Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-04-02
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.


agree with him.
Shepherds new bank will have
building ON the main street Inc
capital stock is $4,000
Ira w. Davis. OF Williamson, prin-
! cipal of the Vernon schools, will go 10
the Philippines as teacher.
Robert, the 2.year.old son of John
| Neil, of Bay City, died from scalds'
He had fallen into boiler OF not
water.
About 100000 in certificates in the
United Home Protectors fraternity
was held by Alma residents ana
farmers.
! y. l.. Ridderhof. aged IS. and
Kalamazoo pioneer. walked to the top
of Mt. Wilson near Los Angeles. IL
is 5000 feet high.
Eleanor Cole, "a, the oldest person
OF Niles, is dead. She remembered
the first visit OF Lafayette To the
United States in 1924.
Sault Ste. Marie officers believe the
hermit found dead In backwoods
hut was Jacob Boygon. an escaped
Marquette prison convict.
Gov. John A. Johnson. of Minnesota,
will address the U. OF NJ. students
April 80 and will be banquetted by
the University Democratic club.
Wallace Mcpherson, one of the best
hknown lumbermen In the upper Pc
ninsula, narrowly escaped death when
!. his auto crashed into bridge at Me-
nominee.
. School Supt. A. j. Collins, of White
r Pigeon. reprimanded Miss Place,
. teacher, for forbidding her pupils TO
Y wear w. c. r. L. buttons in the
i school ROOM
$ Fishermen on the Saginaw and
e tributary rivers have been ordered by
l. the game warden 10 go out or busl-
n ness because of the menace to launch
n es and other craft.
S The executive board of the State
Federation of Women's clubs Will
IS meet at Jackson April 10, to plan for
e. the state federation meeting in Trav-
IL erse City in the fall.
&c William l.. Wilson. of Port Huron,
~. defaulting secretary OF the Unlteo
- Home Protectors fraternity, waived
)" examination and was bound over FOR
-, trial TO the circuit court.
q. Narquette's municipal lighting plant
operated by water power and man
n aged by a non-partisan board OF Dusi
Ia ness men cleared $780, 500 net during
ie the fiscal year just closed.
an The first of the joint meetings Of
ut the state missionary society or the
no Congregational church was held in AM
A. Arbor with the First Congregations
to church There were 200 present.
d. Frank Spalla an Italian fruit deale
or OF Kalamazoo received a Black Han'
letter. demanding that he leave $40
i'm the rear of building in the cen
trail part of the business district a
av midnight Friday or meet the deatl
-al of a traitor
he To save a fellow workman, whe'
Tx, the machinery broke, Philip Grey, en-
lin ployed in coal shute, at GreenVlllt
nd thrust his hand into the mechanlsI
ger and stopped a heavy bucket from fal
ing on the man below. The hand ha
en- TO be amputated.
Jus w. +. Warren, who was transferre
ch' from Jackson prison 10 the asylum nc
the criminal insane at Ionia, was Gu
ne ed of insanity when he was put |
iu- work shovelng coal at the latter il
-: stitution. He was sent up from Ba
mt. tie Creek for embezzlement
80 'a' Richard Wigglesworth. Pere Ma
an quette freight conductor, runnin
W" from Saginaw 70 Ludington, slippe
-, off sleet-covered logs and fell und'
Vi the wheels Both legs were cut o.
ms He died later and the body Wa
'e' brought to his home in Saginaw.
rLs The state board of agriculture hi
oa secured the cooperation of the Pc
ere Marquette railroad for series
farmers institutes TO be held in
nv special train furnished by the ra
nv road company. The train will stop I
and one hour, March 81, at the followii
1iIv places: Grand Ledge, a. m; Mul
ken, $50 a. m; Sunfield, IL a. n
Lake Odessa, l p. M; Clarksvill
2:3O p. m; Alto, 4p. m.
has Both Muskegon and Mason count
ard will have corn-growing contests IN
cal season. Final arrangements ha
the been made by Congressman Mclaue
re. lin at Washington. who has secur
nsi- the cooperation of the departing
his of agriculture and of the Michig
and Agricultural college. The contest "
the be publicly inaugurated in Muskeg
hlic county April II. The contest in ca
or county is intended only for boys. T
tel age limit is from IA to IL years,
, though it is possible that still your
inf err boys will be given chance. L
no . terms of the contest are such II
, IN each boy shall grow corn indepel
ON. emily, and exhibit il in the fall.
who of the exhibits will be made at c
nils place. Valuable prizes will be ava
ber ed
hool For the purpose Of securing the
u. tradition of Richard Nj. Sampson,
very board of supervisors of Dickins
county has made an appropriation
5000. Sampson was postmaster at n
way for a number OF years. He v
h.;r arrested some months ago on a seri'
atar charge, the exact nature of which v
10 not made public, and pending his Il
light 80 s,.oo,, III
~ nigan and DR.. f. w. Swift. promin
- citizens OF Norway. The former p,
: -, master failed to appear in court WI
-. his case was called and his ball Y
I'M ,ho declared forfeited. He had fed