The Yale expositor., 1899-12-08

600 OF primary school interest money
was paid TO the various counties.
The deer hunting season, which
ended on the both, resulted in total
of IL hunters killed and seven wounded
in Michigan and the Lake Superior
sections of Wisconsin and Minnesota.
The "oldest inhabitant" at Eaton
Rapids has been working his recollec-
ton bureau to find something TO COM
pare with the weather this fall, and
says that back in 1888 he went bare
footed until Christmas and had water
melon for his New Years dinner.
Deputy Game Wardens Bennett and
Atkinson seized a quantity of venison
at the Michigan Central depot, Bay
City, on the eth, shipped from the
north without license tag attached.
1t was consigned to Plymouth and Ok
ford.
Manchester people have an idea that
there is gas, or oil, or mineral water,
or something worth going after, under
lying their village, and efforts will be
made to raise n fund sufficient to put
down test well to verify or disprove
their belief.
a canning factory with a capacity of
$4,000 cans per day. giving employment
to large number of people during the
season, will materially assist Burr Oak
toward greater prosperity next sum-
mer. Work will commence at once on
the building.
Cadillac sports who have been spend
ing their spare time-and cash-dally-
ing with the festive niclel-in-the-slot
machines have been forced to hunt up
other ways of amusement, as the ma
chimes have all been chased out of town
by the police authorities.
Mrs. Anna Bell, of Mills township,
Ogemaw county, discovered n 439-
| pound bear trying to loot the hoggery.
| She grabbed q rifle and poured rain
of lead into the animals body, result
ing in its death. 1t was the largest
bear ever seen in that vicinity.
Would it not be n good thing if the
farmers of the state would take half
! the money which is now spent on
botchcd jobs Of repairing roads and use
it in building roads upon correct prin-
! ciples? Surely it would be only few
years until the farmers could get to
town at all seasons with something
moro than an empty wagon.
The II census supervisors of the state
held a conference at Lansing on the 1st
/ relative to methods of work and the in
! depreciation of certain blanks, instruc-
tions, etc, the object being to secure
uniformity along these lines, They
will also act as a unit in an effort to
secure an allowance for Office work of
| taking the census next summer.
Reports to the state board of health
show that rheumatism, neuralgia, ton
silitis, bronchitis and influenza, in the
order named, caused the most sickness
in Michigan during the past week.
! Consumption was reported at 200 places;
typhoid fever, ~; scarlet fever, Go;
diphtheria, Al; measles, 80; whooping
cough, 2l; smallpox, 6, and cerebro-
spinal meningitis, 2.
Gilbert Gould, of Keller, Cass county,
planted nearly an acre of tobacco two
years ago, and cured the crop in good
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experts. who pronounced it of finer
flavor than the Ohio, Connecticut or
southern products, but in the market
prejudice seems to exist against
I Michigan tobacco and no matter how
fine the crop, it is often unstable.
When Judge Smith gave Mrs. Joseph
Ferguson, of Owosso, a bill of divorce
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forbidding her husband from marrying
again within two years. Joseph stood
it as long as he could, but he is
married now. a charge of contempt
of court now stares him in the face and
he see ahead of him more trouble than
he had with Mrs Ferguson the first.
A year or two ago the express agen-
cies of the United States and Ameri-
can companies in most Michigan cities
were consolidated, and the business all
done at one Office. Apparently the ar
rangement has not proved satisfactory
all around, as in many of the cities
| where the change was made, separate
offices will be maintained by the two
companies after the holidays, prepare
tions TO that end being already in pro-
gress.
Chas. Bentley and Hiram Waite, of
Port Huron, were around the city on
the LIST, meeting old friends, who have
stood by them since they were sent to
prison several years ago They were
pardoned on Thanksgiving day, and,
although parole only, was asked for
Bentley, he received a full pardon. The
men will go to work in that city, and
friends will help them regain the repu-
tation which was lost when they were
arrested.
A farmer near Grand Haven has dis
covered a secret which he ought to be
able to dispose of to the colored popu-
lation of the country for big money.
1t is the preserving of watermelons in
such way that an expert eating one
in December would think that the cal
endar had slipped few cogs and taken
him back into August This farmer
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