Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-11-23
STATE GOSSIP.

next state convention.
A white deer was shot nine miles
east of Gaylord on the 10th.
Many deer, lynx, wildcats, etc, ar,
being killed around Standish this fall
The Gait house, an old land mark al
Niles, was reduced to ashes on the 10th
BY the explosion of lamp $1,000
worth of property at Ann Arbor was
destroyed on the 10th.
Chicken thieves have commenced
their annual crusade against the roosts
in the vicinity of Royal Oak.
Ubly is to have condensed milk
factory next spring. The buildings
are now in course of erection.
Another case of smallpox is reported
at Carrollton. 1t is feared that another
epidemic is about to break out.
New machinery to the amount of
1,475 has been purchased for the en-
geneering shops of the U. of M.
Durand has disposed of her $50, 900
waterworks bonds to Chicago firm,
receiving So, 900 premium therefor.
The school population of Eaton
county is SAL. Charlotte leads with
957. Oneida has $50 and Sunfeld $50.
2Chas. G. Cavanaugh, of st. Ignace,
who was editor and publisher of the
st. Ignace News for IS years, is dead.
Ex-Patrolman James j. Spillane, of
Detroit, committed suicide by cutting
his throat with razor about midnight
on the 10th
On the 18th Holly firm shipped A.
900 pounds of wool to Philadelphia. 1t
is probably the largest shipment ever
made in Oakland county.
Wallace Mitchell, of Escanaba, fell
into vat of boiling water at the Es-
stantly killed on the 18th.
An order has been issued to take
effect February 1 next, establishing
free delivery at Monroe, with three
carriers and Is letter boxes.
Three Rivers will be entitled to the
free mail delivery service next year, as
the gross receipts of the local postoffice
have passed the SO, 900 mark.
The soil around Three Rivers must
be very poor. One fruit grower near
there has spent 81, 900 for fertilizers for
his land in the past four years.
A Touring mill will soon be in opera
ton again at Lake Odessa, a new mill |
having been built on the site of the |
one that was burned last winter.
Worthwhile is TO have bell foundry |
again, company having been organ
lied and the buildings, patterns, etc,
of the old bell company purchased.
An operation performed on Jellibad
Jolison, of Kalamazoo, showed the
lungs to be lined with stone-like sub
stance nearly an inch thick, and hard
rs iron.
The registration in the law depart
nent of the University of Michigan
las past the 500 mark. This is the
argest enrolment in the history of the
department..
Contrary to the announced made last
spring that the state treasury would be
busted" about this date, there is in
'eality $761, 377.64 to the credit of the
everal funds.
Marquette's county clerk has issued
1923 deer licenses this season and
'ould issue more if he had them. The
secretary of state reports that he has
10 more to give out.
In former years the county clerk at
Ioughton has sold less than 100 deer
hunters licenses, but this year he has
lready disposed of 400, and the season '
$ only fairly started
c. r. Ferguson, of Almont, raised 20 !
ores of chicory this year by way of
Experiment., and got nearly 81 800 for ]
he crop. 1t went over IL tons to the
ere, and brought So per ton.
Emerson A Holmes, proprietor of the
ross Roads Weekly, got six cents dam
ges from the % Metamora citizens he
ued for libel Judge Smith directed
ne jury to bring in the virdict.
BY the breaking in two of a freight
rain on the f. & p. NJ, near Milford =,
n the 14th, 10 cars were badly dam
sCu dhu several were lduucu III the
lill pond. No one was injured. !.
A lady in Oakland township is the !.
lother of twins-a girl and boy. :,
he has named the boy Henry and the
irl Eta, and when she speaks of them
she calls them Henrietta. q
Battle Creek will sue the county for n
1000, the amount of the smallpox bill :,
hich the Calhoun county superin- n
'ndents of the poor turned down, al h
wing but $4,000 of the 5000 spent
Burglars entered the house of S. W. 8,
eed at Big Rapids on the night r,
the 14th and stole S1,l65 in a,
I'D cash. He was awakened, but be- 9,
re he got down stairs the thieves had h,
I'd.
The physician who has been attend m
g smallpox cases at Chase, Lake
unity, has been attacked by the dis
sc himself This makes the sixth :"
sc in the village. All have been 81
I'D. ~
The ministers of Flint are protesting y,