Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-12

Handy A. Waldron and niece Mrs.
Frank ]. Luck and her daughter,
Mrs. Florence Clark were in Lansing
few DAYS last week visiting his
brother, George Waldron. The party
motored there in Mrs. Clark's car.
Mrs. James M. Travis, Mr.. and Mrs.
f. j. Brandt and Mrs. Carrie Rich
ardson of Grand Rapids were in the
city Sunday. Mr.. Travis was in bust
ness forty years in Grand Rapids
topening second hand store on Canal
street.
Harry Claflin of Boulder, Colorado,
arrived in the city last week TO visit
relatives and greet old friends. He
was on his way TO Flint and thinks he
may conclude to come back TO Michi-
gan to reside. Harry went west a
number of years ago.
Mrs. Emily Hall and Miss Eliza
beth Campbell of Chicago left for
Paris and Cadillac Friday. They
had been here visiting at Miles By
ler's and c. A. brakes. After few
days' visit with friends there they
will return home.
Ben Hall of Long Lake was in the
| city Thursday on his way to the
Greenville fair and while in the Ban
ner office surprised "ye editors" with
some Jonathan apples from the pick
| ings on his Freeport fruit farm in
| 1916, which were handsome and In
excellent condition.
Robert F. Joiner of Hensler, North
| Dakota was in the city Wednesday
and Thursday. the guest of Mrs. Join
er's mother, Mrs. Addie Whitford,
and also of his aunt, Mrs. K. b. Lap
ham. He left for Chicago Thursday
night on his return home. He had
been to his old home in Chase, where
the remains of his mother were taken
for burial
Mrs. Abigail j. Williams of Madi-.
son, New Jersey was the guest Of
her aunt, Mrs. +. B. Lapham, Friday
and Saturday. She was called to
Michigan on account of the sickness
and death of her mother, Mrs. Mar
tina Joiner. which occurred at Alma
last week. She left Saturday even
! ing on her return to resume her school
work in Madison.
]. o. Hendee of Portland has been
advised that his three nephews, Leon,
Merl and Hal. have reached France
safely. All are members of the
Grand Rapids company of mechanics
and engineers, which left for the war
zone several weeks ago. They en-
| listed at different times and IN differ
emit departments of the service but
! finally got transferred so as to bring
them together.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Squires and
Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Turner autoed
TO Belding Sunday to call on Mrs.
Robert Souires, who has been i'll and
| found her able to sit up for a short
time. Mrs. Squires is the mother of
| Fred Sduires and was for many years
a resident of Rockford. At one time
! she and her husband were the pro-
prietors of the old Bridge Street
House. For several years she has
made her home with her only daugh-
ter, Grace.-Rockford Register.
An auto going down West Cass
! street in Greenville on Sunday picked
up a stone off the road and threw it
! through the plate glass window OF
the Adams Express office in the
| Greenville State bank building,
breaking big hole.
Rev. w. f. Doty left Tuesday
morning for Traverse City to attend
| the M. r. conference. He has been
| SIdIlOncQ lltIG lOul yNoAS, D0S -
poets to be given another appoint
ment. The matter of a transfed,
however, rests with the bishop.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. W. Bemis of Ionia
were the guests last week of Mr.. and
/, Mrs. Dell Cobb and also other old
friends in this vicinity. They went
to Greenville Friday for a short visit.
| Mr.. Bemis was a teacher in the dis
trict schools in this locality forty
years ago and fill be remembered by
many of the older residents.
The first drafted man to leave lonia
county for army service was Ernest
Menkee, of Belding, who passed
through Portland on the early train
Wednesday morning enroute for Bat
tie Creek. Clerk Moulton had receiv-
ed orders to have five men report at
Battle Creek on tire 9Th, but later
order requested him to send one man
a day for five days, and Menkee was
the first selected. He will have
much to do with receiving the Ionia
county boys and showing them around
the camp as fast as they arrive.
Wortley & French gave a guaran-
tee with the last so boxes Of Mi-o-na
stomach tablets they sold and have
not had a single customer report dis
satisfaction. Ask to see their guar
antee.-Advertisement.