Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-12-27
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

The Montague opera house burned
on the 18th. Loss 81, 900.
Several cases of diphtheria of mild
form are reported at Lapeer.
The postoffice at Hosmer, Macomb
county, has been discontinued. Mail
to Rome.
More than / 900 acres of land near
Paw Paw will be set out to grapes in
the spring.
1t now begins to look as though a
home for old ladies would be erected at
Ann Arbor.
Saginaw reports one case of small
pox, but the patient is confined in the
pest house.
Jackson has adopted standard time,
the same will go into effect at mid
night Dec 81.
Burglars secured about $500 in cash
from the Gaylord postoffice on the
morning of the Goth.
Manistee's opera house was con-
sumed by fire on the 18th. Loss, $751;
600; insurance, 50, 300.
Petosley is to have butter factory,
and project is on foot to establish a
creamery in the near future.
1t is said that the Calumet & Hecla
mine has reduced its force by 1000
men during the past 90 days.
An Oakland county farmer living
near Pontiac thinks he has discovered
a bed of copper on his property.
The schools at Carney, Menominee
county, were closed on the 10th on ac-
count of an epidemic of diphtheria.
The Michigan State Belgian Hare e
Flint Poultry association will hold
their annual show at Flint, Jan. 1918.
Large amounts of hay have been
shipped into Reed City in past years
and none out. This year it will be
shipped out in considerable quantities.
Funds have run short at Ludington,
and the street lights will be shut off
for two months from Jan. / until some
more money comes into the city treas
ury.
Olivet college is TO receive an addi-
ton to its permanent endowm ent fund
of $4,000, willed by the late David
Whitney, Jr., Detroit's multi-million-
aire.
The Hasting Journal asserts that
the value of the poultry product ex-
ported from Barry county this year is
almost double that of the wheat raised
in the county.
1t is now an assured fact that WI
Ting Fang, Chinese minister at Wash
ington, will deliver an address at the
u. of NJ, Ann Arbor, some time during
April or May
a case of smallpox developed at the
U. of NJ. hospital, Ann Arbor, on the
18th, and very lively time ensued.
The 92 patients were vaccinated as
quickly as possible.
Farmers around Reading are putting
in gasoline engines to do pumping,
feed-grinding, wood saving, etc, and
windmills are looked upon as back
number in those parts.
Michigan leads the world in the pro-
duction of beans New York for
long time held that honor, but for the
past five years Michigan has increased
rapidly in this line of agriculture.
The National Guard in Michigan and
every other state stand a chance un-
der the army reorganization bill to be
armed with Krag. Jorgensen rifles, the
standard arm of the regular regiments.
The Prindle Co., Ltd, of Grand
Rapids, capitalized at $4,000, was
forced into bankruptcy by the U. 5.
supreme court on the 10th Creditors
claims amounting to $4,000 was
presented.
Gov. Pingree on the 10th pardoned
''lifer" at jackson. Johannes Salmon
son, who was convicted of numbering
Richard Carlson, of Manistee county,
in 1891, was the prisoner thus honored
by the governor.
Guy Ravens, who recently sued the
city of Hastings for SlO,o for injur-
les sustained by falling upon defec-
tive sidewalk six years ago, was
awarded Judgment of 81, 900 by the
jury in the circuit court on the GOTH
The announcement is made that the
Holland & Chicago Steamship Co. has
been organized to build SIS, 900
steamer to run from Holland to Chi
cago in connection with the new Hol-
land & Lake Michigan Interurban road
from Grand Rapids.
From Jan. to Dec. 10, 1900, 1,430
marriage licenses have been issued by
County Clerk Needham as against / ,097
issued during the year 1899. The in
crease this year is due to the growing
popularity of ST Joseph as Gretna
Green.
A special election will be held at
Holland on Jan. 81. 1901, to vote on
the proposition Of issuing bonds for
$50, 600, from which to pay bonuses to
manufacturing enterprises to locate
there, providing they cannot otherwise
be induced.
Hudson Everette. the young colored
boy who stole diamond ring from
Nine. Hermann while she was filing
an engagement at the Wonderland
theater, Detroit, a few months ago,
was sentenced to Is months in the
state house of correction at Ionia on