Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-04-27
STATE GOSSIP.
Dundee now has a steam fire engine.

A grain elevator will be built al
Gladwin this summer.
George Richardson, of Owosso, has a
hen which is a good swimmer.
An electric railway between Sagi-
nav and st. Charles is projected.
Metamora is to have new news
paper to be known as the Independent.
Moses j. Howe. of Milan, has been
elected supervisor % consecutive terms.
Gladwin is to have grain elevator
something that will fill long felt
want.
The citizens of Mt Clemens have pc
titioned the city council to adopt stand
ard time.
Flint merchants have decided 10
abandon trading stamps and coupon
schemes.
The University of Michigan has
graduated 3,25s persons as doctors of
medicine.
Armada is to have veneer factory
which will give employment to about
a dozen men.
Holland last year made net profit
of Ss,94s on it's lighting plant and
water works.
a convention to organize a state
league of municipalities will be held
at Lansing May 30.
Mrs. Caroline Phelps, of Kalamazoo
fell down the cellar stairs at her home
and broke her neck.
Four graduates from the University
of Michigan have been governor of
states and territories.
Marine City's council has granted
the Detroit & Northern railway fran
chise through that city.
The Michigan Bell Telephone Co.
has begun the work of extending its
lines north of Menominee.
The annual reunion of the Calhoun
county Maccabee tents and hives will
be held at Albion on June 0.
The Michigan Central railroad has
torn down its round house at Alger
and will move it to Grayling.
Henry 5. Fralick, of Grand Rapids,
for many years secretary of the State
Fair association, has resigned.
Oakland county farmers claim their
winter wheat crop will not average
more than 60 per cent this year.
On May special election will be
held at Bad Axe to determine whether
or not the village will buy the electric
light and power plant.
In Casco township, Allegan county,
lives man who, though he is now 90
years of age, never passed night
away from his parents.
The ice dealers of Bay City have
formed a trust. Prices will remain
the same, but deadbeats will have to
do without ice this summer.
Thos. S. Langridge, of Petoslxey,
formerly of Tecumseh, has been ar
rested at the former place on the
charge of hstvinG too many wives. ,
One hundred and one members and
former members of the law department
of the University of Michigan were in
the army and navy during the war
with Spain.
While in a fit of insanity resulting
from trouble with his wife, Jack Con-
lin, of Houghton, committed suicide
by shooting himself in the temple with
a revolver.
Farmers in the vicinity of Willow,
Wayne county, say the past winter
was the hardest on wheat they have
ever known. Many fields will have to
be plowed up.
Geo. Cothernan, living near Fabius,
st. Joseph county, was recently found
decapitated near the Michigan Central
tracks It is not known how the acct
dent happened.
A farmer near Smiths Creek, ST.
Clair county, has a calf that weighed
los pounds when two days old, which
is about double the usual weight of
such animals at that age.
A flock of SIS Mongolian pheasants
were recently turned loose at Saginaw.
1t is expected by sportsmen that in
two years there Will be enough birds
to furnish excellent sport.
Martin ladies have organized the
Ladies Sidewalk Brigade for the
purpose of keeping the sidewalks of
the village in good condition.
1t is probable that the Ann Arbor
railroad will join with the G.. X. e l.
and build a union station at Cadillac
that will be a credit to that city
1t is estimated that student would
be compelled to spend A years in the
University of Michigan in order to
take ali the courses of study now Of
fered in the literary department.
The bicyclists of Niles will build a
bicycle path from that city to Barren
lake, a summer resort located five miles
east. The money for building the
path will be raised by subscription.
Helen, the little daughter of Fred
Moore, baggagemaster at the union de-
pot at Plymouth, was severely burned
by her clothes catching from bonfire.
She may live but will be disfgured for
life.
A building boom has struck Cadillac
and struck good and hard. Over 200
new structures have already been ar
RANGED for and will be erected this