Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-08-19
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

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now in San Jose. Cal, has construct
| ed wireless telephone that works
successfully.
Burr Oak First National bank has
! been authorized by the comptroller
| of the currency.
Jail sentences. instead of fines, for
! automobile speeders is the new pol
icy of Holland officials.
Il. A. Merrick, Of Webberville. drew
a claim worth more than $1,000 in
the Idaho reservation lottery.
A nervy thief stole the horse and
buggy of ex-Sheriff " o. Ginger from
in front OF Muskegon bank.
DR.. Robert Irwin, prominent Bay
City physician, died at Grand Lake.
whore he was visiting friends.
Latter Day Saints of western Michi-
gan at their first annual gathering
! elected Thomas Hartwell president
James Mckay, a Scotch machinist
of Battle Creek drew a $4,000 claim
in the Occur d'Alene land lottery yes
terday.
Frank Schumacher. OF Auburn, Bay
county. has asked the police of Flint
to look for his 15-year-old son, who
left home, following quarrel with
his father.
Joseph Lacy, aged 16, caught steal
ing. was so eloquently repentant
when arraigned in court in Owosso
that the judge freed him and prom
ised to help him hunt job
To find her lost pet cat, Miss EN-
ma Durham, of Muskegon, has mailed
description and reward offer TO
every house in three townships. Her
postage bin would buy an acre Of
cats.
Charles Robinson, colored, was
stricken with paralysis while facing
Judge Hess in the Grand Rapids po-
lice court Monday morning Robin
son was charged with disorderly con-
duet.
Prosecuting Attorney Brown, OF
Port Huron, is out with his AK look
ing after violators of the liquor laws.
He says some of the saloon men will
come to grief If they don't mend their
ways.
Mrs. Nellie Vanderlinder, OF Pom
tiac, has adopted her own daughter
IL years old, in probate court. The
girl had been legally adopted some
years ago by Mrs. NJ. F. Gordon, now
dead.
Mrs. Mary Vandeveer, of Muske-
gon, critically i'll at her home, was
not aware that her favorite son was
dead in the next room. He was
buried without her knowledge, owing
to her weak condition.
The three-months' bride of Adolph
Martin, killed by the collapsing of a
wall at the Olds Motor works in
Lansing, was on her way TO the bed
side of sick brother in Texas and
was not informed of her husbands
death.
Eugene Rivers. aged IL. arrived
home in Grand Rapids and ended a
200-mile journey which he made on
foot from the Beulah home, at Boyne
City, in eight days. He was sent TO
the home for stealing his mothers
jewelry.
The Uniform Rank, Knights of Pyth-
las, of Eaton Rapids, will go after the
national drill prize at the coming en-
campment They are drilling under
professional instructor. and have
complete new equipment and uniforms
for 65 men.
Safe robbers blew open the $780,
pound safe of Dain & Vermilya, coal
and lumber dealers of Flint with nj
troglycerine. When they succeeded
in opening the strong box they found
no money, but carried away bank
book and number of deposit slips
Awakened early in the morning by
a burglar alarm, Charles Raymond, of
Flint, found himself unable to join in
the chase after the marauder because
his only pair of trousers had been
taken by the latter. There was 81
in cash in the pockets of his trousers.
Two prairie schooners' filled with
members of the Benton Harbor
through Muskegon on their way to
Weare, Oceana county. where they
say they will establish a branch
colony and enter the fruit raising IN
dustry.
Frank Hilliker aged So years, met
instant death in Metamora, at the
residence of Mrs. Frank Barran. Mr.
Hilliker was shingling the house and
slipped from scaffolding, falling
about 10 feet and breaking his neck
Survived by widow and FIVE boys, all
of whom are living at home.
The first carload shipment OF
grapes from Lawton will begin in
about a fortnight, and it is expected
that during the season $500 cars viii
be sent TO different markets. The
crop this year Is bumper one and
the growers say that the shipments
will exceed those of last year by 500
cars.
Tired OF the unsuccessful fight to
| force dry" members OF the Climax
council to attend the meetings, VII
lage President j. w. Wilson has sold
his farm and other property and left
town never to return. according to his
own statement. Since being elected
last spring by the wet voters. Mr..
Wilson has been trying to hold a
meeting of the council, but the bolt
ing" members could neither be in
| duced nor forced TO attend. Wilson
was granted mandamus in the cir
cult court citing the strikers" to ap-
pear. but this action was reversed in
| the supreme court and the executive
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