Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17
STATE GOSSIP.


Vermontyllc is again without a -four
mill.
Tekonsha has public library of
900 volumes.
Vassar is working to secure a potato
Aour mill industry.
Marshall win vote on a $4,000 bond
ing proposition for the construction of
sewers
The third case Of smallpox in two
weeks has developed near Benton
Harbor
The Michigan Democrat. >turgi,
newspaper ha, absorbed the Time, of
that place.
The Detroit Sugar Co has begun the
construction of its new factory at
Rochester
a paper devoted to the beet sugar
trade will be started ut Bay City in the
near future.
m the one township OF Lyndon in
Washtenaw county. there are by actual
count s. lakes.
Grass Lake is experiencing build
ny boom-two new business blocks
are being erected.
4 block of six store, in the bushes,
portion OF Dorr has been destroyed by
fire at a loss OF 1000.
Grand Haven has fine prospect, of
securing Il large canning factory that
viii employ 400 hands.
The Grand Central hotel barn at
Lake Odessa has burned. Loss 81 900.
lncendiarism suspected.
The French Catholics OF Calume, win
build nc" church the coming -um-
mer. at a cost of $4,000
Frederic, W. Mayue. of Cuarlevoix,
was nominated as Judge OF the 18th
judicial circuit on Che 5.a ballot
Guard * Koivoord', flour mill. two
miies east of Reed City. burned at
toss OF sl7.50o. with no insurance.
q ease of smallpox is reported at
kalamazoo The victim was Il rag
picker in the Wolverine paper mill.
The stool, for the beet sugar factory
al Kalamazoo has been subscribed and
work on the factory viii begin at once.
The Michigan Telephone Co. re
corded a mortgage worth $4,000, 600 in
Huron county. requiring $1,000 i'm rev
crue stamps.
Mrs. +. j. Munday of Mctamora.
preferred death 10 medicine if the
Christian science treatment could not
cure her. She died
The First State bank of Fennvillc.
with "A capital of $1,000 has filed ar
ticles Of Incorporation with the state
banking commissioner
number OF kalamaz9o citizens are
SICK from eating pork. bought at re-
duced price from string butcher.
Legal action is threatened
An electric car on the D.. =. * y.
railway left the track near Wayne and
landed wrong side up in the ditch. Sew
eral passengers were injured.
The school population of Menomincc
has grown so that the present accom-
mOdations are insufficient. and another
school building will be erected at
cost of Sl2 OO0
Farmers in Oscoda county are losing
a number of sheep lately through the
depredations Of wildcats. which are
very numerous in that section this
winter
postoiicc has been established at
Hosner. Macomb county, seven miles
northwest of Romeo, and James NJ
Hosner has been commissioned post
master
The tunnel scheme at Port Huron is
80 much of a success that the Canadian
Pacific and the +. & T. NJ. railroad PEG.
pie are contemplating building one at
Fort Gratiot.
John w. Prior. the colorcd man who
took Celia Mondary, 16-year-old
white girl, from Detroit to Windsor
and married her, has been found guilty
IN the Essex county, Ont, court of
perjury and sentenced TO four years
imprisonment in the penitcntiary.
tidal wave of morality has struck
Mason. All gambling houses and
other resorts run in violation of the
law have been closed, the slot ma
chimes removed from the saloons and
,be LIQUOR laws are being so strictly
snfo-~"' 80 10 get drink after the
J.. Hour or on Sunday Is a
70.