Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-09-20

their work around Whigville. One
farmer recently lost 20 by this route.
The village council of Richmond has
granted a franchise TO the promoters
Of the proposed electric railroad from
there to Sanilac Center.
The city board of education of Lam
sing is dissatisfied with the school cen
sus of their city, and will doubtless
order new one taken.
According TO the latest reports there
has been many fake marriages per-
formed at Michigan's Gretna Green
during the past summer.
Burglars are having a picnic at Cal
umet, raiding several houses nightly.
Although the town has 10000 popula-
ton it has only nine policemen.
A rear-end collision on the l.. 5. Il
Nj. S. at Monroe on the 10th demol-
ished way car and ditched the en-
CINE. No one was injured.
A healthy movement has been started
looking toward the establishment of
home for old women at Ann Arbor.
Contributions are now being received.
Omer has almost completed a new
81, 900 school building, but it may be
closed as the vote by which the money
was authorized, is said to have been
illegal.
The 21st annual reunion of the 18th
Michigan infantry, the "Stonewall
regiment, will be held at Grand Rap
ids, Sept 90, with banquet in the
evening.
The feeling against the tax commits
sion is very bitter at st. Joseph, and
the business men have announced their
intentions of fighting the matter in
the courts.
terrific wind storm at Galien and
vicinity on the 18th practically ruined
the apple crop, and the loss to fruit
growers will amount to many thous-
ands of dollars
The plants of the McMorran Milling
Co, the Port Huron 81 Northwestern
Elevator Co. and the McMorran pea
mill and factory at Port Huron were
destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss,
$500, 600.
One man dead and boy crushed so
that both legs had to be amputated is
the record of the street railway slaugh-
ter not counting minor whacks, knock
downs and bruises, at Detroit on
the 18th.
A MusSegon man, this year raised
two ears of corn from seed supposed to
be 2, 900 years old. The seed was found
in an urn in an ancient ruin in Egypt,
where it is supposed to have lain for
more than 500 years b. c.
The citizens of Grand Rapids are
much disappointed over the official
census figures For years the popula-
ton of that city has been placed at
more than 100, 900, and the drop to
1865 is not pleasant surprise.
With beans at SIS per bushel, and
the new crop yielding from Is to 25
bushels per acre, the farmers in the
vicinity of Springport have somewhat
recovered from the depression caused
by the failure of the wheat crop
The electric oil stove works, for
merly the leading industry of Homer,
was moved to Jackson on the 18th,
where the owners have other factories.
Several of the heads of departments
accompanied the works with their fam
lilies.
The new addition to the Craft
school, in the course of construction at
Detroit, was destroyed by fire on the
night of the 18th. The flames spread
to the main building and damaged it
about $50, 900, making the total amount
of damage about $50, 900.
PA special election to vote on the
question of authorizing the appropria-
tion of further S25, 900 for the con-
struction of the proposed canal from
Lake Huron to Black river, in add.
ton to the SIS, 900 previously allowed,
will be held at Port Huron, Nov. ..
Game Warden Morse is after some
people who have been catching fawns
and selling them. The Michigan game
laws distinctly state that no person
shall capture or sell fawn. A fine of
5000 is the penalty attached. Anyone
buying fawn is liable under the state
law.
The next apportionment of primary
school money will be a big one. The
heavy railroad taxes this year have
left "a big lump of money in the treas
ury and 81, 10000 will be distributed
in the November apportionment. The
rate per capita will be Los, making
total of So Is per capita for the year
The cucumber crop around Highland
Station this year is so large that both
the pickle factories there have had to
enlarge their capacity to take care of
it, The two have received not les.
than %, 900 bushels, and unless the
weather suddenly turns cold picking
will continue for month yet Many
farm whereabouts would not have
paid expenses this year had it not been
for the cucumbers.
Probably in no season in the history
of Kalhaska county has there been so
heavy a rainfall as during the present.
Ordinarily heavy rains have had ten
! dency to lower the temperature to the
danger point from frost. This year
has been an exception. The more it
rained the hotter il GOT and the faster