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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-04-07
NOTICED

To members of the East End Lodge
No. 2t7, l. o. o. r., you are requested
to be at the hall 1880 P. NJ.
to attend the fourth anniversary
sermon TO be preached by Rev. D.
S. Henkel, at the Twenty-fourth
street Christian church. 1t.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-04-07
WANTED.

WANTED-TRAvELER FOR OLD
established house, with large CAPT
tai. Line suitable for either lady or
gentleman. Experience unnecessary.
SIP weekly to start. Expenses ad-
vanced. Address GEORGE CLOVIS,
Newport News, Va. 1t.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-04-07
TENTS, AWNINGS, FLAGS, ETC.
U. S, TRANSFER COMPANY
MOTOR POWER REPLACES rHE HoRsi

MOTOR PoWXk RErLACKs THE HORSE.
SIS TO SS6.-3O0 HEAD OF HORSES and
100 HEAD OF YOUNG BLOCRY BUILT
MULES, o to 3 years old, Weighing 900 to l. 400
pounds, to be positively sold, on account of our
new motor-wagoa system. VIII be sold at the
rate of 80 head a week. All good, seryiceable
stock, Eight ont of hard work. Also so HEAD
OF BIC, YOUNG, FAT MARES, pavement sore,
iNrENDENT at COMPANIES STABLES. 5ss,
535, 537 and $50 WEST PRATT STREET, Corner
Greene, BALTIMORE, BID.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-04-07

LOTS FOR SALE OR LEASE IN ALL
parts OF the city. Call and get
prices. OLD DOMINION LAND
CO., Hotel Warwick building.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-04-07
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-SLoOP YACHT-s1
feet long, IL feet beam. 3 feet depth.
Can be seen at HALLS RAILWAY,
Hampton, Va. 3.2S.12t.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11

Scrubbing I've Sc per can at Patterson's
Two boxes tooth picks for SC at Patter-
sons.
2,4oo best parlor matches DC at Pat
terson's.
Miss Leila Witt returned home from
Fenwick Thursday.
DR.. z. w. Little made business trip to
Grand Rapids Thursday,
Buy your gas range Now. while it can
he installed without delay Aft
Supervisor b. c. Curtis made BUSH
ness trip to Iona this morning.
Harvey Haysmer is making his brother
Frank in Greenville a visit today.
Mrs. Thos. Cottrell Of Greenville is the
guest Of Mrs. VIM. Cottrell today.
Light with Gas; cheaper than oil or
candles. Aft
You cheat yourself if you don't Cook
WITH GAS. Aft
Mrs. Edred Crandall went to Elwel
Thursday for few days visit with her
parents.
Miss Melvina Mills went to Greenyille
Thursday to spend week with her
parents.
Carpenters began work Wednesday re-
modelling the interior of W. |. Benedict
drug store.
Mrs. A. Dawson district deputy Of the
L o. T. M. is in the city working in the
interests of the order.
Some Of our people might surmise that
April came before March this year judg-
ing from the weather this week.
Misses Eva Larouche, Anna johnson
and Helen Granger went to Bay City
Thursday for short visit. Miss Larouche
expects to remain.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11
TWENTY-oNE YEARS LATE.
Former Guardsman Ordered to Report
For Militia Practice in 1886.

Frank A. Bovey, secretary of the
Bovey- DeLaittre Lumber company,
has been summoned to appear at the
armory in fatigue uniform to drill
with company c, First infantry, N. G
s. NJ, says the Minneapolis Journal
His presence is required at 7:45 p. m
sharp, Monday January 20, 1886, and
again on the evening of Wednesday.
the twenty-ninth of the same month
For nearly 81 years the postal ca q
bearing this order has been on its
way to Mr.. Bovey. There have beer
some delays along the way, but the
card is at length in the hands of the
superintendent of mail delivery, Mare
ID. Wanter, and will reach Mr.. Bovey
in time for him to report at tka
armory just 81 years late for drill.
Blame for this, the record slow de
livery of Minneapolis. does not rest
with the local post office, but with the
old mail chute in the old chamber OF
commerce building, where the card
has spent the greater part of the time
intervening between It's dispatch and
its delivery. For the last two years
the chute has been out of order, and
now workmen are busy replacing it.
On taking the old chute apart, the
workmen to-day discovered the card
addressed to Mr.. Bovey, and several
letters. The latter are of recent date
and have already been returned to
their senders by the post Office.
Twenty-one years of lettering on the
road have aged the militia summons
until it is as unrecognizable as Rip
Van Wrinkle after his 20 years nap
in the Catskills. Between the ink
fading and the paper turning dark, the
writing is hardly legible and the
buffeting of other mail matter shot
past it through the chute has worn
several holes in the card.
The card is addressed to "F. A
Bovey, care Eastman, Bovey & Co.
Minneapolis. Mimi" The summons,
partly printed and partly written.
reads as follows: Headquarters
Company c, First infantry, n. G. S.
M.-You are hereby ordered to report
at the armory in fatigue uniform ut
7:45 p. m. sharp, Monday and We'd
nesday. 29th inst, for drill. BY order
of John ID. Osgood, captain command
Ing. John K. hines, sergeant"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11

THE nominations of G, J Diekema for
congress in the Fifth district to succeed
William Alden Smith, says the Carson
City Gazette, is evidence that the district
means to maintain the standing in national
affairs that it has held for ten yers Mr.
Diekema is a man of culture, refinement
AID education. His public life will bear
the closest scrutiny and personally ne IS
and always has been atove reproach
He has stood for clean politics and
honest political methods The contest
was spirited one, but was characterize
by strictly clean and open methods. Mr.
Dekema will enter upon lis work al
Washington with much knowledge OF
affairs, and Will be an honor TO the dis
trct and the state He will be elected
by rousing majority, as he deserves.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11
A WARRIOR, TOO.
Memorial Day Mistake That Brought
Delight to a Poor Swede's Heart.

The wooden boards that had marked
the graves in certain rural ceme-
terry rotted off, and were raked up
in the spring cleaning; consequently,
on Memorial day, when the delega-
ton from the G.. A. II. arrived with
flags and appropriate floral decora-
tons for their departed comrades. the
decorating committee found itself
somewhat in doubt as to which grave
belonged to Captain Blodgett and
WHICH to Hannah Ericsson.
The mistaken delegates, says
Youths Companion, heaped their
offerings upon Hannah's last resting
place and departed. That afternoon,
Ericsson, the widower. drifted, with
the rest of his world, to the cemetery.
When he saw the flag and the flowers
above Hannah, the astonished Swede
fell to chuckling joyously.
Well" he exclaimed, delightedly,
dose faller bane pooty smart, too!
Ay tank dat vor an right and som
guide yoke on Hannah-he vor pooty
guide fighter herselluf."
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11

stayed to see everything given OUT,
and some of them went to their tents
10 see what the folks had sent them.
or to read the letters that had come
with the gifts. And SO the things In
the box got lower and lower, while
still there were some men who had as
yet got nothing and who now were
more and more anxious-and how joy
FULLY relieved when at last something
came up for them!
But there were few, very few.
who fingered in vain; who among all
these gifts got nothing; and plainly
disappointed were some of these,
they had no one to send them, these
but still all bore Ii bravely; and be
sure that those who got shared what
they could share with those who had
nothing In the box.
What came in the Christmas box?
Well, not much bric-a-brac, not many
fancy candlesticks, nor card cases,
nor fancy purses, nor that sort or
thing. but mostly useful articles;
though among these were watches and
pocketknives, and so on; but there
were home knit stockings. and sewing
kits, and suspenders, and shoes, and
books, not forgetting Bibles and Tes-
taments; and tobacco and pipes and
cigars; all sorts of useful things
and many letters and pictures.
And from whom did all these
things come? From wives, and from
children; and from SISTERS, and sweet
hearts, and mothers; and it was that
that made them all so dear. And
bless their dear hearts, they did not
forget, they did not at all forget, the
things to eat
1.-THE box seemed full of roasted
chicken and cookies and jellies and
sausages, and sealed up cans of but
ter and grand cakes, and all manners
of good things to eat. True, we had
pork enough, and we had plenty Of
bareback; but here was something
that savored of Christmas"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11

AT last the countenances of the Rural
Mail Carrier wear a smile; with the pass
ing of the winter comes the news that the
boys will get an increase in their pay Of
$3.50, making the pay 5000 per year with
the two weeks vacation allowed each year
1t makes the boys comfortable living
and enables them to keep their horses on
oats instead of the old diet Of saw-dust.
Now then if Congress would pass a law
prohibiting putting pennies in the box the
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11

"WHEwl What smell, visitor in the
primary department of our schools OBJ
served one day last week when the small
pox scare was on. 1t came from fe.ty
bags worn in place Of necklaces by the
children. Some of the older scholars had
a bag Of it stuffed in the toe Of their shoes.
A little tot said that one sniff made her
SO sick that she felt as though she wanted
to 60 off in the corner and SIT down sno
wished that all the children who wore
feity bags would have to 90 in the oppo-
site corner One teacher thought she
would take her chances with smallpox
rather than the fetty bag If it came 10 a
show down between the two.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11
AN ARMY REMIN,scENcE.
How Santa Claus Cak,e to Com
pany X.

THE regiment | served in put In a
good part of its time in states on the
southern Atlantic seaboard, In South
Carolina. Georgia and Florida, where.
With water transportation to us, we
Gould be got at rather more easily
han troops not so far away, but at in
erior points, says veteran OF the
Evil war in the New York Sun; and
so while you couldn't have things
shipped to you there as you could in
his town or the other in times OF
)eace, still you could get Thugs there
)retty well, and the patron of whom
)ur company was named when 1t was
irst recruited, back in the town In
which it was raised, used to see to
I that at Christmas time there was
delivered to us a big box filled with
hings from friends at home.
1--WE no longer bore his name in the
army, for from the minute we were
mustered into the United States serv-
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11

BELDNG will now be Obliged TO worry
along with only four saloons unless we
can push the population 70 Tue 5000
mark when another may then be estab
hshed. The legislature recently amended
the charter restricting the numbers TO ont
for every one thousand population and al
ordinance has been adopted by the com.
mon council to fit the case,
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11

ce we had become simply company
io-and-so, of such ana such num-
oered regiment, of such and such
state volunteers, but we never forgot
)ur friend at home, and surely he
lever forgot us, and at Christmas time
lie used to see that our company got
hat box.
We'll, in advance he would an
bounce in the home papers that on
such and such date box would be
'ent to the company. and If friends
)r relatives of members of the com
)any would bring in the gifts they
Wished to send they would be care
'ully packed and duly shipped. And
hen the people used to bring In the
hings; and though, somehow, never
bought of it then, | have thought
)ften since, with what loving care
md tenderness must those Christmas
lifts have been prepared, those things
sent from home to their soldiers in
the field
when everything was all in our
friend would have the things securely
and safely packed, and then he'd hike
he box down to New York and there
The quartermaster's department would
out it aboard an army transport and
bring it down to us. So Santa Claus
wasn't coming to us, with his pack on
his back, down the chimney, but in
a box in the hold of a steamer.
when we got our first Christmas
box we were on an island down the
coast there, drilling some and doing
guard and picket duty but largely
engaged in building corduroy roads
through swamps by day, and by night
hauling by hand, with a whole regi-
nents on the ropes, heavy mortars
and guns over these roads, and also,
under the same friendly cover of dark
ness, in building masked batteries In
which the said guns and mortars were
mounted, all this in the course of be-
sieging a fort occupied by confeder-
ate soldiers on another island.
1T was plenty of hard work and
not much play, and most of the freight
that came to us, besides the usual
commissary supplies. was guns and
nortars and powder and shot and
shell and the various material of war;
but one day there came ashore a
tighter from a transport anchored off,
along with barrels of pork and kegs of
powder, that Christmas box from
home for us soldiers.
I'VE hauled 1t up from the beach
and set IL down carefully, right side
up, at the end of the companys street
and ] doubt If any fireplace on a
Christmas morning was ever greater
magnet of attraction to children than
that box was to the men of Company
X. To a man they gathered around
1t to see what Santa had brought them
from home.
1T was big box, big dry goods
packing box; big enough to hold
something for everybody: and care
fully we opened 1t; and, with the lid
off, IL seemed full of innumerable
treasures, so full to the last inch of
space was in packed.
The orderly sergeant of the CON-
pany made the distribution. He raised
his hand and reached over and picked
up a package that lay at the center
of the box, lifted 1t and read the name
On It, and passed It into the outstretch-
ed hand of the man to whom IL be-
| longed.
Then he went on more rapidly
picking up the things and reading of
the names and passing them over
packages of all sorts and shapes and
sizes. all eagerly received. Some men
The BELDING BANNER {,
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11
,oys would then be in clover.

The people of the nation will rejolo'
that the end Of the Thaw trial IS now i
sight The cost Of prosecution is est
mated at $4,000 and Of the defens'
S5o0,ooo Attorney Delnas gets 5000
600 if Thaw escapes the electric chat
and otherwise 100000 Jerome get
$4,000 and Judge FtzGerald $4,000
for the time spent at the trial
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11
for The Belding Banner
Brickers' Exchange Locals

80 acre farm for sale or exchange
See Bri cker.
House and two lots, Broas street.
Price 1900.
House, Broas street 2 blocks from
Main street price $500
House and two lots corner Alder
man and Division streets. Good barn
on place $1,000.
Good room house also good ba I'm
on lot. Broas street. Price $3.50.
Vacant Lots 800 to 5000.
New house, Broas Street. Price
$3.50, $3.50 down balance on time.
100 acre farm for sale. Good build
ings, best of land. w. f. Bricker at
the store, Belding Mich.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11

AT THE end Of this month the transport
Bufora will sail from San Francisco with
5000 tons of flour and other supplies fcr
the Chinese famine sufferers. This ship
msnt is the result Of fund Of $4,000
collected by the Christian Herald, and is
being shipped by the Commissary Depart
nent of tho army free of charge.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11

The small pox situation in Belding al
along has been in the proportion OF three
fourths scare to one fourth small pox
The fetty-bag and other noxious sup
posed epidemic representatives. are already
being laid ASIDE and the odor in dwelling
house and school room is materially
changed for the better
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11

The suggestion bv Alderman Hull, who
is also a member of the Park board, that
building be placed in the Park large
enough to shelter visitors in case oil
storm was good one and will doubtless
meet the approval of all our citizens.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11

EVERY effort should now be put forti
by the city to complete our water works
system if the wells already in are no
sufficient more should be sunk and re
ceving basin be constructed if necessary
River water is good for some purposes
out not for all purposes.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11
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Wasn't BIaminu Him,

I'll have you to understand, sir,
that poets are born, not made"
Don't take any offense. old chap.
wasn't blaming you."-Milwaukee
Sentinel
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11

Our nimrods are already beginning to gel
their fishing tackle in order for May Isl
to get after the willy trout
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11
A Peculiarly.

do you still believe in the faith
cure?"
Yes" answered the tolerant man;
but there's this popularity about it.
IL always appears to be good for some
thing that somebody else has and you
haven't"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11

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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11

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Alum is used in some baking pow,
ders and in most of the so-called
phosphate powders, because II IS
cheap. and makes a cheaper pow
der. But alum is a corrosive which,
taken in food, acts injuriously upon
the stomach, liver and kidneys.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-04-11

For Sale--One black mare years old,
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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-06-07
BOOMERANG INVENTIONS.

Clisthenes introduced the custom of
ostracism and was the first to be ban
ished thereby.
Matthew Hopkins. the witch finder
was himself tried by his own tests
and put to death as wizard
Ludovico Sforza, who invented the
iron shroud, was the first to suffer
death by this horrible torture.
Perillos. who invented the brazen
bull for Phalaris, tyrant of Agrigen.
tum, was the first person baked to
death in the horrible monster.
The Regent Morton of Scotland. who
invented the maiden, a sort of guillo-
tine, was the first to be beheaded there
by. This was in the reign of Queen
Elizabeth.
The bishop Of verdun. who invented
the iron cages. too small to allow the
person confined in them to stand up
right or lie at full length. was the
first to be shut up in one.
The perriere was an instrument for
throwing stones Of 5000 pounds in
weight, and the inventor fell victim
to his own invention by the accidental
discharge of perriere against wall.
Scrap Book.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-06-07
MISTAKEN oc QUOTATIONS.
% Not Continue In 4 Pursuit For
Which You Are Not Fitted.

U
Which You Are Not Fitted.
There is. in these alert days OF com
petition. of quick opening and closing
Of places where bread may be~earnel
and path in which to go forward
secured, no time for doing anything
that one can't or that is Of no moment
when accomplished. Know for GER
tainty that never half the harm has
come from firm and Gignifed refusal
to enter upon or to continue in q pur-
suit not fitted to one as from engaging
In such pursuits. What loss the world
would have sustained had Handel con-
sented to become lawyer, Turner to
remain barber, Claude Lorraine
pastry cook, Schiller a surgeon, Pascal
a teacher of dead languages. as was
intended by relatives. But, great as
would have been the loss to the world.
the loss to these men themselves would
have been far greater.
Doubtless thousands Of crimes which
have ruined an incalculable number of
lives could be traced to mistaken occu-
pations. Joy and delight in ones work
mean progress. and progress and its
result and satisfaction mean q nobler
life than stagnation and partial or en-
tire failure could fashion. Doing the
thing one can is working for morality
and toward perfection on all the
planes of life. physical, mental, spir-
itual.-Lida A. Churchill in the Define
atOr
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-06-07
R0oUEF0RT CHEESE.
Nov ths orssn Mold and che Flavor
Are Produced.

A cheese expert has the following
to say about Roquefort cheese:
ITO make Roquefort cheese we must
have the proper raw material-sheep's
milk. OF course we have sheep in
America, but show me Yankee farm
or who would go to the trouble of milk
Ing sheep! 1t is even too much for
him to milk cows, and it Is the stand
ard lamentation Of all our farmers
that the boys, even IL they stay on the
farm, do not want to do any milking.
Before they do such kind of work they
would rather go to business school or
college where they study agriculture,
chemistry, etc.
How is Roquefort cheese cured:
The mold in the cheese is produced by
moldy breadcrumbs which are ground
to green dust and mixed in the
cheese curd. The country around
Roquefort is very rocky. The lime
stone rocks are full of crevices and
caves. which draw in the warm air in
summer, give it out in winter, and vice
versa.
"These caves have been provided by
nature and improved by cellars that
have been built in such way that
these natural currents Of warm and
cold air pass through them, where
Roquefort cheese is cured. This is the
way that Roquefort cheese is ripened
and gets its peculiar flavor and char
acter. 1t is all very we'll for the SCI
nnfs lists To CT, ~,
which the cheese is undergoing, but to
produce this process in an artificial
way is another question. Nature is
the best chemist.
''The manufacture of Roquefort
cheese has been tried in America, but
the manufacturers did not make much
of success. Nobody manufactures
Roquefort in America ut present We
know Of one manufacturer who tried to
make Roquefort cheese Of goats milk
He boosted especially that he would
use only the milk Of imported goats.
Just think Of the idea! Imported goats
grazing on American pastures were
expected to give better favored milk
than domestic goats. 1t is the climate.
the special soil. atmospheric influences.
etc, which produce the fine fragrant
grass. The milk of the cows or goats
or sheep is naturally the product Of
the grass they are eating. the water
they are drinking, and neither this nor
the climate nor the country can be i'm
ported to America-only the product
which the climate or country produces.
That Is why neither the American
Camemhert nor Roquefort ever has the
flavor or fragrance Of the imported ar
ticle in spite Of all the imported goats
or imported cattle or even Of imported
microbes. "-Chicago Record Herald.