The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-12-16
NEWS OF TIE STATE.
Items Of Interest Concerning Our Own
People and Things.

to roller skates.
The docks and warehouses owned by the
Goodrich Transportation company ut Grand
Haven will be improved $25, 1000 worth be-
fore navigation opens next spring.
Muskegon has closed five year contract
for electric lighting, paying $3.50 per year
for each arc light
. The Church of the Latter Day Saints at
Five Lakes was broken into, and nearly all
the movable articles, including several BIZ
bles, were stolen.
An Oronoke man had seventeen teeth
extracted at one sitting, and may die from
the resultant loss of blood.
Chester b. Davis, the hydraulic engineer
who was discharged by the Muskegon wa
terworks commission because of disa-
greement regarding the construction of the
plant, has rendered bill for SO, 700 worth
of services.
Using weights and scales that were bad
iy out of balance has got Saginaw dealer
into trouble.
Pouring cold water into boiling soap is
liable to produce an explosion as Clarks-
ton man learned to his sorrow. He now
wears badly burned face.
Two Benzie county brothers named
Nets claim to have slain $50 deer. This
record of course extends over several
years.
An Ontonagon cat is charged with the
otfense of having been instrumental in
spreading diphtheria in that town. Now
let us caterwaul.
Hudson claims to be the most important
poultry shipping point in the state.
900 pounds of domestic fowls having
been shipped east this year. Last years
shipments were much greater.
The citizens of Sights station neglected
church services Oh recent Sunday and
sawed wood for sick neighbor.
Stealing whisky has given a Grand Rap
pids resident a years home at the Detroit
house of correction.
Some years ago John Macfie, wealthy
Grand Haven lumberman, had the fingers
of the right hand accidentally shot off, and
now the left. hand digits have been clipped
close by a buzz saw.
A Saranac man and his wife agreed to
disagree by separating, but the woman has
been arrested on a charge of burning her
husbands farm residence, which he was
preparing to occupy
A party of Marcelus sportsmen have
return with twenty-five deer as the net re-
suit of hunting trip in the northern part
of the state.
Claimed at Grand Rapids that regis
tration of voters especially for school cleo
tions would result in a more honest express
sion of popular sentiment.
The freight tonnage of the 500 canal
for the past season exceeded ST. $50, coo
thn in Nha
increase in grain alone was 81 per cent.
An Adrian man is shipping turkeys
to England which the Britishers pronounce
first rate and ask for more.
Alpena's new $4,000 Congregational
church has been dedicated free from debt.
A Kalamazoo man sought to procure
divorce on the ground Of extreme cruelty,
alleging that the wife had one of their
children baptized in different faith than
his own The scheme didn't work.
Marshall people insist that ghost has
got loose and is perambulating the burg of
nights.
Mrs. Mahala Norris, an Oceola lady.
is dead at the age of nearly 10. years. She
had been IA Michigan resident for sixty
seven years.
Diphthera is continuing its fatal work
among the young folks at Coidwater. I'M
pure water is caarged with being the cause
of the epidemic.
The gang of cattle thieves that has
been operating largely in Oceola county,
has quit business. The leaders are i'll
Jail.
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A Saginaw citizen made big kick
against the plans for her public building,
and now she is likely to get bigger and
better edifice.
An Owossa man has been served with
due notice that If he doesn't quit misusing
his wife and daughter that he'll have
"whitecap" interview on his hands forth
with.
Mount Clemens Presbyterians are said
not to be bright, and shining examples of
the liberal passage, "Behold how good and
how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell
together in unity"
Cadillac has citizen who's a brick-at
least he transferred $4,000 of them because
of an election bet.
Wexford county ruralists are shipping
hay to the northland, something hereto
fore unknown in that bailiwick.
Mrs. Fields is a Jenison woman who
owns badly burned face because she
tried the experiment of putting kerosene
in her wash water
An artesian well which flows 610 gallons
of water per hour from a depth of eighty
feet is recent acquisition at Williams
burg.
Joe Wilson is North Shade man who
claims to have captured rabbit which
wears a wool jacket instead of the usual
fur coat.
The chore boy of Bay City lady disap-
peared at the same time that $500 worth of
coins were discovered to be missing, and
both are supposed to be taking a holiday
vacation.
Lawton is the home of person VIII o has
worn single pair of boots for thirteen
years and they are well worn, too, since
the owner has given the arch enemy many
u chase over the vine-embowered hills Of
his hamlet home
There are few churches outside the cities
that can show membership of 300, but
the Greenville congregational society can
go fifty-three better than that figure.
An Ishpeming funeral procession was
badly disarranged by runaway team, six
carriages being more or less demoralized.
The occupants all escaped serious injury.