Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-03-08
THIS AND THAT.

nesota, In the posloHlce.
The piano contest at Ionia is over
and the Church OF Christ was an easy
winner.
If it is true that clothes make the
man, some men ought to change their
clothes.
Experts in the Michigan peach dis
trict say the crop this year is going to
be immense.
A married woman is not her hus-
band S better-half when she tries to be
the whole thing.
Lowell claims her municipal light
ing plant has paid a net profit of 81, ,595
in little less than year.
The Lyons band has rented the Kel-
ley Park at Lyons, and proposes to
make it pleasant pleasure resort.
Friend Patch OF Belding was in
town the last of last week and the first
of this. He is working for the Beld-
| ing silk mills, and is looking for girls
to work in the factory. City
Gazette.
City treasurer settled up with the
county treasurer Wednesday, the
amount OF taxes returned unpaid being
s34S2l. This sum is over 5000 less
than any previous year in the history
of the city. Not much consolation for
the calamity howlers in this.
1t is perhaps not generally known
that turkey quils have positive mar
ket value. They may be sorted and
sold separately according TO variety,
or they may be sold just as they come
from the turkey. Get particulars of
Warren Featherbone Co, Three Oaks,
Mich.
In the March number Of McClure's
Magazine, Mr.. Walter Wellman tells
another story from his recent extra
ordinary experiences in the Artic. He
will also give the conclusions from his
Experience regarding the only feasible
way to reach the Pole, telling what it
is and what it involves.
Be careful to return to the postofiice
mail matter not belonging to you that
you may receive through mistakes. A
new postal rule that recently went into
lefect is that persons, who through
fcarelessness or from any other reasons
take mail from the Office, that belongs
to another, and who fail to return the
same are liable to a fine Of 800 or one
years Imprisonment. This applies to
newspapers thus taken from the post
office as well us other mail matter.
The Palen Beach Daily News, of
Palen Beach, Florida, Of Feb. p, 1900,
a journal devoted to society happen
ings and events OF interest to the
guests of Florida hotels, has this to
say: "The fishing record was again
broken yesterday. The heros were
Robt. c. Rathbone and NJ Nj. Belding
of New York. They went up the lake
into the inlet and brought back with
them lOS blue fish, 13 spanish mackerel
and sea trout.
At the meeting of the Washington
club, held at the Hotel Phelps, Green
vile, Feb %, letter was read from
Geo. Ellis, of Philadelphia, enclosing
check for S25 payable to the order of
Mrs. w. p. Hetherington, treasurer Of
the club, to be charged TO the con-
science fund. Mr.. Ellis is an honorary
member, and as such has never been
allowed to pay any dues, or for any
entertainment offered himself and
wife. The club through its Sec'y c..
c. Merritt extends Mr.. Ellis a hearty
note of thanks and the expression
heard was, ''well its just like Geo.
Ellis"
Before they get it the people Of the
smaller towns are fearful that the
electric railway, which is going to con-
meet them with some larger city, will
kill off all the local business and they
fight the project for all they are worth.
The road comes, and after a few
months nothing more is heard Of such
predictions, but instead, the merchants
have to engage extra clerks, to take
care of the increased business brought
them by the electric. Here is an item
from the Rochester Era, paper pub
lished in village, which has but re-
Gently had electric railroad communi-
cation with Detroit: Many OF the
Troy farmers take advantage OF the
trolley to come to II chester to trade.
Farmers living eight miles from this
place, and who have never been here
before, now come here TO do their
trading "-Detroit Free Press.
We have saved many doctor bills
since we began using Chamberlain's IS
Cough Remedy in our home. We
keep bottle open all the time and
whenever any of my family or myself
begin to catch cold we begin TO use the
Cough Remedy, and as result we