Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-01-09
STATE NEWS CONDENSED.

La grippe has commenced business at
Parshallville.
The ice harvest is under full Roadway in
Van Buren, county.
Eben Morse, murdered in Oregon last
month, was brother of Norman Morse of
Vassar.
Northport is proud because it has &C
cpmulated population of 400 persons in
AZ years.
The Marlette young peoples reading
rooms were opened to the public on Mon
day evening.
Rev. Frederick w. Mosher of Troy,
N. Y, has accepted a call to St. Paul's
church, Muskegon.
William Keys of Manistee has just
opened a store at Thompsonville, the first
one in the new village.
A Saginaw man jumped off one electric
car right in the path of another Saturday
and was badly bruised.
Traverse City has voted to give $50, 900
and site TO the Mancelona oval dish con-
Germ if it will locate there.
The snow and rain of last week have
made log hauling practical in the eastern
section of Manistee county.
The new roller process mill at Brock
way, for which contracts have been signed,
must be completed by June 1.
The price of gas in Grand Rapids ranges
from 50 cents to 81 per 1000 feet accord
ing to the amount consumed.
The renovated Episcopal church in
Ypsilanti, on which SO, 200 has been ex-
pended, was reopened Sunday.
The Lapeer subscription ball, held Fri
day night, was gorgeous success in every
way, over 100 couples turning out
The Congregationalists of Copemish have
extended a call TO Rev. j. p. Grinnell of
Wheaton, ILL.,, and he has accepted.
A farmer living near Decatur has on his
farm 40 black walnut trees, for which he
has been offered, and refused, $4,000.
Arrangements will be completed by
which Allegan will secure the Russell
wheel factory, a concern with $25, 900
capital
The citizens of Flint met Saturday
night TO take the intiatory steps toward
getting the legislature to give them a I ew
charter.
A spark from chimney set fire to Mr..
Rubys barn in Onekama and it was
burned, owing to lack of apparatus for
fighting fire.
The experiment of raising peppermint
was so successful at Decatur the past sea-
son that large acreage will be raised the
coming year.
The newly-elected treasurer of Reno
township, Iosco county, failed to qualify,
and the Taxpayers have been placed in the
hands of the sheriff.
The Isabella county patrons made 80, 600
out of running the Isabella county creamery
last year, and will, of course, continue the
concern another year.
The Taylor wagon works. of Pontiac,
made and sold /, 00S wagons from Jan. to
Dec. 81, 1890, not including their sales of
wagons made elsewhere.
The Manstee park association have pur-
chased 30 acres of land 10 the north of the
city, and will ct it up for trotting park
in time for next falls races.
Another coal mine has been struck in
Freeland. The find is but 1875 feet below
thesurface and the vein said TO be large
enough to work at good profit.
All the marriageable women in Roscom-
mon received a Christmas present of a
broom. Probably 10 enable them TO brush
up for the race for husband.
The West Bay City eouncilmen wrangled
over the question of putting fire escapes on
all three-story buildings in the city, and
finally voted TO order them up
The Detroit Journal has begun tho dis
tribution OF its superb ''Year Book" 1t il
not only an artistic publication, but also {
very valuable book of reference
The sentence Of +. f. Stevens. the Var
Buren, county bank defaulter has beer
committed TO three years Imprisonment
and he will return home Jsn. IL.
It is now claimed That Prosecutor-elect
Lawrence Il. Bedford. OF Chippwa county
cannot qualify, as he was not a either
when he was admitted to the bar.
The December copper output was a
follows Calumet & Hecla, $685. tons
Quincy, 3g5 tons; Atlantic, 2i2 tons
Franklin, 49l tons: os''eOla ABB tons.