Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-06
MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS.

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Monroe has good chance to secure
a beet sugar factory, and may land it.
fruit canning company, with $780,
600 capital, has been formed at Kala-
mazoo.
Martin Tiffany, of Manhattan, sui
cided at Chicago on the both by the
carbolic acid route. Motive unknown.
Coldwater has not far from 40 miles
of Portland cement sidewalks; in fact
the city claims to have the best side
walks in America for a town of like
size.
A small boy at Athens called the vii
lage marshal blockhead, and the of
ticer proved that the boy was right by
arresting him and taking him to the
lookup.
The recent petty thieving at Detroit
has led the police TO believe that it is
the work of an organized band of boys,
and they are now working on this
theory.
1t is claimed that the Boyne river
has wonderful curative properties, and
that many people have been cured of
rheumatism by simply wading in its
waters.
The Hessian fly is playing havoc
with wheat fields in the vicinity Of
Coldwater. Whole fields have been
plowed up, and the outlook for even a
fair crop is discouraging.
The Office of the Wenona Coal Co,
near the mouth of the Kawkawlin river.
was burglarized on the night of the
eth. The robbers got SOS in cash and
s@7 worth of postage stamps.
Since promising coal indications have
been found in Meridian township Ing
ham county, the farmers there are en-
joyiug good times, as capitalists are
buying leases of all the land they can
| secure.
The divorce business in Calhoun
county has taken big jump and all
records were broken during the month
of May. County Clerk Austin com
menced 12 cases and issued only 81
marriage licenses.
| Nearly 10000 people witnessed the
unwilling of the memorial cannon on
the court house square, Mt. Clemens,
on the 3oth. The monument was
erected in memory of Maj-Gen. Alex.
Macomb, for whom the county was
named
The project of forming new local
military companies is being actively
agitated at Ionia and Ludington, which
cities are now not represented in the
state national guard. There is also
considerable talk at Escanaba along
| the same line.
The Howard City high school was
the scene of much excitement on the
27th. Prof. Fuller undertook to pun
ish VIM. Steenman, who retaliated on
the professor in John l.. style, giving
him three hard blows The professor
then BACKED Steenman's eyes and put
him out of school. Steenman would
have graduated this year.
Judge West, in the circuit court on
the 2sth ordered the state cases against
Chas. II. Pratt, Edgar j. Adams. VIM.
A. French and j. II. Brown placed on
| the calendar. Prosecutor futile had
requested that the cases be nolle
pressed but Judge West could not see
it in that light. The cases were con-
tinued until September term.
The project to connect Saginaw and
Grand Rapids by means of an electric
railway is now assured of success the
company having been incorporated
with 81, 900, 900 capital and the bonds
having been taken by an eastern syn
dicatc. The route will be from Grand
Rapids to Greenville thence TO Stan
ton. Edmore, Lake Odessa. Alma and
st. Louis.
Can you give me two silver dollars
for this chicken feed?" asked a local
wag the other day as he entered the
| First State bank at Albion. Certainly"
said the obliging cashier, and he
handed out the coin. The wag then
produced the chicken feed-an ear of
corn 1t is such incidents as these
that make life worth the living in the
small cities.
Edward Gordon, of Tekonsha. is
winning fame as chicken farmer. He
runs a large number of incubators and
breeders and raises chickens by the
| thousand. When the chicks weigh
two pounds they are placed on the
market, the price being IL to IS cents
pound. Mr.. Gordon claims the chicks
cost about five cents each when ready
for market
/ Dr. ID. c. Thomas, aged &C, of Adj
rian, died very suddenly on the both of
| heart failure. He was on his way to
the Lima Northern depot and ran
short distance in order to get his train.
he being little late, and as he reached
the depot he suddenly sank lifeless to
the platform. He was on his way TO
fill an appointment to deliver Memo
rial Day address
A Mendon paper reads the riot act TO
the townspeople thusly; 'Mendon
needs factory. The decrease of pop
ulation and the increase of empty
houses is soaring the property owners
and merchants Heretofore every in
dustry has been discouraged instead of
encouraged, but if some employment
is not furnished the laboring class. in
short time the village will resemble
a graveyard.
The Lenawee Hoop Co., new con.