Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-08-30
MICHIGAN.


Orchard Lake military academy has
sent out 45 graduates since its establish
ment in 1877
The Marshall papers are raving about
the inefficiency of the police OF that
town, the recklessness of gay young Ia
dies, the wickedness of the festive drum
mer, the irregular morals of the young
mep, and even the farmers who visit
town are shown up in no enviable light
Berrien county has 149 school districts
exclusive of the city of Niles, 10 OF
which are graded. There is a uniform
ity of text books in SO of these schools,
and it requires POI teachers to conduct
them. There are 254 legally qualified
teachers in the county. Last school
wear the board of examiners held eight
public examinations and 400 applica-
tons were made for certificates and 200
granted.
Ex-senator Terry is rusticating IN
Switzerland.
2Muskegon wants fruit canning ess
tablishment.
Buchanan has village library OF
I,UUU NOluIllcs.
BIG Rapids will enforce the compul-
sorry school law.
The city marshal of Muskegon, (ssal-
any five cents per day. has resigned
Wheat IN the vicinity of Bronson has
turned out about 40 bushels to the acre.
A son of u German nobleman is earn
inc his bread by industriously swing
ing paint brush ut Flint.
p. Kennedy of Detroit, was shot
dead in a struggle with citizens OF Biz
mingham who detected Kennedy IN the
act of burglarizing the store OF Orrln
Poppleton of that village.
Some young farmers near Pinckney
recently INDUCED in q match at binding
grain. John Myers bound 10 bundles
in minute, James Harris 20. Frank
Tiplady %, and Charles Ellis "a.
VIM. Luce was killed at Walls station,
near Flat Rock, the other evening, by
the bursting of circular saw. He was
brother I Col. Luce, of Monroe. and
was about SO years old and leaves a
wife and three childron at Monroe.
A Saginaw man is going to decide
the value of a trade dollar. He claims
his wife was given one ut the office OF
the Singer sewing machine company in
that city and he has sued the company
for the difference between its value and
that of standard dollar.
Graders at work on the Milwaukee,
Lake Shore q Westerns extensions are
now fully Is miles into Michigan, with
10 miles of this grade complete and
waiting for The rails. Another delay in
getting rails has been experienced, con-
tractors being unable to supply that
product as fast rs wanted by the road
builders. However, rails will be had
and the road completed to the Wiscon-
sin and Michigan line within 10 days.
-Negaunee Iron Herald.
Charlevoix boasts of Ladies' Brass
Band"
An Albion youth named johnson has
been missing since July 81.
On the 1st of August there were 6,2l3
telephones in use in Michigan.
Kalamazoo county farmers find their
wheat better than they anticipated.
Clinton county wheat will only grade
number two, while the yield will be
very light.
VIM. Gridley met with his death al
Flint while trying to jump on board OF
a moving locomotive.
The Muskegon river log drive is max
ing rapid progress and is expected IL
reach Evart about Sept. l.
A belligerent female publicly logged
her son-in-law in st. Johns, the other
day. And yet poor Goadley of Adrian,
is in prison for life for pushing his
mother-in-law down stairs.
If the rapidity with which the space
and booth privileges of the state fail
grounds were rented is any criterion,
the coming state fair will be the most
successful ever held in the state.
The coed people of Grand Marais,
Lake Superior, are appealing to the
sheriff for relief from the trouble Incl
dent TO the opening of five new saloons
and the importation of twenty immoral
women into the town.
A gang of Toledo thieves were in AID.
Olson, Lenawee county, on the 21st inst,
it being pay day for the laborers on the
Michigan and Ohio road, and they rob-
bed one man of 5000. Six men were
arrested on suspicion.
The wheat stacks of Patrick Daley
of Silver Creek caught fire from steam
thrasher he was using and burned q
few days ago. Loss about 400 bushels
of wheat and separator belonging tc
/ NJ 30, xx-Dv-th SQ00
Hans Daresture, o Hollander, in at
tempting to board the Detroit, Crane
Haven, and Milwaukee railway train al
Grand Rapids, fell and was run over
Death ensued shortly. He leaves 9
wife and FIVE children in destitute cir
cunstances,
The common council of Adrian, by ;
vote of five to three, consented to give
the Wabash railway the right to lay ;
track down Railroad and connecting
streets to the manufacturing district
Opposition to the concession by property
owners on Railroad street was very
strong.
Josiah Walden, travelling salesman
for Putnam d Brooks, candy manufac
turers, of Grand Rapids has abscondet
with $4O0 of the firms money. III,
went to Chicago and mailed back {
statement of his deficiencies and tn,
firms credit list. He has family il
Grand Rapids.
Mrs. Hamilton Of Grand Rapids, who
was mistaken for burglar and shot by
her husband recently, has since died.
Rev. G. w. Bennett, Of Roscommon
| has issued an appeal for cid to the