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Douglas Island news., 1916-01-26

The Lyric has for tonight and Thurs. day a spectacular jungle feature, "Prowlers of the Wild" This feature is acted by Herbert Rawlinson and Anna Little, now appearing in the "Black Box" and introduces all manner of wild animals "White Wolf," a splendid picture, is based on an old Indian legend
 The past week has been a cold one, mercury down as low as IA below zero, and high winds. Rather more of both than Douglas has experienced for many years. Water pipes have frozen up in many places, aud the wind has broken windows and torn down smoke stacks by the dozen. It would be impossible to name them all.
 Seventy-two new boxes have arrived for the Douglas postodice and they will be installed as soon as possible. The business of the Douglas office has been increasing by leaps and bounds, and for many months there has been a decided shortage of boxes. The new ones to be installed will help, but there is every reason to believe that they will be taken as fast as the patrons of the office can get them. The rule will be "First come, first served" so our advice is to file your application at ouce.
 The fire boys are all ready for their mass meeting at Labor Union hall Sat urday night. Under the leadership of the city health officer, Dr. A. R. Sai- geant, aud with tbe help of several members who are already we'll drilled in the matter, first aid practice has been going on in earnest for the past two or three weeks, and it is expected that the whole department will be en-. tertaiued by the exhibition set for Sat urday night. Besides this the refresh meut committee is arranging to give the boys a "feed." Only members of the Douglas department are invited to be present at this meeting.
 Douglas people have reason to look forward with hope to the coming sum mer. Mr. NJ. J. O'Connor informs the News that a large and powerful com pauy of Eastern capitalists has taken over the various mining properties around Douglas, including the Jersey group, and will prospect them thor oughly. Diamond drills will be used and work will begin as soon as the weather is favorable in the spring. For many years we have believed that the gold on Douglas Island was not all tied up in the veins of the Tread~ell mines. The new company is coming to prove that this theory is right or wrong. If the gold is here they have the capital to work it on a large scale If not, the surface will toe sold for homes. Either way, Douglas will be the winner.
Douglas Island news., 1916-01-26
Two Explosions


 Last Friday morning Mir. B. R' Leivers built fire in a range in room at the rear of his store. He then went down stairs to start a fire iu the candy making department. That done, he started upstairs and was about half way up when an explosion shook the building and a shower of stove lids, fire and soot came down the stairway. The severe cold of the night before had frozen the pipe between the range and tEe water tank. The application of fire caused steam to form in the fire back which, when it could not escape ex oloded with a terrible force, wrecking the range and throwing burning coals all over the room. MT. Leivers when he found he was not hurt, quickly put out the fire and afterwards had the wreck of his range hauled down to the beach and thrown in the bay.
 On Saturday morning a similar acci- dent happened at the home of Richard Mccormick. Mrs. Mccormick was get ting breakfast when the kitchen range exploded. blowing out two windows, wrecking the range, throwing chunks of iron clear through a double partition into the next room, filling the house with ashes, soot and chunks of fire. Luckily Mrs. Mccormick escaped in- jury.
 Such accidents are only possible during severely cold weather aud many Douglas householders have taken warn ing and had the water cut out of their ranges.
Douglas Island news., 1916-01-26
Coal Coal Coal

When you want Coal, see Martin Olson, on Ferry dock.
 Ladysmith Coal, delivered Sl0 per ton Screened Ladysmith ..5ll per ton Newcastle Nut, delivered .S9 per ton Briquettes ...S9 per ton Ladysmiih Screenings. sZ50 pe- ton This means delivered.
Douglas Island news., 1916-01-26

An exchange notes the marriage at Darieu, NY, of Mr. Harry Barrackman and Miss Emily s. Van Zant. Tbe groom resided for a number of years on Douglas Island.
Douglas Island news., 1916-01-26
MODERN DENTISTRY

If you are in need of set of teeth let me talk with you. Having the latest equipment aud methods, my dentures give absolute satisfaction.
 DIR. c. D. CARTER, Phone 3, Douglas
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04
THE VALUE OF A
LIQUOR LICENSE
THE ciTYs FEE is NOT ALL OF IT.
NOTE THE VALUE TO THE
MEN WHO SELL LIQUOR
WORTH 81 900, VALUE $4,000
That Is Tho Liquor Seller viii Cause
Want and Suffering To Make
Money For Hlmseif.

How much. Is saloon license
WORTH This question has aggitated
a good many city councils In Michi.
gan as they faced the annual grant
ing of licenses. 1t brings two answers.
The license Is worth q given fee TO
the city which grants it, but 1t also Is
worth many times that fee in profits
to the liquor dealers.
"A saloon license in Jackson Is
worth at least $4,000 to the man
who holds 1t" declared an official Of
that city to a representative OF The
over ninety saloons In Jackson and
now with thirty-two, the profits Of
each retailer are very large"
Pinconning, a little town near Bay
City, has ended a long hard fight over
the issue by adding $500 as village
license to that required by the state,
making the total $1,000. In Standish
the one thousand figure also prevails.
Good evidence that the liquor
dealer has not yet seen the light, Ia
furnished by much talk and little
action on the subject of reducing the
number Of saloons in various Michi.
gan cities. Bay City succeeded in
counting out six licenses this year
but still has 108 bars in a city of AS.
900 population. Saginaw as well as
Bay City furnished much talk of re.
ducing the number, but Saginaw
granted its old number Of 101 licenses.
Manistee managed TO count out one
saloon, leaving twenty-eight- which
must have been quite an effort for
Manistee since it decided to have
nothing to do with local option and is
advertising its saloons as a munich
pal attraction to motor tourists.
In Detroit absolute secrecy was
maintained by the liquor committee
OF the common council. 1t was ex
pected that something like a bomb
shell would drop and scores of Il
censes would be refused which here.
tofore have been granted. About SO
fewer licenses were granted leaving
the total 1913.
Most Of these local fights Of saloon
licenses are in fact conflicts among
brewers rather than retailers. The
city council has a hard time regula
ting a retail saloon when the influ
ences back OF the retailer are brewing
companies competing for the sale OF
their product. While the people are
not interested in who makes the stuff,
they do have a practical interest in
law enforcement and the retailer Is
the man to whom they must look.
With blind pigs" fiourishing in II
censed cities and with saloon. keepers
constantly violating many laws and
with city councils afraid to refuse H.
censes when they ought to, the condi
lions in many Michigan cities are all
tending to increase and solidify dry
sentiment.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04
''The Flats" and Its Bar-rooms

CONSERVATION reigns In that ele.
ment of population of Detroit and vi.
entity who take their summer recrea.
ton a st. Clair Flats. The fat sec.
ton north OF Lake ST. Clair, has long
been famous for its summer cottages
and hotels scattered about among
pretty venetian canals.
1t has also been notorious because
of he loose way in which certain bar.
rooms were operated. Dancing, gamb
ling and worse evils, have at times
been accepted as necessary. Cheap
trips by fast steamers between De.
troit and Port Huron have made the
Flats popular.
But it is stated that during the com.
Ing year only two saloon licenses Will
be granted by the Clay township
board. This action cuts out several
drinking places, and while it saddens
the hearts of the bibulously inclined
It will gladden. those who believe In
safe and sane recreation.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04
ELECTRIC HOBO" is
CALIFORNIA PRODUCT
Cooks as He Goes and Steals "FueI
From Third Rail With Own
Appliance.

Marysvine, Cal.-Wanderers have
been known to adopt various means
of obtaining livelihood and are
known by various types, but a new
variety has just been discovered In
this vicinity.
He is known as the electric hobo"
He is never without hot meal when
he can beg the ingredients with which
to cook, and he doesn't have to carry
a match with him or worry about kin
ding a fire.
The Northern Electric Company 3
third rail is his stove, or at least the
source OF his fire, for he carries with
him a patent stove. 1t consists Of a
folding iron plate, interlaced with cop.
per wires. When he gets hungry he
unfolds IL and makes, a connection
on the third rail, places the food on
the stove and, when ready, eats to his
hearts content. Jackrabbits, vegeta-
tables, coffee and flapjacks can be
cooked on the electric grill.
c. b. Harter, Suffer county ranch
er, says he saw the electric hobo"
at work cooking his breakfast the 9th
or morning. Among other things he
heated a can of water on the stove
took a rusty razor from one pocket, a
cake of soap from another and a piece
Of mirror out of his coat lining and
shaved.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04
OUR MODERN TEMPLES or WORK

OOH MODEHN TEMPLES Or WOHN
While In other days popes and
princes built churches and palaces
which are still the wonder of the world
today commerce and industry are do
modern mills and docks and canals
and bridges are even more wonderful
They are our triumphs Of art, and yet
hardly any one records their building
We are so familiar with these master
pieces before our eyes that we pay
no attention to them. We make few
II any records of our greatest monu-
ments, our greatest triumphs In engin-
eering and architecture which are far
more amazing than the work of the
past. and quite as well worth record
ing.
The mills and docks and canals
and bridges of the present are more
mighty, more pictorial, and more prac-
tical than any similar works of the
past; they are the true temples of the
painting as medieval churches; Mime
spolis is as fine as Abb.
But 1t is in the Northwest that the
results OF necessity and rivalry are
most evident. At Sault Ste. Marie the
government has built series of locks
which are as fine and pictorial as the
locks at Panama, and when in the eve
ming the huge bridge parts, and rises
against the setting sun, and the great
ore boats slowly steam by, there
comes to pass a TRANSPORTATION that
no painter could imagine-the apoth.
costs of America. And who would
conceive anything so arresting, any
thing SO typical, as the Jaws" with
their fierce teeth, of the Twelfth
Street Bridge at Chicago? Go to Gary,
or Indian Harbor, or any one of hun.
dred places in or around our western
metropolis, metropolis, and the myster
metropolis, and the mystery. the might
the majesty of the Wonder of Work
will overwhelm you-if you can see 1t
and if you can see 1t, you can see
America.
II is subjects like these that make
The Northwest so fine, so American;
yet there are others just as fine, and
absolutely different, all over the coun-
try. They are noble just as the tenn
pies, the pyramids, the cathedrals are.
for this art is the expression of our
time and our aims just as the tenn
Piles and castles were of other times.
No artists recorded the building OF
those temples for their own sake, for
they were always to be seen. So today
only few artists pay any heed to this
Wonder of Work around us. A wonder,
too, which will soon be gone. for with
the development of electricity the mys-
terry will vanish, and with every new
development in manufacture the piS
turesqueness of chimney, converter.
and crane will disappear, and in few
years there will be nothing but mean,
low masses of trim masonry with no
effect about them-as worthy of COM
parison with the marvellous, myster-
ious masses of today as clapboard
meeting house is with a cathedral
Harpers Magazine.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04
IT'S Dry in Temple.

Temple and Clare county went dry.
This fact will cause some residents OF
Wexford. Missaukee, Osceola and 9th.
er dry" counties to make rye"
face and cuss the government and PEG.
pie who voted the county dry. Tenn.
pie was a favorite watering place for
a few Cadillac people, who would take
their weeks wages and spend both
the wages and the week end In the
village. However. the one saloon
closed It's doors last Saturday night
and will remain closed for at least
two years.-Cadillac News.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04
Save the ChiIdren's Teeth

Too much stress cannot be laid on
attention to the first teeth. Parents
are too often ignorant of how much
the health of their children depends on
the treatment given the deciduous
teeth and say, when the second set
comes in we will see that the children
have regular periodic examination and
attention" Very often the first teeth
are pulled instead of being filled.
though just as much vigilance should
be expended on them as though they
were permanent teeth.
Do parents realize that 1t is neces.
sary for the first teeth to be saved as
long as possible, until the contour OF
the face and lines of the features be-
come fixed? The health and regular
ity of the permanent teeth depend
largely on the heed given to the baby
set. The beauty of your child, the
health of your grown son or daughter
may be made or marred by your know
ledge or ignorance on this important
point. Childhood is the Impressions
BILE age, and If children are taught
the importance of properly caring for
their teeth it will bacome habit that
will last through life and save suffer
ing and expense.-Leslie's.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04
Mobilizing the Liquor Forces

Liquor forces are rapidly organizing
and mobilizing their forces In Michi.
gan. Before the local option election
of April 3 they had begun to hire
workers in many sections Of the state.
There is no doubt whatever that they
Will wage a vigorous and expensive
campaign. No denial has come to the
statement made some time ago that q
campaign fund of s1,500,O0o will be
raised to defeat the ant.saloon CAUSE.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04

It's always safe to name baby boy
William. If he becomes a good boy
people may call him Willie. and If he
doesn't they can call him Bill.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04

The cost of experience is never full
~ realized until one goes TO law.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04

Most men would be content with
their lot-if 1t were a lot Of money.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04

The wise man turns up his sleeves
and goes after job, while the fool
sits around and waits for the job to
come to him.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04

History spends half it's time in re-
peating itself, and the other half In
getting itself revised.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04

It's as difficult to find friend as It
is to lose enemies.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04

safety first' is a good motto. but
too many people wait until it's too late
to be careful.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04
A Sermon on careIessness

l am more powerful than the com
bined armies of the world.
have destroyed more men than all
the wars of the nations.
l am more deadly than bullets, and
l have. wrecked more homes than the
mightiest of seige guns.
/ steal in the United States alone,
over s300,000,000 each year.
spare no one and 1 find my vic.
Tins among the rich and the poor alike
the young and old, the strong and the
weak. Widows and orphans know me
loom up to such proportions that
cast my shadow over every field OF
labor, from the turning of the grind
stone to the moving of every railroad
train
| massacre thousands upon thou
sands of wage earners year.
Turk in unseen places, and do most
of my work silently. You are warned
against me, but you heed not.
/ am relentless.
/ am everywhere-in the house, on
the street, at railroad crossings, and
on the seas.
/ bring sickness, degradation and
death, and yet few seek to avoid me.
/ destroy, crush and main; give
nothing, but take all.
l am your worst enemy.
/ am carelessness.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04

A pessimist likes a thing he can't
enjoy, and an optimist enjoys a thing
he cant like.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04

A grouchy man thinks he laughs
best who laughs least.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04

The female of the species is the
weeping expert of the human race.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04

But too many people get into an ar.
gument who have nothing to say.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04

Even a color blind man can tell .
greenback when he sees II.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04

A man is always eating something
he shouldn't and a woman is always
saying something she shouldn't
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04

Rather than waste kindness on an
ungrateful man, lavish 1t on a dog.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04

No man ever bought a horse that
turned out to be just as represented.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04

The rolling stone never takes .
straight course.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04

The birch manufacturer has some
excuse for wanting the earth.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04

II is easy for a man to be popular
II he Is easy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-10-25

Judge Richard H. Cardwell, presi-
dent of the Virginia Supreme Court
of Appeals, yesterday sent to Gov
ernor Stuart his resignation, to take
effect on November 16. The resigna-
ton was accepted and Governor
Stuart appointed Judge R. R. Prem
tbs, chairman of the State Corpora
ton Commission, to fill the vacancy
and announced that he would appoint
Christopher B. Garnett, the present
executive assistant to the State Tax
Board, as successor to Judge Prem
tbs on the State Corporation Commits
sion. The State Tax Board will fill
the vacancy caused by Mr.. Garnett's
elevation. Judge Cardwell's resigna-
ton has been long anticipated.
The Synod of Virginia was opened
last night at the Presbyterian Church
in Lexington, with sermon by the
Rev. DR.. w. w. Moore, president
of the Union Theological Seminary,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-10-25
Notice Application for License

Take notice we shall, on Saturday,
the 18th day of November, 1916, at
ten o'clock a. M, at the Court
House thereof in the city of Alexan-
dria, Virginia, apply to the Corpora
ton Court of the City of Alexandra,
Virginia for license to purchase, re
ceive, store and sell soft drinks and
ardent spirits on prescription, OF
pure fruit, ethY,i or grain alcohol
for scientific, mechanical, or phar-
maceutical purposes, and wine for
sacramental purposes, and this no.
tice is hereby given under the pro
visions of an Act of the General
Assembly of Virginia, approved
March 10, 1916.
Given under our hand this 18th
day of October, 1916.
E. L. Allen and Co.
244-3t. Oct. 1925. Nov. /.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-10-25
,AZETTE WEDNESDAY,, OCTOBER 25, 1916.

Richmond, in the absence OF Hf'
James Graham, the retiring modera'
tor, who was compelled to return
To his mission work in China. The
business session of the synod began
today, and the meetings will continue
through Friday. The Rev. j. NJ.
Montgomery, assistant pastor of the
Lexington church, was ordained yes,
terday by the Lexington Presbyter:
which convened for that purpose.
The seventy-frst convention of the
Southern Conference of the SYNOD
of Virginia was opened last night in
Muhlenberg Lutheran Church in Har,
risonburg with the conference sermon
by the Rev. J. W. Shuey, of Lex
ington, the retiring president. Twen-
ty-fve delegates, clerical and lay
were present, representing Is pastor
ates and 80 congregations, with 1900
communicates. The upper valley
counties, with parishes in Lynchburg,
Richmond, Newport News, and Nor
folk, are embraced in the conference.
Miss Edith Sheperdy 18 years old,
daughter Of R. H. Shepherd, a
Lynchburg merchant, was assaulted
Sunday night near her home by an
unknown negro. The assailant en-
braced her and endeavored to close
her mouth with his hand, but she
was able to scream and the black
fled. A neighbor, attracted by the
cries, fired several shots at the ne
gro, who escaped.
No action toward the restoration
of dividends was taken at the annual
meeting of stock holders of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway yes
terday in Richmond. All members
of the board of directors were re-
elected.
Thornton Edwards, aged 62 years,
a negro, was found murdered near
the Forest Turnpike, several miles
west of Lynchburg, on Sunday morn
ing. The indications are that the ne
gro attempted to run when held up
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-10-25

NOTICE, is hereby given, that in
conformity with the provision Of an
Act of the General Assembly of
Virginia, approved March 10, 1916,
(Act 1916, Chapter 146, pages 219-
223-224), the undersigned will on
the 18th day of November 1916, ap-
ply to the Corporation Court of the
City of Alexandria, at Eleven o'clock
a. M, for license to purchase, store
and sell wine for sacramental pur-
poses, pure whiskey and pure brandy
and pure fruit, ethyl and grain al
cohol for medicinal, scientific, me-
chanical and pharmaceutical pur-
poses; and to purchase and use ar
dent spirits and alcohol for the
manufacture of fiavoring extracts,
toilet, medicinal and antiseptic pre-
parations or solutions, and patent
and proprietary medicines, as pro-
vided in the said Act of Assembly.
C.. J. W. Summers,
-901 Duke Street.
Dated Alexandria, Va, October II,
1916. 2443t. Oct.18-25 Nov. 1.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-10-25
VIRGINIA NEWS
All, Around the Old Dominion
State.

The third annual session Of the
Woman's Missionary Society Of the
Virginia Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference opened yesterday morning at
Main Street Methodist Church, Dan
Vile, and will last until Friday. Mrs.
Lee Britt, of Suffolk, president of the
society, delivered her message and
reported healthy progress along all
lines. The society raised $3O,S08.61
last years and spent practically all
of it. The membership in the confer
ence is 1863 and by the end of the
year it is hoped to bring it to $4,000.
The la delegates attending the con-
ference heard last night Nellie Ben
net and Elizabeth Lamb, both of Bra
I'll, tell of their missionary work.