Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-02-26
State News.

COulu 11uNtll llft ltuNtluS 'p'lh
has been closed for lack Of tinancial
support.
Herbert G.. Todd, of Michigan, has
been appointed printer at $50 per
annun. in the weather bureau service.
Decatur claims 10 ship more grain
than any other town in southwestern
Michigan, and offers 10 prove 1t by
the railway figures.
William Buck was convicted al Pc.
toSkey Monday of the murder Of an
Indian at lIarbor Springs, but he has
been granted a new trial.
The public schools in Vandalla are
closed ON account of diptheria in the
village. over Il dozen cases are re-
ported, but rs yet there have been no
deaths.
Holland is now entitled to the bene-
fits Of free mail delivery, the receipts
of the office the past year having been
over $40 600, the amount necessary to
secure the privilege.
A creamery will be established at
Mancelona by an Indiana man If the
farmers in the vicinity Will take
enough interest in tito furnish the H.
stitution with the necessary raw ma
terial.
Benton llarbor druggists agreed to
close their stores at 5 o'clock in the
evening, but the movement h u ended
in the usual way. One of them soon
violated the agreement, and now the
rest have all followed suit.
Hartford citizens are talking over
the project of securing the removal of
fruit package manu- factory from
Pine Grove to their town by taking
sufficient stock i'm the institution to
so increase its capacity as to employ
l2j hands.
A business mems association was re-
Gently organized al NermOntvillc,
and the first substantial result of ii,
good work IS the location OF grisI
mill in the village. The papers have
all been signed, and worked on the
new industry will begin soon.
MuskcgOn people who ride III the
street ears of that city will no Longer
be bothered by tobacco smoke, and
what is worse. the cXpectoratiOn o
tobacco chewers. The company has
issued an order prohibiting tobaccoa'
chcwers, also the use of tobacco OF
| cigarettes on their cars.
Fishing through the ice on the in
| land lakes Of southwestern Michigan
| ha, become this season more of an in
| dustry than sport. I'm many locali'
! ties fair DAYS wages are made of .un
employed labOrcrS, who market theil
catch in the neighboring villages.
Reports to the state board of health
| show that the diseases which cauScC
| the most sickness in Michigan las
week were influenza, rheumatism
/ bronchitis, tonsilitis and neuralgia
Diphtheria is reported at thirty hre'
places. scarlet fever at twenty-tiv,
and typhoid fever at nineteen.
An effort is being made at Soutl
! Haven to organize a stock company
with $4,000 capital TO place pass
enger and fruit boat between tina
port and Chicago the coming season
| II will mean much TO the fruit grow
erS of the vicinity IN the way of Civ
inc them a quick route 10 market fo
their fruit.
The present mayor of Dowagiac has
announced that he Will not be a cand-
idatc for reelection this spring, as h,
does not feel that he should keep thi
rcnumcrative Office more than ON
term when there are so many men on
of work. Therefore. he will Civ,
someone else a chance TO live on tn,
salary of the Office, which is S24 pc
annun.
The Van Duran county building
at Paw Paw are i'm pretty bad condI.
ton. but Paw Paw dare not ask fol
new ones. rs such an action would b.
a signal for the opening Of county
seat war. Lawtou. South Haven anC
Lawrence all want the county seat
and make substantial offers for It's re
moval, but the real iight will opcl
only when demand is made for ncy
county buildings.
a number of poor farmers in An
trim county were recently arrested oi
complaint Of some Bellairc citizens
who charged them with violation o
the fish laws. There is much indig
nation over the affair in the county
n the farmers are i'm poor circum
stances, and the fish they Spcarcd wcr
for the use of their families for food
while the compliments are men VIII
are better of and who want all TN
fishing saved for the summer. whc
they can 90 out and Kill them TO
sport" "A purse i being made u
for the defense of the men who wcr
arrested.