The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-12-28
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.


Several cases of diphtheria of a mild
form are reported at Lapeer.
The postoffice at Hosmer, Macomb
county, has been discontinued Mail
to Rome.
More than 1000 acres of land near
Paw Paw will be set out to grapes in
the spring.
1t now begins to look as though a
home for old ladies would be erected at
Ann Arbor
Saginaw reports one case of small
poX, but the patient is confined in the
pest house.
| jackson has adopted standard time,
the same will go into effect at mid
night Dec. 81.
Burglars secured about $500 in cash
from the Gaylord postof1ice on the
morning of the Goth.
Manistee's opera house was con-
sumed by fire on the 18th. Loss, $751;
900; insurance, Sc, 300
Petoskey is to have butter factory,
and project is on foot to establish a
creamery in the near future.
1t is said that the Calumet & Hecla
mine has reduced it's force by 1000
men during the past 90 days.
An Oakland county farmer living
near Pontiac thinks he has discovered
bed of copper on his property.
The schools at Carney, Menominee
county, were closed on the 10Th on ac-
count of an epidemic of diphtheria.
The Michigan State Belgian Hare &
Flint Poultry association will hold
their annual show at Flint, Jan. ISIS.
Large amounts of hay have been
shipped into Reed City in past years
and none out. This year it will be
shipped out in considerable quantities.
Funds have run short at Ludington,
and the street lights will be shut off
for two months from Jan. l until some
more money comes into the city treas
ury.
Olivet college is to receive an addi-
ton to its permanent endowmen t fund
of $1,000, willed by the late David
Whitney, Jr., Detroit's multi-million-
aire.
The Tasting Journal asserts that
the value of the poultry product eX-
ported from Barry county this year is
almost double that of the wheat raised
in the county.
1t is now an assured fact that WI
Ting Fang, Chinese minister at Wash
oil
u. of NJ, Ann Arbor, some time during
April or May.
A case, of smallpox developed at the
u. of M. hospital, Ann Arbor, on the
18th, and very lively time ensued.
The 92 patients were vaccinated as
quickly as possible.
Farmers around Reading are putting
in gasoline engines to do pumping,
feed-grinding, wood saving, etc, and
windmills are looked upon as a back
number in those parts.
Michigan leads the world in the pro-
ductioa of beans New York for n
long time held that honor. but for the
past five years Michigan has increased
rapidly in tins line of agriculture.
The National Guard in Michigan and
every other state stand chance I'M
der the army reorganization bill to be
armed with Krag Jorgensen rifles, the
standard arm of the regular regiments.
The Prindle Co., Ltd, of Grand
Rapids, capitalized at $4,000, was
forced into bankruptcy by the U. S.
1,n
claims amounting to $4,000 was
presented.
Gov. Pingree on the 10Th pardoncd a
''lifer" at Jackson. Johannes Salmon
son, who was convicted of numbering
Richard Carlson, of Manistee county,
in 1891, was the prisoner thus honored
by the governor.
Guy Ravens, who recently sued the
city of Hastings for $4,000 for injur-
les sustained by falling upon a defec-
tive sidewalk six years ago, was
awarded Judgment of $1,000 by the
| jury in the circuit court on the Goth.
The announcement is made that the
Holland & Chicago Steamship Co. has
! been organized to build SIS, 200
steamer to run from Holland to Chi
cago in connection with the new Hol-
land & Lake Michigan Intcrurban road
from Grand Rapids.
From Jan. l to Dec. 10, 1000, 1,430
marriage licenses have been issued by
| County Clerk Needham as against 1 ,O07
issued during the year 1899. The in
crease this year is due to the growing
popularity of st. Joseph as a Gretna
! Green.
A special election will be held at
| Holland on Jan. 81, 1901, to vote on
the proposition of issuing bonds for
$50, 600, from which to pay bonuses to
manufacturing enterprises to locate
there, providing they cannot otherwise
be induced.
Hudson Everettc, the young colored
boy who stole diamond ring from
Nine. Hermann while she was filling
an engagement at the Wonderland
theater, Detroit, a few months ago,
was sentenced to 10 months in the
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