Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-11-22
MICHIGAN IN BRIEF.

Port Huron has accepted plans Tor
new high school to seat 500 pupils
and cost $4,000
Stewart Edward White, novelist, will
write a story with scene in Grand Rap
ids. and has bought home there.
Mrs. Hiram Ford and daughter, Mrs.
Lottie Richelderfer. died at Morenci
within four hours of each other.
Richland, town OF 315 persons, will
pave all streets next season. A mile of
sidewalk was laid last summer.
1t Is now believed by vesselmen that
the total output OF iron ore for the
season will be over 3s,OOO,0O0 tons
A Virginia oil man has secured OPP
tions on several thousand acres and q
test well will be sunk for oil at Leoni-
das.
A series OF state good roads insti-
tutes are being held I'm northern Mich
igan by State Road Commissioner
Earle.
graph editor, celebrated the fiftieth an
niversary of his arrival in Battle
Creek.
Joseph Scott. of st. Johns, oldest
cooper in active work in the United
States, celebrated his goth birthday an
niversary.
Frank s. Wixom, of Detroit, says he
has financed the new dam which is to
be built at Midland. II will furnish
5000 horsepower.
Mrs. NJ Karjinski's new coal stovo
nearly asphyxiated four persons at
Bay City. They retired. leaving tse
stove door open.
Two OF the new boats which the
American Shipbuilding Co. has con-
tracted to build will be constructed at
the Bay City shipyards.
Thomas S. Scadden has resigned as
register of the United States land Of
flee 70 become manager of the Kim
berly mines In Colorado.
Slight depressions in cement side
walks do not render city liable for
damages. says the supreme court In
the case OF Rebecca Bennett VS.. City
of st. Joseph.
City Clerk Joseph II. Thorpe. of Pom
tiac. blind in one eye and minus part
Pontiac hunters to shoot deer in the
upper peninsula.
The Hiawatha mine at Norway has
been sold to the Buffalo e. Susquehan-
ma Iron Co., and a number OF new
buildings and other improvements will
be made at once.
L. L. Ferguson. Of Sault Ste Marie:
NJ. o. Graves, Fetoskey, and w. Fl.
Brunson, of st. Johns, are candidates
to succeed Luther G. Wright on the
state school board
Battle Creek received $780, 600 prim-
airy school money and, as the present
building is too small for the $50 stu
dents. there is talk OF building a new
high school building.
Charles Buskirk. wealthy farmer
near Marshall, is spending 10 days in
jail rather than pay fine of So. He
pleaded guilty TO charge of not send
ing his children TO school.
Henry C. Pratt, of Niles, who learned
telegraphy at ii, claims to be the old
est telegraph operator in Michigan.
He is 81 years of age lie worked in
cities from the Atlantic to the Pacific
coast
The presence of Contractor Taylor
in Charlotte with two Chicago men,
has revived the projected Albion Char
lctte electric line. He spent consider
able money grading AZ Duck lake five
or six years ago.
Because Battle Creek provides no
playground for school children, Chas.
Wickens may sue for damages because
of injuries sustained by his son, who,
while playing in the street, was run
down and sustained a brc.ien leg.
The turpentine factory erected north
OF Standish to get turpcntine from the
formerly worthless stumps on the
plains of northern Michigan in Roscom-
mon and other northern counties, will
increase the capacity of the plant by
erecting another new $4,000 factory.
panic was caused in the Laiirium
NJ. Il. church at Calumet by q false
alarm OF fire during the exercises for
the fifth anniversary of the dedication
of the building, and several persons
were crushed. Friction of belt at
tached to the electric motor on the
pipe organ caused smoke.
Young women delegates to the Mich
igan Young Women's Christian associ-
alton convention at Kalamazoo occu-
pied the pulpits of II local churches
Sunday. Mrs. j. w. Finney. of Detroit,
occupied the pulpit Of the First Con-
gregational church. Bay City has In
vited the association TO hold it's con-
ventioD there next year
Orrin T. Bolt, of Muskegon. has re-
signed as secretary of the state tax
commission and will be succeeded by
Wells G.. Brown, OF Paw Paw. BUSH
ness reasons caused Mr.. Bolts resigna-
ton. The commissioners adopted reso-
lutions of regret upon losing him. Mr..
Brown, now deputy state land commits
sioner, was recommended by Gov. War.
ner.
The Loyal Guards have had archi-
tects in Flint figuring on the erection
OF a modern auditorium on the site
which they own opposite the court
house.
The Women's Relief corps of the
Lansing district has 500 members and
Is financially in good condition. 1t
elected these officers: District presi.
dent Margaret Stanton, OF Mason: