The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-04-24
NEWSOFTHE STATE

left long.
Harrison people are still in pursuit oil
some good miller who's out of job and
can be induced to grind for 'em for d
reasonable bonus.
The bevy of Swartz Creek women who
thought to have some sport by parading
the streets of the town April dressed in
suits of their husbands clothing, have
been talked about by che neighbors until
they're heartily ashamed of the episode
Daniel Pomeroy and Henry Houk are a
pair of Worthwhile citizens, each OF whom
has scored 81 years. who marched to the
polls together aud cast their ballots at
the spring election.
Kalamazoo has an alderman who came
very near to being transferred to the
council on high by accidentally taking an
overdose of aconte.
Bronson people are so worried over their
s3Ol municipal debt that they've decided
TO grope around in the dark o'nights I'M
til the debt is paid, when the street lights
will shine again.
The seven cheese factories of Sanilac
county are curdling the milk of 4, 800 cows
with a fair prospect of turning out in the
neighborhoOd of $50, eco pounds of cheese
ScoSch,
600.
Allen Roland, a Bay City citizen, went
out to purchase a coffin for his infant
child, and was shocked to find the mother
dead also upon his return home.
Eddie Lipps, the Hart boy who wan
dered away from party of sugar makers
and was lost, is thought to have been de-
stroyed by a bear No trace of the lad
T. E,xt olra rRa~ he
was last seen are plentiful
Three years ago Ella Carlisle was left
lone widow, her husband securing a di-
yorce. Now Ella wants the case le-
opened, but Judge Hosmer, ot DetroiG
decides that it's too late to do so :
An outfit of foreign weeds and grasses,
embracing 1.S00 varieties. is to be inn
ported by the State Agricultural college
for the students inspection. Any pract-
cal farmer knows that Michigan soil needs
no encouragement in the growth of nox-
ious weeds and plants.
The Onota chemical company is
newly organized Marquette institution,
with capital stock of 100000 for the
purpose of making wood alcohol, for
which there's good demand at remuner-
alive figures.
Monroe county needs new bastiie but
the taxpayers decided that the old affair
must answer until better tines should
make it easier to meet the demands of the
tax collector
Maud Warner, the Ianawee county girl
whose joints insisted on dropping apart
despite the best efforts of the doctors to
prevent it, has been cured by the continued
application of electricity.
Jackson penitentiary will be furnished
1000 yards of striped cloth for convict use
by Detroit frM at Az cents per yard.
Very f-w people like to wear it. how
ever
William Egan, convicted Of manslaugh-
ter at Grand Rapids, goes to the Ionia
reformatory for period of fifteen years.
DIR. John Avery, whose home is at
Greenville, was elected president of the
state board of health at the last annual
meeting.
The Swartz creek bridge, near Flint,
took a notion to drop 'tother day at just
the right time to give six men, span of
horses, wagon and hay press cold
bath. The men and horses managed to pull
for the shore. but the balance of the out
fit is still in the swim.
James E. Matthews and wife, Kalama-
zoo people, were both stricken with the
grip about the same time. and both died
the same day, only few hours part.
Gold has been discovered on land
owned by George w. Bander on the Memo
minee range near Norway. An Indian
made the discovery.
Muskegon gets still another donation
from her benefactor, Charles H. Hackley,
in the shape of cash for $75, 600 school
building. This makes total of s269, 600
which Mr.. Hackley has given that city.
Saginaw Maccabees propose to celebrate
the tenth anniversary of the founding of
that order Juhe 10, In right royal style.
A Portland party paid his subscription
to local paper with bundle of fax
straw which was grown more than quar-
ter of a century ago in Ionia county.
John Widicomb, the Grand Rapids
furniture manufacturer, has tried the
nine-hour system and finds it more satis-
factory for days work than ten hours.
Daniel ID. Sinclair is an Adrian citizen
who has seen SO summers and has been n
member of the Masonic fraternity for
more than half century. He's been
taking degrees all these years and is now
very close to the top round of the ladder.
Sixty-two Croswell citizens have con-
cluded that drinking intoxicants is bad
business, and so have organized them
selves into a Good Templars lodge.
The City of Charlevoix arrived at Dun
can City, Mich, Monday morning, the
first boat through the straits this season.
Golden visions of incoming wealth
greet the vision of the,Adrian man who's
devised an automatic brake for freight
cars. The Flint and Pere Marquette rail-
way will give them a trial.
Pine lumber is up several notches in
price and Michigan mill owners are in
good spirits in consequence,
Ed j. Dixon was an inexperienced Sag
inaw lineman, and in the attempt to I'M
tangle telephone and electric light wire,
which had become crossed, was fatally
shocked.
Edwin Haaf was Mt. Clemens citizen
who thought himself to be of divine
origin and that he would never die but
he was buried few days since. One of
his peculiarities was to wear no coat, not
even on the coolest winters day.
Maggie Hodge was Hudson girl who
answered matrimonial advertisement
few months since, and now's the happy
bride of Montana man.
Work will be resumed Mt the Pewabic