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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-01-27
SUMNER

A. +. Fowler was business callel
at Ithaca Monday.
Mrs. VIM. Price returned from
Coral Monday.
Vance Woodward was an Ithacs
caller Tuesday
John Lang and family of Alma are
spending few days here visiting
relatives and friends.
Ernest Stoffs Of Toledo is visiting
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Stoffs.
Harry Hunt of Alma called on
/ friends here Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Austin visited
last week with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. l. O. Hunt.
Clifford Gee and Mr.. Dick of AL
ma called on friends here Wednesday.
Loran Race came Wednesday TO
spend few days with relatives re-
turning Friday evening to Grand
Rapids
Mr.. and Mrs. Karl Roseerans and
children, who have been visiting for
the past week at the home of Vance
Woodland, left Thursday for a visit
with Is brother near Ithaca.
Mrs. Byron Somers is entertaining
relatives from Fenwick.
Mrs. Mildred Classon, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Conner. who
passed away at her home in Ithaca.
was brought here for burial Friday.
The play given by the high school
Friday evening afforded very pleas
ant evening and netted the school
$50.
Mrs. John Hufford of Detroit Wis
tied with friends here Friday even
ing.
Mrs. Byron Sommers was Stan
ton caller Friday.
Melvin McClenathan and Kenneth
Holcolmb Of Lansing are VISITING
their parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Botoh were
visitors in town Friday.
Mrs. VIM. Pugsley passed away at
her home west of town Saturday
DR.. Lewis has returned to resume
his practice accompanied by his son. /
who will remain with him for a time.
Scott Horn of Middleton has pur-
,hased the Hicks farm west of
Sumner and has moved his family
mere,
Mrs. Thomas Pelton passed away
Wednesday eveing at the home of her
ION, Perry, at the advanced age of sc
years. She was one Of the early
settlers. Funeral was held here Sat
irday at the Christian church con-
iucted by Rev. Cotterel and inter-
nent was made in Sumner cemetery.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. J. Tucker visited
1t the home of I. F. Tucker Sunday.
Emery Milford of Alma spent
sunday with is parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Dave milford.
Mrs. VIM. Phillips, who has been
spending week in Alma, has re-
urned bringing her little grandson
With her.
The Hartford Insurance Company
Idjusters were here. and will pay Mr..
Wilkins the full amount Of insur-
nee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stone are entertain
ng company from Saginaw.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-01-27
Observation-Disclosures,
RIVERDALE
Observation-Disclosures

Hubert Moblo of Detroit was in
town Monday on business.
Mrs. Brackson hobart spent Fri
day with relatives at st. Louis.
Mrs. David Dutt returned Friday
from her six weeks visit with rela-
tives at Fremont and Durand
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Birdsall were
Alma visitors Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Britten are
entertaining relatives from Grand
Rapids.
Mrs. Lee Schaffer has returned
from Alma where she has been for
the past three weeks i'll at a hospital.
Elmer Bemis was in Alma Friday
on business.
A. M. Lewis has returned from his
visit with relatives at Lansing. Port
land and Ionia
Harold Hyde and Jay Rice were
Alma visitors Friday.
The revival meetings held at the
VI. <. church are we'll attended. They
will continue all next week. Every
body welcome.
Eugene VanDusen of near Carson
City, who had been visiting his
brother, d. VanDusen, for several
weeks, died suddenly from apoplexy
Monday evening. The remains were
taken to the home of his niece near
Carson City for burial.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanly Lanquin of
Alma were week end guests of Mrs,
r. LaMay.
Miss Grace Lattimer of Shepards-
vile is a guest of Rev and Mrs. IL,
R. Strong.
Frank VanAlstine Of Whittemore
spent several days last week with his
parents.
James Harrington of Holland Wis
tied at the home of his brother,
Reuben Harrington, and wife last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Wittemore and
son, Junior, were Alma visitors Fri
day.
Merritt Sadler left Thursday
for Ann Arbor, where he
expects to receive medical aid at the
University hospital. Mrs. Sadler
will remain with relatives in Detroit I
Turing her husbands stay at Ann
Arbor.
Rev. VIM. Amos of Alma college
who has had charge of the revival |
meetings. at the M. +. church. has
Preached some very interesting SER
mons. The Alma College quartette
rave a pleasing musical program on
friday evening which was appreciat-
d very much by large crowd.
Miss sTwila Bradley went to
ireenville last Friday evening to
lay basket ball with the St. Louis
Ugh school team.
Mrs. Agnes Crawford of Brecken-
idge was a week end guest of her
aughter, Mrs. Millard Hopkins.
Mrs. h. NJ. Highfield spent Fri
ny in Alma a guest of Mrs. T. ].
arney.
The Ladies' Aid Society met at the
ONE of Mrs. Alfred Locey, last
Wednesday afternoon. The next
leeting will be held on Wednesday. |
ebruary ?, at the nome of Mrs.
esse Birdsall Everybody welcome.
Mrs. Laurel Welsh and children
Dent the first of last week at
raverse City.
The many friends of Mrs. Fred
'illiams will be sorry to hear of her
cent illness. At present she is
Ding nicely.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-01-27

DIR. and Mrs. Highfield and DIR
and Mrs. t. j Carney were enter
tanned at dinner Sunday at the farm
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Rock
we'll north of Elwell.
Mrs. VIM. Webb is caring for Mrs
Claude Dunn, who has been i'll for
some time.
Harold Hyde and Jay Rice were
Alma visitors Friday.
Andrew Fritz was in Alma Mon
day on business.
DIR. Parkinson of Owosso was
eelled here Saturday on account of
the serious illness Of his father.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Kellicut Of AL
ma visited relatives in this vicinity
Sunday.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-01-27
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ITHACA
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Mrs. Ward Kille of Gaylord, who
has been visiting her husbands par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. +. B. Kille, has
gone TO Lansing TO visit Mr.. and
Mrs. William Kinsel.
Mrs. w. E. Hall is spending a few
days in Jackson visiting relatives
after which she will visit her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Baird Stevenson, at Carp
Lake.
The funeral of NJ. A. Coss, who
was brought from the soldiers home
at Grand Rapids was held at the Free
Methodist church Thursday after
noon, with interment in the North
Star cemetery. Rev. w. A. Knight
offieiated Mr. Coss was "a years of
age and had spent the greater part
OF his life in Gratiot county
The third number of the lecture
course was given Friday evening at
the Methodist church by the Otter
bein quartet.
The Nisa Wan Wan club will be
entertained Friday evening by the
Misses Rowell and Kashneider at the
home of Miss Rowel.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Reynolds and
son, Grant, spent Sunday with rela-
tives at Butternut.
Mrs. William Lewis and Mrs.
James Cross of near Middleton were
guests Thursday of Mrs. A. T. Will
lert.
The southeast division of the
Methodist Aid society held meeting
Wednesday afternoon at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank L. Convis.
Wednesday eveing the play, "Cher-
ryblosscm," was presented by stu
dents of the Ithaca high school at the
opera house under the direction of
Miss Cynthia Dodge, teacher of mu-
sic and drawing, assisted by> other
high school teachers, one of whom.
Miss Marjorie King. took the part of
Miss Cherryblossom.
Mrs. j. Soule and daughter. Miss
Mabel Soule, spent Thursday in AL
ma.
Mrs. Adeline Moffatt of Alma
spent the past week in the home of
A'N-4~+g W - tiQCI.
Mrs. Ernest Burchard left Tues
day to spend ten days in the homes
of her sisters, Mrs. Glenn Mason of
Bay City and Mrs. Ives McCredie of
Detroit
Mrs. Lydia Higgins received Mon
sent from Florida by Mrs. Geo. Will
sent from Florida by Hrs. Geo. Will !
cox Of st. Louis, who is spending the
winter there.
The o. +. S. gave a winter picnic ,
at their lodge rooms Tuesday evening .
which was a very enjoyable affair.
A. L. Devereaux has purchased the
Robert Feary farm in Emerson '
township and will take possession s
about Feb. /.
DIR. Haynes, Mr.. Coverdale and 5
Theodore Marzke Of Dewitt were in ,
ithaca Thursday. Z
DR.. and Mrs. C. E. Burt enter 7
tanned her father, II. L. Haywood, of
Belvidere, H., and p. r. Thompson 6
IF Freeport, ILL.,, from Wednesday
until Monday of this week. S
Mrs. L. f. Welch returned Satur- |
lay from Brainerd's hospital at AL
ma where she underwent an oper- $
alton about two weeks ago. t
The funeral of Mrs. Wilbur Clason v
was held Friday afternoon at her
ate home on East Center street. a
Rev. William Roberts, pastor of the '
Presbyterian church officiated. a
j. l.. Batson of near Middleton was
IN Ithaca on business Monday. il
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-01-27
Items ofCounfyDews
Rsaos OF our neiabborina oiIIsaes Is CLEANED each
Week BY our staff OF special correspondents

Sheriff A. T. Willert and Prescott
or o. l.. Smith attended a sheriff and
prosecutors convention at Lansing
Tuesday.
The southwest division of the
Methodist Ladies' Aid society will
meet Wednesday Of next week with
Mrs. q. l.. Smith.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-14
CORINNA

The Corinna A A. and Hart
land A. A. played a game OF base
ball at Hartland on the academy
grounds on Saturday afternoon, Sept
10 The Hartland \. A. won the
game 10 to $. The battery fo,
Hartland was Emery and A. Moulton.
for Corinna, Burton and Young,
Emery of Hartland had IS strike
outs. Burton of Corinna had two
strikeouts Hartland made ~ hits
and had seven errors. Corinna made
four hits and four errors.
stone Esel Lodge, l. o. o. F. OF
Corinna with the lodge from Dexter
worked the second and third degrees
on class of four at Corinna's lodge
rooms last Thursday evening.
The reception TO the freshmen will
be held at the town hall. Frida V
evening. Sept % at s o'clock. This
reception is given to the freshmen
OF Corinna Union Academy by the
three upper classes
Many people from Corinna arc
planning to go to Exeter fair next
Friday Sept I6.
A great many wells have gone drv
and people have to carry their water
from a great distance. The weu ~
=. Howard Winchester was pumnad
dry last Friday. This well has on,v
oeen known to have gone dry once
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THE SHIPPING PROBLEM

If Japan can operate her merchant
marine boats for less than we can by
10 per cent, Norway by 40 per cent
Great Britain by %, Spain by 60,
Germany by 20 and France by 20 per
cent and insure their vessels on $50
per ton as compared with American
vessels at Sl75 per ton, as is claimed
on what is recognized as excellent
though not strictly uninterested
authority. manifestly this country
has on it's hands a shipping problem.
u real one.
But this is not all, Senator Jones
of Washington, father of much ship
ping legislation including features of
the merchant marine act which have
not been put in force. makes public
a report prepared for him by the Ma
tionai Merchant Marine Association,
in which it appears that secret
agreements between certain of our
io1hoau anu lOici5H emp COL POI d =
tons are diverting the traffic from
; the Shipping Boards boats.
This report declares that had the
provisions of the merchant marine
act been put in force this condition
Of things could not have existed and
American ships now tied up would be
, in operation. The report urges the
formation of commodity transporta-
ton companies" subject to the joint
authority of the Shipping Board and
the interstate Commerce Commits
, sion, empowered to fix joint through
rail and ocean rates by way of
American ships. 1t is said such an
arrangement would be legal under
the Webb and Edge acts.
In. this country subsidies to ship
ping have not been popular. 1t is
possible some such arrangement as
is proposed may be found practical,
, though constituting governmental in =
reference with business on a large
scale. 1t is already apparent that
American shipping is not proving
successful under the present ar
! Iangement and the vision of an Am
; erican merchant marine covering
the waterways OF the world is not
, bright as it was. Much, however. is
involved in the shipping problem
and the spirit of aggressiveness is
Lack of it.
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Scout Leaders to
Meet at MOOsehead

Moosehead Lake, Me. Sept. 13-At
o conference here this week of scout
executives and other scout officials OF
New England, James f. West, chief
scout executive of the United States
and possessions, will be the chief
speaker Other high officials OF
scoutdom are. coming to Maine for
the all-week sessions on scout meth
DDS. and one of the scout executives
vii! address the Bangor Rotary Club
at its Tuesday noon dinner
More than so leading New England
scout officials are expected and they
will come by train and automobile.
many of them 70 pass through Ban
gor. Scout Executive Arthur d.
Marston, and at least one Of the
Bangor or Brewer scoutmasters will
represent this district.
The purpose of the conference is to
train the scout officials Of New Eng
land better in the fundamentals of
scouting. Some Of the Subjects to be
discussed are: The scout turnover.
training programs, the older boy,
camping. sea scouting. rural comnu-
nifty scouting, publicity, scouting for
the boy who has few opportunities,
scouting in industry, scouting in the
college community. court of honor.
finance, the scostmastors work. the
troop committee, the standards and
results.
Throughout New England commits
sions OF three men each have been
appointed to promote each of the
special departments which viii be
discussed at the Moosehead confer
ence. Scout Executive Marston is a
member of the court of honor com
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Helping the Farms


The WV Finance CORPORATION vir-
tually has" completed it's arrange
ments for advancing more than bill
lion dollars in credits to help the ag-
ricultural interests of the country.
Executive committees are being
formed among the farmers to receive
applications for aid and to arrange
for the equitable distribution of this
sorely needed relief
This is all to the good. Now let
Congress at the earliest possible mo-
ment after reassembling pass the
enabling legislation which will per-
nit the War Finance Corporation to
do for the railroads of the country
what 1t is doing for the farms. The
vernment-irrespectiv of the OBJ
legation of the railroads to it-has an
obligation of $500,000,000 to the rail-
roads to liquidate; and the discharge
of that debt would set in motion i'm
mediately the wheels of many con-
tributory industries.
Prompt action will so far toward
relieving the present acute condition
Of unemployment in the best way;
that is to say. by giving men work
instead of by soup kitchen dole.
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Virginia Republicans
{ New York Times-Dem. ,


Most of the attempts of the Repub-
lican Party to break into the solid
South have been on the lines of
national politics. Rut they have new
er had anything more than local and
fleeting success. All that the South
ern Democrats have had to do to
make the Republican case hopeless
was to raise the race issue. But now
in Virginia an effort is making TO
change the political strategy and
strike out in new paths. The Repub-
lican movement starts out in the
name of the state, pure and simple.
National questions are not men,
tioled. The charge is that Virginia
has been for years badly governed.
The Democratic machine has been
able to entrench itself in power,
largely by appealing to race preju-
dice, and has steadily deteriorated.
The vital interests of the State have
been more and more neglected, de-
spite the increasing army of office
holders.
Such are the assertions of the Re-
publicans. who have nominated a
man of high standing for the Gov
ernorship and who appear to be rail-
lying many Of the substantial people
of Virginia to what they describe as
the cause of the State against the
politicians. How do they propose to
meet the old cry of negro domination
of the Republican Party in the
South? They seek to do it by adopt
ing platform which makes them. in
effect, a white mans party in Viz
ginia. They profess to be DESTROYS
of securing 10 the negroes their polit-
| ical rights, but do not wish the COL
ored voters 10 attach themselves 70
any one party. Political solidarity
in either race" declares the platform,
lis a menace to free institutions"
The platform also makes it plain
that the Republicans, if they carry
the election. will appoint no colored
men to public office.
This Virginia plan is meeting with
! favor in other Southern States and
may be tried by them. We shall very
! likely hear a good deal of it. The
; experiment is interesting and some
| of its avoWed aims are undeniably
| worthy. Yet unless old prejudices
|. have lost their force and Southern
/ Democratic politicians their cunning.
! the cry of social equality for the ne
! gro and endangered race purity for
! the white will long be raised in the
/ South with great political effect.
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Lolita Madden. the concert soprano
was recently singing in concer,
somewhere in the provinces. ard, dur
ing particularly impassioned per-
Torrance of Mrs. Salter's The Cry of
Rachel" she noticed that every time
she came to the burden. Death, Let
me in the audience first Uttered
then chucklcd and finally laughed out.
When it got too much for Miss Mad
den she left the stage in the middle Of
the song and sent an usher to find out
the why and wherefore 1t appears
that every time the line occurred. a
member of the audience, elderly and
deaf demanded Of his wife "Wot's
she sayin'?" Finally. the wife, tired
of the Interruptions. answered: she :
askin someone to let her in. and /
just wish he'd go and do it:"-Boston
Herald.
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Not at all Their Fault

Two young men. supposed to be
busily employed in the rear of the es-
adjustment while the principal looks
after things in the front, were recent
ly startled by the appearance of their
employer while they were engrossed
in a game of checkers.
The proprietor was indignant. How
is it," he demanded, Il scarcely ever
find you fellows at work when 1 come
in?"
Well sir, I'll tell YOU" volunteered
one OF the youths. It's on account
of those rubber heels you wear
Stray Stories.
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Greater Than zap


Toxic reports that an agreement is
near between the United States and
Japan over Yap Island. Washington
is not 50 sure. however. that an
agreement has been reached.
According to the reported agree
ment. the United States will receive
full control of the Yap-G Guam cable
and will erect a wireless station
there. Japan will retain the Yap-
Shanghai cable and will conduct fur
ther negotiations with Holland over
the Yap- Menando cable that runs
over toward Celebes.
In consideration Of these "conces-
sions' Japan IS to be left in possess
sion of the mandates over zap and
some hundreds of other once-upon-
a-time German islands in the North
Pacific. In return for a cable sta
ton and a wireless tower on zap we
agree to hold our peace forever after,
and Japan will keep the 22S inhabit-
cd islands, the 52,094 people and the
go square miles of the Ladrones, the
Carolines and the MarShalls.
These islands, so far as trade is
concerned. do not amount to the hole
in a Chinese cash" Summed up,
the verdict of those who know them
is: Natives. Nature and Nothing to
Do" But they have n value far be-
yond their copra, their few tons of
sugar and occasional shiploads of
phosphate.
Strategically they dominate the
North Pacific. They are across the
flank or dead ahead of ships from the
American West Coast to the Philip
pines or to Asian ports. They pocket
the United States naval station at
Guam. surrounding it on the North,
South and West They are a scat
tered barrier against whatsoever
may come from the East toward
Asia.
To be plain about it, Japan wanted
the islands for purposes defensive
and offensive, and to keep them out
of the hands of a possibly unfriendly
Power. That is the why of the Jap
anese stubbornness in insisting that
this mandate shall be regarded as a
fact accomplished"
Look at the map of the Pacific.
Note the position of zap Island, of
Guam and of the Marshalls. the Car
dimes and the Ladrones Trace the
pathway of ships from the United
states to Asia and the Philippines.
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Out in Chicago youths killed two
car statesmen with as little compunc-
ton as they would rats. Down in
San Antonio a 12-year-oid Mexican
boy clinging to- as tree in the food,
held 5year- old child on his should
ers for five hours. although beaten
black and blue by the floating wreck
age, and became unconscious when
rescued. All people may be alike in
many ways, but they differ noticea
bly, in some respects.
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MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD
Eastern Standard Time
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mission and will be one of the speak

mission and will be one OF the speak
ers on this subject.
Besides Mr.. West. who is the high
est ranking scout official in Amer
lea. speakers include DIR. George G.
Fisher. deputy chief scout executive,
formerly national director of physi-
cal education of the Y VI. c. A., Prof.
f. X. FretwelI of Columbia Univer-
sity, assistant head of the depart
ment of education OF the Boy Scouts
of America, and r. n. Berry of Bos-
ton. regional scout director of New
England.
The scout men will make their
headquarters at the Northwest Inn,
Seboomook. Northwest Garry, Moose
head Lake. Some of the officials will
sleep in tents but the majority will
live in the hotel. Most of the men
will arrive Saturday or Sunday.