Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-09-17
sTA.E NEWS ~ uRIEr


4 The Messa~e is the name of Morley's
new newspaper.
Most Of the Touring mills in Michi-
gan are running night aud day.
\ couuany is being organized at
Quincy to bore for oil in the vicinity.
\ Strdivarius violin. 100 years old,
is. owned by j. Il. Smith. OF Arm Arbor.
The Ironwood council has followed
Flint in tnbooing the deadly toy pistol
Ten-year-od Martin cole. of Green
vile. was arrested for starting bon
frs.
uat ara pea crops are mostly all har
vested la A.pena county, and were big
crops.
Since January l there have been
l.2232 deeds recorded in Menominee
county.
An enterprlSing agent has been doing
Montpelier. selling patent hens eggs to
kill chicken lice.
As IL result of ''hltchiug on" trains,
Herman Wetzel. aged l., OF Owosso,
is minus his right les.
Brooklyn ana Reading citizens have
OTGIUlItu II wire Itlltt ldClOIN 10 Dt
loca ted at the latter place.
Ed Whitaker. OF Adrian. had to
pay a board bill Of So for beating a
horse with Il stick Of timber
DR.. l. 7. Alger. one of the last of
Branch county's pioneer physicians. is
dying at his home in Coldwater.
ConStantine's new paper mill, now in
operation is considered one of the most
thoroughly equipped in the state.
Northvile's ice dealers don't have to
he entirely disconsolate this summer.
They are also in the fuel business.
Mason county's peach crop is about
half OF last years. but the quality is
excellent. There will be no late crop.
Work has begun on the Adventist
school at Battle Creek. The building
will cover n ground area of 4SX6O feet.
An $500 soldiers monument will be
erected in the Hllsdale cemetery
through the local work of the w. r. c.
Houghton and Hancock business
men have pledged $1,000 10 cover the
mortgage OH the Portage Lake Y NJ.
G. A..
Bay City gardeners who raised cu-
cumbers for the two local picking in
stitutions, report big profits from their
crops.
Pentland township farmer refused
$40 an acre for his farm because he
didn't want To clear another farm for
a home.
Charles Deck Of Austin. tried kero-
sene as n remedy for kidney worms In
H., hogs. II killed the worms-and the
hogs. too.
|. Shields. at Hubbardston. saloonist.
was bound over for trial on the charge
that he did not remove his screens Oh
Memorial day.
An Ontonagon match company cut
over 20OO0.O00 feet of pine last win
ter and are preparing to double the
amount this winter.
An index covering all the work Of
the Chippewa county courts from 1895
up to date Is being made in the county
clerks office ut the 500.
Three Rivers will celebrate the com
pletior Of paving and other improve
mems with three days festival com
mencing September 80.
FREQ IstuPeT, Oh tbeTTlen, sentenced
to four and half years In Jackson
for stealing jug of whisky. has been
parolcd by the governor
At the annual meeting Of School Dis
trict No. OF Hilsdale. Monday night.
IL was voted to raise $4,000 by loan
TO erect new high school
This il the first year in five when
the wheat raised in the stat has been
perfect The kernels are plump and
hard and make excellent -four
Roscoe Guthrie. OF Morse township.
BACKED his mustache with stove pol
ish before visiting his girl. The next
morning her face was a picture.
Saginaw capitalists have purchased
800 acres OF land near Omer in which
there Is an immense bed Of clay. They
will erect a big brick plant there.
Rrown City woman threw a NAL
let at rabbit scamperlng across her
croquet lawn. The rabbit escaped. but
not 40 a six-foot plate glass window.
An enterprislng Worthwhile youngster
who found a lusty tarantula In bunch
OF bananas. has Gagged the poisonous
thing and Is charging 1 cent q look AT
II.