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The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16
TO PLAY BALL
WITH 'GREEKv|LLE
BUSINESS MEN
MEMBERS OF THE COMMERCIAL
CLUBS OF TWO CITIES TO
CROSS BATS IN GAMES

Secretary Byron F. Brown of the
local board of commerce received a
letter from Secretary Webster of the
Greenville association of commerce
in which the latter proposes that the
business men members of the local
organization get a team up to play
a series of three games of base ball
with a team of the Greenville fell
lows. No professional players to be
allowed to play en- either side and
the games to be purely friendly affairs
for the purpose of furnishing recrea-
ton and enjoyment of some sort on
the afternoons during the season when
the merchants of both cities are TAX
ing their afternoon holidays.
Of course we know that the Green
vile fellows have been practicing up
for a long time between themselves
with the, intention, although not made
public, of coming down here or getting
the Belding fellows up there and Civ
ing them a base ball walloping that
they would never forget, but on the
other hand the Belding fellows will
have something to say about that
themselves and they are noted for
doing things Thoroughly and we know
that we can get up nine here that
will sally forth and clean up on the
pride of Grenville two out of the
three games and bring home the hon
ors to this city.
The games win be played on July
"a, July 81 and August 7. The place
of holding the games has not yet been
decided but one will be played in
this city and one in Greenville and
the two teams to decide on the place
of holding the third, or rubber" game
Undoubtedly all games will be at
tended by an enthusiastic bunch cf
fans who will help their home team
bring in the scores which will spell
victory and they will result in renew
ing old acquaintances and building up
new ones between the people Of the
two neighbor cities.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16
TAXPAYER WRITES
HIS VIEWS ON THE
SCHOOL PROPOSITION
FEARS BIG BONDING ISSUE
WOULD BE LOST AND PRO-
POSES OTHER PLAN
To Editor. Banner-News.

To Editor, Banner-News.
There has been considerable talk
lately about the city school district
being obliged to have more room for
accommodating the increasing num-
Der of pupils and / noticed at the
annual school meeting Monday night
that Mr.. Lloyd and Superintendent
Skinner both spoke along that line.
Mr.. Lloyd stating that the board had
engaged an acchitect to draw up plans
and specifications for new building.
In the talk that / had heard on, the
streets it is rumored that an outlay
of one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars and possibly two hundred
thousand is proposed in acquiring
more property to enlarge the present
site and erect building, that more
school room is needed with better ac-
comodations for teacher and scholar.
No one will question, but very much
fear if proposition of such magni-
tude is submitted it would be
voted down and the problem
of necessity be delayed for some time.
What / would like to sect and hope
the architect who ever he may be will
take it into consideration the old
school building dismantled, razed to
the ground and everything but the
salvage consigned to the dump. Upon
this site erect a new building con-
nected with the new one which the
district built only a few years ago
with a view to enlarging when nee
essary. An architect with good
judgement and an eye and heart to
economise could plan fine one plenty
large to meet the needs for years to
come and which would be an orna-
ment to the city. If necessary the
district could purchase another lot
in the rear or take in the Mrs. Balm
property on the south, this would re-
lieve the present situation and reduce
the proposed cost by more than half.
Tax Payer.
(The foregoing letter was received
by the Banner-News and we will well
come any others which deal upon the
subject of new schoolhouse. We
are of the opinion that a general dis
cussion en- this subject would do
great deal Of good and the people of
he-district are free to use the col
umns of the paper for this purpose
Editor.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16
Auto Hits Fence

William McQuaker bought himself
an automobile Wednesday and started
cut 20 run the thing around the town.
Bill had a good time seeing the sights
around the burg while spinning along
at nice breezy clip and all was well
until when Bill, who by the way rooms
up in the Hubbell block, went to run
the animal in. the rear of his resi-
dence. AS he went to turn in the
alley eff from Depot street, the ma
chine became unmanageable or Bill
in some way or other lost control of
it and it crashed headon into the fence
around the Hotel Belding property.
No great damage was inflicted to
either man, machine or the fence and
the little accident can be classed in
with the lucky ones in that no one
was hurt. Some of Bill's friends are
saying that he was trying to work
up to SOME of the speed records es-
tablished by Barney Oldfeld.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16
|ALLEGE MYERS
STOLE AND SOLD
AN AUTOMOBILE
ARRESTED AT GRAND RAPIDS
WHERE HE PASSED AS YOUNG
EST MAJOR IN BRITISH ARMY

The major" Walter ]. Meyers
who was arrested by Detective Gerrit
Doyle in Grand Rapids, Wednesday
afternoon, while he was telling some
thrilling stories of battles overseas
in which he took part and telling
them that he was the youngest major
in the whole British army is the same
fellow who came t othis city after
having worked us in some way and
delivered a speech to a large crowd
from the band stand here on last
Labor day.
Following his arrest at Grand Rap
ids on a charge of stealing an auto
mobile from a man at Bad Axe, Mey-
ers was taken to Stanton, Sheriff
James Ford of Montcalm county 60
ing down to get him and he was lodg-
ed in Jail until Thursday night when
the sheriff from Huron county came
and took him to Bad Axe where he
will stand trial in the next term of
the circuit court.
According to Sheriff Ford, Meyers
has spent the greatest part of his
time since leaving here in and around
Stanton. He also spent some time
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16
SCHOOL MEETING
WAS QUIET AND
PEACEFUL AFFAIR
FREE TEXT BOOKS PLAN ADyO-
GATED BY SOME WAS LOST.
NEW SCHOOL TALKED OF

The annual school meeting was
held Monday night and passed off with
very little friction, in marked contrast
to that Of one year ago. After the
Secretary's report and the annual re-
port of receipts and disbursements
were read and adopted. Fred l.. War
ner, retiring member of the board and
its secretary took the floor and urged
the matter of compensation for MEM
bers of the board for their attendance
at meetings. He outlined the work
and the attention necessary to be
given and thought that it was right
and just that they receive some pay
for their services. On motion it was
decided that the members except the
secretary and treasurer be allowed
two dollars for each meeting when
present and penalized one dollar when
absent. The annual salary of the
secretary was raised to 5000 and the
treasurer to $100.
Wilbur C. Whitney nominated Adel-
bert M. Hall to succeed himself as one
of the trustees and George Z. Wag-
ner nominated Byron F. Brown fer
the other, there were no other names
presented and they were elected by
practically a unanimous ballot.
The question of free text books for
the school district was called up and
after a short discussion the PROPOSE
tion was voted down by vote of 83
no and q yes.
President E. c. Lloyd called at
tention to the over crowded condition
of the schools that it would be neces-
sary to provide larger quarters in or
der to care for the pupils and that
some provision must be made at once
to meet he problem ,he stated that the
board had secured the services of an
architect who had made investigation
as to needs and was now engaged in
drawing plans for new building
which would be submitted to the peo-
pie when completed.
Superintendent s. ]. Skinner en-
phasized Mr.. Lloyd's remarks relative
to the urgent need of more school
room, of the unsanitary condition of
the old one and of the one in the Sec
ond ward, of the difficulties that both
teacher and pupils were laboring un-
der to do effective work. No statement
was made as to the estimate of the
cost of the proposed new building and
site was made. No discussion of the
matter was entered into and motion
to adjourn was carried.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16
Evangelist Campaing in Gospel Tent

A Gospel tent under the auspices of
the Seven Day Adventists dencmina-
tion has ben erected on Main street
and an evangelistic campaign will be
held in the city for several weeks,
along this line of faith and doctrine.
Their motto is "What Otd Unfolds
We Gladly Preach" The meetings
are in charge of Evangelists II. o.
Butler and B.F Williams. Prophe-
cies relating to present day events
will be exlapined and the fundamen-
tai principles Of Christianity made
prominent.
The meetings opened Tuesday night
with a good audience nearly filing
the canvas pavilion, Evangelist Will
Jams stated the object Of their pitch
ing the tent and that in every meet
ing of the Bible will be held up as
the revelation of the will of God to
mankind and the way of Eternal life,
the foundation of saving faith and the
only basis of Christian truth. He
said no sensational appeals will be
made to the emotions but only facts
from the Sacred Scriptures would be
promoted.
Evangelist Butler spoke on the sub
ject "The League of Nations, will i
Secure Permanent Peace" and viewed
the present situation as brought about
by the world war in the light of Bible
prophecies concerning it. His adj
dress was illustrated with steroptican
pictures.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16

at Bad Axe and while at the latter
place he became acquainted with
man who had but recently bought
Ford automobile for $500. Meyers,
so it is alleged, tried to dicker the
man down on the price but failing to
do so, finally agreed to give the $500
for it, claiming that he had the money
on deposit in Flint bank. Without
saying more or stating which bank
he had the money in he walked away
and little later when he saw the
man enter one of the banks in Bad
Axe, he went in and told the cashier
that he had wired the bank at Flint
to send his $500 which he had depos-
tied there to him and that the cashier
was to give, the owner of the machine
$500 and keep the other 5000 in the
bank and hold it as a deposit and
credit to Meyers account, to which
the cashier and the man who owned
the automobile agreed.
Later on Meyers saw the man from
whom he was getting the Ford and
told him that he would like to take
the machine and go down to some
beach, about Is miles distant and
that because of the fact that the deal
was all closed and only awaiting the
Continued on page four)
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16

We are told that in our writeup Of
the swamp burning last week, we
should have stated that two swamps
burned. The huckleberry swamp on
the Vincent Nugent place also being
destroyed by the same fire which
cleaned up the crop in the Tom Malone
swamp. 1t is also stated that the fire
did not start from a match thrown
by a passerby, but that man from
Grand Rapids was in the swamp and
dropped a match which started the
fire that required the efforts of many
men before it was extinguished.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16
Keeping Up improvements

MANY people Jake nOlQ OF the I'M
provement work about their home
places with abundant zeal in the
spring, and then let those things go
a little uncared for during the sum-
mer. People who are away on vaca-
tions may forget that their home
places need constant attention, if the
appearance of the neighborhood is to
be kept up. One ought not to 90
away without at least making ar
rangements for regular lawn now
ing.
If people have planted some trees
or shrubs in the spring and every
householder should have done some
thing in this line, they probably need
watering through the summer. Trees
need watching for the insect pests
that constantly assail them. II tree
shows signs of decay, it may be pos
sible to save it by care. The flower
beds will need wedding. If little
clean up work is done all the time, il
will save a laborious day or two at
it next fall.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16
missionary At Local church

Elder j. w. Mcknight, of Galeign,
this state, is now located in this city
and is preaching at the local church
Of the Latter Day Saints denomina-
tion at all regular services. Elder
Mcknight is a missionary in the
church and has seen many years in
the work and is a good preacher and
is giving some, interesting talks to
the people of the church and others
who GO there for the services. A cor
dial invitation is extended to the pub
lie to attend the services.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16
Motored Through From Alpena

The Misses May and Alice LeFeb-
vre arrived in this city Thursday night
at about eight o'clock, finishing a mo-
tor trip from their hcme at Alpena,
where they had been spending a three
weeks cav oita.n Mwuasp-sa.g &
weeks vacation. The young ladies
report that the trip was fine and that
the roads over which they came were
as rule very good, only few miles
Of poor road being met on the entire
trip which covered more than 200
miles. The tripiwas from Alpena to
Tawas City, Omer, Standish, Bay
City, Midland, Alma, Stanton, Green
vile and then to Belding. Two days
were taken in which to make the trip
which was very interesting and every
mile of which was thoroughly en-
joyed.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16
Back From Overseas

Johnny Dehn arrived home Friday
after having been overseas for nearly
year. He was one of the last men
to be shipped overseas and he came
very near being one of the last to be
sent home. John looks as if army
life had not worried him a great deal
and also demonstrated that he had
enough of army togs by donning his
civilian clothes Immediately on reach
ing home.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16

DR.. A. j. Bower, of Greenville, will
close his Office there next week and go
to Flint, where he will open up his
practice, August 1. DR.. Bower has
gained considerable of a reputation
as a surgeon and has had many oper-
ations in the local hospital. He but
recently returned from france where
he served with the Medical corps.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16

Walter Ireland received word that
his sister, Miss Imogene Ireland had
returned from her trip abroad, reach
ing the states on last Sunday. Miss
Ireland was acting as secretary On a
commission which was looking after
female help conditions in foreign
countries and had as one Of her COM
panion. Miss jeanette Rankin, a
former representative in congress
from Montana.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16
Relding Defeats Palo

Belding defeated Palo in one sided
score of II to 0, at Fenwick, last
Sunday. The boys are playing fine
ball now. MONEYS pitching featur-
ed, being exceptionally strong in
pinches. Simmons fine catching and
throwing featured. Hudnvt's sensa-
tional catch of long hit into center
field cut off two runs.
Belding plays Trufant there Sun
day and are after revenge. With the
team going good, it locks like an easy
vistory and on July 9th Belding plays
at home against some fast team. Turn
out and help the boys support the
team.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16

Fred Vanderpool who formerly op-
Grated a restaurant in the Nielsen
block on South Bridge street, in the
room now occupied by Rummlar's
taller shop, was at Lansing recently
and took the undertaker's and embal-
mer's examination and passed them
all right, with the result that he is
now a full fedged undertaken, work
ing in Grand Rapids. Fred is son Of
Mrs. Ed. Whitford of this city.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16
WeIl-KnoWn Cartoonist,
Musician, Entertainer
Here Chautauqua Week

Alton Packard is known everywhere
as a humorist, most gifted cartoon
ist. a singer of jolly songs and with
al a moraist. With this combination
he is an ideal entertainer. He will
appear In Joy Night supreme on the
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16
Load Of Hogs Brought Good Price

The farmer who has lot of hogs
which haven't cost him too much to
raise is surely in luck at sale on the
present market price.
Mel Smith brought in load of 16
Tuesday and sold the live weight at
81 cents per pound tc Peter Shindorf.
The bunch brought $751.16.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16
"Spirit of the Women
of France" to Be
Interpreted Here

Marie Rose Lauler, who will lecture
here at the Redpath Chautauqua. was
a French school girl in Belgian con-
vent when the war broke out Cap
tured by the Germans. she escaped.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16

Water rents are now due and pay
able at the City clerks office. Tn,
Office will be open every pay nigh
during the month.
Clellie s. Hoover, City Clerk.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16

concluding program Of the Chautau-
qua.
As a cartoonist Mr.. Packard sketches
upon sheets of paper and canvases
eight feet square. said to be the largest
sketches ever attempted on the plat
form, 80 they can be easily seen In
detail from any part Of tha big Chau-
tauqua tent ~
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-07-16

Dancing at Heth's pavilion, Long
lake, every Saturday night
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-06-27
THIS HEAD WORTH $4,000
Tendon Doctors Eager TO Examine
Brain Of Man Known as
Human Encyclopedia.

OF course yon have heard of Datas,
the human encyclopedia-the man
who can memorize and reel OF dates
quicker than the IRE of a machine
gun the man on whose head the doc
tors have placed a price of 1900?
ABut / am not anxious TO sell it vet
for dissection" Detas told writer
for London Tit-Bits the other day.
1T Is worth more to me than $1,000"
Datas has lately been deyouring
war facts and had just added couple
81 thousand Ia two and a half hours
10 his repertoire when we met.
-For an outlay of twopence." he
said, Il bought a little book on a
bcokstall. called Two Thousand Facts
About the War / bought 1t and read
the list through in two and a half
hours and then knew it BY heart"
There Is no doubt about it. test
ed Datas with the book in my hand.
and no matter what question I asked
him-dates Of battles, air raids, names
Of ships sunk, famous generals ca
TeeFs-he answered them without hest
tation. says the writer.
Datas has had many amusing and
curious experiences. but the most ex.
traordinary was the friendly dinner he
shared with John Lee, the Babbaeombe
murderer, and the late James Barry.
the executioner who tried to Hang
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-06-27
COOLING MIX on THE FARM
Darsas Eses wseasher II IL Bess 10 A.
Tarse syEtrn So Thas water
ccrss Dsgecx rraen Well.

nFven&res Ay s2s Cnases states Tevsrs
naers ~ AEvsc1sgME1t
NIX nsaE be cnc1ed nlaes enzcsenssy
On the farsg NJ Running Il over 4 sur.
fsF@ r0oger ID wtieh ghe available MA.
tar supply Is Used as Iss colsess tenn
Ternfnre and the cooling completed By
storing the eAns u MILK IA 4 tank *
lge water. II Is possible IN that way
wiihAa q short time to l0wer the segs-
perasure 81 silk 20 hesoag 81 degrees
". Frequently the water used Tor Good
Ing MILK u nos used TO the bs.ss sd
vantage. Spring water Is sometimes
ali@wea 70 low over the surface IL the
gnound ard ts warmed several degrees
before reaching The cooling apparatus
Daring the summer water from 4 sgor.
ase tank above ground i usually mnch
waFmser than that drawn directly from
the we'll II Is best. therefore. to ar
range the cooling system 50 that the
water which lows through the sur.
face cooler or cooling tank comes III.
recylg from the well o.. Ii from
spring. Il II conveyed Cd u pipe vel
below the surface 0s the ground. II
Ice Il used 10 cooling tank the guam
siiy 0f water surrounding she cans
shonld he as small as possible to give
satisfactory results Space enough
should Be provided between the sides
u the tank and the Cnus q milk t0
allow for q sufficient quantity OK lee
and water q cool the milk properly.
II a large volume * water has 10 be
cooled much more Ice VIII Re neces.
sagg. II it IL desired to cool milk
quickly from an initiai temperature 81
shout 81 degrees r. 70 one of % de-
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-06-27

grees Y. hy setting the cans 10 tank
- ice water, the Ice water IN the tank
should have 3 temperature az about
81 degrees +. Under these conditions
about fuar gallons ~ water VIII suffice
Cor each gallon ct milk.
IN nnfer TO cool and hold milk at
how temperatures ID the average farm
property constructed cooling tank Is
neSessNry In fact most dairy farms
have some sort of tank in which va
Ter or water and ice ARE used 10 cool
snd ssore mllk, When an abundant
supply az cosd-runnlng water ccnfin-
EsIiy passes through the tank II Is I'M
necsssary 70 60 to the expense Of in
snists0n-
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-06-27
Dressed to KIN in 4sbeII.clotb y

Shell-cloth is the name of a new
fabric being manufactured in Eng
land. The stuff is fine serge and an
essential part of projectiles.
And now that The war is over the
stun is going into the making Of
clothes instead of shells, says the
Philadelphia North American. It
ought to make "staggeringly" good
looking clothes, don't you thinkP one
woman might say quite truly TO an
other: "Oh, my dear, she was dressed
to kill, all in shellcloth."
Or, on the other hand, what clever
opportunity for the feminine cat "a
say that her dear enemy has "shock-
ing taste in the matter of clothes ~
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-06-27
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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-06-27
KIDNEYS WEAKENING?
BETTER LOOK OUT!

ment of the Netherlands granted a sna.
cial charter authorizing its sale.
The good housewife of Holland wonId
almost as soon be without food as with
out her Real Dutch Drops" as sbo
quantity calls GOLD MEDAL Haariens
Oil Capsules. Their use restores
strength and is responsible in a great
measure for the sturdy, robust health
Of the Hollanders.
DO not delay. Go to. your druggist
and insist on his supplying you with
box of GOLD MEDAL HARLEM OH
Capsules. Take them as directed. and
il you are not satisfied with results your
druggist viii gladly refund your money.
Look for the name GOLD MEDAL on
the box and accept no other. In sealed
boxes, three sizes.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-06-27
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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-06-27
Boys Bill of Fare.

George Bailey, answering the in
qutry, what is good for boy to eatY'
says:
AT this time of the year, according
to the theories extant In North Caro-.
ma IN 1870. q boy should have daily
plenty Of green fruit, pine rosin, young
eueumberS, raw new potatoes green
oiackberries, doughnuts, branch water
ana two hours in the swimming hole. !"
Atlanta Constitution
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-06-27
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