Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-06-12
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News From Here and There Con-
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Sheldon's candy store has one of
the largest bananas ever seen here,
weighing l3 ounces.
"a Breezy Time" entertained a
good sized audience at the Opera
House Monday evening giving very
fair satisfaction.
Postal free delivery service will be
started at st. Johns, Mich, Sept. i,
with three carriers, one substitute,
thirty-seven letter boxes and one
package box.
Portland will furnish several Euro
pean travellers this year-Mrs. James
f. Newman, who leaves for Rome this
week, Rey. j. II. Stuart and family,
who leave June "a, and Rev Fr. Auer.
There is now talk of the Hawks
Angus syndicate getting hold of the
st. Johns suburban electric road, COM
pleting their line between Jackson,
Lansing and St. Johns, then west to
Ionia and Grand Rapids
Howard City is to have a much
needed hotel j. II. Abbott and Son
have started work on their new house,
which is to be built at cost of Sl0.-
000 and will be modern with steam
heat and bath in each room.
In the long list of graduates from
the University of Michigan this year
we notice the names of Claude f.
Tuck of Belding, literary, and Willis
A. Little of Cannonsburg, dental.
Thursday, June 10Th will be COM
mencement day
The residence on the farm of j.
Corbett, northeast of Ionia has been
destroyed by fire. A burning lamp
exploded and the family OF Michael
Conroy, who were tenants on the
farm, barley escaped with their lives.
Loss about 81, 200, with SSO0insurance.
The Otisco Sunday School which
meets at the Cooks Corners church
Sunday afternoons at O'Clock will
have a sort of a rally day next Sunday
and it is hoped the attendance will be
large. Rev. j. f.. Butler and wife and
w. S. Canfeld and wife have promis-
ed TO be present,
A man went with his wife to visit
her physician. The doctor placed a
| thermometer in the woman's mouth.
After two or three minutes, just as
the physician was about to remove
the instrument, the man, who was
not used to such prolonged spell of
brilliant silence on the part of his
life partner, said: doctor, what will
you take for that thing?'
Belongs numerous electric roads
are all very quiet just at present and
Greenville is having her inning now.
J. w. Boynton, who has been in the
railroad building business for % or 30
years with his mouth has fine pro-
! iect on hand for road from there to
Grand Rapids via Rockford Perhaps
Greenville will get road first after
all.
The New York Mail says: Milo NJ.
Belding. Jr., the former chief consul
of the League of American Wheel
men i'm this State, has succumbed to
the fascinations of automobiling and
has purchased Peerless touring car
from the Banker Brothers Company.
The carriage is one of the handsom-
est ever turned out by the Western
concern. 1t is painted a dark blue,
has roomy tonneau, and it can fur
nish plenty of speed when required.
President Roosevelt has accepted
an invitation from Congressman
William Alden Smith to visit Grand
Rapids next September, when he
comes to Michigan to attend the re-
union of the Spanish war veterans in
Detroit on the 22d of that month. He
warmly congratulated Mr.. Smith on
his recent denomination and express
ed appreciation of the action of the
action of the convention in adopting
a resolution endorsing his administra-
tion.
James II. Verify, a well-to-do citi-
zen of Lake Odessa fell from the roof
of house which he is building and
sustained injuries that in all probabil-
tiles will prove fatal. No bones are
broken, but he was severely cut on
the head and is hurt internally. Mr..
Verify was the only one hurt in a bad
wreck on the Chicago q Alton rail-
road a year and a half ago, from
which he has never fully recovered.
He is 75 years old. Later. He died
from the effects of the fall.
Vassar Pioneer:-The postal auth.
critics at Washington recognizing
the liabilities of postmasters to make
mistakes in getting letters in the
/ wrong box, have fixed fine of 5000 or
| persons taking mail out Of the Office
other than their own and not return
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