The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-03-18
MICHIGAN MATTERS.
News Items of Interest Picked Up Here
and There,

George Washington in the long ago.
James l.. Everett, postmaster at BARLEY
Greek, is accused of swapping postage
stamps for groceries and must stand trial
on the charge. Uncle Sam forbids such
barter and insists that when people lick
stamps they must plank down the cash
for the privilege. Everett insists, how
ever, that he didn't barter.
Poorhouse scandals are becoming rather
too frequent in Michigan. Mecosta county
is the latest to be added to the list.
The store of Hartford dealer has been
closed by the owners mother in order to
secure moneys she had loaned the son.
Three bachelors, each 70.years old and a
maiden lady of 90, are included in the 200
souls that inhabit the little town of Bath
Grand Rapids has truant school with
an average attendance of fifty boys
The Flint boy who attempted to split
wood under clothesline was obliged to
call doctor to sew up split lip.
The Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway
company earned $255, o44.01 last year
handling ice, large portion of the con-
gealed product being shipped from Ca
dillac.
Three times within year has the hard
ware store of Robbins & Edwards, at Up.
silanti, been burglarized, the last haul
of $50 occurring few days ago.
Chicago is munching on Muskegon's
crackers, eleven tons having been shipped
by the Muskegon factory in one day.
The February product of Houghton's
copper mines aggregates 99S tons, which
at present prices is worth about $500, 000
"The Little Brown jug" is to be
brought out by Alamo amateurs and emp
tied right before as large an audience as
can endure the soul trying scene.
D. p. Harrington is a jackson county
farmer who had fourteen teeth taken out
in twinkling by being thrown out of a
wagon.
An indiscreet and somewhat Youthful
Middlebury chap was assested for swear
in right in meetin' to the great annoyance
of pulpit and pew.
The number of counterfeit dollars in
circulation at Homer suggests the idea
that somebody has been practicing the free
coinage scheme.
The joy of receiving a government PEN
sion upset the reason of Bay City
woman, and now blindness has been add
ed to her misfortunes.
Michigan colored people will hold a con.
vention at Lansing April 5 to canvass the
political situation and their relation
thereto.
Fred Pollock, former GAINESVILLE drug
gist, was arrested for violation of the
liquor laws, has been declared not guilty.
Cadillac tobacco dealers have been warn.
ed by the board of education not to sell
the weed to the school children of that
city.
The runaway of Kalamazoo horse re.
suited in the injury of three women, four
men and the demolition of two vehicles.
That horse is hustler.
Charles N. Ayres, the Detroit man who
died from bullet wound inflicted by his
wife, was buried at Pontiac.
The Wyandotte parsons who roasted
the dancing members of their congrega-
tions are now minus some of the best pay
ing individuals of their fiocks.
Petitioners for divorce credentials must
swear that there's no collision with the
other half to the transaction in order to
secure solid separation papers, saith the
supreme court.
Claimed that a Lenawee county citizen
made his sick wife sign paper providing
for the payment of her funeral expenses
out of her own estate. But the woman
recovered and the expense of a funeral
was saved.
Something like $50 farmers of Bay
county will try the experiment of raising
sugar beets this season, and if success
perches upon the rural banners, a factory
may be built for the purpose of extract
ing the sweet.
Ann Arbor ladies held festival Of
days" entertainment and cleared the snug
sum of $500.
An Ann Arbor dealer must answer to
the judicial authorities for selling CT
garettes to youth of IL summers.
Mrs. Mercer, Blissfeld lady, had every
last hen taken from her chicken roost on a
recent dark night, but she isn't mourning
to any great extent. The thieves dropped
a pocketbook which contained SS4 worth
of good cash, which was good pay for the
chicks.
Members of Bangor church are deveav-
oring to sell the church organ and pay the
accumulated salary of their pastor.
Walking with lady unon the street
ReneTdlly COuSluCiCu w pO " N"hSoSA
Gus pastime but just the same G. P. War
ner, Bay City citizen, dropped dead while
thus engaged.
Battle Creeks NJ f. church was organ
lied half century ago and Milton Barney
is the only surviving member of the orig
inal organization.
Ionia has Bible society which sold 367
volumes of the Scriptures during the year
1891.
The Chicago and West Michigan Rail-
way company struck a bad sink hole on
its northern extension in Antrim county,
which they fed with logs, trees and over
twenty thou, and cubic yards of earth, but
still it called for more. Now they'll try
running the racks around it.
Porter A. Vinton, a Kent county farm
err, sued neighbor, an unmarried man,
for $40, 900 worth of wifely affection which
Porter alleges the defendant has taken
without permission.
A Saginaw photographer has been fined
$50 for making pictures which were not
considered proper productions to be shown
In public.
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