Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-08-21
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Ionia business men have added $500
TO the Ionia Fair purses to insure the
best horses i'm the state.
Mr.. and Mrs. III. j. Mcintosh have
returned from visiting their daugter,
Mrs. Ed. Ostrom of Grand Rapids.
The worst thing about a young man
sowing his wild oats IS the fact that
the woman he marries must share in
the harvest.
The w. r.. @. and G. A. II. will hold
their annual picnic in the Belding
Park next Saturday, Aug. %. All
are cordially invited
Harvest Jubilee at Mason's hall,
Sept. ., 1902. Music will be furnished
| by Cooks colored orchestra from
Muskegon consisting of four pieces.
Tho competition among the large
draught stations imported into this
county this year will be of interest to
horsemen at the Ionia Fair next
month.
Mrs. Maggie Strobeck has resigned
her position as chefat the Harrington
House andaccepted a similar position
in hotel at Belding.-St. Louis Re
publican.
The annual picnic of the Good Eel
lowship club will be held at Ganton's
Pavilion, Baldwin lake, Aug. 80. All
members requested TO be present and
bring a friend with you.
The Comstock Park driving club of
Grand Rapids will hold their race
meeting in that city August 26-29.
Entries close Tuesday, Aug. 10th. A
fine program is scheduled.
The next regular meeting of the
Belding City Cemetery Association
will be held at the home of Mrs. John
Pullman of North Bridge steet, Tues
day evening, August 26: all cordially
invited
The Modern Woodmen excursion to
Grand Rapids last Saturday was well
patronized from this city, about 1870
tickets being sold p were sold to
Manistee Sunday and 26 to Lansing
Monday.
@ Snow has sold his farm near the
Brink school house to f. Benton, he
having sold his place to his brother,
Fred Benton. Mr.. Snow has purchas-
ed another farm i'm Ronald township.
As each retains the standing crops,
no changes of residence will be made
until winter.
A Greenville man, who has no sym
pathy for whatsoever things are
sporty, has figured that the money
spent there this year for base ball
would have bought park for the
town or have paved eight blocks of
the principal street. The figures are
probably correct but is their any evil
dence that Greenville would have
done either of these things?
We have had plenty of wet weather
in Michigan but down in Missouri
they say, the weather has been so hot
that livery men have had TO stand
their horses i'm water an hour each
each day to keep their shoes from
coming of, and wagons are going
around with their tongues out. The
catfish kicks up such dust i'm the bed
of the Gasconade river that it has to
be sprinkled before you go fishing. a
spark from an engine set the big rail
road pond on fire and burned up wa
gon load of bullfrogs. The ground is
so hard and dry that the crawtish
holes in the low places are being pull
ed up and shipped for gas pipes"
The indications appear more favor
able for the building of the railroad
extension west from Howard City, via
Newaygo and Fremont, by the Pere
Marquette company than they ever
have before. A surveying party has
been there branding the permanent
distance stakes to be placed along the
route of survey to regulate the grad
ing Ii seems probable that the road
will be built and that work will COM
mence very soon. The building of
the line has been under contemplation
for years and will open up valuable
tract of country TO the west. Within
the past year the company has pur-
chased the right of way along the
proposed route.
Careful inquiry among leading far
mers shows that the damage to wheat
by reason of the wet weather is not so
great as at first anticipated. There
will be an enormous yield of wheat,
oats, corn and beans, although there
are some fields of corn and beans
where a part of the crop has been dis
troyed. There was an immense hay
crop, some of which was DESTROYED and