Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-06-22


the nuisance.
Branch county people are getting
good. The June term of the circuit
court was the shortest on record. the
jury was sent home without being used
and court adjourned to the regular
October term.
Mrs. Warren Neal, of Traverse City,
a deputy game warden, went TO an in
land lake to arrest fishermen who
were spearing fish. The men took her
row boat in tow and rowed to the OBJ
posite shore and left her stranded.
Tekonsha is getting to be the largest
butter market in the state. Last week
5000 pounds was the average amount
of butter packed per day by the local
produce company. A carload of butter
and eggs per day has been the average
during the week.
An Allegan farmer, who was dis
cussing the great increase in the past
years in the number of pests with
which the granger has to contend,
concluded by saying that if things
kept getting worse he would soon have
to spray his hogs.
A Vernon farmer, wishing to secure
the services of stone mason, some
time ago, kindly advanced the mason
$50 SO that he might go to Chicago to
attend the burial of his brother. The
service must be very lengthy, as the
mason has not yet returned.
Free rural mail delivery will be es-
tablished at Hillsdale, July /. 1t will
cover the territory surrounding the
| city for about five miles in either di-
recton. A postoffice inspector is now
| in Hillsdale arranging the details
| Two carriers will be employed.
| The house of John Daugherty,
well-known resident OF Standish, was
struck by lightning on the 18th, the
bolt tearing TO pieces the bed upon
which Mr.. and Mrs. Daugherty were
sleeping and tearing mp the inside of
the house. No one was badly hurt.
Several other buildings were struck
The Storms mill of Ludington will
hereafter operate continuously instead
of shutting down during the winter
months The experiment of running
mill in the winter has never been
made and great interest is taken in the
outcome. The water in tho log dump
will be heated by means of steam
pipes. IL the scheme proves successful
500 men will be employee the year
around.
The Wilson Dozer affair at Owosso
| Of
| Wilson goes back to his family and
Mrs. Dozer will leave the city. The
charge of horse stealing has been with
drawn against Frank Wilson, who
played detective, and everything is
lovely. This is the couple that was
stopping at hotel in Detroit where
they were located by Wilson's son,
who played the part of detective.
Sixteen new high schools mage been
put on the diploma list of the UhVers-
ity of Michigan as the result of the re-
cent inspections by university commit
tees. The schools are the high schools
at Alpena, Buchanan, Chelsea, Dams
vile, Dixon, Englewood, Hinsdale,
La Sale, Riverside and Sterling, H.,
school at Monroe and ST. Thomas
school at Ann Arbor, and North Des
Moines, Ia.
The daughter of farmer near Du-
rand was married recently, and when
she and the groom started for the
train her father tucked a pair of old
slippers into the carriage for good
luck. A couple of days later he paid
quarter charges on a neatly wrapped
express package, and after much labor
in untying hard knots, unrolled the
slippers. He is lying awake nights
thinking up a scheme TO get even with
his son-in-law.
Just because her mother scolded her
for some triiling disobedience, a 16
year-old girl Of Rothbury, Ocena Co..
swallowed dose of poison. After
she had swallowed the stuff she began
to wish she hadn't and was so fearful
that the doctors would not come in
time 10 save her life that she nearly
died Of fright The men of medicine
, pumped her out, however, and she
will linger awhile longer in this vale
of tears and trouble.
Mrs Corbit, of Harrisville, who wa.
deserted by her husband in California
last March, where he eloped with an
+ other woman, recently received let
ter from him, dated Racine, Wis, anC
| mailed at London, Canada. He stated
a that he had got divorce from wifi,
e No. and would like to have Mrs. Cor
bit forget all past trouble and max,
e up again. Mrs Corbit wrote him a re
(, ply So hot that she said she feared i
: might scorch the envelope.
| A very slick confidence game OH
D small scale has been worked very sue
cessfully on a number of merchants a
!, Vernon and the neighboring towns il
: Shiawassee county. The game
/, played by man about 60 years old
5 who first secures the names of the dill
= ferent storekeepers of the towns h
wishes to work, and then greets Their
a with hearty hand shake and a re
{ minder that he was formerly one @