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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1918-12-19
ANNUAL MEETING
Annual Meeting of 81. Louis Co
operative Association Held.

The annual meeting of the St.
Louis Cooperative association was
held in St Louis Saturday, December
7, and was well attended.
The report Of the secretary was a
revelation 70 most Of them, although
they knew that the association was
making good. 1t showed that the or
ganization was organized one year
ago with less than 100 members and
that now it has nearly 800. and is
shipping stock from all of this part
of the county, and practically all that
is shipped goes through it's hands.
The report proved that the plans on
which the organization is run are the
correct ones. Not only do the farmers
receive more for their stock than they
possibly could under former conditions
but they actually have more cash on
hand and in material than they have
paid in as membership fees, showing
that while the association was not
planned 20 make money, save in in
creased prices for stock, yet it actual
" has done so.
me old DOard OF directors, CONSIST
ing Of Leonard Culver, VIM. Wander
beck, John Hanley, John Peach, Thos.
Murray, j. w Campbell, and John
| Colbry. was reelected. and the secre-
tary, John Hanley. was given a sub
stantial raise in pay. The success
of the association is due in large
measure to the painstaking and care
ful work of mi Hanley, and the re-
port shows that he mas not received
adequate pay for his services the past
I year.
The following is a condensed report
as given by the secretary showing
the extent Of business done:
Total number Of cattle shipped 624
number of sheep shipped 95s; number
of hogs shipped 1925; number Of veals
shipped 455; total number Of head to
be shipped by the association 1862.
Total expense Of shipping and hand
ling $4,646.56. Paid to farmers for
stock S143,93949. Membership fees,
S5s750 Assets. cash and materials
s621.l5. Percentage Of loss in year
through shipping .O036 per cent
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w. c. 7. u. Activities
For God, Home and Native La
BY MRS. MABEL #. LEAkE

in the world than the woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union. To me
equipped to meet the opportunities
which will be ours is our imperative
duty as wen as need
At the next national convention
plans will be presented determining
the part that each state union will
have in securing the object of the jubi-
lee, but each local union can begin
now to increase it's membership and
to start its jubilee fund. Let the slo-
gan at every county and state conyen-
ton from now on be: "a Million Mem
bers and Million Dollars for Mother
National by 1928"
MRS. DEBORAH X. LIVINGSTON,
Chairman.
Mrs. Garrison will be hostess to the
Francis Willard union at her home.
1926 Eleventh avenue. south Thurs
day Afternoon at o'clock. Mrs Charles
Donahoo will preside over the meet
ing. and Mrs Garrison will lead the
, discussion, which will be on "Scien-
tific Medical Temperance" After the
business session there will be a social
half hour.
Mrs. w. w Bussey announces a
meeting of tile headquarters board ON
next Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock
in the tcaroom of the local heaGquar-
ters at lis Ia North Twenty-first
street
The workroom will be open from 10
until next Tuesday with Mrs C. B.
Spence in charge. The workers are
urged to make special effort to at
tend these meetings and assist with
the work for the soldiers ana sailors.
Mrs. J. p. Moore, superintendent of
the medal contest department, saws
! that young people should begin early
| in life to avail themselves Of eyerv
opportunity to speak in public. They
will find it one of the greatest aids in
their future career, whether it be in
business or professional life.
The medal contest department. hopes
for a great campaign this year We
| are convinced it will mean much to
our cause. 1t will create enthusiasm,
build up public sentiment and aid in
the campaign for ratification of ma
tional prohibition.
Mrs. Moore cordially invites ALI bows
and girls of the "teen-age'' desiring to
enter the medal contests to conmuni-
cate with her.
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TED States to enter into this war for
the safeguarding of International right
and justice. 1 desire to convey to you,
Mr. President, and through you to the
American people, the friendly greet
ings of the entire British nation.
"At this critical hour when our
enemies are sparing no sacrifice and
counting no cost to achieve victory,
the French and British troops stand
united as never before in their heroic
resistance to these endeavors. They
are bought up with the thought that the
great democracy of the west, in the
same spirit and with the same objects
as their own. is putting forth every
effort to throw its supreme force into
the struggle which will once for all
dc eide the destinies of the free ma
items of the earth.
The American people may rest as
sured that the British empire, now
tried by nearly four years of war, will
cheerfully make Yet further sacrifices.
The thought that the United States,
under your leadership. are with us
heart and sour emboldens us in the de-
termination, with Gods help. finally
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it is entirely protected from enemy
vision.
The American device is entirely me-
chanicaL Attention is first drawn to a
funnel of six feet in length. extending
from the rear of the ship. At the base
of the funnel is an exhaust fan which is
operated by hand, but which. after a
few revolutions, acquires great speed
When the ship to be protected encoun-
ters an enemy and wishes to avoid COM
bat, those in charge load this funnel with
an inflammable substance, which is ig-
nited. Then sailor starts the exhaust
fan, and the fumes are driven over the
face of the sea.
In the demonstrations the three de-
vices were used each with equally good
effect. An ordinary tug of little speed
was the merchant vessel The yacht on
which the visiting party sailed was the
submarine. When the yacht was within
half mile of the tug, the screens were
raised. Just as the smoke became APP
parent. the sub under full steam
dashed ahead in the direction of the es-
Gaping craft In a moment the tug was
not visible, but the submarine continued
to run ahead. BY the time the curtain
had been struck and penetrated, and
ahead clear vision was attained, the tug,
half a mile away in a path half q
mile from it's original course was OBJ
served and at that time partially pro-
tected by another fast developing cur
| tain of smoke. The submarine might
| have fired at the spot where the tug
was thought to be, but the shot would
have been dependent on luck, not skill
for finding its mark.
| Returning to Washington, the yacht on
which the party rode was attacked by
| hydro-a irplanes armed with rapid-fire
field guns. From great distance above
the sharp detonation of the rifles could
distinctly be heard, and one was thrilled
| by the speed and startling maneuvers
attained and achieved by the operators
As a result of it, all the visitors were
made aware that the United States is at
| war, that the United States is preparing
we'll and at prodigious expense. even il
slowly. and that when the United States
| is fully armed and prepared to strike,
| 1t will deliver blow s~h!ch will ulti-
mately remove kaiserism and its bane
\ from the face of the earth
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No matter what ails your child. gem
tie, thorough laxative should always be
The first treatment given.
If your little one is out-of-sorts, ha,f-
sick, isn't resting, eating and acting nat
urally-look, Mother: see if tongue Is
coated. This is a sure sign that the lit
tie stomach, liver and bowels are clogged
with waste When cross, irritable, fever
ish, stomach sour, breath bad or has
stomach ache, diarrhoea, sore throat,
full of cold. give teaspoonful of Cal
ffornia Syrup of Figs" and in a few
hours all the constipated poison, undi-
gested food and sour bile gently moves
out OF the little bowels without gripping,
and you have WE'LL playful child again.
Mothers can rest easy after giving this
harmless fruit laxative" because II
never fails to cleanse the little ones liver
and bowels and sweeten the stomac h.,
and they dearly love it's pleasant taste.
Full directions for babies. children of all
ages and for grown-ups printed on each
bottle.
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups. Ask
your druggist for bottle of California
Syrup of Figs then see that it is made
by the California Fig Syrup Company"
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r. B. e. asks: II have tried to cure
dandruff, itching scalp. falling hair and
badness with numerous tonics, ETC., but
in vain. What do you recommend"'
Answer: I have been recommending
plain yellow minyol for the past seven
years and scores of my patients are de-
lighted with the quick, pleasant action
of this remedy in stopping itching. fall
ing hair, dandruff, etc. 1t gives the
hair health. lustre and vigor as nothing
else does. Obtain in 4-oz. jars with full
directions.
Advice writes: LET me say that
my condition puzzles and worries
me- In the last year seem to have
been growing old rapidly. though only
sS. nv food and sleep do not recuper-
ate my strength and energy and. lately
/ have dizzy spells, trembling. head
aches loss Of appetite, memory and
hopelessness. Dependency and worry
over my condition are ever present"
Answer: Cheer up. get well and then
conserve your vitality by proper, tenn
meme tablets in sealed tubes with full
directions, use them and an agreeable,
nleasing restoration should ensue to
Your entire satisfaction.
X X X
q. g. writes: These are the symp-S
toms which lead me 10 think ! need
medicine for kidneys and bladder: Sc
followed BY fever. Frequent desire to
urinate. but scanty results of a dark
color and bad odor. Also smarting and
singing pains.
Answer: When such symptoms are
present balmwort tablets are prescribed
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The questions answered below are
general in character. the symptoms or
diseases are given and the answers will
apply in any case Of similar nature.
Those wishing further Savice. free,
may address DR.. Lewis IakNr College
Bldg. College Elwood Streets savton,
Ohio; enclosing self-addressea ssan red
envelope for reply. Full uame Aua ID
dress must be given. 5tt aHIw initials
or fictitious names will be used III my
answers. The prescriptions can Sc Gilled
at any well-stocked drug store Any
druggist can order 81 whotesxler
to tone up and incFeaas ths III szination,
neutralize the aiiSsliaIs produce
natural functioaa@. Eer them in
sealed tubes wit. ssl' uireosons.
s. r. g. ask 10 gu think it
is possible q feduce asv weight from
24o pounds ~ ah0as ~ ,ounds?"
Answer ggs II iasyes~iple 10 saw irst
how much ene ean reduce until after
trying, bat live graft arbolone tablets
should ~ asaad ascay ding to directions
with eacn seaaess abe. obtainable at
most aay cruz re. II the flesh is
Immature easily reduce as
desired.
Is 4
Matron sat A lffer from head
ache ana eorstsp4sion periodically
and my BIOS items 100 thick, causine 2
languor and sired feeling. / will thank
you to pre sriSe Tor me-
Answer: Fhres-gxaisa sulpherb tah,at.
(not sulpnAf5 NILS WVsk effective, in re-
leying consAfRsb1oss sfsnning the blood.
ana removlNH AiE5e SsIA toms of languor,
etc. ! auvkaS NV oegin taking as
per directioA WlAh sealed package.
NOTE: FoE In&sy ysafs DR. Baker has
been giving Tres WI 1sa and prescrip-
lions to m1laols Die through the
press columns. and l6a less has halnnT
in relieving ailnes ana distress mnre
than any single lrdi,idual in ~
worlds history Th taSa DIS have wit
ten him exp NSwiCNs af gratitude ana
confidence sirsatar re following:
pr. Lewis A@ksx F@ Sir:-.I have
been taxing tA% tsd Here Tablets for
the past MOI certainly have
uone Wonuefs s4t ~ was so nerv-
Gus WASH W my own house,
WORK. was 4e I'D miserable
now can uf Rstin work and
reel sooa al Ny daughter
ana ana her nu th & been taking
s MRs. p' lpAoEn.
800 MAIDEN Road,
>Qluth. MINI.
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The following communication has
from the national w. C. T. L. COM
mittee on relief work:
Unions having manipulated bandages
on hand are advised to send theSl pre-
paid to their state chairman of tho
national surgical dressing committee.
marked plainly. "For England, from
tho w. C. t. u of -
+ Ii the national surgical dressings
committee is not organized in your
state send the bandages to headquar-
tiers, N. S. d. committee, 50 South
Dearborn street, Chicago, Ill, or 299
Fifth avenue. New York as may be
most convenient.
Notice has already been given that
work for the British Relief association
is discontinued.
NATIONAL w. c. T. U. COMMITTEE
ON RELIEF WORK.
With the National woman's Chris
tian Temperance union golden Jubilee
celebration six years away. plans are
now being made to increase the mem
bership to 100000 members by then
letter received from the National
w. c. T. U. is reproduced in full:
The National Woman's Christian Tenn
perance union will celebrate it's gold
en- jubilee in 1928. six years hence
That may seem to some of US a long
while to look forward, but If we have
set us task as big as the one out.
lined in our jubilee plans it is not
too early to begin now in our efforts
to raise million dollars or to securs
a membership of one million.
Wo full hn hx
shall have national prohibition and
equal suffrage. the two great goals
for which we have been striving dur
iig the last A years. We shall, there
fore, be setting ourselves to now tasks
as We shall be confronted with new
problems many of which will arise
as result of the word war
The organized women of the WORLD
will have opportunities for service
such as they have never dreamed OF
in the past, but there will be a spe-
cial need for these organizations OF
women which are founded upon Chris
ton ideals, and there is none greater
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German Press Comments
on Czernin's Speech
in Contradictory Terms

Amsterdam April G. - The German
papers coAment on Count csernin's
speech in contradictory terms. The
Berlin Boersen Courier says Count
Cxernin evidently does not think that
the offensive on the western front has
raraiyzed the possibility of an under
standing.
The Deutche Tages Zeitung attacks
the Austro- Hungarian foreign minister
for his weak placidity."
The Lokal Angeiger says: Berlin
viii be particularly glad to hear Of
the manner in which Count Czerain
rejected the peace offer of Clemen-
ccSu."
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King Sends Greetings to
President Wilson on
First War Anniversary

London. April 6-King George has
sent greetings to President Wilson on
the occasion of the anniversary OF the
entry of the United States into the war.
King Georges telegram follows:
.The gallant deeds of Americans on
land and sea have already indicated
to the enemy that his hope is vain.
Every day that passes, as American
troops pour in ever increasing numbers
into France, diminishes the chances OF
his success.
King Georges telegram follows:
ION the occasion of the anniversary
of the momcntous decision of the Uni
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ALL being home device The British
types consisht of square boxes con-
tanning chemicals which, when dumped
into the war, spew up smoke lasting
from four to 10 minutes. The boxes
while emitting their fumes of colors
ranging rrcm that CT & heavy fog to a
lurid amber, remain stationary on the
water. The dense fumes are driven
with the wind, and the ship, attempt
ing to escape, bends its course until
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to destroy the design of the enemy and
to re-cstablish on the earth the rule
of right and justice.
GEORGE. r. II
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Smoke Screen Effectiveness
Demonstrated in Tests on
the Potomac River
BIG GUNS FIRED
TO SHOW RESULTS
BEING ACHIEVED
Depth Bomb Exploded to
Show Effect of the Ter
rifle Impact Upon
Submarines
BY HUGH w. ROBERTS.

Washington. April -(SpeciaD-The
Herald correspondent has been
witness to demonstrations of the eff
fectiveness of the various types of
smoke screens for the protection Of
merchant vessels pursued by subma-
rines; of the IA and 16-inch guns
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1918-01-06

the Hudson. and certain perfumes to
which Mrs. Meader was partial AL
though Mr.. and Mrs. Meader thought
and talked much about how to hold
their whimsical tenant, he yawned
and few away. The last time he was
seen in the neighbophood a bibulous
clubman says he saw him perching on
the roof of the great hosiery across
Thirty-fourth street.
The tale has been told in the courts
by the bereft bridegroom and equally
bereft bride. Herman Lee Meader's
plea took the form of suit for di-
vorce in which he spoke of one Wal
ter Stengel, and of the clear upper
airs in his high home being tainted by
the presence of vinous odors. Mrs.
Meader told hers as motion asking
for alimony and counsel fees pending
her husband s suit for divorce.
1t should be easy for him to pay
one hundred dollars and generous
counsel fees, your honor" ineffect
said Mrs. Meader "You should see
our home. Each room is deliberately
furnished with gorgeous tapestries
The furniture is Italian, including
throne chairs. The living room alone
is twenty-five feet wide and thirty
five feet long and twenty five feet
high. The furniture of our home is
worth thirty thousand dollars"
The Justice granted smaller sum
than the bereft bride asked, but he
allowed enough to enable her to
leave the high home where she had
hoped love would remain for aye.
After her husband had begun his suit
for divorce they had lived on in their
roof structure, visited by clouds, each
maintaining silence and each occupy
ing his or her individual apartment
unheard and unseen by the other. She
forsook the place of the experiment
that failed for health resort When
she has recovered her health she may
return to the stage, whence she came
at the beguilement of uncertain Cupid.
In his office on the sixth floor the
architect author works amidst his
plans and his men. Outwardly he re-
sembles an image Of concentration
equalled only by Robins "The
Thinker But borne on the subcon-
scious current Of his thoughts floats
the barque Of his disillusioned
dreams. His dreams OF Cupid the
prisoner that has turned Cupid the
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1918-01-06
The Broken Romance of
the Astor Estate s Architect.
Which Proves That No
Matter How Far Up You
May Go You Cant Get High
Enough to Escape Trouble /.

@NCE more has it been proven
that you cannot imprison love.
Cupid disdains not merely
locks and bars, but he laughs at the
wonder of ali our European visitors,
the skyscrapers.
Herman Lee Meader, the architect
of the Aston estate, young, handsome,
brilliant; an author of two books of
masculine philosophy, besides being
the designer of conspicuous buildings
In the metropolis, tried to imprison
the little god in palace atop one of
the high buildings Of New York. But
love flew out of the window of the
habitation on the thirteenth floor of
the Waldorf Building, and sped
across the roof of the Waldorf Astoria
opposite, as swiftly as ever he made
his escape from cottage window
across marsh. By his own loss Mr..
Meader proved the truth of part of
his bachelor philosophy in his book,
"Through the Rye"
''To swear that ones love for an
other will always last is like vowing
'hdt VIC Will HtNtF loSe our HdlF. our
fortune or our taste for candy.
Death may find us in possession of
them all, but he is rash prophet who
would be certain of it,
Being a man of fancy more or less
excellent, the bachelor become bene-
dict, was of mind to avoid the cot
tage as place to house his love. He
determined to live above the cares of
this world. When he welded he took
his bride to live in the tall Flatiron
Building. When he designed the
Waldorf Building he arranged for an
aerial home, the floor of which should
be the roof of the great office building
at Nos. IL to Is West Thirty-fourth
street that had emerged from his
brain, and from the exchequer of the
Astor Estate.
The architect builded well. With his
lovely bride in luxuriously furnished
eyrie on the thirteenth floor, and his
own office on the sixth floor of the
same building, all should have been
satisfactory to Cupid. But alas It
was not. Despite "the seven spacious
rooms and two bathrooms, the Italian
entrance hall and Italian roof gar
den," described by Mrs. Meader,
Cupid was a capricious ledger. He
pinned in that atmosphere, composed
Ia part Of air from the Atlantic and
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bungling knave could mistake them.
Once having the species isolated, the
administration of a specific that will
destroy the resistance of either va
riety is merely the application of a
simple rule that must be accepted as
the basic formula of this heartbreak-
ing treatise. To appease babies and
women give them what they think
they want.
Instinctively you pass baby q
rattle. If you can likewise discern q
womans wants you shall give flat
terry to conceited woman, promises
of eternal fidelity to a sentimental
one, precious gifts to the mercenary
and sensational thrills to her who is
tormented with ennui.
Before we proceed farther, there
are two male entries that have been
protested by all women, and they
might as well be disqualified before
the start. They are the stingy man
and the lazy man. The former may
be so from poverty, and the latten
from illness. 1t matters not Push
these hopeless contestants off the
track, for they will only retard the
race and never reach the tape.
"Flattery is that refinement of po-
lite speech that enables beautiful
woman to realize her charms, and an
ugly one to imagine hers. 1t does no
one harm and most people good. It
can be used on any woman. Water
can be poured into any bottle, but, Of
course, some hold more than others
so some are surfeited early, but these
examples are so rarely met that at
tention need merely be drawn to their
occasional existence. The generality
of women are like huge hagons into
which you might empty your lungs
without ever a sign of their filling;
or like cracked demijohns into which
you might pour molasses for eternity
without ever overlooking their.
necks.
Generosity is that quality OF big
ness in height and breadth that dis
tinguishes god from pigmy. Not
so much in stature as in mentality. It
is generosity in it's freest interpreta-
ton. Women by the environment Of
centuries, are small and narrow.
They want to be big and they adj
h. mire bigness.
81 cit is not essential that you are
y millionaire. It is almost inn
perative that you are not, for
the possessor of immoderate
wealth usually has correspond
ingly immoderate reluctance to
part NTH it.
Apparent sincerity is chiefly
a contribute with fattery, but
its presence must be felt with ev-
cry incision man makes and .ev-
cry stitch he takes.
"Were I allowed to give nv
N despairing brothers but two words
E{ Of advice they would be patience
3 and perseverance.
j 1t will be for the courts to de-
eide whether the architect to the
Astors followed his own advice.
particularly the last.
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bounty.
t'Be frank with a wo-
man and she calls you
brutality to state thigs
with a little delicacy and
she says you are a cow
ard"
Mr.. Meader's thoughts
delve further than these
surface causticities. He
recalls his deeply rooted
philosophy, set forth in
his bachelor output, ecu
pid the Surgeon" "How
very sure l was of how to
win and keep a wife," he
signs, over these pages of
dubious wisdom.
Considered broadly,
there are four groups into
which most women may
be classified-the conceit-
ed, the sentimental, the
mercenary and the blase.
"These are distinctive
types, and none but a