The Yale expositor., 1899-10-13

A movement is on foot at Howell to
organize stock company and operate
a foundry and machine shop in the old
foundry building which has long been
lying idle.
Miss Lottie Greeman, OF Ann Arbor,
while riding on the merry-go-round at
the fair grounds on the 4th, suddenly
tainted, and a few minutes later died
Of heart disease.
Shepherd recently defeated a propo-
sition for water works system, and
now nearly half the business portion
of the town lies in ashes. The total
loss is estimated at 100000.
John Hayden, farmer living near
Benzonia has the record for the largest
yield per acre of oats ever raised in
Benzie county, he having threshed
32755 bushels from five acres.
Marcellus has good roads organi-
cation, composed of the local business
men, who will spend several hundred
dollars improving the highways over
which trade comes into the village.
John Evans, of Cass City, accommo-
dated a stranger with change for SIS
bill at the tunnel station, Port Huron,
and soon realized that he had been
touched for his roll, containing $50.
Judge Yaple, of Coldwater, does not
believe in divorces and has announced
that all such suits will be postponed
until after jury trials are settled. Di-
vorce cases will not be sandwiched in.
The potato season is unusually late
in the Grand Traverse region this year,
and the new potato starch factory at
Traverse City is unable to start opera
tions because not enough tubers have
been brought in.
The streets of Morrice will be lighted
by arc electric lights at $50 per light
if the council will grant a franchise
allowing the proprietor of the local
mill to put in a plant for commercial
lighting as well.
Mrs. j. w. Conkey prominent lady
of Benton Harbor, committed suicide
on the morning of the 9Th by hanging
herself from a rafter in a barn. Her
husband is accounted the richest man
in that place. She was demeuted.
An unknown man was killed by an
f. & p. NJ. north bound passenger train
near Grand Blanc on the 3D. 1t is sup
posed he was a tramp stealing ride.
The body was cut in two. He was a
middle.aged man, of medium hight and
clean shaven.
The State Association of Farmers
clubs has decided TO discuss trusts and
the work of the state tax commission
at it's meeting in Decem Der. ExGov.
Luce will be invited TO lead the dis
cussion of the former, and Milo ID.
Campbell the latter.
The people of Millington ought to
keep their present village treasurer
just as long as they can. He has col
lected every cent of tax on every de-
scription on the village taxroll this
year, something that has never hap
pened before in Tuscola county.
A Battle Creek man got into an argu-
ment with his wife which reached the
boiling point when he threw a tea
kettle at her. The tea kittle failed to
hit her, but it caused the neighbors to
call in the police and the man is now
spending 10 days in the calaboose.
survey is being made for rail
road projected from South Bend, Ind,
to ST. Joseph and other points on the
Lake Michigan shore. 1t is said that the
road, if built, will become part of
the Illinois, Indiana g. Iowa system,
which is seeking lake connections.
ell
on the rollers at the Three Rivers pa
per mill when his hand was caught
between the rollers. He was slowly
drawn in and was facing a horrible
death when the machinery was stop
ped His arm was crushed to the
shoulder.
The coming winter is going to be
one Of the busiest in numbering in
Pressure Isle county for many years.
Every company operating up there is
preparing TO rush things clear to the
limit, the present high prices for all
kinds of lumber being the cause of the
big boom.
Sugar beets raised on the river bot
tom lands at the state house of correc-
ton at Ionia shows only IL lilo per
cent sugar This is below the average,
indicating that the rich bottom lands
are not adapted to the development of
sugar in the beet, although the yield
of beets was very large.
Farmers of Benzie county think that
beet sugar raising is not in it with
cabbage. One farmer has refused So
900 for his field of 20 acres. and buyers
can secure but few contracts at $40 per
ton, as the raisers are holding of till
time to harvest the crop next month,
when it is expected prices will be still
higher.
The chairman of the committee on
ordinances of the Traverse City council
forgot all about the ordinance which
prohibits the riding of bicycles on GER
tain streets of that city, and was noti-
fed by a constable who saw him in the
act of violating the law to appear in
court next morning, which he did, and