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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-04-29
THE YOUNG MANS PROBLEM.

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Thousands of young men are wrest-
ling with serious problem this spring
as other thousands did in former years.
They are old enough to marry, they
want to marry, they have girls ready
to marry them, but--they cannot fig
ure the income to provide and furnish
a home, even rented quarters. This is
by no means an unusual condition, nor
a pleasant one to contemplate.
Forty years ago 81 would buy a neat
white linen shirt with a linen bosom
and cuffs. Now many men pay 81 to
have their initials stitched on the
sleeve of shirt. Under normal and
wholesale conditions the young man Of
marriageable age is learning to make
his own living under some sort of en-
ployment. Love for same fine girl
dawns on his life, and there he Is.
Maybe he has saved $1,000 or $1,000,
well invested. The income from it
may be $50 or $500 year, but it is
fine insurance, and he shrinks--very
properly--from using this principal to
finance wedding.
What stall he do? His girl, let US
imagine, is used to comfortable liv-
ing, good clothes and leisure. She
shrinks from cooking and housekeep-
ing, or even fiat-kecping. What he
does, usually, is to wait with gnaw-
ing heart. 1t is too bird. Everywhere
are bright, capable youngsters caught
unprepared for their finest experience.
1t is not time to teach them to insure
their happiness by forethought? To
train them to buy suburban lot or a
house as an investment, and pay for it
with their savings before love strikes
them? There is enough spent for can
dy. for automobile drives, for theater
tickets, for fine raiment, for club ac-
counts and for other unnecessary
things, by young men between ~ and
25, to put them in position where
marriage will mean no strain on their
resources-where their hearts desires
may be fulfilled without fond hopes
long deferred.
| In cases where this thought comes
too late there is one last resort, one
supreme test. 1t is put the matter up
to the girl, cut out all unnecessary ex.
pense, marry poor, work, save, and
forego pleasures that cost money until
later years. If the girl cannot see II
this way, if she is unwilling to marry
except on a we'll financed scheme, II
will be better to call it off. The di'
vine emotion is not in her heart. ant
where this is wanting, marriage is al
ways mistake, regardless of othel
considerations.--Chicago Journal Of
Commerce.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-04-29
THE TOWN OF UsED-T0-BE.

Used to think I'd like to go
To the town I used to know
AS a little barefoot lad,
Tanned of cheek an always glad.
But it's been so long since I
Told the good, old friends good-by
An set out for wealth an fame
That it cannot be the same;
An maybe I'd better not
Spoil the picture that I've got.
Bills been back, an he tells me
Towns not what it used to be;
That old Barker's grocery
Isn't open any more,
An most folks we knew are gone,
Moved away or travelled on
To brighter realm than this;
An the girls we used to kiss
An go courtin' with, somehow
Don't seem half so pretty now.
Folks have told me that the farm
Where / lived, has lost its charm,
An hey'ey paved the dusty street
Which was velvet to our feet,
An it's now a thoroughfare
With the hum Of motors there;
Wouldn't want to lose the joy
That I've treasured from a boy
Guess I'd better keep always
Memories of those happier days.
Pm afraid of going back.
Memory still keeps the track
To those favorite haunts of mine
Like painted canvas fine,
An the old spots live with me
Just the way they used to be;
! An to see them now would seem
Much like shattering a dream.
/ So the town shall live with me
Just the way it used to be.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-04-29

Who knows but that the man whom
DR.. Jim saved will yet find another
Tonapah or Virginia?
The Bolshevists and anarchists
would rant about the millionaires tray-
cling in luxury, but here we see COM
pensation again.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-04-29
SAVED FEEDS OF HIGHER COST

II planted about thirty acres of
soybeans with corn last year. The
beans bore abundantly and | could not
see they cut down the yield Of corn.
I hogged down a portion Of the thirty
acres Of Corn and beans. | found that
the hogs ate the beans almost as
readily as they did the corn. The
beans took the place Of tankage al
most entirely. | thought 1 would re-
port my success to the College Of Ag-
riculture, since | got my incubation
cultures and encouragement there.
G. Bella Moore, Saline County
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lust Give Us a Trial

In sending in check for $3.50 to
pay for advertising, John F. Kohn,
well known farmer living south of the
city explains that the reason he sent
the remittance by check instead of
money was because he knew that a
country editor so seldom got hold of
any real money that he was afraid
that if he sent currency, we might not
know its worth and throw it into the
waste basket. Well, all we've got to
say for ourselves, is that we'd like
to have some of the other folks-de-
linquent and other subscribers, send
in some real money and see whether
we would send it on the waste basket
route or whether we'd hikS right over
to the bank and apply it on that note
which we got over there. We would
appreciate getting in a lot of money
right now to enable us to take care
of some debts which we have and if
you have paid no attention to the
statement which we sent you some
time ago, or in case you are in a po-
sition to send in some on your paid
in advance subscription account, we
will be very glad to get it. You'll
help US lot too.
The Belding banner-news., 1921-07-06
\ Wire Frying Basket Has Many
Kitchen Uses

If one happens to possess a wire
frying basket, which of course, is
kept scrupulously clean, there are
many daily uses for it besides the
occasional deep-fat-frying for which
it was bought.
After washing fruit, celery or let
tuce, the wire basket will be found a
more effective drainer than a colan-
der. 1t can be set directly on the
ice to keep the product crisp, say
home economics specialties of the
United States Department of Agri-
culture.
All the tomatoes for a salad may
be scalded into boiling water for a
few seconds. Some peel peaches in
the same way. Beets may be readily
peeled if after cooking they are
plundged into cold water merely long
enough to loosen the skin but not
chill the hot vegetable.
In boiling eggs for the family
breakfast, place the required number
in the wire basket and lower into
boiling water. When the eggs are
done they can easily be removed all
at the same time by lifting out the
basket. In frying croquettes or
potato chips the use of the wire bas-
ket to hold the material to be fried
saves time and energy.
For frying doughnuts instead Of
The Belding banner-news., 1921-07-06
SLOP CHEST

ASTIESS DattleShipS before long.
lv1 A few years hence the last rem
nant Of oldtime srars will be uprooted
and laid in the navy yards to rot. Rig
gng has already gone. Upperworks
are going Elimination of the useless
Is the cry.
There is also metamorphosis. No,
that's not kind of bug. Metamorpho-
sis Is change, such as dough TO flap
Jacks (not TO dimes) mud TO bricks !;
apes to men. Though the samples will
not bear too keen philosophical scru-
tiny they serve TO illustrate the way
old naval customs have become SO
rooted in the service that they do not
disappear even after centuries. and
when the old Roman catapult has
given way to hundred-ton breech load
ers. They merely change.
On long cruise the sailorman runs
shy of clothing His work suffers in
proportion to his ill-clad condition.
Shippers have recognized this mari
time maxim by keeping slop-chest.
Aboard a tidy man-of-war any mess is
known as Stops Slop-chests hold a
miscellaneous supply of seaman's
clothing. Hence the name.
An account of the first siop-chest
was chronicled in 450 b. G. Ii con-
tanned 1000 garments, assorted in
three sizes. The garments were ex-
actly alike and cut to fit the stern
sheets Of galley slaves. Ethnologists
sometimes refer TO them (the gar
ments) as breech-clouts. The largest
was a nautical cubit In circumference
or nearly a life-size fathom.
Columbus gave us the next authentic
account of slop-chests In 1892. He in
cluded leather boots, woven shirts,
dlrks. breeches, sea-bOnnets and neck
erchiefs. He makes no mention Of
wrist watches.
John Paul Jones turned the "slOp-
Job" over 10 his supercargo or purser.
However. he got his little rake-off at
the end OF the cruise. For II must be
understood that 1000 miles and a
month out fixes a pretty good price on
necessary apparel.
were lut STtdltSl sltp
after the Civil war. Old sea-dogs put
them down as a sign that the navy was
going 10 HI. '1he idea Of tar mind
ing wet feet" Yet they daily turned
to the chest for sewing gear. needles
and thimbles. and the like.
Then the Twentieth Century broke
like typhoon over our world. A holo-
caust of progress swept away the
relics of mans past. Mechanical
genius was supreme. Only the char
red stubble of original ideas remained.
The slop-chest was one.
Now we have the Clothing and
Small Stores Room" In ii our mechan-
ical Jack may procure silk necker-
chiefs, Sheffield steel knives, and hand
sewn shoes, not boots, but gloves for
his feet. The captain makes no rake
of, and the purchase record Is in quad
duplicate. It's still the slop-chest, how
ever, only different.
That is metamorphosis: which Is
sometimes better than liver pills for
cleansing life.
The Belding banner-news., 1921-07-06
Farm and Orchard

Usually, about this season of the
year, young chicktns hardest of the
entire year. First the sudden rains
chill them and without proper care
they become chilled and weakened.
Red pepper in food is often given.
Second, we depend to much on open
range, which is fine, but do not give
them enough food for complete devel-
opment. Some give too much corn
and not enough lime for the general
health of the growing chicken, lice
prefer young chickens and will do
more to make a weak flock than any
other pest. The patent dusts are us
ually made of tobacco powdered, tho
any dust will cause lice to leave.
Have the chickens plenty of shade
during the heat of the day? Is there
always clean water in easily access
able pans?
Are you raising poultry or are
they raising themselves?
The Belding banner-news., 1921-07-06
twice PROVEN

If you suffer backache, sleepless
nights, tired, dull days and distress
ing urinary disorders, don't expert
ment. Read this twice-told testi-
mony. It's Belding evidence-doubly
proven.
E. o. Hildebrand, 3O3 E. Division
St., gave the following account of
his experience with Doan's Kidney
Pills September 8, 1916: "Where /
have never suffered a great deal with
kidney trouble, have had some
bother with my back aching and be-
ing lame. have used Doan's Kidney
Pills for this complaint on different
occasions and have found that they
always give quick and lasting re-
lief. / think Doan's are a good kid
ney remedy and gladly advise any
one to get a box at Wortley &
French's Drug Store, if suffering
with kidney complaint"
On July 8, 1920, Mr.. Hildebrand
said: 81 think just as highly of
Doan's Kidney Pills today as ever.
I haven't had occasion to use them
for a number of years, and / know
Doan's are a good remedy"
6Oc. at all dealers. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
if my kidneys should get out Of order
again, I would use Doan's in prefer
ence to anything else"
6Oc at all dealers. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Belding banner-news., 1921-07-06
STREAMS

~ HE bridge is shrouded In i'm
i penetrable gloom. SO is the
officer-of-the-deck. Inky black is the
splotch of a battleship ahead. Two
shades blacker Is the blotch of another
In swift pursuit astern.
The fleet Is steaming 'darkened' in
column.
A bell rings. The o. o. ID. never
takes his tense eyes from the rail.
Hello" shouts quartermaster down
the engineroom voice-tube. Condenser
temperatures show we've run out OF
the stream" comes the muffled report
"U-m-m." grunts the o. o. d. as
though bored. But he isn't. He knows
the Gulf Stream has been left behind.
The knowledge is as definite as a
''Times Square - shouted by subway
guard.
Streams Of ocean currents are the
great rivers of the sea. Movement OF
the water is caused mostly by winds
prevailing In one direction for long
periods of time.
The Gulf Stream is so to $50 miles
In width and flows at the leisurely
pace OF to 5 miles an hour. 1t swings
upward along the Florida coast, Is de-
fiected by Hatteras, and shoots cool
three thousand miles to Iceland and
the British Isles. A southern branch
strikes the Belly of Europe" as the
Bay of Blscay Is awkwardly called.
All these countries IL warns.
But the American coast shivers In
the chill Of an arctic current. This
frigid stream squirts from the mouth
of Baffin bay and drenches with its
berg-cooled spray the rocks of Labra-
dor and Maine and the yellow Jersey
sands.
II, as has been proposed, a man.
moth breakvater were built eastward
from New Foundland shooting the
northern current out, America would
become tropical I'm climate while our
English brethren built snow igloos.
In the Pacific japan current and
one from Behring sea correspond TO
the warm and cold pair In the At
lantic. The Alaskan coast, like Eng
land, Is warm.
Below the continental tips a great
stream runs clean around the world.
Typewriter supplies at this Office.
The Belding banner-news., 1921-07-06
Obituary-Bessie Thomas

Bessie May Thomas, eldest daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Thomas,
was born July %, 1911 in Fairplains,
east of Greenville. She was the first
grand child of Mr.. and Mrs. Levi
Bussell, born in America. She died
the morning of July A, 1921, aged 9
years, IL months, IL days, after an
illness of four weeks. She died in ST.
Mary's hospital, Grand Rapids, thus
closing a severe illness and passing
unto Him who knoweth and doeth
all things well. There are left to
mourn her departure her parents, two
sisters, Ethel and Minnie, her grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Bussell,
her aunts, uncles and cousins and
relatives and friends. Her funeral
was held at Church of Christ where
she had been a member of the Bible
school until she moved to Grand Rap
ids with her parents. The pastor, H.
E. Curch, officiating. Burial in Riv-
er Ridge cemetery. Those out of town
in attendance at the funeral were
Mr.. and Mrs. Burt Cornell, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ona Holden and family and
Mrs. Lille, of Harvard, Mr.. Keller
and family of Grand Rapids.
The Belding banner-news., 1921-07-06
LOCAL Items

Auto for hire, phone 344. 45-51-tf
Mr.. and Mrs. N. Bachelor and lit
tie daughter, spent the 4th with his
people at Edmore.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. McNaughton and
children, of Lansing, were Monday
callers of their sister, Mrs. AL. Web
Der.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hubert and
little daughter, of Lansing, visited
her brother, Ralph Stackus and wife
for few days.
Miss Emma Anderson left Tuesday
for Petoskey to spend her vacation.
Mrs. Leonard Irish, who has been
seriously i'll the past three weeks, is
able to sit up.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Johnston and
baby visited relatives at Sheridan for
a few days.
Howard Stackus, of Grand Rapids,
spent the 4th with his brther, Ralph
and wife.
Kenneth Moon is visiting friends
at Lansing and other cities.
Mrs. Pearl Urch and Mrs. Ansel
Johnston and little daughter, Pauline
are visiting relatives at Durand.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Francisco and
little daughter, Frances, are spending
the 4th at Long lake.
Ansel Johnston left for Durand on
Friday night to spend the 4th with
his wife and baby and other relatives
in that city.
Miss Joy Curch was a guest of
Miss Margaret Cusser at Greenville,
last Friday afternoon and evening
and at the Cusser home in Belding.
Mrs. L. o. Johnson, of Grand Rap
ids, is at the home of her son, II. l..
Johnson and family for her summer
visit.
Miss Margaret Cusser was an over
Sunday visitor in Langston.
Mrs. Lee Moore's mother is with
her and her husband for a while.
Little Margaret Beemer, of De-
troit, is making her grand parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Beemer a visit.
Mrs. Milton Beemer is entertaining
her mother, Mrs. Ellsworth, who has
just returned from her California
visit to another daughters who's
husband is an M. E. minister there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Moore spent over
Sunday and the 4th in Grand Rap
ids, with friends.
1t being so intensely hot in Belding
j. w. Curch has gone to the farm
home near Coral and Lakeview, to be
in the shade of the old apple trees
and naples.
Erwin Hanson returned to Ann Ar
Dor, July 4th to attend summer
school.
Miss Rose O'Brien, of Greenville,
spent the week end at the home of
j. w. Hanson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde ]. Creaser, of
Alma, were Sunday guests of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Travis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. King left on
Friday for Grand Rapids, Hastings
and other places for a weeks vaca-
tion trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Hale and Mr..
and Mrs. Ed. King spent the 4th at
Crystal lake.
Tony Powell went to Jackson and
other southern state cities, Tuesday
morning.
Judge Albert L. Spencer, of Grand
Rapids, was in the city on Friday,
brushing up on old acquaintaflces and
business matters also.
Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth
Oberlin, on June 80, son, who has
been named Richard Kieth.
DIR. E. w. Little arrived from Los
Angeles, California, on Saturday for
a several weeks stay while he at
tends to some business matters here.
The three Little girls are at present
at home with Mrs. Little in Los An
geles.
Badness can be prevented easier
than it can be cured. Stop falling
hair and get rid of dandruff by using
Partisan Sage; best for the hair.
Wortley's Drug Store sells it with
money back guarantee-Adv.
The Belding banner-news., 1921-07-06

Typewriter supplies at this Office.
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The Great Western Pioneer.

Every sunset which witness in
spires me with the desire TO go to a
West as distant and as fair as that
into which the sun goes down. lie
appears TO migrate westward daily.
and tempt us TO follow him. he Is
the Great Western Pioneer whom the
ma tions follow.-Thoreau
The Belding banner-news., 1921-07-06
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The Beauty of Lichens.

The famous crimson Cliffs" Of
Greenland. which extend for miles. de.
rive their splendid color from red
lichen. They rise 1000 feet from the
waters edge, The Golden Gate in the
Yellowstone owes It's name to the vel.
low liClen of its lofty walls.
The Belding banner-news., 1921-07-06

time. The basket can also be used
to drain the fat from the doughnuts
after frying.
Another use for the wire basket
is in grating soft cheese. 1t is much
easier to force the cheese through
the meshes of the wire basket than
through a crater.
The Belding banner-news., 1921-07-06

placing the doughnuts in the basket
use the bottom Of the basket
to force the doughnuts under the
surface of the fat as soon as they
rise to the top. This use of the bas-
ket saves time and fat, for dough-
nuts fried under the fat absorb less
grease and can be fried in a shorter
The Belding banner-news., 1921-07-06
Claws Used for Combs.

The bears, especially those Of the
white species, are rather fastidious
about their toilets. They comb their
hair with their curved claws and lick
themselves 10 make their hair shine.
The Belding banner-news., 1921-07-06

Sunday morning services same as
usual beginning at 10 a. m. and Sun
day evening services from 2 to 8 p.
m. during July and August, begin
ming next Sunday evening united
service between Y. p. S. C. Z. and
preaching. All are invited to all SER
vices. Since board meeting last week
the men are busy to make repairs on
building which are much needed.
The Belding banner-news., 1921-07-06

The Boy is asking his Father where
the Light goes when 1t goes Out, and
his Father is also thinking Of Going
Out. as this Is Puzzling Question No.
327 for the evening and Dad doesn't
feel nearly so Smart as he did when
he sat down to Enjoy his copy of this
Family Journal.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-11-26
LOGAN s. BRyATS
CLOSING STOCK LETTER

(R, private wire To a. r.. Masten 4 {" !
N"w York NoV @5.--There WAS no
particular news developments al I'm
purlance over the holiday and the STOCK
market after II steady opening developed
quite strong tone with strength IN not
a few departments Of the list;
Reports covering the activities ana
outlook in the steel industry wcre de-
cidrdIy cheerful and this operated I"
s,imulat" Il good demand for The steel
shares. Tho Su-,allcd Mexican Oil -
sues were conspicuous on the up Sid"
OF prices rs Il result Of what looked Ike
urgent Sh"rl covering.
Other oil issues. also those traded
i'm in tho "WSidc markrt. Joined IL the
upward trcnu as d!G many other special
ties, such a. luLicot:-l ohrsOn. General
Asphalt, and Gulf States steel 4
spirited demand Developed for The hiGh
grad" ran ISSUES and i%Su"~ showing a
nigh WELD like Union Pacific. Canadian
Pacific and others were eagerly sought
Money remained in liberal supp!
,hroughou, the session For" gm c\-
change markets were irregular.
The investment demand for good So
curitics continues 20 hroadcn and with
the all uruuri Improvement which has
taken mace in many lines Of endeav0r.
;n,;Gther with the prospects az favor
ahlN money marlct we believe the stock
market uuntallNns are in for a period Of
rising tendencies an! therefor" par
chasrs AZ favorable opportunities.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-11-26
BRADSTREET'S REVIEW

New York, Nov. 25--Bradsiroets to-
morrow, will say:
Trade, Industrial and financial reports
represent a varied. indeed. an irregular
appearance. Wholesale trade has
QuIeted further. jobb!ng trade. except
in holiday specialties. has tended 10 TIA
per of. and conoe ntration Of attention
IL on retail trade. which is better but
falls as yet TO reveal the desired aCtiv-
ity In tho direction of f'nal d!etrihr:i y.
Seasonal conditions possibly explain the
quieter trend IN wholeSal" ana JOnullS
trade. although cautious buying by re-
tailers who desire TO make sure OF clos
ing the year with light stocks Is an ad
ditional reason advanced. On the other
hand. retail buying lacks the snap often
visible at this season, reasons for this
being irregular weather. low prices for
farm products. and In soma large CEN
tors. reducing PURCHASING power due 10
unemployment. which later however
does not tend TO increase very mater
Tally as yet.
Weekly bank clearings sj.sSl,S56,o 900.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-11-26
BUTTER. EGGS, CHEESE.

New York. No.. -. Butter firm:
creamery. higher than extras. tJh q 46
cents: creamery. extras (a2 score) 4+i2
045 cents; creamery h!srs (SS TO 81
score) 37i$ 943h4; packing stocks. cur
rem make, No. .. 2SIc 429.
Eggs unsettled: fresh gathered extra
flrsts. 66I6S: DO hr"ts. 56I62: Now
jersey hennery whites extra fancy
randlcd selections. ~: nearby and near
by western hennery whites. ar$t 10
average extras. 5000 cents: nearby
western hennery browns. extras. T3M -;
nearby gathered browns and mixed
colors. nrsts to extras Sc n -: refrili-
orator. special marks. fancy, 40 cents;
do firsts. 81 a39.
Cheese steady; state. whole milk
twins, specials. y T"c: do aNeras" run
20 q 20I2 cents.
live poultry Irregular: chickens. %
ar: roosters. 16: turkeys. i6m 80 Gems
dressed. steady: western chickens. -
ga: turkeys asa Sc.
Flour unchanged.