Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-13
STATE GOSSIP.

Port Huron IS talking OF a street 1alr.
A cloudburst at Millbrook did SO, 900
worth of damage.
Three Rivers will make an effort to
get free mail delivery.
Worthwhile people are talking about
holding a street fair this fall.
The beet sugar crop in st. Joseph
county is estimated at Is tons to the
acre.
A new grain elevator with a capacity
of 10000 bushels is being erected at
Homer.
The Ypsilanti & Saline electric road
will probably not be in full operation
until Sept. l.
The $500 bonus has been raised and
Unadilla is going to get that grist mill
she has been after.
There is a great demand for labor
around the docks at Port Huron. Men
are wanted every day and cannot be
hired.
The city of Three Rivers has been
numbered and will have up street signs
and city directory, the first one pub
lished.
In some parts of Berrien county, the
wheat yield will not be two bushels
per acre. Farmers are naturally dis
couraged.
Colored people from all over the
southwestern part of Michigan will at
tend the Emancipation day celebration
at Niles on Aug. 1.
Out of 131 applications for teachers
certificates at the recent examination
at Kalamazoo, only 80 were successful,
eight being for second and 30 for third.
Linden is experiencing small build
ing boom A new bank building and
several new dwellings are in course OF
construction and more are being an
ticipated.
The third biennial national conven-
Port Huron, July 1921, in connection
with the national convention of the
X. o. T. NJ.
Haying is over in the vicinity OF
Brighton, and the crop is small one.
Wheat harvest has begun, and the
prospects for that are even poorer than
the hay crop.
VIM. and Thos. Halderman, formerly
of Genesse county, have been con
victed and sentenced to be hanged al
Phoeniz, Ariz., for the murder of q
deputy sheriff.
The large F. e. r. NJ. elevator a
Ludington was destroyed by fire or
the evening of the 9th. Loss incurred
to this and other property amounted
to about 500, 900.
Despite the reports last winter tina
the extreme cold was killing off al
the quail there are more of thos'
birds in Berrien county this season
than for 20 years past.
A postoffice has been established a
Lott, Altoona county, with Eli M. Ii. M
Barker postmaster, also at Mass, On
tonagon county, with George III. L
Hennings, postmaster.
Harry, the 13-year-old son of Free
Witt, German, living two miles cas-
of INLAY City, fell off binder in tn
wheat field and had one of his fee
amputated in short order.
Two men are confined in the Jail a
Buchanan who are without doub
Matt Smith and Sigmund Brock. tn
murderers of Martin Meier in Chicag
on June last. The men were car
tured on the evening of the 9th b
Marshal f. w. Eldridge and Constabl
Hiram Boyer.
Farmers around East Tawas VIII
have gone in for sugar beets this sea
son are downcast over the prospects
Between poor weather during tn
termination of the seed and the a.
tacks of small beetle since the beet
came up, they are doubtful of harves
ing more than have a crop.
Officers arrested +. b. Kennedy, E'
/ Stocker and q. Worden at Fulton o
, July on the charge of selling liquc
illegally. They captured 40 bottles
California wine. 100 bottles of beer an
two jugs of whisky, besides 60 empi
beer bottles. The goods were bein
dispensed at a restaurant stand.