Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1895-08-15
he county fair season is at hand

Maude are visiting Mrs. Earle il
Lansing.
The state teachers institute for Ionii
county opens next Monday in the city
of Ionia.
Maj. A. =. Loomis, the Governors
private secretary, was in the city
Saturday.
Sixteen bands will be present at the
band convention to be held here Sep
TENDER 4th.
Rev. VIM. Fierle will hold service at
the Catholic church, Sunday morning
at 9 o'clock.
The medicine street fakir now catches
the crowd and the merry-go-round isn't
in it any more.
G. Nj. Wise went TO Hazlet Park Sat
urday and remained over Sunday with
his daughter, Edna.
Miss Jessie Lowe of Chicago who
visited her cousin, Miss Pressly last
Wcch, has FebuTHeu.
Prof. j. G.. VanWinkle is on a bicy-
Gle trip to Niagara Falls in company
with some Sparta friends.
Mrs. w. A. Chave returned Tuesday
night from five weeks visit with
friends in Des Moines, Iowa.
Frank Unger, Dr. Smith and Rasty
Sparks attended the bicycle races in
Ionia, Tuesday. They wheeled down.
There will be a special meeting of
Doric Chapter, No. IS, o. L. S., Tues
day evening, August q, for initiation.
Wilbur Whitney left Friday morn
ing on his wheel to make visit of two
or three weeks in Kalamazoo county.
The Royal Templars gave a literary
and ice cream social at the "A. O. u.
w. hall and banquet room last night.
The pillow works will not be removed
from Greenville, and large new brick
building is now being constructed for
il.
Mrs. Jason Hicks and Miss Linnie
Hammond returned Saturday from
Muskegon where they have been visit
ing.
The annual picnic of the Ionia Coun-
ty Soldiers and Sailors Battalion will
be held at Portland, Thursday, August
22nd.
j. Ii. Godfrey came home from Cadil-
lac, Saturday, for a visit with his
family, and will soon move them TO
that city.
Undertaken Wilson had his hands
full Saturday and Sunday, taking
charge of funerals; two Saturday and
three Sunday
j. Z. Hall and w. A. Stanton, of
Chicago, +. j. Fisher and j. Dobson
Goode, of New York, have been in the
city this week.
Mrs. Mary Hogle and sons, Kenneth
and Norman, who have been visiting
at Thos. Cannon's, left for visit in
Indiana, Monday.
The iron for the bank front having
arrived, it is now going up rapidly.
Mr.. Wallace is delayed on account of
the non-arrival of the stone.
The Y. w. G. A. gave successful
ice cream social on the lawn of the
Richardson Silk Co. boarding house,
Tuesday night, netting them about
$1,000
f. A. Murphy of the law firm of
Locke, Murphy & Locke was in the
city, Saturday. The new firm will have
their Office in Spencer's building ad-
joining the Star Office.
September 4th is the date of the band
tournament to be held in this city and
a great day it will be. Everyone in
the surrounding country should be
making calculations to attend.
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage OF Miss Minnie A. Lessiter and
pCOI &c NnlJOcHi VI VI ""V"ii VINO "Ou-
ding to occur September 18th at the
residence of the brides mother.
The rustler in business may incur the
jealousy Of his neighbors, but the man
who INDUCES in innocuous desuetude
soon finds he has been left behind in
the race and joins the band OF calamity
howlers.
Charley Brown pulled up bean
stalk from the IL acre bean patch OF
Elmer Cook on the futile farm, con-
tanning fifty well filled pods. He has
another field OF seven acres and the
crop promises TO be immense.