Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-02-13
MINOR MIcHr6As MATTERS.

:. Bphtneria has nearly disappeared from
Kalamazoo.
Irving. Barry county, ia 70 have new
hcu ring mill.
The pFoeressiye-euchFe craze has not yet
Iea@hed I0Hla.
There Is q prospect OF Stanwood having
handle factory.
II j. Fum0red that IAksviev IA 10 have a
Democratic paper.
lodge of Good Templars was recently
organized Ia Edmore-
Business Mans Association has been
formed AZ Stanton.
There j. q good deal Of sickness at Stan
wood, MecCs a G. unity.
QIackson il being visited by scarlet fever,
dlphther.a aud typhoid fever.
The funeral Of the late John Millham took
Diwce at Kalamazoo on Tuesday.
An anti slang society has been formed at
the Solnervllle school. st. Clair.
dwell ng house valued at 81 200, was
barued at H3stlngs on Monday.
The new Congregational church at Me-
c0sta - % be dedicated next Sunday.
Sneak thieves are plying their vocation In
Bay City, Ia spite OF the extreme cold.
The IOnia and MOntcalm Teachers Asso-
eali)n viii meet at Stanton, Saturday, Feb.
A ''leatheF" wedding took place at Morley
recently. The couple had been married four
years
Baptist Church society has been organic
eel "a Edmore. with Rev. A. Il. Mcdonald
pastor.
Montcalfn county has only 40 acres of
public land. aud that belongs 10 the primary
school fund.
Hattie Bowers, a Battle Creek composition.
has left for Earope to work in the Adventist
Office IN switzerland.
Services are held at the Ionia NJ. f. Church
every afternoon and evening this week, ex-
cept Friday afternoon.
There are eighty six registered physicians
ia Kalamazoo county. OF this number fifty
four are IN the regular practice.
George f. Cutler. of Ionia. has been elected
president of the alpha M" literary society
in The University az Ann Arbor.
Miss Jennie Sinclair. who has been deputy
post mistress at Jonesville for a long time,
- been appointed post-mistress-
The fhirty-seven mills, at Muskegon
produced Ca. o..i79.7li feet Of lnmber, l6S, ,740.-
so hath and 32S, ,207 600 shingles last year.
Six boys Columbia. Van Buren, county,
have been mt to Paw Paw Jail fifteen days
eoeh for disturbing a school near Breeds
vi.ls..
It's hard winter on rats. They get so
little to- eat at Ionia they are driven 10 gnaw
ing horses feet, according To the Erening
Naii.
At n fire which consumed dwelling house
and contents at Bay City Wednesday morn
ing seven hremen froze their ears, hands
and feet.
The next Iegular session of Kent District
lodge. |. O. O.. T.. will be held in the village
OF lowell on Thursday, February ID, at
1870 a. M
One Of the first white children born in Ra-
VIENNA. Mu~kegou county is now Judge of
Probate. ri hard Church, of Sandbum coun-
t., Dakota.
The Jones shingle mill at Morley, under
the utua cement of Barton Il Myers, started
up Monday. Nearly all of the old hands are
buck in their places.
During the revival services Mt the Morley
" r. church there were fifty converts,
Shirty-six of whom were received into the
church on probation.
The Naw1ygo water-works were partially
slei last Saturday. The result was salts
factory. but the formal test will not be made
until the frost i out of the ground.
The Merquette mica minining comp,ny
has recently been Incorporated. Some very
fine specimens have been obtained upon the
company's property, four miles from Re-
public.
Dane By the name Of Mortensen, who
hal been doing business at Niles for several
years. was told when be visited Denmark Il Q
last time that he would have to serve IN the
army seven years
An elderly colored man at Jackson fell
down stairs on Monday and was badly
bruised. lie was putting a barrel of oil into
q cellar and fell, the oil following him and
crushing his leg badly.
Mecos,a county's representative. Hon.
WIN. n. Jones. of Morley. has been visiting
the State Public school at Coldwater, the
Deaf and Dumb asylum at Flint, and the
fsh hatchery at Paris.
Tho Slrnia salvation army went to Port
Hlr0n Monday evening to help the Port
Huron branch, with torches, horns, drums,
etc. The police interfered and the army re-
tired to- the barracks feeling much abused.
For the frat time in its history the paper
mill at Kalamazoo has had to shut down.
They huve no coal and almost no water.
They wanted To- start again on Thursday but
did not expect to unless the blockade was
raised.
The ia r.or Of the signal ser1i,e offcs at
Port Huron was discovered 10 be on fire
Tuesdfy. aud upon forcing the door open
-. l. perrv's trunk was found to be en-
eioped ia flames. The contents we're des-
troyed.
A coroner'a inquest was held Tuesday af-
ternoon at Port huron. which found that
Kennedy came 20 his death by blows dealt
hv Lewis Purdy in Collins saloon. VIM.
Murray who tried 90 assist Purdy in escap-
inu from the police. has been held in 3 800
bail.
Prof Ciappee, the late leader of the cele-
hrafed Strnia band, who recently deserted
his wife and eloped with daughter Of the
Methodist minister. has been found IN New
York. Efforts viii be made To have him
raaishad either IN this country OF in Can
adj
While attempting tn climb through scut-
tis hole 0n tha roof Of his store. Alaine W.
Bailey. aa old resident and business man Of
HeunEs. tell to the hoor. a distance of
twenty feet. aud Is thought 90 be very ser
iosisy injured. Physicians fear he may not
rot.4voe