Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-01
STATE NEWS IN DnIEr

Counterfeit silver dollars are In cir
culation at Hancock.
Nashville schools are closed on ac-
count Of diphtherla and scarlet fever.
Michigan mines and quarries are
held at total valuatlon of S71 .60S,JlG.
The wild carrot r. becoming I'M
profitably numerous around Plymouth.
Mrs. Catharine Powell. OF Menom-
inee, Is eat-grandmother at the age
OF 60.
Upper peninsula lumber operators
complain OF scarcity of men for their
camps.
Hlllsdale's last victim Of smallpox
has recovered and 10 further cases are
probable.
Geo. Bridinger. OF Wheeler. Gratiot
county, thrashed 561 bushels OF oats
from ten acres.
The Monroe Folding Box Co. was
organized Monday, capitalized at $780,.
900, all paid in.
Hancock's council DEGREES that moth.
Ing but concrete walks can be put
down hereafter.
A Traverse City high-spirited girl
made an Interstate trip on an engine
and enjoyed the dirt.
The Niles district Epworth League
convention will he held In Three Riv-
ers October 20 and II.
Lawrence taxpayers have voted 10
bond the village for $1,000 for cleo
trio lights and water.
With city population OF 1000,
Manistique's two banks report depos
its aggregating x51a.lJl.SS.
Chicken thieves have been doing
large business In northern branch and
southern Calhoun counties.
Patrick BolaDd. one OF the earliest
settlers in Ingham county, is dead al
his home in Meridian township.
A Bagley farmer raised a pumpkin
weighing thirty-two pounds and meas.
uring over two feet III diameter
Girls are like wine-they grow bet
ter thn age or turn sour" says YER
satile Editor Keyes, of Lexington.
John Hamilton, a judge at the West
Michigan state fair. hasn't missed Il
fair In Grand Rapids for 30 years.
AS the result of bolt Of lightning
a Muskegon manufacturing plant is in
ruins and - men are out Of work.
TO work their way through Olivet
college two students have opened up
general notion store in the village.
4 $4,000 memorial for the late Dir.
II. G. Kedze is 10 be erected In Lam
sing by alumni of the Agricultural Col
lege.
Stephcnsons school board forbds
teachers 10 attend dances or parties,
lay or night, while school lis in SOS
Mt. Pleasant is TO have 4 general
free delivery Of mail as soon as the
houses in the city have been num-
bered.
Escanaba has more sickness at pres.
cnt this year than ever before in the
city's history. including - eases Of
typhoid.
Three men were arrested in Niles for
stealing two Panama hats. 1t is the
end OF the season and the sentence will
he light.
Dimple. Daisy and Dot Redden. three
pretty girl triplcts. recently celebrated
| their 2lst birthday at their home in
Buchanan.
BY the explosion OF soda fountain
at Goguac Lake The pavilion floor was
torn up and the fountain operator bad
ly injured.
Since the beginning OF the spicy d.
vorce suit i'm Port Huron many prom
inent society people. fearing entangle
ment. have left town.
The late Jasper Simons. OF Rattle
Creek. was the youngest of IL children
and not until he reached his 47tl year
did any Of the family die.
The management OF the Sylvan
Beach resort OH White Lake has de-
cded TO kill off all red squirrels and
chipmunks on the grounds.
The passing Of the timber Industry
at Menominee Is illustrated by The fact
that this year the big factories are
compelled to use coal for fuel.
Roscoe Huston. the new manager of
the u. Of NJ. Daily, has returned from
cheap 10 weeks trip to England. lie
says his total expense was 500.
The increase in Owosso property
valuation amounts To \ per cent. The
rate of increase throughout the coun.
~ ranges from 10 to 20 per cent.
Many counterfeit silver dollars are
in circulation around Galien and il Is
thought that they are being manufac-
turcd somewhere IN that vicinity
Saginaw capitalists have purchased
800 acres Of land near Omer in which
there Is an immense bed of clay. They
will erect n big brick plant there.
Grand Rapids parties are contem.
plating organizing n company TO be To-
Gated at Ionia for the purpose of manu-
featuring metal furniture OF all kinds.
Charcoal furnaces Of the upper pen.
insula clear OIL 10000 acres OF wood
lands per annum, or All average Of 30
acres day for every day i'm the year
\ willow tree Is causing all kinds
Of trouble in Flint. Its roots have fol-
lowed and entered the tile of a sewer
and it has become clogged as a result
Ingham and Calhoun county farm.
ers have been notified that III the roads
along the rural ma II delivery routes are
not improved In short order, the ser
vice will be withdrawn.
Carl and Claude Jackson. Kalama zoo
twins, are so much alike that at the
laundry. where they are employed. one
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