The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-07-21

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the city's terms relative to the laying
of grooved rails and paying its share
of the paving tax
The big marsh just north of Chesan-
ing will be drained and reclaimed.
Promoters of the scheme expect to get
fancy prices for the land when it is
placed on the market.
From his strawberry patch of one
quarter of an acre, Paw Paw man
this season cleared S74 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 to bushels per acre.
One day recently 20 children from
the state public schools at Coldwater
were sent To homes in different parts
of the state. This number exceeded
that of any day in the history of the
school
Cass county isn't very populous
county, having only 21.0O0 people in
its borders, but prosperity appears to
reign there. The four banks in the
county hold over S7S0,000 in savings
deposits.
The special election to bond the viii
lage of Worthwhile for S27, 500 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 &
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.
Another batch of Chicago lovers
were made one at st. Joseph on the
10th, when Is couples were married.
This swells the list to 27O 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.
State Treasurer Steel has been ad-
vsed that eight peddlers have been ar
rested in Clinton county for failure to
take out peddlers' licenses. The ques-
ton of the constitutionality of the
present peddlcrs' license law, which
has long been a mooted one, will now
be settled.
Three children in a copper country
family were lying in one bed during a
recent thunderstorm when a bolt of
lightning came into the room by way
of the chimney, struck one of the little
ones on the breast and killed her in
stantly. Neither of the other two was
injured in the least.
Horace A. Willerson, wealthy mill
owner, 33d degree Mason, member
of the Oddfellows for % years and
prominent resident of Dundee, commit
ted suicide on the 14th by shooting
himself in the head. Temporary insan-
itv 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 a dry goods box and la
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 well that he
wanted more of it, and to insure get
ting it without delay he stole a 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
for many years past. Hundreds Of
acres of hay, wheat and barley are be-
ing damaged by the continued wet
weather. The farmers are unable to
secure their crops on account of the
daily showers of rain.
Plainwell expects boom in the
near future. The damming of the Kali
amazoo river at that place is said to be
assured and 2.9OO horse power will be
developed. A large paper mill will be
built, it is said, and other factories are
expected to follow. Electricity will
be supplied to nelghboring towns
Eastern capitalists are interested.
A reception was given at the Baptist
church in Plainwell on the evening of
the 10th, in honor of the pastor, Rev.
John Fletcher, who the day before
celebrated his 9th birthday. This is
his oath year of continuous service. He
began preaching in small school
house "a years ago where he stayed
until the present Baptist church was
built. His congregation presented him
with purse containing a dollar for
every year of his age and the q. A. X.