Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-10-12

A movement is on foot at Howell to
organize a stock company and operate
a foundry and machine shop in the old
foundry building which has long been
lying idle.
Miss Lottie Greeman, or Ann Arbor,
while riding on the merry-go-round at
| the fair grounds on the 4th, suddenly
tainted, and few minutes later died
of heart disease.
Shepherd recently defeated a propo-
sition for a water works system, and
now nearly half the business portion
of the town lies in ashes. The total
loss is estimated at 100000
John Hayden, farmer living near
Benzonia has the record for the largest
! yield per acre of oats ever raised in
Benzie county, he having threshed
! 327X bushels from five acres.
Marcellus has good roads organi.
cation, composed of the local business
men, who will spend several hundred
dollars improving the highways over
which trade comes into the village.
John Evans. of Cass City, accommo-
dated stranger with change for SIS
bill at the tunnel station, Port Huron,
and soon realized that he had been
touched for his roll, containing $50.
Judge Yaple, of Coldwater, does not
believe in divorces and has announced
that all such suits will be postponed
until after jury trials are settled. Di-
vorce cases will not be sandwiched in.
The potato season is unusually late
| in the Grand Traverse region this year,
! and the new potato starch factory at
| Traverse City is unable to start opera
tons because not enough tubers have
been brought in.
The streets of Morrice will be lighted
by are electric lights at $50 per light
if the council will grant a franchise
allowing the proprietor of the local
mill to put in plant for commercial
| lighting as we'll
Mrs. j. w Conkey, a prominent lady
| of Benton IIarbor, committed suicide
on the morning of the 9th by hanging
herself from a rafter in a barn. Her
hus band is accounted the richest man
An unknown man was killed by an
| +. & =. M. northbo passenger train
near Grand Blanc on the 3D. 1t is sup
| posed he was tramp stealing ride.
| The body was cubin two. He was a
middle-aged man, of medium hight and
clean shaven.
The State Association of Farmers
clubs has decided to discuss trusts and
the work of the state tax commission
at its meeting in Decem Der. EXGov.
Luce will be invited to lead the dis
cussion of the former, and Milo ID.
Campbell the latter
The people of Millington ought to
keep their present village treasurer
just as long as they can. He has col
lected every cent of tax on every de-
scription on the village taxroll this
year, something that has never hap
pened before in Tuscola county.
A Battle Creek man got into an argu-
ment with his wife which reached the
boiling point when he threw a tea
kettle at her. The tea kittle failed.te
hit her, but it caused the neighbors to
call in the police and the man is now
spending 10 days in the calaboose.
A survey is being made for rail-
road projected from South Bend, Ind,
to ST Joseph and other points on the
Lake Michigan shore. 1t is said that the
road, if built, will become "A part of
the Illinois, Indiana 81 Iowa system,
which is seeking lake connections.
Samuel Wagner was putting a felt
on the rollers at the Three Rivers pa
per mill when his hand was caught
between the rollers He was slowly
drawn in and was facing a horrible
death when the machinery was stop
ped. His arm was crushed TO the
| shoulder.
The coming winter is going to be
one If the busiest in numbering in
Presque Isle county for many years.
Every company operating up there is
preparing TO rush things clear to the
limit, the present high prices for all
kinds of lumber being the cause of the
big boom.
Sugar beets raised on the river bot
tom lands at the state house of correc-
! ZION dJ lOuld SnOWS OulN II I-lU per
cent sugar. This is below the average,
indicating that the rich bottom lands
are not adapted to the development of
sugar in the beet, although the yield
of beets was very large.
Farmers of Benzie county think that
beet sugar raising is not in it with
cabbage One farmer has refused So
600 for his field of 20 acres, and buyers
can secure but few contracts at $40 per
ton, as the raisers are holding OF till
time to harvest the crop next month,
when it is expected prices will be still
higher
The chairman of the committee on
ordinances of the Traverse City council
forgot all about the ordinance which
prohibits the riding of bicycles on cer-
tain streets Of that city, and was noti-
fed by constable who saw him i'm the
act OF violating the law to appear in
court next morning, which he did, and
was fined.
The long talked-of electric road
which is to tap the Grand Traverse