Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-11-24
THIS AND THAT.
News From Here and There Condensed
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scription. How does he know he will
When IA lot of women get together
the main subject Of conversation II
whether some other woman knows how
her husband is acting.
1t was an allwise Providence tha
created woman after everything else
had been finished; otherwise she would
have wanted to boss the job.
! Two Lake Odessa boys had lots ol
; fun throwing stones at railroad mile
J post. They we're arrested and it cost
their parents $40 each. That WASN'T
so funny
A new departure in the line of town
ship improvements comes from Macki-
nae Island. The board of that town
ship has purchased hearse for the
free use OF its residents.
At the Sunday school convention
held in Saginaw last week delegates
were elected TO attend the international
convention at Atlanta, Ga, next year.
Among the list appears the name of
Mrs. DR.. Coville of this city.
Carson City complains that 1t is get
ting extremely poor service from the
Grand Trunk railroad. You want TO
get on the line of that new railroad
from Grand Rapids to Saginaw via
Belding and things will be changed.
Correspondents of newspapers often
find names misspelled in print. This
occurs on account of the names having
been obscurely written. Every letter
should be carefully made. Printers
and proof readers ind ii difficult to
guess at names.
Several of exchanges tell about a
wood famine because the roads are so
bad farmers are not hauling any Bel
ding is safe as farmers supply but a
small part of what is used here. Mostly
shipped in by rail and sold through
the wood yards.
The postoffice department has made
ruling that forbids postmasters giving
mail To school children while going to
or from school. So il your children
are refused the mail at The posJonic
don't swear and curse the postmaster
it is no fault of his The postoffice de-
partment at Washington has seen the
necessity of making ruling of this
kind.
The Michigan Trust company which
is receiver for the Ionia Furniture COM
pany, will foreclose the mortgage on
the property soon. and it is probable
that shirt factory may be started in
the plant. The shirt industry is rep
resented by eastern money and the
citizens OF Ionia have held several
meetings with the idea of securing the
plant and Offering it as a bonus to the
eastern men.
The time of year has arrived when
every horse left standing-if for only a
few mnutes-should be blanketed. a
little money spent for a blanket may
save the life, and always saves the
spirit of your horses 1t is the duty of
our marshal to see that horses left on
the streets are provided with blankets.
This is no idle statements but it is
duty of humanity TO see that dumb
animals are not missused and surely an
officer has more force to his talk than
anyone else.
1t is said that fool is born into the
world every second of time. Certainly
there is no lack of people who present
themselves every day TO be robbed by
some smooth swindler. People who are
otherwise intelligent persist in beiev-
ing that it is easy to get something for
nothing and they are ever ready to be-
lieve that there are men who will for a
tr fle assist others to make fortunes
These are the sort OF people who are
ready to be persuaded that TO flood the
country with worthless or deprecated
money will enable everybody to become
Immediately rich. IL is simply another
form of the old game of getting some
thing for nothing
Last Friday at the close of lawsuit
in the circuit court. over liquor case,
a scrap took place in the Bailey House,
in which Elmer King, who was a wit
ness in the case, swore he would '.do upn
f.. A. Horrigan one of the attorneys. /
Horrigan and Geo. T.. Nichols were at
torneys on one side and they bore down
heavy on King in their arguments to
the jury. King is an alleged pugilst
and is known somewhat about here. !
He is a son OF Dan King who lived here
until recently. He made for HorrIgan
vowing vengeance. The latter made
IA pass for Kings nose but landed heavi-
ly on his shoulder, then they grappled I
and both went onto the floor. Horri-
gan recovered and jumped on the
clerks desk with King after him and /
both fell to the floor, Horrigan on top,
and falling heavily on Kings leg broke .
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