Newspaper Page Text
Sale on men's suits BMLDINO BANK Sale on. men's shoes and ox fords at -1 u. 1 ; ' ... I TWENTY-THIRD YEAR. BELDING, MICH., THUItSDAY. JUNE 29, 1911. THE CITY OF DESTINY of the Banner, whose colors are always nying tor the breeze above the castle wall. E. E. Fales is mayor of the citv and docs his best to keep the town on the map as he sees it Fales never falls far short, either. WHOLE t ' . I . - ' ' THE SEPTEMBER TERM Belding In 1911, Is So Charac terized By Grand Rapids News Man HATS OFF IN HONOR Scribe Sees Progress, Beauty and Bus iness In Bustling City of Silk Mills Since Andrew Fyfe of Grand Uapids has become the head part of the Grand Uapids News, a democratic paper of note, it has taken on new life and activ ity. "Andy" has a lot of friends in Belding and this week devoted a page of his paper to a fine write up of the City, a portion of which follows: "Belding the beautiful," "Belding the Silk Mill City" is 18 years old this summer and glad of it. Eighteen years ago during the legis lative session of IK'JIi the village of Bel ding became the city of Belding, and took its rank among the progressive and ui-to-date cities of the state. This is the eighteenth year of Beld ing's civic existence, and the beautiful little city over in the sister county of Ionia is proud and not ashamed of its age. The exact day of the birthday is un known, but it is probable that it w ould date to some day along toward the lat ter end of the '93 legislative session. The date cuts no figure, though. The year is the thing, and this is Belding's eighteenth year. Hats oil to Belding. What Held ing has. It has four silk mills, a basket factory, canvas coal bag factory, shoe factory, sash, door and blind factory, saw mill, feed mill, brick yard, two good weekly news papers, refrigerator factory, said to be the largest in the world, six churches, electric lighted streets, good schools, opera house, three strong banks, first class hotel, beautiful location in excel lent farming country,good water power, five thousand public-spirited citizens. strong building and loan association, energetic, progressive merchants and up-to-date manufacturers, excellent railroad, telegraph, telephone and ex press facilities, and a strong belief on the part of its citizens that it is a "City of Destiny." It has two excellent newsnaDers. the Belding News and Belding Banner being widely known among the breth. ren of the press. A special favorite is Editor E. B. Lapham, the firey editor MRS. GEORGE ASHLEY Passed Away Wednesday Morning Was Grattan Pioneer Mrs. George Ashley died at the old homestead which has been the Ashley home so many years, Wednesday morning at about six o'clock having been confined to her bed for several weeks, her health had been failing for me past year. Mrs. Ashley was In her seventieth year and during her long residence in urattan had endeared herself to manv friends and neighbors by her womanly qualities and tender solicitations. The funeral will be held Saturday at the house at 2 o'clock P. M. She leaves two daughters Nellie and Annie ana four sisters. IN RACE EARLY Herb Powell and Clyde Watt after State Senatorshlp II. K. Powell formally announces himself as candidate for state senator to succeed Senator Bradley of Green ville. As this is Ionia county's turn for the seuatorship, the announcement comes early and it is also understood that J. C. Watt of Saranac w ill also get into the race for the same place. Both have been in the legislature and have a long record in Ionia county and state Io!ilics so that the contest is sure to be a lively one. These gentlemen each have many friends in Belding and it would please them to see either one land the place. Case of City Against Ionia County, For Batch of Small Pox Bills t was Adjourned The case in which the city of Belding sued the county of Ionia for a large amount of bills which the board ol supervisors refused to allow at its ses sion about a year ago, was on call in the circuit court Tuesday at tii tip o'clock A. M. City attorney Fred L. warner, city clerk W. S. Eddv. health oflicerDr. Geo. A. Stanton and ex- marshal 1 Geo. M. Blett went down by automobile to be there on time. The attorneys were not ready to have the case tried and agreed to put it over 10 me September term. The case in volves a large number of claims for groceries furnished by ourgrocerymen, services rendered by phvsicans and other claims in small pox amounts to more than a thousand dollars. It is understood that all of the claims were O. K'd by the citv con noil t the time they were presented and re ferred to the county for payment and some of them the city paid and now wants to be reimbursed for the courtesy ii extended, b nction between the citv council, the mayor and supervisor Curtis and other members of the county board seems to hav e entered into the deal and hence the lawsuit, which will undoubtely be expensive before it ends for both sides. THE START IS GOOD ONE Union Church Services Under Way Wrinkles Are All Ironed Out BRETHERN All IN UNITY Large Crowd at Baptist Church Fine Sermon By Rev. F. B. Irving 'What Shall I do With Jesus?". W. C. T. U. Notes. Is the saloon a factor of business gain or loss to our country as a whole. Here is a most conclusive answer which Clinton N. Howard gives to that ques tion. All the distilleries and breweries in this country put together give em ployment to less than 45,000 men: and what their products costs the people over the bars of 11000.000 saloons would build 1XXX),000 American homes at f2,000 each, paper their walls carpet their floors, furnish the rooms, fill the clothes presses with garments, their pantries with food and their cellars with coal, exhaust the surplus manu fact u red stock of the nation, require four hundred million dollars worth of raw material to manufacture, employ a million and a quarter more men and give to this country the most unexam pled period of prosperity that ever came to any nation." Must Be Correct Once more has a court of record placed the responsibility for the trans mission of telegraphic message on the company handling and sending the message. Ihe latest decision to this effect comes from the surpremecourtof rsew lork, in a suit in which notion brokers secured a judgement for fMMH l against the Postal Telegraph Co. The plaintiff al.eged they telegraphed their .ew Orleans agent to sell 1X).000 bales of cotton at 12.70, but that when the telegram reached the aarentit read 12.07. The cotton brokers asked for damages 10 me amount of fl'7,595, with interest. and received judgment for the whole amount. The 'Michigan courts have likewise sustained the contention that any loss suffered through an error in the transmission of a telegram by the company accepting the message for transmission must be madeirood bv the comyany making the error. Miss Nellie Ilollenbeck is spending the week with friends and relatives at Money. H. J. LEONAKD. Pres. A. N. BELDING, V. Pr. Begin To-day With $1 The Public Schools will educate Your Boy but his education is not complete without a fair knowledge of business. He can soon grasp the principles of or dinary business transactions by having an account with a bank. You can do your boy no greater service than in en couraging him to have a bank account with THIS bank. We say THIS bank because his business will be welcome here and his affairs will have our care ful and considerate attention at all times Belding Savings Bank of Belding W. H. LAMUKUTHON, Cashier IMPORTANT Notice to Water Users The hours for sprinkling until further notice will be 8 to 9 o'clock a. m. and 6: 30 to 7:30 p. m. We know iwsitively that water is being used illetrallv .i . . mougniessiy and in many cases, wil- luny. livery taker is hereby notified to conform to the rules governing the use or water and to repair at once all defect. ive valves and fixtures. Every eflbrt win ue made to detect, and enforce the penalty against, all persons usintr ... waier illegally. By order of Board of Water Commisioners. Will Close at Six O'clock Jensen & Wheeler give notice that on and after July 1, their store will he closed at six o'clock p. m. except pay mgnis and Katuadays until further notice. Mr. Wheeler informs us that the regular hours in a days work are usually strenuous enough to allow the clerks a little rest in the evening during me neated season prior to the hour of retiring, and asks the co-oieration of his customers in carrying out this nlnn by making their purchases earlier in ine day. The weather condition were unfavor able for an open air meeting, last Sun day evening and in COnsouenee the cur, vice which was to have" been held at the Band Stand Park was canceled and a union meeting was held in the uapust unurch at 7:30 o'clock. The meetings last year were successf ul! and productive ol much good feeling and harmony there was a little friction, nowever, which cropped out occasionly, noi so mucn along religious lines, but more particularly the secular. The wrinkles have all been ironed out, and a spirit of harmoney, good cheer and urotiierly love prevails in both pulpit and pew. There was a large congregation pre sent and the song service under direct- ion of Henery A. Smith; with Orlo Morse presiding at the piano was in spiring. The M. E. choir in charge of Fred Cornell assisted in the service and sang a fine Anthem, Rev, Fxlrie Collins had charge of the meeting and it was decided that hereafter . should the weather prove unfavorable for holding the services out of doors it would be held the same hour in one of the churches, lie v. G. W. Maxwell read the scripture from the lth of Mat thews, and Itev. I. S. Bu&ing offered fervent prayer. Mr. Collins stated before introducing Mr. Irving that at the ministers meet ing it had been decided to hold the open air service exactly one hour, and that each minister was limited to iiO minutes with five minutes grace. Mr. Irving took for his text words found in the scripture reading, "What shall I do with Jesus, which is called Christ?" being the question asked by Pilate of the people who were present at that remarkable scene when Jesus, stood before him. Mr. Irving drew a vivid picture of the scene and in the time alloted to him gave a most excellent sermon, conscise logical and with telling points, bring ing the question right home to every one in the audience, What will you do with Jesus?" i MULES RUN AWAY standard Oil Team Smashes Thine on Pleasant Street Last Monday morning Arthur Con nor, Uelding representative of the Stan dard Oil Co., was driving down Pleas ant street with the team of mules which do such good serv ice In the WftV f hauling oil around the country. hitched to a lumber wagon. A mule who has become used to Standard Oil business naturally rebelled against be ing hitched to an ordinary lumber wagon and when the wairon bumned Into one of the mules a little there was something doing at once. Arthur hnd nom or me lines and so did a boy who was seated beside him. but there bineu force was as naught against the turbulent spirit of the 8. O. Mules. Down the street they ran and when oposite Charlie Murray's Blacksmith shop one of the lines gave away and the wagon came in contact with a number of buggies standing in front of the shop. One buggy was comnletelv demolished, several others slightly in jured, and one man who was just on I me point of tying his rig in the path of the oncoming cyclone was scared out of a years growth as he jerked his horse up on to the side walk lust in time to escape the crash that seemed inevitable. And all of this Just at the time when John D. Rockefeller is sur prising the natives of his home town by suddenly appearing on the scene when least expected. Clocing Out Doofts v ant more room for new line of books, so we are selling some of Holmes, Southworth, etc. woratl9c. n no Ua U. Oi Poison Lotion Eighth Grade Piano The children of the school, will soon be coming along to the eighth grade to enjoy a piano in their room, desire to in this manner let their friends in Belding and vicinity know that they are in the piano race to stay. Thev will be very much pleased to receive your coupons. Please hand them to Wallie Hein or leave them at Connei's Drug Store for him to fill out and de posit. Or it would assist the young people very much if you would mark them for the eighth grade and deposit. Thank you. Yours for our boys and girls, V Frank C Janes, Supt. of Schools. A safe, sure remedy for poison oak, ivy, sumach, and all nox ious weeds. Only 25. Dogs Have Floa This time of year and there is noimntr better than ; ItOSK NICOTINIC to destroy them. It is free from odor and colorless, making it superior to any dog soap or wash, as all have a strong odor, which is ollensive to persons as well as the dog. We guarantee Hose Nicotine. In 25c and 60c sizes. flew Boohs in Public Library this week Brazenhead the Great, by Mau rice Hewlett. A book of adven ture. Opal, by Bessie U. Hoover. A love story of real life. 2c a day to read these books and others as good. BENEDICT'S CORNER DRUG STORE I r ZZ THE FURNITURE Is half the home. A home should not look shabby after a year's use. Ordinary usage should allow good furniture to continue indefinitely. INSPECT OURS and you will see a variety of styles built substantially,and made to last. Our prices, cannot remain long at the present low rate. This reduc tion is temiwrary. Miller & Harris Furniture Co. Murray George Married The Banner is in receipt of the follow ing from Duluth, Minnesota, concern ing a former Belding boy: Mr. Murray W.George and Miss Ethel Myron of Duluth, Minnesota, were united in marriage on Wednesday, June 21, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Myron, the pastor offlciating- Mr. and Mrs. George will live for the present at their summer home. Meadowlands, Minnesota. This is the season when nice reasonably priced glassware is needed Hav e a look at the Klonial KrisT:all Sherbets at 74c per dozen Iced Tea and Lemonade tumblers in cut glass at 12.00 per dozen Many things in useful pieces and very reasonable prices at A. B. HULL, Jeweler and Optometrist. m m m Notice Special Meeting A special meeting of the stockholders of the Fargo Shoe Mfg. Co. is herebv called to beheld at the ofllce of Fred L. Warner in Ihe city of Beldine. Ionia County, Michigan, atseven thirty (7:.'J0) o'clock, P. M., July 21th, 1911, for the purpose of ratifying the election of cer- tain members of the Board of Directors and of other olllcers of said Corananv heretofore elected and for any other ouisness which may legally come be fore the meeting. Dated at City of Bel ding. Michigan. junem, iyii. 40... It's Real Delight. No one, experiencing the deliirht and comfort, theeconomy of time, labor and fuel, resulting from using the Gas uange, will ever be willing to iro baek to the coal range, even in the winter when extra heat is required. Nor is it necessary, as the Kitchen Heater fills ail the needs for heating the kitchen. consuming garbage and kitchen heating the water In the kitchen hoilen ai well as serving forcookine nurnnsea A call at the Gas Office would prove mis ior you satisfactorily. Fred Beckwith left lastTh UrsdAV fnr .. ..... rurv uananu, uoiorado, where he will visit for a month with his parents. Won Her Case In the circuit court at Ionia last week a case in which Belding people w ere more or less interested was tried and finished. The case was the suit of Mrs. Eleanor Baird formerly a wife of G. A. Hoyt, 8 Nellie Millard, a daughter of Mr. Hoyt by a former wife. In which Mrs. Baird sued to recover $1000. claimed by her out of the estate of the late G. A. Hoyt. It. A. Hawiey appeared for Mrs. Mil lard and easily won o victory for the defendant, securing a verdict of no cause of action. A similar suit had been started against Otto Hoyt. a bro ther of Mrs. Millard to recover $300. which Mrs. Baird declared was duel I out of the estate, but when the first case was tried Mr. Hawiey secured the non-suiting of the second case. Fred L. Warner was one of the attorneys for the plaintiff. The Droughtb was Broken The exceedingly dry spell which has maintained in this vicinity for some time was broken last Saturday night and Sunday by several good hard down pours. In Ionia, Monday, that city witnessed a veritable cloud burst, and Grand Uapids experienced a similar downpour on Sunday. The rain which was very welcome to the most of us, fonnd some farmers with hav out which suffered somewhat from the heavy rains. WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR CHICKS? InnVK- 7ay? teU at first glance-but if chicks ?Xl?ZVet?kJor iice especially the big fellows (head lice) on head, neck and under w2 tn?Ulckl.for J0 or such bodSSnc kill a chuck m a few days. Not all dead chickl 2 snare right along. Don't you stand for it You're rmf chtksTssoe'3 4d Sen? toMiffi ch ckl if, r yl 5 and lively doesn't infrh: I2- Alt Conkey Kemediea Guaranteed. Keep It on hand. Price 10c, 25c Get it right here. DOUBLE PIANO COUPONS WITH EVERY SALE AT CONNELL'S Drug Store HALF OFF SALE at LLOYD Ladies' Long Spring Coats Ladies' 30-inch Black Jackets Ladies' Fine Spring Suits Bishop McCormlck Here The Right Heverand Blshon McCor. mick of the Western Michigan diocese of the Episcopal church was in the citv Tuesday to administer the right of bap tism to Isabell Emory, Infant daugh ter of Itev. and Mrs. Floyd Keeler. The ceremony was performed at the Holy Trinity Church house at 11:30 in the presence of quite a uumber who had gathered to witness the beautiful ceremony. EVerv one is this .year's Made of all-wool French In Kht ray panama and styleall sizes- all shades serire or nanania i-ood r.-imrr nnvdiv uwwiu t?.,.,i , 1- . . -j vr.i.-!. .;uiii all fabrics. Ketrular tinces of sizs. RmuLir nnr .cin r;,u cir. cn nn . $10 to $2a at toS17.50' fi,nVi,Btnf Exactly Half price Exactly Half-price Exactly Half-price Lloyd's Dry Goods and Carpet Store