Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-04

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The Pere Marquette has bought a
$4,000 site for coal sheds in Traverse
City. ]
The convention OF Congregational
ministers will be he'd On Port Huron
May II and Is. About go ministers
from all parts OF Michigan are ex-
pected to be present.
The Polish people of Standish will
erect new Polish church this spring,
with Rev. Fr. Koblowski OF Bay City
in charge Four acres OF land and
over $4,000 have been donated.
The funeral OF George F. Reynolds,
the Cheboygan banker, who died in
the west, was held in Saginaw. 1t
was largely attended by bankers
from this section of Michigan.
A Cadillac jury gave Mrs. Anna
West $3.50 for the death of her sen
Alfred. killed on railroad r. II
Leiphart. druggist, the defendant,
II is said, sold the boy the liquor
which lett him unable to take care
OF himself.
AT the laymen's mission conven-
ton for northwestern Michigan held
in Bay City. a plea was made for mis-
sion aid TO help raise the moral stand
ard in South America where, it was
pointed out, white slavery exists and
is becoming a big problem to handle
Word received from Hiram Whit.
comb. eX-street commissioner of Bat
tie Creek. now engaged in mining at
Choix. Mexico. says the American
colony AT Choix, which includes j. X
Lippen. former sanitarium chemist
and other Battle Creekites. is sur
rounded by both Mexican federals and
insurrectos. Nobody dares leave for
fear Of being shot.
Ernest Ketchum, former husband
Of the woman accused of stealing 81
600 from Chesaning meat dealer,
was married to Miss Frances Cor
man., of Coshocton. O.. in Windsor
Mrs. Ketchum No. | was found not
guilty of theft by a jury. and in a
decree of divorce granted her, Ket-
chum was restrained from marrying
for two years She went west, and
the other day signed a petition ask
ing that Ketchum be allowed to mar
ry. and Judge Miner dissolved the
injunction.
The charter commission Of Petos.
key is puzzled over giving the may
or veto power. In the first chapters
drafted by the commission this pow
er was not given the chief executive,
but most of the commissioners now
favor il. believing the unanimous
vote of the three other members OF
the council should be necessary to
pass measure over the veto. Com
missioner McCabe declared the lack
Of veto power is the only weak. point
i'm Petoskey's proposed new charter.
Chairman Burnham, however. offered
strenuous objections, declaring a
moyor should not be given so much
power
a few days ago o. A. Arnett. a
farmer living about az miles south of
Woodland, plowed up the skeleton OF
human being IL was intact except
the hands and feet. which We're miss.
ing. The location where il was found
was a fence row. and the land had
not been powed for many years, hay
ing been cleared about the year 1863
Dr. Mcintyre, of this village, and
others inspected the skeleton and
their opinion was that il belonged
to an adult person, perhaps 40 or 90
years old as the teeth were nearly
all in the jaw and sound No one
was known to have been missing in
this part Of the country, and per
haps the bones were those of some
indian. although no relics or other
means OF identification were found.
The men selected to edit the Mich
igan Law Review at Ann Arbor, next
year are: c. +. Rand, Houghton. p
II. Gale. Albany. Ore: G. E. Cullen,
Ann Arbor: H. r. Curtis, Warwick
r. l.; s. w. David, Chicago; A. r.
Dilley, Council Grove. Ia; ". X Fox
Washington, ID. c.; G. M. Humphrey.
Saginaw; " r. Jose. Indianapolis. A
j. Kolyn. Grand Rapids /. IA. Lar.
well. Adrian. A. c. Lewis, Harris
burg, ILL.,; ID. l.. Lucking. Detroit; II
G.. McLain, Chicago: l.. F. Martin,
Carthage, H.; w. w Merritt, Du-
luth; w II. Metz. Omaha. Morris
Shafroth, Denver; A. z. Sycip. Annoy
China. Sycip Is the only Chinaman
10 have been honored by election "a
the staff of the Law Review. An.
nouncement was made that "a pupils
will graduate from the University
School OF Music this year.
Motormen and conductors on the
street railways Of the Marquette
County Gas & Electric company. Ne.
gaunee. have gone on strike, More
wages and different hours are asked
When Mrs Mary Tichner OF Fen.
ton, separated from her husband, sew
eral years ago, she came into pos
session of a coffin, which was includ
ed in part OF the stock in her hus.
bands store, near Linden, i'm settle
ment Not finding II easy to dispose
of ii she decided TO keep II. Just
before she died Monday she express
ed wish that she be buried in the
coffin she had been keeping so long
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