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The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1922-03-22
COOKS CORNERS

Mrs. ]. C. Bradford and Mrs. Fred
Deitz visited Mrs. Walter Fiske, on
Friday.
Mrs. L. J. Kimberley and Mrs.
Jennie Noble were in Bedding Fri
day.
Mrs. C. A. Knapp and daughter,
Mary Louise and Betty Jane spent
Sunday at B. j. Storey's.
Clarence Werner returned to Lam
sing Monday.
Alvin Storey was in Grand Rapids
Saturday.
Mrs. b. A. Boss, who has been so
very i'll is gaining and able to be out
again.
Mrs. Frank Bedding visited her
parents, Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. o. Blood visited
their daughter at Grand Rapids the
past week.
John Hemphling, who was so SER
iously injured while ago, is able
to be out again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earle Slayton and
daughter were in Smyrna, Monday.
Fay Hoppough had business in
Grand Rapids, Monday.
George Reeves is enjoying Ford
Roadster.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1922-03-22
SMOKY ROW

Clayton Sparks and France Witt
attended the birthday party for
Beatrice Peterson in Belding. Satur-
day night.
Cecil Higgins went to his grand
fathers, n. E. Higgins. instead of
Fay Clark's as was stated last week.
Lydia and Leila Towne and Kath-
ryn Stinse visited at Milo Towne's,
Sunday.
Larry DAILY and Harry Rosenberg
of Grand Rapids and Pearl Zahm and
Edith Doying, of Belding, spent Sun
day with Will Ridsdale and wife.
Leo Shindorf's baby is no better.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius, of Green
vile, vailed on Mrs. r. p. Russell,
one day last week.
Dell Cobb and wife, Mrs. r. p.
Russell and Knott Cobb and family
were in Ionia, Sunday and called on
Homer Cook and wife.
Miss Higbee was compelled to
close school at the Brink school on
Monday on account Of sickness. She
was back again Tuesday.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1922-03-22
NORTH EAST KEENE

March came in like lamb and
goes out like lion.
Mr.. Clemments now is located In
his new home on the G. p. Hawley
farm.
Winifried Johnson has hired out
to o. j. Byrnes by the month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis and daughter,
Julia and Mrs. Ellis, mother, Mrs,
Childs, are visiting Norman Childs
Mr.. Ellis will work by the month
for Mr.. Goodwin and will move there
soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Feuerstein
were in Saranac, Saturday.
Bert Scheid called on his brother,
Andrew Scheid and Joe Shindorf on
Wednesday.
Clarence Hart and David Hardy
are running for commissioners and
James Hopkins and Frank Heether
are on the ticker for overseer.
Mrs. Henry Lee called on her sis
ter, Mrs. Laura Jenkins, last Satur-
day.
John Myers and son, Glen Brestly
called on Will Ellison one day last
week.
Madeline Seifried was home over
Sunday.
Clarence Hewes was in Saranac
Saturday.
Floyd Ellison and wife and son
Elroy, were in Saranac Saturday.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1922-03-22

w. s. Purdy, of Orleans, spent
Sunday at the ]. M. York home.
Lloyd Trowbridge, of Lake Odes-
sa,returned home on Tuesday MORN
ing after having spent a short time
as guest at the Lou Cartridge
home.
Mrs. George E. Wagner and little
son, Richard, were Grand Rapids
visitors, Tuesday.
Duncan Kerr, of Monticello, Ind,
q former resident spent the week end
with old friends here.
Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. Archie E.
Denny, OF Saranac, March IS, z
pound "a. ElHa Lucille.
Mr.. Leonard Howe and family, of
Grand Rapids, have been spending a
few days with his mother, Mrs. Sara
Hopwood and her relatives and
friends.
Notice! Kindly get your order in
for Dow lime and sulphur solution,
at once. H. j. Connell.
Mrs. Lee E. Joslyn, of Detroit, is
spending a week with her cousin,
Mrs. /. l.. Hubbell, at the Burling-
ton.
Steward Hayden, of Grand Rapids
came ur Monday morning to attend
the funeral Of his old friend, Thomas
Bracken, sr.
Henry Peasley is visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Brad
shaw.
Albert (anxiously)-"I'm afraid
I'll soon be baldl my hair is coming
out" The Corner Drug Store. "Why
worry? Use Partisan Sage and I'll
guarantee il will stop falling hair or
return your money"
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1922-03-22

Tho Pictures In The Fire"
As we SIT in the glow of the fires
dim light,
And dream of the days past and
gone
And see once more our childhood
days
AS they pass by one by one.
Yes, there is mother and father
there,
A brother and sisters two
And we think once more of the
tender care,
Their loving hands didst bestow.
And we think Of the joys and sor-
rows too,
That have come to US one by one,
But still there's a father and a
mother there,
To welcome the children home.
Oh, the years are many, the years
are long,
Since we travelled those childhood
ways,
ana we ma Tie Do1eiS VI iiiS iS
strong
And how dreary and dark the
days.
But there's a God of love who
looks down from above,
AS he watches DER us all,
And he whispers low, his peace be
still,
And our hearts are cheered by his
call.
There, the fire is out and the pic
lures gone,
But the past is memory dear,
A dream that we'll love and cher.
ish long, q.
Ada Wilson Marquette
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1922-03-22

Every ounce of concrete moulded
into Michigan" Slaves is COM
pounded from only the best aggre-
gates and cured under the most
favorable temperature conditions.
The result is silo built for time
everlasting.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1922-03-22

several days last week.
Mr.. and MRS. Dell Condor spent
several days at their farm last
week.
John Andrews jr. was in Green
vile Friday where he purchased q
span of horses.
Mrs. Clyde Condor spent Friday
and Saturday in Grand Rapids.
Mrs. Glen Ford visited at Jud
Hopenaw's Of south Lowell, last
week.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1922-03-22
To Whom 1t May Concern

This is to advise any person, firm
or corporation that, may be holding
any Glens Falls Insurance Company
of Glens Falls, New York, policies
Of the numbers given below, SIC to
$50 inclusive, that these policies
were lost or mislaid by our agent at
Bedding and were not issued with
au hority of said agent. Should you
hold any of the above mentioned pol
icies, kindly communicate immedi-
ate..y with r N. Menzies, special
agent, post office box PIP. Jackson,
Mich.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1922-03-22

Mrs. Chris Kropf called on her
daughter, Mrs. Dell Ford. Sunday
afternoon.
Miss Helen Andrews was home
from Bedding over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tony VANDERBILT, of
Grand Rapids called on Murray
lake friends one day last week.
George Lally is building a cottage
on the south end of Murray lake, on
the Lally farm.
Lucille Davis was in Grand Rapids
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1922-03-22
ASHLEY

The box social given for the Com
munity Boosters, held at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs Ski!len, was well at
tended and all had very good time.
After the program, which was fine
was given, they gave away silk
quilt which the ladies made. the
tenth ticket drawn, No. %, received
the quilt. Nettie Fuller was the
lucky holder of the number. The
boxes were then sold to the highest
bidder and all proceeded to enjoy
their contents. Hot coffee was serv-
to thank Mr.. and Mrs. Skillen for
their generous hospitality.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louie Emmons and
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis were all day
visitors at Karl Kraas', near Sand
Lake, last Friday. In the afternoon
Mr.. Emmons sold at auction, Mr..
Krass' farm implements, etc. Mr..
and Mrs. Kraas have purchased a
grocery store and home in Pierson
and will move this week.
The Ladies Aid have their social
dinner at Frank Rasmussen's, next
Friday, March "a. Everyone is cor
daily invited to attend.
Mrs. Don Stevens and son, Donald
are sick at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Egbert Stevens in Greenville. They
have a form Of influenza and Mrs.
Stevens, bronchitis too, but are bet
ter and we hope will return home
soon.
We hear that Mrs. Alta Hall has
sold her farm to Vern Smith of near
Blanchard and they will soon take
possession Of the same.
Miss Mabel Byrnes, our teacher,
has been quite i'll this week, so the
children have had weeks vacation
but would much rather have gone
to school than have their teacher i'll
They were so sorry.
Mrs. Dewey is still in Minneapolis
with her daughter, Gala, whose adj
dress is, Mrs. Oscar Dyar, 152 Orlin
Ave., to those who would care to
write to her.
Mrs. Orpha Rasmussen visited
with her old friends and neighbors in
Greenville for several days this last
week.
Mrs. Earl Nash is quite sick at her
home, Lulu is better and able to be
around and help wait on her mother
Mr.. and Mrs. G. l.. Beardslee were
visitors at Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Dor.
den's, in Grattan, last Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mcdonald moved
back to the Wilson farm this week
Thursday, and Mr.. and Mrs. Packard
to Ed. Carpenters farm near the
Brink school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis, Winnie anc
Edith Wood, attended "The Little
Minister" in Greenville, last week
Monday evening.
Sunday, March 10 the families Of
Howard Macarthur and Robert Woo
and Richard Longstreet spent the
day with Lou Longstreet to cele.
brate their wedding anniversary. Mr.
and Mrs. Woods anniversary occur
ing that day; Mr.. and Mrs. Macarthur
on the 21st and Mr.. and Mrs. Lot
Longstreet's on the 18th. Their par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Longstreet were
with them and helped to make theil
day complete. After bounteou.
dinner was disposed of in the propel
fashion, they all enjoyed a goot
family visit before returning to Their
homes.
Come to church Sunday at 1890.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1922-03-22
F. M. Curch Notice

Cottage prayer meetings are be-
ing held each night this week, pre-
paratory to series of meetings to
be held at the church commencing
Sabbath evening, March 26. Rev
E. Ballenger, of Town, General con-
ference evangelist, will assist the
pastor commencing March 80 until
April 16. Rev. Ballenger is an able
and fearless herald of the power OF
the second person in the adorable
trinity, who in His incarnation was
called Jesus for He shall save His
people from their sins. All are in
vited to the Gospel services which
will be held each night, Monday anc
Saturday included.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1922-03-22
Before War Profiteerino.

Most Of those who roll I'm wealth be.
gan by rolling up their shirtsleeves.-
Boston Transcript.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1922-03-22

THERE WAS man
WHO LOVED his friends
AND TOOK them and
KEPT THEM loving him,
BECAUSE HE liked to
HAIL THEM often with
HELLO JIM and Joe and SAM
HOW ARE the folks?
FINE that's good.
THE KIDDIES too
I'M GLAD to hear
ARE HAVING fun
AND LIVING right.
HIS FRIENDS were many
THEY KNEW him well,
THEY KNEW he cared,
THAT HIS heart was right,
HE LIVED each day
WHAT THE day brought forth
HIS FAITH we'll founded
HIS TRUST in God
HE KNEW the good
AND HE wanted
HIS BOYS and
HIS GIRLS and
HIS FRIENDS to know
THAT THE TREES could tell
THE GREAT SECRET that
MANKIND SEEKS blindly for
THE BIRDS on the wing
AND AMONG the branches
AND THE leaves
KNOW ALL the facts.
ALL THE little
FURRY ANIMALS know too
SO HE LOOKED about for
A BEAUTIFUL woodland where
NATURE RULES
WHERE SUMMER BREEZES whisper
THRU AN UNBROKEN roof
OF LEAVES.
WHERE THE BIRDS and the
FURRY FRIENDS are near.
HE WANTED brook where
THE SPECKLED THOUT gamboled
AND PLAYED about
A LAKE he wanted with
WIDE EXPANSE from shore to shore
WHERE SUNBEAMS played from
MORN TILL NIGHT.
WHERE MOONBEAMS silvered
THE CREST and danced about
WHEN THE lights were out and
NATURE SLEPT.
THIS He FOUND and More,
CONFINEMENT came to
HIS HOME and friends.
BECAUSE HIS FRIENDS came too
TO LINCOLN LAKE
AND FOUND what
HE FOUND, that
WHERE NATURE RULES
is REST AND PEACE.
THANK YOU.
FRED A. GODFREY.
LINCOLN LAKE SILVER BEACH RESORT
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1922-03-22

Mrs. Soules and Bessie King Wis
tied Thursday with Mrs. Dell Cobb
and Mrs. r. p. Russell.
Fred Benton attended st. Pat
rick's day in Smyrna. Friday.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-02
The Outline of History-By H. @. Wells
|. The Romance of Mother Earth

his dreams, and his dreams mixed up at
times in his mind with his waking impress
s1ons and puzzled him.
Fear Faith?
Since he buried his dead men, and since
even the later Neanderthal men SEE m to have
buried heir dead, an apparently with food
and weapons, it has Leen argued that he had
belief in future life. But it is just as
reasonable to supposo that early men buried
their dead with God and weapons because
they doubted if they were dead, which is not
the same thing as believing them to lave
immortal spirits, and that their belief in
their continuing vitality was reinforced by
dreams of the departed. They may have as
cribed sort Of werewolf exit tence to the
dead and wished to propitiate them.
The Reindeer man, We feel, was too intelli-
gent and too like ourselves not to have had
some speech, but quite probably it was not
very serv;ceable for anything beyond direct
statement Of matter-of-fact narrative He
lived in larger community than the Mean
derthaler, but how large we do not knov'.
Except when game is swarming, hunting
communities must --ot keep together in large
bodies or they will starve. The Indians who
depend upon the caribou in Labrador must
be living under circumstances rather like
those of the Reindeer men. They scatter III
small family groups, as the caribou scatter
in search of food; but when the deer col
lect for the seasonal migration, the Indians
also collect. That is the time for trade and
feasts and marriages.
The simplest American Indian is 10000
years more sophisticated than the Reindeer
man, but probably that sort of gathering and
dispersal was also the way of Reindeer men.
At Sloutre in France there are traces of a
great camping and feasting place. There
was no doubt an exchange of news there, but
one may doubt if there was anything like an
exchange of ideas. One sees no scope in
such life for theology or philosophy or SUI
perstition or speculation. Fears. yes; but
unsystematic fears; fancies and freaks Of the
Imagination, but personal and transitory
freaks and fancies
Perhaps there was a certain power Of sug-
gestion in these encounters. A fear really
felt needs few words for it's transmission; a
value set upon something may be very sim
ply conveyed.
Life Without a ''Past''
In these questions of primitive thought and
religion, we must remember that the lowly
and savage peoples today probably throw
very little light on the mental state Of men
before the day Of fully developed language.
Prmordfal man could have had little or
no tradition before the development Of
speech. All savage and primitive peoples of
today on tAe contrary, are soaked in trad1-
t. the tradition f thousands of genera
lions. They may have weapons like their re-
mote ancestors and methods like them, but
what were slight and shallow Impressions on
the minds of their predecessors are now deep
and intricate grooves worn throughout the
intervening centuries generation by genera
ton.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-02
4 Sacrificed Fleet
Let us hear from you.

RIVATE business could not survive
- such deals as that of the United States
Shipping Board in its recent sale OF a
fleet of some two hundred wooden war-serV-
ice vessels for total Of seven hundred and
forty thousand dollars, each having cost the
Government almost seven hundred thousand.
Absurdly low as the figure seems, 1t is
probably the best, in the circumstances, that
could be obtained. Indeed, it is virtually
twice as much as would have been realized
had the vessels been disposed Of last year,
when there was only one bid, although the
intended sale had been duly advertised. Gen
eral knowledge Of the fact that soon or late
the fleet would have to be sold, inasmuch as
1t was not to be operated by the Shipping
Board, tended Of course to depress the price
The final offering, which was that Of a
San Francisco attorney, representing syn
dictate, was acceptable in that something was
better than nothing certainly better than
positive and increasing loss. The Govern
ment has been for some seasons at an ex-
pense of approximately 4.lty thousand dol
lars month, states writer in the New
York Times, to care for the idle vessels
1.-TWO tugs in the James River, where two
hundred and eleven ships have been laid up,
have been used in pumping water from them
to keep certain units from sinking. 1t also
cost the Government to employ force of
men on board the ships
In addition to the three quarters of mil
lion dollars which the national treasury will
receive from the sale, it will be worth some
thing to the country to have the ships in
use instead Of going to waste and decay.
Some Of them will be used in coastwise trade,
and others as barges, while a few will be
scrapped for junk.
Built at the time Of Americas entrance into
the World War, when the German subma-
rine menace was at it's height, this fleet of
wooden merchantmen represented a well-ad-
vised measure of preparedness Had the con-
flict lasted as long as most observers then
expected, the transport facilities thus afford
ed might have proved to be decisive factor
The money spent for their construction is not
now to be begrudged But it does seem re-
grettable that they could not have been put
to some disposal more profitable to the COM
mon interests.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-02
ICOpyrIgnC, I 5ZA
(TO BE CONTINUED

employer. She may be the graduate of half
a dozen colleges, and he may murder the
kings English and commit assault and bat
terry on grammar every time he opens his
mouth. Nevertheless if Susan has any real
intelligence, she does not cast her diploma
in his face, or let him perceive that she
notices his lapses. She looks humble, and
revises his dictation so craftily that he hard
ly realizes that it has been done, and Susan g
reward for hiding her light under the waste
paper basket is a fat pay envelope instead of
q blue slip.
Heaven knows that the complicated job
Of managing husband, and rearing a fam
lily, and making a home requires all the
wisdom that has been accumulated since
Eve bit into the apple that grew on the tree
OF knowledge, but here, too, the successful
woman is the woman who is so clever she
never shows how clever she is.
Anathema is the name of the woman who
publicly bosses her husband, and who calls at
tent1on to the fact that she has a monopoly
OF the family brains. Love will survive the
loss OF beauty, sickness, nerves, tempera-
ment, and temper, even unfaithfuIness
but 1t never outliVes having it's grammar re-
Vlsed, its pronunciation corrected, and be-
ing set to right on every statement
No man is married to woman who
knows more than he does, and who let's
everybody see that she knows more without
passionately regretting that he did not mar
ry a congenital idiot instead of a Solomon
The successful wife is she who is content
to manipulate the show, instead of being the
show herself. 1t is the woman who steers
her John so craftily along the way she wants
him to go he never dreams he is being guild
ed at all The successful wife is the one
who makes her husband believe that he
thought first the thing she has cen thinking
Tor years, and that he originated the plans
that she had decided upon long before she
ever put the idea into his head.
The successful woman, socially, is the one
who camouflages how much she knows in
stead of smuggling you with it. The most Of
fens1Ve' OF their sex are the intellectual
snobs who can never forget that they are
Veneered with an expensive brand of Gull
turine.
Also, if a woman is bright and witty
she is only too often betrayed into making
funny speeches at the expense of the weak
nesses OF her fello7 creatures. Such wom-
an IS feared, and hated, and ostracized.
and pays in loneliness and Iovelessness the
price of showing off how brilliant she is
The moral of all of which is that if a wom-
an wishes to be successful she must never
let anybody find out that the inside of her
head is as well adorned as the outside.
copyright, 1927
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-02

Florida and parts Of Tennessee, Louisiana
and Mississippi, are described as being dis
tinctly better than at any time in more than
two and half years. For the entire region
the financial returns from the harvests OF
1922 will be substantially in excess of those
from last year. In Georgia Increased val
uations are indicated for corn cotton, sweet
potatoes cotton seed, hay, cugar cane and
rye, white potatoes, tobacco, cowpeas, sor-
ghum for syrup, peaches and pecans. AL
though the yields Of the major crops, with
the exception OF cotton, was considerably
less than in 1921, the total i.dicated value
is two hundred and twenty-three million,
nine hundred and forty-four thousand dol
seven million, nine hundred and eghty-six
thousand a twelve-month ago.
To this fundamentally encouraging fact,
add that the banks "are amply provided with
funds for crop moving and harvesting" that
industrial employment is practically normal,
that an unprecedented amount of construc-
centage OF the farmers are paying up their
indebtedness, some of which was incurred
for the present crop and sons OF which was
carried over from the last year or two If
this be not proof of prosperity, there is no
such witness.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-02
Our OzO1. Wild Beast
thousand human beings devour-
ed by wild beasts!
such witness

-HREE thousand human beings devour-
ed by wild beasts!
1t sounds like legend from the
worlds dim long ago. AS fact 1t is from
recent official report from British India
The tales that Kipling tells are not more
startling than the truth OF the statisticians.
Three thousand persons, they dryly relate,
persisted between jungle teeth and claws, all
in a twelvemonth; and upwards of nineteen
thousand died from venomous snake bites.
How monstrously terrible and. strange that
record reads to who dwell in a land of
sheltered happiness and broad highways,
where nature even at her widest is friendly
and beautiful
Yet in this same secure United States
twelve thousand persons were killed and one
million five hundred thousand were injured
in the course of the year 1920 as a result of
automobile accidents, most of which due
caution would have prevented.
Is it not time to rid America Of the wild
beast called Carelessness?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-02
PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
BY Jack L. Patterson
Good Old DAVIS of Yore


Some people are always longing for the
good old days. They see nothing good in the
present.
They are dicontented and fault-fnding
upon every occasion, They wake up in the
morning in an unhappy frame Of mind and
they go to sleep with sigh for the good-old-
days that have gone. What Of those days?
In the United States there were no railroads
no steamboats,, no electric lights, telephones,
no moving machines, no automobiles, or
tractors, or any Of the more or less compli-
Gated farm machinery that has lessened the
labors Of men and women. There were no
anesthetics, and the teeth were pulled, limbs
amputated and operations performed under
the most painful circumstances; there were
no bath tubs, no steam heating plants, no
cook stoves, a poor mail service and poor
roads.
In those days there were few hospitals and
scarcely any sanitary precautions. Life was
a case of the survival of the 'ittest, with lit
tie enjoyment, and yet there are those who
long for the good-old-days. The fact Of the
case is that they do not know what they want.
-Willacooche Times.