Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-08-29
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pany has voluntarily raised the wages
of its employees 10 per cent.
Miss Alta Kolp, of Belding, and
Mrs. L. j. Sanders, of Lansing, spent
few days in Grand Ledge, visiting
relatives.-Grand Ledge Independent
1t is believed that Greenville has
engaged Buckner, the famous colored
Page Fence Giant, to pitch against
Portland at Ionia on Maccabee Day.
Rumor says Portland is loaded too.
Greenville boasts of the strongest
boy in the United States. He does
the rounds of the Eastern museums
but is now rusticating at home be-
cause of a recent accident. His name
is Guy Adams.
In the grand jury for the October
term of the United States court at
Grand Rapids, A. L. Spencer of Beld-
ing, and S. X. Kinds of Ionia are
drawn. G.. A. Potts of Saranac is one
of the traverse jurors.
GAS the twig is bent so the tree is
inc clined," is an old saying and if some
of the little twigs, from six to six
teen years of age, who run the streets
of Belding were bent over their
mothers knee and justice given to
them they would incline to be better
boys and girls.
An exchange remarks that the
home grown, hand spanked, bare
footed, hard listed country boy makes
much better fighter in the battle Of
life than the pampered, high collared
creased trousered youth of our cities
whose clothes have always been dust
ed with whisk broom instead Of a
shingle.
The Eastman Kodak Co. of Roches-
ter, N. Y. are eXponents of good ad-
vertising. Annually they offer $500
in cash prizes for the best written ad-
vertisements of Eastman Kodaks
This time they had something less
than a thousand entries from all
parts of the U. S. Bedford, the OPP
tician, Ionia, carried off one of the
third prizes.
An officer of a fraternal accident
society illustrates the prompt meth
DDS of his society by the following
statement: zone of our members
lately fell from the roof of a five
story building and check for the
amount of his certificate was handed
him from the second story window on
his way down."
There were 2,470 deaths returned to
the Department of State as having
occurred in Michigan during the
month of July. This lumber is II
more than the deaths reported for the
preceding month, and 80 less than the
number of deaths during July, 1900.
The death rate was 1872 per thousand
population. The number in Ionia
county 80, Belding 4, Ionia city p,
Orleans 2, Otisco 3.
Steven A. Hoag of Ionia, a young
man p years of age, is now engaged
in drawing plans for one of the larg-
est bridges ever built in England, that
across the Don of Sheffield. The
bridge is to be constructed by the
Brown Hosting company of Cleve-
land. Young Hoag is advancing rap
idly in his chosen profession, and is
recognized as one of the best of the
younger men in the employ of the
Brown company. BE was born in
Otsego, but has lived the greater part
of his life in Ionia.
| Cement walks are built in Cadillac
for less money than in any other city
or village in Northern Michigan. In
Evart the builders price is fraction
over eight cents per square foot, and
the village rebate is half of the con-
tractors price, making the net cost to
the property owner between four and
five cents. In Cadillac the city's re-
bate is two cents per square foot, and
the lowest builders price is six cents,
the net cost to the property owners
being four cents. It's really cheaper
to build cement walks in Cadillac
than it is to build board.-Cadillac
News and Express.
Considerable excitement in town
because checks given by sub-con
tractor on the Greenville branch OF
the Pere Marquette were in posses
sion of our merchants, with no funds
to pay them. An attachment on the
property of Mr.. Woever, has been is
sued by one of our merchants. The
contractors of the road are here ant
trying to settle up the difficulty, anc
all labor claims will be paid as soor
as the engineer of the road furnishes
his estimate of amount of work done
for the month of August. If there Il
enough money coming to pay Other
claims than labor, they will be paid
Greenville Democrat.