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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 4
Michigan strawberries are now ON
the market.
ID. c. Crawford OF Ionia was in town
Wednesday.
w. b. Reed was in Grand Rapids
over Sunday.
Hon. j. M. Earle was in the city
Decoration day.
George Hauck was home from Lake
view over Sunday.
b. +. Hall has been in Chicago on
business the past week.
+. A. Palmer went to Portland yes
terday to do some surveying.
Miss veva O'Bryon of Stanton has
been a guest at G. G. O'Bryon's.
H. S. Campbell has been spending a
few days at his home in this city.
w. ID. Sinclair and wife visited
friends at Fenwick Decoration day.
Miss Cora Holmes was in Keene Wis
iting relatives Sunday and Monday.
Miss Edith Smith is doing the book
keeping in Ireland's hardware store.
Mrs. John Lewis of Greenville was a
visitor at f. A. Washburn's Tuesday.
Mrs. Arthur Conner and Mrs. John
Stevens spent Decoration day in Ionia.
Emory Swank and Mrs. Imhoff Wis
tied friends at Cedar Springs for few
days.
II. l.. VanBenschoten and Henry
Friedly went to Rockford on business
today.
Mrs. Ed. Trail is visiting her daugh-
ter, Nellie, who is now residing in
Detroit.
Geo. F. Smith and wife were in Car
son City visiting her parents over
Sunday.
Miss Florence Washburn was visit
ing at John Lewis in Greenville over
Sunday.
Ed. Peters of Grand Rapids spent
Sunday and Monday with friends in
the city
Miss Grace Collins of Lansing was a
guest at E. b Lapham's Sunday and
Monday.
A souvenir given with every pur-
chase during sale days at Miss III. E.
Powers.
"A. b. Hull and l.. w. Holmes were
at Hastings and Grand Rapids for a
few days.
Chas. S. Felch is entertaining his
grandfather Mr.. Hough, of Carson
City this week.
Tom Welsh and little son OF South
Lyon were in the city Wednesday
greeting old friends.
Mrs. ID. G. McVean of Stanton, for
merly of the Bricker House, died in
Stanton this morning.
New ads this week: w. |. Benedict,
G. Eddy & Son, T. Frank Ireland and
Thos. A. Carten, Ionia.
Two pupils recitals will be given by
Miss Wagner June 20 and Il at the
Congregational church.
DR.. Munich is here today. He will
not make his next regular visit as he
intends taking vacation.
Miss Laura Castle was at her home
in Constantine during the memorial
and decoration day vacation.
The case OF the People VS.. M. M.
Moore in Justice Lapham's court has
been adjourned to June Both.
Lew Fisher who recently secured a
good position at Grand Rapids, was
home over Sunday and Monday.
The front of Fish & Nye's meat
market has received new coat of
paint which improves it wonderfully.
The largest egg reported this season
was placed on our table by Mrs. j. X
Mcintyre 1t measured ten inches
round.
Mrs. A. A. Conklin who has been
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Clayton
Kimberly, returned to Maple Rapids
this morning.
Maurice A. Reed returned from Lu-
ther Monday night with 20 trout.
They bit good, and so did the mosqui-
toes so he reports.
Mrs. Will Baxton, who had been Wis
iting her sister Mrs. A. ID. jerks for a
few days returned to her home at Big
Rapids Wednesday.
The Bricker House, under the man
agement of Landlord Mosgrove, has
been greatly improved and everything
looks as bright as dollar.
An Indian medicine tent show is
holding forth nightly at the corner OF
Bridge and Liberty streets and is
drawing good crowds OF course.