Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-08-02
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

Free mail delivery viii be begun at
Charlotte, Oct. /.
There are 81 inmates in the Ingham
county poorhouse.
Something over 200 dogs have IL
censes to live in Saginaw.
Lewis Tyler, of Olds, lost % sheep
by stroke of lightning recently.
The annual fair of the Flint River
Valley Agricultural society will be
held Sept. 1870.
chapter of Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution, with 10 members has
been organized at Big Rapids.
Arrangements are being made for a
good roads congress TO be held at Sag
NAV the latter part OF August
The -four mills at Reading and
Jonesville are using Kansas wheat7
which is received in carload lots.
The Willow Creek creamery build
ings at Charlotte are completed, and
operations will begin about Aug /.
Wheat in Allegan county that has
eaten by the fly has fallen so close to
the ground that it cannot be cut with
binder,
Arenac county is now without a
school commissioner, he having sold
out and removed from the county with
out resigning.
Vernon has organized brass band
for the purpose of booming their town
20 ia, . 1,a
ing campaign.
Manistee's Business Mems associa-
ton has decided to shut up everything
on Aug. IA and have holiday outing
at Orchard Beach
Wheat has been thrashed in the
vicinity of Brighton at 81 bushels to
the acre, rye p bushels. Outlook for
spring crops is splendid.
Huckleberries are getting scarce on
the plains Of northern Michigan now
Thousands OF bushels have been ship.
ped daily for the past three weeks.
Forty thousand packages of fruit
were shipped from Benton Harbor one
night recently-one of the largest ship
ments sent from that port this season.
Smallpox has been reported to the
state board of health from Walker
township, Kent county, the disease
having been brought from Grand Rap
ids
1t cost Il. Camp, of lIillsdale, S7G4
10 disregard the order of the live stock
commission concerning the quarantin-
ing OF a horse that had been exposed
TO CHAMBERS.
The average yield of wheat in Cal
houn county thus far is 2 = bushels per
acre. The quality is very inferior
The yield is not sufficient for seed and
home consumption.
Hugh Kennedy farmer near Cold
water, has field of corn which prom
ises n phenomenal crop Though so
early in the season. he exhibits stalks
Il feet high, with ears six feet from the
ground.
Rural free delivery service is ordered
established at Fremont, Newaygo Co.,
and Williamson, lngham Co., TO 90
into effect Aug. L. The length of the
Fremont route is % miles, area covered
40 square miles, population served SOS.
The WILLIAMSON route is 20 miles long,
covers an area of 80 square miles, serves
a population of SOS.
Citizens of Caro- are promised a new
electric lighting company, organized
on the mutual system and with the
stock subscribed for at home. 1t was
expected that only about two thirds of
the stock would be taken before the
beginning of the work. but 81, 600 more
than the amount expected was sub.
scribed for within five hours after the
| books were opened
The contract for Marshall's new high
school building has been let, the sue
cessful bidder being Henry Wander
hurst. OF Kalamazoo. whose bid was
$1,000. The structure is to be finished
by Feb. /.