The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-01-12
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

The number of undischarged mort
cages in Huron county since 1885 is
$685..
Hollys new industry, the handle fac
tory, is almost ready TO begin opera
tions.
Jack the Hugger" is operating in
Ann Arbor, and naturally the female
sex are terrified.
Milan's new hoop and stave mill is
nearly completed. 1t will furnish en-
ployment to 100 men.
Work on the Gull Lake branch of the
Battle Creek-Kalamazoo electric rail
road has been suspended until spring.
Dowagiac has a chance to secure
canning factory, and it is not likely
that the citizens will let the chance
get by.
Decatur is putting on metropolitan
| airs. She has been sued for SIS, 600 for
injuries sustained on an alleged de-
fective sidewalk.
Midland people are talking of secur-
ing a chickory factory, so many of the
farmers roundabout would rather
raise chillory than sugar beets.
Ingham county will pay the expense
of the recent grand jury and will then
ask the state to reimburse the county.
The total expense will be about $4,000.
The Cross Roads Weekly Office at
Metamora, which was wrecked by riot
ers, is being repaired and the publica-
ton of the paper will be resumed
shortly.
The Kalamazoo beet sugar factory
will finish the seasons campaign of
sugar making shortly. The season has
been short one, owing to the scarcity
of bects.
Barry county farmers who have be-
come interested in the breeding of
Shropshire sheep have organized the
Barry County Shropshire Breeders as
ISOLATION for mutual benefit.
Grand Ledge people don't believe in
using adultcrated products, and To-
! ledo firm which has been selling cider
| there that was not made from the pure
apple juice was fined $50 recently.
LAUNDERING is going on with rush
| since the recent cold snap lee roads
are being made all over northern Mich
| igan and if the weather remains cold
the output of logs will be immense.
The +. & y. NJ. are talking of build
| ing tunnel under the st. Clair river
at Port Huron. If the project goes
through the +. & p. NJ. will connect
with the Canadian Pacific at Sarnia.
Omer is to have new tub and pail
factory. Saginaw parties will back
the venture The factory will use jack
pine, which has always-or rather UNI
til very lately-been considered worth
! less.
Branch county board of supervisors
has voted to submit proposition to
the voters of the county next April to
raise by tax 81. 800 for the purpose of
repairs and additions to the county
! house.
Miss Lena Kehil, af Tawas City. com
mitted suicide on the eth by shooting
herself She had been in poor health
for some time and it is claimed that a
love affair over which she was dcspon-
dent caused her act.
Coldwater people may soon be in
position to get the benefits OF compete.
ton in the matter of "A telephone SER
vice, as the council has received an APP
plication for franchise from an indie
pendent company which wishes to in
stall an exchange there.
The special election which was to
have been held at Ithaca on January 0
to vote on the question of bonding the
village for $4,000 for system of sew
ers has been declared off. The matter
will be brought up at the regular
spring election in March.
Albert Linabury, progressive
farmer of Metamora, has conceived the
idea of stamping all the eggs which his
hens lay with the date on which they
are laid, thus enabling purchasers to
know, without breaking the shells,
whether they are buying eggs OF
chickens.
Rapid Railway combination freight
and passenger train No. II. north
bound, ran into an open switch at the
gravel pit of the company, four miles
south of Mt. Clemens on the evening of
the eth and six people were injured.
The wreck is thought to be the work
of vandals, although no positive proof
to that effect is at hand.
A tramp broke plate glass window
in Big Rapids jewelry store, think
ing that he might get 80 days in Jail
which would relieve him of all the
trouble of hustling for board and lodg
ings during the winter. His guess wa,
away off, however, and he has gotter
more than he bargained for. The judge
looked upon it as burglary and gave
him two years in the state house o
correction.
The village council of Homer hai
manifested its approval of municipal
ownership of the electric lighting plan
by appointing special committee {,
confer with the present owners of tn,
plant for the purchase of the same
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