Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-11-26

lave a newspaper soon.
There are 52i.Gis dwellings In Mich
igan and 5iS.O64 families.
Albion city fathers have decreed that
the slot machines must go.
Alden Is 10 have a commercial eicc-
trio lighting plant next spring.
4 drill boy fell 10 feet in Calumet
mine and escaped without injury.
There are 24O resident Chinese and
nine resident Japanese in the state.
A Baraga sawmill has turned out
20.00O,0O0 feet OF lumber since last
spring.
In six months, Grand Rapids has
expended 100000 in building new
EOuses.
over 10000 sheep will be wintcred
within a radius Of dve miles of Con-
stantine.
Al Lexington there is man so mean
that he steals the chimneys off tho
street lamps.
An Escanaba man bagged four wild.
cats recently. The bounty and pelts
nettcd him $50.
Society item from Lexington: Two
automobiles were on our streets at the
same time today
For the first time in several years
Cadillac Is being visited by Il brigade
or Salvat!onists.
Linden Presbyterians have secured
Rev. Albert Ross. of Huron county,
as their new pastor.
A Clinton county exchange cheerful
ly speaks OF n plan to make a ceme'
terry more inviting"
4 pig. a sheep, a bag of beans and II
crop of plums were stolen from Mi
Owosso farmer recently.
Ypsilant farmers complain that tn
ground is too dry and that nightly
freezing Is injurlng the wheat.
\ crusade has been started in Mo-
nominee against parents who fail II
send their children 10 school.
Two men caught go pounds of trou'
with hooks and lines i'm one day o.!
Grand island. in Lake Superior.
\ Houghton man who hunts AMI
traps In the Nestoria woods, killed
four wolves and wildcat IN October.
Without moving from his tracks. "a
rori hunter killed three decr-dnck.
utcs.
4 3-months-old St Joe kitten.
scarcely foot long, swallowed l.
inch hat pin, head and ALL ami lived
tor week.
To expedite the handling Of insane
men MenOuince county has bought
straight jacket with straps for the
hands and feet.
The water in Marquette tastes So
strongly of creoSOte that the citizens
have called upon The board os water
commissioners, to,pvcsiigate.
A coppet dctSGH rich in quality and
OF immense extent has been discovered
near Carney.
Peter psyhoyioS, Greek bootblack
ut Muskegon. has petitiOned the city
TO reduce his license of $25 year.
Caroline and Jacob Hathaway both
octogcnarians of Owosso. want Il di-
vorce after being married 30 years.
Menomnee county must have bad
lot of peOple-thls years court record
already shows 400 criminal cases.
Port Huron gets one of the 10 branch
normal schools doled ont this year Ivy
the department OF public Instruction.
BY the falling Of the light tower nj
| Petoskey, Capt. VIM. Huckett. the
! lightkeepcr. was dangerously injured.
! The chrysanthemum king of tho
country Is Elmer Smith. OF Adrian. His
beauties have won prizes all over Am
erica.
A noblc-hcarted thief visited the
woodpilc Of HI old grandma in Bloom.
ingdac one night recently and walked
of with her wood
A syndicate has purchased 30 acres
OF land along Lake Michigan near Ma
| catawa Park. with view 10 develop
ing summer resort.
The proprietors Of three South Ha-
ven drug stores, alarmed because OF
the grand jury proceedings, have closed
their places Of business.
Stephen Nichols. Palmer young
man, has BEEN lost in the woods for
I over a week. IL Is feared he persisted
| in the recent snowstorm.
The calendar for the November term
Of the Menominee circuit court Is one
| OF the SHldleSl III years. lHtIe uit
but four criminal cases and IL civil
cases.
An unknown hunter shot Charles
! Fenton, an Escnnaba lumbernan
through the legs and then ran away
without assisting his victim. FentoT
Will live.
Grand Rapids is fourth in the list OF
cities having the largest number OF
students In the u. of NJ, and Is first
in the number OF students In the en-
gineering department.
While splitting wood. a 76-year-old
Ontonagon man got the AK tangled In
his clothing and chopped two fingers
nearly off his left hand. He under
went the sewing and dressing Of HE
fingers wthout,an anaesthetlc.
Relatives OF Henry Hensler. the in
sane soldier In the Logansport asylum
whose pension OF $50 month has nc
cumulated for q years. making an es.
tate OF $4,000. are trying to seep the
property from revertng 10 the govern.
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