The true northerner., 1898-11-30

Much Information of General In
terest VIII he Found I'm the
Parasfaphs Below.
Monroe is to have s5ooooo beet su-


gar plant.
The $4,000 public school building at
Sanilac Center will soon be completed
The Eaton County Poultry associa-
ton will hold it's annual bench show
at Charlotte. December TO IL.
Several schools i'm Kalamazoo county
are closed on account of "A threatened
epidemic of measles and scarlet fever.
The Randall Produce company, Te-
konsha. killed 1000 turkeys for Thanks
giving and shipped $4,000 pounds to out
side markets.
4 movement is on foot at Grand Rap
ids to secure pardon for viii McCard'
sentenced in 1895 TO Is years imprison-
ment for perjury.
Governor Pingree has appointed j. {.
Gould. agent for the state
hoard of corrections and charities for
Van Buren, county.
Undertaken Farmer. of Pontiac. who
went to Porto Rico for the bodies of sol
diers. is now sick at home with fever
! contracted on the journey.
! 4 military rendezvous will be estab-
! lshed at Detroit for mustered out Mich
igan volunteers who wish to join the
| Thirty-first or Thirty-fifth.
Durard will have new factory
where harrows will he manufactured.
1t will be i'm operation within month,
and 20 men will be employed at first.
The clerks union has called upon the
common council of West Bay City to
enforce the state law relating to the
closing Of business places on Sunday.
The affairs of the Central Michigan
savings bank, which failed in 1898, Will
soon be closed up, Judge Person having
ordered the sale of its notes and other
assets.
Dorsey Hoppe, of Chelsea, did not
know he was democratic nominee for
surveyor of Washtenaw county until he
went TO the polls, but was elected by 81
ma aiority.
Another electric railway project for
a road between Flint and Long Lake,
q distance Of Is miles, is announced at
Flint. II. NJ. Luton, of Grand Rapids, is
the promoter.
Fred c. Britten, chairmen of the pro-
hibition party of Michigan, has filed an
affidavit showing that the expenses OF
the campaign of the state central com
mittee amounted to $60629
Deputy Railroad Commissioners We'd
, emeyer has authorized the general
, statement that on January he will re
tire from politics and engage in the
practice of law at Ann Arbor.
o Harry and George Spoelstra broke in
= TO a Merchants Despatch car at Grand
E Rapids November 21. They were tried
. convicted and taken TO Ionia to serve
e. seven and five years respectively for
= their crime.
= At a gathering of old ladies in the
i home of Mrs. G. II. Randall, Tekonsha
: recently, there were II present, anc
!, their total ages amounted TO Loo
). wears. an average of 74years each. Two
J. were present who were Sc years OF age
n The BARRIERS are preparing to make
> raid on the legislature for the enact
= ment of a law providing for the appoint
a ment of examiners and that persons
a a shall have served an apprenticeship o
y two years before they can be licensed al
BARRIERS.
The twenty-eighth annual meeting
of the Michigan State Horticultural so
cetv will be held at the University o
l. Michigan. the board of regents havin:
invited the society to hold its session
in Newberry hall The dates for tn
netting are December g. Z and S.
y \ substance resembling yellow ochr
II accumulates under the salt tanks a
l. East Tawa, and has always been con
l. sidered worthless, but is now bein
n used for painting barns, houses, etc
n and, being freproof, offers eXcellen
in resistance on roofs from falling cinder'
Sc 1t also preserves the wood.
rs II. II. Kinds, of the state live stoc
u sanitary commission, says that Will
n tuberculosis exists among cattle in tn
s. state in spots, he does not believe tha
r. one per cent. of the cattle are affected
er Hog cholera, he says, prevails at nun
tie Der of places, and causes more los
C financially than all the other amin;
In diseases combined.