Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-03-16
STATE GOSSIP.

Vermontville is again without flour
mill.
Tekonsha has public library of
1000 volumes
Vassar is working to secure potato
flour mill industry.
Marshall will vote on S25, 900 bond
ing proposition for the construction of
sewers.
The third case of smallpox in two
weeks has developed near Benton
Harbor.
The Michigan Democrat, Sturgis
newspaper, has absorbed the Times of
that place.
The Detroit Sugar Co. has begun the
constru elton of its new factory at
Rochester
A paper devoted to the beet sugar
trade will be started at Bay City in the
near future.
In the one township of Lyndon, in
Washtenaw county, there are by actual
count 1873 lakes.
Grass Lake is experiencing a build
ing boom-two new business blocks
are being erected.
A block of six stores in the business
portion of DSrr has been destroyed by
fire at a loss of IS, 900.
Grand Haven has fine prospects of
securing large canning factory that
will employ 400 hands.
The Grand Central hotel barn at
Lake Odessa has burned. Loss, 81 900.
Incendiarism suspected.
The French Catholics of Calumet will
build new church the coming sum
mer, at cost of $50, 900.
Frederick w. Mayne, of Charlevoix,
was nominated as judge of the 18th
judicial circuit on the SD ballot.
Guard & Koivoords flour mill, two
miles east of Reed City, burned at a
loss of ST., 500, with no insurance.
case of smallpox is reported at
Kalamazoo. The victim was a rag
picker in the Wolverine paper mill.
The stock for the beet sugar factory
at Kalamazoo has been subscribed and
work on the factory will begin at once.
The Michigan Telephone Co. re-
corded mortgage worth $4,000, 900 in
Huron county, requiring $1,000 in rev.
enue stamps.
Mrs. Il. ]. Munday, of Metamora,
preferred death to medicine if the
! Christian science treatment could not
cure her. She died.
The First State bank of Fennville,
with capital of $4,000, has fled ar
ticles of incorporation with the state
banking commissioner.
A number of Kalamazoo citizens are
sick from eating pork, bought at a re-
duced price from string butcher"
Legal action is threatened.
An electric car on the D., p. e. N.
railway left the track near Wayne and
landed wrong side up in the ditch. Sew
eral passengers were injured.
The school population of Menominee
has grown so that the present accom-
modations are insufficient, and another
school building will be erected at a
cost of S12,O 900.
Farmers in Oscoda county are losing
number of sheep lately through the
depredations of wildcats, which are
very numerous in that section this
winter.
postoffice has been established at
Hosner, Macomb county, seven miles
northwest of Romeo, and James M.
Hosner has been commissioned post
master.
The tunnel scheme at Port Huron is
so much of success that the Canadian
Pacific and the f. & p. M. railroad peo-
pie are contemplating building one at
Fort Gratiot
John w. Prior, the colored man who
took Celia Mondary, a 16-year-old
white girl, from Detroit to Windsor
and married her, has been found guilty
in the Essex county, Ont, court of
perjury and sentenced to four years
imprisonment in the penitentiary.
tidal wave of morality has struck
Mason. All gambling houses and
other resorts run in violation of the
law have been closed, the slot ma
chimes removed from the saloons and
the liquor laws are being so strictly
enforced that to get drink after the
legal closing hour or on Sunday Is q
lost art.