Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-12-16
MICHIGAN sTATEiTEMs.


for the aged in Adrian.
The Sixth Michigan cavalry reunes
in Grand Rapids Jan. 2.
The night school at Muskegon has
an enrolment of $50 pupils.
Escanaba's council has voted to bond
for $50, 900 for park purposes.
James Fish while in fit fell from a
dock in Alpena and drowned.
The work of laying the water works
pipe In Tecumseh is completed.
John Smell, ten years old,o Rea, was
| attacked by ram and fatally injured.
The famous Blodgett sawmill at Mus
kegon has been shut down perma-
nently.
White Caps threaten Joseph Thomas,
of Owosso. He is accused of wife
beating.
The entire summers output of the
tile factories about Riga is already dis
posed Of
The Pioneer mine, of Negaunee, has
been leased and will be operated inn
mediately.
The towns of Benton Harbor and st.
Joseph are again at war; This time a
sewer is the cause.
South Haven is anticipating a new
factory in that place for the manufac-
ture of brick from sand.
J. C.Abbott, of Muskegon, will super
wise the construction of the Michigan
building at the Worlds Fair.
The Saginaw police have begun a
crusade against disreputable houses.
Twelve arrests in one night.
Adrian's new furniture company has
their buildings completed and will be-
gin operations with the new year.
Citizens of Plainwell are circulating
petitions asking for submission of
the local option question in that place
The High School Lyceum, of Sagi-
nav, have decided that the police do
more good to the municipality than the
clergy.
There are IS saloons doing business
in lngham county, and they have paid
total tax of $685. 1925 into the county
treasury.
James Elliott. clerk in the Tecum-
sch postofliee, is nursing a badly dis
figured face because he would start the
fire with squawbuck oil.
j. Maurice Firms new paper has APP
peared at lshpeming 1t is called the
Lake Superior Morning Herald, and
will advocate Democratic principles.
An employee of the Big Four road at
Benton Harbor found a wallet contain
ing $1,000 while sweeping a car. He
turned the cash over to the company.
A fine new soldiers monument has
been erected at Three Rivers. 1t is
made of polished granite, surmounted
by the figure of soldier. 1t is IS feet
high.
The members of the Church of Christ
at Ann Arbor, who are working to
have big theological school built
there, hope TO secure a $500, 900 endow-
ment fund.
The Central Labor union of Saginaw
is endeavoring to capture the ear of
Gov. elect Rich in the interest of w.
E. Gardiner, would-be state labor COM
missioner.
Sheriff Porter, of Stanton county,
has applied to the supreme court, ask
ing for a mandamus requiring the
board of supervisors to pay him some
$500 for boarding tramps.
S. C. Van Buren,, farmer living in
Crystal township, Montcalm county,
has pair of weighty turkeys. The
go6bler, only a year old, weighs 30
pounds and the hen 20 pounds.
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town near Coleman, where he has
seven miles of road operating. He has
built single mill and several houses
which is to form a nucleus for the new
burg.
The Ries electric speciality company,
of Baltimore, Md, wants to go TO Lud-
ington and probably will if the city
charter can be amended so that money
can be voted to secure enterprises of
this kind.
Ropes gold mine of Ishpeming has
closed down. The stockholders will
, no longer furnish money. Over $780,
600 in assessments has been sunk in at
tempting TO develop the mine into a
profit maker.
C. d. Wickes, of the Derby Lake stock
farm, near Stanton, shipped 12S bar
rels of fine cranberries which were
raised on his cranberry marsh this sea-
son. The berries compare favorably,
both in flavor and size TO those of Cape
Cod.
| A university extension society is
Cadillac's latest acquisition, and under
its auspices two lecture courses will be
given this winter. The first will treat
of English liserature, and will be de-
livered by Prof. N. Demmon, of the
university, beginning in the first week
in January.
! Kellogg e. Hornung, clothiers, OF
Howell, have failed. Their liabilities
exceed SIS, 0OO Thomas Gordon holds
a chattel mortgage for $4,000 and is in
| possession. The Citizens Savings
Bank, of Detroit, also has a mortgage
for 81 900 aud there are others of about
the same figure.
The olden tactics of Russia, making
war in winter, has been resumed in
Branch county by her grim plcnipo-
Tertiary, la grippe. Several old people
of that stricken region are now seri-
ously III. while dnany of his former
a