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BELDING
IONIA COUNTY'S BEST NEWSPAPER
THIRTY-SECOND YEAR, NO. 30
EELDING; MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. DECEMBER 15, 1920
TWELVE PAGES
CIISTII CLUB
IS A GIG KELP -TO
LOCAL PEOPLE
AMOUNT DISTRIBUTED KEEPS
GROWING. PLAN HAS
PROVED POPULAR
five qm5W&mxvY
There may be some people to whom
the idea of a Christmas club would
not appeal very strongly, but the
truth of the matter is that the plan
has met with a great deal of favor
among: the people of this city since
it was started here by the Belding
Savings bank and since the start the
amount which .Cashier Lambertson
of the bank, together with his as
sistants,, has distributed each Suc
ceeding year has grown so success
fully and satisfactorily that even
though there is a tremendous amount
of work involved in the handling of
the many accounts, the bank people
have begun to feel that this branch
of their business is one of their most
important means of serving the pub
lic and they are continually striving
to enlarge it and make it mean still
V,more each year to the people of this
city.
On December 2 the bank people
sent out approximately $6,000 to
holders of accounts in their Christ
mas saving plans and this ' amount
was divided up amongst several hun
dred people who had been placing
small and seemingly inconsequent
amounts in one or more of the plans
offered in the Christmas savings
plans each week throughout the past
year, to be returned to them just be
fore Christmas when a dollar us
ually looks bigger'n a mountain be
cause of tax time, the ancient and
highly honorable, although at times
criminally burdensome plan of pre
senting gifts and other money tax
ing methods in a lump sum, at a
time, as above stated, when money
talks mighty loud in the spreading
of Christmas cheer and happiness.
Among the people who had ac
counts in the Christmas savings club
at the Belding bank during the past
year were several who had set aside
small amounts each week in anticipa
tion of their taxes and several other
items, the money for the payment
of which always seemed to some like
having your upper and lower teeth
extracted on the same day. The re
sult was ust as they had expected
they received their checks about the
third of December and stood ready
to pay their several accounts with
money which they had scarcely miss
ed when they laid it away in the club
Some of these men had placed as high
as $5.00 per week in an account, but
... . the great majority of the accounts
ran smaller than that.
' Cashier Lambertson said' that he
considered the plans offered in the
club as one of the best inducements
to thrift and saving that a person
could practice and that the bank wel
comes the child who opens up a small
account with a $25 goal at Christ
mas time just as warmly as it does
the more fortunate person who elects
to deposit $20 each week with its
harvest of $1,000 for the next year.
The distribution of the money is
also a great thing, not only for the
people of the city in general, but
N for the merchants v especially, as it
turns a lot of money lose at a time
when the people are thinking of do
ing some spending and can not do it
unless they have the cash. The
sending out of the Christmas club
' checks is bound to liveh up business
in a way and the business which it
creates is very nearly all in strictly
cash transactions. '
Not only are the people of the city
urgently invited to take out an ac
count in the Christmas club with
this bank, but Mr. Lambertson says
that the plan is admirably suited for
the farmer, his wife and the differ
ent members of his household, as
they can pay at any time and for
as many weeks ahead as they wish,
with an assurance that the money
will be ready for them along about
the first of December of next year,
at a time when money is in strong
demand for a thousand and one var
ious things.
The Belding Savings bank has a
large advertisement on page seven
of this issuer in which it bids you a
Merry Christmas by -telling you all
about its big Christmas savings club
and the various plans.
Art Pictures For Christmas -Gerald
P. Kimberly, who for sev
eral years past has had a collection
of beautiful pictures, local . scenes,
etc., on display in one of the down
town stores announces to his patrons
that he has a collection of about 100
pictures at his home, for sale and
. that owing to a stress of other mat
v ters he will not have them on dis
play down town this year, but that
his customers can get them at his
home on Hall street. No more ap
propriate nor appreciable gift could
be made to a former resident of this
vicinity than one of these beautiful
local scenes by Mr. Kimberly.
First To Pay Winter Taxes
City Treasurer John B. Essex, says
that the honor of being the first to
pay winter taxes fell, this year to
Mrs. Melissa Cobb, of Kenwood Ave.
Mrs. Cobb getting in the office early
on Friday, December 10, shortly af
ter the treasurer had opened up for
business.
Says Michigan Is Best
J. J. Corrigan returned last .week
from a visit with his daughter at
Lone 'Rock, Oregon, satisfied jthat
Michigan, taking it up one side and
down the other, is by far the best
state in the Union to live in. Mr.
Corrigan is planning on purchasing
himself a piece of property in this
city and building himself a home on
it next year. Living conditions, pri
ces on commodities, etc., are more
favorable in Belding than elsewhere
according to the opinion, of Mr. Cor
rigan, after seeing a considerable
amount of the country and trying
it out.
Notified Of Brother's Death
Mrs. M. L. Howe received the sad
I news that her brother, B. Jerry, of
i Gardenville, Texas, had died at - his
home there on November 29, the cyth
anniversary of his birth. He had been
in bad health for two years from af
ter effects of the flu. He was a no-
, ble man, a good Christian loved by all
ana nau ueionpeu to ine itiasuuic
fraternity for 37 years. He will be
greatly missed by his family and
hosts of friends. He had six broth
ers who served in the Civil war, one
. dying from wounds received in ac
tion in the second days fighting at
.the battle of Shiloh. Mrs. Howe's
many friends extend sympathy .to
.her in the death of her brother.
IHSTANTLY KILLS
ItS OPERATOR
GEORGE LEHMAN, FORMER LO
CAL MAN MEETS SUDDEN
DEATH SATURDAY
j A swiftly revolving circular saw
I which he was operating on the old
Ashley farm in Oakfiejd township
.caused the death of George Lehman
1 38 years old and a former well known
j local resident, when it bursted while
I in use, a piece of the steel striking
; Lehman in the throat and face and
completely splitting his Jhead and
neck in two from his shoulders up.
Lehman had worked for M. A. Ber
. ridge on the farm for some time and
! resided in a tenaiit house on the
place. Ashley Berridge, a son of M.
A. Berridge, had come home from
Lansing and was attending to the
tractor which furnished power for
. the buzz saw. Lehman was feeding
wood into the saw when the accident
happened, the broken piece hitting
I him and splitting his head open so
J quickly that he never knew what
, struck him. Death was instantan
eous. I Lehman's body laid near where he
fell for several hours after . the
I tragedy and until after a coroner's
jury had met in the case, after which
it was removed to his home. Funer-
al services were held there Tuesday
, morning at ten o'clock, Rev. Ellis
officiating and burial was in the cem-
'etery here.
I Mr. Lehman was well known here
having worked for many years in
,the silk mills and at other work in
and around this city. He was an
industrious fellow and was well lik-
jed among his acquaintances. He was
married about three years ago. His
widow, together with his mother
Mrs. Ida Katz. two sisters, Miss Ella
, Lehman, of this city and Mrs. Or
ville Backus, of Port Huron and. a
brother, Otto Lehman, survive him.
' Rumor has it that the saw which
killed Lehman, when it burst, was
cracked and not considered in safe
'condition for use.
The Creed:. of ihe Decent
By Dr. Frank Crane
I am decent. I am not particularly pious, nor normal, nor good, nor cultured,
nor superior, but just plain decent. I don't like dirt. I don't like, soiled clothes,
nor unkempt hair, nor ringer nails in mourning, nor muddy shoes, nor coarse speech.
I am not finicky, nor proper, nor fussy, nor fastidious. I am decent. I like whole
some things, a white table cloth, an individual drinking cup, a clean plate, a tidy bed
and a child with its face washed. I don't like adulterated bread, adulterated drinks
nor adulterated people. I like a man that sticks to his legal wife, and a woman that
is fond of her own husband. I don't care for gay Lotharios nor soiled doves; not
that they're wicked; they're just nasty. I don't like profanity nor salacity. They
are smudges that obscure wit, blots that offend clever speech, they are as egg on a
shirt-bossom or tomatoe-sauce on the waist-front. I don't like suggestively naughty
plays nor movie pictures that appeal to snickering louts. I don't like novels that
reek of undisciplined sex feeling, nor magazines that cater to the seekers after licen
tiousness. Idealized, th sex instinct is beautiful, human and wholesome, purely
physical, it is the same as a rotten apple or water fresh from the sewer. I don't like
Bohemianism' that means soaplessness, nor liberty that eventuates only in disorder.
There are plenty of unclean and foul things and deeds and thoughts in the world; it
is the province of art at times to depict them; but no artist has a right to put such
things into his work unless he can idealize them, can invest them with a noble pas
sion or make them instruments of a beautiful reaction. No book; picture, statue or
story has any excuse to exist, unless it ministers to beauty, though often the uncouth
can be made singularly to reveal spiritual beauty. I don't like dealers in scandal,
ugly hints, inuendoes nor any of the stab-in-the-back gentry. They are the slimy
snakes and stinging mosquitoes of the human race. I don't like anybody who talks
against Uncle Sam. If any person does not like this country let him go to another.
To live in Uncle Sam's house and whisper against him is nasty. For a wife to speak
slurringly of her husband, or a husband to speak so of his wife, is also dirt. I don't
like spies, sneaks, tattletales, trouble makers. They are the same as lice. Ugh!
I like the nakedness of cleanliness better than the covers of perfumery. I like clean
anger better than a smoky grudge. I don't like religion that is an ugly fanaticism,
nor learning that is an offensive egotism, nor any excellence that is degraded to
selfish. ends. I may be poor, but I can be clean. I may be ignorant, but I can be po
lite. I may be wicked, but I don't have to be coarse. I am one o the great mass
of the people in these United States who will put up with almost anything b u t
dirt. From dirt, physical, mental or emotional, from all dirt, good Lord deliver us!
CHRISI'l
' Accepts a Good Position
1 Arthur Brown has just closed a
contract with the Joliet Wall Paper
Mills Co., whereby he will become
that company's state agent for Mich
igan, starting in on his new job in
July of next year. The new position
is a good one and will not interfere
with Mr. Brown's local business in
' that he will be here for the first
half of the vear and while he is cone
the latter part of the year, he will ppoPLF-S
have someone in charge of his store ,
here. "
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Signs Of The Timea
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Spencer,, cashier
day long, the first set of sleighs of
the season on the streets today and
train No. 25 on the Ionia-Big Rapids
branch of the Pere Marquette fully
equipped with snow plow and extra
shovels, we take
winter has or is about
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Christrn;rlftateeoWirtR banks
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to savelrWi!vCiHV Hwni&HV chanca
,oitatroe that i iyijkmm ml
that thelnPhteJsHa 'Moflwn fact
tered in thW" nWrya&n$asfltebe foz.
'reatefis iV3Se th&
Likes Army Life
John Raymond has received a let- !i?i -it
for frnm h a inn VranV vant- ""UUi J
i i;et,4 uL ' u-'to save.flfc
i haver mone
! field artillery division and now lo
cated at Camp Lewis, Washington, in
j which he says army life is just the
I thing for him for the next, three
years. lie said that he had met. Geo.
Daly, another former local man and
that they both like the army life.
GOV'T JGEiiT
. CHECKING UPOII
' LOCAL DEALERS
SEVERAL LIGHT FINES REPORT
ED FOR FAILURE TO COM
PLY WITH REQUIREMENTS
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er their firMfrtioKwSwiwheth
find itCl.&MsaCdwrfiSalJr small
cially. 'Twr lWieTni'When tinaii
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the ralnY dW fei$vfeytori$vWde fcr
seem tp' fiafd4 WouW sprm6nec6 never
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join . befojer thatmerH&y1 payfflgewi may
advanced V,T?DnWThy3de3ayng in
so that
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I ping nextea?. 1 Wfi eri cajWM Pe shop
made e'gnlarfy VKe;r-bafiklA'mi4ninat3 ars
terest rbn'thWoKt.MehisalaJJvs ir.
ways an' nccTraVe'meVf cltil1sav!ftg;h i3 a!-
A. nunera6,Taln"fTeVe finding,
members nWMefct teoraMoirGdFfd and
tl.en:. ; lhte WfoVtifftUserofteore of
may p'aVTl-25c"OMi-: ZZJi2:GG'(r
weekly 'tebfelsoilAtinV-WspW $2.0C
ti vel v : to r$i2.feft: . S2f .OD.a 'SSO'.OO r g nfc 5pec-
00, VAnbthei-K-a-y is-wiiattiMAJ ar-
4agthe iftfifeWtfsiftlAftg.wlHit is
II. J. Webber, a federal government
representative operating out of the
j Grand Rapids office is in the c'7. hj
I week checking up on the various
merchants who should keep a record
of their sales and the tax due the
government and correcting them in. $100
any discrepancies or omissions which known
11 1 1 in m 1 . ... k':. vn n iT 5 , " i
mey nave Deen guuiy 01. which theV "payment ihm&ev everyss, m
Several fines of $5 are reported for week. A One1 dt hislajise.'eiivttfteveri'
( failure to comply with some rule or :2c, neifceerr4c : $16) fteaenvSTfiesScrts at
anomer ana m aaaiuon me parties : progressive UU&'-matures1 av Tc5&ne
MANY LETTERS ARE RE-
CEIVED FOR OLD SANTA
We have received five letters to
Santa Claus which we publish as
follows: ' . ?. " '
Santa Claus,
North Poll.
Dear Santa: Please bring me a
auto and a train of cars.
Clinton Couzzins.
j . Alderman Tenders Resignation
1 Alderman Robert Olds of the sec
ond ward has sent in his resignation
1 to the council and is ready to step
, down and out any time he rest of
, his colleagues are ready to accept
of his act. According to rumors,
; Aid. Olds says it takes up too much
time to attend to the city's business
1 and he doesn't like the job anyhow.
Belding, Mich.
Dear Santa: Christmas is coming
and I want you to bring me some
things, these are what I want: ten
baloons, two tops, two story books,
one beautiful doll with lots of dresses
coats and caps, a little piano, a lit
tle airplain, a wash tub full of candy,
popcorn, peanuts and nuts, a guitar,
a little set of dishes, a nice dress, a
pair of scissors, a box of colors, a
box of paints, a box of handkerchiefs
two rough tablets, two smooth tab
lets, three pencils, a drum, lots of
games, a teddy bear, two rubber balls
a little soing machine, wrist
watch, a box of beads, a jumping
rope, a doll trunk, an ironing board,
a pair of doll slippers for my doll, a
doll dresses set, a dead dog, a live
rabbit, a wheeleborrow, a little auto
a stock farm, a black board, a wagon
a slead, and a circle comb. Hope you
will bring me all I have written down
' because I have been a very good girl
r rom,
Hilda Andres.
HAS LOCALS 111
THREE OEi'lT
TAKE OVER ELEVATORS AND
MILLS AT LAKE ODESSA,
PORTLAND AND MUIR
HAPPINESS OF THE
CHILDREN OF GOD
Surprise Party
A surprise party was given on
John Talbot, Thursday evening, Dec.
9. The guests being: Arthur Snider,
Bessie Bookwalter, Arlo Tebbel, Ma
rie Heffron, Leo Kennedy, Ettie
Lynch, James Halters, Margaret An
drews. Joe Costello. Helen Moore,
Alfred Bivins, Philameana Heffron.
Ronald Costello, Clara Gondolf and
Otis Currie. The evening was spent
playing games and dancing, after
which refreshments were serve3.
Unequalled Values
Ladies who are planning on pur
chasing dry goods and similar ar
ticles will find it to their advantage
to look up the page advertisement
of E. A Ifloyd, Balding1! veteran
dry goods merchant and notice the
hundreds of'unequaled bargains of
fered. This advertisement contains
prices far lower than any advertise
ment we have as yet seen published
In any daily or weekly paper in the
country.
Honored Departing Members
Miss Britzki's class of the Congre
gational Sunday school held a party
at the home of the president, Miss
Dorothy Brown, last Wednesday
evening in honor of two of its mem
bers, Julia Meta Arnold and Margar
et Shattuck, who have since left' the
city. Miss Shattuck to reside in Lan
sing and Miss' Arnold in Hastings. 22
girls were present. The evening was
spent in playing games after which
ice cream and wafers were served.
Knew How To Get It
The Rev. R. F. McLendon, a revi
valist, announced that in his audience
there was a man who had been be
traying his family and not leading
an upright life. lie also added that
unless that man placed a $10 bill in
the collection box he would announce
his name. Eighty-five $10 bills were
deposited when the box was passed.
Watch The Advs. And Save
Why rail about the high cost of
living when by looking through the
many money saving advertisements
in this issue of the Banner-News you
can select' almost ajiyihing in the
lives which - you are in need of
at genuine savings over what you
have been paying. It is your in
terest, especially in these times to
keep close tab on the advertisements
in order to take advantage of any
bargains offered. Right now there
are a lot of them.
Belding, Mich., Dec. 10, 1920
Dear Santa Claus. Please send me
an automobile, some candy, a lot of
toys, a fire truck, two sweaters, one
for me and one for my brother Ed., a
tool chest,
John Peter Engemann.
Dere Sandy Claus: Plese bring
me a woolly doggie, a trane of kars
a engin, a sawe, tuie chest and sum
candie.
Clyde.
Belding, Mich., Dec. 15, 1920.
Dear Santa Claus:
I telephone to you every
day but I -can't make you hear so
I'm going to write.
I want a lot of story books for
Christmas, grandma is . getting tired
of my old ones and she reads them to
me.
Iwant a doll buggy and a Christ
mas tree.
Bye Bye, Santa, from
Matha Arline Joslin.
Dear Santa Clause:
I want a cradle for my Dol
lie, a Black board, a new Coat, of
course some candy and nuts. I
would like some games if you got
them.
Margaret V. Annis:
6 yrs. old. 204 Leonard St.
Come on children, only one more
week to get your letter in and have
it published in the paper.
Notice
All those holding accounts against
Ray or Mae Bailey, please send
statement of account to RayBailey
of Freeport, Mich.
Mrs. Lawrence Goodale and son, of
Fargo, N. D., are spending the hol
idays at the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Cooley.
Hubert and Martin Engemann re
turned on Saturday ' morning from
Los Angeles, where they had been
for the fast five months.
As the plans of the Farm Bureau
in Ionia countv mature, the success
'of the association seems to be assur
ed. Though little of the work being
done is apparent to the average cit
izen, a strong foundation is being
laid for the organization and at dif
ferent points in the county active lo
cals have been established with a
program for the establishment of
others in the future. .
The first local started in this coun.
ty "was in Lake Odessa, which will
supply the Vicinity )cf that tjown.
They are planning to take over an el
evator and shipping association, and
nlready have two solicitors in the
field getting new members for the
financial backing of the local there.
This local, like many others, will not
only assist in material gains to the
farming community, but will foster
social activities, as well as political
and religious interests.
The second local to be established
in the county is at Portland. It has
already concluded a deal to take over
a farmers' cooperative elevator and
shipping association, as well as a
milk station, a farm implement bus
iness and a poultry shipping associa
tion. The third local already established
is one composed of the towns of
Muir, Lyons and Pewamo and will
serve the vicinities of those places.
This local will take over the shipping
association, formerly operating at
Muir and Pewamo, and they also
talk of building an elevator and mill
at Muir. They have two solicitors
out in the field getting memberships
I for that local.
I In the near future it is expected
that similar locals will be organized
' ot Ionia, Belding, Saranac and
iClarksville, and perhaps at Orleans,
'though it is hoped that that village
will combine with Belding.
Each of these locals will be under
the administration of a board of
eight directors, elected by the local
land an executive committee compos
ed of a president, a secretary-treasurer
and two directors, who will be
in active charge of the local at nil
times.
I The plan for Ionia countv is a lit
tle in advance of that in other coun
ties in the state. This county being
.organized later than most of the oth
er county communities, has been able
to profit under an absolutely sound
financial system, it is declared, be
ing backed by collateral notes in
! amounts of $100 for each member,
guaranteeing any debts owed to the
business and also guaranteeing that
any farm produce contracted for sale
to the association will be delivered to
the association. This plan has the
approval of the Michigan State
(Continued on page Six.)
. Christmas Greetings
I On page ten wtll.be found a num
ber of beautifully expressed Christ
mas wishes from some of the mer
chants of Belding to you. , Read them
over; .
(Written especially for the Ban-
'ner-News by Robert Hazell Ph. D.)
J That soul whose zeal is regulated
by an enlightened understanding,
nourished by a calm, dispassionate
love of truth and founded upon a
firm adherence to the moral attribut
es of God, is a plant of our heavenly
Father's right hand planting and
shall be useful and happy here and
inherit eternal life hereafter. Beincr
ueuverea irom me aarK snades 01
ignorance, the contradicting infiuenc
of partiality and the tyranical as
cendancy of appetite, the mind is free
to think and judge and exercise its
pious affections without obstructions
1 in which consists the glorious liberty
of the children of God."
Free from thepitiful shackles of
liberty such a soul enjoys the most
I pleasant and seving range through
I all the wonders of redeeming love.
The attributes and works and prov
idence, and grace of God, afford
,l abundant matter for his pious medi
tations. His active mind travels
through the beauties of creation and
1 adores that beneficient hand which
I sends us rain from heaven and fills
I our hearts with food and gladness,
j He turns to the pages of revelation,
j explores the opening beauties of the
moral law, surveys the wonderful
goodness of God manifested in the
flesh, then rising on the wings of
contemplation, '.wth ecstacy 1 o f
thought to those salubrious regions
of ineffable tranquility, "where mo
mentary ages are no more."
His soul adheres to God, as to the
center of ajl its desires he finds no
pleasure in existance equal to that of
doing good. He looks over the face of
the earth, with conscious friendship
for every living creature. He mourns
over the ignorance and wickedness
of men and melts its sympathetic
tears for the misery of Adam's chil
dren. His enlarceH and cenprmis
Jmind embraces the different nations
of the earth with affection and be
seeches heaven to bless all his bre
thren of the human race.
All true Christians are in this riv
er of love. They are channels, also
through which it flows out into the
highways and byways of life. Each
one, is growing in the grace and
power of the Christ love. ' because
,they are longing, hoping, working to
bring into some life or lives what
they know of this great love which
has helped and blessed them.
All those signs of an inward glad
ness of a universal friendliness, are
aparent in every city, town, village
or country hamlet throughout our
beautiful land and the whole world
where the name of Christ is known.
All our joy and all the world's
joy at this season is because of the
exaltation and adoration in the ?iu
man heart of an ideal. The 'ideal
Man, -.the God-Man, Chtistt Jesus,
who came to the world to show it
how to love, whose coming was to
bring joy to every creature and to es
tablish the kingdom of love, upon
earth.
jwere required to fix things up as they
should have been in the first place.
I Some proprietary stamps have
been used where documentary stamps
should have been used and vice ver
sa. In other cases none
quired stamps were being
eral people were called upon
rect income tax statements for last
year, with but a short amount of
time alotted them for the work and
the activity of the federal agent has
been a general straightening out and
corrective course among a lot of peo-
f)le who thought they had been fol
owing on the right track in these
matters. ; ; -
Some of the people visited have
been following the advice of some
fiMeleMgfWSt. Club
ny He teyersed,A tattmtTgres-
Mtett anitinte fiste aTld. fltfarUng
L iJZiiL.. JUttrmrrtL. Ji w i- -J f, -
of the re-- ducinenfeswrtea)we5oThn(c re
used. Sev- works' n&n wfifl&tsu-ator $EWs and
to cor- at $1.6ffd5VfodriWWhlk ihtftarts
Then 'there
maturing, a
sive tUos
at thethi
last pa-imem.anVorae!S down to 2c as the'
OrdlnarV. otJtfksr are not needed in
carry inTOBfrias CTibcftmied in
The. PtiofnT?ahV1sCfahigCAounts
patented Prsie.nCn HsfJchvs t'ng a
record'fSaynVeitotbypctlh the
government official who har been thru
ports wrong.
date,'.apdoe$yra to to
bility'0CffpT.uut; away witn any po3Su
. The'banltf Ka1f05i lare-e advertise-
before and find themselves . to have ment oA'jjatfeo1 w'bi&TteirivJttfirtise
been working their systems and re- you to 'Vomfe WahWs vOtiithovites
new systeWr6tfrcn .thekvdoptttt the
. Purchases .Smith Building
L. L. Parney, who recently came
here from Alberta and more recently cen a
started in a meat market in the H. . to,helpljWnctsaaSta-'rt5nt's
A. Smith riverside building, on north I J 1TViV ft"J a start.
Bridge street, has made a deal where- j
by he becomes the owner of the prop-;
eruy ii which ins own uusineas is iu- i
caicu. ine uuuuing aiso contains vne : u pafftof
noicomu Kro-ry ana me ooai anu , wu:r jmWwiiW
proprietor of the boat livery business '
through the deal.
We Like. Yout.Sivle. Jim
We have, received .aette'rfr
. MdhrL riwtll HcnSAW fertftto
man.
whicr
, ""yk" vr partly- NVairteof itn tMcrMiroT a rd
nuripo. air. i-amev msn nprames -ii.- .1.. ,-ivcn . i
rldYaln
fcrgftvtiTmmtf oca 1
thi tygpfromaitfnent
thd
l Mer ty 1 Cn'i i&hiW a Hd HaVip ew f a
I Yea.--' lo'-VIfrtenn'? VtelpUtilSsWew
Opinions About California Differ
F. G. Stocking, a former resident
of this place in remitting for his
next year's subscription, send
ollowing letter:
Campbell, Cal., Dec. 8
Editor Belding Banner-News:
I was reading Hu
bert Engemann's letter from Los
Angeles. I had to laugh at some of
;his opinions about things in Califor
nia. He is right in some and wrong
in some. The real estate men tell
some pretty high yarns and still there
are a great many 'things that an
eastern man would not believe, that
are true. In regards to thunder
j storms, I have lived in California 30
years and I never heard it thunder
'until after the San-Francisco earth
quake. I know, since then, that the,
cumaie nas cnangea to a great ex
tent, although California is the finest
place to live in and better than any
r. I Vi o laa In tha IT t 5 A e am
climate is concerned. I was in Los , ?,noHfT-'
. . t i . L , . , . .. .. . , .
the JetW.hicfl a'.as'fw.waiwo puaj.-s;.
G r M lR ApidS ilWlchl ?J)&M 3y 1 920
TM;fi?hileK-Newi T,cn-. cc. 13, 1020
Der1r7fv:ft(f.,IEa:4.ws-
No doubt tftfilPlike, the tone of
tnceicfro ot
lanlic'r f
d'-alwhjnr.cr-
jr ii., no doubt otf 'winike, th(
,s the,this,Iotiftbhta,.riJ jlhe1
1ftJa year;xitcfjt)trro:t6athe
1920 j New's,-: bchjoytfl U
on timnapri1? Ih-'fAct'ht pft.!o.'i6f ays
any of c'if "nnny'ut1ilii?fjcWiV of
ing hit c'f i PTLilnayMeWGtiristm'asIah-
;IhineiV)tt;hhfHft-vhVh.iTCwna
and
Yea
I
1
rbitfain very truly yours,
T rtmairt "toirvulrjiv vrmrs.
. iji r-uxuuu, r
Rap-
' Indoor Ball, I'prKural Schools
CouJtffyoMJcx$& total .
J: C. ttnttbhutW 'Hvas SintKe WtvSthOoU
day, : Mettfttf 4Wefr dW inn 0e cWlK-to-
Angeles the last cf August and would thJal3SStf
have liked to have met Mr. Enge- !usX$mSri
mann but did not know where to find wf aw?icxU4xalsid
! balls jf4:r t;WTKcrctioose
EacWShW? oftfl fotocsbatols
a'nrf "hivViKK flVhrfinfhRaWjieed Thevbat
iVfe TfaVhMCeeiH Ifhey
Yours truly,
F. G. Stocking.
tftftfnglW wY1ttfteen
S i4n m vZtMOktr hftroHUih .
theiulcVWeic fcihPfaWdnfB: vanned
schotorrfMb-Ke WlinJsMhoothe
Oncns Radiator Kepalr Sho
MatiWSfWnf456rflMlknS
mobile. MiaW'renafrOBhofri
buildinir0 d&
Srtrto-
m thdo-
wT fiypahlsShtoptheHhe
m- asv,thiJiafti;f rhtpIAttcf v1rfnttdBt.
to ! attenloTnUHradtator Cbafr rwmlt.to
is-'of very xftftufp frAmak)snf'aTia
m
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Camp Fire Girls Hold Sale
The camp Fire Girls will hold a
sale of fancy articles and home made
candies, Saturday, December 18, at
the Hat Sh6ppe. '
Mrs. Bay Emory and children and
Mrs. Sutherland, all of Pontiac, are
spending the holidays with their rel
atives here and in Orleans.
We Thought Hd Didn't Drink
The Greenville independent has J
the following to say. in its last week s
issue about our old friend, George
Finch. "You all know George,
Georce Finch we mean. Friday
morning as he was coming down Clayttyjj
town he heard two robbins scream
ing for help. Naturally he went
see what the trouble was
covered a five foot blue racer
ing up the tree after the b
afraid of snakes, George
his good friend, Tim Winter,
came to the rescue. A fish
secured and the reptile
eternal rest. And this
a U5 ki.l- Vftrers and isv ftDiftoffflaranr'aiT Tri'
iT-I"i 'IT S'U"v. Wk, guarantee all his
living 111 ills iiCiitvuiiiuvu oiiiuo w i( VV C r
have taken nuite a fancy to him and h L
went so far as to follow him all the i Notice "
way aown town.
a! 4 V turn tfA.lltfA Vaam
or else Morrison, of the Independ-Dwjr UiV yigL
ent. is a eol dumed prevaricator andentti'lt)!,:'
should be put to death. that'rditlC
laid to hisV.PrfenTft. cMarhtMrWittrd
is not all; thA WoVaXmp'Q nbV,'jndrth
Georce had another funny experience Ka.cjmce
. Now v George, Allunold, .huMftKI
en drinking lately U AJrn.CagO
, of the Independ-. D&fcV?'
Mary Barclay went to Greenville
Thurrlay, on business.
".