Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-07-26
THIS AND THAT.
News From Here and There Condensed
For Our Readers.

For Our Readers.
Ionia is to have real department
store.
The date for the band convention al
Ionia has been fixed, Sept. 5th.
The doctors of northern Ionia ano
Montcalm counties meet at Stanton
Aug. 10th.
Chas. l.. King has bought the gen.
eral stock of II. Vaudeville, of Palo,
and will continue business.
The Saranac Advertiser is six years
old and gives evidence of prosperity
by enlarging, putting in a new press,
| etc.
John Eaves and family, Of Belding,
are visiting relatives and friends in
this vicinity for few weeks.-Palo
Post.
j. S. Weidman, the lumberman, well
known to many OF our people, had
S120, 900 worth of lumber burn up last
week.
Mrs. May Gregg, of Belding, better
known in Big Rapids as May Barnes,
is here for few weeks visit with her
parents and sisters. Big Rapids Pio-
neer.
The Seventh.Day Adventist camp
meeting to be held in Ionia, has been
postponed from the date set to August
30, continuing TO September 10. 1t
will be preceded by a workers meet
ing, beginning August %.
Great preparations are being made
at Saranac for the joint, union harvest,
and Ionia county Woodmen picnic to
be held there Aug. %. Five brass
bands have been engaged and others
are expected. Low rates have been
secured on the railroads. A fine pro-
gram is being prepared and an inn
mense crowd looked for
The new management OF the Ionia
district fair have decided to guarantee
all premiums this year. So come on
with your fine cattle, horses, sheep,
swine, fowls, vegetables, art flowers,
fancy work, etc. Three big days
Ionia, Mckinley and Bryan Day. Ad-
dress E. A. Murphy, secretary, Ionia,
for full particulars.
The annual reunion of the Soldiers
and Sailors Park Association OF Mich
igan, to occur at Big Rapids the week
of August 20-25. is in the hands of COM
petent committees, and arrangements
steadily making to have it big sue
cess like its. predecessors. The grounds,
big dining hall and everything is now
permanent, and therefore Big Rapids
expects to entertain great crowds as
never before. Five hundred tents
have been procured, soldiers and sail
ors OF national prominence will be at
the camp fires, and professions and en-
tertainments galore will prevail for
four days.
Over 100 men are now employed at
the Wagon Works, part on the con-
struction OF buildings and part on the
usual inside work. The brick work on
the new kiln is finished. The kiln is
of brick, l00x50 IT., two stories high.
The foundation for the addition to the
main west building is in, and the lay
ing OF brick commenced. This will be
l3Ox60 IT,, two stories, and is an addi-
tion to the buildings possessed before
the fire. This will be used for storage
of material mainly, but portion will
be utilized for machinery. The re-
built portion of the works will be
larger, more conveniently arranged
and better safeguarded from fire than
the old.-Ionia Standar
One OF the greatest problems the
local committee in charge of the Thir-
ty fourth National Encampment G. A.
r., which occurs in Chicago from
August 26 to September !, has had be-
fore it has been that of providing free
quarters for veterans and boarding and
lodging places for veterans and their
families. The free quarters commit
tee, Of which Capt. Il. II. Peters is
Chairman, Room Gil, The Temple, has
$4,000 cots at its disposal, which will
be distributed among the many halls,
armories, and fine school houses of the
city. Capt. Peters is now assigning
posts to these quarters. Veterans de-
string board and lodging should apply
to Capt. Jos. a. Mccartney, Chairman
Committee on Hotels, Boarding and
Lodging Houses, Room Gil. The Tenn
pie. For any other information re-
garding the encampment, write to the
Bureau OF Information, DR.. j. j. Tobl-
as, Chairman, Room Gil, The Temple.
The local committee in charge OF the
encampment is TO spend 100000 for
the entertainment OF the visiting vet
erans and their friends.
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