The Yale expositor., 1899-05-19
STATE GOSSIP.

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from Lansing to Coldwater.
Adam Schiller, of near Allegan, has
planted 800 acres to sugar beets.
The Sisters of Mercy, of Big Rapids,
will conduct hospital at Bay City.
The oldest tombstone in the GENE
| terry at Grand Haven was erected in
1897
Coal prospecting is being carried on
in the vicinity of Millington, Tuscola
county.
The Methodists of Millington have
commenced the erection of 81, 900
church.
Grand Haven has an independent
military company known as the Light
Guards.
Leonidas Methodists are to have a
new church, which will be built this
| summer.
Dogs did 500 worth of damage to
sheep in the vicinity of Millington the
other night.
Huron county farmers say that clover
was completely killed by the heavy
spring frosts
The libraries of the U. of NJ. contain
over 122, 969 volumes, Is, 461 pamphlets,
and ,29o maps
There has not been n single convic-
ton of criminals in Osceola county
since Jan. l, 1899.
Ludington will have an Independent
military company to be known as the
Pere Marquette Rifles.
The kindergarten department of the
st. Joseph school has been closed on
account of scarlet fever.
Sixty per cent of the teachers in
| Sanilac county failed to get certificates
at the recent examination.
One of the Duplex presses manufac-
tured at Battle Creek is being shipped
to Paris for the New York Herald.
Only 1928 description were offered for
sale at the Huron county tax sales this
year, the least number ever offered.
A movement is on foot in Otsego
for the purpose of holding an annual
fair
Menominee will operate the potato
patch" scheme this summer Forty
acres are already donated for the
purpose
Calhoun county now has two sets of
abstracts, the new act having just been
completed by A. c. Wisner, ex-county
treasurer.
Mrs. Lille NJ. Wicltham, of Meta
mora, has been appointed deputy great
lady commander of the Maccabees of
Michigan.
An epidemic of measles is reported
from Bridgman, Sawyer and Living
ston, and other small villages south of
st. Joseph.
w. C. Sanford, of Battle Creek, has
started on trip around the world on
his bicycle. He expects to be gone
three years.
The Marshall School e Church Fur
niture works, winch has been closed
since last December, has resumed
operations.
The loss by the destruction OF the
| Peters Salt & Lumber Co. S mill at
East Lake, will reach Si3O, 600, with
$50, 900 insurance.
Croswell people can now hello to one
another to their hearts content, the
new telephone exchange having been
put into operation last week.
The Chicago e. West Michigan rail
road will sprinkle its roadbed between
Newaygo and White Cloud with crude
petroleum To get rid of dust.
The Berrien county straw berry crop
will be on the market in two weeks.
The daily shipments from Benton Har
Dor will reach nearly 90, 700 crates.
Will Wcbber, deaf and dumb in
mate of the county house, was killed a
mile west OF Burr Oak by train while
walking along the railroad track.
Large quantities Of fax have been
sown by the farmers of Sanilac county
this spring. Flax culture is becoming
one of the leading industries of that
section.
The Grand Rapids Veneer Co. S fac.
tory at Grand Rapids has been de-
stroyed by fire. The FIRE started in the
dry kiln. Loss about $780, 600; insur-
ance, $50, 900.
Alice, the G-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Carl Hunter, OF Battle Creek
drank from bottle of aconite by mis-.
take, and it was with difficulty that
the doctors saved her life.
The war department has notified the
University of Michigan that there is
an opening for general teachers who
can speak Spanish, to go to Porto Rico
at salaries Of 81 200 per year.
The safe in the Detroit, Grand Rapids
& Western railroad station at Port
land was blown open the other night
and ruined. About SIS in cash was
taken. Local talent is suspected.
c. L. Randall. W. j. .Lumstead and
C. +. Stanton, three oxford business
men, have petitioned the Oxford town
shin board for right of way for an