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-THE ALMA RECORD.
Thursday. July 6, 1922
VAGK EIGHT
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P
ID ROAD WORK
.MICHIGAN LKI) IN MAY IN THIS
AMOUNT OF HOAD UOND
ISSUES VOTKIJ. '
New York, June Official fruit's
on bond issues proposed, voted and
sold for roads and streets for May,
1922, show thnt with the .summer
coiifctruetion reason now in full swing,
the states, counties, parishes, town
.'iips, road districts, cities and towns
vf the country are preparing a big
late-summer and fall program of con
struction. The reports show that
bond issues proposed for future road
and street construction increased
$18,82-1,750 in May over those report
ed in April. Among the localities re
ported interested in highway develop
ment during May was the city of Al
ma with a special assessment bond
issue of $29,500 for street living re
ported us voted.
In May a total of $.10,;73,nno was
reported in bond issues proposed for
road improvement. The total foi
April was $ia,7M,00U. Uoml issues
Voted for roads in May amounted to
$35,224,460, while those voted in
Ann were S;0.K1;..1S. a decrease
for Mav of $ir.f.l.0.V. The total
value of road bonds reported sold for
May amounted to $y2,l.'r,'..', a de
crease of $l,23f,224 "Vl'r t,u' sa,os in
April. This is due to the fact that
a majority of the bond elections are
held in the early spring or the late
fall.
That street construction fared rela
tively better than road building in
May, is indicated by the fact that
proposed bond issues reported for
that purpose amounted to $S,7l'0,:00
in May, an increase of $l,l02,7r0
over the $C,S17,."."0 reported the
month before, and bonds voted
amounted to 10,1 li,:K2, an increase
over the $S,030,i:2 reported in April,
of $2,083,450. Bonds actually sold
for street construction, however, de
creased from the $S,5H 1 ,."'. 1 reported
in April, to .(,sr,2,S 17 in May, a
drop of $1,718,514.
Of road bond issues voted during
May Michigan led with :i,3M,S50,
while Alabama, with $3,1 50,000, and
Colorado, with $3,1 10,000, ranked sec
ond and third. Ohio voted more bond
issues for streets than any other
state, and led with $1,133,''.7. Mich
igan followed with $1,175,000. North
Carolina, with $1,1 13,000 ranked
third.
North Carolina, with $S, lOO.noo, re
ported' more road bonds sold than any
other state. Texas was next in line
with $0,201,500 and Ohio was third
with $1,491,450.
Ohio, with $l,r,3fi,s;il, also led in
street bonds reported sold, followed
by North Carolina with $37,oou and
Virginia with $S20,ooo.
The reports indicate that the cost.
involved in road and street construc
tion are entering more fully into pub
lic discussions when it comes to vot
ing money for highway improvement.
The United States Bureau of Public
Roads has just completed statistics
on road building costs that are not
only- valuable but pertinent to publie
discussion of any good roads project.
This Federal bureau 'spends more
money for highways than any other
one body in the world. Last year it
expended $105,000,000 rf Federal ap
propriations for new highway con
struction, a sum in excess of the to
tal amount expended for all purposes
ly the departments of Commerce, In
terior. and Agriculture combined. In
conjunction with this sum an amount
more than equal to the Federal aid
was provided by the States. All of
this expenditure went into something
that constitutes a tangible asset for
the free use of all the people, aid to
toll roads having been expressly pro
hibited by law.
The tharts prepared by the bureau
compare the costs involved in t he
construction of bituminous macadam,
concrete, gravel and graded and
drained highways and show that, for
the whole of the United States dur
ing the entire period 1017-1022, cov
ered by Federal aid, the average cost
of concrete roads has increased about
45 per cent; that of bituminous maca
dam about 22 per cent, and that of
gravel roads about 12 per cent.
The average cost per mile for each
of the three types is given as follows:
Gravel $9,230; Bituminous Macadam
$25,720; Concrete, $3G,r,00. Concrete
roads, according to the charts, have
advanced, in cost from $20,000 a mile
in 1917 to $39,000 a mile in 1022. Bi
tuminous macadam roads, which are
principally asphalt, cost $22,500 a
mile in 1U17, and $27,500 a mile this
year.
Mrs. Komaine Clark spent a few-
days the past week in Oram! I&piri.
Mrs. .L P. Ciibls siK'nt the pu.st
week in Saginaw.
Weston McCall has reutrned to
Ann Arbor where he will take some
pedal work in addition to his regu
lar course.
Miss Poris Kich, who attended Ith
aca schools the past year, has entered
BrainerdV, hospital to begin her train
ing as a nurse.
Mr. niul Mrs. Clinton ail of ( hi-
cago spent from Thursday until Sun
clay with his sister and husband, Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. dai drier.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Kussell and
daughter of Saginaw were week end
"p'sts of Mr. and Mrs. William Pen-
dall.
Mrs. lU'X Hoffman and children or:
Alma cane Monday to spend a fe'A
days with 'Ithaca relatives.
Kcv. and Mrs. L. L. Dewey ajid
son, George, ' pcnt the past week at
Crystal.
Miss Gcrtruc'e Sutton has returned
to her home urv after spending the
past school year in Big Kapids at the
Ferris Institute.
Will Tuttle of Lansing sp-nt the
week end at tin- home of his sister,
Mrs. Bedie Kellogg.
Mr. ami Mrs. Ldvvard Fairbanks of
FentoM spent the .Fourth with his
mother, Mrs. Fairl winks.
Mrs. Charles Webster of Snohom
ish, Washington, visited with Ithaca
friends the past wek.
Miss .losie Hammond of Fast Jor
dan was a week end guest of her
aunt, Mrs. Walter Ldnbard.
Mr. and Mrs. K. I). Hamilton am!
daughter, Charlotte, spent Tuesday
in Ionia where they met their son,
Charles and family of Tampico, Mex
ico.
Kcv. L. L. Dewey left Monday for
All ion where he will teach in a school
of Theology.
Mrs. Hamilton Bovcc returned to
her home recently after ipoTidu'g a
few days witi! .Mr. ami Mir. r ran.
Davis at Maple Jiapid.-.
Guests at a ho.tse party :ricn re
cently by Miss Cif-lotte :iami!t'in
were Miss Carolyn Hughes of ;U.
Louis, Lawrence A. Masselin ; of Big
Kapids and Fnsign Piestun '.'ambling
of Mt. Pleasant.
Miss Bernice Brooks of Il-tlland is
spending the summer vacation with
her mother, Mrs. Linnie Brooke.
General Nathan Church has re
turned to Ithaca after spending tin
past several months ' in New York
city and Buffalo, N. Y., Richmond,
Ya., Washington, I. C, also several
cities in New Jersey.
VESTABUKG
ITHACA
The funeral of Edward Husted, an
ex-serrice man, was held at the resi
dence -Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Wm.
Itoberts, pastor cf the Presbyterian
church officiated and burial was made
in the Ithaca cemetery. Surviving are
the wife and little son one year of
age., . . ;
Mrs. Will lseman of Detroit spent
the past week with her sister, Mrs.
James, King.
Mrs. D. Earl, who has been vis
itinjr. Mrs. L. L. Kinney and other
friends left Wednesday to visit in St.
icuis, Saginaw and Tavias ln'fore
returning to her home in Grand Rap
ids. Mr. -and Mrs. William Seaman
came .Thursday' from their home in
Lakeland, Florida, and will spend a
nhort time with Ithaca friends before
going to Grand Rapids to visit relatives.
I. Hall, the Chiropractor, has erect
ed a nice large sign in front of his
Yestaburg office at the home of Win.
Wartz near the depot.
Dr. and Mrs. M. Cv Hubbard autoed
to Alma Wednesday evening to at
tend the meeting held by the Rock
Lafce Assembly trustees at the home
of L. R. May. ' t
Mrs. R. J. Bartlett entertained dur
ing the past week, Mrs. G. B. Fox
f Alma and Mr. and Mrs. Sellmyre
and grandson, Maynard Rosencrans,
of Middleton.
Mr. and Mrs. Dell Ludy have put
in a line of confectionery and baked
goods and serve ice cream and lunches
in their "residence in the store build
ing formerly owned by Dewitt Mur
taugh. Mr. and Mrs. George Arts enter
tained over the Fourth hi brother
and his sister and her husband of
Haslett.
Menno Otterbcin who has been
teaching near Saginaw is here visit
ing at the home of his father-in-law,
Re-. Tanner.
The Women's Missionary Society of
the Church of Christ will hold their
meeting at Albert Briggs" cottage at
Bass Lake Friday afternoon, July 7,
and have a pot luck supper.
Mr. and Mrs. D. Ludy entertained
out of town guests Sunday.
Harold Reed who is attending bus
iness school at Fort Wayne, Indiana,
came home to spend a week with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs; G. W. Reed.
Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Stites are en-
I tertaining over the fourth their
" .. t ii i.. f. . .:
uaugnier, .irs. r.va nuruy tu ok
naw and niece, Mrs. Mae Newcomb,
and daughter of Bay City.
Junior Cummings and Dorland
Iloway have gone to Lansing to work.
Lynn Amel who came from Chicago
Saturday morning to spend the sum
mer with his grandmother Mrs. Ellen
Nevills, on her farm south of town,
was a Saturday guest of Audley
Caris.
Donald and Leonard Hubbard and
Reginald Johnston were the lxys
fron Yestaburg who attended the
Boys' Camp at Town Line lake.
Mr. ai.d Mrs. Allie Evans and
daughter were in St. Louis Sunday.
Dewitt Murtaugh and ' daughters
and his mother-in-law, Mrs. John
Taft, of.Edmore, were Sunday visit
ors at the home of Mrs. Taft's sister,
Mrs. Ed. Evans.
New fixtures have arrived for the
Vestaburjj postuffice and will soon be
installed.
Mr. and Mrs. Vein Hartman and
daughter of Ypsilanti spent Sunday
here with his mother, Mrs. Jane Hart
man and other relatives.
Audrid and Harold Tuppcr, Donald
Custer and Homer Stites, who are
working at Lansing were home for
the Fourth.
Roy McGilliviary autoed to Detroit
Sunday to visit at the home of his
sister and was accompanied by Frank
Cummings who went from there to
Toledo, Ohft), to visit his son, Frank
Murphy, and wife who are spending
the summer with her parents.
Campers arc Hocking to Bass and
Rock Lakes and many picnic partres
ure being held. .
"I Wouldn't (; Camping With
out Rat-Snap," Says Kay White.
"Wife and I spent our vacation
camping last summer, smell of cook
iiiLr brouirht rats. We went to town,
got some RAT-SNAP, broke up the
cakes, put it outside our tent. We
got the rats alright big fellows.
Farmers, storekeepers, housewives,
should use RAT-SNAP.
Three sizes. 35c. 05c, $1.25. Sold
and guaranteed by C. R. Murphy and
Winslow Bros. Drug Stores. advertisement.
TOWN LINE
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Church and
family, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Smith, spent Saturday fishing near
Ha i rison.
(Jeorge and Harold Shoemaker
of Arcada, called on Purl and George
Whitcraft Wednesday xafternoon.
Miss Eliza Hoyt is visiting her
cousin, Mis:-: Ethyl Obryant near
Forest Hill.
.Mrs. Ixslie Hoyt and family enter
tained her sister, Mrs. Angline O
bryant and family of Forest Hill,
Sunday.
Matt Johnson is the owner of a
Ford Lizzie.
Fifteen states In the union offer aid
to former service men in the form
of vocational education, and in Cali
fornia a bill has been adopted pro
viding for vocational education of
veterans' dependents. ."
From a Health Standpoint
ice cream ranks very high. Not only is it
wholesome hut it is delicious and appetizing M
as well. It is best for youngsters and better for 1"
grownups. . '
This Week's TCnDTATIftM . l'iH,ar,,la Nut nnd
Special Hi ilk 1 tblr H I lUN French Strawberry
AT OUR DEALERS IN PINTS AND QUARTS
C. A. Connor Ice Cream Co., Inc. y '
PHONE 150 ALMA, MICHIGAN
"Rlue Laws" arc so stringent in
Dcs Moines, Iowa, that proprietors of
cigar stores who keep their shops
open en Sundays will be subject to
arrest. This move against the cigar
store men is believed to have been
brought about by shoe-shining mer
chants who were forced to close their
stands on Sunday.
HOW'S THIS?
HALL'S CATARRH MKDICINR will
'lo vhat we claim for it rid your system
of Catarrh or Deafness caused by
Catarrh.
IIALIS CATARRH MRDICINK con
sists of an Ointment which Quickly
Relieves the catarrhal Inflammation, and
tlu- Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which
;uts throuch the Itlnod on the Mucous
Surfaces, thus assisting to restore nor
mal conditions.
Sold bv dniRKlsts for over 40 Years.
Y. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Empire wntffla .
IN maintaining its extended and thoroughly organized
system, of distribution, which reaches every farm in
the 10 Middle Western States served, the Standard
Oil Company (Indiana) is rendering a distinct service,
not to the agricultural district interests alone, but to all
the people.
The importance of this service may be visualized when
it is known that
48 of the wheat
65 of oats
53 of the corn
41 of the hay
grown in the United States during 1921 came from
this territory.
The farmers of this great area (approximating that of
Great Britain and Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal,
Italy, Holland, Denmark, and Germany combined)
use large quantities of petroleum products in producing
this vast amount of food stuffs.
They have come to depend upon the regular visit.of
the dark green tank wagon of the Standard Oil Com
pany (Indiana) to supply their needs.
Power-driven machinery is essential to modern farm
ing operations, and it is the respoiisibility of the
Standard Oil Company (Indiana) to see to it that the
gasoline, kerosene, and lubricating oils and other petro
leum produefs are in the hands of the farmer when he
needs them.
To render this service requires an enormous organi
zation of highly trained men under efficient manage
ment. It requires a tremendous capital investment j
refineries; bulk service stations; tank wagons; and
service stations to cope with the need of supplying
an agricultural area of the size and importance of thes?
10 Middle Western States.
In undertaking the responsibility of supplying the
needs of the farmer for petroleum products, the
Standard Oil Company (Indiana) has assumed a job of
, magnitude and importance.
Because it knows that its organization will not break
down under stress; that its facilities will enable them to
meet the demands made upon it; that its personnel has
a deep interest in seeing that every manufacturing and
distributing schedule is maintained, the Company is able
to guarantee an adequate and lustained service.' "U1
Standard Oil Company
(Indiana) , .
910 So. Michigan Ave. i Chicago
2784
Advertise your wants in The Kcc-ord.
Made only bv
THE MODEL HAKEItY
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Get into Your Own
Profitable Business
Ah ii routine halHiii'l man how far rnn
yon j'i't ? 1 'ml your own Imnk account
with your M'irtM. not tlic otlur fcllriwh !
4 j il lti of Wi.conviii, MiUl of Missouri.
Hint many oilier MicrfMnf ill owners of
iio,i'toiiM KUi-trik Mn ii Hak' Shop, in
I'liiiliiif u nuniU-r of Michigan inni, wi-iv
unci- on Ml:iry. Now they own their
own lupines ami arc iiiilcpeiulcnt.
A WONDERFUL CHANCE
HI (I I IT HERE IN ALMA
You have t hi Fame chiuire to estahlih
n prosperous Klis-trik Maiil Hake Shop
lure as theno other int-n hail in their
towns.
No previous experience necessary. Wo
Kiipply full equipment anil information.
We ouperir.tenil the iiiHtallation of your
ipjipment. A ca-ih hmiric ; no lost
i-rcilit nccount ; your money is in the till
every nis-ht. Neeils only a few thousand
dollar capital. Ak for full information.
lon't put it olT until mime other enter
prising luMnes man yets exclusive ritfht
in Alma.
. WHITE OK WIKK TODAY
Elcctrik Maid Hake Shops,
321 t i:i)AK ST. 8T. l'AUI., MINN.
Hiees & Woodward
Auto tops and curtains made
and repaired. Upholstery and
furniture repairing:. We do fur
niture crating and linoleum lay
ing. Baby carriages upholstered
and refinislied.
218 W. Superior
k Bank Statement That Any Person Can Understand
FIRST
TATE BANK
July 1st,
1920
$1,388,780.73
Alma, Michigan
Comparative Statement
The Bank Owed to Depositors.
June 30,
1922
(None)
A conservative banker always lias tlii. indebtedness in
mind, and he arranges his assets in oider to bo able to
meet any requests for payment by depositors.
This Bank Owed to Other Banks
$1,049,975.74
FinnIs borrowed and notes ledi.'-couiited to assist our cus
tomers until their crops mature or their products can be
told to better advantage
64,469.54
$1,388,780.73 (Liabilities)
For this purpose we had:
$1,114,445.28
289,026.01
(1) Cash
Gold, bank notes, and specie on band with legal deposi
tories reurnable on demand.
1 8,050.00 (2) ChcckH 0,1 0ll'cr lla"ks
Items in transit and checks payable on presentation.
1 39 050 00 United Slates Government Bonds .
First, second, third and fourth liberty loan bonds and
victory notes listed at par or face value.
100 600.00 (l) Uondi for Safckeepina
Our customers' bonds to be returned to them on demand
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694,026.62
(5) Loans lo Individuals
and Corporations
88,485.25
9,318.88
106,250.00
89,650.00
621,129.35
411,750.60
Amount loaned after thorough investigation to individ
uals and corporations on their notes and against approved
collateral.
(6) Mortgages on Ileal Estate
First mortgages on local real estate worth at least twice
the amount of the mortgage.
32,000 00 Banking House and Equipment
Ileal estate, bank building, vaults, and equipment used by
the bank in; conducting its business, assessed at an
amount in excess of this book value.
388,895.34
32,000.00
$1,604,503.23 Tola! WlQctlndebtcdncm (Assets).... $1,335,728.82
215,722.50
(8) This leaves a Surplus of.
221,283.54
Including capital $100,000.00. Surplus $100,000.00, Pro
fits and Reserves $21,28.,!.51, which becomes the property
of the stockholders after the debts to the depositors are
paid, and is a guaranty fund upon which we solicit new
deposits and retain those which have been carried with
us for many years.
Reliable conservative banking1 together with modern facilities and courteous per
sonal service has made the v . ,
First State Bamk off Atama, Mich.
a strong financial institution in central Michigan.
LESTEK A. SHARP, President
FRANCIS KING, Vice Pres.
CARL H. WASHBURN, Cashier
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