Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-07-05
THIS AND THAT.
News From Here and There Condensed
For Our Readers.

Willis Spencer and family have
moved to Saranac.
Miss Rena Miner, OF Palo, has been
spending a couple OF weeks with her
aunt, Mrs j. w. Miner.
Married, by Rev. d. b. Davidson, at
his residence, June 2l, Mr.. Chas. 81
Skiff, OF Belding, to Miss Edith
Werntz, of Lowell. Lowell Ledger.
A large number of the lady atten-
dants at the Congregational church,
Greenville, have entered into an agree
ment to remove their hats at the
preaching services.
Henry Credit and some of his neigh
boys in the third ward, showed their
patriotism Tuesday evening by erect
ing fifty foot liberty pole amid cheers
for the stars and stripes.
The village council, of Saranac, has
passed an ordinance, taking effect
June i, authorizing the village TO pay
one.fourth of the expense of laying
cement walks. New walks are now the
order at Saranac,
Mr.. and Mrs. II. A. Smith left last
week for Chicago. and from there he
went on to Kansas City where he was
one of the delegates in the Silver Re-
publican side show to the Democratic
national convention, now in session.
Arthur Holland, of Belding, and
Miss Hattie Sprague, of Kent county,
were in town Thursday. Mrs. Lawless,
deputy county clerk, supplied them
with the marriage license and Justice
Hutchinson tied the nuptial knot
Ionia Sentinel
A Greenville girl had been told that
to preserve domestic harmony she
should never get mad at the same time
as her husband but should wait her
turn. She has been married ten years
she says, and inds that in acting upon
this advice she hasn't had a turn yet.
A newspaper man could go seven
times day and ask different persons
for the news, and each time to be told
that there is absolutely nothing going
on in town. When publication day
comes some of these people will say:
"Well there is not much news this
week" and then recall an item or two
that did not appear and wonder why.
they we're omitted. When you know
OF anything of Importance that has
transpired tell the editor every time.
That's what he is for.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. p Hetherington,
OF Bclding, were in the city today,
guests at the Hotel Dexter. They
took advantage of the delightful
weather to drive to the city, returning
this afternoon. Mr. Hetherington says
the Silk City is booming as never be-
fore, and that Beldingites are letting
no grass grow under their feet He
says the new railroad from Grand
Rapids is good thing for the town,
bringing much more business than it
takes away. This may be a pointer
for Ionia in its discussion of railroad
matters.-Ionia Sentinel
If man grew as fast in proportion
as a silkworm, he would be bigger
than an elephant in two months. If he
could navigate as fast in proportion as
the average house fly, he would cross
the Atlantic and get back in the time
it takes him to eat his breakfast. If
he had as many eyes in proportion as
the butterfly he would have 10000, to
say nothing OF an extra pair in his
head for skylghts. If he could spring
as far in proportion as the spider, he
could jump over the tallest tree in
California, and it wouldn't bother him
in the least. Man isn't the whole
thing, after all.
Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden is
the latest addition to the editorial staff
of The Ladies' Home Journal. She
will apply her energies to a depart
ment that will be called "Sunshine,
which is TO be published in the inter-
est OF an organization already having
mem bership of eleven thousand.
"The international Sunshine Society,""
as it is called, aims to put sunshine
and good cheer into the lives of all. 1t
has neither creed nor rules; its mem
bership fee is single act of kindness,
and dues are paid in the same curren-
cy. Mrs. Alden is founder and presi-
dent-general of the society, and it is
her purpose to extend its we'll doing to
every section OF our country--in fact,
throughout the whole world, for its
vast field is international.
White Man Turned Yellow.