Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-03-28
MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS.

A Jack the Ksser" has been oper-
ating at Lansing recently.
Hearing on the railroad taxation
bills has been postponed until April ?.
The Grand river at Eaton Rapids is
steadily raising and serious damage is
looked for.
The court house at Manistique was
burned to the ground on the 10th.
Loss, Sl2, 600.
The Montcalm county anti-saloon
league has Endorsed the action OF Mrs.
Carrie Nation.
Ionia is to have an automobile fac
tory, n local stock company being be-
hind the venture.
There is something more than ST.
900, 900 in savings deposits in the banks
Of Clinton county
Baldwin is to have huge portland
cement plant, which will mean another
town for that place.
The bill raising the Detroit mayors
salary is now up to the governor, both
houses having passed it.
According to the latest report Cash
Ter johnson of the First National bank
of Niles is short $50, 900.
Michigan beet sugar manufacturers
will meet at Bay City, April to or
ganize permanent society.
The common council of Jackson has
accepted Andrew Carnegie's offer of
$40, 900 for public library building
Charles Smith, treasurer of Bath
township, Clinton county, was robbed
of 500 in cash on the night of the 2lst.
Additional rural free delivery service
has been ordered established at Sagi-
nav, with three carriers, to take inn
mediate effect.
Passenger train No. IA, east bound
on the Michigan Central, struck and
killed young man, probably tramp,
at Wayne on the oath.
After year of prohibition, Ovid, at
the recent election, voted in favor of
granting licenses for saloons, and it is
likely that one or more will be opened
on May /.
Homer stands good chance of Sc
curing stave and bolt mill. All that
the men behind the project ask is a
long lease of piece of land upon
which to locate the mill
The newest Benton Harbor industry
is fruit package factory, which will
begin business about the middle of
next month and give employment to
quite number of people.
The disappearance of the snow shows
thousands OF quail dead in fence cor
ners and other protected places where
they were caught by heavy snowstorms
and smothered and frozen.
The jerks Shipbuilding company's
plant at Port Huron was damaged to
the extent of SITS, 900 by fire on the
Bignt bf the 1otn. Work on the boats
building there will necessarily be de-
layed.
Clinton county township treasurers
seem to be "onto their job" In four
townships not cent was returned as
delinquent, while the unpaid tax for
the whole county amounts to only
1881.
st. Andrews Roman Catholic cathed-
raj at Grand Rapids burned at at early
hour on the morning of the 25th, as
result of being struck by lightning.
The loss is about $50, 600, with only
$50, OoA insurance.
Paw Paw real estate man received
an offer from a Chicago man who
wanted to exchange 81, 900 gallons of
rye whisky for a Van Buren, county
fruit farm And Van Buren, is a pro.
hibition county. too.
The business men of Middleton, Ora
tiot county, believe that Tin union
there is strength. and have formed an
improvement association to secure the
location in the village OF cheese fac
tory and other industries
John d. Rockefeller, the standard
oil king, has disposed of his interest ;
in the iron business, including mines,
railways and lake transportation lines,
to the L. $. Steel corporation. Many
millions of dollars were involved in the
transaction.
Stock raising in the upper peninsula
is soon TO be given a practical test a
big stock farm will be established near
Sidnaw about April 1, mainly for the
breeding of Shrops ire sheep, although
cattle and Angora goats will also be
raised as side issue.
Word has been received at West
Branch from Eureka, Cal, that John
w. Wood has surrendered to the police
there. He is ex-township treasurer,
wanted in Goodar township charged
with EN- bezzliug 1925. An officer has
gone to bring him back.
In Leroy township Calhoun county
a farmer has this sign stuck up invit-
ing hunters TO make themselves at
home: Hunt all up d please. and
when you hear the bell ring, come up
to dinner" Several hunters had par
alysis when they read it,
Fergus, Saginaw county is most pro-
! life. While boring for coal, rock salt
was struck, and now salt block IS be-
ing built The find proved so pleasing
that it was determined to sink another
well in the hope of finding more salt.
Imagine the surprise of the workmen
TO find a six-foot vein of coal. 1t is
hard to tell what they will find next.
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