Mrs. Mabel Seeox4 S» anetoi HefitUi VOLUME 48 EAST JORDAN, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1944. NUMBER 52 Holiday Eve Fire , Farm Security Deputy Collector of Milkweed Pod Administration Supervisor Internal Revenue Destroys Home Office Hours Here Thursday, Jan. 4 Harvesting

THE HERMAN CLARK FAMILY Beginning January 1st, 1945, the To assist farmers and other citizens 42,644 BAGS OF MILKWEED PODS LOSES HOME AND CONTENTS. office hours of the Farm Security Ad­ with their income tax reports, a dep­ COLLECTED IN 1944. BOYNE ministration Supervisor are being uty collector of the Internal Revenue NO INSURANCE Service will be at the East Jordan FALLS LARGEST BUYING changed to: POINT Boyne City, Federal Building, Mon­ Postoffice next Wednesday, Jan, 4. Any fire, any time, is a bad loss, All those wishing information on but coming on Christmas Eve adds days, 1 to 4 p. m. Bellaire, Court House, Tuesdays, That the Michigan "battle for war opinion was speculating on the time their reports are invited to call at the The Milkweed Pod Harvesting pathos. production" is entering its most ur­ of the 1944 victory. Postoffice next Wednesday. Program in 1944 resulted in 300 per­ The home of Mr. and Mrs. Herman 1 to 4 p. m. Gaylord, Hickox Bldg. Wednesdays gent phase since Pearl Harbor ap­ The failure of the Luftwaffe to cent increase in number of bags Clark on Bowen's Addition, was des­ pears to be the real news for Michi­ make an appearance anywhere in picked. This has been due to a better troyed by fire, together with the con­ 1 to 4 p. m. Ice Crusher "Mackinaw" educational program and the fact _o- gan's 52nd week of 1944. Europe, the conceded lack of Ger-^ tents, starting at 11:20 p. m., Sun­ This column started out to be a many reserves in men and material, To Feature in Celebration that people are more experienced in day, Dec. 24. There was no insurance. review of the home front news in and German scarcity of gasoline and At Cheboygan, Dec. 30 the job of picking. Mr. Milo Ernst Mr, and Mrs. Clark were enjoying 1944. oil — all these influenced our think­ was the supervisor in charge of the Christmas Eve with relatives at the These Men Called We are reminded that in January, ing that 1944 was the time to begin work in the county. He did a real job Cheboygan —When' the United or organizing the schools throughout time. It is thought that the fire was Or About To Be Called By The 1942, just after Pearl Harbor, we no­ thinking about that post-war job. States Coast Guard ice-crusher caused by a large piece of wood, in Charlevoix County Selective Ser­ ted that "Washington now plans for The exodus of war workers from the county and had the organization Mackinaw arrives in Cheboygan on perfected early enough so that folks the stove, rolling against the door, vice Board No. 1. a three-year war"; that "production Michigan war plants became a steady December 30, Cheboygan will cele­ forcing it open. of arms, growing as it has been, is stream. All of this was disturbing to were prepared to start work when. brate with ceremonies at the Olds the season was favorable. Mr. and Mrs,. Clark and 2-year-old totally inadequate to meet new army-navy officials who debated with Dock, a street parade," and a banquet daughter are now staying with Mrs. The following men have been or­ dered to report at City Hall, Charle­ needs", and that "unless the German WPB Chairman Donald Nelson about in a demonstration of this city's pride The Boyne Falls Station alone, Richard Clark on the west side. nation collapses from weak morale the effect of post-war reconversion and pleasure in having the huge purchased over 13,000 bags. This one And hardly had the noise of the voix, Michigan, at 7:45 a. m., CWT. station bought as many as were January 3, 1945 for transportation or a lack of needed supplies, we must plans. Nelson's attitude: Workers crusher base here. fire whistle died out, when the bell of wait until 1943 and possibly 1944 be­ would stick to high-pay war jobs as picked altogether in the county last St. Joseph Church rang for the an­ to the Detroit. Induction Station for fore there are sufficient arms and As a part of the celebration the year. The next largest buying point Pre-Induction Physical. jong as they can IF they see eviden­ ceremonies will be broadcast over nual Christmas midnight mass. trained men to justify a full-fledged ces that the government has •• plans was Boyne City with 10,479 and East Robert M. Cuibertson, East Jordan. military offensive." That was approx­ Station WSOO from special micro­ Jordan with 9,021. Following these Lester H. Stevens, Walloon Lake. under way for after-the-war employ­ phones installed at the Dock and in imately 86 months ago! ment. come Walloon Lake with 3,661, Bay Weather Is Also An Vernon H. LaFreniere, St. James. the Gold Front Ball Room and a Shore with 2,492, Charlevoix 1,289, Chester L. Smith, Charlevoix. By October the public attitude was news reel that will later be shown in Enemy In This War In May, 1943, Lieut. General Bre- still one of confidence. German troops Advance, 1,094, Burgess, 760, Beaver Clarence E. Miller, Boyne Falls. theatres throughout the nation. Island, 434 and Ironton with 193. Orville A. Clute, Boyne City. hon H. Somervell, chief of the army were being pushed back almost daily. The Mackinaw is scheduled to ar­ It is expected that next year a : Appalling bad weather, news dis­ James S. Bates, Jr., Boyne City. services of supply, visited Michigan. A Washington news letter informed rive in the Cheboygan harbor at patches tell us, is keeping allied air He warned them that the U. S. army clients of the imminence of Ger­ similiar program will be carried on William G. Smith, Jr., Bay Shore. 3:00 p. m., C.W.T. The celebration but with no particular expansion. forces on -the ground, thus depriving would not be completely equipped un­ many's defeat, adding that "informed program will get under way as soon our troops of support sadly needed til late 1944, called 'rumors of over­ opinion at Washington still is that it The Petoskey plant is operating at County Republican as the giant cutter is moored at the full capacity and they will be ex­ to help, stem the tide of the Ger­ production the work of "fifth-column­ will be 4-to-6 weeks." dock. man counter-offensive. ists" and declared that only in the tremely fortunate to process the Convention at Admiral C. A. Park and congress­ crop harvested this year. The plant In modern warfare weather is the field of ammunition was there a re­ Looking over the events of 1944, Boyne City, Jan. 3rd serve. man Fred Bradley have accepted will not be possible. Great credit is most scientific calculations. Our ar­ we raise this question: Who is res­ invitations to appear on the speaking has been enlarged this year and fu­ my is like a football team that loses One year ago, December of 1943, ponsible for the public's over-confi­ A Charlevoix County Republican the American home front was flush program at the Dock in the after­ ture expansion in all probability great uncertainty that can upset the dence and over-optimism? noon and at the banquet in the even­ due the hundreds of boys and girls much of its speed on a heavy field. Convention will be held next Wednes­ with optimism and confidence that day, Jan. 3rd, at the Library in Boyne Germany might capitulate by Christ­ A few days ago George Lyons, ing in the Gold Front Ball Room. who did a large part of picking this Again and again we have had op­ news chief of the Office of War In­ Accomodations are being provided year. erations scheduled, only to have to City at 8:00 p. m. mas. Again the illusion persisted in Purpose of the convention is to the minds of many persons that the formation, declared at Supreme for 500 at the celebration banquet. B. C. Mellencamp, Co. Agr'l Agt. cancel or curtail them or else carry Headquarters in Paris, as reported by Mayors and a representative group them through under great disadvan­ elect delegates to the Republican war would be over soon. ; 0 State convention at Grand Rapids, General Eisenhower issued a pre- the Associated Press: "In my opin­ from all neighboring cities have tages because the elements conspired ion the Army-is making a bigger mis­ been invited as guests of the cele­ Coasting Regulations against us. Unfavorable weather al­ Friday, January 20th. New Year's statement, predicting Barney Milstein, Chairman. Victory in 1944 as the reward for the take than it did in the Patton case bration committee. Floyd Daugher- most prevented our landings in Nor­ (the incident of Lt. Gen. George S. ty, chairman of the celebration com­ By order of the Common Council, mandy last June and plagued us Lester Jersey, Secretary. heavy price to be paid from an Al­ lied invasion. Politicians speculated Patton's slapping a soldier in Sicily). mittee, has announced that the la­ Garfield Street has been designated almost to the end of July. For the It is following a head-in-the-sahd pol­ dies are invited. as the hill for coasting in East Jordan same reason the present campaign, Prospects for Coal upon the possible effect of victory be­ fore the November election. Post-war icy. It could tell a great deal more Principal streets of Cheboygan this winter. Hours for coasting are dtie to begin on Armistice day, had without giving any information to the will be decorated for the celebration, from 4:00 to 6:00 and 7:30 to 9:30 to be delayed until Nov. 16. Not Very Bright programs were pushed. In January of 1944 the state of Germans." augmenting the Christmas holiday p. m. daily. During these hours only Nor could we have had less co-op­ Lyons protested vigorously against trim. will a man be posted at the Main St. eration from the elements than we The following information received public opinion was said to be one of "complacency" and "over-confi­ the suppression of bad news. After a test run in heavy weather intersection to direct traffic. have had in our campaigns on both from a coal mining company by a On Dec. 14, in a friendly note to recently in Lake Huron the 5,000 ton Parents are urged to have the fronts this winter. The proverbial Charlevoix County dealer, gives dence". The army-navy thinking at Washington was that the public was. "Michigan GI Joes", the "Michigan ice-crusher was officially accepted youngsters observe these hours. Coas­ oldest inhabitant can't remember a general out-look on the future coal Mirror" writer made this comment: by the Coast Guard. ting any other place in the City is when the weather- -has; been worse in situation. letting down and should be jacked up to be more tense and grim. "You know, Joe, the newspapers still An outstanding construction fea­ prohibited. western Europe—some say it is the Let's marshall the basic facts af­ print the news as Washington gives it ture of the Mackinaw is the absence Cooperation in this matter will worst in 100 years. Both there and fecting the present and apply them Late in January the WPB decided to suspend reconversion, to hold up out. Officials at Washington possess of rivets. She boasts 150 miles of minimize danger of accidents. Let us on Leyte the normal November rain­ to the future. First: the domestic vital war information. Much of it is single bead welding. play safe. fall was doubled. sizes constitute a very small per­ for the present any sizeable increase in civilian production. censored and not disclosed to news­ Vice Admiral Russel R. Wacache, HARRY SIMMONS The mean tricks the weather has centage of the total production: Sec­ papers at once." adv 50-3 Chief of Police. ond: the supply of domestic sizes in The army-navy decision, which pre­ Coast Guard Commandant, has de­ played us on the western front help­ clared the cutter "will open shipping ed the enemy score the defensive retail yards is now uncomfortably vailed, was that this was WAR. . . . in low, with winter only just beginning. fact, all-out total WAR .... and that If the American public has been lanes probably three or four weeks City Tax Notice victory which prevented our forces complacent and over-confident, Wash­ earlier in the spring and keep them from spilling over into the German A mine that has 25 percent lump until the defeat of Germany was as­ coal is fortunate and means that its sured, there should be no trifling with ington cannot sidestep responsibility open later in the fall." County and School Taxes for the plain and laid the groundwork for for its persistent 1944 policy of min­ Commander Edwin J. Roland, the present successful counter-of­ coal is unusually firm and blocky. the mechanism of production of war City of East Jordan are due and pay­ Such a mine might have 15 percent goods. imizing our losses and emphasizing USCG, is commanding officer of the able commencing Dec. 10th and end­ fensive. Bad weather has cost us our gains. As we analyze this failure, Mackinaw. time and lives and has subjected our to 18 percent 5x3 egg. Stove is not ing January 10, at my office in the generally made because it is' priced In March the domination of the which co-incided with a national pres­ Further information regarding the Municipal Building. men in the front lines to miseries we idential campaign, Washington still Coast Guard Cutter may be found would not willingly see a dog suffer. too low to encourage its production military, as to the future course of G. E. BOSWELL and therefore the balance under 3" war production, was noted still more. cannot comprehend the strength of in the column "This Week in Wa'sh- adv. 49-4 ^ City Treasurer. All along the allied front the the people back home to "take it." ington" by Fred Bradley. ground has been waterlogged and the is shipped as 3" resultant. These are Quotas were set; orders were issued not average percentages because accordingly. The White House issued Do politicians still look upon us as roads have been what th New York mere children? ble burned at an early hour Wednes­ Dog Tax Notice Times corrspondent described as high quality coal have only 5 percent an order urging review of defer­ day. The fire evidently originated to 10 percent lump and only 10 per­ ments; the need for replacements Must we be protected from bad Dog license taxes are now due and "cold brown gravy inches deep." Our from the overheating of the office payable at the office of the City planes have been grounded oftener cent to 15 percent egg. Such are was publicly acknowledged. news which might discourage us? stove. George Rowe, manager of the "mine run" operations, shipping to The warm days of spring focused Actually the reverse should pre­ Treasurer. Fees, Male 75c; female, than they have been able to fly, so barn, was so severely burned he died $1.50. If not paid by March 1st, taxes that we have not been able to use metallurgical plants, utilities, etc. the public's thinking on the coming vail. With battles being fought thous­ a few hours later. He was about 70 and whether they run or not means of D-Day in Europe. Still the assump­ ands of miles from our shores and will be returned to the County Treas­ our greatest superiority, which is in and had been a resident of this reg­ urer and the fee doubled. the air. Our observations have been little or nothing to domestic users tion prevailed that the invasion would with American homes secure from en­ ion for 15 or 20 years. All the horses beyond supplying coal to plants be successful and that a weakened emy air raids, the civilian has extreme G. E. BOSWELL hampered, thus weakening artillery were safely removed through a rear adv. 49-4 City Treasurer. support of the infantry. Mud has which otherwise might draw on the Germany, impotent to meet terrific difficulty in trying to visualize the door. domestic mines. Yet these latter blows, would surrender uncondition­ grim picture of modern war. o clogged our transport and hampered Funeral services for Mr. Rowe NOT OPEN MONDAY NIGHTS our tanks which when mired, be­ mines are, of course, included in the ally during the Fall months as Ger­ Give us the truth. We'll tighten were held December 26th at the government's production figures, many capitulated in 1918. the belt still more. We'll renew our come helpless static targets. South Arm Grange Hall followed by Until further notice, our office will On Leyte, the correspondents said, which we all study each week. Do­ determination to back up our boys burial in the Jones cemetery. mestic stocks have been leveled by By mid-July, following landing of with war bonds, guns and shells, and not be open on Monday nights. Kind­ November was "wet hell." The wea­ Geoffrey VonPlaten, Boyne City ly arcjan^e your calls during our ther seemed determined to help the the 90 percent rule of Regulation 23, Allied troops in Normandy, public food. We can take it! and Grand Rapids lumberman, pre­ with such little averages as exist other regular office hours. Thanks. enemy delay day when Gen. Mac- sented the County Infirmary with 51-3 J. VAN DELLEN, M. D. Arthur could announce island was distributed by Solid Fuels to emer­ seven fine easy rocking chairs for secure. A typhoon struck and there­ gency centers.. Christmas. We, therefore, start our future es­ County School Commissioner Tais- after the general's communiques told —«-^<3<<^— repeatedly how constant rains were timate with stocks generally below ey of Antrim county has accepted the hampering operations. Besides the the demand and with winter just be­ From the Herald Files of Forty, Thirty and Twenty Yeare Ago superintendency of the Mancelona RATIONING natural discomfort, our men experi­ ginning. Most of our factors are ser­ Compiled l>y Mrs. Mabel Seeqrd schools at a salary of $1,500. AT A GLANCE enced misery and want because sup­ ious, with a trend toward pessimism. I William Carney died at the home For instances: the heaviest consum­ ply trucks stalled in the mud. What­ December 31, 1904 Northport. There are only 270 mem­ of his brother Mark north of town, ever supplies reached the Ormoc ing months are just beginning; labor Friday. Funeral services will be held Butter, Fats, Canned Milk, Lamb, is not working steadily and takes ad­ Miss Jessie McKay is spending the bers of the tribe living, among which corridor came in by plane or on the holidays with her parents here. She $78,000 is being distributed. The In­ at the home Sunday afternoon. Beef Steaks and Roasts, Cheese backs of men. Sometimes food sup­ vantage of every holiday, together Miss Violet Grigsby and William and Canned Fish with the days before and after; the teaches school at Springvale. dians here claim they belong to the plies were ruined when water seep­ Miss Harriet Hoyt is home from Ottawas, thinking Pottawatomie E. Moore were married at the Presby­ Book 4 — Red stamps Q5 through ed through canvas. period between December 23rd and terian Manse Friday evening, Decem­ S5 good indefinitely. More will be January 2nd always brings low college at Syracuse, N. Y.; John and blood a disgrace, but government The sheets of rain reduced visibil­ Mary Porter from their studies at money removed this idea. ber 18th, the ceremony being per­ validated .next Monday, Jan. 1st. ity and helped Jap infiltration. The production; wages are high and men Oberlin College; Burton Nicholas and formed by the bride's father, Rev. A. Processed Fruits and Vegetables do not have to work as long to make The most tantalizing piece of road ^ ,wetness drained the wounded men's Fred Whittington, from U. of M. in Michigan is situated between D. Grigsby in the presence of about Book 4 — Blue stamps X5 through •-** power of resistance. Men in foxholes what they consider they need to fifty guests. spend; cold weather is had on ma­ Florence Barrett, Catherine Win­ Boyne Falls and Clarion. About half Z5 and A2 and B2 valid indefinitely. developed sores. Shoes molded and ters and Margaret Dooley are spend- j way between these towns is a piece of More will be validated Monday, Jan. fell apart. Weapons rusted. chinery, with replacements imposs­ ing the holidays here, from their; December 26, 1924 ible and repairs difficult. The one swamp a mile and a half wide. The 1. It was through such conditions teaching jobs in the U. P. and Ar­ road leads to its edge, then des­ Frederick Weisler, aged 12, son of Sugar that the 32nd division advanced to­ good factor, so far as the domestic chie Pringle, from his school at Bay cribes a twelve mile loop around by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Weisler of trade is concerned, is the expectation Book 4 — Stamp 34 good indefi­ ward Ormoc. Not until the weather Shore. Walloon Lake and back to a point Kearney township, Antrim county, nitely for five pounds. strike a death blow at that Jap of a strike on April first. This means one and a half miles beyond its start­ died of spinal meningitis at the home that industries will continue to buy The S. E. Landrum Furniture Gasoline improved were our troops able to stock was moved this week into the ing poin.t If a situation ever war­ of an aunt, Mrs. James Crowley, in Those applying for supplemental stronghold nor undertake the inva­ heavily and thus mines will run to rants a few cuss words, standing on East Jordan, December 19th. capacity and thereby produce lump building recently vacated by E. E. gasoline must present to the Ration sion of Mindoro that marks another Shelters who went into voluntary the edge of that swamp and looking A tabulation of the number of Board the stub (Form R-534) off the step in the reconquest of the Philip­ and egg. However, retailers will bankruptcy. across to the road which can be cars crossing the Straits of Mackinaw also be anxious concerning the pos­ bottom of your A book application. pines. An account of a party closes with plainly" seen, then thinking of that gives these figures: 1918, 700; 1919, No 14 stamp in A book valid sible strike and will likewise want twelve-mile drive when, one should 1,600; 1920, 3,472; 1921, 4,731; Intricate campaigns are planned to build up their stocks. If there these words: "And the shadows of the through March 21 for four gallons with mathematical certainty but the night were kissedby the rays of the cross the swamp in ten minutes, is 1922, 9,326; 1923, 19,802; and 1924, each. Coupons B4, B5, C4, C5 good should be a strike, which God forbid, new morn ere the jolly crowd sep­ just the time. No wonder these two 38,681. weather holds the trump card. No it would mean starting the lake sea­ for five gallons each. Stamps B4 and wonder generals get gray hairs. arated"; an old way of expressing towns, eight miles apart, are not on Sunday's storm stalled a freight C4 expire December 31st. son with a shortage and the use of "they didn't go home 'til morning." speaking terms. — Petoskey Record. train on the Pennsylvania R. R. near storage piles by industry, with a re­ Coupons B4, B5, C4 and C5 good Tatooing to hide facial scars of the Mrs. A. L. Coulter, daughter of A nice Christmas was given at the the iron plant at Antrim and railroad for 5 gallons each. sultant heavy demand after resump­ men worked all night in an effort to wounded, How the ancient decorative tion of operations. Mrs. Alonzo Heston, died at Charle­ Knop schoolhouse last Sunday even­ Fuel Oil art is being used today in medicine, voix, Monday, following a four year ing. Miss Nellie Stone was there to dig it out. Old period No. 4 and 5 coupons from mending scarred parts of the Thus it would appear as though illness. play the organ. there is no immediate prospect for valid through coming heating year. face to injecting pigments into the At Traverse City this week an In­ Word was received here, Thursday A hick town is a place where a New period No. 1 coupons also valid skin to prevent infections, will be improvement in prepared coal sup­ dian agent was distributing govern­ that Mrs. R. L. Lorraine (at Wol­ fender retains its virgin shape for at plies. now and good throughout heating told in an interesting article in The ment money to Indians of Pottawato- verine) was not expected to live. least a month. year. ^ American Weekly, the magazine dis­ o— mis descent. Thirty-seven will re­ The surest way to be happy is to Rationed Shoes tributed with next week's Sunday If you want to commit the crime ceive $287.98 each. Among them are December 26, 1914 get so busy that you have no time Airplane stamps 1, 2 and 3 of Book Chicago Herald-American. of killing time, be sure it is your own. two sons of old Chief Ahgosa of The William Ev Lanway livery sta- to be unhappy. 8 valid indefinitely. THE CHARLEVOIX COUNTY HERALD, EAST JORDANV MICH.

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4—Governors' conference ends, after issu­ 30—Miss Ann Curtis improves the woman's December ing statement defining limits of state 880-yard free style swimming record with September 1—U. S. Third army reaches Saar river. and federal powers. a mark of 11:08.6. 14—Hurricane sweeping over Atlantic coast 2—Nazis withdraw troops from Norway, 6—Philadelphia street cars and busses op­ from South Carolina to Canada causes leaving only small garrison forces. erate under army control. August 40 deaths and property damage of $100,- 3—American armies advance in both Roer Newly developed calculating machine 000,000. that will solve problems in higher mathe­ 7—Joe Baksi defeats Lee Savold in 10- 17—Navy reports sinking of a destroyer and and Saar valleys. round heavyweight fight. two coast guard cutters in the hurri­ 4—U. S. Third army enters Saarlautern, matics is announced by Harvard uni­ 9—Yankee Maid wins the Hambletonian as entire Allied front of 450 miles swings versity. cane, with "heavy loss of life." 12—President returns from visit to Hawaii harness race. 28—Eight persons are killed in collision of into motion. 12—Miss Dorothy Germaine retains Women's freight and passenger trains near Mis­ Military and political crisis grips China. and Alaska. Western Amateur golf title. Rioting breaks out in Athens, Greece. 14—Strike of midwesterri' truck drivers ends, souri Valley, Iowa. Civil war threatens. following government seizure of lines. 20—Bob Hamilton" wins the Professional 29—Collision of two trains near Terre Haute, 6—B-29s raid Jap bases on Bonin islands. 16—Army ends censorship of soldiers' read­ Golfers' association title. Ind., kills 29 and injures 65. Most of Others hit Tokyo again. ing matter. 25—Trapshooting championship goes to Les­ the dead were soldiers. 8—Units of 77th division make new landing 23—U. S. department of justice files anti­ lie Jepsen for breaking 97 targets out on Leyte, splitting Jap, lines. trust suit in Lincoln, Neb., against 47 of 100. October 11—MacArthur's troops capture Ormoc, en­ western railroads. 28—Byron Nelson wins the All-American golf 20—Fire in Cleveland, Ohio, following ex­ liillll emy supply port on Leyte, 25—Secretary of State HuD and John F. championship. plosion of liquid gas storage plant causes France and Russia sign mutual assist­ Dulles, representing Dewey, discuss for­ 30—Chicago Bears professional football club 121 deaths and 200 injuries. ance pact. eign policy. defeats the College All Stars, 24-21. 13—Greek factional fighting grows in inten­ Senate passes reconversion bill to take November WAR sity. care of government surplus sales. September 4—Air-liner crash near Hanford, Calif.. B-29s hit Nagoya, Japanese aircraft pro­ 29—Republican campaign opens with radio 6—Ike Williams outpoints Sammy Angott, takes lives of 24 passengers. duction center. speeches by Governors Warren of Cali­ former lightweight champion. 8—Nine die and 75 are injured in train 14—U. S. tank and infantry units reach out­ fornia, Green of Illinois, and Baldwin 10—Baltimore captures the International wreck when limited leaves track 50 miles January skirts of Duren, key to Cologne region. of Connecticut. league pennant. northeast of Sacramento. Calif. 1—Russians move to within 27 miles of 15—U. S. Seventh army advances to Ger­ 30—Navy reports the construction of 65,000 14—Army transport plane hits mountain west Polish border. man border on 35 mile front. ships of all types since September 1, 20—Nashville wins the Southern league play­ of Harmon field, Newfoundland, killing 2-T-XS. S. marines expand hold on Cape 1939. off, defeating Memphis, nine and injuring nine U. S. army per­ Gloucester, New Britain. 21—St. Louis Cardinals clinch National sonnel. 8—American troops capture San Guista, UU September league pennant. 27—Army plane crashes near Madison, Wis., Italy. 29—Willie Pep retains world featherweight bringing death to three air corps men. ROBOT BOMBS 18—Two new Russian offensives are opened. 6—Army announces demobilization plans.- boxing title by defeating Chalky White. 22—British blast Magdeburg in 1,000-plane More than a million men will be dis­ December raid. charged when Germany is defeated. October 27—LENINGRAD CLEARED OF NAZIS. Seventeen processed foods are removed 1—Airliner crashes near Burbank, Calif., 80—Hitler in speech anticipates defeat. from ration list. 1—St. Louis Browns win American league with 23 passengers. Seven killed. 11—Roosevelt meets Churchill in Quebec for pennant. Freight car loaded with bombs explodes January military discussions. 3—San Francisco takes Pacific league se­ in Tolar, N. M., wrecking buildings and February 3—Twenty-eight men and two women are 15—Nineteen coal mines are seized on the ries, four games to two. starting fires. 1—Chinese advance in northern Burma. indicted on sedition charges. President's orders. 9—ST. LOUIS CARDINALS WIN WORLD 14—Three small children burned to death 3—Marines capture Namur and other is­ 10—Congress reconvenes. 21—Congress recesses until November 14. SERIES. FOUR GAMES TO TWO. in Chicago, a fourth seriously injured. lands in the Marshalls. 11—Roosevelt asks for National Service act. 28—Ration controls removed from all farm 10—Most valuable baseball players, chosen 6—U. S. army takes Kwajalein atoll in 13—A budget of $99,769,000,000 is President's machinery except corn pickers. by Sporting News, are Martin Marion, Marshalls. estimate of 1944 needs. 30—Birth rate for 1943 increased, census Cardinal shortstop, and Bobby Doerr, 16—Heaviest bomb load yet dropped hurled 20—Army allows induction of loyal Japanese- bureau says. second baseman of Boston American on Berlin by British bombers. league club. 17—U. S. naval task force attacks Truk, 26—Muster-out-pay bill passed, providing October 11—Little world series of International main Jap base in south Pacific. for a maximum of $300. 5—Strike of Detroit maintenance workers, league won by Baltimore. 19—Japanese cabinet reorganized, following 29—World's most powerful battleship, the affecting 33 war plants and 50,000 work­ 14—Francisco Segura wins Pan-American attack on Truk. 45,000-ton Missouri, is launched. ers, ends. tennis title for third straight time. 23—U. S. naval task force strikes at Mari­ 6—Super-powered X-ray announced that will January anas islands. February photograph through a foot of steel. November 6—Ida M. Tarbell, 86, writer, famous for 24—All of western New,; Britain passes to 7—Tax bill sent to White House. It pro­ 7—Peace conference at Dumbarton Oaks, exposing trusts, in Bridgeport, Conn. American control. vides for $2,315,200,000 of additional reve­ N. H., ends sessions. A general frame­ 10—Jimmy Daniels defeats Sammy Angott, 20—Walter Hackett, 67, playwright, in New 29—Stalin offers peace terms to Finland. nue. work for peace and security agreed former lightweight boxing champion. York. 16—War Relocation authority (WRA) trans­ upon, it is announced. 11—Army football team defeats Notre Dame, 29—William Allen White, 75, famous editor of March ferred to department of interior. 18—War Production board announces that 59 to 0. Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, died in Em­ 8—Record raid on Berlin made by 2,000 17—Army announces more than 200,000 men it has permitted l.liO manufacturers to 26—College football champions: Ivy league, poria. planes. have been returned from the Pacific resume civilian production. Yale; Big Ten, Ohio State; Big Six, 15—Russian army crosses Bug river. fronts on furloughs, besides the sick and 23—De Gaulle recognized as head of French Oklahoma; Southwest, Texas Christian; February 19—Advancing Russians enter Bessarabia. wounded, and that the rotation furlough Provisional government by the U. S. and Southern, Duke; Pacific coast. Southern 26—Russians reach Romanian border. plan is in full swing. other United Nations. California. 25—Rear Adm. Charles C. Hartigan, 62, na­ 30—Palau islands, 1,600 miles south of Ja­ 18—Selective service orders farm workers 25—U. S. and other United Nations resume 27—Hal Newhouser, Detroit Tigers pitcher, val attache, winner of Congressional pan, attacked by U. S. navy. reclassified. diplomatic relations with Italy. named most valuable player in American medal, in Palo Alto. 22—Tax bill is vetoed as "wholly inade­ league. 29—Rep. Thomas H. Cullen, 76, member of April quate." November U. of Tennessee chosen for Rose Bowl house from Brooklyn, N. Y., since 1919, 24—Congress overrides veto on tax bill. Sen. game with S. California, Jan. 1. died in Washington, D. C. 2—Russian troops enter Romania. Alben Barkley, Democratic majority 6—Dept. of Agriculture announces a decline Other bowl opponents: Orange Bowl. Mi­ American planes bomb Austria. leader who resigned in flareup on veto, in farm population in last four years ami, Georgia Tech, vs. Tulsa; Sugar March 10—ODESSA FALLS TO RUSSIANS. is re-named. amounting to 4,748,000. 13—Allied troops halt Jap drive near Ko- 7—Nationwide elections held. President Bowl, New Orleans, Alabama vs. Duke; 1—Thomas E. Campbell, 66, former gover­ hima, in India. Roosevelt reelected by majority of 3,000,- Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Texas Christian vs. nor of Arizona, died in Phoenix. 29—-A thousand U. S. bombers raid Berlin. March 000 votes, or 53 per cent of popular vote, . Oklahoma A. and M. 7—Rev. Dr. Thomas Nicholson, 82, Method­ 30—Japan's mid-Pacific base, Truk, is raid­ 6—Five veterans' organizations combine in winning 36 states and 432 electoral votes. Paul Krumske, Chicago, is new national ist bishop and former president of the ed for 35th time. asking for a bonus up to $5,000 for all Twenty Democrats and 13 Republicans individual match game champion, in Anti-Saloon league, in Mount Vernon, members of the armed forces. gain senate seats. Democrats elect 242 bowling. Iowa. May 14—Draft deferments for men 18 to 26 in representatives, and Republicans 185. December 15—Joseph B. Eastman, 61, director of Office 7—Allied forces in Italy turn back German essential industry ended except for Eighteen Republican and 13 Democratic of Defense Transportation, died in Wash­ counterattack.near Anzio. "key men." governors elected. 2—Army defeats Navy, 23-7. Notre Dame ington, D. C. 8—Sevastopol, Black sea naval base, falls 15—"Soldier vote" bill providing for short 14,—Congress meets. Supplementary appro­ beats Great Lakes by 28-7. Georgia Tech 19—William H. Thompson, former mayor of to Russians. federal ballots is passed and sent to priations main business. wrecks Georgia 44-0 to win Southeast­ Chicago, 111., died at 74 in Chicago. President. ern title. 18—Chinese launch counter-offensive in west­ 21—State department announces that it will 18—Special committee on wartime living ern Yunnan province. have no dealings with the Vichy French costs reports to President that rise is 29 13—Major baseball club owners vote to bar April 18—CASSINO, NAZI STRONGPOINT IN IT- government. per cent over January 1, 1941, level. football games in ball parks until the 24—Mrs. Sarah Jane Swanson, 113, said to ALY, FALLS TO AMERICANS AFTER 25—Three men and two women are convict­ 20—Sixth War loan drive opens. baseball season is over. be the oldest American-born resident of LONG SIEGE. ed as spies, and sentenced to long terms. 27^-Strike on two electric railroads serving 14—Welker Cochran.wins world three cush­ the United States, died in Chicago. 28—Allied bombers strike at German syn­ Chicago area ends after 17 days. ion billiard championship. 25—Coe I. Crawford, 86, former governor thetic oil plants in Leipsig area. April Edward Stettinius appointed secretary of 15—Big League baseball owners divided on and senator of South Dakota, in Yank­ state to succeed Cordell Hull. successor to K. M. Landis as commis­ ton, S. D. June 1—Army reports that 1,058,000 enlisted men sioner, and on other questions. have been discharged between Decem­ 30—Assistant attorney-general Norman Lit- William D. Stephens, 84, former gover­ 4—AMERICAN TROOPS ENTER ROME. ber 1, 1941, and January 31, 1944. tell dismissed by President. nor of California, died in Los Angeles. 6—INVASION OF CONTINENT BEGINS 4—House committee reveals that the fed­ 28—Secretary of Navy Frank Knox, who WITH LANDINGS IN NORMANDY. eral government now owns one-fifth of December has held that cabinet post since 1940, 8—Allies in Italy capture port 38 miles the land area of continental United 1—Strikes in Detroit and Chicago delay died in Washington, D. C, at age of north of Rome. States. production of B-29 bombers. 70. He was a newspaper publisher in 13—Allies advance into northern France, 5—Wendell Willkie withdraws as a Repub­ 2—Government halts reconversion plans in private life. reaching point 15 miles inland. lican presidential candidate after defeat 125 cities until munition production meets 17—Chinese take Kamaing, Burma. in Wisconsin. schedule. May 23—Week-long German robot bombing re­ 12—Attorney General Biddle reopens investi­ Rear-Adm. Husband Kimmel and Maj. January 7—Vice Adm. William Rodgers, 84, com­ ported by British. gation of Political Action committee of Gen. Walter Short, Pearl Harbor com­ mander of U. S. Adriatic fleet in World 25—American tank units enter Cherbourg, CIO. manders, will not be court-martialed, 7—Thirty seamen drown when a navy patrol War I, died in Bethesda, Md. important French port. 17—A new chemical treatment that will give vessel sinks in collision off Cape May, 26—Russians capture Vitebsk and Zhlobin. war and navy boards rule. N. J. 8—Brig. Gen. Donald A. Davison, chief of wood any degree of hardness desired, is 4—Draft of agreement of International Civil A freight train strikes army bus at provisional.engineering command, Medi­ announced. Aviation conference is completed, and Kingman, Ariz., killing 25 aviation terranean area. Death reported from July 26—Federal troops take possession of the ready for signatures of delegates. cadets. ' India. 3—Minsk falls to Russians as they sweep Chicago plant of Montgomery Ward Co. 7—Sedition trial of 26 defendants ends in 13—Twelve persons were killed and 40 in­ 12—Brig. Gen. Henry D. Styer, 81, com­ into Polish territory. by order of FDR when the company re­ mistrial. jured when a passenger train crashed mander of Allied troops in Siberia in 6—Robot bomb casualties and damage in fused to obey his order to recognize a Prison revolt of 25 Atlanta convicts into the rear of a standing train near World War I, died in Coronado, Calif. southern England are admitted to be CIO union. ended. Novice. Texas. 16—George Ade, famous humorist, died at serious. 29—Gen. Douglas MacArthur announces that 10—"Work or fight" order issued by War 78 in Kentland, Ind. 8—British and Canadians enter Caen, he will not accept nomination for Presi­ Mobilization Director Byrnes, threaten­ France, anchor of German lines for dent. ing men in age 26-37 bracket with in­ February June weeks. duction who are not in war jobs. 11—Crash of an airliner into the Mississippi 27—Six Nazi bases, the most important be­ May 11—Nobel prizes awarded to five Americans. river carries 21 passengers and three 1—Gen. O. R. Gellette, 99, Confederate ing Lwow, fall to Russians on various 1—Pulitzer prize for novels awarded to Mar­ 13—War prisoners at Fort Sheridan, 111., go crewmen to death near Memphis, Tenn. brigadier general, in Shrev.eport, La. MR. AVERY L^_^ fronts. tin Flavin for "Journey in the Dark." on sit-down strike; 1,300 put on bread 6—Col. Josef Beck, prime minister of Po­ 28—Brest-Litovsk captured by Russians. Musical comedy "Oklahoma" won a spe­ and water. March land during German invasion in 1939, UTS DOWN'^^^^^B 30—Allied "break-through" registers large cial award for authors. 14—Production quotas on machine guns died at 49 near Bucharest, Romania. gains in France. . 3—Most meats are removed from ration­ reduced to release workers for more 12—Collision of the Liberty Ship J. Pinkney 25—Louisa E. G. Thorp, 80, internationally ing. Steaks and beef roasts are princi­ critical items. Henderson and a tanker cost many lives. known artist and art teacher, in Los August 13—An accidental explosion of a surface Angeles. pal exceptions. mine killed ten soldiers in training ma­ 1—Resistance in Tinian island in Marshalls 11—New draft regulations defer most men neuvers at Camp Robinson, Ark. July ends. over 26. Those under 26 are scheduled 2—Turkey breaks diplomatic relations with for early induction. Men 26-29 in war- 20—A bus plunging through a guard rail of 9—Martin D. Morrison, 82, former congress­ Germany. supporting industries gain at least six a bridge over the Passaic river in New man from Indiana, died in Abingdon, Va. 10-^Guam conquered, giving U. S. control of months deferment, and those 30 and Jersey drowns 19 persons. 12—Mrs. Betty Compton Knappen, 37, for­ all important islands of Marshalls. over an indefinite stay. 25—An explosion in a coal mine hear Shin- mer musical comedy actress, in New 15—A second Allied invasion force lands on 15—Senate voted to delay action on poll niston, W. Va., kills 16 miners. York. southern French coast between Mar­ tax bill. January 17—Alan Dinehart, 54, film and stage actor seille and Nice. British delegation arrives for talks on April who has appeared in more than 100 pic­ 19—U. S. tank units reach suburbs of Paris. postwar security. 1—Southern California U. wins annual Rose 6—A blast in the naval ordnance depot in tures, died, in Hollywood, Calif. 20—Southern France invasion force enters 20—Communist party votes to disband as a Bowl game, defeating Washington U Hastings, Neb., kills eight workers. 20—MildreWHarris,* 41, movie actress and Toulon. political party, but to continue as an 29-0. 7—Thirry^nine merch'aM*3narine 'crewmen first wife of Charles Chaplin, died in 31—Romanian capital, Bucharest, is entered association." 8—Jug McSpaden wins the Los Angeles and 23 naval gunners drown when a Lib­ Los Angeles. by Russians. 22—Supreme court decision upholds validity Open golf tournament with a score of erty ship struck a reef offshore and broke 27—Lieut. Gen. Leslie McNair killed in of OPA suspension orders. 278. up on the English coast. France. September 31—Synthetic sugar is produced at the Uni­ 17—Byron Nelson wins San Francisco Open 30—Manuel Quezon, president of the Phil­ versity of California. Process is too ex­ golf tournament with 275. 9—Fire following a collision causes the ippines, died at Saranac Lake, N. Y. 4—Finns and Russians cease fighting In pensive to be practical at present. deaths of 29 crewmen and 16 naval He was 65. truce. Governors' conference adopts resolution February gunners on a tanker traveling in a con­ 5—Russia declares war on Bulgaria. calling for restoration of state powers voy. August 7—Britain lifts black-out regulations, con­ yielded to federal government when war 12—New manager of Boston Braves, Bob 11—A tornado cutting through Arkansas sidering menace from air conquered. emergency ends. Coleman, named to succeed Casey Sten­ takes lives of 34 persons. 5—Rear Adm. Don Pardee Moon, 50, com­ 11—American First army pushes five miles gel. 25—An American Liberator bombing plane mitted suicide in Washington while suf­ into German territory. 25—Joe Baksi outpointed Tony Mauriello in crashes in downtown Montreal, Canada, fering from "combat fatigue." 12—Romania granted armistice by Allies. June ten-round heavyweight battle. causing the deaths of 14 persons. Effie Cherry, 65, last of the Cherry Sis­ 13—Russians reach border of Czechoslo­ 1—Secretary of State Hull pledges that in 28—Sammy Byrd wins the New Orleans Golf 27—Fifteen workmen die of suffocation ters of vaudeville fame, in Cedar Rap­ vakia. the postwar world organization, small tournament with 285. while repairing naval ship in Ports­ ids, Iowa. 14—U. S. Third fleet attacks Cebu and Ne- nations will be kept on. an equality with mouth, Va. CHINESE PUZZLE • gros islands of the Philippines. large in every practicable way. March 28—A navy transport plane crashes 15 miles September 16—Second Quebec conference ends. Plans 2—War Manpower commission announces 3—Bob Montgomery regains the lightweight east of Flagstaff, Ariz., killing 22 per­ 1—Isabel Irving, 73, whose stage career for quick finish of European war and of that it will take over "absolute control title, as recognized in New York, by sons. covered 50 years, at Nantucket, Mass. marshaling of forces for Japanese front of all^ male workers over 17 to check outpointing Beau Jack. 2—George W. Norris, former senator from are made. turnover in essential industries." 11—U. of Michigan wins the Big Ten in­ May Nebraska, died at 83 in McCook, Neb. 19—Finnish armistice signed by Russia and 8—Twenty-one brigadier generals promot­ door track and field meet at Chicago. He served 40 years in congress, includ­ Finland. ed to major generals and 63 colonels to 18—Gilbert Dodds bettered his own indoor 16—Ten members of a naval blimp crew died ing five terms in the senate. 22—Russians take Tallinn, capital of Estonia. brigadiers. when the airship hit a hangar in its 8—James A. Reed, former senator from 30—Russians gain 60-mile-wide bridgehead "G. I. Bill of Rights" clears congress. mile mark in Chicago, with a time of takeoff at Lakehurst, N. J. Missouri, at 82 in Fairview, Mich. in Yugoslavia. 13—Democrats lose majority in the house 4:06.4. 18—Alan Ford establishes a new world rec­ June October October with the election of Rolla McMillen, ord for the 100-yard free style swim at 19th Illinois. 49.7 seconds 25—One hundred and forty-six were killed 4—Alfred. E. Smith, four times governor ot 1—Calais, French channel port, falls to Al­ 21—Senate passes army appropriation bill 28—U. of Utah captures the N.C.A.A. basket­ and 1,000 injured by a tornado that swept New York and Democratic candidate for lies. of $49,107,735,795. ball title by defeating Dartmouth, 42-40. over parts of Pennsylvania, West Vir­ President in 1928, in New York city at 70. 3—Siegfried line breached at Uebach by 28—Republican convention nominates Thom­ in New York. ginia and Maryland. 8—Wendell L. Willkie, 52, Republican TJ. S. Fifth army. as E. Dewey, governor of New York, presidential candidate in 1940, and 4—U. S. bombers raid Borneo oil fields. for President, and John W. Bricker, gov­ April July utility executive, in New York city. 6—Russians cross Hungarian border. ernor of Ohio, as vice president. 19—Rep. Hampton R. Fulmer. 69, who rep­ 11—East Prussian border reached by Rus- 29—A serum to prevent measles has been 13—Montreal Canadiens defeat the Chicago 6—A fire in the main tent of the Ringling resented a So. Carolina district for 12 developed and will be made available Blackhawks for the fourth successive Bros, circus in Hartford, Conn., causes consecutive terms, in Washington, D. C. 17—U. S. troops enter Aachen, important soon, the Red Cross reveals. time in the Stanley cup professional ice deaths of 167 persons, mostly women 22—Richard Bennett, 72, famous actor, in German border city. hockey championship playoff. and children. Two hundred others were Los Angeles. 20—AMERICAN FORCES UNDER GEN. 18—Major league baseball season opens. July injured. November MacARTHUR INVADE PHILIPPINES, 3—Treasury reveals that war costs for fis- May Sixty-six miners trapped in a burning LANDING ON LEYTE ISLAND. cal year total 90 billion dollars. coal mine near Bellaire, Ohio, had to be 8—Miss Christiana Bond, 100, author, art­ Moscow conference between Stalin and 7—The Grumman F-7-F, new two-motored 5—Charlie Grimm becomes new manager abandoned to their fate, when the en­ ist and lecturer, in Baltimore. Churchill ends. naval fighting plane, is tested, and is of Chicago Cubs. trance was sealed to check the fire. 9—Jane Grey, 56, well-known actress, in 28—U. S. navy meets and defeats huge Jap called superior to the Hellcat. 6—Pensive wins the Kentucky Derby, 7—Wreck of a troop train near Jellico, New York city. fleet between Philippines and Formosa. 8—Roosevelt's conversations with Gen. Broadcloth was second, and Stir Up Tenn., killed 31 soldiers and 2 civil­ 12—Edgar S. Kelley, 87, composer of classi­ Charles DeGaulle of France end. De- third. ians, and injured 100 others. cal music, in New York city. November Gaulle reported to be "highly gratified." 13—The Preakness race was won by Pen­ 11—An army bomber crashing into a trailer 16—Boake Carter, correspondent and radio 4—All German forces driven from Greece. sive. camp in South Portland, Maine, took news commentator, 46, in Hollywood, 9—Vice President Wallace returns from Chi­ 27—U. of Michigan win? western conference the lives of 16 persons. Calif. 7—Japs gain in China, advancing on rail na. He predicts an era of peace in the outdoor championship track meet. city of Liuchow. Meanwhile, British Pacific, with Russia and China as lead­ 17—Explosion of two munition ships at 17—Sen. Ellison D. Smith, who represented troops drive back Japs in Burma. ers. Navy loading pier in Port Chicago, So. Carolina in upper chamber for 35 11—U. S." planes sink eight Jap warships. June Calif., results in 319 deaths among years (longest consecutive period in his­ 14—British bombers sink Tirpitz, famous 11—President Roosevelt says that he will tory) at 80, in Lynchburg, S.C. run again "if nominated." 10^-U. of Illinois wins the National Collegiate naval and merchant marine personnel, 25-r-Judge KenesawM, Landis, commissioner German battleship, in Norwegian port. 13—Eric Johnston, president of U., S. Cham- Athletic association track and field cham­ and property damage of $7,000,000. 16—Great Allied drive launched on 300-mile pionships. 26—An army hospital plane was reported of professional baseball for 24 years, at front from Holland to Vosges; ber of Commerce, returns from Russia. lost at sea between Iceland and New­ 78, in Chicago. 20—French troops reach Rhine river in Duke and duchess of Windsor arrive in 18—Francisco Segura of Ecuador wins the New York from the Bahamas. national clay court tennis title. foundland with 26 aboard. December lunge through Belfort gap. 14—Army reveals that there are now 196,941 24—Mrs. Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson Zaha- Eieut. Gen. Patton leads Third army in war prisoners in the U. S., 146,101 be­ rias defeats Miss Dorothy Germaine to August 1—Albert B. Fall, secretary of interior in drive 23 miles beyond Metz. win the Women's Western Open golf Harding administration; at 83, in El 24—B-29s bomb Tokyo factories from base in ing German, and 50,278 Italian. 4—Twenty-eight persons, including 24 army pocQ TGXQS 20—Democratic convention in Chicago nomi­ championship. pilots and 4 mechanics are killed in Marianas, 1,550 miles away. nates Roosevelt for fourth term. 25—A new world record for the two-mile run crash of transport plane near Atkinson, 3—Dr. David Kinley, 83, president of U. of EDITOR'S SUGGESTION: 27—Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark is made com­ 21—Sen. Harry Truman (Mo.) is nominated set by Gunder Hagg in Sweden. His Neb. Illinois, 1920 to 1930, in Champaign, 111. mander in chief of U. S. army forces in time was 8:46.4. Federal Judge Arthur J. Tuttle, 76, in When you have finished with this Italy. for Democratic vice presidential candi­ 5—Train wreck near Stockton, Ga.. kills Detroit, Mich. Most outstanding case 29—U. 5. Third army attacks forts at Saar- dacy. 45 and injures 30. was treason trial of Max Stephan. page we suggest you mail it to a 30—Army says that malaria has been re­ July 7—Maj. John Griffith, commissioner of in­ serviceman overseas. It gives a 1l brucken. Saarlautern, and Merzig. duced to two-thirds of early war rate. 9—Crash of airliner at Antilla, Cuba, brings First and Ninth armies capture border 11—National league team wins the All-Star death to 17. tercollegiate athletics of Western confer­ graphic account of history-mak­ towns. August game, 7-1, in Pittsburgh. 13—Fire sweeps Palisades, N. J., amuse­ ence, at 67, in Chicago. ,80—U. S. planes sink 10 Jap transports and 17—Willie Pep outpoints Manuel Ortiz, world ment, park, killing 3 and injuring 100. 14—Lupe Velez, 34, movie actress, kills ing 1944—history he is helping three destroyers, drowning 4,000 near 2—Strike of Philadelphia transit workers bantamweight champion, in a 10-round In another fire at Coney Island, Brook­ sea in Hollywood, Calif. build. 1 Leyte. Is referred to President non-title fight in Boston. lyn, N. Y„ 35 persons were injured. Released by Western Newspaper Union. THE CHARLEVOIX COUNTY HERALD, EAST JORDAN, MICH.

WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Nazis Gird for Counter-Blow; Neat and Wearable House Frock B-29s Rip Japs Home Industry; Practical Planners Plot Tailored Brother and Sister Sets Approve Huge Waterway Bill Nations Economic Future Released by Western Newspaper Union. (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Map Expansion of Foreign Trade as Help in Meeting Goai of 60,000,000 Jobs In Postwar Period.

By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator WNU Service, Union Trust Building who had no responsibility for the Washington, D. C. actual carrying out of the programs, "Sixty million jobs!" men who had no power whatever to That phrase has been batted make the decisions necessary to about hopefully, contemptuously, meet the actual conditions with with the raised eyebrow of cynical which they were faced. doubt, with the set jaw of desperate At about the same time, a simi­ determination. lar group was meeting in England. People may believe it is an ideal It had moved a little farther ahead, dream or feel that it is quite prac­ perhaps because its members had ticable but the majority of experts come to the point where they felt will tell you unless it is achieved we that efficient planning, such as suc­ face the old cycle: inflation, depres­ cessful business institutions carried Converted into fortress by Germans, the town of Langerwehe was sion,* war and pestilence. through, might be applied; to public i reduced to rubble by Allies in advance into Reich. But the phrase "60 million jobs" affairs as well. They called them­ has acquired a new meaning in the selves the "P E P" (political and EUROPE: PACIFIC: last few weeks. Why? Because of a economic planning). This group was plan that has been presented to made up of Britisfr government offi­ Nazi Hopes Fear B-29s achieve this goal. The men who have cials, people from the "City" (Lon­ / ' t 2-6 yr$. Fighting now with its back to the Aimed at knocking out the great worked it out, and the things that don's Wall street), members of in­ wear the neatly tailored blouse, wall, a desperate Germany is draw­ industrial centers of the Japanese have brought them together and dustry, finance, the Bank of Eng­ with long or short sleeves. ing up its dwindling strength for homeland, supplying enemy forces welded their ideas into an effective land (which, you recall, is a pri­ * * * one great counter-blow next year in on far-flung Asiatic fronts^ super­ implement, have caused some of the vate institution) and others. Pattern No. 1259 comes in sizes 2, 3, 4, the hope of yet winning the war, fortress air raids were stepped up, hard-headed experts, who are accus­ By virtue of a fortunate inter­ 5 and 6 years. Size 3, blouse, short according to advices from London. sleeves, requires 1¼ yards of 35 or 39- with one force of over 100 B-29s set­ tomed to weigh such ideas on the national marriage the ideas of the inch material; skirt, 1¼ yards; pants, The reports came through even ting fire to the Mitsibushi twin- scales of experience and either toss American and British groups 1 yard. as the enemy struggled to retard engine bomber and fighter plant at them into the scrap heap or hold mingled. And so, the American Due to an unusually large demand and XT. S. armies' steady advances on Nagoya below Tokyo. them up as worthy of use, to call group came to the conclusion: first, current war conditions, slightly more time the Ruhr, Rhineland and Saar, and As a result of the growing B-29 this plan good. that planning must be done by for­ is required in filling orders for a few ot the Russian march on the Austrian ward-looking, rather than histori­ House Frock the most popular pattern numbers. attacks, Japanese officials, who once The "plan" is contained in a little Send your order to: gateway. described the assaults as attempts red-bound booklet issued as Pam­ cally-minded groups, including per­ YX/'ONDERFULLY simple to fit In Hungary, the Nazis retreated to lower enemy morale, took a more phlets Nos. 37-38 of the National sons who actually had to make the ^^ —easy to wear and launder— to mountainous terrain both in the decisions to carry out the plans. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. serious attitude toward the bomb­ Planning association and called this button-front house frock will 530 South Wells St. Chicago north and south, in an effort to slow ings, claiming that their steady-ex­ "America's New Opportunities in Second, that since (as the previous up the Russians' steady advance make you look crisp and neat for Enclose 25 cents in coins for each tension presaged wide damage, ne­ World Trade." And let me hasten years had shown) even the well- home-front tasks. pattern desired. ' upon Austria, 100 miles distant. cessitating the evacuation of civil­ planned industrial and governmental to say right here that this organiza­ ••"*••** Pattern No Size In reputedly preparing for a coun­ ians from danger areas. tion is not to be confused with an­ efforts fall when the "unplanned" ef­ Pattern No. 1977 comes in sizes 34, 36, ter-offensive, the badly mauled but As the giant superfortresses other New Deal group of a similar forts go down as they did in the 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48. Size 36 requires Name fanatical enemy apparently was winged their way over the heart of name which congress in its wis­ depression, it might be wise to car­ 4V4 yards of 35 or 39-inch material;; 3½ Address placing his hopes in a still strong Japan's loosely knit Asiatic empire, dom, or otherwise, has weighed in ry the planning into the national yards rickrack to trim. , army, whose forces have been care­ U. S. forces in the Philippines the balance and found wanting. field. For this pattern send 25 cents in coins, fully husbanded; in new weapons, moved steadily ahead in reducing By 1934 the National Planning as­ your name, address, size desired and pat­ and in short supply lines. The National Planning association tern number. that great stronghold protecting the about which I am writing is a non­ sociation had been organized, had For Tots To Relieve Bod With 4,000,000 Germans in the field enemy's supply lines to the Indies. received the backing of a number of governmental, non-partisan associ­ "DROTHER and sister set the lit- in both the east and west, the On Leyte, the Japs were faced with ation of businessmen and scholars, foundations, individual contributions Cough, Mix This Nazis have been fighting. a defen­ slow strangulation as General Mac- and memberships and was able to •*-* tie folks will want to wear of­ labor leaders, farmers, bankers and ten. Sister's pert pleated skirt and sive war from strongly fortified posi­ Arthur's forces continued to com­ manufacturers,—all, insofar as this issue its first report in December of Recipe, ot Home tions 4n recent months in the hope press mem in. the northwestern cor­ that year setting forth its principles. brothers trousers both have sus­ task is coricernM, at once selfless penders! Either boy or girl can Big Saving. No Cooking. So Easy. of inflicting maximum losses on the ner of the island, with their lines workers in the vineyard of the pub­ Other reports followed. Allies and keeping their own casual­ under attack from the north, east You'll be surprised how quickly and 1 lic good, and husbandmen - who Birth of a: easily you can relievo coughs due to ties t© a minimum. Because of the and south. realize their neighbor's prosperity is Big Idea colds, when you try this splendid re­ employment of many foreign work­ likewise their own. cipe. It gives you about tour times as ers inside the Reich, they have WATERWAYS: Just when the "60 million jobs" much cough medicine for your money, been able to draw heavily on their There are three reasons why the and you'll find It truly wonderful. Huge Program plan for creating jobs, worked out idea was born, I do not know. Cer­ Make a syrup by stirring 2 cups of own manpower. tainly it was before anyone had hit granulated sugar and one cup of Large-scale development of U. S. by this organization, has made an Now being used against Allied impression on Washington and else­ upon that particular figure which, water a few moments, until dissolved. troops in the west, the V-l buzz waterway resources was authorized indeed, must be considered rather No cooking needed—it's no trouble at by congress in a $1,000,000,000 flood where : all. (Or you can use corn syrup or bomb and V-2 rocket are two Of First, it has been examined and as a symbol than an exact estimate It Is easier to wash a large liquid honey, instead of sugar syrup.) the new weapons the Nazis intend control bill, while conferees from of tomorrow's needs. But there was amount of slightly soiled clothes Then put 2½ ounces of Pinex (obtain­ both houses met to iron out differ­ praised by certain media of public ed from any druggist) into a pint bot­ thought which can hardly be de­ one statement made at a meeting than a few very dirty ones. ences for approval of expenditures in 1940 which seems to me to have tle. Add your syrup and you have a of an additional $500,000,000 in proj­ scribed as champions of the imprac­ full pint of medicine that will amaze tical, the Utopian or the unAmerican been the inspiration for the present When washing walls, start at you by its quick action. It never ects. report. the bottom, instead of at the top; spoils, and tastes fine. Part of the country's job —the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, and Business It was Donald Nelson who spoke then if you spill any of the This simple mixture takes right hold! creating program when peace and the gist of what he said was cleaning fluid on the wall it wiil of a cough. For real results, you've comes, the two bills provide for Week, to mention only three. never seen anything better. It loosens Second, because of the men who this: not spot, as otherwise. the phlegm, soothes the irritated mem­ flood control, navigation, rec­ "In order to get full production lamation and hydro - electric authored or sponsored it—-all lead­ branes, and eases the soreness. . ers in their respective fields of for the war effort we must conquer Use a large oiled silk bowl cover Pinex is a special compound of proven power, with the $1,000,000,000 certain future fears. Labor must Ingredients, in concentrated form, well- measure calling for an initial American enterprise. for an emergency shower cap. known for its prompt action in coughs be cured of the fear that this tre­ and bronchial irritations. Money re­ appropriation of $400,000,000 for Third, because of the way the mendous production effort will bring Rep. Clare Booth Luce (left) confers the development of the Missouri organization which brought these When shaking a small throw funded if it doesn't please you in with Gen. Patton on Third army front. a reaction and that war workers will rug, hold by the sides. If held by every way. river valley by army engineers men together came into being. be working themselves out of a job to utilize in any counter-assault. and the bureau of reclamation. Now let me give you the gist of the ends, the weight of the later. Capital must be cured of the rug pulls the threads apart. They have hinted at the produc­ In acting on the bills, the senate the plan. fear that it will bring inflation and tion of two other destructive rejected the effort of Senator Aiken Must Boost Imports, depression which mean that they are Coffee grounds make a good weapons, but the only other one that (Vt.) to push through the $421,000,- working themselves out of their in­ Allied authorities have knowledge 000 St. Lawrence seaway and pow­ Foreign Investments sweeping compound for use in the vestments and profit." basement. ' of is a submarine with new devices er project as an executive agree­ A 10 billion dollar trade budget Whether this caused the board of for underwater breathing, which ment requiring a majority vote calling for increased imports and in­ HeipTots trustees of the NPA to call upon Glue a bright piece of linoleum they intend to unleash against ship­ rather than as a treaty calling for creased foreign investments. That its committee on international policy ping-,...' a two-thirds margin.' - sounds pretty unorthodox to start over the old worn top of a card to set their heads to writing a pre­ table. Finally, the enemy hopes that his EGGS: •—;;• with: There would be tariff reduc­ scription for full employment, I do short supply lines in contrast to our tions to increase the imports on the not know. But it might seem to have Grow 1% longer ones will enable him to feed theory that only thus will foreign Clean your brick hearth by first WFA Program caused constructive thinking in that scrubbing with a stiff brush and his armies with much greater ra­ countries be able to get the money direction. pidity, but here concerted Allied With demands of the services and to buy our goods. hot soapy water. Rinse clean and the Allies expected to account for These are some of the men in­ wipe dry. Let stand a day and bombings can be expected to play There would be steps taken to volved: : havoc with his land routes. approximately 26,500,000 cases, make foreign capital investments then coat with boiled linseed oil. Husky/ Whatever the German plans, Al­ there will be little surplus of eggs William Batt, one of America's secure in order to build them up. leading industrialists and a member lied armies were giving the enemy in 1945, Lieut. Col. R. W, Olmstead, There would be an international If heavy furniture must . be 3ib chance to droam, as they main-. deputy director of supply for the of the War Production board, heads moved and there is no second per­ Gi¥8 good'tasting tonic bank for reconstruction and de­ the NPA's board of trustees. The tained their terrific pressure both in War Food administration, told a velopment; there would be long-time son to help, this is a satisfactory the west and east. trade meeting .fn Chicago. chairman of the committee of the way to do it. There is little lifting, many doctors recommend foreign trade agreements coordi­ NPA which prepared the report is Colonel Olmstead spoke after the nated with long-time investment and there will be ho scratches on Valuable Scott's Emulsion helps children New Political Crisis WFA announced.that beginning Jan­ Stacy May, economic advisor to the the floor. Lift furniture onto ah programs. McGraw-Hill publishing company. promote proper growth, strong bones, \ To the complicated European po­ uary 1 it would support prices at Now, in order to understand why old rag rug or sack. Then pull sound teeth! Contains natural A & D litical scene was added another 27 cents a dozen for producers of There are 21 others who compose it over to where you want it to-be. such an unorthodox program finds the committee which drew up the re­ Vitamins--elements all children need. So disturbing incident in the Russian candled eggs and 24 cents a dozen such ready acceptance in a hard-bit­ Mother—give Scott's daily the year sponsored • Polish National coun-, for current receipts to represent 90 port. They are representative mem­ A steam bath will usually bring ; ten world fed up with Utopian plan­ bers of industry, labor, agriculture, 'round. Buy at all druggists I

Charlevoix County Herald Office, be and is hereby appointed »&&!&4>id&i&£&3** for hearing said petition, and that PENINSULA... SOUTH ARM... G. A. LISK, Editor and Publisher. (Edited by Mrs. E. Hayden) (Edited by Mrs. Arnold Smith) Herald Bldg East Jordan, Phone 32 all persons interested in said estate Happy New Year appear before said Court, at said , Ted Westerman of the F. H. Wan- New Year Greeting Entered at the Postoffice at East time and place, to show cause why a geman place in Three Bells Dist., was Mr. and Mrs. Allen Walton spent a Jordan, Michigan, as second class license to sell at private sale the in­ suddenly taken ill, Wednesday, and few days and Christmas in Detroit, terest of said estate in said real estate I saw the hills of the morning, mail matter. consulted a physician who said ap­ The form of the new year arise; Pontiac and Mt. Clemens, visiting- shauld not be granted; friends and relatives. ADVERTISING RATE pendicitis, and no one being able to He stood like a statue adorning It is Further Ordered, That public take him to the hospital he took him­ The world with a background @f Second Lt. Thelma Davis, R. N., Readers in Local Happenings column: notice thereof be given by publica­ Three lines or less . 30c self to the Lockwood, Petoskey, skies; who is home on a furlough leaves Over three lines, per line 10c tion of a copy of this order, for three where he was operated upon imme­ There was courage and grace in his First of January for Camp McCoy, Display Eates on Request successive weeks previous to said day diately. His condition is reported fa­ beautiful face, Sparta, Wis., of hearing, in the Charlevoix County vorable. Mrs. Clayton Healey of Wil­ And hope in his glorious eyes. Mrs. Lyle Smith, sister Vida and TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Herald a newspaper printed and cir­ low Brook farm took Mrs. Westerman (Payable in Advance Only) son Clifford spent the Christmas week culated in said County. to the hospital to see him Saturday "I come from Time's boundless for­ One Year $2.00 ROLLIE L. LEWIS, end with her and family from Pon­ afternoon, and Mr. Loyal Barber of ever," tiac. Six Months 1.25 50x3 Judge of Probate Knoll Krest took Mrs. Westerman, He said, with a voice like a song; Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Smith and chil­ 3 to 5 months — 25c per month her two children, her mother Mrs. "I come as a friend to endeavor, Less than 3 months — 10c per copy PROBATE ORDER Caroline Taylor, and sister Mrs. Min­ dren Johnny and Mary, and Mrs. I come as a foe to all wrong, Smiths sister and son Clifford were Single copies 5c. By mail 10c State of Michigan. The Probate nie Taylor to see him Christmas day. To the sad and afraid I bring prom­ Court for the County of Charlevoix. His condition seemed favorable. He Christmas dinner guests of Mr. and ise of aid, Mrs. Roscoe Smith. In the Matter of the Estate of may be able to come home by the And the weak I shall gird and Mary Catherine Sackett, Deceased. last of the week. Clayton Healey i« make strong. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Smith and At a session of said Court, held in doing chores for him. children, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Davis Want Ads the Probate' Office in the City of Hiley Heaton and some companions "I bring you more blessings than and son Jack, Miss Thelma Davis, Charlevoix, in said county, on the 7th terrors, R. N., and Miss Ruth Navoa, R. N., day of December, 1944. with fox hounds of Boyne City were First Insertion hunting foxes on the " Peninsula, This charming young daughter of I bring you more sunlight than were Christmas dinner guests of Mr. 25 words or less 26c Present: Rollie L. Lewis, Probate Tuesday. He reported catching six a marine corporal is all set to wel­ gloom, and Mrs. Lawrence Hayes and chil­ Over 25 words, per word lc Judge. foxes, mostly in this vicinity, last come the advent of 1945. Judging I tear out your page of old errors, dren. Subsequent Insertions The above estate having been ad­ week. from her attentive look, she is waitr And hide them away in Time's Miss Ruth Goebel spent the (If ordered with first insertion) mitted to probate and Alice Blossie ing only for the 12 o'clock whistles tomb; Christmas week end with her par­ having been appointed Administra­ Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Little and son heralding the arrival of the new 25 words or less — 16c Charles William of Royal Oak came I reach you clean hands and lead on ents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Goebel. Over 25 words, per word __ Vzc trix thereof; year. to the lands, Mrs. Goebel returned to Chicago with It is Ordered, That two months Saturday to spend a few days with 10e extra per insertion if charged. Mrs. Little's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Where the lilies of peace are i» her. from this date be allowed for credi­ bloom." WANTED tors to present their claims against A. Crane at Cedar Lodge. New Year's Day Ante­ Miss Mary Graham spent Christ­ said estate for examination and ad­ Mr. Charles Frank of Battle Creek mas from her work in Ann Arbor PINSETTERS WANTED — Steady justment, and that all creditors of came the first of the week to spend dates the Birth of 4 with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh or part time. A lucrative spare time said deceased, are required to pre­ the holidays with his mother, Mrs. Open House' on Graham and children. employment for boys, girls or men. sent their claims to said Court, at the Charles Healey at Far View farm. Christ by 452 Years Mr. and Mrs. Orval Davis spent EAST JORDAN RECREATION., Probate Office in the City of Charle­ Mr. and Mrs. Charles Healey of Christmas night with his sister, Mr. East Jordan. 40-tf voix, on or before the 8th day of Far View farm are in receipt of a The celebration of New Years on New Year's Day. and Mrs. Arnold Smith and family. February, 1945, at ten o'clock in the basket of fruit from Mr. and Mrs. January 1 began in 452 B. C, and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey McPherson WANTED —• Clean rags, at least a Fred Dow of Kissimee, Florida. therefore, contrary to logical reason­ It was customary for the Dutch foot square, for cleaning purposes. forenoon, at which time claims will settlers of New York to hold "open and children spent Sunday with the be heard. The David and Will Gaunts ' of ing, had nothing whatsoever to do No buttons or fasteners. No heavy with the birth of Christ. house" on New Year's day and to Arnold Smith family. It is Further Ordered, That publie Three Bells Dist. entertained for material such as pants or overalls. Christmas dinner the Walter Ross The ancient Roman calendar be­ provide light refreshments, usually Mr. and Mr.s Archie Murphy and 5c per pound at HERALD OFFICE notice thereof be given by publication gan in, and with, the month of centering .around a large bowl of family spent Christmas with her bro­ of this order for three successive family of Norwood, Mrs. Anna John­ punch, for friends calling to pay the ston, East Jordan; the Robert Myers March: there were ten months, the ther and family, Mr. and Mrs. Bill FOR SALE — MISCELLANEOUS weeks previous to said day of hear­ last six of which were named Quin- compliments of the season. Parsons of Barnard. Mr. and Mrs. ing in the Charlevoix County Herald, family, Mountain Dist.; the Alfred HIGHEST PRICES paid for Cedar Crowell family, Dave Staley Hilly east tilis, Sextilis, September, October, During the latter part of the 19th George Parsons were also guests of a newspaper printed and circulated 4n November, and December—or, the century the custom of making short Bill and family. Bolts and Tie Cuts. — MILLER said county. side. BOAT CO., Charlevoix. 31-tf Edward Faust and family of De­ Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth calls on New Year's day was in full Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dougherty and ROLLIE L. LEWIS, and Tenth months respectively. Nu- swing throughout America. Metro­ 50x3 Judge of Probate troit are visiting relatives in this sec­ children were Christmas guests of FOR SALE — Powered Jig Saw tion. ma added two months, January and politan newspapers carried columns their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry like new. Also teddy bear Coat February, placing the former at the of "at home" notices which, includ­ Dougherty. PROBATE ORDER Mr. and Mrs. Ray Loomis and son beginning of the year and February ing names of social prominence and size 16.— DARUS SHAW, Phone Clare had for Christmas dinner Mrs. Alfred Dougherty and child­ 22. 52x1 State of Michigan, The Probate at the end. In 452 B. C, February those making no. such pretense, an­ Court for the County of Charlevoix. guests, Mr. and Mrs. Harlow Sweet of was placed between January and nounced hours during which visi­ ren spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. FARMERS ATTENTION — Boyne At a session of said Court, held at Advance; Mr. and Mrs. Charles, Ar- March: thus establishing the order tors would be received: having duly Harry Dougherty and family. City Live Stock Sales will be held the Probate Office in the City of nott and five sons, James, Don, Do- of months as of today. The ancient received, hosts and hostesses closed Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dougherty and on Tuesdays because of road con­ Charlevoix in said County, on the wain, Gilbert and Glenn of Maple calendar year did not correspond to their receptions to join the proces­ family received a beautiful Christ­ ditions. . 52x1 5th day of December A. D. 1944. Row farm, and Mr. Ralph Sweet of the solar year and by the time the sion of callers at other "open mas card from Calvin dated Novem­ Present, Hon. Rollie L. Lewis, Detroit. days of Julius Caesar rolled around houses." ber 12th, and received at December FOR SALE'— No. 1 Chippewa Pota- Judge of Probate. Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Arnott came the actual and calendar equinoxes 26th. On December 27th they re- toes $1.50 per bushel. Phone 129- up from Detroit Saturday and, visi­ A succession of "open houses" and In the Matter of the Estate of were months apart: a situation which punch bowls minimized the courtesy cived a telegram stating that Calvin F2 —HESTON SHEPARD, R. 2 Catherine Monroe, Deceased. ted the Charles Arnott family-at Ma­ Caesar set out to remedy. was missing in action somewhere in East Jordan. 52-2 accorded hostesses—in many cases Robert A. Campbell, administrator ple Row farm, then went to Boyne Caesar's astronomers and calen­ —and even resulted in receptions Germany. We are all hoping and having filed in said Court his petition, City to spend Christmas with Mrs. dar experts fixed the calendar year being "crashed" by bibulous young praying for the besf and that word FOR SALE — A battery-type Radio, Amott's sister. Mr. and Mrs. Joe will soon be received he is safe. two lamps, one Aladdin. Two praying for license to sell the inter­ at 365 days—and because they esti­ men; these abuses led to the aban­ est of said estate in certain real es­ Perry. mated the solar year as of 365 \k donment of the "open house" cus­ Stands. Gas Iron. MRS. WM. , Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Healey of days—an extra, day was to be add­ VRONDRON. 52-1 tate therein described, at private sale. tom, New Year's calls now being It is Ordered, That the 2nd day of Willow Brook farm entertained for ed every fourth year. This Julian exchanged only by intimates and WEST SIDE... SIGNS FOR SALE— Keep Out, No January, A. D. 1945, at ten o'clock Christmas dinner, Mrs. Healey's par­ calendar was effective, by decree without any public announcement of (Edited by Mrs. John Saganek) Trespassing, No Hunting or Tres­ in the forenoon, at said Probate ents, Mr. and Mrs. Rengold Dietz of of Caesar, on January 1, 46 B. C. intention to receive. passing, For Rent, etc. At the Office, be and is hereby appointed Boyne City; Mr. Healey's parents, : Actually, the earth goes around Mr. and Mrs. Charles Healey of..Far. the sun in 365 days, 5 hours, 48 min­ Mrs. Zell Bricker of Ellsworth HERALD OFFICE. for hearing said petition, and that spent the week end and Christmas all persons interested in said estate View farm, and Mrs. Charles Hea­ utes, and 46 seconds: and by 1582 Celebrant -A;. D.,. the. Julian calendar was 10 with her daughter and family, Mrs. FOR SALE — Grade-Holstein heif- appear before said Court, at said ley's son, Charles Frank, of Battle Gleri Gee. ' -..---^.-1. ers, 1 to 2 years old. From good time and place, to show cause why a Creek.: •' ": ""' ' \ '• days behind'the sun. Pope Gregory producing Holstein cows and pure license to sell the interest of said es­ Mrs. Ray Loomis of Gravel ;Hill, XIII remedied the situation by or- Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bennett had bred bull. HAROLD M. TOTTEN, tate in said real estate should not be north side, called on Mrs. Marie dering that the calendar play leap Christmas dinner with Mr. and Mrs. 4 miles north of Atwood on XJ.S. granted; " Howe in one of the Dean Cottages frog and the intervening days be­ James Bennett and family. tween October 5 and October 15, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Reed and 31. 52x1 It is Further Ordered, That public in Boyne City, one day last week. Mrs. Howe was alone, as her sister, 1582, were lost forever. daughter Annette of Lansing are HAVE BUYERS waiting for farms notice thereof be given by publica­ In order to prevent repetitions of spending a week or so with their par­ tion of a copy of this order, for three Mrs. Emma VanAllsberg, who has and lake properties. Write or been with her had gone to Detroit the sun running away from the cal­ ents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Reed and phone NILES A. YANSON, Real­ successive weeks previous to said day endar and vice versa, Pope Gregory his wife and children. of hearing, in the Charlevoix County for a few days, but will be back.; tor, Alba, Mich., Phone 17F12. Henry Johnson, who has been decided that a leap year should be Pvt. Wilbur Craft of Fort Belvoir, 51x17 Herald a newspaper printed and cir­ omitted now and then: hence only culated in said County. spending the winter with Geo. Staley Va., is spending his furlough with those years divisible by four—ex­ Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Stanek. CEILING PRICES paid for spruce, ROLLIE L. LEWIS at Stoney Ridge farm, went to'De­ clusive of years numbering the cen­ balsam, pine, hemlock and tamar­ troit, Friday, to spend the holidays. Darlene and Leonard McRoberts 50-3 Judge of Probate. turies—should have 366 days, and are spending a week in Traverse City ack in 8 ft. lengths loaded in gon­ Mrs. Edna Reich Kitson of Wayne, the century-marking years shall be dola cars. C. B. CLARK, Phone came Saturday to spend a few days visiting their aunt, Mrs. Roy Kaley THE WEATHER leap years only if divisible by four and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Mc­ 2221, 170 State Street, Mancelona, Temp. Rain or Weather with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. after the ciphers have been omitted. Mich., 51x12 Reich and family at Lone Ash farm. Roberts. Max Min Snow Wind Cond'n The Gregorian calendar has been Luella Dufore of Flint is spending o ' Dec. They were joined, Monday, by Mr. officially adopted in most countries PROBATE ORDER and Mrs. Frank Lesher and four a week with her friend, Miss Thelma 21 25 5 2. NW cloudy of the civilized world: however, Whiteford. State of Michigan. The Probate children of Petoskey, for Christmas many creeds and peoples still cele­ 22 19 8 1.5 SW cloudy Mrs. Eldon Richardson and daugh­ Court for the County of Charlevoix. 23 23 16 1. SW cloudy dinner. brate their religious and traditional In the Matter of the Estate of Mrs. Vera Staley Gee and ;two festivals in accordance with ancient ter Connie Lee went to Detroit to 24 23 0 SE cloudy meet Pvt. Eldon RichardsOn. Clara Liskum, Deceased. 25 22 8 NW pt. cldy sons of East Jordan came Monday to calendars. At a session of said Court, held in stay with her father, Geo. Staley at Pre-Christian Roman inaugurated Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Russell and 26 19 9 NW cloudy children of Kalamazoo spent Christ­ the Probate Office in the City of 27 19 7 1.5 SW cloudy Stoney Ridge farm, for a few days. the new year by offering sacrifices Charlevoix, in said county, on the Mrs. Gee reports her husband, Vale to the gods, exchanging greetings, mas with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Reed and Mr. and Mrs. Rus­ 18th day of December, 1944. ROCK ELM Gee, is on a ship and expected to be and bestowing gifts. During the Present: Rollie L. Lewis, Probate in New Orleans for Christmas. early Christian centuries, New sell. Judge. (Edited by Mrs. Fred Aim) Mrs. Jessie Papineau of Boyne Year's festivities persisted and be­ Mrs. Delia Lanway and daughter, The above estate having been ad­ City, and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Fine and came so boisterous that the faithful Mrs. Howard Boyer, were Charlevoix Mr. and Mrs. Irving Crawford and were forbidden to participate there­ This attractive young Chinese girl business visitors one day recently. mitted to probate and Harold Ry. family of Grand Ledge, called on the adds her bit to the celebration of Audrey were Christmas guests of Orvel Bennett family for a while, in. Mrs. Ida Pinney went to Muskegon Liskum having been appointed execu­ Mr. and Mrs. Versel Crawford.. New Year's eve in New York festivi­ tor thereof; Saturday afternoon. After December 25 had been es­ ties. The Chinese new year—4641— for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. The Christmas party at Rock Elm There were 38 at the Christmas tablished as the day of nativity, the Gordon Baker and family. It is Ordered, That two months Grange was well attended. Everyone begins considerably later than our from this date be allowed for credi­ Program at the Star Community church made January 1 a religious own. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Murphy had a good time! festival honoring the circumcision of and boys spent Christmas with Mrs. tors to present their claims against Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Jensen cal­ Building, Sunday afternoon, and all said estate for examination and ad­ enjoyed it very much. Jesus: the day being thus observed Murphy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray led on Mr. and Mrs. Joe Whitfield, in the Roman church since 487, and Gee, also little Ray Gee was at his justment, and that all creditors of Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Beyer and Holidays and Special said deceased, are required to pre­ son Herman of near Hoi'ton Bay had in the Anglican church-since 1549, grandparents, Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Nasson and Mrs. Hattie Kaake has been on the sent their claims to said Court, at the daughter were Christmas guests of a fine crowd for Christmas dinner. Events of New Year Probate Office in the City of Charle­ There were Mr. and Mrs. Rolland Boivl Game Feature of The year 1945 is not a leap sick list this past week but is better Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Babel. now. voix, on or before the 21st day of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kemp and Beyer and three sons of Detroit, Miss year, so February will again have February, 1945, at ten o'clock in the Louise Beyer of Pontiac, Mr. and New Year's Since 1916 the usual 28 days. The holidays Mrs. Anna Himebaugh and nephew daughter Carrie, Mr. and Mrs. Ever­ Since 1916 the Rose Bowl football Richard Campbell left last Friday for forenoon, at which time claims will be ett Spidle and Floyd and Charlie Du­ Mrs. Joe Leu and two children Of and special events for the new heard. Orchard Bay farm, Mr. and Mrs. F. game has been played annually on year will be as follows: Grand Rapids ijo spend Christmas fore were Christmas guests of Mr. New Year's day as a cofeature of It is Further Ordered, That public K. Hayden and eight children of Lincoln's birthday, February with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Himebauch and Mrs. Alex Sinclair in East Jor­ Pasadena's Tournament of Roses. and daughters. notice thereof be given by publica­ dan. Pleasant View farm and some friends The championship team of the Pa­ 12; Washington's birthday, Febru­ tion of this order for three successive of Detroit. 25 in all. A severe storm ary 22; St. Patrick's day, March Erving Dufore and daughter Jac­ Mr. and Mrs. Fred Aim and daugh­ cific Coast conference invites an queline of Flint are spending a week weeks previous to said day of hearing ter Laura were Christmas dinner and set in and all had a fine time getting Eastern contender selected from 17; Easter, April 1; Mother's day, in the Charlevoix County Herald, a home as did everyone else who were May 13; Memorial day, May 30; with the John Saganek family. theatre guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. among the teams which have made Those who called at the home of newspaper printed and circulated in G. Bunker. on the roads. the best records during the autumn Father's day, June 17; Independ­ said county. Mr. and Mrs. Derby Hayden and playing, thus making the game one ence day, July 4; Labor day, Mrs. Thelma Evans, Christmas, were: Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Jensen, Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Sommerville and ROLLIE L. LEWIS Frank Foote and Ernest Mathers five sons of Jones Dist. and Mr. and of America's outstanding intercolle­ September 3; Columbus day, 51x3 Judge of Probate Mrs. Robert Hayden and four child­ giate sporting events. October 12; Armistice day, No­ sons of Traverse City, Mrs. Eunice were Christmas dinner guests of Mr. Sommerville and George Schumaker, o and Mrs. Joe Whitfield. ren of Boyne City, spent a pleasant vember 11; Thanksgiving day, PROBATE ORDER hour with the Hayden's at Orchard A Good Resolution November 23; Christmas day, De­ Howard and Leo Sommerville and Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Knudsen of cember 25. families, Mr. Charles Dennis, Mr. and East Jordan and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hill, Christmas afternoon, and got One of the New Year resolutions out without help, but the roads were that would mean increase of happi­ Mrs. Clifford Ingalls and family, Mrs. State of Michigan, The Probate Shores of Charlevoix were Sunday Frank Ingalls and son Larry. A very Court for the County of Charlevoix. guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. very badly drifted. ness in many a family is this: Not to speak of mistakes which make Mexican Clock happy time was had by all. At a session of said Court, held at John Knudsen. Mrs. David (grandma) Gaunt is no difference. How arguing over Many Mexican families still ob­ o—'• . the Probate Office in the City of M|r. and Mrs. Alfred Johnstone very poorly at her home in Three Bells Dist. Mrs. Anna Johnston, her nothings mars the home harmony. serve the "old clock system" on Charlevoix in said County, on the and grandchildren of Ellsworth, Mr. An erroneous opinion may need cor­ New Year's eve. On a table in a 7th day of December, A, D. 1944. and Mrs. Alex Sinclair and family of older daughter, who had dinner there Christmas, also stayed all night. rection, but what possible difference main room of the house, lighted Present, Hon. Rollie L. Lewis, East Jordan, and Mrs. Jack Coward does it make whether Aunt Jane candles surround a tiny casket, Judge of Probate. of Chicago were Sunday dinner came to dinner Tuesday or Wednes­ upon which stands a clock. On the In the Matter of the Estate of guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kemp. day, or whether it rained Friday or stroke of midnight the clock is OUR HEIGHBORS THOUGHT Mary Catherine Sackett, deceased. Miss Marjorie Knudsen of Detroit Saturday. stopped, placed in the casket and OJE HAD BURGLARS LAST Alice Blossie, Administratrix of and Carl Knudsen of Muskegon, are 'S FUNNY niGHT '••• BUT A FUSS buried in the garden, symbolizing BLEUB OUT AnO IT UJAS JUST said estate, having filed in said Court visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. How Folks Everybody Sign the passing of the old year. GRAmPA WITH A FLASHLIGHT her petition, praying for license to John Knudsen. Why not have somebody delegated RBADin' OUR sell the interest of said estate in Mr. Ervie Bowen, who is employed Store Stuff to draw up a set of good resolutions First to See Year PAPER certain real estate therein described, at Charlevoix, spent Christmas with In An Attic for us all and just have us sign The little British colony on Han­ at private sale, for the purpose oi his family. them? son Island, in the Ghathams, 414 paying debts and expenses of ad­ Mrs. Upton and daughter Ger­ When They miles southeast of Wellington, New ministration; trude and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Upton Can Cash In New Year With Hindus Zealand, will be the first to greet It is Ordered, That the 2nd day of and family of Boyne , Falls, were A'mon'f the Hindus the first day of 1945. It is just east of the inter­ January, A. D. 1945, at ten o'clock Christmas guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lee With the year is celebrated with sa^ri national date line, from which all in the forenoon, at said Probate Danforth. wnwmmmwum ii riffwwiti rinwimM ,iu lice to the god of wisdom, time is reckoned. THE CHARLEVOIX COUNTY HERALD. (EAST JORDAN. MICH.) FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1944.

Mrs. Marlin (Spin) Cihak and iI!!lilllllllliillllUllllilllllllII(IIIIIIII||||IUiiiilll|||||l|||!iHiUIIII!IU!l!iUlllilililllllU!l children, Patty and Gary of Muske­ gon are guests of the former's par­ ents, Mr. and Mrs. G. Stallard. Spin New Year*s Eve mcal&eftti also spent the Christmas week end 1 here returning to his work Monday Bob Boice is spending the week Mr. and Mrs. F. Holburn and fam­ night. Festive Occasion with friends and relatives in De­ ily have moved to St. Ignace. troit. Holiday guests at the home of Mr. For Native Scots Mr. and Mrs. Ira S. Foote now and Mrs. Boyd Hipp were their Mr. and Mrs. Earl Greenman are occupy the Holburn residence on Di­ daughters and families, Mr. and Mrs. spending this week in Lansing and vision Street. Frank Brunett and son of Grand Ra­ Christmas never aroused much Flint. pids, Mrs. Louis G. Miller and son of enthusiasm in Scotland—but on New Mrs. F. P. Ramsey was taken to Year's eve the Wassail bowl goes Mrs. Lottie Bechtold left Tuesday Lockwood hospital Petoskey Wed­ Petoskey and Lt. L. G. Miller of Fort Campbell, Ky. around, filled with savory liquid nos­ for Detroit where she will spend the nesday for treatment. talgically fragrant. winter. Mrs. Wade Healey and infant Nineteen guests were entertained Floating atop the Wassail bowl, It is time for the old world to § and spent Christmas, at the home of apples stir memories of the "apple- Miss Helen Nichols of Flint spent daughter Linda Ann have returned turn over a new leaf and to § Christmas with her parents, Mr. and home from Charlevoix hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Welsh. Daughter howling" when boys switched the trunks of fruit trees petitioning "a I resolve to give up forever the ~ Mrs. Win Nichols. and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hyde Albert Slate and Bud Bates who and family of Bay City. Also a good howling crop": somehow, the vice of war. « Mrs. Harold Edwards of Grayling have been sailing the lakes the past daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bi­ "lamb's wool" (as the decoction of War has stained the pages of I is spending the week with her moth­ several months have returned home. shaw of Boyne City and son. Ason, the Wassail bowl is often called) er, Mrs. Peter Zoulek. Mike Welsh wife and family of Alma, seems reminiscent of young folks history with blood. It has bowed § Betty Strehl spent the holidays daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Miles rushing to the nearest spring at the the human race in sorrow and § from her work in Detroit with her Mrs. Clarence Griffin, who is em­ and family of East Jordan. stroke of 12 to drink the "cream of slavery. War has left our civilization [J ployed in Cadillac spent the holidays parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Strehl. the well"—the first one so doing, at her home in East Jordan. might expect good luck during the today neck ~ deep in the rubble and g Louise Stanek who is employed in ensuing year. dust of once precious things. e Mrs. M. Saunders of Ann Arbor Grand Rapids spent Christmas with Handsel Monday—the Monday aft­ No change in the calendar can g was holiday guest of her niece, Mrs. her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stan­ er New Year's, is traditionally the Frank Malone and daughters. ek. CALENDAR of "big Day" for Scotch boys and girls: bring relief; only change in the hearts f of those who love war and make war j§ Mrs. Leon Peterson and infant Mr. and Mrs. Sid Sedgman of New­ and, in addition to being the Scotch son, Jackie Wayne have returned berry called at the Merle Thompson day of gift-giving, it is a day of for its own sake. 5 COMING mm feasting and gaiety. home from Charlevoix hospital. home Tuesday. Enroute home from Perhaps we shall teach them 5 Muskegon. Small wonder, that families and Mrs. Sam Malone and son, Murph: friends gather on New Year's eve to their final lesson this year. § "Drink a cup of kindness yet are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Smith returned Thurs­ Friday, Dec. 29, I.O.O.F. Lodge at S • ' 5 Mrs. Harold Stueck in Petoskey. day after spending the week with 8 p. m. For Auld Lang Syne." relatives and friends in Grand Ra­ Tuesday —- Rotary I * * ic I Mr, and Mrs. Howard Ruff of De­ pids. Wednesday —Wednesday Evening- troit is here for a visit with her sis­ Circle, Presbyterian 8 p. m. with Mrs. Tell Me an Indian ter, Mrs. Earl Batterbee and other _ AjS Donald Sutton spent Christ­ mas with his parents Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Malpass. I STATE BANK of I relatives. Thursday — W.S.C.S. at Mrs. Ho­ New Year's Story Clifford Sutton from his studies at The ceremonial for the snow has Mrs. D. J. Bedell and son, Lt. Mt. Pleasant. ward Darbee's January 4. Gordon Bedell of Bellaire were passed, when enemies are forgiven ! EAST JORDAN I Mrs, Charles Quick and daughter, and harsh words forgotten, as a new guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rex Hickox Presbyterian Church trail has been blazed for all through 5 Member PDIC \ 5 Saturday. Judith Jean of Romeo are guests of the New Year's festivities. ^iiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiuiiHiiijHinHiiiHiiiiiiiiiijgmmn the formers parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Rev. C. W. Sidebotham — Pastor Mr. and Mrs. Marlin Bussler and C. Swafford. The story-telling grandmother has son of Lincoln Park are visiting the 10:30 a.m. Morning Worship, taught the ancient chants and cus­ TRY HERALD WANT ADS FOR RESULTS! latters parent's, Mr. and Mrs. Tho­ J Mrs. C. A. Brabant who has been 11:45 Sunday School toms through the beads of the mas Bussler. : visiting hey nephew and wife, Mr. Young People's Service: 6:30 p. strings of historic wampum; but now and Mrs. Bruce Isaman has left for she again has time to entertain the Edd Green returned to his work in Ontario, Cal. children. Grand Rapids Tuesday after spend­ Church of God Gathered around her lodge-fire, ing Christmas with his__son, George Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Sutton and Ora A. Holley — Pastor they plead for another story with Green and family. sons A|S Donald and Floyd were Preaching Service 11:00 a. m; their bright eyes and shrill voices. guests of Charlevoix friends and re­ Sunday School ______12:00 m. To satisfy them, she tells an ancient Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Montroy of latives Sunday. Evening Service . 8:00 p. m legend about the clouds. Manistee spent the Christmas week — o— • : "Long moons ago when the world end with the former's parents, Mr. Joan Farmer has returned to was first made, the sky at win­ eASffJIRDAB and Mrs. Joe Montroy. Grand Rapids after spending Christ­ L...D. S. Church tertime was cloudless much as it is mas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. on clear midsummer days. The Mi*, and Mrs. George Gregory and Arthur Farmer. Pastor —• 01'e Olson FRL, SATURDAY, Dec29-30.f* ^ 2fd%. JltlKl family of Flint were guests of the ground was covered with white snow Mrs. Anna Carr returned home Sunday School —• 10:30 and the trees, except the pines, stood former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy bare. The cold wind whistled around Gregory for the holidays. Tuesday after spending the holidays Worship Service - • 11:30 RAINBOW ISLAND Evening Devotion — 7:30 the bark cabins; and with a cloud­ , IN TECHNICOLOR —— with her daughter and family in less sky, everything above and be­ Miss Mary Green returned home Grand Rapids. DOROTHY LAMOUR AND EDDIE BRACKEN Wednesday from Detroit where she low looked dreary. NEWS NOVELTY has been visiting friends and rela­ Mr. and Mrs. George Phillips of Full Gospel Church "The children, too,, missed the tives the past three weeks. Pontiac were holiday guests of the green leaves and changing colors SUNDAY, MONDAY, Dec. 31-Jan. 1, Mat. both days formers parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sunday School 11 a. m. over the landscape and they gave a Sunday and Monday 2:30, 12c - 25c Eves. 7 & 9, 12c - 35c Miss Jean Bechtold is spending her Frank Phillips. Worship service .___ 12 noon wish that the sky might have clouds vacation at the home of her parents, now and then. It is true, dark-gray, SWEET AND LOW DOWN Francis Bishaw, Floyd Trojanek Evangelistic Service 8:00 p. m. fierce-looking clouds came in great Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Bechtold, from C. A. (Young People) Tuesday, BENNY GOODMAN'S BAND her teaching in East Detroit. and Robert Haney all returned home masses and covered all the sky and MARCH OF TIME CARTOON after sailing on the Great Lakes on 8 p. m. let down snowflakes to amuse the •AlfredWilber of Boyne City, and the Str. Phipps. Prayer & Praise, Thursday, 8 p.m.: children. But the children also SPECIAL — 11:30 P. M. also Floyd Wilber of Flint were Sun- B. M. Dirks, pastor, 506 3rd S,t. wished for bright clouds and the old NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY da callers at the home of , Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Simmons Jr. and bear in the sky heard their wishes. Mrs. Fred Moore arid family. daughter, Darlene of Norfolk, Va., ADM. 45c - FU12cN V— FAVORS —EVERYON FROLIEC WELCOME are spending the week with' Mr. and St. Joseph Church "So the old bear blew his moist breath into the heavy clouds and Miss Margaret Kaley spent the Mrs. Harry L. Simmons Sr. East Jordan Tuesday, Wednesday, Shows 7 & 9 Adm. 12c - 35c Christmas vacation from her work in broke them up; he even made Muskegon with her mother, Mrs. Mrs. Milford Van Auken and St. John's Church humps in some of them, and held Otto Kaley and other relatives. daughter, Joane of Battle Creek are Bohemian Settlement on to the corners of others, until KNICKER BOCKER HOLIDAY Rev. when they passed over the village, WITH NELSON EDDY guests of the formers parents, Mr. Joseph J. Malinowski, Pastor SHORT Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Morgan Sr., of and Mrs. Frank Cook and other rel­ East Jordan each cloud had a different shape, _ NOVELTY Detroit were guests of the latters atives. Monday, New Year, Mass at 10 a.m. some like bears, some like wild cats, Thursday Only, Family Nite Shows 7&9 12c - 20c parent's, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Proc- Dec. 3, 17, 31 — Mass at 8:30 a. m. some like hills and even some like i or over the Christmas holidays. Alice Puckett returned to her Settlement funny people. Ever afterward, the work in Muskegon Wednesday after Monday, New Year, Mass at 8:30 a.m. clouds took these strange shapes NIGHT OF ADVENTURE Mrs. George Hanson returned to spending Christmas at the home of Dec. 3, 17, 31 — Mass at 10:30 a. m. to bring smiles and imagination to TOM CONWAY — A. LONG her home, in Grand Rapids Tuesday her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George all children in midwinter."—Dr. SERIAL — COMEDY — SPORT after spending Christmas with her Green. E. A. Bates, Cornell. parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Gunder- Seventh-day Adventist son. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Clark & child­ ren, Betty and Ronnie of Reed City . Church Traditional New Year's Mrs. Grace Boswell returned home were guests of the former's parents, S. W. Hyde — Pastor Gifts Were Sacred last Friday from a visit with her Mr. and Mrs. Mason Clark, returning 2:00 p. m. — Sabbath School. son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Church Services — 3:15, Saturday. The Druids distributed branches home Tuesday. of the sacred mistletoe, cut with Mrs. Thede Banhagel and family in Many r Jean Simmons has returned to her peculiar ceremonies, as New Year's I O^iT® °PP° tunlties to sell goods if you Lansing. gifts to the people and the Saxons work in Detroit and Mary Simmons Methodist Church M^KJhJ £ * faji t0 advertise in The Herald. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Persons and to Grand Rapids after spending Howard G. Moore, Pastor observed the day with gifts and fes­ sons Glenn and Sammie left Saturday Christmas with their parents, Mr. tivals. An to spend Christmas week at the and Mrs. Harry Simmons. 10:30 Hour of Our Morning Worship. The Roman custom of taking gifts POI IlSiri* advertising medium of real homes of their son and daughter in You are invited to worship with us. to the emperor was introduced into 1 vVllI^. value, which is READ by hundreds Muskegon. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Bishaw with 11:30 Sunday School hour. England as early as the time of son, John, of Bay City are holiday We have a class for every age. Henry III. Queen Elizabeth is sup­ of residents of East Jordan and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Morgan Jr. visitors of the former's mother, Mrs. Come bring the children to church posed to have supplied herself with and daughter, Linda of Detroit were Lena Bishaw, and the latter's par­ and plan on staying for Sunday her jewels and wardrobe almost en­ ad jacent territory. guests of the latters sister, Mrs. ents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Welsh. School. tirely from these gifts. Stanley Hale and other relatives over As late as 1692 the English nobility Your customers, if you fail Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Slade and were accustomed every year to send STRAYED: to keep them informed of children, Sherrie Ann and Freddie, al­ Mennonite Church to the king a purse containing gold. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bussler and so Mrs. Leon Slade and son, Neil Rev. William Simpson, Pastor Under the Tudors and the Stuarts your values by advertising in daughter, Sharon of Van Dyke wer^ were holiday guests of Mrs. E. Sunday School 10:00 a. m. it was the habit of all classes to THE HERALD. guests of the former's parents, Mr. Slade's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Worship Service ._ 11:00 a. m. give presents to friends with the and Mrs. Thomas Bussler over the Vogel. best wishes for the New Year. Christmas week end. Evening Service __ 7:30 p. vet. Thursday Prayer Service _ 8:00 p. m. Ladies received presents of gloves Trade that you might have kept Mariel, Kadrovich, East Jordan or pins which were then expensive. STOLEN: if you had protected it by con­ Mrs. Hattie Crothers suffered a sophomore at Central Michigan coll­ Sometimes the gifts were wrapped fractured hip in a fall at her home on ege, was recently pledged to Theta in money and from this practice we sistent advertising. Main st. Christmas night. She was Sigma Upsilon sorority at Central, BOHEMIAN SETTLEM'NT have the term "pin money." taken to Charlevoix hospital for from College News Bureau Central (Edited by Mrs. Lucille Josifek) FOR SA! ¥• Advertising space that will treatment and care. Michigan College Mt. Pleasant, Mich. President's Reception Robert and Howard Stanek with bring you rich returns on a Mr. and Mrs. Roy Gunderson of Mrs. Colin Sommerville of Detroit It has been the custom from the small investment by reach­ Detroit were guests of the former'? is spending the week with her par­ their teacher of. the Settlement beginning of the Republic for the ents, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Sherman, school, attended the Christmas pro­ President of the United States to ing the buying public of this parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Gunder­ welcome the New Year by holding son over the Christmas week end. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Sherman and fam­ gram at the Rockery school, Friday area. afternoon. a reception open to the general pub­ ily of Pickford were also Christmas lic. Mrs. Thomas Thacker and son. guests returning home Tuesday. Mrs. Jennie Zitka is spending the Brian are visiting Mr,, and Mrs. Ralph week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. On the first New Year's day after Wide-awake business men who 'Thacker at LeRoy. Mr. and Mrs. Ho­ Gabriel Thomas who has been for Anton Josifek. his inauguration President Washing­ WANTED: will improve their own busi­ ward Taft were also Christmas the past few months a patient in Dorothy Haney of Detroit is spend­ ton opened his home to receive the ness and their community by guests of the Thackers. Fairmont hospital, Geneva, Nebras­ ing the holidays with her mother and people. Throughout the seven years ka has been given C.D.D. and re­ family. which Washington lived in Phila­ progressive advertising. Mrs. John Coward returned to her Cpl. Clement Stanek and Louis delphia as the capital of the nation, turned home last Saturday. He was he continued this custom. home in Chicago Tuesday after vis­ inducted into the U. S. Service last Virt of Detroit, and Albert Stanek iting her sisters, Mrs. Alex Sinclair March 3. Jr. of the Settlement were Christmas Increased business and pro­ and family, Mrs. Walter Kemp and day afternoon visitors at the home PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR REWARD: fits for all who keep their family and her parents in Ellsworth. Mrs. Virginia Howe of Detroit, Lt. of Frank K. Kubicek. Dear Lord, I ask Thee values before the public by Francis Pesek of Detroit and Pro- For this New Year, David Pray of Oceanside, Cal., and An extra gift of courage wise and consistent adver­ Mr. and Mrs. David Kerr and Mrs. Robert Pray and son, Michael kop Pesek are spending the holidays My little trials to bear. daughter, Barbara of Battle Creek of Gaylord are guests of their moth­ with their mother and other relatives. I ask not for success; tising. returned home Wednesday after er, Mrs. Eva Pray. Dr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. R. Josifek were For wealth or fame or power; spending Christmas at the home of John Pray of Levering and Mr. and Christmas dinner guests at the home I ask for added faith * * * . Mrs. Kerr's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Floyd Potts of Petoskey were of Mr. and Mrs. Will Zitka and fa­ To live life, hour by hour. Basil Holland. also holiday guests. mily. Give me. kindly, thought, Lord, Floyd Trojanek and Robert Haney To use for charity. The Wednesday evening Circle of 1 want no gold to give, Faith Gidley returned to her work have completed their work on the I'll spend kind thoughts for Thee. the Presbyterian Ladie's Aid will in Detroit Tuesday after spending Steamer Henry Phipps of the Great —Ruth Richwine Smith. meet with Mrs. T. E. Malpass Wed­ Charlevoix Co. Herald Christmas at the home of her parents, Lakes and arrived home last Satur­ nesday, January 3 at 8 p. m. with Mr. and Mrs. James Gidley. Other day from Monroe, Mich. English New Year "Covers an Exclusive Territory" Miss Ethel Crowell and Mrs. R. W.holida y guests were Mrs. Elmer Br- The Settlement school Christmas The English New Year celebra­ Dye as assistant hostesses. Mrs. C. dy and Harold Gidley of Petoskey program last Thursday evening was tion was changed from December Phone 32 East Jordan, MichSfc- W. Sidebotham will have charge of and Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Gidley and well attended. Everyone had an en­ 25 by William the Conqueror, be­ devotional^. son Jimmie, of East Jbrdan. joyable time. cause he was crowned on January 1. THE CHARLEVOIX COUNTY HERALD, EAST JORDAN, MICH.

Lovely Dishcloth Gay and Unusual

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THE STORY THUS FAR: Amos Croy, rack—the family car mustn't be tied for I hated to work. We'd get our who had served in the Civil • War as a up. The coal house still stands, but stools down from the cracks in sergeant, was one of the covered wagon a new kind of stove has come in. the fence and it wouldn't be long pioneers from Ohio, who settled on home­ stead land near Marysville, Missouri. It is full of coils and has all sorts before there would be the sound of There he met and won Susan Sewell, a of fancy devices, but I suspect the milk pinging. Pa's would be com­ daughter of another settler, who lived big boys don't get to go out so often ing very fast, Ma's next, and com­ twelve miles away. Their early years for a scuttle of coal. And instead of ing pretty slow would be mine. After were spent in building the farm from the having every seat taken up, there a time the milking would be over ground up, one-room log home, sod barn, are now only half a dozen tots, tots and Pa would take the two heavy new orchard, well and outbuildings. too small to be toted off to town by buckets, and I'd take the next heavi­ Roads were never considered by the original settlers, but new arrivals in­ the school board bus. est, and Ma the lightest, and we'd sisted, so community roads and a school But back to the disgrace. The start for the house and breakfast, was added to the community. Some boys seemed like giants, and I was me a bit ahead now. still went to town fey way of the trails. afraid of them. When recess time Sunday morning was bathing time It was shorter to cut through over the came, the big girls must have seen farms than go by the road. and, after breakfast, Pa would bring my uneasiness, for they took me,to in the washtub and put it on the their backhouse to relieve myself. kitchen floor and fill it from the res­ CHAPTER II When I returned, the boys were ervoir. Then Pa would retire to waiting, and taunted me until I felt grease the "hack," and I would I was disgraced for life. I think it read and Ma would take her bath. .With a baby coming, a one-room was the first time I realized the Pa would come in and wash his home would not do, so Uncle Jim world is made up of two sexes and hands in the pan on the back porch, and Uncle Dexter, and probably an­ never shall they meet . . . at least empty the tub and fill it again, and other uncle, came in and a bedroom in certain places. Ma would go into the other room was attached. And there I was born When school dismissed of an after­ to write to relatives, while I'd still and there the room still stands. It be reading and dreading the bath was a shock, a few years ago, when noon, the scholars would come out and some would start one direction call. We'd hear Pa splashing I went back and found the room around, and afterwhile he'd come was being used as a henhouse. and some another. Then I would start north and pretty soon I would with his suspenders hanging down I M& |a*yiel£ •^sitatihg'- ttf; men­ come-to the top" of a hill •;arid there and walking on his*toes so7- as not tion the year, because it all seems so would he the Crby farm. to spot the floor, and call, "Homer!" Gay Dishcloth fearfully long ago. It wasn't. You'd I'd give a groan and carry out his be surprised 4o see how spry I am. That was the way all farms were water and fill the tub again, and be F TSE red and white crochet It was really the year Brooklyn spoken of. The Newt Kennedy in and out in no time at all. ^ thread for this practical and Bridge was built. There! farm, the Scott farm, the Willhoyte lovely dishcloth that looks like a farm; they had personalities just as Pa would get down the big har­ Chowder Comes to the Dinner Table! small dancer's frock. It's 10 inches And here are some other things people have. Sometimes a family vester calendar and study the dates (See Recipes Below) in all and has "shoulderstraps"'to that came in that year: the old Wal­ would move away, but their place with circles around them. Then hang by your sink. They make dorf-Astoria was opened, the last was still called the Duncan farm, he'd say, "Well, by next Sunday we Soup Suggestions gay and unusual gifts. spike was driven in the Northern or the Trullinger farm. It took a ought to have a new calf." Lynn Chambers' * * * Pacific and Joseph Pulitzer bought long time to call a place by the There's a lively interest in soup Point-Saving Menu To obtain complete crocheting instruc­ the New York World. And this was It wouldn't be long till time to tions for the Doll Dress Dishcloth (Pat­ start to church, and pretty soon Pa these days, and rightly so, for a the year Mark Twain's "Life on the soup that's rich "Vegetable Chowder tern No. 5809) send 16 cents in coins, your Mississippi" appeared. and I would be standing beside the name, address and the pattern number. hack, and Ma would come out with enough can take Buttered Rye Toast Due to an unusually large demand and The new room was a good hos­ her Bible and her response leaflets. the place of a - Jellied Grapefruit Salad current war conditions, slightly more time pital, Aunt 'Mandy Sewell drove up meat dish at a Fudge Pudding is required in filling orders for a few of Ma would sit in front with Pa and the most popular pattern numbers/ and,stayed a. weeksand. the event meal and still sat­ Beverage r J I'd sit in the back. They'd talk more Send your order to: . vreai''ot.'^YL ng^tS 'ti was not long now than any other time; once in a isfy even appe­ *Recipe given. until my mother was up and doing while Pa would turn and give me tites made keenest the washing and baking and cooking good advice. by blustery win­ SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK and things were back to normal. ter weather. •Vegetable Chowder. 530 South Wells St. Chicago 7, 111. We'd look to see if the neighbors I am sometimes asked where I Soups are good for filling in that (Serves 6) Enclose 16 cents for Pattern had started to church. If they: were gap before the main dish is brought XA cup butter got my first name, and if it was be­ hitching up, Pa'd wave at,them, or No '...... cause my parents loved the blind to the table to satisfy the hungry. 3 medium onions, peeled and shake his buggy whip. Some of If they are substantial enough, that chopped Name- poet. It wasn't quite that romantic. the neighbors didn't go to church at I was named for the township in is, if they are creamed soups, or 2 slices green pepper, chopped all. Ma always dropped her voice the thicker type of vegetable and fine Address- Ohio where my father came from. when she spoke to them, and Pa I was not given a middle name. meat combinations, no main dish 2½ cups green beans would say, "They'll pay for it some­ is required. And, if there are any --.-3. medium carrots, scraped and A child's first memory is, I be­ time." * . . • dieting members in the family, there sliced thin Michigan's Duplicate Lakes lieve, usually about people. My first The men sat on one side and the are enough of the lighter types of 5 medium potatoes, peeled and memory is about my mother and a women on the other; the little boys soups which not only satisfy, but are cubed No state approaches Michigan wholly. vunimporjtant one.. We were sat with their mothers and the big low in caloric value. 3 cups boiling water in duplicating the names of lakes. walking in the orchard and I picked boys sat in the -back, .whispering First, there are the substantial 4 cups milk For instance, 440 of these bodies up an apple and put it in the pocket and making faces out of the knots in lentil soups which have much nour­ 3 teaspoons salt of water are knoWn by only five of my dress. The apple became the seats. Now and then some of ishment: Black pepper to suit taste names, 56 being called Twin lake, caught—was tight in the pocket—a the big boys would carve their ini­ Bean Soup. 6 ounces (½ cup) grated Ameri­ 59 Round lake, 65 Bass lake, 87 tragedy to me—and my mother tials, but it was pretty well under­ 1½ pounds pork shoulder or ham can cheese Long lake and 173 Mud lake. worked the apple out. I expect psy­ stood they were going to hell. Some­ 2 tablespoons onion, chopped Seasoning salt chiatrists could explain something 1 pound navy beans or other by that. But I can't. times I'd feel sorry for them; then Melt butter in soup kettle. Add I'd think the fools deserved it. 1 teaspoon salt onions and green pepper and sim­ 7½ teaspoon white pepper My next memory is of a hole in The preacher would drone along, mer 2 to 3 minutes in boiling water. the living-room floor. The floor tilt­ Soak the beans in water over­ Wash beans and slice thin. Pre­ now and then giving the Bible a night. In the morning, parboil ed a little and my father had bored whack. Now and then a mud-daub­ pare carrots and potatoes. Add an auger hole so that when my them, Cover the meat with wa­ beans and boiling water to butter er would follow him; but the eyes of ter, then add beans, onions, salt mother scrubbed, the water would the men or the women wouldn't; nor and onion mixture, and cook uncov­ drain off. I would try to look through and pepper. Cook 2½ to 3 hours. ered for 15 minutes, or until all vege­ of the girls. Sometimes two mud- Serve with dumplings, if desired. the hole and would wonder what daubers would get into a fight; then tables are tender. By this time most was on the other side. And I always Yellow Split Pea Soup. of the water will have evaporated. : He was on his way to feed the hogs. the preacher would have to give two have woridefed;< what was-on the whacks. Suddenly a: mule at the 3 pounds smoked brisket of beef Add milk to the chowder,. stirring other side. , carefully; heat just to boiling. Add name of the new people. If the man hitch rack would set up an excru­ or scraps of dried beef, sausage And now a confused memory, one ciating, ear-breaking hee-haw, end­ or ham bone salt, pepper and grated cheese. was a tenant, the situation was about Remove immediately from fire and quite a bit more involved. It was hopeless. ing with the grunts and chokes and 2 cups yellow split peas that something dreadful was happen­ groans with which a mule always 3 quarts cold water stir until cheese is melted. Serve Low Moods Are Often ing. And indeed it was. My father closes his song. It'd make, the boys \i cup celery, diced piping hot with a sprinkling of sea­ Related To Constipation came riding one of the plow horses Life was hard during the week. snort. No amount of whacks would 1 small onion, cut fine soning salt on each serving. Yes, depressed states aad constipa­ in from the field at a gallop and But what a wonderful day Sunday do any good. A little girl would 2 tablespoons butter or substitute Unusual soups are good to have tion often go together! Take Nature's leaped off, opened the gate, and let was! We got up the same time as lean over and whisper into her moth­ 1 teaspoon sugar in any cook's repertoire should you Remedy (NR Tablets}, Contains na -: them go in the barn lot with the har­ usual. But there was a different er's ear, and the mother would get 2 teaspoons salt want to do something different for chernicab, no minerals, no phenol de- tempo. Pa got up more leisurely, the company or family occasionally. rivatives. WRTabletsare different— ness on. Then he came running to up, leading the little girl by the M teaspoon white pepper act different. Purely vegetable—a the house and we all got into the and started the fire in the kitchen hand, and the two would tiptoe 2 tablespoons flour stove. Chicken Meringue Soup. combination of 10 vegetable ingredi­ cyclone cave and sat wrapped in out. As the mother passed the win­ Pick oyer and wash peas. Soak (Serves 6) ents formulated over 60 years ago. quilts. Now and then Pa would lift Pa would pump a bucket of water dows outside, she would sto->p. Then them in cold water overnight, then 1 quart chicken stock TJncoated or candy coated, their ac­ up the doors^ and look out. When we for Ma, start the kitchen stove going, we'd hear the little girl pipe,.','Mam­ drain and place in a saucepot with 1 carrot, sliced tion is dependable, thorough, yet finally.can\&;-out, the barn had been then start for the barn-lot,... As I lay ma, hurry!" In a few minutes the meat. Add cold water and let sim­ 3 onion slices gentle, as millions of: NR?s have blown away-and one of the horses mother and the little girl would come mer gently for about 4 hours. Add proved. Get a 25£ Convincer Box, in bed, or dressed, I could follow his 1 sprig parsley Caution: Take only as directed. killed. So destructive are the cy­ progress by the sounds. First there back from behind the church and celery during last part of cooking. 2 tablespoons quick-cooking tapioca NRJQ-NIGHT; TOMORROW ALRIGHT clones of this section, and so sharp­ would be the creaking of the barn softly tiptoe to their seats. Remove meat when tender. Skim 2 cups hot milk ly defined are they, that this one door and a whinny of welcome from fat off the top of the soup. Heat 2 2 beaten egg yolks AIL-VEGETABLE LAXATIVE had swept through the orchard my the horses, then a stallkicking, so The week before, we would have tablespoons of butter in frying pan, Vs cup cream father and mother had set out, eager were they to be fed. The invited somebody to Sunday dinner add the onions and brown. Blend in % teaspoon salt and had mowed half of it down and sound of Pa scooping up the corn, and now the people would stand on flour and gradually add soup, stir­ 2 egg whites left the other standing. And there then the shutting of the barn door; the front porch and ask if we were ring constantly. Season to taste and Heat chicken stock and vegetables it was, all my early days, the half- this meant he was on the way to sure it was convenient. Ma had been serve with smoked meat, adding for 15 minutes; strain and add tapi­ down half-up orchard, the scarred feed the hogs. There would be a getting ready all week; but.the ques­ croutons. oca; place over and twisted trees. My mother used dreadful uproar as the hogs saw tion always had to be asked. Then Clam Chowder. hot water and 'ONE WORD SUGGESTIONS I would get to ride home with the to talk about "her" orchard. When him coming. The nearer he got, 1 quart clams cook until tapioca FOR ACID INDIGESTION-? she wanted to rest she would take the worse the noise; the sound of company. It was a lot more fun; 4 cups potatoes diced is transparent. her chair with the leather bottom the hogs fighting among themselves. than riding with Pa and Ma and 2 inch square fat, salt pork Add milk, then Pa had woven and go out and sit Abruptly the uproar would die away having to sit in the back seat. No 1 onion, diced egg yolks com­ "TUNIS under one of the trees. _„ and peace and contentment would lecture now. 1 teaspoon salt bined with cream. descend upon the hog lot: the hogs It was always understood that the Vs teaspoon pepper Cook stirring con­ The Sewells* made another run and were feeding. company was to drive slowly, so 4 teaspoons butter stantly until thickened. Add salt to the barn was rebuilt. I remember 4 cups milk He would go to the steer yard Ma could get the dinner started and egg whites and beat until stiff. Serve (another trifling flash) sitting on a Pa could have his team out of the 8 soda crackers, rolled soup in individual dishes topped with joist and watching Uncle Sewell and there would be the sound of Pick over clams, drain and cut How To Relieve corncobs snapping as the steers fol­ way so he could help the company egg. white sprinkled with paprika or mortise a hole. unhitch. I'd help, too; no hanging pork in small pieces. Fry out in chopped parsley. lowed him. Then the sound of corn skillet. Add onion D I developed a deep affection for being poured into the troughs and back now, and we'd lead the horses Liver-Ball Soup. D that barn, for barns do things to you. to the tank by the windmill while qnd fry 5 min­ (Serves 6 to 8) the soft thud of the cattle as they utes. Add pota­ Creomulsion relieves promptly be­ bumped sides crowding up to the Pa and the company talked crops.. 2 pounds beef brisket I do not remember my first day Pa would say, "What do you figure toes, clam liquid cause it goes right to the seat of the at Khabb School, except the dis­ troughs. Now and then a steer would and enough watej; 2 teaspoons salt trouble to help loosen and expel give a grunt; that meant one steer your oats'll run?" H teaspoon pepper germ laden phlegm, and aid nature grace I got into. But I can still to c^v'er/ Cook r to soothe and heal raw, tender, in­ see the schoolhouse. That, however, had chugged another with his head. ,. When the women heard us, they*«s until nearly ten­ - 1 bayleaf ---^-.7-:-- flamed bronchial mucous mem­ is 6asy tot it is still much as it was With the horses,and steers fed,; all come to tho door and say they'd der, then;add but­ 1 ciip coarsely chopped celery branes. Tell your druggist to sell you 1½ cups canned tomatoes a bottle of Creomulsion with the un­ then. I've often read oF"the little Pa would unhook the windmill. about decided 'we wererft hurlgry,! ter, milk and seasoning. When po­ derstanding you must like the way it red schoolhouse," but I never saw There would be a sharp clang as then we'd say we thought we'd eat tatoes are done and milk is very hot, 1 cup sliced carrots quickly allays the cough or you are one. In our 'section, all country the gears meshed, then a whirring a bite to keep on the good side of the add clams and cook for 3 minutes. Cover meat with cold water and to have your money back. . schoolhouses were white, and for as the wind laid hold of the blades. cook. add seasonings. Simmer 1 hour. Add vegetables and simmer IV2 that matter, they still are. There Then I could hear him coming to We'd, go into the dining room and CREOMULSION it was—a coal house in the yard, the house; no time for lazing now, hours. Force vegetables through there'd be the table! No red check­ colander and add to meat stock. Re­ for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis an iron pump, a cyclone cave, and, and I would spring into my pants. ered cloth today but a wonderfui Lynn Says: at the back of the lot, two small Pa didn't think much of anybody heat and add liver balls. Simmer fine white cloth with faint flower3 15 minutes. structures with half-moons in the who couldn't get dressed by the time woven in it. Lying on a chair, Soups for Meals: If there is any sides. Two or three horses would the stock was fed. My mother would which was partly behind and partly water left after vegetables are Liver balls: Combine % pound be tied to hitching-posts for the be up, putting corncobs and coal into beside Ma, was our peacock fan, cooked, this should be saved calves' liver, % cup dry bread scholars who lived too far away, or the kitchen range. By that time Pa The fan was about as long as the and used for soup stock. A few crumbs, Vi cup finely chopped pars­ were too small to walk. When it would be at the kitchen door. No table was wide, and had a leather extra vegetables may be added ley , % teaspoon celery se,ed, % tea­ was time for school td take up, the one in our house ever said good loop to hang it up oy when it wasn'l to give stronger flavor. spoon salt, dash of pepper, 2 table­ teacher came to the door and rang a morning. But Pa would say: in use. As Ma waved the fan over When milk is added to soups, spoons flour, 1 beaten egg and V2 hand-bell and that was the end of it. it's richness and nutritive value teaspoon onion juice; mix well and "Susan, we've got a dead pig." the table during dinner, the feathers The only difference in the school- would catch the light and shimmer is increased. chill thoroughly. Form into 1-inch house between my day and now is Mother would say, "One of the and shine entrancingly. During Serve big helpings of salad balls. ?;:••:; that someone, with advanced ideas strong ones?" when soup is the main dish and weekdays we had a fan made out Get the most from your meat! Get your on education and eyestrain, decided of paper, not one-millionth part as have a really nutritious meal. that all light should come from the "No. Old Blackie's titman." meat roasting chart from Miss Lynn Cham* grand as our peacock fan. Com­ Soups may be garnished with vers by writing to her in care of Western south, so the north windows were Then a feeling of relief. pany and a white tablecloth and toasted croutons, whipped cream Newspaper Union, 210 South Desplaines closed up. The children seem a bit We'd take our buckets and start our peacock feather fan—that wa» or egg white or sprinklings' of Street, Chicago 6, III. Please send a folinky-eyed. for the cow lot, Pa and Ma walking Sunday dinner! grated cheese, paprika, and pars­ stamped, self-addressed envelope for your K Horses stiP

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It Christianity is not just a set of they took office in June. They did also had first entered the Union in On your favorite N. B. C. station rules and regulations. It is a life. 1940. Its border city of Viipuri not take the customary oath to the every Saturday morning POULTRY It must grow, and it does grow. The guards the western approach to the crown; instead they pledged them­ 11:00 A. M., E.W.T. HERE IS YOUR CHANCE to get the fa­ really born-agairi believer cannot city of Leningrad. Russia's new selves to fulfill their- duties accord­ mous Townline R. O. P. breeding in your ing to the constitution. The United WWJ Leghorn, Barred an$ White Rock chicks at stand still in his spiritual experi­ Arctic port of Pecheng (Petsamo), ordinary hatchery prices. Also Minorca- ence. He has a faith which must States resumed diplomatic relations 10:00 A. ML, C. W. T. Leghorn Cross with Townline Leghorn acquired from Finland in Septem­ WMAQ breeding. 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Will gladly show such prop­ and at the same time we are to be liberated from the Vichy-French in SNAPPY FACTS erties if: you write and state the amount Bessarabia, this area has experi­ Prince Lieutenant General of the kinder and more loving. We are 1941, added to its territory the in­ ABOUT ©f acreage- and price deaired, also terms. to be more forgiving, tenderer, enced a round of governmental Realm of Italy by his father, King KRIEGER, REALTOR changes. Before World War I it was Victor Emanuel, who abdicated dependent mountain^kingdom of Je- BENTON HARBOR - MICHIGAN more eager to serve Christ. bel Druz. Its people, dwellers in RUBBER Christian, have you made any Russian ground; from 1918 to 1940 when Allied troops entered the capi­ it belonged to Romania. It was tal in June, 1944. southern Syria * voted to yield their I SOAPS—CLEANSERS spiritual progress in the year 1944? administrative • and financial inde­ If not it is because you have failed turned back to Russia in 1940 and FREE SOAP! set up as a republic of the Union, sence of King Leopold III, held in pendence, and merge the manage­ 12 bars 6c laundry soap included FREE with to take God's provision for your life. ment of their affairs with the gov­ 24 pkgs. 25c washin g powder for $6 postpaid. You have let the enemies of your only to be reoccupied by Romania Germany, 41 •-.. year - old Prince General Products Co. (U-l), Albany, Ga. the next year. Charles, brother of the king, be­ ernment of Syria. President Roose­ soul mislead you (v. 17). You have velt appointed George Wadsworth Commercial motor vehicles in To four German dominated na­ came "Regent of the Realm," to act the U. $., based on gasoline not been diligent in your Christian until the king returns. minister to the republics of Syria TRAPPERS life (v. 14). tions -7 France, Belgium, Luxem­ and Lebanon. allotments, are expected fo bourg and Greece—freedom came In September, the tiny Duchy of run 56 billion miles a year. TRAP FOX and COYOTE, on bare ground God does not want any believer to or deep snow. Learn modern tricks to out­ live a defeated life, not growing in toward the close of the year. Luxembourg, neighbor of France, Closer bonds between the United Reduced to truck tire wear, wit the sly furbearers. Free illustrated cir­ States and its African protege Li­ that represents a tremendous cular. Q. BUNCH, Welch, Minn. Box 65-D. grace and in knowledge. And there France, whose liberation was her­ Belgium and Germany, celebrated is the secret—study God's Word in alded by Allied landings on the Nor­ its freedom from four years of Nazi beria were assured by the Decem­ number of tires* 1945. Learn more about God, and mandy coast, June 6, was almost tyranny. ber, 1943, treaty, the provisions of USED CARS WANTED which were made public on October The rubber used In gets masks Is you will grow. That's something to completely free by the middle of Allied fighting men landing in now 100 per cent synthetic. look forward to. September. Greece in October helped Greek pa­ 30, 1944. The treaty stipulates that HIGHEST OFFER Then note that this is to be in General Charles de Gaulle's Com­ triots to oust the Germans. Internal all naval, military and air installa­ Never vse a tube in a tire Any Model Cars—42s to 37s the light of the promised return of mittee of National Liberation was political problems had divided the tions will be supervised by the U. S. larger, or smaller, than that Cash to You for which it was designed by Call GEO:—HOgarth 7311 Christ (v. 14). He may come in 1945. recognized on October 23 by the U. people into factions, some opposing Significant changes took place in "" 0943 Grand River the manufacturer. Premature DETROIT 4 - MICHIGAN. , III. An Inspiring Hope (I John S. state department as the de facto the return of the monarchy. The 1944 in the New world. Argentina government of France. On Septem­ cabinet decided to inform King failure will result if you do. 3:1-3). abolished all political parties and To return full mileage, syn­ ber 21 President Roosevelt appoint- George II, in London, that resump- instituted strict censorship of the 9 We have already touched on the thetic tubes must be lubri­ There s Something Phoney great hope of the Church—the com­ press. The tiny Atlantic island of cated with vegetable oil soap ing again of our Lord Jesus, and Bermuda modernized some of its solution when mounted on About This Financial Deal here it is presented as the inspira­ ancient laws. For the first time in tion to holy living. the three centuries of its history Jones found himself stranded in Sometimes the world points a fin­ women were given the same voting a distant city, so he phoned his ger of scorn at Christians, ex­ privileges as men.

we'll doublecheck everything here in GEORGE REBEC, over in France, Volume 3 Number 23 an effort to get better service, and just missed meeting ROMAN DU- sorry the South Seas aren't what BAS when he found his name on a FIRST BARN GUTTER CLEANER they're cracked up to be but wait till Red Cross register. Roman had stop­ you get back to California and may­ ped over several days previously. be you can find a sarong in Holly­ George has been transferred to Reveille on the Jordan wood. The Memorial Fund is gradu­ the Hq. Btry. and is now taking a Just a little message to the boys in the service from the folks back ally growing and your contribution course in Radio Communication with will be a nice addition — thanks, a gang of Upper Peninsula boys, and home. Sponsored by the East Jordan Community. Service Club. Marlin, and keep us on your mailing just naturally the chief topic of con­ list. Sgt. ABE COHN of the Island versation is deer hunting. Your best Command comes in with "Thanks" by Dear Friends: ing your year of editing this column wishes for the speedy recovery of Ar­ V-mail and the hope that "Next chie Griffin and Johnny Kotowich will Hank was right in at least one of you have done an outstanding job and I am sure that all of our readers, Christmas this mess will be over and be delivered personally and we'll re­ his remarks last week. I do know just all the gang can return to Main mind the boys to write — and I know about every one of you personally. both in and out of the Service, will join me in giving you a rising vote of Street and the Jordan River and what you mean, George — it's just as I know that some of the other things South Arm" . . . so'do we Coach and weak over here too. Ens. R. F. he said were just meant to make me thanks for the success of your en­ deavors. If I can do half as well I'll until then we know you'll be "in WOODCOCK is now on sea duty feel good, and they did, so thanks a there, bucking-the-line." aboard the USS Rawlins and the old lot for the swell send-off, Hank. Dur- call it good. Thanks, fellow — from all of us. Glad your box arrived okay Sgt. Pacific has been doing things to him —• don't worry, Oggie, just remem­ It seems a long time ago that this ROBERT WINSTON, and that you, column was conceived by the Rotar- "sure liked the chicken", we'll pass ber that everything that goes ('comes) ians and Ed took the helm as the first your hello on to everyone — but for up has to go down eventually. In Editor-in-Chief. Starting as a single Gosh sakes, Bob, how about a LET­ spite of the sea sickness Oggie has sheet that was mailed individually to TER instead of that little squip — been up to his neck in his new duties about fifty of you that were then in come on guy and give. Pfc. CARL —• his special assginment as Wave the Service it soon outgrew the Ro­ LEWIS pipes in from the Billings Commander during the landings of tary Club sponsorship and became a General Hospital at Fort Benjamin personnel with from 6 to 9 landing concern of the whole vicinity and Harrison, Ind., with the news he is craft under his direction sounds like 4 NOW SUNDAY AFTERNOON the need of a community backing doing fine and we hope, Carl, that rugged stuff. Good luck, sailor, and Martin H. Geerlings, - Route 3, Holland, Mich., operating the I 3:30-4:00 gave birth to our present Community your wish came true and you were safe anchorages. dairy barn gutter cleaner he built in 1929. Service Club. The original fifty has able to make it home for Christmas. A-C JAMES BUGAI counts him­ grown to almost five hundred and the A V-mail greeting from Pfc. JOHN self a lucky stiff. First a 7-day leave Michigan's First Dairy of scrap materials found about the little sheet that Ed at first mimeo­ S. ATKINSON in Italy with the 228 over Christmas and then a ride up farm, or his neighbor's farms. Total graphed is now a feature of the Her­ Med. Disp. Avn. — hi there, Stu, how from Grand Rapids which gives him Barn Gutter Cleaner cost of the homemade contrivance ald and brings you the complete cov­ about a letter with all the dirt? A an extra day at home. Bud has finish­ Still Giving Good Service was only about $75. Upkeep consists erage of the old home town in addi­ hail from aboard the USS Albemarl ed his pre-flight with flying colors and of replacing the gutter chain about tion to the Service news. Back in from LESTER UMLOR, MM 1-c — now is ready to move to a new field every seven years at a cost of about those early days I used to bust into and by the way Les we note that your for his final advanced instructions. Fifteen years ago Martin H. Geer­ $15. Ed's office every Sunday noon and rating on our cards is F 2-c — please Has plenty of hours on those mean lings, Route 3, Holland, Mich., deci­ ded the old laborious method of hand- The conveyor itself is made of % help him scratch his head, or change send me the lowdown on the change. looking low-wing Stearmans and we inch log chain with fence post slats addresses, or pour a little 'inspira­ Regret time was so short on your have his word for it that there's no­ cleaning the dairy barn could be im­ proved upon. So he put his head to 24 inches apart. Geerlings used an tion' as he used the three-finger sys­ leave and how about some navy scut- thing in the air (in their class) that old mower as the reduction unit, tem on Elsie. And just so you won't tlebut in your next letter? Capt. E. can touch them. We're with you and work and devised Michigan's first dairy barn gutter cleaner. driving from a gasoline engine to the get any funny notions, I'd better tell S. WHITE of the WAC sends the watching you, Bud, keep up the good pittman balance wheel, with the apron you right now that Elsie is the L. C. seasons best from Tampa — thanks, work. Pvt. LLOYD I. DECKER has That machine worked so success­ drum fastened to one end of the Smith equipment that makes these Elizabeth, and how about a real let­ recently arrived at the Welch Con­ fully that it is still in use on the Geer­ mower axle. scribblings legible . . . as a matter of ter when you get the time — we'll valescent Hospital, Daytona Beaeh, lings farm and has proved to be the Use of dairy barn gutter cleaners fact when Ed entered the Navy he be looking for it soon. Just opened Fla., and we hope the carefully plan­ worthy ancestor of many other clean­ is being encouraged by Michigan left Elsie in my tender care and so a letter from Pvt. ARCHIE GRIF­ ned reconditioning program there will ers that are now saving hours of back State College enginering extension at least half of the original team is FIN, but better than that we shook speed his return to health. And I'll breaking labor — labor that cannot specialists, who point out that they wtiEcmic back on the Reveille job. All of you his hand last night, Christmas Eve, bet a letter or two from his home be obtained — on Michigan dairy not only save labor but improve sani­ fellows, and girls,, have a standing met his lovely wife, Maxine, and we town folks would help a lot, too. Last farms. tation and encourage daily hauling invitation to drop in any time and toasted the Season together in the week we tried to transplant CLARE Most any farmer can duplicate the BATTERBEE, AMM 2-c to Petoskey of manure to the fields, thus main­ meet Elsie because she's going to good old traditional manner. After Geerlings gutter cleaner by the use taining and improving the soil. need lots of help from now on, and Christmas Archie reports back to Per­ but it didn't work. Somebody around MICHIGAN PUBLIC it'll help me out too. In addition to cy Jones for further attention and a these parts just got the wires crossed Elsie, my daughter, Peggy, is pitching because Clare was, and is, on patrol &mmmmmmmmmmmmmm^ SERVICE COMPANY new right arm — and — well folks, duty in the Pacific with the Hdq. Sq. in and will handle the records and just talking to Archie makes you address corrections and the rest of Fleet Air Wing 8, P.A.T.S.O. 81, 38 the details that seem to be always realize the kind of stuff our boys are c-o FPO, San Francisco — and now BEAUTY SALON horning in on this job — and so be­ made of — you won't have to worry our printers devil, Paul, meekly con­ 105 Esterly St., East Jordan J.VanDellenM.D. tween the three of us we hope to be about guys like him, his chin is up, fesses that it's Clare's wife in Petos­ and he bowls a mean 150, lefthanded Grace Premoe, Mgr. EAST JORDAN; MICH. able to keep the wheels turning with key. Sorry, Clare, but if you'll forgive It some semblance of smoothness -— al­ . . •. and I think you'll know what I us it won't happen again — or Paul's OFFICE HOURS ways providing that YOU, ALL OF mean. Then right in the middle of our name will be MUD. Now that we have 1 2 to 5 p. m. Daily YOU, keep the letters coming in. If bowling match in walked Pfc. JOHN- Clare's where-abouts straightened out Holiday Except Thursday and Sunday you let me down we're sunk, and I NY, KOTOWICH and believe you me here are the latest corrections for a i 7 to 9 p. m. Wed. and Sat. don't mean up! it was a real homecoming. Johnny number of other fellows who won't i Sunday by appointment or right now is also a Percy Jones pa­ p stay put: Pvt. LOUIS ADDIS, Co. B, Permanents | in case of emergency. There's one other matter, while tient and is certainly enjoying his 82nd Trg. Bn, 15th Trg. Regt., Camp PHONES we're letting down our hair, that "liberty" after about five months of Fannis, Texas; Capt. F. J. VOTRUBA If Office 132-F2 Residence 132-F3 maybe needs a little clarification for hospitalization. He was wounded in 5-4 C.R.T.C, Ft. Riley, Kansas; A-C $3.50 to $15 some of you. You see just about ev­ France last July and the going has JEROME R. SEAMAN, Spence Field, Machine — machineless erybody calls me "Skipper", and when been kinda tough since — but you Class 44K, Mountrie, Ga.; Pvt. THO­ I that signature was used last week we, can count on Johnny too. And then MAS W. HITCHCOCK, 1471 Engr. H cold waves. \ W6£K!Mjj@F $ were surprised to have a couple of Pfc. HARRY PEARSALL dropped in Maint. Co., APO 17642, c-o Pmr, W. A. Porter ginks meet us on the street and say, to say hello. Harry, as you know, was New York; Pvt. CHARLES GREEN, | Telephone No. 8 \^ ^yssg^P | "how come"? Well here's the McCoy: wounded in France last June and at 1st Plat., Co. E, M.D.T.S., Lawson Plumbing — Heating A few years ago, allegedly at least, present is also a Percy Jones resi­ General Hospital, Atlanta, Ga.: Sgt. HARDWARE we failed in several attempts to find dent and reports- steady improve­ JERALD DAVIS has the new APO the Beaver Islands and this malicious ment. Being in a rush last night, 758, c-o Pmr, N. T.; Cpl. GERALD SUNBEAM FURNACES story, bolstered and exaggerated by Harry has promised to "come clean" CARNEY, E.A.A.F., Enid, Oklahoma; Estimates Cheerfully Given on certain lowbrow Rotarians, and sometime before returning to Battle Pfc. CLAUDE CARNEY, Co. K, "I'll never forget those first times Any Job at No Cost to You. through repitition, has attained the Creek and then we'll pass the word 127th Inf., APO 32, c-o Pmr., San PHONE 19 — WE DELIVER status of acceptedy fact. Anyway on to all of you. Francisco,; Lt. F. G. BELLENGER, I baked with Aunt Jemima Enrich­ .... SAYS Main St. — East Jordan. these uncouth persons felt some spec­ Last week 1st Lt. JAY HITE wired C. E., Adjutant Generals School, Ft. ed Family Flour! It was a joy to ial recognition was in order and so from Brazil that he was on his way Sam Huston, Texas; Cpl. BRUCE peek in the oven, and to watch my Mrs. James Gidley the honorable (we wonder) title was back to the good old USA, and today K. BARTLETT, 1st Platoon, Sec. C, 108 Fourth St. bestowed— and has stuck. Just the 2528 AAF Base Unit, Midland, Tex­ family taste the difference! i he's right here in East Jordan look­ knew then what a difference the East Jordan, Mich. FRANK PHILLIPS same I know that some day truth ing like a million after his 18 months as; Pvt. CHARLES B. LUNDY, 91st will prevail (though I doubt if they'll in the China-Burma-India theatre as Field Hospital, Camp Ellis, 111; HER- right flour makes!" BARBER SHOP recognize it) and history will credit a pilot on the Air Transport Com­ SCHEL C. YOUNG S 2-c, Co. D, 3rd Established 1890 my discovery of King Strang's do­ mand's huge cargo planes. Bud has (Special) U.S.N.C.B., Port Hueneme, main. In the meantime to all you been awarded the D.F.C., the Air Calif; Cpl. JOHN J. LENOSKY, 81st YOUR folks it's Skipper. Medal and the Presidential Citation Field Hospital, APO 17604, c-o Pmr., PATRONAGE APPRECIATED for his work over the "Hump" of the New York; Ens. R. F. WOODCOCK, Notice the Difference Right Away! SERVICE NOTES Himalaya mountains •— nice going, USS Rawlins, APO 226, c-o FPO, — SATISFACTION — San Francisco. A letter from a crew-mate, now a Bud, and it's sure grand to have you Yes, see and taste the difference — in every­ — SANITATION — prisoner-of-war, of LT. HARVEY home again. And also from the Indio thing from bread to sponge cake — when you bafie HARRINGTON has brought the in­ China Division of the^Air Transport formation that all. the crew of the Command comes an official release It is Christmas night in East Jor­ with Aunt Jemima Enriched Family Flour. This won­ plane were safe after the forced advising that HARRY NICHOLS has dan as we wind up your Reveille on derful all-purpose flour is made from a special blend landing. After making the Italian been promoted to Sergeant. Harry the Jordan. The thermometer regis­ of choice wheats by one of the world's largest mill­ coast he went into hiding until cap­ is an A.T. Technician with the job of ters 10 above and the snow crunches Insurance tured some several months later. Al­ keeping 'em flying over the "Hump". underfoot. The Temple is showing ing companies — makers of Quaker and Mother's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Oats, Aunt Jemima Ready-Mix for Pancakes, and FIRE — AUTOMOBILE though he has not seen Harv since We wonder if Harry and Bud have the landing, he believes there is ev­ ever connected — how about it fel­ as the special Christmas attraction. other famous foods. And it's protected by an amaz­ CASUALTY, SURETY and LIFE ery reason to continue the hope that lows? Somewhere in France Cpl. Most of the American Legion's fea­ All Stock Companies Harv is safe and well. Indexed a ROBERT SLOOP has his Christmas ther party turkeys have disappeared. ing double guarantee on every package! Christmas present we are thankful box and says, "Tell the folks back On the surface it's been a sort of us­ • • • for. Here is something to cheer home to just keep the letters and ual holiday, the kind we used to take This Coupon «J CJ^% toward the purchase about, a typewritten V-mail letter, good cheer coming and we'll do the more or less for granted — but it is­ ROBERT A. CAMPBELL from our former local medic, Capt. rest." What we can do here, Bob, n't. As many Christm'as cards as Is Worth *OC of a 25 lb. sack of E. J. BRENNER, MC. Doc is on hos­ ever — but have you noticed folks doesn't seem to be very much in com­ reading the verses? As many Church AUNT JEMIMA Enriched FAMILY FLOUR pital duty in England and is continu­ parison with the job you fellows are ally on the look-out for home boys programs — but have you ever seen Just sign your name and address. Then hand this doing "over there" but you can al­ such congregations? And last night, — and hoping too, that he doesn't ways be sure that the East Jordan coupon to your grocer. Insurance find them (hospitalized). Glad you Christmas Eve, the taverns closed. folks are pitching-in to the limit of Folks packed the last remaining inch AUTOMOBILE, LIFE, FIRE enjoyed the box and certainly agree their opportunities. Thanks for the Signature and WINDSTORM when you say, "War is hell and be- at St. Josephs for the Midnight Mass swell letter and make the next one . . . glistening eyes .... a dropping Address j lieve me we should all do our best to soon. 2nd Lt. ARTHUR RUDE is still CITY and COUNTRY see that they don't happen again". tear . . . and a thousand prayers, for This coupon will become void if not presented to your grocer at the Aberdeen Proving Ground with you who are away. RELIABLE COMPANIES And say Doc, did the package from the 5th Bat., 2nd Ord. Training Reg­ on or before Monday, Jan. 8, 1945. GEORGE JAQUAYS Barney and Fred get through okay? iment. We're passing your greetings Your friend and pal, TO- GROCER: This coupon will be redeemed by us on the Polly Wog BASIL MORGAN S 2-c on to all the folks, Art — and the "Skipper" Hollis Drew. above basis. Just present the coupon to our salesman, or to EAST JORDAN, MICH. can quit worrying about his letter o your jobber's salesman. It is void unless signed and rilled out Phone 244 best there is to you and Vivian. Pag­ writing ability right now. You do a ing all you fellows on the west IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN IN 1945 by the purchaser. The Quaker Oats Company swell job of it, sailor, so how about coast. Pfc. THOMAS ST. CHARLES, Stabbed by a rabbit. Drowned on a I another before too long. Hope you rooftop. Conked by a pair of brogans and Glen make the connections and U.S.M.C. is laid up in the USN Hos­ pital No. 10, Ward 32, c-o FPO, San because a clerk wanted exercise. Will that your Saginaw buddy didn't eat the gremlins and pixies who worked Herman Drenth all the chicken. And thanks for the Francisco, and would sure enjoy a visit — or a letter, so how's about it overtime in 1944 repeat in 1945? "Merry Christmas to All." Basil is Read "It Shouldn't Happen in 1945", Aunt Jemima — & SONS -— with the N.S.D. Store 475, Navy 128, gang? Air mail greetings from Cpl. FRANCIS LILAK out in the Mediter­ in The American Weekly with this A complete line of c-o FPO, San Francisco, so why don't Sunday's (Dec. 31) issue of The De­ ENRICHED some of you fellows out there look ranean theatre with the Military troit Sunday Times. LUMBER — SUPPLIES him up? Railroad Service — thanks, Francis, and we're glad the chicken tasted so Phone 111 — East Jordan Cpl. GEORGE REBEC with the good, and when you get time a letter- Rebec-Sweet Post : Family Flour 1_jmrp__*Mgr M Army in France checks in with would be swell. AMERICAN LEGION ______a| (Successors to E. J. L. Co.) greetings and "thanks for the par­ Pvt. CLIFFORD GREEN tunes in Ma cel", he really enjoyed it and how. from France where he has been hob­ Regular meetings — first and third Also reports his new APO of 65h nobbing a lot with the natives and re­ Monday of the month. ANY GROCER LISTED BELOW WILL We'll be waiting to hear from you ports that they are pretty "regular" Work night — every Wednesday. REDEEM 15c COUPON ABOVE R, G. WATSON again George before very long. people — particularly the country Auxiliary — First and Third Thanks and greetings from Sgt. R. folk who always have the welcome Thursdays L. STREHL, U.S.M.C. together with mat out for an American. And don't AH marine-* at «rrtf) oVJork n rr Carr's Food Market Milton Block FUNERAL a letter that has a suggestion that's worry, Cliff, there'll be lots of Mrs. East Jordan, Mich. Charlevoix, Mich. DIRECTOR worth looking into. You'll hear more Sheppard's canned chicken when you totojojmtt-atmm Shaw's Grocery Charlie Novotny regarding your idea, Bob, in a couple get home. Write again, fellow, we!13 East Jordan, Mich. Charlevoix, Mich. of weeks, personally, it sounds okay. be waiting. Sgt. DONALD KAAKE Phone — 66 From the Southwest Pacific via Air flashes a "thank you" for the gift Roy Scott Steffins Grocery Mail, MARLIN INGALLS, F 2-c, from Muroc, California, with greet­ Complete with curlers, &&, Boyne City, Mich. Bellaire, Mich. shampoo and waveset. MONUMENTS aboard the USS Dickerson informs us ings for "each and everyone of the 1**8 easy to fio and safe for every type of EAST JORDAN, - MICH. | hair. For amazing results—be sure to ask Kerry's Grocery that it's four months since his last folks of East Jordan." Thanks a" lot, for Ctein.itni'i n_- « —«"*— • - Boyne City, Mich. paper aitrjved. Sorry, Marlin, and Don, glad it gave you a "lift." Cpl. GI0LEY & MAC, DRUGGISTS