The Yale expositor., 1900-03-23
STATE GOSSIP.

The April term of the supreme court
contains lag cases.
Flushing has new banlS-the Peo-
pies State-capitalzed at $4,000.
Tn, cold snap of last week did not
injure the peach trees in Michigan.
Paw Paws new fruit package manu-
factory is nearly ready to begin opera
| tons.
ii. Perkins, of Oxford, who is 70 years
old, is said to be the oldest newsboy in
the state.
Letter registration by carrier will be
established April at Battle Creek and
Coldwater.
Sherman is to have long-felt want
filled soon by the establishment of
bank in the village.
Admiral Dewey viii be invited to
visit Kalamazoo while on his trip
through Michigan.
Morrice is to have condensed milk
factory. The village recently put up a
bonus of 81, 900 to secure the same.
The. Assyria oil we'll has reached a
depth of 1000 feet, and still no oil in
sight. The well will probably be
abandoned.
School at Leonidas has been badly
broken up during the year. Three diff
ferent principals in succession have re-
signed their positions
The big boom promised,the hamlet of
| Mead's Mills by Worthwhile and Ply
that Worthwhile has gone wet
Quincy folks have the oil fever and
are organizing a stock company to put
down test holes in the vicinity in the
hope of finding the precious fluid.
The schools at Mayville are closed on
account of scarlet fever in the village,
and every precaution is being taken to
prevent the spread of the disease
birmingham people think their viii
lage must have manufacturing interests
TO keep it going, and will donate good
sites for any which will locate there.
Rural free mail delivery will be es-
tablished at Fowler, Clinton county,
| April 10. Length of route, "a miles;
area covered, 80 miles, population
served, AS.
l. H. Butterfield and Prof. L. r.
Taft, of the Agricultural college, have
secured flock of 60 Angora goats and
will try the experiment of raising them
in Michigan.
The people of Mt. Pleasant will vote
at the spring election on the PROPOSE
ton to bond the city for $4,000 TO
extend the waterw orks system of the
municipality.
Rural free delivery will be estab-
lished at Caro-, Tuscola county Length
of route 1895 miles, area covered "a
square miles; population served, $40;
carrier, C. l.. Orr.
The hotel at Worthwhile has been
opened, but the bar will not be in oper-
alton until the Prohibition ordinance
is repealed and that; may not be done
for week or two yet:
Fifty thousand dollars has already
been subscribed in stock TO develop the
| old cement bed at Kalamazoo which
was formerly operated. 1t is said to
be a superior article
Charles Dowd, convicted of man
slaughter at Allegan, was released on
the 14th on S., 900 bonds Judge Padg-
ham suspended sentence until the first
day of the May term of court.
Vicksburg finances are on the boom.
All the floating indebtedness of the
village has been paid, and it has heen
decided to establish new fire alarm
system to cover the whole village
Elsie has been without linsed saloon
the past six years, but on the LIST of
May will have one as a result OF the
charter election, the vote on the saloon
| question being 76 to II in favor of low
I bonds.
The appointment of Leo Il. Flans-
| burg, of Kalamazoo, as the private sec
rotary of Senator Burrows is a recogni-
ton of the younger element in the Re-
publican party. The appointment is
very popular.
The Armstrong steel plant at Flint
was destroyed by fire on the 14th. The
plant cost SIPS, 900, and the loss will
exceed that figure by several thousand
dollars. One hundred men are thrown
! out of work.
After a conference of the state and
local officers of the Anti-Saloon league
it has been decided not to submit the
question of local option to the voters of
! Kalamazoo county until next spring.
The NJ Z. church, of Howell, is ont
of debt The last payment of So, 90 has
been paid and a jubilee meeting held
in celebration. A large crowd wit
messed the burning of the mortgage.
Measles have been raging at Lamotte,
Sanilac county, all winter, but now, it
is said, the disease is at last dying out
for want of material to work upon,
every resident of the village having
had his turn at it.
Residents of the Gogebic range, in
the upper peninsula, are raising a fund
for the purpose of erecting a monument
to the memory of the soldiers from that
section who lost their lives in the
Spanish-American war.