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side camp.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mart Hayes entertain
ed Mr.. Hayes, neice Mrs. Elizabeth
Schopps of Grand Rapids at the White
House Sunday.
Mr.. Frank Harlan who has spent the
last two years in Nevada, has returned
home and Mr.. and Mrs. Harlan, daugh-
ter Francis, Grandma Raymond and
Mrs. Leon Osterhaut spent Sunday
at their cottage, the Harlan. 1t is re-
ported Frank and wife will spend
month at their cottage.
John G.. Doan and wife, Mr.. and Mrs
VIM. f. Russell of Grand Rapid drove
over in Mr.. Doan's automobile last Sat
urday and ate fish dinner with the
Brickers at the Cranycraw Cottage.
Leonard Weeks, the stock buyer of
Belding, took dinner with the Arwines
Sunday.
Mrs. John Shaw and daughter, Lu-
cile spent l0-days outing at the Barker
camp, visiting Mrs. Barker. Mrs
Shaw made fine catch of fish one
day last week, large black bass and
a big string of speckeled bass.
Mr.. Crawn, superintendent of Fargo
Shoe Factory and Mrs. Crawn in COM
pany with Mr.. and Mrs. Wait and
family camped at the Echota cottage
few days last week.
Sumner and Wilbur Wilson and fam
lies camped for week at the Edwards
cottage. Last Sunday they entertained
Mr.. and Mrs. ID f.. Wilson, Mr.. and
Mrs b. f. Hall and Miss Gertrude Will
son.
Earl Cole and wife, Mrs. Ezra
Cole and daughters Viola, Dollie, Ines
and her two children, spent pleasant
three days outing at the Echota cot
tage.
Will Pollock and family and Mrs.
Geo Roosevelt camped at the Harlan
cottage several days last week.
Miss Mary Boyd the efficient trimmer
at Nellie Millard's for the past season
spent week at the Pioneer Cottage
with the Millards, and then returned
TO her home, Mercer Pa.
Mr.. Gephart, the news man and Mrs
Gephart spent a pleasant day last We'd
desday at Recreation cottage guests of
the Madden's.
Mrs. A. :. Holmes of Grattan in
company with her two grandson En-
DRY, and Harold of North Baltimore
Ohio. spent Tuesday and Wednesday
of last week visiting the Millards al
the Pioneer cottage.
w. p. Hetherington and +. f.. Fales
came over from Bedding and spent
Thursday at the Fales cottage, fishing
was the obj ect, no report as to number
caught.
The Bus line is doing big stroke of
business TO and from the Park, Phone
1874 rings and the Bus will take you to
one of the finest resorts in Mich.
Like all summer resorts, Bricker
Park has its Lovers Lane and their
Irritation and romances, Hugo and Hal
lie, fine young gentlemen from Bedding
but little inclined to fiirt with the
girls, just looking for something roman
tic like you read about in dime novels.
Hugo and Halle were "batchingn il
at the Fales cottage, one afternoon last
week they received a note from the
south side. "Hugo, we will be on the
Hall side at 2:30 p. NJ. Meet us with
your boat" signed Ora and friend
The way those boys did slick up that
cottage and prepare things for company
Mrs. Will Orser helped them make
fudge and slick up. To their surprise
two old ladies were there TO fill the en-
gagment. Hugo says them blamed
women in the Orser cottage put this job
on us, | hope il don't get out down
town.
City Attorney Alfred Locke of Ionia
and REGISTER of Deed VIM. Wilder who |
have been rusticating at the Lake
can relate big fish stories of ten TO 10 |
pound pike and of one strike that near
ly pulled both of them i'm trying To |
land it, they were pulled around the |
lake three times finally they snubbed |
the line to tree, then the monster |
with snort broke loose and jumped |
ten feet out of the water, veribabIe
whale.
Bricker Park may soon be the CEN