Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-03-10

The next meeting OF the Michigan
Schoolmasters' club will be held In
Ann Arbor four days following
March 80.
The Home for the Friendless OF
Saginaw received $4,000 as the re-
suit OF the probating of the will or
Harry Bates, who died In 1894.
Mayor Il. f. Evans, of Bay City, has
rendered his resignation that he may
attend to his business matters more
closely Evans was elected year
ago.
Scottville citizens are considering,
apparently with favor, the PROPOSE
tion of c. w r. Roach, of the Hart
Canning company, to erect a canning
factory.
The county board OF supervisors
has decided that the local option
question shall be submitted 70 the
voters at the coming spring election
in Gogebic county.
Prof. A. S. Warthin, of the medical
faculty at Ann Arbor. has 40 volumes
of medical books in his library which
were published in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries.
The women of Ingham county will
be asked 10 state their opinions in
regard to local option in the county.
The petition will, it is said, be SINH
lar to that circulated among the men.
Arrangements were completed
whereby the inmates OF the recently
burned Michigan Masonic home at
Grand Rapids will be cared for in a
vacant fashionable clubhouse until
June l.
The Wexford County Medical So
ciety has adopted a resolution TO pre-
scribe liquors only TO persons at their
bedside, in other words, to cut out
giving prescriptions TO those wno have
a bad cold.
The advisory board of the Royal
Arcanum of Michigan held a meet
ing at the Hotel Dresden. Flint and
selected Detroit as the place for the
! annual meeting, which will be held
Tuesday, April 10.
The board of supervisors of Goge-
! bic county created a new township in
| the extreme eastern section of the
county. 1t will be known as Carlson,
| in honor of Conrad Carlson, the first
clerk of the county.
With from So to 40 loads appearing
on the market daily, the potato price
! slumped at Traverse City from 20 TO
! is cents Fearing spring breakup
| the farmers seem to be willing 10 let
| so of their tubers at any price.
The Michigan Central railroad is
planning to build an extension from
! it's Bay City line to some point on
! Tho (Nloir river II ic nXnnPtah
extension will be built from Lenox to
Rochester and Utica via Mt. Clemens.
When Fred Barber a farmer. went
out to his barn to do his chores he
! heard weak cry like that of a kit
ten inside the stable. Investigating,
ne found a large blanket in which
was wrapped newly-born baby girl.
The case of w. p Parsons VS.. Stew
art Bills. Owosso, over the location
of line fence, has been taken to the
supreme court. The case involves
one-half acre of land valued at about
$25, and has caused about $4,000 worth
of litigation in the past 40 years.
That Frank Wager. Of Paines Sta
ton, whose dismembered body was
found beside the Michigan Central
tracks in Saginaw, came 10 his death
by a freight train while intoxicated,
and was not killed for his money, was
the verdict of the coroner's jury.
Several thousand feet of lumber
belonging to the Flint Lumber colu-
pany, were washed into the river by
food An ice jam few blocks west
of Saginaw street. the main thorough
fare. has formed in Thread creek,
causing an expanse Of water OF more
than 200 feet.
Cadillac will probably be the meet
ing place of the interstate commerce
commission on March "a. The pro-
posed meeting is for the purpose of
| giving a hearing to the Michigan
| Hardwood Manufacturers association
relative TO the shipping rate from
Michigan to the Pacific coast.
A committee from the board of con-
troll of the Michigan Masonic Home
was In Alma Thursday to investigate
the sanitarium property relative TO
providing a place 10 care for the in
mates Of the burned home at Grand
Rapids, who are now being cared for
at a hotel and private residences
Alleging that 81. Joseph is losing
hundreds of dollars because no as
sessment has been made against
various residents for personal taxes.
the Big Four railway has started suit
against the city contending that the
present tax rolls are null and void.
Several lodges and social clubs are
included in the list.
Monroe officials and opposition, doc
tors interfered in a recent case OF
scarlet fever in which City Physician
F. r. Burdeno complied with the
necessary restrictions and quarantine
regulations, and in which the quar-
antine was lifted by those interior
ing. II has since been learned that the
city doctor was correct, DR.. Guy l.,
Kiefer. of Detroit, having decided 10
that effect.
The I. o. O. r. OF Owosso plan to
assist Mrs George Palmer in her suit
against the Flint concern in which
her husband was killed by a boiler
explosion a short time ago. The man
was insured for $4,000 in the lodge
but had neglected to meet his last
payment. and consequently his fam
! az, could not collect ANYTHING The