoskey people are more or less
interested in the fate of any American
ship on the high seas during these
times of torpedoing by the German
submarines. Last week the good ship
Chemung was sent to the bottom off
the coast of Spain and her crew left to
shift for themselves in open boats. A
number Of Petoskey people will re-
member the Chemung as a ateel lake
packet plying between Buffalo and
Chicago and in her early days with w.
B. Minthorn, well known west side
druggist, at the wheel. Mr.. Minthorn
was weelsman on the craft for some
time and while he has been an con
shores man" for many years he has
kept in touch with this ship. She was
taken to the Atlantic last summer for
the ocean service. A number Of other
Petoskey men also remember her,
having aided in loading and unloading
operations at Mackinaw City docks in
her early days.-Petoskey News.
Marriage will change a mans view.
about women quicker than anything
else.
A man may select his own compan
ions, but his relations are always thrus
upon him.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-12-08
Northern Potato Crop

Northern, or te potatoes, are dug in
August and September. Forks are
used to a certain extent for digging this
crop, but most of the acreage is dug by
plows and digging machines. For the
successful use of the latter, soil condi-
tions must be good. Under favorable
conditions the use of such machines has
been found profitable. There is much
loss from bruising potatoes in all types
of digging. Deep blowing with plows
and machines should eliminate most of
such losses.
Picking in the North is mostly by
hand, but some combination digging
and picking machines are in use. II
the potatoes are to be graded as picked
growers should carefully instruct pick
ers in the work, since the inclusion of
a few diseased, cut, or defective pota-
toes is sufficient to discount an entire
shipment, the selling value being large
ly determined by the poorest tubers in
the LOT rather than the best. Even the
less perishable northern crop may be
injured by hauling from the field loose
in wagons. This practice usually in
wolves subsequent handling, often with
shovels and scoops, which further
bruises the potatoes. A good practice,
say specialists of the department, is to
pick the potatoes into open-slatted
crates and haul the filled receptacles to
storage or grading houses or to cars.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-12-08
Smart Weed and Tickle Grass

Consult thy mirror often-not in
vanity, but in confidence, and it will
not lie to you.
In 1875, girl of 80 years had reach
ed the manageable age. Today she
is wife, widow, or old maid at 18.
A girl with wart on her chin gets q
husband of her own choosing, while
her dimpled sister may not fare so we'll
The price of hay has gone up owing
to the large quantities Of it used in
making costumes for the Hula Hula
dance craze.
Today, while we have on our cloaks
Of piety, let us not forget to sympa
thize with the man whose indigestion
forbids him eating buckwheat cakes.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-12-08
AGRICULTURAL CON-
GRESS FOR
ChARLEVOIX COUNTY
Still a Chance for this County to
Land the 1917 Meeting.

AS the place OF holding next year S
sessions of the Central and Northern
Michigan Agricultural Congress is still
in the hands of the executive committee
there is good chance for Charlevoix
County to draw the meetings here.
Cadillac had the first Congress, Lud-
ington the second, and some town in
this section is the logical place for the
next
That this big conference of agricul-
tural experts is important and worth
any effort to secure is proven by a
statement of the names of the men
whose names appeared on the program.
r. H. Ellsworth, extension specialist
in marketing, stated that he believed
that there was greater array of talent
in attendance at the second Northern
Michigan Agricultural Congress than
ever congregated at any like meeting
in Michigan. There were several pro-
fessors from the state agricultural
college together with other experts in
the problems of present day agriculture
The names with some of the topics
discussed follow. They are:
w. o. Hedrick, professor of econo-
mics, M. A. C.-The Farm Loan Law.
H. j. Eustace, professor of horti-
culture, M. A. C.-Fruit Growing and
Marketing in the West.
M. M. McCool, professor of Soils, M.
A. C.-Soils of Northern Michigan.
r. j. Baldwin, director of college
extension, M. A. C--Agricultural Ex.
tension Schools.
Eben Mumford, state leader of coun.
ty agents, M. A. C.-The Work of Coun.
ty Agents.
c. E. Bassett, investigator in market.
ing, U. S. office of markets Cooper
alive Marketing.
R. H. Ellsworth, extension specialist
in marketing, M. A. C.-State Inspec.
ton and Certification.
G. E. Prater, manager Wolverine Co.
operative Co. Berrien, Market Methods
j. M. Mcbride, Michigan Director oi
Markets.
C. b. Cook, assistant leader Of county
agents, M. A. 6.
j. H. Carmody, extension specials
in horticulture, M. A. C.
E. c. Mandenburg, extension special
ist in forestry, M. A. c.
j. w. Weston, assistant leader o.
county agents, U. p.
r. V. Tanner, Mason county agricul
tural agent.
Frank Sandhammer, Manistee count,
agricultural agent
R. l.. Olds, Muskegon county agri
cultural agent.
H. B. Blanchard, Newaygo count,
agricultural agent.
w. P. Hartman, industrial agent, G
r. & I. r. r.
F. Kern, manager Grand Travers,
Fruit and Produce Exchange.
Communications or petitions shoul,
be addressed to the chairman of tn,
executive committee, A. L. Hopkins
Bear Lake, or the secretary r. v
Tanner, Scottville.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-12-08

Poker and love are both games of
bluff.
And if you have more money than
you know what to do with, any of your
fool friends will be glad to advise you.
Probably there is nothing so meaning
less as the kiss one woman bestows up
on another-unless it is the large, ex-
pansive smile of hotel clerk.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-12-08
COUGHED FIFTEEN YEARS

Coughs that hang on and grow worse
in the night are relieved by Foley's
Honey and Tar. r. F. Hall, Mabe, Va,
writes: 'For is years l was afflicted
with troublesome bronchial cough
and irritation Of the throat. Foley's
Honey and Tar relieved me; and after
taking one bottle the cough ceased."-
Hite's Drug Store.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-12-08

An Ohio husband calls his wife,
Birdie" because she is always associ-
ated in his mind with bill.
It's awfully hard for the average man
to look in mirror and believe that he
was once q cute baby.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-12-08
Grading

Many sizing machines are used in the
North to grade potatoes and, since they
; give more accurate results than hand
grading, their use should be extended.
In addition, to sorting, these machines
are OF service in removing dirt. This
is an important fact, since there are
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-12-08
LOOny Limericks

There once was a small lad named Foy
Who thought that gun was toy;
When they scraped them together
They didn't know whether
There was more of the gun or the boy.
There was young woman named Run
yons,
Who had eighty-four corns and two
bunyons,
She limped when she walked,
And lisped when she talked,
For she'd knots on her tongue big as
onions.
A banana peel, blithsome and gay,
Crept out on the concrete highway;
Forty people slipped down,
Said the peel with frown:
'Why is everyone angry to-day?"
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-12-08
Standardization

In the bulletin already mentioned,
the specialists of the department do
not make specific recommendation for
the adoption of standard grades, but,
for the assistance of those interested in
bringing about Standardization, they
suggest that two regular grades and
perhaps a special grade for extra fancy
potatoes should meet market needs. 1t
is suggested that specifications for the
No. grade should be drawn to make
it as good and attractive in appearance
as is reasonable and practicable. These
specifications should practically elimin-
ate potatoes damaged by frost, sunburn
blight, common scab, dry rot, decay,
second growth, cuts, bruises, dirt and
also understood or coarse stock. The
minimum and maximum sizes for both
No. and No. 2 grades are still SUBJ
ject for careful investigation, discus
sion, and demonstration. However, a
minimum of about 2 inches is main-
tanned for grade No. in number of
early or new" potato sections, and
the commonly discussed minimum for
this grade is from one and seven-eights
to two inches, The minimum diameter
for long variety should probably be a
little smaller than for a round one.
Since it is practically impossible in
grading any perishable products CON-
mercially to secure a perfect grade,
reasonable tolerances should be allow
ed. The No. 2 grade should include
the better of the remaining potatoes.
The studies of the market specialists
of the department indicate that there is
an unnecessary diversity in the con-
tainers for potatoes in use. These now
range from the l-bushel hampers for
the early Florida crop to double-head-
ed barrels. The 2-bushel, or 12O-lb,
burlap bag is suggested as perhaps the
most satisfactory container for general
use. The lack of proper grading and
packing, the specialists say, causes a
large part of the marketing difficulties
| now experienced in the potato trade.
Marketing.
Marketing conditions in the North
differ widely from those in the South,
since about three-fourths of the crop is
stored. Local buyers, warehousemen,
and distributors are the chief factors in
marketing the northern crop. The
bulletin already mentioned lists eight
methods of selling that growers may
adopt These are: In the field, for
cash by the load at the car, to cash
travelling buyers in car lots, to local
warehousemen, through distributors,
by wire, on consignment to broker or
merchant, or through cooperative
marketing organizations. The bulletin
also discusses the outlets for dstribu.
tors and methods of railway billing
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-12-08

A wise girl never lets the young man
she has spotted for her own see her
with her hair in curl papers until after
the parson has said his fatal words.