The Yale expositor., 1899-12-01
STATE COooiP.

tent of $40, 900 on the 22d.
Van Buren's local option law is 20 be
tested in the supreme court.
Claud North, of Homer, got 90 days
at the Detroit house of correction for
stealing SIS.
The new opera house now in course
of construction at Sheridan is fast
nearing completion.
Now that Caro- has sugar factory,
she is on the hustle TO get chicory
factory to go with it.
The Methodists of Saline dedicated
their fine new edifce with appropriate
ceremonies on the Gosh.
The annual reunion of the Sd Michi-
gan infantry will be held at Grand
Rapids on December 3.
Alpena is TO have new factory
which will manufacture starch, bluing
and other grocery staples.
The magnificent Catholic church of
st. Thomas the Apostle at Ann Arbor
was dedicated on the Goth.
Worthwhile has secured linoleum
pany is capitalized at $4,000.
John Page, aged rs; of Hillsdale, was
sentenced TO six years at Ionia on the
2lst for burning barn in 1898.
The Tamaracl1 Mining company will
build a miners hospital at Calumet next
summer which will cost $25, 900.
Many farmers living in the neighbor-
hood of New Hudson, Oakland county,
are blowing for their spring crops.
A $4,000 brick mandatory. with
all the modern appliances, will be a
new industry at st. Joseph next spring.
The Michigan Salt Manufacturing
company, of Marine City, has sold and
delivered over 25,O 600 tons of salt this
month.
A white swan was shot and killed by
hunter near Cadillac recently, the
only bird of the kind ever seen in that
county.
Grand Rapids IIollandcrs have raised
$3.50 for the Boer Red Cross fund in the
Transvaal, and expect to make it 81, 900
or better.
Reuben Steinberger, of Eagle, has
caught 1,165 black bass not counting
little ones, with hook and line since
May last
A Benton Harbor man captured six
legged rabbit recently, and has just
sold it for $500 to a collector OF freaks
for dime museum.
A hoop mill at East Tawas was de-
stroyed by fire on the evening of the
21st, entailing loss of $1,000, with
only So 900 insurance.
Mt. Pleasant is to have an indepen-
dent telephone exchange, franchise
having been granted by the council to
the Union Telephone Co.
Kalamazoo's street fair was fnan-
cial success. All premiums and eX-
penses have been paid and there is
snug sum in the treasury.
The continued springlilte weather is
a fine thing for farmers to finish their
huslxing, as the crop is unusually heavy
in most sections of the state.
The interior of the large double
grocery belonging to John II. McAnley,
OF Manistec, was destroyed by fire on
the Goth, entailing loss of $4,000,
A Brighton farmer thinks the coming
winter is going TO be an open one be-
cause one of his turkeys has just
Matched out brood of ii little ones.
Free rural delivery out of st. Johns
will be put into operation on December
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and covers % miles, over 100 people
being served.
Surveyors are now at work laying
out n route for the extension of the
South Haven 81 Eastern railroad from
Lawton, the present eastern terminus,
to Schoolcraft.
Minnie Palmer, aged 10. OF Berrien
county, got Judgment of S., 900 against
| Sylvester Parks on the charge of as
sault and battery Parks is rs years
of age and is wealthy.
The farmers oranges in Clinton, Ing
ham and Eaton counties are now organ
izing a Patrons Mutual Fire Insurance
company. The officers of the organiza-
tion will be at Lansing.
The apple evaporators at Blooming
dale have closed their seasons business.
During the last three months they have
paid out over Sis, 900 to farmers for APP
pies and to their employees.
Allegan may get pickle factory be-
fore next season, which would be n
good thing for farmers of that vicinity,
furnishing them a market for all the
cucumbers they might grow.
The original shingle roof of a store
at Rochester which was built So years
ago has just been replaced with a new
one. Not many shinglc roofs made
nowadays that will last that long.
The Ithaca council has taken long
step in the right direction by buying II
2O-acre gravel pit near the city, the
gravel from which will be used in inn
proving the roads leading in from the
country.
Thomas Goedert, convicted in circuit