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Topics of Local and General Interest FORTY-FIRST Y E A R

A REAL LOWELL NEED

MAYBE we are too oplimistic lo say it again, but we re-pea l : Wouldn ' t it be fine

if Lowell had a modest but up-It^the-iuinule hotel .

Not one too big fo r the town but a coxy one wi th maybe a doren o r so rooms t o care f o r the t ransients wi th in our gates. Certainly wi th the big instito-lions around us. wh ich b r ing many visitors, t he re must be folks w h o would like to s tay h e r e al l night if they could go to an inviting IHtle hos te l ry .

For a town with all of Low-ell's progress, it is a little em-barrassing at times to tell peo-ple w e have no modern hotel and that they will have to go else-where.

A modest hotel coukl make money for its manager and in addition it would be one more iostitatioR in town to bring busi-ness to others.

What do yon say?

11TATDC AUCDV Hold Services Here ALlUtRtAlTltK 1 For Martin Hoxie, 74

PAYS $115,323 CASH DURING'33

The arw footbridge the Tkoraapplo river at ha has been e o a p l d c d . Woald that the s a n e eoald he said aboot a footbridge across Flat river at Lowell.

KENT HONORED

a n d A I V T O S O L O

LOWELL, MICHIGAN. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1,1934 N O . 37

Odds and E n d s Here and T h e r e

Pithy Points Picked Up and Patly Put By Onr Per ipa-

tetic PenrH Pusher

TH E LEDGER extends con-gratulat ions to Edi tor J . John Pope of the Grandvil le

S t a r on his elevation to the office of president of the Michigan Press Asso. at the annua l meeting of that body in Eas t Lansing on Thur sday , F r i ^ a n d SaL, of last week. It is a cause fo r p r ide on The par ty of the publ ishers of Kent Count)- to know that one of the i r naxnber h a s received the highest honor in the gift cf the association and organization which has fo r its main purpoce the inculcation of the highest type of community service on the par t of member newspapers . Paul McDonald of the Otsego County Herald-Times is the new-ly elected vice pres iden t whi le F r a n k Brown of the BeUevne Gazette is the n e w secretary-t reasurer . Mr. Brown succeeds the editor of The Ledger, w h o re t i res a f te r t w o t e r n s of si vice.

President Pope is a fine type of Christ ian gent leman a n d the Michigan Press Association wi l l cont inue in safe h a n d s under h is l eadefd i ip .

THOSE UNPRODUTIVB FARMS

WE HAVE b e e n great ly interested in Professor Raymond Tugwell 's expo-

sit ion of the p rogram for t ak ing unproduct ive land out of use Professor TugwelL «« assistant Sec re ta ry of Agricul ture a n d a t ra ined economist, is keenly aBvc l o the unsat isfactory state of f ann ing , and looks f o r w a r d to a t ime when all land on which it is difficult o r impossible to make a living through f a r m i n g wil l be taken over by the Government o r t h e States and converted into pa rks and forests, o r else devot-ed solely to residential purposes for those w h o h a v e other sources of income.

A long step has been taken in that direction, but immensely m o r e needs to b e done if th is beneAdal plan is t o b e car r ied out in its completeness. It is not something which can be done in a hur ry . A full h u m a n genera-tion would seem to us to b e about as short a t ime as it could be accomplished in . For , r e -gardless of w h e t h e r they make a living on it o r not , most people feel a deep at tachment to the land on which they live, and will consent to move o r be moved on-ly under the severest sort of pressure.

The fa rmers w h o will f a r m the productive land will be mainly Ihosc who now o w n those fa rms , o r their descendants. Possibly t h e r e iss t i l l some good agricul tur-al land that can be broiught into efficient production through i rr i -gution, but t he re is hard ly enough of it to sewlf all the p res enl occupants farms on good farms. P ro fessor Tupwell reports that the 28 per cent of American farms which are classed as worthless produce only 2 percent of the marketable crops.

We wonder whe the r Mr, Tug-wrell and the o ther eminent eco-nomists and statist icians con-cerned take any account what-ever of the human factors in-volved. H iey a r e looking on farming as a commercial en ter -prise. whereas to probably the majority of f a r m e r s it is a mode of living, wi th cash crops of sec-ondary consequence. We think that before the whole present scheme of agr icul ture can b e changed ihere will have to be some alterations in human na-ture.

CA REEKS — OFTEN ACCIDEN-TAL

FEW people k n o w when they are young w h a t their l ife-work is going to be. Most

of them find themselves in ca-reers which they never dreamed of. There is Ted Geisel, f o r ex-ample. He went through two or three universities, in tending to become a great author, o r a college professor, o r both. But onr day ne d r e w a comic sketch and sent it to a popular maga-zine. H was published and caught the eye of the advert is ing manager of a big corporat ion.

"We want that young man to draw advertising pictures f o r us." he said, and that is w h a t Ted Geisel has been doing, with great profit lo himself and his employ-ers and amusement to the public, for several years . Everybody has seen his pen-name, "Dr . Senss." on advert isements.

Most people become whatever they are by accident, a f te r all.

A GAIN O F SEV ERAL THOl S-

AND DOLLARS OVER LAST

YEAR — S H I P MORE BUT-

T E R — M O R E SOLD LOCAL-

LY — PATRONS CONSUME

MORS.

Upwards of 650 pat rons of the Alto Coopera t ive Creamery Asso-ciation gathered in Alto last Thursday f o r the annual business meeting, in fact the whole fami ly came, as wel l as many interested spectators f r o m various points. Automobiles lined the various streets a n d the crowd took on the appearance of a county f a i r .

Grange hall , whe re the annual d inne r and business meeting were held, w a s c rowded to capac-ity in spi te of wh ich everything moved along wi th regulari ty and precision. T h e Ladies Aid served a bounteous d inne r to wh ich all did ample justice. Hon. J . C Ketcham of Hastings made a characteris t ical ly s t i rr ing speech, preceded by a fine talk by Kent County's energetic County ageni , Mr. K. K. Vining. Good music was furn ished by the Fa rmer s ' Quartet te of Elmdale, songs by the Lohnes boys, p iano solos by Miss Bernice Yeiter and vocal so-los by Mrs. Emma Deardorf .

The annua l report of the Alto creamery, which was read by Manager Dale V. Curtiss, showed that the Association was in ex-cellent financial condition. The total cash paid to pat rons dur ing the year was 1115,323.59, in ad-dition to which pa t rons were paid 112,476.61 in but ter , ia i0 .*2 in but termilk and $24323 it. credits.

The pr ice paid f o r bot te r fa t during t h e yea r averaged one cent more than the previous year . The total amount of but ter made dur ing the year was 746,565 lbs. , which w a s 90400 lbs . more than was made the previous year .

It is a l so of interest to note that the pe t rous themselves con-sumed 9.000 more pounds of but-ter than they did the previous year . The amount they con-sumed dur ing the year w a s 62,-163 lbs . T h e but te r sold locally amounted to 121.539 lb s . ; t he but ter shipped totalled 562.883 lbs. T h e total increase in cream received over the previous year amounted to 200.000 lbs. The total receved f o r the vear w a s 1.-826,532 lbs.

The total receipts for the year were 8149,948.08. It is w o r t h y of note that the Association's business w a s conducted the past year at a saving of 83,500 over the previous year, whi le at the same t ime more but ter was pro-duced.

The fol lowing directors w e r e elected: N. M. OUeirne , John Nash, Glen Loveland, Glen Yei-ter , Leon Anderson.

The board elected the fol low-ing officers: N. M. O'Beirne, P res . and Treas . ; Leon Anderson, Vice Pres ident ; Glenn Yeiter. Secre-t a ry ; Dale V. Curtiss. Manager.

; Martin E. Hoxie . son of Clark land Eleanor Heald Hoxie was born S e p l f i n b t r 5. 1839 iu Easl-

lon. Ionia Co., and passed away at his home in Kelding January

,23. 1934. In 1880 he was married toi

I Agnes Kei ley. w h o died about | 1918. November 5. 1921 he mar-[COUNTY CHAIRMAN JAMES G.; ried U b b i e l^awrence and she

RELIEF GROUP TO COOPERATE WITH CWA-CWS

Corn-Hog Program MORE RELIEF ON R „ R PROPERTY TAX ror Kent rarmersis THE DEMAND

passed away November 1929. He lived in Lowell the greater part of his life. September 30. 1933 he marr ied Mrs. Katherine God-frey of Belding, w h o survives him. H e also leaves to mourn their loss two bro thers . George Hoxie of Easton and Fred of Lowell, and many nieces and nephews a n d a host of f r iends.

Rev. S. B. Wenger officiated January 28th at the funera l ser-vices w h i c h w e r e held at Yeiter 's Chapel. Lowel l . Mich. Burial look place in Easton cemetery. Mr. Har ley Maynard in his usual pleasing voice, sang "Some Day W e l l Unders tand" and "Abide With Me."

Mr. Hoxie was a kind husband and a good neighbor, a lways willing lo help in t ime of need. He will be sadly missed by his many relat ives and fr iends.

NH9ITCLASSES PROVEPOPULAR MAY YET JOIN ENTHUSIASM SHOWN IN NEW-

LY ORGANIZED CLASSES FOR ADULTS—MAY OPER ATE ON LARGER SCALE NEXT YEAR

Laife AnEeoces Hear Eyangetsts

The Riggs-Brown duo literally blew in to town Sunday af te rnoon on the wings of a near zero blizzard, but in spite of the weather they were greeted by a good congregation at the Method-ist church Sunday evening.

The outs tanding feature of their two weeks ' campaign will be the meetings each evening at 7:30. These meetings are marked by very fine p iano duets and congre-gational singing.

Additional features are the children 's meetings at 3:45 each af ternoon and young people's meetings on Tuesdays and Thurs-days at 6:3(1.

This is the four th year these popular Evangelists have con-ducted a crusade in Lowell .

New PljfMlk Six Oi Display Here

Gould's Garage now have on display the n e w Plymouth fo r 1934. Besides it 's beauty this new car has many other new fea-tures that can be found only in the higher priced cars. These features include all the latest im-provements such as individual f ront wheel springing, perfected ventilation, air-wheel tires, safe-ty steel body, hydraul ic brakes, etc.

Advertising in T h e Ledger won't supply your shelves wi th I l (.w jmods at cheap prices but it wil l help clear them out of the way for whatever you wan t to buy n e x t

V

Strand To Present Musical Revue

"I Am Suzanne" appears, at the S t rand thea t re on Sunday and Monday, s t a r r ing Lilian Harvey and Gene Raymond.

The p ic tu re includes an elab-orate revue number which repre-sents St. Moritz. A unique wind-ing slide, more than 3(H) yards long, shoots down f rom high in the wings of a corner of the siage, around a miniature chalet, and out onto a rink of ice.

Adults like to at tend school. T U s w a s plainly indicated last Monday night w h e n much en thusiasm was shown by those who enrol led in the newly or-ganized classes. T h e FERA plan proves popular whenever tried and i t appears n o w that more classes should have been organ-ized here . School authori t ies have about decided that a year f rom now the entire regular school faculty wil l be asked to offer one night a week for a period of twenty weeks to those who might wish to attend night school. P lans shall be made ac-cordingly. Th is would give op-por tuni ty to all t o take just what happened to be of interest lo them.

There a re no fees in connec-tion wi th the night classes.

H o n e Ecoaoaucs Miss Jewel l was pleased to

have th i r ty women enroll in ad-vanced sewing. The class is so large that it will be necessary to divide the g roup into t w o sec tions. Th is will be done at the meeting Fr iday night when all who enrolled a re expected to at-tend. Those w h o were not pres-ent Monday may still en te r the class. Phya. Education Class for Woaien

Paul Jones will undoubtedly be a busy man in the gymnasium. It appears that he will have a different class each night. He is par t icular ly desi rous of getting a large group of business men on Fr iday nights. This class will start next week because of a bas-ketball game here tomorrow. A class io r women was started last night and the women wil l report each Wednesday night at 7:30. Mr. Jones says ' i h e more the mer r i e r " and wil l be happy to accept more registrations.

Band H o w a r d White is tu tor ing sev-

eral w h o are anxious to learn how to play band instruments. He plans to have "group" in-struct ion a little later. adults should enroll course.

BRYANT WARNS THAT

TOWNSHIPS MUST BE IN

READINESS TO CARRY LOAD

— TO CONFER WITH VIL-

LAGE COUNCIL.

F u r t h e r activities in unemploy-ment relief got under way in Lowell th is week wi th inaugur-ation of a b r a n c h of the CWS (Civil Works Service.) Th is b ranch of the w o r k here is pro-viding 15 hours work a week fo r a dozen o r more women who a re engaged in the sewing of gar-ments f o r the Red Cross of this distr ict . Mrs. A. P . Morse is the fore lady in charge of ihe work here.

Each woman furnishes he r own sewing machine. The work-ers are comfor tab ly situated in the C. W . Cook store building on E Main-St. Mr. Cook donates the use of his building, the Low-ell Board of T r a d e donates the fuel fo r heating, the village of Lowell donates the jani tor ser-vice a n d electric lights.

In addit ion to providing em-ployment the w o r t has fo r its purpose the work ing up of the country ' s surplus cotton. A to-tal of 47,000 ya rds of cotton goods have been sent to Kent County fo r work ing up and more yardage is expected to follow.

This phase of relief work here is unde r the general direct ion of the Kent County Welfare Relief Commission. James G. Bryant of Grand Rapids, head of the com-mission. was in Lowell Wednes-day evening to confer wi th the local commit tee which had been appointed to assist in CWA and CWS activities here .

Mr. Bryant was accompanied by several of t h e county w o r k e r s including Mrs. Edi th Dudman. a ru ra l CWA supervisor , Mrs. Lois Richards and Rober t Peckham. case w o r k e r s ; Miss Charlotte E. Taylor , cha i rman of CWS pro-jects.

The fol lowing named persons comprise the local committee: R. Van Dyke. L. M. Yieter, P. C Peckham. W. W. Gumser, C W . Cook, Dr . J . K. Altland, Rev. S. B. Wenger, Char les Powell , Mrs. Floyd Steed and Mrs. R . G. Jef -feries. Mr. Van Dyke was elect-ed chai rman of this committee and Mrs. Steed s e c r e t a r y . T b e func t ions of this committee a re to act in an advisory capac-ity to the county commission.

In address ing the meeting Mr. Bryant slated that one of the purposes of having advisory committees throughout the coun-ty was to earn , on in case it be-came necessary to t h r o w the we l fa re work back onto t h e townships . Persons on relief rolls will be expected to main-tain large gardens in the spr ing fo r which ground and seeds wil l be provided.

Representat ives of Ihe CWA a r e expected to meet with ihe village council next Monday night in o rde r to go over local CWA projects now under way .

Mr. Bryant cleared up an im-portant point by stating that the village council had full d i rect ing powers over local CWA projects .

Mrs. Ella McKenzie Spent Girlhood H~re

Kent County fa rmers will have an opportuni ty to learn details of the corn-hog adjustment pro-p ram at a series of meetings to s tar t this week Sa turday and cont inue next week. Seven meetings in all will be held and if more a re needed plans will be made for the same.

T h e question is asked w h o can part icipate. To get benefit pay-ment on corn a man must have husked an average of 10 acres of co rn fo r gra in in 1932 and 1933. He must have averaged a t least 3 l i t ters of bogs per yea r f o r t h e same two years . H e need not reduce if only 3 li t ters w e r e pro-duced but gets no benefits if he d o e s n t reduce. The f a r m aver-aging 4 li t ters fo r the base years must reduce. A f a r m e r can sign e i ther a corn or hog contract , but if he can qual ify f o r both he must reduce in both.

Corn acreage must be reduced 20r'f and benefits will be paid up to a 307( reduction. Hog li t ters must be reduced 25Tr, the same reduction applying to the num-ber of hogs raised.

Following is the schedule of meetings. County Agent K. K. Vining will have charne of the discussions:—

Satarday, Febrnary 3rd Byron Center Town Hall, 10:00

a. m. Monday, Febrnary 5th

Holy Corners Par ish Hall , (Caledonia Twp . ) 10:00 a. m.

AHo Grange Hall, 1:30 p. m. Wednesday, February 7th

Vergennes Grange Hall, 10:00 a. m

Bostwick l a k e Church, 1:30 p. m.

Thursday . Febrnary 8th Cedar Spr ings High School.

(Auditorium) 10:00 a. m. Ballard 's Corners Church, 1:30

p. m. Edi tor ' s Note — The main fea-

tures of the corn e n d hog reduc-tion program w e r e published in an art icle in T h e Ledger of J an -uary 18. W e suggest that the art icle may be wor th re-readinp and that all f a r m e r s attend Ihe meeting lo be held in their lo-cality. — Editor .

STATE ASSOCIATION OF SUP-

ERVISORS STANDS BY HOME

AND FARM OWNER — M

McPHERSON ELECTED

PRESIDENT.

Franlr T Kma Mn- Ca*sie Hawky n a m i i . Ring E n t e n / n t o R e s t

Is Critically Dl

in More

Ibis

New Cbevrdets At Webster Bros.

The new 1934 Chevrolet with knee-act ion" wheels . H(^-horse-

power "Blue S t r eak" engine.' s t reamlined body and an impos-ing list of improvements and re-finements is n o w on display at Webster Bros. Chevrolet show-rooms.

In t h e design and development of the new models, par t icular at-tention has been given to dr iver and passenger comfort and ev-ery effort has been made to elim-inate t h e sensations of both sound and feeling that prove an-noying to Ihe motoriBt.

The new Chevrolet is longer — it has a 112 inch wheelbase — roomier , more powerful , smooth-er and more quiel than its pre-decessor. The engine is placed several inches fa r the r f o rwa rd in the chassis and seating has been rearranged.

There a r e many addit ional im-provements and Webster Bros, cordial ly invite your inspection and demonst ra t ion .

NOTICE

George W. Godfrey Dies at Age of 80

Mrs. Ella E. McKenzie of R F. I). 6, Grand Rapids, passed a w a y 1 uesday at the age of 75 years . Mrs. McKenzie was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Cogswell, former ly of lx)well, and as a girl , lived in Lowel l . At one t ime she taught school in this vicin-ity.

Surviving are a sister. Miss Ida Cogswell of Grand Hapids, and a foster sister, Mrs. David Mange of Detroi t .

Funeral services were held in Grand Itapids this Thursday morning, wi th burial in Oak-wood cemetery, Lowell .

The many fr iends of T. King will i-egret t o learn that he is cri t ical ly ill a t his home in Grand Rapids. Mr. King had nearly recovered f r o m a recent a t tack of the flu and had resumed his usual activities, but while in a t tendance at a meeting of the Mills Mutual Insurance Co., in Lansing last Thursday , of which h e is a director , was taken with a sudden hear t at tack. Mr. King rallied f rom the at tack and phy- j April sicians pronounced h im able to re turn to his home. After reaching his home Mr. King again became worse and lias since been confined to his bed wi th a trained norse and Miss Florence King in constant a t tendance.

Cassie F. Burt , daughter of Benjamin and Merinda Burt, was b o m in Fal lasburg, March 15,

{1864, and moved to Lowell r r a n k wi th he r parents and brothers

and sisters, whe re she has lived all he r life, w i th the exception of a f ew years in Greenville and 'Sparta.

She marr ied Hiram E. Hawley of Keene, Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 30, 1882. To this union w t r e born th ree chi ldren, Truda M., Burt W., and Glenn H., Ihe lat ter dying J u n e 28, 1913.

Since the death of her husband, " 27. 1930, Mrs. Hawley

made h e r home wi th h e r son Burt . She had been side most of the t ime f o r the last four years, and had been a very quiet and patient sufferer . She passed a w a y J a n u a r y 29, 1934, aged 69 years , 10 months , 14 days. Mrs

Yesterda> Dr Wi lbur Post of Hawley leaves to mourn their Chicago was called in consulta-t ion with at tending physic ians Complications in addi ton to the hear t t rouble developed and last

loss, he r son Bur t , and daughter, Mrs. Truda Lee, seven grand-daughters , Miss Mildred Lee, Mrs. Hazel Moore, Cassie June,

evening a blood t ransfusion was a n d Shir ley Lee, all of Lowell! resorted to. This (Thursday) — - - -morning word f rom the bedside is t o the effect thai Mr. King's condition continues cri t ical , but f r iends are hoping fo r bet ter re-por t s as the day proceeds.

UfaraiCMtest Arouses Big Interest

Mrs. Ruth Cook a n d Bernice Lee of Grand Rapids and Doro thy Hawley of Hol land; one greal grandson. Jack Cook of Grand Rapids; a sister, Mrs. Gertrude Merriman, and t w o brothers . Will of Lowel l ; and Ernest of Belding; besides other relatives and many f r iends .

Funeral services will be held today, Feb rua ry 1, at the O. J. Yeiter Chapel at 2 o'clock with Rev, R. W . Merrill officiating. Buria l in Oakwood cemetery.

Farmers Sta^ Bank Of Alto Is Reopened

The editorial contest on the subject : "Why a Community Newspaper ," aroused unusual in-terest on Ihe part of readers of weekly newspapers throughout the stale. W h e n the contest closed on January 15th, a total of 250 T h e F a r m e r s Slate bank of Al-e d i t o n a b had been entered, to reopened Mondav under the These were presented at the an- Michigan plan. F i f ty per cenl nual meeting of Ihe Michigan of deposits wil l be available over Press Association held in East a five-year period and the re-Lansing last week and turned maining fifty per cent placed in over lo Prof . Nelson of the De- the hands of th ree trustees to be partment of Journal ism of Michi- liquidated. gan Stale College. On account Officers a r e : President Ed-of the number of ent r ies Prof , son ( H a r r o w ; vice president. Nelson and his committee asked J o h n Livingston; second vice f o r thirty days in which lo study president, John Rockefel low; the editorials subinitled. cashier . Earl Colbv assistant

Entries submitted by l e d g e r cashier. Char les Colby readers totalled th i r teen. Only The Alto bank has rendered a one other newspaper m the s tale splendid service to its commun-had a larger number of entr ies ity fo r many years and Ihere is and , that was the Cassopolisj indeed cause fo r congratulation > igilanl which had fifteen en-1 that this service is lo be conlin-tries. j ued.

The I^ike Odessa Canning Co. has started work on an 86x125-

ifool addition on the east s ide of its present plant and a 65x58-foot addition on the back part of Ihe building.

Herber t Drake, living west of | Stanton, was injured severely | when a block of wood was thrown inlo his face by a buzz

(saw. His nose was broken and both cheek bones were f rac tured .

B.

VICE

J . E. Crosby, St. Johns mint g rower suffering f rom a strepto-coccus infection of the throat which spread to the tonsils, is out of danger. The t rouble be-gan last June . Disregarding precedent, surgeons in St . John removed the infected tonsils.

The decision of Secre tary of Stale Frank D. Fitzgerald lo publish the Publ ic Acts of the Special Session of 1933 at the same time the Publ ic Acts of the coming 1934 Special Session a r e pr in ted and in Ihe same volume will effect a saving of $10,000.

Thomas Vidro, county t reasur-er . announces tha t 51.7 pe r cent of state and county taxes fo r 1933 had been collected u p to J an . 10 in the county 's 24 town-ships and the city of Grand Rap-ids. This is a somewhat bet ter showing than was made last year .

Reduction of Ihe automobile weight tax and amendment of the stale sales tax were called fo r in resolutions adopted by the State Association of Supervisors at the final session of the meeting in Lansing last week.

Officers of the association for the coming year include Charles P. Ismon of Jackson, p res iden t : Hon. John D. Karel of Grand Rapids, first vice pres ident ; Mel-ville B. McPherson of Lowell , member of the state tax commis-sion. second vice pres ident ; Ja-cob E. Schepers of East Lansing, secre tary ; and Miss Lucy Little of Kalamazoo, t reasurer .

Seven important resolutions were adopted. The first asked Ihe legislature to provide p roper ty lax relief while Ihe second asked fo r an amendment of the sales tax law lo provide exemp-tion of farm implements and stock feeds f rom the provisions of the law. The third resolu-tion asked the legislature to re-turn weight tax receipts lo county t reasurers directly f rom the Depar tment of State b ranch offices while Ihe sixth called fo r i Three miles off shore and 13 reduct ion of license plate costs! fa thoms deep in Lake Michigan wi thout in any manner hinder ing i fes l s the broken hulk of a ship, the ret i rement of Covert road law bonds. The other resolu-t ions asked laws permit t ing lo-caj governmental agencies lo raise funds lo match federal money fo r relief purposes; an amendmenl lo liberalize the present consti tutional provision l imiting proper ty taxes for all purposes to 15-mills; and asked that all local assessing officers be furn ished with sets of the 1929 Compiled Laws.

The hoi w-aler boiler of the healing system used at the Low-ell poslofiice rebelled at Ihe d r o p in mercury Sunday night by de-veloping a big crack. Pending the arrival of a new boiler a heating stove is doing its d a m -dest in an effort lo keep the building fair ly comfortable .

$10,000 Here to Wheat Fanners

Upwards of 300 fa rmers and the i r families in this section of Kent county w e r e no doubt made ioyous when they received th t first instal lment on the whea t re-duction program. Upwards of 810,000 was paid out by County Agent Vining and other members of the wheat committee at the Lowell City hall on Ihe day of the pay off here.

About 65 farmers received checks at Cedar Spr ings whi le more than 400 farmers f rom oth-e r sections of Ihe county went to G r a n d Rapids to receive the i r checks.

Open Hoase Date Changed to Feb. 12

Because of conflicting dales it has been decided to have open house at the High School on the evening of Monday. Feb rua ry 12. rather than on Ihe night of Feb-r u a r y 9.

Elaborate plans a re being made for those who will visit the school. In addition to the regu-lar sessions there will be enter lainment provided by some of the children, and Paul Thomp-son, Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction, will be Ihe guest speaker . Pa t rons should plan to inspect not only the in-struction program but the> are urged lo give the building the

lost with all hands . 23 sailors and at least one passenger. 39 yea r s ago — a victim of the peril of winter navigation on the nor th-e rn lakes. Until the hull was discovered last summer by fisher-an. angling off Ihe submerged rocks, two miles south of South Haven. Ihe location of the mis-sing ship had been a mystery .

Joseph H. Brewer . J r . , son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Brewer of Grand Rapids, was appointed president of Olivet college at a special meeting of the board of trustees Saturday, to succeed Dr . James King, whose resignation has been pending fo r the past two years. The appointment takes effect Feb. 5. In appoint-ing Mr. Brewer , w h o is 35 years old. Olivet joins the ranks of Harvard. Pr inceton, the Univers-ity of Chicago and olher famous

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LOWELTLOSES TO GRANDVILLE IN BIG M I L L E R R E N T S NEWEST CITY PUTS

ON AIRS BY WINNING 15 TO

16 IN FAST OVERTIME GAME

— SPARTA HERE FRIDAY

NIGHT.

John P. King, 77 Dies This Morning

John Por t e r King passed a w a y at his home on Riverside-Dr. . th is Thu r sday morn ing al the age of 77 years. He is survived bv the widow, Mary.

Funera l services will be held al the home Sundav af te rnoon al two o'clock with Rev. S. B. Wenger. officiating. Burial wil l b e in Marble cemetery, Keene. Funera l a r rangements are by Roth & Brezina.

Co. H. Arranging For Boxing Tournament

Arrangements are n ear ing completion f o r a boxing tourna-ment to b e held at Ihe Ionia Armory, and permission has-been requested from Ihe Michi-gan Amateur Athletic Union fo r the dales of Februa ry 21sl and 28lh and March 7lh. El imina-tions will be held the first t w o nights wi th the finals in March.

T h e bouts a re sponsored by Ihe Non-commissioned Oflicers*

Burial services were held in Oakwood cemetery, Lowell, Wednesday, fo r George W. God-frey, 80. who died at his home in Avondale, Sunday night . Mr. | f n e e d in their Godf rey was a well-known f ann -er in this community f o r a num-ber of years. His widow, two

.daughlprs . Mrs. Dee Stevens, wri t ten lo Ihe Annory for e n t n On account of holding dental land Mrs. H o m e r Parr ish , both of blanks.

Sheriff Keiley Issoes Wanmg

Sheriff Fred Keiley has ordered his deputies to make ar res ts where it is found bee r and l iquor a re dispensed, or manufac tured fo r sale without first obtaining a license.

Two deputies have been as-signed do this work exclusively and all depulies have been in-structed lo assist in their re-spective districts. He says "such places must close o r be prose-cuted." Some ar res ts have been made and more wil l follow if such pract ice is continued.

In some instances complaints have been received that certain beer gardens whe re dancing is permitted a r e not conducted in an order ly manner . These will a lso be checked u p and if found lo be a nuisance, a r res t s will fol-low which may result in licenses being revoked.

Charles Foote Talks Of Scenic Beauties

A goodly number were in at-tendance at the December-Janu-a ry b i r thday par ty held Monday evening in the Par i sh House of

M.S.C. Radio Programs MONDAY, FEB 5th THROUGH SATURDAY. FEB 10th.

WKAR—1040 Kilocycles — 286 Meters.

Monday. Feb. 3 12:00 noon — Weather forecast,

time, l ivestock and grain market repor ts .

12:05 p. m —"Rul ings of the Agricultural Adjustment Admin-istrat ion With Reference to Re-placement C r o p s . " - H . C Rath-er, F a n n Crops Dept.

12:15 p. m. — F a r m Flashes. 2:05 p. m. — Homemakers ' pro-

gram. 2:15 p . m. — McKee Tr io . 2:30 p. m. — "New Melhods of

Instruction f o r Public Schools." — Paul Thompson . Assistant Sup-er in tendent of Public Instruc-tion.

Tuesday. Feb. 6

12:00 noon — Weather forecast, time, livestock and grain market reports .

12:05 p. m. — " H o w Alfalfa May Be I sed As a Replacement C r o p . " — H . C. Rather , * Fann Crops Depar tment .

12:15 p. m. — F a n n Flashes. 2:05 p. m . — H o m e m a k e r s ' pro-

gram.

The few fans who witnessed the basketball game last Fr iday night probably never spent a more excit ing hour than they did when they watched Grand-ville basketeers eke out an over-lime victory 16-15. The local boys started out like a house afire but unfor tunate ly the fire was put out late in the game. The local quintet surpr ised even the i r staunches! fol lowers when they rushed Ihe score to 12-3 in the i r favor, and it appeared that Low-ell was certain of a second coun-

^ ly victory. I r ra l ic passing and "once over." They will lie hap- jpoor choice of plays on Ihe part pily surpr ised to see even- th ing I 0 ' o u r boys enabled Grandvil le bright and clean. to creep to a 14-14 score al the

end of Ihe third period. The tcounl was tied at Ihe end of the regulation period and Grandvil le

jsank a f ree- th row for Ihe win-| ning point.

Our boys, even in defeat, j looked so much bel ter than they aid on other occasions that w e

I want to publicly express our sal-[isfaction wi th ihe big i m p r o v e ' m e n t W e predict that Lowell will have a winning combination by Ihe l ime that they go lo Ihe district tournament at Belding early in March.

Spar ta Here Fr iday The c rowds al Ihe basketball

games have been very discourag-ing. T h e r e seems to be a lack of interest and enthusiasm and the f ans are urged to give their testi-monial of good-will by at tending the final home game of Ihe sea-son next Fr iday night when Sparta conies to t o w n . There are plenty of seats fo r all and the game should provide plenty of thrills. We recognize that it is unusual fo r Lowell fans lo fol-low a losing team but in so doing we believe that there is an op-portuni ty to reveal real sports-manship. It is possible that Rockford will come lo Lowell for a game la ter in Ihe season, hut, inasmuch as Ihe game was postponed, there is noth ing cer-tain about the batt le.

examinat ions for en t ran ts in t h e i E v a r t ; t w o sons. Arthur C and Golden Gloves contest, my oflici Elmer F. Godfrey ; a slep-daugh- The Lowell U d a e r and

and even inc 'o f I v i r t n iTi M P ; F l o > d of Avon Grand Rapids Herald, both and evening of Wednesday, Feb- d a l e : / i x grandchi ldren, seven $5.50 on R. F. D. routes. ruary 7.

J. R. Stryker , Dentist . step-dulldren and three grandchi ldren survive.

c lub of Co. H who were influ -1 ihe tang^egL'lioimT d i u r d i . The . / A ! ; ! ^ C T h c a , n M a n a g e m e n t " - C . S. decision by re-1 feature of the evening was an „ J J „ Dunford, Economics Depar tment ,

pealed public demand. Interest address bv Mr. Charles Foote ofl Wednesday, Feb. t . 2:.K) p. m . - " I n s e c t s In Rela-" " " s n a l l y high a n d a ' A h o . who spoke of Michigan's! 12:00 n o o n - W e a t h e r forecast ,! ll?.? , 0 . H . U , , J I " H e a l t h " - R a y

number of boxers have a l ready scenic beauties in a most in te r - ' l ime , livestock a n d grain m a r k e l r " 1 " 0 1 1 ' - ^ ^ n i o l o g y Depar tment . esting and instruct ive manner . ' r epor t s . Saturday, Feb. 10 The speaker improved the oppor-1 12Hlj p. m. —"Soi l Building 12:00 noon — W e a t h e r forecas t ,

I tumty to call par t icular attention j Crops for Contracled Acres"— time, livestock and grain market t h e |of the natural g randeur to be H. C. Ra the r , F a n n Crops De- repor t s . fo,* | found nea r home, ment ioning! par t ment . 12:05 p. m. — " P o i n t e r s On All part icularly trunk line M-21 as! 12:15 p. m. — Farm Flashes. Making Quality Maple S y r u p " —

it courses through Lowell be- [ 2:05 p. m . — H o m e m a k e r s ' p ro- j Fores t ry Dept* tween Ionia and Grand Rapids, gram. 12:15"p. m. — F a r m Flashes.

2:15 p. m — McKee Tr io . 2:30 p. m. — "Oil Burne r s " —

F. G. Sefing, Engineering Depart-ment.

Thursday, Feb. 8 12:(NJ noon — Weather forecast ,

time, livestock and grain market reports .

12:05 p. m . — " W e e d Control As a Means of Handling Contracl -ed A c r e s " - H . C. Rather . F a r m Crops Depar tment .

12:15 p. m — Farm Flashes. 2:05 p. m . — H o m e m a k e r s ' pro-

gram. 2:15 p. m. — McKee Trio. 2:30 p. m — H e a l t h Education.

F r iday . Feb. 9 12:00 noon — Weather f o r e c a s t

time, livestock and grain marke t repor ts .

12:05 p. m. — "Grasses and Le-gumes Suitable for Use As Re-placement C r o p s " — H . C. Rath-er. Fa rm Cnips Depar tment .

12:15 p. in. — F a n n Flashes. i - . n r m * * m 2:05 p. m . — H o m e m a k e r s ' itro- A S R S S a f e t y M e O a i S

2:15 p. m. — " T h e N. R. A. and For 2 Lowell BoyS

great- Hera ld c lubbing offers a re good at T h e Ledger office.

Pat rolman Elmer Rrackett . school safety lecturer , acting fo r Ihe Grand Rapids Safely council has asked the National Safely council to a w a r d the Pres ident ' s medal to J o h n Chapla and George Sterken, 21-year-old l^iwell men, who rescued Roger De Young, 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter De Young, 9 Pa lmer st., NE., when h e fell inlo Grand Riv-er near Ann-St. br idge on J an . 7 .

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Sayings by Other Editors

AS EXPECTED A bin Wall street banker the

dlher dav declared lliat there was just nne way lo solve the taxation system of the nation and thai one would be to impose a three per eent sales tax on ev-ervbodv. He would Rive one per eent to the nation, one per eent to the stale and one per cent lo the various municipalities. A fine idea for the bin tax dodger. Sure, such a tax would probably pav most of the political salar-ies and debts of the nation, but it is a tax that would be paid al-most entirely by the so-called middle man. But the middle man has and is car ry ing the bur-den of the government. He pays practically all of the taxes and he carr ies the other respon-sibilities of his nation, with the financial giants paying no taxes and the man wi th little or no in-come being supported almost en-tirelv f rom the efforts of the mid-dle man. It is high t ime fo r the middle man to get busy, it is t ime fo r him to sec to it that some sort of justice in the mat ter of taxation is worked out. Sure, Ihe sales tax is a fine thing be-cause the money holders of New York would pay no more, possi-bly not as much as the little fel-low on Main s t r e e t The re will come a time when even the most patient and subservient citisen will not longer stand the tax im-position and when that t ime comes God pily the tax evaders of the past and present . — E h o n B. Eaton in Plymouth iMail.

Observations

When love fails, mar r iage fails. Few «re fault ier than faull-

finders. P rosper i ty and v i r tue seldom

mix well . Put t ing off a r e fo rm means

never lo do it. Many put on style by putt ing

off credi tors . The key-note lo good manners

is "B-natura l . " War ' s hell ishness is always

labelled "self defence." Babies and children a r e living

longer; adul ts are not. Keep your promises if you

would keep your f r iends . Nations flourish on ha rdsh ip

and expi re wi th luxury. In d e m a n d : Back seats al

church ; f r o n t seats at the show. Our siae is shown by the si*e

of the temptat ion that downs us. It is no fun fo r a woman to

keep a secret without someone to he lp her .

"Out of the hear t a r e the is-sues of life,"—a r ight heart ,—a right life.

W e spend our first years ••vrecking our s tomachs ; onr last years suppor t ing the doctors .

Octo-Generian Club

Horntmaker's Comer

Butter is an excellent source of Vitamin A which is apt to be lacking in many diets. Serving it al every meal and using it generously in cooking is recom-mended by home economics ex-tension nutri t ion specialists of

jiMichigan State College. READ THESE TWO I Dr. H. C. Sherman of Columbia

, . . . . . . I niversity says, "Because a Many professional pouucinns Mor t age of VHamin A weakens

eomplain that Senator Couzens is [ ) ( K jy i n s o many ways and never seen at republican s l a t c increases its susceptibili ty to so conventions. Which causes us n i a n y infections, it appears prob-to ask. how many republican I d i f f e r e n c e s of in take of conventions Governor Croesbeck . j^is vi tamin, more than any o th-

" " " " ' | e r , affect the general health and has attended since his defeat by-Governor Green?

Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale says only 19 men in the United States know anything about money. Wonder how many of the 19 a re b a n k e r s ? — M u r l (H. DeFoe in Charlotte Kepublican-Tribune.

LET IT GO TO WORK

Speaking of the federal insur-ance of bank deposits u p to S2,-.r>00, an exchange says there is "No use for the old sock now," as a hiding place for money.

Our government now stands back of our deposits and the man or woman who has as much as I&500 in the bank knows that no matter what may happen lo the bai.ks, that $2,500 is absolutely safe. Uncle Sam is back of it 100 pe r cenl. And when Ju ly 1

length of life of Ihe people of today.**

The flavoring p o w e r of but te r is almost as important as its nu-tr i t ional value. But te r dressings will improve the flavor of meat, fish, and vegetables. "Maitre DTHotel Butler** is excellent serv-ed wi th steak or chops. Fou r tablespoons but ler . % teaspoon salt, pinch of cayenne pepper, one teaspoon chopped parsley, and one tablespoon lemon juice are creamed together.

Another dressing wh ich has but te r as its main consti tuent is "Hollandaise Sauce." Divide % cup bu t t e r into three pieces. Put one piece in a pan wi th two egg yolks and one tablespoon lemon juice. Cook over hot wa te r , s t i r r ing constantly wi th a w i r e whisk until but ler is melted. Add

comes, accounts up to $10,000 j second piece of bu t t e r and, as will be insured 100 per cent. mixture thickens, the th i rd piece.

Qionev never was of any use Add cup boiling water , beat thoroughly, cook about one min-ute and season. If mixture cur-dles. add two tablespoons heavy cream or boiling water , d rop b>

out to see the daylight, d r o p and beat vigorously. will go to work — as

hidden under a mattress or cov-ered up in a hole in the wound . Now that these millions and millions of hidden money are coming money money should do. Credit will be loosened — and without cred-it it is hard to do business on a big scale.

Small depositors can be pra te- j ful for the new federal guaran-1 lee. And they can also be glad that it was our own Senator A. H. Vandenberg w h o made this law possible. — Richard T. Bald-win in Northville Record.

Editor*s Note — T h e fol lowing art icle is one of a series of sketches of the oclogenerians of this community . Most of these venerable persons have spent their ent i re lives in this com-munity and are held in high es-teem by a large circle of f r iends and acquaintances.

MRS. HELEN HANER AVERY

Many years ago on the road that now leads past Oakwood ceme-tery. a little girl was walking lo school one morning car ry ing her d inner pail . To he r riphi on Ihe r iver bank she could see llgures moving about the Ottawa Indian village. She thought she went unnoticed, but in the tall grass on the roadside lay an In-dian watching her approach. As she reached the spot whe * he had hidden himself, he jumped up, snatched her d inner pail, and warned he r wi th f r ight fu l threats not to tell anyone. So the child proceeded on to school and ale no d inne r that day.

That Indian has long since gone to his happy huntiny ground unknown. But the little girl g rew u p and is known today as Mrs. Helen Haner Avery.

She came lo Lowell in 1850. when only a year old, wi th her parents , five bro thers and sisters, her aunt and unclc, and five cousins. They arr ived f rom Livingston County by ox-cart in four days. The first few nights they ^pent at the log tavern, kept by a Mr. Wrilcox. whe re there were not enough beds to accom-modate the two families. Some of the chi ldren had t o d e e p on the floor on buffalo robes. Very short ly the two famil ies moved to the i r f a r m homes just nor th of the present cemetery .

Not all the Indians , Mrs. Aver)' relates, w e r e as bad as those w h o practiced pet ty t h e f t She has eaten inany meals of game and roasted corn in the sett lement, a n d wa tched the i r celebrat ions. She r emembers that w h e n an In -dian died b e w a s not taken oat of h is shack through the door-way f o r f e a r of evil spiri ts . In-stead a f e w boards w e r e torn off one side, a n d the body w a s car -r ied out th rough that opening.

At school, located w h e r e the M. E. c h u r c h now Avery h a d a very s t r ic t He made his pupils toe t h e wmtk — that is, w h e n rec i t ing they b a d to s tand w i t h the i r toes o n a l ine on the floor, o r b e Later Mrs. Avery a t t ended in a board shanty a block nor th of Main s treet on the r ive r bank. Her teachers w e r e Clar inda Rob-inson. (R. D. Stocking's mother) and Octavia Richards , (mother of Dr . R . R . Eaton.)

AH of the (Haner chi ldren wen t to the Undenominat ional Sunday school at the school bouse. John Hooker a n d Clar inda Robinson led the singing, "making the i r own music," because the hymn books contained only the words . A verse that Mrs. Avery memor-ized at that t ime she has never fo rgo t t en :

"Where ic God? In the sun, the moon, the sky. On the mountains , wi ld and

high, In the thunder a n d the ra in . And the woods and groves so

p la in ; God is seen in everything."

Helen Haner mar r i ed G. B. Av-ery as soon as h e re turned f rom the Civil War . They imme-diately built t he house on Jeffer son-SL, in which Mrs. Avery still resides. Mr. Avery w a s a wag on maker and w o r k e d fo r yea r s wi th John Mills. H e passed away in 1907.

They had four chi ldren, t w o of whom a r e living: Sherman , in Lowell , and Ar thur , in Grand Rapids. Mrs. Avery was ill re-cently, but she is regaining her heal th daily and is looking for-w a r d to spr ing and he r eighty-fifth b i r thday .

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By Patr ic ia Dow

Return of G.O.P. to Sanity Predicted Ly Chase Osborn

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P a r H a y Tola 8108. With o r wi thout ru f -

fles, i r res t ib ly pre t ty in e i the r way — a n d so easy to make in soft bat is te , dot ted Swiss , o r crepe. Also oice f o r velvet wi thout the ruff les o r f o r cot ton prints . F o r ta f fe ta , w i th o r wi thout the n A e a .

T h e sho r t wa i s t por t ions a r e ngthened fcv fu l l wkM pottitms

that a r e finished wi th a raffle. T h e a n a n A a s a r e a t tached t o

p d r o p A u u l i m of the w a i A sash of ribbon or mater ia l t ies in a n ice b o w a t the back .

a f rock l ike th i s is a lmost a joy. T h e

has straight l ines but wid th f o r comfor t . A

revers-col lar outl ines the deep V of "the f ronts , and a small vestee squares the neckl ine T h e r e is a choice of sleeves — A long sleeve wi th a band cuff, —• and a short sleeve tr immed w i t h an upturned cuff.

Cotton pr in ts , rayon, pongee tub silk o r light weight woolen also pique o r linen may be used f o r th is style.

Wholesome signs fo r the fu tu re of the Republican par ty are pointed out by Chase S. Osborn. fo rmer Governor of Michigan. At his win te r home in Georgia he gave out a statement wh ich takes a new viewpoint of the political s i tuat ion.

It fol lows: "This nation needs al least two

political parties. Pe rhaps there are enough odd th inkers to sup-ply throe or four more of the ter t iary class, but t w o m a j o r par -tics are a necessity in popular government . For more than half a century the Democrat ic par ty has been almost ent i rely negative and one of wholesome criticism. It has a genius fo r seeing flaws f n d holes, and w h e n it gels a chance in government it finds them and fal ls into them instead of correoting them.

Schoolbook Adminiirtratica • Just now it is having a lot of

fun in the Roosevelt schoolbook adminis t ia t ion. And no par ty has ever been given more aid and sympathy and encourage menl. It begins to look as if the par ty is a fai lure n o w , as ever, in actual adminis t ra t ion. If there was a ma jo r weakness in Ihe Hoover adminis t ra t ion , it was because Hoover is a theorist and idealist and, until mistak-enly taken u p by the Republ ican par ty, w a s a Democra t and ried Michigan on the Democra t ic ticket in a president ia l p r i m a r y .

T h e r e a re signs tha t i h e Re-publican par ty i s r e t u rn ing to that sanity of apprec ia t ion and organisat ion that shaH search f o r real Republ icans f o r leaders . Those of t h e Couzens a n d John -son and LaFoIlette type of po-litical nondescr ipt f o r personal

ose a r e not credi table to any^pa r ty

to f o r principies of goverumem

p a r t y sueoess, the pa r ty h e res tored in due t i n e to

shzn rescue the coun-t r y .

'A f o o d many h a v e forgot ten ft Juat a s t h e Democra t parts-

w a s the ins t rument o r e r r o r i n the w a r of the states, so it w a s a lso in the Wor ld W a r . T h e

tha t h u r t a n d f r o m which w e have not w e r e those of the Wilson admin-istrat ion. Wilson first financed Hie European w a r and then fought it.

Wilaon Advised By Baruch Before and a f t e r the war .

Wilson was advised by Baruch (who is now closer than any other to President Roosevelt) and others , loaned irresponsible for

more than IS bil elgn powers lion dollars.

"K w e had that now or could get i t our economic t roubles would be over. Wilson not on-ly loaned the money without a shred of securi ty, but eventually gained the ill will of the coun-tr ies favored . It would be in-terest ing t o learn what commis-sions on the loans were paid to Americans by the fore igners when they buncoed U n d e Sam.

T h e big dif ference between the Republican and t h e Democratic par t ies is that the Republican is an ins t rument of substance and the Democrat of dreams. We shall be called again, as a coun-t ry t o decide between sense and nonsense. T h e country is hav-

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T W I M N E N U S I i m W M T E LEMMtS all f rom t rap n e a t high producing Mack.

Alaa cmMow hatching f« r »hojie desirous of other breeds.

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1 believe the laatallatlon of talepboae tadlltiaa ia every home served by tha village aad community fire tracks weald d e r r e a n the lose by fire to a conalderabla extent** commented the local department bead. MPer-napa wa have baaa over-oeonoausing a bit ta d Is coo tinning telephone ser-vice while warrtac with th* depression. H loss or Ufa or property results from tan ore to notCy calckly tboae agencies otganlaad for oar protection, then n c h economy becomes rather aa expansive experiment l i k e auto-mobiles and electricity, the telephone has ssemlngly become a necessity la

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BERRIES are s< • J that thej- s n bains sold at llttls (Tester coat than tn the helftot of thalr •ummer seaaon. Enjoy this wtntsr treat while It lasts.

Csllfoniis navel oranges are at the height of their short sssson snd they are particularly delicious to cat out o! hand or ta aalads or desserts For breakfast Juloe, Thalds oranges a n fine. Grapefruit continue plentiful.

Spinach and green beans are ahtm-dent end cheap. Broccoli tbaagh fine and Inexpensive Is not being used wo much as it was. Cauliflower and new cabbage arc cheap. Peas continue plentiful and good. Beets and carrots are particularly economical.

With Lent in the near future, favor-ite meat dishes should be enjoyed now though well cooked and seanoned fish is equally good.

The Quaker Maid suggest! the fol-lowing menus for your Bundsy dinner.

Low Cost Dinner

Psn-br&wned Chopped Beef Mashed Potatoes

Green Beans Bread and Butter

Vanilla Junket with Preserven Tea or Coffee Milk

Meditun Cost Dinner

Chicken Pie with Biscuit Crust Baked Sweel Potatoes or Tarns

Buttered Brocroli Hot Biacuitfi Butter

Strawberry Whip with Crushed Strawbemee

Coffee Milk

Very Special Dinner

Tomato Juice Cocktail Baked Smoked Ham or Roast Chicker M.shod Potatoee Buttered Broccoli

Grapefruit and Orange Salnd rtolls ant* Butter

FrcsL strawberry Ice Cream Coffee Milk

HEN that "red-hundad chief the Black Avengers of the

Bpanlab Main," more commonly known to readers of Hark Twain as Tom Sawyer, indulged In mo-mants of nnp Irate-like tenderneas. little Becky Thatcher, Tom's awaat-baai t . was the csnse. Ttans the great Americas humorist immortalized a love of his own youth when little Bam Clemens courted laiara Hawk-Ins, la Hannlhal. Mo.

Out of their own school days came much of the s i s # a f material In •Tom Sawyer." The was a Mr. Cross, for whom eompoaed aa elegant couplet:

l/* CINCINNATI

OTarrell, ahora, rfai

" B a b 1

by name, and croas by na-ture.

Croee lumped over an Irish pota-ter."

Bam Clemens left Hannibal a t the age of eighteen, and Laura mar-ried and became Mrs. Prazler. went to live at Palmyra. Mo., and en-joyed a t least one adventure that never got into a hook. During the Civil war her hushand. an outspoken BecesslonlRt. was forced Into hiding from Union troops commissioned to capture and silence h im With a woman's Instinct for the right thing to do, Laura during her bus-hand's absence invited the Union commander. Gen. John McNeil, to dinner and filled him full of south-ern cookery and flattery. Some time later, when her husband had been captured and condemned to death, she i t ade a personal plea for his

j life, which was granted by her for-mer guest I

<C. HIS. Waatars Newapajm Ualoa.)

Advertise whatever you have to sell in The Ledger Want Col-umn and we won' t have to argue | wi th you about using it later.

SR. TIC SECtETS ABOUT MtS ftiKlUESS Aa£ SAFE, BtCAUt* HE'S MOM G»V

A STEWOGRAPHtft WHO CAUT OftAD ICR OU*l MOTES.

CODE OF THE

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I IS E . Maia SL Lowell ,

Our New Serial T J A R O L D T I T O S , a u t h o r r l of B E L O W Z E R O a n d known t o very m a n y t h o u -sands o f Amer ican r e a d e r s to r h is thri l l ing s tor ies of t h e N o r t h W o o d s , b a a a c o r e d a n o t h e r no t ab l e aoccess in C O D E O F T H E N O R T H , t h e s t o t y o f a

h i i o w n i c p u U t i o n , a n d w h o s n n will ing t o sacrif ice c r e t y -t h i n g — e v e n d i e sespeot o f t h e gir l h e l o v e '

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Y o u *11 b e f a s c i n a t e d h j D n f c e ' s a t r a g g k tt> p u t t f e Polar is L u m b e r C o m p a n y e n i ts f e e t , desp i te t h e obs tac les p laced m b i s p a t h b r m -scrupulous rivals. Y o u 11 w a n t t o k n o w wh v S t eve was forced

gi r l , w a s in love w i t h h i m , a n d w h a t h a p p e n e d w h e n S t eve fel l in l o v e wi th K a t e F l y i m , t h e g i r l t h e whole c a m ^ supposed was h is o w n

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Lowell, Mick.

L . E . J O H N S O N

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THE LOWELL (MICH.) LEDGER aad ALTO SOLO T W R S D A Y . FEB. 1, 1934 T H R E 1

Friday \ Sitirdiy Specials 3 l b s . F r e s h Q r o u n d B e s t ) f f t r

H l b . P o r k Q r o u n d ( 0 25c Beef Rib Stew lb. 6c Veal RoasL Hhlder . lb, 12c

Veal Steak Veal Chops

. . . l b , 15c . . . l b . 12c

Flat Spare Ribs, mooty lb. 6c

2 lbs. Frankfortz 25c Vi lb. Bacoa, sliced 19c

2 lbs. Bologna .25c Pork Roast, loin end.lb.12c

Bool Pot Roost, shoulder lb. ISc

Link Sanaage 2 lbs. 25c Ham Ends lb. 7c

Pork, sh'lder center, ,1b, Hk Center Cata Ham . . . l b . 1«c

Rib Roast, rolled and sot isonod lb. 14c

Leg of Lamb lb. ISc Lamb Shlder Roast lb. 14c

Lamb Chops Hearts, omall

. . . l b . 10c . . . l b . 5c

t i r tein. Round aad Porterhouse Sloali .ll9.15o

Choice GaU Meats Applea .peck SOc I !! 1,4 lbs. up lb. 15c

Martin Houseman

W.J. W E DO CUSTOM SMOKING ^

T h e T i e n d i a N e w Y e a r H a i r

KEW YOER . . . Miss Hantet Hamilton (shove) was one of the socially pronineut N s * Yorkers to pose as models ia a fashioa show display of the new tnad ia hair styles. T i e coiffeur bore is forms! aad takes iato

for Spriag.

Watch For Our

N e w S e r i a l S t o r y

W K . U SEX

Carets Tikis

This and That From Around

the Old Town Donald Merrill is ill wi th th<-

mumpr..

Orvillc Spcnccr spent Sundav wilh f r iends in Qarksvi l lc .

1 can fix almost anything, tr> me fo r repairs . R. D. Stocking.

Mrs. A. T. Eash of Freeport was a Saturday guest of Mrs. Wm. Cosgriff.

Miss Elva Mishler of Logan is at tending lo the household duties of Mrs. Wm. Cosgriff.

Mr. and Mrs. J o h n Bieri of Detroit spent the week-end at the home of his bro ther . Oswald Bieri.

Mrs. Clifford Cook and son Jackie of Grand Rapids spent a f ew days last week at the George Lee home.

Miss F lorence i lorgerson of Detroit spent the week-end wi th he r parents . Mr. and Mrs. John Borgerson.

Mrs. Mildred Whr ide of Claries-vilie spent par t of last week vis-iting h e r parents , Mr. and Mr*. J o h n Chaterdon.

Mrs. V e r a Ashley, daughters . Maryan and Norma, and Miss Maxine Jones w e r e visi tors in Grand Rapids Sa turday .

Dr . and Mrs. Roy Eaton and ( jeorge Tale of Grand Rapids called at the McPherson-Ogden home one day last week.

Levi Clark, w h o has been con-tined to h is home fo r the past two months wi th a broken ankle, is able to be out of doors again.

Week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. P. MacFurlane w e r e Miss Doris MacFar lane of I>owagiac, and Mr. and Mrs. Roy T e r e s and son Dickie of Detroit .

Mrs. Har ry Day re turned home Sunday f rom Detroi l whe re she had bw-n helping lo c a r e fo r h e r fa ther , J . A. Voller, w h o has been ill fo r the past ten weeks.

A number of f r iends of Mrs.

day at . t h e William Cbolerion lo extend their congratula-

t ions on he r 86th bi r thday.

Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Allen n . — Bennet t on S . n d . y w r r e Mr. . n d ^ *

Fresk Home Made

Niilergrcei aid PepperariitWafen

ISclb .

H. C. SCOTT Home of Good Home-

Made Candies

M-

Harmonicas and Jew ' s harps at Stocking's.

Henry Weaver visited f r iends in Clarksville Sunday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Bert McNeilley spent Sunday in Grand Rapids.

Matie S4one of Alto spent last week wi th Mr. and Mrs. X. L. Coons.

Mr. and Mrs. John Tucker made a business t r i p to St. Johns ' Saturdsy.

Mrs. Linda Loucks has re-turned f r o m a visit wi th f r iends at Mulliken.

I will r epa i r your match or clock if you bring it to me. R. D. Stocking.

Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Gould visit-ed Mrs. L. W. Davis of l-ake Odessa Snnday.

Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Stinton of Three Rivers spent Sunday wi th Mrs. Mary Stinton.

Mrs. Gerald Fineis is ill with the flu. He r aunt. Ida Brown of Alto is car ing fo r her .

Mrs. Louise Walkley of Lan-sing was a week-end guest at the home of her sister, Mrs. Austin Coons.

Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Martin (Houseman and family were Fred Houseman and family of Snow Distr ict .

Shall Know That I Am the I ^ r d . " Exodus 11:18.

P r a y e r service mill be held on Friday evening at Ihe close of Indies ' Aid at Mrs. Claud Schmidt 's home.

ADA COMMTOITV REFORMED ^ ^ " s u t d L y ' J n e l u d l n g ' t o -CHURCH rai a n d instrumental solos.

Rev. Howard B. Schohen. Pastor. A hear ty welcome to all. !<».<«• a. m.—"The Results of Edward Gamble, pastor.

Disobedience." ll:(Ki a. m.—Sunday ScJkk.! for

Young and Old. ;30 p. m. — "•Forgiveness." ~ -

This is the first of a course of fve ry Sunday. sermons concerning Jesus ' sever. saying on the Cross.

Special music will 1m- rendered al each evening service.

8:3H p. m.—Christian Kndeav-or.

T u e s d a y — p . m. Young Peoples ' Bible class.

"En te r into His gales with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise ." Ps. 106.4.

c h u u c h

ALTO BAPTIST CHURCH Bible school at 1(1 a. m. Preaching service al 11 a. m

WHITNEYVILLE CHURCH Sunday school—10:3(i a. m. Morning preaching—11:3(i a. m Rpwor th league—7 KUl p. m. Evening preaching—8KK) p. m Wednesday evening prayer

meeting, 7:45 p. m. Rev. J . G. Bailard. pastor.

Seasonable Merchandise Hob son's Laxative Cold Tablets. Grove's Laxative Rromo Quinine, Hill's Cascara Bromide Quinine. Miles' Aspir-Mint Tablets. Syrup White P ine and Tar, Vick's Vapo Rub. Mas-terole, Menlholatnm; Vick's. Hill's. Piaex. Grove's, Mistol. Arien Pinoleam Nose Drops ; S.-B.. I.aden's. Dean's. Vick's, Foley's. F & F Coo tb Drops A. D. S^ Sqnibbs*. Super D. Cod Liver Oils. P. D. A Co. Haliver Oil in rapsnles and boltles. etc. All these for sale bv

Phone 18 W. C. Hartman

215 W. Main St.

ADA CONGREGATIONAL CH. Rev. H. A. 1-uten, Pastor .

Sermon at I I a. m. All are welcome to attend.

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH S. B. Wenger. Minister.

The Church answers more life Jems than any other source. CASCADE CHURCH OF CHR1S1

there . Morning worsh ip al I I fol lowing Church school

p rob Be 11

at 10 a. m. Morning subjec t : "Horn to be Forgiven."

The Chris t ian Endeavor mill meet at 6 p. m. Program in charge of Mable Hall consisting of a study of some good hymns.

The Study Class fo r teachers mill meet at the Parsonage Wed-nesday evening at 7 p. m.

The Peckham Group mill meet mi lb Mrs. Mary Stinton Friday, Feb rua ry 2nd. Mrs. Weldon as-sisting.

Note! Fr iday evening. Feb. }»th, ail church supper and pla> skit *XMd Man Depression Goes Am-ay." This is t most interest-ing por t rayal of some common experiences and mill be morlh Ihe whi le of the ent i re commnn-ity. Supper mill be pot and f ree , o:45 p. m.

L. C Doerr . pastor . Sunday school. 10 a. m. Church services. 11 a. m.

To insure publication the cur-rent m-eek church notices should reach this office on Monday.

Furniture For the Home Latest designs and best construction. Because of our low overhead m-e can and mill save yon money.

We specialize in—Window Shades, Floor Coverings. Pic'.are Framing. Etc.

Roth & Brezina FURNITURE

W, A. Roth, Funeral Director Prompt . Careful Ambulance Sanrica

Store Phone SOO Night Phoae 150

jCowell Stems of25, 30 and 35 H/earsJtgo

February 4. 1909—25 Years Ago

Tra in ' s Opera house, Lomell 's luck only public hall, ruined by fire.

John Carson of Bangor bought interest in Lomell Lumber Co.

, Alton Community Church a n 4 his family here. t k . . i . Morgan Titus sold his f a rm in

f, r , -Aiiii " ^ never stop Keene. prepntorv to moving to Mr. and Mrs. John Hoogerhyde i l ( . p r < ^ ! n l

P e n n ^ X ' Y : and son and daughter of Grand i t . S s o n „„ -iHom- We i ' n i M r v a n ( 1 , l a u P h , < * r

Rapids visited Mr and Mrs. Fer- We i f e k ' n a n d M r a n d M r s ' < iu> M o r -l is Tav lo r Sundav . v £ £ ^ W n , . n V k J J P a n t u r n e d f rom Seattle, Wash. S < . r m o n a t ^ subjec t : | x s o n w a s b o r n t o a n ( 1 N1rs_ ris Tay lo r Sunday .

Mr. and Mrs. Claude 1 ura Vininc called on h^r Mnn- -Mr- a n d M r s - Claude T h o r n e ; " B c n ^ t h the Surface." Hhv ui Iho William Donald and Barbara w e r e .Gommumly club Frida>

John Dam-son.

^ t h ^ I r v Adelberl 0 n

Edmin Fallas attended a can-ning convention at l>ouisviIle. Ky.

Albert Johnson enlisted in the

T o W e s t P o i n t

Mrs. Carl J a m e s of Vergennes and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde James and son Dick of Grand Rapids.

F r a n k M. N e w d i left Sundav ^ ° c s . M c ^an«Si lon of Carson j Services mith the Riggs-Rrom n hv motor on an extended busi- r n i s a d e par ty each evening this

Mr. and Mrs. Russell Morse. meek and next except Saturda> Miss Maxine Hun te r of Central i^nd »l 10:30 and 7:30 Sundays.

State Teachers ' College spent t b e l ^ ^ t i n g s fo r children Tuesday to week-end at the home of b e r j F ™ ! * * af ternoons at 3:45; for

Bmh Dovy. .«•„ Abto U y e r Mr. . „ d V r v E r , Hun- JT?, ̂ 3 ^ 3 ^ J S ? . ences at 4:45. Bible

ness t r i p through the Southern States. Sic w a s accompanied by Mrs. NewelL They mill be gone fo r several months .

of Detroit visited Mrs. John La>-er Saturday. The fo rmer spent Ihe meek-end in Grand Rapids and Miss Laye r remained in I^owell until Sunday evening.

Attention is called to the broad-casts each day of the week ex-cept Sa turday and Sunday over WMBJ at one o'clock. T h e talks a r e evangelistic and a re b y min-islers of var ious denominat ions.

The Evangelists. Mrs. Helen Higgs Bromn and Miss Leah Brom-n. a re guests at the F rank Coons res idence dur ing their stay in Lomell . This is the four th year they have been en-ter ta ined al the home of Mr. and Mrs. Coons.

Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Spencer and son and Mr. and Mrs. W. Wales of Ionia mere Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Warner Spencer fo r a bir thday dinner Mr. and Mrs. W a r n e r Spencei and Clyde Spencer 's bir thdays occur in one meek. Mrs. Clyde Spencer made a lovely cake fo r the occasion.

Callers dur ing the past m-eek at the Ed. Easterbrook homr mere Rev. Edmard Gamble of West Lowell, Mrs. H a r r y Ander-son. Mrs. Leonard Barton. Glenn

visitors in Grand Rapids Thursday af te rnoon.

Lester Ross of C S. T. C . Ml. j £ r d, f , h

I h e ' t a a r ^ ^

Mrs. William K. Ross. p j r s t METHODIST CHURCH U * s T c i v a i n "

Mrs. Mary Blakeskt- and Mrs., Ray William Merrill, Minister. A daughter mas b o m to Mr. a n d Mrs. John Headmorth of Grand Rapids, formerlv of I>im--ell.

Marks Ruben sold his store building to H. N. Bromn of Easton.

Miss Etta Crowe, highly es-teemed postmistress at Ada, suf-fered a crushed elbom in a fall and mas taken to U. B. A. hos-pital.

Febrnary 4, 1904—SO Years .Ago RaljA Bromn of Keene and

Miss Agnes Headmorth of South Boston mere marr ied in their nem- home.

F rank Roll ins of South Boston accepted a position in a drug store near Petoskey.

Born, to Mr, and Mrs. Bert

Mrs, E. R. Wines re turned to ber home at Marigold Farm last m-eek. accompanied by her sister. Mrs. R. A. Henderson of Fremonl Lake. «

Mrs. Elizabeth For th , mho has been visit ing at the home of her daughter . Mrs. H. P. Gotfredscn since Thanksgiving re turned to Manistee Fr iday .

If the par ty mho picked up my glove mill br ing it to me 1 mill give h im or he r the other one ; 1 found a ladies glove in road by my s to re which o w n e r can have by calling fo r it. R. D. Stocking.

Bert Carnahan accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wingeier to

school at 11:45. A deep interest is mani-fest.

Vergeanes Services conducted by the pas-

tor Sunday at two. Ray William Merrill. Minister,

LOWELL BAPTIST CHURCH A. J . Hootaema, pastor.

Bible School at 10:00. Preach ing : Prophetic , "Th,

World W a r in Prophecy." I I ^0.1 Morse, a son. B. V P. I . , three departments . Cards w e r e out announcing the

marr iage of Miss Emma Winks lo Preaching, "Evangelist ic," 7:30. Mid-meek prayer and prais.-

W e d n e s d a y evening, 7 3 0 class.

Frank Hilton of Grand Rapids. Mrs. George Ferry , aged 39

years , died at be r home near Young Peop le s Bible

the cl inic at Ann Arbor Monda\ Thursdav evening. 7:30. where h e mill remain a f ew days Meditation for the Week

sufferTngHfrom a n ^ n / u r ^ ' a ^ l e i J ^ ' J . ^ ^ i ™ ' ^ ^ ^ p d T he sustained several years apo. L j * ^ W P a r i s r e v i v e d aM order

Mrs. H. P. Gotfredsen re turned be m ithout some home Saturday evening a f t e r spiri tual things. spending the past two weeks in Indianapolis and Washington. D. C . whe re she represented the ... Michigan Auxiliary of Ihe Amen- makes him a lunatic. can Legion al th'- National De- has to happen before ht l ea se conference. there.

insight

"Did 1 step on your man as

Grat tan Center . Earl Behler resigned his posi-

tion at the Scott Si Winegar hard-w a r e and accepted one in Grand

blind the rest of my iife than tOi . , . . — inlo ' o r a , a r f i < ' sh 'pmenl of his new

truck and bag holders f rom a

Joining a church will nol make S S * * H < , u s <• ^ A n ' ! r ^

. T ' A motto taken from an ex-thi n put t ing him in an asvluin chance- "Late to bed earlv to ni.*ilf#s. hifn u 111ii 1.1if* Sonn-thine N , . »ari \ in aomCTmng n s < . - w o r k | l k t . b i a w ^ a n d a ( J .

gels j vertise." Miss Bernice Houlihan of Ver

A year ago Europeans

OMAHA . , . Vertma Grneatber, former Omaha Women 'i Single Teanif ehampjoa. it •oou to bwome the bride of Lieut Garmoa David-•oa. football roach at Wert Point Military. Academ>.

West Lowell By Mrs. Melvin Court

Mapet District (By Mrs. Roxie Honter )

Mr. and Mrs. Sam Frederick and family were .Sunday d inne r guests at John Young's in Grand Rapids,

Mrs. W. M. I-amlon and chil-dren. (ieorge and Damaris and Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Lswion called <in Nelson Wicks al Fa l -lasbtirg. on Sunday a f te rnoon .

Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Condon, Mrs. Ola Condon and Fred Rick-ner mere week ago Sunday vis-

i t o r s of Mr. and Mrs. Rill Hun te r . Mr. and Mrs. Norton Avery

and son of L m s i n g spent Sunday at Ihe T. C. Wil le t te home.

Gladys Kinyon. Mary. Anna, ,-ind Stanlex Ralys mere among those to attend Ihe Shr ine Circus,

Mr. and Mrs. Sherm Romiand and daughter Marie, mere Sun-day visitors of John Fraree and daughter Inez.

We an- glad lo hear that Mrs. Hsltie Eas terbrook is s lowly im-proving.

Honor roll s tudents for the imonth of January an- ; Marie Homiand, Grace Freder ick. Billy

| Schmidt. Ph i l ip Schneider , George and Damaris Lamion, Gladys Kinyon. Anna. Mary and Stanley Rslys.

Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Dam-son and chi ldren were Sundax visit-ors of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Tucker .

The Ind ies ' Aid of the U. R. church mill be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Claude Schmidl Fr iday. Februa ry 2nd for supper .

Mrs. Gabe Onon spent Tuesdax mith her bro ther . Sherm Rey-nolds and family.

Sunday visitors at Melvin Court ' s mere Mr. and Mrs. Maur-ice Court . Richard Court and Miss Ruth Rollins.

Mr, and Mrs. Clyde Newell spent Tuesday in Grand Rapids

Mrs. H. Dam-son visited ber son Lloyd and family at Sarana( Sun iay .

Mrs. Helen Reynolds is visiting he r daughter . Mrs. Gabe Onan.

Mrs. Ed, Easterbrook is im proving slowly from her recent illness.

Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Court at-tended the Alto Creamery meet-ing Thursday .

Miss Anna Yink at tended tht teachers meeting in Grand Rap-ids Fr iday.

Dorothy Billinger spent several i days last week milh f r i ends in Saranac.

Miss Lorra ine Sherman (if: Saranac spent Sa turday n igh l !

mith her f r iend. Dorothy 3il i in ger.

Heavyweights Again

Carey and Mr. and Mrs. Jame- f ^ k e d the big, fat man as ht Monroe and son Kenneth. Mr, fromsded into a seat at the mov-and Mrs. Paul Carey of Middle i'es next to a pretty girl. ville spent Sunday mith the "H ei ther you o r an ele-Easterbrooks . : phant . " remarked the victim.

foot • " I ^ C/iiropeans wen-asking if another m-ar m-(Hild ever be possible — nom- they are ask-ing when .

a. e x a ll

Birthday Sale Daring the month of Febrnary we are offering over a hundred Rexall

products at Bargain Prices

Y ^ O M A N C E a n d a d v e n t u r e

w i t h s w i f t m o v i n g a c t i o n

i n t h e l u m b e r c a m p s o f t h e

n o r t h . A c a p t i v a t i n g s t o r y w h i c h

e v e r y r e a d e r w i l l e n j o y . I t w i l l

a p p e a r s e r i a l l y i n t h e s e c o l u m n s .

The Lowell Ledger Opening Chapter Next Week

w

Jsd a Fea ri the Maty Specials: Full p in t of Rubbing Alcohol and mny CA* one of these four other i t ems for only www

1—-Pin t a i a a Mfr-31, t h a m o u t h t e s t e d a n t i a e p t i c .

2—100 P u r a t a s t A a p t r i n , t h a a a f c A s p i r i n .

3 — F u l l pint R e x a l l M i l k of M a g n e s i a .

o u n c e s i z e o f R e s i l l a n a , t h a h o n e y - l i k a c o u g h a y r u p .

$1J0 Size Pu re Cod Liver Oil 79c

25c Siae Castor Ofl 19c

S c Siae M e r e a r o c h r o n e 19c

25c Sice Laxat ive Cold Tablets 19c

Sac Siae Jontoel Creams 3 fo r S1.00

75c Size Cold O e a z i 6Jc

25r Size Klenzo Dental Cream 17c

S1J9 Siae Agares 69c

25c SUe Kleenex 16c

Visit our store and see the many other Bar-gains on display.

Hilderley s Drug Store 214 W. Main SL Lowell. Mich.

SNOW M. E. CHURCH Preaching Id a, m. Sunday school 11 a. m.

James G. Baillard. Pastor.

ZION M. E. CHI RCH English preaching Sundav at

10 o'clock. Bible school at 11 o'clock. You are cordially invited,

John Claus. pastor.

gennes mas married to Austin Byrne of Grat tan .

Mr. and Mrs. H. Kitson of Par-nell celebrated their twenty-fif th medding anniversary.

NEW YORK , . . Earopeta heavy. weigiite retnra for new wan ia

If you have anyth ing you wan-to sell, s w a p or t rade, o r if von W 0 I W " d mant to buy an>thing the Ledger Want Column ads m ill b r ine re- t r * suits. Your neighbor mill tell T " ®°Wr 1,1

you that it pays to adver t i se .n * The l e d g e r . (39tf * ^ * 0 p i > 0 M n t

lot Tn heea mcxra.

C H I RCH OF THE NAZARENE Rev. Vernon Shirley, pas-tor. Sunday school, 10:00 a. m. Morning serv ice. 11 a. m. 7:(Mi p. m. Junior N. Y, P, S, 7:00 p. m.. N. Y. P. S. sen-ice Special music.

hst ic service. Mid-meek prayer s e n i o e s on

Wedneaday evening at 7:4.r» o'clock.

CATHOUC PARISHES SL Man's—Lowell

Rov. F t . Jem-ell. pastor. 8:00 a. m.. Lom- Mass, sermon. 10:00 a, m.. High Mass and ser-

mon.

SL Patrick's Parnell Rev. Pr. McNeil, pastor

8:00 a. m. Lom- Mass and ser-mon.

10:00 a. ro. High Mass and

February 2. 1SW—3.j Years Ago The firm of Termilliger & Mc-

Na ugh ton dissolved par tnership , t h e latter ret ir ing,

George B. Rose died of pneu-monia at the home of Horace Weeks in Vergennes.

The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. John Both passed away.

John Kelly received w o r d of the death of his mother at Mus-kegon.

Between ,'KHi and 4<Ht Lomell people ill mith grippe,

Mrs. Alex Denton of Keene {Kissed a w a y a f t e r a long i l lness f rom cancer .

Mrs, Chas. Klahn of South 7:45 Evange- Boston underwent a successful

'operat ion at Ann Arbor. The thermometer registered 21'

degrees belom- zero. A son mas born to Mr. and Mrs.

James F lynn . Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Bromer

w e r e given a surprise honor inc the i r 42nd m-edding anniversary

V u l c o C o r d Furn i shed in any sire, shape or p a t t e r n

fo r any m a k e of

W a s h i n g M a c l i i n e s o r E l e c t r i c R e f r i g e n t o r s .

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To Buy, Sell. Rent o r Sm-ap Use Ledger Want Column

Cascade and Bowne Rev. F r . E. H. Racette, pastor . Services at 9 and 10'JO a, m

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Christ ian Science services a re

held even.- Sundav morning a I eleven o'clock over the l^om ell Stati- Bank.

Subject of Lesson-Sermon fo r Feb rua ry 4th. is "Love."

All are welcome. Use bank ent rance .

A Christ ian (Science service is broadcast f rom Milwaukee over WTMJ every morn ing at eight o'clock.

Mill ui CIEAM The Quality of Milk

You Doftiro

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UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH of WEST LOWELL

Sunday school. 10:30 a, m. Morning service—11:30 a. m Subject : "The Besurrection

of the Body." Christ ian Endeavor . 7:15 p. m.

Leader, Mrs, Joe Green. Evening service at 7:45 p, m.

[Subject: "And the Egyptians

Prompt service on Repair Work

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FUUK T H B LOWKLL (MICH.) LBDGBR aad ALTO SOLO IHU'll-SDAY. KHD. I, 1931

ALTO DEPARTMENT (Mns. Frwl Pat t ison)

M t • • • • • • -M-

Creamery Dinner

T h e Alio and So. Lowell Ladies' Aid socirilies served d inner lo about 650 people In two and one half hours lasl Thursday , the

Alto Locals

will be a pedro

Ihe d inner

n u n - will be a pedro par ty Salunlay night. Februa ry 3rd at Alio Grange hall Tor Ihe benefll of the Jun io r base bail club. Kv-

o^'asVmi boilig lhc t:rcamcr> din- erxbody i n v i l d . U d l » brill* Her al ,ho G r . 1 ^ b.M ; ^ - ^ " • C r o n .

inger and children visited Mrs. Charles Uancrofl Thursday.

Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Dygerl and family were (Sunday d inne r guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dygerl.

Mr. and Mrs. 'Howard Bartlelt I

T h e net profit of w a s $121.55.

Mrs. C. G. Wieland. the Presi-den t . in behalf of ' i ie Ladies' Aid society wishes lo thank each and eve ry one who so loyally assist-ed wi th their services and con-t r ibut ions to make the d inner a

succesv |of Grand Itapi.ls w e r e evening callers al the

. Duell home. a n i ' Mr. and Mrs. E lmer

and Mr. and Mrs. James Wrigh Sunday

Alto Locals

Thursdav visitors of Mr.

Albert

Mrs. Ed. OTlar row were Mr. and Mrs. Glen Haxel and children. Dale I la ie l . Mr. and Mrs. John Freeman, Frank OTlar row. Mrs. Wal ler Weiland and Bert Klahn.

Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Doty of Atlanta were iSnlurday d inne r guests of Dr. and Mrs. G. M. Thorndike and Mrs. Thorndike r e l u m e d lo Atlanta wilh them for a week's visit.

Mr. and Mrs. Valda Chal lerdon anil daughter wekv Thursday evening supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Claud Silcox. ...

Mr. and Mrs. Heuben Lee spent | l l i r n home Thursday evening wilh Mr. a n d |

Dinlaman Gerald called on Mr. and Mrs.

Fineis of Lowell Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Rich-

ardson spent Sunday a f te rnoon wilh Mr. and Mrs. Clare Porr i t l .

Mary Sinclair at tended the Teachers ' Inslilule in Grand l lap-ids Fr iday. Mrs. Hnuna Poller, Glen Barnes,

Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Shullis and baby of Lowell were Friday-night d inne r guests of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Loveland.

Mr. and Mrs. Pe r ry Damoulh visited in Pinckney on their r e

f rom Detroit

N O W is The Till

Ready fir Spriag Come in and aee our Team Harnest, alto perl t for re-

pairinf your old harneaa.

Poultry Equipment a t the right prices.

Cream Wanted

W. E. HALL Phene S24. LowaH. Mich.

ALTO M. E. CHURCH NOTES

The Goodfel lowship class served a d inne r lo represenlat ives of the Pur ina Company in the Church d in ing room J a n u a r y 24th. The ladies of Ihe Class reached new heights in the cul-ina ry art by serving ham baked

wi lh home-made i 1 S l , l o perfect ion ice-cream and apple pie f o r des-

Mrs. F red Patt ison. Mrs. Mack Watson re lu rned ^ 1 " ^ Mrs. Belva Bryant and Mrs. h o l w f r o m ^ h o j p i i . i Wednes lf.1" ^ Mr. George

Bose Brvant spi-nt Saturday af-ternoon at the Salisbury and Brvant home.

Sir. and Mrs. John OTlarrow and Mr. and Mrs. Edson OTlar-row were Saturday callers at Mr. and Mrs. Ed. O'Harrow's .

Mrs. Delia Silcox spent Sunday wi th he r son Claude and wife .

Mrs. F red Patt ison visited he r parents . Mr. and Mrs. Hi lbe i i Moflit Sunday forenoon.

A large c rowd enjoyed the pedro par ty at Grange hall Tues-day night. Thir teen tables were in plav and Mrs. Kate Curley and Henry Slater won first p r i i e s a n d EUab McDiarmid a n d Mrs. Ray Linton consolations. The re wil l be another par ly in two weeks, February 6lh, everybody welcome. Mrs. John Sullivan came Fr iday

to spend several days wi th h e r daughter , Mrs. Merle Rosenberg.

Mrs. Llovd McKersey and Mrs. Henry Hal ley of Dutton were Batarday supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. F r e d Pat t ison.

T h e large c rowd which filled the Grange hall Saturday nighl to see -Look Out l i z z i e . " given by the Caledonia 0 . E. S. enjoyed the fine home talent play. Those taking par t displayed fine abil i ty and w e hope to see them again some time again. The songs by Mrs. McKersie and h e r accom-panist . Mrs. Bowman were ap-preciated. Proceeds were *» .50 . happy bir thdavs.

and son John c A n John Sullivan

day and her many f r i ends hope fo r he r a speedy recovery.

Mr. and Mrs. George Skidmorc were in Lowell Wednesday.

Malic S tone is spending the win te r at Ihe home of Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Pulman of Lowell .

Bradley Croninger is ill al this wri t ing wi lh pneumonia .

Mrs. Elmer Dinlaman spent Fr iday with he r daughter . Mrs. Gerald Fineis of Lowell , who is ill wi lh the flu.

Thursday evening visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Richard-son were Mr. and Mrs. Everet t Richardson of Ix)gan.

Several neighbors and f r iends of Dr. G. M. Thorndike surprised him Fr iday nighl lo remind him of his b i r thday. The evening was spent visiting and three tables of cards were in play. Mrs. George Skidmore and E. C. Rosenberg won first honors and Mrs. Charles Foote and George Sliidmore consolation. Tables were then spread wi lh valentine paper lunch sets, and a delicious lunch was served, including a beautiful ly decorated birthday-cake baked by Mrs. Thorn dike's niece. Mrs. Geldersma of Grand Rapids, and ice cream. Charles Foole wilh appropr ia te remarks presented Dr. Thorndike wi lh a card table as a b i r thday gift front his f r iends, then all depar ted wishing the doctor many more

Mr. and Mrs. rsma of Grand Rapids and

Houghton and Mr. Basil H a y w a r d co-operated in making the din-ne r successful .

Rev. C. A. Lohnes and Chas. H. Smith at tended Ihe District meeting of the Methodist Broth-erhood al Burton Heights M. E. church last Tuesday evening.

Attendance a l Ihe Church school lasl Sunday was eighty-four . The average a t tendance is runn ing about fifteen more than lasl quar te r .

The I n d i e s ' Aid society report a very successful project com-pleted in the serving of the Creamery; d inner . Not only was the d inne r served in a highly successfully manne r d r a w i n g many compliments f rom the six hundred a n d fifty d inners , but Ihe financial r e tu rns w e r e very good.

The home talent play f r o m Cale-donia sponsored by Mrs. Paul ine Watts of the Alto Aid s o d e t y was well a t tended. The play was well presented and pleased the many pat rons .

Mrs. Rosalie Maxson gave an or iginal verse reading of he r own composit ion at the Church School last Sunday which por t rayed he r impressions of the local Church School.

BOWNE CENTER L. A. S.

The next regular meet ing of Bowne Center Ladies' Aid will be held al the i r hall Februa ry

of Ionia and Tom Sullivan of | ) r a n ( j Mrs. B. A. Pe r ry of • 7th. T h e committee t o enler-( i rand Raptds w e r e Snnday d in - , Hastings were the out of town i lain are Mrs. Alvin Bergy, (chair-ne r guests of Mr. and Mrs. Merle man) . Mrs. Ed. Lacy. Mrs. Wm. Rosenberg. „ , , . Mrs. Floyd Yeiter, Miss Ber- ,Porr i t l . Mrs. Dan Layer, Mrs.

Mrs. Mary Bryant re lu rneo n j ^ . Yeiter. Miss Sad a Wilson Alice Mishler. Mrs. Lucy Hunl-Sunday f rom a week s visit wi lh a n d Mrs. Albert Duell at tended h e r daughter in Gre fn \ i l l e . | h e PTA meeting a l Campau Lake

school Thursday evening. Sunday af te rnoon al the Krebs and Blough home.

Mrs. Xorthrup, Mrs. Cilly, Mrs. Agnes Salisbury and .Mrs. Gerald (Sichenkclberg spent Fr iday af le r -noon wi th Mrs. Henry Nellins and Josephine Salisbury.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Foole called on Mrs. J . K. Cooper ol Grand Bapids Tuesday a f t e r the t ragic death of Mr. Cooper in an auto accident near Spring Lake.

Mr. and Mrs. Lawlon Cole and daughter were Sunday d inner guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Fairchilds.

Leo E r b injured h is a rm Monday morn ing whi le c ranking a car and went to Grand Rapids f o r an X-Ray.

Mrs. Viva lHarel spent Thurs-day with he r sister, Mrs. Ed. O'-Har row.

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Porr i t l enter-ta ined Mrs. Ella Stanley of Wa-inago. Kansas, Friday- and Sat-urday.

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Sydnam spent Tuesday in Lansing.

Mrs. Esther Ferguson spent the week-end with Sir. and Mrs. Frank Bunker.

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Colby and Mrs. Ella F reye rmuth called on Mr. and Mrs. Carl F reye rmuth and family and Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Fineis Sunday.

Mrs. Charles Colby. Marion Colby and Eleanor H a y w a r d were in Grand Bapids Fr iday af te rnoon and called on Mrs. R. E. Colby al Blodgelt hospital. Mrs. Colby was to undergo an operat ion on he r ankle this Mon-day morning.

George Houghton called on George Skidmore (Sunday .

Mr. and Mrs. Bert Sydnam vis-ited the lal ter 's cousin, Mrs. Flora Hooper in Caledonia Sun-day.

Sir. and Mrs. F rank Bunker, Gerald and Es ther Ferguson were Sunday d inner guests of Mrs. Stella Cress and son Howard .

Marian Colby and Don Noble of Detroil and James Green of Low-ell were Sunday d inner guests of Eleanor Hayward .

Thomas Fo rward and son El-ton of Jackson called on Mr. and Mrs. (Harry- Slater Thursday .

Mr. and Mrs. Rienerlson of G r a n d Rapids spent Saturdav evening with Mr. and Mrs. Rav Linton.

Miss Yeiter and Mrs. Duell assisted with Ihe program.

Mrs. Ida Brown is spending a few- days wilh Mr. and Mrs. Ger-ald Fineis of Lowell.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed . Davis attend-ed a bir thday dinner at Mr. and Mrs. Beed Cooper 's Sunday in honor of Mrs. Davis ' b i r thday .

Mrs. Celesta Dulcher spent Sat-urday evening wi lh Mr. and Mrs. (ieorge Houghton.

Arlie Draper spent Tuesday wi th Mr. and Mrs. George Skid-more.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith were Sunday d inne r guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Curtiss.

Mrs. Broadbent passed away early Tuesday morning.

Mrs. John Brannon and Betty called on Mrs. George Skidmore Thursday.

Jack and l^awrence Curtiss, Bob and Dickie Kill and Priscilla Smith were guests of Mrs. D. B. Miller at Ihe Shr ine circus Sat-urday af ternoon in honor of their bir thday.

Mr. and Mrs. Basil Hayward . Miss Irene Schwab and Dick Fairchild attended Ihe Shr ine circus Fr iday night. Mrs. Hay-ward and Miss Schwab had at-tended Ihe Teachers ' Insti tute during the day.

A food sale will be held at Ros-enberg's store Saturday af ter -noon. February- 1, sponsored by-Group Three, of the Bowne Cen-ter Ind ies ' Aid society. (p37

Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Foole w-ere in I-owell Monday evening and attended a b i r thday d inne r given by Congregational Sunday-school. Mr. Foote was the speak-e r of the evening. H e told of many of the interest ing and beauty spots of Michigan.

ington. Mrs. Allie Boulard. IMnner will be served al noon

fol lowed by business meeting and program. Please p repare lo a n s w e r roll call w t h quota-tion f r o m Washington o r Lin coin. The re will be work . Don'*i forget the "Grab bag" also re-member the contest which is still going s trong.

Visitors cordially invited. All members urged lo be present .

Mrs. Edwina Wingeier , Pres.

SCHOOL NOTES

Harriet Koepnick and Clare Krebs were absent lasl week on account of illness.

The Alto High School club had a meeting Wednesday. They de-cided to have an ice skating and a valentine pa r ty .

The re was no" school Fr iday on account of Teachers ' Inst i tute.

• • • • » • « • • • • • • • • • • • • » • • I M O M M M » • • • » • M M

ADA DEPARTMENT i M M M M l

(By Mrs. Battle R. F i tch)

i M a M M M M M M M M *

Ada Ladies' l i t e r a r y Club The annua l evening meeling of

the Ada Ind ies ' l i t e r a r y club was held al the school house on Thursday evening, J a n u a r y 251b, wilh about seventy present . The meeling was called lo o rde r by Ihe president , Mrs. Alice Morris. The da le being the anniversary of Ihe poeL Robert Burns . Mrs. Celia Cramlon gave a very inter-esting s tory of his life and read I w o of his best loved poems. " F o r a Thai And a T h a i ' and ' 'HlRhland Mary ," and the songs, "Auld tang Syne" t»nd "Sweet Aflon" w e r e sung.

Dorothy Morris, Yvonne Svo-boda and Barbara Curtiss gave a lap dance a n d Gordon Svoboda recited the poem "The Big St ick."

Dorothy Morr i s appropr ia te ly dressed in an old fashioned cos-tume sang "The Old Spinning Wheel ," wi th Charlot te F i lch ac-companying he r on t h e piano.

The hi lar ious panomine "Wan t -ed a Wife ," w a s given by Mesdames Winnie Sincla i r , Claire Lamper t , Winn i f r ed Lins-day, Verne Furne r , Daisy Ward , and Merta Nellisl and Mr. Harry-Filch, w h o por t rayed the part of the man who advert ised for a wife .

Fol lowing the program a deli-cious pot luck supper w a s en-joyed.

Mrs. Ida Morr is will be hostess lo the c lub al i ts next meeling lo be held on Thursday , Febru-ary 8lh, w h e n a debate wil l be held on the top ic : "Resolved that the modern home is doing more f o r i ts youth than the home of a q u a r t e r of a cen tury ago." The afi lrmative, Mrs. Claire Lam-pert , negative, Mrs. Celia Cram-ton. Response at roll call, "Household Hints ."

Ada Leeala

Sa turday a f te rnoon cal lers of Mrs. Celia Cramlon w e r e Mr. and Mrs. Thomas MacNaughlon, Mrs.

a n d Mrs. Hen-

Nordburg will ) on St . Valen-

CARD O F THANKS

1 wish in th i s way to express Mr. and Mrs. Ward Proclor s i n <*re thanks and apprecia-

called on Mr. and Mrs. Frank J 1 0 " , 1 0 n » n y f r i ends for their Kl ine Thursday, Mrs. Proctor ' n v V > P " 5 a n < 1 flowers sent a s assisted wi th the c reamerv din- r , n R m y confinement. m-r.

Thursday af ternoon callers of Mrs. Ray l i n t o n were Mrs. Pelcl Stahl . Miss Marion Smelker , Mr. a n d Mrs. Henry Weaver and Jake; Konkle. and Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Mc-Carty of Green Lake.

Mr. and Mrs. F rank Kline spent the week-end wi th Mr. and Mrs. Vernor Lynn of Grand Bap-ids.

Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hunt. May-n a r d and Adeline, Mr. and Mrs. L e o Bryant and Mr. Kinney at-tended t h e S t rand in Lowell Sun-d a y night .

Mrs . Wal te r Yardley of IX)we 11 w a s a F r i d a y a f t e rnoon caller of Sad ie Wilson.

Mrs . George Skidmore called on Mrs. Ha l l i e Bancro f t Satur-day .

Mr. a n d Mrs. Ray l i n t o n spent Smtday wi th Mr. a n d Mrs. Henry Sme lekc r of F r e e p o r t .

Mrs. Merle Rosenberg and son, tarry" tamont. (cS7

L a y i n g H e n s Are Good Producers on

HAIMOIY MASH A pood many flocks a r e ex-ceeding 60 egifh fo r every 100 hens.

Harmony Mash cwt. 11.75 Wilh Bnttermilk and Oil

Scratch Feed cwl. $1.53

V e r n G o o d Feed Grindiug and Mixing

Phoae S l l

Alton - Vergennes By Mrs. Clyde Condon

Alton school pupils wi lh a per-fect a t tendance fo r the month were Jean Blaser, Royal Clark, Junior , Claude and Donna Jean Condon, Cather ine and Gladys Miller. Virginia a n d Jack Peter-son and d e n Reusser.

Velma Keech was home over the week-end f rom Kalamazoo.

Mrs. Claus. Esther Bieri and Essie Condon were among the teachers around here to attend Teachers ' Insli lule in Grand Rap-ids lasl Fr iday .

Mr. a n d Mrs. Bert Tay lo r and chi ldren of Belding w e r e Sunday d inner guests of Eva Kropf and family.

Alton Community c lub meets this Fr iday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Will Harr ington were- Sunday- d inner guests at the D. A. Church home.

Mr. and Mrs. Chris. Kropf. Mrs. Cora Ford and Donna Jean and Emma Kropf spent Sunday wi lh Mr . and Mrs. Jay Cummings.

Mr. a n d Mrs. Wilbur P u r d y an-nounce the arr ival of a baby girl last week.

Michigan S la te and Hope col-lege debat ing teams del ivered a very good debate at Alton church last Wednesday evening. They deserved a much la rger c rowd than did at tend.

4-H d u b sewing class met wi lh Doro thy Kropf last Satur-iday.

A b i r t hday supper and par ty w a s given Pete Peterson Satur-day evening. If Pe te hadn ' t eaves dropped over the par ty l ine one d a y it would have been a su rp r i se but he got in on the whole secret. Guests were t h e Church, Converse, Garfield and Glen Converse families, Ruth Converse, Mrs. Carl Melba, Mrs. Violet Johansen and Mrs. Helen Ormin of Chicago. Dancing and progress ive euchre w e r e the eve-ning's enter ta inment . Ruth Con-verse and Dave Garfield received honor s fo r euchre.

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kropf attend-ed a b i r thday d i n n e r Sundav evening in Grand Rapids honor-ing Mrs. KropTs fa ther , Mr. Tav-lor.

Emma Kropf spent Wednesday-night in Grand Rapids with Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Briggs.

Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Condon and Essie were d i n n e r guests Sunday of their parents in Low-eH.

Ncxl_ Wednesday evening Feb-ruary Tth there will be a shadow social and program at the Ben-nett school. P rogram will con-sist of minstrel plays amd comic dialogues. tadies please br ing lunch fo r two and gents br ing

j their pocket books. Everyone welcome. Essie Condon, teacher. Several f rom this neighborhood

attended the Pres ident ' s ball in Grand Rapids.

Laura J. T u r n bull , r y B. Davis of Grand Rapids .

Mrs. F r e d Anderson is spend-ing a week as a guest of h e r daughter , Mrs. F r e d L. Hen-dr icks ot E a s t Lansing. Mrs. A n d e r s o n wil l a t tend F a n n e r ' s Week meet ings being he ld at Michigan S ta te College t h i s week.

Mr. a n d Mrs. Al f red Fau lkne r en te r ta ined Wednesday evening f o r t h e pleasure of member s of the Ada 500 d u b . A del icious pot luck d i n n e r was served fol-lowed by cards . H o n o r s al t h e games w e r e won by Mrs. Merta Nellist and Eugene Curt iss a n d consola t ions wen t to Mrs. Verne F u r n e r a n d Char les Nellist . Mr . and Mrs. Alfred en te r t a in the d u b t ines day, Feb rua ry 14th.

Miss Ger t rude Kamp of Grand Rapids spent F r iday wi th h e r mother , Mrs. Pe te r Kamp and wi lh he r twin sisters, Es the r and Ethel to he lp them celebra te the i r th i r t een lh b i r thdays .

Mr. and Mrs. J a m e s McCormick invited Patr ick McCormick and Mr. and Mrs. Michael McCarthy lo be the i r guests f o r d i n n e r on Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Wal le r Afton, S r . and Wal le r , Jr . , a t tended the Shr ine d r c u s at Civic Auditor-ium, G r a n d Rapids, on Tliursday a f t e m o o n . After the d r c u s they were supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rober t Blackall of Grand Bapids.

Mr. and Mrs. H o m e r Morris and daugh te r Joan spent Thurs-day and F r iday as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Benson in St. Johns .

Mr. and Mrs. Seth Van Wormer and son Wayne, spent Sunday wi lh Mrs. Van Wormer ' s parents , Mr. and Mrs. Gus H a r t m a n n of Grand Rapids.

Mr. and Mrs. Wal ler Afton, S r . and Wal l e r Jr . , motored to taw-ell on Sunday a f te rnoon to visit Mrs. Ruth Mart in and ch i ld ren .

Mr. and Mrs. George Sil loway, Jr . , of Ovid were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Si l loway, Sr .

The Egypt Grange a f le r con-fe r r ing the first and second de-grees on th ree candidates al a regular meeling held at Grange Hall on F r iday evening, gave a shower honor ing Miss Beatrice Abraham and Ray B u m s , w h o s t wedding was an event of Tues-day morning, January 30th. at St. Pa t r ick ' s church , Parnel l . i n e couple received many lovely and useful gifts. Fo l lowing the s h o w e r bunco w a s p layed honors going to Mrs. J a m e s Abraham and Neal VanderPeer le and con-so la t iors lo Beatr ice Abraham and J a m e s McCormick. A pot luck supper w a s en joyed .

Mr. and Mrs. Char les Nellisl en te r ta ined the Rura l Mail Car-r i e r ' s Assodat ion of Kent County and the Ladies ' Auxil iary at a meet ing held a t t h e i r home on Sa tu rday evening wi th thir ty-six present . A delicious supper was served at seven o'clock, fol-lowed b y a business meet ing con-ducted b y Mr. F e r r a n d of Grand Rapids , Pres ident of the Asso-d a t i o n and Mrs. Minnie Denni-son. Vice Pres ident , of Grand Rapids, presided over the meet-ing f o r the Ladies ' Auxi l iary in the absence of the i r pres ident . An excellent p rog ram w a s en-joyed and games w e r e played.

Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Gibbs left on F r iday f o r a t w o mon ths ' vis-it in Flor ida. They a r e making the t r i p in the i r automobi le and a special t ra i l e r equipped simi-la r lo a home, a n d Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs will l ive in t h e i r t ra i l e r whi le on the t r ip . T h e t ra i ler was built f o r them b y the Land Yacht Tra i le r Co., of F rank fo r t and it includes fu rn i sh ings bought f rom Grand Rapids firms.

Mrs. H a r r y Birsc has a r r ived home a f le r spending the past year in Scot land, visi t ing h e r mothe r and o ther relat ives. Mr and Mrs. Birse a rc occupying the lower flat in the Rex Anthony tenant house.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Morris motored to Hopkins last Tues-day lo spend the d a y with Mr. and Mrs. Char les Moxon.

Mrs. Winnie Sincla i r spent „ f e w days of the past week as a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. ta Brecque in Grand Rapids.

Mr. a n d Mrs. Orvies Kellogg and granddaughter , F lorence McCormick and Mr . and Mrs. F r e d Thomas of McCords w e r e d inne r guests on Sunday of

Miss Elizabeth Cook at Cascade. Mr. and Mrs. Orvies Kellogg

called on their daughter , Mrs. Ed. McCormick on Munday.

Miss lone Quigglo of Cascade sjient the week-end wi th her cousin. Geraldine AverilL

Amateur nighl at the Ada rink on Fr iday proved lo be a d e d d e d success and d r e w out the unus-ually large a l lendance of over four hundred . Several adul ls and juniors look part in Ihe contest . First pr ize f o r adults went lo Mr. Witney fo r his fine singing and Eleanor H o u r a n ami Jack t o m g a , who sang and danced won first pr ize for the juniors . The o lhe r contestants w e r e well liked. T h e A d i Board of Trade announces there will be ano the r contest soon, the date to be announced later and any one desir ing to enter the contest should register wilh any member of the Board of Trade.

The fea ture picture next Fr iday is "The Re lu rn of Lightning Smith," a thri l l ing Western dra-ma. T h e usual o lhe r features will be shown and another epis-ode in the serial .

Mrs. Olive Ward was hostess lo the Bunco c lub of Lowell al Ihe home of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew ChafTee al tawell on Wednesday a f t e rnoon . ARer Ihe games a delicious lunch was served.

Mrs. Olive Ward at tended the b i r thday par ty and d inne r fo r Mrs. Blanche Dixon of Lowell on Sunday. Seventeen guests were present fo r the occasion.

Born, to Mr. a n d Mrs. Louie Ohler, (nee Marian Har r i s , ) of Jennison on Fr iday . J anua ry 19th, a seven pound son named Lysle Gilbert , mo the r and son a re both doing nicely.

Twen ty -one relat ives and f r i ends of Aunt J enn i e Chaffee, (Mrs. Li l lburn Cbaflee,) gathered a t h e r home on Sa tu rday a f te r -noon t o he lp h e r ce lebra te h e r 74th b i r t hday ann iversa ry . B u n -co w a s the a f t e rnoon ' s divers ion and a bounteous pot luck supper w a s served a f l e r the games.

Alaska Atoms By Mrs. C. W. King

Mrs. Bert Neimeyer enter ta ined the iHome Economic c |ub at he r home the 17lh of the monlh. Sleeve filling was the lesson dem-onsl ra led by Miss Elizabeth Sher r ington .

Mr. and Mrs. Hilberl Mnflll spent Saturday at the Nule Mollit home near Middleville.

Mr. and Mrs. Orve Vnnderl ip and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Pinck-ney of Keene spent Fr iday at the J a n u s Fox home.

The new fool bridge across Ihe riu-i- is completed.

Mrs. Clara Rich enter ta ined the 500 club Tuesday .

The Alaska Sunday school will serve an oys ler supper at the chu rch Thursday evening, Febru-ary- Isl. A f ree will offering will be taken lo cover expenses. Come out and spend a pleasant evening with us. Everybody is cordia l ly invited lo a t tend.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Colvin enler la incd their parents , Mr. and Mrs. C. W. King, also Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brower and Mr. and Mrs. Kennelh King and son Char les Saturday evening to an oys ler supper.

Miss Mildred Cole of Nashville was a guest of he r Grandpa Coon reccnl ly .

Mrs. Fred Pallison called at Ihe home of he r parents , Mr. and Mrs. H. Moflll Sunday a n e m o o n .

Miss Elizabeth Sl terr ington is car ing f o r Mrs. McConnell, who has r e l u m e d f rom the hospital lo Ihe home of he r son Albert. Shn is gaining nicely.

Mrs. C. W. King and daughters served a chicken d i n n e r in hon-o r of C. W.'s b i r thday, J a n u a r y 23rd. Those present w e r e Mr. and Mrs. Harold Colvin, Mr. and Mrs. Kennelh King and son Charles, Willis Snow, also Mr. and Mrs. Harve Vanderhoff .

Sunday guests at the King-Brower home w e r e William Brower and sisters, Mary, Ellen. Lorcl ta a n d Donna.

Sunday visi tors and callers at Ihe H e n r y Rich home were

Hickory Corners By Mrm. Jae Tetter

Mr. and Mrs. Bill S t au f f e r a n d Misses Cather ine a n d R o s d l a Bollock of Fa l lasburg spent Sun-d a y w i t h Mrs. Ethel Yeiter and family .

Mrs . Ethel Yeiter accompanied Mr. a n d Mrs. Wal te r Blakeslee to

reamery m T h u r s d a y . d i n n e r last T&ursday

Robe r t Yeiter is spending a f e w days wi th Mr . a n d Mrs. Bill S t a u f f e r of Fal lasburg .

Mr. and Mrs. B . F. Hilton of Nor th P a r k spent F r iday w i t h the i r son Paul and wi fe .

Mrs. B. F . and Mrs. Paul Hil ton called on Mrs. Nelson tawion e n d Mrs. R. P . Russell Friday a R e m o o n , also cal l ing o n . M r s . E l h d Yeiler .

Mr. and Mrs. Mylo S c h w a b and daughters . Misses Clarice. Rose Ella a n d Sara J a n e of Sunfield called on the i r s is ter and aunt , Mrs. Ethel Yeiler a n d family on t h d r way home f r o m Rockford Sunday a R e m o o n .

Mr. and Mrs. Wa l t e r Blakeslee a t tended t h e Communi ty meel ing at South Boston Grange hall Sat-u r d a y evening.

Mrs. Joe Jonsma a n d daughter Liza, and chi ldren, also Clarence Harpe r and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Williams and llllle daughter .

Sunday visitors at the home of A. T. Dean were his daughter, Nina and family and son Ira and family, also Miss Bailey of Grand Bapids.

Mrs. Vandermullen spent a few-days in Grand Bapids. Mr. and Mrs. Bay l laskins a re car ing for Mrs. Hask ins whi le she is away . Mrs. H. is gaining in s t rength and he r many f r i ends hope lo see he r out soon.'

Boss Knowles of Grand Bap-ids was brought to Alaska fo r burial Monday. Mr. Knowies was an old resident here and has been sick f o r qu i te a spell. We extend our sympa thy to Ihe be-reaved family .

Correc ted : l l w a s Mr. Fred Auldin that was bur ied here late-ly instead of Mrs. as staled in our lasl item. J o e Coon is look-ing fo r Mrs. Auldin to come and keep house fo r h im. She is u cousin of Mr. Coon.

Whites Bridge By Mrs. C. E. Bowcn

Mr. and Mrs. Joe K m p p speaC Emma Here- .*<

Mr. spent

West Bowne By Beatrice Kelscy

and Mrs. Henry tandon Fr iday evening at Ihe

home of Mr. and Mrs. lid. Davis of Alio.

The young people of Ihe L 1). S. church held t h e i r meeting at the home of Miss Evelyn Ellis Fr iday evening.

Mrs. Nick Pilsch, Mrs. Ed. Lind and J ane tandon spent F r i d a y a f te rnoon at t h e Ellon Peel home.

Miss Evelyn Ellis spenl Satur-day in Grand Rapids .

Mr. and Mrs. Alvah taring and daughter spent Sa turday af ter -noon al the Ed. Lind home.

Miss Beatrice Kelsey was a Sunday d i n n e r fcuest of Miss Dor-othy Nash.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed . l i n d and Donald at tended the Creamery-d inne r a t Alto Thur sday .

com Ledger want atfs cost little, ac-mplish much.

Sunday al Mrs. d o r f s . . ,

Mrs. Bry Condon of Moseley spent Sunday af lernoon at Aug-ust Miche's.

Mr. and Mrs. C B. Bowen a n d Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Richmond at-tended the Alio Creamery d i n n e r -ami meeling last week Thur s -day.

Kennelh VanOcker of Green-ville spenl several days lasl week a I Ted VanOcker 's .

Miss Ella Bowen visited Ihe Belding High School last F r iday as Ihe guesl of Miss Helen Baker .

Doris and Billy Daller and Bobby Albert f rom the Kemp school visited the Marble school lasl Fr iday .

Mr. and Mrs. Ted Gaipar a n d chi ldren spent Sunday a f le rnnon at C. E. Bowen's.

The neighborhood pedro par ty were enter ta ined al the home of Mr. anil Mrs. I.eo Bichmond lasl F r iday evening.

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Marketing Stock Costs Overlooked

Livestock Raisers Figure Wrong Way, Says

Specialist

By H. C. Athbjr. LlrMteck IfarktUng BiwcUllat, Collect of AfrteuUur*. UBlrmltT of nitnoU—WNU Mrvlc*. n cost $935,000,000 or more than

their total farm value, to market the meat anlmala slaughtered to the United States last year, bat most farmers and stockmen thought they w o e getting off for a market-ing bill of only $140,000,(NXX

There are two ways of looking a t livestock marketing coats, and 90 oat of 10C stockmen do It the wrong way. A new chart, baaed on esti-mates by the hureaa of agricultural economics of the United States De-partment of Agriculture, shows In a graphic way some of the many millions of livestock marketing costs that stockmen have been pay-ing without giving much considera-tion to them.

According te the chart, the farm value of meat anUoala slaughtered In the United States la I9S2 was $721,000,000 H m packers paid 9861.000,000 for theae animals, and

usumers paid $1,656,000,000 a t ra-tal! prices for the meats.

Nlnety-nlna oat of one hundred stockmen think of marketing costs as Including only freight or truck-age, yardage, feed and commlastoa —In short, the expense of moving Sraatock from the farm feedlot to the packing p lan t On tills basis livestock producers psld $140,000,-00C la marketing costs on their 19S2 crop of BMat aaimala, or the dUfer-ence bctneea the farm raloe of $721,000,000 and the $881,000,000 that were paid for those aalmals by the packera.

On the other hand, packera main-tain that the price of livestock Is determined by what consumers will pay for meata. That la, the price of sseats to consumers, less the various costs of processing and dis-tribution ia the price of the meat animal On that basis livestock marketing costs In 1932 ware $935,-600,000 Instead of 9140,000.00a

That $335,000,000 Included coats of slsnghter, processing, storage, wholesaling, transportation. Insur-ance and retailing In getting the meat from the packer to the con-sumer. Hie $140,000,000 of the costs, which stockmen see and know they pay. Is Important and la to be reduced wherever possible. I t la also desirable that stockmen know more about the big end of their marketing costs, the $795.OCV 000 between the stockyards terminal market and consumer. In order that they may adopt such measures as may be necessary to narrow Gist drain on t h d r Uvesiock Income.

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T H B LOWELL (MICH.) LEDGER and ALTO SOLO THURSDAY, FED, I, 1934 FIVE

Earl Moralizes on Evils of Gossip

Dear Ed i lo r : Here goes a lillle convcrsalion

I heard the olb<fr day when il rained. An old Rcnllemon and n young man. II seems lhal nearby Ihe old genl lcman's f a rm lives u neighbor who has Iwo girls or young women as lough as Iwo a lie)' a i l s .

T h e young man says, "Uncle, is Mary as bad as Ihey say she i s ? "

The old man's reply was, "Say, young man, Mary is Ihe besl housekeeper in Ihe slale. You should go over Ihere and see h o w clean and t idy cverylhing is. You know Iheir mothe r has been in |K)or heallh fo r years and Ihosc girls do all ihe w o r k and lake cure of Iheir molher , and one of Ihem works oul all of Ihe l ime and lhal is Ihe one who can gel Ihe besl pay. T h e o lher one does Ihe home work a n d Ihey bolh lake care of Iheir money."

Hut Ihe young man was nol salisfled so he said, "Well, Anna was a genuine lough before she gol marr ied, now wasn ' l s h e ? "

The old man said, "Bov, I don ' l know and do not care . She is one of Ihe best dressed anywhere around here. Why she makes all Iheir d o l h e s and you know the whole family look as Ihough Ihey had just stepped oul of a lai lor shop and, Anna makes all of Iheir clolhes and keeps Ihe house besides, as h e r husband is on Ihe road mosl of Ihe l ime as a sales-man. Mary has worked fo r Ihis Arm for six o r eighl years and musl be very reliable o r she could nol hold down a job like lhal ."

"But," the young man persis t -ed, "you know they are cats ."

T h e reply w a s : "Cats, Ihe

devil. 'He lhal is wi lhoul sin Id him cast Ihe flrsl slone al Ihem. ' "

The young man then said, "Unclc, every one is talking about them and why a rc you tell-ing all Iheir good qual i t ies?"

The old gent leman's answer was what struck mc as logic and wor th trying. II was, . "Young man, since I was a boy I have Iried nol lo in ju re any one by saying naslv things about Ihem. a m i when I havetcl icarry.on a talk lo be social I lalk about myself, then I am Ihe only one injured. And, lei mc tell you if you keep on talking aboul everyone yon hea r something about, you will be a regular old lien hussy, so you heller qui l ."

Then Ihe old man began I d l -ing what he had done. He cut eight cords of wood in one day wilh an axe; cul nine acres of corn in one day and hound Ihe shocks, husked one hundred and fifty bushels of corn in a day : caught twelve coons thai nighl; and ale twen ty eggs fo r break-fast. Nexl morn ing he carr ied four bu. wheal Iwo miles lo mill. That day he brought home llour, b ran and seven dol-lars wor th of groceries, all at one load. (He helped a neighbor kill fifteen hogs before sun d o w n ; fell off a roof of a barn th i r ty feel, s t ruck on his feet, busted his feel clean oul of his bools and Ihen walked home nine miles.

The young jnan said lo me, "Them slories sound big, bul he has been an awfu l man in his day. ' '

But that 's a good lesson.

EARL CURTISS.

South Boston By Miss Belle Yeaag

Mrs. Emma Oleson re tu rned to the Edwin Ransom home Wed-nesdsy a f t e r a f e w days* visit in Allegan.

Mrs. M. f l e a t o r is spending a f e w weeks wi th h e r daughter , Mrs. Mabel FUi rn i .

Leon Roush a n d family, a f t e r a n ine years* residence on t h e Church fa rm, wi l l move soon to Ihe Al Champlin f a r m southeast of Clarksville.

Mrs. Nellie Young spent S u n -day wi th h e r sister, Mrs. H a r r y Richardson and family .

The Boston towns'uip spel l ing meet is scheduled f o r F e b r u a r y 15th at 2 p. m. at the Boston Cen-tral school.

A new cloak room on the school house a n d a gravelled dr iveway are CWA improve-ments recently made at the South Bell school.

Robert M. S tuar t , a Jun io r at Central Stale Teachers ' college, is a member of Ihe negative team of debat ing there a n d wil l lake part in several debales th is month, one of wh ich is wi th a Detroit college leam.

West Vergennes By Mrs. C. Wil leobach

Shirley ( iross is ill wi lh mumps. Mrs. Blanche Himebaugh spent

a week in Detroi t visiting h e r daughter, Mrs. Bowman, h e r sis-t e r and family and he r mother , who is there visiting.

Richard Houseman and w i f e of Ml. Pleasant w e r e Sunday visit-ors a I Bert Baker 's .

Mrs. A. E. Hemingsen spent l»art of lasl week in Grand Rap-ids visiting relatives.

Mr. and Mrs. Lee Crakes and daughter Doris, and Mrs. D. D. Krum were a t Old Mission lasl week lo sec Ihe i r molher , Mrs. Edna Crakes, w h o has been ill wilh flu al Ihe home of h e r daughicr, Mrs. Ben Ghering.

Mrs. Bert Baker was in Grand Rapids part of lasl week.

Wilbur Wil lenbach is visiting his sisters in Detroi t .

Mr. and Mrs. H. Cheivink and family of Big Rapids w e r e Fr i -day night visi tors at Bert Baker 's .

Mr. and Mrs. Allen Bennell , Mr. and Mrs. Carl James and Mr. and Mrs. C M. Hiimebaugh al-tended the Bridge club at the Glenn Martin home Fr iday eve-ning.

1). I). Krum, wi fe and grandson attended the Shr ine circus in Grand Rapids Sa tu rday evening.

Job pr int ing execuled wi th painstaking c a r e at The Ledger office.

Bowne Bugle Notes By Mra. Myrtle Parrltt

The Busy Bees 4-H Sewing and Handicraft d u b of Bowne District No. 3, held their second meeting at the schoolhouse Thursday afternoon. Eight mem-bers were present. Marian Fry-ling, secretary.

and Mrs. Clayton Johnson and Ar thur Clark w e r e in Mid-dleville Thursday . Mrs. John -son w e n t the day wi th I f t r sis-ter , Mrs. Vance Sharp , whi le the men inspected some Shor thorn Durham cattle herds .

Mrs. H o w a r d Houghton is spending some lime wi lh her mother, Mrs. Guy Smilh whom we a re glad to repor t is much bet ter at this wr i t ing .

George Houghton and family spenl Fr iday evening at Guy Smith's.

Gene Bryant and Edi th Porr i t l spent Monday evening in Grand Rapids.

Miss Alice Por r i l l at tended a teacher 's meeting in Grand Rap-ids Fr iday.

Mr. and Mrs. Corwin Porr i l l and Gilbert spent Fr iday evening at Guy tShiith's.

Clair Bryant of Alto spent Sat-urday wi th h is f a the r at Dee Bryant 's .

Mr. and Mrs. H o w a r d Smilh of Grand Rapids called at Guy-Smith's Sa turday .

Mrs. Jenn ie F lynn re turned f rom the hospital to the John Nash home. H e r sister, Mrs. Amanda Ervin , is helping to care fo r her .

Mrs. Lawrence Johnson called on Mr. and Mrs. H a r r y Boughner of Freeport Sunday .

Corwin Por r i t l and family spent Sunday at Elmer Yeiter's.

Mr. and Mrs. H o w a r d Smilh of Grand Rapids called at Floyd Flynn 's Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Dee Bryant were Grand Rapids's visi tors Wednes-day.

Dee Bryant . Gilbert and Rob-er t Porr i t l a l lended the Golden Gloves Tournamenl at Hasting's Thursday evening.

Junior Special An opportunity for the young miM lo obtain a real permanent at a low price.

Crovriiml* *«w, Phone 385-F-2 for appoint-m e n t

Stiles Beuly Ship Strand Th ' t re Bldg. Lowell.

Old Orchards Can Be Made Produce

W A N T C O L U M N

25c JOB AMY WANT AD UP TO 25 WORDS. NONB TAKEN OP ANY LENGTH FOR LESS, NO MATTER HOW SHORT. 25c CASH or STAMPS WITH ORDER

Some one, somewhere , has something yon w a n t ; some one somewhere , wan t s something you have.

FOR SALE—Fourteen acres of bean pods. F rank MacNaugh-lon, Alio, Mich. (p37-38

Fall Fertilization Needed; Followed by Plowing

and Pruning.

9y W. II. Cut, Biiomlon Horllculturlit, Colorado Af rlrullurol Colloct.

WNU Sorvlco. There are many old and neglected

orchards that could be broaght Into profitable production with little cost and labor.

When aa orchard lias been neglected for s number of years, the trees become overgrown with wood, due to lack of pruning. Cul-tivation has also been neglected and the spaces between the trees are covered with pasture grasses and weeds; the soli Is hard and fer-tility Is lacking.

The first thing to be done Is to plow the orchard In the fall as deep-ly as possible. Tree roots In neglect-ed orchards are usually close to the surface, and hence care should be taken In plowing the first tlmo not to tear up too many roots. The depth can be Increased with each successive plowing, as the roots will go down when given a chance. Be-fore plowing the land should be given a good coat of barnyard ma-nure.

Next In Importance Is the prun-ing. This should be done between February 15 and April 15. When trees have been neglected for some years, they are usually full of wood and need thinning. It Is not advis-able to do all the pruning In one year, as It tends to encourage the growth of suckers or water-sprouts. It Is better to take two years In which to bring the trees Into shape.

• FARM POULTRY FREEZING IS BEST

FOR PRESERVATION

W e » t K e e n e By Mrs. F. A. Daniels

WANTED—TO BUY - Tie logs delivered, o r on the s lump. Mr. Ear l Voshurg, Ada, Mich, Rura l Roule 1. (p36-5t

FOR SAiLE—House and t w o l o b al 219 N. Washington-St. , Low-ell. Very cheap if sold at once . Robert Howe, Palo, Mich. (p36-37

FOR SALE—(My residence. 528 Lafayetle-Ave. Seven room house, modern conveniences, Iwo stall garage, Iwo blocks f r o m Centra l school. F o r in-format ion call at 618 Lafay-et te . L. P. Morse. (c36tf.

FEED—Hay, oats and s t raw, bailed o r loose. Phone 20-F-4. Amos Blerzick, Alto, Mich

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NOTICE—Hereaf ter so-called "key ads" will not be published in this column. By "key ads" is meant those ads w h i d i bear a box number only and have to b e answered in care of The Ledger. Every Want Ad in the fu ture must bear name of the advert iser o r at least his o w n personal address o r phon t number . — T h e Publisher . If

Straw on Floor The use of abundance of straw

on the poultry bouse floor Is a very desirable poultry practice Not only is the house kept much cleaner bul a liberal supply of straw prevents packing of manure on the floor and In this respect the house can be cleaned more easily. The use of straw also reduces the number of dirty eggs prodaced, aa It keeps the bens' feet cleaner. Less trouble from foot Injuries occur when the poeltry boass Is more llbscally

Lowell MarketReport

Correc ted February 1, 1934. I Whea l 8 .81 Rye .56 Buck wheal LOO Barley .55 Flour , pe r bbl 6.85 Oals, p e r bu .36 Corn .50 Corn a n d Oal Feed, cwl 1.35 Corn Meal 1.25 Cracked C o m cwt 1.40 Bran, pe r cwt 1.15 Middlings, per cwi 1.25 Pea Beans 2.30 Light Red Beans 4.0(1 Cranbe r ry Beans 4.50 Dark Red Beans 4.25 Eggs, pe r dot 18 But tcrfat . lb 21 Butter . Ib .22 Hogs, dressed, cwi 6.00 Hogs, live, cwi 4.00 Calves, live cwi 6.00 Beef, live, lb 04 Beef, dressed, lb 4%-I l Fowls , pound 9-11 Wool 30 Potatoes, per cwi 1.50

Complex Mineral Feeds Needless Farm Expense

Farmers can economize oo the feeding of complex mineral mix-tures to live stock without any dan-ger of cutting down their returns, according to a circular. T h e Feed-ing of Mineral Supplements to Live Stock," Issued by the College of Agriculture, University of nil-nols. The publication Is an up-to-date revision of a previous circular on the same subject by H. H. Mitch-ell, chief In snlmal nutrition.

Csrefnlly conducted experiments have failed to show sny need for complex mineral mixtures In gen-eral practice, the circular points out.

Minerals should be used In the feeding of live stock only as supple ments to rations that have been properly balanced In other respects, particularly In respect to protein. Mineral supplements, therefore, need contain only a few minerals In which farm feeds are known to be deficient These can be supplied cheaply and mixed on the farm.

All mineral mixtures should con-tain common salt and a calcium supplement As a measure of safe-ty some form of calcium phosphate may be used, particularly for dairy cows and for growing animals sub-sisting mainly on pastures grown on poor soils.

Quick Method Is Favored by U. S. Specialists.

Ducks, chickens and other poul-try preserved by quick freezing and held In cold storage six months or more are scarcely to be distin-guished from fresh-killed birds In both apiiearance and taste, according to United Stales Department of Ag rlculture specialists who are experl mentlng with this Innovation In the processing and marketing of ponl try.

The quick freezing system has possibilities and may put former methods Into the discard, since the birds can be frozen In about two hours as contrasted with 30 to 4R hours by slow freezing. Quick freezing yields a better product.

The bureau of agricultural eco nomlcs and the bureau of chemlstry and soils In the Department of Ag rlculture are working Jointly on the project In the experiments. l.onjj Island ducks and other poultry were frozen by the use of a fog or mist of brine at four degrees be low zero. The ducks and largi-classes of poultry required about three hours to freeze, and the small !r sizes of chickens about two hours. The quick-frozen birds were then rinsed with clear water and lipped In Ice water which formed a thin film or glaze of Ice over the carcasses and protected them from desiccation or freezer burn during the period of cold storage.

After six months of cold storage, samples of the quick frozen ducks and of ducks frozen by the slow process were subjected to bac-teriological and chemical analysis. The quick frozen ducks were found to be distinctly superior to the slow froten ducks.

Other poultry similarly handled were held In cold storage for about seven months The glaie endured well during this period and upon removal from storage, the poultry were found to be entirely free from any drying out of the skin or freez-er burn.

Typewr i t e r paper , 2Ac the pound at office.

8 H x l l $ i t t t he Ledger

DR. A. F. SAWYER Veterinarian

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it's Here! The New

1934 are just a few of the many advanced features

found in the New Plymouth:

Floating Power Hydraulic Brakes 7 Point Ventilation

Safety Steel Body

Air-wheel Tiret

Individual Wheel Springing

Rigid X Frame

Valve Seat Inserts

Bot Control Farmers who expect to treat their

horses for bots this fall will get better results If they wait until one month after the first freezing weather lasting for a day or longer, says the United states Department of Agriculture. This recommenda-tion Is based on recent experimental work of the bureau of animal Indus-try, showing that the larvae of the common bot spend from 21 to 28 days In the tongue of the horse be-fore migrating to the stomach. Pre-vious recommendations for tieat-ment of bota have been based on the belief that as soon as the e g g s -laid on the hair of a horse—hatched Che larvae went directly to the* stomach. With the new knowledge of the life cycle of this parasite, control measures may be more ef-fectively used. As soon as freez-ing weather appears, the eggs may be destroyed by wsshlng the animal with a 2 per cent solution of cresol. Then, after 30 days, have a compe-tent veterinarian supervise treat-ment of the animal with dlsulphlde to rid It of the parasites In Its stom-ach.

Where Crops Fit In There are some crops which are

not well suited to very fertile soils Buckwheat for example, often pro-duces too much straw and too little grain on rich soils, especially those soils which sre very high In nitro-gen. Osts are likely to lodge badly aa aoDs too rich In nitrogen. Oo the other hand, a fertile soil Is es-sential for profitable yields of wheat aad barley. Rye will grow well oa rich soils, but It Is slso s par-ticularly good crop for light fertile soils.

Words cannot express the sensation of driving and riding in the New Plymouth Six. Why not phone us today and ask for a FREE DEMONSTRATION?

GOULD'S GARAGE Phone 269 Lowell, Mich.

Feeding Calves A small amount of grain and hay

shonld be offered to the cslf when about two weeks of age or when sklmmllk Is aubstltnted for whole milk. This should be gradually in. creased until the animal la receiv-ing about three pounds of grain a day a t six months of age when the calf ahould be weaned. The grain will then be further Increaaed to provide necessary nutrients former-ly supplied by the milk.

Proper Diet Important to Welfare of Poultry

Birds should be free not only from present diseases but also from hangover weaknessea resulting from previous chick aliments. Such trou-bles aa pullorum disease (white di-arrhea) coccldlosls, and typhoid are very likely to occur. Chlcka that survive an attack of these diseases are usually stunted and some of them are likely to carry the Infec-tion In chronic form. Consequent ly, though they do not suffer them-selves, they are a source of danger to healthy birds, which are housed with them. For this reason every effort should be made to avoid hous-ing healthy birds with others which have passed through an attack of the above-named diseases, says Suc-cessful Farming.

A proper diet la Important In keeping the birds In good condition, so they can withstand disease. The ration should Include good quality grains, such as corn, wheat and oata. It should also contain prop er minerals to satisfy the need for bones and egg shell. A third re qulrement Is the vitamin-carrying vegetable proteins.

Two kinds of minerals are esseo-tial. One Is calcium, the chlel sources of which are lime and oyster shells. The other la phos-phorus, which Is best supplied In bonemeal. The animal proteins most often used are tankage, meatscrap and milk, and the most common veg-etable protein Is ground a l fa l fa

Poultry Chatter There should be sufficient nests

provided as well as plenty of perches.

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Poultry or eggs are produced on more than 5,400,000 farms In the United States, which has about n.000,000 farms In all states.

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Mating up a male bird of a light-weight breed with second-year hens of a medium or heavy weight breed will often Increase vigor In the progeny.

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Vitamin B Is found In bran, most cereals, yeast and green stuff. Birds do not seem to be sble to store this vitamin In the body, and so a con-stant supply should be given.

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Vitamin B Is required for gen eral health and the prevention of polyneuritis In poultry. It Is believed by experts. T ack of It Is said to be shown by the condition of the eyes.

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The Cayuga duck derives Its name from Cayuga county. New York, where It was developed about 185a It resembles the Pekln duck in shape, but Is one pound lighter.

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Tests show that fresh eggs de-leriorate as much In three days when kept at 98.8 degrees Fshrenhelt, as In 28 days when the temperature la maintained at 44.fi degrees Fahren hett

Silage and Silos Wisconsin uses over twice as much

corn for silage aa any other s tate about half of the state'a production being used for this purpose annu-ally. Last year Wisconsin used 1,054,000 acres of corn for silage and produced an estimated total of 7,905,000 tons. The next rank-ing state In silage production was New York with 3,0,*»8.000 tons, fol-lowed by Minnesota with 3,108.000 tons. According to the Crop Kepnrt-Ing Service of the Wisconsin and United States Departments of Ag. riculture, Wisconsin has an esti-mated tiumber of 118,000 silos which is far more than are found In any other s t a l e

Keep Bulls Safe Many good bulls are not kept In

herds long enough to prove their worth because of the fact that they become unruly and dangerous to handle. If such bulls were provid-1 ed with a strongly-built bull pen, I they could be kept indefinitely with-out danger to the owner. Bull pensj should be built of strong material { so as to provide against breakage.; An enclosed stall wilh sliding door' which can h? shut from the outside j can be provided to house the bull.— | I'rairie Fanner.

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quality.

Mrs. Krncsl Pinkney opened her home Tuesday evening for a bridge benefit for Saranac 0 . ii. S. Nine tallies played. Win. i fartnian and Frances Griswold held high score. Charles Wil-liamson and .Mrs. Heuben Leo consolation. A delicious cafe-

lleria lunch was served at 1111' |close of the game.

Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Ciiley .il-tended Ihe creamery banquel and program in Alio last Thurs-day.

Mr. and Mrs. Hrnest Pinkney and Mr. and Mrs. O. Vandcrli'p were Alaska visitors last Friday.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Daniels were Fr iday evening guests of J . E. Tower and sister. Mrs. Alice James in Fallasburg.

Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Ciiley wen-Sunday guests of Mr. ami Mrs. James Hatch in Saranac.

Martin Hoxie, a fo rmer Keene resident, passed away last Thurs-day at his home in iielding. Fun-eral services were held in Yei-ter 's Chapel Salunlay af ternoon and burial in Easton cemelen on his family lot. Mr. Hoxie had been in poor health for some lime yet his death was unexpect-ed. He leaves a widow, having been marr ied bul a f ew months.

Lee l.ampkin and family were Sunday d inner guests of Mrs. Hallie Peckham and son Howard in Lowell.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles l^impkin and Mrs. C. A. Lee were Sunday d inner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Uert Merriman.

Jack Denton and wife were week-end visitors al (I. Denton's and Sunday dinner guests al James Denton's.

Mr. and Mrs. George Denton were iSimday evening luncheon, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Elverl1

Baird. Ix-on Hale met with qui te ' i |

mishap while repair ing his truck. The jack slipped letting the plal-! form down on his back and Iwo, ribs were broken, ille is on the , gain now.

The (iood Will club meets nexl Wednesday, February lith, with Mrs. Charles Bowen. Pot luck dinner . Every one invited.

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Buying Power o f Hogs

Articles Farmers Buy Cost In Terms of (100 poundi each)

L 1 9 1 4 !

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BASED od the fair excbacge rela tlonshlp with prices of things

(armen buy. hogs during the past

decade hare had materially less pur

chasing power than ihey had In the

pre-war period In 1933, II took nboul

eight hogs lo buy what three hog"! would buy In the 191014 period as Indicated above. In all the years since 1920 21 (excepting iu 1325 2'5 when there was a temp-iMrv reduc tlon In ling ouppl>) the r.ifj'l'iialng

power of bogs has been on a general downward trend.

In 1932. the fair exchange value of bugs wan J7.76 per hundredweight The pries? of things farmers boy averaged slightly above their pre-war level But the actual farm f.rlre of hogs In 1932 was only $3.47 per hundredweight, or 14.28 below fnlr • xchange value.

Fair exchange value means Hie pre-ww price for iiogs only when the price of th 'rgs far .-.ers buy Is at the pt«war level. If 'b*- prices of

things farmer* buy b«come double their pre-war level, then the fair ex-change value will be double the pre-war price of bogs.

The corn-hog production adjust-ment program under the Agrleul^ turnl Adjustment Act seeks to r»lie> hog prices to the current fair ez-j change value. This may be done by! bringing production Into better bal-i ance with the most profitable de-j mand throngh a reduction in 1934 olj 26 percent In hog production and 20! percent in corn acreage.

Morse Lake By Mrs. Frank Houghton

Mr. and Mrs. J . W. Yeiler and son Dontdd, were Sunday d inner quests al Floyd Yeiler's.

Mr. mid Mrs. Charles Smilh were Sundiiy gnosis at Dale Cur liss".

Mrs. Bose Van Vorsl of Lowell sjM'iil Thursday wilh Miss Letlle Kinyon al Ihe (ilenn Yeiler home. Mr. and Mrs. Will Van Vorsl were evening gnosis.

Mrs. (ieorge Weiland and Miss Bernice Yeiler called on f r iends in Kookford one day last week.

Priscilla ISmilh and I)ick.\ Kiel allended the Shrine circus in Grand Bapids Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Houghton of Detroit were Tuesday supper guests at F. L. Houghton's.

Max Bice spenl Sunday nighl with his bro ther James at the J. W. Freyermuth home.

Mrs. Adrian Zuiedweg of Gove Corners was a caller al F. Hough-ton's one day last week.

Elmdale By .Mrs. I ra Sargeanl

Mrs. Nelson Thomas is again coniined to her bed, and must re-main Ihere for severl weeks, she having high blood pressure and her heart is in a very weak con-dition.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Weiland spent Sunday evening at the Cus-ler-Sargeant home.

Mrs. Gerald Erb who has spenl several months with her sister, Mrs. Alma Stahl. has gone to Grand Bapids to reside.

Mrs. Hllie Harris of Grand Bap-ids is spending a couple of weeks with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Dun Weaver.

Titus Blough and family of Dutton. and Mrs. Ira Sargeanl, assisted Karl King with his but-chering last Tuesday, he having killed six hogs.

Miss June iHepplebower has been having a serious trouble with her throat and ears, since the removal of her tonsils about live weeks ago. The throat has been lanced several times and

the ears have also had pus and infection. She is taken to Ionia almost daily for t rea tment .

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Kreuss a re spending several weeks with his bro ther J ene and family.

Addison F r b and wi fe were Thursday evening supper guests of Mrs. Bebecca Long.

Mr. and Mrs. ClitTord Kautrmau and daughter of Indiana s|)ent Saturday wilh her parents , Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Thomas .

Farmers in this vicinity were all old going places and hearing Ibings last Thursday . Some at-tending Ihe Co-ops. meeling al Clarksville, whi le Ihe largest number of them at tended Ihe Alto Cooperative Creamery meeling.

Legal Notice

ORDER APPOINTING TIME FOR HEARING CLAIMS

The Pro-County of

NOTICE. LEDGER READERS

Fr iends of The Lowell Ledger and Alto Solo having business in the Kent County P roba t e Court will confer a favor on the pub-lisher if they will k indly ask the Court to send the p r in t ing of pro-bate notices to this paper . We understand the Court will cheer-fully comply wi th such requests

TELEPflONE NUMBER PROVES CLUE TO MAN'S IDENTITY

A telephone number often proves

a valuable clue, and has led to the

solving of many police mysteries.

Not long ago. in Philadelphia, It led to the identification of James Scam, of New York City. He bad been found wandering about the city, unable to tell who he was or where be came from. Finally, at the police station where he had been taken, a detective askod him if he knew any telephone numbers. The amnesia victim replied, as surprbicd as they, "Luxemberg 8-2316."

Inquiry at the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania in Phila-delphia brought the prompt report that there is a New York City tele-phone ccntral ofllce by the name of Luxemberg. The number was callcd and the man's identity quickly es-tablished.

Slate of Michigan. bate Court f o r the

I Kent. Al a session of said court , hold

at the probate ollice in the city of Grand Bapids, in said county, on the 24th dav of January , A. 1). 1984.

Present , Hon. CLARK E. HIG-BEE. Judge of Probftte.

In the Matter of the Esta te of Jane Thomas, Deceased.

It appear ing to the com't that the time fo r presenta t ion of claims against said estate should be limited, and that a t ime and place be appointed to receive, examine and adjust all claims and demands against said de-ceased by and before said cour t ;

ll Is Ordered. Tha t all the credi tors of said deceased a re required to present the i r claims to said court at said Proba te Of-fice on o r before the 25th day of May. A. 1). 1934, at ten o'clock in Ihe forenoon, said time and place being he reby appointed fo r the examinat ion and adjus tment of all claims and demands against said deceased.

It Is F u r t h e r Ordered, That blic notice thereof be given

y publication of a copy of this o rde r for th ree successive weeks previous to said day of hear ing, in the l / )wel l Ledger, a news paper pr in ted and circulated in said county.

CLARK E. HI OB EE, Judge of Probate .

A I rue copy: KB ED BOTH. Begislor of Probate . (37-31

Gets President's Help

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Seeley Corners By Mrs. S. P. Reynolds

Frank Buck Back

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Mrs. Gabe Onan of West Lowell spenl Tuesday of last week wi th he r mother, Mrs. Helen Beynolds. Mrs. Reynolds re turned home wilh Mrs. Onan .

Mrs. Claude Colo spent F r iday and Saturday wi lh h e r daughter . Mrs. Evan Ful ler of Hastings. Mr. Cole and daughters , Margaret and Vivian joined Ihem on Sal-un lay .

Mr. and Mrs. Wal ler A l k y , Mr. and Mrs. I.ester Antoinides and Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Allleii spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Fuirchild of Detroi t .

William Hesche bad the pleas-ure of a long motor t r ip as the guesl of W. V. Hurrns.

Dixon Pease spent Ihe week-end in ( i rand Bapids wilh hisi molher . Mrs. Eldora Pease.

Mr. and Mrs. Loo Bloomer and children of N. McCords, and Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Hesche and children w e r e d inne r guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Hesclu Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. B. F. White of Caledonia spent Sunday wi th Mr. and Mrs. fS. P. Beynolds.

Quito a number f rom this vi-cinity a t tended Ihe c reamery inooting Thu r sday and enjoyed the splendid d inner and program.

Sweet Clover to New High Record

Varieties and Strains for Almost Every Condi-

tion and Purpose.

F r c p a r a d by t b » c:oll«ge of AKrlcul tur* . U n l v t r a l l y of I l l lnoU.—WNU rtorvlc*.

Illinois farmers already have ad-Justed their crop acreages to the point where they are growing al-most eighteen times as much sweet clover as they were thirteen years ngo. but this crop mny be expected to spread to new promlnende under the wheat program of the agricul-tural adjustment administration, ac-cording to a new bulletin, "Sweet Clover In Illinois," which was re-cently released by the experiment station of the College of Agricul-ture, University of Illinois.

As • soil improvement crop for the acres which will be retired from wheat production, sweet clover ha t no superior among the legumes, ac-cording to the authora of the bul-letin.

Experimental work started by the University of Illinois College of Agriculture In 190A helped pave the way for an increase In the s tate ' i sweet clover acreage from 48,000 acree In 1019 to MO.OOO acr^s tn 1932. It Is pointed out tn the bul-letin. These studies have been ex-panded and continued up to the present. The new bulletin reports the results of experiments made as early as 1917 and as late as 1082.

With new demands being made upon the sweet olover crop by the agricultural adjustment program and other farm developments, va-rieties and strains are being devel-oped and adapted to almost every condition and use, according to the bulletin. Of the more than twenty-live known species of sweet clover grown In various parts of the world, more than half have been tried In the United States. The biennial white-flowered sweet clover, Melll-otns alba. Is the most Important' and constitutes more than 80 per cent of all the sweet clover grown tn the corn belt.

Another reason why sweet clover Is expected to play a leading roW In the agricultural adjustment pro-gram Is the fact that the culture of It Is easier than that of the other common legumes. The usual dates of seeding are the latter part of February and the first of Mnreh In southern Illinois, and the latter part of March and the first of April In northern Illinois. Early seeding Is Important. Unhulled seed may he sown In wheat as early as De-cember.

A large proportion of Illinois farmers use sweet clover both for pasture and soil Improvement. The crop can furnish more grazing than almost any other common corn-belt pasture p lant

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labor and respec t fu l ly ask you to do the same. Our pr ices a re rea-sonable, a n d we do o u r work wi th care.

Flax Seed Crop Short; Also Light in Weight

The extremely short flax crop of this year, estimated at less than 8,000,000 bushels, makes It Impor-tant for farmers and seedsmen to obtain flax seed for sowing next spring, says the United States De-partment of Agrioultnre. About 2,000,000 bushels of flax seed will be required fur sowing if the usual acreage of nearly 3.000.000 acres Is sown, and It is evident, therefore, that many growers will find It good business to hold a part of the pres-ent crop for seed.

There was a shortage of flax seed lo some localities Inst spring fol-lowing the short crop of 1032, but the situation now appears to be even more critical. The production In 1932 was nearly 12,000.000 bushels, and Ihe farm price during the fall was less than | 1 a bushel, which caused many farmers to hold flax for higher prices.

The department specialists are of the opinion that farmers who plan to sow flux next year should obtain their seed supply while good seed can lie obtained near a t hand and nt approximately market prices. As flux seed Is likely to be light tn weight, due to the drought and heat throughout the flax-producing area, a supply of seed grentei' than re-quired should be provided HO that In recleanlng the light seed can be removed. The shrunken seed should be ground and mixed with other grain for feed, or sold on the mar-ket for crushing, the department says.

N E W YORK . . . Frank Bnfk, (above) haa done it again, "bring-ing them back alive" . . . a whole ship load of wild animals, captured during his latest travels through India, among which is the only male Indian Rhinoceros in captivity.

WASHINGTON . . . Steve Vasi-lakes is no longer sad. President Roosevelt "went to the f r o n t " for him when he was ordered to desist ielling peanuts and popcorn at the ;orncr of the White House grounds where he'd sold them for 29 years. The police say, Steve can stay.

A t Cuban He lm Kidnapped Banker

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Why Hospitals Use a yquid Laxative

BT. PAUL . . . Edward G. Bremer, above, the kidnapped hanker held for $200,000 ransom, about whom so much national contern was felt due v j early clues on a bloodstained automobile which indicated a strng-clc when kidnaoued.

WASHINGTON . , . The accept-ance of the Cuban Presidency by Col. Carlos Mendieta, (above) was heralded here as a step which would permit United States recognition of Cuba and an early political quieting )f the troubled little island.

Hospitals and doctors have ahrays used liquiJ laxatives. And the public is fast returnin* to laxathwe in liquid form. Do you know the reaaoraT

The dose of a liquid laxative can be measured. The action can thus be regulated to suit individual need. I t forms no habit; you need not take a "double dose" a day or two later. Nor will a mild liquid laxdwe irrUatt 'he kidneys.

The right dose of a liquid laxative brings a perfect movement, and there s no discomfort at the time, or after.

The wrong c&thartic may often do more barm than good.

A properly prepared liquid laxative ike Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin brings safe relief from constipation. It gently helps the average person's bowels back to regularity. Dr. Cald-well's Syrup Pepsin is an approved liquid l a u t i v c which all druggists keep ready for use. I t makes an ideal family laxative; effective for aL' ages, and may be given the youngest child. Member NTR. A. •

Down the Lane

Scientists report that n new dis-ease of tobacco, brown root rot. n m be controlled by rotating crops.

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(fiirbano, n Spanish bean or pea. has been successfully Introduced Into the lower Bio Grande valley of Texas.

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Forty per cent of the United Stntes tobacco crop has been ex-ported. on an average for the pout several years.

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In experiments by University ef Minnesota agriculturists to deter-mine best crops for peat soil, eorn gave the highest acre vatoee.

• e • A returned traveler reports the

British are entering the field of msrket gardening, and predicts that In a short time much of the f rui ts and vegetables consumed In Rng-Isnd will be home-grown produrta.

Advertise In The Ledger and gel results.

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Lowell Dist. No. 5 (Mra. J . P. Needham)

Everybody Is shiver ing over the sudden turn to zero wen t h e n

Elmer James und family al-lended the funera l of his mother in Grand Rapids Monday.

H i e South Lowell Ladies' Aid sociely a re rejoicing over the proceeds of the Alto Creamery d inner as there was a large crowd there.

There were .several f rom this vicinity at tended the play "Look oul Lizzie" in Alto Saturday eve-ning as it was well rendered.

Mr. and Mrs. Chester Place have muvt'd to Ihe Dcomcr house nor th of District No. 5 school house.

We made a little mistake last week us Miss Ruth Rollins does

not take u p her dut ies as nurse at Blodgett hospital until full.

Mr. and Mrs. Keech and family called al the Needham home Sat-urday.

Mr. and Mrs. Wal ter Afton of Ada visited Mrs. Ruth Martin Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Schwa-dor and Don Miller at tended the Schrine Circus in Grand Bapids on Wednesday.

Gove Lake Ry Mra. H. L. Coger

Clayton iHouseman bus the mumps.

Mr. and Mrs. Guy Qulgglc, Car-olyn and Buddy spenl Sunday w.>th f r i ends in Grand Bapids. The Cascade Ladies' Circle will

meet next week, Tuesday, Feb-

rua ry 6th, w i th Mr. and Mrs. Dell Ward, a pot luck lunch at noon. T h e r e wil l be work fo r the men.

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Seeley attended a funera l of her cousin in Grand Rapids recently, bur ia l nt Morley.

Mrs. tH. L. Coger, Clare and Ellen, wi lh Mr. and Mrs. R. .1. Sinter of Cascade at tended the Shr ine circus at the Civic Audi-tor ium in Grand Rapids Fr iday evening.

"1 don'l l ike these photographs you took of me. . They make mc look like a morikey,M said the customer .

T h e photographer favored h im wi th a look of lof ty disdain and r e m a r k e d : " I can ' t he lp that . You should have thought of that before ."

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Logan By Clara Vandewerker

Emanuel S tahl a n d w i f e visit-ed Clayton S c h w a b and wi fe of .South Boston Sunday.

Charles Weiland visited the sick a t the Elmer Winey home in •Sooth Campbell Sunday . Mrs. Winey has been numbered among the sick f o r several days.

Wil l Oltfaouse and w i f e were Sunday d inne r guests of F rank Hynes and w i f e of Freepor t .

Stephen Weaver of Grand Rap-ids w a s at t h e home of h i s fa ther last FHday.

Several f rom this neighbor-hood attended the Goylofl Over-holt sale in South B o w n e last Tuesday and repor t a ve ry large c rowd being presenL

War ren Roush a n d wife , Mrs. J . Alvinc a n d daughter of Hast-ings callcd to see Mrs.. Lena Mishler last Tuesday af te rnoon.

George Leece and wi fe w e r e Sunday d i n n e r guests of S. S. Weaver a n d wife.

Mrk. J e r r y Blough and cousin, Mrs. Grace Bcckwith 'visited Roy Blough a n d fami ly of Free-port last Wednesday.

Mrs. Grace Beckwith is assist-ing he r cousin, Mrs. Estelia Ros-ier in car ing fo r the let ter 's mother, Mrs. Hat ton f o r a few days.

Andrew Blough wi fe and son, Hobart of South Bowne were dinner guests of J e r r y Blough and wi fe Sunday.

Gordon S tah l and wife , (nee Minnie Weiland) a r e happy over the arr ival of that seven end one half pound girl t h a t came to their home J a n u a r y 27Ui. T h e little Miss will b e called Cather-ine Elaine. Both mother and baby are doing fine a n d are being cared for by Mrs. Milton Mishler.

R a y Weiland a n d family o t Freeport called to see that new daughter at Gordon Stahl 's Sun-day.

(Herman Zoels and w i f e of Hol-land were Sunday guests of Or ville Deardorf a n d wife .

Mrs. Maria Hooper , Loren, Gor-don and Beatrice Gray of Pleas-ant Valley, Jay E r b and family of Odessa township, Ray E r b and wife of Lake Odessa enjoyed a fine turkey d inner wi th all the fixings, at the home of Joe Leh-man Sunday. The dinner was given in honor of the b i r thdays of Mrs. Ethel Gray and Jay Erb , who were celebrat ing the event together wi th o thers of the fam-ily. Lydia Miller called at the Ix'hman home Sunday a f te r -noon.

George ISkedgill and family ot Hastings, Arthur Bleam and fam-ily of Grand Rapids visited at Albert Bleam's Sunday .

We are glad to report that i i i i i an Bieam is s lowly but stead-ily improving, but is not able to be up yet.

Mabel Lite of Grand Rapids visited he r b r o t h e r H o w a r d and wife Wednesday and Thursday , calling on he r mothe r at the home of John Overhol t Thurs -day af te rnoon. Howard , wi fe , and daughter took Mabel back to Grand Rapids T h u r s d a y evening.

Mrs. Raymond Seese enter-tained nine t eache r s of the Bre th-ern Sunday school at he r home last Fr iday night. They a e l to study a n d discuss the Sunday school lesson f o r last Sunday.

Danie l Layer w i t h Hay Lacy and wife and Mrs. A Klipfer went to Lowell Sunday a f te rnoon to attend t h e fune ra l of thei i fr iend and fornier neighbor, Martin Hoxie he ld a t Yeiter 's Chapel. Martin was w e i r k n o w n to many of t h e o lder ones of th is neighborhood as he lived here for several years , whi le he w a s assisting h is fa ther- in- law, Lew-is Keiley in the le t ter ' s s aw mill « number of yea r s ago. H e had a number of f r i ends who wil l regret to hea r of h is illness and death.

Elva Mishler has gone lo Low-ell to do housework for Mrs. William Cosgriff. Miss Es the r .SI a hi is employed at Lowell.

Esther Stehl and brothers , Vern and Ar thu r enter ta ined lo dinner Sunday H o w a r d Zoets of Morse Lake, Albert Miller of illolland, Lloyd and Orvin S tah l of Elmdale, the (Misses I rene Heusser of Lowell and Clarabel Jfoopor.

Mrs. Ha McCouI of Campbell visited her mother , Mrs. S. S. Weaver Wednesday evening a n d Eleanor, w h o had been the guest of her grandmother fo r two days returned home wi th he r mother .

John Mishler accompanied Uriah Miller a n d wife and o ther relatives f rom Goshen, Ind., w i th '

t he remains of Mrs. Jos iah Weav-er t o this place last Tuesday and a t tended the funere l . John vis-i ted h is paren ts a n d his brothei Milton and w i f e over night r e tu rn ing to Indiana Wednesdey.

Alford Cus ter a n d wi fe enter-ta ined to d i n n e r Sunday Mrs. Custer 's parents , Wm. Chesley a n d wi fe and h e r brother- in- law a n d sister. Ear l Bedford and fami ly of Grand Rapids .

Lavern Blough wi th Jess Blough and family a t t ended an enter-ta inment given at the t o w n hall in Rut land Sa tu rday evening.

Clera Vande W e r k e r was the guest of Mrs. F r a n k Dor r of Free-por t Sunday .

Mrs. John Mishler, Sr. , was at the home of Daniel Zook of Pleasant Valley a pact of last week assisting Mrs. Zook with h e r household duties.

War ren Roush and wife, Mrs. Jos iah Alwine and daughter of Hastings, Wil l Mishler of near Coats Grove were here last Tues d a y to at tend the funera l of Mrs. Jos iah Weaver a t the Men-noni te church .

South Lowell By Mra. Charles Yeiter .

Miss Mary Sterzick of Detroit s i jent the week-end wi th he r parents, Mr. end Mrs. Joe Ster z l c k . .

The chi ldren of Mr. and Mrs Charles Yeiter surpr ised them Sunday In honor of their for ty-s ix th • wedding anniversary . Twenty-one sat down to the table fo r d inner .

The re was a large c rowd a t the c r e a m e r y d i n n e r last Thursday, J a n u a r y 2Sth.

Win. Tredenick is not im-proving very fast these deys.

Mae (Hersdf) West

LOS ANOELES . . * Glamorous Mas Weat'i appceraaee la court to tastily agaiast Edward Pried maa, alleged to have "done ber wrong'5

ia theft of jewela aad eaah amount-lag to aome $15,000, was the oe-eaaioa for picture fans to pay her high pereoaal tribute.

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Keeneland Hills By Mra. M. F. Faahbaugh

T h e Good Will club of Keene will meet wi th Mrs. C E . Bowen, Feb rua ry Tth.

Mrs. Emma Ritersdorf and son and daughter attended a br idge

Ear ty a t the Elliot Chadwick ome in Ionia last Thursday

evening. T h e F rank Ritersdorf fami ly

are in quaran t ine fo r scarlet fev-er , t w o cases in family a t last account.

Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Higgins en ter ta ined the Keene Sunsh ine club last Wednesday, J a n u a r y 24. Thirty-f lve were present to enjoy the i r hospitality. A flue d i n n e r w a s served. A good program given. One new member pro-posed to be voted on a t next meeting at Mrs. Ray (Haskins, Feb rua ry 28th.

Mr. and Mrs. Leo Richmond en-ter ta ined the Neighborhood Card club last Fr iday evening. About th i r ty were p r e s e n t A very pleasant evening was enjoyed by all present . Mr. and Mrs. N. E . Higgins will enter ta in the Card c lub the evening of Feb rua ry 1st.

Mr. and Mrs. Leo Richmond and Mrs. Mac Fashbaugh w e r e in Ionia last Saturday looking af te r the CWA project fo r Ihe Marble school.

Ada Miller is visiting he r b ro ther Ernesl, w h o lives south of Ionia.

Mrs. Mae Fashbaugh spent last Thursday af te rnoon wi th Mrs. C. L F. Williamson of Lowell .

Lowe District By Mrs. Ger t rude Thomas

Lawrence Benton has been do-ing chores fo r Burdet te Loss of Caledonia, who had the misfor -tune to fall and b reak t w o ribs.

Mr. and Mrs. J o h n Nash and Alice were in Grand Rapids Sat-urday.

Beatr ice Thomas and Mrs. Flos' sic Curtiss attended Teachers Inst i tu te in Grand Rapids Fr i day.

Lewis Skinner and family of Lx>ighton and (Harold Segers t rom of Middleville were Sunday visit-ore nt Wayne Benton's. Mrs . Ad-die Benton re turned home wi th them for a f ew days ' visit.

Mrs. Howard Houghton of De-t ro i t is car ing fo r h e r mother , Mrs. Guy Smilh.

Visitors at Watt Thomas ' the past week were Mr. a n d Mrs. Howard Houghton, Mrt. E d w a r d Johnson of Grand Rapids, and Lewis Skinner and family.

Clyde Deming and family of Grat tan and Eltjred Deming and family were visitors at Roy Deming's Saiurdny.

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Mr. and* Mrs. Tom Read, Jr . , took their mother , Mrs. Pr isc i l la Richmond to Grand Rapids Wed-nesday to visit h e r g randdaugh-ter , Elizabeth Por te r . Mr. and Mrs. Tom Read, Sr. , accompanied them to the city.

Mr. and Mrs. H e n r y Ful ler of McCords visited his sister, Mrs. P . W. McPherson Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Burt Arnold of Grand Rapids were Sa tu rday vis-i tors of Mrs. M. W. Blue.

Dorothy Bieri spent t w o nights last week wi th Mrs. P. W. Mc-Pherson.

Bill a n d James Read a r e at-tending the C. W. A. band in-struct ion given in Lowell .

Mr. and Mrs. F r a n k Bnggett of Ravenna visited Mrs. M. W. n ine Fr iday .

Mrs. Wal ter Fennel l of Ann Ar-bor and h e r mother, Mrs. Wil-cox, and daughter Isadora und li t t le Ilene Roth w e r e Fr iday supper guests of Mrs. T o m Read,

Barbara Davis is lil w i th pneu-monia ai the home of h e r grand-

Krents, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Mc-erson.

Lawrence Biggs and Dorothy B i e n were Sunday guests of his sister, Mrs. Horace Weeks of Lowell.

Rudolph Bieri of Grand Rap-ids visited his parents, Mr. nnd Mrs. Karl Bieri Sa turday a f te r -noon.

Donald Anderson is recovering f rom the mumps.

Mr. and Mrs. John Husa r were supper guests of he r sister . Mrs. Karl Bieri one night last week .

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Last Pounds Added by Birds Most Expensive.

With more than half of the an-nual turkey crop being marketed according to grades, growers must have their birds well grown and fin-ished to secure the highest prices, points out O. C. Ufford, extension poultryman for the Colorado Agri-cultural college.

Although turkeys make more rapid and profitable gains when properly fed than any claas of live stock, the laat pounds put oo dur-ing the finishing period are the most expensive, he adds. Thus it pays te keep the young btrda growing properly on a well-balanced ration.

A recommended growing mtzture consists of 40 pounds of fine yet* low corn meet, 20 pounds of bran, 20 pounds of ahorta or mlddllnga, IB ponnds of mest meal or meat acrspa, 4 pounda of ateamed bone meal snd 1 pound of s a l t Ground wheat may be aubstltnted for both the brsn, shorts or middlings.

Plenty of green feed shonld be Included with the above ration, and milk for the birds to drink along with the mash If It Is available. Any grains may be fed along with the mixture and drinking water should not be neglected.

Very little special fattening Is necessary when a growing mixture Is fed during the growing period. Tbe finishing period should start four to stx weeks before marketing. No radical cbanges In the feeding program should be made

It is suggested that 100 pounds of ground yellow corn be added to 100 pounds of the growing mash for fattening turkeys. The flock should have this before them at all times. Do not attempt to feed grains to which the birds have not been ac-enstomed. If the flock has been allowed unlimited range, do not confine It for fattening. It takes 8H to 4 pounds of feed to produce 1 pound of gain durlnz the grow-ing period, but 6 to 7 pounds of feed for 1 pound of gain at finish-ing.

H i c k o r y H o l l o w (By Mrs. Gordon Brown.)

NORTH BELL PTA

Pullorum Test Popular; Plan Highly Efficient

The simple and cheap stained-antigen test for pullorum disease of poultry, devised by scientists of the United States Department of Agriculture, Is Increasing In popu-larity after three years of success-ful use by puultrymen and state authorities. In the Inst year more than 1,000,000 hens were tested by the new method, which requires no laboratory equipment, at a cost of about two cents a head. Seven new establlsluneuts received per-mits this year from the secretary of agriculture to manufacture the antigen, making a total of 28 plants now turning It ou t

Since the new test is highly elll-den t In Identifying hens Infected with pullorum, scientists look for rapid progress In eliminating dis-eased stock, thus affording better eggs for hatching. Of approximate-ly 1,000,000,000 eggs hatched tn the United States each year, about 100,-000,000 produce chicks Infected with pullorum disease. If all breed-ing flocks were tented this Iota could be reduced considerably.

Iva Brown spent from Wednes-day until Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. George Reeves in South Ionia.

Mr. and Mrs. 0 . L. Vanderlip and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pinck-ney were supper and evening guests at Ihi' Harley Hunter home.

Mr. and Mrs. Vine Hunter of IX)we 11 spent Sunday evening al the home of his brother Har ley and family.

Mr. and Mrs. Erna Pinckney and Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Vander-lip spent Fr iday wilh Mr. and Mrs. J im Fox al Alaska, also with Mr. and Mrs. Norm Thomas.

(Uayton Ralhbun and Iva Brown were callers at the home of his parents in Easton Monday.

Davis Lake By Mrs. Wm. Schrader

Mrs. Mazie McConnell returned home f rom St. Mary's hospital last week and is gaining nicely.

Ross Stauffer has been on the sick list the past week.

Mr. and Mrs. William Schrader were Wednesday guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Bales of Grand Rapids. In the afternoon they all at tended the Shr ine circus al the Civic Auditorium.

Mr. and Mrs. Willard Hunte r of Lowell called on Mr. and Mrs. U. S. H u n t e r and dnughler (Sat-urday a f te rnoon .

Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Lind and son spent Thursday in Alto and at-tended the annual creamery meeting.

Mrs. Ward Stewart and son were in Alto Fr iday af ternoon.

Mrs. William Schrader spent Saturday af te rnoon with Mr. ami Mrs. Phil Diefenbaker of Alaska.

Mrs. Nick Pilsch called on Mrs. Ellon Peel Fr iday af ternoon.

Eliminate Loafer Cows, Is Advice of an Expert

With feed costs rising rapidly, tbe dairyman will be faced with s serious feed problem, says O. A. Williams of Purdue university. He sdvocstea disposing of the Inefll-den t producers, rather thsn putting htgh-prlced feed through them when they will not give enough milk to pay for It. In case the dairyman wlahea to keep the low producers. It would be well to rough them through the winter, saving the grain feed for the better producers which will return aome profit

Willisms d t e s the test figures from a county testing sssodstlon. The ten high cowa In the county produced more thsn twice s s much milk sa the ten low producers. Each hundred pounda of milk pro-duced by the pooreat cowa required 76 centa worth of feed, while the best cows needed only 85 cents worth to produce the same amount of milk.

The best cow on test returned, during last year, <05.02 above feed costs, while the average poor cow returned only $1.58. Sixty poor cows would be needed to produce the same Income above feed cost as the one best cow.

1 The North Bell PTA will hold Iheir February meeting at the sdiool house Fr iday nighl, al H o'clock. The program is in charge of Mrs. Elmer E. Marshall, and Mrs. Nelson O'Uierne has charge of ref reshments . Unless o therwise notified each family is to br ing sandwiches and ci ther cake or jello. Each member is also requested lo br ing as a cur-rent event a short article relal-ing lo school work or Ihe care of children. Members of neighbor-ing PTA's are cordially invited.

McCorcfs Matters By Mrs. R. T. Williams

Mrs. B. E. Colby returned to Blodgelt hospilal Tuesday fo r u minor operat ion.

Mrs. Berry Adgale and son William of Caledonia visited her daughter and family, Mr. ami Mrs. John Huizinga Fr iday.

Herman Shimmel and Mrs. Jen-nie Williams acompanied Mr. and Mrs. John ^Huizinga to Ihe Shr ine circus Wednesday nighl.

Mrs. John Huizinga and Mrs Jennie Williams called on Mrs. R. E. Colby Salurday af ternoon al the Blodgel hospilal.

Mrs. Ella Coullas and sons visited Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Pans of Comstock Park Fr iday niHhl.

Mr. and Mrs. H. Poslma visiled f r iends and relatives in Zecland and (irand Rapids lasl week.

R. E. Colby and Mrs. A. E. Wood visited Mrs. R. E. Colby al Blodgelt hospital Sunday af ter -noon.

Mrs. Fred Thomas called nt the Clark Williams home Thursday af lernoon.

Oyster Sheli Feeding The theory that oyster shell feed-

ing causes the hens to drink too much water and therefore causing watery whites Is without founda-tion. "Watery w h i t e r do not con-tain any more water or less solids thsn the regular quality eggs. If hens hsve fresh water in front of them at all times they will not drink too much. The oyster shell merely helps to give the proper smonnt of mineral needed for the ahella, says a poultry department correspondent In the Boston H e r aid.

Barley for Poultry Recent experimental work has

shown that barley Is a very satisfac-tory poultry feed. In an experi-ment conducted a t Manitoba univer-sity, It has been demonstrated that SO per cent barley In the all-mash laying ration gave better results than an equal amount of corn. In this experiment barley was fed In three forms; namely, whole barley ground line, barley ground fine with hulls sifted out, and hnlled barley ground fine. The former gave the best results.

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Junior workers In 4-H dubs may teach the grown-ups.

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Prolonged cold storage has been found to free apples of Insects.

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Farmers' union branches are be-ing organized throughout northern Ireland.

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of the must favored spots In the Far East.

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A half-million farmers lost their status as landowners In the last three years.

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Cows should be dry six weeks or two months. This gives them a chance to build up a reserve for the coming year.

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In Minnesota, the rust-spreading barberry usually can be found tn those communities where winter rye Is heavily Infected with stem rust.

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An Increase In wheat production In Europe, excluding Soviet Russia, was shown In crop estimates made public by the Institute of Agricul-ture.

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So. Keene-No. Boston By Mrs. Ed. Poller

IjisI week, Wednesday, Iwenly-eight galhered al the William Converse home for an all day sewing bee. A nice lot of work was accomplished. A wonder-ful pot luck dinner , and a fine time hail by all. This work was done by Jo l ly Community club. Don't forget the club meets with Eve Rainier Februa ry 24th on M-21.

Sa turday evening thirty-five gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carr ie Ra imer fo r a danc-ing party. A wonder fu l pot luck supper and good timi' was had by all.

Mr. and Mrs. Multikitis were in Grand Rapids Fr iday.

Bert Carn-jlian went to Ann Arbor Monday to go for a clinic examination.

Mr. and Mrs. George i laimer entertained Mr. and Mrs. William Kerekes and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Kerekes and families Saturday evening.

Don't forget the Home Com-ing and Founder ' s Day celebra-tion at Cutler school February 15th in evening. This is for ev-eryone who has ever attended this school e i ther as teacher or pupil, and a prize will be given lo each of the oldest man or lady present . •

Born, to Mr. a n d Mrs. Byron Potter Februa ry 26th an 8*4 Ib daughter , Kathleen May. She will be called Kilty Mae.

Don'l forget your aprons and overalls at pa r ly a t Keene Grange hall Fr iday evening.

George Hoasch and Ed. Potter spent Tuesday evening wi lh Mr. I and Mrs. family.

Mrs. Wilbin is Carr .

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Mr. and Mrs. Chester Swanson . and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Thomp-son attended a par ty Salurday night at the Paul Hi l ton home.

Mrs. Clarence Tyller is not so well at th is writ ing.

Frank Spaulding and John M. C. Call of Grand Rap ids visited the O. Andrews home the pasl week.

Eugene Pohlke, Ted Vander-Jagt, George and Bill Taylor spent Tuesday evening wi th Robert Cox.

Mrs. Charles Swanson and daughter Betty spent a f e w days at the Richard Wins t rom home at Grand Rapids the past week.

Mr. a n d Mrs. Andrew 'House-man called at the Clinton Thom-as Home Sunday.

Ar lhur Peel called on his daughter , Mrs. George MiHer al Leighton the past week.

Jake Reber and family had a turkey d inne r at the Mike Dahlke home Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. John Cox and son Freddie were d inne r guests of F rank Spaulding Sunday at Grand Rapids.

Eugene Dahlke and Robert Cox w e r e dinner guests at the Chester Swanson home Mondav evening.

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That is neither a paradox, nor a wise-crack. It is a t ruism.

The influence of advertising is two-fold. It reaches out into the world, and sways pub-lic opinion in favor of a worthy product. It reaches back into the factory and inspires the manufacturer , the shop foreman, and the humblest workman to build better and better and still better value into the product.

It establishes a standard of quality that leads the buyer to expect much, and that impels the maker to measure up to the ex-pectation.

To this extent then, merchandise is ad-vertised not only because it is a better pro-duce—but it actually becomes a still better product because it is advertised.

Consistent advertising is the manufac-t u r e r s pledge of quality. It is a visible proof that he has faith enough in his pro-duct to back it with his name—and with his money.

Peoole know instinctively that a product so sponsonid is worthy of their confidence. They prefer it, naturally, to its unheralded, unsung competitor.

Advertising cannot work miracles. It may sell Inferior merchandise f o r a short time, but it cannot keep on selling i t When you see a motor car, or a breakfast food, or a fountain pen advertised consistently, year af ter year, you know that it Is a good pro-duct and that it is giving satisfaction. You bay it wilh confidence, and you are seldom disappointed.

Advertising is educational in its influence. It carries the news of business into the far -flung corners of civilization. It displays the new styles on Main Street, the same day that they make their appearance on Fif th Avenue. It makes familiar to millions of people, the names, and trade-marks and qualities of innuimrable products.

It makes it possible fo r the woman in Tus-con or Bangor or New York to shop with equal confidence, knowing not only whal she wants, and what it will cost, but what she can expect f r o m it, in satisfaction and service.

No time is lost in guessing. The buyer knows f rom long experience that advertised products MUST be dependable, or they could not continue to be advertised.

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Friday - W E A V E R ' S - Saturday

B r i n g T o g e t h e p

Quality Meats and Loweit Prices

Hamburg Fresh Ground Beef 4 ib.. 2Sc

LAMB GENUINE LAMB

Shelter Lamb Roast ib. i 4 c

Lamb Stew ib. So

Leg o' Lamb lb. 18c

lb. 10c

Pork Shoulder Roast Fresh Side Pork

Bulk Sausage

Pork Steak

Round Bone

3 lbs. 25c

Link Sausage

Lard, home-made

Lean Round Bone

BEEF RIBS

PORK ROAST

Meaty

Boston Butts Little Bone

BEEF POT ROAST A Fine Boiling Piece

ROLLED BEEF ROAST, rib or rump BEEF STEAK, Round, Sirloin or Swiss

ib. 8c 2 lbs. 25c

3 lbs. 25c

3 ">'• 2 5 c Ib. 6c

lb 10c

lb. 8c

either

Beef Chuck Roast Anycut of thouide.

Ib 121c ib. 10c

WE ACCEPT KENT COUNTY WELFARE ORDERS. WE WILL CASH CWA CHECKS.

Social Events Mrs. Willioin Wachtorhauscr

ciilerlaincd with a small bridKo luncheon Inst Thumdey. Guests were Mrs. R. M. Shivel. Mrs. F. M. Newell nnd Mrs. William Doyle.

Mrs. Don Phillips entertained the Past Noble Grands of the He-bekah Ixxlge at her home Tucs-day evening. A lovely luncheon was served by the hostess nnd everyone enjoyed a wonderful evening.

Healthy Chicks Necessary to

Obtain Profit The United Slates Department

of Agriculture asks The Ledger to give space to the followinft: To Poultry Owners:

Freedom from disease is more lo be desired in a poultry llock, than fancy breeding.

'Healthy chicks can be pro duced only from or among heal-thy fowls.

Seventy-five well kept fowls free f rom disease will produce more profit than a large flock where disease exists.

Losses f rom death are exten-sive in a flock where infection exists, but natural death seldom or never occurs in a young flock f ree from disease.

An infected hen seldom pro duces eggs during the later stages of disease, therefore, when egg infection takes place it is probably during the early stages of the disease.

The above facts apply to all poultry disease but especially to tuberculosis which is taking an extensive toll in its spread through the poultry flocks ot .Michigan.

To control this disastrous spread of infection we urge the disposal of all old fowls each year and the building of an en-tirely new flock from chicks known to have been produced by healthy fowls. We urge that new flocks be raised upon clean ground entirely apart from the old flock. After the disposal of the old fowls all buildings and runs must be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected before being oc-cupied by the new flock.

If you will follow this advice, each year, there will be health, wealth and happiness in the keeping of poultry.

Why wait?

State's Finest Boxing Talent

In Tournament Lovers of boxing will have

Iheir fill when the annual Grand Itapids Press Golden Gloves amateur boxing tournament, gets under way in the beautiful new Civic auditorium there February 7th, 8lh, 9th, and 15th and 16th. Two rings, hundreds of contest-ants, scores of judges, otficials, referees and others necessary for boxing show, are a part of the huge setup that is being pre-pared to make this even the big-gest fistic attraction that has come to this part of Ihe state.

Actually some 1,200 contestants are participating in the Grand Hapids tournament this season. All will noil trek through tht (irand Rapids ring for there are six other tournaments being held earlier in the month, the winners to be brought to Grand Rapids for the final two nights. Grand Rapids expects some 400 or 500 contestants in this tourna-ment alone, which means an av-erage of very near J00 bouts per night, for the price of one ad-mission.

Low admission prices will pre-vail throughout the tournament beginning at 25 cents and run-ning at 75 cents for the first nights. And there a re some 1,600 seats being offered at the minimum.

More Local News Mr. and Mrs. Geo

of Campau Lake Use

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Katy Wilson Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. iRussell Carr of (irand Rapids were Sunday quests of Mr. and Mrs. Carr.

Mr. and Mrs. W. J. ISmith enter-hiined wilh a dinner party for a group of teachers last Wednes-day evening. Guests included the Misses Marion Brown, Dora Itnngs, Marion Bushnell, Nellie Tiffanv, Iva Liltle. Lois Krieger, Lucy Moody, Dorothy Koth and Ruth Collier and Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Finch.

Mrs. A. IH. Stormzand and Mrs. Eugene Car r entertained the Four Times Four club ot Ihe home of the latter Tuesday eve-ning. Four tables of pedro were played, honors going to Mrs. Frank Gould, Mrs. Harvey Haysmer and Mrs. Ed. DeVries., Ice cream and cake were served I by the hostesses.

EGG PRICES Eastern Markets stronger. Hatching season nearly here, outlook bright for sustained egg prices. Eastern consum-ers demanding better quality pure white eggs. Insist on chicks and feeds that will produce what the buyer de-mands. Our chicks and Lar-ro feeds will top the market.

Chick* $6.50 Larro Egg Mash $2.22

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Prayer of the Episcopa Church I read the Psalter foi the day.

Eugene

Nation Celebrates President's Birthday

Family Problems Up For Discussion

"Shall We Tell Our Children? How? When? Why? Who?" is to be the subject for discussion on the "Family Problems" broad-cast next Monday evening over WOOD at 7:45. A clergyman nnd n physician who are equipped from a practical as well as tho-relical standpoint to give valu-able advice to parents on this most vital question; Dr. E. Paul Sylvester, I'astor of Second Con-gregational Church and President of the Ministerial Association, and Dr. Thos. I). Gordon, Si>ccial-ist in children's diseases, will be the speakers.

These programs are sponsored by the Welfare Guidance Bureau Social Hygiene Committee.

Copies of these addresses are available without cost. Call 93131 w wri te t o the Social Hygiene Committee, City Hall, Grand Hapids.

The entire nation helped Presi-dent Roosevelt celebrate his 52nd birthday anniversary Tuesday evening. More than 6,000 balls were held throughout the coun-try, ranging from splendid affairs in the large cities to gathering.s of a few friends in small country villages. The' proceeds from all the birthday parlies held are to help the Warm Springs, Ga., foundation for treatment of those suffering from infantile paralysis.

More than 4,000 people attend-id the ball at the Grand Rapids Civic Auditorium. Thirty oi more persons from Ixnvell were in attendance. Howard Ritten-ger and Glendon Swarthoul. both of l^owell, played in Hager's band which furnished parti of the musical entertainmsnt. The music was stopped for an inter-val in order that all might hear the address of President Roose-velt, who said it was "the hap-piest birthday I have ever known," and the President had good reason for his happiness as Ihe Warm Springs Foundation benefitted to Ihe extent of over two million dollars Ihrough the proceeds received from the Presidential balls.

Typewri ter | 20c the pounc office.

iper, 8%xl l sixe. at the l edge r

Kent—Whal a nifty overcoat. Where did you get it?

Bailey—I picked it u p at Job-son's.

Kent—1 don't know the place. Is it a clothing store or a restaur-ant?

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That Produces Snug, Warm, Comfortable Heat

Well Prepared

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Week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Merl Sinclair were Dan Sin-clair of Hastings and Miss Doris Mnckley of Grand Rapids.

Carlton Runciman of Olivet College will spend the week-^nd at tl)e home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Runciman.

• Mr. and Mrs. Norman Higgins and Mr. and Mrs. Leo Richmond of Keene were Sunday visitors al the home of Will Devering and wife.

Mr. and Mrs. John H. Caster-line and children of Sand Lake were Saturday visitors of the lalter 's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Anderson.

Mrs. Charles Marcellus and son Billie of East Grand Hapids called on her father, Mr. McKen-zie at the home of her sister, Mrs. U. A. Hawk last Friday af-ternoon.

Mrs. Will Devering returned Saturday from Saginaw where she was called on account of the illness of her brother , George Lucas. (He was much better when she left Saturday.

Mrs. Wesley Roth and Mrs. Herman Terkerst attended a kit-chen shower luncheon at the home of Mrs. A. V. Wenger of Grand iRapids in honor of Miss Ruth Furner of Sturgis.

Charles Schrouder, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Schrouder ana nephew of Mrs. Mark Simpson of Lowell, has started to work with the First National Studio, of Hollywood ,Calif., where he will assist in the musical part of pic-tures.

Gloria Frost, 7-year-old daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Frost, was taken to Blodgelt hospital. Grand Rapids, Tuesday morning, where she underwent on opera-tion for appendicitis. The latest report was that she was doing nicely.

Mrs. Minnie Shivel of Con-slantine, mother of R. M. Shivel, fell and broke her h i p whi le m -iting at the home of her daugh-ter in Grand Rapids. She was taken to Blodgelt hospital aad the latest reports were that she was improving nicely.

Timely discovery and prompt action by the village fire depart-ment doubtless prevented a ser-ious conflagration al Gould's garage last Sunday aflernoon. The fire was discovered by Gene Kropf of Moseley, an employee, who noticed smoke emergiog from second story windows as he was driving by. Cars iu storage were removed to safely and the flames extinguished be-fore a great deal of damage had been done. The origin of the lire is unknown, although it is reported that a lire inspector cx-

Kressed the opinion that it might ave been due to some defect in

the electric wiring. The fire was discovered aboul th ree o'clock in the afternoon during the nearrblizzard prevailing at that time. On Monday morning the fire department was called to the home south of iSiegwun occu-pied by Grant Sherman. The llames were extinguished before much damage had been done.

Tax Collection Notice

Low in Ash

Clean to Burn

Order A Ton Today!

C. H. Runciman Phone 34 LowelL Mich.

Tho«pion*DcRaiter Saturday evening at 7 o'clock

at the M. E. parsonage Mrs. Eunice (Alexander) Thompson and Mr. Albertus De Ruiler were united in marriage, Rev. R. W. Merrill performing the ceremony. They were attended by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Bieri.

After Ihe ceremony Mr. and Mrs. De Rui ler left for Hart on a wedding tr ip. They plan to make their home in the village for Ihe present.

Mrs. De Ruiler is serving her first term as township treasurer.

Congratulations from their many friends.

Ridgway-Bauche Mrs. Alice Ridgway announces

the marriage of her daughter Evelyn lo Clarence Bauche of Albion. The ceremony took place Saturday, January 27th Ihe SI. Paul Lutheran church of Albion, the Rev. Mr. Sieglier per-forming the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Bauche will make the i r home in Albion.

Birthday Party Saturday evening Mrs. Sam

Alexander for the flrsl time cele-brated a bir thday party al the age of 67 years. Relatives to Ihe num-ber. of thir ty galhered lo help her celebrate. A happy evening was spent by all. Among the rela-tives present were the bride and groom, Mr. and Mrs. A. De Ruit-er . The relatives waited until a f te r midnight and helped cele-brate the bir thday of Mrs. Lloyd Denny, daughter of Mrs. Sam Alexander, making it a double bir thday party.

Sorprise Party

Miss Helen Shaltuck was given a surprise birthday party Satur-day night, January 27lh. Those )resent were : Mr. and Mrs. Lew-s Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Merlon

Alderink, Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Poller, Miss Norma Kropf, Ar-chie Duncan, Miss Ona Denton, Clark Fletcher, Chet Jones, the guest of honor. Miss (Helen Shal-tuck and Grandma Shattuck. Cards were played and light re-freshments were served.

Birthday Party W. J . Anderson celebrated his

bir thday on Sunday, January 28th. His daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ray E. Burch of Rockford, were p m e n t . He was present-ed wilh a beautiful birthday cake decorated wilh (he appro-priate number of candles by Mrs. Tim Conanf and daughter, Mrs. Ray Alexander. Mr. Anderson was as appreciative as President Roosevelt was at the nice things done for him on his birthday.

Odds and Ends (Continued f rom Firs t page)

American schools which have placed young men at the head of their affairs.

The mild-like weather which had prevailed here most of the month of January received severe jolt late Saturday nighl which developed 4nlo a near-blizzard on Sunday, the mercury dropping to sero that night — a change of 60 degrees as com-pared with some of the warmer days preceding the sudden drop 10 zero resulted in the death of many persons throughout the country who, f r om unfortunate circumstances were unprepared to endure the severity of the weather.

The Bangor Advance says of newspaper advertising: "It does-n't snout at you when you are trying lo concentrate on some-thing else. It doesn't obscure the view and mar the landscape, 11 doesn't interrupt your enjoy-menl of \ grand opera program. II doesn t clutter up your mail and your waste basket. It does-n't mess u p your f ron t yard or obtrude itself on the seal of your auto. II I s like a well trained servant; never intruding or mak-ing itself obnoxious, but always quietly at hand, ready lo service when called."

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Lowell Woman's Club

The JCowell Woman's c fub mcf last Wednesday afternoon at Ihe home of Mrs. W. E. Hall. Sirs. William Tredenick was the as-sistant hostess. The theme dTs-cussed was Scandanavia. In the open forum, conducted by Mrs. Martin IHouseman, many interest-ing points were brought' out con-cerning the Scandanavian people and country. Miss Mabel Hall played several piano solos and accompanied Mrs. S. B. Wenger, who sang the National hymn of Norway.

The next meeting will be held February 7th at the home of Mrs. J. E. Bannon. The theme to be discussed is India.

Marriage LTceme George Wilczewaki 42, Lowell;

Mary Zwierzchowska 40, Lotwett.

CARD OP THANKS

To Taxpayers of Lowell Town ship.

I will be at the Lowell State Bank each Wednesday and Sal-urday, also Friday, February 9th, lo collect taxes from 9:30 a. m., until closing time, until fur ther notice.

Eunice Thompson, Lowell Twp. Treas.

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1 wish lo thank the- many friends, neighbors and relatives for their kindness shown *n my recent bereavemeui', fo r the beautiful flowers, also f o r the services rendered by Rev. S. B. Wenger and Harley Maynard.

Mrs. Martin E. Hoxie. (pS7

The Lowell Ledger and the Grand Rapids Herald, both for $5.50 on R. F. D. routes. AH Herald clubbing offers a re good at The Ledger office.

Thorough investigation of rules which bar Negroes f rom Ihe House restaurant in the Capitol was demanded in a resolution introduced by Oscar De Preist , (Republican, Illinois,) only Ne-gro member of Congress, who said he would press for a vole on the question. De Priest 's secretary and another Negro who accompanied him were re-fused service in the restaurant earlier in the week on orders f rom Representative Warren (Democrat of North Carolina), chairman of the committee which manages the establishment. The resolution would direct a com-mittee of five lo determine by whal authori ty / ' a n y citizen of the United Stales is discriminat-ed against on account of race, color o r creed in said House res-taurant."

Mrs. Wynkoop, Chicago wo-man charged with murder , told a Chicago newspaper about books sent her " to he lp pass tbe tedium of prison." Her observa-tions along this line were inter-esting as well as accurate:

Among them is Pearl Back's "Good Ear th , " in which she discusses Chinete f rom an ex-perience of many years living in China. St rangers have senl me "Anthony Adverse," which I enjoyed as a kaleidoscopic picture of a per iod that has passed. I also received J . B. Priestly's "Good Companions." Perhaps the best book gift of all, however, was Mrs. Eliza-beth Barrett Browning's "Auto-biography of a Cocker. Span-

iel." I once owned a cocker spaniel. "Freckles." It died under the wheels of a street car. It t ruly was a "good companion." Jt is to Ihe Bible, naturally, I tu rn for solacr. That and Thomas A. Kempfs a re my inseparable counsel-lors. In Ihe Book of Common

Vernon Gillespie, 64-year-old musician who was run down by an automobile driven by Dr. Paul F. Voelker, state superintendent of public instruction, died in Re-ceiving hospital, Detroit, at 1 a. m. Monday. Dr. Voelker was arraigned Thursday in Irafllc court on a reckless driving charge. He pleaded nol guilty and was released on a personal bond. Detectives of the acci-dent investigation bureau will question Dr. Voelker fur ther when he is recalled lo decide whether the charge is to be changed. In the tratllc court hearing Dr. Voelker said the sim-ilarity of tratllc lights and store signs confused him and when he stopped his car suddenly it skidded, s t r iking Gillespie.

^State's First R. F. D. Carrier Re-tires

Willis Lawrence, the man who brought t h e first mail to Michi-gan farmers, in the vicinity of Climax, is ret ir ing. After 37 years service, Lawrence will leave the postal service Feb. 1.

Contrary to general opinion, Lawrence was not the first rural mail carr ier . Before the service was established in Michigan, De-cember 3, 1896, several routes were being delivered, in an ex perimental sort of way, but in point of service Lawrence is the second oldest rural letter carr ier in America. Originally, he left early in the morning and re turned by lantern at night. In the motor age, he found he could have lunch a t home at noon, though not leaving Ihe postofficc until 8 a. m.

Willis Lawrence started in the horse-and-buggy days. In fact, 31 horses and mules, two bicycles and seven automobiles provided him locomotion as the years went on. His mileage would have taken him around the world many limes, but he never had an accident and never lost a piece of mail. Getting stuck in * the mud and in the snow were his worst drawbacks, he says today.

Many a time he had to aban-don his horse and car l and trudge home afoot. On one Feb-ruary day, nearly a quar ter of a century ago, he was the only rura l carr ier in his p r t of the State to complete his round. Ihough h e had to stop frequent ly and remove sleet f rom h i sno r se ' s eyes. That nighl, when he reached home, he could not un-button his overcoat until the ice had been broken a w a y wi th a potato-masher and a butcher knife.

Lawrence had a lot of run-aways, principally, because he undertook to 'break in" any f rac tious horses a patron of his roule couldn't manage. The worse the animal the better h e liked it . And when he was through irougr

coulc 'breaking in," the owner drive the horse with perfect safety.

Lawrence has been more than letter carr ier . He designed

and built the Climax postofflce, a small but attractive structure,

lin using stones f rom fa rms along his routes. It s tands op-Msite the small f r ame building rom which he drove away on

Dec. 3, 1896, as one of the flrsl 16 rura l carr iers in America and the first in Michigan.

Set in the masonry of Law-rence's postofHce are relics f rom the great Chicago Are, the Clim-ax fire, the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, the copper fields of Northern Michigan, the gold fields of Montana, and the Black HiUs of Dakota, and nu-merons Indian relics. Lawrence himself hanled t h e 40 truck-loads of stones, and t b e cement, gravel, lumber, etc^ used in the project .

Lawrence has no immediate dans f o r (he futore, but reckons ieH ride around his old route

occasionally and see his fo rmer "customers," most of whom he has seen grow u p f rom little chil-dren wait ing f o r his mail cart , buggy or sleigh.

"If you want your money to go 30% farther, here's my advice— "Break In new tires at this t ime because cool roads toughen rubber—cold-cure It. Thus tires put on now wilt run about 30% further tlmn the same tires started off new on hot summer roads. That means you get 30% more mllenge plus Immediate non-skid safety. At today's low prices. Isn't thai worth thinking a b o u t ? "

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Dsasadeblllty ot loweit c

OwalHy wHMa reach of oil

Ceoo/VEAK SUFCftTWIST CORD TIRlS

Guoronrood by rhe World't ftargoitf Rubbet Company

Prices subjcct to change without notice ond to any state sole* n t

-OMOIAL-aex4.40 Mr* Sa.4S 30x4.SO Or* 00.00 Tub* 01.00 and 19 e volt IB plate Sterag. Battery SO.OO and •Mhg.

Ralph's Tire & Radio Shop Phone 433 On the Bridge

Coming: Events

Another one of those public card part ies Friday evening at I. O. O. F. hall.

The Vergennes Co-operative club will meet wilh Mrs. Martin Houseman Thursday, Feb. 8th.

The Garden Lore club will meet Tuesday afternoon, Febru-ary , 6th, wi th Mrs. Charles Gard-ner. The "Annual" Group will put on Ihe program.

South Lowell PTA will have a box social at the Sweet school on February 9th. Coffee served with the boxes. A good program is being prepared. • Every one welcome.

Bennett school will entertain next Wednesday evening. Febru-ary 7, with a shadow social, min-strel plays, comic diaogues and some novelty numbers. You are invited t o attend. Essie Con-don, teacher.

The Fi f th district of the Ameri-can Legion and Auxiliary will hold a joint banquet at the Rowc hotel. Grand Rapids, Saturday evening, February 3rd. Tickets will be SOc. Tbe business meet-ing ^rill be held at 4:30 p. m. Reservations for the banquel must be made not later tnan Wednesday, January 31st. Call l i r s . A. H . Stormzand, phone 307.

The American Legion Auxiliary will hold their meeting Tuesday evening, February 6, at the City Hall. The Unit is desirious of a record attendance. Please come prepared to pay your 1931 dues.

Elizabeth Phelps, Sec'y.

The Kent County Parent-Teacher Councils regular meet-ing will be a Founder 's Day ban-ouet, February 6, 1934, at 6:80 at Comstock P a r k school. Dr. Paul Voelker will he Ihe speak-er. Tickets a re 35c; make reser-vations wilh Mrs. J. L. Ramsdell. Everyone is Cordially invited & attend the b a n q u e t

Mrs. E. J . Erickson, Publicity* Chairman.

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Michigaa's Finest

Small Theater

Thurs.-Fri., Feb. 1-2 The catch of the waterfront . . . but he's just a big fish to her!

"Hell ui High Water"

Richard Judith ARLEN ALLEN "THREE UTTLE SWIGS"

a Comedy

TOM HOWARD COMEDY

BETTY BOOP 7:15-9:00 ISe-ISc

Saturday, Feb. 3 Hitting the High Spots

In Panama's 'Hot Spot '!

"Seratioi Hulen"

—With—

A R U N E JUDGE

—and—

PRESTON FOSTER

News — Comedy — Novelty

7:15-9 KM 10c-25c

To Buy, Sell, Rent or Swap, Use Ledger Want Column.

Wa gumrmmtss te satisfy yen when we mc ceptyewr order for printing.

Bus Line Schedule Grand Rapids—Ionia—Lansing

A. A. Schnbel, Pres.

(Lowell Time) EAST

7:85 a. m. 10:35 a. m. 2:35 p. m. 5*25 p. m.

EAST

7:35 a. m. 5:25 p- m.

DAILY

SUNDAY

WEST

8:55 a. m. 12:25 p. m. 3:55 p. m. 8:35 p. m.

WEST

10:55 a. m. 8:35 p. m

New Low Prices on Round Trips

STATION AT

Henry's Drag Store 203 E. Main St. Lowell, Mich Secare Tickets Before Boordinr

Boa

SUNDAY and MONDAY, FEB. 4-5

INTRIGUING Romance with a con-

tinental flavor — spicily

set to music

s/Zaai/t 7 " I Am Suzanner

GENE RAYMOND LESLIE BANKS

Podrecca'a Piccoli Marionettes

D/rtcted by K?HN BLYSTONE

NEWS COMEDY NOVELTY

Sun. Mat at 3.-00. 10c-20c. Evening, 7:15-9KM). 10c-25c

TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6-7

H t S P E C I A L M A T I N E E

TUESDAY at 4 p. m.

Children under 12 yrs. 5c Children over 12 yrs 10c Adults 20c

iiwis caaaeirs

uxUCiit m WondehJkpul'

-.ik CHARLOTTE HENRY« AI« and Richard Arlen - Rosco Ates. .- Gary Cooper Looa Errol • Louise Fazoada • W. C. Fields Skeets Gallagher - Cory Grant - Raymond Hatton EdwV Everett Horton - Roscoe Karns - Baby LeRoy Mae Marsh Polly Moron - Jock Oakie Edna Mae Oliver - Mae Robson • Charlie Ruggles Allison Skipworth - Ned Sparks - Ford Sterling

NEWS

7:15-9:00

COMEDY CARTOON

10c-25»

Coming Sunday, Feb. 11

W I L L R O G E R S

in "Mr. Skltch"