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The Belding banner-news., 1921-03-02

Recent surveys have demonstrated
that the salaries paid to ministers
are inadequate. Now will some kind
hearted soul, desirous of hedping
some worthy people get out the sur
veying paraphernalia and start a
survey on the editors salary. Never
mind, though, because / guess that
they don't make such small and del
icate instruments.
The Belding banner-news., 1921-03-02
STATE OF MICHIGAN

The Probate court for the county
of Ionia, at session of said court
held at the Probate Office in the city
of Ionia in said county on the twen-
ty-fourth day of February, A. d. 1921
Present: Hon. Montgomery Web
ster, Judge Of Probate.
In the matter of the estate of
Sarah Ada Calkins Barton, deceased.
William /. Barton, husband of de-
ceased, having filed in said court his
petition praying that certain in
strument in writing, purporting to
be the last will and testament of
said deceased now on file in said
court be admitted to probate and that
the administration of said estate be
granted to Frank R. Chase, as Ad-
ministrator with the Will annexed,
or some other suitable person.
1t is ordered, that the twenty
eighth day of March A. d. 1921 at
one-thirty o'clock in the afternoon,
at said probate office, be and is here
by appointed for hearing said petit
tion.
1t is further ordered that public
notice thereof be given by publica-
tion of copy of this order for three
successive weeks previous to said day
of hearing in the Belding Banner
News, a newspaper printed and cir
culated in said county.
IL. S. Montgomery Webster,
A true copy. Judge of Probate.
Bessie Duffy,
Dep. Reg. of Probate. Mar. 16
The Belding banner-news., 1921-03-02
Advertised Letters

F. H. Blair r F d A
III. f. Grill
VIM. Handy
Hans Jordan
Jerome Kern
Mrs. Geneva Bradford
Mrs. Alfred Jewell
Mrs. MAIDS Madsen.
The Belding banner-news., 1921-03-02
So We Have Heard.

A stack of chips is often a chimney
stack through which mans money
goes up In smoke
The Belding banner-news., 1921-03-02

The Story of
Our States
BY JONATHAN sRAcE
I.-DELAWARE
Msh = sazm Tm lw A RE
l {: ! :: !: !: i: ! ! ] ]
nYQIRE3Gf2A nv of being the
III $-4NV E first of the
w N original thlr-
\SS=SW teen states.
49, December z,
1877, 1t officially adopted the Con.
stitution and thus was made a
beginning Of our present Federal
government. According to the
seventh article OF the Constitu-
tion. however. II was necessary
for nine states to ratify 1t before
1t actually came into force. So
II was not until the following
June, by which time eight other
states had accepted the Consti-
tuition, that the United States Of
America actually came into be-
ing.
The early history of Delaware
was varied one. 1t started in
1888 when small party of
Swedes settled at the mouth of
the Delaware river and called il
New Sweden. In 1855, Peter
Stuyvesant, the governor of the
Dutch colony of New Neither
lands, annexed this territory. But
it did not long remain Dutch,
for in 1864 the English took
possession. When Pennsylvania
was decided to William Penn he
desired access to the seacoast
and at his urgent request Della
ware was transferred to PENIS
proprietorship. From the be-
ginning of the eighteenth CEN
tury, however, Delaware had its
separate legislature, and at the
time of the Revolution ii be-
came an Independent state.
Delaware is next to the small
est Of our states. having an area
of only 2,370 square miles. It's
participation in presidential elec-
tions Is limited 10 three electors.
This is arranged according to
population. Each state is entitled
to the same number of presiden-
tial electors as Ii has members
of congress, so the influence Of
the different states in voting for
the President varies from Della
wares three electors To New
York's 45.
AS 10 the derivation of the
name Delaware, this was appro-
priately given TO the state from
the river, which in turn was
named after the bay and the bay
was called Delaware In honor Of
Lord Delaware, who was COVER
nor of the Virginia colony In
1910.
t@ by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate)
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-04-28
WOULD AID G. A. R. VETERAN
Schuyler (Neb.) Post Endeavoring to
Assist Grand Army Man Who
Has Been Stricken.

The gratitude and loyalty Of mem
hers Of the American Legion to their
comrades of the Grand Army OF the
Republic is illustrated by the Legion
post ut Schuyler, Neb., which is en-
deavOring to obtain aid for Civil war
veteran of that city, who is suffering
from cancer. W
1.-THE post Is in need Of advice as
to how we can assist this hero Of an
other war;" the post commander
writes. "He is stopping with relatives,
who are doing all they cnn, but since
they have to employ nurse, know
that they cannot continue to care for
him because of lack of funds.
snow, we would like to have you
take 1t up and see If something can't
be done for the old veteran. This Is
a worthy case and I believe anything
tho legion can do for the old boys
who wore the blue will be appreciated.
There are but a few of them left, and
/ think the Legion would do well 10
look after them, since no one else will
do so."
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-04-28
LEGION MEN WANT Pm. FIRED
Lincoln (Neh.) Post Takes Exceptions
to oovernsncnt ofiiciaI's Demand
,s for Zee Of German.

A resolution requesting the govern
p;ept to. relieve Henry q. farms, post
master OF Emerald. Neb,, from his Of
Nee was passed BY Lincoln (Neb.)
rost No. 3of the American Legion. as
result of the postmaster's efforts to
snppihnt the American language by
then German language in church OF
Emerald ieia So ~.
The trouble started when the pastor
Of the church Invited two Legion mem
hers to- deliver patriotic addresses In
J the church. When the speakers APP
peared, farms objected to their pres
ence and called for vote of the con-
gregation to decide whether they
should be 0nsted. 1t was the. will Of
the majority that the Legionnaires
should not be heard, After the vote,
the Legion members quietly left the
church.
The pastor. whose invitation to the
Legion men was made in an endeavor
to conclllate the prorGerman and
American elements Of his church In
their controversy over the use of the
American. or German language, then
took the floor and expressed his sur
prise at the turn Of events and left
the meeting
In commentator Of the patience of
the American Legion members Lin
coin newspaper expresses the follow
ing sentiment In Its editorial col
umns: *
1.-THE policy Of the Legion to send
speakers to address meetings on in
yitation only and to teach American
Ism by example rather than by force
has everything to commend it. The
small groups Of unassimilated for-
elgners in this country can readily be
curdled into compact masses by hate.
On the other hand, they can be dis
solved in time by patience and friend
ship. The American Legion is honor
Ing the name-it bears when t adopts
the latter course"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-04-28
PRESBYTERIAN SERVICES

s. s. meets at Gas. There will
forty seven in the primary last Sun
day, Let us make it fifty this week.
Public worship at IL. Theme, Jes-
US and God the Father. This is the
beginning of series of sermons on
Jesus and His relation to various
questions, and problems. Do noe fail
to hear them.
Christian Endeavor meets at z.
A study class in expect Endeavor will
meet at 6:45. Come and join.
At eight o'clock worship the Sec
ond set Of slides on the five crises
IN the life of Christ will be shown.
The slides are here and we will
will not be disappointed.
Roosevelt said "The church is easy
to slam and hard to replace kick II
If you like, but you will be wiser
and happier to back it." Come Sun
day.
The man who uses Sunday only
to sleep, to eat, to loaf. around the
house, to read secular papers, to do
a little extra work and to ioyride
puts mighty small value On his soul.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-04-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Sweet women and clever gamblers
have winning ways.
One seldom meets another man that
Is smarter than himself.
Stocks are apt TO recover from a
fall quicker than the operator does.
The homeliest man in the world Is
beautiful to the girl to whom he pro-
poses.
Whenever man throws bouquet
at another he expects whole flower
garden in return
The electric fan will never take the
place of the old-fashiOned kind as q
filtration promoter.
Nothing is easier to understand than
that we should never have made the
mistake we see other people make.
The girl who confides all her little
secrets to her chum will be sorry some
day when they no longer care to play
In the same back yard.
The man who can referee football
game and please both sides can figure
on reserved seat in the -front row Of
the heavenly orchestra. : Chicago
Daily News.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-04-28
NHyhasa

Emil Harrison who has been i'll is
able to be out at this time.
W. G. Steward Of Hutchinson is in
the city this week.
Mrs. Joe Lewis of Tyrone was a
Liberal shopper Wednesday.
Bangs Brothers made a business
trip to Meade Wednesday.
Mrs. Fred Tracy and Miss Maude
o. Thomas Of Beaver were in Lib
eral Wednesday.
"The Rustic Romeo will be given
again Wednesday May 4th at the Ma
jestic theatre.
E. C. Miller and wife of Brandon
Colo, were ia the city the first Of
the week.
Two room house, three blocks
from High School, house practically
new, six 16 x 20 city water on lots.
Price 5000. Terms. See Ray Ken
nedy, Griffith & Baughman, Phone
121. 45t1
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-04-28
First published April %, 1921
PUBLICATION NOTICE


In the District Court of Seward
County, Kansas.
State of Kansas, Seward County, IS !:
d. B. May ...........-............ Plaintiff
o. D. Huls ...A.......... Defendant
The State of Kansas, to Q, D..
Huls, defendant, you are hereby
notified that you have been sued by
the above named plaintiff in the
District Court of Seward County,
Kansas. and that unless you answer
the petition Of said plaintiff, against
you filed in said action in the office
of the Clerk of the District Court of
Seward County, Kansas, on or before
the 9th day of June 1921, said petit
ton will be taken as true and judg-
ment will be rendered in said action
in favor of said plaintiff and against
said defendant for the sum of Two
hundred and thirty .$230.00) Dol
lars with interest thereon from Sep
TENDER 10Th, 1919 at the rate Of 6
per cent per annum,
F. o. RINDOM,
Clerk of the District Court.
]. w. CAMPBELL,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
(seaD 45t5c
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-04-28
sMITH-sourHERNs

Word was received here the first
Of the week that Miss Esther Smith
Of this city and Mr.. Herman South
erns were married at Minneola Sun
day. Mr.. Southerns is the daughter
Of Mrs. Lutte Calvert Of Liberal and
has a large number Of friends who
join her in wishing long and happy
married life.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-04-28
In Harmony With Legion.

Following an address by Robert A.
LaRonx, national field organizer of the
American Legion before n Joint session
of both houses Of the Nevada legls-
iature, G. w. Harrington, state organ
izer. for the american Federation Of
Labor in Nevada, and number of
union members Of the bodies stated
that they were In harmony with the
Legion's policies and that their or
ganization stood with the Legion In
its fight against radlcalism.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-04-28

j. H. Gentzler will leave Friday
FOR trip to Montezuma and CHM
arron at which places he will visit
his daughter Mrs. /. j, Miller and
family and other relatives.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-04-28
BOY SCOUTS TO HAVE
TRACK MEET SATURDAY

The HOgotons Boy Scouts win be
in Liberal Saturday to meet our
Scouts in a track meet which win be
held at the fair grounds beginning at
8 o'clock. The admission win be
15c and 26c.
Liberal Scouts are in good trim
and this well be an interesting meet.
Posters made by tn Scouts are an
nouncing the meet about town.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-04-28
SAYS THE OWL

A pencil is often hard pushed to tell
the truth.
Man grumbles most where he is
treated best-at home.
One doesn't have to stick pin In
hope to make 1t spring eternal.
A man is always discovering things
that others knew long ago.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-04-28

F, F. Raap of Tyrone was bust.
ness visitor Wednesday.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-04-28

Abe Heibert Of Tyrone was il
Liberal Thursday on business. .
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-04-28

Mrs. C. Shoal went to Great Bend
Wednesday for a visit with friends
and relatives. m
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-04-28

- Jim Strickland Of Tyrone was in
the city Wednesday shopping. His
family came with him.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-04-28

Mrs. Corda Brown and daughter
Marietta Carlson returned the first
Of the week from Grand Valley Ok
a., where they had been visiting the
Hood family.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-04-28

Leroy Gilchrist went to Beatty,
Kans., Thursday where he will be
employed this summer.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-04-28

Nothing is easier to understand than
that we should never have made the
mistake we see other people make.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-04-28

Mrs. ]. J. Murphy went to Larned
the last of the week for short Wis
It with relatives. Her sister Miss Lou
Loop will accompany her home.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-04-28

Emil Harrison who. has been i'll lis
able to be out at this time.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1921-04-28

Stocks are apt to recover from
fall quicker than the operator does.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

you expect her to be always 80. You take IL
as part Of her character, as q ship, just
as you take account of mans peculiarities OF
temper when you deal with him. But with
her you couldn't She was unaccountable. If
she wasn't mad, then she was the most evil
minded, underhand, savage brute that ever
went afoat. I've seen her run in heavy gale
beautifully for two days, and on the third
broach to twice in the same afternoon. The
first time she flung the helmsman clean over
the wheel, but as she didn't quite manage to
kill him she had another try about three hours
afterward. She swamped herself fore and aft,
burst all the canvas we had set, scared all
hands into panic, and even frightened Mrs.
Colchester down there in those beautiful stern
cabins that she was so proud of. When we
mustered the crew there was one man miss
ing. Swept overheard, of course, without being
either seen heard, poor devil
"Always something like that. Always.
''In the ports where she was known," he
went on, "they dreaded the sight of her. She
thought nothing of knocking away twenty
feet so of solid stone facing off the quay or
wiping off the end of wooden wharf She
must have lost miles of chain and hundreds
of tons of anchors in her time. When she
fell aboard some poor unoffending ship it was
the very devil Of job to haul her off again.
And she never got hurt hersef-jlst few
scratches or so, perhaps. They had wanted
to have her strong. And so she was. And as she
began so she went From the day she~was
launched she never let a year pass without
numbering somebody think the owners got
very worried about it. But they wouldn't ad-
nit there could be anything wrong with the
Apse Family They wouldn't even change her
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

AS yet there has been no cooperation bss
tween boarding house keepers and schoolmas-
ters. But when that comes, as come it must
efficiency will make a mighty stride. Incl
dentally, all the now undesirable rooms at tbs
top Of the house will have been let, and doubt
less there will be waiting lists everywhere. II
will mean much to a young roomer to be able
to say:
I'D ask you up to see me some time, old
man, but my room isn't precisely what you'd
call comfortable. It was formerly the garret
Better wait until next week and come to see
me at the Office. I'm just completing course
in personal magnetism and the firm is making
a new vice-presidency for me-"
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
punctuality, will obviate all annoyancss Of this

punctuality, will obviate al annoyarces Of this
kind.
A. the contemplated railway must In several
places be carried through the sides and center
OF street it will be necessary to arrange with
the gas and water companies, so that they may
all cooperate in this great national work. II
the atmospheric principle should be adopted
arrangements could perhaps be entered into to
obtain the use Of the principal main belonging
to the waterworks as q continuous valve, for
If we are to Judge by the arrangements on the
Croydon lire, this continuous valve is tre-
mendous pipe, which merely lies in the middle
of the line without being used.
The sewers, by the way, would, with little
enlargement answer all the purposes Of the
projectors Of this scheme. It il tru" they are
half full of water, but this would not pre-
vent the carriages from bsing propelled, and
the wheels might be sufficiently high to keep
the bodies Of the carriages and the feet Of
the passengers out Of the wet
Considering the frequent stoppages OF tho
existing thoroughfares. the scheme really
seems to deserve encouragement. Nothing is
wanted" says the prospectus, "for this grand
undertaking but public support" II the people
will only come down with their money we
should not wonder at seeing the company get
as far as half dozen advertisements in the
daily papers and = brass plate in the City.
Those who are disposed to sink . little capital
cannot do better than bury it under the me-
tropolis in the manner proposed.
We perceive that no amount of deposit is
named, and nothing is said Of the number or
nominal value of the shares. The secretary is
announced to be in attendance to receive de-
nosifs frnY1 II tn q thoafuI1 whether he oets
any is, in our opinion, 10 to 1.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

fore all their eyes, without anybody getting
aware Of it somehow. She was to be 1000
tons register, or little over; no less on any
account. But when they come to measure
her she turned out ,999 tons and fraction.
General CONSERVATION! And they say old Mr..
Apse was so annoyed when they told him that
he took to his bed and died. The old gentle
man had retired from the firm twenty-five
years before, and was ninety-six years old if
day, so his death wasn't, perhaps, so sur
rrsing. Still, Mr.. Lucian eApse was con-
vinced that his father would have lived to a
hundred. So we may put him at the head Of
the list. Next comes the poor devil of ship
wright that brute caught and squashed as she
went off the ways. She snapped all her checks
like pack-thread and went for the tugs in at
tendance like fury. Before anybody could
see what she was up to she sent one of them
to the bottom, and laid up another for three
months repairs. One Of her cables parted,
and then, suddenly--you couldn't tell why
she let herself be brought up with the other
as quiet as lamb.
"That's how she was. You could never be
sure what she would be up to next She was
wicked beast Or, perhaps she was only Just
insane.
"Eh! Why not? Why couldn't there be
something in her build, in the lines correspond
ing to--what's madness? Only something just
tiny bit wrong in the make of your brain.
Why shouldn't there be mad ship-I mean
mad in shiplike way? There are ships that
steer wildly, and ships that can't be quite
trusted always to stay; others want careful
watching when running in q gale; and again,
hn Shi hot will 10 hoo
weather Of it in every little blow. But then
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

name. STUFF and nonsense as Mrs. Col
chester used to say. assure you, my dear sir,
that she invariably did kill some ono every
voyage she made. She got name for It, far
and wide"
I expressed my surprise that a ship with
such deadly reputation could ever get a crew.
*Then, you don't know what sailors are, my
dear sir.
"Recklessness! The vanity Of boasting in
the evening to all their chums: We've just
shipped in that there Apse Family. Blow her.
She ain't going to scare u.s. Sheer sailor-like
perversity A sort of curiosity. Well-a
little Of all that, no doubt.
"But tell you what: there was q sort of
fascination about the brute. / always had
sort Of horror Of her. She gave me a beastly
shock when I was no more than fourteen, the
very first day-nay, hour--I joined her.
Father came UP to see me of, and was to go
down to Gravesend with us. was his second
boy to go to sea. My big brother was already
an officer then. We got on board about II
in the morning, and found the ship ready to
drop out Of the basin, stern first She had
not moved three times her own length when,
at little pluck the tug gave her to enter the
dock gates, she made one Of her rampaginx
starts, and put such weight on the check rope
"a new six-inch hawser--that forward there
they had no chance to ease it round in time.
and it parted. saw the broken end fly up
high in the air, and the next moment that
brute brought her quarter against the pier
head with jar that staggered everybody
about her decks. She didn't hurt herself.
Not she! But one Of the boys the mate had
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

and said that tho cab was at tho door, If Mr..
Stonor wanted to catch the II :03 up.
At once the senior pilot arose in his mighty
bulk and began to struggle into his coat, with
awe-inspiring upheavals, and squeezed him
self through the door in q great hurry.
care you sailor?" asked the stranger,
who had gone back to his position on the rug.
"I used to be till q couple Of years ago,
when got married." answered this communi-
cative individual. II even went to sea first
in that very ship we were speaking Of when
you came in"
''What ship7" asked. "I never heard you
mention ship"
'I've just told you her name, my dear sir"
he replied "The Apse Family. Surely
you've heard Of the great firm Of Apse & Son,
shipowners. They had a pretty big feet.
There was the Lucy Apse and the Harold
Apse, and Anne, John, Malcolm, Clara, Juliet,
and so on--no end Of Apses.
"This last one the Apse Family, was to be
like the others, only she was to be Still strong.
er, still safer, still more roomy and comforta-
BILE. Everything Of the best. The commo-
dore captain Of the employ was to command
her, and they planned the accommodation for
him like house on shore under big, tall
poop that went nearly to the mainmast. No
wonder Mrs. Colchester wouldn't let the old
man give her up Why, it was the best home
she ever had in all her married days. She had
a nerve, that woman.
"The fuss that was made while that ship
was building! Let's have this little stronger
and that a little heavier; and hadn't that other
thing better be changed for something little
thicker There she was, growing into the
clumsiest, heaviest ship Of her size right be-