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T. 1. spencer, expense in case Of

+. l.. Spencer, expense in case of
Kittie Barton SOC
b. G. Curtis, +" &" DDS
w. Smith, digging grave of Lena
M. Maxwell, 300
o. r. Webster, livery nj funeral of
Lena Nj. Maxwell 2,25
O. f. Webster, draying 2.50
Will Conklin, labor on streets l.50
f. Waterman, 1.50
smith stanton, Lot
Will Smith, 4" ~
Doubleday Bros u Co. supplies 400
Banner Pub. Co, printing council
proceedings go
Moved by Aid. Hull seconded by Aid
Scoot that the following bills rs recon-
mended by the board of water commits
sioners be allowed and orders drawn for
the same, which motion prevailed.
Yeas, Aid. Crawford, Hull, Menkee,
Putnam, Scott, ). Nays O..
Barclay, Ayers IL Burtsch, sup'ls 1888
=. II. Conklin, asbestine 6.31
Thomson Meter Co. one meter $50
Kenneth Anderson, supplies 62.5C
+. +. Ireland Co. 300
20. +. Webster, carting tools BOG
Moved by Aid Hull seconded by ALI
Crawfurd that the bill of VIM. ID. Ben
nett i'm the case of Chester Wright foI
S27.96 be audited and referred TO the
County Board of Supervisors for pay
ment, which motion prevailed. Yeas,
Aid. Crawford, Hull, Menkee, Putnam,
Scott, 5. Nays 0.
Moved by Aid. Hull seconded by AID
Menkee that the marshall be instruct
eel TO look up and determine the mum
Der of street corners that will require
street signs, also what houses on street
corners may be used for street signs
and report the same TO the committee
on street signs, also To sell what official
house numbers he can while doing thi,
work, which motion prevailed, Yeas
Aid. Crawford, Hull, Menkee, Putnam
Scott, .. Nays 0.
Moved bv Aid. Crawford seconded by
Aid Menllee that the Common Council
of the City of Bedding do now adjourn
which motion prevailed Yeas, Aid
Crawford, Hull, Menkee, Putnam
Scott, 3. Nays 0.
w. 5. Eddy, City Clerk.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-25
Sunday School Entertainment.

The primary classes of the Baptist
Sunday School will give an entertain
ment at the church Friday evening,
Feb. 26, ii will be rare treat do not
miss it. The following program has
been prepared:
Song, Coward Christian Soldiers"
Music, Misses Austin and Kennedy.
Song, "The Snow Prayer"
Primary Class.
Song, "Now the sun is sinking"
Six Children.
Recitation, "Baby at church"
Banch Glass.
Recitation, ''Wonderful story of Good
Boy Land, Helen Maxfield.
Solo, ''De Massa oh de Sheepfold"
Mrs. l.. Berry.
Recitation,I'' Fishing Party
Frank Pinkham.
Flag Drill, Eight children.
Music, "Moon Songn Quartet.
Recitation, 'Little Mud Sparrow"
Rena Currie.
Recitation, ''When Mother Yields the
Shinglep Hubert Reeves
Duet, LILA Skinner"
Gail and Mildred Soules
Recitation, "Some very Funny People, "
kindergarten,
Music, "Selected" Male Quartet.
Recitation, 'Jane jones'
Harold Simons.
Recitation, "Poor Little LAMB
Louise Ballou.
Solo, "Selectedn Elsie Willard.
Reading, "The fingers Amy Hansen
Music, "The Concert Paraphrase" from
Rigoletto, Miss Eva Engel,
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-25

See. I'D No person or persons snail
sell or attempt TO sell, deliver or attempt
TO deliver amy article or thing which
shall be of less weight or measure than
purported TO be sold or delivered.
Sec. 20 For all commodities in liquid
form except milk and beer, the units
or standards of measure of capacity for
liquids from which all other measures
shall he derived and ascertained shall
be the standard wine gallon containing
23l cubic inches, and its parts and
multiples, rs follows:
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Attention l.. o. +. NJ. NJ.

The Ladies of the Modern Maccabees
will entertain the Sir Knights and
wives and also the Lady Maccabees and
husbands Saturday evening, Feb. %,
at the Maccabee hall Every Lady
Maccabee is expected to furnish sand
witches or doughnuts or contribute l5c
To the committee.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-25
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
OFFICIAL

Sec. Is That the unit or standard
measure of capacity for all commodities
sold by dry measure shall bc derived
and ascertained in the standard half
bushel, containing 1882 cubic inches.
The peek, half peck, or gallon, quarter
peck, quart and pint measures for
measuring such commodities shall be
derived from the half bushel 10y sue
cessfully dividing that measure by two,
viz:
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Advertised Letters.

Mr.. Burlie j. Fuller, Mr.. Will Had.
dix, Miss Manda Nastelskee, Mr..
Charley Orves, Homer Housh.
Feb. -, 1909. ID. f.. Wilson, T.. NJ.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02

than a flock of Saanen goats grazing
on hillside
They are stabbed during the
'ong bitter winters, six months at
,ime, and the day they are led out for
he summer of pasturing, about May
20, is a day of festival and rejoicing;
the herdsmen are dressed in gala at
tire, bells of different notes are at
tached to the necks of the leaders,
the little kids frisk and romp, the viii
layers all assemble and the start is
made amid general excitement and
hubbub. All through the lofty pasture
ranges are little creamerfes and huts
are MIXED and here are made some
of the delectab1e Swiss cheeses that
delight our California epicures.
Such was the situation that Uncle
Sam found when his special expert
made a trip in 1906 to select animals
goats were being annually exported
from Switzerland to the value of $780,,
600. This shipment, made in the fall of
1905, was the origin of our California
stock. OF those animals billed to Cali
eornia few went to the southern part
of the state, but the largest flock was
established just out of Hayward.
The journey was long one and
hard one; some of the animals did not
survive it. The process of acclimation
was harder still; many of the original
importations have not survived that.
But sufficient of their offspring or of
she original stock is also left to prove
that they will do all and more for Cali
fornia than they did for Switzerland.
But the way of the pioneer mich
goat raised in this country, like all
pioneers, has been a way of thorns and
thistles, rue and NORWOOD. Madame
Goat, upon close acquaintance, had a
way of turning her back upon all that
tradition. rumor and common report
had said OF her.
She proved q most dainty feeder.
cieanly in her habits If given oppor-
tunity to do so, with pronounced lean
ings toward domesticity, but fe upon
her at critical junctures. most neg
ligent mother. Many a Loggenburg
baby has passed the crucial day of her
early existence in basket wrapped
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02

goats milk IS absolutely necessary for
the baby You have seen a promising
animal from the car In the outskirts
of the city. You interview the foreign
owner of the promising animal
My! What fine goat! What a
bag. so big and hard! Why. she must
give" One gallon per day." an
swered the foreign owner, raising his
eyes to heaven and crossing himself.
You buy the promising animal, pay
ing. whatever the iereign owner call
culates he can extract from you.
You take her home, and the family
gathers round while you endeavor to
make visible that two quarts of milk
that should be forthcoming at this
milking. You struggle for 10 perspfr-
ing minutes with an animal that can
butt and kick ten ways at once. and get
perhaps a cupful of milk You con-
clude that you need more intimate
acquaintance with your promising ami
NAL. or, very likely, that she has not
been properly fed. So you, and yeur
wife and the children, begin dancing
attendance on that so-called four quart
goat. You buy dencacies in the way
man. and delicaeies- from the feed man.
You supply her with the freshest of
water and cleanest of hay. But she
develops a decided case OF ''heimweh."
and bleats and bellows without cessa-
tion for her old-time haunts. and as
she disdainfully nibbles at your dain-
ties, daily the supply of milk dimin-
ishes. In about two weeks the postman
brings you an anonymous letter of this
nature:
Mr. -: For Gods sake, muzzle
that batting beast and give a tired
community a rest"
And then you give it up
That is no story of fiction, but story
of real life, with affidavits attached. if
necessary.
If you have ever had any such ex-
perience, you can the better appreciate
not only the exceptional milking quail
ties of the Swiss goats, but their ex-
IRENE gentleness and docility of dis
position. They are as easily handled
by women and children as any do
tached to those who care for them.
Their milking qualities have suffered
no deterioration in California. BY ac-
tual test, at her second kidding. one
imported doe gave five quarts per day
when fresh, and at the end of six
months was milking a full gallon.
The young stock on the coast, born
of these first imported does. are keep
ing up the standard in every way and
show promise at their maturity of sur
passing their mothers.
There is no reason why we can not
establish a breed of mich goats here
in every way the equal of the Swiss.
We have all the essentials for sue
cess and none of the handicaps of stock
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02
By Charlotte Haynes

IF his princeling, master baby, rel
ished not HIS morning bottle. think
you, fond parent. yon could take a
morning walk: over to Switzerland
for a draft Of goats milk for HIS
Babyship's disturbed digesttop2
From the snowy SUBMITS of the Alps
TO the sunsteeped slopes ot the coast
range is a long step before breakfast
and such heroic measures Will not be
necessary for the Miss Baby Ealifor--
mans Of the future as the original:
purveyor Of the milk most nearly re-
senbling mothers milk. the Toggen-
burg goat, has. come to stay. in our
midst. = *4.,
There IS a unanimous verdict among
physicians the world oyer. that when
the natural infant pourishInent: is: not
available. or does not agree with the
infant. goats milk is the very: best
substitute. 1.
If tand in this t4f'- is the *stickler)
you can get it. :Sow"this. ID r is what
the Toggenburg. and. saanen goats,
now quietly and peacefully browsing
among our hillside pastures. are going
TO change IN. the future. : =
In all the animal kingdom there is
none so carfeatured. besatired, ridi-
culed as The type knot.u-- locally as the
Telegraph hill tin. can goat" Even
througholt the land size has. become
the butt Of American. ilu4nor-. That she
is tolerated at all. is. due airly to the
little sup .of; a11ilk forstIle old mans
coffee. Sure. it's-sas rich as. cream
To take orl1rrlon: mich goat Sc
riously is almost beyond. :tlie 1magfna-
ton of the average Amerfean5- and yet
in. Europe for a. couple of centuries,
at least. they. have been. taking her
very seriously indeed. and scientifically
as well. So scientifically in. fact. that
a few years ago Uncle sam began to
. sit up and take notice and ito make
some inquiries. OF: his own account
He found that in: Switzerland in the
Canton ST. G1llen. IN the little vale,
OF the Toggenburg by the river Thur,
and IN the neigh5oring valley of the
Same were two distinctive. breeds OF
mich goats. so phenomenal: IN their
milking qualities. 50. superior. in. all
their marks Of breeding. as. to place
them in class by themselves far away
and. above all others of their kind.
Swiss Goat Supreme
In all Europe, in all the known
world, there is not. their equal as a
class. In southern Europe, Spain, It.
ally, Malta, Sicily and Upper Egypt,
where cows milk is more or less of a
novelty, and goats milk is the. staple
of the common people. there are many
animals Of high milking qualities, but
no distinct breed combining all the
high characteristics Of the Swiss.
And. OF course, there's a reason.
The Swiss "a canny people, IL they
are not SCOTCH have government
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02

Commercially considered, the sale OF
the raw milk for medicinal purposes
will be only one of the many uses to
which Madame Toggenburg will be
applied. The process Of steriIizing and
condensing will deserve early attention
at the hands of goat dafrymen. as this
branch of the industry is now being
carried on successfully and probably
in Europe But first and foremost, as
a manufactured product OF goat milk.
will always stand cheese making. Used
in combination with ewes and cows
milk, the milk of the goat lends itself
to an endless variety OF tastes and
flavors in the hands of an expert cheese
maker. Many Of these world famous
brands, manufactured in huts. high up
in the Swiss Alps. others produced on
a larger scale in France and Germany.
are served nightly. in every restaurant
in San Francisco What cafe diner
would consider his dinner complete
without his after dinner coffee and
Roquefort or Mont DOR
At Mont dor. France, there are kept
15.O 900 goats for the purpose of manu-
featuring the cheese of this name, and
the output is estimated at 100000
francs annually Besides this. there
are made in France by a combination
of goats and cows milk brands known
as F'romage de St Marcellin, St. Claude.
Cheveretfn, Gratairons Levroux and
Sassenage- In Switzerland they have
Ricotto. 'Schweitzer and Altenburger.
The large American consumption of
these imported cheeses wi1T soon make
evident the Importance OF securing for
eign cheese makers to operate our own
factories along this line.
There are no statistics available to
show the value of the goat Industry
to Switzerland. although it's annual
milk production is said to be 1856. 900
gallons. But German authority, Dett-
weller, gathered statistics for the year
1892. showing the goat industry to be
worth $39.0O0.0OO annually to his coun-
try at that time. And the consump-
ton Of milk Is known to have increased
there greatly since that time
This gives conclusive proof that in
Europe. at least. the value OF the goat
industry Is no matter of theory and IL
does not seem that California will be
very far behind in taking hint from
her thrifty across the water neigh
b0rs.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02

subsidy for preserving the purity, the
high milking qualities. length Of lacta-
ton etc. CT their breeds. They also
stimulate interest and rivalry among
individual breeders by competition
prizes.
There is no interviewing or falling
of in quality or racial markings al
lowed under the subsidy. AS these two
breeds. tho Toggenburg and Saanen.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02
Goats Milk for Infants

The Importance OF this industry can
be estimated when it is realized that
in all the medical profession in this
country, and in Europe, it is the con-
sensus of opinion that goats milk is
pre-eminently the best substitute for
mothers milk for infant feeding 1t
took only very short time to estab-
lish the strength of this opinion locally,
for in a canvass of Oakland offices there
was not one dissenting voice among
the physicians. This means that when
goats milk can be furnished in suff1-
cient quantities it will supersede the
use of cows milk. patented foods, or
other forms of artificial infant feed
ing. 1t has always commanded a much
higher price than cows milk, 25 cents
per quart being the lowest figure it
has sold for OF course the well estab-
lished fact of the immunity of the goat
from tuberculosis is large factor in
placing the milk so high as health
food, not only for infants. but for many
forms OF intestinal and digestive
troubles.
The milk is very white in color,
palatable to the taste, and exceedingly
rich. Some tests made here of Toggen-
burg milk have shown z per cent fat.
But the fat globules are so small and
held in the milk in such a perfect
state of emulsion that in spite of its
richness the milk is easily assimilated
by the most delicate digestion.
Now. as to matter of comparison.
Did you ever keep a goat? That is a
common. ordinary vacant lot sort OF
goat? Or try to buy one2 Or have any
experience with one?
Perhaps your doctar tells you that
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02

raising in. the high Alps We have a
favorable climate. good feed and the
extensive pasture necessities. 1t will
be found that they can be kept sue
cessfully, and economically also, in con-
nection with cattle, for they Will seek
the rough. inaccessible hillsides and
canyons and browse on the underbrush
and twigs. the weeds and little herbs
that cattle will not touch. Given IN,
limited pasturage and exercise OF this
sort, with supplemental feed Of grain
and hay, when kept for profit. and they
will develop milking qualities that will
make the goat farmers pockets and
hank account bulge
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02

the indications are that we may de-
yelop prize winners OF our own.
The males of the breed are heavier
in build and grow. quite ferocious look
ing boards which belle their gentle
natures and habits
The Saanen pronounced as though
spelled with z. il you please) are
larger and heavier in build and spot
lessly white in color. 1t is said ~ those
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02

who have given the subject study that
the best of the Saanen are superior
mixers to the best OF the Loggenburgs.
but the Toggenburgs class the higher.
The Toggenburgs have proven the fav-
orite among the Importers in this coun
try. Both breeds are harmless But
the Saanen goats are exceedingly
handsome animals. In all Switzerland,
1t is said. there is no prettier sight
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02

In cotton wadding and packed round
with hot water bottles. sleeping at the
bedside of human foster mother, be-
cause Mama Toggenburg persisted in
letting her little offspring SILVER and
shake in drafty corner of her STALL
unwarned and unfed. Exposure to cold
rains is almost fatal TO these little
Swiss babies, but they are frisking
around like kittens few hours after
birth in pleasant weather
For the first few years the many
difficulties encountered by the first i'm
porters, both here and in the eastern
states. made the success OF the ex-
pertinent seem problematical But the
present condition of the fiocks of young
native born. pure bred stock located
around the bay is so encoura ging that
it seems as if discouragements were all
a matter of the past, and that brand
new infant industry. promising health
and vigor to the very young and very
old alike, will be an established fact
of the near future.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02

have been raised now for two or three
centuries through this careful selec-
ton of individuals for breeding pur-
poses. preserving only the best for
reproduction, it is easy to see how
they have reached the proud eminence
of being called the aristocrats OF the
goat family. the Attorneys of the goat
tribe. And they are aristocrats, in
bearing, appearance and manners and
in the regal flow of their almost price
less milk
The Toggenburg goats are deerliks
in shape. very slender, almost lean.
seldom taking on flesh. They are
fawn colored. or very light brown.
shading to silver in the long haired
variety, with a white bar down each
side of the face. and with white legs
One reads descriptions of Spanish and
Maltese goats with udders that drag
on the ground, but exaggerated udders
of that class are not always an indica-
ton of large flow of milk The I'D
ders Of the Swiss goats are often as
: large as a small cows, but very soft
and flexible in texture, with extremely
long teats, and are carried high be-
tween the le~s. The yield OF milk OF
these animals ranges from three to six
and even seven quarts per day AMI
mails giving the maximum yield of milk
are prize winners, and so far have not
been allowed out of the country; but
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02
TOGGEMB URGcS
LN R4cS ZUR2E

than flock of saanen goats grazing
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-05-03
DR.. JORDAN AND THE COP.
Fined SIS and Costs for Speeding When
He Was Merely Saunterina.

4 Providence paper of recent date
said:
A radical difference of opinion be-
tween a music master and q motor
cop" over a matter purely technical
in the profession of the former as well
as the occupation of the latter. to wit,
a question Of time. was arbitrated by
Judge Gorham in the Sixth district
court yesterday The arbitrator fined
DR.. Jules Jordan, composer and must
cal conductor, $25 and costs for ex-
ceeding the legal tempo prescribed for
performances with the automobile
within the city limits.
Later DR.. Jordan said: 1.-THE storage
battery that have been using gave out
completely on Sunday and I had cut in
as my only battery a single dry cell
that had been in the machine since last
October. 1t had deteriorated so greatly
that it was a question whether it would
last through the day, so was on the
way to Elmwood for the purpose of
getting new battery when arrested.
81 was going so slowly at the time
that I do not call it going I was
merely sauntering. The motor police
man passed me so swiftly that II was
fully fifty feet before he could stop to
hall me. I was sauntering so leisurely
that I had not thought of my machine
and when 1 made out that I was ac-
prised as If the officer had called out
to me that had turned black.
HE says I was running 21 miles an
hour IT is perfectly absurd. l do not
now believe 1 was exceeding the legal
limit, but I have been informed that
the officers word is practically final in
deciding such cases.
Every driver knows when he is
speeding and the careful autoist IL
Watchfu1 of his machine" said Dr Ior-
dan. when the policeman said that
was going too fast, replied, No, / am
not Not now, he said, but you have
been Yet I was not conscious that I
had changed the speed since starting
while we are discussing this as
signment of policemen to the enforce
ment of the speed laws I would like to
call attention to the fact that there are
other duties that need attending to. I
leave my machine in front of the But
Ter exchange. Recently I found that
had maliciously turned the
lamp almost to the exploding point.
Again. have found that someone had
turned the spark lever down so far that
had I not noticed it in time I would
very likely have had my arm broken by
the kicking of the handle when I
cranked the machine
IF the police would exercise some
part of the watchfulness over property
that is necessarily left standing in the
street, even if they had to leave some
thing to the judgment of careful auto
drivers, their services would be appre-
ciated as of some value to taxpayers.
'T have run a machine five years
with no accident, and / did not believe
was fairly a subject for arrest and
do not admit or believe now that was
guilty.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-05-03

has been more or less so for a year
He told man in this city as far back
as last summer that no one cared for
him, that he was practically an out
cast, friendless and alone To various
other persons he has talked in a Sim
liar vein, even as late as two days
before the finding of his body.
State Policeman Robert T. Hurley Of
Hartford. who has had charge of the
investigation OF McComber's death,
filed his report with Coroner A. G. Bill
at Danielson Saturday. Coroner Bill
would not make public the contents OF
teh report, but it is believed to make
McComber out a suicide. If this be
true, It will be interesting to know
how various circumstances that would
indicate that the man was murdered
are explained. Woodstock men who
talked with McComber on Saturday
and Sunday. however, say that he
threatened to take his own life, as he
had done many times before.