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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-24
West Michigan Pike Tour

Complete arrangements for the
West Michigan pike tour. which will
begin at st. Joseph, Mich, July 10,
and last four days, have been made
by DIR. w. III. De Kleine. of Grand
Haven. president of the pike associa-
ton; John l. Gibson, secretary of the
West Michigan Development Bureau;
l.. II. Conger, corresponding secretary
of the Pike association, and Lette
Shay of Harbor Springs.
Motion pictures of the tour will be
taken, a motion picture camera being
part of the equipment for the trip.
Speeches will be made at various
towns along the route and the good
roads gospel scattered far and wide.
Roads signs advertising the pike and
giving the mileage between towns are
now being posted.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-24
Make \ Nnise


\ hen is not supposed to have com
mon sense or tact,
Yet every time she lays an egg, she
cackies forth the fact.
A rooster hasn't got a lot of intel
lect to show,
But none the less, most good ROSTERS
have enough common sense to
crow.
The mule the most despised of beasts,
has a persistent way
OF letting people know he's around
by his insistent bray.
The busy bees they buzz, bulls below
and cows moo,
And watchdogs bark, the ganders
quack. and doves and pigeons
COO.
But man, the greatest masterpiece
that Nature could devise,
VIII often stop and hesitate before
he'll advertise.
The term strain is applied to fowls
which have been carefully bred by
one breeder until they have acquired
individual characteristics The best
strains of all varieties show their
breeding by producing larger num-
Der of birds that nearly conform with
the standard than those that are bred
without regard to blood lines.
The late census shows us that the
American hen gives us 16,OOO,OOO,0O 900
eggs a year these days. The census
shows us there are over 2OO,OOO,OOO
laying hens i'm the United States, and
this is not 10 be taken as high
estimate. as the lowest number in
census given is the rule where hens
and eggs are concerned. The value
Of the hens the United States over Is
estimated at $7O,OOO,00O. All other
fowls bring the value UP TO over $751;
100000 If divided this would give
every person in the United States
SLIP. and the eggs. IL divided right,
would allow every person, child or
grown-up, 293 eggs a year for their
own eating. The weight of the eggs
laid in a year annually tip the scales
at go, 1858 tons.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-24
Good Roads Department
Conducted Especially for the Banner by Hon. P.
L. Colgrove, President of the Michigan
Good Roads Association.

this year, according TO State Highway
Commissioners Frank Rogers. The
state official says that various town
ships and counties, where the county
system of road building is in opera
ton, purpose To continue road build
ing during the summer, trusting that
the next legislature will appropriate
sufficient funds to pay all rewards for
the highways constructed under the
supervision of the state.
There are on file in Mr.. Rogers
Office applications for reward roads
amounting TO 81, 3S4,111, while the
department on July l. when $780,
600 in trunk line funds became avail
able, will have a total Of $350.000 10
pay rewards for highways. Not all OF
the applications for reward roads will
total over $1,000,000, thus leaving the
state about S650,000 short Of having
sufficient funds to pay the rewards.
Mr.. Rogers says that many county
and township road commissioners
have notified him that they will not
stop road building but will continue
the work and demand OF the next
legislature that funds be provided for
payment of the rewards. Mr.. Rogers
says that with 20 or more of the So
money for reward roads the members
of the Legislature will undoubtedly
be compelled to appropriate enough
money to pay all reward roads built
during the present year.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-24

We are carrying on one of the best
and biggest road propositions i'm Mich
lgan or any other state" says Con-
gresham James G.. Mclaughlin of
Muskegon, apropos OF the movement
by the office OF good roads at Wash
ington, ID. c., the construction and
maintenance of public highways in
100 counties OF the United States, the
department having designated Mon
roe, Saginaw. Wayne and Kalamazoo
counties in the Wolverine state for
that especial purpose
Apparently, Representative Nc
Laughlin's pride was aroused over the
fact that his county was not mention
ed in that particular list, for ne in
sisted that in his section of the state
there is road work going on that is
worthy of the attention of the highest
officials of Uncle Sam. as well as of
all persons directly interested in such
constructive work.
I'VE have organized the West
Michigan Pike Association" says the
Muskegon solon, "and il includes all
the counties of Michigan on the east
shore of Lake Michigan, from the
Indiana line to the Straits OF Macki-
nae. The movement is progressing
with perfect satisfaction and another
imposing automobile hike will take
place over the pike on July IS, Il, Is
and 16-and believe me. ii will be "a
big affair. Every county along the
line is concerned in it's success, and
the people are looking forward to it
with sanguine anticipations of fruitful
results and undoubted\ satisfaction.
indeed on account of it's importance.
l am trying to make such arrange
ments with my work in the house and
its committees as will permit my join
ing the party, and being an active par
ticipant in the affair
'Do not forget that the most Of this
perfect road-at least from $50 to 200
miles of it-runs through my con-
gressional district. Is it any wonder
that | am proud of it?''
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-24
\ DISCREET DADDY

My daddy's always telling me
About how good he used to be;
He did what he was told to do,
And he was neat and tidy. too;
He learned his lessons every day,
And he would rather work than
play;
But when my grandpas visiting
With us, my daddy, If I'm bad,
Forgets to say single thing
About his goodness as lad.
My daddy says he never told
a fib or made his parents scold
Because he did things that were
wrong;
He always tried TO help along
BY eating what boys ought to eat;
But when my grandma visits here
My daddy never boasts to me
About how good and sweet and dear
A little boy he used to be
My daddy always took delight
In doing only what was right
When he was just about my size;
He wanted to be great and wise;
But when my grandpa comes and
when
My grandma's here To visit, then
My daddy merely gives a wink
or smiles, if I'VE been kind of
wild.
And doesn't try to make us think
That he was once an angel child.
S. +. Kiser, in Harper's Magazine
or March.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-24
Pruning Climbing Roses

After the blooming season of climb
ing roses is over i'm June the depart
ment's landscape gardener advises
that shoots should be pruned, SO as to
throw the growth of the plant into the
new wood that bore no flowers this
year. When trellis is low CO or s
feet high, it is good plan To cut off
shoots that have borne flowers this
year clear 10 the ground. Climbing
roses are valuable aid in making an
attractive home and will repay care
full treatment.
Most people in following this advice
may feel that they are running their
bushes to cut them back SO severely,
but the young shoots that have start
ed about the roots will surprise them
by springing up with wonderful
rapidity. Each bush will probably
put forth several new shoots that will
grow as long as those cut, or one shoot
will grow much longer. In either
case the trellis will soon be covered
again. One shoot in Washington
garden last year grew 20 feet after
the bush had been cut down in this
manner.
In the case of a high trellis a differ
ent method must be followed. The
renewal of wood must begin from a
point higher up instead of from the
root, as the growth of a bush is not
enough To replace all its top on
high trellis if required to grow so far.
Only so much of the old wood should
be removed after the flowers have
bloomed as will enable the new shoots
from the end OF the remaining por-
ton of the stalk to replace the old
growth About feet is a safe meas
ure of the amount that may be taken
OFF
Those who have grown climbing
roses as a screen on their porches, in
order To insure a fine bloom the com
ing year, will do well to follow the adj
vice as given for the higher trellis. In
other words, about 4 feet of the old
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-24
Fighting Perennial Weeds

lby ~ IL. Brown
one often hears old settlers tell of
some remarkably successful and also
easy way OF killing quack grass, milk
weed and Canada thistle; even pres
ent day experience seems to Justify
some more fortunate individuals in
the assertion that they can be rid OF
these enemies without the least diff
ficulty. But when put TO the test
most schemes are "A failure that do
not evolve persistent and repeated
efforts TO keep the fields with soil on
top and green portions of the weed al
ways under. even before they get a
chance to show much green.
A farmer once assured me that he
killed a dense stand of milkweed by a
single moving with a scythe, but UNI
fortunately he had forgotten at what
time of the moon the work had been
done, and so his further attempts had
never accomplished the same result!
However, we all know that moving to
prevent seeding will check the spread
of the milkweed and thistle, even
though il may not kill the under
ground root stocks. No one ever heard
of cutting quack grass to prevent
seeding: the fact is that quack grass
does not form viable seed; it has APP
parently. sufficient power of repro
duction 10y means of root stocks. DR..
Beal, teacher of botany for forty years
at the Michigan Agriculture college,
used to offer his students a prize of a
sum of money if they would show him
quack grass seed that would grow in
to quack grass plants, but he never
hadto pay over any money to a claim
ant.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-24
Road Work Not To Stop

The fact that the Michigan SUI
preme court has declared unconstitu-
tional the auto tax law. from which
the state highway commission expect
ed To receive S750,000 i'm auto license
fees will not greatly interfere with
good road construction i'm Michigan
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-24

III we can, in addition TO preventing
seed formation, kill the root stocks or
underground stems of these plants,
our task will be accomplished. Salt,
copperas. and other treatments have
been tried and found Intellectual too
costly, or harmful TO soil or crop. To
attempt to rid field of quack grass
by raking out and burning the roots is
also Intellectual unless followed by cul-
tivation, because enough pieces will
unavoidably be left to furnish a new
crop i'm spite of you. We have seen
quack grass killed on small areas by
the use of tarred paper The shade
must be continued until the root
stocks are thoroughly rotted.
After all, the most useful method of
killing the underground stems is to
starve them; they are full OF plant
food, but If we keep cutting the young
sprouts before they expand into green
shoots, as in the asparagus bed, we
can gradually use up the reserve food
held in parts of the plant below
ground. Not until the chlorophyll or
green coloring matter of plants is at
work in the sunlight can plant food
be manufactured and stored below
ground To send up shoots from be-
low that have no green color uses up
the strength Of the roots, and so in
persistent cultivation at the proper
time we can gain inch by inch on per-
ennial weeds. But to fight half
heartedly and allow the green parts
of the weeds to laugh at you OCCASION
ally is to invite failure.
In fighting thistles. a cultivated
crop offers the best means. but If
they continue in the oat field, a con-
venient plan is TO locate every patch
OF thistles with a lath stuck in the
ground for mark. Then every few
days until the weeds are subdued one
can go in with spud and cut off
every young shoot that appears.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-24
HORTICULTURE
BY E. H. BROWN
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stalks that have bloomed should be
cut off Immediately after the blossoms
are lwithered. The foliage will re-
cover within very short period and
continue to screen the porch, and next
year an abundant crop of blossoms
will be assured.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-24
JUST \ MINUTE"

81 have only just a minute"
only sixty seconds in it,
Forced upon me; can't refuse it;
Didn't seek il, didn't choose it,
But it's up to me to use it;
/ must suffer if / lose il,
Give account if | abuse it.
Just tiny little minute,
But Eternity is in it.
Christian Endeavor World.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-24

Nicotine solutions are invaluable in
combating the sucking class of insects
that infest trees and garden crops
during the summer months. When
properly sprayed with this prepara-
ton there is little chance of their
making any Roadway while the TO-
liage is in it's prime.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-24
POULTRY
CONSULTING DEPARTMENT
Conducted by VI. w. HICKS
Why Chicks Die In the Shell

Here are some of the common rea-
sons for the germ dying in the shell.
Paste ii up in the hen house or by
the incubator, where you can read it
frequently:
Weak parent stock by inheritance.
Immature and diseased parent
stock
Improper feeding, handling and
housing of breeding stock.
Eggs saved too long before incu-
baton.
Allowing eggs to be partly chilled
before collecting i'm winter.
Allowing eggs to be partly incu-
bated in warm weather before col
Letting.
Eggs incubated out of natural sea-
son.
Careless selecting of eggs for incu-
baton.
Eggs from breeding stock. fed for
forced egg production.
Rough handling of eggs before in
cubation.
Allowing the eggs to evaporate too
much before incubation.
Too many male birds in a pen or
too few.
Weak and immature male birds at
the head of the pen.
Eggs saved for incubation and not
turned regularly.
Handling eggs with greasy or oily
hands.
Too high temperature for the first
week of incubation.
Impure air during incubation.
Don't blame all the poor results
this season to the incubator, or the
old hen or the eggs, for the fault is
more frequently in ourselves. t. If you
look for il in your self you will see
that the incubator is right. that it is
run right and cared for as ii should
be. Instead of blaming the old hen,
see that she is set in a good place, that
she is kept in good condition and car
ed for properly. Instead of blaming
the eggs. see that stock you set from is
good, thrifty stock, worthy of produc-
ing the results that you hope to OBJ
tain. You will get enough culls by
breeding culls and expecting them
TO reverse natures laws and produce
great winners.
Buy stock from good laying strains,
if eggs are mostly wanted. Select
stock for broilers from flocks that
have plump breasts and broad backs
Such birds will score" 100 i'm market
poultry and yet probably be disquali-
fled for the show room. While it is
important to keep poultry within the
line of thoroughbred there is no par
ticular value in scores for market
poultry 1t is almost next To impos-
sible to have show records and impos-
class utility qualities in the same
stock.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1914-06-24

What is the use Of prosperity if,
after you get it. you are too tired to
enjoy it?
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-10-21
Fighting Of the Most Desperate Character
Is ln Progress In West Flanders and
Northwestern France Germans Continue
Furious Attempts to Break the French
Lines.

German and Russians reports
agree that the situation in, the East
has not changed, although the arm
les are In close touch along the east
Prussian frontier and across Poland
and Galicia. In Galicia, however, the
Austrians claim to have repulsed Rus
sian attacks and to be making prog
ress in their campaign to drive out
the invaders.
The Russians, on the other hand,
say they are taking large numbers of
prisoners. Heavy fighting is going on
around Przemysl and the cupolas of
the forts surrounding the town, says
an Italian correspondent, have been
destroyed by the big Russian siege
guns while the forts have been mined
and dismantled and the magazines
blown up. The town itself, however,
has not been damaged.
The same correspondent says the
battle continues on the yistula, San
and Dniester rivers. There is q sys-
tenn Df great entrenchments on the
Russian side and the entire front -iS
furnished with powerful guns which
day and night hurl thousands OF pro-
yecs!ies into the enemy5s lines. The
Austrians and Germans, adds the COR.
respondent. have been obliged to re-
main on the defensive but have re-
pulsed great cavalry attack to the
west of Warsaw.
Sarajevo. the Bosnian capital, ac-
cording to report issued at Nish, iB
enve'oped by Seryians and determin-
ed efforts are being made to take the
town before the end Of the tria! es
the alleged assissins of ArcEduke
Francis Ferdinand
In South Africa the rebellion of Col
onel Maritz virtually has heer broken
up Another lot Of officers and men
have been captured; others have sur
rendered voluntarily.
Italians have denied the report that
she had occupied Avlona, Italian poo
pie are growing. moro antagonistic
to the Austtrians because the italian
fishing industry has been interrupted
by. Austrian mines in the Adriatic and
because the service of many steam
ship lines has been suspended for the
same reason.
Sweden has ordered all lights on
her coasts extinguished so they can
not be Of use To the navies of the bel
lfgerent powers.
The food shortage In Belgium 10
growing more serious and American
officials are making efforts to hurry
relief, especially to Brussels, where
the need Is greatest. &,
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-10-21
SAD EVENT FOR
LAURENS FAIR
SCORES INJURED. AND SOME
WILL PERHAPS DIE
GRANDSTAND FELL
In Beginning Of Program for
County Fair, New Grand
stand Collapsed.
Special to The Intelligencer.

special to The Intelligencer.
LAURENS. Oct. 2O.-The annual
Laurens county fair came near hay-
ing a tragic end here today when the
newly erected grandstand holding
somewhere between fve hundred and
a thousand people suddenly collap-
sed. precipitaHng its precious bur-
den to the ground beneath, throwing
the people In wild confusion and ser
iousiy injuTing scores of people.
AT this time. few hours after the
terrible occurrence, no one has sue
cumDed to Injuries, but several OF the
hurt are In g precarious condition
Hrs. Joel Smith of Waterloo. Mrs
Sam Williams OF Waterloo. Mrs. r.
r. Ellis OF Laufens, Royes Todd M.
tile. son Of Mr.. d. e. Todd of Rarks-
aaie station and little son of Mr..
Iohn Glenn. who lives near the city.
are the most seriously injured.
Immediately following the acci-
dtnt Wild. rufrofs went over the city
tnat there had been a wholesale loss
OF life, but these rumors were later
automatically denied.
Those on the stand, and those who
saw 1t fall consider 1t nothing but
miraculous that great loss of, life
atd not take Splace. When the vast
GrpwG ON and eoual, the eralidstand
'dirst reeovereff q l,m the shock of
the fall, scores OF vrasaer and child
rem were seen in and on TOP of the
Wreckage, many apparently in an in
sensible condition. When the heavy
boards were pulled of of them and
physicians present had revived them
with water and anesthetics. 1t was
discovered they were all alive, bnt
more or less injured and frightened.
fortunately no 'one, was underneath
the stand las the fair had just begun
anu 5iii were watching the entries.
After order had been restored and
the injured carried to the Julia Irby
hospital, the doctors Offices and pri-
yute homes, the fair directors pro-
ceeded with the program as they felt
they could do nothing towards the
relief OF the injured. The physicians of
the city and the stair at the Julia Ir-
by sanitarium, as well as the citi-
zens Of the town generally, immed-
lately proffered their services and
everything is now being done for the
comfort OF the injured ones. Auto
mobile owners made fmprovised am
balances OF their cars and assisted I'm
getting the wounded to places where
they could be treated. Nothing is
being left undone which couIi de-
tract from the comfort of the unfor-
tunate ones.
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-10-21
Isico1lvenienced BY
I.slt Lack Of Hospitals

LONDON, Oct. 2o.-t10:o5 D. ND
!. .The Russians Mt Warsaw tays q
Marconi dispatch from Berlin. "are
greatly iiicoasenienced by inadequate
sanitary, arrangements and lack OF
hospitals. ssT- IszES
TK.cy, Moscow and other places In
Rissia are overcrowded. Troops
from Bessarabia are being sent to the
Caucasus to crush a rebellion.
There Is shortage. OF Russian
officers.
Despite the numerical superiority
Of the eneny's forces at Warsaw,
General Won Hindenbsrg is confident
OF victory.
The Austrian offensive In GaIicfa
Is making progress. The Russians
In their attacks before Przemysl lost
10000 men. where the Austro- Hun
gafian casualties in the same engage
Taents were only 506.p
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-10-21
ROBERT E. LEE
PASSES AWAY
Was Youngest Son of General
Robert E. Lee, the C6nsed-
crate Commander.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 2o.-word
was received here today of the death
of Captain Robert E. Lee, youngest
con of General Robert E. Lee, the
Confederate commander, at Upper
Vile, Va, last night He had been
seriously Ill for soma time. The body
win be inferred at Lexington, Va,
Friday morning.
Captain. Lee was educated in pri-
vate schools and in tho University of
Virginia. At the outbreak OF the
Civil War Captain Lee Joined the
F,ockbridge (Va.) artillery as pri-
vate. He took part in numerous en-
gagements and was later promoted
to the rank Of captain of artillery on
the staff Of his brother, General w.
H. F. Lee.
Captain Lee was the author of
"Recollections and Letters OF Gener-
al Robert e. Leo" He was born at
the old Lee mansion, now part of
Arlington national cemetery, October
81. 184S
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-10-21
German Attacks
Repulsed Everywhere

PAFIS. Oct. 20.-(11:0O b. m.)-
The French communication issued to.
night says the Germans today Mt
tackled alJng the entire front and
everywhere were repulsed.
The text follows:
The day has been characterized by
an effort of the Germans N.along ali
parts OF the front-to the extreme
north, where the Belgian army has
held remarkably; at La passea.
where the German troops have at
tempted an offensive movement OF
parttcular violence; to the north of
Arfas; at Mametz. between Peronne
and Albert; ut vauauois, to the east
Of the Argonne, and. finally, on tho
heights OF the aSeuse and in the re-
gion of Champion.
Everywhere the German attacks
have been repulsed."
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-10-21
Allies Have Made 8
General AdyaEai.a

LONDON. Oct. 21.-(4:2o a. m.)--
The Dnilv Chronicles onnkirk ear-
respondent, telegraphing Tuesday,
says:
-The Allies fighting mainly with
ARTILLERY. have made q general ad-
vance. The test work is being done
by the British naval guns. i4rage
numbers OF French and Belgian pris-
onefs have been taken from the re-
treating Germans.
The aid rendered by the warships
in bttntarding the German lines adj
yaneing on Newport has been an i'm
poftaHf ffactor
t'On account OF the large number
OF spies captured in Dunkirk an or
der has been issued forbidding any
foreisliefs to remain an the city and
requiring that all leaving the town
go In n westerly direction"