Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-20
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Brevities.
Lowell advertises big celebration

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definitely.
N. Wallace is having his block re-
painted and fixed up.
Mrs. j. +. Lamberton and family
have moved to the North side.
Mrs. f. Trail entertained her sister
Mrs. Schreiner of Lowell Wednesday.
M. A. Reed and Rev. j. j. Staley
have been at Luther for two or three
days.
Mrs. LaRue of Detroit is visiting
her mother, Mrs. N. Mccoy, and other
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Behrendt and Mrs.
A. Traub spent Sunday with friends in
Lansing.
Mrs. l.. T.. Green has been visiting
her relatives at Saranac few days
this week.
Mrs. l.. O. Cushing leaves Monday
for a months visit with her parents
at Ann Arbor.
Howard Harrison of Athens has
been visiting his cousins Fred and
Lloyd Underwood.
Dan Skellenger and wife are enter
tanning his mother Mrs. Sarah Skell-
enger for few weeks.
Miss Rena Chapple is making a
several weeks visit TO friends at Coral,
Howard City and Lakeview.
Commencement exercises at the
Opera House tonight. The program
was given in our paper last week.
The circus drew big crowd to town
last Saturday. Most every one pro-
nounced the show as better than they
had anticipated.
Art Arnold and wife of Cedar
Springs have been guests of their
friends Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Harding
several days the past week.
Mrs. A. +. Weter and daughter Mrs.
Maud Pond and baby left Tuesday
morning to visit friends at Corunna,
stopping at St. Johns for one day on
the way.
Postmaster ID. +. Wilson is making
some excellent improvements upon
his residence property. Taken down
the fence, trimmed up the trees, will
have cement walks, etc.
Master Lyle Madden will entertain
twenty-four of his young friends to-
morrow afternoon in honor of his
ninth birthday. Ice cream and cake
will be served, and various games in
dulged in.
The balance of the Bedding contin-
gent from the U. of NJ, Rufus Morse,
Gertrude and Sumner Wilson, return
ed home the latter part of last week.
Miss Carrie Ranney arrived from Oil
vet college this week.
Ionia is again discussing the
proposition of Hale Bros. to erect,
equip and operate flour mill in that
city. The bonus asked ($l,0OO) is
small and Ionia should not miss such
a splendid opportunity.
Business appears to be good at Beld-
ing Bros. & Co.'S. mill. They are hir-
ing help and starting new looms in
the weaving department daily. Prob
ably they are getting in line for bust
ness in the new factory later on.
Through the efforts of the superin-
tendent of schools, Harry George, OF
the class of 1900, on account of his
excellent work, has received a schol-
arship at Olivet College for one year,
and will take up his work in Septem-
Der.
b. f. Hall has had cement walk
put in on the south side of his fine
residence property, also a cement
curbing on both south and east sides.
HOFFMAN Bros done the work. They
are putting in cement walk for A.
+. Weter this week.
Geo. Parslow who is having quite a
serious IlI0e WIFI his HdHu WllNh hN
injured at the refrigerator factory a
few weeks ago, went to Grand Rapids
Monday accompanied by DIR. Pinkham
and is now at Butterworth hospital
It may be quite while before he re-
covers the use of ii.
Miss Helen Baker has issued invita-
tions and programs for her fifth Must
Gale to be given at the Congregations
church next Wednesday evening
Those on the program are Mrs. Ellis
Ranney, Belle Crosby, Neva Bricker
Margaret McCauley, florence Glenn
ems, Imogene Ireland, Annie Brack
er. Heel Dutt, Hazel Bricker, Bert
Garfield, Willie Wadsworth, Bert
Rummler, Melvin Wagner, to be as
sisted by Miss Bessie Evans, violinist
of Grand Rapids.
Miss Olive Burshaw, well known t'
many Bedding people but who for the
past two years has been employed il