Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-29
LOCAL ITEMS
About Our Town and Its People

lbs are spending the week with MRS.
G. nj. Blett.
Mrs. Florence West and daughter
Maude arrived here Saturday form
Kelso, Calf. Mr.. West and Floyd
will follow later. They are thinking
of locating here again.
Mrs. Lorena Francisco went to
lonia Wednesday TO visit her daugh-
ter Mrs. Ben Keiner.
the park Wednesday afternoon, after
school. This club is composed of 8
girls from the third and fourth grades
and it's object is to interest the young
ladies IN needle work.
Mrs. Fred Miller Of Alma is visit
ing her mother Mrs. A. d. Wright at
the Bedding farm.
The ladies of the M. E. church will
serve their regular monthly supper
in the church dining room, next Sat
urday, October 2, from 5 until all
are served.-adv.
Mrs. Beth Kennedy of Grand Rap
ids was in the city on business Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Ireland of Ionia
took dinner in Hotel Belding Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Baldwin left
Tuesday in his car for Hillsdale to
attend the county fair. They in COM
pany with Mr.. and Mrs. Will Barton
attended the fair in Grand Rapids
last Friday.
Mrs. H. r. Randall of Ionia was in
the city over Sunday attending SER
vices at the Saints church.
Mrs. George w. Moulton and son
Bruce of Ionia were visiting in the
city over Sunday.
S. H. Robinson moved his family
to Lansing Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome Lavery of
Ionia were in the city over Sunday
to attend the dedication services of
the Saints church.
Oliver J. Wheeler of Beaverton,
former resident of this city was in at
tendance at the special meeting held
here last week by the organized
church of Latter Day Saints. He re-
turned home Monday; while residing
here he carried on the business of
digging wells and putting up wind
mills.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Church of Christ will have a baked
goods sale at Bachelor & Browns
Saturday.-adv.
olOtN OHOtIHdheI, WHO IldS DGtH uO-
ing the work of porter at Hotel Beld-
ing for over year, left here Satur
day for Grand Rapids, Lansing and
Jackson, where he will visit for few
days. He may go on to his home in
Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Frank Gambler had the mis-
fortune to fall from the back porch
of her home on Congress street Sun
day afternoon. She escaped with on
.ly few bruises and a slight injury
to her right foot, which prevented her
from using it for couple of days.
She is now able to be about again
however.
Clifton Green has sold his milk
route to John Gleason. John Glea-
son will go into partnership with the
Mr.. Gleason who owns the pasteuriz-
ed milk concern, and combine the two
routes. Mr. Green expects to go in
to some other line Of business soon,
but has not decided what it will be.
Fred Riggs returned to Portland
Monday. He had been assisting in
painting the interior of the Saints
church last week and while here was
the guest of Mrs. Laura Rose.
r. n. Bateman of Lansing was in
the city last Thursday with John F.
Kohn, highway commissioner of Otis
co township. Mr.. Bateman was here
doing the survey work on the road
leading south of the city into Mir
lam. Mr.. Kohn will in a few weeks
have a force of men putting the road
in fine shape for travel.
Mrs. Melissa Cobb is visiting her
son Austin Hall in Grand Rapids.
She went there Saturday.
William Hough went to Grand Rap
ids Saturday to visit his daughter
Miss Celia Hough.
Leander Berry returned Saturday
from Hartford, where he had been
couple of weeks visiting.
Isaac Bates of Ionia was in the city
Saturday.
John II. Walters and sister left for
Tustin for few days visit Satur-
day.
left Saturday for Traverse City.
VIM. Fuller. who is visiting with
his son Joshua Fuller in Clare, has
been in the city on business.
Grandpa and Grandma, Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer jerks, have received
word from their daughter. Lula Nc
Nichol of Hagerman, N. Mex, of the
arrival of a son into the McNiehol
household September 20.
Mrs. Mary White returned to Lake
view Monday after few days visit
with Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Cusser.
Harry Lamb and family motored
to Elmer Wolverton's few miles
south of Ionia Sunday and also to the
Commonwealth Power dam. He says
there are many fields of beans, corn
and potatoes on which the water is
standing to the depth of several
inches in that part of the county.
Potatoes are rotting badly from the
affects of the blight and continuous
wet weather. Many farmers he says
who have heretofore had all their
crops we'll taken care of at this time
in the season are simply at loss to
know how they are going to save any
thing.
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