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VOL. LVI MASON. MICH.. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 24. 1914 NO. 52
MASON MAUKirrs. onl{ISTMAS (JIIMI'VI'I.\(JS. Wheat ?:1.12 to $1.M, rye ?1.00, Christmas Greetings are as old as J. l[ I EVERETT'S good dry corn 70c, oats ISc, clover i the Christian era itself, seed $0 to $8, lieans ?2.30, potatoes Yet every year tliey arc as frosli, 25c, eggs :nc, butler 27c, cattle 5c to and inspiring, and line as the greens VIJOMI.MINT IILSI.M-ISS MAS MMMM^T Cash Grocery 7c, hogs $G.2S, veal calves 7c, Iambs of lioily and evergreen tliat liave al von Late Thoughts ways typilled Clirlstmas. QUAi{TKI{ or tlKNTUISY 25 lbs. Moss Hose Flour W>c 5c to 7c, sheep 2c to IP/jC. Christmas greetings, if the lioart Rosd Bud Flour «<>« \EWS IV niUEP. goes Willi Iheni, help to thaw out tlie Gold Modal Flour «Sc Ice in wliicli a year of business has 25 lb. Henklo's Broad Flour «3c .lackson K. Elmer was born at Tuesday was the sliorlest day in frozen us. Salt Pork, per, lb 17c llie year. It's good for lite liearl. It's also Itidgoway, Orleans county, N. Y., Bacon, per lb aac good for business, since it prepares May 12, IS'IO, and died at his home for Nice Dairy Butler, lb aSc For sale, piano reasonable price. us to start another year of business in this city Dec. 16, UlM. He was Xmas Gifts Washington Corn Flakes, pkg...lOc I. .]. Kellogg. Willi a more luiman viewpoint. 1 want your butter and eggs. Con the son of Philo and Susan ti. Elmer. 'i'he Daptist Sunday school will And the yearly bustle ot the His father died when he was but sult me before soiling. Remember elect odicers no.\l Sunday. Clirislnias rusli is good because it 1 bave cholera cure for cblcUcns. brings us up under tlie wire with a two years of age. The family moved Nothing can supply these thoughts Born, Dec. 1.S, an eight-pound son nourish. Such a hurry-up (Inish to Michigan in 1853 and .settled in GEO. H. LEVERETT. to Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Prince. gives us quickening assurance for tlie the township of Home, Lenawee coun like Jewelry CSolli I'liones. If this weallior continues a few year to come, ty, where he received his early edu days tlio ice harvest will begin. Head Dickens. Dickens was a great cation in the district schools of his lover of Chri.slmas and his tales of township. Being in a .largo ineas- Tlie niolliors' pension act is costing rollicking Christmas merriment will We can help you out with a choice Ingham county about $5000 this give anybody the Cliristmas spirit. selection Entered nt the Post Ofllcc, Mnaon, year. iiB accond-claiia iniittur. And that's what you want—the Mason Iteynoids has traded his 80- Christmas spirit. . Don't consider IPubll.licd every Thnr»diiy by acro farm on section 2 5, Vevay to Christmas merely as a time of por- A. L. HOSE. Del. Ward for Lansing properly. functory gift-giving. Get the Clirist Come any time. We are ready to wait mas spirit. Let Christmas be a well- Dr. Geo. C. Moody of this city has spring of refreshment to your tired upon you. TEKMS. been appointed as a federal live and thirsty soul. On. Yenr, $1.00; ilx month., CO cent.Mhrc. slock inspector for this section. month., 3S cent.. To all our good friends and cu.s- A large shipment of vacuum clean tomers we wisli the merriest kind of ADVEUTISING KATES. ers just received. .Tust the thing for a Merry Christmas and a good New Our lidvcrtlBlnK riitc. mndc known at oBlco. a Clirlstmas present. F. W. Webb. * Year that will make tliem wax large DunlncB ciirdn $1 u lino per year. in prosperity. Ford Aseltine BuHlne.B locula five cent. i>er line ench nnd Regular communication of Mason «very Insertion. We wish we could carry this mes Miirrlnne. birth «nd doiith iioticei free. Lodge No. 70, F. & A. M. Wednes sage to you in person, and give it to ure dependent upon his own resour m KeBolutionB of rcsiiccl curd of thiinkB, etc., day evening. Doc. SO. Work in E. A. you in the form of a jjood old-fash ces he early learned the trade of a Ave ccntB ii line. degree. ^ ioned hand clasp. We believe in carpenter and was for a time a car- The Christmas Money Club at The Cliristmas and we want everybody tractor and builder. Before reach Business Cards. First .Slalo &. Savings Bank clo.ses else to believe in it. ing the years of his majority he came Doc. 2S. .Secure your membersliip be to this county and assisted his half- ATTOIINHV. fore then. * YOUI{ OlM'OltTUNITY. brother, Lyman W. Raker, to build one of the llrst frame liousos erected i'",l,I.I';Y & KlCI.I.l'-.V. I,ftwvi'.i-s, MO-liOali- L. L. Slaght of tills city lias ac in Hie lownsliip of Alaiedon. land lliiililliiK, l.iinsiiiK, .Mii:li. :»l-1.'l A few more days to join the For the Entire Family K cepted a position as traveling sales Sept. 7, ISfil, .lackson K. Elmer man for tlio Omega Separator Co. of Christinas Money Club. Come in and it. McAliTlUJit, Allornny M I-aw, Mii- talk it over. First State & Savings enlisted in Company M of the .Id Father, mother, and the children, all co-operating to L. Kon, Mluli. l.,ansing. Bank. * Michigan Cavalry and at the organ make sure of a big happy Christmas. That's what has Now wo liave fair sloigiling, the ization ot Hie company was made been going on in many Mason homes the past year. RNHMOltH, K A,, iiMiiriiiiy III. law, Ma- sergeant. This regiment loft the soil, Midi. snow of Sunday night and Jilonday D bringing llio old time appearance of jyiai sw'A.v. state under the command of Lieut- And now each member of the family has received a Col. Uobl. H. G. Minly, bearing upon Christmas check from the First State & Savings Bank. A. Itl'^.ltd.MAN. Ailoriiuy and Cdiiiisuidi' Cliristmas. Again dealii has called a sturdy , at iIIVM4;i,\N.S. throughout, along with other im moted to tlie responsible position of the foundation for college educations, special books or provements. been present to help comfort and 1st Lieut, and Adjutant ot liis regi- il. I'MiKl'.I.ANil, M. I). Gi'iicnii pnic- care for him during his last illness. meiit. He was mustered out and other articles. Often their savings will be the nucleus . tli'ii, Willi special atliMitinn lo disiiiisiis See my new arctics with knee high He was one of the pioneers of the honorably disdiargod .lune G, 18G5, Oof wimiiiii 1111(1 cOilidri'ii. OHicii, Siiulli Main for a little business of their own. stroi't. uroiind lluor. llinii'S-Si;IK) tiiliioOa. ni, lop, for boys and girls. This is the township in which he was born, his having to his credit three years and IKK) U):i:OUiiii
gent legislation and diplomatic nego A MICHIGAN COMPLAINT. tiation. If home markets are desirable and TWIiNTV VEAKS AflO. I've got a letter, parson, from my NEWS OF THE STATEJ.C.FINGERL E Published at Mason every Thursday advantageous, as they obviou.siy are, son; It's tucked here in my vest, morning by let us retain them tor American pro An' my ol' heart Is heavy as an anvil Would License House Cat, Plumbers and Tinners ducers by aTiirilT admittedly for Pro in my breast. AIJIIUIIT L, IIOSIO Extracts from llles of the News 20 MARQUICTTK, MICH. — The It tection. years ago this week: To thing the.boy whose tutur' I had once so proudly planned censing of domestic cats, already in- Supply House If foreign markets are advisable dcrsed by the .Michigan Audubon so MOST IMIAClOrUL NATION IN TIIM and advantageous, as they clearly A little two years old daughter of Should wander from the path o' right \VO|{lil>. and surely are, let us retain them Mr. and Mrs. W, B. Weeks was bur an' come to sich an end! ciety, the Lansing Cat league and Bath Tubs, Lavatories, Sinks (all and enlarge them for our American ied last Thursday. I told him when he left us, only three many woman's clubs of the state, pro kinds), Water Closets, Water Is Askfil by I'Vce-Ti'tidi'i's (o I'ay it manufacturers by reciprocity treat Married, last evening, Mr. Walter short years ago. hibition of the use of pump guns in Will' Tav (if a IIIIIKIICII Million ies. Uice of Toledo and Miss Ida Laycock He'd llnd himself a-plowin' in a killiiig water fowl, removal of bounty Heaters, Ran!,'cs, Boilers, Bath Dollars. A Tariff for revenue only has prov of Alaledon. Congratulations. mighty crooked row— Room Suiiflrics, Wroujjlit ard A dressed hog weighing 500 pounds from English sparrows and prohibl- en to bo a Tariff for insudlclont rev He'd miss his father's counsel, an' tior. of shooting game birds from au- enue only. Is displayed at J. N. Thorburn's his mother's prayer, too; Steel Water Pipe and Fittings William II. lloai'Ht In Chlciigo Amer toniobiles are four subjects on which ican, Sopl. 20. A Tariff for pudlclous Protection market this week. A line specimen, But he said the farm was hateful, an' (all sizes and kinds). would prove a Tarilf for suflicient too. he guessed he'd have to go, opinion varies widely, as shown by The mo.st peacol'iil nation in the revenue as well. ' Married, December 15, at the Pres the letters which arc pouring into the world IK to be asked to pay a war tax If a frank policy of judicious Pro byterian parsonage, by Kev. ,1. Cll/.be, I know there's big temptation for the department in connection with the TINNERS SUPPLIES of a hundred million dollars. 'Phe tection Intolllgenlly coupled with Hiram Brown and Maggie iM. Barr, youngster we have missed. recommendations to the legislature in reciprocity wore adopted by the Dem both of Leslie. But I bellved our Billy had the cour Roofing;, Eavc Trouffhinj*, Gal- United States Is not at war, and Is Fred Berlch of Lansing was con- the biennial report of William H. not in reallly a sufferer from the ocratic IJarly, the business men of age to resist; OiitPfi, state game, fish nnd forestry vani'/ed and Black Slicet Iron, America could proceed confidently •victed of selling vonslon within the An' when he left I warned him o' tlie Kuropean war. and competently to take advantage of prohibited time and was lined $fi0.n, everwait'n' snares. warden. Sheet Tiji, Sheet Copper, Sheet The nocossily for this tax is not their present unexampled opportuni including costs. That you lind like hidden sarpints in .Toseph Bentley of Wheattleld says Zinc, Sheet Iron Stove and Fur created wholly by the war In i'Jiiropo, ties. lifo'.s pathway everywbcres. he saw frogs out hopping about on But Bill he promised faithful to be Ingham Liquor Fund Probe Secret. nace Pipe and Klbows (all sixes). or even mainly by the war. They would know that those op LANSING, MICH. — Several of- portunities and advantages would the :t7th day of December. keerful an' allowed The deficit in the Income of the not be temporary but permanent. The school house in the Mains dis He'd build a reputation that'd make fleers of the Lnnsing Brewing com United States Government is due They could build factories, not to trict near Wllliamston burned early us miglity iiroud; pany were witnesses in the ".Tohn See My Display of Furnaces Inst Thursday morning. All its con partly to the reduction in the amount operate for the period of a war last But it seems as if my counsel sort o' Doc" proceedings brought by Prose tents were lost. faded from his mind. They arc ripht. of the imports into Ibis country, but ing only a few months, but lor per cutor Mayden in- an effort to punish iods of years, guaranteed by the fo.s- At the raflle at .1. N. Smith's last An' now the boy's in trouble of the also largely to a reduction of tlie tax Monday evening, W, L. Clark, E. Cul semebody for the contributions to the Let me fif,nirc with you on your lering care of a wise and farseolng very wuslest kind. wo( fund last spring. The lienrings upon Imports Into this country. Government. ver nnd Will Mead hold the lucky arc secret, in the nature of a grand wants. 'I'lie reduction in the amount of There would then be no need for numbers for a suit of clothes and Ills letters conic so seldom that I the imports the party in power at contlnuul levies of new taxes. Nelson Rouse drew a pair of jiants. somehow sort o' knowed jury Investigation, and nothinjr will be lA/est AsH Street VVaslihigton is not responsible for, There would (ben bo no occasion On next Saturday evening Mr. and That Billy was a-trampln' on a known until all of the testimony has but the reduction in the amount of for parades of iniomployed or busi Mrs. Ellery T. Itoyston of Eden will niighly rocky road. been taken. the tax on Imports (he party In pow ness proceedings in bankruptcy. celebrate their 2 5th anniversary. A But never once imagined he would J. C. FINGERLE er at Washington is rc^sponslblo for. There would then bo no need of goodly number of friends will make bow my head in slianie. Tlie reduction in tlie amount of foreign wars, oi' such regrettable it a point to be there. We expect to An' In tlie dust'd waller his ol' Grand Rapids Banker Resigns. foreign Imports is not a disadvant calamities to others, for us to gleam hear of a liappy occasion. daddy's honored name. ORAND RAPIDS, MICH. — ,Tas. age. On the contrary, it is in many For 15 years D. P. Whitmore has a prosperity which should be natur He writes from out in Michigan, tlie R. Wylle, one of the prominent bank IF YOU ARE A COFFEE LOVER respects !i distinct benolit to our ally our due. been keeping up an endowment story's mighty short, ers of Michigan, president "of the country. The reduction in the amount With our home markets secured policy in tlie Berk.shlrc life insurance I just can't tell Ills mother. It'll crush of income from lliose imports is ob company. Last week it matured and Griind Rapids National City and the CHASE & SANBORN'S through legitimate Protection and licr poor ol' heart; Citj Trust and Savings banks, had to viously a disadvantage, and a dis foreign markets obtained through In- Mr. Whitmore took $1,01 !l in clean An' so I reckon, parson, you might tinct disadvantage at this time. cash. That comes good in hard break the news to her— resign his iiositlons because of con HIGH GRADE telllgent reciprocity our production times. It would appear, therefore, that would be immense and our prosperity Bill's in the legislature; but he tinued ill heallli. Dudley R. Wallers, the party In jiower in Washington correspondingly great. i Frank If. Williams and Miss Nan- doesn't say what fur. receiver for the Pero Marquette, has COFFEES AND TEAS was not responsible for such benellts with a merchant marine to iietle S. Tripp were married last ev- —Hoy K. Moulton in the Grand been spoken of as his successor. as there are in this present situation, carry our products to all parts of the «""\K; Dec"oc. . 11)19, at the residence ofi DiJ. Rapids News.. but was and is responsible for the disadvantages of the situation. world and a mighty navy to protect • Whl nioro, Uev. ,T. Cllzbe omciat- Abbott to Be Ann Arbor P. M. Will Win our ships and our shores, America '"«• ""^ I^*^'''''!'? ^?'' "• 5'"''^S?"'' Catari'li Cannot Uc Cured ANN ARBOR, MICH. — H. .T. Why cannot the Oemocratlc party could be In the dominant position only immediate friends and relatives frankly confess tlmt its Free-Trade which the enterprise and Intelligence being present. They at once took up with local applications, as they can Abbott, one.of the best known Dem theories are a nilstalte, have always of its people, if not of its Govern their residence at their home on not reach the seat of the disease. Ca ocratic politicians in this county and Your Heart proved to be a nilstalco and are now ment, eiitlllo it to hold. North B street, which had been pre tarrh is a blood or constitutional dis former register of deeds and member proving to bo a mistalte? Why cannot the Democratic party viously furnished. ease, and In order to cure it you must of the Democratic stale central com- Why cannot tlie IDemocratIc party, SOLD ONLY BY abandon Its tliooi'ies which have ,Iay Miliar had a narrow escape take internal remedies. Hall's Ca midoe, will be Ann Arbor's next post which has many claims upon popular proved false, its policies which have from serious injury last Monday. tarrh Cure Is taken internally, and conlideiice, abandon the visionary While tilling the gasoline stove at his acts directly upon the blood and mu master, his appointment having been proved fatal? rp.ccmmeiided to President Wilson by and impracliual policies which will, Why can it not cease forever tax home on Lansing street, his clothes cous surface. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is if persisted in, forever deny it popu ing our producers, forever restrict on the left side became saturated. He not a quack medicine. It was pre Congressman S. W. Beakcs. P.J. Greve lar conlldenco and support? ing, restraining and retarding our liglited a niatcli in the usual way and scribed by one of the best physicians Mason, Mich. War or no war, the Democratic production? Why can it not embark in a moment was in llames. The lad In this country for years and is a Customs Officer Drops Dead. Party's policies were proven failures. upon a new and enlightened policy of rushed into the yard, but his motlier regular prescription. , It is composed PORT HURON, MICH. — ,7amo3 Heforo war in iOiiroi)e was declar secured a heavy sheet and smothered of the best tonics known, combined Intelligently encouraging our produc Aicock, who for the jmst thirty years ed, or even contemplated, the bal tion, or adequately transporting our the llames. He was quite badly with the best blood purifiers, acting ance of trade was showing immensely production and of constantly en- burned but Dr. .Tenklns, wlio was directly on the mucous surfaces. The had been in the employ of the cus Travel Via Electric Railway ; against this country. Our export larging and retaining the markets called, apprehended no serious re. perfect combination of the two Ingre toms department at Sarnia, dropped balance had decreased over a quarter dients is what produces such wonder dead while on duty in tlio general of a billion dollars in seven months. for our [iroductioii at home and suits Michigan Unitedf Traction [Co. abroad? According to the olliclal report just ful results in curing catarrh. Send olllces In the post ofllce hnilding. Mr. Ciold was l)elng exported in qiuin- issued by the census bureau Ingham for testimonials free. INTERURBAN SCHEDULE '^ tlly. In tbjs way lie progress and pros Aicock was about seventy years of perity for the party, for the Govern county has a total population of 3!),- F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Subject to clianse wilhoul, notice. The income tax had proved InsuUi- ()89, to which number Mason contrib nge. Heart failure was tlie cause of ment and for the nation, Toledo, Ohio. death. Inell'ecLSept. Ki, IDM. ciont to compensate for the reduction uted 1,7(11 and of this number 1,C32 Sold by druggists, price 75c. In the Tariff revenues. are native Americans, with :12!)!) TRAINS LEAVE MASON Take Hall's Family Pills for con FOR JACKSON li^orelgn goods were coming into AIM; YOUK KIDNKV.S WICIJI/.' foreign birth. stipation.—Adv. Saw Amputates Arm. FOR LANSINQ our country, perhaps not in sulllclent ADRIAN, MICH. — While oper Locals Llniltod 1,01'als' Liinllud! quantities to raise an adequate gov- Many Mason I'eople Know the Inipor- i'i{i:rAi{ATioN I'oi; WAIL LIGHTING THE COUNTUY UOAl) ating a circular saw on a farm near A. m. A. JI. A. JI. A. M ornniontal revenue under the reduc lance of lleallliy Kiilneys. * 5:4!) ed rate of taxation, but certainly in here, I3rnest ITpdyke, aged tliirty- t (i:ll suflicient nuantltios to derive our President Wilson in his message There Is hardly any necessity to ei^bU caught his right (land in the * ();47 (i;58 7;5-> American laborers of employment. The kidneys lilter the blood. took a decided stand against increas prove that lighting of this kind is de 8:42 8;nr. i):Ol »:52 ing the American army and cast saw The member was completely 10:.|2 10:05 11:01 ll:5-2' American men out of employment 'IMiey work night and day. sirable. Any one who has driven an severed at the wrist. Surgeons were Well kidneys remove impurities. douiit on the effectiveness of any ad automobile along a country road at r. Ji, 1'. M. r. SI. 1'. Ji. were p.aradlng the streets. forced to amputate tlic arm near the Weak kidneys allow Imprltios to ditions which we might make to the night knows that it is desirable. Any 12:42 12:05 1:01 1;52' American business men in bank navy. He even went so far as to op- elbow because of its lacerated condi ruptcy wore putting up tlielr shut multiply. one who has driven a farm wagon 2:42 2:05 ;J:0l ;{;52 No kidney ill should be neglected. .pose any investigation by Congress of along a country road at night, and tion. 4:42 4:05 5:01 5:52: ters. the preparedness of America. American factories were closing There is possible danger in 'I'ouiusT vhvn. J'_ WOULD CLEAR BOOKS Mason Tourist club met for its .second social evening on Wednesday, CORRESPONDENCE Dec. :i(i, at the home of Dr. and Mrs. FLORIDA 0. H. Freeland. Tlie sui)jcct for the TRAVEL ON THE MAQNIFICENT OF ABUSED STATUTE evening was American Art, and was in charge of tlio following commit Items Gathered by NEWS Staff about the County tee; iMrs. I. ,1. Kellogg, Mrs, O. H. SOUTH ATLANTIC LIMITED tcl Used In Domestic Trou': I-'reeiand, Mrs. A. G. tiaii, Mr. and Solid Through Electric Lighted Train to Jacksonville Over the ^: .r Mrs. G. W, Bristol, Miss Titus, Miss Winnie Titus, Miss Margaret Soil- LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE R. R. KIVfJSLANI). to Extort BiaJlcnai'. man, Mrs. V. K. Thomas. The house Obaorvallon Slaoping Car fniiii lMiii;lniiiili. ;\(JUOSS TIM'; fi.\i:i)KN. was decorated in Ciiristnias colors, DriiwIiiK li.Mim l^li'dpliin i.iir.s rniniClnclnniill uiid Lonlsvllli'. and re-productlona of famous pic I.oiii; limit, WilliI'r'rdiirl.sl.'ric.licl.son .siilr iliiily. Siiorl, llnill. |ioinosiM!l(ors' Tiol<«lson Mrs. W. Stevenson was in Lansing .suits lli'.sl mill lliird 'I'uosiliiy nf i-iirii inonlli. Wviln for I'lii'llior purlldiiliirs, or Horn, 1.0 Mr. und Mrs. WlUiiun OWOSSO, Miril. — At n moot- tures were displayed throughout the Cliii-k, Doc, in, a nliio pound girl. Wednesday for the llrsl time in nine liliisli'iiliiil foldi'i's iif t'liii'iilii (II' till' liimiitlfiil tlnlf Coiisl rii.sorls. mj; the I'rosnculors' and SlU'rilTs' as- house, in tiio absence of Mr. lie- years. mans, the nieet'ng was called to or P. E. WEISS, T. P. A., 102S Maiestic Building, DETROIT, MICH. Doll Dolblo wiis In Liinsing la.sl Mrs. George Ferris is nursing Mrs. S(H-lation at Lansing the ins! of the SiiUirdiiy. der by Mrs. Bail, the vice president Glenn Arnold and baby boy, Lansing montli, IcKlslation will iirobabiy l)n of the club, and then turned over to Mrs. Miiry Magiilro spent Sunday Road. f(,i-n.uintc(l for tiu! enisuro of n slatnic tlio commlitoe. ,at \V. 0. Magulro'H. ST. OliOUl), FliOKII>.\. Mosdanies Carl and Burr T-Iarton- lUiu on the i)ool;s wliicli is dosci'lbod lOlli.s llaynes and family vLsltcd at l)erB wont to Gratiot county to their Mrs. Kellogg read part of a paper Frank Scutt's Sunday. new liomes. by Prcsucntor .losopli 11. Collins of siie liad prepared on Art, using the lCd[tor of The News: 1 will write i\lrs. Arthur Magulro and mother The Xmas oxorcisos will bo held at this comity as an invitation to blaclv paragraphs which descril)cd art in a short letter to let the people ot PALACE MARKET wore at Wni. Townsend's, northeast tlie aiistract and those wlilcii refer No. 11 Wednesday. School is closed mail. Ingham ouiity know what a place we •of Mason, last Friday night. red to American art, saying tiiat tlie Wc nmkc a specialty of until .Ian. '1. Tills statute provides that in case evening's work would be coiillned to northern people have found iiero In W. L. Hurd and wife of Eaton of inndolity, only tlie husband of the the arts of painting and sculpture. Osloila county, city of wonder. .NOI;TIIK.\ST AUKKLIUS. Rapids spent Sunday with her par woman involved, or the wife of tlio ents, W. E. Roilows and family. Miss Nina Bristol gave a most ex St. Cloud has 2,500 inhabitants Fresh Fish man may niaUo complaint. At any cellent paper, and after a short intro Mr. and Mrs. 11. It. Davis and son W. Nash and wife were Lansing pernianontiy, 2,000 goers and comers tinif; diiriiv,!! the examimUlnn in jus duction In wiiicli slie desribed some just for the winter. St. Cloud has a Fridays and Saturdays, also Bruee visited iMr. and Mrs. 11. Uod-visitors Saturdiij'. of the iiiasterpiecos of the world, jnan In Mason Sunday. Cliarlcs 'I'wltchell entertained Ills tice court or even when llic. qasc la lovely atmosphere and a (Ino clover whicli sliQ herself liad seen in tiio people from all over every state in Choice Poultry Loren Sweet and llattie llowo vKs- son from Lansing Thursday night. ready to go to tlie jury in tlin circuit great ICuropean galleries, she con Father Higlomire preached at court, the coinplalnlng witness, willi- the union. Many have come from itod Mr. and Mr.s. Victor Sltts Sun fined tlie remainder of lier paper to a Michigan this winter, more than day. Grace ciiurch Sunday morning. out tlio consent or sanction of oltiior Our desire is to please you history of Wliistler and his work. common. The corporation of St. Call and see Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Cliapnian and V. A. Winslow and wife and Alva tlip court or the prnsHCUtor may witli- She had several copies of his works Cloud Is 2 miles east and west, 1 mile daughter Dortlieu of Lansing are nianciiard were callers at C. Park diiiw the action and free the defend wiiicii she obtained at the slate lib north and soutli, surrounded by lakes spending the holidays with friends er's, Bailey bridge, Sunday. rary at Lansing, from whicli many Tohopekiga (dellnitlon sleeping ;here, ant. Money is used more freely to end such ciises liian in any otiiers. obtained a better idea of Ills pictures tiger) on the north of city, 1) miles H. S. Rodman Mr. and Mrs. Grovor Miller visited ('OLUIVIIIIA ItOAl). and their meaning than they could long, 8 miles wide, a great (ishing Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Uoltc Sunday. have done without the details she resort and bathing place. The soil Kay Howe is spending the holidays Docombor 22, 19T't. ANN ARBOR STUDENTS DRY liad given. A picture of the artist's is ot white sand adopted to oranges, -with ills uncle, Kd Howe, in Dans- Frank Hcrrlck rides in a now Port mother attracted much attention, as lemons, grape fruit, pine apples, ban vlllo. did one of Whistler himself. Miss anas and garden truck all kinds. land cutter. Court Puts Ban on Liquor Drinking in Klghtcon jolly neighbors mot with Scliool began in Dist. No. •! last Bristol spoke of our Mason artist. Sweet potatoes grow very easy but FARMERS' BANK Mr. and Mrs. H. it. Davis last wooii University. Miss Clara P. Smith, and showed not good tor family use, coarse and Wednesday. No need to say wo had week witli Mr. Carter as tcaclier. The some of lier pictures in which all Oldest State Bank children of the school have prepared ANN ARBOR, MICH. — By af watery, and weigh from 1 to 25 lbs. in Ingham County .u jolly lime. a line program for a Christmas tree were interested. In some localities orange groves are firming the conviction of Lawrence loaded down with golden fruit, hang this week Saturday evening, Doc. 20. Damni, nn Ann Arbor saloon l;eeper Miss Winnie Titus gave a short I»1cii(ally Unhappy—I'hysicnlly, Dull All that have presents are requested biography of St. Gaudens, the sculp ing In great clusters like apples. CAPITAL I|I50,000.00 foiind guilty of selling liquor to Uni- Tlie liver, sluggish and inactive, to bring them and put them on the tor, describing in detail some of his Tlie farmers are bringing in their first shows itself in a mental state— tree Saturday afternoon. The pro vorsity of i\iichigan students, the stale most noted pieces, afterwards show winter products to sell at a low price, gram will commence promptly at 8 supreme court placed the ban on un ing pictures of them wlilch made her L. B. McARTHUR President iinhappy and critical. Never is there from their September planting. They J. K. ELMER Vice President joy in living, as when the stomach o'clock. dergraduate liquor driniilng in the uni descriptions more realistic. will plant in February and March tor Miss Sellman told of Sargent and A. J. HALL Cashier .nnd liver are doing their work. Keep Herbert Norrls Is homo for a two versity town. summer use. The crackers don't L. R. WHITE Assistant Cashier your liver active and healtliy l)y us weeks' vacation from Ferris institute. 'The statute forbids the sale of Innes, and In addition to telling of know how to farm as we do up north; ing Dr. King's New Life Pills; they Lon Bolster and wife and sister their lives, gave a detailed account they raise the razor back hog mostly CMiipty the bowels freely, tone up your Ina are home tor a two weeks' vaca linuor to any student in attendance of some of their pictures. Ligiil re to sell to town people, ted on sweet Three per cent. Interest paid on stomach, cure your constipation and tion from Kalamazoo. at any public or private Institution of freshments were served during the potatoes and roots in the llelds and savings deposits. Money to purify the Ijlood. 25c at druggist. Mrs. George Rusch is visiting her ler.rning in the state," said Justice Os- social hour, and cards bearing a sprig roads and finish off on peanuts, it is loan. Call and see us. —Adv. sons and family of Lansing this week. trnndcr, who wrote the opinion. The of holly and a Christmas' quotation so tough our stomachs will not di C. H. Smith and tam'ly were In court explained that adult students were passed, each one reading a gest. Their beef, tlio same, we get a Directors—J. K. Elmer, A. J. Hal). quotation. Lansing Friday. Wfuld bo denied drinking privlleSes car load once a week from Chicago, Geo. M. Hoyt, A. L. Rose, L, B. Mc- TOWN IJXi;. but it don't last long at a high price. George Wilson entertained com the same as citizens living in a local At roll call eacli one told his fav Arthur, A. I. Barber, C. W. Clark pany Sunday. orite picture, Its author and other in The water is very poor; cannot drink and A. McDonald. December 10, .19H. opton county may bo denied rights it unless lee Is put In. It conies up Gar 'i'hompson of Tawas' City is Mrs. Buck is caring for Urn. 0. P. teresting tacts. This brought out Osborno; who is improving in health. onjoyod by their neighbors in an ad mucli concerning American art not as warm as dish water. It comes oft spending the holidays with his par joining county. mentioned in the papers and the ar from palm roots and Bernoodia ents l>ere. tistic gamut was run from the sub grass. There is some line locations Otio Spross and wife are in Lan Gore, Ga., P. A. Morgan had occa lime to the ridiculous. and line (lowers, nice cottages and S% Income sing today. sion recently to use a liver medicine BELIEVED LUMPY JAW CASE Tlie club adjourned for the holiday bungalows all over St. Cloud, two Money placed with us nets the in Dwigiit Barnes is visiting his fam and says of Foley Cathartic Tablets: vacation, and the next meeting will main streets. New York avo. and ily liere. "They thoroughly cleansed my sys Penn ave. where business is done, vestor this rate and he receives Inspector Discovers Disease Much be.held with Miss Ellie Beech an his Glen Oleason, wife and son of Lan tem and I felt like a new man—light .lannary 13, :i!)15. one large hotel, 80 room house St. sing are visiting Mrs. Gleason's par and free. They are the best medi Dreaded by Live Stock Men. Cloud, one small hotel, one national Checks Semi-Annually ents, Mr. and Mrs. Win. Wade. cine I have ever taken for constipa iMUSKEGAN, MICH. — What is bank, $50,000 capital. Eight denom Doan's Regulets are recommended Miss Prances Tlionipson of this tion. They keep the stomach sweet, bilieved to he a case of lumpy ja\f, fi inations, cliurch poor. It lias been on the first day ot each .Tanuary place and .lolin Gohr of Lansing were by many who say they operate the coldest for the last four days ever liver active, bowels regular." For contagious cattle disease feared by and July. And he can get his married Saturday. sale by Lougyoar Bros, and L. H. easily, without griping and without known here in li'lorida. money at any time Harrison.—Adv. cattle men as greatly as the hoof and had after effects. 25c at all drug mouth trouble, was found in Muske- stores. • H. V. TALLMAN. on 30 Days* Notice SOUTH AUICI.IilUS AM) NOIM'll goi' county by W. J. Mickel, state 0.\0.\1»A HAWLEY. E. F. Uoyston and wife spent Sun day at John Uoyston's. i&'^H Green Stamps with Every Cash Purchase Miss Nina Ilowery expects to leave American Savings Bank Wednesday for Ohio to visit reiii- tivcH and friends. Mrs. li. li. iioyston went to .lack- of Lansing Announcing Central Michigan *s Mammoth Cut Price Merchan son Thursday. dise Event NOItTIIIOAST LKSIili:. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Straiglit spent Sunday with the former's brother, Pays 4% Interest Dan Straight, and family. Knapp^s Great Annual January Mrs, ii. li. Cady spent Friday night and Saturday with her daughter, Mrs. Clem Higdon. Mrs. .lake Kelley returned to her ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS home last Saturday after her being at Clearance Sale Leslie for an operation. Vern Staniieid and wife spent last 'i'luirsday at Mason spending part of the day witii the former's sister, Mrs. Capital $100,000.00 Surplus $25,000.00 i..,oona Updykc. Starts Monday, December 28 Mr. and Airs. V. W. Staniieid enter tained company Monday and Tues day. DIRECTORS A large 4-page circular is being distributed throughout the Will. Carred and Mrs. Lena Hudler spent last Friday at J. Lowdens, Mrs. J. W. Bailey, Pres. J. W. Bailey & Co. greater section of Central Michigan. If you fail to receive one iiudlor's son returning homo witli llieiii for a visit. Wm. Brogan, Pres. Dancer-Brogan Co. write for it. D. E. Bates, Treas. Reo Motor Car Co. PI.MO liAlilO I'AKK. H. F. Harper, Sec.-Treas. W. K. Prudden & Co, ^Vfhc Stnrc. that r/ow n.s H ndycrtiscs'__ ^ 1^ Remember the Date Remember the Date A .Merry Xmas to one and ail. M. R. Carrier. Northrop, Robertson & Carrier Co. V. A. Jaiuus IS visiiing nis son Nel W. S. Foster, Attorney f December 28, December 28, son in iNapuieon. JW.KNAPP^ Mrs. Hav.el tiroen and little son is W. K. Prudden, President 1914 CENIIUI, MICII.KKMAUU: STOllE 1914 visiting in Lansing. Chas. E. Toms, Cashier LANS/NO MtcrH i\lrs. aaraii wever of Okemos was the guesL oi lier son Uoo., Saturday. U. li. .lames of Lansing is wun his brother ilus weeic. INCJIIAiVI A.NDEA'I'O.V. TRY THIS. Ciuis. uoman and wife have been When the "blues" get you nnd yuu OIUTUAKV. od tlio funeral. 'l''lioro wore also olh- tutod „by a dlssoluto, cruel, or lin onteriainiug a baljy g;rl since the Tlie Forcget-Mo-Not Club met with er relatives besides a largo circle of falthfiil partner, Clin see nothing iilii'iiil lint a drciiry .i;)Lii. Mr. and Airs. S. Kolb last Friday old age, with illiiinicd niliiil iiiiil dulhiiV Josoiili iMIllon McCoiiil) w:is born friends and neighbors, who joined "A percentage is duo, too, to tlio Mrs. Kuby 'i'owner, wlio lias been night. There were T.'i in attendance. witli their synipalliy and respect. j greater carelessness witli which mar sick wiUi iiiu yellow jaundice, is so as fiiciiltles; when the whole sclunne of in CI(;n().seo county, JIlcli., October IH, Tlic next club meeting will be held at life seems iiwry. when yon IIMI,I; SO riages are made under our changing to ue up again. the home of Coo. St. Clair, Jan. 1 fi. ISiri. Ho. was Iho son ol' Cliestor social practices. Wo have removed ardently for the losi youth iinil the- iind Piiloliii (Ijiiko) McConib; the Itl'^nilCTIO.N I.V l;IVI.\ \ViUI>li'i/IO (JOIJ.MCK.S. sing wore the guests of Mr. and Mrs. ed from your expel •<'iice and seek tO' out, and lie oullst.od In the Fifth S. Kolb for the week end. war-tliiio soaring of food prices. «;OKKI':0TI.\r big bulk powders of inferior of advancement that, instead of Enos Burden, Richard Stevens and Ills men by the overland stage route quality are never dependable—never C'hecU.s Ui'oup Iii.staiuly. leinmiade anil crackiM'jack liisto Just froMi Denver to Salt Ijako, and during arousing our envy, sliould stimulate C. Poxson are on the sick list. certain. Conscciuontly failure as fre- us to emulation. You know croup is dangerous, And There will be no prayer meeting at the saino as ever, while the inonkeys- tills period they sav.' nuicli duty, al- (luontly as success follows their use. thoiigli not so exposed to danger as Wo can give to tills coiiimunity all you ouglit to know too, tne sense of AlillvillV. cliurch until further notice. 1111(1 ponies have not lost their charm. in the thick of battle. So remember when tempted to save of the qualities that we,so greatly ad security mat comes from liaving Itev. 11. H. Cheney will begin re Thursday, Oct. 1. will bo fJlilldren's by securing greater baking powder mire in otliers; we cai^bring to it the Foley's Honey and Tar Compound in vival mootlngs at Millville next Sun day lit the lOatoii County i'^'iilr. wlimi Mr. McConil) was mustered out of hulk that you sacrillce quality and prosperity and the health that so the House, it cuts the tiiick mucus day evening. all cliililreii under sixteen will be iid- service March .10, .ISfiG, having boon invite hake-day failures that usually powerfully attract population to oth and clears away the phlegm, stops Aliss Metta Ilayner of Aurelius, liiKted free; liiit, better yet, take them Willi the army two years, two months cost many times the price of the er comnuuiities; we. can educate our the strangling cough and gives easy Lyio Clark of Ypsilanti and itay »:very day. • If you are so lllll'ortunatl^ and :10 days. i3aklng Powder. people to so full an understanding of breaming aiut quiet sleep. Every Bravender of Lalngsburg arc spend Many Trust Brand Baking Pow ;is not to have ii child borrow one for liosides himself two of his broth our resources and so great an appre user is a friend. For sale by Long- ing the holidays under the parental Ihe oecaHlmi. Vou will he widl repaid. ers served in the war of rebellion. ders sell at a lilgher price than Calu ciation of tlio advantages of our com year iiros. and L. H. liarrison.—Adv. roof. The one, diaries died at Howling met, liut none possess the higli munity tliat they will have for it tlie Aliss Hazel Cooper of Webberville Clreen, Ky., a victim of black measles. quality of this excellent leavoner—us same love and loyalty that are at tlie visited her motlier, Airs. Nina Kelley, is conclusively proven by the fact ,SOLTli l\(iHAM AM) AOIITH Ornithological Weddings. The other, Ozro S., wa.s several times foundation of the proserlty and pro BUNKEKHIIiL. last Sunday. refused on volunteering for enllst- that Calumet received bigliest awards gress of other communities. Miss Berylo Gillam liad a Christ There was a poetic itpprofjriateness- World's Pure Food 33xposition, Chi iiioat on account of his youth, but a In all that affects the prosperity We wish a Merry Christmas and a mas tree witli appropriate exercises In two Weddings which were celo- little strategy on the boy's part llii- cago, Chicago; Paris Exposition, and general welfare of our commun at the school house last Tuesday ev bnited in London some time ago in ally onabled him to bo accepted in the I'^rauco, March, mi 2. liappy New ^'ear lo ail. ity our citizens must be united in Mrs. Harriot Saylos left tlie first of ening, which was very good and en which Mr. Bird li'cl .Mlsa Linnet to the Third Michigan Cavalry. After his To pay more than is asked tor opinion as well as in interest, We joyed by all. iiltar and Air, U'rcu was linked to Miss discliargo he spent some time in the Caluniet simply means a useless this week for Joiiet, Hi., to spend the are all interested in succeeding and winter with her granddaughter, Mrs. Tlie Gleaners elected the following Nlghtingala west, becoming familiar with frontier waste of money. To pay less, and our success as individuals is indis- Winnifred Craig. oUlcers; W. Holmes, C; H. Hayner, Although It Is seldom that one come.'j life in its roughest and crudest state. ol)tain an inferior powder, means tlie solubly linked with our success as a V. C; Mrs. H. Bravender, Chap.; On rotui'uing to Michigan ho stayed useless waste of baking materials, community. If we make our com Mrs. B. B. Backus visited at Mrs. across two of these "ornithological" at tlie homo place for two years, but Wm. Sharland's Friday. Cr. M. Burden, Sec, treas.; Mrs. H. weddings in one day, they are by no- Order a can of Calumet. Save a munity what it should be we shall Hayner, Lee; C. Smith, Con.; Mrs. the BohomUm spirit was still upon substantial sum on the price asked find it more easy to succeed in our Misses Flora and Ora West were Dicuna uncommon. him, so he went out as faV as Kansas, in Mason Saturday. Nina Kelley, Conductress; Mrs. Daisy for Trust Brands when you buy it. individual undertakings and our suc Stocking, organist. On one occasion a church near Dub then to Missouri, where he carried on Save the (lour, sugar, butter and cess when once achieved will be more Mrs. Charles Garrett was moved to lin was the scene of an interesting mar the cooper's business, His first mar the home of her parents in Dansville eggs so often wasted by Big Can Pow substantial and enduring. JANSINO ItOAD. riage in which 11 Mr. Crowe was united riage took place while in the last ders—when you use it. You are Narrow, selfish interests must be Monday. named state. His wife was Miss Mrs. F. Teachout visited at Lee to a Miss Crowe by the Rov. Canon sate in ordering Calumet, in trying subordinated to the broader and Born, to Glenn Arnold and wife, Peacock, the wedding march being Lucy E. Battle and their marriage it, in testing the truth of these claims more generous interests of the com Warlle's Sunday. was soleninized Christmas 1874. By Floyd Warlle and niother were in Friday, Dec. 18, an 8 lb. son. played by Mr. Itouk. Much more re for if you are not thoroughly satisfied munity and we must exchange per Mrs. Albert Bateman of Lansing * this union a daughter, Mablo L. was the purchase price will be r.efunded Lansing Wednesday. markable, however, was a matcl> born. sonal shortsight for community long- was an over Sunday visitor at Alex by your local dealer. sight. We must not allow the penny Earl Miller is on the gain. which set Edinburgh In a flutter some We are much pleased to learn that Canedy's. years since. The bride was Mian Hen After a time Mr. McComb returned In buying a can of Calumet send on its .way to our personal pocket to Ben Keeler and family were vis'- again to the state of his birth and the slip found in the one-pound can obstruct the vision for the dollar that Guy West, who has been very sick rietta Peacock, and the bridegroom was with malaria fever since being sta tors at Chas. Whlpp's, on the Dlmon- , settled in Cheboygan county, where to the Calumet Baking Powder Co., will fall into the community pocket. daie road, Sunday. Robin Sparrow. The Iter. Mr. Daw he located land from the government. Advertising Department, Chicago, There is no place for littleness In the tioned at Mission, Texas, with the performed the marriage ceremony; standing army, is much better and The L. A. S. will meet with Chas. Here he remained about seven years, 111., and you will receive one of their relation of the citizen to his com Shaull and wife Wednesday, Jan. 6. Philip Hawk officiated ua best maa during which time he was married to handsome 72-page Cook Books, il munity. able to resume some of the duties put and Miss Larkins us principal brides Emma B. Hill, their marriage taking lustrations in colors, and a book that upon them although he is not very strong yet. ALLOHIN. maid, while the marriage lines wero place January 1, 1882. will be a guide to economy in the kit A CURRENCY TO MEET BUSINESS extracted by John Crow, session clerk. Mr. McComb with his'wife and son chen. NEEDS. Miss Neola Seymour Is visiting her Fred G., (born July 7, 1885) moved BREAK O' DAY. "It is worthy of further remark," friend. Miss Helen Boles, near Grand adda a reporter, "that the sexton's from Cheboygan in the fall of 1886 THE PACTS ABOUT DIVORCK. The greater the Industrial activity Rapids. to the farm In Vevay, where he re and the resulting amount of com Frederick Mierndorf. and grand George VanOrden and sister. Miss name is Raven, one of the pew openers mained until selling out and moving Ida M. Tarbell, the well-known mercial paper, the greater addition daughter visited the former's son, Edna VanOrden, were In Fowlervllle Is a Gull, and the assistant sexton la a to a larger farm in Alaiedon in the journalist, contributes to the Janu win be made to the outstanding cir Ffed M., In Wheatfleld last Tuesday. Sunday. Ben-ry Laycock."—i..ondon Tatler. spring of 1907. The family was ary Woman's Home Companion an culating notes, and thus for the flrst Frank Mierndorf of Wllliamston Erwin Hills Is spending a few days hardly settled when the father was article entitled "What Women Are time In the history of the country visited his grandparents the fo're part taken with the terrible affliction from with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Echoes Made to Order. Really Doing"—an article in which will find currency expanding as the of last week. Mrs. Vernon Hodge. which he never recovered. she answers with facts and figures need for Its expands. The Federal Are you uware that It Is possible ta Mrs, C. Donald visited her mother, Miss Bernlce Grant Is visiting rela make echoes? It is, Indeed, easier to Three more children were added to some disturbing questions as to the Reserve Board began business by es Mrs. Rlsch, last Wednesday. status of women in the United States tives In Fowlervllle. nuike than to destroy them. the family circle, Daniel, Ray and tablishing discount rates which look John HasklU and wife attended the Bert SmSth was In Wllliamston Phebe May born Sept. 20, 1886, and todays. Miss Tarbell has made a ed very high uiitil the abnormal war wedding of Will Smith and Alice In the past men built their great tern- careful study of the Thirteenth Cen conditions were considered. These Monday. plea and cathedrals with no thought of Benjamin Harrison, born July 25, Hasklll last Wednesday evening. Remington Monroe has bought a 1892; all born at the family home In sus In order to get at the truth in re discount rates varied from 5% per Mrs. Chas. Mierndorf visited her acoustics. Hence, when the preacher Vevay.. gard to marriage, divorce, child bear cent In New York and Philadelphia horse. sister, Mrs. Claud' Smith, who Is Several from this place attended preache '• •;i:V';v-••"''•••"••"•'•"•"•"•'"'• "•'''"•''•"'"'•'"•'"''•'•''"•• •'••''' iSigjiiiiiiiii^ INGHAM COUNTY NEWS, DECEMBER 24, 1914 A.XOTHICIt VKTKIIAN GONI^. r*" I'EIlSONAIj MKNTION. Joseph Milton McConib was born In Genesee county, N, Y., Oct, 11!, Coax Your Hens to Lay in Winter .18'15. Little is known of his boy Echoes of the Civil War hood, it Is ii matter of record that Isn't it worth while to have your hens lay eg'gs in win Mrs. K. A DciiHinore was In Lan- he enlisted In .Tan. :1864, while yet . .•..•..•..•;.«Mt*4.4*.ft*.«..«..«Mt..«,.t. SCARBOROUGH, EMGLAND Dad knows that Christmas is com THE MAN WHO RULES THE WORLD TODAY ing and so does your mother and Origin of the Yule Log your brothers and sisters. And we Fashionable Summer R'.sort all know just what will please you most. So, from present appearances, Shelled by the Teuton Fleet. As Told in Old Virginia you are not to be disappointed, But you seem to have the wrong point of view about Cliristnias, honey, and I One lime an old black man was would all mix up wid de kiudleation want to .sot you right. Christmas is sitting in his little cabin 011 a moun colors or do rainbow, en crackle en the season for giving. Got that? The tain side on Christmas eve listening crackle an Up higher en bigger on real happiness lies in planning what to tlio cold wind howl over a world l)iggor, de crackles a gettin' louder you are going to do for others and of snow and wisliiug that bo had a on louder, en de blazes gitten' bigger then doing it. The real Christmas (ire to warm him, when he lieard the en bigger." spirit (Ills only tlioso wlioso thoughts cry of a liltlo child away out in the As tlie old man watched all this are upon tlie happines.s they hope to cold. The old man liobbled to tlio display, suddenly and magically ap l)estow upon their friends and upon door and looked out across the snow peared a table covered with a Clirist- the unfortunates who think they have and tlio wind came rusliing in and inas feast such as had never been no friends. Its not so much wiiat you made him shiver so that his "onliost spread before ills eyes. And never give as to wiiom you give. There's a two teof" chattered with cold. Again again was ho liungry or cold and poor woman living around the cor tlio cry caiiio across the snow and ho never was there a Christnlas in old ner. No one is thinking of what she Virginia after that without the Yule would like for Christmas. She'd be wished with all his power of longing log and the Christmas Child to give that ho could go out and llnd the un the second happiest woman in town it light and warmth. — Sunday if you were to walk in on her early fortunate little one; for the plantivo Tribune. cry of a little child always goes Christmas morning with a gift of straight to the heart. A third time somotliing warm for her to wear. The COLII5SI0 V(m IIOU.SKKiOKIMOIJS. happiest woman would be my little llio cry camo and a miraculous power girl who brings it. 'I'liere is old seemed to till the old man's veins. There will bo offered at the Mich Black ,lini, who shovels the snow and His muscles became tense aiul strong carries out the ashes. Never thought and he stepped from the threshold igan Agricultural College beginning of him? Well think of him to the into tlio snow, the crutch falling back .January •!, an eight weeks course for extent of a pair of warm mittens. In the cabin. women designated as the Housekeep Knit them yourself. Don't know In an instant ho was walking over ers Course. This course was offered how? Your motlier will start you. the e.\panso of frozen snow with an It will be twice as much fun for you activity ho had not possessed since lie for the first time last winter and and old Jim's look ot gratitude when used to "go ter camp luoetin'." By the attendance was very gratifying. you give them to liini will repay you and by ho came to a little child The work is intensely practical and more than all the due phrases of all caught in a snowbank. He lifted tlio helpful and is given at the same time the young SQUirts to whom you send child and as its little form touched as the short courses in agriculture neckties they won't wear and pincus- him a now strength came into him for men. ions they won't use. Try Dad's pro and the small burden seemed to give The work offered will include scription, Daughter, and you'll be the liiiu wings to speed liack to the little cooking, sewing, vegetable and land happiest girl in town Christmas day. cabin. Ho put the child on the bed, scape gardening, poultry and subjects You will find that it isn't getting drew the ragged quilt around It and bearing directly upon the home, such what you want for Christmas that looked about to see if there niiglit be as home decoration, sanitation, nurs makes tor real joy. You'll discover Photo by American Vmau AuHociatton. a piece of furniture of which he could ing and reading. This course will be soniolhlng. Tliat's right. Start now. ••••••»••••••••••••»•••»•» an' presents! Knuey If I could give make a lire to warm his small guest. one ot great value to the housekeep mother a present! I know what I'd. At that instant be saw a great log ers ot Michigan and will furnish * • like to K've 'er-oiie of I hem cnses to roll across the tliresbold and into the those whose husbands decide to take Your Cold is Dniigerou.s Ik'onk it up 'old needles and thiinlile an' ;i hodkiii FERRIS URGES CHilNGE (ireplaco. „The little child was look one of the courses in agriculture, an —jiow. IA Real Christmas f whleh I saw at '.Aiiiiltiin's ba/.iiiii'. Uor ing at it with eyes like stars and they opportunity to attend college at the A cold is readily catching. A run ••»••»»•••••»»•••••••••••• it ain't mncli ^'ood wishing," And sent gleams of light that kindled the same time. down system is susceptible to germs. log with the most brilliant fire the here lier rellections cnnie to nn end, for The minimum age limit is placed You owe it to yourself and to others IOl! name was Philliiim, a ruya' she found lierself at the warehouse. IN EQUALIZATION BODY old man had ever seen, and the dingy at 21 years, except in the cases of of your household to fight the germs iiiinie fiM' siK'h II Very sunill. She Imd soiui delivered her parcel to little room was filled with radiance married women. This has been made at once. Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey pour ICnslisli iiiiiid, Init sbf the fat mmiagercss and received ih'' and warmth that brought a glow to necessary because of the fact that is fine for colds and coughs. It loos H had niwii.vs Iwen called '•V\W |)oor iiayment due mid. Ilireadlni; her the soul as well as to the body and women will be placed in the private ens the mucous, stops the cough and Mild slip livu "I'm .•er one Simpson, deceased. ness of whose nU'ls was already touch Th-i Strango Aeroplane. toward the debris and the two dead East (InKham) In luKham county and State .lennie l''rceman hnvlnR filed in said Court ed to mellowness, and It bad included caught bis men, what sliould be do"? of MichlRan, ••'' '-•' ''•"• '-' ' • • #';:c:'W: Dli; I'OU KNOW VOUIl ini'lAL CUP oi" comno is.vr LIKI') IT usim DAXSVIIiLK MOWS. NEWS OFJHE STATE TO HI;. Dnke Rapa Accident Body. When the word coffee Is mention ed to you there is presented to your Jlliis Nollle Diisli liiiH reslgiiod lior GHAND RAPIDS, MICH. — Rich ard IJ. Drake, former secretary of tht mind a delicious cup of tlie popular Hcliool lit SliiiftNlnirg and returned to beverage—smooth, rich, invigorat tills place. Michtjan industrlai accident board, ing, aiiil)er-colorod. It is perfectly . iMr.s. t!. L. DiiytoM visited at Holt wiic was deposed for his activities in natural that you sliould have such an SLIPPERS lust weelc Wodnosday. political circles, was In Grand iJap- idea for without doubt this is Hie .Mr, and iMr.s. C. K. Oshorno, .Mrs. iiis and he took occasion to rap Hit American notion today of wiiat Prank Minks, Mrs. K. C. Oslwrne, Mr. Oi-inocrals for tlielr action and dia-sliould comprise a perfect cup of cof- and Mrs. li. K. Walker, Mrs, Mina close several alleged dellciencies in ' fee, miller, /iOlla Whipple wore in l^an-tlie board. I 'i'his is vastly different, however, Make The sing different days last week. from what existed a generation ago. ll(! scored the members roundly for ; Our forefatliors had no less distinct li'rod Corwin and Frank Fosdiok l!0^'iecl of duty and said tho chairman standard but when tlie word coffee wore in Mason last week Wodnosday. had drawn more than $S,000 in tho. was spoken to tiioni, tiiey immedlale- A dauglitor was born to Mr. and last two years and had worked but iy thought of a black, strong, more Mr.s. IDoll Corwin ^of Duraiid last or loss muddy, almost bitter cup of Best Christmas Gifts nl.out one day a week. Drake admit week, ted having worked for Chase Oshorn tiie popular brow. You say, why tills Itay noeliee and wife of Ma.son'at- change'/ tended the funeral of D. M. Woods lor governor, hut said he never lot I .'V generation ago, tlie cup was last 'i'liiirsday. his political work interfere with his made from what were known as Rio There are hundreds of people who every i{. D. West has moved near T^oslie. state duties. Coffees, These particular grades of A ton ponnd danglUor was born to ilraziilan coffee were very strong, year make it a point to give at least one Mr. and Airs. IJOO Ilulliliergur lust Boosts Sugar Beet Price. slighHy bitter and very pungent in wook. tiielr drinking qualities, 'I'hey were i:?AY CITY, .MlCii. — The West not necessarily cheaper tliaii otiier Andrew ilriggs lias moved to the Day City Sugar company will pay coffees but tiiey constituted tho large or two pairs of Slippers as Christmas village. heet growers $fi per ton flat, for part of all that was used in this iMr.s. A. W. l':;ilHWortli returned last hPPts delivered at its factory or at Friday to her lioiiio in Hattle Crook. country, hence this character of Gifts, and this year we have the largest S(diool (doses this week for tlio any of Its weigh stations next year, drink was tlie national standard for holiday vacation. according to an announcement. the breakfast table. Miss Anna i''ox is spending the hol Contracts at this rate are already Conditions iiave changed and to day it's Santos Coffee (tills is raised and best line that we have ever carried. idays with iier parents at Sliolby. bein,? writt(!n liy tho company. Tlie i lionionil)er the Xnias tree ontor- in the State of San Taulo, in Brazil, price is an advance of $1 per ton over South America,) or Mexican, Bogota, tainment at tlie town hall Thursday tho price paid for beets delivered at night of tills week. Guatemala and tho liner blends of wfigli stations for the present season Mrs. H. li. Smith of Mason is tliese and other equally liigli grade spending a few days in town. and .10 cents a ton over the price goods, Tlie strong, black cup lias David iM. Woods was l)orn in Ba- paid this season for wagon delivery been displaced by the smooth, ricli, FOR HIM FOR HER tavia, N. Y., ,Ian. 30, 1811, and de at the company's factory. brown-drink that graces the Ameri parted this life at his farm home near can dining table today, Tho change nansvlllo, Dec. 15, 1!)M. Mo came is logical. It's another indication of V/ to Mieliigaii with his parents ,hily •^, Attacks Girl With' Knife. the American people's desire for the ISO;!, settling in Ingliam township, BATTMO ClU'^ICK, MICIl. — Me- best. We are not content to use l^inley McGlone, eighteen, became what our forefathers did if ingenuity, Ingham county, and has lived in tills skill and hard work can produce immodlato vicinily since, lie was SI ddenly insane, attacked Miss Lulu something bettor. The old standard married to ICiizaljeth nakewoll Sept. Swan with a knife and threatened to was splendid and lilled Its place to There ai'e Leather Slippei's and You can choose from the Fur If), :1SG7. Tlioro wore l)orn to them l:il1 the entire family at the farm an admirable degree, but scientiiic Men's Elastic Side Romeo Slippers ton children, live daugiiters and live home near liero. Trimmed Juliets in several diffei- sons. 'I'wo of tiio cliildron died in growing, scientiiic roasting, scientiiic that protect the ankles, and Felt infancy and Atta D. pas.sod away at R. C. Swan and Dan McGlone, a blending and scientiiic manufactur tlie ago of 27 years. Mrs. Woods hrfpthcr of tlie youth, overpowered ing metliods throughout, produce ones that are warm for the feet. ent coloi's. Comfy Slippers of him, but ho escaped before tho sheriff better goods at very little, if any, preceded lier liiisl)an(l to tliat bourne greater cost. from wliidi no traveler roturns .luno arrived. McGlone was captured in Felt that keep the feet snug and 2;!, l!)ll. Mr. Woods was one of the Battle Creek, To tiicse millions of ardent admir founders of the Prohil)ltion party and ers of the black cup, there dawned ALSO SHOES OF EVERY KIND warm. They are ribbon trimmed was true to its tenets to the very last. the idea that a new enjoyment was Ho was an active monibor of llic Arrest Negro and Saginaw Girl. to be found ia coffee drinking—that FOR EVERYONE and in dainty colors. Melliodlst ICplscopal clnircli for -l? HASTINGS, MICH, — Ernest M, of richness and luscious fragrance. years, liis greatest activities being in Peak, colored, and Agnes Ttenrs, less This realization spelled a new day in the coffee business of this country. tlie Sunday school, having bueii sup- than sixteen years old, a former in fiidntoiidoiit for many yoar.s.' When Now the old seems to have disap lie came to Ills last sickness his faith mate of the state home in Coldwater, peared almost entirely anS every- did not fall hini, many times ho de who disappeared from Saginaw Nov. ( where these new standards prevail. clared that he was ready lo go or was 7, were arrested at Peak's father's The Woolson Spice Company of willing to tarry a little longer If it home and turned over to a Saginaw Toledo, producers of the famous was Cod's will, lie came to his end ofllccor, Peak, wlio is char.Bod witli Golden Sun Coffee, has hiayed a great part in this change. This great or in peace, fervently responding to the enticing, lived near Uie girl's home. prayer of his pastor and in less than ganization was a world renowned ton minutes after the prayer was end figure under tlie old system but has ed ho oiioyed tlio summons and pas Quincy Cider Mill Destroyed. kept ever awake for better things. sed triumpliantly into that rest tliat QTITNCY, MICH, — Fire of un In tiie ciiange it lead the procession reniaiiietli for the people of God. Ho known origin destroyed the Kirhy and its high grade col'foes, live in leaves to mourn their loss, seven chil cider mill, west of tlii,s viilaise, Tho number comprising tho Golden Sun family, are recognized standards dren, Mrs. Geo. Mesler of llolloway, loss is $2,"),0fl0, covered by $17,000 in Midi., Newton D., of Dansville, Mrs. througlioul the country. It is a nat W. I^. I.anihort of Galeshurg, III., surance. The Kirhy cider mill was ural process and the success lias Fred M., of I'eoria, 111., .Ia.s. JNI., of one of the largest mills in southern clearly proven the American people's Detroit, Clia.s. S. and Hazel .1. at Michigan and has been one of Quin- appreciation of good things. * home, tlireo grandcliildron anr a cy's leading industries tor more than large circle of other relatives and twenty years. rronipt Action Will Stop Your Cough friends, 'i'he funeral services wore When you first catch a cold (often lield from the M. K, cluircli Dec. 17, indicated by a sneeze or cough), conducted by Rev. A. '1'. Camburn, as Saves Hillsdale Pair From Coal Gas, break It up at once. The idea that sisted by the pastor. Interment was HILLSDALE, .MUCH. — When "it does not matter" often leads to made in tlie Fair View cemetery. Ernest Kimo, a milkman, failed to serious complications. Tho remedy .1. W. Ingels and wife loft Tues nppoar at the home of Charles Boom', which immediately and easily pene day for Ciieboygan to visit their chil a neighbor who, furnishes him with trates the lining of tho throat is the dren for tiiroo or four weeks. milk, Boone investigated and found kind demanded. Dr. King's New G. IC. Powers is home from Ypsi- Mr, and Mrs, Kime unconscious from Discovery soothes the irritation, loos SAFETY FIRST lanti for the holidays. ens the phlegm. You feel better at escaping coal gas. He revived them once. "It seemed to reach the very Mildred Marshall is home to spend with tho aid of a doctor. Xmas with lier parents. spot of my cough," is one of many Fred Dwight and wife of .lackson honest testimonials. 50c at your ^THE^ are in town'this week. Saves Life by Somersault. druggist.—Adv. The stereopticon entertainment OIIAND RAPIDS, MICH. — Four given by the school at tho town hall years spent as an acrobat with a Some people look on the bright last Friday evening was well patron circus saved the lite of Geonge Wisen, side of things so persistently that ized and tlie pictures were fine. tvvsnty-four years old, when he fell they wind up the proud possessors of a gold brick. Uev. Edison Lenninger and wife 35 teet from the top of a building on are visiting tlil.s week in the state of Ohio. which ho was working. He turned a AI'PT. ADMR. McCOMIJ—JAN. 13 FARMERS BANK .las. Haylioe made a flying trip complete somersault, aliglitlng on hlr, State of MiclilKiin. Tlie Probate Court for feet. tlic County of IiiKhum. down from Grand Uapids and was in At H scHKJon of ijuld Court, hold at tlie Pro MASON, MICHIGAN town a couple of days. lie doesn't bate Onkc In tlio City of Mason, In said Coun e.\poct to return permanently until ty, on tlio 23ra day of Doccmher, A. D. I'Jl'i; Auto Robbers Get Clothee Stock. ProHent: Hon. Henry M. Gardner, Judxe of springs VASSAU, MICH, — Robbers who Proliatc. Max Rosenthal of Saline is visiting traveled by automobile robbed the In tho Matter of tho Estate of .losopli M. relatives here this week. McComb, Deceased. ' E. W. 131Iis clothine store here of Fred G. McComb hnvinK filed in said Court Capital, Surplus and Profits $100,000 Dell Corwin of Durand is visiting tiis iietition prayinR that the adminlstratiun his parents at their place. S1,000 worth of overcoats, suits, of said estate bo Rranted to Harry O. Call or Mrs. Mary Daniels of Lansing is gloves and other wearing apparel. En- to some other suituble person: It is Ordered, That the 15th day of January, OLDEST STATE BANK IN INGHAM COUNTY spending Xmas and a few days be trsiico to the store was gained A. D, 19 IS, at ten o'clock in tlie forenoon, at sides at this place. '.iirough a broken window during a said Probate Oflice, be and is hereby arpointed The correspondent from here ac for hcarinit said petition; storm. It ia Further Ordered, That public notice knowledges the annual Xmas present thereof be Riven by publication of a copy of sent out by the News, with thanks. this order, for tlirce successive weel<8 previous There will be a social dance at the Prominent Monroe Germans Die. to said day of hearinR, in the InRham County News, B newspaper printed and circulated in town hall Friday evening, January 1, MONROE, MICH, — Two prom- said county. with good music. iiirnt "innoer German residents o( HENIIY M. GARDNER, thii ei'v. Cuatave Stier, seventy, and (A true copy) Judge of Probate. SHi C. A. CLINTON, Register of Probate. B2w4 SOCIKTY VS. SCHOOL. M""!. Fl'zi'heth Eipperle, eighty-two. Try our Savings Book plan, wl''ow of Rev. .Tnhn Eipperle, former APPT. ADMR. McCOMB-;-JAN. IS Parents Slioiiltl Sue tlint Society does ly ir. e!'ar/io of Zlon Lutheran churah State of Michinan. The Probate Court for not Intei'fcfc with School Work. the County of InRham,. results will surprise you. Itere, are dead. At a session of said Court, held kt the Pro bate Office In the City of Mason, in said Coun The High School stands, first of ty, on the 23rd day of December, A, D, \91A. all, for wholesome work, This is Edmonds Held for Trial. Present: Hon. Henry M. Gardner, Judge of Probate. the critical time of year for students FLINT, AllCH, — Justice Hal- In the Matter of the Estate of Emmn B. In our high schools. These days are Bey bound over to the circuit court McComb, Deceased. deciding whether or not the school for trial on a charge of manslaughter Fred G, McComb having filed in said Court WE PAY INTEREST his petition praying that the administration of year is going to be-a success. Almost Richard Bdmonds, the private dete^ said estate be granted ,to Harry 0. Call or every student who Is regular and tive who, two weeks ago,,shot and to some other suitable person: faithful in his work will succeed. It is Ordered, That the 15th day of January, Very seldom do boys and girls fall killed Albert Beagle, A. D. 1915, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at We offer every Facility and •aid Probate Office, be and is hereby appointed because their school work is too for hearing said iMtitlon; hard; very seldom is the work In Hog Cholera «t Lapeer Home. - It Is Further Ordered, That public notice jurious to their health. There is, thereof be given by publication of a copy of Accomodation to our cus- LAPBEH, MICH. — Hog chol this order, for three auccesslve weeks previous however, a practice which causes fail era which has been threatening La to laid day of hearing, in the Ingham County ure and undermines the health of peer farmers lately has entered the News, a newspaper, printed and circulated in pupils, girls especially. Quite gen said county, tomers in keeping with Con erally there is too much of "society" farm of the Michigan Home for the . HENRY M. GARDNER, Feeble Minded here and killed ninety (A true copy) Judge of Probate. outside of school. Children are per C, A. CLINTON, Register of Probate. B2w4 mitted to dissipate when they should hogfl. ' servative and Safe Banking. be at home and asleep, Teachers PROBATE OF WILL. ELMER—JAN. IS State of Michigan. Tho l>robate Court for often hesitate to discourage this prac ' Prominent Ann Arbor Man Dies. the County of Ingham. tice for they do not wish to interfere ANN ARBOR, MICH. — Homcp ° At a session of said Court, hold at the Pro in matters which belong to the P. Findley, eighty, a prominent resi bate Office in the City of Mason, in said'Coun home. Parents on the other hand ty, on tho 21st day of December, A, D. Wl-l. dent of thlg city for Blxty-elght years, Present: Hon. Henry H. Gardner, Judge of are often under the mistaken impres Probata. . , „. sion that these "society" affairs are died after a few days' illness, i In the Matter of tho Estate of Jackson El looked upon with favor by the teach mer, Deceased. . . Mary B. Elmer having filed In said court ers. ^The parents submit, therefore, Fall Kills Sanilac Pioneer. her petition praying that a certain Instrument against their own better Judgment, PORT HURON, MICH. — A. M. in writing, purporUng to be the last wiU and Of eourse boys and girls should have testament of said deceased, now on file in said Compliments of the Season Kelly, pioneer resident of Mooretown, Court be admitted to probate, and that the ad- opportunity tor social intercourse, Sanilac county, is dead Sis a result minlitratlon of laid estate be granted to her- propeFly directed. Teachers as veil •elf or to some other suitable perion,> as parents knaw that. The care In «.f Injuries received from falling down It ii Ordered, That the 15th day of January, Btalrs.'-''/'.'•,: • • •„,'•;•., ^v:-:v'. • A. D. 1915, at'ten o'clock in the forenoon, at thls.matter Is;' however, mainly the laid probate office, be and li hereby appointed :parenti9'' responsibility; State Suip- (orhiartns laid pitltlon; ^^ ' . „ ., enlhtendent Fred L. Keeler would Find Lansing Musician Dead in lei It li Further Ordered, That publte notice Let Us Be Your Banker thtnof be givtn br publication of a copy of impress parentSj most earnestly that LANSINOri MUCH. r-Pi-otessor Btu- thli ordir, (or thne •ueetiilve watkf pravloui tti9y:keep;thelr.;0hildren.at home ev* iurt F. Ganutig, aked^flft^elghV Uns^ to laid day of hiarins, In the Ingham County /••'A <«nings-<--eBpecialI]r Ifthey.are todo a Ntws. • mwipapir prlnttd and olroulatad in Inc's 1>e|t Vknpwn musiolan; was^if^^ laid'cbuntf.-i-'-'-":•••''•'•'•••• ^ dar^skwork at sebool jthe'.neit di^. jdtiad'in; bedi;: He had'ibeet aiUfls (M T? ™""^" vHBNBY M. OARDNER, First of jUI* the iHtgb School atands ^A tnw copy) :; icJudsa of Probata. •illti«iSttoei^#;;:fe^is^ '"^''' fr,i^lSTPN, ItofliUrof ?fol«to.'^:^^:,M^^ jiiiiiiiB^iiiiiiSi^ imliin VOL. LVI MASON. MICH.. THURSDAY. !)l!:Cl!]MBKll 'M, 1914 NO. 53 MASON MAIlKli^TS. .lolin Duiien of Nortli Aurelius is TUHKHCULO.SIS XIRSK. ill at tlio homo of his son, Itay Bullon Wheat $1.12 to $1.10, rye $1.00, ill Mason. \ Makes HI'IMII'I .Vol Very Fiivoralile to First State & Savings Bank I EVERETT'S good dry corn 70c, oats 'IGc, clover Iloguliir convocation of Ingliam j liitihiini County. seed !f6 to ?S, beans !f2.>10, potatoes Cliapler No. hi, II. A. M. Friday ev 2Gc, eggs ;ilc, butter 27c, cattle He ening ,Ian. 1. Miss Mary C. Nelson, visiting lul)- Christmas Money Club MiMM«^^ Cash Grocery to 7c, hogs ^G.fiO, veal calves 7yic, crculosis nurse wlio completed her 2B lbs. Moss rtosc Flour 8(»o lambs 5c to 7'/i!C, sheep 2c to -Ic. Sweaters at aiiiiosl your own price. Wo waul to get our money back, at work in Ingham county Sunday, sev The following was taken from the Michigan Investor Rose Bud F'lour 8»c and shows how successful Christmas Money Clubs have been Gold Mediil riour H5C Sims IN iuui'^p. ,1. A. Cortright's. "' erely scored lioth Lansing city and 2E 11). Henklc'B Bread Flour 83c H. 0. Call and famiiy ale their county for conditions in tlieir jails in various places: Salt Pork, per lb 17c The snow storm of iMonUay makes The Muskegon Savings Bank distributed $80,000.00 to the sleighing lino. Clirislmas 'I'lirkoy in Lansing wilii wiien siie reviewed her montirs visit Bacon, per lb --c Dr. and Mrs. 0. A. Tooker. here in an address at Plymouth 3000 members. Nice Dairy Butter, lb »2c A new state bank is soon to be The First State Bank of Holland disli'ibuted .$26,550.00 Wasliington Corn Flakes, pkB,..10c laiinclied at I'ottorvllle. Begular meeting of Slooio Bros. cliurcli in Lansing Sunday afternoon. Post G. A. \l. next Saturday after Mi.ss Nelson said: to 1228 members. I want your butter and eggs. Con Start the year 11I15 with a savings sult mo betoro selling. Remember noon. Important business. "Botli in i^aiising and in Mason I The First State Savings Bank of Otsego issued 400 1 bave cholera cure for chickens, account at tlie Farmers Bank. J. S. Hamlin, editor of the Eaton iiave been in tlio jails and found checks amounting to $6188.06. 'i'bo merchants of Mason all report liapids .louniai was elected mayor of tliose in charge doing tiio best tiiey The Allegan State Savings Bank distributed $13,000.00. GEO. H. LEVERETT. an exceptionally good liollday trade. Eaton i^apids last Monday. could Willi tlie materials they had at The Citizens State Bank of Big Rapids paid .$15,000.00 Qath I'lioncH. hand and trying to improve the con Don't fail to join the Xnias Money 'i'lio Cull family were tiie recipients ditions of tlie jails, by keeping them to 630 members. Club ut The First Stale & Savings of several boxes of candied fruits Bank. • as clean as they could under the cir The Kalamazoo City Savings Bank distributed $40,- pJni)hinu(eonutg|Tcw0 from Los Angeies, California. cumstances. But the jails themselves 000.00 to 1167 members. W. 0. Gregg lias purchased tlic Please call and settle your account are insanitary in tlie extreme. The In Caro 219 persons received $6800.00. Entered at the Post OtTice, Mn»on, draying outfit of the late Daniel tor merchandise and agricultural ceils are dark and lack ventilation, iiB ucond-clima mnttcr. Gregory. tools. C. M. Young, Dansville. * and are veritable breeding places for Jackson distributed $109,500.00 to its members. crime and disease, and those wlio are PublUlicd every ThiirBdny by A good Now Year resolution is to Tiiere will be an oyster supper at unforlunato enough to be incarcerat We distributed $9000.00 to 400 members and would A. L. HOSE. start a savings account at tlie Farm .lolin Avery's in Aurelius Friday ev ers Bank. * ed in either of these places must like to have our club for 1915 reach $15,000.00. ening, .ian. 1. Everybody invited. come out worse than they went in. It TBKMS. Christinas morning the tlier- If you join tlio Christmas Money you wish to stop crime and prevent Will you help us to reach this amount? Ont Year, 11.00; lix monthi, 60 centi; three mometer registered from 8° to 17° Ciub you will have plenty of money the spread of disease in your com monlha, Sfi cciila. Our club started Monday and you have this week to below zero. next Christmas. First Stale & Sav munity begin with tearing down your make the first payment. ADVEKTISING KATES. ings Bank. "' present jails and building those that Preserve tlio.se pictures you receiv will tend to develop better feelings In Our ndvertialnK rntoi mnde known at office, Married, Dec. 28, at the Baptist Buelneis ciirde tl B line jicr yvnr. ed for Xiiias by having them framed a man, by giving him light and fresh COME IN AND TALK IT OVER. DutlneiB locidi Ave cent* per line cKch nnd at once. Tamlyn Studio, " parsonage in Mason, by Rev. A. G. air, and cleanliness, instead of dirt, <»vcry Inncrtlon. " Newberry, Andrew W. Budd and Mrs. darkness, no ventilation, and nothing Marrlnite, birth and death notice! free. The Baptist Sunday school receiv Ada Taylor, both of Aurelius. n«>olutiont of remicct card o( thanki, etc., ed f36 for the Belgian relief fund at to stir his better feelings and ambi First State & Savings Bank Ave ccnta u line, tlieir Christmas exercises. Col. IJ. H. Ives was called to tions. I would like to recommend Springport Monday to attend the fun you to visit your jails, and see for 0, F. Barnes, present head of the eral of a relative, James Hicks, who yourself the conditions I have tried Business Cards. stale lax commission, has been re- was accidentally shot while hunting to describe to you, and remember OFPICEHS ICiiECTl^J). appointed'by Gov. Ferris. ATTOIINHY. Cliristinas day. He died the next that every man put In there Is a Miss I'^crn Parsons left Monday to day. Deceased was a man higlily re brother, through the Fatherhood of At the Baptist Sunday school Dec. X'-Kl.l.EV >t KKM-KV, I.awyiirs, riO()-:;Oal;- accept a position in the olllco of the spected in the community. God, and that you have a moral re 27, for year 1915: Iv land HulldliiK, l-iiiislnn, Midi. .'lll-IH Auto Body Works at Lansing. sponsibility to him to see that, when A. J. Hall, supt.; W. E. C. Mc- Our Ciiristnias Money Club started he Is released from his Imprisonment, Cowan, asst. supt.; C. A. Ries, secy.; H. MoAltTllUii, Atlorniiyat haw, Mu- Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Petty entertain Monday with many now members, Horace Hall, treas.; Mrs, A. J. Hall, . .soil, Midi. he comes back to the coninnmity, not L ed members of the Petty family to You have this week to make the first as a menace, but ready to do his part librarian; H. B. Longyear, chorister; ENSMOIU'",, K. A,, iil,l,oriiey iil liiw. Ma llie number of seventeen at Christ payment. First State & Savings to make the world cleaner, healthier Carlwill Cheney, organist; Bertha D son, Midi, mas dinner, Bank. • ^' and better for his experience." Hartwick, primary supt, Happy Tiiere will bo a coil sliow at M. A. A. llRK(fMAN, AMoriiiiy liiul Ciiiiiiseliir WOOD FOR SALE—SfS.OO a cord. • at. I,aw, Ma.son, Mli;li. C. .fan. Ki, 11, 15, at tlie American rowxsKXD-wimii. Miss Nelson reported that she A Breeders' meeting, 'i'iiere will also be Mac Vaughn. Citizens phone 9, 5 About fifty guests gathered at the found a large field for corrective 171 .S. AVr.HY. Alloriioy ill. l-iiw. IfIfoomi s a consignment sale of i;! pure bred work In the scliools. "I found many rings, 52-lf lU. •ll)l-ri-il, lldlllstisi' illli., hunsliiK, MIch . iiorsos on tiio IGlli. home of Mr. and Mrs. Ward Bullen New last Wednesday evening, when I\lrs. children with physical defects of all T AW'IMJN T. II H.M AN.«, Al.Miriioy iniil Coiin- L. L. Kelcliuni has placed a stock Builon's sister. Miss Florence Town- kinds," she said, "adenoids, defective WANTED—Men who desire to Jj stilor 111 l jacent farm, where ho could practice through a somewhat complicated and MA.SV Ni;\V VM.AH'S ItliHOLUTION \ J' COLLISION OF TRAINS EAT ANYTHING, ANYTIME! • lilloliuvothiie t aftor-diuiiordistroBi!, ro. In the January American i\Iagazlne nii)Votliocausoo£la.sMitudo,drowfli- James Montgomery Flagg, the fam II CORRESPONDENCE li(.'B.siindhoadrtolio, tho.syniptoniRof ous humorist and artist, docs an PERILS PASSEN6E11S INDIGESTION) tako mturo'a roiucdy V amusing piece in words and pictures fl'p* ITXT^* quickly clnnrs Items Gathered by NEWS Staff about the County IV P* \/ f" |\J tho system by its entitled "Four Easy Now Year's nOSMl Hill ME Six Persons Hurl, and 42 Ha«3 t*JXmA M XJI 1 iiatuinl touiu nc. Resolutions." One of the four is to tiou on tho bow give up tho nithy habit of smoking— N; r els, and. restores Tells How Vinol Restores Narrow Escapes, BARR6 vigor to a weiiry under the following conditions; KI.NTJSLAMI. NOKTIIKAST .AiriU'llilUS. Btomach. Cloiirs "In powder mills. Strength and Vitality to the tho blood nnd crndiciitcaUric Acid. "While chewing tobacco. Weak, Worn-Out Ones in Mrs, W. VJ. Hollows Is diilto poorly. Mr. and Mrs. .lay llulse ontortain- SOUTH HAV13N, MICH, — Six Price ."iO cents ft bott lo at all drug. "During the acts of any grand gi.sts or fniin tho proprietor, l"; A, Wliislow ami I'iuiilly aro od their grandchildren, ICtliol and PiiHSongers were injured and V!. luui opera, irrespective of what language Her Charge. iluth Gregg, this week. l'ym,in Brown, G9 Murray St., New YorkClly. ypdndint' till) holidays at Wlicolor, a marvelous escape from death or so it may be given in, Rosary Hill Home, Hawthorne, N.Y- ;(lratlol. coiiiily, LaMoure Barnaby of Mason visited ri.'iiH injury when a southlioiind fast "Wiiilo eating tUet of solo, portor- —" I have been at work among the sick Mr. and Mrs. .lay Hulso this week. lioiiso steak, or sweetbreads cooked and poor for nearly eighteen years, and Gnorgo Korrls, wlfo and son Floyd frciflit on the Pere Marciiiolte striinl; aUendiHl lliu Ferris rounloii Xnias In Mrs. Clifford Akers Is entertaining with mushrooms. whenever I have used Vinol for run LansInK at Ihclr son's, Carl and wlfu. her father, Mr. Childs, of Shepard, a Fruit Belt passenger train just leav .MAIMil.AiiM lilCKNSKS, "While laying carpets and carry down, weak or emaciated patients, thoy have boon visibly benefited by it One Tho Xinas exorcises were well al- this week. ing Hartford at "i o'clock In the in- ing a pint of tacks in my mouth. t(>rnooii. Tlio frplglit engine struck loyd A. Longstroet, Lansing. ... 22 "In any building wliero tlio danger patient, a young woman, was so weak (onded and wore a ducldod success. H. n, Davis and wife, Blanche and and ill she could hardlj? creep to my door iMncli praise Is given i\liss Alva Blan- lioiualiie Davis, visited John Spanior the roar coaoli of the passcnunr and Rosa E. Gasclio, Lansing 21 of fire is unormoiis and a powerfully built red-hoaded lireman Is watching for aid, and was leaning on a friend's <:liard, teacher, of Mason Sunday. ilumped it Into the ditch. Tho pas Morvin L. Smith, Lansing 2-1 arm. I supplied Vinol to her liberally Sarah M. Dolton, Bath .17 mo with narrowed lids. I^Irnesl. Oxendalo Is lioine from Al Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Uolfe cnlortaln- sengers were rescued tliroui;)i the "While reading the works of nnd in a month when she returned to bion I'or the holidays. ed their clilidren, Glenn Chapman windows. Tho most seriously Injured Isaac R. VaiiFleot, Lansing ,')2 Henry James. thank mo I hardly recognized iier. She Floyd Ferris Sundayed al Glenn and wlfo and daughter of Lansing, Martha Davis, i^ansing -LS was strong, her color charming and her are: D. C. Hodge, South Haven, hack "In tho presence of anyone who cheeks rounded out. These words are jNrnold's wll.ii Ills I'at.hor and nioUior and Mr. and Mrs. Eniil Gluey Xmas ni'd nock hurt; Injured InterniiUy. Nickloy Newer, Webborvllle 20 can say with a straight face, 'Dear 'ttiio Is nursing Mrs. Arnold. day. uttered from my heart, in order that John A. Mathlson, South Hnvcn, lincli MIna E. Oakley, White Oak ]S old Chicago!' " more people may know about Vinol, as Mrs. Alma Rolfo, daughter Anna ami liip liurt. :\llss Marvel Fletclinr. Ray Mulligiin, Grand Ledge 21! there is nothing makes me liappior in WILM.AiMSTOX. May and friend from .rackson were of Hart, hin and knee injured. Hnrry Mary Hoyor, Ivuiising 18 MllS'r I'AV FOII rili: I'AIM'.IL the world than to relievo tho sick."— at Clias, Eckliart's Xmas. George E. Frost, Lansing 2.') Mother M. ALI'IIONSA LATIIKOP,0,S.D., December 28, .lOl'l. Loren Swoot and Haltie Howe Itandall, South Haven, noso hroke.i Judge George Thomas, of Colum Hawthorne, N.Y. iind teeth kiiockoil out. .Mrs. M. I. Helen DoWItt, Lansing 10 Harry lllggs of Dolroll. spoiil. Xmas were In Lansing last Tliursday. bus, Neb., recently decided that it a Such disinterested and reliable testi ^villi Ills family, lie reUirncd to his Thompson, Chlcngo, back hurt. Chnulo Stewart Uolton, Lansing 20 Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Price spent Bertha Vogt, Lansing 28 man accepts a paper that is sent him mony should convince everyone of the worlc iMonday afternoon. Johnson, Soulli Haven, ankle sprained he must pay for it. T'ho decision Xmas witli his father and mother, Dan H. Foote, Wllllamston 25 merits at Vinol, our delicious cot] liver Mrs. j\lurry flaker spent last Salur- Mr. and Mrs. Goo. Price of Mason, nnd kneo hurt. was rendered in the case brought by nnd iron tonicvto build up health and Mal)0l M. Lewis, Meridian IS Mail Orders Filled -at:^^ By Prepaid Parcel Post imoOKS COItMOUS. and Mrs. Goo. Owens of Leslie were school united witli their Xmas ex don have boon spending a few days Christmas guests of Frank Shopbell ercises, which wore a decided success. with James Herriek and family, IC. S, Avory was at'^lils t'anii Sun and family. Miss Blancli Bateman is enjoying a clean up the liall. The men are day. Everett Smiley is staying with two weelts' vacation, doing the work. Alildred Doyo spent several clays Harry Brown this winter. Lucille Lott of Alma college was , Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Sears and Mr. American Savings Bank witli Ola Bates. Mrs. Mary Fountain and son enter home for the holidays. and Mrs. Harry Houghton spent Sun S. H. McConnick and wife ate tained friends Christmas. day evening with U. A. Osborn and ChrLstmas dinner at li'rank McCor- of Lansing Frank Shopbell and family were SOUTH AUI{l';iJU.S AND NOIMH wife. niick's. Sunday evening guests at Chas. ONONDAGA. C. S. Wilson and wife and W. W. Trank Doyo and family entertain Bunker's,. Wilson and family spent Christmas ed company Christmas. Herman BuUen, Clark and Ellis Geo. Nobels and family and Robt. with Wm. Holcomb and family. Geo. McCormick and family spent Haynes and families spent Christmas Covert of Onondaga visited at H. Mrs. A. G. Wilson and son Fred Christmas at Mrs. Lane's, in Wheat- with Mr. and Mrs, James Haynes. Covert's Sunday. are spending the holidays at the field. Married, Monday, Dec. 28, 1914, home of G. W. Wilson. A, G. spent Etta Bennett spent the past week Harold Thurby, wife and baby of Pays 4% Interest Mrs. Ada Taylor and John Budd. We Christmas with them but returned to with her sister Eliza. North Aurelius spent Xmas at Dell extend congratulations. Dolbee's. his home In Hillsdale the next day. . Mrs. .lohn Bennett and son Peter This Is one of the years when The Fields reunion was held at B. attended the Christmas exercises at slelghbells chimed to the merry the Wilson school. H. Field's Xmas day. Christmas greetings In the keen cut Claud Crane, wife and children of ISLAND CORNERS. ON SAVINGS DEPOSITS Ford Whipple and family spent ting zero atmosphere. Friday evening at 0. B. Blakslee's. Hillsdale spent Xmas at J. W. Free Mrs. Sperling from Saginaw Is vis Martha Whipple of Battle Creek man's, iting her daughter, Mrs. William has been visiting at Ford Whipple's. HOLT ITEMS. Geo, Rolfe and family of East Kurtz and family, Mrs. Chas. Bassett, Mrs. Ford Aurelius spent Xmas at M, Russell's, Solly Schneep and family spent Capital $100,000.00 Surplus $25,000.00 Whipple and Mr. and Mrs, Deyo have Dec, 28, 1914. also Ben McCorab. Sunday with John Bouts and family. been In Lansing recently. Chas, Barnes and daughter spent Mark Russell and family visited at Miss Muriel Collins, who has been Harold McCormick Is homo from Xmas with friends In Jackson. Mr, Gobel's near Leslie Sunday, very sick for two weeks. Is some bet the M. A, C. for the holiday vacation. Donald Lang of Lansing is spend ter at this writing, DIRECTORS The Christmas exercises at the ing the vacation with his grandpar Catarrh Cannot Bo Cured Mrs. Raymond Pelton and children Wilson school was well attended, a ents. with local applications, as they can are visiting at Adrian. J. W. Bailey, Pres. J. W. Bailey & Co. fine program being given by the Edith Bickert of Battle Creek, Orla not reach the seat of the disease. Ca The Christmas exerclaes at the pupils of Lhe school, after which a Glllett of Northville, Flossie Douglas tarrh is a blood or constitutional dls-1 schoo, l ^ house were largel3 y , attended Wm. Brogan, Prea. Dancer-Brogan Co. play, "Wooing Under Dlfflcultles," of Bloomlngdale, Carraa Douglas of ease, and in order to cure it you must ''"1^ ""^ P/osram rendered D. E. Bates, Treaa, Reo Motor CarCo. was given by former pupils of the Jonesville, Fanny Sly of Lockport, CUfford Kurtz spent Christmas at school. ; take internal remedies. Hall's Ca 111., Marlon Sly of Flint are home for tarrh Cure is taken internally, and John Wleland's, north of town. H. F. Harper, Sec.-Treaa. W. K. Prudden & Co. the holidays. acts directly upon the blood and mu Miss Ethel Andrews from Ypstlantl M, R. Carrier. Northrop, Robertson & Carrier Co. ACROSS THE GARDEN. Mrs. Norman Mlnar -entertained, cous surface. Hall's Catarrh Cure is Is visiting her parents for a couple of 15 guests Xmas. not a quack medicine. It was pre weeks. W. S. Foater, Attorney Floyd Fountain and family spent Rev. Cecil Pollock and family of scribed by one of the best physicians Miss Beula and Ona Vanvellsor vis W. K. Prudden, President Sunday with Mr, and Mrs, James Grand Ledge spent Xmas at J. B, in this country for years and is a ited their sister at Flint a couple of Hasklll. Thorburn's. regular prescription. It is composed days last week. Chaa. E. Toms, Cashier Bernlce Bateman spent Monday Geo. Pryor of Mason spent Xmas of the best tonics known, combined Miss, Doratha Box from Lansing and Tuesday with Miss Lynla Potts, at G. H. Pryor's. with the best blood purifiers, acting spent last week with her father. Bur west of Eden. Mrs. Bertha Thorburn, who has directly on the mucous surfaces. The Box. / Mr. and Mrs, John Jarvls of Lan been sick for some time, is improv perfect combination of thetwo ingre Mrs, Cally Morton and son George children Christmas day, W. Clark and family spent Christ sing are at her father's, called there ing. dients is what produces such wonder are visiting her mother at Lansing Geo, Klnch and family, Miss Hazel mas with their daughter, Mrs. J. Wil by the serious Illness of Mrs. Jarvls' Mr. and Mrs. Robblns entertained ful results in curing catarrh. Send for a week. Cooper and Ralph Hayner ate Xmas cox and family. mother. '• their children and families Xmas. for testimonials free. ' Ray Felton has the Bell telephone dinner with Mr, and Mrs, T. Kelley, Mr, Monroe is working for E. Lan- J. Budd spent Christmas with his The Xmas exercises at all the P. J. CHENEY & CO., Props,, now; his number is 803 IL 23. Clyde Cooper and wife of Ann Ar tls. parents in Lansing. churches were enjoyed by full Toledo, Ohio. Roy Flshel from near Holt visited bor are visiting his father and other Rev. H. H, Cheney began revival Frank Shopbell and James HaskiU bouses. at Solly Schnepp's Sunday evening, frieiids during the holidays, meetings at Mlllvllle last Sunday ev Sold by druggists, price 75c. ening, were in Lansing Tuesday. Gertrude Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Take Hall's Family Pills tor con Mrs, Ida Dobie and son Donald C, Nlethammer and family, Mr, B. J. Topliff and family spent Orla ^SommervlUe and Mrs. Clyde stipation.—Adv. from Mason and Miss Hazel French and Mrs. Henry Bravender and A number from here attended the Christmas in'Mason, Wilkins and daughter of Lansing, from South Bend, Ind., spent Xmas daughter spent Christmas with H. Christmas exercises at the Cady school last Thursday evening. S. Laseny is visiting In Wisconsin. Mrs, Wllklns and granddaughter of NORTH AURELIUS. at Charlie Kurtz's, ' ^ Bravender and family. David Strong and family visited at Breckinridge, Mrs. Stella Fellows of Mrs. Elcessor-visited at Mer'dian Martin Foote of Etohells called on The Gleaner degree team met at Will, Maguire's Sunday. Mason and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Miller Hi WlxBon has sold his farm to Ben Henry' Bravender last Saturday.' the hall to practice; last Wednesday .Mr. and 'Mrs. H. Halsey,' Mr. and and son of Aurelius were guests at Harris- Mr, and Mrs. Steven Hempyhave a Last Sabbath was election of ofil- afternoon. Mrs. Bert Toplllt and daughter and Mrs. Louisa Parker's Sunday. Mrs. 0, H. Nichols and son called fine new cutter. cers at MiUvllle Sunday school. Jan. 6th, 1915, will be installation Miss Edna Walton returned Monday Mr, and Mrs. Chas, Reed of Lan on Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerman Sunday Rosko Vanvellsor from Lansing Chas. Poxson is on the sick list. of oflJcers at the A. ,01 0. G. hall. from Bay City, where they spent sing and Mrs. Ford Hayhoe of Dans- evening. spent last week with his parents. Miss Beryle GlUam experienced a There will be members to initiate. -; ObriBtmaa with Charlie Walton and ville were guests at Wm. Stld's Mr. and Mrs. Harry . Houghton lively tip over and runaway on the T. 'Oillam, D. Harris and families, family. Xmas. ^ , from Pontlac are here visiting their MILLVILLE. way to Stockbrldge last Tuesday. A Mrs. Hubble and Mrs. O'Neal spent V.':Mr. and Mrs. 8. Shopbell and Communion services will be held nieces, Mrs. Roy Rusch and Mrs. E, badly demolished cutter was the re CbristmElB with Mrs, Mary and Joy 'dftUKhter Jeule of Haatlngit Mr. and at the Preibyterlan church Sunday Sears, and their t^milies.:: .: . V Dec.: 29, 1914.; sult. V. ::•,.;'••', •'.' ,. ' ••::]:. ^'^r''••'• Wygle..•.,^ ..; .;•:'::^-/'vS:'/^:':..^.:;^^;;-';::';^ MnVsWeiley Shopbell of Vetty, Mr. morning. The Oleanera have a bee today to C Mr; and Mrs. c; H. Carpenter en Th.. e L. A." S. will meet next Tues- and ,.Un. ,WU1 UoUejriOt^Dlmoadale Th« Harpbr Sunday aohool and day John Blancbard and wite'of Alaie- tertained their children and grand* | day. All;comewh6,'oan.':.o |r/.v;:.^v ii ^j.' mmmmmmm^m•'^mmm i i ...ilBii'mmms^mmm JiSliJtilllMi^lli'ili ^ INGHAM COUNTY NEWS, DECEMBER 31, 1914 J. N. Thorburn and wife spent 'tttfflttttttttttffllt tmmmmtttmmmnttttmtmtmtmtmm Christmas with frlondH at Albion. Seeing the The Old Year Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Whitmoro .spent Christmas with their children in Coax Your Hens to Lay in Winter Flint. Mrs. i\Ii\rt.h[i Hoyt spent. ClirlsdiiaH New Year In And the New Isn't it worth wliile to have your hens lay egg's in win Mr. and Mrs. J. Allen of NaslivlUo I !il. \j. M. Dubois'. were with Mason relatives over ter? Isn't there more profit to you in selling eggs at high N. N. KoiiKO visited his sister at Clu'istma.s, winter prices? Willlamstnn Clu'lstiiias. 'ATOniNO the New Yijar in! HH clocks were You know a hen won't lay in a cold, damp draughty Ralph Darling and family of De- How iniiuy widely vjirylng Vance Mcfntyro was homo from troll were witli tlioir parents, Mr, and on the stroke place in winter any more than a cow will produce a lot oi: liieinn.'s tncl;ed away safely T ClevehuHl over Christmas, Mrs. F. W. Webb Christmas. w of twelve; milk if she shivers from the cold all the time. in memory's kt^eplng that Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Cortrlght will Cliarlos Urowne entertained as his The moon w n s •spend New Years at Nashville. guests for the week end, Mr. and plu'iise conjures up! More tlian lluit, Have Comfortable Hen Houses how imiiiy possibilities it sug.gests of Clare T. Smith of I ho U. of M. is Mrs. Friink Logan, Mr. and Mrs. lOarl bright and hi);h. Croon and Miss Kthel Croinley all of F.io varying ways in wlilch men and Besides giving a hen the right i'ood and making her spendlnK the holidays at home. A footstep broke the Lansing. women deligiit to sp(Mid tlic evening work i:or it she must be kept in a comfortable place. Now I'anl Coy has hoon home from De bofore tlie diiwn.iif nnother year ;is frozen cru>l; troit a few (lay.s the past weolt. •losepli Lundiierg of Clilcago and is a good time to make sure your hen houses are in good .lohii Luudborg of tlie Ferris Insti well as Mie day itself! A shadow passed shape to help you reap the benefits of winter egg prices. Mrs. 0. M. Dutt lell, Sunday even tute spent Christmas with their par Like the early servlre of Clirlstimis ing for Texas, to visit her daughter ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. .1. Lundborg of me by. Lot us show you our excellent quality shoathing paper diiy, witli carols and caiidli^s iiud A11 roll us. I saw a veteran, for covering the wall.s — and flooring to make warm Mrs. Ceo, 10. Mann of Detroit has gnM'Us. til some llie cninlng nf the Xi'W lloors. Or, it you want to build new hen houses, look been visiting Mason friends this Mr. and Mrs. Win. Scarlett outor- lame and old, over our stock of siding, shingles, and prepared rooting week. taiued their family and Miss Hazel and asphalt shingles and get our estimate on materials Whose mnrcli was \V. K. Zinimor and daughter llolon Barry jf Owosso, Miss Mary Uomus tor what you want. We'll bo glad to help you all we can. spent Sunday with relatives at Sobe- and Miss Hose Krai/.ita of Lansing almost done. w'aing. Cliristmas. The battered kiinp' .Mrs. C. l^rlnce of Huntington, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Field enter C. P. MICKELSON, • Mason is visiting her son, Floyd Prince, and tained a company of 20 at dinner sack on his buck Cliristmas, among tliem i\lrs. Isaac family. Field, Paul Field, Miss Nellie and Was empty, like it»mtnt»m»tmuttmmt:ummu::t»Ktu«t»:::»tutmtm:tmst:muummmmS Mrs. Minnie Arnold of Crogory is I'^'lorence Field of Albion, Mr. and his Kun. visiting lior motlior, Mrs. .lames Mrs. Clarence Field of Stockbridge, lUakoly. Mr. and Mrs. Clias. Stevens of Kala AltOlir THE WIOATIIIOIJ. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sf|uiors of De mazoo, Mr. and Mrs. John Fowler of THE HOME OF troit are visiting relatives and friends |I Ponllac, Mr, and Mrs, D, D.-Jlurl- ^HB silver cliimes i'ho following article appeared sev in Mason. bun of Ingham. eral years ago in a paper publlsliod began to rlnii;-, at Shiiiiorsvillo, Pa., and was written .Iiidge C. 10. Cull and daughter li. L. Slaght has sold liis residence I heard a biiglc by D. N. Kern, 'i'lio same was furn- Quality T.onise, sjient Sunday with II. 0. Call on lianies street to .Menzo Cady, Sr. isliod tlio News by W. P. Seaman of and family. blow. tills city. So far tlio winters of .ISS!) and Miss I'^lorencu Sliafor is at home l'IU)l5.\'riO .MOW.S. A dashing soldier, fi'on\ her school work at iMldland for 1S!)0 have been pretty mucli alike. Groceries tlie holidays. liearings. for ,lan. 5: young niul fair, Tlie years 1 S 1 Ti and 1 S 1II were also very mild. 1 often hoard my fatlior Dr. Orlo i.asenby and wife of lOstate Ale.NaiKltM" Bel a p point lug 1 doz. No, 2 size l"'remior adm'r. Came riding o'et lalk about those winters, aiui in llils Uochester spent Cliristmas with Ma I sliort article I will try and give some Piueapplo sji'j.oo son r(>latlves. lOstato Lucy M. Bird appointing adm'r. the snow. •• of the facts as my father gave them 1 lioz. No. I! size Prom lor Miss Uara Avis Brown of Lansing lOstate Ann Simpson, license to to me. ill IS I 5 very litllo snow fell i^noapple •.;.")(» The frost was or in November and December; in ,lnii- was tlie guest of Miss Gertrude Scar sell. 1 (loz. No. 2 size Nabob lett this week. lOstate Charles Simpson, license to his cloak of blue uary, IS Hi, it was mild; the sun sell. ' shining most every day (luring ilie Pineapple 1.75 1-ewls Itartlott and family spent And on his yellow month, 'i'ho people Ibought i'^jliru- 1 (loz. No, ;i size Vellow Tree I''i'lday witli Mr. and Mrs. lOarl Kiney iOslaie l^olly Klnihall, probate of will. : ary would be cold, but that month Stone Peaches 1.7,1 In Whoattield. plume, i turned out very warm also, 'i'ho lOstate Geo. Ohliiigor, iippointing \ pt. bottle Catsup l.'ie diaries Palmer of Lansing siient adm'r. And on his sword he moiitli of Marcli was cold and the week end with his brotlier, Will lOslato Guslav Ivraiiz, appointing stormy. A great many people called Pepper Sauce, per bottle ir>c I'aimer of Holt. adm'r. bore a rose- the year a year without a summer. In Pure Mint Sauce, bottle I.")c ' April it was very cold. During May Mr. and Mrs. ,1. A. Farsons and lOsliite .Mary Liiyd, appointing No. ;! size standard 'i'onialoes.t)c adm'r. A red, red rose— the Ice was one Inch tlilck on some daughter I'^ern spent Chrislnias with streams. 'I'lie fruit tree blossoms No. I! 1/0 sizo Fancy Hand Lansing relatives. lOstate Henry Pelor Itorabeck, de in bloom. termination heirs. and the young corn were frozen. Packed Tomatoes l,''>c Bert Stinlers was over from Lan iOslalo Giacomo Spagunola, pro Some farmers built largo tiros around No, 2 size i'^ancy Corn, can., lie sing Cliristmas and kindly remem bate of will. E halted where tlielr Holds and the smoke and heat Good Standard Corn, can.....10c saved some of the young corn. In bered his |)aronts. lOstato Homer 10. Kniglil, license to Orangos, fancy Navels, doz.iii), 8.">c sell. the aged man .Tune snow and ice could bo found; C. I'', lirown and wife (Ui.ioyed vegotables were a failure. Wlioii the Crape Fruit, large juicy onos.. and guide the plow. Wha» 's to bo- GUN TO GET AIRSHIPS come of that nation where poverty breaks the crowns of the queens of Longer Life To Shoes the homo; despair hurls a mother's THE iRHL Austria's New Mitrailleuse love from its throne and hunger drives That Can Be Aimed Vertically. Innocent children from the schoolroom to the hoe? The census bureau shows that LIH,- 000 of those women are forty-tlve WE ARE LONG ON PRODUCTION, OVER A MILLION AND A HALF years of age and over. There Is no SHORT ON DISTRIBUTION. WOMEN WORK AS FARM HANDS more pitiful sight in civilization than THE FARMERS THE CUSTODIANS IN THE UNITED STATES. these saintly niothors of Israel stooiiod OF THE NATION'S MORALITY. with age, drudging in the lleUl from By Peter Radford By Peter Radford sun until sun an .\bcl carried the groat things np. and AI'I'T. ADMK. McCOMH—JAN. 15 FINAL ACCOUNT. UAKNHAKT—JAN. 8 Peter hrouglii them to the ciirts, and Stnle of MichiKan. The Probiitu Cuiii-t for State ot Michigan. 'I'he Probnte Court for the kitig and Pestovltch liolped lilm to the County of Initliiim. the County of luRham. At H nt'Biiioii of Hiild Court, liclil iit the I'ro- At a session of said Court, held nt the Pro- place them iiiiKiiig Ihe hay. Thoy miiilo biite Olllce in the City of iMnaoii, in milil Coun bate Olfice in the City of Mason, in said Coun fis mile noise lis I hey could. ty, on the ^3ril diiy of Oetcmbor, A. D. 19M. ty, on the lOtb day of December, A. D. 19M. ClieWO I'reBonti lion. Henry .M. Giirilner, .hnlKe of SET FEEE! I'resent: lion. Henry l\l. Gardner, Judge "Rsh!" cried Ibe king. "What's that!" Probnle. of Probate. Put Kurt and Abel did not hoar ami In the Mutter nt the lOstale ot .loaepb M, In the Matter of the Estate of I.ucy A. came blundering up tlie ladder witli MeComh, Decenncil. Harnhart formerly Shaw, Decensed. l''rccl (1. iMoCoMib huvinK Rleil In Hiild Court Charles E. Shaw having filed In said court the last of the loud. hiH iielition pniyinK thiil the ndminiHtriitlim bis final administration account, and bis peti- "Sshl" Peter ran forward to them of Hiilil estnto be Kranled to Harry O. Cull or lion praying for tho allowance thereof, and lo Home other Huitahle |ier«on! for the assignment and distriiiutiim of the with a whispered renionstranco. Now It \t Orilercil, 'I'hat the Lllli day of January, residue of said estate. tlley Were still A. n. I'.Uri, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at It is Ordered, 'I'liat tiie Sth day of Janaary, Huld t'rohate Ollice, be anil is hereby niipolnteil A. D. 1(1 Ifi, at ten o'clock in tlie forenoon, at The barn doer opened a little wider, for henrbiK mild petition ; said I'robale Ollice, lie ami is hereliy appointed and agiil'iist the dim tilue light outside It is l-'urUier Ordered, That public notice for e.>:amininK ami allowing said account ami they saw the black sha|ie of a iiian. thereof be uiven by inibltcation of a copy of hearing said pidition ; Ibis order, for three HUCccHsive weolis previouH It is Eurthur Ordered, Tliat piililic notice "Any one here?" he asked. siK^akiiig to saiil day of hearing, in the biKhani County tliereof be given by pulilicatlon of a co|iy of Willi an llaliaii accent. News, a newspaper printed and circulated in this order, for tliree Hiiccessive weeks previous said county. lo said day of iiearing, in llic Ingliani County The king «liroke Into a cold pers|)lra- IIKNltY iM. aAKDNKIi, News, a newspaper printed and circulated in flon. 'I'lieii Pestnvitch answered. "Only (A true copy) .ludKe of Probate. said county. C. A. CLINTON, Heuister of Probate. r,:!w.| HENRY M. GARDNER, a |)uor farniei' loading hay." he said {A true copy.) . .ludgc of Probate. and picked up a huge hay fork and AI'I'T. ADMK. McCO.MH—JAN. 1,1 C. A. CLINTON, Register of I'roimte. filw-l went forward scifily .Slate of MiehiKan. Tlie Proliale Court for the Cininty of InKliani. "Yon load your bay at a very bad At a session of saiil Court, held at the I'ro- FINAL ACCT. MILLER—JAN. 22 llnie and in a very bad liglit," said hnte Ollice in llie City of .Mason, In said Coun State of Michigaa. The I'robale Court for ty, on the llUrd day of rieceniher, A. 1). llll-l. llie County of bigbain. Ihe man at the door, peiM'ing in "Have I'reHiMit; Hon. Henry M. Carrlner, .IUIIKO of At a seaiiion of said Court, lielii at the Pro yon no electric light bcreV" Pridiiite. bate Ollice in llic city of Mason, in said Coun In the Matlcr of the Kstate of Kmnin 11. ty, on Hie 2.Stli day of Deceinlier, A. D. 1911. Then suddenly he mrned on an olee- McConib, Deceased. I'resent; Hon. Henry M. Cardiier, Judge trie torch, and ns be did so P'.;stovitcli Kreil C. iMcCoinh haviiiK filed in said Court of Probate. bis petition praying Unit Ihe ailiniaistratlon of In the Matter of the Estate of Etta Miller, sprang forward "Get out of my said estate he Ki'anled to Harry O, Call or Deceased. barnl" he cricti and drove the fork lo fionie oilier suitalde iterson: R. C. Dart liaviag filed in said court ilia full at the iniriiiler's chest, lie had It Is Ordereil, That tlie Ifith day nf January, final adniinistraliiMi nccoiinl, and bis petition A. D. HI If), at len o'clock in the forenoon, at liraying for the allow-ance thereof, and for tiio a vague idea lliiit so he might stall said Probate Olbco, he and is hereby appointed aasignment and illslributlon of the residue ot Ilie man lo silence. I'.ut the man for beariuK snid petition ; said estate, ll is l-'nrt!ier Ordered, That public notice It is Ordered, That the 22nd day of January, shouted loudl.v as the jirongs pierced tliereof be uiven by iiublicatlon of a copy of A. D. lOlfi. at len o'clock In the forenoon, at him and drove him backward, and lii- this oi-der, for three HUccessive weeks previovis said I'rohale Ollice, be and is iiereby aiipolnt- to said day of heariaw, in the InKliain County eil for ONamining and allowing snid nccount slaiilly I here was a sound of feel run News, a newspaper tu'inled and circulated in and hearing said petition ; ning acru.ss tlu; yard. said county. it is Kurther Ordered, 'riiat puiiiic notice 1II'',NRY .M. OARDNIOll, tliereof he given liy piihliration of a copy of "Itombsl' cried the uiaii upon the (A true copy) .ludk'e of I'robato. tills order for tlirce successive weei(s previous ground, siriigglii'g Willi the prongs in C. A. CMN'l'ON, Kenisler of I'robalc. .I^w-I to said day of hearing, in the Ingliam County ills band, ami as Peslovltch staggered News, n newspaper, priated and circuinlod in I'KOltATK 01' WIl.I,. K1,M1?K—JAN. l.'i said County. forward Into view with tlie force of HENRY M. GARDNER, Copyright. 1914. by H. G. Wells. Stale of .MicbiKan. The rrobato Court for his own tlirusi be was shot ilirough (.•\ true copy.) Judge of Probate. tlie County of InKluini. C. A. CLINTON, Proliate Register. .'iilw-l '"riio pi'u|rit' will iiovor iK'niilt ll, They nnisl '..'I't llio lionilis away. 'l'fii?re tlifs. They are watching us. tin; body by (llie of the Iwo newcom- At a session of said Court, liold at the Pro must be a conplc of aloniic lifiy lorries; lug back." bate Olhce in the City of Mason, in said Coun Hiro," K!ii(! !i liiistliii),' liltio iiuui in a ers. ty, on the :ilat day of December, A. I). IIIM. LICENSE TO SELL. SIMPSON—JAN. H gorgeous iiiiiroiMii. the bombs could be hidden under the I'eslovitch r(Miioiistratod. "Toll him 'i'he man on iln ground was badly Present: Hon. Henry JI. (Inrdner, ,ludKe of State of Micliignn. 'i'he Proliato Court for "Ydii'll Imvi; to iniilvc 'nii," siilil tlio hay. I'esiovilch wpiii, and came, in- to go back," said Ilio king, and tried hurt, but iiluclcy loiiibs!" ho re|)eat- I'robate. the County of Ingham. slrnctiiig trusty serv.'iiils. pijinning In the Matter of the Katatc of Jackson ICI- At a session of said Court, iield at tlie Pro iix-UlMK, KL'iiliill.v lUldroH.siiig all tlif to oiien tiie window. I'or a few mo ed and struggled up Into a kneeling nier, Deceaseii. bate Ollice in the city of Mason, in said Coun councilors. Mild rcplaniiliii;. The king and the ex- menis iliere was a grim struggle in position and held bis electric torch full Mary E. Pdnior havintt filed in said court ty, on the 2nd day of December A. D. 191-1. king iliiiod iiigi'ihoi', ami the ex-king the aiitfmiobile; a griiiiiing of wrists lior petition prayini: that a certain instranient Present I Hon. Henry M. Gardner, Judge ICIiiK I''(.M'(liiiaiul Klaiicocl at tlio closed uiion tlio face of the king. "Shoot in writing, purporting to be the last will and of I'robale. lalki'd very pleasantly of a niimbor of and a lilow. "I can't go ilirough with them!" he cried, cougliing and spitting testament of said deceased, now on file in said hniss dooi' ilii'Diij,'!! wliir.'li no news Court be ailmittcd to probate, and that llio nd- In the Matter of tho Estate of Ann Simpson, would ('iiinu. siil),|i'r'l.s. All tile while at tlic back of It."' repeated the Icing. "1 cau'i go blood, so that the lialo of light round niinislrntinn nf said estate bo Kranled to her decensed. King P'ordinand diaries' mind fretted self or to some other suitable person. Jennie I-'reeman baviag filed in aaid Court "Wlion wonld yon want to have tills tiiroiigli wi'Ji it." tlie_kiiig's bead danced about. her petition, praying for license to soil tho KcareliV" Ilie mystery of Ids vanisliod iieroiiiane. "I'.iit tliey'll bang us," said I'esio It is Ordered, 'I'liat tlio l.ltli day of January, inlerest nf said estate in certain real estate 'liliere caiiie no news of its capturo (Continued next week.) A. D. lill'i, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at tlierein deacriiied. Till! ox-l;inK was radiant. '•Woconldn'l vitcli. said proliate odice, lie aad ia hereby appointed It is Ordered, Thnt the .llh day of January pos.siljly Molbourn V., were WebbervlUe cal lers Saturday. DANSVIIiLK NiaVS. Geo. Foster and son Levander were Wlllianiston callers Saturday. *-«»*'>"»'*«"»»t»f*'»*<.««»»».»M».*»*».»*»M».<..tllg..tllil.»l.l Floyd Walker, wife and son were Sunday visitors at li^arl Aiiller's. DANCER-BROGAN'S Tlio poslollice at tlilH pliice U'liii- .sacled iho lioavlest busliioss of its Farl AliUer, who has been very sick liiKlory last wook—Clirislmas week. with an abcess in his ear is slowly Will. Mooi'o and wll'o of lOasl Gor gaining. don worn lioi'o last wook on their lioiicyiiioon as llio giiuxt.s of Prof, iiiul Clieck,s uroiip Iii,slaiiHy. Mrs. Gi'iKsby, Airs. .Aloofo boliig a You know croup Is dangerous. And sister ol' Airs. Grigshy. you ouglit lo know too, the sense of Our Annual January .Mrs. Iviiolla Bossliigor is a visitor security that comes from having at I'roi:. A. D. Origsl)y's. Foley's Honey and Tar Compound in 'I'lin second ninnijer of tlic loctiiro Uio house, 'it cuts the thick mucus (.'oiirso wili lu> given on i'liiirsciay ev and clears away the phlegm, slops ening, ,lan. Ttli, Ijy Dr. '1'. S. Sulevia. llie strangling cough and gives easy CLEARANCE SALE .Mrs. I'\ ,1. Bullen spent Cliristnias breathing and Quiet sleep. Every at l^ansint;, wliere lior .dauglilur and user Is a friend. For sale by Long- Your Railroad son were visiling. year Bros, and L, H, Harrison,—Adv, .Mr, and iMrs. 1^. K. Wolcott oi' Lan Starts Wednesday, January 6, and will\ sing are spending a t'cw days in town. rows LI.M Fare Paid Clare llaylioe is lionie I'or a few days I'roni Dowitt this week. Doc, 2!), IDM, ' Within a radius of 30 miles 'i'lio correspondent ol' llio Democrat Rob Brown, wife and cliiidren of continue balance of month. is antliority I'or the statement that Lansing wore Sunday guests of his we will pay your fare one I'rol'. (1. ii^. I'owers has boon engaged parents, Air, and Airs, Sam Brown of Our Annual January Clearance Sale which opens on Monday, the 6th, promises to be as principal in a school in northern this place. way on purchases of $10 or iMlciiigan. the most important sale event of the year. Airs, Mary Barnes and daughter more, and if you trade $20 lOniery Wordeii anil I'amlly spent Alarie spent Christinas with friends The Dancer-Brogan store everybody knows is stocked A^ith the best and highest Christmas with his parents near in Lansing, or more we will refund Filchhiirg. P. lioback and wife of Lansing quality merchandise the market produces, and during our January Sale every article iMr. and Mrs. \V. H. Holt ol' Sagi spoilt pari of last week with friends fares both ways. naw wore onlcrtained hy his hrotlier of merchandise is reduced; in many departments our goods are sold much below the hero. Without railroad ticket and wil'e froin 'riuirsday nntil Mon Alma Bryan of Lansing was a manufacturers' prices. day. guest of Clara Alarzon one day last or cash fare receipt, fares Miss Bernice Wilipplo spent part week, ol' Xnias week with I'riends near Ala- 'I'ho Chrislmas tree at the Button will not be allowed. son. school was well attended and all en- DANCER-BROGAN'S. Lansing's Leading Store The largest crowd over assembled Joyed a line lime, at the town hall was there last 'Thurs Charles Roback and wife and C, !• T2sr.sftsMBa3SKaii£saE£SKaai day evening to witness tlio .Xnias tree Roback and family of Canada are vis exercises by the school and the iting their parents and otiior relatives churches combined. The program liere, DIST. \0. 4 DEliHI. Wheatlleld will give a comic enter Ivan Perkins of Williamstou called while she is In the hospital at Ann was unusually good and rodected Howard Thompson and wife of tainment at the hall Saturday night. on Aliss Mildred Weniplo Sunday, Arbor, credit upon those who liad it In Dennis Taylor of Lansing was Miss Vila Gunsolley is spending a Miss Flossie Alilner spent a few Mrs. Frank Gibbins, who has been charge, West Branch are spending their holi days with their parents. Air, and Mrs, home with his parents, Win. Taylor tew days with her aunt, Mrs. Bert days with relatives in Dansville re very ill for several weeks, continues Mr. and Airs. W. S. Walker are vis Albert Thompson of this place. and wife, over the week end. Hart. cently, about the same, iting their daughter and I'aiiiily at Owing to the lack of employment Mrs, Earl King entertained her Mr, Swan and son Harvoy of near Mrs, Wm. Leo, who underwent a Ann Arbor. in Lansing Irwin Hosford and family relatives with a Xmas dinner and Williamston spent Saturday witli dangerous operation at the U, of M. A, It, Alarshall and wife ate Xnias ItltlOAK ()' DAY. are living with his parents, tree. their daughter and sister, Mrs, Elza hospital last Alonday, has been doing dinner with their parents, Air. and Cora Arond is visiting her brother Howard Biggs is spending the holi Milner, as well as could be expected. I\Irs. ,1. C. Alarshall. Dec, 29, 1914. George, and wife, near Mason. days in Lansing. Lawton Hedglen visited his grand Loyal Rothman is in a critical con C. W. Spangler and wife enjoyed a Burl Patrick and wife ate Xmas Mrs, Bertha and Gertrude Arend Albert Hart visited his brother, T, parents, Orrln Hedglen and wife, re dition with pneumonia. Christmas dinner with Mr, and Airs, dinner at Fred Bohnetl's. visited their uncle, Jay Smith and Hart, Monday, cently. Miss Catherine Bailey has return Karl .ludd of Wheatlleld. Freda MIcrndorf and gentleman family, of Lansing Alonday and Tues Mr, and Airs. Bert Hart and Mr. Ford Hayhoe, wife and sons spent ed to her home in Jackson after n, L, Dayton and wile spent Christ friend returned home last Friday af day, and Mrs. Frank Biggs were the Christmas with Airs. Hayhoo's par spending several weeks al the liomo inas with Mr. and Mrs. John Scarlett ter a week's visit at Bancroft. Mr, and Mrs. Wm, Binkley enter guests of Earl King and wife Sunday ents. of Airs. Frank Gibbins. of Holt, Fred Alierndorf, wife and daughter tained their daughter, Milda Barber, night, Mr. and Mrs, Guy Clark, Fred Plx- Gladys visited tlio former's parents, S. S, Holt and wKo, accompanied and family during the week, Alton Selfridge spent Xnias with NOIM'H i,iK.SLll';. ley and mother. Airs, Ella Coin were by his brother and wil'e, who wore Frederick Alierndorf and wife Sun Aliss Rena Fink of Eaton Rapids Burt Hart and family. Christmas guests at Lawrence Mur day, his guests, wont into White Oak lo visited her father, Win, Fink, the Mrs, Sarah Sherman is quite sick ray's in Rives, gel a clean meal at Chas. Fortman's ,Iohn llaskill and wife arc enter week end. Chas, Harr and family spent Xmas taining company for the past week. Pioiiipt Action Will Stop Your Coiigli at tills wriling. Xnias day. Airs. Frank Arend entertained at L, B, AlcArtliur and family of Ma- at Robt, O'Brien's in Jackson, 'I'hore is a rumor to Hie efl'oct that Airs, Sumner Siiupson recoivod a a family dinner Xmas. When you first catch a cold (often A Christmas tree with appropriate new range slove for a Xmas present. indicated by a sneeze or cough), sou^ spent Christmas with his parents the gallery in the town hall sank Mrs, Wm, Binkley entertained at here, exorcises was given by Aliss Louise about two or three inches owing to Airs, Fred Bobnott and daughter a family dinner Xmas, break it up at once. The idea that Reed and pupils at the Coon Hill visited al Burt Patrick's, Monday and "it does not matter" often leads to Oliver Fdwards passed away at the the lai'go crowd llicro Xmas eve. Had Wm, Hosford and wife spent Xmas home of his son Allen Sunday even school house Wednesday evening, it given away no knowing what would Tuesday, at a son's home in Lansing, serious complications. The remedy A Christmas program was given at which immediately and easily pene ing, at an advanced age, have been the result, Hero Is anoth Bertha Arend was in Alason on Aliss Ida Alyers, who is staying the Al, 10, church Tluisrday evening, er rumor that steps will be taken to I.\<;HAM AND IC.VTO.X. business Wednesday afternoon. trates the lining of the throat is the Aliss Alary Reed and pupils, of the ascertain whether il is safe to use kind demanded. Dr. King's New with Airs, C, II, Hasbrouck, spent Xmas with her parents at Alason, itood, gave a Chrislmas tree and ex any more for public gatherings. We Air, and Mrs, J, AI, Taylor and son Discovery soothes the irritation, loos cellent program at the school house arc Inclined to think the whole mat IIAWLIOV. ens the phlegm. You feel better at Mrs, WHieoler is spending Hie holi Charles spent Christmas al the Red- days with relatives at Battle Crook, Wednesday evening, "The Maid of ter has been enlarged upon. lioUl homo. once, "It seemed to reach the very Plymouth" and "Dickens' Christmas Airs, Mike Oostorle and children spot of my cough," is one of many Mr, and Airs, P, F, Lacoy and Air, Our niorchaiits report a good trade Air, and Mrs. Earl Hart and daugh spent from Thursday till Sunday with and Airs, Perry Backus spent Xmas Carol" were given In addition to Xnias, ters spent Sunday with Air. and Mrs, honest testimonials, 50c at your many pleasing recitations and songs. her parents near Williamston, druggist.—Adv. with llio lallor's daughter and family Airs, A. P. I'Jinnions visited her Jaenicko, Mrs. F. Updyke spent Thursday al Lansing, Airs, Emily R, Harrington, wife of daughter at Union City last week, Aliss Voorheos will spend her vaca and Friday with their children in Air. and Mrs. H. L. Osborn and sun Jack Harrington, died at her lioine, AI, H, Corwin and Airs, Al, .1, Cor- tion with her parents at Holly, Jackson. AUIUOLIUS. Ralpli, of Jackson spent the week end Thursday, Dec, 17, aged 5S years. wln wore in Stockbrldgo Sunday and Aliss .lossio Doan lias returned to Deceased has always been a resident Airs. Hurd of Jackson is visiting al with Airs, Fred Laukin. of this township. The funeral was Alonday, lier work al BiUwood, Air. Ives'. C, L, Crane and family are visiting Mrs, Sarah Toall of Lansing is the Krnost Wallace of Detroit is visit Mrs, Flla Barnes is visiting at relatives here, held Alonday with Inlerment In the Mr. and Airs. R. H. Royslon spent guest of Airs. Abbie Backus. Harrington cemetery. ing his parents. Air, and Airs, J. D, Polterville, Xmas with their children in Jackson. Stanley Parker and family, John Wallace, Mr, and Airs, Clarence entertained Parker and family were guests of Penbrook V, Carney died Sund.ay, Air, and Mrs, U, Howery entertain .NORTIIKAS'I' IVICSLli;. Airs, Chas, Garred has been lior parents from Sprlngport Xmas, ed their children for Xmas, Air. and their parents, Mr, and Mrs, Levi Dec, 20, at the home of Ills sister, brought to the home of her parents, Mrs, J. Al, Taylor spent Monday Airs, J, Al, Gray, In .lackson. Besides Mrs. S, J. llanna and son, Mr, and Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Warner and Mr. and Airs, Geo, Brlggs, whore she with Airs, G, Pusdal near Lansing, Mrs, Carl Grinnell left Saturday the sister, he leaves a mother and Mrs. Charles Wellman, Mr. and Mrs, daughter Frances of Jackson and daughter. Airs, Frances E, Suther can 1)0 cared for better. Mrs, Garred Tlio neighbors will entertain Mr, Cecil Howery, Airs, Geo. Slid and two for a visit with her mother in Kala is a sufferer from paralysis. and Airs, St. Clair Friday night at Mrs. Perry and granddaughter. Flora land of Arlington, 'I'exas. The re daughters Alzina and Mary, mazoo, Riley of Leslie spent Chrislmas al Airs, Beatrice Raymond is spend the St. Clair home, the occasion being Air, and Mrs, Bernard Hunter mains were broght to Alunltli for Air, and Mrs, Ives spent Xmas with Wm. Hoal's. burial. ing the week in the village, Mr. St, Clair's birthday. his brother and family of Stock- spent Christmas with her parents, Aliss Mildred Johnston is spending Air. and Mrs. Oponlander and fam Mr, and Airs, Preston of Jackson. Spencer Gallaway and family spent bridge, Christmas at E. J, Howe's, a few days at Lansing, ily ate Christmas dinner in Lansing. Mi,ss Alzina Slid is visiting her Mrs, Nellie Barry and friend of IvKIOl' GIHliS FIJOM CITY. Aliss Noll Swan of Alason has been Crein Higdon and wife spent Thurs grandparents. Lansing were home tor the holidays, day and Friday of last week with the in town part of the week, MAl'LIJ COIINKUS. Mr, and Mrs, Lloyd Slaght and It I could bring only one message, Bernice and Florence Whipple are latter's parents at Grass Lake, family ate Xmas dinner at Tom Shep It would be this: Keep your girls spending their vacation from .school I'OLLOK COR.XURS. herd's, Herb Howe and family of Eagle The Christmas exercises given by spent last Thursday visiting their away from the city. It is a queer at their home here. the teacher and pupils of the Meech Mr, and Mrs, Carl Warner and Airs, Louise Brlggs entertained her The Christmas tree and exercises family spent Friday with her sister. niece, Mrs, Elsie Gallaway, psychology, that great yearning in school were well rendered and well Vern Stan field and family spent sons, Frank and David, and families attended. The tree was very pretty were a success. Ralph Edwards was in Brookfleld, a young girl's heart to go lo the city and gruiidsoii, Roy Al, Hunt, Xmas E. C. Otis and family spent Xmas Friday. Christmas with W, J, Hayhoe and day, with its many lighted caudles and wife. to work, I heard the call, just as so useful little gifts. at G. H. PoUok's. Word has been received from Mr. 'I'ho dance al the town hall an- Mrs, W, D, Steadman, Floyd Miller and Mrs. Jim Russell from Long Florence Harkness is improving af many thousands of other girls have Roy Uuncimaa has installed a new ter her recent sickness. heard it—are hearing it now. Eleven iioiincod tor Friday evening, Jan. 1, telephone in his home. and family spent Christmas at Elmer Beach, Cal., where they are located. has been canceled on account of the Frost's. They state they are having a fine Ed Howe and friend of Eagle are years I have been with and of that condition of the hall. Grace Swegles had the misfortune visiting in this neighborhood. great class of'\vago earners—work to sprain her left ankle last Wednes Mr. and Mrs. A. Hoyt spent their time. Airs, Mina Miller had a Christinar. Christmas at Will Oesterle's. ' Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Cady spent Robt. Wright and wife entertained ing women, I have seen what I have tree at her home Xmas eve, lo which day noon. their children and families at their seen, and out of my heart I beg you Bernard Harrington was called to Mrs, M. V, Otis was at F. E, Col Christmas with his brother in Mason. a few of her friends were invited. lar's Christmas. Lee Slaght was a guest of his son, home Christmas day. young girls, give up the foolish day AIoll Holmes and wife wore again Wyandotte Dec. 2'3, by the serious Mrs. Laura Baker burned her hand dreams of the glories that are to be illness of his little daughter, Myrtle Will Storm and Elmer Otis were L, L, Slaght, in Mason. visitors at Baker Dakin's over Sun in Williamston Thursday. quite badly one night last week. found in the city. Why, you think day, Jane. Word was received Sunday it is a great, beautiful, lighted street. that she was stricken with typhoid Orla Pollok and family spent WEST WHITE OAK. A tew choice white Wyandotte Christmas with Mrs. PoUok's parents SOUTH INGHAM AND NORTH I know, I had visions! It Is a Valley cockerels for sale. Inquire of E, Z, pneumonia. of Homesickness and Loneliness and Miss Nellie Traver spent Sunday at Muuith. Steven Behm, wife and daughters UUNKERHILL. Strong at,the postonice. ~- Louis Bartlett and family spent Cold and Heart Hunger are your We hear that Orra Heald Black- in Lansing. spent Christmas with her parents, companions. There may be Ijright Lacey Beach and'family spent sev Christmas at Earl King's. Mr. and Mrs. Warren West. Mrs. Wm, Sharland was on the sick more will return to Italy soon to Clyde Otis and family and Leo list the first of this week,-— iiglits,' but they can not pierce the teach languages In the public schools, eral days of last week with their par Mr. and Mrs. Alva Titus and sons darkness of loneliness you enter. ents near Eden. Shattuck spent Sunday at E. C. Otis.' Earnest Pid Robert were entertained Mrs. F. Teachout and Jennie Say- Edmund Young is spending the Chas. Otis is at F. B. Collar's ptit- les ate Christmas dinner with Mr. There may be crowds, but their school vacation at his home here; Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McGowan enter by their daughter and sister, Mr. and voices are' lost in the noise and ruf.'i tained at a family Christmas dinner. tlng in new windows and a top on Mrs. Fred Marshall, for Christmas and Mrs. Abe Wilcox at Williamston. Miss Bessie Clements spent Satur the silo. Wilber Wilcox of Ann Arbor is vis of their hurrying feet. There may day and Sunday in Owosso. Those from away were Mrs. B. L. dinner. be beautiful homes, but they are VanOstrau and children of North Edward Kimball and wife visited iting his sisters, Mrs. Jennie Sayles, Miss Edna Carl of Stockbridge was Mrs. Hoard and Mrs. F. Teachout at closed to the lonely little wayfarer, in town Xmas day. Williamston, and Mr. W. L. Meade, WHU»PLE CORNERS. Harmen Wemple, Sr., and wife Fri who pauses outside their gates—al and W. C. McGowan and family of day for dinner. this writing, A more careful examination of the The Christmas exercises at the ways outside their gates, child. There town hall reveals that a fearful catas- Lansing. Mr. and Mrs. Herm Mann spent Mr. and Mrs. Will Carl spent Fri liiay be beautiful music, but is is lost Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Porter ride Xmas with Mrs. Mann's people near day with his sister, Mrs. Braham, in Howard school could not be surpas trophy was narrowly averted Xmas sed by a school of a much larger size. in the sobs of homesickness. There ' eve. The gallery sunk under the in a fine new. cutter, Leslie. Her sister, Miss Pearl 'Vlcory, Dansville. may be the Great Chance, but oh, it Mr. and Mrs. Glen Hitchcock re returned home with them for a visit, j Chan Nelson, Am Nelson, Jess Nel The house was very prettily decorat heavy weight nearly six inches, The ed and the program was very fine in means fight, fight, fight, with only architect has been sent for. turned this week from their honey Lloyd Hayhoe and family spent son, wife and families spent Christ one chance in a million of reaching moon trip through the western part Xmas with Mr. and Mrs. A. Braven- mas with their brother Anson Nelson deed, and enjoyed very much by all. To the officers of the Dansville Arthur Briggs is very sick with In- the goal. telephone lines: Your switching Is of New York state. der. wife and family near Vantown, Com Harrington has gone to Mrs. Charles Stevens and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Fred Herrick enter llamatory rheumatism. You come to the city to get away due Jan. 1, 1915. Try and have your Mr. and Mrs. John Kleinsmith and from loneliness, you tell mo. Oh, meeting so you can get the money in Wyandotte to visit his nephew. Helen of Kalamazoo visited at Lee tained for Christmas, Howard Her-' by the 20th. Also those owing toll W. L. Meade of Lansing is spend Hulllberger's, Lloyd Hayhoe's and rick, wife and daughter and Mr. and family ate Xmas dinner with the lat my little friends, you know the birds come in and settle. By doing this it ing a few days w'th Geo. R. Traver. David Hulbert's, the first of the week. Mrs. John Dutcher. ter's brother, Ara Howe and family. and-the trees and the flowers—they will be greatly appreciated. E. J. Mrs. W. C. McGowan and little Mrs. Albert Aseltine entertained Henry Sheathelm, .wife and chil Mr. and Mrs. H. Wedlick visited in are all your friends. But in the city Blaksly, Mgr. daughter Verna of Lansing are visit her children and families from Flint dren spent Friday and Saturday.with Lansing from Thursday until Sunday. you know not a soul, not a thing. It Miss Flora West is on the sick list Is the most heartbreaking thing in A petition is being circulated and ing relatives here. over Xmas. her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Rob- Geo. R. Traver is in Lansing at Loyd Ferguson and family ate bins of near Holt. , ' at this writing. the world to be lonesome in a great freely signed asking for the nomina crowd of people. Keep close to fath tion of W.^'A. Posdick as county road tending to the affairs of the late Mrs. Xmas dinner with Mr. and Mrs. P. Mr. and Mrs. Elza Milner ^d fam Mrs. Charles Garrett is no better Addle Kirk, who died Sunday. Mann. ily entertained company for Christ at this writing. er and mother, to home and friends. commissioner, Remember the many little fly-by- AUie J. Holmes and family of Una- Mrs. Thayer of Williamston is car Mr. ar^d Mrs. H. Osborne visited mas dinner. Miss Anna Wedlick and brother dlUa w6re guests of their cousins, ing for Mrs. Jas. McGowan and little Xmas with Mr. and Mrs. Leo Glynn Miss Mildred Wemple visited her Charles and Miss Winnitred McMich- nights of whom I have spoken, who Wirt Milner and family, Christmas son. of Wheatfleld. sister, Mrs. Glenn Walinright, of near ael are spending the holiday vacation leave the country in the cool dewy and over Sunday. Mrs. Henry Geer and Mrs. TUlle Mr. and Mrs. Mort Raymond enter Williamston, Thursday. with friends in Lansing. evening and wake in the crash and J. H. Bashford and wife spent Porter a'nd daughter Martha spent tained company over Xmas. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hedglen and grind of the city; who turn their Christmas •with their daughter, Mrs. Monday in Lansing. We are glad to learn that Mrs. children spent Christmas with her faces toward the city and a "good.- MUNITH. time" only to find that ,they had Frank Osborne, and family Xnias. Myra Bravender is slightly improved parents. Wells Walker and wife. .'••'-'7<, Miss Zelena Keene is spending the BAST ALAIEDON. at this writing. , Claude Hayhoe and wife spent Mrs. Helen Lovell of Jackson spent really left the "good time" behind. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hayhoe called Just live your lite, making it sweet week at Bert Hanna's. Christmas with her parents, Mr. and the past week at the home'of Frank ^•1 The YoUng People of the M. E. Mrs. C. Sitts and son.Grove visited on their son Lloyd and family Mon Mrs. Sharley Warner. Gibbins. and pure. Remember that no eyll Sunday school will hold a night cap the former's sister in northeast Alaie- day evening. Little Osmond return , Meadsvllle school district No. 4, Mr. and Mrs. 0. R. Pixley were thought can enter unless you ope\ social at the home of Ara Howe Dec. don one day last week. « ed home with them for a visit. closed last Thursday for a week's va guests Christmas day at Chas. Pick the door. Your life, is yours; Don't' .31. Everybody come. Ladies please Mrs. Ray Watkins and daughter cation. . ett's. . • waste it. Stay in your quiet, peace bring cake. •• spent Xm as with her parents. SPAULMNG NEIGHBORHOOD. Misses Agnes and Bernice Foster . Miss Helen Pixley of Jackson is ful, wholesome home, living In touch Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schinner of Harry Parkhurpt is now drawing visited relatives in Lansing through spending the holiday vacation at the with God, who is good, delivering jus 1 Armadat are speiidirig the holidays niilk to, .Williamston. Miss Francis Frost of Baton Rogue their school vacation. home of her mother, Mrs. Augusta tice to all men, and when the knocks Jinrith the latter'B sister, Mrs. Louis 'Grove Sitts is spending the week and Mrs. George Frost from the M. William Walker and wife are Pixley. come—and they will come—preach 'iThorapsonv..; ••• with the family of his brother.George A. C. are spending the holidays with spending a few weeks' with their Mrs, F. Densmore has been spend tor yourself this little sermon: I'm' :/No rural'mall service Friday, Jan. in Lansing. their parents, Mr, and Mrs. Eugene daughter, Mrs; J. C. Avery, and fam ing sevei^l weeks with her sister, bigger than anything that can happen to me:. sori'ow. and temptation .are Ci:.^;;:•-•.;••:.;,vr\':•-.,-:••. '^r\::' :.,• •;•,•.: Frank Potter has. had two sick Frost. •• ily In Ann Arbor. Mrs. Chauncey Gregory in Leonl, : il > The Royal Nelgbbora are to have horses the past week. : Mr. and Mrs. Guy Graves spent Misses Mildred Nelson and Islia Miss Louise; Reed expects to leave outside my door; Tm in the house and the key is lost.—From an ad ' a Bpeclal: meeting next Monday night Henry Kent and family spent Xmas with Mrs. Graves* brother, C. Lathrop and Robert Titus are spend soon oh a trip to Los Angeles and •A •atMrt.iJullaVWalker'B. ;Allmembera Xmas with her fatherland Bister in Biggs and wife in Lansing. ing their vacation at their parents' San Francisco, Cal. dress by Nan W. Sperry, Assistant awiiurfeid to be^preBent.^^- • ! :^ thlB^'vlclnltyr. ^'vv,/; ;,,,\v-. ;i,,.;;. .Mr, and Mrs. Frank Biggs spent home in White Oak, Miss Leah Glddings of pnondaga State Labor Commissioner, Kansias ^j^v'MrB^ BttaSawyer and Bon; Charles ^ClareRiggB and wife entertained XmaB with relatives in Lansing. Mr. DeBue and Kenneth Franklin is taking care of Mrs. Frank Gibbins. :City. Mo. :.-,;:• , ,• , ,:--:;>v'V;7':;;:^- ^ti^Jacksbn^ ipenl a (em^layB In town cqmpimy,';XmM.';i;>;:; Mr. and Mrs;, R. Benjamin: enter were in Mason Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Derby of tained. Mr. Benjamin's people^ Xmas. MiBB Winlfred,MUher of DansTllle,! Jackson' are;staying at the home' of , .It Bometimesibappens that Bhef who the latter's :Bister, ; MrSv ,Wm. Lee, "'"flir^d'lfn^tF.lM.'^WKlkei^'indJo.;«r. Mia'JBra; r. n. .fTMMt luiu Bvu^n . AW now* v».w x-er smw. ,, TOTbe^Girange'BOOiaO urange sooiail commiuecommittee;,;oe . oir MiBoiiBBa Marloinariuan Holmenuiuiuvs oufi uunuuiUnadlllaan* «uud luo mivat •> DIOIO, ,mto. .iiriu. i^oo, ae8itate8:^ottld/bUOBIMMH wouta oee ;16BtJiti