Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-12-06
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

convene on Dec. 4.
A Cassopolis man is about TO build a
saw mill at Glendora.
Local option may be an issue in Len
awee county's spring election.
A cook book is being published by
the Plainwell Lady Maccabees.
Wild cats are being killed in quite
large numbers in northern Michigan.
Game Warden Morse reports that
5000 deer were slaughtered in % days
this fall.
A party of Is Bay Cityites left for
Oregon on the 27th, where they will
COLOMBO.
Jackson. Horton and Hanover are
now connected by metallic telephone
line service.
Holly is to have new cement fac
tory in the spring, which will employ
at least 200 men.
there will be a special session OF the
legislature Dec. 10.
There are l09 cases on the docket for
the December term of the Washtenaw
county circuit court.
During the deer sea son al, 574 pounds
of veuisou or 400 deer were handled at
Menominee by express.
The Pontiac e. Flint Electric Rail
way Co, capitalized at $50, 900, was or
gained at Saginaw recently.
The people of Harrictte think they
cannot be happy until newspaper is
is established in the village.
Twenty-six new Christian Endeavor
societies have been organi zed during
the last year in the 3d district.
The veterans of the old Sd Michigan
infantry will gather at Grand Rapids,
Dec. ID, for their Goth reunion.
Midland folks who have the inter
ests of the town at heart have organ
lied an improvement association.
The next annual meeting of the Up.
per Peninsula Educational association
will be held at Escanaba, Jan. 2426.
The X. o. T. NJ and l.. o. 4. NJ, of
Kalamazoo county organized county
While digging at the dam in Buch-
anan worbmen tapped assure in the
clay which yields seven gallons of crude
oil an hour
In all probability the next legisla-
ture will be asked to make an appro-
priation for new addition to the cap
itol, the present building being made
quate.
Miss Anna McKenna, of Detroit. was
asphyxiated by the gas escaping from
a jet in her room on the night of the
lst. Her death is supposed to be an
accident.
Elmer f. Ford, of Kalamazoo. will
be cayher of the state treasury for the
next two years. State Trcasurer-elect
Mccoy having announced his selection
for the place.
A queer business com bination exists
at Tustin where lawyer is running
a furniture store and undertaking es-
tablishmcnt in connection with his
law practice
Up to date, Nov 26. 2,412 deer car
casses have been shipped through
Mackiuaw City. and 1T is expected that
the number will reach 1 900 before the
season closes,
The celery season of 1900 is practic-
ally over in Musllegou. The season
has been quite successful and many
thousands OF cases were shipped to
Chicago and other points.
The state board OF health believes it
can demonstrate that the increase of
typhoid fever in Michigan during the
last two years, is due tor the soldiers
who came home from Cuba.
Farmers around Dowagiac who grew
sugar beets for the Benton Harbor fac
tory this season lost money on the ven
turc and it is doubtful if any beets will
be planted in those parts next spring.
David Whitney, Jr, of Detroit, who
went to New York, Oct. /, and was
taken i'll there died on the night of
the 2Sth. He leaves an estate esti-
mated at from $40 600, 600 to SIS, 600, 600.
People of Long Lake arc undergoing
reign of terror on account of a number
of wolverines which infcst the neigh
| DOrhood. lhey carry on large pigs,
and have even attacked human beings.
Chicago sportsmen have purchased
Chambers island, situated in Green
bay, about IS miles east of Menominee,
and will convert it into a game reserve.
A club house to cost S35, 900 will be
erected
The prospects arc bright for the es-
/ tablishment OF condensed milk factory
at White Pigeon To employ 40 people
or Whereabouts. A creamery has been
in successful operation there for three
| years past.
After one short weeks experience
with standard time, the common coun-
ell Of Detroit on the night of the 27th
! voted to return TO meridian or sun
time The change will not take effect
until Dee :.
a y. patent for a piece of land is
sued TO Rarnabas Norton, during the
administration OF Martin Van Buren,,
April IS, 1897, was filed at the register
| OF deeds office In Flint on the 27th by