The Yale expositor., 1899-09-22


court.
The Maccabees of Kalamazoo dedi-
Gated their new temple on the 14th.
The hall is to be occupied jointly by
three tents, two hives and the uni
form rank.
Several clerks of the tax commits
sion are out on an inspection tour.
Saginaw, Macomb and ST. Clair coun-
ties will be among the first to be in
vestigated.
Ground has been broken for the Ann
Arbor railways grain elevator at
Frankfort. The building will be nine
stories high and have capacity OF
$50, 900 bushels.
A simple and practical sugar beet
puller, pronounced by experts who
have seen it operated, to be the best of
its kind, has been invented by James
King, of Three Rivers.
Marquette is trying to suppress gam
bling by soaking convicted sports with
heavy fines. John Fletcher was given
a 500 dose and is in Jail waiting for
his friends to come to his rescue.
A heavy frost visited Ashley on the
night of the 14th, killing corn which
had not been cut and destroying all
kinds of vines. Ice as thick as pane
of glass formed on water in pals and
tubs.
A pet deer strayed from the Enclosure
of Mayor j. c. Davis at Lansing nearly
two months ago and was given up for
lost Recently the animal came back
minus one of its horns and was gladly
taken in.
Supt. Montgomery OF the State Pub
lie school at Coldwater, announces that
ne has number of unusually bright,
attractive boys, ranging from 1 to 10
years of age, for whom he is DESTROYS
of finding good homes.
Genesee farmers are beginning to
wonder if they will have to anchor
down their barns; the other night
some one carried off a pillow which a
Long Lake farmer had left standing
in the field at the close of his days
work.
Surely the morals of the people of
Michigan are improving, or else the
law is not getting after offenders as
lively as usual From August IS. to
September :, not n single prisoner
was received at the state prison at
Jackson.
Schlee Brothers. of North Lansing.
on the 18th shipped eight carloads of
wool, aggregating $4,000 pounds, to
Boston. The firm to which the con-
signment was sent have purchased a
total of 1,09s, 900 pounds of wool in
Michigan this year.
County register of deeds are kicking
on the action of the state tax commits
sioners in asking them to furnish a
large amount of information from the
books of. their offices relative to the
{ mortgages of the state They think
| they should receive extra pay for the
; work.
1t is announced that Albion college
: will receive a gift of $40, 900 from Thos
T W. Palmer, OF Detroit. The sum is
: given in memory Of Mr.. Palmer:
1 mother and is to constitute the Mary
Palmer fund, the income of which
will be devoted to the physical educa
ton of young women.
, Durand's second attempt to find wa
r ter for it's new system has failed, al
: no water was discovered at depth o
: 200 feet. After one more trial is made
' in "likely" spot, the council will
probably decide to pipe the water from
S the fine flowing wells west of town t.
u central pumping station.
The common council of Reading h..
called a special election to be held OF
Septemb Der 26. ut which time propo
" sition for bonding the village for $50,
900 to construct water works plan
10 will be submitted to the people. TIL
- recent heavy loss by fire insures tn
success of the proposition.
Mrs. Ward Perkins, Of Lapeer, wa
granted decree of divorce on the 12tf
D" She claims that she was married i
January OF this year and parted fror
lie her husband in March. This is tn
second time Perkins has been divorced
lie and the court will sign bill proven
h. ing him from marrying again for tw
ne years
r. Laura, the 3.year-oid daughter. {
st Mr.. aid Mrs John Peterson, of Sout
is Haven, was feeding the chickens fe
days ago when a grain of corn, whic
g. she was Smelling, flew into her mout
-. and throat. Physicians were unab
to remove it, and on the 13th ST
choked TO death, the grain swelling
-, the throat.
~ An apple expert of Albion, aft
Is" looking over the ground the past fe
m days, says the winter apples are ripe
en- ing earlier this season than ever b
es' fore within his recollection. He al
os- says the crop will be good one, nc
i'll withstanding the large quantities
6. of the fruit which have fallen from Il
a trees before maturing.
100 A. +. Smith, former business m:
ne of Detroit, has gone into the indust
Of raising guinea pigs east of Ann A
ter Dor for scientists to experiment O
* He now has 400 of these animals, al
he says that raising them is far me
tho,, fr,,ff 1rrouine