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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-27
Local II
Brevities.

Miss Jean Lyle visited at Ionia over
Sunday.
Rev. A. o. Carman was in Ionia
Monday.
w p. Hetherington was in Stanton
Tuesday.
Mrs. Geo. Crippen was in Grand
Rapids Tuesday.
Walter Hutchinson left Monday on
his return to Utah.
Mrs. w. J. Moore spent Sunday
with friends at Chadwick.
Roy Edenger of Greenville was in
the city Friday on business.
w. ID. Ballou left this morning for
few days trip to Manistee.
Mrs. John Bond is entertaining her
mother from Saranac this week
Mr. and Mrs. John McKendry of
near Ionia were in the city Friday.
Mrs. w. l. Benedict visited friends
in Grand Rapids the first of the week.
Mrs. N. Lapham left Friday for a
three weeks visit with relatives in
Detroit.
II. II. BERT Bedding of Dayton, o..
has been guest at Hotel Bedding
this week.
Mrs. Mary Porter went to Grand
Rapids this morning to visit her son
Ed. Porter.
Miss Maude Clarke was home from
Grand Rapids to spend Sunday with
her parents.
MIR. and Mrs. Herb VanBuskirk left
Monday to visit friends at Carson
City and st. Johns.
Miss Minnie Mcdonald has been
visiting her sister Mrs. Henry Whit
ney at Cedar Springs.
Mrs. Mary Thurston of Clare, who
has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Tom
Thurston, returned home Tuesday.
The w. S Garfield Co. has had a
beautiful display of flowers and pot
ted plants in their windows this week.
Mr.. Aleck Russell left this morning
for Millbrook where he will go on a
farm. Mrs. Russell will go in a few
days.
Mrs. Mary Wilson left Monday for
an extended visit in Chicago and will
also go to Canada and other points
before returning.
Miss Jennie Wagner was home from
Alma college over Sunday and has
gone to Grand Rapids to spend a few
days with her sister.
Mrs. II. a. Lamb, daughter Margur-
lite, and her little friend, Miss Flor
euce Fisher, left Saturday for a two
weeks visit at Richland, Kalamazoo
county
The members of the Slayton Con-
cert Co. were here Monday, but owing
TO the prohibition of the health Of
licer no concert could be given at the
Opera House.
The Misses Laura, Nellie and Minnie
Mcconnell, left Monday for the home
of their parents at Hartford, to spend
their vacation from duty as teachers
in the city schools.
Nj. A. Severance has shipped his
household goods to Canada, where
they are to reside, so as to give
Marion Case possession of the house,
but they will not go just yet.
Supt. A. l.. Marvin and family left
Tuesday morning for Manistee, where
MIR. Marvin will do some preliminary
work connected with the Sunnyside
resort in which he is interested.
1t is now the Central Methodist
Episcopal church of Belding, action
having been taken to incorporate it
under that name. There is a special
act under which churches can incor-
porate, which only requires the filing
Of proper papers with the county
clerk. They are now in shape to let a
contract for the new church building
as soon as the plans are received.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-27

"A. ID. Hull spent sunday IN Lansing
Max Gals went TO Roe kford Monday,
Mrs. j. l.. Lloyd has been in Green
vile this week.
The millinery openings were all
very successful.
Miss Kittie Spicer visited at Grand
Rapids Monday.
Leo Thomas spent last week with
his parents at Palo
Tom Griffith is home from Big Rap
ids for a short visit
Miss Mana Crib visited friends at
Portland over Sunday.
Mrs. Chas. Locke and son Of Battle
Greek are at w. II. Locke's.
Mrs. Bristol of Almont is with her
daughter Mrs. Ellis Ranney
Born to Mr.. and Mrs w. Runnells
of the first ward Monday, a son.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. John Andrus
of Keene, a daughter, Wednesday.
Miss Ella Stevens went to Grand
Rapids Wednesday for a short visit.
Len Weeks and Mrs. Slawson left
Tuesday morning for Jackson to visit
friends.
Miss Iva Shiverly of Ionia visited
her sister, Mrs. Fred McCue, over
Sunday.
Mrs. T. Z. Willie of Greenville Wis
tied her daughter Mis- Minnie Willie,
Wednesday.
If this weather keeps up the street
sprinkler will have to be put in com
mission soon.
Ed. Webster has been home from
the Ferris business school at Big Rap
ids this week.
Mrs M. A. Brown of Grand Rapids
visited her sister, Mrs L. II. Stone a
few days last week.
Miss Jessie Norton Of Greenville is
visiting her uncle O. F. Webster a
few days this week
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank HELEN of De-
troit mourn the loss of their two
weeks old baby daughter.
Miss Erma Maynard OF Shiloh visit
ed Mrs. Q. Barker a few days this
week, returning home Wednesday.
Mr.. Floyd Grace of Kansas City,
Mo, who has been visiting at 0. j..
Bankers returned home Wednesday.
Mrs. a Lewis OF Lakeview returned
home Saturday after an extended Wis
it with her daughter Mrs NJ. Y. Gep-
hart.
The w. c T. L. will meet with
Mrs. Fred Peck, Friday afternoon at
2:30 Report OF county meeting will
be given.
+. II. King is taking little vaca-
tion from duty this week and vert to
Grand Rapids Tuesday on a business
and pleasure trip.
Miss Grace OBryon of Stanton re-
turned to her home Saturday after a
SHOl llSll Will INl HiOthOA' - VI
O'Bryon and family
Mrs. Chas. r. Foote went to FREE
mont last Friday to visit relatives
and friends. Mr.. Foote expects TO go
Friday and remain few days.
Mrs. A. Friedman went to Manistee
Tuesday to spend few weeks with
her parents and friends. Mr. Fried
,lnan accompanied her as far as Grand
Rapids.
L. Chapple has just installed a new
feed mill and now has it in operation.
IL is a new style and is a fine one
They will have to come pretty fast if
he is not able to keep all his custom
ers supplied now.
J. w. Collier has an auction sale OF
farm stock at his place one mile west
and two miles south of Orleans station
on Thursday, April 3, commencing al
| O'Clock. ID. +. Halls auction sale al
his place west Of the city Wednesday
April End.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-27
Can't Keen IL secret.

The splendid work of DR.. Kings New
Life Pills is daily coming TO light. No
such grand remedy for liver and bowel
troubles was ever known before.
Thousands bless them for curing Con-
stipation, Sick Headache, Billiousness,
Jaundice and Indigestion. Try them,
25c at Cornell Bros. drug store
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-27

For Sale at the Wagner agency
good dwelling houses and lots with all
the modern Improvements, for sale on
easy terms and on monthly Install
ments For more particulars call at
my Office in the New Bedding block,
south side of street, Belding.
"A WAGNER
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-27
seed nenns.

have "A few hundred bushels of
seed beans which / desire to let to
responsible farmers with suitable soil.
Crop delivered in October next. Price,
$3.50 per bushel Variety, Prolific or
Black Wax. A j. Hale, Orleans. AZ
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-27

The Continental Starch Co. of
Greenville are buying all No. 2 and
No. potatoes they can get. Parties
having such stock to dispose of should
do so as soon as convenient, at least
not later than April 10Th.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-27
EnrIn For Snle.

100 acres of good land, known as the
Ilnoch Brown farm, 315 miles west of
Belding. Price S35 per acre For
further particulars inquire on prem
jseS. r.. ID HALL.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-27

One pair of Mares, one single Mare,
one Yearling Colt, one Yearling Dur
ham bull, full blood, one set of heavy
harness, one new set of light double
harness, one lumber wagon.
VIM. GARDNER
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-27

Farm to let-l40 acres, within one
mile of Bedding, good orchard and
good buildings on same. Inquire of
III. j. Leonard.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-27

WANT D-Bench molders | 5 o
young men from Is to % years old to
learn molding. Address Grand Rap
ids Mallable Co.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-27

For sale cheap-good house, barn,
and two lots, on Aldermanst., Sd
ward. FRED MCCUE.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-27

Wanted-a millinery apprentice.
Mrs. Mable Stone-Hicks.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-27

Mrs. Frank Mason is sole agent in
this city for Or. Shackelton's Inhalor
and Inhalent, which has been inn
proved. Will call at residence and
give free trial treatment, or at her
residence. Mrs. Mason also handles
Kleans-all i'm bulk and the famous
Snyder extracts and perfumes. If
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-27

Pneumonia follows cold but never
follows the use of Foley's Honey and
Tar. H. stops the cough heals and
strengthens the lungs and affords per-
sect security from an attack OF pneu-
monia. Refuse substitutes. w. |.
Benedict.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-14
SPORTS
WANT THEIR MONEY BACK
Women Who Lost Money on Horse
: Races in New York Sue
{, Bookmakers. e.

A technical decision rendered by JUS
tfce ODwyer in the city court at New
York yesterday revealed that q number
of suits have been begun by women
against VARIOUS race track companies to
recover money lost in betting on horses.
The decision rendered was in the case
Of Beatrice Halloran, who is suing the
Coney Island Jockey, club to recover $4o9
which she says she lost last summer at
sheepshead Bay. The action was first
begun in the tenth district municipal
court. but was transferred by Bowers 4
Sands. the jockey club lawyers, to the
city court The defendants then de-
INJURED to the PLAINTIFFS complaint as in
sufficient. and moved for dismissal of the
suit. Justice O'Dwver holds the point
we'll taken, but he gives the plaintiff per-
mission to serve an amended complaint.
Benjamin Steinhardt. who is counsel for
Mrs. Halloran and who has also repre-
scented the pool room men in their attacks
on the Percy Gray law said yesterday
that this was only one Of hundred Sim
liar suits of which he has charge. Ele
said that Mrs: Halloran has six suits on
for a total Of s1.S00. including the one be-
fore Justice O'Dwyer. Steinhardt says
that if he RECEIVERS for his clients the
money they have lost in gambling on
horses, victory In one or two Gases will
suffice to put the bookmakers at the
track to just as much difficulty In carry
ing on their business as the pool room or
handbook men have in the city.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-14
LACKS MORE THAN 5000
Returns on Gross Earnings Bill Re
ceived by The Journal From +
81 II Out of SO Counties.

Total vote (seventy one countIes) 4,5es
Yea vote for gross earnings Bill. III ,638'
Defeated by ........... ............ b,o44
r The per cent gross earnings tax was
defeated at the late election by at least
5000 votes. T.. 50. ~ ~ -, ~
Returns have been received by h e
Journ from seventy-one counties out
Of the eighty-two. The missing ones are
Clay. Cook, Hubbard. 1tasca, Olmsted,
Polk, Roseau. st. Louis, Stearns, Wadenag
and Watonwan. The total vote of these
seventy -one counties was 2S4,56 The
gross earnings bill received Ill, $685. To
get majority in these counties the bill
must have received 117,2S2 votes. 1t
lacked 5,644 of that amount =
There is no prospect that the other
eleven counties will gain any ground, for
the bill. It is sure to lose heavily in St.
Louis. The bill barely failed in Hennepin.
Out Of $4,000 votes, 1t received 1902,
lacking forty-eight votes of one-half. This
is the official count.
The report from Ramsey county is un-
official, and may be bettered by the can
vassing boards figures. 1t gives the bill
far reported in which the bill carried are
Aitkin, Becker, Zig Stone, Carlton, Cass,
Chisago, Dodge, Douglas, Goodhue, Grant,
Houston, Kanabec, Kandyohi, Kittson,
Lac qui Parle, Lyon, Marshall, Martin,
Mower, Norman, Otter TAIL Pope, Red
wood, F;enville, Rock, Sherburne, Sibley,
Swift. Todd, Traverse and, Yellow Medi-
cine.
The other amendments are still worse
defeated. The tax amendment will run
about 5000 behind the gross earnings, and
the other two fare still worse. The large
vote for the gross earnings bill is due to
two things. 1t was more earnestly de-
sired and agitated, and then J. F. Jacob
son inserted in the bill a provision that its
title should be printed on the ballot in
bold faced type. This brought it more
to the attention of the voters, although it
was last on the list.
The failure Of the amendments has re-
vived agitation for a constitutional con-
vention. There seems no prospect Of
amending the constitution. 1t cannot be
done at special election, as the constitu-
ton provides expressly that amendments
must be submitted to the people at a
general election.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-14
WHIST

De Seuer and Eichlcr high score at the
Minneapolis Whist club last night with twelve
tricks plus. The
SECTION A-TWELFTII MATCH
=, North and South-Sykes and Mcmillan, So
Brown and Harris, "a; jerks and Kennedy, 81 ;
Barber and Janney, 50; Campbell and Long
brake 90 Clark and Kilbourne. &c. De Seuer
and Eichler. "a; Mix and Wellington, So Aver
ave, 9Oh.
= East and West-Woods and sprague, 1876;
Pierce and Thompson. 1o1; Fox and Hayes 1O4 ;
Warren and Johnston, l13; Luther and Thorn:
Son. 105: Ware and Collins, 80: Prince and
Austin, 1o1; Miller and Nesbtt, 100. Average,
104 sc.
~ sgs,a.. are ~ SECTION b.. :,-ts.."e '-%.
:, North and south-Gray and Jennison. 1902;
Fraser and Barnard 105; Higbee and Gillette.
1oS; Fahnestock and Nicholson 1o4; Brinsmaid
and Countryman 1O1; Phelps and Buford 100;
Parson and Sackett, 106; Taylor and McKusick,
100; Barnes and Travis 1O3. Average, 1O3 20.
East and West--Barney and sSatteree, 90;
Chase and Wadsworth 90; Burgess and Gut
WITT, 81: Boutele and 'Moulder. 81; Keer and
Montgomery, o.; Todd and Bagley. 9o; Pike and
Michaels. 90; Lederer and Guderian, 95; Nantz
and mickey. 90. Average, 81 TO
SECTION A-THIRTEENTH MATCH.
North and South-Nantz and mickey. Of
Luther and Thompson, 90; Ware and Collins, 81
Prince and Austin, Il; Pierce and Thomson 90;
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-14
PETERSON IS THE WINNER
Defeats Hatley in Final Round of
the Northwestern Billiard
Tourney at Fargo.

Hatley Of Duluth. Ferris of Minneapo-
lis and Peterson Of Fargo played off ties
for first and second place in the north
western billiard tourney, 14-inch balk line.
Hatley and Peterson won the afternoon
games with Ferris and they played off at
Fargo last night Scores of the afternoon
games:
Hatley-o, l, 0, 80, g. 81, 80, 46, 10, Al, q,
20-3OU.
Average. % 1-13.
Ferris-9. o, 0. ., 6. 3. 81, o. 6. 3. 10. lis.
, retersonoo 81. o. 5. 60. 10. 0. "a, g. I, Z,
Ferris. T. 0, 2. 1, ., 2, ~, l. 81 9, /, 0, o,
SS, 10. 0, 16. S-12j.
The final tie game for first place was
played by Peterson and Hatley. The
former won, 800 to 2S9. Final standing of
the players: Peterson, first; Hatley, sec
ond; Ferris, third. Night scores:
reterson-6. IS, 0, %, 35, l. 0, 8, 1o5, 4, o.
l. 10, O. 20, 49, 300.
Hatlcy-oo. 0. IS. 4, 40, 0, 1, 3, l, 20, Al, 6,
10, D. l. 3, 17-2S9.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-14
THE WATERED DESERT
the scripture Literally Fulfilled, and It
Is Made to "BIossom Like
the Rose"

Tickle 1t with a hoe and It will laugh
with harvest" said a traveller. com
mentlng upon the fertility of the American
soil. Even he knew nothing Of the mar
Vicious results of irrigation in the waste
lands Of the west, where the Scrint,,re
prophecy that 1.-The desert shall blossom
like the rose has been literally fulfilled.
Here is a fragment of the wonderful tale.
as Ray Stannard Baker tells it in The
Century: -.
If ever men worked miracles, thew have
worked them here in these western VAL
leys. IT ever something was created from
nothing, these men have done it, Thirty-
five years ago the Salt River valley into
winch we had driven, was all a parched
desert uninhabited save by few lean
Indians and two or three hardy traders,
whom the sand and cactus crowded down
close to the water of the river. 1t was
a. thousand miles from the nearest rail-
land, part Of the Great American Des-
ert, which travellers said would never sun
port human life.s u
To-day the Salt River valley contains a
population Of over $4,000. 1t has three
cities, one, Phoenix, the capital Of Ari-
IONA. having electric lights an electric
car line, good hotels. churches and other
buildings. residences surrounded by trees,
lawns and wilderness of flowers. More
than $4,000 acdes of land round about are
laid out in farms. highly cultivated, with
Orchards Of oranges almonds, olives and
figs, and grain and hay fields. Thousands
of cattle feed in the rich meadows and
there are bees, chickens, ducks and os-
triches unnumbered.e sst.
| Richer soil than. this once desert valley
does not exist anywhere In the world, ex
cept in other once desert valleys Here
one may behold the startling spectacle Of
orange groves in bearing worth thousands
of dollars an acre on one side Of fence
and bare cactus desert on the other, both
having the same soil, the same opportu
mites. but only one having water. Here
when a man builds his fence Of cotton.
wood posts, such is the soil and such the
water that the posts take root and grow
into trees, so that the wire of many ole
fences is seen running through the cen.
ter of large trees Here farmer rarely
needs to use fertilizer. for the river comes
. in bearing rich silt and spreads it ovel
This fields; and he may sometimes cut two
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-14
NATIONAL DEBTS
How That of the United States Differ
From Those of Other Countries
and How Ii Dwlndies,

The October number of the North Amer
lean Review contains the first part Of an
article by 0. P. Austin, chief of the bu-
reau of statistics, on the public debt of
the United States. In this instalment, Mr..
Austin traces the course of the debt from
the revolution to the Inauguration Of Lin
coin. Contrasting our national debt with
those of other nations, Mr.. Austin says:
1T is worth while, before entering upon
a discussion of this debt and it's history,
to compare briefly present conditions with
those Of former periods, and also with
those in other countries On Aug. 81, 1866,
when the national debt made it's high
water mark the total interest-bearing
debt stood at s2,3s1, $50 294, the annual
interest charge at $150,977,6s7, the debt
less cash in the treasury at $3.50, 431, 81,
the per capita at $7S.25, and the per capita
interest charge at 1929, Thus the debt
less cash in the treasury is now about two
fifths what it was at the close of the civil
war, the annual interest charge less than
one-f1fth, the per capita debt about one
sixth, and the per capita interest about
one twelfth of that of 1865. x
Comparing our debt with that Of
other countries, it may be said IN general
terms that the interest bearing debt of
the United States is less than that of
Austria Hungary, Australia, India or
Spain; about half that Of Italy; one third
that OF Russia or the United Kingdom; and
one-f1fth that of France; while the per cap
tia interest charge against the United
States national debt is below that Of any
of the principal countries Of the world, ex-
cept Germany, China and India, being
but one-third that of Russia, one sixth
that of the United Kingdom, one-ninth
that Of Italy, and one-sixteenth that Of
France. No other country floats 2 per
cent bond, while practically one-haH of
the Understanding debt Of the United
States now stands at 2 per cent, and
these securities are selling in the open
markets at a premium of per cent Sc
curities of the principal European nations
are, In most cases, issued at from to 10
per cent below par, while those of the
United States are invariably issued at or
| above par. Another feature in which the
debt Of the United States differs from that
of certain nations is, that all Of it's obi
cations Except the 'greenbacks) are re-
deemable at a fixed date, and that the
policy of the government is to cancel all
Its obligations as rapidly as practicable.
while with certain other governments a
considerable part Of the national oblfga
tions are classed as permanent debt with
out date for redemption, the avowed pol
icy being to merely meet the interest
thereon as 1T falls due, but to make no
provision for payment of the princina1
which is considered permanent indeht
edness."
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-14
THE UGANDA RAILWAY
no" Stanley's Vision of Twenty seven
Years Ago Has Begun to
Be Realized ::
Youths ! Comnanion

Youth s Companion. -
Inc Importance of a highway is not
though the Uganda railway, which now
connects the Pear of Africa" as Lake
Victoria Nyanza is called, with the In
dian ocean. Is only 572 miles long, its
existence has been the means OF suppress
ing the slave trade throughout British
East Africa. 'Twenty-seven years ago it
TOOK Stanley eight months to travel from
sea to lake; two years ago six months
were required for the same Journey To-
day 1T takes two and a half days.
Commenting on the great change
wrought In the twenty-s seven years since
his own first Uganda explorations, STAN
ley tells IN the Independent how he
climbed the highest peak Of a little island
In the Nyanza and reflected upon the fu-
ture: II seemed to see steamers trailing
their dark smoke over the gray waters
of the bay, loaded with passengers. 81
and the natives of the east coast making
blood brotherhood with the natives Of the
west coast. l seemed to hear church bells
ringing at great distance, and I hoped
and prayed that some day that vision
might be realized. In those days Mtesa
of Uganda impaled his victims and
dubbed his women to death upon the
slightest provocation-and all along the
shores barbarous people were signing and
thirsting for blood. To-day the converts
y
distant lands Of the west; three hundred
and twenty churches have been estab-
lished, with ninety thousand Christian
people; there are five hundred children in
the Mengo school,"
If, as Sir Henry asserts, the lake region
has advanced so marvelously during the
slow period when the laden porters car
rled the loads of the missionary and the
sugar chest Of the trader up to Uganda.
what will be its rate Of progress now that
Uganda is brought within two and a half
days Of the sea? To the undaunted serv-
ices of explorers. the fidelity of missiona-
ries and the sagacity Of English admins
traitors the great Uganda railway adds an
almost incalculabIe force in the regenera- =
ton of East Africa
And how came that part Of Africa to be
explored and who were the first explorers
to accomplish important and permanent
results? They were Christian missiona-
ries. First came the great Livingstone.
Stanley himself, made his first trip into
the interior of Africa and began his career
as an explorer in the effort to find Liy-
lngstone. The story of the great Scotch
mans zeal, his devotion to the cause of
Christ and his death in the wilderness of
the Dark Continent made one of the most
eloquent missionary sermons ever
preached. .-"s
| In Hawaii, in Samoa, in New Guinea,
in China and in Japan the missionaries
have written their deeds into history. They
have been the pioneers of material as we'll
as of spiritual development and advance
! ment. 1t IS well to keep this in mind when
| men see and comment upon the compile
ton of a great work like the Uganda rail
| way s..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-14
An English View.

| An English newspaper expresses sur
prise at the numerous American inven-
tons for labor saving in the home In
England mans work has been 1ightened
in every possible manner, but woman
labors in the same old way with the
conveniences their grandmothers enjoyed.
The American respect for women is the
reason for the improvement in our homes.
If you like golden grain belt beer, SO
will your wife, and she is entitled to it.
1t is good for you and good for her. You
need it in your home. S. ~