Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-08-27
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Cheboygan.
An up-to-date grain elevator is to be
erected at North Adams
Gratiot county pioneers will get to-
gether AT Ithaca OH September ?.
The plum crop of Kent county this
year is one of the largest ever known
in that section.
Oats in Chcboygan county are af-
fected with rust and will probably be
but half a crop.
Wakefield voters decided against
lightning plant.
Roy Fairfield, very popular young
man of Allegan. died from an opera
ton for appendicitis.
A calaboOse has finally been provid-
ed at Camden for the detention of
! folks who break the peace.
The experiment of sprinklng the
streets with oil instead of water to lay
the dust will be tried at Ludington.
/ Sylvester Campbell. retired farm
er, and pioneer of Allegan county,
/ is dead. He was :, Democratic leader.
Mrs. Mary Newman. aged 90. widow
| of Sidney 5. Newman. died at Port
land. She had resided there since 1857.
After authorizing bond issue OF
100000 for sewers. Jackson finds that
the charter does not authorize it to do
! so.
/ Notwithstanding the open season is
| still two months distant, quail are be-
ing shot in great numbers In Huron
county.
Lightning set on fire and burned two
large barL.s on Mrs. Julia Bldwells
farm, six miles north Of Brighton.
Loss. $4,000.
The Michigan commission for the st.
louis fair Is considering three sets Of
| plans for the state building, which is
TO cost $4,000.
John Waterman. of Ithaca. is proud
of the fact that five generations Of
the Waterman family have fought for
their country in five different wars
Commercial fishermen at Ludington
! say that never before has the fishing
! business been so poor as this summer.
and they are unable 10 account for ii.
1t is authoritativoly .."nouIlced Unit
r----, D -L---.,,- 49, built from Lake
wood, Where the Lakewood = lumber
Co.'S mills are located. to Cheboygan.
! An incoming excursion train on the
| Grand Trunk line at Saginaw killed
: Peter Sluski. an employe of the com
pany. Sluski was walking OH the
track.
The sale Of the Montag que property
Mt Caro- yesterday realized about IL
per cent OF the appraised valuation OF
the stock, as valued by Charles Mon
taguc.
Several Greenville people have solved
the heat question for next winter.
In the vicinity is fine peat bog and
the people have dug up sufficient to
last them all the winter.
John French, of Hilsdale. who has
been working OH ]. Powers farm. in
Remington township, was placed un-
der arrest Friday. a,s he had suddenly
became violently insane.
A horse belonging to Harry Burke,
Of OwossO, was stung TO death by
bees Burke had tied the animal Sc
curely near bee hives, and when he
returned he found II dead.
Albert Vosburg, Pere Marquette
brakeman. was knocked from train
four miles south of Newaygo Tuesday
evening, 10y striking bridge. and
killed. His home was in Allegan.
The steamer Glenn. operating be-
tween st. Joe. South Haven and Hol-
land was taken off the east shore
route and will run between Glenn pier
and South Haven, in the peach trade.
Another Battle Creek industry, the
Advance Pump & Compressor Works. |
joined the force of shops that work |
night and day. There are now several |
industries that never close their |
doors.
For the tilird time this summer the |
awnings in front of j. V. Defoe's store |
at Adrian burned Sunday afternoon |
and from the same cause. viz. cigar |
cite smokers in rooms above dropping |
their Stumps down.
The board OF supervisors Of Bay |
county have laid down the law for
scorching automobiles with Il venge-
ance. II rs that the limit of speed ON
country roads anywhere in the county
shall not exceed 20 per cent.
Convict George Dwight. familiarity
known as ''Frenchy," was captured
near Aurelius. little village 20 mil -
north OF jackson. Tuesday. Dwight.
in company with Convict Sxahan. took
French leave of the prison on the 14th
inst.
John, a married son of ]. Il. Near
thur. the well-known Cheboygan lum-
herman is charged with having NAL
treated the II and 1I-year-old daugh-
tiers Of a poor neighbor while they
were working for him on his fathers
farm in Munro township. He cannot
be found.
1t Is explained In Washington that
although Gov. Bliss was inclined 10
treat the matter as joke. he IS on.
titled under the law TO pension Of
S12 month for the reason that he ~
no longer able TO perform manual la
Dor. The injuries he received M n
Fourth Of July celebration had nothing
Ia do with II.