The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-12-04
STATE GLEANINGS.
Interesting 1 ems OF News which Are
strictly Michigan

Interesting 1 ems OF News which Are
strictly Michigan
Kent county's new court house was to
have been completed ear ago, accord
ing to the terms of the contract, hut it
looks now rs though still another year
would elapse before It's completed.
twill be a fine structure, If it's ever fin
ished
Milo Thnrp. Michigan Central brake.
man was run over by the cars near Con-
cord, and Charles Pirt was killed by "A
falling tree in Newaygo county the day
before.
Professor A. Graves of Hillsdale COL
lege was recently married to Miss Min
ME Austin. one Of his students. He is 55
while she is but 20
The J. j. Hill, a fine steamer designed
for ocean traffic. was launched recently at
Alpena Her machinery will be put in at
Detroit
1t cost Charlie Parker, an Edwards
sportsman, $50 for spearing fish contrary
to the game statutes of the state An
other case where brain food came high.
The Kalamazoo young man who pro-
posed to a Mendon girl by letter, had his
breath fairly tPken away when this la
comic reply was received by return mail:
Bring on the ps.rson."
Claimed that Royal Oak family made
butter in the same room where two chill
dren were i'll with diphtheria.
Merrill g. Rings mill, one of the old
est lumber establishments on the Sagi-
nav river, has been dismantled and the
machinery taken to Duluth.
A lady dentist is doing tooth-pulling
business at Port Huron.
A. II. Glen's gun exploded while he
was out hunting near Cooper and wild
ow and three children are left to shift for
themselves.
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Bay City proposes to lay $500, 900 inlet
pipe from the bay for the purpose of Sc
curing pure water supply.
A Saginaw man has had his wife ar
rested for assaulting him with an iron
teakettle.
Alfred Martin, Flint sportsman,
bagged seventy-six rabbits in single day
and would have made the number full
hundred if the day han't been SO short.
Captain J. II. Webb is having an excur-
sion steamer built at Grand Haven that
is to make the round trip from Traverse
City to Petoskey in ten hours. The dis
lance by water is $50 miles.
The male members of the Tecumseh
Baptist church surprised the sisters of
the congregation by serving an appetiz-
ing Thanksgiving dinner.
Alta Freeman, Farwell miss of 8
summers, was choked to death by eating
chestnuts.
rhorlao lumbar, TalaHnnia
citizen, and l.. Gears, Manton man, an
even 500 for a brief experience in hunt
ing deer with dogs.
An Auburn farmer who had team
stolen not long since, generously pre-
sented it to the officer who gathered in
the nags and the thief who took them.
The owner did not care so much about
the horses, but he did want to see the
horsethef behind the bars.
A. c. Posner, Grand Rapids under
taker, scratched hand while embalming
a dead body, blood poisoning resulted, and
Posner has been gather unto his fathers.
Alexander Jacobes is spry Clyde citi-
zen of 80, who plowed thirty acres of soil
the past fall and walked three miles daily
for his meals, while doing it. Old-tIme
vigor still fingers on the earth.
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Saginaw county has new poorhouse
in place of the old rookery that was
destroyed by fire sometime since. that is
equipped will all the necessary appliances
to make 100 poor people as comfortable as
such an environment will permit.
For twenty years has Engineer B. f.
Beall driven a locomotive on the Michi-
gan Central's Mackinaw division without
. single smashup He has, however,
driven the iron steed over three people,
but one Of whom was killed.
Battle Creeks Y. M. G.. A. gave a
supberb Thanksgiving dinner to the
homeless young bachelors Of that city.
G. G. Maggie, the Bay City lad who used
gasoline for building fire and got
caught, has since died from the terrible
burns received at the time
Rev. II. w. Mclean, who cultivates the
vineyard at Bay City, has declined Min
neapolis church offer, although it carried
with it an advance of 81, $40 over his pres
emit salary.
June Z, 1892, is the date set for the
national conference of state boards Of
health to be held at Michigan's capital
city.
Crook is the somewhat inappropriate
name of Bear Lake parson who was re-
Gently knocked out of joint by frisky
horse.
-Tekonsha dealers shipped 10000 pounds
of turkeys and 1900 worth Of live stock
to make glad the Thanksgiving of eastern
people who had more money than meat
in their purses.
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Bogus silver coin is making an un-
healthy financial circulation at Battle
Creek.
Rev. FIR. Grimme, one of the ablest and
most successful Catholic priests in the
Grand Rapids diocese, died at the Catholic
hospital, Big Rapids, the past week. He
built $4,000 church during his four
years stay at Manistee, and was beloved
both by his own people and those of other
denominations.
Harvey Francis, North Oxford farmer
insists that it's not too late in the. season
for agricultural tales, and that he raised
700 bushels of wheat from ten acres of 1891
soil.
Abraham Miller, who may be a distant
relative of Abraham OF old, is making
Mormon converts near North Branch by
the Wholesale