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The diamond drill., 1917-08-04
RED CROSS NOTES.

The members Of the local chapter
OF the Red Cross are making a num-
ber OF comfort and sewing kits, whicn
il is their intention to send to the
boys that have already enlisted from
here. Friends and relatives OF sold
ers that have already left for the
army or navy are kindly asked -
send the addresses OF these men to
Mrs. G. F. Larson, who has charge
OF this work, that kit may be sent
to each one. 1t is also the intention
TO present sewing kit to each man
who is drafted and leaves hereafter
The following names are furnished OF
boys that have already enlisted; their
address and any addition to the list
will be thankfully received by Mrs
c. F. Larson.
James Kinsmou.
Hugo Johnson.
Arthur W. Winters
Anthony Broncatti
Alfred Karvanen.
ole M Oleson,
Carlotto Griglielmo.
Alfred Cossette.
Albert Benson.
Leopold Stevens.
Tygrment Andreiewski.
Henry T. Liberty.
Gust Pearson.
Paul B. Pualson
Pietro Urbani
Joney Tobo.
Emil A. Nelson.
Peter PelIizzer,
John Pellizzer
George Collicelli.
George Lindquist.
Bernard Good.
Albert Erickson.
Motty Menpree.
John Phillips.
John Becker.
Erick Peterson.
James r. Bowden.
Afford l. Konoske
Clarence Biork.
Howard Warren.
Clifton C. Olson.
Norman j. Olsen.
Clarence J. Richards.
Leo c. Leonard.
Andrew Johnson.
Fred W McGee.
Emil r. Riskee.
George X. TolowskL
John Beulens.
Herbert r. Warren.
Chester r. Bowden
Casper Hammer
Beltran r Flood,
George r. Seymour
Wilfred A. Charron
Vittoin Lealini
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04

The Balkan mine people are the
fortunate ones these days. They not
only have vessel capacity to care
for their pocket output, but their
stockpile is being rapidly loaded and
shipped away as we'll.
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04
RED CROSS NOTES.

II you have not Joined the Red
Cross, join today
The committee in charge of com
fort kits requests that all kits taken
home to be made or filled be brought
to headquarters next Wednesday or
to Mrs. c. r. Larson. chairman.
The committee plan to supply every
Crystal Falls boy in service with a
comfort bag or sewing kit and will
send papers and magazines and box
es of eats, II the boys are stationed
where It is possible 10 do so. Leave
your old magazines at headquartera
or with Mrs Croghan.
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04

Cashier Kearns Of the Alpha banl
went 10 Norway last Saturday to visi
relatives and friends in that cit,
over Sunday.
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04

Mr.. and Mrs. w II. Burris Of Du-
luth, parents Of Mrs f.. c. Bradley.
who have been visiting here for some
time returned TO their home last
Wednesday.
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04

Mrs. j. X Hubbard left Tuesday
morning for months visit at Nor
way, Dunbar and other points down
the line.
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04

Tea hot or cold, served every Wed
nesday afternoon from 2;30 o'clock
until 400.
Old muslin and linen Is wanted at
work room.
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04

]. J. Griffith Is expected back from
Boston next week. Mr. Grihiths went
east TO visit his mother.
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04

Mr. c. Elliott has moved his family
here from Neponset. III. with the in
tention OF making Alpha his home
IIo IS employed at the Balkan mine
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04

Mrs. A. r. Rogers is back from
Marquette range to spend month
with her husband here. Mrs. Rogers
health is very poor.
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04

Paul Anderson is back from trip
TO Iowa where he went for the pur-
pose OF visiting one OF his sons who
resides there
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04

Mrs. Herman Hartung is in Mil
waubee visiting with relatives,
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04

Captain Piper has moved into the
house formerly occupied by Captain
Holman.
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04

The Rag Pickers orchestra OF Crys-
tai Falls announced dance here on
Tuesday night last and Alpha people
and a lot of Crystal Falls people had
their hearts set on the affair. but
when the music arrived II was found
that no arrangements had been made
for the hall, no piano was on hand
and the dance had to be called of
much to the disappointment OF the
expectant ones.
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04

The taxes OF the village OF Alpha
are due and Treasurer Hubbard Is
ready to collect them at any time.
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04

Mr. f. c. Bradley is at work on his
sidewalk contract on First street and
expects 10 have the walks all ready
very soon.
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04

The village authorities have been
fixing up the street OF the village
wherever they needed fixing and the
work is appreciated by the residents
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04
NOTICE TO TEACHERS.

The next regular examination OF
teachers for Iron county will be held
in the court house in the city OF Crys-
tai Falls on Friday and Thursday,
August 9th and 10th John +. Mason.
commissioner OF schools Jui-2s-2t
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04

Miss Evelyn Uren who has been at
the Marquette Normal returned to her
home here last Monday
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04

FOR SALE 49, Five passenger tour
ing car in good shape. Electric
light. self-starter. etc. Will demon
strate. Inquire at this office.
x-x-x
Number plate F7402. Find
er leave at the Diamond Drill office.
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04

Henry Arcand, one OF Alphas boys
NJ the front, came home on a fur
Tough during the week. Henry has
certainly made good at Fort Monroe
where he has been working with the
artillery and has been promoted to
master gunner. Henry is going to
take the examination for second lien
tenant in September and feels quite
sanguine OF being promoted.
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04

Mrs ]. Lewis is visiting with reia'
tlyes and friends at Iron Mountain
The diamond drill., 1917-08-04

A card party was held at the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs w. j. Perkins
last Thursday evening.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-16
KEEP DAIRY PRODUCTS COLD
Special Precautions Should BE Taken
to Cool Milk After Being Drawn
and Then Kept So.

Milk and cream are perishable prod
ucts and every possible precaution
should be taken at the farm and in the
home to keep these products whole
come. In the fall with the cooler
weather, there exists an opinion that
ice or other methods of cooling milk
and cream is unnecessary to have
these products remain sweet in cold
weather, says Prof. V. r. Jones Of the
South Dakota department of dairy hus-
bandry. This is a false assumption.
Special precautions TO see that these
dairy products are cooled Immediately
after drawn and kept cold until deliv-
cry are important.
Milk and cream will contain germs
or (lactic acid) bacteria no matter
how careful we are in its production.
The bacteria that cause milk to sour
multiply very rapidly at moderately
high temperatures (70-S0 degrees F.
If the milk or cream is cooled to 80
degrees f. or less, the growth of these
germs is held in check and these food
products remain sweet for a longer
period.
If the dairy farmer does his duty in
properly cooling milk and cream at
the farm, either with ice or cold run
ming water, and the same precautions
are taken in the home, there will be
less trouble with sour milk and cream.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-16
WHY THE SHAMROCK is WORN
Custom Not Only in Honor of the Saint,
but in Remembrance Of Days
Of Famine.

Few who put sprig of shamrock
in their buttonhole on the 18th of
March realize that these little green
leaves more than once kept the Irish
from death in dire famine times.
In 1896 the poet Spenser declares
that the war had brought the miser-
able inhabitants of Munster to a point
crosses or shamrocks as to feast"
In his "View of Ireland" he describes
this as the depth of ruin to which Il
land formerly having abundant corn
and cattle had been plunged.
The troublous times continued and
the shamrock is mentioned as an ar
ticle of food again and again. Fynes
Morrison, in 1898, writes that the herb
is still "being snatched out of the
bitches for food"
Withers in abuses Stript and
Whipt" Q613) sings:
And for my clothing in a mantle go
And feed on shamrocks as the Irish doe.
Not until later was the shamrock
used as the national emblem of Erin.
Nathaniel Colgan, member of the
Royal Irish academy, says the earliest
record of the wearing o. the green"
is contained in the diary of Thomas
Dinely who wrote in 1857:
"17th day of March yearly is ST.
Patrick, an immovable feast, when the
Irish of all stations and conditions
wear crosses in their hats, some of
pins, some of green ribbon. and the
vulgar superstitiously wear sham
rogues, three-leaved grass, which they
likewise eat (they say to cause a
sweet breath). The common people
and servants also demand their Pat
ricks groat of their masters, which
they go expressly to town. though half
dozen miles off, TO spend, where
sometimes it amounts to piece -of
eight or cobb apiece, and very few
of the Jealous are found sober at
night"
A later reference to the wearing of
the shamrock appears in the works of
DR.. Caleb Threlked, botanist of the
early eighteenth century. He says :
THE people wear the plant in their
hats in commemoration of st. Patrick,
believing that st. Patrick used the
three-lobed leaf to explain the Chris
tian Trinity. This belief is generally
said by antiquarians to have arisen
in the fourteenth century, almost a
thousand years after the time of Pa
tritius," who died in A. ID. 493.
In that year. says the Annale of
Ulster, "Patritius, the arch-apostle of
the Scott (Irish) rested on the 10th
day of the calends of April March
~ in the one hundred and twentieth
year of his life, the sixtieth year after
he had come to Ireland to baptize the
Scott"
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-16
SYRUP OF FIGS FOR
A CH|LD'S BOWELS
It is cruel to force nauseating,
harsh phySic into a
sick child.

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the dose mother insisted
on-castor oil, calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form OF
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's revolt is well-found-
ed. Their tender little '"insides' are
injured by them.
II your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious California Syrup of Figs" Its
action is positive but gentle. Millions
of mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative" handy; they know children
love to take it; that 1t never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet
en- the stomach, and that teaspoonful
given today saves a sick child tomor-
row.
Ask at the store for 50-cent bottle
OF California Syrup of Figs" which
has full directions for babies, children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
on each bottle. Adv.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-16
.SS Ss e g g g e
All of His Own Race.

One enthusiastic writer tells us that
sin New York today an Irishman may
rise in the morning and battle in the
water from Croton dam, built by Irish
James Coleman; breakfast on Cudahy
bacon, then take the subway, planned
by John Mcdonald, past the College
of the City of New York, built by
Thomas Dwyer, to his office in a sky
scraper built by John d. Crimmins.
Arrived at his office, he may cable to
Alaska over telegraph line laid by
David Lynch, order certain freight
sent by James j. Hills Great North
ern railway, and then may rest and
read William Laffin's New York Sun,
delivered by the American News COM
pany, founded by Patrick Farrelly.
Then, If it happens to be springtime,
he may lean from his window and toss
Il coin to the hurdygurdy man who
plays st. Patrick's Day."
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-16
BILIOUS, HEADACHY,
SICK 'CASCARETS"
Gently cleanse your liver and
sluggish bowels while
you sleep.
Get a 10-cent box.

~ Sick headache, biliousness, dizzi.
ess. coated tongue, foul taste and foul
5reath-always trace them to torpid
iliser; delayed fermenting food in the
BIO 7els or sour, gassy stomach.
'isonous matter clogge6 in the in
testInes, instead of being cast out
OF the system is re-absorbed into the
blood. When this poison reaches the
delicate brain tissue it causes con-
gestion and that dull, throbbing, sick
erng hea. ache.
Cascarets Immediately cleanse the
stomach, remove the sour, undigested
food and foul gases, take the excess
bile from the liver and carry out all
the constipated waste matter and
poisons in the bowels
A Cascaret tonight will surely
straighten you out by morning They
work while you sleep-a 10-cent box
from your druggist means your head
clear, stomach sweet and your liver
and bowels regular for months. Adv.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-16

III
rick's greatness that his renova-
4 ton of Ireland was not revolu-
ton. He left old institutions and
traditions untouched, wherever they
could be purged of faint of super
stition. There were septs and clans,
laws and judges bards and kings be-
fore him, and they continued after
him. He built his church carefully.
TO disarm political opposition he APP
pealed straight to the heads of the
clans. He aimed at the creation of
q native clergy. He tried to give ev-
cry community place of worship. At
his death 800 churches lay along the
routes his journeys had taken; 365
bishops were distributed throughout
the land. 5000 priests ministered to
the spiritual wants of the nation. He
attempted to throw into the church
thus suddenly created Il strong element
of stability by systematizing it on the
models of the canons and making &C.
clesiastical law effective in every de-
partment.
He did not believe in sanctity I'M
associated with education. Under him
religion created great monasteries, and
monasteries created great schools. BY
those schools st. Patrick is factor
in the history of Europe. Even be-
fore he went to Ireland he had seen the
days when Ostrogoths established
themselves in Pannonia and Thrace,
when the Nisgoths sacked the Italian
peninsula from end to end and carved
out a Spanish kingdom within the do
mains of great Rome. when the Huns
rode their blazing course up the Dan
ube and the Rhine almost to the
ocean; when the Vandals terrorized
Spain and crushed the power of the
empire in northern Africa, when the
Salian Franks took firm grip of north
ern Gaul. His long life stretches over
period during which the whirlwind
Of barbaric invasions swept away all
but Il remnant of the ancient learn
ings. But now the world went to
school to Ireland, and the Irish brought
their school to the world. Religion,
the ancient classics, law, history, nat
ural science, agriculture, manual
training, the use of implements and
the forge, all came within the scope
of these intense and practical schol-
ars.
Not without reason has the name of
st. Patrick been held in veneration
through these many generations.
There is nowhere teacher whose
services for learning exerted so wide
an influence in time so critical for
all culture. There is nowhere states
man whose activity so completely re-
formed the character of any people.
There is nowhere such national hero
whose fame is sounded across fifteen
centuries and can still stir emotions
Of enthusiasm far beyond his nations
shores. There is nowhere saint
whose teachings are blended like his
with the destinies of his nation.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-16

is q little chapel on the mountain top.
But it is so small that few can find a
place therein, and most kneel outside.
The sermons preached are in Gaelic,
and the masses continue from day
break until noon.
visited The Reek in A. ID. AL and
spent forty days on its summit, hid
den from the world by the mists hang
ing about the lower portion of the
mountain. The legend says that he
was assailed by huge black birds,
which only took to flight when he
rang his bell against them. The bell
rolled down the mountain, but an an
gel came and restored it to the saint.
All the men of Erin heard this ring
ing of the bell, and it is stated now
that it is often heard again.
Afterward st. Patrick was visited by
angels, and from their leader he wrest-
ed the following pledges: That as
many souls should be saved as could
fill the horizon which he looked upon
that on every Thursday seven souls
and on every Saturday twelve souls
should be freed from purgatory; that
whoever recited the last verse of his
hymn constantly should suffer no tor.
ments in the next world, and that on
the last day he should be appointed to
sit in Judgment on the sins Of Gael.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-16
FALLING HAIR means
DANDRUFF is ACTIVE
of Danderne Right Now-Also
Stops Itching Scalp.

Thin, brittle, colorless and scraggy
hair is mute evidence of a neglected
scalp; of dandruff-that awful scurf.
There is nothing so destructive to
the hair as dandruff. 1t robs the hair
Of its luster, its strength and its very
life; eventually producing a feverish-
ness and itching of the scalp, which
IL not remedied causes the hair roots
to shrink, loosen and die-then the
hair falls out fast. A little Danderine
tOnight-now-any time-will surely
save your hair.
Get a % cent bottle of Knowlton's
Danderine from any store, and after
the first application your hair will
take on that life, luster and luxuriance
which is so beautiful. 1t will become
wavy and fluffy and have the appear
ance of abundance; an incompatible
gloss and softness, but what will
please you most will be after just a
few weeks use, when you will actual
ly see lot of fine, downy hair-new
hair-growing all over the scalp. Adv.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-16
ER|N'S HOLY PLACE
For Fifteen Centuries The Reek
Has Played important Part
in Country's History.

Ut is in the month July that the
great annual pilgrimage Of The
Reek takes place.
The Reek, sometimes known as
Croagh Patrick, is the Mount Zion Of
the Emerald isle. For on its summit
st. Patrick is said to have wrung from
the angel many promises for the sal
walton of the people he had made his
own.
For fifteen centuries this mountain
has played an important part in the re-
ligiouse history of Ireland, and year
by year people Journey by the thou
sands up the mountain, which is about
5000 feet high. 1t is II steep and diff
fcult ascent occupying the best part
of three hours, and most of the pill
grims make it in the evening, so as to
hold their vigil on the summit. There
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-16
DAIRY
FACTS
GIVE cow NUTRITIOUS FEEDS
Pennsylvania Experiment Station Rec
ommends Decrease in SiIage in
Drying-Off Process.

For considerable period before the
dairy COW is due TO freshen ii is best
to feed highly nutritious feeds. About
GO days before the time for parturi-
ton the COW should be dried off. 1t
is necessary that this be done care
fully, as old milk left in the udder
may lead to garget or other Ills.
For the drying-off process the
Pennsylvania experiment station rec
ommends decreasing the silage t.
about 20 pounds and the grain to four
pounds daily. No change is necessary
in the amount of hay fed. After the
COW is dry the grain ration is re-
sumed and the amount of grain in
creased gradually until the week just
previous to freshening.
The grain ration ought to be laXa-
tive in character, highly nutritious
and palatable. During the last week
the COW should be placed in box
stall and her grain lessened. Equal
parts of wheat bran and ground oats
or chop with alfalfa hay and man
gels is recommended as good ration
to feed at this time
After parturitiOn the COW should not
be MIXED until the second day, except
by the calf, unless, as is the practice
of some, dairymen, the calf is removed
at once. For several days the cow
should be allowed only tepid water.
For feed, good clover hay, mangels
and bran and oats are probably best
until her system becomes normal
again. BY the third day the cow may
he returned TO her stall
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-16
SOOTHES ITCHING SCALPS
And Prevents Falling Hair Do Cuticura
Soap and Ointment.

On retiring, gently rub spots of dam
druff and itching with Cuticura ONT
ment. Next morning shampoo with
Cuticura Soap and hot water using
plenty of Soap. Cultivate the use of
Cuticura Soap and Ointment for every
day toilet purposes.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard Cuticura, Dept. L.
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-16
CLEANLINESS OF CALF PENS
Use Abundance of Nice Straw and Dig
Out All Manure Frequently
Calves Are Frisky.

The calf pen must be kept clean.
Use lots of nice straw, not putting II
upon lot of fermented filth, but dig
out all manure very frequently and
add fresh straw almost daily. Calves
are so frisky that they tramp the
straw into the manure to beat every.
thing.
Separator milk, tender clover or al.
falfa hay, bran, oil meal, silage, shelled
corn, such feeds are the stuff good
calves are made of.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-16

were useless and only an operation
would help me, but Lydia E. Pinkham' 8
Vegetable Compound has proved it
otherwise. / am now perfectly well
and can do any kind of work. Mrs.
NELLIE PHELPS, care of r. A. Rider.
RID. No. s, Fulton, N. Y,
We wish every woman who suffers
from female troubles, nervousness,
backache or the blues could see the let
ters written by women made well by Ly-
dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
If you have bad symptoms and do not
understand the cause, write to the
lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn.
Mass. for helpful advice given free.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-16

Irish Leaders in American History.

''T5T' EeduSTs TIT HTTICTTCdH TH5tUTy.
The Declaration of independence
has twelve Irish names. Matthew
Thornton, James Smith and George
Taylor were born in Ireland; John
Hancock, William Whipple, Robert
Treat Paine, George Read, Thomas Nc
kean, Edward Nelson and Thomas
Lynch were of Irish parentage. The
secretary Of congress who prepared the
immortal document from the rough
draft of Thomas jefferson was Charles
Captain Dunlop, still another Irish
man, printed it and published 1t to the
world. Captain Dunlop was the found
err of the first daily paper in Philade-
phia.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-16
Cream Separator.

upper end of the cylinder is small
tube. A screen extends across the
cylinders lower end. After inserting
the separator into the bottle to the
depth of the cream, the thumb is placed
over the end of the tube. The sep.
arator may now be lifted from the bot
tie filled with cream, the screen and
suction combining to keep the fluid
from flowing ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Me-
chanics Magazine.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-16

-Four or Five.Leaved Shamrock?

Some say the four-leaf shamrock is
the shamrock of luck, and others that
1t is the five leaved one that holds the
magic touch. This latter is rare and
priced and is said to grow from de-
caying body, as the nettle is said to
spring from buried human remains.
The shamrock of luck must be found
without searching. without seeking"
When thus discovered. Ii should be
cherished and preserved as an in
vincible talisman.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-16
REMOVE CREAM FROM BOTTLE
Be Taken From Milk Bottle With
W Mixing Milk.

A utensil for removing cream from
milk bottle consists of a cylinder
about half the length of quart bot
tie and of diameter slightly less than
that of the mouth of the ordinary milk
container. The device is held in one
hand the index finger passing through
a small looped handle at the upper end.
Projecting from the otherwise closed
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-16
His Stroke of Luck.

1--WE had n bit of luck. / picked up
500 day before yesterday, and, learn
ing this morning that 1t belonged TO
that old miser Marx, l returned 1t to
him.
81 see; and he gave you reward"
"Oh, no; but he didn't charge me
any interest for the two days / had
It,"
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-16
SWEARING Off.

"Why are you so strong for pro-
hibitiOn?"
We'll" replied Uncle Fill Bottletop,
"a country is good deal like an in
dividual. After havin' had liquor with
out limit for Il period Of years, it's
IA mighty good thing to go without
for awhile. "-WashingtOn Star.