Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-08-16
THIS AND THAT.
News From Here and There Condensed
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For Our Readers.
A social for the benefit of the Cooks
Corners church will be held at the
home OF Chas. Stevens Aug. oath.
Peaches and cream will be served and
nice program has also been arranged.
All invited.
Maude Muller, on a summers day,
raked the meadow sweet with hay.
The sun beat down as was his biz, in
that familiar style of his, until she got
the prickly heat-Then Maudie's lam
guage shocked the wheat.
One of our exchanges says that "the
men who are always bowling the most
about the most about the money spent
for public improvements are those who
don't pay enough tax to keep a monkey
in peanuts" If you will take notice
you will find this to be true.
At Owosso Assessor Laverock raised
the assessment so high the factory
owners put up up big kick, but even
then some taxpayers thought the firms
were getting of too easy, and a com
plant was laid before the tax commits
sion with the result that two OF the
largest factories were increased nearly
100 per cent. with third still to act
upon.
J. f. Blacksten of Portland, quite
well known here, who is engaged with
his father in building the bridge across
the river at Ada, met with an accident
which made the amputation of his left
arm necessary. MIR. Blacksten was
blasting rocks and the fuse falling to
work properly, he went TO examine it.
An explosion soon followed and the
drill was sent through his hat like a
bullet and pieces Of stone shattered his
arm.
Misses Nettie and Charity Mowry
desire through the columns of the
BANNER to thank their friends in the
spooling and braiding rooms of the
Richardson silk mill for the useful aud
much appreciated present presented
for them to Miss Nettie Friday eve
ming. She is very sick at this writing
with consumption from which no hopes
of permanent recovery are enter
tained. She was employed in the
spooling room prior TO her illness and
has number of highly esteemed
f.iAn1p IN NH lh hA ox-ta IL
many thanks for their kindness to her.
1t is said Lowell man has just been
the hero of thrilling experience at
his heretofore well regulated home.
The other morning he wanted TO get
his son up early, and after trying to
fetch him by calling him, he proceed
ed to the room and, turning the 'kiv-
ersn down gave him good spanking
with his hand. But horrOrs it hap
pened that the hired girl had been
given the boys room the night before,
and the old man unwittingly spanked
the wrong party CONSERVATION reigned
in the household for spell but every
thing is quiet on the Potomac now.
The local papers have been heavily
subsidized to keep the name OF the staid
citizen "a deep, dark secret.
The Detroit Tribune OF a recent date
contained this concerning we'll known
former Belding man. earle & Dunie,
commission brokers, have quit bust
ness, and Mr.. Duflie last night said
that the Chicago Board of Trade had
nothing to do with it. We dealt
mostly with New York stocks and
grain quotations cut very little figure
with US, We were assured, however,
before we decided to close, that Chica-
go figures would come as usual over
our leased wire if the Detroit board OF
trade was cut of from receiving Chica-
go quotations. No, sir, quotations
had nothing to do with our closing our
Office in the Hammond building. Six
months trial convinced US that there
was nothing in it. We no intention OF
opening a similar business in theCham-
ber OF Commerce building Mr.. Dunie
will take up his old business on the
board of trade, while his ex-partner, j.
NJ. Earle, if he does not decide TO become
a member OF the exchange, will enter
some other line of business. y