Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-01-24
THIS AND THAT.
News From Here and There Condensed
For Our Readers

! For Our Readers.
A teachers institute will be held at
Ionia, Feb. ii, 10 and Is.
The Grattan Good Fellowship club
will hold its annual meeting at Hotel
Phelps, Greenville, Saturday.
The city of Ionia has scored again,
Glenn l.. Williams having been APP
pointed one Of the senate stenograph-
ers at Lansing.
The we'll known clothing firm OF Allen
& Gamble, at Portland, are going out
of business there and will take their
stock to Saginaw early in March.
James Curry has begun suit against
the board of supervisors, in the circuit
court, to enforce if possible, "a settle
meut of his bills disallowed at the Jan
uary session, it being test case.
The odd Fellows and d. of Il. had
arranged for social and progressive
pedro at their hall next Thursday
evening but owing to that date con-
hicting with other plans haye, post
poned the same one week, which will
bring it on Feb. 7th.
Elmore j. Haynor, native of Easton
township, and we'll known in Ionia
where he was for a number of years
train dispatcher for the Pere Mar
quette died last week and was brought
to Michigan for burial He was 33
years of age and was living at Ft.
Scott, Kan.
There were 1915 deaths reported in
Michigan for December, corresponding
to death rate of - per 1000 popu-
lation. This number is pa more than
the number reported for the preceding
month and 2l6 more than the number
returned for December, 1899. There
were "a in Ionia county, six in Belding.
The state grange wants law passed
requiring publishers to discontinue
sending their papers when the sub
scription expires. This would be more
of a boon to the publishers than any
one else, though it may have been pro-
posed by some fellow who ran in debt
to his county paper as long as he
thought the paper would stand for it,
and then sent the paper back marked
''refused. Saginaw News.
Another old resi- dent has passed
away. Abram Bigelow died at 10
o'clock Wednesday morning after a
long illness from heart trouble and
rheumatism, aged 20 years. He has
been resident of our city for about
twenty years and was highly respected.
He was a veteran Of the civil war, serv-
ing in the Dist Michigan. Funeral
services will be held at the residence
at , o'clock today, Friday, Rev. +.
Severance officiating stanton Clip
per.
Ed Faude, foreman of G. F. Faude's
cigar factory at Ionia was taken sud-
denly i'll Friday afternoon while at
work, and finally had TO go to his
home. A little later his condition be-
came so serious that DR.. Allen was
called, but after an hours work he
came out all right. 1t seems that Ed
had taken three headache powders
during the hour previous to the attack
and the drug effected his heart, to the
extent that for time action almost
ceased.
Postmaster Drummond has been au.
thorized by the Post Office department
at Washington to establish rural free
delivery from Greenvile on the Fair
plain route, to be known as Greenville
r f. d. Route No. l, to commence de-
livery Friday, Feb. l.. For the present
at least If not continuously, the carrier
will leave Greenville at 10 a m. John
w. Riley is carrier at salary OF $500
year including horse hire; his author
lied substitute is Orson |. Riley, his
father.-Greenville Independent
Dr. S, Nj. Bayard, one of Ionia's
prominent pioneer residents, is dead
OF pneumonia, after a ten days. illness.
He was 81 years old, and a native of
New York, coming to Michigan with
his parents sixty years ago. He set
tied in Ionia in 1857 and has since re-
sided there. DR.. Bayard had large
property interests in the city and coun-
ty, and was a public.spirited man in
his active days, being one OF the fore
most promoters OF the old Detroit,
Lansing & Lake Michigan railrood,
now the Pere Marquette, and various
other enterprises. The funeral was
held Sunday.
The one day institutes in the county
closed Friday. They we're held at
Palo, Pewamo, Dandy and South Bos-
ton, and were a decided success; at
tendance at each place unusually large
and the subjects discussed of great in
terest TO farmers. The state speaker,
Peter Vorhies, OF Pontiac, gave excel
lpnt satisfaction At the olosa of the