The Yale expositor., 1900-09-28
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.
Brooklyn is to have new crcamor

in the vicinity of Willow of late
The Lansing Presbytery has voted
against revision of the Westminster
creed.
A movement is on foot at Jackson TO
establish an Independent telephone
system.
APPLICABLE is to have new bank,
which will be opened for business very
shortly
Deer licenses are now being shipped
to the county clerks by the secretary
of state.
The 5th Michigan regiment will hold
its 31st annual reunion at Mt Clemens,
Oct. 1917.
Oxford people can afford to be sick
nowadays. The drug stores in the viii
lage are having a price war.
The Office of sheriff of Altoona county
pays about $500 per year, and this fall
there are eight aspirants for the honor.
Thieves secured SIS in cash and 500
worth of stamps from the postoffice at
Chauncey, Kent county, the other night.
hOIh nus DCS uu Oll VIC NOIAoCl uNtiOh
of a new planning mill at Grand Ledge
to take the place of the one recently
burned.
The Three Oaks Creamery Co., the
members of which corporation are all
farmers, pays out about S1,20 each
month for milk.
Nine Finlanders, at East Tawas,
threw up their allegiance to the car
on the 10th by taking out their full
papers of citizenship.
All grand jury cases will go over
until after election, rs the circuit
court for the county of Ingham on the
cath voted to adjourn until then.
There will be an adjourned session
of the Detroit presbytery at Grand
Rapids on Oct. 10, and the next regular
meeting will be held in Detroit on
Oct. 10.
The Democratic campaign was for
mally opened in Detroit on the night
of the 10Th. The speakers were: Rev.
s. w. Sample, of Minneapolis; Mayor
Jones, of Toledo, and Senator Yelling
ton
The appearance of the stars on the
night of the 23d marked the beginning
of the Jewish new year 5C61. In the
different temples in Detroit services
broke forth with the blowing of the
rams horn and lasted for 4s hours.
Apples are so plentiful in the or
chards around Croswell that they are
retting in heaps on the ground. There
is little prospect of the evaporator
plant being operated this year on ac-
count of the large crop of apples in the
east.
In 1890 IA total of about $4,000 was
paid for deer licenses in Michigan.
The largest sum collected by any one
county was 81 ,4GG, which was paid in
Dickinson county The smallest sum
was S4.25, which was collected in Al
coma county.
The hope of Cadillac people for free
mail delivery in their city has been We
vived by the news that n government
inspector has been ordered there to
look over the ground aud see if condi-
lions are favorable for the institution
of the service
A couple of Mormon elders have been
working Harrisville and vicinity in the
interest of their church. They are con-
fining their attention almost entirely
to women and weak minded men. The
local ministers are not looking with
pleasure on the movements of the Nor
mons.
A tramp named Jos. Dreaming was
burned TO death near Benton Harbor
on the night of the 23d. lie had been
given sleeping quarters in the packing
house at the Morrill, fruit farm, and
came home drunk and set the building
on fire. Loss on building and wind
mill, 81 900.
Traffic cannot be very heavy on Che
boygan's streets; on some of them at
least. A lady of that city lost her eye
glasses one evening, and was unable to
find them until the second day after
ward, when they were discovered lying
in the middle of the street, just where
she had dropped them. Notwithstand
ing their exposed position they were
not injured in the least.
The peppermint farms around De-
catur are expected to yield from to
Is pounds per acre this year. From 40
TO 20 pounds have been realized from
these lands in years gone by, but wet
weather and frosts have reduced the
average with persistent regularity UNI
til today, of the 400 ''stills" that dot
the big fields, only a few are in use.
Strange to say, the price of oil has
gone down as fast as the output has
decreased.
The Kalamazoo Valley Electric Co.
has begun work at Marshall on the
electric road it proposes to build across
the state. The franchise granted by
the city council of Marshall provided
/ that work on the line must be com
menced within six months. The time
is up on September &c, hence the pres
ent operations. Considerable grading
work will be done all along the pro-
posed line this fall, although little
steel will be laid before spring.