The Yale expositor., 1900-01-19

! Fort Huron is after the IL. a. w. Oh
fer for the city sending in the first 200
applications for membership in the
league to have a mile of macadamized
road and the four days festival.
School girls recently found gold
watch and chain and some money in
an old stump near Sherwood. The
watch proved to be one stolen from
Mrs. Laura Robinson five years ago.
The people of Hastings, as well as
the farmers of the vicinity, know
what is good for themselves, and are
| putting in all their spare time this
winter improving the roads around
| those parts.
Mason county farmers have heard of
the benefits of rural free mail delivery
as established in the southern and east
ern portions of the state, and are max
ing efforts to have route or two put
into operation there
There is talk that the Caro- branch of
| the Michigan Central is to be extended
| to Harbor Beach, and Bad Axe people
are hopeful that if it is done, the route
will be laid out in such way as to
take in their village.
The survey of the route for the ex-
| tension of the South Haven & Eastern
| railroad from Lawton to Schoolcraft
has been completed and construction
work will begin as early in the spring
as the weather will allow.
f. w. Wolf, of Chicago, sugar fac
| tory contractor, who has visited the
| Michigan counties where sugar fac
tories have been erected, is quoted as
saying that Bay county beates all of
! the counties in the state on the raising
of sugar beets.
Kalamazoo supervisors cut Sheriff
! Shows board bill from 40 TO 30 cents
per day for each prisoner. The sheriff
says he cannot feed the prisoners for
I 80 cents, and after certain date will
refuse to board them, leaving the SUI
pcrvisors TO provide some other means
| for their care.
The supervisors of Jackson county
believe in patronizing home industries
and at their present session adopted a
resolution that hereafter all printing
| and binding work shall be done by
| home concerns, instead of being sent
! outside, as has frequently been the
! case in the past.
There is some unknown person at
Homer who is making away with all
! the cats on which he can get his hands,
whether they are pets or stray cats.
1t is supposed that he skins them and
sells their pelts, which are said to be
worth from 10 cents upward, according
| to color and quality.
The unprecedented lack of snow in
| the lumber woods. and the consequent
inability to get out timber is having
7 its effect on the paper mills along the
| Menominee river, some of which are
said TO have already shut down on ac-
count of the impossibility of securing
the pulp wood from which the paper is
made.
When the hardware warehouse of
| Adams & Lich. at Lawto on, was opened
on the morning of the sth the body of
man was found hanging from one of
| the rafters. Later the body was iden-
titled as that of Chas. Brown. of Ben
ton Harbor. He had gained entrance
to the building by breaking open a
transom.
Van Buren, is prohibition county,
but just across the line in Cass comfy
a saloon has been established and it is
stated by the Dowagiac Republican,
with all due regard for the truth, (?)
that already the residents of Decatur,
two or three miles distant, have worn
path two feet deep between their
town and the thirst parlor.
The governor the other day discov-
cred that the law was changed last
winter limiting him to 10, 900 copies of
his message at state expense. He had
been used to striking off about 30, 900
for the editication of the people in the
state He said few things, but or
dered the usual number and will pay
for them out of his own pocket.
Rev. j. J. Axtell, the pugilistic pas
tor of the Congregational church of
Royal Oak, was formally given his
walking papers by the congregation on
the 10th, when the following result
was arrived at after the matter had
been debated for two hours behind
closed doors: I'm view of Mr.. Axtell's
recent conduct we ask him to resign.
An idea of the magnitude of the mar
riage business which was worked up
at st. Joseph last year by the excursion
boat lines running between there and
Chicago may be had from the fact that
the number of marriage licenses issued
in 1899 in Berrien county, where ST.
Joseph is located, was nearly $500,
while in the neighboring county of
Cass there were only pol applications.
Girard township, Branch county, is
making record under the new law for
the collection of dog tax. Regardless
of the decision that the law does not
go into effect until next spring, dog
warden has been appointed to collect
the tax and when the farmers step into
the treasurcrs Office they are called
upon to pay it again. A man who had
not been a resident of the township for