Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-02-02
STATE GOSSIP.

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eessful.
Both the Daily Herald and Evening
Leader at Menominee have suspended
publication.
Samuel Blodgett, of Prescott, Oge-
haw county. has fallen heir to $780,
boo, left by relatives in Belfast, Ireland.
A farm dwelling owned by Niles
Anibal, three miles west OF Three
Rivers, burned at loss of $1,000.
Nothing was saved.
A big lynx with large tassels on his
ears was killed north of Standish.
This is the first specimen killed in that
section for some time.
VIM. ii. Bly,, of Eaton Rapids, Al
years old, committed suicide at the
asylum at Kalamazoo by cutting his
throat with suspender buckle.
A great deal of the wheat in Tuscola
county that.was sowed on clay ground
! has been killed by the cold weather
because of lack of snow to protect it.
Oceana county is great on raising
potatoes. The shipments from Shelby
average 80 carloads per week at pres
ent.
Bellairc is to have big new saw
mill, which will employ about 40 men.
1t will be completed some time in
April.
The common council of Alma has de-
eided TO improve the city streets the
coming summer to the extent of $4,000
worth of material and labor.
Mary Penar, of Saginaw, aged "a,
was divorced from her husband, anu
within two minutes was an applicant
before the county clerk for license
to wed a man 20 years her senior.
The council at Three Rivers has de-
cided that the city is getting its
moneys worth" from the local electric
lighting company, and the talk of a
municipal plant has been dropped.
Calvin b. Lapham, a wealthy and
well known Oakland county farmer, OF
near Pennington, committed suicide
by hanging himself in his barn. He
was 60 years of age. Family troubles.
Accountants who have been working
on Bay county books for over year
reports the rural districts indebted to
the cities over SIC, 900 To offset this
there is a balance of about S3s, 900 in
the treasury.
Manistcc was visited by fire three
consecutive days - the last one de-
stroycd the Metropolitan block, which
was used as an apartment house. Loss
on building, $4,000; contents, $500.
Fully insured.
The suit of Montmorency county
against ex-County Treasurer Wiltsie
and his bondsmen for the recovery OF
money alleged to have been turned
over, resulted in verdict for the
county of SO, 1925.
Near IIarrietta, Wexford county
have been discovered large deposits 81
experts to be the finest Kind ntdo ~ 6SqpSS.s
clay. An Ohio pottery firm is trying
to purchase the land
VIM. Corey terrorized Ypsilantl with
a revolver He had been i'll and la.
bored under the dclusion that the city
marshal was the cause of his troubles
He was overpowercd, taken home, and
a guard placed over him.
The fishermen at st. Ignace are max
ing big money catching perch through
the ice with hook and line. They get
- cents a dozen for the fish, which
they haul in as fast rs they can drop
their lines into the water.
The -year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Shepke, of Southfield, near
Birmingham, was burned so badly by
falling into boiler of boiling water
that the flesh peeled off the little ones
body. The child may live
| A dozen freight cars were ditchcd
and an engine wrecked in collision
on the D., c. Il. & w. railroad west OF
lonia. a heavy freight coming down
the incline collided with a switch en-.
CINE drawing 20 empty ears. No one
injured.
The potato evaporation which recently
started operations at North Branch is
furnishing good market for the DO.
tatoes which the farmers of that vi.
cinity have left on hand The factory
uses about 800 bushels per day, and a
good price is paid for them.
Grand Rapids saloonkeepers have
asked the council to pass an ordinance
prohibiting free lunches The custom
has grown to such an extent as TO
make serious inroads in the profits.
seven downtown saloons expendinr
Sl4, sl4 in that way last year
The recent snow storm was the most
severe at Marquette, where the beauti-
full fell in large quantities. and was
piled up in drifts by the heavy wind
that was blowing until it reached a
dept Of 10 feet in many places. The
storm was felt over the entire state.
but was the most severe in the north.
ern part
Some years ago a coal mine was
opened upon the banks of the Rifle
river, not far from Twining As there
was no demand for the coal at paying
prices the mine was abandoned. A
Pennsylvania firm will open the mine
and if the indications warrant the out.
lay the Detroit & Mackinac railway
will build a siding to the property.