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treme heavy ice may make trouble for
the dam owners If one gives way the
others below it will doubtless follow.
The old moss covered Exchange hotel
at Otsego, one of the landmarks of the
town, has been closed, and will be torn
down TO make room for modern
brick building. The old hotel was
built in 1888.
That the existence of saloons is not
responsible for divorce is evident from
the fact in Van Buren, county, where
there are no saloons, there are Z, di-
vorce suits on this months docket of the
circuit court.
Gogebic county has entered into IA
contract with the sheriff to board all
county prisoners for one year for S3,-
500. They expect that under this deal
there will not be SO many county
charges as formerly.
A common article on the bill of fare
in many Michigan homes from now on
for several months, as result of the
recent extreme cold, will be, ''pommes
be terre la glace," or in plain Eng
lish, frozen potatoes.
Shiawassee county farmers are profit
ing by war between the wheat buy
ers at Owosso and Corunna. Each is
trying to outbid the other, and tho
farmers reap the benefit of the success
sive raises in the price.
Hereafter the farmers of Benzie Co.
will have local market for their
wheat, as a big flour mill is to be
erected at Frankfort the coming sum-
mer, work beginning as soon as the
frost is out of the ground.
The latest electric railway project in
southwestern Michigan is a line from
Allegan to South Haven to connect
there with another running through to
Chicago. The fare from Allegan to
Chicago to be not more than 81.
The probate court of Ionia had a
queer case of insanity before it last
week. The victim was a young man
who refused to speak a word in the
morning, although he was talkative
enough for anyone in the afternoons.
Two brothers met by chance on the
street at Cheboygan one day last week,
and recognized each other instantly
although they had not seen each other
since they were boys years ago, and
neither of them had the slightest idea
where the other lived.
The West Bay City Sugar company
has notified Land Commissioner French
that it would manufacture beet sugar
in Michigan this year, and would eX-
pect TO claim the bounty offered by the
state The factory will have capac-
ity of 40, 600 tons of beets.
W. E. Eberlein. aged "a, of Mill
Creek, was accidentally killed by his
son. They were killing chickens and
the young man was carrying a rifle
across his arm when it was discharged.
the bali striking the father in the
heart, killing him instantly.
Ice cutters at work at Owosso the
other day found a small mud turtle
frozen in the middle of cake of ice
1t is thought that the turtle, in swim
ing to the surface for AIR, swan into
some slush ice and was caught in Jack
Frost's icy grasp before it could escape.
About 5000 tons of bcets, netting
tn, faraners sl3O, 900 have been used,
sfnd $500, 900 pou6sds as . ~e,a . huye been
produced by the Michigan Sugar Co.,
of Bay City. 1t is expected that next
year $500, 600 will be distributed to the
farmers and 10000, 900 pounds of sugar
produced.
Every day brings fresh supply of
fire casualties from all parts of the
state. In almost every instance the
fire originated from defective chin
ney or an over-heated stove. For the
last cause there is an excuse when the
bottom is about to drop out of the
thermometer
Prof. c. ID. Smith, of the agricultural
college, places the average cost of
sugar beet raising at So. O6 per acre,
divided as follows: preparing ground.
s.. so; seed, S15O; sowing, so cents;
thinning and wedding, S. harvesting,
IS. The average yield is about IA tons
per acre, making a net profit of S22 to
S35 per acre.
The opening of new and re-opening
of old copper mines in Ontonagon Co.
seems to be putting new life into the
half-dead towns of that section and
business is beginning to look up again,
after several years of exceeding dull
ness. The latest evidence of this is the
establishment of a national bank at On
tonagon, which event will occur soon.
Mrs. Margaret Wescott, of Port Bur-
well, Ont. was afraid to go through
the Port Huron tunnel for fear of be-
ing smothered and remained at Sarnia
over night. She went to bed at hotel
and blew the gas out and was asphyx-
lated. The old lady was on her way
to visit daughter at Manistee, and
had she continued the journey she
probably would not have been smoth-
cred.
A young woman named Miss Edith
Smith, aged %, strolled into the police
station at Bay City early the other
morning with bundle in her arms
which contained newly-born babe.
She claimed she found it in an alley back
of her home, but upon being ques-
toned she admitted that she was the
mother and that it was born in wood
shed at . o'clock in the morning. The
infants feet were frozen, but both