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The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29
STATE HORTICULTURAL
MEET AT FENNvILLE

The mid-winuer meeting of the
State Horticultural society will be
held in Fennville, Feb. IL and IL. A
very interesting program will be pre-
scented and a large attendance from
all over the state will DE on hand for
the opening session.
The subject of "Small Fruits" will
be presented by ii. J. Lurkins, Ben
ton Harbor.
Apples for Western Michigan, by
F. E. Warner, South Haven.
Cost Accounting for the Fruit
Grower, by /. T. Pickfcrd, Extension
Specialist in Horticulture, M. A. C. 4
The Present Status of the Pear
Psylla in Michigan, F. L. Simanton,
Bureau of Entomology, Washington,
ID. G..
The Latest in Spraying, Prof. H. J.
Eustace, M. A. C.
The question box will be in charge
of G. p. Halligan, East Lansing:
The Grape Situation in Michigan,
M. Fl. Pugsley, Paw Paw.
Other timely topics will be discus
sed and Tuesday evening Prof. Eus-
tace will give an illustrated talk along
horticultural lines. No fruit grower
can afford to miss this meeting.
Anyone desiring copy of program
apply to the secretary's office, Ban
gor, Michigan.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29
POTASH ON POTATOES

Years ago when the country was
still new, and long before the bugs,
and the beetles, and the blights, the
scabs and the scurfs, the wet rots and
the dry rots came in increasing num-
bers to destroy the crop, potatoes were
fertilized with potash.
1t was done unconsciously. AS the
settlers cleared the land, the great logs
and the brush were burned, leaving
on the soil fair dressing of potash
contained in wood ashes. Tradition
says that the best potatoes were grown
on new land treated In this way, and
that never after were potatoes grown
of as good quality and as good eating
as was this first crop.
We cannot use ashes now for prac-
tically all of our soils are old and in
fected with scab fungus. The lime In
wood ashes increases the trouble from
scab, but potatoes need potash just as
much as they ever did. 1t adds to the
quality just the same as it did two and
three generations ago when some of
our farms We're just being cleared.
A single pound Of potash In potato
fertilizer makes about bushel of po-
tatoes. At. the Maine state agricul-
tural experiment station 3 per cent of
potash In the fertilizer mixture Tor a
total application of As pounds of pot
ash per acre) increased the yield by
43 bushels. At the New Jersey ex-
pertinent station the same quantity of
potash increased the acre yield by
about 40 bushels. On the eastern
shore of Virginia 3 per cent potash in
the fertilizer made 35-bushel in
crease in the crop, while 8 per cent
added nearly so bushels to the total
crop.
The potato crops for the past three
years have been grown without APP
piled potash. There has also been In
creasing evidence that the residues left
IN the soil by past fertilization have
been pretty thoroughly drawn upon,
and for this reason 1t Is doubly for
tunate that American inventiveness
and ingenuity has developed sources
of American potash, so that the POI
tato crop may not lack this important
plant food.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

Elmer II. Harrington, Bedding boy
arrived in Ionia this morning fresh
from Cam Custer, where he received
bis discharge papers yesterday. Har-
rington was in the artillery and en-
listed at Lansing, and saw IL months
service, being stationed mostly in the
Touel sector. Taken with typhoid
fever, he was sent back to the rear
lines, and the day that the armistice
was signed he was helping to guard
German prisoners at Bordeaux, hav-
ing recovered sufficiently for that kind
of service. He arrived in New York
on the transport Santa Teresa Jan.
5, and was sent to Camp Custer to
be mustered out of the service. He
will spend the day here as the guest
of his sister, Mrs. Carl Bliss on Mill
street, and expects to go to Belding
to visit his parents either tonight or
tomorrow.-Ionia Standard.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29
GREAT
SEASON FOR THE
MOTOR INDUSTRY
LOCAL DEALER MAKES PREDIC-
TION AFTER ATTENDING OV-
ERLAND CONVENTION.

/ Homer r. Unger, of the firm OF
l.Ames & Unger, Overland distributors
of this city is home from the annual
conference and convention of the
Overland dealers which was held in
the administration offices of the com
panyfi in Toledo, O. Mr.. Unger al
ways looks forward to these annual
gatherings and derives a greatdeal OF
both pleasure and benefit from at
tending them.
E. B. jackson, vice president in
charge of the sales of the Willys-Ov-
erland Co., welcomed the dealers To
the factory. The organization was
then taken for tour of inspection of
the plant and a look at the seasons
models. After the trip through the
factory the dealers were guests of the
company at a luncheon in the factory Is
cafe. Following this the assemblage
was addressed by President John N.
WHY'S, of the company, factory ex-
ecutives and also, officials Of the Sim
ons Sales company, an allied concern.
One of the principal talks was given
by ]. /. Handley, central district
sales manager, who has charge land
jurisdiction of the territory in which
is included Michigan.
The Simons company, in the even
ing, acted as hosts to the dealers as
sembled at the annual banquet which
was staged in the Toledo Club, the
leading club in Toledo.
According to information given out
as opinions of some Of the leaders of
the automobile industry, prices on the
machines will not be changed very
much for some time. Mr.. WHY'S
made the prediction at the convention,
according to Mr.. Unger, that the au-
tomobile demand during the next two
years will be very large and that it
will take long time before the fac
tories can successfully fill the demand.
"The stocks of used cars are very
nearly cleaned up" observed Mr.. Will
flys, "and many people have postpon-
ed buying cars which they want and
viii need until they could have some
assurance that the driving CT automo-
biles would not be restricted. There
is a pent up demand that will take a
long time to fill. Besides this, the
uses of motor cars have multiplied
many times, making the normal re-
quirements even greater than ever
before With the heavy demand,
plus the high price of materials and
HlSn wages DCiiiS pdiu W idDois otS
no chance Of any considerable down
ward change in prices in the near fu-
ture, as material prices and wages are
not liable to come down in a hurry.
With the passing of the first furry
of unsetlement of prices which fol-
lowed the signing of the armistice
there is now a very noticeable set
Ting of the prices in the automobile
market"
In the opinion of Mr.. WHY'S and
other leading automobile manufacture
ers, this seems to be the condition
and those who are expecting to see
automobile prices tumble in short
time will be disappointed, as the de-
cline in prices, when it comes, will ex-
tend ever a long period.
Mr.. Unger predicts a great season
for the motor industry and those who
are laying plans on getting car dur
ing this coming season, should see
him now.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29
Now is the Time te
Build a Home

With an abundance of employment
at high wages and the recent stimulus
to economy provided by the war, there
is more money in the United States
Chat could be utilized for home-build-
ing than has been available for many
years. In the face of these facts,
building materials are relatively low
in price. The advance in cost of ma
terials has not kept pace with the in
creases in wages and in other COM
modities. Hence now is-the time to
build a home whether it be a
modest home of q workman or
the more pretentious home of the
capitalist. AS a competent writer
has said:
1.-The present moment is favorable
to the building of homes Of all classes
from those of the millionaire to those
of the workman. The object in build
ing a home is comfort. The oppor-
tunity for the home building and own
ing comes with the possession of
surplus means which can be. invested
in that way. Many persons CT wealth
have largely added to their fortunes
through the war, even after deduction
CT income and profit taxes. The
present is favorable period for the
use of such gains in the immediate
building of new homes, so that the
desired increase of comfort or of
luxury may be enjoyed at an early
date. Many wage earners, recently
earnin more than ever before, have
prudently laid aside part of their
earnings and have now accumulated,
either in Liberty bonds or in savings
banks, considerable sums with which
they can begin home constitution. De-
lay may result in the spending or
the unwise investment of such savings
1t is part of wisdom tc begin promp-
ly the best form of investment for the
workingman and his family.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29
ALL TUBERCULOSIS
PATIENTS MAY
HAVE TO REGISTER
If PLAN OF HIGHLAND PARK
AUTHORITIES BECOMES GER
ERAL OVER THE STATE.

Highland Park, Michigan, has pass
ed an ordinance which is probably
unique among the ordinances of the
state. In that place, by the term
of this new city law, all persons suf-
tering from tuberculosis are required
to register, and keepers of rooming
houses and hotels must report any
guests suspected of having tubercu-
losis.
The present state faw requires only
that private physicians report the
names of tuberculosis patients under
their care to the secretary of the
state board of health. But it is a well
known fact that this law is only i'm
differently lived up to. 1t is quite
certain that there are some $4,000 to
80, 1000 tuberculosis sufferers in the
state and only small percentage of
these are listed in the health board
office in lansing.
The Highland Park method will APP
proach the problem from a new angle
and if it can be enforced it seems
likely that considerable step will
be taken in the elimination of tuber-
,culosis.
If this method should become gen
eral in Michigan with the local city
councils adopting ordinances for the
registration Of all cases,~there would
be much better chance of getting
list Of most of the cases of the dis
ease in the state.
By the enforcement of such local
ordinances information about the JIM
portance of the registration would be
automatically spread, and this would
rebound to the benefit of the people
of such communities as well sas.to the
people of the state in genera
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29
SHOULD Be PROFIT
IN MAPLE SYRUP
FORESTER DECLARES
FURTHER INFORMATION RE.
GARDING SYRUP INDUSTRY
CAN BE HAD FOR ASKING.

East Lansing, Mich, Jan. 27.-A
goodly prospect Of profit is held out
BY Prof. A. X. Chittenden Of M. A; c.
for the man who ventures this spring
grade of maple syrup. In reporting
partment Of forestry Of M. A. c. for
cost Of producing maple syrup, Prof.
Chittenden gives the approximate
If such overhead expenses az in
tersst On the value Of the sugar bush,
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29
Fred Keeps Busy.

Representative fred L. Warner IN
PRODUCED two bills in the Legislature
recently, one dealing with alimony. 1t
gives the circuit judge of each district
authority to order such money paid to
either the county clerk, as is now the
law, or to the county agent. The Sec
ond makes it the duty of the county
agent to see that alimony is paid and
gives him the power to institute con-
tempt of court proceedings in in
stances of non-payment. 1t further
provides that he may be paid an
oversight" fee to be fixed by the
judge for looking after the interests
of a divorced wife.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

Don't you expect to stay here?,
then why not own your home? Owning
your home will make this town your
town in a way that merely living in
somebody else's house can not.
Just the wee cot--cne cricket's
chirrz
Love and the smiling face of her
James Whitcomb P;lcy.
The house you build for yourself
may not be perfect, but it will come a
whole lot nearer suiting your needs
than any rented house.
The safest "ship" on which to sail
the sea of life is ownership. Build a
home and get aboard; or rather, get
the boards and build home.
THE SUM OF s2,4OC,eO0, 900
HERETOFORE SPENT ANNUALLY
FOR LIQUORS. is EQUIVALENT
TO THE COST OF 100000 DWELL
INGS AT AN AVERAGE COST OF
$4,000 EACH A ROW OVER A
THOUSAND MILES LONG IB
BUILT ON 50-FOOT LOTS.
How much of that money will be
spent that way? We GO not know. The
answer lies largely in the salesman
ship of the people who are interested
in selling houses.
OF all the worldly interests the
making of a home should be the first
in the mind Of the head of the family.
The home is the rallying place for all
those who are united by the strongest
Of human ties. In the home are in
spired all hopes of advancement, all
plans for the progress and all aspirat-
ions after higher things.
Every one in his own home and God
in all of them.--Cervan-es.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29
Procrastiniation.

These Internal thought waves &
procrastination are mental bugs
that have brilliant headlight in from
and long, sharp "stinger" behind.
They breed by the millions with
little encouragement and inject the
poison into the mind of man, only :
hinder his happiness and success.
Earnest, hard work is the only ar
tidote that will successfully extern
mate these pests.
One good lick of work is wort
10000 wishes in striving for success
The whole world respects a goo
worker. Work is the great conquer
or-the best friend of the living an
the foundation Of all succeszs.
There never was time when CO
centrated effort and diligence we
not rewarded by just measure Y
success-and there never will be.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME .:.s:...s.s.4.
THE COMMUNITY BUILDER


1t is home ownership that makes
marriage real partnership AS time
passes the home becomes a. corporal
ion, and the children become stock
holders, who pay dividends in love,
which is more valuable than cash.
Build home.
Money spent here is invested in
your town; spent elsewhere, i. builds
up somebody else's town.
Imagine a nation of homeless men,
a nation deserving the epithet "the
homeless people;" what would it have
to preserve, what to fight for? And
however given to peace we all may be
in the last analysis the test Of nat
ions fitness to live is that it viii
fight for it's life. Wipe cut the home,
and the whole structure totters and
fails.
Mid pleasures and palaces though
we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there is no
place like home.--J.. Howard Payne.
Ownership is the Philosophers stone
that can transmute mere wood ari<
brick and stone into a home.
The home is essentially human in
stitution. All human institutions
are open to Improvement. The home
is too important factor in human
life tc be left behind in the march of
events; its influence is too wide, too
deep. too general for us to ignore.
Home-with all that the sweet word
means: home for each of US, in its
best sense; yet shorn of inordinate
expenses, freed fromSgrinding labors
open to the blessed currents Of pro
gress that lead and list us all-thi.
we may have and keep for all time.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29
If You Don't Advertise.

The war has brought home to ev-
cry observing person the real value
of advertising. The government
learned that in order to put over a
loan they had to have newspaper ad-
vertising, the same was true of every
war measure, as well as the Red
Cross, Y. M. C. A. and other drives.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

There never was a time when the peo-
pie depended upon the newspaper for
information in regard to what they
buy as well as to keep posted on the
news. as they do now. The mer-
chant that does not advertise cannot
expect to make a success in business
i'm these days. People are too busy
to run around to the different stores
to find out if they have this or that
article. They look in the newspaper
instead.
West OtiscO Farmers Club.
The West Otisco Farmers club will
meet at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ehas. Oesch Thursday, Feb. 9, chick
en- pie dinner. The program:
Music, instrumental-Mrs. Lloyd
Emmons.
Reading-Mrs. Roy Tuttle.
"Life Is What We Make It"-My-
song~Mrs. Ralph Belding, Mrs.
Charles Oesch.
Recitation-Mrs. Lester Carpenter.
Reading-Ed. Reeves.
Music, instrlmental-Mrs. Louis
jerks, Mrs. Chas. Oesch.
Recitation-Mrs. Mark Brown.
"Star Spangled Banner"-Club.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

WANTED-Middle aged woman for
housework in small family; mod
ern conveniences. Mrs. G. A. Pal
mer, Orleans. 9-33-tf
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

FOR SALE-Combination gas and
coal range for sale cheap. Bert
Gregg. 99-32-u
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

FOR SALE--1915 Ford touring car
in good condition, cheap for quick
sale. Inquire over O'Bryon's
store, of Clyde Snow. 30-35-2
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

FOUND-Sum of money recently
owner'can have same by calling for
and proving property. Frank
Brown, phone 203-R. 43-36-2
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

FOR SALE-Good 1914 Ford touring
car, bargain for quick sale. Ed
win Bradshaw, phone 3S7. 35-35-tf
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

WANTED-.Roomers wanted, two
doors west of the Richardson mill.
1882
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

WANTED-Either two or three fur
nished rooms. Inquire at Banner
News office. 44-36-1
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

FOR SALES days old Jersey calves
15-16ths thoroughbred. w. b..
Travis, 195-R. 17337tf
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

FOR SALE-Black horse, weight
about 1000 lbs. Clark Graves,
phone 268-R 39-36-2
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

FOR SALE--A set of one-horse hobs.
Inquire PIG. Wright. 11-33-tf
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

FOR SALE-Hay, first class Tim
othy loose in barn Palmer Bros,
3-32-tf
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

LOST-On North Bridge street pair
Of nose glasses in pasteboard box.
Elizabeth Brown. 42-36-1
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

FOR SALE-Wayland paper baler,
cost $500; will take $500. Pat
terso's Dept. Store. 45-36-1
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

FOR SALE-A quantity of No.
anthracite coal. Inquire of Grand
Rapids Brass Co., or phone 200.
46-36-2
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

FOR SALE-One pair of 30x3 1-2
United States tires, Usco treadj
been run LOO miles, bargain.
Phone 127-4rl 40-36-1
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

WANTED-To buy a second hand
range, suitable for hot water front.
w. p. Hetherington. 41-36-tf
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

WANT-To trade a good 81 acre
farm for a modern home in Beld-
ing. Also modern IL room house
in the city of Big Rapids, for a
home or good farm near Belding.
Albin Johnson, care Belding Foun-
dry Co. 47-36-tf
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

FOR SALE--Clover or timothy hay.
Art Werner, phone 265 IL is. !.
61-1S-tf
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

FOR SALE-On contract. house at
222 Front street, $1,000 down and
435 Brainard Ave, Grand Rapids,
Mich 36-24-tf
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

FOUND-The best place in Bel
ding to get good shoe shine. Elec-
trio Shoe Shop, 12p s. Bridge st.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

eFLOWERS-For weddings, funerals,
parties and all other occasions. Call
Miss Cecilia Honson, Phone 249-Sr.
Prompt service and first quality
stock
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-29

FOR RENT-Sleeping room for rent,
4 privilege of bath. ia Main st.
L0ST-A horse blanket between
Jenkins corners and Saranac. No
tify the Banner-News office. Guy
Wilbur. 1882
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-06
CR0SS-COUNTRY FLIGHT
DELAYED BY WEATHER
Four Army Airplanes Are Expected
to Reach Here From San
Diego Tomorrow.

High winds and other unfavora BILE
weather conditions have SO far re-
tarded the progress of four Army
airplanes expected to reach Boiling
Field from San Diego today that they
will hardly be able to complete their
trip until tomorrow morning. 1t had
been hoped that the aviators would
be able to take lunch in Washington
today.
The party, according to latest ad-
vices, left Raleigh, n. c.. yesterday
morning, but proceeded only d short
distance when weather prevented
further progress. Mai. Albert D.
Smith. instructor at Rockwell Field
San Diego, is in command of the
squadron.
Making the journey across the con-
tinent in thirty-six hours and fifteen
minutes, the party arrived in Jack
sonville, Fla, December Z. 1t was
not found necessary to stop on the
journey to rebuild or repair a single
airplane.
On their way through South Caro-
lima the aviators enjoyed deer hunt
They hagged six fine animals, one of
which was carried as far as Raleigh.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-06
BIG DROP IN EGG PRICES
PREDICTED FOR THE YEAR
officials Base Belief in Increase in
Number of Laying Hens as
Result of Restrictions.

A big drop in egg prices during the
coming year is anticipated by the food
administration. The belief Is at
tributed TO the estimated increase in
the number of laying hens throughout
the country as the result of the war
time restrictions placed on the sale
of hens and pullets last year.
By putting into effect this restric-
ton there was an increase in the pro-
duction of eggs of Is per cent, an in
crease that has not been reflected in
prices thus far. but which the admins
tration firmly believes will soon be
felt. Also there are far more laying
hens in the country today than dur
ing the early part of last year. This
fact, too, indicates lower-priced eggs.
Not only is this true, but there is
tremendous amount of poultry in stor-
age, SO the supply should be more
than adequate.
In announcing the removal of re-
strictions regarding the sale of hens
and pullets the administration points
out that while feed is cheaper, eggs
are soaring in price at present.
A. B. T. Moore of Cedar Rapids.
Iowa. has been elected national secre-
tary of the Gideon Society.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-06
HELD ON HOTELS CHARGE.
Ruby Gates Alleged to Have Failed
to Paw Bills.

Ruby Gates. a former resident of
Greensboro. n. c., was arrested early
yesterday morning by Detectives Ed
ward Kelly and Harry Wilson and
locked up to answer charges of failure
to pay bills at several hotels. She also
is charged with failure to pay bill of
s45 at the Southern Hotel, Baltimore.
The young woman says she was EN-
ployed by the War Camp Community
Service The police allege she assumed
the names Mrs J. w. Matthews and
Mrs. ]. D. Redmond at some hotels
where she is alleged to have failed to
settle her bills.
She will be arraigned in Police Court
tomorrow morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-06
MR.. McADOO DECLINES TRIP.

The advisability of calling William
G. McAdoo to Europe to assist in con-
sideration of financial arrangements
of the peace settlement and readjust-
ment measures was discussed between
eral weeks ago by cable, it was learn
ed today.
The decision was against it. Mr..
McAdoo felt that Treasury representa-
tives already in Europe could advise
adequately on foreign exchange and
other financial matters, and that his
presence was unnecessary.