Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-29
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Montcalm county.
Lowell Journal: Mrs. Alice Brown
and children are making three weeks
visit with friends at Alton, Bedding
and Greenvllle.
The Cooperative Telephone Co. of
Lake Odessa has made transfer OF
their system Of 225 miles OF line to the
new State Telephone Co.
The annual conference OF the Free
Methodist church will convene in
French's grove, Lakeview, on August
IL, 1897, and remain in session one
week.
Edmore Journal: William O'Bryon
who is connected with this Office, is
taking a two weeks vacation and dur
ing his absence will visit Greenville,
Belding, Lake Odessa and Grand
Rapids.
Wesley Bennett, who shot and killed
Moses Walker in Easton township,
must answer to the charge OF murder
in the circuit court. He will remain
in Jail until his trial in the September
term of court.
Portland will have sleeper in their
High school. lie will be the assistant
High school teacher. Ii the boys
won't behave themselves there is liable
to be rear end collision with the
Sleeper.-Lake Odessa Wave.
Chas. Manning, a Portland painter,
met with horrible accident Saturday.
A scaffold upon which he was standing
gave way and he fell upon the sharp
point of scantling, driving it into his
body nearly a foot. His recovery Is
doubtful.
The Matching process has been com
pleted on the 20 Mongolian pheasant
eggs recently purchased by Howard
City sportsmen. Twenty-four fine
birds are the result. When matured
they will be liberated in this vicinity.
Howard City Record.
The Portland Review announces that
it will undertake to adopt the advance
payment system on subscriptions after
Oct. lst. Just what country publishers
generally ought to do, and its only a
question of time when they will be
obliged to-Grand Ledge Independent.
Lowell Journal: The Lowell Cutter
Company is running its machine force
over time in order to get out its orders.
OF course lone robin doesn't make "a
summer, nor does rush in one indus
try make boom, but it simply shows
that good times are coming and COM
ing right along.
With electric lights at the depot
Portland will get considerable free ad-
vertising. A railroad station and its
surroundings is the criterion by which
many people Judge OF towns enter
prise and comparatively a small per
cent. of those who pass through on the
night trains get nearer Portland than
the straight and narrow track of the
ID. G. r. & w.
The local wool market has closed.
Smith & King bought the last load last
Saturday. The total clip marketed in
Ionia this year was 10000 pounds of
which Smith & King purchased $4,000,
and w. c. Page & Co. $4,000. The
purchase by the latter firm would have
been larger but for the sickness and
death of Mr.. Scott. The prices paid
averaged from III to IL cents for I'M
washed, and 13 to 20 for washed against
8 to II and 10 to 10 last year.-Ionia
Sentinel.
The +. b. Edwards estate in Green
vile will be settled only after legal
contest, if the Ionia Standard is author
ity. Mrs Sarah Rowe Edwards was
recognized as the wife OF E. b. Ed
wards for q years, yet the Standard
says that Mrs. Anna Edwards, first
wife of Mr.. Edwards, through Nc
Garry & Nichols OF Ionia had filed a
bill in the Montcalm circuit court, to
have the divorce set aside on the
grounds of fraud and want OF jurisdic-
ton, and to declare void the marriage
with Sarah Rowe; also to set aside the
deed of one-third of lands TO Sarah
Rowe, on the ground OF the considera-
ton being illegal; and to establish her
right of dover in the property OF de-
ceased, and to have the same admin
istered and set apart to her as the
legal widow OF said deceased" The
estate is quite large and the contest
will be a sharp one.
Quite discovery was made at Alma
last Thursday by a gang doing road
work on bluff along Pine River, about
mile and half southwest of town.
While ploughing, an old copper kettle,
securely fastened together, was un-
earthed which contained locks Of
human hair, some dark and some light,
undoubtedly scalp locks. With these
were found some silver ornaments, a
scalping knife and wooden spoon.
Further investigation revealed large