•X—x**x~x~x**x~x~x~x**x~x~x**x* IT PRODUCES RESULTS— READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS— The Record’s Want-Adv. Column Buchanan Merchants carrw a line is for Buyer or Seller, Make your of goods that you can ? • The wants known. The Cost Is small. Berrien County Record prices are ripl*1 '®- •\\sVe> ) r \ G&1 FIFTIETH YEAR BUCHANAN, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, THURSDAY 22, 1917 11.50' A YEAR IN ADVANCE NUMBER 6 \ MICHIGAN’S FASTEST EXCELLENT PROGARM TWO TICKETS HIGH SCHOOL TEAM HOME MINSTRELS FOR FARM MEETINGS P. M. FLYER COMING FOR GAME DENIKEMUSTSERVE AT MT. TABOR GRANGE. PLACED IN FIELD Arrangements have been made with YEAR IN PRISON An important meeting for farmers, JUMPS TRACK the Three Rivers High school basket in co-operative extension work in agri­ ball team, claimed by many to be the culture and home economics, will be CITIZENS AND UNION CAUCUSES fastest team in the state, to come to SELECT MARCH 22 AND 23. PLACE held at the Mt. Tabor Grange hall HEAVY BANK OF SNOW LIFTS Buchanan Friday night, March 2nd, SURPRISED COURT BY ASKING Thursday and Friday, March 1st and HELD TUESDAY; FULL TICKETS and meet the local high school team. THAT HE BE SENT TO JACK- PRINCESS THEATER. GREAT 2nd. ENGINE FROM RAILS AND ‘The local players have successfully The' school will be conducted by H. PREPARATIONS BEING MADE NOMINATED; VOTERS TO met all comers thus far this season SON INSTEAD OF IONIA; RE­ J. Lurkins, county agricultural agent, TIES UP TRAFFIC FOR SEVER­ and they are confident of their ability and the lecture on live stock will be HAVE CHOICE. QUEST GRANTED. FOR EVENT. AL HOURS. to hold the Three Rivers boys. given by W. F. Raven, in charge of The local manager has assumed the state live stock extension work. quite a big expense in bringing this The program follows: The Home Minstrels have selected Citizen’s Ticket. team to Buchanan and it will require Dr. C. H. DeNike, erstwhile Bu­ * THE WORLD’S NEWS * Thursday, -March 1— The Pere Marquette train bound March 22 and 23 as dates for the com­ to Buchanan from Benton Harbor a large attendance to pay out, there­ chanan physician, arrested several * AT A GLANCE. * 10:00 a. m;— Feeds and their Com­ President— Geo. H. Richards ing carnival of laughter. The place ran into a heavy bank of snow and Clerk- Philip Boone fore the players are asking that the weeks ago charged with perfoming * * * ****** ** position „ patronage be even better than.usual. a criminal operation which caused the will be the Princess theater. 11:00 a. m.-— (Topic to be chosen) ice about four miles out from town Treasurer— Chas. Landis FRIDAY. By next week the program will he The game will be called at eight death of little Alice Mitchell, was sen­ 1:00 p. m.-—Food requirements for Monday and the tender, a car loaded Trustees— John Babcock, Wilson Three cowboys found murdered by ready for the public and the rehears­ -with hogs, a car of merchandise and o’clock. tenced Monday morning by Judge Dairy Cows Leiter, M. J. Kelling Villa bandits on the Mexican side of als well under way. Songs are being Bridgman to serve an indeterminate 2:15 p. m.-—-(Topic to be Chosen) the front trucks of the passenger Assessor— P. W. Howe the border not far from Hachita, N. learned, hones are being polished and coach left the rails. The train was sentence of from one year to fifteen M. They "were Andrew P. Peterson, Friday, March 2— years in the Ionia reformatory, with regalia purchased. The end men, in­ 10:00 a. m.—-Rations for Dairy traveling at a slow rate of speed due Union Ticket GRANGEHALL Hugh Accord and Burton Jensen. The terlocutor, manager and water boys In the passenger coach were sev- the recommendation that he be liber­ bodies were found by Lem Sillsbury, Cows President— Geo. Black ated at the end of one year. have been chosen and each is taking 11:00 a. m.— (Topics’to he Chosen) to- the uncertainty of the condition Perishing scout, who followed Peter­ of the track. Clerk— P. A. Graffort Dr. DeNike, who had stoutly main­ opportunity of spare moments to whip 1:00 p. m.— Balancing Rations FORMALLY OPENED son’s shepherd dog to the spot. himself into line. eral passengers some of whom decided ‘ Treasurer— Ray Pierce tained his innocence, sprung a sur­ 2:15 p. m.— (Topic to be Chosen) Charlie Chaplin, movie star, invests It is whispered that the 22nd and to take their chances of getting in Trustees— H. S. Bristol, Martin prise on the day of his trial by chang­ The promoters of these meetings $150,000 in England’s win-the-war 23rd of March, 1917, will long be re­ with the train and others, considering Pearson, Ralph Allen. BUCHANAN PEOPLE ASSIST IN ing his plea to guilty. campaign. strongly urge the farmers to attend Assessor— Frank Merson. When taken into court to receive membered in Buchanan as a time of all sessions. These meetings are to the condition hopeless for several Neutral ships will resume trips and excruciating revelry and will go down hours at least, took Shank’s horses ENTERTAINMENT; HALL AT his sentence the doctor sprung anoth­ help the farmers make more money hope to dodge U-boats by taking ex­ in history along with the Home Com­ into town. After a wait of an hour . Above are the two tickets chosen er surprise. In passing sentence and it is hoped and expected that WALTON’S CROSSING WILL BE treme northern course with Halifax ing of August 1910. or more the remaining passengers Tuesday evening by the voters of Bu­ the Judge said that he had carefully as harbor. a packed house will greet the speak­ investigated the case through the pro-j The men who are planning the min­ hiked in. MADE SOCIAL CENTER. ers. chanan. From these will be chosen I bation court and found that DeNike) strel show are pastmasters at the art The train crew succeeded in getting SATURDAY the men whom, with the hold-over of­ had a good reputation at his old home! of entertaining and have promised all of the derailed train back on the Seven British ships torpedoed with JUDICIARY COMMITTEE ficers, will represent the village dur­ in Cass county, and that he believed; the people a “ reg’lar time.” What­ KILLS VARIOUS BILLS track except the tender later in the a tonnage toll of 10,336. ever yon do, don’t plan to give or go day and the tender was returned to ing the period pregnant with possibili­ Last Thursday evening the newr j that some leniency should be shown; Washington puzzled over fate of the rails Tuesday morning. Grange hall near Walton’s crossing him, therefore the light sentence. The. to a party, at home or in South Bend, Lansing— The house judiciary com­ ties for growth and prosperity. The Yarrowdale men, over what has hap­ on these dates. There is going to be The heavy snow has filled the deep ,was open to the public for the first: judge further said that he had made mittee killed the Robinson bill aimed pened to the train carrying eighty-six cuts along the right of way and the next two years will, in all probability, tjnie when a company of Buchanan' arrangements whereby De Nike was, more down right fun in the Princess at- runaway marriages and which pro­ former American consuls and their on these nights than can be found winds have kept pace with the section see the installation of a new sewer Rebekahs and Odd Fellows, gave a) to become prison physician at .Ionia, vided that marriage licenses must be families from Munich, and over the elsewhere. crews in filling up the cuts about as "wstem • the bea-mnino- if not the com- benefit entertainment to help swell1 making him a member of the staff andr secured fifteen days before the cere­ problem of what Austria will do. as fast as they were shoveled out, o f S ZX of ax- a . bunding fund of the Bend of the gMn/hint almost unlimited freedom, Watch and wait. mony. It also killed his hill authoriz­ Railroad chiefs inform President seriously delaying traffic on this line ^ . _ *u* j- River grange. ‘ The surprise came when DeNike re-; ing the talcing of testimony during Wilson the railroads are ready to give and causing no end of inconvenience tended water mams; the building of; The trip from town was made in [quested that he be sent to Jackson! criminal examinations. The Glaspie their resources to the government in to officials and patrons. miles of sidewalk, and the expansion' bobs provided by members of the * prison instead of Ionia. j bill allowing husbands to inherit one- necessary to co-operate with manu- grange, and on reaching the hall the; ----------------------------- icase of war. MICHIGAN READY TO Rumored that the United States has third of their wife’s real estate was facturing i n t „ h i c h are sure T o. ™ 2 & S S & 3 S tMICHIGAN WILL BUILD.landed soldiers at Santiago in readi­ pigeon-holed, as was the Blinn meas­ find Buchanan a desirable place for „ pper by the lildl(,5 £ the ness for a revolt. The report not GIVE 4 0 0 ,0 0 0 MEN ure abrogating tbe common law dis­ STEREOPTICON HERE verified. £ ability” of women to bind themselves location. After this the following program was "9 jointly with their husbands.