Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-04-27
THIS AND THAT.
News From Here and There Condensed
For Our Readers.

Trout fishers won't have to break
the Sabbath on their first excursion
this year as May comes on Monday.
The bicycle does not seem to have
lost any of its popularity. One dealer
reports having sold over twenty wheels
already this season.
Arbutis, the prettiest and sweetest
smelling flower in the state, is now
peeping forth and boys and girls are
gathering it in large quantities.
Looking at the number of children
that congregate nightly around the
bonfires and burning rubbish piles, one
is led TO think that they either lead "a
charmed life, or are protected by some
unseen power.
The hustling village of Sparta is to
be lighted with electricity franchise
having been granted to j. l.. Hisey
for period of ten years The lights
are TO be ten 1900 candle power arc
and two 81 incandescent lamps.
The statement OF Prof. FERRIS that
the pencil and tablet craze should be
swept from our schools up to the fifth
grade will meet with hearty "tmen"
from the people of Lowell The fad
has been worked to death.-Lowell
Ledger.
Art Kingsley has been transferred to
Grand Ledge where he is now filling an
advanced position as agent for the D.,
G.. II. & w. at that point. 'Agent
Kingsley" sounds well and the promo
tion was deserving one. Operator
Lemley, who has recently been on
nights at Grand Ledge is now ticket
agent at the Ionia station.-Sentinel
The coal boring operations near the
stone-quarry between lonia and Lyons
have ceased, and the men sent there by
the Somers Coal company have gone
TO GGne.see county on similar mission,
after which they will return to work
south of the quarry. Two holes were
made 200 feet deep, the coal veins they
expected to locate found, though mixed
with slate. They hape to find better
quality further south.
Deputy Game Warden Brewster ar
rested gang OF eight fishermen at
Morrison lake last week for spearing
fish contrary to law. They were taken
to Ionia where they each paid a fine Of
Sl5. The spearing law is being con-
stantly violated upon the lakes
throughout the state, especially in
Ionia and Barry counties and there
are going to be many more arrerts if
somebody is not mighty careful.
Here is little item from the Mar
shall Statesman which farmers would
do well to ponder over: 1--WE often
wonder how much a farmer would
really save in year by living on n
good hard road, over which he could
haul a load to town whenever he saw
! 1T, regardless OF the weather or season.
He would save great wear on his
teams he would save time; he could
draw larger loads, and in case OF a
raise In grain would sometimes be able
to gain more on a single crop than the
entire tax would cost him. The only
way to get good roads is to begin
building them"
Our good friend, Rev. ID. f. Millard =.
was married in Portland forty-five
years ago yesterday, and on the fol-
lowing day boarded stage for jack
son, en- route Tor New England. He
preached his first sermon in Portland
forty-fve years ago Sunday. In the
declining years OF his life the reverend
gentleman finds continual source OF
Joy and satisfaction in contemplating
the fact that neither in the choice of a
wife nor the selection of life work
. did he make "A mistake. The Review
hopes that Rev Millard and his good
lady may remain with us many years.
Portland Review.
The University of Michigan has just
published its Journal of announce
ments for its Sixth Annual May Music
Festival, TO be held in Ann Arbor,
May IL II and l3 next. The program
for the Eve concerts are most attrac-
tive and of unusually wide range in
the music To be performed. Among
the performers appear the names oI
Madame Sembrich and Signor Cam
panari, the well-known artists OF in
ternational reputation. The entire
list OF soolsts is very strong. The
Boston Festival Orchestra Of fifty mel
will furnish the instrumental parts o
i. the Festival. These announcement
are Of interest to the public at large
q not only as matters Of news, but as ed
ucational opportunities. Every resi-
dent Of Michigan has direct interes
aud pride in the work their Universit!
t is doing in the field Of music, depart
J. ment that, by virtue of its refining ant
cultivating influence, has legitlmatel.
y an important place in the scheme
higher education.