Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-02-02
THIS AND THAT.
News From Here and There Condensed
For Our Readers.

: fire department has been organized
at Lake Odessa.
ne Gospel News is the latest candi-
date for public favor, published by A.
E. Bacon at Sheridan.
The village of ST. Johns will spend
So, 500 on an airlift to double the capac
ity of the water works.
1t is expected that the new box fac
tory at Ionia will be ready to begin
business in about ten days.
G. A. Crandall and son Horace start
ed for Beldlng last Saturday at which
place Mr.. Crandall has good job as
engineer in factory. OBJ
server.
Rev Urch, pastor of the Ionia NJ. Z.
church has been granted "a leave Of
absence for three mou.hs if necessary,
until he can make trip abroad and
regain his health.
The Episcopal church society, OF
Greenville, has extended a call to Rev.
Thomas Beeson, Of Madison, Wis, to
become their pastor. He has accepted.
He preached there recently and gave
good satisfaction.
The cigarette is something of a
mathematician, it can add to mans
nervous troubles, it can subtract from
his physical energy, it can multiply
his aches and pains, it can divide his
mental powers, it can take interest
from his work and discount his chances
of success.
"A valuable little pamphlet in the
form OF a roster of the Ionia county
battalion has been issued by President
Frank r. Chase. 1t gives the names
OF the members of the battalion, their
g. rs ftuee address, company, reRiments ilmq N
,e aod hr.,p,t, ss--'' Y. VIZ
ma Sc "nu ana postoffice address OF the
large number OF ladies who joined the
Ladies' auxiliary formed at the Bel
ding meeting OF the battalion on Au-
gust 3rd. last.-Ionia Sentinel.
The roundup farmers institute is to
be held at Portland next week We'd
nesday and Thursday, February and
8, with morning, afternoon and evening
sessions. Jason Woodman, OF Paw
Paw, will be the conductor. The list
of speakers includes: J.S. Woodward,
Lockport, n Y, J. ID. Daniels. Union
Home, Mich, Chief Justice C.B Grant,
Prof. Jacob Reighard, of Michigan
University, Hon. N. B. Hayes, Muir,
and Hon. \. b. Morse and Hon. a. A.
Ellis, of Ionia.
The sugar beet craze Is proving a
great thing for farmers in Bay county
who are tired of farming and want to
sell out. The price Of land lin that
section has taken big jump and the
demand Tor farms is away ahead Of the
supply. The erection OF factory at
Alma is announced as an absolute cer-
tainty and many other cities and towns
are striving toward the same end. The
people of this county do not seem to
have caught the craze which is pre-
vailing in other parts OF the state on
that subject
In reporting the proceedings of the
meeting of the bar association held in
Ionia last week the Sentinel said the
following of one of our attorneys:
dwight Sheldon, OF Belding, was next
called upon and he gave very inter
esting talk in line with the thought
taI2en by the other attorneys, but q
little more of historical nature. Mr.
Sheldon, though one of Ionia's young
est attorneys, handled the subject from
his standpoint in an admirable manner
free and easy In his delivery, ant
bringing out the salient points in hi
arguments with effective force anC
. energy. II was evident TO all wh'
heard him that Mr.. Sheldon will bt
heard from in the future before tn,
bar OF the Ionia circuit"
II you expect to conquer in the battl
OI boudN you Will nave w olo" you
trumpet in a firm determined way.
you toot your whistle only and la
aside your horn, there is not livin
soul will know that you were ever born
The man who owns his acre is the ma
e who plows all day and the man VII
!, keeps ahumming is the man who
| thora IN stay Ruf tho man whn af
e vertses with sort of sudden jerk
d the man who bames the printer-ma
y because IL wouldn't work. The ma
!. who gets the business uses lots of prin
n ers ink-not clatter, not spattel
,. but an ad that makes you thiuk-an
= plans his advertisements as he plar
! his store and stock, and the future I
his business is as solid as a rock.