Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-12-14
STATE GOSSIP.

cleared their church from debt.
The Hotel Dewey at IIarbor Springs
was destroyed by fire on the 10th.
Loss, $4,000.
The common council of Saginaw will
try the Pingree potato patch scheme
next summer.
ID. Nj. Mills, a Leoni cider manufac-
turer, sold some one quart of hard
cider, was arrested and fined $40, in
GLIDING costs
Some one gave poison to 80 valuable
sheep belonging to Bert Clark, of Deer
field township, Lapeer county. They
were worth S. apiece
Convict David Bowers, of the Jack
son prison, who was serving two
years term for adultery from Van Blu
rem county. died on the 18th.
Although he has II children. Wilson
West, of Williamson. has seen but
three of them. He was stricken blind
80 years ago, at the age of 20.
VIM c. Poole, aged 90, OF Detroit, the
somnambulist, who walked out of a
third story window on the eth, died of
his injuries the following day.
The owners of the Shaker farm, near
Eau Claire, raised over 100 carloads of
sugar beets on 1902 acres. This is the
champion beet farm of the state.
The national council of the q. A. r
decided on the 9th that the next re-
union would be held during the last
week of August, 1900 in Chicago.
Highland Station is To have new
hotel, which is now being built on the
site of the old Highland House which
was destroyed by fire some years ago.
Mrs. Paulina Baker, of Holly. is the
possessor of a Bible 300 years old. 1t
was printed in London in 1000 and
brought to this country some years
later.
Representative farmers in the vicin-
ity of Kalamazoo agree that the chances
for good wheat crop in that county
are poor because of the ravages of the
Hessian fly.
School teachers are scarce article in
Tuscola county at present, and the
school commissioner has to hustle
whenever there is vacany from one
cause or another.
Cheboygan county farmers are com
planning that the water in their wells
is lower than it has been at any time
the past year, and they have to haul
water for their stock
Dates for the one day farmers insti-
tutes for Eaton county have been Sc
lected as follows: Bellevue. Dec 10;
Brookfeld, Dee. 90; Vermontville, Dec
81; Grand Ledge, Dec, %.
Men for work in the woods are very
scarce all along the line of the MaclIi-
nav division of the Michigan Central
railroad Wages as high as S2s and $50
are being offered by lumber operators.
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.
A Jersey farmer who had read that
ashes were good medicine for hogs.
preventing cholera and similar diseases,
fed some to his porlers last week, and
inside of two days the animals were
dead.
Tuscola county farmers who have
beans for sale are making a good thing
out of them at present. There are
buyers around the county
as much as S1.75 per bushel
for them
Pontiac's new bridge. the construc-
ton of which has bloclxaded traffic on
the main street of the city for several
months past, has finally been com
pleted, and the citizens are correspond
ingly elatcd.
A Pontiac man has hen which has
been laying eggs at the rate of four to
six week for about month, and only
three of the eggs have been single
yollSed. All the rest have had either
two or three yolks.
Deputy Game Nardens Bennett and
Atkinson seized n quantity of venison
1T the Michigan Central depot, Bay
City. on the 27th. shipped from the
north without a license tag attached.
1t was consigned to Plymouth and Ok
ford.
The shipping of Christmas trees.
which is an important industry in
northern Michigan of late years, will
begin this week. Thousands upon
thousands of the trees are shipped from
his state each year. principally to the
titles of the east and south.
There is no doubt that the beet sugar
of the state will still I
adhere TO their determination TO insti- I
ute legal proceedings To compel the +
state to pay them bounty of one cent
per pound on all sugar manufactured
Turing the seven years succeeding 1897,
when the general bounty law was
passed.