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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-09
SOCIAL
Juniors Were Entertained

JuHiOfS were entertained
The Juniors were entertained last
Friday evening, February a, by the
Misses Helen Lapham and Mary
Lapham. Twenty-Five members of
the class and their Patron Saint
Miss Eaton, were present.
The entertainment was started by
allowing everyone to see themselves
as others used to see them. Evidently
some of the boys had the idea that
they were good looking in their young
er days, because they guessed the pic
ture of some good looking girls to be
the picture of themselves. Certainly
if they couldn't recognize their own
picture, the rest might not be expected
to. Several other games were played
for which head and BOBBY prizes were
given. A stick of candy tied with a
baby ribbon was the first prize and a
stick of sterling seven-point gum serv-
ed as the opposite.
Refreshments were then served. The
girls thought the lunch delicious and
if the boys didn't thye certainly con-
cealed their feelings. The Misses
Lapham and Ravell will tell anyone
wishing to know, who the big eaters
of the class are.
After lunch Ernest Rummler and
Lester Jersey showed their musical
abilities; Ernest drummed the piano
and Lester "beat" the banjo. Ernest
said the only thing the matter with
the selection was that it was too class
zeal for the crowd. The crowd agreed
remembering that Lester had never
practiced on the banjo before. The
boys put on several original "stunts"
fl..,N a
at last the girls felt that it was time
to leave, the boys of course left too.
Everyone had a fine time and at
class meeting held Monday morning
vote of thanks was given to Misses
Lapham and Ravell
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-09

gave him the amount. Time passed
on and Bates never seemed to have
the amount handy that he could spare
to square up the account when Tom
asked him for it, but he always
vowed he would pay it some time.
Bates finally went west and into 9TH
er parts Of the country and was gone
good many years, but recently came
back to Ionia county and when he met
his old friend, Tom, couple of weeks
ago in Bedding the latter asked him
if he remembered the circumstances
of his borrowing the money. Bates
told him it was still fresh in his men,
DRY and last week the old deal was
closed up when he handed over the
money. Tom has changed his opin-
ion about all men being dishonest.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-09
AN OLD DEAL HAS
BEEN SQUARED UP

1t is seldom that an account which
has run for thirty-four years without
any payment having been made on the
debt is satisfactorily settled up, but
such was the case when Burnham
Bates paid Thos. Kidd ten dollars
last week which he borrowed of him
thirty-four years ago.
When Tom and Bates were in Ionia
at that time as boy chums, attending
a circus, or a celebration of some
kind, Burnham asked his chum to
lend him ten dollars. Tom promptly
pulled out his roll of greenbacks and
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-09
FEBRUARY 9. 1916

noon. This game was played much
better than the first one. The score
was z to / in favor of the seventh
grade. The lineups were as follows:
Seventh grade--Right forward, M.
Kramer; left forward, V. Hudnutt;
jumping center, A. Armstrong; right
guard, G. Cook; left guard, /. Helm.
Eighth grade-Right forward, X.
Balloon; left forward, i. Lewis; jump
ing center, M. Bignell; right guard.
II. Whitsell and G. Burns; left guard,
b. Simons.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-09

Of all. Wages are good in this coun-
try now because the demand for
American workmen to engage in the
great. But when the war is over and
the nations that are now fighting turn
manufacture of war materials is
their attention to manufacturing
there is going to come an awful
slump for the American workman.
Then he must compete with the cheap
er labor of Europe, unless there is a
readjustment Of the tariff along lines
that will afford adequate protection.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-09
STATE EDUCATIONAL

900 school house.
An open air school is to be estab-
lished at Port Huron for tubercular
children.
There are eighteen pieces in the
Petoskey high school band. It is con-
sidered one of the best bands in the
state.
Battle Creek has three open air
schools for pupils threatened with
tuberculosis.
A county spelling contest for Mid
land county will be started February
Is and close March IL. The list known
as "Michigan's 800" in photography
will be used.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-09
THIRD WARD

The fourth grade is making valen-
tines this week.
The four-ones are studying the
poem, "Old Ironsides."
The third grade is weaving rugs.
Dale Cartridge and Charles Brown
are the captains for the five-one spell
ing contest and Beulah Webster and
Naomi Brooks of the five-two contest.
Harold Howard has returned to
school.
Gladys Oberlin is out of school on
account of illness.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-09

Editor-in-C hief-Stanley Glass.
Athletic Editor-Ruth Buck.
Society Editor-Marvel Klock.
Reporters:
High School-Charles Wheeler.
Grammar Grades-Doris Mulhol-
land.
First Ward-Leone Hoyt.
Second Ward-Ben Longan.
Third Ward-Eledia jerks.
State Observation-Disclosures Carpenter.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-09
KEEN MAN
Is Prepared For Emergencies
and Saves Valuable Property

Especially now when horses are
getting more valuable, people in
Michigan will find It to their profit
to know about 68-year-old linfment
about which Mr.. Fl. c. Feroe of Tiv-
oil, N. Y, writes as follows: 81 heal
ed several bad cuts and scraped hook
on valuable horse by using Han
ford's Balsam Of Myrrh twice . day."
adv.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-09
THE AVERAGE MAN

In last weeks issue of the Michi-
gan Tradesman was an article Untitled
"The Average Man" The sentiment
in the article and the truth so evident
we think it is we'll worth repeating
for our readers. Here it is:
There have been thousands Of SER
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-09
WAGE EARNERS INTERESTED

If there is anyone i'm the world who
ought to be interested in the tariff
question it is the wage Garner. Others
may suffer when tariff schedules are
cut down so that they no longer afford
protection to the manufacturer or the
workman, but the latter suffers most
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-09
ATHLETIC NOTES

The seventh and eighth grade bas-
ketball girls played the second game
of the series last Wednesday after
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-09
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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-09

The Banner is read in more homes
shan all other local weekly papers
combined in it's territory.
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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-09

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Pork Loin Roast, per h.. .13hc
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Small Picnic Hams, per Id. 80. lac
Swift's Best Frankf'ters 2 lbs. 25c
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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-09
THE BELDING BANNER

ut. In 1889 and published every We'd
nesday by Banner Publishing Co.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-09

Bulk Sausage, per lb. .12Kc
Pure Lard. 1890. 2lbs. for 25c
Fresh Eggs, per dozen. ...... CSC
Tall or 6 Small Cans Milk. 25c
Cans Corn. Csc
15c Tomatoes, for. .........10 c
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-08-05
SOCIALISTS WIN IN GERMANY

Via Berne, Switzerland, our attention is edHeu -
by-election recently held in Germany, in Ke1Dach' &C. y
rode, in the province of Silesia. We are told tnat 'G re, %
the first by-election, which means an election leu ~ ln."
vacancy, which has brought about a test OF party Stlens.n.
Under the agreement of the political parties no onte'
have been made during the period OF the war, % as ~
avoid giving political significance to the results Dul III
this election a socialist named Hermann Muller CT
himself and challenged all competitors: he maze us
campaign frankly against Prussian mil1tarlsm' WHICH nc
called the cause of the war. When the votes were count
ed he was found to have a crushing majority over all the
other candidates combined.
There is said to be nothing peculiar in the dlstrlct' 10
which the candidacy was submitted. The SWISS papers
called elaborate attention to what this verdict may mean
after the war. Will the government be able to stem the
tide of socialism, as it has in the past? The relchstag was
almost dominated by the socialists and their strength IN
that body was annually increasing.
If Germany should lose out in the war. VIII the SO
ciahsts not charge the whole fiasco, with all Its tloodshed
and costs, to military rulers? Yet it should be borne Ill
mind that a socialist in Germany may mean nothing
stronger than a man who does not believe IN the present
form of government in that country. Anyone who pro.
tests against the existing institutions is apt to be styled
a socialist.
And in other words, the troubles of Germany will not
be all over when the war is over. Neither will the trout
bes of any of the other countries be over. They will
have diverging elements to settle with when it comes to-
paying the debts incurred.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-08-05
THE KAISER AGAINST THE ENGLISH

The kaiser has taken a sort of personal command of
the operations against the British in France. He made
a speech to the German soldiers the other day. He told
his men that they are now fighting against the nation that
has desired to ruin Germany and that before the war built
up the combination of nations that fell upon peaceful Ger
many at a given signal. He told them that the English
led him to believe that they were the friends of Germany,
when they were actually plotting our destruction. He
is further quoted verbatim as follows:
English diplomacy brought about the war, and
now an English offensive is intended to carry the
operations to Our soil, into our towns and villages,
to be a peril and the undoing of our helpless women
and children. Your duty is to break the English
offensive, TO prove once more that Germany is in
vincible, and reduce to despair the relentless enc
mics of our country, SO that they will sue for peace
on terms honorable and profitable to Germany.
That English diplomacy brought on the war is not
tenable from a British standpoint. They will recall that
IN the fatal days of two years ago, exactly, the British
premier made a last proposal to the emperor of Germany,
make to preserve the peace of Europe at that time would
be acceptable to the British. The British diplomats had
themselves up to that time made two or three proposals
for keeping the peace, each one of which had been rejected
by the German government on the theory that they
would invade the dignity of Austria. In that desperation
the British premier cabled the emperor to make a pro-
posal of his own, on his own terms, and the British would
accept it. The Germans did make a proposal, but it was
the absolute one that Austria should be permitted to do
as she saw fit in Serbia.
In other words, the German proposed peace involved
permitting Austria, and back of Austria, Germany, to do
as they pleased in Serbia and in the Balkans generally.
"Let us alone, or we will precipitate a war; That was
the attitude of Austria, and the war came. 1t is needless
to say that such a concession was an impossible one, TN
less the European world should have given it's consent to
permit the Teutonic powers to make themselves supreme
in Europe, which in the end would have precipitated war
in any event.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-08-05
PUTTING NATIONS ON RATIONS

Relations between Sweden and Great Britain are
coming to a point where Friendly" may only be used in.
a conventional way in describing them. This is an out
come of the admitted bias of the SWedes for the Teutonic
allies, and the frankness with which trading in contraband
was carried on during the earlier months of the war across
the Baltic. In lieu of bockading ports of neutral nations,
Great Britain has put the Scandinavian nations on
"rations." This is by agreement with Norway and Den
mark, and with Sweden is accomplished by holding up all
cargoes destined to Swedish ports, no matter to whom
consigned. Great Britain permits the entrance of goods
to the amount of normal requirements for the twelve
months preceding the war. Beyond this the S%candinav-
ians get nothing. From Norway comes complaint that
gasoline is scarce, and has been sold as high as 50 cents a
quart. Sweden is short of tires for automobiles, particu-
larly for the kind that made the peace ship expedition pos
slble. 1t is odd. too, that the principal speculation in
foods in Sweden is carried on by Germans, who laid in
large Quantities in the early days of the war, and are now
finding prices in Stockholm and elsewhere considerably
above what their wares will bring in Berlin. The Swedcs
are naturally lrate over the treatment accorded their ship
ping, and look to the United States to make such protest
as will relieve the situation and re-estabish the rights of
neutrals on the high seas.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-08-05
HER CHICKENS RoosT ONCE AT HOME

San Francisco, a supposedly self governing com
munity. is little to be pitied if occasionally her brood OF
chickens come home to rOost.' She has been breeding
and feeding them for years, to roam at will over other
communities and other states and to work such havoc
with the forces of law and order as the authorities may
permit or be unable to prevent. In many instances these
other states and communities have suffered sorely. and IN
still others large expense has been necessary to save the
lives and property and preserve the peoples government
from the destructive depredatlons OF this brood OF won t
Works. and assassins.
The experience of Butte county, California, the reign
of murder and arson and intimidation that threatened its
hop industry is still the blacklist page in the history of
that section. Two valuable lives, those OF a district attor..
new and a sheriff, murdered while in the performance OF
a duty the people had elected them to perform, are charg-
able to San Francisco and the brood she harbored and
permitted to breed. Peace officers and jurors and their
families were threatened for two long years, or more, and
forced to take precautions for their lives and property,
while the propaganda of murder and anarchy was openly
promulgated from the city on the bay.
Meantime the Norman ~flapgoods, the Lincoln Stet-
lenses and other feminist males and male feminists,,' as
the Sacramento Bee calls them, were spreading the San
Francisco propaganda of murder through the east while
certain others of their brand on the coast were putting
murderers, burglars, libertines and other criminals on
pedestals throughout the Golden state.
Even Nevada and Utah shared in the curse of this
brood, as did Oregon, for they wandered beyond the state
where they Matched. But San Francisco was their breed
ing and nesting place and their printed matter came from
Turk street. 1t was posted and distributed at night.
But a week ago today the brood got busy at home
and San Francisco suddenly aWOke. There are thousands
of people in her own state and in those adjacent to 1t who
will endeavor to keep her awake until she destroys the nest
of assassinS and the brood of outlaws she has reared to
disturb the peace and menace the lives of her neighbors-
until she can demonstrate that she is entitled to a place
among communities where obedience to law is at least as
respectable as burglary, arson and murder; where prison
service and a parole, pardon or discharge are not essential
to a certificate of honorable citizenship.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-08-05

Announcement by the department of agriculture of
the apportionment of the first years S5,OooOo of the
S75,OOo,ooo set aside for good roads does not mean that
splendid highways are to spring up as magic where the
feet OF Uncle Sam touch. 1t does mean that the general
government is going to share to some degree in the cx-
pense OF building good roads. The states will have to
share equally out of their own pockets in the cost of cen
struction and accept the responsibility for maintenance
l his provision is something of a menace to permanencv.
tor 1t leaves the roads very much as they are now, under
local influences that have not so far been able to produce
or maintain efficient highways. The general plan of the
highway act is attractive, but it is deficient in that ii
does not contemplate an oversight that would effectively
secure the upkeep of highways once constructed. #
some such arrangement is not made the money extended
by the federal government will serve no better purpose
than that expended by the states, which is largely wasted
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-08-05
SHIP BUILDING IN WAR TIMES

According to figures furnished by the department of
commerce, the United States for the first time in half a
century leads the world in merchant ship-building. Ordl-
narilv this would be occasion for much satisfaction, but it
is due to the employment of shipyards in foreign countries
for war purposes rather than to the unusual growth OF
American facilities. The returns from Llovds indicate a
decline in the worlds output of steel merchantmen from
a gross tonnage of 3,352,2S2 in 1913 to 1901 6SS in 1915.
The latter figures necessarily do not include any returns
from Austria and Germany, which were OI,757 and 4O5,226
gross tons, respectively, in 1913. But British production
has fallen from I,032,I55 in 1914 to 65OOIO gross tons in
1915. 1t is estimated by l-loyds that the total decline in
ship-building from the beginning of the war in 1914 up to
date is 100000 gross tons. To this should be added an
estimated total loss of shipping actually DESTROYED of p
1906 gross tons, or a total shortage of more than six
million gross tons.
For the current year ship builders in the United
States estimate they will launch 35I steel ships, of a total
tonnage Of 672, 100. This is more than three times the
ton of the German merchant fleet to service will relieve
the freight situation to some degree, as will the removal of
war risk, but several years will be required to restore to
the fleets of the world the tonnage lost through cessation
of building and the havoc of war.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-08-05
SOLDIERS PAY

There is nothing at all revolutionary in the nronos,l
to increase the pay of American soldiers and make J,
vision for the families of those in the field. Indeed # Is
IN keeping with the policy of other enlightened nations
and is essentially justice. For surely those who def, III
the nations life and honor by risking their own lives ~.
entitled to national consideration.
A. the present time the United States pays its sol.
dlers fifteen dollars a month and makes no provision for
the dependents of those who may be called into service.
Contrast this, if you please, with the provision made nv
our next door nelghbor, Canada, for those who are in her
armies. Each soldier of Canada is paid a dollar and
ten cents a day and the wife of a soldierIs paid the SIM of
twenty-five dollars a month with five dollars addtiona1. for
each child. Yet we here in the states have been inclined
to regard Canada as slow and behind the times
The Belgians will be compelled to paw for their Bel
gian enthusiasm. Recently they had an outburst Of M
triotism on their national fete day, especially in Brussels
The German government fined them the modest SIN, Is
President Wilson says the troops are BEING kcnt n
the border for war. This may yer cause = revision of
the democratic platform.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-08-05

DR.. Aked, after he has been a beneficiary of the Ford
peace funds, to the extent of a trip to Europe and so
forth, has broken off with the Detroit millionaire. Is the
automobile maker too impracticable for the preacher?
And poor Mr.. Ford, after while he will begin to realize
that this business of regulating the world will bring him
nothing but grief. He will also find that one-half or nine
tenths of the men who are ready to fall in with his propa-
ganda are really after his money. and nothing more. The
world is full of hypocrites and pretenders.
In the Texas primary last week the democratic voters
gave frank expression to their disapproval of President
Wilson's policies by defeating for denomination five con
icies. Nor was this all. Former Governor Colquitt was
nominated for the senate after making his campaign en-
tirelv on his opposition to the president and his Mexican
policy. This is only a straw, but it indicates very clearly
the direction of the political wind.
Between problems that may grow out of the presence
of the Deutschland, the blacklist, etc, the president will
have numerous occasions to write more notes. And when
1t comes to composing notes he has never had an equal.
But Just what are thew being taken down into Texas
for? If military training is the only thing why not take
the boys up into the Minnesota woods? Around Duluth
would be preferable to around Brownsville
In the meantime and always Ireland continues to
bother the statesmen at London. The small nations that
want to govern themselves are troublesome problems for
the big fellows.
The voters of Texas seem to have voted that the Will
son Mexican policy is a failure. But, perhaps. they are
too close to the scene of action to be good Judges.
Turks are reported near the Suez canal. lust now
the British water wagon is particularly attractive to the
Sons of Allah.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-08-05

The news dispatches always place after the name of
Mrs. Thomas ]. Preston, the parentnetical remark (who
was Mrs. Grover Cleveland). 1t would be interesting to
know Just how Professor Preston takes this borrowed il
Elimination. Does it flatter him. or does it make him
sore? This thing of taking to wife the good-looking
widow of a former president has angles that do not enter
into the ordinary marriage.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-08-05

The newspapers that have been most insistent on the
calling out of the national guardsmen are now making
themselves most conspicuous detailing the "suferings'
and even starvation" that the men in the camps OF the
south have to undergo. Newspapers that are yellow II
not change their coors.