The Yale expositor., 1899-11-17
STATE GOSSIP.

ported AT Bay city.
Seventy deer licenses have been is
sued in Bay county.
2Ground has been broken for fine
new schoolhouse at Omer.
Lapeers county clerk has issued over
100 deer licenses this season.
Bay county has impaneled a grand
jury to report for duty at Bay City on
Nov. 10.
Turner has been connected with
Maple Ridge and Prescott by private
telephone line.
st. Joseph is still marriage resort.
30 couples from Chicago being married
there on the 9th.
Forty-six deer licenses have thus far
been issued in Washtenaw county and
So in Livingston.
The Horticultural society of this
state will hold its annual meeting in
Holland, Dec. 5, and :.
1t is now expected that the Rapid
railway will have cars running to st.
Clair by the first of next year.
LAUNDERING operations in Gladwin
county are on "a more extensive scale
this year than for many seasons past.
Flint poultry fanciers have organ
lied an association for the purpose of
giving poultry show the coming win
ter.
Petitions are now being circulated in
Tuscola county for the purpose of hav-
ing an election on the question of local
option.
August Lessien, wealthy insane
farmer of Grand Haven, was found
dead in his cell on the morning of the
18th inst.
Thieves looted a clothing store at
Edmore ON the night of the 9th and
stole several hundred dollars worth of
clothing.
The schools at West Branch are
closed on account of scarlet fever in
the village, and public gatherings have
been forbidden.
The complexion of the common coun-
ell at Port Huron was not changed by
the recent election. 1t still has Re
publican majority.
The new Methodist church at Saline
will be dedicated on the 10Th. The
building has cost IS 900, but it will be
dedicated free of debt.
Experts blew open a safe in the dry
goods store of c. II. Fairchild Il Co.. at
Menominee, on the night of 18th and
secured between 500 and $500.
In Pokagon township, Cass county,
the Hessian fly has damaged wheat so
badly that farmers have plowed up the
fields and sOwed them over again.
The largest bath house in the world
is to be built at Mt. Clemens next
spring Detroit, Chicago and New
York capital will back the enterprise.
The Howard City Electric Light Co.
has decided to rebuild their plant,
which was burned some time ago, and
expect to have it running in about 80
days.
The farmers in the vicinity of Mason
are very much interested in the build
ing of the new Presbyterian church
there, and have pledged 2GO loads of
stone.
Howard Reynolds aged about 35, and
employed at the Bay City Sugar fac
tory. fell into one of the ccntrifugals
on the 9th and was literally ground to
pieces.
Traverse City is to have new fac
tory the first of the year for the manu-
facture of hardwood novelty articles.
etc, that will employ between 40 and
80 hands.
John Bishop, of Plainwell. cut his
throat while walking along the street
with friend in IIicksville, O. Despon-
dency was the cause, though he was
well off financially.
Poor speciments of counterfeit half
and quarter dollars have been circu-
lated not only in st. Joseph but in all
smaller towns throughout the county
during the past week.
Along the highways and bypaths all
around Alpena are posted the follow
ing notices this year: when you
shoot at deer, be sure it is deer and
be sure that you are sure.
Experts believe there is oil in st.
Clair county and have leased several
II
/ thousand acres of land in the townships
of st. Clair. Cottrellville and China, and
will soon put down test wells.
The machinery of the Holland sugar
beet factory was given thorough
trial on the sth and everything worked
perfectly. The factory will commence
making sugar in the near future.
Negotiations are now in progress
! looking toward the establishment in
Cadillac of a logging tool factory, and
! if the citizens will raise $1,000 can
ming factory will also locate there.
Hancock people are congratulating
themselves on the fact that at the rate
the business of their local postoffice is
increasing, by next spring they will be
entitled TO free mail delivery service.
There was defect in the special
election held at Portland a short time
ago on the proposition to bond for $50,
/ mn 70 ,,,,rohoeo tho vvotar works rlnnt