Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1912-03-14

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| Wheat suffered but little in this
state during February, according 10
the state crop correspondents.
| Twelve Ohio families with 10 car
loads OF goods have arrived In Char
lotte TO settle on Eaton county farms.
Joseph Ford, 60, head of the Fruit
port Iron Works, is dead at Grand
Rapids. He founded the iron works.
OF the Michigan State Bankers asso-
citation 10 be held in Kalamazoo IN
June.
The proposition TO bond Huron
county for a new 100000 court house
| will be submitted 10 vote at the
April elections.
! Options are being secured by the
Standard Oil CO. of several hundred
acres OF land near Atlanta for oil
, drilling operations
Members of the Michigan printers
cost congress will meet in Detroit
April II and Is. George Harland, Of
Detroit, is president.
| The Michigan United Traction Co
| has leased the VI. u. X. for 999 years
and the work of improving the road
viii begin at once.
Miss Martha Hollister, OF Grand
Rapids, has been chosen as one of the
"A girls TO carry the daisy chain at
Vassar college on class day
A warrant has been asked for the
arrest of John Drake, farmer, near
! Kalamazoo, charged with killing two
of his COWS TO feed his starving hogs
Rev. Frederick Spencer, pastor OF
| the Jefferson Avenue NJ. r. church,
OF Saginaw, is investigating the cause
! for the lack of interest in church
work.
Four months in Jail. 500 fine and
$2l6 costs was the penalty inflicted on
James Collins in the Emmett county
circuit court in Petoskey for violating
the option law.
George Wright. of Big Rapids and
John Wright of Cadillac, brothers,
met for the first time i'm 20 years,
although they both have lived in the
state all that time
The proposal 10 adopt the commits
sion form OF government was defeat
ed in Adrian by majority of y
votes. An unusually light vote was
cast at the election.
Battle Greek now boasts of a pa
per mill. The plant is in connection
with The Michigan Carton Co. which
employs 175 men The new plant
commenced, operations
At a meeting OF the poor board in
1 Cadillac II was decided TO rebuild the
county house that burned. Inmates
OF the home are being cared for in a
boarding house at Manton.
Lieut.-Col. Henry c. Hall, veteran
az the thirteenth Michigan Infantry
of Shiloh. Stone river and Chicka-
manga fame, died in Battle Creek
from complication OF diseases.
trail NJ. Z. church, Lansing. Il have
| felt that the so-called Miller-Curtis
bill fully met this situation, and am
in favor of the passage of such legis-
lation as will have this end in view
Jennie Spaulding. employed in the
White Home for Old People. at Bat
tie Creek, was notified recently she is
heir TO 100000 left by her father,
who abandoned her many years ago.
A meeting in Ludington of the rep
resentatives from several counties
unanimously decided in favor of the
western route for the electric rail
way between Muskegon and Manis-
| tee
| Riga, Russia. and ST. Petersburg
capitalists are establishing in Riga
big works for the construction OF ag-
ricutural machinery 10 Dust the inn
ported American agricultural imple-
ments.
For the first time in Massachusetts
criminal procedure a woman, Mrs.
Lena Cusumano, of Hull has been
sentenced 10 death III the electric
chair by Judge Quinn She killed her
husband.
The department of justice has or
dered Grant Victor. United State mar
shall in eastern Oklahoma 10 enforce
the federal prohibition law in the old
Indian territory, the same as prior TO
! statehood
The state board of corrections and
charities condemned the Saginaw
county jail for the fifth time. The
Saginaw board of health recently de-
clared the building menace TO pub
lie health.
William Gunnwas. for the past
three years proprietor of a Saginaw
saloon. has been forced out OF bust.
ness under the Warner-Cramton law,
it being discovered he was not an
American citizen.
Rev. FIR. F. A. O'Brien, OF st. An.
gustine Catholic church at Kalama-
zoo, requested all members of his
congregation who loafed about down.
town stores and dance halls TO resign
from the church Sunday.
State Dairy and Food Commission
er Dame has notified all fruit deal.
ers all frosted fruit will be seized and
confiscated The action follows sew
eral complains that Lansing dealers
were selling frozen fruit.
Mayor Farrell Of Kalamazoo per
sonally conducted raid on several
dance halls and chop suey restaurants
Saturday night. Girls Of ~ and IL
years of age were found in several OF
the places Further action in regard
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