CASS CITY CHRONICLE VOL. 21, NO. 31. CASS CITY, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBE~ 11, 1925. / TEN PAGES. corps of experienced children's work- Erie County, New York, July 2, 1849. i ers working out of each office, and She was united ,in marriage Nov. 4, longed to the 108 French Mortar Bat- i lllPt!lIIll HEIII II. five general traveling workers cover- IIIV RXPIYIII ill 1871, to Nicholas G, Decker of Lang- I lllll liST. tery, 33rd Division, serving overseas. f~d, N. ~-. She came w~n net hus- 1919...... s- the ...... ,,,~ appeal for band to Michigan in the spring of ilLl iLll II LLILIe the Santa Claus Fund for Homeless III[[ IIIII 1879, and settled on the farm where He was united in marriage with Children, the Michigan Children's Aid i LLY IEii TiiiiiY she resided until death. Mr. Decker i~nss Bessie Emigh on May 7, 1919. I08T[Y/IFTEi Society hopes to receive thousands of II • CO. ASSOCIATION HELD ANNU. died 24½ years ago on May 2, 19.,=. Mrs. MeQueen, with four children, contributions from all over the state. LARGEST CONTRIBUTORS TO Eight children ble.ssed this'union, DELEGATES. FROM SIX CHURCH- Donald A., Sarah Jane, Catherine J., AL MEETING AT COURT This money will be directly applied and John William, are left. FUNDS IN ELLINGTON, NO- two of whom, Martin and Neff, pre-{ NEW LAW PROVIDES PENALTY toward giving the children a happy ES REPRESENTED QUEEN HOUSE FRIDAY. ceded the mother in death. Those from a distance who attend- OF $2 FOR LATE PAYMENT Christmas holiday a~d if there is any - VESTA AND ELMWOOD. The su~¢iving members are: Peter,. ESTHER CIRCLES. ed the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. surplus remaining it will be used in a OF OWNER. • f of Peck, Mich.; Steven and Arthur of i Robt. McQueen, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. number of ways beneficial to poor MeQueen, Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Ryan, The Tuscda County Holstein The Chronicle presents this week Greenleaf; Frank of Bad Axe; Mrs. The annual Port Huron District Breeders' Association held their an- children who need all sorts of com- John McQueen, and son, John W., all forts. the names of heavy taxpayers in I James C. Walker of Ubly,; and Mrs. Rally of the Queen Esther Circle of The following is a copy of Act. No. nual meeting at the Court House last / of Courtland, Ont. Mr. and Mrs. Hen- three townshxps .in the eastern part I C. Gracey of Detroit. She is also sur- the M. E. church was held in Cass 322, Sec. 6, Public Acts 1925, in Friday. This was one of the best Hoi- ry Harrison and daughter, Nina, Mrs. of Tusco!a county~Elmwood, Noves-I vived by 20 grandchildren and two City Tuesday evemng. A banquet which it states that there will be a stein meetings held in the county. Hiram Simmons, Mr. and Mrs. Le- ta and Ellington townships~as pre- great grandchildren. '.was served at 7:30 to the company of penalty attached to all dog licenses The attendance at the meeting was Wins Prizes at land McLean, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd pared by the three treasurers, W. C. I The funeral se~wices were held at 114. Besides the Cass City Queen Emigh and children, Miss Ida Mc- paid after January 10th, of $2,00 and good and the interest was keen. Downing of Elmwood, C. M. Fergu-/ St. Columbkil] church in Sheridan on Esther and Home Guard members, Queen, all of Port Huron, Mr. and up to IV[arch 1, after which time ~it Officers elected were as foliows:~ nternatmnM Show son of No~esta, and Geo. E. Hudson, I Dec. 5. S~turday, R~ev. James Carolan delegates were present from Hayes, Mrs. Lynn Proctor and David Emigh becomes a criminal offense and those President--V: 3. Carpenter, Cuss ~r., of E!lington. The names of heavy officiated. Interment was made in the E!kton, Bay Port, Bad Axe and Beth- of Pontiac, Mr. and iVlrs. Win. Brink- negligent are liable to prosecution. City. Among Michigan winners at the In- taxpayers of E!kIand to~mship were adjoining, cemetery, el. Vice President--N. A. Perry, Cuss ternational Live Stock Show at Chi- er and son, Clayton, Mrs. Mark Sto- Sec. 6 On or before the ist day of I printed in the Chronicle three weeks B'~rs. J. L. Hoffman of Elkton acted March, nineteen hundred twenty-six City. cago last week was Harry T. Crandetl ner, Mrs. Edw. Stoner, Mr. and Mrs. I ago. as chairman of t1~e program follow- and on or before the same date of (Sec.-Treas. Geo. Foster, Fostoria,. of Cuss City. He was awarded sec- Win. Simmons of Kinde, Mr. and each year t1~ereafter, the owner of Directors~E. A. R0hlfs, Akron; ond place on the Lincotn sheep flock. l E}mwood Township. ing the dinner. Miss Thelma Warn- i~h-s. Win. Sharron, Mrs. Nancy Har- any dog four months old or over Geo. Rumble, Unionville; W. J. Kirk, Third place for rams two years old t The following is the list of 29 of II, IIIII II I!II er, president of the local Queen Es- ris and son, Howard, Mr. and Mrs. or over; third place in the class for the heaviest taxpayers in Elrnwood: ther Circle, in we!l-chosen words wei-tFred Harris of Bad Axe, Mr. and shall, except as provided in section Fairgrove; John Stern~ Vassar~ RobL fourteen apply to the County Treas- Kirk, Fairgrove. ewes one year and under and for Albert Russell ...... $252°56 corned the visitors to Cass City at the / Mrs. Emery Moody, Mr. and Mrs. urer in writing" for a license for"~each three year old ewe lambs. S. B. Catley .... :...... 352.30 first rally ever held here. Miss F!or- I Arthur McQueen of Flint, Mr. and B. B. Reavey of Akron was again Iiii II III, II such dog owned or kept by him. Such chosen as county sales manager. Julius Fischer ...... 371.84 ence Guinn of Hayes gave an inspira-IMrs. Geo. Sloat' and daughter, Mabte, application shall state the breed, sex, •The association also appointed W. L. T. Hurd ...... =...... 483.21 e~onal talk on "What the Queen Es-iMr. and Mrs. Fred Redman, Mr. and age and color and markings of such R. Kirk, Fairgrove~ Vo 'Jo Carpenter., Jos. Quinn ...... 315.94 V. A. FREEMAN TO G~VE AD- the,- Circle Means to Young People."i Mrs: Gordon Redman of Marlette. "We have not time to devote to all dog and the name and address of the Cuss City; Bert Thurston, Vassar; Patrick Phelan ...... 309.23 !IIII[III[I II DRESSES ON FEEDING SWINE things, so we must choose those I last previous owner and shall be ac- Geo. Rumble, U~5onvilIe; and E. A. Thos. Freeman ...... 348.06 companied by a fee of two dollars for Rohlfs of Akron to represent the as- AND STEERS. which a~e most worthy, and give our H. E. Lafave ...... 308.76 yew best to them. To aid that whic~ each male dog, and $4.00 for each fe- sociation in promoting calf clubs in III Iiiliii IIIIL Frank Schobert ...... 256.39 ~ brings health, happiness, and joy in- male dog, and two dollars for each their respective communities. B.B. IIIi IF IIi IIIII C. J. Hobar~ ...... 296.92 V.A. Freeman, extension specialist to others' lives surely is worthy," she unsexed dog; Provided: That a penal- Reavey was elected to represent the Bartholomy Bros. - 311.07 from the Michigan State College, will said. Readings, musical numbers and ty fee of two dollars be eharged for association in promoting Holstein AS SEEN BY WILLIS CAMPBELL John Stapteton ...... 317.60 be in Tuscola county next week to Circle reports were well received. ~E~E[Y ~1[1 each licenseapplied for after January bull clubs in the county. AND SEVERAL HIGH SCHOOL Marcella Toohey ...... 339.65 give addresses on feeding swine and An interesting feature was the Jim Hays, State Holstein Fieldman, 10th, for any dog four months old or BOYS. Ezra Hutchinson ...... 266.60 steers. Mr. Freeman will atso be pros- presentatio~ by Home Guard girls of over on that date, such penalty fees addressed the breeders, explaining Gagetown Elevator Co ...... 598.95 ent at the third annual swine breed- the work and needs of the various SHORT ITEMS CLIPPED FROM to be placed in the ~ general fund. what the National and State Associa- J. L. Purdy ...... 536.40 ors' meeting to be held at the court missionary homes and schools spon- THE NEWSPAPERS OF THE tions were doing, the present market Oscar Guild Estate ...... 262.72 house, Caro on Friday, Dec. 18, be-!sored by the Circles. This was in the trend of pure bred cattle, and pointed Willis Campbell and the boys who Peddie Bros ...... 224.62 ginning promptly at 1:00 p.m. At i form of a radio broadcasted program, DISTRICT. out some things which the breeder attended the International Live Stock Bert M. Perry ...... 252.54 this meeting he will discuss "Present loach school appearing in answer to Vassar •Odd Fellows :.: must keep in mind when a prospec- Show held in Chicago, returned filled Elmer Sting ...... 210.81 Situation and Future of Swine Grow- its code. The initials only of the Frederick William Menzel, a well to Confer 2nd Degree tive purchaser is inspecting his herd. with enthusiasm for the pqssibilities Paul Schuell ...... 220.55 ing." Immediately after Mr. Free- homes were given, the Circles guess- • : .: known farmer living near Kilmanagh, Mr. Hays paid the breeders a very rareof club privilege work in and all aits liberal phases. education It is a Henry Dunn 206.03 man's address the annual meetings ing the names and locations. Elkton dropped dead while working around Vassar Odd Fellows will confer the Frank Seurynck ...... 227.35 of the County Chester White Swine won the pennant, guessing correctly high compliment on the class of to be of the company of 1200 boys Henry Anker ...... 206.57 Breeders' Association and the County the entire nine represented. his home on Friday morning of las~ second degree upon four candidates calves sold to the boys' and girls for and girls from 44 states, gathered to- Mrs. Alma Smith ...... 247.42 Duroc Breeders' Association will be week. Apoplexy is given as the cause of Cass City Lodge at the local !oclge club work, some of which were shown gether in a common interest. It is the Frank Asher ...... 217.48 held. The Circles winning special honors of death, rooms next Tuesday evening, Dec. 15. at the State Fair and won many high determination of those present from C. J. Smith 222.39 Other meetings scheduled during for the past year's work were credit- T~scola county contributed to the Refreshments v~'ill be served by Cuss .honors. ~Cass City this year that the 0pportu- M. P. Freeman ...... 220.95 the week are as follows: Tuesday, ed with them Tuesday evening, and Salvation Army the largest amount- City Lodge at the Close of the degree presented by Mrs. Hoffman with the given per capita in any county where iwork- : cussedCo. Agr'lwhat Agentthe association John W. Simshad donedis- everynity may member be takeI~of the advantagelocal clubs ofhere- by Gagetown Hdw. Co ...... 218.~8 Dec. 15, two meetings at the Gleaner seals and stars signifying the charac- the army has no posts or regular t The Vassar second degree teai~ has and could do to promote the dairy after. 1 Novesta Township. Hall at Fairgrove. The afternoon ter and extent of the special work. work. Nearly $1,000 was raised in been going through ~trenuoim ~rac- industry of the countg. " t The Grand Champion Aberdeen An- I Taxpayers in Novesta township meeting beginning at 1,:30 will be de- Three Circles were thus honored. Tuscola for the army's home service rice, interspersed by luncheons, for This past year has been one of the gus steer, "Mah Jongg," crowned the WhOSe taxes • this year exceed the voted to steer feeding and the eve- The value of these rallies is far- appeal for the state social work of the past month and expect a good fol- most successful of the history of the champion beef animal for 1925, was $100.00 mark include the fgllowing: ning meeting beginning at 7:30 to • reaching. From the inspiration of that organization, lowing when the trip to Cass City is feeding and care of swine. On them come many new Circles and re- association. Quite largely through the sold at public auction for the record Cuss City Sand & Gravel C0...$406.75 Wednesday, Dec. 16, similar meetings hewed effort from the ones already Due to the activity of the newly !maade. effortstesting associationsof the association, have been two organ- cow moreprice Hotel,of $3.00 Ne~ per York,pound. bought The Bilt-him Ed.Levi KnobletDelong ...... 203.56 will be held at the Grange Hall at organized. Each Circle is looking for- organized Bach Community Club, the A County Odd Fellow organization has arranged for teams in the c~unty ized and many of the best Holstein for its Christmas dinner. He weighed Mich. Electric...... Power Co ...... 183.91194.37 noon.Akron; On steer Thursday, feeding Dec. in the17, a after-steer wardyear ofto its and history. working for the best village of Bach will soon have dec- which will specialize in conferring breeders are members. Besides the 1560 pounds. Jos. Hack ...... 162.1.3 feeding meeting will be held at Rich- tric light and power. The Bach peo- the several degrees of the order. Ca- cow testing work, the association has "King of" the Fairies," the Grand Mrs. R. O. Curtis ...... 160.47 ville at 1:30 p. m. and a swine feed- ple have awarded a contract to Henry ro Lodge conferred the initiatory de- promoted bull clubs, calf clubs, and Champion Shorthorn bull of the show, John Fields McAulay of Pigeon to extend the line 'gree at Mayvitie Dec. 3 and Fostoria the county wide eradication of tuber- owned by the Prince of Wales, was Norman McLeod...... 143.03149.65 ingQuanicassee, meeting atat 7:30the inGrange the evening. Hall, Parents Told to Face of the Michigan Electric Power Co. Lodge conferred the first degree at culosis in cattle. Tuscola county is sold for $1050 to Fred Baker of Kan- Geo. Riker from Kilmanagh, five miles along 138.80 CountyAgr'l Agent John W. Sims Responsibility the town line, to their village. The job Caro on Monday, Dec. 7. now the only county in the Thumb sas City. He was pure white and at- John :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.... : ...... 131.05 will discuss "Pasturing Sweet Clo- is to be completed by Jan. I. I wl~ich has decided to test all cattle tracted unusual interest because he Cuss City Grain Co .... ::::.:::::::7 130.81 ver" at practically all meetings° Sev- for tuberculosis. It is expected that represented a foreign country. -- A.E. Sleeper has presented 130 ~e~a~** Mrs. M. J. Ferguson ...... 130.47 eral local feeders will also give the Rev. William M. Holderby of Chi- new books to the Ubly public library. te~m~~*: ~ will begin in the county with-~ Mr. Campbell and the boys attend- A. L. Bruce ...... 128.53 results of their experiences in feed- in eighteen months. cago, general director of the Chris- The library was started in 1908, by One of the principal activities of ed the National Club Congress held Robt. Homer ...... 127.96 ing. CHiCKENs at the Hotel La Salle. Twelve hundred Sam Wagg 126.78 tian Family Crusade of America, was Mr. Sleeper, who donated all the the county association during the boys and girls from 44 states attend- R. Kennedy 120.88 in Cass City on Dec. 7, 8 and 9 and books and furnishings. From time to delivered several addresses during the time he has given the institution past year has been the operation of ed, and all enjoyed the banquet and Walter Thompson ...... 118.79 Cuss City Schools GO 11 STIIIE the county sales manager, B. B. program. Alice Burkheart of Iowa Edward Lerczenski ...... 117.91 i three days. Mr. Holderby is a most money to be spent for books and the Reavey. Those having pure bred and and George Cuskaden of Indiana were Fred Hartwick willing worker and seeks to present library now has 2,400 volumes, be- grade Holsteins have listed them with crowned health champions as part of Win. B. Hicks ...... 116.55115.80 The Bad Axe --high school presented hisgroups message of citizens to asas manypossible different during zincs.sides nearly all of the popular maga-ga- HOLLAND BIRDS MAKE SLOW START 1N M. S. C. LAYING buyersMr. Reavey to look who over has the takencattle severaloffered the program.san?e table Fred withMcEachern the honored ate at ArchiePete Burrian McPhail ...... 114.07114.69 locala splendid high chapelschool prod'ramlast Friday before morn- the hisHis stay first in addressa community. was given at the I hasThe closed olant downof the Yalefor anWoolen indefinite Mills for sale and in this way has been in- young lady and he tells us that he had ~vI. Ftynn ...... 113.52 ing. An orchestra of twenty pieces Parent-Teachers meeting on Monday time, throwing about 400 people out~e COTEST. strumental in starting several new a pleasant chat with her. Fred is a C. J. Crawford ...... 111.76 furnished the music, showing some evening-. Tuesday, he addressed 57 of employment. The mills were ran-out a- herds and selling a number of animals good mixer. Geo. Youngs ...... 111.40 fine musical talent. One of the stu- farn~ers and business men at a noon- king upholstering for the Ford Motor That chan~e of climate and change to parties outside the county. Mr. The champion carload of Aberdeen Alvey Palmateer ...... 110.35 dents gave an interesting discussion day luncheon at the Gordon Hotel. company, but the contract expiredor of food have disastrous effect upon dem:mdReaveyhaSfor beenfreshUnablegradetOHolsteinsSUpply thefor poundAngustoSteerSthe NewS°ld Palmerf°r 42 centSHouseperof Win. Kelley ...... 110.05 bookof "Modern reviews illustratedBooks." Severalher talk. brief Su- BaptistTwo addresses church thewere same given day andat theon anding wasmade not to renewed.get other An contracts effort is butbe- the egg laying tendencies even of championship contestants is indicated eastern buyers. On the day Of the Chicago for its. Christmas dinner. Ettingtcn Township. perintendent B. H. VandenBelt spoke Wednesday afternoon and evening', he so far none have been made, although meeting Mr. Reavey had six fine pure The fifteen of them reatized $6,772.50. The following is a list of 28 tax- on "Citizenship." Cass City wiit pre- by a review of pens entered in the in- bred cows being tested for tuberculo- addressed audiences in the Evangeli- it is expected that the dose down tmmational egg laying contest which sis at the Cooper Sales Barn, which I Mr. Campbell bargained for two payers in Ellington township whose sent a return program at the Bad Axe eal church. Addresses to teachers of will not extend past the holidays. started at M. ~. C. on Nov. i. . Aberdeen-Angus cattle for the Cass i925 tax amounted to $150.00 or high school on Feb. 12. the school and to pupils of the several I Outstanding among illustrations of were purchased from Tuscola Breed- City club for .next year. They will more: ! On Dec. 1.8,. the C. C. H. S. senior grades were given during the last nation-widePort Austin advertising. is coming inPictures for some of ors by H. W. Norton, Director of come from the Scripp farm at Lake James Wilson ...... $156.09 class has offered to take charge of two days. the need for adjustment to new con- the State Bureau of Animal Industry, Orion, which was prominent in the Fred Bardwell ...... 185.92 the chapel program here. .ditions is the pen of ten Barnvelder "Broken Rocks," along the shore hens entered by W. Middleman, of for the Wahjamega Farm Colony. winnings at the Show. J.D. Turner ...... 172.38 On Friday, Dec. 11, the debating Mr. Holderby proved to be an in-~west of the village appeared in the Barneveld, Holland. At the close of I One of the unusual opportunities Samuel Putnam ...... 2'.'17.63 team will go to Akron, where it will teresting speaker dealing with the l Saturday Evening Post of November the first month of the contest, this l enjo'yed by the boys was that of Dorr W. Perry ...... 251.79 again uphold the affirmative side of various phases of life. He stressed i19 and £6. The pictures were sent to pen had produced so few eggs as to Santa C aus Fund thearing Col. Ruppert auction off car- Travis Leach Estate ...... 255.04 the question. the responsibility of the parent to the the Post by T. F. Marsten of Bay rank nearly at the bottom of the list child and emphasized the discipline City who is secretary of the Eas-i for Homeless Children load lots of cattle. He has the reputa- James Campbell ...... 268.22 One of the greatest advantages de- of 100 pens in the competition. The tion of being the best auctioneer and Frank Seeley ...... 151.10 rived from a school training is the of love. tern Michigan Tourist Association. I long journey across the Atlantic, the the fastest talker in the U. S., selling Charles Calbery ...... 160.80 faculty of putting into practice those The problem of. today in this na- Other pictures of this section of marked change in climate, and the With more than 30 years of help- a carload per minute. Geo. E. Hudson, Jr., ...... 188.38 principles learned. The Community tionbe met is oneby thewhich family. confronts The andhome, must in timeMichigan to time. are expected to appear from food difference are given as explana- ful service to dependent chiMren all When an outsider visits the Chica- William Trisch ...... 204.75 Civics class recognizes this truth and many instances, in the opinion of Mr. over this state the Michigan Chin go Board of Trade, he is completely tions for this slow start. C. D. Andrews ...... 186.14 stresses the practicability of all that Hotderby, has neither the stamina Twenty-two Michigan County Farm dren's Aid Society is broadcasting a bewildered. With a guide who knows Many Of the pens entered from dis- James Price 199.21 it studies. The students are studying nor the power to control the situation. Bureaus are going to put on a great Christmas appeal through the news-'the business, the visit becomes one of tant points in theunited States also John Metcalf ...... 168.78 the many different phases of co-op- The Christian home is being branded membership campaign during the papers of the state for contributions intense interest and a valuable educa- show inability/f0 ~get away to a fast Jarvis Turner ...... 299.14 oration at this time. We do not often as old fashioned, and as a direct re- first two weeks of next June. The to help make this Christmas a happy tion. During the one and one-half start in the egg marathon, probably Earn Bradley ...... 154.04 stop to think of the many processes sult, the children in our modern fami- members of the county bureaus are one for the hundreds of homeless and hours that the Cass City men spent for the "changed conditions" reason. F. A. Turner ...... 169.04 through which the simplest articles of lies are confronted with life situations going to do this membership work Entries from C~nada, Delaware, New dependent children at present under i there, 98,992,000 bushels were traded. Frank Allard ...... 258.29 our every day life pass before they with aid from the State Farm Bu- York, Pennsylvania, Alabama and its care. I Their guide stated that during his Chas. J. Schrader ...... 221.19 without the guidance of father or are ready for our use. Some of the reau. They will work as two-man other d~stant points are late starters. These unfortunate'youngsters range: 20 years' experience0 that was the G. D. Budder ...... 188.20 mother on which to rely. God and the pupils investigated the co-operation of teams and there will be six two-man Just to prove that there are excep- in age from mere babies to boys and greatest volume of business ever Henry Turner ...... : ...... 151.75 Bible must be brought back into the the hundreds of people involved in tenons in a township. Huron, Lapeer, tions to all rules, however, a few of girls in their teens and it the hope of transacted during a like period of Edward Bishop ...... 153.75 homes of the nation, says the speak- the process of rubber manufacturing. Sanflac . and Tuscola counties are the pens from oflt of the state are the Society that every one of them time. Wheat opened at $1.72, dropped Barnard Turner ...... 283.82 er, and parents must once more be Others found the history of such ar- brought face to face with the re- lined up for this campaign. starting remarkably well, while some can be provided for abundant]~y. Like to $1.70, and raised to $1.75 during D. F. Schiele...... ~...... 243.43 ticles as cotton, wool, and brick inter- Rather than serve six months in every normal child they are looking that time. As great a fluctuation as sponsibility of leadership and guid- of the Michigan entries, without any Willis Beecher ...... 213.66 esting. This study also includes other Ionia, Carl Sonntag, of Sebe~aing, forward to Christmas and it is hoped five cents was unusual, also. The ance which is demanded of father- excuse at all, are making a bad start D. K. Hanna ...... -...... 186.23 kinds of co-operation: the action pro- paid a fine of $500 in circuit court in the long contest. that not one of them will be disap- weather report recorded heavy rain- hood and motherhood. Joseph Breski ...... 161.23]duced by mob-spirit, the essential here Thursday on a charge of violat- pointed, fall and bad. harvesting conditions in The most striking illustration of Fred Orr Estate ...... 186.23 qualities of leadership in relstion to ing the liquor law. Fred Kreuger, an During the year 1924 the Society Brazil and Argentine, accounting for this variation from the general ten- public opinion, etc. The practical ap- old offender, of Caseville, was given touched the lives of 3,103 children . the fluctuation. dency of the early weeks of the test plication comes in community co-op- World War Soldier a six months' term in Ionia on is shown by the pen of white leghorns - scattered all over this State~n one t On Friday afternoon, the boys vis- Greenleaf Pioneer eration in problems confronting us, liquor law charge by Judge X.A. way or another through the medium ited the Lincoln Park and Aquarium. Laid to Rest entered by the Hanson Farm of Cor- methods of improvement, etc. Boomhower. Walter Perzynski and vallis, Oregon, which was leading the of its trained workers, If readers can Loyal Boulton says, "The lions con- Lind at Rest The eighth grade arithmetic class Joseph Peplinski, both of Ubly, were picture in their minds a procession of tinued to roar as long as J. C. Blades entire contest at the end of the first is studying practical problems in John McQueen passed •away at his fined $25 each and placed on a years' month. that many children's faces passing in was in the building.'~ Mrs. Mary Decker, one of the earli- "Savings Bank Accounts," compound home in Evergreen on Friday, De- probation for liquor law offenses. review, they will get some idea of the A trunk load of trophies and a est pioneers of Greenleaf township, interest, and the intricacies of dif- cember 4, following a long illness. Superintendent Don Jordan of the magnitude of the work being done. bushel of blue ribbons made very evi- passed away at her home, after a ferent kinds of promissory notes. Mr. McQueen had been in poor health Fairgrove school has resigned his po- RED C/ROSS DRIVE The headquarters of the Society are dent Harry Crandell's season's win- long illness on Wednesday afternoon, James McTavish, a member of the for the past six years, and was seri- sition, to take effect December 18, ENDS ON DECEMBER 21 located in Lansing and there are ten nings in the sheep barn. Dec. 2. junior class, will be on the program ously ill for the last thirteen months and will then enter the employ of the branch offices in as many centers of Of great interest, also, were the of the Michigan Holstein Breeders of that time. Funeral services were American Book Company of Chicago. population all the way from St. Jo- The community loses one of the Those who have not as yet enrolled visits to the Swift & Co. and Libby, held at the home Sunday morning at He will sell the school books of the seph and Detroit in the southern ex- noblest types of womanhood and the Association at their annual meeting ten o'clock, Rev. John Willerton of- in the Red Cross for this year, can McNeil & Libby plants. Visitors are and banquet at Lansing on Feb. 2, company in 16 counties in the south- treme, to Marquette in the Upper home a beloved mother. She was get their buttons from Miss Joanna welcomed by these companies, and speaking on the subject, "Ex " ficiating. Burial was in the Etkland western part of the state, and will Peninsula. There are receiving homes good in every acceptation of the term; McRae at the Pinney State Bank. one is astounded by the great number perlence cemetery. Members of the American probably have headquarters at Jack- located at St. Joseph and Lansing her character, her talents, her willing- in Club Work." This young man, it Legion were present and fired the Their names will be published later. of products manufactured by them. will be remembered, twice won the' son. In addition to a larger salary and nearly 500 approved family ness to relieve distress, her patient December 21 is the last day of drive. grand champion calf award at the l last salute over the grave. than he was gettin~ in Fairgrove as boarding homes available for the tern. and cheerful disposition endeared her The following teachers have paid The village of Caseville has pur- Michigan State Fair. i John McQueen was born in Ever- superintendent, Mr. Jordan will have porary care. of the children as they to all those with whom she came in the one dollar for the Red Cross fund: chased an automobile fire truck cost- contact. green township, Sanilac county, on the privilege of completing his Mas- come and go, a small but capable Miss A. Lung, Miss K. Reed, Miss K. ing $8,000. November 25, 1892. On 22, 1917, he ter of Arts degree at the University Mary Ann Smith was bolm in Eden, Advertise it in the Chronicle. Jwas mustered into the army. He be- Wassena~r, Miss A. Boone, Miss A. before starting in his new work. Turn to page five. CASS CITY CHRONICLE 1 . ,, , , , Cass CitY, . Michigan, Dec. 11, 1925. CASS CITY CHRONICLE Advice and Conduct Pabl~shed Weekly. English Style of Home Increasing We m~y give advice but we tan ~ive conduct.---Benjamin Frankli~ The Tri-Ca~nty Chronicle and Cass C~ty Ente~riae consolidated Apt, 20, in,Popularity in United States I906. Order for Publication--Final Ad. .~ ~.': :'::::::::::~ ministration Account.--State of ...... :~ :..~~!.;!~.!~:~iiii~!iii!i:! Michigan, The Probate Court for the All Subscriptions Are Payable in ~x ..~ PLACING INCUBATOR Advance. ." County of Tuscola. .~".. ;:i::i~;::~!!::!g.~N iii!i!iiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiii',i!iN!i{ii!i ilili?ii!i ili iii! EGGS i!iON THE MARKET At a session of said Court, held a~ ,.~ Michiga~ one year ...... :_.$1.75 .,, .,:::::::2:::::::$ : : ~[:: ::: ::::::::::f.~ the Probate Office in ~he Village o~ In Michigan, six months ...... 1.00 ii!iNNi'{i Care, in said County, on the 4th da~ Outside State. ~'~!i~ii!!ii::ii!::i~iii!;~N~:::!::;~::il)~!:;;,:;::i~:::i;i::'i!i::!::::i::iii{i!ii~Jii@::ii~::~iii:~::ii)i;iiiiii!it (By T. E. QUISENBERRY) of December, A. D. 1925. Some farmers and poultry raisers In United ~tates, one year ...... $2.00 iiiiii:ii!!! ii iiiiii!iiiiiii:iii !i:ii iiii i;ii:ii! !ii! i!i!i!i! iiii!i ilNii!!!iiiiii!i:i:!ili iiiii Present: Hen. Guy G. Hill, Judge Canad~ one year...... 2.50 make a practice of putting eggs on the of Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of ~-ii~)!i:{:~:!:j?i:i:i:i:i~:i!!:i:i::~ :{!:!:i;E:~ market.whicl~ they have had in an in: ^A,,~+~ ~at~ made kno.wn on ..... ======:. ~!:~i::i::i?a?iiii~:~i: !~ig!ii ~:.i:-:::¢:iiiii!:: i i i i iiii~i ii!:~!~ :~:~!!~ii!i:.s:.iiii~:i::i~::{si:! ii i!i ?s~:i iii?::i!i !~iii ii!::i i!~{~:N cuoator rot a ~ew nays an~ roun0 the Margare~ A. Bendrick, Deceased. ~plieatiom ~;~~i'-~iiiii~i!i!i~iiiii..* !i~ii!~ !i~i! ~:!!!!iiiii!!..%i~:! :~i::::::iilii:i:!!!~ i~ I ~::i':::ii!iii~!i!~i!i':i :; ~i~i~i{:~::i!i!::!!!ii::::i::::;:;::::::~i::iii::i::::ii?::i::?:iiii::~N eggs to be infertile. This is a bad Henry McConkey, having filed ir Entered a~ second class matter • . :.:....ii~i!?[?i![i!!iii:i!iiiiiii::i! ~:.::.:.:.:.:.:.~.:.:--.i il~..., !i!!!i~ &,::.~ ~j~iiiiiii;ii:i'¢,iiii~:~:i,':i~:.iilil . practice and should never be done by said court his final administration ac- !v:.'.v~'~ ::...... ~:i:':i:!:!.:...:~~~'~"~:.:.:.:.:.::.~,;::.:.:.:.:!.!'!:~...... ~ ...... ,', n~ ~ count, and his petition praying fro ~pr. 27, 1906, at the post office at .~'.,~ ~.:: :i:i::~. :!:!:)!:! ! i !:! i ! ! i: ~~,~: ~~:~i:~:~,i: :i::~-.-.: :~-~-~:~ any honest farmer or poultry raiser. • g:•>3," ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~i~!~" the allowance thereof and for the as- ~ss City~ ~ctggan, under the Act ~;i::[::!::!::!)i[iii[!i[[ji~iii[!~i[!iii[ii! :::. :. ..%, .::, ======You may make good use of such eggs "'¥'betcha, Jira--l'm Proud Congre~ of March 3, 1879. by consuming them at home. They signment and distribution of the resi- ".'.:,:,:':.:':,:':':':':':':':::.:~::;:;:;::f4::::, .@, .::~. ~::'2::'~.~:::,:, ~~:~i~:~-Sj~':.~:~:i:i:i:i:i:[:i:i:i:{:::i::::::;::: ::::i:~:~:i due of said estate, H. F. LENZNER, Pbblisher. will do to fry, for baking and for cer- It Is Ordered, That the 4th day of ef My Daddy!" tain kinds of cot)king, but they are ab- January, A. Do 1926, at ten o'clock ir 43L 0<--- ~t soIutety unfit for the market Such the forenoon, at said probate office "Gee, lookit the Christmas loresent he gave me. eggs, while good for home consumption be and is hereby appointed for ex- He put $5.00 in the Pinney State Bank under my are absolutely unfit for shipping. The amining and allowing said accoun~ name, handed me this bank book, and told me it i6Lo~--;[ yolks will break, the eg.~s will rot be- and hearing said petition; was all my own[ Said if I saved some, he'd add fore they can reach the consumer, and It Is Further Orderfid, That public some more to it. Gee--isn't that great?" t it is a dish(mast practice to offer such notice thereof be given by publication of a copy of this order, for three suc- j4~× 14< 6" [ ef;gs for sale as fres!|-laid e?,~s, and cessive weeks previous to said day of Yes, folks, it's that sort of childish, pride that is you lower the prioe on all e~gs hy so hearing, in the Cass City Chronicle, worth cultivating. Teaching your son or daughter School News ef doing. Consume such eggs at home. a newspaper printed and circulated in the idea of building for the future and the value Sanilac County We have seen severe 1Blll'ke~. [(}sses said county. due to a habit of s~ndirG inL, u'dle in- GUY G. HILL, of Thrift! So--really there's no better Gift By We & ~usselman, Comnfissioner cubator eggs i'nh) (x)mmerce. Tiffs has Judge of Probate. you eoutd make him or her than a Savings Ac- been

Cass City. Mi~hi~... r~. !~. ~24. t CANS CITY CHRONICLE PA~E THREE.

CHURCH CALENDAR. Baptist--We have heard much this[a Holiness convention held at the Evening worship at 7:30 p. m. Ser- the past couple of weeks, returned Desert Christmas week about family religion. Let us ticy ] Mizpah.church, 4 miles west of Cass mon: "Man's Compromise with God." with them. M NESS CASH Evangelical Church--Bible study l to have it. Brin~ 'the family toi City and 3 3-4 miles south by the Come and be blessed of God in our Mr. and Mrs. Chas: Wood of Chel- i0:00 a. m. Sermon 11:00. Senior and ] church. Mennonite Brethren in Christ church services. With Decorations sea visited at the Wm. Burse home Junior lO:30, morning service. Subject, The order of the services are as fol- Leagues 6:45 p. m. Song ser- WILLIAM SCHNUG, Minister. here on Sunday. SPECIALS vice and preaching 7:30. "IsSanctification and Holiness the lows: Commencing Tuesday, Dec. 15, SATURDAY, D~. ~12. Yuletide .Atmosphere Was C. F. SMITH, Minister. Same Possession?" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, I0:00 a. m., Alfred Beutler, who has been work- 12 m., Bible school. ing for Shermank E,l~ott1 • near Caro, Enjoyed by Stranded Trio ...... 7:30, evening service. Subject~An 2:3010_00 nrn:. m:.,2.fiT,0 q..q p. m2 ~:hursday,m CEDAR RUN. the past season, has returned to his One bottle liniment ...... $1.00 , • on Sandy Trail. ~,,,~i~'neor~2e~r2g~l~ll ~e open discussion of the morning sub- There ~'~ll ~ep &e~i°°~in~;er~ Mrs Henry Deming is numbered home here. . One 4 3:4 oz. box ~eI~,]lol...50 The True God." This is the, third in jeer. present and you will enjoy their rues- I with ti~e sick M~ss. MeComb. and her pupils are ..... By ELEAN----~ E. KINO the series of doctrinal sermons. Eve- Special meeting at the Baptist sages. Come, for you are welcome I " preparing a t~nnstmas entertainment: N1 50 ning service at 7:30. Subject, "The "churchl Saturday, Dec. 12, 1:30 p.m. A.G. HERMAN, Pastor. " I E.S. Hendr}ck, who was injured in Howard Deming s,ent the first of -r • TORRID sun shone Chief Duty of a Chri~tinn " Th~ ~n+~,_ ]II; is important that every member be " I an auto accident last week, is con- the we~k st p~n+~,o - ~ o ~__ r~_._,~_.... m ~ ~. ~ est in th~ ...... on,,,~ ~, C~,,;s÷;.~ ~ ~ uresent, if" DOSslbla~Cnrn" ...... _ i siderabi y bette r at ~h~s..... wrmng. M, ~,,a...... ~g~o ...... n ..... ,r^._ ., _- _, , ~O ~U~o ~Uc~bz 3 ~O~ "...... 9~ U~) .'~/2 i [ ~ | stranded automo- ...... •*. ~,,~. euuea .... " ...... Firs " - - * .... ,~,,t~ ,,,xe. vo~ct£ xI~IILLu.t(;K ~I1(l . . . tion grows deeper all the time You l A.G. NEWBERRY, Pastor. in t Pres,byte~an Chureh~--Mmm- Mr. and Mrs. Arthur McCready baby of l~{arlette visited at E S Hen- One bottle ~ | bile. The car with Germm~ ...... 50 are invited to come and get the bene-1 ~ ,,~gar:i~:~pp a~ ~o:8o a;, m. berrnon: [and son of'Fairgrove visitedl at G. T. dricks' Sunday. ° ' " "z~~ seeming unconcern fit. F.T. KYLE, Pastor. Holiness Convention Th ...... m ~ ...... , ~on ox Iron. " J Lei shman s Sunday. M.s.J.~ McCrea- I ~ $2 5i) ~~ stood in the middle ~_ ~ ~- " ~unuay scnoot a~ ±z-oo m d wh ..... ' • - " ~/~ii~' of the road. One ' ~ ...... " " t Y' o has been wmtmg here for l Advertise it in the Chronicle. ' I{ R WA(~ ~)?l~Nl --i/- ~ hesitates in even~ • . _ . ~" . _ ~ ~_~.~t~Fa~,~,~e-t~.~,* .... . - _ ...... applying the term road to this jumbled sandy, corduroy trail extending endless miles with nothing on either side of it to break the monotony of the sandless waste save here and there a spiky cactus. Two feet sticking out from under- neath the car showed the location of 07" one of the occupams. Another mem- ber of the party was perched on the running bosrd not far from the two feet, Mr. Graham, a man of perhaps forty-five years and father of the (] young man now on his back solving the mysteries of a balky car, was studying the instruction book. "It looks to me like a burned-out {l Just12 More Shopping Days Before ChristmaS Now is the time to p~ek out your Christmas Gifts, for the setecfiea is at i~s very boa % and our salesladies can give you ~eter

bearing," came a voice from under service, for they are not so rushed as they wilt be the last few days. the engine. "And if it is, mother, you and I "Many new artMes have been added te our great assortment of Christmas gifts this week. It will be a pleasure instead efa might just as well pitch camp and get drudge to pick out your Christmas Gifts at Zemke'so ~' settled for the next few days." Mr. Graham's perfect resignation was the • _ product of the previous three week's Western auto trip experiences. "Mother" emerged from the back Christmas Coat Values Fancy and Plain Towels for , seat, and the couple set to work un- Christmas Gif~s~ loading the car in the late afternoon Beyond Comparison An extra large assortment of batl~ toweIs ?..£ .oo in plain and fancy. Priced very low for your ~desert sunshine. That evening, as A great number of our economical eus- Christmas shopping. .they sat down to their meal at the little camp table, Mr. Graham said: tomers have improved the opportunity by buy- All linen and pure linen weft towels ~or your Christmas gifts. "Not getting to that next town ing their coats at Zemke's during this great vi rather spoils our little plan for Christ- IIlas." slaughter in prices on coats, just when yau Stamped Goods for "Utah's Great American desert is need a winter coat the most. certainly one fine place for the car Ch" nstraas Gifts~ to break down," burst forth Tom. We still have a large assortment of coats Get your stamped ~oods now, while 3me "Imagine tomorrow being Christmas with all this heat. Those stories I which we are continuing to sell at the follow- still have time to work it. grew upon back East about Santa, ing prices. snow and reindeer would never do out a Fancy Bedspreads~ in this section. Here Santa needs a camel." Just the thing for Christmas gi£tm., il The weary troop sought their beds $99.50 Coatat $59.75 early. Tom, being assured by the heavy breathing of his mother and Table Linens and Napkins-- 'father that they were asleep, bounced A table cloth and napkins would mak~ a out of bed. Gettina a bunch of paper $89.50 Coat at $52.50 wonderful Christmas gift. mapkins and towels out of the car, and a pair of scissors, he returned to his $75.00 Coat at $49.50 Silk Underwear for Chistraas Gif~s~ What could one ~ve, that would be more $62.50 Coat at $45.00 acceptable than one of Zemke's Munsingwear And so on down the line to the lowest silk step-ins, bloomers and vests. priced coat at $8.75. Inexpensive Novelties for Make your wife or mother a happy Christ- • Christmas Gifts-- cot, proceeding to cut them into long mas by buying her one of Zemke's coats. ~ibbon-like strips. Some of the paper Space will not permit us to mention each he crushed into balls, tying a piece article. You will have to come in and see for of string to each one of them. Then Dress Materials~ oO~ yourself. Many articles will be out on dispIay, ,suddenly he remembered that long, Make your mother or wife happy Christ- '// but should you not find what you want, ask one long ago, when he had been in school, < e." of our salesladies. by folding a piece of paper several mas morning by giving her enough material ~imes and cutting different-sized for a fine dress. pieces from the fold, they had ere- Fancy Night Gowns ated all sorts of designs, l~e made a Also make fine Christmas gifts. dozen or more of these lacey, open- Beautiful Frocks for work patterns. Next he cut a large star. To be sure, it was a little lop- Christmas Gifts~ sided, but it had five points, and any- @o Blankets for Christmas Gifts-- one could guess what it was supposed A very large assortment of wonderful /" Double and two-in-one bed blanke%s. A to be. Tom now looked around for dresses to choose from. Prices ranging from warmer and more appreciated gift canno~ be some heavier paper out of which he $3.00 to $32.50. given than one of Zemke's two-in-one or double :might make a cornucopia. blankets. Gathering up the results of his labors, he made his way to a huge cactus some ten or fifteen feet from the machine. The star Tom put on Handbags-- Men's Hose for Christmas Hosiery-- the topmost spiny prickle of the plant• Smartest styles and shades of Gifts For ladies and children. The ribbon-like strips he twisted and silks, leathers, or beaded. draped around the plant, making use Do not forget to buy your men's Sheer chiffon, thread silk, silk and of the needles in Joining the short silk and wool, all silk, all wool, or all wool, all wool. pieces together. If not artistic when '1.75 12.00 cotton hose at Zemke's. finished, the cactus certainly looked Priced 50C and up. :festive. Tom surveyed his master- lpiece with a chuckle. Grabbing a Gloves-- Beads-- We have just purchased• an all sheet of paper, he began to cut out some letters. These letters, strung Slip-on and smartly cuffed styles Pretty novelty chains of brilliantly silk and Rayon silk ravel-stop hose in together on a piece of twine, were of lovely French kid, silk and colored beads, fancy drops. many of the latest shades, which we :hung across the cactus. ehamoisette. are going to offer for our Christmas "Now there will be no chance for guesswork with that 'Merry Christ- lOc o,2.50 trade at $1.00 and $1.25. Either mas' across the frnnt." He gave a priced hose is guaranteed tog ire sat- last look and tumbled into bed. *1.00 *3.25 isfactory service. "Merry Christmas! Wake up, young Pearls-- We believe that this is the best man." Tom bltnk~d at his father, Handkerchiefs-- Vari0us lengths, chokers to 30 in. ravel-stop hose we have ever offered Who laughingly said, ~as he pointed to Dainty little hankies of linen, strands, in cases. to the public at such a low price. Give the bedecked cactu.~ "You see, we did crepe, lawn and Voile. your friend a ravel-stop hose for have a white Christmas after all, Christmas gift. thanks to a good fairy." 50c o,2.50 (~), 1925, Western Newspaper Union.) 5c 65c Suit Cases-- Neckwear-- Walrus, cowhide and patent leath- Toilet Pieces ' Lovely jabots, neckpieces, set of er cases with fittings. Powder boxes, mirrors, combs, hair lace, linen and crepe. Ready Made Bathrobes and Bath- brushes, manicure articles make robe Patterns for your Christmas beautiful Christmas gifts. 50c o,3.5{i Gifts. I ¢lrd the bells 0~ ~rts~as dl~ glt¢ir old familiar carols tflay, J~n~ wild and svo¢¢t ~:h¢ words r@¢at OI ~eate on carrie, ~ood will to menl ?~nd t~m~gbt ~OW, as the day I~a~l com~, ZEMKE BROTHERS, Cass $b¢ Citp belfries o~ ~ll ~gbrlstendom liad rolled alon~ ¢~e un~r0~ens0n~

r g i } Cass City, Michigan, Dec. 11, i925., PAgE FOUR. {'ASS CITY CHRONICLE

Miss Fanny Day visited friends in Sometimes Wise to Detour Explains Love~s Madness Detroit over the week'end. Merry ChHstrnas, It is not enough that you form, and The love which is often poetically J. C. Epplett of Pontiac spent Tues- even follow the most excellent rules described as a spring "malady" has day at the B, F. GemmilI home. and Paid in Full for conducting yourself in the worhl; now been given a prosaic explanation. We are told that it is the additional Mrs. Wm. Paul is spending the you must, also, know when to deviate from them, and where lies the excel> moisture of the season that causes week visiting relatives in Windsor, H~w Silas VaUghan Contrib- people to write poems, f~ll in love : Harry Keenoy spent the week,end Ontario. and shun work. in Detroit. !Mrs. A, A. Ricker and Mrs. S. B. uted to Yuletide Cheer Sound of Thunder Common Young were business callers in Bay Roy Colweil was a business caller of the Needy. In tropical countries the sound of Dyes to Yrace Streams City Tuesday. in Pontiac Wednesday. thunder is so common that weather sul)terranean streams in Kentucky EtheI and Frank F. White,• children men often foi;get to register all the Mrs. Ray C. Rogers was a business By FRANK HERBERT SWEET :Iammoth cave are being traced by of Fred White, are both ill with storms. hearts of dyes placed .in the water. :iCaller in Saginaw on Friday. pneumonia. ~ ! 1~ T WAS an eloquent .... ii , ii • :: Mr. and Mrs. Alton Mart~ moved ~o B. F~ Gemmill visited a~ ~ne home "A~.- . pica fur Lhe public :their farm home northwest of town of his daughter, Mrs. O. W. Moulton, ~-'- building, an urge Tnursday. on Wednesday. ;~ for its beauty, its value to the town, Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Warner attend- Mrs. P. A. Schenck and Mrs. G. H. ET us think of Christmas only in tern,ai-oI~ ~ ~,~ t h e educational ed the funeral of a relative in Yale Burke were business callers in Sagi- gift to the eyes of love. Touch the fabric of its mystic story on Monday. naw Monday. youth. The speak- ~ and we find ourselves enthralled by its spell. ~ Miss Anna Pettit returned Friday Mr. and Mrs. Robert Orr and son, er was hypnotic• In its warp and woof is woven a colorful masterpiece A DOLL SO from Flint where she visited friends Bobby, of Pigeon spent Sunday at the ~e had been engaged for that. several days. W. D. Striftler home. Purse strings were loc,sened. Mo~ey --a "cture too ~eat for even a Raphael to portrav///I Mrs: Moses Karr and daughters of Mr. and Mrs. -Lester Bailey and ~oured freely--twenty, fifty, a hundred, with justice. ~f/( ////,// Gagetown were business callers in Mrs. W: D. Striffier visited Mrs. John five hundred. And it' was Christmas. town Saturday. Zinnecker at Caro Sunday. They went to Silas Vaughan, the grocer leader, a wealthy man of the LIFELIKE\ Clark Bixby came Saturday evening Mr. and Mrs. David Hutchinson vis- "~ ET it i~nlyis only th.e."thd ssimple i.m .story "-- of cloy-~-~ v .~, town. People looked surreptitiously to from Ann Arbor to spend some time ited Sunday at the home of their "~)~ Deep snows and jmg!mg slmghbells a~e not IT FOOLED US ALL at his home her& daughter, Mrs. Phil McComb. see what munificent sum he would give. ~-~.p typical of. Christmas. Toys and., timel~not be/~but/ Mrs. Anna Patterson visited rela- ~C. D. Striffler returned Sunday tives in Royal Oak and Pontiac Sat- from Itillman where he had visited At first a hand went into his pocket re resent its superficial side. Feasting doe~s not be- Each one of the fifteen that we are giving away ;i like the others, then came out and urday and Sunday. friends and relatives for a week. @eak any of ~ts hohness or ~ts sweetness. is as full of life as a doll can be. Alvah Nash of Bad Axe was a Mr. and Mrs. Alex Clark of Bad Help make a happier Chrisfimas for one of the guest of his mother, Mrs. F. J. Nash, Axe spent Monday at the R. N. Mc- following little girls by voting for your favorite each st., one day recently. Cullough and Archie Stirton homes. ,~~0VE! Th:tisCh~S~d~hsar~k~/{// Miss Mary Moore of Coiling spent Amos Martin, west of town, who ~ Something,which " t e p " " time you make a purchase. Sunday at the home of her parents, has been seriously ill with complica- ~" usi that peculiar flash which makeyt~e The names are in the order of their standing last l~r. and Mrs. Win. Moore. tions following an illness of influenza, whole worH ones kin. No, we have nevey/re~y ~ Saturday: Mr. and Mrs. I. Schonmuller of is slightly improved. Chesaning were guests of their son, Mr. and Mrs. Angus McPhail, Doro- seen Christmas. We have feltit! /\,' Maxine Morgan Lorain Watson M. Schonmuller, on Friday. thy and Charlotte Striffier, and Mrs. / \ Maggie Davenport Irene Russell :he arms were folded. There was an Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Keenoy returned 3. A. Sandham and daughter, 3ohan- 1Vlaxine Homer Catherine Wager na, spent Monday afternoon in Caro. audible gasp from watchful eyes. to their home on Tuesday after More pleas came, more solicitors Beatrice Tedford Aietha Wright spending a week in Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Milligan and cm~ T WERF~ a dull lifeif only one" day i~ went round, man to man° Mary Jane Campbell Mary Lee Doerr Mr. and Mrs. Waiter Miiligan were more than three hundred were vibrant~th\ • i Mrs. A. A. Jones, who has been But Silas sat there, arms :folded, Hotcomb Marjorie Croft spending several weeks in Caro, re- Sunday guests at the Fisher Bros. Christmas~ love. Kindlines)~the crude#t ! Dorothy ~qgid, unmoved. Marian Day Marie Vader turned to her home here Friday. home at Wickware. yTimes are too hard, he was heard synonyrnn for Christmas--flashes as weIl~nnder 'a. The Woman's Study Club will be Betty Hunt Jackie Middieton Mrs. Robt. Messlar and baby of tJ ~ay ia answer to an importunate • midsummer sun, in great cent-'-'ers~busin~ssN.m~ ,Saginaw visited Friday and Saturday entertained by the associate members beggar. "it is a bad year for such a Frances Cranick Jaunita O'Rourke at the home of Mrs. A. A. Jones. of the dub at the home of Mrs. J. B. }miiding." pleasure-places of society, and in the humblest~me~, Gflda Gimmell Lila Chapman Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Campbell of Cootes on Tuesday, Dec. 15. "Not bad go. me, and all those who Wherever we find the desire" ~ to he1 p,~t~. "to-l-'- Emma Lou Rogers Nora Maharg Lapeer spent Friday at the home of Mrs. Clarence Burr will entertain yield to noble impulses," said a neigh- minister, perhaps only to bring a smile to a careworn Shirley Lenzner Eunice Schell the Cass City Music Club Wednesday the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs bor in a voice that all could hear. Elane Hartwick Cnas. Talmadge. evening, Dec. 16. A social evening The next day was Christmas, with face--there we will discover Christmas. Miss Fern Wager of Port Huron is will be spent with a radio program the grocery and drug stores open for expected Saturday to spend a few as the entertainment. a few hours. Silas Vaughan went to ~2~ 1925,W~era Ne~s~l~r Uaio~ weeks at the home of her parents, Local radio fans were given the his ~esk and took out twice as many Our Cift Lines Are C0mplete Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Wager. privilege of hearing Mrs. L. O. ttoxie, bills as ever had been allowed to ac- bad teeth as a cause of the rheuma- The Little Light Bearers of the a former r.esident of Cass City, on cumulate before. Times were hard, and we are prepared to take care of your Christmas and more were obliged charge. tism and permanent heart disease as Presbyterian church will meet at the Tuesday evening. Mrs. Hoxie's vo- to problems for the entire family. We can offer you Fully half of the accounts were se- KEEP][NG WELL {he final resuft. So there are today home of Thelma Ashley on Friday cal solos were broadcasted by WREO, lected from the others, and several nearly as many children of school age selections that you can duplicate only in the city--and afternoon for their December meet- Lansing, on their six o'clock program. words written at the bottoms. That disabled by the three closely associ- ing. A special meeting of the W. C. T. at prices that are far more reasonable. took nearly an ohour. Then he slipped ated conditions of rheumatism, chorea Ward Benkelman and Miss Anna U. has been called for Friday after- AND DISEASE and heart disease as there are by all Come in now while our stock is still complete, and noon, Dec. 11, at the home of Mrs. L. the bills into his pocket, put on his DR. FREDERICK R. (~REE,~ Steinman were united in marriage at ~dlfor Of "]b~i~,A|,TI~'" forms of tuberculosis. with each penny purchase, don't forget your votes. Wheeler. The ladies are requested to hat and coat, and went out, leaving the Evangelical parsonage on Tues- the store to the clerks. Osler said that "the long arm of rheu- day evening, Dec. 8. Rev. C. Smith come immediately after dinner as the matism" was responsible for a large F. It was nearly closing time when he NE of the most important discov- performed the ceremony. afternoon is to be spent sewing for part of the 50,000 deaths each year needy families. came back. This he occupied with O eries Of the last twe~nty-five years Isaac Hall and Mrs. Anna Patter- packing and arranging a number of is the close relation between mouth from heart disease in England. It is son motored to Pontiac Saturday The official program of the Central baskets with fruit and nuts and candy, infections and general disease. For equally responsible for bad hearts in Michigan Normal's homecoming con- ~his country. ,,Wood's nexall Drug where they met Mrs. Hall, who had ~'~Li~ ~m sent out ano~ously. many years, in spite of the rapid ad- spent a week in Detroit and Pontiac tained several fine pictures of the In the evening came a big church vance of mbdern dentistry, most of Leaving out all other results of and in Watk6rville, Ont. The party Central's football squad and officials. community Christmas tree° which took place in this country, a de- dental infections, the damage done to returned to Cass City Sunday. Among them were Earl Brooks, as- Most of the donors of the public cayed tooth was simply a decayed hearts is ahme enough to justify bet- sistant coach, and Alfred West, line- ter care and attenti'on to chihlren's ${0ra building were there, rather proud of tooth° If the cavity was not large Mrs. F. 3. Nash, sr., and Leland teeth. Teeth infections cause rheuma- man, both well known to local citizens themselves and not above circulating enough to destroy the tooth, it was Topping were invited to Bad Axe last and students. tism, chorea and valvular inflamma- Sunday to attend the dedication ser2 bits of criticism. When Silas entered, filled. If only a stump of the tooth Twenty-eight girls were enter- tion in the heart, which even if they vices of the new church house. This there was no uncertain air of chilli- was left, it was crowned. If decay had tained at the home of Phyllis Lenzner ness in the room. A few nodded to gone so far as to make the tooth of no don't kill the chih] will leave it-enough new structure is both beautiful and d~maged to grow up into a defective Saturday afternoon in celebration of ,him, but frigidly. value, it was pulled. Not until the commodious, and the services were and handi('al)ped adult. her twelfth birthday which had oc- Silas appeared to take no notice, and X-ray made it possible to photograph very interesting. ((~ 192,5. Western Newspaper UI~io~o) curred the previous Wednesday. Con- found a seat near the front, where ap- the teeth and the jaws was it known Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Benkelman ex- test games were conducted during parently he sat calm and unrufttecL that many apparently he~dthy t~eth had Serge From Chlna pect to leave next Tuesday on a trip which Barbara Taylor, Johanna Sand- A poorly-dressed man down in front abscessed roots, that many a hand- Two tex.qles owe their name and west for a visit with relatives in Kan- ham and Doris Bliss were prize win- had been looking about expectantly, as some and expensive gold crown cov- origin to France; these are ert,tonne sas where they will spend several ners. The main feature of the sup- though waiting for some one to'speak. ered an infected tooth and that, in ~fiost and cambric, the first of whh'h (.ame weeks. They will spend Christmas 3er was a large birthday cake lighted Suddenly he -ose. cases of dental infection, the poisons with their daughter, Mrs. E. B. Wil- originally from the Normandy town ~ Candies with twelve candies. The guests left "I ain't no speaker," he called, absorbed from a small, insignificant Creton, while the second is still nmn:~ liams, at Almena, Kansas. loudly, "but I got suthin' to say. many pretty gifts. and often unknown center of infection factured at Cambrai. Serge was intro Mrs. H. T. Crandell and daughter, 'Bout the new buildin', I ain't nothin' The Light Bearers of the Presby- were causing "rheumatism," heart dis- duced into this country from China ir~ Mabel, Miss Mabel Brian, and Du- to say, only seems too much money terian church met with Mrs. F. E. ease, kidney disease and many other 16G0. The Latin name for China is gald Krug met H. T. Crandell and for real need. An' t never liked horn- serious conditions. Kelsey on Monday after~OOno Election Serica. from which the moder~ ~.or0 For John Goodatl Sunday evening at Im- blowin'. Now, it's been an awful hard Every well informed person knows of officers was held with the follow- serge has ~zradual!y evolved lay City. Messrs. Crandell and Good- ing result: President, Georgia Warn- time for workin' folks, on 'count o' today what causes typhoid fever and all have been absent over three er; vice president, Margery Sickles. there bein' so much slack. First time tubereuh)sis. Yet there is apparently Center {or Bee Trading months showing sheep at the various secretary, Blanch Stafford; treasurer I couldn't pay up in twenty years. I little more general knowledge regard- big fairs of the country. Margery Boyes. A box was packed couldn't see no Ghristmas for me. ing the relation between local infec- At the Veenendaal. Hoibmd, bee Christmas Little Florence Dailey was brought with Christmas cheer for a Freedman Now, listen: This mornin' a feller tion, rheumatism and heart disease market one recent week, 1,5S(~ swarms home from Detroit Sunday where school in Tennessee. The next meet- carried papers all .round. I got one~ than there was one hundred years ago. of bees chanzed hands. The number of she had undergone an operation on ing of the Light Bearers will be held First, I felt 't was a sheriff thing, like. Many intelligent parents regard the bees was about 30,000.000 and the her limb last week. Her leg is in a on Monday, Jan. 4. manifestation of rheumatism in their value about $1,500. Veenendaa] is re- Our assortment of Candies for Christmas is east and must remain there several children as "growing pains" and fail puted to be the largest bee market in MrS. Edward Pinney was chosen the most complete we have ever had, ranging in weeks. She is getting along nicely en~tir£lx to understand the relation of the world. second vice president and Chas. L. and it is expected that the operation price from $1.00 to $6.00 per box. Each box is guar- Robinson third vice president of the will restore the gmb to its normal anteed or your money back. Parent Teachers' Association at a condition. meeting of that society Monday eve- Hard Candies, Bonbons, Chocolate covered Miss Ethel Kendrick was the guest ning. Rev. Win. M. Holderby of Chi- Of the Famous Hedges Herd of honor Thursday evening when Mrs. cago was the speaker and gave an ad- Creams, and Nuts, in ready packed boxes or selected Mason Wilson entertained the Queen dress on "The American Home" in to your order. :Esther Circle at her home. A mirth- which he stressed the dual responsi- Then I read on the bottom, 'I hope provoking wedding ceremony per- bility of the parents and teacher to this will be the beginning of better See our Christmas Mixer. Special price for formed by four of the girls in cos- the child. A short program preceded things. Merry Christmam Paid in schools and churches. tume led the evening,s fun. Follow- the address. Miss Bishop led the full. Silas Vaughan.' Mine was thir- ing the social hour, the hostess served community singing and gave a piano- ty dollars. Si must 'a' given away Fresh :roasted peanuts--extra large jumbos. ~elicious refreshments to the comps- logue. Johanna Sandham gave a more'n a thousand." my of thirty. The presentation of the reading and Evelyn Robinson a cornet He sat down. Silas had lost all his We roast every day. gifts of kitchen utensils was made in solo. All numbers met the hearty composure. He tried to slip away a unique manner in the form of a appreciation of the audience. Light But hands and apologies were appea~ "kitchen maid." refreshments were served at the close ing from all sides• He was pushed to The Evangelical League ,of Chris- of the meeting. The January meeting the platform and told to make a tian Endeavor elected the following will be gins' night, the February speech. He would have made a mess officers Tuesday evening at the home gathering boys' night and the March of it, but all were cheering so wildly Special on Box of Mr. and Mrs. Burr A. EIliott: session parents' night. Mrs. Knapp, no one could hear. So it did not mat- President, Mrs. S. A. Striffier; vice president of the society, named the ter. :president, Lawrence Buehrly; record- following program committees: For Lf~ 19~,6. Wes~.er'fl New~papor Union.) Candy ing secretary, C. & Strifller; corres- Girls' night--lady teachers of high ponding secretary, Elsie Buehrly; school. Boys' night-men teachers. missionary secretary, Mrs. Edward Parents' night--H. F. Lenzner, John Two Weeks 'Till 5-pound box at Buehrly; treasurer, Andrew Schweg- Marshall, Mrs, I. W. Cargo, Mrs. Wil- Christmas let; pianist, Inn Otis; chorister, Alma son Spaven. \ Mark• The meeting was largely at- Spirit is tended and a pot luck lunch was served. CHURCH CALENDAR. C~uught and The committees in charge of the Christmas programs of the various Methodist Episcopal Church~Ira kept Sunday schools are busy making ar- W. Cargo, pastor. Sunday, Dec. 13~ When G~fts rangements and holding practices. Class meeting 10:00; morning wor- 10:30; Sunday school 12:00; Ep- The Methodist church will hold its ship Are Sealed Full line of Fruits, Vegetables and Nufs annual White Gift Christmas pro- worth League 6:30; evening service for Christmas. gram on Sunday evening, Dec. 20. 7:30. Everyone is cordially invited to Christmas tree exercises will be held attend these services of the church. with later, the date still to be decided. I •Monday evening the Presbyterian Nazarene---Services at the Naza- Tuber- { Sunday school has arranged to hold rene hall next SUnday as follows: culosls it~ program, and the Evangelical Sunday school at 2:00 o'clock. A " FORT i Sunday school exerciseswill be on Preaching service at 3:00 o'clock.~ Christmas CASS CITY Tuesday evening. The Baotist Sun- Come to services on the Sabbath, day school committee has not decided and join with us in worshiio of our Sea s Sale of the famous Hedges herd was the feature of the British Friesiay upon the evening for its entertain- Saviour, on the day set aside for His cattle sale held recently at St. Albans. The above calf sok~. for 40 pound& ment. worship. A glad welcome to all.

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Cass City, Michigan, Dec. 11, 1925. CASS CIT~/ CHRONICLE I Iflril RED CROSS DRIVE t Vampires l'Lave ~v~ae lCang~ Easy One tot u~o,ner " of Boyvillle, and he had a riglit to a dark day. When a new boy, wl~o Listening to the conversation ~qlIllIiIllIllllllllIllllIIlllIIIIlllllIIIIIIIIIII_,~ ENDS DECEMBER 21. Vampire bats have a ~ great range -__!,~...... -.~.-.~.-...-.-~...... ~,~: look straight ahead of him, as if he didn't belong to the school, came up Heads Grm ge : and are found from ]Mexico almost growmups, as children often do, Du~. did not hear the question, and say: at recess to play, Piggy shuffled over Concluded from first page 1 to the end of South America. says can, five years old. learned there we~ "Lookie here, Mealy, I .wish you to liim and asked gruffly: ...... Ti .... i :'~ Tin 1 Nature Magazine. They are confin(d such things as stepmothers. He roll,~$} ----: ITH : KING OF !---- would go and tell Abe I want him to "What's your name?" tslsnop,...... lwlss ~. , ...... naale, lw ss ±vi. "t, to the tropical~ zone ~for the mosl I the idea around in an active and cage: uate, lvnss n. wnl~e, lvirs. ~rl~z, ~virs. ~ "~ " I !)rain for nearly an hour' without get- = o_e . hurry up, for I want to see him." "Puddin' 'n' tame, ast me agin an' ...... , part and do not go very high m the Fll tell you the same," said the new wauace, ~)~rs. may, ±v~rs. ~erguson, ' . . ": ling anywhere; then sought lnforma. = BOWlLLE "Abe" was Piggy's nearest friend. Miss Elenbaas, Miss DeYoung, Willis mountains. In some places it is al- =. ¢= His other name was Carpenter. Piggy boy, and then there was a fight. It most impossible to keep horses or I ti°n from the encyclopedia oftene~ o= only wisimd to be rid of the freckle- d~dn't soothe Piggy's ~feelings one:bit Campbell, Paul Smarks, Harry Duke,, mules or to raise chickens because oonsulted by little boys. "Mother." ll~ H. W. Holmes. ~I WILLIAM ALLEN WHITIq ~ faced boy. But the freckle-faced boy that he whipped the new boy, for Mrs: g. B. Cootes, local chairman, ! of the persistent attacks of this crea. ~sked, "how does a stepmother step~' the new boy was smaller than Piggy. ~_~...... ~...... ~ _= was not used t ° royalty and its ways,- t reports the following' memberships in tare. "Capper's Weekly. • so lm pushed his inquiry. And he dared not turn his flushed face ~IlIllllllllllllLlllllllIllllllllllllIllllllllllllr. i this community: R. N. McCullough, " : ~' Col~yright,1922, by the Ma~illan Co. "Say, Piggy, have you got your red ]: toward's his Heart's Desire. It was ball-pants in that bundle?" I almost four o'clock when Piggy Pen- H. F. Lenzner, Mrs. H. F. Lenzner, ~¢.~.~:..:~:~.:~*~:~°:~@.:..:.~:`.:~u~.~.~.~:..:~:°@.:.~:.~:`~:.*~.~@~¢~m~u~:~ BC~y~ wha ~,,o bor~ in .'~ small . Tt~ere ~as no reoiy. 'i'l]eyhad gone Rmg~un ~uik~d Cu t]:~ m~x~C/~ d~k .... :"_ ...... :_2 '" ....L 7 _ 22...... ,~o "- to get aim to work out a problem, mee, A. J. Knapp, Mrs. A. J. Knapp, ¢~ In the big city it may be dif- [ a~bl0ck when the freckle-faced boy and as he passed the desk of Heart's Sam Bigelow, Fred Bigelow, Robt. J. O ferent; there are doubtless good little could stand it no longer and said: Desire he dropped a note in her lap. Warner, Angus McPhail, J. A. Hurley, ~: boys who disdain bad little boys, and "Say, Piggy, you needn't b~ so smart It read : P. S. Rice, A. Fort, Fred Maters, M. '~'~o:. poor little boys who are never to be about your old bundle; now honest, Schonmuller, F. L. Kinde, John Cath- ¢o "Are you mad?" motieed under any circumstances. But Piggy, what have you got in that bun- cart, Mrs. julia Gay, J. L. H[tchcock, ~: But he dared not look for the an- In a small town, every boy, good or dle?" C. Wallace, M. B. Auten, Ernest °:* swer, as they marched out that night, @ b~d, rich or poor, stands among boys "Aw--soft soap, take a bite~good Croft, D. Benkelman, Joanna McRae, °:~ $ • . " " ~" o" so he contented himself with puhch- on his own merits. The son of the fer yer appetite, stud the km~, as he Mrs. Elizabeth E. Pinney, Roy Brick- °:° .@ ing the boy ahead of him with a pin. : / banker who owns a turning-pole in faced about and drew up ins left cheek er, Mrs. Chas. Wilsey, Miss Bertha ~: $ and stepping on Ms heels, when they @ the back yard, does homage to the and lower eye-lid pugnaciously. The Zemke, Grover Burke, Mrs. J. A. °:° were in the back part of the room. , ¢o @ bilker's boy who can sit on the bar freckle-faced boy saw he would have Benkelman, Mrs. A. A. Ricker, Mrs. ¢° @ where the teacher would not see him. @ and drop and catch by his legs; while to fight if he stayed, so he turned to Leonard Buehrly, John Willy, C. W. :~ The Ktng of Boyvil]e walked home the good little boy.who [s kept in wide go, and said, as though nothing hqd Holler, Stanley Striffler, Mrs. M. D. *:° thal evening. The courtiers saw plain- collars and cuffs by a mistaken mother, happened, "Where do you suppose old Louis J. Tuber ot L:olumlms, O., Hartt, Mrs. W. J. Schwegter, Earl ly that his majesty was troubled. °:o°**° @ gazes through the white paling of his Abe As, anyhow?" x%'as re-elected [na.~ter of the Na.. Holler, Mrs. A. Kinnaird, Leland Top, ¢° After this feat tI~e king was quiet. $ father's fence at the troupe headed J~ st before school was called Piggy ¢iona] Grange for a period of tw£ ping, Dr. P. A. Schenck, Mrs. F. A..l~ J @ dusk, when the e~:e~dng chores ~'ears at the annual convention he~d 4° for the swimming hole, and pays all Penni] gton was playing "scrub" with At Bliss, Mrs. H. Boyes, "L" Club, Mrs. :i: @ were done, Piggy Pennington walked ~r~ Sac:amento, Calif. @ the reverence which his dwarfed na- all i]is might, and a little girl--his J. B. Cootes, Dr. McCoy, Dr. S. B. ¢o past the home of his Heart's 0 ture can muster to the sign of the two Heart's Desire-was taking out of her De.~ire Young, Mrs. S. B. Young, L. I. Wood, °:" and howled out a doleful ballad which .lo fingers. In the social order of boys desk a wreath of roses, tied to a shaky Louis Krahling, Mrs. C: O. Lenzner, °:° who live in c)umry( t- towns, a boy is wire frame. There was a crowd of began : @ NOVESTA. Mrs. Sarah McWebb, H. Wager. :!: @ measured by what he can do, and not gh'ts around her admiring it, and spec- "You ask what makes this darkey ¢° @ by what his father is. knd so, Win- ulating about the possible author of wee-cop. @ IV~r. and Mrs. Win. E. Holcomb are NOTES, ~" 'field Hancock Pennington, whose boy the gift; but to these she did not show Why he like others am not gay." HOSPITAL 0 nicely settled in the Sheriff Holcomb ¢o name was ~,~,~)~o'~y Pennington, was the the patent meal:clue card, on which But a man on the sidewalk passing. $ house. Frank Stadlter is moving to Mrs. Florence Wanner of Bad Axe :!: @ King of Boyville. For Piggy could was scrawled, over the druggist's ad- said: "Well, son, that's pretty good, @ entered the hospital on Wednesday °:" walk on his hands, curling one foot vertisement : but wouldn't you just as lief sing as the Holcomb farm. °:o @ and undel~vent an operation on °:o @ gracefully over his back, and pointing "Yours truly, W. H. P." to make that noise?" So the king Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Frost re- @ Thursday. the other straight in the air; he could When the last bell rang, Piggy Pen- went to bed with a heavy heart. ceived word on Sunday that an aunt @ Mrs. Win. McBurney of Lapeer was O @ hang by his heels on a flying trapeze; nington was the last boy in, and he lie took that heart to school with of Mr. Frost at Armada had passed brought to the hospital on Thursday °:~ he could chin a pole so many times did not look toward the desk where he him the next morning, and dragged it away. Mr. and Mrs. Frost went to @ and underwent a serious operation on ¢o THE LOVELY that no one could count the number; had put the flowers, until after the over the school ground, playing crack Armada on Monday to attend tl~e Friday. :i: he could turn a somersault in the air singing. the whip and "stink-base." But when funeral which was held at Armada on Mrs. Anne Volk of 0wendale en- °:° from the level ground, both backwards Then he stole a sidewise glance that he saw Heart's Desire wearing in her Tuesday morning. GIFT 0 tered the hospital on Monday, and °:°°~ @ and foFwards, he could "tread" water way, and his Heart's Desire was deep hair one of the white roses from his Win. Churchill is tussling with was operated upon on Wednesday. ¢* @ and "lay" his hair; he could hit any in her geography. It was an age be mother's garden--the Pennington's neuritis. He takes osteopathic treat- For those who will choose @ Edith Kitchin was operated upon o:o @ marble in any ring from "taws" and fore she filed past him with the "B" had the only white roses in the little meats twice a week. -writing papers for gifts, we call @ ~knucks down,"~and better than all, Wednesday morning for removal of ~: class in geography, and took a seat town--he knew it was from the wreath Mr. and Mrs. John Holcomb of Cuss attention to our wide selection @ he could cut his initials in the ice on tonsils. .:, @ directly in front of him, where he which he had given her, and so light City and Mr. and Mrs. Sheriff Hol- @ skates, and whirl around and around Edward Lerczenski of Deford is still :i: of high quality papers. We have could look at her all the time, unob- was his boyish heart that it was with comb and family and John Wooley so many times that he looked like an a patient at the hospital, o:~ many different styles and colors sem-ed bY her. Once she squirmed in an effort that he kept it out of his visited at the Holcomb home on Sun- animated shadow, when he would dart her place and looked toward him, but throat. There were smiles and smiles $ including Highland Linen, Ham: $ day. @ away up the stream, his red "com- Piggy Pennington was head over heels that day. During the singing they Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Henderson, Substitute i~ mermilf Bond, White and Wyc- @ fort" flapping behind him like a laugh In the "Iser rolling rapidly." When began, and every time she came past daughter Thelma, and Miss Edna Sailor (proposing)--I know I ain't o~ koff's Linen and 3/Iontag's fine $ of defiance. In the story books such their eyes did at last meet, .just as him from a class, and every time he @ Horner were Sunday visitors at the exactly 'and~xm]e, but I'm tatooed all @ linen. Prices range from 25c to a boy would be the son of a widowed "?iggy, leading the marching around could pry his eyes behind her ge0g- @ mother, and turn out very good or home of Mr, and Mrs. Charles Cun- over, and think of the money you'd ~ @ $4.00. 0 very bad, but Piggy was not a story ningham. save not going to the pictm'es!--Lon- o*-~:~: @ dnn Onin~,,n A splendid companion gift would be a SHEAFFER @ book boy, and his father kept a gro- Edgar Pelton is in poor health this @ cery store, from which Piggy used to winter. -f LIFE TIME PEN or PENCIL, A life time guarantee with @ On Being a Bully :~ @ steal so many dates that the boys said Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pratt moved into each Life Time Pen. Let us show you the line. @ hls father must have cut up the alma- their new home on ~Saturday. A brave nmn is sometimes desper- @ .nor to supply him. As he never gave ado; but u bull:y is ahvays a~coward.-- ~ Dan Waxell received a telegram on @ the goodies to the other boys, but ' n lihurton a.° @ Monc[ay stating that his only sister @ kept them for his own use, his name @ of "Piggy" was his by all the rights had died in New York City. The LOST on Wednesday, Dee. 9, a pair Burke's Drug Store @ news reached him too late for him to of Boyville. of glasses with goId bows.~ Please ~ There was one thing ,Piggy Penning- attend ~he funeral. return to this office. Mrs. Solomon :i: ton could not do, and it was the one of The farm house of Bunker Bros., Striffier. 12-11-1p all things which he most wished he ~ mile north of Novesta Corners, could do; he could not under any cir- burned to the ground on Wednesday cumstances say three consecutive and afternoon. Particulars are not known eoherent words to any girl under fif- as yet but we understand very little of the contents were saved. teen and over nine. Even after d'" ' "%p school Piggy could not join tile select Friends and neighbors of Mr. and t, Y" ""' J %,** ~"~ coterie of boys who followed the girls Mrs. Fred Pratt gave them a sur- down through town to the postoffice. prise and miscellaneous shower on :tte could not tease the girls about ab- Tuesday evening in their new home. ,sent boys at such times and make up All enjoyed the pot luck supper and rhymes like : general good time. "First the cat and then her tail; .Timmy Sears and Maggie I-late," ~ce ~oxe~ Bare and then shout them out for the crowd Surveys by the government for the to hear. Instead of joining thi,~ court- possible sale of ice-making equipmen! Iy troupe Piggy Pennington went off abroad revealed that ice wagons and with the boys who really didn't care ice boxes are comparatively unknown for such things, and fought, or vlayed in England Some ice is retailed by °'tracks up," or wrestled his way leis- fishmongers. urely home in time to get in his "night "He Walked on His Hands in Front of the Crowd for Nearly Ha;? a Block. '~ wood." But his heart was not in these J pastimes; it was with a red shawl of the room, was at the door to go out raphy, or her grammar, a flood of glad- for recess, the thrill amounted to a Advertise it in the Chronicle° a peculiar shade, that was wending its ness swept over his soul. That night way to the post office and back to a shock that sent him whirling in a pin Piggy Pennington followed the girls wi]eel of handsprings toward the ball home in one of the few two-story from the schoolhouse to the post office, houses in the little town. Time and ground, shouting "scrub---first bat, and in a burst of enthusiasm he ~ h y Worry in Ill Health again had Piggy tried to make some first bat, first bat," from sheer, bub- walke4l on his hands in front of the sign to let his f~elings be known, but bling joy. Pfggy made four tallies that crowd, for nearly a block. When his When You Get Ser- every time he had failed. Lying in recess, and the other boys couldn't Heart's Desire said: ~ watt for her at corners, and suddenly have put him out, if they had used a "Ah, ain't you afraid you'll hurt vice Like This. breaking upon her with a glory of hand grenade or a fire extinguisher. yourself, doing that?" Piggy pretended backward and forward somersaults He received four distinct shots that not to hear her, and said to the boys: day from the eyes of his Heart's Desire, To improve the chemical process in did not convey the state of his heart. "Aw, that aiu't nothin'; come down and the last one sent him home on the :he body for better health, take San So only one heartbeat with but to my barn, an' I'll do somepin that'll Yak Pills. Theystrengthen the blood run, tripping up every primary urchin, 'one single thought, and the oth- make yet" head swinl." md body fluids, antiseptic to the / Give Jewelry whom he found tagging along by the er took motto candy and valen- lie was too exuberant to contain ;tomach, intestines and bowels to a r tines and red apples and picture way, and whooping at the top of his himself, and when he left the girls :egree nearly odorless. They prevent cards and other tokens of esteem from voice. he started to run after a stray chicken, !ecomposition of animal and vegeta- ble matter in the bowels that causes other boys, and beat on with any num- The next morning, Piggy Pennington that happened along, and ran till he bloat and self:poisoning and are astonished his friends by bringing a was out of breath. He did not mean ber of thoughts, entirely immaterial ~ears in advance of any other product to the uses of this narrative. But big armful of red and yellow and pink to rnn in the direction his Heart's De- This Christmas and white roses to school. 'or the kidneys, high blood pressure, Piggy Pennington did not take to the sire had taken, but he turned a cor- liabetes and rheumatism. Take to re- He had never done this before, and enchantment of corn silk cigarettes ner, and came up with her suddenly. !uce the flabby, wrinkled bowels and ¢ and~attan and grapevine c~gars; he when he had run the gauntl& of the Her eyes beamed upon him, and he •educe the waistline. San Yak Pills big boys, who were not afraid to steal •emove the possibilities to the devel- .I tried to sing, and wailed dismal bal- could not run away, as he wished. Jewelry lasts. That;s one of the good reasons for h~ds about the "Gypsy's Warning," them from him, he' made straight for She made room for him on the side- ,pment of appendicitis. and "The Child In the Grave With Its his schoolroom, and stood holding them walk, and he could do nothing but Dr. Taylor, 2011 Glendale avenue, selecting it for gift purposes. Another is the ease with Mother," and "She's a Daisy, She's a iD his hands while the girls gathered walk beside her. For a block they )el}oil, says: "I was paralyzed four which a successful choice may be arrived at. Especially at Darling, She's a Dumpling, She's a about him teasing for the beauties. It were so embarrassed that neither ~ears. Three years ago I took San Lamb," whenever he was tn hearing was nearly time for the last bell to spoke. krak. Two or three months of it his store, where a complete display of attractive values dlstance of his heart's desire, in the ring, and Piggy knew that his Heart's :ured me. I know because I improved It was Piggy who broke the silence. ~t once and did nothing otherwise. I ~twaits your visit. °~ hope of conveying to her some hint Desire would be in the room by the His words came from his heart. He time he got there, lie was not ,mis- rove gotten more out of life in the of the state of his affections; but i~ had not yet learned to speak other: taken. But Heart's Desire did not ast year than in any previous years was useles.~ Even when he tried to wise. md I:am 78 years of age." clamor with the other girls for one of whistle plaintively as he passed her "Where's your rose?" he asked, not house in the gloaming, his notes the roses. Piggy stood off their plead- Dr. L. B. Bailey, of McBride, Mich., A, H' HIGGINS , / seeing it. says of San Yak: will do all you brought forth no responsive echo. Ings as long as he could with "Now," "It "Why naw, of course I won't," "Now. "What rose?" sald the girl, aa claim, It is a ifine medicine for the Gifts that last. One morning in the late spring, he blood and has cured rheumatism of what I want to give you one for," and though she had never in her short ~pent half ~n hour before breakfast long standing. When one treats the "Go away from here I tell you," and life heard of such an absurd thfng among his mother's roses, which were as .a rose. kidneys with San Yak he is renewing :still Heart's Desire did not ask for the whole body: One can always de- ~ust in first bloom. He had taken out "Oh, you know," returned the boy, her flowers. There were but a few pend on San Yak." (Signed) there all the wire from an old broom, stepping irregularly, to make the tips and all his kite string.. His mother moments left before school would be L. T. BAILEY, M. D. called to order, and in desperation of his toes come on the cracks in the had to call three times before he sidewalk. There was another pause, Mrs. W. E. Brandon, of Robison, would leave his work. The youngster Piggy gave one rose away: It was not during which Piggy picked up a peb- Ind., writes: "I took San Yak for was the first to leave the table, and by a very pretty rose, but he hoped she high blood pressure and it worked would see that the others were to be ble and threw it at a bird in a tree, like a charm. I am not ~aow troubled eight o'clock he was at his task again. His heart was sinking rapidly: Before the first school bell had rung, given away, and ask for one. But she any more." ...... "Oh, that rose?" s,Md his Heart's P~ggy Pennington was bound for the ~his Heart's Desire--stood near a Dr. Geo, W. Snyder of Chicago, Desire, turning full'upon him with school house with a strange looking window, talking to the freckle-faced said this: "To people advanced in the enchantment of her childish eyes. parcel under his arm. He tried to put boy. Then Piggy gave away one rose cears, San Yak lends the thrill that "Why, here it is in my grammar. I'm his coat over it, but it stuck out and after another. As the last bell began comes from making human life last- r:~k ng it to keep with the others. the newspaper that was wrapped to ring he gave them to the b'oys, as ingly better. This pill is~ so highly an- Why?" around lt, bulged into so many cor- the girls were all supplied. And still tiseptic to the pancreas that appen- dicitis would be much out of reason." ners, that it looked like a home-tied she came not. There w~/s one rose left, "Oh, nuthin' much," repliod the boe. ,the most beautiful of all. She went to "I bet you can't do t!~is," he added, S. F. Waring, of Ohio Oil Co., Mar- bundle of laundry. \ "What yo'~ got?" asked the freckle- her desk, and as the teacher came in, as he glowed up into her eyes h'om an shall, Ill., says "San Yak is a wonder- t'ul medicine for stomach and bowels." faced boy, who was learning at Piggy's hell in hand, Piggy surprised himself, impulsive handspring. Get San Yak in liquid or pill form ~feet how to do the "muscle grind" on ! the teacher, and tbc ~,;ch<. ~1 bv laying, And thus the King of Boyville firs~ ® the beau!;]ftll flow(r, w]rl:otn :~ w,erd .~eI h]s lighL little foot upon the sol; at Burke's Drug Store, Cuss City.~ ~he turmng-pole. " Advertisement. / , . ~ \ Eat Piggy Pennington was the Kin.g I :,n tile keacher's desk. 'Flat ¢' v "w,t/ of an unknown country. PAG~ SIX. C~ CITY CHRONICLE Caas City, Michigan, Dec. 11, 1925. ELKLAND. Happenings of a century in, to be, held in every village last Saturday. From the report of [ ' No S~perstition There and city of the United States on the Secretary Ale, it was shown that] Railroad crossing accidents continu~ Glenn Profit came home from Pon- Quarter Century Ago last night of this year. there is $671.97 in the treasury. ] to be evidence that the Ameyican peo- tiac Tuesday evening to stay until The Tuscola, Huron & Sanilac Fair pie are not superstitious and do net after the holidays. Taken from the Tri-County Association met at the council rooms Advertise it in the Chronicle. believe in signs.--Pittsburgh Gazette Mrs. Wm. Crandell' is expected to Chronicle, December 14, 1900. • Tiines. be able to leave the Port Huron hos- pital today, where she recently under- Robert G. Orr passed away on went an operation. Tuesday morning after a lingering illness of more than a year. He wa,, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Karr and { born September 12, 1844, in Count5 family and Mr. and Mrs. Dan De- iit Down, Ireland, coming to the Unite( long and family were entertained at States in 1860. After spending thre~ | the Chas. Allen home on Sunday. years in Pennsylvania and one iI Word has been received that Mrs. ,Ohio, he came to Michigan, settlin~ C. %V. ii~xde~: vf Dvt~ult i~ h~ vv~:~ in Eikiand townshlp. He is survive( poor health. Miss Ethel Reader ex- I by his wife and five children. pects to return to Detroit this week] octal rlcK to care for her. The amount to be raised this yem by taxation in Elkland township i~ Dorothy Profit and Mrs. J. E.t $12,907.61, of which $5,762.28 is th( Crawford attended the Queen Esther 1 school tax. rally held in Cuss City on Tuesday' Ice Cream for evening. The ladies of the G. A. R. are at. ranging for an oyster supper to b~ M. Crawford returned home Friday given at their hall on Wednesday eve. from Standish, where he spent the ning, Dec. 19. The proceeds are to b( past week. used in payment of the G. A. R. hall Christmas John Moore called on friends in It is hoped that a large crowd ma? ehis vicinity Tuesday afternoon. Mr. attend. Twenty-five cents will pg? Moore expects to leave Dee. 15 en- the bill. route to California, where he will ° .Louis Watson of Argyle met with~ spend the winter with his daughter painful accident at Rose City last Any design you want. Place your order with and sister, Mrs. ~lenn Hoffman and Saturday. A tree fell on him, dis- Mrs. L. J. Carroll. We all join in figuring his face quite badly. us new week. wishing him a safe journey and a Win. McCallum of Greenleaf died pleasant vacation. e Tuesday, Dec. ii, at the age of 82 Ella Helwig and Mrs. J. E. Craw- years. He has been a resident of ford spent Friday afternoon in Bad Greenleaf for the past 18 years. Four Don'~ forge~ to ask for our gsk{mo Pie. Axe. sons and three daughters are left. The quarantine for scarlet fever has Pinney & Matzen have received a Assorted flavors---cherry, chocolate, and vanilla---in been lifted from the home of Mrs. A. second consignment of Belgian hares Knight. from W. W. Wood of Edwinstoe, Mrs. Claire Profit expects to assist England. They are Crystal Palace stock all the time. Only 5c. at the I. Schonmuller store during the winners and are considered the finest Christmas holidays, i specimens on American soil. Charles Herr of Cass City and Re~ The young people's class of the ba Meredith of Frieburgers were mar- A. FORT, Cass City Bethel church was entertained at the ried this -week. home Miss Mar~erite Carpenter of The American National Red Cross on Dec. 2. 'is arranging for watch meetings to Frank Streeter had the honor of see the old century out" and the new returning" home from the north last week with a deer. NNINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNINNNNNtNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN .N Regrets° N H ~ ~g;~t~Np~trbg g, ught t~t ~itvWailt~ to~rt, I"4 i/ "I am sorry I married you," sobbed the bride. "You ought to be," he replied, N "you cheated some other girl out of a gg mighty fine husband."--Bison. N ~g Order for Publication.--Sale or Mortgage of Real Estate.--State of N Michigan, The Probate Court for the County of Tuscola. At a session of said Court, held at ¢ i 111 N the Probate Office in the Village of Caro in said County, on the 3rd day of N 'i N December A. D. 1925. N N ~ Present: Hon. Guy G. Hill, Judge g Early Winter Clearance Sale now on. Will gg of Probate. N elgner how to read and write, and in t In the Matter of the Estate of N Ng, Christmas Lesson so doing, help drive illiteracy from I Mary Ann Murphy. g our land. A won .... William H. Murphy and David N continue until January 1 N for Miss Belinda derful gift to your [li>~i Murphy having filed in said court g N self and to the [[~ their petition, praying for license to o n e taught~'A s ~ ~ ' sell the interest of said estate in cer- N tain described, A sale just at the time when you need this class of merchandise at prices Promise [o Teach Maid to ye have done it "/~lIll/I real estate therein g ~g It Is Ordered, That the 8th day of Read and Write, Mo~t unto the least of January A. D. 1926, at ten o'clock in N these, ye have the forenoon, at said probate office, whkh cannot be duplicated elsewhere. Compare my prices, as I promise to ~g Welcome Gi{L done it unto Me.' be and is hereby appointed for hear- Merry Christmas ing said petition, and that all persons N to all2' fP: interested in said estate appear be- meet all competition. gg By EMILY BURKS ADAMS Amy looked at fore said court, at said time and place, to show cause why a license to N N ; ~Im~H~ISTMAS was f~ the others, her ~g face beaming. sell the interest of said estate in said g real estate should not be granted; Underwear for Every- ~~~~ where. T,he wholq "Oh, mother, our it is Further Ordered, That public N Rubber and Woolen N t~~~ household w e r e slogan for Educao notice thereof be given by publication N ~g ',~ happy, save per- donal week was: of a copy of this order, for three suc- Footwear body ~-- haps one--Belinda, 'Each one teach cessive weeks previous to said day of N FreeFree N ~~'~qfl~.~_ the German maid, one; ballots, not hearing, i.n the Cass City Chronicle a g We carry only the best and meet Men's very Heavy Fleeced $'~,~J.~d¢ N a~av,ny ~'qi~.~ who had for six bullets.'" newspaper printed and circulated in all competition upon that basis. If Unionsuits said county. N Every Youngster N months lived with "A fine slogan, ! GUY G. HILL, g not satisfied, read the following: Men's Medium Ribbed ,the Thoburns, a well-to-do family. Amy, if put into Judge of Probate. Wants It Unionsuits ...... 98e "Sure, 3[rs. Toburn, I've done all I practice," remarked Mrs. Thoburn. A true copy. N BALL BAND RUBBER AND N thought is right to do already, and Christmas morning all gathered Eva M. Hunter, g I will give away on Dec. 24, at 4:00 Men's 50 per cent wool $~ 98 ~g I'm pleased dot you like it." woo , around the tree to open their pack- Registrar of Probate. p. m. to the person holding the lucky Unionsuits ...... ® @ "Yes, Belinda, and the house never ages. Belinda stood in the back- 12-11-3 looked prettier. You're quite an ar- number a child's automobile, an arti- N ground, beaming at the happiness of Arctics ...... *2 79 Boys' very heavy Fleeced tist as well as a cook. I'm glad you the others, for next to our own hap- N cle valued at $20.00, and other pri- U nionsuits ...... 79e N gave up going to visit your sister, for piness is watching that of others. Box g zes. N the good dinner tomol~ow depends after box was handed to Belinda, but Ladies' 4-snap $3 69 Men's heavy Fleeced Shirts 79 upon you. We shall try to make it up Arctics ...... ® the most beautiful of all was saved N First prize~Child's Auto. and Drawers, each ...... ____ e to you, Belinda, in some way." ~ntiI the last and presented by Amy. g Second prize--S5.00 in gold. N "Oh, do you tlnk so, Mrs. Toburn ; "Here, Belinda, a lot of love with this N Third prize--By-lo Baby. Ladies' Medium Fleeced Short 7.~ N I am sure pleased to know dot 7I am ~ax; it contains paper, pencils, and g Boots ...... *4.79 SleeVe Unionsuits ...... ,,... ~., ob service to you, and y6u are se too0 book and my promise to you that Tickets will be given during the % N to me already," ['11 teach you to read and write be- N Misses' 4-buckle $ month of December only. One ticket Ladies" very heavy '1 39 N ~aid Belinda, with !ore another Christmas." g Arctics ...... 2.98 with each $1.00 purchase. vealastic Unionsuits ...... N a sigh, as she re- "Oh, thank you, Miss Amy; dis is N Prizes on display in east window. @ tired to her room. 70t I most ranted already. Gott bless g Men's 4-buckle All Rubber $3 _qR Ladies' Medium Fleeced The Thoburns, [OU !" edArc,ic ..... :: ...... Tailored Top Uni0nsuits .... 79 C old and young, ((~),1925, Western Newspaper Union.) N HOOD'S RUBBERS AND ARCTICS N Were radio enthu- g Men's 4-buckle All Rubber $~ ~ Misses' very heavy '1 19 Siasts,-and were The Willing Worker Black Arctics ...... e.D®e$iJ Vealastic Unionsuits ...... being entertained N Ladies' 4-buckle $2 69 N Now father makes a dozeful pause, Arctics ...... Misses' Vest and pants, /~ i t h Christmas A tired and slightly blue man g N Me.'~ Storm or Low Shoesl 27 very heavy, each ...... ~J~O C ~reetings and A merry myth is Santa Claus, N Rubbers ...... ® Misses' 4-buckle ". $~.~O~OO ~g earols. But father's only human. g Arctics ...... "Mother, did N Men's 4-buckle Cloth $~ ~ CHILDREN'S & MISSES' COATS, N ~ou notice that Arctics ...... ~]D® Misses' Storm 87 c Belinda s e e m e d Italy and Florida Rubbers ...... BOYS' AND MEN'S MACKINAWS, s a d -- something The climate of the northern part ot Men's Heavy Dull Sandal '1 83 ALL PRICED AT CLOSE-OUT PRI- N unusual for her? Italy resembles that of Florida. The White Sole ...... ® Youths' Storm CES--SEE THEM. I wonder if we mean annual temperature wwies from Rubbers ...... 87C N have gotten her 61 degrees Fahrenheit to 64 degrees N Men's Mishawaka Knit $~ ~ N enough for Christ- Fahrenheit. The mean summer ten]- g Gaiters ...... :...... O.IkJg) Boys' Storm COMPLETE AND UP-TO-DATE NI mas ?--let's see-- perature does not exceed 80 degrees Rubbers ...... 93e here's her beads, handkerchief, hose. Fahrenheit. The~rainfatl occurs most- Boys' Mishawaka Knit LINE OF CHRISTMAS GOODS. e will feel all right tomorrow. She ly in the fall and winter montt~s~ Gaiters Dolls, games, stationery, blocks, N; Zeally doesn't mind missing the visit *2.69 Rubbers ...... [with ~her sister, does she? She'd rath- Men's Rubbers for sleds, kiddie cars, mechanical toys, ,or be doing all this for us, for serv- HEALTH FOR MILLIONS *2 83 N Sox ...~...... ® Ladies' Storm or, Low Shoe 79 doll cabs, doll beds, fancy embroidery ~lng others is what° makes one happy, N Rubbers ...... ____ C work, handkerchiefs, scarfs, fancy isn't it, mother?" g Roys' Rubbers for To teach 110,000,000 people the val- ribbons, books, fancy china, nuts, N "Oh, yes, I suppose so, if the serv- ~e of health before they lose ito~AS ...... Men's 4-buckle Cloth *2 98 N *2.59 Arctics ...... N ice isn't too hard." he tremendous task set for them g candy. "Mother, what do you mean by serv. selves by the Na- N Jce being too.hard? I think we should Sox ...... [® JO Any and all Rubber Footwear not I cater to church and school orders tional, State, and N mentioned in the above will be priced enjoy doing things for others. ! can Local Tuberculosis g in nuts and candy. Price on above accordingly. never forget the quotation: 'To live Associations. For Men's Black Rubber *3 89 will be made on quantity orders. ~g in the hearts of others is not to dieI' nearly t w e n t y N Boots ...... I think we should enjoy doing things g The above prices on Rubber and N years they have Remember these are all Mishawaka Woolen Footwear will conunue until A large assortment of fancy rib- for others and not think it hard. been engaged in N •What--" N Ball Band Rubbers, guaranteed at the Jan. 1, 1926. Save this advertise- bons, just the article f6r your Xmas this gigantic edu- g N "Well," interrupted Mrs. Thoburn, cational campaign above price. ment. It means money to you. gifts, while it lasts, ,per yard ...... 10c ~g "you seem to think service hard, as The money for this N ~you wouldn't write those letters for ~ork has been suppl:ed through "he g iBelinda last evening, and one was a .ale of Tuberculosis Christmas seal~. N N :Christmas letter to her sister. That, The sale this year is the eighteentl- g orobably was the cause of her sigh." gnnual sale. N Amy was listening in and heard N DAILEY CASH BARGAIN STORE N :over the radio: "Let every true Amer- BUY TUBERCULOSIS g 4can, as a gift to himself, give the CHRISTMAS SEALS ~romise tlla~ he ,,viii teach one for- BURKE'S DRUG ST()RE- N ~NNNNNNNNggN~NNNNNNN~NN N~NNNNINNNNNggN~gNNNNNNNNINNNNNNN~ CA~S CITY ~H,~:~.,I~ ~, Mid~i~ ~ ~, ~5. , -~. .... ,7-~ ...... I Tax on Winnows Must Bear ~wn ~urae~s Was Originally Armorica of old Mrs. Bannester when the boom It's all right to "cast thy burdens on ! down by Oliver October, agreed w!t~ In early days of England there was Brittany is supposed to have ~ace intently. She was puzzled by his was if0rn! Ye~, sir, at that Wry m~. the Lord," but it's all wrong to hold the young man that his father had a tax on windows and the influence Of ¢elved Its name from th.os~ BHta~ manner and by his expression. rnent~" •.~**Pl)e~: out," to use the e=xpreSsiml Kim responsible for the most of them. who"were expelled from England "I came over by the back road, along "Oh, for the Lord'S sake~ gammy, that restriction shows In the fortress. of Michael O'Rourke. It was Mr. 3lan is largely the architect pf Ms took refuge there between the ~lft~ the swamp," he explained, catching slow down I What the dIcke~a are ya~ lik~ architecture of the ancient Tudor O'Rourke who advanced the theory own fortenes~and misfortunes, too. and Sixth centuries. Before that time her tn the act of staring at his muddy driving at, anyhow,? Boom? What caattea. Oliver that the old man had taken this amaz- the sooner he realizes tim fact the the country ~xas named ArmorieS, shoes. "Father walked part of the way • ing means of forcing his son to remain boom 2" o_-c~ )otter for him.~Grit. with me. Gee, what a panning he gave "'Your boom, you idiot ! The boom's m Rumley. One'of Life's Little Lessons October me! It was terrible, 5~r. Sage. I saw "Why," ;;aid h.e, "it's as plain as [he been started for you as candidate for Civilization DeRed red. I--I had to fungi couldn't stand A young college graduate has Trial of the Pyx nose on your face. He is dead set on state senator against old man Gooch." learned one Important lesson in the A "pyx" is a box in which coins of Samoa, where the natives are am- it. Cr--d, how miserabIe I am i" having you stick to this town. You say "Why, you darned chump," roared he English mint are deposited. These couraged to retain their natural mode Jane and her father listened, speech- 'nix.' Well, what's the smartest thing Oliver, "I'm not going to run for state stern battle of llfe when he grasps less, and presently Mr. Sage arose and fact that his fraternity pin, even oins are tested annually by a Jury of of life, is the only spot in tile Pacl~e he can do? The only way to make you senator or anything else. You must be the goldsmiths to see tf they are of the islands where the native populatio.n lm went into the house. stay in this town is for him to leave iL crazy. I'll head it off tomorrow. I'll if conspicuously displayed, isn't go- The clock on the town hall struck 12 ..equislte weight and fineness. This is not dying out. Everywhere else ci%+lll. He sneaks off without letting anybody telephone--" ing to get him anywhere especially.- before Oliver reluctantly bade Jane -nown as the "trial of the pyx." zation seems to have brought dljeame, "Won't do you a darned bit of good," Ohio State Journal...... good-night and started homeward. On know where he's going. Why does .he r -j - ~-~ +bOO9 T~e xr,a~ n. nnvhi)gtv PlS@. knew cried Sammy exultingly. "They'll nom- his way tmme, tllrougtl :no neaz~ ~z inate you, anyhow. Why, you--re ~ne WaS vu~u ...... town, he passed*the rather pretentious where he here in no time, and all his trouble for only man in this county that would house in which the Lansings lived. notidng. He thought it all out before stand a ghost of a show, Ollle. And There were people on the broad ver-l hand. Now he has his own way. the best of all--popular nephew run- ...... -~--~ .... ~"...... -~7_ ...... _ "- anda. He longed for the companion- ning against Shylock uncle! Gee whiz! Geor0e ~arr ~cCufcheon You've got to stay here until he gets ship of friends--merry friends. I-le good and ready to come back. Some- d'm going down to see A1 Wilson at the turned in at the stone gate and walked body's got to be in charge of his af- Despatch office. Put him wise and swiftly Up to the house. fairs. There is a chance, of course, warn him not to let a word of it leak ~pyright, Bell Syndicate(WNI,J ~m~ic.~) "Hello, OIlie," called out Sammy that he wandered out in the swamp, out in the paper till he gets the word. Parr. SYNOPSIS but I don't believe it. If you want us Night, Mr. Sage---so long, Jane." Young Lansing came to the top of to go ahead and rake the country for "Wait a minute !" called out Oliver, CI=IAPTER L--Oliver October Baxter, the steps to greet hhn. Jr., was born on a vile October day. him, we'll do it." springing to his feet as Sammy darted Gift Books for Xmas I-Iis parents were prominent in th~ "I've been up saying good-by to Mr. "I want to find him," said Oliver, down the walk. commercial, social and spiritual life of Sage and Jane. And the funnj( part the town of Rumley. His father was firmly. "You may be right in your sur- "Nix!" shouted Sammy over his Books are probably the most acceptable Xmas gifts. proprietor of the hardware store. The of it is that I may not go away tomor- mise~I hope you are. But just the shoulder. We have just put on display over 300 copies of various night that Oliver October was born row after all," said Oliver. "The gypsy queen reads his father's fortune same, I don't intend to leave a stone The three of them watched him in titles among which you will find something suitable for =~ Sages think I ought not to leave my and tells him what a wonderful future unturned, 5:it. O'Rourke." silence as he leaped into his car and every type of person. In Bibles and Testaments we have an ,=~--~- his son has before him, but after the father." He spoke in lowered tones, began his swift, reckless turn In the reading, the gypsy becomes angry and But the days ran into weeks and the unusually large assortment. ~ leaves the house in a rage after telling for Lansing's ear alone. weeks into months, with the mystery narrow street. Mr Baxter that his son will never "I quite agree with them," said the reach the age of thirty, that he will no nearer solution than in the begin- "What are you going to do about Give your church friends Peloubet's Notes on the ~_~ be hanged for a crime of which he is other stiffly. hind--no word, no sign from the old it?" inquired the minister, the first to International S. S. Lessons; also Peloubet's Bible Diction- not guilty. "Have a highball, Baxter?" called man who had vanished, no clue that speak. ary. ~ CHAPTER II.--Ten years elapse and Sammy. led to anything save disappointment. Jane dld not give Oliver a chance to Oliver's father is the owner of a busi- "Not tonight, thanks. I've got to be If you prefer Snowden's Sunday School Lessons, we z~:~_ There was something grim. uncanny reply. ness block in the town. Mrs. Baxter running along. Father may be waiting have them at $1.25 each. ~ died when Oliver was nearing seven. about the silence of old man Baxter~ "Do about it?" she cried. "Why, Josephine Sage, wife of the minister, up for me. Night, everybody." it was indeed the silence of the dead. he's going to run against old Gooch causes a sensation when she leaves And was off. The group watched Rumley to go on the stage. She be- he "He might as well be dead," was a re- and beat the life out of hlm !" AMONG THE LATEST FICTION comes a "star" and later goes to Lon- him stride swiftly down the cement mark that became common in Rumley Oliver looked up at her. She stood don, where she scores a hit. Her walk. Sammy was the first to speak. daughter Jane and young Oliver be- whenever his case was discussed. at the top of the steps, the light from You will find Curwood's "Ancient Highway'mPorter's come greatly attached to one another. ~: "Well, call that sociability, don't I Strangely enough, no one now believed the open door falling athwart her radi- "Keeper of the Bees"mZane Grey's "Vanishing American" After finishing college, young Oliver you? What the dicke~s is the matter accepts a position in Chicago with an him to be dead. Everybody agreed ant face, half in shadow, half in the ~Wright's "Son of His Father"mParker's "Power and the with him? First time I've ever seen engineering company. He goes to with the detective that the cantanker- warm, soft glow. Suddenly his heart China on an important mission for hts Ollie Baxter with grouch." Glory" and "Arrowsmith" by Sinclair Lewis. firm. Upon his return he enlists in th~ a ous old man had "skipped out" with began to pound--heavy, smothering }~arly the next morning, Serepta Canadi~m arm}*. the sole idea of frustrating his son's blows against his ribs that had the efo Big assortment of children's books--See the Eando Grimes called Joseph Sikes on the tele- CHAPTER III.~The war over, Oliver plan to return to Chicago. feet of making him dizzy, as with verti- McNally line. returns to Chicago and is told by hi~ phone. Oliver October took charge of the go. He continued to stare, possessed employers that his services are n~ "Did Oliver Baxter stay all night longer required. He returns home. store and, as self-appointed manager, of a strange wonder, as she turned to with you?" she inquired. "I old He hears Jane is in love with Doctor mean conducted the business to the best of her tall, gray-haired parent and laid Lansing'. Jane and Oliver meet again. Oliver." Oliver Is reprimanded by his father his ability. There was nothing in the both hands on his shoulders. Burke's Drug Store for not getting another position. 01i ~ "NO." young man's manner to indicate tha~ "I wish i could say 'gee whiz' as vor threatens to leave home. "Have you seen anything of him this he rebelled against the turn in his af- Sammy says it," she cried. "I feel all mousing ?" fairs. On the contrary, he took hold over just like one great big 'gee whiz.' "No. What's the matter, Serepty?" with an enthusiasm that left nothing Don't you, daddy?" CHAPTER IV "Well, he didn't sleep here last night, to be desired by those who at first The man of God took his daughter'~ and there ain't a sign of him around shook their heads dubiously over the firm, round chin between his thumb ~" Mysterious Disappearance situation. and forefinger and shook it lovingly. Shortly before 3 o'clock on the after- "I am to blame for all this," he pro- "One 'gee whiz" in the rarely is noon of June 23, the day before Oliver tested firmly. "If my father is dead, I enough," said he. "I am glad you feel October was to leave for Chicago and am accountable for his death. What~ like one, however. You take me back a new position, old Oliver Baxter ever his present condition may be, 25 years, my dear. Your mother used < stepped into the bank at the corner of am responsible for it. Don't put all to say 'gee whiz' when she felt like It, Clay and Pel~hing streets and drew the blame on that gypsy fortune-teller. It is, after all, a rather harmless way out $3,500 in currency. He gave no should have realized the state of of exploding." reason to the teller or to the cashier mind he was in and I should have given Presently he left them and Jane for the withdrawal of so large an up everything else in the world to help spoke softly. amount in cash. him weather the next year or so of "Did you notice, Oliver, that he Oliver October, 10 or 15 minutes late doubt and distress." spoke of mother a little while ago? It for supper that evening, found his was the first time in years. I wonder father in a surprisingly amiable frame The winter wore away, spring came if I remind him of her in Iota of of mind, but Mr. Baxter's good humor and quickly melted into summer; the ways." did not endure. He revived a dispute first anniversary of the unexplained Oliver's thoughts leaped backward a they had had in the store earlier in the disappearance of Oliver Baxter passed. score of years and more. "I used to day. The old man had that day offered Three months remained of the last think she was the most wonderful per- hlm an interest in the business if he year allotted to Oliver October by the son In all the world," he said. "I was would remain in Rumley. Oliver was gypsy "queen" on that wild, shrieking very desperately in love with your grateful, but he declined the offer, say- night in '90. But by this time prac- mother when I was six or seven, Jane." tag he had a professio~ in which he tically everybody in Rumley was count* He hesitated and then went on clumsi- wanted to make good. ing the days and jokingly reminding ° ly, almo~:t fatuously: "I am beginning Mr. Baxter's reversion to the subject Oliver that his chances got better every to think that you are like her in a lot came when Oliver, looking at his day i of ways." watch, announced that he must be run- "I see by the paper this evening that She gave him a quick, startled look. ning along, as he was due over at the your Uncle Horace has announced His face was turned away, and so he Sages to say good-by to Jane and her himself as a candidate for state sen- did not see the tender, wistful little father. ator," said Mr. Sage one evening as he smile that flickered on her lips, nor "Well, I'll walk~ part of the way with sat enjoying his customary half hour was he aware of the long, deep breath you," said his father crossly. "I'd like on Sage's porch with Jane and Oliver. she took. From that moment a queer, to see if I can't coax you to change "Well, I know one vote he will not uneasy restraint fell upon them. There your mind about coming into the store. get," said Oliver, "even if he is my were long silences, dreamy on her part, If you don't mind, we'll take the lower uncle." moody on his. He left shortly after Right from Santa's road along the swamp. It's a short "I knov: of another," said the min- 10; his "good-night" wa~ strangely cut for you~saves you a quarter of a ister dryly. gruff and unnatural. mile or more." "Why, daddy, I am really beginning He was jealous. He knew it for a : A few minutes before 9 o'clock Oli- to take quite a fancy to you," cried fact, he confessed it to himself for the 0Own Workshop! Jane delightedly. "0nly last week you first time openly and unreservedly. ver October appeared at the home of Johnny's eyes will surely pop, • said he ought to be tarred and feath- He was jealous of young Lansing. tlev. Mr. Sage, somewhat out of breath "No. What's the Matter, Serepty?" Betty Jane won't want to stop ahd visibly agitated. ered for turning those two old Bannes- There was no use trying to deny it. Looking at the Toys galore 'qTm awfully sorry to be so late," he the place. I--I guess maybe you'd ter women out of their house over at He did not go so far as to think of Now on view at apologized. "Father and I had a long better come up, Joe." Pleasant Ridge." himself as being in love with Jane-- and trying confab aiid I~I couldn't The long and the short of tt was, "But he didn't turn them out," said that would be ridiculous, after all the get away. God knows I hate to say it, Oliver Baxter had vanished as com- Oliver quickly. "Somebody came along years they had known each other-- at the last minute and lent them the Dailey'8 Cash Bargaifl but I'm glad I'm going tomorrow." pletely as if swallowed by the earth~ but he bitterly resented the thought "No, you shouldn't say It, Oliver," and it was the '~general opinipn that money to redeem their little house and that s'he might be in love with some said Mr. Sage. "Poor man, he is really that was exactly what happened to farm." one else. Especially with the superlor, not responsible these days. You see, him. There wes not the slightest doubt "You don't really mean it, Oliver?" supercilious, cocksure I:ansing ! %,; Store cried Mr. Sage. "That is good news~ Oliver, for nearly 30 years he has llved in the minds of his horrified friends To be continued. For Jane there are: in dread of~well, of the absurd thing that he had wandered out upon the splendid news." Stylish clad Dolls that really talk, that gypsy woman said." swamp and had met a ghastly fate in "I hate that old Gooch man," cried Close their eyes--yes, even walk "And that Is why he wants me to one of the countless pits of mire whose Jane. Cute little sets of China dishes-- "Jane, my dear, you really are be- One of her very fondest wishes. stay here, so that he can watch over depths no man knew or cared to fathom $4,000,000 and protect me?" coming quite a vixen," remonstrated Little Playhouses and quite a few even in speculation. Suites of Furniture---classy, too! "Exactly." Notwithstanding the almost universal her father. An automobile came to a sudden stop "If I really believed that to be the belief that poor old Oliver Baxter was For Johnny there are: case, Uncle Herbert, I--I would stay." buried in the black mire of the swamp in front of the house, and an agile Magic Lanterns and Thrilling Games, Jane. who had been silent during the a state-wide search was at once insti- young man leaped out, leaving his en- Rockin' Horses with shaggy manes, brief colloquy between her father and tuted by his distracted son, who, for gine running. He came up the wa!k with long strides. Tru-ks and Blocks and Indian Suits, OLWer, was studying the young man's one, did not believe that the missing Shiny Rifles that sure can shoot, ~-.===.====.-~ man had gone to his death in the loath- "Say, Oliver, you old skate, I've been Wagons and nifty three-wheel Bikes some tract. looking all over town for you," shouted .....:::::::::::::::::::::::: Something that every Johnny likes ! Sammy parr. "This isn't your night to The bank's prompt announcement call on Jane---don't you know that? III¸ So take your youngsters by the hand that Mr. Baxter had withdrawn thirty- Good evening, Jane. Evening, Mr. And lead them to Dailey's Wonderland W c Nnter mes five hundred dollars convinced Oliver Sage. Say, the Bannesters told me all of- October and a few sound-headed indi- ::i!!!i~i:.:.:ii!i!!:!:~i~iiiii~}!!ii}!!iiii!i!i~i~i}i!:?.i:i:ii~..<.i about you, you blamed old skate--I viduals that he had deliberately mean Ollie, not you, Mr. Sage. Gee TOYS I TOYS ! TOYS ! planned his departure from Rumley...... i}:::::::::::i::::::::iii~i~i~!.~i::~i!~ii::ii".::.~:::.ii::!~i~ whiz, Ollie you certainly did throw the No one could be found who saw him hooks into Uncle Horace this time, after he took leave his on the of son didn't you? You certainly---" swamp road. Oliver October related :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::$ "Shut up!" growled Oliver, scowling all that transpired between them on fiercely at the excited Sammy. that moonlit byway. He did not spare "What on earth are you talking himself in t/m recital. No one blamed about, Sammy?" cried Jane. him, however. "Out with it, Sammy, out with it," An inspection of Mr. Baxter's closet R)LEY'$ @NEYAN TAR counseled Mr. Sage, coming down the the following morning led to a puz- FOR COUGHS AND COLD5 steps. zling discovery. A comparatively new Charles F. Kettering, vice president L. I. Wood & Co. Burke's Drug Store "Well, what do you think, Mr. Sage suit of dark gray material--rather too of General Motors Company, ~what do you think? Why, this chump heavy for summer wear~was missing, troit, is now insured for $4,000,000. here is the guy that lent Mrs. Bannes- while the wrinkled, well-worn garments A new pohcy for $1,000,000 was re- GAS MAKES PEOPLE ter the money to redeem her house." that he wore daily at the store were cently taken for the purpose of in- NERVOUS AND RESTLESS "Oh, Oliver !" cried Jane. "Did you suring financial means to carry on found hanging in the closet. Gas pressure in the abdomen caus- really do it? I could squeeze you to experimental work in the event of The excitement in Rumley was in- es a restless, nervous feeling and death for it. And you never told me-- his de.ath. tens~ ']?he Baxter home became a prevents sleep. Adlerika removes gas you never breathed a word--" magnet that drew practically the en- in TEN minutes and brings out sur- "It was only about a thousand dol- prising amounts of old waste matter tire population of the town to that sec- lars," mumbled Oliver. you never thought was in your sys- tion, and there was not an hour of the "Sure it was," agreed Sam cheerful- Modesty Out of Place tem. This excellent intestinal evacu- day that did not see scores of peo- ly. "But right there and then the Modest bearing is commendable in ant is wonderful for constipation or ple trudging through the safer portions destiny of the great American nation roman beings, but it's no recommenda- allied stomach trouble. Don't waste of the swamp or tramping along the time with pills or tablets but get uplands that bordered it. was shaped along new lines. The tion for a fruit tree.--Boston Tran- REAL Adlerika actionl Burke's Drug Detectives from Chicago, brought words were no sooner out of the mouth script. .... Store.--Adv. 2 ; ,., ",

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Token of Ne~rothal Red Heads 8est. It was during the Second century Samuel Long, automobile instructor, B. C. that women be;74n to flash a sqys he tan tell at a ¢lam.e wheflmr a 'BITI[FIIF:TOLDFOR ring on the fourth Iin;::er of the left woman wiII make a good driver Pat hand as a symbol of betrolhal. It women, he says. make good dr|errs. was displayed on ~ha!: l;)arti('u!ar but red-headed ones are better. Tall IH[ BUSY finger in the belief that a vein ran women ¢~re "not so good" and school h-ore it to the heart, teaelmr.~ ~re '"tePrible." Win. Bearss and family left Friday to spend the winter in the south. i lllUlllll|l~|~u~|~~|~Lu~|~|~|~|~|~~|~|~|~|~i~|~|~i~|~!~u~i~i~u~u~||~|~i~|~ Mrs. Rose Ritchie Muntz began ! teaching Monday in the Wald district. Mrs. Sophia Seekings of Caro is ";isiLhzg he~ dauglfi, er, Mrs. A. Deneen ...... ! j - . De .... , _~2~. ,No. ~9. _~ - = Mrs. geo. Purdy entertained a few Thousands of unknown babies are saved from tuberculosis through th~ friends at her home Thursday after-preventive and educational work carried on by the Michigan Tuberculosis Published in the in- We sell the "Purl- There is a growing i R gket i( ifa r ----- .z~ noon. ' Association. The Tuberculosis Christmas seals you buy are helping these tin. terest of the People na Dry Mash Hopper" demand in this corn- _==- of Cass City and vic- and v:ill sty that they $ Mrs. Jack Lehman visited last l~mown Babies. Bi~y more seals. reunify for Purina - irfity by the are the best mush Poultry Feeds. And - ~s a sensible, useful and reason- week in Detroit the guest of Mrs. Bud i ------l " Elkland Roller Mills hoppers that we have there should be. Pu- ._---= Coffron. CHAMBERS SCHOOL NOTES. week. ever had. They will rina Feeds get you === ably priced gift for any man Mrs. F. D. Hemerick and Miss ------We had an arithmetic match Fri- Roy Taylor, Editor last a life time and the best possible re- _=- E. Miller did shopping in Bay City Reporter~Cathryn MacTavish. ' day. Lyle and Alma were captains. are rat, vermin and sults. waste proof. ___. Friday. Our motto--"Be sure you're right, Alma's side won by 690 points. Rev. and Mrs. Pierson of Owendale then go ahead." The first and second grades enjoyed We know a man ~. Last year I asked We know now what who doesn't get his == were callers among friends Tuesday. We have an enrollment of 24 now. the story "Mother Gray and her Kit- tens" Monday. my best girl to marry we want for Christ- whiskers shaved off - Grandmother Hildie is caring for Those neither tardy nor absent me and she re~used. I mas~a nice I926 auto evenly and he leaves === her little great granddaughter, little from school this year axe: Thelma Several of us have heard from Ju- got even with her by license, little black patches lia and Laura Crocker. We are glad Barbara Joeann Muntz. Cooke, Cathryn MacTavish, and Vet- marrying her mother. ~ on the sides of his =- Alfred Kine is numbered our nits to hear they are welt and having" a among Linderman. good time in Florida. Then my father mar- Don't be satisfied neck. === sick folks. Visitors during November were: with just "bread." The other day we _-: Mrs. Jason Kitchin, Emma Kitchin, Teacher--Lucille Jones. tied the girl. Now You can have uncom- Mrs. Bridgie Welsh returned last Mrs. Joseph Towle and Josephine what am t to myself? monly good bread spoke to a friend of =-- week from Detroit. Towle. When i married when you use Cream ours and he seemed Ray Toohey and one of his boy Our teacher is reading us the story, Cash for Dental Gold married the girl's of Wheat Flour. cold and distant. Platinum, Silver, Diamonds, magneto Then we discovered .... dn~ j.v~ Tuesday of last week to "The Lamplighter." the trouble. He had a motor to Florida. The second grade are learning to points, false teeth, jewelry, any valu- _= mother, the girl be- Erwin Kercher's boil on his neck. - came Christmas suggestion: ~ ~ , k(r. and Mrs. M. Kerr were callers i tell time. ables. Mail today. Cash by return i my daughter; in Caro Wednesday. Lawayne Towle and Keith Me- mail. and when my father "Don't buy us a book. Ever hear about Comb were absent this week because Eloke S. & R. Co.. Otsego, Mich. - married my daughter We've already got the colored minister == Miss Celia Evans was an overnight of sickness. she became my moth- one." who announced that - guest of Miss Meta Karr on Thurs- The fourth grade drew the Dutch i er. Who am I? "on account o' Mort- - day. My mother's moth- day comin' on Tues- _~ Miss B. Keopfgen was a caller in el., who is ~y wife~ Elkland day ne~' = and American flags fox language on l~t~dtet~e wiI1 dowha~we _ must be my grand- The Wednes- = Caro Friday. . Wednesday. I claim for it-- day, de reglar meetin' == _-- mother, and I being Roller ~[iHS of the Friday Night -~ A Master Perfume Lloyd IKcginn was ill and confined beenFranklin absent andthis week.Herbert Yax have~rldi your system of Catarrh o~ Deafnes~ - m y grandmother's to his bed a few days last week. - husband, I am my Phone 15 Club has been post- The fifth grade drew rainfall and ,~ Caused by Catarrh° poned from Saturday -= CARA NONE C. P. Hunter is having installed relief maps of United States this.~. ~o CHENEY8o~d b~, druggi~ &. ,¢~rCO.~ ~,~ Toiedo~ 40 ~,e~ Oh{o I ~ own grandfather. CASS CITY, ~IICH. to Sunday night!" == bathroom fixtures and wilI build an l llil!lllilllII |IUIII Ill Ill ill Ill l llllllll Ill l lIl l lllltllllI|IlIll|ll| D Illtlll I l t I Ill Hill |I I I l| l llllll |11111111 l| I ll|llllll l llllI|llll|l I I II l Ill |111 IlllIl||llI111 I lll II Ill|Ill I1! 1|| 1 Ill ! 11| 11 |11 I! III1 I I1~" (DEAREST NAME) extra room on the second story of his residence. In Gift Packages Mrs. Germain of Saginaw is at the Hunter home during the absence of ' i~. ~ her sister, Mrs. C. P. Hunter. ~ ...... ~, Mrs. Gertrude Williams of Detroit ~. ~ ., visited her father, D. Burton, last d ",~ff /~ & week. @ ~i;;~i~ ~] ~ ~ ::~i~:::~ ;i;::: ~i ii:~>~i~.~:.t~5~<~9~);~f/.,~f~:~ Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Kuhn, Mr. and ~]ii[~' ~)~fT";]~'~:~:. .g@a:<~---,s!~s;~:~!s...... $'"e,' '-,,~{~ @ ~, L,le,'t !~, . 7aests of Gifford Chapter Tuesday, Choose ...... ; ...... ~,- - , .~ t ~ : .... ::: ...... :,::.. t' ~ "i:~ ~v * .. C b r " stm its m~i-iii~:!¢u~i-;~i.ii<¢i~isist ...... -2.;-i,, ~ Mr. Frost of Bad Axe transacted ]~!! business here Tuesday. Mrs. Andrew Mullen visited her This exquistie perfume holds today a proud 'usband in Detroit several days of pre-eminence in the world of fashion, enjoying i ~stoweek. the patronage of the most fastidious women in RolIand Bolton returned from an Gift from a Man's 5; fore their quest for an individual perfume, extended visit in Canada and Detroit. In the production of Cara Nome PerfUme and ~ Larry Moon and Virgil Ludwig toilet accessories nothing is too costly as an in- "~ ;pent Sunday here the guests of Mil- gredient if, by its addition, greater fascination, | ~ bed Phelan and Myrtle Rocheleau. HE Proper Place to find something suitable for a Nan's Chr}semas individuality or delicacy is possible to attain, a ~ l~{r. and Mrs. Bowen attended the I Surely your dearest friend will appreciate a ~ ~ Suneral of the farter's son, Roy Harm- T • Gift is at a 5{ ' beautiful satin-lined Gift Box of Cars Nome I ~ ~r, in Detroit on Monday, Nov. 30. an s Store--4his 4ore---where "men who know come He leaves a wife, daughter Toilet Articles. Come in and let us show them ~'randdaughter. and i for their outfitting. to you. ~ Mrs. Catherine Ryan writes her: I;riends of her arrival at Denver, Then the price feature of our store is a strong inducement, for when the quality of ® O0 & CO /C°l°.,where they willremainfor an LI.W D . ~ ~ indefinite length of time. our merchandise is considered, our prices are always the lowest. Look over the list below Lewis Deneen suffered a stroke in i me ~ *t0*'~ ~ | 7his left arm last week Wednesday. and see if you do not strike something that yea know will be Mr. Deneen lives alone on his farm east and north of town. Mr. and Mrs. S. V. Calley were . Sunday guests at the Richard Burdon home. "JUST THE THING" ~f Cass City were Sunday guests at SUITS t 5 the L. McGinn home.o oe o PAJAN[AS About 20 members of Gifford Chap. ter enjoyed an afternoon and luncheon OVERCOATS at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley LEATHER COATS Muntz Friday, Little Barbara Joeann, HATS SUNDAY, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13-14. the two months' old daughter, re- TRAVELING BAGS ceived a beautiful gift and money to DAVID BELASCO PRESENTS LENORE ULRIC IN start her a bank account. GLOVES Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Purdy spent FLANNEL SHIRTS NIGHT ROBES ~ family,Sunday Mr.with and the Mrs.former,s Perry sister Fritz, and of NECKWEAR "TheTiger Rose P~geon. DRESS SHIRTS Mrs. C. P. Hunter attended as a WOOL PLAID delegate from the Gleaner Lodge the convention in South Bend, Ind., on BATH ROBES (A story of the North woods and the Canadian Royal Mounted Police.) Dec. 9-10. Mrs. Hunter will also visit MUFFLERS a few days in Detroit. In this country where might is right, where "an eye for an eye and a Miss Iva Cra~fford, twin daughter SUIT CASES tooth for a tooth" is the law, where men are unfettered and unrestrained by of Mr. and Mrs. Angus Crawford, was FANCY SILK KNIT artificial polish and social environment, where love, hate, revenge, desire and united in marriage with Mr. Delbert SWEATERS MUFFLERS the grossest passions run rampant--here is born and reared the girl of our evening,Profit of Dec.Bethel 1, onat Nov.the 26.home Tuesday of the l story, characterized as "Tiger Rose." FANCY KNIT WiDE BELTS groom's parents, a reception was held This is the land of the great Northwest, where the college graduate for the popular newly weds. Mrs. lives side by side with the renegade ~and criminal hiding from justice in the Profit is a graduate of Gagetown high VESTS GARTER AND ARM- States--the genial Hudson Bay men with an ever-ready welcome to the school and is teaching her second BAND SETS stranger~the Jesuit priests, whose fingers are ever pointed towards the Congratulations.year in the Walmsley school district. SPORT COATS charts of civilization. A good many of our readers will be SHOES AND OX- Then the sharp exploding crack of a whip! A dog team and a trader pleased to read the following:• N. C. WOOL HOSE racing at top speed to find cheer and comfort in the company of men. Warm Maynard, manager of the snappy or- FORDS FANCY SILK HOSE andpicture, full of life is the breath of the hurrying caravan. Don't miss this great nightehestra Ramblers", better known reports as thatthe the"Mid- or- HOUSE SLIPPERS The comedy, "Pure and Simple" is a scream. Children 15c; adults 35c. broadcasting,cnestra is listed station to broadcast at Bay fromCity theon Monday night, Dec. 14, starting at We would just "hint" that you make your sdecfion early, while our assortment is at nine o'clock. This orchestra is now FRIDAY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11-12. playing all important dance halls in its best. We'll lay aside your selection until Christmas. the Thumb of Michigan and are re- NORMA TALMADGE IN ported one of the cleanest orchestras that have played this part of the Open Evenings until k,,x._~ T1, p. "LEARNING TO thecountry. following The members:orchestra Johnconsists Ross, of saxophone; John Light, three-string Cbistmas banjo artist; Harold Meyers, traps; LOVE" WcParcel,or violin; N. C. Maynard, piano. Miss Mildred Phelan will also assist with several vocal numbers. You had This is funny. You will laugh 'till your sides ache. boysbetter once. tune in and hear some of our Also see a News Reel and the comedy, "Have a Heart" will make you Kinde & roar. Children 10c; adults 30c. GREENLEAF. Co. COMING---Sunday, Monday, Dec. 20-21~"WILD HORSE MESSA," C.W. Heller was a business caller Clothing Cass City one of Zane Grey's best Western pictures, in town Monday. Shoes Mr. Bismarck, the "Watkins Man"' from Tyre, was calling on patrons in i Chronicle Liners Cost Little; Accomplish Much. this vicinity last week.

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gass City, Michigan, Dec. 11, 1925. CASS CITY CHRONICLE PAGE NINE.

Merry Open Home '* ., 1924. Michigan surfaced 814 miles of a new market news office to gather Paragraphs Con- poration ..according to Harry Harper, i crop statistics. The office also will en: l! DEFORD [ the 25,000 miles surfaced throughout president. This cpncern is said to be ()tie of l;~e wori(l'~ ,.~.u: n.vel (th),.'t;l~ the nation on Christmas Eve 1,*...... cerning Michigan the world's largest producer of motor ~force federal shipping and grading tS to be ro~.tn(l in [;m.~ingham tmla(',% An apartment house in which wheels. It was organized in 1920, i laws. •l.on(hm. It takes the t'orm of tl.e • [ Word came here on Wednesday, •(By Ed. A. Nowack). Dec. 2, of the death of Earl Boulton, apartments will be / rented only to when three consolidations were el- t Buliet proof glass and wire cages bust Of a negress wh~ "winks" :he 'Seamstress Finds a Warm 18 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lansing~Ten years ago the first couples who have babies under five fected. !and such things are being installed in time fi'on~ her sparkling eyes. tn ~)Lo pavement was laid on Woodward ave- years is under construction in Detroit. Welcome and Assists at Boulton of Pontiac. The interment Shortage of water in the Dead Rio- I branch banks in Detroit by the Amer- eye ls shown the ntlllli)el'~ that indiea:e was in Lape~r cemetery on Saturday. nue outside the city of Detroit. To- Walter O. Briggs is back of the pla G er, Marquette county, has forced that ican State Bank to foil. bandits. the hours, and in the other the mir~- Social Function. Mrs. Boulton will be remembered day it is referred to as. the world's Soon after Dec. i it is planned to city to buy two expensive Diesel en- J The Book-Cadillac Hegel, Detroit, ll~eS. It was made by one Let)in.e. dud here as Myrtle Ross. greatest highway and.it is considered open the largest and most modern glues for auxiliary power plant oper- provides guests with accident insur- is "29x~ in('i~es in height and fashioned the big road engineering feat of the gas plant in the world at River e?runs, ance protection Rood for 48 hours af- from ormolu. By MARTHA BANNING THOMA S Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gage and three year. boys and Mrs. Gage's brother, Sire Rouge. This plant will produce about Production of motor cars for 1925, ter the guests depart. r-~--~"~EACON HILL was Secretary of State DeLand says 15 million cubic feet of gas daily and and profits therefrom, are expected State geologist reports that in Are- Pool, of St. Helen, came on Thursday International ~Bridges ,~~~ | ablaze with can- that the gasoline tax paid in 44 states will SupDly Detroit. to exceed the former high level mark nac and Agemaw counties there is dies. They shono J, ...... ¢~- ~...... v.v~;~,: in 1925 wilt total close to $140~000~- All state operations for !as? year of !928. undeveiopec~ in ~ne i~i~e river z4,boo,- l~l in every window..en and Wm. Gage. The Gage fami- 000, according to information he has cost Michigan $9.53 per capita, ea- 000 K. W. H. at 75 per cent efficiency Stales and Mexico the old bed of t?~@ lies and Mr. Pool were guest:s at the Coincident with the merging of Rio (;ran(le river remains the boundary, They gleamed received. eording to figures by the U. S. D~- some of~ the larger baking concerns and that the cost of developing this .~~.~-- through the glass Elisha Randall home Saturday eve- gelow El Paso vbout 1.':L(I(R~ u('res .,-f The average gasoline consumption partment of Commerce. Total revenue in the country Michigan plants are power is $3,200,000. American lermtory has been:cul t~) tl'e ~~~~ panes of the door- ning. for Michigan cars is 350 gallons per receipts for that 'period were $14.67 affected. The combination merger SOllth of t!le Rio (;rande, au,~l the river ~u]~"~l~'~ ways. Tall can- There were no Sunday services at annum for pleasure autos and 1000 per capita. The per capita tax levy will take in Michigan bakeries, Vartety AI~ the Same dles, short can- the M. E. church, owing to a defec- runs for el)dill 20 miles in the United gallons for trucks. was $6.49. dairies, flour mills and similar indus- One restallj-alll serves ttn omelel tive stove pipe. Sta~es. 'lhere are I hree bridges on ~lles;~ candles of every size and color. Michigan has been given tenth Five and a half million motor tries as well as sugar refineries. with a different name every day in tth who! is klmwn v,s "So;; Elizario island" For was it not Christmas Eve? And Mr. affd Mrs. Roy Colwell spent place in the umon in the matter of wheels will be shipped from the Lan- Benton Harbor has been selected week, and they all taste the smm ~s it not a ca'stem to make merry at Sunday at N. R. Kennedy's. grading and surfacing of roads in --l.ee M(nw f~ri(ige, l,'ai~ens bridge and sing plants of the Motor Wheel Cor- by the government as the location for That's salesmanship.--Toledo Blade; I l'ornillo bridge. this special time in a very charming Misses Campbell of Rodney/ Ont., '~Way? who were visiting their cousin, Rod • ~ ...... , ~ ~ • _ ~ erick Kennedy, sr., left on Thursday ~; "~'~-"~-~------'~- morning for Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Kilgore attend- ed the funeral at Lapeer of their nephew, Earl Boulton, on Saturday. Mrs. Roland Bruce left on Sunday for a few days' visit with her uncle in Pontiac. SOHONMULL ER'S L. Dobbs and son, Bard, of Birch Run spent Sunday with the former's daughter, Mrs. L. Day. Bard Dobbs returned to his home on Sunday and his father remained here to visit for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Silver?horn re- turned to their home on Sunday af- [} ter a week's visit in Pontiac. James Vargo and daughters re- turned to their farm from Detroit last week. They have lived in De- ~roup~ of Carolers Steed a~. Street troit for three years. Mrs. Vargo will Oorners and Sang. come here a little later~ Groups of carolers stood at street L. Dobbs spent Monday afternoon ,corners and sang. Hundreds of people at the Ben Gage home. ~trolled up and down. There was an Miss Nora Moshier left on Sunday atmosphere of good will that pervaded for Detroit where she will stay awhile the place as surely as wreaths hung to take medical treatments. She is in da the windows, very poor health. There was one house in particular Bernice Gage entertained, on Satur- :that glowed with a shining brilliance, day afternoon, at her home, Mrs. Part of this light w~as due to a pyre- Roland Bruce, teacher, and seven lit- mid formation of candles on the win- tle S. S. classmates. J dew-sill, and part came from the . ~ . .. happy sounds which issued forth A Sale that everyone has been through the open door. This place was ELKLAND AND 1 waiting for ~reeping "open house" with a venge- t ELMWOOD TOWN LINE once. I.t looked like a glorified Christ- I t ¢ ~a~ card. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Conger of Bay ! Because when a Schonmuller Sale takes place, it means Miss Mixter never knew exactly Port, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Evans action and prices so how it happened. She was hurrying and Rev. A. G. Newberry of Cass City home after a hard day's sewing in a were c~allers at the J. F. Evans home dressmaker's shop. She was tired and Wednesday: low that it will be impossible to duplicate them° :hungry. Christmas Eve to her me-ely Mr. and Mrs. P. Livingston and r ...... o.... :meant that she was wearier than usual, family, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Livingston She stopped for a moment to look in and family, Gee. and Arthur Living- ~hrough the door of this happy, shin- ston spent Saturday evening in Care ~g house. And then, almost unaware ] at the C. M. Livingston home. Men's .of what she did, she walked in. Yes, ! Miss Janet Laurie was operated on 100 Jbso Sui ar I adies' and Extra she actually did. And she had no for appendicitis Sunday evening in more idea of who lived there than a .maple tree on Boston Common! Some~ Bad Axe hospital. lhing drew her straight to the fire- Mr. sad Mrs. James Peddle and Rubber Every Salurday Misses' Coats place. She went as naturally as a family, Miss Winnifred Woolman and 7see seeks honey. T. Lounsbury were Care callers Sat- $5.00 in Trade, 2nd Prize SpeciaJs for In that merry, Well-dressed throng urday. Every Coat Fur Trimmed she looked a bit rusty. Her hat was Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Seekings and $2.50 in Trade, 3rd' Prize entirely too old. There was some- family spent Sunday in Care at the Footwear thing wrong in the cut of her coat. Jerome Turner home. Saturday Her gloves had seen hard service. And Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ewald of Pen- Men's 4-buckle All Rubber $3 98 (;let Your Tickets! Every coat will her shoes, well--her shoes were the tiac were callers in this vicinity Sat- Arctics, red ...... ® despair of cobblers, urday. Dec. 12 Miss Mixter began talking to a Mrs. Sadie Bingham is caring for Men's 4-buckle All Rubber Arctic, be sold at 1aughing-eyed woman dressed in green, little Barbara Joan Muntz. Black, extra heavy, white *3.98 Tickets with every dollar purchase. -"You look like a daffodil," said Miss @ Miss Scott, primary teacher, spent sole ...... Mixter. And this pleased her hostess ~he week-end at the Richard Karr Rubbers so much that she burst into a peal ot~ home. 07' Men's Very Heavy Fleeced $1 29 merriment. Men's 12-in. Red, All Rub-$3 79 /o Union Suits ...... o From that moment they seemed ¢e ber Seek Rubber at ...... Q have a great deal to say to each other. Men's Wool Ribbed $11.~ ®~Jr~~}~ Then, suddenly looking about her, POEMS BY THE Men's 16-in. Leather Top Sock Rub- Ladies' 4-buckle *2.45 50 Off Union Suits ...... Arctics ...... Miss Mixter saw she was the center REV. P. J. DWAN ber, double white $@o©~e_~ (~ sole ...... of attentiom Dozens of interested Buy your coat at this Men's 100 per cent Wool $3 98 people were regarding her with I Do Not Care. Union Suits, color yellow .... e amused eyes. Men's Red Rubber Boots, $¢)e~Q4.~j(D Arctics ...... *2o 29 great reduction sale instead A quick reaction swept over her. [ do not care how grand the stones white sote ...... She felt lonely and afraid. Why was They rear upon. my weary bones Ladies' ZiDpers (This is $4 95 of waiting. Hundreds of the Men's Heavy Fleeced Shirts 69c she here? Who were these peddle? How costly be the wreath they lay and Drawers, each ...... Above my poor, unworthy clay, Men's. Black Rubber '2 97 the Goodyear ZipFer) ...... Why had she come into this house? Boots ...... ® season s most desirable ¢ She felt a quiet hand on her arm. Nor What they say about me there Boys' Fleeced lined Union p'v¢~ I do not care. Ladies' Storm Rubbers at, ~.~ "Do stay, won't you'?" begged the Men's 2-buckle Overshoes 98e per pair ...... ,~ C models to select from. Suits, all sizes ...... i~e hostess in green," I need someone to I do not care how sad the hymn While they last ...... help me. Couldn't you spare a moment (One pair to customer). That fills the solemn aisle and dim Use our deferred payment plan. Boys' All Wool Slip-over $1 on Christmas Eve to aid a daffodil in How lofty and impressive be Men's l-buckle Over- Let us explain it to you. Don't wait! Sweaters ...... 98 distress! Just keep your eye on these The Holy Service meant for me shoes ...... Ladies' Felt Shoes, with leather people and tell me who is served and How long and fervent be the prayer 89e soles and rubber $~®¢i~~¢.~:J~ who is not. It's so difficult." I do not care. heels ...... Boys' Grey Cotto~ Coat Miss Mixter looked up keenly into: Men's Low Sock " Sweaters, all,sizes ...... 89 e the smiling face. And she knew she Just this is all I ask: The day Rubbers ...... *2.29 was genuinely wanted. I take the silent road and gray Ladies' 4-snap That on my simple stone they hew Arctics Complete, Men's Grey Cotton Coat ~c~ "I'll stay," announced Miss Mixter, Boys' 8-inch Sex $2 25 *2.89 Sweaters, extra quality ...... ~ C "and," she grew spirited, "the first "Some little children loved him too." Rubbers ...... o person who needs a cup of co,flee is What else they write about me there myself." I do not care. Boys' Low Sock $1 QQ Have received a new line of La- Men's Wool Slip-over $ (0), 1925, Western l~ewspaper Uni~ Rubbers ...... '...... JL ®(3 f_Y Up-to-date Sweaters ...... 1..79 dies' Fashionable If I Can Live. Chrlstmaa Song Men's Wool Mixed Coat $1 A~ If I can live Men's Heavy Cloth Top Why do bells for Christmas ring? Overshoes ...... *2.98 American Lady pumps, Sweaters ...... _[=~:~ Why-do little children sing? To make some pale face brighter, Line of And to give Once a lovely, Shining star, Men's Fine Dress $3 79 SHppers and Oxfords Seen by shepherds from afar, A second luster to some tear-dimmed Men's~All Wool Coat ..... $3 95 Gently moved until, its light eye, Overshoes ...... ~.. o Sweaters, 2 or 4 pockets. = ~/iade a manger-cradle bright. Or e'en impart in Velvet, Suede, Patent Leather and There a darling baby lay One throb of comfort to an aching Christmas r i Pillowed soft among the hay. Satins. Come and look them over. And his mother sang and smiled~ heart Zippers *4.95 n i, r "This is Christ, the Holy Child." Or cheer some wayward soul in pas- Join the Christmas Rush sing by, Men's Heavy Dull So the bells for Christmas ring, If I can lend a strong hand to the Saturday Only~Extra! So the ltttle ~hildren sing. .... '1.35 Goods and come and look at our ---Lyd.ia A~ery Coonley War~ fallen or defend The right-against a single envious Boys' Heavy Dull Sandal, A Christmas Gift with Ties, Garter Sets, Men's Plain Christmas Bargains strain white sole ...... All This Worry Is Baseless '1.19 and Fancy Igandkerehiefs, Scarfs, My life, though bare every $18 purchase on Sat- Rush ! Only 12 shopping daYs Talk about overcrowding the world Perhaps of much that seemeth dear Cut Prices en All Shoes and Felt Arm Bands, Shirts of all Kinds, and is nonsense. On a conservative esti- and fair Footwear urday, Dec. 12, only. gifts too numerous to mention. left. mate there are enough unsold build- To us on earth, shall not have been ing lots laid out in the United States in vain at this writing to accommodate 500,- The purest joy, 000 people, with plenty of purchasable Most dear to heaven, far from earth's acreage for allotments just beyond.~ alloy, Miami Tribune. Is bidding clouds give way to sun and \- shine l@ And 'twill be well 8CHONH ULLER , Cass City Continuous Bath To enable firemen to fight fire at If on that day of days the Angels tell close quarters, a shower bath suit has Of me: He did his best for one of been invented. The water comes out thine, i Reliable Store Successor to Crosby (D, of a helmet and completely envelops the fireman. Advertise it in the Chronicle. i i 1 Cass City, Michigan, Dec. 11, PAGE TEN. CA~ CITY CHRONICLE 192~. , ~&.... ~HltlP~HII fIIHIKIH4fl HIIItH HUlIlII~IH HIItlIiIIHIIHIi HIIIIIlIHU1HHHtilIH~I~I~I~I~mlI~~@~ JUST BARLEY SUGAR Doctor Repairs Surgical Tools to Chronicle Liners i An enthusiast entered an antI- ,| quarian's shop to have a h)ok round. A young girl sto.d behind the couu,., r. Give 11 ()rphans College Education RATES~Liner of 25 words or NOTICE to Elmwood Taxpayers~I will collect the Elmwood township On the counter on a piece of paper ~ess, 25 cents each insertion. Over t'ested a round yellow marble. The 25 words, one cent a word for taxes at my home in Gagetown on ITH a tool sharpening outfit Tuesday afternoons and Fridays enthusiast noticed it. each insertion. W and a ntotoe truck home, :Dr. L. (all day). W. C. Downing, Twp. "That." he said. excitedly, "is either a wonderfu! topaz or an exceptionahy A. Cl,trk, .qtu~tgart, Ark., tours the ~ERY sPECIAL" for Saturday, Dec. Treasurer. 12-11-2 SANITARY FLOORS rare piece of amber. Where did you country for one gre~( purpose~to 12, first three buying white gold BAKE SALE--The ladies' aid of the FOR DAIRY BARNS get it T' ~.o ,ante others. filled bracelet watches, 6-jewel lev- And hi~ efforts have resulted in Methodist church will have a bake "Garn I" said the girl, ']that's me bit er, at $9.85 each. A. H. Higgins. 11 or-JL'~ns gaining college eduea. sale at the store of P. S. Rice on Sanitary floors are a first require- of barley sugar I just been sucking." FOR SALE 4 loads mixed hay, 4 Saturday~ Dec. 19. iZ-iI-i meat to a cleanly dairy. Non-ab~oro- TD,~r,,-. !.~. :qore h~ppip.ess in _~_ life east,.4~ south of Cass City; also ent materi'd and without crevices Information Disastrous lived for oh~ers than in one in which Shetland pony colt. Call Fred CHRISTMAS TREES for sale Un- where dirt and filth can lodge is Wetwash Wimt drove the light- ~ucce.~a is gaine.1 in a profession a;,,.~ a fortune accumulate.4 for one's Withey, Phone 1L, 1S, 1L. 12-11-1p der 4 ft., 15c; 4 to 8 ft., 25c; extra recommended. It should be easily house keeper's wife crazy? Loneli- good tree up to 9 ft., $1.00. Give washed and disinfected. ness? TDa' ia thv llfe's sermon of :Dr BIBLES, Testaments, 1926 Sunday your order to Lewis P inney. Boy In building a dairy barn floor, all Roughdry~No~ exactly. Sh= w,*s Clark an4 both CMrk and Mrs. Clark school lessons and Bible dictiona- Scouts. 12-11-2 rubbish and refuse witt~in the enclo- listening in at the radio while a b.g afiu'm the ta .-'that they are happier ries at BurkCs Drug Store. sure should be removed and the floor dry goods store ashore Was beginning ~*: ~ J?omad.e life---one in which VANITY FAIR FLOUR, every sack area graded to the required level, al- a l)argain sale for the next day.~ ~t~::tL: a fortune has been a last ROGERS' BUS leaves Cass City for guaranteed~RED COMET COAL lowing, of course, for the thickness of American ~egion \~'eekly. . ~l,~dghl~than they would have been l~ a life lived in the more usual way. Saginaw and Flint at 9:00 a. m. less than a bushel of ash to the ton the floor. The soil should be thor- !]orn in the Isle of l~[alla of mis. and 1:~'0 p, m., daily and at 4:00 p. of coat. Cass City Grain Co. 9-11-tf oughly compacted. If it is possible UNYFORM SUCCESS ~ionary parents, Dr. Clark came to m. Suflday. 111271tf for water to get under the floor at any ~he United States at the age of four. FOR SALE Pure bred Barred Rock time, this possibility should be re- When sever~ he ran away from home FOR SALE-'Two fresh cows, 7 miles roosters, from the Aseltine's Poul- duced by using a fill of clean gravel, in Ne~v York and became a boot- b~ack. east and ½ mile south of Cass try Famn; 2 years; tested for cinders or crushed stone and provid- Bartle. 12-11-1 badlla:'y White Diarrhoea; June Then it was. Dr. Clark says, that City. John ing suitable drainage. The gravel or be learned what difficulties confront hatche~t, ~1.25 each. Mrs. Win. Le- cinder sub-base, if used. must be boys trying to make their own way. WE EXCHANGE flour for wheat and p]a. ] 2-1 ]-2 thoroughly compacted and consolidat- "I resolved, if ever 5 were able. to ca~ save you money~ on your flour ed l)y tamping or roiling. help as many homeless boys and needs. Elktand Roller Mills. 8-t9-tf DON'T FORGET to select one of our Forms for defining floor slabs, alley- 5"iris as possible," Clark explains. Later he attended medical schools-- handscme ties for "his" Christmas. ways or other areas to be concreted ~l'hen ill health overcame him and A bathrobe for "his Christmas." We Kinde & Co., Cass City. 12-1]_-1 should be of sm6ol:h hunber, rigidly have them at $6.00, $7.50, $10.00, the physician and his wife started traveling. Mrs. Clark, an orphan, $12.00. Kinde &'Co., Cass City. 12- FOt~ SALE~25 Plymouth i-~ock ~)ut- brace(i in line :rod carefully set to lets and 25 White Leghorn pullets proper grade. The manger curb is sympathized with her husband in 11-1 hls eagerness to aid homeless chil- ])R. AND MRS. L. A. CLARK STANDING BY THEItZ HOME AND Ira Carru~hers, 3 miles west of Ar- usually placed first. It should be not ~'OI{KSHOP WHICH I~,IADE IT :POSSIBLE TO I~EALIZE HIS LIFE'S ~ess than four inches thick and is dren. BURKE'S Drug Store for Ivory Toi- gyle. P. O. Address, Decker. 11-27-3 They traveled and :Dr. Clark con- AMBITION. usually made about six inches high let articles, Manicure sets, perfume fined his efforts to mechanical work on tl,e stall side. Uprights supporting Clark began his life's work. One loges lhrough his efforts: Ail of sets and fancy stationery. BEGINNING Dec. 16, I will be at on surgical tools. In that line he stanchions are of several types. Some "There goes Policeman Jones in a ~net many leading physicians and orptlan, then another, was adopted them have good positions or are sue- Pinney's State Bank each Wednes- are attached to anchors which are set captain's rig. Only a year ago lie was murgeons throughout the country. and placed in ~chool. eessful in professions. CASH-LBring your cream to Kenney's day, and at Deford Bank each Sat- in the cm'b and others are embedded wearing a sergeant's suit." With -them aiding" in finding Now nine young women and two "That is enough reward for any- and get 2 cents pound for hauling, urday- from 9 a .m. to 4 p. m., until men have been graduated from col- one," Dr. Clark says. in the concrete. Feed and litter alley8 "That's so--he's had uniform suc- worthy young men and women, Dr. It pays your gasoline. 7-3-tf January 9, for collection of taxes, are usually placed after tt~e curb, then cess." Colin M. Perguson, Treasurer of ~OR SALE~A fresh black Holstein the stall platform and manger are Novesta Township. 12-11-2 placed. cow, 8 miles east, 3 ¼ miles north of Nonsense Cass City Markets. Cass City. August Sehank. 12-11-1PlMONE Y TO LOAN~On good im- The length of stall platform, that is, A little nonsense now and then the distance from manger cgrb Brings sorrow into many a land, A CANOE IS Like a small boy~oth' proved farms in Tuseola County to gutter, wilt depend upon the breed When folks discuss with voice or pert December 10, 1925. Rate 4~%. Long or short time. behave better when paddled of cattle kept, For Jerseys or Guern- What they but slightly understand~ Buying Price-- from Kingston Farm Loan Association. ~he rear. Every small boy will be seys the average length is about four Mixed wheat, bu ...... $1.73 E. J. Stewart, Sec.-Treas, Deford. Her Near Side delighted with a mouth organ for feet eight inches; for Holsteins about Oats ...... 36 10-2-tf It was In one of these ultra-smart five feet Is necessary. The platform Rye, bu ...... 89 Christmas~we have them. Wood's "Beauty Shoppes." The fair young should be pitched ° about one inch from Peas ...... 1.60 Rexall Drug Store. STRAYED to my farm 4 miles east thing, freshly shampooed, sat befol'e the curh toward the gutter. Corn shelled, bu. (56 lbs) ...... 80 and 1 mile north of Cass City, two the long mirror awaiting ~he magic WANTED~1000 little pigs from 4 to The surface of the manger should Beans, cwt ...... 4.35 yearlings and one two-year-old. toucll of the marceling iron. As the 12 weeks old, within the next 90 be finished smooth, with corners care- Buckwheat ...... 1.25 Owner requested to call at once. first curl rippled out, the girl turned to days. John A. Seeger, Cass City, fully ~ounded to make cleaning out Barley, cwt ...... 1.30 John Wright. 12-11-2 the operator and. lifting a dainty mani- R1. 10-23-tf easy and to provide a comfortable sur- Baled hay, ton ...... 12.00 18.00 cured left hand, said: Eggs, dozen ...... 55 STRAYED to my farm, 5 miles east, face for the animals to eat from. Lit- "Please marcel it extra tight on this Greater Yalae---Lower Przce. FOR SALE--Six cows and heifers ter and feed alleys should be finished Butter, lb ...... 1 mile south, ½ mile east of Cass side. It's the side I dance on." More Than zooo Pages of the Finest Entertainmentfor z926 and 4 bulls 1 year old. Vernon Car- Cattle ...... 4 6 City, a black and white steer. Own- with a wood float to secure an even penter, R. R. 1, Cass City. 12-11-1 Calves, live weight ...... 11 9 SERIAL STORIES F,,s~nati,,~"eo,,,~n.0d ,,ori00,'* o.ch ~orth.~. er may have property by paying but gritty surface, thus providing se- A Peculiar Disease book form, the price of a year's subscription. Hogs, live weight ...... 10½ for this notice. Chas. Doerr. 12-11-1 cure footing for the animals. Dumb Dora Tell me, Harry, do SPECIAL .,o~ ~o~,i. of world-w;d0i~0~0s~ FO,~ tCENT~Six room house with Hens ...... 11 19 50 ART|CLE$ by writers of authority. r~ce horses suffer from some disease lights and furnace, soft and hard Broilers ...... 15 19 FOR SALE--Deice lighting plant and like the itch or the man~e 200 SHORT STON|E$ Ad~o.t.ro, Ro~a,~o, Mystery, School water. Enquire at the Chronicle. Good Appearing Cows Not Stags ...... 10 Life, In&ans, Humor, Hairbreadth Es- large size battery in A1 condition Handsome Harry~Very seldom. capes, Athletics. 11-13-tf Ducks ...... 18 20 Enquire of G. M. Davis. Phone Always Most Profitable What makes you ask such a question. Radio ~ "'Make-It and Do-It "" Pages ~ Games- Caleb Peaslee's Cape Geese ...... 12 Cod Philosophy -- Wood Craft -- Nat ure Lore -- 154 2L, 2S. lll20ltf In dairying it is entirely possible to Dumb Dora--Why, Harry, t read on The Best Children's Page SPECIAL---Saturday, Dec. 12, we Hides ...... 6 will selI ~hree only~Cylinder white get nothing for something. This is the the sporting page every day that so VANITY FAIR FLOUR every sack DON'T MISS THIS GREAT YEARI gold fiiled bracelet watch for $6.39. conclusion of the New Jersey state many horses are scratched. guaranteed RED COMET COAl dairy ~pecialist after reviewing records Ch~.eriae Nat M~k P~ri~er A. H. Higgins. OFFER No. l less than a bushel of ash to the toy of dairy herds in the Mercer Cou n ~~y ~ro;~g i~ Quarre~ It is .=enerally known that chlorine OFFER A of coal. Cass City Grain Co. 8-21-t! TAX NOTICE~I will be at the Cass Cow-Testing association. It was found Edwin~I was ill the wrong when we as a purifier of water is an ideal L The YouCh~s Companion-- I. The Youth's Companiou 52 ~sues for 1926 for 1926 ...... $2.00 City State Bank to receive taxes that though some cows had unsatiable qtmrreled last night. agent for killing germs in the water HOLLY boxes, all sizes~at Burke's -- and 2. All remaining 1925 issues for Greenleaf Township on the fol- appetites and good appearance t~ey Angelina~I knew it all the time. It is not the case with milk, however Drug Store. 2. All the rem~ning issues 3. McCaII's Magazine $1o00 lowing afternoons, Dec. 19, Jan. 2 were niggardly in their milk output, By the way, wlmt did we quarrel It is likely that chlorine cannot pene for 19P.~ whereas other cows eating but little trate the fat in milk. and is therefor~ and 7. A penalty of $2.00 is now USE Cream of Wheat Flour. Elkland about? All for $2°00 All for $2.50 more would give four and one-half Edwin--Blest if I know? limited in its action on the germs. charged on dog license if not paid Roller Mills. 3-7-tf times as much mill;. before dan. 10. Colin McCallum, Check your choice and send this coupon with your remittance to the PUBLISHERS " h,~.... cows aoe $79 worth of feed Treas. 12-11-3 GIBSON Christmas greeting cards, LACKED ATTRACTIVENESS OF THIS PAPER, or to THE YOUTtt'S COMPANION, Boston, Massachusetts. apiece in one year and returned their~ Advertise it in the Chronicle. tags, seals and wrapping papers at owners 3,292 pounds of mill< each. CASH~Bring your cream to Kenney's Burke's Drug Store. and get 2 cents pound for hauling. Two other cows each ate $168 worth l.t pays y~ur ~asoline. 7-3-tf USE CREAM of Wheat Flour. Buy il of feed and gave their owners 14,817 at the Elkland Roller Mills. 3-7-tf pounds of milk each. Thus, for 2.1 NO MATTER how angry a girl may ~imes as much feed the good cows be she always "makes up'--Our VALUES in Home-made dresses that ~aveor. four and one-half times as much perfume and toilet goods sets make will be nice for Christmas gifts milk. a peach cf a gift for "Her." Try Mrs. Roy Vance, opposite Elkland By calculating further, the special- Wood's Drug Store first. Roller Mills 12-11-1p ist found .that it cost the owners of the poor cows $2.40 in feed for each TWENTY-FIVE pounds Calf Meal SAVE Friday evening, Dec. 11, for 1O0 pounds of milk. against 81.13 for for $1.25 at Elkland Roller Mills. the program and box social at Ap- an equal amount of milk from the 11!2016 pin school, 3 miles north, and good cows. When labor, housing and miles east, ~ mile south of Green- haulage expenses were added, it was SMOKERS' Sets, fancy cigars, pipes leaf. Ladies, bring boxes; met found t. at the cost of producing 100 and tobacco at Burke's Drug Store. your purses. 3~ar~uerite Shier pounds of milk with the poor cows Teacher. 12-4-2p was greater Umn prevailing sale SEE HIGGtNS for radios and radio prices. Hence, these low-yielding ani- Visitor--Why trove you people built supplies. IF YOU are still undecided what t ~ mals were eating up the profits made such u fine new" jail? give "hin~" for Christmas, come ir on the high-producers. Native Why, tt~e sheriff didn't se.,-m FOR SALE--Team of black horses, to be able to get anyone to go into the and let us show you. Kinde & Co. This is a clear case, concludes the N 6 and 7 years, wt. 3,200; team of Cass City. _12-~ ~-~ state specialist, of wasting feed, labor old one, you kn ~w. colts, 2 and 3 years, 3 cows. and barn space on worthless cows, or Claude Martin. Phone 102--4R. FOR SALE--Holstein heifer due Dec. of getting nothing for something. Hey! ll[20[tf 15. Luther Souden, R. R. 1, Owen- Some persons are full of woe dale. 12-11-1p Because for them there is no pay FOR SALE--80 acres of land, 15 Save Young Live Stock day; acres cleared; located 4 miles east, A farmer should be merry, though, FOR SALE--30 acres, gravel soil, to Increase Net Profit Because he always has his hay dayl 1¼ miles south of Cass City. CHgs. good buildings, near Cass City. Cutting down the high and costly Doerr. 12-11-2p Will sell on easy terms. Phone 153 death rate among infant live stock is One Perfect Home --2L, 1S. George A. Battle. 11-13- one of the farm problems for which Jackson There is room for improve. NOTICE Election of officers, Ameri- tf can Legion, Adams-Seeger Post, the farmer must apply the solution ment in every home. himself. The causes of early deaths Johnson Not in mine. Wednesday night, Dec. 16th at eight SPECIAL-~Nice line of Serving Trays in live stock fall into three general Jackson Oh ! Then you consider o'clock. Be at the Pinney State for $1.29 on Saturday, Dec. 12. your home perfect? Bank for this meeting. I. D. McCoy, A. H. Higgins. classes : Post Commander. 1. Conditions little influenced by Johnson Oh, but we live In an USE CREAM of Wheat Flour. Elk- treatment : Malformation, extreme apartment. l A Welcome Gift I A YEAR'S subscription for a good land Roller Mills. 3-7-tf feebleness or extreme prematurity, magazine is always an appreciated certain accidents during birth. Why He Wanted Story to All! gift~We take subscriptions for FOR SALE--Holstein cow, 5 years 2. Conditions capable of consider- Eminent Author--You bought a story any magazine published. Try old, due Dec. 25, for sale. Floyd able reduction, chiefly through proper of mine ten years ago for $25. His day's work done who is it asks for the Home Town Wood's Rexall Drug Store first. Strickland. 12-4-2 hygiene sanitary isolation, and medi- t Editor~Yes, but we haven't printed Paper? It's Dad ! cal treatment : Tuberculosis, acute it yet. NOTICE to Taxpayers~I Elkland WE WISH to express our h-eartfelt respiratory diseases, certain acute Eminent Author~Well, let me have Who at eventide seeks relaxation in the columns of the will be at Pinney State Bank thanks to our friends and neigh- contagious diseases, some forms of it back for $250. I've got a reputa- Home Town Paper? It's Mother! every day to receive township taxes. bors for their many acts of kind- animal parasitism. tion now and don't want to spoil it. Jas. Tennant, Treas. 12-4-2 ness and expressions of sympathy 3. Conditions capable of a very Who--while away at college gets lonesome for just a during the recent illness and death great reduction through proper feed- Necessary FAMILY WASHINGS Wanted; also of our mother, Mrs. Mary Decker. ing, care, and sanitation: Acute gas- glimpse of the Home Town Paper? It's son or daughter! Novelist~My hero is a hard, stern housework by the hour. Enquire at The Decker Family. trointestinal diseases, goiter troubles, man. with a strong face. Who--living in another city-,appreciates receiving the Chronicle office. '12-4-2p prematurity (if not extreme), many Editor He needs it! In the first CARD OF THANKS--We wish to forms of animal parasitism. Home Town Paper? It's a friend. SHEAFFER'S Fountain Pens and thank the friends and neighbors four chapters his face falls a dozen ti mrs. Are not those reasons enough why a Pencils are all guaranteed at who were so kind to us in our re- Failure to Breed Burke's Drug Store. cent bereavement; also Drs. McCoy, YEAR'S SUBSCRIPTION TO THE Morris and Tweedie, who attended Failure of cows to breed may be due Well, He and Cleo-- FOR SALE--Team of aged mares during his illness, and all-who sent to one of many causes. The chief First Student--I wonder how old cheap. John Mark, Cass City. Phone flowers; also the American Legion, cause, however, is infection with con- Mrs..Tones is. 93--2S, 1L. 12-4-2 Red Cross, especially Mrs. Grace tagious abortion. This disease brings Second Student Quite old, I im- about clianges in the maternal organs Cass City Chronicle ' Kelly and undertaker Mr. McPhail. agine. They say she used to teach IF YOU WANT the Best and most Mrs. John McQueen and family, which make• conception either uncer- Caesar. "-should head your Christmas Gift list. Suitable Christmas Gifts for man Mr. and Mrs. James McQueen, Mr. tain or entirely impossible. The treat- or boy, come to a Man's Store to Subscribe Today ! • ,- and Mrs. Jam O. McQueen and fam- ment consists of manual manipulation Supreme Test get them. Kinde & Co., Cass City. of the uterus and ovaries and regular ily, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rockwell Howard~Are you sure that yo~ t2-11-1 irrigation ..... A cure can be brought and family. really love Fl'orenee.9 about only by a prolonged course of ~hy boY. I'v~ treatment at a considerable expense Frank~Absolutely, s(.en her bob done UD in curl hopers I Chronicle Liners Cost Little; Accomplish Much. to the or:nor.