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The question Of new school build
ings for Pontiac is being agitated Wig
orously.
The Riverside Coal company is sink
ing another shaft for coal south Of
Saginaw.
The resorters at Mackinac Island
suffered S25, 900 fire loss on the night
af the 10th.
Safe blowers received $40 in cash for
their trouble at Oxford on the night
! of the 18th.
Work on the new Lansing, Ste Johns
| & st. Louis Electric railroad has been
commenced
Gov Roosevelt will make his first
campaign speech in Michigan at De-
troit, Sept. z.
| During the bombardment of Pekin
! it is estimated that the Chinese loss
was about 400
Fifty-eight weddings, 80 of which
are suppressed, were solemnized at St.
Joseph on the 10th.
Allegan claims the distinction of
| having more old maids than any other
town in three states.
The business men of Laingsburg
have decided to hold three-days car
nival Sept. Is, 10 and 20.
! A new postofiice has been established
/ at Hard Grove, Crawford county, with
Esther Kent as postmaster.
The proposition to bond Mayville for
$4,000 for a municipal lighting plant
was voted down on the 14th.
About 10000 people attended the
! pioneer picnic at Fairfield on the 18th.
! The affair was great success.
Milkmen at the 500 have formed a
judicious combination and boosted the
price of their staple 25 per cent
The Detroit Steel &, Spring works at
Detroit, was destroyed by fire on the
night of the 10th. Loss, 500, 900.
Twining was visited by a severe hail
storm on the 18th. Some of the hail
stones measured four inches in diane
ter.
The German day festival at Menom-
inee on the 10th was n grand success.
1t is estimated that $4,000 people were
present.
violent wind storm on the 18th
blew down trees and leveled corn with
the ground in the vicinity of Hand
! Station.
The annual reunion of the Lenawee
County Soldiers and Sailors assoca-
ton will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 4,
at Adrian.
Nine Flint milkmen are charged with
using an embalming fluid by State
Food and Dairy Commissioner E. O.
! Grosvenor.
swarm of bees took possession of a
! u. S. mail box near Union City re-
Gently. The question arises, TO whom
do the bees belong?
The Calumet & Hecla Mining Co.
will soon take on new lease of life as
"A result of the stockholders annual
meeting at Boston on the 18th.
severe wind storm passed over a
portion of Livingston county on the
night of the 14th, blowing off the root
of several barns and doing other dam
age.
The only remedy to prevent 'yel-
lows" in peach orchards, according &c
Prof. L. Il. Taft. of the Agricultural
college, is to dig out the trees and burn
them.
Midland papers say that wheat in
that county is a much better crop than
last year. If that is so, il is the only
county in the state to report such a
condition.
John G. IIawley, of Detroit prom.
inent member of the Michigan bar, and
well-known authority on criminal
law and extradition. died on the night
of the 18th.
Secretary of State Stearns has caused
to be complied an up-to-date compila-
ton of the election laws which are now
being distributed. Copies may be had
on application.
Forest fires caused much damage in
tAlcona county. The rain of the 18th
and 18th put an end to the hottest and
driest siege that was ever experienced
in that section.
A death certificate was received al
/ tne secretary OF state ONCE at Ian
sing the other day in which the sex OF
the deceased was given by the regis
trar as Congregational.
Another effort is being made al
Romeo TO work up sentiment for the
establishment of condensed milk fac
tory. Such an institution would be q
good thing for the farmers of the vi
entity, but the promoters are having 9
hard time TO make them see it that
way.
Some wag at Cheboygan sent a re-
porter for one of the local papers on 3
wild run to the other end of town az
ter an item by asking him if he hac
heard about a man getting shot ii
Blanks hardware store. The repor
ter found that man had-iive pound.
Of shot
a feature of the coming soldiers re-
union at Standish. Sept. IL. 10 and III
will be the unvciling of a monument
erected 10y the citizens of the town I,
the memory of Mort Cummings, III,
young man from that place who die,