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The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1920-10-27
SMYRNA

Had little rain Sunday. Not
enough to do any good, but then it
rained.
! Talk about fruit out of season! we
ate ripe Strawberries fresh from the
garden Sunday.
| Sylvester Osborn caught three
and one-half pound pike Sunday.
Mrs. Osborn fried it for dinner and
we helped eat it. 1t was fine. No.
! we didn't ask him where he caught
it.
! The ladies of the Maccabees will
hold meeting to install their Off
GERS, Wednesday evening, of this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Olds return
ed home from Metamora Monday
evening of last week. Their sister,
Mrs. Fayette Swain, is very low.
Mrs. Fay Hoppough and two little
daughters, of Cooks Corners, were
guests of Ward Hoppough and wife
a couple of days last week.
Mrs. Diana Hull visited with Mrs.
Sylvester Osborn, Monday afternoon
of last week.
Mrs. George B. Frost is in the
Blodgett hospital, in Grand Rapids,
where on Tuesday of last week she
underwent very serious operation.
Her many friends in this locality
will be pleased to know that she is
doing as we'll as can be expected.
Ed. Hotchkiss called on Sylvester
Osborn and wife and Mr.. and Mrs.
Hiram Odds, Saturday.
Vote NO on the School amendment
because it is unamerican. We have
always recognized the right of re-
ligious schools to exist and our
proudcst boast has always been that
America is the Golden Home of Free
dom.
r. T. Whitoker. of Lansing. a mil
Ter, who has had twenty-five years
experience. has been helping John
Tebbel in the mill, and may become
a resident here if his family like
Smyrna as well as he does.
Earl Norton and wife and Mr.. and
Mrs. Bert Norton motored to Ionia
Sunday and visited through the day
with Mark Hoppough and family
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Cowles, Ed.
Cowles and wife, Hugo Casper and
family and Leo Cowles and wife were
in Bedding, Sunday of last week to
remind Karl Cowles that it was time
to celebrate his birthday. About
thirty-five people were there and
they had fine visit. Karl was re-
minded all right and the party will
continue to be pleasant memory.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvester Osborn
were dinner guests of Fred Dumon
and wife and Mrs. Orinda Dumon,
Friday.
Mrs. Bertha Coss, of Lansing and
a friend were guests of her mother,
Mrs. Mary Gray, Sunday Of last
week.
Mrs. Olive Insley went to Grand
Rapids Thursday to visit her friend
Miss Harrington, who was very i'll.
Joe Fisher and family and his
mother, Of Miriam, were Sunday Wis
itors at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
:, Ed. Cowles.
George Tebbel and family have
moved to Bedding and are occupying
the Avery house on Front street.
This leaves another vacant house in
Smyrna. We are sorry to have. them
leave our little village.
Mrs. Jessie Wolfnger visited with
Mrs. Stella Osborn, Monday and
helped her make sauer kraut.
Ed. Insley, Mrs. Clifford Insley
and baby and Mrs. A. Barry visited
with Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Nash in
Lansing, last week, from Tuesday
until Thursday.
Charles Carlson was n Saturday
night guest Of Elgin Condor and
wife.
Ed. Cowles had the misfortune to
lose q fine cow last week.
Mrs. ia Clark called on Mrs. Syl-
vester, Tuesday evening.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1920-10-27

A special election for all of the
wards and precincts of the city of
Bedding, will be held on Tuesday, the
End day of November, A. d. 1920.
The polling places will be the same
as the poll ing places for the Gener-
al Election held on the aforesaid
date. The polls will be opened and
the election will be conducted in all
respects as is provided by the char
ter of the city for regular elections.
The proposition of approving or re-
jecting the charter as drafted and
proposed by the charter commission
elected ON the 5th day of April, A.
ID. 1920 will be submitted to the
electors at said special election. The
proposed charter is now on file with
the city clerk and has been on file
IN said Office for a period of ninety
days and more last past.
Dated, Belding, Mich, October Is,
1920.
C. S. HOOVER,
City Clerk.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1920-10-27
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New-York tribune., 1920-11-06
CoGI Prices Fall Fast:
S4 Marx Expected Soon
Special Dispatch to Tho Tribw,

UNIONTOWN, Pa, Nov s. - With
the price of soft coal in the Connels-
willie region showing a most decided
downward trend, prominent operators
and brokers admit that coal of the best
grade produced in the region will drop
as low as 81 ton, f. o. b. mines, This
morning the market was very soft. Only
the very best grades of coal were being
purchased and sales Of screened coal at
$3.50 were numerous and some isolated
sales were lower.
Yesterday hundreds Of cars Of coal
were rejected. In one Pennsylvania
Railroad yard 1856 cars failed TO pass
inspection of the cons gnce's agent
The coal market has been uncertain
for the last three months. and with the
nation we'll supplied and many Furnaces
shutting down the demand naturally
eased off. The gradual descent Of prices
followed, as purchasers are very close
Observers of conditions and for the last
ten days have been Offering a scaling
downward price. Conditions have re-
Verscd themselves since mid-July. At
that time the demand for coal was such
that purchasers were forced to pay S12
ton and more for coal Of any grade.
This morning, with hundreds Of mines
without sufficient orders to absorb their
production, fuel purchasers were nam
ing their own prices for the best grades
OF coal.
The fuel market has been approach
ing parayzed condition for over
two months and before January ! hun
dreds Of smaller operators viii be
forced out of business The vast major
ity of these smaller mines produce coal
which will not pass inspection, most of
it being from veins other than the
Pittsburgh.
Coke assumes the natural trend by
following coal. The demand for spot
coke is almost unheard of and the m IT.
ket is soft. Frequent sales at $40 we've
made yesterday. Coke appears TO be
headed toward thc S6 mark
New-York tribune., 1920-11-06
Holland Urges Standing
Army Be Cut IN Two

THE HAGUE, Nov. BY The Asso-
ciated Press. Reduction of Hollands
army by nearly one-half was proposed
by the Dutch government to the Parlia-
ment to-day, and it is believed to be
certain that the Legislative branch viii
adopt the proposal
The proposition was made bv Gen
eral W. i. Pop, the Acting Minister Of
War, IN recommendation to the Par
ilament regarding the military, calling.
among other things. for the reduction
OF the standing army from 400 900 to
2do,00 In his recommendations Gem
eral Pop said:
"With the Joining by Holland Of the
League Of Nations the government
thought of maintaining a waiting atti-
tude with regard to the influence onr
Joining would have on international af-
airs. Nevertheless, Holland consjd-
cred her military program in the light
of h"l participation"
In so doing, added the General. the
government took into account. first
possible security against war, due to-
the league; second the necessity for
having some defense until the league
was able to come to its assistance. and
New-York tribune., 1920-11-06

tain whether the Attorney General
could make an agreement to suppress
part of the governments evidence.
The statement apparently was
prompted by Washington dispatches
quoting Mr.. Palmer as saying he was
unable to understand what Judge An
derson is proposing to investigate.
The courts explanatory statement
was made to-day when attorneys in
a civil case asked that It be set for
early hearing. Declaring he was un-
able at present to set a date for the
other case because of the pending coal
cases, Judge Anderson said
81 am engaged in a controversy with
the government. | have case set
for next Monday, the coal conspiracy
case. am going to find out then
whether the Attorney General can
make an agreement, in case where
the grand jury has returned an indict-
ment, to suppress a portion of the evi
dencc on the part of the government
in the trial o that Indictment"
Judge Anderson's charge that the
Attorney General is attempting tc
suppress evidence is based on Mr.
Palmer's statements, directing govern.
ment counsel i, the coal eases not tc
use the evidence contained in the bill
of equity on which Judge Anderson is
sued an injunction last year directing
cancellation of the order by mine
union officials calling the soft Goa
strike.
Mr.. Palmer also has said that al
agreement was made, in Judge Ander
sons presence, not to use this evi
dence if the miners complied with tho
courts order. and court officials ex-
pected that the investigation next
Monday would include inquiry into
This phase and also reveal what agree
ment was made with the miners.
The Attorney General, it was learned
here to-day, has asked District Attor
ncy Van Nuys, Special Prosecutor l.
| r. Slack and former Special Prosecu
tor Simms to go to Washington i'm
mcdiately for Il conference regarding
the investigation.
Mr. Van Nuys and Mr. Slack de
parted at once for Washington, bu
Mr.. Simms refused to accompany them
New-York tribune., 1920-11-06
Husband, 10; Wife. ls.I
Want Marriage Annull.a
Couple Never Have Lived =.
geiIrer; Wedding On
August 20

Robert Hickson, sixteen year, :.
and Mrs. Vivian Desmond Biss "
fifteen years old, Of 2i4e ssven.s
rue. are trying to undo a bit Of v.''' "a
full folly in the Supreme Cour, 's~
withstanding the ae<s Of husb,,s ~.
wife. they were able to obtain -
riage license and have the c.r.~s '
performed on August % last
dickson fled a suit yestera.
annul the marriage. on tba 2
that he and his wife were not - 'se''
age. He said they never ,is.s
gethcr v
Another unusual thing abo,,
case IS that Hckson. minor ~. -
the suit himself instead Of has,.
guardian appointed to br.n. /. f.,
minor being prohibited md.
law from maintaining an actin, !. - "
own name. =" "a
New-York tribune., 1920-11-06
Mine Seizure
Threat Made
By Senators
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Continued from page onc)
coal operators shows that these men
became frightened over the public agi-
taton against the high prices and the
reported demands made upon Washing
ton for remedy of the existing condi-
tions.
Feared United States Operation
"ln other words. some of their num-
Der had been so greedy in their pur-
sut OF protitecring that the majority
feared the Federal government would
step in with proposed regulation of the
industry
In order to meet these charges f
prontoerng at the next session of Con
gtcSs, committees were appointed to
cooperate with similar bodies repre-
sentlng the anthracite operators. the
Wholesalers and retailers to present a
united front
"Ihe condition of affairs prevailing
during the last few months in the soft
coal trade has its direct relation to
the anthracite trade, inasmucb as soft
coal shipments monaAolized railroad
facilities and forced hard coal off the
railroads.
Thus while soft coal spectators
were able to buy carload lots of coal
divert them from contracts by reason of
merce Commission and route them to
the tidewater to tie held for speculative
purposes, anthracite coal. needed FOR
the householder, WAS blocked frcm
transportation.
This condition existed regardless of
the fact that the railroads claimed that
their tonnage during the first nj. G
months Of 1920 had been the heaviest
in their history and regard 'ess of the
fact that the Geological Survey sta
tistics show that approximate ely $4,000,
600 more tons have been mined in the
United States this year than in 1919
"Colonel Wenz frankly admitted on
the witness stand that profteering and
coal diversion had been indulged in
by some members Of the National Coal
Assoc ation
"Hc voiced the sentiment of the
trade when he said at Cleveland tina
continuance Of such tactics would
mean such pressure at Washington thst
Federal regulation of the coal prof
tecrs might be resorted to.
"The coal operators must desst
from their proGtecring tactics and
agree. man to man, to give the CON
sumers of the United States fair
deal, Cor the matter wlll certainly be
taken up by The next Congress and the
advisability of curbing greedy prof
tecrs through the control of the IN
dustry by the government will be
recommended.
"The whole situation is up to the
operators and the railroads. There is
enough coal and enough coal cars to
relieve the present shortage. A square
deal 10 the public only can dissiDate
the established public suspicion
that connivance has been prac.iccd to
bring about an artificial shortage for
speculative purposes. This committee
intends to go to the bottom of the
whole affair and to take such stems as
# may sec fit TO relieve conditions"
New-York tribune., 1920-11-06
Boston Shoe
Strike Ended
BY Injunction
Perpetual Order Forbids
Benefit Payments, Picket
ing, Intimidation or Urg-
ing Workers 10 Quit
Two Unions Are Affected
WaIk-Out Began May l3,
1919; Men Fought Case
for Last Six Months S
Special Dispatch to The Tribune


BOSTON, Nov. 5.-Judge Sisk, Of The
Superior Court, to-day ordered an end
OF the strike which shoe workers of
the Thomas G. Playt factory, Jamaica
Plain began May 13, 1919, in an en-
deavor to force q closed shop. The in
junction issued by the court restrans
all officers and members Of the unions
affected from continuing, supporting or
encouraging the strike or any new
strike called for the same purpose.
Locals 73 and 10 of the United Shoe
Workers of America and the Allied
Shoe Workers. Union of Greater Bos-
ton are the organizations affected by
the order. They have contested the
case IN hearings extended over a six
months period before Frank l.. Simp-
son, as master, upon whose findings Of
lacl Judge Slsk issued his decree.
Decree Is Perpetual
The decree, which is perpetual, ep-
p'les to all present and future mem
Lcrs of the shoe workers. union and
cnJolns their agents and attorneys from
proceeding with the strike or encourage
ing or supporting it. They are for
NN'tNH " pay SlllAt dement's TO any OF
'hc former employees now on strike.
The injunction enjcins the strikers
from intimida.ing the present en-
.cyccs, or former employees, who
want to go back to work They are
forbidden to induce, attempt to in
duce, compel or persuade employees
urder contract to abandon or break
that agreement. The strikers are for
,ld@en to follow any of the workmen
n groups. They are enjoned from
cIssuading workers 10 accept employ
ment from the plaintiff. They may
not talk persistently with employees
ahout their work, or their relations
v ith their employer, if the employees
uchntcly object to such conversation.
Closed Shop Barred
& inc strikers shall not apply oppro-
Drous eplthets to the employees. as
sault them or encourage others to do
so. They arc enjoined from referrinr
to the plaintiff as unfair to union
labor
The strikers are cnjoined from in
terierng with the plaintiffs business.
m pofsu1dln, customers not to deal
with the factory or use its products
ana from plcketing the factory and Of
nee 1hey may not promote the cause
of the closed shop in .he factory or
interfere IN the relations of the en-
ployer and employees.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-06
2unsulty Denies Playing
Politics Iva Cool Crisis
Blomes Airort!, Declaring The
latter Aduised sh~ President
IN N0udLing of fEe .&iiunt;at,

Franz 7Ac 1yibu1c's Woshin,ton Ruyoou
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-Denial was
made to-day by Secretary Tumulty that
polltcs was involved in his confer
ences during the coal crisis last june.
which resulted in the Interstate Com
me'ce Commission issuing priority or
ders eXpedltlng the movement of emptv
cars and cars loaded with coal.
IN statement replying to the
charges made by Franklin T. Miller.
ADVISER to the Senate Rcc0nstructlor.
Committee. at yesterdays session in
New York, that Tumulty was the real
director OF operations and the l. c. C.
was not the President secretary said:
There was 40 politics at any time
IN the matter Of priority shipments of
coal. | acted upon the representations
'Aade to the President which came
tcm Republican Governors fror ali
parts Of the country. Mr. AlvoYG. act
ing tor Judge Payne, Director General
0. Eallroads, advised the President
with reference to the handling Of this
aI!1lcult situation. | simply acted to
BRING the Information which reached
the mite House TO the attention of
Mr. Alvord, without any specific rec
omnendaton Of any kind to HIM or TO
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
| never AT any time conferred with
or made suggestions to the members
OF the Interstate Commerce Commis-
SION with reference TO shipments of
coal"
officials Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission declined to make any state
ment on the charges advanced by MIR
Miller.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-06
Fedora. Prisoner slips
Handouts and r,ics to File.

Thomas Donohue, alias Donovan, sale
by the Federal authorities to be both
bank and mail robbcr, attempted tc
escape last night from two deputy
marshals while being taken from the
Federal Building TO the Tombs Prison
He was handculled at the time to two
other prisoners, but managed TO slip
the metal cuff from his wrist
As he dsrted ahead and was about
to dodge into a doorway one of the
'cers fired a shot at him. He sur
ndered and was lodged in the City
rison.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-06
PaseaG,t in Rome Marks Second
Anniversary of .Aymislice

ROME, Nov. 5.-Represcntatives of
all rcgi giments Of the Italian army,
gathered from all parts of Italy,
marched in the great parade held TO-
cay to celebrate the second annjver-
saiy Of the armistice with Austria,
which, so far as Italy was concerned.
ended the World War
King Victor Emmanuel received con-
tinuou5 applause as he drove through
the streets to the base of the King
Victor Emmanuel monument, where he
bestowed gold and silver medals on
regiments and warships for their serv-
ices during the war.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-06
Court to Quiz Palmer on
Suppression OF Evidcnce

1NDlANAPOLIS, Nov Federal
Judge Anderson said in the District
Court to-day that his Investigation
next Monday of Attorney General
Palmer's connection with the soft coal
conspiracy cases would be to ascer-
New-York tribune., 1920-11-06

third, the possible necessity for con-
tributing troops under the leagues pro-
visions.
Even if security was not yet certain.
he said, it was now possible to reduce
the cost of defense.
General Pops proposals call for re-
duction of the standing army from
twenty yearly classes OF $4,000 men
each to twenty yearly classes OF 1900
men, or reduction of 100000, and a
cutting of the service period from eight
and a half months to six months for
the infantry, from eighteen months to
twelve months for hospital and artil-
lery men and from two years to elgh-
teen months for the cavalry.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-06
Italy Renounces Claim
TO Dalmatia, Is Report
London Paper Informed Agree
ment Has Been Reached on
he Adriatic Question

LONDON, Nov 6--The London Times
prints a dispatch from Rome which
gives the Popolo Romano as authority
for the statement that an agreement on
the Adriatic question has been reached.
The Jugo- Slavs have obtained salts
faction by Italy renouncing her claim
to Dalmatia.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-06
Bonus Plurality Reaches
100000 i'm This City
Scattering Returns From Up
state Indicate 100000 Vic
tory in That Section

The bonus referendum whereby the
electorate Of the State was sounded on
the proposition as to whether men who
spent more than two months in the
service should receive $40 for each
month in uniform, rolled up plural
ty in this city Of about 100000.
With 900 districts still missing. the
vote by boroughs was as follows:
New-York tribune., 1920-11-06
6ol 295.423

Only scattering returns have been
received from upstate, but these indi
cate that the plurality there VIII ex
cecd 100000. Many persons who cast
at oil
New Britain herald., 1920-06-16
RD. HUBERT GIVES ANSWER TO PRIEST
Points to Many People at Meeting and Speaks of Authority for It

Dr. Julius Rupert, of this city. has taken occasion to answer the state ment of Rev. Lucyan Bojnowski in regards to the meeting held for the purpose of furthering sales of Polish bonds Sunday afternoon at the Ly- ceum. which the local priest charac- tcrized as unauthorized. He points out that the Polish government agents in this country had arranged for representation to come to the city. His letter is as follows:
 The Editor of the New Britain Herald:
 A painful moral obligation rests upon me to answer Rev. l.. Bojnow- skfs unexpected and uncalled for att tack on the Polish meeting in the Lyceum theater. June 13. 1920. If I have to choose between Rev. l.. Boj- nowSkfs favors and friendship and the defense of a good cause. the de- fense of n patriotic. brilliant meeting on behalf of the Polish loan. I am ready to meet the reverend gentle mans enmity.
 Tt gives one n mark of distinction, n reason to be loved and respected by tho great number of those who dis agree with the reverend gentleman.
 The Polish mass meeting in the Lyccum was arranged by John Gan carz of the Polish Investment and Loan company on the demand of many Americans of Polish descent and many citizens of Pol>nd who were not satisfied with the activities of Rev. l.. Bojnowski and his com naittec. who on June and June 13 arranged entertainments to collect funds for luxurious marble altar. All Poles and friends of Poland were
New Britain herald., 1920-06-16

"The Connecticut General Assembly Centenary published by the state of fn accordance with the
New Britain herald., 1920-06-16
First Bottle
 Cinot Helped Hartford Lady

Mr.. P. l.. Braxton of 3t2 Capen street, Hartford, Who Has suffered for Two Years From Rheumatism, Relieved Entirely by CINOT. tho Herbal Tonic
New Britain herald., 1920-06-16
TIME IS EXTENDED
 FOR POLISH LOAN
Enthusiastic Meeting in Boston Hears Announcement of Interest
Especial to The Heraldp


 Boston. Mass, Juna 15. An nouncement that the Polish govern- ment loan drive for S50.000,eo0 which was to have ended tonight has been extended to July in response to nu- merous requests from local commit tees throughout the country. was made tonight at the big Polish loan mass meeting held at Franklin Union hall, Boston. under the auspices of the Peoples Union (Polish).
 The announcement was made in the form of a telegram from Prince Lubomirski, the Polish minister to the United States. and Dr. Kun Adamski. Polish financial delegate to the United States.
 The telegram was read to the au- dience at the conclusion of bond sales aggregating more than s5O,O00, and was received with tulaultuous ap- plause.
 The telegram follows:
 ITO all Polish in America: It is hereby officially announced that. pur- suant to many requests the campaign for the sale of S50,00o, 900 of bonds of the Polish government loan will be extended to and including July 5, 1920. II will enable those who so far for many accountable and unaccouat- able reasons, have not .purchasA bonds of the Polish sovernm ent -fa to do so. It will give opportunity iN districts, localities. parishes and all organiza tions and patriotic individ- uafs to complete work in many in stances started late.
 "1t will serve to obtain additional subscriptions from those who have already bought, especially by invest ing money now in saving accounts without loss of interest so that as whole the success of the campaign will be manifested not only by assured sale of total of s5O,000.000 of Polish government bonds but an over-sub- scription of millions. Not only Po- land, but all the world is carefully watching this loan Let us prove our selves as deserving of the confidence which is placed in our love for the mother-land."
 In a supplementary statement made public today in Washington, it was declared that the response thorough out the United States to the loan has been spontaneous and entirely in keeping with the optimistic hopes of the Polish government"