Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-23
Stntc News in Brief.

Free mail delivery is a reality at Hol-
land.
The wooden mill which burned at Alma
last September will be rebuilt.
The State Telephone Co. has decided to
establish an exchange at Flint.
Portland factories and other industries
Sey out $4,000 in wages every year.
John Riegel of Detroit, who was injured
in the street railway accident at Oakland,
is dead.
Farmers in Tuscola County are COM
planning because of lack of rain. Cisterns
| and ponds are nearly dry.
Rev. f. A. Hoffman. author Of the
Gospel song hook, called BEST Hymns"
has been engaged as pastor by the Pres
| byterian Church at Benton Harbor.
Miss Beamer of Lapeer won the elocu-
| ton prize and Clement Mitchell, North
Branch, won the oratory prize in the La
peer County oratorical and Evolutionary
contest.
A large number of new farmers clubs
have been formed in various parts of the
State during this year, and many have
united with the State Association of
| Farmers Clubs.
More than eighty Indian children are
| being educated at the Catholic school at
Harbor Springs, entirely at the cost of
the church. Government support having
been withdrawn.
! The Bay City Business Mems Associa-
ton will present the claims of that city
| for the armor plate plant which the Gov
eminent proposes to establish in some
city on the chain of great lakes.
| Frock Davis Of Buchanan pleaded gull
| ~ Mt Benton Harbor to stealing two axes
valued at 80 cents and was sentenced to
jackson for two years. David Kelley,
who held up and robbed a man was given
only six months sentence.
The following is State Salt Inspector
| Caswells report for November: Manistee
| County. 109,154 barrels; Mason County.
| 5S,S49; Wayne County, 80, 400; st. Clair
| County. 64,0S3; Bay County, 1850; Sag
| NAV County, 1888, and Iosco County,
loops.
1t is said that many of the inland lakes
| of Michigan will be completely despoiled
of their large fish before spring through
| the new law which allows the spearing of
| fish through the ice ON inland lakes dur
| Ing DeCemDer, 1"huuiS, repfuaTy uuu
March.
Engineer w. NJ. Daley Of Battle Creek.
| in jumping off an engine on the Chicago
| and Grand Trunk Railroad at Elsdon.
fell under the wheels and had both feet
cut off.
| In a stabbing ARRAY at Petersburg
Isaac Beverly received two serious cuts
| in his right forearm and hand, and Chas.
Breningstall had his only hand nearly
severed at tn ewris..
A son of Daniel Callahan of Mt Nor
ris, while eating peanuts become choked
on one of them. Physicians were called,
but were unable to remove the obstruc-
ton, and the lad died.
Beginning the first OF the year, cigars
will be manufactured by prison labor at
Marquette. Contracts have been signed
by the prison board and Rollin & r. w.
swisher of Columbus, Ohio. The contract
vsvers a period of five years.
Plans IRE being perfected for the organ
.zation of a company to be composed of
twenty well-known residents of the 500
who will embark in the raising OF coffee
and the production Of rubber in Mexico.
The company proposes to operate in the
State Of Chiapas, the most southern ter
r;tory OF the republic, where II has been
offered 1000 acres of valuable, land upon
s1ch easy terms that II seems almost like
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