Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24

A Horton firm threshed 1855 bushels
of wheat in 10 hours.
The Agricultural college will make
a stock exhibit at the state fair.
Senator Stockbridge's fine horses
will be auctioned off near Kalamazoo.
An Inlay City man says the black
bear is rapidly becoming extinct in
Michigan.
There hasn't been death in the
state public school at Coldwater for
two years.
Kalamazoo Populists adopted reso-
buttons saying the world is on the
verge of a great revolution.
Cheboygan young ladies have adopted
the shirt-waist as a swell costume, i'm
steal of the conventional full dress"
White ants, European pest, very
rare in this country, have been dis
covered in a Grand Rapids grape arbor.
The general freight offices of the
Michigan division of the Big Four have
been moved from Anderson, Ind, to
Benton Harbor.
Ingham county Populists nominated
a county ticket and refused to adopt u
resolution preventing other parties
from indorsiEg their candidates.
A Cassopolis man has an apple tree
three feet in circumference, bearing
four kinds of apples. A goose berry
bush grows from the center of the
tree.
Saginaw ladies have at last raised
enough money TO build a refuge for
fallen women. Mrs. Balling,on Booth
will inaugurate the newly-purchased
house.
Anti-receree Democrats at Port
Huron rejected proposition from the
custom house crowd to hold joint
convention and adjust factional diff
terences.
Ira lie Valley, near Ionia, lost $500
and suspected the hired girl. He gave
her day TO return the property. When
he arrived home he found money mys-
teTiously restored.
Rev. Mr.. Jackson, of Fairfield, was
watching a bail game, when a hot liner
smashed his spectacles and banged his
eye shut. He'll recover, but is busy
making explanations.
A Standish man captured two apple
thieves IN his orchard. At the end of
n loaded musket he drove them into
his house, where he filled their pockets
with fruit and bid them Godspeed.
The cornerstone of the new st. Vim
cent orphan asylum at Saginaw was
laid, Bishop Richter officiating. The
building will cost S2S, 900, and will re-
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Saginaw fire.
The Bottsford paper mill at Kala-
mazoo dumped chloride of lime into
the river. Soon after at least ton of
dead fish were gathered on the banks.
The company has been ordered 20
dump its refuse elsewhere.
Shiav-assee county will probably
have two Populist county tickets, c.
w. Sager called a convention which
made nominations last Saturday. Frank
Savage has called another for next
Saturday, claiming that he, and not
Sager, is county chairman.
A band of gipsies camped by the side
of George w. Betterly's farm, near
Battle Creek. Betterly protested
against their depredations, whereupon
they assaulted Betterlcy and his son
Walter with clubs, stones and set their
bull dog on them. Young Betterly
was struck in the head and breast and
badly hurt.
The will of Mrs Julia Butler, Ham
burg's pioneer, who ended her career
by poisoning herself, has been set aside
on the ground that she was insane.
She bequeathed a good deal of her
property to a former hired man, Harry
Whitlock, who, strangely enough, was
one of her victims. Nhitlock is para
lyzcd from the poison she gave him.
The Gladstone company, capitalized
at Sj,OO0,Oo0, held by Chicago, Boston
and Minneapolis people, has bought
about two-thirds of all the property in
the city of Gladstone. 1t controls all
the water front, four miles and half,
except that utilized by the 500 termi-
nails. 1t owns most of the wharvcs.
Free sites will be offered and every
thing will be done to bring factories
and other business.
The lakes in the vicinity of Spring
port afford the very best fishing, and
anglers tales of big catches are in
Vulnerable, but the following rather
takes the ribbon so far this year:
Charles Walker and Thomas DiclSen-
son say that, while skipping with a
frog, a pickerel made "A spring at the
bait with such velocity and force that
he Ghe picllereD jumped clear over
Walkers head and landed in the lake
10, feet the other side of the boat
Dickinson was so excited over this
that he jumped into the lake, grabbed
the fish and ran him TO the shore. The
fish weighed about 50 pounds and was
over four feet long.