The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-04-03
NEWSOF THE STATE

"Ne4 'o"eAhS Saphciby ior ooV thchtrc'
goers.
York state woman correspondent with
a Manton man and finally made matri-
monial tour to the latter place, but find
ing upon inquiry that her intended was a
married man of many years. standing,
she set sail for her eastern home without
stopping to look up the object of her
search.
About one-fifth of the Howell people
who marry are candidates for divorce ere.
dentials.
The national woman's congress will
hold meeting at Grand Rapids next
November.
Mrs X. G. Hackett, a Livingston county
lady, Is still using the same churn and
washboiler with which she began house
keeping, quarter of a century ago.
The establishment of factory at AL
tract will furnish market for $4,000
worth of bark per year to the forest
owners of that section.
Grand Rapids has hotel keeper who's
been gaining wisdom by experience. Fear
ing that a lady boarder would skip out
without settling her bill he attacked her
trunk, but the lady replevined it, threw
the costs on the attacher, and now has him
in Jail in default of payment thereof.
Missaukee county has school district
with double set of officers, both of whom
have hired a schoolma'am to instruct the
young ideas, and both pedagogues are
trying to hold the fort. High old time?
Don't guess again.
Harriet Kellogg is Kalamazoo county
woman who fires 1000 suit at the
doctor who treated her for cancer when
her ailment was nothing more nor less
than tumor.
Benton Harbor is trying to secure line
of steamers to pillow the waters of old
Michigan between that port and Milwau-
kee the coming season. They've had a
daily line to Chicago for many years.
r. Wolff, Bay City dealer in old iron
and rags, has grown rich at the business,
and has just completed a $4,000 domi-
cile in which to spend his declining years.
Gun-shot wounds do not always pro-
duce fatal results with celebrity. Seven
teen years ago James Bell, of Petoskey,
was thus wounded and has just died from
its effects.
John Gesler is Teuton citizen who
may die, because an ak that he was
swinging deserted the loosely attached
handle and struck him on the head.
Once again are we assured that the Oft
proposed project of an electric car line be
tween Ishpeming and Negaunee will be
built some time during the year.
A Grand Traverse firm has shipped a
cargo of maple logs to Glasgow, Scotland,
with the idea that there's money in that
sort o. exports.
G. A. Thatcher, the Fenton gentleman
who was arrested for practicing dentistry
without the necessary permit, and ac-
quilted, brings $4,000 damage suit
against the man who caused his arrest.
The proposition to increase the attorney
generals salary to $1,000 is favored by all
classes of people irrespective of political
affiliations, as q matter of economy. Too
much money is now expended for outside
assistance.
The ice harvest at Cadillac is about
completed, the last two houses of $1,000
tons capacity being nearly full.
A Bancroft badger sucked the life
blood from three ducks. six ROSTERS and
dead bodies into common grave.
Cadillac people have enjoyed eighty
days of good sleighing-not a bad run for
a warm winter.
Mrs. julius Houseman, the divorced
wife of the late ex-Congressman House
man, of Grand Rapids, is dead.
The swine house at the Ionia asylum
burned recently, cooking sixty hogs.
Roast pork is plentiful now at that insti-
tuition.
For many years past Mount Clemens
farmer has been in the habit of laying
away loose change for future needs, and
few days ago he invested the accumu-
lated silver quarters and halves-$8O0
worth, in farm.
Work has been stopped on Bay City's
public building because the people of that
town don't like the plan thereof
Methodist ladies of Muskegon have an
eye to business. During the late G. A. r.
encampment they furnished meals for the
hungry multitude and cleared about $3.50
by the operation.
Adolph Shumaker, who lived near Dear
born, went out coon hunting and in fall
ing tree to catch the coon he was caught
beneath it and killed.
The executors of the estate of the late
Benjamin w. Arnold, of Bay City, were
required to file bonds to the tune of $7O,-
600, the largest ever recorded in the pro-
bate court of that county. The estate is
valued in the neighborhood of $1,000, 000,-
000
Years and years ago the town of Singa-
pore was stated on the Michigan lake
shore at the mouth of the Kalamazoo
river. To-day there's but one house left
that's inhabited, and the family that oc-
cupies it lives in the second story on nc.
count of the sand that piles up all around
that region. All the other dwellings are
buried from sight by the ever increasing
sand dunes.
Governor Winans has received medal
from the French government in token of
the part taken by Michigan in the Paris
exposition.
Mrs. Hornsby, who lives not many
miles from Hersey, had occasion to visit
that town and took the precaution to
wrap her baby very closely that it might
not get chilled, but when her destination
was reached she found that the little
thing had been smothered to death.
Alfred Taylor is a 3-year-old Jackson
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