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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-08-28
WRIGHT SCHOOL

Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Johnson and
son of Ithaca spent Sunday with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Mathew John
son.
Mrs. Frank Webb has returned
from a months visit in Ohio.
Mr.. and Mrs. Giles Isham and two
daughters and Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Van
core and baby spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Isham near Pom
peii.
Wesley Webb was an Ithaca bust
ness caller Thursday.
Napoleon Vancore who has been IN
government service in Germany has
received his discharge and returned
to his home.
Ross Sullivan and grandmother,
Mrs. John Snyder visited the week
end with Barney Snyder and family
near Weidman.
Miss Bernice Veeder of Mt. Pleas
ant spent Sunday with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Veeder They al
so entertained last week Mrs. Amos
Kinney and daughter, Miss Laura
Kinney.
Mrs. Geo. Glow and family Of AL
ma were guests OF het SlSASi' ~" =
Dudley Hoyt last week. They left
Friday for their new home in Mime
sofa. They also entertained Mr.. and
Mrs. Joe Rogers and family of Hast
ings.
Mr. and Mrs Jaretts and Mr.. and
Mrs. Dudley Hoyt spent Sunday at
Rock lake.
Howard Petit was badly injured
last Friday afternoon, when plat
+ form on which he was standing. while
working. broke. He fell twenty
feet. His wrist was broken, and in
addition. he was very badly bruised.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry eager and
three children of Carson City spent
the week end with Mr.. and Mrs.
I Ernest Donovan.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22
Send Them to Russia.

The United States shipping board should
heartily cooperate in providing boats to trans
port the million Russians now in this country
who want to go back to their native land. II
they are not satisfied with economic conditions
here and think they have chance to better
themselves in this way by all means take them
at their word and help the movement along,
making sure at the same time that no rouno
trip tickets are sold.
It is very much to be doubted Il there are
q million or small part of million who
would go back to Russia Just now even If
transportation were free. However, the blum
Is ono that ought to be called promptly.
This country is being flooded by bolshevist
propaganda which portrays life under soviet
governments in most alluring colors and
charges International censorship with suppress
sion of the facts. No doubt there are a gooa
many Russians In this country who accept
such statements at their face value. All those
who banker for a taste Of bolshevism, be they
OF Russian or other nativity, should be given
their chance to get It at the source where Il
f1ourishes in its natural and Undecided state.
It will be cheaper, safer. quicker and a great
deal more satisfactory all around than to keep
them here and undertake to treat them for
u perverted appetite
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22
Brad's Bit O. Verse
FOR A STNNY DAY.
Black Coffee.

The weather forecast has a way
of voicing sundry things, some
times suggesting clover hay AMI
bees and birds and springs; and
then again its note foreteIls the
day of stress and storm; it shifts
from snow to dusky dells, from
frigid winds to warm. Sometimes
it sings of rain and cloud, of dark
and dreary sky, sometimes OF
shrieking blizzard loud. of storm
friends bowling by, OF languid
lanes that stretch away, Of wool
lands fresh and green, of leaves
where sheen and shadow play the
beloved boughs between. But in
my heart there is song for any
days that come; love the hours
when fancies throng, or when the
gloom chords hum. ] welcome dew
or hail or snow or wind or sigh
ing breeze; If skies be dark, or II
they glow, they're Just as sure to
please. No matter what the
weather man may in his wisdom
say, within my heart the morrow's
plan is for a sunny day.
GLEN BRADSHAW.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22

bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. de-
partment of commerce.
This is falling off from the record January
total of $623,000.0O0, but as there were only
% days in February, the daily average would
appear to be even higher than in January. The
total for the month represents an increase of
approximately 43 per cent over the SAIL 900 900
for February of last year. Exports for the
eight months ended with February we're valued
at s4,386,000,000 compared with $3,86S, O0o.-
900 for the corresponding period of the pre-
vious year.
February imports are announced as $685.
900 900, gain over the 1913 100000 for January.
and over the 2OS.OOO,OOo for February, 1913.
Imports for the eight months ended with Feo-
ruary totaled $1,s33,O0O,OOO, as against 1884,
600 900 for a similar period the previous year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22
Early Road Work.

The Rock Island street and alley depart
ment is to be commended for making an early
start with the road grader on unpaved streets.
A days work with grader and drag now IS
worth a weeks work in the middle Of the
summer after the ground is rutted and packed
hard. Everybody who has anything to do with
the upkeep of dirt roads knows this, and yet
highway officers continue to spend most OF the
funds at their disposal late in the summer or
during the fall, and automobile owners con-
tinue to buy expensive tires to wear down the
bumps left when the spring mud dries up.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22
Ricketts,.

Ricketts,.
Ricketts, is a constitutional dis
ease affecting the muscles, blood,
nervous system, internal organs
and bones. The most characters
tic effects are deformities of the
bones which appear at various
times in childhood, but ricketts, is
not merely disease of the bones.
The cause of the disease is not
positively known, but we are now
reasonably certain that it depends
upon a deficiency of fat-soluble
vitamine in the diet of the child.
Just what the fat-soluble sub
stance is, no one has as yet deter
mined. But we know, for exam
pie, that fresh milk does not con-
tain fat-soluble vitamine.
A bottle baby receiving some
substitute for modified fresh raw
milk begins to be ilI-tempered
restless, peevish, coIicky, pale,
fiabby and constipated. Whey ly-
ing on the back the child rolls the
head from side to side much of the
time, and often the friction causes
bald spot on the back of the head.
The child is unable to hold the
head up erect when taken in the
mothers arms. There is excessive
sweating about the head, the sweat
having a sour odor. The child, if
old enough to creep or run about,
evinces no desire to do so. Com
pared with a healthy, properly fed
baby, the child looks pale (though
perhaps faD and the muscles lack
the firmness one can feel in the
muscles of a healthy child.
One feature of ricketts, is a diff
fuse soreness OF the whole body,
on which account the child does
not like to be handled or moved
A second feature is slight fever OF
100 to 1909 degrees, which makes
the child restless at night. A third
feature is the profuse sweating
about the neck and head.
Among the deformities resulting
from ricketts, are pot-beIly (abnor-
mally distended abdomen), square
head (prominent frontal min
ences which make the head look
large. thick wrists, pigeon breast
or funnel breast, the rachitic ros-
airy dumps on the ribs), spinal
curvatures, knock-knees and bow
legs. Later in youth hip deformi-
ties and flat-feet are frequently
observed as a result of ricketts,.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22
THE DAILY SHORT STORY

year. The first season Celia ac-
companied him, and added to
their store of savings by taking
charge of the wardrobes of the
members of the troupe. The sec
ond year there was a baby, the
third year Marsh had accumulated
sufficient to purchase a pretty
bungalow with several acres set
in small fruit surrounding it.
Then began an ideal existence
for the happy pair, still lovers.
Marsh was at home eight months
Of the year. Two new babies came
along and health and harmony
made the time fly swiftly. Upon
each recurring birthday of her
father, Celia wrote him a loving
note, but no attention was paid to
these.
It was the anniversary of their
wedding day when bad news came
to them. Sevenoaks was 200 miles
away, but Marsh got out his auto
mobile and started on the long trip
without losing a moment, A tele-
gram from a physician had ap-
praised Celia that her father was
dangerously Ill. When they reach
ed the old home a nurse told them
that Mr.. barlow was unconscious,
and after they had seen the
physician they knew that the pa
tent had seen his best days.
Ills trouble may wear on with
time" the doctor said. "but he
may ba an invalid for many
months" There was q serious con-
sultation and Marsh took the re-
EpousibiIity Of removing his faith
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22

| er-in-law to their OWE home.
Marsh had to go away on busi.
ness and it was with eagerness
and expectancy that he returned
at the end of a week. Celia had
written him that her father was
improving. that he had even been
able to come out into the garden
in an invalid chair, but that his
mind seemed still clouded.
All! how it awakened to full
action the day when Marsh re-
turned. AS the volatile gymnast
came in sight of the house seven
children flocked TO meet him with
joyous cries. One by one he picked
them up, and one by one as he
had them he hung them all in a
row upon the lower limb Of a tree
suspended by toes, knees and
hands. They filed the air with
strident mirth. Then Marsh struck
an attitude and let them run up
his planted knee, and behold, a
human pyramid! At all this John
Darlow stared, agape.
"Seveni" he breathed bewilder-
eddy. What a family-what a man
|-not-not all yours, Celia?"
-Four we adopted, dear father
orphans. They belonged to an old
circus partner of Wylie."
Hes a good mani" murmured
Dariow brokenly. Tell him SO.
I've been a hard-hearted old rep
rebate! Tell him that, tool" And
an hour later Celia and Wylie,
reconciled TO the obdurate John
Darlow, felt that their earthly
paradise was complete.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22

of the house and nearly broke
Celia's heart by that act. Celia
eloped with Marsh. and from a
town seven miles distant wrote a
beseeching note asking for the pa
rental blessing and forgiveness.
There came back a scathing,
scorching reply. Forever, it stated
she was shut out from heart and
home. Neither she nor the man
she had welded without permits
sion should ever darken the doors
of Sevenoaks aaginl More appeals,
more bitter and definite replies,
and Celia knew that she had cast
in her lot with Marsh for good.
Seven years passed by. unfor-
giving and lonely for John Oar
low, full of life, variety and bliss
for the welded pair. Tender, con-
siderate, Toying, Marsh had never
given Celia cause to regret marry
ing him, except for sorrowful
thoughts regarding her father
Celia was supremely content.
Marsh, it seemed, before coming
to Seveuoaks had been r member
Of u circus troupe. He was u
gymnast with a peculiar talent.
This was the ability with lightning
swiftness TO hang. twist and swing
from ono trapeze bar to SERIES
OF others placed at various dis
tances- His net WAS q star one and
literally paid for, When he had
applied at Sevenoaks for work it
was after 1T OF Illness and out
Of the circus season,
Marsh followed his unique pro-
fesston only four months in the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22
Labor for Thompson.

Organized labor is strongly for Floyd I
Thompson for justice of the state suprem
court, The Quincy Journal of Industry ha
the following to say regarding his candidac
end prospects Of success:
prominent and we'll known Republi-
can of Quincy made the prediction yes
terday that Thompson would defeat
George Wilson for the supreme judgeship
and we certainly hope Mr.. Thompson
does defeat him. Mr.. Thompson Will
carry his home city and county but VIII
son viii not. Mr.. Thompson is an able
lawyer and o bright and intelligent
gentleman and deserves success in this
election. Some OF the Republicans are
trying to belttie Mr.. Thompson by say
ing he is too young, which is little in
deed. 1t is the young men that are lead
ing the present generation and prominent
lawyers throughout the district say that
Mr.. Thompson is the superior OF the
two when It comes to real Law. Re-
gardIess OF politics we are for Mr..
Thompson with all our might and from
what we hear from all parts Of the dis
trict We predict that Mr.. Thompson will
be elected. We believe IN being open
and square IN everything.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22
RECIPES FOR A DAY.

Potato Salad-Bon six potatoes in
their skins. Peel and slice or chcp
the potatoes into a bowl and add 10
them an onion which you have
minced fine and scalded for five
minutes in boiling water. Season
the vegetables with pepper and
salt, and pour over them four table
spoons of oil and two of vinegar
Gf to strong dilute with a little
waterD. Toss and turn them in this
and let stand in it an hour before
serving. Two cold boiled beets. cut
in slices, is an addition.
Cream of Tomato Soup-One can
tomatoes, one quart Of milk, three
tablespoons butter substitute and
one tablespoon cornstarch, salt and
pepper to taste, three-quarters tea
spoon soda, one teaspoon of sugar
Beat the tomatoes thoroughly and
rub through a fine colander. Re
turn to the fire, season and stir in
the butter substitute rolled in corn
starch, cooking until it begins to
thicken. Have ready in another
saucepan the milk scalding hot, add
the soda; stir in well and pour into
the tureen. Pour the tomatoes into
this. stirring all the time, beat W
well and serve.
Brown Loaf Cottage Cheese and
Nuts)-Two cups cottage cheese,
one cup leftover oatmeal, peanut
butter, one-half cup chopped pea
nuts, one teaspoon onion juice,
pinch of sage, salt, cayenne and
paprika, liquid if necessary to mix.
Form into a loaf and bake in a hot
oven twenty to twenty-five minutes
or until brown.
Salad MignOn - One-half cup
pumped raisins (seeded), two me
dunn sized tart apples, one stalk
celery, one-half cup English wal
nut meats, one-half cup marshmal-
lows, mayonnaise, lettuce. Plump
a minute or two, then draining it
off thoroughly, shake in a strainer
to dry. Pare and cut apples into
small strips, cut up celery into bits,
cut nuts and quarter marshmal-
lows. Mix all together and serve
on shredded lettuce with mayor
naise dressing
Cabbage, Alabama Style-This
will serve five Into a two-quart
kettle put a piece of lard the size
o. an egg; add one cup of hot
water, d small pinch of baking
SOFA; let come to boil, then add
the cabbage, after washing and
cutting into small pieces. Salt TO
taste; keep covered and cook
briskly fifteen or twenty minutes
only. Stir occasionally.
Prune Pudding (for six people,
Soak about fifteen large prunes for
several hours in a little water.
When they are quite soft remOvs
the stones and cook slowly until
they fall to pieces. Season with
juice of half a lemon, a little
ground cinnamon, sugar to taste.
Thicker with a large tablespoon of
cornstarch dissolved in a little
water. Put in small molds. A few
walnut meats sprinkled on top is a
good addition. Serve with whipped
cream.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22
HeaI.hfUI Desserts.

Banana and Raisin Pudding
cupful raisins, one cup stale bread
crumbs, four cups or six bananas,
one-half teaspoon salt. two table
spoons sugar, one teaspoon butter
Brush casserole with butter, put
half the bananas in bottom, cover
with bread crumbs and then with
the raisins, which have been stewed
and thickened (add salt to raisins) +;
put the rest of the bananas on top
and sprinkle with sugar. Cover,
put in hot oven 20 minutes, re luce
the heat and leave in 20 minutes
longer. Serve warm.
Raisin Roly Poly--One cup seed
ed raisins, one cup -four, one tea
spoon baking powder, one teaspoon
salt, two teaspoons shortening, one
teaspoon butter, one-half cup milk,
two tablespoons sugar.
Sift -four, baking powder and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22
lEGEsA GTEI TAA XS
BY WILLIAM, .,I BR RAD nd.

The fontanelles (soft spOts) in
the baby's head are slow in clos
mig when the baby has ricketts,, and
nersist long after the normal limit
go months).
There is some inherent deicien-
CIV of lime metabolism in ricketts,.
The bones and muscles fail to as
simulate enough lime. This is not
due to insufficient lime in the food
but to some physiological fault not
now understood.
All cubs born to lions in the
London zoo died of ricketts, until
Bland Sutton suggested these ad-
ditions to their food: Fresh milk,
pounded bones, and cod liver oil.
Milk fat, marrow fat and liver fat
are well known now to be rich In
fat-soluble vitamine. Pure cod
liver oil Is one of the best remedies
we have for ricketts,. Pure fresh
raw milk, properly modified to suit
the infants individual need, is,
next to breast feeding, the most
certain preventive Of the disease.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
A Matter of Fact
You advised a correspondent that
tomatoes tend to reduce acidity OF
the urine and increase the alkalin
ity of the blood. Please allow me
to mention some FACTS regarding
eating tomatoes. Upon one mans
statement that each time he eats
tomatoes he suffers pain from
govt / thought it a fools idea
Then / watched myself l found
it exactly the same. | made many
inquiries q am a travelling sales
man in half a dozen states, and
found 10 out of two dozen travel
ers tell the same. Take this for
what it Is worth. W. D
Answer-POst hoe deductions
often mislead. Chemically it has
been clearly shown that the ash OF
tomato is decidedly alkaline, and
! tomato contains but slight traces
of oxalates (oxalic acid salts).
Therefore there is no reason why
persons with joint disease, be il
1 govt or not, should avoid tomatoes
Indeed, in practice we find toma-
/ toes quite as effective as most
| fruits in diminishing the acidity
of the urine and opposing so-calIed
acidosis or acid intOxication. More
likely the 10 travelling men suyer-
ed from eating two kinds Of meat
| three times a day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22

One day we see Secretary Baker assailed
with much heat on behalf Of one military fac
ton because army misdemeanors have been
punished with unwarranted severity under the
existing court martial regulations. Before the
ink is dry along comes another story, also from
army sources, charging the head of the war
department with breaking down discipline by
favoring lenience toward slackers. And then
tie enemies Of the administration wonder why
the public fails to fall for their propaganda!
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22
THEY WERE SEVEN.
BY ERNEST BETTERIDGE.

(COpyrlght, 1919, by western
Newspaper Union)
Looking for a job, Ell? Well,
you go seven blocks down that
street to the end of the town.
There you'll find Seyenoaks. Neat
little place. John DarIow owns it
Ask for him. I happen to know he
wants a handy man and you look
like that. And say, there's a pretty
daughter there too. Aha! Stick to
Darlow for seven years, like the
man did in the story, and maybe
you'll get her. And she's worth
waiting for, believe met"
Thus q native of BrOmpton, an
swered an incidental inquiry of
Wylie Marsh. Tho latter, a fine
looking young fellow OF about 20,
smiled at the quaint presentation
Of his informant, thanked him and
seemed infused with the seven"
idea, for within seTen minutes he
was at the Rarlow place.
Seven hours work about the
place and at the supper table
Harsh met Celia Darlow. Never
50 tidy a little housekecper. never
I more charming face! With n
feeling OF rare content Marsh
settled down into a groove that
seemed exactly fitted to him.
/ BY the end OF seven weeks
Harsh and Celia were engaged.
st the end of seven months John
barlow discovered this mutual de-
fotion, tiercely ordered Marsh out
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22

Those who object to slight discoloration
in city water at this time of year may be inter-
ested in the fact that about thirty thousand
pounds of mud are taken out of the 5000, 900
gallons of water now being filtered daily. That
means almost carload of sediment every "a
hours, and while the amount seems large people
who remember what we used to get when raw
water was pumped into the mains in the spring
estimate
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22
Heart GHOmo.
11,ttlDHODTOmcC y
V Il nT2C. ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: No doubt
you will be surprised to learn that
your Heart and Home Problems"
are read and discussed way over
here in France, but they are, by
two "buck privates," and every
day, too. We look forward to the
coming of our home paper as a
rookie" does a money order from
home.
We often wonder why you aren't
a patient in the state hospital for
the insane, you have so many fool
ish questions to answer. OF
course the majority of the ques-
tons are sensible and we think
you give mighty good advice in
your answers.
Now to tell you about ourselves:
We belong to the Fourth Monkey
Mechanics regiment that was sta
toned at Camp Greene for time.
You may have heard of us, be-
cause we built all the roads in
Camp Greene, and at the same
time met many nice people and
pretty girls. We might also ask
you some questions, but so far as
we know the home girls are true
to the end, so why ask questions?
And, by the way, you might tell
those girls who ask you about
their soldier sweethearts remain
ing true, that there are two buck
privates" in France who haven't
seen any French girl that they
would even dare think of compar-
ing with those two little brown
and blue eyed girls they left back
home.
We close, wishing you and the
home paper continued success.
L. T. AND B. B.
Boys, your letter has given me
much pleasure. 1t is gratifying to
know that my column is read and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22

Senator Lenroot has decided that congress
need not wait for the conclusion of peace ne
gotiations If it doesn't want to. All it has to
do is to pass resolution declaring the war
over. Amazingly simpler Congress might
have done that year ago and stopped all the
trouble and expense, but it didn't. And It
won't do anything 80 foolish now or later.
Strange what a lot of pifle the opposition
statesmen are taking to the newspapers these
days
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22

There is nothing to worry about in the dis
closure that there is one divorce to every nine
marriages in this country Since the majority
of divorces are merely preliminary to another
marriage the showing really indicates that Hy-
men has an unusually high percentage of sat-
isffed customers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22

Ex-senator Joe Bailey of Texas has just
read himself out of the Democratic party IN
view of the record he made during his last
few years in congress the Republicans probably
will welcome him with about the same degree
of warmth that the Dutch manifested for one
William Hohenzollern
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22

Dispatches report Canada and Ireland have
spoken across the sea by wireless. That's
nothing" replies the American Marconi COM
pany, 1--WE talked from Washington to Paris,
which is good deal farther. two years ago.
but didn't say anything about it" Canada ana
Ireland, however, got the advantage in pub
lcity that goes with SCOOP" 1t pays to
advertise
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22

1t is all right, no doubt, to send 100000
yards of bath robing to Siberia, but the burden
of most of the complaints made by Americans
in that country in regard to living conditions
leads to the conclusion that it would be
more appreciated if we could contrive to send
over few thousand baths.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-22

An airrnan who is preparing for an over
seas flight proposes to charge $500 ounce
for the first mail carried. Probably that is
considered about all the traffic will bear, espe-
cially since payment will be expected in ad-
vance