Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-24
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS,

ANlIidh DuCh lltld lldluO nave
been married at Hudson.
JohuALarson, of Thompson, aged l3,
was killed by a falling tree.
Addison has had $4,000 fire, now
it wants some fire protection.
The new business college at Tecum-
sch has opened with 30 students.
Six thousand trout have just been
planted in the Kalamazoo river.
At the charter election st Reading
6s votes were cast and ii were illegal.
Marshall reports great scarcity in
farm help this spring, especially un-
married ones.
Louis Perry, who has been running
around Whiteford with a butcher
knife, has been sent to Kalamazoo.
Alpena Macca bees are going to build
block of their own. Two thirds of
the shares for the same have already
been taken.
The Michigan Lutherans will erect
their old folks home just south of
Monroe as soon as the weather permits.
Dhirty-five hundred dollars was given
viz w ACNoOS
The freight house belonging to the
Toledo a. South Haven railroad at Paw
Paw burned. The loss consisted of
l 200 bushels of wheat, car load of
binders, and considerable freight.
A Capac women caught coon in her
chicken coop the other day aud wasn't
scared bit. She just grabbed an AK
and hit the thief on the head and killed
him.
Sheriff Walkinshaw, of Marshall, is
making the tramping fraternity reseat
the chairs of the Jail and court house.
Most of the brethren are expert in that
line.
While playing on the ice which
formed in Gunnison swamp, Cornelius
Vogel, of Grand Rapids, broke through
into deep water. This was the only
fatality of the food there.
Souvenir canes are being made from
the oak taken from the steamer INDIE
pendence which, after being at the
bottom of the Sault river for over so
years, has recently been raised.
Of the III applicants for teachers
certificates at the Calhoun county ex-
animation, but twentyrone were gen
tlemen. Certificates were granted to
43 candidates out of the entire list.
An enterprising citizen of Calumet
is going to manufacture $4,000 copper
souvenir spoons for sale at the Worlds
| Fair. They are of a beautiful design
and it is believed will catch the public
! favor.
L'Anse is retarded in her work of
| progression by the fact that 10000
acres of land adjacent to the village is
| part of an Indian reservation. The
! Indians cannot sell it and are too lazy
to cultivate it.
The proposition to bond the city of
Ann Arbor for $50, 600 to build main
sewer, after a sharply contested cleo
ton was carried by $50 majority. Last
year the question was defeated by
about 200 majority.
Len Filteau fell from the deck of q
steel boat at Wheeler 81 Companys at
Bay City, crushing the bones of both
hands, cutting his face and injuring
his hip. Within an hour three others
were more or less injured by falling on
the same boat.
An unknown benefactor has started
the ball rolling for the new Y. NJ. G.
A. building at Saginaw by subscribing
$1,000. The committee will not give
the name at present. The object is to
get $50, 900, and subscriptions are bind
ing when $4,000 is secured.
A man hunting near Ypsilanti found
the body of little Tommy Shaw, who
was drowned about the middle of De-
cember, floating down the river. He
was two miles from the place where he
broke in last winter. The had gone
over three dams and was quite badly
disfgured.
The annual convention of the SUI
preme lodge of the Patrons of Industry
at Detroit, March - to %. Twenty.
seven states and the dominion of Can
ada represented. Michigan repre-
sented by Azariah $. Partridge, OF
Flushing: o. s. Conklin, of Crane
Rapids; w. II. Bennett, of Evart and
Ii. A. Daniels, of Alva.
The actual consolidation of the Bay
City and West Bay City street railway
companies has been completed. The
company's authorized capital is 81 900,
900. All the West Bay City lines hav,
electric roads, while only loop around
the business portion of Bay City II
equipped for electric cars, but the new
company is already at work changing
the Bay City line.
The Unity church, of Cleveland, hal
extended call TO Rev. Marion Muir
dock and Rev. Florence Il. Buck, VIII,
are attending Manchesters new colleg,
at oxford, to become their pastors
They formally resided at Kalamazo,
and the call was made through Rev
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