Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-10-27
STATE NOTES.

| i"O heul county DOaFu OF super
vlsors has. purchased an additional
plot of 20 acres to add TO the county
home grounds.
Mrs. Louisa Winter. OF Charlotte
20 years old, has left for Los Angeles
TO wed man so years old, whom she
| lifted when a girl.
The second crop of strawberries is
being brought into Buchanan by the
| crate and retailing at 25 cents quart
They are abundant
Members OF Co. c, M. n. c., at Port
| Huron, have petitioned the council to
buy the auditorium and turn it over
TO the militia for their use.
According to report issued by the
secretary Of state, there were SAP
deaths In the state in September, 175
less than there were in August.
The Calhoun county board OF super
visors has allowed bill OF $1,000
Tor tobacco furnished prisoners in the
county jail by the sheriff.
Houghton county will build a new
jail and sheriff's residence at a cost
or $4,000 The work will not be
undertaken until next spring.
An effort will be made to organize
a branch of the American School
Peace league when the State Teach
ers association meets in Bay City.
The board OF supervisors of Grand
traverse county has decided to sell
the present poorhouse and rent new
quarters until another one can be
built
aIin ID. 60 linz
wheat fields in the vicinity OF Corey,
and the outlook for a 1911 crop is
very poor. The hot, dry fall weather
Is responsible.
George Brill, aged So. the Oldest
German resident OF the copper coun-
try, Is dead. He came to Calumet
before the discovery OF the Calumet
* Hecla mines.
The International Harvester Co.
OF Chicago. will erect a mammoth
warehouse in Lansing in the near
future, for central distributing sta
ton for the state.
All the mothers clubs in Traverse
City have Indoors ed the movement to
organize a boys club. which will
probably lead to a permanent Y. Nj.
c. A. for the city.
1t cost Shiawassee county S637 TO
board its prisoners from October to
April last year, and 1868 less this
year. The sheriff attributes the de-
crease TO local option.
James Kesler, of Dagget. has ap-
piled for patent on a sugar beet
litter. The inventor will start the
manufacture OF the machine az soon
as he receives his patents
The police of Battle Greek believe
that a quarrel which has broken out
among the suspects held for the kill.
ing OF Anthony De Wolf will result in
Throwing some light on the mystery
surrounding his death.
For the fourth time since the mur.
der Of her fiancee, STANLEY Ketchol
Miss Jewell Bovine, of Grand Rapids,
attempted suicide. crazed by grief
over his death. She is nervous
wreck and is now beirg cons antly
watched
Residents OF Milwaukee have auth.
orized Supervisor Bauer to block any
attempt the Michigan Central may
make to move its station. The road
has been trying to move the station
six years because a bonus OF $4,000
was not paid by the village.
A marriage BY mail. the Dutch con-
sui at Grand Rapids having filled out
the documents and sent them to his
bride in Rotterdam, Holland. was the
experience of Herman Ryscra, aged
50. He has brought his bride, Helen
Dykema. aged %, TO Muskegon.
The Duplex Phonograph Co. for
several years a dangerous rival of all
similar concerns, formally passed out
of existence as the result of an order
issued by judge r. L. Knappen, at
kalamazoo. upon the request OF the
receiver. Charles @. De France. and
trustee. f. J. Phelps.
The Osceola Light & Power Co, at
Reed City, has increased its capital
stock. George Westover and +. +.
Haynes, OF Cadillac. taking consider
able stock The company is also
increasing its capacity by the erec
ton of concrete dam capable OF
Developing 300 horse power,
According to State Chemist Floyd
Robson and Dairy and Food Inspec-
tor Howe. who have made a system
attic investigation. there are 80 cases !
of typhoid fever in Lansing. and |
nearly every patient drank milk Sc
cured from a dairy which was re-
Gently ordered closed by the state
dairy and food department
Statistics compiled by Auditor.
General Fuller show that there has |
been startling increase OF insanity /
in Michigan since 1892. the total mum.
Der of inmates in the five asylums and |
the Home for the Feeble Minded at |
the present time being 1851 as com.
pared with 2,1C9 eighteen years ago. |
With his prisoner supposedly Sc
curely locked up in the jail at Mt. |
Pleasant, Deputy Sheriff +. ID. Gray, |
OF Nevada, Mo. secured requisit,on |
papers to take back Jack Roundtree |
to answer to charge OF horse steal |
ing. but Roundtree, 1t was learned
later. had made his escape from the |
Mt. Pleasant jail
The claim OF $25 bounty for killing |
a wolf, presented to the ST. Clair
county board of supervisors by Henry |
Duchene, OF Detroit, who said he
killed the 'varmint" at Capac has
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