The Yale expositor., 1899-06-23

| the nuisance.
Branch county people are getting
| good. The June term of the circuit
court was the shortest on record, the
| jury was sent home without being used
and court adjourned to the regular
| October term.
Mrs. Warren Neal, of Traverse City,
deputy game warden, went to an in
| land lake to arrest fishermen who
were spearing fish. The men took her
row boat in tow and rowed to the OPP
posite shore and left her stranded.
Tekonsha is getting to be the largest
butter market in the state. Last week
5000 pounds was the average amount
of butter packed per day by the local
produce company. carload of butter
and eggs per day has been the average
during the week.
An Allegan farmer, who was dis
cussing the great increase in the past
| years in the number of pests with
which the granger has to contend,
concluded by saying that if things
kept getting worse he would soon have
to spray his hogs.
A Vernon farmer. wishing to secure
| the services of stone mason, some
time ago, kindly advanced the mason
$50 so that he might go to Chicago to
attend the burial of his brother. The
service must be very lengthy, as the
mason has not yet returned.
Free rural mail delivery will be es-
tablished at Hillsdalc, July |. 1t will
cover the territory surrounding the
city for about five miles in either d-
rection. A poStotfice Inspector is now
in Hillsdale arranging the details.
Two carriers will be employed.
The house of John Daugherty. a
well-known resident OF Standish, was
struck by lightning on the 18th, the
bolt tearing TO pieces the bed upon
which Mr.. and Mrs. Daugherty were
sleeping and tearing up the inside of
the house. No one was badly hurt,
Several other buildings were struck.
The Storms mill of Ludington will
! hereafter operate continuously instead
of shutting down during the winter
months. The experiment of running
/
made and great interest is taken in the
outcome. The water in the log dump
will be heated by means of steam
| pipes. II the scheme proves successful
500 men will be employed the year
around
The Wilson Dozer affair ut owosso
has been settled out of court. Mr..
] L. 4
Mrs. Dozcr will leave the city. The
charge of horse stealing has been with.
/ drawn against Frank Wilson, who
played detective, and everything is
! lovely. This is the couple that was
stopping at hotel III Detroit where
! they were located by Wilson's son,
who played the part Of detective.
Sixteen new high schools nave been
put on the diploma list of the Univers-
! ity of Michigan as the result Of the re-
cent inspections by university commit
tees. The schools are the high schools
at Alpena, buchanan, Chelsea, Dams.
| vile, Dixon. Englewood, Hinsdale,
La Sale, Riverside and Sterling. Ill
West Detroit. Ironwood and ST. Marys
school at Monroe and ST. Thomas
school at Ann Arbor, and North Des
Moines, Ia.
The daughter of a farmer near Du-
rand was married recently. and when
| she and the groom started for the
train her father tucked a pair OF old
slippers into the carriage for good
luck. A couple Of days later he paid
n quarter charges on 4 neatly wrapped
express package, and after much labor
in untying hard krots. unrolled the
slippers He is lying awake nights
thinking up 4 scheme 10 get even with
his son.in.iaw
Just because her mother scoded her
for some tr;aing d.sobed!encc. a Is.
yea"o.d girl, Of 3o;h5ury, Ocena Co.
swallowed a dose OF poison After
she had swallowed the stuff she began
Ia wish She hadn't ald was SO fearful
;ha; the doctors would not come in
! GIc 10 save her l!fe that she nearly
died OF fright. The men OF medicine
pumped her out, however, and she
Will lingcg awhile longer in this vale
OF tears and trouble.
! Mrs. Corbit OF UarriSvllle. who was
deserted BY her husband in California
last March, whsre he clipped with an.
other woman. recently received let.
ter from him, dated Racine, Wis. and
mailed At London. Canada. lie stated
that he bad got 4 divorce from wife
No. . and would like 10 have Mrs. Cor.
bit forget all past trouble and make
mp again. airs Corbit wrote him re-
ply so hot that she said she feared it
might scorch the envelope.
A very slick confidence game on a
small scale has been worked very sue
cessfully on a number OF merchants at
Vernon and the neighboring towns in
Shawassee county. The game is
played by man about GO years old.
who first secures the names OF the diff.
ferent storckeepers OF the towns he
wishes to work, and then greets them
with hearty hand shake and re.
minder that he was formerly one of