Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-12-19
MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS.

Smallpox has closed the schools of
Birch Run.
Graham Pope, OF Houghton. will
give $1,000 for free public hospital.
Cars over the new Toledo. Adrian
and Jackson electric line are now run
ming into Adrian.
The longest drain in Michigan Is =
lie dug In Eaton county along Thorn
apple river next spring.
Beets that have tested p per cent
Of sugar have been raised by farmers
i'm the vicinity of st. Louis.
James Tate was killed at Muskegon
Sunday by the bursting Of fly wheel
at the Central Paper Co.'S plant.
Carl Snudbeck, Swedish sociologist.
Will visit the upper peninsula To study
conditions among his countrymen.
VIM. Wheeler, of Saginaw, aged ~.
Is charged with attempted criminal as
sault OH his 12-year-old daughter.
The farmers clubs i'm session in
Lansing resolved THAT we do not IA
vor the calling Of a special session"
The wheels In the new sulphte mill
Of the Marinette Menomnee Paper
Company have started. The new mill
is said to have cost 100000.
Isaac Ousterout. of Potterville. has
left for parts unknown, leaving num-
crous accounts unpaid His stock of
machinery has been attached for debts
VIM. Olson, n Finnish laborer in the
Ardgon mine, near Iron Mountain
was horribly mangled by the prema-
ture explosion of blast. He cannot
live.
a log house built in Batavia,
Branch county I'm 1S49, and later
moved TO the Coldwater fair ground
where il served as a museum, was
burned last week.
There is fight on between the city
OF Detroit and the Gas company over
rates. The council has passed IN ordi-
nance making the rate zoe instead of
81 per thousand feet
Sufficient funds have been raised 10y
the friends of howard Burchfeld, who
is now serving time at Ionia for kill
ing Howard Green. to assure an APP
peal To the Supreme Court.
Beginning with January | Eugene
Holt will put in 100000 feet Of logs.
which amounts to rs or II ears every
day until spring for the Bay Shore
Lumber Co, of Menominee
Canvassers who have been out
among the farmers the past week re-
port having secured acreage for sugar
beets enough To warrant building Of
beet sugar factory in East Tawas.
John McCloy. conductor OF the
freight car of the Wyandotte electric
line, was killed by the collision of his
car with Il Detroit Southern engine 1T
the Monguagon crossing Thursday
evening.
Major II Fl Lamb. former resident
OF Lapeer county. who has been serv
ing as Il surgeon in the Philippines. has
had his contract with the government
annulled and is OH his way TO his home
in OwOSSo
Many farmers along the Harbor
Beach division of the Pere Marquette
fear they will have to feed their sug-
ar beets TO their stock. as they are un-
able TO secure cars to ship them to
the factory.
On February ! Il rural free delivery
service with five routes will be estab-
lished from Mt Pleasant. and the
postotiices at Caldwell Boyden. VIM.
Broomfeld. Conner and Alembic will
be discontinued.
y number OF deer belonging To
Lawton party of hunters, are being
hello in quarantine mt Flood Wood in
the northern pensinsula because the
agent at that place was taken sick
with the smallpox.
For the first time I'm a number of
years the fall rains did not fully re-
plenish the water supply in Sanilac
county and hundreds Of farmers are
compelled to haul water long dis
tances for their stock.
Game Warden W. A. McGovern
dropped into Howard City and took
Landlord NJ Austin. Of Columns EX-
change, before Justice Whitney for
serving venison TO his guests. Austin
was fined so aud costs.
a Niles policeman named Ullery has
published in local paper challenge
TO +. w. Cook editor of another pa
per. to fight n duel to the death, the
weapons to be revolvers OF IS calibre.
and the distance 10 PAGES. 'S'death!
Belud!
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith. aged 81. of
Eaton Rapids. discovered her home on
fire. The men were OH the farm. so
she blew the dinner horn as an alarm.
Then she fell to the ground dead Ii
is supposed the excitement brought on
heart failure.
A Cadillac carpenter erected the
sides. rear and roof Of carriage shed.
backed the carriage under and then
! completed the building. leaving n door
just large enough for Il man to enter.
| His scheme does away with the ne
cesslty of Yale locks.
Schoolcraft merchants have suffered
| for some time past from numerous
small thefrs, and at last a searching
| investigation was made which devel-
Oped the fact that the offenders were
seven young boys Of families In good
standing In the village.
Kent county is several thousands OF
dollars short and Is borrowing the
money that II now does business on.