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VOLUME 36—ESTABLISHED 1876 SPARTA MICHIGAN. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1935 Number 41

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Cedar Springs Bows To Spartans 12 to 0

LARGE CROWD T U R N OUT T O SEE LOCAL TEAM WIN IN HOME-

COMING GAME

(By M a x J . Allen) T b e Spa r t a h igh school football

team kept its goal l ine uncrossed and pushed over two touchdowns last Pr l -day af te rnoon to humble a visiting eleven f rom Cedar Bprings in the annua l Homecoming game on the local field. A large crowd of a lumni and f ans witnessed t h e s ame .

T h e Spar tons m a d e the opening kick-off. T h e Cedar team opened a power drive to ga in their only first downs of the game. Spar ta gained the ball when the visitors were forced to kick and launched a counter drive t h a t ended in the i r first counter. They received the ball on their own 40 yard marker and f rom the re worked It down the field on line plunges and end arounds to Cedars ' 5 yard line where Weston took i t over. A line plunge failed to score the ex t ra point.

I n the second f r a m e t h e two teams batt led back a n d fo r th In mid-field with nei ther t e a m making a serious scoring threa t . T h e th i rd period was highlighted by Cedars ' only touchdown bid. Midway lr. t h e period Smi th of Spa r t a tossed a long pass down the

DIONNE QUINTUPLETS TO BE SHOWN ON SCREEN

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY BRIEF EDITORIAL CHATS Friday a n d Saturday 's fea ture pic-

ture a t O u r T h e a t r e will be "Old Man Ry thm" , wi th a n old favorite actor. long absen t f rom the screen, Charles H a i ] T o T h e C h a m p i o n s . . (Buddy) Rogers In the lead. T h e girls in t h e story a re Barbara Kent . Grace

By H. J. K U R T Z J Bradley a n d Bet ty a rab le . T h ^ is a college s tory and there is much t h a t is bet ter ordinary in the story's charac te r a n d settings. A special a t -t ract ion will be "Going on Two" fea -tur ing t h e Dionne quintuplets

Tuesday and Wednesday. October IB and 1C. "Welcome Home", a comedy merged wi th appealing romant ic love Interest. Is t h e fea ture picture. Th is Is a story of a typical small town home-coming celebration, with plenty of laughs in t h e story contents, s i tuat ions and action. J a m e s Dunn takes the leading role supported by Arlene Judge and others .

Kent City H. S. Wins High Award

SOPHOMORES GET SIXTH PLACE; NYBLADE AND VAN BELKUM

HONORED

All hail to the Tigers. 1935 plons of the baseball world. And wha t a series It was! This writer predicted victory for the Cubs a week ago. but not through any disloyalty to the n a -tive team. Many scribes based their opinions favoring the Cuhs for the same reasons t h a t we held. T h e Cubs by winning twenty-one successive vic-tories within a month ' s Ume «»t the close of the season was a bri l l iant achievement. History records t h a t the t eams which en te r the big series year a f t e r year following a desperate bat t le in their respective leagues usually have the favoring odds against teams which secure the p e n n a n t In their respective leagues well ln advance of the closing of t h e season. F r o m our observation of the series, we believe both t eams were about as well matched as any previous contest for world champion-ship baseball honors. Judge Landis said. " I t was one of the best ser ies . tha t I have ever seen!" He h a s witnessed practically all of the struggles for

: within a few weeks is, a f t e r all. some- T h e I m p o r t a n c e o f R a i l r o a d s . . . ] thing to crow about and we are happy Spar ta had a very distinguished

c h a m " to Join the multitude In t h e crowing! group of rai l roaders as guests of t h e

_ . , During t b e spr ing of 1835, the Amer-fleid wlilch Tlndal l of Cedar gathered i c , u l c o u n c i l of Education with the as-

& ™ s- tssrur ssss ™ - =>• was brought down by a desperate lunge a psychological examinat ion for Surmount ing almost unsurmountablc f rom behind on the local teams ' 12 . members 0f t h e Sophomore Classes ot obstacles has been the means of win-yard line. Pour plays brought the ball; U l e m _ h acuoofc m the S ta te of Mich-• *. Cr\n •*! A "m t Kvaa iuot uV̂ /\rt r\f A to Spar ta ' s three, Just abort of a first down and a possible score.

In the final period the locals dup-licated their first period fea t by mak-ing another long goal ward drive which ended the i r scoring when J immy Warren plunged through the line for the touchdown. The whistle ended the game Just a f t e r the try for point h a d failed.

During the bat t le t h e locals made 9 first downs, gained 154 yards f rom scrimmage and lost none. Cedar made 2 first downs, both in the first period, gal led 47 yards f r o m scrimmage and were set back 21. Blaauw averaged 36 yards on his kicks to the Cedar hooters 29.

We., ton p ia j*d his usual good game in the bacHSeld fo r S p a r t a while the whole forward wall t u rned in top-notch performances . F r a n k s *-nd West-ergard were the C e d a r stars.

Fr iday the local t e am travels to Ccoi>ersvllle to mee t the strong Ot ta -wa county team.

S u m m a r y Pos. Cedar Springs Spar ta

Blanuw Rice Braford Robinson Bosch Johnson Powers Weston Sclveader Bockmp.n Willis

Touchdowns:

L. E. L. T .

L. O. C.

R. G. R. T . R . E.

Q. L. T . R H. F .

Weston,

Mulford Westergard

Moore Spriggs

Tisdel Roland Eldred Rogers

Tindall Thompson

Vfeaafci Warren .

Subst i tut ions: S m i t h for Schraeder. Van T lmmeran fo r Bosch. Warren for Smith, Bosch fo r Van Tlmmeran .

Referee: Vande Water , W. S. T. C. Umpire : Nolan, W. S. T . C.

igan This examina t ion wa.*. divided into

four separa te teats. Test I wai; a com-pletion test , consisting of a series of sentences in each cf which one word was missing, t h e number of let ters in which were indlcat id. T h e s tudent ' s task was t o supply the missing word. Tes t I I was a n ar i thmet ic test, t he purpore of which was to measure the s tudent ' s abil i ty to solve problems which involved reasoning. Test I I I was an Anolocous test consisting of a series of figures geometrical in design, in which t h e s t u d e n t s task was to dis-cover the re la t ion between two figure.' and apply t h i s relat ion to the third figure. Tes t IV was an opposites test, each tes t i t em consisting of four words, two of t h e words being e i ther the same or opposite in meaning. The s tudent ' s t a sk was to select these words. Sixty minu tes was alloted for the en t i re tes t .

The r e t u r n s of this test have been compiled a n d published by the Ameri-can Council of Education a t Washing-ton, D. C. K e n t City High School won the r a n k of s ix th place ln a field of sixty-eight c 'ass D high schools In the S ta t e of Michigan. The two leaders of t h e Sophomore class a t Ken t City High School, a t the time of the test, were Arnold Nyblade and Gerald Van Belkum; a n d they ranked th i r t een th and twen ty - s ix th respectively in a field of 1248 entries.

Kent City is very proud of the fine record m a d e by this class, and Us two leading pupils .

nlng f ame In many endeavors. We re-

• • » * The Next Luncheon . . .

T h e business men of the communi ty a re to have the privilege of listening to two of our successful professional leaders at the regular weekly luncheon, Friday noon. Dr. E. E. Striplln. chiro-practor . will call our a t ten t ion to some of the scientific achievements being made In the world today toward m a k -ing sick people well and s taving off various diseases to which we a re all more or less exposed. Dr. C. S. Miller, dent is t will tell of the s t r ides being made In his part icular profession toward safeguarding our tee th f rom premature decay. Next to the minis-try. we know of no other professions which render a greater service to humani ty and It is fitting t . ia t these men shall be honored guests a t the next meeting of the Chamber of Com-merce. We hope t h a t i t will be pos-sible to extend the same courtesy to all of our other professional, indus-trial and business leaders in fo r th -coming meetings.

LOCAL SCHOOLS BREAK ENROLLMENT RECORDS

business men last Friday. I t was probably the largest delegation of railroad officials ever to visit the vil-lage. with the possible exoepUon of years gone by, when the railroads first entered th is terr i tory. Our at tention was called by the speakers to the im-portant par t the ra i l roads take in sup-porting our public schools by making annual payments to the pr imary funds , and the huge amounts expended for labor and materials . We sometimes wonder Just what would happen to Spar ta If. for some reason or other , the two rai l roads passing through the village should suddenly be abandoned. Commercial t rucking Is making t r e -mendous Inroads on the t rade fo r -merly serviced by tne railroads ln rural districts. Will our present eager-ness to rush shipments through by truck some day prove a boomerang to the ru r a l merchan t s and rural com-munities? We are reminded of an Item ; we read no t long ago of a small town near Sioux City. Iowa. About 18 months ago the Omaha railroad aban -doned its branch line f rom t h a t point to Wynot, Nebraska, a distance of about fifty miles because It had been operated a t a heavy loss. After t h e tracks were t o rn up t ruckers assured the townspeople and the f a rmers t h a t

The largest number of pupils ever enrolled in the local schools are a t -tending th is year 's semester.

There are 642 scholars enrolled of which number 246 are at tending the high school classes.

During the m o n t h of October there was a 97.4 per cent record in a t tend-ance with only five members tardy out of the entire enrollment, setting a rec-ord of punctuali ty and at tendance for any month the school has had for a long time.

Both pupils and paren ts are hearUly thanked by the facul ty for the fine co-operation toward establishing these re-sults.

New lockers have been installed ln the library room off of the high school room for the use of the senior class. New desk a rm-cha i r s have been put into the room opposite the gymnasium and this room h a s been converted into a regular high school recitation room.

Rules and Suggestions "Ag." Department

SPARTA SCHOOL FAIR AND PLAY THURSDAY, OCT. SI AND F R I -

DAY, NOVEMBER 1.

call the Tigers' great manager Mickey W a t c h F o r T h e N e w S i g n s . . .

Cochrane, who. back in 1929 claimed i t won't be long now unti l the t r a v -to have lost a sizable for tune ln the | ellng public on Highway M-37 will _ stock crash Today he is riding the | k n o w t h e exaci location of Spar ta ' s they w i u l d b e entirely able to flD the i r crest of financial stability a-, a victor s Business district. Fine work on the t ransporta t ion needs. But th i s Is act -reward. Then again, a few years ago p a r t of E. W. Smi th and his commit - Uall> what happened. Gra in formerly while traveling th rough Michigan dur - tee. following' suggestion* f r o m the lo- shipped by rail a t th ree cents per h u n -ing the summer months , we recall h a v - caj c h a m b e r of Commerce, will make dred from the far thes t point on the lng seen most of the baseball f a n s possible to place the signs ln a very line has now advanced to ten cents a tuning In on the Cub games. \ e r y few S h o r t time. I t was the purpose of the bushe> to Sioux City. Coal which the were standing on the side-lines urging merchan ts to Install a Neon sign dl ra l l ro id hauled to the fa r thes t point the Detroit team on to victory. Today rectly across the highway on Division for 20 cents, a ton Is now handled by Michigan pays homage to its baseball at . , a n d the highway intersection, but truckers at $2 00 a ton Farm values conquerors In the most fitting manne r there are s tate laws forbidding the us*- we are told have depreciated f rom fiftv i t knows how to bestow upon a win- Df such signs on main thoroughfa res to seventy per cent, and the homes In nlng team. Even a f t e r it was all over, j of the state. The p:opoee<* signs a re Wynot erected a', a coot of 94.000 a re p lans were set in motion for a huge ot the reflector type a n d ' a r e to be now begging for buyers a t levels as low banquet ln the city of Detroit In honor placed two blocks nor th and south of as $500. with no buyers T h e final blow of the team at $5.00 a plate, and there Division St.. on highway M-37 a n d also was the loss In tar>s paid by the rail-were no empty S ^ M . Michigan h a s a t the intersection. T h e cost of erect-1 .oed amount ing to *28,00C each year set a record whicn other s tates wm lng the signs is Insignificant In pro- which now h a s been shif ted to the re -probably never equal Having a wor lds portion to their value toward directing main lng tax payers, many of whom a re heavyweighi champion and a wor lds the traff ic to the well established busi-championship baseball team crowned neat section of our community.

farmers living miles away f rom a ra i l -road.

Funeral Services are Held for W. J, Mapes

William J . Mapes who was born In Spar ta township. November 10. 1852. passed away a f t e r a long lllress a t his home in Spar ta . Wednesday afternoon. October 2. a t the age of 82 years.

Mr. Mapes had lived his entire life in Spar ta and vicinity. On April 23. 1885 he was uni ted in marriage to Miss Agnes Ingersoll in G r a n d Rapids. Poi several years they resided on a farm east of English ville. He was connected with the lumbering Industry for many years and assisted in cutting the vir-gin timber of th is vicinity.

Later they moved to Spar ta where he worked in the Old Spar ta Foundry and the Spar ta Ccndensery. a f te r which he was employed by the Welch Manufactur ing Co., until he suffered a stroke in 1919 f rom which he never fully recovered.

Surviving are the widow. Agnes; one son, Vernie A. Mapes and one daugh-ter. Mrs Roy LaPreze. »ud two grand-children. Donald William and Patricia Ann LaPreze. all of Sparta A daugh-ter Mary Ann passed away in infancv.

Other survivors a r e a brother. George Mapes of Englishville, several nieces and nephews, other relatives and many friends.

Funeral services were held at 2:30 Sunday af ternoon. October 6. a t the Bettes Funeral Chapel , with interment In the Spar ta Greenwood Cemeterv. the Rev. C. F. Ga l lup of Bradley offi-ciating. assisted by Rev. B R. Parsons

COUNTRY GARDEN CLUB MEETING HELD AT MRS. OSBUN'S RES. THURSDAY

Former Director o? N a m e Fai r Dies

Merchants Hear Railroader Give In-

structive Address

WEDDING COUPLE FfON- r ' j .± * /*L ^ ORED AT SUN. DINNER t O B U D i t t f i e S 111 L l l c i r g 6

of Sparta Festival

Fred A. Longcore. 77, died Saturday. October 5, a t his home in Spar ta township, a f t e r a long illness. Funera l services were held a t the f a r m home Tuesday a f te rnoon a t 2 o'clock with in te rment in S p a r t a Greenwood Ceme-tery, the Rev. J . K e n n e t h Hoffmaster officiating.

Mr. Longcore was born in Amity County. New York S ta t e and came to Michigan a t the age of t r j h t years, a f t e r a difficult t r ip which Included fording G r a n d River in an ox- team at Grand Rapids, a n d settled on the lo-cation of t h e p resen t f a rm home, where he h a d lived the last 70 years.

When about eleven years of age he went to work i n t h e lumber woods cut t ing Michigan virgin t imber. He worked for some t ime in th i s connec-tion in camps a long t h e Muskegon. Rogue and G r a n d Rivers.

I n 1881 he mar r i ed S a r a h Pot t s and this union was blessed with two sons. William and Richard of Spar ta , and two daughters , Mrs. Albert Hammond of Alpine and Mrs. Andrew Hubert of Spar ta .

For many years Mr. Longcore was Just ice of Peace a n d a director of the Berlin Fair F o r twenty years he served as a director of tbe Spangen-berg school dis tr ict .

Surviving a re the widow, the four children, two sisters, Mrs. E t ta Gra -h a m of North P a r k a n d Mrs Estella Miner of G r a n d Rapids , fifteen grand-children and one g rea t grandchild.

CELEBRATE WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

Life's a u t u m n t ime Is wondrous sweet, So filled wi th deeds well done. Wi th goals a t ta ined , and laurels gained With cher i shed fr iendships won.

Mr. a n d Mrs. E. M. Finch enjoyed their fifty-second wedding anniversary. Sunday, October 6, with their chi ldren Mrs. R. F. Winegar of Grand Rapids; Mrs. H. J . Engstrom and Hugh L. F inch of S p a r t a , and their respective families.

After m o r n i n g services a t the Meth-odist C h u r c h t h e par ty drove to Wild Wood, the country place of Mr. and Mrs. Winegar nor th and east of Spar ta and spent t h e day happily together.

Many f r i ends congratulated Mr. and Mrs. F i n c h o n the i r many years of happy mar r i ed life together, th i r ty years of .7hich have been spent in Spar ta .

Mr. a n d Mrs. Charles Crowley will keep open house Friday from 2 unti l 4 p. m.. t h e occasion being the fiftieth, child. $4.58 is supplied from the rai l-anniversary of their wedding, which took place a t Lisbon.

Mrs. Crowley, formerly Lydia Dau, was born In Stockholm. Sweden, ln

j 1867 a n d c a m e t o America ln 1871. Mr. j Crowley was born In Spar ta township

Mrs. Leon Norris enter ta ined Sunday with a dinner party in honor of Mr and Mrs. Keith B. Norris, whose m a r -riage occurred on September 28th at the home of the bride's parents , Mr.

* and Mrs. J . B. Hagaman of Browh W. D. Hall of Por t Huron, te rminal 1 City.

superintendent of the Grand T r u n k The guests Included Mr. a n d Mrs. Railroad, gave an instructive address Harry Norris and family. Mrs. J . L. a t last week's meeting of the Chamber J Norris. Miss Aletla Ayers. a n d Miss of Commerce on "Wha t the Rai l roads i Mary Wilson of Casnovia; Mrs. F r a n -Mean to Michigan." els Wykes and daughter Misi lone

" I n the United Sta tes two million Ir land of Sparta . families are directly benefited by ra i l - During the af ternoon a number of road employment." said Mr. Hall, "and f r iends from Spar ta and Ca&novia the annua l tax paid by rai l roads to called to extend their fel ici tat ions to the s ta te totals well over ten million Mr. and Mrs. Norris. who are mnirtng dollars, or $1200 every hour of the day In addition to these amounts the ra i l -roads pay local t axes of approximately one-half million yearly.

" I n Michigan, the normal wage pay-men t s amount to 85 million which ts paid t o about SO.000 people. I n th is s ta te the railroads are assessed for the pr imary school fund , paying ln one

their home a t 433 Albert Street , East Lansing.

LUNCHEON AT L O » E ELM This week's regular meeting of the

Chamber of Commerce will be held a t the Lone Elm Lunch room, Fr iday

^ noon. Chairmen of the various harvest year 45 per cent of 20 "million dollars ! festival committees will make the i r re-received from all sources and helping and o ^ e r b ^ n e » in connection to educate 617M0 children ! t a ^ „ c a r e °' '

•The rai lroads are therefore the J ^ meeting. NoUfy Will iam A. biggest contr ibutors to the fund . Of R°K ers- secretary, in advance fo r res-the $10.41 the s tate gives through the ervations. f u n d toward t h e schooling of each

ln 1864. All of their married life has been spent a t their present f a r m home except six years on a f a r m a mile dis-tan t .

All chi ldren a re living, including J . L. a t home. Lowell of Orand Rapids. Ar thur of Conklln. Elsie of Colorado Springs. Albert of Greenville a n d Mrs. Dorothy Chase and Mrs. Luella Van-denhout of Spar ta . There a t e 12 grandchi ldren.

LOCAL NEWS roads ' taxes. These r a l l r c id contr i - j but ions to our schools are f u r t h e r proof of the vital pa r t the railroads j play in our economic life." [

Other Grand T r u n k officials pres- j — — — — — — — — — —-ent a t the meeting Included J . M j and Mrs. Eugene Austin who Munnings. t ra in master . Pont iac; A | h a v e b e e n r e ^ n g in the Fonger house J . Spiess. general agent. Muskegon; S o n S t M i e g t w l l l T n S L i e t he i r home in M. Riches. G r a n d Rapids; G W I t h e Bradford residence dur ing Smi th . GreenvLle; C. E Brandon, j t h e ^ t e r . while Miss Bradford is In C. E G r a n d Haven, and 8. E Bellgraph. local agent, who arranged the pro-gram.

NATIVE OF NETHERLANDS DIES AT CHESTER H O M E

BANK RELEASES LAST TIME CERTIFICATES

Announcement h a s been made by officials of the People* S ta te Bank) t h a t T ime Cert if icates Series E. dated September IS. 1933. a n d due Septem-ber 13, 1938. have been called far oay-m e n t upon October I t , 1838.

These cert if icates are being called wi th t b e consent of the State Bank-ing Commissioner.

In teres t on these par t icular certifi-cates will oease on a n d a f t e r October 18

WINDOWS ATTRACT ATTENTION T h e windows of t h e William A.

Rogers Co. Hardware store are a t t r ac -tively decora ted with fall colors, b u n t -ing equipment , and game. I t is the work of local employees of the store and t h e windows should be seen by all the shoppers visiting Sparta dur ing the fall

Mrs. Alice Denhof. 66. died a t her home In Chester township. Ot tawa county. Thursday . She was a native of T h e Netherlands, and came to the United States when a small child. Be- , fore residing in Ot tawa county she re - ' a n a

sided In Muskegon. She is survived by her husband,

Jacob; two sons. Peter and Har ry Meyers of Muskegon; two daughters . Mrs. Cora Lue and Mrs. Frances J o h n -son of Muskegon; six step children. Jacob. Jr.. of Casnovia. Rudolph a n d Richard of Cooklin. Mrs. Mary Currie

Florida.

The Rev. and Mrs K e n n e t h Hoff-master and the congregation of the Methodist Church greatly enjoyed the t*>autlful baskets of dahl ias Sunday which were compliments of t h e Crow-ley Dahlia Fa rm

Mr and Mrs. Chester Cooper and Mr and Mrs. Howard Stevens spent Sunday evening with f r i ends in Hol-

Floyd Balyeat and family a re mov-ing th is week into the Orson Bradford house on State St.. Just no r th of the T. 8 & M tracks.

RECEPTION FOR METHODIST MINISTER

Members a n d fr iends of the M e t h r -dist Episcopal church will hold open ^ M u s ^ ^ o . MTs." Jack May of G r a n d house a t t h e c h u r A . Fr iday evening. j ^ d * a n d Mrs Dorothy Biac*mer of October 11. a t t o'clock in honor of s p a r t a ; three brothers. Louis and Jacob

Mr. and Mrs. James Bode 11 are mov-ing back this week Into the i r home on Martlndale St

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Oonturier and

W a t c h our ads closely. The biggest money-saving event of the H S H O IS coming soon. G e t ready 'o r big bar -gains a t the Rexal l ORIGINAL One Cent Sale. Wednesday. Thursday. Fr i -day a n d Sa tu rday . Oct. 16, IT, I t . 10. a t W. J . Brack's, t h e Rexall Drug Store—Adv.

KENT CHAPTER MEETS FRIDAY T h e second meet ing of Ken t Chapter

No. 106. will be he ld a t the Temple. Fr iday evening. October 1L The Mark Master ' s degree will be conferred upon the candidate. Re f r e shmen t s following t h e meeting. Let 's have a big turnout a n d give the officer* our support.

Sentinel-Loader Went Ada Paw

their new pas tor and his wife. Rev. g ^ I r t z ' of Muskegon and Cornelius of c W k l r e n * * * * Haven were Sunday a n d M r s J . Kenne th Hoffmaster . ; c l i i S m a and T sister Mrs Nellie <"****

o i E™®* Bradford . A oordial invitation is extended to l o f Muskegon; also several)

H. J. Kurtz , General Chai rman General Committee

Laurence Johnson. E. W. Smith. Wm. A. Schaefer , D. J . Johnson. Fred Humeston.

Finance E. W. Randal l , Leslie Anderson,

August Johnson-Advertising and Publicity

O. E Balyeat . Phil Kler.k, Claude Gillette.

Store Decorations M. Eppens. E. Hormig, Aizle Plnck-

ney. Jack o 'Lantern Contest

George Bettes. Clifford Dingman. Bar th Carlson. Bert Nokes. Char les Warren. Maurice DeCaster.

Masquerade Par ty Clifford Lonnee, Harvey Stebbins.

Clifford VanDenHout Kenne th Hawk-ins.

Entries Carl Johnson . Hugh Finch. Lyle O-

Conner. Judges

Arnold Schaefer Frui ts

Harold Wilson. J . B. Hawkinson. J . Humphrey. Jr . . Carl Anderson.

Gra in and Seed j J . R Bettes. Rcy Goodfellow. Fred j

Morris. Don Myers Vegetables

Frank Hil* Robert 0*Ne!!. H e n r y ' Dragt. George Landheer.

F a r m Women's Display Mrs. Carl Bradford . Mrs. William

Powers. Mrs. Wal ter Ebers, Mrs. Fred Klein. Mrs. Frank Holmqulst, Mrs-Andrew Norman. Mrs. Valentine Fab l -ing.

Prises William A. Rogers. Al BJork. Ora

Helsel. Bert Pu tman . E. E. Blcken-bach. William Noller.

^ h e Country C a r d e n Club met a t the home o* Mrs. Ethel O^bun. Thurs -day af ternoon with Mrs. Nellie Warren and Mrs Jessie Krey as assisting hos-tesses The president and vice-presi-dent being absent Mrs. B. Bennett acted as president. Roll call was an -swered by useful h ints for house-cleaning. Beano was played for amuse-ment .

Mrs Apple and her corps received several bouquets of flowers and vege-tables and a stick of gum for the comic en ter ta inment Sa tu rday evening a t the Community Club. The president also asked the gent lemen to give the ladies three cheers. Music for danc-ing was furnished by Mrs. Hathaway. Clyde Cole and Vernon Cole. T h e gentlemen will en te r t a in the ladies at the next meet ing. John Bennett . Archie Bunch and Oscar Mudge being on the committee.

1. "Ag." Entry list classes a r e open to th ree di f ferent groups, any grade pupil ( town or rural) , any High School pupil, a n d to any boy tha t h a s ever taken "Ag." a t Spar ta . Grade pupils do not compete against High School pupils, a n d vloe versa.

2. One may enter any one or al l t he classes a n d subclasses but one may make only one entry under a subclass.

3. All ent r ies must be listed a n d In place by 12 p. m. Wednesday. October 30th, see Elmo Heft, Sec., or Dale Van-dermeer. Asst., about listing your en -tries.

4. See Willard Bosch, about Horse Pulling Contes t entries.

5. Special cash premiums a re de-termined o n a point system; a first place on a n entry counts three points, a second place two points, and a th i rd place one point.

Committees School Fa i r Thursday and Fr iday .

October 31st and Nov. 1st. Officers: As actives of F. H. A. President—George Schweitzer; vice-

p res iden t— Francis Van T i m m e r a n ; secretary—Elmo Heft , Dale Vander -meer. assist ; treasurer—Homer GUlett ; advertising—Willard Bosch: fa i r m a n -ager—Fred R. Humeston.

Apple a n d Grain Judging <H. 8.) Contest Fr iday morning. Nov. 1st.

Apples—1. Norman Johnson; 2. Char les Henry ; 3. George K l e n k ; 4. Bill Bloomer; 5. Elmo Heft .

Police Pa t ro l (both days'"—1. Nor-m a n Olson, chief; 2. "Hap" Lockard. 3. O r m a n Heplnstall; 4. Kenne th Lockard.

Hor3e Pulling Contest—1. Wil lard Bosch; 2. Roy Collins; 3. Wendell Beuschel: 4. Milton Wylie.

Bicycle Races—See Mr. Decoster. Class I Corn—1. Dale Varde rmeer ;

2 Roger Bloom; 3. Carl Swenson Class I I Grain—1 Elmo Hef t ; 2. Carl Goodfellow; 3. Bill Bloomer. Class i n Potatoes—1. Arthur Ken t ; 2. Russell Bowler; 3. Vincent Schweitzer.

Class TV Beans—I. Norman J o h n -son; 2. Milton Wylle; 3. Ar thur Bra -ford. Class V Apples—1. Char les Henry; 2. "Doc." and Mark Herscv; 3 George Klenk. Class VI Poultry— 1. Franc is Van T lmmeran ; 2. How-ard Bettes; 3. Leavltt Johnson.

Livestock Club—1. WUlard Bosch; 2. J a m e s Henry; 3. Charles Henry ; 4. Verl Beuschel 5. Wendell Beus-chel; G a r t h Hawley. Class VII Vege-tables—1. G e o r g e Schweitzer; 2. Ralph Gold; 3. Wilfred Hlle.

Class VIII Rabbi ts—1. Wendell Swenson; 2. Wendell Beuschel; 3. George Wlersma. Class IX Misc.—1. Willard Bosch; 2. Harmon Bosch; 3. G a r t h Hawley. Class X P e t s —1. Homer Gil let t ; 2. George Bol ton; 3. Richard Helmer.

For best pictures, reports and com-ment on the season's football games, read The Detroit News—Adv

CASNOVIA GETS WOODWORKING SHOP

Jack Riblet of Muskegon Heights has purchased the Wessel property a t Casnovia and expects to convert the building in to a general repair and woodworking shop.

T h e t ransact ion was made th rough Mr. a n d Mrs. Clyde Eltel owner of t h e property.

I t is t h e purpose of Mr. Riblet to in -clude t h e repairing cf f a rm m a c h i n -ery a n d automobiles a n d to make wagon tongues and trailers.

Mr. a n d Mrs. Ribiet expect to move to Casnovia and take i;-vsession of the

I property November 1. Mr. a n d Mrs. ! Hoezee. who have occupied the build-

ing dur ing t h e summer will move to G r a n d ville.

FIREMEN SUBDUE STUBBORN BLAZE

the people of t h e community to a t t end the reception.

T h e S p a r t a Grange meets a t the home of Mr . a n d Mrs. Clarence J c t w -son Fr iday evening of th i s week. There will be elect ion of officers. All mem-b e n a re invi ted to a t tend.

o ther relatives and T h e Misses Frances Eppens and Cecil Emory were Sunday guests of Miss Virginia Cooper

grandchildren. many friends.

Funera l services were held Monday af ternoon. October 7. a t 1:30 m t h e j . r r w ^ , r

in the Oak wood Cemetery. Muskegon J " - * ? eight and one quar te r pound T h e Rev. Kenne th Hoffmaster of *** M ^ Sparta hospi ta l Soa r t a and the Rev. Jacob Huisenga

K. F . LODGE NOTICE ofMusk^eoc . officiated w was t aken to St Open Lodge Tuesday evening. Octo- ^ Marys nospital on Monday for a n oper-

her IS. Alao pot-luck supper a t a tion. 6:10. Members, ramlhes and f r iends SPARTA HOSPITAL NEWS are urged t o a t tend. Born — Thursday . Oct 3rd. to Mr Mr* Roy Ooodfellow is hoatees th is

and Mrs. Chas Stoken of Kent City. Friday afternoon for the October Le-Mrs -Dora Kinsman of Orand Rapids twin girls weighing rtx a n d eight gkm A'udilary card par ty .

is visiting a t the home of Mr a n d Mrs I pounds Thei r i a t o w a re Irene Lue a n d Ir is Louise Both mother and Mrs Jennie Chilson of Lansing who babies are doing nicely. has been spending a couple of

The Bite ley residence on Centennial Ave., was the scene of a stubbornly fought fire last week. T h e flames were unable to make much headway owing to the asphal t root, but the smoke continued to pour out f rom all sections of the house for an hour or more be-fore the firemen were able to make much headway ln locating the exact spot of the blase

The wind was blowing freely and the results might have proved disas-t rous had it not been for the alertness of the firemen in keeping t h e flames under oontrol Considerable damage

| was done to t h e roof and much <»f the interior of the dwelling and furn i ture were water-soaked.

T h e property is owned by Mrs. Mary Armock.

Fall Festival Week S P A R T A

Octobe r 28 to November 2

$200 IN CASH O f f e r e d for Best Displays

SPONSORED BY

The Chamber o f Commerce

Rules and Information 1. All entries will be shown in business places and each

entry must be sent to the store by the exhibitor. 2. All prizes are cash donated by the business places where

articles are shown. 3. A prize winner will collect his prize money at the place

the article is shown. 4. Monday and Tuesday are entry days—all entries to close

Tuesday, October 29. a t 5 p. m. Exhibits will be judged Wednes-day, October 30.

5. Exhibitors must live on f a rm and grow the produce or make the articles which they exhibit.

6. Each exhibit should have the name and address plainly written and firmly attached.

7. All exhibitors wishing to have their displays a f t e r the show should remove same by 5:00 p. m. Monday, November 4.

ANNUAL HARVEST FESTIVAL AND SUFFER

The n in th annua* harvest festival and dedication supper wtD be held a t the Methodist Cftiurch Thursday. Oct 17

The Festival is sponsored by t h e Methodist Brotherhood with O. E Balyeat act ing as general cha i rman

The supper is sponsored by the Methodist Ladies' Aid under the super-vision of Mr* Arthur Post, general cha i rman

F O R SALS ADS GET results quickly T r y o n e . SENTXNKL- Mrs. Mary Johnson of

oared for in the b o ^ l t a l Casnovia is

Mr and Mrs Clarence Johns rn en-a t the Clarence Johnson home h a s ; tertalned a number of Rockf ord guests gone to Orand Rapids to visit her son with a crlbbage par ty last Pride v and other relatives. ning.

Premium List FRUIT

(Apples and pears should be shown in plates in groups of 6) Baldwin Apples—Sparta Motor Sales Grimes Golden Apples—Sparta Furni ture Co. King Apples—Sparta Bakery. Jonathan Apples—Peoples State Bank Mcintosh Apples—Sparta State Bank

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Thursday, October 10, 1935 THE SENTINEL-LEADER, SPARTA. MICHIGAN

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WHEN THE DARK ANGEL RIDES The motoi vehicle is no respecter of persons. Hardly a week

passes without newspaper headlines telling of the sudden death of some s ta tesman, industrial leader or other celebrity. A few recent names on the roster of those who died because of carelessly or recklessly driven motor vehicles, comes readily to mind. Not long ago. Colonel T. E. Shaw, the famed "Lawrence of Arabia." was killed when he fell f rom his motorcycle, which he was driving a t 80 miles an hour. Only a week or two ago the wife of the Sec-retary of Interior perished when the car in which she was riding a t high speed skidded in loose gravel and overturned. Jus t before the beautiful Queen Astrid of Belgium met her death—when her husband, driving the roadster in which she was riding, looked away f rom the highway at a road map, and ran headlong into a tree. These tragedies become known in a million households, be-cause of the prominence of the victims. But they are no worse, no more tragic, than the thousands of similar deaths which occur an-nually and make, instead of headlines, a mere item on an inside page of the newspaper. Recklessness, careless less, incompetence —these are the scarlet trinity, which cause so much needless grief, so much unnecessary suffering, so great an economic waste. When one of them takes the wheel, death rides, too. The Dark Angel does not always strike—hut there is a limit to how long he j can be withheld. Care, caution, competence—these constitute the trinity which can prevent automobile accidents, major and minor ones alike. The issue must be put squarely up to each driver—it is purely an individual problem, and will always remain so. Traffic , laws and enforcement can do nothing if the public will not cooper-ate. Will you ?

A farmer , called to the stand as a witness, was asked: "What is your business a t the present t ime?" Languidly he replied: "Not raising hogs."—High Bridge, N. J., Gazette.

By CAROL HOLMES-KURTZ

To crca te a rural a tmosphere for the benefit of city children, the New York park department h«s built the -travel-ing barnyard" shown above. It Is mounted on a truck and visits the various parks and play grounds, a t t rac t ing crowds of Utile ones who never before have beard a chicken cluck or felt the s«»ft nose of a calf.

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OXEN TAKE SLEEPER ON WILD NIGHT RIDE

COLLECTION AGENCIES The average business man in the average community is fun-

damentally an honest man. Most of the people with whom he does business are honest. Gradually he begins to look upon the world as a place inhabited by upright men and women. Thus uncon-sciously is his guard lowered and he falls easy prey to the un-scrupulous who obtain his goods and services on credit with no thought of f u t u r e payment. One morning he awakes to the fact tha t the credit he has extended has impaired his capital s t ructure and something must be done about it. In his first bewilderment he makes mistake number two by engaging the services of a so-called collection agency, whose representative blandly tells him they will collect these overdue accounts a t a small percentage cost. In time he finds t h a t mistake number two has only added to his financial difficulties. Not only doe? the agency pocket all tha t it collects, but Ly adding fictitious charges for services never ren-dered, actually have the merchant indebted to them also. It is a wise merchant who orders these faki rs out of his place whenever they put in an appearance. If he has bad accounts on his books which himself or the local collector cannot get, he will be better off by throwing them into a waste basket and resolve to watch his credit-giving more carefully in the fu tu re . Under no circum-stances should he sign a contract with one of these racketeers. No mat ter how close one checks up on them, or what their agent may claim, in the end the merchant will find he has only thrown good money a f t e r bad.

OU R T H E A T R C T S P A R T A - M I C H . • •

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY—OCTOBER 11 AND 12

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Rodeo Day—News and

Special Attraction—"GOING ON TWO" Featuring

The DIONNE QUINTUPLETS

Editor Sen t ine l - l eade r : "There are troubles and tears T h e r e are failures and fears ; T h i s depression, how long will *t las; T i l we t u rn whfle we may T o the th ings of the day T h a t Is lost in the mist of the past."

In writing of the times 75 years ago. there ' s one family of my acquaintar .c t h a t s tands out prominently a n d worthy ol notice for their social work, living on a f a rm southwest of t h e

village. T h e man was by profession a survtyo.- and be-came interested in the new and nea r -ly wild section in Antrim County, lo-cat ing seveial f a m -ilies on homesteads in t h a t locality. Among them were the Caukln. Blan-ehard. Tower. W y -lie and B r e w e r

s leeper faL lilies. My f a t h -

er located a homestead, but he did no live t"» realize h is plans.

When my brother-in-law, W D Wy-lie loeated a Soldiers' Homestead and went nor th , mother went with them. T h a i called for f requent visits f rom me. When Wylie went no r th he pu r -chased an ox team ol Elthu Rice, young rangev steers, as fine a t e am as I ever saw.

On one of my visits 1 had f u r t h e r ; experience t h a t 1 had consldert i j c>o^cl with the driving of the Bur r . oxen. T h e little town of E rnira. seven miles east of Wylies". was visited for supplies. One winter a f te rnoon Will coupled t h e oxen to t h e sleigh and asked me to go to Klmira for supplies T h a t was fine. The box was full of s t raw, plenty of blankets and with two feet of snow each side we rode along ln comfor t . The Jordan River flows in Ant r im County, with its long, gradual slopes each side. We secured our sup-plies of X7. Har t well. If you knew Hartwel l you knew as fine a fellow as one need meet. He r an the hotel, post-ofTice. general store, was railway agen t . Anything you wanted ssk Will for i t .

On our home t r ip in the evening everything went well unti l we reached | t h e brow cf the river hill. T h e n the

i change came quickly. It looked as though those oxen were trying to rival J o h n GUpen-s record. I t looked to us ,

j as though the same spirit had entered into these oxen t h a t cuMsed a flock of swine to rush in to the sea long ago. T o yell "Whoa" seemed to add to the i r desire to get us home quickly. We gripped the box and tu> the wind whistled by our ears we shuddered to j th ink if the sleigh tongue should drop to the ground we would be ca tapul ted into the tree tops a t the roadside. As j we begin to climb the up-grade we were able to count the trees as we flew past a n d by the time we reached the top the old demure ox- team appeared aga in a n d we were lef t to wonder wha t h a d happened.

But did those oxen r u n ! If I am ever ask"d if oxen can run I shall th ink of tha t wild night ride on the J o r d a n hill. You wiU know by ihe record ma^e tha t they were Spa r t a oxen. Yes. twin calves raised on t h e Rice f a r m south of Spar ta No. they

were not adopted by the Canad i an government.

After my mother-.' dea th in 1893. I did net visit t h a t p a r t aga in unt i l called there again by sister Annie 's dea th in 1922. 29 years. I was surprised to see the change in tha t once a t t r a c -tive part of Michigan. Deserted, deso lation. T h e lumbering greed h a d stripped the valuable t imber a n d lef t many t rac ts of once noble t imber i r ru ins and worse Benton Caukin wa one of the ear 'y settlers. He r-as al ter nate farmer , surveyor, and teacher . H retained his home there unti l hi: dea th . His brother. Marvin lived for some time near . Later h e moved to Spar ta and still later to North Pa rk .

I believe there are only two or three left of t h a t family, so p rominen t in social and temperance work

H »M. Sleeper.

For Delicious Desser t s Fresh Prune Soufflt: Beat four

egg whites stiff a n d fold in foar tablesooutiS onsHr. Dra in the Irni t from one No. 3 can of fresh prunes, remove t h e s tones and cat the pulp line. Fold the pulp Into the egg whites / r e se rv ing the prune sy rup for beverages, sauces, etc.). Add one-half teaspoon al-mond extract , and pour into i buttered baking dish. Bake in a 350 .degree oven fo r twenty min-utes, or unti l it is firm and a deli-cate brown. Serve a t once with a yellow custard sauce poured over i t This serves e igh t persons.

I love t h e m . . . Gay pe tunias cheerfully unfolding In

the sun ; Pure white, and palest lavender. And crimson, faintly sweet. Like horns upon the gramophones T h e flowers are shaped. <M. Irving) . • • •

I sat opposite the little manicure t,irl as she worked swiftly a n d expertly. Her complexion was like roses, her hair ->hune. and she looked like a child in her crisp white uniform. "I 've a boy nine years o.d." she copftded "I 've boer. marr ied eleven years." T h e n she sma««i a n d her ligiucd up. " I t may be a trifle unusual ." she said, "but I am perfectly happy "

e * e Nearly 200.000 children in Detroit 's

schools rooted for the Tigers aga«nst the Chicago Cubs. T h e children did thch rooting in cias? r—«ns a u d audi -tor iums where they were granted per-mission to hear broadcasts of the games. T h e superintendent of schools said. "Our educational system is a ! h u m a n insti tution. We believe as much good will be obtained f rom the World Series as f rom holding classes." I t was also announced teachers hold-ing Wor d Series tickets would be per- j mitted to a t t end the games.

Elsie Robinson, columnist, returned j to her desk a f t e r the "flu." "Some people." she says, "like to take th ings!!

slow, but I ha te it . I want to t o 90 miles an hour. Here I am Inching along. 170 pounds of highly inf lam-mable spee<l burning blonde lolling around like a busted balloon pecking a t piffling paragraphs instead of t u rn -ing out encyclopedias as per usual. I t 's certainly h a r d to take. And there are plenty of o thers who fight against taking it. For we c a n t believe t h a t things were ever Intended to slow up like this, can we? Sags and slumps aren't sickness. They're the na tu ra l scheme of th ings I"

• e e A tremendous amount of t ime a n d

energy is wasted ln worrying about things t h a t cannot be changed. I t does absolutely no good. T h e sensible th ing is to acecpt the th ings tha t c a n t be helped, and go on !

THE LAUREL TREE"—A Fascinat -ing Tale of Romance by Nathal ie Shipman in The American Weekly, the Magazine Distributed with NEXT SUNDAY'8 CHICAGO HERALD AND EXAMINER—Adv.

WEDDING STATIONERY: Highest grades a t prices you can afford to pay. We will be glad to show our "ample lines and oiler every assistance ln selection of lettering, etc. Phone or write. T h e 8enUnel-Leader Publishing Co., Sparta-—Adv.

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MODERNS LIKE

PRUNES: BE up-to-date! If you belong to

that generat ion which d idn ' t like prunes—don' t admi t i t I t labels you as a person who be-longs to t h a t by-gon« e r a when in plays, in s tor ies and in l ife cheap board iu 0 Reuses a lways served badly cooked prunes. I t was p a r t

"of the scenery which went wi th the act—a bowl of under-cooked prunes.

Today people like prunes . And the reason is tha t canned f r e s h prunes bear no resemblance to the hard shriveled f ru i t cf o ther t imes. They a re br ight plum-colored, juicy delectable f m i t s canned ln a rich good syrupy juice.

Scandinavian Prune Pudding: Remove the s tones f rom tbe f ru i t in one No. 3 can r* f resh prunes, cut the prunes in pieces and re-turn to the s y r u p Add one-third cup sugar, one-four th teaspoon clove, and one-four th teaspoon cinnamon. Mix one third cup cornstarch with one-half cup '>raiifcj juice. Add tc the hot mix-ture. and cook iri a double boiler, - l i n i n g constant ly unt r" the mix-ture is thick and smooth. Cool slightly, add one-half cup chopped nuts and fold In two stiffly-beaten opg whites. Pour Into wet molds snd chill. Serve with whipped cream. This serves eight persons.*

I F YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO sell z For Sale ad is t h e way to sell it. •r :M IN fcL-LEADER. Spar ta .

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Time Certificate Redemption Notice, Peoples State Bank, Sparta, Michigan

To holders of Series E. Certificates issued under plan of reopening, dated Sept. 18, 1933, due Sept. 18, 1938, as follows:

You are hereby notified tha t pursuant to ph«i- . of reorganization and with the consent of the Commissioner of Banking of the Sta te of Michi-gan. that Time Certificates Series E, dated September 18, 1933, due Sept. 18, 1938 have been called for payment upon October 18, 1935. Interest on all Series E. <-*»rtificates will cease on and a f t e r October 18, 1935.

Peoples State Bank SPARTA, MICHIGAN

D a t f J : October 9, 1935 L. A. Anderson, Cashier

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