The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-10-31
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.

and General News Notes.
The Jackson Courier knows of
laundry in that city where every person,
from the proprietor down, chews gum.
The experiment of giving the scholars
of the Congregational Sunday School at
Clinton FIVE cents to spend as they
pleased, or that value in seeds, resulted
in their gathering in harvest that amount
ed to over 800. The money will be de-
voted to missionary purposes.
In the Circuit Court at Adrian Judge
Lane sentenc ed Minnie Conkling to three
years and eight months, and Mary Pan
yard to eight months, in the Detroit
House of Correction. The girls we're
the last of the six industrial school incen-
diaries.
"A woman named Mrs. Burr, who lives
in Copley, two miles from Luther, while
assisting in preparing the body Of child,
that had died of typhoid fever, for burial,
contracted blood poisoning through a
blister on her hand, which broke while
she was working Her arm and body
swelled to large size, and it was with
difficulty that her life was saved.
The logging engine on the Wilson,
Luther and Wilson Road, at Luther, ran
off the track and became complete wreck.
A brakeman named John Ripley was seri-
ously injured.
Miss Rose Rice, of Morenci, pared a
bushel of apples in two minutes and
eighteen seconds.
The convicts at the prison certainly
have no reason to complain of the fare
provided by the State, which, the Jackson
Patriot says, has been gradually brought
up to q condition much better than many
poor families of Jackson are enabled to
sustain. Steward F.. Willets gave
! Patriot reporter the bill of fare for each
day, together with an idea as to how much
is required per month, which is pub
Iished: Sunday-Breakfast, raised bis
cult and butter, rice, coffee and sugar; din
ner, roast beef, potatoes, two kinds of
vegetables, and gravy; supper, bread and
milk and tea. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. NUT
4
ton stew, potatoes and onions, bread and
coffee; dinner corned beef, two kinds of
vegetables and gravy; supper, bread and
coffee, and occasionally onions or apples.
Tuesday bread butter and
coffee; dinner, pork and beans. Wednes-
day-BrealIfast the same as Monday; din
ner fresh beef and bean soup. Thursday
Breakfast, corned beef, oat meal and
syrup; dinner, the same as on Tuesday.
Friday-Breakfast, hash; dinner, the same
as Monday. Saturday Breakfast, dried
beef stewed in milk and potatoes; dinner,
same as Wednesday. Supper is the same
each day except Sunday Each convict is
required to eat mush and milk twice q
week. at which times they are not given
meat, but get bread and vegetables. On
Thursday the men who take mush are
given corn bread and bread pudding or
apple jelly. The cost per diem per man
during the month of September was 9.8
cents, total cost during the month of
50, 1922 and an average per day of S72.4 A.
During the month of September the re-
quirements of the culinary department of
the prison were as follows: Flour, q, 432
pounds; meal, 400 pounds; milk, SO, 290
pounds; coffee, 924 pounds; sugar, l,200
pounds; beef, 1910 pounds; pork, 800
pounds; pepper, SO pounds; oatmeal, 400
pounds; tea, 40 pounds; butter, COS
pounds; salcratus, 20 pounds; mustard,
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beef, Gil pounds; currants, 20 pounds
potatoes, 200 bushels; beans, 81 bushels;
tomatoes SO bushels; beets, 10 bushels:
syrup, al gallons; vinegar, GA gallons;
salt, barrels; squash, $50; green corn,
1882 dozen ears; rice, 1870 pounds; hon.
my, 800 pounds; yeast, 80 pounds.
Mrs. Samantha Streeter, of Spring
Arbor, who was robbed of 81, $50 in gold,
has offered a reward of $3.50 for the return
Of the money, and Police Detective Snyder
offers $50 for the capture and retention of
the thief.
John n. Baily, editor of the Midland
Sun, is about to engage in a series of
joint debates on the tariff question in
Midland County with his newspaper rival
in Midland.
Chief Engineer Geo. Cox will make
new survey for the 500 and st. Ignace
Railway as soon as the snow is on the
ground, says the 500 Ners, making it
this time direct line between the two
places. The construction of the road de-
ponds largely upon the attitude of the
people along the line. Mr.. Cox has been
promised much of the right of way, includ-
ing an entrance into the 500. Unless the
same liberality is shown by others who are
to be benefited, it is not likely that the
work will be pushed ahead 1t is expected
that st. Ignace will exhibit more gener-
Gus spirit now than when the project was
agitated last winter. A direct line to st.
Ignace will materially benefit both towns,
and it will give the Michigan Central and
Grand Rapids and Indiana an outlet.
There are enough capitalists interested in
the project to make it go, but the right of
way must be secured. A new charter will
be taken out if the direct route is chosen.