The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-25
MICHIGAN STATE NEWS.


evangelist.
"A special election TO bond Frankfort
for $1,000 to build water works was car
ried by so majority.
The heirs of w. ii. Louks, Of Lapeer,
get SIS 200 life insurance by his death,
which occurred recently.
One day during the recent slippery
weather one Fowlerville blacksmith put on
10 shoes and another l26.
Ninety conversions have been record
ed at the revival now going ON at The White
Pigeon Methodist Church.
The grocery of Pierce & Wick, at
Flint, was entered by burglars recently,
who rifed the safe of its contents.
Bogus Sisters of Chsrity have been
soliciting money at Negaunee, and got
roundly denounced by the local Ir.est.
Carson City Congregational Aid So
ciety realized sl4O from its recent fair,
which will be expended in renovating the
church.
Flint will buy that State cannon it has
had so long. 1t weighs eight hundred.
pounds, and can be obtained for shilling.
a pound. ~
Andrew McPeek has set type in the
Office of the Grand Ledge Independent for
seventeen years and half, and never
missed a meal.
w. j. Seymour, of Seymour Lake,
Oakland County, raised $50 worth of pep
permint oil this season from three-fourths
of an acre Of land.
George Huff, late Of Muskegon, has
availed himself of the opportunities offered
at the State School for the Blind. Lis
sight is hopelessly gone.
John 1. Major, Centreville, st. Joseph
County, reported inoculated with glander
poison from a horse he was Leading to
water, died recently, aged GO years.
During 1887 the Lake Superior iron
mines produced 1867. 652 tons of ore, and
the total shipments for the year show ON
increase Of ,O90,295 tons over 1856.
The Cutler a. Savidge Lumber Com
pany is employing about ECO men at their
lumber camps in Montcalm County, aud
will bank about %, 900, 900 feet OF logs this
winter.
There are now 1900 names on the
local option petition in Gratiot County,
and great interest is being mani ested IN
the matter. The election Is called for Feb
ruary IL.
The old brass gun belonging TO the
State, which has been i'll / lint for some
time, has been ordered by the military de-
partment returned to the State arsenal at
Lansing.
John M. Flanagan has replevined tie
stock of clothing and gents furnishing
goods in Mrs. Stark's store, at Alma. lie
claims that he placed them there on COM
mission. Inventory, $500.
The baggage department of the Wri .ht
House, at Alma, handled in 1857 l,453
pieces of commercial travellers baggage,
besides 911 trunks of the private guests,
md of the native family $3.50 pieces were
taken care of.
-Manistee is expectant over reports Of
soft coal mine ind in Springda!e ioGn-
.hip, near the line of the Dorg'as and
Buckley railroad. Price Of lsa4 at HAT
locality has gone up, and more thorough
Investigations are 10 be made.
-Gratiot County statistics for 1857 show
that the Prosecuting Attorney handled III
criminal cases, of which fifty nine resulted
in conviction, forty four were d sposed Of
before trial, and fourteen are pending
Twenty-Five divorce cases bcsmirched the
calendar, and the county Jail reg ster shows
roll of eighty-fve guests admitted.
-Lapeer County Toys are earning con-
siderable money by killing spariows for the
one cent bounty. In Monroe County COM
petitive sparrow huns are held for chuich
benefits, the church securing the largest
number getting the total amount baggcd
by 10th parties. Berlin Methodist secured
ZOO in this way recently.
The Oakland County Board OF School
Examiners will hold examination Of teach
ers at Milford February II and IS, and at
Pontiac March /, 2, 20 and 81, April ~ and
%, August 3, 4 and 81, and September |.
An average of 95 Per cent. will be required
for first grade certificates, so per oent. for
second grade, and So per ceit. for third
grade.
Alma College is enjoying a very PROS
porous first year. The fall term c'osed
with sixty three students and the present
(the winter) term opens with sxty-fo IT
and promises of nunbs- of others.
Rev. George +. Hunting, the President. is
a man honored and loved wherever known,
while the members Of the faculty notably
J. w. Ewing, Theodore Nelson ard Lewis
Stuart stand in tie first rank Of educators
IN this State.
The Military Academy at Orchard
Lake has now tie largest attendance OF
any military school in the United S.aios
The success of the cadets nj the rational
drill ut Washington gave the AGA lemy n