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Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21
WE CAN'T AFFORD III

What can you not afford? Why, to
build concrete roads. Let me tell you
something. You cannot afford not to
build concrete roads and you cant
afford to build any more nine foot
roads, for those you already have built
will keep you scratching to raise money
sufficient to keep them in repair, filling
in the chuck holes and ruts and when
you have it at its best you haven't
much. Because, like the babbling
brook, the ruts and holes run on for
ever.
You have two object lessons in this
county at Charlevoix-and this county
is the best county in the State of Michi-
gan. Don't forget that. The possibili-
ties are greater here than anywhere
else. The concrete pavement on Dixon
Avenue has now been down five years
and ii is not only with all the resort
traffic but also with all the coal, grain
and merchandise that has been brought
into the City for that number of years
that it has been maintained with little
or no expense and that expense was
caused because the foundation was not
properly prepared when it was original
ly built. Another object lesson is the
strip opposite the Elston Hotel at the
South end Of Bridge Street which has
been down seven years and has cost
absolutely not dollar for maintenance.
1t is generally conceded that there is
more traffic over Dixon Avenue, in
either the month of July or August
than there is in whole year between
Boyne City and CharlevoiX and the
same thing is true of the piece at the
South end OF Bridge Street, that there
is more traffic over it in either the
month of July or August than there is
in whole year between East Jordan
and CharlevoiX.
Here is case where the maintenance
was built into the road. Our slogan
should be, "Buld the Maintenance
Into the Road When Building New
Roads. Van Pelt.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21
A National Extravaganza

Human carelessness causes most
fires. Acting upon this fact many
foreign municipalities never have fire
but that somebody goes to jail for it.
The result of this system is very small
waste annually.
Among our national eXtravagancies
none is more conspicuous and unneces-
sary than our annual losses by fire and
from an estimate of the property dam
age for the first five months of 1916 il
looks as if we are in for an unusually
eXtravagant year.
The total fire loss for the end of May
was over $133, 100000. This sum is
nearly $50, 000 900 greater than the total
for the same months of the preceding
year. In May of this year there were
eight fires which cost their respective
communities more than $250,O00 each.
Except in the case of earthquake
or lightning fires are due to some con-
dition of human inefficiency. But it is
our national habit to sympathize with
losers by fire, no matter what the
cause. Only in cases of loss of life dc
we ever attempt to impress property
owners with sense of their personal
responsibility for disaster.
The European way seems hard to
Americans, but it has its points. If the
owners or occupants of property in this
country on which fire occurred were
looked upon as menace to public wei
fare and held accountable to the com
munity fire statistics could shortly be
registered in much smaller figures than
those for the first half of this year, and
in time we might snap our fingers al
the great insurance companies that now
force us to pay in high rates the price
of our extravaganza.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21
COUNTY AGENT PAYS
Kent County Given Proof Of
Fact

The value of county agriculturist,
an Official that knows something other
than practical politics, has been dem
onstrated in Grand Rapids. where a
huge pile of stone, long an eyesore and
white elephant, has been converted in
to a paying proposition for city and
farmers.
Several years ago, after severe
flood, Grand Rapids decided to dredge
the river and build retaining walls as a
preventive against repetition of the
disaster. In the course of the dredg-
ing il was found that for considerable
bumped like camel's back and that
the formation was OF sedementary
limestone, The stone was removed
and piled along the bank for long dis
tance. How to get rid of the stuff was
a problem that has stumped the city
ever since Signs of "This rock free"
failed to induce people to haul it away,
as it was too soft for building purposes.
Along comes the county agriculturist
and pokes his analytical finger into the
pile. He was about the only man in
Kent county who knew that stone can
be used for something besides building
purposes. He had several analyses
made and the rock was shown to have
a large percentage of calcium carbon
ate, which sweetens acid soil and is
likewise plant food. The city fathers
attention was called away from political
rows long enough to make arrange
ments to have the rock crushed and
ground TO the fineness of flour. The
product is being sold TO farmers at a
price that means money to both buyer
and seller, and the old eyesore is being
removed and utilized-to improve farm
ing soil instead of disfiguring the river
bank
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21
Don't For Mothers

Don't always be saying DON'T" 1t is
better to take little more trouble to
prevent trouble than always to be de-
vising pains and penalties.
Don't forget that your children must
always be doing something.
Don't fail to find new outlets for their
supearbundant energy.
Don't be like the mother who said,
"Nurse, go and see what the children
are doing and tell them they must not
do it,"
Don't however let them grow up
thinking that they can't do wrong.
Don't make habit of distrusting
your boys. Distrust is often the cause
of deceit
Don't forget the potent power Of sug
gestion. Keep on telling the child h'
is bad or wicked and he will become
so.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21
DO YOU KNOW THAT
OTIS j. SMITH,
City Clerk.

Intelligent motherhood conserves the
nations best crop?
Heavy eating like heavy drinking
shortens life?
The registration of sickness is even
more important than the registration
of deaths?
The u. S. Public Health Service CO.
operates with state and local authori-
ties to improve rural sanitation?
Many a severe cold ends in tuber-
culOsis?
Sedentary habits shorten life?
Neglected adenoids and defective
teeth in childhood menace adult healthi
A low infant mortality rate indicates
high community intelligence?
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21

w. C. T. U. Program Friday 2:30 p.
m. at the home of Mrs. M. H. Robert
son.
Leader, May l.. Stewart. Topic,
First Aid.
Song-Mrs. Blanch Dole
Lessons in First Aid as School Work
Miss Ella Barnett
Violin Solo-Miss Wells
First Aid in Hospital and Field Work
Mrs. G.. j. Zerwekh
Song-Miss Vershel Lorraine
Discussion, What Line of First Aid
Work needs most Attention?
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21

A successful man is entitled to less
praise than the man who makes an
other effort after each failure.
Nothing makes an angry wife so
frantic as the refusal Of her husband
to hand her line Of back talk.
When a man tells widow that he is
not worthy of her love she mildly
denies it-but does not argue the point.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21
HOME COMING WEEK
AT TRAVERSE CITY
NEXT WEEK

Preparations are completed by the
Chamber of Commerce for a Home
Coming during the week OF July 26th
to 10Th, that will eclipse anything of
this nature that has ever been attempt
ed in Northern Michigan. 1t will be
week OF pageantry, of music and his
toric carnival. Every day will be day
of features and every feature will be
an entertainment in itself
The day of days will be Friday, July
28, when an immense water and wood
land pageant with a cast of hundreds
will be staged. The scene of this page
ant will be on Boardman lake and
Poplar Point, where there is a natural
amphiteatre with seating capacity of
thousands. There is no section that is
richer in Indian lore than the Grand
Traverse region, and from these days
of early romance Secretary o. A.
Charles is building scenario that will
combine the romantic and historical
facts of the first settlers. The pageant
as contemplated will call for a cast of
from 500 to 700 persons. The actual
production and costuming will be di-
rected by Miss Nina C. Lampkin of
Chicago, who is without question one
of the leading directors of pageantry in
the United States.
Another feature of the week is the
presence of Governor Ferris at the big
basket picnic which will be held at the
City Park on Thursday, July q. Ten
tative arrangements have been made
with the governor to deliver an address
at this picnic and unless something un-
forseen occurs he will be present on
that day.
Then, too, there will be Miss Dolly
Randolph of Chicago, and her orchestra
comique. These folks perform the in
credible task of coaxing music out of
washboards, stovepipe and barbed wire
This may seem like broad statement,
but the public is assured that it will be
accomplished.
Secretary Charles has also secured
John p. Clum of California to deliver
one of his travelogues, probably "In
the Wake OF the Setting Sun" Mr..
Clum is well known as lecturer all
over the lecture circuits.
The nights will be devoted to music
and tableaux. The music will be work
ed up by local talent assisted by out
side artists. The tableaux will be on
| larger scale than the city has ever
known before. They will portray the
early social and industrial conditions Of
this region as far back as the Indian
occupation.
There has never been any sttemptto
stage pageant of any importance in
northern Michigan, and this fact alone
is depended upon to draw thousands OF
people from the smaller cities just out
of curiosity. Then there are thousands
of resorters that are eager for just this
sort of entertainment The price of
the tickets will be within the reach OF
any person and feature that is sure to
please is that the tickets are to be in
terchangeable and transferable. They
will no doubt be made up into books
containing a number of tickets cor
responding to the number OF entertain
ments during the week. They may be
used, however, for any number during
the week, or, if desired, the whole
book nay be used at one time.
!, A leap year girl who proposed in
vain TO half a dozen men says there
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21
DO YOU

Clean your teeth and then Ex-
pectorate in the washbowl?
Omit lunch to reduce weight and then
Overeat at dinner?
Go to the country for health and then
Sleep with your windows shut tight2
Wonder why you have earache and
then Blow your nose with your mouth
shut?
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21
Commission Proceedings.

Special meeting of the City Commits
sion held at the commission rooms,
Wednesday evening, July II, 1916.
Meeting was called TO order by Mayor
Cross. Present-Cross and Lancaster.
Absent-Gidley.
Minutes of last meeting were read
and approved.
On motion by Lancaster, the follow
ing bills were allowed:
Dwight II. Fitch, salary and
rental .......... -. 80. 24.17
Standard Oil Co., lubricating oil 1899
Andrew Berg, rebate on Barkley
walk 49,. ........ .... 80. 1885
Mich. State Tel. Co., rentals 49,. 625
City Treasurer, payment of labor 2S.12
State Bank of E. j., order of
Elec. Light Co ..... ....... 2O9. 20
q. A. Lisk, printing -. 49,. $50
East Jordan Lbr. Co, mdse . 1910
East Jordan Hose Co, Ed. Sandal
lire .......... 20. 0U
Moved by Cross, supported by Lam
caster, that another hydrant be install
ed at the cemetery. Carried.
On motion by Lancaster, it was voted
to donate $4,000 to the East Jordan
Hose Co., to pay the expenses of dele
gates to the state firemen's convention.
On motion by Lancaster, A. f. Cross
was granted permission to construct a
cement walk along the east side of the
following description Of property;
North = Lot % and all of Lots % and
"a, Block A, Isaman's Addition to the
former village of South Arm.
On motion by Lancaster, meeting was
adjourned.
OTIS j. SMITH,
City Clerk.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21
EBERT BEDE SAYS


way from the necessity they have been
under to develop an angelic disposition
Young folks going to school may learn
altogether too much about some things.
The good die young-and most OF us
prefer to be live ones.
A person who is leader in small
town is awfully disappointed when he
moves to big one.
When girls see a man who looks like
sure thing, they are willing to take a
gamblers chance.
When you see a man who practices
what he breaches, he usually is one
who doesn't waste words.
If person can't look you in the eye
you have him going, but be sure OF
your own eye before you start anything.
A salted mine is fixed up to catch the
fresh ones.
A man seldom notices that wifey has
cleaned the house all up, washed the
windows and waxed the floors, but
you're darn whistling he notices it if
she doesn't.
It's hard for a man to play game of
'cinch' with the children with the same
zest that he does a game of "draw" at
the club.
If in heaven we can know everything
that is going on down here, lot of US
are going to be made unhappy to notice
how little we are missed
How foolish we would feel sometimes
if we only knew that those we are tell
ing something to really knew the truth
of the whole business.
The time to be sorry about something
you've done is before you do it.
Telephones are nuisance in some
ways. 1t isn't as easy to explain direct
to wiley why you are detained down
town asit is to send note, besides when
you go home you are not certain that
she hasn't called up and has found out
that you weren't where you are going
to say you were.
We wish we had the brains of Edison
then we could always invent an ex-
cuse that would work.
When the party in power is defeated
is the only time the opposition admits
that the election must have been on the
square.
1t seems to be war at any price just
now.
1t has been stated on good authority
that only one person in $1,000 under
stands the currency question. We see
no reason for such gross ignorance. All
there is to it is to get hold of as much
of it as possible and hang on to it as
long as possible.
The higher-ups-the aero squadron.
1t beats all how many flaws the outs
can find in the record of the 'ins' and
how quickly the flaws are CLOSED over
when the 'ins' tell about it.
When our boy develops a habit that
the neighbors talk about, we try to be-
lieve the habit is only one Of the
idiosyncrasies of genius.
One nice thing about policewomen
might be that the servants would not
be so sleepy in the mornings.
A woman never misses an opportun-
ity to boast of her influence over some
man.
It's easier for trouble to find your
address than it is for good luck.
A woman does her duty because she
wants to-a man because he has to.
Money also helps the man who tries
to help himself.
1t is easier for woman to say she is
young than it is to look it.
He laughs best who has the laugh on
the other fellow.
A man never knows what is coming
to him until he gets it in the neck.
Misfortune is the filler that separates
true friends from the counterfeit.
It's funny that the bar associations
haven't attracted suspicion in the dry
states.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21
Care of the Feet

The same care should be given to the
feet as to the hands. If they are in
clined to swell, hot sea baths will be
found very beneficial. Alcohol baths
are very good for tender feet, or if they
tire easily. Corns and bunions will feel
greatly relieved by daily hot foot
bath.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21
Old Jokes Re-twisted.

"Has your wife lost her temper late
ly?"
"No, she lost it permanently shortly
after we were married, and she has
never recovered it."
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21

permits the foreigner to sell his cheap
goods here free. We believe 10 high
import taxes for two reasons-to make
the foreigner pay for the privilege of
doing business here, and to protect the
home business man. This is not par
tisan politics-it is plain business sense.
The political party which will not sup
port such policy is not merely lacking
in political sagacity-it is lacking in
business sense. We would not stand
for city council that repealed the
peddlers' license nor will we stand for
National administration that repeals
the protective tariff duties.
Josephus Daniels indignant denial of
the report that he will resign was un-
necessary. He knows that this is his
first and last opportunity to hold high
place and he has no intention to let go.
Equally redundant was his declaration
that he intends to take an active part
in Wilson's campaign for reelection.
A sense OF propriety is not one of his
strong points. The first assertion is
disheartening. The second is measur-
ably gladdening-for the more time
Josephus takes away from the Navy
Department in pursuit of his activities
in the political campaign, the less time
he will have to continue his bedevilling
of the Navy
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21
He lit a match
To read the meter;
He's pleading now
With old st. Peter.

Time is a vital factor in fighting fire.
A flame you could crush between your
thumb and finger, in only few hours
may devastate a city.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21

A leap year girl who proposed in
vain to half dozen men says there
isn't much difference in them-but a
lot of indifference.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21

The itinerant peddler is a destroyer
of local business enterprises. He pays
no taxes, he pays no rent, hires no help
buys no clothing or lumber or hard
ware, or jewelry of the local merchants.
He employees no local attorney patron
ICES no local dentist, contributes to no
local church or fraternal organization.
Because of these things, we impose a
license fee upon him in order to force
him to help pay local governmental
expenses and also to give the local
business men the protection to which
they are justly entitled. For exactly
the same reason, we impose import
customs duties upon foreigners who
ship goods into this country. We dc
not believe in system Of government
revenue which makes the home bust
ness man pay all the taxes and ther
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21
ALONG THE FIRING LINE

The mints are now producing silver
halves, quarters and dimes in new
design in which Liberty is outlined be-
fore an American flag In her arms
the goddess carries a scarf of laurel and
her gaze is fixed upon a rising sun
which, the artists say, is symbolical of
the dawn Of new day. The design
fits the times. The American goddess
of liberty has been having hard time
of it for the past three years and the
new day which these new coins typify
is about to dawn. The goddess is not
the only one who is looking for that
rising sun of prolonged Republican
day in power.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21

Immediately upon receiving news Of
the nomination of Hughes and Fair
banks, Guy Bell, editor of the Irvine,
KY, Sun, worked up a Republican
meeting and had a Hughes-Fairbanks
club organized within Sc hours after
the Convention adjourned. If that is
the pace they follow in Kentucky, we
can tell where the Kentucky vote will
be cast in November.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21

When Vance Mccormick gets his
campaign movies in operation we shall
look to see "The Wobblings of Wood
row" featured alongside of "The Perils
OF Pauline" and the limitations of Imo-
gene" and the Lamentations of Lydia. ,
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21

A Massachusetts free trader takes the
trouble of writing to the newspapers
to say that he will vote for Wilson. We
cannot decide who wasted the more
energy-the man who wrote the letter
or the editors who printed it.
Charlevoix county herald., 1916-07-21

The demonstration against Mexico
will serve one useful purpose for the
Democratic administration-all the big
appropriations can be charged uE
against it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-17

me sonin-Lsw's Companion; or. How to
Prepare 100 Appetizlng dishes NIT Sinai NJ
Potassium"
"hat mas all this to do NIT prepareful.
ness Birsky7" zapp demanded. (which 7
was saying that when preparedness was
coming In last year like cape effects in taf
feta dresses, Birsky, 1 was In favor NJ /,
but they overdone It, Birsky."
Some women It suited, zapp. absr NOT
many like white Shoes" Birsky commented
Did l say something from white shoes?"
zapp asked, and Blrsky was Obliged TO nd.
NIT that he had not.
Then what the devil you are talking
nonsense?' zapp continued. "I was saw.
Ing that NIT preparedness them people
which Is trying to get It has already over.
done It. They started out to show to the
Leute Of the United States what prepareful
ness really means, Birsky, and they ended
up by showing that It means that 100 900
business men loses whole day by walking
up Broadway and 9Th avenue. and concerns
which expects goods by express didn't re-
ceive them because the express wagons was
held up on the other side of 5th avenue
from a. m to p. m. Preparedness
also means that II you pick UP a paper to
see what is going on in the world, y'under.
stand, you couldn't tell the news section
from the advertising section on account of
the speeches for preparedness, which is
printed 20 columns long in small type. like
a notice of sale in an action to foreclose a
second mortgage on a trunk line railroad
NIT full description of all terminal prop
erty containing 25,664 acres be the said
several dimensions more or less"
You couldn't tell by the looks of the
printing what a speech is about" Brsly
said.
II agree with you. Birsky," Zapp said,
but I already read some of them notices
of foreclosure sale, Birsky, and If the
fellers that are going round making
speeches on preparedness could be per-
suaded to read aloud a notice of sale, in
stead. Birsky, 1t would be better for the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-17

and worried the way Germany, Russia and
France was before the European trouble.
and II Prohibition means cutting on beer
and light wine with whisky and rum, then
unpreparefulness and drunkenness amt so
bad, neither. Am right or wrong. zapp7''
You are and you amt" zapp said.
Maybe the Loute over here is a Bissohen
too peaceable. Maybe they need II pre-.
pdrefttlnoss the same like you've got to Jack
em up NIT Prohibition. blue laws and
antitrust laws People overdoes things now
adays Former times Teller would take
once in a while a glass schndpps, y'under-
stand, and gradually poison his kidneys
like gentleman, Blrsky, aber nowadays
he wants to get chdroses of the liver In
from three weeks to a month and would
too, II It wasn't for Prohibition laws. IT'S
the same way with doing business on Sun.
day In Paris, where they allow Sunday
opening, only the businesses ia open on
Sunday which is necessary for the people
who work six days in the week that on the
seventh they should enjoy--businesses like
restaurants, theatres and cafes, y'under-
stand aber in this country IL we allowed
Ildt soTt VI tIlHst bHsky, Ine lnteruHtionat
Pressing Iron Company would claim:
Whereas their operators had worked hard
six days casting pressing irons in a factory
which would Of made the hot room of a
Turkish bath seem like a cold storage ware
house, understand me. that the one thing
necessary for them operators to prevent
'em from spending a miserable Sunday with
nothing on their hands but time, y'under-
stand, was to allow them to cast pressing
irons in 22o.degree factory. Also. Birslsy.
II there was no antitrust laws, y'understand.
tho entire business of this country would
be in one combination, and the only people
which knew tho combination of the combi-
nation would be George d. Rockefeller.
Abraham Carnegie and ]. G. Morgan.
well, If there wasn't no preparedness
Prohibition or trusts, zapp." BirslSy asked
what would you and Bryan and Wilson
and Roosevelt makes speeches about?"