Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

ford & Northern railroad has been put
over to April s.
Jay Smell, OF Marquette. while hunt
ing rabbits was accidentally shot and
killed by Zeph Labumbard.
The state dairy and food department
has started crusade against the
manufacture and sale of adulterated
buckwheat
William A. Williams, "A, the frst
white child born In Saginaw county,
and son of the first mayor OF the
city, is dead Of pneumonia.
At the election held in Farwell the
proposition to bond the village for
$4,000 for the erection OF an electric
light plant carried by 62 to ~ votes.
Kent county claims the distinction
OF having the largest number OF pubic
schools In the state. There are zoo
school buildings outside the city,
which has 81.
Rep. James Henry and Rep.-elect
Jesse NJ. Match will be asked to pre-
sent a measure to the Legislature for
law making the registration OF
nurses compulsory.
While Benzie county was lucky
enough to get its s5,73S.52 for the
primary school fund. 80 other counties
will have TO wait for their money at
least until January Is.
A Port Huron man is suing for di-
vorce from his wife, who is an In
mate OF the asylum at Traverse City.
He says she was partly demented
when he married her.
A searching party looking for john
Bird. of Michigamme, found his BODY
in the wilderness. He had slashed
himself with an AK while chopping
wood and bled TO death.
Trappers report that the season so
far has been a very profitable one.
John Lee, an Athens Indian. recently
sold 1000 muskrat skins. 300 skunk
hides and 81 mink skins.
1t is feared that Peter Ring, Of lsh-
peming, has met death in the forests.
He has been missing since November
Z, when he left to hunt deer. He was
not familiar with the woods.
The Coldwater Cooperage Co. has
notified its employees that the plant
will shut down for at least year,
owing to the high price of raw mater
la and the low price of products.
James Jacobus, aged GO, Division
township farmer, has become insane
through brooding over the death OF
his wife, which occurred several years
ago. He was taken TO Oak Grove
sanitarium.
Action has been taken looking to
proceedings against the bondsmen OF
julius Nagel, former city recorder OF
Marshall. who has been found $420.19
short in his accounts by the city audit
ing committee.
John Beckman, aged 80. barn fore
man for the Bay City Traction & Elec-
trio Co, is dead through his own care
lessness, by leaning from the window
of the rotary snow sweeper as an IN.
terurban car was passing.
William Cummings, the GAINESVILLE
preacher who was convicted of wife
desertion after fleeing with Velva Tay-
lor, his wifes sister, has been freed
from Jail through the efforts of his
wife. Through Der Gid he obtained
$500 bond to support his wife.
The first local option fight in the
upper peninsula's history will be
waged in Dickinson county next April.
Elmer J. Adams and Thomas f..
Horton. Mormon elders, were arrest
ed in Grand Rapids on a charge Of
peddling their literature without H.
cense.
Womens clubs throughout Michi-
gan will petition Gov. Warner to ap-
point Mrs. Lois Felker, OF Grand Rap
ids, TO membership on one OF the state
boards. 1t is said position on the
board OF control of the Industrial
Home for Girls at Adrian would be
preferred.
The coroner's jury In the case OF
the Ann Arbor railway wreck near
Hamburg on November 81, wherein
two persons met death. has placed the
blame for the accident on Thomas
IIahy, train dispatcher, in annuling an
order and not informing the north
bound train.
In his address before the meeting OF
the state board of charities and cor
rections Thursday, Clarence f..
Holmes, of the Flint School for the
Blind. declared that his observation
had taught him that the use of to-
bacco made children unfit or unable
to comprehend the finer things in life.
Local optionists, who have been cir
culating petitions for two weeks. have
secured 1000 signatures, so per cent
OF the vote in Ionia county, and still
have a week in which TO work. The
workers are very enthusiastic and
predict that the brewery and 80 sa-
looms in the county will be put out OF
business.
George c. Warren, member OF the
Michigan Hay association committee
which went TO Washington in an eff
fort to get Secretary Wilson TO lift the
embargo on hay, says that the mem
bers were we'll pleased with the re-
suits of their trip. The secretary
promised that the embargo would be
raised as soon as the danger was past.
After a long fight with the farmers
the merchants and the Three Rivers
city council have decided to replace
the hitching posts on Main street
which have been the cause of the war
fare. Seven years ago the city was
paving Main street and the hitching
posts were removed and people for
hidden TO hitch on that street. This
angered many farmers who proceeded
TO boycott the town. The merchants
declare that trade has fallen on and
IL is largely due 10 their efforts that
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