Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-06-22
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF


Rural mail will be delivered out
OF Battle Creek on motorcycles in an
experiment.
Western Michigan Development Blu
reau VIII put on an apple show In
Grand Rapids in November.
Railway Commissioners Glasgow and
Heamans have gone TO Wisconsin to
| study methods of regulating telephone
companies there.
| plans big banquet for u. S. Judge
| Severns when he retires from the
bnech next September
Edward Trieber, a veterinary sur
! geon OF Norway, was instantly killed
when he grasped live wire carrying
GOO volts of electricity.
Rev. Adolphus Smith Is circulat-
ing petition asking the Canadian
government to save Mrs. Napolitano
OF 500, Ont, from hanging.
Postal savings banks have been es,
tablished at Traverse City, Charlie
voiX, Mt. Pleasant, Greenville, Cadil-
lac, Marquette and Negaunee.
| At a meeting of the directors Of
decided to obtain an additional nurse
for the tubercular work in the city.
Mrs. Emma Campbell of Port HUI
ron, Mich, was elected supreme adj
wiser OF the Woodmen of the World
in international convention at Roches-
ter, N. "
His setter dog dragged sleeping
George Clark. Kalamazoo, off the
railway track at Hastings, just in
| time to save his hfe The train as
it flew by bumped Clark's head,
knocking him unconscious.
Robert Inglis, who pleaded guilty
in the Superior court in Grand Rap
ids few days ago to killing his
wife, Lue, has asked Judge Stuart for
| permission to change his plea to not
guilty. The Judge is considering the
| matter.
Judge Mcdonald in the circuit
court at Grand Rapids has instructed
Sheriff Hurley to protect workmen
| in the furniture factories from VIC
lence. The sheriff plans TO deputize
workmen in the factories
Victor Berger, the Milwaukee So
| cialist congressman, writes to Toivo
| Hiltunon, editor of Tyomies. a Han
cock Finnish socialist paper, who re-
Gently was refused citizenship pa
pers by the Houghton county circuit
| court, asking for the facts Mr. Ber-
| ger will take the matter up in Wash
| ington.
The Trades and Workers Union of
Battle Greek has decided to fight for
a remission of taxes on the building
| which was given the organization by
| G.. W. Post, for use as a sanitarium.
! The state wishes to tax the building
because a part of it has recently been
rented as an annex. 1t has been as
sessed in the past at $4,000.
Atty Gen. Geo. W. Wickersham has
announced his subject to be delivered
before the Michigan State Bar asso-
citation at Battle Creek in July. 1t
will be, THE Recent Interpretation
| of the Sherman Act" He will go
into legal explanations of the action
of the United States supreme court
! in dealing with the Tobacco and
Standard Oil trusts.
The Michigan Works OF Marine
City have filed a bill of complaint in
the circuit court on behalf OF the
other salt manufacturers of the state.
making the state salt inspector and
his deputies defendants. They al
legged that the inspection fees de-
manded from them at the present
time are unwarranted, and violation
Of both federal and state constitu-
tions.
There is a likelihood that there will
soon be six saloons in Marshall in
| Al
cation has been made to the authori-
ties of Marengo township for sa-
loon which is to be built Just across
the line from Marshall and to all
purposes will be the same as II built
in the town. An application TO Sc
cure license for a saloon to be built
at Lee Center will be denied.
DR.. George II. Southwich, of Grand
Rapids, and DR.. Harold A. Hume, OF
Owosso. have been commissioned
4 first lieutenants in the medical corps
of the Michigan National guard. AL
len +. Rees, of Houghton, has been
commissioned ieutenantcommander
and executive officer, and Charles d.
Mason, of Gladstone, as lieutenant
commander and navigating and ord
nance officer of the Second battalion,
State Naval militia.
The Christian School of Holland
Will graduate a class of % this spring
without the ceremony of commence
ment exercises The cause for this
step is that because the board de-
cided to replace two female teachers
of the faculty with men. the remand
er of the faculty struck out of sympa-
thy and refused TO drill the grad
yates for commencement The board
will attempt to secure an entirely
new force for next year.
At the Advertising clubs conven-
tion in Grand Rapids the following
officers were elected: President, l..
c. Coyell, Grand Rapids; vice-presi-
dents. A. r. Wellington, Milwaukee.
and l.. H. Martin Cincinnati: secre-
tary, II. II. Stalker, Toledo; treas
urer, w. w. Hudson. Indianapolis.
Executive committee: Charles ID
Emory. Chicago K. j. Slemons.
Grand Rapids; Jams c. Petersen, Ira.
verse City, and Byron A. Bolt, Chi