Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-04-19

Attorney-General Oren says that
where private banks are situated in
township different from those in which
the owners reside, these banks are to
be assessed in the townships where the
business is err ried on.
Cheboygan's military company will
probably now get the armory it has
long wanted, the supervisors at their
recent session having voted to give
$4,000 of the county funds toward the
erection of such building.
The Puritan Corset company, Kala-
mazoo's new industry, started up on
the 10th. The concern will employ 80
hands to begin with and will increase
to 100. The output for the present will
be 100 dozen corsets per day.
1t is not every village in the state
where one can see yoke of oxen now
adays, on account of the growing scar
city of these animals in this country.
An Armada man, however, has fine
pair of the slowgoing beasts.
The ice was piled up 30 feet high in
some places at Menominec on the 10th.
and much damage was done to docks,
warehouses, boat houses, ice boats,
etc. Several buildings were moved 20
feet while others were crushed in.
One hundred barrels of choice Sanilac
county apples will be on exhibition at
the Paris exposition, and a Sanilac
paper suggests that they will be
pointed out to visitors as one of the
prolific sources of French champagne
The promoters of the Pontiac Orion
electric railway announce that the line
will be built, positively, and that work
upon it will commence as soon as
weather permits. A stock company
will be organized with capital of
Sl75. 600.
Farmers throughout Branch county
report many fields of wheat SO badly
injured that they will pillow them for
wheat plants badly last fail and the
extreme cold weather during the win
ter killed the weakened plants.
Iermansville is OBS of the few towns
in the upper peninsula, or in the whole
state for that matter, where the curfew
idea is enforced. At o'clock the mill
whistle notifies the boys that it is time
for them to go home. Those who do
not heed the warning are arrested.
Muskegon county supervisors by a
vote of of 25 to 3 decided to resubmit
to the people the proposition to raise a
two-mill tax in 1901 and IA similar tax
in 1902 for the erection of a new county
III oh Hhn
showed under at the spring election.
Judge George p. VANITY of the u.
5. district court has appointed as com
missioners: Ira c. Jenning, of Esca-
naba; Belmont NAPLES, of Ironwood,
and Henry Hoffman, of st. Ignace.
He has several other appointments to
make, but is not yet ready to announce
them.
Big Rapids business men believe that
the old saying about 'all work and no
play making Jack a dull boy" applies
to the grownup boys just the same as
the younger ones, and have formed an
organization for social purposes and
will fit up clubrooms for the use of the
members of the organization.
Corunna's common council has called
special election for April 80 to vote
ON proposition to bond the city for
IS, 900 to go toward identifying the
Hugh McCurdy park plat of 81 acres,
recently presented to the city by Mr..
McCurdy At the last election a bond
ing proposition was lost by three votes.
Miss Catherine Rentz, dressmaller
of Detroit, was horribly burned by a
peculiar gasoline accident on the 18th.
She was engaged in cleaning some silk
material and the friction of the cloth
caused sufficient heat TO ignite the gaso-
line. Although she is at present in
critical condition it is thought she will
recover.
Fire which threatened the entire
business portion of Sidnaw, Houghton
county, was checked in peculiar man
ner No ordinary means were avail
able to check the course of the fire so
dynamite was brought into use, and
the building next in the path of the
fire was blown up, which accomplished
the desired result.
Gov. Pingree on the 18th appointed
400 delegates for Michigan to the Farm
ers' National congress, to be held at
Colorado Springs, Col, Aug. 2l to 81.
They consist of the officers of the Mich
igan state grange and masters of sub
ordinate oranges. They will serve
without compensation and pay their
own travelling expenses
| Elsie people were agreeably surprised
when the new village council held its
first meeting and fixed the figure of sa-
! loonists' bonds at the prohbitory
amount which has prevailed for several
| years past. The surprise was because
4 OF the belief that the candidates who
won out at the recent election were in
/ favor of opening the saloons.
The records of the registers office in
Oakland county shows that $3.50 mort
cages were filed from January 1, 1885
to January /, 1900. With the excep-
ton of the year 1895 every year since
1885 has shown decrease in the num-
Der filed. During the month of March
81 mortgages were fled, % assigned