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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-05-12
LOCAL DEGREE TEAM
WORKED IN LOWELL

over sixty Masons went 10 Lowell
Tuesday evening in automobiles TO a
special communication OF the Masonic
lodge there. The local degree team
put on the work in the third degree.
II was big session of the lodge,
over two hundred and fifty people be-
ing there. A good delegation attended
from Ada, Saranac, Ionia, Grattan
and Hastings. The crowd was royalty
treated by the Lowell brothers and
everyone was assured that a cordial
welcome was always waiting 10 visit
the Lowell lodge
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-05-12
irony of Fate.

Divorce. as well as marriage. has Its
little ironies.
A society woman, who has just In
stituted proceedings for release from
the double yoke, was discussing her
case with a friend
81 don't think know this lawyer
who is going to represent you," OBJ
served the visitor. running over the
name In her mind
"Oh, you must know him." returned
the hostess with animation. Don't
you remember the good looking fellow
who sang oh. Perfect Love- at my
wedding ?'-Iippincotts.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-05-12
VIII Have Martial Music

Wild Howe has been i'm the city. this
week organizing fife and drum corps
10 furnish part of the music for
Decoration day.
The old time music OF fife and drum
has an inspiration in ii that no other
kind has for arousing patriotic enthus-
iasm.
Mr.. Howe will play fife which has
led many a band of martial music in
the past fifty years.
The members of the band are Wild
Howe, fife; Frank Davis and Dudley
Irwin snare drums and Harvey Cur
RE, bass drum.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-05-12

farm near that place and will be-
come tiller of the soil. MIR. Butrick
has been in the employ OF r. c. Lloyd
for the past year and "a half and dur
ing his residence here he and his
family have made many friends.
Capt. Thomas Stevenson of Ionia
was in the city Wednesday.
Mrs. w. j. Craven left Wednesday
for Lansing TO visit a grandson and
other relatives for few weeks.
DIR. f. ID. Harrison is attending the
Eastern Michigan Osteopathic conven-
ton at Saginaw this week He will
return Friday.
The l. l.. f.. G. will meet at the
home OF Mrs. Martha Gooding to-mor-
row Thursday afternoon
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-05-12
DiSouStpd Martins

one of Greenville's esteemed citi-
zens was greatly effected by things he
had heard the past winter about pre-
serving and protecting the birds, SO he
built bird house this spring and put
1t on his lot to provide a home for the
martins To his chagrin a few days
ago he found that a party of black
birds had taken possession of the
house and were building nests. The
Greenville resident as we'll as the
martins is disguised.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-05-12
OCCUPIED PEST HOUSE
WHEN IT BURNED

+. Heintz OF Grand Rapids was in
the city few days last week i'm the
interest Of the Prudential Life Insur-
ance Co, and also TO confer with
John w. Scott the local agent here
Mr.. Heintz and family We're occupants
or the city pest house when il burned
two years ago. having moved into the
city a week or two before and were
sent there on account of having been
exposed 10 smallpox.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-05-12
Some Crane Fruit

Mrs. William Wean received a box
from Florida Monday containing a
branch cut from a grape fruit tree
bearing eight of the fruit weighing
from three quarters OF a pound to a
pound and a half each.
The box was sent to her from the
garden of Billy Wood who went TO
that state three or four years ago from
Orleans and is engaged in the truck
garden business.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-05-12
Old Fashioned.

Il never see yon pay the slightest
attention to your children" declared
grandma. who had come on visit.
Don't you love your childrenT
Now. don't be old fashioned, ma"
urged the fashionable wife Their
governess is employed TO do that
Judge.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-05-12
MICHIGAN BACK WITH
REPUBLICAN MAJORITY

The republican state ticket at the
April election received the largest
plurality OF any spring election in
recent years, as shown by the figures
tabulated by Secretary of State
Vaughan for the state canvassing
board, superintendent of Public In
struction Fred l.. Keller had a plural
ity OF 144, 432 over his democratic OPP
ponent and led the state ticket
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-02
Helpless Without Watch

"It is interesting and at the same time annoying to the man without a watch to see how difficult it is to find clock where you can tell the time, said A. c. Holt. T left my watch at home this morning and as everyone knows a man who has been accustomed to carrying watch and who is with out one is like ship without rudder he is lost
 "It seemed to me that I never had so many occasions to note the time. The people who have clocks in their places of business usually have them stuck away back in a corner where it is impossible to see them from the street and when you do see them they are wrong. It seems to me that it would be a good idea for every store to have a clock in plain view from the side walk.
 "Even if a man has watch he likes to compare his timepiece with other clocks and note the variation. It is a small matter but it is the small matters that count in the aggregate"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-02
CHICAGO's SAFEGUARD

From the Chicago Evening Post
 Lake Michigan was goaded to anger by the north wind recently and spent the greater part of two days kicking up un- der the prodding Michigan mad is a fine sight when viewed from the shore, and just as fine, but not so appealing, when viewed from the danger point of a boat on it's boisterous bosom.
 The lake is a servant whom Chicago cannot and would not discharge. If it werg not for the lake, we would smother in our smoke, suffocate in our heat and die in our dirt Tt is an ever changing picture of delight, confined to no art gal lery, showing its shifting color scheme at all hours free of charge. We are so fa- miliar with Lake Michigan that we oe not half appreciate it.
 In a storm the lake gives us a greater movie show than any combination oi film makers can produce. It goes through all the human moods. We are grateful when it stops short of tragedy, which on many back occasions, it refuses tt do. It kills, but it saves far more lives than it takes In roaring or in quiet thu lake is Chicagos safeguard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-02
Psychology and Football

The five thousand people who wit messed the football battle between the University of Alabama and Sewanee last Saturday on Redwood Field will never see more interesting demon- stration of psychology. The best part was that it worked both ways.
 The Sewanee warriors went into the battle the favorites, sure of them selves, confident of victory. In the first ten minutes of play that con- fidence received a rude shock. A mi raculous run by an opposing player, for any such run in football game is miraculous, and seven points were scored against them. A moment later three more were added
 The psychological effect of this was to demoralize the Purple eleven, to shake their confidence in them selves, and it seemed for time as if they would not score. But Alabama s time came in the last quarter. Their confidence, made overweening by the seeming ease with which the points had been scored, was shattered.
 Sewanee returned at the beginning of the second half new team, re- juvenated eleven, and their savage at tack swept Alabama back until at the beginning of the last quarter they scored. A moment later three more were added and the score was tied. The psychological effect was irresist- able and the Alabama team was beat en at that minute. The great Vande- Graaff was helpless without line to give him an instant to get his punts away. The surest players were funs bling. Alabama at that moment was as decisively beaten as if the score had been 20 to 0 instead of 10 and 10.
 Then another miracle and Vande- Graaff did the seemingly impossible and scored touchdown. The psycho- logical effect on both teams was in- stanteous. Alabama's line solidified and was impervious to attack. Even FandeGraaff was not unaffected for he kicked two goals from placement, more difficult than two he had already missed. Sewanee was correspondingly depressed and went to piecAs.
 So, in football as in business and mental processes, the psychological effect must be reckoned with.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-02
An Information Bureau

The average newspaper office Is bombarded daily with the letters, tele- grams and telephone calls of people seeking information of every conceiv- able kind, from the most trival ques- tion that schoolboy could answer to highly complicated problems in the sciences and matters which savants have wrangled over for centuries without having arrived at solution. These queries are answered promptly and cheerfully, whenever possible, no matter how busy the editorial staff may be, and it is presumed that the public is correspondingly grateful.
 The man who wants to settle bet appeals to his favorite newspaper as Q matter of course. A resident of Pine Bluff, Ark, recently sent telegram to the New York World which read: @What has been the average quoted market price for~fat geese on Decem- ber 21 for the last twenty years ? Wire my expense. Quickonabet."
 The World, being great newspaper and, according to its own confession, having been asked every sort of ques- ton, from the length of Cleopatra $ Needle to the number of hairs in the Kaiser's mustache, was not to be feazed by paltry flock of geese. The urgent query of the Arkansas man was attended to by poultry expert and the quotations on fat geese were
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-02
THE woNDERFUL TELEPHONE

Charlton Bates Strayer in Leslies.
 A telephone conversation is an in stantaneous process. Sound travels at the snails pace of 1160 feet per second, but the telephone message leaps over the wires at the rate of 56,000 miles per second. A "Hello" travelling through the air at the ordinary sound rate, if such a thing were possible. from New York to San Francisco would make the trip in four hours The faintest Hello" into the transmitter at New York strikes clear and distinct upon the ear of the receiver in San Francisco just one fifteenth of a second later. A breath against a metal disk changes air waves into electrical currents, and these. in less than the proverbial twinkling of an eye, reproduce, at the other end of the line, more than 5000 miles away, identical sound waves. On it's merely physical side the task of linking the coasts by wire has been gigantic. The Panama canal, regarded as one of the wonders of the ages, was begun nine years ago and has cost s310,0 100000. In the same time the Bell Telephone com- pany has spent twice that amount in l its engineering construction work alone. On it's transcontinental line crossing IS states, 130,000.000 poles are used to carry four hard-drawn copper wires, .165-inch in diameter. the wires in the
 entire line weighing 5,920,000 pounds. Universal service is the goal toward
 which the American Telephone and Telegraph company has been working for years, and in this latest achieve
 ment the company renders an account
 of it's stewardship. President Vail and
 his able coworkers may we'll take pride in having built up the vastest, the best
 and the most universal telephone ser
 vice in the world. having 21,000,000
 miles of wire. connecting s,000.O00 tele- phone stations throughout the length and breadth of the United States. And lwhile' the scientific world is still ap- Iplauding this feat the same company
 develops wireless telephony to carry the sound of the voice from the At lantic seaboard to Hawaii.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-02
Well Back from New York

q have just returned from New York where I spent the last two weeks" said Col Marcus Well, the we'll known merchant. "T found New York booming and so genial was the influence of the city that I gained 10 pounds while I was away. While in New York I devoted myself consider ably to pleasure and saw number of the new plays. Birmingham has some theatrical treats in store for her.
 'sNew York and the east generally in a business way I found optimistic. Business is good in the east and the people are sanguine of the future. They have no fears of any collapse after the war but on the contrary expect the great est era of prosperity the world has nnown, a foretaste of which the United States is getting now.
 Birmingham, I find, is imbued with the same spirit. Business here is good and the people are optimistic. more so even than those in the east. T had fine time while away but Birmingham is a grand old town after all, and I'm glad to be back"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-02
HOTEL LOBRIES
Public Pipe organ Would Pay

There are many music students who desiFe to take organ iessons--the num- Der is fast increasing-and would do so if they had access to pipe organ for practice" said Fred L. Grambs, or ganist and choirmaster at the Church of the Advent. "The different churches permit few pupils to practice on their organs during the week, but it would be too much to expect them to allow a general use of the instrument by beginners. It would be Impossible to keep 1t in good condition.
 Some enterprising organ builder should rent hall and place a pipe or gan in it, to De open to all students on the payment of a. small fee-say 50 cents an hour. It would not only be great accommodation to many but the venture would pay"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-02

given him for every year of the past twenty years, both for live and dressed fowls, with only three gaps in the quotations. For the gentle mans further enlightenment the
 World informed him that last week 2,550, ,00O pounds of fat geese arrived in the New York market, to appease the hunger of the Jewish and Chinese 
 Possibly the Arkansas man, hotel keeper, by the way, made bet that the World would not answer his query. If so, he lost the bet and should have paid it cheerfully. The modern takes pride in being able to answer almost any question under the stuff not off-hand, after short However, there is one question no newspaper could be ex pected to answer. The hectic subscrib- CT who wants to know when the war in Europe is going to end is gently but firmly told that clairvoyance is not by self-respecting press.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-02
LETTERS AT THE FRONT

Fritz Arno Wagner in Leslie's.
 " HE German soldier will write home
 under the most difficult circum-
 \ stances. I have seen during the march one soldier using the back of a comrade as a desk and scribbling hur- ried post card or few brief lines as they tramped along. During the bivouac the most crude facilities are utilized for writ ing, such as flat stones. trunks of trees and other improvised tables. The SOL diers' letters. written under such condi- tions, are usually laconic, although nov infrequently they are full of humor Given more leisure the soldiers are likely to write long descriptive letters and not few of my comrades imagine them selves inspired by the Muses and send home long poetical effusions
 These letters from the field are eagerly received, although not all of the army field posts heavy burden is made up of happy and optimistic messages. All too frequently the we'll known stamp accom- panies a superscription in an unknown hand and the recipient breaks the seal with a heavy heart, well knowing that the message inside will be one that brings only sorrow. When soldier is killed or so desperately wounded that he cannot write for himself some comrade will assume the sad duty of notifying his rel atives at home. Before I left for the front one mother told me that always when she received letter from the field post she trembled so that at first she could not open the envelope, being afraid there might be some heart breaking news within
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-02
Large and Profitable Investment

''One of the largest lumber operations in the south is that of the Jackson Lumber company, in Covington cocnty, about 25 miles from SAndalusia and 100 miles south of Montgomery said Charles H. Scotty
 "I negotiated the sale of the tim Der land toe the men now forming the companysin 1902--16O.0O0 acres. It has proved to be a most profitable invest me1t. The purchasers paid $10 an acre. About 70,00O acres have been cut over and the other 90,000 stretch is uncut. The cut-over lands. are being sold in
 80 and 160-acre farms at $15 an acre.
 'The company has paid already $2,-
 900 900 in dividends. It carries on fine development welfare work. In addition
 engaged in diversified agriculture on
 an immense scale. There is model farm village called the Harlan Farms after w. $. Harlan. vice president and general manager, where all the houses are appointed with modern comforts and are strictly sanitary.
 "On an investment of s100,000 in ag- ricultural development the returns are very handsome The company raises great herds of beef cattle and many hogs. It manufactures an enormous quantity of cane syrup which it sells at good profit. It conducts big dairy business and it's poultry farm is perhaps the largest and most up-to- date in the south. Both of these 1 interests are great money-makers There is a cold storage plant at the l Harlan Farms and nothing is left un- done for the proper handling of poul- l try products. The Tutwiler hotel is a good customer of it's poultry branch r. "Mr. Watfek, an Iowa capitalist, is the president of the Jackson Lumber company. He is one man who will gladly testify to the advantages found
 in Alabama for the employment of cap 1 ital"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-02
Notable Fashion Edition

Birmingham is already looking for ward eagerly to The Age -Herald's big fall fashion edition which will be is- sued Friday morning, and it will be of interest to every man and woman in Alabama.
 Long ago Birmingham merchants demonstrated that just as fine and just as distinctive stocks of goods are carried here as can be found in the eastern markets. A trip through the various Birmingham shops is revela- tion, for the display of gowns, hats, furs and suits is unexcelled.
 The appearance of the Friday fashion edition will be notable event in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-02

fire and as the fire truck rounded a corner stupid old junk dealer pulled his ancient nag directly in the path of the truck. Without a seconds hesita- tion the driver of the fire truck swerved to one side to avoid crushing the old man. But in doing so the truck collided with an electric package car. The firemen were hurled from the truck and the captain was killed. The old junk dealer meandered on his humble way.
 Merely an incident in the life of a city, this, and yet
 It brings forcibly to mind that the call of duty is as strong now as ever it was. Men are as willing now to enter hazardous service as at any time in the worlds history. And the fireman's work is perhaps the most hazardous of any in the line of public servlce. Daily his life IS in the bal ance. Always he must put duty be- fore safety.
 For years, sometimes, the fireman may seem to live a charmed life, he may have hair-breadth escapes and come out unscatched, and then at last an unforeseen happenings junk cart in the street, perhaps-and another name is added to the roster of unac- claimed heroes.
 The public, in whose service the fireman gives his all, his very life, signs and says ''too bad"
 And the next day another man steps in to fill the vacancy in the fire de- partment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-02

Each regiment has an office to forwa1
 parcels intended for soldiers are depostt in the regular postoffices, but 23 lett
 concentration offices have been estal lished to handle the field post mail In u
 postoffices outgoing mail is classified al
 cording to the formations of the army arl
 navy and is put in special post sack
 There are about 14,0O0 diffirent formation
 The classification, therefore. is a consi, erable work. The address usually takt four or five lines and in spite of the d tailed instructions issued a great mar thousand pieces of mail are addressed il correctly To handle these special fie. post clearing office has been organize
 where about 40 officials are employed {
 decipher and correct obscure and insuff cient addresses. When the post sacks are ready for u different formations, they are forwardt to the concentration offices which a nearly all established outside the limi1 possesses at least one. All these offic, together receive daily about 5000 sacks
 mail. From each concentration office u mail is forwarded to the army designate by a special post train which often COT sists of as many as 20 cars. Reaching u railroad station nearest it's destination u
 mail is forwarded by automobile to u field postoffice. Every detachment has il field postoffice and each group or con
 pany designates one man to receive u
 letters from the field post and distrib!ut
 them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-02
SUPREMACY OF AMERICAN AUTOS H. w. Slauson in Ieslies.

An American car is now firmly en- trenched as the greatest speed creation in the world; two American cars. in fact for the machines which attained first and second places in the S50-mile race at Sheephead Bay on October 9 were on the same make, and each bettered the previ- ous worlds record for 100 miles or more. But let it not be inferred that foreign
 competition was lacking. During the
 past few years the foreign cars have proved themselves consistent winners or
 American speed events, and there were
 those in the motor car industry who felt
 that American manufacturers could never
 successfully compete with the products of the European factories where speed and endurance were the primary consid- erations of the designers and builders. In this worlds record-breaking race five foreign cars of one make, representing the pick of the output of a French man ufacturer whose products had been win hing American speed events consistently throughout the last three years, and two foreign cars of another make of almost equal prominence in racing circles. were entered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-02
DEVELOPING soUTHERN poRrs

 From the Manufacturers Record.
 It is gratifying to note that gen eral recognition of the necessities of providing modern port facilities is be- ing made by the coast cities of the south. There is still a long way to go before all of the seaports of Amer ica are equipped with such modern fa- cilities as are to be found in Euro pean and South American ports, but the evidence of awakening interest is to be found to a greater or less extent in all of the southern seaports. Expen- ditures aggregating millions of dollars are being made in ports from Balti- more to Aransas Pass. New Orleans is completely rebuilding its terminals, warehouses and other port facilities and will be provided with thoroughly modern plant for handling a vast vol tune of waterborne commerce.
 While a conspicuous example of al- most complete rehabilitation, the ac- tivities at New Orleans are but typical of what is being done, though on a smaller scale, in other southern ports. Channels are being deepened, railway terminals and wharfage accommoda- tions co-ordinated. million dollar coal ing piers constructed, and all manner of facilities provided for doing busi- ness more nearly like it is done in the economically operated ports of Eu- rope.
 A great development is under way with the promise of benefits to the south of far greater magnitude thar | is generally understood, even by tho people of the south themselves.