Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-03-23

ricultural implements, and as a conse.
quence the village is without a public
hall.
Chester township in Ottawa county.
has been organized since ls4s and has
had only six different supervisors
One supervisor, George Il. Porter. hay-
ing served his township 20 consecutive
years.
Reading people have for some time
wanted a flour mill, and new that
they have chance to get one by paw
ing a bonus of $500, will probably
take it,
Nearly 1000 women in Detroit made
up their mind they wanted to vote for
a school inspector this spring, and ac-
cordingly consented in revealing the
secret of their ages by registering
So many petty burglaries have oc-
Cured at Hillsdale of late that a couple
of night watchmen have been APP
pointed by the city council and it is
hoped this will put stop to the depre-
dations
John 0Brien, of Albion, aged 81.
bed-ridden and almost helpless, secured
n razor and attempted suicide. He
said afterwards: Il tried to do a good
job, but luck was against me-" He can
not recover.
In mix-up between D., G.. ii. q
NJ. freight and C. 5. e. NJ. mixed
train at OwoSso. several cars were de-
molished as n result of rear-end col
lision. The wreckage caught fire and
was burned.
Mrs. Forbes, formerly Hattie Mar
chant, committed suicide at her home
in Kalamazoo by hanging herself on
the top of door by cord. She had
been respondent of late and was left
alone only short time
All the furniture factories in Owosso
are working IL or II hours a day and
are then unable TO keep up with or
ders. Such season of prosperity so
far as the factories are concerned was
never before known there.
Mrs. c.. Birlx, an old woman living a
mile east of New Buffalo, was found
dead in bed the other day. She is sup
posed to have been dead for over a
week. She feared witches and drove
1000 nails in the door to keep them
away.
The state fair authorities have de-
cided to abandon the system they have
followed for years of advertising the
big fair by means of dodgers and litho-
graphs, and TO spend all the money set
aside for this purpose in newspaper
advertising.
1t cost Grand Haven S3,176. 90 to run
its municipal electric light plant last
year, and the receipts were $2,5s1. 81.
Up to last year the city paid $4,000 for
its street lights TO private corpora
ton. This year the plant will net
profit to the city.
Deckerville farmer is the owner of
lamb which boasts of six feet-four
in front and tw2. -bshisd irene
which was,E born Only few days age
Seems to be as healthy as any ordinar
lamb which has only fore feet in from
aud two behind.
A little girl named Celia Smith, @
Owosso, was playing in the basemcn
of the school building when she az
cidentally fell, running a pencil sh
had in her pocket through the wall O
her abdomen. If blood poisoning doe
not set in she may recover.
Petitions has again been circulate
in Eaton county, asking for anothe
vote on the local option question, an
enough signatures has been secured t
enable another special election. Thi
makes the third set that have been eli
culated within the past four months.
Port Huron's city council has re
solved to purchase strip of land fror
Lake Huron to Black river for the con
struction of a canal to cleanse Blac
river. For years past that river ha
been an eyesore, owing to it's stagnan
condition during the summer months
Last week Miss Davis, aged /!
daughter of farmer near Cass City
cashed forged order for So at a bus
ness house. The merchant called O
her parents for settlement and the
in turn reprimanded the girl. Late
the young woman placed strycbnine i
cup of tea and drank it, death re
sulting.
While the saloons at Oxford wer
closed on account of its being electio
day, some fellows with a great thirs
broke into one of them, and after get
ting outside of all the whisky he coul
drink, left the taps of the barrels open
so that when the proprietor cam
around he found the whole plac
flooded with liquor.
The electric road from Port Huro
to Marine City, which has been talke
of so much, now appears to be an as
sured project 1t is contemplated tina
by connection with the Detroit & 81
Clair railway at Marine City and tn
Rapid railway at Mt. Clemens a con
tinuous electric ride to Detroit will
have been made possible.
Safe-crac kers blew open the safe il
Charles ii. May & Co.'S bank at Clio
and secured nearly $4,000. After the
had secured the plumber they went L
livery stable and got the man il
charge to drive them out three mile
to large piece of woods. When the