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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-09-21

The Belding Building d Loan Associ-
alton held its twenty-second annual
meeting Monday night, and elected
officers for the ensuing year. Directors
we're also elected to fill the places of
those made vacant by expiration of
term Of Office.
This association is one of the impor-
tant financial institutions of the city
and has been a strong factor in assist
ing its growth and progress, and a
means of helping a great many individ-
uals TO obtain comfortable home.
twas organized twenty-five years ago
and in spite of the "hard sleddingn it
had in its early years and of the many
harsh things said about ii while il was
in the formative period, it pulled itself
together, thanks to several of its first
and faithful stock holders, il weathered
the opposition and is today one of the
best associations in the State of Michi-
gan.
The Banner is proud to say that in
Ill these twenty-five years il always
nad Il good word TO say in its favor,
and il may he pardoned if we venture
to say that the boost which has been
given IL from time To time in these col
lmns has been strong factor i'm its sue
,ess. The association has ia turn shown
Is appreciation and stood by ii in sub
stantiaI way with much of its work in
our line of business, for which busi-
ness we desire to thank the associat-
ion.
On July l, 1911, the association had in
force $3.50 shares, loans To the amount
of Sl20, ,G65.96, assets Sl2S, $500.
Fred a. Washburn has been its presi.
lent for nearly twenty years and he
has given such good service that he
was again chosen TO succeed himself
The other officers elected are w. l.,
Hetherington, Vice President; Wm. l,
Benidict, Treasurer Adam Wagner
secretary and Attorney and Georg,
| Wagner, Assistant Secretary. The
directors elected for three years ar,
Adam Wagner, T.. b. Lapham and
Oscar +. Webster. John Il. Arnwint
was elected To fill the place on Tho
board made vacant by the resignation
OF Wm. II. Fargo.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-09-21
Held Annual Meeting Wednes-
day-Old Officers Re-elect-
ed-Year's Business a
Good One
A LEADING INDUSTRY
Gives Employment TO Lot of Men
Many Thousand Dollars Paid
Out for Labor

The annual meeting of the Belding
Hall Co. was held at their office in
factory A, Wednesday, with good
attendance of the stockholders. This
institution is one, of the best in the city
md ever since its organization it Shis
proved TO be a prime factor in giving
employment 10 that class of labor need
ed TO lay the foundations of progress
sive, substantial and wide-a-wake
municipality. 1t has paid out thou
sands of dollars every year in semi
monthly installments TO its wage earn
ers which has been distributed To the
merchants, the business man generally
and in very many cases in the building
of home. At the present time ii has
from two hundred and fifty to a thou
sand men on its pay roll who work in
its two large factories, views of which
are shown in the Banner today, known
as factory A. and factory b.
Refrigerators which are the products
of these factories, and there are none
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-09-21

Guy Alexander has his new shoe
store in the opera house building near
ly ready for business and announces his
opening day for NJ nday, September
18th. Mr.. AleXander's long expert
ence in the shoe business assures him
good share of the local trade and his
customers both style and comfort fr IN
the footwear standpoint. He invites
his many friends To call and see him
i'll his new place of business in the A..
b. Hull jewelry store.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. +. Dillon of Petosky
have been guests of Chas. Eldry and
also friends in Grattan, they are on
their way to their new home in Cali
fornia. Miss Kittie Lessitor of Grat-
tan is also guest here being neice of
Mrs. Dillon.
Frank r.. Bulls left Wednesday on
business trip to Chicago.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-09-21
The NJ. +. Lecture Course

The Banner is busily engaged getting
out the announcements for the coming
Lecture Course and the fine talent
which the committee have engaged
will make ihe Course the best ever
given in the city. There are five num-
bers and the whole Course will cost
S1.00. Following is the talent: The
Chicago Operate Co., Bishop Samuel
5. Fellows of Chicago, Lecture; James
II. Barclay, Cartoonist and Clay
Modeller; James McLaren ID. d.,
Lecture; Illinois Glee Club, Male Quar-
tette and Bell Ringers.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-09-21

better manufactured anywhere, find
their way TO all parts of the world
giving Belding a name throughout
Christandom for superiority in this
line. On account of its constantly i'm
creasing business because Of the eX-
cellency of its products in workman
ship and material the company have
been compelled TO build more ware
house room and an extension of their
machinery department, the warehouse
62Xl00 feet and dry-kiln 34X42 feet
and the machine room addition are
already under construction AT an out
lay of several thousand dollars.
The factories are equipped with the
automatic sprinkling system which
constitutes fire department in itself
and this improvement cost well up in
To the thousands To install. One most
excellent feature of this company is
that il is distinctively home inslitu-
ton very little of its stock being held
outside of the city and county IN con-
sequence of which a large majority OF
its earnings remain here.
At the meeting the results of the
years business were carefully gone
over and much pleasure expressed by
the gentlemen present. y dividend as
follows was declared 10y the directors,
10 on preferred and 5ge on the common
stock. The old board of directors were
UNANIMOUSLY reelected composed of
the following: IL. b. Webber, George
f. Nichols, Ionia; II. j. Dudley, Grand
Rapids; Brinton f. Hall, r.. II. Hall,
f.. +. Chapple and f. A. Washburn,
Bedding.
The following officers were also
chosen, Brinton +. Hail. President;
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-09-21

Mrs. II. Patterson was Grand Rap
ids visitor Wednesday.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-09-21
NO SISSY PASTORS
Bishop Ouayle At NJ. f. Conference
Says He Don't Like Them

Atthe Methodist Episcopal Conference
just closed i'm Kalamazoo Bishop VIM.
A. Quayle of Chicago, who presided in
an address TO crowd OF over 1000
preachers and layman Tuesday after
noon, severely denounced the "sissy"
pastor. ''lf we had more men i'm the
pulpits of the Methodist church who
would get out on the base ball bleachers
once in while and do little jaw exer-
cising, we would have more men in the
church than there is.
"rhe church today wants big, strong,
brawny men in the pulpits," declared
the bishop. "The time has come when
men, not women. should support the
church."
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-09-21
A Nj L : Z Nj f N [ s

Next Wednesday evening, September
y, will be seen one of the best enter
tainments ever staged here, when an
All-Star company will present Dumas
great play Camille, one of the most
thrilling and soul-stirring plays of the
age. AS an added attraction. Miss
Wanda Enos formerly with Sousa's
great company of Artists, known as the
"Wizzard Violinist' will play some
wonderful selections on her priceless
violin.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-09-21
Broke His Arm

While playing around the freight
ears at the Pere Marquette depot,
Wednesday, Burton the year old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. George Welte, had the
misfortune TO fall and break his arm.
The fracture which was i'm the forearm
while not of IA serious nature was very
painful one. DIR. Little was called and
reduced the fracture, and made the
little sufferer as comfortable as pos
S BILE.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-09-21

Speaking of the production, the st.
Johns paper says: Theatre goers who
saw Camille at the Allison Theatre
Wednesday evening were afforded u
rare treat, in fact one of the greatest
treats ever witnessed in local play
house The drama was well staged
and the cast of characters suberb, each
person having especial adaptiability for
the part taken
The violin work OF Wanda Enos re-
ceived one of the greatest ovations ever
accorded musician in IT. Johns, and
she was recalled again and again. She
renders music of high order in a manner
that would admit of but slight improve
ment.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-09-21
FACTORY A, BELDING- HALL COMPANY

II. III. Hall, Vice Presidents +. A.
WashbuEn, Treasurer; Guy ID. Weter,
Secretary George T.. Nichols, f.. f..
Chapple and William f. Sandell
members of the executive committe.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-09-21

Al railroads will make an excursion
rate for the Michigan Land and Apple
show to be held in Grand Rapids, as
follows: Tickets will be sold at fare
and one-half on November eth, 9th,
and 10th, good until the l1th.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-09-21
H.. J. LEONARD. Pres. A. N. BELDING, V. Pr.
STOCK
SURPLUS PROFITS, S14 10000
Fl. J. LEONARD. Pres.


Here is dime. Save it. Not large amount
you say? No, YOU re right, yet it represents
ten per cent interest on one dollar for a year
It's the little things that count III this life
History tells Us that Wellington attributes the
victory of the Allies ut Waterloo to the closing
of the Hugonont Castle gates bv James NJ,
Donnel and John Graham. 1t was a small
thing, but the results have been marvellous as
we look back over the intervening years. Phil
ip ID. Armour knew the value of little things.
They say he packed everything but the last
breath of utilizing the waste in the
manufacture of by-products made him wealthy.
The small boy by sticking his finger in the
leak in the dam saved Holland from devasta-
ton. A few drops of water a stone make
no impression-th the constant drip away
the stone. The little point the augur pre-
pares the way for the large bored hole A
single grain of corn produces from to two
perfect ears. And so the LITTLE DIME Is
a part of a dollar. Dollars at interest produce
dollars just as surely as the seed sown on rich
ground brings forth abundant harvest
Then save the DIME. Watch it grow.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-01

the glacier-clad peaks which separate
Choqquequirau from the Urubamba
Valley. DR. Farabee, who led the Har-
ward expedition into Peru three years
ago, went down this valley, and oon-
firms my opinion that the region which
we propose to enter is one of the
most important unexplored archaeolo-
gical fields in Peru. We shall prob
ably spend about two months and a
half in this region, doing everything
we can to visit any ruins that are re-
ported, particularly in the Vlcabamba
valley where the last Inca lived after
he escaped from the Spaniards.
The second Isl a reconnaissance Of
the 73rd meridian from the Amazon
valley to the Ocean, distance of
perhaps three hundred miles. This
reconnaissance, taking about a month,
will include photography, geology,
archaeologyti etc. The region is an
interesting one historically, and in it
the great General Sucre campaigned
in the weeks preceding the battle of
Ayacucho, which has been called
The Yorktown of South America"
In it also lies the rich sugar region of
Abancay, and the celebrated ruins of
Choqquequirau, which l visited on my
last journey to Peru.
Third Mount Coropuna. a vol
canic cone with a magnificent ice cap.
Few people have ever heard of it, but
some believe it to be the highest noun
tain in South Amrica. Professor Ban
dalier is enclined to the belief that
1t is over $4,000 feet high. If possible
we shall climb the mountain. If not
we shall content ourselves with deter
mining its altitude fundamentally and
making good map of it. There are
several villages near the mountain
which offer an interesting field for the
study of human geography.
Fourth: About forty miles North.
west of Mount Coropuna is Lake Pari
nacochas, (which is practically un4
known and unexplored. 1t is our plan
to take along folding canoe SO as
to be able to make a bathymatrical
survey Of the lake and a rough survey
of its shores.
We expect also to determine the
latitude and longitude of vnSfous
points.
In conclusion, it is the object of
this expedition to explore a portion
of Peru which is not at present
/ known to science. The amount and
kind of information which we shall
try to gather will be limited only by
the number and the individual ability
of the men who compose the ex-
petition, and by the time.
very much hope that we shall be
able to secure the necessary funds
to pay the expenses of a physician
and a naturalist. The former to keep
the party in good health, and study
the pathology Of central Peru, and the
latter to- make collections Of flora
and fauna for the Peabody Museum.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-01
DR.. HIRAM BINGHAM GOING TO PERU

DR.. Hirman Bingham, grandson of
the famous Congregational mission
airy of that name and son of the late
Rev. DR.. Bingham, who translated the
Bible into Gilbertese, is about to
head a scientific expedition to Peru,
for Yale university. He is a member
of the Yale faculty and curator of the
Museum. An account of the proposed
tour sent here to his aunt, Mrs. Lydia
B. Coan, widow OF the late Rev. Titus
Coan, describes it as follows:
We expect to leave New Haven on
the 10th of June and be gone until
December 10th, spending five months
in the field doing geographical, arch
geological and historical exploration.
We expect to make a cross section of
the Andes through a country that has
never been scientifically explored and
only mapped in the rudest possible
way some fifty years ago. The party
Will probably consist of physiograph-
er and geologist, a skilled topographer,
San assistant topographer, and possibly
a surgeon and naturalist, besides the
director.
There are four problems before us.
The first is: How far into the Anna
zon jungle did the Incas carry their
civilization? l am convinced that
there are more Inca ruins to be dis
covered near Choqquequirau, and
particularly on the North slopes of
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scale in Shansi province, where there
are large mineral deposits.
Metal gates, folding into small space
when not in use, have been patented
by two Connecticut men to keep chill
dren from falling out OF bed.
Cheddite, a blasting explosive u.s.
ed in Europe, will not freeze, cannot
be ignited by acids, and burns with
out exploding if unconfned.
More than $4,000, 900 worth of pre-
cious stones have been imported into
the United States so far this year. ex-
ceeding the record for several years.
There is a South American duck
which loses the power of flight as it
natures, the growth of it's wings not
keeping pace with the growth of its
body
A Liverpool engineer has succeeded
in guiding a model dirigible through
the air, and in dropping objects from
1t upon designated places by wireless
waves
Chocolate, dessicated eggs and SUI
gar comprise more than 80 per cent
of the new compressed emergency ra-
ton which has been adopted for the
United States Army.
Telephone communication between
Nova Scotia and Prince Edward island
will be established in the near future
by means of cable across Northum-
berland strait.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-01
CHOLERA.

When cholera is present in the COM
munity take Chamberlain's Collie
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy on the
first unnatural looseness OF the bowels
and the attack may be checked in its
incipiency.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-01

It was dark in the hall. Leaning
against the door, Harry listened TO
hear the rioters pass. When they had
gone by he would slip out again and
make his way homeward.
a hand touched his breast, and a
voice whispered:
Thank God, you have comet"
Before he could collect his faculties,
slender arms were about his neck
soft lips were pressed against his
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-03-01

change as an arbitrary, unprincipled
attempt to gouge the city out of
money and compel it to humble itself
to it's exactions, the city's chief cx-
ecutive has given notice that he in
tends to take the matter to the courts
If necessary. BY it's frank admission
that its only reason for Withholding
it's consen. to the listing of the city's
securities on the exchange in its ami
mus to the favored bank note COM
pany, it's officers have inadvertently
furnished to those who hold that the
exchange is nothing more than a
gambling institution, proof of their
contention that the intrinsic value of
a stock has nothing to do with its adj
mission or rejection and that its list
ing by the exchange is no guarantee
of it's merit.
Coincident with the development of
this muss, which It is expected will
lead to legislative action for the state
regulation of the exchange, the pre-
mature exposure of the effort of the
financial interests of the street to get
control of the most widely circulated
magazines OF the country, and the
acquisition of the paper trust and the
largest periodical distributing agency
OF tho United States, through which
it hope. to exercise a censorship over
some of the muckrakers, has added
to its worries. This exposure has
served to turn the spot light on the
so-called financial departments" in
augurated of late by nun Der of the
in which its influence is
now dominant, in which investors are
advised to buy stocks that are we'll
known mediums for Wall street ex-
ploitation and warned against others
that do not lend themselves to wildcat
speculation.
street has been baked in it's plans to
merge the independent telephone
of the country with the
Bell system, which it had looked to
provide it with soft pickings for the
next twelve months. This altruistic
plan, which would have brought un-
der single control all the lines of
land communication in the United
States with the exception Of the
telepost automatic lines, was nipped
in the bud by Attorney General
reinforced by several of
the stronger Independent companies
which declined to surrender their in
Forsooth, Wall street
feels there is more truth than poetry
in the old adage: TROUBLES never
come singly."
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-03-01
BE A BOOSTER!

Do you know there's lots o'people
Sittin round in every town
Growlin' like a broody chicken,
Knockin' every good thing down?
Don't you be that kind o. cattle,
Cause they amt no good on earth,
You just be a booster rooster,
Grow and boost for all you're
worth!
If your town needs boostin', boost
'er!
Don't hold back and wait and see
If some other feller's willin'-
Sail right in, this country's free;
No ones got a mortgage on it,
It's just yours as much as his.
If your town is short on boosters
You get in the boosting biz!
If things don't just seem to suit we.
And the world seems kinda wrong.
What's the matter with a boostin'
Just to help the things along?
Cause if things should stop agoin'
We'd be in a sorry plight.
You just keep that horn ablowin'-
Boost 'er up with all your might!
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-03-01
THE PARCELS POST

In taking a stand in opposition t.
may understand the real significance
of their position, but they ought not
to forget that here is much to be
said on the other side. The argu-
ments that are being used against the
parcels post, were advocated against
the rural free delivery yet it did not
take long to establish the fact that
the tree delivery of mail i'll the rural
districts was a boon of the first order.
Indeed, 1t may be said that nothing
has done more to add to the comforts
of country life than free rural deliv-
cry. Looking at the question from
the point of view of the general good,
we might as we'll admit that the
parcels post is inevitable, sooner or
later. The country jewellers are a
unit in favor of it. and when the last
word is said, we are forced to agree
that the interests of the farmer are
the Keystone of our national great
ness.
The establishment of the parcels
post docs not mean the death knell
to merchants in towns of this size. 1t
IL not to be presumed that country
people will no longer visit the town
to do their trading. The fascination
Of shopping and of purchasing goods
by personal inspection is too strong
ly rooted in habit and custom to be
lightly cast aside. Buying "out OF
sight and unseen" is unsatisfactory
in the great majority of cases.
Of course there are some standard
articles which country people may
order through catalogue, but the mail
order business is full of tricks and
merchants who have had the mail
order situation to meet, have nearly
always been able to prove to their
customers that better goods for the
same money might be purchased at
home. In cases where the mail order
house has the best of the argument,
local merchants must put the propo-
sition sQuarely up to their manufac-
turers and change the basis of the
retail business. By taking a stand in
direct opposition to the parcels post,
rural jewellers are only too willing to
believe that they are getting all the
worst of it by patroniZing home mer-
chants.
This is essentially an agricultural
community and whatever the future
has in store for North Yakima, must
come from the soil primarily. The
best interests of this city do not lie
in keeping the farmer from the en-
5oyment of modern conveniences, but
in aiding him to secure them insofar
~ possible. The farmer throughout
the land, feels that his interests de-
mand the parcels post. He has the
influence to obtain THE holds four
aces, so to speak Would it not be
wiser to adapt local conditions to
meet the situation, than to bid
against him? In championing the
parcels post, Senator Jones is doing
precisely what a majority of his con-
stituents are demanding of him, and
just what everyone must admit, whe-
Their he likes to or not, is tremen-
dous advantage to the farmer.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-03-01
EMBLEM OF PEACE

Every time a police officer is crit
iciZed. his defense is that he was 'en-
forcing the law"
1t is a great defense, because be-
hind It one may hide multitude of
sins. Inasmuch as the circumstances
surrounding abuse of power, are
known only to one or two in addition
to the officers themselves, the pre-
ponderance of evidence is in favor
Of the scions of uniformed authority.
Officers are human like other people,
and it is not to be supposed that
they will admit wrong when they
have so excellent an opportunity to
conceal 1t.
But enforcing the law" as it is
generally understood, may mean q
variety of things.
In the first place, we have some
10000 laws. Like the ten virgins,
some are wise and some are foolish.
They constitute network of legal
tangle. No man can become ac-
quainted with them all, yet the die
tum is that ignorance of the law ex-
cuses no man" Neither can any
man obey them all, and as a matter
of fact, no one does obey them all.
Yet in this community and in most
other communities the people are or
derby and honest and claw abiding
in the accepted sense of that term.
Let us not mistake--a strict en-
forcement of this maze of legal sta
tutes would mean that life in any
community would become well nigh
intolerable.
What do We mean then BY ZEN
forcing the law"
We mean administering, the
law, according to It's intent, and ac-
cording to the intent of the individ-
ual who may find himself in viola
ton of it.
Administering the law and enforc-
ing 1t are two entirely different
things. In the one case, the working
of the law will be in the interest of
liberty and the pursuit of happiness;
In the other, it may become so OBJ
noxious as to produce results exactly
opposite from what was intended by
the men who enacted it.
The purpose of the law is justice.
Through it we expect to safeguard
the rights of individuals and pro-
mote the welfare of society. In ad-
ministering the law, those to whom
authority is given, should constantly
bear this in mind 1t is only when
enforcement of the law" is sought
in a base and arbitrary manner. that
just complaint will arise.
That is why officers who are en-
trusted with authority should seek
always to safeguard liberty, rather
than to destroy it. Again it is re-
iterated that the helmet, and star
AMI uniform and club. are the EN-
blems of peace. not war.