Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-08-01

JOlln bItenOp OF oTltdHs Wds III inc
city Monday.
l.. b. Hall of Grand Rapids was in
the city Friday.
w. ID. Ballou was in Toledo on bust
ness Wednesday.
Lou Sagendorf returned to Slocums,
Muskegon Co Monday.
Miss Amy Rosengarten of Detroit is
guest at Mayor II. j. Leonard's.
Geo. Baker returned Monday from
a ten days trip to his home at Fenton.
Mrs. j. ID. Morse and Mrs. w. ID.
Ballou left this morning for Petoskey.
Mrs. J. +. Van Cleft of Ithaca, N. Y.
is visiting her sister, Mrs. r.. w.
Trussell
Mr. and Mrs II. A Lamb entertain
ed Mrs. Williams of Grand Rapids
this week.
Mr.. John Adams of Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich, is the guest of Miss Rose
Mclaughlin.
Clarence Staley and family are Wis
iting his parents at Collins for a
couple of weeks.
Mrs. ID. j. Hitchcock of Lansing Is
at her nephew's, Lester Grants for
an indefinite period.
Everyone is thankful for present re-
lief from the great heat we have been
suffering for weeks past.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. b. Reed and son
returned Tuesday from a several
weeks visit in Connecticut.
Claude Elkerton, now located at
Germfest, in the upper peninsula,
called on friends here this week.
Mrs. Frank Hale and daughter of
Grand Rapids have been visiting
friends here a few days the past week.
Miss Lulu Mclaughlin of Detroit
has been at her aunt's, Mrs. n. }. Nc
Laughlin's, for a couple of days this
week.
Il. f. ireland joined his family in
are putting i'm a few days at the Pan
American at Buffalo.
Mrs. Geo. Vail, who has been visit
ing her neice, Mrs. j. H. Godfrey for
month past, returned to her home
at Blissfeld this morning.
Mrs. Tom Cannon isl entertaining
her sister Mrs. Alexander and chill
dren of Galena, Kansas, whom she
had not seen in ten years.
Grant Steel, late publisher of the
Athens Bee, accompanied by his wife,
who in former years was a resident
here, have been visiting friends in
this vicinity.
III. V. Hallett has returned from his
western trip, not having decided up
on location. He was gone about
five weeks and travelled about five
thousand miles.
This season has become noted for
the number of fine new up-to-date
rigs that have been purchased by our
citizens Mayor Leonard is latest to
get into line with 'swell" trap
b. f. Hall and wife, f. A. Wash
burn and wife, w. p. Hetherington
and wife, Miss Edith Dimmick, H. i.
Page and M. j. Prall are among the
Bedding folks that have been in Grand
Rapids this week.
Misses Leone Lloyd and Sybil For
syth returned Friday from their east
ern trip, and were accompanied by F.
Percy Lloyd of Philadelphia and Dean
II Bassett of Carbonate, Penn, fol
a three or four weeks stay.
The 5. c. w. cigar company's auto
mobile from Grand Rapids attracted
lots of attention upon our streets
Wednesday, it being the first seer
here. As an advertising scheme it i:
certainly great success. A. l.. Peck
of Lowell had charge of it.
Bert Beach, shoe clerk at Edwards
has gone to Greenville, having been
offered and accepted a good position
Will " -. Nlllltl ~ DOn. All CAOCi
lent young man, we rejoice at his adj
vancement but regret to have him
leave us. Charles Loree, an expert
enced shoe salesman from Ionia takes
the place vacated at II. II. Edwards
next Monday.
Mrs Nelson Holmes of Grattan re-
turned last week Wednesday from al
extended and very enjoyable western
trip, having been gone about seven OF
eisht months. She travelled in al
about $1,000 miles, having visited TWEEN
ty-six cities besides trips to Catalina
island and the Yosemite valley. She
spent the winter at San Diego, Cali
fornia.
b. f. Halls horse Harry j. was en-
tered in the 2:30 pacing class at the
Grand Rapids races this week along
with nineteen others. In the first
heat they went the first half i'm about