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

fOrJ huron capitalists Will Dc III oPSi
alton in that city by June IS. The
name of the corporation will be the
Deepspring Mineral Bath company,
and its capital stock is $50, 900
The investigating committee of Cal
houn county has made its final report,
which shows the total amount OF dis
crepancies to be SIT, 433. Nearly $1,000
of this amount has already been re-
turned to the county treasurer.
The Peoples University Co., of Chi
cago, on the l4th purchased the old
Berrien county house and Jail at Ber-
rien Springs for college to accommo-
date 100 students DIR. Walter Thomas
Mills is promoter of the new school.
More farms and farm, property are
being bought and sold in Vernon town
ship, Shiawassee county, than for many
years past, and in all sales the prices
are a good deal higher than in former
years, being from $50 to over S62 an
acre.
Battle Creeks common council has
granted franchise to Capt. George w.
Bulls for the Battle Creek Hastings
electric railway. All right of way be-
| tween the two places is now secured.
Work will begin as soon as the weather
permits.
jeremiah A. Gilman, of Detroit, who
took 81 1896 of the funds of the Detroit
| Savings bank, and saw the elephant"
in Chicago, pleaded guilty on the 18th
and was sentenced to two years inn
| prisonment at jackson. Gilman is Is
years of age.
There is a possibility that the chair
| factory at Charlotte, which has stood
idle for some years past, will be re-
opened with a large number of en-
ployes. In case this is done, it will be
refrigerators instead of chairs which
will be manufactured.
The city fathers Of Cadillac have de-
cided to submit at the spring election
next month the question of issuing
bonds for 500 for the building of a
new city hall. The present structure
is considered a disgrace to such an en-
terprising city as Cadillac.
Two fine new churches are to be
built in the copper country this sum-
mer. The Methodists of Hancock will
erect one, plans for which are now
being drawn, and the Catholics of Cal
umet will build the other. The latter
will be of stone and will cost about
$4,000.
An Oxford resident still owns a cat
! which passed through the big cyclone
in that section nearly five years ago,
and SO distinctly is that dreadful event
impressed upon its memory that when
ever the wind blows with unusual vio-
lence il hides itself and cries until the
wind abates.
Now is the time for men who would
serve their country in the humble po-
sition of dog warden for their respec-
tive townships to lay their lines for Sc
curing the job, for the office, which
was created by the last Legislature,
will be filed at the annual town meet
ing on April B.
Bensher, in Wexford county, claims
to have within its village boundaries
one of the smallest 3-year-old children
in the state. The little girl, VERNE
Bell, weighs but II pounds. She is a
well developed, healthy child, normal
in every respect except weight. At
birth she weighed l 4 pounds.
Ionia people are already hard at
work to make their district fair next
fall success. The present debt of the
society is being paid up by popular
subscriptions, and the payment of the
premiums of the next exhibition, which
occurs on October 2-5, will be guaran-
teed by the business men of the city
The creamery which was established
at White Pigeon two years ago under
adverse conditions and with considera.
BILE doubt of success on the part of the
stockholders, has proved the sound
judgment of the projectors and has
come to be valuable and settled factor
in the industrial system of that section.
A singular characteristic of the
smallpox which has been prevalent in
Michigan all winter is that it is of
such a mild form that it is not readily
recognized. So far as known, out of
over one hundred cases in the state,
not one death has occurred, and in the
opinion of some physicians the disease
is not smallpox at all.
A Cheboygan justice has struck the
right idea in regard to the punishment
of men who are brought up before him
for drunkenness. Instead of sending
them to Jail for a month or two, this
Justice sends them to the woods in
some lumber camp for the winter, with
the proviso that their wages must be
sent home to their families.
District schools in the northeastern
part of Oakland county have been vic
timized recently by couple of smooth
book agents who persuaded them to
sign contracts for books purchased but
not delivered. The contracts have
turned up at the banks as promissory
notes, but no trace can be found of the
agents, nor have the books shown up
as yet.
Reports to the state board of health
show that rheumatism bronchitis, in
1uenza, neuralgia and tonsillitis, in the