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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-16

Miss Ellen Collins Of Chicago is the
guest OF Mr.. and Mrs. William Bailey
I'm the home of Mrs. Baileys parents,
Mr. and Mrs. +. S. Closer, 1919 Car
son avenue.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-05-16

Mrs William f. Wall of Joplin /
the guest of her sister, Mrs. john J
Alma record., 1917-12-13

Richland township boys was S13.44.
Expenses for sending boxes, buying
handkerchiefs. ribbons, etc, to ar
range boxes was sS.62. Balance Of
this fund in the treasurer's hands j.
S4.s2
Mrs. Jesse Beach is recovering
nicely from her operation. She re-
turned from Alma Saturday morning
and is staying with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs VIM. Wartz. while gaining
strength
Mrs Samuel Shoers has returned
from Flint and is moving into rooms
in the hotel building.
Paige Throop has moved his fam
ily in the rooms over the hardware
which were vacated by Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Harding.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Nickerson
and daughter, Doris, Stanley Geisel
and Mrs. James McGilliviary went to
Grand Rapids Saturday evening and
were joined there by the latter's son,
Roy McGlliviary, of Camp Custer,
with whom they went to spend Sun
day.
Mrs. Ginter was in Alma Saturday
on business.
Levi Bough was in Grand Rapids
Friday.
Mrs. Belle Howay Warren was
born at Vcstaburg, Mich, July 20,
1890 and died at her home in North
Java, n. Y, on Nov. 30. 1917 at the
age of 27 years. months and 10
days. She passed away suddenly af-
ter but few hours sickness. She
was married to Myron Warren of
Nestaburg on July 2S. 1909. The
remains of the deceased were brought
e. Nestaburg Tuesday evening, Dec.
4. by her husband and daughter. sis
ter, Winnie and her husband. Wesley
Warren, also Of North Java, and her
brothers. Fred. Berd and Charles
l!oway of Vestaburg, who went to
her home when notified of her death.
Funeral services were held at the
Church of Christ Wednesday after
noon, Dee. >. Rev J u. Tanner of
fciating. Burial took place in the
Nestaburg cemetery, where her par
ents ard one brother, who preceded
her. are laid at rest. The deceased
Alma record., 1917-12-13
VESTABURG ITEMS
By Our Own Correspondent

Kichland township boys who are in
by friends as well as relatives and
made 10 realize we take an interest
in them when they know how nobly
and willingly all responded to the
call 10 remember our boys and give
cash or suitable things TO fix a
Christmas box for each of them.
About fifteen ladies brought in baked
goods. The boxes that were sent
from Nestaburg to each boy arranged
as near alike as possible. They con
tanned fruit cakes. several kinds Of
cookies, cup cakes. several kinds of
home made candies and in each were
wrapped in red tissue paper with the
usual Nmas emblcms and tied with
ribbons, making them look very much
a. though Santa Claus had sent them
The fact that the folks in their home
township put their shoulders to the
wheel and produced community
Christmas so that every one of our
boys were remembered by friends as
we'll as relatives is going to make a
profound impression on the minds of
those boys and it will make all feel
better that have given to the fund or
helped in any way to make it possible
to send goodies, etc, to our boys so
that they may have as merry a
Christmas as it is possible to have
when being absent from home and
loved ones on that day, not knowing
when they will be with loved ones
again. A box has been sent to each
OF the following named boys: Fred
and Paul Mack, Melvin Unger. Mel
vim Spraguc. McGilliviary. Bert
Thorpe. Fred Hamlin, Everette Race,
Walter Sheldon, Edgar Erskin. Har-
old Farmer, Herbert Squires. John
keeler. Ray Carts and Roy King. and
we are just as proud of one of our
girls named Miss Edith Platt, who has
gone as a nurse and she was remem-
bcrcd with Christmas box made the
same ~ the rest Amount of money
contributed toward the fund for the
Alma record., 1917-12-13
NORTH ARCADIA

Harry Campbell and family have
moved to Alma.
Mrs. James Campbell is no better
at this writing.
We all feel the effects of the snow
storm of Saturday and Sunday.
Alonzo Studebaker's family of this
place, but now of Alma, called on
Mrs. Stude bakers mother the last of
the week. He had broad smile and
walked very proud. When asked the
cause of his great joy he answered
an eight-pound girl had arrived at
his house and come to stay. He says
she wont enlist, but may join the Red
Cross.
Alma record., 1917-12-13

leaves to mourn their loss beside her
husband. daughter and son, her sis
ters, Mrs. Wesley Warren of North
Java, Mrs. Anna Church of st. Louis,
Mich, Mrs. Essie Welch of Isabelle
county, and brothers Frank Howay of
Mt. Pleasant, George and John
Howay of Alma, Fred, Charles Berd
and William Howay of Vestaburg
and many other relatives and friends
Alma record., 1917-12-13
How to Prevent CrOuD

In child that is subject to attacks
OF Group, the first indication of the
disease is hoarseness. Give Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy as soon as the
child becomes hoarse and the attack
may be warded off and all danger and
anxiety avoided.
Alma record., 1917-12-13

Advertise in the Record.
Alma record., 1917-12-13
LIBRARY CONTEST

A beautiful Library of 100 volumes and cases be
given away in a Library Contest.
This handsome Library and will be given by vote
the Church. School, Lodge Society in Alma having the
largest number of votes in the following manner:
The business listed below will give with each scent
purchase five votes.
The contest begins Nov % ends June lst 1918, at
o'clock p. A ballot box has been placed in Charles X.
Nuphys Drug Store where all ballots to be deposited
At the close Of the contest the Church. School, Lodge
Society having the largest number of votes will be awarded
the Library. Current accounts when promptly paid will be
entitled to votes Remember votes only be secured
from the merchants listed below. The Library and
exhibition in the show window Of c. " Wrghts
Furniture Store The following is a list of the merchants.
Patronize these merchants and get busy with the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-15
CAPITAL AND THE WAR.

One of the absurdities that have be
come part of the permanent stock Of
Teutonic and Teutonized socialistic
dogma is that the United States en-
tered the war for the sake of protect
ing sums # money loaned to England
and France. 1t is declared to be
Morgan's war.
1t has never been the custom of the
Socialists, says the New Republic, to
charge the capItaliSIIc class with lack
o, insight into its material interests.
Indeed, capitalism has been credited
with a quite superhuman intelligence,
unclouded by sentiment or morality.
Now, what evidence of intelligence is
there in the act of throwing good
money, and a lot of it, after bad
money repl esentinS very little in the
aggregate? What GUY capitalists stood
chance of losing, if the allies had
gone down in overwhelming defeat,
was less than two billions of dollars.
What they are certain to lose, if the
war C, ntinueJ thru two veals more,
is just as large a proportion of a
twenty or forty billion doll ~ war bill
as drastic incor.e and prof't taxes can
collect. They are also certain to lose
Heavily in their capital values -Jhen
the influence of war borrowings upon
the interest rate makes itself felt.
If an unscrupulously intelligent
capitalism had been in control of our
government, we should have remained
out, of the war. busily occupied with
/ do
I tories and preparing ourselves for new
/ financial conquests in the period OF
/ rehabilitation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-15

response made public on January IL,
1917, explained that they had no diff
ficuity in meeting this request, and
made good their We Ids by stating a
SC ries of definite conditions. Among
them are: The liberation Of the peo-
pies who now lie beneath the r1ur-
derous tyranny of the Turks; and the
expulsion from Europe of the Otto
man empire, which has proved itself
so radically alien to western civiliza-
ii IN. Is there any reason now why
Germany should not be included in
this program? "Murderous tyranny
and "alien to western civilization" can
be applied to the German empire
more fittingly than it can be even to
Turkey.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-15
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
ny ROY X. MOULTON.

Summer Colds.
OF all the waves or miseries that tease one,
OF all the ills that rack the mortal fame,
OF all the blooming bllghts that ever seize
OF ali the ails that ever do the same,
OF all the pangs. the agonies and anguish.
Wherewith alas! the human lot is cursed,
OF all that ever made one pine and lam
A summer cold is certainly the worst,
Its cruelties, we wouldn't hope to list 'em,
And by your ear, or rather, by your nose
1t gets a grip and seldom leaves the sys-
Till come the winters chilliness and
1t is indeed. no trick at all to take it
And though it may not put you In
Just wait until you really try to shake it!
A summer cold is certainly curse.
A winter cold is scarcely ever pleasing
And yet it isn't half SO hard to bear,
In winter one Will do bit of sneezing
And simply get some warmer things to
In summer though we faithfully endeavor
To give cold the boot and speed its
summer cold will stick around forever.
summer cold is certainly blight!
Slap:
Said BERTHE Hill to Hattie Hoke,
"A woman cannot take a joke"
Said Hattie Hoke to BERTHE Hill,
1.-The woman that you marry will"
Sure.
Said Simon Pond to Harry HIATT,
"Hurrah for Wari I'm old and fat!'
Said Harry HIATT to Simon Pond,
Then shut your mouth and buy bond"'
The Ostrich that conceals his head
| in the sand doesn't look much more
his head in a pair of horn-rimmed
, specs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-15

Twenty-six million feet of lumber
will be needed at each of the sixteen
environments to be erected by the gov
eminent. The war department is con-
tracing with various firms to assem-
BILE the materials and do the construc-
ton work at cost plus I per cent.
New we hear that the contractors Will
pay fancy prices in order that the
Weld from their 7 per cent may be
made as large as possible. BY what
right do those who persistently criti-
else the conduct of the war assume
that the contractors are grafters?
Proba bly, they form their judgment of
other men by themselves. We also
are told that it has not been possible
to obtain liberty loan bonds thru sub
scriptions sent to Washington; that
subscriptions must go thru the banks
and that the banks are paid pre-
MUM on the transaction. Could any
thing be more absurd? Yet there are
persons ready to believe it. Any man
who has so little faith in his fellow
nan and in his government should go
and reside on A desert island.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-15
TRAVELET TIE
Chinese Cooking.
By NIKsAH

You can tell what man is by what
he eats, and it is even more true that
the character of a people is expressed
in it's cooking. The English dishes.
plain but tasty, unspiced and sauce
less, but very thoroly done, are GER
tainly among the most British OF
things. French cookery in it's elabor-
ate and artistic appeal to the senses is
just like much French fiction. And it
is not surprising that the Chinese, the
most subtle, mysterious and complex
of peoples, should produce dishes
which are fearful and wonderful to
the palates and noses of occidtenals.
If you have The temerity to study
the Chinese character from this angle.
go to a Chinese restaurant, patronized
only by Chinese. You can find it in
either New York or San Francisco.
Order a dish of Che Go Gong. There
will be meat in It and eggs and mush-
rooms and beans and other things, but
all cooked up and the juices snapped
around" as Huck Finn says, until it
would take a chemical analysis to sep
arate the constituents.
The Monaghan taste for rat meat
has been immortalized by the Ameri-
can small boy in that famous folk
poem which begins, "Chink, chink,
Chinaman;" but rat eating is after all.
not essentially different from eating
squirrels. Less comprehensive is the
Chinese specification for good egg.
An egg to win favor in Chinatown,
must be distinctly high.
One taste that the Chinaman shares
with the American is a love for beans;
but there is nothing similar about their
ways of preparing them. The China
man may occasionally eat plain boiled
or baked beans, but he prefers them
mashed, or moulded into cakes and
baked. and he regards bean oil as a
delicacy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-15

lowed, will lead US into a royal heri-
tage. Countless lives have come to
disaster because they failed properly
to regard their own best beliefs and
revelations.
Reverence for the right promotes
righteousness.
Silence is one mark of respect. Some
times we may show our reverence for
sacred things by being a little less glib
concerning them. That person is lack
ing in the true spirit ofyreverence who
rRakes a public bazaar of his heart.
The pith of patriotism is a true
!! veneration for the country's flag and
all that it represents.
Irreverence is a twentieth century
sin which is none the better for being
modern. 1t especially marks Ameri-
cans. We are not as devout in church
as many other peoples. We do not
esteem positions, titles, honorable per-
sons as highly as do our cousins across
the water. Our Yankee independence
keeps reminding us that We are las
good as anybody else" and thus. fig
uratively speaking, instead of bowling
the knee to a person of distinction, we
/ clap him on the back. Our independ-
ence would be finer and stronger il
we were not inclined to be so bump
tious We would be improved by the
cultivation of the spirit of reverence.
There are people and places and things
| to which even an American may
profitably show generation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-15
DINNER STORIES

Robert Mantell tells Of a barn
storming company in the west in the
old days that made a try at Shake
speare. Considerable complaint was
heard relative to the efforts Of the
man who essayed to do the ghost in
Hamlet"
One day a dramatic man on a local
paper said to the leading man:
THAT fellow who plays the ghost
does not suggest the supernatural"
81 should say not" assented the
leading man with alacrity. but he
does suggest the natural super"
The proofreader on a London subur-
ban newspaper was a woman of great
precision and extreme propriety. One
day a reporter succeeded in getting
into type an item about willie Brown
the boy who was burned in the west
end by a live wire
On the following day the reporter
found on his desk a frigid note ask
ing: Which is the west end of
boy?"
1t took only an instant to reply:
1.-The end the son sits on, of course"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-15

side of the backbone for the entire
length, leaving the belly walls uncut.
The backbone need not be removed.
Smaller fish of the same character
need not be split but should be care
fully eviscerated. Coarse-scaled. thick
skinned, spiny-finned fishes like black
bass and perch should be skinned, and
unless large and thick meated, need
not be split
After thoroly preparing the fish,
washing them in water containing y
little salt and being careful to remove
the blood near the backbone, they are
ready for curing. A tight key or bar
rel is better for this than any other
kind of container. Under no circum-
stances use a tin container. Place d
thick layer of coarse salt on the bot
tom of the barrel, on the top of which
spread a layer of fish one deep.
Sprinkle this layer we'll with salt, and
then add another layer of fish, and so
on until the barrel is filled or until
your supply of fish is exhausted. A
strong brine will form from the salt
and moisture of the fish, in which
they should be left for a week or ten
days.
They are then washed repacked in
a freshly made brine strong enough
to float fresh egg. After a week.
this second brine should be drawn off
and the barrel filled with a ''satur-
ated brine" This means a brine in
which a few grains of salt will be seen
on the bottom after a long period of
stirring. When the fish are packed in
this third brine and the barrel thofo-
ly tested for leakage, they are ready
to be stored in the cellar or some very
cool place.
The success of the sailing process
depends upon the freshness of the fish
used; the careful sailing and mixing
of the brine, and the efficiency of the
barrel, which should be tight and
hold enough brine to keep the fish
covered.
Questions on the above or any sub
ject upon which the reader desires in
formation should be addressed the To-
peka State Journal Information Blu
reau. Frederic ]. Haskin, Director
Washington, D. C., with 2-cent stamp
e: closed for reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-15
HoOvER's BIG TASK.

Herbert C. Hoover, who has under
taken to handle the food problem of
the United States for the duration of
the war has a big job on his hands.
Hoover's job is to see that the world
is fed. On paper, it may be limited to
supervising distribution and consumr-
ton. But it will work back to pro-
duction. for if he doesn't have enough
to distribute and sees something
wrong with the producing machinery
his duty will be to say so and to do
something about.
When the supply runs short and he
starts to learn the reason, Hoover will
find that nearly half of the farm land
in the United States was uncultivated
V hen the last census was taken in
1910.
He will find that 226, 512,S43 acres,
or nearly half of the farm land in the
ants, often inefficient and IMPROVE
cent farmers, and that tenantry is in
creasing.
He will find that the value of farm
land in the United States increased
800 per cent from 1900 to 1916. ac-
cording to the department of agricul-
lures official figures. and that from
1912 to 1915 alone the increase was
25.7 per cent.
He will find that farm lands cannot
pay decent interest on the purchase
price, because that price is speculative
and based on tie privilege of holding
it for the still higher prices that are
sure to come.
He will find that because of the
high speculative price of farm lands
no one buys farm lands these days
except the wealthy speculator. When
a farmer grows old and moves To
town, he rents his farm to a tenant. II
his boy had grown to manhood in the
meantime, he went to the city to
work, because land is so high tha. he
could not have bought farm of his
own with what he could save himself
and what his father could snare for
him. So every time a real, old-fash-
toned, farm farmer drops out
these days, his place il takea by a ten.
ant or his farm lies idle, waiting fol-
the Increasing pressure of the people.
needs to force up tire selling price.
Mr.. Hoover also will find, If the
career of farmer is hopeless for the
average farmers boy. it is more hope.
less for the hired man." He will find
that agricultural laborers are for the
most part migratory and homeless
men. working for small wages an6
belonging to the dregs of the Labor
market" This is so because wage.
are jmall, work temporary, the life
migratory, and land ownership with
independence not to be hoped for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-15

King Constantine of Greece finally
has yielded TO the inevitable and gone
out of business. 1t is unfortunate that
it seems necessary to put another
king in his place. The occasion of the
Greek rulers abdication afforded
good opportunity for putting an end
to monarchical government in Greece
1t must come sooner or later; why not
now? The Hellenic people governed
themselves tor centuries. Why should
they be subject to the rule of an i'm
ported dynasty? But what chiefly
concerns the world now is the effect
the changed conditions will have on
the war. The new arrangement should
and probably will result in important
advantages to the entente allies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-15

The method employed by our allies
finally in obtaining solution of the
Greek problem should commend itself
10 the world generally. When it
dawned upon them that something
must be done at once they did not, as
is usually the case, appoint a COM
lLission, joint or otherwise. They
placed the matter in the hands of one
man, French senator. and he had
King Constantine's formal abdication
in his hands in few hours after land
ing in the country. One man power
is Il great thing in time of war. It is
expected that its advantages will be
Illustrated in the United States by
Goethals and Hoover.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-15

The government is calling for vol
unteers for the army. 1t needs TO-
600 men at once, this month, to fill
up the ranks. Shall it call in vain?
Will the country which we were told
would raise a volunteer army of half
a million men overnight, fail to sup
ply 10000 in two weeks? Will the
thousands who had a horror of being
drafted now stand around and wait
for the draft to overtake them? The
government now offers the only GER
tain method of escaping the draft to
10000 young men of the country. 1t
also offers an opportunity to those
who do not come within the age limit
of' the draft. The ranks are open to
men of any age between IS and 40.
Those who volunteer now will be
among the first to see service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-15
GLOBE SIGHTS

tFrom the Atchison Globe.1
What is there about dish washing
that makes women hate it so?
A mans middle name is usually the
one his father wanted to give him.
When a farmer gives a reporter an
item he says: Vow fix it up good"
A misery man never makes his wife
any trouble in regard to other women.
Live your life so it will not be said
after your death that your family is
better off.
Whenever a boy empties his pockets,
his sister sees something that belongs
to her.
Even if a man can't just recall how
the story was told him, he goes ahead
and tells it
Speaking about earthly things, you
are richer when you are born than
when you die, because when you are
born you have prospects. When you
Gle you can't take a blame thing with
you, regardless of the degree of sue
cess you attained on earth.