Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-27
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News From Here and There Con-
densed for Our Readers.
Sold through Charles Brown real es-
tate agency, house and lot No. 2,
block No. Is, Relding second addition
to Edwin j. Smith.
''This Michigan weather is just like
baby says the Hillsdale sage.
''The minute you begin TO brag 1t up
it commences to squall"
The coming of warmer weather does
not seem to thaw out any of the num-
erous electric railway projects for
Belding, and they all continue to
sleep peacefully.
The Peet musical entertainment
announced to be at the Nj. +. church
last Saturday evening, had to be in
definitely postponed on account of
the illness of one of the members.
With fuel getting SO scarce and
high priced, there is reason TO believe
that a gas plant would prove paying
investment here. We mean the real
gas that you can burn to cook with.
WED like to be barber, says the
editor of an exchange, "neither mail
order houses, nor department stores
nor city printing offices nor trusts nor
combines can compete with the bar
Der, and no drouth or hot winds or
Hessian flies can keep the peoples
whiskers from growing,
T. f. McGarry of Grand Rapids has
returned from his southern trip, much
improved in health. His friends are
circulating a petition asking for a
change of venue, on account of the
prejudice said to exist in Kent county
against anyone said to have been
connected with the recent Lake
Michigan water deal.
The genial Ben Kitson of Easton
township, who would like to be the
Republican candidate for sheriff this
| fall, was in the city Saturday calling
on friends. Ben is one of the best fell
lows in the world and the BANNER
would wish him success if it were not
for the fact that Belding expects to
take that place on the ticket herself.
1t is reported that John Greenop of
Orleans is talking of purchasing the
telephone pole line formerly belong
ing to and used by the New State tel
ephcGe line between Reldin2 and Or
| leans previous to the consolidation
with the Bell company for the pur-
pose of extending the Citizens Light
Co. wires to and furnishing lights in
that village.
Self-denial week is announced by
he Salvationists. Suspecting by
their acts of charity that they have
not much to give themselves, although
what they have will be cheerfully
given, it will be perfectly in order for
the charitably inclined to take this
means of replenishing the Golfers of
the army, of which prominent writ
er once said it knew how to make
dollar do a hundred cents worth of
good. Self-denial week runs from
April to l3 inclusive.
The editor of a contemporary
writes in a rather caustic manner but
nevertheless crowds a good deal of
truth in the following "This item is
for the ffteen-year-old boy who
thinks it is smart thing to act up so
| mean at school that he wears out the
life of his teacher and destroys the
good work which the school was in
tended to accomplish. This sort of
heather is found in country as well as
city schools. They are too big for a
little woman to thrash and seem TO
| have no moral sense which may be
appealed to. Now boys, you are the
architects of your own fortunes. You
can improve the educational advan-
| tages given you and become useful
and worthy citizens, or you can raise
| Cain, as you do in school, graduate
1 from there into brake beam tramp
and die a dirty bum You can make
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| TO plenty of trouble when grown to
manhood, is TO make lots of trouble in
the public schools. You ought to
have got the meanness well licked out
of you, but the teacher can't do it,
your father won't, and the school
board had rather fire you than lick
you. Fun and plenty of it is the
birthright of the American boy, but
your type of meanness is not fun: it is
the outcropping of the heather in
you, and you belong with the Moros or
Tagals of the Philippines rather than
with the people of civilized North
America. Turn over new leaf
Practically starving.
"After using few bottles Of Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure my wife received per-