Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-08
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News From Here and There Condensed
| For Our Readers.
Mrs. Alice Corey of Belding is visit
ing the family of George Hart of the
fifth ward. Big Rapids Pioneer.
A stock company is to he organized
at Ashley, Gratiot county, to put down
test we'll. Oil is what they are look
ing after and expect to find.
Miss May Townsend of Belding has
been the guest of her uncle and aunt
James Trowbrige and wife, near Elm
dale for the past week.-Clarksville
Record.
Last Monday night the home Of
Philip Taylor was entered by thieves
and his gold watch and "a. so in money
was taken from his vest which he
placed at the head OF his bed when he
retired. .-Saranac Advertiser.
1t is said that Michigan Supreme
Court has decided that when ones
neighbor's chickens get over the line
they can be treated as wild game, but
we wouldn't advise such treatment
without first talking to the neighbor
about it.
Farmers around Howard City, so it
is said, have organized a little trust OF
their own. Threshing machine owrers
have been in the habit of charging all
kinds OF prices, but now the members
Of the trust propose that hereafter
there shall be no discrimination shown.
Rosa Miller is the name of young
wpn;an who made her first balloon as
cension in Portland, July }, alsa. 10
came very near being her last too, as
she landed in Grand river and being
fast to the ropes Of the parachute she
came very near drowning before assis-
tance could reach her.
The great collision between two enc
gnes which was advertised to come off
July at Muskegon did not take place.
The gate receipts were not sufficient to
meet the heavy expense the Y. Nj. {.
A. of that city had incurred and they
did not care to assume a greater in
debtedness by sacrificing the engines.
Somebody in Elk Rapids has been
talking about somebody. A card In
last week S Progress over lady's sig
nature advises people TO keep quiet
about what they find or they will ex-
pose their ignorance, and vouchsafes
the Information that what was found
in the house vacated by the writer was
nothing more or less than little ear
syringe that she got for her little girls
ears when they gathered and broke.
Jonas NJ. Shut was held up Friday
night by two men within one-half mile
of Harvard. They secured S43 in
money one watch and a revolver.
There were three men with a double
rig. One held Shuts horse another
put revolver under his nose, and the
third drove on with the rig. After
going through his pockets and taking
all he had they told him TO go. The
third man drove back and picked up
his men. From there they drove south
and west. Shut is an agent for Girls
void Bros. Of Harvard.
81 just think its shameful the way
that girl spits slang" said an Ionia
girl to friend. "My! IL twirled my
talker as she does, my blooming old dad
would tan my duds until the dust was
thicker than fees in fly time. " "You
betcher your brass, and serve you
right. - replied the other young lady.
"My parents are sunfowers OF the
same hue, and If should make raw
crack in my conversation they'd thrash
the rosy cussedness out OF my angelic
anatomy quicker than chain light
ming" And then they proceeded to
suck the juice of lemon through a
i Stipk of candy -Dptpoit Journal