Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-08-08
Short Items of Interest Re
lating TO the Toqun and ITS
People. told in a Single
Paragraph.
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Brevities.

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Helen A. Purdy of Smyrna has been
granted a widows pension of IS per
month.
w. /. snd N. X. Benedict returned
Saturday evening from their Nebras-
ka trip.
G.. p. Richardson of Chicago, presi-
dent of the Richardson Silk Co., is in
the city.
Mrs. a. Dougherty and daughter of
Odonah, Wis, are visiting friends in
the city.
Miss Mabel Stone left Tuesday
morning on visit to her people in
Big Rapids.
Mrs. S. Il. Morris of Grand Rapids
made brief visit here last night and
this morning.
The many friends of Jack Hotchkiss
are glad to see him among us again
in good health.
Mrs. Helen Granger and brother
Waite Bedding are on three weeks
visit in South Dakota.
Chas. Brown and attorney d. c.
Sheldon transacted business at the
county seat Wednesday.
Mrs. o. S. Cole, of Toledo has been
spending a few days with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A Spencer.
Chas. j. Hall arrived here Wednes-
day on visit to relatives. He has
been ranching in Idaho and is looking
fine.
Homer Hutchinson has been spend
ing weeks vacation at the home of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Hutchinson.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. G. Hotchkiss have
been in the city this week. He is
travelling salesman for the Ballou
Basket Works.
Lena L. Leonard intends to remain
in Bedding this year and will be glad
to accommodate any who desire lessons
in voice culture.
At the b. Y. 2. U. next Sunday
evening at the Baptist church a re-
port by the delegate to the Chicago
convention will be given.
Mrs. Chas. Ryerson and children
are spending the week at Ionia. They
leave on their return to Chattanooga,
Tenn, next week Saturday.
Mrs. Geo. w. Moulton and youngest
son left Saturday on a visit to her
people near Morley. The older boy
has been there for several weeks.
The fourth quarterly meeting of
Wesleyan Methodists will be held in
the Orleans village church August "a
and %. Rev. II. A. Day of Grand
Rapids will have charge.
Notice has been received here that
Arthur ID. Coleman had been APP
pointed to superintend the poultry
exhibit at the Ionia fair this fall.
This was certainly quite compli-
ment for one so young as Arthur,
but he could not accept as he left
Monday evening 70 join his mother at
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
An old railroad velocipede near the
Pere Marquette depot has furnished
much amusement and sport for young
lads for quite spell, but they will be
a little shy of it for a few days as
boy named Moore caught his index
finger in its cogs Monday and got the
end of it well chewed up. His finger
is little shorter than it was before
but probably he knows more.
j. NJ. Earle has been spending a few
days in this city and vicinity this
week. He will move to Tennessee
next week and assume the resident
management of the large numbering
and mining company organized in
Detroit two or three months ago, own
ing 5000 acres of land near McMinn-
vile in that state. He says the out
look is fine and thinks it viii prove a
very profitable investment.
A small sensation was created last
week by a reported abduction of
two-year-old child. 1t was Mr.. and
Mrs. Bert Sweets and it seems they
separated some months ago, the
mother retaining the child. Why he
wanted it or what he proposed to do
with it no one knows, but he took it
and went off down in Keene township
somewhere. A warrant being issued
Under-sheriff Fales quickly found
them and brought them back. He de-
cided to let the mother have it and
the matter was dropped.
There have been fish stories and
fish stories, but all other local fisher
men have been put in the shade and
relegated to the rear, while Ed Sisco
carries the banner at present, all on
account of that nine pound bass
caught by him at Pine Island Lake this
week, which was viewed with admir-
alton by hundreds at the Bridge st.