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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-16

The writer hereof grew up on a
Kansas farm. another garden spot or
the world. At the time OF leaving the
farm fourteen years ago he could,
with a team OF horses, pillow three
acres a day. The pillow cut a four
teen.inch furrow al least Ave inches
deep; after the soil was thus prepared
a drill was used TO plant the grain by
this method man and a team ~
horses could plant sixteen or eighteen
acres a day. When harvest times
came a sef-binder, a man. boy and
FIVE horses could reap about twenty
acres a day A forty-acre feld would
be two-days' job. After the grain
had ripened a modern thresher would
pull into the field. eighteen men and
ten teams would thresh the entire
field in ,hree.quarters OF day-pro-
viding IL did not rain which is more
likely than not 10 happen during the
threshing season in Kansas A good
crop in Kansas IS forty bushels per
acre. or about 1000 bushels from 40
acres Figured out in man-days and
horse-days the contrast stands
Kansas threshing: Is man-days. is
horse-days. Result 1900 bushels Of
grain
Asia Minor. los man.days SO boy
days. - ox-days Result $50 bushels
Of grain
Since tho farming days Of the wri
ter tho tractor has come into exist
enCe One man with tractor car
pillow and harrow anywhere from ter
TO thirty acres day, the number de
pending entirely upon the horse pow
or OF the tractor. BY like means pro
portionately more grain can be plan
ted and harvested But not go in Ash;
Minor
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-16

1.-TWO thousand years ago farm.
ers in Asia Minor prepared
2SknN soil for crops by hitching
yoke OF slow plodding oxen
10 forked stick and scratching a
furrow four inches wide and not over
three inches deep. They sowed the
wheat by hand. and very thinly. When
harvest time came the grain was pull
ed up by the roots and left to ripsn.
A stable circle OF ground near by
was sprinkled with water, so that II
would harden. After the grain had
yipened II was piled on the hardened
ground; yoke OF oxen was hltched
20 two long boards roughly fastened
together in the under side of which
sharp flint points had been driven. A
boy climbed on the board and drove
The oxen around and around. cutting
the straw and tramping out the grain.
When a windy day came the finely
chopped straw, char and grain we're
thrown in the air; the wind blew the
chan away and the grain fell 10 the
ground. The only task remaining was
20 sack and store II.
A Garden Spot OF the World.
That was the way they farmed two
thousand years ago and with very few
changes that IL the way they farm
today in Asia Minor. which Is one OF
the garden spots OF the world Tho
blowing is still done in the same way.
the grain Is still sowed by hand. many
farmers still pull II up by the roots.
though this is by no means considered
good form. The progressive farmers.
THEY who hold the same place in
the community as those in America
who SOW thousands OF acres Of grain
annually. now use the cradle One
man can cradle about one acre per
day. The record crop is from twelve
20 fourteen bushels per acre. Il takes
three men, boy. and two oxen six
weeks 10 thresh the grain from forty
acres
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-16
Wanted TO Know Photoqrapher

Arthur. aged five. was Sunday
school pupil and listened attentivelv
90 his, teacher telling tina class atJut
Christ Next day he went vfsiting
with his mother and on the mantel
was a picture OF Christ. TO which his
mother called his attention. explain
Ing that Christ was the subject Of his
lesson the previous day After sur
veyIng the picture thoushtfully for a
moment he suddenly exclaimed: But
who took -f'-Chicag0 Examiner.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-16
THE LATEST NoDEL OF POW USED IN Ap,lEnlA

The answer TO all OF this 10 the diff
ference OF the peoples OF the two
countries and their forms of govern
ment. Every American knows the his
tory OF our countryman on the trac-
tor. He is an American farmer, the
best citizen in the world: perhaps he
has college education. A free life
for himself and his forebears for cen
turtles has made him what he is. not
only the best citizen OF the world, but
the most progressive farmer in the
world
Centuries Of Slavery
Few Americans, however, will an
derstand, or ever will know the cir
cumstances surrounding the creation
Of the Asia Minor farmers picture. 1t
represents centuries OF slavery and
oppression. II represents horrors and
catastrophes in which entire nations
have been stamped out. and in dying
have given birth TO other nations
which in turn have taken their places
under the heels OF the oppressor And
we still have the old. old picture from
the Bible lands OF dark skinned man
plodding along with bowed head be
hind a forked stick which slow oxen
with bowed heads are pulling.
Now for the moral of the story. for
every good story should have a
moral. the American Committee foi
Relief in the Near East is sending Al
initial commission of one hundred OF
the most skilled farmers i can get
who can handle a farm tractor. and
who are taking along with them great
numbers OF tractors and modern Amer
/ lean farming implements 70 me Near
East TO teach the oppressed people OF
those countries both by precept ant
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-16
President WHson, in Gable, Insists that
Relief in the Near East is Urgent

New York
President Wilson
cabled the Amer
lean Committee
for Relief in the
Near East yester-
day that his re
quest for an APP
propr | alton OF
800, 100000 by
Con gre SIS for
European food re
lief lis not intend
ed in any way to
take the place OF
the subscription
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-16
Where Proud Man Fails.

The average man can do almost ev.
erything or. nc least. NJ thinks he can,
but we have yet to see the first one
capable 81 wheeling q baby buggy
straight with one hand.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-16
Anxious Moment.

Agitated Daughter ION the links)-
oh, mother. whatever shall We dol
Fathers In that bunker and here come
the parson and his wife.-Boston
Transcript.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-16

October 10 the opal month Of the
rear. II Is the month of glory, OF
-ipeness. II Is the picture MONTH
Henry Ward Beecher.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-16
ciuili,atinn,s Restraints.

Wise laws and just restraints are
to noble nation not chains. but chains
Of mail. strength and defense, though
something of an mountaineering
Kin.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-16
Len, Distance Covered.

Including al. The movements or ,lc
earth. n person travels S5,255 miles IN
taking ihree-mile walk.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-16
SEPARATING cHAEF FRoT
GRAIN IN HRNENlA

practice how farming should be done.
A number OF the best agriculturists
will also make the trip TO study the
soil, and TO learn what can be done to
increase its productiveness. One Of
the many things they will tell the
Armenians and the other oppressed
peoples Is the what and why OF sub.
soil and why II should be brought to
the surface once in every so many
years.
5000 900 Starved to Death.
Three million Armenians and other
oppressed peoples have been starved
10 death during the recent great war.
over four million are now facing
starvation They not only do not have
food but they have been deprived OF
their all This great constructive
work OF making them not only self.
supporting, but OF undermining their
farming methods, will greatly help to
clean up perhaps the least progressive
and worst misruled section OF the
world
a great many people are certain TO
ask, why does not England do this?"
why should America shoulder all the
burden To such questions one
should turn a smile which indicates,
so that is the kind Of person you
are" but perhaps IL would be better
TO explain patiently that though bear
ing burdens OF suffering and expendi-
ture that America has not been called
upon 10 bear. the English Government
and people has contributed more
money and furnished more workers
for these oppressed peoples during the
past four years by several times than
America has Perhaps il would be
we'll also TO explain that those who
can give and yet want TO argue about
! what America should and should not
do ought 10 keep in mind that real
human beings do not argue when mil.
lions OF people are starving 10 death.
Emergencies with human lives az
stake are times for action. not argu.
ment The starvation OF what re-
mains OF Armenia Is an emergency
The only action asked Of all but few
thousands OF the hundred million peo-
pie in the United States is 70 reach
down n their pockets How real and
how human are YOU?
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-16
Daily Thought.

die content; die for the m erty 81
ID, rouniry.-pe Lannes.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-16
Optimistic Thouoht

Optintsuc tnounnt
Revenge Is sure though sometimes
slowly paced.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-16

Exceptionally attractive programs have been arranged fO
the week of January 10Th 18th at the Liberty and Idle
hour Theatres Programs may be had at the theatres
will be mailed upon request.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-01-16
THRESHlN6 IN ARMENIA

WO thousand years ago farm.
ers in Asia Minor prepared
soil for crops by hitching a
yoke OF slow plodding oxen
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-11
PRESIDENT CAN'T
SEND DOCUMENTS
American Commissioners at Paris Had
Great Volume of Thenl-Agreed
to Keep Some Secret.

WASHINGTON, Aug ll-President
Wilson wrote Chairman Lodge of the sen
ate foreign relations committee today that
it would not be possible to comply with
the committees request for the documents
used by the American peace commission
ers at Paris in negotiating the peace
treaty.
The various data bearing upon or used
in connection with the treaty of peace
with Germany said the President, ''are
so miscellaneous and enormous in mass
that it would be impossible for me to sup
ply them without bringing from Paris the
whole file of papers of the commission it
self and would include many memoran
dums which it was agreed on grounds O
public policy it would be unwise to max,
use of olsside of the conference
The President sent to Chairman Lodge
the informal draft of the league of ma
tions covenant presented by American
peace commissioners at Paris and also the
formal report of the commission on tn,
league of nations.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-11
MEXTCANS FIRE ON
AMERICAN PLANES
Airships Were On American Side OF
The Boundary-Mexicans Dis
persed BY Return Fire.

YUMA, Ariz, Aug. 1.-Two air
planes of the American army border
patrol were fired on by Mexican fed
eral soldiers near Andrada, Lower Cal
ifornia, Mexico, six miles west of here,
Saturday. They returned the fire and
the Mexicans scattered,
According to witnesses of the af-
fair, the planes were on the Ameri-
can side of the international boundary
line
The airplanes were on their way
back to their home base at Rockwell
Fold, after making the daily patrol
trip to Yuma. The Mexicans used a
machine gun and rifles. The aviators
did not at first discover they were tar
gets, but when they did. turned their
planes toward the international line
spraying the country where the Mex
leans were. located with bullets from
their machine guns.
1t is not known whether any Mexi
cans were hit. After the Mexicans hat
fled the planes circled over Andrada {
few times, then went on to Rockwell
field
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-11
JAPANESE FOOLED
SECRETARY LANSING
Did Not Let Him Know of Secret Urea
ty With Great Britain And
France

WASHINGTON, Aug. n-Existence of
the secret treaty between Japan and
Great Britain regarding the Shantung pc
ninsula was concealed" from Secretary
lansing by Viscount Ishii. japanese am
bassador to the United States, Mr. Lam
sing testified today before the senate for
ieign relations committee.
On Sept. 6, 1917, Mr. Lansing said dur
ing the negotiations leading up to the
Lansing-lshii agreement the viscount told
him that he had assured Sir Edward Grey
the British foreign minister, that Japan
would return Kiao-Chow to China, .but
would have to retain the German Pacific
islands because no japanese government
could stand without retaining them
did Viscount Ishii make any further
statement regarding The disposition OF
German claims in China?' asked Senator
Borah.
No replied Secretary Lansing.
But you know now that at that time
Japan had an understanding with Great
Britain for japanese control of Kiao
Chow and that Ishii concealed that from
the secretary of the United States :"
That's the TRUTH
The secretary said he first heard of tn,
secret treaty on the subject between Jap
an, Great Britain, France. Russia ant
Italy in February of this year at Yer
sailes. He said he had investigated ''ver,
| thoroughly and that those secret treatie
| never were published in Russia
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-11
PERSONAL.

L. Arad Robinson of North Franklin
Conn, is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs
l.. R. Robinson.
Miss Marjorie Huntington left today
for Burlington to spend three weeks
in the Y. W. G. A. camp at Oak Ledge
on Lake Champlain.
Miss Esther Ziegler and Miss Flor
enee Ziegler of Turner's Falls. Mass.
and Miss Helen Kartcheske of Green
field, Mass, are visiting their grand
mother, Mrs. Mary Mickey.
Miss Lucy Walbridge left Yesterday
FOR Durham, n. H., asa delegate from
the Centre Congregational Sunday
school to spend week at the Vermont
and New Hampshire Summer Confer
once for Sunday School Workers
Paul S. Emerson arrived at his home
in town Saturday from Camp Devens
| Aver, Mass, where he received his dis
charge from the service. He was in the
medical corps and went overseas last
September. Arriving in this country
he was sent directly to Camp Merritt
n. j., and from there to Camp Devens
to receive his discharge. Mr.. Emerson
has no plans at yet for the future.
A family picnic in A. A. Byard s yard
in West Chesterfield yesterday included
, besides Mr.. Bvard S family. Mrs. J. g
! Miller of Williamsburg, Mass, Mrs
! John l.. Bvard, Mr.. and Mrs. Harr,
Spur and Mr.. and Mrs. Parker Umar
of Southbore, Mass, Mr.. and Mrs. w. L
Hunt and Mr.. and Mrs. John L. How
ard of Brattleboro and f. w. Tarbel
and Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Carlson of Wesi
Chesterfield. Today most of the part,
went to Putney West Hill for picnic
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-11
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

A still alarm at $50 this afternoon
called the fire department automobile
truck to the village dump east of the
railroad yard. a fire which had started
among rubbish was easily eXtinguosred.
The trustees Of the Academy of Mus
ic in Northampton Mass, have APP
pointed John j. Leonard of Amherst as
manager. Mr.. Leonard at one time was
manager of what afterwards became the
Empire theatre. The new season is ex-
pccted to open in September with Fran
ccs Starr in Tiger, Tiger. The North
ampton players will be succeeded by
two visiting attractions a week and
two evenings and two matinees of NOV
ing pictures. Manager Leonard has
been connected with a Boston film cor
poration.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-11

The Women's Medical college of Penn.
sylvania, in behalf of which an endow.
ment fund campaign is soon to be
launched, was the first institution in the
world chartered for the medical education
Of women, and it is now the only medi'
cal school in the United States which adj
mits women exclusively
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-11
GAVE AWAY s35o,e95,e5s.
Compilation of Carneg.e's Benefactions
Made At washington.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1l.-Andrew
Carnegie had given away $350,695,653
up to June /, 1918, compilation of his
.benefactions prepared by the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace
showed
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-11
CARL C. KING DEAD.
Was Leader in the Maine Potato Rails
ing Industry.

CARIBOU, Me-, Aug. 1l.-Carl c. King,
a banker who was one of the leaders Of
the potato raising industry in this see
ton, died today at his home here. He
was 81 years of age.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-02-26
DEFENDANT
HUSBAND IS DEAD:
FOUGHT WITH A. {. F.
PRIVATE PARIS MARCHESki OF
TWIN BLUFFS DIES OVERSEAS
IN SEPTEMBER OF PNEUMONIA.

Another gold star was added 70 thu
Ottawa service flag today when it be
came known that Paris NJ. Marcheski
former Twin Bluff resident. died il
France Sept 1G of lobar pneumonia
Private Marcheski was the father o
Two little children miss and Tulis
Marcheski who reside at Twin Bluffs
Marcheski and his wife had haC
trouble before the former entered the
service. and his wife started divorce
proceedings against him some time
ago in Michigan. When Marcheski en-
tered the service he gave the name OF
his father. Peter Marcheski. in Italy
as his next OF kin. and for this rea.
son his relatives in Ottawa were moi
notified Of his death.
The two little children had neve,
received the government allotment
from their soldier fathers pay ant
few days ago the mother visited tn,
civilian department of the Red Cros:
20 find out why The allotment was no
coming through. A telegram was sent
10 the war department asking wAer,
Marcheski was located at the presen
time, and today a message was re
ceiyed from Washington announcing
the casualty.
Private Marcheski was stationed al
Camp Gordon, Georgia, for some time
after entering the service He sailed
in the early summer as a member o.
Company 20 Of the i57th deDot brig
ade and had been in active service fol
several months in France.
His children received letters from
their father regularly while he Wa>
stationed at Camp Gordon, but the
last time they heard from him was
just before he sailed overseas.
His children and his widow are the
only relatives he leaves in the Unitec
States.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-02-26
ROYAL ARCH MAS0NS
HOLD DIST. SCHOOL
OF INSTRUCTION HERE

About $50 out-of-town delegates
from northern Illinois are in Ottawa
today to attend the three days school
Of instruction which is being held at
the Masonic Temple. Delegates from
all sections Of the northern part OF
the state are here, and great interest
is being manifested in the school. The
attendance varies from one session
to another. thirty out-oftoWn dele
Gates being present for the session
last evening, twenty this morning
thirty this afternoon, and it is esti-
mated that fifty will be present for
the session tonight and tomorrow
The school is being held under the
auspices of Shabbona Chapter No 81.
Three sessions are being held daily,
one at $50 a. m, another to l:3G and
the Chird at 1870 p. m.
Last evening the work of the Mark
Masters degree was exemplitied. This
evening the work of the past and
most excellent degree will be taken
up. The session will end tomorrow
evening. when the Royal Arch degree
will be conferred Several of the SUI
preme officers are III town to help con
fer these degrees.
A lunch will be served this evening
at o'clock at the temple for the dele
gates.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-02-26
TERRA GOTTA PLANT
TAKEN OVER BY NEW
FIRE PROBING CO.
w. A. HERRICk HEADS CORPORA
TON WITH $4,000 PAID UP CAP
iTAl--WiLL MAKE BUILDING
MATERIALS.

The formation of a new Ottawa in
/ dustry ottawa Fireprooiing Com
pany, capitalized at $4,000 and with
all its stock paid up-was announced
today. The new concern, which has
taken over the buildings and clay
banks of the old terra Gotta works
nothwest Of the city, is headed by
W. A. Herrick of the Herrick Clay
Company as president and W. j. Ham
nett of the National Fireproofng
Company. vice president
Nh herrick is a man Of wide ex-
the clay business since The days Of
his youth
The company, as the name implies,
will give ali its energies to the manu-
iacture OF freproof tile, and viii be
ready in a short time to market les
wares, The clay Is said by ceramic
engineers to possess exception quail
ties for this style Of building material
In the old days when the terra Gotta
plant was launched successful fire
prooting was turned ont and sold in
the world market. LaCer the factory
was changed over to tctile products
roofing curnices and other decora-
tive clay materials
OF recent years the plant was oper-
ated as a tile factory by Felix Guig-
non and the late Frank Graham. who
were forced to abandon the project
when the European war broke out
practically making operation prohiDi-
tive both because OF iessened de
mand for tile and the high cost OF
conducting the business.
The buildings are located on a spur
of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cifc Railway, easily accessible to the
city. When it is put into full working
order a large force Of men will bel
employed.
Two or three additional kilns will
be erected at once and the plant will
be put in first-class condition for the
seasons run
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-02-26
MISS ANSCH|CKS
WEDS ". B. H|NKSON
CEREMONY PERFORMED AT a
O'CLOCK YESTERDAY AT
BRIDES HOME ON THE NORTH
BLUFF.

Miss Gretchen Pauline Anschicks,
youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Anschicks of the north bluff,
and William Bryan Hinkson, son Of
Mr. and Mrs William Hinkson of
Freedom township, were united in
marriage yesterday afternoon at 4
O'Clock at the home of brides parents
Rev. Carl Staokman, pastor of the
first Congregational church, per
formed the ceremony which was wit
messed by only the immediate fami-
lies of Miss Anschicks and Mr. Hink-
son.
The Anschicks home was beauti
fully decorated in pink and white,
carnations and ferns being used in
profusion. in the living room where
The ceremony was performed large
arch of smilax formed a very beau
tiful background. The bridal party
entered the living room, as Miss
Amelia Anschicks, sister of the
bride, sang Because" and took their
places under the arch, where the cere.
mony was performed. At the close
of the ceremony Miss Anschicks sang
I Love You Truly
The bride was beautifully gowned
IN a fawn colored taffeta and crepe
de chine gown, with shoes to match
and carried a bouquet of ward roses.
Following the ceremony a three
course wedding dinner was served to
he guests after which Mr.. and Mrs.
Hinkson left for Chicago on a short
honeymoon.
The bride is a we'll known Otta
wa girl She graduated from the OF
tawa public schools and later attend
ed the Ottawa township high school.
The groom is a prosperous young
farmer of Freedom township, and for
several years has resided on the farm
where he will take his bride to make
their future home
Mrs. Hinkson was presented with
Buick six. roadster by her husband
as a wedding gift.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-02-26
COUNTY SAN|TAR|UM
TO RECEIVE FIRST
PATIENTS MONDAY
NJ E w SIS 5.oooo TUBERCULOSIS
COLONY WILL BE THROWN
OPEN FOR RECEPTION OF
SUFFERERS TRANSFER THOSE
AT POOR FARM.

The patients of the La Sale Co..
| Sanitorium will be moved from the
| County Farm west of the city to new
| sanitorium building in South Ottawa
on Monday March 3rd, and the new
building will open its doors To the
general public. The dedication Of the
building took place on Sunday, Feb
ruary 2rd, but at that time The
puildng was not near enough com
pleted for an opening,
On the opening day there will be
about a dozen patients in the sani-
torium. There are now five patients
in the sanitorium at the County
asylum. who will be moved to the
new building and several others will
anter the institution on the opening
day.
Miss L. d. Miller of Chicago. has
been engaged by the Sanitorium
board as superintendent of the in
stitution, and Miss, J. Gibney who
has been in charge of the County
Santorium Will be the head nurse.
AS yet the directors of the building
have been unable to secure night
nurse, but it lis thought there will be
no trouble in securing one before the
opening.
The La Sale County Sanitorium
will be the first County Sanitorium
in operation in the United States,
and as soon as the building is in run
ming order, a visiting county tuber-
culosis nurse will make her head
quarters in the Sanitorium, and go
out all over the county. carrying on
Public Health Nursing. and free
dispensary will be opened in the ad-
administration building.