The Yale expositor., 1899-07-14
STATE GOSSIP.

Port Huron is talking of street fair.
A cloudburst at Millbroolx did SO, 900
worth OF damage.
Three Rivers will make an effort to
get free mail delivery.
Worthwhile people are talking about
holding a street fair this fall.
The beet sugar crop in st. Joseph
county is estimated at 10 tons to the
acre.
A new grain elevator with capacity
of 10000 bushels is being erected at
Homer.
The Ypsilanti & Saline electric road
will probably not be in full operation
until Sept. l.
The $500 bonus has been raised and
Unadilla is going to get that grist mill
she has been after.
There is great demand for labor
around the docks at Port Huron Men
are wanted every day and cannot be
hired.
The city of Three Rivers has been
numbered and will have up street signs
and city directory, the first one pub
lished.
In some parts of Berrien county, the
wheat yield will not be two bushels
per acre. Farmers are naturally dis
couraged.
Colored people from all over the
southwestern part of Michigan will at
tend the Emancipation day celebration
at Niles on Aug. /.
Out of 131 applications for teachers
certificates at the recent examination
at Kalamazoo, only 80 were successful,
eight being for second and 30 for third.
Linden is experiencing n small build
ing boom A new bank building and
several new dwell ngs arc in course of
construction and more are being an
tici0ated.
The third biennial national conven-
| ton of the L. o. L. NJ. will be held at
| Port Huron, July 1921, in connection
with the national convention of the
X. o. T. NJ.
Haying is over in the vicinity of
Brighton, and the crop is a small one
| Wheat harvest has begun, and the
| prospects for that are even poorer than
the hay crop.
VIM. and Thos. Halderman, formerly
| of Genesse county, have b en- con-
v'cted and sentenced TO be hanged at
| Phoeniz, Ariz., for the murder of a
deputy sheriff
The large f. e. =. NJ. elevator at
Ludington was destroyed by fire on
the evening of the 9Th. Loss incurred
to this and other property amounted
to about S1OO,OOO
Desoite the reports last winter that
the extreme cold was killing off all
! the quail, there are more of those
birds in Berrien county this season
than for 20 years past.
A postoffice has been established at
Lott, Altoona county, with Eli M. Ii. NJ.
Barker postmaster, also at Mass, On
tonagon county, with George III. T..
Hennings, postmaster
Harry, the 13-year-old son of Fred
Witt, n German, living two miles east
of Inlay City, fell off binder in the
wheat field and had one of his feet
amputated in short order.
Two men are confined in the Jail at
Buchanan who are without doubt
Matt Smith and Sigmund Brock, the
murderers OF Martin Meier in Chicago
on June last. The men were cap
tured on the evening of the 9th by
Marshal f. w. Eldridge and Constable
Hiram Boyer.
Farmers around East Tawas who
have gone in for sugar beets this sea-
son are downcast over the prospects.
Between poor weather during the
termination of the seed and the at
taclIs of small beetle since the beets
came up, they are doubtful of harvest
ing more than have n crop.
officers arrested Il. Il. Kennedy, Ed.
Stocker and o. Worden at Fulton on
July on the charge of selling liquor
illegally. They captured 40 bottles OF
California wine, 1870 bottles of beer and
two jugs of whisky, besides 60 empty
beer bottles. The goods were being
dispensed at a restaurant stand.