The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-10-06
STATE GOSSIP.

Gaylord's first snow storm arrived
on the 2sth.
An inch of snow fell In the uppe,
| peninsula on the 2sth.
A class of 60 was confirmed by Bishor
Foley at Kalamazoo on the 2sth.
The Peoples university is to estab.
lish college at Berrien Springs
Whitefish are being caught at Mon
roe this fall-something unusual.
The potato crop in the vicinity OF
Hart has been damaged by frosts.
Port Huron claims the lowest NOR
tally rate of any city in the state.
The beet sugar factory at Holland
will not be in operation before Nov. l..
The pickle factory at Dundee used
$4,000 bushels of cucumbers this season.
The State Sunday School association
will meet at Battle Creek, Nov. 14-1s.
Fully $4,000 worth of property at
Concord was destroyed by fire on
the 2d.
Only one free rural mail delivery
route will be established out of Ann
Arbor this fall.
The severe frost at New Boston on
the Goth is believed to have killed the
sugar beet crop.
Everything in the line of vegetation
at Three Rivers was frozen stiff on the
night of Sept. 80
The Harris Milling Co., of Three
Rivers, will manufacture it's own bar
rels in the future.
In spite of big deficit, the Mar
quette county fair directors will pay
all premiums in full.
Durand's village authorities an
nounce that they will collect the poll
tax or know the reason why.
The Harris mill on Pigeon river, east
of Indian river, burned. Loss, 81, 200;
no insurance 1t will be rebuilt
Jos. Frazier, of Algonac, claims to
be the Oldest resident in st. Clair
county. He was born March 10, 1900.
The Washtenaw County Medical
society wants branch insane asylum
established at Ann Arbor by the state
President Mckinley will visit Kala-
mazoo, Oct II, the first day of the
carnival, on his return trip from the
west.
1t will require 25 tenement houses
at Omer to house the families who de-
sire to move to that hustling village
this fall.
While Mrs. Geo. Stanley, of Upton,
was trying to rescue her 14months-old
baby from cistern, she fell in and
both were drowned.
Davidson g. Wonsey's salt block at
Marine City was burned to the ground
on the morning of Sept. 90 Loss,
$55, 900; insurance, $4,000.
The Presbyterian synod of Michigan
will meet in the Warren Avenue Pres
byterian church at Saginaw for a three
days session Tuesday, Oct. TO-
The Howell Manufacturing company
with capital of $50 900 has been reor-
ganized and will soon commence the
manufacture of wire fence at Howell.
The early frosts have killed all late
potatoes in Livingston county and
shortened the crop to such an extent
that they will be luxury next winter.
The farmers around Plainwell, who
experimental with sugar beet raising
this year, are well satisfied and large
acreage will be devoted to beets next
year.
Chicago capitalists are talking of es-
tablishing one of the largest canning
factories in the state at Berrien
Springs. The village will donate a
sight.
Fred Bailey, of Harrison, found a
sealed envelope under his plate on the
morning of his 21st birthday. 1t con-
tanned deed for 80 acres Of land, the
gift of his parents.
Walter o. Ashley, senior member of
the vessel firm of Ashley & Dustin, OF
Detroit, dropped dead on the stree t
about noon on the eth. Deceased was
nearly Ga years of age.
Port Sanilacs apple evaporator en-
ploys Is hands and will double the
number next month. Fifteen thou
sand dollars have already been paid
for apples in the vicinity.
Port Huron is to have a new in
dustry. 1t is tannery, and the pro-
cess to be used is one where the skins,
with hair on, can be tanned without
destroying the fibre or luster.
Apple buyers are buying up Glare
county orchards at higher prices than
usual. Rates range from $1.25 to S1.50,
and some varieties of winter fruit are
contracted for at SO per barrel
The League of Michigan Municipali-
ties, in session at Grand Rapids on the |
eth, favored constitutional amend |
ment which would permit of municipal |
ownership of all public utilities.
Mrs. Ida L Gilman, of Detroit, is in a |
critical condition at one of the hospi- |
tails as a result of a gasoline stove ex-
plosion. She attempted to fill the tank |
while one of the burners was lighted. |
An unknown man was killed by an
f. g. p. M. northbound passenger train
near Grand Blanc on the I'D. 1t is sup
posed he was a tramp stealing ride.