Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-01-25
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

When a man stands on his dignity
he ought to be well heeled.
Robert Hern, of Three Rivers, fell
from load of hay and his neck was
broken
Nearly coo attended the annual ban
quet of the Lansing Business Mems
association.
The twelfth child has been born
within a week in the families of GEO.
Fuller and of Chris Dostwick. OF Ian
sing.
John Thirteen, Hollander living III
Grand Rapids, was stricken with heart
failure on the street and was taken
TO a hospital.
Mrs. James Pratt. of Fenton, is 30
years of age. yet she does all OF her
own homework, and is as lively az
much younger person.
Alfred b. Trombley, aged 81
farmer five miles east of Bay City
committed suicide by taking Paris
green after a protracted spree.
While Agent Henry Schell was alb
| sent from the Michigan Central ticket
| office in Dowagiac about 10 minutes
/ someone gained access TO the money
| drawer and removed $50 in cash.
c. w. Post, of Battle Creek, has pro
posed 10 the Business Mems assoct
| alton the organization of county cluD
on a large farm he owns on Goguac
prairie. a high bluff overlooking the
city
Mrs. Matte Gilmore. who was ar
rested on a charge of non-support OF
her blind husband and three children
and was ordered 10 contribute So
week for the children. is suing for
divorce in Grand Rapids.
Because United States Express of
ficials at Bay City refuse TO tell who
had consigned 900 pounds of under
size pickerel seized by Deputy Game
| Warden Trudell. the latter says he will
cause the arrest of the officials.
Detectives are searching for Rev.
Edward Chadwick, an Ontario preach
er. who is alleged TO have disappeared
with a 1925 diamond ring he secured
from a Sault Ste Marie jeweler on ap.
proval, and with S55 he borrowed from
his fiancee.
The old Donovan & o Conner saw
mill. in Menominee. is about to be dis
mantled and torn down. The mill Is
one of the oldest in this region, being
formerly known as the Detroit mill
This is the eighth sawmill 10 be torn
down there since the decline of the
lumber BOOM
The denunciation Of public card
parties by Rev. Charles A. Lippincott
of Flint, has fallen on stony ground
so far as the women of Flint are con
cerned. The prominent womens organ
ization aimed at is going on with It's
plans for series of public euchre par
ties for prizes
Railroad Commissioner Atwood says
that before Senator Huntley Russell
, threatened a mandamus he had al
ranged for a hearing of the complaint
of Mill Creekites. suburb OF Crane
| Rapids, who are angry because tram
will not stop there. The hearing vii
he held January 81.
Saginaw Board of Trade was organ
5 tied April 9. 1868. Four of the thiI
? ty.two signers of the original charte
are still living in Saginaw; DR.. IA. {
! Potter Ezra Rust. George l.. Burrow
e and ID. l.. c. Eaton. For forty-tw
S wears DR.. Potter has been an activ
MEMBER Oh lUt DOdlu haNlhS HNNH -
e its roll call since the day OF its organ
ization.
The farm OF VIM II. HoXie, VIII
died a few days ago, is to be dug owe
for treasure. HoXie left $4,000 e.
: tate and II is believed he had niue
ready money. which cannot be foun'
: Hoxie lived as a miser and some tim
y ago when he was i'll and his nephew
+. C. Gardner, was caring for hill
'. money was needed and he told n
y nephew to dig in certain spot an
pot of coin was unearthed.
e A splinter of steel three inches
II length was removed from the bra
of John Nall, Of Winston. y. c.,
1t the jefferson hospital at Philadelphia
An effort was made To draw out Il
splinter by means of a powerful ma
net but the steel was so firmly II
bedded that#the surgeons were COZ
nelled to resort TO the knife. II
Id operation was successful and the p
tient is reported as doing Well
SIS Ralph Mott, of Battle Creek, had h
a wife and man arrested in Lansil
te and then told the woman that
e would get bail for her in case h
DC former friends did not. He said
MS had her arrested only TO prevent h
1n claiming part of an estate which n
been left 10 him after she went WI
~ another man.