Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-07-05
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

Dig nelu day anu celcurdtion Oh aug ~.
The hay crop in Cheboygan county
will not be more than half crop at
the most.
Marine City residents experienced
the heaviest electrical storm in years
on the eth.
The personal taxes for Brighton
township, Livingston county, has been
increased S107, 900.
Through service on the new electric
line between Detroit and Port Huron
was inaugurated on the Goth.
South Haven is running in opposi-
ton to st. Joseph, and is getting quite
reputation as Gretna Green.
Burglars made an unsuccessful at
tempt to blow open the safe in the
postoffice at Brown City on the 2sth.
A manual training school will be
erected at Marquette to be run in con-
nection with one of the ward schools.
Several barns in Grand Traverse
county w ere destroyed by fire on the
97th, being touched off by electrical
fluid
The razor trade at Cheboygan has
taken on boom, the local BARRIERS
having raised the price of shaves so
per cent.
Wayne county farmers are gathering
their best crop of hay in years. Corn
is in poor condition, and wheat will be
a total failure.
The University of Michigan still re-
tains second place in point of attend
ance with Hazard, the latter having
4,947 students and Michigan 3,447.
Grasshoppers are getting in their
work all around Dowagiac, and be-
sides attacking the grass they are also
showing Partially for sugar beets.
Some of the townships in Newaygo
county are infested with sheep-ki.iing
dogs and the average farmer would
sooner kill one of the ours than a snake
Fruit growers around Musl1egon have
new enemy to fight in the shape of a
small beetle called the rose chafer,
which attacks both large and small
fruits.
1t was two years ago June % that
the Michigan boys who took part in
the Santiago campaign as members of
the 33d and 34th Michigan regiments,
landed on Cuban soil at Siboney.
Kalamazoo's chamber of commerce
has been abandoned, but the business
men of the city will form another or
ganization along different lines to
work for the welfare of the celery city.
GRural free delivery has been estab-
lished at Alma, Gratiot county, to take
effect July 16. The route to be covered
is 26 miles long, covers an area of 80
square miles and serves a population
of 729
The supervisors of Delta county have
voted ia build new Jail at an expense
of SO, 900 if tile people of the county
will authorize the issuing of bonds to
that amount at the regular fall cleo
ton.
About 1000 eXcursionists and seven
bands visited st. Joseph on July /.
Fourteen couples were married. The
number of Chicago weddings at Mich
igan's popular Gretna Green for the
month of June was an even 200
The Michigan Traction Co. ran their
first car over the streets of Battle
Creek on the Goth Regular cars will
be run between that city and Gales
burg, and from Galesburg and Kala-
mazoo July /, and from both cities to
Gull lake, July 4.
Tho South A f,.;on, yx,n,. / n lot,,r
from Michigan, but its effects are being
felt in at least one Michigan city. One
of the lumber mills at Menominee has
closed down because of the cessation
of the demand for its output, which
has heretofore all been exported to
South Africa.
Oil was struck at the Ryerson 81 Hills
test well at Musllegon on the Goth, and
the first three minutes after the strike
was made, 90 gallons of petroleum were
pumped The valve then broke and
operations had to be suspended until
repairs were made. The depth was
about 900 feet
Justices of the peace who were
elected at the spring election must file
their bond before the Fourth, or for
felt their right to occupy the Office.
| There are said to be a large number
throughout the state who have as yet
failed to perform this important quail
fication.
Wholesale poisoning occurred at
Kalkaska and vicinity on the cath and
25th, there being "a cases in all-15
cases in town, 5 cases at the home of
James Earl, four miles north of Kali
| IasSa, and one at Alden. The poison
| ing was caused in each case by eating
pressed beef The victims suffered
great agony, and prompt medical aid
was all that saved the lives of several
Reports to the state board of health
show that rheumatism, neuralgia, ton
sillitis. bronchitis and diarrhea, in the
order named. caused the most sickness
in Michigan during the past week.
Cerebro spinal meningitis was reported
at places, smallpox at :, diphtheria
a. typhoid fever at 30 whooping
coLl at D. scarlet fever at AZ, measles