Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-06-29
STATE GOSSIP.

been let.
A fine grain elevator is being built
at Mancelona with capacity of $4,000
bushels.
A $40, 900 sanitarium is among the
probabilities at Maple Rapids this
summer.
Calumet business men are being
victimized by gang of short change"
operators
Nine children IN Huron county have
been named after Admiral Dewey dur
ing the past year.
A fine quantity of hard coal was
struck at Standish at depth of IL
feet while digging a we'll
Owosso's water supply is inadequate
and the city may purchase Gute's Hill
park which contains large springs.
Berrien Springs is to celebrate the
Fourth in good old-fashioned way,
over $500 being raised for that purpose.
The wheat crop in Sanilac county, it
is said, will be one of the poorest in
the history of the county. Corn is also
below the average.
An Onaway man bet his house and
lot against saloon owned by friend
on the big prizefght of a couple of
weeks ago, and won.
Sunday closing is enforced to such
an extent in Quincy that even ice
cream parlors are compelled to quit
business on that day.
There are IL. cases of typhoid in the
first ward in Saginaw. The trouble
started in milkman's family and
spread to his customers.
A big district G. A. r. encampment
will be held at West Branch, Septem-
Der 1915, and already preparations are
being made for the event
Lansing: Secretary Baker of the
state board of health says that there is
danger of smallpox outbreak. The
disease exists in several states
Some fine mari beds have been dis
covered about the lakes in Lake
county, and there is talk of establish
ing cement factory at Baldwin.
At the last meeting of Camdens
council a half mile of new sidewalk
was ordered laid within 80 days. Tax
payers threaten legal proceedings.
Branch county claims to have the
champion fat woman. Her name is
Mrs. Frank Whitloct, she lives in Ba-
tavia and her weight is 600 pounds.
Spinal meningitis has been epidemic
in Houghton county this year, the
1aafh not 70 60, G,.cf L.. l..
ing 10 times as great as the rest of the
state.
Chas. Bishop, of Muskegon, tried to
hang himself, but the rope broke. He
says he did it to scare his wife, and
that he had no intention of committing
suicide.
Nearly 900 acres of land in Muske-
gon county is devoted to the raising of
sugar beets, and the plants are doing
well, considering the backwardness of
the season.
Free delivery postal service will go
intos effect a. Big Rapidss July /. The
postoffice department has allowed
three regulars carriers and one sub
stitute carrier.
The contract for putting in Hart
ford's new waterworks has been let.
This will be the first gasoline water
works plant in the state. The con-
tract price is SILL 27.63.
The body of Orian c. Temple, son of
farmer living near Ionia, was found
on the d., G.. r. & W. tracks literally
cut to pieces on the 25th 1t is thought
he was victim of foul play.
The contract has been let by the
Presbyterian society of Escanaba for
the construction of their new church.
The edifce is to cost over S13, 900 and
will be completed early in October.
Pentwater residents are beginning
to think that their village is hoodooed.
Within three years there have been IL
deaths by violence in the place, al
though the population is only 400.
Caterpillars are doing great amount
of injury TO the forests in some parts
of Benzie county. In one section near
Thompsonville hundreds of acres of
heavy forests have been stripped clean
of every leaf
jackson men have purchased large
tracts of land around Herring lake,
Benzie county, on which valuable mari
deposits have been found, and there is
talk of a cement factory being estab-
lished there.
J VIM. A. Roland, the New York
banker, has purchased the famous herd
of short horned cattle owned by Aaron
Barber, of Avon, n. Y, and will have
them shipped to his stock farm at
Grass Lake.
Mrs. Julia Willard, an old woman
who in a dream located the body of
Richard Miller, the Battle Creek boy,
who mysteriously disappeared, and
then found it in sand bank, has re-
ceived $500 reward
A military company has been organ
lied by the young men of Hubbards-
ton and the governor will be petitioned
TO secure the admission of the com
pany to the national guard upon the
reorganization of the latter.
Secretary Hitchcock has apportioned
the Appropriation made by the last
congress to aid the state agricultural