Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-11-09
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

fall OF snow Tor tnlS season on NOV. -
Wyandotte is to have new salt plant,
which will give employment to 20 peo-
pie.
The supreme court has decided that
Eikhoff's home rule bill is unconstitu-
tional.
About S., 900 worth of damage was
done to private property in jackson on
Halloween.
Deer hunters are fioclSing north by
the thousands. About 1900 licenses
have been issued at Menominee.
A genuine school row is on at MINIS
ing which will have to be settled al
the November term of the circuit court.
A mammoth wildcat was trapped
near Traverse City the other day. Ii
measured six and half feet from tip
to tip.
South Haven is picking nice, lucious
straw berries. Plants bearing blossoms,
green and ripe Strawberries, were found
there on Nov. 6.
The new courthouse at Cassopolis is
rapidly approaching completion, and
will probably be ready to turn over to
the county by Dec. /.
A heavy snow storm at Coldwater on
the 3D. practically caused the suspen-
sion of business, hardly team ven
turing on the streets.
The National Milling Co., of East
Tawas, has received an order for sc
tons of prepared vegetable soup for the
English army in Africa.
The Michigan Fanciers' association
will hold its annual poultry and pet
stock show at Battle Creek for one
week, commencing December Is.
Dawson is assuming city airs. Two
blocks of paving have been laid IN
Main street and cement walks are be-
ing put down at street crossings.
The Kings County Fire Insurance
company, of New York, has been adj
mitted to do business in Michigan by
Commissioner Stevens.
A new 81 600 pipe organ has been
placed in the Catholic church at Paris
vile, Huron county. 1t is the only
pipe organ in the county.
There are just 700 veterans in the
Soldiers home at Grand Rapids.
This is much in excess of the usual
number at this time of the year.
Although L. NJ Harris was defeated
at the polls last fall for the position OF
prosecuting attorney of Ogemaw county
| by Mrs. Abbott, he now fills her place.
D1u.1o,J ,.ao,1o eao,,, 4 ~ la fraa from,
superstition. A literary club has just
been formed in the village, the mem
bership Of which is to be 13-no more
and no less.
There are some queer people at Bat
tie Creek One of them has just been
arrested for burning up the sidewalk
in front of his own and his neighbors
houses for fuel.
The gang who worked off lot of con
federate bills on the people of Oceana
county have been rounded up at Hart
Their plan was TO buy cattle from In
dams and ignorant whites.
The Pittsburg syndicate who have
leased 1000 acres in Frankenlust town
ship, six miles from Bay City, began
operations on Nov. 6 on what will be
the largest coal shaft in Michigan.
Santiago, the new town in Arenac
county, is taking on good sized boom.
New stores, hotels, mills, etc, are go
ing up at a rapid rate, and new school
house has also been erected this fall.
The Lenawee Farmers Mutual In
surance Co. S report shows $500 mem
bers; amount insured, Ss,7OS, $40; rate
of insurance, 81. Of. Edgar Morse has
been reelected secretary for two years.
The date of laying the cornerstone
of the new building at the school fol
the deaf, at Flint, has been postponed
until Nov. 16. The ceremonies will be
under the guidance of the Masonic or
der.
An attempt was made to blow open
the safe in the exchange bank at By
ron with nitroglycerin on the I'd, but
the burglars were frightened away
only securing IS in pennies for their
trouble.
A Calhoun company to be known as
The Wolverine Developing company
has been organized with capital
stock of $4,000. The object of the
company will be to explore for gas
coal, oil, etc.
A Hillsdale capitalist by the name Of
James S. Galloway has purchased 39A
square miles of Canadian pine timber
land, located in Morgan county, Ont
He expects to cut 100, 1000, 900 feet OF
white pine from the tract.
The 23d annual convention of the
w. c. T. u. for the Sd district, com
posed of the counties of Eaton, Cal
houn, Barry and Branch, and repre-
senting 80 cities and towns, will b,
held at Battle Creek, Nov. and 0.
A Lowell fiddler made an engage
ment TO furnish music for dance a
Ada, some 10 miles distance, and drov,
over on the appointed evening. WheI
he got there he found that he had for
gotten his violin, and the dance had t,
be postponed.
Ovid people tried to make their GOO
light electric lighting plant furnish
sufficient current for 500 lights, anc
the plant broke down under the strain
The residents of the village are using
lamps now, until new dynamo can b,
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