The true northerner., 1900-04-11
STATE GOSSIP.
4 Budget of Interesting Items Gath
cred from Many Localities
in Michigan.

new union station in Grand Rapids, to
cost 100000.
Onaway is TO have an opera house, to
make which the present skating rink
is to be remodeled.
Noel IL. Allen has been appointed
post master at Maple Rapids, Clinton
county, vice A. j. Moss, removed.
The supply of dwelling houses at
Rochester is away below the demand,
and rents are constantly on the in
crease.
Many Tuscola county farmers have
been feeding their sheep through the
winter exclusively on sugar beet pulp,
and report the result of their expert
mcnt as most satisfactory.
Vetter Talman, an old resident of
Alamo. Kalamazoo county, committed
suicide by hanging. He was rs years
old and is thought to have been tenn
porarily deranged mentally.
A petition for free rural mail de-
livery is being circulated through Ash
and Berlin townships, Monroe county
the proposed route to cover % miles
anu tUO
The Manistee, Filler City & East
Lake railroad is to be extended soon
TO Red Park, Onekama and Bear
Lake, and ultimately to Traverse City
by way of Thompsonville, Copemish
and Wexford.
The Alpena News is authority for
the statement that a project is, on
foot to convert the immense cedar
swamps in that section, from which
most of the good timber has been cut,
into cranberry farms.
Quartermaster General Atkinson
has completed arrangements with the
Remington Arms company whereby
the state will receive the new modern
rifles which have been manufactured
for the national guard.
The receipts of the post office at both
Houghton and Hancock have been suf-
ticient during the past II months to en-
title these towns to free delivery, and
efforts will be made to secure the in
stallation of the service.
a cement factory giving employ
ment TO $50 laborers will be erected
near the shores of Silver lake, a mile
and three-qaurters east of Linden. 1t
is said the mari beds are among the
most extensive in the state.
The annual meeting Of the Grand
Rapids d Indiana Railroad company
was held in Grand Rapids. In the
election no change was made i'm the
officers or directors. dividend of
one per cent. was declared on stock,
payable April 25.
Five thousand dollars in cash must
be raised at Traverse City before the
proposed new railroad from there to
Lcclanau will be built If the coun-
ell will not appropriate the amount,
an effort will be made to raise it by
popular subscription.
During the present rush of business
the law providing that it shall be un-
lawful for railroad companies to
either require or permit employees TO
work more than 81 hours consecutive
ly has been violated Commissioner
Osborn is sending notices 10 every
company doing business in Michigan
that this practice must cease at once.
Arenac county has been n lumber
ing district for 50 years. but it is
doubtful if more logs were ever cut
in the county in a single season than
have been the past winter. At least
100000 feet have been banked on
the Rifle and An Ores rivers. and the
villages of Turner and Twining have
about S.OOO,OO0 feet awaiting manu-
facture. About 100000 feet each of
hardwood and hemlock will be the to-
tai output for the county.