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The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-22
NORTH EASTON

Lester Huyck has sold his team and
expects to go to Ionia to work in the
factory.
Miss Bernice Ward was Tuesday
afternoon guest of Mrs. Levi Krick.
Mrs. Nettie Lord was a Wednesday
guest of Mrs. Elma Colt.
A. H. Guernsey was Sunday after
noon guest of o. l.. Parmerter.
Mrs. Helen Colt is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Clara Yeomans and
family few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Krick were
Thursday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Isaac Bates. Thursday even
ing Mr.. and Mrs. George Colt and
Grover Dorsey and mother were the
guests there.
Miss Bernice Ward went to Ionia
Wednesday to visit a few days with
her brother and wife, Mr.. and Mrs.
Herb. Ward.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Colt were Fri
day evening guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Levi Krick.
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Spanish Influenza
More Deadly
Than War


Said That Epidemic Cost More Lives
Than American Loss in Battle
Danger Not Over-Great Care
Necessary To Prevent
Further Outbreak.
The appalling ravages OF Spanish
Influenza in this country are perhaps
best realized by the statement re-
Gently made that more deaths have
resulted in little more than a month
from this disease than through our
whole Is months participation in the
battles Of the European war.
Our greatest danger now, declare
authorities, is the great American
tendency to forget easily and to be-
lieve the preil is over. Competent
authorities claim the coming Of cold
weather is very apt to bring return
Of this disease and there should be no
let-up throughout the winter months
of the following easily observed pre-
cautions, remembering that Influenza
is far easier to prevent than cure
Influenza is a crowd disease. Avoid
crowds as much as possible. Influenza
germs spread when ignorant or care
less persons sneeZe or cough without
using handkerchief. Cover up each
cough or sneeze. Do not spit on the
floor, sidewalk, in street cars or pub
lie places. Avoid the use Of common
drinking cups and roller towels in
public places. Breathe some reliable
germicidal and antiseptic air to de-
stroy the germs that do find lodge
ment in your nose and throat
Remember, no safer. precaution
against Influenza could be employed
in this manner than to get from the
nearest drug store a complete Hyo-
mel outfit consisting of bottle of the
pure oil of Hyomei and little vest
pocket hard rubber inhaling device,
into which few drops Of the oil are
poured. You should carry this inhal-
er about with you during the day and
each half hour or so put It in your
mouth and draw deep breaths of its
pure healing germ-killing air into the
passages of your nose, throat and
lungs.
By destroying germs before they
actually begin work in your blood,
you may make yourself practically i'm
mune to infection.
All these suggestions about Spanish
Influenza are equally true in the pre-
vention of colds, catarrh of nose and
throat, bronchitis and even pneumo-
MIA. Don't become careless. Do your
part. Keep the germs away. You
may save yourself a serious illness
and the loss of several weeks work.
Adv.
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IRVINE hAEHELLE
0N holDu% pn ANo DARklL o. rtA hEsseD El1A (
kRpHao.up WITH LIZZIE ETC. &c

lighted candle Inside Of II. Then he
beckoned to the stranger. who fol-
lowed him out OF the front door with
the plate OF food In her hands.
"Well I declared It's a long time
since she went up this road-ayes I"
said Aunt Deel. yawning as she re-
sumed her chair.
"Who is OIL KateT I asked.
"Oh, Just a poor OF crazy woman
wanders all 'round-ayesw
"What made her crazy7"
"Oh. ! guess somebody misused and
deceived her when she was young
ayesl It's an awful wicked thing to
do. Come, Bart-go right up to bed
now. It's high. time-ayesl"
II want to wait til Uncle Peabody
comes back" said L
"WhyY'
T-rm afraid she'll do somethin'
to him."
"Nonsensei or Kate is just as harm
less as a kitten. You take your can
die and go right up to bed-this min
ute-ayes
I went upstairs with the candle
and undressed very slowly and
thoughtfully while / listened for the
footsteps of my uncle. / did not get
into bed until heard him come In
and blow out his lantern and start
up the stairway. AS he undressed
he told me how for many years the
strange woman had been rowing In
the roads "up hin and down dale.
thousands an thousands o. miles"
and never reaching the end of her
journey.
In a moment we heard a low wall
above the sounds Of the breeze that
shook the leaves of the old "popple"
tree above our roof.
"What's thatT whispered.
81 guess It's OIL Kate ravin'," said
Uncle Peabody.
1t touched my heart and I lay lis
tening for time, but heard only the
loud whisper Of the popple leaves.
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ORLEANS METHODIST CIRCUIT

ORLEANS METHODIST CIRCUIT
Dildine church people are meeting
at the church Sunday evenings for a
praise service.
The January meeting Of the Dexter
Ladies' Aid society will be held at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Jay Densmore
this week Thursday for dinner and
business meeting. This Is post
poned meeting.
The Orleans Epworth League will
have social evening in the church
basement Friday evening. Every
body is invited. Bring your pocket
book.
Our sympathies are extended to Mr..
and Mrs. Geo. Hulliberger in the loss
Of their infant boy, one of the twins.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
society will hold its first meeting on
Thursday afternoon Mt the home OF
Mrs. G. F. Ehlers.
The pastor expects to assist in
meetings in Bedding next week.
Members and friends of Easton
church are asked to pray for a reviv-
al to break out in the near future. The
best way to promote a revival is to
get the revival in your own heart.
Then you will have such a desire to
see others saved that you will spare
no effort to get them to Christ.
The more we pray for others, the
less we will have time and desire to
find fault with others. Try it. This
is the idea of the centenary move
ment in the church. Everybody
praying, everybody working. every
body paying" is to be the slogan of
all Methodism for the future. Watch
for the centenary program to be put
on in February.
Catching Up With Columbus" is
the Epwcrth League topic for next
Sunday evening in Orleans church.
Miss Pike will lead.
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CHAPTER v.
Tho Great Stranger

Some strangers came along the
road those days-hunters. peddlers
and the like-and their coming. filed
me with a joy which mostly went
away with them. regret to say. None
Of these. however. appealed to my
Imagination as did old Kate. But
there was one stranger greater than
she-greater indeed. than any other
who came into Rattleroad. He came
rarely and would not be long detained.
How curiously we looked at him,
knowing his fame and poweri This
great stranger was Money.
shall never forget the day that
my uncle showed me a dollar bill and
a little shiny, gold coin and three
pieces Of silver, nor can 1 forget how
carefully he watched them while
they lay In my hands and presently
put them back into his wallet. That
was long before the time Of which ]
am writing. / remember hearing him
say, one day of that year, when !
asked him to take us to the Caravan
of Wild Beasts which was coming to
the village:
"Tm sorry. but it's been hundred
Sundays since / had dollar in my
wallet for more than ten minutes"
/ have his old account book for
the years of 1887 and 1888. Here are
some of the entries:
Balanced accounts with J. Doro-
thy and gave him my note for So. Is
TO be paid in salts January 1, 1888.
Sold ten bushels of wheat to f. Miner
at 90 cents, to be paid in goods.
"Sold two sheep to F1avius Curtis
and took his note for SO, payable in
boots on or before March the first"
Only one entry in more than a
hundred mention money, and this was
the sum of eleven cents received in
balance from a nelghbor.
So 1t will be seen that spirit Of
mutual accommodation served to
help us over the rough going. Mr..
Grimshaw, however, demanded his
pay in cash and that find was main
ly the habit Of the money-lenders.
We were poor but our poverty was
, not like that of these days i'm which
/ am writing. 1t was proud and
Clearly and well-fed. Our fathers
had seen heroic service I'm the wars
and we knew 1t.
was twelve years old when / be-
gan to be the reader for our little
family. Aunt Deel had long COM
planned that she couldn't keep up with
her knitting and read so much. We
had not seen Mr.. Wright for nearly
two years, but he had sent us the
novels of Sir Walter Scott and I had
led them heart deep into the creed
battles Of Old Mortality.
Then came the evil days Of 1897,
when the story Of our lives began to
quicken its pace and excite our inter-
est I'm Its coming chapters. 1t gave
us enough to think Of. God knows.
Wild speculations in land and the
American paper-money system had
brought us into rough going. The
banks Of the city of New York had
suspended payment of their notes.
They could no longer meet their en-
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Aunt Deel began with sThe Stolen
Child" She read slowly and often
paused for comment or explanation or
laughter or to touch the corner OF
an eve with corner of her handker-
chief In moments when we were all
deeply moved by the misfortunes Of
our favorite characters, which were
acute and numerous.
In those magazines we read Of the
great West-"the poor mans para
dise"-"the stoneless land OF plen-
ty"; Of its delightful climate, of the
ease with which the farmer prospered
on Its rich soil. Uncle Peabody spoke
playfully Of going West. after that.
but Aunt Deel made no answer and
concealed her opinion on that sub
5ect for long time. As for myself,
the reading had deepened my inter
est In the east and west and north
and south and in the skies above
them How mysterious and inviting
they had becomel
One evening a neighbor had brought
the Republican from the post-ofiice.
opened II and read aloud these words
In large type at the top Of the page:
"Silas Wright Elected to the U. s.
Senate"
''Well want to know" Uncle Pea
body exclaimed "That would make
me forgit II If / was goin' to be
hu4-. Go on and read what 1t says"
Tread the choosing of our friend
FOR the seat made vacant by the res
ignation of William L. Marcy, who
had been elected governor. and the
part which most impressed US were
these words from letter Of Mr..
Wright 10 Azariab Flagg of Albany,
written when the former was asked
to accept the place:
Il am too young and too poor for
such an elevation. have not had
the experience In that great theater of
politics to qualify me for place 80
exalted and responsible I prefer
therefore the humber position which
/ now occupy"
That's his way" said Uncle Pea
body. They had hard work to con-
vince him that he knew enough to be
Surrogate"
big men have little conceIt-ayesl !"
said Aunt Deel with significant
glance at me.
The candles had burned low and
was watching the shroud Of one Of
them when there came a rap at the
door. II was unusual for any one to
come to our door in the evening and
We were bit startled. Uncle Pea
body opened IL and old Kate entered
without speaking and nodded to my
aunt and uncle and sat down by the
IRE. Wildly remembered the day
Of the fortune-telling. The same gem
tie smile lighted her face as she
looked at me. She held up her hand
with four fingers spread above 1t.
ayes" said Aunt Deel, 'there are
four perils."
Ny aunt rose and went into the
but'ry while I sat staring at the
ragged old woman. Her hair was
white now and partly covered by a
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-22

Weys Bros. and Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Kropf spent Monday evening with Mr..
and Mrs. Mike McAndrews.
Helen Andrews entertained Misses
Evelyn Howard and Blanche New
land FROM Friday until Sunday.
Bob Weeks Of GAINESVILLE spent a
few days last week with his brother,
Verle and John Andrews, jr.
Mrs. Clinton Weeks of Lowell Wis
tied relatives and friends at Moseley
last week.
Roy Haines and wife returned home
from Pontiac last Friday.
A large crowd attended the dance
at Moseley Cleaner hall Friday night.
Messrs. and Madames John Kropf
and Russell WEIGH of Lowell were
Sunday guests of their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Kopfr.
\ Visitors at Hosmer Andrews the
past week were Ace Vandenbroeck
and wife, Ace Jakeway, Frank Bache-
lor, Hazel Weeks, Weys Bros, Chris
Kropf and wife and Bob Weeks.
Norma Talmadge in 1.-THE Moth"
at Empress Sunday afternoon and
oxx~-s--
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-22
To Color Electric RuIbe.

10 SOfOf EieCtrlc nuiDG.
A number of formulas exist for col
oring the bulbs of glow lamps. The
following are quite satisfactory:
1. White shellac, 3 ozs; rosin,
powdered, o.; benzoin, / dr.; alco-
hol, 10 ozs. Dissolve the solids in
the alcohol and apply to the bulbs.
2.-Dissolve an aniline dye of the
desired color in anisyl acetate (ban-
ana oily or photographers collodion.
Clean the bulb thoroughly, dry, coat
with white of egg and dry again. Now
apply the dye, which will adhere firm
ly for long time.
3.-Dip the bulb into a saturated
solution of alumni and let it dry. The
alum solution may be colored with
anilin dyes or with chochineal for
red, tumeric for yellow, indigo for
blue, etc. This solution will at the
same time give the bulbs a frosted
appearance.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-22
Gard of Thanks.

We desire to thank our neighbors
and friends for the many acts of kind
ness performed and sympathy ex-
pressed during the sickness and at
the death Of our dear daughter and
sister; also for the beautiful floral
pieces for the funeral.
Mr.. and Mrs. James II. barrow.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cartridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. barrow
of Garrett, Ind.
Harold barrow.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-22

For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Always bears IN

Advertised Letters.
Mr.. and Mrs. III. ID. Gaffin.
Merrill jones.
Mrs. ii. ID. +. Gaffin.
Mrs. Jennie Mills (2)
Mrs. Lawrence Mills, r. f. ID. /.
Mrs. Amanda Powlison (2) r. f. ID.
Mrs. jacob Rinkered-
w. f. Bricker, p. M.
January 20, 1919.
Norma Talmadge in 1.-THE Moth"
at Empress Sunday afternoon and
evening.
Saturday evening at the Empress,
Emmy Whelan in "His Bonded Wife,"
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-01-22
Rundown People
VinOl is What You Need

Weak, rundown nervous men and women need
Vinol because it contains the most famous recon-
structive toncs in agreeable and easily digested
form: = Beef and Cod Liver Peptones, Iron and
Manganese Peptonates and Glycerophosphates.
We guarantee there is no tonic equal to Vinol
HERE Is PROOF
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worn and faded bonnet Forbidding
as she was I did not miss the sweet
nex In her smile and her blue eyes
wheh she looked at me. Aunt Deel
came with a plate Of doughnuts and
bread and butter and head cheese
and said in voice full of pity:
aPoor oil Kate-ayesI Here's some
thin for ye-ayesl"
she turned to my uncle and said:
sPeabody Baynes, what1l we do
I'd ike to know-ayesl She can't
rove all night"
sTn git some blankets an make
a bed for her. good 'nough for any
body. out in the hired mans room
over the she'd" said my uncle.
He brought the lantern-a little
tower Of perfor<>sd tin-end puf .
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II got into weak, rundown con-
dition, no appetite, tired all the time
and headaches - but had to keep
around and do my homework. Tread
about Vinol and tried it-within two
weeks / commenced to improve, and
now have splendid appetite and feel
stronger and better in every way
Mrs. John F. Watson.
For all rundown, nervous, nnaeunjc co,
fa~hI~ ola v,~<rI> -uxx s-ss--.- a "a,
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HERE is PROOF


Texarkans, Texas.
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down and nervous, back ached good
deal Of the time, 80 IL was hard to
take care Of my chickens and do my
work-Vinol has restoredm my strength,
and my nervousness has gone, so
/ can do my work as well as ever.
Every rundown woman should take
Vinol. Mrs. Emma Britt
Arizona state miner., 1919-11-21

quaint account Of the landing of the
Pilgrims at Provincetown: -
"Wednesday, the sixth of September
(1620), the wind coming East North
East, fine small gale, we loosed from
PlimOuth, having been kindly enter
tanned and courteOusly used by divers
friends their dwelling, and after many
difficulties in boysterius stormes, at
length by Gods providence upon the
ninth of November following, by breake
of the day we espied land which we
esteemed to be Cape Cod, and so it
proved. And the appearance of it much
comfOrted US, especially on seeing so
goOdly@ land, and wooded to the
brink of the sea, it caused us to re-
joyce together and praise God that He
had given it to us once againe to see
land. And thus we made our course
South South West, purposing to go to
a River ten Leagues to the South of
the Cape, but at nighte, the wind be-
ing contrary, we put rounde againe
for the Bay Of Cape Cod, and upon
the IL we came to an anchor in the
Bay, which is a good Harbour and a
pleasant Bay, circled round except in
the entrance, which is about four miles
over from land to land, compassed
about to the very Sea with Okes, Pines,
Juniper, Sassafras and other sweet
wood; it has a harbour wherein one
thousand sale Of ships may safely
ride, there we relieved ourselves with
wood and water, and refreshed our
people, while our shallop was fitted to
coast the Bay to search for a habita
ton, there was the greatest store Of
fowle that ever we saw"
The Pilgrims had a hard time the
first winter at Plymouth, but in 1921
determined TO have period Of rec
reation, combined with thanksgiving
for their many mercies." The gov
ernor thereupon sent out four hunts
men who in one day secured enough
game for the purpose. Massasoit, the
Indian chief was invited to participate
in this first thanksgiving. He accept
ed and brought 90 people with him.
The celebration lasted three days.
The first Thanksgiving day observed
by all the states of the Union was rec
commended by proclamation of con-
gress after the surrender of Burgoyne
in 1777 and was fixed for Thursday,
December 18. Each year thereafter
until 1884 congress continued to rec
ommend a day for Thanksgiving, the
several states accepting the date Then
for a time the observance was left
wholly to the states. The day had It's
ups and downs. President Lincoln
nationalized 1t by proclamation in
1853.
Arizona state miner., 1919-11-21

comprising the nucleus of the colony
and seven were servants or hired
workmen. The seven remaining adult
males were either too i'll to sign (they
all soon died) or else the list is i'm
perfect. In this compact lies the germ
Of the Declaration of Independence.
1t is as follows:
"In the name of God. Amen. We,
whose names are underwritten, the
loyal subjects Of our dread sovereign,
Lord King James, by the grace of God,
of Great Britain, France and Ireland,
King Defender of the faith, etc.. hav-
ing undertaken for the glory of God
and the advancement of the Christian
faith and the honor of our king and
country, voyage to plant the first
colony in the northern part of Vir-
ginia, do by these presents sOlemnly
and mutually in the presence of God
and one another, covenant and COM
bine ourselves together into a civic
body polite for our better ordering
and preservation, and futherance of
the ends aforesaid, and by virtue here
of do enact, constitute and frame such
just and equal laws, ordinances, acts,
constitutions and officers, from time to
time, as shall be thought most meet
and convenient for the general good
of the colony, unto which we promise
all our submission and obedience. In
witness whereof we have hereunto
subscribed our names at Cape Cod
the eleventh Of November, in the
Lord King James of England, France
and Ireland, the eighteenth and of
Scotland the f1fty-fourth, Ammo Domini,
1920"
Americans should understand and
appreciate the difference between the
Pilgrims and the Puritans. The Pill
grims were few; they were Separa-
lists: they withdrew from the estab-
lished Church of England; they came
to America to secure freedom of wor-
ship: they cared not how other men
worshiped; they did little colonizing
their influence upon the nation was
small as compared with the Puritans.
The Puritans came over in thou
sands, beginning with 1880; they re-
tanned their membership in the Church
of England; they brought the church
with them to reform it; they intended
to worship as they pleased and to
make everyone else worship the same
way "they fell first upon their knees
and then upon the aborigines ;" they
colonized widely and effectively; from
them the American people got what
is known as the Puritan conscience"
In the famous book entitled 'Mourt's
Relation" one will find the following
Arizona state miner., 1919-11-21

MgT ing day, one of the most
enjoyable holidays of the
year. So at this time we pause occa-
sionally in the mad rush of the twen-
tieth century to give thought to them.
Next year the tercentenary Of their
landing will be celebrated with con-
siderable pOmp and ceremony in the
United States, England and Holland.
Every American schOolbOy of course
knows that the Pilgrim Fathers Off
cially landed on Plymouth Rock and
that the famous rock is at Plymouth,
Mass. But there are comparatively
few Americans who know that the first
landing of the Pilgrims was at
Provincetown, Mass, and are familiar
with their doings during the month.
The Mayflower lay in the quiet har
Dor inside Cape Cod
There was no Provincetown there,
of course, in 1920, but Cape Cod was
there and it's name was Cape Cod.
In 1902 Bartholomew Gosnold, the ex-
plorer, had visited the region and had
found Goldfish so plentiful that he had
just naturally called the long narrow
neck of land Cape Cod. Ever since
there has been any ProvincetOwn,
however, it's people have been sensi-
tive on the subject of it's claims to first
honors. That's why Provincetown
now has a monument on High Pole
hill. Many years were required to
raise the money for it's erection
The landing of the Pilgrims at Ply
mouth was slow job. The cOngre-
CATION of John Robinson at Leyden
procured from the London company
for Virginia patent of land and made
financial arrangements for the sailing
of part Of their number. The Speed
we'll Of 60 tons, was purchased in Hol-
land, and in July 1920 it sailed to
Southampton, England. There the
MayflOwer of 180 tons was awaiting
it. The two ships with about 12O pas
,sengers put to sea in August. The
Speedwell was soon reported leaking
and both ships put in at Dartmouth.
At sea again, the Speedwell was a Sec
ond time reported leaking and return
was made to Plymouth. 1t was not
discovered until later that the alafm
over the Speedwell was due to it's mas
ter's trickery. The Speedwell was
abandoned at Plymouth and the size
of the party reduced. The Mayfiower
left Plymouth alone early in Septem-
Der.
In nine weeks it sighted the shore
Of Cape Cod. Being far out of their
course the Pilgrims headed south. But
a few hours later the course was again
changed for the nearest shore. Sat-
urday, November II (21 N. 81, 1920,
the Mayflower rounded Cape Cod and
found harbor.
This radical change of destination
introduced a complication. Some of
the hired labOrers threatened to break
loose from their engagements on land
ing, because Of the loss of the author
ity delegated in the patent from the
Virginia company. The necessity of
some form Of civil government to unite
the welI-affected and to restrain the
insurgent was imperative. SO the fa-
nous Mayf1ower or PrOvincetown COM
pact was drawn up and signed before
the first voyager landed. OF the Al
signers to this compact, which is often
euIogized as the first written consti-
tuition in the world, "a were the adults
Arizona state miner., 1919-11-21

the representatives of the American
people some new Americans, fine stall
wart young gentlemen, who come to
us from some IA different countries
beyond the seas. [Applause.] They
come here to be of our citizenship,
and they have given evidence of their
good intentions by putting on the uni
form, and in four months these young
men have learned to read and speak
English and to drill as finely as the
best soldiers under any flag. Zap
D1auSo RonroCoutativo TilSOn Of