The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-10-01
bElD|NG-HALL
co. HOLDS ITS
ANNUAL MEETING
ELECT OFFICERS AND PASS RES
OLUTIONS ON DEATH OF
+. f. CHAPPLE

The Belding-Hall Company's Annu-
al Stockholders and Directors meet
ing was held at it's office in Belding.
September 4th.
The following officers and directors
were elected for the ensuing year:
Officers,
Brinton F. Hall, President; R. H.
Hall, Vice President; Guy ID. Weter.
Secretary; F. A. Washburn, Treasur-
er.
Directors,
Brinton +. Hall, Belding; F. A..
.Washburn, Belding; r. H. Hall. Bel
ding; H. j. Dudley, Grand Rapids; H.
b. Webber, Grand Rapids; George E..
Nichols, Ionia; j. w. McCausey, De-
troit.
Mr.. McCausey was elected as dir
ector to succeed Mr.. E. E. Chapple,
who died recently.
At the annual Directors meeting
the following resolution was adopted
and recorded as a part of the min
utes Of the meeting:
The Good Book says, "How un-
searchable are His judgements. and
His ways past finding OUT, and today
we are profoundly impressed with the
truth of these inspired words. The
Grlm Reaper has again garnered in
one that we would least expect to be-
come suddenly and without warning
a subject of His harvest.
Edward +. Chapple. in the strength
and prime of his manhood, alert,
strong and full of life and energy,
looking forward as we believe to many
years of useful service, has been,
without admonition or warning, called
home and we, his intimate associates
in business and social life, are stun
ned and shocked. Our loss is incom-
parably great. our optimism for the
future materially shattered, and our
grief almost inconsolable.
A man of parts, man whose life
was like an open book, a man abso-
lutely devoid of subtlety or deceit,
reliable, honest, upright man and ci-
tizen, man in fact whom it was a
delight to know and be associated
with and who held for many years
first place in our affection and respect
He is gone, and we his friends and
associates may only futilely express
our sympathy for his bereaved family
and sorrowful community where he
has lived so many years and been
respected and loved by all so deeply
by such resolutions as we are able to
present on this OCCASION ~
Therefore, Resolved by the Board
of Directors of the Belding-Hall
Company that in the untimely death
of Edward +. Chapple this Board has
lost one of its most clear and reliable
advisors, a man whose kind sympathy
and business acumen never failed to
smooth out our troubles and aid us to
a successful solution of business prob
lens and eventual success, and we
shall miss him as time goes on; and
yet we bow our heads to the mandate
of an inscrutable fate and rejoice in
the fact that we have known him so
long and so well.
Be il Further Resolfed, that we ex-
tend the heartfelt sympathy of this
Board and the stockholders of the
Belding-Hall Company to his distress
sed and grieving family and friends
and to the citizens of Belding gen.
orally who knew him so many years
and respected him so highly.
And be il further Resolved, that
these resolutions be spread at large
on the records of the Belding-Hall
Company and an engrossed copy
thereof be delivered to Mr.. Chapple's
family, and that said resolutions be
published in the Belding newspapers
which resolution is unanimously
adopted.