Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-12-07

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was paid to the various counties.
The deer hunting season, which
ended on the 30th, resulted in total
of II hunters killed and seven wounded
in Michigan and the Lake Superior
sections of Wisconsin and Minnesota.
The oldest inhabitant" at Eaton
Rapids has been working his recolleo-
ton bureau to find something To com
pare with the weather this fall and
says that back in 1888 he went bare
footed until Christmas and had water
melon for his New Years dinner.
Deputy Game Wardens Bennett and
Atkinson seized a quantity of venison
at the Michigan Central depot, Bay
City, on the 27th, shipped from the
north without license tag attached.
1t was consigned to Plymouth and Ok
ford
Manchester people have an idea that
there is gas, or oil, or mineral water,
or something worth going after, under
lying their village, and efforts will be
made TO raise fund sufficient to put
down test well to verify or disprove
their belief.
A canning factory with capacity of
Ii, 900 cans per day, giving employment
to large number of people during the
season, will materially assist Burr Oak
! toward greater prosperity next sum
mer. Work will commence at once on
the building.
Cadillac sports who hare been spend
| ing their spare time-and cash-dally-
ing with the festive niclSel.in-the-siot
machines have been forced to hunt up
/ other ways of amusement, as the ma
chimes have all been chased ont of town
by the police authorities.
Mrs. Anna Bell of Mills township,
Ogemaw county. discovered 439-
| pound bear trying to loot the hoggery.
/ She grabbed a rife and poured rain
of lead into the animals body. result
ing in its death. 1t was the largest
bear ever seen in that vicinity.
Would il not be a good thing if the
farmers of the state would take half
the money which is now spent on
botched jobs of repairing roads and use
it in building roads upon correct prin-
ciples? Surely it would be only a few
years until the farmers could get to
town at all seasons with something
more than an empty wagon.
The L. census supervisors of the state
| held conference at Lansing on the LIST
relative to methods of work and the in
depreciation of certain blanks. instruc-
tions, etc, the object being to secure
uniformity along these lines, They
will also act as unit in an effort to
secure an allowance for office work of
taking the census next summer.
Reports to the state board of health
show that rheumatism. neuralgia, ton
silitis. bronchitis and influenza, in the
order named. caused the most sickness
in Michigan during the past week.
Consumption was reported at 206 places:
typhoid fever, II; scarlet fevY. 80;
diphtheria, IL measles, 81; whooping
cough, 81; smallpox, 8, and cerebro-
spinal meningitis, 2.
Gilbert Gould. of Keller, Cass county.
plaated nearly an acre of tobacco two
years s;ro. and cured the crop in good
shape. The product was submitted to
experts. who pronounced it of finer
flavor than the ohio, Connecticut or
southern products, but in the marke,
prejudice seems to exist against
Michigan tobacco and no matter how
fine the crop, it is often unsalab.e.
When Judge Smith gave Mrs. Joseph
Ferguson, of Owosso, "a bill of divorce
a few months ago. he made an order
forbidding her husband from marrying
again within two years. Joseph stood
it as long as he could, but he is
married now. A charge of contempt
{ of court now stares him in the face anc
| he see ahead of him more trouble thar
| he had with Mrs. Ferguson the first.
A year or two ago the express agen
: cies of the United States and Ameri
can companies in most Michigan cities
were consolidated, and the business al
: done at one office. Apparently the ar
1 rangement has not proved satisfactor,
all around, as in many of the cite
, where the change was made, separat,
, | offices will be maintained by the tw,
= companies after the holidays, prepare
I tions to that end being already in pro
S gress.
Chas Bentley and Hiram Waite, o
Port Huron, were around the city ol
: the list, meeting old friends, who hav
!. stood by them since they were sent t
: prison several years ago. They ver
pardoned on Thanksgiving day, and
although parole only, was asked 70
Bentley. he received a full pardon Tn
; men will go to work in that city. an
$ friends will help them regain the repr
G tation which was lost when they wer
/ arrested.
u 4 farmer near Grand Haven has di.
covered secret which he ought to b
y able To dispose of to the colored popl
II lation of the country for big money
, 1t is the preserving Of watermelons i
, such a way that an expert eating on
$ in December would think that the ca
k endar had slipped "A few cogs and take
him back into August. This farme
l. aforementioned served some of his me
!, ons preserved by his process as dessel
n for dinner on Thanksgiving day.