Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-09-13
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.


Pinckney
The bonded indebtedness of Port
Huron is $500, oil.
The next state band tournament win
be held at Lansing.
Ann Arbor will use the voting ma
chimes in November.
Ten cars of fruit are being shipped
from Hart daily for the west.
The summer resorts around Port HUI
ron report prosperous season.
Burglars broke into the Muskegon
Heights postofiice but only got $500.
A condensed milk factory to cost
$780, 900 is to be built at Port Huron.
Eight horses were stolen from pas
ture.near Camden on the 9TH. No clue.
Ground has been broken for the cree
ton of three new brick stores at Te-
konsha.
1t is said that gold in paying guam
titles has been discovered in Delta
county.
Seventy three matrimonial knots
were tied at Michigan's Gretna Green
on the 9th.
The Oakland County Telephone Co.
has been granted a 3o-year franchise
at Pontiac.
A majority of the wells in the vicin-
ity of Belleville are drying up owing to
the drought.
There is strong talk Of bonding the
village of Carsonville for a system of
water works.
Twenty divorce cases have been
noticed for trial at Marshall, which is
record breaker.
A livery stable at Benzonia was
struck by lightning on the 4th and
four horses killed.
The business men Of Mt. Clemens
are talking of forming an Independent
telephone company.
A Lansing priest has issued orders
compelling ladies to wear their hats
while attending service.
Tellonsha is again without lawyer
the only one in the place having left
for more lucrative fields.
The 35th annual reunion of the 23d
Michigan volunteer infantry will be
neld at Flushing, Sept. Is.
The school census just completed
shows that Coldwater has 1920 chill
dren of the regulation age.
Mussey township, st. Clair county,
on the 9th voted TO bond for So, 500 for
the erection of town hall.
A deaf and dumb school has been
started at Menominee, as branch of
the local public school system.
An unusually violent wind storm did
considerable damage in the vicinity of
Bellaire on the night of the Cd.
The Indians in Mikado township,
Altoona county, have built new church.
One of the tribe is the preacher.
The tax commission will raise the
assessments on copper mines in Hough-
ton county more than S35, 900, 600.
VIM. A. Florence, a farmer of near
Constantine, suicided on the 9th by
shooting himself through the head.
The new planning mill at Inlay City
has just started up, and will give en-
ployment to quite number of men.
The number of births in Macomb
county in 1899 was 473, 215 males and
25s females. There were five pairs of
twins.
Bicyclists in Port Huron will not be
obliged to carry lights hereafter and
will be allowed to travel at speed of
10 miles an hour.
A Declerville young man put into
his digestive apparatus seven dishes of
ice cream at one sitting and is still
able to he around.
Arenac County Agricultural society
will abandon its fair this year owing
TO the soldiers and sailors reunion to
be held at Standish.
Judge VIM. Newton's wife, Of Flint,
died on the 9th from pistol shot
wound which she inflicted on Aug. 81
with suicidal intent
Diphtheria has broken out at Flynn
Center, Sanilac county, and several
deaths are reported strict quaran-
tine has been imposed.
Inlay City claims to be one of the
biggest hay shipping points in eastern
Michigan, many carloads being ship
ped from there each week.
Free rural mail delivery will be es-
tablished at Howell, Sept. IS. Length
of route, 445s miles; area covered, rs
square miles; population served, ,260.
The August report of Salt Inspector
Caswell is as follows: Manistee county,
355, coz barrels; Mason, 81, l56; st. Clair,
G2,17s; Bay. secs; Saginaw, 42,239;
Wayne, %, 73O: Iosco, 1927; Midland,
2,s5O; total, go, 500 This is the larg-
est months inspection in the history
of Michigan salt manufacture.