Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-28
GRATTAN.
Rev. l.. B. Albert Delivers His Farewell
sermon-other News aud
Personal Items.

NEWS
Personal Items.
J To Mr.. and Mrs ID. Scalley, daugh
ter.
John Rogers, who has been very sick
is some better.
The heaviest rain OF the season fell
Sunday, with hail in places
Will Hall is on the gain once more,
and 1T is thought the danger OF typhoid
fever is past
! Claud Becker is now clerking for +.
+. Lessiter and Mr.. Hazeltine has re-
turned to the valley city.
Miss lmogene Woodward has been
keeping to her bed the past few days
with an attack Of tonsiitis.
The B. Y. p. y. prayer meetings are
very interesting. The next will be
held at Wheeler Pond S Sept 26.
Mrs. L. Nj. Carl and family have
been entertaining her cousin, Mrs.
Newell Palon, Of Harrisburg, Mich.
Smith Holmes, wife and daughter
Elsie, of Hastings, have been visitors
at Mrs. A. 5. Holmes for several days.
Many of our people are expecting to
attend the State Fair but we have
heard OF no Grattan exhibitors as vet.
John Bricker visited his wife at the
Kalamazoo asylum Friday, then went
on to Canada to bring back a sister to
keep house for him.
The next social of the Ashley l.. A.
5. will be held in the afternoon OF Oct.
u, with Mrs. Edward Phillips. then fol-
lows the evening socials All invited.
The many friends of II. w. Green.
Grattan boy, will regret to learn that
his only son Clifford is very low with
typhoid fever at their home in Grand
Rapids
Mrs +. Woodland and daughter
Rilla have returned from Pennington.
where her daughter, Miss Adele Il.
was married TO Charles H. Fleming
Sept. lth; also his sister, Miss Laura
a. Fleming to w. +. Martin. The two
couple were married by Rev. ID. Q. /
Fleming, father OF c. III. and Miss
Laura.
Rain kept the Grattan and Grand
Rapids teams from a play for cham
piQnship Friday after coming here.
Same Sunday except Grattan was
going to Grand Rapids. Why other
wise respectable people should wish to
turn Sunday into pandimonium by this
ball craze IS a couundrum which the
aw should solve.
Mr.. X. Clinebell has finished writing
he biographical sketches of Grattan's
,itizens for new history Of Kent Co..
o be published by X w Bowen & Co.
Hr {. Is a rapid penman and has nat.
lral ability to write family biography,
md by his gentlemanly address has
'een made welcome in the best homes
i our town as well as those surround
ng Grattan.
Venus Chapter Q. f.. ). elected the
blowing officers last Saturday night:
Worthy matron, Alice Mason; worthy
atron, j A. Lessiter; associate ma
ron. Anna Judson; secretary, Myrtle
Weeks; treasurer, Minnie Whitten;
onductress, Jessie Weeks; associate
Dnductress, Eudora Mofitt. There
re others which the worthy matron
pponts but we have no list.
Rev. l.. b. Albert preached his fare
ell sermon Sunday while the rain fell
torrents without, and scarcely "A dry
te within. He chose John l., =, lS-
Little children, it is the last time"
ON which he gave a discourse Of
Feat eloquence and tenderness, plead
2 with the church rs a father pleads
lth his children, to get out of the
'aten path of careless living and =
me up To the standard of Almighty
od for needful salvation. Rev. Me-
'nnell, of Belding preachs at Ashley
It. lst.
Last December Mrs. u McCauley
gan to realize she had a severe
ronic cdisarrangement TO combat, that
Is soon followed by serious complica-
ms, so that DR.. |. s. Morris of Bel
ne was employed. Although grave
irs were entertained that an opera
IN was the last resort, through the
ctor's skillful treatment the danger r
pronounced past and her recovery i
Il be complete in the near future.
ON her steady Improvement Others
We taken heart and found prompt
lief also. DR.. Nj. can now count his
attain friends by the host.
Itching Piles.
false mOdesty causes many people to
dure In silence the prentosI misnrv -