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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-23

By local applications az they cannot reach
the diseased portion OF the ear. There IL
only one way 10 cure Catarrhal Deafness.
and that IL by constitutional remedy.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE acts
or the system. Catarrhal Deafness 10
caused by an infamed condition OF the
mucous lining OF the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube Is infiamed you have
rumbiing sound or imperfect hearing. and
when Il r. entirely closed. Deafness Is the
result. Unless the Inflammation can be re-
duced and this tube restored 70 It's nor
NAL condition. hearing may be destroyed
forever. Many cases OF Deafness are
caused by Catarrh. which 10 an imam
condition OF the Mucous Surfaces
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for any
case OF Catarrhal Deafness that cannot
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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-23
ELM HALL

Mrs. Anna Elliott spent a few days
last week with her son, Fred Elliott
and family Of Alma.
VIM. Meads went to Ohio Thurs
day evening TO see his uncle who is
very sick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frey went TO Grand
Rapids Tuesday for a rev days visit
with his mother.
Mrs. T. l.. Sabin was in Alma Sat
urday.
c. A.. Button spent the week end
with his daughter, Mrs. Duval, OF
Sumner.
John Howe has moved 20 Carson
City, where he will engage in the
meat market business.
Orlin Sly spent Friday and Satur-
day with his sister, Mrs. Fred Below
of ST. Louis.
Miss Bessie Smith spent the week
end with her friend, Edna Harter, in
Riverdale.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Arzie Andrews and
family Of Alma. Mr.. and Mrs. Giles
Isham and family and Mr.. and Mrs
Ed. Vancore and baby spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. George Isham
near Pompeii
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Cohoon OF
near Forest Hill spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ellis.
Born TO Mr.. and Mrs. Fernberg
Saturday, January Is, a boy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Of Alma spent
Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. +
Lentz.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-23
NORTHWEST SEVILLE

Lewis Inghram Of Farwell. who
has been visiting at the home Of A
Inghram, went TO spend n few days
with Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Richardson
near Forest Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. lyman were in
Alma Saturday on business.
Miss Pauline Biggs has gone 70
Alma 70 work.
Carl Hill has returned home from
North Star where he has been work
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Rowlader of near
Shepherd called on Mrs. |. Decker
Sunday.
Donald lyman went TO Saginaw
Wednesday where he secured work
and expects 20 remain there for a
fit,,a
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-23

past so years. DR.. Burnham's San
Yak is the sure way to prevent Par
alysis and apoplexy. In its use you
have prevented or cured bladder and
kidney trouble. II is the greatest in
use 10 prevent the clumsy stiff joints
and muscles and for Neuritis or Rheu-
matism and Constipation.
What this prescription does for 9TH
or people il will do for you and we
can supply every person that you get
the results needed.
Sold by Charles X. Murphy, Alma,
Mich. Made by the Burnham Medi-
cine Co, Detroit, Mich.-Adv.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-23
SOUTHEAST COE

Merritt Leonard and wife visited
at the home Of Morgan and Ray
Leonard the first Of the week.
Will Beard and wife are now nicely
settled in their home here again.
Glenn Raycraft and wife OF ST
Louis were Sunday visitors at the
home Of Mrs. Raycraft's parents.
Grant Leonard and wife visited al
the home of their daughter, Mrs. c.
Oliver, Of Alma Saturday.
Henry Bryant and family of Elm
Grove nd his neice, Mrs. Mann, of
Saginaw visited at the home Of Willis
Hopkins Wednesday.
Ray Leonard, Clyde Fisher and
Verne Gay attended the sheep sale
near Elsie last week, and returned
with a few fine sheep.
Thomas Pethtel visited Sunday at
the home Of his mother and sister
near Shepherd
Roy Boyels and family of St Louis
spent Sunday at the home of his
mother here.
Willis Hopkins and family visited
with relatives near st. Louis Sunday.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-23
BRECKENRIDGE LOCALS
BY Special Correspondent,

Miss Linda I. Knorpp and Miss
Roberta Reed spent the week end IN
ST. Louis visiting the latter's aunt
and uncle. Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Gay.
Miss Edna NanDuesen spent Sat
urday and Sunday with friends IN
Greenvlle.
Mrs. r. Nenendorf who has been
visiting her son, Arthur, IN Saginaw
for week, has returned TO the home
of her daughter, Mrs. III. J. Stroupe-
Mrs. J. Kline and Mrs. Fred Bailey
were in st. Louis Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Dorr Sexton and son,
Alfred, of Saginaw spent the week
end with Mr.. Sections parents.
Miss Ethel Sabin was week end
visitor in Alma. She was the guest
of Miss Cross and attended the pas
ketball game between Alma college
and Olivet. H.
Fav Anderson and Clarence Hop,
kins Of Alma spent Saturday ana
Sunday with their parents.
Miss Ada Macleod of Alma spent
Sunday with her parents.
The quarantine for influenza mas
been lifted from the homes OF Chauh-
eey Shepard and George Coleman
Miss Naomi Scott spent the week
end in Alma. -
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Dancer have
moved 10 Bay City.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. l. Zeubler and
Mrs. George Brown and son. Ansiey'
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Bert
Muscott.
Mrs. Mary Wolverton, who has
been visiting in Flint, has returned
home 81.
Mrs. Agnes Crawford and daugh-
ter. Miss Marguerite, left Monday
for St. Petersburg, Fla, 10 spend
several months.
Mrs. VI. j. Sabin has gone 70 sag
nav for the remainder Of the winter
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-23
EMERSON

Mrs. Pearl Griffith spent the week
end with Mr. and Mrs. A. Maurer.
Harvey Mann entertained a num-
Der Of young people al his home Fri
day evening.
Mrs. Peters entertained the Ladies'
Aid at an oyster dinner Monday.
Mrs. Clay Soule and Mrs. Emma
Soule spent Friday in Ithaca, guests
at the home Of their parents.
A pot-luck dinner will be served at
the home Of Lloyd Mann Friday
evening.
The Misses Hazel and Bernice
Healy are home from St. Louis for a
short visit.
Miss Hazel Mann Of Alma visited
With her sister. Mrs. Pearl Griffith,
Saturday.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-23
HOW TO REGULATE HIGH
BLOOD PRESSURE

A dollar laid out TO aid health is not
an expenditure. but loan; which will
be returned hundred fold.
Take San Yak. II prevents honey
like hardening of the arteries at ages
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-23

Mr.. Besdan came TO the store
Battlcment Drug Co, Benton Harbor,
Mich, with another man and said:
IF you will take three bottles of
San Yak and il ii does not cure you,
] will pay for the medicine myself.
My nerves We're all going to pieces
and | was run down and could not
sleep. Since taking San Yak feel
better than ] have in ten years and
| am % years old and can now walk
at least four miles every day"
WILLIAM BESDAN."
1880 Lavette St, Benton Harbor. Mich
A slight degree of kidney trouble
effects the mind and body, nephritis
inflammation Of the kidneys) cause,
mental diseases in two lays: Through
changes in the walls Of the blood YES
sells and through poisonous changes in
the blood. Creatin, creatin and po-
tassium salts, commonly produced in
kidney diseases, irritate the lining OF
the animal brain.
San-Yak is the remedy that does
actual wonderful daily good. II pre-
vents the self-poisoning from which
90 many people suffer, thereby keep
ing the arteries soft and flexible at
ages past fifty. No better proof could
be had than from the following let
ters:
Mrs. Jemima Tickle, Selma, Ohio,
grandmother Of Perry Baker, county
treasurer). She IL 30 yeArs old and
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-23
WRIGHT SCHOOL.

Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Leland were
greatly surprised last Friday evening
when about forty Of their neighbors
took possession Of their home. Pro
gressive pedro was played. Mrs. F.
Donovan and Roy Lentz received first
prize while Mrs. Wesley Webb and
Mr.. Leland consoled themselves with
the BOBBY prize. A bountiful supper
was served at midnight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-27
BAILEY BEHIND TIME

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 Joseph w. Bailey of New York and Washington, former United States senator from Texas, has formally de- clared that he has left the democratic party for good and all
 But his announcement came too late.
 Joe Bailey cannot leave the demo- cratic party, for the simple but suffi- cient reason that the democratic party left Joe before Joe left 1t.
 When it became known that he was drawing his salary as a servant of the public in Congress and at the same time many times that amount as the paid attorney of Standard Oil, the dem ocratic party and Joe parted company of any divorce proceedings.
 Since then MT. Bailey has been private citizen, and, presumably, highly compensated practitioner of law.
 And for him now to come forward with a public "announcement" that ne has quit the democratic party
 Well, Joe is behind the times, that's alGl
 The time for him to have quit the democratic party for the party's good was-before the party quit him!
 There are lots of funny things happening from day to day ip this old world; and MT. Bailey's self-stylej withdrawal from democratic politics is one of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-27
made fertile soil for bOlshevist doc

made fertile soil for bolshevist doc Urine.
 It is true that the conference has decided, in most particulars, what is to be done, but it has not been done. So far everything is on paper and Eu- rope is in worse plight than it was when the armistice was signed. Until the war is technically ended, until the Germans, all the units that formerly made up the Austro-H Hungarian em- pire, Poland and the lesser states in alliance with the entente know where they stand, there can be little hope for law and order, except that which is enforced by the military. In large part of Europe industry is paralyzed and there is no economic life worthy the name. Starvation and disease add to the horrors of a situation that could hardly be worse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-27
H % s Letters and Souvenirs From Soldiers Abroad

1.-THE American soldier has estab- U lished new worlds record as a letter writer. Since the armistice was signed the postoffice department re- ports that the amount of mail from the American expeditionary forces has increased 20 per cent, in spite of the fact that men have been coming home by the shipload.
 Overworked postal clerks not only have. to wrestle with letters by the million, but they are swamped with war souvenirs, conspicuous among these relics being German helmets.
 The department now permits Ger
 man helmet to be sent through the mails without wrapping, with only a shipping tag for the address. It is estimated that nearly half a million German helmets have been sent to America, and the end is not yet. They
 are already becoming so common in
 homes and shop windows that they
 attract little attention unless there is
 an unusual story of heroism attached
 to them. Parts of rifles, revolvers, buttons, shell cases, bayonets and pieces of wrecked airplanes are being mailed by the ton. A Birmingham jeweler recently had on display in one of his windows pair of handsome vases made by a soldier out of two French shells.
 But it is in letters that the dough- boy finds comfort and consolation. During November nearly 18,000,000 letters were dispatched from Bordeaux and millions more from Brest. As there were about 2,0O0,000 American soldiers in France when the armistice
 was signed, their industry as corre- spondents is apparent. In February from Bordeaux alone nearly 22,0O0,00O letters were sent to America. Some soldiers write as many as F and 15 letters a day, while one private is credited with having written 30.
 All of which indicates that rela- tives and friends "back home" are getting the inside facts about the war at last, for the redoubtable censor has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-27

The Montgomery Advertiser thinks the prison sentence imposed on her for disloyalty instead of being permitted to go about and make speeches attacking the government. We fear that Rose has this grand and glorious government of ours bluffed.
 x x * The use of the German language should be good idea to put up "verboten' sign at Ellis Island when the immigra- ton tide starts to flowing this way once more.
 New Yorks bolsheviki should have turned out to see the welcome the rnst of New York gave the Twenty-seventh division. If bolsheviki ever think, it might have afforded them food for thought.
 x # < It is said that former President Castro  of Venezuela used to collect his salary every day. A sensible plan in country where the President was apt to be divorced from his job at any moment,
 # # # X number of women arrested in Allan ta for being intoxicated laid the blame on "gentlemen friends" A new version of the old excuse "A woman tempted me-"
 The consensus of opinion seems to be that the Lodge-Lowell debate was about as tame as an exhibition bout between a pair of near champions.
 x # If the map makers in Paris don't hurry up bolsheviki will make it a waste of time and money to put the new maps in an atlas
 # H 4. Central Europe is reported ripe for bolshevism. Which is merely another way of saying central Europe is more or less rotten.
 A contemporary speaks of a volcano turning bolshevik. A libel on nature. Even volcanoes obey certain natural laws.
 # x < Vernon Castle left an estate of less than s10O0. He seems to have succeeded in spending all but his last weeks sal ary.
 # tf 4 Secretary Daniels praises conditions at Brest Could it be possible that the place was tidied up a bit before he got there?
 F < # Italy acts like a nation that fought a strictly old-fashioned war, in which ter ritory was worth more than ideals.
 as x # The Los Angeles Times says a salmon is the swiftest swimmer of all fish Still, we'd rather watch Annette swim.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-27
MAKING THE OCEAN FLIGHT SAFE


 From the New York World.
 That airplanes as well as airships can make the distance of an ocean flight is well known. Making the flight itself safe is another matter; probably the lives of the men who man the first American plane to try it will be protected suffi- ciently by the arrangements of the navy department made public yesterday by Acting Secretary Roosevelt.
 In May, when the naval experiment may be launched, no long storms are looked for. The swiftness of a modern airplane good weather may almost be guaranteed for it's brief duration. Destroyers capa- ble of dashing 35 miles an hour are to be strung at 200 miles interval on the line of flight, and, barring accidents to the apparatus. call for help would always bring it to designated spot within four or five hours.
 Little is known of the reported attempt Of Lieutenant Fontan to fly from Sene- gambia to Pernambuco except that he ble on the way to his starting point. But substantial rivalry to our naval plans is promised by the shipping of a Sopwith plane to New Foundland by the British air service, especially to try the short course from St. Johns to Ireland.
 While the war lasted ethe ocean flight appeared an extra-hazardous possibility of the far future. Four months after the armistice three attempts are planned by three friendly nations for honor of the first crossing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-27
RACE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC

ica actually in the air and equipped with sufficient fuel for extremely long flights. This is Curtiss flying boat owned by the navy and known as the c l. It has wing spread of 125 feet and has carried 50 people into the air at one time.
 Capt Roy M. Francis of General Kenly's staff, an airs engineer and pilot of over nine years experience, is now de veloping a flying machine that, he hopes, will keep the air for IS hours at a speed of from 80 to 90 miles an hour. This ma chine is making actual test flights, but not as yet for maximum distances. Cap tain Francis earnestly considers flying safter than driving an automobile, and expects to see the day when single-seat- CT airplanes will sell for $50 and two man machines will not exceed sl5Oo, inclu- sive of the instruments that make fly ing safe
 That we have crowded 40 years of or dinary effort into one year and have advanced in the science of air naviga- ton possibly five years in the same time, was the statement made by one of the American efficiency engineers of a great airplane plant He felt that, if we could have had a tithe of the amount of ac- tual money which has been expended ins ' the gigantic effort to secure quantity production of half dozen types of fight ing planes to spend in normal times on original research in producing new and effective types of long flight and cargo and passenger carrying planes, there would now be active competition for records in the accomplished transat- lantic flights, and that daily and hourly air schedules would be in operation for high-speed and long-distance flights in the United States, from the Atlantic to the Pacific"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-27
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

One thing we can't understand is how congressman never acts like he was responsible for panics and floods the was he acts like he is re- sponsible for big crops and pros- perity.
 We know a man who writes articles on how cheaply people can live if they try And he writes these articles in order to avoid having to live that way himself.
 Another thing that worries us is with the caifes closed and the club bars closed, where the hex is mar ried man gonna spend his nights after July 1?
 Any married woman can tell you that mules haven't any monopoly on con- trariness.
 The man who is kicking all the time doesn't get any better results than the man who never kicks at all.
 Once in a while a King is removed from his throne by a bullet or the toe of boot. But you never heard of a King resigning.
 When some men shake hands with you, you have to look second time to be sure that you haven't picked up a dead fish by mistake.
 When some of the prohibitionists get 
 who drank liquor have managed to sneak in past St, Peter. the pros will demand that spite fence be receted so as to protect the good and pure drys from the contaminating influences of the filthy vets
 We never could quite get the idea of the man who doesn't do anything for living and who gets up at 5 a.. m so he Will have longer to loaf
 
 The sentimental stew who Is always telling you about the good li'l wife he has at home never seems to be in any hurry to get home to the good i.'l wife
 When you are visiting at friends home, and stay longer than a week, you cease to be visitor and become boarder and should kick in with your stall rent and nosebag money.
 And maybe if you stayed home long enough to get acquainted with her you might discover that your wife is a pretty good fellow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-27
Financial Editor Here

Haynes McFadden, executive chair man of the Sixth federal reserve dis trict who was here on Tuesday in con- ference with the heads of the zone and county organizations to perfect plans for the Victory Loan," said Oscar Wells president of the First National bank lis the editor of the Southern Banker, a really fine banking journal published at Atlanta. I was glad that the meeting was so we'll attended and that so many of those present went home determined to put it over"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-27

M1 Ew YORK, March 2s.-(speciaD II M That the air service of the army
 and navy are racing against each other and against other nations for the honor of being first to cross the Atlantic by airplane, is revealed in an article by an unofficial and impartial investigator of tho aircraft industry, William Dn- widdie, who writes an article in the April Century called Let's Drop in on England" and urges that Congress spur our aviators into accomplishing the first transatlantic flight before British or some other rival can do it.
 While we Americans are good sports, D says Mr. Dinwiddie, "and quick to offer enthusiastic acclaim to the prowess and daring and skill of the other fellow, of whatever nationality he may be- some- how, most of us would feel chagrned, even if we did homage, if some other nation should take the glory of the first affair transatlantic voyage.
 Let Congress ask the President, as the commander-in-chief of the army and navy, to see that either branch, or both, secures the honor of the first transat- lantic flight for the United States of America, and it will become an accom- plished fact three months after the re- quest.
 All authorities agree that we will in all probability drop in on England by air route before she visits us for the reason that the prevailing winds across the Atlantic are from west to east. There are certain modest United States naval officers who have figured this out, and who are now building large flying boats which, they think, with favoring wind can make the trip by way of the Azores
 There is one flying machine in Amer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-27
From the Brooklyn Eagle. 6T1HE death of Pauline Markham of
 "Black Crook" fame, after near

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 6HlHE death of Pauline Markham of
 II Black Crook" fame, after near
 ly 30 years of retirement from the stage, stirs curious reflections. She was not a great actress. William Win ter would have said she was no actress at all. But she attracted more atten- tion and drew bigger theatre crowds than any but the very greatest ac- tresses in her time. And' queeriS enough, though she belonged to the ballet show in which youth is common ly the adjunct of physical charms, she had no recorded triumph till the re- viyal of the play at Niblo's garden in 1886 when she was 39 years old.
 Two decades before that was her first appearance in America. Jarrett ana Palmer had introduced the ballet as popular attraction in America. They ran the old Academy of Music in Man haitian, which was burned in 1866. Just before the fire they had planned to present 'I.a Biche au Bois." had in- vested largely in costumes and scenic effects, had brought over corps de ballet of young Englishwomen of whom Pauline Markham was one, and had engaged several noted dancers. William Wheatley. who was managing Niblos garden. agreed to take invest ment and contracts off their hands He got Charles M Barras, who had writ ten "The Black Crook" to accept $150a for the run of the play regardless of length, in lieu of royalties. He per- suaded Thomas Baker, who had writ ten the music, to assist. And on Sep tember 12, 1866. "The Black Crook" was presented.
 The stars were Milly Cavendish and Rose Norton. The danseuses vera Marie Bonfanti, Rita Sangali, Betty Rigl and Rose Delval. Pauline was just giddy girl of 19 in the ballet The show had a marvellous run. II had made by January 4, 1868, record of 475 performances. It was figured to have taken in $760,000 at the box office. A few old Brooklynites remem- Der the sensation.
 Pauline Markham grew to prom;- hence in later revivals. Later she played in "Pinafore." An accident and a broken leg compelled her retirement. For many years she lived in Brooklyn. never mentioned by the newspapers, never seeking mention. She died .a Manhattan, nearly forgotten by every body.
 A cvnic might say that reaction from what is called mid d-Victorianism was responsible for "The Black Crook craze. Perhaps it was. Certain it Is that at the present time nothing of the sort would be possible. We are not better than our fathers were when they were young. but we have found the arr of yelling things bit too tiresomc. In large measure we have abandoned 1t. As for costumes behind the foot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-27
Trading With Latins

The Spanish class conducted under the auspices of the Birmingham board of education, had several accessions yester- day and other enrollments are expected tomorrow.
 Suspicion is one of the strong char acteristics of most Latin-Americans. to be allayed before an outsider can hope to do business with them. Most Latin-Americans are keen traders; they like to dcker and bargain and beat down prices. Successful traders and depart ment stores recognize this national char acteristic by having sliding scales of prices so as to allow the love of dicker- ing to have full sway.'