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J. p. Presley spent Sunday with

w c. Spicer and wife were u
Grand Rapids Tuesday.
DR.. VIM. Bell made an Official bust
ness trip to Lansing Tuesday.
Nev.n Lloyd left this week for
trip TO Little Rock, Arkansas.
Hon. j ID. Morse went 10 Ionia Mon
day to attend court as juror
Thos. Watson and wife, of Oakfeld
are being entertained by DIR. +. w.
Little.
r. w. Trussell is nursing a felon
which is giving him considerable
trouble.
Ansel Crane, of Lyons, has been the
guest of his daughter, Mrs. James
Cramer, this week.
Stanley Howard has gone TO Grand
Rapids to reside, having secured a
good position there.
Mrs. j. Wright of Morley is making
her mother and sisters visit this
week at w B. Reeds.
u Miss Clara Hogle is home from
Grand Rapids, being called here by
the Sickness of her mother.
John Bats, of Ionia after visiting
his brother and sister here several
days this week left today for Cali
fornia'
c. B. Foote and wife left Tuesday
for Hart, where they will spend sey-
eral months with their son, Charles
II Foote.
l. L. Hubbell, II. Younger and Fred
Thompson were at Ionia Tuesday, at
tending the convention Of the court
of Honor
Riley Kern has exchanged his farm
with Arba Face of Orleans for the
large one of 225 acres which he owned
and occul led.
Miss Ethel Ferguson who has been
the guest of DR. and Mrs. j f. Fergu-
son went to Grand Rapids Monday for
few days visit.
Louis Lcouard, who has been spend
ing the holidays with his parents, re-
turned to Ann Arbor university last
week to finish his college course.
Rev. J. T.. Butler was called TO Shi-
lob Tuesday to attend the funeral of
Mrs. ]. NJ Drake, one of the pioneers
of that section. She was 81 years
old.
- NJ Eaves and wife, who have
Men spending the past week with his
parents here, returned to their home
in~Belding Tuesday afternoon.-Palo
Post.
H, L. Mathematician has been in
the city few days stopping off here
for short visit He is on his way to
! Rolla, Montano, where he will open
up business for the practice of law.
The alarm of fire Wednesday night
was caused by small blaze in the Ed
Orser house. 1t caught near the
chimney and caused considerable ex-
element but was extinguished with
little damage.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. Pickney entertain
ed Geo. Hoot and wife and f Green,
Of Greenville last week, these families
have made it practice the past l6
years 10 enjoy the New Year together
with big dinner.
Leonard Mcpherson and Miss Dora
Dow we're married last night at the
residence of the brides parents Mr..
and Mrs. Isaac Bates. Rev. A. o.
Carman officiated and the ceremony
was witnessed by few of their
friends. The young couple will re-
side in the city
Mss. Chas. Felch, Of Ionia, has been
III city for a few days the past
49, The proofs of death have been
Impleted in the New Era associa-
lion of which her late husband was
hmber, and she will in short time
t,ceiye the insurance of $1,000 which
he carried on his life.
4 Wortley & French have made de-
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Peoples Pharmacy on the interior
arrangements. 1t looks like an en-
A tirely new busineypplace, having been
decorated with new paper, and the
n shifting of shelving and partitions
lives them more room.
\ Israel Davis, who operated the adj
yertising scheme here last summer,
with pictures, moving and otherwise.
thrown on canvas, met with loss to
his apparatus in Edmore, last week.
One of the films which produced the
passion play took fire while in opera
ton, and destroyed about 800 worth
of his property.
Will Gregg of Ouaway was in the
otis several days the past week. He
was down e. visit bis mother and also
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