Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-25
Short Items of Interest Re
Lafins TO the 7ozvn and It's
People, told In a Single
Paragraph.
Local ~ +.
Brevities.

] Frank j. Luck was in Grand Rapid
Tuesday.
, E. +. Chapple was in Coral on bust
ness Wednesday.
| At A. J. Barton's Tuesday a /:
pound boy was born.
Mrs. j. +. Clemens is home from
Ann Arbor for few days.
Homer Unger is suffering with an
attack of rheumatism this week.
Mrs. Geo. Widdicomb returned
home to Grand Rapids Wednesday.
The High school team will cross
bats with the city team Saturday
afternoon.
T.. c. Lloyd and Jensen & Wheeler
will close their stores all day on Dec
Grafton day.
If you are thinking of buying a
piano or organ get Foster, Ritter 4
Fosters prices.
Mrs. A. L. Pond is treating her
friends to rides in their automobile,
Mrs. Pond being the driver.
G. V. Cornwell, of Ionia, has moved
here and opened a barber shop in
Hotel Bricker. See his ady.
The Ladies Social Circle will meet
with Mrs f. w. Little next Wednes-
day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
There we're 375 scholars in attend
ance at thd M, Z. Sunday School last
Sunday and the collection was over
S13.
All members of the w. c.. T. U.
who can are urged to go to Smyrna
Saturday to the institute. Program
in this paper.
Take the new correspondence
course for beauty culture-write for
circulars. Detroit School of Beauty
Culture, Detroit, Mich,
The Methodist and Congregational
lists will unite in a union service Sun
day evening in the M. L. church and
Rev. A. Secord will preach.
&. +. Foote and wife of Grand Rap
ids are working in the interest of the
Forester Lodge and have secured
class of p already who will be init
ated on June Sth.
Rev. A. p. Moors of Greenyille oc-
cupied the pulpit at the M. f. church
Sunday and preached two very inter
esting sermons Mr.. Sheehan being in
Hanover to attend the funeral of Mr..
Morehouse.
W. F. Bricker is having his park at
Long Lake cleaned up and has al
ready sold four lots. He will build a
cottage there soon and Mrs. G. Stan
ton will also build one, having pur-
chased fine lot.
DR.. Marjory Orr, returned from
Toledo Monday where she had been
visiting for a week at DR.. Scholeys.
She was also guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. A. Spencer and Mrs. Oscar Coles,
they are building fat there and are
all we'll and contented.
That fine specimen bird in the win
dow of the Bedding Savings Bank is
an eagle which was captured in Graf
tan sometime ago. 1t was sent to a
taxidermist in Freeport who mount
ed it and it now belongs to Clayton
Beach of Grattan. 1t is certainly a
beauty.
The Banner is running each week a
column of interesting news that was
up-to-Gate % years ago clipped from
the file of the Bedding Home News.
Occasionally some exchange paper
comes to our table with a reprint
item from the column as late news
matter.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Sheehan re-
turned from Hanover Monday, where
they had been called last week by the
death of her father, p. r. Morehouse,
who died of paralysis. The deceased
was seventy years old and was quite
well known in this city, he having
lived with Rev. and Mrs. Sheehan
last winter, leaving here the last OF
March. The funeral service was
held Saturday.
H. w. Eggleston and Engineer Sc
cole, of Beloit, Wisconsin, are in the
city today for the purpose of inter-
esting the city council in the matter
of installing plant at the water
works power house for using gas IN
stead of steam for power, the system
manufacturing its own gas and they
claim it is much cheaper than steam,
Several plants now in operation in
the United States they say are salts
fed with It's workings and would not
return to steam.
The Olika Wilika club of Belding
and Ionia, is scheduled to start on
May z for .Onaway and the Upper
Michigan hunting grounds, where