The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1899-10-11

a budget Of Interesting Facts Gath
cred from Many Localities I'm
Michigan.


Former Representative Bennett, Of
New Haven, Is dead.
The earnings of Michigan railroads
for September were $3,407, 477.S0.
Gen. White, of Grand Rapids, says
he may be candidate for governor.
The best hand-picked apples are sell
ing for $3.50 per barrel at Grand Ledge.
September shipments of lumber
from Saginaw were the smallest for
years.
For the nine months ending October
2, the Genesee county treasurer paid
out 81, 1886 in sparrow bounty.
There were only 762 prisoners in
Jackson prison September 30. This is
the lowest number in ten years.
The fifth annual convention of the
Grand Rapids District Epworth league
will be held October 20-22' at Hastings.
Mrs. Emma Smock, who lives six and
one-half miles north of Clare, had the
thumb of her right hand bitten off by
vicious horse.
Miss Lottie Greeman, of Ann Arbor,
tainted while riding on merry-go-
round on the Washtenaw fair and died
soon afterward.
A movement is on foot at Howell to
organize a stock company and operate
a foundry and machine shop in the old
foundry building which has long been
lying idle.
Fenton claims to be the banner wool
market of central Michigan. Nearly
half million pounds of wool was
shipped from there to eastern points
last week.
Chicago capitalists will install can
ming factory in Benton Harbor. A
bonus, consisting of buildings and
site, was given. Local capitalists are
also interested.
The state board of agriculture has
awarded the contract to build the new
dormitory for women to A. w. Mohnke,
of Grand Rapids, for $4,000. Work
will begin at once.
The thirty-fifth annual meeting of
the Presbyterian synod of Michigan
will be held at Saginaw commencing
Tuesday, October 10. The sessions will
continue until Thursday evening.
The Detroit council report handed
in Tuesday night declared that the
charges of corruption made against
President Moreland, of the board of
public works, had not been sustained.
The Mining Journal thinks Mar
quette is going to be great summer
resort city in a few years and that the
tide of travel is already setting that
way. The amount of money left in the
city by tourists the past summer is
estimated at $4,000.
A farmer near Grand Haven has been
experimenting in the raising of pea
nuts this season, with such success that
he may go into the business on large
scale next year, as he has demonstrated
that the soil thereabout is well adapted
for the growing of the COOLERS.
The state tax commissioners have de-
cided to personally visit as many
boards of supervisors as possible dur
ing the October sessions. The three
commissioners have divided up the ter
ritory and will endeavor to impress
hDOn ihC NnO
of hearty cooperation.
Although Superintendent of Public
instruction Hammond has received
communications from a number of
Michigan cities relative to the estab-
lishment of day schools for the deaf as
provided for by an act of the last legis-
lature, schools have thus far been
actually established only in Detroit
and Grand Rapids.
For the past few years Saranac has
been quite shipping point for peaches,
which have been raised in Ionia coun-
ty in increasing quantities each year.
This season, however, the total ship
ments have not exceeded so bushels.
From Lowell, which has also become
quite n peach market, not more than
carload have been shipped this year.
Lieut.. William r. Means, who was in
the campaign before Manila. has re-
turned to the University of Michigan