Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-03-14
Ranks Are Neglected

| Stant0n.-Ihe unnearu OF mas come
to pass. With the high price of food
stuffs the banks and their boards of
gold are now being ignored by bur-
glars and they are turning their a..
tention to something more valuable
and not so hard to secure. One night
not long ago more than $1,000 worth
of farm produce was carried away in
automobiles. One had better hang
their pocketbooks out on the front
porch and sleep in the potato bin with
loaded shotgun handy.
Lowell.-Walker and Alpine town.
ships were placed under quarantine
last week for rabies by w. r. Harper,
secretary of the state sanitary live
stock commission. Secretary Harper's
action was taken as the result of the
dogs and other stock which ad been
killed in these townships being pro-
nounced afflicted with rabies by the
Pasteur institute at Ann Arbor.
Locates Son After Eleven Years
st. Johns.-By means of the story
of the history of the Jones family
printed in the local papers and the
State Journal some time ago, Chester
Jones, now aged sixteen, has found
his mother, Mrs. Catherine Newcomb
of Fennville, and is now with her.
The sister, Mrs. Jessie Armstrong
and brother, Leslie Jones, both live
| in st. Johns. Mrs. Armstrong re-
ceived a letter from Chester last
| fall. but the envelope and letter head
had been mutilated so that they could
not get word to him, except through
the chance reading of a newspaper
story.
The father of the Jones children
was killed in lumber camp, leaving
the mother with the three older chill
dren and tiny new babe. The older
children were put in an orphanage
for a short time, but were later plac-
ed in homes. The mother again mar
ried and sought to find her children.
The two here were gotten in touch
with but the little boy who was five
when placed in the orphanage, could
not be found until a few weeks ago.
100000 for Beans and Potatoes
Howard City.-R. w. Moulton of
this village has shipped fifty cars of
potatoes this season from Howard
City, the largest number Of cars ship
ped by one dealer in any town in this
section. In 1916 he paid out $27,-
1858 for potatoes. Up to Saturday
he had this season paid out $50, 3S7.SS
for potatoes alone.
Mr.. Moulton estimated that Howard
City dealers have paid out S148,000
this season for beans and have handled
forty cars.
Letters Carry Fever Germs
Charlottesville and Mrs. Fred Pol
lard and son, James, returned home
the first of the week from a very
pleasant sojourn in Florida. Soon
after their arrival in the city a physi-
clan was called to determine the
cause of rash on James body and
the physician suspicioned scarlet few
er and the following day the, health
officer quarantined the Pollard home.
If it is scarlet fever it is a very mix
case thus far. They are perplexe1
however, to know how he contracted
the disease and the only solution is
that it might have been due to letters
received while in Florida. 1t is a
very unpleasant termination of their
outing.
Swindled by Fake Specialists
/ Hastings. - Residents of Barry
county are being warned through the
newspapers to avoid dealing with a
fake eye specialist calling himself
both DR.. Schultz and DR.. Lawrence,
of Grand Rapids, who has succeeded
in dipping a number of people
throughout the county into paying as
high as $500 per pair for cheap spec
tacles. The man unloaded several
pairs of the specs" before his vic
tins awoke to the fact of having been
swindled. The case has been report
ed to the authorities.
Corresponds With President
Hastings.-One of the unusual
things that happen to q rural mail
carrier was the receipt Of registered
mail package on Route 3 out Of this
city and directed to president Wood
row Wilson, Warrington, d. c." 1t
| ID limited that Il was mailed by q good
democrat and therefore it is safe to