Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-07-27
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

| 1dHltS " NOIdk OH the ifOUHldH ldTH
near Owosso. and after telling the
whole family. passed out through the
door
DIR. John II. kellogg has thrown
| open his large private grounds in Bat
tie Creek for public playground fol
children.
| A Petoskey party of so persons and
several others from Michigan return
ed from three months tour of the
Holy Land
| DR.. George l.. Andrew. said TO be
! the last member of the sanitary com.
mission OF the civil war. died in La
port, Ind. aged So
The Wickwire Steel Company of
| Buffalo is buying extensively on the
! Menominee range With the intention
| OF developing important mines
The August term of circuit court
will open at Menominee on the eth
with Judge r. c. Flanagan presid.
| ing. There are only few cases to
be disposed Of
Five cars Of a north-bound Pere
Marquette train We're dtched on a
sharp curve four miles from Monroe
No one was injured The line was
tied up for about two hours.
While attempting to drill ont a
charge of dynamite after il failed to
explode, Henry Zitorski. a miner in
the Eagle Plaster Co.'S mill. Grand
Rapids, was blown to pieces
Although it was believed that the
country surrounding Seney would be
valueless after the timber had been
cleaned from it few years ago it is
developing into the best farming land
in that section of the state
G. F. Briggs. we'll known Eaton
county farmer, is In jail i'm Sunfeld
charged with threatening to kill his
son-in-law and harm his daughter
because he thought II was they who
sent him some offending picture post
cards.
The upper peninsula federation of
Italian societies. closed its conyen.
ton at Calumet with a reunion of
Itoliars from all northern Michigan.
The federation elected grand officers
and named Iron Mountain as the 1912
meeting place.
The supreme court is asked to re-
lease from Jail Elmer GLENN and
George Purchase, Detroit oil well pro-
motors, who are being kept in prison
for nine months at Ann Arbor by
complainants who allege shady tran
sactions.
Commissioner of Insurance Palmer
has revoked the state license of the
Hoosier Casualty Co of Indianapolis.
Ind. j. 4. Boiler. an agent for the
company located at Port Huron. is
said to have violated the agents in
surance laws Of Michican.
The plant of the Standard Pure
Food Co, Detroit. located in Owosso.
will be rebuilt with an Owosso com
pany behind it. The Owosso I'm.
provement Association succeeded In
selling $50 600 worth OF stock. Work
of rebuilding will begin Immediately
Knights of Columbus from Bav
City, Saginaw and Athena and Is
other cities in that section of Michi-
gan congregated at Wenona Beach.
Saginaw, for their annual outing
There were 1000 members of the
order present and a program OF
sports was given.
Gov. Osborn addressed the Joint
meeting of the state asvlums at TRAY.
erse City and commended them for
their work. The daily rate of main
tenance for the ensuing year was
fixed as follows: Kalamazoo. G.
cents: Pontiac. 40; Traverse City,
40; Newberry. so
The contract for II miles of i'm.
Ia, ID
ship. Mason county, has been let to
Clarence Sheppard of Ludington for
$4,000 Work will be begun at once
and will be completed in two years.
The road work was authorized at
special election last spring when $50.
600 bonds were voted for that pur-
pose.
At the summer meeting of the
Michigan PASSENGER Association held
Thursday at Ottawa Beach, and
which was largely attended, il was
voted to grant fare and half round
trip rate, over all lines, TO the Mich
igan State Fair. September 18th to
9th. Tickets will be placed on sale
the first day of the fair and will be
good returning September 2Sth, the
day after the fair closes.
In an attempt to cross the track i'm
front of the scoring horses at Kala-
maZoo Charles Travis. an onlooker.
was knocked to the track uncon-
scious, while Johnny G.. one of the
entries in the $4,000 Paper Mills
stake was knocked from his feet
The members OF Hastings board of
education resigned after row with
the superintendent at mass meeting
of citizens. Their places were i'm.
mediately filed
Residents along the Saginaw river
were excited when it was reported
from Bav City that three boys, who
have refused TO give their names.
have found many pearls in mussel
beds in the river between Saginaw
and Bay City. Herman Hiss, Jew
eler Of Bay City examined the speci. |
mems and states that while some OF
them are worth only about 10 cents
apiece, one was of as good quality
as he had ever seen. They are the |
fresh water type OF pearls and of the |
kind that are found in beds in the |
Wisconsin streams. The first knowl- |
edge of the pearl fishing was three |