Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-07-30

Mrs. Laura Richardson of Reeo
City, fine boy.
Mrs. L. L. Holms and son Fred are
visiting in Ionia this week.
Mrs. ID. w. billings, of Lyons, is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Edwards
Peter Kohn and Fred Shindorf star.
ted this week for Dakota to work IN
harvest,
Mrs. c. l.. Staley and Mrs. Minnie
VanPelt arrived home last night from
the north.
Lard going fast at 10 cts. per pound
at Fish's. Our stock wont last long
at this price.
The Washington Club picnic will be
held next Wednesday, August 9TH, at
Baldwin Lake.
Miss Lena Faunce of st Louis is a
guest of her friend Mrs. c. B. Keiser
for few days.
Mrs. Fl. G. Wilbur is receiving a
visit from her sister, Mrs. ..VanVal-
kenburg of Indiana.
This is the time OF the year for
hammocks You will find some good
ones at Wortley 4 French's.
Mrs. Rambo and daughter who have
been visiting her brother, r W.Swift,
returned to Lyons Wednesday.
Mrs. +. w. Ranney and daughter,
Mary Emily, left Wednesday for a
visit with her parents In Almont.
Miss Helen Wright has gone to
Grand Rapids to spend the rest of the
vacation with her sister, Mrs. Harold
Gardner.
Thos. WEIGH and Ed Jersy left We'd
nesday for the Northern Peninsula.
They will go to Ozark and Mr.. Welch
will visit in Even before returning.
Mrs Maurice Lightstone of Green
Vile and her sister from Chicago
Sere in the city Wednesday. Mrs.
Lightstone was a resident here ten
years ago.
The B. Y. p. U. gave a song ser
vice in the open air Sunday after
noon on the north side, and they will
have another meeting next Sunday
afternoon at the same place.
Ed Sisco and wife and little niece
Eva Wiles, Maggie Sisco, Charlie
and Ralph Luce and wife have been
to TownLine lake for an outing. They
report good time. Ed caught 5 Ii
black-bass and quite number other
smaller ones.
Lewis Tower and his sister Maud
from Grand Rapids were guests OF
their uncle A. S. Dimmick over Sun.
day. they are also visiting in Grattan.
Mr.. Tower is engaged on the Grand
Rapids Press as its cartoOnist and
he is a good one as his work shows.
Geo, o. Bignell, wife, daughter
Maud and son Andrew, accompanied
by Jay Hubbard of Belding, departed
Wednesday morning on three weeks
expedition in the wilds near Luthur
where they will fish, pick berries
fight flies and camp out all the while
The Ladies Aid Society of the NJ. F.
church will meet with Mrs. Henry
FREELY next Wednesday afternoon
August 5th. A full attendance is dc.
sired as a President for the coming
/. year will be elected. A ten cent tea
will be served form to o'clock by
Mrs. McCue's division.
The regular weekly temperance
meeting was held from the band stand
Saturday evening, where large and
interested audience had gathered. A
very fine program was carried out
Rev. H. N. Spear delivered an excel
lent address on local option and Mis-:
Fehan gave fine talk.
Miss May Davenport, who has beer
visiting friends here, has gone to st
ployee of one of the silk mills here
and worked long enough to get money
sufficient to carry her through q
course in Hiram College. For the
past year she has been teaching il
the Upper Peninsula.
Baptismal services were held in the
Park last Sunday by the Disciples, al
which five candidates were baptized
by immersion in the river. Theil
meetings at the opera house continu,
nightly with undated interest. An
other class of Candidates will receiv,
the ordinance of baptism at the sam,
place next Sunday afternoon.
,, DR.. f o. Smith and wife of Kansa
City, Mo, are guests of his brother
: Henry Smith, in this city, and ais,
visiting friends and relatives in thi
vicinity. He moved from Orleans /
years ago and located there, and ha
been very successful in the treatmen
of cancer which disease he makes
specially, owning fine home an,
I Isanitarium.