The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-03-17
STATE GOSSIP.

Vermontvillc is again without -four
| mill
Telxonsha has public library of
| 1,G00 volumes.
Vassar is working to secure potato
-four mill industry.
Marshall will vote on a S25 900 bond
ing proposition for the construction Of
sewers.
The third case of smallpox in two
weeks has developed near Benton
! Harbor.
The Michigan Democrat a Sturgis
newspaper, has absorbed the Times of
that place.
The Detroit Sugar Co. has begun the
constru elton of its new factory at
Rochester.
A paper devoted to the beet sugar
trade Will be started at Bay City in the
near future.
In the one township of Lyndon, in
WashteDaw county, there arc by actual
count 1873 lakes
Grass Lake is experiencing build
ing boom-two new business blocks
are being erected.
A block of six stores in the business
portion of Dorr has been destroyed by
! fire at loss of s., 900.
Grand Haven has fine prospects of
securing a large canning factory that
will employ 400 hands.
The Grand Central hotel barn at
Lake Odessa has burned. Loss, 81 600.
Incendiarism suspected
The French Catholics of Calumet will
build new church the coming sum
mer, at a cost of $50, 000.
Frederick W. Wayne, of Charlevoix,
was nominated as judge of the 18th
| judicial circuit on the SD ballot.
Guard & Koivoord's -four mill, two
miles east of Reed City, burned at a
! loss of ST. 800, with no insurance
A case of smallpox is reported at
Kalamazoo. The victim was n rag
picker in the Wolverine paper mill
The stock for the beet sugar factory
at Kalamazoo has been subscribed and
work on the factory will begin at once.
The Michigan Telephone Co. re-
corded a mortgage worth 5000, 900 in
Huron county, requiring $500 in rev.
enuc stamps.
Mrs. Il. J.. Munday, of Metamora,
preferred death to medicine if the
Christian science treatment could not
cure her. She died.
The First State bank of Fennvlle,
with capital of $4,000, has fled arr
ticles of incorporation with the state
banking commissioner.
number of Kalamazoo citizens are
sick from eating pork, bought at a re-
duced price from ''string butcher. "
Legal action is threatened.
An electric car on the D., p. & N.
railway left the track near Wayne and
landed wrong side up in the ditch. Sew
eral passengers were injured.
The school population of Mcnominee
has grown so that the present accom-
modations are insufficient, and another
school building will be erected at n
cost of S12, 900.
Farmers in Oscoda county are losing
number of sheep lately through the
depredations OF wildcats, which are
very numerous in that section this
winter.
A postoflicc has been established al
Tlosner, Macomb county, seven miles
northwest of Romeo, and James M.
IIosner has been commissioned post
master.
The tunnel scheme at Port Huron Is
so much of a success that the Canadian
Pacific and the +. e. p. M. railroad peo
pie are contemplating building one al
Fort Gratiot.
John w. Prior, the colored man who
took Celia Mondary, a 16-ycar-old
white girl, from Detroit TO Windsor
and married her, has been found guilty
in the Essex county, Ont, court OF
perjury and sentenced TO four years
imprisonment in the penitentiary.
A tidal wave of morality has strdck
Mason. All gambling houses and
other resorts run in violation of the
law have been closed, the slot ma
chimes removed from the saloons and
the liquor laws arc being so strictly
enforced that TO get drink after Tho
legal closing hour or on Sunday is 4
lost art.