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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-06-27
GRADE STUDENTS
GRADUATED
THREE SUCCESSFUL

Twenty-three students of the
eighth grade of the local schools were
given diplomas Thursday morning at
their commencement exercises held in
the assembly room OF the Central
building. The certificates were Civ
en- by their teacher, +. l.. Bailey, af-
ter a ten-minute talk in which he
gave the pupils some most excellent
advice. Mr.. Bailey urged each one to
enter high school next fall and push
onward and upward. He also enlarg-
ed upon the necessity of each student
developing three sides of life-the
moral, the physical and mental.
Maud Bigneu gave the salutatory
for the class; LUCILLE Parney the class
history and Aileen Armstrong the
valedictory. These manuscripts are
given below.
The address of the hour was given
by Rev. w. E. Doty. He presented
to the class members the vital things
to clean, healthful and right living,
and re-stated several points brought
out by w. N. Ferris to the high school
graduates the night previous. Many
parents and friends were present.
Following are the students who re-
ceived diplomas: Robert Armstrong,
Clarence Bailey, Maud Bignell,
Myrtle Covert, Dale Dicken, Mar
garet Friedly, Verona Jensen, Perry
Outman, Kathryn Wilson, Winifred
Wright, Aileen Armstrong, Iolene
Burt, Theodore Barlow, Harold Coyle,
John Fuller, Lloyd Hammontree, Ir-
ma Helm, Floyd Hubbard, Lorena
jerks, Lucille Parney, James Johnson,
Jessie Raymond, Lucy Stout.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-06-27

f. & A. NJ. Communication
Regular communication Of Belding
Lodge No. 355 +. & A. M. next Mon
day evening, July 2. All brothers re-
quested to attend.
Fred Rodgers, w. M.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-06-27
BASE BALL GAME
IS SCHEDULED FOR
WEDNESDAY, JULY 4
GREULICHS OF GRAND RAPIDS
WILL MEET LOCAL CLUB IN
BIG DOUBLE HEADER

Belding fans are delighted to hear
of the fact that this city will have a
double-header ball game at Leonard
Park Wednesday,, July a. The Greu-
lichs of Grand Rapids strengthened by
some of the states best players will
be here for game in&he morning and
a windup in the afternoon. Eddie
Wheeler will be in charge of the local
team. Stedman of Rockford will
catch. Joe Goodrich and other league
players will be in the battling line.
McHale will be in the ring, also Gou-
lait, Gould, Ireland and the other good
players of last year.
The Greulichs team is one of the
strongest in the state this yeag, hav-
ing been given the support of Several
good ex-leaguers.
The local boys began workouts
Tuesday and will continue through the
week SO as to be in trim to place Beld-
ing on the map again.
Fans of the city should not forget
that Belding had one of the fastest
base ball machines in Michigan last
year and the year before. With prop
er support of next Wednesdays game
it is possible to have three or four
weeks of good fast ball this year. Get
out sure next Wednesday and whoop
her up for Belding. Games at 1000
a. m, and 800 %. m.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-06-27
Returned From Indiana

Mrs. James barrow arrived home
last week from Garrett, Indiana,
where she had been to help care for
her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Charles
Darrow, who was so badly injured in
the automobile accident near Luther.
The machine in which she and Mr..
Darrow and their little child were rid
ing was struck by a train, and the
only wonder is they were not all kill
ed. Mrs. Darrow had two ribs brok-
en- and her head cut besides other
bruises. Mr.. Darrow and the child
escaped with a few injuries.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-06-27
SalutatOry


Parents, friends, teachers, and
schoolmates, we give you a most cor
dial welcome to our eighth grade
exercises. We are es-
pecially glad to have you, who have
watched us in our struggle through
these past eight years, be with us
for these closing exercises.
We have completed our first step
in education, the completion of the
first eight grades. Now we are look
ing forward to our next step, the
graduation from high school.
During these eight years of school
we have always found our teachers
willing to help US with our studies.
1t is they who have given us the in
spiration and encouragement not on
ly to reach this goal but to push on.
Schoolmates, we are sorry to leave
you. Little did we realize what good
times we were having until now that
they are passed. But we hope that
you will soon join us in high school.
And, as Moore says in one of his
poems:
Zone bumper at partingt tho many
Have circled the board since we
met,
The fullest, the greatest of any
Remains to be crowned by US yet.
The sweetness that pleasure has in it,
Is always so slow to come forth
That seldom, alas, till the minute
1t dies, do we know half it's worth.
Maud Bignell.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-06-27

Inc circulation Books
of the Banner are open to
Inspection at Any Time.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-06-27

An ideal newspaper and =
paper with ideals. It's for
and read by all CLASSES.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-02-08
COMMENT
WAR AND PEACE.

he'll. But tie peace of a rich, fat,
luxurious country is hell, too. And
there is room for argument as to
which hell is the least desirable.
After all it's largely matter Of how
you want to live and die. The peace
we've been having recently has been
a helIish peace. Prosperity hasn't
brought more happiness, but rather
more degenerating dissipation and
imaginary pleasure. And it wasn't
passed around. Everything the peO-
pie consume has been boosted in
price, but not the ability Of the wage
earners to buy. Yes, there have been
some wage increases, but they didn't
keep pace with the increased price
Of food and clothing. Those who
profited most by our WaT-made pros
perity were mainly the ones who had
more than they needed anyhow. And
we were becoming a nation Of pif-
lers, meddling busybOdies and long
nosed refOrmeTs - of other people.
Even charity had become organized
graft. with schools to teach college
graduates how to beg respectfully.
Right here in Chicago we have an
army of respectable grafters who beg
money from the rich to pay the ex-
pense of their meddling and playing
with the lives of the poor. If a man
or woman can't think of any easier
way of making a living he or she can
start a crusade against cigarettes or
something else and proceed to assess
he rich for salary and expense
money. If war would turn all the
female grafters into red cross nurses
and the male grafters into soldiers,
[ think the country would be better
of, even though some of them were
killed. One of the chief troubles
about war is that it isn't properly or
ganized. If it we're, then we could
pick out the ones to be killed-and
war wouldn't be such an undesirable
hell On the contrary, it might serve
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-02-08

nave a secret uauh6IluS LOT II. II
may be they would prefer taking
their chances of a quick death to go
ing up against a sure-thing lingering
death.
Oh, yes, it's hOrrible-this MAIN
ing and killing of brother by brother.
But we do that in peace as well as
in war And there's no romance or
excitement in being killed by inches
by tuberculosis or occUpational dis
eases in our marvellous industries. A
man gets some run for his money in
the war trenches, but none at all in
the Gary steel mills and darned little
at the Chicago stOckyards. And the
women and children suffer just the
same in war as in peace.
I'd rather read about the noted
women of England, France and Ger
many sacrificing their jewels and
nursing wounded soldiers than read
the -sickening sIush in our local pa
pers about the daily gluttOny, dane
ing and dressing of the piffling wives
and daughters of our rich bankers,
butchers, merchants and manUfac-
turerS. If war Will turn our silly So
cial debutantes into street car con-
ductoTs, red cross nurses, chauffeurs
or street cleaners, I think there
would be- some chance for them to
become real women.
And it's in 'ems There's some real
wOmanhood in our society fools, but
the life they lead gives it no chance
to crop out. Adversely would do more
for them than prosperity. If you
want to know who I mean read the
society columns of the Chicago pa
pers. You'll find there the women
consider Of least value in Chicago to
humanity. There are exceptions, of
course. There are some who would
like to break out, but don't know
how. They don't know where to
break to. I'd like to see some of
them go to war.
H., r-iri,or Won tbfc otboys eide -
New-York tribune., 1917-07-10
"Missing Girl" Sought
Publicity, Says Woods
Commissioner Declares Claire
L. Harrison's Disappearance
Was Plan to Gain Notoriety

Claire Leicester Harrison, twenty
years old, who was reported missing
from her home, at AGA Riverside Drive,
last Thursday, has returned, according
10 information received yesterday by
Lieutenant Grant Williams, of the Bu-
reau of Missing Persons.
When Virginia Harrison, her sister,
denied that she had been found yester-
day afternoon Commissioner Woods is
sued the following report, without COM
ment:
"Claire L. Harrison was reported
missing on July by her sister, Vir-
g.nia Harrison. S. Feudner, of the
Missing Persons Bureau, was assigned
u the case, and last evening received
information that said Claire Harrison
entered the House of the Good Shep-
herd on the day of her disappearance,
and was there under the name of Julia
Herman.
"She was interviewed last evening by
Detective Feudner, and stated that it
was prearranged plan between her
and her sister Virginia, and on the
day before she disappeared she tele-
rhoned to the House of the Good Shep-
kerd and stated that she had daugh-
ter whom she wanted TO place in the
house, and was informed that only
girls who had committed a crime were
received there.
"She went 70 the house and was ad-
mitted, and it was her intention to
send out reports on the conditions in
said house for two weeks, said accounts
of the conditions TO be sent to the
newspapers, as it would give her rep
utaton and help boom a book she was
writing. Her sister was notified and
went to the house last evening. and
both girls, a gentleman friend and one
Harry Turck left for 464 Riverside
Drive at 1880 p. m. Turck is reported
as the sweetheart or husband of said
Claire l.. Harrison"
New-York tribune., 1917-07-10
Silencer Goes Wrong
In Real Gunplay at
Baf Murder Trial
Expert Tries to Demonstrate
Maxim Appliance, but Only
Scares Audience

Real gunplay iSj ected renewed inter-
est into the Baif murder trial yester-
day. For several days the case has
been tagging with monotonous recital
of murder and arson conspiracies, con-
fessions Of perjury and bargaining for
blood money, the details of which have
been repeated many times in the course
of various BafT trials.
1t was Captain William Jones, fire
arms expert of the Police Department,
who awakened the somnolent audience
in the courtroom, by showing Justice
Tompkins and the jury just how a
gun acted with and without silencer.
1t has been testified time and again
that the rifle used for killing Barnet
Baff, the poultry king, was equipped
with Maxim silencer.
Captain Jones commanded the undi-
vided attention of everybody in the
courtroom during the demonstration.
but he did not prove his point that a
rifle with silcncer spoke in a whisper.
The captain walked over TO one side Of
the courtroom and fired a bullet into a
bAbNh VI NbbA HlAN'A 'lA a NileAAs ltttf
was loud report, and Captain Jones
called attention TO the fact that he had
no silencer on his gun. Then he put
on the silencer and fired a second shot
There was another loud report, almost
as loud as the first. Some persons in
the courtroom said the silencer in
creased the report.
Captain Jones looked at his gun, or,
rather, listened, and then said:
THE silencer is no good. otherwise
the sound would not have been much
louder than the snap of the reloading
lever"
Attorney Moss, counsel for the de
PENDANTS. in cross-eXamination drew
forth the explanation that slcnccr
such as Captain Jones used would so
muille the sound of .22-calibrc rifle
that passerby would not notice if a
rifle was fired within few feet of him
Captain Jones examined the overcoat,
coat and vest worn by Baff when he was
killed. He testified that the condition
of the cloth of the overcoat around
the bullet hole showed that the bullet
had been fred from distance of from
four to six inches. The cloth was
scorchcd.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-10
City Guard Units Need
More Recruits to Fill
Ranks Before Service Dov

Recruiting will be continued by the
National Guard units in this city. The
officers of the various regiments have
been aware that July 10 might be set
as date for entrance into the army.
"Our regiment is full and we are
ready" said Lieutenant Colonel Latham
Reed, Of the 69th Regiment, last night,
but examination Of applicants will be
kept up TO provide for vacancies"
Two regiments, the 18th and 7th, re-
quire not more than 200 men 10 bring
them 20 war strength. Colonel Regi-
rald Foster, Of the 18th Regiment. said
that he needs 150 men. However, 200
men applied at the armory last night.
and u is possible that the ranks will be
filed from that number Colonel Fos-
ter said that he did not have enough
doctors TO examine the applicants as
quickly as they appeared.
THE regiment will be complete and
waiting before July 49," said Colonel
Foster.
eve are just on the edge Of our
quota" said Colonel W. c. Fiske, Of the
7th Regiment. That regiment can take
few more recruits, possibly fifty.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-10

Grafton TO all suggestions and recon-
mendations presented in the interest Of
continuing an enlightened and pro-
gressive government for the City of
New York"
Cropsey Forces To BE on Hand
The Livingston -Cropscy forces are
expected TO be on hand 70 make fight
against Mayor Mitchell and eXpound the
advantages, from their point Of view,
Of a straight Republican ticket, or sug-
gest a compromise fusion ticket. Mr..
Livingston, being county chairman of
Kings, will have the opportunity TO
seat his committee. IL is expected the
Cropsey candidacy will be disposed of
as far as the Fusion Committee of 1917
is concerned.
Mayor Mitchell left the city for
Somewhere in the United States
just about the time that somebody
appeared to be adding the con 10 fu-
sion The Republican factional battles
in Brooklyn, the Cropsey boom and the
shadow of Borough President Marks on
the forthcoming fusion ticket brought
matters TO "A summer political heat,
which the Mayor was glad TO get from
under, and leave the fusion leaders to
bring about harmony during his abb
sence.
Before going on his vacation the
Mayor gave friends to understand that
he might not look favorably upon
heading fusion cause that had any
sprains, broken bones or dismember-
ments. Hence some Of the leaders will
direct all their efforts toward clearing
the atmosphere before the Mayor re-
turns. He may be away ten days, and
perhaps n month.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-10
Russian ENJOYS Dazed
By East Sides Homage

united by bonds of peace as well as OF
war.
"As brothers in arms" he said, I'VE
will move forward to a splendid victory.
The victory of democracy is as certain
in this war as was the victory OF human
ity in the American Civil War"
Lieutenant General Roop, introduced
as a friend of Brusilof, brought the
diners, outstanding with p toast and
tribute TO the American army in France.
IL am soldier" said he, fresh from
the front where they are fighting for
democracy. My business is to fight and
not to speak heard with great enthu-
siasm that American troops landed
safely in France. Speaking for our
army. | will say, God bless our new
ally, long life TO its soldiers, God help
them to bring the war to an end. |
drink with all my soldiers heart TO the
health and prosperity of all our allies.
Ambassador Bakhmetef, at dinner
last night in Sherry's, addressed the
board of directors of the American
Russian Chamber Of Commerce and
their friends.
The Ambassador said in part:
"The recent overthrow of the mon
archy was in no sense an economlc>rev-
olution. but a political one. | mean
bv this that the industrial development
in Russia before the revolution was
way besind the development Of the po-
litical government.
with IS per cent of the population
of Russia Of the peasantry type, the
immediate focus of new Russia for bet
ter conditions should be the develop
rnent of a new form of land ownership.
The old form of land ownership was
extremely dangerous"
The Ambassadors further remarks
on the subject intimated the possible
breaking up of land estates by SEIZURE.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-10
Convicted Agitator Paroled
Court to Rule on Sentence
Given Harry Aurin

Harry Aurin, of 341 Crlmmins ave
nue.. The Bronx, sentenced Friday py
Magistrate Murphy to ninety days IN
the workhouse, was paroled yesterday
in the custody of his counsel until
July 13, by Supreme Court Justice
Hendrick. who will then hand down MS
opinion on the sentence.
Aurin was convicted on a charge OF
disorderly conduct for distributing s'
n patriotic meeting circulars quoting
in bold-faced type parts of the Decia-
ration of independence, and demahu'
ing TO know whether the government
was living up TO the principles ci'eo'
He was brought from the workhouse
on n writ of habeas corpus. justice
Hendrick. in paroling the prisoner
said he was doubtful as to whether the
distribution was disorderly conduct
New-York tribune., 1917-07-10

ton), advocated the election of buds
get committee. the election of Public
Service Commissioners, condemned cen
tralization," and asserted that the
Board of Education should "be taken
out of politics and freed from the influ-
ence of foundation societies"
Other planks were directed against
the Gary system in the public schools
and agains. the establishment of civic
centres, and urged IAN honest enforce
ment Of the civil service law" which, it
declared, had been arbitrarily set
aside by the Mayor and the heads OF
departments in their desire 70 appoint
personal friends or those in sympathy
with the powerful foundation socie-
ties"
The platform declared strongly in
favor Of municipal ownership of pub
lie utilities and demanded that the
first TO be considered by a referendum
vote for municipal ownership should
be gas and electricity. Borough auton-
omy was strongly indorsed, and the
methods employed by the Police De-
partment in the Cruger case were de-
nounced, as well as overlapping. The
platform declared that the city was
ovcrrun with "so-called efficiency eX-
perts at high salaries" II was de-
clared that "as business men we
strongly condemn the so-called eff
cheney expert as a sham and fake"
In its preamble the platform re-
cited:
THE Business Mems League, COM
posed of merchants and manufacturers
in New York City, believe that the
time has arrived when business men
must take an active interest in the
city's affairs and participate in muni-
cipal elections regardless of party
politics.
I'VE feel that the present fusion
city administration has not fulfilled
its promises and has not been the sue
cess that We hoped it would be. We.
therefore, are strongly opposed to its
continuation"
committee, headed by Vincent
Gilroy. was heard by the League in be-
half of the candidacy of Bird S. Coler,
of Brooklyn, for Controller. A petition
was also presented advocating the
nomination Of Borough President Mar
Gus NJ. Marks for Controller. cor any
other Office for which the lasGuA may
indorso him"
New-York tribune., 1917-07-10
Women Strike When Beaus
See Them Chasing Potatoes
Recruits Set Out to Round Up Surplus Vegetables Piers
to Help Citys Canning Campaign but Advent OF
Truck Drivers Sends Them Scurryng

cius P. Brown, director of the Bureau
of Foods and Drugs, explained the
plans of the canning kitchen.
"We purpose to bring together the
food that is wasted on the piers and
the labor that is spent in less profitable
ways, and so make a real contribution
TO the food conservation problem" said
Miss Agnes Sheehan, pier manager.
Last week this is what was wasted on
the three piers at Desbrosses Street
100 barrels Of beets, 500 barrels of po-
tatoes, 20 crates of cabbage, 1870 barrels
of wax beans, 80 barrels of she'll beans,
"a baskets of cherries, containing twen-
ty-four quarts each, and 5000 mis-
cellaneous packages of cucumbers,
squashes and beans.
ave have arranged TO buy this
wasted food at seventy cents a crate
and send it TO the canning kitchen
where it will be canned or dehydrated
under the direction of experts sent US
from the Department of Agriculture
at Washington. These foodstuffs are
not really spoiled, but are simply
somewhat the worse for n rough trip
on the railroad, and the Board OF
Health has forbidden them entrance to
lNe city until lhty nave bttu SUI bcd.
Most of the dealers are too short OF
labor to bother to sort the good from
the bad, so it is all sent to Barren ISL
and"
How Preserving Is Done
The preserving is done in the larg
est kitchen in New York, in the public
school under the Williamsburg
Bridge, where food for 2S,000 children
is prepared every day. The capacity
of the canning apparatus is four hun
dred and eighty gallons. There are
forty-two range sections and thirteen
forty-gallon steam kettles. There is
also dehydrating apparatus and three
storerooms.
To maintain the kitchen and buy
raw materials at the piers, the com
mittee needs $4,000. At present il
has only $500. which is the nest egg o.
the Women's University Club. accord
ing TO Mrs Robert Hallowell, secre.
tary of the club. The Junior League
and the Mayors Committee are ex-
pected to cooperate with the Univer-
sity Club in financing the kitchen.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-10
Hotel Men Arrested
For Assaulting Marine

Louis Hugo. proprietor Of the Crys-
tai Hall Hotel, at St. George. Staten
Island; Henry Weinweller. his
brother-in-law, and Joseph Gels, his
bartender, were arrested yesterday and
held in bail for trial on complaint Of
Mark Hopkins. a marine on the United
States cruiser Columbia, who accused
the three OF assaulting him and dis
criminatlng against man In the
United States uniform.
In addition 20 the criminal action
Hopkins has also brought suit for
$4,000 damages,