Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-10-26
THIS AND THAT.
News From Here and There Condensed
For Our Readers.

Dandy. Its name is Jetfery and Ly-
man j. Clark is postmaster
II. M. Drummond, of Belding, was In
Portland Saturday inspecting timber
for the Belding-Hall Co., with Chas.
A. Staley Review.
Rev. Isaac Terborgh, of Portland
has for the second time in three months
resigned the pastorate of the Congre-
gational church. He was induced To
recall his first resignation.
Rudyard Kipling gets more money
for bad poem written now than he did
FOR good one few years ago. IL is
the reward Of fame, which has its re-
wards as we'll as penalties.
The Portland common council have
appointed extra police To serve on hal
lowe EN- night. Evidently that village
proposes to see that no depredations of
serious nature are committed.
The lonia Sentinel gets the printing
OF the proceedings Of the board OF sup
erylsors for the October and January
sessions at $3.50. The Observer and
lonia Standard had in bids, but the
publishers of those papers are not phil
anthropists enough To make the county
present of $50 or S60.-Portland Oh
server.
The quail and partridge season
opened on the 10Th inst, and the very
next day our local sportsmen all had
quail on toast for dinner. McElroy
and Foote bagged 20: B. F.. Hall, II.
l.. Page and g. +. Smith, 2S; Hether-
ington and II. A. Lamb, I6; Reed and
Spanogle, 45; Lee McElroy shot ~, and
Chas. Madden 5.
Early closing season has again come. |
In another column will be found the |
names of the firms signing the agree
ment. For several years our business
firms have been up to date in this mat
Ter and 1t may now be regarded as an |
established custom, IT our business |
men and clerks make good use Of the |
long winter evenings in reading and |
social advantages, they will not be |
losers financially, and both they and |
the world in general will be the better |
on. Leisure is valuable only when
made SO by him who has iJ-Carson
City Gazette.
1t Is mistake To labor when you are
not in tit condition TO do so. To think |
that the more a person eats the health
ier and stronger he will become. To go
to bed at midnight and rise ut day
break and imagine that every hour
taken from sleep is an hour gained. TO |.
imagine that rs a little work or eXer-
else is good violent or prolonged exer-
else is better. To conclude that the
smallest room in the house is Large
enough TO sleep in. To eat as if you
had only minute To finish the meal
IN, or to eat without an appetite, or
continue after it has been satisfied,
merely to crafty the taste. 70 believe
that the more hours children study the
more they learn.
Homer Harrison, man IS years of
tge, living six miles north of Lake
ODESSA in Odessa township, shot him
SELF In the right temple last Friday and
lied in a few minutes. He was in
'orniield at the time he committed the
Iced, and was discovered by man
passing, Elijah Hair, who, seeing the
lody, hastened to the wounded mans
side, only To see him expire. Harrison
lad note book in his pocket, and in
his were two entries made that day.
u them he expressed the belief that
he was afraid Of becoming insane, and
aid he was tired Of life. A 32.calibre
'evolver was found at his side. The
were buried at Lake Odessa,
sunday. Harrison leaves widow,
Ilso brother and two sisters who re-
ide at Luther
a dispatch from Lansing says: Sec
etary Harrison of the state board Of
medical examiners wishes the profess
ion To understand that six months
rom Tuesday, Oct. IL. are given the
physicians in which To register under
he new law Evidently the belief is
that registration must be made
It once or that prosecution will be
commenced, as the doctors are rushing
n certificates By the bagful. Most Of
hese will have To be returned, not be-
ng what the board will exact. The
'oard will furnish its own blanks for
his purpose and i'm them county clerks
must set forth to all questions the ans
'ers the physicians made when regis
cred under the old law. This regis
ration will not be accepted by the
oard unless the qualifications set forth
each the standard To be fixed. 3
On the 10th of December, 1897, Rev.
J. "A. Donahoe, pastor M. T.. church,
south, Pt. Pleasant w. Va, contract
ID a severe cold which was attended
rom the beginning by violent cough
ng. He SAYS: After resOrting To "a