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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-04-20

Chas. g. O'Bryon went to Chicago
M onday on business.
Mrs. Matte Brown was Grand
Rapids visitor Monday.
Mrs. 8. l.. Wright was a Grand
Rapids visitor Monday.
Archie Taylor af Battle Creek viiited
Mr.. and Mrs. +. l.. Carpenter Sunday.
Miss Blanche Phillips, OF Ionia was
a guest OF Mrs. G. w. Hendricks, Mon
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. F. Nutting were
Easter guests Of DR.. and Mrs. Z. ].
Fitzmorris.
Mrs. Frank Luscombe went To
Grand Rapids, Monday for visit with
her daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Carnsworth of How
ell were Easter guests Of their daughter,
Mrs. K. A. Thorne.
Miss Mildred Ellis and Mrs. Ida
Nicholson of Grand Rapids spent
Easter with Miss Gil 'dys Ellis.
Mrs. Alice Warren Of Butternut ar
rived Monday for weeks visit with
her sister, Mrs. Chester Gardner.
Steve Baty, proprietor OF the North
Side barber shop has purchased the
Hib McElroy shop under the Peoples
Savings Bank and took possession We'd
nesday morning, where he hopes to see
all his north side patrons as well as
the patrons Of his new shop. Lee
McElroy expects to go TO Detroit for the
present, and Art Strong will remain
with Mr.. Baty.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-04-20
Wants Ladies Waiting Room

We have heard much complaint
from the farmers about our city not hav-
ing waiting room with conveniences,
when you are through trading, where
can one go TO sit down and rest and
have a sociable time while i'm town?
One can't hang around in the different
stores. There you are scowled at il you
don't trade; and walking the streets,
well, we know the results. Women
folks don't have anywhere to go what
ever.
No! Someone should erect and start
a place where one and all can go and
rest and know they are not in the way
OF anyone. There could be someone
serving light refreshments, il wanted,
reading room, ETC., anything TO make 1t
pleasant. Now, take for example the
farmers horses. They are better cared
for than the people. Don't they have
shelter while they wait? We wish
someone would look into this matter
and make our town business and
pleasure city combined.
A. Farmer.
This suggestion might be fine thing
for the board of trade to inquire into
and take some action on the matter.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-04-20
Has Millions OF Friends

How would you like TO number your
friends by millions as Bucklen's Arni-
ca salve does? Its astounding cures i'm
the past forty years made them. It's
the best salve in the world for sores,
ulcers, eczema, burns, boils, scalds,
cuts, corns, sore eyes, ssrains, swellings,
bruises, cold sores. Has no equal for
piles. 25c at Connell's Drug Store.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-04-20
Local ~
brevities.

Arbor Day May 2, Get ready 10
plant tree.
Mrs. M. +. Tuck OF Greenville was
with friends here Monday.
John q. Hessler OF Grattan attended
wool dealers meeting in Lansing on
Wednesday.
Alfred Moore went TO Ionia last week
and moved +. NJ. Crandall and family
10 Cooks Corners.
l.. +. Green and family OF Foster
vile, Wisconsin,, are spending this
week with friends here.
Mr.. Mrs. Harry Lamb spent Easter
Sunday in Grand Rapids with Mrs.
Lambs mother and sister.
Mrs. Farthing and Mrs. Evsrt who
have visited their parents over Sunday
returned to Grand Rapids Monday.
Congratulations are in order for Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Claflin over the birth
of son at Greenville, on Saturday,
April 10.
Mrs. Earl Wilson and children went
Wednesday to Casnovia where they
will sfend the remainder of the week
at Mrs. Wilson's old home
Fred Smith of the North side was in
Orleans Wednesday TO look after his
farm. He owns fine farm there which
he has leased Tor a term Of years.
Mrs. l.. Trail has received more en-
couraging inews of her little grand
daughter, Marguerite HELEN, although
still very ill and under the care Of two
trained nurses.
Miss Edna hummer left for Grand
Rapid Monday, where she is to take
course at the u. b. A. for professional
nursing. She has many friends here to
wish her success.
We are glad To report Leonard Weeks
as now making rapid improvement to-
ward health after long and tedious
illness. Monday he was able TO get out
of doors for a short time.
Mrs. John Hill and mother, Mrs.
Rose, were in Grand Rapids Wednes-
day to see Dora Earhart, who is with
the Salvation Army mission and states
that she likes it very much.
The Modern Woodmen lodge will
hold special meeting Monday evening
April "a, for the purpose Of considering
the second reading of the new bylaws
which are being changed in some parts.
The Bedding Cemetery Association
will have bee at the old cemetery,
Saturday April % all day. The COM
mittee desire to clean up in readiness
for Decoration day and hope to have
large turn out to helpin the good work.
Miss Gertrude Peck, who was oblig-
ed TO give up her position teaching in
the west, and has been seriously i'll at
the home OF her father, M. E. Peck,
has many friends here, who will be
glad TO hear that she is very much i'm
proved in health since her coming
home.
On Monday evening the Congress
sional club gave an informal reception
at the home of Mrs. w. +. Sandsll, In
honor OF Mrs. III. Van Benschotten OF
Krem, N. ID. former member OF the
club. A goodly number of ladies were
present and very pleasant time en-
joyed. All were heartily glad to well
come Mrs. Van Benschoten again.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-04-20
Leaving Time P. M. Railroad

To Grand Rapids-l0:12 a. M; 1907 and
9:0S p. m.
To Saginaw-8:23 a. M; 2:43 and 6:52
p. m.
70 Ionia and Detroit-l0:40 a. M; Ass
pm.
To Howard City-7:17 a. M; 5:36 p. IN
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-08-03
ROBERT F. DUNTON,
Bank Commissioner.
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE

WHEREAS, Ernest R. Colson of Winterport.
w Waldo County, Maine, by his mortgage
deed dated Apri 26, 1909, and recorded in Wal
do County Registry of Deeds, Book 1892 Page
24o, conveyed to the Bucksport Loan & Build
ing Association, a corporation located at Bucks
port, Hancock County, Maine, certain real es-
tate thus described in said mortgage:
The real estate with the buildings thereon
standing described in the following deeds: A L
Kelley to M Colson, recorded in Waldo Regis
try of Deeds, Book 1876, Page $50; deed from
Jessie Nickerson to Martin Colson, Book 1913
Page 81 of Waldo Registry of Deeds; deed
from Albert V Cole to Martin Colson, recorded
in Book 12S, Page IS of Waldo Registry of
Deeds; deed from Melinda Nickerson to Mar
tin Colson, recorded in Book l44 Page 1853 of
Waldo Registry of Deeds; deed from Allah W
Hardy to Martin Colson, recorded in Vol 2O2
Page 4Sl of Waldo Registry of Deeds; deed
from Melir da Nickerson to Martin Colson, re-
corded in Vol 12S, Page 6S of Waldo Registry
of Deeds; deed from Albert l. Kelley to Mar
tin Coson, recorded in Vol lis, Page As of
Waldo Registry of Deeds; deed from Joseph A
Baker to Martin Colson, recorded in Waldo
Registry of Deeds, Book 223, Page 1862; also a
certain piece of land decided to Martin Colson
by Augustus Mayo, November 25 1874 bound
ed as follows: Beginning at the Meadow Bridge
thence easterly thirty rods; thence northerly
thirty rods; thence westerly thirty rods; thence
southeriy to place of beginning. being the
same as conveyed to me by said Mayo deed;
also a certain piece of land decided me by John
Baker, for a description of which see mort
gage from said Baker to John Cole, recorded
in Waldo Registry of Deeds, Vol. 100, Page
lO2, to which deeds and records thereof refer
ence is hereby expressly made for more par
ticular minute description of the several par
cells conveyed. Excer ting and reserving from
the above described premises rights of way
decided to Northern Maine Seaport Railroad as
recorded in said Registry, Vol 27s, Page Is, and
Vol PTS, Page 10; also eight acres adjoin-
ing the above right of way as decided to said
railroad and recorded in said Registry, Vol Pts,
Page 3S1. Meaning and intending hereby to
convey, excepting said reservations, premises
decided me by Martin Colson. in Vol 239, Page
11s, said Registry.
And whereas the condition of said mortgage
has been broken, now therefore, by reason of
such breach of condition the Bucksport Loan
& Building Association claims a foreclosure of
said mortgage.
Bucksport, Me-, July II. 1911.
BUCKSPORT LOAN &
BUILDING ASSOCIATION.
By WILEY C. CoNARY, its Attorney. 3t29
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-08-03
LIVE WIRES.

Norway and Spitzbergen are now con-
nected by wireless.
Tungsten, used in making metal fila
ment lamps. is being mined extensively
in Nova Scotia.
The electric freless cooker is here.
Electricity supplies the required amount
of heat and the tireless cooker stores it
away until the cooking is done.
Electrically-operated belt conveyors,
elevators and chutes have been installed
in big new railroad station at New
York to handle mail from a nearby sub
post office.
Fifteen thousand horse power will be
developed from the Okeena River in
British Columbia. The energy will be
transmitted to Prince Rupert, a distance
of AZ miles.
The use of electricity is rapidly in
creasing in Switzerland owing to the
development of numerous water powers,
Electric light is driving out the candle
although two million pounds of candles
are still made in the candle factories of
that country annually.
Birds, it seems, rarely if ever get
accustomed to the sound of electric bells
so as not be startled at the ringing of
one. Knowing this, the head master of
an Austrian school has patented an cleo
trio scarecrow, in which clock makes
the connection at irregular intervals to
electric bells scattered over his orchard.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-08-03
PRIVILEGED UNDER LICENSE.

The bltterest opponent to resubmis-
sion that we talked with last year was a
Maine man who used to do business in a
Canadian town and boarded at hotel.
The landlord was licensed to sell liquor
and in the evening the young men came
in to play cards and drink.
Among them, however. was one who
did not drink hard liquor, so the land
lord would provide something soft" for
him.
But as time went on the young man
got to drinking hard liquor, and one
rainy evening when our informant and
the landlord were alone in the bar-room
the young mans mother came in and
begged the landlord not to sell her boy
any more liquor for it was running him
and had spoiled her home. The land
lord replied that he should sell him all he
could pay for and then pushed her out
into the rain, as it was his privilege to do,
being licensed.
The man who told us this had seen the
working of license law in Canada and
of prohibition in Maine, and, although
he had lived in some Maine towns where
the law had not been enforced as it
should have been, he preferred prohibi-
ton to license.
Another Maine man who has lived in
Massachusetts 80 years told US a few
days ago that the Maine people who
were working against prohibition were
making great mistake. He mentioned
one Massachusetts city where he lived
four years, two of which were ''wet"
and two "dry' and said conditions were
vastly worse under license than without
it. -Piscataquis Observer.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-08-03
WOOD WORTH $4,000 PER CORD.

If it were not for certain hard wood
tree that grows way down in tropical
America, some at least of the water
wheels that run the Skowhegan factor
les would not be turning today. Only a
small piece of this wood enters into the
construction of modern water wheel,
but that piece is very essential. It is
known as the step, and is the bearing
upon which the wheel revolves. In addi-
ton to carrying the tons of weight in
both the wheel and the water that runs
it, this bearing is submerged so that it
cannot be fabricated. Ordinary hard
wood or almost any kind of metal would
be destroyed under such circumstances
in short order, but lignum vitae will
wear for years. The water seems to
take the place of oil or grease
By the time that lignum vitae gets
from it's tropical home to Skowhegan it
is worth $4,000 per cord, but the users
buy only very small part of a cord at
once Stillman Phillips, who has work.
ed as a milwright for the past 81 years,
makes the little round 'steps' in the
shop of the Skowhegan Pull p Co. He
uses iron working machinery on the
Iignum vitae, and although the grain
seems to be cross every which way, the
surface finishes as smooth as glass. Mr..
Phillips says he has known Of step
carrying three ton water wheel to
wear for fifteen years, but with SO many
wheels as there are in Skowhegan, he
gets chance to turn up new step every
year or so. Anybody picking up chunk
of lignum vitae in the dark would think
he had encountered a piece of pig iron.
An interesting thing to know would be
how they get the logs out of the forests
where they grow.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-08-03
BATH BARS CLOSED.

In Response to Complaints Without
Number from Mothers, Fathers and Re-
liable Citizens
BATH, Me, July 26. Mayor Frank A.
Small issued orders today to City Mar
shall McFadden to stop liquor selling
in this city. For several weeks Bath
has been running "wide open" and bust
ness f1ourished to such an extent that
complaints were made of Sunday SELL
ing.
II have received complaints without
number from mothers, fathers and re-
liable citizens, and even.those who pat
ronize such places, asking for the en-
forcement of law and the closing of
these Places" said Mayor Small in a
statement to the Globe correspondent
today. II have ordered the city mar
shall to enforce the law and close such
places, and if he thinks the present
police force isn't large enough to do it
l will give him all the help he needs"
1t was said tonight that while the
dealers had decided to stop selling, they
were not likely to 60 out of business
until they learned whether the mayors
ultimatum was to be permanently en-
forced.
To feel strong, have good appetite and de
gestion, sleep soundly and enjoy life, use Bur-
dock Blood Bitter,, the great system tonic and
builder.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-08-03
Cost of Box of Apples.

One of the commercial data that
growers Of fruit in the Inland Empire
have long needed, or at least have not
possessed with sufficient fulness, is the
cost of growing and marketing apples.
Washington State College has figured
it out for 300 growers and some Of the
results surprise the layman.
1t appears that about So per cent. of
the cost of a box of apples is due to
packing, transportation and other ex-
penditures connected with these opera
tons. 1t is explicitly stated that, when
only the best methods and the highest
standards Of packing are employed, the
cost of growing one box of apples and
placing it on the market is So. cents. It
is found that the expense of growing
and marketing box of fruit on irri-
gated land is IL cents greater than of
fruit from dry farms.
The conclusions are based on the data
supplied by the Walla Walla and Palouse
districts. They require, probably, to be
checked by facts and figures from other
districts. But SO far as they apply they
should prove Of service and suggestive
ness.-Spokane Spokesman-Review.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-08-03
HISTORIC LANDMARKS OF BOSTON
HARBOR,

On every hand along Boston's water
front the antiquary may point out to
you reminders Of the founders. Yonder
is the, wharf, duly marked, where they
threw over the taxed tea. Here, next
to the fish-dock is Long Wharf, the chief
landing place of the old town. Here
abouts came ashore Captain William
Kidd, returning from his last voyage as
commander. Here landed also other
adventures on the road to the gibbet.
A pistol-shot up State street is the site of
the first house of Governor John Win
throp, where he stood at his door on a
clustering day in that first bitter winter
OF the settlement, giving his last meas
ure OF meal to starving neighbor, when
the ship sent to England for food six
months before was sighted down the ice
choked harbor. On so frail a chance as
the arrival of one little storm-tossed ship
rested the future of a community that
to-day numbers, in radius of twenty
miles, more than l, 500, 900 people.
From Long Wharf extended in early
days the barricade, sort of bulkhead
along the flats. Its outline to-day is
followed more or less closely by Atlantic
avenue. Amid the roar of elevated
railroad trains overhead, the rumble of
freight trains in the street, the iingling
of street-cars, and the clatter OF trucks
on the rough pavement, the stranger
seeks along this avenue some of the
older corners connected with its earlier
days. In this neighborhood lived William
Phipps, the story of whose life, from poor
boy tending sheep on his fathers clearing
by the Maine coast to Knight and Cover
nor Of Massachusetts, is New England
romance ready made. A gentle widow
welded him; rover's life led him to
tons Of sunken treaure; an indulgent
king ION receipt of share of the gold
and silver knighted him. There is little
to-day in the site of the grand mouse be
built on Charter street, overlooking the
ship-yard near which he had worked as a
lad, to suggest the romantic story. For
long time after Phipps wrought with saw
and mallet in this nelghborhood there
were ship-yards here. The frigate Con-
stitution was built hard by. The site
of the ship-yard is now covered by a
great cold-storage warehouse; but the
old frigate herself may be seen a
quarter-mile away across the tide, pre-
served at navy-yard pier, a shrine for
patriotic travellers. Winfield M. Thomp-
son, in Harper's Magazine for August.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-08-03
Children Cry
FOR FLETCKER'S
CA 8 T Q RIA
CANADA'S FRUIT CROP.
Prospect for Apples Has Diminished
Pears Light.

Pears Light.
OTTAWA, July &C. The report of the
Fruit Division of the Department of
Agriculture says that the prospect fer
apples has diminished slightly since last
months report, except in British Column
bia, where prospects have rather improv
ed, and it is now estimated that ship
ments from that province will be eighty
five per cent of last years crop, which
was very heavy.
Apples are beginning to drop heavily
in some districts. Reports of sun scald
come from the counties north of Lake
Erie and the counties on Lake Huron
and inland to York Country. Nova
Scotia still expects to have the greatest
crop on record, due partly to the increas-
ed acreage but also to the heavy yield.
Baldwins are short, A very marked
feature of the situation so far is the
freedom from fungous diseases.
Pears will be light in all sections.
Plums promise to be fair to medium
crop in Ontario and Nova Scotia. Early
and late peaches will be good crop.
Peaches of the Crawford type are re-
ported as somewhat light.
Raspberries and gooseberries suffered
severely from the dry hot weather in
Ontario, and the crop will be an almost
total failure in some localities. There
is an increased acreage of tomatoes in
Ontario
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-08-03
FROM THE OVERSEERS OF THE
POOR OF PORTLAND

Office of Overseers of the POOR
Portland, June 4, 1872.
We reply to your inquiry as to the
condition Of the liquor traffic in this
CITY," as compared with what we re-
member it to have been formerly
that it is very much less than it was
before the Maine Law.
If liquor shops exist at all in this
city it is with secrecy and great
caution, and the same thing is true
generally throughout the State.
The favourable effect of this pol-
icy is very evident, particularly in
the department of pauperism and
crime. While the population of the
city increases, pauperis1l and crime
diminish, and in the department of
police the number of arrests and COM
mitments is very much less than form
erly.
JOHN BRADFORD, Chairman.
]. c. SHIRLEY,
F. E. PRAY,
ISAAC JACKSON,
HENRY H. BURGESS,
s. Z. CHACE,
CHAS. HOLDEN,
JOHN TRUE,
Overseers of the Poor of Portland.
If we were to say that the quantity
Of liquors sold here is not one-tenth
SO large as formerly, We think it
would be within the truth; and the
favourable effects of the change upon
all the interests of the State are
plainly seen everywhere.
]. J. EVELETH, Mayor of Augusta.
Maine.
JOSHUA NYE, Augusta, late State
Constable.
G. g. STACY, Secretary of State.
B. B. MURRAY, Adjutant-General.
General Dow
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-08-03
FROM THE RECTOR ST. STEPH.
EMS PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL,
CHURCH, PORTLAND.

FROM THE RECTOR ST. STEPH.
EMS PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL
CHURCH. PORTLAND.
PORTLAND, Maine, June 4. 1872.
My dear General,-I was surprised
TO learn from you that the cause of
temperance is damaged in England
by an impression that it has been re.
tarded here from the, Aaine Law and
similar enactments.
That the contraryAis true feel sure
and am certain that it is, within the
sphere of my observation for the past
fifteen years.
Many, in the humble classes of So
c1ety particularly. have correct views.
and form good resolutions, which thew
carry out successfully when not So
licited to drink by the open bar.
Many wives have assured me of the
improved condition of their families
through the greater restraints put
upon their husbands.
Families whose homes are in drink.
Ing neighborhoods, or in streets where
formerly We're many drunken brawls.
have gratefully acknowledged the hap
Ply change wrought by the due ad-
ministration of the law SURPRISING.
tipping shops.
To make this law a still greater
blessing all that is needed is to en-
force it as faithfully in the future as
at the present time.-Truly yours.
A. DALTON.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-08-03
Colds May be Avoided.

By those who are fortunate enough
to always breathe pure air, and never
get run down by overwork or exposure.
Even these lucky people do not always
escape the contagious colds which at
certain seasons prevail to such an ex-
tent as to be almost epidemic. It is
wise to be prepared for troubles of
this nature in our climate, and the
one all-important. thing is to have at
hand safe, efficient and reliable rem
edy to ward off the trouble and danger
Of such an attack.
For sixty years, SCI. F.'' Atwood's
medicine has been household remedy
for emergencies Of this kind. It starts
mp the liver and bowels, prevents con-
gestion, and restores the functions to
their normal condition. If you have
never used it, get bottle from your
dealer, or write for a free sample to
the 81. F." Medicine Co., Portland,
Me,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-08-03
18th Maine Reunion.

The 10Th Me-, Regimental Association
will hold their seth reunion at Togus,
September 9Th Wednesday,, 1911.
Comrade Poor has made arrangement
for the Boys" to have the business
meeting at Augusta, at 1876 a. m. The
Ladies Relief Corps will furnish dinner
for IS cents and supper for Is cents.
After dinner we 60 to the National
Home for the afternoon, returning to
Augusta for supper. A program is being
arranged for the evening. The M. C.
R. R. will furnish the usual reductions
in rates. -Silas Adams, Sectary.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-08-03
Thirty Years Together.

Thirty years of association-think of it.
How the merit of good thing stands out in
that time-or the worthlessness of bad one
So there's no guesswork in this evidence of
Thos. Ariss, Concord, Mich, who writes: 81
have used DR.. Kings New Discovery for 80
years. and it's the best cough and cold cure l
ever used" Once it finds entrance in home
you can't pry it out. Many families have used
it forty years. It's the most infallible throat
and lung medicine on earth. Uneuualed for
lagrippe, asthma, hay-fever, Group, auinsy or
sore lungs. Price Soc. $l.0O. Trial bottle free
Guaranteed by all druggists