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SALINE, WASHTENAW CO., MICH., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 34. 1Q14
NUMBER 13
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PBOTECTION FIRST!   That's a fine slogan in these days.   In  WARTIME as well as ia time of PEACE yon ought to keep your money
where you XNOW it will be SAFE.   Hiding it in an old stocking
in-the attic is NOT safe; neither is it  GOOD  BUSINESS  nor PATRIOTIC.   This bank ia conducted under close, government regulation.
YOU   ARE SAFE  HERE.
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Don't forget to get a Ticket on the. Malleable
Range to .fre.given away January 2, 1915.
\ A Ticket gives with every Cash Purchase.    You
aaay.be the lucky one.
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MANUFACTURING   ERGRAy&B*S
Prices Quite as Reasonable ss Consistent with Quality.
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If you have neglected gr fqrgotten to remember some
friend or relative, there is still time to, step in
here and make a selection from our large lines of
Candy, Cigars and Tobacco
In  Beautiful   Gift  Packages
We extend best wishes to all for a Merry, Merry
. Christmas and a Hanpy, Prosperous New Year.
Jqmep J\/[arche^otti
Successor to K. A. Boettger.      Phone No. S      Fresh roasted peanuts
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FROM OUT OF THE WEST
Comes a Very Interesting Letter from
, EIroy Briggs.
Monterey, Nov. 30, 1914.
Dear Mother:
"We reached here Thanksgiving day,
and had turkey, arrived Just in time
as it rained twice since we came.
When we left Battle Creek we intended to go by the overland route,
through Cheyenne and Salt Lake City;
did not leave Battle Creek until after
10 o'clock a. m. on October 15. Went
through Agusta, Galesburg, Comstock.
Kalamazoo, Mattewan, Paw Paw and
Decatur to South Bend the first day.
It rained all night and some* the next
day. We went from South I. end to
LaPorte, Valparaiso and Dyer in Indiana, then to Chicago Heights and
Joliet. Here we went north to Aurora,
on account of bad roads. .It had rained every day for two weeks through
Illinois and Northern Iowa/        \_
From Aurora we went to Ottawa,
Princeton, Kewanee, Galesburg, Monmouth and crossed the_ Mississippi at
Oquawka on a ferry, as the road on
the Illinois side at Burlington was
impassible. We crossed just at night
and had just got out of the bottoms
on the Iowa side, when; we met a new
Hudson car, -with two-young men and
a lady, evidently their mother. They
asked how the roads were and I told
them they were bad to the ferry but
good on the Illinois side. I heard one
of the boys tell the other, "They have
come through with that load, we can
make it all right." They went on,
gotofi the road and into the mire, and
we were told that their car was still
there at noon the next day.
The going through Illinois was a
fright. Por miles at a time we dragged the pan in the mud, and there
were many steep grades; The roads
were'worst near the towns and usually
were extra bad in the towns themselves;
were in pretty good shape by the time
we left Burlington, but I had one
puncture after another all through
Iowa from the thorns off the hedges.
In many places, they were tearing the
hedges out by the roots. Things did
not look very prosperous or well kept
up in most places. We were told that
Des Moines was a fine city but it did
not look very good to me.
Leaving Burlington we went to-Mt.
Pleasant, a prosperous looking, well
built little city; from there to Pair-
field, Packwood, Hendrick, Oskaloosa,
Pella, Monroe, Des Moines, Dexter,
Addair, Wiota, Atlantic and Council
Bluffs. *
The through routes west of Indiana
areallwellmarked. Prom Des Moines
to Council Bluffs the roads were just
one bill after^ another and they were
hills, too; worse grades than we struck
in the mountains. In many places
we Would climb a steep hill with no
level at the" top, only to go down with
no" level at the bottom—one hill after
;another for miles.
Omaha is a busy place with many
fine buildings. From there we went
to Lincoln;; did not. see W. J, Bryan,
he was^perhaps niilking the cows as it
was quite early when we passed.
From Lincoln we went to Friend and
Fairrhount. We had met several cars
going east, the drivers Complaining of
cold and snow in Colorado and Utah,
so we turned south at Fairmount on
the Meridian road. This is a marked
auto road, running from Winnipeg to
Galveston. The road was good, in
many njaees we could run a hundred
miles at a stretch on high'. We followed the Meridian road through
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Geneva, Hebron", Belleville, Concordia,
Minneapolis, Salina, and, by the way,
Salina is the finest built, most pros-
peroqs locking c^ty
CHRISTMAS AT CHURCHES
ATLANTA "ON THE MAP'
Programs of Exercises for Tins Tkws-
day Erening.
METHODIST.
Song with orchestra, Sunday School.
Recitation, Bruce Parsons.
Recitation, Mildred Wilson.
"Recitation, Louise Muir.
Song, Miss .Wallace's class.
Recitation, Virgil Walling.
Recitation, Lorena Klumpp.
Recitation, Ruth Lancaster.
Songwith orchestra, Sunday school.
Christmas Play.
Cast of Characters.
Father Time, Clarence Derr.
Day, Helen Humphrey.
Night, Hazel Fuoss,
Herald, Raymond Hicks.
Spring, Wilma Cole.
Summer, Gertrude Coe.
Autumn, Veva McAtee.   -
Winter, Caroline Covell.
Rain, Virginia Webber,  Ruth Lancaster, Louise Muir.
Sunshine, Doris -Wheeler, Florence
Hall, Grace Wheeler.
Fog, Harold Webber, Miles Wilson,
Kyler Cbvell.    *-*■..
Snow, Alice Lehtnan, Helen Barr,
Alice Wheeler.      ,
New Years' Day, Charles. Wheeler.
'Lincoln's Birthday, Allen Morris.
Valentine's Day, -Hazel Derr.
Washington's    Birthday,     George
Miller.
April Fool's   Day,   Keniieth   Cool,
Arthur Miller, Charles Hood.
Memorial Dav, Gertrude Hicks.
Commencement Day, Mildred Sutherland. --.-.
Independence Day, Mary and Frank
Gilman. ' "
Labor Day, Merle Barr.    v
AU Hallow Eve, Luella Kyte.
Thanksgiving Day,   Meltina Feldkamp-.    v
Christmas Day, Grace Mattison.
Remarks by Rev.. Hicks.
SOng, Miss Wheeler's class*"
Arrival of Santa Claus.   -
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PRESBYTERIAN.
Anthem, "I Bring You Good Tid
ings," Choir,
"Story of the Christ Child,"
Cotton's class.
Recitation, Mabel Tucker,
Solo,  "The Birthday of a'King,"
Edward Henne.
Exercise,  "The Voice of the Bells,"
by four girls.
Recitation,  "The Christmas Tree£"
Virginia Mulholland.
Exercise,   "Christmas   Trees,"   by
four little bovs.
Recitation, Harold Lutz. .
Duet,  Carol Hildner and Margaret
Fairbank.
Exercise,   "The Angels of   Christmas," by three little girls.
Recitation,   "The  Telephone   Message," Dean Hammond.
Dialogue,    "A    Letter    to    Santa
Claus."
Recitation, Mina Russell.
Select reading, Mable. Gooding.
Male   quartette,    "The   Star   That
Leads."
Dialogue,   "Santa Claus'  Visit of
Investigation." -
Anthem,   "Christmas   Praise,"   by
the Choir.
Presbyterian Church News
Pastor—Rev. W. H. Hoffman.
The usual services. Sabbath rooming; subject, ''.fife's ^Retrospept and
the Pi-s^-ing of the Q\d- "tear."
Union §ervic§ in the evening in the
B-iptigt ehnreh:  '
Y. P. S. Cr $. *4t ft.o'clackj, subject,
that vfe passgdj * -'.This "ye-*r &n(\ Aill "Sfears {or Christ."
with ma^iy stores and r.es.idetjc.is tfe|t \ £lan .q he  present,   and   make  the
would haye bpen *iqt]ceab.je-|n a mych j meeting interesting,
Former Salineite Assisted in Procuring
Railroad Connections.
Atlanta. Montmorency county, has
just secured connection with the outside
world by reason of the extension of the
Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena railroad.
In writing, up the occasion the. Boyne
City Citizen has the following to say
concerning one of our former citizens:
. G. M. Rouse, one of the livest citizens
that any community 'should claim, has a
private gas engine plant that lights his
home, his hardware store and postoffice,
as well as another store building that is.
used as a barber, shop and pool room.
In.addition tothis_hehas a steam heating plan.t that heats all the property
above mentioned and an air pressure
water system that furnishes water for
his home, which has all the conveniences
of any city residence, and his store.
Mr. Rouse has been one of the big
Boosters for the new road. When asked who were the" successful merchants
of the town, he said that they were
nearly all doing well except himself,
that he didn't know* much "about his
own ■ business, that he had been railroading. A railroad man who was
present said: "You have been railroading for the past fodr months." Mr.
Rouse said: 'It has been nearly ten
years. Ten years ago Mr. Foster Cameron, a man who has since moved away,
and myself bought the forty acres
where the depot now stands and arranged matters so fhat this land would
go to the B. C, G. & A., provided they
got here in ten years." In a few
months the time would have been up
There was a big crowd of Gaylord
people there Thursday all day and Mr.
Rouse had the window of his store decorated with a picture of" Mr. White,
one of the new souvenir time tables
that were gotten out for the people, of
Atlanta, the first ticket sold • from, Atlanta,, which Mr. Rouse insisted on buying even though he had to fight every
man on the road, and the first freight"
bill made out for Atlanta. He says his
freight and cartage -has been costing
him $1,200.00 a year, and-that all the'
other, merchants of the'town have been
paying out as much or more. They
have been obliged to haul all their
freight, from Lewiston or Hillinan, a
distance of 16 to 18 miles. He says
that the freight and "express, business
out of Atlanta should amount to over
?30,000.00 a year, taking into consideration .the business that the farming community will.do with the line.. They say
that they have seen hundreds of dollars
worth of the finest apples, vegetables
and perishable products spoil merely
■because they could not be transported'
cheaply enough, and in the case of freezing weather could not be transported at
all. Mr. Rouse shipped the first carload of hay to Gaylord, early in the
week.
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larger city, fronj Saljn*. to MePher*
son, where *-*e struck the Sante Fe
trail. This we followed thro.u'gh Great
Bend, Lamed and Dodge City; here
we turned south on what is known as
the Borderland trail, which run straight
to El Paso, Yuma and San Diego.
We went through Fowler, Meade Plains
and Liberal. The countrj' here i.s as
level as a Jloor and it looked as -f we
were in a big shallo-v bowl, it looked
as if we were all the while going up
hill, but looking back or sidewise it
looked just the same. They, were
threshing all through that part of the
country, making no attempt to save
the straw; they either burned or left it
in piles to rot, working around the -
heaps but never spreading or plowing i
The offering of four dollars at the
Thanksgiving service was sent to the
McGregor Mission and duly acknowledged;
The- Sabbath school will have a
Christmas tree and appropriate exercises on Thursday evening at 7:30.
The public will be specially interested
in this well arranged program- and a
cordial invitation is extended to every
one to be present.
it under,
of.
We saw no stock to speak
(Concluded next Week)
Mrs. 0. C. Wheeler spent Sunday
with Charles Geyer and family of Pittsfield.-.visiting Mrs. GeyeFs. mother,
-who is ill.
With the passing of the old year, let
»us dwell much upon the past, the de-
; vious. wanderings of our paths,   the
guiding and shaping* providences  of
our God, the timely and unexpected
blessings, the marked tendencies of
our lives, the impress we arc making
'upon the world around ns and so find
suitable material .for our New Year'B
resolutions   and   the   more   definite
thing for which we should live.
Martin. Wheelock left Tuesday morning for Jacksonville, ,'FIa.-, "whefe he
will spend'the winter.*
York Township Taxes.
I will be at the places .designated
from 9 a. ru. till 3 p. m.,-.on the follow*
ing dates, to receive taxes:     '■
Milan State Savings Bank,  Dec. 11.
Farmers & Merchants Bank, Dec. 18.
Citizens Bank, Saline, Dec. 22.
Davenport Store, Mooreville, Dec. 23.
■Milan State Savings Bank, Dec. 26.
'Farrfler§ & Merchants Bank., Jan. 2,
1915,. .'•'■'■
Citizens Bank, Saline, Jan. 5.
Davenport Store, Mooreville, Jan, 6.
Milan State Savings Bank, Jan. 7.
Farmers & Merchants Bankt Jan, 9.
At home every Monday.
11-13-c "Lee Draper, Treasurer.
Marriage Licenses.
Albert Graham, 24, Ann Arbor; Mary
Fedderer, 22, same.
Ralph P. Nogg'le, 2i, Manchester;
Brulah Mann, 24, same,
Irving Beach, 54, Ypsilanti; Eunice
Owens, 48, Mun.cie, Ind.
H. Edwin " Deaver, . 29, Jackson;
Bertha M. Winter, 23, Chelsea.
Edward -Dayss, 26,' Freedom; Helen
Reymold, 23, same.
Roy Webster Pryor, 29, Ann Arbor;
Lucile Katherine Strong, 22, Ypsilanti. •
Henry Thornton, 40, Ann Arbor; Ida
Johnson, 39, Cassopolis.
Gpre, Ga., P. A. Morgan had occasion recently to use a. liver medicine
and says of Foley's Cathartic Tabiets:
'.'They thoroughly cleansed v*$~ system and I.felt like a new,j-tfan—light*
aud frefe. They are* diaifest. medicine
I have,'ever taken ftx constipation.
They keep "the stomach sweet, liver
active, bowels regular.". Foley Cathartic Tablets are stimulating" in action, and neither gripe nor sicken.
They are -wholesome and thoroughly
cleansing,-and -keep the liver active.
Stout people like them. - For sale at
Wheeler's Pharmacy. - ■
May You and Yours Have
A Very  Merry  Christmas
and a Year Full of -     ^
Real Happiness and Prosperity
We have an extra good line of Table
Linens at prices from 60c to $1.40 per
yard.
Napkins from $1 to $3 per dozen.
Ladies' and Men's Holeproof. Hosiery,
Ladies' and Men's Black Cat Hosiery, at
25c, 50c and $1.00.
Dresser scarfs and other pieces at all
prices.
BURKHART BROS.
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It affords us real pleasure to wish'one and all
A Merry Christmas
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Happy, Prosperous New Year
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We trust Santa will fee
good to you and yours,
and we wish all a
erry thisfm&s
and
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New Year.
SEEGER & SCHROEN
The Hardware on the Corner.
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Phone 87
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our stock and -note the low prices.
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