Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-07-10
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densed for Our Readers.
Teachers Institute for Ionia coun-
ty at Ionia commencing Aug. 4 and
continuing five days. G. A. MCGEE
conductor.
The new Hotel Winter, built by T.
b. Winter on the old Webster House
site at Greenville is completed and
was opened to the public last week.
Gertrude Nj. Allen, daughter of
Capt. T.. NJ. Allen, of Portland, and
DR.. Robt. b. Bell, were married at
Portland last week Wednesday and
will locate in the west.
Attorney John S Bennett, an old
resident of Portland, died Sunday. He
had filled offices both in the county
and village and was well known
throughout this section of the state.
He was SO years old.
DIR. Ogden of Lyons has sold his
ractice to DR.. Will Grant, a recent
graduate of the Saginaw Medical col
lege, and will again enter the ministry
for two years, after which he will be-
come a medical missionary.
Crookshank x Somers, the contrac-
tors. who are building the new silk
mill here, have just been awarded the
job of building another southside asy-
lum building at Ionia at SO, go. This
will make six IN all at that site.
Belding has been fortunate enough
to keep rid of smallpox since early
last spring but our neighbors are not
so lucky as the Dexter hotel at lonia
in now in quarantine, also one resi-
dence at Greenville near the Pere
Marquette depot.
A most interesting historical arti-
Gle in the July Woman's Home Com
panion describes "The First Declara-
tion of Independence" which was
made at the little town of Mecklen-
burg, North Carolina, long before the
more famous Declaration of l776.
The prices which the threshers of
lonia county have agreed upon for
threshing grain is 3 cents per bushel
for wheat. rye and barley, for oats,
for white beans, for contrac
beans and 8 cents if they are threshed
twice; alsike and mammoth cloyer 81
per bushel.
"A man who ought TO know what he
is talking about says that it has
rained 50 long that ii has kept potato
they have died on the ground of star
walton or drowning. There is always
counter benefit of some kind in the
extremes
"Can we squeeze in here?" asked
the young man with the red necktie,
as he and his lady got into well-hlled
car. "Well, you can if you want tc
mister" replied the man from the
country, "but I'm thinking it would
look a tritle better if you reserved
mark of affection till you reach the
gir's home"
The editor may read the proof of a
newspaper four times and pass re
peatedlv over the same error without
noticing it. All newspaper men vii
tell you so. But just as the press il
stopped and the paper is printed il
its complete shape, there stnnds that
error out in front of him SO big that
he cannot see any thing else, and this
is the reason it is SO easy TO edit {
paper after it is printed.
Willard Holmes, of Belding, was il
Portland Thursday, on his way tC
Sebewa, where he is making improve
ments on property recently purchas
ed by him. He has been in the EN-
ploy of the Belding Bros. for foul
years and is kept busy on their vari
Gus buildings in the city, doing moth
ing but papering and painting. The
Bcldings own 2S tenant houses, ON,
large boarding house and two mills
and Mr.. Holmes does the painting
ON all of these. se.-Portland Reyiew.
Whoever the lonia correspondent i
that reported the Greenville-lonis
ball game of July for the Crane
Rapids Herald, he is dandy. In tn,
first part Of the report ii says Rath
bun pitched magnificent game 70
Ionia, outpitching Buckner. TheI
further along says Ionia will decline
to play Greenville any more as lonl
as they presist in using Buckner VIII,
is fast enough for the National league
The score was ) to o i'm favor of Green
Vile There was an immense crowd.
Marriage Licenses.