Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-10-04
THIS AND THAT.
News From Here and There Condensed
For Our Readers.

For Our Readers.
Stephen Pilkinton, resident Port
land and lonia county since 1914, died
Sunday at the age Of "a years
Miss Minnie Baker of Ionia, will be
at Mrs. II. S. Campbell's on Friday
and Saturday of each week, to give in
struction on piano and organ.
Belding Lodge, No. 30, A. o. U. W.,
will give a smoker and serve dough-
nuts and coffee to members only Fri
day evening, Oct. 9Th. All members
are requested to be present.
The u f. G. association, which is
composed of the teachers and members
OF the school boards of Belding, Ionia
and Greenyille, will hold its annual
meeting in Ionia, October 10th.
One OF our facetious brother editors
says that the letter SEP is never in
cash, always in debt and never out of
danger. He seems to forget that it is
the first OF earth, the last of life and
the beginning of eternity.
A bee Will be held at Smyrna on
Saturday, Oct. 18th, for the purpose Of
cleaning and improving the cemetery.
All interested are requested to be on
hand ready for work and to take
scythes and rakes. Picnic dinner.
Saturday, Oct 9th and Monday Oct
Sth, Helen A. Newman of Beldng,
Will haye her millinery opening. All
are invited to come and look. Trim
med hats, street hats, fancy caps, baby
bonnets, and those wide all-slk tafTety
ribbons for the neck at zoe.
The new hat season is here and all
the women folks are sitting up nights
planning headgear calculated to make
their neighbors eyes turn green with
envy. The millinery season promises
to be active, aud the several openings
this week aud next will be well at.
tended
The Union Medical society of North
ern Michigan will hold its third quar-
terly meeting at Gibbs opera house,
Edmore, next Tuesday, Oct. 9th. DR..
Ferguson Of this city is on the pro-
gram This society consists OF the
regular practitioners of Ionia, Mont
calm and Mecosta counties.
Miss Bingham of Palo, has just closed
very successful term OF drawing les-
sons. Among her pupils we're sevek,l
of the Belding teachers TO whom she
gave both pencil sketching and black
board drawing. She shows marked
ability in her line of work and her pu-
pills are enthusiastic in her praise.
John Linden, Of Ionia, a young man
employed as a fireman upon the Grand
Trunk railroad was killed in collision
between a freight train and the yard
engine at Durand Friday morning.
The funeral was held in Ionia Sunday
and John Dehn and Alfred Jonas and
their families Of this city attended.
The oral arguments in the Just bank
stock case were concluded in the cir
cult court before Judge Davis at noon
Saturday, after which briefs were sub
mitted The arguments covered per-
iod Of ) days, and the contest is be-
tween the Belding bank, and the State
Savings and Ionia County Savings
banks OF Iouia, as TO the possession of
bank stock turned by j. E. Just over
to Mrs. Just at the time that Mr.. Just
was appointed bank commissioner
Iouia Sentinel.
What looked like hot fire was nice
ly taken care of at o'clock Sunday by
the FIRE department The scene was
the workshop OF A. =. Crell's bicycle
emporium in Hackett block, and when
discovered the blaze was making great
heaGway and succeeded in running ev-
erything in the shop before extin-
guished The fire had also made its
way outside to the back stair case and
the building was quite badly damaged.
Twenty wheels we're also destroyed be-
sides all OF Mr.. Crellls shop tools and
fixtures.-Ionia Sentinel.
Col T.. B. Fentou has written to his
son, Frederick 3. Fenton, from Man
ila, under date of August "a announc
his safe arrival there. Col. Fentor
says things seem TO be quiet in the
city, but they are not so outside. The
Filipiuos, he says, look on Bryan
election as their salvation from Amer
lean rule and the presence OF the
American soldier, and the colonel ex
presses the opinion that the war in the
islands will not cease until after the
election is ver.--Detroit Free Press
a MARRIAGE LICENSES.
( John II. Whitney, 80, Lowell;