The M. A. C. RECORD. MICHIGAN STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. V O L. I I. L A N S I N G, M I C H I G A N, T U E S D A Y, N OV 31, 1905. N o. 10 FOOT BALL. THE NORTHWESTERN GAME. accompanied line from which T he team, accompanied by Direc tor and M r s. Brewer, left Lansing Friday night at 8 o'clock in a special Pullman sleeper, arriving in Chi cago at 7 o'clock Saturday morning. Breakfast was taken at the Briggs House and the forenoon was spent viewing the c ty. At 11 o'clock all returned to the hotel for dinner after which a suburban car was boarded for Ev^wv^vvuvt«>tirVtfw' t£ A B O UT T HE C A M P U S. <& Dr. E d w a r ds is entertaining friends from Virginia. Miss Bernice Jackson '05 visited college friends over Sunday. Prof. Jeffery judged corn at an institute held in Ann Arbor recently. T he King's Daughters met with M r s. Snyder Wednesday afternoon at 2 : 3c Miss Clara Campbell, '05, was a visitor at the College T h u r s d ay of last week. Director Brewer was confined to his horn several days the past week with quinsy. T he State Board will hold a meetr ing in the board rooms Wednesday afternoon of this week. M r. and M r s. W a r r en Finn, of their Traverse City, are visiting son, W. Clyde and family. Little Corine Potts who has been ill for several weeks is much better and will soon be around again. Those "unearthly" Indian relics have not as yet shown up. T h at was what some termed "sensational n e w s ." submit program It is hoped that each department will for winter t e r m 's work at the earliest possible moment. Building goes merrily on in spite •of fall weather. Mr. Cook's new house in Collegeville is going up •quite rapidly now. Albion admits defeat because M. A. C. won the game by good play i n g, but states that on the merits of the playing of the two teams, the score should have been about 30 to 24. On T h u r s d a y, Nov. 23, occurs the dedication of Normal Hall, the new building at the Western State Normal School, Kalamazoo. R. C. E d w a r d s, who has been ill in the hospital since the middle of October, left for his home in Frank fort T h u r s d ay of last week. Prof. Dandeno and family have moved out of the WToodbury house in Oakwood and are now located on South Pennsylvania avenue in the city. Mrs. Mina Pottruff, of Lansing, is employed by the botanical depart filing plants ment mounting and which will be used in the depart ment work later. W o rk on the new dormitory is again moving along very nicely. Quite a delay was caused for a time, the contractors not being able to get a supply of brick and stone. Jack Shaw writing from Balti more, states that Miss Moxness, who experiment was assistant station laboratory last year, expects to return to America next spring. in. the Mr. Gunson is moving a number of large maple trees, some of which are 30 feet in height, from the wind break near the vegetable garden to the driveway bordering the stock yard. Geo. J. Elliott who was obliged to leave College last year on account of illness, was a College visitor last week. Mr. Elliott expects to study chemistry and pharmacy at Purdue this winter. A. E. Achard, 1901, met with a painful accident Wednesday even ing! while coming down stairs at the " W h i te E l e p h a n t" he missed his footing and fell. His ankle was badly sprained but he will be out in a few days. in L O S T — On Sunday, November 12, either the Congregational church Lansing, or on the way out, or in Oakwood, a ladies hunting case gold watch, marked K., chain and pin. Finder please leave at M. A. C. post office and receive reward. T he H o r t. teams are now busy pulling trees in the south orchard, leaving them two rods apart in the It has been found rows each way. possible to pull about 150 per day. It will be necessary to use dynamite to remove many of the large trees in the old orchard. Dr. Oscar Palmer, former mem ber of the State Board of Agricul ture and now prosecuting attorney of Crawford county, is conducting the case against M r s. N. Aldrich at Grayling, the woman accused of poisoning her two boys to obtain in surance money. of On account the increased the book amount of business at store it has been found necessary to build additional quarters. A room 12x15 ^e et the west side of the present quarters which will make a room just twice the size of the present one. 's to be 3'ded to ln Slze A very valuable three-year-old short horn bull bred by the college to has just been sold and delivered Mr. L. M. Georgie. is gratify ing to know that this animal is go ing into the pens of a stock breeder in the vicinity of St. J o h ns rather than out of the state. It Hermus Nickodemus, '08, is ill at his home in Saginaw. M r. N. had not been feeling well for some time and decided to go home and recuperate. It is hoped that he may soon be able to return and resume work. "Soil Fertility" is the title of a reprint from the N o v e m b er Ponular Science Monthly by Prof. J. B. Dandeno. T he subject is discussed from the chemical, physical, bacter iological and ecological standpoints. Pr >f. Dandeno also has an article in Science, N. S., of Nov. 3, on " T he Parachute Effect of Thistle-Down." the T h a n k s g i v i ng to Holiday rates will be granted those students desiring to go home for vacation. T he rate will begin November 29 and return limit December 2. All students desiring student certificates can secure same by calling at Presi dent Snyder's office Tuesday after noon and Wednesday. T he institution has just received a pen of six standard Delaine ewes and a ram of good breeding and high individual merit. T he medium wool breeds at the institution are quite well represented with flocks of fairly equal numbers and uniform in quality, and considerable- a'tention is now to be given to the strength ening of the fine wool flocks. President Snyder and Prof. Ked- zie attended the Grand Rapids M. A. C. Alumni Association meeting last evening. T he following items concerning the Albion game will be of interest: Total receipts, $ 6 9 6 . 4 5; expenses, $106.32; net profits to association, $590.13. J. A., G. and Fred Cavanagh were called to their home, Mt. Pleasant, last week on account of the death of a brother, E d w a r d. T he young man was only sixteen years of age and doctors were unable to state the T he exact cause of his death. R E C O RD extends sincerest sympathy to the bereaved family. Following are the percentages of teams in the football the various intercollegiate : M. A. C. Kalamazoo Albion A l ma Olivet . Hillsdale - . . - - - - - .. 1000 600 600 500 400 .. - - 000 Prof. C. L. Weil gave a talk be fore a branch of the National Asso ciation of Stationary Engineers at Kalamazoo, Saturday evening, No vember iSth. T he professor spoke on " T he Efficiency of the Engineer and H ow to Increase His Capabil ities." T he lecture was both inter esting and instructive and was high ly appreciated by those who were present at the meeting. A very sad accident occurred on the street car line Saturday morning. On account of a dense fog the 7 :4c College car collided with the Pine Lake car just east of Pennsylvania the avenue. College car had both legs crushed below the knees, and died about ten o'clock the same day. No one else was injured on either car. T he vestibules of both were literally torn in pieces. T he motormau on T he T au Beta Pi fraternity were busy with last Friday. initiations Five new members were given a start, the fountain and coal yard being the scenes of action. F r om the top of the fountain the victims poured fourth o r a t o r y ( r) each hour as classes were passing, and at the thev were found busy coal shed shoveling cinders. T he new men were G. P. Boomsliter, L. J. Smith, I. M. Phippeny, A. C. Pratt, and W. E. Wilson. Sixteen high grade A n g us cattle have recently been purchased in Chicago and brought to the College to be used for experimental purposes during the coming winter. T he animals are an exceptionally uniform lot containing a high per cent of A n g us blood, and it is expected that they will develop into a lot possessed of remarkably good qualities. T h ey are beyond any question of doubt the best lot of steers the institution has used for this class of work for some time. T he animals are to be used in making a comparison of rel ative values of certain corn products, dried beet pulp, etc. E . J. Kraus, '07, is conducting ex periments in the greenhouse on soils for the g r o w th of head lettuce. F or this experiment the department has secured ten barrels of soil from the famous lettuce houses of W. W. R a w s o n, near Arlington, Mass., where head lettuce is grown so suc cessfully. Mr. Davis, a noted grow er of Grand Rapids, has also sent an equal amount of soil from his own house. T he soils of different character and grades of fertility and T HE M, A. C. RECORD. for texture will be mixed in the green house this experiment. T he object of this experiment is to dem onstrate, if possible, that head let tuce can be grown in Michigan with the proper soil be profit provided used. T he program in the horticultural department b e f o re institute speakers on Wednesday, from 1-2, will be as follows : the 1. Visit to a class in horticulture. 2. Examine display of fruit from cold storage in lecture room. At tention will be called to new and noteworthy varieties. 3. M r. Craig will outline his ex periment for next year on the breed ing of blight resisting varieties of potatoes. 4. M r. Woodbury will report re^ cent results of spraying for San J o se scale. 5. Mr. McCue will report results in potato spraying the past of experiments on department grounds season. 6. Demonstration of the power sprayer at work on trees near cold storage plant. 7. Examination of cold storage— explanation of construction. T h e re are to be five-minute talks. At eight o'clock Saturday even the ing the faculty and friends of the in senior girls were received parlors of the women's building. Upon arrival each visitor was pre sented to the Dean at the head of the class of '06, and to each of the seventeen members of the class in turn. T h e re were nearly two hun dred guests present and a feeling of informality unusual to such occas ions put everv one at ease and en abled all to pass a most enjoyable T he halls and parlors evening. were the tastefully arranged and music by Messrs. P e r ry and Hallack and by the young ladies' quintette, trained by Miss Freyhofer, was greatly enjoyed by all. During the evening a dainty lunch was served by the junior and third year girls. T he tables were prettily decorated with flowers and tapers which added the scene. much to the beauty of These functions are of importance in the life of the college student and serve to make the last year of col lege life one to be remembered with much pleasure. T he U. S. Civil Service Com mission announces an examination on Dec. 6-7, 1905, to secure eligi- bles from which to make certifica tion to fill two vacancies in the posi tion of fourth assistant examiner in the Patent office, at an entrance of $1200 per annum each and similar vacancies that may occur. Qualified persons are urged to en ter this examination as some diffi culty has been experienced in secur ing eligibles in two former exami nation's. T he commission also announces an examination on Dec. 13-14 to se cure eligibles from which to make certification to fill vacancies as they may occur in the position of topo graphic draughtsman in any branch of the service. T he examinations are to be held at the following places in Michigan on the dates given above: Detroit, Grand Rapids, Manistee, Marquette, Saginaw and Sault Ste Marie. These announcements have been the placed on the bulletin board in library building. T he boy stood on the b u r n i ng deck, His head w as in a whirl H is eyes and mouth w e re full of hair H is a r ms w e re full of girl. L A W R E N CE GL V AN B U R EN P R I N T I NG CO. W H EN IN N E ED OF DANCE PROGRAMS or SOCIETY PRINTING. 122 Ottawa St. E. Stalker Prints " Swell " Donee Programs Fine Stationery and other good things. At t he sign of t he hand 114 Washington Ave. S. Correct Clothes For Young Men The Clothes Shop BRUCE IN. HICKEY, 120 N. Wash. Ave. DIRECTORY LANSING BUSINESS and PROFESSIONAL MEN—«t ** T he n a m es in this Directory, as well as those of all o ur o t h er a d v e r t i s e r s, a re of reli able p a r t i e s. We hope t h at t he faculty a nd s t u d e n ts will t a ke p a i ns to p a t r o n i ze t h o se who p a t r o n i ze u s. BARBERS. M A. C. BARBER SHOP, Rooms in New Bath House. H. A. Sias, Propr. BOOKS AND STATIONERY. A M. E M E R Y. 116 Wash. Ave. N. Books, Fine Stationery, Engraved Calling Cards, Fountain Pens. Pictures, Frames. Fine Framing a Specialty. Up-to-Date Styles. CITY BOOK STORE. Fountain Pens, Drafting Tools Stationery, Card» Engraved, Pocket Books, Card Cases and Bibles. Tennis, Football and Baseball goods. Crotty Bros., 206 Wash. A v e . N. BOOK BINDERS GEO. G. BLUDEAU & CO—Bookbinders Ac count book makers, paper ruling, library and fine art bindings, file boxes, map mounting, albums, pocket books, etc. Citizens phone No. 56. 109 Wash. Ave. N. WAGENVOORD & CO.—Bookbinders, Blank- book Makers, 109 Washington Ave. South. BOOTS AND SHOES. c D. WOODBURY.— Boots and Shoes. We shoe the students. See ad. CLOTHING. LOUIS BECK.—Clothier. Gents' Furnishings, Hats and Caps. 112 Washington Ave. North. CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE. H H. LARNED.-China, Glass and Lamps. 105 Washington Ave. S. DENTISTS. ' Citizens 68n. M. 01. 218 Washington Ave. S. Phone, ington Ave. S. Citizens'Phone 1049. Former M. A. C. student. A F. GORDON, D. D. S. M. A. C. '91, U. of J E. STOFFER, D. D. S. Office 105 Wash N H. MOORE, D. D. S. Office 411-13 Hollister R W. MORSE, D. D. S. Hollister Block, Room D. E. P A R M E L E E, Dentist, 117M Washing- Building, Lansing, Mich. Citizens phone 475. ton Ave.'S., Lansing, Michigan. Citizens' 517. Citizens Phone 52, Bell Phone 396. Phone, office 275; residence, 1440. . ALL MEATS May look alike to you, but there Is a very great difference in the quality we han dle and that sold by some other markets. We handle none but the very best. Like: the pudding, the proof of good meats is in. the eating. A trial will convince you that, you ought to trade with us. Wre make daily trips to the College. BOTH P H O N E S, Careful attention given to 'phone orders. Washington Ave. South. GOTTLIEB REUTTER. DRUGGISTS. R OUSER'S CAPITAL DRUG STORE. Up to date. Corner store. Opposite Hollister Block. OBINSON DRUG CO., successors to Alsdorf & Son, Drugs and Druggists' Sundries. 102 Washington Ave. N. DRY GOODS. HE JEWETT & K N A PP STORE. Dry Goods. 222-224 Washington Ave. S. ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES. p A P I T OL ELECTRIC CO. Electrical Supplies. Vv Telegraph Instruments and Telephones. 117 Mich. Ave., E. FURNISHING GOODS. |*LGIN MIFFLIN.—Ladies' and Gentlemen's j Furnishing Goods. See ad. FURNITURE DEALERS. M J. A B. M. BUCK.—Furniture. Cor. Wash- ington Avenue and Ionia Street. See ad. HACK AND BAGGAGE LINES. O RDER your hacks for parties at Carr's Hack Line. Livery in connection. 410 Washington Ave. N. HARDWARE, STOVES AND TINWARE. N ORTON'S HARDWARE-General Hardware* Stoves, Tinware, Graniteware, Cutlery, etc, 111 Washington Ave. South. See ad. INSURANCE. THE DYER-JENISON-BARRY CO., LTD., Incorporated) Hollister Block. All kinds of the best insurance. Strongest agency in city. JEWELERS. CHAS. A. PIELLA. 121 Washington Ave. N„ Lansing, Mich. Jeweler and Optician. LAUNDRY. q ^ HE AMERICAN LAUNDRY solicits a share 1 of your patronage. Remember the number, 309 Washington Ave., S. New Phone No. 420. Julia Findley