Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-04-07
NEWS OF MICHIGAN.

The state military board met In
| Saginaw Wednesday TO dedicate the
new armory recently finished in that
city.
Gov. Warner has appointed Charles
>. Chase, OF Alpine township. jury
commissioner for Kent county TO sue
coed William ID. Hall, resigned.
The old Bond-Steel Post Co.'S fac
| tory in the heart of the manufactur-
ing district of Adrian was destroyed
by FIRE. The loss is estimated at
$1,000
The second annual transportation
banquet of the board of trade was
held Friday in Traverse City. Many
well known railroad officials were
present.
Smallpox claimed its eighth victim
| at Bay City when the death of
Michael Dwyer followed only a few
days illness. The cases now quaran-
tined number SO.
According to the new city directory,
Just completed Lansing has a bona
nde population of 39150. This num-
Der includes 1.200 residents of East
Lansing, not including students.
For the first time in the history of
Big Rapids women may vote at the
next general election to be held on
April 4. Their voting, however is
limited to the question of bonding the
city for $4,000 for an armory site.
Clarence Boyle, % years old and
unmarried, and Edward Wetzel, man
or FAMILY, aged As, were caught in the
Whirlpool below the dam at Berrien
Springs and drowned while fishing.
| Judge G. p Black and Attorney o.
| II. Matthews, of Lansing sustained in
| Jurles in automobile accidents Mon
day, and by queer coincidence each
is suffering from broken right arm.
Training in good agricultural col
lege Is better for the country minister
than course in theology" said Rev
| w. A. Bartlett, of the First Congrega-
tional church OF Chicago, before the
state missionary meeting in Benton
| Ha-t~r.
| Prof. A. Schultz, head of the high
school in Chesaning for the last four
| years, has been engaged by the board
OF education 10 fill a similar position
in Caro-. He is a graduate of the u. of
NJ, and took a b. A. degree from Al
bion college.
When Undertaken Stebbins was
called from the village of Sheridan to
| prepare for burial the bo~y of Mrs
Thomas Wilson, who died west of
town, he found that Mrs Wilson's
| husband had expired an hour after
her death occurred.
The NJ. U. r. has just let the CON
tract for the erection of new pant
and repair shops at Albion, to cost
| about $4,000, exclusive Of machinery
or equipment. About 80 men will be
added TO the working forces after the
most modern equipment has been in
stalled
| Albert r. Willsey, So of Saginaw, a
veteran Of the Spanish-American war.
died suddenly of heart trouble Tues
day afternoon. He was quartermas-
ter in the local militia company and
worked until midnight Monday get
ting the new armory in shape for
| companions.
Before the Michigan Academy of
| Science meeting at Ann Arbor, DR.. J
| q. Cumming, of the Pasteur Institute
gave paper on Recent Observations
| of Rabies" He told of a new method
that he has been working on for five
years that would. he believed. replace
the Pasteur treatment eventually.
Realizing that Mecosta county has
many undeveloped possibilities, and
that the yield of fruit potatoes. corn
and other crops could be greatly in
| creased by improved methods, meet
ing will be held at the county build
ing in Big Rapids Saturday. April 9.
10 organize a county corn growers
association
City Attorney Taggart, of Grand
Rapids. has received a reply from w.
B. Foote, of Jackson, head of the
Grand Rapids-Muskegon Power Co,
regarding the alleged discrimination
of rates made by the company TO GER
tain consumers in Grand Rapids
Foote declares that the old schedule
was unsatisfactory and also that the
present rate is not illegal.
Because they objected 10 lne jun
Tors placing their class numerals
above class room door even after
having received orders from the prin-
cipal, the seniors and juniors are i'm
a controversy at Sault Ste. Marie
which promises 10 develop into some
thing real warm. A fight started
when the seniors hove in sight with
a pail Of kalsomine and a broom and
many of the students retired with torn
clothing.
While replacing fuse plug with
one hand when searching for a de
feet in the switchboard OF tho o'-,
lighting plant, at Harbor Beach
Harry Metz superintendent OF ,he
plant. came into contact with a brass
object on the switchboard, forming
a circuit and causing his death in.
stantly Metz was unmarried and
lived with his mother who was visit.
ing friends in Owosso at the tlme OF
the accident.
The Office Of the state game warGer
has received word Of The arrest OF
three men in Montcalm couaty. ono
OF whom is being held on charge C.
assault with intent 10 do great bodily
harm. The report is that while c. +
Petit. deputy game warden OF Mont
calm county. and a depdty sheriff
we're about to arrest three men vhC
| wore alleged 10 have baon fishing