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VOLUME I THURSDAY, SEPT. 22, 1955 NUMBER 26
·'\ Buffer Strips i Chambers Report Cause Headaches Under Study
SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY HONORS DELORES OUENDAG A surprise birthday party was held for Mrs. Delores Ouendag at the home of her brother and sister in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Cook. Those present were her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Cook, sister and brother-in-law, Mr . and Mrs. Wesley Griffin, aunt, Mrs. IJt Hazel Cahill and a sister, Miss ~ Donnelle Cook. Games were played and lunch ser ved. 2 susu RBAN LIFE, sEPT. 22, 1955 Fi"rst Aid Group P AULINE woon GIVEN Will Reveals Bequests BRIDAL SHOWER F R IDAY Of Local Woman • C ade Twenty-eight guests were present . . F Ormed Ill 3SC at a miscellaneous bridal shower Mrs. Katie Srruth, former ACE The standard course of American I given for P auline Wood by Mrs. area resident who passed away Red Cross first aid will be offered j Glen Thompson, 4251 Cascade rd., August 30, l~ft an e.state valued to residents of Cascade township September 16. at $28,000. 1'."frs. Smith'. descend at the Cascade school starting on Miss Wood is to become the bride 1ant of a p10neer fam1l~, WhOi j 1 October 8th, Monday evening at of William Johnson on October 1st. settled nea r Ada, left severaL Serving Ada - Cascade - Eastmont Published every Thursday morning at 112 N. Broadway, Lowell. 7 :30. The course will ta ke six IThe wedding will take .place in the ~as~ . beque~ts to chu~ches an~ Monday evenings, each session last- Cascade Church of Christ. md1v1duals m both Ada and Cas Entered at Post Office at Lowell, M ich., as Second Class Matter. ing three hours. On t~e sev~nth I William is the son of Mr. ~nd Cade. Harold Jefferies Kenneth Ezinga, Editor Monday night the special c1v11Ian I Mrs. Russell Johnson of Lakeside Gifts of $1,000 each were lef t Publisher Phone GLl-2011 defense course will be given, cover- 1dr., and Miss Wood is the daughter to Ada Congregational church Ada News Reporter - Mrs. T om M orris I ing disaster situations. of John Wood, Sr., f Ada dr. and the Church of Christ in R w k The first aid course, provided at I Cascade. Cascade News .Reporter -M rs. oger Y .es the suggestion of Suburban Life, k t C A lot in Ada township was Eastmont Reporter - Mrs. E dward DeWitt, Jr. will be sponsored by the Thorn- I 8 ac 0 0 11 ege \deeded to the township w ith c - Subscr i ption Rates Iapple Post, Echo Nectar 25 Red, Cascade collegians are- on a ·1 £1000 in cash to ue used for $2.00 per year within the state of Michigan. $2.50 per year elsewhere Iof the Ground Observer Corps, a nd variety of campuses by . th is th~ purpose of setting up a par k! the Mother's Club of the Cascade week: Jill Ostrander, Shirley to be known as the John Sm ith • • OBITUARIES School. The instructor will be Geo. ! Todd, Bill Pullen and Bill Stellin 1 park. · Pubhc Notice Mrs. Irene l\'Iorgan ~B . Strain, Red Cross in.st;uctor and I ~eft for Michi?a n. State Univer s-1 Ada school was left $500 "':"hich Notice is hereby given that a Mrs. Irene Morgan, Thorncrest I membe~ of .the Sheriffs depart- 1ty Sunday. Jlll 1s a sophoi;:iore may be used for any educatwnal public hearing will be held on the drive, passed away Friday at the\ ment first aid team. The classes ;n Medical Technology, Sh.irley Pi'Oject the board decides upon. rezoning of the W 1h of the W 1h home of her daughter, Mrs. Bob fare open to both sexes, over 16 a ~resh.man. 1:3ill Pullen. ~s a An additional $1'.450 was w illed of the N 1h of the E %,, Section 4, Blanchard, of Grand Rapids, after years of age. . Isemo r m Busmess Admm1stra- to various Ada residents. Bala nce Cascade Township, and known as a long illness. She is survived by Registration for the cou~se will tion; Bill Stellin is a sophomore. ot the estate went to other in the Walker property, on Laraway, her husband, Charles A. Morgan; b.e conducted, at. the openir:g ses- Shirley's brother J im is at Kala- stitutions and persons residing Lake road, from Class B residen-1 two sons, Arthur and Frederick, s10n. Students. will .be required. to Imazoo college for the second in other areas. tial to Commercial purposes. At both of Grand Rapids; two addition- have an American Red Cross First year. ______the Cascade Township Hall Satur- al daughters, Mrs. John McGinley Aid text of 1945 or later,,date, and Pete Jensen went to Alma SCOUTS ENJOY OUTING, day, Sept. 24, at 8 :00 p.m. Use of of Lansing, and Mrs. Gerhard Wes- a. triangular bandage 45 on each college, where he is a soph~more, IEVEN CHICKEN DINNER the property is to be for the erec- sels of Baptist Lake ; two brothers, side. Both of these items r_nay be last Sunday. Georgia S tram de· Siideen Boy Scouts a nd Explor1 tion and use of an American Legion Thomas Wilde of Marne and Fr~d purchased for 85c from the mstruc- parted this week for t.he .Univers- ers of Cascade-Martin troop 334 and Hall and children's playground. Wilde of McAllister, Wyo.; one sis- tor, or borrowed from others who ity of Mich_i_gan, as a JUmor. Sat-· half as m any fathers and leaders M. J . Vanderve.en, Clerk ter, Mrs. Mary Finkbein.er of Cale- 1may hav.e had the course. The urday, Jim Scripps went n~rth camped last week-end at Chief c-21-22 Cascade Township donia; fourteen grandchildren, and course will be ~bout 30% lecture, to Houghton to enter the Mich- INoonday Camp at Yankee Springs. 5 nine great-grandchildren. 12 .0% demonstratwn and 0% prac- igan College of Mining and Tech- Hio-h point of the outing was a Cascade H o m e Demonstration Funeral services were conducted I tree, so women students are re- r.ology; and Roger Wykes was so~thern fried chicken dinner, in group has had to alter its meet by Rev. Herbert C. Barnard ~t Iquested to wear ~lacks or . blue to drive Wednesday with a car- eluding five pumpkin pies, entirely ing date a second time. The meet VanderPool chapel in Godwm Jean~ for a~ sessions. After t~e load of students for Har vard. cooked by the fathers, Saturday Heights, with burial in Graceland opemng s~ss10n each student will night A three-mile hike after dar k ing will be next Monday, at the Cemetery also prov1de an old blanket, as- . · h f d f d home of Mrs. Sol Wanrooy, rather I Mrs Morgan· who had lived m· most of the work w ill b e d one on Other News m Ssearc t ot ee V r o11 oweRe bur. n a than Tuesday, because of a conflict . ' · · f h M th ' 1 b f cou mas er ernon y , with the Spiritual Retreat at Cas Cascade six years, maintained Wlth the floor. . . Members o t e o er s cu o chef during his Navy service, sup- her husband a lovely yard and flow- Due to the location of the village Cascade school No. 4 are baking . d d th d' Oth d cade Christian church. lt~ ~ ers She was generous with gifts on the new hig· h way, an d a t th e busily· this· week f or sa1 es s a t ur- ermten e. e Rmn b er. t K er a u d':'/' ~ of blossoms· and plants to friends Ischool, primary· emp h as1s· w1· 11 b e day on two mark ets, L eonard an d I were Assistantd 'nk o erE oomen,Bl k an w ANT ADS make qulcK sales. and neighbors. placed on first aid for auto acci- Cottage Grove. Mrs. Grover Fase I M~rton Al en Cl .ar 1 ~ e\~e,1 . . Ident s, and for small children. How- and Mrs. Robert Mcintyre are co- Milton Heaven, arence ;,os a, Mrs. Faith Z. Fletcher Iever, the entire text will be cover- I1 chairmen. Myrn Oatman and Tommy ay. Mrs. Faith Z. Fletcher, 42, of ed, -including the new rules for Mr. and Mrs. Elmer J . Czapek, . ? • FUEL OIL 2950 Thornapple River dr., passed use of the tournequet, and the Eastmont dr., drove to Marquette 1. LOSr somethmg. L ook for it Plus away suddenly Sund~J:' evening at j modern chest-pressure-arm-! if t Monday to get a six-months'-old I m the Want Ads. her residence. SurVJvmg are her Iartificia l respiration for drown- baby girl for adoption. Mr. and G&G STAMPS husband, John W. Fletcher; her iJ1g and electrical shock victims. Mrs. Orrie Pullen, Grand Rapids, mother, Mrs. T.hresia Farrington, I Followipg the completion of accompanied them. Gasoline Delivered of Cascade; a sister, Mrs. Charles the course, American Red Cr oss Mrs. Estelle Crane returned from Davis; a nephew, Nayland Davis, first aid certificates will be the hospital Sunday after major I LIVE BAIT of Grand Rapids. Funeral services j awarded to all who complete the surgery, to the home of her daugh were to be held Wednesday after- v,,ork. ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Minnows - Worm s noon at the Sullivan Funeral Home, The R ed Cross has also indi- John Hamer, Burton st. She will Crawlers with interment in Cascade ceme- cated a willingn ess to provide be convalescing for about six tery. an instructor to teach the junior weeks, and would enjoy callers. RELIABLE P RESCRIPTION Mrs. Fletcher had been a Cas- course to the students of the SERVICE cade resident ten years. Mr. and upper grades of the school, ifl 1, CASCADE \ Dykhouse &Buys Mrs. Fletcher had recently m~ved it can be worked into the school! W hen your doctor hands Phone GL6-9044 their house uphill. fro:n the river schedule. Adequate numbers 01 0 y SHOP ~nd w.ere remodeling rt, / _./" . village until it came to Schenk's SUBURBAN LIFE, SEPT. 22, 1955 3 Us 16 H as L ong H istory Iwoo ds, where it swung northeast Highway Construction Recalls behind the w. Lester Johnson house to avoid the hill, crossed Memories of "Good Old Days" H all Street behind the Claude Goldner place, and angled north By Mrs. Roger Wykes, Jr. of a little lake then existing, Last Friday the 3.9 miles of IArcheological Map of Michigan through a corner of the Robert lIS-16 between Blacksmith Corn- shows a main Indian r oute from Wride (later the Rykert) farm IF YOU WANT TO BUY - SELL - RENT OR TRADE . . .. TRY A Pr s and Cascade bridge were . the south passing through a na- on Ada drive at Spaulding, to WANT AD WITH SUBURBAN LIFE. JUST CALL LOWELL 9262 AND opened to traffic after being; ,. tive village near the site of Midi- Blacksmith Corners. PLACE YOUR AD. closed ten months for widening. dieville, around both sides of During the Sevemles, Cascade This change is only the latest step Campau Lake, and to Ada. There Road developed its reputation FOR SALE-GENERAL in the development of a road 1 is no trail indicated from the for romance, when Civil War Wanted that has been in use by white cascades of the Thornapple direct Cavalrymen of Grand Rapids, BOTTLED GAS-Safe, clean, de settlers for more than a century, to the rapids of the Grand. who had kept their horses galloped FR E E Z E R OWNE:ttS-Custom pendable gas service. FREE and which has had its share o:fj First map of Kent County in out along it with their ladiesi meat service. Wholesale rates. E~UlPMENT: Call us first. Ph. e>dventure, romance, and even t he white man's time is John' to the village, then followed the Weaver's Ada Market P hone CH-3-1482. Wolverine Shellane Ada 3511. · c23tf of lively sporting events. 1 Farmer's Map of the Surveyed ioad along the Thornapple to Service. 716 South Division, Information on this particular Part of Michigan of 1836, a year Ada, from there and back to the Grund Rapids. c23 if I F . 1 L k H h th BULLDOZING, all kinds. By the stretch o.f the highway is not before Mich1"gan formally be· 'is< a e ouse, w ere . eyd job or hour. Free estimates. Alto CONCRETE, CINDER and chlm- 11 a d too easy to find. There were came a state. The southern t1'ers d or ered c h arcoa 1· b rm1 e 2574. c26tf ney blocks, with motar groove. few early maps made, and all of counties were surveyed first, s t eak s. The young women rode Vosburg Block and Gravel co. township records of the road and Kent is completed only south side-saddle and wore · stiff hab- WANTED-MUSCOVY Drake; Ph. J Phone Ada 3397. c17tf were destroyed about 1900 when of the Grand River in this atlast its, but they rivaled their escorts Alto 2602 after 6 :00 p . .m. c26 the house of Township Clerk The Gull Trail shows but there in horsemanship, and had "many I HORSE-DRAWN buggy in run- George W. Gorham burned. I is no road from Cas~ade direct- a merry race"-"Many a sent i- WANTED, Baby Sitting, days or I ,ning condition ror sale. Old . 1 t G d R 'd h' h . mental soul lost his heart" to evenmgs, 50c an hour, Mrs. L.. enough to be an antique. Or M ost o f t h e attent10n has gone · 1Y o ran ap1 s, w IC lS· t B lk , y t Sutton, 6123 Cascade Rd. GL- I trade for pony cart or sleigh. tu the Gull Trail, first route oft ! called "Kent"; and neither. Cas- '~uo ed Re -~ap s es erdays of 10631. c26-28 Ca]J Ada 72171. c26 the white settlers coming to the l cade nor Ada appear. ,ran api s. 1------Grand River valley from the I The first reference to an act- Purely masculine sporting ev- I SECOND BEST SALE, Ada town south. This ran from Battle . ual road between Cascade and ents were the races held on CUSTOM PLOWING ' 1 hall, Saturday, .Sept. 24, 9:00 t o Creek and Kalamazoo through the city comes from the reminis· eJection day on a sou~se besi?e DRAGGI NG - DISCING J 5:00 p. m. Sponsored by Ada: 1 Whitneyville, keeping east of 1 CE:nces of Mrs. Olive Guild the road from a certain tree in LI GH T GRADING 1· Congregational Church, Mary the Thornapple, pretty well fol- Marsh, one of the six pretty the Slater farm to the sch ool Phone GL 1-0644 Martha Group. c26 ~owing the line o.f the present daughters of Joel Guild who h~use, exactly a quarter_ o.f a ALFRED SCOTT RUMMAGE AND BAKED goods Whitneyville Road and Buttrick came to Grand Rapids via Io111ia 1.mile long; and many ston_es .are 2715 Thornapple River Dr. 1 sale, Friday, Sept. 30, Ada town Ave. to Ada. Here Rix Robinson in 1833. Olive, a true pioneer, told of. unexpected vanat10ns Give your copy of Suburban Life hall. 9:30 a. m. Sponsored by had established a trading post in married Frederick Marsh in 1that enhvened those r aces. to a friend. Mothers Club, Ada Christian 1821, and here the Indian trail 1838, and "began domestic life R oD".anc_e continued active in School. c26. to Grand Rapids had been wid-i in the unbroken wilderness one the Nineties, when the late Mrs. EASY WASHER-with wringer!, ened by him to a wagon road mile north and west of where \Valter K. Schmidt liked to re- Honey Creek News excellent condition, looks like all the way to Louis Campau's the little hamlet of Cascade is call driving out often in a car- :Mrs. Leona Hunt new $20.00. c. L. Goldner, 5353 post in the infant city. located, "Fisher's Grand Rapids riage load of gay young people Cascade Rd. Phone 99-6395. c26 The Gull Trail, like all early Icin d Kent County, Michigan, r ec- k dance at the Cascade Mineral Mr. and Mrs. George Bell visited vVE BUY AND SELL Antiques. settlers' routes, followed an ex- , ords. "Mr. Marsh lived to see Springs hotel. The drive took in Royal Oak over the week end. Old dishes, vases, etc. The V.il- isting Indian trail. Hinsdale's. , the forest yield to cultivated two .and half hours each way, About 15 attended the coffee at !age Store, Ada Phone 9191. fields and comfortable dwellings, nothing at a11 to the ·young peo- Mrs. Bernard Baer's home last c26tf • &H • ! a nd .to have a school erected ple. Thursday. Next coffee will be atJ L t MARSHALL BELDING Pl um b1ng eating IonT~~~/::r~, on US-16 and Bur- ro~%,sc~~~1/~~~;at~~~e~e:w~~~ L~r~.e~e~~~;; g~~~e~~~:~e~\he e HELP YOU With E • • !ton st., was bought by Frank Spa- 1877 and 1884, according to the Droste-Ferguson hospital Sunday Life Insurance (incl. group plans] qu1pment and Service I man 61 years ago; currently it recollections of William Thomas, night for an operation. Fire-Auto-Liability Hot po" t A I" 1belongs to A. E . Kern. Th-e school the township's oldest resident, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Rich took Pensions and Annuities 77 in PP iances I was built in 1847, on the site of1 who is celebrating his 94th birth. their daughter Candy, Susan J ervis PHONE ADA 30 · Phone Ada 5821 I the present Cascade school. day this week. Known as the and Elizabeth Osburn to the foot- l!'!arl's Radio & TV Service Mr. Marsh was killed by a fal] Reed's Lake Road, it extended ball game Friday night at Lowell. s;; . • & from a wagon in 1856. Mrs. nine miles from the tollhouse at A C 'tt · Service Calls 8 A. M. to 11 P. M. ·a eating nnounce omm1 ees 1 _ $ _ _ Ad H IMarsh , afterwards Mrs. Walden, · the corner of Robinson ,and Cas- 2-50 • .survived her husband 11 years. cade roads to the present belt· Mrs. Nellie Lewis, chairman of ' · OPEN SUNDAY Um "She often spoke of those days line at Cascade. The late - Hugh the Honey Creek PTA auction, an- Ph. GL1·09H 7024 Cascade Rd. Pl bIng I nouces her committees : Advertising · Ada Drive when her nearest neighbors were Blacklock, Kent County sheriff, I 587 miles away, and for three \Vhose father was tollkeeper and posters, Mrs. Sally Seidman; Well Drilling & Repair months at a time she did no~ many years, used to collect tolls refreshments, Mrs. Cary Stiff, Mrs. EXPERI SERVICE see the face of a white man, ex-! as a boy. Lyle Norwood, Mrs. J. Jensen,_ a nd NEW PUMP ~--- , . M.rs. James Mccaul; donations, Phone ADA THE HEATING SEASON h 1 4501 cept er rnsband,, ' the history The charge was 25 cents for H aze 1 r.r'-noop, L ee B en tley, D oroti 1y FRANK AVERILL JR continues, ' and a human being team, and 15 cents for a horse Hunt, Betty Standard and Edith I • • IS HERE~ passing over t he newly cut road ar.d buggy. Mrs. R alph Auble Andrews; door prizes will be do- 9074 Bennett Rd. We Carry STOVE and was a relief to her intense loneli- recalls that her father, Marshall nated by Dana Burgess and Jack FURNACE PIPES r.ess. Foster, who as a dairy farmer Jervis. ANNIE'S GRILL Replace Worn Out, Dangerous Presumably the Marshes came regularly took milk to town, had I Pipes Today to their .farm by horse and wagl a yearly rate. The .family never' Last w~ek , Mrs. James Doll AT CASCADE en from Grand Rapids over the had to stop to pay fare at t he of Lucas, enjoyed a visit with! I Daily "Special" Dinners WORK CLOTHES new road. It must have been( tcllhouse. her sister, Mrs. VanStrien of j Short Orders ,, FORD PAINT very rough, and muddy when Gravel for improving the road ICascade road. I Open 8 A. M. to 7 P. M. Daily wet, as it was only a dirt sur- ali the way to the city was taken Closed ~ndays Eastmont Hdw. fc:ce for years. frcm the roadbed in the village, ;·------. Don VanPortfliet Earl Wride remember s that which wa;; then much higher p d y L d 4591 Cascade Road the early Cascade Road follow- than now, up to the level of romena e OU r a y ------, ec1 its present course fretm the Buttrick's store, Hugh Slater re ports. TOP QUALITY Toll roads disappeared in Mich igan shortly after 1900, as the motor Choose your partners car showed the,.-need for more And come on down, centrally planned and supervised All join hands SIGNS roads. The Kent County Road And circle 'round Commission was organized in AND LETTERING SERVICE 1910, according to L eonard Kauffman, commissioner secre OPENING OF tary. The process accelerated AL HEEMSTRA swiftly, as a state r2ad system\ . \Vas adopted t hree years later, Buttrick Rd. Ada, Mich. and went into effect Jn 1917. The MELODY MILL pr esent US-16 was one of the first roads taken over by t he ( Former,ly Sunny Acres Hall, 7855 30th St., near new State Higfiway Department. Buttrick, S. E.) Cascade's romantic a pp e a l ANNOUNCING NEW LOCATION came to the fore again in 1915) 9:30 P. M. to 1:00 A. M. when boosters for the southern Sept. 24th OF route of the proposed "Wolver ine Paved Way" lleld up the beauty of the scene at the river Square and Round Dancing Buckley's TV and Appliance Service crossing as a persuasive argu-1 ment for their route r ather than I fe1:3turing the Now Located At: the northern one. The village did get its pave MUSIC MASTERS 6905 CASCADE RD. ment in 1923, when the concrete road was built from Blacksmith Lee Patterson - Caller, Bass RIGHT IN THE HEART 9 Corners to near L ansing, anil 8 Barbara Mac -Vocalist OF CASCADE with gr avel from the Cascade pit. "We thought we were build-1 i) John Hamer - Guitar I You can bring your ing a permanent road in 1923"' • Bob Cheney - Drums NOW• toasters, Irons, Mr. Kauffman says, ruefully. e Rog Tus ken - Sax Mixers, Etc. to us for quick repair The new, four-lane road is less • Mac-Piano service beautiful tharr its predecessors, J e but planned to be safer for the vastly increased traffic. A year· : round average of 7,000 vehicles-a- 1· f REE - Corsages for The Ladies ! day travel through Cascade today. Cascade Ph. GL6-8298 Gr. Rapids GL2-4552 That is quite a contrast with' ADMISSION: $1.00 PER· PERSON · Mrs. Marsh's road of 1838. 4 SUE.URBAN LIFE, SEPT. 22, 1955 Buffer Strips A by Ken Ezinga er Church News Many a little white lie leaves! Eight Years Old! rangement can be worked out to a black mark behind it. , Karen, daughter of Mr. and the mutual satisfaction of all con- p J\1rs. Wm. Fryover, celebrated cerned (and there are plenty) c To Telecast Church her 8th birthday last Saturday painting crews from the highway 0 Services Sunday, Oct. 2 Iafternoon by inviting her class- department are going to mark the I Morning worsh1'p serv1'ce of mates to a party at the Ada areas where private driveways en- E r ST R A N D town h all. Patty McDuffy, who ter the highway. Residents may Cascade Chr istian church will Ivi as in Karen's kindergarten then cross only at these designated l bco telecast on WOOD Sunday, T H E A T R E class and had moved away for spots. 5 ?_~t. 2 from 9 to 10 a. 11'.· This Lowell, Michi gan r.while was a welcome guest at Shoemaker also cited the fact ' ~v ill be the regular wo:ship serv- the party. that there are 63 private driveways This past week, in the ACE a rea 1C? for the co~gregat10n; t here ~~ '1 ! .Karen .received some very r:icepaon~ the_ new highway. Making an at least, h<:s been a quiet one as '.v1ll be no ~erv1c:e <.•t.11.c church. (/{u,;jfii'Wldr Fri., Sat. Sept. 2 31 24 MOTH ER-TO-BE which it was designed. gion and also those who will move 1 as can arr ange it present for the I Mrs. Larry Chesebro of Grand Lest citizens in the area get the into it in the future. The educa- , J.omecoming. Mrs. W. Lester I Rapids was honor guest at a , impression that the two depart- tion of thousands of children, the . Johnson, church historian, is in i;;ink-and-blue shower at Ada ments, Police and Highway, are in future growth of new construction, 1charge of the program . I. town hall Friday night given by a bitter wrangle about this prob- and the payment of truces all de- , The Spiritual Retreat of the West her mother, Mrs. Enid Gould lem, Subur?a? Life wishes to point pend to a greater or lesser extent lCentral district of Christian Wom and sisters, Mrs. Helen Snell, out that this is not at a ll the case. on the outcome of the proposed en's Fellowships will be held at IJ\Irs. Hazel Gray ana Mrs. Marie IBoth departments are interp_reting consolidation._ Suburban .Life up to ICascade Christian church Tuesday J S~andar~l. G~mes wer~ t he . eve- the l a~". as .they understand it and the prese_nt time has ~:m.nted noth- ! Sept. 27, from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. And O nce a t 8:45 r;mg's dil·erswn and prizes given.~ a s~lut1on ~s certain to be forth- mg unfavorable on this 1ssu~. Our ISpeaker will be Mrs. June Stanley, L ovely gifts were presented commg, which will solve what now readers should not necessanly re- who recently returned from a two- Ithe honored guest. Refreshments appears to be a hopeless condition. ?eive the impression that 1:e are month ~' world mission tou~ .to .16 ~ -VIGILANTE-: were sen·ed by the hostesses. , 1. m complete agr eement with all · countnes and several Pac1£1c is- ! 1the proposals presented thus far. lands sponsored by the United TERROR : . 1 f40NOR MRS. COLLINS Our policy has been and will con- Christian Missionary society. The I l Saturday mght supper guests, AT PINK-AND-BLUE SHOWER It inuetobe the presentationofboth h h b h I --- -.-:-- 1 ei Mr. and Mrs. R ober t Ward . . . ' . ._ ten 1ay c urc mem ers w o too c - , . Mrs. Gardner Collins was hon- views on any issue that may an~e. the tour at their own expense be- Sun., Mon. Sept . 25, 26 1 w~re his daughters, Mr. and M.rs. 1 or guest at a pink and blue sur- Until the present time we have not cause of their interest in a global Dick McCarthy of Grand :8-apids prise shower at the Ada t own discovered any person or group of Ichurch and concern to broaden 1 Sunday fro m 3 P. M. i <..nd Nancy Ward and David Car- 1 ball, Thursday evening. The persons . wh? arc .wiUin ~ to . have their own understanding. I penter. I1 tab les were very prett~ in pink. their obJect10ns pr:ntecl m '.his pa- Denison Guild will be hostesses and blue and a beautiful cakei 1 per on the school issue. It is rath- at the noon luncheon. A nursery I made by Mrs. Neal VandePeerle, ~r strange! indeed, that such an will be provided. All women of the 1 ii. the form of a cr adle and in~ important issue se~ms to hav~ _ab- church and community are cordial Wei! Drilling ! fant was the center-piece on the solutely no organized oppos1t1on. ly invited. Ita ble. In the final -vote of course. those I .. Well Repair Games were played and many w~o. go to the polls will_ voice their Now Have 50 Families lovely gifts were gi ven the hon- op1mons but we woul~ hke to hear, I Membership in Cascade Chris- ::'\ cw and Usetl Pumps Installed o