Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-01-08
State News.

ing water fowl there.
Hartford residents are holding pub
lie meetings with the object OF secur-
ing The location of large cheese
factory in that village.
Charles ID. Lester cut his throat at
Marine City because he had met with
financial reverses. lie will probably
die from his wounds.
John W. Billmore, Of Monroe, and
Andrew j. Bradford, of Muskegon,
have been admitted to practice before
the interior department at Washing
ton.
The Muskegon corps OF the Saliva
ton army has moved into new bar
racks near lot of saloons, and people
are wondering which will finally
drive the other away.
a freight train last Saturday broke
in two near Utica, and the
two parts then came together, wreck
ing several cars loaded with grain and
beans. The loss will probably be
heavy.
Eight hundred and seven marriage
licenses were issued in Cass county
last year and 100 divorces granted, Il
less ratio in the number OF divorces
TO marriages than for several years.
Lumber men in Altoona county are
much discouraged this season, as there
has been no sleighing whatever so far.
On this account but few lumber camps
have been established, as snow is need
eel TO get out the logs.
Taxpayers in Benzie county are
grumbling over the high taxes, and
not without good reason, as taxes are
higher than ever before known. They
claim that the township officers have
been too lavish in their expenditure
of money.
Onion buyers for the city markets
are purchasing large amounts of the
odorous vegetable in Southwestern
Michigan, and the growers who
showed confidence in future market
by carefully securing their crops are
now reaping financial harvest.
The Olvet grst mill has been
leased for two wears by George Horn
and Will Emerson. Mcpherson. who
owns the mill, was having hard time
To find new contract, T. TO take it w
after the expiration of Il. w. Pinch'>
lease, and the local business men were
a little uneasy, fearing it would shut
down.
1t did not pay a young fellow OF
Maple Grove to have too many girls
at one time. for while he was out rid
ing with one, his horse attempted to
stop at the house of another charmer,
and as result of the difference of
opinion between the animal and driv-
er, tie couple were dumped into the
ditch and the carriage wrecked.
The figures Of the water department
Of Muskegon show that for the year
just closed, the per capita consump-
ton of water in that city, the popu-
ation of which is 2l,009, was j5,7S7
gallons, or 1.743 barrels for each man,
woman and child of the municipality.
The total mum Der of gallons of Lake
Michigan's best pumped was ILL.,
j7S,Sj1.
For many years the weather station
at Marquette had the distinction OF
reporting the greatest snowfall in the
United States. Snow lines on old
weather maps showed Marquette as
the radiating point. Last winter the
deepest snow fell 1T Sault Ste Marie,
and the map was changed. Now the
copper country is the place OF deepest
snow, Marquette seeming to be almost
on the edge Of the belt.
The board of supervisors of Monroe
county are having as much trouble
trying to straighten out the recent
election middle as did the board OF
canvassers lately. Both the elected
and the defeated candidates are fling
bonds, the defeated candidates EVIL
IDENTIFY not wishing to waive any
rights until they hear from the
Supreme Court with some decisions
that will be of vital importance to
them.
Twenty five dollars for a fifteen
cent buggy shaft spring is the price
some farmers in Monroe county are
paying. They are put on to Il rafting
good thing in the way Of an agency
for the article and give a $50 note rs
guarantee that they will turn over
the company's share Of the funds coll
lected from sales. The supply of
goods never arrives. but the note does,
and i'm the hands of an innocent pur-
chaser must he paid.
For long time past the editors of
the Petoskcy Democrat and Record
have occupied considerable space in
their respective sheets calling each
other names. TO the dctrimcnt Of the
news features of the papers. Last
week they announced that hereafter
no more of this would be- done, until
the next campaign at least, and now
they will have to hustle around and
find news 10 fill the large space thus
made vacant each week.
Two pieces of pine timber. mcasur-
ing respectively Seventy-fvc and
eighty feet in length, passed through