The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-30

automobile 10 q Tar cry but Wnen MISS
Kinds was left a machine by the
death of a relative, her practical
mind at once conceived the idea of
making the machine earn It's keep,
and she spent many months learning
every part of the mechanism and how
TO safely handle the machine with Q
view to running the same. The wis
dom of her choice has been demon
strated by the excellent business she
enjoys"
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Davis visited
with George Hanks and wife Sunday
evening.
Mrs. Ella Beedy and Mrs. Grace
Beedy and children are now keeping
house In the home of the former. We
are glad they have returned to Smyr-
ma
Robert Earle left Thursday for De-
troit where he hopes to find employ
ment.
Mrs. Archie Woodruff called on Mrs.
Sylvester Osborn Saturday.
Mrs. Geo. Tebbel has been on the
sick list for several days.
| Mrs. Chas. Winkworth was very i'll
last week but is some better now.
Chas. Richmond and family were
in Grattan Sunday visiting friends.
Otisco township recently purchased
the old red school building Of George
Frost and will use it as a store house
for tools. Whether it will be moved
from its present site or not we did
not learn. What a story that old
building could tell if it could talk.
How many of our old time residents
were pupils within its walls. Mrs.
A. l.. Hull attended school in the old
building and also was teacher there.
Thirty years ago Chas. Wright and
his father were occupying it as res
idence. Years after it was moved
to where it now stands and was used
as a storehouse for dried apples, then
after George Frost and family sold
ed out, as Mrs. Frost said, in the old
schoolhouse during the few summer
months they were here on their return
trip from Florida. Lastly Robert
Beebe lived there, and he has now
vacated the building and moved his
household goods to his fathers resi-
dence. To be used as a storehouse
for tools! Behold, how the mighty
are fallen.
Mrs. May Osborn of Bedding and
Mrs. Stella Osborn called on Mrs. Ella
Beedy Thursday.
Mrs. Robert Earle and children Wis
tied her parents, Amos Russell and
wife, Sunday.
Mrs. Maggie Beebe made business
trip to Belding Saturday.
Chas. Holidays family over west
of Smyrna have been sick with influ-
enza and his son, Ben, is quite i'll with
pneumonia.
Mrs. A. L. Hull and Mrs. Alfred
Davis visited Mrs. Catherine Russell
Wednesday.
Mrs. Bertha Cass and little son,
Wendall of Detroit are visiting her
mother, Mrs. Mary Gray.
Ernest Davis and wife of Coral WIS.,
tied his grandmother, Mrs. Anna
Campbell one evening last week.
Mr. and Mrs. A. l.. Holcomb of
Grand Rapids were the guests of AL
bert Northway and wife few days
last week and over Sunday.
Miss Ruth Brown of Bedding was a
Sunday guest of Ed. Insley and fam
lily.
DR.. and Mrs. A. B. Penton visited
friends in Detroit from Wednesday
until Monday.
Earl Slayton of Grattan, a former
resident here. is quite i'll with pleur-
isy.
Mrs. Marvin Nash visited friends
in Bedding Wednesday.
Mrs. Sylvester Osborn received
word last week that her uncle, Reuben
Rich of Trufant, had suffered from
a stroke of paralysis and was very
low. He has been in very poor
health for some time and there seems
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w. B. Heath and wife and Mr.. and
day callers at the home Of VIM. Gard
ner.
Mrs. Helen Purdy visited Mrs. Hat
tie Moe Saturday.
Mrs. Mary Gray and Mrs. Bertha
Cass and baby were in Belding Satur-
day visiting Mrs. Lloyd Maxwell.
Miss Agnes Douglas Of Bartonville
called on her aunt and uncle, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Hanks, Monday evening.
| Miss Gayla Penton visited with
Miss Bernice Olds Saturday.
Mrs. John Regain and little daugh-
tiers were the guests of John Tebbel
and wife Thursday. They also called
on Mrs. May Tebbel and Miss Nella.
Word has been received here that
j. A. Cock is very i'll again and him
self and wife are at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Joe Osborne at Cedar
Springs.
i Miss Fannie Earle called on Mrs.
Eleanor Dicken Saturday.
Mis- Nella Tebel was q Belding
visitor Saturday.
Miss Hinebaugh visited her home
folks in Edmore over Sunday.
The remains of Mrs. Mary Fish
were brought here Monday for burial
in Smyrna cemetery.
Milo Dicken was in Bedding Sat-
urday and was the dinner guest of his
sister, Mrs. G. 0. Bignell.
Will Cowles was over on his farm
Saturday and helped Hiram Odds fin
ish digging 500 bushels of potatoes
that were raised on five acres Of land.
Pretty good crop for this season we
think.
Mrs. Marvin Nash was the supper
guest Of Mrs. Rose Mcconnell at the
Belrockton in Bedding Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Hanks were the
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