Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-03-29

A factory Tor the manufacture of ice
cream freezegs will shortly be started
at Pinckney. The company will give
employment 10 several hands and the
villagers are rejoicing.
1t is the proper thing among MuslSe-
| gon ladies now To do ones own house
work. The cause is the great scarcity
of girls for domestic service, even the
offer of high wages falling to secure
any.
1t is claimed by numerous attorneys
and others that the new complied laws
OF the state prepared by Lewis M. Mil
Ter are full of defects Not all these
defects, however, are the fault of the
compiler.
The Kalamazoo Sugar company has
secured contracts in Starlxe county,
Ind, for 1900 acres of sugar beets.
The Wolverine company, of Benton
| llarbor, has also secured large acre
age in Indiana.
When an upper peninsular Judge
makes decision, the litigants appar-
emily take it as conclusive Out of the
142 eases on the April docket of the
supreme court, but three are from the
upper peninsula.
There have been 80 deaths in the VIII
lage of Homer since the new law for
the registration of deaths took effect
Sept. 4, 1897. Five were in the latter
part OF 1897, 20 in 1898, 20 in 1899, and
up to date in 1900.
c. ). Voorhees, is a farmer near Orion
who hasn't any use for sugar beets as
long as he can raise tobacco. He cul-
tivated five acres of the weed last sea-
son and has just sold the crop, three
tons, at Si40 per ton.
national convention of the Silver
Republican party win be held in Kan
sas City, Mo, Thursday, July 4, 1900,
for the purpose of placing in nomina-
ton candidates for president and vice
president of the United States.
Sturgis is liable to lose its shear fac
tory unless cash bonus is forthcom-
ing. In return for the bonus, however,
If it is given, the company will double
the capacity of its factory, thus giving
employment to many more persons
The total amount of logs which will
be fioated down the Menominee river
this spring is estimated at 255, 900, 900
feet, besides which about 10000, 900
feet will be hauled in by rail. Last
year the boom company sorted 26s, 0o0,-
900 feet
Jeremiah "A. Gilman, of Detroit, who
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Savings bank, and saw the elephant"
in Chicago, pleaded guilty on the 18th
and was sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment at Jackson. Gilman is Is
years of age.
The business men of Niles seem to
in the interests of the city So far this
season four new factories have been
secured to locate there, the latest being
a knitting mill that will give employ
ment to $50 girls.
New Baltimore's streets will be
lighted by electricity if satisfactory ar
engagements can be made with the cleo
trio railway company to furnish the
current for the lights from it's mann
moth power house in the village, now
nearly completed.
A statement made out by County
Clerk Woodwork, of Ingham county,
shows the expenses of the recent grand
jury to have been S3,745.21. The bills
for Judge Cahill's services in connec-
ton with the grand jury have already
been allowed by the state.
The Raisin river at Monroe over
flowed its banks on the 23d and por-
ton of the city was flooded, causing
considerable damage. The ice formed
a gorge, and unless the authorities
blow it up with dynamite there is no
telling what the result will be.
The annual meeting of the Michigan
Women's Press association, which was
TO have been held in Battle Creek in
May, has been changed by the execu-
tive committee TO meet in Detroit May
81 and June /, when the International
Women's Press association also meets
at the same place.
The Union Telephone Co. seems to
be strongly intrenched around Alma.
Within radius of so miles from the
center of the Union system one can
talk to las towns over this system, 20
of which the company occupies ex-
clusively The Union company expects
to soon expend SIS, 900 in improving its
present system and in putting up new
lines.
Gov. III. S. Pingree gave an exhaus-
tive address at Springfield, Mass. on
the problems of municipal government
as seen in Detroit. The governor said
he was in favor of giving the mayor
substantially the same broad and com
plete powers as are possessed by the
president or head of a private corpora
ton. For this reason he is strongly in
favor of what is known as the federal"
system of city government
The four-foot dam in the Kalamazoo
river that furnishes power for the cider
mill about mile from Galesburp pre-
sents n singular spectacle. The rapid
rise and terrific current caused thereby
have carried the fish against the dam