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T he P lymouth M ailPLYMOUTH, MICH., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1917

i Never Such Turning To Christ Throughout the W orldW ithout exception from every part of the earth come tidings of nations

coming into the light. Buddhists, Moslems, Confucianists are bom again. Africa, China and India are being transform ed. Latin America is turning to P ro testan t Christianity. The question is: W hat about YOU? Christ will win millions this year. Will he get you? He stands a t your door and knocks.

F I R S T P R E S B Y T E R I A N C H U R C HSCHEDULE OF SERVICES:10:00 a. m,—Morning worship at the church. “The Royal Marriage Feast"—Mt. 22:1-14.I 1:20 a. m.—Union Sabbath-school service at High school auditorium. The Sunday-school will

meet at the church immediately after morning worship, and go in a body to the auditorium, at the request of Dr. Fikes.

2:00 p. m.—Junior Christian Endeavor.3:00 p. m.—Men’s meeting at auditorium and wom en’s meeting at Presbyterian church.6:00 p. m .—Senior Christian Endeavor.7:00 p. m.—Dr. Fikes at auditorium.

EVERYBODY WELCOME

Plymonth ManHeads Ypsilanti Co.

You will NEVER know ’till you give us a trial. Come and give us the “once over” anyway. Always “on the job” six days in the week and Monday, W ednes­day and Saturday evenings. Pyrex, Aluminum and Granite- w are and General Hardware.

Fred F. Bennett Accepts Position as Secretary and M anager of Crown Fender Co. of th a t City.

Fikes Meetings At­tracting Large Crowds

F. W. HILLMAN iH A R D W A R E

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Fred F. Bennett, who has been sup­erintendent a t the Daisy Mfg. Co., of this village, for the p ast nineteen years, has resigned his position with the local factory and accepted the re ­sponsible position of secretary and •eneral m anager of the Crown Fender Jo., a growing industry of Ypsilanti.

Mr. B ennett’s long connection and ex­perience w ith the Daisy Co., as fac­tory superintendent, particularly fit him for the duties of his, new posi­tion, and the directors of the Crown Fender Co. could not have made be tte r selection than Mr. Bennett to head their company. Mr. Bennett, who has already assumed the duties of his new position, will not move his fam ily to Ypsilanti for the present, a t least.

W. J . Burrows, who has been sis tan t superintendent a t the Daisy factory for m any years, steps into the position made vacant by Mr. Ben­n e tt’s resignation, while W illiam Eck- m an takes the position of assistan t superintendent.

We take the following from last week’s Ypsilanti Record, which will be of in terest to o u r readers a t this tim e:

“The Crown Fender factory, one of Ypsilanti’s newer and growing indus­tries,-has been placed under new m an­agem ent, F red F . B ennett of Plym outh, succeeding John R. Welch.

“A t a m eeting of the board of direc­tors of the company, Thursday even­ing, October 25, the resignation of Mr. Welch was accepted and the office of secretary and general m anager voted to Mr. Bennett.

Mr. Welch has been identified with the Crown Fender company since its inception, having previously had a successful experience in the produc­tion of steel stam pings in Detroit. His fu ture is not stated, although he will doubtless tu rn his a ttention to steel in which he is said to have in­vestments.

“Mr. B ennett is a man of experience in m anufacturing lines and one in whom the factory directors place much confidence as to the fu tu re of the industry. He has until Recently been facto iy m anager of the' Daisy M anufacturing Co., of Plymouth, m akers of the Daisy A ir rifle.”

Woman’s Literary ClubThe third m eeting of the Woman's

L iterary club was held a t the home of Mrs. F. B. P ark on Main s treet, last Friday afternoon. Thirty-five mem­bers and two guests were present. The m eeting was called to order a t the regular hour with the president, Mrs. R. E. Cooper, in the chair.

A recommendation from the civic committee was read by the chairm an of th a t committee, Mrs. C. H. Bennett, asking th a t all members of the club, who so desired, do Red Cross work a t the regu lar meetings of the clpb as long as our nation is a t war. This recommendation was adopted. Any member who does not kni^ and wishes to do Red Cross work, if they will bring their thim ble and needle to the next m eeting, hand work will be sup­plied them by one of the chairmen from th a t organization.

The program fo r th% afternoon was aa foll«Sven aa follows, with Mrs.- William

Pettingill, leader: Piano «olo,

A specially chartered car bringing a delegation of six ty men and women from the city of Mt. Clemens to the Fikes m eeting a t the High school auditorium , las t F riday evening, was a splendid tribute to the evangelist, who had a very successful campaign in th a t city la s t June, and also proved

-a thrilling stim ulus to the campaign now being waged in Plymouth. I t was an enthusiastic crowd which a r­rived about 6:30 Friday evening, and w ent a t once to the Methodist church, where they a te their box lunches and were served hot coffee by the M eth­odist women. They made some stir when they marched into the audi­torium, bearing a banner inscribed with “Fikes Won Mt. Clemens for Christ,” and when the evangelist ap ­peared on the platform their demon­stra tions were most enthusiastic. Several of Mt. Clemens leading busi­ness men, who came out with the Christian people and joined the church through Dr. Fikes’ influence, came to the platform and told briefly, but earnestly, w hat was accomplished in Mt. Clemens, and how their churches had been entirely transform ed since Dr. Fikes was there. One of them, Allan S traight, editor of one of the Mt. Clemens dailies, made a g rea t impression when he tcld of w hat Dr. Fiks had done^ for him, as he had rarely seen the inside of a church be­fore he was there.

Word was received yesterday th at another big .delegation from Mt. Clemens may be expected soon, al­though the day was not set.

The attendance a t the g rea t union m eetings has been larger this week than before, a g rea t deal of enthu­siasm being aroused by the big

sweeps,” each of four different dis­tric ts of the town having a special n ight fo r demonstration. North vil­lage led off Monday n ight with a big delegation of 112 people, followed by D istrict B, the section east of Main s treet, on W ednesday night, and Main and Church streets and the Blunk division on Thursday night. Tonight South Main, W est Ann A rbor and Penniman avenue come in D istrict D. and tomorrow n ight all the dis­tric ts will be represented aritl count­ed to see which can get out the larg ­est representation.

Another g rea t m eeting for men only will be held a t the auditorium next Sunday afternoon a t three o'clock w ith the women m eeting a t the Presbyterian church a t the same hour. Sunday morning the church services wil be held a t the several churches, a fte r which the different Sunday- schools will convene and march to the auditorium in a body fo r a union Sun­day-school service, addressed by Dr. Fikes. Each Sunday-school will have a place reserved in the audi­torium.

The business men’s luncheons a t the Masonic hall each noon have been very enjoyable affairs and the men have - been delighted with the effi­ciency talks by Dr. fakes. This noon, as well as yesterday, the luncheon will be held in the B aptist church, the business men from up tp v m m eeting with the men from north village.

Only one more week rem ains for the big union campaign, into which the local churches have been putting much thought and energy, but i t is expected th a t next week win eclipse all records for attendance and in­te re s t,‘and Plymouth will swing intoi line fo r Christianity and righteousness as many other places have done.

In and Around PlymonthB. A. Wheeler, fo r 43 years a busi­

ness m an of Northville, has retired.

Miss Madeleine B en n ett This was followed by th e . Federation report, given by the delegate, Mrs. D. F . Mur­ray, who attended the S tate Federa­tion held a t T raverse City, las t month. Mrs. M urray brought hack a very in­teresting account of the m eeting and her report was enjoyed by all present. “W hat have you learned of this year’s federation?” was the response given to roll cal.. Upon motion the club adjourned to

m eet in two weeks a t the home of Mrs. E . O. Huston, on PennimaD avenue.

CentralThanksgiving Post Cards Drug Store.

Mr. Goode, has sold his home on Farmer street to William Krumm.

McCall's Winter Quarterly, 25c, in­cluding a 15c^pattern free, a t Rauch’s.

New FaQ H atb and Caps, all the ta a t'n ear styles^ and shades, a t

Mfc and Mrs. Charles Fisher have been visiting relatives a t Grand Rapids the papast week.

Crosby and Hiss Julia lasts of Mrs. Charles Thursday.

The board of supervisors of W ash­tenaw county have' voted to have a county farm agent fo r th a t county.

Nearly every automobile passing through the v illage,' headed for De­tro it, la s t Sunday, was loaded to ca­pacity w ith potatoes, apples and other farm produce.

The farm ers of W ashtenaw county purpose to raise $5,000 fo r the county Red Cross organization by m eans of a farm ers’ Thanksgiving festival, to be held a t Ann A rbor on the evenings of November 23-24

Cass R. Benton of Northville, a member of the s ta te tax commission, has been appointed by Governor Sleeper as a delegate to the national tax conference to be held in A tlanta, Ga., the la tte r p a rt of the month.

The new concrete road from North­ville to Woodward avenue ia now completed. From Northville to Grand River i t is 9 \ miles, and the road is now all complete and will be opened for traffic all the way through by No­vember 15.

Over th ir ty fre igh t and passenger tra ins on the P. M. system have been tem porarily discontinued since Oct. 31. Inability to ge t coal is the reason assigned by President Alfred. One fre ig h t run is off between Plymouth and Saginaw.

The Farm ington Enterprise began Volume 32, with its issue of las t week. W. E. Lord, the present publisher of the Enterprise, is giving the people of Farm ington the best paper th a t the town has ever had. We extend congratulations and best wishes.

South Lyon has been visited by a new kind of thief. This person orpersons need gasoline, and having .. " *' ................... ider

Former Plymouth Lady Passes Away at Caro

Mrs. Louisa Bassett, aged 94 years, a much respected resident of this place for m any years, passed away a t the home of h e r grand­daughter,/M rs. Jacob Bates, a t Cato, Mich., la s t Sunday. Mrs. B assett had been 'Jn failing health fo r the p ast y e a r and had been seriously ill fo r several weeks.vived by three children, Mrs. Jam es W estfall of ~_____ Caro; W illiam B assettof Detroit, and A lbert B asse tt of Carbondale, Pa. The funeral was held a t Caro and the rem ains were brought here W ednesday afternoon for interm ent in the fam ily lo t in. Riverside cemetery.

McCall’s December Magazine just arrived a t Rauch’

Mr. and Mrs. William Gottschalkand son, Alger, spent Monday even­ing a t F rank Gottachalk’s.

August Krumm and Christopher KieU of Elm, visited their e o n at 'Camp Custer last Sunday.

key th a t fits the inlet to the under­g ro u n d tanks here, take off the lid and pump out w hat gasoline they can. One n igh t las t week B. A. Odell of the Ford Service garage,, lost 94 gallons. I t is reported th a t the storage tanks a t New Hudson had been visited once or twice before this.—South Lyon Herald.

H enry Tinham has returned from Ohio with M. H. SOan's Ju an ita S., who has been m aking herself famous on the Ohio racing c ircu it Juan ita has been in eight races in e ight weeks and has not lost one. The first was the sta te fa ir, where she came in third fo r the $1,000 purse. In seven con­secutive races on the Ohio circuit, Ju an ita has not lost a single h e a t She has been under Mr. Tinham ’s personal care during her succession of trium phs. Mr. Sloan has refnsed some big offers for the mare.— North­ville Record.

Carl Heide has ju s t finished a fine veranda on his house a t the corner of / f i l l and Liberty streets. ,

and Mrs. George Gebhardt t, Claude, were guests of Mr.

and Mrs. Philip W idmaier of Salem, Sunday. •

Mr. and Mrs. A lbert B assett of Carbondale, Pa., a re guests this week a t the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. J . Burrows. *

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T H E P L Y M O U T H M A IL , F R ID A Y , N O V E M B E R 9, 1917.

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U. S.—Teutonic War NewsEight lives were lost when the trans­

port Finland was attacked by a sub­marine, and (me man Is missing. This was made known by the w ar and navy departments a t Washington following the original announcement of the at­tack.

• • *The transport Finland was recently

torpedoed while returning ^o the Unit­ed States, but was able to return to a foreign port, under her own steam, says a statem ent Issued a t Washington by Secretary Daniels.

United States Senators Kenyon of Iowa and Kendrick of Wyoming were asleep In their hotel in London when awakened by an airplane bombard­ment. Eight persons were killed and 21 Injured. —

“America’s first to fight" are ready. This w as-the verdict of Secretary of the Navy Daniels afte r he had inspect­ed and reviewed the marine corps at Quantlco, Va. The .marines will be the next to go to France, he said.

WashingtonPresident Wilson may call a special

session of congress about November 15 to expedite the aid of the United States to Italy. The administration a t Washington, Lt is understood, would send troops a t once to Italy If It could. The United States has not declared w ar on Austfta.

a • •America can help Italy repel the

Teutonic invasion and save the allied cause by speeding supplies, Gen. Pasquale Tozzl, head of the Italian military mission to this country, point­ed out a t Washington. He was as­sured by the sta te department that America would help Italy in every pos­sible way.

a a aW ashington’s Halloween celebra­

tions were tinged with sadness this year, for, at the 6troke of twelve Wednesday night, the city entered the dry column, and the saloons closed their doors, after 100 years of unin­terrupted existence.

a a aRussell C. Lefflngwell. a New York

lawyer who had been assisting Secre­tary McAdoo a t Washington as special counsel in the Rotation of the Liberty loan, was appointed assistant secretary of the treasury.

* • •The vast store of German scientific

information In this country whs opened to American m anufacturers In regulations issued by the federal trade commission at! Washington under which enemy-owned patents and copy­rights will be Mtcensed for use by citi­zens of the United States.

• • •

DomesticThe resignation of Dr. Karl Muck,

conductor of the Boston Symphony or­chestra. who Iliad been criticized for not playing th f “Star-Spangled Ban­ner” fft a recent concert In Providence, was announced at Boston.

Theft of foodstufTs valued at near­ly $50,000 from the Great Lnkes Naval Training station is laid at the door of eight men. Including three petty naval officers and five civilians, who are un­der arrest.

Cool miners in virtually every coal producing region In the United States will reap benefits unde.r the agreement Just concluded nt Washington where­by Ihiners Ih the central competitive field receive higher pay.

* • •Gaston B. Means was indicted by

the Cabarrus county grand Jury at Concord. N. C., for the m urder of Mrs. Maude A. King, wealthy widow of New York and Chicago. Means was her business agent.

Conscription of Industries to supply the needs of the army was discussed a t Washington by the war industries board with automobile and accessories

-manufacturers, who pledged their full co-operation to the government In whatever is necessary to win the war. The pjbn is to divert a part of each plant to the production of war mate­rial.

'• • •Chicago is assured of 12-cent milk

during November and December. A di­rect appeal for milk at $3.22 per -100 pounds pending federal Investigation, made to 50 directors of the Milk Pro­ducers’ association, ended the fight be­tween the producers add the distribu­tors. .

- • * •Four outoro-bile bandits In Chicago

hurled red pepper Into the eyes of Po­liceman Jlimes Malone, shot him In the left arm and escaped with a pnv roll of $7,047.26 belonging to the Sefton Manufacturing company.

T " • ' • •Provost Marshal General Crowder

of Washington notified all governors of amendments to the selective service regulations which will insure practi­cally Immediate army duty for -nil slickers convicted of falling to regis­ter. *

-„-^Nglsrs i agents fo Detroit are I uvea- ! iW slfrJW plot to abduct or

~ ‘f f t inftmt Mto o f Bdari * ef the mdltimHUon-

A youth and a ! detained sad several

GREAT SHOWING MADESaving of more than a ton of

meat on its first “meatfess Tues­day” and of five barrels of wheat flour on “wheatless Wednesday*' it announced as the showing made by one of the leading New York hotels, by its entry upon the food administration’s cam­paign to conserve these staple* for export to our allies In Eu­rope. Reports from other ho­tels are equally encouraging.

Prison sentences ranging from one year and a day to two years were Im­posed by Judge Youmnns In federal court a t Sioux Falls, S. D., on 26 Ger­man socialists convicted for conspiring to obstruct the selective draft.

Ten stevedores are missing, $5,000,- 000 damage has been done, and many ships, loaded with cargoes for the a l­lies were burned In a fire which s ta rt­ed a t the water front at Baltimore, Md. Alien enemies are suspected of starting the blaze. The fire broke out almost simultaneously at five different places a t Locust Point.

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PersonalGen. Charles H. Grosvenor, former

representative from the Eleventh Ohio district, died a t his home a t Athens, O, aged eighty-four.

European War NewsRussian airmen have bombarded

Tarnopol successfully, lt was an­nounced a t Petrograd. Fires and ex­plosions were observed. All of the Russian airmen returned safely.

• • •Voluntary withdrawal of the German

army forces from their trench lines along the hilly front of the Chemln- des-Dames, announced by Berlin, is ex­pected to result .in Important gains by General Peiain. I t is probably a pre­lude to the fall of Leon and La Fere.

• • •A German warship has been sunk

In the sound, according to a dispatch to the R a tio n a l Tldende at Copenha­gen from Malmoe, Sweden. It is re­ported that the vessel struck a mine.

• • «Thirty thousand German soldiers. In­

cluding two generals of division, were killed In the jy ea t battle on the'Baln- sizza plateau, according to cabled re­ports received at Washington. General Cadorna is pushing reserves rapidly toward the Italian front. English and French are being rushed to stiffen Ca- dorna's new line of defense on the Tagliamento.

• • •Another withdrawal of German

troops on the northern Russian front is In progress, the Petrograd war office announces.

• » *•The city of Beersheba In Palestine

has been captured by the British, it is announced officially In London.

• • •In an attack on Turkish vessels nt

Inada bay, on the Black sea, near the Bosporus, Russian torpedo boats sunk a Turkish torpedo boat and destroyed two Turkish steam ers and a naval bat­tery in the bay, the Petrograd war of­fice announced.

• • •Sir Eric Geddes, first lord of the ad­

miralty. In his first address to parlia­ment In Loudon, declared that between 40 and 50 per cent of the German sub­marines operating In the North sea. the Atlantic und the Arctic oceans had been sunk. He praised the work being done by the American fleet.

Russia entered the war early and she is now worn out by the strain. Pre­mier Kerensky told the press a t Petro- griid. The premier said that Russia claims as her right that the oilier al­lies now should shoulder the burden of the Avar. He declared that Russian public opinion tvas agitated by the question: "Where Is the British fleet now that the German fleet is out in the Baltic?”

• • •U-boats in the last week sank 14

British merchantmen of more than 1,600 tons and four small vessels. These figures were given out by tue admiralty at London. This Is seven less ships than were sunk the previous week.

• • •The “British and French armies are

rushing with all possible haste to 're ­enforce the Cadorna line. Every re­source of the allies is being thrown Into the conflict, and confidence is ex­pressed in London that the Invaders will meet defeat on the Tagliamento in one of the most decisive battles of the war.

• • •Udine, the former Italian headquar­

ters. has been occupied by Austro-Ger- man forces, army headquarters an­nounced at Berlin. The Austrians and Germans are pressing forward irre^ slstibly In the northern .Ita lian plain roward the course of the Tagliamento river, the statement says.

• • •

ForeignThe keeping of markets In Argen­

tina open to Germany, the separation of the province of Rio Grande de Su’ from Brazil and the cultivation of friendly relations with Chile, were the amazing aims of Germany in South America. Count Luxburg. Germany'* disgraced minister to Buenos Alree, believed as late ns August 4 that he could attain these alms. To do so he wanted a snhipartne squadron at his disposal. The notes were made pub. He at Washington.

• • •A diplomatic Incident at the time of

the SpnnlshtAraerlcnn war. Involving -a threat to use the "British fleet against any navul power seeking^ to .hamper the war operations of the Unit­ed States, was revealed by Sir George Houston Reid, former prime minister of Australia in an address. /

• • •Reports t t cetred a t Buenos Atrea

frotn Rio de Janeiro say that ttm army t* roohillsingin southern Brazil to' pre­vent. of ppmJbte. the uprising of sfc* huge German colonies f

PRESIDENT’S WAR MESSAGE6ARBIED

Full Text Withheld From People of Germany by Kaiser’s

Government.

PASSAGES WERE SUPPRESSEDReport of Wolff .Telegraph Bureau,

Unofficial Mouthpiece of Kaiser, Show's Wilson’s Address

Distorted.

The German people never had an op­portunity to read the full text of the address delivered by President Wilson before congress on April 2, 1917, In which the president called upon con­gress to declare the existence of the state of war then being waged upon the United States by Germany. In the copies of this address which were per­mitted to be published in Germany, many passages were suppressed, ac­cording to the committee on public Information of the United States gov­ernment. The passages suppressed In­cluded those in which the president told why the United States had been forced to enter Into the war against Germany in protection of its rights and In order to make the world safe for democracy.

The committee on public information has Issued a copy of the president’s address, showing the passages which were suppressed by th^ Wolff Tele­graph bureau, whi^h Is un^er govern­ment censorship-and has been consist­ently employed by the German govern­ment for the promulgation of its offi­cial opinions. The following is an of­ficial copy of the president’s address with the passages suppressed by the Wolff Telegraph bureau shown In bold­faced type:G e n t l e m e n o f t h e C o n g r e s s :

I h a v e c a l l e d t h e c o n g r e s s I n to e x t r a ­o r d i n a r y s e s s i o n b e c a u s e t h e r e a r e s e ­r io u s . v e r y s e r i o u s , c h o ic e s o f p o l l c v to b e m a d e , a n d m a d e I m m e d ia t e ly , w h ic h i t i s n e i t h e r r i g h t n o r c o n s t i t u t i o n a l l y p e r m i s s i b l e t h a t I s h o u ld a s s u m e t h e r e ­s p o n s i b i l i t y o f m a k in g .

O n t h e 3d o f F e b r u a r y l a s t I o f f i c ia l ly l a id b e f o r e y o u th e e x t r a o r d i n a r y a n ­n o u n c e m e n t o f t h e I m p e r i a l G e r m a n g o v e r n m e n t t h a t o n a n d a f t e r t h e 1 s t d a y o f F e b r u a r y I t w a s I t s p u r p o s e to p u t a s i d e a l l r e s t r a i n t s o f l a w o r o f h u ­m a n i t y a n d u s e i t s s u b m a r i n e s t o ' s i n k e v e r y v e s s e l t h a t s o u g h t t o a p p r o a c h e i t h e r t h e p o r t s o f G r e a t B r i t a i n a n d I r e l a n d o r t h e w e s t e r n c o a s t s o f E u r o p e o r a n y o f t h e p o r t s c o n t r o l l e d b y th e e n e m ie s o f G e r m a n y w i t h i n t h e M e d i­t e r r a n e a n . T h a t h a d s e e m e d to b e t h e o b j e c t o f t h e G e r m a n s u b m a r i n e w a r ­f a r e e a r l i e r I n t h e w a r . b u t s i n c e A p r i l o f l a s t y e a r t h e I m p e r i a l g o v e r n m e n t h a d s o m e w h a t r e s t r a i n e d t h e c o m m a n ­d e r s o f i t s u n d e r s e a c r a f t In c o n f o r m ­i t y w i t h i t s p r o m is e , t h e a g i v e n t o am, **••< g n n n e n g e r b o a t* a h o n ld n o t b e a m n k . a n d t h a t d a e w a r n i n g w o u ld b e g i v e n t o a l l o t h e r y e a a e la w h ic h i t a a n b a x a r l a e a m i g h t s e e k t o d e a t r o y , w b e a a o r e a l s t a a e e w u o f f e r e d o r e a - «**»e a t t e m p t e d , a n d c a r e t a k e n t h a t t h e i r c r e w a w e r e g i v e n a t l e a n t a f a i r e b a n e e t d a n v e t h e t r f lv e a l a t h e i r o p e n b o a t a . T h e p r e e a u t l o n a t a k e n w e r e m a n g e r a n d h a p h a z a r d e a o n g k , a a w a a p r o v e d l a d l a t r e a a l n g l a a t a a r e a f t e r l a a t a n c e I n t h e p r o g r e a a o f t h e c r a e l a n d n a m a a l y b n a l a e a a , h n t a c e r t a i n d e ­g r e e o f r e s t r a i n t w a a o b s e r v e d .

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A s t e a d f a s t c o n c e r t f o r p e a c e c a n n e v e r b e m a i n t a i n e d e x c e p t b y n p a r t ­n e r s h i p o f d e m o c r a t i c n a t i o n s . N o a u ­t o c r a t i c g o v e r n m e n t c o u ld b e t r u s t e d t o k e e p f a i t h w l t b l n I t o r o b s e r v e I ta c o v e n a n t s . I t m u s t b e s l e a g u e o f h o n o r , a p a r t n e r s h i p o f o p in io n . I n ­t r i g u e w o u ld e a t I t s v i t a l s s w n y t t h e p l o t t i n g s o f I n n e r c l r c j e s w h o e o n ld p l a n w h a t t h e y w o u ld , n n d r e n d e r a c ­c o u n t t o n o o n e . w o n ld b e a c o r r u p t i o n s e a t e d a t I t s v e r y h e a r t . O n ly f r e e p e o ­p le c a n h o ld t h e i r p u r p o s e a n d t h e i r h o n o r s t e a d y t o a c o m m o n e n d , a n d p r e f e r t h e I n t e r e s t o f m a n k i n d t o a n y n a r r o w I n t e r e s t o f t k e l r o w n .

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n o t h i n g f o r o u r s e l v e s b u t w h a t we shall w is h to s h a r e w i t h a i l f r e e p e o p le , w e s h a l l . I f e e l c o n f id e n t , c o n d u c t o u r o p e r ­a t i o n s a s b e l l i g e r e n t s w i t h o u t p a s s io n a n d o u r s e l v e s o b s e r v e w i t h p r o u d p u n c ­t i l i o t b e p r i n c i p l e s o f r i g h t a n d o f f a i r p l a y we p r o f e s s t o b e f ig h t in g ; f o r .

I h a v e s a i d n o th lp g r o f t h e g o v e r n ­m e n t s a l l i e d w i t h t h e I m p e r i a l g o v ­e r n m e n t o f G e r m a n y b e c a u s e t h e y h a v e n o t m a d e w a r u p o n u s o r c h a l l e n g e d u s t o d e f e n d o u r r ia r h t a n d o u r h o n o r . T h e A u s t r o - H u n g a r i a n g o v e r n m e n t h a s . I n d e e d , a v o w e d I t s u n q u a l i f i e d I n d o r s e ­m e n t u u d a c c e p t a n c e o f t h e r e c k l e s s • ■ d l a w l e s s s u b m a r i n e w a r f a r e , a d o p t ­e d n o w w i t h o u t d i s p u t e s b y t h e I m p e r ­i a l G e r m a n g o v e r u m e a t , a n d l t h a s t h e r e f o r e n o t b e e n p o s s ib l e f o r t h i s g o v e r n m e n t t o r e c e iv e C o u n t T n r n o w - ■ k l , t h e a m b a s s a d o r r e c e n t l y a c c r e d i t e d t o t h i s c o v e r s m e a t b y t h e I m p e r i a l a n d R o y a l g o v e r n m e n t o f A n a t r i n - H n n a r a r y | h n t t h a t g o v e r n m e n t h a s n o t a c t u a l l y e n g a g e * l a w a r f a r e a g a i n s t c i t i z e n s o f t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s o n t h e s e n a , n n d 1 t a k e t h e l i b e r t y , f o r t h e p r e s e n t n t l e a s t , o f p o s t p o n i n g * d is c u s s io n o f o n r r e l a t i o n s w f t h t h e a u t h o r i t i e s a t V i­e n n a . W e e n t e r t h i s w a r o n ly w h e r e w e a r e e l e n r l y f o r c e d I n t o I t b e c a u s e t h e r e a r e n o o t h e r m e a n s o f d e f e n d in g o n r r i g h t s .

I t w i l l h e a l l t h e e a s i e r f o r n s t o c o n d u c t o u r s e l v e s a s b e l l i g e r e n t * I n a ‘ h l f ih s p i r i t o f r i g h t a n d f a i r n e s s b e ­c a u s e w e a j r t w i t h o u t a n i m u s , n o t w i t h e n m i t y t o w a r d a p e o p le o r w i t h t h e d e s i r e t o b r i n g a n y I n j u r y o r d i s a d ­v a n t a g e u p o n th e m , b u t o n ly l a a r m e d o p p o s i t i o n t o a n I r r e s p o n s i b l e g o v e r n ­m e n t w h ic h h a s t h r o w n a s i d e a l l c o n ­s i d e r a t i o n s o f h u m a n i t y n n d o f r i g h t a n d t s r n n a l a s s n a c k .

W e a r e , l e t m e a d y a g a i n , t h e s i n ­c e r e f r i e n d s Ot t h e G e r m a n p e o p le , a n d a h u l l d e s i r e n o t h i n g s o m n e h ^ as t h e e a r l y r e - e s t a b l l a k m e a t o f l a t t m a t o r e l a ­t i o n s o f m u t u a l a d v a n t a g e b e t w e e n a a , h o w e v e r h a r d I t m a y b e f o r t h e m f o r t h e t im e b e i n g to b e l i e v e t h n t t h i s la s p o k e n f r o m o n r h e a r t s . W e h a v e b o r n e w i t h t h e i r p r e s e n t g o v e r n m e n t t h r o u g h a l l t h e s e b i t t e r m o n t h s b e ­c a u s e o f t h a t f r i e n d s h i p , e x e r c i s i n g a p a t i e n c e a n d f o r b e a r a n c e w h ic h w o n ld o t h e r w i s e h a v e b e e s I m p o s s ib l e .

W e s h a l l h a p p i l y s t i l l h a v e a a o p ­p o r t u n i t y t o p r o v e t h a t f r i e n d s h i p la* o u r d a l ly a t t i t u d e s a d a c t i o n s t o w a r d t h e m i l l i o n s o f m e n a n d w o m e n o f G e r ­m a n b i r t h a n d n a t i v e s y m p a t h y w h o l i v e a m o n g n s a n d s h a r e o u r l i f e , n n d w e s h a l l b e p r o u d to p r o v e I t t o w a r d n i l w h o a r e I n f a c t l o y a l t o t h e i r n e i g h ­b o r s a n d t o t h e g o v e r n m e n t In t h e h o a r o f t e a t . T h e y a r e m o a t o f J h e m - i t* t r u e a n d l o y a l A m e r i c a n a a s I f t h e y h a d n e v e r k n o w n a n y o t h e r f e a l t y o r a l ­l e g i a n c e . T h e y W ill b e p r o m p t t o s t a n d w i t h u a In r e b u k i n g n n d r e s t r a i n i n g t h e f e w w h o m a y b e o f a d i f f e r e n t m in d a n d p u r p o s e . I f t h e r e s h o u ld b e d i s ­l o y a l t y , I t w i l l b e d e a l t w i t h w i t h n f i r m h a a d o f s t e r n r e p r e s s i o n ) b u t If I t l i f t s I t s h e a d a t a l l . I t w i l l l i f t I t o n l y h e r e a n d t h e r e a n d w i t h o u t c o u n ­t e n a n c e e x c e p t f r o m n l a w l e s s a n d m a l i g n a n t f e w .

I t l a a d i s t r e s s i n g a n d o p p r e s s i v e d u ty , g e n t l e m e n o f t h e c o n g r e s s , w h ic h I h a v e p e r f o r m e d I n t h u s a d d r e s s i n g y o u . T h e r e a r e . I t m a y b e . m a n y m o n t h s o f f ie r y t r i a l a n d s a c r i f i c e a b e n d o f n s . I t I s a f e a r f u l t h i n g t o l e a d t h i s g r e a t , p e a c e f u l p e o p l e I n t o w a r . I n to t h e m o s t t e r r i b l e a n d d i s a s t r o u s o f a l l w a r s , c iv ­i l i s a t i o n I t s e l f s e e m i n g to b e l a t h e b a l a n c e .

B n t t h e r i g h t Is m o r e p r e c io u s t h a n p e n c e , a n d w e s h a l l f lg flit f o r t h e t h i n g s w h ic h w e h a v e a l w a y s c a r r i e d n e a r e s t o n r h e a r t s — f o r d e m o c r a c y , f o r t h e r i g h t o f tb o a e w h o s u b m i t t o a u t h o r i t y t o h a v e a v o ic e I n t b e l r o w n g o v e r n ­m e n t s , f o r t h e r i g h t s a n d l i b e r t i e s o f a m a l l n a t i o n s , f o r a n a l v e r a a l d o m la lo a o f r i g h t b y s u c h a c o n c e r t o f f r e e p e o ­p l e a a a h a l l b r i n g p e n c e a n d s a f e t y to a l l n a t i o n s a a d m a k e t h e w o r l d I t s e l f a t l a s t f r e e .

T o s n e h ■ t a s k w e c a n d e d i c a t e o n r l i v e s a a d o n r f o r t u n e s , e v e r y t h i n g t h n t w e a r e a n d e v e r y t h i n g t h a t w e h a v e , w i t h t h e p r i d e o f t b o a e w h o k n o w t h a t t h e d a y h a s s o m e w b e n A m e r i c a la p r i v i l e g e d t o s p e n d h e r b lo o d a n d b e r m i g h t f o r t h e p r i n c i p l e s t h a t g a v e h e r b i r t h a n d h a p p i n e s s a n d t h e p e n c e w h ic h a h e h a s t r e a s u r e d .

G o d h e l p i n g h e r , a h e c a n d o n o o th e r .

University Functions.What Is the m atter with our univer­

sities Is that all the students are schoolboys, whereas lt is of the very essence of university education that they should be men. writes George Bernard Shaw. The function of a uni­versity is not to teach things that can now be taught ns well or bettor by university extension lecturers or by private tutoes or modern correspond­ence oliisses with gramophones. We go to them to be socialized;' to acquire the ball murk of comnmnul training; to become citizens of the world in­stead of inmates of the#enlnrged rab­bit hutches we call homes; to learn liinnncrs nnd become unchnllengvuble Indies und gentlemen. The soclnl pres­sure which effects those changes should be Unit of persons who have faced tlu* full responsibilities of mlults as working members of the general coiiinninlty, not thnt of barbarous rab­ble of half emancipated schoolboys and uneiiiancipntable pedants.

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work we are turning out in hia line.

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Growing a Character.Character is what you ure. Itejm-

tatjon is what folks think you are. Sometimes they ure so well hnlanced lhat you onn’t tell one from the oth­er. says Grit. But more often the one Is a libel on the other. Folks exalt virtues that do not exist and condemn follies that are purely subjective and personal. Much depends on who re­ports you. Friends are always chari­table nnd interpret our lives to best ad­vantage. Enemies can see no good In us and report ns they see. So repu­tation may flatter or condemn. Not so with character. This is something beyond external observation. It Is the life Itself as lived amidst Its motives and obstacles. Few people can know its real value, for even you do not al­ways know just what you are capable of being until the emergency demands display .your worth.* What you are in the face of severe testing Is character.

C . G .D R A P E RJEWELER and OPTOMETRIST /

F ye* a c c u ra te ly f itte d w ith G ls s ia x ! • H em -unable. G iv e u s s t r ia l , e ff c* op j'O flte L>. U. K W a it in g Room . P ly a

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A Bird That Sh*v*».The bonmot, a South American bird,

takes a dry shave regularly. The bon- mot lias long blue tail feathers. Each quill is adorned from base to tip with soft blue down. This arrangement tbe bird dislikes. Therefore with Its sharp beuk it nips tbe quills bare from the base out to ffbout an inch from tbe tip, where it maintains a neat oval of soft blue whlKkqy. Such action seems sillysT' on the bonmot’B part to certain philos­ophers. though it seems no sillier than man's action in regularly scraping bar# liis cheeks and chin while he maintains. on his upper lip an oval of soft hair not unlike the bonm ots tail ovaL- Exclmuge. c

Didn't Stop th* Rain.About fifty years ago a German,.

II el vet ins Otto, staled that he had dis­covered a means of preventing rain. ]Ie bn',it a platform on which were pbn-ed some huge bellows worked by steam Hi a very high pressure. These were supposed to blow away any clouds gathered above. Otto maintain.

! ed ibnt these "pluvlfuges" distributed I throughout the town wonld enuble the j authorities to iusure dry weather for

gp long as they thought fit. The in­ventor bore a high reputation in tbe ■RelentMb* world, and bis pluvifuge nt- truefed intention. But it n e 'e r proved pVH.-tlnililc. and a fter n few months’ experiment Otto gave up tr.'lng lo fight the weather.

LIVE BRAVELY.

A good fight is nsvsr for its day alone. It >■ for many days. And it i* not alone for him who bears its utmost sires*. No man can live his own lif* bravely and quietly and not ba an enargy of social good, virtue proceading from him to haal some brothsr’a wounded heart.

Indian Summer.The term “Indian summer" is ap­

plied" to a period of mild, open weather that comes in' the fall, embracing the nidst of October and sometimes ex­tending Into November, nnd character­ized b~y a sort of&ry mist or haziness that differentiates It from other .sea­sons of the year. What causes the dis­tinctive features of the seuson. espe­cially .th e hazy atmosphere, is un­known, and the origin o f ' the term equally so. Different explanations have been given o f both, but they seem to be largely fanciful.

Belli fig Canned Vegetable.The Intermittent method of sterili­

zation calls for boiling vegetables in the water bnth after they have been placed In tbe jar* an hour each day for three days. This allows alternate periods of rest, In which tbe dormant resistance spores may lay off their heavy protective wall and begin active grotyfhs. In the growing, state tbe b«ctirt. 6 * m B , 4w,r«r*> by XIfc next period of boiling. For qasirt and two-quart jara a dally boiling of one and a half to *wo hours . In rocotn-

N odding to S a y “ Y e s .”The Idea of nodding to mean “Yes"

comes from the opposite of the action which Indicates a “No.”

When the young animal was anxious to accept the offered food it made an effort to get a t the food quickly; hence the pushing forward of tbe bead and tbe open mouth (always more or lea* opened when you nod to Indicate "Yes") and an expression of gladness. You will notice If you see any oue nod the bead to Indicate "Yes" that tbe lipa are open rather than closed amt that there la always a smile or an In­dication of a smile to accompany it. In (*ther'words, the nod to mean “Yes" Is only another way of saying "I shall be pieased." _____ * -

“ Boozs” F i r s t M san t “Drink.”" Tbe word "booze" came to us before the fourteenth century, seemingly from the Dutch. In tbe form “bous" o r “bouse.” At that time, as noun or verb, it-meant merely “drink,” and to 8peak of a gentleman as “bousing*” his wine was not libelous or even deroga­tory. Somehow It acquired the added suggestion of excess and bad company, and by the time of Bhakaspear* we lt In glofluaries of tbe argot .end. gypsies. Theprocam W h j t - deraCood when w* thlak of tW fllatifer

suing we often attach to the simple word "drink," which might coMdra- biy run tbe eame course If w d.m lm e It often enough.—Harper's.

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KING WITNESSES THE FASCINATING DANCE OF A DUSKY BEAUTY—BY RESISTING HER CHARMS HE OUTWITS

ONE WHO WOULD GLADLY SEE HIM DEAD

Syn o p sis .—At the beginning of the world war Capt. Athelstan King of the British Indian army and of its secret service, is ordered to Delhi to meet Yasmini, a dancer, and go with her to Khinjan to quiet the outlaws there who are said by spies to be preparing for a jihad or holy war. On his way to Delhi King quietly foils h plan to assassinate him and gets evidence that Yasmini is after him.

C H A P T E R I I — C ontinued .

W ithin ten minutes Hyde was asleep, snoring prodigiously. Then King pulled out the knife again and studied it for half an hour. The blade was of bronze, with an edge hammered to the keen­ness of a razor. The hilt was of near­ly pure gold, in the form of a woman dancing. The whole thing was so ex­quisitely wrought that age had only softened the lines, without in the least impairing them. I t looked like one of those Grecian toys with which Roman women of Nero's day stabbed their lovers. But th at was not why he be­gan to whistle very softly to himself.

Presently he drew out the general's package of papers, with.the photograph on the top. He stood up, to hold both 'knife and. papers close to the light in the roof.

I t needed no great stretch of imagi­nation to suggest a likeness - between the woman of the photograph and the other, of the golden knife-hilt. And nobody, looking a t him then, would have dared suggest he lacked imagina­tion.

If the knife had not been so ancient they might have been portraits of the same woman, in the same disguise, taken a t the same time.

“She knew I had been chosen to work with her. The general sent her word th at I am coming." he muttered to himself. “There must have been a spy watching Peshawar, who wired

I wonder who hewe get Abdul too.I s !”

Still uninterested in the mnn who shadowed him, he walked back to the office window and wrote two tele­gram s; one to Bombay, ordering the arrest of All Mirza of the Fort, with an urgent admonition to discover who his mnn Abdul might be, and to seize him as soon as found; the other to the station in the north, insisting on close confinement for' Sullman.

That being all the urgent business, he turned leisurely to face his shadow, and the native met his eyes with the engaging frankness of an old friend, coming forward with outstretched hand. They did not shake hands, but the man made a signal with his fingers that is known to not more than a dozen men in all the world, and that changed the situation altogether.

“Walk with me.” said King, and the man fell Into stride beside him.

He was a Rangar—which is to say a Rajput who, or whose ancestors had turned Mohammedan. Like mnny Raj­puts he was not a big man, but he looked fit and w iry; his head scarcely came above the level of King’s chin, although his turban distracted atten­tion from the fact. The turban was of silk and unusually large.

The whitest of well-kept teeth, gleaming regularly under a little black waxed mustache betrayed no trace of betelnut or other nastiness. King was not so sure that the eyes were brown.

to Rawnl-Pindi for this man to jump unfj iu. changed his opinion about tlieir the train and go on with the Job. Why i ,.0|0r a (iozen times within the hour, should she give the man a knife with : Qn(.e he would even have sworn they her own portrait on it? ’ 1

, knife with ■ i she que<

Well—we shallof a secret society? s e e !"

He lay' back with ills head on the pillow, and before five minutes more had gone he was asleep. His mobile face In repose looked Roman, for the sun had tanned bis skin and his nose was aquiline. In museums, where sculptured heads of Roman generals and emperors stand around the wall on pedestals. It would not be difficult to pick several th at bore more than a fa in t resemblance to him. He had breadth and depth of forehead and a jowl th a t lent itself to smiles as well as sternness, and a throat th at ex­pressed maply determination in every molded line.

He slept like a boy until daw n; and he and Hyde had scarcely exchanged another dozen words when the train screamed next day Into Delhi station. Then he saluted stiffly and was gone.

C H A P T E R I I I .

Delhi boasts a round half-dozen rail­way stations, all of them designed with regard to war, so that to King there was nothing unexpected in the fact th a t the train had brought him to an unexpected station. He plunged Into Its crowd much as a man' in the mood might plunge into a whirlpool. The station screamed echoed, reverberated, hummed. At ope minute the whole building shook to the thunder of a grinning regim ent; an Instant later it clattered to the wrought-sfeel ham­m er of a thousand hoofs, ns led troop- horses danced Into formation to Invade the waiting trucks. Soldiers of nearly every Indian military caste stood about everywhere. Down the back of each platform Tommy Atkins stood in long ,stralght lines, talking or munching g rea t sandwiches or smoking.. Threading his way in and out among th e motley swarm with a great black cheroot between his teeth and sweat running into hjs eyes from his helmet- band, Athelstan Kjng strode a t ease— a t home—Intent;—amused—awake—and almost awfully happy. He was not In the least less happy because perfectly aware that a native was fol­lowing him a t a distance, although he did wonder how the native had con­trived to pass within the lines.. At the end of fifteen minutes there was not a

- glib staff officer there who could have deceived hlfh as to the . numbers and destination of the force entraining.

“Kerachl 1” he told himself, chewing the butt of his <5igar and keeping well ahead of the shadowing native. -He did'not have to return salutes, because he Idld not look for them. Very few people noticed him at all, although he was recognised once or twice by for­mer messmates. At his leisure—in his own way, that was devious and like a string of miracles—he filtered toward "the telegraph office. The native who had followed him all this time drew closer,. hut he, did not let himself be troubled by that.

He whispered proof of his Identity to die telegraph clerk, who was a Royal ooglneer, new to that Job that mfflra- taf. and a sealed telegram was handed to him a t once. Because It was war­time, and the censorship had dosed on India Hike a throttling string,* It

ere green.The man was a regular Rangar

dandy, of the type that can hie seen playing polo almost any day at Mount Abu—that gets Into mischief with a grace clue to practice and heredity— but that does not manage its estates too well, as a rule, nor pay its debts In a burry.

“My name is Rewa'Gunga," he said in a low voice. *T have a message for you.”

From whom?” •‘From her!" said the Rangar, and

without exactly knowing why, or be­ing pleased with himself, King felt ex­cited.

TJiey were walking toward the sta­tion exit. King had a trunk check In ids hand, but returned it to his pocket, not proposing just yet to let the Rangar overhear Instructions regard­ing the trunk’s destination; he was too good-looking and too overbrimming with personal charm to be trusted thus early in the gome. Besides, there was that captured knife, th at hinted a t lies and treachery. Secret signs as well as loot have been stolen before now.

T d lik e to walk through the streets and see the crowd."

He smiled as he said that, knowingell that the average young Rajput of

good birth would rather fight a tiger with cold steel than walk a mile or two. He drew fire at once.

‘Why walk. King snWb? Are we animals? There Is a carriage waiting —her cnrrlage—and a eoachiunn whose ears were born dead. We might be overheard in the street. Are you and I children, tossing stones into a pool to watch the rings widen!"

“Lead on. then." answered King.Outside the station was n luxurious­

ly modern victoria, with C springs and .rubber tires, with horses that

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“I Have a Met > fo r Y o u ."

would have dope credit to a vtcaroy. The kangar motioned King to get la first, and the_ moment they were both seated the Rajpqt coachman, set the horses to going like the wind. Rejra

ness' sake and took occasion to admire thr man’s slender wrist, that was doubtless hard and strong as woven steel, hut was not much more than half the thickness of his own. One of the questions that occurred to King that minute was why this well-bred young­ster whose age he guessed a ftw en ty - two or so had not turned his attention to the army.

“My height!”The man had read his thoughts.'“Not quite tall enough. Besides—

you are a soldier, are you not? And do you fight?" Then, afte r a minute of rather strained silence: “My mes­sage is frr-u her.”

“From Yasmini?"“Who else?’King nccepted the rebuke with n lit­

tle inclination of the head. He spoke as little as possible, because he was puzzled. He had become conscious of a puzzled look in the Rangar’s eyes and it only added to his problem if the Rangar found in him something inex­plicable. The West can only get the better of the East when the East is too cock-sure.

“She has jolly well gone N o rth !” said the Rangar suddenly, and King shut his teeth with a snap. He sat bolt upright, and the Rangar allowed him­self to look amused.

"She has often heard of you." he said.

"I’ve hoard of her," said King."Of course! Who has not? She has

desired to meet you, sahib, ever since she was told .you are the best man In your service."

King grunted, thinking of the knife beneath his shirt. Again, it was as if the Rangar read a p art of his thoughts, if not all of them. I t is not difficult to counter that trick, but to do it a man must be on his guard, or the East will know jvhat he has thought‘and what he is going to think, as many have dis­covered when it was too late.

“H er men are able to protect any­body’s life from any God’s number of assassins, whatever may lead you to think the contrary. From now forward your life is in her men’s keeping!”

“Very good of her, I ’m sure,” King murmuVed. He was thinking of the general’s express order to apply for a “passport" that would take him into Khinjan caves—mentally cursing the necessity for asking any kind of fnvor —and wondering whether to ask this man for It or. watt until he should meet Yasmini. The Rangar answered his thoughts again as if he had spoken them aloud.

"She left this with me, saying I am, to give It to you! 1 I am to say that wherever you wear it, between here and Afghanistan, your life shall be safe and you may come and g o !”

Klhg stared,. The Rangar drew a bracelet from an inner pocket and held it out. I t was a wonderful bar­baric thing' of ’ ptire gold, big enough for a grown man’s wrist, and old enough to have been hammered out in the very womb of time. I t looked al­most like ancient Greek, and it fas­tened with a hinge and clasp that looked as if they did not belong to it and might have been made by a not rery skillful modern jeweler.

“Won’t you wear it?" asked Rewa Gunga, watching him. “I t will prove a true talism an! W hat was the name of the Johnny who had a lamp to rub? Aladdin? I t will be better than what he had ! H e could only command a lot of bogies. This will give you authority over flesh and blood ! Take it. sah ib !’’

So King put it on, letting it viip up hiSsSleeve out of sight—with a sensa­tion ns the snap closed of putting handcuffs on himself. But the Rangar looked relieved.

“That is your passport, sah ib ! Show it to a hlllman whenever you suppose yourself in danger. The Raj might go to pieces, but while Yamlnl lives—”

“Her friends will "boast about her, 1 suppose!”

King finished the sentence for him because it is not considered good forai for natives to hint a t possible dissolu­tion of the Anglo-Indian government. Everybody knows that the British wtll not govern India forever, but the Brit­ish—who know it best of all, qnd work to that end most fervently—are the only ones encouraged to talk^about it.

For a few minutes afte r th at Rewa Gunga held his peace, while the car­riage swayed at breakneck speed through the swarming streets. King, watching and saying nothing, did not believe for a second the lame erpta-' nation Yasmini had left behind. She must have some good reason for wish­ing to be first up the Khyber, and he was very sorry Indeed she bad slipped away. I t might be only jealousy, yet why jpiould she be Jealous?

I t was the next rem ark of the Rangar’s that set him entirely on this guard, and thenceforward whoever could have read his thoughts would have been more than human. He had known of th at thought-reading trick ever since his kyah (native nurse) taught him to lisp H Indus tanee; Just as surely he knew th at its impudent use was Intended to sap his belief la himself.

•Til bet yon a hundred dibs,” said the Rangar, “that she decided to be there first and get control of the situ­ation 1 She's slippery, and quick, and like all women, she's jealous r

The Hangar's eyes were on his, but King was not to.be caught Again. I^ks quite easy to think behind .a fence, ap to speak, t f one ? ’" * notation to It.

"She will be busy presently fooling those. AfrldlA." hq continued, waving Mb cigarette- “She has, fooled ft always, tq the limit of their bally bent. Yasmini play* h«r owp game, for amusement and power—a good gam

CMfwJa deep garnet! J obJ mra.seen already £ * !“«!**«*• to B sk b e r a l* la th e

King accepted a cigarette to r polite-

“How long have you known her?" asked King.

The Rangar eyed him sharply.“A long time. She and I played to­

gether when we were children. I t Js because she knows me very well that she chose me to travel North with you, when you sta rt to find her in the •Hills’ I”

King cleared his throat, and the Rangar nodded, looking into his eyes with the engaging confidence of a child who never has been refused anything, in or out of reason. King made no ef­fort to look pleased.

Ju st then the coachman took a last corner a t a gallop and drew the horses up on their haunches at a door in a high white wall. Rewa Gunga sprang out of the carriage before the horses were quite at a standstill.

“Here we a re !” he said, and King noticed that the street curved here so that no other door and no window overlooked this one.

He followed the Rangar, and he was no sooner Into the shadow of the door than the coachman lashed the horses and the carringe swung out of view.

“This way,” said the Rangar over his shoulder. “Come 1”

C H A P T E R IV .

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a musty smelling entrance, so dark that to see was scarcely possible after the hot glare outside. Dimly King made out Rewa Gunga mounting sta irs to the left and followed him. When he.guessed himself two stories a t least above road level, there was u sudden blaze of reflected light and he blinked a t more mirrors than he could count. Curtains were reflected in each mirror, and little glowing lamps, so cunningly arranged that it was not pos­sible to guess which were real and which were not. King stood still.

Then suddenly, as If she had.done it a thousand times before and surprised

thousand people, a little nut-brown maid parted the middle pair of cur- tulns and suid “S alaam !’ smiling with teeth that were as. white as porcelain. King looked scarcely Interested and not a t nil disturbed.

Rewa Gunga hurried past him, tl rusting the little maid aside, and led the way. King followed him into a long room, whose walls were hung with richer silks than any he remem­bered to have seen. In a great wide window to one side some twenty wom­en began a t once to make flute music. Silken punkahs swung from chains, wafting back and forth a cloud of sap- dal—ood smoke that veiled the whole scene In mysterious, scented mist.

'Be welcome!” laughed Rewa Gun­ga; “I am to do the honors, since she Is not here. Be seated, sahib.”

King chose a divan a t the rpom's farthest en d ,'n ea r tall curtains that led into rooms beyond. He turned his back toward the reason for his choice. On a little Ivory-Inlaid ebony table about ten feet away lay a knife, that was almost the exact duplicate of the one Inside his shirt. He could sense hushed expectancy on every side— could feel the eyes of many women fixed on him—and began to draw on hds gtiard as a fighting man draws on armor. There and then he deliberately set himself to resist mesmerism, which' is the East’s chief weapon.

Rewa Gunga, perfectly a t home, sprawled leisurely along a cushioned couch with a grace that the West has not learned y e t ; but King did not make the mistake of trusting him any better fo r his easy manners, and his eyes sought swiftly for some unrhythraic, unplanned thing on which to rest, that he might save himself by a sort o f mental leverage.

Glancing along the wall th a t faced the big window, he noticed for the first time a huge Afridi, who sat on a stool and leaned back against the silken hangings with arm s folded.

“Who Is that man?" he asked.“He/? Oh, he Is a savage—just a

big savage,” said Rewa Gunga, looking vaguely annoyed.

“Why Is he here?"He did not dare let go of this chance

side Issue. H e knew that Rewa Gun­ga wished him to talk of Yasmini and to ask questions about her, and that If he succumbed to that tem ptation all his self-control would be cunningly sapped away from him until his se­crets, and his very senses, belonged to some one else.

“W hat Is he dojng here?” he Insisted.“He? Oh, he does nothing. He waits,”

purred the Rangar. 8He Is to be your body-servant on your Journey to the North. He Is nothing—nobody a t all! —except th at he Is to be trusted ut­terly because he loves Yasmini. He Is obedience! A big obedient fool! Let him b e !”

“No,” said King. “If he’s to be my man I’ll speak to him I”

He felt himself winning. Already the spell of the room was lifting, and he no longer felt the cloud of sandal­wood like a veil across his brain.

“Won’t you tell him to come here to me?”

Rewa Gunga laughed, resting his silk turban against the wall bangings and clasping both hands about his knee. It was as -s man might laugh who has been touched In a bout with foils.

“Oh!—Ismail!” he called, with a voice like a bell, that made King stare.

The Afridi seemed, to come out of a deep sleep and looked bewildered, rub­bing his eyea and feeling whether Ms turban was oa straight. Ho combed Ms beard with nervous' fingers as he gawd about him and aasghf Rewa Gunge’s eye. Then he sprang-to .Ms

■j “Comal!’ ordered Rewa .Gangs.

“Dfd yqu... -user Rewa G m i*. chuckled. “He rose from hi* place like

Such men are safe l Such metthave np guile beyond what

will help them to obey! Such tnen think too slowly to invent deceit for Rs own sak e !”

The Afridi came and towered above them, standing with gnarled hands knotted Into clubs.

“W hat is thy name?” King asked him.

“Ism ail!” he boomed,‘Thou a rt to be my servant?"“Aye! So- said she. I am her man.

I obey!”“When did she say so?" King asked

him blandly. The hlllman stroked his great beard and stood considering the question. , King entered a shrewd sus­picion that he w a s not so stupid as be chose to seem. His eyes were too hawk-bright to be a stupid man’s.

‘Before she went away,” he an­swered a t last.

“When did she go away?"He thought again, then “Yesterday,"

he said.“Why did you wait before you an­

swered?"The Afridi’s eyes furtively sought

Rewa Gunga’s and found no aid there. W atching the Rangar less furtively, but even less obviously, King was aware that his eyes were nearly closed, as if they were not interested. The fingers th at clasped his knee.drummed on It indifferently, seeing wtfich King allowed himself to smile. ' *

“Never mind," he told Ismail.. “It Is no matter. I t Is ever well to think twice before speaking once, for thus

| room from behind the silk hangings In a concerted ikiovouient- th at -was all lithe slumberous grace. • Wood-wind ipu^ic called to them from the greet deep window.) They began to clianc,

! still dreamily,] and with the chant the dance began, j in and out. round a»«!

j round, lazily, fever so lazily, wreathed I in buoyant gossamer th at was scarcely I more solid than the sandalwood smoke j they wafted Into rings.I King watched -them and listened to : their chant uqtll be began to recognize the strain on the eye muscles that pre-

| cedes the mesmeric spell. Then lie | wLrote and read what he had written aftd wrote again.

“What have you written?” asked a quiet voice atj his e a r; and he turned to-look straight in the eyes of Rewa Guuga, who thud leaned forward to rend over his shoulder. Just for one second he hovered on the brink of quick defeat. Having escaped the Scylla of the dancing women, Charyb- dis waited for him in the shape of eyes that were pools of hot mystery. I t was the sound of his own voice that brought him back to the world again and saved his will for him unbound.

“Read It. won’t you?” he laughed. “If you know, take this pen and mark the names of whichever of those men are still in Delhi."

Rewa Gunga took pen and paper and set a mark against some th irty of the names, for King had a manner that disarmed refusal.

King began to watch the dance again, for it did not feel safe to look too long into the Rangar’s eyes. It was not wise just them to look too long at anything or to think too long on any one subject.

“Ismail Is slow about returning," said the Rangar.

T wrote a t the foot of the tar.” said King, "that they are to detain him there until the answer comes.”

K ing tr ic k s the R a n g a r andrescues 6ome o f Y a s m in i's cut-th roats , whom he ta k e s northw ith him as g ra te fu l body-guards.

T h e A fr id i Cam e and To w e re d Above T h em .

m istakes die stillborn. Only the mon­key-folk thrive on quick answers—is It not so? Thou a rt a man of many inches —of thew and sinew—hey, but' thou a r t a m an ! If the heart within those great ribs of thine is true as thine arm s are strong I shall be fortunate to have thee for a servant!”| “Aye!" said the Afridi. “But what are words? She has said I am thy servant, and to hear her Is to obey!”

“Then, take me a telegram !" said King.

He began to write a t once on a half­sheet of paper that he tore from a let­te r he had In his pocket, transposing Into cypher as he went along.

Tasmlnl has gone North. Is there any reason a t your end why I should not follow her at once?

He addressed it In plain English to .his friend the general a t Peshawur, and handed i t to Ismail, directing him carefully to a government office where the cypher signature would be recog­nized and the telegram given prece­dence.

Ismail stalked off with it, striding like Moses down from Sinai—hook­nose—hawk-eye—flowing beard—dig­nity and all, and King settled down to guard himself against the next at­tempt on bis sovereign self-command.

Now he chose To notice the knife on the ebony table as If he had not seen it before. He got up and reaehed for It and brought It back, turning it over and over in his hand.

“A strange knife," he said.“Yes—from Khinjan," said Rewa

Gunga, and King eyed him as one wolf eyes another.

“w h te makes you say It I* from Khlnjamf”

"She brought It from Khinjan caves herself! There Is another knife that matches It, but th at is not here. That bracelet you uow wear, sahib, is from Khinjan caves to o ! She has the secret of the caves!”

“I have heard that the 'H eart of the Hills’ is there,” K ing answered. “Is the 'H eart of the Hills’ a treasure house?”

Rewa Gunga laughed.“Ask her, sahib! Perhaps she win

tell you!. Perhaps she will let you Bee I Whs knows? She is a woman of resource and unexpectedness—let her women dance for you a while” .

King nodded. Then he goLnp and. laid the knife back on the Mttle table. A minute or so later he noticed that a t a sign from Rewa Gunga a woman left the great window place and spir­ited the knife away.

“May I have* a sheet of paper?” he asked, for he knew -that another fight for Ms self-command was da*

Rewa Gunga g o v e rn order, and a maid brought scented paper on a sil­ver tray. He drew out Ms own foun­tain pen, and alnce hle one objpct wns to give his brain employment, ha wrote down a <l!st of the names he had mem­orised in toe tt mlp on the Journey from

toe: Ust nntHvhfi had finished, thongh, a real- nse occnrred to him,

JWMln he began to write More than

I CONTINUED.)

FIGUREHEAD IS SEEN AGAINM akes It s Appearance on O ld -Fash ­

ioned C ra ft R esu rrected a s R e su lt o f C ry fo r Tonnage .

In answer to the war cry for torn nage. n strange procession of sailing vessels is plying up and down the American coast these days, n company of old-fashioned craft whose noses have long been in the mud and whosA commercial value seemed to have van­ished. But now with hrave front these old relics are filling the needs of ves­sels—and the brave front of the eight­eenth century ship, with its heroic figurehead, is ngn^n seen iu New York harhdr after many years.

The figurehead died hard among other nations. As an expression of the poetry and superstition of seamen It has lived since the Egyptians and Phoenicians decorated their prows with the carved figure of an ibis, a lo­tus, a phoenix, or sometjmes a gigantic and all-seeing eye, and then confident­ly set sail under its protection. For these thousands of years the figure­head has been the seaman’s god. l ie lias trusted the figurehead no less than ills compass or his captain, and there is not a sailor today of the old school who would not welcome Its return to modern vessels.

T h A w at U nseen T a rg e ts .On the common not 200 yards from

the hutments there are many queen earthworks where recruits In the re- sAve battalion of the London regi­ment are taught almost under war con­ditions, say^tlie London Times. They are given bombing practice in all Its different stages, and the raw recruit finds that the hurling of a Mills Is not as easy as it looks at first sight. First of all, the men throw the grenades In the open at a well-defined mark, until afte r some weeks’ training they are able to throw from the direction! of an observer with a periscope, who watches for the heads of the enemy to pop up. These heads are on a hinge, and may appeur In any one of a half dozen dif­ferent traverses or emplacements. The observer hns to be continually’on the alert, and the bomber must also keep all his wits about him. so that ho can make his blind throw as efficacious as possible.

A pple F r u i t o f Many U ses.There Is no fru it that lends itseli

to so many varied uses as the apple. It may be evaporated or dried and kept an Indefinite period and then cooked In much the same way as fresh fruit. There are also many by­products. The juice is pressed and used according to Its age and stages of fermentation as sweet cider, hara cider or vinegar. The whole apple and even the parings from the evap­orators are used for apple butter, Jel­lies, Jams, etc., and in recent years the culls and cores, from the evapo­rators hhve been dried and sold for $4 a ton for export to Europe and re­turned to us later In the form of high priced “Imported wines.”

Pricklqy Pear a Pest.In Queensland the prickly pear 1|

literally overrunning millions of acres of rich land. All efforts to eradicate the pest have proved futile. The rapid spread of the thorny plants and the im­possibility of killing them off so that the land that they occupy can be uti­lized for farmlng^or grazing purposes has so alarmed the government of Queensland, as well as that of the com­monwealth Itself, that scientists have been Invited to study the perplexing situation with the view or devising ways and means for ridding the conn try of the ruinous pest

o f Preachers.Rev, Lyman Beecher, somettmee re­

ferred to as "founder of the Beecher family,” had seven sons who were preachers, Beginning; with toe oldest,' they were: William Henry Beecher, bora, in 1802; Bdward -Beecher, born

AMERICAN TROOPS TRAPPED INTRENCH

T H R E E D E A D , E IG H T W O U N D E D ,

T W E L V E C A P T U R E D , F I R S T C A 8 U L T Y L I S T .

NO DETAILS GIVEN IN REPORT

P e rsh in g ’s BrieJj- D isp a tch Merely S ta te s T h a t Men W ere C u t

O ff B y B a r ra g e F ire .

Washington—American troops cap­tured by the Germans in the trench raid November 3 probably were t ra p ped in their dugouts and forced to sur­render-o r be blown to pieces with hand granades without a chance for their lives.

This is the only explanation which occurs to army officers lacking any details of the fight

General Pershing’s brief report mere­ly stated th at the German artillery had-dropped a heavy barrage fire about a sector of the trench, cutting the men off from help, killing three, wounding five and capturing 12.

The fact th at one wounded German was captured, however, indicated that the trench had been reoccupied by the American forces.

T re n c h W a s A d vance P o s tPresumably the American trench

raided was an advance post. W ith only about 20 men In 1L it could not have had a front of more than 50 or 60 feet. Possibly it was the head of a sap driven out Into No-Man’s Land at right angles w ith<he general trench line, to be used as a listening and ob­servation post.

F irst announcement of the capture of "North Americans” was made by Berlin Saturday. I t was stated a “re- connoitering party" brought them In from a point on the Rhine-Marne canal. This would indicate th at Pershing's men are on one of the main roads to Lorraine, where the Germans ad­vanced in 1914 and where, early in the war. some of the fiercest fighting of the period took place. For two years the s'ector has been quiet.G erm an s N ow K n o w U. S. Is F ig h tin g .

The principal point, war department officials say, Is th at all. Germany now knows Americans are in the front line trenches—a fact that Germany ' has been trying to keep secret. The Ger­man attitude is indicated by her suc­cinct statem ent that "North Americas" were prisoners, not specifying that theV 'w ere'the first captures of Persh­ing's men.

The war department is taking steps tW assure that future reports on en­gagements in which Americans figure reach this country from American headquarters first—not hv way of offi­cial .communiques from Berlin.

“BLACKHAND” AT MT. PLEASANTSchool Boys Had Organization to Ex­

tort Money By Threats.

Mt. PleaRant. Mich.—Sheriff E. E. Coon, of Isabella county, with the aid of Detective V. T. Twyning, of the Halioran National Detective agency. Grand Rapids, succeeded Monday In completing evidence against six school boys here, ranging from 15 to 17 years of age. for blackmailing prominent men of Mt. Pleasant.

The boys called themselves the ' “Black Four." Only four boys wef©' a t first members of theorganization.

The charter, of the “Black Four" is in the hands of the sheriff and reads aB follows:

“We do hereby promise, to be loyal to our gang and risk even death for its honor hnd glory, and to the traitor, death."

The boys are from prominent fam­ilies of the city and four of them formed the black hand secretly a year ago. They adopted the charter Feb­ruary 15, and June 8 admitted two new members. The blackmailers had evidently gone a t the business in earnest and cited a case in Detroit where a man was shot about a month ago for ignoring their mail.

STATE CAN'T BUY PREMIUM COAL

G overn m en t F o rb id s S a le o f F u e l a t P r ic e Above F ig u re 8 e L

Lansing—Michigan's plan to pur­chase emergency coal in the open m ar­ket a t a premium price above what the government says coal should sell for, haB been blocked by the federal government.

Word reached Lansing Monday night th at the national fuel adm inistration would not permit the sale of co&l s t the premium price even though the purchase were made by the s ta te of Michigan for emergency purposes.

To help the state, however, the ad­m inistration announced th at i t will l if t the lake priority rule again and- If State Administrator Prudden gives a list of places where emergency coal is absolutely necessary the govern­ment will fill the orders.

Business Men of State Meet.Detroit—More than 3,000 business

and industrial leaders of this state are expected to attend the Michigan war conference to be held in Detroit, No­vember 10, under auspices of the Mich­igan Manufacturers! association. May­ors, village presidents and d e b a te s from chambers Vnd boards of com­merce- and other commercial organ Ire- tlons will be present. Speakers will explain the relation of business to toe war, what the mJUUry program and policy of the totorf are likely to be.

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m m m ik t e i t i i mm m i if i • m i n i r

War Gardens Good Investment Bast Lansing.—The department at

boys’ and ©lab werk .of the M.A. C . has been adriaed that IM W h a s bean appropriated bf> toe beqpd o fsap srvtepcato T ------------tinea garden 1is toe first and largest i reported for 1918. The 1 prletton was * results

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THE PLYMOUTH MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1917

TH£ PLYMOUTH MAIL—BY—

F . W. SA M SE SL. B. Samsen, E ditor and Manager.

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Local NewsW. C. Brown has purchased a Ford

car.

Miss Hazel Kingsley visited Mrs. Floyd Wilson at Romulus, the latter fa r t of last week.

N | Lee Sackett and H arry Brown were home from Camp Custer, las t Sunday. The boys look well and m ake a splen­did appearance in-their new uniforms.

W About fo rty ladies attended the thimble party , given by the Lutheran Ladies’ Aid society, a t the home of Mrs William Gayde, las t Wednesday afternoon L ight refreshm ents were served, and a pleasant afternoon was enjoyed by all tfho attended.

F. A. Spicer and John Blair of Highland Park, visited a t H. A. Spicer’s, Saturday.

Several pupils from the Plymouth High school visited the W aterford school, Tuesday.

Albert Wiles and sister, Mrs. Jepnie W right, and Mrs. Milton Carl­ton of Sheldon, were callers a t H. A. Spicer’s, Sunday.

Mrs. R. Benton and daughter, V ir­ginia, and son, George, of Los An­geles, California, who are staying with Mrs. Thomas Carrington a t Northville, thjs winter, were guests of her sister, Mrs. Charles Olds, last Sunday.

While Mr. and Mrs. Fred Palmer were coming to town in their auto Wednesday night, they collided with a buggy driven by David Oliver. Mrs. Palmer sustained a broken collar bone and the occupants ef both rigs were badly bruia^i. The buggy was demol­ished .

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High Quality of Our Meats And the Unerring Judgement of Our Patrons

AnnouncementOn and after October 15th, we will conduct a strictly

cash business. We have to pay cash for what we buy, and therefore must have cash for what we sell.

Selling for cash, will enable us to sell Meats a little cheaper, which at the present time, will he Quite an advantage to the consumer. Pay cash and save money.

Big Values at Small Prices atThis Market. %

WILLIAM C. PFEIFERLocal ’Phone 90-F Free Delivery

William Petz of the D etro it Seat and Tank Co., has rented Mrs. Kate E. Allen’s bouse on Church s tre e t

Help the children enjoy a r t by attending the a r t exhibit, November 22-23, a t the school house.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Prosser and daughter, Mildred, and Mrs. Thomas Macomber of Detroit, were guests of the Misses Nqncy and Eva Macomber, Sunday.

Elmer Dethloff, the sixteen-year- old son of William Dethloff, who re ­sides near Livonia Center, died W ed­nesday morning of diptheria. In­term ent took place the same a fte r­noon in the Livonia Center cemetery.

Orville Beckett had _ two fingers taken from his le ft hand, Tuesday, while working on a press a t the Daisy factory. Mr. Beckett had been em­ployed a t the factory only four days, and had been working on the press only about an hour.

Are you working for the Red Cross ? If not, why no t? Can you not give on afternoon a week for the boys in the trenches? W ork is being done a t the Red Cross rooms a t the school house every afternoon in the week, except Saturday. Come, we need your help.

Henry F. Eubank, aged 75 years, died Wednesday, October 31st, -after a short illness. The funeral was held from the home of N. J . Hum phries in north village, F riday , Nov. 2nd, a t 2:00 o’clock, Rev. Karl P. Miller officiating. In term ent in Riv­erside cemetery. Mr. Eubank was e pi ployed a t the Pere M arquete round­house and was highly esteemed by all who knew him.

The friends and relatives of Mrs. H arry E. Bradner of Lansing, were shocked last* Tuesday to hear of her sudden death, which occurred a t her home in th a t city th a t morning. Mrs. Bradner had been in poor health fo r some time, but none of her friends here were aw are of her seri­ous condition. The funeral will be held from her late home in Lansing, this, Friday afternoon. She is sur­vived by her husband, an aged m oth­er and one brother, who have the deepest sym pathy of their Plymouth friends in their bereavement.

The second number of the Citizens’ Entertainm ent course was given in the High school auditorium, last Tues­day evening, when the Fairchild’s Ladies’ Q uartet presented a high- class musical entertainm ent. Their program consisted of vocal, violin, 'cello and piano music, also several readings by Miss Lela Fairchilds. Every number was heartily applauded and the en tertainm ent was declared fine by all present. The next number on the course wil be given Tuesday evening; January 8th, by the Croatian Orchestra. This orchestra is com­posed of six members and they use an instrum ent called the “tam burica,” which is used in their native land, Croatia, a small country near Servia.

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An Old Man’s Stomach As we grow older and less active,

less and less food is required to m eet the demands of our bodies. I f too much is habitually taken, the stomach will rebel. When a m an reaches the advanced age of 85 or 90, you will find th a t he is a light eater. Be as careful as you will, however, you will occasionally eat more than you should and will feel the need of Chamber- lam ’s Tablets to correct the disorder. These tablets do not contain pepsin,

%ut strengthen the stomach and en­able it to perform its functions n a tu r­ally. They also cause a gentle move­m ent of the bowels.—Advt.

Acorn Gas StovesOil and coal are going to be high before

the winter is over and hard to get. Install a gas range before it gets to late—save time and work.

Plymouth LadyBungalow

Mrs. Laurence Johnson is the win­ner of the 34,000 Aladdin bungalow, grand prize in the Detroit Times 50,000 club contest, ju st closed- Mrs. Johnson^ total credits were 6,721,- 200. H er nearest competitor had - a total of 6,351,700. There were a large num ber of contestants and Mrs. Johnson’s success in getting the first prize is a source of much pleas­ure and satisfaction to her many friends in this village and vicinity, who have been interested in the con­test.

Death of Mrs. Albert GrothMrs. A lbert Groth, aged 24 years,

two months and two days, passed away a t the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Weed, south of Salem, last week Thursday, Novem­ber 1st. Mrs. Groth had been sick, for the past six weeks. The deceas­ed is survived by her husband and one litte daughter, father, m other and one brother. The funeral was held from the home of her parents las t Sunday afternoon a t one o’clock, Rev's. C arter and B urnett officiating. Interm ent in Riverside cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Groth have been resi­dents of Pymouth fo r the p ast sev­eral years, and many friends deeply sympathize with the bereaved hus­band and little daughter in their sad affliction.

OBITUARY.Flora Fitzgerald was born in

Canton township, January 5, 1852, and died October 30, 1917. She was the fourth child of Josiah and H an­nah Fitzgerald. When a small child her parents moved to South Lyon. About eight years la te r the father died, and the m other and fam ily then moved to Newburg, and lived there until about th irty-three years ago, when she came to Plym­outh w ith her m other and sister Anna, and has made her home here since th a t time, the m other dying in 1894. She was a member of the M. E. church and was a loyal worker in all branches of service fo r h e r church and Master. For several years she has suffered from heart trouble, but bore her pain with rem arkable courage and patience. Although unable to leave her home, she was alw ays thinking and doing for others. She leaves three sisters and one brother, Mrs. Lydia Knickrbocker of Akron, Mich.; Edwin Fitzgerald of Flint, Mich.; Mj -s. J . J . M organ of Imperial, California, and Mrs. Ina P ickett of this place, who has loving­ly cared for her the p ast two years. Funeral services were held from her late home, Thursday, November 2nd, ‘conducted by Rev. F. M. Field, her pastor. In term ent ^ t South Lyon.

A Novel Way to Help the“Y” W ar W ork Fund

At the sale, November 14, atY psi- lanti of the W ashtenaw County Hol- stein-Friesian Cattle Breeders’ Club, advertised in this issue, the proceeds from the s^le of a grandson of King of the Pontiaca will be contributed by the consignor to the Army and Navy Y. M. C. A. fund now being raised.

A CARD—We wish to thank the many friends for their kindness and thoughtful sym pathy during the sickness and death of our sister.

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Fitzgerald Mrs. Ina P ickett and daughters

A CARD—We wish to sincerely thank the singers of the Lapham’s church, the Revs. C arter and Burnett, particularly , for the kind words of consolation; also our many friends and neighbors fo r their sympathy any the m any floral offerings during our sad bereavem ent in the loss of our dear wife, mother, daughter and sister.

A lbert Groth and daughter, Vivian, Mr. and Mrs. George Weed and

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See Our Display of Acorns

We have a number of Acorn Gas Ranges at last year’s prices—from $15.00 up. You will save money by buying now, *

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A CARD—We wjsh to thank our neighbors and friends fo r their kind­ness and sympathy in our recent sad bereavement. Also the roundhouse employes fo r their floral offerings, and Rev. Miller for his consoling words.

N. J . Humphries and Family.

CHURCH NEW S

Rev. F rank M. Field, Pastor.The usual Sunday morning service

will be held a t the church, a fte r which the Sunday-school will convene and m arch in a body to the High school auditorium for a union m eet­ing to be addessed by Dr. Fikes. Epworth League a t 6:00 o'clock. This church is throw ing itself, heart and soul, into the g rea t union cam­paign and urges every member or ad­herent to attend every service possi­ble, especially the afternoon m eet­ings.

BaptistRev. Archibold L. Bell, Pastor.

Phone 84WSunday, Nov. 11—M orning worship,

10:00 a. m. The pastor will preach. 11:00 a. m., Sunday-school. The school will leave the church and march in a body to the auditorium, where they will unite in a union m eet­ing. Dr. Fikes will speak. 5:30 p. m., Young People’s meeting. 7:00 p. m., union service a t the auditorium.

Mrs. P. O. Stuchell Tells How She Cured H er Son of a Cold

“When my son, Ellis, was sick with a cold la s t winter, I. gave him Cham­berlain’s Cough Remedy. I t helped him a t once and quickly broke up his cold,” writes Mrs. P. O. Stuchell, Homer City, Pa. This remedy has been in use fo r many years. I ts good qualities have been fully proven by many thousands of people. I t is pleasant and safe to take.—A d v t

CUT THIS OUT—IT IS WORTH MONEY

DON’T MISS THIS. Cut oat A ir slip, enclose it with 5c and mail to Foley & Co..2843 Sheffield A re., Chicago, 111., writing t o o t name and address clearly. Yon tn ll receive in return a trial package containing Foley’s Honey and Tar Com­pound, lor bronchial and a grippe coughs, colds and croup; Foley Kidney Pills, for lame back, weak kidneys, rheumatism, bladder troubles; and Foley Cathartic Tab­lets, a wholesome and thoroughly cleans­ing cathartic for constipation, bilioosncw, headache and sluggish bowels. You will also receive, free of charge. Foley’s Family Almanac, containing “ Alphabet for Children” and “ Health Hint.” : Foley’s Booklet on “ Kidney Diseases*1 and • few simple snggeswbcs for those having kidney and bladder troubles. Yaw can secure all these lor only 5 c

SOLD EV ERYW HERE

“PANAMA SPECIAL”

Registered Dirac BoarFOR SERVICE

LYNDON FARMS i of Flr~<»tR

Presbyterian Karl P. Miller, Minister.

Sunday, Nov. 11—Morning worship a t the church. “The Royal M arriage F east”—Mt. 22:1-14. 11:20 a. m.,union Sabbath-school service a t the High school auditorium. The Sun­day-school will m eet a t the church immediately a fte r morning worship and go in a body to the auditorium, a t the request of Dr. Fikes. 2:00 p. m., Junior Christian Endeavor. 3:00 p. m., Men's m eeting a t audi­torium and women’s m eeting a t P res­byterian church. 6:00 p. m., Senior Christian Endeavor. 7:00 p. m., Dr. Fikes a t auditorium. Everybody welcome

Rev. Charles Strasen Lutheran

Sunday-school begins a t 9:00 o’clock, central standard time. Sub­ject, “Abraham.” The morning ser­vice will be in German. Upon re­quest the pastor will preach a special sermon fo r the members of the La­dies’ Aid in recognition of th eir noble work. Text, 1 Cor. 16:14. The evening services will be in English. Text, Phil. 8:17-21. Theme, “W hat shall induce a Christian to show a Christian behaviour.”

The services- a t ' Livonia, Sunday afternoon will be in German.

F irs t Church of Christ, Scientist F irs t Church of Christ, Scientist,

com er Main and Dodge streets. Sun­day morning service, 10:80 o’clock. Subject, “Adam and Fallen Man.'

Sunday-school a t 11:30 a. m. Wed­nesday evening testim ony sendee, 7:10. Reading room in rea r of church, open daily except Sunday, from 2 to 4 p. m. Everyone wel­come. A lending library of Chris­tian Science literatu re is maintained.

S t. John’s Episcopal MissionH. Midworth, Missioner

Sunday, Nov. 11— Public worship a t 10:15 a. m. -« M orning prayer and sermon. Everybody welcome.

For a Weak StomachAs a general rule all you need to

do is to adopt a diet suited to your age and occupation and to keep your bowels regular. When you feej th a t you have eaten too much and when constipated, take one of Chamberlain’s Tablets.—Advt.

PIKE’S PEAKMr. and Mrs. W alter Schiffle of

Plymouth, visited her parents, Mr.and Mrs. George Hix, Sunday.

Mrs. Agnes Hetaler returned to Plymouth, Wednesday, a fte r a week’s visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W right.

The Misses Clarissa and Olive Hix visited their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles P arrish of King’s Cor­ners, Saturday and Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wilson and daughter, Cecil, of Romulus, and Perry Wilson of Camp Custer, visited Mr. and Mrs. M. Steinhauer, Saturday and Sunday, and also attended the chicken-pie supper held a t the hall, Saturday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wilson of De­troit, visited the la tter’s parents, Mr.

and Mrs. George Bridger, Saturday and Sunday.

Miss Beatrice Farm er of Detroit, visited her aunt, Mrs. Sarah Dean, Sunday.

Bom, to Mr. and Mrs.. F rank Kubik, November 2, a girl.

Mr. and Mrs. H arry Lewis have moved into William Hirschlieb’s ten­a n t house.

Mrs. Leon Avery and son visited the form er’s aunt, Mrs. Jam es Tait, the first of the week.

Mrs. P eter Kubik and Mrs. Henry Kubik were Detroit shoppers, last Thursday.

George Dean made a business trip I to Detroit, las t Friday.| Mrs. Decker visited Mrs. Fred j Theuer, J r . , of W ayne, las t Tuesday, i Bom, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles

Hirschlieb, Oct. 24, a boy.

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Dancing — School |will begin in Penniman Hail, WEDNES­DAY, NOVEMBER 7t . Children’s Class at 4 o’clock. Class for adults, 7:30 to 9:00, after which an assembly will he held until 11:30. Private lessons by appointm* nt.Miss tllendower Turner of the Strnshurg School of Dancing will instruct the class again this year- Terms, $n.()0 fur leu les­sons. For further particulars inquire of

M r s * E . L . R i g g s ,Plymouth, Phone 86 F-3.

WARNHMEH7Turns night into day, no glaring lights, makes night driving safe and -a pleasure.

In W arner Lenz you’ll find a treasure To drive by n ight it is a pleasure.They throw a ligh t both long and broad O’er holes and ru ts upon the road;They need no dimmers, fo r there is' no glare, You'll prove it, i f you come and try a pair.No money need you pay, until you try them out, Efficient you will find them, beyond a doubt;You will not take them off I wager.But pay the price to H. C. Hager,Who is their agent in Plymouth town.

✓ He waits to book your orders down.

H . C . H A G E RPhone 277-F2.

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Kirs GISH SHEThese Prices Will Save You MoneyCongress Non-SkicTAuto Tires:

•‘<Kx30............ •------------$16.953x30........ ............ ...........$13.80

Standard Gasoline-------------------.-23e

Onions, per lb.............................-Ayic

White Ribbon Raisins__________ 11cCrisco, per can................................ 42cRoyal Garden Tea, 1-2 lb. pkg__ 25cHeavy Mason Fruit Jar Rings___8c

barge Head Rice, 3 lbs.................. 27c

. Galvanic Soap, per bar. - - - .......... - -5cKirk’s Flake White Soap, per bar.. 5cCorn Flakes, large size pkg........--10c

Store Cheese, per lb......................33c

Oyster and Butter Crackers, per lb., Hie

Coal Oil, per gal________ - ......... 12c

Pratt’s or Wilbur’s Stock Food, one- half retail price.

Choice Potatoes, per peek-----------40c

Best Creamery Butter, peril).......... 50c

White Vine Vinegar, per gal.......... 20c

Cider Vinegar, per gallon_____ --25c

Black Pepper, 1-4 lb.....................10cFarmington Peerless Flour--------$1.45

Stott I a CJolumbus, per sack.........$1.59

Pillsbury^s Best Flour.................$1.65

Henkel’s City of the Straits Flour,.43

Good I.alrd, per lb........................... 31c

Detroiter Brand Coffee ...............-_25c

Avon Club Coffee, per lb. .............33c

Kum-Bak Coffee, with dishes -----33c

Peanut Butter------- -•<’

Fresh Beef and Fresh Pork at reason- a hie prices.

Men’s, Women’s and Children’s Shoes and Rubber Footwear for Winter Wear.

Delivery Saturday afternoon. Telephone or­ders must be in Saturday noon for

Saturday delivery.

George E. KuhnS t a r k , M ic h , Phone 301 F-4, Plymouth Ex.

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Black Hawk and Com King Manure Spreaders Lead Them All Let Us Show You

OPPOSITEPARK D. L. DEY

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TAFFY WEEK AT MURRAY’SWe are now serving our patrons with that delicious Home-made Taffy that has made this store famous as the home of real home-made candy. We have

S t r a w b e r r y , Vanilla, Milk and Molasses Taffy

Why don’t you try the Ginger Bread Candy?

M urray’s Ice Cream StorePenniman Ave., Plymouth.

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FASHION SAYS, wear Spats again this winter. We have them in the best fitting pattern tha t we have ever had and nine buttons high. Colors are right too—White, Old Ivory, Pearl Gray, Brown, Champaign and Dark Gray—ALL COLORS but one. Price

$1.50 a pair

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On The Corner”YPSILANTI,

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George C. GaleFire and Tornado Insur­

ance and Notary Public.112 N . Harvey St. Phone 326J

PHONE 31S-F12

MSS ANNA L YOUNGSPIANO AND HARMONY

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PLYMOUTH, MICHIGAN.

S. E. CAMPBELL, M. D.PHYSICIAN and SURGEON

Special attention given to Eye, Ear and Nervous

Diseases.H our*—8 to 9 ■ .'in ., 1 to 2 * 7 to 8 p . m .

25 W. Ann Arbor St. Phone 45 Plymouth, Mich.

Odorless Dry C le rurv g !That’s only one of the many new features in our Cleaning Department

Your work in this line is'solicited.Satisfaction Guaranteed.

R. W. SHINGLETON•P H O N E N O . 2 3 7 - F 2

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29 acres on the concrete road between Plymouth and Michigan Ave. Good soil; good location and a good buy. See me fsr particulars.

SUBSCRIBE FOR THE MAH.

R. R. PARROTTPhone 39 No. 288 Main S t

Plym outh, Mich.

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%ocal IReweDr. R. E. Cooper is driving a

Ford sedan.Mrs. E. C. Smith of Dearborn, vis­

ited her sister, Mrs. Harmon Kingsley, Tuesday.

Mrs. F. D. Schrader visited rela­tives a t Dutton, Canada, the latter p a rt of las t week.

Miss Noa -Barber of Detroit, visited her grandm other, Mrs. H. C. Ander­son, over Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Remington of Detroit, were over Sunday guests of Mrs. H. H. Passage.

Send a Thanksgiving Card to your friends. We have a large variety. Central Drug Store.

Mrs. E .E. Russell of Jackson, was a .week-end . guest of her daughter, Mrs. Coello Hamilton.

Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Cranson of Northville, were, guests a t William Pettingill’s, las t Sunday.

Mrs. F. B. P a rk and Mrs. Zetta Smith were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Holcomb in Detroit.

Earl Ryder, son of Mr. and Mrs. N at Ryder of this village, was one of the Camp Custer boys to go to Waco, Texas.

Clarence Stevens and fam ily of Ann Arbor, were over Sunday guests of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Steven*.

Come and see the new Fall and and W inter Coats fo r Ladies, Misses and Children, now in. They’re beau­ties, a t Riggs’.

Mr. and Mrs. H. A. P o tts of Hard- enburg avenue, were in Milford, last week Friday, attending the funeral of Mr. P o tts’ mother.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Johns and little son, Henry, and Mrs. Rose Albro of Detroit, were over Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Campbell.

Mr. and Mrs John Hull and chil­dren of Dearborn, and Miss Mabel Barber of Detroit, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Robinson, over Sun­day.

CASH GROCERYjX Specials for SaturdayX Quaker Oats, small size, 10c; large size, 25c J Irish Potatoes, per peck, 30c Sweet Potatoes, per Ib„ 3cX Fels Naptha Soap, per bar, 5c

| BIG BEN COFFEE22c per pound 5 pounds for $1j00

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Fresh Morse’s Candy, ju st received a t Central Drug Store.

Hilda Smye was home from the Normal, over Sunday.

Linus Galpin and fam ily visited his b ro ther a t Dixboro las t Sunday.

Mrs.. E lla King visited her neice, Mrs. Fred W heeler, a t Salem, over Sunday.

Mrs.. I. B. E verett of Fairgrove, is visiting Mrs. Ella King and other re l­atives here.

Mrs. Sarah Von Nostitz of Toledo, visited her sister, Mrs. William Gayde over Sunday.

Mrs. D. Patterson has returned home fom a two weeks’ visit with he daughter a t Dutton, Ont.

Mr. and MrS. T. V. Shaw of De­tro it, spent Thursday and F riday with Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Kingsley.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Turland have moved into Mrs. E. P. Lombard’s house on W est Ann Arbor street.

Dexter Peck and fam ily of D et­roit, i were guests of the form er’s mother, Mrs E lla Peck over Sunday.

Mrs. Louis Chiriper and children and Mrs. Brooks of Detroit, were guests of Mrs. O. F. Beyer, last Wed­nesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Ira W ilmoth and daughter of Adrian, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Giles las t S a tu r­day and Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Eber Copman of Detroit, and Miss Elizabeth Hutton of Pontiac, were guests a t Frank Rambo’s las t Sunday.

Mrs. Charles Hirschlieb en terta in ­ed Mrs. Samuel Smigiel and daught­ers. Jean e tte and Gertrude of Beech, several days las t week. N

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hirschlieb entertained* the five hundred club from Livonia, a t their home on Starkw eather Ave., last Saturday night.

Mrs. Max Hoffman, who underwent surgical operation a t Ithaca,

cently, is reported improving fas t and will return home in the near future.

Mr. and Mrs. Will Hawthorne left last week for Ardmore, Okla­homa, where they fexpect to make their fu ture home. Mr. and Mrs. Hawthorne are making the trip by motor. • ,

Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Shepherd left Wednesday for Chicago, where they will visit their daughter. From there they will go on to Ardmore, Oklahoma, where they will remain permanently.

Mr. and Mrs. F rank Gotlschalk and daughter, Edna, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thorne accompanied George Gottschalk on a motor trip to Flint,

inday, to visit Mr. and Mrs. Roy llow of th a t place.

_ eorge Robinson has sold his new house on Adams s tree t to Mrs, M ary Ellison of Detroit. Mrs. Jllison , and daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. George Foster, have nlpved into the same.•^T h e Ladies Auxiliary of the P res­byterian church were pleasantly entertained by the Elm ladies a t the home of Mrs. W alter Wilson, Jr., near Elm, la s t W ednesday afternoon. About fifty-five guests were present and a fine supper was served. All report a very enjoyable afternoon.

Angus Hubbard, form erly of this place, who has been living a t Chel sea for the past few months, visited his mother, Mrs. A. G. B urnett the first of the week. He has enlist­ed in the arm y, and left Tuesday for Columbus, Ohio, where he has been assigned to the medical corps.

The yearly m eeting o f the Luthepr- i Ladies Aid Society will be held

a t the .church, Thursday afternoon, November 15th, a t 2 o’clock. Elec­tion of officers will take place and all members are urged to attend this meeting.

Representative Edward Gayde and W. T. Pettingill went to Lansing Tuesday, to represent the village a t a m eeting of the S ta te Railroad Commission, to consider the proposaj of the Michigan State Telephone Co. to raise the ra te of phone ren tals here. The m eeting was postponed until November 19th.

Mr. and Mrs. J . F. Root and son, Silas ~Sly and family, Mrs. Hulda Knapp, Mrs. Ida Stvens and family, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Merritt and daughter Leona, and Mrs. Chloe Rooke and daughter Nellie went to Ypsilanti last Sunday to attend the funeral of Mrs. S. A. Sly. Mrs. Sly was a t one time well known in thin vicinity, having been a resident here thirty-five years ago.

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PLYMOUTH PHONE 29

Wants,ForSale, To Rent, etc5c. p r Line. O n s I nse itio n

W ANTED—To ren t th is fall, a farm of from 60 to 1£0 acres. Ad­dress, Box 437, Plymouth, Mich.

_______________ 49tlFOR SALE—Typewriter. Cheap.

Jam es C. Burk, 167 Union street, P ym outh .__ _____' 49t2

FOR SALE—Grey baby buggy in excellent condition. Phone 48-R.

48tfFOR RENT—Rooms for ligh t

housekeeping. Electric lights. P ri­vate bath. Call 223J 49tl

F O R S A L E —Peninsular Base Burner, nearly new. Charles Hirsch­lieb, 843 S tarkw eather Ave., phone 169-J. 49tf

FOR RENT—House on Mill street. Inquire. Phone 316-F4. 48t2

Do you w ant to ren t your farm ? Please answer by mail. Address, Ray W. Jenks, Route 2, Redfcrd, Mich., Wayne county.

For Sale—1 Registered Duroc boar, also ten pigs, eight weeks old. F. L. Becker, phone 317-F31. 48tf

FOR SALE—Round Oak Heater and Gas Plate. Inquire a t 920 Holbrook Ave. 49tl

FOR SALE—New dining room suite. 1165 W. Ann A rbor street.

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FOR RENT— Suite of rooms for ligtyt housekeeping. 840 Penniman avenue. Pnone BB3W. 49tl

EXCHANGE OR SALE—40 acres near Salem with good buildings, fences, w ater and all th a t goo to make a good farm . Will trade ¥ o t Plymouth home. R. R. P arro tt.

FOR SALE—Studebaker five-pas­senger car, 30 horse power. Good condition; worth $200, fo r $100 for ten days only. Act quickly. F rank Bailey, 140 C aster street, Plymouth.

HOUSE FOR SALE—349 Adams street, Plymouth. All in good shape. Henry Ray, Plymouth. 46tf

W ANTED—TO ren t th is fall, a farm of from 60 to 120 acres. Ad­dress, Box 437.

FOR SALE—A modern steam - heated house, close in. Large garage. Imm ediate possession. O. M. Rockwell.

FOR RENT—Barn; also some rooms. Mrs. J . Goodale, 447 South Harvey street.

FOR SALE—Filling dirt, 10c per >ad. Inquire of E. O. Huston.

FOR RENT—Well furnished room. 843 S tarkw eather avenue, near P. M.depot. _____________

FOR RENT—Building now occu­pied by the Plymouth S ta r Laundry, a fte r Sept. 1 s t Will remodel to suit renter. Address, B. H. Rea, Kenton, Ohio, 360 N. W ayne street. 87tf

List Your FarmsWITH

E. C. SMITH,DEARBORN Phone 198

Sixty acres, one-half mile from __wn; level land, plenty of timber for form use, good orchard, good story house, 4<Y ft. barn, tools ir ed. Price only $1250.00. B teams. Call for catalogue of th great farm bargains.

E. .N. Passage.

~ W. E. SMYTHW atchm aker and O ptim etro t

Watches and Clocks Repaired

C v o tn d F lo o r O p tic a l P a rlo r.Plymouth, - Michig*

Just received new Hand-painted China for wed­ding presents, birthday presents, showers, etc., Coming: New stock of white ware, cups and saucers, plates, fruit and vegetable dishes, etc.

In Groceries, we have new goods in pancake Flour, Buckwheat Flour, Meal, ' Whole Wheat Flour, Aunt Jemima Buckwheat, etc.

Flour sale still continues: Farmington, Plym­outh, Lotus, Columbus, Henkel’s Bread, Gold Medal.

Fruits and Vegetables at lowest prices.

JOHN L. GALE

FROM EARLY MORN TILL LATE AT NIGHT

WE CATER TO YOUR APPETITE

OUR PATRONS SAY OUR GOODS ARE RIGHT WITH ATASTE LIKE MORE I

IN EVERY BITE '

OUR WEEKLY RECIPE

Baked Brown Bread1 c. molasses 2 tsp. soda1 c. brown sugar Yz tsp. salt2 c. sour milk 4 c. graham Hour4 tbsp. melted butter 2 c. white Hour2 eggs well beaten

Mix liquids, add to sifted dry ingredients. Put in buttered bread pans. Lot stand 20 minutes, Bake 45 minutes in 'slow oven. 1 e. nuts may be added to dry ingredients.

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PETTINGILLand CAMPBELLThe Home o f Quality G roceries • P h o n e3 6 a n d 4 0

W r i s t - W a t c h e sHAVE COME TO STAY

I S B B H i n g i mThe style which proves useful and con­venient as well as ornamental is bound to continue in favor. (Hir wrist and bracelet watches are gems of the jewler’s art, and must be seen to be appreciated. It will be a pleasure to show them to you.

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V l f Y ou H ave a Printing W antWE WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT IS

Potting oat gopd printing Is oar badness, and when w* scy g o o d prin tin g w don’t mean fair, bm the bent obtainable. If jam n * uuui MTsnoan give as a trial and we will

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medals, made in Germany, are now"at the British museum, and replicas can be seen at the Victoria and Albert, w rites a correspondent. One of the most important celebrates Zeppelin’ raids on London, with a portrait of the late count on one side and on the other an Imaginative design of a Zepp, about to alight on Towen bridge, with fires and explosions in perspective. There is a profile of the crown prince on a specially big medal, with the young Siegfried on the reverse, the la tter killing a dragon with four heads —the lion for Belgium, the cock for France, the bear =for Russia and the unicorn for England.

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B a ld M en, Don’t Read T h ls lGladys^—Who was the old gentleman

who took you to dinner, Violet?Violet—An old bachelor friend of

papaya. He was delightful.Gladys—I shouldn’t think yon would

find s bald-headed old bachelor a very delightful companion at dinner.

Violet—Oh, but he was—he attract­ed all the files.

COUNT!AGENTS TO BE RURAL LEADERS

Old Farmers’ Institute Organiza­tion Is Abandoned in Favor • of New System.

WINTER SCHOOLS FUNNED

^ / T h o se W ho M arve l.One Mf cdpf f oql always marvels a t

the f o l l y ^ other kinds of fools.

V l ^ i w f t y B F M C f e m p a n y .

~ * - rite ff fo*r c»n alwajp►dtl V bo^play * ith .(

land healthy take Dr. Pellets. They regu* and stomach.—Adr.

m a t puzzles, a small boy Is how his :«aa weaTguch a hot slipper.

i la natt*«Ufcb»/color whm “t bet' Compfexloc.

T h e se , as F a r a s Po ss ib le , W il l R e­p lace In stitu te s— G overnm ent Is

Responsib le fo r Change.'

B y E A R L R . T R A N G M A R . Su p e rv iso r o f P u b lica tio n s , M ich igan

A g r ic u ltu ra l College.East Lansing. Mich.—Old Institu­

tions, educational as well as political, have been toppling over along with autocracy under the stresses and strains of war. Ancient machines, most of them useful enough In their day, have creaked and groaned, and finally become stalled by the wayside —failures In the rush for the result- producing efficiency in the conduct of war demanded by those In high places. Thus is passing the farm ers’ Institute, the most venerable medium for carry­ing Information to the farm er perhaps, to be found In the whole system of agricultural education. The office of superintendent of farm ers’ institutes, long maintained a t the college, has been quietly discontinued by the state board of agriculture, and the Insti­tutes themselves, while not all of them will he immediately abolished, will gradually be replaced by two day, three day and one week schools, until In a year or two at the most the schools will he extended to every part of the state and the Institutes will disappear./

And now that the word has gone out that the Institutes must go. there may be expected a clamorous protest from numerous quarters, for In the many years of Its service the farm ers’ Insti­tute has huilded up an organization extending into the remotest bailiwicks of the state.

The old query “Why change?” Is of course being put .querulously to agri­cultural leaders, though these have not been a t all at loss for an answer. They have replied that the Institute system has simply been outgrown—It was n highly Important agency for reaching the rural community yester­day. hut today there »nre better, and so the old must make way for the new.

-Vs almost every Michigan citizen knows, the institute was n one, two

j or three days meeting In which farm­ers, and nil classes of rural citizens in faet, assembled to hear lectures and witness demonstrations having to ' do with the promoting of the farming in­dustry. • When these institutes were first introduced, the men who appeared on the platform were most of them In tune with the spirit and knowledge of their times, but in the many years since these original meetings then* has been a gradual accumulation of men who have not correctly reflected prog­ress In agriculture, and so .In not a few instances the Institutes have be^n teaching Ideas and methods which

^ong since have been disproved by ex­perience and newer findings.

-This, however. Is not meant to he a general disparagement of all Individ­uals associated with the Institutes, for there have been and still are any mnn- ber of sincere, capable and progressive men identified with the county organi­zations.

Those schools, which ultimately wlTT wholly takp the place of the Institute, are themselves by no means In the ex­perimental stage. Last yedr, and the year hefore. they were tried out In Several scores of Michigan communi­ties. Everywhere they met with the hearty endorsement of fanners.

As many of the schools as possible will be conducted throughout the state tills winter, hut where arrangements cannot be made for them, the insti­tutes will be contfnued for the 'time being.

In announcing the change, the direc­tor of extension at the college, under Instructions from the sta te board of agriculture, has sent out the following to the secretaries 'o f the county Insti­tutes :

“In the past you have acted ns sec­retary of the locnl farm ers’ institute society and we appreciate the gqod ef­fort you have given to make the insti­tutes of your county a success. It seems advisable now In the Interest of efficiency and economy to make some changes In the methods of plan­ning and carrying out the series of winter farm ers’ meetings. These changes are a result of the fact that the government Is asking us to con­duct the agricultural extension work on a w ar basis and has provided funds so that most liberal offers can be made to the counties for the employment of connty agricultural agents.

“Thirty-two permanent county agri­cultural ugents are already on duty and many other counties are practical­ly ready to sta rt the work. It Is plan­ned to complete arrangements for co­operation with practically all of the Agricultural counties for the employ­ment of agents before the winter sea­son has progressed very far. Funds are also available for the employment of county home demonstration agents to take care of the work for women. In addition to this the staff of exten­sion workers with headquarters at the college has been greatly Increased and the services of these men and women

are available to the counties through their agricultural agents. .

"The sta te board of agriculture has therefore Instructed’ me to recognize Hu* county agent as officially In charge! of all ext» nslon work within tiis coun­ty. There will lie as great need for your assistance in carrying out the winter program as In the past, and we urgently request you to take the mat­ter up directly with the county agent who Is at all times kept informed eon- ceunlng what help Is available from the state and federal department of agriculture. In. case no ugeot has yet been appointed for your county, kindly correspond with this office.”

BEES MUST BE KEPT WARMS ta te In sp ecto r K n o ck s O ut O ld Idea

T h a t H oney-G athere rs S leep A ll W in te r .

B y B . F . K IN D IG ,S ta te In sp ecto r o f A p ia rie s , M ich igan

A g r ic u ltu ra l College .- East Lansing, Mich.—Men and wom­

en of the state while they are Intense­ly engrossed In the fuel question and wondering where the next scuttle of coal is going to come from are likely to forget that their bees also require. wnrmtlT. Bees do not hibernate- or sleep all winter as so many people be­lieve—a statement which can easily be verified hv anyone who will open a beehive during the cold part of the winter. The health and life of the colony demand that the tem perature he kept up a t aU times at least as high as 57 degrees Fahrenheit. To main­tain tills warmth the bees consume honey, which is a source of heat and bnergy. Ordinarily, the colder the weather, the more feed the bees con­sume. and the more active they be­come inside the cluster.

These facts show the necessity for conserving’the heat of the colony aud protecting It from outside cold. When colonies are properly protected they require far less stores for wintering and more bees live through until spring than is the case when’ the c'ol- ony Is not adequately protected. The consumption of large quantities of honey during cold weather causes the intestines to become clogged with In­digestible material and results fre­quently In dysentery. Severe cases of dysentery are fatal.

When colonies are weakened by di­sease and an attempt Is made to win­ter them outdoors many of them die. As .soon ns a warm day comes the bees of the vicinity rob out the dead colonies, and thus most of the foul brood Is scattered. Anyone having weak or diseased colonies should by all means arrange to winter them in a cellar. Then if they die they Will not he a menace to the other bees in the neighborhood.

Bees which do not have sufficient stores of honey to carry them through till spring should he fed. The best feed Is made from two and a fourth pounds of granulaled sugar to one pound of water. For each 20 pounds of sugar used, a teaspoon heaping full of tartaric neid should be used. The tartaric neid helps to keep the sugar from candying In the combs. The mix­ture should l>e boiled for n few min­utes and fed to the bees while warm. Do not feed honey. It Ls more ex­pensive .than sugar and may be the source of feral brood.

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T h o n s a n r t a D i e Y e a r l y F r o m R a v i g t i 'ox K .'U n e y T r o u b le * f o r H h l o h

D o d d 1* 1*111* G tv e Q u id * R e l i e f .

T a k e h e e d ! N e v e r d i s r e g a r d n a t u r e ’s w a r n i n g s o f t h a t g r e a t d e s t r o y e r — K id ­n e y T r o u b le . Y o u k n o w t h e s i g n s — b a c k a c h e , s h o o t i n g p a i n s t h r o u g h t h e l o in s , s t i f f n e s s i n s t o o p i n g o r l i f t i n g , s p o t s b e f o r e t h e e y e s , d i z z i n e s s , r h e u ­m a t i c p a i n s , s w o l l e n J o i n t s , b e d - w e t ­t i n g . n i g h t l y a r i s i n g .

A t t h e f i r s t s i g n o f K i d n e y d e r a n g e ­m e n t s , g e t I n y o u r p r e v e n t i v e w o r k w i t h D O D D 'S K I D N E Y P I L L S . T a k e n o c h a n c e s . S t o p t h i n k i n g ’T i l b e a l l r i g h t I n a d a y o r t w o . ” T h a t ’* t h e r o a d t o d r e a d e d B r i g h t ' s d i s e a s e .

E v e r y d r u g g i s t h a a D O D D ’S K ID N E Y T I L L S . R e m e m b e r — t h e n a m e w i t h t h e t h r e e D s . Y o u d o n ’t h a v e to t a k e b o x a f t e r b o x . a n d w a i t w e e k s f o r r e s u l t s . T h e f i r s t b o x I s g u a r a n t e e d t o h e fc y o u . I f I t d o e s n ’t , y o u r d r u g g i s t w i l l g l a d l y r e f u n d y o u r m o n e y .

B u t . t o g e t r e s u l t s , y o u m u s t ' r e f u s e s u b s t i t u t e s a n d a c c e p t n o r e m e d y o f s i m i l a r n a m e . D O D D 'S d o t h e w o r k — a n d : t '8 D O D D ’S y o u w a n t .

T o - d a y , g e t D O D D 'S P I L L S a n d s t a r t o n t h e r o a d t o K i d n e y - h e a l t h . Y o u r d r u g s t o r e h a s t h e g e n u i n e — y o u r d r u g g i s t g u a r a n t e e s t h e m . A d v .

One M ore Q uestion .“Going far?” asked the talkative

one.“To London." roared the traveler.

“I ’m forty-six and m arried ; uame, Ho­ratio Brown; one daughter, nineteen years old. in the civil service, gets th irty shilling a week; father died last Ju ly : mother is still living; one of my nieces has red hair; our maid has left us. but we've got another one. Anything else?"

The talkative one thought fo r a mo­ment.

“W hat oil did you use on your tongue?" he Inquired.

TOP DRESSING AIDS WHEATManaTe or Straw Applied Now Will

fncrease Liklihood of Good Crop Next Spring.

By C. H. SPURWAY. Department of Farm Crops, Michigan

Agricultural College.East Lansing. Mich.—Much less \s

being heard these days of the necessity for a maximum wheat crop In 1913. The 1017 emp has been harvested and threshpd. and the 1913 crop is In the ground. But despite this silence there are m easures which the live wheat grower can adopt now to Improve his chances for producing a bumper yield, •' n-nct not the least of these ls top dress- . i'ng. . :

Top dressing winter wTlent In early ; winter protects the wheat, supplies ' fond for the crop. Insures a better growth of clover and timothy when the latter are seeded In the wheat, and additionally quickens growth In the spring.

Owing to the scarcity of m anure In most sections of the state, areas th at have heen planted to wheat probably cannot be top dressed as heavily with m anure ns might he desirable. Where such fs true, a Refit dressing of four or five loads to the acre may be dis­tributed. Such an amount, of course.

ill not go very far, ao a method used" by many of Michigan’s most progres­sive farm ers may he found valuable In overcoming this. lack-. Instead of try­ing to- scatter this manure over art p arts of the wHeat thntT, ^hey jjpread It thickly over only the high place* and allow the loaf places to go without. The ltow places Are protected naturally from the weather, and are amply en­riched by the leach from tfcf Mgh spots.

W here m anure cannot be ot^tatfeed b£ alt. straw may be substituted as a top dressing and scattered a t t i e rat6 of one-half to one ton per acre, with the heaviest applications on the.m ost exposed soil.

Top dressing with m anure In . the spring is also good practice, and should be profitable a t the present time, considering the prevailing high price of wheat.

-Top dressing In the fall or early winter tends to reduce physical dam­age to the soil by protecting It from the puddling effects of heavy , rains, and to some pxte'nt: also prevents evap­oration and drying and erecting of the soli surface.

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Corn M eal G riddle Cakescaps corn meal

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Eggless, M ilkless, Butterless Cake j

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MIND READING BY WIRELESS

H er B eau W a s No A don is.A girl with n stunning figure, big

brown eyes, peach-like complexion and wavy black hair, lovely enough to be­come tin* bride of a prince, stood around the Union station recently watching and waiting, relates the To­peka Globe. Finally her face became ilhiminnled ; n spindly, weak-eyed, nn- dc£pized young man slouched in sight, homely .enough to stop a clock.

The two talked, and every once in a while the princess-like girl dabbed her eyes with a handkerchief. At last a train puffed In. under the station shed. The young man waved an indifferent good-by to the beautiful creatnre who clung to him sobbing until lie boarded away. ,

Is be her brother, her cousin., or her uncle? No. he is her beau. Girls are the funniest things in the world.

Need More T h a n M ules.Tlu* day has passed when a war can

be won with a string of mules.

C. H. Dill, ninety-four, of Pensnu- ken. N. runs n farm and expects to reach one hundred years.

Mrs. W. J . Tisdale. Hoboken. N. J.. widow, has seven sons In United States military service.

F a k i r Detected to Be U sing Secre tB u zze r Conected W ith the S ide

P o cke t o f H is A ss is ta n t.

While traveling In Ohio last year I attended a performance lu a small town, where a mind reader was giving a wonderful exhibition of his powers, mused a salesman. The mind reader, apparently nn Oriental, for he wore a turban and spoke broken English, was able to name every object (he audience chose to select for. a tes t; he also named dates on coins, words, and read passages In books and newspapers; It was a marvelous exhibition.

The mind render’s assistan t had a fam iliar look; he reminded me of a telegraph operator I had worked with in the West. When he came to where I was sitting. I noticed lie kept one hand In his side pocket. The as­sistant asked me to give the mind rending a tost.

Pulling out m y union card. I asked ldm to nnmp the organization to which I was a member. I t was three min­utes by my watch before the mind render answered. ‘‘Brotherhood of Railroad signalmen."

The assistant turned away from me as be held my card In such a way as to bring the side where bis band was in the coat away from me.

Thirty years ns n telegrapher has made my hearing wonderfully acute and I detected faint Morse signals. Tin'll I realized in mi Instant why the mind reader's assistant kept his hand in his ednt pocket. lie bad a wireless buzzer in there and was signaling the mind rentier. Tin* buzzer was muf­fled with cloth to kill the sound.

I also saw why the mind reader wore a turban and stood rigid In one position on a rug. The turban was to hide the receivers clumped on his ears arul the rug to hide the nntenne that ran under the rug, up behind his back to the receivers.

Sounds T ru e .Irate Mamma—Goodness me! I t’s

half an hour since I sent you to the shop to get those things, and here you are back again without them.

Little Dick—It was such a long time before my turn came to be waited on that I forgot what It was you wanted.

"Then why. didn’t you come home and find out?"

“I was afraid If I le f t I ’d lose my turn.”

B an an a Ju ic e W in e .Two Freneluneu in Cochin. China,

have succeeded in making n palatable wine, from banana juice.

Senator J . P. McNielioll of Pennsyl­vania has 12 living children, 1U of them sods.

Philadelphia ferries have abolished gang-planks for a new electric moving device.

.Tames Donovan of Quincy. Mass., though without hands, is a successful I gardener. I

$100 Rew ard, $100C a t a r r h ls a lo c a l d is e a s e g r e a t l y In flu ­

e n c e d b y c o n s t i t u t i o n a l c o n d it io n s . I t t h e r e f o r e r e q u i r e s c o n s t i t u t i o n a l t r e a t ­m e n t . H A L L ’S C A T A R R H M E D IC IN E ls ta k e n I n t e r n a l ly a n d a c t s th r o u g h th e B lo o d on th e M u c o u s S u r f a c e s o f th e S y s ­te m . H A L L 'S C A T A R R H M E D IC IN E d e s t r o y s t h e f o u n d a t io n o f t h e d is e a s e , g iv e s t h e p a t i e n t s t r e n g t h b y im p r o v in g i> e g e n e r a l h e a l th a n d a s s i s t s n a t u r e in d o in g I ts w o rk . $100.00 f o r a n y c a s e o f C a ta r r h t h a t H A L L ’S C A T A R R H M E D IC IN E f a i l s t o c u re .

D r u g g i s t s 75c. T e s t im o n ia ls f r e e .F . J . C h e n e y & C o ., T o le d o , O h io .

H e lp le ss M an.The ladios-God-bless 'em were talk­

ing. in the humorously indulgent way in which they actually tackle the topic about their lmsbaml.s- and other wom­en's husbands.

“John Is perfectly helpless without me." said Mrs. A.

"Henry's that way. too," said Mrs.B. "I don't know what would become of liim if I'd leave him for a week."

"Isn't it ii tru th !" sighed Mrs. C. "You'd think my husband was a child l he way I have to take ra re of him. Why, whenever he is nipnding his clothes or sewing on buttons, or even darning his socks, I always have to thread the needle for him!"—Clove- laud Plain Dealer.

James McLaughlin of .Teddo. Pa., this year grew 40 bushels of potatoes from peelings used for seed.

Passaic. N. J.. textile workers have been given ten per cent wage in­crease.

— ----------------------Washington* has a movement for

public ownership or control of street railway lines.

R ead y fo r H a rd F ig h tin g ."Them Japs.” said a man In a Flat-

bush barber shop, to the second-clmir artist, “ain’t u-goin' to let them Ger­mans get too fur inter Russia.”

“Goin’n o fight ’em?" asked the artist.“Sure thing. F irst thing ye know

them Japs will he over there."“They are hard fighters, them

Japs." ventured the artist.“Hard? I should say so,” declared

the man. “and a t this very minit the whole Jap army Is marbleized for ac­tion."

A n E x p e rt .“I understand th at Biuks has become

nn efficiency expert.”“Is th at s«? Now he will be able to

teach everybody to do everything he can’t do h.!inself.”

Charity.By giving alms you lose not.

Kansas City pi working on Sundays

She D id H e r “ B i t "There are many ways for one to do

his bit, but a young woman, riding on the hurricane deck of a F ifth avenue bus, discovered a new way, relates the New York Times. The bus was Just about to go under the elevated struc­ture, which ls only a few feet above the heads of those seated on Its top, when a young man In khaki Jumped to his feet to join a woman friend In a seat th at had just been vacated. The conductor sprang forward to grasp the soldier; but a young woman seated nearby was quicker. “Sit down,” she commanded sharply4, a t the same time Jerking the arm of Sammy. The khaki- clad young man lost his balance and the next moment he was seated—In the young woman’s lap. The girl blushed a bright pink, and the soldier apolo­gized, and everybody smiled. "I don’t care." said the young woman to her friend. "I feel that I have done my bit in saving that soldier’s head from being battered by the low bridge."

A F rie n d Indeed.The littde boy came home whistling

the latest soldier song bravely. He whistled It cheerfully. When he ap­proached the door he wiped his feet on the mat, and he closed the front door behind him.

"W hat's the m atter with you. H ar­old?" Inquired his mother anxiously. These were bad symptoms.

“I'm happy!" shouted Harold, fling­ing his speller a t the eat.

“Because school is out?-’“.Yaw!" he rem onstrated ./ “NawI

You see, I nin getting acquainted with a nice feller a t school. His father owns a candy factory."

T o B u r n Stum ps.Compressed a ir is used by a Wash­

ington inventor to force burning fluids Into holes of stumps until they are destroyed more effectively limn when dynamite la used.

D eck Does Not S in k .A British patent has been granted

for a ship so constructed that. In event of wreck, the hull would sink and the docks float away with the passengers.

T h e B ore .The man who knows, and knows he

knows, lie la a bore—blackball him.— Judge.

W. A. Aiken of Milwaukee has some corn grown from seed claimed to be1.SU0 years old.

New York charities report severe falling off In donations.

•cutes barbers When a man is easily bought the it's ns unblessed to give as It Is to buyer is usually sold. | receive offense.

TOLD IN A PARAGRAPHWhales here become scarce In Bttro-

pean water* of late yean and their m ett le riwu • -

No other country In # southwestern Europe offegs such opportunities for

‘ f t # t *r«Tlne> as d o * BaWarlg

“ * ■

A new letter stamping machine i the envelope* instead of the kampa and can attach £000 stamps an boor. ■ tam e A la^ra Is an Engliah cor­

ruption or perversion of Alaypjpic, u ft w & talled byree aboriginal Inhabi­tants of Aleutian islands, lying to th e* -—*------■- N ^

W W h y d o e s M r s .S m ithu s e I n s t a n t P o s t u m

S o m e t i m e s , b e c a u s e i t a g r e e s w i t h M r . S m i t h b e t t e r t h a n c o f f e e .

S o m e t i m e s , b e c a u s e s h e h e r s e l f l i k e s i t s c o n s t a n t r i c h , c o f f e e ­

l i k e f l a v o r b e t t e r t h a n s o m e c o f f e e s s h e h a s u s e d .

S o m e t i m e s , b e c a u s e t h e c h i l d r e n a r e s o f o n d o f i t , a n d s h e c a n

g i v e i t t o t h e m f r e e l y w h e n s h e w o u l d h e s i t a t e t o g i v e t h e m

c o f f e e ;

T h e r e ’ s a v a r i e t y o f r e a s o n s — a l l g o o d o n e s — w h y s o m a n y

c o n s i s t e n t h o u s e w i v e s a r e u s i n g

I n s t a n t P o s t u mA nd another reason, n o t to be overlooked these tim es, is it? reasonable cost.

Y oq can b uy i t at the same old price.\

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(Hade ia America.)

There’s a R eason

THE. PLYMOUTH MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1917.

P O P U P T ' " - m

Save Your Cash and

Y o u r H e a l t h

CASCARA

T h e t t n i M a U c a re fo r 50 r In ta b le t fo rm anfc.

*'±gt

tA K ^ QUININE

FOR

CONSTIPATIONhave stood the test of time. Purely vegetable. Wonderfully quick to ban ish b iliousness, headache, Indigestion and to clear up a bad complexion.

Genuine bean signature

P A L E F A C E SGenerally Indicate a lack

of iron in the Blood

Carter’s Iron PillsWill help this condition

CUSTER HOSPITAL HAS 50 BUILDINGS

N ew F»6hhook.A recently Invented fishhook Is so

weighted th at should It fall to the bot­tom of a stream the point of the hook and the bait are held up within reach of a fish.

RELIABLE REMEDY ’ RESTORES KIDNEYS

• For many years druggists have watched With much interest the remarkable record maintained by Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder rem­edy.

It is a physician’s prescription.Swamp-Root is a strengthening medi­

cine. Dr. Kilmer used it for years in his private practice. I t helps the kidneys, liver ana bladder do the work nature in­tended they should do.

Swamp-Root has stood the test of years. I t is sold by all druggists on its merit and it will help you. No other remedy can successfully take its place.

Be sure to get Swamp-Root and start treatment at once.

However, if you wish first to test this p e a t preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer A Co.,* Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample bottle. When writing be sure and mention this paper.—Adv.

Operates In- Open Air.Operating In public and in the open

•lr, a surgeon amputated a man’s arm In Cincinnati. The man was a machin­ist, and had been caught In a concrete mixer, and was only released after an hour’s work by the Are department. An ambulance was summoned, and the doctor decided the only hope of saving the man’s life, because of loss of blood, was to operate a t once. Then, surrounded by a ring of policemen, holding back the hundreds who gath- lered round, t he surgeon commenced "work. The operation took only a few minutes, and the man was fully con­scious.

13 R E G U L A R 8 M A L L C IT Y IN I T 8 E L F — B E D C A P A C IT Y

R A T E D A T 1,000.

SUNDAY VISITORS ARE FEWER

P a ss e s A re M ore E a s ily O bta ined andM en P r e fe r to 8pend D ay W ith

F o lk s A t H om e.

Lansing.The hospital a t Camp Custer is a

regular small city in itself. It con­tains more than 50 buildings, and they are far more substantial looking build­ings than those of the camp proper. Matched lumber, graceful design and wide glassed porches, make it even in its unfinished and muddy sta te an in­viting place.

Present plans call for a hospital rated a t a 1 ,0 0 0 -bed capacity, but which actually will be a 1.300-bed hos­pital. There are provisions for an extension to a 1,500-bed rating or even to to 2,000 beds, but as it is at pres­ent, it will take 40 medical officers, 60 female nurses, and 350 enlisted men to run It.

So far It is shy of personnel, having only 30 medical officers. 130 enlisted men and 11 nurses. But there are more than enough to take care of the needs of the patients.

When it is done It will compare fa­vorably with the best city hospitals, but now the work is hampered by lack of m aterial with which to finish the buildings. Plumbing is the chief trou­ble. Lack of supply pipes to connect them makes the bhth tubs useless. The operating rooms cannot be used for the same reason, but so far there have been no cases requiring immedi­ate operation.

F e w e r V is ito r* a t C u ste r .Camp Custer is losing its prestige

as a mecca for sightseers, and rela­tives and friends of selected men serving in the Eighty-fifth division and is becoming each day more like the typical and desirable military camp.

Perfectly lucid reasons are at hand for the changes. No such military venture had ever been housed within the boundary lines of the state and like all new and well-advertised spec­tacles, many people were curious to view it. Thousands have come, seen and gone and to those who could not come, have carried satisfying infor­mation.

When the selected men first came, passes were given sparingly. There was but one way for visits to be conducted and that was by relatives coming here on the visiting days. Probably 90 per cent of the men In camp have been visited and although there are still many family reunions in camp 8undays, they are gradually decreasing.

That Is explained further by the fact th at passes are more easily ob­tained than in the beginning and it is found more congenial for the week, end holiday to be passed around home firesides than on the bleak and chilly hills of Custer.

M ich igan U n it F i l le d F ir s t .Gen. Louis C. Covell, commanding

the 63d brigade, a t Camp MacArthur, Waco, Texas, has won out in his con­tention. and his brigade is being filled first with Camp Custer men.

The original plan called for filling the Michigan brigade with Custer men. But when Gen. Boardman, com- i

B ig M asonic E v e n t P lanned .Camp Custer will be the scene of a

big Masonic Invasion, this wfeek, when Masons from various parts of the state will assemble there for a num ­ber of events.

The Michigan Sovereign Consistory has decided to make every officer, who is a blue lodge or m aster Mason, a thirty-second degree Mason without charge, a thing never done before, according . to Lieut. M. E. Trimble, who organized the affair. Saturday, November 10, 300 men, including Gen. J. A. Penn, will take a special train to Detroit, where they will be met by the consistory drill team and escorted to the Masonic temple, where degrees will bo conferred.

The big invasion will come Nov. 14, when Moslem Temple, mystic Shrine, will bring 3/100 nobles from all parts of the s ta te here. There will be a banquet at the sanitarium and the Masonic temple, a t which Gen. J. T. Dickman, Gen. B. C. Morse and Gen. S. W. Miller will be guests of honor. Afterwards there will be ceremonies a t the Post theater.

While Secretary of W ar Baker has made a ruling perm itting secret or­ders to erect halls inside the canton­ment. it is doubtful if any of the lodges will build at Camp Custer im­mediately. The Masons may build a temple facing Custer circle.

L a s t W aco C on tin g en t Gone.The last contingent of men for

Waco has left Camp Custer. Three thousand in all have been sent to bring the “new guard units up to war strength.

Custer’s quota was reached without drawing men from e ither' the 330th Field Artillery or the 340th Infantry. These regim ents will send their men to Camp Pike, afte r the next incre­ment of national army recruits arrives.

There will be no further movement of men toward the national guard for the present at least.

The work of dispatching the men Intended for the guard has been ac­complished with speed and without confusion. The various detachm ents

k'et^at daily intervals, but so quiet­ly did they go that few knew of their Departure. The government forbids the mention of troop train movements, but permits the publication of the names of those sent south.

S ta te G en e ra l Fund G ettin g Low.There was a balance of $2,242,330.51

in the general fund of the state treas­ury when the vaults were opened for business November 1. This money is available for immediate u*e. As there are some heavy drafts on the general fund during November and December, it Is considered doubtful by the state treasurer and auditor-general, whether there will be sufficient money on hand the first of the year to pay current expenses until the January taxes are received.

ST A T E NEW S IN BR IEF

W illin g S acrif ice .Sweet Girl—Pa. the house next door

'w as robbed Inst night.Pa—Mercy! Next door!Sweet Girl—Yes, and the burglars

have been in two or three houses on th is terrace within a week.

Pa—I koutiv i t I know It. I t’s ter­rible! But what can we do?

Sweet Girl—I was thinking It might be a good plan for Mr. Nicefello and me to sit up a few nights to watch for them.

, T u rk is h G ir ls W ed Young .Most Turkish girls marry between

ithe ages of fourteen and eighteen.

Some women break Into the gossip class because they are unable to at­tra c t attention In any other.

1 Chester; Pa., Is to have a big steel .'ship p lan t

Saveh the Use

of WheatBy eating

Grape-NutsAll the food value

of the grain is used in nislnng tKia de- Boous food; and its

of malted bar- ley not only adds to its nourishing quali­ties but jpcoduces a flavor Oftrans^slrieb-

CAMP CUSTER ■ NOTES

Besides having a Y. M. C. A. audito­rium seating 4,000, Camp Custer is to have a camp theater. The theater will be equipped with regulation stage and dressing rooms. This building will face the civic center of the camp. There is also to be a Masonic temple, a camp library and a camp gymna­sium, for which funds are now being raised.

Do ro t address mail to the Y. M. C. A. It is almost impossible to se­cure delivery. By the -?arre token don’t address it to Camp Custer. It is more difficult to reach a friend that way than it would be to address it to a man in Detroit without a street ad-

'd ress. Learn the regim ent and bar-' racks number before sending anything whatever.

m ander of the W isconsin brigade, found himself short, he got busy and the resu lt was that there was an order i th at would have left the Michigan \ J. L. Lee. supervising architect for brigade short about 500 men. ■ the construction department, has com-

As soon as Gen. Coveil became , piled and forwarded to W ashington a aware of this, he took a hand. The statem ent of w eather conditions for decision reached wa3 that the Michi- the first 26 days of October. It shows gan brigad will get the Custer men th at only two of the 26 were free until It has reached its maximum from rain. The fact that W ashington strength. W hat is left will go to Wis- j is asking for such a chart is taken to consin. Deductions have to be made > indicate there is worriment over the for the artillery, engineers and sani- delay of construction and drilling-in a tary trains, however, men especially J country cursed with such climatic con-qualified for these chosen.

branches ueing

C u s te r O ffice rs F in d R e n t H ig h .Efata regarding the charging of al­

leged exorbitant rents in Battle Creek were handed Battle Creek papers by Camp Custer officers with the request they make it public and also' that they s ta rt a campaign to interest the Cham­ber of Commerce and the Rotary club in a movement to gather statistics along th at line. It was also intimated th a t officers are willing to appear per­sonally before either organization and relate their experiences.

The information is to the effect that the families of army officers who are deprived of the homes formerly given them a t military posts desire to remain united as long as possible, but that the salaries paid them by the govern- Tnent will not permit their paying the ren ts demanded by some Battle Creek real estate men.

S ta te F is h M a rk e ts S u cc e ss fu l.During two weeks, 11,369 pounds of

fish was sold by the s ta te under a plan devised by John Baird, game commissioned The fish have been offered a t prices ranging from 12 to 20 cents below retail prices. Lansing hay received 6,075 pounds of lake trout and 950 pounds of fresh herring; Sag­inaw, 5,110 pounds trou t; Flint, 2,291 pounds trou t, and Owosao, 966 pounds of tro a l. Trout lire sold at 13 cents and herring seven cents. More Michi­gan cities will be added soon.

Phone Companies Ask Rais*.The Detroit metered telephone ques­

tion which has been hanging fire in the state railroad commission for sev­eral yean la apparently no nearer a decision and the fact that the Mlchl- gair State Telephone Co. Is how ask­ing for raises In over forty more Mich­igan points is taken ss evidence that the Detroit solution will be pat off atm.farther. Independent telephone

ditions.Plans for one of the most unusual

gymnasiums in the world have been prepared by the construction quarter­m aster’s office at Camp Custer. This is the big gymnasium which it Is ex­pected will soon be constructed near division headquarters. Ordinary gym­nasiums provide for the spfirt of the city man, but this gym probably will be the first in the United States to have a bombing cage and bayonet run.

Camp Custer is afflicted with a shortage of first lieutenants in some branches of service, but no smnounce- ment is made of the m anner In which vacancies will be filled. I t is possible they will be left until the close ot the Fort Sheridan school, In about a month. Several second lieutenants have been recommended for promotion and assignm ent to the Four Hundred and Ninth Bupply train, being organ ired by Major Bailey.

Almost every company was shy on* or two men when the first m uster was held last week, but a company of the 337th had 17 men left over when the c-fficer finished calling the list oi names. He had missed a page.

Jackies are not the only men In the service of Uncle Stjm who have to coal ship: Th® dough-boys are doing rt, too. Gangs of them, overalls cover­ing their uniforms, work unloading coal cars .and wheeling- the fuel to the bollerehops in barrows. They work about three tim es m fast as the average coal heaver.^

Announcement th at American troops are in action in France does uot create much excitement .a t Camp Custer. The only troops the Mlchlgan-Wis- jeonsln division gets excited about are those of the Michlgan-Wlsconsin divi­sion, and not often about those.V The 328th artillery stood on the seniority of Col. F. EL Hopkins and elected Itself the motorized light nr. tillery unit of the, brigade, though it had been pxpeeted tha t the' 829th, being of Detroit and containing a big percentage of motor drivers, would be

Big Rapids.—Howard Boynton shot off one thumb and lost an eye when he leaned on his hunting gun while walking through brush.

Manistee.—Mrs. Emma Law fell backwards down a 20-foot flight of sta irs in a store with her four-months- old baby. Neither wa8 Injured.

Detroit.—Detroit theatres, legitim­a te and film, will turn over 817,000, or thereabouts, each week to the gov­ernm ent in war taxes . That is the prevailing estim ate made by several prominent managers. Shortage of pennies has been the only sore spot in the collection of taxes by the thea­tres.

Sault Ste Marie.—Lake commerce carried through the. American and Canadian waterways a t Sault Ste. Marie last month, aggregated 12,646,- 066 tons and established a new high record for October, despite the fact th at freighters were receiving slow dispatch the latter part of the month due to frozen ore and shortage of cars at unloading ports.

Battle Creek.—Traveling at a high rate of speed, two Michigan Railway Company cars met head-on, seriously injuring five people. That no one was killed is considered remarkable for one of - t he cars, a small pay as-you- enter affair, was nearly reduced to kindling wood, the controller box and other operarting apparatus being driv­en to the center of the- car.

Birmingham.—Steps are being taken this fall to begin a septic tank sew­age system for this village. The treas­ury now contains 85,000 which will be^i sufficient, it is expected to erect the first unit. Plans have been made for a systsem th at will accommodate a town four times the size of the village now. Work was held up by refusal of a permit by the state health authori­ties until surface water .was removed from the sanitary sewer system. This was accomplished by new surface drains.

Constantine—The drive for 87,50* for the national Y. M. C. A. army fund will begin in St. Joseph county, No­vember 11.

Almont—Two farms on the John Thompson farm* burned a t a loss of $1,0,000. The fire is believed to have been of incendiary origin.

Pontiac.—Fire, believed to be of in­cendiary origin, destroyed the plant of the Pontiac Pattern & Machine com­pany. The damage is estimated at $45,000.

Traverse City—Thirty-seven Boy Scouts who sold Liberty bonds, all won government medals. There are 47 in the local company, but 10 did not participate in the campaign.

M anistee—Mrs. Catherine Borucki, 98 years old, survived by 30 grand­children and 37 great-grandchildren, four sons and one daughter, died at her home here.

Port Huron.—Judge Law scored Franklin Brown, Free Methodist min­ister and real estate dealer, for trifling with women's affections and granted Mrs. Brown a divorce on a cross-bill. His wife charged that the pastor had promised to m arry other women when he obtained his divorce. Judge Law forbid the pastor to marry for two years, and ordered him to pay $6 weekly to support his children.

Battle Creek—That the state should establish sanitoria where men rejected from the national army for tubercu­losis could be brought to health, was the recommendation of Dr. A. S. War- thin. of Ann Arbor, addressing the Michigan State Anti-Tuberculosis so­ciety here. “Seven per cent of the men rejected for physical reasons had tuberculosis." said Dr. Warthin. "The care of rejected tubercular soldiers should be the most important work the association does this year." .

Adrian.—Business men and farmers have organized a committee to obtain help for farms.

Harrisville—The old municipal light­ing plant was discarded and service here has been established by the Con­sumers' Power Co. from Its dams on the Au Sable river.

Port Huron—A municipal coal yard was adopted by Port Huron citizens by a vote of 2.3S0 to 311 in the pri­mary election. The proposition to in­increase the gas rate was defeated, 1,955 to 705. /

Traverse City — Representatives from Grand Traverse. Missaukee. Wex­ford, Manistee. Emmett. Kalkaska, Leenanau. Charlevoix. Benzie and Antrim counties held a meeting here to plan a drive for $25,000, this dis- tra c t’s share, of the $35,000,000 Y. M. C. A. army fund.

Charlotte—Miss Emeline A m eliaOwen, 85 years old, a resident of Al­bion township 79 years, is dead.

Escanaba—The upper peninsula po­tato crop will be 4,000.000 bushels this year or 2,000.000 bushels larger than in 1916, according to estim ates made by J . W. Weston, assistan t leader of county agents in the peninsula.

Adrian.—A sta te food survey revrtl- ed that food prices here are higher than in most Michigan towns, while the wage scale is below normal. f

Saginaw—Jam es P. Devereaux, act­ing prosecuting attorney, died of he^rt disease. Mr. Devereaux was on his way td .Oakley to arraign a prisoner and was late for his trtdit Ae he neared the station, the tfrajit started and he" fan to catch i t He succeeded b u t a few moments la te r when Sher­iff Sutherland went tk&ough the coaches to find him, he fop&d. the body on the coach vestibule. - ^

Adrian—The entry o f the United States into the war did much to Im­prove the morale of the french and British troops. Dr. F. A. Pastor, for­mer Methodist pastor here, ie l 1 on his return from France whereJbe “was Y. M. C. A. army worker fottr] months.

Lansing—Edward FrensfimJ, of Hud­son, considered acting war^^g of Jack- son prison, has not this position. Pa­pers filed with the sgqreteV of state at Lansing, show a .$60,906 bond, dated .October 10, making Jasper H. Thomp­son, the deputy warden, acting war-

WRINKLESW rinkles disfigure, and a dry, sallow,

rough skin spoils auy woman’s good looks. To those whose skin has reached this condition we suggest the application of" Usit, a pure nut-oil, daintily perfumed liquid preparation (not a cream or paste). I t is the only thing th at will feed the hungry, dry skin back to youthful smoothness, freshness, and plumpness, and drive away disfiguring wrinkles that come so quickly when the skin Is not properly nourished.

Usit Is fine for the treatm ent of skin blemishes such as freckles, blackheads and many forms of Eczema. A few applications of Usit proves Its wortn and in a reasonable time brings won­derful results. F or further distribu­tion a bargain. Once only. Try Usit Face Powder de Luxe, which is no or­dinary face powder, but a preparation appealing to people of discriminating and refined taste. Four tints—flesh, white, pink and brunette. Delicately perfumed. One 50c bottle Usit and one 50c box Usit Face Powder de Luxe for 75c. Address Usit M fg Co., 895 Main street, Buffalo, N. Y.

AMERICANS IN ASIA MINOR

H ow P r ic e s Go Up.An incident which is being told In

the wool trade may, perhaps, shed some light on the way in which prices Increase when the fundamental value remains virtually unchanged. I t may also Illustrate how something akin to camouflage Is utilized by business men to deceive even themselves Into be­lieving there is a shortage. One deal­er sold a consignment of wool at 01 eerits a pound, and It was resold sever­al times, each dealer making 10 cents a pound profit.' In the_course of time, tiie merclinut first referred to heard that a certain firm had an allotment of wool for sale upd asked the price. On being told that the present owners had purchased a t $1 a pound, and were willing to sell at $1.25, the inquirer said. “All right. I’ll take it and send you a check. Where Is the wool ?” The

Y a n k e e In fluence In T h a t C ou n tryD ates B a c k O ver A lm o st a Cen­

tu r y , D ec la re s W r ite r .

Asia Minor, which Is the property of Turkey, is really a continent I d It­self. It is a continent little known to Americans, and yet it is" one where Americans^nre well known, says Nlk- sah. American Influence there goee back over almost a century, and it is certainly to be hoped that the present unfortunate situation will not wipe It o u t F or the American Is highly re­garded In this part of the world.

Travel almost where you will In this vast* interior, and in the most insig­nificant village you are likely to find someone who speaks English, and who will entertain you with his best be­cause you are an American. Our mis­sionaries, our schools and our hos­pitals are responsible. Tlielr pa­tients and 'th e ir pupils come from every p art of the near East, and none of them leave without a great respect for the .strange Westerners. The schools a re responsible for the spread of the English tongue, but the hos­pital work is probably the root of more gratitude than any of our other activities.

All the subject races of Turkey In Asia Minor look to America and to England for rescue and relief. Most of them, as for example, the Arme­nians, hope for nationalism. All of them believe that the W estern uigrld Is greatly Interested In their fate, and the belief Is one of their Yew consola­tions under a cruelly oppressive sys­tem.

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CUTICURA STO PS ITCHING

In s ta n t ly In M ost C a re s— W rite for a F re e Sam p le .

Cutlm ra Is wonderfully effective. The S»ap to cleanse and purify, the Ointment to soothe and heal all forms j of ltch ng, burning skin and scalp af-

kMare C oB fortlU o, Heahkful, Convene*Z U alnM N t h e .o a t .Z oom.

A B S O L U T E L Y OOORLKSSP a t I t A n y w h e re ID T t o B o o m reran are killed by a chemical proeen Is r In the container. Bmpty onoe a month, ore trouble to empty than aehee. Ooeetab- ateed. Aak for «niaioc and petto.

n e t m il Mtt.IfTMff.BOL. Bo-Ban Bookstand —Hit andIOC Water Wittmnt Pinmblns.

nnswer came: ■On the third floor of faction,, res id es these super-crearayyour pwn storage warehouse, where it has been ever since you sold it orig­inally.”—Christian Science Monitor.

Same Old Prices.The voice of a n " anxious woman

called the city clerk’s office on the tele­phone the other day, relates the Indi­anapolis News.

“Is this the marriage parlor?" she asked. When told there were no mar­riage parlors connected with the of­fice, she said she was anxious to get some information nboiit the “price of m arriage.”

"I heard some talk about the price of marriage going up and I wanted to know If they had a standard price dur­ing the war,” she explained.

She gave a sigh of relief when In­formed that the price of marriage licenses had not been Increased, and that most justices of the peace and ministers still rolled on the generosity of the bridegroom for their compensa­tion, for performing the ceremony.

J emollients If used daily prevent little j skin troubles becoming serious.

Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cutlcura, Dept. L, Boston. Bold everywhere.—Adv.

Most men who think they are i don’t even look the part.

SELD O M S E Es big knee like thi», but your hors* may have a bunch or bruise on his ankle, hock, stifle, knee or throat.

niEEEBBBL J M m n S E S M S H Z S Owill c'ean it off without laying up the horse. N o blister, n o naif gone. Concentrated— only a fe w

dropa required at an application. $2 per bottle delivered. Dacribe your c«w for tptcW loHroctloM tad B o o k 8 M free. A B S O R B 1 N E . J R . , the u d - tcyoc llolmmi lor monkiod. reduces Poinlul Swdltaca Enlarged C ludt. Wen*. Broire*. Varicoee Vdnti «Hiy» Peis and inflammation. Price >1 and S2 a book of l n i | W or deUrered. Made In the U. 8. A. by W .F. YOUN®, P . D. F -S O T ssmU B , Springfield.

Buffalo is becoming a center for dye­stuffs manufacture. W . N . U ., D E T R O IT , NO . 4 5 - I9 1 J .

THE LAST EXAMINATIONO F W AR’S DRAFT

Housekeepers Can Save $200,000,000 on Food whlc* l / d

I n t h e s e d a y s w h e n th e h ig h c o s t o f H v- ” * ’** in g p in c h e s n e a r ly ! e v e r y h o m e , n o w a s te s h o u ld b e o v e r lo o k e d . O n e o f t h e m o s t f la g r a n t a n d th e m o s t e a s i l y p r e v e n te d , Is t h e d e s t r u c t io n o f fo o d b y r a t s . O n e r a t w ill o f t e n d o r, h u n d r e d d o l la r s ’ d a m a g e o f fo o d a n d p r o p e r ty In a s in g l e n ig h t , a n d a c a r e f u l e s t im a te g iv e s o v e r $200,000,000 rs t h e v a lu e o f fo o d s tu fT s d e s t r o y e d a n n u a l ly b y th e s e p e s t s . E x te r m i n a t e th e m w ith S t e a r n s ’ P a s t e a n d s a v e t h i s e n o rm o u s lo s s o f fo o d . A s m a l l b o x o f S t e a r n s ’P a s t e c o s ts o n ly 85 c e n t s a n d ’.s u s u a l-

Jy e n o u g h to c o m p le t e ly r id th e h o u s e of a t s a n d m ic e ; a ls o e f f e c t iv e a g a in s t c o c k ­

r o a c h e s a n d w a t e r b u g s . A d v .

Many S mail has fallen down because a te s t of Bis w ater showed unmistakably th a t he had kidney disease.

The kidneys are the scavengers and they work day and night in separating the poisons from the blood. Their signals of distress are easily recognized and In­clude such symptoms as backache, d e ­pressions, drowsiness. Irritability, head­aches, dizziness, rheum atlo '' twinges, dropsy, gout.

“The very best way to restore the kidneys to their normal state of health and cure such symptoms,” says Dr. Pierce of Invalids’ Hotel. Buffalo, N. Y., "Is to drink plenty of water and obtain from your favorite pharmacy a 60-cent.......................An-u-ric, double strength,

dispensed by alm ost every drug­gist.” You will And Anurlc more potent than llthla, dissolves uric a d d as w ater does sugar.

Bend Dr. Pierce 10c for trial pkg. and ask for advice If there is need.

F lo o rs In H is Po cke ts .A certain five-year-old boy who. In

his earliest trousers, could only thrust his hands through his licit for want of pockets, had his heart rejoiced at last with a pair of trousers which had real pockets in'them.*

Iiis first act was to approach a male relative with his hands stuck proudly in those pockets and t o exclaim :

••Look 1 I’ve got pockets with floors In ’em."

Ones Who Quit.The only men who have really done

their best are the fellow's who have quit trying to do better.

Add New Industries.Baltimore in three years has In­

vested $ 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 in new indus­tries.

It takes an experienced elevator boy to let a man down easy.

JACKSON NEWS!Jackson, Mich.—“When I was a girt,

my mother gave me Dr. Pierce’s Fa­vorite Prescrip­tion. I was Blck one entire win­ter ; I caught cold and was v e r y poorly. Two bot­tles of ’Favorite P r e s c r p t l o a ’ cured me. I be­gan to gain In w e i g h t , m y strength c a m ® back and I fe lt

I t Is a splendid medicine."—fine.MRS. w. H. 8AVAGE, 50© N. W ater­loo Avenue.

Get “Favorite Prescription” today, either In liquid or tablet form, from any dealer In medicines or send Dr. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y„ 10 cents ta r trial package. Large package 00c.

Dr. Pierde’s Pleasant Pellets a r t purely vegetable, no calomeL—Adv.

R aise H igh P riced W h ea t on F ertile C anadian Soil

Canada extertde to you a hearty Invita­tion to settle on her FREE Hom estead lands of 160 acres each o r securesom e of th e low priced lands in M anitoba,

Saskatchewan and Alberta. This year wheat is higher but r ^ n J i - n i&nd just as cheap, so the opportunity is more a t­tractive than ever. Canada wants you to help feed the world by tilling some of her fertile soil—land similar to that which during many years has averaged. 20 to 45 bushels of wheat to the acre. Think of the money you can make with wheat, around $2 a bushel and land so easy to get. Wonderful

yields also of Oats, Barley and Flax. Mixod farming in Western Canada is as profitable an industry as grain growing.

The Government this year is asking fanners to pat in­creased acreage into grain. There is a great demand for farm labor to replace the many young men who have volunteered for service. The climate is healthful and agreeable, railway facilities excellent, good schools and churches convenient. Write for liter* *u re as to reduced railway rates to Supc or Immigration. Ottawa, Can.. or to

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h J i l l „ l , l „ , ........a$ IB # 3W I» * «ehodI gave V n ig h t cap iiMuT T ilt F riday n igh t a t the home

y '< ft E v e re tt W hipple. About 140 ~ were present and the am ount clear­

ed was twenty-five dollars.Mrs. F red Fishbeck entertained

h e r cousin, Miss Dorothy Hall of Onaway, several days las t week.

B ert Curtiss of Ypsilanti, spent the week-end w ith Ralph and Lloyd Lyke.

Charles F reem an and fam ily a t­tended a b irthday anniversary, which was given a t the home of Mrs. Lou Kelly of Cherry HiH, in honor of Mr. Kelly, las t Saturday evening.

The F ree Church Ladies’ Aid will be entertained next Thursday, Nov.D e e n i e r c a m e u n e x t j i n u r s a a y , ix o v .15th, a t the home of Mrs. John. For- ur“^ “ JJF;

boose of Mr. LoveweH’s for whom they have engaged to work fo r the coming year.

F rank Butler's farm residence is receiving a coat o f stucco.

Miss Wilma Smith of Plymouth, spent Tuesday a t Eli Schoch’s. .

Mrs: Florence McLean visited in Detroit the la tte r p a rt of las t week.

Northville's mud holes have been repaired on the town line. Similar good work on the p a rt of Plymouth would be appreciated.

NEWBURGA delegation of Newburg people

(65 in all) attended the Fikes evan­gelistic campaign in a body las t Sat-

the meeting. , Roll call will be re ­sponded to by something funny that, we have seen or heard.

Miss Elizabeth Hand of Ypsilanti, spent Sunday a t the home of Ralph Lyke. “•' C. H. Freem an and family spent

Sunday with B. D. Kelly and family of South Ypsilanti.

E verett Whipple spent Tuesday in Detroit.

«,w Dinner win be served a fte r 1 The Newburg Patriotic society will hold their quarterly dinner a t the which tee second president and ! home o{ c £ Maynard of W est Ann

Mrs. Elwin Pooler will have charge of Arbor 3treet p iymouth, Friday, Nov.16th. A picnic dinner will be served a t noon. Everyone is cordially in­vited to attend.

A le tter w ritten November 2, by Donald Ryder from Camp G rant, 111., to his people, s tated th a t he is well and enjoying camp life. They had a big banquet the n ight before, chicken dinner and everything to go with it. All the officers were present and spoke to them. The boys gave them a rousing cheer. He says they have as fine a set of officers as one could wish for. Said they went to hear Gov. Lowden speak th a t afternoon and this evening went to sing in the Y. M. C. A. auditorium, six thousand men in all. I t is rumored th a t they are to leave for Cuba in three weeks. He says one never knows w hat is coming next in the army. Donald has a furlough and will be in Chicago this week Saturday and Sunday. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Ryder, expect to join him there.

Mr. and Mrs. A rthur LeVan left fo r Hale, Mich., Wednesday, to visit the la tte r ’s parents. They were ac­companied by Leigh Ryder, who goes on a hunting and fishing expedition.

C. E. Ryder, William Farley and Harmon Gates were delegates to the milk producers’ union, held in Detriot, Monday.

H arry Booth and son of Detroit, were- Sunday guests a t Roselawn farm , also attended church service a t

WEST PLYMOUTHThe box social held ' a t Frank

Reddeman’s fo r the Allen school brought in more than $28.00. The evening was spent very m errily with working out of the many stunts, the pie contest clapping the climax of all the fun , Fred S am er being the win­ner.

The Melow’s cellar was relieved of . some five or six bushels of potatoes

F riday night, and the Sharrow’s lost some 25 gallons of kerosene Saturday night. I t would seem th a t the farm ­ers about here will have to indulge in some extra precautions. Bolts, padlocks, guns, w atch dogs and traps will be in order if these depredations do not cease.

The M anderville’s of Detroit, who have been tenan ts on the Baker farm fo r the p ast few weeks’ have moved away.

Mr.

w ir .Detro:Gressl

and Mrs. F rank Damboseo,^ who have occupied Charles Tiffin’s j Newburg.

house on his town line farm for two : Don’t fo rge t the L. A. S. dinner a t m onths have moved into a te n a n t ; ffie hall this (Friday) noon, sharp.

OUR ST O C K IS SU C HT h a t you m ay depend on finding here just

W hat You W ant When You W ant ItN one o f o u r c u sto m ers have ev e r had to postpone th eir building o p e ra tio n s b ecau se w e cou ldn 't supply th e ir needs. See us for L u m b e r and Building M aterial.

Plymouth Lumber & Coal Co.CHAS. MATHER, Sec. 6 Manager

EAST PLYMOUTHMrs. L, _A. Thomas entertained 1

eighteen friends from D etroit and Plymouth a t a card p arty la s t Satur- ] day evening. Five hundred was played until a late hour, and a fte r partaking of dainty refreshm ents, the guests separated, thanking their hostess for a very pleasant evening. Mr. and Mrs. Volker and daughter of Detroit, remained to spend Sunday a t Cressbrook.

Mrs. Louis Thomas spent Thurs­day with Mrs. Ledger a t W alkerville. The Thursday Service Club, of which

Irs. Thomas is a member m et there t | a t day fo r Red Cross work.

V complete surprise party , organ­ized by Mrs. Ed. Palphreym an, was sprung on Floyd Eckles a t the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Eckles l a s t1 Saturday evening. The young man was sent on an errand, ^nd during his absence the quests assembled, about thirty-five being present. Cards furnished amuse­ment and many fine musical select­ions were rendered on the victrola, which added g reatly to the enjoy­m ent of the evening. A dainty lunch was served and the guests de­parted a t a late hour, expressing their pleasure fpr a fine time.

Will Sly was in Detroit on busi­ness, Tuesday.' Harmon Gates and fam ily of New­burg, visited a t Charles Melow’s on Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles M cIntyre and •son of Ypsilahti, ^ e re Wednesday afternoon visitors a t H . C. Hager's.

Mr. and Mrs. George Jacobs of letroit, were Sunday callers a t [essbrook.

Grace Tillotson entertained her little friend Mary P an-ott of Plymouth, Tuesday.

Mrs. Will .E lliott, son W aldo and daughter Mildred of Northville, visited Theodore Schoof and family last Sunday.

Mr. Goucher of Brighton, a te din­ner a t John Cool's F riday of last week. Sunday visitors were Mr. and Mrs. Pingston of Ann Arbor.

A party of eight friends came to help little Daryl Cool celebrate his fourth birthday last Monday. A pot luck dinner was served by Mrs. Cool and everybody enjoyed a pleas­an t time.- A. M. Eckles was a Mt. Clemens visitor Saturday and Sunday.

Gerald Haruntung and m other of Detroit, visited Mrs. Ed. Palphrey­m an, Monday. Tuesday visitors were H arry M inthom, wife and children of Plymouth.

Mr. and Mrs. Ju lius Miller gave a dance a t their home las t Saturday evening to about th ir ty of their friends. The Willsie orchestra fu rn ­ished music for the dancers. Out of town guests were Scott Markle, wife, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Calhoun and daughters, Wilma and. Kathleen of Detroit, and Bert Coverdill of Camp Custer. Refreshm ents were served a t a late hour and the guests left thanking Mr. and Mrs. Miller for a dandy time.

Mrs Will Krumm, Mrs. Charles W estfall y id Mrs. William Holmes, son Clyde and daughter Lavina of Plymouth, were Sunday visitors a t Emil Schilling’s.

William M inehart returned home from H arper hospital Monday eve­ning.

Thomas R icketts and Mr. Durham of Detroit, were Sunday callers a t H. C. H ager’s.

Scott M arkel and wife of Detroit, visited a t Charles Strebbins las t Sunday./ Will Bowman, wife and baby were Tuesday visitors.

'Charles Melow, wife and daughter Helen and Harmon Gates and famify attended an auction sale a t Sduth Lyon, Tuesday.

jW ill Oaten, wife and daughter w ire D etroit visitors, Sunday.'^ fc lrs . W. A. Eckles entertained a t a^six o’clock dinner on Sunday, six­teen relatives and friends in honor of her son Floyd, who expects to leave soon for m ilitary duty a t Camp Custer.

Miss Louise Schindler and Miss Speck of Detroit, visited Mrs. Julius Miller las t Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. John Pingston and

gKoHy 0f Ann Arbor, were visiting ids on the Schoolcraft road, day.

rs. John Cool entertained a t supper on Tuesday, Roy F isher of Plymouth: Miss C lara Coverdill and John K. Cool of Detroit.

Will M inehart, wife, daughter Alma and son W alter were D etroit visitors, Tuesday.

H. C. H ager was in various towns in Lenawee county on business, W ednesday and Thursday.

COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS [Official]

November 5, 1917A t a regu lar m eeting of the Com­

mon Council of the Village of Plym­outh, called to order by President Robinson on the above date.

Present: Councilmen Patterson,Reber, Hall, Sherman, F isher, Reiman. Absent: None.

Minutes of regular m eeting of 8th, read and approved.

The following bills were presentedfor payment:A. Reddeman, C ap t................. $ 6 50Flower Stephens Mfg Co___ 143 64Kimball Eisenberg & Co___ 98 18American Car & Foundry Co. 986 82Buffalo M eter Co....................... 26 60M urray W. Sales Co............... . .36 48F. J Tousey, salary, express and

postage....................... . .. 19 32Huston & Co......................... 22 96J . D. M cLaren Co..................... 45 40Detroit Edison Co................... 303 79W ilm arth Engineer Co........... 140 00A. J . Lapham ................. 70R. T. W alker.............................. 9 75Robert W arn er......................... 101 61Jak e S tren g .............................. 2 50Plymouth M ail..................... 4 00H. J. F ish er.............................. 22 55Alvah W ilson............................ 3 00George Springer...................... 53 17R. J . Lorenz.............................. 7 60R. R. P arro tt, T reas ............... 187 12Central City Chem. Co........... . 14 23Hoad & Decker.......................... 1200 00

Coelio Hamilton, President Robfewoca c t a s chairm an being'understood.Moved b y Patterson , supported by

Fisher, th a t we g ran t permission to Hoad & Decker of Ann Arbor, to m ake a se t of paper p rin ts of the sewer survey and have them bound and kept in their possession fo r fu ture reference, they to send us the tra c ­ings, and the village to pay the ex­pense of* game, and th a t we allow their bill for $1200.00 fo r the survey of the sewer and storm drain sys­tem. Carried.

Moved by P atterson, supported, by Hall, th a t the local board be allowed to use movable partitions in the coun­cil room fo r their own convenience. Carried.

Moved by Patterson , supported by Reber, th a t we adjourn fo r one week. Carried.

F. J . TOUSEY,Village Clerk.

AUCTIO NFRANK J. BOYLE,

Phone 306 F-2 , PlymouthAUCTIONEER

Having sold my farm, I will soli a t public auotion on the premises known as the Thomas Thompson farm, 1)4 miles west of Plymouth, on the Sutton road', on

W ednesday, November 14at 10 o’clock Sharp

Certain Cure for Croup Mrs. Rose Middleton of Greenville,

111., has had experience in the tre a t­ment of this disease. She says, ‘When my children were small my

son had croup frequently. Chamber­lain’s Cough Remedy always broke up these a ttacks immediately, and I was never w ithout i t in th e house. I have taken it myself fo r coughs and colds with good results. ”—A drt.

PERRINSVILLEThe a n n u a l___

bazaar, given by theiper and

was a

er Motor Car Sales Co.’ --------- DEALERS IN------- --

id Second-Hand Automobiles, Tires, Oils, ■line and Automobile Accessories

GARDNER CARBUREATORS’"Sold OP a n ab so lu te g u a ran tee . 25 p e r c e n t m o re

. ■ ; y o tir m o n ey re fu n d e d .

HANDY DIMMERS, $3.00i lig h t on h ig h sp e e d o r m o n e y re fu n d e d .

of Tires in stock at all times.

g rea t success both Socially and finan­cially. The neat Bum of $61.00 was added to the treasury.

Mrs. Floyd Wilson and baby, Cecil, a re spending- a few days with Mrs. Wilson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Steinhauer, of th is placs.

Mr. and Mrs. Leon A very and son spent Saturday and Sunday a t Mrs. Jam es Tart's.

Mrs. Erland Bridge and children spent Sunday a t G. Baehr’s.

The masquerade ball, given by the A. O. O. G., October -’81st, was cer­tainly a success, about 200 hundred being p r e s e t . Mtb. E. Hix of Plymouth, won first prize fo r ladies and Dan McKinney f o r gentlemen. Mrs. F . Black won second p rise for ladies and E. Wolff fo r gentlemen. The hall was tastefuU y decorated in Hallowe’en colors and pumpkin lant- terns. The Gleaners will give An­other dance ’‘November 16th. Every- « e is cordially invited to attend.

P e rry SL Wilson of Camp Custer, attended the chicken-pie supper here, Satu rday n ig h t.

Mrs. B rady and Mrs. L&ngdon of Detroit, visited a t Jam es Cousin’s, la s t week.

Sunday visitors a t A rthur H an- chett’s w ere: Mr. and Mrs. L. Han- eh e tt, Mrs. M. Steinhauer and daugh-

and Mrs. Erland Bridge and iangill be ai■ran U D .—L .U U____A _ 1 J

her Electric S tarter and L ig h ts .. . . . . . . . . ! r w ith Fisher E lectric S tarter and Ligh te.

r , Prop.

children. Mrs. H anchett continues to improve in health.

M r. and Mrs. G. Baehr spent Tues­day afternoon in Wayne.

nrikted t o a tten d church. _ ,l a t;2 :0 0 aad church a t

8:00 O'clock. Everyone welcome.

October 5thH arry Norgrove......................... $ 19 50August M inehart....................... 36 00Herman M in eh a rt. .................... 6 00W alter M in e h a r t . . . . . ............. 36 00N at R yder.................................... 14 04E rnest Rewald............................ 19 50Clark S ackett.............................. 63 00B ert K napp.................................. 30 000 . H anchett................................ 18 00John Oldenburg.......................... 14 00John K irk ...................................... 37 21R. S. Todd.............................. 30 00People’s S tate Bank, D etroit. . 450 00Mich. S tate Telephone Co. . . . 1 45Verne Rowley...........• ................ 30 80Mich. S tate Telephone Co. . . . 1 05W ., H. Hoyt, T re as ................... 115 00Detroit Edison Co..................... 290 89Henry A ndrew s.......................... 15 00George H olstein ......................... 19 50Lem D augherty .......................... 16A rthur Moore.............................. 5 55E rnest S tie rs .............................. 7 35Thomas Bissell............................. 3 00T. F . Chilson.............................. 30 00

October 12thR. S. Todd....................................$ 30 00August M inehart........................ 6 00Herman M inehart..................... 6 00H arry Norgrove................................21 25E rnest Rew ald.............................. 1950John K irk .................................... 19 50Clark S acke tt............................... 36 00Bert K napp...........*.................... 30 00John Oldenburg......................... 14 00T. F. Chilson................................ 30 00George H olstein......................... 21 00Lem D augherty ........................... 18 00Henry Andrew s........................... 10 50E rnest S tie rs .............................. 6 00Em il' L arou ................................... 4 00Fred M aitland............................. 3 50Erwin R utenbar........................... 3 50

'People’s S ta te B ank.................... 675 00October 19th

George W hite................................ $ 6 40W arren P erk in s ............................. 4 20Jacob B ell...................................... 90R. S. Todd............... ................... 30 00N at R yder....................................... 2 75B ert K napp.................................... 22Clark S ack e tt................................. 31 80Net B ro w n ...................................... l 00T. P. Sherm an.........’ .................... 3 50John K irk ......................................... l 00Ernest Rewald................................. 17 06H arry Norgrove............................ 17 06John Oldenburg. ......................... 14 00John Q uartel................................... 30 00Charles W olff................................. 36 00Lem D augherty ............................ 16 80Charles K rum m ............................ 9 60E rn est S tie rs ................................... 6 60Thomas Bissell..................... .......... 6 00T. F. Chilson................................... 30 00George H olstein............................ 21 00

October 26thJohn Oldenburg................. 14 00R. S. Todd............................30 00Clark S acke tt....................... S . . . 12 00B ert K napp ........................... ) . . . 15 00John K i r k . .................................... 10W hrren D urham ............................. 16 20E rn est Rew ald............................... 14 30H arry Norgrove............................ 16 05John G ustin ................................... 4 50Charles K rum m ............................. 13 50Lem D augherty ............................ 10 50George H olstein............................. 19 25T. F. Chilson................................... 30 00H. C. Robinson............................... 24 26

November 2ndJohn Oldenburg............................. 14 00Harold Jolliffe............................... 1 50Erland B ridge................................. 2 70O. H anchett..................................... 6 00Bert K napp..................................... 18 00B. D. B row n................................... 21 00Clark S ackett................................ 33H arry Norgrove. .......................... 13 48W arren D urham ............................. 15 45John K irk ....................................... 18 25E rnest Rewald.............................. 16 73R. S. Todd....................................... 27 50Lem D augherty ............................. 19 20Charles K rum m ............................. 19 20John G ustin ..................................... 14 70Fred R eim an................................... 10 00Bert K napp..................................... 6 00George H olstein ............................ 26 00T. F. Chilson................................... 35 00

Moved by P atterson, supported byFisher, th a t the bills be allowed and the clerk be instructed to draw orders on the proper funds to pay the same. Carried.

Moved by P atterson, supported byHall, th a t the petition of Ora D.Brown fo r membership in the fire de­partm en t be accepted. Carried.

Moved by Reber, supported by Hall, th a t the petition of O. M. Rockwell and others granting them permission to tap the w ater m ain in fro n t of th eir residences on the Northville road, they pay a ll expenses incurred by so doing, and if m eters a re install- ' ed the m eters to become the property of the village of Plymouth. Ayes— Reber, Hall, Sherman. Nays—P a t­terson, F isher, Reiman. Vote being a tie . P resident Robinson cast the de­ciding vote on the nay side. Motion is lost.

Moved by Reiman, supported by P atterson, th a t the ordinance govern­ing the use of w ater outside the vil­lage limits be revoked. Ayes—all.Carried.

Moved by Reiman, supported by Patterson, th a t w ater be furnished O. M. Rockwell and others on the N orth­ville road as f a r north a s th e Phoenix bridge, a t double the regu lar w ater rates, same to used fo r domestic, pu r­poses only. Ayes—»IL Carried.

Moved by Hall, supported b y Reber, th a t Edward Gayde and W illiam Pet-

a s a ' committee

HORSES1 Brown Gelding, 6 yrs. old 1 Gray Mare, 6 yrs. old 1 Bay Gelding, 14 yrs. old 1 Roan Mare, 14 yrs. od

TOOLS1 McCormick Grain Binder 1 Milwaukee Com Binder

n I . | a . f is* ll 1 McCormick MowerProducers Ask More for Mdk ; ~ ^1 John Deere Corn P lanter2 Riding Cultivators 1 Lime Spreader, new 1 Good Open Buggy 1 Top Buggy, .nearly new 1 Old Top Bug

S ta te Association Seeks Revision of Prices January 1st.

D etroit housewives a re to have something to say about w hat they shall pay fo r milk a fte r Jan u ary 1st next, when the* existing price a rrange­m ent expires. Producers a re to re ­ceive more for th eir products and dis­tributors a re requested to be less wasteful and more economical in dis­tribution

That is the sum and substance of a general scheme of education and efficiency which was inaugurated by the Michigan Milk Producers’ asso­ciation a t an all-day m eeting in the auditorium of the board of commerce, Detroit, Monday. ‘

The m ost im portan t business of the m eeting was to adopt plans for the appointm ent of a committee of nine members which will a ttem pt to arrive a t the cost of producing milk. This will resu lt in producers, distributors and consumers getting together, or, a t least, closer together than they now are , and agreeing upon a price th a t will be fa ir to all three parties.

The principal talks were m ade by D. D. Aitkin of F lin t, president of the National Holstein-Friesian association; N. P. Hull of Lansing, president of of the Michigan s ta te association, and R. C. Reed of Howell, Mich., vice pres­ident and field secretary of the s ta te association.

Each -of the speakers declared th a t the milk producers m ust receive next Jan u ary a be tte r price fo r their product, or 'they will be forced, self-dfense, to sell off their milch cows.

They declared th a t the farm ers and dairym en of Michigan, and all over the United States, a re actually losing about $1.18 on each 100 pounds of milk they sell.

The m eeting began a t 10:30 o’clock as the annual session of the eastern branch of the s ta te association, but in the afternoon the 200 delegates and visitors in attendance voted unani­mously to consolidate w ith the s ta te association. V

John C. N ear of F la t Rock, pres­ident of the eastern branch, presided over the m eeting until a f te r the con­solidation.

The committee appointed by Presi- ren t Near, which recommended the m erger, was composed of: Charles Evans, Belleville; L. A. Newman, Bell Branch; H enry ' Briscoe, F la t Rock; C. H. H atton, Farm ington; Charles Duprey, Mt. Clemens; Floyd Northrop of Northville, and Ed. Stoll of Dun­dee.

iuggyVagon

2 Farm W agons and Racks

to attend the Michigan S ta te Tele­phone hearing a t Lanr*— ~ ’------—*to the raising1 of te k said m eeting to be held"Tuesdty, Nov. 6 th , a t 1 :30 p. m . Caried.

Moved b y P atterson , supported by Sherm an, th a t th e president appoint live r epreeenta tavea to a tten d the Michigan Wat* Conference m eeting, to b e held in the arm ory bailing 1n De-

Lift- t ra i t, Mich* No*. lOaTlkwfcd.P m Those appointed art: L. B .Sam

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I MilkWagons

17-Tooth Osm an Drag15-Tooth Osborn D rag 2 W alking Plows 1, Emerson Sulky Plow 1 Cultivator Harrow 1 Roller1 Bean Puller2 Sets of Work Harness 1 P a ir Bob Sleighs1 Osborn Disc Harrow2 Five-Tooth Cultivators 1 Beet Cultivator1 Galvanized Tank TW ood TankEvaporating Pan and about 50 Sap

Pails120 Feet of Pipe 4 Milk Cans and 2 Milk Pails 1 Milk Cooler 1 Incubator

2 Hay Forks and Rope 4 Hay Slings, new3 Iowa Colony Houses 1 Iron Gate, newHeating Stove, Bedstead, Table, Steel

Cot, Hoes, Forks, etc, too num er­ous to mention.

CATTLE1 Grade Holstein, freshened Sept. 18 - Grade Holstein, freshened Oct. 15 1 Grade Holstein, freshened Oct.- 27 1 Grade Holstein, freshened Oct. 9 1 Grade Holstein, freshened Sept. 22 1 Grade Holstein, freshened Sept. 18 1 Grade Holstein, freshened Oct. 81 Blue Cow, freshened Oct. 1 Three-year Heifer, due soon2 two-year old Heifers, coming fresh

• this winter4 Calves1 Pure Bred Bull

HOGS.0 I. C. Brood Sows and Pigs

1 O. I. C. Brood Sow, Registered 1 O. I. C. Registered Boar 1 6 Small Shoats

200 Bushels Oats 35 Bushels Barley 10 Tons of Clover Hay5 Tons of Mixed Hay15 Bushels of W heat Screenings Some Seed Potatoes 30 Plymouth Rock Hens _35 Pure Bred W hite Leghorn Hens

and Pullets

Hot Lunch at Noon' T ' ‘C ' l ^ T I / T O # All sums of $10 and under, ca>=h. Over $10, 6 month* credit X JL ^ J \ .1 yJLO # will be given on approved bankable notes, interest a t 6

JACOB BELLEd. BOYLE,Clerk

New Dry Goods, Blankets, Quilts, Outing Flannels, Sweaters, U n d er­wear, Corsets, etc., lowest prices a t Riggs’.

AUCTION by

W A S H T E N A W C O U N T Y H O L S T E I N - F R I E S I A N

C A T T L E B R E E D E R S ’

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Ypsilanti Farm s, 1% miles w est of YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN, on elec­tric line, NOVEMBER 14, a t 10 a. m. ,The sale will comprise over 50 head

from the herds of the members of this Breeders’ Club. Over h a lf of the offerings a re cows, a m ajority being either in the advanced reg istry (one or more over 25 pounds) or out of A. R. O. dams. They a re fresh or bred to high-class sires to freshen through this fall and winter. The balance of the fem ales a re heifers un­der two years.

F ifteen granddaughters and great-granddaughter? of K ing ofPontiacs and Pontiac Korndyke are among the a ttrac tive offering*.

KING PONTIAC JE W E L KORN­DYKE No. 94184 will be offered, sim-

Ely because the herd which he has eaded for four years finds i t neces­sary, to avoid inbreeding, to dispose

of him. He is a son of KING OF THE PONTIACS, the g rea test firing dairy sire w ith m ore 30-pound daugh­ters, more 40-pound daughters, and more A. R. O. daughters than any other living sire. His dam is daughter of DeKol 2d’s B u tte r Boy 3d, and his granddam a daughter of Pontiac Korndyke. He has 10 A. R. O. daughters to his credit and many more coming on to t e s t This is an unusilal opportunity for one or more breeders to procure a tested sire, gen­tle and all r igh t in every way and r igh t in his prime. ' Besides “King” will be offed 3 young sires.

O ther sires represented in the offerings in this sale are: King Lunde Pontiac Korndyke 15th No. 14248T, 1 out of a son of King of the Pontiacs and a daughter o f Pontiac Korndyke; Mercena De Nijlander No. 149043, I out of a con of Pontiac De N ijander -| (35 pounds); S ir Mina Korndyke Nq. 129169, a good son of Pontiac Korn­dyke; King H artog Elzevere No. 70642; Vale Biebe Paul De Kol No 44073; Ordelle Lyons 2d’s Count No. 35119; Woodcrest De Kol Lad No. 45103; Elzevere King of B u tte r Kings No. 71595.

GET YOUR CATALOG AND COME TO TH IS SALE. There will be a ttractive offerings fo r the dis­crim inating breeder able to .pay any pfice, fo r him who desires to ge t started in pure bred cattle a t a mod­e ra te price, and fo r him who has grade cattle and recognises the profit in using a purebred sire.

All m ales old enough will be tuberclin tested.

__Ilress WILLIAM B. HATCH, Secretary, YpsOanti, Michigan.S. T. WOOD, Liverpool, N*w York, Saks Kamger.

JBLJBS THOMPSON, A

Central Meat MarketCall C entral Meat M arket,

phone 23, tor

C l i o i o e M e a t s ,| Sm oked M eats ol all Kinds,

f Home Made Bologna and Sausages.

J Try them and y iu won’te a t any other.

FRANK RAMBO,| PHONE NO. 23.

Manure - SpreadersII you are going to need a new iManure Spreader this fall, you should buy now.The prices are sure to be higher later, and it means a big saving to buy now. We handle two of the best makes on the market today. They are the

Low 20th Century and the New Idea

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Come in and let us show you these Spreaders today, whether you buy or not.

WE CAN PLEASE YOU.

H E N R Y J . F I S H E RNorth Village Phone No.

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The Ford is an honesf car irt the fu llest sense of the term —built on an honest design w ith honest' m aterials, sold a t an honest price

I w ith the assurance of honest performance and an equally honest,1 efficient after-service. Besides, i t has been proved beyond question

th a t th e Ford is m ost economical, both to operate and m aintain., I t ' k one of the u tilities of daily life. Your order solicited.

Efficient after-service is behind every Ford car. RnrAbout, $345; Touring Car, $360; Coupelet, $560; Town Car, $545; Sedan, $695; One-Ton Truck Chassis, $600. All f. o. b. Detroit.

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