The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-09-25

The crows were holding caucus
in the woods west of Smyrna depot
Sunday evening, about a million of
them or less.
Speaking of Smyrna depot is
not pleasant place to wait for the
train Sunday evenings. The seats
on the platform are altogether too
low, and there's too much fresh air.
Master Edgar Joslin Of Bedding Wis
tied his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edgar Condor few days last week.
Harry Estabrook of Bedding was a
Sunday visitor at the home Of his par
ents, w. Estabrook and wife.
Carl Cowles and family were Sun
day guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Bella
Cowles.
Miss Mabel Brown Of Shiloh visit
ed Miss Aldena Harris over Sunday.
Jesse Mast laid aside his farm
work for a day the first of the week
and built new chimney on Geo. Teb-
bells house.
Lester Beebe was home Sunday and
entertained Mrs. Stewart and Elmer
Lowden and wife of Bedding and Ro-
bert Beebe of Smyrna.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benedict Tower of
Bedding visited their daughter, Mrs.
A<aih SViiQoii taol Wtch. WIS. lOWeT
called on Mrs. Sylvester Osborn on
Thursday.
Mrs. Helen Purdy went to Belding
Saturday to visit awhile with her SON,
Fred Purdy and wife.
Mrs. Jennie Noble of Cooks Cor
ners was guest of Miss Fannie Earle
last Tuesday night.
Russell Gals and little son, Francis,
OF Bedding visited Alfred Davis and
wife Wednesday evening.
Robert Earle finished his job of car
rying mail over Smyrna rural route
Saturday
Mrs. Ada Hanks called on Mrs.
Eleanor Dicken Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Amos Russell and Mrs. Effie
Itzenhouser visited with Mrs. Alice
Peterson Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Hull were in
Bedding Wednesday visiting with Mrs.
Melissa Cobb.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elgin Condor and
Mrs. Emma Lee attended the Grand
Rapids fair Thursday.
Mrs. Effie Itzenhcuser was a guest
of Mrs. Will Cowles Tuesday night
and called on Mrs. c. w. Joslin We'd
nesday.
Mrs. Catherine Russell returned on
Saturday from Bedding where she had
been staying several days with her
son-in-law, Will Walker.
Bella Cowles threshed beans from a
10-acre field Saturday and got the
large amount of 80 bushels. Threshers
say that is the average yield this sea-
son.
Mrs. Frank Joslin of Bedding was
the guest eff c. w. Joslin and wife
Saturday night and visited her par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Condor,
Sunday. Mus
Mrs. E. w. Condor was over on
Smoky Row Saturday visiting Mrs. c.
b. Johnston.
Miss Hinebaugh visited friends in
Edmore Saturday night and Sunday.
Mrs. Ed. Insley, Mrs. A. Barry,
Howard Insley, Miss Ruth Brown and
Miss Aldena Harris went t. Grand
Rapids Friday.
r. B. Davis and family~and Chas.
Davis of Mcseley were Sunday guests
Of John Purdy and wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Hull were in
the Brink neighborhood Friday visit
ing Will Krick and family.
w. Estabrook and wife are enter /
tanning relatives from Oklahoma.
Mrs. Ida Shaw was a guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Geo. Hanks Friday.
Will Hogan and family were in
Grattan Sunday visiting Mr.. and Mrs. |
Floyd jerks.
Mrs. Ward Hoppough and little
daughter and Mrs. Catherine Russell
called on Mrs. Eleanor Dicken Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Davis have a
garden growing from seed planted I
last spring and if the weather holds
good long enough they can have let
fresh from the garden for themselves |
and their guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Hcppough, Miss /
Cora Hoppough and Miss Edna Van |
Harlengen went to Grand Rapids Fri !
day and visited Carl Hoppough and !
family until Saturday, when the Hop
poughs returned home and Miss Van
went to Ripon, Wis, where
she will teach in the Ripon college the
coming year.
Miss Ruth Whitmore attended the
teachers institute in Ionia Thursday
and Friday. 4
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Hanks visited
Chas. Brink and wife Thursday. They
were also Bedding visitors.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Regain and little
Dora and Wilma and Miss
Fannie Earle were Sunday guests of
Mrs. Mary Tebbel and Miss Nella
Tebbel. 4
Miss Cora Hoppough went to Grand
Rapids Sunday night and Monday
went to Olivet where she will teach
music the coming year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Earle and chill
iren and Mrs. Effie Itzenhouser were
in Bedding Wednesday evening visit i.
ing Herbert johnson and family. Mrs.
returned to her home in
Lakeview Saturday. !,
Mr.. and Mrs.. Orla Deringer of
Jackson and Mrs. Allen of Olivet Wis
tied with j. K. InsleS and wife and
Ed. Insley and family last week. Mr..
and Mrs. Ed. Insley accompanied them
On their return trip Saturday and Wis.,
ted with Marvin Nash and wife in
Battle Creek over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lynn Mason and
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