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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-08
TAYLOR & COMPANY.
For Insurance on Cotton Call
Phone 1899.
Reduced Rates to st. Louis, Mo-, via
Iron Mountain Railway.

General Convention protestant
Episcopal Church, October, November
l, 1916. Rate Of $16S5 for round
trip will apply from Pine Bluff, Ark.
Tickets on sale October g. 10 and II.
good returning November 4, 1916.
D. G. PAYNE,
l0-7-4t. Agent.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-01
Spraying the Peach

First Spray-When trees are DOR
mant either in the fall after leaves
drop, or in the spring before bud de-
velopment, or both, spray with lime,
sulphur solution, commercial diluted
l to 8, or the homemade lime sulphur
wash or soluble oil, such as scalecide,
This spraying will control the San
Jose, Putnam, Forbes and other scale
insects.
For Peach Leaf Curl this spraying
must be made before the peach buds
begin to expand or spraying will have
no effect whatever on Peach Leaf
Curl. Pratt's Scalecide will control
peach Lecanium and terrapin scale
better than the lime-sulphur washes.
2nd Spray.-When blossoms have
fallen, with either commercial lime
sulphur solution diluted / to so to
which 21a pounds of paste or l 1-2
pounds powdered arsenate of lead and
one pint Of nicotine sulphate has been
added.
The self-boiled lime-sulphur solu-
ton which is made on the farm is
more safe for the average farmer TO
use than the commercial in spraying
peach. but not nearly so convenient
as the commercial. The commercial
is Just as effective, but greater care
must be exercised in its use or foil
age injury will result. Niagara Solu-
bic Sulphur compound and Automic
Sulphur are two of the newer fungi
eide sprays recommended for the deli
cate foliage of the peach which shows
great promise.
This spraying controls the brown
rot, bark beetles, curculo, twig borer
mildew, leaf blight, scab, shot hole
fungus, black peach aphis, and other
aerial forms of plant lice.
Subsequent sprayings should be
made at intervals Of ten days or two
weeks until the insects and diseases
are fully controlled. For root lice the
same treatment as for apple is re-
commended.
For the peach borer, remove the
soil about the base of tree to admit OF
scraping lightly, then paint the tree
heavily with lime-sulphur solution full
strength from point three inches
below the surface to one foot above
the surface. If the entire body OF
the tree is kept coated with the lime
sulphur wash, the moth of the peach
borer larvae will not deposit her eggs
where the bodies are coated in this
manner.
For black peach aphis, use nicotine
sulphate at double strength.
Scraping and painting as herewith
directed should be done in the months
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-01
Spraying the Pear

First Spray.-This should be made
when trees are dormant before buds
open or foliage appears with lime
sulphur solution, either commercial or
homemade, at winter strength, or
with scalecide. If this spraying is
made after the first two or three days
of warm sun, the pear psylia can be
easily controlled. The psylia byber-
mates in the cracks and crevices and
under rough bark of trees. The first
few days of spring brings them out
Of their winter quarters. They are
quite sluggish for several days after
they immerge, when they can easily be
hit with the spraying fluids, and be-
ing soft bodied insects, they yield
quickly to the lime-sulphur and oil
sprays.
2nd Spray.-Just before blooming
with full strength bordeaux, with two
pounds of paste and pound Of powd-
cred arsenate of lead and one pint
Of nicotine sulphate added. This
spraying controls the pear scab, pear
canker and smut and leaf spot spores,
canker worms and caterpillars, also
the pear and other forms Of aphis.
Third Sprays made when the
blossoms fall, with the same mater
ials as the second, and will prevent
practically the same things the sec
ond spray is used for. Subsequent
sprayings must be made at intervals
Of two weeks until the necessity for it
has ceased.
Keiffer pears are susceptible to pear
rust. If they are kept copper cover
ed with the bordeaux mixture they
will be as smooth and clear skinned
as the finest Bartletts. Late in the
season, black, sooty mould appears
upon the outer skin of the fruit which
mars the appearance Of the pear to
such an extent as to make the pears
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-01
Y. M. C. A. NOTES

w. g. Van Akin, general secretary
of the Grand Rapids Y. M. G. AL, will
speak at the Father and Son ban
quet" in Lyons, Friday evening,
The 1916 report of the North
American Associations shows an ag-
gregate of 1858 separate organiza-
tions, with a membership Of more than
100000, and total property value of
$84 100000.
Monday afternoon, February % in
the Y. M. G. A. office there will be
a meeting of the athletic committee
Of the county Y. NJ G. A. to plan the
spring and summer activities. Fred
Kidd and Fred w. Green are the local
members of this committee.
Blaine Curtiss, who has been in the
county since January studying coun-
ty Y. NJ. G. A. work, left Friday for
Alma TO attend a big banquet there
and confer with State Secretary Rowe.
Mr.. Curtiss was a great help to US
while here and made many friends.
who wish him well in his chosen work.
Pewamo and Saranac stand at the
head of the list in number of paid
members; % different groups are
meeting each week over the county.
Fun and Pep and good things to
eat will be outstanding features Of
the Belding banquet, March IL, for
the men and boys.
The Collins Y. NJ. C. A. put on an
educational entertainment this week
well worth while, when they invited
their fathers and farmer friends in
and showed them go slides on "Rais-
ing Alfalfa"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-01
Good Roads Department
Conducted Especially for the Banner by Hon.
L. Colgrove, President of the Michigan
Good Roads Association.
Road Movement Grows In Illinois

Road Movement Grows in Illinois
IL Is proposed by the committee
clubs Of the state of Illinois, through
the issuance of $10,000,O0O worth of
state bonds bearing per cent inter-
est, issued as necessity, to construct
a statewide "gridiron" of approx
mately 1000 miles Of permanent
roads, said permanent roads to con-
sist of four routes about asfollows:
One north and south route along, or
as near to as practicable, the third
principal meridian, which bisects the
state; three east and west routes
dividing the state into as nearly four
equal parts as is feasible, using pre-
sent dirt roads on all routes as far as
practicable and keeping in mind the
broadest service to the population
centers as nearly as an even geo.
graphical division of the state will
permit.
To further the proposition Cover
nor Dunno has been asked to include
the proposition in his call for spec
ial session of the legislature, if one
is called, the legislature to prepare
a resolution submitting the PROPOSE
ton to the voters Of the state at the
general election in 1916.
The state commercial clubs which
are backing the plan suggested no
special kind of material for the pro-
posed construction other than to ask
that it shall be of permanent nature,
which gravel and macadam are not.
It is desired to build so the roads will
at least last the life of the proposed
bond issue and to build so the upkeep
will be comparatively nothing. This
eliminates macadam and gravel sur
faces.
The proponents of the plan do not
presume to specify exactly where the
roads should go other than the FEAST
bility of any plan dictates a north
and south road bisecting the state.
such as along the third principal
meridian, and that there should be at
least three laterals from east to west
about equal distances apart, serving
the populous communities and centers
of trade
Seven-eighths of the people of the
entire state of Illinois get direct or
Immediately adjacent service by this
comparatively small gridiron plan of
connected up, through system of per-
manent roads.
Practically every large city in the
state is Immediately on or adjacent
to the direct route. and all are in
Easy connecting distance-Rockford
near the north terminal. Cairo on the
south; Chicago to the state line, on
the north lateral; Quincy to Danville
via Springfield on the central lateral;
East st. Louis to the state line, on the
south lateral.
The total mileage in giving the
state complete initial system is es-
timated at approximately 1000 miles.
The exact figure would not be possible
without the detailed routing and sur.
vey. The air line mileage between
the points. from Wisconsin line or
north to Ohio river on south: from
Indiana line east TO Iowa and Nilsson.
ri lines on west, totals about 85s
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-01
Patience and Prnrress

Let no one be detected, If he is not
conscious Of any great advantage In
study at first" counselled Joachimus
Fortius Ringelbergius about the close
of the fifteenth century. "For as we
know that the hour-hand Of a time
piece moves progressively onward,
Notwithstanding we cannot observe
its momentary motion; and as we see
trees and herbs increase and grow
to maturity, although we are not able
to perceive their hourly progress; so
do we know that learning and study,
although their transitions be imper-
ceptible at the moment Of observation
are sure in their advancement. The
merchant thinks himself happy if af-
ter ten years voyage, after a thou
sand dangers, he at length improves
his fortune; and shall we, like poor
spirited creatures, give up all hopes
after the first onset?"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-01

miles. AS the permanent road woue
naturally follow present mud roe9
already established, it is $stimatee
that the total mileage, with the neces
sary curves and detours necessary
would be close to 1000 miles.
The rough estimate on permanent
roads, such as brick or concrete, fof
instance, is around $4,000 mile
This would bring the total estimate
within the comparatively small sum
state and service considered, of So;
100000.
It is proposed that where counties
already have improved their. own
roads and where such roads fit in the
system that such counties should be
allotted their proportion of funds saw
ed and the state construct in other
parts Of these same counties other
roads which would connect up and act
as feeders for the main through sys-
TEN. This would make the PROPOSE
ton fair to all concerned.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-01
FINAL ADMINISTRATION Ac-
COUNT

First Insertion Feb. 10, 1870
STATE OF MICHIGAN-The pro-
bate court for the county Of Ionia.
At session Of said court, held at
the probate Office in the city Of Ionia
in said county, on the seventh day Of
February, A. ID. 1916.
Present: Hon. Montgomery Web
ster, Judge of Probate.
In the matter of the estate of
Cynthia A. Gardner, diseased, Clar-
ence b. Wardle, administrator of said
estate, having filed in said court his
final administration account, and his
petition praying for the allowance
thereof and for the assignment and
distribution Of the residue Of said es-
tate, TO and among the persons entitl-
ed thereto.
1t is ordered, That the thirteenth
day Of March, A. ID. 1916, at one-thir-
ty o'clock in the afternoon, at said
probate office, be and is hereby APP
pointed for examining and allowing
said account and hearing said petit
ton.
1t is further ordered, That public
notice thereof be given by publication
Of copy of this order, for three sue
cessive weeks previous to said day of
hearing, in the Bedding Banner,
newspaper printed and circulated in
MONTGOMERY WEBSTER,
Judge Of Probate.
a 'r FLORENCE oiHEENiE c. popp,
3S-t-s Deputy Register Of Probate.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-01
with the Hens in Cold Weather


Milk, sour or sweet, whole or skim,
is excellent for poultry, but will not
take the place of water, which should
always be furnished
Store away some of the second quail
ity cabbage and some mangel wurzels
to furnish the flock with green food
during the cold days.
Make sure that currents of air do
not strike the fowls when they are on
the roosts at night; but also be sure
there is plenty of good air for them to
breathe.
Of course you covered the leaky
coops with tar paper or some water
proof fabric, for protection from rain
and dampness is necessary for fowls
and chickens both.
Remember that one or two grains
will furnish sufficient of the different
food elements to make healthy, pro-
ductive fowls. Corn, wheat and oats
are staple foods and others may be ad-
ded for variety.
1t is always a good plan to rake up
and save the dry leaves as they fall
from the trees, for they make the best
Of scratching litter for the poultry
house and are good to place in chicken
coops and boxes.
During the winter some sort of meat
food should be given to the fowls to
take the place Of the bugs and worms
which they capture in summer There
is nothing better than the beef scraps
sold by dealers in poultry supplies for
this purpose.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-01

unstable. This can be prevented by
timely and thorough spraying. Three
sprayings is usually sufficient to in
sure q clean crop Of pears.
The principal insects and disease
are:
Sucking Insects.--San Jose, oyster
shell, scurfy, terrapin scale, pear
psylia, pear nudge and aphis.
Chewing Insects-Borers, codling
moth worms, slug, mite, caterpillars
and canker worms.
Fungus Diseases.-Leaf blight, scab
rot, rust, sooty blotch and canker.
Bacterial.-Pear blight. Cut out
and burn.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-01
LEGAL NOTICES
PROBATE OF FOREIGN WILL
First Insertion Feb. 10, 1870
STATE OF MICHIGAN-The pro

STATE OF MICHIGAN-The pro-
bate court for the county of Ionia.
At session Of said court, held at
the probate Office in the city of Ionia,
in said county, on the fourteenth day
of February, A. ID. 1916.
Present: Hon. Montgomery Web
ster, Judge of Probate.
In the matter of the estate Of Adal-
inc Elizabeth Talcott Emerson, de-
ceased, Norman F. Thompson, Har-
riet Z. Hinchliff and Mary Z. Lath-
rop, having filed in said court an in
strument in writing, purporting to be
duly exemplified copy of the last
will and testament of said deceased
and the record admitting the same to
probate in the state of Illinois, and
their petition praying that said will
be allowed, filed and recorded, and
that the administration Of said es-
tate in the state Of Michigan, be
granted to Norman f. Thompson,
Harriet f. Hinchliff and Mary E.
Lathrop, the executors named in said
will, or to some other suitable person.
1t is ordered, That the fourteenth
day of March, A. ID. 1916, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon, at said pro-
bate Office, be and is hereby appoint
ed for hearing said petition.
1t is further ordered, That public
notice thereof be given by publica-
ton of a copy Of this order, for three
successive weeks previous to said day
If hearing, in the Belding Banner, a
newspaper printed and circulated in
laid county.
MONTGOMERY WEBSTER,
Judge Of Probate.
A true copy.
ANNA P. WEBSTER.
38-t-3 Register Of Probate.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-01
No Liquor Advertising

In many Of the prohibition states
newsdealers cannot sell a paper or
magazine containing liquor ad. They
are compelled either to cut out the
advertisement or cover it with lamp
black-all Of which helps to agitate
and TO educate. "Look at this" said
a Portland (Ore.) newsdealer, exhibit
ing the censored copy of a popular
weekly. Gaping holes yawned from
nearly every page of the advertising
section where the scissors had elimin-
ated liquor advertisements in COM
pliance with the new law. Many
publishing firms are planning to issue
separate edition Of their periodi-
calls FOR use in dry states.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-01
F A r M A N d
O r CHI A r ID


Of November, December, January or
February each year. The principal
diseases of the peach are:
Sucking Insects.-San Jose, terra
pin, Forbes, Howard scale, black
peach aphis, green peach louise, peach
lecanium.
Chewing Insects. = Peach borer,
twig borer, curculio, bark beetles, cat
erpillars and rose chafer.
Fungus.--Brown rot, twig blight,
leaf spot, peach leaf curl, shot hole
fungus, mildew, scab.
Bacterial.-Little peach, peach yell
lows, and peach rosette are bacterial
and cannot be reached by chemical
sprays.
Nectarine-Spray the same as for
peach.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-01
A Braided Stream

channel but broken up into number
of channels, which in turn branch and
unite in a complex and confusing
manner, is called braided stream. 1t
is caused by the slight fall of the
stream, which prevents it from carry
ing away all the sediment swept into
it's numerous tributaries. This ma
terial chokes thes tream and forces
it to spread into many shallow and
shifting channels, resembling the
strands of braid. A good example
of this is Jefferson River, Montana.
Omitted States Geological Survey
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-01
General Suggestions

Never handle chickens roughly
either before or after killing. Rough
handling causes bruises, broken bones
SCARED skins and soft places in the
flesh. Undue haste on the part Of the
killers and pickers results in lowered
keeping quality and poor appearance
Of the product.
Piece work, which leads to quantity
rather than quality, makes for lower
prices on the market. Those who pay
by the piece should remember that
they sell by the quality of the piece.
These directions will apply with
equal force to turkeys intended for
the holiday market.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-01
POULTRY
CONSULTING DEPARTMENT
BOYS and Girls Raise Poultry

Girls arefully as enthusiastic about
the poultry club work as boys, as is
shown by the membership of these
clubs in the South. Last year, In Vir-
GINA, Tennessee, South Carolina,
North Carolina, Kentucky and Geor-
gia, there were OPT girls and 1888
boys enrolled. In these six Southern
States the lac clubs in 81 counties
had total membership Of 2,261 and
set IL 800 eggs.
Poultry club work in the South has
advanced rapidly since il was started
in 1913, with IL clubs in four coun-
ties of Virginia, and membership of
about l53 young people. The growth
in 1915 to date is $500 and is grow
ing rapidly.
During the first year the children
set the eggs, and the stock raised
from these eggs is used to make up
the laying and breeding flock, so that
the work is continuous from one year
TO another. The young people are re-
quired to keep accurate reports of all
operations, costs, ETC., and to make an
exhibit of poultry and eggs at a club
show or fair.
Last year in Kentucky the clubs
held five shows; in South Carolina,
two; in Tennessee, four; in Virginia,
eight. The total number of exhibit
ors at these shows was 361; the num-
Der Of fowls on exhibition was 1871 I;
the total awards aggregated $779.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-01
Watch Our Real Estate
List For Real Bargains

Groom house on Harrison Ave-,
electric lights, gas, city wat
er. This place is very conven-
lent to the refrigerator and
basket factories, the "Red
MILL" Mill No. 3, and the new
factory of the Grand Rapids
Brass Co. Price. $500. $1,000
Seven-room house just east of
Alderman St.. The lot alone
is worth one-haf the amount
asked for the place. The
house is equipped with cleo
trio lights, has gas, city wat
er, sewer connections. Weld
consider team or farm tools as
part payment ...........S1500
Seven-room house on the corner
of James and Center streets,
full lot with fine garden spot
and fruit, good neighborhood
and excellent location. Electric
lights, gas, city water and
sewer connections in the house.
Good condition throughout $3.50
Comfortable eight-room house
on Pleasant street, with bath,
sewer connections, electric
lights and good cellar. Will
sell with small cash payment
down and liberal terms on the
balance ............... .Sl5VV
Eight-room house on Broas St.,
with hot and cold water in
bath room and kitchen, cleo
trio lights, gas, full basement,
furnace, city water, sewer con-
nections. This property is own
ed by a nonresident party
who will make any reasonable
inducement to any one who
wants a modern home at bar
gain price.
Good five-room house on Craw-
ford street, electric lights, cis-
tern, well, good cellar, wood
house, and new barn on the lot.
This is bargain. Price only $500
Vacant lot on Alderman street,
near in, sewer, city water, gas,
and sidewalk past the proper
ty. Will sell for ......... $50
Now is the time to list your prop
erty with us.
INSURANCE AND SURETY
BONDS
The Wagner Agency
BELDING. MICHIGAN
PHONE 50
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-01

The following letter and reply show
how great many papers and maya
zines feel toward the liquor traffic ir
general in the United States and we
are very thankful that public senti-
ment has reached this point:
Eustis, Florida.
Dear Sir:-Please advise us il you
will accept advertising for R. M. Rose
Co., mail order whiskey house, in
your paper until May /, 1916, and
quote US the lowest rate per inch for
plate matter advertising. Our client
will use liberal space until May 1st.
1916 and this is your last opportunity
to get this class of business. Please
let us have this information by re-
turn mail. Please return this letter
with your quotation.
Your very truly,
Nelson, Chesman & Co,
AID Agents.
Reply-We will accept the aGvertis-
ing of r. M. Rose Co., to be furnished
us in electrotyped form, at the rate
Of $2,500.00 per word on conditions
you guarantee nobody will drink the
liquor, no one will get drunk, no one
will beat his wife and children, no one
will fuss, fight and kill his grand
mother while she is on her knees
praying for this nation 10 vote dry
from sun-up to shutdown, from Maine
to California, from Saskatchewan to
Key West, from Hades TO Breakfast
On these conditions we will accept
any price.
C. E. Woods,
Editor.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-03-01

BY the time he is fifty man gives
up trying TO pare down his toes to fl
his shoes and begins to buy larger
shoes.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-14
Mis- links,
Domesteopath
By F. A. mitchell

One spring morning while touring in
my car ! passed little house stand.
ing short distance back from the
road to which was nailed sign. "M,ss
links. Domesteopath."
Now. l had often heard of the a,lo
path. hydropath, osteopath and other
schools, but never before had som
the word domesteopath. | drove on
wondering what it meant, my curiosity
rising with every mile | receded from
It Till could stand 1t no longer Tbep
l turned, rode back to the house. left
my car In the road and went I'M TO
the door. There was no bell. hut an
OLD fashioned irsn knocker. represent.
ing the face of smiling girl. ran.
ped
a lady came to the door who was
appearance as unintelligible as the
sign She might have been fifty. vet
sne was dressed like a girl of sixteen
"hiie her face and figure smacked ~
youth, it at the same time smackad Of
age. ! asked if she was DR.. links
sne said she was Miss links and in.
Vited me into cozy consulting room
what is your specialty?" I asked
her "'Aeu
Squabbles," she said In a cracked
voice as peculiar as her appearance
Squabbles? ] never heard Of tba,
disease"
It's universal Every one suffers
from it more or less"
What are the symptomsY
it comes largely from overstrained
nerves. Sometimes it is reasonahle
though usually unreasonable II is
most common between husband and
"ife' Tor the reason that a man is q
nan, while woman is half child"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-10-14

Court House door in Barlow Dan
MONDAY, the sixth day Of N AUX Cat
1915. the same being legal IIO Sbst
between the legal hours Of s,s saies q
ing described property, located d ~ as
Florida. to wit: Lot five On IN ~ ~ rOi
OF Scotts Lakeland Heights ~ isioet
City Of Lakeland, Florida SAaIsalta
as above mentioned, and said n, una
be sold to satisfy the said Sn, %Iopsa
torney's fee, and the costs Of '1 Sn,s asrs
TH0s, W. BRy S
A. x. Erickson. Solicitor for Com M Ss.''