The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-11-24

has lost her suit. IL is thought the
case will go to the supreme court
The surveying of the route of the
proposed electric railroad from Trav-
erse City to Old Mission has been COM
pleted. The road will be II miles long
and will be great factor in develop
ing the peninsula which it will traverse.
Not many poor farmers in the state
can boast of raising all their own vege-
/ tables, grain, butter and eggs. The
! Ottawa county farm does and has
surplus of nearly everything raised to
sell. And there are 40 inmates there,
| too.
a factory employing 200 hands the
/ year around is within Battle Creeks
reach if reasonable cash bonus is
forthcoming. The company is now
! located in Chicago and manufactures
supplies of all kinds for fire depart
| ments.
| The chances are good for the location
! at Bellaire of canning factory which
will give employment TO $50 hands dur
! ing the summer season, besides provid-
! ing a market for the tomatoes, beans,
apples and other products of the farm
| ers in the vicinity.
Calhoun county farmers seem to be
alive TO the benefits of rural free deliv-
/ cry of mail, as petitions are being cir
! culated in a number of townships ask
| ing that the service be established.
/ Nearly every farmer who is applied to
! signs the petitions.
Corunna has bread war started by
/ a new baker in town named Hayes.
! He has cut the price to three cents a
/ loaf and another baker has gone him
/ one better by Offering the same price
1 and rebate of one cent when the
! paper sack is returned.
\ movement has been started in
Gratiot county to agitate for submits
/ sion at the spring election of the ques-
! ton of local option for the county. The
! petitions requesting such submission
must be signed by at least one-third of
the voters in the county.
james Harwood. while hunting in
! the hills l. miles south of ST. Joseph,
shot and killed a large panther. The
animal had been in the vicinity for
/ years, and it il is believed that Albert
Croll, who disappeared Il few years ago,
was killed by the brute.
At the Michigan State Sunday School
convention. which closed at Battle
! Creek on the 10th, Kalamazoo county
won the prize banner contest; Grand
! Traverse second. Hillsdalc third, Cal
houn fourth and Gratiot fifth. Wayne
county led in amounts pledged.
During the month of October %
samples of food products were analysed
/ by the state pure food commissioner.
! Forty-threc samples were proved pure
/ and 40 adulterated. There are l3 cases
/ brought by the commissioner for viola
ting the pure food laws now pending.
The proposition of the Kalamazoo
Electric Co. to take the city electric
| lighting plant off their hands and fur
nish the city with lights, furnished
/ from the Allcgan dam dynamos, has
been discussed sometime by the city
council of Kalamazoo. and will prob
/ ably submit the matter to the people
I at the spring election.
The work of laying steel on the Rapid
! Railway companys new extension be-
! tween Marine city and st. Clair has
/ been commenced. New dcpots are be-
ing built at Algonac and Marine City
| and the machinery is being placed in
/ the new power house at New Balti-
more. About 800 men are employed
/ and work is being pushed all along the
/ line.
The body of Peter Frank. an aged
/ farmer residing about seven miles
southwest OF White Pigeon, just across
/ the Indiana line was found on the 10th
/ 10y neighbor, lying in the brush near
! Pigeon river. on the Michigan side of
the line. A coroner's jury was sum
moned from Mottville, who came to the
decision that death was caused by apo
/ pleXy.
Charles Sheldon, of st. Johns. has
pet fox which he thought was about
the cutest little pet that ever mean
dcred down the highway-until he got
| loose and depopulated several hencoops
in the neighborhood and he had to foot
the bill for damages presented by the
owners of the deceased fowls. Now
the fox isn't so cute but what he would
self it for 30 cents.
Frank Taylor, of Mayfeld, returned
from the upper peninsula on the 18th,
having cut short his hunting trip.
While hunting deer on Nov. II he heard
shot and felt shock which nearly
threw him. After recovering his equi-
! librum, he took an inventory and
found large bullet hole through his
hat and a groove cut along his scalp
where the bullet passed. lie was evil
IDENTIFY taken for deer.
William Stevens owns n four-story
brick block on the principal corner in
Stanton and in it is located the opera
house. few days ago IA Islander suit
resulted in a judgement of $500 and
costs against him, and now he has be-
gun the demolition of his building
for spite, he says, though just how
the destruction of his own property is
going TO spite the people who won the
suit against him is what the good pco-