The Yale expositor., 1899-12-22
STATE GOSSIP.

Six inches OF snow 1ell AT Marsndll
on the 18th.
A mince meat factory to cost $4,000 |
is being projected at Saginaw.
Harness thieves arc operating in
Wayne county near Worthwhile.
The postoffice at Upton, Clare county,
has been discontinued. Mail TO Leota.
Fine cement mari beds have been
discovered three miles north of School
craft.
A factory is TO be established at
South Frankfort for the manufacture
of hardwood flooring and wooden spec
ialties.
Marshall claims to have the only wo-
man embalmer and undertaken in the
state o"tside of Detroit and Grand
Rapids.
Cadillac wants an opera house, and n
project is now afoot to organize stock
company of local business men and cit
liens and build one.
The schools of Millington are closed
on account of diphtheria. Four cases
have already developed but as yet no
deaths have ensued.
The schools and churches at Garland,
Shiawassee county, have been closed
for two weeks on account of an cpl
demic of diphtheria in the village.
The Gladwin County Farmers insti-
tute has been awarded the prize by the
state institute officers for second best
attendance at the last county institute.
Emma Smith, aged %, of Detroit,
was found on the street at an early
hour on the 18th in semi-unconscious
condition. Physicians believe she was
| poisoned.
Work of surveying the line of the
| Northea stern r. r. from Lawton to
! Schoolcraft has been comm enced. 1t
by next spring.
Gratiot county farmers who raised
sugar beets the past season are well
| satisfied with the returns, and the acre
age next year will be a great deal
larger than last.
Ludington has had a long and tedious
fight for municipal ownership of the
water works plant, and, the deal was
finally closed by the council on the 18th.
The price paid was $4,000.
A party of capitalists from Saginaw
with local men have formed a company
to drill test holes for coal five miles
northeast of Millington. They believe
they will find threefoot vein.
Alex. Simpson, of Wyandotte, is not
what would be called handsome man
but he has two wives according to the
verdict of the jury. He is now await
ing his sentence on the charge of big
amy.
Internal Revenue Collector Charles
Wright and several other government
officials made most important seizure
of oleomargarine at the Union depot
Detroit, few days ago. The good
were consigned to parties in Liverpool
Eng, from Chicago.
The Wabash railway has won out il
the suit recently commenced against i
; by State Railroad Commissioner Os
! born in his endeavor TO have the com
pany reduce its fares in Michigan t.
: two and half cents mile because it
last annual report showed that it wa
earning over $4,000 per mile for 1t
mileage in this state.
= The village of Coloma, eight mile
from Benton l1arbor, has several case
of smallpox, and the stores are close
to prevent the spread of the disease
s In Sodus township, southwest of Der
= ton Harbor, one school has been close
a for seven weeks on account of scarle
+ fever. The quarantine was lifted froI
O all the afflicted homes in Benton Hai
= Dor on the 18th.
/ The following appointments of pos
d masters in Michigan have been COZ
v frmed by the senate: c. ii. Bair'
Holly; h. +. Browne, IIarbor Beacl
w. c. Brown, Brighton; G.. Burlkhar
f Saline; c. A. Cline, West Branch; II.
n Colman, Kalamazoo; T.. f.. Evart
Chesaning; w. McGillivray, Oscod
4, G. Quick, Lowell; G.. Van Schelvel
l. Holland; l.. A. Sherman, Port Huro
C G.. Viewer, Marlette; w. T.. Holt, Bell
vue; Corydon Beach, Galesburg; A.
E. Dougherty, Elk Rapids.
IF A steel rolling mill is TO be erect'
N at Kalamazoo by the Harrow SpriI
company.