Belding banner., 1911-05-11
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

unite In going 10 Lake Mlcnlgan TOT
"A water supply.
Five hundred men have been laid
off at the Newport mine near Besse-
mer, and the mine will shut down.
citation Is trying to arrange TO have
the Wright brothers fly an aeroplane
July A.
Judge w. II. Umlor and Harlin
Brown OF Traverse City have plated
a great tract of land for a fishing
colony on Boardman river
Fred Draper, aged So known TO
lumbermen as the builder of many
big sawmills in Michigan in the old
numbering days, died in Muskegon.
Every one of the 20 counties in
cluded in the Western Michigan De-
velopment bureau was represented at
the annual meeting held in Traverse
City.
Gov. Osborn appointed DR.. ]. B.
Griswold. of Grand Rapids, as mem
Der OF the board of control for the
Michigan Soldiers home, to succeed
Il. o. Shaw, resigned.
Willing TO get a divorce so that
his wife might wed lover of school
days, John Baker, prominent Kali
amazoo farmer. applied for decree,
which was refused.
Because the Ball bill gives only
$4,000 per year instead of $4,000,
as was intended, the state fire mar
shalls department cannot be organ
lied as effectively as planned.
Judge Richard c. Flanagan, Of
the Menominee district. will preside
over the Calumet & Hecla cases in
Houghton, at the request OF Judge
Streator, who Is in the south.
For the first time since the G. A.
X. post was organized in Owosso,
just after the war, there will be no
martial band in the Memorial day
procession. as three of the five mem
bers of the band are dead
The Muskegon county board OF
supervisors raised the county vaua-
tion 10 per cent TO meet the new law
which says the valuation must be
raised before the meeting Of the tax
commission this summer.
A University of Michigan Alumni
association has been organized in
Petoskey with Paul Buckley, presi-
dent; DR.. Ralph Engle. vice-presi-
dent: Mrs. F. E. Gilbert, secretary,
and W. G. McCune, treasurer.
State Senator John Leidlein, who is
one of the stockholders in the de-
funct Consumers Coal company Of
Saginaw, started proceedings in cir
cult court to foreclose a $4,000 mort
gage to satisfy part OF his claim.
Professional yeggs attempted to
rob the postoffice at Coloma. The
outside safe was wrecked by nitro
glycerine, but the robbers fed with
out getting at the cash. The robbers
got several hundred dollars worth
Of stamps.
Three persons-two men and wo-
man-were drowned, and II others
had mira cuous escapes from death,
when the steel steamer Edwin l..
Fisher was sunk in the lower Detroit
river by the steamer Stephen NJ.
Clement.
1t is stated Mayor Zeif, of Luding.
ton, is preparing to bring suit against
City Clerk Thompson for the recov-
cry of the $50 forfeit money posted
at the recount of the mayoralty vote
and returned to William Rath, the
defeated candidate.
Despairing OF ever satisfying the
appetite of a sink hole near Shafts
burg, which has swallowed hundreds
of tons OF rock, gravel dirt, trees
and brush the Lansing & North
eastern railway has decided to build
trestle 30 feet long over the hole,
A decision in the case of Bryan
| O'Hara and Victor Clore, of Palms,
on trial in Ogden, Utah> on a charge
Of train robbery, has been held up
to give the court time TO read a
transcript of the testimony. This
will delay the decision about Is days.
The lid has been clamped on with
bang i'm Moutcalm county, With
/ local option becoming effective May
| 1, the county officials have issued or
| ders that the state law relative to
gambling will be strictly enforced as
| to games and playing cards for mon
ey.
| Albion college has just been hon
| ored by being permitted TO become a
4 member of the Delta Sigma Rho fra
| ternity, which is a national organiza.
| tion composed only Of colleges and
| universities that have made an ex
ceptional good record in oratory and
i debate.
/ Battle Greek has reason for be
| leving that President Taft will visit
the city in September, when he
comes 10 Detroit and Kalamazoo
Senator Townsend has placed the
matter before the president and re
ceived a partial acceptance OF the
! invitation.
Osborn S. Ackley, farmer near
! Grant. took carbolic acid and died in
! his barn His wife found him when
she went there 10 call him TO break
4 fast lie was candidate for county
drain commissioner at the recent pri
maries and one Of the best known
politicians in the county.
When the supervisors of Eator
county included the cost OF new ce
ment walls around the court house
\ square in 1910 taxes. several promi
nent Vermontville farmers protested
and brought action against the treas
urer Of that township. In an opinion