Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-07-25
Short Items of Interest Re
lating TO the Toqun and its
People, told In a Single
Paragraph.
Local ~
BrevitieS.

Miss Bessie Slawson of Harvard is
guest at A. f.. Weter's.
f.. Il. Montgomery of Ionia was in
the city ON business Tuesday.
Little Miss Alice Ryerson is spend
ing a few days with Ionia friends.
A fine rain last night and just what
was needed in this immediate vicinity.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Wolcott left
Wednesday on trip to Detroit and
Buffalo.
Mrs. II. S. Shriener of Lowell was
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Trail,
Monday and Tuesday
Misses May and Francis Alexander
of Grand Rapids are guests at M. l..
Osterhout's this week.
Bedding is not alone in suffering
from the mosquito pest. 1t seems to
be general epidemic.
The basket factory is crowded with
work these days and they are just
humping" themselves.
The brick masons are now at work
upon the opera house addition and the
walls are going up at lively gait.
Mesdames f. II. and A. +. Weter
left this morning for Hazlet Park
where they will put in several weeks.
Mrs. Yost is entertaining couple
of neices, Miss Shankwiler of Grand
Rapids and one from New York state.
Leon Osterhout is taking a vaca-
ton of week or ten days from his
duties at the Pere Marquette station.
New ads this week: Sprague &
Hughes, w. |. Benedict, 7. f. Ireland,
a. & ID. Friedman, A. G. Bedford,
Ionia.
Misses Jennie and Mary Wagner,
Jessie Presley and Carrie Tallman
are spending a week at the Crystal
Lake resort.
Pere Marquette baggageman at this
station, James Evey, and wife have
been visiting relatives and friends al
Riverdale, Mich.
There is double amount of JOY al
Jay Hubbard's on account of the ar
rival of pair of twin boys at theil
home, Monday. LATER-One of then
died this morning.
+. w. Howard, superintendent o
Bedding Bros. & Co. silk mill, return
ed Tuesday from his trip to Massa
chusetts and Connecticut. He says i
is Just as hot down there as it is here
Mrs. Kingsley, mother of Mrs. o. f
| Webster, returned Wednesday from
from an extended northern trip in
Guiding stops at Kingsley, Gran'
Traverse Co., Copemish and Rec
City.
SAM Fox has bargained to leas
| his place at the south limits of tn
city TO Carl George for term o
years and expects to go to Texa
where he has a daughter. Possessio
not given until fall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis Ranney hav
been entertaining her sister Mis-
Bristol of Almont, also Misses Ric
and Vosper of Ionia and Miss Moor
of st. Johns. They all returne
Wednesday and Mr.. and Mrs. Ranne
left for Philadelphia.
1t looks as though Bedding will 500
be feeling the effects of the gre;
, steel workers strike. Belding-Ha
; factory "B" which is running c
: stoveboards is getting low on raw IN
5 terial with no prospects of gettir
more as long as the strike in on, co
sequently a shut down is in sight.
2 Silas Cobb Claude PETER and Sta
:. ley Kendall went out to Pine lslai
: lake last week Tuesday to rustica
for few days, remaining until Su
g day night. The boys were not allo
d ed to get lonesome however for du
,. ing that time they entertained
: their guests 10y actual count ninet
six people.
O O. A. Numer who lives on the {
o John Bond ST. place just southeast
7. the city reports four sheep killed
Ie dogs last week and two more missi
that he has been unable to find a
n trace of. There were two dogs, o
al which was shot and the other G
is away coming in the direction of b
10 ding. Too many worthless ours in Il
city, and elsewhere too for that mi
ter. Too bad he didn't get chan
~ to put an end to both of these two
NJ least.
- AL Wells. the drayman, had one
- those kind of experiences Friday Il
one does not care to repeat. He
r. under contract to haul the city h
re wagon to fires and when the ala
or was sounded that morning he was
&c the south part of the city with Il
~ of dirt and dump boards on.
tn started for the hose house and com