Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-06-08

age AT the water power cEQdl, ana
farmers also suffered heavy damage.
Workmen while engaged in removing
the old buildings on the river front at
Newaygo, preparatory to the erection
of the new cement works, found Sc
GREETED In garnet the skeleton of a
child. The village is wild with ex-
element
Battle Creek schoolma'a ANS will have
| to be very careful about falling in love
next year, as the school board has
made those teachers who have been
re-engaged sign iron-clad contracts
binding them not to marry during the
school year
There is great strife between the
farmers of Central Lake township, An
trim county, TO capture the prizes Of
| fered by the street fair committee for
! the best improvements on 40 acres of
land and also for the best crops raised
this summer.
A special election is to be held at
| Cheboygan to vote on the question of
bonding the city for $4,000 for public
improvements. The local improve
pense of the election, SO the cost to the
city will be nothing
A fire which originated in the barns
of the Lake Superior lee Co., at Mar
] quette, destroyed that structure, to-
| gether with four horses. Two resi-
! dences and another barn were also
burned The losses will aggregate
fiu11 ,. h,y
DIR. Andrew ID. White, United States
ambassador to Germany and head of
| the American delegation to the recent
| peace conference at the Hague, was
professor of history and English liter
ature in the U. of NJ during the years
1s57-63 and professor of history,
| 1s63.67.
1t is announced as a sure thing that
| the +. & p. NJ. will build branch
from Clare to Barrytown, in Mecosta
county. If this is done, it will be a
| great thing for the northeastern por-
ton of Mecosta county. Barrytown's
only railroad at present is stub line
/ of the d., G.. X. & w.
A smooth individual has been can
vassing Berriep county for the sale of
spectacles. who got his livery hire
cheap. He would hire team for a
week and after few days the owner
would receive notice that his team
was in some other town, and the driver
gone and bill to pay.
For several months there has been
much petty stealing going on at Caro-,
but no clue to the perpetrators could
be found until last week, when it was
| discovered that two boys about IL
years of age were responsible for it all.
The boys are now locked up and will
! probably get a term in the reform
school.
All three places in the state where
beet sugar factories are being erected
the work on them is being delayed
somewhat through lack of sufficient
number of bricklayers. The contract
ors who are building the factory at
Caro- want so more, but can't get them.
and at Alma and Rochester similar
state of affairs exists.
Insurance Commissioner Campbell
reports that during the past year 10
stock fire insurance companies were
admitted to Michigan, while with
drew from the state, leaving total of
1853 companies During the year the
risks written in Michigan aggregated
1894, $50 csc, premiums paid 81, 500, 1s5,
losses incurred 81, 6i3, 2s4.
VIM. Vincent, of Tekonsha, nearly
lost his life in peculiar manner He
was assisting in hauling poles with
colt when the animal started suddenly,
throwing n chain around Vincents
foot, the hook entering the cords and
muscles He was thrown to the ground
and dragged by the heels several rods
at the animals heels, being lacerated
in painful manner.
The farmers seem to be in fair way
to get good crop of oats this year.
They are showing up nicely under the
influence of the rains and favorable
weather, and the grateful farmer, who
was went to sing. "In this wheat by
and by" now gaily huns Coat to be
saved" or something like it as he sits
on the fence and hears them grow says
the Dowagiac Republican.
A Polish woman and her son, of Lon
don township, Monroe county, inter
fered with the highway commissioner
when the latter attempted to open a
new highway across her farm. They
beat him with stick and chased him
off the farm at the point of a revolver,
but his turn came later when he had
them arrested and bound over to the
circuit court for the assault.
Reports to the state board of health
show that rheumatism, neuralgia,
bronchitis, tonsillitis and influenza, in
the order named, caused the most sick
ness in Michigan, during the past
week. Consumption was reported at
1914 places, measles at As, scarlet fever
at 81, typhoid fever at 10 cerebro-
spinal meningitis at Ia, whooping
cough at 10 and diphtheria at -
Not within the memory of the oldest
inhabitant has the wheat crop within
a radius of 10 miles of Willow, Wayne
county, appeared in such bad condition
at this time of the year as it is at pres
ent. The farmers in that section will
lose thousands of dollars through the