1914-12-31; Saline Observer

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SALINE, .WASHTENAW £0., MICH., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1914
NUMBER -14
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MADAM, how often you have  WISHED  you had a  CHECK ACCOUNT' iu our bank!    Perhaps your husband has asked you to
run down town during the day to pay his building and loan or
his fraternal dues or bills of some kind.   It E.AIHS HARD  just when
-you start.   Now, if you had a check account or your husband had one
you could SAVE ALL THIS BOTHER.
THE  NEW WAY  IS  THE CHECK  WAY'
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We Wish You and Yours
and Prosperous
New Year.
HENNE, THE HARDWARE MAN
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Comes a Very Interesting Letter from
Elroy Briggs.   "   7 ■
(Continued from last week)
In Oklahoma we passed' .through
Tyrone, Guy mon and Texhoma. Ilere
lhe country is. more hilly and the
principal crops are broom, corn and
Kaffir corn.
In Texas we passed Stratford, Dal-
hart and Texline. We had intended
to keep right-on sooth, on the Borderland trail; hut at' Dulhart we *had to
turn southwest on account of floods
that had washed out bridges and made
fords impassable. We kept northwest
through Clayton, Des Moines apd
Paton, where we s'truck the Santa Fe
trail and followed it thc ie*a of the way
to Los Angeles. ,-      •  '
From Paton we passed Springer,,
Wagon Mound, Las Vegas, Santa Fe,
Albuquerque, Socorro, Magdalena,
Datil and Quiemando to Springerville,
Arizona. At Las "Vegas we found a
garage run >by a former Battle Creek
man. His bioiher mns the. largest
groceiy in Battle Creek. At"Magdalena we met tne sia;n posting truck,
which is posting signs on all turns oji
all highways from Los Angeles to New
York city, aud from, there we had a
marked trail to Los Angeles. At
Magdalena we left the railroad for 223
miles, of which 53 miles in one stretch,
was without a human habitation of
any description, but the scenery was
grand and the road good.
The Continental Divide was in a
heavy" pine forest on top of a slightly
rolling plateau, 15 miles from Datil.
The country has been fairly well settled at some time, judging .by the
abandoned houses we saw. They we're
all built of logs and some had been
quite pretentious. Twas ill one which
contained eleven rooms, a fireplace in
each, the rooms well plastered and
with ten foot ceilings. The building
had evidently been a tavern and, excepting the floors,, doors and* windows,
was in a" good state of preservation.'
Most of the buildings had been miners-
cabin's.' The coun try-now is. all fenced
and stocked with cattle.       .
From Spriiigeryille (a mormon settlement, by the way) we went through
St. "Johns, to Holdbrook .where we
again struck the railroad. Between
the two places we passed through, the
petrified forest. I paced one tree and
it measured 108 feet to where it was
broken off. At the butt the log was
about 3>2 feet in diameter, and where
broken off about 2}4 feet.? So you see
it had been some tree. The pieces of
petrified wood ran. from jet'' black,
through; all the shades of brOwn, red,
yellow to white, different trees furnishing-different; colored stone. We
brought away about forty or more
pieces, some of them for you. '"groin
the place where we entered, we counted
39 extinct volcanoes and it looked as
though the'forest had been buried by
the volcanic eruptions and is now
being washed bare;
.From Holbrook we drove through
Winslows Flagstaff (said to be the
hottest town in the United States) but
we did not find it- so; went through
Williams and Kingston, crossed tbe
Colorado river at Topop twelve miles
below .Needles, Cal., paying 5*5.50: for
the .privilege of crossing the Santa Fe
bridge,* From east of Flagstaff to near
•Kingman we were in heavy pine *im.-.
ber with many saw.mills; all but one-
of those*we saw were shut down. The
country was.rough but the roads were
great, being-volcanic.cinder with easy
grades but many short turns, the
drive "as a whole being more beautiful
than* an eastern park. -One day I
made 154 miles of mountain driving
in less tiian eight hours.
At Ash Fork we struct'the- trait of
the Los Angeles-Phoenix race, the last
25. miles to Topoe being ttoongh a
forest of yuccO palms. , •.
At Needles we headed for the 165
•miles across tbe Mohave Desert, The
desert did not fulfil my idek,of a desert: the floor is covered with moun-.
tains, most of them earth covered, but
some nothing but solid rock. The
road lollows the valleys with no grades
to amount to anything. The valleys
are l*ush covered, showing-the bare
earth between, * giving the appearance
of a well" cultivated young orchard,
there being but little grass and "fewer
weed's. The desert, to say theleas_t, is
■very beautiful and one must see it.to
realize even a small part of its. beauty..
From Barstow we crossed the mountain to San Bernardino.* The grades
here were heavy an d-'the road crooked,
but the scenery superb. From San
Bernardino through".Pasadena to Los-
Angeles was a Co mile drije over the
Meadani boulevard, as smooth as a.
floor and-tbrough .a-riot-of flowers,'
orange groves, .palms-and other" tropical vegetation. -1 bought a n'umber-
of post cards, none of which exaggerate      Presbyterian CtlUTCh NeWS
the least bit. \      ) .
■ We left Los Angeles for Bakersfield ■ Pastor-Kev. W. H. Hoffman,
and soon came to the end of our. good" The holy communion Sabbath morn-
roads. We crossed one mountain [ inS- As far as possible let every mem-
range after another and finally entered ' be>* strive to keep this memorial that
the San Joaquin (pronounced San'was so upon the mind and heart of
Waukeen) valley by the way of the j-Christ
Tahachapi pass  and the White Wolf!    Subject  Sabbath  evening  will   be,
grade.    The night before we crossed, I "The Prayer Life."
a new Winton car got away from
driver,   and   men   were loading   the j a union prayer meeting Monday even-
the j    The Week of Prayer will begin with
pieces onto a wagon when we came
past. The trouble with the hills is
not their steepness so much as their
length. There is no way to stop if
your car gets the start of you, although
the White Wolf grade has some' 27
per cent pitch. I think there must
have been.five or six miles that I
coasted with brake on and 'motor in
reverse. I do not think there was anv
place \vhere I could not have stopped
inside of six feet. The main road
from the end of the boulevard is impassable.' as the state is building a
concrete road from Los Angeles to San
Francisco. - This highway crosses the
Tejon Pass, which is lower than the
Tahachapi Pass; also the state is rebuilding the old road- which follow**
the'coasfc from San Diego to San'Francisco, called-by the Spaniards during
their control the El Camino Real, or
the King's Highway. These roads
will be completed by the time the exposition opens next year.
The San Joaquin valley at the time
we saw it was a decided disappointment. It was the end of the dTy season. Much, in fact niost of the valley
was nothing but dry sand.*' which in
Michigan would not-have grown white
beans, the only-exceptions being where
patches of alfalfa weie under irrigation.. -
From Bakersfield we went to Fresno, all the way thiough the sand and
dust. From Fresno we drc-ve over a
boulev.ird-16 miles long, lined on
either side with .giant palms, between
which were flowering shrubs and other
trees noted for their beautiful foliage".
, We passed through White Bridge,
Mendota, Los Palps, Los Panes, Hoi--
lister, over the beautiful San Juan
Pass to Mbnterey, having been just
six weeks enroute."" " • -
We reached this side*of Los Panos
with Texas air in three tirerand would
have had in all four had .'it -not been
for a worn valve. We had all our tire
trouble in the first part of our journey.
I bought some spring shackle bolts,
hut did* not use them. "The only, repairs I bad fo buy were a felt washer
for the rear axle, 50c, and a new air
spring, 20c, for the carburetor. We
were 'exceedingly- lucky. We saw
many.broken cars, the majority of
breakdowns were from spring and.axle
trouble.- . ',•-.,*
At. Des Moines we helped to turn
aver a newt Hudson which had gone
over a 20 foot embankment, no one
hurt, but the top, windshield and
steering wheel, were the worse for wear.
In Kansas; on the Meridian road, a
1918 Chalmers -with two nien passed
us; they had heard that the road south
from Dodge City was impassable, and
'kept west on the Santa Fe trail* we
overtook them at C^uemando, N* M.,
laid up with a broken spring. The
first question asked was, how we got
through the Cimmaron crossing.
They liad.gotten into the cold in Colorado. We saw several snowstorms in
the mountains in New Mexico, but no
snow even in the passes, and. were in
only one rain from South Bend*, Ind-,
to Monterey. • v ■ • -
-■ Gasoline and lubricating, oil cost
between ."$60 and $65, groceries and
other items between $30 and $35; the
route we traveled was between 3,500
ahd 3,600 miles and," including Michigan, crossed 11 states.
Arizona and New* Mexico had the,
best roads, Illinois and California the
•poorest. Watrayeled 739 miles, not
including side trips, in California
alone. «
Times are pretty-dull here, ahd were
practically, every place where* I made
inquiry. . ■■    * "
-ELROY Bv BRIQGS
ing, January 4, in the Baptist church
at 7 o'clock; subject, "Thanksgiving
and Humiliation." Let us so arrange
our social and business affairs that this
week of prayer may be given over to
united prayer'in order that we may the
better know the mind of Christ.
In entering upon another year of
privilege and opportunity, let us not be
content with a few feeble man-made
resolutions we have so often broken,-
but give Christ the opportunity of making out of us a new creation.
The old self will 'then be crucified,
hampering environments overcome, old
habits that have been our handicap will
lose their power and through grace
Jesus will translate .us into a new
world of love and service in His name.
Willing Workers Meeting.
The-December meeting of the Willing.Workers was held at the home of
Mrs. Lizzie-Feidman.
The following program was given:
Song by club.
Reading, Mrs. Cora Walters.
Reading, "Christmas," Mrs. Mabel
Needham.
Roll call, "Don'ts for the Club."
Song by club.
The remainder of the. afternoon was
spent in planning exercises and
Christmas tree, which was held at the
Hammond school house on Christmas
Eve. All received boxes of candy arid
nuts*. Among the presents found on
the tree was a sterling silver tablespoon, the gift of-the .Sunday school
to Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Wood.
The next|meeting will be held with
Mrs. Grace Hammond,
Competitive Examination.
Congressman S. W. Beakes has arranged for a .competitive examination,'
physical and mental, for appointments
for West Point and Annapolis. The
examination will be held in Ann Arbor,
January 6, 1915, at the university. Examinations will be conducted by Deair
Cboley of the engineering department,
Dean Vaughn of" the medical department,. and-Dean Effinger of rhe literary
department. Application blanks and
information for this examination can
be. obtained "from Congressman Beakes
at Washington, D.' C.
Marriage Licenses.
Oscar Holzapfel, 21, Saline; Martha
Heimerdinger, 20, same.
David Harris,' Ann Arbor; Anna
Roach, Ypsilanti.
Peter Easterlc, Chelsea; Angie L.
,Baldwin„same.
Ernest Duckett, Ann Arbor; Clara
Durr, same.   ■
Benjamin H. Collins,' Ypsilanti;
Lillie M. Clark, same.
Pittsfield Taxes.
I will be at the Saline Savings Bank
on December 31,1914, and on January
7,1915, to receive taxes.
John E. Fiegel, Treasurer.
Additional Local.
Mrs. Fred Norman spent Christmas
with Detroit relatives.
". Miss Ella Clark is home from Alma
for the vacation period. . "
Miss Eva Schairer is home from
Pontiac for the holidays..
"Mrs» Ida Steflie spent the week end
with friends in Ann Arbor.
Miss,Edna-Smith was a county .seat
business "visitor on Monday.
Mr. arid Mrs. Frank Buck -spent
Christmas with relatives in Detroit.
.-Bert Gillen and George Seeger were
Ann Arbor business visitors Saturday
Mr. and -Mrs. Charles" Wolf spent
Christmas, with friends at the county
seat.
Mrs, John finkbeiner was an Ann
Arbor business visitor one day last
week. "
* William Towler, Fred Sehmid and
Irving Tripp,. * with, their ..families,
were Christmas guests of Mr. and Mrs,
P. A. Wilson*
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May You and Yours Have
a Year Full of
Real Happiness and Prosperity
We haye 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, SOc 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
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Happy, Prosperous New Year
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Because it has an   established reputation won hy its good 'works.
. Because it isjniast esteemed hy those
who have used it for many years,  as oc-
Not because it is an honored.custom, but because of
the sincerity, of our appreciation, we take this opportunity
. to thank you for any part you have played in our. business
prosperity of the past twelve months, and we wish you a
Happy and Prosperous New Year.
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"They thoroughly -cleansed my- sysr
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Because -it loosens and relieves a cold
•and aids nature in restoring'the system-
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Because itdoes-not contain' opium or
hny other narcotic.
Because it is within the reach  of all.
It only costsla qua ter. '
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They keep;.the .stomach sweet-, liver
activfe, bowels -regular," Foley Ca-
thartie 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
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afiord.   When you need Fur-iiti*.re it will -pay you\\vil* t »,*-■«*
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