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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-30
IF ELECTION WERE OvER7
While Democrats Are Admittedly the
Champion Question Fiends, It 10
Believed This Quiz Is as Un-
answerable as Their Most
ChiIdlike Effort.

IF election day were past would
President Wilson make so little Of the
principle of arbitration in Industrial
disputes? Would he be so sure that
1t Is more important to preserve peace,
when n great strike is threatened. than
1t is to make judicial methods rather
than force the means of settling diff
ferences between capital and labor?
II election day had come and gone
would Mr.. Wilson keep the national
guardsmen of the country In camp on
the ground that they may be needed
70 protect the United States against
Mexico? Would there be months of
inaction and indc'cision in which no
use is made of large body of citizen
soldiers? Would they not be allowed
TO 60 home or else he set in motion to
make Mexico as safe neiPhhor as the
Administration seems to think that it
is already?
IF election day We're past would the
President drive through Congress a
hill like the shipping bin which is In
tended to embark the federal govern
ment unon II new venture in n hazard
Gus field and use S50.00000O Of the
peoples money TO buy tonnage held
above It's normal value or else so
owned that II cannot be used without
peril of international complications?
Is sound public policy behind such
measure or only campaign politics7
II election day were not to be con
sidered would Woodrow Wilson use so
many high and mighty words in inter
national notes and do so little TO make
them mean anything practical? Would
his deeds lag far behind his
phrases?-Cleveland Leader.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-30
FIND JOY IN BEING ALONE
Experience Which Is Nothing Short
Of Delight Is Recommended by
Lover of the Woods

The art OF being alone is worth cul-
tivating. Unless you have really tried
it. you have no idea how unusual and
refreshing it is. City life, and even
modern country life rre not conducive
to its practice. 1t is very different
from being lonesome and quite an
other matter from being i'll. 1t is
found at its full flower only in the
woods, and its best development re-
quires some adjustment and practice.
The first experience is apt to leave
one somewhat baffied. If not fright
ened. We live so much with other
men and with the evidences of their
activity that we hardly know how
much is ourselves and how much
someone else. In the woods-and it
need not be the remote wilderness
we can diyest ourselves of all that is
not really part of us. We can learn
how small-or perhaps how iurge-we
are. We can soak up Impressions with
time to taste them and consider them.
and clouds and sun and shade. II we
feel like II, we can talk out loud to
ourselves, and there will be no one to
think us crazy. We can sing and no
one will tell us we are Off the tune
In short, we can be natural for once
in our lives-free from the warping
effect of what other people think
That is surely an experience worth
while.-Outing.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-30
SEERESS ON WHITE MOUNTAIN
How an Old Yankee Woman Presased
to Perfection the Coming Of
4 Storm.

once knew an old woman who
eved under the shadow of the White
mountains, and whose instinct Tor
She did not have barometrical bones,
either, as so many people maintain
they have. Her deductions were all
based on observation.
Once, l recall, she wns taking in
some clothes from the line at ten
O'Clock at night-a still, starlit night
without Il cloud. l saw her shadow
bobbinG about huge and fantastic on
the barn wall, thrown from the lantern
she carried in her left hand, and went
out to ask her why she took the
clothes in.
There want a cloud in the sky all
day." she said, "and tonight the noun
tain's talkin'"
l listened carefully, and sure
enough. in the silence l could hear.
three thousand feet above us, the
steady rush of wind through the stunt
cd spruce forest at timber line. Up
there the wind was roaring, then.
l thought of Martineau's words, that
the noisy hurricane rushes silently
through the upper spaces where there
is nothing to oppose it-that force by
itself is silent. There seemed to me
something almost Celtic, too in this
old Yankee woman's imagery. And
her prediction proved correct; the
next day came deluge.-Walter
Pritchard Eaton in Hnrper's Magazine.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-30
Peril in Cleanliness.

With sobs in his voice, the applicant
for meal and some old clothes had
told his story, and the kind-hearted
woman had helped him.
Now he sat eating n hunk of bread
and cheese and she thought it wise
TO get in Il little good advice. So she
began:
Don't you think that-er-it would
be better for yourself If you used soap
and water occasionally9"
The tramp sighed dolefully.
Il would, na'am-I would" he an
swered eagerly. ''but the truth is that
there's so many different kinds Of
soap, and it's SO hard to know which
Is Injurious to the skin, that I'm AFRAID
to take any risks
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-30

Hon. w. Scott Humason.who has
been quite i'll in Chicago for a month
past has gone to his old home AT
Nineland, Millelacs County Mime
sofa, where he will reside with his
brother. His physicians forbid re-
turn to this altitude on account Of
.leart trouble which is his main
trouble.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-30
Early Completion of
Crested Butte Som
erset Auto Road.

County Commissioner VIM
Whalen is very enthusiastic over
the prospects of ample funds to
complete the Crested Butte
Somerset Auto road another
reason the State County and
Forester contribution combined
will amount to about S25,OOO and
become available as needed for
easily construction work in the
spring.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-30

The real test of a community
is not what it does under compul-
sion of the law, but what it does
of it's own volotion.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-30

The President must be credited with
having put a slick one over If he can
get the votes and make the people pay
the freight.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-30

DIR. Rockefeller is spending n few
days with Garwood Judd at Gothic
as is his custom annually during
the bird season.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-30

Papers for sale at the PILOT office,
nice and clean. Just the thing to
put under your carpets and to use
about the house.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-30

The leaders of mankind are
those who lift their feet from the
dusty road. lift their eyes to the
illuminated future.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-30

Latin politeness is proverbial, but
aren't these Mexican commissioners
exceeding the limit when they persist
in likening Woodrow Wilson to Ven
Ustlanu Carrauza?
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-30

There is only one way of hold
ing the confidence of the American
pulic and that is by deserving it.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-30

You do not settle things quick
ly by taking what seems to be
the quickest way to settle them.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-30

A conservative man is man
who just sits and thinks, mostly
sits.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-30

You cannot have prosperity
uuless you have freedom of a.
chievement.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-30
The Corona Stand ard
Folding Typewriter

Why pay one hundled dollars
for typewriter when you can
buy Corona Visible Writing
Folding Machine for fifty dollars
that will do all kinds of work that
the hundred dollar typewriters
will do. The Corona only
weighs seven pounds and is put
up in a little folcing sample case
that may be carried around with
a shoulder strap, just like an
Eastman Kodak. Call and see
the CORONA at the ~ts.t
Robinson Store or the Postoffice.
S. C. ROBINSON. Agent,
Crested Butte, Colorado
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-30

The ELK MOUNTAIN PILOT is an in
dependent newspaper published weekly.
subscription price $500 a year. Display
advertisement rates given on applica-
Lon. Business locals cents per line
each insertion.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-30

1t is astonishingly easy to prove
that something is wrong which
nobody has proposed.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-09-30

Are you needing letter heads,
statements or anything else in that
line? We can supply you with neat
ness ana of the best Quality Of bond
and other papers.
Advertise your wantads in the
Pilot.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-12-20
CLAY TALLmAN IS CALL
Ed A POLITICAL PROPHET

From the Denver (Colo.) Press we
clip the following:
"There are political prophets and
political prophets, but none have
come this way in recent years who
had sized up the situation in the
West quite as accurately as did Clay
Tallman, commissioner of the general
land Office. He campaigned in seven
of the Western states and at the
close of his tour came to Denver and
gave out his views Of the result.
"Tallman said that President Will
son would carry Colorado, Wyoming,
Utah, Montana, New Mexico, North
Dakota and Nevada. The final re-
turns of today show he did not miss
one of the states. Tallman not only
picked the seven states as pivotal
but he gave the reasons why they
would go for the president. Judging
by the results, he got closer to the
pulse Of the people, politically speak
ing, than do most campaigners.
After his cross-state run in Wyom-
ing, Tallman said the state would
drick for United States senator to
ouSSCCu ~. ~. Oidfh, wiz HAS ucio
down the job for twenty-four years.
The land commissioner was right in
both predictions. Tallman said the
cattlemen and the railroad men
would swing the tide for Wilson in
Wyoming, and the figures show he
was right.
"Tallman's political opponents
laughed at him when he picked out
the seven states he had visited and
placed them solidly in the Demo-
cratic column. To consider North
Dakota, Utah or Wyoming in the
Democratic column was looked upon
as foolhardy, yet they all swung that
way for the very reasons that Tall
man gave in his interview.
at may not be amiss to say that
to Tallman himself, although he new
er admits 1T, is due much of the
credit for the great vote OF. the presi-
dent in the public land states. He
is the author of many of the recent
land laws which have done so much
and will do so much for the settlers
in the West"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-12-20
local items


The Senior class Of the high
school have engaged the Empress
theatre for Thursday night at which
the beautiful drama, 1.-THE Call OF
the Cumberland" will be presented,
The class is raising money for
graduation days.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. N. Smith OF
Albion, N. r., are the guests of Mr.,
and Mrs. George Wagner.
Warren Weatherby left Wednesday
for Brunswick, Ohio, to visit his
brother, Western Weatherby.
Mr.. Weatherby is eighty-seven
years old and has been living with
his daughter, Mrs. Fred Simmons.
His health is not good and he thinks
he will not return here again.
Fred Holmes is here to spend the
holiday vacation with his mother,
Mrs. Ella Holmes.
Fred Cotrell of Ionia was in the
city Wednesday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Smith seame
Wednesday to spend the holidays
with their mother and sister, Mrs.
Alice Smith and Mrs. Carrie Pfab.
Chas. Waite of Muskegon will
spend Christmas with his family
here.
w. G. Spicer went to Flint Tues
day. His son, Claude, has negotiat-
ed the sale of forty acres of land
there and the sale will be completed
this week.
Hugo Fales is home from Kansas
City for the holidays.
Miss Olive Wilson of Syracuse,
N. Y, arrived Wednesday to be the
guest of her cousin, Mrs. w. p. Heth-
erington, for few weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. III. A. Smith are in
Owosso for few days.
Mrs. G. M. Smith and daughter
have arrived home from Kalamazoo.
Anyone placing an order for the
Overland Country Club roadster be-
fore Saturday will save $50. Ames
& Unger.-adv.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-12-20

One way and another
We worried about mother
When first she decided to vote
The home would be shattered,
At least badly battered,
And we'd eat at a tabbledyhotes
Where none need be looking
Fur simple home cooking
Like that which today we expect;
We felt mighty fearful
The place now so cheerful
Would drift into gloomy neglect.
One way and another
We're going to mother
With all of our cares, as OF yore;
The duties unending,
The nursing and mending,
She's doing them all as before.
Now we know, when she's speaking
And earnestly seeking
In the work of the world to take part,
That her real ambitions
Are safer conditions
Round the home that is~frst in her
heart.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-12-20

in
Sam Raby; third, $100 Fikn -
Best of atting. First
~ "
Best needlewok First jardn
Charles Condor, Skeieng
Best patchwork
stitch First $OO in Beidng, H. a.
Covile E.
SOC in trade, j. E Lewis Chckerng
knitting.
$100 E. II. Covile
with
Bakery, Chickering
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-12-20
pyeina With Grape Paper.

Wash crepe de chine waist well,
rinse, set aside. Put Grape paper in
hot water until water is colored. Add
cold water till lukewarm, add one-half
cupful vinegar and one-third cupful
salt. Put in the waist, let remain until
shade desired is reached and then
squeeze dry and dry on rack indoors.
Press on wrong side with iron mod,
erately heated. -
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-12-20
List of Premiums GiUen
ntsthe Farmers Grange Fair

this From small display the council
of
three until occupies the full the auditor
I'm year.
premium departments
thus making the
prizes of
Below is given fuLlst of the premiums and winnings;
First refrigerator company,
Smith; gd Grn
Best bushe variety First $500 gold Peoples Savings bank
$1.oo in trade FrankH alstead jerks.
Banner Kinds; second Could ROssman
five pounds louise killer, H. j. Council, Clint Green.
FARM PRODUCTS
Marie Johnson second $500 cash. Bdng Grange Fred Nash third ten
gallons roof metal paint Knapp Company Walter Reeves
Best oneha bushe wheat First IA or 1efoot Cant Sag Gate
$500 Bedding Lumber Company Clint Green; second fifty 1920
Chappe Fred Thompson; third soO cash. Brown Strong
Best half bushe First $500 cash. Reeves
Sr; second $500 cash. Wilson third
Best bush ye FIRST 2oo in trade Bedding Hardware
Mrs Cnfeld second siOO trade Rumme Herbert ROs third
half bushsi First schlegs
de- Ss5f sas
stone Bsst clover onehaf dozen photographs $780,
Rsss s. s p fP s@ F sn oS R a sR s t E
i've Ss:s l.. ss %ssp ss @ @ $500 box ..
ca E5s s g 7 5ss s.
Basen - "
s Fl! e.; +; s SsSs s ;sSs s' s'Gs fs
toe Divine VIM Skopec second $2 in trade Lamb A. HALL
Onehalf buhe largest of variety $3.50
Wioughby, Fred Nash
collection garden vegetables First Young
Heaviest pumpkin One subscription the Bedding Clint
Green
as Hs ssss Sc squash . s sSe s S E d M I'd &
e Best dairy GUTTER ess Werner Mrs.
Taylor second 00 in cash. Bedding Vucanng Company Mrs Tut
e third SOC in cash. Citizens Light Company Mrs Henry Skeenge
NJ L. Howe Mary
Best spats Ludwick
Of rug
Wheeler Edna Nummer second $2 fashgh Spencer Light Power
Best
hummer
collection of pickles
Largest sunfow $0O in cash w Dubert Edward Johnson
BAKED GOODS
Best fruit cake umbrella F. D. Lincoln Mrs Fred Thompson
Best hickory $100 cash. w Clarke Mrs Fred Thompson
Best dozen fried cakes oneha dozen photographs W. R.
cookies Gnng apples,
A. hummer Mrs. Martha Smith,
candy Sparks
apple Lypps
Best pumpkin pie $OO in cash. Bding Coal Ice Company Mrs
Thompson.
Best pie Mrs. Marian john
Best loaf white bread $500 Miller Harris Fur
rising spoons,
s75 PEDESTAL Vie
FANCY WORK
Best collection embroidery First premium from Richardson silk Com
Condor; box candy Frank San
Best collection Of coheng First silk pettoat Beding Bros
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-12-20

III
Paper-economy campaigns are said
to be the order of the day,>in depart
ment stores and elsewhere, in a num-
Der of large cities. Nothing could
be more sensible; to save paper that
is needlessly used or destroyed is to
make a clear gain in a matter In
which modern wastefulness is enor-
nous. Would it not be possible to
organize a cheap means of collect
ing the newspapers which are burn
ed up or otherwise. go to waste by
the million every day in our great
cities? The destruction of forests
which is caused by our waste of pap
er in so many directions is the most
serious consideration in the matter,
although just at the moment it is the
extraordinary high price of paper
that is most in mind. One new de-
velopment in the consumption of pap
er has reached great dimensions
within a very short time, and it would
be interesting to know how much it
amounts to in the general assault up
on our wood resources. We refer to
the paper towel-or rather so-called
towel, for towel it is not in any toll
cradle sense of the word. Is the eco
nomy in laundering worth while,
when we consider both the destruc-
ton of raw materials in the towel
and the lowering of human dignity
in the using of it?
Happiness is the ever-retreating
summit on the hill of ambition.
The BARRIERS idea of a miser is a
man who shaves himself.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-12-20

The girl who wins the love of a
truly good man makes lucky hit and
is herself a lucky miss.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-12-20
Class Banquet

The Mrs. Emma Brown Sunday
school class of the Central M. E.
church gave their annual banquet at
the church last Saturday night.
About seventy-five plates were laid.
The speakers were: George Williams,
POSTMASTER, and the toasts were
given by Mrs. Sarah Hopwood, w.
f. Hine, Miss Cora Lewis, Francis
Bailey, Miss Minnie Cook and w. f..
Doty. The toasts were very helpful
and amusing. At the close a talk
was given by Mr.. Doolittle, state
Sunday school missionary.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-12-20
OVERLAND DEALERS TO
MEET IN CONVENTION

The biggest dealer convention in
American history is taking place in
Toledo, Ohio, December 4th to 23rd.
This will be the Overland Dealers
convention, to be attended by almost
every Overland and Willys-Knight
dealer in the United States, 5000 in
number.
John. N. WHY'S, president of the
WHY'S Overland company, is conced-
ed to be a master host. He has
brought big league base ball clubs to
Toledo that his employees might see
them play. He entertained 10000
employees and their families, at re-
cent circus party.
The present plan of inviting all his
dealers to the Toledo headquarters
and entertaining them while here,
bids fair to eclipse all Mr.. WHY'S
previous achievements, The event
is to be, staged on such large scale
that over a score of solid Pullman
cars will be required to bring and
carry away the various parties dur
ing the 19-day gathering.
Furthermore, Mr.. WHY'S has plan
ned this gigantic convention so that
every member of his organization,
many of whom have never visited
the Toledo factory, may see the i'm
mensity of the WHY'S Overland in
stitution, it's reliability, stability and
permanence.
Special Pullman trains, running on
special schedules, have been arrang-
ed
This convention is only one more
instance of the close cooperation be-
tween motorcar manufacturers and
dealers-constantly exemplifed by
the WHY'S Knight Overland company
which has placed automobile build
ing in the front ranks of American
industry.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-12-20
HANDKERCHIEFS
BLOUSES

Can you think of more useful gift for a
one of these beautiful waists? Wonderful
crepe de chine waists at $500 to $500. bsn
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1916-03-13

Washington may be menaeed by way
Of the bay. as ii was captured in the
war OF 1872 Then. if again so attack
ed. the great guns on wheels TO repei
the enemy, could come down the new
highway the old Stage Road, on their
own trucks, and from Horn Point and
Beaman's Hill and the Naval Academy.
may give the enemy a warm reception.
This military necessity makes the
building Of the old stage Road a need
above all other new roads contempla-
ted IN the State. The state, beside,
because it is now a little in debt is
not going to stop al improvements
II ii IS not. no road IS more required
than the one from the National TO the
State capital.
One Of the reasons why the Naval
Academy was urged to be located al
annapolis was that it was near Wash
ington Let us keep the two places
s,n together by the close bond Of q
good military road
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1916-03-13

To the Unknown Heirs Of ALFRED L.
BAKEE;
The object of this suit is 20 obtain de-
cree for the sale OF the real estate OF Al-
fred L. Baker for the payment of his
debts unsatisued by the application OF Iht
personal estate of said Alfred J.. Baker
The RilI states % that SAID Alfred Z.
Baker was ia his lifetime Indebted TO Mary
c. Bryan In the sum OF twelve hundred and
fhirtv dollars unto j. Newton Gilbert, ia
and that there was due =. Roland brown
the sum ~ one hundred and fifteen dollars
and twenty-flYec euts.
CD That said Alfred l.. Baker UeinE 30
indebted and being indebted 70 divers other
persons, and being seized and possessed q,
real aud personal property iu Anne Aruuge'
County departed this life Oh OF about th'
29th day OF June 1918, unmarried, tntes
tate and childless.
(3) That administration ou the personal
estate Of said Alfred l.. Baker was granted
unto Lasmus ClauseU.
(f) That EasmUs Clauseu. as such admin
strator, has PASSED his account IT. lhe or.
phans Court for Anne Arundel County, and
has exhausted the assets OF the persona.
esctate Of said Alfred l.. Baker leaving q
Mary c. Bryan J. Newton Gilbert and T
itOinad Brown and no part Of the collateral
uheritauce tax has been patd.
10 That said personal estate is not SUI
icient 70 discharge in fun all the debts OF
said intest4fe ana the, costs OF a"gunlslra
don and that the deficiency ought TO be
supplied by a sale OF the real estate.
t6l That the real estate consists OF ar
undivided fourth interest iu tract of lauu
iu the Second Election District of Anne
Arundel County, known as "fishlug tr"eh
Farm" containing three hundred acres 90
land, more or less,
tate, unmarried and childless, but III Is ua
known whether he left any heirs or not
resident or uon- resident. And prays thut
the real estate of Alfred l.. Baker be sold
and for general relief
It is. thereupou, this third day Of Feb