The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-09-19
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE
LATELY OCCURRED.


portant Doings of Our Neighbors-wed-
dings and Deaths - Grimes. Casualtios.
and General News Notes.
The Agricultural College has issued
bulletin No. 3s, containing descriptions of
this years experiments with wheat and
the use of plaster, ashes and salt as a top
dressing.
Fremont merchants have sold thirty
five self FLINDERS the past season.
An elevator has been built at Glad
stone which will have a capacity Of $50,
| 600 bushels.
The Saginaw Turner'S will dedicate
their new hall Oct. |.
Special service has been disco atiaued
between Selkirk and West Branch, Oge-
NAV County.
Sam Lee, of Kalamazoo, says that
"celly" celery grows very abundantly in
China, but is much smaller and not so
sweet as that grown in this country
Peaches and pears are larger in the land
of the Celestials, but apples cannot be
grown. Sam says he took some apple
seeds home with him few years ago and
planted them, but couldn't make it work.
The continued drought is likely to
stimulate the cheese market The Frank
enmuth Cheese Company, at Saginaw, have
advanced the price to cents, and arc re-
ceiving orders daily from outside dealers,
which they are unable to I'LL, as dealers in
Saginaw take the entire product Of the
factory.
-Menominee has organized street car
company with a capital of $50 900.
The Peninsular Straw Goois Factory,
in Adrian, has been closed on an attach
ment for 81, b7i in favor of Stodecker &
Emsheim, of New York. The embarrass-
ment is said to be only temporary and
owing TO the state of trade
-Four bears were recently seen near the
farm of Henry Cutler, about two miles
Of Minhinnick and Morton got after them
and succeeded in killing the old one and
wounding one of the cubs. Bears are quite
plentiful there this fall several having
been seen by berry pickers. A lady who
was picking berries not more than half a
mile from Luther ran across one that was
he'll ing himself to the blackberries.
-Addison's early potato crop is good
one, but those planted later are a failure.
The Soo's" electric railway is now in
operation.
LAUNDERING operations will be con-
ductel on n much more extensive scale in
Mackinac County the coming winter than
last.
A Protestant church is to be built at
Naubinway.
-Recently Mr.. Krit2cr, OF Newaygo,
lost an elevator; twice within the past two
weeks his barn has been fred bat ex-
tiaguished, and the other night his ice
house was burned. A supposed incendiary
was seen iunning away from the fire.
An army of men and teams, says the
500 NelrS, are making things hum and
dirt fly on the water-power canal. The
excavations have assumed extensive pro-
po.t o., and the embankments present a
formidable appearance. No unusual OBJ
structioa has been encountered as yet.
The scene of the work is visited daily by
large numbers of strangers, who are sur
pri.ed and deeply impressed with the ac-
tlvi;y displayed. The contractors will be
able to carry the wo,k far into the winter
before cold weather puts n check to oper-
atoms. As rapid progress, if not more so,
as was anticipated is being made. A prom
inent manufacturer who visited the work
remarked IF Sau,t Ste. Marie has not
been endowed by nature with all of the
attributes of location, POWER and resources
necessary to become great manufacturing
city, then no other city in the land has.
Just you watch the career of the 500 and
be surprised.
There is trouble at Detroit, says n spe-
cial telegram, among the stockholders of
the Hammond Meat Company. The capt.
tai stock is -, 100, 600, a majority of which
is held by the Hammond estate of Detroit.
The late George H. Hammond started the
business in small way in 1871. Several
years later slaughter and packing houses
were started in Chicago and a company
formed. When Mr.. Hammond died few
months ago his son, George II. Jr., took
the management The other stockholders
were not satisfied with his work At a
recent meeting of stockholders a dividend
of 80 per cent. was declared-5 per cent.
payable Immediately and 25 per cent in
thirty days. This was objected to by Ham
mond, who thought dividend of PEI
cent would amply cover the net profits of
the year, although the books showed an
earning of 30 per cent Mr.. Hammond
argued that the wear and tear of machinery,
buildings, etc, and other expenses would
consume the % per cent. Another reason
for his objection was that there is only
$3.50, 900 cash on hand and it is necessary,
he asserted, to have nj least $50, 900 on
hand to carry ON the business. Checks for
the per cent. dividend were to have been
drawn, but Mr.. Hammond for his father
| estate obtained an in INJUNCTION from the Cir