Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-01-18
THIS AND THAT.
News From Here and There Condensed
For Our Readers.

For Our Readers.
Band dance at Smyrna tomorrow,
friday night
Thirty-five deaths in Iona county
during December, five in Bedding.
Two young people at Portland skat-
ed into hole made by ice cutters and
nearly drowned.
There is a prospect of the Verify
Manufacturing Co. 3 plant at Portland
being moved to Lake Odessa in the
spring.
The annual meeting OF the Pioneer
Society OF Greenville and vicinity will
be held January 81, instead of the oath
as announced.
Entrican cor. of Stanton Herald says:
Eli Kendall, of Belding, has purchased
the ash timber of j. harrington and
will have it cut at Ingraham's mill.
Spartas two newspapers, the Senti-
mel and Leader, have been purchased
by e. r. Bloomer of Pennington, who
will consolidate them into one strong
publication, which is good move all
round.
The deeds conveying all the Ionia
county property and franchises of the
D., G. r. & w. to the Pere Marquette
system has been filed with Register of
mi hn
covered with revenue stamps to the
amount OF 81, 350.50.
The case of The People VS.. Otis
Richards, charged with embezzlement,
was concluded in Justice Curry's court
Saturday, defendant being discharged
on the ground that the proofs were in
sufficient to bind him over to the cir
cult court. II. A. Hawley was defend
ants attorney.-Sentinel.
Mrs. Jane Follet, an aged pioneer
and resident of Ionia county for the
last 65 years, died at the home OF her
daughter, Mrs. Lorenda Prosser, and
grand. daughter, Mrs. Parmeter, Ionia,
Wednesday, January 10 The greater
part of this time she lived in l<eene
township, where she is best known.
She was born in Ireland, March II,
1906, and was at the time of her death,
81 years, months and 2S days old.
Summary report of school district
No. 2 Orleans, for month ending Jan.
II, 1900: Number of days taught 10;
grand total number of days attend
iance. 405; average daily attendance,
%; number OF pupils enrolled, %; total
number OF different pupils enrolled
during school year up to date, SO.
Emma Chadwick, Bertha AntcliG,
Pearl Parker, Ernie Moore aud Earl
Cutler have not been absent nor tardy
this month.-Bertha Howe, teacher.
G. r. Herrick, OF the Herrick Casket
Co, says that orders are coming in
daily and that the outlook for the
future is exceedingly bright. He has
been obliged to move one OF his ma
chimes to the Beach factory in order
to cut out some material for boxes,
the betting for his factory not having
arrived yet, although shipped some
three weeks Twenty teams are
engaged in hauling logs to the Pere
Marquette railroad, and five to six
cars are being shipped to Belding
daily.-Lyons Herald.
AS noted in these columns last week
engineers have been surveying rail
road route from Belding and Green
Vile to this city. The surveyors
reached this city Tuesday and com
pleted their work Wednesday The
route as surveyed passes through Sid
ney Centre and strikes the Pere Mar
quette railroad about three quarters of
mile south of this city and then runs
parallel with the road until ii reaches
the depot. When this route is com
pleted, and we have every reason to
believe that it will be graded and
ironed in the spring, it will give the
Pere Marquette system an air line
route from Grand Rapids to Saginaw.
We understand the surveyors will sur
vey two other routes, one from Belding
to Fenwick and the other from Belding
TO Sheridan, and the road will be built
over the most feasible route.-Stanton
Clipper.
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