The Yale expositor., 1899-12-15
STATE GOSSIP.

cleared their church from debt,
The Hotel Dewey at Harbor Springs
was destroyed by fire on the 10th.
Loss $751; 900.
The common council of Saginaw will
try the Pingree potato patch scheme
next summer
D. NJ. Mills. Leoni cider manufac-
turer, sold some one quart of hard
cider, was arrested and fined $40, in
GLIDING costs.
Some one gave poison to 80 valuable
sheep belonging to Bert Clark, of Deer
field township, Lapcer county They
were worth s. apiece.
Convict David bowers, of the Jack
son prison, who was serving two
years term for adultery from Van Blu
rem county, died on the 4th.
Although he has II children, Wilson
West of Williamson, has seen but
three of them He was stricken blind
50 years ago, at the age of 2G.
VIM. C. Poole, aged %, of Detroit, the
somnambulist, who walked out of a
third story window on the 18th, died of
his injuries the following day
The owners of the Shaker farm. near
Eau Claire, raised over 100 carloads of
sugar beets on lO2 acres. This is the
champion beet farm of the state.
The national council Of the G.. A. r
decided on the 9th that the next re-
union would be held during the last
week of August, 1900, in Chicago.
Highland Station is to have a new
hotel, which is now being built on the
site of the old Highland House which
was destroyed by ire some years ago.
Mrs. Paulina Baker, of Holly, is the
possessor of a Bible 300 years old 1t
was printed in London in 1000 and
brought to this country some years
later.
Representative farmers in the vicin.
ity of Kalamazoo agree that the chances
for a good wheat crop in that county
are poor because of the ravages of the
Hessian fly
School teachers are a scarce article in
Tuscola county at present, and the
school commissioner has to hustle
whenever there is a vacany from one
cause or another.
Cheboygan county farmers are COM
planning that the water in their wells
is lower than it has been ut any time
the past year, and they have to haul
water for their stock.
Dates for the one day farmers insti-
tutes for Eaton county have been Sc
lectcd as follows: Bellevue, Dec 10;
Brook6eld, Dec. 20; Vermontville, Dec.
2l; Grand Ledge, Dec. %.
Men for work in the woods arc very
scarce all along the line of the Maclli-
nav division of the Michigan Central
railroad. Wages as high as $2s and $50
are being offered by lumber operators.
Alex. Simpson, of Wyandotte. Is not
what would be called a handsome man,
but he has two wives according to the
verdict of the jury. He is now await
ing his sentence on the charge of big.
amy.
A Hersey farmer who had read that
ashes were good medicine for hogs,
preventing cholera and similar diseases,
fed some to his porkcrs last week, and
inside of two days the animals were
dead
Tuscola county farmers who have
beans for sale are making a good thing
out of them at present. There are
numerous buyers around the county
Offering as much as Sl75 per bushel
for them.
Poutiac's new bridge. the construc-
ton of which has blocladed traffic on
the main street of the city for several
months past, has finally been com
pleted. and the citizens are correspond.
ingly elated.
A Pontiac man has "a hen which has
been laying eggs at the rate of four to
six a week for about a month. and only
three of the eggs have been single
yolked. All the rest have had either
two or three yollSs.
Deputy Game Wardens Bennett and
Atkinson seized quantity of venison
at the Michigan Central depot, Bay
City. on the eth, shipped from the
north without license tag attached
1t was consigned to Plymouth and Ok.
ford.
The shipping of Christmas trees
which is an important industry in
northern Michigan of late years, will
begin this week Thousands upon
thousands of the trees are shipped from
this state each year, principally to the
cities of the east and south
There is no doubt that the beet sugar
manufacturers of the state will still
adhere to their determination to insti-
tute legal proceedings to compel the
state to pay them bounty of one cent
per pound on all sugar manufactured
during the seven years succeeding 1897.
when the general bounty law was