Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-11-21
MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS.

Galesburg has raised $500 for fire
protection.
Marquette had good sleighing but a
rain came along and spoiled 1t.
Two mild cases of smallpox have
made their appearance at Muskegon.
The Flint Blues have asked Con-
gresham Smith for a rapid fire gun.
Mrs. Eliza Bromley. of Owosso, cele-
DRAFTED her ninety-fifth birthday We'd
nesday
1t is estimated that there are $1,000
hunters In the woods Of northern
Michigan.
Flint is suffering from lack of low
priced residences to accommodate
workmen.
Miss T.. Humphrey, of Prescott, re-
Gently killed a monster bear In her
fathers poultry yard.
The manual training course intro
duced into the Battle Creek schools is
proving a great success.
There will soon be through sleep
ing cars running on the electric line
from Detroit to Saginaw.
Kalamazoo reckons the number OF its
victims in grade crossing accidents as
about one in two months.
The money for the purchase of the
site for the new shlpbuilding company
at st. Clair has been paid in.
Samuel Berry who died recently in
Deerfieid, was the father Of II chill
dren, all OF whom survive him.
Capt. on. c. Bond or Company 4, OF
| A drfnn haC hnaV, l. al tn rnciVn hxy
q committee from the 'anrI. ;;ssGy.
Kent -ecGrty has already borrowed
$22,5 800 but will be obliged to borrow
$1,000 more to carry it over till Jan. 1.
Clayton b. Hawley, "A, n resident
of Kalamazoo county for over forty
five years, committed suicide Sunday.
ThirteelS yGar-old Willie French, OF
Battle Creek. is under arrest for an
assault upon 10-year-old Hazel Dryer.
Elmer e. Curtis, a Fenton druggist,
has filed a petition in bankruptcy with
liabilities at $1,000. and assets at $500.
The d. & @. steamer City of Mack
mae took two sailors off sinking
schooner in Saginaw bay Sunday
morning.
Warden Chamberlain left no will
The estate is estimated at $4,000. to
be divided among the widow and six
children.
Joseph Blake, of Grandvllle, so years
old, committed suicide Saturday by
shooting himself in the head with a
revolver
The editor Of the Hastings Banner
wants Barry county TO send an anti
Bliss delegation to the next Republican
convention.
'rhe heirs Of the Hamilton estate
will erect fine $1,000 fountain In
the land decided the city Of Flint by
them for n park.
Vaudeville expected electric lights
right away, but the dam at La Barge
gave way and the current won't
sparkle before December.
Because he preached equality of
races, Rev @. Gideon Hammond, a
Dowieite preacher from Baltimore,
was mobbed at Blacksnake.
Governor Bliss says he has no lnten-
ton of calling special session Of the
Legislature, rs at the present time he
can see no necessity for one.
The Niagara Falls jumper, Mrs.
Anna Edison Taylor, no longer denies
that Montgomery V. Edison, Of Ian
sing, Is her long-lost brother.
Farren Kennedy. S-year-old son OF
G. C. Kennedy. of Standish, fell upon
n whipstock while at play. 1t entered
his mouth, piercing his check and his
ear.
1t is stated that many supervisors
residing near and distant from Mason,
favor new county building If the
Ingham county seat Is to be main.
tanned there.
Experiments have been made in the
Saginaw Valley, and show conclusive
ly, that oil exists in paying quantities
The capital is said to be ready to de
vel0p the property.
The Cannon Metal Wheel Co, al
Pontiac, has been organized with a
capital stock OF 100000. a factory
SOx2O0 feet in size ami two stories
high will be erected.
Rev. +. Il. Holp, who has been pas.
tor of the Congregational church nj
Angola, has been dismissed by his
church 1t Is charged that he not
only maintained q domestic establish.
ment In Angola but also had one In
Chicago.
A number OF would-be shrewd far
mers who. after having contracted
with Port Huron parties in the spring
for the sale Of their prospective crops
Of beans at n certain price, sold them
to other parties because the price had
advanced are i'm danger of having tc
face criminal charges.
For the second time In two weeks
the residence OF Charles Gardner Of
Battle Creek, was robbed Friday
Gardner and his wife went TO n party
and returned late They found tho
, house upside-down SILK dresses. q
largo quantity OF iewelry and over 10C
pieces Of silverware were missing
Loss $500.