Belding banner., June 29, 1911, Image 1

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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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