Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-03-15

does the electric lighting in the village,
and there is much talk of putting In
municipal lighting plant.
Frankenmuth is not very big place
but it is evidently inhabited by a
thirsty lot of people. There is already
one brewery in the village and another
one is to be built this spring.
BY recent decision of the supreme
court, county treasurers and deputies
are barred from buying tax titles.
Their official positions gives them an
advantage over other persons.
The common council of Bedding has
adopted resolutions inviting the indie
pendent telephone company of Grand
Rapids to extend it's lines to the city
and establish an exchange there.
There must be something in the air
in Osceola county that is not conducive
to blissful married life. OF 10 cases on
the docket of the present term of the
circuit court six are divorce suits
Texas township, Kalamazoo county,
at last has church, after having been
without such thing ever since its or
ganization as township. A Congre-
gational church society was organized
last week
Elba is to have new cheese factory,
which will be of great help to Lapeer,
as the above town is only five miles
west and is considered a suburb of that
place. The same will be in operation
by April Is.
Corunna people will vote at the soring
election next month on n proposition
to raise S., 900 by bonding, the money
to be spent in making improvements on
the park which was presented to the
city recently.
A Muskegon lumber company re-
Gently purchased 60,000,000 feet of
white pine in Missaulxee and Kalkaska
counties for $4,000 1t is estimated
that this will furnish the company's
two mills two years cut.
II. J. Morrison, township treasurer,
of Butler, Branch county, recently set
tied with the county treasurer, having
collected every cent of the tax spread
This remarkable record has never been
eclipsed in the history of the county.
The old state fair grounds at Lam
sing have been formally decided to the
city by the Central Michigan Agricul-
tural society, the latter reserving the
right to hold fairs on the grounds at
any time fair will be held this
year.
Rural free delivery will be estab-
lished at Homer, Calhoun county, Mar.
10. The length of the route will be %
miles, the area covers 40 square miles,
and the population served will be $50.
Sapu L. Aldrich has been appointed
carrier.
Horse buyers are actively at work in
Sanilac county and farmers who have
well-bred animals are having no trou-
BILE in disposing of them at top notch
prices. The war in South Africa is the
main factor in the stiffness of the
market.
The rising generation, at Lexington
at least the male portion of it's so
| addicted to the use of cigarettes that
an anti-cigarette league is to be formed
in the village for the purpose of driving
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local market
Farmers of Burtchville township, st.
Clair county, are believers in good
roads, and as soon as the frost is out
of the ground they will donate so days
work in hauling clay and gravel for
the improvement of the road leading
to the county capital.
Work on the new public building for
Menominee has been suspended until
action is taken by the committee on
appropriations at Washington towards
giving an additional appropriation for
the erection of the building. The
price paid for the site was 81, 200.
A look at the map is convincing evil
dence that the townships of Mason
county must have been laid out and
named in war times or very shortly
after. Here are the names of half a
dozen of them: Lincoln, Grant, Sheri-
dan Sherman, Custer and Hamlin.
The Ann Arbor railroad people in
stalled novel method of getting rid
of the snow at Owosso. Every empty
fat cars was loaded with snow and sent
south to its destination for coal BY
the time the ears reach the mine il is
thought the snow will all be melted.
There are a number of people in the
vicinity of Cadillac who have the NOV
ing fever, and are going to Virginia or
some of the other southern states. In
about year most of them will turn up
again in their old location, vowing that
Michigan is good enough for them.
That's the way it most always works.
Dowagiac has secured new indus
! try, at the expense of Grand Rapids.
The Wolcott Regalia Co., which has
been carrying on its business in the
second city, has decided to remove to
Dowagiac, increasing its plant at the
time so that it will employ so people
instead of 25 as now. The move will
be made about April 1.
Reports To the state board of health
show that rheumatism, influenza. bron.
chitis, tonsilitis and neuralgia, i'm the
order named caused the most sickness