Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-08-10
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF


were blown down as the result OF the
storm around Marquette.
Milton Daley, charged with con-
spiracy to defraud the state, will
have his hearing in Jackson early In
October.
The board of supervisors of Delta
county has elected Wesley Gray, OF
Garden. chairman, TO succeed Charles
ID. Mason.
One of the Gleason Goodman mines,
Iron Mountain, is now producing iron
ore and shipments TO New York are
soon TO start.
Petoskey's new charter is complete.
II contains 81 chapters. II will be
sent TO the governor at an early date
for approval.
1t is estimated that fully so per
cent of the fruit has been whipped
from the trees in Eaton county by the
recent storm.
OF the 81 counties reporting as 10
their valuation SO have increased their
valuation. Forty-three have reduced
their valuations and five remain un-
changed
Gov. Osborn, il is said, is investi-
eating the death of Robert Inglis,
who jumped overheard from the ferry
in Mackinac straits, when he was on
his way to prison.
Edwin f. Brown has purchased the
Plainwell News of H. X Bryan and
the Plainwell Enterprise of the j. II.
Madden estate, both weeklies, and
will consolidate them.
Although a member of the Saginaw
health board stated that the public
drinking cup would not be abolished,
Mayor Stewart has taken steps TO
have il done away with.
An auto containing members of the
Saginaw board of trade upset, while
they were making trip TO Flint. Ed
ward Helm, one of the five members
of the party, was badly hurt
Battle Creek claims II is more pro-
gressive in architecture than Detroit
in having passed an ordinance forbid
ding the placing of any house closer
than % feet to the street line.
Suit has been commenced in Ann
Arbor against former Drain Commits
sioner Wilbur Jarvis by the county
to secure the sum he is alleged to
have been short in his accounts.
Grand Rapids rolled up its sleeves.
donned overalls and observed state
cleanup day." as requested by State
Fire Marshal Palmer The work was
done under the direction of Fire Mar
shall Lemoine
Judge Angel, of the United States
district court, has made the temper
airy injunction secured against the
city of Saginaw by the Saginaw Pow
er company. restraining the city from
removing the company's poles.
The board of state auditors has in
dorsed the recent action of Governor
Osborn and the board OF control for
the Michigan reformatory at Ionia
appropriating $4,000 for new build
ings and equipment recently burned.
Fire in the lumber yards of the
Kneeland-B igelow Lumber Co, Bay
City, for time threatened the entire
plant and thousands of feet of lum-
Der. About 10000 feet OF lumber
was destroyed. The loss will be q
500.
Francis Ely. receiver for the de-
funct Citizens Mutual Fire Insurance
Co, of Holly, has brought suit against
100 members of that company in Shia-
wassee and Genesee to show cause
why they should not pay the assess
ment.
Rev. c. c. Meyers. one time pastor
at Canton, o., but OF late Michigan
revivalist, will not be prosecuted for
drunkenness or larceny. He stated
that 20 years ago he took the pledge
and broke ii for the first time last
week
II mans home is exempt from tax
alton because he is a war veteran.
can he hold an Office from which non
taxpayers are barred? The attorney
general is asked to decide in the case
OF Henry Wellman. school trustee at
Ford River.
The trustees of the Epworth League
Association have elected the follow
ing members: f. A. Schell, Mt. Pleas
ant, Ia, and Elvin Swarthout, of
Grand Rapids NJ. F. Layman, of
Jacksonville, Fla, and Samuel Plantz.
OF Appleton, Wis.
The Zachariah Chandler statue
committee has let the contract for
figure which was authorized by the
last session OF the legislature TO
Charles II. Niehaus of New York. II
will be placed in the hall of fame at
Washington, ID. G.
The Jackson board OF education
at a meeting Friday evening selected
J. B. Edmondson. principal of the
high school at a salary of $l.700
year. He was chosen from a list OF
nearly a dozen applicants. He comes
from Benton Harbor.
Secretary o. NJ Robertson. of Eaton
Rapids. has sent out invitations for
the twenty-fifth annual meeting OF
the State Association of Improved
Black Top Merino Sheep Breeders. to
be held at Jackson, on Wednesday,
August 16 Sheep breeders OF state
prominence will speak at the meet.
ing.
City charter commissioners OF
Owosso. revising the charter, will
probably increase the term OF mayor,
clerk and city treasurer TO two years.
At the meeting they talked over the
plan and also discussed other radical
changes in the charter but the com
mission government was not men