Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-04-26


The company which was refused per-
mission to play "Sapho" at Kalamazoo
annunces that they will try again.
There is much speculation as TO
whether the performance will be per-
mitted.
Labor Commissioner Cox says Michi-
gan is afflicted with prosperity. He
ought to know, for he has been at
work for some time getting figures
from various industries which bloster
up his opinion.
Farmers about Vicksburg will exper-
iment in raising tobacco this year. An
experienced grower of the weed has
located there and will instruct the
| farmers in the care and cultivation of
| tobacco plants.
The farmers in the vicinity of Homer
| are not over-anxious to sign contracts
| for sugar beet acreage. A solicitor
from the Kalamazoo factory only Sc
cured % contracts for a weeks labor
there recently.
Two men fishing, two miles south of
Mason, discovered the railroad bridge
it would have probably burned sufii-
GENTLY to have wrecked a southbound
| passenger train.
Wheat in Berrien county is almost a
failure, caused by the fly that appeared
in the fall, and the upheaving of the
soil during the winter months The
sugar beet industry bids fair to rival
that of last year.
Civil service examinations will be
held at Detroit and other cities though
out the country, where there are boards
of examiners, May II, Is and 10, of APP
plicants for position of cadet in the
revenue cutter service.
There is big kick against the state
tax commission in Houghton county.
Many of the townships have not been
| furnished with the necessary blanks to
be filed out by taxpayers who are UNI
der penalty of imprisonment unless
| they do SO.
The law enacted by the last legisla-
ture compelling fruit solicitors to file n
bond of So, 900 to protect growers and
sellers has been declared unconstitu-
tional by Judge Coolidge of the Berrien
J circuit. 1t will be carried TO the SUI
| premc court.
The bronze statues to be erected in
the park at Muskegon are on exhibition
at New York They are pronounced
works of art Their cost with the pc
destals, is about 0,00O, and they are
the gift of Charles Hackley. They will
be unveiled at Musllegon on Memorial
day.
The supervisors of Montmorency
county decided that there was not
enough work for register of deeds in
that county to require the whole time
of one man. and have accordingly abol-
ished the Office and ordered that here
after the county clerk perform the
work.
The state sanitary live stock commits
sion will recommend to Gov. Pingree
that proclamation be issued prohib-
iting the importation into Michigan
for dairy or breeding purposes any cat
tie that have not been subjected to the
tuberculin test and found TO be free
from tuberculosis.
For the past several years Berrien
township, Berrien county, has paid out
but Sill each year to her paupers
notwithstanding this a tax of $50 per
year has been collected but as the
money is not needed the board at it's
last meeting voted to discontinued tax
alton for this purpose until such time
as it was needed
Preparations are in progress for a
good roads convention to take place at
Traverse City, April %. Prominent
men interested in road building and
the good roads movement will be pres
ent. An elaborate program has been
prepared and representatives will be
there from several counties, including
Grand Traverse.
a telephone was put in the rear of
the pulpit of the Episcopal church az
Battle Creek and connected with Kala-
mazoo, where party of friends of the
pastor, Rev. Mr.. Osborne, listened TO
the sermon. A phone was also put at
the bedside of Miss Fannie Reynolds,
enc of the members, who has been bed
ridden for 20 years. She heard the en-
tire service distinctly.
Capac's council has granted fran
chise for an electric road now under
construction from Detroit via Romeo,
Almont and Inlay City. Franchises
have been secured by the promoters for
the greater part of the proposed route
north via Yale and Lexington to Port
Austin. 1t is expected that the line
will be in operation to Inlay City be-
fore snow flies and to Capac by June 1
next year
The Peninsular Portland Cement Co.
which is largely composed of Jackson
and Detroit capitalists, are having a
village plated in the vicinity of their
works, south of Jackson, which will be
known as Cement City. The company
plant when completed will have cost
$500, 900, and will have capacity of
$500 barrels of cement per day. 1t is
estimated that there is sufficient mari
on the properly 70 keep the plant in
operation fcv loo y5.rs.