Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-25
BRIEF STATE NEWS

Mrs. VIM. Vanderhyde, living near
Muskegon, gave birth to bankruptcies
last week. The mother died, but the
babies are thriving.
Capital is coming easy for VIM.
Faulkners proposed 100000 Solvay
chemical plant in Bay City, and all
he asks now is site.
The recent rainfall in Battle Creek
in the sc hours of the cloudburst was
Al inches. AS a result, the Kalamazoo
and Battle Creek rivers are over
flowed.
The Northern Lumber Co, owning
10000 acres OF land and capitalized
at 100000, will be one of the big in
dustries up north with headquarters
al Marquette.
Seven members Of the family OF
George Coggan, of Port Huron, were
made sick by partaking of toadstools
they supposed 10 be mushrooms. Doc
tors saved them.
Fred X. Yasmund so years old. of
Riga township, committed suicide by
hanging himself Illness of his wife
is supposed TO have unsettled his
mind. He leaves eight children.
Moench G. Sons Co.. tanners, with
plants in Alpena and at other points,
who failed over a year ago for 81 ,0OO,'
600, have paid all indebtedness, and
the property has been turned over
TO the firm.
May 25 will be observed as Hackley
day in Muskegon. Songs will be sung
by 1852 school children, biographical
sketches and stereopticon views of
the noted philanthropist will be
part of the program.
Muskegon is 10 have "A new indus
try never before attempted anywhere
else. A saw mill will be built TO take
care of the driftwood along the shore
and launch will patrol the section
70 nick up the wood
In the monthly report of Secretary
of state Prescott, the table shows that
during the month of April there were
1922 deaths in Michigan. There was
a marked decrease in the number OF
deaths OF infants of one year.
Sidney Smith, aged %. OF Morrill,.
was arrested at Byron and brought to
Flint Jail on the charge of stealing
horse in Argentine, which was drag
ged behind a wagon until it dropped
dead The animal belonged to Milton
Shepard.
Parties in Battle Creek are engaged
in a novel but profitable industry. II
is the shipping Of water cress to Chi
cago, Detroit. Cincinnati. Toledo and
Buffalo. Battle Creek promises to be
as noted for cress as Kalamazoo Is
for celery.
South Haven gets a troop of cav
airy, Lansing and Mason one section
each and Pontiac two sections Of a
battery of artillery to be organized
by order of the state military board.
Masons company of infantry will be
mustered out.
Rev. e. II. Brockway, of Vevay, died
at the hospital in Ann Arbor, Saturday
evening, from peculiar disease. He
has beea unable to swallow any food
for nearly three weeks, on account of
a stoppage in the esophagus. His case
was a puzzle to his physicians.
Two boys while out hunting, found
the body of Peter Thiel aged rs years
Saturday in two feet Of water in the
Muskegon river. Indications show that
Thiel committed suicide. He had about
$50 on his person when found He
leaves an aged widow and daughter
in Chicago.
Mrs A. HartZhorn, the woman from
Holland, who has become a public
charge on Kalamazoo county, because
she refuses 10 work, gives as her
reason that lawyer refused to collect
$50 for her from John Zounriider,
young man whose passage she paid
to this country.
Battle Creek working men are pro-
pusing TO buy 200 or 300 acres of
land along the Battle Creek & Jack
son electric road. dividing it into five
acre homes AM raising fruit and veg
etables to sustain canning faAtory
in their midst A cooperative store
is also talked of to supply their own
needs.
Another apportionment of primary
school moneys was made Wednesday
among the counties of the state The
amount given out this time is $685.
g36 20 This is on a basis of 60 cents
per capita for the 1922 children OF
school age in the state. This appor.
tionment makes a total Of So SO per
capita for the year.
Mrs. Rose Recktenwald Wilson and
her four children. of Kalamazoo. left
Snyder. Okla, the day before the cy-
clone that wrecked the village. AS 1t
was they were caught in a tornado
and were obliged to take refuge in a
farm house. from where they saw
many things flying through the air.
just being out of the edge of the
storm.
The fishing industry of Menominee
in this section is badly crippled by
the Chicago strike, the dealers in that
city refusing TO take perch and some
other kinds of fish. as they. are un.
able to handle them, owing to the
labor troubles. The fish that must
be shipped Immediately are being
thrown back in the bay by the local
fishermen
Judge Wolcott, of Grand Rapids. has
deferred sentence on Liant K. Sails
bury for one month. Salisbury was con-
victed on a bribery charge, and. to
permit him 10 give testimony in other
trials. his sentence has been deferred
from time to time. The prosecutor has