Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-03-22
STATE GOSSIP.

Flushing has a new bank-the Peo-
pies State-capitalized at $4,000.
The cold snap of last week did not
injure the peach trees in Michigan.
Paw Paws new fruit package manu-
factory is nearly ready to begin opera
tions.
ii. Perkins, of Oxford, who is ~ years
! DID, is said To be the oldest newsboy In
the state.
Letter registration by carrier will be
established April at Battle Creek and
! Coldwater.
Sherman is TO have long-felt want
filled soon by the establishment of q
bank in the village.
Admiral Dewey will be invited to
visit Kalamazoo while on his trip
through Michigan.
Morrice is to have condensed milk
factory. The village recently put up
bonus of 1000 to secure the same.
The Assyria oil well has reached a
depth of 1000 feet, and still no oil in
sight The well will probably be
School at Leonidas has been badly
broken up during the year. Three diff
| ferent principals in succession have re-
signed their positions.
The big boom promised. the hamlet of
Mead's Mills by Worthwhile and Ply
mouth parties has fitted away now
that Worthwhile has gone wet.
Quincy folks have the oil fever and
are organizing stock company to put
! down test holes in the vicinity in the
hope of finding the precious fluid.
The schools at Mayville are closed on
account of scarlet fever in the village,
and every precaution is being taken to
prevent the spread of the disease.
birmingham people think their viii
lage must have manufacturing interests
to keep it going, and will donate good
sites for any which will locate there.
Rural free mail delivery will be es-
tablished at Fowler, Clinton county,
April 16. Length of route, "a miles;
area covered, 80 miles, population
served, 745.
l. ii. Butterfield and Prof. l.. r.
Taft, of the Agricultural college, have
secured flock of 60 Angora goats and
will try the experiment of raising them
F.! in Michigan.
The people of Mt. Pleasant will vote
at the spring election on the PROPOSE
ton to bond the city for $4,000 to
extend the waterwork system of the
municipality.
Rural free delivery will be estab-
! lished at Caro-, Tuscola county. Length
of route 239s miles, area covered "a
square miles; population served, $40;
carrier, c. l.. Orr.
The hotel at Worthwhile has been
opened, but the bar will not be in oper-
alton until the Prohibition ordinance
is repealed, and that may not be done
for week or two yet.
Fifty thousand dollars has already
been subscribed in stock to develop the
old cement bed at Kalamazoo which
was formerly operated. 1t is said to
be superior article.
Charles Dowd convicted of man
slaughter at Allegan, was released on
the 14th on 1000 bonds. Judge Padg-
ham suspended sentence until the first
day of the May term of court.
Vicksburg finances are on the boom.
All the floating indebtedness of the
village has been paid, and it has heen
decided to establish a new fire alarm
system to cover the whole village.
Elsie has been without linsed saloon
the past six years, but on the LIST OF
May will have one as result of the
charter election, the vote on the saloon
question being 76 to II in favor of low
bonds.
The appointment of Leo Il. Flans-
burg, of Kalamazoo, as the private sec
rotary of Senator Burrows is a recogni-
tion of the younger element in the Re-
publican party. The appointment is
very popular.
The Armstrong steel plant at Flint
was destroyed by fire on the 18th. The
plant cost S125, 900, and the loss will
exceed that figure by several thousand
dollars. One hundred men are thrown
out of work.
After conference of the state and
local officers of the Anti-Saloon league
it has been decided not to submit the
question of local option TO the voters OF
Kalamazoo county until next spring
The VI. +. church, of Howell, is out
of debt. The last payment of SO, 90 has
been paid and a jubilee meeting held
in celebration. A large crowd wit
messed the burning of the mortgage.
Measles have been raging at Lamotte
Sanilac county, all winter, but now, il
is said, the disease is at last dying out
for want of material to work upon
every resident of the village having
had his turn at it.
Residents of the Gogebic range, in
the upper peninsula, are raising fund
for the purpose of erecting a monument
to the memory of the soldiers from that
section who lost their lives in the
Spanish American war.
The organization of company to &c
into cement manufacture is under way
at Kalamazoo, and about one-third OF
| the stock has already been taken II