The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1921-11-02
"Ther La the Word


49, "The" Is the Word
GranS Forks, N. D.-A body of
an unidentified man was found here
in side-tracked bunk car.-WonCer
where the poor fellows other bodies
were? *
If you happen to see the advertise
ment- which appeared recently head
ed Protect your lips from the son"
just put it down dis a Miss-pr mt.
There have been several new cures
for rheumatism advertised national
ly the past few months but we be-
lieve there are a good manv who
would still prefer to have their doc-
tor prescribe the old one.
A gang of girl burglars has been
unearthed in Des Moines. Maybe
to substitute mice in pace Of bull
dogs.
A good deal Of interest has been
aroused over the question of whether
Congress is going to place imethyld-
iamondiphenylme thane and tetrame-
Observation-Disclosures on the
free list or not.
Humor on tombstones is rare. but
here is an inscription found on one
! in little Connecticut town:
Here lies the mother of children five,
OF whom three are dead and two
alive,
The three that are dead sprefering
rather
To die with their mother than live
with their fther.
And more than that, grave
stone salesman friend of ours told
us of an order he filed The in
scription ran like this:
\ Ii was the awful whooping cough,
That took our little Willie off,
Now he's gone, and gone to stay,
Darn the whooping cough anyway.
A re headed boy applied for a
| job in butcher shop recently, and
was offered the job for SO week.
The butcher asked, "Well, what can
you do? Can you dress a chicken ?"
The boy replied. mot on three dol
lars a week"
A true optimist, to our mind, is
the man who is grateful for small
things, and even admits that to have
cold in the head Is better than have
nothing in it.
Mexico is taking up baseball, we
hear. Umpiring in that whimsical
republic must be a nice dignifed and
positive method Of suicide.
/ Madame Curie, the famous dis
coverer Of radum, saws the world is
becoming warmer. Paste this para
graph in your coal bin this winter.
Slaves to Nicotine ?-"Brides of
the Weed Center of Washington So
ciety nterest"-Headline in New
] York Herald.
Among the burning questions this
winter will be the price of coal
In the Oakland (Cal.) Tribune the
following boner was pulled. "Collette
Forbes, who sang continuously for
six wears in Lonc on. is to play OPP
posite Hobarth Bosworth in his next
picture." Can it be that she is re-
lated to the man who sang "The
Stars and Stripes Forever?"
And Very Little of That-Astron-
omer-Nothing has ever been found
on Venus. Nothing.
1t must make these here prohibi-
ton agents peeved to see a storm
brewing.
THE Moonshine's Right in NV
Old Kentucky Home"-Late song
hit.
Our sympathy goes out to the Bel
ding man who starts with his wife
for an auto ride, gets nine miles in
the country. runs into a rain storm
and then has to admit that he didn't
put the windows down.
A town is like a perambulator-
. it isn't much good unless il is push
: ed
! Be like a ball player. The thing
he is always working for is home.
Why should the town muzzIe dogs
} and not knockers?
Whiting this column full each
week is awfully hard work. Excuse
please till next week-changing
? reels.
Attends Legion Convention
: So far as we have been able 70
; learn F. Sidney Washburn is the
: only local man to be in attendance
at the national ,convention of the
i American Legion he living left here