Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-18
THE STATE.
(CONiINuED.)

Hour mill.
Martin township will buy lot for 3
cemetery.
Oscoda county will vote on the good
road system.
A ll5-pound sturgeon has "a been
caught in Kalamazoo river.
The old Jail at Hastins is to be re-
placed by a new brick residence.
Potatoes are being shipped from
Croswell to Chicago in large quantities.
Alfred Reed is planting out peach
orceard of 500 on his farm at Mundy.
A grand jury is at work in Charlotte
investigating violations of the local
option law.
Cadillac will get along with five less
saloons. The hotel bars have been
discontinued.
One of the referee appointees in
Branch county is said to be unable TO
read or write
An eagle was killed near Rogers,City
which measured five feet five inches
from tip TO tip.
Secretary of State Gardner will de-
liver the Grafton to Athens high school
graduates in June.
Over two hundred members of the
Muskegon Catholic church are pledged
to total abstinence.
1t is reported that 40 snakes were
killed in one afternoon on one.acre of
ground at Armada.
The annual meeting Of the State Fire
mems association will occur at Hast
ings May l6 and Il.
Prof. A. Knechtel of Chesaning has
been elected principal of Leslie schools
Tor the ensuing year.
The price of fish is so low at Alpena
that one of the fishing tugs is to be
pulled off and laid up.
The Rev. Samuel Trivette of Manito-
ba began his passionate in the episco-
pal church of Lapeer May Il.
Doyle township, up in Scnoolcraft
Co., had three saloons last year, this
year it has only one. Hard times. n
Scarcity of straw is keeping the Ale
gan Paper Co. from resuming opera
tons 1t is probable that they will
not start up till after harvest.
There is not hen in Port Huron
that considers herself safe these nights
unless locked in a safe with time
lock on. Hundreds of fowls have been
stolen.
John Landon is farmer and bear
hunter up in Isabella county. His
latest exploit is to capture an old bear
and two cubs in the woods just north
of his farm.
The Bay City ministers have issued
a proclamation TO the churches in
Michigan urging them to have nothing
to do with Sam Bettes, the alleged
evangelist who was recently at work in
their town.
Taxes of F. w. Wheeler & Co., the
big ship building firm of West Bay
City, to the amount of s., 437 were
RENTED by the council. The matter
was kept very quiet but there Is a row
now.
The Antrim Iron Co., of Mancelona,
will shut down the last of this month
for ninety days. The company says
that all those who remain until they
start up can have the rent of their
houses free.
Grand Master Phillips of the Mchi-
gan Free and Accepted Masons has ac-
cepted an invitation of Bay City to con-
vene the grand lodge at that place MAY
80 and conduct the ceremony of laying
the city hall cornerstone.
Dewitt Sullivan, one of Bay City's
high rollers, has pleaded guilty of re-
ceiving money under false pretenses.
He drew up lot of checks with ficti-
tious names and buncoed about doz-
en- business men.
1t may not be generally known that
it is against the law in Michigan to be
''present at any dancing, or at any
public diversion, show or entertainment.
or take part in any sport, or play on the
first day of the week"
The new Tittabawassee Boom CON-
pany is charging Sl.20 a thousand.
This has caused some dissatisfaction
and Thomas Crosswell has started
boom company of his own in opposition
to the other and has taken contracts TO
raft 100000 feet.
1t is not generally known how Sena-
tor Stockbldge obtained his military
title of colonel. In looking over the
rolls of the state militia of Michigan, in
1857, il was found that the officers of
the Allegan county regiment were all
dead, whereupon Governor Bingham
filled up the vacancies by appointing