Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-12-21
STATE GOSSIP

DIX lncneS OF SHOW lell at MarSndil
on the 18th.
a mince meat factory to cost S25, 900
is being projected at Saginaw.
Harness thieves are operating in
Wayne county near Worthwhile.
The postotlice at Upton. Clare county,
has been discontinued. Mail to Lcota.
Fine cement mari beds have been
discovered three miles north of School
craft.
A factory is to be established at
South Frankfort for the manufacture
of hardwood flooring and wooden spec
ialties.
Marshall claims to have the only wo-
man embalmer and undertaken in the
state outside of Detroit and Grand
Rapids.
Cadillac wants an opera house, and a
project is now afoot to organize a stock
company of local business men and cit
liens and build one.
The schools of Millington are closed
on account of diphtheria. Four cases
have already developed but as yet no
deaths have ensued.
The schools and churches at Garland,
Shiawassee county, have been closed
for two weeks on account of an cpl
demic of diphtheria in the village.
The Gladwin County Farmers inst-
tute has been awarded the prize by the
state institute officers for second best
attendance at the last county institute.
Emma Smith. aged %, of Detroit,
was found on the street at an early
hour on the 18th in a semi-unconscious
condition. Physicians believe she was
poisoned.
Work of surveying the line of the
Northeastern K. X. from Lawton to
Schoolcraft has been commenced It
is promised that cars will be running
by next spring.
Gratiot county farmers who raised
sugar beets the past season are well
satisfied with the returns, and the acre
age next year will be great deal
larger than last.
Ludington has had long and tedious
fight for municipal ownership of the
finally closed by the council on the 12th.
The price paid was $4,000.
\ party of capitalists from Saginaw
with local men have formed a company
to drill test holes for coal five miles
northeast of Millington. They believe
they will find three-foot vein.
Alex. Simpson, of Wyandotte, is not
what would be called handsome man.
but he has two wives according to the
verdict of the jury. He is now await
ing his sentence on the charge of big
amy
Internal Revenue Collector Charles
Wright and several other government
officials made most important seizure
of oleomargarine at the Union depot.
Detroit. "A few days ago. The goods
were consigned to parties in Liverpool,
Eng. from Chicago.
The Wabash railway has won out in
the suit recently commenced against il
| by State Railroad Commissioner Os-
born in his endeavor to have the com
pany reduce its fares in Michigan TO
two and a half cents mile because its
last annual report showed that it was
earning over 81 900 per mile for its
mileage in this state.
The village of Coloma. eight miles
from Benton Iarbor. has several cases
! of smallpox. and the stores are closed
20 prevent the spread of the disease.
In Sodus township. southwest of Ben
ton lIarbor one school has been closed
for seven weeks on account of scarlet
fever. The quarantine was lifted from
all the afflicted homes i'm Benton Har-
Dor ON the 12th.
The following appointments of post
masters in Michigan have been con
frmed by the senate: c. II. Baird.
Holly; b. r. Browne, Harbor Beach:
w. G. Brown. Brighton; g. Burkhart.
Saline; G. A. Cline, West Branch: III. B.
Colman. Kalamazoo; T.. +. Evarts.
Chesaning: w. McGillivray. oscoda:
c. Quick. Lowell; G. Van Schelven.
Holland; l.. A. Sherman. Port Huron:
q. Viewer, Marlette; w. +. Holt. Belle
vue: Corydon Beach, Galesburg; A. X.
Dougherty, Elk Rapids.
A steel rolling mill is TO be erected
at Kalamazoo by the Harrow Spring
company.