Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-08-19

| Mrs. Nj. A. Lessiter is visiting friends
in Lowell for several days, and will
also attend the old settlers picnic in
Ada
Mrs. Estella Lally, who has been
/ visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Hebron, returned Tuesday TO her new
Chicago home.
Having rented l.. Kimberly's shop
at Cooks Corners, will be prepared,
on and after September 20, TO do
horseshoeing, blacksmithing and gen
eral repairing. All work fully guar
anteed. Bert j. Story.
Messrs. T.. l.. Brooks and Lewis Nc
Arthur, also his niece Miss Ethel
Pasco, took dinner last week with
w. j. Bryan at "Fairview," his lovely
home in Lincoln, Neb. The message
received here is "He was very glad TO
see US
Word has been received that Thomas
Keller, one of the Ashley church
builders, lies at the point of death from
second stroke of apoplexy. He is
with his daughter, Elma Lyons, in
Ashtabula, Ohio.
By request of the l.. A. 5. of Ashley
church, aye. Old Tyne Concert" will
be given in this church by Bedding
talent, Tuesday evening, August 81.
Admission 20 and Is cents.
Venus Chapter, o. +. S. will give
a party Friday evening August 20,
at +. +. Lessiter's hall. All invited
sure-some think not.
Mesdames Agnes Youngs and M. A.
Godfrey, Miss Vera Macarthur, Leland
Godfrey and others left for Niagara
Falls this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Foster, Miss
Mabel Robinson and Ambrose Spen-
Ger, all of Bedding, are camping at
Round lake, one of Grattan's beautiful
sheets of water, this week.
The Ashley Sunday-school children
were joined by large gathering at
their picnic held at Cranmer's lake
August II, ii proving a great day for
feasting and fun. The grand dinner
over, games were INDUCED in, various
prizes squirting the young people to
greater efforts.
Mrs. Flora Smith, wife of Albert
Smith and long resident here, died
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Elsie Elkins, at Rockford, August II,
aged near 81 years. She was first
married TO James Miller. To them
were born two daughters, Elsie and
Hattie, the latter now Mrs. Chapman,
of Gowen, and one son Frank Miller,
now of Washington state, who could
not be present at the death and burial
of his mother. For several years she
has been affected with cancer and
lately with dropsy, suffering terribly,
but borne with the great hope of relief
through the Savior of all. Funeral
services were held in the Ashley church
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giving a most excellent discourse from
Numbers 1929. The church was filled
with sympathizing old friends. Burial
was at Ashley cemetery in North
Grattan, with many lovely flowers.
That God may abundantly bless these
daughters, especially faithful Elsie, is
the hearts desire of their many
friends.
The reunion of the Pond family,
held August IA, at the farm residence
of Mr.. and Mrs. III. J. Watkins, form
erly Emma Pond, will go on the
records as one of the happiest days
of their lives. Some twenty-eight
gathered, and those absent from sick
ness and other causes were Rose Pond
Blaggett, of California; Lewis Pond
and family, of Grand Rapids, and
Mrs Ola Pond Gleason, of Greenville.
Their parents grandpa and grandma"
III. ID. Pond, also her mother, Mrs.
Wheeler, were well beloved, also pillars
of the Ashley church, built before the
sixties, for while they are musical
family, "singing all day long" at III.
Us, better yet they were religious