Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-11-16

raM .ay will have cars running to st.
UIair by the first of next year.
laundering operations in Gladwin
county are on a more extensive scale
this year than for many seasons past.
Flint poultry fanciers have organ
lied an association for the purpose of
giving poultry show the coming win
ter.
Petitions are now being circulated in
Tuscola county for the purpose of hav-
ing an election on the question of local
option.
August Lessien, wealthy insane
farmer of Grand Haven, was found
dead in his cell on the morning of the
18th inst.
Thieves looted a clothing store at
Edmore on the night of the 9th and
stole several hundred dollars worth of
clothing.
The schools at West Branch are
closed on account of scarlet fever in
the village, and public gatherings have
been forbidden.
The complexion of the common coun-
ell at Port Huron was not changed by
the recent election. 1t still has "a Re-
publican majority.
The new Methodist church at Saline
will be dedicated on the 10Th The
building has cost S, 1000, but it viii be
dedicated free of debt.
Experts blew open safe in the dry
goods store of C. II. Fairchild S Co., at
Menominee, on the night of 18th and
secured between 500 and $500.
In Pokagon township, Cass county,
the Hessian fly has damaged wheat so
badly that farmers have plowed up the
fields and sowed them over again.
The largest bath house in the world
is to be built at Mt Clemens next
spring. Detroit. Chicago and New
York capital will back the enterprise.
The Howard City Electric Light Co.
has decided to rebuild their plant,
which was burned some time ago, and
expect to have it running in about 30
days
The farmers in the vicinity of Mason
are very much interested in the build
ing of the new Presbyterian church
there, and have pledged 260 loads of
stone.
Howard Reynolds, aged about 80, and
employed at the Bay City Sugar fac
tory, fell into one of the centrifugals
on the 9th and was literally ground to
pieces.
Traverse City is to have new fac
tory the first of the year for the manu-
facture of hardwood novelty articles,
etc, that will employ between 40 and
50 hands.
John Bishop, of Plainwell, cut his
throat while walking along the street
with friend in Hicksville, o. Despon
dency was the cause, though he was
well off financially.
Poor speciments of counterfeit half
and quarter dollars have been circu-
lated not only in st. Joseph but in all
smaller towns throughout the county
during the past week.
Along the highways and bypaths all
around Alpena are posted the follow
ing notices this year: when you
shoot at a deer, be sure it is deer, and
be sure that you are sure.
Experts believe there is oil in st.
Clair county and have leased several
thousand acres of land in the townships
of st. Clair, Cottrellville and China, and
will soon put down test wells.
The machinery of the Holland sugar
beet factory was given thorough
trial on the sth. and everything worked
perfectly. The factory will commence
making sugar in the near future.
Negotiations are now in progress
looking toward the establishment in
Cadillac OF logging tool factory, and
| if the citizens will raise $1,000 can
ming factory will also locate there.
Hancock people are congratulating
themselves on the fact that at the rate
the business of their local postoflice is
increasing. by next spring they will be
entitled TO free mail delivery service.
There was n defect in the special
election held at Portland a short time
ago on the proposition to bond for S90,-
900 to purchase the water works plant,
and new election will be held Nov. %.
Albert Babe. Gus Shuman and Frank
Dorow, gang of hay pressers at I'm
lay City. pressed so tons of hay in five
days recently. They say they can beat
any gang of hay pressers in the county.
Vicksburg council has granted a
franchise TO the company building the
Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo line to enter
that village from the latter place, and
the ears will be running by the middle
of next summer Eastern capitalists
are back of the enterprise.
There are "a Sunday schools in Ale
gan county with an estimated enroll
ment Of G956. and an average attend
ance of 1910 The school census shows
1920 children of school age IN the
county. showing that not over half the
children are enrolled in Sunday schools
and that less than one-third OF them
attend regularly.