Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-01-25

Sl23 from the till.
Bronson boy cleared S7Oo from. 80
acres of cucumbers last year, and this
season he is going to plant $50 acres to
the pickle timber.
Romeo can have a cheese factory.'if
the farmers in the vicinity will con-
tract TO supply the milk of enough
cows to keep it going.
Detroit firm will erect a pickle
factory at Bloomingdale. Contracts
have been made with farmers for rails
ing 200 acres of cucumbers.
Work will soon begin on the erection
of the new buildings for the new
creamery package mandatory which
is to be located at Dowagiac.
The expert who recently made an
examination of the old salt well at
Muskegon claims that oil in paying
quantities is therein contained.
The Bay City sugar factories on the
18th paid out Sl13, 900 for beets deliv-
cred during December. They will run
through January and February.
The young business men of Paw Paw
have organized a local board of trade
and improvement association, and will
now do some hustling for shops and
factories.
Hastings can have pickle factory,
branch of big eastern institution, If
the farmers of the vicinity will guaran-
tee to grow enough cucambers to make
il success.
Plainwell has been having milk
famine, the milk men being obliged to
make long trips through the country
and then cut their customers short in
many cases.
A Methodist society has been organ
lied at Millcrsburg, one of the new
boom towns in Pressure Isle county,
and a church building will be erected
in the spring
The residents around Barryville and
Hanchetts, Barry county, are consider
ably worked up over the discovery of
extensive indications of coal deposits
in that vicinity.
The Catholic society of Durand will
soon begin to hold services in its new
church, which has just been completed.
1t is $4,000 edifce. 1t has not yet
been dedicated.
A Maccabee temple, to cost SO 800, is
in course of construction at Pinconning.
The village is also to have a 50-barrel
grist mill. the council having donated
$500 and a site to secure it.
The municipal ownership of electric
lighting plants has proved a success at
Coldwater, the month of December be
ing the most profitable of any since
the concern changed hands.
Four carloads of bird 's-eye maple logs
were shipped from Menominee to New
York, destined for England The lum-
Der from the logs is TO be used for the
interior finish of nobleman's house.
At Lansing there is a man who rests..
thinks a great deal of his dog. The
animal carried off a 10-pound roast of
beef from a local butcher shop and his
owner was called upon to pay it, which
he did without a murmur.
The tie industry at Gladwin this
winter is big thing. Cedar ties have
increased in price from II cents last
winter to 30 cents at present. and as a
consequence they are being picked up
wherever timber can be found.
Proceedings were commenced in the
supreme court on the 18th to test the
validity of the act of the last legisla-
ture providing for the examination and
licensing of BARRIERS. Fred 5. Wass, of
Benton Harbor, is the complainant.
A big plaster company is going to re-
move to Grand Rapids from Kansas
City, where it is now located. 1t will
! give employment to 70 or 100 men, and
| comes to the second city without the
payment of bonus or other induce
ment
Owing to the fact that Michigan is
minus quartermaster general, the
semi-annual armory rentals due Jan.
have not been paid. The checks cannot
! be sent the various companies until
| Gov. Pingree selects Gen. Whites sue
| cessor.
| field don't speak to each other any
| more. Inc former induced the owner
of the latter's sawmill and stave fac
tory to move his plant to Mullilxen,
and Sunfeld has thus lost one of her
principal industries.
A cement factory is said to be a sure
thing for Rogers City the coming sea-
son, it being expected that work on
the plant will begin early in the spring.
The men who are behind the project
have secured control of 1900 acres of
fine mari lands in the vicinity.
About month ago the village of
Ludington purchased the local water
works plant at "A cost of $4,000 Now
a special election will be held on Feb.
) for the purpose of voting on the
proposition to bond for $4,000 to buy
or build an electric lighting plant.
On the 10th the electors of Port HUI
ron voted on the proposition to bond
the city for SIS, 900 for the purpose OF
constructing canal from Lake Huron
to the Black river. The proposition
carried by majority of 1872 votes. The
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