Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-07-30

THOUSANDS OF DuShelS OF the nnest
huckleberries that ever grew will go
20 waste in Iosco county on account OF
the scarcity of pickers.
The proposition to bond Van Buren,
township for $1,000 10 build a new
school was carried by II TO ut tile
special election. The school board al
ready has $4,000. and the erection OF n
$4,000 building is contemplated.
Gov. Bliss has appointed Edwin +.
Lewis, Codwater; Gen. Frederick ).
Hutchinson, Ionia, and Maj. George
III. Hopkins Detroit, commissioners 10
mark the positions of the Michigan
troops at the battle Of Nicksburg.
Houghton boasts % the Oldest fire
company In the upper peninsula. 1T
WAS organized in 1850. and has been
hn active service ever since. Most of
she charter members are dead. and
ahe few that are left are widely scat
tered
The champion huckleberry picker OF
The season SO far reported is Clayton
Deake. of near Worthwhile. who picked
three and half bushels Of the fruit
in six and Il quarter hours, wading in
water about four feet deep to OBJ
tain il.
Waldron citizens are trying TO or
ganiZe a company TO stare hank i'm
their village Not IA one-man bank
ike the one that failed there two
years age, but a stock company COM
posed of its own citizens and con-
trolled 10y them.
William Rudland. of Lapeer town
ship, has disappeared completely and
foul play IS suspected. He left his
home July { to purchase horse five
miles distant. He started TO return
from there, and since that time all
trace of him has been lost.
Efhe Hull, a 14-year-old girl being
held at the Ithaca Jail as witness
against her stepfather Frank thinner,
has given birth TO a baby girl The
girl may not live to testify against
thinner, as since the child's birth she
has been Ill with commissions.
The Ironwood company. of the Third
Regiment, National Guard, which Mai.
Wood criticised in his recent inspec-
ton. will be mustered out at once by
order of the state military board.
There will probably be a number of
applicants for the vacancy.
Investigation shows that Louis Ri
ward. Of Bay City, came to his death
at the Hecla plant by placing his foot
accidentally over a 12-inch conveyor
Iopening. The screw mangled his leg
horribly, stripping off ali the fies He
could not survive the shock.
Charles Honson, a negro, sent to the
Marquette prison from Mecosta in 1901
for assault, has gone insane. Charles
Johnson, Of Houghton county, has also
gone insane in the prison recently Ed
ward Alore, of Bay, was insane when
he was sent TO the institution.
Johnnie Lagregren, of Negaunee, be-
coming possessed Of a mining cap"
experimental with it until it was dis
charged. The tops of three fingers on
one hand and two on the other were
blown off, and an ugly wound inflicted
in his side. His condition is serious
No raw troops will participate in the
Newport, KY, maneuvers. Those
from Michigan must be we'll drilled in
the manual of arms and in guard duty
and battalion drill, as we'll as in other
things which can be learned at the
home armories, including loading anc
firing.
\ pot hunter at Milo has been arrest
ed, charged with killing two beavers
in the beaver colony on the Au Sable.
lf the law that protects beavers is
strictly enforced, these industrious
animals will soon establish colonies
pn nearly all the northern Michigan
streams
South Lyon is preparing for n big
A sa a,
set for the annual jubilee and celc-
bration of the Maccabees of the coun-
~. A large amount of money has
been raised for cash prizes for various
sports. and there will be doings from
morning till night.
Mrs. Fred Lacass, of Flushing was
painfully injured while helping her
husband harvest hay She was driving
the tedder when jerk Of the horses
threw her in front of the machinery.
The tedder passed over her, the forks
penetrating her body to a depth in
places of several inches.
Walter Corbeille, 15-year-oI0
Houghton lad, was watching GOLF
game ana was warned to get out of
the way, but he lodged behind mark |
er, placed his hands over his face and
said, Here's where ! get killed" 4
ball struck him on the right temple |
and he died in three hours.
George Gougeon. of Bay City. is the |
father Of If children. He was checking |
up a few days ago. and found that |
there have been II cases OF fractured |
bones among the II. All kinds of bones |
have been broken. arms, legs, collar |
bones and ribs. but the youngsters |
have taken it all i'm good part. as if |
was something they had coming to
them anyway.
Tho people OF Wakefield. Gogeb,c
Co, have for some time been discuss
ing the question Of putting in n $4,000 |
flectric light plant which will furnish
lights for the village and also the adj
Joining mines. As result of the de-
alterations, It has been decided to hold |
a special election for the purpose of |
voting the authority and funds needed
to Install the proposed Improvement
While the Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union was holding a picnic |
at Eastman Springs Saturday to Sc
cure funds for keeping in existence
nm industrial school running in Benton
Harbor as an auxiliary of that organ