Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-11-06
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Inere is 10-year-old boy who is
attracting attention in Ogemaw as "A
preacher of the gospel.
Kalamazoo physicians have COM
bined to raise the price OF day calls to
Sl.5o and night calls to $3.
Local attorneys assert that the
claim of Geo Schneider. OF Detroit. tn
a large section of Sturgis is outlawed.
The average wages paid to women
FACTORY employees in Lansing Is Oh
cents q day. In many cities 1t Is but
az cents.
The nut crop throughout Michigan
this year is said to be larger than
usual. Walnuts in particular are a
/ large crop.
Gladstone business men have formed
an association the object Of which is
4 TO secure the location of beet sugar
4 factory In their city
Hoprie Greer, of Owosso. an expert
4 cheese maker and manager OF the Bur-
/ ton cheese factory. aged 30, and re-
! Gently married, is missing.
Potatoes stored for winter shipment
are being taken out and shipped as fast
as possible because of n rot that Is
| threatening to destroy them.
The Michigan Central Traction Com
/ pany has been incorporated with 5000
/ COO capital 10 build an electric line be-
/ tween Lansing and Battle Creek.
by premature explosion in Walpole
! mine, Iron Mountain, six men were in
! jured. Two of them, Capt. Benjamin
Martin and John Beard, cannot live.
Tho city of Owosso is buying soft
! coal from Ohio in the open market ut
| ST. ton f. o. b. The best private
consumers can do on soft coal is 1928
Il ton.
John Rigling. of Owosso, shot at
! burglar retreating through a window
Tuesday night and the retreating
marauder left u trail Of blood. He got
no plumber
The three weeks old child of Mr..
! and Mrs. Joseph Surfer, living about
six miles in the country, was smoth-
cred to death while the couple were
driving to Hart
During the electrical storm Sunday.
| Mr.. Manch. of Sand Hill. was holding
his horses In a church shed in Redford,
when both horses were struck by
! lightning and killed.
Lightning struck the sheds at the
Maccabee hall at Bell Branch. killing
three horses and badly shocking Henry
| Lacy. who was holding his horse by
tile head when 1t was killed.
The common council of Owosso has
declared in favor of public lighting
plant. and a committee has been APP
pointed to look up the matter at once.
The OwoSso x COrunna Electric Co.'S
service is unsatisfactory.
A. l.. Stephens. member of the board
of the Home for the Feeble Minded,
| and w. ii. Moriarity. member Of the
Marquette prison board. have resigned.
Gov. Bliss has appointed Geo Nestor.
of Detroit to fill the first named va
cancy.
The Kennedy Paper Co. purchasers
Of the plant Of the Ann Arbor Print
ing Co, are removing the former plant
of the Ypsllantl Commercial to Ann
Arbor. The Ypsi departments of the
Argus and Times will hereafter be
separated
Prof. Francis Kelsey, head Of the
Latin department of the University OF
Michigan, is I'm n critical condition
from complication of ailments. His
engagements as a nonresident lectur-
er at number of universities have
been Cancelled.
Because he sat in a chair instead of
regular seat in a car that got into a
collision. the supreme court denies
Alonzo O. Freeman, of Lansing, dam
ages for injuries he received. The
court holds that Freeman did not ex-
ercise due caution.
Somebody put four pounds of dyna-
mite i'm the foundation wall Of George
Brownelrs house. about five miles east
of Marshall, Tuesday night and tried
to explode the stuff. Owing TO poor
connection the fuse burned out with
out setting off the explosive.
f. G.. Hale, a Grand Rapids labor
| ing man, while walking home from
work at night, was struck and killed
| by a Michigan Central passenger train
at Hall street crossing. The body
was frightfully lacerated the flesh be-
ing literally stripped from the bones.
l.. Rogers. Of Marengo. has delivered
the third crop of strawberries raised
on the same vines on his farm this
year. lie retaied the first crop for
| 10 cents per quart. the second for IL
res are large and Of excellent quality.
Wright & Hood. of Big Rapids. have
| purchased the Mears water power mill
mt Boync Falls. 1t will be thoroughly
ovcrhauled and retitted with new ma
chinery. Wright q Hood are large
manufacturers of sash and doors. The
plant at Boyne Falls will be utilized
In working up all timber which has
been regarded as waste.
The Pointe Aux Barques asssocia-
ton has large force OF men at work
charging the club house to double its
present capacity and next season it
will accommodate 1000 guests. A
number of new cottages are also to be
erected. The season recently closed is
said to have been the most successful
In the history Of the resort.
VIM. II. Kirby. OF Detroit. was
brought to Saginaw Thursday from
Bay City. where he was arrested. 1t is
| alleged that Kirby and q companion