Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-07-17

ana Miss Margery Tower, OF Union
City, Sundayed with DR.. |. S. Morris
and wife.
! Miss Myrtle Shire is taking three
weeks vacation from her duties at
Lincoln's store, visiting relatives at
Lake Odessa, Saranac and other
places.
Married, by Justice John Collins at
his office in Howard City, July Sd Mr..
X Nj. Johnson of Orleans, Ionia coun-
ty and Miss Dora Vanalstine of Big
Rapids, Mecosta county, Mich.
The Orleans Centre cemetery asso-
citation will hold meeting at the
town hall Saturday, July 26, at 2 p, m.
Everyone interested in the cemetery
are invited to be present at this meet
ing.
Miss Ellie Luscombe, who recently
graduated from Yerington's College,
has returned from Mt. Pleasant, and
is doing stenography and typewriting
in the office of city attorney ID. G.,
Sheldon.
Misses Mabel Spicer, Florence
Washburn, Cora Robinson, Neva
Bricker, Maud Spencer and Fila
O'Bryon will spent a number of days
camping at Baldwin Lake. Mrs. Will
Fisher will be chaperone.
Among the Bedding people who left
this week for the Bay View resort are
Misses Nancy Anderson and Ruth
Mann, Mrs Jos. Morse and daughter,
Mrs A. Il. Locke of Ionia, Mrs. Ca
della Fisk, and Mrs. VIM. f. Sandell.
+. j. Mason gives another grand
ball in the evening following the
Cleaner Picnic, Friday, Aug. lst. A
supper will be served at o'clock to
those wishing it. and dancing will
commence at o'clock sharp. Dance
bill 81 per couple including horses to
hay.
The new branch of the Ballou Bask-
ct Works, for the manufacture of
coal baskets from canvas, is now in
working order and doing business. 1t
is in the old casket factory building
just across the Pere Marquette tracks
and we hope it may grow and expand
so that a large additional force will
be required.
Michigan has $4,000 acres of sugar
beets this year, the largest acreage
in the country. This acreage repre-
sents an increase of 20 per cent. over
last year. California has always had
the largest number of acres hitherto,
but with 10 per cent. increase over
last year she has III, pa or Is, 767 acres
less than Michigan.
Luther f. Hall says for the acreage
sown there will be a splendid yield of
wheat, which never looked better.
Harvest has been delayed on account
of wet weather for haying, but farm
ers are just getting into the wheat
and there is plenty of it ready to cut.
Fruits are looking well and of apples
in particular he predicts an abun-
dance,
DIR. w. A. Little, brother of DIR. f..
w. Little, and who has just graduated
from the dental department of the
University of Michigan, has decided
to locate in Belding for the practice
of his profession. Front rooms have
been engaged in the Wallace block,
over Lincoln's dry goods store, which
will be occupied by them jointly,
commencing Aug /.
Rev f. Buffers subject at the
congregational church next Sunday
morning will be "The Broken Alabas-
ter Box" If the weather is favorable
the pastor will conduct an open air
service next Sunday afternoon at $50
in the shade of the church. Comfort
able seats will be provided for old and
young. Good music will be furnished
ga Starry Stairway will be the sub
ject of twenty minute sermon. Come
everybody.
Andrew McCue, an employee of the
Belding-Hall Mfg. Co., is getting
about with considerable difficulty just
at present. He had been making a
new truck for use at the dry kiln and
he with some Others attempted to tiI
the old one over so as to take off the
wheels, when it got the best of then
and fell catching Andrew across the
legs. 1t weighs fifteen or eighteer
hundred and naturally famed him W
some, but he is thankful to think ht
escaped without having any bones
broken.
Mrs. Lon Conrad and mother Mrs
Ford, of Smyrna drove to Belding Sat
urday afternoon and hitched their ril
on Robinson 4 Hudsons corner. Yer,
shortly after Waldo Franciscos auto
. tuphila came dnWn the afraat an,