The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-02


mers are busy gathering in the spuds.
| The Maccabees will hold. their regu-
lar meeting Saturday night Of this
week.
Will Cowles, one of the threshermen
says beans are not very prolific
crop this year, eight or ten bushels
per acre being the averge yield.
Master Arlo Tebbel picked up po-
tatoes for Fred Spencer over on Smo-
ky Row Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. Mehney of Cooks
Corners were Sunday guests of their
son, Herbert Mehney and wife.
The birds in flocks are gathering.
Their farewell songs to sing;
With twitter here, and cheer-up there,
They make the woodlands ring.
Mrs. Alfred Davis visited with rel
atives in Bedding Thursday.
Mrs. Hattie Moe is visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Wankaw in Greenville.
| Word has been received here that
Miss Jessie Whitmore of Ogden City,
Utah, a former teacher here was
united in marriage to Mr.. Leo Squires
The many friends of Mrs. Squires
wish her a lifetime of joy.
! Harvest Festival dance. Hale's or
chestra, Oct. IL, Hubbell hall. Nuff
sed.
Mrs. Van Harrington, who with her
daughter was here during the summer
will return to her home in Chicago
| this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Morse of Ionia
and Willard Morse and wife of Bel
mond, Iowa, visited with John Purdy
and wife Thursday.
Mrs. Stella Osborn called on Mrs.
Mary Aubill near Bedding Thursday.
Lester Beebe was home fom Beld-
/ ing Sunday.
4 Mrs. Marvin Nash who has been in
Battle Creek the past summer, is here
for few weeks visiting with Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed. Insley.
Mrs. c. B. Johnston and daughters,
Marian, Lucille and Ina of Smoky Row
called on Mrs. +. w. Condor Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Purdy of Beld-
Purdy, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Cowles received
a letter from George Frost last week.
You all know George and also know
that his happy home is down in Flor
ida new. You will also remember
how he loved to go fishing when he
/
opinion that George does nothing but
go fishing and eat watermelons now.
In his letter he stated that he had
been out on a half day fishing trip
and caught 23 fish that altogether
weighed 1913 pounds. But then he
was not Dragging about it for he said
one of his neighbors was out to the
same place in the afternoon and
caught 240 pounds of the same kind
of fish. The many friends of tx
Frost family will be pleased to know
that their father. Jesse Frost, is i'm
proving in health. He has been poor
ly for some time.
Miss Nela Tebbel visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. Hazen in Lowell Wednes-
day.
Sunday morning dawned fair and
gave promise of being as good a day
as Saturday, so number CT Smyrna
people went visiting regardless of the
fact that they expected call from
Eye scribe. Well, we hope they
were out in the rain ON the way home.
We were.
Saturday, after helping his neigh
Dor with the threshing, Ona Byrne
GRAINED up his Ford preparatory to
going hcme, and then happened to
think that he wanted to smoke his
pipe on the way. He had the pipe all
right but. 10 and behold, matches and
tobacco were minus, but fortunately
one of the other men was supplied, SO
Ona get out of his car. lighted up nle
pipe and stopped to chat few mo-
ments with the men. but that Ford
didn't approve of such neglect so all
at once it started to go and being
headed for a board fence it went on
straight through. then turned and
started up grade but small boy with
nimble feet caught the runaway and
brought it to a stop. We always
heard that Ford could go anywhere
and now we believe the statement.
Earl Peters of Grand Rapids. visit
ed oyer Sunday with Ed. Insley and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Forman, former
residents here, have gene to the Sol
diers' home in Grand Rapids for the
winter. Mrs. Forman is in very poor
health.
Glenn Bateman of Belding and
Glenn Lee and family of Bartonville
were Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Elgin Condor.
The squirrels scamper 'mong the trees
To store their winter food,
And sort the nuts with patient care
The bad ones from the good.
Mrs. Ed. Insley, Mrs. A. Barry, Mrs.
! Marvin Nash and Mrs. Henry Harris
motored to Sunfield Friday and Wis
tied with George Bitterman and wife.
Mrs. Barry and Mrs. Nash remained
for longer visit. While in that To-
cality. Mrs. Insley and Mrs. Harris
met Luther Hornbrook, a former
Smyrna resident, who was there
working for lumber company.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Purdy and Guy
4 Purdy motored over to Moseley Fri
day and visited with r. B. Davis and
family.
Mrs. Bella Cowles went to Grand
Rapids Saturday to meet her soldier
brother, Paul Krantz. He came home
| with her To visit until Monday