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title dates from 1915, after consolidations with other 

 publications had been effected. It now reports a cir- 

 culation of nearly a third of a million in the terri- 

 tory between Sauit Ste. Marie and Minneapolis.^ It 

 is a monthly magazine, attractively presented, and is 

 devoted heartily to the progress, chiefly agricultural, 

 of the cut-over territory in the Great Lakes country. 

 Its relations with the Upper Peninsula Development 

 Bureau are close and harmonious. 



At Sault Ste. Marie is published a weekly edi- 

 tion of the "P]vening News" of that city, which, 

 through a cooperative arrangement with the county 

 agent and the Chippewa County Farm Bureau, car- 

 ries much agricultural news and comment, relevant 

 chiefly to the eastern end of the Upper Peninsula. 

 There are, in addition, a number of "small town" 

 weeklies whose designation and contents indicate 

 the rural appeal of the publication. 



THE RURAL CHURCH 



Among the pioneer farmers of Michigan, religious 

 observances had motives not purely derived from 

 piety, although the isolated situation in the primeval 

 wilderness undoubtedly intensified the meditations 

 of the settlers and turned them more definitely in 

 the direction of things supernal. The camp-meet- 

 ing brought men and women together, to visit and 

 to be entertained, to sing and to become informed, as 

 well as to give vent to sentiments of devotion and 



'Statement of R. M. Andrews, editor, May 11, 1921. 



