Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-01-13
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

from his sockets with his hOrns. lie
will recover.
A son. the fourteenth, was born Fri
day to Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Butno,
SauIt Ste. Marie. There are 10 chill
dren in the family.
DR.. Shumway, of the state board OF
health. announces that he and a gov
eminent health expert will go to Calu
met to examine NJ Jensen, the Nor
wegian who is believed to be suffering
from leprosy.
Superintendent w. S. Judd. of the
Michigan Employment Institution for
the Blind, will remain as head OF the
state school on the west side of Sag
NAV. The charges of mismanagement
made by Willis Bateman, of Albion,
have been weathered.
ID. Jeffrey, of Standish, while out
hunting, ran across a big lynx, now
rare animal in lower Michigan. The
lynx laid back his ears and made
race for Jeffrey, but he killed the
creature. A bounty of S. will be paid
by the state for his head
The First National bank of Petoskey
has brought suit in magistrates
court in Cincinnati, to collect on three
worthless notes. aggregating $340. The
defendant is one Lewis Runck, a local
insurance man. and the firm Of Runck
e. Co., which he represents.
Willis Baldwin, receiver for the
partly completed T., A. A. e. d. cleo
trio line. which the Ann Arbor steam
road officials fear is to be revived,
hot &c ftritx tn
the deal. All hope for the roads con-
struction has been abandoned, he says.
At the annual meeting of the Sag
NAV Liquor Dealers association
strong pressure was brought TO bear
to have dealers in rural districts obey
the laws. "Saloonkeepers must obey"
said President w. n. Mckinney. of
the association, "or Saginaw will go
dry"
Three shots were fired in the home
of Oren K. Wheeler, a Michigan Cen
trail railroad brakeman, of Jackson,
and as a result Wheeler has a scalp
wound, while Mrs. Wheeler also has
a wound in her head and a worse one
in her body. She is in a hospital in
a precarious condition.
In the sale OF $17,5OO worth Of land
in Schoolcraft county to the Grimmer
Land Co.. of Marinette, Wis, the state
land commission received only from
81 to $3.50 per acre for the property.
or this amount, 2S per cent goes to
the general fund of the state and the
other ~ per cent to the county.
Preparations are under way for the
annual May festival in Saginaw in the
auditorium. The stars that will be
featured are well known throughout
the United States and the chorus OF
500 voices will start drilling three
months before the festival dates. The
annual May festival is only second in
Michigan to the University of Mich.
gan musical fest.
Pledging themselves to the purifica-
tion of politics and combining their
efforts in driving the breweries and
saloons from power in the local NUM-
cipal government. over 300 Of the
leading merchants and manufacturers
of Grand Rapids set in motion an or
ganization which is expected to avoid
the local option issue being voted
upon by Grand Rapids and Kent
county voters this spring.
Farmers and dealers in potatoes
who are holding the crop of the last
season, waiting for higher prices, are
beginning to wonder where their
profit will come in, as the retail price
in the city is now but so cents per
bushel, and many of the farmers were
offered more than this amount last
fall, in digging time. From 80 to 45
cents is now all that is being offered,
and many who bought at the 45-cent
market for speculation purposes are
wondering If they will realize what
they paid for them.
The Hillsdale city council and bust
ness mems association will send a
mammoth petition TO Washington ask
ing the treasury department for an
increase in the appropriation for the
new postoffice from $4,000 to 5000.
The reason for the request is that
Hillsdale is rapidly growing and the
local postoffice, because of the several
branches on the Lake Shore road
which run out Of here. does larger
business than most cities Of the same
size. The citizens fell that building
erected at cost of $4,000 would
soon be outgrown.
Rep. Joseph Fordney will within a
few weeks present to congress a petit.
ton signed by many Saginaw people,
asking that Lieut.. Charles Brates, u.
S. A, retired, now of West Point, n.
Y, be advanced to the rank of major.
The man is veteran of the Indian
wars, was with Clusters regiment in
several important battles, and was re.
tired because Of shattered leg, re.
ceived in fight with redskins on the
Yellowstone river few weeks before
the Custer massacre. He was born
in Detroit in 1S47 and lived in Sagi-
nav several years
Under general order No. %, issued
by the state military department, all
officers of the Michigan National
Guard must enter at once upon the
study OF field service regulations,
military hygiene and military map
reading. Books are furnished and the
officers are required to hold schools
in preparation fer later instruction by
regular army officers. the entire
course to be in preparation for the
field InaneuVers the cnmino GUNNER