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ft ft : ft ft ft ft 'ROUND ABOUT US. XcwMy Items Gathered in by Correspondents. ftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftft Otlsco. Forest Fee and ladv of Greenville spent Sunday at F. It. Luscombe's. Remember the Graphophone enter talnmcnt to bo clven at the hall Satur dav nlffht bv the Messrs. Totten. All should attend. Admission 10 cents. r The people of Cook's Corners all had an opportunity to get their life Insured this week by a man seeking to organize a lodco of the Order of Pa tricians at this place. Sunday while little Allan Klmberly was taking; a sweat in an alcohol bath cabinet, some clothes about his should ers took fire from the flame, burning his back and shoulders quite badly. Old Mrs. Phillips, who has been dan gerously sick with inflamatlon of the lungs, is rapidly gaining health. Mrs. Ed. Phillips, who has been caring for her, spent a few days with her sister in Orleans, who is not expected to live. L. D. Carpenter and Earl Warren have been engaged this week building an ice house for Mr. Upson but "Peep" has lost all hope of filling it this season as he thinks the cold weather at an end. Let us hope so. Enough of It, so say we all. The P. L. C. ate now practicing for another entertainment to be given at the hall March 3. It will consist of three plays interspersed with fine in strumental and vocal music All know the high class enteitainments this club are capable of giving and all should come and while listening to the fun in this ono, cast off all thoughts of frozen potatoes, muddy roads and all such reminders of the past cold snap. Orleans. John Hill is very sick. Mrs. Wheeler is visiting friends of Ionia. Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Hamman were in Belding Friday. Miss Erma Grant of Belding Sun dayed at A. B. Grant's. Mr. and Mrs. O. Purdy visited at Ira Purdy's of Otisco Friday. Mrs. Alfred Palmer visited at E. E. Fales' In Belding Thursday. Mrs. Bert Whipple and little son are visiting her people of Smyrna. Al. Sherwood is visiting his people In Grand Rapids for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. John Morton enter ic ' tained their two sons the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Woldridsre were guests at Royal Hawkins' Thursday. Quite a number of our people aro wrestling with the grippe and measles. To Mr. and Mrs. Elory Mosher, nee May Emery, of Otisco, a nice baby boy. Mrs. Shuarts had a stroke of paraly sis while visiting at her daughter's in Ionia last week. Mrs. Julia Hubbs coin of Greenville and Mrs. L. Lin vlslted relatives here last Thursday. Mrs. Geo. Purdy and son returned from Greenville Tuesday where they had been visiting relatives. Frank Edmonds of Grand Rapids has been in town visiting his sisters, Mrs.Tom Murray and Mrs. Guy Beach. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Little, nee Nettle Robinson, of Woodard Lake rejoice over tne arrival of a bouncing baby girl. Another pioneer has gone to re9t. Mrs. Daniel Hoyt died Wednesday morning. Funeral Saturday at the M. E. church. Sermon by Rev. Glbbs She was laid at rest by the side of her husband in the Orleans cemetery. She rests from her labors but her works do follow after her. North Orleans. Is this spring or aro we to have winter again. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hall visited at John King's Sunday. Mrs. Albert Brown Is sewing this week for Mrs. Devine. Mrs. Mary Hall entertained company from Ludington last week. Jean Lyle of Boldlng visited in this vicinity Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Frank Stevens is very sick. Dr. Stanton of Belding is the attending physician. Will Pretzel is staying at Guy Beech's and doing his chores. Mr. Beech was taken insane one day last week but is some better now. Mrs. Charles Hagadorn died Monday night at five o'clock. She has been sick for some time. She was married to Charles Hagadorn about one year ago. Wolrerton Plains. (Last Week's Letter.) J. M. Harlow finished his log job Monday. iE. B. Wise who has been confined to the house for a week is able to bo out some again. Etta Scram was able to resume her ,chool duties Monday after an illness of two weeks. Wo were very sorry to hear of the death of Mrs. Smith, of Smyrna. Thus the old time friends go one by one. Mrs. Nora Redmond of Leslie, has come to spend the remainder of the winter with her parents, J. M. Harlow and wife. the lSannerV Stall" of Special Long Lake. Dan Way drives a new horse now. Will Canavan is working for Mr Ashby. Ed. A6hby and wife was at his iath er's Monday. Jean Lyle of Belding spent Saturday at Geo. Connor's. Grandma Lane visited her son, Os car, a couple of days last week. Geo. Utter has been seriously sick the past week and is not out of danger yet. It looks and feels as though spring had come. It seems good to have it warm again. Chas. Thayer and wife went to Stan tonluesday to attend the funeral of his sister Hattie. Mrs. Joo Prolzul went to Ionia the first of last week to attend the funeral of her uncle's daughter. Gordio Davis and wife from Corunna and also Ben Hodge and wife of Lyons visited at Geo. Utter's last week. Jesse Berry's baby died in Chad wick Monday night. It has been very sick for about three weeks with spinal fever. Will Pretzel is helping take care of Guy Beach, who is very sick, being out of his head 6ome of the time so that it took five men to hold him. Died, Monday about five o'clock, Mrs. Chas. Hagadorn, formerly known as Jane Goul. She was a great sufferer before she died but was conscious up to the last. She had the grippe a few weeks ago and that together with tho terrible pain she has had in her back and stomach was the cause of her death. The last words she spoke was to tell her husband not to try to lift her or It might hurt his side again. Her brother, Peter, and niece, Mrs Durphy, of Greenville came Tuesday to stay until after the funeral. Smyrna. A. J. Dickens is on the sick list. Clark Hoppough, of Orleans, was in town last Thursday. Frank Hoppough and wife, of Or leans, visited relatives here a few days last week. The Miccabees held their social here last week. It netted the society $20 and a very pleasant time is reported. Andrew Skellenger who has been very sick for three weeks is now able to sit up. He is cared for by Dr. Pink ham. ' Tommy Skolbnger who has been helping to care for his cousin, Andrew, expects to go to work this week for Bert Mast, in Grattan, cutting timber. As Rostan Skellenger returned from hunting ducks the other day he was weary. Ducks had been 6hy so Rostan called on his friend, the proprietor of Hotel Green, and sat his Winchester down In the corner. Guy Purdy com ing in picked it up for examination and not understanding tho mechanism, the gun was accidently discharged and tore a largo hole in the floor, shocked the nerves of the landlord and caused hlra to jump four feet In the air and say he felt like a boneless codfish. No one was Injured however. Fairplalns. Ray Rich is home again. School closes this week Friday. More wedding bells In Falrplalns this week. The sick are all getting better around here. Worden Lake is going to work the Rasmussen farm this summer. Lewis Emmons is working in Trufant runuing an engine in a shingle mill. Mrs. Robert Freeze of Belding is staying with her mother, Mrs. John Rasmussen, for a while. The young people gave Mr. and Mrs. Charles Colvin a surprise Dartv at Greenville Friday night. Charles Andrews moves to the Chet Miller farm this week where he in tends to work this summer. We very well remember when Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Weeks were married. We were at that time one of Mrs. Weeks nearest neighbors and we are glad to know they are both alive and well, prosperous and happy. We hope they may live to enjoy their golden wedding. Shiloh. John Bates is working for C. E. Pea body for a few days. W. F. Busch is working for the Grand Trunk at Detroit. Miss Lucy Beasly has been working for Benj Hall at Long Lake. J. W. Drako has been sick for some time but Is now getting better. C. D. Esterbrook and Albert Crane are putting up their ice about two feet thick. Those who were at Ionia Saturday were C. H. Brown, L. P. Guptiel and Geo. Hubbard. . E. E. Brown and family spent Sun day at Orleans, tho guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Ashby. II. II. Decker has returned from Owosso where ho has been working for the Grand Trunk system. Nearly everyone reports frost in their cellars during tho cold snap. Some have had quite heavy losses on potatoes. (J rattan (jmnge. The Grange February 16th was well attended and everybody seemed to en joy being present. The joining people wore their best clothes and best bo bavior, and had perfumery on the! handkerchiefs. Tho older members were not far behind as regards good feelings, especially Brother Ramsdell A largo amount of correspondence was on the secretary's desk to be read and disposed of. Brother Ackert tendered his resignation as correspondent to the Ueldinq Banner on act of not being able to be present at all the meetings He feels that he has been used "just rlcht" bv the Granee and the editor of the Banner, and extends his thanks to both, believing that the Grattan Grange is the banner Grange in Kent county and that the BELDINO Banner is the best local paper this side of the Rocky Mountains. After an internals sion tho following program was Intro duced by the Lecturer Mrs. Ramsdell: Select Reading. .Mrs. Laura Clemens Recitation, "She got a Fool for a Husband and be got a Fool for a Wife" Ira Smith Select Reading... Mra. John Emmons Essay ....Otto Slajton Recitation . .i Fannie Hookey A Dutch piece recited by Clayton Scott brought down the house and kept it down till ho consented to take the floor again and he then recited "Tim O'Gradles Goat" and he was cheered till the old hall shook. Otto Slayton's essay on "Fertilizing our Farms" was well handled and good thoughts were brought out. He Is a graduate from the Agricultural Col lege and is a young gentleman that the Grango feels proud of. The Kent County Grange will hold a meeting at the Silver Lake Grango hall, March 1st and 2nd. The pro gram is a good one but perhaps if the lecturer of the County Grange had se lected some one from among tho mem bers belonging to the County Grange from this Grange to speak it would have had a tendency to have secured a larger delegation from this Grange. Slajton. The sick are improving. A few new cases. Everything froze in Hilt Watklns' cellar recently. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Slayton are under tho doctor's care. Mis3 Fannie Bookey is up at Wheeler Pond's helping care for the sick. Miss Maude Hessler entertained the Bachelor Girls club last Tuesday even- Mr. and Mrs. II. J. Watkins enter tained the pedro club Saturday oven- ng. Kveryones water pipes aro frozen, making it very inconvenient for water- ng stock. J. H. Hessler and O. I. Watkins at tended the convention at Grand Rapids last week. Homer Cutler and wife of Lako county visited relatives and friends ver Sunday. Mrs. J. II. Hessler and daughter. Maudo, were callers at A. W. Slayton's Monday afternoon. A number from this vicinity attended the valentine social held with Mr. and Mrs. Lon Smith February 15. It was a success, lne highest price paid for one valentine was seventy-five cents. Keiuitrkttble Rescue. Mis. Michael Curtain, Plainfield, Ills makes tho statement, that she caughs old, which settled on her lungs: she was treated for a month by her family physician, but grew worse. Ho told her she was a hopeless victim of con- umptiou and that no medicine could ure her. Her druggist suggested Dr. King's New Discovery for Consump tion: she bought a bottle and to her elight found herself benefited from r6t dose. She continued its use and fter taking six bottles, found herself sound and well: now does her own ousework, und Is as well as she ever was. free trial bottles or this great iscovery at Fisk Bangs' and Connell Bros.' drug stores. Large bottles GJ cents and $1.00. (J How will you have your eggs cook ed?" asked the waiter. "Mako any difference in the cost of emr ' inquired the customer, cau tiously?. 'No." "Then cook 'em with a slice o' ham!" aid the customer, greatly relieved. Tit-Bits. An Honest Medicine fur La tirlppe. George W. Waitt of South Gardiner, Me., says: "I have had the worst cough, cold, chills and grip and have aken lots of trash of no account but rofit to the vendor. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Is the only thing that as done any good whatever. 1 have sed one 60-eent bottle and the chilli, cold and grip have all left me. I con gratulate tho manufacturers of an hon est medicine." For sale by Fisk Bangs, rugg 1st. There Is uothlng In which men differ more widely than in tho capacity for mbibing and assimilating knowledge. The capacity Is often exercised uncon sciously. This capacity for unconscious earning is not at all uncommon. It is Kossessed to some extent by everybody; ut a very high degree of it is one of the marks of genius. John Fiske. To Cure Lsi(Jrippc In 24 Honrs. No remedy equals Warner's White Wine of Tar Syrup for this terrible and fatal disease. If taken thorough! v and. n time, it will cure a case In 24 houri, nd for tho cough that follows la grippe never falls to give relief. Price. 2c and 50c. In a Sunday school class of boys, be tween the ages of six and ten, a ques tion was naked as to how God punished Adam for disobeying him. There was llenco for a moment or so, and then one bright boy said: "Please, mum, God took away one of his ribs and gave mm a wife." Amctioe! Amctioe! Gold and Jewelry, Rogers' and Sterling Silverware. These Goods are all Fresh and Recently Bought and will give I will GUARANTEE every article to be just as the AUCTIONEER REPRESENTS is only for the purpose of No matter at what Xadies Are Especially Invited. No Smoking Allowed During1 Sale. Sale to commence at FOR A FEW DAYS HARRY E. MYERS will conduct the lion Doctor Differ. 'For ten folid year," said a New Oileau broker, "I lived in perpetual pprehtniou of sudden death. A doc- or in Texas tuld me confound his pic ture that -f had valvular heart disease,' and if I wanted to Ftay on earth I must void every pecies of excitement. I did rny lest to follow hia advice, lut that miserable fpector was at my elbow ay and night and embittered my whole existence. I don t believe I am a cow ard, but the tbouRht preyed on me un til I began to fear for my sanity. 'At last, after all theso years of in finite precaution, I went to a first class specialist to Cud out how much longer 'd last and was assured that I hadn't one single symptom of the malady. Talk bout removing a mountain from a man! That assurance knocked off an en tire range. It changed the color of the universe in a twinkling, and I was so appy I wanted to just throw up my hat and yell. "That was a couple of years ago, and have enjoyed myself tiptop ever eiuce p to one day last week, when I hap pened to bo chatting with the specialist and remarked that I'd like to murder that sawbones in Texas. 'I don't blame ou,' he said. 'That man had no right to tell you that you had heart disease. If I had found you right at death's door, certainly would never have let you know it.' Now, by Jove, I don't know who or what to believe and am drifting back to the old state of uncertainty. I wish I lived in a cannibal island and bad never hoard of doctors." New Or leans Tiines-Deniocrat. Milk find Mnttieiiintlr. When Thomas drove up to deliver the UBual quart of white mixture, the gentleman of the house kindly inquired, 'Thomas, how many quarts of milk do you deliver daily to your customers?" "Ninety-one, sir. " "And how many cows have you?" "Nine, sir." The gentleman made some remarks about an early winter and the state of the roads, and then asked, "Thomas, how much milk per day do your cows average?" "Seven quarts, sir." "Ah, uml" said the gentleman, as be moved off. Thomas looked after him, scratched his head, and all at nice grew pale as e pulled out a short pencil and began to figure on tho wagou cover: "Nino cows is nine, and I set down seven quarts under the rows and multiply. That's 63 quarts of milk. I told him 1 sold 91 quart per day. Sixty-throe from 91 leaves US and none to carry. Now, where do I get the rest of the milk? I'll bo hanged if I haven't given myself away to ono of my best custom ers by leaving a big cavity in these fig ures to be filled with water London Sketch. Not In Hobson's Class. How bin was Alexander, pa, That peoplo enll him (treat?' 4Well, he was not bo very biff He didn't osculate." Chicago Record FINE; 6old Filled Clocks ALSO A FINE STOCK OF ATISFACTION REDUCING IY LARGE SACRIFICE Will Ho Ricaby . 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