Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-07-20
MICHIGAN ITEMS.


Ernest Hibner, OF Muskegon, was
arrested for swearing in the Bismark
MOTEL In Battle Creek and fined $40.
Application to the work of perfect
ing patent beet puller has driven
Nelson H. Hill, OF Lansing, violently
insane.
Mrs. Alfred Clifford, or Flint town
snip, Tell over a piece of carpet and
sustained broken hip. Her condition
is serious.
George Hopkins caught 147 turtles
in a small lake on his farm near Cold
water and received over 500 for them
in Chicago.
An insane man, half clad, was cap
tured between Menominee and Iron
Mountain. No one knows who he is or
where he came from.
A new factory Is being erected at
Carleton by Williams Bros, of De-
troit Farmers hereabouts have a large
acreage OF tomatoes under cultivation.
The cement plant at Bronson has
been bought by the Chanute Cement
Co, of Chanute, Kas., and the ma
chinery will be moved TO that place.
The time has expired for securing
state auto licenses and so far only
81, 500 tags have been issued. There
are twice that many automobiles In
the state.
Monroe council has voted down a
resolution for special election to
vote on bonding the city for $4,000
Tor building a trunk sewer on the
south side
The Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette
railway, and the Cleveland Cliffs Iron
Co. have sold 10000 acres OF land To
the Upper Peninsula Land Co, of De-
troit. for $4,000.
Bert Keiser is under arrest at Bat
tie Creek charged with abandoning his
l2-year-old daughter Keiser formerly
lived In Athens, and his wife died in
the Kalamazoo asylum.
Mrs. Sarah NJ Hand and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Charles S. Thompson. OF
Grand Rapids, died within an hour of
each other Mrs Hand was "a and Mrs.
Thompson so years of age.
Elaborate arrangements are being
made for the good roads convention
in Port Huron August 20, 30, 81. A
feature Of the convention will be n
display of 500 automobiles.
DR.. Ames Barlow, of Michigan, told
the National Children's Home society,
in annual conference at St. Paul, that
there are really no bad boys, but that
some boys are misunderstood.
Battle Creek police have ceased in
vestigating the origin of the fire that
burned the sanitarium barns last
week. because DR.. Kellogg says the
fire must have originated accidentally.
The ladies omitted TO exercise their
privilege of voting at the election for
school trustees at Midland, and, as a
consequence, there was little interest
in the result. Last year so ladies vot-
ed.
While playing with a pistol that he
did not know was loaded, Bonnie Rob-
erts, the 9-year-old son of Rev. Rob
erts. OF the Third Reformed church.
Kalamazoo, was shot through the
hand.
Charles Miller, an aged man from
Mass City, fell under a moving train
at Wausaukee, had the toes of one
foot severed, one ear cut off, his nose
broken and was otherwise injured. He
may die.
Richard u. Thompson, secretary for
the past two years Of the University
Christian association, Ann Arbor, has
resigned and will enter the Union
Theological Seminary in New York
next fall.
At a conference on Monday. the DIFF
ferences in the management or the
Manistique, Marquette & Northern
railway were settled and the old board
Of directors will continue TO serve for
the present
Engine No. 752, on the Lake Shore,
was derailed and tipped over at Jones'
Vile. Engineer and fireman crawled
out uninjured. The whistling of the
engine drew crowd OF 300 or 400 in
a few minutes.
The enrolment at the L. of NJ. sum-
mer school has reached S17-512 in
the literary department, 140 in the
engineering, SIS in the law and Il in
the medical This is an increase Of
266 over last year.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Foster. well-to-
do Williams township farmers, have
been married 40 years and in p years
of this time they were parents OF ~
children, with no twins. Twenty of the
% are now living.
Dus-Kew Rera is the name of a new
association that has just filed articles
of incorporation and will establish a
big summer resort at Long Point, Mus
kegon county. Chicago and Minneap-
oils capitalists are the stockholders.
The board of county auditors of
Ann Arbor had smallpox bills amount
ing to $1,000, but are holding up part
of them, On the grounds that each viii
lage should bear its own expense in
the matter of fumigation. Advice is be-
ing awaited from state officials.
1t is a very unusual proceeding TO
pray for rain to stop. but special ser.
vices for that purpose were held at
St. Augustine's Catholic church, at
| Kalamazoo. One of the finest hay
crops in the history OF this section of
the state has been completely ruined
by wet weather.
The tradition that fight between
a surveying party and Indians result
ed in the naming of Battle Creek has