Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-09-10

pop. n Livonia young man was struck
In the right eye by a piece of broken
glass; He may lose the eye.
One enterprislng fsrmer In South
Michigan has protected his S0-acre
corn field from the wet by stretching
tarpaulins on frame work Of posts.
Edward Nault. OF Marquette, fell on
a band saw in the railway shops and
the teeth ripped his head open. If he
RECEIVERS he will probably be paralyzed.
placed beedle In hollow log. Re-
Gently he reached In 10 get II and was
bitten by massasauga. He will re-
cover.
The construction OF the new cream
cry at Clark's Lake has been begun,
and 1t Is expected the plant will be
finished In time TO begin operation No
yember 1.
Little 1-year-old Bessie Hines. OF
Livingston. tumbled out OF the ham,
mock and broke her arm-which
wouldn't have happened IL Bessie had
been older.
Singed eyebrows. bald head ana
badly burnt hands are pleasant remin-
ders to Long Lake man that he
started the fire with gasoline instead
OF kerosene.
| Because neighbors horse had wan
dered into his field a Wexford county
man filled his shotgun with beans and
| buckshot and fired the charge into the
horses side.
A company has been organized at
| Charlotte for the manufacture Of peat
| fuel. The plant has been capitalized mt
100000 and will have capacity OF
200 tons daily.
A drunken man carrying water
melon addressed negress on the
street AT Escanaba. with the result
that the watermelon and the mans
head were badly smashed.
| Because Rose City woman sat up
Till l o'clock waiting for her spouse
10 come home and then found him up
stairs peacefully snoring. she wouldn't
! speak TO him for three days.
At Grand Rapids there is a move
ment on foot to combine the offices OF
supply clerk. superintendent of jani-
tors and superintendent Of construc-
tion with that Of secretary Of the board
OF education.
Allegan voted Monday on issuing
bonds TO provide an electric lighting
plant The vote was very light one,
only 433 votes being cast. or this
number only 50 votes were cast in ia
vor Of the proposition.
The legal battle between the con-
tractors who threw up the canal job
and Port Huron has begun, the city
officials having been served with pa
pers OF commencement Of suit in the
United States court in chancery.
A White Oak man has mammoth
team OF horses which he was advised
to sell to the circus but the animals
were too tall 10 ride In the cars and
the sale fell through. The combined
weight of the horses is 4.210 pounds.
The wife of Walter Coins, bal
loonist, was arrested Friday on
Charge OF bigamy, IL being alleged
that she married Coins while still un.
divorced from Frank Youngs. whom
she married at Grand Rapids in 1900
w. r. Mcdonald. Of Prescott. owns
gold watch and chain. which were
manufactured in London I'm 1862 and
were owned by Bishop Mcdonald of
lnvernesshire. Scotland. the present
owners great at-creat-gran uncle.
Berrien county fruit growers are be-
coming disciples Of grape culture.
While many men in the county have
grown very wealthy by growing
pea ches. II Is believed that by growing
grapes even more money can be made.
Quartermaster-Gene Kidd has
been instructed by the state military
board 10 buy 1000 new straw ticks for
use of the Michigan national guard i'm
Kentucky. All the bedding for the
state troops was burned in the fire at
Manistee.
MIR. and Mrs. Richard Esslnger
were arrested at Round Lake Thurs
day OH a charge of the larceny Of
cigars, soaps and groceries from Har-
vey Shaver, proprietor of a res rt no.
tel at the LAKE. Each paid a fine of
$50 and costs.
The states contention that II owns
the st. Clair Flats lands is upheld by
State Geologist Lanes finding that no
part OF the flats that is now lake bot
tom was land 30 TO 80 years ago. when
the general elevation If the lake was
the same as at present
Sine. April !, OF this year. twenty
persons have met violent deaths al
Battle Greek. Five were killed by
railroads. four by shooting. three by
burns of one kind or another two by
sunstroke, two by drowning two by
falls and two from flying timbers.
Because no tents could be gotten
from the state quariermaster until Oct.
:. there will he no annual encamp-
ment OF the old soldiers and sailors OF
the Grand River valley. which has
been held at Grand Rapids for 10
years.
III. Leppink 4 Co.. the Grand Rapids
coal dealers. accused OF giving short
weight TO the government in the de-
livery of coal under contract. by the
use OF burr on the scales. have sold
out Following the sensational expo
sure, customers kept telephone wires
busy cancelling orders. until business
was almost at n standstill.
After taking nap with his dog in
an unused cottage ut the further eud
Of his farm, Stockbridge man started
home, thoughtlessly. locking the dog