Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-02-28
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

The smallpox scare at Hudson has
completely died out.
There is talk of building canning
factory at Port Huron.
A So, 900 addition is TO be added to
the Hudson sanitarium.
A building boom is looked for at
Kalamazoo the coming summer.
Norway is to have a new bank,
which will open for business about
April 1,
One case of smallpox is reported at
Pinconning. Many people have been
exposed.
Van Buren, county will have nine
canning factories in operation the COM
ing summer.
Traffic on the +. & p. M. Ry. at Gus
ter was blocked for nine hours on the
Goth. Too much snow.
The total value of the railroads in
Michigan has been place d at $500, $780,
s62 by the tax commission.
Religious services by telephone was
installed in the First Baptist church
at Mt Pleasant on the cath.
Considerable hay has been shipped
from Reed City this winter. As a
usual thing this is imported.
Additional rural free delivery service
has been ordered established at How
ell, Livingston county, March 10.
Alma's sugar plant will increase its
capacity from 500 tons daily TO $50.
This will cost the company $4,000
The hearing of the contempt case
against eX-Gov. Pingree has again been
adjourned, this time until March 20.
A Cass City hotel proprietor adver-
tises that his house is convenient for
grip sufferers, being but one mile from
the cemetery.
The postofiice at Thompsonville will
become a presidential office on April /,
with salary for the postmaster of
81, 900 per year.
The lumber sales at Menominee dur
ing the past week were unusually
large-20, 0O0, 900 feet, all of which is
to be manufactured in that city.
A recruiting office to enlist men for
the regular army was opened at Ian
sing on the 10th, and IL young men,
mostly young farmers, passed the ex-
animation.
The taxpayers of Hesperia will vote
on the question of granting saloon
licenses at the spring election. There
has not been a saloon in the village
for some years
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Hunter, aged
residents of Croclery township met in
slant death at Ferrysburg on the 21st
Their team became unmanageable and
train struck them.
The water power at Morley has been
sold to some capitalists who will erect
large factory there giving employ
ment To many persons 1t will mean
b -ig boom for Morley.
A BLACK bear at the Page Fence Co. IS
park at Adrian became so ugly that
the keeper was forced to shoot him
and his ls5-pound carcass is in the
meat market of local dealer
There are over 800 cases of the grip
in Hudson and the immediate vicinity,
and many of them are of very serious
nature. A number of deaths have al
ready resulted from the effects of the
disease
More than 100 cars of field stone have
been shipped from Reed City to Lud-
ington this winter and as many more
will be shipped before summer. They
will be crushed and used on the streets
of Ludington.
The matter OF the extension Of the
Michigan Central railroad is at last
settled. 1t Will be made by the PEN
insula Refining company from Caro- TO
Sebewaing, and then running west to
the bay. Surveyors are at work upon
the new line.
The growth of the free rural mail de-
livery service will undoubtedly he a |
great help to the cause of good roads |
when the farmers who want such SER
vice come to realize that in laying out !
the routes the question OF whether the !
roads are good or bad is one of the inn !
portant things to be taken into consid- !
Grafton.
In December last Gottlieb Kast, of |
Marshall, secured divorce, after he |
and his wife had been trotting in |
double harness for 35 years. 1t was
not so easy as they thought to part |
after a companionship of so long a
time, and it didn't take them long to |
patch up their differences, and on the |
18th they were remarked
Citizens of Grand Ledge are divided |
on the effect of the announcement that |
railroads will run no more Sunday ex- |
cursion trains. The papers see the |
finish of the town as resort and do |
not know whether to attribute the |
cause to stricken conscience on the |
part of the railroad officials or to the |
fact that it is loss of so much cash by |
so doing.
A Carrie Nation crusade was inau- |
gurated at Port Huron on the 10th by |
Mrs. Chas. A. Rodes, of that city. She !
had repeatedly forbidden Saloonist !
Jas. Wilson to sell her 25-year-old son |
any liquor About a dozen bottles OF |
liquor and the glass door of the ca Sc
containing the wet goods was smashed |