Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-14
STATE GOSSIP.

Allegans first rain since Aug. IL oc-
Cured on Sept. 5.
A number of cases of typhoid fever
are reported at Jackson.
There is not an empty dwelling in
Saranac, and the schools are filled.
Beans in Livingston county are
yielding only five bushels to the acre
According to census just COM
pleted Dowagiac has 400 population
The cornerstone of the new $4,000
NJ. f. church at Bad Axe has been laid.
A large deposit of mari has been dis
covered three miles south of Bellevue.
The 18th Michigan cavalry will hold
its annual reunion at Hillsdale, DC
tober II.
Hillsdales new court house was ded-
icated on the 9th. Fully 10000 peo-
pie were present.
The 23d Michigan volunteer infantry
will hold its 34th annual reunion at
ST. johns, Sept. 2l.
Cheboygan county was blessed with
a heavy rain on the 10th. More than
an inch of water fell.
Eight thousand cans Of tomatoes is
the average daily output of the Dun
dee canning factory.
A number of skeletons of Indians
have been found in the sand pit, seven
miles north of Royal Oak
Colon, St Joseph county, will build
a second school building to accommo-
date the increase of pupils.
| A trunk and valise factory will be
started in Bad Axe shortly by John IL.
Cole, formerly q Detroit man. E;1r
The-Fhr aIoion, Sept 1922.
On account of the short peppermint
crop, growers are holding their oil in
anticipation of rise in price.
Fruit growers around Paw Paw COM
plain that their grapes are being de-
stroyed by small yellow birds.
An important meeting of the health
officers of Michigan will be held at
Grand Rapids on Oct. 26 and 81.
Eagle River, Keweenaw county, will
become summer resort. Calumet
capitalists are pushing the scheme.
1t is believed that 500 Oddfellows
from Grand Rapids will attend the
great convention at Detroit Sept 16
The Bad Axe school opened last
week with an enrolment of 400 chill.
dren out of $50 school children in the
town.
Lamson & Crowley, Marshall sewer
contractors, are compelled to blast
their way through Ia feet of solid
sandstone.
Lightning struck barn on the old
Crouch farm, near Jackson on the 9TH.
killing four horses. Neither the barn
nor contents caught fire.
The iron mining companies of the
Marquette range have announced
voluntary raise in wages of 10 cents
day, taking effect Sept. /.
Work has been renewed at Cheboy-
gan on the test salt well, which was
started some months ago. Results are
expected before snow flies
A new hotel, with accommodations
for 100 guests, is to be erected at Saug-
atucll in time for next summers resort
business. 1t will cost $4,000.
Walter and Lawrence Verdier, of
Grand Rapids, must answer to the |
charge of violating the fish law. They /
are charged with using dynamite.
Kalamazoo is suffering from short
age in the local milk supply, caused by /
the recent long drought, and conse-
quent lack of pasturage for the cows.
The survey for the electric railway
the various cities of the
copper country has been made and
work will probably commence at once.
A special election was held at Holly
On the 5th TO vote on the question of
the village for SO, 900, to sink
new wells at the water works. The
election was holly contested and re-
suited in defeat for the proposition
)y a vote of 104 to "a.
Oliver Tenny, of Highland Station.
vas driving corn cutting machine
when the horses ran away, and he was
brown under the knives. Both his
ees were cut and mangled in terri
lie manner, and he is in a critical con-
Iition. The horses were also injured
o badly that they had TO be shot.
Railroad Commissioners Osborn is
low sending out fine new railroad
nap of the state of Michigan TO the
'eople of the state who are sufficiently
Interested to ask for copy The map
) good one and shows all the new
ines of railroad which have been con-
tructed up to within very short time.