Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-11-07
THE FESTIVAL
A SUCCESS
All Streets Led To Congregational
Church Last Week
Ladies' Cleared over $3.50 Dinners
and Suppers Were Eine-Men
Helped Them Out

/ he ladies' OF the Social Circle and ev-
erybody else interested are feeling very
happy ever since the close of the Harvest
Home festival last Friday evening. II
was pronounced success in every way
and the new pipe organ fund has received
good sized boost through their efforts
The ladies are very grateful and thankful
for the generous patronage given them
and for the assistance received from
whatever source.
The large dining room of the church
was appropriately decorated in the colors
of autumn, with the corn and corn stalk
trimmings, the Halloween pumpkin,
sprtes and hobgoblins. The color scheme
and corn decorations were under the di-
rectIon of Lauron l. Myers, assisted by
Melvin Wagner, and the Halloween dec
orations by Rev. N. Myers class. The
dining room looked handsome and only
glance at it was needed to sharpen the
appetite.
More than 200 meals were served, the
guests being waited upon by different
waters at each meal; on Halloween night
It was the good looking teachers and other
young ladies'. The gentlemen served
chicken pie dinner on Friday and did the
honors so we'll that the ladies have con-
cluded to ask them to do the same over
again on some future occasion. Roy
d. ,f al a
selves proud in their service Friday nlgnt.
A candy booth in charge Of Misses Iris
McElroy and Jessie Leonard in one corner
of the dining room became very popular
and the young ladies' turned in SIS profit.
No one could resist the temptation to buy.
Miss Ina Stanton presided over the
picture booth, assisted by Mrs. Clyde
Knapp The domestic booth for the sale
of fancy articles, and the like. was in
charge of Mrs. l. L. Huobell. assisted by
Mrs. Daniel Skellenger. and the mscel-
laneous booth, by Mrs Fred Sohlagel,
with Mrs. G S. Barnes and other assist
ants. Mrs Charles Johnson operated the
Larkins BOOTH which was finely decorated
and proved good attraction netting the
society $40
1t required rs pounds of corned beef
90 pounds of pork, 40 chickens, IS pounds
of flour for bread and biscuit. 20 pounds
of coffee, 5 bushels of potatoes, 40 quarts
of cream, lot of cabbage, squash and d
5o-pound cheese from Governor Warner
to serve the meals and there was but
little left.
The ladies are under obligations to
many farmers for donations of produce
and also to Governor F. M. Warner for a
cheese, to the Hill bakery, Grand Rapids.
for very large cake, donated through
Lamb Bros. to Lee Cady & Smart, De-
trot, for Mo-K coffee. donated through
Underwood Bros; for Gold Medal flour
the Washburn- Crosby Co Of Grand Rap
ids, Royal salad dressing from the Heinz
Co
Many compliments were heard on every
hand for the fine decorations and the ex-
cellent manner in which the festival was
managed. A large pumpkin, donated by
w. L. Hoover, brought in $3.50 on a
seed guessing Cor est. at five cents d
guess, awarded t. E. B Lapham for the
nearest guess. ! contained 629 seeds
and his guess was 655; other guesses
ranged from $50 to lz25. The total re-
ceipts from all sources were about $500,
the net proceeds for the pipe organ fund
being $3.50.