Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-06
STATE Cos SIP.

past ycai'
A rural free mail delivery will be
started for the territory about Ypsi-
lanti shortly.
Montmorency county's poor farm
will be in operation by August /. II
is located three miles west of Atlanta.
Carleton & Cole, of Port Huron,
dealers in machinery supplies, have
closed their doors. Liabilities, 81 500.
A fence factory will be established
at Port Huron if citizens of that city
will subscribe for a portion OF the
stock.
Just south of Chesaning there is
barn which was built AZ years ago.
Every timber in the structure is black
walnut.
Chester Loomis & Son, of Grand
Rapids, have Shropshire lamb that
weighed 7216 pounds when it was 63
days old.
The board of health at Flint an
nounces that signs will be posted on
business streets forbidding splitting on
sidewalks.
After l6 years of idleness the Taylor
iron mine, five miles east of L'Anse,
will soon be reopened and worked to
its fullest capacity.
John w. Baumgarten, of New Balti-
more, this year sheared 800 pounds OF
wool from 25 yearlings, an average OF
IL pounds per head
All of the mason tenders at Bay City
are on strike for an increase of wages
to 81. rs per day. Work on all the new
! factories is at a standstill
Bears are so numerous in the imme-
date vicinity of Marquette that wo-
men and children are afraid to go into
the outskirts of the city alone.
James Meyers, Thetford township
brute, Genesee county, pleaded guilty
in the circuit court to debauching his
l2-year-old daughter. He broke down
in court.
At the close of the fiscal year, June
3Oth. there was balance of 81, 402,-
O55 SIS in the state treasury. This is
s1s5.s43. % more than the balance one
year ago.
Diphtheria has become epidemic at
Cassidy's Corners, little hamlet near
Niles A half dozen cases now exist
and one death from the disease has
thus far been reported.
Saline people think that all that is
necessary now for their happiness and
the prosperity of the village is local
band, and accordingly such an organ
, ization will be formed.
Bav CITY wheelmen have been given
the right to ride on the sidewalks OF
every street in the city that is not
paved or planked The mayor and
nearly every alderman rides wheels.
s!John X. Elleivein, residing near
+ Three Oaks, was thrown from his
reapcr by his team running away on
the list. The sharp knives of the
! reaper literally cut his body to pieces
!. The wheat crop of Newaygo county
: this year is almost total failure
, Hundreds of acres were plowed unde
last spring, and what was left to grow
4 !. villa not yieAd one-d quarter qf an aver
i age crop
n Dairy and Food Commissioner Gros
o venor is collecting statistics concern
q ing the cheese and butter factories o
Michigan, in order that he may be abb
to respond to the frequent requests TO
this information
E. The building of the new power hous
p at New Baltimore for the electric raj
Or road which is to run through from DE
f. troit to Port Huron has been begun
n The plant will be one Of the finest c
"a the kind in the country.
Ig Senator Burrows is negotiating &c
he the purchase of a residence in tn
or SWEETEST part of Washington in whic
a TO live and entertain while congress
OF in session during the next SIX year
st 1t Is said he has offered $4,000 for
ed house which suits him.
Gu On one acre of ground Frank CAR
IL well-known farmer of Vernon, raise
this season four tons of good timotf
hay. and is willing to make an affid
iss Wit to that effect; and on one OF h
la. five-acre lots cut on an average
IN three tons of good hay to the acre.
is Geo Cooper, an old resident of Viii
nd Pigeon. committed suicide on the 27'
is bv taking a dose of poison. Domest
700 troubles are said to have caused him
|
,as tempt at self-destruction within t
Ter past 12 years, and it proved WHINE
she Rockland is experiencing genui
YER "boom." The houses are full a
many people are living and doing b'
mess in tents. There are three tim
as many professional people and trad
in men there as the place can suppo
vas The mines are rich, but the town it's
tn. is being overdone, and reaction
to sure to follow.
re- Richard Floyd Nicholl, form
life Marquette county miner, was arrest
his MAY Is at johannesburg, South Afri
ted and placed in Jail in Pretoria OF
ay, charge of high treason against
was Transvaal government. Nicholl
seeking to establish his American C
,ev zenship.
Bay City capitalists have taken lea
Of land near Atlanta and will expl
-; for coal, iron and gas. There are S
g. eral places in large swamp two m