Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20

ended. the company having accepted
the city's terms relative to the laying
of grooved rails and paying its share
of the paving tax.
The big marsh just north of Chesan-
ing will be drained and reclaimed.
Promoters of the scheme expect to get
fancy prices for the land when IT is
placed on the market
From his strawberry patch OF one
! quarter of an acre, Paw Paw man
| this season cleared S74 over and above
all expenses connected with the raising |
and marketing of the crop.
The wheat harvest in Van Buren,
county is completed. The Oldest set
tiers saw that it is the poorest crop
ever grown there. The average yield
is from TO bushels per acre.
One day recently 20 children from
the state public schools at Coldwater
were sent to homes in different parts
of the state. This number exceeded
that of any day in the history of the
school.
Cass county isn't very populous
county, having only $1,000 people in
its borders, but prosperity appears to
REIGN there. The four banks in the
county hold over S7S0,ooo in savings
deposits.
The special election to bond the vii
lage of Worthwhile for S27, 500 for the
purpose of municipal electric light
ing plant resulted in favor of the plan.
OF the 344 votes cast, but II were
against it,
The grand jury examined 81 wit
nesses in the Cross Roads Weekly case
of Metamora and concluded its labors
on the 18th, returning bill of indict-
ment. which will not be made known
at present.
The first spike of the new Detroit &
, Toledo Shore Line electric railway was
, driven by President Haskell near
9 Toledo on the morning of the nth.
5 The road will be rapidly pushed to
e completion.
S Another batch of Chicago lovers
were made one at st. Joseph on the
a 10th. when Is couples were married.
S This swells the list to 270 participants
o from Chicago, all of whom were joined
n together tins season.
!, The steel range swindlers who have
e worked nearly every part of the state
are now doing Eaton county, and de-
spite the fact that the game has been
shown up by the papers for the past
n year or more, are finding lots of victims
!. State Treasurer Steel has been ad-
y vised that eight peddlers have been ar
: rested in Clinton county for failure &c
=" v, take out peddlers licenses The ques
- ton of the constitutionality of the
y present peddlcrs' license law, which
!. has long been mooted one, Will nov
- be settled.
:. Three children in a copper country
family were lying in one bed during
recent thunderstorm when a bolt o
lightning came into the room by wa.
ID of the chimney, struck one of the littl
b. ones on the breast and killed her in
as stantly. Neither of the other two wa
IN Injured in the least.
IN Horace A. Wilkerson, wealthy mil
d. owner, SD degree Mason, membe
Ii of the Oddfellows for 25 years and
as prominent resident of Dundee, commit
at ted suicide on the 14th by shootin
himself in the head. Temporary insar
ity was the cause of his act.
This is the time of the year whe
re farmers are putting in 10 hours OF har
work a day because they are unable
% get sufficient farm help to secure thei
crops. while the corner loafer is sti
holding down dry goods box and Ii
90 menting over the hard times that max
il impossible for the laboring man
on find employment.
Ity A Young fellow in the Eaton count
jail, liked prison life so well that |
700 wanted more of it, and to insure gre
of ting it without delay he stole a waite
chain from a fellow prisoner viii
zen still in Jail and was promptly arrest'
Inc when his term was out and sent up Il
another two months.
ave The country around Vernon al
lie Shiawassee county in general, is ha
inc one of the wettest harvests know
for for many years past. Hundreds
la. acres of hay. wheat and barley are
ing damaged by the continued
49,. weather The farmers are unable
80 secure their crops on account OF
80 daily showers of rain.
Plainwell expects a boom in t
near future The damming of the IN
amazoo river at that place rs said to
assured and .. 200 horse power will
''i developed. A large paper mill will
built. it is said and other factories &
ing expected to follow. Electricity
tne be supplied to nelghboring tow
VIII Eastern capitalists are interested.
'ho' A reception was given at the Bapt
lars church in Plainwell on the evening
ans the 10th. in honor of the pastor, X
irge John Fletcher, who the day bef'
No celebrated his 67th birthday. This
his oath year of continuous service.
or began preaching in small sch
took house "a years ago where he stay
duct until the present Baptist church '
viii built. His congregation presented |
with purse containing dollar
firth everv wear of his age and the &. a.