Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-07-04
MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS.


Free rural mail delivery will be es-
tablished in South Haven.
The postonice at Ingersoll has been
discontinued. Mail goes to Delta.
The postofice at Ellis has been dis
continued. Mail will go TO Marshall.
Miss May Lawton, u. Of NJ, 1901,
will go to the Philippine islands rs a
teacher.
The 500 line steamer Hennepin was
damaged $50. 600 by fire in Buffalo
Thursday.
Indiana capitalists are organizing
company to drill for oil near Three
Oaks, Mich.
Some one poisoned eight head of cat
tie near Montague, belonging to Butch
er Fred Herren.
Alfred William Balch, of Saginaw,
has been appointed an assistant sur
geon in the navy.
A Muskegon firm gets the contract
for the addition to the Mt. Pleasant
normal school for $1,000.
One hundred and five applicants
for teachers positions in Huron coun-
ty wrote the examinations.
Thirty boilcrmakers in Bay City are
on a strike for a nine-hour day and
1212 per cent increase IN wages.
The last smallpox patient in Bay
City has been discharged. The cpl
demic has cost the county $4,000.
4 gold mining company of which
Gov Bliss is president, is reported to
have made rich strike in Colorado.
Huron county has IS liquor sellers
yielding her the neat sum of $4,000
only six have refused to pay this year
w. T.. scott. AGED 40, who pleaded
guilty to passing a forged check on
Bronson bank. WAS sentenced TO two
years.
The increase i'm real property over
last year in Adrian was but 50, 100, ana
in personal SS424 making a total Of
S11,51S.
Promoters of an electric road. to con-
meet Mt Adrian with the Toledo & Jack
son line, are seeking a franchise in
Hudson.
Immense Swarms OF grasshoppers
have ruined the hay crop i'm Martin
township. Farmers say it is the poor
est crop on record.
The assessed valuation Of Washte-
nav county this year is placed at S33
939 760, a decrease OF 1861 ,9T7 as com
pared with last year.
Dundee thermometers registered 102
in the shade Tuesday. An electrical
storm in the evening put nearly all the
lights out of business.
Lightning struck in numerous Mich
igan' towns Tuesday. While consider
able damage TO property is reported,
there was no loss of life.
The million dollar suit for damages
brought by NJ b. Church against the
Anti-Kalsomine Co., of Grand Rapids,
resulted in a disagreement
VIII Arnell, the Beaverton murderer
has been brought to the Bay county
Jail for safekeeping and an extra
watch will be kept over him.
The eighth annual meeting Of
sheriffS, chiefs of police and prosecut-
ing attorneys of Michigan will be held
in Muskegon, July II and Is.
David A. Elliott, of Greenville, aged
90. once prominent in Montcalm coun
ty, was on Saturday taken to the TRAY
erse City asylum, a raving maniac.
y. s Etheridge, a Quincy farmer,
made and sold in one month 4J0h
pounds of butter. the product of II Jer-
sey COWS. : of which were heifers, not
yet > years of age.
The oleomargarine dealers Of Detroit
IRE to stop the sale. This action will
be taken as the direct result Of the
oicomarearine law passed ut the last
session Of the legislature.
The Lima, o., jury, in the case Of
Glenn DIckIan, charged with man
slaughter in the killing of JON Car
roll, Saginaw telegraph operator, re-
turned verdict Of guilty.
elias $. Biller and Jay l.. Weinberg
caught a muskalonge at Mills Lake
which weighed "a pounds When
opened half pint bottle Of bourbon
whisky was found inside the fish. VIII
owner prove property. etc?
Two libel suits for $50 600 each have
been started against the Grand Rapids
Democrat by the Old National bank
and Cashier III. j. HOLSTER. The suits
grew out of the water scandal.
Fruit in the vicinity of Lawton has
been injured to a great extent recently.
Some peach orchards will bear no fruit
mt ALL while but very few will produce
more than half the usual crop.
Orsemus T. Bates, of Coldwater,
paid no attention to an order of the
court to pay his wife $50 pending the
result Of divorce proceedings brought
by her, and will spend 30 days in jail.
Joe Atkinson's stock of fireworks at
Fremont exploded, blowing out the
store front. burning the face Of Frank
Bisbee and leaving him perfectly bald.
| The explosion was caused by small
boy with n cigarette.
William Barr. prominent resident
of Nicksburg, who died Sunday, was
the first white boy to attend school in
Kalamazoo county. He took promi-
nent part i'm the early development OF
this part of the state.
Mrs. Anthony Kittle, living on the
State road, one mile north of Norris,
was badly burned Wednesday and died
| that night Her clothing caught fire
| from an explosion of an oil can in the
! kitchen. Her husband stripped the
burning clothes from her and was bad