Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-16
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

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CONDENSED STATE NEWS.
The Decatur business mems association
| has .sbanded.
An effort is being made at Three Rivers
| to organize Il stock company with a capital
of $500. 600 TO purchase the Hoffman Touring
mill plant
The Kalamazoo asylum has treated over
| 5000 patients since 1853.
Newaygo offers bonus for sulphite
! fibre factory.
During July Congressman Burrows
Travelled 5000 miles mostly IN the United
States.
The +. &. =. NJ. will have its recent pur-
chase, the Port Huron x Northwestern,
fitted 10 the standard gauge by Sept. /.
The Converse manufacturing company of
Newaygo is building "a logging road 10
tract OF timber five miles from town,
James Whitaker of Plymouth was
! thrown out of his wagon the other day, and
sustained Il broken hip and internal in
/ juries
Mrs. Mary Starkweather has presented
an elegant drinking fountain TO Gysilanti.
The Twenty second Michigan Infantry
will hold reunion at Byron Aug. -.
1t is thought that Catherine Jeelbinder,
who is charged with stealing : 900 at Port
! land, Oregon, is in the vicinity OF Bay City,
and officers of that county have been au-
! thOrized to arrest her.
The Osceola county school examiners
have revoked Prof w. Charles Coveys
| certificate on the ground of gross immor-
! ality. Prof. w. Charles Convey says the
charges against him are false and malicious.
Joe Minneter of Marquette, while drunk,
/ laid down on the railroad track 10 rest.
Funeral two days later.
The eighteenth annual meeting Of Eaton
| county pioneers was held on the fair
grounds in Charlotte Aug. 10, and was one
of the largest crowds ever had. The FOL
] lowing officers were elected Tor the ensuing
year: President, Hon. Duane Hawkins OF
/ NermOntville; vice president, Hon. Lamar
/ Shepherd of Olivet; secretary, G. a. Perry
| of Charlotte; treasurer, II. IL. hilbourne
of Charlotte; historian, Eseck Pray OF
| Windsor.
Sons of Veterans of Southern Michigan
held an encampment at Baw Beese Lake,
near Hillsdale, few days since. AT the
| business meeting an association was form
ed, TO be known as the Sons of Veterans
Battalion OF Southern Michigan Dr.G.W
| Stevens of Jonesville was chosen president
! Capt w. X. Ackland OF Morenci vice presl-
dent. +. u. Lyon of Hillsdae secretary,
and Col. NJ. L. Hall of Hillsdale treasurer.
The contract has been let for the construc-
tion OF the Detroit, Charlevoix ~ Escanaba
railroad from Charlevoix to Mackinaw City.
| Work Will be begun AT once.
DR.. George w. Jones has resigned the
position of member Of the board of pension
examiners at Inlay City TO become post
master.
The state fair officials have engaged Prof.
Carpenter OF the agricultural college 10 sur
vey half mile track and certify his find
ings to the propretors Of Wallace 5 Month
~. which magazine has backlisted the
track for alleged shortness. City Engineer
O'Connell and eXCity Engineers Appleton
and Bartholomew have each measured the
| track within recent years and found 1t 10
be of the required length.
The Vassar Milling company Of Vassar
has been organized in Nassar with a capital
of So. 800. The officers are President,
c. r. Phillips; vice president, M Taylor
treasurer and secretary, b. +. McHorr;
directors james TOlbert, G. +. Phillips,
l.. II. Taylor, ID. G.. Slofter, NJ. l.. Gage,
II. +. McHorr and James Armstrong. The
company propose 10 erect a large Touring
mill and dea' in all kinds of grain.
Fred Jordan, who had accepted position
as assistant librarian at the university, has
until lately been connected with the Battle
Creek public library
Warden Hatch of the Jackson prison is
determined, if possible, TO prevent rope
, tition Of last summers experience with the
typhoid fever, and has secured the services
Of Sanitary Engineer Machart of Chicago
who will thoroughly investigate the causes
leading 10 the breaking out anew OF the
disease and remedy them ut once
The cornerstone for Allegan county,
new courthouse will be laid Aug. "a.
I A stock company, with $4,000 capital
! has been formed in Benton Harbor tO
: manufacturing paper.
The Ionia Pants * Overall company hav
begun operations at lonia under the man
agemcnt of T.. -. Voorhees,. The factory Il
operated by steam and has a working force
Of 80, making "a valuable addition 10 tn
manufacturing interests OF lonia.
The Michiga. asylum for the insane a
= Kalamazoo. which has treated over 800
patients e.ucc i-.4. vii, soon receive an ad
ditiora. buhdiBr, for work is soon 10 CON
mence on the $1,000 chapel allowed by tn
o legislature. Three thousand two hundre
n feet of cement path is TO be laid about tn
u grounds.
j. H. Covode, who has been in Michiga
y for some time in the interests of Uruguay
= its colonization and the establishment G
y inter American commercial relations, Ia
), returned to his South American homo, tai
y ing "A car load of agricultural implement
= and Grand Rapids furniture with him.
g Frederick =. Hawyer, an old and wei
known pioneer, died at his late home
d Galesburg recently. Mr.. Hawyer settle
y in Charleston on wild lands in 1896.
n G.. K. Stevens, u South Haven new
4. agent, is in Jail at Paw Paw for debt.
- Thirty eight bands from towns in Mich
. gan and Ohio will hold tournament
!, Monroe Aug. 25.
T. II. Nesbitt, living four miles froI
d Flint, lost ~, 900 worth OF grain, hay, far,
To machinery aud buildings by IRE the oth'
day.