Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-10
STATE GOSSIP.

Charlevoix is to have new life saw.
ing station.
Columbiaville is to have electric street
lights before long.
Stittsville Methodists dedicated their
new church last week.
Belding will spend SO, 900 on new
schoolhouse, which will be erected at
once.
On Aug. . there were confined in the
Jackson prison 7sS convicts, the small
est number in eight years.
The Central Michigan Band associa-
ton will hold its 18th semi annual
tournament at Lyons, Aug. 30.
The G. A. r. post and the w. r. c.,
of Grayling, have dedicated few new
hall to be used jointly by the two So
cieties.
All the mining companies of Iron
wood increased the wages of employees
10 per cent on July 31st. About 1000
men are affected.
A company with capital of $500, 900
was organized at Alpena and cement
factory with a capacity of COO barrels
per day will be erected at Alpena.
The annual reunion of the Lenawee
! county association of old soldiers and
sailors has been postponed from Aug
s, the date originally set, to Aug. 20
Mrs. Eugene Moore, wife of a pros
porous Amboy farmer, tried to commit
suicide by taking paris green. Domes-
tic trouble is said to have been the
| cause.
John Ross, the Ypsilanti representa-
| tive of the Ann Arbor Sanitary Milk
Co., committed suicide on the 1st by
hanging himself. He was temporarily
insane.
Gov. Pingree has appointed f. Van
Horn, of Benton Harbor, as a member
of the state BARRIERS commission to
succeed John Weasley Vaughn, of
Niles, who neglected to qualify.
Louis d. Croud, the richest man in
Constantine, got wheat crop of 341l
bushels to the acre from one of his
farms in Porter, while many of his
poor neighbors didn't get a kernel.
Foxes are making sad havoc among
| poultry in the vicinity of Pinckney,
and they seem to be very numerous.
VIM. Miller recently shot five that were
stealing chickens. They seem very
bold.
Three hundred men are employed on
the new railroad in Delta county which
will tap the hardwood lands in White
fish valley. High wages are paid, and
yet enough laborers cannot be OBJ
tanned.
The annual picnic of the Pioneer as
ISOLATION, composing Fairfield, Madi-
son, Palmyra and Ogden townships,
will meet in Bakers grove, near Fair
field, on Aug. IL. A fine program has
been arranged.
While Mr.. Hagerman and his family
who live just east of lockwood, were
at church July 30th. fire destroyed his
farm house and large stack of wheat
He carried $500 insurance in the Ma
tional company
There is much excitement at St
Joseph over the discovery of the re
mains of nine new born babies which
had been buried in the cellar back o.
the National hotel, house that bore
rather unsavory reputation.
A bridge crossing the river one ant
one-half miles west Of Evart gave way
with a threshing machine engine
Walter Shippey and an assistant, who
were in charge of the engine, escaped
with more or less serious injuries.
There is but one church at Twining
and that is so poorly attended that tn,
small body of the faithful who keep i
going threaten to discontinue services
unless the villagers brace up and at
tend more regularly and in larger
numbers.
Reports to the state board of health
show that rheumatism, diarrhea, neu
ralgia, bronchitis and consumption il
the order named, caused the most sick
ness in the state during the past week
Consumption was reported at 1s9 places
typhoid fever, SO; measles, &c. scarle
fever. 2o whooping cough, 10; diph
iberia, Is; cerebro-spinal meningitis, 4