The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-07-14
STATE GOSSIP.

Port Huron is talking of street fair
Worthwhile people are talking about
holding street fair this fall.
The beet sugar crop in st. Joseph
county is estimated at Is tons to the
acre.
A new grain elevator with capacity
of 10000 bushels is being erected at
Homer.
There were 800 births in Isabella
county in 1898, of which 2O7 were boys
and 1s5 were girls.
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.
Burglars wrecked the slot machines
in the Lake View hotel bar rooms at
st. Joseph on the 9th and secured
ABOUT $50. s'S'
Farmers In the vicinity of Three
Oaks say that few of their wheat fields
will pay for harvesting. Other crops
are all right - ~ 49,
Linden Is experiencing a small build
ing boom. A new bank building and
several new dwellings are in course Of
construction and more are being an
ticipated.
The third biennial national conven-
ton of the L. o. T. M. will be held at
Port Huron, July 1921, in connection
with the national convention of the
K. o. T. M.
VIM. and Thos Halderman, formerly
of Genesse county, have been con-
victed and sentenced to be hanged at
Phoenix, Ariz., for the murder of a
deputy sheriff.
The firm of Clayton & Lambert, of
Ypsilanti, manufacturers of plumbers
supplies, are moving their plant to De-
troit. With them eight families and
20 men will go.
The large f. & p. M. elevator at
Ludington was destroyed by fire on
the evening of the 9th. Loss incurred
to this and other property amounted
to about 100000.
A postoffice has been established at
Lott, Altoona county, with Eli M. b. M.
Barker postmaster, also at Mass, On
tonagon county, with George II. T.
Hennings, postmaster. "
Harry, the 1a-year-old son of Fred
Witt, a German, living two miles east
of Inlay City, fell off a binder in the
wheat field and had one of his feet
amputated in short order.
The liquor dealers of Ypsilanti ran
their places wide open on the Fourth
and did land Office business, but the
fines which follow will doubtless cut
into their profits largely.
A dam is to be built across the ST.
Joseph river at Berrien Springs and
the power thus secured used to run the
cars of an electric railroad from Ben
ton Harbor to South Bend.
Farmers in the vicinity of Dowagiac
complain that smut in their oats is do
ing considerable damage to the crop,
which up to recent date appeared to
be the best in several seasons.
Mason county people have been be-
having themselves for the past six
months. The prosecuting attorneys
report for that time show but 35 prose-
cutions for violation of the laws.
The only evidence thus far procured
relative to the Putnam tragedy at
Hillsdale is the physicians testimony,
which declared that Mr.. Putnam came
to his death from blows received on
the head.
Roy Merritt and Paul Brown, aged 10
and H., of Eaton Rapids, have been ar
rested charged with breaking in and
robbing the Michigan State bank.
The youthful robbers secured about
S35 for their trouble.
Two men are confined in the Jail at
Buchanan who are without donbt
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
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