The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-09-01
SHORT BITS OF NEWS.
Information Gathered from Many
Points I'm the state.

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new $4,000 lighting plant.
The resorts around PetosRey and
Bay View are crowded with visitors.
The Twenty-third Michigan volun
teer infantry will hold its thirty-second
annual reunion at Vassar On September
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Ten prominent citizens of Battle
| Creek have purchased the island in Gull
lake for $4,000 and will maintain it as q
private summer resort.
The Ingham county Sunday schools
held a rally at the Agricultural college,
Lansing, 5000 to 5000 scholars and
teachers participating.
The first annual reunion of the Sol
dicrs' and Sailors association of Jack
son county will be held at Springfield
on September s, 9 and 10.
j. Moore, Jackson laborer, was
found dead in his room at the Occi-
dental hotel. Heart disease was the
probable cause of death.
Grand Rapids bakers are anxious
to advance the price of bread, but are
unable to do so because two large firms
refuse TO enter a combine.
Congressman II. =. Bishop left Lud-
ington for California, where he will
inspect harbors and attend the launch
ing of the government cruiser Wheel
ing.
Experts who have examined Roscom-
mon county have no doubt as to the ex-
istence of coal oil. and well will soon
be drilled, about 1000 acres having
been leased.
Sidney Mason and James Snively, of
Roscommon, have started for the Pa
cific coast on their bicycles. They in
tend to leave there next spring for the
Klondike gold fields.
Charles j. Scholl, Grand Rapids
blacksmith, is going TO the Klondike
next spring. He expects to make a
fortune sharpening picks for miners
at one dollar per pick.
A three-year-old boy named Bentley,
Grindstone City, ate of preparation
used in the finishing of shoes while in his
fathers shoe shop, and died from the
effects of it shortly afterward.
Lansing bakers have been selling
bread at three cents per loaf, but the
recent rise in the price of flour has
caused them 10 effect a combination
and put the price to five cents.
Bay City fishermen say there are
more fish in Saginaw bay this season
than for the past ten years. The bay
fairly teens with fish of all kinds, and
the catch has been enormous.
Benny Swackhammer, aged 10 years,
while out hunting with his uncle near
Mancelona, was accidentally shot. Two
shot from his uncle's gun penetrated
his brain, causing fatal injuries.
Mrs. Ella Weaver has commenced suit
for $4,000 damages against A. b. Bauer&
Co., druggists of Lansing, for selling
liquor to her husband, Ezra Weaver,
who is in the habit of getting drunk.
The Cincinnati Northern railroad is
said to be negotiating for the purchase
of a large pleasure resort on Devils
lake. If the road acquires the prop
erty it will boom il as a summer re-
sort.
Henry Jenison, of Antioch township,
Wexford county, which many south
ern Mitchell people imagine wilder
ness of pine stumps, has raised $50
bushels of wheat off 10 acres, and other
farmers averaged from 20 to %, all fine
quality.
The $4,000 damage suit against Father
Bogac<i by Joseph Bartkowiak, who
was shot in the church riot at Bay City,
has been thrown out of court by Judge
Maxwell, on motion Of the priests at
torneys, who showed that there were
Irregularities in the declaration
Wells and numerous small lakes and
ponds in Kalllaska county, rise and fall
in periods of several years, regardless
of whether the rainfall is much or little
The period of rising water is now on
No one seems able to give any explana-
ton of the periodic fluctuations.
The people who are canvassing at
Romeo and the vicinity for subscrip-
tons for stock in the proposed electric
railroad from Romeo to Detroit. are
meeting with great success, and there
seems to be little doubt that the con-
struction of the road is a sure thing.
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