The Belding banner-news., 1921-09-07
BIG CROWD HERE TO EN-
JOY LABOR DAY TREAT

some thought that the crowd was
smaller than last year.
The canvass of the concessionists
resulted with the following opinions:
Starting with Frank Harlan, who
operated the pop corn stand just east
of the Banner-News office, we found
out that business was not one-half
as good as it was the year before.
This also included the next conces-
sion which was owned by Mr.. Har-
Ian. James w. Heyboer, of Grand
Rapids, operated the next stand and
he said that he had had a big day,
disposing Of 337 Kewpie dolls so far
that day. Mike Jacobs, of Grand
Rapids, run the next place, novel
ty stand and he said "tell 'em it's no
good with me-. George Curtis had
his doll rack next and was doing his
usual business. George would not
complain if he had to and when we
interviewed him he was busy trying
10 swap jack knives with another
party who did not want to swap and
The deal fell through.
Mike Geemaywick, operated a hand
popcorn stand and was sweating like
butcher in hades when we asked
him how business was and he said
fairly good. The Epworth League
had the next stand and they said
that they had enjoyed wonderful
business, having disposed of about
% gallons of ice cream that day.
Fred Stevens. Of Ionia, was the next
man behind the counter and he said
that business would have been all
right had the railroad got his sup
plies to him all right, but that it had
been rather punk to run business
with no stock to dispose of. l.. j.
Riker and his wife run the home
made taffy stand and he had a swarm
of people around his place all day
and was gathering in the money
with one hand while he stirred up
a fresh batch of taffy with the other.
He was iubliant over his wonderful
trade.
The Ferris wheel, Merry go round
and other concessions which came
here with the Roscoe Imperial Shows
did fairly good business all day
long. The Wade people have been
here before and barring the ngro
show, the blanket game and gypsy
fortune teller which came with
hem, they have always provided
clean amusements for the people of
this city and are always welcome to
come back. The only criticism made
was with the stands above mention
ed This is mighty hard thing to
handle, however, and with an aggre-
cation as big as the one which Mr..
Wade has, it is quite likely that OBJ
jectionable features will be at times
come in.
The next men whom we called on
were B. King and Earl Anderson, of
Grand Ranids, who were each oper-
ating a chance game disposing of
fancy Goods. etc. The former re-
ported business good, while the lat
ter sad is was bum. Ernest Wade's
blanket game came next and they re-
ported business very poor there. We
saw no one carving away blankets
anl so thought the report true.
Maggie and George Burgess were
operating doll rack and while they
said that they came all the way from
Georgia to be with us that day, bus
mess was not very good and nothing
like the glorious time they had en-
joyed on their former trip here. The
! fat gypsy fortune teller was thor
oughly d'sgusted with all and said
4 there was no business at all. Doss,
the man who grows, said his show
had been very well patroniZed that
] day. The actors in the colored peo-
pie show reported that business had
been just simply rotten and a num-
/ Der of the people who we met who
had visited the show had said the
same about the show, so matters
stood fairly we'll evened up there.
Over on the other side of the
street, one stand had already closed
/ itself up. This was a sign of poor
business and the next man who was
| trying to sell his wares, was Charles
| H. Roseman who had lot of oxygen
! filled balloons and novelties. He
said business was poor but that il
was no worse here than any other
town he had been to this summer
He suffered heavily during the day
| BY having whole punches of his
balloons get out of his hands and &c
sailing away in the blue sky.
Elmer Thompson operated the next
doll rack and he said business was SC
roor that he had not even taken in
the price which he had to pay for
the privilege of erecting his stand
Ernest Barrett, Of Lansing, was
running a cider stand. He said buis-
ness was poor all day but after six
o'clock it seemed as if everybody
came there for drink. John Mahar
and Tom Little were running poultry
stands and each reported business as
being rather poorly as compared to
other years.
J. E. Brodie, of Detroit, operated
the next stand and he said that
things were far from being up to
expectations, the rent Of the grounds
was high and he had made but a
scant existance this summer and he
guessed that it was him for the fac
tory this winter and not being used
to being cooped up, he might sicken
and die unless business picked up in
a hurry.
A lady operating a string game
in which we saw little and grown up
children pull up nothing but the
smallest of the prizes came next and
she said business was just fine. We
noticed that everyone drew a small
,hina doll while the big attractively
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