Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-01-18

DOWntN, an tNdnRtliSt, i<fohoechs
Ill. is holding forth there.
Port Huron is after the l.. A. w. of
fer for the city sending in the first 200
applications for membership in the
league to have a mile of macadamized
road and the four days festival.
School girls recently found gold
watch and chain and some money in
an old stump near Sherwood. The
watch proved TO be one stolen from
Mrs. Laura Robinson five years ago
The people of Hastings, as well as
the farmers of the vicinity know
what is good for themselves, and are
putting in all their spare time this
winter improving the roads around
those parts
Mason county farmers have heard of
the benefits of rural free mail delivery
as established in the southern and east
ern portions of the state, and are MAX
ing efforts to have route or two put
into operation there.
There is talk that the Caro- branch of
the Michigan Central is to be extended
To Harbor Beach. and Bad Axe people
are hopeful that if it is done, the route
will be laid out in such way as to
take in their village.
,Ihe survey of the route for the eX-
tension of the South Haven & Eastern
railroad from Lawton to Schoolcraft
has been completed and construction
work will begin as early in the spring
as the weather will allow.
f. w. Wolf, of Chicago, a sugar fac
tory contractor, who has visited the
Michigan counties where sugar fac
tories have been erected, is quoted as
saying that Bay county beates all of
the counties in the state on the raising
of sugar beets.
Kalamazoo supervisors cut Sheriff
Shows board bill from 40 to 30 cents
per day for each prisoner. The sheriff
says he cannot feed the prisoners for
80 cents. and after certain date will
refuse to board them, leaving the SUI
pervisors to provide some other means
for their care.
The supervisors of Jackson county
believe in patronizing home industries
and at their present session adopted
resolution that hereafter all printing
and binding work shall be done by
home concerns, instead of being sent
outside, as has frequently been the
case in the past.
There is some unknown person at
Homer who is making away with all
the cats on which he can get his hands
whether they are pets or stray cats.
1t is supposed that he skins them and
sells their pelts. which are said to be
worth from 10 cents upward according
to color and quality.
The unprecedented lack of snow in
the lumber woods. and the consequent
inability to get out timber is having
its effect on the paper mills along the
Menominee river. some Of which are
said to have already shut down on ac-
count of the impossibility of securing
the pulp wood from which the paper is
made.
- When the hardware warehouse OF
Adams & Lich, at Lawton, was opened
on the morning of the sth the body of
a man was found hanging from one of
the rafters. Later the body was iden-
titled as that of Chas. Brown, of Ben
ton Harbor. He had gained entrance
to the building by breaking open a
transom.
Van Buren is prohibition county,
but Just across the line in Cass county
a saloon has been established, and it is
stated by the Dowagiac Republican,
with all due regard for the truth, (?)
that already the residents of Decatur
two or three miles distant, have worn
a path two feet deep between their
town and the thirst parlor.
The governor the other day discov-
cred that the law was changed last
winter limiting him to 10000 copies of
his message at state expense. He had
been used to striking off about 30,O00
for the editcation of the people in the
state. He said few things, but or
dered the usual number and will pay
for them out of his own pocket.
Rev. j. j. AXtell. the pugilistic pas
tor of the Congregational church of
Royal Oak, was formally given his
walking papers by the congregation on
| the 10th, when the following result
was arrived at after the matter had
| been debated for two hours behind
| closed doors: In view of Mr.. Axtell's
| recent conduct we ask him To resign.
An idea of the magnitude of the mar
/ rage business which was worked up
! at st. Joseph last year by the excursion
/ boat lines running between there and
Chicago may be had from the fact that
! the number of marriage licenses issued
/ in 1899 in Berrien county, where st.
! Joseph is located, was nearly $500,
/ while in the neighboring county of
! Cass there were only 221 applications.
Girard township, Branch county. is
making a record under the new law for
/ the collection of dog tax. Regardless
! of the decision that the law does not
4 90 into effect until next spring, a dog
warden has been appointed to collect
/ the tax and when the farmers step into
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