The true northerner., 1900-06-27

A budget az Interesting Information
from Many Localities In
Michigan.

William j. Emery has been appoint
ed postmaster at Agnew, Ottawa
county, vice Frederick Churchill, re-
signed.
The slot machines at Adrian have
all been driven out of town, and nick
els are again coming into general cir
culation there.
With the advent of the berry and
small fruit season, Benton Harbor and
vicinity give employment TO 5000 pick
ers, who earn from 81 a day up.
A Muskegon girl dreamed that she
had fallen heir TO a fortune, and a few
days later received word that an aunt
i'm California had died and left her
$4,000.
1t is reported at Dowagiac that Chi
cago capitalists are preparing TO build
an electric railroad from Kalamazoo
through Dowagiac TO Cassopolis and
Diamond Lake.
Lansing merchants have subscribed
about 1000 for Fourth of July cell
ebration of the old fashioned sort.
The town has not celebrated the
Fourth for 20 years.
The building of the proposed elec-
trio line from Grand Rapids to Hol-
land has been delayed by the failure
of the city council of the former city
to grant a franchise.
Marine City will, at an expense of
$500, add a new pump of 100000
gallons daily capacity to her water
works system, making the plant one
of the best of its size in the state.
The firemen's tournament, which
was to have been held at Bay City
this year, has been postponed for an
other year, on account of the butch
ers' and grocers' carnival and jubilee
to be held in August.
The citizens of Three Rivers rejoice
in the organization of the Three Riv-
ers Cement company. The plant will
be located at Pleasant lake, where
they have discovered an ineXhaustible
deposit of mari. The mill will have a
capacity of 200 barrels
The July meeting of the Eastern
Michigan Press club will take the
form of trip TO Star island, at the
St. Clair flats, on the afternoon of
July 13. That evening and the next
day will be spent in pleasure and
business in the City of the Straits.
The language used by men and boys
who congregate on the streets at
Belding has come to be such that the
mayor has issued proclamation an
nouncing that unless there is a speedy
reform the law prohibiting the use
of profane language in public will be
brought into requisition and its pro-
visions strictly enforced.
Gov. Pingree has made Intellectual
efforts TO receive the permission of
the Washington government to allow
the Knights of Pythias to use the
tents belonging to the government
and now in the hands of the state
militia. The Pythians want the tents
on the occasion of the state national
encampment at Detroit.
The Grand Trunk road has won
derful sink hole at Elba, that despite
the efforts of the engineers will refuse
TO fill up. So far 1000 car loads of
gravel and eight acres of trees have
been thrown into the place without
making the least impression upon It.
The engineers think that underneath
the place is a subterranean lake.
Work has been commenced at Red
Ridge, Houghton county, on what will
be one of the largest dams of its kind
in the United States. The dam will
be built of steel for AIS feet of its
length. and the earthwork and con-
crete extensions at each end will
make its total length fully 1000 feet
The dam is being erected by the At
lantic and Baltic Mining companies to
secure an ample and unfailing supply
of water for their mills.