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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-06
CTATE OF MICHIGAN. The Probate Conrt

GTATE OF MICHIGAN. The Probate Court
- tor the County of Ionia
At a session of said COURT held at the Pro.
bate once of Toni a. is said County of Ionia.
on the 2lst day of July. A. ID. 1908
Present: Hon. Montgomery Webster Judge
OF Probate.
In the Matter OF the Estate of
MARY BURD Deceaesd
Daisy Parsons daughter OF deceased. hay-
ing filed in said court her pc tion praying
IN at the administration of said estate be
granted To Frank X. Chase. or some other
suitable person
1t is Ordered that the 21st day of August
A. ID. 1905. at ten o'clock in the forenoon
at said probate office, be and is hereby ap-
pointed for hearing said petition.
IL Is Further Ord That public notice
thereof be given by publication of a copy of
TINS order, for three successive weeks previ-
Gus to said day of hearing. in the Belding
Banner, newspaper printed and circulated
In said County. MONTGOMERY WEBSTER,
true Copy. Judge of Probate.
Anna II. Webster,
Register of Probate
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STAT OF MIcuIeAN, The Probate Court for

SrATE OF MICHIGAN, The Probate Court for
- the County of Ionia.
AT session OF said Court held at the pro.
bate ONCE in the City of 1onia in said County.
on the third day of August A. ID. 1908
Present: Hon. Montgomery Webster Judge
of Probate.
In the Matter of the Estate of
l.. OPHELIA COOLING. Deceased.
Eva L. Allgeo daughter of said deceased
having filed is said court her petition that
said court adjudicate and determine who
were at the time of her death the legal heirs
OF said deceased and entitled to Inherit the
rear estate OF which said deceased died
seized.
IL is Ordered that the21St day Of August
A. ID. zoos. at ten O'Clock In the forenoon. az
said probate once, be and is hereby appoint-
cd for hearing said petition.
IL - Further Ordered, That public notice
thercot be given by publication OF a COPY of
THIS order, Tor three successive weeks previ-
Gus 10 said day of hearing ia the Bedding
Hammer. newspaper printed and circulated
IN said county. MONTGOMERY WEBSTER.
true copy Judge of Probate.
Register of Probate.
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Alcohol in PHYSICAL Tests.

Prof. Durig, of Vienna, who Is him
self not an abstainer, has been max
Ing experiments in mountain climbing
at times without using alcohol and
again after consuming an amount
equal to one litre of beer He has
come to the conclusion that on the
alcohol days he accomplished 20 per
cent. less than on abstinent days He
says that the energy stored for work
is on alcohol days only partially used,
dropping 13 per cent. below normal.
Further he declares that the organ.
ism when supplied with alcohol as a
fuel works not only more slowly than
when supplied with proper food, but
at the same time that direct injuries
result to the system.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-06
STATE OF MICHIGAN The Probate corr

STATE OF MICHIGAN The Probate Court
for the County of Iona
At a session of said court held at the pro-
bate Office in the City OF Ionia in said County.
on the twentieth day of July. A. d.. 1908.
Present: Hon. MONTGOMERY WEBSTER.
Judge of Probate
In the Matter of the Estate of
MARCELLUS A. WHEELER Deceased
Frank II Chase. Administrator of said rs
tate, having filed in said court his petition
praying that time and place be assigned
for the examination and allowance OF his
final account with aid estate
is Ordered, That the seventeenth day of
August. A. ID 1908. at ten o'clock I'm the fore
noon, At said probate office, be and Is hereby
appointed for hearing said petition:
IL Is Further Ordered. That public no'ice
thereof be given by publication of a COPY of
this order for three consecutive weeks pre-
vious To said day of hearing i'm the Bedding
Banner, newspaper printed and circulated
In said county MoNTGOMERY WERsTFR
ANNA +. WEBSTER Judge of Probate.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-06

STATE OF MICHIGAN, The Probate Cour
for the County of IOnia.
AT session of said court held at the pro
bate Office iu the City Of Ionia i'm said county
on the twentieth day OF July A ID. 1905
Present. HON. MONTGOMERY WEBSTER
Judge of Probate.
In the Matter of the Estate of
PETER SEIBEL, Deceased.
Frank Chase, administrator of said es.
tate having filed in said court his petition
praying that time and place be assigned
Tor the examination and allowance of his
final account with said estate
IL is Ordered, that the seventeenth day of
August. a. ID. zoos, at ten o'clock I'm the fore
noOn,at said probate ONCE, be and is hereby
appointed for hearing said petitions
1t is Further Ordered, That public notice
IN, reot be given by publication of a copy of
this order. for three successive weeks previ-
Gus TO said day of hearing in the Belding
Banner newspaper printed and circulated
I'm said county. MONTGOMERY WEBSTER
ANNA r. WEBSTER. Judge of Probate
A true copy. Register of Probate.
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Better OFF Without Saloons.

The saloons have just gone out
from Bristol, Va, and also from their
twin city Bristol, Tenn, just across
the line. The usual liquor cry that a
lot OF empty buildings will be thrown
upon the town, and rents decline, is
given contradiction by a recent press
dispatch from Bristol, which says in
part: THE abolition of the saloons
has not in the least disturbed prop
erty values SO far. Those houses that
have already been emptied of saloons
In Bristol. Va, have been rented, with
one or two exceptions at higher price
than they formerly brought"
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COMMISSIONERS NOTICE

- TATE OF MICHIGAN, the Probate Court for
the county OF lonia. In the matter of the.
Estate OF Priscilla Grove Weed, deceased
Having been appointed commissioners TO
receive examine and adjust all claims and
demands OF all persons against said deceased
we DO hereby give notice that four months
from the thirteenth day of July, A ID
l9Oe. were allowed by said court for credi-
tors 10 present their claims To us for exam
lnatlon ana adjustment, and tn at we will
meet at the Bedding Savings Bank ofice
IN SAID county, on the 30th day of September
a. - l9OS and on the 30th day of Novem.
Der a; ID 1905 at ten O'Clock in the forenoon
OF each OF said days, for the purpose of ex
aiming ana adjusting said laims.
Dated July 80 A, ID. 1908.
REUBEN BRADISR
HENRY Z, FREDDY
OmmiSsiOners
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AN AGE OF REASON.
Wine Drinking Falling Into Disuse in
Great Britain.

In the course Of an article on War
and Wine" dealing with the wine in
dustry of southern France, the Lon
don Daily Mirror comments on the
notable change that has taken place
in England during ehe past 80 years
in regard to the use of wines. Viewed
as a social custom, wine-drinking is
stated to be falling into disuse among
descendants of wine devo-
tees Of the olden time. The marked
favor with which this is regarded is
shown by the following quotation,
which is typical of the present day
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-06
Accident Insurance
For Csc.
A box of Wonderful Dream

A box of Wonderful Dream
Salve in your home ready for inn
mediate use in case of accident, is
worth Its weight in gold.
If your baby is burned or scalded,
or any member of the family should
seriously injure themselves, do you
want them to suffer until you 90 to
the druggist for a box or send for the
doctorf Guard against possible acct
dent. Get a box of Wonderful
Dream Salve today, or the first time
you are in a drug store. It's the best
accident insurance you can pet and it
only costs you Csc.
Remember there is nothing that will
draw soreness from a wound and heal
it quicker than Wonderful Dream
Salve. 1t has been known as the
greatest healer on earth" for over
fifty years.
There is nothing better for Eczema, Salt
rheum, ChilblainS, Chapped hands, Boils,
Prostitutes and Sores of any kind. 1t is a
guaranteed cure for Piles.
IF you live on farm, keep box handy
IN the stable all the time 1t will quickly
heal the worst cases of Scratches, Calls.
Cowpox, Caked bag, Sore teats, etc.
DyoH 7Uy7fe rs, ace qUiH send y00 a fire
IampR box and our Dram Bo0k coAkaiHi7p
500 d,eam5 and their meaning
WnNnEpEII nplhM GAVE IN n.l..n ut
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-06
Take Pledge to Escape Jail.

A new law enacted by the Vermont
legislature provides that persons con.
victed Of the first and second offence
of intoxication can take the total ab.
stinence pledge and have their sen.
tence suspended as long as they keep
It. This bill provides for a cure for
habltual drunkards If they choose TO
take 1t rather than their punishment
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-06

panion suggested that we stop and get
drink of water. The lady of the
house not only gave us a drink out of
a NICE tin dlpper. but insisted upon
our taking some pie. Bill, my COM
tpanion, took a large piece, but from
jditfidence or something, / declined.
IBill looked at me with amazement.
Les he said, always help yourself TO
pie when ii is passing That was
pretty sound advice, and / have acted
On that principle ever since. wash
lngton Star.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-06
A Great vie,orv

One Of the greatest victories for the
Ohio Anti-Saloon league in its history
was~that at East Liverpool. The city
has $4,000 people and it will be closed
against the liquor interests for two
years.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-06
A soathino ArraIonment.

Not long since a New York magis
trate, Whitman by name, in address.
Ing the New York Lawyers club. was
moved 70 make a most scathing ar.
raignment Of the liquor office. lie
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-06
Same Here.

One of the behests given the Japan
csc bride is DO not talk too much. -
The constant stress laid on this advice
is sure sign that it isn't being
needed
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Couldn't Reform It.

The brewers of Texas adopted the
plan of taxing themselves 20 cents for
each keg of beer manufactured and
sold. The tax is said to have created
a fund of about 100000, which was
utilized for the purpose of driving the
dives out of business The plan failed
and has been abandoned. The brewers
have found that the saloon won't re.
FORM
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-06
LIES Inevitable Companion.

The Emperor Augustus, when seated
at table between Virgil, who was asth-
matte, and Horace, who was blear-
eyed, said, laughing: Il am between
signs and tears" Alas! who Is not
seated between these two table COM
panions at the banquet of life?-Fr.
Joseph Roux.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-06

Alfred Locke Dwight c. Sheldon
A TTORNEYS AT LAW-Orace:- Over Thin.
IA stra Hardware Main st. Belding Mich.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-06
A Busy Committee.

The Presbyterian committee on tenn.
perance reported to the general assem-.
bly, that during the last year the com.
mittee has held 9S3 meetings in s6
presbyteries. located in 30 synods.
No Saloons in Mississippi.
For 20 years Mississippi has had
local option law. On petition of one
third of the electors of a country, the
board of supervisors must order an
election, whether any liquor or alco-
holic liquors shall be sold or given
away therein. To-day, out of IS coun.
ties, such liquors can only be sold in
seven of them, and the next legisla-
ture will certainly put the saloon out
of the seven.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-06

JAMES E. FERGUSON, M. d.
Eye, Far. Nose and Throa /, and Fit
1ting Of glasses. Hours to 10. | TO
3, to Phones: Office No. /, residence
No. As.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-06

Or. q. =. SMITH,
/ lENTIST.-Ofice hours to $50 Leonard
ling Mich "0'
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-06
Or. y. ~. ARMSTRONG.

nENTIST.-Corner rooms in the Vincent
~ olock, over Tuinstra ! Store. ONCE
hours: 8 a. IN. to D. m
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will spring up, but it is certain that their rise will be slow as 1t has been in the past. The small capitalist will do well to see hls land and learn something about it before buying and to leave spec ulative propositions alone.
 American immigrants to Cuba have, for the most part, engaged in the frult business, because the island is peculiarly adapted to the culture of a large variety of fruits. and because the business does not require large capital nor any consid- erable experience. Orange culture, whilst 1t has not been prosecuted for sufficient length of time to afford a conclusive test promises to become a large and profitable industry. The fruit grows In abundance and of excellent quality, but transportation facilities will need to be improved before n permanent success can be assured. Many Americans are raising grapefruit in connection with the orange and are finding a ready market in the United States, whither all Cuban fruit exports go Suitable land for the cultiva- tion of these products can be secured cheaply-that is to say, at S5 or $6 an acre. Neither frost nor blight Is to be feared. and the hundreds of thousands of trees that have been transplanted from Florida and California during the past few years have fourished and borne even
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vestment of capital. of which Americans have already avaled themselves to the extent of S100,000,0O0 or more But the prospects of the young man with only seanty means are good. He will find In town or country numerous channels for the exercise of American enterprise and energy. Of the 1000 or 6,000 citizens of the United States at present permanently resident in Cuba it is safe to say that 90 per cent arrived with but few hun dred dollars in their possession. Pract- caly all are doing well and making living under much easier conditions than they could at home The climate is not at all trying to our people. and no class in the country works as hard as the av craze man in the United States.
 There is one point which the contem- plating settler in Cuba should consider, and that is the deslrabillty of proceed ing with prudence and taking his time about deciding upon his future occupa- ton. A young man cannot do better than to put in two or three years of pre- liminary residence During this period he can learn the language, the customs of the people, the methods and oppor- tunities of trade and land values. De spite the proverb anent a trolling stone l would advise as great range of occupation and locality as possible A single man can obtain a job in Ha-
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from the monsters jaw Is scraped away and the product put up in bundles, ac- cording to quality and size. The bone soaks 1t for week or 10 days in water, after which it is placed in steam box for about week. Subjected to this treatment, it cuts like cheese, and may be sliced into strips of any size and length that the manufacturer may de- sire. Each strip seems to be composed of three strata-the two outside layers being sort of enamel, used for dress stays, and the inside layer, rather coarser and known as the grain, for corsets.
 No story of the whalebone industry would be complete without mention of the man who has acquired control of this commodity-Edgar R. Lewis When young man, MT. Lewis entered the busi- ness of his father, William Lewis, one of the old-time whaling merchants of New Bedford. At that time the firm handled only the bone taken by its own vessels. Young Lewis saw early the pos abilities in having a monopoly of the trade, and from that time on worked toward that end. His first step was to learn the business from top to bottom. Donning overalls and jumpers he put in a whole year with the workmen in his fathers employ, learning to scrape and tie bones and improving on the methods then in use. Having mastered these de- tails. he began getting control of the catch of other vessels. Today the bone taken by the Pacific Steam Whaling Com pany, the Chilean whalers and those which go to the Ochotsk and China Seas come under his hand, while through European agents he acquires the catch of
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price of sperm oil has declined until now 1t is hardly more than a third of what it used to be. The reverse is true of whalebone-the product of the right
 whale and the bowhead. This used to sell as low as 9 cents pound, and when hundred or more vessels were engaged In Arctic whaling not little of the bone failed of being sold at all. To day the market value Is 20 times that. Eight or 10 vessels now comprise the Arctic fleet; their catch last season was about 100000 pounds. and every pound
 of that catch Is worth S5. Time was when whalebone was used almost univer- sally in corsets; today few women feel that they can afford corsets more ex-
 pensiye than those in which the ribs are
 made of steel or some other substitute for whalebone. Steel has also replaced whalebone for umbrella ribs. One of the most curious uses to which whalebone was put was for those divining rods, by
 means of which charlatans pretended to be able to locate water, oil, gold and other underground riches. In these days the almost exclusive purposes for which whaebone is used are corsets, dress bones, whips and, to a very limited de- gree. surgical instruments. Despite the high cost, the demand for it holds good, which may be taken as an evidence of the truth of the whalemen's contention that there is nothing else just as good. In Paris society has been organized solely for the purpose of experimenting with substitutes, but nothing has yet been discovered which quite equals whalebone. The advantages claimed for 1t are that it is odorless. will not rust, will not break, and no matter how 1t is bent or how lnn9 it is lent will never lose It's
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the Dundee whalers of Scotland, those hardy seamen of whom Kipling sings in 'The Last Chantey:"
 up spake the soul of gray Gothavn
 'speckshioner-
 (He that led the fiinching in the fleets
 of fair Dundee):
 oh, the ice-blink white and clear
 And the bowhead preaching near! Will ye whelm them all for wantonness
 that wallow in the sea?'
 So complete Is MT. Lewis monopoly that today he controls all the whalebone In the world in first hands.
 Practically speaking all Of the last catch of whalebone came from the Arc tic, and it is on the luck of the Arctic whalemen that the price of the com modity depends. While the whaling h. dustry has fallen into decay as com pared with the time when over 1Oo vessels were engaged in 1t, 1t remains the most romantic and the most per- ilous calling which men now pursue. And of the two kinds of whaling sperm and bone-the latter is the more perilous, because, added to the risk which always attends struggles with the levia- than, is the even greater danger from Ice in the frozen ocean of the North. The history of Arctic whaling is full of dis asters which have cost the lives of many men and destroyed hundreds of thou sands of dollars worth of ships. Yet, in spite of the danger. men are easily found to engage In the business-the best and most fearless navigators on the seven seas.
 The value of the bowhead, from which
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The Creme W ha;rf A 3uay p0lrlt in the He-rb0a'

mas, and in a few instances small fruit growers might find 1t worth while to raise a limited quantity of them in con junction with some other crop.
 Although Cuba produces the finest cof- fee, there does not appear to be any good prospect of revival of that once profitable industry. At present the island does not produce sufficient for its own consumption, and 1t cannot export in competition with the cheap product of Brazil and Central America. Neverthe- less, a man who has had experience In coffee culture will find it q paying occupa- tion in Cuba especially in connection with cocoa cultivation. The latter is in constant demand at good prices, the chocolate manufacturers of Europe often finding it difficult to secure a sufficient supply.
 Cocoanut raising would be a profitable business but for the fact that the mar ket Is entirely under the control of the trust in New York, which handles the entire output of the West Indies.
 A business which offers splendid possi- bilities that seem to have been over looked is the growing of vegetables for the home market and export. As means of supplying the former demand the industry has not developed to suf- ficient proportions, although a small quantity has already been shipped. With the extension of the transportation sery-
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elasticity.
 Strictly speaking, whalebone is not bone at all, although that Is the name by which it is known. The right whale and the bowhead from which 1t is taken, and which yield in size to no creature that swims the seas, have no teeth, their function being performed by the whale bone. The sperm whale or cachalot can and does devour the fercest monsters of the deep, such as squid, cuttlefish and decapods, but the right whale subsists on the tiniest of fish The latter, known as bret, are found in large water. The whale, when hungry, opens his ponderous jaws, disclosing cavernous mouth in which a dozen men can stand and work with ease, and takes q gulp of water-enough for a small-szed reservoir and teeming with bret. Then, closing his jaws, he ejects the water while keeping the fish inside. The whalebone enables him to do this Hanging from the upper jaw and covered on the inner surface with thick hair, 1t acts as perfect sieve through which the water can es- cape, but the meshes of which are too small to admit of the passage of the bret. So far as is known, this Is the only function of the bone" That the greatest of hsh-some of them as large as passenger car-should thus subsst upon the smallest, is one of the maryels of nature.
 On board the whaleship, when bow head has been caught and killed, the bone Is removed from the head in huge slabs, sometimes reaching length of 12 feet. In this form 1t is shipped to New Bedford. where the gum which still covers 1t at the point where It was torn