The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-04-25

Interesting Occurrences I'm Various
Parts Of the state Briefly
Outlined.

hotel soon.
The state military department now
has enough supplies on hand 10 fully
equip the Michigan national guard
Milford comes to the front with the
first grasshoppers of the season, 4
farmer of the place having captured
some lively specimens in his wheat.
The Kalamazoo Beet Sugar company
has secured contracts with % farmers
around Homer who are willing TO ex-
pertinent with sugar beet growing this
year.
On May 1 Corunna people will vote,
at a special election called for the pur-
pose, on a proposition TO issue bonds
for $4,000 for the improvement of the
park recently presented to the city.
Nineteen extra clerks have been en-
ployed in Lansing To copy the war
expenditure vouchers which are TO be
sent to Washington, and their serv-
ices have already cost the state $500.
The common council at Almont has
granted a franchise TO the Detroit,
Rochester, Romeo d Lake Orion Elec-
trio railroad and the road will be ex-
tended from Romeo 10 that village this
summer.
Hillsdale capitalists have secured OPP
tions on all the land around Sand lake,
three miles west of the city, with the
idea of eventually building a cement
factory there to utilize the vast depos-
its of mari.
Mrs. Lydia Allen is suing Peter
Tonnelier, Charles a. Hill and julius
Muehling, at Benton Harbor, for $780,
600 damages for selling liquor to her
husband after having warned them
not TO do so.
Farmers who own sugar bushes are
almost without exception complain
ing of a small yield of sap this spring.
| Like all other clouds, however, this
one has a silver lining as it is a gen.
orally accepted sign that good ma
pie sugar year is a poor year for
other crops.
Flint will have new industry soon.
a company being now in process of
organization, the object of which will
be the breeding of Belgian hares.
! Many fortunes have been made in this
business in California in the past few
years, but the industry is practically
a new one in Michigan.
The board Of directors of the State
Federation of Women's Clubs has
voted to hold the next state conven-
ton at Lansing, beginning October
%, and continuing four days. The
third day will be set apart for the
| dedication of the new women's build
ing at the agricultural college.
The city council of Traverse City
| has granted franchise to the TRAY
erse City, Old Mission & Peninsula
Railway company, for the use of the
! streets for an electric line TO connect
with a line running through the
peninsula to the Old Mansion resort
! The company has a valuable water
power on Boardman river, near Kings
ley.
The rural mail delivery service near
! Tekousha is taken advantage of by
| other farmers than those on the direct
route. Many farmers living from halt
a mile TO a mile and half off the car
rier's route have put up boxes at the
point where the carrier comes nearest
to them, and thus they can get daily
mail by making a short drive instead
of long one way 10 the village.
Bay City attorneys are opposed to the
movement which has been recently
started looking toward the establish
ment of another United States district
court in Michigan. with headquarters
at Port Huron. They think if new
district is to be created the division line
ought to be the south line of Saginaw
and Tuscola counties, and the sessions
of the court held at Bay City.