Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-11-24
STATE BRIEFS.

The city clerk of Flint has notified
the Saginaw-Flint street railway COM
pany to substitute steel trolley pc es
for wooden ones
Jerry Boynton filed a mortgage for
$250,000 against the Grand Rapids
Electric raj way. 1t will operate for
20 years and hears per cent inter
est
Peter Johnson, of Eatt,e Creek. Go
years old. cripple. was unable to get
out of the way of a fast Michigan
Central train, was struck and Instant.
killed. -
Over 5000 goo was disbursed at the
Carrolton plant of the Michigan
Sugar Co to the beet growers Of
Saginaw and surrounding counties,
it being the first pay day of the sea-
sen.
Fear being felt Of contagion from
smallpox the annual meeting of the
North Michigan Teachers association.
which was scheduled to convene in
Petoskev Nov % and &c. has been
called off
The Menominee River Sugar Co,
pulp drv house which will cost $780,
600. Contracts for 1911 assure the
company the largest acreage In the
history of the factory.
Mrs. Bronson. of Whitehall, saw a
man peering through the window Of
her home and fired two shots at him
II is believed one or both shots took
effect, as trail Of blood was followed
two blocks from the house.
Enraged because he was joked about
his relations with a widow for whom
he was working as farm hand, near
Bay City, Russell Conant. aged 20
shot and fatally wounded David Ed
wards. aged 3S, and slightly wounded
John Stolliker who was riding with
Edwards on wagon. The bullet
traversed Edwards's abdomen from
side to side and then struck Stolliker
in the side but did not penetrate much
below the skin.
Gov Warner has appointed the fol
owing delegates TO attend the Lakes.
to-Gulf Deep Waterway association
meeting to be held in st. Louis, Mo-
Nov &c and 81: FIR NJ. ]. Crowley,
Monroe; Otto C. Davidson. Iron Noun.
tain; w. c. Durant, Flint; Charles A.
Floyd. Holland; William Forbes. Port
Huron; E. B. Foss, Bay City; Fred
w. Gage, Battle Creek William Liv.
ingstone, Detroit; Stanley Morton.
Benton Harbor; Ezra Rust, SAGINAW;
John Sherman, Ludington; John s.
Weidman, Mt Pleasant.
At the closing session Of the Michi.
gan Forestry association, at Kalama-
ZOO, the following officers were elected
for the coming wear: President
Charles w Garfield Grsnd Rapids;
vice president. John II. Bissell De.
troit: secretary. Hilbert Roth, Ann
Arbor; assistant secretary, Henry G.
Stevens. Detroit; treasurer, w. b
Mershon. Saginaw: board OF directors
J. +. Beal Ann Arhor; j. j. Hubbell
Manistee: Mrs. Lena f. Mautner, Sag.
NAV; James Satterlee, Lansing: w.
f. Williams. Pittssord; Mrs. l.. Hub.
bard. Houghton; Mrs John C. Sharp,
Jackson; J. c. Knox, Cadil &C.
James A. Mackay Of Port Huron,
chicken fancier. known as the "Wyan.
dotte King" has sold his entire stock
of white Wyandottes to a Pittsburg
breeder.
Howard Green, former lawyer,
clubman and church worker of Bat.
tie Creek, will be tried December 20
for killing Thomas ID. Skidmore in
Los Angeles. Mrs Bessie Watts
home from Los Angeles. made the
statement that Green authorized her
to inform his friends that there is
no arrangement between himself
and wife, despite the fact that he
shot Skidmore for interfering with
his home.