Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-04-05


hay awaiting shipment.
Secretary of State Stearns has sent
his personal check to Sheriff Porter, OF
Ingham county, as reward Tor the
arrest of Gen. w. l.. White, the missing
Michigan quartermaster-genera
Citizens of Midland threaten GER
tain farmer living near there with
coat of tar and feathers for hiding be-
meath sidewalk leading to bridge
that school children have to pass over.
An effort is being made to move the
Sanilac county poorhouse, now located
near Croswell, 10 the county seat at
Sanilac Centre, and number OF tax
payers are registering big kick
against such action.
Iron ore in what is supposed TO be
paying quantities has been discovered
along the Ford river, about 20 miles
from its mouth. in Delta county, and
preparations are now being made to
develop the property
The proposition to bond Traverse
City for SAB, 667, to purchase the Camp
bell water works plant, carried on the
2sth by vote of AIS for to 256 against.
The plant will be improved and eX-
tended to the outskirts
In two of the townships of Nissan
kee county women have been nomin-
ated for the office of school inspector,
and the opposing party in each case
has been gallant enough not to put up
a man to run in opposition.
The trial of Dr. Charles T. Bennett,
of Detroit, charged with the killing of
Mary Richards in Grand Rapids last
July, was commenced before the jury
in the superior court on the Goth, two
days having been spent in getting
jury.
The Daniel Scotch & Co., of Detroit,
branch of the Continental Tobacco Co.,
or in other words, the factory which
was the product of Daniel Scotten's
years of labor, is to be closed up by the
trust which purchased it a little over
year ago.
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 its mann
moth power house in the village, now
nearly completed.
The sugar beet fever with which the
farmers surrounding Utica were so
til oroughly infected has left them as
quickly as it came. They claim that
beet crops require more care than any
"a
refuse to try them again.
Pine and hemlocl stumps and old
logs which were supposed to have be-
come worthless years ago are being
gathered together up in Wexford
county to be manufactured into lath.
The exceedingly high price for the lat
ter article is the cause of the activity.
At the recent election the people of
| of Mayville voted against liquor being
sold in the village, and now the pro-
! prietor of the only decent hotel in the
place is trying to sell ont and leave,
claiming that no business can be done
without bar attached to his hosiery.
The laugh is on the attorneys of Cal
houn county. They recently organized
a county bar association and sent the
articles of association to Lansing to be
filed with the secretary of state, as
! provided by law. The articles have
been returned for correction, with the
statement that they were not legally
| drawn.
The military board met on the 2Sth
and resolved to ask the auditor-general
for the refunding of an aggregate OF
SIC, 600 which was paid out of the ma
tional guard fund by the White ad
ministration, but which should have
been paid from the war fund. Unit
this matter is settled there will be M
decision as TO an encampment this year
Little Vera Maynard, of Litchfield
is the possessor of freak of nature in
the shape of little lamb with fiv,
legs. The extra leg is not of much use
unless the animal can learn to hol
along on it with its other four feet il
the air. as il is attached to the back O
the lambs head the animal is appar
emily perfectly healthy and bids fair t.
grow to maturity
A canvasser is finding a lot of victim
in Berrien county with a swindlin,
scheme he is operating. He poses as
merchant tailor and takes orders 70
clothing TO be made from samples h
displays On every order he collect
81 in advance 'to bind the bargain,
and after the customer has waiter un
til long after the specified time for tn
; clothes to show up, he comes to tn
conclusion that he was an easy mark
= With the opening of soring Duran
will experience another building boom
, As near as can be estimated, about 3
dwelling houses have already been cor
= tracted for. There is a great deman
for residences, many of the railroa
4 people living in rooms and two familie
in one house There are four brio
r blocks contracted for, all two-stor
: structures. There are two projects o
foot for an opera house, and one {
them will materialize. The main arch
: tectural Improvement of the season