Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-11-30
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

dull boy" but all play and no work
generally makes him grand rascal.
Souvenir vandals stole the flowers
from the grave of Josie Dom at Grand
Rapids.
Robert Willis, Marlotte, banker, was
stricken with paralysis in his office.
His condition is serious.
The Detroit 4 Mackinac is said to
be planning To extend the southern
terminal from Bay City to Port HUI
ron.
The Kings Daughters are making
preparations for their annual charity
fair vb be held in Princess rink al
Worthwhile Dec. and 8.
Fred Renquette, aged Is, of Menom-
inee, fell while hunting, his gun was
discharged and the bullet passed
through his body. He will die.
Edward c. Hillman, of Battle Creek,
will accept the Office of member OF the
state board of education recently ten
G~red him by Gov. Warner.
Merchants of Tekonsha have sign
cd an agreement TO close their stores
at s o'clock, having heretofore kept
open until IL and even II O'Clock.
The Detroit Bay City Electric Co.
has received several steel cars and
locomotive, and full outfit of track
laying tools. About 10 miles of road
have been graded.
Representatives of Detroit NJ. +.
conference were looking over the Sum-
merville hotel property at st. Clair
with an idea of purchasing ii for an
old peoples home.
Ludington lifesavers found the body
of Gus Johnson, known as Hobo Gus,
who disappeared on Sunday. He was
drowned in Pere Marquette lake. His
friends say foul play"
X. B. butcher, of Fennville, a cadet
at Orchard Lake academy, fell head
long from the d. u. r. trestle over the
| Grand Trunk tracks-40 feet-landed
on his feet and broke his ankle in two
| places.
Bloodhounds will be used TO track
the men at st, Joseph who cut out the
tongues OF team of horses belonging
to Bert Talbot. of Twin Springs. There
is even talk of lynching if the fellows
are captured.
A pet coon which had been kept
chained in the kitchen, broke loose and
! in some way turned on the cock in the
gas range, which nearly resulted in the
asphyxiation of Mr.. and Mrs. Reid Ly-
man, of Jackson.
John Heininger, of Ann Arbor, Supe.
rior township farmer, defied the au
| thorities to compel him to send his
| children to school, He was sent to
| Jail and soon changed his mind He
was let off with 4 fine of S14.
Gov. Warner has personally in
| formed Judge Norman W. Hare, gen
eral manager for the Bigelow group
OF mines, of his appointment as a men,
| Der of the board of control of the
Michigan College of Mines.
The contract for the completion of
/ the Lake Huron-Black river canal at
| Port Huron has been let to Graves a.
| Stevens. of Indianapolis. The contract
price is $73, 000 and 20 months is given
for the completion of the work.
A. NJ. Todd, manufacturer of pepper
mint oil at Kalamazoo. has been
named representative of the chemists
board of the middle west to the inter
national congress Of applied chemistry,
which will be held in Rome next April.
Miss Mary Louise McFarlan, of
Flint, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexan-
der McFarlan, was married TO John
| Westervelt Ackley, New York bust
ness man. The ceremony, which was
society event there, was performed
in the First Presbyterian church.
The November gale which wrecked
the steamer Argo at Holland badly
damaged the new 100000 Prescott
steel plant in Menominee. The west
wall was blown down, the steel roof
picked up and hurled TO the ground
and 10 feet Of a big smokestack was
blown down.
The village fathers of Wayne went
TO council meeting with lanterns to
light their way because the lighting
company has no cash to buy carbide
for it's acetylene plant. the village not
having PAID its bill. Ebert English,
aged 20, fell against post in the dark
ness, breaking his collarbone.
Geo. Dunbar, who works for day
wages in Michigan, reveals the secret
of his inheriting $4,000 Gen. George
Dunbar, who originally owned Bethes-
da springs, died leaving $1S.O00,0O0,
of the estate. He was working in field
two months ago when attorneys found
him.
Pioneers of Isabella county have
formed a county association. The Of
ficers are President, Judge Estee !;
vice president, w. w. Preston; secre-
tary, e. r. Coburn; treasurer. i. A.
Fancher; trustees, W. E. Salisbury,
Cass Mosher and John Maxwell. The
organization will be known as the Isa-
bella Pioneer association.
Alexander j. Mercy, aged 55 and
William Poole, aged %, of Saginaw
were killed by falling slate at the
Standard mine in the township of Bue
ma Vista. II appears that the entire roof
of the room" in which the men were
working fell Some little time elapsed
before the accident was discovered and
it took long time TO get the mangled
bodies out.
An Indian, 80 years old, died Friday
at Wabeno from burns received in a
peculiar manner. He had a bottle OF
alcohol in his pocket, which became