Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-12-15
Short Aems of Interest Re-
lafing to the Town and rs
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Local ~
Brevities.

Mrs. l.. l.. Homee was i'm Ionia,
Monday.
! Fred Miner was home from Grand
Rapids over Sunday.
Fred +. Ireland made business trip
to Grand Rapids, Monday.
Rev. f. b. Irving made business
trip TO Grand Rapids, Monday.
Mrs. j. III. McNaughton of Sheridan,
was in the city Saturday visiting
friends.
Rev. G. w. Maxwell left Monday
/ for business trip to Battle Creek and
Marshall.
The Church of Christ thanks all its
friends for the large amount of piano
coupon received.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Ransford of Low
ell, are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. T.
w. Whitehouse.
Rev. /. 5. Bussing and daughter at
tended the association meeting of the
Church of Christ held i'm Muir last
week.
Milan j. Demorest has returned from
his visit and business trip in the east
and will soon take trip south in the
interests of his cement mixer
Mrs. John Bowls was called to Green
vile, Monday, to attend the funeral of
her cousin, John r.. Oliver, who died
their Saturday, at the age of 20 years.
+. NJ. Parney went to GreenviIle
Monday, on business connected with
his chicken hatchery. He says he is
already making sales Of cockerels from
his al last week.
Mrs. Mark III. Brown has been visit
ing at her mothers i'm Lowell this
week. Her brother, Frank Daniels and
wife are attending the State Grange
meeting in Traverse City.
Ray Tower, who has been at Gibbs
borough, n. j., visited his father here
over Sunday. He was on his way TO
Joplin, Mo-, where he has accepted a
position with lead mining COM
pany.
Elwood Weter and Clifford Knapp
went To Ionia, Saturday, To return the
light guard suits, which the soldiers
wore in the Captain of Plymouth. y
The Armory officials generously gave
the boys the use of the suits "free graf
isl and the favor was highly appre-
ciated
An important change in the ecclesi-
astical laws of the Roman Catholic
church, promulgated by Pope Plus Y,
was announced recently at triennial
synod held in New York. The decree
issued by the Pope makes itimperative
for priests to prepare children for the
first communion when they attain the
age of six years.
The Masonic lodge have had good
sized kitchen and cloak room added to
their banquet room, making an inn
provement which has long been needed
The ladies of the o. +. S. furnished the
lumber for the partitions and the breth-
rem did the carpenter work, under SUI
pervision of Bros Curtis and Ander-
son, who with the assistance of others
have made fine job of it.
l.. A. Ely of Alma, commissioner
of good roads, was in the city Mon
day, on his way TO Orleans To inspect
the road, being built by Levi Heth i'm
which the state is interested Mr.. Ely
says Ionia county will get seven and a
quarter miles of good roads under the
state law system this year. He speaks
very highly of the road which was
built running south of this city.
The potato trade is practically par
alyzed these days. About 10000 BUSH
els are in storage here, every storehouse
up and down the line is crammed to
the roof with tubers. AT zoe bushel
and with such congestion of stock
| 1hCiC 10 NATURALLY llbtlc uOlflR III Tic
spud line. About 175 carloads averag.
ing ia the neighborhood of 600 bushels
to the car have been shipped from
here so far this season.-K ALASKA Lea.
der
Seventeen of the merchants OF Ca
dillac got together a week ago and
organized the Cadillac Merchants AS.
ISOLATION. The organization was made
for the purpose of protection of the
members against patrons who go from
one dealer to the other with the in
tention of lodging responsibility in
the matter of paying debts, and fol
the purpose of having agreements rela
tive to the subject of early closing
. closing on holidays, etc. This is /;
: good move and other towns shoul,
. follow suit.
At the Church of Christ on Lord