Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-08-23

were recently shut down because of
/ difficulty in securing wheat from out
/ side points at fair freight rates, will
start up again about Sept l.
Berren county reports that prospects
/ are bright for record-breaking crop
of apples The orchards have been
more generally sprayed than ever be-
fore, and the fruit is of fine quality
in consequence.
/ Gladwin will soon have telephone
communication with the outside world,
arrangements having been made for
the extension of the Michigan Tele
phone company's long distance service
to the village, via Beaverton.
1t is stated that district school near
Dexter voted TO hold no school the
coming year, but pay transportation OF
children to other schools; but family
| with seven children has moved into the
district, and the school will be held.
There is every prospect that many
of the Gogebic Range mines will close
down or reduce their working force by
one-half, as they have plenty of ore on
the docks which can hardly be moved
before the season of navigation closes.
A rural mail route has been estab-
lished through Flushing and Clayton
townships, starting from Flushing.
| The first delivery was made on the 18th.
The new route is "a miles long through
a prosperous and thickly settled coun-
| try.
Kal amazoo is passing through pest
Of grasshoppers and crickets, such as
| it has never before known, and even
the oldest inhabitant is at loss to ac-
count for it. The pest began about a
week ago, and has been getting worse
every day.
OF the rs Incorporated cities of Mich
! igan only A have paid fire departments
that employ full time men. There are
also 3o5 incorporated villages in the
state, but only l5s of them have organ
! lied fire departments, and Isl of these
is simply volunteer service.
A rural free delivery route has been
( ordered for Charleston, Oakland county,
to go into effect Sept. l. The length
of the route will be 2sas miles; area
covered, 40 square miles; population
]
( 1863; carrier, Jasper Linsbury
The good roads department, Wash
/ ington, ID. c., has issued notification
. circulars of a Michigan state good
roads congress to be held at Saginaw,
Aug. 81 to promote more general in
terest in the improvement of roads and
TO devise ways TO raise the necessary
funds.
A bantam rooster on the farm of
Albert Lord in Marengo, is attaining
notoriety. A few weeks ago he gave
every evidence of wanting to set. :"
Mr. Lord therefore procured number
/ of eggs upon which the bantam per-
severingly operated, with the result
that he is now proudly ''mothering" a
she brood of chicks.
Although there is state law max
ing it the duty of the highway COM
missioner to see that Canada thistles
are not allowed to go TO seed, yet an
instance of the enforcement of the law
is rare. A case occurred the other day
near Fowlerville, however. and il cost
the offending farmer SIS.
Reports TO the state board of health
show that diarrhea, rheumatism, chol-
era morbus, neuralgia and tonsilitis in
the order named caused the most sick
ness in Michigan during the week end
ing August IL. Smallpox was reported
at places cerebro-spinal meningitis
4, diphtheria 10, whooping cough %,
measles IS, scarlet fever a., typhoid
fever % and consumption at ls2.
Alpena people who own bicycles
might just as well sell their machines
now, or else give them away, unless
they want to go outside the city limits
TO ride. The council has ordained that
six miles per hour shall be the maxi
mum speed at which bicycles may be
ridden on the city streets, and it is be-
yond the ability of the average rider
TO go at such slow pace as that.
III. T. Nash, of Adrian. is not sure
but what he is still soldier in the u.
5. volunteer army of the civil war;
Near the close of the rebellion he was
given an extended furlough, which
bore the date Of May 10, 1865. Shortly
afterward hostilities ceased, and Nash's
regiment was mustered out without
his being recalled from his furlough
nor has he ever received discharge
from the service.
The Detroit & Toledo Shore line is
having all kinds of trouble in getting
its road completed. The latest report
is that portion of the track was laid
across property belonging to city
park on the banks of the Maumee river,
at Toledo. and the park commission
yanked the track up and has an able
bodied policeman roosting on the site
Of the invasion until the road shall
have obtained the proper permission to
lay It's tracks over city property.
1t is hard enough to climb over a
barbcd wire fence when one has plenty
of time at his disposal, but when n
mad bull is at ones heels hurrying
him along, it is many times more diff
cult. That was the fix Farmer Dough-
erty, of near Alpena. found himself in
OF course he didn't have time to pick
out the smooth places in the fence to