Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-06-01

Mrs. A. Sparks visited at Coral Tues
day.
Mrs. J. w. Pringle was Coral visit
or Tuesday.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Green were Cow
en- visitors Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. w. T. Pope were Green
Vile visitors Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lemley called on
relatives here last week.
| Mrs. j. l.. Parks and daughter Bea-
trice were Coral visitors Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Steele and Jacob
King were in Ionia on business Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Madden spent
Decoration Day with friends at Sand
Lake.
Mesdames Jennie Selleck and Nellie
VanGilder were Greenville visitors
Tuesday.
Miss Elsie Face of Grand Rapids Wis
tied her mother and other relatives
here Monday,
Clyde f. Jenkins of Grand Rapids
spent few days in the city last week
visiting friends.
Mrs. Villa ST. Onge of the Banner
force was guest of relatives at Green
vile Decoration Day.
Mrs. George Boyer and daughter left
for Vicl<eryville, Tuesday, to visit rela-
tives there two weeks.
n. G.. King of Laleview and Jud w.
King of this .cIty drove to Ionia on
! business the first of the week.
Mrs. Victoria Spence and daughter
Gladys of Casnovia returned home
Tuesday, after short visit with Mr..
and Mrs. Ed. Carpenter.
Grand Rapids seems to be quite a
mecca for Bedding people this spring,
fifty tickets TO that city being sold Sat
urday and seventy Sunday.
Mrs. &. +. Algeo of GAINESVILLE was
in the city Tuesday, calling on old
friends and looking after the final rest
ing place of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
II. III. Gooding.
The ladies of the Methodist Church
will serve Strawberry short cake and
a host of other good things at their
regular supper Saturday night from 5
to o'clock. Bill ID cts.
The ladies of the Literary Exchange
club are making arrangements TO give
a benefit at the Idlehour theatre for the
County tuberculosis Shack TO be erect
ed in Ionia in the near future.
An ice cream social will be held on
the lawn of J. ID. Morse at Cooks Cor
ners Saturday night, under the auspices
of Mrs. Morse's Sunday School class.
A program is prepared for the evening
and Hon. f.. NJ. Davis of Ionia will
entertain with readings. This will be
fine opportunity for some of our Bel
ding people to have pleasant drive
and take in the social.
On Tuesday afternoon of last week
, Ruth and Marion Edwards entertained
the II r.. = Class of the Congrega
, tional Sunday School at their home on
Washington street. What these mys.
, tical initial letters mean we were moi
informed but it must be something
good from the merry times which the
young people enjoy and this occasion
was no exception. A goodly numbe
were present, a pleasant social time
was enjoyed, closing with fine refresh
ments, served by Mrs. Edwards.
The remains of over fifty cutworm
/, were recently found in the crop of
. single blacl<bird. Anyone who know
what havoc a single cutworm will
cause in night can appreciate hoy
much that black bird was worth to TN
J gardens where he found This meal, an
yet boys and men go about with rifle
: killing black birds. The day is comm
when the economic value of birds a
e insect destroyers will be recognized, an
n il will be considered as much a Grim
l. against society TO kill the bird ms it
n now 10 go into "A mans garden and pu
L up his newly planted vines, merely I
destroy them.