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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-09-19
Resolutions In Memoriam

Whereas, the death messenger has
again entered our circle and called from
our midst our beloved sister, Laura Ben
edet,
Therefore, let it be Resolved, that while
we shall miss her in all these various
walks Of life and shall not share her
thoughts and labors, yet we will strive to
emulate her generous spirit and bow in
humble submission to the will Of our God
and say THY will be DONE"
Therefore. let il be further Resolved,
that we, as members Of the East Otisco
Farmers club. extend our sincere and
heartfelt sympathy to those who are
called to mourn her loss, and
Be it further Resolved. that these reso-
lutions be placed upon the records Of our
club and copy be sent to the bereayed
family.
Margaret Kohn,
Ethel Krick.
Berthold Chickering.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-09-19
"HOUSE OF MIRTH"
DIR. Litle's House WIN he Converted
Into IL Friday and Saturday Eve.

DIR. Litle's House VIII be Converted
Into IL Friday and Saturday Eve.
The ladies' Of the Social Circle have ar
ranged to give an entertainment at DR.. +.
w. Lilies on Friday and Saturday eve
nings Of this week in the interests OF the
pipe organ fund and they have named the
function The House of Mirth," and no
pains have been spared to make the en-
tertainment hummer. In room No. /,
will be found statuary; No. 2, The Baby
Show; No. Q, Minstrels; No. 4, Tableaux
No. S, County Fair with refreshments.
Among the numerous exhibits at the
county fair Friday and Saturday evenings
will be found prize cucumbers, grown by
Chas. Wise, the seedman; prize pumpkins,
by F. D. Washburn; dressed chicken,
Chas. Waener's best, blue ribbon fowl,
Byron Brown; quilt pieced by H. j. Leon
ard at the age of five years, latest orea-
alton in millinery, Mrs. MiIlard chicken
pie, Hotel Belding; cake, Mrs. M. A. Chap
man; doughnuts, Mrs. H. Gooding salad.
Mrs. Ferguson; pickles and chill sauce,
Mrs. H. j. Connell. E. c. Lloyd, Vern
Divine, w. |. Benedict, DR.. George Smith,
DR.. J. E. Ferguson, w. c. Spicer, George
Wagner, Roy Reynolds. George Tooley
and many others are also arranging for
exhibits OF interest
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-09-19
REV. MEESE RESIGNS
Pastor of Church of Christ Goes To
Shepherd

Rev. J. c. Meese has resigned as pastor
Of the Church of Christ and will leave this
week for Shepherd. Isabella county.
where he has been called to the pastorate
there.
Mr. Meese bas been the faithful and be-
loved pastor of the church in this CITY for
the past two years and he and Mrs. Meese
have gained a host of friends, while the
church has been given good uplift under
his charge, and the society regret very
much to lose him. He makes this change
to be near his farm. which is located a
few miles out from Shepherd, thus giving
him an opportunity of having an oversight
of it. he preached his farewell sermon
to large congregation Sunday evening,
who were delighted with his sermon but
sad to think it was his last as their pastor.
During his pastorate $1,000 has been
paid on the church and the building and
parsonage have undergone many improve
ments in the way of frescoing, painting.
cement walk and steps built. water sys-
tenn and sewer put in. A new organ has
also been purchased and about sixty
members have been added to the church
roster. A largely attended farewell re-
ception was given him at the church Mon
day evening.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-09-19
ARE DOING GOOD
salvation Army Getting After Down n
and Out Men

The Salvation Army in Detroit is busy
daily with the reformation of men who
are down and out through drink, mlsfor-
tune, domestic troubles and the like. and
Col. Scott and his assistants have many
hard tasks set for them in reforming these
derelicts or in finding employment for
them.
A skilled mechanic recently ar piled to
Col. Scott in great distress. The drink
habit had got the best of him and he had
already purchased poison to end his life,
but after an hours praying he was con-
veyed to his home to try again. An ex-
perienced travelling salesman, who at one
time earned $4,000 year, but who has
lost his grip through domestic and ott er
troubles, is being cared for by the armv
and an effort is being made to find him
some employment.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-09-19

Last Saturday evening the body of AL
bert Sisco, aged about sixty years. was
brought to this city for burial. Deceased
was formerly resident of this city and
drove team here for several years. He
moved from here to Grand Rapids, where
he suddenly became insane and was
finally sent to the asylum at Kalamazoo,
where he remained until the hour of his
death.
The funeral was held at the residence
Of his brother, Ed Sisco. in this city, and
the remains we're laid to rest in the old
cemetery Monday afternoon at two clock.
Rev j. C. Meese speaking the words OF
comfort TO the sorrowing friends.
Deceased leaves two children. Bert
who resides in Baldwin, and Maude Of
Hornell, N. Y. who came here to attend
the funeral. One brother, Ed Siscc, and
two sisters, Maude Ssco and Mrs. Chas.
Luce. all OF this city. are also left to mourn
his sad taking away.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-09-19
BAPTIST Bazaar

The ladies Of the Baptist church have
decided to hold bazaar for the sale Of
fancy and useful articles, about December
is. They intend to have such a stock OF
fancy and useful articles to offer that one
need not look elsewhere for their Christ
mas presents. The selection. the quality,
and the price will be right. The proceeds
will apply on the parsonage debt fund.
Wait for them.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-09-19
M. f. APPOINTMENTS
Conference Closed Monday After
Preachers were Assigned Places

Treachers were Assigned Places
The Michigan M. E. conference, which
was held in Albion this year, closed it:
labors Monday Immediately after the ap.
polntments were given out by the bishop
A motion asking the general conference
to restore the old time limit was carried
by vote of seventy-six to thirty-six
Rev. W. P. French of Lansing was ap-
pointed presiding elder of the Lansing
district in place of Rev. leLamarter.
Kew. j. W. Sheehan Of this city goes to
Hastings in the Grand Rapids district.
A. 0. Carman iSappointed to the Feakin
Memorial church in Grand Rapids.
Lansing district appointments Alma.
q. S, Robinson; Ashley F E. Chamber
lain; Bannister, L. B. Alberts; Bath. We'll
lington Earl; Belding, G. F. Craig; Berlin
and South Berlin, A. E. North: Brecken-
ridge, W. L. Mann; Carson City, George
Bullen; Crystal, L. L. Smith; Delta. f. F.
Newell; Dewitt, j. W. Hayward; DuPlain.
E. E. Sprague; Eagle, Elliott Bouck Ell
sic, 0. ]. Golden; Emerson, to be supplied
Grand Ledge, w. +. Doty; Gresham, to
be supplied; Hoytville. to be supplied
Hubbardston. Charles Hayward; Ionia,
W. |. Cogshall; Ithaca, j. H. Wilcox; Lam
sing, Central church, j. T. LeGear; First.
|. t. Weldon; Lyons, II. E. Wiley; Maple
Rapids, M. P. Mosher; Mason, j. c. Cook.
Middletown and Sethton, o. c. Parmeter:
Nashville. Alfred Way; Okemos. C. H
Kelsey; Orange. A. w. Simmons; Orleans.
l.. B. Kenyon Ovid, R. j. Slee; Palo. j.
w. Buell.; Perrinton, w. A. Robinson:
Portland, j. M. Wolfe; Pottersville. w. A.
Exner; Rverdale, A. F. Hart; St. Johns.
J. B. Pnckard; st. Louis, Arthur Trott;
Shepherdsvle. j. c. Dietrich; Sheridan.
E. R. Lyon Sunfeld. D. E. Brtch; YER
r. w. Merrill; Wacousta, D. A.
Rood; Wheeler, j: E. Slater; Woodland
]. c. Doris,
Mr., Craig. who is appointed to this
charge, comes from Union City, Branch
county, and is unmarried.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-09-19
Card of Thanks.

We desire to extend our most sincere
thanks to the many friends who so kindly
rendered us their sympathy and assistance
in our recent bereavement in the death
and burial of husband and father, Albert
Sisco. Mary Sisco.
Maude Ssco
Bert Sisco,
Mrs. Lulu Sisco.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-09-19
BAKED Goods sale

The Ladies Aid society of the ME-.
church will hold baked goods sale at
Pieroe's store all day Saturday, Sept. 81
Will also have on sale cook book of tried
recipes. Price l5o.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-09-19

Throw away your cook stovel Yoa
can now obtain a coal or wood attach
ment for any Gas Range. Ask the Gas
man. loft
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-09-19

You can brighten up the home at a
small expense by investing in the wal
paper bargains at Wortley & Frenehs.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-06-13

sacks ride in on horseback an
backin' against the wall aim theil
shotguns at the ASSEMBLY,. Five
minutes later-mimber number wan
all av thin are tagged to privini
confusion-opens the debate prop.
err. His name is Slipoffski an be
finds fault wild the coin av the rim,
stain that there are too nanny
nickles an not enough dimes.
Fincklestein, a Rooshan joo,
joomps up an calls him liarovitch
an declares that there are too
nanny dimes ar not enough half
dollars. Both av thin commince
to shake their fists while the Co.'S
sacks shoot in the air an' livery
body ilse ducks behint his chair.
In the manetime Slipoffski Extracts
a boomb an Fincklestein another
wan, but the former bein' quicker
hurls his first missin' the latter
an hittin' F'inlander who waz
joost in the act av pakin' around
the corner av his chair. In the
ixcitimint av the terrific Explosion
Fincklestein squazes his SO hard
that it goes off in his hand takin'
siven Cossacks an himsilf to a
Jeroozylim that's fairer than this.
Win the miss is claned up it is
found that SEVENTEEN min-quickly
replaced wild understudies- an
five horses which ain't-are kilt
an missin'. Oh, it's a fierce propy-
sition all right. To ally the nerves,
vodka is promiscuously passed an
some wan ilse gets up an sings
his dirge befure LAWN fer the far
hinse. Sometimes twinty min are
kilt because Finlander objects to
a liable on a sardane can an fray
quintly they accydintly commit
sooyside be absintmindedly sittin'
on top av their own boombs. Yis,
an the more I think av it the
more I thank provydince fer not
maxim me Rooshan be mistake.
E. E. II.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-06-13

no more about landscape decora-
tions than I did about cooking, but
he was born lucky, for the fellow
assigned to help him was a horti-
culturist. AS he did the work, Bob
spent considerable time flirting.
Anyway, his time expired five days
before mine, and two days after he
was discharged I received the fol-
lowing note: Dear Tim: Most
persons are prone to complain at
every ill-wind, but [ am glad met
you up on the Big Muddy; because
your desire to get rich in hurry
brought me the ill-wind that blew
me into Uncle Sans clutches. In
short. l married, this a. M, the
girl across the way. She is provided
with wealth galore, enough for two,
and if you desire we will provide
you with employment, when free,
as our COOK
Three days later I, too, was free,
but concluded to give Wilks a
wide berth. Since then I have
received several requests from him
to take charge of his wife's big
ranch out west, but-well, [ finally
learned the art of cooking, and
why leave the range for the ranch?
ERID.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-06-13
Muldoon on the Donna.
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mattrissis an soovyneer hat pins.
Out av this herd av mawltrated
humanity the jock, count, prince
baron or vodka distiller selicts
{oor or Eve av the most intilligint
to ripresint him an his idayas al
, the dooma. It is preposterous to
suppose that a tyrannical goovern.
mint wud allow it's farmers to git
so familiar wild politics as to rip
resint thimsilves, in their own be.
half, at such ticknycal debates.
Not on yer life! AS a matter av
fact all that don't get kilt, durln'
the sission, are shipped to Shay
ria the minute they come back.
These controversies, hivyly shapy-
roned be Cossacks, are hid in the
cinter av huge forest instid av a
city OWN to the ditrymintal efict
av dinymlte on high buildings.
livery mimber, befure LAWN the
palace av his owner, is we'll sup
piled wild boombs an instructions
on how to dispose av thin in case
annywan objects whin he spakes
the little piece he has painfully
mimorized. When yez realize
that MIN bership av foor hundred
is split up into three hundred
factions it will not require much
transcindintal Specialization to close
yer eyes an see the smoke. Like
the inmates av booghouse they
call aich other ridiculous names,
such as Rightists, Liftists, Octo-
berists, Terrorists, Novimberists
an amy other list [ how failed to
mintion.
The maytin' opens wild prayer
an vodka, after which ceremony
the prisydint hits the top av the
klg an says: "The Doomavitch,
in the name av Nicholas an Stola.
pin, will PLACE come to orderski.
GO? ~ ?!!!!zzzs s." ST.
multayneously foorty or fifty Co.'S
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-06-13
A Short Romance of the West.

photos taken and accompanied q
special deputy to ward three
apartment thirteen, where We
were informed of this and that
and handed book on prison Ell.
quette.
The walls of our new abode were
embellished-well, memory enables
me to remember that the walls were
covered with whitewash, the rest
being immaterial. Glancing from
our single door we could see the
highway, the open country, and in
particular a large, brown house
some forty rods from the bastile.
1 need not describe the house OF
the lawn, as both are common to the
observer. However, we had scarce
ly observed it until Bob espied a
girl standing on the veranda.
'Say Tim," said he, there's
feminine raiment yonder which
may parade on yon green sward,
thus enabling us to realize that
we're not entirely, but liable to
mundane resurrection" I was
about to gaze at the center of at
traction when Bob resumed. "Hav-
ing but a narrow margin to look
thru, you survey the interior space
while 1 conjecture about yon dam
sci. Wonder if she is married OF
single? Course she'd be single if
not hitched. Think she is young,
pretty and
"Say Bob," I interpolated, "be-
fore I can answer your solicitous
queries I'll have to look across the
intervening landscape" Bob re-
torted: Gail right, Tim, but don't
forget to remember that you're too
old to blight the fair innocence OF
youthful femlninity.''
For time Bob and I took turns
at the door, then we concluded to
adopt code by which we would
exclude the human propensity to
quarrel over nothing. During the
forenoons I sat beside the door;
the afternoons were Bobs. I never
really knew how it happened, but
one day Bob picked up the reflex
(mirror) article of our interior
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-06-13
Synonyms Their Use.
Taken from q. F. Graham's book on
English Synonyms"

To Enlaxge-7o Increase.
The verb to enlarge, taken in a
moral or physical sense, is applied
to extent of surface; to increase is
used with reference to bulk, num-
Der or quantity. A6eld is enlarged
when, by the removal of its bound
ary, it is made to retain larger
extent of ground. In like man.
ner, a mans mind is enlarged
when, by reading, reflection, or
conversation, he has acquired the
power of seeing more Of the extent
of whatever may be the object of
his attention. A balloon, during
the process of imitation, becomes
increased in size, and enlarged in
extent; increased, so far as it &C.
cupies more space; and enlarged,
as it presents more surface to the
eye of the spectator. Riches, wis
dom, appetite, etc., are increased,
views, prospects, premises, etc., are
enlarged.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-06-13

q WAS a cold and cloudy day,
so [ concluded to drop into
the Aero Club to while away a
few dull hours at billiards or
in social confab. When [ entered
the club rooms were deserted save
by employees who were busy, so l
seated myself at a table and picked
up a newspaper. AS I did SO a
manuscript fell to the floor. l
picked it up noting the words,
"Truth is stranger than felton, -
penciled under the space intended
for the title. I read the story and
later reread it several times. l,
also, endeavored to return it to the
author but never succeeded, so
now I rewrite it.
In the territorial days there
stood a United States bastile in
one corner of the Dakotas. 1t
had been erected on a high hill
from where one could obtain a
view of the surrounding country
for many miles. About mile
from the prison was a growing,
thriving city. I shall never forget
the day 1 first entered that city. l
was handcuffed to Bob Wilks-
with whom I had secured the
country along the Big Muddy in
search of marketable cayuses. We
had found a few too many and as
a result Bob and I were in custody
of sheriff headed for the U. S.
health department, intending, as
the Judge put it, to retire to "think
it over" As the train drew up at
x we were courteously re-
quested to take advantage of the
opportunity to ride in a cab to our
"new home" As it was raining
strenuously we complied and then
soon became aware of the prox-
unity of the legalized death home
for get-rich-quick schemers-who
are caught before they succeed.
Anyway 1t was on the fateful thir-
teenth that Bob and I made our
bow to Warden Graham and with
out any special invitation took a
bath, rerobed ourselves, had our
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-06-13

COHIOiiuSoS IHo o1AIylot po-
litical propagandy l liver be-
came tangled Wild is what is tick
nycally called the doomavitch. Av
coorse, OWN to me nationality,
niver aitinded wan personally, do
yez mind, but frind av mine who
acted as war correspondent an rid
cross nurse durin' siveral sissions
av thin has photographed me a
soofishint nun Der av saycrit sig
nails to make this denunciation
an taat.
The term "doomavitch,'' SO far
as | can ascertain, is pig-latin
ixprission, maynin that thin who
play wild itare doomed to a m oorg fin
ish or the loss av linn bs; premature
Explosions bein' wan av its chafe
properties. Unlike the Annias
cloob, which has only wan ixalted
grand ind-jamner, the Rooshan
controversy has eighty 6ye-count
Observation-Disclosures croaAers an
foor hundred Numbers in good
standin' not to mintion twice that
nanny understudies an apprin-
tees. Yis, an what is more they
made thin, fer it frayquintly hap
pens that kilt Numbers under
study is rindered unconscious be-
fure the substitution takes efict,
while the poor apprintice
hovin' time to rehearse himsilf-
is carried out on stritcher an
doomped in the same snow-drift
that Gonzales the foorms av his
frinds. Such roof tratemibt av
a mans 6zzyology may prevint
him from dyin' be disaze an it
might add impituosity to Co.'S
sacks ripytation, but nayther wan
av thin will liver ginerate enough
charity to obscure the vulgarity av
Rooshan society or the official in
compatibility av the iAimynated
mau- infant behint the throne.
Ye see, the Gar, bein' very DEL
lycate an timid from habitually
slapin' in safe, is fzzycally in
competint to handle his job, but
instid av resignin' or committin'
sooyside-like amy other man wud
do-he shifts the intlre RESPONSE
bility on the grand jocks an primed
wild vodka-ministers, DRAWN
his pay from foorce av habit. l
don't know whittier he is payin'
thin a complimint or thryln to
kill thin off; at Taste none av thin
liver die from ould age. In Roosha,
yez must raymimber, livery jock,
prince an marquis-called poten-
tates fer shoort-has the royal
privilege av farmin' out siven or
eight thousand av the Cars sub
jicts wild the ixpriss understandin'
av previntin' thin from gittin' too
fat an kapin' thin properly fnced
in.
Wan av the main characteristics
av these poor divils is their appal-
lin ignorance which, under prisint
conditions, it pays to cultivate
because a little knowledge, in
Roosha, is equivalint to the
price av a railroad ticket to
Sibayria whittier ye want to go or
not. liz said that, Ignorance is
bliss whin it's wise to be foolish"
yit poignant as this ixprission is,
it miserably fails to conway how
totally eclipsed the INTELLECTUALLY
differintiatin' faculties av the Slav
are.
Shure, they call thimsilyes
pheasants, collectively, an, indi-
vidually, alch wan thinks he's a
horse, but where they bear a ray
simblance to these annymals is be-
yant me pinytration intirely. AL
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-06-13

|
held in the hands Of the girl across
the way, as we soon came I'd allude
| to her..
! In the days of which [ write
prisoners of state were compelled
to languish in this prison without
a care unless fortunate enough to
be selected to work in the steward 9
department. So we simply lived
to eat and ate to live. However,
I Was, one day, asked if [ had a
trade. ooh, yes" said I, Il used
to be head cook at the Delmonico
back at Paris The fact was 1
knew nothing about the art, but
the monotony was fearful and as
there was nothing to do but eat, [
imagined I was a cook-anyway l
got a job washing dishes.
My selection for the particular
position-requir steady nerves,
a cool head near hot water, and the
ability to separate chinaware from
grease-left our palatial apart
ment in charge of Wilks. He
seemed to be elated, for said he:
"There are times when absence
makes the heart grow fonder, and
now Tim I'm not only fonder of
you but also happy to acknowledge
your superior education, for l
would never have proved equal to
the occasion of lying to get work,
but so long as your parents don't
know it, it is all right. Again your
absence enables me to raise both
arms, partly, at the same time, and
it saves you the necessity of climb
ing on the bed every time l wish
to reach for the towel. Further, it
leaves me the possessor of the door
so [ can now obtain a morning
view of the outside world. In
short I'm deeply grateful to you
for accepting your important du-
ties and trust that you will concen-
trate your mind on your work so
as to make an honest living when
you return to your proper sphere
on this mundane orbit"
AS said, Bob was now left to
look after the cell Gas they call it,
but he said it was "sell" on hu-
man beings) and some way he got
to flirting with the girl across the
way. One day Bob said to me:
"Tim, I know your heart is in the
right place, tho your pocketbook
was taken away from you when we
came here, but what need is a
bigger reflex article. Borrow the
stewards, if he offers any objection
take this dinky apparatus to the
culinary department, smash it on
the floor, bring me his, then tell
him you accidently broke his mir
ror. No objections now; Tim your
education has learned you how to
handle the truth and this is no
time to balk."
Pursuant to Bob's orders [ got
the stewards fine looklng-glass,
but someway it cost me my digni-
fed position and I was again bur-
dened with monotonous idleness. In |
addition to this [ lost five days |
good time and our cell was there
after destitute of it's reflex article,
as Bob called it. However, he
polished up the tin wash basin and
it answered our needs. Then we
resumed our code.
A few weeks before our time ex-
pired Bob accosted the warden and |
said: "Mr. Graham, have OBJ
served your front lawn for many
months and during my sojourn
in New York City I made speci-
atty of landscape work. Now,
with few changes and the addi-
ton ofrose bushes your lawn would |