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

Carleton suffered fire loss OF 81, 500
on the 5th.
An electric line from Saginaw to St
Charles is assured.
Gagetown Maccabees will erect hne
hall the coming summer.
Gould City, Mackinaw county, suf-
fered SO, 900 blaze on the 2sth.
The farmers of Lapeer county are
going TO form beet sugar club.
Marshall is to have new high school
building which will cost $4,000
Worthwhile is now dry village, her
only bar being closed on the 3lst.
Alden's new school house was de-
stroyed by fire on the evening of the 3lst.
Boer syn,pathizers at Kalamazoo
have raised $3.50 for the Boer Red Cross
movement.
Bad Axe, Huron county is to have a
creamery, which will be owned by a
stock company.
Cass City boasts of the only factory
in the state where pea haryesters and
Sparta ladies are raising funds to
erect fine monument to the memory
of soldiers and sailors of he civil war.
Farmers in the vicinity of lockwood
say they have had enough of sugar beet
raising, and that they lost money last
year.
Ex-Congressman Timothy f. Tars-
ney, of Detroit, was admitted TO prac-
tice before the L. 5. supreme court on
the Goth.
1t is reported on reliable authority
that the Erie Telephone Co. has pur-
chased all the stock of the Central
Michigan Telephone Co.
Intensely cold weather and heavy
snow fall in the upper peninsula
blocked railroad traffic and all surface
work about the mines on the 3lst.
The Michigan Telephone company
will at once construct two sub-telephone
stations in the eastern and western
part of Grand Rapids TO cost $4,000.
Marquette suffered water famine
on the LIST. Ice formed in the intake
pipe. The temperature, the coolest of
The township boards of Ypsilanti
and Pittsfield townships, Washtenaw
county. have signed the franchises for
the Belleville, Ypsilanti & Ann Arbor
road.
George Harding. of Hillsdale, now
employed by State Treasurer Steel, has
been appointed assistant clerk of the
senate committee on the District of
Colum bia.
Buchanan loses one of it's industries
this month, the owners of the envelope
clasp factory there have accepted lib
eral inducements from Niles to remove
to that place.
The game warden's report for jan
uary shows 146 complaints with 90 con-
victions. He says the people are aiding
him in arotecting}the game bytcompiy-
ing with the law.
Farmers in the vicinity of Three
Rivers are thoroughly discouraged over
the prospect for crop of wheat next
season. Over half of it has been killed
by the open winter
From II, 800 tons of beets the Hol-
land Sugar company manufactured p
463, ss9 pounds of sugar. Two farmers
in the vicinity each received over $500
apiece for their beets.
The internal revenue collections at
Saginaw for January amounted to ST.
541.44. The collections for beer stamps
were 81, 4s3 30; tobacco, Slss.76, and
documentary. 50, 267.97.
The assessment on personal property
in the city of Saginaw is only SO, $780,
900. Tax Commissioners Oakman says
that five-sixths of the personal property
of that city escapes taxation.
A committee has been appointed at
Coldwater to solicit subscriptions ag-
gregating $l2, 900 as bonus for the
proposed railroad to be constructed be-
tween Benton Harbor and Toledo.
Henry II. VIM, head of the we'll
! known firm of VIM Il Hammond.
printers, of Detroit expired very sud
denly while en- route to his Office on the
morning on the 9Th. Heart failure.
Hancock is growing so rapidly that
the local high school is too small to ac-
comodate the pupils An addition will
be erected Immediately, at cost of
SIS 900, TO accommodate 800 more pupils.
Marine City has been trying for a
couple of years to secure beet sugar
plant, and the residents think they are
going to get it this season sure. They
have raised $4,000 so far for the pur-
pose.
Mrs. Essie Fehr, wife of Fred Fehr.
of st. Johns, who has been trying 10
secure divorce, must now answer to
the charge of numbering him, having
shot him at the home of her parents on
the I'd
A Harrietta man is spending his
honeymoon in Jail. all because he told
the county clerk when he applied for a
license that his bride was Is years old
when as matter of fact she was
only Ia sH
A Marlette man has a COW with a
record that he thinks can't be beaten.
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