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Tombstone epitaph., 1917-05-06
GENERAL

Villa lost a thousand men in killed and executed in the recent fight at San Miguel de Babicora and at Car men.
 The United States stepped into Great Britain's former role of banker for the allies with a s2O0, ,O0O, 900 loan 10 Great Britain herself and the prom ise of other speedy financial relief to Italy, France and Russia
 The creation of a travelling corps of farm labor to work on irrigated lands of the country is the novel pro posal of Secretary Lane to further the nationwide campaign to increase food production during the war.
 The Lynn Shoe Manufacturers' As sociation, controlling thirty-five plants in Lynn, Mass, announced it had ceased to manufacture shoes because of labor conditions. Employees recent ly asked a 10 per cent wage increase.
 The Japanese government has for mally announced that the cruiser Azuma will sail from a Japanese pOit Aplh -oNh btdIiHB lO tHt bHIttu States the body of the late George W. Guthrie, American ambassador to Ja- pan.
 Wheat prices pushed steadily up- ward April 26th, followed by flour. Wheat for May delivery went to g 60, an advance of cents.
 Frances war commissioners to the United States reached Hampton Roads Tuesday and went up Chesa- peake bay to Washington on board the presidential yacht Mayflower.
 With Nebraska added to the sui. frage column, il was announced in New York by the Leslie Woman Suf- frage Committee that the total voting strength of women in the United States is s,557 ,3s0.
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-05-06

Chic" Similar of Scranton out fought Freddie Welsh, lightweight champion, at Scranton, Pa, in a ten round bout
 The Greeley Spuds defeated the Denver All-Stars al Greeley, Colo, by a score of to in fast and inter- esting game.
 Billy Whelan of St. Paul defeated Charley Metric of Milwaukee in a ten-round, no-decision boxing contest at St. Paul, Minn.
 Wild Bill Harrington. southpaw hurler of the Denver Bears, was re- leased to the Portland club of the Pa cific Coast League.
 Twenty-Five men were accepted at Colorado Springs by Capt w. F. Sharp for the reserve officers train ing camp at Fort Riley. Kan. Among the number were Jack Taylor and Stub Davis of Colorado College. for the last two years named on the all conference football teams.
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-05-06
Naturally,

Minnie-Do you think that the good die young?
 Joseph-If they don't, where are they?
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-05-06
Chicago Grain and Provision Prices

Chicago.-Wheat-No. 2 red. s2.s5. Corn - No. ? yellow, sl.62L Q 1.G312; No. 3 yellow, s15SGI59k. Oats-No. white, 72d 75Hc; stan. dard. 74d75Ac. Rye-No 2, s202E.
 Barley-s1.15d1
 Timothy-s5. .00H6.00.
 S12OGTI7OO. , Pork-S37.75.
 Lard-S2I.45621.60 Ribs-S1S S0Ft 20.5O.
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MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Prices for Metals.

Prices for Metals. Bar silver-73Jzc. Lead-$900. Copper-s25.6 .62k. Spelter-s9I5. Boulder. - Tungsten concentrates, C0To, s17.G0 per unit: crude ores, GOct s15.00; 25fo, s9.40d12.00; 1O%, ss.70 g10.00 per unit.
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-05-06

disappear with Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. In tablets or liquid. Adv
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-05-06

Twelve-hOur, twenty-four-hour and ship time can be told simultaneously by new clock dial.
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-05-06

Deposits of tungsten ore have been discovered in Corea and mines are be ing opened.
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-05-06

Though he is often derided, 1t is well to bear in mind that everybOdy's friend Is nobody's enemy,
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-05-06
Grain.

Wheat, ch. mill, 100 lbs. buying S4 O7 Rye, Colo. bulk. loo lbs, buying. 2.s5 Oats, Nebraska, 100 lbs, buying. 2.45 Colo, oats. bulk, buying .......2.45 Corn chop, sack, selling ...... 293 Corn in sack, selling .-....... 2.yO Bran. Colorado, per 100 lbs, sell
 ing .......................... 200
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-05-06

Makes the laundress happy-that's Red Cross Bag Blue. Makes beautiful. clear white clothes. All good zocers. Adv.
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-05-06
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ACRES o
 LAND FREE AS A HOMESTEAD

Some men have courage only when they lose their tempers.
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Hogs.
Sheep.
HAY AND GRAIN MARKET. E O. l. DenNar Carload Price

Hay.
 Buying Prices. Colorado upland, per ton. 2l 0OI 23.00 Nebraska upland. per ton .l9.0OH 22.O0 Second bottom Colorado and Nebraska. per ton .l9 O0T 20.0O Timothy, per ton 3.0Un24.00 Alfalfa, per ton .....l50pIlS So Park, choice. per ton 2lO0a 2400 Straw, per ton .... 5.00G GOO
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Dressed Poultry.
Live Poultry,
Eggs.

Eggs, graded No l net, F. O. B.
 beHNtT oo Eggs. graded No. net, F. O. E.
 Denver .......... 26 Eggs, case count. misc. cases,
 less commission ..S9 S9304 $50
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Butter.

Creameries, ex. lst grade. h.. 40 Creameries, 2d grade, ID. ... 3S Process ... 36 Packing stock (net) ..... 30
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Fruit.
Vegetables,

Apples. Colo. fancy. box s1OOa 300
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-05-06
CONSERVATION ISURCED
GOVERNOR ISSUES PROCLAIM
 TON FOR DEFENSE COUNCIL.
Every Individual Asked to Stand Shoulder to Shoulder in Meet
 ing Critical Conditions.

western New.paper L.nIon NeNs seryLce.
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-05-06
SPORTING NEWS

trals' shipping.
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ATE MAR K FIT OTATlO N s

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20
Goethals to Aid
in Reorganization
Of New York Port
Bush Tells City Club Services
Of Canal Builder Likely
To Be Obtained

As soon as the Federal government
can spare him General George W.
Goethals probably will be appointed
consulting engineer to formulate plans
for solving the harbor problems of the
Port Of New York, Irving T. Bush,
president Of the Bush Terminal Com
pany, told members Of the City Club
Yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Bush was
ono of the speakers who discussed "Thc
Port of New York in Peace and War"
following a luncheon at the club head
oiig,tcrs. AT 30 West Forty fourth
Street
New York Harbor is national in
.ti,uticn." said Mr.. Bush. IAN made
ouate development of its port facilities
ems orict TO the nation. Not until
tho recent frightful freight congestion
did .he nation realize how much II de-
pended on New York's harbor facilities.
NOW the people of the entire country
are coming to realize that they all reap
the benefits of properly developed
harbor here. Likewise the nation as a
whole must bear the burden of the de-
laws which come from inadequate IA
clities here.
1--WE are not selfish in fighting for
the development of our harbor. The
boil is on the neck of the man out
West If New York falls down on ITS
lob. We've only patched the harbor
up systematically in the past. Inc
! time has come for great changes mere,
/ and il is very likely that New YORK and
/ New Jersey will call on General Zoe
/ thals 10 solve the problems OF this port
as soon as he gets through with MS
present duties" ..
Charges that terminal faciilties IN
New Jersey are working at only 20 per
cent of their capacity owing TO dupi-
cation in equipment were maze ny D.
| +. Cresson. consulting engineer OF the
New Jersey Board Of Commerce and
| Navigation.
"The time has come for New Jer-
sey's railroad operators TO stop maj
vidral competition." said Mr.. Crcsson,
"and rally to the nations aid. Unless
,, tbcy do so Of their own volition the
government will step in and compel
ihcm 10 work out way 10 cooperate
moro fully with New York.
Richard c. Harrison, First Deputy
Commissioner of the Department OF
Docks and Ferries. criticised the pro
nounced apathy at Washington to the
needs of New York Harbor" and urged
the DEVELOPMENT of the East River and
Tho building of a navigable channel
through He'll Gate, so that warsnipa
from the Brooklyn Navy Yard can nave
means of cgress to the Sound.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

Physicians in charge of American
field hospital units which. it is ex-
pected will soon be sent to the front
in France, are working out what is
known as the three-zone system Of
handling wounded from battlefield.
AS the diagram shows. the first line
OF hospitals back of the dressing sta
tions on the firing line consists of
small emergency bases. each with pro-
vision for handling 1875 wounded SOL
diers. The dressing stations are con-
Quoted by physicians and nurses, who
advance as near the firing line as ex-
rediency permits. There they give
first aid to soldiers as soon as pos
sible. The soldiers are then carried
to the field hospitals in the first line.
These hospitals arc divided into
groups of three. Each group is at
tached TO one evacuation hospital,
where the soldiers are given more ad-
vanced treatment. and whence. if they
are not seriously wounded, they are
sent back to the firing line.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20
Sons Of Prominent
New Workers Would
Join u. S. Aviators
Applicants Offer Use of Private
Machines to Govern
mcnt
IRON The Tribune BuSeaul

I rom lne lrlDuls pottdui
Washington, May 19.-Sons of many
prominent New Workers have filed ap-
plications to Join the reserve hying
CORPS. some of them offering to furnish
their own machines Among them are
J. p. Warburg, son of Paul NJ. war
burg. of the Federal Reserve Board;
II. p. DAWSON, jr., and r. Irupee
Dawson, sons of Henry p. Dawson;
W. A. Rockefeller, L. r. L. Gould. u: Z.
Depew and j. NJ. Vorys, all OF New
York; +. A. Lovett, Of Boston.
The young men accepted for service
are receiving regular military training
as we'll as training in flying. Seapiahes
of the tractor type are being used' as
we'll as various types OF aircraft IN
GLIDING dirigiblc balloons.
Tho officers OF the Naval Flying
Corps who have been in training at the
Navy Aeronautic Station at Pensacola
Fla. since last December are just COM
pleting their first course. Most OF the
$50 men who enlisted in the navy LOT
aeronautic duties only are also at rem
sacola, undergoing instruction.
The dirigible balloon d. n. ], OF the
non-rigid type, is now in use al fensa-
cola for training purposes, and Is peine
used to instruct the men who are TO
handle the fleet of ncw-type dirigibles
ordered some time ago.
Thousands have applied for enrol
ment in the naval reserve hying corps
and the applications arc still pouring
in. More than eight hundred appiica-
tons have been received from Boston,
and a much larger number from New
York. Hundreds Of young men In Phll-
adelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Chi
cago. Pittsburgh, Cleveland. Detroit
and other cities also have applied.
College students, automobile sales
men. mechanics, chaufeurs, men who
operate their own motor cars and air,
planes and those interested IN speed
boats seem to be particularly anxious
TO get into the flying corps. they are
regarded as desirable material
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20
BY STERLING PATTERSON

The flying field at Mineola is filled
from morning to night with the drone
Of seroplanes.
Yesterday-nineteen days after the
start of the first class of future army
fiiers-was a typical day at the field.
Lsxity has completely vanished. Keen
eyed officers pass along the company
street and are ssluted stifiy. One
sees nothing but khaki. Recently,
especially or Saturday afternoons,
motors used to line the roadside and
crowds of gsyly dressed men and
women stood at the edge Of the flying
field to watch the sviators. Now, dou-
bic guards are on duty, day and night,
and no civilian passes the sentry line
unless his business is particular and
pressing.
Constant Hum of Motors
Bv $3.50 in the morning the motor,
of the sixty aeroplanes now at the
school are humming, ami flying prac-
tice has begun. The first sleepy
oaths greet the bugle at 5:l5. A set
tine-up drill follows, and then break
fast at $3.50. The morning is con-
sumed with flying and engine work
Five men arc assigned to eacn IN
structor. He takes them up one by
one. As much as possible the men
are allowed TO correct their own mis-
takes in the air. Self-confldence, one
of the chief assets in flying, is gained
this way. When the landing IS MADE
the instructor points out to his pupll
his mistakes and tails him how TO
correct them. II is, of course. impos-
sible to talk while in the air. The
roar of the engine and the rush OF
the wind drown all other sounds and
prevent any verbal communication
But the student learns why, for OK
ample. his instructor suddenly took
the controls when they we're making
that last bank.
In the meantime other small groups
have been working on engines, making
small repairs. cleaning them, ADJUST.
ing bolts, and so on. Welcome indeed
is the sound OF the mess bugle.
Soupy, soup-e. toup-ee. without single pedn
Porky, pork-e. pork-ee. with not streak o
lean:
cawfce. cawfee. cswf-ee. the blacklist ever
seen.
And every enc OF the 100 enlisted
men rush TO seat themselves at the
long pine tables, with anticipation al
keen as though they were at Sherrys.
A Democratic Crew
II is here that one may notice the
democracy Of army life. Forty-thre'
of these enlisted men are college men
some wealthy In their own right; mos
of the others are sons Of wealthy men
But the regulars and the men wh'
within two or three months Will be mrs
lieutenants all sit down together wltf
a right good will. IL seems, after all
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

The second zone is located at the
military base and contains one large
hospital, with 500 bed units. Here
the wounded man receives expert
medical and surgical attention. Clerks
are provided to write letters for him.
He remains here until he has recov-
cred completely or until he is well
enough TO be sent to one of the larger
hospitals in the interior, which is
called the third zone.
The idea of the thrce-zone system
is that soldier receives attention as
nearly as possible the moment he is
wounded and is cared for as he is car
ried to the rear. Each system is it
self a unit. and the units can thus be
multiplied until a whole battlefront,
however long it may be. is protected.
The plan is that the American Red
Cross shall be in charge of the first
and second zones under supervision
of the Army Medical Corps. with 500,
and the Medical Corps Reserve. with
$500, members. The hospitals in the
third zone. which are removed from
the dangers Of the firing line, are in
charge of the government stats.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20
Skies Over Mineola Aviation
Field Alive with Student Airmen
Constant Hum of Motors from Early Morning to Nghtfall
Tells of Real Progress Being Made in Vital
Branch of Uncle Sans Service

not TO differ much from the alphabet
cal friendships of the classroom.
Luncheon over. the men report TO
Captain l. A. RAIDER, of Company Il
(thcre are two companies at the
school. and for two hours are taught
those things which every army officer,
in whatever branch he may be, must
know. There is long drill first. and
then lectures on hygiene, camp SAM
tation, map-reading almost every sub
jeot indeed from corns to aerial gun
merry.
The rookie aviators 60 next TO the
technical department, where they are
given theoretical and practical work in
motors. They learn everything there
is to know about the engines at present
in use, finally, after many assem-
blinFs, becoming so proficient that they
can recognize a half inch bolt and tell
just where it belongs.
BY the time the work in the tech
nical department is over, dinner is
served-which is means of stating
that the mess lugle blows again. This
is at $3.50 p. m. The men are then
free for the day. Tattoo" sounds at
9:45, end the men must then be in their
quarters. "TapS" is at II.
tween $3.50 and II. And men are some
times allowed to have Sunday free 1t
is splendid, healthful life, with as
much leisure, surely, as other employ
merts-such as "A newspaper reporter
on Election DAY or the lone hired man
on 200-acre farm,
$50 Men on the Field
Altogether there are about $50 men
on the field. all busy and all content
on that account. There are 100 en-
listed men, 20 instructors. Is officers
and % civil employees.
The enlisted scrgeants the title now
possessed by student aviators) are a
clean. outstanding group of young men.
Quentin Roosevelt, the Colonels young
est son. is among them. So is Rodney
Tower. a son of Charlemagne Tower, Of
Philadelphia, formerly United States
AM bassador 70 Germany. And there
are several n.er who were well known
athletes in their undergraduate days.
Babe" Benson, the Columbia basket
ball star, for example, and p. d. Smith,
who put the shot for Dartmouth; ia
cobs, of the Yale swimming team, and
George Church. of Princeton, whose
name m tennis brings the fans to their
feet.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-07
Why The Leaves
Change Their Color

1t requires no vivid imagination to
picture Mother Nature going about
these days with a liberal supply of
paint with which she colors the leaves
of the trees and other plants and
thereby produces the vivid tints which
characterize the foliage of this sea-
son. In rality the change in coloring
is the result of. certain chemical
processes which take place in the
leaves.
The change is not, as many people
suppose, due to the action of frost,
but is preparation for winter. All
during the spring and summer the
leaves have served as factories, where
the foods necessary for the trees
growth have been manufactured. This
food making takes place in number
less tiny cells of the leaf and is car
ried on by small green bodies which
give the leaf its color. These chloro-
phyll bodies, as they are known, make
the food of the tree by combining car
bon taken from the carbonic acid gas
of the air with hydrogen, oxygen, and
various minerals supplied by the wa
ter which the roots gather. In the
fall when the cool weather causes
slowing down of the vital processes,
the work of the leaves comes to an
end. The machinery of the leaf fac
tory is dismantled, so to speak, the
chlorophyll is broken up into the
various substances of which it is
composed, and whatever food there is
on hand is sent to the body of the tree
to be stored for use in the spring. All
that remains in the cell cavities of
the leaf is a watery substance in
which few oil globules and crystals
and small number of yellow, strong
'ly refractive bodies can be seen.
These give the leaves the yellow col
oring so familiar in autumnal foliage.
1t often happens, however, that
there is more sugar in the leaf than
can be readily transferred hack to
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-07

1t is clear from the rounded form
of the granules of soil, that when they
are massed together without being
crushed very large amount Of un-
occupied space must exist; this un-
occupied space in soil is needed for
the movement of air and of water;
for the spreading out of the root fib-
ers and root hairs, and for the home
of micro-organisms which develop the
available nitrogen used by all the
higher plants.
If the granules are too large and
too loosely packed the soil lets the
rains fall through it too freely and
does not bring it back rapidly enough
by capillarity to meet the needs of
the crops. If the granules are too
small and too close then the water
moves too slowly, too much is retain
ed by capillarity and there Is too lit
tie air. If the granules are bound to-
gether too strongly, the soil is too
hard and the roots are unable to set
it aside in making their advance and
this lack of freedom reduces the yield.
The soil, particles are drawn togeth-
err into the rounded granules by the
tension of the soil water in the same
way that water forms itself into
SpHeTtS, anu III ILLS SystSui VI puiio
the soil particles become involved and
are drawn together also. As the wa
ter is lost by evaporation and the
salts dissolved become too strong to
remain in solution they are deposit
ed upon and between the grains and
granules tending to cement them to-
gether.
When the granules of fine soil are
all broken down and separated into
their ultimate grains we have the
puddled condition so fatal TO crops,
but the one the potter strives to Sc
cure to make his wares close in tex
ture and strong. In the puddled soil
and potter's clay enough of the gran
ules have been broken down to fill the
spaces between the larger simple
grains and finer granules not yet
broken down to make a close teXtur-
ed, impervious material in which no
plant can thrive, and through which
neither water nor air can move.
The early stirring of the soil in the
spring preparatory to seeding has for
its main object the changing of the
soil texture so that it will become 1st,
warmer, End, dryer, 3rd, better aerat-
ed, 4th, better suited to lessen the
rate of evaporation of the deeper soil
water, and 5th, to hasten the develop
ment Of weed seeds so they may be
destroyed before the crop is in the
way of killing them.
1t must be clear from the mechan-
zeal action of the pillow that its form
should be adapted to the soil. If the
soil has a tendency TO be too open
and porous, and is naturally coarse
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-07
NORTH.LOWEIL

Mrs. Chas. Hartley and children Of
Ionia spent Sunday with relatives in
Lowell
Grandma Baty is moving to Grand
Rapids for the winter.
Mrs. Iva Scranton of Grand Rapids
visited friends in Lowell Saturday.
A large number from Lowell at
tended the ghost social at .Vergennes
Wednesday.
Mrs. M. Ford visited Miss Frances
Houlihan Saturday.
We are enjoying these fine days
and hope they will continue.
Clifford Morse of Ionia visited his
parents in Lowell the latter part Of
last week.
A dancing party was held at the
city hall Wednesday. All enjoyed a
fine time.
Miss Eva Eaux visited Bessie
Smith of Alto the latter part Of last
week.
Milton Rogers is confined to his
bed with heart trouble.
The Lowell high school boys will
play their second football game with
Rockford, at that city Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Jacobson were at
their farm in Grattan Monday.
Be not arrogant when fortune
smiles, nor detected when she frowns.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-07

the tree. When this is the case the
chemical combination with the other
substances produces many-colored
tints varying from the brilliant red
of the dogwood to the more austere
red-brown of the oak. In coniferous
trees, which do not lose their foliage
in the fall, the green coloring matter
takes on a slightly brownish tinge,
which, however, gives way to the
lighter color in the spring.
While the color of the leaf is chang
ing, other preparations are being
made. At the point where the stem
of the leaf is attached to the tree, a
special layer of cells develops which
gradually sever the tissues which sup
port the leaf. At the same time Ma
tuer heals the cut, so that when the
leaf is finally blown off by the wind
or falls from its own weight, the
place where it grew on the twig is
marked by scar.
Although the food which has been
prepared in the cell cavities is sent
back to the tree, the mineral sub
stances with which the walls of the
cells have become impregnated during
the summer months are retained. Ac-
'cordingly when the leaves fall they
contain relatively large amounts of
valuable elements, such as nitrogen
and phosphorus which were original
ly part of the soil. The decomposi-
ton of the leaves results in enriching
the top layers of the soil by return
ing these elements and by the accu-
mutation of humus. That is why the
mellow black earth from the forest
and the leaves aer burned, the most
valuable Of the fertilizing elemnts
are changed by the heat into gases
and escape into the air. As result,
forests which are burned over regu-
larly soon lose their soil fertility even
if no apparent damage is done to the
standinp tirohar