Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-07-26
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

Brighton has laid 1000 feet more OF
cement walk.
The Norwegians at Spruce have just
dedicated a new church.
2The contract has been let for $40,
600 opera house at Ithaca
SiXty-four marriages were solemn
lied at st. Joseph on the ed.
4The Hillsdale Screen Door Co. will
remove to Adrian. The firm employs
80 men.
St James Episcopal church in AL
bion has been reopened after being
closed for two years.
The basket factory at Cadillac was
destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss,
SIT, 600; covered by insurance.
w. j. Raymond, the alleged embez-
zler wanted at Port Huron, was re-
Gently arrested at Welland, Ont.
The Sanitas Nut Food Co.'S build
ings at Battle Creek burned on the 29d
Loss, SIS, 900; covered by insurance.
The Republican convention for the
18th congressional district has been
called to meet at Calumet on July 26.
Hudson has decided to repeat its
street fair again this year, making the
5th annual fair. 1t Ito last five days
Bertha Cooper, of Fowler, pounded
upon can of sulphur and potash to
get it open. 1t exploded and her hand
was badly lacerated.
A freight train on the Ann Arbor
railroad was wrecked at Thompson
vile on the 22d. Ten cars were badly
smashed. No one was injured.
The thrashing season has commenced
in Tekonsha and vicinity and wheat is
yielding from two to three bushels per
acre-poor quality of wheat at that.
w. G. Guiles, a prosperous merchant
of Ortonville, has a beard that meas
ures exactly seven feet in length and
when he is standing drags on the floor.
The wheat crop around Flat Rock is
almost a total failure and what little
has been cut is growing in the shock
on account of the excessive wet
weather.
Emma. the pretty 5-year-old daugh-
ter ofxslr. and AIRS. Fritz Brenecl1, Of
Muskegon, died of hydrophobia on the
18th. She was bitten by small dog
last April.
a severe electrical, wind and hail
storm passed over section in the vi
entity of Eaton Rapids on the Goth, do
ipcr appuiIa,a b1a 1a,,,nc., $500, IL
other crops.
Gov. Pingree has pardoned John Cas-
lin, sent from Lake City, June II, 1900,
to the Detroit house of correction for
GO days for being drunk and disorderly
His father is dying.
The Michigan Telephone company
has begun the construction of its long
distance lines between Saginaw and
Ludington, following the Pere Mar
quette right of way.
At Dowagiac, right in the heart of a
beautiful farming country, dealers in
oleomargarine paid S144 for licenses to
do business this month. The six months
bill amounts to S715.
A Detroit man has secured options
through Flat Rock for the right Of way
for the new Toledo 81 Detroit electric
road. The route will probably be
along the old plank road.
Sneak thieves entered the home of
eX-Supervisors Con l.. Tuomey, short
distance east of Ann Arbor on the 18th,
and secured about $500 worth of
plunder-mostly diamonds.
Detroit has established means where
by poor sick children and their mothers
can enjoy free rides on the water,
where such recreation is deemed adj
visable by the attending physician.
Lightning struck the house of +. w.
Bradley at Mancelona on the 18th,
tearing the shoes from the feet of Mrs.
Bradley and burning one of her feet
badly, but not injuring her otherwise.
Special census agents have begun
work in Lansing, Charlotte and Eaton
Rapids, securing figures in regard TO
manufacturing The special agents in
Pontiac and Flint have completed their
work
Marshall and Battle Creek young
sters are persistent hunters. They
have drawn $4,000 out of the county
treasury for sparrow heads, in spite of
the fact that the appropriation was
but $500.
Arthur Taylor, colored pugilist of
Marshall, on the Goth shot his sweet
heart, Mrs. Lille Green, and then put
two bullets in his own brain. She will
recover but it is feared his wounds will
prove fatal
The grasshopper plague in Florence
seems to be growing worse, many pas
lures and meadows are ruined, some
promising fields of hay were unfit TO
cut, and pastures are cleared up in a
few days The corn has been affected
some, but as yet no serious damage in
that line.
Petitions are being extensively cir
tulated by prominent ladies of Three
Rivers, asking the city council to pass
a curfew ordinance. prohibiting boys
and girls under the age or l6 from be-
ing on the streets after 8 o'clock in the
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