Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-02-17
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

Munising of the murder OF harriet
Hill at Shingleton last November. He
was sentenced by Judge Steere to 40
years in Jackson penitentiary.
Demolishing with an iron bar the
door of the l.. S. a NJ. s. depot at
Saline, yeggs blew the safe with nj
troglycerine, secured $50 in cash, all
the money in II, and escaped without
molestation.
Frank Lahym, alderman Of the third |
ward the largest ward in Traverse
City, appeared in the recorders court
and pleaded guilty to charge or vio-
lating the game laws. He killed only
one fox squirrel, but it cost him Sl5.
Allen y. Armstrong, deposed war
den of Jackson prison, has closed a
deal by which he transfers his hand
some home at Cassopolis TO Thomas
w. McCully. farmer OF Penn town
ship. The price is said to have been
$4,000.
Because he was brought 10 America
| from Germany to take charge of
beet sugar plant and was made
common workman. jury awarded
Richard Breden $1,000 against Joseph
! Cohn, superintendent of the Owosso
. Sugar Co
General Manager Schantz, of the
Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co,
has assured Saginaw shippers that
the boat service discontinued between
that city and Detroit last season VIII
be resumed at the opening of navlga-
ton this spring.
State Boiler Inspector j. c. McCabe
reports that the exploded boiler In the
sawmill at Crump was not capable OF
holding 40 pounds of steam and tnat
it had been used for 100 pounds. he
said that the boiler was too rotten
to stand the pressure.
The announcement that President
Taft may attend the G. A. X. state
encampment at Holland next June
has caused the speakers committee
to forward an invitation to him and
Senator Smith and Congressman DIE
kema will be prevailed upon to get
direct promise at once.
: The second annual meeting of the
Michigan Press association will be
held in Bay City Feb. "a and %, with
! a banquet on the second day, at which
William Allen White, the author Cy
Warman, magazine writer. Chase >.
! Osborn and A. H. Vandeberg, OF
Grand Rapids, will speak.
The town of Dollarville, Luce coun-
ty, has been sold by the Danaher
: Hardwood Lumber Co to the Detroit
Cedar e. Lumber Co, of Detroit. The
deal includes the mill site, yards and
I, houses-everything except the saw
U mill. which has been sold TO Wickes
! Bros, Of Saginaw who are now dis
i mantling the plant and will ship II
. elsewhere.
;. NJ. W. Wentworth, steward or the
Battle Creek sanitarium, has pur
!. chased 200 acres on which he vii
plant 10000 trees. Among the species
. are several of the locust variety which
v will be used for fence posts. The ide;
!. OF Wentworth is to utilize the marsf
4 land for timber raising thus redeem
" ing almost worthless real estate, use
= less, at least, for any other purpose
The recent report issued by Labo
Commissioner Fletcher shows that tn
n yield of soft coal in Michigan has de
n creased in the past year. Last year
Z output was 1,75S.020 tons. or abou
a. 80 600 tons less than the previou
rs year. 1t cost $1.G5 to mine each to-
-. i'm 1909 while in 1908 the rate was tw
IS cents higher. The wage paid to TN
2 miner has fallen off nine cents pc
In day.
ID The Junior hop given by the elias
"a Of 1911 of the University of Michiga
in is history The big society event
~ the year was held in Waterman an
20 Barbour gymnasiums Friday night. A
n most 300 couples of young men an
in women, representing every state j
fNN.T fERn frr mi
yh tries, danced and sang in the mutt
colored lights from $3.50 until o'cloc
he Saturday morning.
nd James X. Griggs. president of II
ct board of police commissioners, whic
re Office he has held several years, an
ty one of Saginaw's most prominent ell
it zens and Masons, dropped dead at h
OF home on North Washington avenu
uf The fatal stroke occurred shortly a
he ter his return home from downtoN
TT, and was without warning. Ii is b
he lieved death was due to heart failur
Ter Griggs was about 20 years old and
survived by widow.
On The executive committee OF the sta
ot. grange adopted resolutions while
lat session in Lansing favoring the pa
cells post system and also the post
TOT savings bank They will make ca
In paign among their members askil
bu- that when they vote for candidates
are the legislature and state senate tn
out they choose those who favor tc
pc mage tax on ores, the Torrens syste
the of land tracts, further progressive ;
ton in the good roads work and t
ast project to make telephone lines co
mon carriers.
Because high school functions a
OF proving such a menace to effecti
an school work the board of educati
to of Ann Arbor has put ban on
les fairs. The action was taken when
the was stated that besides the effect
studying it had been found Il
wn- cigarettes were permitted at
aw, dances. Under the new ruling ella
me parties and dances may be held
the high school corridors when p
car mission Is secured. but only hi
'sti- school pupils will be permitted to
UNI tend. college students and other o