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


The Capac factory has shipped its
first carload Of pear.
A couple OF evangelists have started
In 10 convert Hastings
Buchanan Is entertaining real live
baron-Baron Wagstaffe of Russia.
Hickory nuts are so plentiful in
Michigan the trees are fairly groaning.
4 movement has been started to Sc
cure local prohibition in ST. Joseph
county.
Coons, once so rare in upper Michi-
gan, are becoming plentiful In Alger
county.
The state Business Mems associa-
tion meets AT Port Huron Sept. 10 and
IL
Vicksburg is 20 short OF houses that
the minister has TO live in the church
chapel.
A Sherman farmer threshed 531
bushels of grain in three and one-half
hours.
There are hut 80 inmates in the Hu-
ron county house-the lowest number
for years.
Gratiot county's fair will he held at
Ithaca September 20 and 30 and Oc-
tOber / and ,.
Lapeer is 10 have new postoffice
building and Harbor Beach is TO have
another bank.
The Michigan Central has cut Delhi
out as a regular station and closed the
telegraph Office.
II is reported that moonshinc whisky
is being made near Bay City from
sugar beet molasses.
A Lapeer man lies paralyzed as a re-
suit of shock while operating NOV
ing picture machine.
Thar all Adventists must move away
from Battle Greek is the latest decree
Of Prophecies White.
Work has begun on two four-incb
drive wells at Millington to furnish
water for fire protection.
John Haley colored lad. aged II,
is under arrest at Plymouth for piling
ties on the railroad track.
Nearly $4,000 cases Of fruit were
shipped from the Benton Harbor dis
trict to Chicago in one day.
II is practically settled that Cheboy-
gan is to have new state bank. The
capital stock will be $4,000.
Mrs. Maurice Montville of Essex
vile. gave birth TO an 1917 pound baby
August 81. The child has died.
The veterans of the Sixth Michigan
Heavy Artillery will hold their annual
reunion ut Albion on September 90
The postoffice at Lakeheld Saginaw
Co. will be superseded by rural free
delivery September 10; mail 10 Merrill.
Free VIII Baptists at Reading have
begun $500 church edifice. The
old one has been in service 80 years
Three aged veterans Of the German
army. George Egeler. Chas. Frahn and
John Meyers. all Of Lansing, are dead.
Eaton county fair managers offer
prize for the meanest woman In the
county" As yet there are no entries
Codwater records show that q ma
iority Of divorce suits are between
parties married after 80 years of age
What is supposed TO be lynx has
appeared along the Jonesville creek
and is feasting of neighboring hen
roo~ts.
Andrew Hosmer, who died at Romy-
lus. is mourned by IL children and %
grandchildren. Five OF the children
are doctors.
Because n Coldwater woman pulled
the hair OF the girl who she thought
fiirted with her husband, she was fined
S4 and costs.
Because his father told him TO go ~
work or leave home, 1S-year-old Homer
Tibbits Of Grand Rapids, drank lauda-
mum and nearly died.
Emma Wademan, a Prescott squaw,
has celebrated her one hundred and
tenth birthday. Her sight and hear
ing are unimpaired.
A molasses colored individual went
to Centerville. contracted 10 buy the
best farm In the vicinity and borrowed
much money of the villagers. They
are looking for bim now