Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-01
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postmaster at Matherton, vice G.. III.
Ellsworth.
The Ionia District camp meeting will
be held at the Long Lake grounds,
August 5th to 18th.
The Welch Folding Bed company re-
port brighter business outlook than
at any time since ls92.-Sparta Leader.
Mr.. Slocum OF Greenville, has pur-
chased the flour mill at Hubbardston,
which Jack Hale, Of Lyons, was run
ming under a lease.
The State Agricultural society has
adjusted its Indebtedness at Lansing,
and arrangements will be made for "a
state fair at Grand Rapids this fall.
The Oddfellows OF Ionia, Clinton,
Shiawassee, Eaton and Ingham coun-
ties will picnic on the Agricultural
college grounds at Lansing on July 10.
II. l.. Page and family OF Bedding
came over the first OF the week to eat
his annual strawberry short cake with
his mother and other relatives. -Sar-
anac Local.
1t is reported that the grain buyers
of the state intend to pay 10 To Is
cents per bushel less for wheat which
is mixed with rye than for that which
is free from it.
Did not the prophets declare that
the strawberry crop would be short
because OF the hard late frosts? Let
us hope the predictions of the peach
prophets may bring similar short
CROP
Another long felt want is to be sup
piled and the village of Hubbardston
is TO have a newspaper again after be-
ing without one for several years. 1t
will consist OF eight pages and will be
known as the Hubbardston Herald.
The Lowell Ledger was five years
old last week and Brother Johnson cell
ebrated the event by putting out a inc
edition Of his valuable newspaper on
pink paper. Lowell is a good town
and the Ledger fills its place in an ex-
cellent manner.
The Howard City Record by b. j.
Lowrey passed the quarter century
mark of its existence last week. 1t is
numbered among the best weekly pub
locations in the state and we are pleased
TO note that Brother Lowrey can see
brighter prospects for it in the future
and better facilities than it has yet
enjoyed.
Rev. Frank w. Gunsaulus, the noted
Chicago divine, who was compelled by
i'll health to cancel an engagement to
speak in Bedding during the campaign
last fall and also again "A few weeks
ago, has been sent to the sanitarium
at Alma To recuperate. He had re-
Gently accepted call to preach in the
| Tabernacle New York, and the excite
ment incident to the change has caused
a breakdown which all hope will be
temporary.
This is the age OF odd occurrences
and one of the oldest is related by
James Stirling of Lamont. While
shearing one of his sheep last Saturday
a little brown egg fell from the fleece
and broke on the floor, showing an
embryo bird. Investigation showed a
nest near the sleeps shoulders in which
another egg was reposing. 1t was so
constructed that the eggs could not roll
out with ordinary treatment and gave
the bird snug, warm nest. How the
mother bird could distinguish the
sheep that carried her home is a poser.
A gang of dozen tramps camped on
the river bank near the fair ground
Wednesday evening and proceeded to
make themselves happy with one or
more kegs of beer. They were seen by
Officer Fred Smith, who advised them
to move on, which they agreed to do.
Next morning they were still there,
and Marshal Redemsky, with officers
Fred Smith and Charles Locke, and
John Scheurer, undertook to arrest
them. Some of them showed fight and
some ran away. The officers fired a
few shots in the air to intimidate them,
and citizens passing on the road lost no
time In getting away.-Ionia Standard.
One of our young men resisted pay
ing his poll or capitation tax last year
under the idea which seemed quite
prevalent among a certain class of
young man that the village could not
enforce collection of the same, and
carried the matter TO the circuit court,
where the case was dismissed with
costs to him, amounting to nearly
twenty-five dollars, besides his attor-
ney's fees. There is no reason what
ever why anyone should object to pay
ing this tax, and the knowledge that
refusal to do so is likely to entail
costs to many times its amount will
probably have the effect to discourage
delinquency in this regard. -Imlay
City Record.