Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-12-20
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

Branch county has 6s Sabbath schools
in active operation.
The oil craze is running high in Ber-
rien county just now.
Three new cases of smallpox broke
out at Essexville on the 10th.
Chicago capitalists propose to make
a summer resort of Devils Lake
A Holly firm has shipped over 1oo,-
600 bushels of potatoes this season.
From three acres Of ground a Holly
farmer dug 500 bushels of potatoes
New out breaks of smallpox are re-
ported from Charlotte and Bessemer.
Three rural mail delivery routes
have been ordered established at Holly,
Jan l.
The IL charitable concerns in Michi-
gan cost the state 81 ,092, 54s 81 during
the past year.
The next meeting of the State Teach
ers association will be held at Grand
Rapids, Dec. 26-2S.
The receipts from all sources of Al
bion college during the past three years
aggregated So, 500.
county, has been discontinued. Mail
will go TO South Butler.
Jacob Balts, of Detroit, was run
down and killed by G. L. passenger
train on the night of the 18th.
The National Educational associa-
ton will hold it's 10th annual conven-
ton at Detroit, July s-12, 1901.
Farmer patrons of the Muir post
Office have petitioned the government
for free rural mail delivery route.
Large quantities of unharvested po-
tatoes and corn in the vicinity of Lee
were ruined by the recent cold snap.
A Hanover man owns a goose which
has been in his possession for over 40
years and is stfll strong and healthy.
THE sugar factories and the chickory
factories located at Bay City have paid
out $751;. s24 in wages during the past
two months.
The Lewis Spring Axle works at
Jackson was practically destroyed by
fire on the 14th. Loss, $50, 900; insur-
ance, S45,0
The Peuinsular Portland Cement
Co S plant, at Cement City, Is miles
south of Jackson, is nearly completed.
There are IL buildings in all.
Gov. Pingree on the 18th pardoned
Edward Sloan, of Saginaw, who had
erved 60 days of a five years sentence
for assault with intent to kill.
Some people believe there is coal in
the vicinity of Maple Rapids, and three
shafts, at least 800 feet deep, will be
put down to satisfy their curiosity.
The application to organize the
Miners National bank of Ishpeming,
with capital of 500, 900, has been APP
proved by the comptroller of the cur
rency.
Battle Creek citizens are discussing
the feasibility of erecting $40, 600
filter at Lake Gogiac, from where the
city's water supply would then be
taken.
According to the official count there
were 449, 725 votes cast in favor of the
constitutional amendment and 54,727
against it, the majority in favor being
3s7, 971.
Jas. Trip, of near Pentecost, while
temporarily insane from the effects of
typhoid fever, on the 18th shot him
self through the heart, dying 20 min
utes later.
The Saginaw Sugar Co., capitalized
at $500, 900, was organized on the 18th.
A factory to cost $500, 900, with ca
pacity of 600 tons of beets per day, will
be erected.
In reply to dispatch from Grand
Rapids, inviting him to that place,
Mr.. Kruger has wired that he has not
arrived at any decision with regard to
visiting America
All the Detroit street railway com
panies have been consolidated. The
new company will be known as the De-
troit United Railway Co, and is CAPT
talized at So, 5oO,o 600
The supreme court on the 18th de-
MED the rehearing asked for by Rep.
Eikhoff, of Detroit, in his case against
members of the Good Government
league for alleged libel.
1t is predicted that one of the last
official acts of Gov. Pingree will be the
pardon of Clifford Hand, sentenced to
life Imprisonment for the murder of
Jay Pulver, of Ypsilanti.
1t is alleged that the 5th judicial
district is too heavy for one judge to
take care of and the Forthcoming leg.
islature will be asked to make a sep
arate circuit of Calhoun county.
Howell is after four more free rural
mail delivery routes, making six in all.
If the request is granted every town
ship but of the 16 in the county will
be supplied direct by carrier every day.
County Treasurer Fisk reports that
there are AZ places in Calhoun county
where liquors are sold and three which
manufacture matted liquors. Battle
Creek has 81 and Marshall Is saloons.
Con siderable satisfaction is expressed
among the farmers in the vicinity of
Ashley over the outcome of their sugar
beet crops this year. Robert Kerr, a
farmer living near that place, realized
profit of SO off ia acres of the roots
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