The Yale expositor., 1900-03-16
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

Champion is to have electric lights
for its streets soon.
Saranac is happy. 1t now has
laundry all its own.
Onaway is flooded with counterfeit
nicllels and half dollars.
A new postofiice has been established
at Mystic, Wexford county.
A pea harvester mandatory has
been located at Sanilac Centre.
The new Presbyterian church at Bad
Axe will be dedicated on the 18th.
A large basket and veneer factory is
among the industrial probabilities at
Dexter.
Strong evidences of coal and oil have
been discovered by farmers living near
Bellevue.
An Independent military company
has been organized at st. Johns, with
20 members.
Chas Sticlner. of Huntsville, was
fined $50 and $3.50 costs for hunting
out of season.
The prospects are good for the cree
ton of a cement factory on the mari
lands near Brighton.
Farmers in Sanilac county who own
sandy lands propose TO experiment in
the raising of tobacco.
The schools at Holt have been closed
by the local health officer on account
of the outbreak of scarlet fever.
Kalkaska county, at the coming
spring election, will vote on the prop
osition to build new $4,000 Jail.
1t is sure thing now that Battle
Creek won't get that beet sugar fac
tory she was so confident of securing.
The Dowd murder case at Allegan was
brought to close on the Sth, when the
jury returned a verdict of manslaugh-
ter against Cnas. Dowd.
A law and order league has been or
ganized at Sanilac Centre, and the
strange part of it is that its member
ship is made up entirely of women.
A cheese factory is being erected at
Cushing, the farmers of the vicinity
having pledged the milk from enough
cows to make the venture success.
The immense new power house which
is to furnish the power for the electric
railroad from Detroit to Port Huron is
almost completed at New Baltimore.
Bear steaks are the proper thing to
eat in Sanilac county this winter, a
number of black bears having been
killed in the swampy uninhabited reg
ions.
The new Ranney Refrigerator COM
pany, at Greenville, which was CONF
menced last Thanksgiving, has begun
operations, giving employment to 100
men.
Mrs. Ellen Mcdonald. of Detroit, on
the sth gave birth to four childrn, two
boys and two girls. The quartet aver
aged 81 pounds in weight. All doing
well.
A business mems improvement society
has been organized at Montrose TO Sc
cure new industries and otherwise push
along the business interests of the
| village.
Electric railway matters are pro-
| crossing finely at Armada and people
are quite clated over the prospect of
being connected with Detroit by cleo
| trio line.
A company is being organized to open
a coal mine in Williams township, Bay
county, in the spring. The vein 20 be
worked is four feet nine inches in
thickness.
Wages of S35 per month are being
offered for men for the woods in the
upper peninsula, an increase of about
100 per cent over the rate paid three
years ago.
The factory of the Detroit Ideal
Paint Co., at Detroit, was scorched to
the extent of $4,000 on the night of
the 18th. Other losses bring the total
up TO 1900.
If the citizens of Port Huron will
subscribe about SIS, 900, a new 2OO-room
hotel will be built on the lake shore
above that city by Detroit capital the
coming season.