Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-06-23
NEWS OF MICHIGAN.


will begin in Port Huron. June 81.
| Lester Garfield, OF Ypsilanti, Will
liam Bacon, OF Chelsea, and William
Stark, of Ann Arbor, have announced
themselves candidates for sheriff in
Washtenaw county.
After hot fight on the convention
floor. Detroit was chosen as the next
meeting place OF the State Arbeiter
bund. In session at Bay City. Kala-
mazoo was the strongest opposing
contender.
Fifty women OF the United club OF
the Independent Congregational
| church will run the r. j. Bolster dry
goods store, at Battle Creek, June Fl
and % and will receive a percentage
OF the profits and salary OF ~ day
for their services.
w. j. Beal, for forty years professor
OF Botany at the Agricultural college,
Lansing, has been made professor
emeritus, by the state board OF agri-
culture, at salary OF $1,000 year.
His forthcoming retirement was re-
Gently announced
Mrs. c. L. Waffle, 50, mother of
| Charles Waffle, who year ago shot
| and killed his sister, and ended his
own life, died In the hospital OF the
soldiers home in Grand Rapids, never
having recovered from the shock OF
the double tragedy.
Bay City will within a year aban-
don the manufacture OF electric cur
| rent in its two plants and will buy its
current for lighting from the Titti-
bawassee Power Co. 1t was the first
city in the country to establish mu-
nicipal lighting plant
The trial of Acting Warden John C.
Wenger of Jackson prison, has been
postponed, owing to another import
ant suit that is being tried In Judge
Parkinson's court, and which may
take several days, when the Wenger
trial will be Immediately taken up.
Secretary II. A. Hopkins, of the
Michigan Press association, an
nounced that the proposed trip OF the
association and the Eastern Press club
to northern Canada has been aban-
doned, owing to the lack OF interest
shown on the part of the membership.
Half dozen barns and sheds were
blown down in wind storm at Sebe-
waing Friday. Telephone lines were
put out OF commission during the
stress of the storm and a foot OF
water flowed in the streets of the viii
Iage. From $4,000 to 100000 is an
estimate of the loss, including damage
to crops.
John Green, John Zeigler and John
Bell, Of Burr Oak, st. Joseph county,
were convicted in Lansing of violat-
ing the state fish laws and fined
$27.75 each. Convictions from all over
the state are coming into the depart
ment now and in some cases jail
sentences are being melted out TO the
offenders.
Theodore Koch, librarian Of the
University of Michigan, has been in
vited to read paper before the In
ternational Congress OF Librarians, to
be held in Brussels this summer. He
is asked to read the paper in English
one day and to repeat it in French
the next Prof. Koch has not yet de-
cided as to accepting.
After investigating for himself and
also acting on the recommendation Of
Judge Winsor, Attorney Hamilton and
President Loud, OF the county bar,
Circuit Judge North at Battle Creek,
denied the motion Of Frank A. Cole, a
Tekonsha farmer, for the removal OF
Prosecuting Attorney Cavanaugh from
Office and for his disbarment.
| When fire Monday afternoon de-
stroyed the Office and dwelling of DR..
Otis Gould together with the contents,
one of the landmarks of the village
OF West Haven was removed. The
house was occupied as the West Ha-
ven tavern in the old stage days, be-
ing situated on the old wagon road
between Lansing and Saginaw.
For the first time in IL years the
Gratiot county Jail, at Ithaca, is empty
of prisoners. During that period the
number has ranged from to 25. Be
lieving that his services were no
longer needed owing to the downward
trend of crime, Under Sheriff Ennis
has resigned and Sheriff Convis has
gone to work in the beet fields.
The Mecosta County Letter Car
riers' association, in annual session
at Big Rapids, elected the following
officers: President. z. Phillips, Re
mus; vice-president. Charles Blu
chanan, Morley; secretary and treas
urer, Marion NJ Daniels, Big Rapids.
NJ. NJ. Daniels. of Big Rapids, and
Arthur Creevy, Of Barryton. were
elected delegates to the ninth annual
state convention. which will be held
in Kalamazoo July IL and ID.
The Advance Thresher Co.'S foundry
building, at Battle Creek, temporarily
occupied by the John Watkins saw
mill, burned with loss of between
$4,000 and $4,000. Though located a
block from fire station No. 4, the
building was beyond being saved
when the fire was discovered. Much
valuable machinery was burned. The
blaze was the fourth In this building
within few years. and the second
this year. A new building will be
erected at once.
| Cottagers at Ottawa Beach have
brought suit against the Pere Mar
quette railway and the Central Land
Co. to compel them to vacate property
on which is situated the Hotel OF
tawa and the power and lighting n'snt.
The affairs OF the park association
were in litigation for many years and