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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02
Must Not Run Backwards.

The Michigan railroad commission
has just issued an order prohibiting
state railroads from running any
trains backward or with the cars
ahead of the engine. The various
lines are given 90 days to put in
VS. and turntables, and it is probable
that the order will cause great wall
because of the expense resulting. The
chief reason is that the engineer does
not have a clear view of the track
over the pile OF coal on the tender.
The commission has also issued
an order regulating the speed limit
over interlocking plants, the maxi
mum for passenger trains with in
terlockers in the very best of con
dition being so miles an hour another
for freight trains 30 miles an
hour III interlockers are not in
the very best of condition the speed
must be less.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02
NEWS FROM THE
STATE CAPITAL
Notes and Gossip Gathered in
Lansing.
FARMERS TO BOOST PRICES
Society of Equity Plans to Control
Years Output Of Potatoes-Big
Growers to Attend Con-
ference.

Lansing. - Circulars being sent
around the state by the Farmers So
ciety of Equity (incorporated) with
headquarters at Traverse City, show
that the humble soil tiller is learning
from the trust methods of manufac
turers with whom he has sad expert
ence. Just now the Farmers Soci-
ETY. Of Equity, which seems to have
had a revival of life, has its eye on an
extra 20 cents a bushel on all the
Michigan grown potatoes consumed
this fall and winter in this and other
states.
The circulars are issued to get the
names of large growers of potatoes,
who will be invited to con-
ference at Traverse City Septem-
Der S. The paper frankly states:
If the kind of people we seek
will attend this meeting, arrange
ments can be quickly made so to con-
troll the marketing of this years crop
as to insure profitable prices, and
the same machine will continue for flu
ture crops"
ht lHdlAdAiOiS dlC lldl 4AlNhi-
gan will produce the largest crop
of potatoes she ever raised and that
the crop of the country will be rec
ord breaker. it says. Prices are
down to 90 cents in many large mar
kets, lower in some, and at some coun-
try points are selling for % cents.
This is not encouraging.
IF the crop is dumped this fall, no
person can tell how low prices will
go. Without some sustaining ele-
ment, many growers will dump and
break the price down, and those who
hold will have glutted market to sell
on, with the result that nobody will
get profitable price.
The potato crop of Michigan is
vital to the prosperity of the state.
We have many counties that produce
100000 bushels or more each.
twenty-five cents a bushels means
$250,000 each for these counties. Hav-
ing this money or not having it will
affect every man, woman and child.
Organization will probably mean 20
cents more on every bushel.'
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02
1T WORKS
The Laborer Eats Food That Would
Wreck an Office Man.

Men who are actively engaged at
hard work can sometimes eat food
that would wreck man who is more
closely confined.
This is illustrated in the following
story:
Il was for IL years clerk in a store
working actively and drank coffee all
the time without much trouble until
after / entered the telegraph service
There i got very little exercise and
drinking strong coffee, my nerves
were unsteady and my stomach got
weak and was soon a very sick man.
quit meat and tobacco and in fact I
stopped eating everything which /
thought might affect me except coffee,
but still my condition grew worse, and
was all but wreck.
II finally quit coffee and COM
menced to use Postum a few years
ago, and | am speaking the truth
when / say, my condition commenced
TO improve Immediately and today
am well and can eat anything / want
without any bad effects, all due TO
shifting from coffee to Postum.
Il told my wife today / believed
could digest a brick If had a cup Of
postum to go with ii.
I'VE make IL according to directions
boiling it full 20 minutes and use good
rich cream and it is certainly deli
cious."
Look in pkgs. for a copy of the ia
nous little book, The Road to Well
Vile"
There's IA Reason"
Ever read the above letter. A new
one appears from time Co time. They
are genuane. true. and full Of humnn
fEt<rcxs.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02
Former Regent Is Dead.

Charles ID. Lawton, former regent
of the University of Michigan, for
nine years state commissioner of
mineral statistics, and one of the
best known men of the state, is dead
at his home in Lawton, at the age Of
"a years. Mr. Lawton graduated from
Union college at Schenectady. n. Y,
was principal of the Auburn academy
and later served on the faculty of the
Michigan university, giving up that
work to serve on the state geological
survey. He was elected regent in
1897.
Mr.. Lawton was the founder of
the grape industry in this section,
which has grown to great magnitude
and was the author of nine volumes on
the mineral resources of Michigan
Five sons and four daughters survive
him.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

Nearly 10000 people attended the
annual Eaton county farmers picnic.
George Bargelin, escaped from the
Lapeer home for the feeble-minded,
was caught in Flint.
An autopsy shows that Joseph Do
herty, the Windsor ball player, died
in Muskegon from natural causes Sat
urday.
The strange disease that has puz-
zled Howell physicians fer several
months Is declared by DR.. Vaughan of
the state health board TO be smallpox
in mild form.
To the fact that the harness was
old and rotten, n. f. Day, a Bellevue
farmer, owes his life. His horse was
struck and killed by a Grand Trunk
engine. but the harness broke and
the buggy in which Day was sitting
was left standing clear OF the track.
Bernard Clark, the 20-year-old Niles
young man who is awaiting trial at
the September term OF the circuit
court on n charge of assault with in
tent to murder, as a result of having
shot at his sweetheart. Henrietta
Starke, and her brother, couple of
months ago. quietly married the girl
some days ago,
While picking berries near his
fathers farm in Harris township.
Charles Prcbszky, aged s, was at.
tackled by large copperhead snake
The reptile bit the lad. who is not ex.
pected TO live. This is the first case
of the sort in Menominee county in
% years.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02

The trouble between Bolivia and Ar
gentina seems to represent on a grand
scale the spirit of Kill the umpire!"
Bolivia and Peru had a boundary dis.
pute. 1t was referred to arbitration,
and Argentina was the arbitrator. The
decision which has been handed down
displeases Bolivian hotheads, and a
mob of them in La Paz attacked the
Argentine legation. Argentina would
be able to give Bolivia a lesson if the
bad blood should result in war, but b.
livia's position is so clearly wrong that
probably her own sober second thought
will cause her to recede from it.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02
Gender.

The other evening Miss Y, maiden
lady of uncertain years, suspecting
the cook was entertaining her beau
downstairs. called Martha and in
CURED whether she did not hear some
one talking with her.
oh, no, ma'am," cried the quick
witted Martha; ut was only me sing
ing a psalm"
Very good" returned Miss Y. sig
nificantly you may amuse yourself
with psalms, but let's have no hims.'
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02
Michigan Patent Grants.

Michigan patents were issued as
follows: J. Bennett. Shabbona, beet
harvester; IL. and J. H. Besser, Al
pena, cement block making machine;
l.. r. Brown. Port Huron, collapsible
carton; A. p. Brush, Detroit, friction
clutch or brake; NJ l.. Buck, Ian
sing. coin actuated mechanism; II. Ii.
Dow, Midland, assgnor to Westing
house Machine Company. information
al combustion engine; G.. u. Essex,
Detroit, lubricator; p. NJ. Freer, Ian
sing, assignor of one-fourth to W. w.
Pope. and one-fourth to c. w. Hawk
ms, Akron, O., shock absoIber; W. NJ.
Hooper, Detroit, combined refuse
burner. garbage and ash receptacle;
V. A. Johnson, CULVER. pocket knife;
]. T. Jones, Iron Mountain, assignor
to Jones Step Process Company, Du-
luth. Mimi, treating ore: J. G.. p.
Lamb, Williamson, door hanger; o.
ii. Lewis, Detroit, guy anchor; M.
McGerrick Grand Rapids, assignor to
r. E. Mcdonald, Chicago. air filter;
II. r. McGerrick, Kalamazoo assignor
to b. +. Mcdonald, Chicago, insolat-
ing composition; w. w. Slocum, De-
troit, game apparatus; f. W. Sprowles
and j. c. Lorgion. Detroit, paper feed
ing machine; II. L. Stoup, Ypsilanti,
machine for attaching tires to wheels;
l.. a. Tator, assignor of one-third to
c. II. Wilson and one-third to NJ. w.
Wilson, Milan, middlings purifier;
F. A. Woodstrego, pail support F. e.
Youngs. Detroit, assignor to Equitable
Meter Company. Pittsburg, gas regula-
tor; c. Zinow, assignor of one-half to
Solomon, Detroit, bolt and nut lock.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02
Denver Church Calls Jenness.

Michigan friends of Rev. Perry V.
Jenness, formerly pastor OF the High.
land Park Presbyterian church and
assistant pastor of the First Presby-
terrain church of Detroit, Mich, were
pleased to learn that he has received
a unanimous call to the Twenty-third
avenue church, in Denver, Col. IL is
believed he will accept.
The Denver church has q member
ship of more than 700, has one of the
largest Sunday schools in Colorado,
and is an active body
Mr.. Jenness has been pastor of the
Kirkwood church, in the suburbs of
st. Louis, for seven years. His Mich
igan pastorates were in Flushing,
Bay City and Detroit.
During his residence in Michigan,
Mr.. Jenness also was an active
worker in the Young Mems Christian
association doing excellent service in
the local field and also for the state
organization.
He was active in the formation of
the Lake Orion Bible conference,
which is INSTRUMENTATION in char
acter, and has been chairman of the
program committee ever since the
movement began, nine years ago. 1t
is one of the leading annual Bible con-
ferenccs of the west, and the meeting
which closed few days ago is said
to have been the most successful of
the series.
Mr.. Jenness has been at Lake Orion
several weeks, but will leave for
Kirkwood in a few days.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02
Detroit Bankers to Loan State.

State Treasurer Sleeper announces
that acting for the state board of audi.
tors, he has arranged for the state
to borrow $250,000 authorized by
the legislature from Detroit banks
to aid the state during the present
stringency in the state treasury. He
adds that the banks have been
very generous with the state.
granting the low interest rate of three
pc cent. on the loan.
1t is planned to secure the money
in $4,000 and $4,000 sums as is
needed to pay state employees, and
the first loan will be secured from
the old Detroit National bank
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02
THE STATES VALUABLE WATER POWERS
Have They Been Gobbled Up Before The New Law
Becomes Operative To Prevent?
Next Is To Come Holding Company, So Report Says
That Will Control This Vast Source of Wealth.

Eighteen new power companies
filed their articles of Incorporation
with the secretary of state Friday.
The companies intend TO do gen
eral power business in different parts
of the state. The counties in which
the plants will be located are mostly
all situated in the northeastern part
OF the state. and are north Of the
Thumb. Plants will be located in
Oakland and Genesee counties in
southern Michigan and Arenac los
co, Bay, Osceola and Alcona counties
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02
Armstrong Aids to Secure DAILY.

The prosecuting officials are taking
another tack in their efforts to secure
visit in Michigan from Milton A..
Daily. the wealthy Chicagoan. under
indictment in connection with the
prison scandal. Ex-Warden Arm
strong of Jackson showed up in Jack.
son for the first time in weeks, and
held a consultation with Assistant
Attorney General McGill, Attorney
Barkworth and Prosecutor Reece.
1t was said additional affidavits to
reinforce the states case were pre-
pared, but what they are is not made
public. They will be ready for presen-
tation to Judge Lands at the hearing
in September.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02
For Uniform Corporation Law.

A uniform state corporation law
which will prevent corporations from
taking cut charters in states where
there are few. if any restrictions,
and then carrying on operations in a
state where II would have been i'm
possible to get the original charter,
was under consideration by the COM
missioners on uniform state laws. who
held a session in Detroit preliminary
to the annual convention of the Amer
lean Bar association.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02

commission the same as the compa.
MES already doing business.
The law was prepared by Represen.
tative d. u. Curtiss, of Detroit, and
submitted to many prominent consti-
tutional attorneys who gave the opin-
ion that II was sound law. The bill
was passed by the legislature after
an exhaustive investigation by joint
committees of the house and senate
1t will be attacked on several
points, particularly that il is uncon-
stitutional throughout and technically
because il is said that the title is
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02
About Lime.

Dorothy-Can | have some water to
christen my doll. mamma?
Mother-Oh! no. | don't like you
to play with water.
Dorothy-Well, can | have some
wax to waxinate her? I'm sure she
ought to have something done by now
I've had her three months-Windsor
Magazine
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02
Postmasters Given Leave.

Postmasters of the third and fourth
classes in Michigan by order of the
postmaster general are granted leave
of absence for as many days, not ex-
ceeding five. as may be necessary to
enable them to attend the annual con-
vention of the Michigan State League
of Postmasters at Grand Rapids Sep
TENDER % and %.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02

Automobile tires have been marked
ND. This is more likely to encourage
speeding to get the increased cost
back than to slowing down for econo-
mys sake.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02
Postal Resigns Place.

Members of the board OF directors
of the Michigan State Fair association
were given a surprise when Fred
Postal handed in his resignation as
president to take effect January /.
Mr. Postal explained that his bust
ness cares have become so heavy as
to necessitate the action he has taken
Before retiring from office he will
attempt to bring about the improve
ment of the grove just north of the
fair grounds so that farmers from the
surrounding country may hold a
chautauqua there each year.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02

A shipload of South American par
rots recently landed in Mobile, Ala,
serves to remind the public that Africa
is not our only source of rare and
valuable geological specimens.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02

Only few months ago the police
dogs of New York were regarded as
joke Now the residents are demand
ing more of them as protection
against burglars. There is no denying
the efficiency of these canine sleuths.
They are not grafters, and their fidel.
ity to duty often rises to ths heroic.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02
Road Sues State Board.

Asking that the order altering the
baggage rate schedule issued August
4 by the Michigan railroad commits
sion be delayed until II has been re-
viewed by the courts, the G. r. & l..
railroad began suit in the circuit court
at Grand Rapids. The suit will be of
much interest to jobbers and others
employing travelling men throughout
the state. The case affects a petit
ton of Noack & Goreu o, wholesale
jewellers at Detroit, to the commits
sion for a reduction of Luggage rates
In the interests of their travelling men.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02

A socialist, sued for breach of prom
Use, has invoked the French law in his
defense. II is odd how promptly these
enemies of law resort to it when their
own rights, privileges and property
are in danger.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02
Favors Midnight Closing.

State Labor Commissioner Fletcher,
who is also q Bay City alderman, sent
to the Bay City council resolution
to provide for midnight closing of sa-
looms in Bay City when the Warner
Champion law becomes effective.
Fletcher says that he offered the reso-
luton of his own volition, but that as
an alderman. he is interested in see
ing the law obeyed and intends that
the new law shall be strictly enforced,
see the saloonmen have the benefit OF
any privileges the law permits.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02

The band of departed gypsies in
New York who used their children as
clubs on the officials in their fight
against deportation proved very plain
ly the governments point against
them as undesirable citizens.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02

A woman in Atlantic City dived
from her yacht to rescue a drowning
guest and swan with the latter to
safety, while the men on the yacht
looked on. Here is another clear case
of feminine invasion of masculine
privileges.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02

IL was st. Louis man who died OF
sleeping sickness, not a Philadelphia.
The disease is net usually fatal in
Philadelphia.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02
ONE ON JOHNNY.

He was balmy-headed Johnny.
with little cash. She was both pretty
and pert. He said: do you know,
Dolly, | am something of mimic? !
can take almost anybody off,
She said: Then take yourself of.
old boy. I'm expecting some one to
take ne to supper"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02

To save himself from twenty-foot
fall, Albert Koch a Saginaw painter.
grabbed window sash with part of a
pane of glass intact. With the glass
cutting deep into his hand he chung
till he was released. His hands were
so badly cut that he was removed
to a hospital.
100000 rain fell Saturday morn
ing in Grand Traverse county. The
forest fires all over the region we're
drowned out. the air cooled and great
benefit done the late potatoes and
corn, which were drying up The
rain was very heavy. Las inches fall.
ing in about three hour
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02

The fact that undertakers now call
themselves 'morticians' will not make
them any the more welcome.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02

It's hard for some accountants TO
get their balance fore quitting work.
but a darned sight harder regaining
their equilibrium fore starting.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02
still Inimitable.

First Cricket-Men are flying.
Second Cricket-Perhaps but they
can't make music with their legs.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-09-02
THE MARKETS.

Detroit Cattle-Dry-fed steers,
$3.50 q 800; steers and heifers, 1000 to
1900 lbs. $4.25m4.75; steers and heif-
ers, 500 TO 1000 lbs 1915 4.25; grass
1000 lbs. 1915 ass grass steers and
heifers that are fat, 800 to 700 lbs,
1922 $50; choice fat cows. s3.75Q
4.50; good fat cows, 1925 a 800: com
choice heavy bulls. sS.5OM3.75; fair
TO good bolognas, bulls, 1925; stock
bulls. $3.50 as: choice feeding steers,
500 to 1000 lbs; $4@ 4S5; fair feeding
stockers, 500 to 700 lbs, $3.50M3.75;
fair stockers. 500 to, 700 lbs, s3m335;
stock heifers, So; mixers. large, young.
medium age, $40G60; common milk
ers, S25 M35.
Veal calves-Market good; calves,
81 to $1;5O higher than last week.
Best. 50 to $40. others, 50 MS.5O
Mich cows and springers steady.
Sheep and lambs-Market active and
25c higher than last week. Best lamDs
$6.75@7; fair TO good lambs. $3.50;
light to common lambs, s5M5,5O; year
lings, So fair to good sheep, $4Q4.25;
culls and common. $2.50@S.25.
Hogs-Market steady, last weeks
butchers, $790NS10: pigs. 1925 a go;
light workers., $1.70qS; stays, l-3 off.
East Buffalo - Cattle = Butchers
grades sold from 10e to 15c higher,
fresh cows and springers sold about
$2@6 per head higher. Best export
LOO to ,2O0-lb. shipping steers. S. 60
al So; medium 1850 to 1.150-lb. steers.
s5@5 %; light butcher steers. 81 500
good, 50 1914. Light cows; s8@3 %;
trimmers, 81 75@2; best fat helfers,
s5@5 go fair to good, s. 500! q,
or hnlnUnn
Is: stock bulls. $361S 25; best fresh
cows and .springers, sl7@57i fair to
g9Ga dc 5000 be3vS S3TEe$s
IS 55@S 40; pigs e S. COOS 80: doughs.
81 10. Sheep--Active. best lambs, 81 65
q So fair to goodi Sc 5o.q : 81 SO o. eulls:
wethers, s5G5 10; ewes, 81 1901 Is.
Calves-Steady; best, 50 56Q9 IS; fair
to good s7@9; heavy, $4Q5.
Grain, Etc.
$l.06 10 closing at s1O7; September,
opened with a loss Of lie al $1.06 and
advanced to sl.O6 1-2 December OPP,
advanced to $105 IL; May opened at
st.0S, declined 14c and advanced TO
$1.0S 1-2 No. ! white. $L07.
Corn-Cash No. 3, 72c; No. vel
Oats-Standard. car at IS 1-2c:
standard, at the Lake shore cars at
1ocs september SlduQbIut Dot. NO. .
white. car at 81 l-2c: No. white,
cars Lake shore, at 33 12c.
Rye-Cash No. / car at 69c.
Beans-Cash, s2.2O; October, So Mo-
Vember. Sl.95.
Cloverseed-Prime spot. 81. Octo-
bcr, $7.35; March, 100 bags at $685.:
prime alsike. 10 bags AZ $40; sample
alsike. 30 bags at 1925. % at 81. 80
at 1915. 3 at $3.50. s at Sc. at So
Timothy seed-Prime spot, 80 bags
at $t.15.
Feed-In 100-ib sacks. jobbins lots;
Bran s25: coarse middings. S26; tine
middlings, $780, cracked corn, $50;
coarse cornmeal $50: corn and oat
chon. s2S per ton.
lTlour-Best Michigan patent, $3.50:
ordinary patent. $3.50; straight. IS 40:
clear S5.25 pure rye, s425; spring
patent 1928 per Dbl. in wood. job
bling lots.
To save himself from a twenty-foot
fall, Albert Koch. Saginaw painter.
grabbed a window sash with part of a
pane of glass intact. With the glass
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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-10

iectly or indirectly In the business Of
the sale or manufacture Of intoxicat.
ing liquors would be disqualified, the
object being to exclude those who
were SO engaged in the Territory. In
your case Il seems to me to put very
fine construction on the law to say
that you, as a director of the Intcr.Is-
land Steam Navigation Company. are
directly or Indirectly engaged or In.
terested In the business of the sale OF
intoxicating liquors. particularly as II
does not appear clear to me that the
Inter.Island Steam Navigation Com
pany is engaged in that business. The
lnter.Island Steam Navigation Com
pany do sell intoxicating liquors on
board their steamers, but that II not
their business. Their business Is that
of common carrier. Moreover the
Inter.Island Steam Navigation Com.
rany Is not directly or indirectly cn'
gagged or interested In the business of
the sale Of Intoxicating liquors In the
VI Souiu tht toh
struction be put on this provision that
anyone directly or indirectly engaged
or interested In the business Of selling
intoxicating liquors in the State Of Cal
fornia is disqualified. finally, yonr
disqualification has not yet appeared
for the reasons above stated and fol
the additional reason that It has moi
been raised In the usual manner, ant
hence has not yet appeared.
81 ask that you reconsider your res
ignation for the reasons above stated
the purpose Of this letter being t.
point out that. In my opinion. ais a di
rector Of the Inter.Island Steam Nav
igation Company you are not direct,
or indirectly engaged or Interested II
the business of the sale Of intOxicatin!
liquors n the Territory OF Hawaii ant
the constructor that you are is alto
gether too remote"