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PAGE EIGI1T THE BELDING, MICHIGAN, BANNER-NEWS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1922 "Good Times Just Over The Hill!" NT." mi 6 Monumentln Muskegon Cemetery Tells Story of Man Who Was Marked For , Trying What It Took Army To Do v f Have started. Our service is is the best thai can, bo had. Come in and see us about it NOV. In Evergreen cemetery at Mus k?Konf riUh., is a rather peculiar sort of monument, erected to the memory of . a man ho tried, dunng his lifetime, in spite of obstacles and painful punishment, to accomplish what later required the services of a great army and cost thousands of lives. The monument, a four-sided pillar of stone, rising to a height of ten feet, bears upon one of its sides a replica of a human hand, carved in a small circle, and on this stone hand are the letters, "S. S." The stone marks the grave ot Capt. Jonathan Walker, wno, previ ous to the martyrdom of John Brown of Ossawattomie, whose "soul goes marching orl," did his best to free the slaves of the south and whose punishment, unlike the hanging ac corded to Brown, was the branding upon his hand of the two letters, "S. S..", signifying "Slave Stealer". Capt. Walker was the hero of Whittier's great poem, "The Man With the Branded Hand", and one verse of this poem is chiseled on the monument, this verse being as fol lows: "Then lift that manly right hand, Bold ploughman of the wave, Its branded hand shall phophecy Salvation of the slave. Hold up its fire-wrought language That those who read may feel His heart swell strong within him His sinews changed to steel." On another face is inscribed: "This Monument is erected to the memory of Capt. Jonathan Walker by his Anti-s'.avery friend, Photius Fish, Chaplain of the United States navy, while still another face is the following: "Jonathan Walker, born in Har vvich, Mass., March 22, 1799; died in Lake Harbor, Muskegon county, Michigan, April 30, 1878." Not so long ago a household in yestigalor talked to housekeefwt in New York's famous Park Avenue residential diftrict. She found that many of the most ex elusive families had adopted spreads for bread like Breda ut. (ft ay 'Tm I AVP f mi . Q or Progressive Housekeepers qA new food. Smiles from your family. Smiles for your pocketbook. "DECENTLY a noted foreign writer paid " this high compliment to American women. He said, in effect: "American women are the quickest in the world to adopt new worthy ideas. Their eyes and minds are ever wide open on any subject; social relations, civic improvement, national and international pol itics." Our writer should have added that American'' , women are especially quick to adopt any new, worthy food idea. For American women do lead the world in their intelligent reception of food betterments. The women of Michigan are furnishing an outstanding example of this characteristic. Only a few months ago they were introduced to Brednut, the new spread for bread. Such a hearty welcome did they give this wholesome food that it was hard to keep up with orders. Made from pasteurized jnilk and rich tropical nuts Can you imagine a more delightful combination than this: pasteurized milk blended with rich tropical nuts nuts brought from luxuriant far off islands? Husbands comment on Brednut as a delicious new addition to the family table a welcome new sub traction from the family expense. Brednut is made under careful supervision; made in rooms of spotless white cleanliness. Brednut comes to you fresh from these perfect surroundings un colored a pure white. With wholesome vegetable material which your grocer gives you, you can color your Brednut to a rich golden yellow. delightful Brednut Sandwiches Try Them! Brednut Toasted Chicken Sand-wich Toast two slices of bread pread with Brednut. Cover one slice with lettuce, the other with sliced chick en and place together. Notice what a delicate fla vor Brrduut gives to this sandwich. Brednut, Cream Cheese and Pimicnto Sandwich Spread slices of bread with Brednut. Cream a cake of cream cheese with a fork until it becomes soft enough to spread easily. Add chopped pimicntos to taste ana spread over one slice of bread and cover with the other. Notice how well your Brednut spreads. ) 1 J if The delicious new spread for bread (Made from pasteurized milk and rich tropical nuts) Wholesale Distributor: M. PIOWATY & SONS 36 Ottawa Ave., N. W. Grand Rapids, Mich. CorriM IMS. bf TV Prarta A Ganbl C., Onrin H Walker, who was born on a farm near Harwich. Mass., rather than in the town itself, spent his early days on his father's larm, but when he reached the age of sHeventeen he heard the irresistable call of the sea and became a sailor boy. Two years later (in 1818) while on a voyage to the Indian ocean, he became ill and was left in a hut or an island, it being believed that he was near death, but the young man recovered and continued his sea car eer. At this time slifvery was a recog nized institution in the United States that is, so far as the south was con cerned, the northern states seeming to take slavery for granted and pay ing little attention to what was go ing on on the big cotton plantations. But in the north yes, and in the south, too there were those who did not believe in slavery, holding that a man was a man, no matter what the color of his skin might be, and there were those who aided the Ne groes in escaping from their masters. Laws were very stringent against persons who aided slaves to escape or who failed to return them to their masters when they did escape, and punishment was severe. That's why John Brown met death by hanging just previous to the Civil war for his attempt to arm the slaves and give them freedom at the muzzle of the rifle. Walker, through his first-hand knowledge of slavery, gained during medium of voyages in which he land ed at southern points, became very strongly opposed to slavery and mado up his mind he would do his share in ameliorating the condition of the Negroes. So when he met Benjamin Lundy in 1835 he proposed to his new friend that the two go to Mexico to colonize those who had escaped their masters and had crossed the border. Two years later, while he was car rying escaping slaves from the Unit ed States into Mexico the small ves sel he was sailing ran aground and Walker was shot at by desperadoes and robbed of everything he had, in cluding his vessel. Undaunted, however, he collected enough funds to build another smal ler ship and engaged in the coast wise trade, which gave him a living and afforded him an opportunity to continue in his work of helping the slaves escape from the south. On a voyage from Florida to the Bahamas in 1844 he was captured by a United States gun boat and was returned to Florida, where he was placed in jail on a charge of stealing slaves. For a year, he was in solitary con finement in a cell without a chair, table or bed. and during this time he was shackled. At the end of this time he was sentenced to be branded on the right hand, with a red hot iron with the letters "S. S.' signifying that he was a slave stealer. Those who were fighting slavery made a great deal of the Walker case and the cruel treatment accorded the prinoner, for the opponents of Be Sure Its Western Electric Power fy Light The Pinct Connected Set It is the outfit to own, because: -it i l.irj;o inmi;li to take tare r )our ikctricjl iuJ it can be use J j j engine alone it has a pulley for trjnsmivvion of mechanical power it make the battery last longer and because it is a Western Klectnc outfit. The name Western Mlcctrtc is a guarantee of sen ice and satisfaction because the) hau been in the electrical industry torocr e,o uars and know what a power and lijht ouirit should be. Let us show' you how it will work on your farm. CALL ON E. I! . CLARK ORLEANS MICHIGAN FOR DEMONSTRATION 5 i : 1 I mil wtv --s rm slavery , were growing great in num. bers and the cloud which later broke into the storm of civil war was be ginning to appear above the horizon. It was the story of Walker, which went about the country, that inspired Whittier to write his poem. walker 8 health was wrecked by $30,000 For llird Picture Announcement was made today that "the sum of $30,000, has been placed in the hands of the National Association of .Audubon Societies1 to aid teachers and pupils in the Bludy of wild birds. Children will' be taught io build bird boxes, feed the the incarceration in Florida, and af . . birds in winter, to learn the names ter snort residences in various parts of the common bile's in ther com of the country he came to Michigan munition, and will be instructed in. the value-of birds to mankind. In making the announcement in Ififtl nt(l!n svn r nv . T '. ... wij omwuh, uii n taiui iicui tuutv Harbor and raising small fruits. He died April 30, 1878, happy in the realization that the cause ne espous ed had been won. The monument tfas erected in' tht Muskegon cemetery in the year of his death. It rises 10 feet above thfc foundation and stands on a base sunk five and one-half feet into the ground The base is three feet square. The monument is of Holloweil granite from Maine and was donated by Rev. Photius Fisk of Boston, who paid the transportation charges to Muskegon. HERO WORSHIP EVIDENT IN NAMING CHILDREN "What's in a name?" ' "Chances to make mistakes in spelling", grumble vital statisticians of the state department of health after perusing the thousands . of birth certificates filed in 1921. "And susceptibility to waves of popular ity." Names now popular? Douglas for boys and Marian for girls are among ,the foremost it is said. The former because it has al- wavs keen a "frond naminc nam"' to which is now added the prestige given it Ly scores of photoplays. Marian i3 having a run of popular ity, staticians claim, both because it) is Mrs. Harding's given name and i the name of her home town. "For 100 years after Columbus dis covered ' America", explained one worker who hai made some study of names, "people called their sons Christopher, writing it Xtopher. News and hero worship travel fast er now. Today it is pretty safe to say thai the majority of boys named Dewey was born after the victory of Manila Day. A new president us ually inaugurates a crop of name sakes. The Warrens are now com ing in large numbers; the Theodores have hardlv slackened during th? past two decades: but as yet there are only a few Woodrows. "Lee is a favorite middle name, as is Anne. May and June are year round names, and popular. At pres ent odd names ending in a' aje quite the fashion, as Donna.. Trena, Paula, Cynthia, or Elnora." Here are some of the spellings noted: Betty, Bettie, Bettye; Mar iorie, Margery, Marjory, Marjoree. This idiosyncrasy on the part of parents, some cynic has remarked, will give their daughters "the oppor tunity to be undisputed authorities on the spelling and pronunciation of their own names." c- day, Mr. T. C.i'bert Pear?on, Presi dent of the National Au-(?ihon Socie ties, at 1974 Broadway. New York City, made the statement tha'. the teachers who form Junior Audubon clubs- would receive fret material to aid in their work of teaching bird study. "Pupils who become Junior mem bers will receive material that costs us 30,000 more than their nominal fees," sai l Mr. Pearson, "alifndy more than one million, seven hun dred thousand children niv? bcni en rolled in 'these Junior clubs in the schools of the United State and Canada, and we have colored tdc tures of birds and other material on hand to supply 200000 more chil dren during the spring months. Teachers everywhere are invited to write and secure free the Associa tion's plans for bird study." Can't Be Dtoe For Centuries '2-22-22" to the ordinary person, just a set of meaningless numerals that might mean a telephone number football signal, key . to a lottery t'ehet or a key number to a lock box, but. to the law laid down by Father Time, a period that will not be reached for another century. It's n date not the kind that grows on trees, or street corners but the datfc of Wednesday. For was not Wed nesday the 22nd day of the 2nd month cf 1022, hence 2-22-22. Few of the millions who wrote that date realize 1 L 1 4. : 1 1 l. inn ., tianni Ka. limb, lb win uc iuv u v in. v, iv - fore it can be written again with re ference to the present time. But a it it onlv 300 years until one can write 2-22-22-2222. Why worry. Don't forget to see the Senior play at Belding Opera House, March 3- "The Merchant of Venice Up-To-Date". I The :::::::n::::::u:nnn:nrtmr:'inn: Postponed Aid ii OF J. W. MARTENS Will Be Held Subscribe for the Banner-News. FRI DAY. MAR. 3 At the premises, six miles south and 1-2 mile east of Ionia, or 1-2 mile east of Steele School Inclement weather prevented holding the Sale on orginal date. Nothing was disposed of at that time. Entire list will be offered. It is an all day Auction, be ginning atlO:00 o'clock. Good hot lunch at noon. This will be one of the biggest Auctions to be held in Ionia county this spring. C. E. Chandler, Auct. Harry Callow, Asa Burnett, Cleiks 43nnn::t:nr c5 U yiSll Having decided to quit farming, the undersigned will sell at Public Sale at the Thos. Vaughn residence in Howe Town, one half mile east and one quarter mile north of the Belding Land & Improvement Co farm, on Tliiuiirs(day9 Mareli 9 192, Commencing at 1 o'clock; sharp, the following articles: 1 Bay Horse, 12 yrs. old, wt. 1300 1 Iron Grey Horse, 5 yrs. old, vt."1250 1 Sorrel Horse, G yrs. old, wt. 1050 1 Holstein Cow, 8 yrs. old 1 Guernsey and Jersey Cow, 5 yrs. old, fresh April 5 1 Farm Wagon, with springs and rack 1 Truck Buggy 1 Single Buggy 1 Single Wagon 1 Set Work Harness 1 Set Driving Harness 1 Single Harness 1 Set Heavy Sleighs . 1 Set of 1-Horse Bobs 1 Banner 2-10 Plow 2 One-Horse Plows 1 Lever Drag 1 Spike Tooth Drag 1 Seven Tooth National good as new 1 Five Tooth Iron Age Cultivator Cultivator, as 1 Spike Tooth Cultivator 2 Hand Cultivators 1 Power or Hand Cutting Box 2 Buggy Poles 1 Grindstone 1 Dinner Bell 1 Large Water Tank A number of Potato Crates 1 Tank Heater 1 Stone Boat 1 Economy Chief Cream Separator A quantity of Grain Bags 1 Economy 2 1-2 h: p. Gas, Engine 1 Buzz Saw and Outfit 1 Pump JacK 2 Heating Stoves X Cook Stover Household Furniture, Forks, Shovels, Log Chains, other small tools, Seed Pota- toes, Carrots and many other articles too numerous to mention. All sums of $5 and under, cash; on all sums over $5, six HJAiY0. months time will be given on good bankable paper bearing seven per cent interest. . H. A. BROWN, Prop. Lou Emmons, Auct. A. E. Dorr, Clerk