The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-09-01
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ithaca is to have cheese factory.
The Plymouth fair will be held
Sept. 1929.
Automobiles may be used in connec-
ton with the Ann Arbor hospitals.
Fifty thousand packages of fruit
were handled at Benton Harbor on
| Aug. %.
A hen owned by Ithaca parties has
produced ~ dozen of double eggs this
| summer.
The Goth annual fair of the Capac
Agricultural society will be held Sept.
26, 81 and 20, at Capac.
A firm at Lake Ann, Benzie county,
are building a cold storage warehouse
for handling farm products.
Forest fires are burning in Houghton
and Ontonagon counties. 1t is not
thought they will do much damage.
Several cows afflicted with lumpjaw
at Jackson, have been ordered killed
! by the state live stock commissioners.
Rt. Rev. Frederick Els was conso-
Grated bishop of the diocese of Mar
quette and Sault Ste. Marie on the cath.
Out of the II applicants who took
the county teachers examination held
tificates and rs those of the third
grade.
The Allegan County Agricultural So
ciety announces that the county fair
will be held from Oct. to 6, inclusive.
w. j. Bryan will be invited to attend
one day.
Manton will be the central Office of
a telephone system which will take in
all the towns in Wexford county.
Farmers are patronizing the new sys-
tenn literally.
Turtle lake, near Union City, is be-
ing drained so that the mari which
abounds it's banks and bottom can be
used. 1t is said that the mari is of the
finest quality.
There does not seem to be anything
the matter with the wheat crop in
Jackson county. William Rankin, of
Rives township, realized over 3s bush
els to the acre.
The city of Battle Creek now has
municipal flag of distinctive design,
the colors being red, blue and yellow
The council adopted the emblem at a
recent meeting.
Attempt will be made at Coldwater
to raise funds for the erection of a
soldiers monument in that city. One
citizen has offered to contribute $3.50 as
a starter for the fund.
About 200 applicants will take the
examination for clerical positions in
the pension office. The examination
will be held In Lansing some time be-
tween Sept. Is and 20.
The state board of education will
encourage the organization of school
officers associations in counties, pat
termed after the one recently organized
in Washtenaw county.
The annual report of the superin-
tendent of schools, shows that the
total cost of conducting the schools of
Lansing for the last school year was
$40, s23. 90, or SIS. 81 per pupil.
Work will begin Sept. on branch
OF the Dnlnth. S1nth Shore & Atlantic
railway, controlled by the Canadian
Pacific from Newtonville, Is miles
south of Houghton, to Rockland.
The Copper Range railroads agent,
who has charge of building the track
near Houghton, has gone to Tennessee
to hire 200 Negroes, it being impossible
to secure white labor in needed force.
Quartermaster General White has
commissioned press clipping bureau
of New York to compile a newspaper
history of Michigan's troops and naval
militial through the Spanish American
war.
In the vicinity of Camden, Hillsdale
county, springs are drying up and
farmers are experiencing difficulty in
watering their stock. The farmers are
feeling downcast over the crop pros
poets.
The family of Brinton Cradle, living
at Silver Creek. three miles southwest
of Piainwell, were poisoned by eating
gravy that had stood over night in a
tin basin. 1t Is believed all will re-
cover.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Tallman and two
children, of Detroit, were poisoned by
eating diseased meat, and remained
without medical attendance for seven
hours, none of them being able to call
for assistance. They were discovered
ha H..
no member of the family has yet died,