The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-11-06

Mrs. Will Dicken who was recover
ing from long illness and the effects
of an operation is quite i'll again.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hanks were over
in Grattan Thursday visiting Clyde
Allchin and family.
Mrs. Bernice Foss or Cooks Corneru
visited the home folks, Charles Rich
mond and family Friday and Satur-
day.
Miss Mary Gardner entertained
Miss Martha Beedy Sunday.
Miss Ruth Whitmore was an Ionia
visitor Saturday.
Miss Sadie Hinebaugn visited with
friends in Blanchard over Sunday.
Carl Hoppough and daughter, Mar
guerita, were guests of his parents,
Geo. Hoppough and wife Saturday.
Mrs. Emmett Could is sick from the
effects of influenza
The little dog owned by Mrs. Insley
was run over by an auto one day last
week and instantly killed. He was
everybody's friend.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Purdy and son,
Guy, motored TO Moseley Wednesday
and visited with r. b. Davis and fam
lily.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Insley and Miss
Ruth Whitmore were Sunday guests
Of Chas. Dumon and family.
Mrs. Robert Earle was q Bedding
visitor Monday.
Mrs. Catherine Russell is over in
Dreams visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Loomis.
Mrs. Alfred Davis accompanied
Mrs. Geo. Davis and daughter. Lizzie,
to Belding Wednesday.
Mrs. Hattie Moe visited her sister.
Mrs. Alice Peterson from Wednesday
until Saturday
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Hanks and Geo.
Davis and family motored TO Green
vile on business Saturday.
Mrs. Emma Lee was over in Bar
tonvile Thursday visiting with Glenn
Lee and faumily.
Mrs. Mary Gray and Mrs. Bertha
Coss and little son, Wendall, visited
Mrs. Henry Harris Wednesday.
Mrs. Sylvester Osborn called on
Mrs. A. l.. Hull Saturday.
Mrs. George Hoppough received a
letter last week from her son, Capt.
Clayton Hoppough who is somewhere
in France now. He wrote little of
some of the wonderful old buildings
he had seen there but must not give
any description of until this cruel war
has ended and our boys come march
ing home.
Mrs. Ed. Tower of Belding visited
her parents, G. w. Joshn and wife on
Tuesday. She also called on Mrs.
Sylvester Osborn.
Miss Fannie Earle accompanied
Maurice Earle and wife and Mrs. Jen-
ME Noble on a motor trip to Spencer
Mills Sunday and they visited with
James Buttolph and wife.
Word has been received that j. A.
Cook still continues in very poor
health and has been obliged to give
up his store at Sand Lake. Himself
and wife are at Matherton staying
with her parents until he is able to
take trip south, where they will
remain during the wsn,er months, and
perhaps longer.
The Sunday guests at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Instey were George
Barnes, wife and daughter and Mr.
and Mrs Del Purdy Of Bartonville.
Mrs. Bertha Coss called on Mrs.
Sylvester Osborn Monday.
Albert Russell was in Smyrna last
Sunday visiting his mother and other
friends. He has gone to Detroit
where he has employment.
Mrs. Elizabeth Davis visited Mr.
and Mrs. Alfred Davis Saturday.
Mrs. Geo. Tebbel accompanied Mr.
and Mrs. Clayton Baker to Lowell on
Wednesday and on their return Mrs
Baker and baby Helen were guests
for the afternoon. Clayton was din
ner and supper guest.
Mrs. Mary Gray called on Mrs
Sylvester. Osborn Wednesday.
Soon after Lloyd Olds reached camp
in Virginia he was taken i'll with in
fluenza but his parents, Hiram Odds
and wife, received word Friday that
he was better. A number of his
Smyrna friends sent him box con-
tanning candy, gum and other things
and some wrote cheering letters tc
help him over the road to speedy re-
covery.
Miss Fannie Earle sewed for Mrs
Mary Tebbel few days last week.