The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-31
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I N'Nh iASb SiLtSA eh IWO AilO1lblio NebShNACA spent in Michigan. On Sunday morn- ing MT, Mitchell preached in his pulpit at the Grand avenue Congregational church and spoke words of greeting to his congregation previous to the ser mon. Next Sunday afternoon the com- munion service will be held at this church, taking place at 4 o'clock, and a week from Sunday the evening preach ing services will be resumed.
 MT. and Mrs, Mitchell have visited the mother of the latter at Cadillac. During the Sundays in July MT. Mitch ell preached at the Congregational church in Muskegon, and the pastor of that church, Rev. Archibald Haddon, supplied the pulpit of the Fair Haven church; and in August MT. Mitchell supplied the Congregational church in Lansing, while the pastor, the Rev. MI, Swift, preached in the Grand avenue church. At all of these services MT. Mitchell was listened to by large con- gregations. In fact, in the larger towns in Michigan the church services are at tended by larger congregations than in the east, so MT Mitchell states. In supplying these churches during his va cation MT. Mitchell was obliged to take railroad journeys of three hundred miles each week, and although consid- erably wearied from so much travel, he has returned home in excellent health. MT. Mitchell speaks very highly of the city of Lansing and it's fine people. Lansing is as fine city as any city in the land" said he yesterday in re- lating some incidents of his trip. "The capitol building is more appropriate for it's use than the capitol at Washington. Lansing is a magnificent city, with fine public buildings and residences and most agreeable society. It is a great literary center, and the people take pride in that fact. The town has about 10000 inhabitants. The Congregational church in which I preached is a hand some church with a seating capacity of 200"
 Mr. Mitchell was asked if the busi- ness boom had reached Michigan, and 1 in reply he said:
 "The people are feeling encouraged | I was never more surprised in the world l that at Wossa, where 1 saw the farm CTS getting 95 cents per bushel for their | wheat. I had read about the boom in ! the price of wheat, and here was an actual demonstration of the fact, and l there was no mistaking it. The wheat was coming forward in great wagon loads, and the farmers were receiving 95 cents for every bushel sold. There was no kicking about the price, and there was cash ready for every bushel marketed. In some of the counties the farmers had held over at least half the crop of last year.
 Potatoes are one of the important staple crops of Michigan, and this year the farmers are getting satisfactory prices Last year the price was very low on account of the competition with Canadian potatoes, and they would not bring ten cents per bushel One farm CT was offered only six cents per hushel for his crop, and after hauling them twelve miles sold out at seven cents. This year, aided by the tariff, the farm CTS are getting from twenty-five to thir-
 ty cents per bushel for their crop of po-
 tatoes.
 The lumber mills are busy and are
 hurrying up their production. There
 are large stocks of lumber piled up in
 Cadillac. This is especially true of the
 larger mills, the proprietors of which
 are rich, and during the past few
 months, when there was poor demand
 for lumber owing to the Canadian com
 petition, the owners, instead of shuttinf
 down the mills, kept them at work anC
 piled up a big supply of manufactured
 lumber against the day when the de
 mand would improve. By reason O
 the tariff there is now better demand
 and the mill owners are beginning t increase their shipments. The yard
 were never so full of lumber as at tn
 opening of the present season. Tn
 famous white pine is nearly exhausted
 but there are still large quantities o
 hard woods, and it is being manutact
 ured into lumber.
 Governor Pingree was up there dur ing my visit The people don't take S much stock in him as they did, Tn
 wing to which ex-Lieutenant Governo Giddings belongs is opposed to his pol l icy In fact, the republicans did no , believe that he would be elected. . heard a man in speaking of the gover nor, remark: The people do not pre-
 tend to know what the governor is u 5 to. but he is certainly one of the bes 7 politicians to stir up the animals tha I ever saw"
 The police telephone box at the COT !. ner of Grand avenue and Ferry stree , has probably been knocked over by tn collision of teams more times than an n other signal box in the city, and it f sides are well battered with blows $ There is very little space between tn t car tracks and the curb on that par h of Ferry street, and in consequence tn
 telephone box is victim of har , knocks. An electrician has just pu the connecting electric wires in orde safter the last knockout.
 Thomas G. Hinckley and wife return ed to Springfield yesterday having wis ited their daughter, Mrs. Fred Willi
 of Exchange street MT. Hinckley re sided here until few years ago. H is one of the oldest and most exper enced engineers on the Consolidate road, and his son-in-law, MT. Willis, also a locomotive engineer for the Cor
 solidated.
 MT. and Mrs. Henry Barnes of No. Houston street have returned from
 visit with relatives at Port Jefferson II.ong Island. Their niece, Miss Luc
 Oyiatt. returned with them for a Shol