Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-10
Local BrevitieS.

Mrs. Cunningham has been quite il
with intermittent fever.
Mrs. Fisk Bangs has been confine,
to her home by serious illness.
DIR. and Mrs. j. l.. Ferguson aud sor
returned from Canada Saturday.
Mrs. X A. Mcconnell and daught
Laura have returned from Canada.
John Reck visited his family in Ian
sing this week, returning Tuesday.
Fred Harding and wife have been
visiting in Cedar Springs this week.
Miss Lena Cramer is spending two
weeks vacation with relatives al
Lyons.
Frank G. Stocking went to Ionia
today. He expects to return to Cal
ifornia soon.
Mrs. p. &. Jameson is visiting in
the south part of the state for two or
three weeks.
Mrs. j. w. Pryor and Miss Pryor, OF
Lakeview and Amble, have been guests
at John Whitsel's.
Mrs. Della Joseph and daughter
Ruby of Howard City are visiting Mrs.
+. l.. Reeves this week.
r. +. Curtis and wife went to Coral
last week to visit their daughter Mr..
Curtis returned Monday
Misses Florence and Katie Spencer,
of Washington, ID. c., were guests last
Friday at j. A. Spencer's.
Miss Helen A. Newman writes the
BANNER that she will return to Beld-
ing the last week in August.
Mrs. A. E. Weter left last week for
Haslet Park and her daughter, Mrs.
Pond, expects soon TO join her.
w. A. Chave and A. Il. Gerardy
went out to Chaplin Lake yesterday for
days fishing and had good luck.
Some of the excursionists, II. l..
Page, Ii. j. Leonard and A. L. Spencer
and their wives returned Wednesday.
Romano Robinson is greatly inn
proving his residence by the addition
OF new porch, to take the place Of
the old one.
Cora Geneva, infant daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Chas. Briggs, died August 3,
of cholera infantum, aged three months
and II days.
The ladies of the r. N. of A. will
serve ice cream in the Bedding block
tomorrow friday night. Every body
invited to indulge.
w. E. Barnes of the Soldiers Home,
Grand Rapids, is guest of George
Green. He was a member of the Sth
Michigan Cavalry.
Mrs. Susan Orvis, of Chicago, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. John Coles.
VIM. Norton, of Berlin, Ottawa county,
was also visitor there last week.
Mrs. Geo. Crippen and two sons,
Charley and Norman, have gone east
to visit relatives and friends at her old
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weeks.
Chester Yost and wife, of Big Rap
ids, j. II. Wright and wife, Of Morley,
and Mr.. Shankwiler, of Grand Rapids,
were here to attend the burial service
of Lee Reed.
Mrs. w. b. Reed and mother, Mrs.
Yost, left Monday for Manchester,
Conn. They accompanied Mr.. Reeds
father, Geo. S. Reed, who was called
here by the death of his grandson.
Fisk Bangs returned from Houghton
Lake Friday, where he had been rusti-
eating four weeks 10 a tent and doing
his own homework. He looks as brown
as nut aud says be feels greatly re-
freshed.
&. A. Dixon has rented a building
and will open laundry in lonia. He
went to Chicago Tuesday TO purchase
the necessary machinery. Mr.. Dixon
is a first-class laundryman and he has
our best wishes for his success.
| Carlton White Of Chicago has taken
a couple Of weeks of from business and
is visiting at Robert M. Wilson's. His
wife and son, Luther, are also here.
Miss Zadie Wilson OF Brooklyn, N. Y,
is also spending her vacation here with
her parents.
| The school board has decided to push
along the project for building a new
schoolhouse, now that the matter is
RELOCATED to their hands, and this
week, as will be noted In another col
umn OF the BANNER, have advertised
for bids on the bonds and also for let
ting the contract.
A good drama has not been seen in
Bedding in some time ami as the one
which comes next Tuesday night is OF
the GOOD kind there should be full
house. From here the company goes
to Grand Rapids for four nights In the
Grand opera house and thence makes
circuit of the large cities. Don't miss 1t.