The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1899-07-19

Much In Information Of General Inter-
est to He Found I'm the Para
graphs below.

Blissfeld's electric light plant will
cost $4,000.
A fine gypsum mine is said to have
been struck in Arenac county, one mile
east of Turner.
Grand Rapids new city directory will
show a population of about 100000 in
the Furniture city.
The Kalamazoo & Battle Creek cleo
trio railroad is graded to within three
miles east of Augusta.
Six members of the Thirty-fifth Mich
igan volunteers reenlisted for service in
the Philippines at Grand Rapids.
The Indians in Arenac county are
profiting by the large yield of buckle
berries and wild raspberries this year.
S. A. Hubert, of Cassopolis, has
turtle farm at Saddle Lake. He ships
the turtles TO Philadelphia and is max
ing money.
The bank examiner has levied an as
sessment of 60 per cent. on the stock
holders of the failed Citizens national
bank of Niles.
Kalamazoo's chamber of commerce
has decided not TO hold street fair this
wear. Merchants and manufacturers
objected to it.
The cold weather of last winter did
not injure trees in Oceana county and
the crops of all kinds of fruit will be the
largest in the history of the county.
The McVoy Mining company has
hao,, "a Corpax wit n en mi raj
stock of $4,000. The company will
conduct explorations for copper near
Carney.
Difficulty in securing structural steel
is delaying the work on the beet sugar
factory at Holland, but nevertheless it
is expected the plant will be ready for
operations by October 1.
The catching of turtles for the east
ern markets is getting TO be quite an
industry along the Grand river. One
Dimondale man recently made single
shipment of 1000 pounds.
Kalamazoo growers and shippers of
celery say that the crop of the present
year is going to surprise everyone by
its immensely. Shipments, they say,
will far exceed those of any previous
year.
Ann Arbor will make the considera-
ton of the deed to the property which
Ann Arbor donates for site for the
new homeopathic hospital, the condi-
ton that the regents permanently
maintain a hospital thereon.
The Federal Steel company has Sc
cured control of the Dexter iron mine,
nine miles west of Ishpeming, and will
reopen il with force of 100 men as
soon as the workings can be unwatered.
The Dexter has been idle practically
for ten years.
John Mains, father of c. X. Mains, the
Battle Creek lawyer who has been en-
gagged i'm so much litigation. has placed
mortgages on his property aggregating
about $4,000. 1t is supposed that the
father has been practically ruined in
defending his son.
On June 30 the four banks at Ann
Arbor held in deposits an aggregate of
-. 81 5000. Their total resources
were $3,139,924.31. The cash in bank
was S557, Os0.22 The total loans and
discounts were S1,150, 625.40 and the
stocks, bonds and mortgages held,
S1,290, 1889. This showing is regarded
as phenomenal.
The Flint g. Pere Marquette railroad
is TO be double-tracked between Lud-
ington and Baldwin, a distance of 30
miles, in anticipation of unusually
heavy traffic over that portion of the
road next winter, after the consolida-
ton with the Chicago e. West Michigan
goes into effect. Baldwin is the iunc-
ton of the two roads.
Sparrow bounty workers have been
scattering poisoned grain about the
streets at Ann Arbor to kill the spar
rows by wholesale. Numerous other
birds, as well as squirrels, have fallen
victims to the trap set for the sparrows,
and there is trouble i'm store for the
person who has been scattering the
poison, if he can be found.
Death of Henry COrnweIl.
Ann Arbnr Tn1xy I'll,