The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-09

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Newaygo, preparatory to the erection
of the new cement works, found Sc
creted IN a garnet the skeleton of a
child. The village is wild with cx-
element
Battle Creek schoolma'ams will have
to be very careful about falling in love
next year. as the school board has
made those teachers who have been
re-engaged sign iron-clad contracts
binding them not to marry during the
school year.
There is great strife between the
farmers of Central Lake township, An
trim county, to capture the prizes of
fered by the street fair committee for
the best improvements on 40 acres of
land, and also for the best crops raised
this summer.
A special election is to be held at
Cheboygan TO vote on the question of
bonding the city for $50, 900 for public
improvements. The local improve
ment association will bear all the eX-
pense of the election, so the cost to the
city will be nothing.
A fire which originated in the barns
of the Lake Superior Ice Co.. at Mar
quette, destroyed that structure, to-
gether with four horses. Two resi-
dences and another barn were also
burned. The losses will aggregate
S14, 900, partially covered by insurance
DIR. Andrew ID. White, United States
ambassador to Germany and head of
the American delegation to the recent
peace conference at the Hague, was
professor of history and English liter
ature in the U. of NJ. during the years
ls57-G3 and professor of history,
1S63.G7.
1t is announced as a sure thing that
the L. & p. NJ. will build branch
from Clare to Barrytown, in Mecosta
county. If this is done, it will be a
great thing for the northeastern por-
ton of Mecosta county. Barrytown's
only railroad at present is a stub line
of the d., G.. X. & w.
A smooth individual has been can
wasting BerrieD county for the sale of
spectacles, who got his livery hire
cheap He would hire a team for
week and after few days the owner
would receive notice that his team
was in some other town, and the driver
gone and bill to pay.
For several months there has been
much petty stealing going on at Caro-,
but no clue to the perpetrators could
be found until last week, when it was
discovered that two boys about II
years of age were responsible for it all
The boys are now locked up and will
probably get term in the reform
school.
All three places in the state where
beet sugar factories are being erected
the work on them is being delayed
somewhat through lack of sufficient
number of bricklayers. The contract
ors who are building the factory at
Caro- want 80 more, but can't get them,
and at Alma and Rochester similar
state of affairs exists.
Insurance Commissioner Campbell
reports that during the past year 10
stock fire insurance companies were
admitted to Michigan, while with
drew from the state. leaving n total of
1853 companies. During the year the
risks written in Michigan aggregated
1894, $50, 6s2, premiums paid 1882, 1856,
losses incurred S2,G43,2 s4.
VIM. Vincent, of Tekousha, nearly
lost his life in peculiar manner. He
was assisting in hauling poles with
colt when the animal started suddenly,
throwing a chain around Vincent's
foot, the hook entering the cords and
muscles. He was thrown to the ground
and dragged by the heels several rods
at the animals heels, being lacerated
in painful manner.
The farmers seem To be in fair way
to get a good crop of oats this year.
They are showing up nicely under the
influence of the rains and favorable
weather, and the grateful farmer, who
was went to sing, I'm this wheat by
and BY" now gaily huns, "oat to be
saved" or something like it as he sits
on the fence and hears them grow says
the Dowagiac Republican.
A Polish woman and her son, of Lon
don township, Monroe county, inter-
fered with the highway commissioner
when the latter attempted to open
new highway across her farm. They
beat him with stick and chased him
off the farm at the point of a revolver,
but his turn came later when he had
them arrested and bound over to the
circuit court for the assault.
Reports to the state board of health
show that rheumatism, neuralgia,
bronchitis, tonsillitis and influenza, in
the order named, caused the most sick
ness in Michigan, during the past
week. Consumption was reported at
164 places, measles at As, scarlet fever
at 81, typhoid fever at 10, cerebro-
spinal meningitis at IA, whooping
cough at - and diphtheria at IL.
Not within the memory of the oldest
inhabitant has the wheat crop within
a radius OF 10 miles of Willow, Wayne
county, appeared in such bad condition
at this time of the year as it is at pres
ent. The farmers in that section will
lose thousands of dollars through the
failure of the crop, while their corn