The true northerner., 1899-11-01

Brief Mention of Interesting Occur
rences at Various Points
I'm Michigan.

The Grand trunk VIII erect a new sta'
tion in Lansing next spring.
The Saginaw and Manistee Lumber
company, capital $550,Oo0, has been or.
ganized.
Manufacturers of desks and tables al
Grand Rapids have decided TO advance
prices about ten per cent.
Ii is claimed that more mail is
handled at Marshall post Office than al
any Office of it's size in the United States
a cider mill al Holly is grinding TO-.
900 bushels of apples per day and can.
not keep up with the receipts of the
fruit
last Jordan's new water works sys.
tenn is nearly completed, and il is ex'
pected il will be put into operation
about December /.
The advance in the price of lumber
has started the craze for timber LANDS,
for which there has been very little de-
mand for several years until recently,
Typhoid and scarlet fevers prevail at
Gay ylord, and the town is under quar-
antine. The schools and churches are
closed, and public meetings are forbid
den.
The Knights of Khorassan of Grand
Rapids held their autumnal festival
there Thursday. The parade was a fine
affair, and was participated in by
knights from Muskegon, Kalamazoo
and Traverse City.
The state board of medical examiners
has decided that physicians may depos'
it their diplomas and certificates with
any member of the board instead OF
having to go to Lansing or Detroit to
seek the secretary.
Attorney General Oren holds that
according to the Michigan standard
cannot be held or marketed in this state
at any time. AS TO such fish the season
is continuously closed"
About 7O3,O00 children of school age
will be included in the semi-annual APP
portionment of primary school interest
money to be paid November 10. The
rate will be 81 per capita, making a
total of $3.50 for the year.
The starting of work in Langell's
shipyard at st. Clair, where an unfin-
ished boat has been on the stays for
several years, is hailed with especial
pleasure. 1t means the employment
OF about 100 men all winter.
State superintendent of Public In
struction Hammond has determined to
exercise a power vested in him by the
laws of the state and cause an inspec-
tion and examination of the private
medical and business colleges of the
state.
Fred Lemke, a well-known farmer,
having lived for % years west of Trav-
erse City, committed suicide by taking
dose of strychnine. He had made
three previous efforts to take his own
life. but each attempt was frustrated
ay his family.
Mrs. Mary Featherstone quietly cele
brated her one hundred and second
birthday in Flint recently by informally
receiving n number of friends who
called on her to pay their respects. The
old lady was born in Delaware. Good
health attends her in her old age. and
she retains her mental faculties to
remarkable degree.
The analysis of sugar beets sent in
from various parts of the state shows
much less percentage of sugar than
those of 1898, averaging about 20 per
cent. less. Late reports. however, indi-
cate that there has been an increase Of
10 to Is per cent. in sugar during the
warm weather of the past two weeks.
The yield per acre is much less than in
1898.
Beaver island, the largest one of the
group which formerly made up the
county of Manitou is to be doomed
as summer resort, so Menom-
inee report says. A company has been
organized in the latter city with a cap
ital of 100000 to build big hotel and
fit up 40-acre park on the island. The
proposed resort will be located near ST.