Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-07-29
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

men.
Jail romance ended when former
Sherln George Breer. of Pontiac, mar
ried Mrs. Allie Owen. former Jail ma
iron.
John Bradshaw, aged 80 OF Flint,
hufrying home from Colorado TO die
lost his race with death. He died on
the train,
While using telephone during the
storm. Mrs. Ira J. Nixon, OF Flint. was
knocked TO the floor unconscious by
bolt of electricity.
The annual convention OF the Michi-
gan Hardware Dealers association
VIII be held in the Auditorium at
Saginaw August II To Is.
James Bessey, Of Big Rapids.
q. X. !. engineer. was stricken
with paralysis while working on his
engine and died six hours later
Capt. John @. Anderson, who head
ed The Saginaw company in the Span
lsh war and afterward is dead from
fever contracted in the Cuban service.
Levi Rogers. probably the oldest
man in the northern peninsula, is
dead. Rogers was los years of age
and came 10 Escanaba 90 years ago.
A broken coupling at snarp curve
resulted in the derailment of FIVE ears
OF northbound Pere Marquette
freight train late Saturday night, two
miles from Nassar.
charlie Green, aged II, and son of
a Pere Marquette engineer. Is dead OF
lockJaw, the result of injuries TO his
loot received while playing in the
Saginaw railroad yards.
The annual reunion of the Calhoun
County Veteran Battalion will be held |
at Battle Creek, August is Congress- |
man Washington Gardner will act as |
toastmaster at The campfire.
Grand Rapids business men active
in the aDti-saloon movement complain |
that they are being boycotted by wet
s!mpsthizers and that unless the ban
is raised they will be ruined.
Fire which resulted from spon-
taneous combustion i'm a hsymow. de-
stroyed large barn filed with hay
and grain and team OF horses on the
Chapin farm, near Schoolcraft.
Joseph B. Kemp, OF Ann Arbor. has
Just received medal of honor award
ed MIN by congress shortly after the
battle OF the Wilderness in 1864, upon
the recommendation OF Gen. Meade.
Jackson officials are endeavorin, O
md where Charles Crowley, II. Sc
cured the whisky which nearly killed
him. He fell on the street writing in
agony and nearly died in the hospital.
In the death OF Levi Rivers, Of
cooks Mills, Schoolcraft county, the
state OF Michigan has lost its Oldest
citizen. The deceased was 1O5 years
IF age. lie came to the region more
han sixty years ago.
The supreme court has failed to
land down a decision setting aside
he Sanilac county local option cleo
ion because the county clerk failed
o sign the supervisors records in
ime. The county will remain dry.
+. W. Schroeder, of Traverse City,
aughed at funny story told him
~ companion Friday and his Jaw
vas dislocated. 1t required The ef.
orts OF physician and two strong
men 10 put the jaw back where it
belonged.
Mrs. Charles Cote. OF Muskegon,
lad her right leg and four ribs
'roken and sustained severe internal ,
INJURIES, and her mother. Mrs. Joseph
"a Chappelle. was badly bruised and ,
ut, when they were run down by an
WakehcS, village of 1900. on the ]
iogebic range, Is having built high
chool costing $4,000 in place OF the j
ne burned last spring. IL will be :
Oxl92 feet with IA school rooms, a 4
omestic science room, manual train I
lg room, gymnasium and laboratory. /,
The oldest living u. OF NJ. graduate
as been found again. This time he
! Rev. Theodore Romeyne Palmer, OF s
RATIONAL City, Cal, who graduated in ?
s47. He was lieutenant-colonel OF +
ne Thirteenth Michigan in the civil k
ar. !,
Sheriff Graham will sell the plant {,
the Malta Vitae Pure Food Co. OF -
attic Creek, at a public sale Septem- 4
er 2. The City National bank. of =
attic Creek, is said to have advanced T,
25,000 TO keep the institution in OPP s
ration. and it is to satisfy the banks y
aim that the sale will be held. e
Charles II. Mains. a former Battle e
reek attorney, who has been serving
12-year sentence in the federal 8
rison at Fort Leavenworth. Kas., for o.
tving killed man I'm Alaska. has 5,
zen transferred TO the United States ;!
hospital at Washington. ID. =
Mains is said to be hopelessly in S.
me.
When runaway team demolished
e fence which encloses the city deer 81
lrk at Traverse City. the lone deer al
'pt there escaped, and Mayor Ger =,
ain secured an automobile and gave 81
lase. After a run of nearly a mile l
e animal was captured and the II
ayor drove back to town with the
'er occupying the rear seat of the 81
to- 81
William Drumm, who disappeared
lille agent OF the Grand Trunk road IL
Davisburg and was said TO have bs
olen cash and express orders, has :,
'en located at Grand Rapids. He m
Is made his peace with the railroad &C
'mpany and asked for job In a Gu
Try" county. where he can break or