The Yale expositor., 1899-05-26


old last week, the first settlers having
landed there on May Is, 1s49. The an
niversary was not celebrated in pub
| lie manner.
Jacob Dressender, prominent
farmer in the northern part of Kent
county, was thrown from his wagon in
Grand Rapids the other day and re-
ceived injuries from which he died
soon after he was taken to the hospital
After several months of bitter feel
ing between the electric light com
pany and the village of Caseville, the
company has finally accepted the viii
lagos offer of $3.50 per year, and the
street lights have been turned on
again.
Philip Humphrey, n farmer living
three miles from Coloma, lost his false
teeth and concluded he had swallowed
| them. He was in a dying condition
when his teeth were found under the
mattress of his bed, and he Immediately
| recovered.
over religion. He believes that he is
going to Jesus shortly and that he
must take his family with him. Means
have been taken by which he will go
| alone if he must.
Everett ID. Beeson, of Manistique,
! has closed deal with the D., NJ. & NJ.
Land Co., for $500 acres Of pine lands
| The tract is located on the Manistique
& Northwestern railway, some Is miles
north of that city.
Oceana county farmers who have any
| potatoes still on hand are unable to
| get enough for them to pay for cart
ing them to market, and they will
either have to feed them to stock or
let them become dead loss
VIM. Hilzinger, of Royal Oak, struck
gas at the depth of 125 feet. The
flame rises TO a height of four feet. He
believes it exists in paying quantities
and will bore further. 1t is close to
the village electric light plant.
A big tin plate mill will be added to
the rolling mills at Muslegon. The
| product is expected to reach 100 tons
of steel billets per day, which will be
used in the roller mills. The entire
plant will employ from 400 to 600 men.
A heavy frost did much damage to
the gardens and vineyards in the vicin-
ity of Coloma on the evening of the
2lst Added to the destruction of
large acreage of orchards by the eX-
treme cold of last winter the present
outlook for fruit is gloomy.
Considerable excitement prevails at
Gagetown over the rich find of zinc
and mari on the farm of Cyrus Trum-
bic, an eccentric old gentleman who
lives near that place. Leases are al
ready being made on t to parties inter
ested in the mining project.
Grading has been started at Royal
Oak for the new electric railroad,
which is to run north from there to
Rochester. and perhaps to Orion and
Oxford In about month the work
of laying the rails will begin, and it is
expected to have the cars running by
October 1.
A boom is apparently on at the Paw
Paw lake summer resort in Van Buren,
county. Over 500 carpenters have been
at work there the past week and rs
new cottages are being built. The
Paw Paw Lake railway has extended
its lines and will eventually circle the
entire lake.
The Maccabees of Tekonsha have a
happy faculty of demonstrating their
| devotion to fraternalism. A few days
since nearly score of the members of
the local tent took teams and invaded
sick brothers field plowed the land
and fitted it for corn and potato crop,
and planted the same.
Peppermint growers in Berrien
county have been investigating their
| crops and find that il has been nearly
two-thirds destroyed by the cold snap.
Many fields have been totally de-
stroyed. These and some wheat fields
which did not average one-fourth of a
crop are being plowed up.
Calhoun county is without fish
warden and sportsmen are openly vio-
lating the law, destroying fish out of
pure wantonness. Some of the lakes
are being cleared of fish, so that fish
ing with hook and line is becoming a
| lOSb arr. TIC ICluScu,
heretofore, to make sufficient appro-
priations to induce anyone to accept
the Office of wardeR.
The township of Eckford, Calhoun
county, is the champion church town
ship of Michigan. 1t has five church
buildings, all country churches. A
larger per cent of children are MEM
bers of Sunday schools than are found
in any other township in southern
Michigan. The township also enjoys
the distinction of raising the most live
stock of any township of the 20 in Cal
houn county.
The residents OF Mead's Mills, near
Worthwhile, gave Thomas Evans bad
scare the other day Evans was re-
Gently acquitted on charge of misus-
ing his two step-daughters. His neigh
bors were not satisfied with his acquit-
tai and they made a bluff at lynchiug
him. They tied rope around Evans