Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-04-08
JRSDAY. APRIL 8, 1897.

venor Pingree has issued his Ar
Day proclamation and says: I'm
| ,r,rmity with custom which has
prevailed in this and other states,
In accordance with concurrent
Eution No. q, approved March
ty-six, eighteen hundred and
ty-five, /, Hazen S. Pingree, Gov
r of the state OF Michigan, do here
designate and set apart Friday,
30, next, as Arbor Day, and rec
end that all public schools, col
and other educational institutions,
al the citizens Of our great state,
,serve the same in an appropriate
Tier. | also recommend that this
e)e devoted TO the general planting
fees, shrubs and flowers, TO the end
a lawns, school grounds, public
5 and streets and highways may
ermanently enriched and beauti-
land that tree be planted for
se member of each family"
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de Hastings Banner has discovered
nlitor who is or will be a million
Off his chickens come home to
=. The story OF his good fortune
follows: 1.-THE richest man in the
a is, or ought to be, Brother Carl
1of the Grass Lake News. Thirty
" ago he let farmer have eight
vens to double every year. The
r. day he thought it was about time
sve settlement; the matter was
I'd up and it was found that Carl
ad II, l7g, S67 1854 chickens coming,
re says they are worth at least 80
each. Figure this up and Carl
Mould own the whole United States,
dretty nearly. He says he has
piving witnesses to the transaction
III he has to do now is to collect
.rsebt."
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elus is playing star role these
rings and holds the boards in the
Urn heavens. She is the evening
hi and shines brightly through the
|rswept March atmosphere. So
liant is Venus as she chases around
n'the sun that many citizens have
puzzled and have written letters
" II new star has found place
e armament, or if the star Of
chem has returned. This is not
Prst time she has puzzled human-
rbr Sir John Herschel had a hard
of it trying to- discover what
E. her shine with such brilliancy.
cad TO give it up for it dazzled his
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phere is ever a time in mans life
P'he needs the encouragement and
eration of a wife, it is In the
n years of his manhood, when
,ss is still unreached, and when
n possible resource needs TO be
fod OF in order to make success at
Die. 1t is not quite the fair thing
e girl to refuse to become his bird
has fabricated golden cage for
sing in; this is a long way from
lang the scriptural idea OF a
meet"
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edner Maynard and Walter Howe
Saving a red oak tree, Thursday,
'the saw struck something hard.
legation showed il TO be a horse
located eight inches from the
re. The rings in the wood snow
cit must have commenced its
re alliance with the tree 80 years
1t was 10 feet from the bottom Of
ee and Is inches below the first
IT was on the James Maynard
SIND the tree was a second growth
pThe portion containing the shoe
It out and is now on exhibition at
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.ernor Pingree has signed the
agar bill and it will be a law in
rs after the adjournment OF the
rture. 1t provides bounty of
ent pound for all sugar man
sred OF Michigan beets, the de-
icing to help the farmers who
he beets, the law providing that
must be paid at least 400 a ton
, beets delivered at the factory.
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i'rns from all precincts in Ionia
except Sebewa, give Judge
nor justice of the supreme court
md George L. Yaple, populist.
bAaking Longs majority in the
il 254. Sebewa will cut this pos
200. All precincts but Sebewa
r. Hale for school commissioner
MIR. Tallman 3,244, Hale's ma
2OS.
49,
that staunch and sturdy Dem
e. w. Jersey, alderman in the
ward, whom good many Re-
pms thought could not be beaten,
rown in the cyclone.
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iley Ireland got there with both