The Belding banner-news., 1921-10-05
BUY BELDING BREAD:
NOTHING BETTER MADE


Every day there is an automobile
loaded with bread which comes into
this city ana sells lot of the Grand
Rapids baked product to one or two
thank goodness, not many, of the
grocers but who are interested
enough in Belding to handle Beld ng
baked goods exclusively-and then
they drive away with money which
makes toward better homes and bet
ter bakeries in Grand Rapids, but
how much good is this doing the
bakers and other people of Belding
and how about it if we would al.
look to Grand Rapids and other plac-
es for our baked goo>s and other
necessities?
We recently read the following ed
itcr.al in the Greenville Independ-
ent. 1t it from the pen of Robert
Morrison and every word of it is as
applicable to conditions here IN Bel
ding as it is in Greenville.
81 saw in one Of our grocery win
dows the other day sgn that read,
We sell all home baked goo. in this
store. Say, that looked good, and
that merchant should receive the en-
couragement Of every citizen of the
town who has the welfare of our in
dustries at heart If we people of
this town don't stand by our indus
tries, no enc else is going TO do it,
and you can kiss the book on that.
The more Grand Rap, bread we
consume, the better off Grand Rap
ids bakers are going TO be, and the
less money our own bakers are going
to have, and this is not nice thot
for those citizens who are striving to
build up Greenville. If Grand Rap
ids bread were any better, if it were
any cheaper, there might b some ex-
cuse for buying it. To my way of
thinking and / have become quite a
bread connoisser during my time on
earth, there is no better bread mal e
than right here in Greenville. If
it could be made any better, then our
bakers would make it. And that
makes me- think Of . story that
heard about a member of the Green
vile Chamber of Commerce who was
quite an enthusiastic worker in the
interest Of the Chamber and the
town. This gentleman happened to
pass one of of our bakeries, and
stopped to remind the baker about
the Chamber Of Commerce meet ng
to be held that evening and to urge
him to be present. While talking to
the baker this gentleman had under
his arm a loaf Of bread which he
was taking home, that was baked
in Grand Rap ds. 1t is not neces-
sary to say that the invitation to the
Chamber of Commerce meeing did
not make very much of a hit with
that baker. The man carrying that
loaf Of fore gn bread under his arm
was not in a good position to talk
about the upbuilding and betterment
of the industries Of the town. Just
think about his, and also give
thought occasionally to what the
printer thinks when he gets a Gun
from you on a statement that was
printed out of town."
The sorry of the board of COM
merce member with the Grand Rap
ids bread puts US in mind of the
local minister several years ago who
was getting considerable money each
year from one Of the bakers Of this
city until one day while the minister
stood telling the baker Of the things
which should Graw him to the church
services, the baker noticed a loaf
of Grand Rapids bread under the
min;nter's arm. You can imagine
the rest.
We have three good bakeries, in
this city, any one of which is putting
out a product well worthy of place
on any of the tables of this city and
the next time you go to purchase
loaf of bread stop nd think how
you would like it if the local baker
was you and you were the local bak
er. T he chances are that you would
like the support of your home peo-
pie and by heck you ought to have
it just the same as you ought to
give it now.
Neither one of the local bakeries
have asked that this article be writ
ten and it is not that we want to tell
you what you ough to eat, but so
long as we have bakers working
here in Belding, lets stick by them
and use the product of local ovens.