Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-11-14
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.


man Simmerer In Kalamazoo Of furs
worth $500.
Mrs. Emil Jochen, of Saginaw. took
poison. mistaking 1t for medicine, and
was found dying.
Clark b. Hall. aged ~, former
Oxford teacher, was married to Lo-
vina M. Youngs, aged 60.
A westbound express train killed d.
ID. Noble. of Paw Paw. Noble was 80
and in the insurance business.
Mrs. Lyman Yake, of Alpena. aged
"A, who disappeared several days ago.
was found dead in the woods.
Otto Feifer, wealthy meat dealer OF
Sault Ste. Marie, has disappeared,
leaving a wife and two children.
Lansing manufacturers have adopt
ed the system OF paying employees by
check during the money stringency.
The Seitz Automobile & Transmits
sion Co., recently organized in Mon
roe, has decided to locate its factory
in Detroit
Thursday, November %. will be
Thanksgiving day. This fact is re-
vealed in a proclamation signed by
The condition of Roy Taylor, of Port
Huron, who was stabbed in a boys
quarrel, has grown worse, and his
death is expected.
A total of 1900 clerks and special
agents have been at work for months
gathering this data and lao are still
engaged In the task.
George w. Jefferson, So, died in
chair at his home of heart failure. He
was resident of Big Rapids II years.
He leaves widow and FIVE sons.
Thomas Kerns, a steeplejack, was
killed near Fenton Wednesday by
train. He was 80 years old and a
veteran of the Spanish-American war.
Lansing Y. NJ. C. A. is extending
its work to the local factories. A large
bible class class has been formed at
the Condensed Milk factory, one of
Lansing's leading industries.
Charles A. Morton, of Berrien
Springs, and James S. Cox, of Dowa-
giac, who were mistaken for thieves
and arrested by Michigan Central Off
GERS, have sued the road for $4,000
damages
Prosecuting Attorney l.. F. Stewart,
of Battle Creek, is investigating
charges of trust" among milk deal
ers who simultaneously raised their
milk from five to six and later to
seven cents a quart.
The thirty-third annual meeting of
the Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the Lansing district of Metho-
dist churches was held in st. Johns
Mrs. J. l.. Sutherland, of Portland
was elected president.
Fraternal societies are preparing to
fight in the supreme court the clause
OF the new law requiring insurance
companies, including fraternal orders,
to attach to policies all rules and regu-
lations affecting the contracts.
1t is reported that the Western I'm
ion, at Lansing, following the advice
of Detroit representative, who said
opposition would be useless, will not
oppose an ad valorem tax bill at the
next session of the legislature.
Because they waylaid and cut off
some of the hair of Prof. Charles
Hathaway, of the Grand Rapids high
school, who lectured against hazing,
the manager and three members of
the football team have been suspend
ed. n
A Bay City boiler and machine
works has installed electrically driv-
en- machinery that is capable of hand
ling beams of solid steel as though
it were soft pine. One piece, solid
saw, can cut off a 16-inch piece of
solid steel in 2S seconds.
Sec. Shumway, of the state board of
health, is investigating the case of
John Oliver, an eccentric Englishman,
who lives at Charlotte under unsani-
tary conditions and refuses to go to
the county farm. He has a quarterly
income of 500 from an English es-
tate.
When it was reported recently that
Henry Rank, of Berrien Springs, had
been killed by the cars at La Porte,
Ind, no one supposed he had met
death any other way. Now Chief K. A.
Snider, of the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern railroad detective force, de-
clares Rank was murdered and rob-
bed by tramps.
The new good roads commission of
Kent county, the first of its kind in
the state, is getting right down to
business and estimates on the cost of
the proposed improvements have been
secured At the meeting it was de-
cided to hire an expert engineer and
surveyor. The surveyor will be en-
ployed permanently.
The Kalamazoo liquor dealers met
TO consider plans for fighting the cam
paign for local option organized by
the Anti-Saloon league. President Doll,
Of the association, stated that no ac-
ton would be taken until the start of
the campaign next spring. The liquor
men will not fight the ministers for
supporting the campaign.
The announcement from the auditor
generals Office that the apportionment
OF the primary school money gives
Kent county only 81 per capita Great
ed CONSERVATION among the members
of the local board of education. 1t
means that the teachers salary fund
will run $4,000 short next spring and
that this amount will have to be rails
ed in some manner. The amount may
have to be drawn from the general
city fund and placed in the school bud
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