The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-07-21
STATE GOSSIP.


All the faro banks at Mt, Clemens
were ordered closed on the nth.
Waldron, in Hillsdale county, Is GO
ing to have a new hotel this season.
1t IS so dry in Cass county farmers
have been obliged to stop cultivating
corn.
The kissing bug has been doing bus
mess at Allegan, Battle Creek and
Traverse City.
An empty mail bag which had been
cut open was found near Niles on the
18th. No clue.
Valuable mari beds have been found
will be started it is said.
The Michigan Bell Telephone COM
pany will erect a fine block for their
exchange at Battle Creek.
The bail of DIR. Bennett, of Detroit,
who is held in Grand Rapids on a
charge of manslaughter, was reduced
to $4,000 and he is now out of Jail.
The annual reunion of the soldiers
and sailors of Allegan county will be
held at Otsego, Aug $40 Hon. Wash
ington Gardner will be the orator.
The Ypsilanti & Saline electric road
promoters have secured all necessary
rights of way and land and will now
push the road to completion as rapidly
as possible.
A design of red, white and blue,
with purple stars on strip of white,
indicating the wards of the city, has
been accepted as the official flag of
Battle Creek.
The city dads" of Kalamazoo are
preparing an ordinance which will re-
quire that all telephone and telegraph
wires on principal business streets be
put under ground.
Edward Burger, of Benton Harbor,
has made discovery which may save
farmers hundreds of dollars. He has
found that gasoline will kill grass
hoppers almost instantly.
From his strawberry patch of one
quarter of an acre, a Paw Paw man
this season cleared $74 over and above
all expenses connected with the raising
and marketing of the crop.
The wheat harvest in Van Buren,
county is completed The oldest set
tiers say that IL is the poorest crop
ever grown there. The average yield
is from 2 to bushels per acre.
The special election to bond the viii
lage of Worthwhile for 1927, 800 for the
purpose of municipal electric light
ing plant resulted in favor of the plan.
OF the 344 votes cast, but II were
against it.
The grand jury examined 81 wit
nesses in the Cross Roads Weekly case
of Metamora and concluded its labors
on the 18th, returning bill of indict-
ment, which will not be made known
at present.
The first spike of the new Detroit e.
Toledo Shore Line electric railway was
driven by President Haskell near
Toledo on the morning of the 18th.
The road will be rapidly pushed to
completion.
A contract has been signed with
John Seymour, of Hudson, for the
building of the proposed Marshall,
Columbus & Northeastern railroad this
summer. 1t will run from Marshall
to Bay City.
Another batch of Chicago lovers
were made one at st. Joseph on the
10th, when IS couples were married
This swells the list to 270 participants
from Chicago, all of whom were joined
together this season.
The steel range swindlers who have
worked nearly every part of the state
are now doing Eaton county, and de-
spite the fact that the game has been
shown up by the papers for the past
year or more, are finding lots of victims.
JAS. ii. Brumm, the alleged MUIR
derer of Molly Flagler, of Dimondale,
has been adjudged insane and ordered
sent to the asylum for criminal insane
at Ionia. He is to be returned for
trial as soon as his mind is sufficiently
restored.
Horace A. Wilkerson, a wealthy mill
owner, 33d degree Mason, member
of the Oddfellows for 25 years and a
prominent resident of Dundee, commit
ted suicide on the 14th by shooting
himself in the head. Temporary insan-
ity was the cause of his act.
This is the time of the year when
farmers are putting in 10 hours of hard
work day because they are unable to
get sufficient farm help to secure their
crops, while the corner loafer is still
holding down dry goods box and Ia
menting over the hard times that make
it impossible for the laboring man to
find employment.
A young fellow in the Eaton county
Jail, liked prison life so we'll that he
wanted more of 1t, and to insure get
ting it without delay he stole watch
chain from fellow prisoner while
still in Jail and was promptly arrested
when his term was out and sent up for
another two months.
The country around Vernon and
Shiawassee county in general, is hav-
ing one of the wettest harvests known
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