The Yale expositor., 1900-09-21

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! closed as the vote by which the money
was authorized, is said to have been
! illegal.
The 21st annual reunion of the 18th
/ Michigan infantry, the "Stonewall
regiment" will be held at Grand Rap
ids, Sept. 26, with banquet in the
evening.
The feeling against the tax commits
sion is very bitter at st. Joseph, and
the business men have announn ed their
intentions of fighting the matter in
! the courts.
! A terrific wind storm at Galien and
vicinity on the 18th practically ruined
the apple crop, and the loss to fruit
growers will amount to many thous-
ands of dollars.
The plants of the McMorran Milling
Co., the Port Huron & Northwestern
Elevator Co. and the McMorran pea
mill and factory at Port Huron were
destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss,
! $780, 200.
One man dead and boy crushed so
that both legs had to be amputatcd is
the record of the street railway slaugh-
! ter, not counting minor whacSs, knock.
downs and bruises, at Detroit on
! the 18th.
A Muskegon man, this year raised
| two ears of corn from seed supposed to
| be 1000 years old. The seed was found
in an urn in an ancient ruin in Egypt,
where il is supposed to have lain for
more than 500 years Il. c.
The citizens of Grand Rapids are
much disappointed over the official
census figures For years the popula-
ton of that city has been placed at
more than 100, 900, and the drop TO
s7.5G5 is not pleasant surprise.
With beans at 81. 80 per bushel, and
the new crop yielding from Is to 25
bushels per acre, the farmers in the
vicinity of Sprin gport have somewhat
recovered from the depression caused
by the failure of the wheat crop.
The electric oil stove works, for
merly the leading industry of Homer
was moved to jackson on the 18th,
where the owners have other factories
Several of the heads of departments
accompanied the works with their fam
/ lies.
The new addition to the Craft
school, in the course OF construction at
Detroit, was destroyed by fire on the
night of the 18th. The flames spread
to the main building and damaged it
about $50, 900, making the total amount
of damage about 5000
"A special election to vote on the
! question of authorizing the appropria-
tion of a further SIS, 900 for the con-
| struction of the proposed canal from
Lake Huron to Black river, in add
ton TO the So, 900 previously allowed,
will be held at Port Huron, Nov >.
Game Warden Morse is after some
people who have been catching fawns
and selling them. The Michigan game
laws distinctly state that no person
shall capture or sell fawn. A fine of
500 is the penalty attached Anyone
buying fawn is liable under the state
| law.
The next apportionment of primary
school money will be big one. The
heavy railroad taxes this year have
left IL big lump of money in the treas
ury and 81, l7O,O 600 will be distributed
in the November apportionment. The
rate per capita will be Los, making a
total of 81. 10 per capita for the year.
The cucumber crop around Highland
Station this year is so large that both
the pickle factories there have had to
enlarge their capacity to take care of
it. The two have received not less
| than -, 900 bushels, and unless the
weather suddenly turns cold picking
will continue for month yet. Many
a farm thcrcabouts would not have
! paid expenses this year had it not been
for the cucumbcrs.
Probably in no season in the history
of Kalkaslla county has there been 50
heavy rainfall as during the present.
Ordinarily heavy rains have had ten
dcucy to lower the temperature TO the
! danger point from frost. This year
has been an exception. The more it
rained the hotter it got and the faster
the crop grew, and everything in the
way of grain crop will soon be out of
reach of Jack Frost