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The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-30
ASHLEY

| We are glad to report Ernest Egg
gleston is out of the hospital at
Camp Custer where he has been quite
i'll with the flu.
Don Stevens was on the sick list
last week.
Irwin Olmstead had the misfortune
to fall and fracturs TWO ribs while
unloading a grist at Oakfeld last
Friday.
We shall all be glad to hear the
church bells ring again.
We wonder if the readers of the
Belding News appreciate the kind
ness of the editor in printing so many
of the boys letters as there are very
many editors who will not print any;
toe many letters some tell US and
printing material is too high.
Mrs. Ralph Hall has influenza. The
rest of the influenza patients who
were i'll last week are recovering.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis were guests of
Frank Donovan in Grattan Saturday
evening.
Mrs. Earl Nash who has been i'll,
has returned from the hospital and is
slowly gaining strength.
ne Longstreet is i'll at the
Bedding hospital.
Mrs. Effie Elkins was an over Sum-
day guest at Leland Godfrey's.
Oct. 20 was Douglas jerks first
birthday and Oct. "a Miss Elouise
Godfrey celebrated her third birthday
at supper with her aunt. Effie Elkins
in Belding.
The neighbors had a potato digging
bee for Claud Hoover, Monday, who
has been severely i'll with influenza.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis went to Moline
Tuesday for the day.
Geo. Smith and Mrs. Will Anderson
are both seriously i'll.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-30
A TWICE-TOLD TALE


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Good news bears repeating and
when it is confirmed after q long
lapse of time, even if we hesitated to
believe it at first hearing, we feel Sc
cure in accepting its truth now. The
following experience of Bedding wo-
man is confirmed after ii years:
Mrs. George Martin. 302 +. State
St., says: Il was bothered with heavy
pains across my back. At times
had dizzy spells and headaches and
these attacks made me so weak, /
couldn't keep up around the house. A
neighbor advised me to use Doan's
Kidney Pills, and / got supply at
Connell's drug store. This medicine
cured the trouble" Statement given
November z, 1906
No Trouble Since.
On September 8, 1916, Mrs. Martin
said: 81 have had no further trouble
with my kidneys since recommended
Doan's Kidney Pills. consider my
cure permanent"
Price 60c at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills, the same that
Mrs. Martin had. Foster Milburn
Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo. N. Y.--Adv.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-30
LONG LAKE

Mrs. Il. l. Haight and Nra n. s.
Amphlett spent Tuesday here shut
ting up their cottages FOR the winter.
JET Way spent couple OF days last
week at the lake.
The Chittel school Is closed for two
weeks on account of the illness of the
teacher, Miss Kenyon. at her home in
Portland.
Mrs. Miles Merrisst spent several
days last week with Mr.. and Mrs.
f'red Fischer in Ionia-
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T.. Dodson and fam
ny spent last Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs Gardner Howard near Green
nzMr. and Mrs. win Kidd motored to
xanslng for several days. visit with
friends last week.
The Ammon brothers, Rob, Charles
and Bill, as well as our old friend,
Bill Longe, all seem to think the wet
ter the water the better the fishing:
the past week they tested out this
theory sitting in one of Merriett's
boats, water trucking down thefr
necks while their lines were dancing
around in the lake waiting for the
hungry perch; from results shown
there must be something to this as
each one had string they could we'll
be proud Of.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Haberstumpf
spent Sunday in their cottage.
Miss Elizabeth Sontag returned to
Belding last Sunday after spending
two weeks with Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E.
Dodson and family.
Mrs. Ben Hall and granddaughter
Elizabeth, Virginia and Arabelle Hall
spent week ago Sunday with Hiram
Hall and family at Chadwick.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-30

al have used vinol fot impovoeL
ishsd blood. was broken cut With
: rash ana run down % Il was hard
for me % keep about my work.
Other medicines did no good, but vinol
enriched my blood and improved my
condition very rapidly. " Rose Lasky.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-30

Mrs. Floyd Bush called at James
farrar's Saturday evening.
Mrs. LaDow spent Wednesday with
Mrs. Floyd Bush.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Antcliff return
ed home the first of the week.
ROLAND and Mildred Garfield are
suffering with the flu.
Walter Simmons spent part of last
week at VIM. Antcliff's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Antcliff called
on Mrs. John Moore Saturday.
Mrs. M. l.. Bidwell called on Mrs.
Floyd Bush Friday afternoon.
Mrs. James Farrar called on Mrs.
Geo. Hagadorn Friday.
Geo. Hagadorn and Geo. Ravell are
entertaining the flu.
Mrs. James Farrar and Mildred Ap-
pills were callers at VIM. Thompscn's
Monday.
Mrs. A. Rowley. Mrs. Fred McNitt
and Mr.. and Mrs. McDuffy spent Mon
day with Mrs. VIM. Antcliff.
Ira Parker made business trip to
Grand Rapids Friday.
Mrs. John Raymond spent Satur-
day in Bedding.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-30
Otisoo Township, Attention.

The president has set aside the
week Of November 11-18 for United
War Work campaign to raise a ma
tional quota of $170, 100000 for the
combined activities of the Y. w. C. A.,
Y. M. c. A., Knights of Columbus,
Jewish Welfare Board, War Camp
Community Service and the Salvation
Army. In Michigan this will be con-
Quoted as the Michigan Patriotic
drive. Gov. Sleeper desires the war
board of every township to throw
their utmost energy into this cam
paign that Michigan may again re-
spond as nobly as she has to all other
demands that have oeen made upon
her. The apportionment to the town.
ship OF Otisco is $1,100. We also
need 1925 to pay to the Ionia county
Red Cross chapter the balance of the
$500 worth of material furnished us
by the chapter which has all been
made up and returned. Let us raise
the whole 81 1926 in this one patriotic
drive. Our boys are willing to fight
for us, so we should be willing to
work for them and raise the money
necessary for their comfort and ne
May we depend upon your
generous and hearty support? Com
mittees for this work viii be appoint
ed in each school district.
- Frank r. Chase,
Edward Insley,
Frank l.. Moon,
War Board.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-30

Geo. Phillips and wife visited near
Lakeview Thursday with Eugene
Smith and wife.
Little Miss Gladys Sixberrie visited
her grandparents, Ernest Benton and
wife from Tuesday until Friday.
Elgin Condor and wife, Ernest Mil
lard and wife and Mrs. Lee visited at
Frank Tillotson's recently.
Mrs. Bert Harris was in Lansing
Monday to see about her little girl
who was not feeling well at the
School for the Blind. She brought
her home with her.
Leo Loudon and Miss Youngs, teach
er Of the Brink school spent Friday
evening at Ernest Benton's.
Mrs. Frank Lamb passed away on
Sunday morning after several weeks
illness.
Mrs. Geo. Benton and son, Arthur
Benton spent Thursday night with
Roswell Bliss and wife. Arthur call
ed on several Of the neighbors here.
Roy Taylor and wife, Carl Taylor
and wife and Mrs. Twiperd visited at
Eli Wits Sunday.
Earl Davis, who joined the navy in
August, was home on q 36-hour fur
Tough. He visited his mother, Mrs.
Lewis Seeley Sunday forenoon.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-30
OAKFIELD

We've had plenty Of rain recently.
The roads were . sea Of mud and wa
ter last Sunday with copious show
er added Sunday evening.
We may expect = snow storm soon.
Mrs. A. Hansen has returned from
Sparta where she went to visit .
Mrs. j. C. Dillingham; of Central
Lake, her daughter, and Mrs. George
Cathey of West Oakfield visited with
Podunk friends one day last week.
Mrs. Dillingham; expects to soon join
her husband in the wilds Of northern
Michigan where he has q position.
Miss Reba Jones is home from
Rockford where she had been visiting
her grandparents for two weeks.
AL. Getting and son, Leon, Of near
Rockford, called on the formers sis
ter, Mrs. Suits one day last week
while waiting for their grist to be
ground.
Mrs. Milo Peterson and two child
rem visited her mother from Tuesday
evening until Friday evening. She
found her mother laid up with . very
lame shoulder and arm. She left
her mother much better.
Frank Addis's family are sick with
mumps and influenza We hope they
will all recover.
Mrs. Havens visited at the c. Dem
mis- home last Saturday afternoon.
Last Sunday morning Miss Hazel
Suits, Mrs. C. Bradish and Mrs. By
ron Moore with Clifton Green as driv-
er drove from Bedding in the rain and
mud to visit the formers mother,
finding her feeling rather poorly. They
persuaded her to return to Bedding
with them for few days stay.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-30

Editor in shief-Grace Anderson.
Assistant sditors--Nildred Flana-
gan, Edward Kelley.
Twenty pupils were absent from
the primary room Thursday and Fri
day Of last week on account OF the
"flu".
A most tragic and unbelievable
accident occurred in the Orleans
school last Wednesday when one Of
the third graders raised her hand
and announced. 1--WE swallowed a
flyl" We are glad it was only fly
and not the flu.
Misses May Wilkinson and Grace
Anderson sang pleasing duet at
chapel Wednesday morning, "Send Ne
a Rose From Homeland"
Beginning this week school will
start at $3.50 instead of at a. m,
and close at $3.50 p. m.
May Wilkinson visited school this
week.
Ruth Piper received 100 IN Latin
and algebra; Mildred Flanagan re-
ceived 100 in M. and M. history, al
zebra and Latin; and Evelyn Sher-
wood received 100 in arithmetic test.
Beginning with this week the Jun
Tor high school room will spend the
writing period every other afternoon
in study of the present war.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-30

The school is saving tin foil to sell
fer the Red Cross.
The freshman and sophomore class
es have started to make preparations
for the oral book reports.
Julia Hill is back in school this
week.
Edward Kelley and Helen Longan,
who were absent from school Thurs
day and Friday, are making up back
work.
The Camp Fire Girls held meet
ing last Wednesday night after school.
The new manual came and the names
were sent in for membership. The
members began to win honors Satur-
day.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-30
What Daya Think?

In another column you will find an
article about the editors conscience
Say now, did you ever stop to think
what was going to become of all those
nice little quite "cooties" after this
blooming war is over?
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-30

Some of the people who denounced
the Huns most vehemently have help
ed the Huns by declining to take pre-
cautions against the spread Of the in
fluenza.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-30

The surest way to encourage the
boys who create the Halloween dis
turbances is to get out and undertake
to chase and punish them.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-22

Great War Ballads" by j. Brookes Mors
Thrash-Lick Publishing Company, Fort
Smith, Ark, col lists, in the opening Sec
ton, of incidents of the war, related by an
Irishman with the conventional brogue~-
Mr.. Dooley at the front, in simple and
sometimes sentimental verse The second
part contains metrical translations of sev-
eraI of the tales of Ovid. The verse is
graceful in the traditional manner, and the
transations have elected approval from
critics better qualified for such compare
tive work than the present reviewer.
hasten to say that Mr.. More's Ovid is trans.
formed into modest and law-abiding citi-
zen.
Then there are the books of rollickng
rhyme by three men from the trenches.
"Buddy's Blighty" (Small, Maynard Com-
pany, New York; is good Kiplngesquc mar
rativc. 1t IS by Lieutenant Jack Turner,
M. c., Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Ginger Mick" (John Lape), by c. J. Dennis,
is intriguing Australian. There's nothing
to beat Australian slang. Did you ever get
hold Of half a dozen Sydney Bulletins"
and spend all afternoon with them, It s
an cxhiarating dissipation Read Dennis
for Australian types and lingo at their
raciest Rhymes in Olive Drab," By Ser
geant John 2. Roche, is an American
rockies reactions. Songs of the Skokits
by Anne Higginson Spicer (Ralph f. Sey-
mour, Chicago): "The Potter's Clay" BY
Marie Tudor putnam. New York;, and
Melodies in Verse;" by Mary B. Ehmann
(Stewart & Kidd Company, Cincinnati), ell
have varied charms to soothe the more OF
less soothable breast
New-York tribune., 1918-09-22

glory, to its last momcntous detail It Is
not to be again Perhaps am too
much haunted by this note. 1t is a book
of virile ]oveliness the record of peculiar
devotion.
Sonnets, l suppose, in this sinful day, are
a weakncss-to which I hasten to confess.
When nobly done what .aspirants of splen-
did melancholy may they be! OF truth,
then, have made a discovery. 1t is "a
Cycle of Sonncts" by Edith Willis Linn
(James T. White e. Co., New York;. Ex-
cclent verse seemed this persons "From
Dream to Dream" but these sonnets are
inefably better. ] would might quote
representative dozen Of them. The best of
them have all that sonnet should have:
dignity, lordly rhythms, we'll closed periods,
slyly cached, fine lines. They often open
with the simplicity which BELTS the begin
ming of the feast good sonnet is. Observe
this insinuating picture:
Like gray nun, who treads on silent feet.
The dawn creeps slowly, in her hand star.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-22

seaworthy; the other might be "Breakers,' .
or "a Shore Lyric" But much negligible
stuff fills out the pages.
Dennis A. Mccarthy of "Songs of Sun
rise" (pagc Algenon Charles!D, published
by Little, Brown & Co., New York, is good
everyday rhymer He seeks no subtleties,
and writes with facility and gusto. His
popularity is deserved. Solomon de la Selva,
official poet of Nicaragua, is beyond me. I
suspect him of being that extinct bird, an
ego unashamed. His "Tropical Town and
Other Poems" (John Lane, New York; con-
tains some charming conceits and again
some ambitious fol- l-de-rol. Altogether q
promising mountebank, not beyond admir-
ing for his versatility and enjoying for his
candor. "The Final STAR" by Marion Cou-
thoy Smith (James 7. White, New York;, is
excellent verse by attractive person
ality. There's fine ballad about New
York in it. "Western Waters" by Eliza
beth Sewell Hill (The Roadside Press, Chi
cago), is dedicated to civilian Stanley
Braithwaite, Friend Of Poets" He will
have to befriend it.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-22

haps it is only the English country, which
both of them loved and celebrated poig-
nantly, that accounts for the resemblance.
But Thomas knew his country longer than
Brooke, and is the richer poet for it. This
is simply all that one gets from him. the
country in England, inanimate one would
say, SO far as the human is concerned, but
alive, in these poems, with the rich en-
broidery Of intimate facts and hoary tradi-
ttons. The book teens with names and
places, and like the work of that other
wood-struck dreamer, Jeffries, it riots in
glorious pessimism. One can see why Ed
ward Thomas found the war a release: he
was killed at Arras, on Easter Monday of
1917. Reading his Poems" it is as though
one heard uttered, gently, sorrowfully, with
exquisite caressing farewells the death of
all things spirited and young He paints
dying beauty for you, in its last simple
New-York tribune., 1918-09-22
he Verse, Free and Otherwise, of Contemporary Poet

versions Of his life, but this book adds
nothing to his poetical work except fresh
evidence Of his remarkable virtuosity in
imitation Of the ancient balladsts Ballad
ists-Swinburne could initiate anything.
and to the life; himself he could not:
others have done that better. What Mr..
Gosse calls "a section of Swinburne's lyri-
cal writings which has often been talked
Of but will not at present escape our guar
dianship,". might indeed be an addition to
his known work. These are the verses Of
which Jowett, relating how he once drove
Swinburne home from dinner, said: ooh,
he sang all the way-bad songs-very bad
songs"
Edward Thomas, although he is said to
have been inspired by Robert Frost, to
whom he dedicated his "Poems" (Henrv
Holt, New York;, reminds me Of Rupert
Brooke, in the "Grantchester" mood. Per-
New-York tribune., 1918-09-22

I WAS a quarter of an hour since
the lady sent from the Mayors Office
had gone away. FRANCHISE in des-
peration paced the little room, her ears
tingling with the frightful words, ask
ing herself if 1t couldsbe true that her
son was dead.
Without doubt, since Antoine had sent
no news of himself for more than a
month. they had to be- prepared for
something. But ignorance is blessing.
Silence leaves some rays Of hope. While
now to know that he had been killed
that she would never, never see him
again-that was a bitter shock Fran
coise was still stupefied and sodden; her
grief had become something fixed and
irreparable.
She no longer wept. A spring some
where within her snapped. Destiny,
that terrible child, breaks sometimes the
mechanical toys-the human beings
it plays with Francoise, in the space of
minute, bent suddenly under the bur-
den of ten added years.
Walking aimlessly to and fro, she
ended by falling into the worm-eaten
walnut chair, in the corner where her
son used to seat himself on coming home
from the fields.
He was "a good son, Antoine. He had
preferred not to marry in order to re-
main with his parents. Perhaps some
day they would have persuaded him to
marry, and the two old people would
have had little children to caress.
Now Antoine would never marry.
From the corner where she was, at
the edge Of the deep fireplace, one could
see through a window the road and it's
plane trees, an angle of the garden and
the fence, half white and half green,
which Antoine was repainting when the
war broke out. She still saw him there
arranging his brushes and saying with
his brave, boyish smile:
"Ill finish it when I come back. And
that viii be soon."
Now he would never finish painting
the fence
Francoise recalled him also, when he
was smaller, setting off for school on
snowy mornings, with his wooden shoes
and his school bag, which he held pushed
up from his shoulder and which formed
New-York tribune., 1918-09-22

An unpretcntous start is one Of the secrets
of good sonnet 1t is like a modest and
decent manner in people. Anything that
smacks Of mouthing turns the page in
stantly.
Consider that this book contains some
hundred and twenty-five sonnets, and that
every fourth or fifth one will be wellnigh
thrilling. 1t is something Miss Linn falls
badly at times; but when she does the
solid thing it is an affair to roll upon the
larynx. Listen to this quatrain:
Across the hills, in vivid autumn trod,
Where sodden leaves and clinging SHOWS
have lain,
Barefooted April tips her urn of rain
And sudden greenncss sweeps along the
About q third of this book, discreetly
winnowed, would be a volume worth keep
ing at hand
James Stewart Doubleday's "Songs and
Sea Voices" Washington Square Book
Shop contains at least two bully lyrics.
The first one, 40 White Ship" is absolutely
New-York tribune., 1918-09-22

The father wasn't always agreeable
when he looked like that.
While she hesitated Voirin turned
toward her with brusque movement, as
If he was going to speak. But he re-
malned silent. He passed his hand
across his brow, squeezed his pipe be-
tween his teeth and lighted it.
Then it was Francoise who spoke. Her
throat almost choked, she sought to
bring him around to the war-to the lat
est news. When they got on that SUBJ
ject she would deliver very gently
morsel of the truth-a very tiny morsel.
She looked at the fence. Her heart
grew weaker with each beat She felt
as if she were going to faint.
did you see anybody you knew at the
market?"
"At the market? All! yes, I talked
with Lorichon. Don't you know? Lori
chon. He has cousin who was-who
is-with Antoine in the 164th."
What a queer manner he had suddenly
assumed
And what did he tell you?" she asked
IN tone SO low, so full of anguish, that
he could hardly hear her.
She was afraid of something which
she could not define, but which she
thought she read in her husbands eyes.
She went to the sdeboard and got
napkin, with which she began mechani-
cally to polish corner of the table.
And then she said with great effort.
leaving Voirin no time to answer her
question:
"By the way, have some news"
"Ah?"
Yes, news of Antoine. Don't be
frightened. 1t seems that he was
New-York tribune., 1918-09-22

SO discreetl There are people who know
how to manage things, to say just what
is essential when misfortunes come. But
an old peasant woman like herself-no
one had ever taught her how
She made an effort to collect her poor
thoughts.
eyes. l shall say that he is wounded.
And then, little by little-to-morrow or
the day after to-morrow-a little more
each day l shall lead him on until he
has strength to hear it,"
She had hardly planned out her piti-
able method of suggestion when Voirin
entered.
He was tall old man. still erect, with
very white mustaches which set off his
bronzed face.
BY his expression she saw that he was
not satisfied with his day at market. No
fertilizers to be had--or hay too dear in
price.
"You are tired, papa, aren't you?
(she tried to control her faltering
voice. 1t want right to stay out so
long in the sun in this heat
lie approached the table YEARLY, put
down his hat and his cane and an
swered:
1T wasn't the sun. 1t was the crowd.
There were too many people there"
Francoise coughed, seeking for words
which eluded her
He sat down in the chimney corner In
the walnut chair, in Antoine's place. He
filled his pipe, his eyes on the floor,
frowning, deep furrow between his
eyebrows. And Francoise, watching
that morose visage, did not dare to COM
hence.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-22

little bump under his cap And as
still smaller boy, when he was not as
tall as the fence.
The lady from the Mayors office had
sworn by all the gods that she knew
none of the details. She knew only that
Antoine had died like brave man, had
not suffered at all, and that they were
going to give him the Croix de Guerre.
Why is it that those who die on the field
of battle never suffer when the news is
told to their poor old parents?
Suddenly she Strengthened herself up.
How shall she tell all this to his
father when he comes back?
Vorin had gone to market But in
quarter of an hour-ten minutes-per-
haps even five minutes-it would be
necessary to tell him of this terrible
thing-the death Of his only son.
1t was a fatality that she should have
been at home alone to receive that melan-
choly visit. 1t is easier to resist such
shocks when two are together. Now it
would be necessary to subject this poor
old man to the suffering which she had
already endured.
She walked feverishly across the room.
She was thinking how she should go
about it. To tell him the truth without
preparation-that would kill Voirin. He
had just spent three weeks in bed, suf-
fering from blood pressure, and the ply
sician had warned her:
"Above all things see to it that moth
ing excites him. The next time it will
be more serious"
He must divine it. But how to put
him in the way of divining it? 1t would
have taken that lady to do it-so gentle,