The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-02-27
MICHIGAN NEWS.

erton.
THERE are 6,325 school-houses in
Michigan, and the value of school prop
erty in the State is $9,0ll ,452.
MIcHIGAN's bird's-eye maple is
shipped in large quantities to Jersey
City, where it is used for veneeiing
purposes.
ANOTHER lady cornet-player has
graduated Mt Jackson. She is Miss
Addie Barrett, and is reported to be a
splendid horn-blower.
THERE are several petitions in circu-
lation at jackson for the monument to
Milton Gilbert, the faithful engineer.
Mayor Mably has headed one with a
generous sum.
POSTMASTER SEAToN, of jackson, has
received orders to put the free-delivery
system in operation with five carriers,
by the 1st of March. There are to be
forty collection boxes.
TIE East Saginaw School Board
have authorized a check of $l11.70 in
favor of Prof. j. Jones to reimburse
him for cash expended in defense of a
suit brought against him for furnishing
a boy.
The Secretary of State has sent ont
notice of vote to be taken at the town
ship elections on the first Monday of
April next upon constitutional amend
ment increasing the salary of the Gov
ernor from $1,000 to $4,000 year.
DIR. GEO. w. BROWNE, formerly of
Osceola county, is now living hermit
age life in the Ozark mountains of Mis-
souri,. He lives secluded life in his
lonely cottage, twenty miles from civil
ization, anC from all reports is enjoying
the life of hermit.
PETosKEY and Cheboygan, about
forty miles apart, are connected by a
chain of lakes extending the entire dis
lance. Chicago parties are building a
hotel at the head of Mullet lake capa-
BILE of accommodating 100 guests. A
hundred row-boats will be put on the
lake.
The Michigan Wool Growers Asso-
citation met in the pioneer rooms at the
Capitol for its annual session last week,
and held an interesting meeting. The
following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President, Jessup S.
Wood; Vice President, A. +. Wood
Secretary, j. G.. Dean; Treasurer, ID. 2,
Dewey.
SAYS the Ontonagon Miner: "The
Rockland Indians have brought in
quite number of deer lately. The
crust is strong enough to make excel
lent snow-shoeing, but not strong enough
to hold up the deer, and the conse-
quence is, when the Indians take after
the deer they soon run him down and
capture him."
BIG stories are told by our State ex-
! changes about residents of this State
making ten-strikes at Leadville, but
they are mighty shy about mentioning
the arrival of the majority of gold hun
ters who have counted the ties on some
of the Western railroads on their return
to Michigan, the best State in the I'm
ion.-SaniiGc Reporter.
THERE is little community of peo-
Pile in Lee township, Calhoun county,
who have q peculiar religious belief
When one of their members gets sick
the others gather at their church or
place of meeting and pray long and
earnestly for the recovery of the suf-
ferer, no physician being called ut all.
They call themselves healers.
THE business of making straw mat
ting is quite an industry in Macomb
county. It's manufacture is the winter
occupation of large number of French
families, and about $500 a week is paid
to them. Mattingbees in which the
boys ard girls participate, taking their
pay in fun, are of nightly occurrence
From $40 to $50 worth of mating is
often made at one of these bees, and
it is almost clear profit.
CURTIS EMERSON, the first settler at
East Saginaw, died few days ago at
the residence of Mrs. II. II. Diego, in
that city, aged 70 years, he having been
born at Norwich, VT, on the 4th OF
February, 1910 He came to Michigan
in 1886, and went iEto the manufacture
of malt liquors in Detroit, being the
| first man to engage in the business In
Michigan, and continuing in it ten
years. In 1916 and 1916 he went into
copper mining enterprises; in Decem.
Der, 1916, he moved to Saginaw City
and July 4, 1S47, he crossed the river
and became the first resident of East
Saginaw, which he named Buena Vista
in honor of Taylor's then recent victory
over Santa Anna. Mr. Emerson went
very largely into the lumber business
and in lS47 consigned to G. 2. Will
Jams & Co., of Albany, the first full
cargo of clear lumber ever shipped
from Michigan. In 1855 or 1856 he
went out of the lumber business ant
turn ed his attention to real estate, ant
in 1863 was wealthy man. Since ther
he has lost most of his property, and
though not in actual want, has not lei
any property.
Cost of Legislative Sessions.
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