Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-07-18
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- 80 h''i NNol - Wtll uiluIl N"D
in the county
Saranac will have a farmers picnic
on Aug. Is Wednesday.
Harry Gardner one of the Cuban
heroes, has been granted pension.
He lives at Muir.
Miss Leona Howe left Saturday for
visit with friends in Belding. Cole
man Independent.
Miss Roby VanDeboget has been at
Belding during the past week visiting
friends. Stanton Herald.
If the dog to whom these days be
dedicated will call at this Office he
will hear of large piece of beefsteak
with a liberal allowance of paris
green.
Mrs. Frank Church, Of Belding, has
been visiting Howard City friends this
week.-Mr. and Mrs. AL Miller, of
Belding visited Howard City friends
last week.-Howard City Record.
Owosso will hold harvest festival
for five days beginning July 80 and
has arranged for lot of clean, legiti-
mate amusements for the entertain
ment of the crowd. Special rates
will be made by all railroads.
The Ionia County battalion Of the
Grand Army will hold its annual pic
mic and reunion at Portland on Aug
ust IA, and arrangements are already
in progress in that village to give the
old soldiers and sailors good time.
1t seems Greenville is also agitat-
ing the question of sewers, and a pc
tition is being circulated asking the
city council to submit to vote of the
taxpayers a proposition to bond the
city for $4,000 to construct the same.
This would not be very healthy
place for tramps to strike with their
stories about not being able to find
work. Help was that scarce last
week and the demand so urgent that
$500 per day was paid for common la
Dor.
When pretty girl pins a flower on
a young mans coat, she always tits
her chin up and takes a look at it
sideways the fellow who doesn't
tumble then had better stay in doors
when funeral is passing for fear of
being run over by the hearse.
The Pere Marquette car shops has
turned out a photogra piers car,
which is coach equipped with com
plete photographers outfit to be used
in getting views along the company's
lines and resorts for advertising pur-
poses. The car goes to Benton Har-
Dor tonight. t.-lonia Sentinel.
Allie Ellis, Lake Odessa boy with
high rope-walking ambitions, fell
distance of 30 feet, striking on a stone
pavement, seriously injuring himself.
He was doing a stunt on a high wire
stretched across Main street when
pully holding the wire broke. Though
he is new at the business he threatens
to try it again.
The Niles Sun has received the fol-
lowing interesting letter and is doing
all that it can to comply with the re-
quest therein contained: "Ifmy wife
writ eny stuff to you in regard to
young Ladie in yeur city do not writ
her up in yeur paper as the Ladie will
bring slander and damages against
you if you do so as there is no need of
my wife being jlous of that Ladie as
that young Ladie is all right and a
perfect Ladie.
Peter Lotus, a well known North
Plains farmer, was brought to the city
Monday by brother and Supervisor
Cowman and adjudged insane by Judge
of Probate Webster, who issued an
order of admission to Traverse City
asylum. This case is one of unusual
sadness and probabably hereditary,
as the mother of the unfortunate man
was in a similar condition for prob
ably % years.-Ionia Sentinel
Stephen S. Curwin, a Pere Mar
quette brakeman, was killed at
Hughs crossing, little way from Me-
costa, July 1lth. He was standing on
the rear end of box car when the
train jerked, and he fell backwards
onto a fiat car, killing him instantly.
Curwin had lived in Ionia for the past
year with his brother, who was Pere
Marquette conductor. He was en-
gagged to be married Sunday to a
young lady from Lowell.
Detroit Tribune: John Murphy,
alias Griffin, arrested Sunday as sus-
pect by Patrolman Golden, was yes
terday turned over to the sheriff of
Ionia county. Murphy is wanted for
the alleged breaking and entering of
a house near Stanton, Mich. The
man supposed to have been his part
ner in the job was sent up for Is years.
1t is claimed that the United States
authorities also desire to get Murphy