Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-08

Last half OF '97.
See the ball game, Saturday.
This heated term is record breaker.
The Ringing circus is to be in Ionia
July 80.
School Commissioner Il. b. Hale was
In town Friday.
B. F. Hail has been on business
trip to Chicago.
A. B. Hull spent Sunday at Hastings,
his former home.
Mrs. j. M. Trimble is visiting
friends in Stanwood.
John Lewis is now cutter at Green &
Riker's meat market.
Strawberries are gone and cherries
now have the market.
The Masonic Hall and banquet room
has been beautifully frescoed.
Will Fish Is putting up mammoth
bill board on North Bridge street.
AL. Wells visited friends near Toledo
for few days, returning Tuesday.
Mrs. Will Knott returned yesterday
from her visit in Holly and Detroit.
Miss Zadie Wilson is home for a
short time from Brooklyn New York.
Orders received compelled the Bas-
ket factory to start up again, Tuesday.
Mrs. Chas. Stevens returned Satur-
day from five weeks trip to Canada.
Hy. Potts, the handsome man of the
Detroit Journal, called here Tuesday.
Misses Jessie Pressly and Pearl
Bedding were in Muskegon over Sun
day.
Mrs. John Crawford of Grand Haven
has been guest at her parents this
week.
Arthur Conner is confined to his
home by intiamatory and sciatic rheu-
matism.
w. Lee Cusser went to Cadillac Sat-
urday and returned with his wife last
Tuesday.
w. ID. Ballou of the Basket Co re-
turned Monday from business trip to
Pittsburg.
Allie Vincent and wife OF Lakeview
visited Bedding friends the latter part
of last week.
Geo. X. Jackson of Ionia is In the
city painting house belonging to
Geo. Nichols.
Frank II. Unger of Detroit was in
the city Monday shaking hands with
his many friends.
Fl. L. VanBenschoten visited his
wife in Collins over Sunday. She will
return next week.
Lewis Roberts who has been visiting
friends in the city returned to Massa-
chusetts, Monday.
Alvah Pringle of the BANNER force
was celebrating near Howard City the
forepart of the week.
Miss Inez Conklin of Maple Rapids
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Clayton
Kimberly, this week.
The ladies of the Eastern Star are
requested to meet at the hall Saturday
afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Mrs. Harry Connell is visiting rela-
tions in Grand Rapids and expects to
be away several weeks.
Frank Lyman IAN attorney of Phoenix,
Arizona, is being entertained by his
cousin, Clarence Staley.
ID. o. Thompson returned Tuesday
from Shiawassee county where he had
been visiting his children.
N. Lapham is still making improve
ments. He has enlarged his watering
trough by adding another.
Chas. II. Foote was in Fremont en-
joying the pleasures of celebrating the
Fourth, returning Tuesday.
The usual quiet following the Fourth
of July with its attendant hilarity il
noticed throughout the city.
Mrs. Fisk Bangs and the baby leaves
today for visit in Grand Ledge anC
Lansing for couple Of weeks.
Geo. Putnam and j. V. Worden and
their families are enjoying the pleas
ures of camp life at Long Lake.
Bedding Commandery, No. 104, Order
OF United Friends will meet next Mon
day night, July II, at X. =. hall.
Some OF our citizens are talking o
taking advantage OF the cheap excur
sion to Portland, Me-, Saturday.
Last week Wednesday night Clyde
Towers fine barn in Oakfeld nea
Wabasis Lake was consumed by fire.
Will Knott has start for a menag
erie in the shape OF young billy goa
which makes music for the neighbors
August Koenig and wife and Nicholi
Koenig Of Detroit we're visiting thei
sister, Mrs. N. Lapham, over Sunday