Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-07-23

Ben Frledly and family spent Sur
day in Grand Rapids.
Thos Welch Is in Byron and Wi
also visit Detroit this week.
Before purchasing hammocks loo
over our line. Wortley & French.
Bert Ryerson has secured employ
ment in Grand Rapids and is workin,
there.
Alfred Dorman who visited friend
in Edmore last week has returne,
home.
Fred Cornell entertained his friends
Mr.. Evans and Luther Berry over
Sunday.
Fifty-four tickets were sold at this
point for the Grand Rapids excursion
last Sunday.
Lard going fast at 10 cts. per pound
at Fish.s Our stock wont last long
at this price.
T.. E. Fales has rece ntly added a
line hack to the equipment of that
popular livery.
Chas. Coon and wife drove up to
Greenville Sunday and spent the day
with friends there.
Harry Wiley has accepted a posi-
tion in f. ID. Lincoln's store and be-
gan there on Monday.
r Mason will give another of his
fine dancing parties, August 7th, at
Mason's Hall i'm Grattan.
Mrs. Jessie Brown who has been Wis
iting her parents Mr.. and Mrs McIn-
tyre has returned to Toledo.
A. Thurman is home from Alma
having severed his connection with
the shoe firm he has been with.
The Congregational church Is un-
dergoing a general cleaning up 1t
will be ready for service Sunday.
Miss Carrie Kimberly who has been
a guest at J. ID. Morses for some time
returned to her home in the east last
week.
The Misses Nora and Marian Strong
of Chicago and Sigourney, Iowa, are
guests of their parents Mr.. and Mrs.
Baxter Strong.
Adolph Gebhart Is the new man in
the j. IA Henderson grocery. He will
attend to the delivery wagon, and
Martin Wilcox becomes a clerk in the
store.
Art Upper and Will Wright left
Tuesday evening for Grand Rapids
where they expect employment in
in one of the big furniture factories
of that city.
Mss. G. b. Colburn and Mrs. Henry
of Bay City are guests of James H.
Keeney and other friends this week.
Mrs. Colburn was resident here sew
eral years ago.
Fish & jerks shipped double deck
car of spring lambs from this city on
Tuesday. They were a bunch of very
choice stock and were shipped to the
Detroit market.
The Epworth League will have
charge of the Sunday evening SER
vice at the M. f church Sunday, the
topic will be Echos from the Epworth
League Convention.
Miss Jennie Hughes of this city and
Miss Matte Youngs of Lansing spent
Monday with friends in Orleans, from
which point the latter left for her
home by way of Ionia.
G. B. Keiser, formerly of this Office,
but more recently with the Daily Bee
has severed his connection with that
paper and is acting as the Bedding
agent for the Gable Piano Co. of Chi
cago.
The subject of Rev. A. o. Carman
sermon Sunday morning at the M. 4.
church will be the great International
meeting of the Epworth League Con-
vention and its Christian influence on
the church.
The Congregational Sunday School,
about 100 strong, went to Baldwin
Lake Wednesday for their animal
picnic. Both old and young enjoyed
the day and boated, bathed aid feast
ed to their hearts content.
Frederick Holmes of Orleans was in
the city Wednesday and purchased
one of the old time cradles for cutting
He said he had four when the
reaper put them out of com mission
but was unable to find one about his
premises.
K w. Trussell has flock of eleven
hens which have been doing great
business in the line of egg laying dur
ing the past four months. He has
kept an accurate record each night of
every egg laid during the day and the
figures up exactly 9S5 last
Monday. or over 81 dozen.
James Mckinley is home from Jack
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