Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-27

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senger Wednesday.
Miss Lulu Rice of Grand Rapids
spent Sunday here.
G. II. Wilder's Easter window at
tracts lots of attention.
Miss Winnie Willette spent Sunday
with friends at Newaygo.
Miss Jessie Thomas of Ionia visited
at +. Il. jerks over Sunday.
Mrs. Maud Ward of Carson City Wis
tied friends here a few DAYS.
Mrs w. G. Spicer went to Grand
Rapids Tuesday to visit for few
days
Joe Katz of Grand Rapids has been
spending few days with friends
here.
j. T.. Dodson of near Palo, former
Bedding resident, was in the city Sat
urday.
Miss Belle Workman has returned
home from the Yerington college at
ST. Louis.
Mrs. Mary Shier and little son Clark
of Lansing are visiting her sister
Mrs. ID. II. Bricker
Miss Edith Stewart left Tuesday for
her home at Carson City to remain
until school opens again.
Miss Ruby Rouse was in Grand
Rapids Wednesday looking up the
latest styles in millinery.
Ralph Lloyd joined the Bedding con-
tingent Monday, attending the Ferris
business school at Big Rapids.
Col. Fisk one;of Americas foremost
auctioneers and author of lessons in
auctioneering has his card in this is
sue of the BANNER.
The Catholics were planning spe-
cial Easter services for next Sunday,
but as all church services are stopped
it had to be given up.
An operation was performed upon
John Arnwine last Saturday by Drs.
Ferguson and Stanton. He is doing
finely and expects to be out again in
few days.
Lyle Francisco and wife were called
to Ithaca Tuesday by the sudden i'll
ness of Mrs Francisco's mother, Mrs.
Amy Stewart, but she died before
they arrived.
Mr.. and Mrs M. Stocking who have
been visiting friends and relatives in
this city and vicinity returned to
their home at Claremont. South Da
kota, Wednesday.
Mrs. J w, Morton of Alma, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Herbert accomp-
anied by their granddaughter, Ruth
Dexter, of Chicago, have been visiting
their sister, Miss Alice Walker
The Baptist ladies will hold a sale
of baked goods at Robinson & Hud-
sons store, Saturday afternoon of
this week. Ladies please furnish and
send early without further solicita-
tion.
John L. Dick Stevens will open a
cigar factory in the front rooms over
Pierce & Henderson's grocery. He
was doing a nice business here before
he went west last fall and will no
doubt work up a good trade again.
II. l.. Page and wife left "Wednesday
for Saranac to visit his parents, and
from there will go to Grand Rapids
and Cedar Springs. Mrs. Page will
remain at the latter place with her
parents some two or three weeks
while Mr. Page makes trip to. the
northern part of the state.
Maj. Arthur p. Loomis was called
west by the death of his brother Jesse,
Saturday, of pneumonia. The de-
ceased was 30 years of age and a
bright young man. His banking ca
reer was begun in the Second Nation
al bank of Ionia, now National bank.
At the time of his death he held a
position in one of the leading banks of
cheyenne.
MIR. and Mrs. John w. Stanton, for
mer residents of Belding, arrived Sat-
urday evening with the remains of
their youngest son, lad of fourteen
years. The funeral services were held
Sunday afternoon from the residence
of Miss Alice Walker, sister of Mrs.
Stanton, DR.. Is. Morris officiating.
The boy has been paralytic for some
years. They are residents of Hart.
About sixty l.. O. II. NJ. and w. r..
G. ladies joined in gathering at the
G.. A. II. hall last Saturday afternoon
in honor of Mrs. Aleck Russell who is
about to, leave the city. A big dinner
was served and a fine time enjoyed.
They presented her with beautiful
set of dishes as token of friendship
and esteem, and that she may remem-
Der her Belding friends when i'm her
new home. Mrs. Russell assured them
their was no danger of her forgetting
\ them.