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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-23
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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-23

The bride no longer swathes her
throat in high Puritanical collar.
The low-necked once banned 10
brides Is now very proper, unless to
he sure the ceremony takes place in
the early morning.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-23

Black and white checked suiting
is a bit smarter. so the bride thinks.
than the done-to-death navy blue.
With collar and cuffs OF gray, a
gray fox scarf and gray shoes the
check suit is too stunning for mere
words TO describe.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-22
LOOKING ALWAYS to the Future.

An old-fashioned way of looking at
the city's situation is expressed by an
Indianapolis newspaper, which says:
"A city's physical improvements, OF
whatever sort, have definite value to
the city and its property, calculable in
dollars and cents. They facilitate busi-
ness and make living conditions more
pleasant. In that way they are an as
set for residents and property owners
and act also as an inducement to per
sons on the outside to come and make
their homes here.
Indianapolis ranks favorably with
the most progressive cities of its class
in breadth and organic character Of
park improvements. The parking Of
waste land among some of the smaller
streams and on Fall creek has given
an impetus to values of property ad-
jacent to these improvements. The
day is not remote when barren areas
along these streams will be most at
tractive residence sections"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-22
CITY TO ADVERTISE ITSELF
Mayor Of Philadelphia Wants to Spend
Half a Million Dollars On a
New Idea.

Mayor Smith hopes to make Phila-
delphia one of the most widely known
cities in the world as an industrial and
commercial center, with a. splendid
port for foreign trade and unexcelled
railroad communications to every part
of the country, according to the Phil
adelphia Ledger.
The mayor will advertise the city
on a scale never before contemplated.
He will ask for an appropriation of
$500, 900 as soon as the money can
be provided for carrying out his plan,
The mayor hopes to establish either
a bureau of publicity in one of the de-
partments OF a new department OF
publicity. A suggestion was made to
the mayor at a luncheon given recent
ly by the Poor Richard club as to the
value of advertising the city, and he
promised to consider the project. An
nouncing that he would recommend
the plan to the city legislators, he said
that the appropriation would go into
the newspapers, magazines and other
publications-in other words, int
printers ink-where it would do the
most good.
The campaign of advertising is to in
form the merchants and manufactur-
ers of the world of the advantages of
dealing with the worlds greatest work
shop. The mayor said the expenditure
would be a municipal investment that
would return the principal with high
interest.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-22
FISH Indifferent TO NOISE
Popular Belief of Anglers Is Disproved
by Scientific Inquiry Recently
Conducted.

Contrary to general opinion. a num-
Der of motor boats cruising about a
harbor with more or less noisy engines
have no appreciate effect upon the
fish in nearby waters. 1t has long been
thought, particularly by fishermen.
that the presence of a noisy motor
boat would drive the fish away. Ex-
haustive experiments recently conduct
ed by the bureau of fisheries prove
this theory to be incorrect.
In testing the effect of motor-boat
noises on fish a number of young soup,
known to be sensitive to sounds, were
placed in a large wooden cage. This
cage was fastened in quiet water at
the end of a wharf, and a motor boat
with a very noisy engine was run at
varying distances past the cage. At
no time did the fishes appear to be
disturbed by the noise, except when
the splash from the boat hit the cage.
Then the soup would generally dive
to the bottom of the receptacle.-Popu-
lar Science Monthly.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-22

tied by Uncle Rufus until he had his
first sick SPELL" Ransome was in.
Vited to nurse him. 1t got to be a
regular occupation. Uncle Rufus
would celebrate for a month and then
came two of rehabilitation.
Don't you leave me, Ransom" the
Westerner would plead, when he got
back to normal, mental and physical
condition again. You're going to be
my heir"
But I'm too much of a man to
meanly wait for dead mems Shoes
Ransom expressed his statements
bluntly. IT'S not that holding me
here, but the thought of your being
the last of my kin and nobody to take
care of you when you are sick. Real
ly, l ought to strike out for myself.
What | earn here in Irvington is a
mere pittance. Long since | should
have gone to the city. You see, some
day ] may get married."
Rufus Markham laughed one of his
rough, hearty laughs.
Think l haven't seen the way the
land lies?" he chuckled. I've kent
your counting of Eva Doane always
in mind. / want to see you happy, and
her, too. And you're going to be
pledged said Markham uproarious-
Yves, sir! I'm going to turn over
a new leaf, cut out drinking and get
my property in shape so you can have
that blessed wedding"
Sure enough. a few days later Uncle
Rufus handed to Ransom a deed duly
signed and attested, conveying to him
the Rookery.
There's a few loose strings in the
shape of debts to pick up" explained
Markham lightly, but l expect the
money for that in a day or two from a
friend out West. / made a loan to
one of the fellows that helped in our
laying the cornerstone here. All, but
that was a jol~litication!" and before
nightfall the memory of the same sent
Rufus Markham off on his last drink.
ing bout.
He's finished" announced the
physician who always attended him
TO Ransom,
You don't mean he will die?" fall
tered Ransom. a big lump in his
throat.
II do" replied the doctor. Ellis
system is all shot to pieces. He's de-
lirious now. All you can do is to
give him the medicine / have left and
e that he keeps as still as possible"
That was a bad night for the debili-
tated patient and his faithful watcher.
Just at daybreak Uncle Rufus reused
up for a moment and glared all about
the room.
"Ransom!" he called weakly.
Yes, I'm here" answered Ransom.
soothingly.
81 wanted to tell you-Rookery loan
too bad!"
Then he r~elapsed into silence and
then he reused up again.
Don't forget-will help out-corner
stone-that was n grand time!"
And then Rufus Markham died. II
required the sale of the few posses
sions in the house to defray the ex-
penses OF the funeral. Ransom went
10 the lawyer In charge OF the este |
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-22
Yellow Glnaer Lilies.

It is now time to prepare beds for
tropical plants. Stir the soil deeply
and incorporate, by several spadings,
a generous supply Of thoroughly rot
ted stable manure. When planting
do not forget to have a clump of one
Of the yellow ginger lilies. 1t is the
best of several species and may be
asked for under the name of Hedy-
chium Gardnerianum. Plant in a
warm sunny spot and keep well sup
piled with water and you may be re-
warded with spikes six or eight inches
long of fragrant yellow flowers OF
dainty form, as may be seen In the
illustration on this page
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-22

TOWN.
10 HELPS
NEED FOR CITY PLANNING
United States Might Well Take a Les
son From German Builders Who
Have Studied the Work.

The marked advance in thought
about city planning is indicated by
the reception accorded the report OF
the New York commission on build
ing districts and restrictions. Ten
years ago the suggestions made in
that report would have been regard
ed as highly revolutionary and head
ing straight for Socialism.
For one thing the report recon-
mends the establishment of a zone
system" a method long ago adopted
in Germany, and a plan long needed
in American cities. The economic
waste, the upsetting Of realty values,
the disturbance of the city's fiscal sys
tenn, involved in the growth of every
thriving American city has been self
evident. This has been brought about
by the incursion of factories into old
residential districts, lowered values, a
boom In another section, and then the
same story over again, with homes al
ways just one jump ahead of the fac
tories.
City experts abroad provided for
CnaJ by dSSlEulnB ldCUDIleS " CERTAIN
zones, and homes to others. In only
a few cities in this country has any
such restriction been attempted.
New York has other problems to
face from which Washington was hap
PLY freed by an unusual foresight.
The skyscraper menace we have
avoided. But New York blocks have
suffered from the incursion of n
high building, then others so built
that the early ones had light and air
cut off, and their presence resulted in
the bottom dropping out of values in
| the rest of the block.
Fortunately limited height and
courtyard provisions already have a
place in the building laws of most
cities. The one feature in the New
York commissions report that should
appeal to most American cities is the
establishment of zones for industries
and other zones for homes.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-22
Frost and Quakes.

In the annual lists of earthquakes
registered at the Harvard seismo-
graphic station occasional shocks oc-
curing in winter are noted as due to
frost cracks" i. e.. the sudden open.
ing of assures in the ground resulting
from freezing. Professor Woodworth,
director of the station. states that the
late Professor Shaler, in one of his lee
lures, mentioned the occurrence of a
sensible shock at Cambridge some
forty years ago, which he traced to a
crack in the frozen ground. An appar-
ent earthquake nea Akron o., prob
ably due to a frost crack. was de-
scribed in the American G~eologist,
while another, which caused a mild
panic at Attleboro, Mass, was reported
in the Attleboro Sun Of January 23,
1908. Professor Woodwork says that
this idea of frost cracks is very wide
spread in New England as an explana-
tion of many small shocks coming at a
time when the frozen ground is known
to have cracked OPEN"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-22
The Shirt Was Willing.

Pretty Sounding Flute, a young
Sioux in a government school, was
given this text to turn into similar
language expressing the same thought:
"The spirit indeed is willing, but the
flesh is weak" The teachers explanav
tion, she believed had been elaborate.
Pretty Sounding Flute had seemed all
attention. After laboring half an hour
he walked up to the teachers desk ana
proudly deposited his paper, wh5ei'
bore the startling legend: The gh0ss
Is sure agreeable, but the meat Is rot
ten"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-22

and told him about the deed. The at
torney Gmiled pityingly.
I'm afraid your improvident uncle
has not very well provided for you,"
he said. There is a heavy mortgage
on the Rookery and It will be fore
closed this week. The man who holds
It intends to raze the old brick rattle
trap and build a new mansion for
himself
Ransom went away With a heavy
heart. He called on Eva and her
aged father that evening and impaired
tho bad news. There was but one
thing to do. He must strike u for
some better field of labor.
IF we only had a home" he sighed,
as we hoped, we could venture to
make a start in life together"
Don't go away, Ransom!" pleaded
his loving fiancee. I'VE can wait pa
tiently for better times"
There's that lot of MINI up near
the Rookery," suggested Mr.. Doane.
IF we could manage to build now"
That seemed impossible, but there
was a ray of lighS next day. The hold
e- of the mortgage met Ransom and
told him that he would pay him a good
price to tear down the old brick build.
ing snd cart the rubbish away.
II a have that?" inquired Ran.
som, eagerly.
why, surely" was the ready reply,
and Ransom vent away all enthused
with a hopeful brilliant idea. He i'm
parted this to Eva and her father.
Why" cried Ransom optimistically,
I'll 10Y the brick over to the lot
and build the snuggest, prettiest little
home of u own you ever saw"
So tier by tier Ransom began to
demolish the old Rookery. Mr.. Doane
helped pile the rubbish into a wagon.
Eva insisted on acting as driver. All
hands helped and they comprised a
jolly, delighted .coterie. At length
they were down to the foundation pill
lar.
Pretty nigh through" chirped old
Mr.. Doane, as he Clipped the hard
plaster from a stubborn brick.
"Whew! What's this-lead?"
The old mar lifted and dropped a
brick that lay in a measure incased
in a hollow space in the pillar. Ran
som reached over, picked it up and
uttered a whistle of sheer astonish-
ment.
Queer he observed. Whats
this scratched on it? Corner stone of
the Rookery,'" and there was a date
beneath the words. 81 see, l see-oh.
Eva!"
She came running towards her lover,
tracing a rare excitement in his man.
Der and voice.
What is it. DEAR" she fiuttered.
"A fortune-if it is ours" declared
Ransom. ooh, l understand it all!
In that great celebration of Uncle
Rufus and his friends, when they
started the house gold was plentiful
and this, the corner stone. is a part
of it."
No n objected to the valid owner
ship of the treasure on the part of
Ransom. The gold brick became the
nest egg of the future fortune OF pa
tient Ransom and loyal Eva.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-22
The Gold
Brick
0OOD
BY EVELYN RINGOLD
MaMAANnNnNnanNnN

&&TN@ 6&TA0 rNs
Copyright. 1916. by w. G. %Chapman)
You're to be my heir, Ransom, boy;
don't forget that" declared Rufus
Markham. examiner and present prof
ligate.
Always this statement accompanied
h finale of a protracted spree on
h part of the old Westerner, and al
ways honest, confiding Ransom Brill
did his duty as nurse and relative,
and sighed d%oubtingly as he realized
that both his uncle and his one prop.
erty possession. THE Rookery," as
his odd home was called, were fast
speeding along a downward path.
Ransom Brill was a mere lad, an
orphan, and working for a poor farm
er when Uncle Rufus. after an abb
n of ten years returned to Irving
ton, his native village. Markham had
come back with a great flare of trump
cts. He had hit "a rich streak" in a
Colorado gold mine and had set out to
enjoy life. Certainly his actions indi-
Gated the possession of some means.
He bought a high-priced building lot
at the edge of the town. Then he pro-
ceeded to erect the Rookery. He
never completed it. There were grand
doings when the ceremony of laying
the cornerstone" and christening of
the building took place. In this none
of the villagers, not even Ransom,
was invited to participate.
Uncle Rufus had sent for a group
of his old mining friends. He had
paid their fare East. He had wined
them and dined them. There was a
week of wild revelry. Then the house
was completed to the second story.
In this shape thereafter it was inhab-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-22

II is what you try to throw in your
fellow mems eyes while they try to
toss 1t into yours. 1t is what we all
spring from and that to which we re-
turn, thus v~ouchsafing to some SOL
emn divine the opportunity to COM
plete the quotation of ashes to
ashes" 1t is the substance that i'm
pairs the breathing apparatus of many
millions and deals out a pack of dis
eases-of every degree of Importance,
from the ace to the two-spot-at any
blowy corner or in any unswept tene-
ment. A devil to the housewife, 1t is
a benign god to the maker OF brooms
and vacuum cleaners. "Dust-the
most pernicious substance In the
worldl" cries the intolerant reformer.
Patience. patience. good friend!
Were it not for the dust mote, how
could We. ever perceive the beam OF
sunshine slanting through the
shadowy room? Besides, there is star
dust.-Collier's Weekly.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-22

Consul General Carl Bailey Hurst,
at Barcelona, reports that oil has been
noticed on the surface of streams in
the province OF Soria, Spain. presum-
ably indicating the existence of pc
troleum. Mining experts are at work
trying to discover its source.
A New York paper comments on the
fact that no longer is the West the
wild and woolly section of the coup-
try. That honor is now bestowed on
the mushroom eastern cities magically
summoned into existence by manufac.
tarsss OF Wat rapRaisA
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-22

Vast expanses OF grazing land and
immense forests await exploration in
the northwestern part OF Paraguay.
known as the Gran Chaco, which is in
habited mostly by nomadic tribes of
Indians. 1t is estimated that Paraguay
has a population of 1000. 600.
The total yield of mine gold In Cali
fornia in 1914 was $40. 653. 496. an in
crease of $24G.53S over that OF 1913.
With the exception of one year. 1883,
the mine gold output Of the state In
1914 was higher than it has been siRes
1864. so years ago.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-22
INTERESTING ITEMS

By adding an unc of camphor to
each five gallons of gasoline. an Eng
fish automobilist claims to have ef-
fected a fuel saving of 20 per cent,
When engineers have been boring
tunnels through the Alps they have
found rocks inside so hot thai it has
been necessary TO cool them with wa
ter before the men could continue
their work.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-22

The grant from Turkey under which
the German kaiser began the Bagdad
railway, "The Garden of Eden scenic
route" as 1t would be called If an
American handled its publicity.
amounted to 5000. 900 a year in guar
antics, a strip six miles wide on each
side and a license to build steamboats,
for navigating both the Tigris and Eu-
pirates rivers.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-22

English "Penny."
Penny is really a survival Of the
English pun" q corruption OF
FOUND
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-09-15
Probate Order.

State OF Michigan, the Probate court for TIA e
county of Van Buren,.
At Sc ion of said court, held at the probate
office in the village of Paw Paw in said county, on
The 5th day of September, A. d. 1916.
Present, Hon VIM. Killeter, Judge Of Probate
In .he matter OF the estate Of Hattie Walker
Green, deceased
Charles Priest. administrator Of said estate,
having fled in said court his petition praying for
license mortgage the interest of said estate in
certain real estate therein described.
1t is ordered that the End day OF October A. ID
1916 at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at said pro-
bate Office be aud is hereby appointed for
hearing said petition, and that all persons inter-
ested i'm said estate appear before said court, at
said time and place to show cause why license
TO mortga the interest Of said estate in said real
estate should not be granted;
1t is further ordered, that public notice thereof
be given by publication of copy of this order, for
three successive weeks previous TO said day Of
hearing in The True Nouheuer, newspaper
printed and circulated in said county.
William Killefer,
1918 Judge of Prcbs ~
A true copy,
MARGARET NJ. soUrHwoRTH, Register Of Probate
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Chaucery sale.

In pursuance and by virtue Of a certain decree
of the circuit court for the county of Van Buren,,
state of Michigan, in chancery, made and dated
on the 18th day of June. A. ID. 1916, wherein The
Paw Paw Savings Bank, a corporation organized
and doing business under and by virtue OF the laws
of the Stste of Michigan, is plaiuth, and Guy +.
Warner, Administrator of the estate OF Thomas
WEIGH, deceased Rowena A. WEIGH Minnie Welch
Herbert WEIGH, David Anderson, George w. Long
well, Sr. and Fred N BONNIE are defendants:
Notice is hereby given that shall sell at pub
lie auction the highest bidder, at the north front
door Of the court house, in the village Of Paw Paw
county of Van Buren,, Michigan, that being the
place of holding the circuit court for said county,
on Saturday he 14tb day of October AD 1916, at III
O'Clock In the forenoon of said day, all or so much
thereof as may be necessary TO raise the amount
due TO the said plaintiff by the terms OF said de-
cree together with costs interest and expenses OF
sale of the following described premises, to-wit
The south eighty 800 acres OF the east equal one
half VI oil section No. eighteen 1Sl, township NO
three 81 south range thirteen as west. and the
east half " of that portion Of the west half "a OF
the northeast quarter "a OF fractional section
nineteen 40, lying south Of the Paw Paw and Law
ton highway, township No. three 49, south, range
thirteen rs west, in Van Buren, county, michigan,
Dated the 3Ist day of August A. ID. 1916.
ORAN w. ROWLAND,
Circuit Court Commissioner,
att Van Buren, County, Mich.
A. Lynn Free Attorney for Plaintiff,
Business address Paw Paw Michigan
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mortgage will be foreclosed by sale
of the premises therein described, Tor
so much thereof as shall be necessary
to pay the amount then due on said
mortgage for principal, interest, at
terney fee and costs of this proceed
ihg), at public auction, to the high
est bidder, at the North Front Door
of the Court House, in the village of
Paw Paw, in the County of Van Bur-
en- and State of Michigan, (that be-
ing the place for holding the Circuit
Court for the County of Van BUREN,,
on the 18th day of November A. ID.
1916, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of
that day, which said premises are
described in said mortgage as fol-
lows, to-wit:
The following described land and
premises situated in the Township of
Paw Paw, County of Van Buren, and
State of Michigan, viz:
The West one-half 90 of the
East three-quarters ca of the
Southwest quarter, lying North of
the Territorial Road, of Section II
of said Township Of Paw Paw; also
commencing Forty (40) rods East of
the Southwest corner of said Section
IL in Town 3 South of Range IA
West, thence South One and $1,000
chains to the center of the Territor-
ial Road, thence North Seventy-four
degrees East along the same Ten and
5-100 chains to the South line of said
Section IL, thence West on the same
Ten (10) chains to the place of be-
ginning, containing Three (3) roods
and % rods of land and containing
in all Sixty (60) acres of land more
or less.
Notice is also given that this sale
will be made subject to the lien of
prior mortgage given by the under
signed to Robert McWilliams on the
9th day Of May 1915, and recorded
on the same date in the office of the
Register of Deeds for Van Buren,
county, in Liber los of mortgages,
on page 124.
Dated at Kalamazoo, Michigan,
this 18th day of August, A. d. 1916.
Steven de Ham,
Engeltje de Ham,
Mortgages.
Charles II. Farrell,
Attorney for Mortgages,
Kalamazoo, Michigan.
30t13
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Probate Order.

state of Michigan, the Probate Court ior the
County OF Van Buren,.
At session OF said court held at the probate ONCE
In the village of Paw Paw In said county on the 18TH
day of September A ID. 1916
Present Hon. VIM Killefer Judge of Probate
In the IN after Of the estate of Charles j. Moses,
Opal E Moses, and j. Ohm Stewart Moses, minors
Gladys Z, Moses, having hled IN said court her
pstition praying for license 10 sell the interest OF
said estate I'm certain real estate theTe described
IL is ordered that the 9th dayof October, A. ID.
1916 at ten O'Clock I'm the forenoon at said probate
Office, be and IL hereby appointed for haarng
said petition and that all persons interested III
said estate appear before said court, at said time
and place to show cause why license to sell the
interest of said estate said real estate should not
be granted.
IL AZ further ordered, that public notice thereof
be given by publication of copy OF this order Tor
three successive weeks previous 10 said day oil
hearing i'm The True Northerner, newspaper
printed and circulsted in said county
VIM, KILIEFER
1878 Iudge of Probate.
A true copy.
Margaret NJ Southworth Register ofProbate.