LEDGER UP and ENTRIES ME Being a Collection of Varloos Topics of Local and FORTY-EIGHTH YEAR LOWELL, MICHIGAN, AUGUST 15, 1940 No. 14 General Interest "GOD BLESS AMERICA" Lowell F. F. A. Boys TETANY a Lowell resident goes Lowell Man Is Place at Free Fair Alto to Hold about whistling a song that pleases his fancy. It Isn't a love- Greatest 4-H Fair George Wittenbach, local F. F. A. sick ditty or a jitter Jig but a member, has placed very high In patriotic air that Is catchy and World s Safest the club class at the Ionia Free Flower Show on stirring. It recently caught the Fair with the purebred Duroc Jer- nation's fancy when It played an sry pigs he has been raising as a Important part In both the polit- .'arm project. ical campaigns. The aong was Average Driver Friends of Jimmy Gee are glad George has two gilts and a boar Sat., Aug. 31 written in 1917 when Irving Ber- to sec him back on the Job after LoweU, Next Week entered and placed two firsts and lin composed It for a patriotic W. V. Burras Has Driven spending several days In a Grand one second. Hog raisers showing at Annual Event Sponsored Rapids hospital for observation. It the Free Fair have nothing but musical show. However, It went to (By K. K. Vlnlng) sleep and nothing was heard from Over Million Miles Is reported he Is feeling quite a bit More Exhibits Than Ever Before praise for the fine pigs George has By Alto Garden It until Kate Smith gave It life improved. raised and his skilled method of Already Feeding Silage Without Accident showmanship. Club Members and feeling on a radio broadcast Two Evening Entertainments Reports from the testers In Kent .Clark Adams, who has operated Perry Freeman, also a local F. F. on Armistice evening In 1938. "God The distinction of having driven The Alto Garden Club announces County's two cow testing associa- a lunch room in the Lee block for The sixth anniuil 4-H Club Fair, which will open at Lowell next A. member, has raised and shown Bless America" 1« now sung with more than a million miles without ihe following schedule for their tions state that dairymen are al- the past several months, has sold a purebred Holsteln heifer and fire and fervor and seems to be accident during the past 28 Wednesday morning, Aug. 21, and continue for three days, looks very 19V/ Flower Show which Is to be ready feeding this year's hay and his business to Mrs. Addle Hunt of placed 5th In the club class. This Is a national anthem. Due to the years goes to Wilbur V. Burras much like one of those bigger and better fairs. held at the Alto Grange hall on old silage to supplement pastures Grand Rapids, who took Immediate Perry's first experience in, show- radio this air Is popularized to of Lowell, according to an Inter- Saturday, August 31, from 1:00 to that were shortened by the recent possession and opened for business Many calls are coming for premium books and entry blanks from manship and next year he will do such an extent that It really does esting article by David V. Cleary 9:00 p. m. The admission fee will dry. hot spell. today. many folks outside of the 4-H Club organization. This means one a lot better with the same animal. ring, "From the mountains, to the in the August issue of Buick Mag- be 15c, which includes refresh- Perry also Is showing sheep but at prairies, To the oceans white with thing, that the open classes In vegetables, flowers, grains, baked goods ments. Everyone in the vicinity of azine, which reads as follows: Marshal Fred Gramer arrived this writing the Judging has not Good Impnivements foam." It is easy for any voice to and household arts are going to be filled. Alto is urged to cooperate and help Until somebody else steps up to home on Tuesday from a two weeks' been completed. The farm buildings of Ray Coats handle and this helps make It a New display racks are being built to better set off the canning ex- make this show a success. Please claim the title, let's consider W. stay In a Grand Rapids hospital We all feel that when young joys in Cascade township, and Robert hit. bring all the flowers you can, and V. Burras to be the world's safest where he underwent a serious hibit which has grown each year. Better display racks for clothing make such good showing that they MarFaiiane, In Bowne township, We are having a wave of patriot- come and enjoy the flower show "average" driver. operation, Fred Is getting along and household arts exhibits will be ready for the fair. are bound to build a wonderful are getting coats of paint. The Ism that isn't at all hysterical. with us. ship-shape but It will probably be future for themselves. barns are being painted white This song Is sung In public assem- During the past twenty-eight Livestock entries from 4-H Clubs and F. F. A. groups In the Rules a week or two before he gets his which really sets them off. blies, open air meetings, baseball years, he has covered more than county will tax the capacity of barns and tents if advance entries are | — — 1. All entries must be in by a million miles—without an ac- seaiegs back. Alex Wlngeier, Bowne township, games, band concerts. Perhaps you any indication. The Bowne Center Junior Livestock Club has a clubii Or/FlCr PastOT tO 10:00 a. m. August 31st. cident of any kind. He averages who started a basement barn re- did not know that Irving Berlin The Rev. W. T. Ratcliffe of Low- entry in now for 19 head of cattle, 12 sheep and 6 colts and one pig. 2. Exhibits must conform to | about a thousand miles a week the schedule and exhibitors i.iust rnode,tn» Job a year ago, finished gets no money as profit for the ell was among more than 300 pas- Preach Here Sunday every week, with never a mishap. The flower show, which attracts many garden enthusiasts, nill be comply with the rules or be CIs-1" f.ecent'y b>' building new horse thousands of sheets of this music tors from 30 states who attended And yet we'd call Mr. Burras In charge of Mrs. F. E. White of Lowell. This department has had a qualified. stalls. that are sold. Every penny goes the Ninth Annual Pastors' Insti- The Rev. H. H. Harris, former an "average" driver, simply be- The Alien Behler farm in Lowell to the Girl and Boy Scouts. "God tute and Educational Conference steady growth and Judging from the Interest in local flower shows the pastor of the Methodist Church 3. Exhibitors will be allowed to township, has had new equipment Bless America, my home, sweet cause he has never driven as a at the University of Chicago. The one in connection with the club fair should be an attractive and in- here, will return as guest preacher make only one display in a class and professional; he doesn't drive spe- this Sunday at the eleven o'clock will not be permitted to enter the placed In the basement plus a new home." two-weeks' program of clinics, teresting one. m kln cial-built cars; he doesn't drive on lectures and special short courses service. Mr. Harris has recently same entry In more than one class. i " 8 machine. Marlon Shade speed tracks, where traffic and One of the features of Judging day are the showmanship contests served the church at Wayland and 4. Plants and flowers must be lhe operator of the Behler farm, BUILDING THE SMALL TOWNS ended Sunday. roadway conditions are controlled. in livestock. During the day's Judging work, those who indicate an in June of this year retired from grown by the exhibitor except — active service. Mr. Harris was pas- flowers for artistic arrangements Trees Doing Well VVTENDELL L- WILLKIE, Repub- Once a farmer, he Is now, at Do you remember when hitch- ability to show, and whose animals are well fitted, are asked to enter tor here when the addition was These flowers need not be grown lican candidate for president, sixty-four, the calm friendly-talk- ing posts were located on Main the final contest. Show halters are given by Blue Valley Creamery I hadn't seen the Lowell muni- built on the church. His friendly by the exhibitors but must be ar- advocates a policy that he calls ing president of the State Mutual street in the business section for cipal forest for some time so stop- for the dairy contest William J. McCarthy A Sons of Parnell give a spirit made him well known among ranged by them. "decentralization of Industry", Fire Insurance Company of Mich- the benefit of farmers who drove ped In there the other day. The which means the return of a good igan. He travels to keep In per- show halter for the colt contest and a pair of sheep shears are given Lowell ites. 5. Exhibitors must furnish own to town to trade? And also when containers. older trees have certainly made share of the country's Industrial sonal touch with 600 company socials were held on the average for the best showmanship In the sheep division. 6. Unscheduled exhibits will be a heavy growth this year.