Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-04-17
AROUND THE STATE.


Union City has 100000 yeast
company and factory to make the
riser.
Only one man voted i'm Montague
against bonding the village $4,000 for
furniture factory.
The complete force around the
Grand Trunk depot and freight house
at Ovid has resigned.
Another bank is to be started in
Cadillac, which will be known as the
Peoples Saving bank.
Constable Ellsworth Tibbets has
been appointed deputy game and fish
warden for Calhoun county.
Howell is offered a $4,000 Carnegie
library with the usual 10 per cent stip-
ulation for the maintenance.
The postal authorities have barred
the World Co., of Battle Creek. a cray
Oh portrait company, from the mails.
A special session OF the board of
supervisors of Ingham county will be
called shortly 10 make arrangements
for the construction Of the new court
house.
4 new wholesale establishment has
been located i'm Durand The company
will jsb fruit of all kinds. having 10.
Gated there on account of the shipping
facilities.
Jerome Moore. jcweler. OF Shelby.
was sentenced in the Circuit Court to
so days in Jail for an attempted as.
sault upon the 12-year-old daughter OF
II. ID. Trim, of Shelby, last winter.
The safe in d. +. Lapham's private
bank was burglarized some time Sat
urday morning. and the burglars sue
ceeded in getting away with about
$1,000 in money and $3.50 In checks.
The Michigan Suburban Co. which
is operating a line between Lansing
and st. Johns. and the Pere Marquette
Co. have reached an agreement rela-
tive to the overhead crossing at Ian
sing.
Emily Rhea, aged 81, OF Menominee,
who took carbolic acid and died at the
Merchants hotel In Chicago, may not
be brought TO her home for burial as
her parents are too poor to pay the eX-
pense.
Tie Saginaw plate glass factory
commenced operations Monday morn.
ing, making its first cast of glass. The
company was organized in December
1900, and has the largest factory in
the city.
]. w. Martin has been granted 35.
year franchise for 81 gas company
at Pontiac The city reserves the
right to purchase at any time. The
new company will compete with the
old one.
The prison board of control have
adopted new code OF rules which
specifically prohibits discipline by cor
poral punishment. OF recent years
lodgings have been of less frequent
occurrence.
George Tyler, Of Pulaski, recently
lost COW that was remarkable in
many ways. The animal was 26 years
old She was the mother of twenty-one
calves In her time and has living 1876
descendants.
Bert Cameron, OF Dollarville. Luce
county, didn't believe i'm savings
banks. He had $3.50 in cash and kept
il IN an old satchcl in his house He
still has the satchel. but does not know
VINO has the money.
The q o'clock closing movement In.
augurated last week ut Negaunee. be-
tween merchants and Retail Clerks
Association, has failed. All stores but
one kept the agreement. The move.
mcnt was not popular.
Nearly one hundred clergymen and
laymen from the cities and villages of
western Michigan attended the annual
meeting of the Grand Rapids presby
terry, which convened at Westminster
Presbyterian church I'm Grand Rapids.
Moderator Jewell. of lonia. presides.
Judge \. T.. Thomas died at Port
Huron Of Brights disease, The Judge
took sick about three months ago. and
tho bar granted him leave OF absence
to recuperate. lie went as far as Lon.
don. Ohio. when he took sick and was
| brought home OH stretcher. He
never rallied sufficiently to leave his
bed. and for the past few weeks has
been I'm q seml-conscious state.