Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-03-07
m,cu,oAN NEWS ITEMS.

There are "A eases of smallpox re-
ported at Saginaw.
There is strong talk = releetric lights
in Armada this year
Jackson's school board has decided
to return 10 sun time.
Howell's oldest resident, Mrs. Sarah
Rubbins, aged 100, is dead
Capitalists at Milan have formed a
company and will bore for oil and gas.
Flint will erect two l9-room school
houses at cost not to exceed $4,000
each.
The Commercial hotel at Edmore
was destroyed 10y fire on the night OF
the 26th.
Projectors are trying to mature the
plan TO establish 500, 900 sanitarium
at Coldwater.
The young men OF Burlington have
organized Carrie Nation club and
humane society.
1t is said that many floclSs of quail
have died this winter, owing to the
heavy snow falls
A stock company is being formed at
Holland for the establishment OF can
ming factory in that city.
A cold storage warehouse is to be
erected at Stockbridge for the con-
venience of local shippers.
There is a gambling war on at Kala-
mazoo, and as result three saloon
| keepers have been arrested.
A board of trade has been organized
at Central Lake to boom things for the
village in an industrial way.
Burglars operated at Waldron on the
morning of the 26th. They were cap
tured later at Vest Unity, O.
Promoters of the proposed electric
railway between Pontiac and Lapeer
are hustliug for franchises etc.
During the month of February there
were 81 fires recorded in Detroit, ag-
gregating total loss of S250,00O.
Brighton is to have two more saloons
very shortly and there is talk of or
ganizing Carrie Nation brigade.
A stock company has been organized
at Stock bridge for the manufacture of
brooms and other similar articles.
Country roads in Branch county are
almost blocked with snow, condition
that has not existed there in years.
The liquor dealers of Lenawee
couny are preparing to fight local OPP
ton before the board of supervisors
The Congregationalists of Dundee
are raising funds for the erection of a
81, 600 church TO be built this summer.
Cadillac Maccabees are planning for
a home of their own in the near future.
The proposed building will cost be-
tween $40 600 and SIS. 900, and will be
an ornament TO the city.
L The .nf = 80 lhe grading kof~ tht
5 o.daftlss ,G-c-,l sodeheasvvr-p ,failwa,
from Marquette to the junction with
the Munisng railway has been let, and
COO men will at once begin work.
Dowagiac's village council has
granted 3O-year franchise to the Lake
Michigan Il Eastern railway TO build
and operate electric lines in and
through that place. The road must be
in operation within two years.
As result of a curfew ordinance
passed by the common council of Ann
Arbor on the night of the 4th, the
youth must go in off the streets at
o'clock bell will toll at that hour
as a warning.
There will be a civil service examin
alton of candidates for the positions oi
clerk and carrier for the postotiice al
Cadillac in that city on April 6 next.
Applications must be made before the
hour of closing business March -.
Creameries are apparently not a fail
ure financially in Ottawa county, as
they have proven in so many sections
of the state. The one at GraafschaI
paid 25 per cent dividend on the bus
mess of the past year, and the one al
Crisp 10 per cent.
In all probability the Wolverine
Sugar company will move its factory
from Benton Harbor to Wallaceburg,
Ont. where the citizens have offered
to contract 5000 acres of land for a
period of five years at 81 per ton for
all sugar beets raised
al VI dlllllltn pAOlth Ch hhc uBPNi
peninsula division of the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad have been or.
dered by the company to have them.
selves vaccinated at once. This action
is taken in anticipation of the posi- ble
spread of smallpox from the northern
woods when the spring movement oil
umbermen from the camps starts.
The annual convention of the Michi-
gan League of Republican clubs was
held at Grand Rapids on the eth. The
following were elected as officers foI
the ensuing year: President, Bert +.
Cady, of Port Hurn; vice president,
Fred r. Fenton, of Detroit; secretary
Franc c. Kuhn, of Macomb; treasurer
George Clapperton, of Grand Rapids.
A midwinter examination of the
peach buds in the orchards of this
township shows not only that the trees
are abundantly budded, but that the
buds are in healthy and vigorous
condition The balance of the winter
holds but little danger in store, and
there is no reason to doubt but that
the peach crop of 1901, quality Of
acreage considered. will be as large a.