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Rev. Thomas Illman. of Grand Rapids,
said Satan was gentleman, compared to
some men he has seen.
the State Treasurer $43, O54.27 from a
total assessment of 4.24639. leaving
only $592.12 uncollected at that date.
John Engbredson, Scandinavian
woodsman, was fatally burned in a fire
which totally destroyed Peterson * John
sons saloon at Escanaba.
One of the names appended to the petit
ton for the resubmission of prohibition
in Van Buren, County belonged to man
who died eight years ago.
AJlantcrn exploded in the barn Of H.
Murray, in Convis Township, Calhoun
County, and now Mr.. Murray Is looking
for new barn and flock Of sheep.
Grand Rapids furniture men report
that February was a very bad month,
fewer sales being reported than during
any month since the depression set in.
A Watersmeet nimrod killed large
heron. This Is undoubtedly true, but he
adds that twcnty-three fish, ranging in
length from 4 to 10 inches, fell out of its
mouth.
A Kalamazoo girl was so anxious to
get into a building that she smashed in
the window with her shoes and crawled
in, just in time to be arrested by rude
hcartless copper
Two cakes OF ice cut in the Black River
ar Port Huron the past winter have been
melted and the water bottled and sealed
and sent to Ann Arbor for analysis. The
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Black River ice is wholesome or not.
The lumber camps in the Upper PENN
sula lumber woods are rapidly breaking
up, the camp work being about finished,
and the men are taking rest before the
driving season begins. The wages paid
to the lumbermen this season have ranged
from $50 to SD per month. Last season
the rate was SIG.
The Hall and Buell. Company, who have
been numbering very extensively in north
ern Schoolcraft County for the past ten
or twlve years, are about to close opera
tons in that section unless other pur-
chases are made. Their entire cut this
season will be driven down the Manis-
tique River and sawed at their mill at
Manistique.
Every town in the Upper Peninsula
and the northern part of the Lower Pc
ninsula is putting forth its claims for the
new normal school provided for in bill
which has been introduced in the Legisla-
ture. Each and every one of the towns
Is the only proper place for the location
of the school, according to the papers Of
the various places
Two farmers living near Marshall went
into a seed store and bought bag of
timothy seed. The proprietor stepped out
on a brief errand, and while he was gone
the men exchanged the timothy for bag
of cloverseed. The trick was not discoy-
cred until the men had gone home, but
when he did find il out the seed man
drove to the place where they lived and
induced them to make deal which they
had not bargained for, and which left
them somewhat poorer than they were
before.
That new little settlement in Gladwin
County, Seney, near Pinconning, prom
Uses to be one of Northern Michigan's
liveliest villages ere long A syndicate
composed principally of Michigan men,
has purchased 10000 acres of timber
there. This week the syndicate will com
mence the erection of mammoth barrel
heading factory there. and as soon ms it
is competed they will commence work
upon big mill whose only product will
be spools upon which barbed wire is
wound.
Kalkaska County has this year the
largest amount of taxes returned ever
known in her history, not more than two
thirds of the amount assessed having
been collected. Easier times are looked
for in the future, however, as the large
quantities of hardwood and hemlock logs
laid in by the several manufacturing es-
Establishments have helped farmers to tide
over the severe winter. and as many of
them have commenced to market their
surplus potatoes at 40 cents per bushel,
the financial stringency will be materially
relieved.
The first act of the present Legislature
to be passed upon by the Supreme Court
stood the Constitutional test 1t was the
sOcalled anti-fusion law. which requires
that when q candidate is nominated by
more than one party he must designate
within five days after the last nomination
is certified to the Election Commission
ers which of the tickets he wishes his
name TO be printed in on the official bal
lot. The Court declared that the law
comes within the Constitutional provision
giving the Legislature power to pass laws
for the purpose of preserving the purity
of elections. The case was brought up
by Albert Nj. Todd. of Kalamazoo. WILD
was nominated by the Free Silver. Prohi-
bition. and Populist parties. The Court
held that the law. was not retroactive,
and as Todd was nominated and all the
nominations certified to the Election
Commissioners before this act took effect
his name should be printed on the tickets
of all parties by which he was nominated.
The twenty second annual meeting of
the Michigan branch of the Woman's
Board Of Missions of the Congregational
Church was held at Grand Rapids with
a large attendance, Mrs. James Is. An
CELL, of Ann Arbor, presiding. The report
of the Secretary shows that there are
twelve associations with 104 auxiliaries,
and that seven missionaries are kept in
the foreign field by as many churches
raising the money to pay the salaries.
The report of the Treasurer showed total
receipts of the year for missionary pur-
poses. $6,1Sl. all of which had been for
President. Mrs. J. b. Angel, Ann Ar
Dor; Vice Presidents. Mrs. ]. Estabrook,
Oivet; Mrs. Wyman, Kalamazoo; Sec
rotary, Mrs. G.. G. Ellsworth, Greenville;
Treasurer, Mrs. Robert Campbell, Ann
Arbor; Secretary Junior Work. Mrs.
w. III. Davis, Detroit; Secretary Juvenile
Work. Mrs. ID. F. Bradley. Grand Rap
ids. Auditor. Robert Campbell, Ann Ar