Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-09-06

10 keep them from growing TOO large
for the pickle factory's use, so heavy is
the yield.
The skunk farm near Burr Oak now
has some 600 skunks on il. The citi-
zens of that place always hold their
noses when the wind blows from GER
tain direction.
Notwithstanding Onaway is situated
in the greatest timber belt in Michi-
gan, work had TO be stopped on a GER
tain new frame building in course of
erection there for lack of material.
The new parochial school at Bronson
is about completed. 1t is three stories
high, of handsome red brick and stone
and makes fine addition to the viii
lage. The cost will be about S12,0
1t is said that camden's village char
ter is defective and that the ordinances
passed by the council are not valid.
Persons who have paid fines under the
ordinances threaten to bring suit to
recover.
An Oxford man has invented a COM
bination iceboat and ice-cutting ma
chine, which he thinks will revolu-
tionize ice harvesting methods, and
at the same time make the sport of ice
boating profitable.
August 81 was the last chance fisher
men will have for eight months to go
after the willy trout; that is, to do it
legally. The open season ends with
August, and the rods should be put
away for "A long rest.
Smallpox exists at five places in
Michigan, there being one case in
Adams township, Ingham county, one
at Cass City, three at Houghton, one at
Lake Linden and two in Nottowa town
ship, Isabella county.
Farmers in the vicinity of Coldwater
have lost a large number of valuable
cows recently 10y the poison route. The
sheriff has offered a 500 reward for
any information that will lead to the
conviction of the miscreant.
Other cities in Michigan have re-
ported being visited by swarms of
grasshoppers or crickets, but Musle-
gon is bound to have something differ
ent, and recently myriads of beautiful
butterflies have put in an appearance
there.
The outlook for buying cedar in
northern Michigan is very discourag-
ing so far this season. Prices are very
low, and unless they advance very lit
tie cedar will be cut the coming win
ter. This is owing TO production
last year
A Bronson man is having good luck
raising Belgium bares, and starting
last fall with three pairs now has 25
young and as many more expected be-
fore fall. He says the whole lot has
cost him but 30 cents to feed They
sell for SO a pair up.
Lightning struck the telephone line
between Armada and Romeo and fol-
lowed the wire into the residence of
Chas. Aldrich, demolishing his tele-
phone and shocking little boy sitting
near the phone so badly that he was
unconscious for some time.
While backing into the depot over
the trestle at Detroit on the Sd a Wa
bash train and an engine collied. The
end car of the train, Pullman sleeper,
anu viz libh SullCiCN
what, but no one was hurt. The crash
was heard two blocks away.
For 65 years Bronson man chewed
a pound and half of Zine cut"
month, and Is months ago quit and
took to chewing corn. A kernel lasts
him several hours. Since quitting to-
bacco he has gained over % pounds in
L. L 1.
Crickets are SO numerous at North
vile that they are almost pest.
Evenings they gather in the streets by
thousands and crawl all over people.
A favorite place for them is under the
electric lights. A few evenings ago
D., p. & n. car was stalled for few
minutes by them.
The cutting of pulp wood for the
paper mills is becoming such an inn
portant industry in the copper country
that there is talk of having pulp mill
located somewhere in that section,
where the wood could be converted
into pulp and the latter then shipped
to the paper mills, thereby etfecting
quite saving in freight.
The first authentic news of the safety
of Baroness Won Ketteler, who was
formerly Miss Maud Ledyard, of De-
troit, was received on the 2sth in a
dispatch announcing that she was on
her way to that city. 1t will be re-
membered that her husband, German
minister to Pelxin, was murdered there
during early hostilities.
One of the largest sawmills in the
world is to be erected soon by the Ward
estate in Otsego county. 1t will have
a capacity of $50, 600 feet every 10 hours,
and is to be located in the midst OF
such immense tracts of heavily tim
bered land that even at that enormous
rate of consumption the supply of tim
Der will be sufficient to keep il in
operation for years
Howard City claims the champion
absent-minded man. lie is one of the
leading business men of the place, and
took his baby in its cab TO the post
Office the other day. After receiving
his mail, he went home to dinner, and
when sitting down at the table his
wife asked him where the baby was.