The Yale expositor., 1899-08-11
STATE GOSSIP.


ing station.
Columbiaville is to have electric street
lights before long.
Stittsville Methodists dedicated their
new church last week.
Belding will spend SO 600 on a new
schoolhouse, which will be erected at
once.
On Aug. 2 there were confined in the
jackson prison 7ss convicts, the small
est number in eight years.
The Central Michigan Band associa-
ton will hold its 10th semi-annual
tournament at Lyons, Aug. 80.
The G. A. r. post and the w. r. c.,
of Grayling, have dedicated few new
hall to be used jointly by the two So
ciet es
All the mining companies of Iron
wood increased the wages of employees
10 per cent on July 3lst. About 1900
men are affected
A company with capital of $500, 900
was organized at Alpena and cement
factory with capac ty of 600 barrels
per day will be erected at Alpena.
The annual reunion of the Lenawee
county association of old soldiers and
sailors has been postponed from Aug.
S, the dae originally set, to Aug. 20.
Mrs. Eugene Moore, wife of pros
porous Amboy farmer, tried to commit
suicide by taking paris green Domes-
tic trouble is said TO have been the
cause.
John Ross, the Ypsilanti representa-
tive of the Ann Arbor Sanitary Milk
Co., committed suicide on the 1st by
hanging himself He was temporarily
insane.
Gov. Pingree has appointed +. Van
Horn, of Benton Harbor, as a member
of the state BARRIERS commission to
succeed John Weasley Vaughn, of
Niles, who neglected to qualify.
Louis D. Croud, the richest man in
Constantine, got wheat crop of 34T
bushels to the acre from one of his
farms in Porter, while many of his
poor neighbors didn't get kernel.
Foxes are making sad havoc among
poultry in the vicinity of Pinckney,
and they seem TO be very numerous.
VIM. Miller recently shot Fl We that were
stealing chickens. They seem very
bold.
Three hundred men are employed oil
the new railroad in Delta county which
will tap the hardwood lands in White
fish valley. High wages are paid, and
yet enough laborers cannot be OBJ
tanned.
The annual picnic of the Pioneer as
ISOLATION, composing Fairfield, Madi-
son, Palmyra and Ogden townships,
will meet in Bakers grove, near Fair
field, on Aug. 1. A fine program has
been arranged.
While Mr. Hagerman and his family
who live just east of lockwood. were
at church July 30th, fire destroyed his
farm house and a large stack of wheat
tlonal company.
There is much excitement at St
Joseph over the discovery of the re-
mains of nine new born babies which
had been buried in the cellar back Of
the National hotel, house that bore a
rather unsavory reputation.
A bridge ossing the river one and
one half miles west OF Evart gave way
with a threshiug machine engine
Walter Shippey and an assistant, who
were in charge of the engine, escaped
with more or less serious injuries.
| There is but one church at Twining,
and that is so poorly attended that the
small body of the ia thful who keep il
going threaten to discontinue services
unless the villagers brace up and at
tend more regularly and in larger
numbers.
Reports to the state board of health
show that rheumatism, diarrhea, neu-
ralgia, bronchitis and consumption in
the order named, caused the most sick
ness in the state during the past week.
Consumption was reported at 80 places;
typhoid fever, 80; measles, 36; scarlet
fever, 20; whooping cough, 10; diph-
iberia, Is; cerebro-sp.nal meningitis, 4.