The true northerner., 1898-11-02

Hits of Information Gathered from
Many Localities I'm This
state.

Raised bank bills are in circulation
at Saginaw.
The Union Veterans union will meet
at Detroit next year.
Free mail delivery is to be inaugural
ed at Marshall on February next.
The University of Michigan must pay
an inheritance tax upon the Bates be-
quest of 100000.
The annual fall meeting of the Mich
igan Political Science association will
be held at Albion November 1919.
Four recent graduates of the Uni
versity of Michigan have gone to At
Iica, Turkey and Arabia as mission
aries.
Deer are very plentiful in the north
woods and some are being killed by
hunters, although the season does not
open until November s.
The soldiers home at Grand Rapids
is already filled to overhowing this
fall, and an addition to the buildings
will soon be a necessity.
Some Saginaw capitalists are inves-
tigating the project of an electric road
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ming on the east side Of the river.
Coal has been discovered in Allie
gan county, a farmer near Douglas
striking a three-foot vein in drilling a
we'll The coal is of the soft variety.
Otto Heuther, for 12 years a cooper
! employed by the Muskegon Brewing
company, dropped dead at Muskegon
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The Centennial Mining company of
! Calumet has purchased 270 acres of
! land fronting on Torch lake. 1t con-
tains the best milling site near the
copper mines.
Sheep-killing dogs are doing much
damage in Grand Blanc township,
Genesee county. They killed a valua-
BILE Shropshire ram and four thorough
bred Shropshire ewes for George Stu
art.
Eastern capital to the amount of
$3.50, 900 has been secured TO join $780,
900 to be advanced by West Bay City
people for the purpose of building a
beet sugar factory on that side of the
river.
The members of company L, Thirty
third Michigan, the Sons of Veterans
company, who are TO be mustered out
at Port Huron, will have to pay their
own railroad fare. Some of the men
will have TO travel $50 miles.
St. Joseph people will have to con-
tinue to go to the post office for their
mail until February 1 next, after which
it will be brought to their doors by
carriers under the free delivery sys-
tenn, which goes into effect on that
date.
Joseph Dabbelon, an insane convict,
sent from Detroit TO Jackson for ten
years, and transferred to the Ionia
asylum two years ago, climbed into
the attic through back door and es-
capped down the fire escape. There is
So reward.
The new canning factory which was
put in operation at Lake Odessa this
fall by Chicago capitalists has proven
a boon to farmers, as well as the Ia
boring people of the village. At pres
ent 100 hands are employed and more
are asked for.
A company, headed by II. II. Wagar.
of Ionia, and made up of the business
men of Lake Odessa, has commenced
the erection Of mammoth cold stor-
age building at the latter point. The
ice for the storage will be manufac-
tured in the building.
Receiver Clarence Tinker, of the de-
funct state bank at Fenton, has asked
of the court that committee of the
banks creditors be appointed to as
certain the value of the property held
by him as receiver, and that an order
be issued 10 sell the real estate.
a Pennsylvania syndicate has con.
tracted with a local company, holders
of coal leases on 10000 acres of land
in Tuscoa county. by which it will
begin testing operations at once with
view OF putting down shafts at diff
ferent points for the purpose of min
ing coal. Ten holes have been sunk
in several places and a satisfactory