Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-10-05

this year, are well satisfied and large
acreage will be devoted to beets next
year.
Fred Bailey, of Harrison, found a
sealed envelope under his plate on the
morning of his 2ist birthday. 1t con-
tanned deed for so acres of land, the
gift of his parents.
1t is said the Big Four system will
build $50, 900 swing bridge at ST.
Joseph, extend the line to that city
and thence along the south lake shore,
tapping the fruit belt.
Walter o. Ashley, senior member of
the vessel firm of Ashley & Dustin, of
Detroit, dropped dead on the street
about noon on the 27th. Deceased was
nearly GA years of age.
Port Sanilac's apple evaporation en-
ploys 10 hands and will double the
number next month. Fifteen thou
sand dollars have already been paid
for apples in the vicinity.
A syndicate of Detroiters headed by
Clarence A. Black has been granted
30-year franchise to build an electric
line at Monroe. The line will eX-
tend from Toledo to Trenton.
The hotel safe in the Commercial
house, Homer, was robbed on the 25th
and 81 200 in cash and gold watch
aiken. A man named Mervin Thomp-
son is suspected of the theft.
Port Huron is to a have a new in
dustry. 1t is tannery, and the pro-
cess to be used is one where the skins,
with hair on, can be tanned without
destroying the fibre or luster.
Apple buyers are buying up Clare
county orchards at higher prices than
usual. Rates range from 81. 25 to 81. so,
and some varieties of winter fruit are
contracted for at So per barrel.
The League of Michigan Municipali-
ties, in session at Grand Rapids on the
27th, favored a constitutional amend
ment which would permit of municipal
ownership of all public utilities.
Mrs Ida Lehman, of Detroit, is in a
critical condition at one of the hosp-
tails as a result of a gasoline stove eX-
plosion. She attempted to fill the tank
while one of the burners was lighted
An iron bridge over the Coldwater
river, three miles south of Union City,
became detached from its abutments
and crashed into the dam just below
it. The damage is estimated at SO, 500.
Never before in the history of the
Marsh company, of Monroe, have there
been so few ducks in that vicinity at
this time of the year There are
hardly any ducks flying and there is
no shooting whatever.
More than 5000 persons attended the
second annual street fair at Harbor
Beach last week Prof Williams, who
made balloon ascensions, dropped into
Lake Huron one day and was rescued
by the life saving crew.
Potato digging in Osceola county has
just started and the outlook for crop
is very poor. Hundreds of acres viii
not be dug, as they are so small they
will not pay the digging. Men demand
S1.50 per day and are very scarce.
Chas. III. Baker and George d. Hig-
gins, ''yellows" inspectors, report but
% cases of the "yellows" in Otsego
township, and 10 of these are in one
orchard. Last year they found rs c..sss
and the year before over $50 trees Were
discovered
Gaylord wants a flour mill. AT pres
ent farmers have TO ship their wheat
to Cheboygan, cart it TO Boyne Falls
or into their next county, to get it
ground. 1t is said the present acreage
of wheat in Otsego county would be
doubled if there was flour mill at
Gaylord
The state fish commission has pur-
chased the stock in c. +. Hollis private
trout hatchery at Cascade and it viii
be removed TO the Paris hatchery. This
will add about $50. 600 eggs to the
Paris output. The Holt hatchery has
been in operation > years and was one
of the first established in the west.
In the $40, 600 damage suit of Sheriff
Scougale VS.. Rev. John Sweet, d. d.,
Of Owosso, the jury awarded a judg-
ment of $1,000 to the plaintiff. Rev
Sweet, through the newspapers de-
clared the sheriff had violated his oath
of Office by allowing a game of ball
to be played on Sunday, hence the
lawsuit
The physicians appointed to examine
into the condition of the mind of Rams
Roedder, of Ann Arbor, the high
school student who attempted suicide
when captured by the officers, decided
on the I'd that he is perfectly sane
There has been strenuous effort on
the part of some university influence
to keep all facts suppressed in the case
until Roedder shot himself
The fercest September blizzard in
many years visited North Dakota on
Sept. 27th. A heavy rain early in the
day turned to snow and severe south
west wind added TO the ferceness of
the storm.
Once in a while we read of enter
prising country neighborhoods who
are bound to keep up with the times
The people of the Wise school district.
near Coleman, have voted TO bond the
district in the sum of 81, 900 to pay for
a new brick school house.
In recent scrap between the Yaqui