Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-07-25

The Bloomingdale Cheese Factory
received over 27.00O pounds OF milk
during the month of May and paid the
patrons for the same $1,672.
The Supreme Tent, Knights of the
Maccabees, has dropped Major Boyn.
ton from his position as adviser at a
salary of $4,000 and also from the
| board of trustees.
| The 11-year-old son of Charles Wier,
OF Ann Arbor, died Tuesday from the
effects of kick in the abdomen re.
ceiyed In fight with young lad
about Il week ago.
Arthur Goldbeck, 2-year-old son Of
John Goldbeck, of Grand Rapids, died
| from the effects of excessive heat
| Tuesday night. The boy had been
playing In the sun.
The cruise of the Yantic ended in
Detroit Wednesday night Michigan's
Naval Reserve had fine cruise and
are to be congratulated for their eff
cheney and discipline.
Sheriff Hammond reports that the
Mason county jail received 800 prison
ers during the past year, of which only
- were women. The cost of maintain
ing the jail was $500.
Sugar beet weeders for the Lansing
sugar factory were paid over $4,000 for
their work last week. The company
has paid out upward Of $4,000 to the
weeders In this section.
The promoters of the Detroit, Pom
tiac. Lapeer and Northern electric rail
road have applied to Bay City for a
franchise from there to Detroit,
through Caro- and Lapeer.
The Adventists have paid $4,000 in
cash for the three Berrien Springs
farms upon which their S150,00O col
lege will be erected Work on the
building will begin at once.
GOV. Bliss has appointed Manville
jerks, of Ishpeming. Il member of the
state tax commission to fill the va
cancy caused by the failure of Graham
Pope, Of Houghton. to qualify.
Miss Phoebe Stevens, Il well-known
woman of literary ability, and William
C. Cockrill of Saginaw. were arrested
on charge Of grand larceny ut the in
stance of Cassopolis authorities.
Bryon Peck, of Allegan, weighed 800
ficted with blood poisoning and wasted
away until he weighed but so pounds,
and died He was 3S years old.
Bert Montgomery was released from
the Michigan reformatory, at Ionia on
parole making a total Of 125 prisoners
that have been released under the pa
role law since its enactment in 1898.
While Mrs Henry Elkins, of Entrl-
can. was ut her daughters home, her
son Howard. two years and three
months old. was missed After a
search they found his body in the els
tern.
Refrcshment booths will not be
found within the limits of the state
camp this year. as the military board
decided to grant no concessions, and to
accept no payment from any such en-
terprise.
Notes and mortgages found in hol-
low stump proved to he the property OF
Mrs David Myers of st. Joseph. hav-
ing been stolen from her residence a
few days ago. The cash taken Is still
missing
The 2-year-old child of James Jewell,
Of Negaunee. was playing about the
house when il fell into pan of boiling
milk. The little one was terribly
scalded and death soon relieved 1t from
its agony.
Raymond Cod. aged Il. an inmate Of
the reform school Mt Lansing for boys
ran away and was captured in Perry
after hard chase. He was sent from
Detroit two years ago for burglarizinE
a laundry.
The annual report Of Capt. Charles
Keller. in charge of river and harbor
work for the Grand Rapids, Mich, dis
trict, recommends appropriations for
the next fiscal year to the amount of
81, J4t, AL
There is something OF boom on in
Kalamazoo building circles. two of the
most important structures in sight be-
ing steel spring plant, and a hand
some new armory by Co. G, Second
Regiment.
Governor Bliss has issued call for
special election in the Tenth Con-
gressional district to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Rosseau o.
Cromp. The date of the election was
fixed on Oct. -.
Henry Willis and w. Il. Harmon
each claim $1,000 damages from John
Kiblor because. as they allege, beer
was sold to their minor daughters at
the defendants saloon. in St Joseph,
on Sunday, June o.
The land commissioner will confer
with the attorney general before issu-
ing patent to S. s. Olds for that por-
ton of the st. Clair Flats claimed by
him in accordance with the opinion Of
the Supreme Court.
Bay City's increase in personal as.
sessments is larger by far than last
year. One estate which escaped last
year is assessed at $4,000 this year,
and another personal assessment now
on the rolls Is one for $4,000.
The state land Office asserts that the
swamp land scrip held by L. w. Spar
row covers exactly the same lands at
the st Clair Flats as the Olds patent,
recently allowed by the Supreme
Court, and does not affect other lands.
+. A. Mckenzie. proprietor OF the
Quincy roller mills, was Stacking lime
in n pail when the mixture exploded,
filing his face and eyes with the burn
ing liquid and causing him intense suf-
fering. 1t is feared that his sight may