Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1917-01-17
LOCAL ITEMS



Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Parks are rejoic.
ing over the arrival Of a fine boy last
Thursday. Mr.. Parks smile is much
broader than usual.
The next meeting of the l.. o. T.
M. wall be held at the home Of Mrs
Will Huntly, Cpl Alderman street
January 20, by request.
Chas. Madden is in Grand Rap
ids, Kalamazoo, Battle Creek and
Jackson this week holding examina-
tons to license BARRIERS.
Eugene Hill went to Sheridan Mon
day to arrange with his brother, Fred
Hill, for the funeral and burial OF
their father, Cornelius Hill.
Mrs. "A. N. Beard, who has been
the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Knighs
returned home to Greenville Friday
Mrs. Knight accompanied her.
The friends of Mrs. Martha Conk-
lin are glad to welcome her home
again, after spending several months
in Detroit with her daughter.
Robert Mcconnell transacted bust
ness in Greenville last Thursday. Mr.,
Mcconnell is just recovering from a
few days seige with the grip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Garfield were
the guests of his old friend, j. E.
Stevens. They stopped off here on
their return home from Stanton.
Mrs. Ruth Hicks of Grand Rapids
and Porter and Morton Reed, also of
Grand Rapids, came Tuesday to at
tend the funeral of Elmer Z. jerks.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Ovenhouse left
Thursday for Grand Rapids. He will
go to the Soldiers Home and Mrs.
Ovenhouse will reside with her daugh-
ter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph McNichols ar
rived Monday from Lost Springs,
Kansas, being called here on account
of the death of her father, Elmer E.
jerks.
Eli Lowden, who has been laid up
at his home for two or three weeks,
first with a slight injury, and later
with the erysipelas, is able to be out
again.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. William
Norton of Water street, Tuesday,
January 16, an eleven-pound girl.
The babe has been named Dorothy
Marion.
Mrs. w. .Lambertson was called
to Greenville Tuesday, having receiv-
ed word that her aunt, Mrs. S. A.
Massie, had suffered stroke of par
alysis.
Jacob E. Weaver, Chas. Coon and
Chas. Smith of this city are attend
ing court in Ionia as jurors this week.
Lee Miller of Otisco is also there as
juror.
VIM. H. Kennedy has been on the
city nightwatchman's beat for few
nights this week, while Mr.. Wilson
is laid up at his home with touch
of the grip.
John d. Spinney of Alma was here
Saturday. He had been to Smyrna to
visit his father, DR.. A. B. Spinney,
at the Spinney Sanitarium, who is in
very poor health.
Rev. A. ]. Blair went to Lansing
to attend a conference meeting Mon
day and expected 70 go to st. Johns
and hear the evangelist, Maurice
Penfield Fixes, before returning.
Mrs. Gertrude Youngman of Buff
falo, N. Y, who was called home by
the serious illness of her mother, Mrs.
Austin Slayton, arrived Thursday
night. Mrs Slayton is improving
nicely.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Russell and son
were in Grand Rapids over Sunday.
er, who was there from Kentucky. at
tending the big furniture display and
convention.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Sewers return
ed Tuesday from Sheridan, where
they had gone for a few days. Mr..
Sewers took his shotgun and hound
along and did some hunting for rab-
bits with good success.
Mrs. ]. E. Stevens has returned
from Lakeview, where she has been
since the death of her daughter-in-
law. Her son, Robert, has leased his
farm and is having sale, expecting
to come here to reside for while.
~ Mrs. Robert Geister left for her
home in Twining, Mich, Thursday.
She stopped off here from Lakeview
to visit relatives, where she had been
to attend the funeral Of her mother
Mrs. Irving Wetmore, who died in
Flint.
Mrs. Leo Benson and children
Eugene and Collins, left for Lansing
Friday. They had been here several
weeks with her mother, while Mr.
Benson was arranging to move from
Wehberville to Lansing, where he has
purchased a home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Shute, who
have been stopping for a short time
with his daughter, Mrs. Henry King
ensmith left Thursday for, the Sold
iers' Home in Grand Rapids. They
resided, until a few weeks ago, al
Sheridan, but concluded to go to the
home for the winter.