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WEDNESDAY SEPTOhBlOOS THE ALMA RECORD PGE TWO ALMA RECORD PUBLISHED BY Th Alma Record Company. WEDNESDAY. SKIT, 1908. C. J.

BEOWtt Kditor. SLllCKII'TION, $1 OO I'KH YKAK. tue Rkcord it entered at the poaloffice In lmafor transralsitioti through the mail tec od cUis matter. REPUBLICAN TICKET. For President, WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, of Ohio.

For Vice President JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT SHERMAN of New York OFFICIAL CA I.I. To the Republican Electors of the State of Michigan: The state convention of the Republicans of Michigan is hereby called to meet at the Light Guard Armory in the City of Detroit, on Tuesday, the 29th day of September, 1908. at II o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of nominating candidates for state offices, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the convention. In accordance with the provisions of law and the action of the Republican State Central Committee, every county will be entitled to one delegate for each two hundred and fifty of the total vote cast therein for the Republican candidate for Secretary of State at the last election, and one additional delegate for a majority of 126 votes or more. Pursuant to law, the 8th day of September, 1908, is hereby designated as the day on which shall be held in each county the county convention of the Republican party, for the election of delegates to the Republican state convention herein- called, for the selection of delegates to congressional, senatorial and representative district conventions in such districts as have not adopted the direct voting system, and for the transaction of other business provided for by law, or which nay otherwise properly come before said convention.

In counties that have not adopted the direct voting system for the nomination of county officers, delegates to the county convention will be chosen under the caucus system. Under the resolutions of 1S58. no delegate will be entitled to a seat in the state convention who does not reside in the county he proposes to represent. The delegates from the several counties in each congressional district are requested to meet in district caucus at 9:30 o'clock a. m.

on the day of the state convention and select officers as follows, to be presented to the state convention for confirmation: 1. One vice-president. 2. One assistant secretary. 3.

One member of the committee on 4. One member of the committee on "Permanent Orcanizition and Order of Business." 5. One member of the committee on "Resolutions." By order of the Republican State Central Committee. GERRIT J. DIEKEMA.

Chairman. DENNIS E. ALWARD, Secretary. Grand Rapids. July 29, 1008.

REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION. The Republican convention for the County of Gratiot is hereby called to meet at the Court House in the village of Ithaca, on Tuesday, September 8th, iyoS, at 11 o'clock a. for the purpose of electing 12 delegates to represent the countv in the state convention, to be held in the City of Detroit, on Tuesday, September 1908, and for the purpose of electing 12 delegates to the senatorial convention of the 25th senatorial district yet to le called, to elect a county committee, ami for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the convention. The representation of the various townships and cities in this convention was fixed bv the following resolution adopted at the county convention held June 18th. 1006: "RESOLVED, That the various townships and wards of the County of Gratiot in future Republican conventions be entitled, respectively, to representation therein bv one delegate for each 35 vote- cast at the last preceding general election for the Republican candidate for governor, and one for each inoietv thereof, and that the county convention be and is hereby instructed to follow this rule as a basis for the apportionment of delegates in future county conventions." In accordance with the above resolution the several townships, the City of St.

T.ouis and the City of Alma, arc entitled to representation in said convention by delegate? as Arcada 2 Bethany 3 Elba precinct 3 Pannister precinct 2 Emerson 4 Fulton 3 Hamilton 2 Ithaca 0 Lafayette 4 Newark 3 New Haven 3 North Sh.v.le 2 North Star 3 Pine River 3 Seville 3 Sumner 4 Wahiivto-: -m Wheeler City of Ainu 1st ward 3' 2nd ward 2 3rd ward 2 4th ward 2 City of St. Louis tat ward 2 2nd ward 3 3rd ward 3 4th ward 3 By order of the countv Committee A. B. DARRAGH, E. J.

MeCALL, Chairman. Secretary. The Badge of Honesty It on every wrapper of Doctor Plercali Golden Medical Discovery because a full list of the Ingredients composing It la printed there In plain English. Forty years of experience has proven Its superior worth as a blood purifier and Invigorating tonic for the cure of stomach disorder and all liver Ills. It builds up the rundown system as no other tonic can In which alcohol Is used.

The active medicinal principles of native roots such as Golden Seal and Queen's root, Stone and Mandrake root, Bloodroot and Black Cherrybark are extracted and preserved by the use of chemically pure, triple-refinod glycerine. Send to Dr. It. V. Pierce at Buffalo, N.

for frtt booklet which quotes extracts from well-recognized medical authorities such as Drs. Barthnlow, King, ScuddcV, Coe, Elllngwood and a host of other, showing that these root! can be depended upon for their curative action it all weak states of the stomach. accom Indigestion or 1 bilious or liver complaints as well and in wasting diseases where thero sh and gradual running down Is lo of and system. Tin "Golden Medical Discover? 'make re miro Itlofxi and so Invigorates sn rrpnlati-s Tlntrtiuuli. liv-r ami boweiq.

iTmt. thrnnch llicm. Lhf whole system. Thus all skin affections, blotches, pimples and eruptions as well as scrofulous swellings and old open running sores or ulcers are cured and healed. In treating old running sores, or ulcers, It Is well to insure their healing to apply to them Dr.

rierce's All-Healing Salve. If your druggist don't happen to havo this Salve In stock, send ill'ty-four cents In postage stamps to Dr. R. V. Pierre, Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute.

Buffalo. N. and a larce box of the All-Healing Salve" will reach vou by return post. You can afford to accept a secret nostrum as a substitute for this non-alcoholic, medicine of known composition, not even though the urgent dealer may therebv make a little bigger profit. Dr.

Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate and Invigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take as candy. Republican Senatorial Convention of the Twenty-fifth District A convention of the Republicans of the twenty-fifth senatorial district is hereby called to meet at the City Hall, Alma, Gratiot County, Michigan, Wednesday, September 16, 1908, for the purpose of nominating a candidate tor senator, and transacting such oth- er im.smcas as may eume uciuic inc conveniion. 1 lie several counties comprising the twenty-fifth senatorial district will be entitled to representation in this convention, as follows: Gratiot 12 10 Meosta 6 K.S. SEAR 1.

I. VAX LKUVEX, N. O. WARD, Senatorial Committee. When you order your groceries he mi re and ask for Alma l5rcad Hour.

It makes the lightest bread. Mrs. Clias Shaw is seriously ill at' the home of her daughter, Mrs. V. H.

1 Sbepanl. in this city There will be meeting of the' Civic Improvement league in Wright park Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock. 1 Light refreshments will be served by -111 Apo j.ia;i sjl'mho viuI Tlure is still left of Rev. A. T.

Fun- lu ll's household furniture a sideboard. an office dek. two dre-er. tliree 1 book cases, a refrigerator, a new gaso- i line tove. a davenport, a three-quar- ter springs, mattress and bed.

several stands, rockers and a good Morris chair. These must be sold at once. For further information apply to W. 1 II. Riseh at his furniture store.

I l5.Vtf ELM HALL NOTES. Mrs. J. E. Guvman, of Vestaburg.

and Mr. Geo. Lunn. of Toledo, were guests of Mrs. Chambers last week.

While getting into a carriage in Vestaburg Saturdav. Mrs. Goodrich slipped and received a severe injury. J. W.

Robinson and wife, of Alma, spent several days last week with Mes-dames W. J. Wilson and M. L. Chambers.

Miss Mabel Goodrich visited relatives and friends in Marion and Clare during the past two weeks. Mrs. Olive Bailev spent a few days with her father. E. L.

Osterhout. The farmers are complaining of the blackbird destroying their corn. Mr. and Mrs. W.

Robbins received the news of the illness of theitj daughter. Mrs. Daisv Danforth, of Lntrican. ho must undergo an operation. Janus Dufficld recently spent a few days with his sister Mrs.

H. Harvey, of Alma. Mr. and. Mrs.

Chas. Moore and Miss Mabel Rood returned to their home in Chicago Monday, after an extended visit at the home of J. A. Dufficld. Frank Warren, of Grand Ledge, called on his brother, Jasper Warren, last week.

G. E. Rexford and family attended the funeral of his brother at Marion. He returned home Tuesday morning. E.

Ostlurhout his mother will attend the fair at Detroit next week. The farmers of this vicinity are hulling cloversoed. Stamping Out Typhoid Fever. It rn.iy in 'rally known here that hy lam -ulaiinn ihu "inili.Mi iu India have hee.i largely piwi no fropi eonrrr.oMr.g typhoid fever the jiat two and thus this disease, which ad lung been a terror to medical in i) In the tropics of Si.hJiers. Id IUI lotl'T lilt at I i.

Or. M. Allctr Suur, in H.np'n's Magazine. Praise-God C.n.1 was a fatiat- I Loii'lon. H.

liccitiip a a. of 'parliju; In 1 and a 11 the people in ii.fsiiiig a call sf lc.s. oration of II. to the throne, lie vas a minister fte ami was uii-' p. miliar as a Seal-fast Fruit Cans at Medler's San i a ryj Grocery store.

AT WEST MICH. FUR New Station at Mill Creek of Greatest Benefit. C. R. I.

and Pr Marquette Passenger will be Landed Directly Opposlts North Entrance to Grounds $3,500 In New Cement Walks 22-Acre Addition Secured. Of especial Interest to out-of-town patrons of the West Michigan State Pair, which will be held In Grand Rapids Sept. 1418, Is the announcement that since last year's fair the Pere Marquette and the Grand Rapids tt Indiana railroads have united in the erection of a new, modern railroad Rtatlon at Comstock Park, which Is used jointly by the two roads. The new station is at Mill Creek. located directly opposite the tipper entrance to the fair grounds.

Each railroad has built new cement walks alongside the tracks, extending 40') or 500 feet In either direction. Secretary E. 1). Conger states that these walks will be extended by the air COMSTOCK PARK STATION. official.

across the highway and street railway tracks to an enclosure within the grounds. Inside thla enclosure will be two ticket oflires, so that visitors arriving at the fair by either or those roads may have every convenience for entering the grounds conveniently and promptly. The added convenience of a station at this point will be greatly appreciated, especially by patrons from the north, The entrance Is conveniently located. Jut north of the new sheep hed and at the apex of the splendid new system of cement walks which have been laid inside the grounds since the last fair. During the past year the fair management has expended about $3,500 on new cement walks.

At the close of the fair last September all the old board walks were torn up and the excavations were filled with sand taken from tho hills to the northwest of the fair grounds. The new walks Insure good footini; In every direction from the grand stand and main exhibition building, no matter what may be the weather conditions. Last fall the fair officials purchased from H. P. Plumb's Sons a tract of 22 acres of land lying to the north and adjacent to the fair grounds.

Because of lack of funds to properly fence and Improve this addltlou to the grounds. It will not be opened to the public this year. Dut a successful fair this season will certainly Insure Its being improved and made available for exhibition purposes In 1909. According to present plans, the agricultural field and one or two other departments of the fair will probably be located on this addition at that time. The new Comstock Park station and the new system of cement walks about the grounds are two features which will make for the comfort of all patrons of the fair, and the fair tianagemont Is to bo congratulated on these notable Improvements to the llready fine grounds with their exceptional surroundings.

Enter Your Products. Every farmer or breeder should not fall to enter his choice products at the Went Michigan State Fair. He often thinks that among po many entries he will have no chance for a prlzo. Ills neighbor thinks tho same. Then when they visit the fair and see1 others walk off with ribbons won on specimen far Inferior to their own ihoir chagrin Is great.

Flut the fault Is llelr own. The successful competitor was rnore enterprising. If his prcjluet was not" as high class. Enter four products at the fair. It will pay fO'J.

Uncle Jerry. "What thy call "honor' Is a mighty curious thing." observed Vncle Jerry iwbles. "I know a nun who would (hetrfully starve himself to pay a gambling debt, and he 1 1 1 owes the pie.rln-r that him 27. years ago" EMETS Wit it 1 I Illy IV ft 1 rrTTTTlT mu STATE HEWS IIOTES, Gleaned From Daily Michigan Happen. Ingt of the Past Week.

fV Dr. F. Peyton Rous, first assistant to Dr. Warthln In pathology at the U. of has been forced to resign his position on account of Illness.

Using a pair of scissors a a weapon, Ida Waskunkoskl, traveling from Massachusetts to Mass City, while temporarily deranged cut her wind plpo. Her condition is critical. She Is at Marquette. Shflfltf Datldson of Port Huron has received notice that a reward of (25 will be paid for the apprehension of Charles Seeley, a former Port Huron publisher, who Is wanted In Ionia county on a charge of wife desertion. N.

K. Potter, for many years a prominent farmer of Bancroft, Is dead. Mr. Potter Is well known over the northern part of the state as a lecturer, representing Michigan Agricultural college In holding farmers Institutes. Orders have been Issued by the adjutant general placing Captain G.

II. Brown of Port Huron on the retired list, with the rank of brigadier general, and directing organization commanders to refrain from wearing dress uniforms at drill. LI man S. Russell, the man who has compiled the labor statistics for the 6tate labor bureau for the last ten years, Is dead at Lansing of stomach trouble. He was sixty-eight years of age and served with bravery In the civil war as a member of the Third cavalry.

"You will break Into my house, will you," was the cry which attracted neighbors to the house of Fred Sleg of Port Huron, at night. They arrived in time to see Mr. Sleg eject two Intruders, but In the fray he was given a swollen eye aa a reminder of the burglars' visit. Byron J. Carter of Detroit vice president and general superintendent of the Motor Car company, and prominent In the automobile world as an auto builder and Inventor of the friction drive for cars, Is dead, after a week's lllnes3 with pneumonia.

H3 was forty-five years. The national encampment of tho Uniform rank, Woodmen of the Worl 1, will be held on Itussel's Island, opposite Algonac, during the week of Aug. 15. Of the 25,000 members. Is Is believed more than half will attend.

The national convention of the Woodmen of the World will be held In Detroit this summer. Fighting consumption for eight years, and having life prolonged at least one year, Mrs. Catherine Scan-Ian, aged forty-two years, of Battle Creek, finally succumbed. Her case has been watched with great- Interest by physicians. Mrs.

Scanlan wa given a bed on a veranda at Nlcholl's hospital and lived outdoors all winter, physicians believing fha might be saved. W. Irving Babcock, state senator in 18S7 and 1889, is dead, at his home la Nlles of old age. He was born In Nw York state in 1883 and came to Michigan when a young man. He first m-gaged In the farming business aal later conducted a lumber yard inNiles for twenty-five years.

In 1S90 the deceased was elected grand master of the Masons of Michigan, the highest office In the state. Although Chief of Police Murphy of Owosso fired three bullets Into the body of a fleeing mad dog, no vital spot was touched until Ira Curry, soil of the city treasurer, came up and sent a charge cf buckshot into the animal. The chief of police and a small mob chased the dog nearly a mile. Several times he turned and held the crowd at bay. An old tintype of Mrs.

Angelina North of Port Huron, when she was about eight years old, is the basis of her hopes of receiving tho fortune supposed to have been left by Lawrence Stuttlcr, who died recently In Spokane, and left an estate valued at $15,000. Mrs. North says that Stuttler paid for having two of the photographs made and took one away with him from Oil City. If the duplicate tintype is now among Stuttler'a effects, it will be of great Importance In proving the Identity of Mrs. North.

Bernard the physical culture editor of New York and Battle Creek, sprang an odd petition on Mayor Green of Battle Creek. He asks If It will be all right for his 10 to 100 girl students to wear bloomers Instead of skirts all the time. "They did It at Physical Culture City, N. snld MacFadden, "but Battle Creek Is different, and we want to produce no shocks." Mayor Green says he Is not mayor of public sentiment, and, unless there's a protest, rhe girls may go sklrtless on the ttreets. A now president has leen named for the Dr.

Perkins Sanitary Refrigerator company of Battle Creek, to succeed W. L. Wilson, defaulting secretary cf the United Home Protectors' fraternity. Tho new man Is Martin Ilauser of Chicago, who also is president of the Great Ibices Dock Dredge company and wtts formerly one of the directors of the Battle Creek concern. Wilson's trouble will affect the Sanitary Refrigerator company In no way beond the necessity of his leslgnlng for the good of th ooinprnv's reputation.

Passes Unnoticed. A New Jersey man claims to have been bitten by dogs 3,000 times. After a lifetime spent with New Jersey a little thin? like a dog Mte, passes unnoticed. Cl.e!and Plain Dealer. SUMMARY OF HEWS, Brief Paragraphs of the World's Latest Occurrences.

The Wilmington (N. C) Messenger, established aa a morning paper by a itock company nineteen years ago, kas suspended publication. Lord RoBebery has been electeJ chancellor of Glasgow university, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lord Kelvin, who was chancellor since 1904. Rev. Edward Abbott, D.D paBtof meritus of St.

James church, Cambridge, a prominent preacher, Journal 1st and author, and a brother of Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, Is dead at the Homeopathic hospital In Boston. Judge James E. Cantrill of Georgetown is dead after a long illness.

Judge Cantrill was the presiding Judge In the first two trial of Caleb Powers, charged with complicity In the assassination of William Goebel. Supporters of Judge Gray of Delaware for the Democratic nomination for president have completed arrangements for establlsnlng headquarters In Washington, and they will actively enter upon a campaign in behaf of the Delaware statesman. The monthly statement of the public debt, from Washington, shows that at the close of business March 31, 1908, the total debt, less cash In the treasury, amounted to $909,721,337, which is an increase for the month cf 19.299,691. William J. Troop, formerly a professional roller skater, committed suicide In a hotel in Philadelphia by swallowing laudanum.

Troop was forty-five years old. He left several letters, In one of which It was Intimated that a love affair was responsible for his suicide. Count Leo Tolstoi has written to the "Tolstoi birthday committee," In St. Petersburg, expressing appreciation for the honors which are being arranged for him on his birthday, but firmly declining to accept them. As a consequence, the committee ceased Its preparations to celebrate the event.

J. A. Hossack, an Odell (III.) banker, Jumped from the eighth floor of the Auditorium Annex, In Chicago. He was instantly killed. The window from which he leaped opens on a court, and many guests of Jhe hotel saw the suicide.

The act is thought to have been tho result of Insanity. The Chilean government has issued an invitation to all the prominent gun. makers to representatives to Santiago, Chile, to witness the tests to be made next October. It Is the purpose of the government to acquire a new artiriery armament, and It Is hoped in this way to create Interest In bidding for the equipment. If a bill passed by the senate becomes a law, it will be unlawful for any advertiser to announce that hl.3 wai 1 3 are "guaranteed by the government of the United States under the pure food law." The bill Is In- 1 tended to prevent the misleading statement that under the pure food law articles are guarantee 1 as to their purity of character.

After an Illness of aimost a year, Joseph Howard, one of the moxt prominent newspaperman In tho country, Is dead In New York. was Feventy-three years old. Howard had been In the newspaper business all his life, and "Howard's column was long a well know newspaper feature. He was president of the International league of press club In 1897. On the ground that the operation Cf automobiles constitute a menace tc public safety, the Prince Edward Isl and legislature has voted a resolution favoring the complete exclusion of motor cars from the province.

A bill carrying this resolution Into effect will be Introduced and passed at the present session, the members of both political parties being in accord on the question. Charles Howard, aged twenty-five years, a well known potter of Eisi Liverpool, shot and killed Lemuel Raush. He attempted ts kill her mother, Mrs. John Do Wolf, but the bullet missed, and the woman was uninjured, except that her fare was burned by powder. After the shooting, Howard walked to the police station, told of his crime and surrendered.

There Is no known motive for the crime. Howard had been a board-er at the Raush home for several months. He Is married, but does not live with his wife. Through the operation of an order recently Issued by Commissioner Blackburn, the head of the department of civil administration of the Isthmian canal commission, convicts serving sentences at hard lal or in the penitentiary at Culebra are to be sent to work on highways construction be tween Gatun and Mount Hope. Because of the Increasing number of such convicts.

It has been found Impossible to utilize their services the penitentiary. Alexander Dickson, a carpenter on the United States collier Abarendi, has been acquitted, fn San Jinn, P. of the murder of Chief Officer Walter Welchcrt. A Jury, composed of Americans and Porte brousrht In a verdict of self defense The killing cf Weichert occurred on board the col Her last Febiu.iry. Witnesses testlfhd at the trial thit Wttchert trailed prisoner In a brutal manner.

On the occasion In question, after rome had issed between the men, Dickson lunged at Weichert with an axe and beheaded him. "Side!" "Side" In the creed of the British public and thank heaven for the tenet la the unftrdonabte sin, and In no game Is It more objectionable, or Mire of deteetlon. than In lawn ''m'i Vjriaylne. it CflaaIbbpB(iO R3nn)i7DDiinj. Water and Acid Proof.

Fourteen years' record for durability and ef- (i WTn il.n vs1tiatira fronts 1 t- veaar rence COAL AND WOOD. MILLWOOD Lime and Brick, i Lath, Shingles, Sash, Alma Grain Lumber Co. LUMBER DEPARTMENT. Office U4 Woodworth Ave. Bell Phone No.

15 1 Union Phone No. J9 Handy Carts Get one of my handy push carts. They are handy to everyone. A. J.

LOOKER BLACKSMITH AND WOODWORKER Riverdale, Mich l-irst insertion July 21. i STATK OF MICHIGAN. TlIK l'K)llTl: COi'K'l IliK 1I1K Cul IV OF GKATIoT. Inthe matter of the estate of Cliailt Allert Scramlin late of lie township of eville in saiil county, deceased. Notice is Riven that six months from the 9th day of March A.

1 have been allowed for creditors to present their claims against said dece ased to said court for examination and adjustment, and that all creditors of said deceased are required to present their clninis to sii1 court, at the probate office in the Village of Ithaca in said county, on or before the gtli day of September A. I). and that said cldims will I heard by said court on Wed nesday the day of September A. I). 1908 a ten o'clock in the forenoon Dated July 20th A I).

ISAAC S. Judge of I'robate. TIME JO ACT Don't Walt for the Fatal Stages of Kidney lllnoss--Proflt by Alma People's Experience Occasional attacks of backache, irregular urination, headaches and dizzy ppells are common early symptoms tof disorders. It's an error to neglect these ills. The attacks may pass off for a time but return with intensity.

If there are symptoms of dropsy puffy dwelling below tho eyes, bloating of limbs and ankles, or any part of the body, don't dehiy a minute. taking Doau's Kidney Pills, and keep up the treatment until the kidneys are will, when your old time health and vigor will return. Public endorsements prove tho effectiveness of this kidney remedy. E. Ferris, living at El well, three miles west of Alma, pays: "For some time thero has been a severe kidney complaint lurking in my system, causing heavy backaches and I pains around the kidneys.

I procured Doan's Kidney Tills at Charles Rhodes drug store, and found in their use a great relief and benefit. I am willing to give this remedy my endorsement." For sale by all dealers. Price 60 cent Foster-Milburu Buffalo, New York. Sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other.

JOHN M. EYEKDKN. Tho unanimous choice of th republicans of (Jratiot county for nomination to the oflioe of prosecuting attorney at the Tuesday primary. 'iv i i i I A Good Tune to rosis Buy Now $1.50 Per Cord Tile and Sewer Pipe, ILumber, Doors. Mouldings.

THE TEA CUP INN NOW OPEN T)4. Per Week $3.50 ivcucs Meals 25c Sunday Dinners a Specialty ALSO Short Order Lunches Mrs, Ella Metcalf, Proprietor 121 West Superior Street JJIina College ALMA. MICHIGAN The School of Music (Vocal and Instrumental); The School of Art (China, Water Color and Oil Painting); and The Commercial School, may be entered at any time. The instruction b- individual. You begin when you please, stop when you please, and pay for what you get if you please.

For full particulars aJircss, Secy ALBERT P. COOK, Alma, Mick NELSON BROS Founders and Machinists. PLOW POINTS We can furnish you plow points to fit any plow. CASTING Our foundry department is equipped for any kind of work. THRESHERS SUPPLIES Anything yon want in belting, lacing, leather, valves, etc.

REPAIR SHOP We can make any machine repairs for engines, automobiles, gasoline engines, etc. General Repairing Nelson Bros. Dell Phone 109 Alma, Mich. No. I find tho l.t tha cheapest.

I am usinu the famous Alma, Bread Flour and I rover baked totter bread. I would not any other..