Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-04-26
INTERESTING NEWS
OF BELO|NG PEOPLE
MANY YEARS AGO
NEW BRICK YARD WAS TALKED
OF AT THAT TIME~-WHEAT
ONE DOLLAR

The following items were taken
from our files of April 20, 1880. His
tory has repeated itself even in Beld-
ing.
Locals
A reading club is talked of
Peter Casper of Keene rasied a
new barn last week.
Dan Webster of Maple Rapids, has
become an employee of T. Mckenzie
Adam He'll, of the German settle
ment, has built a splendid front fence
House cleaning time has come,
with its moving of stoves, ripping up
of carpets and general overhauling
w. l.. Sprague, the genial and eff
cient bookkeeper in the lumber Office
of W., l.. & W., has been spending
several weeks visiting his mother and
other relatives in the state of N Y.
II. III. Belding, of Chicago, M. M.
Belding, of Brooklyn, N. Y, and A.
N. Belding, of Rockville, Conn.,, were
all in town on Monday. The visited
this office, complimented our little
sheet as a live local paper and left us
the names of six subscribers. We
greatly appreciate such visits. Thanks
for the good words and the patronage.
Call again, gentlemen.
The monthly Sunday evening tenn
perance meeting, held the 25th, was
we'll attended. The essay of j. b.
Willard entitled "The Trojan Horse"
was fine effort and the application
made of the old Illiad tradition was
most certainly pertinent. The recita-
tion by Birdie Nudge was evidently
well received. The essays of Chas.
o. Malley and BENZ. Modes and the
remarks of Henry Stahlin were all
good All three are thoroughly de-
voted to the temperance work. The
first two were, until recently, hard
drinkers, but they have learned to
hate what was before loved, and now
devote their best energies to the over
throw of their adversary.
Wheat $1.00.
Remember the school meeting.
Go and vote for a new schoolhouse.
The Belding Bros, left for their
respective homes on yesterday.
j. M. Earle has been overhauling
and repairing the dwelling house
which he recently purchased of ID. w.
Cowell.
Literary Friday evening, April 30
The program of exercises will be the
same as advertised for the last meet
ing with some additions.
AS one result of the late visit of the
Bedding Bros, to our town, Bedding
is to have new brick yard 1t will
be situated on the road to Cooks
Corners and just west of the Broas
bridge.
H. w. Gooding is home from his Da-
kota tour. He reports the country
fully equal to his expectation, and has
located homestead of 160 acres and
made a tree claim of the same amount
near Columbia. He will return to Da-
kota in September.
Mrs. Cook, daughter-in-law of VIM.
Knott, is visiting at her father-in-
laws.
Mr.. Allen Osgood of Utica, N. Y,
has been in town this week prospect
ing with a view to the wholesale man.
ufacture of doors, blinds, sash, etc.
We understand that he received such
encouragement from Bedding Bros,
and other parties that his location
here is considered highly probable.
Should the arrangement be perfected
it will add essentially to the material
growth of the place.
Agricultural Meeting.-The quar-
terly meeting Of the Excelsior Agri-
cultural Society will be held at Lyce-
UNI hall, Cooks Corners, on Saturday,
May 8, at 100 p. m.