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The Lenawee County Pioneer and
Historical society holds its annual pic
mic at Adrian, August 4.
Valuable mari beds have been found
near East Tawas, and a cement factory
will be started, 1t is said.
The Michigan Bell Telephone com
pany will erect fine block for their
exchange at Battle Creek.
Two orders each 80 years old were
presented to st. Joseph county's treas
urer for payment last week.
The st. Joseph County Agricultural
society will hold its annual fair at
Centreville, September 26-29.
The ed was the hottest day of the
year at Grand Rapids, the thermome-
ter registering 81 at the official obser-
vatory.
The grasshoppers in Cass county are
attacking the sugar beets, and eat the
tops completely off If left alone long
enough.
Dogs are killing large numbers of
sheep in Sanilac county, and farmers
are talking of organizing dog hunt
ing party.
Crops on the plains of northern
Michigan are better than they have
been for several years, owing to the
large rain fall.
A carriage factory is one of the
things Romeo's new organized business
mems association is hustling to secure,
with good chances of success.
Montrose is to have a grist mill, the
! contract having been let for its erec-
ton. 1t is to be completed in time to
begin operations November 1.
The bail of DIR. Bennett, of Detroit,
who is held in Grand Rapids on a
charge of manslaughter, was reduced
to IS, 900 and he is now out of Jail.
design of red, white and blue,
with purple stars on a strip of white,
| indicating the wards of the city, has
| been accepted as the official flag of
! Battle Creek
The city dads" of Kalamazoo are
preparing an ordinance which will re-
quire that all telephone and telegraph
wires on principal business streets be
put under ground.
| Fifty subordinate oranges have been
| added in the past six months to the
| State Grange. State Master Horton
urges the formation of grange fire in
surance companies.
Pear trees throughout Lapeer county
are being attacked by a repulsive worm
of greenish color about the size of a
! large caterpillar. Some trees have
been stripped of their foliage.
Within the past few months three of
the best school buildings within
radius of seven miles of Stanton have
been burned, and under the circum-
stances indicative of incendiarism.
State Oil Inspector Smith has turned
! $4,000 into the state treasury. The
amount represents the excess of the
receipts of the Office over the expenses
| during the six months ending June 30.
Up in Chippewa county they are
still eating strawberries of home
growth, although down in the south
ern portion of the state that fruit has
been but memory for these many
days.
A Leslie man encouraged couple of
boys to settle their dispute with their
fists, and was arrested and sentenced
to 60 days in Jail under an old ordi-
nance against aiding and abetting a
fight.
A single resident of Cass county has
within the past two months shipped to
eastern markets five tons of turtles,
receiving six cents per pound for them.
They were caught in the lakes Of that
county.
In the ruins of st. Joseph county's
old court house, which was pulled
down recently, was found n penny
bearing date of 1920, and a spirit level
which had probably laid in the earth
since 1912, when the building was
erected.
Jas. II. Brumm, the alleged muir
derer of Molly Flagler, of Dimondale,
has been adjudged insane and ordered
sent to the asylum for criminal insane
at Ionia He is to be returned for
trial as soon as his mind is sufficiently
restored.
A tramp ordinance to make the gen.
try work on "A chain gang was lately
passed by the Flint city council. 1t is
now in effect and no tramps are in
sight. The marshal offers reward
for hobo. Other cities are watching
Flint's experiment.
Through the death of Lenold Drach,
of Memphis, Tenn, Anton Drach, a
cousin, living two miles east of St.
Joseph and engaged in operating a
small fruit farm, has fallen heir to an
estate valued at 500, 900. Drach has
gone TO claim the estate.
Trouble I'm BELGRADE.